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And we'll be hanging out with you for the next hour, but we've been here for three. Talking NFL, talking NBA, talking WNBA. Did we talk baseball today? Not yet. I don't think so. Anyway. We got a lot to discuss.

Hey, let me give you an update. The Celtics lead in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, 28 to 18. There's two minutes to go in the first quarter. Luka Doncic has seven points. Kyrie Irving has four. Derek White has six points. Jason Tatum has zero. And Chris Staps Porzingis in his first game back. He has eight points off the bench. OK, Chris Staps Porzingis, I guess that calf is working, right? This man hasn't played basketball in like 40 days.

Hickey, help me out here. In the Bible, was it 40 days and 40 nights? Am I mixing stuff up? You know. No, you got it. In the desert for 40 days. Yeah. So where was Chris Staps?

Rehab? Because I don't think he's in the desert. Not in Boston. He did a dunk. He did a turnaround J over a guy. Oh, he blocked the shot, too.

So this means he's going to be hurt by the third quarter or the fourth. Wow. I don't know that out there, huh? He's like a fireball.

Just going to start out hot and just fade away. Have you seen Chris Staps Porzingis? I have.

I have. Remember when he was with the Knicks? When did he get? What did he do? Getting hurt on the Knicks. What happened to him?

What did he do? He was dunking in Torres ACL. He came down on the dunk.

You want to know why? Because his legs are too long. Not in a suit. Not not built for dunking. It's true.

So does that mean Victor webbing Yama for your pop? You tell him never to dunk again. Your legs are too long. I think he's more athletic than Chris Staps. Oh, OK.

He does those toe stretches. So you're right. Probably. Oh, my God. Yeah, you saw it up close and personal. Oh, my. Yeah, that guy's a freak.

Oh, I saw him warm up. Yeah, he makes no sense. He makes no sense.

Any time Victor webbing Yama comes to town, I'm going to watch that guy. He's a freak. I don't I don't know. Do you know anybody personally? Seven foot four, Hickey. You know anybody that tall? No. Crazy to say. Right.

But now I don't know nobody. That's all either. Seven, four.

Most of the people I know, they max out at like six, ten, six, nine. I guess that's what happens when you work in sports. Porzingis now with 11 points. Oh, my God. He's the missing.

I would call him the missing link, but that sounds too disrespectful for a tall man. OK, good for them. Thirty seven to 20. Jason Kidd, not not ready yet to call a time out anyway. We'll keep you up to date on the game as it continues on.

We got into so much. Talked about the Los Angeles Lakers and in their coaching search, you know, last night things kind of switched up. At first it was J.J. Redick was the guy for the Lakers. And then early this morning it came out that Dan Hurley was the guy for the Los Angeles Lakers. And I want to thank Alan Sliwa from the Lakers radio network for coming through to talk to us about it.

But how about this? Dan Hurley spoke yesterday to Mike Francesca. And before any news became public, Dan Hurley pretty much said, yeah, I would have some interest coaching in the NBA.

And then lo and behold, look what happened. I do aspire. You know, one day if the right NBA situation were to come along, I do aspire to really testing myself.

Oh, really? OK. You'd like you'd like to take a shot at the NBA? I mean, if the right the right situation where an organization wants a tone setter to come in and, you know, instill a culture, you know, young players and an organization that that wants to pursue championships.

Would it have to be in the Northeast with your wife or would she go all over the country? She's the boss. And she's the boss. Gino Ariemma, the other head coach for the Yukon Huskies on the women's side, he pretty much told everybody. He said, look, if Dan Hurley leaves, I can't blame this man. If Danny were to leave and somebody said to me, you know, he just took this NBA job.

I won't name any particular city. I would say, you know, you're set up for failure, but it's the Lakers. But if you're saying, hey, I want a 10 year deal, I want the same deal Brad Stevens got at Boston. It might be more than that. Well, Dan, you know what?

Hey, Andrea's wife might not like me, but it's crazy if he doesn't take it. Yeah. Take the money.

Go to L.A., take the money and move on. Right. It was reported that Dan Hurley spoke to his his team today and told them that, yeah, it's true. I'm talking to the Lakers. The deal isn't done.

And until it is done, business as usual. I think he's going to get the job. Unless his wife says, I don't want to go to L.A. And I mean, if she's from New Jersey. Hickey, am I am I being a jerk by saying if you're from New Jersey, why wouldn't you want to go to L.A.?

I would say you're speaking facts. Mike Trout doesn't want to go back. And if that says I mean, come on now. And this team sucks. That's true.

He's losing. He'd rather play with a guy who hates his job in the Anthony Rendon than go back home. We love New Jersey, right?

We love you love New Jersey. I will not lie. No, I do not.

I do not. You know, come on. Come on.

What are you supposed to say that? Try to be honest here. I like New Jersey except for Newark. They took my car. New Jersey took my car right off the street. I don't have a reason to hate Jersey.

I really don't. You have a reason. Your car got stolen. I didn't get stolen. I got towed, got towed. You're right. My apologies. Got towed.

You should be the one upset. I like the New Yorker Red Bulls. They play in New Jersey. I like the Jets.

What? That's in Newark, isn't it? It is.

It is. Like the Jets in a crap stadium? Yeah, I like the Jets. I don't like the stadium. You know what? I like the Jets, but I don't like them. Does that make sense?

Yes. As a Mets fan, I can absolutely get what you're saying. I love them, but I don't like them. You love them, but you despise them. That's how some people feel about their kids. You know that?

I hope not to know, but I do. I do know why some people feel that way. No, you love them, but you don't like them. That's how some people feel about their kids. I guess the Mets feel like the other Mets kids to you. They could be, right? No, I hope not. Not while my kids be that bad.

Oh, damn. Well, I already told you any of my kids are bad at something. I'm gonna tell them. You suck. You suck.

Go try something else. It's the last baseball game you'll be going to. Yeah, right. Well, we got to be honest about things. You talk about honesty. I got to be. Forget being honest to the listeners or to a sports fan.

I got to be honest with my family, right? How about piano, buddy? Let's try that. Put the baseball bat down. The Boston Celtics ended the first quarter on a 23 to five run. They enter the second. Boston leads 37 to 20.

Yeah. Well, don't got to be baseball. Maybe they're not good at baseball. Maybe they do track and field. Maybe they do piano. Hopscotch. I don't know.

Hickey, I don't know these things. Hey, whatever they like and they enjoy and they're good at. That's all that matters.

Doesn't matter what it is. That's what they say. I think I'll do better than Tom Brady. I think I'm saying I don't know. I thought the roast is over. I guess not. Well, you heard what was roasted. West Walker didn't want any part of it. You heard about that, right?

I did. He was very offended. West Walker said, look, man, I don't need to go to a roast and be reminded of drops.

And they're going to make jokes about his wife and me dropping a ball and my husband can't throw and catch it. The West Walker, he was a smart man. I don't even think he was. Was he even mentioned in the roast? I don't think his name even came up.

No, you're right. He was probably one of the few players that were spared. What a genius. A smart man for not showing up for that nonsense. Speaking of a genius, we heard from from Adam Silver last hour. He said he's not worried about Caitlin Clark. He's trying to figure out all of the the intricacies of the television deal so people can get on there with their lives.

And you know what happens with TNT and Amazon and every place else that they're negotiating with. Of course, he wasn't going to say names. And then he talked about A-Rock because he was asked whether or not Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie would ultimately be the next owners of the Minnesota Timberwolves, replacing or buying out Glenn Taylor. Why?

Because we got major news earlier today when it was reported. That Michael Bloomberg, the 12th wealthiest, I can't even say richest, richest, wealthiest, the 12th guy on earth. That's what Hickey think about this. Think about this right now.

This man goes to sleep at night. There are only 11 people on earth. Who have more more money than him.

They're more valuable financially than him. How does Michael Bloomberg sleep at night? That is that's mind blowing. Do you get you have to get used to it after a while, right?

You just get used to having crap ton of money. And I'm sure he's not, you know, complacent. So I'm sure he's trying to get, you know, climb that ladder from 12 to 10 to five to I mean, I don't know if he's going to be alive long enough to get to number one. But no, no, he won't.

Yeah. One hundred and six billion dollars net worth. That is just and you could buy the whole NBA. Forget buying the wolves. He could buy the entire league himself, put it in his backyard and watch from the comfort of his own home.

These guys play in front of them. So the amount of money that they needed, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie, they needed three hundred million dollars to just pretty much take the controlling stake of the Timberwolves. Well, Michael Bloomberg can just buy the whole team like three, four times over just with what he has underneath his pillow. Not to say that's going to be the case, but Michael Bloomberg is, as you said, Michael Bloomberg could wake up today and buy. Yeah, he could buy everything.

He could. It's ridiculous. And so now that now that they've recruited and this is a genius move, you know, I make a lot of jokes about Alex Rodriguez and how Jennifer Lopez left him. And now she's miserable and how Alex Rodriguez is into himself more than anybody. He's also a steroid cheat.

I got this lined up for days. I don't particularly care for the guy. He hasn't done anything to me personally. I actually think he's an OK guy. He's just very he's interesting, very self-centered, a little too much for me.

This is this is genius. Like Alex Rodriguez years ago tried to purchase the New York Mets. It didn't happen. What did he do? He transitioned into basketball.

He found a buddy. And they said, oh, well, we can we can buy the team little by little starting in 2021. And we know Glenn Taylor basically pulled the plug back in March.

Glenn Taylor, the owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, back in April, he told everybody, especially Fox nine Minneapolis. He says, forget this. I'm keeping the team when I anticipate doing if I can work everything out the way I am planning on is I'll just continue to keep the ownership. I'll have the controlling ownership.

And just keep on running and stuff like that. We have a plan that upon my death, we have a plan of what will happen, but they'll stay in Minnesota and they'll be controlled by my family. Damn. What a way to change your mind. He basically said on deadline day, they didn't come up with the money fast enough.

So forget him. That's what he said. And so Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie have basically they have to go to arbitration. That's what the agreement said.

And they have to figure this out. And so a third party will decide whether or not Alex Rodriguez and Laurie are entitled to buy the team or whether Glenn Taylor will keep it. And it goes beyond that, because even if an arbitrator says, hey, this is now Laurie and a rods team, in addition to Michael Bloomberg, even if even if he's a minority investor, it's chump change.

It's like me investing a penny under my couch, you know, to buy in a house. How much money this man has. Adam Silver basically said it's up to the league owners to vote on this as well. And so why does Alex Rodriguez even want to buy the Timberwolves?

Is he bored? No. Sports teams are ridiculously valuable. Maybe Alex Rodriguez just wants to inflate his net worth.

Why not? Everybody wants money, right? Ironically, this is what Alex Rodriguez told Bloomberg Wealth.

Yes, Bloomberg has multiple channels. This is what he said back in May 2023. One of the guys that I love growing up who's now a friend and a mentor is Magic Johnson. And we often laugh about that. He was a basketball legend and he owns a baseball team with the Dodgers. And I played baseball for so many years.

And I own a basketball team. The truth is, we try to make a run at the Mets and we had a hell of a run. And we came second to Steve Cohen, who's doing an incredible job. And and then we kind of one door shut and this door opened. And Mark and I, my partner, Mark Lorre, we moved very quickly within seven days. We understood all the levers we can pull. We understood that sports was more than just baseball or basketball.

That is this kind of 360 media, entertainment, sports, enterprise. So once we saw the Mets deal that fell apart, we were able to move very quickly, shake hands almost within seven days with Glenn Taylor. And the rest is history.

Hickey, Glenn Taylor, he won a solid team now because he want to be. Well, you know, old people can be stubborn. He's 83 years old. He's a billionaire, too. He ain't no Michael Bloomberg billionaire. I'm going to estimate Glenn Taylor's net worth to be. Four billion dollars. Let me see. OK. OK. Glenn Taylor's a bum.

All right. He's only worth two point eight billion dollars. He's a bum. Wow.

He's a bum. Wow. So that means Bloomberg is 50 times richer than. Wow.

And my goodness. Michael Bloomberg walks into a room and Glenn Taylor says, just clean my shoes. He says, he says, man, go. He says, go get my lunch.

He says, where's my lunch? Yeah. Give me a Dr. Pepper's the second highest rated drink now. What is it behind Coke? Go figure. Michael Bloomberg says, get me a Dr. Pepper. No ice.

I want no ice. Right. Oh, my God. I don't know. You know, I don't. Well, I guess all these guys got egos.

And so Glenn Taylor, instead of saying, oh, they got Mike Bloomberg, let me just exit stage left. I'm sure he's sitting around. Maybe he's digging his feet a little bit deeper into the sand.

I don't know. Or maybe he takes the approach that a lot of people do when he goes, there are so many legalities potentially involved in this. Maybe this goes beyond arbitration.

And if it does, if you've got to be sitting in a courtroom for the next forever. Who's winning a legal battle? Is it Michael Bloomberg or is it Glenn Taylor?

I think the answer is pretty clear. Michael Bloomberg could bleed out anybody in a courtroom, just run up the lawyer bill, bleed them out. This is hilarious.

I love stuff like this. I wonder how Derek. Derek Jeter feels like crap today, does he? Probably right.

Oh, yeah, probably. Derek Jeter had a team, had a piece of a team, was running a team. The owner sucked. And Derek Jeter said, I'm out. And the team still sucks. And now what does Derek Jeter have? Four little girls at home. Is that how many had like four girls? Thanks.

Three or four. He's doing OK. He's doing OK. But he can't.

These two guys can't stand each other. Derek Jeter, he's always winning Derek Jeter. I mean, so far. You know what he had as an executive in baseball, he failed, right? Alex Rodriguez is on the precipice of, you know, maybe maybe winning on this side of things.

It's. At least people like Derek Jeter, I guess that's the positive, I guess, I don't know. Who do you think in a scale of in America, right? More people like Jeter than A-Rod, they're kind of both disliked. That's that's interesting because they definitely are both disliked. But Jeter is so quiet, like if you're not a Yankees fan. Like there's no I guess like you don't see him.

He doesn't do anything. At least A-Rod, like he is personable, whether you believe it's a front or not. Maybe that's that's why you would not like him. Like he like he comes off at least as very relatable, very likable.

A-Rod? I would say so. No likable. I think he again comes across like you could put up a good front and fake it. And I think when he's like the spotlight, I see is it kind of works. He's like Russell Wilson. Oh, that's a good cop.

He's less robotic. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Definitely.

Then Russell Wilson, who I think has just a script in his head of like three things to say. Yeah. Kiss baby.

Say hard work. Shake hand. Broncos country.

Let's ride. Yeah, that's that's probably accurate. Yeah. He's been being reprogrammed as we speak.

Yeah. Well, good luck to A-Rod. Good luck to him.

I think I know for sure in New York, Alex Derek Jeter is loved and Alex Rodriguez, people could care less about. They don't care about this man. Anyway, he might make a lot of money. He got Michael Bloomberg on his side. So God bless him.

Well, Michael Bloomberg in his let me count again, one hundred and six billion dollars. Not too shabby. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. The NFL, they're trying to negotiate a deal to or at least their players association. They're trying not to renegotiate a deal.

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The Boston Celtics lead 58 to 31. There's three minutes to go in the first half. And Joe Missoula is still mad. He's hey, I know that I'm not going to tell you how I know that referee, but I know that referee.

Well, never mind. You'd be careful here if I get in trouble. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Yeah, Joe Missoula is wearing out the referee of one of my friends in Dallas. Maverick's got some work here. Kristaps Porzingis. He's been he's been holding all of this energy.

Thirty eight days. No basketball. Fifteen points off the bench.

Six of eight from the field. Jalen Brown has 13. Tatum has six. And then what's this Porzingis guy? Well, Luca Doncic has 12.

Kyrie has six. And it doesn't matter if you're going to give up like 60 to 70 points in the first half you're cooked. So we'll see what happens. Still plenty of time for the Mavericks to go on a run. And if they don't, that means that I get to take a nap or at least I get to go to sleep earlier. So we'll see what happens. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. You know, before we went to break, we talked about Adam Silver's comments about the Minnesota Timberwolves potential sale.

We told you that Michael Bloomberg has agreed to join the group of Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie to potentially purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves in full. And there's there's a lot of changes in that space. Right.

Well, yesterday we didn't get a chance to get to it, but I wanted to mention this. We know that the NFL is also looking to make some changes, right? The NFL wants to make as much money as possible.

Well, how do they do that? By moving to 18 games, the NFL does that by saying, screw another preseason game. Let's give people more regular season football. And we don't know when it's going to take place and how it's going to happen.

But back at the spring meetings, Roger Goodell said an 18 game schedule. Yeah, it's something that we want to do, but not right away. I wasn't floating something that we're actively thinking about now.

It is something that we think about in the long range context. Again, moving to quality and making sure that we're doing everything possible to to bring our friends what they want. And they want obviously more football. But I'm not sure they want more preseason football.

Man, I could care less. Do I need more football? I was fine with 16 games. I didn't need 17 games. I don't need 18 games.

I don't need 20 games. And I'm good with what it is. You know what? I'd like more than any of this.

And he already said he wanted to do it. Just put the Super Bowl on President's Day weekend. Can we have that? Do you need to give us 18 games in order for us to get there? Push the season back a week.

Come on now. I could tell you who doesn't want 18 games. And it's not all his decision. But Ryan Kelly, all pro center for the Indianapolis Colts. Hopefully he's snapping a football at Anthony Richardson and not Joe Flacco.

He's the player lead for the Players Association. And he pretty much told everybody why he thinks 18 games is not a good idea. If people understood how hard it was to play 16, then they took another one, right? And it's like they get rid of preseason games. Well, OK, well, who's that going to hurt, right?

The guys that don't have a shot, the guys that are undrafted guys or late round guys that need to go out there and improve themselves, right? It's not. And I think that, you know, the fans see it as like they don't watch the preseason games.

Well, they have no idea what goes on inside the building. Right. So, yeah, 18 games sounds great when Roger is standing on the podcast. But until you're the one going out there and put the helmet on for 18 of those games.

Yeah. There's going to be 18 games in an NFL season. It's going to happen.

It doesn't matter how he feels about it. The players, I think I think they're resigned to the fact it doesn't matter if they don't want it. It's a job. What are they going to do? Say, oh, no, I don't want to play in the NFL anymore.

I'm going to leave. No. This is the thing about the NFL. There's always going to be more folks ready and willing to step up. Is everybody going to be making fifty five and thirty five and twenty and twenty five million a year?

No, but they make enough. And the fact is, nobody's going to walk away from the money. And so that's what brings people. Onto the field, the cash, they're going to play 18 games.

It doesn't matter how battered, bruised and busted up that they're going to be. You can expect that change to come. Sooner than later, I'd say in the NFL, the collective bargaining agreement isn't isn't set for. Well, it's locked in place for for many more years. But if they can renegotiate that before then, they're going to do it. They will. And speaking of change, how about this?

I guess this is a positive change. As the NBA finals are going on right now and the Celtics are spanking Dallas. Marco Boletti will give you details in a second. Congratulations to Doris Burke, sitting alongside J.J. Redick, future former head coach of the Lakers, whatever the hell he is, and also Mike Breen. Doris Burke is the first woman to call a championship broadcast on television. That's in any of the major sports. Never happened in hockey. Never happened in baseball. Never happened in the NFL. Never happened in the NBA.

We know Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy are gone. And so Doris Burke, she's done it on the radio, but she's the first woman to call a championship on TV. Good for her.

She was asked about this via sling. And that's what she said. Well, it means first and foremost, I get to sit beside a very good friend and somebody I've known for 30 years, and that's Mike Green. And he's the absolute soundtrack of the NBA finals. He's synonymous with the event. The players love his calls. If you get a bang or a double bang, it's incredible. And then J.J. Redick is our new partner.

And J.J. is so smart and such an extraordinary teammates. I feel really, really lucky to be there. Please know that when Game 1 tips up, I'm going to be incredibly nervous. And I'm going to try to put aside the thought that I'll be the first person on the staff side to do it, because that could be overwhelming.

Hopefully I'm just able to call the game with two incredible teammates and celebrating the game directly in front of us, because I know I'm lucky to be there and I want the audience to come with all of us. Hickey, was that was that beatnik soundtrack necessary? Who the hell edited that OVAD sling?

Who did that? Great question. It sounded terrible. Did they need? They could have just let her speak. It was distracting. They didn't need jazz music underneath that.

What was that about? It was very loud, too. Almost, you know, overshadowed her voice. Yeah. We want to hear Doris Burke talk about being a woman, not here. You know, some hippie jazz music, some bad beats, bad beats.

Marco Balletti, did you enjoy that music? No. Are you enjoying this ass whooping?

No, not even a little bit. I mean, look, the Celtics, you know, live and die by the three and they're knocking down shots. Mavericks have done nothing thus far.

I mean, you figured Boston would come out a little bit cleaner, I thought, in Game 1, and I thought they would handle it somewhat easily. Not this easily. This is they're making mincemeat out of them. They got this. There's another half. Dallas can go on a run. This game's over here. Oh, damn.

Come on, man. Now, it doesn't mean that Hickey is a game over. Game one is over. This series is not over. Game one is over.

I was just going to say that. Game two, don't be surprised if the Mavericks win and this series is far from over. This game, though. Yeah, you could turn out the lights here. OK. All right.

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I take a measly. Charity work? Oh, yeah. Maybe that's why Tyreek is mad. He's asking for a pittance. He only wants five more million. That's it. That's it. Only five more million bucks. That's it.

Tyreek Hill going to be living out on the street any day now. What a guy. Anyway, you know what?

That's that's not funny. Didn't he have a house fire early this year? Yeah, he was living on the street. Damn, look at you. Yeah, I remember these things. I didn't remember that when I said it. I think of another rich athlete, Justin Jefferson.

There you go. He'll be living out on the street any minute now. Thirty five million dollars. How is he going to live when Michael Bloomberg is? How many houses does he have, you think?

Oh, hundred. Residences, I should say. I mean, you got to think with over one hundred billion dollars, I mean, 20 houses, residences. He got so he got multiple places to live in every country, right? You would think he has a house in New York. He has a house in California. He has an apartment in New York. He has a mansion on Long Island. He has a mansion in Massachusetts. He got a mansion in Canada. Probably got a place in Mexico City, maybe a place in Brazil. Has a house in the mountains and in the UK, has a house and an apartment, a loft in London, maybe in Paris, a place in Saudi Arabia.

I mean, it's obnoxious. Can I live somewhere? Can I stay when he's not there? Damn it. He's so rich that anywhere he travels, he would never stay in a hotel because he probably has a house there.

Yeah. He can buy one before he gets there. Who needs Airbnb? Not Mike Bloomberg. Next thing you know, he'll just buy Airbnb. What a guy.

Anyway, yeah, the one hundred and six billion dollars is in my future. But let's take a look at the past. 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.

On the JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Hey, today is June 6th. Congratulations. You made it to June 6th.

But there's a couple of things that you you should know. How about June 6th, 1946? The NBA is founded at the Commodore Hotel in New York. There were only 10 teams. Let's hit the fast forward button. How about 1966? On June 6th, the NFL and the AFL, they merged. Well, right then and there. Yeah, basically, we had the first Super Bowl.

Let's hit the fast forward button some more. Let's go to 1976, June 6th, the Boston Celtics. They won another championship against the Phoenix Suns. This was their third, 13th championship this season.

They're trying to go for number 18. They beat those Suns in six games. The final score, game six, 87 to 80. Thank you to Dave Cowans and Joe, Joe White.

Good for them. As a matter of fact, here's a final call courtesy of CBS. Yeah, that took place in 1976 and here the Celtics are in 2024 trying to pick up number 18. Let's go to June 6th in 2007 as Trevor Hoffman got his 500th save. Okay, he beat the Dodgers. The Padres won five to two.

Let's take a listen courtesy of the Padres radio network, Ted Leitner. Yeah, that took place in 2007. Trevor Hoffman ultimately finished with 601 saves. He went into the Hall of Fame in 2018. Some guy named Mariano Rivera ended up with more saves, 652. Anyway, on this day as well, 2007 June 6th. Shout outs to all the people out in Anaheim because the Ducks, they won the Stanley Cup over Ottawa in five games. The final score was six to two. Here's the final call courtesy of NBC 2007 same day as Trevor Hoffman. Congratulations to them. Also, let's hit the fast forward button. June 6th, 2011, the BCS, they told Southern California USC, your 2004 title is vacant.

Give it back. There was no champion that year. And these Reggie Bush got his Heisman back and also in 2018. On this day, June 6th, LeBron James passed Michael Jordan for the most 30 point games in NBA playoff history. Michael Jordan had 109 30 point games. LeBron currently has one 22. LeBron also has played in more playoff games because he didn't retire.

And then they played seven games in every stupid round of the playoffs. And so LeBron James let him have everything. OK, fine.

I'd still take Michael Jordan over LeBron. Sorry. Anyway, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. It is June 6th. Maybe this is the start of a new championship for the Boston Celtics. And I told you that the NBA started this day, June 6th and 1946.

I got to get this in here before I get out. You probably have heard that that Utah is getting an NHL team. Well, they have pretty much narrowed down the names for Utah's team.

And I actually think some of them are pretty good. Take a listen to this courtesy of Fox 13. All right. We have some very fun developing news today from the NHL. We are one step closer to a new name for Utah's NHL team. Smith Entertainment Group announced today they're opening the second phase in their naming survey. The five hundred twenty thousand fans who voted in round one helped narrow the list down to six options, which we're showing you on the screen.

What do you think? Blizzard, Utah Hockey Club, the Mammoth Outlaws, Venom, Yeti. Utah's NHL team is either going to be called the Blizzard, the Mammoth, the Outlaws, the Venom, the Utah Venom, the Utah Yeti, the Utah Hockey Club. Or Utah HC. What are we doing?

Get Hockey Club and HC the hell up on out of here. Blizzard. Mammoth. Don't do Mammoth.

Too cheesy. I like Venom or Yeti. Is Yeti. Is Yeti.

Hickey. Is Yeti too corny? I like Yeti. That's my number one. Their mascot is going to be the snowman from.

What's that? Frosty the Snowman. Yeah. They have to turn into the Yeti just for the mascot. That would be pretty cool. And you can make the Yeti noise too. Like maybe if the other team like, you know, goes in the penalty box and hear like the Yeti like shriek.

Be pretty cool. I was going to ask you what a Yeti sounds like, but I don't want to hear it. OK. What do you think about Blizzard? I think of the DQ Blizzard, so I don't really like it. Mammoth is too boring, right? I like Mammoth, actually. That'd be my number two. Yeti one. Mammoth two.

I don't hate that. So the mascot is going to be Snuffleupagus. A big ass woolly mammoth on your jersey. That'd be pretty cool.

You can't deny that would look cool. Outlaws is too Vegas-ish. Yeah. You know, Outlaws. Ain't nobody.

AFL team. Yeah. Nobody think about no Outlaws in Utah. The Venom sounds, it's too basic. We got the Diamondbacks. We don't need no more snakes. Yeah, I'd have to say Yeti. The Utah Yetis? Utah Yetis? That does flow.

I know it's not alliteration, but it sort of sounds like it. I'd get a hoodie with the Utah Yetis on it. I would. It'd be a snowman. I'd wear the hell out of it. That'd be cool. It can't be too corny, too campy, can't be too cartoonish.

She has to look pretty violent. Now, what colors would you make the team if you are the Yetis? Right. Because the Yetis white, obviously that's white, blue and give it give us some jazz stuff. White, blue, white, blue, purple. But make it more blue than purple.

Right. And the jazz, the jazz I see are going to be wearing more of their those traditional 90s uniforms. The purple ones, the stock and the Malone, they're going to be wearing more of those uniforms throughout the season. So that's pretty cool. I like the Utah Yetis.

They should go for it. I like it. Anyway, Boston Celtics right now in the third.

Last I looked, there was what, 66 to 48. Yeah, this this game is by the time I get to my house. This game is going to be curtains. Maybe. I mean, a 15, 16 point lead.

They can they can go to work and do it. Hickey, we'll see what happens, right? Anything, right? 16 point lead nowadays is nothing compared to what it used to be. I guess now an 18 point lead. But I would be surprised if we're talking about a close game going to the fourth quarter. Yeah, but now now I got to watch. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

OK, anyway. The JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network is done. Thank you so much to Alan Sliwa for join joining us earlier on in the show from the Lakers Broadcast Network to talk about their coaching. We talked about A-Rod.

We talked about all these quarterbacks and their new systems. And if you missed a minute, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. The JR Sport Reshow will be back tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. But don't go anywhere. Don't leave. I might be done.

But Bart Winkler's coming up next. Thank you so much to super producer and host Ryan Hickey. You have a good night. Be safe. Be well. Be cool.

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