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Evan & Tiki

Hour 3: Evan Taps Out on Winter, Knicks-Lakers Becomes a Super Ticket, and a Soto Trade Call

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2990 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Evan starts by waving the white flag on winter, then quickly pivots into a debate that takes over the segment: why are Los Angeles Lakers at New York Knicks tickets at Madison Square Garden suddenly the hottest regular-season get in years? Is it the “last chance” to see LeBron James in the Garden, is it actually about Luka Dončić, or is it just pure MSG hype? The crew argues about whether LeBron even has a real Garden legacy, why Barclays does not command the same prices, and how much of this is New York chasing a moment they do not want to miss. Along the way, callers weigh in on the iconic player plus iconic venue theory, and Evan admits he once paid big to see LeBron and barely remembers the details now, making the whole “last chance” logic even funnier. Then the segment takes a sharp turn into classic New York chaos when a caller tries to pitch a blockbuster New York Mets and New York Yankees trade involving Juan Soto, and Evan shuts it down fast, with plenty of jokes and disbelief before the show rolls on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I love the cold weather. I'm done with it. Like I have, I'm over it. We got our snow. We got our cold

0:06.0

weather. Like, give me the spring. So even I am tapping out from this winter because it's just

0:13.2

too much. Right. It's just too much. And I'm not complaining. I mean, maybe I am complaining.

0:18.0

Am I complaining? That is the perfect example of complaining.

0:21.5

I'm just trying to express to those who hate the winter, hey, look, even a guy that loves the winter is telling you, I'm done with the winter. Now, before we get back to your calls, we've touched on a lot today. If you want to rewind on the Odyssey app, Sean was a giant baby. He did not want to accept that the New York Islanders swept the New York Rangers and are far and away the closest hockey team to winning a Stanley Cup championship.

0:43.4

We also talked a little bit about the New York Jets and their quarterback situation. Tiki is intrigued by the idea of Kerr Cousins. We've mixed in some basketball.

0:52.0

What I am confused isn't the right word because I'm not an idiot.

1:11.2

But what I am curious about is this marketplace for Nick's Lakers on Sunday. Okay? So the Lakers are coming to town. LeBron James is playing, yada, yada, yada. Ticket marketplace. The ticket market. And people's interest, because I've had people reach out to me saying, hey, by chance of you sold your Nick Laker tickets, I'd like to go.

1:13.6

And they'd want to see LeBron.

1:14.5

They want to see the Lakers.

1:11.2

And the's interest, because I've had people reach out to me saying, hey, by chance, have you sold your Nick Laker tickets, I'd like to go.

1:13.6

And they want to see LeBron.

1:14.5

They want to see the Lakers.

1:29.5

And the Lakers are always a hot ticket. They are always a hot ticket. Don't you think part of this is because this is likely LeBron's last season? Okay. I'm glad you said that. So this ticket right now at Madison Square Garden is the hottest regular season ticket since the announced Kobe Bryant final game okay wow there have been many NBA games over the last

1:36.0

decade many of which involving LeBron remember Steph Curry breaking the three point record at

1:41.0

Madison Square Garden this game is above all of that.

1:46.4

And LeBron has not announced he's retiring.

1:49.8

So how do we know?

1:51.3

And even if it is, what does it matter if you saw his last game at a specific arena

1:56.6

that he really doesn't have any deep connection to?

1:59.9

I don't understand it.

2:01.8

This isn't Michael Jordan.

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