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Boomer & Gio

Where Is Larry Johnson's Ball?

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.4676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

One of our sales guys caught up with Larry Johnson at a watch party last night and he asked him if he has the 4-point ball. Larry said that Boomer has it (he does not). Larry doesn’t seem to have any nostalgia for the actual ball. He’s similar to Boomer in that way.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The saga continues with the LJ 4-point play ball.

0:05.5

2019, I believe it was, the man who caught the ball when Chris Childs threw it into the stands,

0:11.3

said, I'd like to give this to and gift this to Boomer so he can auction it off for the Boomer Assyacin Foundation.

0:19.0

You said that is such a generous move.

0:21.6

And we're going to get this thing signed by Larry Johnson.

0:23.9

LJ. 4-point play ball signed by Larry Johnson is going to go for a lot of money.

0:28.6

One of the great memories in Nick's history, especially considering how bad they were after that for many years.

0:36.1

So the ball went from the head of your foundation,

0:40.7

Bob, into the hands of Wally Zerbiak,

0:44.3

into the hands of someone who worked in the Tao Suite,

0:47.3

into a closet somewhere, and then disappeared.

0:50.4

So I thought maybe in the confusion,

0:53.4

Larry Johnson ended up with the ball because the directive was to get Larry that ball.

1:00.0

So maybe somebody heard that or Wally said that to somebody and then Larry ended up with the ball.

1:04.4

So we had not been able to find Larry Johnson or ask him about this until last night.

1:10.1

So Chris Mercantante, a sales guy here, was with his

1:14.2

client, Angel, from Corona, and they were having a watch party, WFN and Corona having a watch

1:20.2

party where Larry Johnson was there as a special guest. So Mercantate's filming this, and Angel from Corona goes up and asks Larry Johnson, hey, where is

1:31.2

the four-point play ball?

1:32.8

And he goes, you know, ah, he goes, that quarterback's got it.

1:40.4

He goes, I think, I think he played for the Giants.

1:44.1

And then the guy goes, you're talking about Eli?

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