The Knicks did it again! Will the Celtics continue to live and die by the 3? Finch, Kerr get into war of words over fouls? (Episode 1272)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘yogi berra’ as in deja vu as in it happened again as in the Knicks as in the Celtics as in comeback. How did it happen again? The Celtics blew a 20-point 3rd quarter lead again. So many missed threes. Why are the Celtics still doing this? The Knicks just never give up. (13:45) The Thunder smoked the Nuggets. Wasn’t close. More records set. (18:00) Chris Finch and Steve Kerr are complaining through the media about foul calls. Finch says one thing. Kerr says another. It’s the playoffs! Is it let them play or do you want whistle whistle whistle!? (32:30) Review: The Illusionist. (37:00) The Brewers started a Hot Dog Club and fans could get free hot dogs at games. The problem is the team was charging fans for free hot dogs. What!? Let’s talk about what teams do and if it ever works. (46:00) NPPOD. (49:40) Donald Trump wants Nick Saban to save college sports. How fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online, in person and on the go.
0:22.0	Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
0:24.4	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:32.5	Here you go.
0:33.6	Here you go.
0:49.3	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:51.5	It is May 8th, 2025.
0:56.7	It's a Thursday, and it's deja vu all over again.
1:00.1	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
1:03.1	Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
1:10.4	It is not often that you watch a game where your team on the road is down by 20.75 to 55, and they crawl all the way back to win
1:13.6	108, 105 to take a one-nothing series lead at the Boston Garden.
1:20.3	As a New York Knicks team, you go into game two saying, we want to get greedy.
1:25.3	We want to get the second game, but we came here for a split.
1:29.2	So we will not be despondent, but we are going to try and see if we can match the effort
1:36.3	that we showed in game one.
1:39.1	And as a result, see if the Celtics can match the lack of skill and unbelievable brick lane that they did in game one.
1:50.5	Can they do it again in game two?
1:53.5	As game two started, you could see the Celtics had no memory of game one.
1:57.9	They were putting up shots left and right, clank, clank, brick, miss.
2:03.0	This can't be. Coka texting me, David, they're not close to 40% for three point range.
2:09.1	And I said, Coker, it's early. We have a way to see that says the Celtics will shoot 40% from
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Samson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Samson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.