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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports, Greetings, welcome in time to have some fun with you and our team. We're all assembled like the Avengers, standing in a quasi circle, ready to take on the world. On Mike Harmen alongside me, the three time Pro Bowl or the All American himself. It's LaVar Arrington. What up? Happy Father's Day? My brother man back at you? Good? Yeah, yeah, thank you, yeah nice, thank you. Yeah. Wherever you are, however, you are being celebrated this morning. And if you're not, and you're you're still up walking the dog, making pancakes all those that's what you do. You keep the line moving exactly. We're line chefs' line cooks making it done and maybe get done. And we're not the real superstars. Well, I mean it's I think there were a lot more, a lot bigger effort by companies this year than in years past. Why as they're trying to make up for sales they didn't have last year. Especially if you're in any kind of merchandizing that requires people to be out and about, right, you didn't get to do it last year. So now it's like, hey, take dad to his favorite restaurant. Like normally it's hey, by Dad, more grill stuff. Here's another that's cool. I mean, there's only so many gadgets you can fit in the space. But you know what they get used? You use them. I use them. I've got a thing that has a butterball branding to fry a turkey. So I mean, whatever you need, you can find it and branded. That's what we need to figure out. How do we put our branding on a series of cooking implements, seasonings, the whole nine yards, maybe some white label dipping sauces, whatever the case may be. Merchandizers out there, get in touch with us at Swollen Dome, at King of the Mammals on Instagram, because that's what you see the wisdom of LaVar Arrington as well as his efforts at the grille, and again wherever you're at, Hi pop, if you're out there listening out for your morning walk in the hundred forty two degree weather there in Clearwater, Florida, I appreciate you. Hey. Yeah, well, it gets you know, really sticky and human and occasionally you'll go for a walk and find yourself a gator or two along your trail. But you know, hey, life's about adventuring. I could dig it. Yeah, some sometimes some good eats too. I crushed it onto grill yesterday. What what'd you what'd you go to work on yesterday? Uh? It was the normal. You know. My specialty is is ribes. I crushed it. I mean they were my best ones. I've I've I've mastered my sauce. It's a secret sauce. Uh, And I've mastered my technique of how I approached the meats. It's like a it's like a real process. There's there's really a lot to unpack there. And uh, most know that. You know, it's Sunday morning, so there's only so much I can do with what you just put us. We're just gonna raise my glass gear and just say let's let's leave that where it is. Find your wins, baby, Uh we're talking about Yeah. Look, we got some F one action earlier early this morning. We've got the final round of another massive golf tournament. Still waiting to see if there's any kind of fights or anything that will come off of the PGA Tour this time around, and and post match celebrations and well the agony of defeat as it were. We've got full slate of Major League Baseball. We've got a game seven, we got a game one, but yesterday you want to talk about a game, You want to talk about a game like, well, we'll get in and we'll we'll pop in with some activity as the US Open final round gets going to it's just down the road here, so you gotta pay it some love here in southern California. But the game last night between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn nets is is one for the ages. Some great performances, and I want to take the You remember the old ABC's Wide World of Sports and they'd have the montage and the music playing the thrill of victory and then that that terrible tumble down the ski slope the deft and in this case, we're gonna say it like we're in the South Side of Chicago defeat, because that's really what it comes down to. First, the thrill of well victory or at least moving on Creed lots across court, Durant, Carter, Myke Tucker, they buck head of the key turned around. Okay, but one second ago time out books, that's that's two point or a long one. It ties the game one, all nine. There you have it. Obviously the nets radio on the call. Uh, and I was waiting for this browder film and the Hey, how do we zoom in on this? See what I want? Like we always talk about we need sensors on the nose of a football to figure out did you get the first down? I wanted all around the three point arc from now on, like light up buzzers, whatever the cases like, I don't know the die that they say is in a pool if you should have some way to kind of do their thing. Uh. So you know all of that so we we can get a definitive answer, uh the edge. Hey, you know what we're doing. We're we're making people laugh. We're bringing joy to the masses right now. And that's that's the thing they die for. The toe that that touches the three point line from my car right now now. Royce Young, now writing for ESPN UH been out of Oklahoma City for a long time, made sure to point out a story from that says k D actually wears a shoe that's one size bigger than his foot. So the game of inches, he said, yeah, you know, my big gass foot cost me because he was well right on the line. And we're talking waffer thin. Uh that that area where the foot was over and then because we had that, we go into overtime and exhausted k D trying to do everything. This was the last ditch effort. Durant a three pointers straight away, shorted out of bounds Bucks ball with three tips of a second to play. I think on some level you saw the man's soul leave because he'd given everything, so like the last of it went with that shot, and that was the Bucks radio network on the second call. Uh. You know, it was an interesting play as you get down to it. LaVar a lot too. You can break down in the sequencing wide open misses from Joe Harris, the guy that led the NBA in three point effectiveness in the regular season, but his shot the last couple of games definitely off and then he had a wide open look in the waning seconds that well, it was just another clank off the iron, but this one for Durant, got the ball to James Harden and almost with the all right, you gotta do something for me here, yeah, and what did Harden to give it right back? You know? It was one of those games where I think we will all have the storyline of it will all run down the line in the lane of one guy can't do at all. And you're right, I mean he was looking for support. There wasn't too much of a supporting cast. I mean, hart And had had his points. Uh, but it just wasn't a hardened like performance. And and why would it be. You know, he was hobbled. Uh. He made mention of it. You know, the rest of the guys they needed to step up, Mike and they and they didn't. And like you said, let'sten if you're looking at KD to pull the wagon too, you know, you're hitching your your rig to it, like you know, your cargo, your cargo hold. He did a great job of pulling it. But with that being said, you still have to have some effort and some contribution in in a more major way than what the Nets gave last night. It's just one of those unfortunate things because it goes from a series where you think that the Milwaukee Bucks are heading towards getting swept, and if Kyrie Irving doesn't go down with the ankle injury, I think it's very well could have been what happened, you know, and in that situation. Um so, but that's you know, that's sports, and that's why you lace them up, and that's why you go out there, and that's why you compete because you just never know what the tide. Maybe it may change, it may stay the same. You may get steamrolled the way the Sons did. Uh, the Nugge gets or and what's here's what's interesting. And then you look at what happens to Chris Paul and it's like, all right, Chris Paul's shoulders hurting. Uh, maybe this is the one time that you know, again that again time where we say because they didn't have Chris Paul, because Chris Paul was injured, you don't win the series. He gets himself together, he comes back, they win the series, and then they steam roll the Nuggets. So you know, Mike, it can go either way sometimes. And you watched a resilient Kevin Durant try to pull them through. Um, but it just wasn't it just wasn't enough. Joannice played heck of a game. Middleton played a heck of a game. P J. Tucker is is such an unsung hero for this this Milwaukee Bucks team. Your your guy from Campbell Hall, you know, Drew Holidays is playing some some really fine basketball as well. I think it's going to be whoever they end up meeting in the conference finals. I look at it like, you know what, all things given, the Milwaukee Bucks aren't their opportunity to try to make it to the finals for the first time. Will do a little Philly Atlanta coming up a little later. But yeah, to your point, Uh, look, only eleven players scored in this game. That's the fewest in any game since the merger. Uh regular season or postseason, according to stats. Uh so that's that's kind of a big deal. Uh. You mentioned the Denver oust and we watched Utah. It's funny you win an award and you go home. I forget who it was on Twitter. I'd like to give him credit, but uh, Yokich four straight after getting his m v P plaque. Uh, he was back in he was back in the salt because he liked his defensive So both of those guys get their awards in a way they go as well. But uh, it's a couple of other quick stats k D in the overtime because this is where the Bucks. You got to celebrate them a bit for what they were able to do here. Uh. Oh, for six oh for one, zero points in the overtime. Uh, six to your final in overtime. So not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing, but when you've got guys long and fifty plus minutes, uh, that's bound to happen. Tired legs, bad passes. There were a few turnovers from James Harden where I thought Kevin Durant was gonna run back and just start screaming at him. It's like, I like your idea. The execution has got to be better. I'm kind of open, but not with the chest pass necessarily each time. A couple of times it worked beautifully. A couple of others, uh, not so much. And the Bucks defensively, I mean that was just a next level execution down the stretch. The crowd still counting off Janice's free throws. After a while he started hitting them. As you mentioned, forty boards. He did go eight of fourteen from the free throw line. Yeah. The only video you're gonna see are of the the two air balls, and there was one shot of James Harden just with shaking his head and looking at the referee like are we are you kidding me? It's like we're here all day so just a crazy game, but one that united all NBA fans. You want to talk about, uh, the blowing up social media back and forth with the runs that you had, and then watching Durant finish off with another forty eight point performance nine boards, six assists, a guy that we all wondered and I think rightly so with the injury that he sustained, where and how he'd get back into the fray and what did you have? The argument once again and well there's the best player in the world, Janice said it once again. Uh. And in the post game, LaVar I think the best comment of them all guys saying, Wow, you really left it all out there. Do you take some consolation that he looked at him, he goes cares you know Katie's Katie's He's a different Yeah, he's a good one though. He's a good egg man. Listen, I know k D pretty well. Um, he used to come into my restaurant all the time. We used to have great times talking. Um. He's a pretty cerebral dude, man, and he just he trying to shoots it straight. You know, he's one of those guys kind of a non you know, no nonsense type of guy. Um. So, yeah, that's a Katie like response, just you know, stay off the burner accounts. Other than that, like you know, it's the punching down thing that we talked about even we didn't know. You don't let people find out that you have them. That's you could have the burner accounts. I mean, you know you got CIA agents, you got d e A. You know, you've got all kinds of different in right, why not right? So he could have his own intelligence gathered, you know. But but the whole point of it is is that you don't let people know and figure out that you have burner accounts because all it does is open up to being assailed by hot take nonsense on a day to day basis. We look forward to bringing you some of that over the course and today Welcome in. It's Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Carmen alongside LaVar Arrington celebrating a fantastic game and celebrating Father's Day. Wherever you are, raise my oversized cup of coffee to you, the first of many this morning from the Fox Sports Radio studios. You can get in touch with the show at Swollen Dome at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Look, we're gonna celebrate some of those moments that we've shared the father figures in our lives and invite you to do the same. We'll read some of them over the airwaves, you know, sporting moments, concerts, random dad teaching, teachable moment, Grandpa, uncle's, uh, moms, whoever fills that role in your life. Let's celebrate them today. Let's have some fun. We got a lot of sports on the docket, and we got one that gets a little bit uncomfortable. It's Cole Beasley, Joe Mixing and what the NFL p A may or may not have done correctly in this situation. We'll talk about that next year on Fox. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live now. I absolutely love this coming back Chris Perfett on the Ones and twos because when I think of my dad and our love of film, most of our heist films that bring us together. As a former police officer, this is The Departed. Yeah, so you run lines right of all these movies from Reservoir Dogs to uh Copland, which holds a special place and uh, some of the stuff we've done through the years. So yeah, anytime you hear the opening of this, it's either I think of that good thing, I want to go fight. So I just a matter of mood today, you know, in the more sentimental kind of phase, at least for the moment. Are you. I thought you were just being really really uh edgy and risk today. No, I mean off the jump, but I didn't sleep very well, LaVar. I'm gonna be real honest. I'm gonna tell you all America. Uh, you know, the brain starts going on a million things you want to do, right, It's it's kind of the Hamilton's thing. Why do you write well like you're running out of time? You know, there's a million things I haven't done. Just you wait, all those kind of lines running through. So I'm making notes. I'm making all these these boards of what I want to build because football's common body. You and I have grand plans for a takeover of epic proportions. I know you're doing a couple of shows this week with Jonas Knox getting up with the wee wee hours of the morning, so uh, you'll rally here on Fox Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app wherever you're listening nationwide, you'll hear a few more a three hour blocks of LaVar getting Loose with Jonas Knox tomorrow and Tuesday, and then of course up on Game ten a m. Until noon every Saturday alongside t J. Hush Man Zada and Flaxco Burris. How about it. See we get all the plugs in. I think that's it. That's what that's what we do. You know you do this on on the daily. I love it. Microphone freedom and and everything that comes with You got a good team assembled that that are ready to dominate the ear holes of America. It's a beautiful thing. You know. It's only work if you make it work. Yeah, I mean looking and the fact that we're in the latter part of June now and there are so many glorious stories that are floating about. It's a rarity like this is normally the time of year where things are drifting right. The NBA Finals are usually wrapping up, and you've got a couple of days, then you have the Draft, and then you have a couple of weeks where it's baseball because the Stanley Final is normally done by this point, and you have a couple of weeks that are that are not quite dry, but we focus on baseball. It's like here we are. Now, we're at that point. We're really looking at all, right, who's got a legitimate contender, trade deadlines, superstars of the first half, what have we been talking about? And we'll get into it as we roll spin rate and foreign substances and all of those kind of things, and and pictures about the injuries that they attribute to such and so on. So you've got that mess, and then we we have a couple of weeks all Star break, and then we get into training camp and fantasy football content. We came through a pandemic. I was gonna saying we had four months where we had no sports. So it was like, you know, this is like, you know, we have no ankle weights on, nobody weights on. It's just n yeah, I mean, it's you know, I like him it the other day to being in the on deck circle with the old donuts as you're swinging the bat getting ready and then you flip those off and away you go, you know, or you're running with a fast whatever you're doing, and feeling that much more vigorous and free. So one of the things that is certainly it had been in the news the past weekend, and something you know, I think near and dear to you as well as you know you've got a son playing sports, your daughters are playing sports. You you played in the National Football League, of course, and the NFL p A and being called the task Cole Beasley doing a lot of ranting and his social media sphere about the policies adopted for this upcoming year between the PA and the National Football League, most of which are really the same as last year. It's just now that if you're vaccinated, well you have some more freedoms, just like the rest of society. And for Beasley is like, well, I may have to retire if this is the case. Like, well, you're a good player. You had a good run. No, I just I just gotta call it what it is, right, he had a good decade. Yes, you beat the odds, because he tried to say, hey, I beat the odds to be in the league. I can beat this Like no, no, no no, that's not the point. You're you're missing the whole point of this exercise here as to what they agreed to in terms of trying to get another season off without a hilt, you know, without a hitch to it, without any kind of problems. And we talked about it about a month ago on this show levard the coaches and that being a somewhat of an impediment, right because they weren't gonna be allowed to be on the field and they were gonna be some restrictions. And now it comes out for the players, well, here's what happens. And there's been a lot of talk that Buffalo was in particular having some issues with guys, you know, getting to the to the forefront of saying all right, let's get to a threshold, as they did major League Baseball and in the end, but the way they've drawn it up now, it's like, all right, are you going to have multiple hotels for players? How are how are you monitoring? There's there's a bunch of the details and I'm like, all right, what's the administrative of this beyond Hey, we we have daily checks for you still and you still have daily testing. But the p A. It's always been a curiosity for me as to how information gets disseminated, how well, how poorly, and whether everybody's ideas and thoughts, like it comes to a vote in the end, but how well that gets disseminated, and how much different it is team to team. Well, you know, the larger groups that have you representation, you know, no one is always going to be on the on the same page. You're not going to make everybody happy. Um, so you got to try to figure out where's the best place to say, Okay, we can't push this or go any further, or the just the amount of sensibility that goes into uh what what the conclusions are? I think, you know, for all the criticisms that go towards the NFL p A, I still think that there are a lot of fine guys that are representing um, that that group and that body, and and there are a ton of really really great things that comes from the p A. I think this is one of those hard topics, Mike. I mean, there's there's you know, there's so many ways to try to go about handling it, and so many so many directions it can go into. This is one of those ones where you gotta almost say, here's the approach unless narrow the focus to this being the approach of how we're going to handle it. And it comes down to philosophies, It comes down to belief systems, it comes down to ideologies, and and we all know that those are going to differ by by different you know, different people. So I mean, listen, I don't know what the right answer is for the whole way of of approaching um, you know, the coronavirus situation and and the vaccinations. But I do know this, we haven't heard very very very much. I mean, the intensity level of the coverage of of this topic, like we just mentioned earlier in the segment, was off the charts in terms of what you knew about the and that maybe not knew about the coronavirus, but the coverage and what you were being told, the information being disseminated, and now it's all but like kind of died down and you're not hearing much. So the whole Chris Paul thing comes up, and that pops up, and then it's like, oh, yeah, here's the reminder, like we had a short memory here, but we are still dealing with the effects of corona, the virus, and even though we're not hearing these astronomical numbers being reported and people having you know, hospital bits and rooms set up in parking lots and parking decks and stuff like that going on now or maybe it still is. I don't know, it's just not being discussed as much. So it's just like when you hear these topics come up, it's such a big issue that you're going to have people that have really really strongline beliefs in how they want to approach it. Well, because the other other prong of this was the Lebron James commentary, well, I mean just just from a hey, well, a bunch of guys got hurt because of the way we had to handle our seasons and everything else, which I don't doubt that the strain on the body was certainly there, but most of the injuries, especially when he started talking about All Stars, could be attributed to fluke circumstance, the Kyrie irving, you know, ankle being bent to a ninety degree ankle. That that's that's not coronavirus and pandemic scheduling related and at any any way, shape or form. Now, Chris Paul, the fact that everybody suddenly got really quiet. He's in protocol, like even Monty Williams and his latest presser. He's in protocol, that's all I'm gonna say. Well, you're one of the heads of the p A, and so now there's just the question of what you were preaching versus your individual choice and and what the league was trying to do. And you know, one of those things is what what It's the old adage your best ability is your available ay uh and injury or covid uh he's not available. Circle back to this in in just a moment to expand just from the the p A side, you know, at least from my my layman's uh outside looking in kind of understanding and and Lavark had set me straight. But first we're gonna go over to Isaac Lowan Crown, who's gonna give us an update on the US Open and all other things sports. Indeed, and everyone's still buzzing about the drama Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals last night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets in overtime of Game seven, tied at one eleven. Marvelous give us some t NT four to five seconds left overton ten on the shot clock study for Chris Fell that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, and in the final seconds. It was Brooklyn's ball and Kevin Durant's ball. Dreant for three tops up with for air ball with three texts on the second Romania for Milwaukee bucks Brookie one elevel week. They would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven over Brooklyn. Despite Durants forty eight points, nine abounds in six assist he played all fifty three minutes. Janis Antea Kompo scored forty points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two, tying the series at two wins apiece. And we've got a three way tie for the lead going to the final rot of the US Open today at Tory Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Haysen. At five under par overall, Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo two shots back at three under par overall. Michael and LaVar speaking of marvelous back to you guys, I was a little nervous as to what the call was going to be because people had been ultra critical of marved in big moments and I was having a blank. He didn't mess that one up, did because he'd misidentified some players. So it wasn't a yes. Oh wait, it was an air mall. And you know what that could have been. If the Eastern Conference Finals do not go seven games, that could have been the final game seven that Marv Albert has called in his legendary career. Last night, how about that? See there you go at Isaac lowan crowd where you find him on Twitter? Find me over at Swollen domell. Yeah, find my guy LaVar over at on Instagram at King of the Mammals, Yeah, Swollen Dome for me there as well. Just to continue, uh Beasley mixing. There's been a few others who who piped up a little bit on social media, and there's always chirping about the p A and one of the things to me that that stands out his football is a different animal in all this one. Contracts aren't guaranteed. Now some of the guys are getting more guaranteed money. Uh, You're starting to see a little bit of a trend that way. But you just have such a wide stratosphere, you know, stratification, I guess is the right way to say it, of players where they are on the continuum when you've got such a small window short careers, right, the average being what three and a quarter years or whatever. The last data point was that they put up guys that are fringe players. Cup of coffee, and it looks all professionals, and you know, I tip my cap to all all guys that that make make that level right, keep grinding, keep hustling, showing up at camps the following year to another team and hustling and trying to get uh their shot right because a lot of time scheme fit as we know. But you talk about the money being made by a quarterback and your upper echelon players at insert position here, and the rest of a squad and made up of undrafted guys or guys that are kind of moving team to team and they fit a need here for a year and and push along that. The economics of what they're dealing with, family structure, etcetera. Really doesn't allow for a lot of like minded thinking in some of these areas. Again, I take it all make the same amount of money and they're still going to have disagreements. You know, I've I've been in meetings where you're trying to find you know, solutions with with guys. And I mean, if you really think about it, if you are in the league, you should not be mentioning financially like it's it's hardship or anything like that, because in in real terms, you know, everybody is is making good enough money to make you know, solid decisions, Like if you're making it based off of the guy who's making fifteen forty million a year, I get that, but that's the extreme. You know, if you're down in the upwards of three or four d grand a year for your services, you know you should be trying to figure out the best ways to move forward and not you know, not lose sight of that. Well but but that but but yeah, I mean that that was more the point of the guys on the lower end, right and playing for league minimum or or just above there. There's the idea that you've only got the small window, right because you didn't get the big signing bonus. Your your considerations are a little different, right, so you might give up something what is that considered? You know what I mean? Like I'm just saying, like, if you're gonna be in that all right, the just say you're at the average, right, that's a good amount of money minus tax, monust agency and I'm not trivia, and then certainly it's it's still a lot of money compared to the the rest of the world. And I think that that's what gets lost sometimes. That's the point I'm trying to make, is like what gets lost in this is it's like, oh, this is altering my way of life for this that I have a small window data that you're making three four four hundred per season, So even if you only make one to two season, and if you're if you're living the way you were living before you were making that that league minimum salary. I don't know what it is at this point, but I mean, if you're making that while you're playing, I think your focus it's just should be on how can you maximize the amount of years, you know, amount of checks that you can get, not not going crazy over situational things like health protocols. That's that's well said and the smart way to approach. But as we know, well as we know, you're gonna have your issues. Everybody's gonna have their reasons to say what they want to say and do it how they want to do it. But with that being said, it kind of goes back to how you presented it in the first place. It's like Cole Beasley, like, aren't you like the poor man version of the West Welkers at Edelman's and even the a Mondolas And you know, it's like, aren't you the poor man's version of that? Like it's just kind of like it depends on who it's coming from. If it's coming from somebody, it makes sense, then you're going to like kind of put a little bit more into it. But it's like if you don't want to deal with it, Cole, keeping you here, plenty of wide receivers in camps and thanks, I'll take the extra reps right next man. It's next man up in every other circumstance. And and it goes back to the basic tenant that I remind folks kind of like the the First Amendment when folks start throwing that out liberally and I didn't mean that as a liberal or conservative thing, just liberally as in a lot is you have the freedom to say what you want. Just remember that there are consequences for it, and your employer could take umbradge with what you're doing. And in the NFL it's a private business. If these are the rules that have been established and apociated, then that's it. Yeah. I mean to take it or leave it as uh. You know, Kevin Durant said earlier, I did the who cares line. The other was if you don't like it, don't watch. In this case, if you don't like it, you know, go go find some of stiff. It's it's a new world order. Uh. And they're trying to get fans back in at a hundred percent capacity, a lot of revenue to be made up, no question about it. The league minimum, because you know I do my own quick research here six d sixty dollars and that's what you know. Well, that means it's escalated quite a bit in the last few years. We'll have to go back and look at the evolution of that, because I remembered it in the four hundreds of myself. If you're making six grand a year at the league minimum, things like protocols and stuff like that, you know, I would just say you have bigger fish to fry, you know. I'm like, if it's something that could give you benefits moving forward, like if something were to have happened to you or just that and other I get it. But if you're saying, oh, I'm not taking the vaccination, I'll retire before I take the vaccination. Next man up, he's LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Buy me over at small and don't be listening to Fox Sports Sunday Here on Fox Sports Radio and coming up next we'll take a little trip down memory lane, commemorate, uh, the dad's in our lives and what what they've done and sacrifice and the sporting concert, whatever big memory you wanna throw out here on Fox Sports Radio. Give us a line at Smallen Dome. That's coming up next year on Fox. One of the greatest little parts to a piece of music ever on the podcast you won't hear at but Bell Biv Devout Poison. That was our stinger for years on the Fantasy Football program Here on Fox Sports Radio to say, hey, we got some breaking news. I think we'll use it again this fall, although you and I will probably start singing and we'll never actually get to the news. But that's okay. Mike Carmen alongside the All American himself, three time pro bowler. It's LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day, everybody. We'll get to our our memories and moments in just a second, but reminded first, we're brought to you by Discover. Discover matches all the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year. And that's amazing because discovers accepted. Get this pent of places in the US that take credit cards. Learn more at discovered dot com slash Yes based on Nilson Report. Limitations do apply, alright, so I'll leave this off. We're gonna bring in the crew as they want to share or mock me. Uh. One of the great moments of uh, well, you dad worked a lot, right, trying to hustle keep us in uh, you know, the Catholic grade schools and then to our our efforts at saying ignacious in Chicago, and so hustling a bunch, and there were times you're playing whatever sport like I would be really cool if he could have seen that as I, you know, just danced into the backfield and took down another quarterback. Uh. But there there was a time where I got under the pile and LaVar. I know you could speak to this in graphic detail, but we'll save it for a chapter of a book of what happens in the pile. And I got well ripped pretty bad and my knee went the absolute wrong way. The kid even apologized, saying coach said to do this, which is always great. But I'm laying there like a sack of potatoes, and that I was hurled over the shoulder by my dad, who had figured out a way to switch up lunch schedules with the police department to come watch said game. And well, you know one of those that evidently he was always there in some way, shape or form. Ah, you just didn't know it until you got hurt and had to be carried off. So there, there's my There there's my memory. It's either that or watching people drunkenly in a parking lot at the Chicago Stadium yelling beat Boston in the pre Jordan days and potential fights in the parking lot, But we'll save that for another time. How about you, any anything that comes to mind? I think a super cool memory that I I have of my dad is when when I started playing ball, Um I was I was very emotionally charged. I know, if anybody knows my game has ever saw me play, they know I'm I played with um a ton of passion, a ton of emotion, and and so one of the things that my dad used to do before games, even like when I I think I had a moment where I had like maybe like a small minor um kind of a panic attack before a game when I was younger, and you know, he pointed to it his temples. You know, he pointed both point our fingers, He pointed to his head, like keep your head. You know, it's like, calm down, You're okay, It's gonna be all right. And it became our thing. So every game that that we would play, I would look. The first thing I would do is identify where my mom and dad was. And my dad would always point to his his temples every single game, all the way up until in fact, my rookie year was a struggle for me because my parents weren't at all of the games my rookie year. I ended up moving them to Washington and they were able to come to all of the home games at least, and they there. It is I find my dad no matter how far away they were, I find him and until the end of our our you know, till the end of my career, he would always point to his temples, you know, like keep your head, like have a good time, like play smart, you know, and and that was our thing. Like and I knew I was ready to go when I saw him do it, I knew I was ready to go. Mike. See, we we all talk about superstition and and all the rituals that you have. We'll get the rest of the crew in as we continue here on Fox Sports Sunday. Because you know, the timekeepers, the time variance Authority, uh tells me that we're we're up against it. No, no, no, but I'm sorry. I gave those props to my pop. Oh no, there's no there's no apologies. You know we we we we are storytellers. That's what we do. And uh, off the clock, Well they can start to go. Uh no question about it at LaVar Arrington on Twitter. But find him more at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Coming up next, we'll talk about the playoffs. Are you still hate watching? Who's the next villain? And Tyler? Come on, man, really, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fired with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book, and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Great Eggs Welcome in our or two of the program Here Fox Sports Sunday Mike Carmen alongside the all American himself, my guy, LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day to you, my my good friend. Yeah, back at you and everybody else that our fathers out there. Happy Happy Father's Day to y'all on the grind. Maybe you got a little extra sleep today before the normal responsibilities kick in. Wherever you're at however you're listening, thanks for being part of the extended family here at Fox Sports Radio. We do appreciate you all out there. If you're on the roads, be safe because they're getting crowded again and people are driving like fools. Uh saw a couple of remnants of accidents on the way in to the studio this morning. Hopefully everybody walked away unscathed. I just had to avoid all the pieces of plastic and glass that were left behind from whatever happened on the overnight. I'll check the scanner Twitter accounts here a little bit later as well, and doome where you find me at King of the Mammals where you find LaVar on Instagram. Coming up later on this hour, we'll do some more Father's Day memories and and stories with the crew, and of course, in about forty minutes from now, we'll go off the rails with our guy Isaac Lowan crime. But a couple of things for the NBA playoffs, LaVar the first of with the Brooklyn Nets going down and Lebron James long home. The only thing right now any any hate watching for Lebron is every time there's a space Jam commercial, which seemed to come in Rapid Fire. Yeah, yeah, at rapid Succession. Here's the thing that they're they've got like two or three cuts. You gotta give me more cuts. May maybe not that you want to give away all the movie, but uh, the same commercial running over and over again. I guess repetition works in advertising. There's what that that school of thought. The other is what are you doing to me? It's like when you're they used to preview the uh, you know, the next drama that they really wanted you to watch every commercial block and then even the live read coming back. You'd have Marv Albert, Hey, we're in the third quarter reminder Thursdays on TND, you know, coming up this new whatever it was. I remember when Claus was debuting now going into its final season with Dean Norris and and the crew there. But we we don't have the necessarily the hate watching element to the US of super teams and superstars that you have some aversion to because of the team up factor, overexposure, um, threatening of legacies when whatever the reason, maybe Brooklyn going down yesterday, it kind of deprives people of that that part of the equation because you got Phoenix. I don't know that it does only for the simple fact that if if they would have won, if they would have won it all, it would have been more of a miracle because they just the the circumstances surrounding the season for the Brooklyn Nets. Uh, it just would have been something that we have never seen before. And and so when I look at the Nets coming up short, I mean, you should have anticipated that they would come up short, even if this series wasn't the series that they came up short in not. With that being said, before Kyrie Irving goes down, I think a lot of people would say that, well, that was likely to happen, that that they could win it all. We're gonna runs were well, And I think that that would have been logical and sensible to think that it possibly could have if all of them had gotten healthy and we're able to stay on the court, which is the start of the playoffs thirty seconds and that was right, and and then that was it. So um, I think that this is a trend that will become the new norm um just because the way guys communicate, Like when I was coming up, we knew of one another, we didn't know each other, you know, And I think that that is the tremendously different aspect of all of this moving forward in sports as a whole. I mean, you know, we don't talk about this as it applies to other sports like baseball or hockey or soccer, but I'm sure goes on and no doubt, I mean, basketball just seems to be the different, different path as it were, just because guys play a U ball together. They do each other through the draft process, right going to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and whatever other camps, whether they're training in the off season, pick up games and the like. It's it's to me and you're right, that's that's what becomes very prominent when you think about, um, what what what the NBA does and how how it's represented. So I don't I just feel like when I think about the NBA and super teams and stuff like that, they have always been super teams. Well yeah, I don't get to go all the way back to the Lakers right when when the base was there and says right like even going all the way back to Kareem showing up, That's what I'm saying. You had like like James Worthy was like we never talked about James Worthy being like one of the best players, if not the best player on the team, you know, and and people was like, well what about Magic, what about Kareem? You take away James Worthy, like and and and and listen. I know a lot of people may not remember that far back, but James Worthy is one of the dopest basketball players that I've ever seen play ever. And and that goes all the way back to college when he was the dude on the team. I had Sam Perkins and oh yes, Michael Jordan's yeah right, sleepy yeah. So it's like, for me, there have always been super teams. I think what what has happened now is that it has become so prevalent as to what the relationships are between these guys creating these super teams and seeing it play out on social media like Herring dudes talk about you know who was that Carmelo is talking about how Lebron saved him, Like, no, they didn't play on the same team. But but just understanding that these guys become friends literally while they're eight, nine years old, ten years old, and they are friends, and they are are around each other, and they're connected through social media through their entire career, and so now that turns into we have money, so we're renting you know, private yachts or or maybe even owning them. Yeah, oh jeez. Uh and then the yeah, you know, I had an experience with a banana boat. We'll we'll broach that another time. But uh, you know that's that's uh that you know. I just think that now it's easier to create the lines of connection and say, Okay, this wasn't a GM d A. And I think that that's what has made this such a big thing, the whole super team situation is it's not the GM's that are dictating these moves by the teams. And that's just something historically that we have not you know, we have not seen we have not seen players dictate other players coming to play for teams or not wanting to play for teams and different things like that. Like I mean Lebron got people to come to Cleveland, man like Cleveland. Well, I think that's the biggest piece of all of this, right is player agency recognizing the other revenue streams are, in a lot of cases for the Superstars greater than even the most exorbitative contracts. Right when you talk about shoot deals, and the multi media opportunities that are out there. I mean, we talked about Kevin Durant. We went into him, you know, the the guy right a little bit last hour, and one of the reasons and things he loved about Golden State was going and picking the brains of all the Silicon Valley people. And we talked about some of the big investments he's making, uh in different forms, and one of them was in the whole collectibles business, recognizing the value and sentimental worth and and where it's just another line of toys more or less for folks with money when you start playing in the upper echelon of cards, autographs and all of those things. So why not go and learn and just go back to a team saying all right, I think I want to come here. How do we make the money work? How do we make the situation work? Sit me down with Steph Curry. He's got Holy moldy and and people can laugh about it. It does ratings. And they're in a third season already, all right, So, I mean, and executive producing films. We know Lebron and Russell Westbrook have movies in in process, not just Space Jam, but other things that their development companies are doing. So it's part of it is recognizing that one you can make that money anywhere, but too where where can you go where your happiest? And people want to work with their friends, right We want to work with people we we get to know and we're comfortable with. And if you you know, have a moment, you can yell at them and they recognize that it's all in love for the betterment of the product, and they don't take it personally right And and that's one of the things I think that is the appeal for for what's going on in that respect right now is all right, I can get after you and we come back after the next time. I was like, okay, cool, you know, not not you. I mean I was talking about are universal you? But but in all business right there, that's certainly you want to be around people you're comfortable with. But to that end, it's it's just one of those things for those that wanted to see it fail, whether they did, but it's round two. You you didn't get to see it on the biggest stage. So maybe if you feel like you were cheated in that regard, or maybe you had a long term that on the nets that you were hoping to cash. Now continuing in the playoffs, LaVar, here's one that I think it's kind of entertaining. And well, if you're from a city that has multiple teams in any sport, you'll understand why this is problematic. Just seeing our fans and how they stay till the end and how they would cheer, and um, it just you know, it just felt good. It was a great feeling, you know. And uh, like I said, a team in starving for some success, the fan base has been doing the same thing, and you know, um to me, I just you know, I always look at it differently, Like, you know, I know the Lakers are out and there's a lot of Laker fans here, but once the Lakers are gone, if we're not playing the Laborers, you should be cheering for the Clippers. And that's just how I feel because all one city and I can just feel to love and you know, I'm just very happy and proud of our guys. Yeah I don't agree with that. Yeah, as a kid from Chicago that wears an awful lot of white Sox merch and represents the hashtag change the game wherever I can. Yeah, no it, you know, I had to be on air while the Cubs were winning the World Series. And you want to talk about hard professional experiences, that might be one of them. Uh, but I did so professionally because you know, broadcast professional and everything. But I look, I get where he's coming from with hey, jump on board with us a little bit. I mean, great statistic twelve and one as a coach when his team's got a chance to win a playoff series and we talk about the adjustments coming back from down to vanquish the Jazz and really have a lot of people call into question the prowess and the reality of what Rudy Gilbert is. But that's a story for another conversation here. But for ty Louis's he's calling on Laker fans, and I can tell you all the Laker fans I know, I don't think they've ever taken to social media or two group text faster than to blast that comment. Yeah. Again, I get where he's coming from. And you know, that's it's so funny because that I was talking to coaching staff, uh, where my son is going to attend high school next year, and one of the coaches had a a Lakers mug. Lakers clipboard, uh Lakers mask Like. I was like, yeah, like the Lakers. He was like, well, you're forced to choose around here, you know, that's how things work. And you know that's how people work, you know, by pocket and pocket of areas. You know, from all the way to the heart of l A to all of the neighboring cities and the sea cities that are on the outskirts, and all the way through. It's like, you choose even if it And and here's the thing I think the cool thing about living here that I've learned is there there are certain things that because of the way things have worked out, like football had left l A. But if if you are in l A person and there is an l A based team like the Dodgers or the Lakers, or the Clippers, you know, or the you know, uh, you know, the Kings, then it's like, well, and in some cases, you know, because the Kings were somewhere else. I do believe, right where or have they always been in l A. I think they came from somewhere else, right, Okay, So if if there is a team that has been here for a long long because the Lakers came from somewhere else, too. But when you're when you're talking about teams that have historically been rooted here, you got to choose. You have to choose, or you have to or you have to be a part of it. Like I don't meet very many New York uh, New York Yankee fans in in l A. Because everybody is Dodgers fans, you know, and and and, which is interesting because they used to be you know, Brooklyn. But what that's here, Norther there. The thing about it is is that it's like your Dodgers fan and and and. As it applies to the basketball world, it's like you gotta choose between the Clippers and Lakers, and it's like a real thing here. It's like a real thing. So it's like, Okay, the realms have just come back. You now have the Chargers here, so it's like, I don't know, maybe it has the potential of getting to that you had the Rams before you know, they left, But you know, the idea of it is is that it's like you had USC and everybody chooses USC football. So it's like kind of like the loyalty factor of of a lot of people who live here, you know, whether it's East, South, l a, you know, whatever it may be when you get out on the outskirts, even hair, and like Glenn Dora, everybody chooses. Everybody chooses, and that the one thing I think is pretty cool is they choose someone from around here. And I think that's why Tyron Lou he understand the fan base is a little bit because he played Harry, won a championship and now he's coaching here. I think he understands the fan base, Mike, and I think that that's what's driving what why he would say something like that, Well, look, I think it's hip to clip I'll steal from Ben mallor why because I'm not. I'm not from here. So while while you while you live in Los Angeles, you gotta you gotta ride with one team. And where am I gonna go. I'm a White Sox fan. I'm going with the the underdog. I'm not jumping on board the bandwagon of the banners. No, let's go Steve Balmer, Let's get it done in year one. So I'm all. I'm all, and and I have been since I moved. Well, I don't know, Chris Baul isn't playing Game one and we'll see how quickly he's able to get back in. But no, I look, even with Chuck, the con was talking about you, I got, I got my White Sox. They're they're rolling, so I'll get a title there. But hey, it's my year. Many, it's Harmon's year. Look, Andy Dalton may still be QB one, but this is my year. And I want to do a little bit of a correction because it was a trivia question, uh that I was starting to think about going. No, I think they played a little further south. Uh, the Kings were awarded Jack Kent Cook got an expansion franchise here in Los Angeles, but they had to start this scene. Their first season was in Long Beach while they waited for the forum to be ready. And there's your there's one to grow on Washington Football team. Jack. Yeah that that Jack, Okay, Okay, that's interesting. I might have known that bit of trivia, not the Long Beach part, not the Long Beach part, but the other part of it. Yeah, that that one. I just remember being like a trivia thing of all, right, where where did teams really start? Angeles? But there you go, Long Beach. I've been doing a lot of uh, you know, relining this past week. I know if you're paying attention to mine, I kind of caught that, including some little acronyms that we can't do on air. Yeah, at King of the Mammals if you want to see that. More story time with LaVar and me coming up next as we continue down the road and and one coaching rehab. Evidently there is a place you can go to bring yourself back to the forefront. We'll talk about that next year on Fox Welcome back in. It's Fox Moore to Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment alongside the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, alright, time pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or they take the podcast of up on Game ten am to noon, Sad to Day is here Pacific Time live on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plasgow Morris and t J Hoovenzada. How's t J doing? Is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that the Clippers have advanced in the Lakers didn't. Kind of goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott, and he uses the whole our team, like when when my team? And as soon as you get it's only Yankees, Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well, I never come across a White Sox fan that says, hey, my white Sox and when we and because we don't, and and like it's like every single day I will hear my team and the moment they say my team, I know it's Dallas every single day, Lavar're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take you to the to the one of eights uh, and you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure you guys listen. I'm from Pittsburgh, so I understand that from being where the downtime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers, the Stellers. Yeah, we have weird dialect. I just say a lot of like as we say beer instead and you don't know if you're saying beer to drink or beer from from the woods, you know which by the way, we had one in front of the house the other day. Um, how about it. Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of words that are interesting. So when people like human, I have to really focus on saying human with an H because it always comes out as as human. But that's just how we sit it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's funny because the for a long time on the show I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to eleven Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering uh big games and big events as they go. Luck, he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but not a ton. But yeah, and then we watched Mayor East Town. I just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed like he had captured at least some of the dialect Pittsburgh Philly because Philly is like you know what, you know what apokey like or uh you know, Uh, it's a lot of us. Some of it is driven by you know, uh, you know Muslim faith. Um, you know there there's like a different it's a different like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like, there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well, but it's all about languages. This was East Town. So the point the point. The point Mike is I can go with you two where you're from and hear people say us and we and I as their team, and that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different places in America and around the world and they say my team, it's generally one of those Global branding is a reality, there's no question about it. Get in there and and I get sick of it. That's why that's why I know I get I get tired of it. Like my team. Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now I got to change my tone on it because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like, which is weird, because Sean Lee has been with the team for has been great and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing, whereas Mica, you know, has has changed the way I'm looking at Dallas like I actually my root for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention, they did a masslid. His money is guaranteed at Lamarrington, at King and the Mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I I think that's more an off air counseling session to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little bit of you have. But first it's Isaac Lowan Crown with what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it. Though we were in the final minute of overtime tied at one eleven in Brooklyn here's Marv Albert on TNT four to five seconds left overton ten on the shot clock study as it hits for Chris Falter So that put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three bucks up for the air ball with three texts on the second Romania the Thelwarkee Bucks Brookie one one elevel League and Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durant's forty eight points, nine rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes. Last night, Janie Antea Koopo scored forty in fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two. That series tied to two games apiece and going to the final rount of the US Open today at Tory Puns. We've got a three weights high for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under par Overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, Man, LaVar, I warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago. Glad you're okay, you know what we are? Okay? It was it was interesting. I was not I was. I was almost pulling up to the house, but I had got the call, like they were outside. One of the friends of one of my kids was leaving the house and they thought they saw a dog walk out of the out of the yard, and then they saw its head and they're like, there's no dog that has a head that big. That's not a dog. We should probably stop thinking about what it is and get back into the house. And then once they got back into the house, they realized that looking at it as it was moving, it was a bear. And we've just we just received confirmation from Fox Sports Radio's sources that when the bear realized whose house he was outside of, he decided to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it. I definitely wanted to see it, see where he's looking like. I was like literally three minutes away when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes too late. Well. The the only way that works, though, is if someone's got the phone on in the family as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing. I wouldn't to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't have tried to hurt the bear, but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did a run block and move and save them from the bear that was just a couple of miles from LaVar's house. Yeah, yeah, nerve, No, that's just it. That was a big bear. Though. I don't think these were. I don't think these were big. I don't think this one was big. Like, it's all perspective. I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear. I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six percent of people said they could take down a grizzly gar. Remember when we were talking about we were talking about there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like, come on, man like people are crazy. I still want to know what the percentages that thinks they can take down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about ten minutes as we go off the rails here on Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off just in terms of language as we talked about identification with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports exploring just his road back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab program established or what it's being called a rehab program for Nick Saban quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be a better job in the NFL. I say, it's the rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all of a sudden you can coach again. One of yeah, No, Well, he just said there wouldn't be a better job in the NFL, just in terms of if you had to go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinators, you'd go to Alabama one of the I think just kind of skipped from e Z. But we'll connect the dots for you. No, and you and you connected them beautifully there. Uh Kiffin was one of five former college head coaches to work under Saban in the last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another another shot. What do you think it is that I mean, obviously the great success, but since most of that gets attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm trying to figure out how just being on the staff would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly it was something you were doing, so let's give you another job. Well, success is all in the structure and the process and in the approach and the execution. And if you've had if you have those established and and they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are, then the reason why coach would go there and they're able to rehab their careers. They learn that that, they learn all of those things, and they're able to take that that process, They're able to take that structure, the way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the programs they go to. Now here's the key The key is is that generally it's only one person that really knows how to manage it and and pull it together the way that they do. And and you have to have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking, the UH, the ability to lead and communicate men, not just the men that are players, but the men that are coaches in a way where you're getting those results. We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick. Belichick. Tree certainly has UH branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's the thing about it, though, But you still have a chance, right, You still have a chance because you have the information. So like it's interesting, like when I started my head coaching career, I called I called my coaches. I called my coach from high school, I called I called my my one of my teammates that was my my you know, my freshman year when we won a championship. Um, he's won championships. Now as a head coach of high school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call all of the guys that I know. I called coach Bradley that we had on our show um, I call them and I asked for the information that will allow for me to lead the team and structure the team and do all of those things create the processes that work. And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and it was you know, for me, I had to do it to like one of the most watered down versions because I just wasn't out of football school for the last three years. But it still works. I mean I still was able to get a third team win, you know, career and and what uh sixteen wins ten losses something, fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But we were on the other side of five hundred, you know, over the course of three seasons. So you know, for me, once you are able to show that success, people are going to buy into the success because they want to have success and they want to learn how to be successful. And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly, is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role and fitting their role. A lot big thing about it. It also is just being willing and being humble enough to play your role or wait your turn, you know, a lot of places. You are not going to have that from coaches. You're not going to have it from players. Players want to play right now, they expect to play play right now, or they leave. You know, coaches, you know, have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled a certain type of way, even if they're not the head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion. Sometimes it can create friction. And you know, a guy like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about any real craziness that takes place with the people that he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the next guy trying to figure out what that next step is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There you go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's and everybody just raise their hands on yeah, iron sheet. Thinking about is wrestling culture that? And I was watching a guy do a case break of a bad yesterday from a company and it was a wrestling product, and they pulled an iron cheek autograph and that the guy knew who it was that opened the pack for the person, but the guy who bought it was like, I have no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match, If you go to Twitter and just read two or three days of motivational sayings from the Iron Cheek, Uh, you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. The Iron Cheek is a funny dude man, no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Dotting, one of the great finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no question about it. Memories. Well, you know what, maybe maybe folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the old Google search later on as well. Uh, this is Fox SPORTSNY. Coming up next, we're gonna go off the rail. Else we're gonna do a quick whip around with our guys as well. Get one of those big Father's Day moments. If you have any you'd like to share, please send him in at Swill and Dome on Twitter. This is Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday, Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Armen alongside the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, fight time pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or they take the podcast of Up on Game ten am to noon Saturdays here Pacific time, live on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plaskow, Morris and t J Houshvenzada. How's t J doing is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that the Clippers have advanced and the Lakers didn't. Can again goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like, everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott, and he uses the whole our team like when when my team? And as soon as you get it's only Yankees, Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well, I never come across the White Sox fan that says, hey, my White Sox and when we and because we don't and and like it's like every single day I will hear my team and the moment they say my team, I know it's Dallas every single day. A right, LaVar, you're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take you to the to the one of eights. Uh, and you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure guy. Listen, I'm from Pittsburgh, so I underst stand that from being where dantime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers, the Stillers. Yeah, we have weird dialect. I mean to say a lot of like as we say beer and stuff, and you don't know if you're saying beer to drink or beer from from the woods you know which By the way, we had one in front of the house the other day, Um, how about it? Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of words that are interesting. So when people like human, I have to really focus on saying human with an H because it always comes out as just human. But that's just how we said it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's funny because them for a long time on the show I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to a lot in Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering uh big games and big events as they go. Luck, he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but not a ton. But yeah, And then we watched mayor Easttown. I just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed like he had captured at least some of the dialect Pittsburgh or Philly because Philly is like you know what if you know what about key like or uh you know, uh, it's a lot of um, but some of it is is driven by you know, uh you know Muslim faith. Um. You know there there's like a different it's a different like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well, it's all about languages. This was East Town. So the point to the point, the point Mike is I can go with you two where you're from, and here people say US and WE and I as their team, and that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different places in America and around the world and they say my team, it's generally one of those. Global branding is a reality, there's no question about it. And I get sick of it. That's why that's why I know I get to get I get tired of it. Like my team, Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now I got to change my tone on it because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like which is weird, because Sean Lee has been with the team for has been great, and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing, whereas Micah, you know, has It's changed the way I'm looking at Dallas, like I actually my route for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention they did a Missalid. His money is guaranteed at LaVar Arrington at King and the mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I think that's more an off air counseling session to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little bit of rehab. But first it's Isaac Low and Crown with what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it. Though we were in the final minute of overtime tied at one eleven in Brooklyn. Here's Marv Albert on t NT four to five seconds left overton ten off the shot clock study as it hits for Chris Falter. So that put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven, and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three up for air ball with three texts on the second rebellion for Milwaukee Bucks brook on thirteen one eleven d and Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durand's forty eight points, nine rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes. Last night, the honest Antea Koopo scored forty and fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two. That series tied to two games apiece and going to the final rout of the US Open today at Tory Puns. We've got a three weights high for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under par overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington. Man, LaVar, I warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago. Glad you're okay? You know what were we are okay? It was It was interesting. I was not I was. I was almost pulling up to the house, but I had got the call, like they were outside. One of the friends of one of my kids was leaving the house and they thought they saw a dog walk out of the out of the yard, okay, and then they saw its head and they're like, there's no dog that has a hit that big. That's not a dog. We should probably stop thinking about what it is and get back into the house. And then once they got back into the house, they realized that looking at it as it was moving, it was a bear. And we've just we just received confirmation from Fox Sports radio sources that when the bear realized whose house he was outside of, he decided to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it. I definitely wanted to see it, see what he's looking like. I was like literally three minutes away when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes too late. Well, the only the only way that works, though, is if someone's got the phone on in the family as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing. I wanted to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't have try to hurt the bear, but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did a run, block and move and save them from the bears. That was just a couple of miles from Lavarre's house. Yeah, so that's just it. That was a big bear. Though I don't think these were I don't think these were big. I don't think this one was big. Like, I mean, it's all perspective. I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear. I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six percent of people said they could take down a grizzly gar. Remember when we were talking about there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like, come on, man, like people are crazy. I still want to know what the percentages that thinks they can take down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about ten minutes as we go off the rails here on Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off just in terms of language as we talked about identify occasion with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dot of CBS Sports, exploring just his road back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab program established or what it's being called a rehab program for Nick Saban. Quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be a better job in the NFL. I say, it's the rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all of a sudden, you can coach again. One of yeah, No, well he just said there wouldn't be a better job in the NFL, just in terms of if you had to go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinator, what you'd go to? Alabama one of the I think just kind of skipped from A to Z. But we'll connect the dots for you. No, and you and you connected them beautifully there. Uh. Kiffin was one of five former college head coaches to work under Saban in the last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another another shot. What do you think it is that I mean, obviously the great success, but since most of that gets attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm trying to figure out how just being on the staff would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly it was something you were doing, so let's give you another job. Well, success is all in the structure and the process and in the approach and the execution. And if you've had if you have those established and and they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are, then the reason why coach would go there and they're able to rehab their careers. They learn that that, they learn all of those things and they're able to take that that process, They're able to take that structure, the way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the programs they go to. Now here's the key. The key is is that generally it's only one person that really knows how to manage it and and pull it together the way that they do. And and you have to have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking, the uh, the ability to lead and communicate men, not just the men that are players, but the men that are coaches in a way where you're getting those results. We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick Belichick Tree certainly has uh branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's the thing about it though, But you still have a chance, right, You still have a chance because you have the information and so, like it's interesting, like when I started my head coaching career, I called, I called my coaches. I called my coach from high school, I called, I called my my, my, one of my teammates that was my my, you know, my freshman year when we won a championship. Um, he's won championships. Now, as a head coach of high school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call all of the guys that I know. I called coach Bradley that we had on our show, Um, I call them. And I asked for the information that will allow for me to lead the team and structure the team and do all of those things, create the processes that work. And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and it was you know, for me, I had to do it to like one of the most watered down versions because I just wasn't out of football school for the last three years. But it still works. I mean I still was able to get a third team win you know, career and and what, uh sixteen wins ten losses something, fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But we were on the other side of five hundred, you know, over the course of three seasons. So you know, for me, once you are able to show that success, people are going to buy into the success because they want to have success and they want to learn how to be successful. And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly, is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role and fitting their role a lot big thing about it. It also is just being willing and being humble enough to play your role or wait your turn. You know, a lot of places you're not going to have that from coaches. You're not going to have it from players. Players want to play right now, they expect to play play right now, or they leave. You know. Coaches, you know, have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way, from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled a certain type of way, even if they're not the head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion. Sometimes it can create friction, and you know, a guy like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about any real craziness that takes place with the people that he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy Brian Now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the next guy trying to figure out what that next step is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There you go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's and everybody just raised their hands on yeah, iron cheek. Thinking about is wrestling culture? That I was watching a guy do a case break of a bad product yesterday from a company, and it was a wrestling product and they pulled an iron Cheek autograph and that the guy knew who it was that opened the pack for the person, but the guy who bought it was like, I have no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match, If you go to Twitter and just read two or three days of motivational sayings from the iron Sheet, uh, you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. The Irish cheek is a funny dude man, no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Doting one of the great finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no question about it. Memories. Well, you know what's maybe maybe folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the old Google search later on as well. Uh, this is Fox Sports Sunday. 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Happy Father's Day to my guy, LaVar Arrington. Yeah, Happy Father's Day to you, sir. And happy Father's Day out there to all the the daddy's and the daddo's and the padres and the yeah and the poppies and the weapons, whatever term of endearment or sometimes derision you know we have. We all have weird relationships sometimes with the the relatives. And you know how your kids address you. I. You know I from my younger daughter. I get the hello sir, versus hello child and things of that nature. It's, uh, sometimes weird, but it's it's our own way of communicating. However. You do you, you do you, I guess is what it comes down to here. We appreciate you wherever you're listening the I Heart Radio app. If you're out and about, take us with you. Serious XM. Channel A D three of course all of our local affiliates some four hundred plus six hundred total for for I Heart Media and our our network, which is just absurd. Uh. The the reach that we have wherever you are, we appreciate you and we don't take any of this for granted, whether we're making you laugh, U shake your fist in anger at something we're saying, or just making you think a little bit, because that's the here that you get a little bit of all those three things, that you have a good time with us, and you come back for more, and of course evangelized, tell your friends, bring him into the fold, always looking for aggressive expansion to steal from Heath Ledger in the Dark Night, as it were about that, I get another movie reference, and we have a quota I think you know of like the over unders, like thirteen and a half. So I think we're we're a little behind. So I have to get back on the pace we've got Iowa Sam checks in, Chris Perfett tags out. I was say I'm back from his sojourn of self discovery and reflection and all of those things. Thanks to Johnny Robbos who was with us last week, but Sam returns a little worse for the weary, looks a little tired, you know, running running around the corn field and and maybe looking up grain prices. See, I know Sam's I Sam's world. Well, why not growing in the backyard? Now, that would be something if you pull that, pull that off here in southern California. I could just see him on the plane. What do you got there, sir? It's like, what, Well, that's water, you know, I gotta keep this plant alive. What are you gonna do? It's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna build a field of dreams in southern California. Man. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, no question. No. You know what's funny because I wanted to talk about relocation mention the Bears a little bit earlier with the idea of heading to Arlington Heights, buying the site of Arlington Park race Track, looking at at least putting a bid in three six acres. Think of all of the magnificent, enterprising things you can do there. Plus you have ample parking, you've got mass transit already running out there, beautiful facility opportunities and businesses. Oh and your own stadium that you're not paying rent the Chicago Park District, who rents it out to whomever well they please, And according to reports, they only pay about six million dollars in rent each year. Believe and believe me, Uh, triple check that number and tried to find any other source that can give me another number somewhere between five point seven and six point three million dollars. So we're not talking about a lot. But Mayor Lightfoot fighting with the Bears, Brass went into a whole thing about, you know, playing meaningful football beyond October u encountering herself as a season ticket holder and then using that line, I'm like they they've gone to the playoffs two of the last three years, Mayor, Uh, if you would have known that, I think if you'd attended a game or two. But that's a whole other thing for another time. Another team that is a long term potential is the New Orleans Pelicans, and they're in the news for two reasons right now. One Gayle Benson and just the idea of is is basketball quote unquote work king there? Or do you need to move to another city? We always keep hearing about Seattle and maybe a return of the glorious Sonics moniker and logo from all those years ago. Remember once upon a time Kevin Durant wore those duds for the final season before the Oklahoma City Thunder popped up. And now we look at the Yeah, now we're looking at New Orleans with the exodus of top talent from Chris Paul and Anthony Davis member with eighteen months left on his deal set, I'm out and came here to Los Angeles, and now there's rumblings that will another superstar in the making and his family aren't necessarily pleased with the direction of Well, you add the family and I bring that in because it's the all right, what are we talking about here? Right right? Yeah, You're in year two obviously a lot of huge expectations, and to this point, Zion's delivered right in terms of his product productivity. There's certain games of his certain parts of his game of course that need to be refined, like most young players, but the explosiveness and availability has also been huge. Now he suffered a finger injury that ended his season, and we looked at the at New Orleans and the and the Pelicans fall short. Van Gundi gets fired and now we've got the revolving door coaches, so that's problematic, right, no stability there. But when you talk about young talent, they have a nucleus, but you don't know if Lonzo Ball is coming back. He's a guy that will be sought after in free agency and Brandon Ingram has developed into a pretty fine player. But already after year two, the rumblings are that Zion wants greener pastures and there's not really a lot of detail other than and you know, some shots at the organization and in the building process, which you're in the Western Conference, growing pains are gonna be there. Put that team in the East, you might have been what the middle of the back or at least looking at a playoff birth maybe, but you've got to play the hand you're dealt and you you're building, and you've got a good nucleus. You you traded off Reddick, which rubbed people the wrong way because that was a guy Zion was leaning on, and then Reddick left and didn't have great things for the organization. I raised my hand to that just saying I get it. In the best circumstances, they wanted to help you out with where a trade was gonna happen, and they got a better offer somewhere else. So thing. So it's it's the business of the business. Uh, it's not always going to flow a pent you know by you know, my word is my bond. But it does just lend to between him and Luca, we got young guys that are now raising their hand, perhaps earlier than they ever have because we're used to it with the veteran players now, but now we've got the guy's middle of their first contracts looking around and and upset with organizational decisions. And I think flexing now perhaps more than ever. Yeah, I just think the landscape is changing. And again, guys like Zion have way more exposure at this point in their careers than what guys at this point in their career has had years ago before technical logical advances have taken place, so you know, you can get your message out there one way or the other. Uh, there's all kinds of different you know, alternative media sources now, including yourself. And and so when when you want to dictate things, when you're at a certain level of popularity and influence, uh you can do it. And and and what's gonna be interesting is going to be watching how these traditional organizational protocols and approaches are going to have to adjust and adapt to the changes in the times, Like that's there is I bet you there is friction behind closed doors. I bet you there's this whole you know, when cold air meets warm air in the in the air, you know, it creates you know, thunder and lightning and stuff like that, and then you can feel it in the air to there you go, wow, yeah, wow, that was really good. Yeah. I mean I think that that's where that's where sports, major sports, that's where it's going well. When particularly in the NBA, where one or two guys change the face of a franchise, right, you get that one name to your town. You're selling out the arena, You're selling a bunch of merch and jerseys. Why a guy like Lebron I mean not that the Lakers don't already move mountains and mountains of merchandise, but when you've got that level of following, and it's like, you know what, I think, I think I think we've maxed out our twenty three sales. I'm changing the six and what are people gonna do? They're gonna go pony up for a replica or or authentic or whatever they need to do, and they'll add to their list of jersey purchases. And there's there's a lot to it in the marketing, merchandizing and self branding that go with it. Right within the NFL, we've got the fights of the Aaron Rodgers and other players, huge impactful players, but the power structure is different and what you can do. One guy going to an organization and I know the Tom Brady just one after leaving for one year. He's the outlier. Okay, man you got him and Manning two of the guys we talked about as the greatest of all time. Yes, they were able to go into different situations and win, but generally it doesn't work out quite so that generally doesn't work out that way. But with that being said, generally speaking, it hasn't worked out that way, probably because you weren't able to have anymore than the opportunity to go somewhere else. These guys are going somewhere else and they're dictating who's there. Like you know, Peyton Manning not so much. They already had a super team. They justn't were missing that one. We needed a guy to just guide it along Tom Brady. They had a ton of talent, they just needed somebody who could bring winning, a winning mentality. I don't think. I don't think folks recognize that, like it was some grand turnaround. Jamis Winston obviously, we know he's in the very rare thirty thirty club. But a couple of possessions, you know, the old I'd like to have that one back. And there are twelve and four a team. But that's a damn good team, you know. Yeh Like on defense, they had David They you know, they had players. Their defensive front was crazy, you know, and and you had some guys step up and and play better. Uh. But again, I mean it was the pieces were there. I mean, give give Tom Brady credit. He chose, he had a couple of different options. He chose. Chicago was one of those l A teams. Was was in the mix as well. I think the Rams were in the mix to to try to get them, or the Chargers the Charges before they did the draft or whatever. But you know, I just think that he he hatched his beat very well. You're just not gonna be in situations that that aligned that way for you to be able to have the type of success even if you're that amazing of a talent. Now with some body like like Zion, you would assume that if he's trying to make a move to go somewhere else, he's gonna try to go somewhere where they have tremendous bones and talent and play and so far. I was listening to UH Chris and and Rob debate, you know, the other day, and and Chris Broussart was talking about UH Luca and and Dallas and and how it would be hard to have another dominant guy there with him and he's going to have to learn to play in the system. I mean, I could see a guy like Zion going to Dallas and that being the missing piece to what that team would need to to have a dominant one to punch and and have some good role players and and make you know, make it make it pretty far in and maybe further than what they did this year, you know, I get out of the first round. So I mean you think about things like that, like would they be at would to coexist? You know, what are those teams that Zion could go to where you had the type of dynamic where they could coexist so you know, you throw those conversation points out there. It's great for conversation um by sports fans, but in reality, does Zion have that type of relationship with somebody around the league somebody's where you could influence them to want to all go to the same team and make a move. I don't know that I've seen that from Zion, you know. And the only thing that came out, I think he's just stating he doesn't feel good about what's going on where he's at. Yeah, the only thing that came out over the course of the year was remember when they played at Madison Square Garden and he was like a little kid in the press conference right of playing there and the aura of that arena and it was fun, as we talked about last week, just that you had that playoff atmosphere there in basketball was relevant, right the last time it was and we commemorated the anniversary and it's a terrible, terrible anniversary. But when we know in pop culture of the O. J. Bronco Chase, that was the last time the Knicks were in the finals, right, so you know you're talking about, you know, a lifetime ago, as it were, so to have the crowd at you know, full throated in losing their minds. Under Tom Thibeau and company, you've reignited that as a place and maybe that becomes a destination. Got a couple of nice pieces there. How it fits, I don't know, but yeah, watching him run the floor with Luca would be a lot of fun, right, A guy who is ball dominant but passes and Zion as we know, ran point quite often this year, which was a whole other thing. Once Alonzo ball was hurt. You saw him handling the ball quite a bit. So shades of well what Lebron became, but just doing this at the very early part of his career. But interesting dynamics a foot in the NBA. I think player movement is going to be uh well, I think it's gonna be very active again this year. It was a great article of Brooklyn just eliminated that talked about all of the different mechanics of contracts, not only for your three superstars who can all opt and try to get a huge pay day or opt out altogether, but all the ancillary players that we'd come to know during this playoff run and towards the end of the regular season where they've got to make some huge contract decisions. And Spencer Dinwiddie who was injured, who's gonna opt out of his contract and test free agency. But all these pieces that are moving just in one squad. UH. Delicious theater to come and no days off, just like Bill Belichick has always preached Lovar, which is good for all of us, no question about it. But you'll be doing some early work, doing the Lord's work. Three to six am Pacific time, Monday Tuesday, alongside Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio. Give that a listen when you're up and getting ready, making your coffee, getting ready for work. Uh, LaVar will entertain you alongside with Jonas who has his unique brand of humor as well. You know him on the network. UH and Jonas. Now you'll have thought it'll be well, there you go. You'll you'll have the the first tomorrow. UH and folks will have that. Yeah. Reminder, we brought to you by discovered Discover matches. All the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year. It's amazing because Discovers accepted at of places in the US that take credit cards. So you can learn more. Go over to discover dot com slash Yes, based on a Nielsen report one limitations do apply. Coming up next, we've got Major League Baseball with a bunch of rules of enforcement. I gotta find out from LaVar what would be the equivalent in the National Football League. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports or Radio Fox Sports Sunday. Mike Carmen, alongside the King of the Mammals himself, will find the Mammals of the Week. Coming up about twenty minutes from now, it's my guy in LaVar Arrington Eppy father's date all the dad's dad figures out there. Yes, Adam corrects me. I forget the Knicks did have the I didn't. I didn't think that really mattered because they stunk losing in five. But yes, they did get there. I just remember them from the fun and excitement of that one. Uh so, yes, I appreciate it. I I really should know my Knick's history, seeing as I work with a wee guy Monday through Fridays on the network, the greatness that is h Yeah. Well, Jason Smith, look, he owns him. He also owns every pick of every team in these playoffs. It's kind of interesting. Uh the way he's worked it. I can't fault to good strategy, so it becomes my box now my So it's it's good, it's good. And yes, how can I forget those I feel I feel bad for that? Well, no, I mean because you gotta you gotta do the corrections on that bad job by me. That was Jeff Van Gundy Lad Squad at that point. So good times, Uh, no question about it. Now. One of the things wanted to address Major League Baseball with the on Monday will begin the enforcement umpires having to go and and decide, well, is there something funny about the grip? And are they gonna wait for a manager or a coach or a player to utter their disapproval of what they're seeing? Are they gonna wait for the television broadcast to give us something obvious, because I think that's where some of the problem has been with all of this LaVar. Obviously they want more offense in the game, but I think part of it becomes a hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, Um, that guy's got a giant glop of something on the brim of his hat, or he keeps reaching down to his belt, buckle or whatever the case. Maybe Uh, Trevor Bauer did a great thing in in front of some assembled press earlier this week. He goes, well, between rosin and sweat, you can do this. It's like WHOA goes So, now arbitrarily, you can decide to toss me from a game and there's no appeal. Right, you're out of the game. You're gonna get your suspension because you're not gonna be able to prove you didn't have it on there. Right, So you you're you're now a judicating something based on feeling suspicion. And to his point, which I thought was a pretty good one, it's like, what if I was arguing balls and strikes in the third inning and so now he's he's gotta ticked off at me because I'm challenging him. And then in the fifth inning, for giggles and I'm dominating, the opposing manager comes out and says, hey, I want him checked. If he suddenly decides I've got too much of a grip on the ball by spin rates up, whatever, I got a problem. Mm hmm. I still get paid during the suspension, Right, that's the rule they put in place, But it seems well, not something you do in the middle of a season. I don't know that stuff is. It's it's out of my wheelhouse. But I have seen like the tar on the socks and the different different approaches to you know, how guys can get a competitive advantage that you know kind of go against the rules. But you know, I don't know. You know, when you think about in baseball, like the the the inches that that are at play when you're swinging the bat, different things like that, or when you're throwing the ball. Um, you know, it can make the difference for guys. But you know, if you get caught. Yeah, I don't know, Matt, because because they're they're there's the there's the politically correct way of answering, and then there's the there's the brutally honest way of answering. And you know, the brutal lion is answer to you have something, the way you can grip your bat and stuff like that, The brutal lion is answer is if it makes you better, do it. You know. But well, but that's the thing, right, You've allowed it to go on in some capacity, somebody, shape or form, and now offense is flailing. You've got no hitters and would be no hitters. So everybody is suddenly up in arms, and look, to some degree you've got you've got a number of players where it just got so brazen, like all right, come on, don't don't rub it in our faces what you're doing here, because now you're just being too obvious. But it's still just the point of you've always had grip, and some pictures say, hey, you had Tyler Tyler glass now saying hey I had to change this, and now my arm hurts right, And you've got others wondering about the same, their their level of effectiveness. I think we'll have the splits of this year that will look at the tree decision and and starts after that date and certainly after tomorrow that will be monitoring quite a bit. I was just wondering if there was anything NFL related that would stand out to you. I mean, these days, I would probably just say, these gloves that they're wearing these days are pretty I mean, that's spider tack on on steroids, isn't it. I mean in terms of they don't need you don't need stick them. I'll tell you that what's upon a time you did man Lester all these all these big handed receivers. It's like, you only have to have a strong hand to squeeze the ball because you don't have to have a strong hand to catch it. And and let me qualify that because somebody's sitting there in their cars somewhere like LaVar is punch drunk and I'm really not uh. When the ball hits your hand, like you said, that tack that's on the bottom of the glove is so crazy, so sticky, so grabbing onto the texture of the football. That the catching part, you know, the contact it's staying there, that part. It's kind of you just gotta get your hand on the ball. It's when you say, like when DeAndre Hopkins squeezes the ball and you can't get the ball out of his hand to create an incomplete pass. That's where you're saying, strong hands come into play. You're in traffic, different things like that. But make no mistake about it, if you're by yourself and that ball hits your hands, I'm just telling you right now, guys that were gloves that dropped balls in today's NFL is it's a travesty. It is a flat out travesty because in some regards. It doesn't take skill to catch a ball at this point in time, because if the ball touches your glove, it's going to kill the momentum of the ball and stick to your hand, and all you gotta do is make sure you secure the catch. Now, I don't want to make it in simple, so simplified terms that it takes away of everything that takes place for you to be in place to make that. Well. See that's the key, right for all the wide receivers at King of the Mammals on Instagrams where you can find him in comment. Uh. I think that's the fine distinction, right. There's still a lot to get open, a lot to get into your space, and the physicality of it all. It takes away nothing from that except for the ability sometimes to snag the ball one handed that seemingly defies the laws of physics. But also remember that you almost have a magnet on your hand. So he's got to he's got to hand the size of a mit No, he's got the bottom of a glove that's going to It's like literally is going to make that ball like down and stick in a way where you can grab it. Are you calling spider man. Yeah, well, there you go, or something to that level. I mean, that's kind of where we're at. That's right, I don't even know where what's where's that from? Sam? Oh? That was a Ben Mallard drop. It was like I was like, what what movie? What TV show? Normally we know what the what the references are when it comes out of left field. I mean, obviously I would know the dulcet tones of our our teammate Ben Mallory here on the overnight Fox Sports Radio and that's Chris Myers Fox Sports Radio alumni. We're gonna play this game now, Sam, is that what we're doing? Name this voice? Hey? I do that with we We were doing that with commercial voice over. Sam was incredulous about a certain uh No Award winning actor. We'll talk about that momentarily. Let's get into that for a second. But first we're gonna go to Isaac. This is great, This is great trivia stuff. This is Isaacloan kraw Hey, Buddy, Hey, Michael LeVar. This morning in Brooklyn. They are crying in their organic oat milk latte is with avocado toasts and pickled kale because the events of Saturday. That's like metal Unfortunately, you're not exaggerating because of what happened on Saturday night, their beloved nets in the Milwaukee Bucks tied at one eleven on the final but out of overtime in Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Here is Marv Albert on TNT marvelous four to five seconds left off the shot clock study for christ that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven. But Brooklyn still had a chance. In the final seconds of ot direct for three pops up for air ball with three text on the second robellion Well, Milwaukee Bucks, brook for what one e level? Sorry hipsters, as Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Durant played the entire game, all fifty three minutes. His forty eight points were the most points scored in a Game seven in NBA history, eclipsing the mark set by Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks and his epic Game seven showdown with Larry Bird in Game seven of the nineteen eighty eight Eastern Conference Semifinals, in which the Celtics prevailed over the Hawks at Boston Garden, Jantis antea Coon po forty points last night in fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals and Game four the Stanley Cup Semi Finals on Saturday night in New York. Islanders defeat at the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two, tying the series at two games apiece, three way tie for the lead going into the final round of the US Open today at Torrey Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis Oustaysen at five r par overall, you've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo lurking two shots back at three under par. Overall. That to two gentlemen who are most definitely not hipster's and I say that as a compliment Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, although Michael does own at least one hipster esque hat. Oh, I've got more than a dozen jaunty hats at the disposal. I might be there with you, bro, Yeah, I just gotta spoke too soon. Perhaps no oat milk. I can't say I've had any avocado toasted goodness. She whiz. That's a deal breaker for yours, truly, Sorry, buddy, you shouldn't have to pay six bucks for a cup of coffee that's not even that great. I'm just saying I make my own experience and and the branding. And another tip off, by the way, if breakfast is served with a salad, that's another deal breaker. No breakfast should be served with a salad. I'd rather you won't see a side salad for breakfast and waffle. Why but why is that? Why can't you have a salad with your breakfast? You can have a steak for your breakfast that's totally different than a salad. And frankly, why Frankly coming from one of the great breakfast towns of American Pittsburgh, I'm I'm kind of I'm kind of disappointed. I'm just listen. I'm just challenging the traditional ideas and approaches. Why not have a breakfast salad? Is a breakfast? Why is a breakfast burrito breakfast burrito that doesn't have any type of lettuce or anything in it? You know, LaVar. The best analysis I can give is it just is some things are appropriate for breakfast, like a breakfast burrito. A salad is not one of those things. I feel like we're having I feel that I'm the guy who should arguing the hipster end here, not you. You know, it's crazy. You are more of a hipster. And I do love that you had a Tabasco sauce shirt on the other day. But my wife, thank you. I gotta say, I gotta say here, why why is fruit not a part of dinner? It's a good question. You know, people bring fruit salad right here, But I'm just saying, like, why can't you have a salad with lettuce, tomatoes and greens, cucumbers. I love cucumbers with some Italian dressing on there, or even some ranch. Why would you not be able to put that with like some eggs and you know, a meat. I do too, just not for breakfast. And the issue is these hipster salad breakfast things. It's not just typical lettuce. It's these ninety three different kinds of bitter green. You just had to pay for a breakfast for people. You You're mad, You're mad at you know you you bought yourself some little breakfast burrito or maybe some eggs and a couple of sausages, and then someone at the table ordered something else and you had been already said you're picking up the tab and you paid like twenty bucks for someone's bougie breakfast and now you're calling him out here on national radio. I'm just exactly what it is. I'm just saying a Tacos via Corona in Silver Lake or Lucky Boy in Pasadena, the breakfast burritos would never come with lettuce or greens. And let me guess someone at this person at the table also ordered a seven dollar glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Oh gosh, you know me so well, ce LaVar. I I cut through that really quick sparkling water. Yeah good hall he I mean he just owned you right now. That was like we're playing poker and I read you. I read your face without even seeing you, and I've got that's right. He Michael is so is so um sensitive and so observant. He can pick up on hells from people he's not even in direct visual contact with. Salute interesting, we love you. You're not You're not the hipster, You're the You're the toaster. You get it, the toa sy part. But do you like breakfast with without green? So we'll call it like toaster, like like nobody eats toast at unless it's like Texas toast. You don't eat it. Stop talking about food. Now, Now you got got Sam losing it. I want to get back to you. Gotta pay off the tease about voice over acting, and well it comes back to food ironically, but one of those things you pick up voices right I watch Obviously, when I'm hearing at Fox Sports Radio, I've got walls of television with no sound, so fine. But oftentimes when I'm trying to work right create whatever I'm doing, I've got movies or familiar TV shows in the background, so I don't actually have to watch, So it's dialogue and voices all the time. So when there is a commercial one I'm watching an NBA game, in NFL game, whatever, I can normally pick up who the actor is or actress barely quickly. And Sam had a revelation this week that really irked him. Oh well, the fact that uh, Award winning actor yes, excuse me, I'm still voice is still waking up a little bit. Award winning actor Paul Jamati was a voicing over Burger King commercials, which I have to give him credit. It's starting to sound better and better, which with each new commercial so well, because you know their competitor has a very well known actor as well, and I do. I do see the Burger King Breakfast and it looks very enticing. So I may give that a because McDonald chuses Brian Cox, legendary actor and those that know him from The X Men as Strikerval certainly should use my voice. Well, we need to work to that. We that's that's why would you not use my voice? As you always said, I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy. I am sexy. That is true. And sy that that shirt will be available for purchase tomorrow, buddy, We're gonna load that up later on tonight as part of the Father's Day memorabilia part of the program. Appreciate you there, Sam, Yeah, he put this on Twitter. It's like, well, man, it's like these guys have been cashing checks forever. It's how they get to do some of their passion projects or payoff gambling. Gay he's John Adams though, that's in the guy from Sideways. He's one of the most esteemed actors out there. That's fine. Burger King. I'm like, if you can go on the total poll, but if you could collect another check and home of the Whopper, Okay, and and Home of the the Chicken, the what is it the Chicking? You haven't get a lot of free advertising, nicely. You want to know what's funny? What's that the commercial running King Run and he's running up the wall? I got it is one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen it, But like bad, like for a fast food commercial. That joke really did win funniest commercial bad because the King looked funny as Hale running up that wall. Bad. Still trying to get one of those King heads from my memorabilia collection. I would love to have one that would fat. He's at LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals. We'll try to work this out. Dang. That's when people have been saying for me all my life, ats wool and no where you find me. Coming up next, we find our mammals and we crown them the Mammals of the Week. Yeah, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment alongside the King of the Mammals himself, three time pro bowler, my guy LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there, and to you, my friend. Yeah, that got you and all the other dads out. Yeah, big, big day ahead. I actually get to pick where we eat. I don't know. I don't know what to do with that. That's well, if you want to tell me, say that again. I'm gonna go burn after I'm done. Soon as I get off, I'm I'm on that grill. Nicely done. Yeah, man, my guy. All right, So you know it's that time of the show where I step out of the way and LaVar goes to the podium because you gotta hand out some awards. It takes an eight pex predator to properly assess situations and spot potential greatness, no matter how big or small. LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on them all. These are his mammals of the weeds. Here we go. Let's start off. Hello, Let's go in the NBA and stay in the NBA since the NBA playoffs. Yesterday was a big game, obviously Game seven, deciding game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Mill Hockey Bucks. Yes, we sure can go to Janice and say Janice would be a mammal of the week, But we're gonna go to a different team mate, Mike. We're gonna go with Chris Middleton, how about it, hits a game winning shot, has showed up, had to carry the load. Last year, Janice gets hurt. He couldn't quite get them over the hump bound himself. But this year, you know what, his help, his contribution has been major for the Milwaukee Bucks. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals. Shots out to Chris Middleton, all Man, old baby, all right, Let's go to the western side of of everything that took place. We saw the Clippers and what I saw. Listen, I chose the Clippers, but I'm a Utah fan, and I thought the Utah Jazz may take it to a game seven. They had such a big lead over twenty points. Epic fail in terms of keeping the league. But a major reason why emerging star Terrence Man. How about him showing up and doing the things that he did in the game, contributing in the way that he did. A young budding star for this Clippers team and has done it the right way. I got him through the draft. He's grown, he's matured and now he well he grown man Utah and helped out Paul George. As we all know that Kauahi Leonard is out with the knee injury. So shots out to Terrence Man for doing what he needed to do to help the team get to the Western Conference finals. Yes, let's see if he could do it against them sons. All right, now, this last guy. It's interesting because for so long we have laughed, we have joked. His dad has been the punchline to many, many, many, many many conversations. LaVar Ball. LaVar Ball has always been the guy that you said, oh, he's loud, he's brash, he's obnoxious, and you know he probably is. But he just celebrated his baby boy getting NBA Rookie of the Year. That's right, LaMelo Ball gat Rookie of the Year. And you know what, somewhat debate other guys, but I say deservingly. So he has shown us that he is a potential superstar in this National Basketball Association. And congrats to him, uh for playing and living up to that that potential. So shots out the LaMelo Ball for getting NBA Rookie of the Year. And that is my mammals of the week. We will talk about that Rookie of the year world. 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Yeah, Hey, is your dad's razor older than you are? Get him something new for Father's Day? Still time. A D s C six blade razor a perfect fit for an extra close site shave. Get one now at a store near you. Or as part of a gift set at Dollar Shave Club dot com slash Jonas. That's Dollar Shave Club dot com slash Jonas j O n A s and guy who's kind of getting well cut up a little bit by his fans by media. We mentioned Ben Simmons a few minutes ago, LaVar, and you know they all always comes down to you gotta have a fall guy. Someone's got to pay for losses and ineffectiveness and and all of those things. It's he's in a situation where his head coach will get a bunch as we've got Atlanta Philadelphia later on today, and we look look at the early lines and we we certainly know that well Doc Rivers is in a position that it's not a three one lead. But whenever he's in front in a series, the poison pens come out. And for Ben Simmons at he's been traded almost everywhere in the NBA in the last seventy two to ninety six hours, uh, and many very whimsical and creative ways to get him out of Philadelphia. A guy with immense talent, and he brings a lot to the table. And you saw defensively what he can do you have him and and Matisset table on the floor at the same time, with Joel and Bead, you've got three guys that can defend the hell out of the ball, right. I mean you look at and Bead, I'm sorry, Simmons a first team all defense, and then and Beat and Thyble uh second team. And you saw how effective they were in bottling up Trey Young and making life very difficult the other night. And now they'll they'll get called down to do it one more time. And we watched Simmons and made a lot yesterday about Janice's free throw shooting. He ends up going eight to fourteen. Is it tremendous for most No, but for him after a couple of air balls, you'll take it. You take it, Ben Simmons. A lot of it is when are you going to get the confidence to actually take a shot that? That is one of the the glaring problems here, right. Free throw shooting is bad. We know this, but good playmaker, one of the best defenders in the game, but offensively still so much lacking to where he's a non factor in a lot of sets during games. So it becomes a difficult proposition where you've got to do a substitution of all right, is Maxi coming in for Thyble whose game isn't developed offensively? Is he coming in for Ben Simmons? What are we doing here? And when you're sitting looking at a game seven, he's the guy that I think all the eyes are on because in Beads played with the meniscus tear. And while he's had some really rough stretches, remember the over twelve and the second half a couple of games back, it's the fact that you've got a guy in Simmons that won't take a shot that becomes the problem and be the spotlighted portion of their squad. You know, they asked Doc Rivers if he was going to bench Ben Simmons and not start Ben Simmons, and he's clearly over over it, trying to to justify and talk about it and discuss it um. But you know what, it has become a story and and it will continue to be a story and unless they do something about it. It's like the old adage. You know, if you don't want us to score that many points on you, then don't allow us to do it um. And then that's kind of the same thing here. If you don't want people, you know, coming coming real aggressive about what do you do about Ben Simmons in this situation? Then Ben Simmons has to do better. You know. The one thing that you would say, um, in terms of observation wise, that's something that's correctable. You know, what we're talking about with Ben Simmons is something that you can work on and you can actually correct it. So it opens up the conversation to a bigger amount of topics like what's his dedication level? Like what and he could be the hardest working dude out here, but the results that you're seeing are not are not in in the in the lane where you would give him a pass and say, oh, you know, he's just having an off time or he's just you know, he just needs a little bit of this or a little bit of that. Like now he's you know, he's he's making it so that the conversation says, does he care enough to to correct some of the things that are plaguing him right now, which is ultimately hurting this team. You got a super a super two, you got a super combo in him, and and and beat and beat lives up to the building. The only thing he deals with his injuries, but otherwise and Beat does what he needs to do. Um, some of these other guys have to also step up for the seventies sixers if they're gonna win this game as well. UM, I really like their chances going into this this game today. But again, as it applies to Ben Simmons and all of the continued uh intensity of coverage on his his inability to make shots and his him not looking for shots and deferring on on those things, you know, he's got to go out there and he's got to have a game today, and and whatever that game is, it doesn't have to be him proving everybody wrong. It has to be him putting his best foot forward, whatever that is, because all of those conversations have started to come out that you know, his confidence may be shaking, shooking, or the team's confidence in him is shooking, And you know, it's just you know, for me, I think that those are things that you have to play through, not allowed to become. Um, the reason why you don't you don't excel. Yeah, I think the hard part is as soon as you also get ensnared in the Kardashian general world, the poison pens are redoubled. There's no question, even if there's no correlation whatsoever, people are gonna tie those strings together for you regardless. He's LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Rman. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Let's go over to Isaac Loewen Grod find out what's trending all about Game Seven's plural Michael and LaVar. Starting with Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets tied at one eleven in the final minute of overtime. Here's Marv Albert on TNT four to five seconds left and overt ten off a shot clock study for Christ Falter that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, but Brooklyn still had one last chance marvelous take it away direct for three. C's up for air ball? What pretexts all the second repay all Milwaukee Bucks one elevel league, and Milwaukee would go on to win it one fifteen to one eleven, despite Durant scoring forty eight points, the most points scored in a game seventy in NBA history, eclipsing the record of forty seven set by Atlantis Dominique Wilkins against the Celtics back in night at Boston Garden. Durant played all fifty three minutes of last night's game. Janice Antea Kumpo scored forty points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes. Michael LaVar, the NBA has just announced that Atlanta Hawks back up big man Bruno Fernando has been suspended for their Game seven tonight against the seventy six ers for leaving the bench area during an altercation in Game six on Friday. Fernando has only played a total of two minutes and twenty eight seconds in the entire series, so it's really not that big of a deal relatively speaking. But get this, Philadelphia's Joel and Bead was find thirty five thousand dollars for his role in the altercation. There you go, including listen to this specific language. He also part of the fine was because he failed to comply with an NBA security interview after the game. In fact, Fox Sports Radio has obtained exclusive audio of Embiad's interview with NBA security. Listen to Cincinnati, Toronto, Cincinnati. Well, I mean, I'm just a Cincinnati I feel sorry for the NBA security official trying to conduct that interview. We got a three way tie for the lead going in to the final round of the US Open today at Tory Pines between Russell Henley, Mackenzie Hughes and Louis oust Hazen at five underpar overall. Hughes and oust Hazen will tee off at three fifty five eastern, Henley at three forty four eastern. You've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson de Shambo just two shots back at three underpar overall. Michael and LaVar, Thank you, Ilo. I guess that goes back to the embiid uh John Collins thing where double technical and he did he outstretched arms, never grabbed him, never you know, tried to throw punches or or any physicality other than outstretched arms, like he was a security guard pushing you back, like get back they odd here about and he pushed him into the crowd. I guess that's the Oh I was thirty grand. Good for him, hopefully it goes to a good cause. Thanks Ilo. At Isaac Lowan Crown is where you find him on Twitter. So yeah, Fernando suspended. See, we always get something cool during the course of our four hours here on Fox Sports Radio. Not just the hot take nonsense, great debates, uh and laughs and information that we give. We also get breaking news uh and a story that's still developing, LaVar. I haven't seen it officially announced, but it's rumored that the Lakers have decided to part ways with head trainer Nina Shay after an injury plagued season. This would be the second time in the last couple of years that the Lakers trainer got rid of their head trainer. And that that's your conduit for so many of these series anymore, the importance of being available. And we saw with the Lakers just one one player felled after another, Lebron James talking about the short offseason, the wear and tear. Uh, that's part of it. But you know other teams facing injury woes. And I mean you you've been in the NFL locker rooms, friends that are still playing guys, you're you're a confidante too, And I mean, what's that relationship with with a trainer, Like at that level, it's a major, super important and and if if anybody has paid attention to the Washington football team that became big thing is injuries. Um, and stemming all the way back to me. And that's that's you know, early early two thousand's. So, um, it's important. It's important to have the right training staff, the right support, the right relationships that are connected to um that you you gotta have guys who want to report their injuries and want to get their their injuries addressed. You're you're gonna want to have a training staff that is good at at at buffering and and handling things in a way where you know, just the comfort and the trust level. I think trust. Trust was the biggest thing. Yeah, yeah, that's the biggest one. So yeah, So, so the Lakers moving on, and obviously some of the comments from Lebron James probably don't sit well. You know, the Lakers are developing a sitcom though, we'll see what they do with the training position. They're evidently Genie Buss working with Mindy Kaling m to develop a half hour sitcom based on the Lakers world. We also know that the showtime Lakers there's another thing in production, but that that doesn't apply to the well maybe it will. Who knows. Trainers may have a huge role there. Another story I wanted to get to switching to the NFL for a moment Aaron Rodgers, because we have to have at least three minutes of Aaron Rodgers talk every week. LaVar and folks got excited. Right, stalemate, We've got a couple of weeks before training camp. What's gonna happen? And out of Wisconsin, the report that Aaron Rodgers renewed his membership to the Green Bay Country Club for the remainder of the year. Huh So what does that make you feel? They made me laugh because I'm like, that's your property. Well, that's also an auto renew and maybe you forgot to turn it off. Maybe is that a not aby I don't know. I don't know. And find out he's had a large enough purchase that you might have to country club? They got it? Yeah, because that look, I'm I'm on record for months now he ain't anywhere, But I don't know that that story takes you away from him not being there. I mean, just because you go play somewhere else doesn't mean that you can't keep your country club status. I mean, he's he's alleged, he's an icon there. Why would he leave even if he's done playing? Why would you? Why would you leave but now you've angered the fan base, You've divided the fan base. I don't think he's angered the fan base, you know. I think that he has handled things the way that he has wanted too. But I think he's he's pretty bulletproof. I mean a lot of the people that are upset with them will probably get over it at some point in time. And yeah, I just think that that's kind of what it is right now. I mean, he's one of those few guys that actually can overcome um situations like this. Most athletes can't do it, but but Aaron Rodgers is in perfect position to do it. Yeah. I think one of the things that that comes along is Jordan's love or insert replacement here, uh, in the next couple of years, has to establish that winning will continue, because I think he gets spoiled after thirty two years of exceptional quarterback play. Speaking as a guy from you know, the South side of Chicago, we don't we don't know that very well. Just you know, in case folks miss that memo, uh that is there. The other is just a reminder that his foray into television with Jeopardy was not his first no, no, no, no. He appeared in one of the final episodes of the Office, as a judge for an acapella competition that Andy Bernard was trying to be part of. H had a couple of speaking lines. He was a bit wooden, but he got him, got him across. So there you go. He's an entertaining dude. See I added value, nicely done. Guys like that end up getting opportunities. Good lore. Yeah, I think it'll be just fine. Yeah, No, there's there's no question, especially nowadays. You there's so many channels looking for programming. Uh, you can call me as well, always looking to expand and and well, I mean I'm I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy. I'm stealing your line. Uh. Coming up next, we'll find some of the greatest wins of our sporting universe. Will also pick today's NBA games. He's LaVar and I'm Bike Carmen. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Thanks for giving us a few minutes of your time today, wherever you may be Happy Father's Day to you. I know LaVar is gonna hit the pool and the grill. I'm gonna go create some chaos and run around Barnes and Noble for a while, so that'll be fun. Hey man, you gotta keep the education flowing. So it's summer summer reading. Go to your local library. That's spicy anymore. No, Yeah, you just wanted to get Sam to hit his favorite drop. That was well done. That was very well played. Wherever you are, though, remember to give a call figure out how to how to mend those bridges if you got an issue in the family, if if there's a possibility, uh, because nobody's promised tomorrow and you don't want that regret. That's all I can say. My dad down in Florida, love you, buddy. I'll talk to you later. Hopefully you're having a good power walk. Avoid those alligators, uh and go lightning and all that stuff. Uh. And yeah, piece of to all you out there, uh and the roles that and the young minds and even older minds that you continue to shape. And with that, let's find a couple of winds, flocker room squabbles, struggling teams, cheaters and no account owners. There's so much negativity at sports that it can ruin your day. But not Mike Hard. That piece here to shine a light on the good at sports with a simple mantra, find your winds. I gotta put. I don't know if we can actually do this. We might have to kill kill the music for a moment, Sam, can you give me the audio of the Big Shot made by Kevin Durant. He's gonna feed me that in a second, because it really is just demonstrative, illustrative of what we're going on and what is happening here in our sporting universe, because there's an energy, there's a life force that is gotten its wind night and and we've got it back. Listen to this crowd, Creed, lots A cross Court, Durant, Carter Bike, Tucker. They booked head of the Key turn around Okay, but one second ago time out books. That's that's two point along on that ties there you have it, Nets Radio Network and then people that I know that we're in the building the other night, the Staples come back by the Clippers down twenty five said it was the loudest and they were talking to people that work the arena. The ushers, the concessionaires, everybody saying the only time it was ever louder Kobe Bryant and finishing his Hall of Fame career. So we we talked about that, and obviously we'll get into a game prediction as we've got Game one coming up a little bit later. But just to illustrate the point of of that active experience, that energy flow that I speak of on the show and celebrate as part of this is back in a big, big way. Also a a little bit of love too. Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds got himself thrown out very early in yesterday's game, first inning, to be exact, arguing balls and strikes and a little girl in her Votto T shirt and everything tearful because that's why she came to the game. She was ready to see her guy. She was down front, Uh, and he handed her after being ejected. She's in tears and we love you and everything. Uh sent to a ball. I'm sorry I didn't play the entire game. Signed from Joey Votto to the kid, you know you gotta you gotta get him young right in Baseball's in particular, very big movement for youth uh, interaction, and I want to go back to the Clippers really quick just to acknowledge where we're at with with Tehron Lou as a head coach that I don't know has been highlighted enough, especially because the wind came on a Friday night late right, so a lot of folks wouldn't gone to bed. They wake up like, wow, came back, got this huge win, et cetera. Lost in that. Our buddy Todd Ferman at Todd Ferman joins Jason and I every Friday night. Uh, you see him on Fox Bet Live on FS one. His research team best playoff record as an NBA head coach with a minimum of twenty five games. Number one Steve Kerr winning percentage seven thirty three, so he's seventy eight. Phil Jackson at number two to twenty nine and one oh four Tyler forty nine and twenty five good for a six sixty two winning percentage. So just something we're watching winning because we had olden polonies on Friday LaVar right long time and that, um there there's a there's a guy to bring on on on up on game two because you guys can enjoy that because he's like you ask a question, I tell you no lies. Here's my here's my answer, and said, hey, they got a shot down down O two with Doc Rivers coach, and he goes man, they would have lost that series three games ago. So one of one of the fine assessments of where a team was. All right. So let's get to it. Iowa, Sam, any any shoutouts back home? Did you want to give to family? I'll give my dad Mike a shout out. I got him a new WiFi router for Father's David actually got to see him last week, so I just picked it up in Uh bam, wham bam, thank you, madam positivity. I gotta give Sam some love to I've got this beautiful colonel's hat. Yes, yes, Midwest League Baseball. Hi a baseball, Hi a baseball. And it's at the uh the corn cob getting ready to downdade. It's a it's a beautiful thing as a guy who tasseled corn for a couple of summers. Uh near and dear to my heart. So if you're out and about traveling, UH, hold on an extra second or two on those hugs, folks. UH make that phone call last an extra minute or two. Let's make a couple of game picks here, LaVar. We've got Clippers at Phoenix, Like, okay, Sixers minus six and a half, all right, so you're gonna take you, You're gonna lay the points to How about Phoenix minus four? I think Phoenix is going dominate the game even with no CP three. I love I love the boldness of the proclam proclamation. Uh. The Clippers seem to feel things out there, taking a page out of the old Lebron James playbook here. Uh in the prior series, I will take the Sons with eighton putting up a solid effort alongside Booker with a narrow victory. I think I'll take the Clippers plus four if I'm betting against the spread. Uh, Philly, I think they showed me what they needed to in game six. Uh, succeed and proceed because they could have gotten on a bus. Are going cancoon hunting after game five? So here we are. They'll finish the job. Happy Father's Day, Ryan and Steve next on Fox later
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports, Greetings, welcome in time to have some fun with you and our team. We're all assembled like the Avengers, standing in a quasi circle, ready to take on the world. On Mike Harmen alongside me, the three time Pro Bowl or the All American himself. It's LaVar Arrington. What up? Happy Father's Day? My brother man back at you? Good? Yeah, yeah, thank you, yeah nice, thank you. Yeah. Wherever you are, however, you are being celebrated this morning. And if you're not, and you're you're still up walking the dog, making pancakes all those that's what you do. You keep the line moving exactly. We're line chefs' line cooks making it done and maybe get done. And we're not the real superstars. Well, I mean it's I think there were a lot more, a lot bigger effort by companies this year than in years past. Why as they're trying to make up for sales they didn't have last year. Especially if you're in any kind of merchandizing that requires people to be out and about, right, you didn't get to do it last year. So now it's like, hey, take dad to his favorite restaurant. Like normally it's hey, by Dad, more grill stuff. Here's another that's cool. I mean, there's only so many gadgets you can fit in the space. But you know what they get used? You use them. I use them. I've got a thing that has a butterball branding to fry a turkey. So I mean, whatever you need, you can find it and branded. That's what we need to figure out. How do we put our branding on a series of cooking implements, seasonings, the whole nine yards, maybe some white label dipping sauces, whatever the case may be. Merchandizers out there, get in touch with us at Swollen Dome, at King of the Mammals on Instagram, because that's what you see the wisdom of LaVar Arrington as well as his efforts at the grille, and again wherever you're at, Hi pop, if you're out there listening out for your morning walk in the hundred forty two degree weather there in Clearwater, Florida, I appreciate you. Hey. Yeah, well, it gets you know, really sticky and human and occasionally you'll go for a walk and find yourself a gator or two along your trail. But you know, hey, life's about adventuring. I could dig it. Yeah, some sometimes some good eats too. I crushed it onto grill yesterday. What what'd you what'd you go to work on yesterday? Uh? It was the normal. You know. My specialty is is ribes. I crushed it. I mean they were my best ones. I've I've I've mastered my sauce. It's a secret sauce. Uh, And I've mastered my technique of how I approached the meats. It's like a it's like a real process. There's there's really a lot to unpack there. And uh, most know that. You know, it's Sunday morning, so there's only so much I can do with what you just put us. We're just gonna raise my glass gear and just say let's let's leave that where it is. Find your wins, baby, Uh we're talking about Yeah. Look, we got some F one action earlier early this morning. We've got the final round of another massive golf tournament. Still waiting to see if there's any kind of fights or anything that will come off of the PGA Tour this time around, and and post match celebrations and well the agony of defeat as it were. We've got full slate of Major League Baseball. We've got a game seven, we got a game one, but yesterday you want to talk about a game, You want to talk about a game like, well, we'll get in and we'll we'll pop in with some activity as the US Open final round gets going to it's just down the road here, so you gotta pay it some love here in southern California. But the game last night between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn nets is is one for the ages. Some great performances, and I want to take the You remember the old ABC's Wide World of Sports and they'd have the montage and the music playing the thrill of victory and then that that terrible tumble down the ski slope the deft and in this case, we're gonna say it like we're in the South Side of Chicago defeat, because that's really what it comes down to. First, the thrill of well victory or at least moving on Creed lots across court, Durant, Carter, Myke Tucker, they buck head of the key turned around. Okay, but one second ago time out books, that's that's two point or a long one. It ties the game one, all nine. There you have it. Obviously the nets radio on the call. Uh, and I was waiting for this browder film and the Hey, how do we zoom in on this? See what I want? Like we always talk about we need sensors on the nose of a football to figure out did you get the first down? I wanted all around the three point arc from now on, like light up buzzers, whatever the cases like, I don't know the die that they say is in a pool if you should have some way to kind of do their thing. Uh. So you know all of that so we we can get a definitive answer, uh the edge. Hey, you know what we're doing. We're we're making people laugh. We're bringing joy to the masses right now. And that's that's the thing they die for. The toe that that touches the three point line from my car right now now. Royce Young, now writing for ESPN UH been out of Oklahoma City for a long time, made sure to point out a story from that says k D actually wears a shoe that's one size bigger than his foot. So the game of inches, he said, yeah, you know, my big gass foot cost me because he was well right on the line. And we're talking waffer thin. Uh that that area where the foot was over and then because we had that, we go into overtime and exhausted k D trying to do everything. This was the last ditch effort. Durant a three pointers straight away, shorted out of bounds Bucks ball with three tips of a second to play. I think on some level you saw the man's soul leave because he'd given everything, so like the last of it went with that shot, and that was the Bucks radio network on the second call. Uh. You know, it was an interesting play as you get down to it. LaVar a lot too. You can break down in the sequencing wide open misses from Joe Harris, the guy that led the NBA in three point effectiveness in the regular season, but his shot the last couple of games definitely off and then he had a wide open look in the waning seconds that well, it was just another clank off the iron, but this one for Durant, got the ball to James Harden and almost with the all right, you gotta do something for me here, yeah, and what did Harden to give it right back? You know? It was one of those games where I think we will all have the storyline of it will all run down the line in the lane of one guy can't do at all. And you're right, I mean he was looking for support. There wasn't too much of a supporting cast. I mean, hart And had had his points. Uh, but it just wasn't a hardened like performance. And and why would it be. You know, he was hobbled. Uh. He made mention of it. You know, the rest of the guys they needed to step up, Mike and they and they didn't. And like you said, let'sten if you're looking at KD to pull the wagon too, you know, you're hitching your your rig to it, like you know, your cargo, your cargo hold. He did a great job of pulling it. But with that being said, you still have to have some effort and some contribution in in a more major way than what the Nets gave last night. It's just one of those unfortunate things because it goes from a series where you think that the Milwaukee Bucks are heading towards getting swept, and if Kyrie Irving doesn't go down with the ankle injury, I think it's very well could have been what happened, you know, and in that situation. Um so, but that's you know, that's sports, and that's why you lace them up, and that's why you go out there, and that's why you compete because you just never know what the tide. Maybe it may change, it may stay the same. You may get steamrolled the way the Sons did. Uh, the Nugge gets or and what's here's what's interesting. And then you look at what happens to Chris Paul and it's like, all right, Chris Paul's shoulders hurting. Uh, maybe this is the one time that you know, again that again time where we say because they didn't have Chris Paul, because Chris Paul was injured, you don't win the series. He gets himself together, he comes back, they win the series, and then they steam roll the Nuggets. So you know, Mike, it can go either way sometimes. And you watched a resilient Kevin Durant try to pull them through. Um, but it just wasn't it just wasn't enough. Joannice played heck of a game. Middleton played a heck of a game. P J. Tucker is is such an unsung hero for this this Milwaukee Bucks team. Your your guy from Campbell Hall, you know, Drew Holidays is playing some some really fine basketball as well. I think it's going to be whoever they end up meeting in the conference finals. I look at it like, you know what, all things given, the Milwaukee Bucks aren't their opportunity to try to make it to the finals for the first time. Will do a little Philly Atlanta coming up a little later. But yeah, to your point, Uh, look, only eleven players scored in this game. That's the fewest in any game since the merger. Uh regular season or postseason, according to stats. Uh so that's that's kind of a big deal. Uh. You mentioned the Denver oust and we watched Utah. It's funny you win an award and you go home. I forget who it was on Twitter. I'd like to give him credit, but uh, Yokich four straight after getting his m v P plaque. Uh, he was back in he was back in the salt because he liked his defensive So both of those guys get their awards in a way they go as well. But uh, it's a couple of other quick stats k D in the overtime because this is where the Bucks. You got to celebrate them a bit for what they were able to do here. Uh. Oh, for six oh for one, zero points in the overtime. Uh, six to your final in overtime. So not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing, but when you've got guys long and fifty plus minutes, uh, that's bound to happen. Tired legs, bad passes. There were a few turnovers from James Harden where I thought Kevin Durant was gonna run back and just start screaming at him. It's like, I like your idea. The execution has got to be better. I'm kind of open, but not with the chest pass necessarily each time. A couple of times it worked beautifully. A couple of others, uh, not so much. And the Bucks defensively, I mean that was just a next level execution down the stretch. The crowd still counting off Janice's free throws. After a while he started hitting them. As you mentioned, forty boards. He did go eight of fourteen from the free throw line. Yeah. The only video you're gonna see are of the the two air balls, and there was one shot of James Harden just with shaking his head and looking at the referee like are we are you kidding me? It's like we're here all day so just a crazy game, but one that united all NBA fans. You want to talk about, uh, the blowing up social media back and forth with the runs that you had, and then watching Durant finish off with another forty eight point performance nine boards, six assists, a guy that we all wondered and I think rightly so with the injury that he sustained, where and how he'd get back into the fray and what did you have? The argument once again and well there's the best player in the world, Janice said it once again. Uh. And in the post game, LaVar I think the best comment of them all guys saying, Wow, you really left it all out there. Do you take some consolation that he looked at him, he goes cares you know Katie's Katie's He's a different Yeah, he's a good one though. He's a good egg man. Listen, I know k D pretty well. Um, he used to come into my restaurant all the time. We used to have great times talking. Um. He's a pretty cerebral dude, man, and he just he trying to shoots it straight. You know, he's one of those guys kind of a non you know, no nonsense type of guy. Um. So, yeah, that's a Katie like response, just you know, stay off the burner accounts. Other than that, like you know, it's the punching down thing that we talked about even we didn't know. You don't let people find out that you have them. That's you could have the burner accounts. I mean, you know you got CIA agents, you got d e A. You know, you've got all kinds of different in right, why not right? So he could have his own intelligence gathered, you know. But but the whole point of it is is that you don't let people know and figure out that you have burner accounts because all it does is open up to being assailed by hot take nonsense on a day to day basis. We look forward to bringing you some of that over the course and today Welcome in. It's Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Carmen alongside LaVar Arrington celebrating a fantastic game and celebrating Father's Day. Wherever you are, raise my oversized cup of coffee to you, the first of many this morning from the Fox Sports Radio studios. You can get in touch with the show at Swollen Dome at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Look, we're gonna celebrate some of those moments that we've shared the father figures in our lives and invite you to do the same. We'll read some of them over the airwaves, you know, sporting moments, concerts, random dad teaching, teachable moment, Grandpa, uncle's, uh, moms, whoever fills that role in your life. Let's celebrate them today. Let's have some fun. We got a lot of sports on the docket, and we got one that gets a little bit uncomfortable. It's Cole Beasley, Joe Mixing and what the NFL p A may or may not have done correctly in this situation. We'll talk about that next year on Fox. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live now. I absolutely love this coming back Chris Perfett on the Ones and twos because when I think of my dad and our love of film, most of our heist films that bring us together. As a former police officer, this is The Departed. Yeah, so you run lines right of all these movies from Reservoir Dogs to uh Copland, which holds a special place and uh, some of the stuff we've done through the years. So yeah, anytime you hear the opening of this, it's either I think of that good thing, I want to go fight. So I just a matter of mood today, you know, in the more sentimental kind of phase, at least for the moment. Are you. I thought you were just being really really uh edgy and risk today. No, I mean off the jump, but I didn't sleep very well, LaVar. I'm gonna be real honest. I'm gonna tell you all America. Uh, you know, the brain starts going on a million things you want to do, right, It's it's kind of the Hamilton's thing. Why do you write well like you're running out of time? You know, there's a million things I haven't done. Just you wait, all those kind of lines running through. So I'm making notes. I'm making all these these boards of what I want to build because football's common body. You and I have grand plans for a takeover of epic proportions. I know you're doing a couple of shows this week with Jonas Knox getting up with the wee wee hours of the morning, so uh, you'll rally here on Fox Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app wherever you're listening nationwide, you'll hear a few more a three hour blocks of LaVar getting Loose with Jonas Knox tomorrow and Tuesday, and then of course up on Game ten a m. Until noon every Saturday alongside t J. Hush Man Zada and Flaxco Burris. How about it. See we get all the plugs in. I think that's it. That's what that's what we do. You know you do this on on the daily. I love it. Microphone freedom and and everything that comes with You got a good team assembled that that are ready to dominate the ear holes of America. It's a beautiful thing. You know. It's only work if you make it work. Yeah, I mean looking and the fact that we're in the latter part of June now and there are so many glorious stories that are floating about. It's a rarity like this is normally the time of year where things are drifting right. The NBA Finals are usually wrapping up, and you've got a couple of days, then you have the Draft, and then you have a couple of weeks where it's baseball because the Stanley Final is normally done by this point, and you have a couple of weeks that are that are not quite dry, but we focus on baseball. It's like here we are. Now, we're at that point. We're really looking at all, right, who's got a legitimate contender, trade deadlines, superstars of the first half, what have we been talking about? And we'll get into it as we roll spin rate and foreign substances and all of those kind of things, and and pictures about the injuries that they attribute to such and so on. So you've got that mess, and then we we have a couple of weeks all Star break, and then we get into training camp and fantasy football content. We came through a pandemic. I was gonna saying we had four months where we had no sports. So it was like, you know, this is like, you know, we have no ankle weights on, nobody weights on. It's just n yeah, I mean, it's you know, I like him it the other day to being in the on deck circle with the old donuts as you're swinging the bat getting ready and then you flip those off and away you go, you know, or you're running with a fast whatever you're doing, and feeling that much more vigorous and free. So one of the things that is certainly it had been in the news the past weekend, and something you know, I think near and dear to you as well as you know you've got a son playing sports, your daughters are playing sports. You you played in the National Football League, of course, and the NFL p A and being called the task Cole Beasley doing a lot of ranting and his social media sphere about the policies adopted for this upcoming year between the PA and the National Football League, most of which are really the same as last year. It's just now that if you're vaccinated, well you have some more freedoms, just like the rest of society. And for Beasley is like, well, I may have to retire if this is the case. Like, well, you're a good player. You had a good run. No, I just I just gotta call it what it is, right, he had a good decade. Yes, you beat the odds, because he tried to say, hey, I beat the odds to be in the league. I can beat this Like no, no, no no, that's not the point. You're you're missing the whole point of this exercise here as to what they agreed to in terms of trying to get another season off without a hilt, you know, without a hitch to it, without any kind of problems. And we talked about it about a month ago on this show levard the coaches and that being a somewhat of an impediment, right because they weren't gonna be allowed to be on the field and they were gonna be some restrictions. And now it comes out for the players, well, here's what happens. And there's been a lot of talk that Buffalo was in particular having some issues with guys, you know, getting to the to the forefront of saying all right, let's get to a threshold, as they did major League Baseball and in the end, but the way they've drawn it up now, it's like, all right, are you going to have multiple hotels for players? How are how are you monitoring? There's there's a bunch of the details and I'm like, all right, what's the administrative of this beyond Hey, we we have daily checks for you still and you still have daily testing. But the p A. It's always been a curiosity for me as to how information gets disseminated, how well, how poorly, and whether everybody's ideas and thoughts, like it comes to a vote in the end, but how well that gets disseminated, and how much different it is team to team. Well, you know, the larger groups that have you representation, you know, no one is always going to be on the on the same page. You're not going to make everybody happy. Um, so you got to try to figure out where's the best place to say, Okay, we can't push this or go any further, or the just the amount of sensibility that goes into uh what what the conclusions are? I think, you know, for all the criticisms that go towards the NFL p A, I still think that there are a lot of fine guys that are representing um, that that group and that body, and and there are a ton of really really great things that comes from the p A. I think this is one of those hard topics, Mike. I mean, there's there's you know, there's so many ways to try to go about handling it, and so many so many directions it can go into. This is one of those ones where you gotta almost say, here's the approach unless narrow the focus to this being the approach of how we're going to handle it. And it comes down to philosophies, It comes down to belief systems, it comes down to ideologies, and and we all know that those are going to differ by by different you know, different people. So I mean, listen, I don't know what the right answer is for the whole way of of approaching um, you know, the coronavirus situation and and the vaccinations. But I do know this, we haven't heard very very very much. I mean, the intensity level of the coverage of of this topic, like we just mentioned earlier in the segment, was off the charts in terms of what you knew about the and that maybe not knew about the coronavirus, but the coverage and what you were being told, the information being disseminated, and now it's all but like kind of died down and you're not hearing much. So the whole Chris Paul thing comes up, and that pops up, and then it's like, oh, yeah, here's the reminder, like we had a short memory here, but we are still dealing with the effects of corona, the virus, and even though we're not hearing these astronomical numbers being reported and people having you know, hospital bits and rooms set up in parking lots and parking decks and stuff like that going on now or maybe it still is. I don't know, it's just not being discussed as much. So it's just like when you hear these topics come up, it's such a big issue that you're going to have people that have really really strongline beliefs in how they want to approach it. Well, because the other other prong of this was the Lebron James commentary, well, I mean just just from a hey, well, a bunch of guys got hurt because of the way we had to handle our seasons and everything else, which I don't doubt that the strain on the body was certainly there, but most of the injuries, especially when he started talking about All Stars, could be attributed to fluke circumstance, the Kyrie irving, you know, ankle being bent to a ninety degree ankle. That that's that's not coronavirus and pandemic scheduling related and at any any way, shape or form. Now, Chris Paul, the fact that everybody suddenly got really quiet. He's in protocol, like even Monty Williams and his latest presser. He's in protocol, that's all I'm gonna say. Well, you're one of the heads of the p A, and so now there's just the question of what you were preaching versus your individual choice and and what the league was trying to do. And you know, one of those things is what what It's the old adage your best ability is your available ay uh and injury or covid uh he's not available. Circle back to this in in just a moment to expand just from the the p A side, you know, at least from my my layman's uh outside looking in kind of understanding and and Lavark had set me straight. But first we're gonna go over to Isaac Lowan Crown, who's gonna give us an update on the US Open and all other things sports. Indeed, and everyone's still buzzing about the drama Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals last night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets in overtime of Game seven, tied at one eleven. Marvelous give us some t NT four to five seconds left overton ten on the shot clock study for Chris Fell that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, and in the final seconds. It was Brooklyn's ball and Kevin Durant's ball. Dreant for three tops up with for air ball with three texts on the second Romania for Milwaukee bucks Brookie one elevel week. They would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven over Brooklyn. Despite Durants forty eight points, nine abounds in six assist he played all fifty three minutes. Janis Antea Kompo scored forty points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two, tying the series at two wins apiece. And we've got a three way tie for the lead going to the final rot of the US Open today at Tory Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Haysen. At five under par overall, Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo two shots back at three under par overall. Michael and LaVar speaking of marvelous back to you guys, I was a little nervous as to what the call was going to be because people had been ultra critical of marved in big moments and I was having a blank. He didn't mess that one up, did because he'd misidentified some players. So it wasn't a yes. Oh wait, it was an air mall. And you know what that could have been. If the Eastern Conference Finals do not go seven games, that could have been the final game seven that Marv Albert has called in his legendary career. Last night, how about that? See there you go at Isaac lowan crowd where you find him on Twitter? Find me over at Swollen domell. Yeah, find my guy LaVar over at on Instagram at King of the Mammals, Yeah, Swollen Dome for me there as well. Just to continue, uh Beasley mixing. There's been a few others who who piped up a little bit on social media, and there's always chirping about the p A and one of the things to me that that stands out his football is a different animal in all this one. Contracts aren't guaranteed. Now some of the guys are getting more guaranteed money. Uh, You're starting to see a little bit of a trend that way. But you just have such a wide stratosphere, you know, stratification, I guess is the right way to say it, of players where they are on the continuum when you've got such a small window short careers, right, the average being what three and a quarter years or whatever. The last data point was that they put up guys that are fringe players. Cup of coffee, and it looks all professionals, and you know, I tip my cap to all all guys that that make make that level right, keep grinding, keep hustling, showing up at camps the following year to another team and hustling and trying to get uh their shot right because a lot of time scheme fit as we know. But you talk about the money being made by a quarterback and your upper echelon players at insert position here, and the rest of a squad and made up of undrafted guys or guys that are kind of moving team to team and they fit a need here for a year and and push along that. The economics of what they're dealing with, family structure, etcetera. Really doesn't allow for a lot of like minded thinking in some of these areas. Again, I take it all make the same amount of money and they're still going to have disagreements. You know, I've I've been in meetings where you're trying to find you know, solutions with with guys. And I mean, if you really think about it, if you are in the league, you should not be mentioning financially like it's it's hardship or anything like that, because in in real terms, you know, everybody is is making good enough money to make you know, solid decisions, Like if you're making it based off of the guy who's making fifteen forty million a year, I get that, but that's the extreme. You know, if you're down in the upwards of three or four d grand a year for your services, you know you should be trying to figure out the best ways to move forward and not you know, not lose sight of that. Well but but that but but yeah, I mean that that was more the point of the guys on the lower end, right and playing for league minimum or or just above there. There's the idea that you've only got the small window, right because you didn't get the big signing bonus. Your your considerations are a little different, right, so you might give up something what is that considered? You know what I mean? Like I'm just saying, like, if you're gonna be in that all right, the just say you're at the average, right, that's a good amount of money minus tax, monust agency and I'm not trivia, and then certainly it's it's still a lot of money compared to the the rest of the world. And I think that that's what gets lost sometimes. That's the point I'm trying to make, is like what gets lost in this is it's like, oh, this is altering my way of life for this that I have a small window data that you're making three four four hundred per season, So even if you only make one to two season, and if you're if you're living the way you were living before you were making that that league minimum salary. I don't know what it is at this point, but I mean, if you're making that while you're playing, I think your focus it's just should be on how can you maximize the amount of years, you know, amount of checks that you can get, not not going crazy over situational things like health protocols. That's that's well said and the smart way to approach. But as we know, well as we know, you're gonna have your issues. Everybody's gonna have their reasons to say what they want to say and do it how they want to do it. But with that being said, it kind of goes back to how you presented it in the first place. It's like Cole Beasley, like, aren't you like the poor man version of the West Welkers at Edelman's and even the a Mondolas And you know, it's like, aren't you the poor man's version of that? Like it's just kind of like it depends on who it's coming from. If it's coming from somebody, it makes sense, then you're going to like kind of put a little bit more into it. But it's like if you don't want to deal with it, Cole, keeping you here, plenty of wide receivers in camps and thanks, I'll take the extra reps right next man. It's next man up in every other circumstance. And and it goes back to the basic tenant that I remind folks kind of like the the First Amendment when folks start throwing that out liberally and I didn't mean that as a liberal or conservative thing, just liberally as in a lot is you have the freedom to say what you want. Just remember that there are consequences for it, and your employer could take umbradge with what you're doing. And in the NFL it's a private business. If these are the rules that have been established and apociated, then that's it. Yeah. I mean to take it or leave it as uh. You know, Kevin Durant said earlier, I did the who cares line. The other was if you don't like it, don't watch. In this case, if you don't like it, you know, go go find some of stiff. It's it's a new world order. Uh. And they're trying to get fans back in at a hundred percent capacity, a lot of revenue to be made up, no question about it. The league minimum, because you know I do my own quick research here six d sixty dollars and that's what you know. Well, that means it's escalated quite a bit in the last few years. We'll have to go back and look at the evolution of that, because I remembered it in the four hundreds of myself. If you're making six grand a year at the league minimum, things like protocols and stuff like that, you know, I would just say you have bigger fish to fry, you know. I'm like, if it's something that could give you benefits moving forward, like if something were to have happened to you or just that and other I get it. But if you're saying, oh, I'm not taking the vaccination, I'll retire before I take the vaccination. Next man up, he's LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Buy me over at small and don't be listening to Fox Sports Sunday Here on Fox Sports Radio and coming up next we'll take a little trip down memory lane, commemorate, uh, the dad's in our lives and what what they've done and sacrifice and the sporting concert, whatever big memory you wanna throw out here on Fox Sports Radio. Give us a line at Smallen Dome. That's coming up next year on Fox. One of the greatest little parts to a piece of music ever on the podcast you won't hear at but Bell Biv Devout Poison. That was our stinger for years on the Fantasy Football program Here on Fox Sports Radio to say, hey, we got some breaking news. I think we'll use it again this fall, although you and I will probably start singing and we'll never actually get to the news. But that's okay. Mike Carmen alongside the All American himself, three time pro bowler. It's LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day, everybody. We'll get to our our memories and moments in just a second, but reminded first, we're brought to you by Discover. Discover matches all the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year. And that's amazing because discovers accepted. Get this pent of places in the US that take credit cards. Learn more at discovered dot com slash Yes based on Nilson Report. Limitations do apply, alright, so I'll leave this off. We're gonna bring in the crew as they want to share or mock me. Uh. One of the great moments of uh, well, you dad worked a lot, right, trying to hustle keep us in uh, you know, the Catholic grade schools and then to our our efforts at saying ignacious in Chicago, and so hustling a bunch, and there were times you're playing whatever sport like I would be really cool if he could have seen that as I, you know, just danced into the backfield and took down another quarterback. Uh. But there there was a time where I got under the pile and LaVar. I know you could speak to this in graphic detail, but we'll save it for a chapter of a book of what happens in the pile. And I got well ripped pretty bad and my knee went the absolute wrong way. The kid even apologized, saying coach said to do this, which is always great. But I'm laying there like a sack of potatoes, and that I was hurled over the shoulder by my dad, who had figured out a way to switch up lunch schedules with the police department to come watch said game. And well, you know one of those that evidently he was always there in some way, shape or form. Ah, you just didn't know it until you got hurt and had to be carried off. So there, there's my There there's my memory. It's either that or watching people drunkenly in a parking lot at the Chicago Stadium yelling beat Boston in the pre Jordan days and potential fights in the parking lot, But we'll save that for another time. How about you, any anything that comes to mind? I think a super cool memory that I I have of my dad is when when I started playing ball, Um I was I was very emotionally charged. I know, if anybody knows my game has ever saw me play, they know I'm I played with um a ton of passion, a ton of emotion, and and so one of the things that my dad used to do before games, even like when I I think I had a moment where I had like maybe like a small minor um kind of a panic attack before a game when I was younger, and you know, he pointed to it his temples. You know, he pointed both point our fingers, He pointed to his head, like keep your head. You know, it's like, calm down, You're okay, It's gonna be all right. And it became our thing. So every game that that we would play, I would look. The first thing I would do is identify where my mom and dad was. And my dad would always point to his his temples every single game, all the way up until in fact, my rookie year was a struggle for me because my parents weren't at all of the games my rookie year. I ended up moving them to Washington and they were able to come to all of the home games at least, and they there. It is I find my dad no matter how far away they were, I find him and until the end of our our you know, till the end of my career, he would always point to his temples, you know, like keep your head, like have a good time, like play smart, you know, and and that was our thing. Like and I knew I was ready to go when I saw him do it, I knew I was ready to go. Mike. See, we we all talk about superstition and and all the rituals that you have. We'll get the rest of the crew in as we continue here on Fox Sports Sunday. Because you know, the timekeepers, the time variance Authority, uh tells me that we're we're up against it. No, no, no, but I'm sorry. I gave those props to my pop. Oh no, there's no there's no apologies. You know we we we we are storytellers. That's what we do. And uh, off the clock, Well they can start to go. Uh no question about it at LaVar Arrington on Twitter. But find him more at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Coming up next, we'll talk about the playoffs. Are you still hate watching? Who's the next villain? And Tyler? Come on, man, really, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fired with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book, and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Great Eggs Welcome in our or two of the program Here Fox Sports Sunday Mike Carmen alongside the all American himself, my guy, LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day to you, my my good friend. Yeah, back at you and everybody else that our fathers out there. Happy Happy Father's Day to y'all on the grind. Maybe you got a little extra sleep today before the normal responsibilities kick in. Wherever you're at however you're listening, thanks for being part of the extended family here at Fox Sports Radio. We do appreciate you all out there. If you're on the roads, be safe because they're getting crowded again and people are driving like fools. Uh saw a couple of remnants of accidents on the way in to the studio this morning. Hopefully everybody walked away unscathed. I just had to avoid all the pieces of plastic and glass that were left behind from whatever happened on the overnight. I'll check the scanner Twitter accounts here a little bit later as well, and doome where you find me at King of the Mammals where you find LaVar on Instagram. Coming up later on this hour, we'll do some more Father's Day memories and and stories with the crew, and of course, in about forty minutes from now, we'll go off the rails with our guy Isaac Lowan crime. But a couple of things for the NBA playoffs, LaVar the first of with the Brooklyn Nets going down and Lebron James long home. The only thing right now any any hate watching for Lebron is every time there's a space Jam commercial, which seemed to come in Rapid Fire. Yeah, yeah, at rapid Succession. Here's the thing that they're they've got like two or three cuts. You gotta give me more cuts. May maybe not that you want to give away all the movie, but uh, the same commercial running over and over again. I guess repetition works in advertising. There's what that that school of thought. The other is what are you doing to me? It's like when you're they used to preview the uh, you know, the next drama that they really wanted you to watch every commercial block and then even the live read coming back. You'd have Marv Albert, Hey, we're in the third quarter reminder Thursdays on TND, you know, coming up this new whatever it was. I remember when Claus was debuting now going into its final season with Dean Norris and and the crew there. But we we don't have the necessarily the hate watching element to the US of super teams and superstars that you have some aversion to because of the team up factor, overexposure, um, threatening of legacies when whatever the reason, maybe Brooklyn going down yesterday, it kind of deprives people of that that part of the equation because you got Phoenix. I don't know that it does only for the simple fact that if if they would have won, if they would have won it all, it would have been more of a miracle because they just the the circumstances surrounding the season for the Brooklyn Nets. Uh, it just would have been something that we have never seen before. And and so when I look at the Nets coming up short, I mean, you should have anticipated that they would come up short, even if this series wasn't the series that they came up short in not. With that being said, before Kyrie Irving goes down, I think a lot of people would say that, well, that was likely to happen, that that they could win it all. We're gonna runs were well, And I think that that would have been logical and sensible to think that it possibly could have if all of them had gotten healthy and we're able to stay on the court, which is the start of the playoffs thirty seconds and that was right, and and then that was it. So um, I think that this is a trend that will become the new norm um just because the way guys communicate, Like when I was coming up, we knew of one another, we didn't know each other, you know, And I think that that is the tremendously different aspect of all of this moving forward in sports as a whole. I mean, you know, we don't talk about this as it applies to other sports like baseball or hockey or soccer, but I'm sure goes on and no doubt, I mean, basketball just seems to be the different, different path as it were, just because guys play a U ball together. They do each other through the draft process, right going to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and whatever other camps, whether they're training in the off season, pick up games and the like. It's it's to me and you're right, that's that's what becomes very prominent when you think about, um, what what what the NBA does and how how it's represented. So I don't I just feel like when I think about the NBA and super teams and stuff like that, they have always been super teams. Well yeah, I don't get to go all the way back to the Lakers right when when the base was there and says right like even going all the way back to Kareem showing up, That's what I'm saying. You had like like James Worthy was like we never talked about James Worthy being like one of the best players, if not the best player on the team, you know, and and people was like, well what about Magic, what about Kareem? You take away James Worthy, like and and and and listen. I know a lot of people may not remember that far back, but James Worthy is one of the dopest basketball players that I've ever seen play ever. And and that goes all the way back to college when he was the dude on the team. I had Sam Perkins and oh yes, Michael Jordan's yeah right, sleepy yeah. So it's like, for me, there have always been super teams. I think what what has happened now is that it has become so prevalent as to what the relationships are between these guys creating these super teams and seeing it play out on social media like Herring dudes talk about you know who was that Carmelo is talking about how Lebron saved him, Like, no, they didn't play on the same team. But but just understanding that these guys become friends literally while they're eight, nine years old, ten years old, and they are friends, and they are are around each other, and they're connected through social media through their entire career, and so now that turns into we have money, so we're renting you know, private yachts or or maybe even owning them. Yeah, oh jeez. Uh and then the yeah, you know, I had an experience with a banana boat. We'll we'll broach that another time. But uh, you know that's that's uh that you know. I just think that now it's easier to create the lines of connection and say, Okay, this wasn't a GM d A. And I think that that's what has made this such a big thing, the whole super team situation is it's not the GM's that are dictating these moves by the teams. And that's just something historically that we have not you know, we have not seen we have not seen players dictate other players coming to play for teams or not wanting to play for teams and different things like that. Like I mean Lebron got people to come to Cleveland, man like Cleveland. Well, I think that's the biggest piece of all of this, right is player agency recognizing the other revenue streams are, in a lot of cases for the Superstars greater than even the most exorbitative contracts. Right when you talk about shoot deals, and the multi media opportunities that are out there. I mean, we talked about Kevin Durant. We went into him, you know, the the guy right a little bit last hour, and one of the reasons and things he loved about Golden State was going and picking the brains of all the Silicon Valley people. And we talked about some of the big investments he's making, uh in different forms, and one of them was in the whole collectibles business, recognizing the value and sentimental worth and and where it's just another line of toys more or less for folks with money when you start playing in the upper echelon of cards, autographs and all of those things. So why not go and learn and just go back to a team saying all right, I think I want to come here. How do we make the money work? How do we make the situation work? Sit me down with Steph Curry. He's got Holy moldy and and people can laugh about it. It does ratings. And they're in a third season already, all right, So, I mean, and executive producing films. We know Lebron and Russell Westbrook have movies in in process, not just Space Jam, but other things that their development companies are doing. So it's part of it is recognizing that one you can make that money anywhere, but too where where can you go where your happiest? And people want to work with their friends, right We want to work with people we we get to know and we're comfortable with. And if you you know, have a moment, you can yell at them and they recognize that it's all in love for the betterment of the product, and they don't take it personally right And and that's one of the things I think that is the appeal for for what's going on in that respect right now is all right, I can get after you and we come back after the next time. I was like, okay, cool, you know, not not you. I mean I was talking about are universal you? But but in all business right there, that's certainly you want to be around people you're comfortable with. But to that end, it's it's just one of those things for those that wanted to see it fail, whether they did, but it's round two. You you didn't get to see it on the biggest stage. So maybe if you feel like you were cheated in that regard, or maybe you had a long term that on the nets that you were hoping to cash. Now continuing in the playoffs, LaVar, here's one that I think it's kind of entertaining. And well, if you're from a city that has multiple teams in any sport, you'll understand why this is problematic. Just seeing our fans and how they stay till the end and how they would cheer, and um, it just you know, it just felt good. It was a great feeling, you know. And uh, like I said, a team in starving for some success, the fan base has been doing the same thing, and you know, um to me, I just you know, I always look at it differently, Like, you know, I know the Lakers are out and there's a lot of Laker fans here, but once the Lakers are gone, if we're not playing the Laborers, you should be cheering for the Clippers. And that's just how I feel because all one city and I can just feel to love and you know, I'm just very happy and proud of our guys. Yeah I don't agree with that. Yeah, as a kid from Chicago that wears an awful lot of white Sox merch and represents the hashtag change the game wherever I can. Yeah, no it, you know, I had to be on air while the Cubs were winning the World Series. And you want to talk about hard professional experiences, that might be one of them. Uh, but I did so professionally because you know, broadcast professional and everything. But I look, I get where he's coming from with hey, jump on board with us a little bit. I mean, great statistic twelve and one as a coach when his team's got a chance to win a playoff series and we talk about the adjustments coming back from down to vanquish the Jazz and really have a lot of people call into question the prowess and the reality of what Rudy Gilbert is. But that's a story for another conversation here. But for ty Louis's he's calling on Laker fans, and I can tell you all the Laker fans I know, I don't think they've ever taken to social media or two group text faster than to blast that comment. Yeah. Again, I get where he's coming from. And you know, that's it's so funny because that I was talking to coaching staff, uh, where my son is going to attend high school next year, and one of the coaches had a a Lakers mug. Lakers clipboard, uh Lakers mask Like. I was like, yeah, like the Lakers. He was like, well, you're forced to choose around here, you know, that's how things work. And you know that's how people work, you know, by pocket and pocket of areas. You know, from all the way to the heart of l A to all of the neighboring cities and the sea cities that are on the outskirts, and all the way through. It's like, you choose even if it And and here's the thing I think the cool thing about living here that I've learned is there there are certain things that because of the way things have worked out, like football had left l A. But if if you are in l A person and there is an l A based team like the Dodgers or the Lakers, or the Clippers, you know, or the you know, uh, you know, the Kings, then it's like, well, and in some cases, you know, because the Kings were somewhere else. I do believe, right where or have they always been in l A. I think they came from somewhere else, right, Okay, So if if there is a team that has been here for a long long because the Lakers came from somewhere else, too. But when you're when you're talking about teams that have historically been rooted here, you got to choose. You have to choose, or you have to or you have to be a part of it. Like I don't meet very many New York uh, New York Yankee fans in in l A. Because everybody is Dodgers fans, you know, and and and, which is interesting because they used to be you know, Brooklyn. But what that's here, Norther there. The thing about it is is that it's like your Dodgers fan and and and. As it applies to the basketball world, it's like you gotta choose between the Clippers and Lakers, and it's like a real thing here. It's like a real thing. So it's like, Okay, the realms have just come back. You now have the Chargers here, so it's like, I don't know, maybe it has the potential of getting to that you had the Rams before you know, they left, But you know, the idea of it is is that it's like you had USC and everybody chooses USC football. So it's like kind of like the loyalty factor of of a lot of people who live here, you know, whether it's East, South, l a, you know, whatever it may be when you get out on the outskirts, even hair, and like Glenn Dora, everybody chooses. Everybody chooses, and that the one thing I think is pretty cool is they choose someone from around here. And I think that's why Tyron Lou he understand the fan base is a little bit because he played Harry, won a championship and now he's coaching here. I think he understands the fan base, Mike, and I think that that's what's driving what why he would say something like that, Well, look, I think it's hip to clip I'll steal from Ben mallor why because I'm not. I'm not from here. So while while you while you live in Los Angeles, you gotta you gotta ride with one team. And where am I gonna go. I'm a White Sox fan. I'm going with the the underdog. I'm not jumping on board the bandwagon of the banners. No, let's go Steve Balmer, Let's get it done in year one. So I'm all. I'm all, and and I have been since I moved. Well, I don't know, Chris Baul isn't playing Game one and we'll see how quickly he's able to get back in. But no, I look, even with Chuck, the con was talking about you, I got, I got my White Sox. They're they're rolling, so I'll get a title there. But hey, it's my year. Many, it's Harmon's year. Look, Andy Dalton may still be QB one, but this is my year. And I want to do a little bit of a correction because it was a trivia question, uh that I was starting to think about going. No, I think they played a little further south. Uh, the Kings were awarded Jack Kent Cook got an expansion franchise here in Los Angeles, but they had to start this scene. Their first season was in Long Beach while they waited for the forum to be ready. And there's your there's one to grow on Washington Football team. Jack. Yeah that that Jack, Okay, Okay, that's interesting. I might have known that bit of trivia, not the Long Beach part, not the Long Beach part, but the other part of it. Yeah, that that one. I just remember being like a trivia thing of all, right, where where did teams really start? Angeles? But there you go, Long Beach. I've been doing a lot of uh, you know, relining this past week. I know if you're paying attention to mine, I kind of caught that, including some little acronyms that we can't do on air. Yeah, at King of the Mammals if you want to see that. More story time with LaVar and me coming up next as we continue down the road and and one coaching rehab. Evidently there is a place you can go to bring yourself back to the forefront. We'll talk about that next year on Fox Welcome back in. It's Fox Moore to Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment alongside the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, alright, time pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or they take the podcast of up on Game ten am to noon, Sad to Day is here Pacific Time live on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plasgow Morris and t J Hoovenzada. How's t J doing? Is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that the Clippers have advanced in the Lakers didn't. Kind of goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott, and he uses the whole our team, like when when my team? And as soon as you get it's only Yankees, Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well, I never come across a White Sox fan that says, hey, my white Sox and when we and because we don't, and and like it's like every single day I will hear my team and the moment they say my team, I know it's Dallas every single day, Lavar're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take you to the to the one of eights uh, and you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure you guys listen. I'm from Pittsburgh, so I understand that from being where the downtime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers, the Stellers. Yeah, we have weird dialect. I just say a lot of like as we say beer instead and you don't know if you're saying beer to drink or beer from from the woods, you know which by the way, we had one in front of the house the other day. Um, how about it. Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of words that are interesting. So when people like human, I have to really focus on saying human with an H because it always comes out as as human. But that's just how we sit it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's funny because the for a long time on the show I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to eleven Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering uh big games and big events as they go. Luck, he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but not a ton. But yeah, and then we watched Mayor East Town. I just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed like he had captured at least some of the dialect Pittsburgh Philly because Philly is like you know what, you know what apokey like or uh you know, Uh, it's a lot of us. Some of it is driven by you know, uh, you know Muslim faith. Um, you know there there's like a different it's a different like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like, there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well, but it's all about languages. This was East Town. So the point the point. The point Mike is I can go with you two where you're from and hear people say us and we and I as their team, and that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different places in America and around the world and they say my team, it's generally one of those Global branding is a reality, there's no question about it. Get in there and and I get sick of it. That's why that's why I know I get I get tired of it. Like my team. Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now I got to change my tone on it because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like, which is weird, because Sean Lee has been with the team for has been great and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing, whereas Mica, you know, has has changed the way I'm looking at Dallas like I actually my root for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention, they did a masslid. His money is guaranteed at Lamarrington, at King and the Mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I I think that's more an off air counseling session to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little bit of you have. But first it's Isaac Lowan Crown with what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it. Though we were in the final minute of overtime tied at one eleven in Brooklyn here's Marv Albert on TNT four to five seconds left overton ten on the shot clock study as it hits for Chris Falter So that put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three bucks up for the air ball with three texts on the second Romania the Thelwarkee Bucks Brookie one one elevel League and Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durant's forty eight points, nine rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes. Last night, Janie Antea Koopo scored forty in fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two. That series tied to two games apiece and going to the final rount of the US Open today at Tory Puns. We've got a three weights high for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under par Overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, Man, LaVar, I warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago. Glad you're okay, you know what we are? Okay? It was it was interesting. I was not I was. I was almost pulling up to the house, but I had got the call, like they were outside. One of the friends of one of my kids was leaving the house and they thought they saw a dog walk out of the out of the yard, and then they saw its head and they're like, there's no dog that has a head that big. That's not a dog. We should probably stop thinking about what it is and get back into the house. And then once they got back into the house, they realized that looking at it as it was moving, it was a bear. And we've just we just received confirmation from Fox Sports Radio's sources that when the bear realized whose house he was outside of, he decided to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it. I definitely wanted to see it, see where he's looking like. I was like literally three minutes away when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes too late. Well. The the only way that works, though, is if someone's got the phone on in the family as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing. I wouldn't to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't have tried to hurt the bear, but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did a run block and move and save them from the bear that was just a couple of miles from LaVar's house. Yeah, yeah, nerve, No, that's just it. That was a big bear. Though. I don't think these were. I don't think these were big. I don't think this one was big. Like, it's all perspective. I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear. I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six percent of people said they could take down a grizzly gar. Remember when we were talking about we were talking about there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like, come on, man like people are crazy. I still want to know what the percentages that thinks they can take down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about ten minutes as we go off the rails here on Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off just in terms of language as we talked about identification with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports exploring just his road back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab program established or what it's being called a rehab program for Nick Saban quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be a better job in the NFL. I say, it's the rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all of a sudden you can coach again. One of yeah, No, Well, he just said there wouldn't be a better job in the NFL, just in terms of if you had to go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinators, you'd go to Alabama one of the I think just kind of skipped from e Z. But we'll connect the dots for you. No, and you and you connected them beautifully there. Uh Kiffin was one of five former college head coaches to work under Saban in the last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another another shot. What do you think it is that I mean, obviously the great success, but since most of that gets attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm trying to figure out how just being on the staff would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly it was something you were doing, so let's give you another job. Well, success is all in the structure and the process and in the approach and the execution. And if you've had if you have those established and and they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are, then the reason why coach would go there and they're able to rehab their careers. They learn that that, they learn all of those things, and they're able to take that that process, They're able to take that structure, the way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the programs they go to. Now here's the key The key is is that generally it's only one person that really knows how to manage it and and pull it together the way that they do. And and you have to have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking, the UH, the ability to lead and communicate men, not just the men that are players, but the men that are coaches in a way where you're getting those results. We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick. Belichick. Tree certainly has UH branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's the thing about it, though, But you still have a chance, right, You still have a chance because you have the information. So like it's interesting, like when I started my head coaching career, I called I called my coaches. I called my coach from high school, I called I called my my one of my teammates that was my my you know, my freshman year when we won a championship. Um, he's won championships. Now as a head coach of high school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call all of the guys that I know. I called coach Bradley that we had on our show um, I call them and I asked for the information that will allow for me to lead the team and structure the team and do all of those things create the processes that work. And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and it was you know, for me, I had to do it to like one of the most watered down versions because I just wasn't out of football school for the last three years. But it still works. I mean I still was able to get a third team win, you know, career and and what uh sixteen wins ten losses something, fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But we were on the other side of five hundred, you know, over the course of three seasons. So you know, for me, once you are able to show that success, people are going to buy into the success because they want to have success and they want to learn how to be successful. And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly, is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role and fitting their role. A lot big thing about it. It also is just being willing and being humble enough to play your role or wait your turn, you know, a lot of places. You are not going to have that from coaches. You're not going to have it from players. Players want to play right now, they expect to play play right now, or they leave. You know, coaches, you know, have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled a certain type of way, even if they're not the head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion. Sometimes it can create friction. And you know, a guy like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about any real craziness that takes place with the people that he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the next guy trying to figure out what that next step is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There you go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's and everybody just raise their hands on yeah, iron sheet. Thinking about is wrestling culture that? And I was watching a guy do a case break of a bad yesterday from a company and it was a wrestling product, and they pulled an iron cheek autograph and that the guy knew who it was that opened the pack for the person, but the guy who bought it was like, I have no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match, If you go to Twitter and just read two or three days of motivational sayings from the Iron Cheek, Uh, you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. The Iron Cheek is a funny dude man, no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Dotting, one of the great finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no question about it. Memories. Well, you know what, maybe maybe folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the old Google search later on as well. Uh, this is Fox SPORTSNY. Coming up next, we're gonna go off the rail. Else we're gonna do a quick whip around with our guys as well. Get one of those big Father's Day moments. If you have any you'd like to share, please send him in at Swill and Dome on Twitter. This is Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday, Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Armen alongside the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, fight time pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or they take the podcast of Up on Game ten am to noon Saturdays here Pacific time, live on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plaskow, Morris and t J Houshvenzada. How's t J doing is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that the Clippers have advanced and the Lakers didn't. Can again goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like, everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott, and he uses the whole our team like when when my team? And as soon as you get it's only Yankees, Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well, I never come across the White Sox fan that says, hey, my White Sox and when we and because we don't and and like it's like every single day I will hear my team and the moment they say my team, I know it's Dallas every single day. A right, LaVar, you're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take you to the to the one of eights. Uh, and you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure guy. Listen, I'm from Pittsburgh, so I underst stand that from being where dantime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers, the Stillers. Yeah, we have weird dialect. I mean to say a lot of like as we say beer and stuff, and you don't know if you're saying beer to drink or beer from from the woods you know which By the way, we had one in front of the house the other day, Um, how about it? Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of words that are interesting. So when people like human, I have to really focus on saying human with an H because it always comes out as just human. But that's just how we said it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's funny because them for a long time on the show I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to a lot in Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering uh big games and big events as they go. Luck, he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but not a ton. But yeah, And then we watched mayor Easttown. I just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed like he had captured at least some of the dialect Pittsburgh or Philly because Philly is like you know what if you know what about key like or uh you know, uh, it's a lot of um, but some of it is is driven by you know, uh you know Muslim faith. Um. You know there there's like a different it's a different like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well, it's all about languages. This was East Town. So the point to the point, the point Mike is I can go with you two where you're from, and here people say US and WE and I as their team, and that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different places in America and around the world and they say my team, it's generally one of those. Global branding is a reality, there's no question about it. And I get sick of it. That's why that's why I know I get to get I get tired of it. Like my team, Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now I got to change my tone on it because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like which is weird, because Sean Lee has been with the team for has been great, and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing, whereas Micah, you know, has It's changed the way I'm looking at Dallas, like I actually my route for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention they did a Missalid. His money is guaranteed at LaVar Arrington at King and the mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I think that's more an off air counseling session to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little bit of rehab. But first it's Isaac Low and Crown with what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it. Though we were in the final minute of overtime tied at one eleven in Brooklyn. Here's Marv Albert on t NT four to five seconds left overton ten off the shot clock study as it hits for Chris Falter. So that put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven, and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three up for air ball with three texts on the second rebellion for Milwaukee Bucks brook on thirteen one eleven d and Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durand's forty eight points, nine rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes. Last night, the honest Antea Koopo scored forty and fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two. That series tied to two games apiece and going to the final rout of the US Open today at Tory Puns. We've got a three weights high for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under par overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington. Man, LaVar, I warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago. Glad you're okay? You know what were we are okay? It was It was interesting. I was not I was. I was almost pulling up to the house, but I had got the call, like they were outside. One of the friends of one of my kids was leaving the house and they thought they saw a dog walk out of the out of the yard, okay, and then they saw its head and they're like, there's no dog that has a hit that big. That's not a dog. We should probably stop thinking about what it is and get back into the house. And then once they got back into the house, they realized that looking at it as it was moving, it was a bear. And we've just we just received confirmation from Fox Sports radio sources that when the bear realized whose house he was outside of, he decided to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it. I definitely wanted to see it, see what he's looking like. I was like literally three minutes away when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes too late. Well, the only the only way that works, though, is if someone's got the phone on in the family as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing. I wanted to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't have try to hurt the bear, but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did a run, block and move and save them from the bears. That was just a couple of miles from Lavarre's house. Yeah, so that's just it. That was a big bear. Though I don't think these were I don't think these were big. I don't think this one was big. Like, I mean, it's all perspective. I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear. I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six percent of people said they could take down a grizzly gar. Remember when we were talking about there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like, come on, man, like people are crazy. I still want to know what the percentages that thinks they can take down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about ten minutes as we go off the rails here on Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off just in terms of language as we talked about identify occasion with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dot of CBS Sports, exploring just his road back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab program established or what it's being called a rehab program for Nick Saban. Quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be a better job in the NFL. I say, it's the rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all of a sudden, you can coach again. One of yeah, No, well he just said there wouldn't be a better job in the NFL, just in terms of if you had to go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinator, what you'd go to? Alabama one of the I think just kind of skipped from A to Z. But we'll connect the dots for you. No, and you and you connected them beautifully there. Uh. Kiffin was one of five former college head coaches to work under Saban in the last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another another shot. What do you think it is that I mean, obviously the great success, but since most of that gets attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm trying to figure out how just being on the staff would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly it was something you were doing, so let's give you another job. Well, success is all in the structure and the process and in the approach and the execution. And if you've had if you have those established and and they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are, then the reason why coach would go there and they're able to rehab their careers. They learn that that, they learn all of those things and they're able to take that that process, They're able to take that structure, the way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the programs they go to. Now here's the key. The key is is that generally it's only one person that really knows how to manage it and and pull it together the way that they do. And and you have to have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking, the uh, the ability to lead and communicate men, not just the men that are players, but the men that are coaches in a way where you're getting those results. We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick Belichick Tree certainly has uh branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's the thing about it though, But you still have a chance, right, You still have a chance because you have the information and so, like it's interesting, like when I started my head coaching career, I called, I called my coaches. I called my coach from high school, I called, I called my my, my, one of my teammates that was my my, you know, my freshman year when we won a championship. Um, he's won championships. Now, as a head coach of high school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call all of the guys that I know. I called coach Bradley that we had on our show, Um, I call them. And I asked for the information that will allow for me to lead the team and structure the team and do all of those things, create the processes that work. And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and it was you know, for me, I had to do it to like one of the most watered down versions because I just wasn't out of football school for the last three years. But it still works. I mean I still was able to get a third team win you know, career and and what, uh sixteen wins ten losses something, fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But we were on the other side of five hundred, you know, over the course of three seasons. So you know, for me, once you are able to show that success, people are going to buy into the success because they want to have success and they want to learn how to be successful. And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly, is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role and fitting their role a lot big thing about it. It also is just being willing and being humble enough to play your role or wait your turn. You know, a lot of places you're not going to have that from coaches. You're not going to have it from players. Players want to play right now, they expect to play play right now, or they leave. You know. Coaches, you know, have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way, from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled a certain type of way, even if they're not the head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion. Sometimes it can create friction, and you know, a guy like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about any real craziness that takes place with the people that he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy Brian Now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the next guy trying to figure out what that next step is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There you go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's and everybody just raised their hands on yeah, iron cheek. Thinking about is wrestling culture? That I was watching a guy do a case break of a bad product yesterday from a company, and it was a wrestling product and they pulled an iron Cheek autograph and that the guy knew who it was that opened the pack for the person, but the guy who bought it was like, I have no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match, If you go to Twitter and just read two or three days of motivational sayings from the iron Sheet, uh, you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. The Irish cheek is a funny dude man, no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Doting one of the great finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no question about it. Memories. Well, you know what's maybe maybe folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the old Google search later on as well. Uh, this is Fox Sports Sunday. 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Happy Father's Day to my guy, LaVar Arrington. Yeah, Happy Father's Day to you, sir. And happy Father's Day out there to all the the daddy's and the daddo's and the padres and the yeah and the poppies and the weapons, whatever term of endearment or sometimes derision you know we have. We all have weird relationships sometimes with the the relatives. And you know how your kids address you. I. You know I from my younger daughter. I get the hello sir, versus hello child and things of that nature. It's, uh, sometimes weird, but it's it's our own way of communicating. However. You do you, you do you, I guess is what it comes down to here. We appreciate you wherever you're listening the I Heart Radio app. If you're out and about, take us with you. Serious XM. Channel A D three of course all of our local affiliates some four hundred plus six hundred total for for I Heart Media and our our network, which is just absurd. Uh. 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Thanks to Johnny Robbos who was with us last week, but Sam returns a little worse for the weary, looks a little tired, you know, running running around the corn field and and maybe looking up grain prices. See, I know Sam's I Sam's world. Well, why not growing in the backyard? Now, that would be something if you pull that, pull that off here in southern California. I could just see him on the plane. What do you got there, sir? It's like, what, Well, that's water, you know, I gotta keep this plant alive. What are you gonna do? It's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna build a field of dreams in southern California. Man. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, no question. No. You know what's funny because I wanted to talk about relocation mention the Bears a little bit earlier with the idea of heading to Arlington Heights, buying the site of Arlington Park race Track, looking at at least putting a bid in three six acres. Think of all of the magnificent, enterprising things you can do there. Plus you have ample parking, you've got mass transit already running out there, beautiful facility opportunities and businesses. Oh and your own stadium that you're not paying rent the Chicago Park District, who rents it out to whomever well they please, And according to reports, they only pay about six million dollars in rent each year. Believe and believe me, Uh, triple check that number and tried to find any other source that can give me another number somewhere between five point seven and six point three million dollars. So we're not talking about a lot. But Mayor Lightfoot fighting with the Bears, Brass went into a whole thing about, you know, playing meaningful football beyond October u encountering herself as a season ticket holder and then using that line, I'm like they they've gone to the playoffs two of the last three years, Mayor, Uh, if you would have known that, I think if you'd attended a game or two. But that's a whole other thing for another time. Another team that is a long term potential is the New Orleans Pelicans, and they're in the news for two reasons right now. One Gayle Benson and just the idea of is is basketball quote unquote work king there? Or do you need to move to another city? We always keep hearing about Seattle and maybe a return of the glorious Sonics moniker and logo from all those years ago. Remember once upon a time Kevin Durant wore those duds for the final season before the Oklahoma City Thunder popped up. And now we look at the Yeah, now we're looking at New Orleans with the exodus of top talent from Chris Paul and Anthony Davis member with eighteen months left on his deal set, I'm out and came here to Los Angeles, and now there's rumblings that will another superstar in the making and his family aren't necessarily pleased with the direction of Well, you add the family and I bring that in because it's the all right, what are we talking about here? Right right? Yeah, You're in year two obviously a lot of huge expectations, and to this point, Zion's delivered right in terms of his product productivity. There's certain games of his certain parts of his game of course that need to be refined, like most young players, but the explosiveness and availability has also been huge. Now he suffered a finger injury that ended his season, and we looked at the at New Orleans and the and the Pelicans fall short. Van Gundi gets fired and now we've got the revolving door coaches, so that's problematic, right, no stability there. But when you talk about young talent, they have a nucleus, but you don't know if Lonzo Ball is coming back. He's a guy that will be sought after in free agency and Brandon Ingram has developed into a pretty fine player. But already after year two, the rumblings are that Zion wants greener pastures and there's not really a lot of detail other than and you know, some shots at the organization and in the building process, which you're in the Western Conference, growing pains are gonna be there. Put that team in the East, you might have been what the middle of the back or at least looking at a playoff birth maybe, but you've got to play the hand you're dealt and you you're building, and you've got a good nucleus. You you traded off Reddick, which rubbed people the wrong way because that was a guy Zion was leaning on, and then Reddick left and didn't have great things for the organization. I raised my hand to that just saying I get it. In the best circumstances, they wanted to help you out with where a trade was gonna happen, and they got a better offer somewhere else. So thing. So it's it's the business of the business. Uh, it's not always going to flow a pent you know by you know, my word is my bond. But it does just lend to between him and Luca, we got young guys that are now raising their hand, perhaps earlier than they ever have because we're used to it with the veteran players now, but now we've got the guy's middle of their first contracts looking around and and upset with organizational decisions. And I think flexing now perhaps more than ever. Yeah, I just think the landscape is changing. And again, guys like Zion have way more exposure at this point in their careers than what guys at this point in their career has had years ago before technical logical advances have taken place, so you know, you can get your message out there one way or the other. Uh, there's all kinds of different you know, alternative media sources now, including yourself. And and so when when you want to dictate things, when you're at a certain level of popularity and influence, uh you can do it. And and and what's gonna be interesting is going to be watching how these traditional organizational protocols and approaches are going to have to adjust and adapt to the changes in the times, Like that's there is I bet you there is friction behind closed doors. I bet you there's this whole you know, when cold air meets warm air in the in the air, you know, it creates you know, thunder and lightning and stuff like that, and then you can feel it in the air to there you go, wow, yeah, wow, that was really good. Yeah. I mean I think that that's where that's where sports, major sports, that's where it's going well. When particularly in the NBA, where one or two guys change the face of a franchise, right, you get that one name to your town. You're selling out the arena, You're selling a bunch of merch and jerseys. Why a guy like Lebron I mean not that the Lakers don't already move mountains and mountains of merchandise, but when you've got that level of following, and it's like, you know what, I think, I think I think we've maxed out our twenty three sales. I'm changing the six and what are people gonna do? They're gonna go pony up for a replica or or authentic or whatever they need to do, and they'll add to their list of jersey purchases. And there's there's a lot to it in the marketing, merchandizing and self branding that go with it. Right within the NFL, we've got the fights of the Aaron Rodgers and other players, huge impactful players, but the power structure is different and what you can do. One guy going to an organization and I know the Tom Brady just one after leaving for one year. He's the outlier. Okay, man you got him and Manning two of the guys we talked about as the greatest of all time. Yes, they were able to go into different situations and win, but generally it doesn't work out quite so that generally doesn't work out that way. But with that being said, generally speaking, it hasn't worked out that way, probably because you weren't able to have anymore than the opportunity to go somewhere else. These guys are going somewhere else and they're dictating who's there. Like you know, Peyton Manning not so much. They already had a super team. They justn't were missing that one. We needed a guy to just guide it along Tom Brady. They had a ton of talent, they just needed somebody who could bring winning, a winning mentality. I don't think. I don't think folks recognize that, like it was some grand turnaround. Jamis Winston obviously, we know he's in the very rare thirty thirty club. But a couple of possessions, you know, the old I'd like to have that one back. And there are twelve and four a team. But that's a damn good team, you know. Yeh Like on defense, they had David They you know, they had players. Their defensive front was crazy, you know, and and you had some guys step up and and play better. Uh. But again, I mean it was the pieces were there. I mean, give give Tom Brady credit. He chose, he had a couple of different options. He chose. Chicago was one of those l A teams. Was was in the mix as well. I think the Rams were in the mix to to try to get them, or the Chargers the Charges before they did the draft or whatever. But you know, I just think that he he hatched his beat very well. You're just not gonna be in situations that that aligned that way for you to be able to have the type of success even if you're that amazing of a talent. Now with some body like like Zion, you would assume that if he's trying to make a move to go somewhere else, he's gonna try to go somewhere where they have tremendous bones and talent and play and so far. I was listening to UH Chris and and Rob debate, you know, the other day, and and Chris Broussart was talking about UH Luca and and Dallas and and how it would be hard to have another dominant guy there with him and he's going to have to learn to play in the system. I mean, I could see a guy like Zion going to Dallas and that being the missing piece to what that team would need to to have a dominant one to punch and and have some good role players and and make you know, make it make it pretty far in and maybe further than what they did this year, you know, I get out of the first round. So I mean you think about things like that, like would they be at would to coexist? You know, what are those teams that Zion could go to where you had the type of dynamic where they could coexist so you know, you throw those conversation points out there. It's great for conversation um by sports fans, but in reality, does Zion have that type of relationship with somebody around the league somebody's where you could influence them to want to all go to the same team and make a move. I don't know that I've seen that from Zion, you know. And the only thing that came out, I think he's just stating he doesn't feel good about what's going on where he's at. Yeah, the only thing that came out over the course of the year was remember when they played at Madison Square Garden and he was like a little kid in the press conference right of playing there and the aura of that arena and it was fun, as we talked about last week, just that you had that playoff atmosphere there in basketball was relevant, right the last time it was and we commemorated the anniversary and it's a terrible, terrible anniversary. But when we know in pop culture of the O. J. Bronco Chase, that was the last time the Knicks were in the finals, right, so you know you're talking about, you know, a lifetime ago, as it were, so to have the crowd at you know, full throated in losing their minds. Under Tom Thibeau and company, you've reignited that as a place and maybe that becomes a destination. Got a couple of nice pieces there. How it fits, I don't know, but yeah, watching him run the floor with Luca would be a lot of fun, right, A guy who is ball dominant but passes and Zion as we know, ran point quite often this year, which was a whole other thing. Once Alonzo ball was hurt. You saw him handling the ball quite a bit. So shades of well what Lebron became, but just doing this at the very early part of his career. But interesting dynamics a foot in the NBA. I think player movement is going to be uh well, I think it's gonna be very active again this year. It was a great article of Brooklyn just eliminated that talked about all of the different mechanics of contracts, not only for your three superstars who can all opt and try to get a huge pay day or opt out altogether, but all the ancillary players that we'd come to know during this playoff run and towards the end of the regular season where they've got to make some huge contract decisions. And Spencer Dinwiddie who was injured, who's gonna opt out of his contract and test free agency. But all these pieces that are moving just in one squad. UH. Delicious theater to come and no days off, just like Bill Belichick has always preached Lovar, which is good for all of us, no question about it. But you'll be doing some early work, doing the Lord's work. Three to six am Pacific time, Monday Tuesday, alongside Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio. Give that a listen when you're up and getting ready, making your coffee, getting ready for work. Uh, LaVar will entertain you alongside with Jonas who has his unique brand of humor as well. You know him on the network. UH and Jonas. Now you'll have thought it'll be well, there you go. You'll you'll have the the first tomorrow. UH and folks will have that. Yeah. Reminder, we brought to you by discovered Discover matches. All the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year. It's amazing because Discovers accepted at of places in the US that take credit cards. So you can learn more. Go over to discover dot com slash Yes, based on a Nielsen report one limitations do apply. Coming up next, we've got Major League Baseball with a bunch of rules of enforcement. I gotta find out from LaVar what would be the equivalent in the National Football League. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports or Radio Fox Sports Sunday. Mike Carmen, alongside the King of the Mammals himself, will find the Mammals of the Week. Coming up about twenty minutes from now, it's my guy in LaVar Arrington Eppy father's date all the dad's dad figures out there. Yes, Adam corrects me. I forget the Knicks did have the I didn't. I didn't think that really mattered because they stunk losing in five. But yes, they did get there. I just remember them from the fun and excitement of that one. Uh so, yes, I appreciate it. I I really should know my Knick's history, seeing as I work with a wee guy Monday through Fridays on the network, the greatness that is h Yeah. Well, Jason Smith, look, he owns him. He also owns every pick of every team in these playoffs. It's kind of interesting. Uh the way he's worked it. I can't fault to good strategy, so it becomes my box now my So it's it's good, it's good. And yes, how can I forget those I feel I feel bad for that? Well, no, I mean because you gotta you gotta do the corrections on that bad job by me. That was Jeff Van Gundy Lad Squad at that point. So good times, Uh, no question about it. Now. One of the things wanted to address Major League Baseball with the on Monday will begin the enforcement umpires having to go and and decide, well, is there something funny about the grip? And are they gonna wait for a manager or a coach or a player to utter their disapproval of what they're seeing? Are they gonna wait for the television broadcast to give us something obvious, because I think that's where some of the problem has been with all of this LaVar. Obviously they want more offense in the game, but I think part of it becomes a hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, Um, that guy's got a giant glop of something on the brim of his hat, or he keeps reaching down to his belt, buckle or whatever the case. Maybe Uh, Trevor Bauer did a great thing in in front of some assembled press earlier this week. He goes, well, between rosin and sweat, you can do this. It's like WHOA goes So, now arbitrarily, you can decide to toss me from a game and there's no appeal. Right, you're out of the game. You're gonna get your suspension because you're not gonna be able to prove you didn't have it on there. Right, So you you're you're now a judicating something based on feeling suspicion. And to his point, which I thought was a pretty good one, it's like, what if I was arguing balls and strikes in the third inning and so now he's he's gotta ticked off at me because I'm challenging him. And then in the fifth inning, for giggles and I'm dominating, the opposing manager comes out and says, hey, I want him checked. If he suddenly decides I've got too much of a grip on the ball by spin rates up, whatever, I got a problem. Mm hmm. I still get paid during the suspension, Right, that's the rule they put in place, But it seems well, not something you do in the middle of a season. I don't know that stuff is. It's it's out of my wheelhouse. But I have seen like the tar on the socks and the different different approaches to you know, how guys can get a competitive advantage that you know kind of go against the rules. But you know, I don't know. You know, when you think about in baseball, like the the the inches that that are at play when you're swinging the bat, different things like that, or when you're throwing the ball. Um, you know, it can make the difference for guys. But you know, if you get caught. Yeah, I don't know, Matt, because because they're they're there's the there's the politically correct way of answering, and then there's the there's the brutally honest way of answering. And you know, the brutal lion is answer to you have something, the way you can grip your bat and stuff like that, The brutal lion is answer is if it makes you better, do it. You know. But well, but that's the thing, right, You've allowed it to go on in some capacity, somebody, shape or form, and now offense is flailing. You've got no hitters and would be no hitters. So everybody is suddenly up in arms, and look, to some degree you've got you've got a number of players where it just got so brazen, like all right, come on, don't don't rub it in our faces what you're doing here, because now you're just being too obvious. But it's still just the point of you've always had grip, and some pictures say, hey, you had Tyler Tyler glass now saying hey I had to change this, and now my arm hurts right, And you've got others wondering about the same, their their level of effectiveness. I think we'll have the splits of this year that will look at the tree decision and and starts after that date and certainly after tomorrow that will be monitoring quite a bit. I was just wondering if there was anything NFL related that would stand out to you. I mean, these days, I would probably just say, these gloves that they're wearing these days are pretty I mean, that's spider tack on on steroids, isn't it. I mean in terms of they don't need you don't need stick them. I'll tell you that what's upon a time you did man Lester all these all these big handed receivers. It's like, you only have to have a strong hand to squeeze the ball because you don't have to have a strong hand to catch it. And and let me qualify that because somebody's sitting there in their cars somewhere like LaVar is punch drunk and I'm really not uh. When the ball hits your hand, like you said, that tack that's on the bottom of the glove is so crazy, so sticky, so grabbing onto the texture of the football. That the catching part, you know, the contact it's staying there, that part. It's kind of you just gotta get your hand on the ball. It's when you say, like when DeAndre Hopkins squeezes the ball and you can't get the ball out of his hand to create an incomplete pass. That's where you're saying, strong hands come into play. You're in traffic, different things like that. But make no mistake about it, if you're by yourself and that ball hits your hands, I'm just telling you right now, guys that were gloves that dropped balls in today's NFL is it's a travesty. It is a flat out travesty because in some regards. It doesn't take skill to catch a ball at this point in time, because if the ball touches your glove, it's going to kill the momentum of the ball and stick to your hand, and all you gotta do is make sure you secure the catch. Now, I don't want to make it in simple, so simplified terms that it takes away of everything that takes place for you to be in place to make that. Well. See that's the key, right for all the wide receivers at King of the Mammals on Instagrams where you can find him in comment. Uh. I think that's the fine distinction, right. There's still a lot to get open, a lot to get into your space, and the physicality of it all. It takes away nothing from that except for the ability sometimes to snag the ball one handed that seemingly defies the laws of physics. But also remember that you almost have a magnet on your hand. So he's got to he's got to hand the size of a mit No, he's got the bottom of a glove that's going to It's like literally is going to make that ball like down and stick in a way where you can grab it. Are you calling spider man. Yeah, well, there you go, or something to that level. I mean, that's kind of where we're at. That's right, I don't even know where what's where's that from? Sam? Oh? That was a Ben Mallard drop. It was like I was like, what what movie? What TV show? Normally we know what the what the references are when it comes out of left field. I mean, obviously I would know the dulcet tones of our our teammate Ben Mallory here on the overnight Fox Sports Radio and that's Chris Myers Fox Sports Radio alumni. We're gonna play this game now, Sam, is that what we're doing? Name this voice? Hey? I do that with we We were doing that with commercial voice over. Sam was incredulous about a certain uh No Award winning actor. We'll talk about that momentarily. Let's get into that for a second. But first we're gonna go to Isaac. This is great, This is great trivia stuff. This is Isaacloan kraw Hey, Buddy, Hey, Michael LeVar. This morning in Brooklyn. They are crying in their organic oat milk latte is with avocado toasts and pickled kale because the events of Saturday. That's like metal Unfortunately, you're not exaggerating because of what happened on Saturday night, their beloved nets in the Milwaukee Bucks tied at one eleven on the final but out of overtime in Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Here is Marv Albert on TNT marvelous four to five seconds left off the shot clock study for christ that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven. But Brooklyn still had a chance. In the final seconds of ot direct for three pops up for air ball with three text on the second robellion Well, Milwaukee Bucks, brook for what one e level? Sorry hipsters, as Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Durant played the entire game, all fifty three minutes. His forty eight points were the most points scored in a Game seven in NBA history, eclipsing the mark set by Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks and his epic Game seven showdown with Larry Bird in Game seven of the nineteen eighty eight Eastern Conference Semifinals, in which the Celtics prevailed over the Hawks at Boston Garden, Jantis antea Coon po forty points last night in fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals and Game four the Stanley Cup Semi Finals on Saturday night in New York. Islanders defeat at the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two, tying the series at two games apiece, three way tie for the lead going into the final round of the US Open today at Torrey Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis Oustaysen at five r par overall, you've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo lurking two shots back at three under par. Overall. That to two gentlemen who are most definitely not hipster's and I say that as a compliment Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, although Michael does own at least one hipster esque hat. Oh, I've got more than a dozen jaunty hats at the disposal. I might be there with you, bro, Yeah, I just gotta spoke too soon. Perhaps no oat milk. I can't say I've had any avocado toasted goodness. She whiz. That's a deal breaker for yours, truly, Sorry, buddy, you shouldn't have to pay six bucks for a cup of coffee that's not even that great. I'm just saying I make my own experience and and the branding. And another tip off, by the way, if breakfast is served with a salad, that's another deal breaker. No breakfast should be served with a salad. I'd rather you won't see a side salad for breakfast and waffle. Why but why is that? Why can't you have a salad with your breakfast? You can have a steak for your breakfast that's totally different than a salad. And frankly, why Frankly coming from one of the great breakfast towns of American Pittsburgh, I'm I'm kind of I'm kind of disappointed. I'm just listen. I'm just challenging the traditional ideas and approaches. Why not have a breakfast salad? Is a breakfast? Why is a breakfast burrito breakfast burrito that doesn't have any type of lettuce or anything in it? You know, LaVar. The best analysis I can give is it just is some things are appropriate for breakfast, like a breakfast burrito. A salad is not one of those things. I feel like we're having I feel that I'm the guy who should arguing the hipster end here, not you. You know, it's crazy. You are more of a hipster. And I do love that you had a Tabasco sauce shirt on the other day. But my wife, thank you. I gotta say, I gotta say here, why why is fruit not a part of dinner? It's a good question. You know, people bring fruit salad right here, But I'm just saying, like, why can't you have a salad with lettuce, tomatoes and greens, cucumbers. I love cucumbers with some Italian dressing on there, or even some ranch. Why would you not be able to put that with like some eggs and you know, a meat. I do too, just not for breakfast. And the issue is these hipster salad breakfast things. It's not just typical lettuce. It's these ninety three different kinds of bitter green. You just had to pay for a breakfast for people. You You're mad, You're mad at you know you you bought yourself some little breakfast burrito or maybe some eggs and a couple of sausages, and then someone at the table ordered something else and you had been already said you're picking up the tab and you paid like twenty bucks for someone's bougie breakfast and now you're calling him out here on national radio. I'm just exactly what it is. I'm just saying a Tacos via Corona in Silver Lake or Lucky Boy in Pasadena, the breakfast burritos would never come with lettuce or greens. And let me guess someone at this person at the table also ordered a seven dollar glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Oh gosh, you know me so well, ce LaVar. I I cut through that really quick sparkling water. Yeah good hall he I mean he just owned you right now. That was like we're playing poker and I read you. I read your face without even seeing you, and I've got that's right. He Michael is so is so um sensitive and so observant. He can pick up on hells from people he's not even in direct visual contact with. Salute interesting, we love you. You're not You're not the hipster, You're the You're the toaster. You get it, the toa sy part. But do you like breakfast with without green? So we'll call it like toaster, like like nobody eats toast at unless it's like Texas toast. You don't eat it. Stop talking about food. Now, Now you got got Sam losing it. I want to get back to you. Gotta pay off the tease about voice over acting, and well it comes back to food ironically, but one of those things you pick up voices right I watch Obviously, when I'm hearing at Fox Sports Radio, I've got walls of television with no sound, so fine. But oftentimes when I'm trying to work right create whatever I'm doing, I've got movies or familiar TV shows in the background, so I don't actually have to watch, So it's dialogue and voices all the time. So when there is a commercial one I'm watching an NBA game, in NFL game, whatever, I can normally pick up who the actor is or actress barely quickly. And Sam had a revelation this week that really irked him. Oh well, the fact that uh, Award winning actor yes, excuse me, I'm still voice is still waking up a little bit. Award winning actor Paul Jamati was a voicing over Burger King commercials, which I have to give him credit. It's starting to sound better and better, which with each new commercial so well, because you know their competitor has a very well known actor as well, and I do. I do see the Burger King Breakfast and it looks very enticing. So I may give that a because McDonald chuses Brian Cox, legendary actor and those that know him from The X Men as Strikerval certainly should use my voice. Well, we need to work to that. We that's that's why would you not use my voice? As you always said, I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy. I am sexy. That is true. And sy that that shirt will be available for purchase tomorrow, buddy, We're gonna load that up later on tonight as part of the Father's Day memorabilia part of the program. Appreciate you there, Sam, Yeah, he put this on Twitter. It's like, well, man, it's like these guys have been cashing checks forever. It's how they get to do some of their passion projects or payoff gambling. Gay he's John Adams though, that's in the guy from Sideways. He's one of the most esteemed actors out there. That's fine. Burger King. I'm like, if you can go on the total poll, but if you could collect another check and home of the Whopper, Okay, and and Home of the the Chicken, the what is it the Chicking? You haven't get a lot of free advertising, nicely. You want to know what's funny? What's that the commercial running King Run and he's running up the wall? I got it is one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen it, But like bad, like for a fast food commercial. That joke really did win funniest commercial bad because the King looked funny as Hale running up that wall. Bad. Still trying to get one of those King heads from my memorabilia collection. I would love to have one that would fat. He's at LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals. We'll try to work this out. Dang. That's when people have been saying for me all my life, ats wool and no where you find me. Coming up next, we find our mammals and we crown them the Mammals of the Week. Yeah, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment alongside the King of the Mammals himself, three time pro bowler, my guy LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there, and to you, my friend. Yeah, that got you and all the other dads out. Yeah, big, big day ahead. I actually get to pick where we eat. I don't know. I don't know what to do with that. That's well, if you want to tell me, say that again. I'm gonna go burn after I'm done. Soon as I get off, I'm I'm on that grill. Nicely done. Yeah, man, my guy. All right, So you know it's that time of the show where I step out of the way and LaVar goes to the podium because you gotta hand out some awards. It takes an eight pex predator to properly assess situations and spot potential greatness, no matter how big or small. LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on them all. These are his mammals of the weeds. Here we go. Let's start off. Hello, Let's go in the NBA and stay in the NBA since the NBA playoffs. Yesterday was a big game, obviously Game seven, deciding game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Mill Hockey Bucks. Yes, we sure can go to Janice and say Janice would be a mammal of the week, But we're gonna go to a different team mate, Mike. We're gonna go with Chris Middleton, how about it, hits a game winning shot, has showed up, had to carry the load. Last year, Janice gets hurt. He couldn't quite get them over the hump bound himself. But this year, you know what, his help, his contribution has been major for the Milwaukee Bucks. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals. Shots out to Chris Middleton, all Man, old baby, all right, Let's go to the western side of of everything that took place. We saw the Clippers and what I saw. Listen, I chose the Clippers, but I'm a Utah fan, and I thought the Utah Jazz may take it to a game seven. They had such a big lead over twenty points. Epic fail in terms of keeping the league. But a major reason why emerging star Terrence Man. How about him showing up and doing the things that he did in the game, contributing in the way that he did. A young budding star for this Clippers team and has done it the right way. I got him through the draft. He's grown, he's matured and now he well he grown man Utah and helped out Paul George. As we all know that Kauahi Leonard is out with the knee injury. So shots out to Terrence Man for doing what he needed to do to help the team get to the Western Conference finals. Yes, let's see if he could do it against them sons. All right, now, this last guy. It's interesting because for so long we have laughed, we have joked. His dad has been the punchline to many, many, many, many many conversations. LaVar Ball. LaVar Ball has always been the guy that you said, oh, he's loud, he's brash, he's obnoxious, and you know he probably is. But he just celebrated his baby boy getting NBA Rookie of the Year. That's right, LaMelo Ball gat Rookie of the Year. And you know what, somewhat debate other guys, but I say deservingly. So he has shown us that he is a potential superstar in this National Basketball Association. And congrats to him, uh for playing and living up to that that potential. So shots out the LaMelo Ball for getting NBA Rookie of the Year. And that is my mammals of the week. We will talk about that Rookie of the year world. 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Yeah, Hey, is your dad's razor older than you are? Get him something new for Father's Day? Still time. A D s C six blade razor a perfect fit for an extra close site shave. Get one now at a store near you. Or as part of a gift set at Dollar Shave Club dot com slash Jonas. That's Dollar Shave Club dot com slash Jonas j O n A s and guy who's kind of getting well cut up a little bit by his fans by media. We mentioned Ben Simmons a few minutes ago, LaVar, and you know they all always comes down to you gotta have a fall guy. Someone's got to pay for losses and ineffectiveness and and all of those things. It's he's in a situation where his head coach will get a bunch as we've got Atlanta Philadelphia later on today, and we look look at the early lines and we we certainly know that well Doc Rivers is in a position that it's not a three one lead. But whenever he's in front in a series, the poison pens come out. And for Ben Simmons at he's been traded almost everywhere in the NBA in the last seventy two to ninety six hours, uh, and many very whimsical and creative ways to get him out of Philadelphia. A guy with immense talent, and he brings a lot to the table. And you saw defensively what he can do you have him and and Matisset table on the floor at the same time, with Joel and Bead, you've got three guys that can defend the hell out of the ball, right. I mean you look at and Bead, I'm sorry, Simmons a first team all defense, and then and Beat and Thyble uh second team. And you saw how effective they were in bottling up Trey Young and making life very difficult the other night. And now they'll they'll get called down to do it one more time. And we watched Simmons and made a lot yesterday about Janice's free throw shooting. He ends up going eight to fourteen. Is it tremendous for most No, but for him after a couple of air balls, you'll take it. You take it, Ben Simmons. A lot of it is when are you going to get the confidence to actually take a shot that? That is one of the the glaring problems here, right. Free throw shooting is bad. We know this, but good playmaker, one of the best defenders in the game, but offensively still so much lacking to where he's a non factor in a lot of sets during games. So it becomes a difficult proposition where you've got to do a substitution of all right, is Maxi coming in for Thyble whose game isn't developed offensively? Is he coming in for Ben Simmons? What are we doing here? And when you're sitting looking at a game seven, he's the guy that I think all the eyes are on because in Beads played with the meniscus tear. And while he's had some really rough stretches, remember the over twelve and the second half a couple of games back, it's the fact that you've got a guy in Simmons that won't take a shot that becomes the problem and be the spotlighted portion of their squad. You know, they asked Doc Rivers if he was going to bench Ben Simmons and not start Ben Simmons, and he's clearly over over it, trying to to justify and talk about it and discuss it um. But you know what, it has become a story and and it will continue to be a story and unless they do something about it. It's like the old adage. You know, if you don't want us to score that many points on you, then don't allow us to do it um. And then that's kind of the same thing here. If you don't want people, you know, coming coming real aggressive about what do you do about Ben Simmons in this situation? Then Ben Simmons has to do better. You know. The one thing that you would say, um, in terms of observation wise, that's something that's correctable. You know, what we're talking about with Ben Simmons is something that you can work on and you can actually correct it. So it opens up the conversation to a bigger amount of topics like what's his dedication level? Like what and he could be the hardest working dude out here, but the results that you're seeing are not are not in in the in the lane where you would give him a pass and say, oh, you know, he's just having an off time or he's just you know, he just needs a little bit of this or a little bit of that. Like now he's you know, he's he's making it so that the conversation says, does he care enough to to correct some of the things that are plaguing him right now, which is ultimately hurting this team. You got a super a super two, you got a super combo in him, and and and beat and beat lives up to the building. The only thing he deals with his injuries, but otherwise and Beat does what he needs to do. Um, some of these other guys have to also step up for the seventies sixers if they're gonna win this game as well. UM, I really like their chances going into this this game today. But again, as it applies to Ben Simmons and all of the continued uh intensity of coverage on his his inability to make shots and his him not looking for shots and deferring on on those things, you know, he's got to go out there and he's got to have a game today, and and whatever that game is, it doesn't have to be him proving everybody wrong. It has to be him putting his best foot forward, whatever that is, because all of those conversations have started to come out that you know, his confidence may be shaking, shooking, or the team's confidence in him is shooking, And you know, it's just you know, for me, I think that those are things that you have to play through, not allowed to become. Um, the reason why you don't you don't excel. Yeah, I think the hard part is as soon as you also get ensnared in the Kardashian general world, the poison pens are redoubled. There's no question, even if there's no correlation whatsoever, people are gonna tie those strings together for you regardless. He's LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Rman. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Let's go over to Isaac Loewen Grod find out what's trending all about Game Seven's plural Michael and LaVar. Starting with Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets tied at one eleven in the final minute of overtime. Here's Marv Albert on TNT four to five seconds left and overt ten off a shot clock study for Christ Falter that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, but Brooklyn still had one last chance marvelous take it away direct for three. C's up for air ball? What pretexts all the second repay all Milwaukee Bucks one elevel league, and Milwaukee would go on to win it one fifteen to one eleven, despite Durant scoring forty eight points, the most points scored in a game seventy in NBA history, eclipsing the record of forty seven set by Atlantis Dominique Wilkins against the Celtics back in night at Boston Garden. Durant played all fifty three minutes of last night's game. Janice Antea Kumpo scored forty points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes. Michael LaVar, the NBA has just announced that Atlanta Hawks back up big man Bruno Fernando has been suspended for their Game seven tonight against the seventy six ers for leaving the bench area during an altercation in Game six on Friday. Fernando has only played a total of two minutes and twenty eight seconds in the entire series, so it's really not that big of a deal relatively speaking. But get this, Philadelphia's Joel and Bead was find thirty five thousand dollars for his role in the altercation. There you go, including listen to this specific language. He also part of the fine was because he failed to comply with an NBA security interview after the game. In fact, Fox Sports Radio has obtained exclusive audio of Embiad's interview with NBA security. Listen to Cincinnati, Toronto, Cincinnati. Well, I mean, I'm just a Cincinnati I feel sorry for the NBA security official trying to conduct that interview. We got a three way tie for the lead going in to the final round of the US Open today at Tory Pines between Russell Henley, Mackenzie Hughes and Louis oust Hazen at five underpar overall. Hughes and oust Hazen will tee off at three fifty five eastern, Henley at three forty four eastern. You've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson de Shambo just two shots back at three underpar overall. Michael and LaVar, Thank you, Ilo. I guess that goes back to the embiid uh John Collins thing where double technical and he did he outstretched arms, never grabbed him, never you know, tried to throw punches or or any physicality other than outstretched arms, like he was a security guard pushing you back, like get back they odd here about and he pushed him into the crowd. I guess that's the Oh I was thirty grand. Good for him, hopefully it goes to a good cause. Thanks Ilo. At Isaac Lowan Crown is where you find him on Twitter. So yeah, Fernando suspended. See, we always get something cool during the course of our four hours here on Fox Sports Radio. Not just the hot take nonsense, great debates, uh and laughs and information that we give. We also get breaking news uh and a story that's still developing, LaVar. I haven't seen it officially announced, but it's rumored that the Lakers have decided to part ways with head trainer Nina Shay after an injury plagued season. This would be the second time in the last couple of years that the Lakers trainer got rid of their head trainer. And that that's your conduit for so many of these series anymore, the importance of being available. And we saw with the Lakers just one one player felled after another, Lebron James talking about the short offseason, the wear and tear. Uh, that's part of it. But you know other teams facing injury woes. And I mean you you've been in the NFL locker rooms, friends that are still playing guys, you're you're a confidante too, And I mean, what's that relationship with with a trainer, Like at that level, it's a major, super important and and if if anybody has paid attention to the Washington football team that became big thing is injuries. Um, and stemming all the way back to me. And that's that's you know, early early two thousand's. So, um, it's important. It's important to have the right training staff, the right support, the right relationships that are connected to um that you you gotta have guys who want to report their injuries and want to get their their injuries addressed. You're you're gonna want to have a training staff that is good at at at buffering and and handling things in a way where you know, just the comfort and the trust level. I think trust. Trust was the biggest thing. Yeah, yeah, that's the biggest one. So yeah, So, so the Lakers moving on, and obviously some of the comments from Lebron James probably don't sit well. You know, the Lakers are developing a sitcom though, we'll see what they do with the training position. They're evidently Genie Buss working with Mindy Kaling m to develop a half hour sitcom based on the Lakers world. We also know that the showtime Lakers there's another thing in production, but that that doesn't apply to the well maybe it will. Who knows. Trainers may have a huge role there. Another story I wanted to get to switching to the NFL for a moment Aaron Rodgers, because we have to have at least three minutes of Aaron Rodgers talk every week. LaVar and folks got excited. Right, stalemate, We've got a couple of weeks before training camp. What's gonna happen? And out of Wisconsin, the report that Aaron Rodgers renewed his membership to the Green Bay Country Club for the remainder of the year. Huh So what does that make you feel? They made me laugh because I'm like, that's your property. Well, that's also an auto renew and maybe you forgot to turn it off. Maybe is that a not aby I don't know. I don't know. And find out he's had a large enough purchase that you might have to country club? They got it? Yeah, because that look, I'm I'm on record for months now he ain't anywhere, But I don't know that that story takes you away from him not being there. I mean, just because you go play somewhere else doesn't mean that you can't keep your country club status. I mean, he's he's alleged, he's an icon there. Why would he leave even if he's done playing? Why would you? Why would you leave but now you've angered the fan base, You've divided the fan base. I don't think he's angered the fan base, you know. I think that he has handled things the way that he has wanted too. But I think he's he's pretty bulletproof. I mean a lot of the people that are upset with them will probably get over it at some point in time. And yeah, I just think that that's kind of what it is right now. I mean, he's one of those few guys that actually can overcome um situations like this. Most athletes can't do it, but but Aaron Rodgers is in perfect position to do it. Yeah. I think one of the things that that comes along is Jordan's love or insert replacement here, uh, in the next couple of years, has to establish that winning will continue, because I think he gets spoiled after thirty two years of exceptional quarterback play. Speaking as a guy from you know, the South side of Chicago, we don't we don't know that very well. Just you know, in case folks miss that memo, uh that is there. The other is just a reminder that his foray into television with Jeopardy was not his first no, no, no, no. He appeared in one of the final episodes of the Office, as a judge for an acapella competition that Andy Bernard was trying to be part of. H had a couple of speaking lines. He was a bit wooden, but he got him, got him across. So there you go. He's an entertaining dude. See I added value, nicely done. Guys like that end up getting opportunities. Good lore. Yeah, I think it'll be just fine. Yeah, No, there's there's no question, especially nowadays. You there's so many channels looking for programming. Uh, you can call me as well, always looking to expand and and well, I mean I'm I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy. I'm stealing your line. Uh. Coming up next, we'll find some of the greatest wins of our sporting universe. Will also pick today's NBA games. He's LaVar and I'm Bike Carmen. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Thanks for giving us a few minutes of your time today, wherever you may be Happy Father's Day to you. I know LaVar is gonna hit the pool and the grill. I'm gonna go create some chaos and run around Barnes and Noble for a while, so that'll be fun. Hey man, you gotta keep the education flowing. So it's summer summer reading. Go to your local library. That's spicy anymore. No, Yeah, you just wanted to get Sam to hit his favorite drop. That was well done. That was very well played. Wherever you are, though, remember to give a call figure out how to how to mend those bridges if you got an issue in the family, if if there's a possibility, uh, because nobody's promised tomorrow and you don't want that regret. That's all I can say. My dad down in Florida, love you, buddy. I'll talk to you later. Hopefully you're having a good power walk. Avoid those alligators, uh and go lightning and all that stuff. Uh. And yeah, piece of to all you out there, uh and the roles that and the young minds and even older minds that you continue to shape. And with that, let's find a couple of winds, flocker room squabbles, struggling teams, cheaters and no account owners. There's so much negativity at sports that it can ruin your day. But not Mike Hard. That piece here to shine a light on the good at sports with a simple mantra, find your winds. I gotta put. I don't know if we can actually do this. We might have to kill kill the music for a moment, Sam, can you give me the audio of the Big Shot made by Kevin Durant. He's gonna feed me that in a second, because it really is just demonstrative, illustrative of what we're going on and what is happening here in our sporting universe, because there's an energy, there's a life force that is gotten its wind night and and we've got it back. Listen to this crowd, Creed, lots A cross Court, Durant, Carter Bike, Tucker. They booked head of the Key turn around Okay, but one second ago time out books. That's that's two point along on that ties there you have it, Nets Radio Network and then people that I know that we're in the building the other night, the Staples come back by the Clippers down twenty five said it was the loudest and they were talking to people that work the arena. The ushers, the concessionaires, everybody saying the only time it was ever louder Kobe Bryant and finishing his Hall of Fame career. So we we talked about that, and obviously we'll get into a game prediction as we've got Game one coming up a little bit later. But just to illustrate the point of of that active experience, that energy flow that I speak of on the show and celebrate as part of this is back in a big, big way. Also a a little bit of love too. Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds got himself thrown out very early in yesterday's game, first inning, to be exact, arguing balls and strikes and a little girl in her Votto T shirt and everything tearful because that's why she came to the game. She was ready to see her guy. She was down front, Uh, and he handed her after being ejected. She's in tears and we love you and everything. Uh sent to a ball. I'm sorry I didn't play the entire game. Signed from Joey Votto to the kid, you know you gotta you gotta get him young right in Baseball's in particular, very big movement for youth uh, interaction, and I want to go back to the Clippers really quick just to acknowledge where we're at with with Tehron Lou as a head coach that I don't know has been highlighted enough, especially because the wind came on a Friday night late right, so a lot of folks wouldn't gone to bed. They wake up like, wow, came back, got this huge win, et cetera. Lost in that. Our buddy Todd Ferman at Todd Ferman joins Jason and I every Friday night. Uh, you see him on Fox Bet Live on FS one. His research team best playoff record as an NBA head coach with a minimum of twenty five games. Number one Steve Kerr winning percentage seven thirty three, so he's seventy eight. Phil Jackson at number two to twenty nine and one oh four Tyler forty nine and twenty five good for a six sixty two winning percentage. So just something we're watching winning because we had olden polonies on Friday LaVar right long time and that, um there there's a there's a guy to bring on on on up on game two because you guys can enjoy that because he's like you ask a question, I tell you no lies. Here's my here's my answer, and said, hey, they got a shot down down O two with Doc Rivers coach, and he goes man, they would have lost that series three games ago. So one of one of the fine assessments of where a team was. All right. So let's get to it. Iowa, Sam, any any shoutouts back home? Did you want to give to family? I'll give my dad Mike a shout out. I got him a new WiFi router for Father's David actually got to see him last week, so I just picked it up in Uh bam, wham bam, thank you, madam positivity. I gotta give Sam some love to I've got this beautiful colonel's hat. Yes, yes, Midwest League Baseball. Hi a baseball, Hi a baseball. And it's at the uh the corn cob getting ready to downdade. It's a it's a beautiful thing as a guy who tasseled corn for a couple of summers. Uh near and dear to my heart. So if you're out and about traveling, UH, hold on an extra second or two on those hugs, folks. UH make that phone call last an extra minute or two. Let's make a couple of game picks here, LaVar. We've got Clippers at Phoenix, Like, okay, Sixers minus six and a half, all right, so you're gonna take you, You're gonna lay the points to How about Phoenix minus four? I think Phoenix is going dominate the game even with no CP three. I love I love the boldness of the proclam proclamation. Uh. The Clippers seem to feel things out there, taking a page out of the old Lebron James playbook here. Uh in the prior series, I will take the Sons with eighton putting up a solid effort alongside Booker with a narrow victory. I think I'll take the Clippers plus four if I'm betting against the spread. Uh, Philly, I think they showed me what they needed to in game six. Uh, succeed and proceed because they could have gotten on a bus. Are going cancoon hunting after game five? So here we are. They'll finish the job. Happy Father's Day, Ryan and Steve next on Fox later
