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Hello, Welcome in side our three, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Seven minutes ago in the third quarter, Minnesota on top of Golden State seventy four to sixty eight. War's been able to keep this one close. But a little bit of daylight here for the Tea Wolves. Again, remember the Warriors playing without Steph Curry.
He'll be out through it. Right now, it.
Looks like at least until Game six. And if this game continues the way it's been going in the third quarter, I don't quite know that they're gonna get to Game six. So there's that. Well, we'll be agiously watching it, particularly down the stretches.
If it's close.
How much they're paying attention to the points spread and whether Draymond Green is yelling to Minga again. I mean it was either four between four and a half and five and a half depending on where you got in for this one. Six point games, six thirty remaining in the third, so something will be curiously observing.
As it goes on.
Kaminga thus far a star four of eight from the field, with eight for eight from the follow so again, seventy four to sixty eight lead for the t Wolves again, six minutes to go in the third quarter. At what just how fast has the Warriors and the Tea Wolves become the junior varsity game? Fact that Knicks and the Celtics is everything? And now yeah, and the Warriors are playing, Ah, that's great.
Well, but the Warriors were the star of straw that stars are drink.
Yeah, yeah, the Warriors are playing, Nicks have been the Knicks have become the biggest draw.
Well's that's a good brand. But your star player. As much to love Jimmy.
Butler, and I celebrated his entire catalog is willingness to force all his colleagues to pay twenty dollars for a cup of basically current coffee during the pandemic, and then the bubble was brilliant.
But where we sit right now.
Yeah, he is he the guy that's gonna bring you Pizemski, nice story, good player.
Like, no, you don't have Stephan Clay.
So it's not the same marquee, which is why we need to sell Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall as one of the greatest tag teams of recent memory.
It's why you.
Also need to sell you know, hey, the pointspread at the end of the game, so you understand people are watching, right, gonna keep going with that point spread?
Got it on the point? Well you get you do have.
To know it and look at you ubiquitous, So you get a lot of players that talk openly about it, the mail that they received, right, we had that in baseball over the weekend. Number of players they're making threats on my family and starting to discuss those kind of the downside of opening the up and and really social media and some of the ills that bring to you. But that Draymond Green clip will live forever, right, And it's lip reading, and folks can try to push it in another direction if they want.
But I think we all saw what we saw and.
It seemed pretty often for more of the betting stuff. Guys, let's go to Michael Jordan.
Oh yeah, yeah, right, Well that's the podcast. It's Jordan and Jordan and Draymond Green. That's the podcast.
Well, we did get a couple.
Of suggestions that maybe it's like and I also took this personally, and then he goes off on a you know, you get a little bit of the music behind you, like it's gonna be a thing on five.
No no, no, no, I.
Already got it. No, I got it, patent pending. Here's your Jordan gambling segment idea.
Right, I got it.
Okay, I got I got, I got it. And it's called and I took that personally. Right, So he's got the iPad, right, we said, whatever he's doing, you have the one set of people on one set and Jordan's by himself with an ipen. What kind of music do we get behind it? Right, Because we can't take thing something from the nineties, but we can't take that little piano thing. No, no, no, So we got we gotta extend on the NBNBA bringing Jordan back. It's like we're back in the nineties. So it's all synthesize from the nineties. Yes, synthesize. It's right here, right now, Jesus Jones.
It's sponge.
It is no doubt, it's uh try in the mid nineties. It's a lot of grunge. Right we get to the grunge. It was early to mid ninety so we have that. It's a lot of no doubt little spiderwebs. But you know, we want you want to bring that back. But it's called and I took that personally. And Jordan comes out and he says, Okay, guys, here's what I saw, what I like right now, right now here, we are Game four of the Western confer second round. It is a five and a half point spread for the Warriors to beat the Tea Wolves tonight. When I saw that spread, I took that personally and I put ten thousand dollars down on the Timberwolves and Anthony Edwards to get this. And then when it hits, we get back to the nineteen ninety three classic hip hop hooray, and it's like Jim Pemer going, there's Michael Jordan, and he's given that.
I took that personally. The level of game right there, that's his level of confidence on that game. Now, that's what I call fast money. And I took that personally. Right there you go.
Hey, when I saw the overrunner tonight was Karl Anthony town sixteen points for the Knicks.
You know, I took that personally. Carl Anthony Towns will go over sixteen points for the Knicks to night.
Oh, and then there's a big sound effect in it, and then the and then the whole. I took that personally. Font gets larger and bigger, larger and bigger. That's how it's done.
There you go. I took that personally. Gotta dig this. There you go, that's perfect. There you go. Patten Pending, NBC. Patten Penny can't steal that from me the whole time. He's smoking a cigar. He smokes a cigar.
When they win, kind of like he's James Worthy in a post game Oh what for war?
Sure, sure, but he can't when you're giving out.
They see if you get a huge win, he gets a trope and then he just hugs it. Oh, it's a really big one. Like if you said, hey, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go over. Hey, mccal bridges will hit over fifty percent of his shots from the floor tonight.
WHOA, you're right with that. That's a cradling the trophy. Right.
If you want to say Jalen Brunton's gonna go over twenty eight and a half points, well that's okay, that's smoking a cigar.
Okay, that's that.
So there's certain things that certain achievements that are worthy of the of the hugging the trophy, certain worthy of the cigar, and uh, certain times.
Of just shaking the head.
I kind of dig that. Now I think we can go a step further. And now you've got you know, milestones and partners based on how many points you're scoring in a game, Like if you're betting someone's over under right, if it's over a forty or a fifty or maybe a double nickel, like, you're gonna have special specialty items and specialty things associated with.
That in terms of forty ounces or or a fifty burger.
Hey this burger burger? If this hits all half price burgers, no no, no, no.
And here's the next one.
Who was Michael Jordan's biggest endorsement deal of his career, most FAMOUSMST not to say biggest, but his most famous. That everybody remembers him for we weeds is big. But McDonald's sure. McDonald's right.
When he was playing you know Larry Bird those games a horse.
Sure so well, Okay, no, but I mean outside of sports. Outside of sports, his endorsement is is McDonald's sport Haynes, Yes it is, hey, Yeah, but then he had the way he had the mustache, he had the weird mustache, and that did not didn't play very well.
I didn't play well.
But outside of sports, McDonald's right, Okay, be like Mike right. Like, so he has a special thing and he calls it the fifty burger play of the day, and he gets a big McDonald's burger and he's eating the burger and he gives you his pick that he would put fifth, that he puts fifty thousand dollars on the fifty burger McDonald's pick of the night. I dig that I wanted to go double nickel just so we can get a dominant performance over the Nickman fifty March twenty eighth, nineteen ninety five fifty burger, Like.
Because the mc jordan's special.
If I remember, I'm going back to the nineties, it was like a double cheeseburger with bacon, and so they called them mcjordan's special, and it was really good. It was like a bunch of burgers and a death. No, no, no, no, no, there was no there was no proof that happened anybody. It was a quarter pounder, yeah, with bacon, barbecue, sauce, mustard, onions, cheese, pickles, yeah, fries.
And and drink. Yeah. That was in nineteen ninety two. That was a great burger.
So that's it, the fifty burger special, and that he's got in his hand and he takes a big bite out of eating. Then he says, here's my pick, fifty grand tonight on that. You know, Josh Hart will score less than ten points for the next to night fifty burger on that.
Okay, fifty burger. Now.
Things you wish you'd put aside for one hundred alex, like cases of all the stuff from space Jam, like the different fry container whatever. Oh, they they sell for like fifteen twenty bucks. Really wings well, I mean, no, grease, stay into whatever. I'm talking ones that you know got back door. Excuse me, kid, can I get some blank space Jam fry holders? Yeah, I'll give you ten dollars for like fifty of them. Oh sure, back then you probably could have asked and then like, okay, yeah, sure whatever. See if I was you see, if I was like and go back in time, like I would, I know I would hoard all the wrong stuff. Okay, hey, I got the Karl Malone Carmelone's not worth anything now that Jordan would I'd wear that, like I think I would hoard the wrong stuff.
Yeah.
The curiosity, though, is what gets some massive distribution, right, because if you go back to the Kenner starting lineup dolls, Jordan was everywhere because that was a nasal. Carl Malone's actually rare. He and John Stockton they didn't make nearly as many of them. A lot of people that try to build the sets, they've got to go and get those.
I have the.
Original Star Trek action figures. No, not talking much Star Wars, right, but you want the old Slurpy discs right right, the lenticulars or the cups from seven to eleven back in the day, and then all those regional things are just gold. I would just I would go, I would, and then it would just have a house where it was the nineties all the time, it was everything nineties. You can still candre that house everything nineties. You still can have that room, you can still that could become the man cave. What do you got? Tons of mixed stuff telling me from the.
NBA Championship Series runs with this, Jordan.
Return to the NBA, returned to broadcast with a big story today is coming back to the NBN, NBC in a role that he's going to be a contributor, which could be anything.
I mean, the.
Nineties is the last great decade? Right, Like you could look back, like so many decades we look on and say, wow, what a great deck. And obviously, depending how old you are, you look back at that. Like, but people look back at the eighties being a great decade, the seventies, the sixties, the fifties, right, all of that, right since the fifties really because you know, the forties we had World War Two all the way through it. But you go back to the fifties, yeah, fifty But then after the nineties, like we're not celebrating the aunts, right, We're not celebrating the teens when I certainly not celebrate in the twenties. And it's like, okay, what's the last great the last great decade and maybe again, maybe we peaked as a population in the nineties about that.
That would be what everybody now, what is funny to me?
And this Jordan thing? And I'm gonna zag in terms of what contributor means. Does he own the rights to any of his highlights or any of those things to where they've got to sign him to a deal so he becomes a contributor, They just have to allow them to use.
Those things prior to see him, maybe a couple of times a month.
I'm thinking just kind of walks out hello everybody, maybe once or twice a month.
Yeah, I don't think you're gonna see him like, you know, like he he's gonna be like Wayne Gretzky on. Oh that's not bad.
That's that's a pretty good Basically probably that's you have to stand on the court awkwardly for twenty minutes at a time. But if yeah, it's gotta be in the studio because if Jordan's gonna come back and you want to get you want to get the bang for your buck, You're not gonna send him out to do features on players. You're not gonna he's not gonna be a reporter where oh here he is doing. It's not gonna it's not gonna be a a Jimmy Roberts type of profile.
Do you want to play me one on one? That's what he does.
It's gonna be a couple of times a month. It'll be he'll be in studio for a couple of big nights a month. Hey, maybe there's two games now, we had a big doubleheader. Jordan pregame, Jordan halftime, Jordan postgame, Jordan pre game. Have to like a big night that that you know TNT would have where they have all their guys, and Jordan does that a couple of nights a week. I think that's kind of what you're gonna get from him. Again, he's not all of a sudden gonna jump into a grind of Hey, I want my voice to be heard. If he wanted that, he would have done it already. But he wants He definitely I think coming back from coming out of the thirty for thirty, you know, and he's not somebody that does things fast, like, okay, three and a half years later.
Hey, maybe this is something that I could do.
So yeah, you'll probably see him a couple of times a month, simply because he kind of likes the fact that when I talk people still listen, and he's gonna want to continue to remind people of his greatness, right, You know, the more you don't talk about, the more people say other people are great, Like.
People are gonna go. Was Jordan better than Jalen Brunson?
Was he?
Because I don't. I can't believe that, dare you. He's just got a bunch of videos. But why are you doing that?
Well? Because I could have said it, Is he better than Michel Bridges? Because boy, did Bridges have a night tonight?
Too?
But I figured out I'll go with Jaylen Brunson. I mean, who's better? I mean I remember seeing video of this Jordan guy you're telling me about. But boy, Jalen Brunson, I just watched last night. Boy he get in anything?
So you didn't watch anything? O G is the real MVP of that squad. But you had a great night too.
But maybe maybe the other thing is it's all just on aired footage from the last dance hanging around again, going back to the I took this personally, it's not actually new. It's like, hey, this has been archived for the last couple of years. But since we've got the Timberwolves playing tonight. Here's an exchange with Michael Jordan talking about Kevin Garnett.
Oh see, I thought you're gonna go kind of where when they tried to splice in.
The footage of Fallout Boy into into radio active Man, You're fired with good reason. Yeah, you know it looks serious. Radio act man is attacking.
Follow up?
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Warriors in the third quarter. It was pretty easy.
When I said last week, I think the rest of this series with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors Warriors without Steph Curry, I expect every game the Warriors play without Steph Curry to be a Tea Wolves win.
And while it was close for a while, the Wolves go to.
The fourth quarter with a twenty point lead over Golden State ninety nine to seventy nine, Anthony Edwards sixteen points. He had a Jalen Brunson like third quarter for the Tea Wolves tonight, carrying them to this huge lead and what could be a three games to one lead. And I really do I think it's that simple, because there are some teams that can get by without their star. Look if the Celtics are without Jason Tatum when they go back to Boston for Game five, I get it. They clearly can withstand losing it now for another three games, different story. But game five, can I see them with stand and do it? Yeah, they've done it before because there they look, they're they're incredibly talented. You got the six Men of the Year and Peyton Pritchard. But the Warriors are not made to withstand losing Steph Curry. They're not made to lose him and still win a bunch of games and go on and say, look, this is how great we are when you take Steph Curry away. That really does it. And maybe Game one for the Warriors was their dark side of the moon.
Yeah, I mean we will see the Celtics depth tested.
It was something I've raised to a number of our insiders that have joined us all year long.
It's like, are they really that deep? Right?
Pritchard winning the sixth Man of the Year award aside, you know, do you have enough on that bench that you can rotate in if you were to lose someone out of that that top tier indefinitely? But you know for the Warriors, who wasn't Anthony Edwards is that you guys are just waiting for Wardell to come back, right. Using the the birth name of Steph Curry in that conversation going oh yeah, like I see what you're doing, which means you know, as a squad, you talk about it right, you don't want to breathe any life back into it. He gave a game away to start the series, and you know that, Look, there were great expectations for the squad after last season. Talk about their ranginess, their ability to play on the perimeter. You know, you're talking about length and defending jump shooters and all that, making every possession difficult. A guy like Gobert as a luxury, you know at times where you know you've just got the extra big man and he doesn't have to be the defensive player of the year. You know, often much maligned for that kind of thing, but you see how you can get a mismatch. And they certainly have that at their disposal at times if they want to go play it here against the Warriors. But you know, for Anthony Edwards, a lot on the line. He's a guy that's taken a lot of incoming for when when he does come up short in games, much like Jason Tatum of the Celtics, like all right, you're supposed to be the guy, you know, the whole you were supposed to be the chosen one. Oh yeah, eah, keep going back to the Revenge of the Ciev And here we are for Anthony Edwards and for this Timberwolves team looking like they're just wanting to get on and upwards into that next stratosphere. Uh yeah, but look, the Nicks need somebody to play in the NBA Finals. You need somebody to play, dude. You gotta get past the Pacers. Yeah, dude, we're gonna sweep the Pacers Nicks in four their chitting Nixon five Outside of MS it doesn't matter whatever it is that the Knicks fans are gonna chant their chitting nix and five, nix and four name bart just hit another three? See hit what he at the luckiest shot of his life. It's not gonna it's always against the Knicks knocking. He hit one shot one time in history.
Just happens to be the biggest shot since Reggie Miller was.
The pick.
Guys had a hell of a right for as much as you clowned him a year ago. Yeah, when more clutch than when would you stop from? That's not even debatable.
Just he made the shine. Just stop.
Jalen Brunson's made more shots in the fourth any one game in this playoff, Jalen Brunson's made more clutch shots in the half minutes than just about any other NBA player in two playoffs.
Worth go New York, Go, New York Go. Yeah, you can't bite the hand the feed you Frostbury. No, I'm going for New York. I know you are. It has nothing to do about the mix. I do celebrate. You're just going against the Celtics. Damn right, that's what you do.
Yeah, this is the friend. The enemies of my enemy is my friend. Remember coming you're using you to get to the Celtics. Wow, that's okay, that's all right. That sounded that's how are that sounded? Very high schools. I'm just using you to get even with my ex boyfriend I'm okay with And you say I'm okay, yeah, all right, Yeah, No, I have one hundred percent. He's like, what was a couple years ago when it was gonna be the Astros and the Phillies in the World Series. I said, listen, I'm not rooting for the Astros because I can't root for the Astros because the cheating said but I'm really not rooting for the Phillies.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I can't root for the Phillies because of them. I can't. But you were Fascros. No, I'm not rooting for the Astros. I'm just really not rooting for the Phillies. Just really not rooting for them. That's what it was.
That was a very odd world series to cover. It was you because there was no passion. You're like, I'm watching this and I love baseball, but damn it, I hate the Seams because the Astros forever will have gotten by with nothing like no substance for anything the worst, but hey, you know it's it's it's baseball. And now we watched this in Frostburg with his go New York go, almost as if to taunt you.
Oh yeah, yeah no, because you know he's gonna.
Pull the rug out from und No, he'll pull the rug out after the Knicks beat the Celtic.
Reggie Miller Jersey. Then he'll want the Knicks to lose.
He just wants all them harder, all the I don't think I think they make those all the Celtics. When when all the Lakers' rivals are eliminated, that's when he turns heel again. Well, everybody's right. He does the double John Cena, he does the double heel turn. It'll be heel turned then I'll turn back. You see Sina right now is having troubles with it because the crowd keeps chanting thank you John, and you can see it's Yeah.
I don't think it's an act. I think the dude is really affected by it. So this whole heel turn is coming back here. The Celtics really lost.
Yeah, they lost again, justin thank Yeah, Celtics lost again. Yes, they are down three to one to the Knicks. Wait say that again, that Celtics are down three one.
To the Knicks. Go New York, Go New York, Go, go New York, Go New York. I'm listening to that, Like now, the Celtics are bad. We will have more on that game coming up a little bit because here the Necks up three games to one. But we got a big nb NFL story. Sorry NF, I se all thinking Knicks run Nick. Yeah, I know you can't let it go.
We got a big story from the NFL coming up in ninety seconds. But first, Martin Weiss has a detail on every one of Jalen Brunson's points tonight. He will lay him down from beginning to end with what's trendon?
Go ahead? Martin White started to go ahead.
He started with one, yeah, and two, then fast forward all over to thirty nine. Yeah, oh good, Okay, So I'm gonna skip ahead a few. You know, I took first grade math, so I cano thirty nine points for Jalen Brunson as the Knicks beat the Celtics one thirty one to one thirteen, taking a three to one lead in the series. Jason Tatum suffered a non contact lower body injury in the fourth quarter did not return to the game.
Looks like there might be save a miracle.
Come back another three to one lead here as the Minnesota Timberwolves just turned over the Golden State Warriors. Jaden McDaniel just threw it right back to uh Johnathan Kamena there. But right now it's one on one to eighty three with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter. As Comena drives a basket gets fouled, he'll go to the free throw line. But it's just been a tough sledding for the Warriors offensively thus far in this game. Draymond's got ten, Jimmy Butler's got twelve, Buddies got thirteen, Brandon Pejemski with eleven, but he's three to four eleven from the floor over four from three. The Golden State as a team twenty five percent from three. Just to show you, Minnesota sixteen for thirty one from three, it's fifty one percent. They're playing well. Anthony Edwards a big part of that. He's six for eleven for He's got thirty points so far with uh jet falso has five fouls. So sitting out right now, but nine minutes left in the fourth quarter. Minnesota with a one on one, eighty five lead. On the hockey side of things, the Edmonton Oilers have made that a three to one series all the way after a three nothing win over the Golden Knights two goals for Adam Henry won for Evander Kine. Earlier tonight we saw the Carolina Hurricanes push the Capitals to the brink of elimination to a five to two wins on Walker with a late goal. The University of North Carolina has announced the former Bears pr director of Brandon Faber, has joined the football prom They might be in you know, search of one after Jordan Hudson and as as much success she's had as a pr go go go of things. But also the NFL announced the Eagles wells the Bears on Black Friday. Back to you guys, thanks a bunch ummed up Bears.
Just it just really quick.
It certainly feels like and this again me one of my teams, but it certainly feels like the Hurricanes and Oilers are on the on the road on a collision course for the Stanley Cup Final, big rematch of two thousand and six. It certainly feels like both those teams have the momentum now they're the Hurricanes are up through with certainly another round of go in the playoffs. But they've been getting that nothing different from the Hurricanes the last five years. And now they're getting the timely goals. And I think Edmonton starts every game up to nothing. It didn't seem like if you blink today they missed two goals. D you got to your seat late. Yeah, you're pissed. They dropped the puck and McDavid and dry Title have already scored two nothing.
Edmonton certainly feels that way. Now, big NFL story from this.
Weekend, and you look it feels like it's forever ago. Let's good, you know, because the Knicks one tonight, but a lot of stuff in the last forty eight hours. Come on, dude, for me tonight I had to balance the Knicks win, the Mets win in a walk off, and the Hurricanes go up three one.
I had a lot of stuff.
It would have been fun to measure your heart rate during that process. Now off the PhD weight loss. I mean, your cardiovascular system is going to be improved, but it was tested today, no question.
Thursday's baby, something's lost.
Yeah, I'm telling you justin look man, look to keep going bouncing between servers.
That information is not going to change. You have not come across the bad service games in the Knicks. Three out of the first four that's wow.
Yeah, it's real, man, and all three wins down nine or more points at a halftime.
Well, this is where I felt good. Going to the fourth court.
I said, well, okay, it's it's it's you know, we're not down twenty, all right, so I'm feeling okay even at halftime. I was right, we're not down twenty at halftime, I'm alright. Go back to the end of that first court It's like, oh, it's gonna be another one of the.
Celtics start hitting all the threes.
Right, the Celtics hitting a bunch of threes, and it turned you know, the Knicks turn that and you flip that game. Because the Knicks play situational defense in the playoffs now much much better than I thought they would, right, because they lost their defensive identity the entire season, right, they lost that. But now I'm thinking, how much is that a little bit of ropidope? You know, Hey, we're gonna do this and people think you're gonna get X out of the Knicks, and instead we're gonna be able to give you why because when we can tune it up in the playoffs, when the playoffs get more physical. And I remember Rick Bucker telling us that last week, saying, Hey, the first two games, the biggest thing I see. The Knicks physically are more ready for a physical playoff and the Celtics aren't. And you know, if, yes, the Celtics are gonna start hitting their shots, they're gonna start it in threes, but they play NBA playoffs are physical, and the Knicks are more ready for that. And clearly you saw it, and you saw that tonight in the third and fourth quarter where suddenly the Celtics on a night they were hitting a bunch of stuff, they just couldn't keep doing it, and the Knicks go on and it's a it's a huge and Jalen Brunson and mcal Bridges I think hit a combined forty five shots in a row in the second a half and that helps the next win. But we'll have more NBA coming up in a few minutes. But just to go back, because we saw the retirement of Derek Carr over the weekend, which was a really big deal in the middle of his big contract with the Saints. And look, the Saints were trying to move on and Carr wasn't quite the same quarterback, and they drafted Tyler Schuck to come in and potentially be their next franchise quarterback. A Saints are the Saints are bad, right, They're looking at starting over, and they were kind of stuck with Derek Carr's contract. Now he got to keep ten million dollars the signing bonus and forfeiting the thirty million dollars a salary for this year. Had he had an operation on his arm and gone through this year. He would have collected that thirty million dollars and would have gone on, but he wanted to retire, wanted to do a right thing for New Orleans. They let him keep the ten million dollars, so he's retired from the NFL. Every quarterback that plays, as long as he has a decade, has a legacy of some kind of something where, hey, this is their effect on the end FL. Sometimes it's a style of play. Sometimes it's a level of excellence. Sometimes it's one moment in time where things could have gone differently. And I go back, go back to twenty sixteen, which is not that long ago, where the Raiders look like they're on a collision course with the Patriots. In the AFC Championship game. Raiders are twelve and three. This is the best Raiders team since they won the Super Bowl when when you know, since they went to the Super Bowls back and back in two thousand and three and they lost because you know, Gruden had the plays so legally this time legally legally. So they're in a collision course with the Patriots. And Derek Carr breaks his leg in the last game of the season. You hear the it's broke. It's broke.
That's a ten year old drop that Alex Ticher continues to play. It's broke, broke.
His third year in the league, he was an elite quarterback. He was a top seven or eight quarterback in the game. Thirty touchdowns, ten picks. He was that good and the Raiders were that good. I mean, I don't I think they were probably the only team that that could have derailed the Patriots. And he gets hurt and everything goes out the window, and Derek Carr never is the same the next four years. He's just kind of Okay, they moved to Vegas. He has a couple of leaves. Okay, he's a little bit better than he was.
But Vegas they got twenty.
But that was it. That was kind of like the lay he had that one great last year. But it was four years after his great year with the Raiders. Had the Raiders gone to the Super Bowl that year, had they won the Super Bowl, you wonder if if are they in Vegas at this point, are they still in Oakland? They still found a way to stay in Oakland. Like in the NFL, dovetailed into a different level of reality because of Derek Carr's injury, that that in that team they were people forget how good because you think the Raiders and no, the Raiders were terrific in twenty sixteen. Go back and look at that team. They were again twelve and three. They were rolling towards the super Bowl or towards a date with the Patriots. They could have won that game, gotten the super Bowl won, and then maybe they're not in Vegas. Maybe another team is in Vegas. Maybe it's a you know, some sort of expansion team that's in Vegas, or they're not there at all. But the NFL fortunes change at that point because the Raiders couldn't have been the next great team in the AFC. That could have derailed the Patriots a couple more times on the way to twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, until Brady left for the UH.
For the Bucks. Maybe Brady leaves earlier if they wind up losing. Maybe Brady doesn't leave if they don't win. He wants to win again in New England before he's done, and he's he plays there till twenty twenty four.
He never goes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That Derek Carr injury has a lot of different branches that the NFL set off on that maybe things don't happen how they did had he been able to stay, he you.
Went full sliding doors. I look at you. Yeah, how about that? I know you don't think the Raiders are ever gonna could have in the division that year.
They did because they lost their roster acting like Derek Carr was amazing before that he was he was not good those three Derek car was really good.
He was good. No, he was really really good, good with right good.
Even if he settles in, he's still rank as it would have ranked as the top twelve to fifteen quarterbacks certainly fantasy wise had a couple of big years that year. You see whose stars were? Do you remember who was on that squad? Hope was that Darren McFadden was still running back? No, No, in twenty sixteen, No, he wasn't.
He was long going by then. No, he was Bo Jackson.
But he was a two thousand and eight drash Bo Jackson. So Jackson was Oh wait, twenty thirteen was his big year. I think right, twenty thirteen McFadden's big year. I'll go back and look at his history really big. He doesn't matter here for the purpose of this conversation the answers. No, it's Latavious Murray with twelve touchdown runs under eight hundred rushing. Yeah, that was a big run for him. Jalen Richard and that was Jamas Cooper and Crabtree Cooper and yeah that was They were really good. But all of that to say is that he whether it changed how he operated in the pocket.
He became a jag.
Right. He was good, but not great, a good touchdown interception ratio, but when you needed him to make a play, uh, you know when we're talking to all mister clutch for your guy Brunson. If we're gonna keep having that in conversation, and that's the thread that pulls it all together. Derek Carr was anything but that in big moments of games, right, the fourth down situations, throwing it out of the end zone.
Late games, the heroics were not there.
Now. He was surrounded by bad teams for much of it. Yeah, right, A lot of those Raider teams are littered with Hey, they had one or two stars and that was a.
Young Khalil Melts.
I mean though, one or two guys defensively that made plays like he had here with Max Crosby before he leaves for New Orleans, but never were able to put it back together again. So like that was an extraordinarily healthy squad until he was broken and they never put Humpty Dumpty back together again. But there's no chance at hell they were staying in Oakland. They were never getting a d super Bowl.
You get there. I'll tell you. City's not suddenly coming up with a bunch of money.
You can tell us all you won. No, they would have just kicked the a's out. They would just listen, we have no money for you. We're kicking you out so we can keep the Raiders. Yeah, they were still gonna be gone. Now he's bathing in money.
Exit out out of Fresco, exit swalling home.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yes, her, four more minutes have gone by in game four, and it's still a twenty point lead for the Tea Wolves. They lead the Warriors one to eleven to ninety one just under five minutes left to go. Uh, looks like the t Wolves are going up three to one again. Kind of elementary, but I said it at the time. Hey, every time Steph Curry doesn't play, that's gonna be a win for the t Wolves. Well, especially what's happened the guy that's supposed to be the man decides he's not gonna shoot Hi Jimmy buckets.
But again, we'll have more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
Mark Stein gonna stop by break down all the big NBA news tonight, including the NBA Draft lottery that goes the way of the Dallas Maverick Cooper Flag is the player to be named later in the Luca Dontage trade A tell people forgot about that Nico Harrison walking across the stage flipping up his middle fingers at everyone. I mean figuratively. He didn't actually do that, but you know he was doing that somewhere. Look on Friday night, I said this a couple of times, and.
I didn't.
I'm saying I don't know anything I don't know anything about anything, but there is no way that on Monday, the number one pick in the draft does not go to the Sixers, the Mavericks, or the ball One of those three teams was getting the number one I didn't care what the mathematical odds were. One of those teams was getting the number one pick in Cooper Flagg. Whoever told me the odds?
Who is the.
Latest generational talent to enter the league? And every few years we get a look, He've had three generational talents in the last decade. Right, we had Zion, we have Wemby, and we have Cooper Flag. Now the NBA you go back Wemby terrific. Hoping he's healthy enough to come back. Remember blood clots or it's more of a medical thing than it is an injury. We're hoping he comes back, and who knows when he comes back. He looked good on the pitch a couple of weeks ago in media. I'm hoping, right, they're hoping he can come back. From the beginning of the season, he's in San Antonio. Zion has been a disaster in New Orleans. He can't stay healthy, he can't become the player we thought he was gonna be He's gonna be Shaquille O'Neil.
Now here comes Cooper Flag. Uh did nutsy again? I don't know anything, and I'm not just saying. I'm just saying. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.
The three biggest teams, heritage, big market teams, popular teams in the lottery, Bulls, Mavericks, Sixers, Cooper Flag was gonna start with one of those teams, and tada, hear the Dallas Mavericks, who suddenly their future post Luca looks really really good with Flag and a healthy Kyrie Irving eventually Ad already suddenly the Mavericks can be at the top of the West. And now they have money to spend this year as well. They're gonna have Cooper Flag and money for a star player. I'm telling you the Mavericks can jump to the top of the Western Conference like that, because I'm not even wasn't even counting. I said in the off season, they're not paying money to Luca obviously, so they have that money to give to a star to come into play alongside Ad and Kyrie. Now it's someone to come in and play with Cooper and Kyrie and Ad and they have money for it.
Uh tuda. But again I'm not saying I knew anything because I did. I didn't know anything. I did it, but I knew that this.
Draft lottery one point eight percent chance or the Dallas Maverick to get Cooper Flagg and they get Cooper Flegg.
Well we've seen it before.
One point eight percent chance of Derrick Rose going to the hometown Bulls. Go on down the line forty years ago, the frozen envelope anniversary of your Nicks getting Patrick Ewing.
You had the year Lebron James is.
Eligible for the draft, Tada, it's the Cleveland Cavaliers. And then the year he leaves, they get the number one overall pick, and then you go, Ad gets traded.
What happens?
Pelicans get that pick? This year Luca gets doubt? What happens? Hey, we go to the MAVs and for the Mavericks, the organization, we talked about all the money that was going out the door. The Yeah, they saved a lot by not spending on Luca. Okay, and it cost him a hundred million dollars or whatever that math is when it's all said done. But they had lost out on all that international advertising. Guess what get You get the hope, you get Cooper Flagg, you get the next big thing, right, a homegrown guy, and all of that that goes into it to where you start saying, well, that's gonna be worth several hundred million dollars right back into the tills by bringing him to town. And to your point, they've already got a collection of players, whether Klay Thompson's there or not, to get into the fray. I wouldn't have been shocked if it was suddenly san Antonio with the health questions of Wenby. But with what they've assembled, you got Castle, you got Vassal, you got dearon.
Fox comes in right.
They made that deal to bring in Fox and really didn't have to get rid of anything, and now they have the number two overall pick. It is interesting that Ace Bailey did measure like two and a half inches shorter than what they purported he was in college, so well, it's some fuzzy math that we'll have to ferret out as we get towards draft day. But yeah, the Mavericks walking away, Nico Harrison, the NBA, everybody kind of nods wings and moves on.
But ten people.
You could really market tinfoil hats with logos the way this draft lottery seems to go.
With great regular mouths have captured the flag.
Boo.
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