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5-4-23 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

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May 4, 2023 6:06 am

5-4-23 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

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May 4, 2023 6:06 am

Edmonton Oilers PxP voice Jack Michaels joins the show   | The Hurricanes ground the Devils in Game 1 | Joel Embiid expands on what winning the MVP means to him.

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That's BetterHELP.com slash positive. Hola! We're bidding farewell to our Wednesday. It's sayonara hump day. We are on to Thursday in most of the country, not all of it.

But a few minutes past midnight in the Pacific time zone, which includes Las Vegas as well as Edmonton, Calgary, Alberta. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio, on Twitter, ALawRadio, also on our Facebook page After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We've got a poll up.

Just comes from the nether reaches of my brain. It's fun to think about how many wins the Jets and Packers have now that the Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers has taken his act to the Big Apple and they're giddy in the Big Apple. The Packers, a lot quieter, but they are putting their stock in Jordan Love.

It's not just Jordan though. They're gonna have to replace a bunch of different positions considering the number of former Packers that are now following Aaron Rodgers to New York. So which team finishes 23 with a better record?

Is it the Jets or the Packers? So you can find the question on both Twitter as well as our Facebook page. Our phone number 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Still to come on this edition of the show, we've got QB News. We'll get back to more of the playoffs. The latest from the Western Conference with the Warriors and the Lakers. Game two looming on Thursday.

We also are wondering about the status of Chris Paul and whether or not he will return as a member of this Suns team that needs to dig out of an 0-2 hole. So a lot still to come here on the show as we work our way toward a Thursday and May the 4th. Huh, that's all I'm going to say.

It's a big test for those of you who are paying attention. Fireworks in Vegas? Oh no, not that kind. A different kind on the ice. Fighting into position. Polisar to the net. A shot off the rush.

A saved Skinner. The rebound cleared by Ackholm. Up the left-hand side. McDavid with Hyman in front. Taylor drives down and shoots and scores. He has four and Edmonton back within 5-4. I was listening to Jack Michaels and the Oilers radio network and it's the second night in a row a team beats an opponent that has a player score four goals.

Joe Pavelski of the Dallas Stars. They lost to the Seattle Kraken in overtime on Tuesday night. On this Wednesday evening, the Oilers waste four goals from Leon Drysidel. You hear Jack Michaels on the Oilers radio network. He joins us now from Las Vegas and we'll talk about kind of the back and forth in this game but I heard you say on the broadcast Jack, this kind of blew me away, that the Oilers had not lost a game in regulation in nearly two months. So against the Vegas Golden Knights, what was the difference at least initially in this series? Well, the curiosity about Vegas is, you know, they've been their nemesis in the sense they've beaten everyone other than Edmonton. I mean coming into tonight, Amy, the Oilers that actually won their last four trips to T-Mobile Arena over the last two years, they've been 6-1 against them but the reason you heard that regulation talk is somehow Vegas held on to win the division title despite the fact Edmonton went 14-0 and won in this last 15 games and that's the thing about Vegas is the Golden Knights have made a living out of winning close games all year long and they hung on to win the division simply because they wouldn't let anyone else other than Edmonton beat them and, you know, they went 16-3 and three down the stretch in their own right. They beat Winnipeg in five games in the first round and they, you know, dealt Edmonton their first loss regulation as you talked about since March the 10th. They're a good hockey team too. This is also, I think, the most long-awaited series in the Western Conference over the last five years. We've seen Colorado, Edmonton.

We've seen Colorado, Vegas. We haven't seen these two teams get after one another and tonight lived up to the billet. I mean, Leon Dreichel scores four goals. I mean, Amy, you're looking for the definition of Stanley Cup playoff chaos. We've had two four-goal games on back-to-back nights and both nights the team for whom the guy who scored four lost.

I mean that should tell you why they say it's the hardest championship trophy to win in sports. What makes Vegas so good in those situations where the games are tight and there's so little margin for error? Tonight, I think it was Vegas's depth. I mean, they've got players, you know, in their third and fourth lines and they're willing, Amy, to play their fourth line against Edmonton's top players and if they can get away with that for a shift or two, that creates mismatches and other lines and today, quite frankly, tonight with Leon Dreichel scoring four and no one else scoring for Edmonton, guys like Chandler Stevenson and Mark Stone who are accomplished 20-goal 60-point players, you know, had the advantage and Vegas was able to exploit Edmonton off the rush a little bit. The others were leaking defensively. It's the same for both teams in terms of the layoff. In fact, Vegas had been off for six days as compared to four for Edmonton, but I thought some of the others attention to detail defensively sorely lacking tonight and that could be attributable to the fact they basically had one full practice in the days leading up to this.

As you know, most teams will tell you rest is more important this time of year. I still think that's true, but I also think it comes at a price and attention to detail defensively was that price that Edmonton paid tonight. Connor McDavid did not score in this one though. He and Leon have had maybe the greatest season for two teammates ever in NHL history.

How much fun was it to watch these guys continue to get better and to see them spark the Oilers to such a great regular season, especially the finale? Well, Amy, you and I grew up in the 80s and 90s when players and teams routinely scored five, six goals a night. Players were often in the neighborhood of 140, 150 points and those players were named Merrill Lemieux and Jaromir Jager and Wayne Gretzky and that's what the league is heading toward right now, at least at the upper crust with McDavid and Drysettle. I mean, we haven't seen these numbers. They're video game numbers.

They're numbers we haven't seen in the league in 30 years. It was a magnificent regular season turned in by, you know, two generational players and I mentioned too because you look at the all-time scores in the history of the playoffs, it reads Wayne Gretzky and then Leon Drysette and Connor McDavid is sitting there right after Merrill Lemieux in fourth place in terms of points per game. We are talking about two of the world's best players. McDavid is unquestionably the best player in the world right now. I think Drysettle ranks second and I quite frankly think they're two of the best players to come into the game in two and a half to three decades. I honestly believe they are Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin magnified. A more developed, a more progressive version of those two players and I know that's a big statement but I'm telling you, I think we're heading into an era that approaches the kind of era that you and I grew up on in terms of hockey, the scores, the point totals and that sort of thing. Jack Michaels is with us from Las Vegas. You can hear the ambiance behind him there. He's the voice of the Edmonton Oilers and joins us following game one of this series between the two best teams in the west, the Golden Knights and the Oilers. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio.

I heard you say this on the air and it kind of blew me away. First time since March 20th that Edmonton has even trailed entering the third period. Oh my goodness, a run of dominance Jack. It really was and you know coming into the Stanley Cup playoffs I would have told you that you know the two best teams in the league were Boston and Edmonton and as great a year as Boston had, Edmonton actually had a better record in the second half of the season than the Boston Bruins and the Boston Bruins had the best record in the regular season in the history of the league, 104 years. So it's quite a statement and yet having said that, I mean think about it, Edmonton was the best team including Boston in the second half of the year, not for 20 games but for 40 games and they still couldn't catch Vegas. Anyone can be beaten in any kind of best of seven you know playoff series. That's what makes Stanley Cup playoff hockey in my opinion the most compelling postseason tournament in all of sports but I'll tell you right now that Edmonton and Vegas have earned that battle.

Very deep teams with explosive high-end players but also with players that can give you 11 or 12 minutes that play at a much higher level than everyone else's third and fourth ones and you know it's a captivating type of series because Edmonton is explosive offensively. Vegas is known as a defensive team though you wouldn't know it by tonight's 6-4 final. You've got fans that travel exceptionally well and why wouldn't you Amy if you live in Edmonton you'd love to get a taste of Vegas and the golden knights have been extremely well received in this market as you know there was a question of you know could pro sports thrive in Vegas where no one seems to be from but rather they've moved to. Well, Las Vegas have now been here 25-30 years. That transition, there's a lot more people that have grown up in Vegas than maybe when you and I were kids.

I mean the only one I could think of off the top my head was Andre Agassi. You've got people that call Vegas home and that with that comes pride and ownership and because it's not the Raiders who moved from Oakland but it's Vegas an expansion team it's Vegas's very own and so you've got two rabid fan bases and that makes for an electric atmosphere. I'm sure listening to the game you could hear much as you could hear the ambiance behind me. That crowd is loud.

It's loud in Edmonton but it's also very loud in Vegas. How surprised were you that right after Leon Dreichel gets the tying goal to begin the third period that boom Vegas scores twice in quick succession? That was the key to the game Amy. I mean honestly the Oilers flirted with prosperity a couple times. They took a one-nothing lead. 40 seconds later the game was tied. They finally worked their way back into a 3-3 tie early in the third period and 50 seconds later they're down two. I mean that has when you're chasing the game and a team gets two on you and all of a sudden having tied the game that feeling of elation lasts a minute and you're down two again.

It exacts a physical toll, an emotional toll. You're constantly battling back. It was an uphill struggle and Edmonton just could never get over the top tonight and again full marks to Vegas. They were excellent in transition.

They are not known as a rush team. Edmonton obviously is known as a team that could really beat off the rush with their electric group of forwards and tonight it was Vegas who won that battle. So again full marks to the Golden Knights and the Oilers have some work to do defensively to clean up those areas that as we talked about I think that attention to detail the layoff again it was the same for both teams but Vegas was slightly better in terms of you know what they did against Winnipeg against Edmonton. The Oilers saw a drop especially in their defensive game. Jack Michaels of Oilers Radio with us from Vegas.

It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. Given this battle what's your reaction to the Bruins losing in the first round to an eighth seed in the panthers? I to be honest with you think the Seattle upset of Colorado the defending Stanley Cup champions is at least on par with the Florida upset of Boston and here's why. Florida won the president's trophy as recently as a year ago and then they went through some real upheaval. They traded one of their top fours Jonathan Huberto and one of their top defensemen Mackenzie Wieger to Calgary and brought in Matthew Pichot. Now he's an outstanding player and he had a tremendous season but the natural chemistry of the locker room the rhythm of the players on the ice it took a while for Florida to figure it out. It really did. I mean there was an adjustment period there and I'm not just talking with those players in particular.

You've got a different group. Huberto had been there for a decade. I mean you know you take a guy like that out of your room you know the locker room is a close-knit thing as you know in the NHL. So it took a while for Florida to sort itself out and then they got going in the last 20 games of the year with their season on the line. So they had essentially been playing playoff hockey for about four weeks. Boston ultimately they were just playing for history against themselves. I mean you know to see whether they could have the best regular season record.

Here's the thing. Think about it. Golden State 73 wins. Patriots 18-0. Seattle 116 victories for the Mariners.

I think that was 2001. None of those teams won. The regular season when you achieve big things in the regular season often there's just that that takes a toll on you and so I didn't think it was as big of an upset number one because of how good Florida was as recently as a year ago and number two history tells you when you have that kind of regular season you pay a certain price.

It is a strange dichotomy. It's one of those things that's very hard to explain but it could be something about the sense of urgency and being in playoff mode long before you actually get to the postseason. And again it was important. I mean the most recent one that I could think of was Golden State and they won four others so it's not like they weren't capable of it but when they pushed you'll remember this they pushed to get that 73rd win.

It was important yes and it might have been too important to them in retrospect. So Jack we saw Joe Pavelski with the Stars the four goals but they lose to Seattle. What do you think about the Kraken and the Stars and how they match up?

I got to be honest with you Amy. Like I said I thought Seattle's upset of Colorado was as if not more stunning than Florida's of Boston because if you look at the Kraken yes they had balanced scoring but they really didn't have a goalie that you felt could could win a series against a high pirate attack like Colorado and yet their former goaltender Philip Grubauer came back to haunt them and the same thing in this series you'd think with Jake Gottinger who was tremendous for Dallas in a first round playoff loss to Calgary last year basically carried the Stars on his back to game seven in overtime before they lost that to the Flames. I mean he's the guy with the pedigree and yet you know Seattle got five on him and Seattle you know blew a lead as you know 4-2 in the third period and somehow survived. So as much as I want to say you know Dallas should take care of Seattle rather handily the Kraken are proving me wrong.

So I hate to bail on that question but quite honestly I don't know what to think because I've basically been wrong at every turn. I will say this if the playoffs has taught us anything this year it's not as simple as saying winner of Edmonton Vegas will represent the west will represent the west. I just don't feel comfortable saying that because we've just seen too many wacky things already. We definitely have that is the beauty of the Stanley Cup playoffs because of the Cup. Vegas takes the early edge game two is coming up on Saturday also in Vegas and always great to catch up with our friend Jack Michaels. You can find him on Twitter at Edmonton Jack play-by-play voice of the Oilers TV radio he's everywhere and now he's on after hours again. We've missed you thank you so much for a couple of minutes. Well Amy just so your listeners know it's only Amy Lawrence who could get me to do a late night show in Vegas.

Only Amy I told your producer that so I don't know whether that means anything to your listeners but it's a compliment to you. It means something to me thank you Jack that's a great compliment we do appreciate always the insight but the humor too I love to listen to Jack when I have the opportunity on Oilers radio and what a season as a play-by-play announcer you love it when there are a lot of eyeballs where there's a lot to to keep your attention to attract your attention of course you love when the team is a winner but man when you get to call games for two players at tandem like Connor McDavid and Leon Drysidel it's special too that may not happen to every play-by-play announcer it may only happen once in your career so the Oilers so the Oilers we'll see if they can capitalize but the Golden Knights somehow managed to win that division and have home ice on Twitter after hours CBS on our Facebook page too is it the Jets or the Packers that finish next season with the better record such a dumb question yet so much fun it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after hours podcast this is flea for this little light the podcast about falling in love with music I started a non-profit music school about 20 years ago called the Silver Lake Conservatory of Music the reason that I started doing this podcast was music education I'll be speaking with Rick Rubin Thundercat Stewart Copeland Margo price Corey Henry Cynthia Areva Sheila and Patti Smith please listen and follow this little light a presentation of cadence 13 on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts surgeons keep our hearts beating they do the amazing help save lives and so can you your CSL plasma donation can help create 24 critical life-saving medicines that can give grandpa the chance for his heart to swell when he meets his new grandson or give a bride the chance for her heart to skip a beat on her wedding day every plasma donation helps more than you know do the amazing help save lives donate today at your local CSL plasma center and be rewarded for your generosity into the devil's zone Jarvis to Nason to Aho trying to find Jarvis Brady Shay's first of the postseason and that could be a dagger with 9 43 left in the third trying to force a turnover from Holland he does now Carolina Martin the exclamation point it's 5-1 with 316 left in the third yes for fos third of the postseason this is after hours with Amy Lawrence pair of hockey games on Wednesday evening and for the devils coming off the seven game series the victory over the new york rangers on the road at carolina it was a little bit like the shades of their opener against the rangers actually where they looked somewhat overwhelmed by carolina now it may be the fact that the devils had to play a seven game series and so could have been some tired legs and maybe that emotional toll that a long series against a rival takes on you but for the hurricanes this is how they started their opener their their first playoff series as well and this is what they want to do going forward they want to hit you early they want to hit you often and they were able to score in every period and they end up with a 5-1 victory over the devils the call there on hurricanes radio it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio remember we talked a bunch about Akira Schmid the rookie goaltender 22 years old for the new jersey devils he took over in game three of their first playoff series but in this one of course it's a different story but well and the rangers had won was at game six against the devils so he had absorbed a loss in his time taking over as the starting goalie but when you get deeper in the playoffs the deeper that you get you're talking about skill and depth and certainly speed and in some cases it's a total package so yeah the hurricanes were able to get by the islanders they had been off since Friday night so Friday night to Wednesday night were able to recover a little more whereas the devils who are in the playoffs for the first time since 18 and have their first playoff series win in over a decade they're under 48 hours in the turnaround from the rangers which was a game that was in jersey to having to be in Carolina in Raleigh to take on the hurricanes who had just a little extra time but that's part of the reason but I wonder about the devils because again they put themselves behind the eight ball with the way they started against the rangers too of course it's a long series and even the rookie goaltender knows that you have to bounce back and you gotta flush what happened in this one obviously slow start you know we expect it more from ourselves but uh that's just how it goes sometimes and uh you know I think it's the right move you know give the team something different we get a lot of confidence from the last series but uh that's new series uh what happened at first doesn't matter anymore just going back to work again. You have to look at this game as a as another lesson from series to series I can only imagine you know the emotion and the amount of people telling you what an unbelievable game the previous one was we all felt the same way I dealt with it players are going to deal with it you start thinking this is pretty good and then you get an eye opener tonight. Yeah and I'm not sure if you guys are watching this game but the disparity it was evident even in the very first period the devils managed one shot in the first period just one meanwhile the canes were putting pucks on net and had oh gosh I think at oh gosh I think at one point it was 11 to one advantage in the first period if I remember correctly I didn't write it down but I was watching and it was an 11 to one advantage and the hurricane scored a couple goals toward the end not end end but they were able to tack on a couple goals in the second half of that opening period so the devils were on their heels instantly now nobody on the hurricane's roster believes that this is going to be a walkover you would expect the devils to rally but the way that Carolina jumped on them early obviously exactly what they wanted. They came off of really emotional game seven you know I don't think they had the start they were looking for we know that you know games coming up here they're going to be really flying so but yeah our start was just how we wanted it. It's Brady Shea expecting that there will be a punch back from the New Jersey Devils it's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio I don't feel like it has yet calmed down enough to take a breath if that makes sense April is so crazy where you typically can have six seven playoff games per night between hoops and hockey and it's a bit of a blur I like when we get to the second round and then on into the conference finals in both the NBA and the NHL where every night you have a chance to absorb one game or two games so we're we're close to that point we're not quite there yet but on back-to-back nights in the NBA we'll have just one game and this is absolutely how the league wants it one nationally televised game that can grab the headlines if it features the superstars like the Sixers and the Celtics, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, a group of guys that were in the NBA finals a year ago the new MVP in Joel Embiid okay James Harden fine but the Sixers and the Celtics are a fantastic matchup and then coming up Thursday you've got game two of the Lakers and the Warriors and that's enough said those are standalone games on both Wednesday and Thursday weirdly enough the Nuggets and the Suns do not get back into action until Friday night they last played on on what Monday they played Monday if I remember because I was in my hotel in Syracuse they go from Monday to Friday why it does not take that long to travel from Denver to Phoenix it's it's just weird the whole thing is weird meanwhile you get the opener and game two between the Lakers and Warriors before the Suns and Nuggets get back on the court maybe what they're trying to do is line up the series in the east and the west so that they if they go the distance roughly finish about the same time not the same day of course but meaning you negate the advantage that one team might have over another if one team finishes the way the Lakers did right going back to last Friday then the Lakers were off from Friday until Tuesday meanwhile you had the Warriors on a much quicker turnaround around Sunday to Tuesday maybe that's what they're attempting to do but there are major disparities in this second round in how they're fleshing out the schedule that's typical of the NBA I know I complain about it every single year all right on Twitter a law radio on our Facebook page too thanks for all of your support your encouragement your kind words about my upcoming half marathon weirdly enough I am not extremely sore after running 11 miles on Tuesday I don't really know why I'm just I'm not why I'm not sure why I'm not why and I'm not sure why I would love to believe it's because I'm in shape but yeah the Grand Canyon kicked my butt so I don't know but thank you for all of your tweets we've got just a fun one-off NFL question it just kind of popped into my brain which team finishes the 2023 season with a better record the Jets or the Packers also I just saw some dude on Facebook went on a very long diatribe it was a soliloquy if you will if you had been speaking about how there's so much else going on in sports how dare I talk about the NFL give it a rest he said uh I'm going to assume you know what happens when you assume I'm going to be fairly safe in my assumption that he's not listening to the show he's just responding on Facebook because you know that's real life right there it's a funny thing about social media it's neither social nor actual media but it pretend pretends to be both so on either of our sites you can take the poll or you can give us a call eight five five two one two four two two seven we know the Jets are seeking more Aaron Rodgers connections so they have now signed another former Packers wide receiver I mean this is the worst kept secret in pro football the rest of the Jets meanwhile are raving so we'll do QB news coming up next hour Kirk Cousins about his future with the Vikings and while we're talking about the NFC North it is wide open would you say that the Lions are the team to beat the Vikings the Lions the huh Bears I don't know that's the interesting piece of this is I actually don't know which is the team to beat and he's on some beats so maybe Kirk could win and also Bryce Harper returns the Dodger surgeons keep our hearts beating they do the amazing help save lives and so can you your CSL plasma donation can help create 24 critical life-saving medicines that can give grandpa the chance for his heart to swell when he meets his new grandson or give a bride the chance for her heart to skip a beat on her wedding day every plasma donation helps more than you know do the amazing help save lives donate today at your local CSL plasma center and be rewarded for your generosity don't give a crap it's after hours with Amy Lawrence you are listening to the after hours podcast Boston ball again Brown with it on the left wing give and go he goes into the lane if he blocked his dunk what a play by Joelle give it go by Brown but he couldn't get it and be with the ball against Horford I saw on the left side Joelle holding the ball making a move left to right down on it he hammers it in he's back a two-hand slam by a B beautiful drive and a ferocious slam as he blows by Horford this is after hours with Amy Lawrence Tom McGinnis on Sixers radio the MVP is back and in fact Joelle MB gets to play his first game as the NBA MVP for the first time in his life and of course we heard his reaction on TNT on Tuesday but on Wednesday before the Sixers and Celtics tipped off in the second game of their semi-final series Joelle actually had a chance to address the media and answer questions and I love it I love the emotion that we see from athletes when these dreams come true and his certainly an unlikely journey and now after years of campaigning he kind of gives up on that he has career numbers in many ways the Sixers are considered one of the best in the league though it won't matter if they exit in the second round again however he's finally at the top of this individual mountain as MVP it's amazing feels good obviously that's something that I dreamed of and you know I've always wanted you know especially when I started you know playing basketball that was always the goal and you know obviously there's other goals and stuff but you know this is just one step to you know to whatever I want to accomplish which is you know to win championships and you know we ride that so it felt pretty good. I can imagine if you saw the video it was posted on our show Twitter after our CBS you saw that he was overcome by emotion and actually couldn't even talk after they saw the big reveal on TNT they're all in their locker room the guys are filming him right so he's got James Harden draped all over him they realize how emotional he is and so he's kind of in his seat and the rest of the Sixers come over to to hug him and to take video of him it was really cool I love the the family picking up one of their guys and how proud they are of Joelle Embiid and what an accomplishment really it is for the entire team not just Joelle but those kind of moments where you get inside the locker room and you get to see how much those relationships matter and how much they root for one another is it all smooth sailing all the time no no family is but what an accomplishment for Joelle again after his unconventional journey to get to this point in 2023 but it's been anything but smooth sailing and that kind of goes along with the aspect of the team right because they've had some really tough years he's gone through injuries but then throw into that equation his departure from Cameroon he didn't start playing basketball until he was a teenager yeah there's so much more to Joelle than just the basketball my life is a movie you look at the way obviously starting playing basketball at 15 and you know not really no I mean the whole goal was to just you know when I got the chance to come to the U.S. was really to come get a degree in and you know find a way to get a job because I didn't think basketball would take me anywhere so and with everything that's been happening obviously losing my brother was a big you know it was a big part of it to you know almost leading me to you know quitting basketball not you know wanting to you know come back because I felt like it was it was kind of my fault because I left Cameroon I left you know my family and you know I felt like I should have been there to do something and you know and that was outside the pier where you know it was a lot of dark times missing two years because obviously the foot and everything going on really around the organization you know outside the basketball it was tough but you know I'm just glad that you know I pushed through it and I'm here sitting in front of you guys. A road full of pitfalls a road full of at times pain and disappointment and grief but a road of determination and character forged through the fire and in some cases failure remember when he first got drafted into the NBA didn't he immediately send a tweet to Rihanna? I remember correctly he was all out there on his social media he was yeah he was young he was living it up he's a different man now and I really enjoy hearing him watching him play of course he hasn't lost that spiciness hearing him watching him play of course he hasn't lost that spiciness it's a a willingness to engage with other players who may have a little something something to say he doesn't shy away from extracurricular activity I still have no idea how he didn't get suspended or at least get a flagrant too and get tossed out of the game in which he delivered I wouldn't say it was a direct shot but a glancing blow to Nick Claxton's you know the parts of him that should never receive a glancing blow of course I guess if you're looking for some type of karma I don't really believe in karma but if you're looking for some type of justice if you will then him missing time because of his knee might be so kind of an up and down ride for him in these hours leading up to game number two because he was named the MVP and then had to wait to see how he would get through Wednesday nearly two weeks away because of a sprained ligament in his knee but had to go through workouts on Wednesdays to see whether or not he would get cleared and how he felt emotional roller coaster if you will and still having to shake the rust off played 27 minutes for the Sixers on Wednesday 15 points and five block shots so he was impacting shots as I'm watching I know the Sixers defense was not a whole lot to write home about collectively but he was definitely altering shots and altering the way that guys were attacking the basket or what type of shots they were taking it's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio let's talk to Lee who's in San Diego Lee welcome to the show hey Amy how you doing I'm good thank you hey let me know if I get this right first of all I'm an animal lover and uh the other night you were talking about your cat sugar and it just busted me up let me get to know if I get this right nah not quite like that it's more in fact she was doing it just a few hours before I left the house on Wednesday evening it's more like a meow okay so what it's a longer meow yeah there's no really meow quality to it it's a and it's got all these weird inflections to it it's very different it's it's as though the cat is singing not trying to get my attention and I honestly think that she only I never see her doing it she only does it when she can't figure out where I am so the cat might be going senile she is 15 yeah I understand that man I I've had animals my whole life and I love them more than a lot of people but uh you're you're cool and can I talk about San Diego sports real quick yes I support I still support the Chargers and Clippers I know they're they went to LA but I'm so Cal through and through and uh once my Clippers went down I immediately went to the Lakers and I think they're playing really well and they have a chance to win this thing which seriously it's the Warriors or the whole thing the whole thing now oh okay so I think they're they're just on a roll right now and I support the Kings since the Gretzky days oh the LA Kings we don't have an NHL team and my Chargers and Clippers went to LA so I'm so Cal what do you think about that Amy okay I had zero clue that the Clippers were in San Diego when were the Clippers in San Diego is that what you're saying 70s oh well that would explain why I didn't know okay that's interesting so was that as traumatic as the Chargers leaving for LA no oh boy worse for the Chargers I wanted to google this I didn't know I'm still a Chargers fan I always will be I'm so Cal through and through so and thanks for taking that call Amy you're cool thank you Lee good to talk to you in San Diego I appreciate the history lesson yeah I just googled it it actually well it was the 80s which also would explain why I mean I was on the planet in the 80s but was I was a kiddo wasn't paying any attention to professional sports I'm not even sure I was playing my own sports then I was probably playing mines but let's see owner Donald Sterling relocated the franchise to LA without NBA approval which was permitted following legal action between the league and sterling six years in San Diego so that's it they were only in San Diego for six years 1978 to 1984 and they were in fact called the San Diego Clippers interesting I had no clue about that something I'm just finding out now I feel so enlightened but beyond that it's May the 4th it's a big test for Bob today something tells me he's gonna pass it with flying colors though he's been dropping hints he's not very good at keeping things to himself he's been dropping hints it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio surgeons keep our hearts beating they do the amazing help save lives and so can you your CSL plasma donation can help create 24 critical life-saving medicines that can give grandpa the chance for his heart to swell when he meets his 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