Did Noah Lyles Duck Tyreek Hill (Hour 4)

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joining us to talk some NBA action. courtesy of the Action Network. And we've had quite a day Rafael Devers had his introductory press conference. We found out that Tyrese Halliburton is getting ready to have an MRI on his calf. Not good.

If you're a fan of the Indiana Pacers, and things are good right now this minute, and second, if you're a fan, of the Florida Panthers right now. Against the Edmonton Oilers, trying to eliminate them and win their second consecutive Stanley Cup. The Panthers after the first period They continue to score goal after goal after goal. They lead. The Oilers.

No, two to nothing here. after the first Period. We'll keep you up to date on that one as it continues on. Obviously, the Florida Panthers, they are looking to eliminate The Edmonton Ollers for the second consecutive season. and walk away with the Stanley Cup.

Lord, is Stan Lees. Cup. They're playing at home. I want you to take a listen to what their star Matthew Kachuck Had to say about playing at home, trying to finish it off and win the cup for the second consecutive year on home ice. Listen to this.

Yeah, we have that advantage. You know, playing an elimination game at home here again in the situation. It's no secret, cup's in the building. It's going to be the toughest test, biggest game. We're just excited to be back home.

Oh my goodness. Hey, you know, a botcher's hard to tell here when you're sitting around watching a game live and you're on the air. Is Skinner? He didn't get, I mean, it's in between periods. They didn't bench him, did they?

Again, I hope not. The way they scored was insane. I don't think he deserved to be benched for that.

Okay. I looked up. I'm like, oh, damn it. We got two goals up already. Yeah, it was a it was a bad turnover behind the net.

Okay. Well, we'll we'll we'll see. Right now, between periods, waiting on the second one, the first just ended. The Florida Panthers lead Edmondson two to nothing. We'll see.

Edmonton certainly has its ways. They've bounced back before, so let's see if they can do it again. and force a game seven. Speaking of forcing a game seven, Indiana Pacers, that's exactly what they want to do. They lose last night to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Uh 120 to 109. Tyrese Halliburton is limping around trying to play only with four points. And to the shock of nobody is going to have an MRI if it hasn't already taken place, if they don't already have the results. Uh this is what Shams had to say about Halliburton's calf injury on ESPN. Malika, the belief is that Tyreus Halliburton has strained his right calf and I'm told he will undergo an MRI to determine the exact severity of this strain.

And remember, this is the same leg that he had ankle soreness in last week. He was adamant after game five that he would be playing in Thursday's game six of the NBA Finals. It is the NBA Finals, but it was described to me today that if this were the regular season or even the first round, there's doubt that he would play.

So once the Pacers and Halliburton get the results back on this MRI, on that calf strain, they're going to be able to identify the severity and then huddle and map out exactly what the plan will be going into game six. Man, game six is Thursday. I don't, is there a shot that you're gonna give this guy? I don't know. Give him a shot, you gotta feel his legs.

They're gonna numb the pay I don't know. I never heard of a calf strain that you do not feel or that can't get worse or that cannot rip. Terese Halliburton has to weigh this very carefully. And he spoke and he's like, Listen, I get it. It's a game six.

If we don't win, we're done. We got to try to force a game seven. Listen to what Halliburton had to say. The thought is if you lose, the season's over. You know, so our backs are against the wall.

Um You know, we take pride in playing at home in front of our fans, and our fans are amazing.

So, you know, we know they're going to come out with a ton of energy in game six. I just want to know. Is Tyree Talliburton going to shut up this offseason if he loses? If he wins, of course he's just going to be everywhere. This is going to be one hell of a comeback, right?

I don't anticipate it. But if he wins, if he would have won, this man would be on WWE television. He'd be selling the t-shirts. He'd be. Everywhere.

If he loses and has to nurse a calf injury, a leg injury throughout the course of the offseason, Then at least he just He stays at home. We don't have to hear about him as much. If he wins, he will be. In sufferable. And speaking of annoying and insufferable, oh my God, this guy takes the cake even past A Tyrese Halliburton.

at the beginning of the show, not too long after we got started here, Raphael Devers was introduced. as the newest member, Of the San Francisco. Giants. We know the Red Sox moved him across the country. Apparently, he wanted to be moved.

I guess it didn't matter where, but he didn't want to be in Boston anymore. And so now he is a San Francisco giant. And he was asked, Rafael Devers, about the past. What happened with Boston? And uh well, Rafael Devers said I'm not thinking about the past, I'm thinking about now and the future.

I'm moving forward from the situation in Boston.

Now I'm looking ahead with being a San Francisco giant and I think that I'm just going to compete. Yeah, basically, I ain't there no more. It's not my problem. I'm somewhere where they're leaving me the hell alone, and I make the same amount of money.

So. Here I go. Bustaposey, the President, I bet she could still play too. Anyway, this is what Buster Posey had to say about how long this trade took to get together. Yeah, it's something that has been in the works for three or four weeks.

Zach had conversations with their group and then eventually myself and Craig Breslo the last week to 10 days. And it was good. It was obviously negotiations. Things are going to go back and forth. But I was texting with Craig today and we're just thanking each other for the candor and the respect that went into this negotiation.

in hilarious fashion. Craig Breslow, he spoke to the media as well about the tray. He's the one who traded away the superstar. and he was asked whether or not he needed to do a better job communicating with his players. You know, Devers did not appreciate the, hey, man, go play first, go play third, and he didn't appreciate all of that.

Listen to what Craig Breslow had to say about whether or not he needs to be a better communicator. I don't know if if this outcome uh would have would have played out any differently. Um you know, I think that there's a decent chance that it wouldn't have, but uh I absolutely need to have the humility to think back uh on the interactions and figure out what I could have done better. just about being humble. Yeah, you can't be a know-it-all.

I mean, you've already ticked off one player who's no longer on your team and he didn't appreciate you not communicating with him, especially being a former player. That's Rafael Dever said. You gotta you gotta you gotta kiss some ass now. You got to make the guys who are still in the building, you know, feel like, hey, our guy actually cares. and thinks about You know what we think.

What about what Raphael Duvers thinks about his new location? Is he going to play first? Is Devers going to play third? Is he just going to be a complete pain in the behind?

Well, he says now that I'm in a new city with a new team. I'm a do whatever the hell they ask. I'm here to give my 100%. I don't put any buts. They're the men in charge.

I am here to play whatever they want me to play. Yeah. He's just being petty with the Red Sox. If only. The Red Sox got that response.

We wouldn't even be here in this predicament, but I guess the Red Sox. needed to communicate a little bit better. as to where exactly They wanted him to be. Or maybe they should have just said, We're going to look at Bregman and we want to move you around. Start there.

That would have been an easy one. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4. Four I S And Man, of course, at the end of the show, we'll get into a few things that took place this day in sports history.

Next break, I can't believe this. Bacher, were Noah Lyles and Tyreek they were really going to race in town square? I mean, it sounds like a bunch of crap to me. Were they scheduled? Yes.

Do we actually think they were going to? Most likely no. There's too many health issues. Health issues for what? For both of them?

Like risks, I should say. Oh.

Well, it's not worth it. Who more importantly, though? Is one weighted more than the other?

Well, Tyreek Hill makes millions and millions of dollars, so. I mean if What are qualifiers? I think. If qualifiers were near, And Tyra Kill has training camp in a few months, or a month or two. it makes sense for both of them not to risk tearing a hamstring.

On some s some dumb competition. Oh, absolutely absolutely. But I think if anybody has well, Tyree Kill was just running a race last weekend. And so I think, man, if I got to think about this, if I'm no allows, I'm going to let Tyreek Hill run around and be a knucklehead. All by himself.

I'm not even going to get involved in it. A matter of fact. Let's take a listen. This is this goes back to August of last year. Noah Lyles, a Olympic gold medalist called out Tyreek Hill.

on the Nightcap Show with Shannon Sharp. Listen to this. Tyreek says he wants some of you, Noah. I can't believe you know who Tyreek is. Don't do that, Noah.

You know who Rick is, the cheater. I'm gonna be honest, I forget his name all the time. You're cheater. If it's not about track and it ain't about League of Legends, there we go. He said, come get some.

Tyreek is just chasing cloud. If he really wanted to race people, he would have showed up like DK Metcalf. The man Dodger smoke. I don't got time for that. Would you be willing to race Reek in a 60 or 100 if we got some sponsors to put some money up?

If he's truly serious about it, I'm not talking about you just talking on the internet and you ain't actually coming to me and talking to my agent and saying, let's set something up. You are seriously about it. You'll see me on the train. Oh, well, they were supposed to race in Times Square. And it's just it just got cancelled.

They said it was a conflicts and now it's not going down. Mount who the hell is going out in Times Square to watch these two guys? Race. There's a bunch of people who would do it. It garner a lot of attention.

I mean, here we're talking about it now. But in Tom Square, there are so many things to look at in Tom Square. Mostly bad. Wh why would you do so? I mean is Cracked out Mickey is uh I don't know.

Method Batman is Dirty Elmo. There's the naked cowboys out there. They're the ladies that are running around. With the feathers on their bodies, I just don't know. And this is where you want to do a race.

I just. Like spare me the entertainment. There are more entertaining things in New York City They're watching these two guys uh Just try to show, and let's be real. Tariq Hill might be Fast. Like Noah Lowes' world.

Class. Fast. There's there's no debating a guy who's running up. a one hundred meter going out there and doing it and Nine point whatever seconds. Tyreek Hill is doing it in 10 plus.

That's like. night and day, I wouldn't be interested. Boncha, would you go see these guys race out there? In person? Uh.

I'm gonna say no, just because it's gonna be over in, like you said, 10 seconds.

So it's not worth it to get through the traffic, pay the subway fee. And then wait behind a bunch of people you don't want to be around just for 10 seconds. How much is it Subway three dollars now, right? Yeah, it's two ninety. One way on the subway is three bucks?

Oh my god. The express bus Used to be about that much. How much is the express bus one way now? I haven't taken an Express Plus ever, but I haven't seen it's close to 5, 550. Oh, no, bro.

Uh-uh. No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know. And man, it was that way a long time ago. Like, if the subway is 290.

Man, they're they're giving you more of an upcharge on the uh the the Express. Ah, wow. Yeah, the only time I'd be on the express bus is if I had the uh free student metro card. That's it. I don't think you get on you could get on the express bus with that um a student metro card?

I think so. Yeah, I don't think so. Hey, kids, get on the train in the bus, the normal bus, not the fancy one. Wow. What a whirl Yeah, that there's not a race in New York.

I'd rather watch two cockroaches race. I can find that more entertaining. I've seen two rats. Run on the tracks than what we would get out of Noah Lyles and Tyree Killen. in ten seconds, and I can see it now.

No allows would beat em. And Tyreek Hill would talk smack and give him a hug, or he'd be a complete jerk afterwards. But I I probably think it was the uh Probably the first option there.

So, yeah, anybody looking forward to seeing Noah Lowes and Tyreek Hill. Uh wait in another lifetime. Maybe when both of these dudes are are retired and done with their respective careers Then they'll go ahead and and and do so. Yeah, we'll we'll see. I need to let you know about the Defensive Player of the Week brought to you by the Navy Federal Credit Union.

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Four I S N And now we're underway here in the second period. The Florida Panthers lead the Edmondson Oilers. It suited nothing. Reinhart Good shot. putting in goals here for Florida.

as they're they're already ahead here in trying to win. Your second consecutive Stan Stanley Cup and your third consecutive. Uh appearance here. And the festivities surrounding the actual victory at the end are always, always so much fun. The Stanley Cup, they have the best presentation, they have the best celebration.

I think the history of the Stanley Cup and everybody getting it and taking it somewhere, that's. That's a lot of fun. You got the guy with the keeper of the cup who's running around with the white gloves. There's a there's a lot of history. It botched you, you think the Stanley Cup got to be the best trophy, right?

Best-looking trophy? I'd say yes. And then Lombardi's right behind it. The best l best looking. What do you what do you think?

Like the ba the aesthetic of it, you know? Oh, well, I I I think the aesthetic, the the tradition surrounding it. W you had something else you wanted to add or? I was just mad that the keeper of the cup does a very bad job of it because I I guess I guess it's like his job, you know, to promote the Stanley Cup final and all that. But at the same time, the cup's been everywhere.

Everybody uses it, especially the winning teams. You know, he does a very bad job protecting it.

Well, what do you mean? Nobody's lost it. Nobody's lost it, but there's been dents and there's been. Dirty. It's a lot that goes into the cover.

He follows the trophy around. What is he supposed to do? Take care of it. It's his job. Take care of it.

Like, what is he going to do? Hey, don't do that. Like, what is he going to do? Don't, don't. Throw, I don't know, three beverages in it.

Don't throw it and dent it. Aw, man. There's gotta be some limits.

So I've met have you ever met the guy? You ever seen the cup? Oh, he's he's a nice guy. He ain't gonna bother nobody. He just.

He carries it around, man. That's it. So he's just awkwardly standing there while the hockey players just use it for a day? I don't well, I don't know if he's following it around that much, but yes. Yes, yes, he is.

I mean, he's not top flight security of the world. He's just the. He's the keeper of the cup. I mean, that's that's all he is. It's kind of a creepy job now.

To follow a trophy around for it? And you're not really interested. You're just kind of standing there awkwardly in the background looking at it? Nah, that's after the players win it. Like, what are you gonna do?

You don't butt in? Can't tell em what to do. They want it, right? It's theirs. It belongs to them now.

For a day. Each player. And then, even still, when the hockey season's not in season, what does he sit in the dark room and watch it? I don't know. I should.

We can well, I think he's kind of busy right now, but you can certainly ask him. Keeper of the Cup And that no other look, what other league has that? None. Yeah, no other league has that. But then there's some other traditions, like I dunno.

Kissing the Lombardi, that's there. Ah, whatever. Basketball is boring. They just redid the trophy for basketball, and Larry O'Brien just looks. I don't wanna say it looks horrific, it just It's just I don't know.

What do I know? I'm not out of here building trophies.

Now, I can judge the hell out of a. Look at all these stupid things that they're building now of everybody. Tom Brady's getting a new one, a statue. I can judge the hell out of a statue, but Man, these trophies, not so much. The commissioners' trophy in baseball is kind of.

That's Uh they've remodeled it to just pennant flags? Like, what are we doing? I don't know. I like it. It's not the greatest thing, but it's a nice look at.

That's been remodeled over. I think maybe the NBA has gone to the extreme. And like the dimensions of the basketball when they give it out, and now it comes out of a Louis Vuitton. Case it's like, oh, the NBA can put the uh the trophy in a Louis Vuitton case. But they can't have uh player introductions nationally televised.

It's just I don't know. Whatever. We'll see if they they roll that Stanley Cup around. Are later tonight. People are putting their kids in it.

They're drinking beer out of it. They're traveling with it. I just, uh, Maybe the keeper of the cup, you think he's sanitized, he keeps it clean? I hope so. That's like one of the three things you have to do: keep your eye on it, clean it, and then make sure nobody steals it.

Ah, w one hell of a job. I'm sure he has a feature-length article somewhere. I'm going to have to go ahead. and looked that up. The keeper of the cup What the heck does he do?

Meanwhile, I guess Caitlin Clark is done getting beat up. Indiana fever beat the Connecticut sun. eighty eight to seventy one.

Now, Connecticut has a record of 2-9. That's terrible. I know Alyssa Thomas is now gone, but that's pretty bad. And so maybe that's why they wanted to go out there and push Caitlin Clark around. Uh she finished tonight with 20 points.

a four of six from downtown, six assists, This is a second game back. We saw in her first game, Caitlin Clark went out there and scored. of thirty two points in thirty one minutes. She is a machine. I'm just waiting to see if eventually at some point in time one of her teammates You know what she needs?

And I don't know if he's available. I know he is available, but he can't punch a woman. The WNBA doesn't have a Charles Oakley-esque figure. There's nobody somewhere that could help out. That should be, I guess, I don't know.

I would say that there should be. But there's not that many roster spots. to have these type of enforcers So maybe maybe someone come out of college that's like No, just a straight rebounder. You can set screens and it's tough. Yeah, these yeah, there is a a lot of chippy play uh in this game.

I saw one one of the young ladies from the fever decided to drag another one. uh down to the ground. I don't know. Maybe maybe they need to beat the hell out of each other to uh You know, make things interesting. And this is also actually the Commissioner's Cup.

A final I don't know. You keeping up with that? The that the Commissioner's Cup and the WNBA? I knew of it last year because I think the Liberty won or lost. One of the two.

They won one or two years ago.

So I knew it existed. Did I know what was happening now? Did I know who was in it? No idea. I could barely keep up with the NBA in season tournament.

Now I'm supposed to know what it is. The commissioner's compass? I don't have no idea. What are we going to is it is baseball going to have some stupid in-season tournament too next? Is the NFL going to do something dumb?

I mean, well, they do want to expand to what, eighteen games sooner than later? Yeah, 18 is not that bad, though. That's compared to me. 18 games in an NFL overkill? And compared to an in-season tournament, that means nothing?

I'm okay with that. No, no, I'm not talking about the I'm not talking about, hey, let's just do something catchy. 18 games for NFL players who are already hurt. Through 16 games and 17 games.

Now you want to attack on another one, and it's, oh, well, we're eliminating games that the guys don't already play in. I get it. I understand it's all about the money. But I feel uh it it's been decades, decades. From when they started moving from 14 to 16, now 16 to 17, 17 to 18.

What does this mean? It means one day, I don't know, I'll be further a little bit more gray in a rocking chair. And they're gonna have, what, twenty NFL games in a season? Like, you don't think 18 games is like overkill already? I feel like 17 is pushing it.

And they only did 17 to get to 18. It just depends how many buys they get.

So if they go up to 18, they get the second buy. I'm okay with it. It's all about rest versus the game schedule.

So they can make the week one more week of games, but make it a n like was a 19-week season? Having an extra bye week is nice. Whoop-de-doo. These dudes are still gonna get beat to shreds, man. They are.

It's inevitable. Like 18 games? Maybe this is why the NFL is over here pushing the flag football. Hey, we get flag football out here. By the time we have to readjust the NFL, we've already halfway done it in international competition.

It's just. That is a wild gimmick. The players don't want to do it. They're just like.

Well, am I getting paid more money? Is the answer yes? Let's let's figure it out, but You guys don't want to play eighteen games of of NFL football. But no thanks. Uh oh, who's on ice?

Somebody hurt? Is that Martian? No. Wando? I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah, he's well. Out of the way. They're there. At least they're in the lead.

Yeah, Biletti, man, what you think about eighteen games in the NFL? It's inevitable. Isn't that overkill? Yeah, but I hate seventeen.

So I know you're not going to go back to sixteen, which is what I would do. Then you got to go to eighteen, because uh the seventeen makes me crazy. I why, because you can't go 500.

Well, no, it's just the idea that like you you have a different amount of home games versus road games every year. It's different. It's just it's it doesn't make sense. None of it makes sense other than to get to 18.

So then you know what? Stop screwing around, get to 18. Yeah, I was fine with 16 games, man. And I think the quality, and what do I know? I don't think we've had a large enough.

scale. And who am I to say this? Marco, do you think the games are as physical as they used to be? Overall, no. I mean, guys look, they're bigger, faster, stronger.

There's no doubt about it. But the game has changed a little bit. The physicality was a little bit more in the trenches, and it was a little bit more over the middle, and there was a lot more danger in some of the stuff.

So, yeah, we've gotten away from some of that. I think we're going to get into, I think, the quality of play, no offense. This all started when they went back to not. Basically, practicing as much. And I'm not saying two a days and got at the pads.

No, no, no. And I'm not saying that you have to do that. I'm not advocating for more onto the players and make them more injured. I'm not saying that, but the quality of play has come down because guys don't practice.

So we wind up with the first four weeks of the season. You might wanna go to 18 because the first four weeks is a crap shoot. It's basically they're practicing because they can't practice, they're never in pads. Forget special teams. That's why there's a flag on every play on special teams because they don't practice it.

By the time we get to the end of the season. Yeah. I don't know how many guys are going to be invested into what's taking place. Like, still checked in mentally. Forget physically, but.

Mentally, it's like, man, what are we doing? We're still out here. Where are the playoffs at? What the hell are we doing? I don't know.

100%. And that's why the teams that are good, you're going to struggle with that. Teams that are bad, forget about it. They're going to be completely checked out by halfway through the season.

So, for all those that love tanking, congratulations. The longer the season is and the more difficult it is, the more you'll be happy to have guys that are going to wind up their body's going to make them tank. Not because they want to, not because they care about your draft pick because they're not going to be here for next year, but their body's going to make them tank because they're like, the hell with this. I'm beat up and I'm tired because you put them through too much. But the first five-I mean, at least four weeks, if not six weeks of the season, teams are trying to figure themselves out because they don't practice.

We forget by the end of the year because they all find it, but at the beginning of the year, it's bad football.

Well, think about this. We all know that there's teams that are just absolutely horrific. And now we're tacking on another game? I don't know. Yeah.

Look, it's bad. But I mean, we're not going back to 16. I'd be all for that. Go back to 16. And to be honest, as much as I enjoy Thursday night, I'd get rid of that too, because that's part of the reason why these players are all beat up and tired is because you force them to play on short weeks constantly.

It used to be a big deal. When the team was like, man, you forced me to play on Thanksgiving on three days' rest, and I gotta do this for this whole year. It's gonna mess up the whole year.

Now we make them do it all year long, and we don't care. We don't care at all.

Well, welcome to Black Friday game, Thanksgiving game, Christmas games, Saturday games. Yes. Right. And then we turn around and go, well, you're not practicing, so to hell with it, you'll be okay. We don't care.

We don't care. No, we don't.

Well, Lan FL doesn't care more. Yeah, what's the over-under? Oh, oh, what? Them caring? No.

That's the only question everybody was the spread. What's the over-under? Nobody cares. Nobody cares about these players. And again, I'm not saying that we have to.

I'm just saying as long as we're. I don't know. Cognizant as long as we put it out there. Like, we get it. We want 18 games because we want to see the extra game.

Just know that you don't care that these guys are breaking down physically. As long as you can, don't try to pretend that it's okay. Just say it out loud and then say, What's the spread? Yeah, well, you should ask: who's a wide receiver that was here? He was here in Atlanta and he went to Jacksonville.

He's the real cheater. You can ask him. Or you can call up Ipe Mizahara. He got a lot of time on his hands. You think they let him gamble in prison?

Apparently, nobody knew he was doing it before he got to prison, so why not? Yeah, he might be doing it on the side. Can he call the bank and see if they'll wire him some money? He could be anybody he wants now. Yeah, well, he needs a small loan of $3 million, right?

For a car. Right, yeah. Yeah, what a world.

Well, he's in prison 57. How long is 57?

Well, it's 12. Damn, he got great. quite a few years in there. Uh I I was gonna say good luck to Epem Mizohar, but He's going to serve time here. They're going to send him back to Japan.

Isn't that what they're going to do? I don't know. I don't know how that works. I mean, I guess when he gets out, he is in prison. in Pennsylvania.

Oh, that's worse than being Let's be fair. Once you're in prison, do you care where you are? Are you in Colorado? Are you in Pennsylvania? I mean, Virginia, what difference does it make?

You wouldn't know, right? Outside of looking out the window, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what they get. Is it the hour a day outside?

I mean, I guess if you're in a place where it snows, that sucks. But, like, I don't know. If you're in Pittsburgh, you'd just be inside all year long. Yes. I don't know.

That's what I mean. Like, does it really matter at that point? Yeah, if he's in Colorado, what does it matter? It's like, I don't know. You really want the you want the nice weather in a good spot?

Maybe you want to be in like San Diego if you're in prison? Maybe that guy wants to go back to Japan. They were like, No, you're gonna stay here. and just serve the time. Wow.

They made him probably watch Show Hail Tani last night for one inning. What a world. It's the JR Sport Reef Show here with you, coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, we'll. We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.

But right now, what's going on in the world, period? It's time for Newsflash from Marco Belletti. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, coast to coast, on the Infinity Sports Network. The Florida Panthers still on top of Edmonton.

Two goals to nothing.

Well, a little less than five minutes to go here in the second period. If things can Edmonton can just score in pockets and quicks, so I'm not going to close the door on them. at all. But if they continue on like this, uh Florida will be back to back champions, beating the same thing. uh two consecutive uh seasons.

It's some big history that they're trying to make here right now. And speaking of history, it is the end of the show, which means it's time to take a look at a few things that took place this day. in sports history. Fact, back, back, back. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore.

But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. See, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything, and it was primitive and lousy, and we liked it. The JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass.

It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. It is June 17th. The year is 2025. But if we go back to June 17th. 1960, Ted Williams, he joined the 500 home run club.

I mean, at that time, there wasn't a lot of guys. You had Babe Ruth, Jimmy Fox, Mellott. They were the only dudes to go out there and hit 500. At this point in time, Well, Ted Williams helped the Red Sox. They won 3-1.

Over Cleveland. Take a listen to Mickey Manle talk about Ted Williams knocking him down. I think that had he have gotten to play all the time, there's no doubt in my mind, he was the greatest hitter of all time. And he did have a lot of power too. I saw him, you know, we talk about him having to play in Fenway Park where it's 380 to right center.

I've seen him a lot of times hit the ball way up in those bleachers there.

So I don't think that it made that much difference. When he caught the ball, he had as much power as anybody. You got to think about the time he took off with his military service. Hey, June 17th. 1992, Charles Barkley, he gone moving from Philadelphia.

Going out to the Phoenix Suns.

Well, he took them to the finals in his first full year. Listen to this via documentary. I never played on a team with two other all-stars before. The buzz started me with him walking through the airport, the bill going down. Arizona, for whoever the persona of Arizona, Western Outpost, the Wild West, you know, whatever there was, the John Wayne spirit of Arizona said, that's our guy.

And, you know, they loved him from the second he got off the plane. And we gave up one of our more popular players in Jeff Hornesek. Tim Cherry. Andrew Lang in that trade. And then Charles came in and was all pro his first year.

We gave up a lot, but we got Charles. We were never disappointed. Yeah, Charles Barkley had a busy day. I mean he had a busy year. Got traded dream team.

Hey, busy guy. He's kind of still busy now. He's sitting around at the NHL Stanley Cup finals. Hey, June 17th. Uh-oh, 1994.

I remember watching the NBA Finals with the New York Knicks and the Rockets, and then. This happened with OJ Simpson. This is courtesy of Sky News. Look at the people. Look at the people.

There's the left-hand turn onto Sunset Boulevard.

Now from there, if he's going to Brentwood, Uh he'll be passing Barrington. Bundy Yeah. David, can't we get back on? A half mile or a quarter mile from Cliffwood, on the west of Cliffwood, is Rockingham. David?

So we'll. There appear to be no barricades in front of the house. Looks as if he has free access to drive in. There's the ground shot on your right-hand side. That is Rockingham and Ashford, and that is O.J.

Simpson's house. And there's someone in the doorway there. Yeah, OJ Sensor with that uh that card chase uh Yeah, quite an eventful life for OJ Simpson. June 17th. 2010, I remember this.

Lakers. They beat the Celtics. In seven games to win the NBA championship. 83 to 79 was a final score. Kobe didn't have a great game at all, had to go out there and rebound and pass, had to do it all.

They walked away with the victory, though. Take a listen to the final call on ABC, courtesy of Mike Breen. Robo looking. Gets it to Pierce. Pierce turns.

Back out. Randall fixed, dribbles, puts up the three, won't go, rebound to solve. Kicks it out. Odum. Odum throws it ahead.

The Lakers repeat back-to-back titles. The LA Lakers, the 2010 NBA champions. Yeah, Kobe Bryant, 23 points, 6 of 24 shooting, 15 rebounds, 2 assists. I remember that. That stat line was a.

Pretty crazy. Hey, speaking of championships, how about this? June 17th. Last year, 2024, the Boston Celtics went out there. And they beat the Dallas Mavericks to win their 18th.

Championship, knocking off those, well, beating and passing the Lakers, breaking the tie with them. Here's Mike Breen with another call on ABC. This crowd on its feet, the best team in basketball all year. All the work. All the sacrifice handling the enormous weight of massive expectations.

Ends tonight here. It's over. Time to say it again, Boston. Anything's possible. Batter number 18 has been secured.

The Celtics are NBA. Champions. Yeah, Celtics were champs, they knocked off the mavs, we realized Luca was never gonna play defense, he was a fat cry baby, and ultimately Nico Harrison said, alright, bruh. Bye. And there you have it.

Those are a few things that took place this day. in sports history. It has been june seventeenth all Day. Long. Looks like we might be able to add something else to this list.

Right now, the Florida Panthers have now taken a 3-6. to nothing. Lead here. In game six of the Stanley Cup finals. If they hold on and win.

They are your back-to-back Stanley Cup champs. Gonna really suck for people in Edmonton. I mean, I'm not putting this in putting them in Buffalo Bills' territory, not by any stretch of the imagination, but. When you got to lose to the same team twice, in consecutive years? That that hurts.

Is Skinner's still uh in the net here. For Edmonton, two minutes to go here in the third period. Edmondson, I'm not counting them out yet, but they are running out of time. Definitely running out of time. I would say we'll keep you up to date as a We continue here, definitely on the Infinity Sports Network.

Uh not on this show. Bacha, we gotta we gotta sh well, I gotta shut up and leave soon, huh? Yeah, soon. Very soon. But the last time it was 3-0, and we said this looks like the series is over.

They did come back to win.

So I'm not going to call it. Not this late, though. They were starting to chip away at this point in time, right? Yeah, it was close. But even still.

90 seconds left. It's it's uh Yeah, they're running out of time, man. Tomorrow we'll be having a chat about The Florida Panthers being Stanley Cup champs. We'll see how that one goes. Hey, thank you so much to Bob Nightingale for coming through and joining us.

From USA today to talk some baseball. Thank you as well to Matt Moore for coming through. I'm from the Action Network to talk some hoops. I mean, give it two days and it looks like the NBA finals That they will be done as well. On some wild, wild stuff here.

Yeah, this'll be fun. At this point, a three nothing. Florida Edmondson. They might as well just put the cup. out there behind the boards and just Let's just hit the fast forward button.

I'm looking forward to not even the rest of this game. Just just give me the celebration. I'll be looking forward to that. Anyway, folks, if you've missed a minute or a second of the show, you can go ahead and hit Rewind. When the free Odyssey At.

We'll be back with you tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. It'll be time for a new top six list. It's what I do every single Wednesday. And that's that's been uh that's been history, a part of the show.

Damn it, before I even got to radio starting off on line. Anyway, Bacha, you got any final words? Uh goat wheelers for the next period. Yeah, you you just want more hockey, right? Yep, more fighting.

Yeah, well, listen, if this is out of hand, well, if this gets out of hand, it definitely go gets to fighting. I'm here for fighting. The JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. It's done. We'll catch you tomorrow, 6 p.m.

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