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The Michael Kay Show

Hour 1: Cup Excitement

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

Sports

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This is the Michael Kay Show podcast. I got to get more K. Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.

0:41.4

We thank you for joining us on this Tuesday. It's December 16th. It is 2025. Me and you for two. Those are the rules of engagement. The fastest two hours in sports talk radio begins right now. Now, I don't know

0:56.4

about you, but I can honestly say that I am excitedly looking forward to tonight's NBA Cup

1:04.4

final from Vegas between the Knicks and the Spurs. Now, I know it's a contrived event. It's out of the brain of Adam Silver.

1:12.7

I get that.

1:13.8

But what it has done, it has given an important thing for the players to play for,

1:20.6

to ramp it up and give their best.

1:23.7

Because in 82 game season, there is a lot of downtime.

1:28.9

There's a lot of, oh, another game, another day.

1:32.3

But these are games that carry some import.

1:36.2

Now, whether it's furulously made a talking point because there was never a cup before

1:43.6

three years ago, that's one thing but it

1:47.2

does mean something to the players so if you get to this game i think it's like two hundred and

1:52.8

twelve thousand dollars per player and coach but if you win this game it's over 500 000 now you

2:00.0

could say well what does that mean to an NBA player money is over 500,000. Now, you could say, well, what does that mean to an NBA player?

2:02.6

Money is money.

2:04.3

$500,000 would mean a lot to Warren Buffett, and he's got billions.

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