00:00Cavaliers take care of business.
00:02Evan Mobley letting it rain from long range again.
00:07They're messing around a little bit.
00:09First half is a little AU.
00:11AU basketball.
00:12Let's just get up and down the floor.
00:14I honestly think...
00:15You know we have won 17 straight games against them?
00:17I did not know that.
00:19Going back to 2021.
00:20Does that date all the way back to when Michael Jordan was playing?
00:25No.
00:25For the Wizards?
00:26No.
00:26It goes back to when?
00:27You're talking...
00:282021.
00:282021.
00:29Because 17 straight feels like it goes back to 1997.
00:32Right.
00:33And it doesn't.
00:33When Calvert Chaney was on the bullets.
00:36No.
00:37It was not exactly the most...
00:40Mr. Whammy was just a little boy.
00:43Not exactly the most locked in game.
00:45I do wonder...
00:46It's going to be a play-in team though, I think.
00:48And boy, that rookie.
00:50A.J. DeBonza.
00:51We were talking about how to pronounce his name for the game.
00:53You've got to help me out here.
00:55I don't know.
00:55I'll help you out, Ken.
00:57Thanks to NBC Boston.
01:00For the once and for all, tell us how to say your last name.
01:04DeBonza.
01:05DeBonza.
01:05Just forget the T's there.
01:06Silent.
01:07All right.
01:08DeBonza.
01:08I keep wanting to say...
01:09Hold on to, dude.
01:11DeBonza.
01:11I keep wanting to add an extra syllable in there.
01:13It's about the million dollar man.
01:16Just forget the T's there.
01:18Silent.
01:19DeBonza.
01:20DeBonza.
01:20Just twisting the money in your mouth.
01:22Thank you very much.
01:23A hundred dollar bills.
01:24I'm going to try to get that right.
01:25So, yeah.
01:26I mean, like, I'm not at this portion of the season in October, especially when you got
01:33the World Series going on as well.
01:35That's another thing I want to bring up here in a second.
01:36Go right on ahead.
01:37You don't need to actually break down these games and determine...
01:42Oh, you don't.
01:43Hey, could they won a playoff game last night?
01:45Like, I don't know.
01:46Who's even going to be around on any of these teams?
01:48I do wonder if when they take the floor last night, so many guys have gone down with injuries
01:52that, like, Harden and Donovan Mitchell are like, yeah, we're not going to get back on
01:55defense tonight.
01:57Well, James Harden says that many nights.
01:59I think that's tonight.
02:01But I do want to.
02:01I don't know if that's last night.
02:03I think that's tonight.
02:04You're playing a back-to-back.
02:05You're in Atlanta.
02:05I do.
02:06I will just put on an NBA game.
02:07College basketball has waned.
02:09I will tell you that.
02:11But I will put on, on a Friday night, when we get to the winner, and it's like, I'm doing
02:17some other things, and I'm at home, and, you know, whatever.
02:20The kids are going to bed, and Liz is, you know, just is done for the day.
02:25I'll put on Boston, New York in the background.
02:28And then the second, I will put on Denver and Golden State in the background and just do
02:34work and work on the show and all the other stuff.
02:37I consume the NBA.
02:40And like it is, we got in this morning.
02:43I just left on the Mavericks game.
02:45Let's see.
02:46I didn't see anything last night.
02:47Let's just leave it on.
02:49I like the NBA.
02:51I like its product.
02:53But you're making it really difficult on me because I love the Cavs.
02:57And when I can't see it, and then I'm like, hey, let's talk about it.
03:00And then honestly, let's be serious.
03:02How many people, if it were available last night, how many people are just like ready,
03:09locked, and loaded, ready to go?
03:11Because they would have been when it's Minnesota, because Minnesota's seen as a finals team.
03:15I think it takes a minute for people to kind of pick up on the Wizards and me go and
03:19play
03:19in.
03:19I don't think they care about playing.
03:21Like, to me, that's a big step for an organization as terrible as the Wizards.
03:25And I don't think they care.
03:26And I really don't think that they get involved in the NBA until, what, the end of the Cup?
03:32Maybe?
03:33Maybe?
03:33Oh, really?
03:34It's been, no offense to the Cup, it's been Christmas Day, but now the NFL takes over
03:40Christmas Day, so it's like the day after Christmas.
03:42I do.
03:43I think it's one of those sports, like Major League Baseball, what Major League Baseball, maybe
03:48then, because Major League Baseball announces its presence with authority.
03:51You have opening day, you have bunting, pomp, circumstance, the whole thing.
03:55Like, they really...
03:55The parade in Cincinnati.
03:57There are people, and they do a great job, like, we are here, watch baseball, we are here
04:01now.
04:02They do a great job with that.
04:03Now, you could watch, there's plenty of people who watch opening day, and they're like,
04:06all right, I'll see you in June.
04:07There are plenty of people who do that.
04:09Not one of them.
04:10I have the notes.
04:12Honestly, it feels like an extended preseason.
04:14To a lot of people, yes.
04:15It doesn't feel that way to the teams that have lost their players already.
04:19Like, Anthony Edwards is out two months.
04:21The NFL, the NFL's there, college football's there, it's a big deal, we look forward to
04:25it, it's a shorter season.
04:27Hockey and basketball, like, there's so many...
04:31I'm like, hockey's starting again?
04:32You just ended it.
04:33You just ended it.
04:35And I think a lot of folks could look at it and go, are you starting the NBA again
04:37already?
04:38Especially already.
04:38It just ended it.
04:39The NBA didn't start until Halloween anyways.
04:42Yeah.
04:42All of this still feels like free basketball.
04:44Yeah, usually it was Halloween night.
04:46It actually made me, because I listened to the game and I didn't watch it, I did end up
04:52watching the end of the 76ers and Pacers game, because that was available to me still.
04:59But...
04:59Yeah, that's it, boy, that's...
05:01So maybe it makes me a better NBA fan, I don't know.
05:03Yeah, that's not good.
05:05That's not good to have, you know, the host in Cleveland talking about how...
05:09Yeah, I had the other NBA game on that was available to me, because you pay a lot of
05:12money for your cable situation.
05:15I mean, I think, but you want us to be real, I think we are having a shared experience with
05:20everybody who's listening.
05:22It's that I think there are a lot of fans...
05:24And it's lost.
05:25Yeah, this is what you lose.
05:26And I'm looking at it going, it's a great team.
05:29It's a great team.
05:32But I think a lot of folks are agitated.
05:34And there are some older guys.
05:35I did have some people come to me and go, welcome to our world.
05:37And I go, yeah, once I get it, once I get all the games, I don't want to go back
05:41into
05:41time and not have all the games.
05:43Like, I get there was only a handful of Cavalier games on TV way back in the day.
05:47And you got, like, 15 to 20 Indians games back in the day.
05:52When you got a Channel 43 game, that was a big deal.
05:54And I get that that was a big damn deal.
05:56I understand that.
05:57But it's the 2000s, it's 2026.
06:00Well, and then the minute the game is over, there's a YouTube 20-minute highlight reel
06:05that you can just watch that.
06:07Now, are you getting the same push and pull over the course of two and a half hours?
06:13No.
06:14But you're just getting the highlights of a regular season game in October.
06:17And I do feel screwed over by that, and I'll tell you why.
06:19Because I do like, I'm not a person who likes to put on.
06:22You can, if you want to, this is, with Xtend Technologies, you can put up to 12 games.
06:28I do like the story of a game.
06:30So, I'll put on two things or three things at once, but I got to have volume on one of
06:34them, all right?
06:35Or I got to, if I'm into a game, I want to know the story.
06:39I want to know what's happened in the third quarter.
06:41I want to know what's getting ready to happen in the fourth quarter.
06:43I want to know why certain things happened in the fourth quarter that were dictated.
06:47In the first half.
06:48And it's the same thing in the NBA.
06:50And I want that to happen.
06:51And if I don't get that, it's like, okay, I get this, I get this 20 minute recap.
06:54That's great on YouTube, but I'm not getting any of the story.
06:57I'm seeing highlights.
06:59I'm seeing highlights.
07:01Okay.
07:02What was the reason behind the highlights?
07:03If we're talking, if we're trying to talk about the Cavs, what were the reasons behind
07:07that?
07:08It's like, yeah, I can see home runs.
07:10Why did they go to that one?
07:11Why?
07:12Or excuse me.
07:13Why was that pitch?
07:14Why did you throw a sweeper for the fourth time in a row?
07:16Why did you do that?
07:17Like, that's the story I need to know.
07:19So it's, guys, I'm sorry.
07:20I'm bitching off.
07:21I'm bitching up everybody's ears.
07:23I apologize.
07:23I think everybody's doing the same.
07:25It's, it's, it's just, it's really annoying.
07:27Direct TV.
07:28It's really annoying.
07:29That's all.
07:30And you guys know it's annoying and I'm annoyed and I'm, I'm done complaining about it.
07:33I'm sorry.
07:34Sorry.
07:35So this is, do you think Ken's done complaining about it or is this just a start of Ken complaining?
07:43Are you trying to get them to send you a freebie?
07:45No, no.
07:46That's not what I'm trying to do.
07:47Are they sending out freebies?
07:49They sent, I mean, we, I take one.
07:50We had Cavs tickets giveaways.
07:52If I want a shared experience.
07:53That's a good question.
07:53Would you rather have a Cavs ticket giveaway or a Cavs free zone download giveaway?
08:01Okay.
08:01Well, that's the thing is that they do do a great job.
08:04They do.
08:05By the way, crowd looked amazing last night.
08:07A game in the, you can't beat a game in that arena.
08:09So I'm going to have to say Cavs tickets, but.
08:13Yeah, but you're, you're busy.
08:14You can't get down there all the time.
08:16Did you watch World Series last night?
08:18I did not.
08:20You didn't watch any of it?
08:21I did not.
08:22I watched a little bit of it.
08:24I'm still going through a hangover.
08:26I know that you, you keep wondering why it's not appointment viewing anymore.
08:29And I think I know why it's not appointment viewing for a lot of folks around here anymore.
08:32It's because the guardians are good every year.
08:35And when you go and you lose in the post season, the emotions of like, I didn't watch.
08:40I, I watched a little bit of the NBA finals last year.
08:43And that was it.
08:43I was disgusted, angry, not, not even just the whole circumstance.
08:47I was upset.
08:48I'm like, I'm done.
08:49My basketball season is done.
08:51And I'm not disgusted or angry with the guardians at all.
08:54It's just, it was this, you were up 2-1 in the series.
08:57I know I'm sounding like I'm going against myself, considering what I was yelling at you last week.
09:02You're up 2-1 in the series.
09:04Things are going well.
09:05I knew it was going to be a task to get the other two games.
09:08You didn't get the other two games.
09:10Okay.
09:11And then I'm looking at Milwaukee and I'm going, I'm glad that Milwaukee's done well.
09:17Congratulations.
09:17They're like a nice neighbor.
09:19They're good.
09:19They're fine folks up there in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
09:23I mean, you know, Dahmer notwithstanding.
09:26But.
09:26Not fine enough to go there.
09:27Yeah.
09:28Three times.
09:28Hey.
09:29No, no, it's not.
09:30I like it here.
09:31However, I watched, I watched all of game one because I, I cheat coded that because we
09:38were on TV right after game one.
09:39So I watched all of game one and I watched a lot of last night and that was it.
09:45So I watched about one and a half of a five game series.
09:49Do you think Buffalo Bills fans take the same tact with the Superbowl?
09:55If we lost, I'm telling you right now, I'm our, you know, I already have a nasty attitude
10:00about the Superbowl.
10:01If we get to the FC championship game and we lose and like our type of fashion, how we
10:08lose games in these situations.
10:12Yeah.
10:13I don't know.
10:13Oh, come on.
10:14I can't imagine Ken Carmen not watching the Superbowl in that instance.
10:17Does the Superbowl transcend the other sports in terms of heartbreak, but still willing
10:23to see the end, the conclusion.
10:25You can hate watch one game.
10:26It's hard to hate watch a series.
10:29If you were in the AFC championship game some way, somehow, and you lost the way you did
10:32to the Kansas city chiefs knowing that you were so close and it was third and 14 and
10:36you gave up a pass on fourth down to Chad Henney and they ended up going to the Superbowl
10:40and they ended up winning.
10:42Yeah, I think I'm going to bed early that day.
10:45I think I'm going to watch the puppy bowl and Lawrence Welk and, and I think I'm just
10:49going to go.
10:50There's fine folks in Kansas city.
10:51Good luck to them.
10:52I can't do this.
10:53They did get their asses beat by Tampa that year.
10:55So did it make you feel better that Tampa got their ass beat by Milwaukee?
11:00No.
11:01Huh?
11:02Okay.
11:03Coming up in five minutes.
11:04I'm going to get back to this in about last night, by the way, that's at 745.
11:07We do have seven in heaven at seven Oh one today coming up in five minutes.
11:11One thing I do not trust Todd Munkin on is what he's telling us about the rivalry.
11:19Ken Carmen, Anthony Lima live on the.
