Flipper Nation
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Ben breaks down the breaking news from the morning news regarding the Chris Paul trade and discusses why the Clippers were actually the winners in the trade. He also gets into the “bitter break-up” of the Knicks and Phil Jackson previews what is to come for the troubled franchise.
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| 0:33.8 | Dropped at sea, the Clippers unloading. |
| 0:36.1 | Chris Paul, we will discuss. |
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| 1:00.8 | And I would assume that you are aware of the trade at this point. |
| 1:05.2 | It happened a million hours ago, but it's still the reaction reverberating around the echo chamber that is the conversation, |
| 1:12.9 | which is much more interesting, the NBA all-season conversation than like the regular |
| 1:17.2 | season conversation. |
| 1:19.1 | But Chris Paul voted off the clipper ship. |
| 1:23.1 | He is gonzo. |
| 1:24.5 | Get out of here. |
| 1:25.9 | A massive trade that went down early on Wednesday. Chris Paul |
| 1:31.2 | unloaded to the Houston Rockets. He's now the Rockets problem for seven different players, a draft |
| 1:39.3 | pick, a first-round pick, included in that haul the Clippers get, this robbery of the Rockets, Patrick |
| 1:45.5 | Beverly, Sam Decker, and Lou Williams, three of the players that are involved. |
| 1:50.6 | There's four other players as well, and a first round draft pick. |
| 1:54.2 | So let's talk about this. |
| 1:55.4 | Now, the question, what do you make of this trade? |
| 1:58.7 | Now, I've gotten some reaction. |
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