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Speaker 2: The games Mike the Bulldog Beyond You on jr R.
Speaker 3: All Right, hey, Bulldog, I'm hoping as the Magic get
Speaker 3: ready for this playoff game tonight play in game, you
Speaker 3: could maybe explain these first few games in the NBA
Speaker 3: playoffs and how exactly they work in. What needs it
Speaker 3: is to play in.
Speaker 4: It's not the playoffs, it's to play in. The Magic
Speaker 4: host the Atlanta Hawks tonight game one of the play in.
Speaker 4: A win puts the Magic into the playoffs as the
Speaker 4: number seven seed against the defending champion Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: If they win tonight.
Speaker 4: If they lose tonight, that means they would host a
Speaker 4: do or die play in game against the winner of
Speaker 4: the Heat Bulls play in game, and that would be
Speaker 4: Friday night. So Magic win tonight, they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: If they lose, they have to win on Friday to
Speaker 4: get into the playoffs. If they lose on Friday, obviously
Speaker 4: they're out. That's pretty much it. I think they need
Speaker 4: to win tonight because the Celtics right now are one
Speaker 4: of their star players, Jalen Brown, is nursing a bad Ankle.
Speaker 4: I think they need to get the series started with
Speaker 4: the Celtics as soon as possible while Jalen Brown may
Speaker 4: be a little bit hobbled, and that would give them
Speaker 4: a chance to maybe steal a game in Boston in
Speaker 4: Game one or Game two, which if they win tonight,
Speaker 4: the playoff series against Boston would probably start. I think
Speaker 4: Saturday or Sunday is what they're saying, right, So there
Speaker 4: you have it. So win tonight against Atlanta and you're in.
Speaker 4: And I think the Magic need to win tonight. Told
Speaker 4: you yesterday about this this Niko Iamaliava, the Tennessee quarterback
Speaker 4: who was essentially kicked off the team because he was
Speaker 4: holding out.
Speaker 2: He skipped practice.
Speaker 4: Josh Heipel, the quarterback are the coach at Tennessee, said
Speaker 4: the hell with that, you're out of here, and boom,
Speaker 4: he's out, and I don't know that he's gonna He
Speaker 4: wanted it more in IO money from Tennessee. He was
Speaker 4: already making like two point five million a year from Tennessee.
Speaker 4: He was seeking four million dollars a year. I'm from
Speaker 4: everything I'm hearing and reading, I think the guy made
Speaker 4: a huge mistake. He his family, his NIO agent, there's
Speaker 4: not really all that much interest in the guy.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly. That's what it comes down to, is the agent.
Speaker 1: These are college kids, and you know what, I and
Speaker 1: the father, yeah, and the father, and when those guys,
Speaker 1: the dad and the and the parents in general, and
Speaker 1: then the agent say it, that's the whole new world
Speaker 1: where I'm with nil. You know what, you guys got greedy?
Speaker 1: Now your kid is needy of a job. Goodbye, buddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's yeah, because again supposedly North Carolina and Belichick
Speaker 4: were interested. Report Yes, they're going after the South Alabama quarterback.
Speaker 2: So how much interest is there?
Speaker 4: This guy may have given up a starting job and
Speaker 4: two point five million dollars a year in NIO money
Speaker 4: at a national championship contender, and he may end up
Speaker 4: like a two lane or something making a lot less money.
Speaker 1: So yeah, be careful, be careful. I thought you had
Speaker 1: him at the fast food join us ready.
Speaker 3: You know what? You know, it's amazing though, you almost
Speaker 3: want to go up to this dude, and I know
Speaker 3: it the way things operate these days, this is in reality,
Speaker 3: but you just want to go up to someone like
Speaker 3: that and go and how much would you have been
Speaker 3: making if you had been going to college three four
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 2: Zero zero.
Speaker 4: I've got a conspiracy theory, by the way, on this
Speaker 4: real quick, I think Tennise he wasn't that good last year.
Speaker 4: Even though Tennessee made the playoffs, they were a running
Speaker 4: team and relied on their defense. My conspiracy theory is
Speaker 4: Tennessee was just waiting on this kid to screw up
Speaker 4: so they could kick it off the team and spend
Speaker 4: that ni O money on better players. Perhaps perhaps just
Speaker 4: the theory, just the theory. WNBA Draft last night, I
Speaker 4: know you guys were locked in to see Page Beckers,
Speaker 4: the Yukon star who just won the national championship. She
Speaker 4: was picked number one by the Dallas Wings, so that
Speaker 4: was the big news in the WNBA draft. I wonder
Speaker 4: where she would have been drafted in last year's draft
Speaker 4: because you had obviously you had Caitlin Clark, Cameron Brink,
Speaker 4: Angel Angel Reese wasn't taken last year until the seventh pick.
Speaker 4: I wonder where Page Beckers would have gone last year.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't matter. She's the number one overall pick
Speaker 4: in this year's w NBA draft. Cam Ward, by the way,
Speaker 4: will attend the NFL Draft along with a lot of
Speaker 4: other stars. You know who's not gonna be at the
Speaker 4: NFL draft Shador Sanders in two weeks. Yeah, I wonder,
Speaker 4: I wonder if he's if he's dropping down the draft boards,
Speaker 4: and that's one reason maybe he's not showing up.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Hey, if you guys had the number one pick in
Speaker 3: the NFL draft, too, who would you be picking? Who
Speaker 3: would you take? Bulldog?
Speaker 2: Well, if you need a quarterback, I would take cam Ward?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Well, then if you need something else, take
Speaker 1: the guy that goes both ways.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: Obviously, if you needed a running back, you take Ashton
Speaker 4: gent from Boys, he stayed. If you need a pass rusher,
Speaker 4: Abdul Carter is the main guy. So yeah, it all
Speaker 4: depends on what you need it. But if you need
Speaker 4: a quarterback, cam Ward is the guy. I don't think
Speaker 4: there's any question about that. So, speaking of football, did
Speaker 4: you see the Ohio State was honored yesterday at the
Speaker 4: White House?
Speaker 2: Vice President JD.
Speaker 4: Vance was going to like take a picture with the
Speaker 4: trophy and then with Trump Vance and the team. So
Speaker 4: he picks up the trophy and it was a two.
Speaker 4: The trophy was in two parts. He thought it was
Speaker 4: in one part and he fumbled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the top came off the base. And we're actually
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that a little more later.
Speaker 3: Hey, look, I don't think and then we'll get to that.
Speaker 3: Let's be thinking about y'all. Have you ever fumbled something
Speaker 3: and accidentally broke something really really you know, pricey or expensive?
Speaker 3: The worst part. He went to Ohio State too, so
Speaker 3: he stopped doubly embarrassing because he's thrilled to be there
Speaker 3: with the team that you know, won it all, and
Speaker 3: then that happens.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: Evidently right afterwards he signed in an il deal with
Speaker 4: the candy bar company Butterfinger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you've been worrying on that one all night,
Speaker 3: all right. Mike the Bulldog Bianchi host of Open Mike
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