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Bye, see you next season, Jalen see you, Jalen Brown, see you fouling out in the third corner. Bye, goodbye. Don't forget to write Yay. There's bors Ann sit next to him. He's not playing either. Goodbye, goodbye, bye everybody. Hello, Happy Friday, Happy Friday. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

Bye, see you next season, Jalen see you, Jalen Brown, see you fouling out in the third corner. Bye, goodbye. Don't forget to write Yay. There's bors Ann sit next to him. He's not playing either. Goodbye, goodbye, bye everybody. Hello, Happy Friday, Happy Friday. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

About over forty years, tire rex been helping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free back by free road, has a protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tireraq dot com is the way tire buying should be. Ted Lasso enjoying things courtside the Knicks. I could just listen to this for a second two minutes to go in the third quarter. The party is underway at MSG the Knicks lead the Celtice. I should say it like Marv Albert does. The Knicks leave the Celtics eighty nine to fifty one with a minute fifty seven left to go in the third quarter. Uh, it has been all Nicks from the jump. Make it ninety two fifty one after an ognunobi three. I think Joe Mizzoula is gonna call time out and they're all gonna leave. I think it's out, just gonna leave, and it's just gonna be a big party. Michael Strahan is excited. This is the bill. Look at Stathology you got you got Marbury there, this is this is a party, Mike Harmon. It is an absolute party. But you're gonna be the disapproving girlfriend with the coat over her arms, going we can leave whenever you want to. I know you're having fun, but we can leave whenever you want to. You're gonna play that role tonight. I can already tell. I can already tell, just by your countenance, just by the way you are, just by you're gonna be that. I'm ready to leave. I didn't want to go to this party at all. I'm ready to go home. This is where you have your kid who's hopped up on sugar and you let them run around hoping that at some point they just fall out napping. That's where I'm at right now, because I have already had forty minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show. Huh. And I've said for a very long time there's a jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Judy, shut up, Okay, all right, I'm not happy when your teams get, you know, the little success they have, So I mean, I thought you'd be happy for me, but okay, to a point where, because you're screaming at at the like thirty five, they're going to win to go to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since I was in my thirties. Yeah, but that was presumptive when we got to halftime when Kendrick Perkins said they needed to find Jesus to play the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics. They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you know, what they need. And there's a pause, and you know, everybody on sets looking at him, nervous what he's gonna say. To find Jesus, he said they'd go on a diet if the Knicks blew the lead. They would go on a diet. If the Knicks blew this lead at halftime and they have grown it out. Yeah, it is a forty one point Nick lead, now ninety two to fifty one with just under a minute half to go with the third quarter, Bird and Michale are ready to check in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter. I don't even think they wore them. They don't want any minutes of this. This is where you go find what was that guy's uh oh, the ninety three Dino Raja and guys like that. We start bringing those guys in or to get some minutes. But like Jalen Brown did what Nikola Jokic did the other night, except this is an elimination game. Yeah, and he tapped out. Porzingis is sick. I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I have no idea what's going on there. I hope he finds whatever solution he needs in the offseason. He's ready for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort, right, You're down six to start the second quarter. You score four points in the first half of the second quarter, and then it's like you wave the white flag. Right. Effort. Plays are non existent. You're seeing reaching falls, just sloppy play. It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like, all right, we're down twenty five, what are we gonna do. Let's run the shot clock down to two and then you're still contesting every shot, because I mean, that's the celebration of what the Knicks have been here. They smelled the blood in the water like any shark movie and attack the hell out of this squad. So I give full credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they needed in the fuel of the New York media to go finish this thing off, because they never let the Celtics get a quarter breadth, no once. Once it really started to get out of hand in the middle of that second look. And this is why I told you all week when I can't no one believe me when I said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told you we're gonna lose Game five, We're gonna show up and kind of play, all right, well kind of play if the game is there, maybe they try to close in the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls out of the game five thousand one quarter, Karl Anthony Townsend foul trouble. I said, Okay, this is how it's gonna go. But it's gonna be a different story on Friday night. What if I said the last two days, Hey, Friday night, I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in twenty two years. I was absolutely fine because I knew this was the next team we were gonna see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday, I knew was gonna Hey, okay, we're not gonna get Rick Buker had a great comment on that with us the other night, saying, hey, there's lots of teams in the NBA that come in to close out type games like the Knicks did, and and you know, like we've seen in the playoffs elsewhere as well, where it's been hey, we know we're not going to get the calls, and if the calls go against you. In the beginning of the game at Sea we're not getting him. Let's put it away for the next game. And that's kind of what the Knicks. Didn't we see that it's not just the next thing to do that strategy. Sure, and I toold it, but tonight was gonna be different. It was gonna be physical, and it was gonna be a Karl Anthony Towns night. And this was how it was going to go. Guys didn't believe. You thought I was nervous and Frostburg's going on, what are you gonna say in game Seve, what are you saying game seven? I knew we're never getting to Game seven because this was going to be the game we're going to get tonight. You did not predict a forty point burial and that the Celtics would quit. I said, I said, when I say fifteen, last night, I said ten to fifteen. We met our I said, no, no, there's a difference between Hey, we win by ten because down the stretch we're making free throws and finishing the job right Jalen Bronson getting to the follow up versus I should have said fifty here win by fifty. Look in game betting, I was laughing before it was thirty thirty two when you and I were sitting before we started this soire on a big Friday night party for you. Where it sits now? I can only uh, I can only guess because it's it's bloomed it is now at it's still only thirty three. If you really want to go that, that's basically saying the Knicks are going to quit and start sipping wine playing fourth quarter something like that. They're they're relegated, they have to take half court shots or whatever the case may be. But you know, the you're officiating thing from the other night rings true, and there are a number of times where it's just like, really, that's that's a continuation fall. Again, it's a thirty point game, so who the hell cares thirty five? But at the time it was thirty five. Karl Anthony Towns gets falled quite clearly. Al Horford bangs him three feet off this spot and then he goes, ah, forget it, I'll take the extra step and throw the ball up, all right, and one it's like what are we doing? So again the officiating issue, but by that point it's long gone. I mean, Jalen Brown tapped out, So all of the talk and we heard this got really loud about what a better effort they get when Jason Tatum isn't there. Just just hang up your microphones, just quit. You know, the record is not always indicative of what you're gonna get, and you can do things for one game. We've seen that time and time again in playoffs. We've seen it in the regular season, the heavy underdogs that can come up no matter the sport, and certainly in the NBA, as you alluded to, the all right, it's really not coming together for us. We'll live to see another day. There's no reason to play another twenty labor and you know, laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence, look at what I did there. Yeah, I went full on Dictionary and my literary world. But like, when you only play five or six guys, why play them an extra twenty minutes when you're done? So that strategy the other day certainly comes to bear. But from Missoula and Company, like when, when exactly did you quit? Like that's the first question I would ask him in the post thing would you quit? The Knicks? Where the Knicks have been playing tonight, they're playing with a twenty five point lead, like the game is tied. There's been no let up. There's been no open shots for the Celtics because the Knicks have decided, hey we're up by twenty six and everything is fine. There's been no running around defensively. It has been there playing this game. Like in fact, you would think the Knicks, if they win this game, would be winning the NBA Finals. The way that the Knicks are playing, the way fans are responding, we will be going to the Eastern They still have two more rounds to finish, but eight more wins. But hey, we're going to the Eastern Conference finals. And the party is like we're winning it all, like that's what it is. But that's okay, But that's party like that watching that that connection, right, and you know me I. One of the mantras to the Sho Show is the love of live events because very few places in the world you have energy and agreement of what's going on, and the energy going in the same spot. So the fans feeding off the effort, the players feeding back off the fans, and that frenzy. You know, every shot is contested. There's no way, all right, I missed the assignment. It's like No, they're still cursing at each other. You had a play down low where Jalen Brown loses the ball and it gets tapped and eventually goes off his leg. They were up thirty five, and they immediately three guys are signaling the Thibbaeau to challenge it, which they did and they won the challenge. It's that kind of thing. Look, I'm not saying I don't love it. I just I just have a headache. Look the Nicks, they came out for blood. They came out for blood, and it's a party, right, That's That's exactly what May Shalom has been shown ninety seven times. Spike Lee doesn't have to accost the referee chasing him down the court. He's just sitting there. No, doesn't he's got, he's gotten. He's pissed because he's got no role to that. We don't need. Coach Bike is just as happy as he should be when they show him. He's like, I wanted a contested game. What do you got, Frostburg? And this game is so out of hand that the Necks have just rolled out four players to play four on five. They're going with my team is on the court and one of them's Clyde Fraser, Ben Stiller, Stefan Marbury and bad Bunny. I think we have We probably were winning by thirty three right now, going by twenty five, we're going so now all right, now, I guess twenty eight and a half has gone to an aff kicking on Wednesday. This is very poor Frostburg. So now are you gonna be because you're with obviously we celebrate you. So that's where it ends. It doesn't just end after the game. It's you'll celebrate tonight and ends after tonight at eleven o one eleven to give him DAPs you in the face. Okay, all right, that's and the duel will come in. So the celebration is tonight. Who cares about tomorrow? Celebration tonight, and it's go Indy, go ind you go. All right. Bill Bradley is at the game. Yeah, I haven't seen Bill Bradley. I really thought you were gonna start singing. We've got tonight. We who needs tomorrow? I'm doing a little bats making last babe. Ten minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics ninety six to sixty two. We will begin our Knicks Pacers Eastern Conference Finals preview coming up a little bit as we'll have more on this game as the party tonight is going to be off the hook. We've already ordered pizza. We had all kinds of pizza and wings coming. It is a Knicks party Friday. But coming up next as we continue to track the biggest game of the night, always freely, all the time, maybe the biggest game all year? Coming up next? Do we have an NFL story coming your way? Because somebody really got paid? Go New York, Go New York. Gos And when does Tatum come in? Wow? In the next time next to next official? I'm out? You know what? He would have at least wheeled himself around and give you an effort. Actually, Tatum O'Neill is coming in. Who's coming about that? Shack's brother TJ. Click, you know you're ruin my youre ruined my bad news Bears line tysher, you know that today you're about to win?

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Look at Stathology you got you got Marbury there, this is this is a party, Mike Harmon. It is an absolute party. But you're gonna be the disapproving girlfriend with the coat over her arms, going we can leave whenever you want to. I know you're having fun, but we can leave whenever you want to. You're gonna play that role tonight. I can already tell. I can already tell, just by your countenance, just by the way you are, just by you're gonna be that. I'm ready to leave. I didn't want to go to this party at all. I'm ready to go home. This is where you have your kid who's hopped up on sugar and you let them run around hoping that at some point they just fall out napping. That's where I'm at right now, because I have already had forty minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show. Huh. And I've said for a very long time there's a jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Judy, shut up, Okay, all right, I'm not happy when your teams get, you know, the little success they have, So I mean, I thought you'd be happy for me, but okay, to a point where, because you're screaming at at the like thirty five, they're going to win to go to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since I was in my thirties. Yeah, but that was presumptive when we got to halftime when Kendrick Perkins said they needed to find Jesus to play the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics. They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you know, what they need. And there's a pause, and you know, everybody on sets looking at him, nervous what he's gonna say. To find Jesus, he said they'd go on a diet if the Knicks blew the lead. They would go on a diet. If the Knicks blew this lead at halftime and they have grown it out. Yeah, it is a forty one point Nick lead, now ninety two to fifty one with just under a minute half to go with the third quarter, Bird and Michale are ready to check in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter. I don't even think they wore them. They don't want any minutes of this. This is where you go find what was that guy's uh oh, the ninety three Dino Raja and guys like that. We start bringing those guys in or to get some minutes. But like Jalen Brown did what Nikola Jokic did the other night, except this is an elimination game. Yeah, and he tapped out. Porzingis is sick. I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I have no idea what's going on there. I hope he finds whatever solution he needs in the offseason. He's ready for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort, right, You're down six to start the second quarter. You score four points in the first half of the second quarter, and then it's like you wave the white flag. Right. Effort. Plays are non existent. You're seeing reaching falls, just sloppy play. It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like, all right, we're down twenty five, what are we gonna do. Let's run the shot clock down to two and then you're still contesting every shot, because I mean, that's the celebration of what the Knicks have been here. They smelled the blood in the water like any shark movie and attack the hell out of this squad. So I give full credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they needed in the fuel of the New York media to go finish this thing off, because they never let the Celtics get a quarter breadth, no once. Once it really started to get out of hand in the middle of that second look. And this is why I told you all week when I can't no one believe me when I said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told you we're gonna lose Game five, We're gonna show up and kind of play, all right, well kind of play if the game is there, maybe they try to close in the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls out of the game five thousand one quarter, Karl Anthony Townsend foul trouble. I said, Okay, this is how it's gonna go. But it's gonna be a different story on Friday night. What if I said the last two days, Hey, Friday night, I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in twenty two years. I was absolutely fine because I knew this was the next team we were gonna see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday, I knew was gonna Hey, okay, we're not gonna get Rick Buker had a great comment on that with us the other night, saying, hey, there's lots of teams in the NBA that come in to close out type games like the Knicks did, and and you know, like we've seen in the playoffs elsewhere as well, where it's been hey, we know we're not going to get the calls, and if the calls go against you. In the beginning of the game at Sea we're not getting him. Let's put it away for the next game. And that's kind of what the Knicks. Didn't we see that it's not just the next thing to do that strategy. Sure, and I toold it, but tonight was gonna be different. It was gonna be physical, and it was gonna be a Karl Anthony Towns night. And this was how it was going to go. Guys didn't believe. You thought I was nervous and Frostburg's going on, what are you gonna say in game Seve, what are you saying game seven? I knew we're never getting to Game seven because this was going to be the game we're going to get tonight. You did not predict a forty point burial and that the Celtics would quit. I said, I said, when I say fifteen, last night, I said ten to fifteen. We met our I said, no, no, there's a difference between Hey, we win by ten because down the stretch we're making free throws and finishing the job right Jalen Bronson getting to the follow up versus I should have said fifty here win by fifty. Look in game betting, I was laughing before it was thirty thirty two when you and I were sitting before we started this soire on a big Friday night party for you. Where it sits now? I can only uh, I can only guess because it's it's bloomed it is now at it's still only thirty three. If you really want to go that, that's basically saying the Knicks are going to quit and start sipping wine playing fourth quarter something like that. They're they're relegated, they have to take half court shots or whatever the case may be. But you know, the you're officiating thing from the other night rings true, and there are a number of times where it's just like, really, that's that's a continuation fall. Again, it's a thirty point game, so who the hell cares thirty five? But at the time it was thirty five. Karl Anthony Towns gets falled quite clearly. Al Horford bangs him three feet off this spot and then he goes, ah, forget it, I'll take the extra step and throw the ball up, all right, and one it's like what are we doing? So again the officiating issue, but by that point it's long gone. I mean, Jalen Brown tapped out, So all of the talk and we heard this got really loud about what a better effort they get when Jason Tatum isn't there. Just just hang up your microphones, just quit. You know, the record is not always indicative of what you're gonna get, and you can do things for one game. We've seen that time and time again in playoffs. We've seen it in the regular season, the heavy underdogs that can come up no matter the sport, and certainly in the NBA, as you alluded to, the all right, it's really not coming together for us. We'll live to see another day. There's no reason to play another twenty labor and you know, laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence, look at what I did there. Yeah, I went full on Dictionary and my literary world. But like, when you only play five or six guys, why play them an extra twenty minutes when you're done? So that strategy the other day certainly comes to bear. But from Missoula and Company, like when, when exactly did you quit? Like that's the first question I would ask him in the post thing would you quit? The Knicks? Where the Knicks have been playing tonight, they're playing with a twenty five point lead, like the game is tied. There's been no let up. There's been no open shots for the Celtics because the Knicks have decided, hey we're up by twenty six and everything is fine. There's been no running around defensively. It has been there playing this game. Like in fact, you would think the Knicks, if they win this game, would be winning the NBA Finals. The way that the Knicks are playing, the way fans are responding, we will be going to the Eastern They still have two more rounds to finish, but eight more wins. But hey, we're going to the Eastern Conference finals. And the party is like we're winning it all, like that's what it is. But that's okay, But that's party like that watching that that connection, right, and you know me I. One of the mantras to the Sho Show is the love of live events because very few places in the world you have energy and agreement of what's going on, and the energy going in the same spot. So the fans feeding off the effort, the players feeding back off the fans, and that frenzy. You know, every shot is contested. There's no way, all right, I missed the assignment. It's like No, they're still cursing at each other. You had a play down low where Jalen Brown loses the ball and it gets tapped and eventually goes off his leg. They were up thirty five, and they immediately three guys are signaling the Thibbaeau to challenge it, which they did and they won the challenge. It's that kind of thing. Look, I'm not saying I don't love it. I just I just have a headache. Look the Nicks, they came out for blood. They came out for blood, and it's a party, right, That's That's exactly what May Shalom has been shown ninety seven times. Spike Lee doesn't have to accost the referee chasing him down the court. He's just sitting there. No, doesn't he's got, he's gotten. He's pissed because he's got no role to that. We don't need. Coach Bike is just as happy as he should be when they show him. He's like, I wanted a contested game. What do you got, Frostburg? And this game is so out of hand that the Necks have just rolled out four players to play four on five. They're going with my team is on the court and one of them's Clyde Fraser, Ben Stiller, Stefan Marbury and bad Bunny. I think we have We probably were winning by thirty three right now, going by twenty five, we're going so now all right, now, I guess twenty eight and a half has gone to an aff kicking on Wednesday. This is very poor Frostburg. So now are you gonna be because you're with obviously we celebrate you. So that's where it ends. It doesn't just end after the game. It's you'll celebrate tonight and ends after tonight at eleven o one eleven to give him DAPs you in the face. Okay, all right, that's and the duel will come in. So the celebration is tonight. Who cares about tomorrow? Celebration tonight, and it's go Indy, go ind you go. All right. Bill Bradley is at the game. Yeah, I haven't seen Bill Bradley. I really thought you were gonna start singing. We've got tonight. We who needs tomorrow? I'm doing a little bats making last babe. Ten minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics ninety six to sixty two. We will begin our Knicks Pacers Eastern Conference Finals preview coming up a little bit as we'll have more on this game as the party tonight is going to be off the hook. We've already ordered pizza. We had all kinds of pizza and wings coming. It is a Knicks party Friday. But coming up next as we continue to track the biggest game of the night, always freely, all the time, maybe the biggest game all year? Coming up next? Do we have an NFL story coming your way? Because somebody really got paid? Go New York, Go New York. Gos And when does Tatum come in? Wow? In the next time next to next official? I'm out? You know what? He would have at least wheeled himself around and give you an effort. Actually, Tatum O'Neill is coming in. Who's coming about that? Shack's brother TJ. Click, you know you're ruin my youre ruined my bad news Bears line tysher, you know that today you're about to win?

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All right?

Yeah, it's nothing he says or plays. He can play. Everybody wants to rule the world forty five times.

Yeah, it's nothing he says or plays. He can play. Everybody wants to rule the world forty five times.

In a run.

In a run.

I don't care. Yeah whatever, that doesn't matter. That's counts could get killed by the Yankees. Oh there was no baseball Tony. I don't care. I don't care. I have bigger fish to Friday night than that. Right, I'll worry about it. I'll worry about the Mets and the Yankees tomorrow. That's fine. Bigger fish tonight. First time in twenty two years, we're going to the Eastern Conference Finals. Okay, it's all good. Where's oj That's coming up next? Right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. From searching online to asking your friends and family, there are lots of ways to look for jobs, but what if you had one team that can help you find it's a right role. That's where Express Employment Professionals comes in. Your local Express Employment Professional's office is your one connection to endless job opportunities. With just one application, they can help you find a job at a company that fits your needs. Visit expresspros dot com and as always, Express never charges job seekers a fee. Express knows when companies are hiring, offers benefits and competitive pay, and in just one interview, they're prepared to present you to multiple companies that fit your needs. Go to expresspros dot com to get started, find your nearest location and discover for yourself what it's like to have support in your job search. You can also start your job search through the Express Jobs app. Download it today to search jobs, apply and contact your local Express team that's Expresspros dot com. To start your job search today, Go New York, Go New York.

I don't care. Yeah whatever, that doesn't matter. That's counts could get killed by the Yankees. Oh there was no baseball Tony. I don't care. I don't care. I have bigger fish to Friday night than that. Right, I'll worry about it. I'll worry about the Mets and the Yankees tomorrow. That's fine. Bigger fish tonight. First time in twenty two years, we're going to the Eastern Conference Finals. Okay, it's all good. Where's oj That's coming up next? Right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. From searching online to asking your friends and family, there are lots of ways to look for jobs, but what if you had one team that can help you find it's a right role. That's where Express Employment Professionals comes in. Your local Express Employment Professional's office is your one connection to endless job opportunities. With just one application, they can help you find a job at a company that fits your needs. Visit expresspros dot com and as always, Express never charges job seekers a fee. Express knows when companies are hiring, offers benefits and competitive pay, and in just one interview, they're prepared to present you to multiple companies that fit your needs. Go to expresspros dot com to get started, find your nearest location and discover for yourself what it's like to have support in your job search. You can also start your job search through the Express Jobs app. Download it today to search jobs, apply and contact your local Express team that's Expresspros dot com. To start your job search today, Go New York, Go New York.

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It's like we're counting down to New Year. All the shots outside Madison Square Garden. Everybody's cheering. Hey, the ball is dropping. The ball is dropped. What do you think the security cost is across the city of New York? Oh? Man, you know, not a great night to start the subway series with the Mets. And then you want to talk about overtime being put in for by police and first responders. Hey, I've been retired six years. Look I need you for three nights. We got the baseball series, they got whatever the hell goes on with the Knicks. Eight and a half to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics one oh four to sixty eight. Ac Earl has checked in for the Celtics. I think you're think it's my guy. All I want to show all the love I can all the obscure Celtics from like the early two thousands and the late nineties when they were done winning and it was hey, we're trying to make it work with Dee Brown, all right, let's go. Yeah, good times those late nineties trading cards like aw, look at those Celtics. And then you eventually got to Antoine Walker. Oh yeah, we'll got to. Yeah, we'll get to eventually you got to Yeah. No, you had a number of years with Finn Baker. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah we'll get that. We'll get that. Then Baker is one of my heroes though. I mean the amount of money that guy made and then in his post career, I mean he did he did well. It is a It's going to be a Knicks final four in the NBA. I just think about this for a second. In the final four of the NBA, it's going to be the Knicks. The Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks. It's like they're the Washington Generals for the Knicks that last year when they won. But we got a little something something for you already, don't worry about it. So the Knicks and Pacers are synonymous. Then in the West is Devincenzo and Julius Randall. Okay, Knicks up until last year part of their run, and probably Hartenstein. So okay. So now we have just claiming every all Knicks Final four. It's like it's a very It's like a Hallmark movie. It's a very Nicks Christmas, a very Knicks Final four. How many times did they show that Villanova commercial tonight? Oh lots lots. Did that guy heavy heavy rotation for this one? Because it was a Nick celebration. Yeah, it's been a celebration since halftime, it's been a this is I told her tonight was going to be a party. Yeah. The middle of that second quarter, five point fifty five left in the second quarter is when the Celtics finally scored their third basket of the quarter, seventeen for the quarter. And that was it. Why I said I was cool. I got to halftime and like, what do we talk about? This game sucks? So we'll have more on the greatest sporting event in the last five years coming up in the bank. Dude, I have no time for that. Tonight I have bigger I have. I'm going to the I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in twenty two No, no, no, I mean I got bigger fish. Yesterday we hit we had the guys strike out O'tani and then just take the ball. I mean, come on, that was a big, big bobblehead night when he hit two home runs. I did not watch one second of the Mets and the Yankees, not one second. And you know, Mitt the Mets, I've not watched one sing lying because of that, because you know what, he didn't have the TVs changed in the back though. I mean we were here in nely an hour in the game telling me you didn't ask for thirty seconds of a long time when Soo came out there for him? No, no, I didn't. What not, I didn't fifteen second one he would have been in his car for part of it. That would have gotten weird. Not one secnd. I mean I did see him, you know, you know, tip his cap to the crowd. Uh. Yeah, that's okay, that's fine, that's great. I will worry about that tomorrow. That's a sixth to your final as my uh as my high school Jim Teacher. Mister Williams used to say, that's a story for another day. There's a different story tonight, one ten seventy four with six minutes left to go. But we'll have more on the Knicks and the Celtics. However, big story from the NFL today, Right, we thought the Broncolypse was coming, all the different stories we had leaping up to it, and the Brocolypse is here. Brock Purty and the forty nine ers agree to wait five year, two hundred and sixty five million dollar contract, one hundred and eighty one million dollars in overall guaranteed money. That is a fifty five million dollar a year average for brock Purty, who will likely see all of this money. Being his fourth year in the league, young enough, he's gonna and look, at some point it will seem like a bargain year, three year four. You know, perty's only getting fifty five million dollars. So Perdy gets paid. We thought it was coming, and it's here. And there's two big things I can tell you. Why did Perdy get paid? Why did he get paid this kind of money when he has been a good quarterback? Right, He's been good. Has he been a top quarterback in the league. No, but he's been good, right. He had a really good promise his first year in a little bit more than half a year, had a really good second year, got to the super Bowl. Not a good third year, right when the when the weapons got hurt and he didn't have as many the forty nine ers weren't very good. Right, So that that's his year. Bud's generally how things work in the NFL, though, if your weapons are no good an elite quarterback, if you're Josh Allen, it doesn't matter if you're throwing the Stefon Diggs or if you're throwing two Quandre Diggs. Doesn't matter. But there's always going to be a gap between guy one and two and the next ten. Yeah. But but there's gonna be players that make other players better, that are good no matter who they're throwing to. And then there's players who are good when they have a lot of weapons around them. I've played two thirds of his passes. It was twenty and twelve with a ninety six rating. Like all the things, all the metrics we want to do, I don't know. Yeah, twenty and twelve, is that fifty five million dollars a year. Well that was Matthew Stafford last year. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you who was twenty in twelve. Yeah, okay, But also the Rams got within a hair's breadth of the Super Bowl. So there is that where the Niners were sitting and they say, and they had it packed in beginning of December, said, if we're going to do that, you did the staff things. So twenty and twelve is not fifty five. You want to lean a little bit more while and also talking about a guy that won a Super Bowl, that's been to a couple of super bowl you know, Matthew Stafford's kind of had a good one. He's in the last year and last year he was much better the second half than brock perty was and he nearly got his team to the Super Bowl, right his guys, and they were playing well down the street. You want to argue with me about something that I'm not arguing with you about. I'm saying brock Purty is pretty good. I don't know what. Why Why are you just mad that the Knicks are winning? Brought up his stats and dismissed that. So is that a great year? Is twenty and twelve a great year. No, is it a good year? Yes? Did I say it was a good year. It's a good year. It's a good year. The next are winning. I'm sorry, I'm sorry the Knicks are winning, but they're winning. I said it was a good year. It's a good year. He got He played pretty well. He's a good quarterback. Why did he get paid? He got paid. A lot of reasons is because of where he came from in the draft. He's mister irrelevant, right, so when he comes in all of a sudden, it looks like you got really lucky. And I'm sure the Niners have had to hear, and John Lynch has had to hear the last few yar, boy, look how lucky we got. They know we got lucky. We drafted a guy that we didn't even know if he was going to make the team, and here he is now potentially our franchise quarterback who got us to a super Bowl and is young and suddenly as someone we didn't have to spend a big high draft pick on. We got really lucky. And we can't let the lucky guys leave, because, boy, if you if you got lucky and a guy and let him leave. What does that tell you? Now, flip this around, if instead of being mister Irrelevant, brock Purty was taking third overall in the draft like Trey Lance, what would people be saying? What would be his contract situation? Are you ready to give? Are they ready to give brock Purty fifty five million dollars a year with the number three overall pick in the draft and what he's done so far? Instead, it's more, Eh, maybe we'll figure out something, maybe we'll franchise you something else. But he's not getting fifty five million because the pedigree of him coming into the league. The team would expect more, and the city would expect more, the fans would expect more, and the whole push behind why the universal love for brock Purdy is out there wouldn't quite be what it is because he seems like he's a lucky fine so let we have to reward him and keep him. Whereas if he was a number three overall pick, it would be yeah, he's been good, but eh, is he a guy we want to commit to? Is he really? When you come with that high a pedigree, there's going to be a different way you're looked at. Now. It shouldn't matter because once you get into the NFL, you get to the NFL and it's okay, Well, it doesn't matter if a guy was taking three overall or mister irrelevant. What you do on the field is what matters. But because of where he came from and where he could have been, there's a completely different outlook for his career. And part of the reason why he got paid is because he was he was a lucky find. He was he was a he was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That's what it was, and that's part of the reason why Perdy got this fifty five million dollars deal. At some level, you could go to the we've we've been able to underpay for several years, so you're owed because we certainly see those deals back end of negotiations, go back to Kobe's final deal and so many others where you're like, is that guy really should he be getting this money? He's like, well, he's worth more than what he is doing necessarily on the court. Right when you look at what he guys are to an organization for perty, you're also looking at the larger quarterback landscape where he is, where whether he can be great again as you reset the offense. Right, a lot of those guys are gone. You're hoping Christian McCaffrey comes back. You're hoping George Kittle is the guy he was the second half. At some point father time gets him too, right, or wrestling or he becomes a wrestler the other one. But I mean, are you Debo's gone? Like you know, you've got all these moving parts. Yeah, Jennings came up big for them. So you're hopeful that, all right, a year of health whatever you reconstitute that offensive line that you trust your brain, your brain trust that you're going to be able to make him that guy he was two years ago. If all the component parts are there, and the quarterback landscape, look at look at what it's a mess, right, we can say all we want, all right, next year's draft class looks good, all right in theory, and guys take shots in theory. But we've done that how many times? Right, and even brought with Rock Perdy's class, a bunch of guys that never made a damn bit of a move movement in the NFL. So you found the lucky penny, as you like to say. So, Yeah, there's a there's a little bit of that of of hey, now the expectation, but once you start playing. Yeah, I mean we've heard for two years. Should they paid brock Party That's been a very hot debated topic, certainly in the world of sports TV and radio. And I look around the like, where where do you place him? He's still top ten, top twelve guy? Right, he's getting paid a seventh just because he's the next man up. Yeah, look right, It's all about timing and that's and that's the other reason why did Perdy get paid? Because we're starting to ask the wrong questions when a quarterback gets paid fifty who deserves fifty million? Fifty five million? Because that's a big way Brock Purty deserved this money. I can give you a better answer than that, because I'll tell you it doesn't matter if you think he deserves the money or he doesn't. When a team, teams know that it is miserable without a quarterback, they know life is absolutely miserable because they see the teams that every year try to churn through and try to find a quarterback. Jets have been trying to find a quarterback for thirty years. Like when you find a guy who all he's gotta do is be a periphery top fifteen quarterback, right like party, you know Purty is he at his best, he's a periphery top ten, probably more of a twelve or fifteen, but he's someone that is good enough you can win with him, and he doesn't need to be replaced. And when teams have a quarterback like that, now we're gonna keep them. We're gonna give him what we need to because A, it's a quarterback, and B it's miserable with that are we gonna do better if we let him go? This is why Trevor Lawrence got fifty five million, tremendously overpaid, because the Jaguars way, we took him high, and boy, things could always be worse even though he's not that great. Why did Gino Smith get a three year extension with the Raiders? They've been living. They know what life is like without a quarterback. So let's take a guy who probably is, you know, a league average, maybe a tiny bit more than league average at his best. This is why guys get these extensions, because they know how miserable life is. So it doesn't it's not that a guy needs to be a top seven, top eight guy to get paid in mortas. Just if you're a top fifteen quarterback or someone we don't feel the need to replace, we're gonna give you a lot of money because we know how miserable life is without a quarterback. Those two reasons, that's why I brought perty got paid. Well, you're the guy in the room. So you know, in the case of the Jaguars, it's a have we failed this guy and we don't want him to go be successful somewhere else. Right, he was supposed to be the chosen one, right, We laugh about it. Use the Star Wars line all the time. Generational guy. That's what he was coming out of college. Didn't they do him right? Right? Go back to Urban Mile if you admire and everything that went down there. If you're shot con or you're sitting there and you're making the A value, it was like, well, can we give him one more shot? Try to put some talent around him, and maybe it works. Right, you make the big swing, you go get a big star to come alongside, and maybe you get some juice from that. But you know, for the forty nine ers, they're one of the few teams where you say, organizational stability is something that they come to the table with with the luxury of all right, we've watched Brock succeed. What are the things that have made him successful in the past, and just owing it to star power is fine? All right? Ayuk has been good, degrade at times, debo when utilized properly. Before he started carrying the ball eight times a game and getting broken in half. It got cute, right it it works two times a game. Hey, you know what if we did it five times a game would be even better. Oh wait, he's not eligible to play these last couple of games. The doctors won't clear him. Damn it. Maybe we went too far. But all of that and banking on McCaffrey's legs for another year with the amount of usage, But all of that to say you believe that with the right structure and right players, that Brock perty's that guy. Why go searching in the wasteland that is free agency or the roll of the dice of the draft. You did that, Trey Lance? Yeah you remember that that didn't work? Yeah, I mean, look, and because that's that's you know, go to go back to my first point about getting you know, taking you know and making sure you pay brock party. Also that gets into that, Okay, well we got lucky getting the guy, and we spent the third overall pick we traded up to get this guy, and Trey Lance gave them nothing. So that's more pressure to say, we really got to keep party because we thought we had the quarterback position right for the next decade. And the guys aren't even on the team anymore. So that's more of the pressure of we gotta keep party. It's look there, you're in a perfect spot right now. If you're a quarterback and you can be a league average guy, you're gonna get paid, and you're gonna get paid a lot. You're gonna get forty fifty million dollars a year. That that's how it's three years ago was you're really good, you'll get twenty five million year, But now no, we have double bat in the last three years. That's it. The escalation of the salary there, wide receivers, cornerbacks, you name it all the way through down to your edge rushers. Making it to what I say, I need a protector, I need an attacker, I needed a passer. Ready for a new job, let express employment professionals help, while Express helps people in all industries find work. Our sweet spot is logistics roles and Express never charge of job seekers a fee. Go to expresspros dot com dot's expresspros dot com. Well time to find out what's trending right now in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called the Boston Celtics of Fox Sports Radio. Oof, she's had a long day and is ready to go home. It's Montylos. I mean I have had a long day. I'm not ready to go home just yet.

It's like we're counting down to New Year. All the shots outside Madison Square Garden. Everybody's cheering. Hey, the ball is dropping. The ball is dropped. What do you think the security cost is across the city of New York? Oh? Man, you know, not a great night to start the subway series with the Mets. And then you want to talk about overtime being put in for by police and first responders. Hey, I've been retired six years. Look I need you for three nights. We got the baseball series, they got whatever the hell goes on with the Knicks. Eight and a half to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics one oh four to sixty eight. Ac Earl has checked in for the Celtics. I think you're think it's my guy. All I want to show all the love I can all the obscure Celtics from like the early two thousands and the late nineties when they were done winning and it was hey, we're trying to make it work with Dee Brown, all right, let's go. Yeah, good times those late nineties trading cards like aw, look at those Celtics. And then you eventually got to Antoine Walker. Oh yeah, we'll got to. Yeah, we'll get to eventually you got to Yeah. No, you had a number of years with Finn Baker. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah we'll get that. We'll get that. Then Baker is one of my heroes though. I mean the amount of money that guy made and then in his post career, I mean he did he did well. It is a It's going to be a Knicks final four in the NBA. I just think about this for a second. In the final four of the NBA, it's going to be the Knicks. The Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks. It's like they're the Washington Generals for the Knicks that last year when they won. But we got a little something something for you already, don't worry about it. So the Knicks and Pacers are synonymous. Then in the West is Devincenzo and Julius Randall. Okay, Knicks up until last year part of their run, and probably Hartenstein. So okay. So now we have just claiming every all Knicks Final four. It's like it's a very It's like a Hallmark movie. It's a very Nicks Christmas, a very Knicks Final four. How many times did they show that Villanova commercial tonight? Oh lots lots. Did that guy heavy heavy rotation for this one? Because it was a Nick celebration. Yeah, it's been a celebration since halftime, it's been a this is I told her tonight was going to be a party. Yeah. The middle of that second quarter, five point fifty five left in the second quarter is when the Celtics finally scored their third basket of the quarter, seventeen for the quarter. And that was it. Why I said I was cool. I got to halftime and like, what do we talk about? This game sucks? So we'll have more on the greatest sporting event in the last five years coming up in the bank. Dude, I have no time for that. Tonight I have bigger I have. I'm going to the I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in twenty two No, no, no, I mean I got bigger fish. Yesterday we hit we had the guys strike out O'tani and then just take the ball. I mean, come on, that was a big, big bobblehead night when he hit two home runs. I did not watch one second of the Mets and the Yankees, not one second. And you know, Mitt the Mets, I've not watched one sing lying because of that, because you know what, he didn't have the TVs changed in the back though. I mean we were here in nely an hour in the game telling me you didn't ask for thirty seconds of a long time when Soo came out there for him? No, no, I didn't. What not, I didn't fifteen second one he would have been in his car for part of it. That would have gotten weird. Not one secnd. I mean I did see him, you know, you know, tip his cap to the crowd. Uh. Yeah, that's okay, that's fine, that's great. I will worry about that tomorrow. That's a sixth to your final as my uh as my high school Jim Teacher. Mister Williams used to say, that's a story for another day. There's a different story tonight, one ten seventy four with six minutes left to go. But we'll have more on the Knicks and the Celtics. However, big story from the NFL today, Right, we thought the Broncolypse was coming, all the different stories we had leaping up to it, and the Brocolypse is here. Brock Purty and the forty nine ers agree to wait five year, two hundred and sixty five million dollar contract, one hundred and eighty one million dollars in overall guaranteed money. That is a fifty five million dollar a year average for brock Purty, who will likely see all of this money. Being his fourth year in the league, young enough, he's gonna and look, at some point it will seem like a bargain year, three year four. You know, perty's only getting fifty five million dollars. So Perdy gets paid. We thought it was coming, and it's here. And there's two big things I can tell you. Why did Perdy get paid? Why did he get paid this kind of money when he has been a good quarterback? Right, He's been good. Has he been a top quarterback in the league. No, but he's been good, right. He had a really good promise his first year in a little bit more than half a year, had a really good second year, got to the super Bowl. Not a good third year, right when the when the weapons got hurt and he didn't have as many the forty nine ers weren't very good. Right, So that that's his year. Bud's generally how things work in the NFL, though, if your weapons are no good an elite quarterback, if you're Josh Allen, it doesn't matter if you're throwing the Stefon Diggs or if you're throwing two Quandre Diggs. Doesn't matter. But there's always going to be a gap between guy one and two and the next ten. Yeah. But but there's gonna be players that make other players better, that are good no matter who they're throwing to. And then there's players who are good when they have a lot of weapons around them. I've played two thirds of his passes. It was twenty and twelve with a ninety six rating. Like all the things, all the metrics we want to do, I don't know. Yeah, twenty and twelve, is that fifty five million dollars a year. Well that was Matthew Stafford last year. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you who was twenty in twelve. Yeah, okay, But also the Rams got within a hair's breadth of the Super Bowl. So there is that where the Niners were sitting and they say, and they had it packed in beginning of December, said, if we're going to do that, you did the staff things. So twenty and twelve is not fifty five. You want to lean a little bit more while and also talking about a guy that won a Super Bowl, that's been to a couple of super bowl you know, Matthew Stafford's kind of had a good one. He's in the last year and last year he was much better the second half than brock perty was and he nearly got his team to the Super Bowl, right his guys, and they were playing well down the street. You want to argue with me about something that I'm not arguing with you about. I'm saying brock Purty is pretty good. I don't know what. Why Why are you just mad that the Knicks are winning? Brought up his stats and dismissed that. So is that a great year? Is twenty and twelve a great year. No, is it a good year? Yes? Did I say it was a good year. It's a good year. It's a good year. The next are winning. I'm sorry, I'm sorry the Knicks are winning, but they're winning. I said it was a good year. It's a good year. He got He played pretty well. He's a good quarterback. Why did he get paid? He got paid. A lot of reasons is because of where he came from in the draft. He's mister irrelevant, right, so when he comes in all of a sudden, it looks like you got really lucky. And I'm sure the Niners have had to hear, and John Lynch has had to hear the last few yar, boy, look how lucky we got. They know we got lucky. We drafted a guy that we didn't even know if he was going to make the team, and here he is now potentially our franchise quarterback who got us to a super Bowl and is young and suddenly as someone we didn't have to spend a big high draft pick on. We got really lucky. And we can't let the lucky guys leave, because, boy, if you if you got lucky and a guy and let him leave. What does that tell you? Now, flip this around, if instead of being mister Irrelevant, brock Purty was taking third overall in the draft like Trey Lance, what would people be saying? What would be his contract situation? Are you ready to give? Are they ready to give brock Purty fifty five million dollars a year with the number three overall pick in the draft and what he's done so far? Instead, it's more, Eh, maybe we'll figure out something, maybe we'll franchise you something else. But he's not getting fifty five million because the pedigree of him coming into the league. The team would expect more, and the city would expect more, the fans would expect more, and the whole push behind why the universal love for brock Purdy is out there wouldn't quite be what it is because he seems like he's a lucky fine so let we have to reward him and keep him. Whereas if he was a number three overall pick, it would be yeah, he's been good, but eh, is he a guy we want to commit to? Is he really? When you come with that high a pedigree, there's going to be a different way you're looked at. Now. It shouldn't matter because once you get into the NFL, you get to the NFL and it's okay, Well, it doesn't matter if a guy was taking three overall or mister irrelevant. What you do on the field is what matters. But because of where he came from and where he could have been, there's a completely different outlook for his career. And part of the reason why he got paid is because he was he was a lucky find. He was he was a he was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That's what it was, and that's part of the reason why Perdy got this fifty five million dollars deal. At some level, you could go to the we've we've been able to underpay for several years, so you're owed because we certainly see those deals back end of negotiations, go back to Kobe's final deal and so many others where you're like, is that guy really should he be getting this money? He's like, well, he's worth more than what he is doing necessarily on the court. Right when you look at what he guys are to an organization for perty, you're also looking at the larger quarterback landscape where he is, where whether he can be great again as you reset the offense. Right, a lot of those guys are gone. You're hoping Christian McCaffrey comes back. You're hoping George Kittle is the guy he was the second half. At some point father time gets him too, right, or wrestling or he becomes a wrestler the other one. But I mean, are you Debo's gone? Like you know, you've got all these moving parts. Yeah, Jennings came up big for them. So you're hopeful that, all right, a year of health whatever you reconstitute that offensive line that you trust your brain, your brain trust that you're going to be able to make him that guy he was two years ago. If all the component parts are there, and the quarterback landscape, look at look at what it's a mess, right, we can say all we want, all right, next year's draft class looks good, all right in theory, and guys take shots in theory. But we've done that how many times? Right, and even brought with Rock Perdy's class, a bunch of guys that never made a damn bit of a move movement in the NFL. So you found the lucky penny, as you like to say. So, Yeah, there's a there's a little bit of that of of hey, now the expectation, but once you start playing. Yeah, I mean we've heard for two years. Should they paid brock Party That's been a very hot debated topic, certainly in the world of sports TV and radio. And I look around the like, where where do you place him? He's still top ten, top twelve guy? Right, he's getting paid a seventh just because he's the next man up. Yeah, look right, It's all about timing and that's and that's the other reason why did Perdy get paid? Because we're starting to ask the wrong questions when a quarterback gets paid fifty who deserves fifty million? Fifty five million? Because that's a big way Brock Purty deserved this money. I can give you a better answer than that, because I'll tell you it doesn't matter if you think he deserves the money or he doesn't. When a team, teams know that it is miserable without a quarterback, they know life is absolutely miserable because they see the teams that every year try to churn through and try to find a quarterback. Jets have been trying to find a quarterback for thirty years. Like when you find a guy who all he's gotta do is be a periphery top fifteen quarterback, right like party, you know Purty is he at his best, he's a periphery top ten, probably more of a twelve or fifteen, but he's someone that is good enough you can win with him, and he doesn't need to be replaced. And when teams have a quarterback like that, now we're gonna keep them. We're gonna give him what we need to because A, it's a quarterback, and B it's miserable with that are we gonna do better if we let him go? This is why Trevor Lawrence got fifty five million, tremendously overpaid, because the Jaguars way, we took him high, and boy, things could always be worse even though he's not that great. Why did Gino Smith get a three year extension with the Raiders? They've been living. They know what life is like without a quarterback. So let's take a guy who probably is, you know, a league average, maybe a tiny bit more than league average at his best. This is why guys get these extensions, because they know how miserable life is. So it doesn't it's not that a guy needs to be a top seven, top eight guy to get paid in mortas. Just if you're a top fifteen quarterback or someone we don't feel the need to replace, we're gonna give you a lot of money because we know how miserable life is without a quarterback. Those two reasons, that's why I brought perty got paid. Well, you're the guy in the room. So you know, in the case of the Jaguars, it's a have we failed this guy and we don't want him to go be successful somewhere else. Right, he was supposed to be the chosen one, right, We laugh about it. Use the Star Wars line all the time. Generational guy. That's what he was coming out of college. Didn't they do him right? Right? Go back to Urban Mile if you admire and everything that went down there. If you're shot con or you're sitting there and you're making the A value, it was like, well, can we give him one more shot? Try to put some talent around him, and maybe it works. Right, you make the big swing, you go get a big star to come alongside, and maybe you get some juice from that. But you know, for the forty nine ers, they're one of the few teams where you say, organizational stability is something that they come to the table with with the luxury of all right, we've watched Brock succeed. What are the things that have made him successful in the past, and just owing it to star power is fine? All right? Ayuk has been good, degrade at times, debo when utilized properly. Before he started carrying the ball eight times a game and getting broken in half. It got cute, right it it works two times a game. Hey, you know what if we did it five times a game would be even better. Oh wait, he's not eligible to play these last couple of games. The doctors won't clear him. Damn it. Maybe we went too far. But all of that and banking on McCaffrey's legs for another year with the amount of usage, But all of that to say you believe that with the right structure and right players, that Brock perty's that guy. Why go searching in the wasteland that is free agency or the roll of the dice of the draft. You did that, Trey Lance? Yeah you remember that that didn't work? Yeah, I mean, look, and because that's that's you know, go to go back to my first point about getting you know, taking you know and making sure you pay brock party. Also that gets into that, Okay, well we got lucky getting the guy, and we spent the third overall pick we traded up to get this guy, and Trey Lance gave them nothing. So that's more pressure to say, we really got to keep party because we thought we had the quarterback position right for the next decade. And the guys aren't even on the team anymore. So that's more of the pressure of we gotta keep party. It's look there, you're in a perfect spot right now. If you're a quarterback and you can be a league average guy, you're gonna get paid, and you're gonna get paid a lot. You're gonna get forty fifty million dollars a year. That that's how it's three years ago was you're really good, you'll get twenty five million year, But now no, we have double bat in the last three years. That's it. The escalation of the salary there, wide receivers, cornerbacks, you name it all the way through down to your edge rushers. Making it to what I say, I need a protector, I need an attacker, I needed a passer. Ready for a new job, let express employment professionals help, while Express helps people in all industries find work. Our sweet spot is logistics roles and Express never charge of job seekers a fee. Go to expresspros dot com dot's expresspros dot com. Well time to find out what's trending right now in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called the Boston Celtics of Fox Sports Radio. Oof, she's had a long day and is ready to go home. It's Montylos. I mean I have had a long day. I'm not ready to go home just yet.

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It was all Nicks total domination from start to finish against the Celtics. One nineteen to eighty one was the final score. All five of New York starters ended in double digits, but Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, og Onenobi, and Michel Bridges all ended with twenty or more points. Jalen Brown, fouled out late in the third quarter for Boston, ended with twenty and was the leading scorer for the Celtics. So the Knicks're gonnae Indiana on Wednesday in Game one of.

It was all Nicks total domination from start to finish against the Celtics. One nineteen to eighty one was the final score. All five of New York starters ended in double digits, but Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, og Onenobi, and Michel Bridges all ended with twenty or more points. Jalen Brown, fouled out late in the third quarter for Boston, ended with twenty and was the leading scorer for the Celtics. So the Knicks're gonnae Indiana on Wednesday in Game one of.

The Eastern Conference Finals. Congratulations to you.

The Eastern Conference Finals. Congratulations to you.

Thank you Go, New York, New York Go.

Thank you Go, New York, New York Go.

On another NBA news Nuggetsport, Aaron Gordon has been diagnosed with the left hamstring strain and his status is in doubt according to ESPN. For Game seven against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which is on Sunday. In the NHL, the Maple Leaves kept their season alive.

On another NBA news Nuggetsport, Aaron Gordon has been diagnosed with the left hamstring strain and his status is in doubt according to ESPN. For Game seven against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which is on Sunday. In the NHL, the Maple Leaves kept their season alive.

Leaves corral get it out at setter brought to the line and hard.

Leaves corral get it out at setter brought to the line and hard.

To the net of Paccheratte, fucked Paccharatte pouted home at a deflection on a great player to the front of the net. The each league.

To the net of Paccheratte, fucked Paccharatte pouted home at a deflection on a great player to the front of the net. The each league.

And they hold on.

And they hold on.

They beat the Panthers in game six to zero, so they're headed to a game seven.

They beat the Panthers in game six to zero, so they're headed to a game seven.

And they were scoreless.

And they were scoreless.

Up until the last ten minutes of the third period, and the Maple Leaves pull it out. They stay alive in the NHL playoffs. In baseball, the Pirates are now on top of the Phillies, saying thanks to a three run shot from Alexander Canadio, it's three to one against the Phillies' bottom of the seventh inning. Bottom of the ninth inning, with the Cardinals on top of the Royals ten to three after seven innings, the Astros are beating the Rangers six to two. The Twins, who have won eleven in a row, trying to make it twelve. Right now, they're shutting out the Brewers three zero, and they're about to start the bottom of the ninth inning. In Milwaukee, the Diamondbacks on the scoreboard first against the Rockies, three zero, top of the fourth inning. The Mariners also on top of the Padres, three zero, bottom of the fourth Angels on the scoreboard first against the Dodgers in the freeway series, to zero, bottom of the second inning.

Up until the last ten minutes of the third period, and the Maple Leaves pull it out. They stay alive in the NHL playoffs. In baseball, the Pirates are now on top of the Phillies, saying thanks to a three run shot from Alexander Canadio, it's three to one against the Phillies' bottom of the seventh inning. Bottom of the ninth inning, with the Cardinals on top of the Royals ten to three after seven innings, the Astros are beating the Rangers six to two. The Twins, who have won eleven in a row, trying to make it twelve. Right now, they're shutting out the Brewers three zero, and they're about to start the bottom of the ninth inning. In Milwaukee, the Diamondbacks on the scoreboard first against the Rockies, three zero, top of the fourth inning. The Mariners also on top of the Padres, three zero, bottom of the fourth Angels on the scoreboard first against the Dodgers in the freeway series, to zero, bottom of the second inning.

The Yankees did defeat.

The Yankees did defeat.

The Meds six to two.

The Meds six to two.

Aaron Judges Battie four fourteen.

Aaron Judges Battie four fourteen.

Aaron Judge, he.

Aaron Judge, he.

Was two of four and today's win Juan Soto wins zero for two with two walks in the loss. The Tigers held on five to four against the Blue Jays. Detroit is the first team to reach thirty wins.

Was two of four and today's win Juan Soto wins zero for two with two walks in the loss. The Tigers held on five to four against the Blue Jays. Detroit is the first team to reach thirty wins.

Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch on Yes, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Rain Radio studios. Coming up next, we'll break down what we saw and I already have my first fearless prediction for the Conference finals. It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch on Yes, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Rain Radio studios. Coming up next, we'll break down what we saw and I already have my first fearless prediction for the Conference finals. It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.

Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is over in New York. It has been over for a couple of hours. But it was a party, the biggest party MSG has seen. There were more. I think there were more stars at the game they showed in the final five minutes. Then I think at a Hollywood premiere, well, I think they all realized they were going to get massive screen time in the final minutes because there was nothing else really going on. Once you got bat into the second halfs like, all right, who else is here? If you were sitting in road thirty seven, yeah, they showed you you got an opportunity to be on screen in a row. Who's that guy? He was the fifth lead of some movie from nineteen ninety seven, but he's here tonight. He was He was in season four of Sons of Anarchy. He played a guy. Uh, he was a third gang member. He can tell this a second. We got a real quick story for we do play the day I found out yesterday that one of Zoe's teammates on her softball team, her dad's an actor and was in Sons of Anarchy. No kidding was had a pretty big role in one season. I was like, oh my good, because because because Pam goes, he goes, doesn't he look like? I said, yes, Oh my god. He ran the one Niners. He ran the one Niners after they killed Leroy sorry spoiler they killed. He ran the one Niners. I was like, oh my god. I'm like, I want to go say something to him, like, hey, how's the one Niners do? And I was like, oh my good. I'm like, he ran the one Niners. Gotta be careful though, who I mean, you've had incidents, you know, yeah, urinals in other places that sometimes could get out of sorts. Yeah, no, No. I met Bruce Willison yurt and it was, you know, it was a little weird. It's a little weird starting quoting or what you'd be Kay, did you ever redo moonlighting? Dude? I miss Moonlighting? Oh what a show lighting. For over forty years, Tyrerack's been helping customers find the right tires for how what where they drive? Shipped fast and free back by free Road has a protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tiraq dot com is the way tire buying should be. Tire Rack always brings us the play of the day, and well, there's so many plays we could choose from. But how about this when even the most staunchest of die hard Celtics fans had to realize, Okay, it's over for us. When you bury the Celtics, you get to be the play of the day.

Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is over in New York. It has been over for a couple of hours. But it was a party, the biggest party MSG has seen. There were more. I think there were more stars at the game they showed in the final five minutes. Then I think at a Hollywood premiere, well, I think they all realized they were going to get massive screen time in the final minutes because there was nothing else really going on. Once you got bat into the second halfs like, all right, who else is here? If you were sitting in road thirty seven, yeah, they showed you you got an opportunity to be on screen in a row. Who's that guy? He was the fifth lead of some movie from nineteen ninety seven, but he's here tonight. He was He was in season four of Sons of Anarchy. He played a guy. Uh, he was a third gang member. He can tell this a second. We got a real quick story for we do play the day I found out yesterday that one of Zoe's teammates on her softball team, her dad's an actor and was in Sons of Anarchy. No kidding was had a pretty big role in one season. I was like, oh my good, because because because Pam goes, he goes, doesn't he look like? I said, yes, Oh my god. He ran the one Niners. He ran the one Niners after they killed Leroy sorry spoiler they killed. He ran the one Niners. I was like, oh my god. I'm like, I want to go say something to him, like, hey, how's the one Niners do? And I was like, oh my good. I'm like, he ran the one Niners. Gotta be careful though, who I mean, you've had incidents, you know, yeah, urinals in other places that sometimes could get out of sorts. Yeah, no, No. I met Bruce Willison yurt and it was, you know, it was a little weird. It's a little weird starting quoting or what you'd be Kay, did you ever redo moonlighting? Dude? I miss Moonlighting? Oh what a show lighting. For over forty years, Tyrerack's been helping customers find the right tires for how what where they drive? Shipped fast and free back by free Road has a protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tiraq dot com is the way tire buying should be. Tire Rack always brings us the play of the day, and well, there's so many plays we could choose from. But how about this when even the most staunchest of die hard Celtics fans had to realize, Okay, it's over for us. When you bury the Celtics, you get to be the play of the day.

Payne gets the rebound with the shot clock turned off. If you want to knock off the champions, you have to play like champions.

Payne gets the rebound with the shot clock turned off. If you want to knock off the champions, you have to play like champions.

And the Knicks did that tonight A one nineteen eighty.

And the Knicks did that tonight A one nineteen eighty.

One A way they out on that. No one in the NBA saw Cubar aside for the New York Nicks themselves Nicks and six and they're on their way to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time at twenty five years.

One A way they out on that. No one in the NBA saw Cubar aside for the New York Nicks themselves Nicks and six and they're on their way to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time at twenty five years.

Oh, that's even better than Deuce McBride shot at the end of the first half. There's your final call, Nicks Radio Network, The Knicks going on. They go to the conference finals every twenty five years, whether you like it or not. Mike Harmon, No, God bless. I love the way they play Thibodeau not getting fired. See there you go and us and now he's the hero of the New York He's the gig in New York again. I'm the king and he was to you if you didn't know anything about the game, they had the scoreboard off and they showed you just watched the fourth quarter, and you spent most of the time watching TIBs, you would say, are the Knicks losing by twenty? I mean, are the Knicks are we have to go to Game seven against the Celtics on Sunday because no matter what they're up, Forty still got my arms fall. It's almost like he's got his arms crazy glued, so he doesn't have to hold his arms up like he's crazy glued together with his arms folded. Is he found that that's less stress on his shoulders in that position, I think it would be on his back and he's not you know, slump slumping over. Yeah, I could be. That would have helped Phil Jackson. It was Phil getting out of that chair, I'll tell you. But but your you're Pointatibodeau, I mean, it is key right because on the broadcast and you and I just sitting there. It's like we remember Games one and two, huge leads loss from from Boston. Now again they they beat the snot out him. It's the uh, the bin line. I didn't know whether it was gonna quit first, your spirit or your body. Uh and and well here was both because I mean it was a merciless transaction. But you got that call and so many people had left to go party in the streets. You had the individual voices coming through. It's been it's been a party since the middle of the second quarter for the Knicks, who were in the conference finals. And I'll tell you this right right away what I've been saying all yeah, see you in a few days. Indiana got a little something something for you off for last year, Nixon for care for what you wish you particular cho I don't have a choice. We're playing the Pacers. Rick Carlisle is already complaining about the officiating. You can just bow down's already. He's already upset. Well, we're better than the Pacers. We're better than they are. You were last year and then everybody got hurt. You know who we finished. We finished the year. Mark Jackson was playing point guard for us. He was actually joyer celebration. He was this next week he was calling the game and playing point guard for the Knicks. He was doing both at the end.