The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonMike Harmon and Dan Beyer debate if Cooper Flagg is NBA bound over returning for another at Duke. Maryland’s head coach Kevin Willard holds a very weird press conference. And we play one of our absolute favorites ‘The Feud’
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Greetings and welcome. In hour two of the program, I'm gonna try to time myself, so I hit another buzzer beating. We didn't get any we didn't get a lot. You know, you had the travel no travel with Maryland and Colorado State, and then we got the lebron tip in last night. Then they get felled by a Josh Giddy beyond the logo three a little while ago, and now Cooper Flagg with a flair for the dramatic as they go into the locker room with Duke in a six point lead.
Yeah, thirty five footter just from the edge of the logo, not as long as Giddies was, but Kan Kneppel hit a bucket for Duke to put them up by three, and then Flag followed with his So, what was that high game in a back and forth game between Duke and Arizona. Not that six points his breathing room, Mike. But Duke hasn't felt the six point lead in a while in this game, as Arizona had been keeping it close.
That it is a big statement at the end of a half, right, we're hanging. We're hanging as it's only two possessions, but the weight, yeah, feels that much more.
And Caleb Love took a three way early. He could have wasted more time on the clock. It was about a twenty seven footer that went front of the rim, allowed Duke to get the rebound and allowed Cooper Flag to go and push it up court. That's why in those late half situations you have to take it down. He shot it with about eight seconds left and allowed Duke to not only make the bucket, but also get momentum here entering halftime.
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Yes, and this one is destined to be the reason. I hesitated because it looked like General Davis got mugged, and I wondered if they were going to call them follow because.
They We've had a few, but we've had a couple of It's like, did they actually blow the whistle? And everybody's standing around looking at each other, waiting, did you blow it? Or do I start going back the other way?
Texas Tech and Alabama, excuse me, Alabama and BYU were in a track meet up and down. We told you the high scoring affair. Alabama with all the records for three points, three pointers made by a team and whatnot. Both of those teams. I think we're in the bonus said about the eleven minute mark of the second half, and those teams are getting up and down the floor, and here in this game, no such thing. Now, granted, nobody may be available at the end of this game if they were calling fouls because players would foul out. But a silent whistle that we've had in the first half of Texas Tech.
And are nine fouls called thus far? Teams shooting and combined twenty one of fifty eight y And then what's the record for rebounds in a game two teams don't regulation?
No overtime. I'm not sure you'd have to have a couple of as he said, bricklayers. You'd have to have the Masons out there. And but it was I'll tell you, I'll tell you again. If Arkansas could keep you under seventy points, they have a really good chance to win this game. And this was this is what five and a half point spread? Yes, I think entering that's what BYU and Alabama was, And so, you know, interesting different, a little different because Alabama and by you would play at pace. But I just did not think Texas Tech was five and a half points better than Arkansas. And right now, Arkansas, at least for the first half, is showing that.
Well, while we're while we're in the subject of lines and where we keep things, Duke minus nine and a half second half.
I I think Duke is really good, especially in the final ten minutes. Mike, and I know that's not like great insight, but you can hang with him for thirty just kind of like Alabama football used to be. Maybe you can hang with him for a couple of quarters when that fourth quarter comes around. Curious to see how you respond. I would I would take I would take Duke in minus nine and a half. Even as much as I love the matchup, I'm curious to see how Arizona would respond in those final ten.
Minutes second half. We got Flag with eighteen, Caleb Love on fourteen with fourteen, and Flag really starting to asserting himself as the half was coming to a close.
Yeah, he is. He is just really so good. He truly is in For those that don't know, he should be a high school senior right now. So you reclassified early, which is why, and I know you guys have talked about it at times, but I don't think there's no discussion for him to come back, because it's different in college football if you reclassify, because he can't go to the league right away, but you do start the track. You can get some nil money if you're reclassifying. In college basketball, it's to get to the NBA sooner, and plus, Duke's gonna have guys coming in that are likely planning on taking the spot of Cooper Flag because he's only expected to be there one year, but he's lived up to everything so far of the expectations for his one year in Durham.
I would say the only caveat I ever brought to it as Jason and I would have that conversation owed to a little of what Brad Underwood was kind of joking about, you know, go have a life, get a girl, whatever. But if he hadn't played in the NCAA tournament, oh sure, and perhaps if his heart really was hey, that was part of what the experiences along the ladder I wanted to check off, especially going to a place like Duke. We're gonna have an opportunity to do some great things that maybe you can tug out them up because we have no idea what the true numbers are for their nil deals. Right, but it's not fifty eight million, which is what reese'sche got this last year. Sure, you're right, right, and that's all guaranteed money. Yes, So like that that's where even if the math is fuzzy. It ain't fifty eight guaranteed correct to push out a year because, as we know, a lot of things happen in our lives in a year. So adding any element of risk, even if you can take out insurance policies or whatever else, you've been there, done that, and experienced enough of the college experience. It's always there if you want to go back and hang out on campus.
I was actually Mike surprised, and I don't know if it's maybe telling on what hop people look at college basketball right now, but I do feel that Cooper Flag season did not live up to the hype that I thought it would. Nothing from what he done, He's lived up to the billing. And then some like truly like Duke has been one of the best teams, if not the best team in the country for this entire season, and he's done everything with it with highlight, you know, real highlights. And I don't know if we've gotten to the it didn't reach the Zion fervor that we had in twenty nineteen by any means, but he's completely lived up to it. And so that's kind of surprised me in that aspect of the attention on him for as great eas he's been hasn't been as great as maybe I thought it could have been, considering we had been hearing about Cooper Flag for the last couple of years in the high school ranks, and wait till this guy gets to this level and then he's absolutely lived up to it. And here is fresh off of a thirty five footer at the buzzer.
Yeah, I'm wondering how much of that is the highlight reels or jump shots and not ripping the basket, shot between two defenders, or the bow going yeah, yeah, right to where it becomes a mythical kind of situation with Zion.
Yeah, well it's and this is where I think, and this is where I think it's maybe the state of college basketball, because there actually were highlights he had when they went to Carolina and they went against the Tarios, he had a big dunk at the end of the game. He had another one against Pitt. But it tells you kind of where college basketball is in the in the world. Like today, it's this is sweet sixteen night, and I walked into our studios and obviously we're in southern California. We're in Los Angeles, home of the Dodgers, but here it's Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers on people's mind. I'm not sure how much outside of the people who are fans of these schools and have the brackets are really caring that the Sweet Sixteen is going on.
Well, I think that's that's nationwide for sure. Yeah, right, I mean because hate watching is dissipated for a lot of these It's like I brought up the Caliperry Patino, even they're warm and fuzzy. The only guy you might have started to hate if you really paid attention to college buckets was Danny Hurley. But he's gone. Sure. Yeah, the rest of these guys, you have no idea who they are, right, you can tell them without a scorecard, yes, right, So that's part of the process as well. And you know the rest of the coaches. I mean, Izo's not a guy that's really I don't think rubbed anybody the wrong way. Yeah, there's some stuff at Michigan State that you still have some questions about. But he never became a villain. They didn't win, no, right. He won the title thirty years.
Ago, yes, loved by so many.
And then he dressed up like Gene Simmons for the Midnight Madness.
Come on, sure, and he's older now, right, so you have that that loveability. The point that I was going to make that I was surprised was when Cooper Flag had the injury in the ACC tournament in the quarterfinals, there was no discourse and should he shut it down completely? And I was surprised by that because I actually feel like some of that is a little low hanging fruit considering what was what was at stake for his career, you know, I mean it would be easy to be like, why should Cooper Flag play in the tournament? It just like we would be talking about why would Christian McCaffrey play in a bowl game? Well, you know, like that sort of conversation by the way he should play, Like, if he's healthy, he should play. He shouldn't shut it down for the NCAA tournament. I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is I'm surprised that there wasn't any fake discourse about it.
Yeah, I mean, look, it might have been like we may have talked about it for like two minutes, like if he because he's clear, he wants to play, right, that's the thing, right, it's not a I'm already an operation shut down ready for my NBA moment, not that he's going to come back for another year, laying out to the eligibility and the fifty seven fifty eight million dollars plus that's waiting for him, but it became in that moment, how hurt is he?
Right?
Because that injury was pretty scary looking like we had we were on air the other night when we had both the Juju Watkins followed by the Jason Tatum right after each other and looking at each other, going all right, this stuff usually happens in threes. I'm hoping we ain't seen it number three. Yere sure, right, So, but big moments that that turn on a diamond for Cooper Flagg as soon as you got him back and he's going through the layup line, and it's like I kind of joked like I would be saving him until he got to the NCAA tournament. He doesn't need to play in the conference tournament, and let's let's you know, roll it out there. Guys get extra minutes and you get your rotations, and he gets the extra days of rest. But clearly the kid wants to play.
Yeah, I and I shouldn't I shouldn't hide it. I'm just surprised that the first takes of the world, the hot take shows that you have sure aren't bringing up that argument. And I don't know if it was. I don't know if it didn't make it because everybody is based in reality and feel like, okay, you're going or or if just college basketball didn't rise to.
That level of Lebron and Stephen a slap fighting with each other for two weeks going on. Now, sure, the fakeust on court confrontation in the history of man and two weeks of soap opera acting and ww e K fab thereafter the Earl is.
Doing is I was pleasantly surprised that that it wasn't a conversation. Now, there were people who said that maybe Cooper flection have flight against Mount Saint Mary's in the first round, but then you're like, well we have missed as we stayed a Baylor. Never know what could happen. Sure, we just ran through the ACC tournament basically without Cooper Flag for most of it. But there was a conversation and John Shire he's healthy, he's gonna play. He played and no ill effects. And now the ankle injury is a distant memory.
Distant memory and now even pushed further away by that half ending three point shot. He's Dan Buyer at Dan byro on Fox is where you find him. Coming up next, we're going to talk about a little more college buckets owing to the conversation of new faces or old faces, new places, coaching changes, and really the state on lamentation. We've heard from a number of coaches. We got one that's a little bit more fiery than the other. That's coming up next. But first, Hey, you know, one of the things I've been talking about, and Jason and I've been talking about a lot is PhD weight loss as we go through and having a good time, Like every morning it starts with me and a nice fluffy pancake, and that starts today, right. It is part of my program, Pad of butter, get it going, black cup of coffee and I'm ready to go, and then we move through it. So through it. Since the beginning of January, I am down now thirty four pounds and including three and a half this last week. Going through the process, doing my meals, doing my check ins, keeping my log and everything. On average, men are losing three to five pounds a week on the program Fast Results, you'd lose a bunch right off the jomp. Jason lost eight pounds his first week. He's lost two hat sizes. I haven't quite lost it in my head just yet, which is good when you call yourself the swollen domet But you get bigger and healthier results overall and weekly you just see the scale going down, down, down, better results than ozempic along the way, and you lose fat, not muscle. That's a huge part of it. No huge side effects like you can have with some of the other drugs like ozempic. You shouldn't have the negative side effects. Feel better each and every day. Eighty percent of your food is provided by PhD weight loss, no extra cost, and no cravings for junk food, and you're accountable every week. You're having your meat with your NUTRITIONUS one on one. You're doing your weigh ins, you're talking through the process, the psychology of it, talking about how you're talking and evangelizing with your friends and family and discussing your progress and getting them on board to help you in this process. The discipline and will power, well, you're not going to have the sugar cravings and the food cravings. Those are going to start to dissipate over over time and certainly virtually all over the phone for you. Again, you learn to eat and how your body is going to respond to food each and every week. So you got that. So here's the limited offer. Let's get to the cut to the gym. We've got the go to Jason here, Fox Sports Radio. That's the what you want to mention. Mention Jason or Mike. It's PhD weight loss. Two free weeks are added to your weight loss program. If you mentioned our show, friends and listeners coming out board. It's a deal only for you. Fifteen percent off your weight loss program, fifteen percent off your energy supplement bundle and your programs backed by the PhD. Get results or get your money back gearan. So here's what we need to do. Eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven. That's eight six four five o two one seven seven seven myphdweightloss dot Com. Myphdweightloss dot Com. It works for me, It'll work for you too.
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Welcome back into the Tirack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios, Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Carmon, Dan Byer In Jason Stead this evening, Dan and I see a lot of each other. Ste I watch you a Flex podcast episodes are up. The mock draft, we'll have to go back into the lab and do a new one since there's so much change, Like you could go and wet your appetite a little bit of a five round mock draft that we did with our producer of the podcast, Ian roddy Uh And obviously the Sunday Show nine to eleven West Coast time, une to to Eastern watching Duke in Arizona, early second half, seven point game halftime in your other game with Arkansas thirty eight to thirty one over Texas Tech, John Caliperry getting it don Defense playing all the rage. But the games that are being played right now, Dan are getting pushed to the side very quickly by a story we already talked about a little bit tonight that is now like a flaming dumpster floating down a river.
It is, it is on fire and on We're pouring the gasoline on it because of the flamingness of it. I do want to say one quick thing about this Duke Arizona game, Mike, this is a forty two all game, and then Duke three pointer flag three pointer at the buzzer, three point play like that up nine in this contest. It just happened so quick, just like Kevin Willard's combustible comments.
My old favorite word spurt ability. Yes, I think we got that into a lexicon a few years ago. So that's what we're looking at with this Duke squad. They come at you fast, all right, Kevin Weller, we talked about it earlier. Ad going Willard presumed headed to Villanova. I want you to listen to this Clinton Dan, because well, this is kind of interesting being asked in the postgame presser as Marilyn gets sent home in a resounding loss and being asked about his future. Here are his comments. So I have not even no, I don't.
Know what I'm doing. I'll just be honest with you. I haven't talked to my agent, I haven't talked to my wife. I made a promise to this team that I was gonna just focus on this team, and that's all I've done, so I haven't talked to anybody right now. My biggest concerns in life right now. You know, I don't know who my boss is going to be. It's the guy that brought me here, who I really liked and appreciative of him bring me. The College Park is not here anymore, and I don't know who we're going to hire. And that's as in today's day and age, that worries me a little bit. Just to be I'm just being honest. My honesty got me in trouble. I m as well keep getting me in trouble. So this is going to be a family decision.
This is.
I love College Park, I love I love Maryland, you know, but there's when you're at this point in your career and you're looking at things. I have to take everything into consideration about what's going moving forward.
So the every show this week, I seem to keep coming back to Billy Joel songs. It's been really kind of interesting because with the Caliperi and Patino matchup, we had our scenes from an Italian restaurant, low hanging Fruit, take the joke move on. Yesterday, we're talking about turning the lights back on with the some of the coaches that we've fallen back in love with, including the aforementioned Calipari who were watching tonight. Patino still the love affair with Izzo right, the curmudgeon, elderly statesman and some of these other guys. Today it's all about honesty. He used the word honesty repeatedly. And so it comes down to this form me. Either we're just waiting for ink to dry on something at Villanova. Now he mentioned Damon Evans, who is the ad who's left for SMU or Villanova after all of this, has decided to withdraw any of the contract terms they were looking at. Have told him the pound sand and now he really doesn't know what he's doing because there's nobody there to extend his job. Because he's more or less said he was leaving right in past interviews, and nobody in the town, in the city, in the state of Maryland wants him coming back.
It is it is interesting, and I get that, you know, pride comes before the fall? Is that the that's it? When he was asked if he regrets anything that he had said over the last week or so, and he said, no, not at all. I don't believe that I believe that he does regret that he said it. I get it, Mike, but this isn't the NFL. The NFL, we look at head coaches and gms being paired up so much ads and head coaches in college sports. Yeah, to some extent, sure, But if Maryland wins at basketball, the AD is not making a move. They're just coming off of a bid to the Sweet sixteen. After a successful season, you bring a new AD in there. The AD, by no means, is saying I want to bring in my own guy. And I think he is trying to use that sort of situation of being like, well, I don't know who the AD is, and so it's kind of an unknown. If you win, and you win, if you're a football coach or a men's basketball coach, doesn't matter who the AD is, not get rid of you. And so I feel that he's using this as an excuse to leave because he's already got the Villanova job. To your point, is he feeling remorseful because they pulled it? I don't think so, because nobody else is out there. Ryan Odam's at Virginia, Richard Patino is now at Xavier. All these jobs are the candidates the guys who you thought maybe could take that job took those jobs because they knew Kevin Willard was going to Villanova. The only question now, maybe is who's the next coach at Maryland? Because I don't think that I don't think that it's I don't think he's remorseful for any of a contract being bold. I think he is remorseful and sounds that way, even though he doesn't want to verbally admit that he wished he didn't say some of the things he said.
Oh, because you're gonna have to really lay the groundwork at the next stop, right at Villanova. You're gonna have to play nice sandbox with everybody and walk on eggshells. You're not gonna be trying to pull power plays like he did in all these pressers and out their accommodation and the New York Christmas trip and everything else. I only bring it up because he seems like a guy who's really on the edge, And I get it. You get emotional after a game, but you get a few minutes before you get in front of a microphone, you've addressed the team. Well, the team already knew this was all swirling, right. We talked about it earlier. This is not new, it's final. But that's the only thing Like to bring up a potential is that there's already an acrimonious part to the next job. Not necessarily that they pull it. I go to the extreme because he I mean, he got shaking and like even though he's trying to use and got to put off, I don't know what I'm doing whatever else, Like, Okay, then what was the last couple of weeks? Right right? What was all of that about? And now you've got you know, the AD to your point, you've won generally the AD no matter who they are, they're gonna leave you alone. Yeah, this is this is it becomes a fight about resources, but not about your job.
Yeah. In the NFL, the GM is hired, the coach is already in place. You don't win. Guess what GM brings his own guy that we've seen that we've seen more GM and head coach pairings in the NFL. It doesn't necessarily work like that in college, and especially it doesn't work when you're one of the last sixteen teams playing in the NCAA tournament. Here's the deal. I like Kevin Willard, Kevin Willard's been more than a decade at Seaton Hall. When you see certain coaches bouncing here, there and everywhere and maybe could have gotten other jobs. He was there for a while, so I don't think that he was looking to climb the ladder. I understand the frustrations that he may have, and I think there are a lot of proud programs that maybe aren't getting the nil sort of race and what is this wild West. I just don't know how you can say the things that you said again, just to talk to you and me. You and I both went to Big ten schools, Yours more academically prestigious, but still football players are football players, right, And I would have done anything to trade my access as a student of the things that I got access to to be an access to what football players back then got to. Like I would look at Wow, jeez, look at they got the scooter to drive around campus and do this. They're going here, they're going there. We knew that there were perks. I think any student would love to live the life of a college football athlete back then. Now we've opened the door completely, Mike, where it's just everything is crazy. Now it's see being into the coaches, you know, in terms of what is being provided to the school. And that's why I just keep going back to the extra night in New York City for Christmas. Everybody would love to spend one night in New York City for Christmas to complain about not getting an extra one, because that means that it's not a commitment to your program. There may be other reasons, maybe the facility, the league, it's facilities, but there may be other reasons why your program may be lagging behind others in your conference, but it's not because you couldn't spend one extra night in New York City. And that just that's to me, is something that I would just be like, man, that just falls on deaf ears, say, if.
We're going to go down the road of complaining about access to whatever it is? Right, because we had mc cronin right, beloved to some for us, he's just a great sound bite UCLA look there on AM five to seven e LA sports are La affiliate here for Fox Sports Radio and mc cronan. We watched him throughout the year, right, fiery at the host asking in postgame questions. Yeah, couldn't do that on Mars right. I mean you had all these kind of things, and then he's complaining about flights and naming, name checking airlines. I'm I gonna do that to them here as your mine. But like all salty, it's like no, no, no for u USC and UCLA. That's been the most interesting thing about their arrival to the Big Ten is complaining about travel like nobody did the math of where Maryland is located. How about getting out to Happy Valley? Good luck, right, unless you're getting air dropped in over the top of the stadium. That's a pain in the ass. But it's all booked, baked into the cake of we're joining the Big ten and this is what it gets us a huge TV contract. But guess what our kids are gonna pay the price to a degree when it comes to traveling for road games. That's baked in. So then complaining about it every chance you got during a tournament, and then cronin on the way out complaining about the flight. It's like, no, complain about other things that are real. If we're gonna go in front of a microphone, don't sound like an idiot, yep, complaining about not being able to see the holiday parade or go ice skating at Rockefeller Center or this you didn't like the accommodations on the flight home because you didn't get a good snack or a good movie selection. Shut up?
What coach seat on an airplane any airline is like, yeah, I love this? None, okay, none, right, I mean, but hey, if it's chartered, guess what nobody else is on it? Maybe you're not sitting there at gate twenty two B waiting to board with everybody else, because I don't think that's what UCLA was doing, and UCLA neither. The money is university in the Big ten, so surprise, surprise if they're struggling in the other factors of it. And that's what I think is a part of this is there are schools that were maybe making money hand over fish, but now you get into this wild West game of trading your players and trading different things and you can't necessarily do it. And some coaches are scratching their head seeing other teams being able to do those things. Yeah, it's it's it's rich, Mike, it's rich good Frostburg.
What do you got?
Well, he used the word guys. He used the word like four or five times in that SoundBite. We heard the word was honest or honestly yep, or I'm being honest with you. I've watched enough interrogation shows to know he's lying through his teeth. Sure, the Villanova press conferences tomorrow.
Yeah, it's like watching under the lights. I mean, I told you I was been rewatching the old NYPD Blue episodes. We've been joking about sip the wits and threatening guys with the needle under the hot spotlight in an interrogation room forever. But where we're at in college basketball and mirrors a lot of what we're talking about in Major League Baseball, in particular as it relates to the LA Dodgers, right, deferred payments and whatever. All of this is on the books that your teams can do. Your owner and management group has just decided not to. Now with the Dodgers, you've got other all stars, You've got all sorts of amenities. You've got cash considerations for endorsements or whatever that may be larger than anyplace else but New York, if you believe the two billion dollar more valuation that was put on the Yankees over the Dodgers. But all of that to say, it's everybody gets the same revenue. Coming out of the TV and merchandise deals that are cut. Now the ESPN thing is a whole other ball of wax here. But the idea is you're all getting a giant payment before any of your local revenues and whatever else. Some teams choose to reinvest it, some don't. In college sports, can you activate your alumni base, fan base, get allocation of resources greater than other commensurate Do you get enough intel from your recruits and people in the process of where are we lagging? Because I guarant damn tee it wasn't because you didn't get the extra night and do your work, sure, or because you were flying on whatever spirit frontier, whatever it is. But like there's something else in the equation go complain about that. If it's substantive and real enough, then it becomes a larger rallying point for schools that may be in the same boat versus these random one offs.
And I'll just I'll tell you this. I think that there are schools that budget and figure out what they will need for NIL and then are quick to realize when the market opens or when the market is And I think maybe Willard is somebody else said that the portal opened on The transfer portal opened on November fifth, the day after the first game of the season. The reality is is you think that you have X amount to play with, Well, it's X plus y because now all of a sudden, all these other kids are asking for more and more and more. And so if you're Kevin Willard and you're not getting enough to even to bring players in, let alone the whole deal, then you're wondering if you're again bringing a knife to a gunfight.
You thought you had a small house repair and suddenly they've got to raise that whole side of the ax. Right here goes Hey, you his there's no insulation here. You need insulation?
Yeah? Million, okay, Yeah, we're good for a million. Actually we need a million point five if we want the guys, we need it. That's what they're running into.
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And then we'll see I can't sing. But Phoebe wasn't too good either, so maybe we can pull this off. All right, guys, we're gonna start. In men's college hoops sixteen continues out of the East Region, one seed Duke trying to pull away from four seed Arizona. They are up sixty six to fifty one, sixty eight to fifty one, with about thirteen minutes to go in the game. Cooper Flag twenty two points and six assists. The winner of this matchup is going to face two seed Alabama, who won their matchup earlier today against six seed Byu won thirteen to eighty eight.
Bama did set.
The record for the most threes made in an NCAA tournament game with twenty five threes. Out of the West Region, ten seed Arkansas still on top of three seed Texas Tech forty four to thirty seven, also about fifteen minutes to go in this one. The winner out of this West Region will face one seed Florida. They defeated for seed Maryland earlier today eighty seven to seventy one. In the NBA, the Thunder, having new franchise record sixty one wins, de feeded the Grizzlies one twenty.
Five to one oh four.
The Bulls walked it off with a logo shot from Josh Giddy the Lakers.
One nineteen those one seventeen.
Giddea ended with the triple double in the win.
The Rockets had a one to twenty one to one ten win over the Jazz and Tyler Hero dropped thirty six points as they heat top. The Hawks went twenty two to one twelve. It's also Opening Day in baseball, and we've got two games going on. The Cubs have extended their lead over the Diamondback. Seven to three is the score. Top of the fifth inning in Arizona, top of the seventh inning in Seattle. But the Mariners are losing to the A's. It's one zero in this one. The Dodgers, of course, they edged the Tigers five to one. And why do I say, of course, because I mean that Shoho Tani of course hit a homer, Yes, a solo one. They also got Hernandez had a three run homer in the win. Other games that happened today, the Guardians outscored the Royal seven to four. The Cardinals defeated the Twins five to three. Austin Wells and Anthony Volpi both homered for the Yankees.
They beat the Brewers, sorry Dan, four to two.
They also left rinters on second and third in the ninth any, but wen't want.
To talk about that.
The Oriels hit six homers in a twelve to two win at Toronto, while the Giants rallied back to defeat the Cincinnati Reds six to four.
Back to you, guys, there you have it. It's Monty Belognos at Monsey Belongas where you find her Dodger talk, getting ready to fire up, no question about it as we go, Hey, speed up your hiring process with Express Employment Professionals. Reduce time to hire, cut costs, and find the right talent for both contract and full time roles. Visit expresspros dot com today and transform your hiring process. That's expresspros dot Com. Well coming up next. Dan's in the chair next to me, which means we've got to get our thinking caps on so here, try this on for size. How well do you know the Johnny Cume latelies in the NBA ponder that we'll talk about it next. He's Dan, I'm Mike in this Fox.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Welcome back in tyrack dot Com Studios. Mike Harmon alongside Dan Byer watching the NCAA Tournament, Duke fourteen of seventeen, shooting in the last eleven minutes plus. At one point they were nineteen and twenty two.
Dan fourteen point lead coming up midway through the second half, Arkansas with the twelve point lead over Texas Tech about thirteen and a half minutes remaining there. We'll keep you a prize to that. But since we've got our giant extended family together, resplendent in Dodger gear, hoarse voices but excitement all around, it's time to get the family together, Dan, and I defer to you.
It is the Fox family getting together. On a Thursday night, we are playing the feud. Mike Carmon, Mary Mack justin Frossburg, and Moncy Belanos half voice in all make up the Fox family. Three strikes. There is a pass available. If you don't know an answer, you could say pass. You can only use it once, but we'll reveal an answer and we'll move to the next contestant. On the heels of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver talking about expansion today in the NBA. What I want to know with the top twelve answers on the board, the most recent franchise additions to the NBA. What teams have come to the NBA most recently. All I need to know current NBA teams. You don't have to give me a history lesson, but current NBA teams. Top twelve most recent teams added to the NBA. Mike Carmen, you are up first. Give me the Pelicans, the Pelicans, New Orleans Pelicans. Show me the Pelicans. Yes, there they are. In fact, they came into the league as the Charlotte Bobcats. Then move from Charlotte to New Orleans. Then the Hornets want of their stuff back when Charlotte saw the whole deal. But there it is. New Orleans Pelicans, the most recent addition to the NBA. Let's go over to Justin Frossburg's show producer.
Oh, give me those the fifty first state.
Give me those Raptors, those Toronto Raptors. Show me the Raptors. Nineteen ninety five is when Toronto came into the NBA. Mary Mack over to you, damn it, he took one too. Yeah, there's only ten other answers we need. So there's only ten others NBA franchises. Most recently added in the NBA Atlanta. You want to say Atlanta?
Yeah, is it.
The Atlanta Hawks? No, that is not the case. It was a good guest, though. It was a good guess. Over to Manzi bolanos ok okay c the Oklahoma City thunder is this? Is it? No, Oklahoma City? It is not because they moved from Seattle. So they moved from Seattle. I know it's tricky, but don't worry. We only have one strike left, but we do have a pass. Mike Harmon back over to you. Do I use it? No?
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All right, show me the Timberwolves. Timberwolves, Timberwolves nineteen eighty nine. Timberwolves came into the league. Over to Justin Frostburg, Oh.
One of my favorite players of all time, Shaquille O'Neil, started his career with one of these teams. Dan, give me the Orlando Magic.
Show me the Orlando Magic, also entering the league in nineteen eighty nine, Timberwolves in Magic. Yes, in the same year.
Start Yelling nineteen eighty nine. Another something, No, Mary.
Mac let me go to Denver. Let you want to go Denver? All right, show me the Denver Nuggets nineteen six. Yes, yeah, they answered the NBA great logo. Yes, that early one the pick. They were in the ABA prior, but they weren't an NBA franchise. Over to Manzi Blanios.
The Clippers, the Clippers.
All right, are you sure about that? You're making me nervous? Are you sure? Are you sure about the Yeah?
Did they move?
Okay?
Then no, take it back?
Okay, Grizzlies. Show me the Memphis Grizzlies. Yes, there they are, started as the Vancouver Grizzlies in nineteen ninety five. Now the Memphis Grizzlies. Good job, Manzi. Back over to Mike Carbon.
What about the Jazz?
The Jazz, that's a good question.
Trying to think of timelines, trying to think of basketball cards and that.
Were added to the NBA. Is that your final answer?
Yeah, I'm gonna be wrong. I'll stay with it. Thought.
Okay, all right, is it the Utah Jazz? No, it is not that. Unfortunately we got six of the twelve. Okay, it's well, it is the Heat show me, the Miami Heat. What about the Nuts Well Brooklyn, Yes, but but they were in New Jersey prod Jerry were they were because they came over in the A from the ABA nineteen seventy six, Charlotte Hornets in nineteen eighty eight, Miami Heat, as you mentioned in nineteen eighty eight, the Dallas Mavericks in nineteen eighty Spurs and Pacers also joined.
From the Abys and the Pacer.
See I remember, I don't remember when the Mavericks came into the league, but I do remember when the Hornets and Heat came in in nineteen eighty eight, and then the magic.
Can feel too about them.
Their fans can't even remember the last time they were good.
Oh man, they're trying to change the name, eradicate the history because it's been corrupted for where for Dallas? Oh because of their GM. Thank you Nico, it's Nico's phone.
Remember the Clippers they went there was talking about them changing to get away from the Clipper.
There was the stake For a minute, it seemed like there would have been a lot of money to be made. So I'm surprised they didn't do it right right, it's not a history that you're clinging to. Hey, we're the team that almost did We're the team of Doc Rivers' failures. Sorry, Doc, you don't get credit for winning the three. You need the fourth.
Also, because it wasn't original to them in LA like there would have been, there would have been a reason. I mean, they were the San Diego Clippers.
New place, new identity, all of that merch flying off the shelves.
I do like their current setup, even though people don't like the cruise ship. I do. I do think it's all right.
Okay, but think about all those brand new Norman Powell jerseys you could sell. He's dan buyer. Thanks to the crew, Justin, Mary Ann Monsey, Mike. We continue with more for the NCAAH
