Best of The Ben Maller Show 05/15/2019
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Big Ben breaks down a night of NBA action including the Draft Lottery and the Warriors putting a beating on the Trailblazers, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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| 1:10.6 | Now, typically, we would start with an actual game, but much of a game, so instead we can talk about a lottery, which we all know is a stupid tax. |
| 1:14.0 | The only way to have a chance to win the lottery is to be bad at what you do. |
| 1:19.2 | And so teams like the Knicks and the Cavaliers and the Sons and the Lakers and all these other dormats of the NBA got together, |
| 1:27.5 | they had a big party in Chicago, the draft lottery, and you assume you were aware of it. |
| 1:32.3 | But this is another kick in the nuts to the glamour teams of the NBA. |
| 1:37.0 | Right there, the draft lottery, a success for downtrodden teams, |
| 1:43.1 | but not the old glamour teams. |
| 1:45.5 | It's like those old companies that used to be good that aren't good anymore, but people still think they're good. |
| 1:51.0 | You know what I'm talking about? |
| 1:52.2 | Anyway, I don't have you watched, but if you missed it, a made-for-TV spectacular, the build-up the anticipation, all from someone going up to a dais and holding up cards and announcing who will be drafting when. |
| 2:08.4 | But do we actually have the announcement? |
| 2:10.6 | Do we have the drama? |
| 2:11.8 | It came down. |
| 2:12.5 | Now, the final four, because we do things like the final four, the final four, you had the Lakers who were not supposed to be there. |
| 2:19.1 | You had the Knicks who were supposed to be there. |
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