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Boomer & Gio

The NBA's Regular Season Bore-Fest

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We dive into the frustrating trend of high-paid athletes coasting through games, especially as the boring NBA regular season forces casual fans to watch rosters full of players they've never heard of.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.1

Were you by any way, like, insulted by watching the Knicks not played defense last night or the game itself?

0:21.0

Just guys wide open the whole time.

0:23.6

Or do you expect more from your multimillion dollar players?

0:27.2

Because I know to me, the other night I stayed up like in knucklehead and I watched the Rangers in Vegas.

0:35.3

Yeah.

0:35.7

And I see our captain half-ass in it.

0:38.7

Now, I don't know if he was out on the ice a little bit too long on a penalty kill.

0:43.2

And then the puck ends up in the net and he's half-ass in it when there's supposed to be no BS associated with the team.

0:49.2

And it's a bad look.

0:50.1

It's a really bad look.

0:51.5

And, you know, if you pay money for those tickets that cost you an arm and a leg at the garden,

0:55.8

they go see either one of these two teams play, and they play like they're playing,

0:59.4

and you look at it, you say to yourself, you know, why am I even involved watching this

1:05.5

if I'm not going to get the effort?

1:07.4

Yeah, I wouldn't say insulted is just extremely frustrated. So I wanted, because the Knicks are really the only thing going on right now in my sports life, the Knicks in St. John's, and I'm actually excited about maybe they could win. So even though it's a late tip off, I did take a nap yesterday afternoon. I'm like, I'm going to at least try to hang in for the first half. And yeah, it pisses me off because up late. I wanted to watch the game. And I'm watching guys just allow shots to happen with absolutely no close-out defense around the three-point line. Now, you want to tell me that, okay, this is the game, and everybody's going to huck up a bunch of threes, and every team does this. Okay, well, the Knicks are trying to win a championship. And thank God Mike Brown said something. I heard drive it in this morning. I heard the clip of him saying we can't play defense like this. I'm really happy he said that and hopefully he puts it into motion because if you're trying to win a championship like they are. Mike Brown was here, brought here,

2:02.8

to get them over the hump, to get them to the NBA finals and hopefully win a championship,

2:06.9

you can't just certain nights decide not to do the things that win your championships.

2:12.6

Well, I mean, so it's like this is why the NBA regular season just sucks because nobody takes it seriously.

2:18.5

But when they get up to 130 points, what does that mean?

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