Rumble in the Jungle
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 160 minutes
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Ben Maller discusses the impending signing by Carmelo Anthony with the Houston Rockets, the comments from the Lakers latest addition in Michael Beasley, Tim Tebow's season ending injury, Josh Gordon's absence from training camp, and more!
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| 1:03.1 | It's exhilarating, frightening, and terrifying at the same time, the idea of Carmelo Anthony. |
| 1:06.7 | Changing teams, but it's about to happen. |
| 1:20.7 | We talked about this ad nauseum over the last couple of months, and actually the last couple of weeks, more than the last couple of months, but barring any last minute snagaroo, Carmelo has found a new employer. |
| 1:30.6 | Now, he technically hasn't even been traded yet to the Atlanta Hawks. That was last week's story that he was going to be traded to Atlanta and then be dumped. |
| 1:38.5 | But we now have what I believe is the final nail in the coffin of the future of Carmelo Anthony. |
| 1:39.0 | If you miss this, you were not paying attention. |
| 1:42.0 | Carmelo Anthony, as had been speculated, the clowns, the dancing bears said this was going to happen at the circus. |
| 1:52.1 | Carmelo Anthony has every intention once he is officially a free agent to sign with the Houston Rockets, and he will join the Rockets. |
| 2:02.3 | That is the plan. |
| 2:03.5 | Now, it may be several more days, according to the people that claim to know the inside information around the NBA. |
| 2:10.2 | But eventually, Carmelo Anthony, once all the teaser cross to the eyes are dotted, |
| 2:14.6 | will formally end up in Houston. |
| 2:17.8 | That is his ultimate end game, at least for now. |
| 2:21.4 | So I wanted to talk about this. |
| 2:22.4 | Now, we've gone down this rabbit hole before. |
| 2:25.7 | And for some reason, and I don't know why this is, I've gotten the reputation of being like a Houston hater. |
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