Best of The Ben Maller Show 06/21/2017
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Big Ben talks about the NBA trades leading up to the draft, argues with his crew about those trades, Maller to the Third Degree, Too Much or Not Enough, Tinderoni Tips w/ Danny G., and Password!
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| 1:05.3 | This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 1:19.5 | And a very reasoned NBA observer pointed out years ago that most of the trades that are talked about are wonderful trades. |
| 1:20.9 | They just don't usually happen. |
| 1:22.7 | It feels different right now. |
| 1:30.7 | It feels like everything that's being talked about, even the pathetic moves, are happening. |
| 1:32.3 | It's bizarre a world. |
| 1:37.1 | It's like we're in some kind of weird dream state when it comes to the transaction in the NBA. But the big headline story was the Laker trade with Brooklyn, two bottom-feeding franchises, |
| 1:45.6 | two wo-begone losing franchises that decided to trade their players with one another, |
| 1:52.3 | and DeAngelo Russell and Timothy Mosgoth. |
| 1:56.3 | They have been sent apparently to Brooklyn, |
| 1:59.4 | and we're told that Brooke Lopez is coming back, |
| 2:03.2 | and the number 27 pick will go to Los Angeles in that trade, |
| 2:08.3 | which will be consummated officially prior to the NBA draft on Thursday. |
| 2:13.1 | So this is the first major transaction that the new brains in the Laker front office, Magic Johnson and somebody named Rob Polinka, is apparently very important because he rode Kobe Bryant's coattails. |
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