Hour 1 – Kentucky Derby Still Slaps, Sour Grapes from Jaylen Brown

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Speaker 3: Of other sports.

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Speaker 2: When you think about it, everybody is doing a pool Kentucky Derby, pool, your wife, daughters, you, your friends, everybody's picking a horse, everybody's watching. You have parties where you get dressed up, and it feels like, just like March madness, it's still an event. It doesn't matter who's in it. It's still an event and there's still surprises. And that was the beauty of what you saw with the Kentucky Derby, because when you think about the Derby, it's kind of standing still in time. It's still about the spectacle of the power and precision, the pageantry, the outfits, the horses, everything looks beautiful, manicured. But when you think about the Derby in today's society with sports, everything is you're getting bigger and stronger and better and faster, more powerful. Golden Tempo's winning time on Saturday was just over two minutes and two seconds. Now, that's an impressive run. Secretariats nineteen seventy three finish was one minute fifty nine seconds fifty nine point four so the gap of more than two and a half seconds and you go, okay, well that's not too bad. That would be fifteen links. So two and a half seconds equates to over fifteen links. Secretariat would have won the Derby by fifteen over Golden Tempo. So here we are, more than five decades later and the sport is still not produced anyone capable of matching this horse's brilliance. And when you realize all but one horse was a descendant of Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby. But the Derby legend it's still alive. History is constantly being rewritten, but with the Derby it's not. But it is still an incredible event. And you had this one, you know, wonderful last to first dash, and you know it's one of those where you go, I'm glad I'm watching it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those where you say, what time is it, Well, that's six o'clock. They usually try to go off, get everybody put it in, put into the gates at a round forty six forty five eastern and they like to get him out going at the six fifty seven. And it was fun. You know, you get a female trainer, great interviews. I thought NBC Peacock did a wonderful job all afternoon long, because you get to know the horses. It's like studying for a final. You're cramming. You don't know anything about horse racing. You might think you do, but then all of a sudden, here you go, here's the horses, here's the story, here's the jockey, here's the owner, here's the trainer. And the Kentucky Derby always always delivers, and it was fun to watch. Fritzie sends me a note and he goes and I know what's going to happen because Fritzi will somehow have a negative thought, and Fritzi almost missed the Derby. So Fritzie goes, how many Derby wins would it take for you to be promised to be the height of a jockey a little insensitive.

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Speaker 5: We got into that a little bit last week with it. He could be eight or two feet tall and all that. I was just wondering, like, how many Kentucky Derby wins if they said you're guaranteed to win one, two, three, but you have to be you know, the height of a jockey.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I always ask you the question that you ask me. Is there a number of Kentucky Derby's that if I promise you five but you're gonna be the height of a jockey, there.

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Speaker 5: Is not to me personally, you know, I'd rather be my average height and not be able to say I won any Kentucky Derbys.

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Speaker 6: I can live with that.

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Speaker 3: And not accomplish anything in life.

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Speaker 5: I would say, not accomplish anything, but the Kentucky Derby wouldn't be that much of a deal to change my size my thatture.

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Speaker 7: No, yes, Dylan, what if you won the Triple Crown?

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Speaker 6: Oh that's a whole other story.

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Speaker 3: So if you're like Billy Shoemaker, Billy Shoemaker.

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Speaker 6: Went a lot of money off of that too.

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Speaker 2: Steve Couthin, how about that?

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Speaker 6: That opens the stable a little bit on where I would go with the height.

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Speaker 3: All right, do we have a legitimate poll question today? Dylan?

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Speaker 2: Oh, you w on a legitimate Well yeah, yeah, let's try and let's do something different today. By the way, best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked you didn't like? You can dial up Tyler each seven to seven three DP show. Okay, Well, this one's also from Todd, just prefacing it. How much did you bet on the Derby? More than ten one hundred, one thousand or none at all? Just the love of the game. Well, I did see a social media video of you. I don't know what you bet, but I was betting how many beers you probably had, and I was gonna bet around nine or ten.

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Speaker 7: It was actually it was more of a brown liquor day, Dan, I'll probably explain to that, Oh were you doing bourbon? I was drinking some mint julibs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and you were chasing it with Miller Lite, which nice.

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Speaker 7: A Miller like chaser. A couple of nighttime bloody Mary's. Got some looks about that, but it was a nice smattering.

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Speaker 3: Anybody bet any money, Yes, I did.

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Speaker 7: I bet a little more than one hundred dollars total in the race spread across god knows what, and I basically make a donation every derby day.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Paul, my wife and kids and I we each put in ten dollars, but I ended up putting ten dollars in for everybody, so I lost forty, my daughter one forty.

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Speaker 7: Any other poll questions, We've got one off of an NBA poul Would you like that?

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Speaker 2: Then let me, you know, do a drive by here. Let me see if there's something that will stick.

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Speaker 7: Should Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown part ways? This is part of a larger Celtics question.

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Speaker 2: I think okay, I would say no because there are not many teams in the NBA who have players that size in that talent. Now I know that it didn't work out. Give credit to Philadelphia. Philadelphia figured out something because they got blown out twice by over thirty points in this series, and then all of a sudden, Jason Tatum's not there to play, and the Boston Celtics, even though they're at home. Philadelphia was resilient and Joe Ellenbiid played great. Tobias Harris come on down. The backcourt is already really, really good but that's one of those where if you're not hitting your shots, and we saw this with Boston, that's their mo These are playoff games, this is in regular season where your three might not be as contested. Well, they weren't hitting their shots. And Philadelphia, I mean I watch Embiid and he just sort of moves. I mean it's not quick, not fast. He's not jumping's, he's playing the angles. He knows where his sweet spots are. He put up thirty four points, and I think that's the amazing part is eventually you see players who just know how to play the game. They're not athletic as far as end to end and jumping. This is where you see the guy on the playground who might be forty five years of age and he's the best player. Why because he knows how to play basketball. Embiid can't do what he once did. There's a Nikola Jokich feel to his game now not as skilled, but still to be out there, to come back from surgery, all of his surgeries, be able to play. And now you got Paul George. They both played thirty eight games, so they are fresh, but they might not be completely healthy and all the surgeries they've had and the injuries they've had. But Philadelphia, and I said this to a couple of people, I thought that the Knicks built their roster to beat Boston. They didn't build their roster to beat the Sixers. That's what I want to see with the matchup.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know the Knicks are favored. They're favored by seven and a half. Tonight, even Joe Ellenbiid said hey, when the series goes to Philadelphia, don't sell your ticket. I can't imagine any other place that might say this, any other star athlete who would say, hey, whatever you do, don't sell your tickets. The Eagles that they would never have Jalen Hurts would never have to say, hey, don't sell your tickets to the Giants. Here is Joe l Embiid after the win.

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Speaker 10: I just have a message for our fans. Last time we played the Knicks, he felt like, I felt like this was Madison Square going the East. So we're gonna need to support, you know, don't sell your tickets. We need you guys that I'm most here that we've had the last couple of games in Philly, especially the last one pushing it to Game seven.

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Speaker 6: I mean we need all of it.

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Speaker 10: I don't care if it's seventy thirty. You know, Snicks fans, they travel, They're going back to tickets and that's going to be you know, some people that need the money and you know, probably gonna sell tickets. But don't do it if you need money.

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Speaker 2: I got you, all right, all right, I got you. But Jalen Brunson isn't saying this to Nick fans. Why is it more important? Or it feels like it's more important for the Nick fans than it is for the Sixer fans. That's what kind of surprised me there. And granted, you know we've seen you know, home teams fans sell their tickets, but this is Philadelphia. Well this Philadelphia. It's different, yes, Martin, But.

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Speaker 9: Knicks fans are going to travel. That's a quick trip. That's a quick train ride. It's a quick trip from Philly to New York. True, but it's the same. But the Garden it's so expensive. I know that it's ridiculous. I know that I'd rather take a train. It's going to be less expensive to take a train, get a hotel, and get tickets to the Sixers than just a regular old ticket to the garden.

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Speaker 2: Okay, are you surprised that MBID has to say to Philly fans, don't sell your tickets.

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Speaker 9: No, you're not surprised because he saw it two years ago that playoff series. It was almost like the Hawks against the Knicks last playoff series where it was like, man, is this Madison where in a state farm arena. That's what it's going to look like in Philadelphia if they keep selling your tickets to Knicks fans.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Paul Embiid also said Madison Square, Garden East. I think it would be South or West. Yeah, I'm not an X fan.

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Speaker 3: He did everything right except for you know, the direction.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Todd, I think it's less shocking more sad that he has to say something like that to me, Like you have to implore or plead with the fans to you know, show up, don't sell the tickets to the Knicks fans.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of weak. Maga Ton, Yes, major city like Philly.

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Speaker 7: Philly is one of those fan bases though where you would expect, like playoffs for any of the major sports, they're selling out all of them tickets.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, I am surprised. Yeah, like I get it.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Dolphins fan and you say, hey, don't sell your tickets, you know, to Giants fans or Patriot fans when they come down. I understand that, but you would think Philly, that's an unbelievable fan base, you know, the Dolphins, not necessarily, but it just kind of surprised me a little bit. The other part of it was, and I got to watch a lot of this series, and because I thought Boston was going to go to the Eastern Conference finals.

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Speaker 3: I thought they would go to the NBA Finals. I really did.

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Speaker 2: I thought everything the pieces were kind of falling in place and they would Tatum back. Jalen Brown did a wonderful job the entire year. Then you started to see where Derek White's not quite the Olympian we thought he was Peyton Pritchard. You know, you just play off basketball and it's just a different feel everything about it. And Jalen Brown was complaining after the loss. After the end of the series, I'm going to bring back some of the things that he had to say after the loss, and I was a little surprised because when you're up three to one, I didn't hear him complaining about any officiating or you're up three to two. I didn't hear anything, and maybe I didn't read everything in the Boston Globe or online, but all of a sudden you lose, and now all of a sudden you're complaining that there was an agenda embiid gets to flop, which you can have two things be correct. But I've never ever seen where when you complain publicly, and he did during the regular season. He did say that he can't get away with what other players can get away with, offensive fouls that are called on him when he raises his arm when he's trying to get a shot off. But I'll bring that back some of the things that he had to say. Your phone calls are always welcome, best and worst to the weekend. We'll get to those coming up, and make sure you go to rectech dot com and sign up and your chance to win a Rectech grill that'll be on May fifteenth. We're back after this Dan Patrick's Show.

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Speaker 2: Seventy six Ers are seven and a half point underdogs against the Knicks. I mentioned Detroit. You gotta have that second score. They got it with Tobias Harris. Kate Cunningham was wonderful thirty two and twelve, but having Tobias Harris there certainly gives you that second option as they come back from a three to one deficit. I mean, I'm just trying to think the last time you had two teams come back from a three to one series deficit. Well, the last time it happened twice in a single postseason is twenty twenty. The Nuggets rallied to beat the Jazz and in the first round beat the Clippers in the Western Conference semifinals. But that's twice with the same team doing that as opposed to suit two separate teams. The Pistons and the Sixers were able to do that all right. John Sterling, longtime broadcaster for the Yankees, has passed away at the age of eighty seven. Incredible run for John, and we played a lot of his calls on the show.

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Speaker 3: He had fun.

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Speaker 2: And I met John nineteen eighty three in Atlanta he was doing NBA games. In fact, I think John Sterling is on the call with the Hawks against the Celtics. When Larry Bird scores sixty in New Orleans, I think John Sterling is on the call. But I met John when he was doing Atlanta. Brave games and always energetic, always fun. And you know when you thought of the Yankees, you certainly thought of his calls, certainly when they were on the winning side of things. But John passing away at the age of eighty seven. Jaylen Brown not in a good mood, and you can understand why. After the loss, after they were eliminated, he was on his Twitch account and.

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Speaker 3: First of all, had this to say about Joe Ellenbiid.

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Speaker 12: This is my personal opinion on basketball. Some of y'all might disagree, but argue with your grandma. Flopping has ruined our game. Joel Embiid is a great player, one of the best bigs in basketball history.

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Speaker 3: Flops. He know it. It ain't breaking news. It is what it is.

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Speaker 12: I can clip it up, like I said, I can posted on these paid accounts that he's bought whatever.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I want to understand the context of Jalen Brown's comments because Joellenbid doesn't get to call all on somebody elseh Ip, he flops. It's not his fault. You do what you can get away with until you can't get away with it. This isn't about Joel Embiid. Now, Jalen Brown doesn't want to go after the officials because he doesn't want to be fined. But does Embiid flop? Yes, how many guys in the NBA flop? If you can you do. It's not one of those I'll never lower myself and flop. They most of them do if you can get away with it. Then Jalen Brown went on to talk about the referees in the playoffs.

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Speaker 12: It clearly had an agenda, maybe because I spoke in those critical or the reps in the regular season. So you know, hey, how they respond it like, we're gonna call every We're gonna, we're gonna you're gonna lead the playoffs and offensive fouts. That's how that was the response from the officiating crew. You could clearly tell. And I've actually spoke to some breaths and they said it was agenda going into each game. So anytime Jalen brings his arm up, just from reputation and just call it. Paul George does the same thing. Jalen Brenston does the same thing. Shit, I can go down the list. It's a basketball player. Whether y'all believe it or not.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't believe it.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to tell me that the officials said to you, Hey, we got an agenda. We're going to call these offensive fouls on you. Really and he says agenda like that's the key word. So it's premeditated. Hey in the playoffs, Hey, you complained about us during the regular season. We're going to have an agenda to call this against you. Did they do that when you're up three to one or three to two. I get it, you're upset. You guys should have won this series. But you gave them life. You gave them the opportunity. Then all of a sudden they go. You know, teams when they're down three to one can either go, yeah, we got no shot here, or man, all we got to do is win one game and then one game. Detroit did it, Philly did it. I'm going to give them credit. Was there an agenda? I don't believe so now is there something subconscious? It happens because you were complaining about the officials? Are you naming name? Can you give me the names of the officials who said there's an agenda? When did you talk to him? Now we have something here. If you're going to call them out, then let me know who you talk to. File a complaint. But you can't put a blanket over this. Open up a large umbrella and say, yep, there's an agenda here. Does Joe ellenbid flop? Yes he does. There's quite a few guys who flop. And I would say to Jaylen Brown, why don't you flop just occasionally?

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Speaker 3: Okay, yes, don.

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Speaker 5: Just start wearing a wire and then you could just play it for Adam Silver. If he's he's got that kind of relationship with the rest of they open up to him like that. Just did I put the mic on.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine an official and you know, Jalen's going, Man, why do I get called, you know, like offensive fouls all the time. Well, there's an agenda against you. Oh well, let me ask another official, maybe another official, like how many officials did you talk to said we have an agenda? You guys lost. You guys were a great story. That's part of it. If I said at the beginning of the year, Tatum, don't know if he's coming back, but you're going to be up three to one on the sixers to go into the second round and face the Knicks, you would go, oh my god, I'll sign up for it. Then all of a sudden, Jalen Brown has a wonderful season. He's carrying you. Then all of a sudden, Jay, you know, Tatum comes back. Now all of a sudden, the expectations go through the roof, and now it becomes a disappointment. Where this was a feel good story that you got this far. Then you're up three to one and you let it slip away. That's on you, that's on the Celtics. That's on your head. Coach who put out a lineup. I needed a program. I didn't know who they were, and I'm thinking you got most of your starting lineup hasn't played, hasn't started a playoff game.

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Speaker 3: Man, That to me was what shocked me, Like, what are you doing? Yeah, Pauline, it's almost.

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Speaker 8: Like Jaylen Brown is answering his own question. And then that clip you played said, I complained about the refs all season and now in the playoffs, I'm not getting calls. What do you think is gonna happen all season? If you ride the refs, they're gonna turn around and favor you in the postseason. It's a cycle, and the more flak you give the refs, the worst, it's gonna work out for you long term.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine. I mean, let's just use logic.

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Speaker 2: When you're constantly nagging somebody complaining and it never stops, and then you want them to, you know, you want to benefit from that, Like, well, wait a minute, you're you're turning again. You got an agenda against me? Yeah, you had an agenda against me. How does it feel if that happened? Like, the referees are human, obviously you're going to be complaining constantly. What do you think they're gonna do?

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Speaker 6: You know what.

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Speaker 2: On second thought, you're right. These officials have egos. They're like, who are you to be telling me how to call the game.

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Speaker 5: I would have say, I got to get this guy off my back. I got to give him a couple of calls. I just can't have him in my ear so much. And maybe that's what I have to.

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Speaker 6: Do, just win, get a few things for I don't do that.

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Speaker 3: It does happen, I think with some coaches.

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Speaker 2: I think if IF, and there have been players, but it's how you ask for something, it's how you point something out. Then you could get calls. Tony Gwynn told me, he said, I didn't have to say anything. I just had to look my body language told the umpire that that wasn't a strike, and he said I would get calls. You know, Maddox and Glavin never complained they got those calls. Well, they had nothing to complain about because they were getting me. So it's what are you saying and how are you saying it? But I can't if I'm the commissioner. I want to talk to Jalen Brown today.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to have details here.

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Speaker 2: Jalen, you said this, I want to follow up I'm want to be fair to your complaint, but you either tell me the officials' names or retract this. And you made a mistake, but I can't have We've always thought that certain players there's a bias for or against them, Like Draymond Green complains all a time, Rashid Wallace complained all the time. Do you think they got the benefit of the downs? The answer is no. That's what's surprising with Jalen Brown. You're better than this. You got beat, you played well, you didn't have Tatum in there. You know what, take take the licking man.

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Speaker 3: Move on.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Marv, and I think this is another black eye on the NBA because a lot of people already think, oh, the NBA scripted the NBA's rig and now people are just kind of second guessing, which isn't true because it's the Celtics. It's not like it's the Indiana Pacers or some type of small market team. This is the preeminited team in the NBA. So I'm not buying that, but it gives people like a second look.

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Speaker 3: But the NBA despises this.

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Speaker 2: They hate when there's a conspiracy theory they do and knowing that firsthand, being around Commissioner Stern, who any thought of impropriety, any thought of somehow the games are rigged. You do not want to be around that man. And if he was the commissioner and Jalen Brown said this, he'd probably have Jalen Brown in.

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Speaker 3: The New York office.

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about this, Yes, Dylan.

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Speaker 7: Would you say of all the leagues, the NBA is by far the most sensitive to I guess you could say allegations like this just given the history.

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Speaker 2: Well they should be because Tim Donaghue and that to me, you know, I know that David Stern called him a rogue official, as if to say, no other official is involved in this, he would always say that rogue official. Do I think there are other officials that were involved or attached to Tim donaghe, I.

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Speaker 3: Do, I do.

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Speaker 2: But when you start to think of an official could make a call, not make a call, all making money working with bad guys now all of a sudden, But we do this with the NFL. Anytime there's a point spread, and all of a sudden they nail the point spread. Fritzi will always come in and say, how do they do this? You know, how do It's like they know what the outcome is going to beg I don't want to quote fix.

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Speaker 6: But you could be the greatest mathematicians in the world.

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Speaker 5: It's like a women's high school soccer game and they got it by a half a goal, or a lacrosse game. They just do it on all levels. To the half point is amazing to me.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Pauling, But if you go back to that Tim Donneghe betting scandal, he was a ref and it happened in two thousand and seven. I remember you being on the air, and if for everyone who had that conspiracy.

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Speaker 6: Itch, there is a face, we have a.

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Speaker 8: Story, it's real, and that like opened the floodgates for those type of people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't know who these officials are that Jalen Brown is pointing out, but I'd like to know who they are.

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Speaker 3: If I'm the commissioner, this is a big problem.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling a player that there's an agenda against him, and agenda is the word that just kind of jumps off the page.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Marvin, and now there's always an excuse when you lose or your team loses. Oh, it's rigged. They didn't want us to win. Why would they not want the Celtics to win of all teams.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to say the word rigged. That'll get you in real trouble. For sure. You can't say rigged.

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Speaker 2: You could say felt like they wanted Philadelphia to win, or I wouldn't even say that. It'd be like Philly seemed to get more of the calls that were probably fifty to fifty calls.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Mark, But agenda and rigged they're into kind of the same ballpark, they live in the same neighborhood. Well, it's a cul de sac. Rigged is bad. Agenda is as maybe dressed up.

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Speaker 3: Version there, it's on the earlier part of the street.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Yes, the agenda is to rig it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Todd because the follow up.

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Speaker 5: Question by any journals would be like, and why would you say that, Why would you think they would give them more of the calls? And then that opens the door to someone manipulating or rigging something.

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Speaker 2: I would think you would want Boston to continue to play. Boston versus the Knicks feels bigger than the Sixers versus the Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Pauling.

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Speaker 8: Rigged is one street away from the top tier, which is fixed.

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Speaker 3: Yeh.

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Speaker 8: Fix is the killer word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A couple of phone calls best and worst of the weekend. Once you saw that you liked, you didn't like. And Jalen Brown could be correct because he's a very thoughtful player. He's a smart player. But maybe they are favoring Philadelphia or they're not favoring you with you know your offensive style.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Marrin Jalen Brown talked about flopping with ruining their game. But another complaint a lot of fans have about the current NBA is all the threes that they were taking. The selfish other poster a child why a lot of people hate the NBA. They shot forty nine threes on Saturday Night as opposed to seventy six and shooting twenty eight, so they're the posted children of man. All they do is jackub threes. So they were run in the game too.

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Speaker 3: Chris and Syracuse, Hi Chris.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Dan, I got best and worst for you. Best to Lebron James Friday night, still at age forty one being able to dial back and fend off Father Time and carry the Lakers in a decisive game six. But even Lebron can't keep that up at his age for the long haul. I think this may and June, the torch is officially passed on to Wemby and SGA, and next year for Lebron's farewell tour, probably will be back where it started in Cleveland, and they'll hope that Donovan, Mitchell, Mobley Allen can get him another title on the way out the door, and I'm sure Bronni will be along for the ride. In my worst year, Boston Celtics two years in a row now bounced earliest favorites in the playoffs. And if it had been the Knicks who lost to Philly or had lost to Atlanta, they'd be yelmed for the Mountaintops break them up. But I agree with you they shouldn't. They're a big away. I mean, I think Porzingis left a big boy, and the Celtics with Tatum, he did miss Game seven, but versus Philly, but there was also he was there for most of the series and they played really well without him this year and last year they lost to the Knicks and Tatum missed Game six, but they had him in Games one and two in Boston and the Knicks blew him out by twenty in Bolt. So it's gonna be interesting to see what Brad Stevens and the Celtics do and do you move? Who do you move? Brown? Or the injury played Tatum and he got the coach of the year. Who could be on the hot seat, he could be the next time Thibodaux. Yeah, it's a big offseason for the Boston Celtics.

00:31:39
Speaker 2: Thank you, Chris. And then didn't you have Jalen Brown saying that the Sixers were better without Joe Ellenbiid in the lineup, but they seemed to move the ball better. I mean, it's like the Rockets, the Rockets. That feels like that's a mess inside that locker room with Kevin Durant. And they're reports that his teammates weren't thrilled about Kevin Durant. His burner account like that, am Kevin Durant will be on a new team next year and then probably the year after that.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: What a weird career? Really, Yes, Marvin.

00:32:18
Speaker 9: It's crazy that he's been on so many teams because we thought he was going to be quote unquote anti Lebron where he was going to stay in Oklahoma City his entire career, and he's five six teams now. It's like a journeyman. Jim Jackson level almost whoa Jim Jackson will join us later on.

00:32:35
Speaker 3: He's he there.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: Marvin, Yeah, Kevin Durant situation and bad. But give credit to Lebron and the Lakers. You know, Reeves came back. They're not going to have Luca, I don't think. And you're going against OKC. But still and we love to do this. Michael at this age or later in his career wouldn't have been able to do this. You might be right, Like Mike at the Wizards was a good player. Lebron can still be a very good player. Yeah, Paulie.

00:33:08
Speaker 8: The Michael argument is he played eighty two games for ten years straight. He didn't have a fifty start season and the sixty two start season mixed in there to load manage.

00:33:19
Speaker 3: Okay, I get defensive. All defensive, by the way.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: You're you're all defensive, just like my first team. All right, how about we take a break. More phone calls coming up and our play of the day next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live.

00:33:43
Speaker 13: Oh my God.

00:33:46
Speaker 3: Of the day.

00:33:50
Speaker 12: This is the play of the day.

00:33:53
Speaker 6: Check this out.

00:33:53
Speaker 4: Dave swing's it.

00:33:54
Speaker 1: Do his right, Kale mccarr doesn't take the shot, now he does?

00:34:00
Speaker 4: Oh cow, that's two here.

00:34:05
Speaker 13: The third and the Abs in a playoff game have.

00:34:08
Speaker 6: Put up eight goals.

00:34:10
Speaker 7: Number eight makes it eight six Colorado.

00:34:14
Speaker 2: Colorado ended up winning nine to six over the Wild. Fourteen different players scored at least one goal, tied for the most in a playoff game in NHL history. That's your play of the day. Play of the day, brought to you by the folks have been doing it for over forty years now. Tire rack dot com the way tire buying should be. They will help you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. And their ship fast and free back by free road hazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirac dot com The way tire buying should be. I watched a little bit of the Montreal series against Tampa, and I was watching and I kept thinking, is Montreal going to get a shot on goal? I think they had nine total. So I'm just watching and I'm going, man, you got to put some pressure. And then all of a sudden, I'm thinking this is the kind of game you win because they had all their opportunities, didn't take advantage of it, and then you somehow will get a goal. And now Montreal moves on to face my Buffalo Savers. Yeah, they're my my Buffalo Savers.

00:35:21
Speaker 6: That's your squad.

00:35:21
Speaker 3: I get, Yeah, I'm going to take them. Yes, Tom, I'm no hockey expert.

00:35:25
Speaker 5: But in sixty minutes of hockey? How bizarre? How could you have single digit shots on go? How could that even happen? How could you not accidentally be somewhere on the ice where you can get a chance to shoot it at the goalie more than nine times over the course of that period, Lucas in Texas, I mean, that's too obvious?

00:35:42
Speaker 6: Was obvious?

00:35:42
Speaker 3: Okay? What can I tell you?

00:35:45
Speaker 6: Everything I say? Does it have to be like something?

00:35:47
Speaker 10: You know?

00:35:49
Speaker 6: Retort back?

00:35:49
Speaker 3: But you ask a question, said, I did say, how.

00:35:53
Speaker 6: Can that happen? I guess I'm asking you to explain to me how that would happen? But you can't.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: I don't know. They just took fewer shots. They couldn't get shouns of if.

00:36:01
Speaker 6: It's a very rare thing. That's why we're talking.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: About Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind today?

00:36:07
Speaker 3: Hey day and good morning? Good morning.

00:36:10
Speaker 14: Hard to follow that hard hitting hockey analysis, and I'll try my best, best and worst of the weekend. I did not have a worst until I heard on air that John Sterling Di'd hate to hear of great baseball voices passing on the best. Just love seeing all the game sevens. Just love seeing the playoff season in full swing. It's a lot of fun. I do have a question for you and for the team. I got into a really dumb debate, and you guys are the kings of dumb debates, and so I.

00:36:36
Speaker 3: Need your help.

00:36:37
Speaker 14: Thank you the fame basketball analyst Charles Barkley. Really, I just want to analyze that first name. You are obviously a professional broadcaster, you care about dictation very much. Can you please answer this question? How many syllables are in the name Charles? Because it was a fierce debate between one or two.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: Syllables, Dylan, how many syllables in the word are named Charles?

00:37:08
Speaker 3: Two?

00:37:09
Speaker 15: Okay, Todd, I was gonna say one, Marvin two, Paul. I think it's supposed to be one. I just looked it up. Do you want the answer. Yeah, it's a bit of a debate because Charles does not have an up and down. But you could pronounce it Charles. And now you've had a stress on the first part of it, and you developed it into two syllables, but historically one syllable.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: I would think one syllable Charles, unless you're well, depending how Charles says it, Yes, Ton, I could have sworn.

00:37:47
Speaker 5: I learned as like a kid in elementary school, like you do with a clap, that's how you do syllables. That's how they twitter when I was looking like Charles, it's one right, Charles, not Charles.

00:37:57
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I remember my first grade teacher like your clap to figure out the number of syllables.

00:38:02
Speaker 6: Of the work.

00:38:02
Speaker 7: Yes, Dylan, Well, if you're British, it might be sound like one symbol at Charles. But we did that. We learned that it's the amount of times your chin goes down when you say it. So if you put your hand on your gino charrowls, your chin goes down.

00:38:15
Speaker 3: But I don't say Charls Charles, it's Charles, Charles.

00:38:20
Speaker 7: I just think that's still twice.

00:38:22
Speaker 8: Yes, Paul. I think Dylan has a point. In Great Britain, Charles is defined as one syllable, and you do not go up and down, they said in the Southern dialect. In America, it's more likely to be Charles.

00:38:34
Speaker 3: M okay, back to you. Thank you, hopefully that helped you.

00:38:38
Speaker 2: Lucas Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: What's on your mind? Oh man, make room for that?

00:38:46
Speaker 13: Hemmy boys?

00:38:47
Speaker 9: What up?

00:38:48
Speaker 13: Happy Monday? Boys. Every day's a super Bowl. Let's go back row. Rip John Serling DP. I've been lucky to live a sports life. I mean listening to the life of Chick hern Al Michaels, John Adam, Jim Nansen, Scully. I mean, I know there's others, but John Serling was a staple and also a favorite of seasons. I mean, he certainly had some funny calls from home runs then one of a kind, but best of the weekend. And of all the players in the NBA, Joel Embiid needed this playoff win the most. I mean, it's it's not gonna help his MVP trophy age any better. Because I don't care what you say, joke is still should it won that year, but it was still nice to see him win that series and play well. Two's been hampered, and you know, it's just good for him. Worst of the weekend and getting excited to watch both these games seven yesterday and then getting and then listening to the fans chanting Angel Reese while her boyfriend Wendell Carter was at the free throw line and then he missed it.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: Not good, thank you, Budha.

00:39:55
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: Wendell Carter Junior the Third reportedly dating Angel re I think he's a better shooter than her, but he goes to the free throw line. Can can we check and see what Wendell Carter Junior the third shoots from the free throw line?

00:40:11
Speaker 8: Yeah, luckily I had that on my screen as always, Dank. He is shooting, oh seventy nine percent.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: This year from the free throw Okay, all right, yeah, but she was in the building and they were they were roughing him up a little bit there. Update the poll results if you can, Dylan, this first time we flew by.

00:40:29
Speaker 7: Alrighty, Dan, we have a few Actually, how much did you wager on the Kentucky derby? Seventy four percent say none? Okay, And that followed by more than ten dollars. Should Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown part ways as Celtics teammates? Fifty six percent say yes, And then would you take a triple Crown win if it meant being jockey height the rest of your life? Sixty seven percent say nah.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: It's It's always amazing what Todd takes from something, because he always takes something different than anybody else does, and it's almost always negative.

00:41:07
Speaker 6: I'm just watching it like I won.

00:41:09
Speaker 5: I won the race, and all the other jockeys and horses are congratulating him.

00:41:12
Speaker 6: They come up to him, they ride along some of him.

00:41:14
Speaker 3: I don't think the horses congratulated well.

00:41:16
Speaker 6: I also wanted to make it.

00:41:17
Speaker 5: Look like he made a little smile, but it looks like I'm wondering if he's like I want the Kentucky Jemmy. But I'm still so sure.

00:41:23
Speaker 6: That's what I wondered. I'm being honest.

00:41:26
Speaker 2: One hour in the books, two more to go. More phone calls coming up on this Monday, Best and worst of the weekend