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It is the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Thursday to you. I hope you're good. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well.

All of that good stuff. I'm going to be hanging out with you for one more hour. You just you just tuning in. The station just kicked in. Well, where the hell you been? I've been hanging out for three hours already. This show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. People ask me all the time. Well, how can I listen and where can I listen?

And the time has changed. All of this stuff. I've been here for like four or five months already. OK, you can always listen. Listen to me very carefully on the free Odyssey app.

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It's if you got serious and if you got a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. OK, we've had a busy night. How about right now?

This minute, this second. The hell are the Boston Celtics doing? They better not blow this game. Game two of this Eastern semifinals matchup. The Cavaliers. They are leading the Celtics 95 to 80. There's 11 minutes left in the game.

What the hell are they doing? The Celtics need to get it together. It's supposed to take a 2-0 series lead anyway. Also tonight, Dallas Mavericks are going to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Luka Doncic appears that he is going to be ready to play despite his bum knee. OKC looking to take a 2-0 series lead. Last played Game one on Monday. Frank Vogel has been fired as head coach of the Phoenix Suns.

So one year on the job. Frank Vogel already got the boot. We know that he was eliminated.

Well, let me not say he. The Suns were eliminated. By the Minnesota Timberwolves, who now have a 2-0 series lead here against the Denver Nuggets.

Also, some other news throughout the course of the day. Patrick Beverley suspended four games next season. We don't know where he's going to play.

We don't know if he's going to play. But the NBA is suspending him. Four games for his actions when he threw the ball at both fans. And then he was so disrespectful to the ESPN reporter in the locker room because she didn't listen to his dumb ass podcast. And I just hope that he doesn't get a job in the league because to me, he's a jerk. He doesn't deserve one. I mean, for a guy who had to work his way into the NBA, playing overseas in Russia and Europe and all these other places. He's a dumb ass. He really is. He talked about Big Baby Davis insurance fraud.

Yeah, Glenn Big Baby Davis, the Boston Celtics. This man is looking at 40 months in prison because he tried to swindle the NBA's health and retirement fund. You can't make this up. How dumb and how stupid can you be? I guess pretty stupid. And speaking of stupid, I don't know how smart it was for Malik neighbors to go, yeah, with Jayden Daniels, we got a bet on who wins. You know, offensive rookie of the year.

Ten thousand dollars. Don't don't share that publicly. NFL has a little bit of an issue with its players gambling right now.

Stay stay away from that one. OK, so we've had a busy day, a busy night, and I'm going to talk about the Knicks or forget the Knicks for a second. I want to talk about Rick Carlisle in a minute.

Yeah. The head coach of the Pacers after his team lost to the New York Knicks, he didn't do anything but complain and whine about the referees. He even played the well, we're a small market team.

They're not treating us right. He even went down that route instead of acknowledging that his team didn't play defense. They didn't rebound the ball. They didn't hit their free throws. And they let a one legged Jalen Brunson, who is questionable for tomorrow's game, scored 24 points in the second half.

Let's ignore all of that and blame the refs because we are from Indiana. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Hey, you use the Internet? Good. You can find me there. I'm at J.R. Sportbrief on whatever social media place that you waste your time. We got Ash calling from Sacramento.

Hey, Ash, you're on the J.R. Sportbrief Show. What's going on? Not much. I was just wanting to see what your thoughts were and what implications, obviously, other than the fact that Big Baby Davis and Terrence Williams, all that are going to jail. What implications could that have around the league? None. I don't think too many players are dumb enough to commit insurance fraud against the NBA.

OK. I mean, not that I thought it would be from that type of standpoint, but I didn't know exactly. I know that they were defrauding the retirement plan and all that. I didn't know if there was I didn't know how that money works, if that was just something that the league provided or if that was something that the teams themselves provide. It's insurance, man.

It's like me or you sitting around trying to screw anybody. You end up in jail. There are no implications. You think the insurance companies don't have insurance? Not necessarily from that standpoint, but I didn't know how the financials of it worked in the sense that I didn't know if it was team money or if it was league money. And if it was team money, what implications that that money, having been defrauded, could do for different teams?

I'm not a part of the insurance because I don't have insurance with the league because I didn't play. So I'm going to sit here and not lie and tell you I know where it's coming from. I don't think anybody's going to hurt at all.

Nobody, except for the idiots that are going to go to prison. For sure. All right. Well, cool. Thank you so much for your insight. And I hope you have a great rest of your night. Well, thank you, Ash.

I appreciate that. For calling from Sacramento. I don't know. I don't know.

Where does any insurance company get the money from? The players. You know who the players are going to hurt? None of them. You want to know why? Because they're still getting their money.

And then the insurance company, I'm sure, also has insurance against insurance fraud. Ain't nobody hurting here except for Big Baby Davis. And a matter of fact, I don't even know if Big Baby Davis is hurting. He is facing or excuse me, he is going to prison. He has been sentenced to 40 months. Whether or not he spends 40 months in prison, we're going to have to wait and find out.

But he did go on Instagram live. And you tell me if this former NBA player, former champion with the Celtics, you tell me if he sounds worried. I will be swole, though. I swear to God, I'm about to get in so much shape.

Oh, God. That's the only way you can stop me from eating hamburgers is put me in jail. I'm going to stop you eating hamburgers. I'm going to put you in jail.

You don't want to stop eating hamburgers and Cheetos? You're going to jail. Hey, you sounds OK. We're going to jail to me or excuse me, prison prison. Maybe he maybe he thinks he's doing like an overnight. He knows 40 months.

And I'm assuming I could be wrong. I mean, is that what that's not white collar prison, right? Like he's not staying in, I guess, for lack of a better term, the lap of luxury of prisons, right? I don't know where he's going. You think he I mean, well, he's a high profile individual. I don't think they're going to say, hey, man, we're going to roll you out into general power. I don't think that's going I mean, I don't know.

At the at the same time, is any of this luxurious? Unless you're El Chapo, right? I mean, at one point in time, but besides him, I don't know. I don't know if they cook the same hamburgers in prison, big baby. So maybe he's going to come out looking like. I don't know who's six foot nine and cut up.

Maybe he's going to come out, look like Aaron Judge. Right. Right. No.

Yes. Oh, my God. Get those massive shoulders. He got a thin out some. Well, Sean, a lot of big bait.

Well, no, but no hamburgers and Cheetos. Big baby got 40 months to lose weight. All the best to him. And shout outs to everybody out there holding it down. What a what a bad decision by by big baby Davis, Terrence Williams and some of these other guys. Hey, let's defraud and steal money from our health care plan provided to us by our NBA service.

What a what a genius idea by these guys. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Dave is here from New York on the J.R. sport show. What's up, Dave? Yeah. My man. Yeah. You do me a favor.

Yeah. Can you call up the garden and talk to Bill Dolan for me, my man? You want me to talk to Dolan? I'll need you to talk to Dolan immediately. And you want to know why?

Go ahead. Get Charles Oakley back in the garden. Get him back in the garden. I mean, the enforcers, you got to get him back in the garden, man.

It'd be all come together. You're in Starks. You know, Larry, get him back in the garden for me, man.

Can you do that for me? Well, you later. Well, thank you, Dave, for calling from New York.

No doubt about it. Well, first of all, I don't think Dolan wants to talk to me. I've said some not nice things about him. I don't know if I'd be allowed into Madison Square Garden.

That's first of all. Second, one thing I do know about James Dolan, Jim James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks, is he got he got rabbit ears. And he has quite an ego. I don't know if he's going to be willing to allow Charles Oakley into the building as much crap as they've talked about each other over the past several years. And if you need a reminder, the owner of the New York Knicks had one of his own legends, Charles Oakley, one of the most beloved players in the franchise's history. He had him walked out of Madison Square Garden in a game away from his courtside seat in handcuffs.

And they've been beefing and suing and going back and forth with each other now for years. And so, yeah, the New York Knicks, God bless them with the current run that they're on right now. There's a lot of talent, former players, Latrell Sprewells and Carmelo Anthony's and Marcus Canby's and Starks and Houston's and Johnson's and Walt Clyde Frazier's who have been all, you know, present for the games. But there's been no Charles Oakley.

I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Even for an amazing game like last night, the Knicks beat the Pacers 130 to 121. Rick Carlisle decided to complain and complain and complain some more, but Jalen Brunson was running around on a bum foot. Julius Randle isn't playing. He hasn't played in months with a dislocated, surgically repaired shoulder.

Mitchell Robinson is probably done. He got a busted up ankle. O.G. Ananoby.

O.G. goes ahead and he has a hamstring issue. He won't play tomorrow in Indianapolis.

This is Bogdanovich. They traded for him from Detroit. He got a broken foot. OK, and so the Knicks got a lot of support. A matter of fact, let's listen to busted up foot and he's questionable for tomorrow. Let's listen to Jalen Brunson, who was fifth in MVP voting, talk about all the support that they're getting from the Knicks and the Knicks legends.

Listen. Yeah, having obviously the Knicks legends around is special. And it's really cool to see they come out and show support and it's not just one game. You know, they've been to a lot of games and they're not just sitting there drinking and having some popcorn. They're up yelling, screaming into the game. So it's really cool to see those guys there. And we definitely appreciate it. Speaking of yelling and screaming.

Oh, my God. Rick Carlisle, after the game, just complained about the refs and went on and on. Didn't talk about his team's defense. Didn't talk about the lack of free throw shooting.

They converted 10 to 17 shots. He didn't didn't say, hey, my team is actually healthy. The New York Knicks are everybody's hurt. He complained about the refs and then Rick Carlisle took it a step further. Rick Carlisle wanted to play the the New York card. Rick Carlisle wanted to get into the well, it's the big bad city in New York and we're the small market team and we need help.

We need help. Listen to Rick Carlisle say that a small market teams we deserve some respect to. You know, small market teams deserve an equal shot.

They deserve they deserve a fair shot. No matter where no matter no matter where they're playing. It was reported that Rick Carlisle in the Indiana Pacers sent the NBA video of 78 calls that they found to be incorrect or questionable between game one and game two. And why is he doing all of this complaining?

He's lobbying. OK, by the time they play in Indiana tomorrow, Indianapolis tomorrow, he wants all the calls to go his way. Well, focus in on your own damn team, please. And stop worrying about the Knicks, who are basically the walking wounded and are whooping your ass. I mean, even his players didn't sound like they they care too much for what he had to say.

Listen to T.J. McConnell, who comes off the bench. He's like, look, we just got our asses kicked. Screw the refs. I mean, we love Rick showing that type of energy on the court.

And unfortunate that he got ejected. But that's not the feeling that we have in the locker room. We're not going to sit here and blame officials. We've got to be better.

It's just that simple. They smashed us on the boards again tonight and just brought more energy than we did. So we've got to fix that.

Oh, at least somebody is honest. I hate this idea that the Lakers and the New York Knicks and in the Chicago like they get all these damn calls, right? They get the benefit of the doubt and the big. Maybe they just got the better players like you. The New York Knicks play in the same market as the NBA's headquarters. And so what does that mean?

What does that mean? Hickey, remind me, what have the New York Knicks done for the last, I don't know, 25 years? Nothing. Nothing.

Zip. I mean, if the NBA was so damn influential, wouldn't they just wake up and hand the New York Knicks a trip to the finals every year? I mean, the Los Angeles Lakers, for as good as they are, I think the reason why they're good is because the market that they play in, people want to go play in Los Angeles. It's easy to attract, I don't know, Anthony Davis or LeBron James or I don't know, some guy named Shaq.

It's easy to do. So why are we now playing the victim card? Small markets demand respect. I think Popovich and Tim Duncan, I think that they were OK. Did I miss something? I think the Cavaliers, when they got their hands on LeBron James, I think that they were OK. So Rick Carlisle, man, just shut it. If you want to talk about market disparity and finances, then yes, sure, fine.

We can do that. An NBA, it's just a matter of where do the players want to be? And if nobody wants to wake up and play in Indianapolis, what the hell does that have to do with New York? Because let me guess, for a long time, players didn't want to go to New York either. Rick Carlisle just seems like a whiny, crying baby. Maybe he needs to find another gig. Trying to beat up on the Knicks tomorrow and the team is already hurt. It's just a punk move, if you ask me.

Deflection, deflection, deflection. 855-212-4227. It's 855-212-4227. Ain't no big city bias.

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Anyway, here's an update for you. The Boston Celtics have basically said, screw this game, we're done. We got role players out there right now. Donovan Mitchell is on the bench.

Guys I've never heard of are now on the court. Cleveland leads Boston 114 to 87, a little less than four minutes left in the game. The Cavaliers are going to tie this series up against the Celtics, one all. And maybe this will be the Cavaliers only victory because if the Celtics lose to the Cavs, the Boston Celtics should probably just lead Boston. OK, at least the players, not the team, the players, they should leave.

Anyway, before we went to break. We talked about the New York Knicks and they beat the Pacers last night. And all Rick Carlisle, the head coach of the Pacers, could do is complain about the officiating. He didn't complain about his team's lack of defense. He automatically forgot that the New York Knicks are playing with like five guys who are playing 48 minutes. He didn't realize that Jalen Brunson was missing for about one quarter with a busted foot and that there are a million other important players on the Knicks who are unavailable. But he wanted to complain about the officiating.

Boo hoo. Just say that you sucked and keep it moving. Why are you looking for an additional advantage utilizing the referees? Everything is already in your advantage. You're playing a bunch of bombs right now. The New York Knicks play hard, man.

That's the benefit they play hard. OG Ananobi won't play tomorrow. Busted up hamstring.

What else is new? Another Knick goes down. 855-212-4227. 855-212-4227. Steve is calling from Indiana. You're on the J.R. Sportbreeze show. What's up, Steve? Yeah, how you doing? First time caller.

Really love your show, man. Great. Hey, I've got a question about that Pacer game last night as far as the referees go. During the playoffs, are the referees like in a blackout media bubble where they don't hear any of this media stuff like Carlisle's garbage comment last night? So they're not influenced later on? That's the part about the coach. He is trying to influence. This is what coaches do.

I don't fault them for it, but in this case it's weak. Well, what I'm saying is do the referees after the game when they go back to their hotel or whatever, they're not allowed to watch SportsCenter and all that so they don't hear all these comments and stuff? Do you know? Is that a serious question, Steve?

A serious? Well, that would influence the future games, I would think. That's the whole point. The NBA referees are not locked in a room with bread and water until the next game. They can do whatever the hell they want, yeah. They can read. This is not China. Their internet access and TV is not restricted.

Yeah, they know what's going on. Okay, well I just thought from a fairness sense and all the money involved, I'm just guessing. I don't know. Well, Steve, just by speaking with you, you have such a good and pure heart.

I know you're a good man, but no. When the game is over, the referees can go back to the hotel bar, they can sit down, they can have a beer, and they can watch SportsCenter from the hotel bar just like everybody else. They can go to the airport and then they can watch on the television Rick Carlisle complaining.

And then, when they get to the next city in the hotel, while you know they're getting ready and talking to their wives or their eight girlfriends. I'm sorry, anyway. Hey, one other comment, if I may, about creepy Greg Doyle, the Indianapolis Star and Kaitlyn Clark. Here we go. I thought you were innocent. You're going to tell me about a creepy guy. Go ahead. No, I'm just going to tell you what I heard on the radio a couple of days ago.

The Star Paper has suspended him. Yeah, we talked about that last night. Oh, you knew that? Yeah, I did. Okay, I didn't know that.

I don't know everything, but I think when it comes down to big stories, I think I do. We talked about it, yes. Okay, well I didn't hear it last night. Do you think he should have been suspended? I think he should be fired. Oh, no. Why, for what? For making a poor joke? It was just wrong. Okay. People can't make mistakes? You never made a mistake in your life? Well, I'll tell you, I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt, but then I heard his make-up speech thing, and he didn't really care. Okay, Steve.

Well, he got punished, and he won't be around the team, and everybody will be fine. Are you a Pacers fan? No, I am not. I used to be a Pacers fan when they were in the ABA. Oh, well that's a long time ago. Well, I'm an old dude. So what happened?

Why'd you quit? I knew you were going to ask that. Yeah, logical.

A guy named Larry Bird, I became a Celtics fan. Ah, makes all the sense in the world. Well, thank you, Steve. Appreciate you. Just one last comment.

Another one? Okay, go ahead. If you don't mind. I do mind.

Go ahead. I saw Larry Bird play the Pacers at Market Square Arena. It was a sold-out game, and the whole crowd rooted for the Celtics and Bird, a home Pacers game. That sounds about right. And the Celtics won.

Bird got like 35, something like that. Great game. Hey, thanks for taking my call.

Appreciate it. Have a great night. You as well, Steve.

Thank you for calling from Indiana. Hey, Hickey, how can I be mad at anybody from Indiana when he sounds like Steve? He sounds like a wholesome individual. He's a very nice guy, Steve.

Wholesome. He's like, do the referees on the media blackout? No. These guys are on Twitter after the game, man. What do you think? You think the referees don't know that Rick Carlisle just threw a whole fit?

That they're going to be under additional scrutiny? Like, come on. Everybody knows that.

Except for Steve from Indiana. Remember when Scott Foster a few years ago put that video out to the Jack Harlow beat? Oh, no. What did he do? What did I miss? Oh, you remember that?

No. I think it was two years ago. I think it was the first game of the playoffs for the Celtics. Scott Foster was working the game. They had him miked up, and during one of the breaks, they played it, and it showed him that he's asking, who's that guy over there?

It was Jack Harlow. Oh, yes. Yeah, I did see that video. This is like a holiday game, right? What was that? It was like a holiday game or something. Yeah, and then the next day or so, he recorded a video of him and his other referee crew in the car rapping to the Jack Harlow song.

So, he's on social media. The refs didn't know what people were saying. Yeah, the refs, they're not robots. They got a life. The NBA doesn't, you know, put them in a box when the game is done to keep them impartial. Hell, no. It doesn't work that way, man. The NBA wish it would, but nah, they're human beings.

You can't. That's like when, well, maybe not. That's like when me and Hickey leave the studio, they say, you have to go home and watch sports for like, I don't know, the other, how many more hours in a day besides us? The other 20 hours of a day before you come back so you know everything that's going on. No. When I leave here, I do what the hell I want to do. Not telling me what to do. Do you, when you leave your job, yeah, I'm talking to the people here listening to me. When you leave your job, is your boss telling you what to do?

Hell, no. Tell your boss to kiss your ass. 855-212-4227. Chris is here from Alabama. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Chris? What's good, JR? Good evening, man.

Good evening. Oh, man. I remember a couple weeks back, you were questioning, like, who, if anybody, if like, was a U.F.L. fans exist? No, I know U.F.L. fans exist.

Plenty of them. But go ahead. I'm here to put you on the Saturdays game, man. Okay. It's going to be the spring game of the year. The Battle Hawks versus the undefeated stallions.

The storyline alone, it makes it 10 times more watching. Okay. Is AJ, you're doing a lot of moving around, Chris. You okay? No, I'm fine. No, there's a lot of rustling. Are you talking about AJ McCarron?

Don't he play for one of those teams? Yep. Not interested.

Anything else you got? Come on, man. Come on. Come on, now. I mean, he might not play for the Falcons, but I mean, what is this?

He leaves the front row and leaves the MVP. If I should happen to be inside or outside and walk by a television and it just so happens to be on, I will take a peek. But there is not a damn thing going on this Saturday that is going to implore me to turn on, who is it, the Stallions and the Battle Hawks?

Yes. Game of the Spring. Watch it. Watch it on my behalf. I will be okay if I miss it, okay? Let me, what else you doing Saturday?

Come on. I don't know. Maybe hanging out with my family. I don't know. Maybe cleaning up.

Maybe relaxing. Most Saturdays I'm on WFAN doing radio in New York City. So I think I got some options, Chris. I tried, man.

You'd have to pay me a whole lot of money. But thank you. Appreciate you, okay?

Well, thank you, Chris. Yes. Hickey, he's like, what else am I going to do on a Saturday? What, is he serious? Like, what? I got options.

This is going to be first on my list? Do you think Big Baby Davis, if he was in jail this weekend, is watching the U.F.L.? If he has his hour of TV time, is he saying, you know what, I need the U.F.L. on. Game of the Spring right now. Let's see, everyone else clear out.

Oh, my God. Well, I mean, he might need inspiration for when he gets out, you know, so maybe he wants to play in the U.F.L. What is that, 40 months? Is that three and a half years? Just about? And he's on good behavior.

Maybe he gets out sooner than that, you know? Prove Austin Rivers right? NBA guys can play in the NFL? What Big Baby Davis would be? Oh, an offensive line probably, right?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, man. Look, shout-outs to Alabama. Y'all are right next door. I don't know, maybe if I'm in the right mood, maybe I'll drive out to Alabama and watch the game.

What do they call it? Stallions? Hey, I know y'all are listening out in Birmingham.

I know that there are folks right now who work for the Stallions. Hit me up. I might come out to the game. Hit me up. Depends on what time the game is.

Yeah, I'll consider it. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. Hey, Kaitlyn Clark played basketball tonight.

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You just heard the newsflash from Peter Schwartz. 1-18 to 94. The Cavs go out there and beat Boston.

Embarrassing. The Celtics at home. I mean, you can't win them all.

I get it. Donovan Mitchell has 29. Evan Mobley has 21. Jason Tatum has another crap game. 25 points on 7 of 17 shooting. Jalen Brown also 7 of 17 shooting. He ends up with 19 points. Derek White, who's been lighting it up, averaging more than 20 points a game in the postseason.

He finishes with 10. Boston Celtics, I still feel confident that they're going to walk away winning this series. Mavericks and Thunder, expected to be underway in a few minutes. Luka Doncic is going to go out there and give it a go on his bad wheel.

I still think the Thunder will win this series. Let's get to some of your phone calls, share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history, and then we'll go ahead and wrap things up. You want to talk to me before I go? You want to holler at me before Friday?

855-212-4227. Let's go to Robbie. He's calling from Birmingham. You're on the JR Sportbreeze. Show us up, Robbie.

JR, my man. How we doing? I'm amazing. How are you? I'm good. I'm good, man.

Trying to stay out of this terrible weather we got over here in the Magic City. I was going to tell you, I called in a couple weeks ago, did you ever give the old Book of Manning a watch? Did I do what? Did you ever give the old Book of Manning that show we talked about today? Oh, no. I haven't had time to watch an old movie or documentary, no. Bro, even your co-host was like, you got to see it.

It's good. And here's the thing. It was not a 30 for 30.

I do need to correct him on that. It was an SEC story. You know how they do those things? Robbie, I got to tell you. When it comes down to television, I'm either looking at the news or sports. There isn't too much in between that I'm sitting down and watching. OK, OK, OK. That's fine. I'll give you that.

What else you got? Secondly, man, we talked again. You mentioned about Mike the Tiger the other day. You know, if it was right or wrong, having him on campus. And then we had Leo the Lion up at University North Alabama in Florence, where I'm from.

You know, I played receiver up there. But man, Leo actually passed away last week, man. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Who died? What died?

What? Leo the Lion, man. He was our mascot.

We're the only campus in the nation that has a live lion on it. And yeah, right. Because you know, LSU, they got Mike the Tiger, right? Yeah. And you were talking a couple of weeks ago.

Mike number eight or whatever he is now. Yeah, that's right. That's right. So we got Leo whatever he is.

And so deceased. Well, come on, man. No, that's our mascot.

Oh, come on, man. They'll get a new one. That's what they do, right? Unless Peter writes a letter. I don't think they're going to, man. Word on the water cooler says they're not. And only if, you know, for example, Auburn being a veterinarian school takes one in to do work on it, then they can. Let me let me tell you something. There's not a football program in America that is going to miss their live, living, breathing mascot.

It's just I think the world will go on. That was a huge recruiting tool, man. It was a recruiting tool for us. Did you hear Brian Kelly talk about NIL and saving money?

If you got to use a lion to attract recruits, then y'all are behind the eight ball. OK, you got to start putting money in brown paper bags. Thank you. Right. You have more. Well, yeah, I got one more thing. One more thing. You take too long. I do, man.

Hurry up. I got to give a shout out, given the next one last night. I want to give a shout out to my boy AJ and David of the New York. I always give them a heads up on your show, man.

They always listen. Thanks. So go next, bro. And have a good night. Well, thank you, Robbie. Appreciate you.

No problem. Now his friends, AJ and what's the other guy's name? Robbie. Is that what he said? Hickey, AJ and Robbie? I think so. Yes. He's Robbie AJ. Oh, he's right. I can't keep up.

I don't know why he's being thrown around. I do remember he asked me about the Book of Manning. That's not I'm not thinking about that, man. I like what do people think I'm doing on my off time, which I really have.

Like one guy is going, hey, J.R., what else are you going to do on a Saturday? You going to watch the Birmingham Stallions? No. AJ, are you going to sit down and watch the did you watch the Book of Manning?

No, I think I said this when I am trapped on an airplane somewhere one day and I'm just flipping through and not deciding to go to sleep and be happy that I'm now detached from the world. Maybe I'll pass by the Book of Manning and go, oh, I watched this. But you know what? After you watched I have watched these guys play football their whole lives. I've had to read about them their whole lives. I've had to watch their games. I've watched their good moments, their bad moments. I've watched them be drafted. I've watched them come out of college. I watched Peyton Manning throw what, 28 interceptions? I've seen it all. I'm in no rush to sit down and watch the Book of Manning because I've watched them.

Eventually I'll get to it. Speaking of Peyton Manning throwing what, 28 interceptions in 1998? It's time for us to take a look back in time. It's time for a few things that took place this day in sports history. Let's go back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back. Back, 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. You 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. Hey, let's go back to the year 2010. It's baseball season, right? This day, May 9th, 2010. It also happened to be Mother's Day in 2010. Mother's Day is on Sunday. It's coming up two days from now or something like that.

Just about, anyway. On May 9th in 2010, we're not going to have a lot more of this in the future because the Oakland Athletics are moving. But in that busted up, run down, Coliseum, Dallas Braden threw the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history. The Oakland Athletics beat the Rays, the final score, 4-0. Dallas Braden struck out six batters and he did it on Mother's Day.

I want you to listen to the final, well damn it, the final out. Pennington, he's got it. Throw to first. He did it. He did it. Dallas Braden just threw the perfect game.

Holy cow, he did it. And that's courtesy of Comcast Sportsnet. And then he blew out his shoulder the next year. And God bless Dallas Braden because, well, he's doing broadcasting now. We've had him on the J.R.

Sport Reef show before. So a big shout out to Dallas Braden and what he shared with the world a few years ago. He did this while he was hungover. You know, Mother's Day can be a tough holiday. His mom had to deal with some things and she's no longer here. And he said he was hungover and he went out there and threw a perfect game. Inspiration for you to also be hungover at work.

No problem. Anyway, let's fast forward just a little bit. Let's go to the year 2016. Steph Curry. This man came back from a sprained right knee. He scored an NBA record 17 points in overtime. The Golden State Warriors, they beat the Blazers 132 to 125. Curry finished with 40 points.

When this man gets hot, he gets hot. Listen to TNT. Steph Curry had 11 points in the first half. He now has 35 and has scored all 12 in the overtime period.

High screen comes. Curry. Some ball handling fires up a three.

Does it again. What a win. What a performance. The Warriors with all this talent have the best player in the game right now. Steph Curry delivers a performance for the ages here tonight.

Yeah, unfortunately for him. Well, I mean, they advanced all the way to the finals. They took on some guy named LeBron and the Cavs.

They played seven games and that was pretty much all that she wrote. Man, that dude's 17 points. I've seen Steph. Steph Curry a couple of months ago was here in Atlanta. I've seen him a couple of times. It was overtime against the Hawks. He whooped that ass. It's like, bro, miss a shot like when he's missing, he's missing.

But when he's making, he is unlike any human being that we've ever seen before. Anyway, J.R. sport re show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Damn it. It's about to be over in a little bit.

OK, here's the deal. The Celtics lose tonight against the Cavaliers. The series is tied one all the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks. OK, see, it's trying to go up to 0 tonight against the Mavs tomorrow. The New York Knicks are going to be in action. Let's see if the referees swing the way of the Pacers since Rick Carlisle did all that damn complaining. And then let's see, I don't know what idiot gets in trouble tomorrow or what coach gets fired. I mean, who's going to join Frank Vogel on the unemployment line?

I have no idea. And then if you should be interested, Caitlin Clark played basketball tonight, her preseason debut at home with the Fever. They went against Atlanta 83 to 80. Caitlin Clark had a bad game, 32 minutes, only 12 points, four of 12 shooting. Wow, wow, wow. I think her first preseason game, I think she had 21 points. Yeah, Caitlin Clark getting adjusted. She she can be human, right? And also the biggest story of today.

Not really. Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter. There is a a series being developed by Lionsgate. Now that I can't wait to watch. That's it's going to be scandalous.

I love a good scandal. Picky, you had a good show. You had a good time.

I did. Always a good time. You're going to you're going to go watch Shea Gilgus Alexander now? I am that and Rangers overtime. Busy, busy night ahead. The Rangers need to hurry up and get them the hell up on out of here is due time, isn't it?

Oh, I agree. Let's go out with the canes. Hurricane alert is over. Madison Square Garden jumping, Rangers next, all that good stuff.

Listen, folks, the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. It's done. We'll be back with you tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.

I'm sure we'll have more complaining, more controversy and more firings between now and then. Not you, though. You be safe. You be well. You be cool. The J.R. sport we show here on the Infinity Sports Network is done. Don't move.

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