Cavs on UPSET Alert after Game One Loss?

Summary

Podcast Summary: PTI – "Cavs on UPSET Alert after Game One Loss?"

Episode Details:

• Title: Cavs on UPSET Alert after Game One Loss?
• Hosts: Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon
• Published: May 5, 2025
• Description: Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon engage in lively discussions about the latest happenings in sports, providing insights and analysis on the day's hottest topics.

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1. NBA Playoffs: Warriors’ Resurgence and Pacers’ Surprise Victory

Warriors’ Game Seven Triumph

The episode kicks off with a discussion on the Golden State Warriors’ unexpected victory in Game Seven against the Houston Rockets. Tony Kornheiser expresses his surprise, stating, “I did not see this coming at all. I thought if the warriors were going to win this series, they had to win game six” (03:00). Michael Wilbon counters this by highlighting the Warriors’ championship form, emphasizing the contributions of veterans like Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.

Notable Moments:

• Buddy Hield’s Performance: Tony lauds Hield’s remarkable turnaround from zero points in Game Six to 33 points in Game Seven, remarking, “He had no points in 17 minutes in game six. He went from none to 33. That's never been done before in a playoff” (04:00).
• Strategic Execution: Michael praises the Warriors’ strategic planning and execution, noting, “They made this plan and then they executed the plan. And so I am, you know, I admire” (02:50).

Pacers vs. Cavaliers Series Opener

Transitioning to the Indiana Pacers’ unexpected nine-point victory over the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One, both hosts analyze the implications of this upset. Tony cautions against overreacting to a single game's outcome, stating, “One game of a seven game series is the least meaningful game of all” (05:40). Michael agrees, emphasizing the potential for Cleveland to rebound in the subsequent games.

Key Insights:

• Tyrese Haliburton’s Impact: Tony critiques Haliburton’s status as potentially overrated despite his impressive performance, saying, “maybe the Athletic ought to revote on making Tyrese Halliburton the most overrated player” (05:50).
• Team Dynamics: Michael highlights the depth and balance of the Pacers, mentioning players like Pascal Siakam and Evan Turner, “They know about his father, John Halbirton getting in Giannis's face last week. But the rest of them, Tony, the balance of that Indiana team...” (07:10).

2. NHL Playoffs: Avalanche and Blues’ Heartbreaking Defeats

Colorado Avalanche’s Collapse

Tony and Michael delve into two dramatic Game Seven scenarios in hockey. Tony labels the Avalanche’s loss to Dallas as a "choke," pointing out the team’s vulnerability, “They... gave up four goals in the third. That's bad” (09:00). Michael contends that it wasn’t a collapse but rather Dallas executing effectively, asserting, “It doesn't go away. I feel bad for the Blues... that goal... that's just, that's stunning” (09:30).

St. Louis Blues vs. Winnipeg Jets

The discussion shifts to the Blues’ loss against the Winnipeg Jets in double overtime, with Tony expressing disbelief at how the Blues failed to close out the game despite holding a lead. He remarks, “They are up in a game seven. You're up by two with two minutes to go. You're up by one with five seconds to go... But maybe it should not be unforeseen...” (10:30). Michael empathizes with the Blues, acknowledging the difficulty of moving past such a historic defeat.

3. Horse Racing: Kentucky Derby Highlights

Both hosts share their experiences watching the Kentucky Derby, with Michael humorously admitting, “I hate to admit this to you because I usually skip it, but it was riveting” (16:10). Tony humorously teases Michael for finally watching the race, saying, “you watched the horses” (17:00).

Notable Takeaways:

• Race Conditions: Michael praises the muddy conditions for adding excitement, “the mud, first of all, I didn't want it to be running in the mud early in the day... But it was raining in both, so I'll give you that” (16:00).
• Favorite Horses: Tony shares his support for Sovereignty over Journalism, noting the surprising strength of Sovereignty in the final stretch, “I was rooting for journalism just because what we did for so long in our lives. But Sovereignty was a stronger horse” (17:30).

4. NFL and MLB Updates

Michigan Football Controversy

Towards the end of the episode, a brief mention is made about Michigan football head coach Jerome Moore’s impending suspension due to a spying issue. Tony asks, “Is that okay with you?” to which Michael responds, “No. There's no rules anymore. It just looks old and stupid” (23:30).

MLB Milestones

Tony highlights historical moments in baseball, celebrating Dave Kingman’s unique home run and discussing the implications of similar occurrences in recent MLB games. “What makes a great pair of glasses?... [Note: This appears to be an advertisement interruption and is skipped in the summary.]” (21:00).

5. Katie Ledecky’s World Record Achievement

A significant segment celebrates swimmer Katie Ledecky’s new world record in the 800 freestyle. Tony recounts her impressive performance, “Ledecky broke her nine-year-old world record in the 800 free” (22:21). Michael echoes his admiration, expressing hope for her participation in future Olympics, “We've watched her since the beginning and hope she does compete in the next Olympics” (22:59).

6. Audience Interaction: Mail Time

During mail time, listeners’ questions and comments are addressed, ranging from opinions on the Nuggets vs. Clippers Game Seven to humorous exchanges about personal interactions and sporting events. Notably, Tony highlights his frustration with James Harden’s performance in Game Seven, stating, “He had seven points in this game. He shot two for eight... it's totally brutal” (15:00).

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Conclusion

In this episode of PTI, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon provide comprehensive and spirited analysis of pivotal moments across the NBA, NHL, horse racing, and other sports. Their dynamic conversation blends expert insights with personal anecdotes, delivering an engaging listen for sports enthusiasts keen on understanding the nuances of recent games and events.

Key Quotes:

• Michael Wilbon on Warriors’ Execution: “They knew what they had. They made this plan and then they executed the plan” (02:50).
• Tony Kornheiser on Pacers’ Will: “Indiana's will was stronger than Cleveland's" (06:50).
• Michael Wilbon on Hockey Losses: “The way the Blues lost... that's a statistic that's going to be memorable for all time” (09:30).

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Timestamps Reference:

• 02:50 – 04:00: Warriors’ Game Seven Victory
• 05:40 – 08:20: Pacers vs. Cavaliers Series Analysis
• 09:00 – 11:00: NHL Playoffs: Avalanche and Blues
• 16:00 – 18:00: Kentucky Derby Discussion
• 21:00 – 24:00: MLB and NFL Updates, Katie Ledecky
• 15:00 – 17:00: James Harden’s Performance, Mail Time

Transcript

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[Mike Wilbon]

Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbaugh. Tony, a British woman, is now the world's oldest person at 115.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Toni Kornheiser, she got me by three years. I used to date her sister in high school.

[Mike Wilbon]

Oh, thank you. Maybe a stepsister who's like 40 years younger. One can hope.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What do you make of someone who was born then in 1910? You know, I would have seen over a lifetime are amaz. They're just. They're amazing. They're incomprehensible, it seems to me. Yeah. Welcome to pti, boys and girls. In today's episode, the Pacers upset the Cavs. The Blues and Avalanche both Gag and Sovereignty wins a sloppy Kentucky Derby. But we begin today with the warriors going to Houston and winning game seven, holding the Rockets to 89 points. The warriors got 33 points from Buddy Heald, who scored zero points in the warriors game six loss at home. Well, Von Golden State lost games five and six. So what did this win by the warriors show you yesterday?

[Mike Wilbon]

A lot, Tone. It showed me championship form, even though not all of those guys have played on the championship warriors teams. But the two who have, obviously Stephen Draymond and you had Jimmy Butler, who's been to multiple finals and been in huge games all his career.

[Tony Kornheiser]

The.

[Mike Wilbon]

The warriors showed intellect, and this had to start after they lost game six. And this, of course, includes their championship hall of Fame coach, Steve Kerr. They show intellect. It shows urgency. They know they don't have an open window like Houston. Houston's window's just opening. You know, Houston and Detroit and Orlando and. Or San Antonio. That's fine. The warriors know what they got. They're largely a bunch of old guys. Even Buddy Hield, who's not old, is not young. Anyway, he's been around for a while, and they sort of plot it and they planned and they say, here's what we are going to do to the best of our ability. And then, no. Sports are not choreographed. And they're hard. Even when you can agree on what you need to do and the urgency of it. And they did it. They made this plan and then they executed the plan. And so I am, you know, I admire. I've gotten to know the guys I mentioned on, on that team, on the warriors team over a period of years. And I'm not going to lie to you, I root for them. I do. Because I think that's what people ought to see, kids ought to see. We ought to be able to be entertained by another round. We'll get to Houston. I love what Houston's doing, but right now, celebrate what the warriors did yesterday.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So I did not see this coming at all. I thought if the warriors were going to win this series, they had to win game six. I thought they were going to get cooked in this particular game. And I've listened to you for a few weeks now raving about Houston's acrobats players telling me how great their coach is. So I thought they would soar above the warriors by about 15 points. The NBA ought to be grateful that the warriors won this game because there are no other California teams in this thing. People like Warriors. The Lakers were routed and. And the Clippers gave it too. The buddy heel thing. The buddy heel thing is amazing to me. He had no points in 17 minutes in game six. He went from none to 33. That's never been done before in a playoff. Now, I know you like Buddy Heald, but I thought the moment was going to be too big for him. Obviously it wasn't. They got scoring from Buddy Hield and Draymond Green was on the floor and not getting technicals, not being bad like he was in game six. And he gave them, I believe, 16 points and five assists and a plus seven defense. And now, now they draw Minnesota. And I'll be brief here. Minnesota should win. Minnesota should be able to put LeBron James and Steph Curry into that good night. But I will tell you this, Mike. I would much rather, much rather see a Golden State Minnesota series than a Houston.

[Mike Wilbon]

Tony, I would too. And as I said to you, I believe and stand by everything I said about Houston and they're coming. Doesn't mean they've arrived. Go to State arrived 10 years ago, at least the nucleus of that. And so they're still here. And by the way, let me just say something I love and I don't know how you feel about this. Cause I have to ask you, I love Night Night. I love when Steph Curry does this. I love it. I'm amused by it. I feel great. And he did it after a buddy healed shot. Not one of his own. Night night. Just, just fabulous to watch Golden State for another round. Sorry Houstonians. Let's move from a game seven to a game one. The Pacers upset the top seeded Cavaliers in their series opener yesterday in Cleveland. Tyrese Haliburton delivered 22 points, 13 assists and a number of defensive plays to lead Indiana to a nine point win. Tone, you have been high on Cleveland tone justifiably all season. So what does this result say? Just one game to you?

[Tony Kornheiser]

So I watched the whole game. I, I did. I watched this whole game. I don't want to get carried away because it's one game.

[Mike Wilbon]

Right?

[Tony Kornheiser]

One game of a seven game series is the least meaningful game of all. If you want to, if you want to know the first reaction I have to something like this. He said maybe the Athletic ought to revote on making Tyrese Halliburton the most overrated player in the players.

[Mike Wilbon]

Players said that.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I know, but the Athletic ran the contest. Right?

[Mike Wilbon]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes. Okay. So because he was great in the last game against Milwaukee. Great. And he was great yesterday and Cleveland sent their bigs out to stop him and that didn't work. Again, it's game one. I understand there are injuries to Darius Garland. Now there's an injury to Evan Mobley. I understand that. But you don't want to get carried away after one game. Cleveland could win the next four games. They are capable of winning the next four games. But in this one game, Mike, I watched Cleveland take the lead a number of times and Indiana came right back and took the lead back from them. And it seemed to me that Indiana's will was stronger than Cleveland's will will in this particular game. And, and I was very impressed with the way Indiana played.

[Mike Wilbon]

I don't disagree with any of your characterization and I agree completely with you. I'm going to mention something though. Halberton is the one name that some people may know out of Indiana. He's been around for a bit. He's been in some big games and they know about his father, John Halberton getting in Giannis's face stupidly last week. But the rest of them, Tony, the balance of that Indiana team with Siakam, who people might remember from Toronto, Turner, Evan Turner, 13 and 11 yesterday. Nimhart. Most people don't know Matherin, they don't know unless they from college, Dean Smith, they don't know TJ McCon the backup point guard. They know Obie Toppen maybe from the Knicks and And Matherin, who was a, a nice little college player for a minute. People don't know them. Get to know them.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's right.

[Mike Wilbon]

Get to know him.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's right.

[Mike Wilbon]

And, and, and Rick Carlile, who they should know, cuz Rick Carlisle's been around for a while as a successful coach with a championship ring.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Again, Mike Will is more than what they have.

[Mike Wilbon]

Tony, I agree with you.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Cleveland won 64 games this year, Indiana won 50. So you don't get panic stricken at this point. I mean, you just, you know, because it's, it's really just one game. But you can't have two guys take 50 shots. They had two guys, one guy took 30, one guy took 20, the rest of the team took 48. You have to spread that around a little bit. Donovan Mitchell took 30, Ty Jerome took.

[Mike Wilbon]

26, DeAndre Hunter, and they have those guys back in the line didn't have that.

[Tony Kornheiser]

All right, let's move to hockey and two amazing Game 7 results. On Saturday, the Avalanche had a 2 nothing lead over Dallas in Dallas with about seven minutes going in the third period. Dallas scored the next four goals, three of them by former Colorado player Miko Rentanen. On Sunday, Winnipeg was down three to one with only two minutes to go. And Winnipeg tied the game with three seconds to go, sending it to overtime. And the jets won in double overtime. Wilmot, who had the worst collapse, the Blues or the Avalanche?

[Mike Wilbon]

Tony, I don't think, I don't think what the Blues had was a collapse. They got beat in a historic way that is going to be memorable for all time. For all time. Tony. It doesn't go away. I feel bad for the Blues, even though they're a rival of my Blackhawks, I feel bad for them because that goal with whatever point, seconds left, two point, whatever it was, that's just, that's stunning in and of itself. And then the, the loss, the overtime, the second overtime goal, that's a fluke. I know how that is.

[Tony Kornheiser]

We've.

[Mike Wilbon]

You and I have sat through many a Stanley cup playoff game that were decided in the second or third or fourth overtime Easter morning, thank you very much. On a fluke. No, that's not a collapse. And so I don't feel bad for the Avalanche necessarily. They got beat, they got beat by a Dallas team. And that was a normal Stanley cup playoff game. But the way the Blues lost, how do you shake that? How do you get out from under that?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes, first of all, I said it's Miko Rantanen. Okay, I got the name wrong. The former Colorado player who scored all these goals. Look, what happened to Colorado was bad, okay? They gave up four goals in the third. That's bad. And that's a choke.

[Mike Wilbon]

Hockey.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's not one paragraph in the larger hockey roundup. It's not one paragraph compared to what happened with St. Louis and Winnipeg. If you are the St. Louis players, how do you live with this for the rest of your life? You are up in a game seven. You're up by two with two minutes to go. You're up by one with five seconds to go. This has never happened before. You just gave up two goals when the other team pulled its goalie. It's unprecedented. It's unthinkable. But maybe it should not be unforeseen because St. Louis gave up a league high 13 goals this year when the other team pulled a goalie. But still, Mike. And Winnipeg goes on. God bless, right? They avoid the curse of the President's trophy. But how do the St. Louis players go out there for the next time? How did they do that?

[Mike Wilbon]

You just want to go hide for the whole summer. It's unbelievable. I feel badly for them. I do.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, wow, man. That. That's a headline. Let's take a break. Coming up, what was most compelling about The Nuggets Game 7 win over the Clippers?

[Mike Wilbon]

And Tony made me watch the horsies run the Kentucky Derby.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I did.

[Mike Wilbon]

We'll both tell you our biggest takeaways because mail time is next. Yeah, you can. Blue. I mean, honestly, I. I can't.

[Tony Kornheiser]

How do you. How do you go out, like when the season begins? Or do you say, I want out of here? Trade me.

[Mike Wilbon]

If you're looking. Plays for the blues. You would just want to leave the house before men.

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[Tony Kornheiser]

Time to hear some babble from the rabble in mail time. Let me see what's first here. Okay, here we go. Glasses on which aspect of the Nuggets win over the Clippers did you find most compelling?

[Mike Wilbon]

Tony it won't be on court action. What I'm going to go to. I was lucky in that I got a chance to spend some time at this series and around these teams and around Denver, most interestingly because they fired their championship ring wearing coach Michael Malone with three games going the season and they promote David Adelman, son of Rick, who you and I got to see and cover and be around Rick and here's his son coaching the team and it seemed awfully odd at the beginning. We thought it was crazy. Well, it wasn't crazy, Tony, because my observation at being around him a little bit is that this is collaborative and these guys have a sense of relief and a mission of being about each other and they got a leader and I think he wears 15 and he's the big dude who may be the best player in the world. Probably is the best player in the world and that's what I observed about them. They're playing against a fully capable Clippers team. I know you're going to go off on James Harden. I'm going to let you. But Kawhi Leonard was great. The Clippers big zoo was terrific. He was your boy. Harden was.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Kawhi Leonard was minus.

[Mike Wilbon]

Kawhi Leonard was minus three, collaborative minus. Depends on who you are on the court with as well. But Denver and what they've done to recover with that huge switcheroo, it's impressive to me. That's what stands out to me.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What stands out to me. And you're right. It's James Harden. And I wrote you a bunch of texts.

[Mike Wilbon]

Yes, you do.

[Tony Kornheiser]

About James Harden. Because. Because I think James Harden is a great player. And you know that. We've sat on this show for years, multiple years, in which I've said, he should be the mvp.

[Mike Wilbon]

Yes.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And you've said, no, he shouldn't. I said, no, he should be the mvp. But what has happened to him recently in game seven is brutal. Okay, let me get to this. He had seven points in this game. He shot two for eight. He had seven points. And then he bailed out on the press conference afterwards. Now, maybe, maybe Ty Lu heard him a little bit because he played him 47 minutes in Game 6, but you want to put him out there because he's your best player. His last three game sevens. Here we go. Seven points, nine points, 22 points. Shot 10 of 36, shot 27% from the floor and 17% from three. It's just. It's totally brutal. It is.

[Mike Wilbon]

It's bad. Tony, he's a great player, but his game. 5, 6, and particularly 7 Evans are just.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And he's a terrific. He's a great player.

[Mike Wilbon]

Yes, he is.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He's a great player. Okay, what was your biggest takeaway from Saturday's Kentucky Derby?

[Mike Wilbon]

Well, first of all, that I watched it is a big takeaway. I had to call you six times to get the damn race time. What? It used to be 5:00 and now it's 7:00pm it's gonna be under the lights pretty soon, like a Saturday night SEC game. But the mud, Tony, first of all, I didn't want it to be running in the mud early in the day. You said to me, is it raining in Chicago? As if that would determine the forecast in Lexington. But it was raining in both, so I'll give you that. But the mud, it just made it spectacular. And they're covered in it and it doesn't seem to affect them, even though I know the times are slower. I was rooting for journalism. Of course I was rooting for journalism, but it was riveting. I hate to admit this to you because I usually skip it, but it was riveting.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay, so my biggest takeaway is that you watched that. You actually watched the horses.

[Mike Wilbon]

I did.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You and 21.8 million people watched that race. That's an enormous number. Right. And so I was really proud of you that you watched it. Yeah. It starts really late When I was covering these things, it seemed to me it started about 5:20 or 5:30, because it started now after 7:00. After 7:00. I think that everybody sort of felt that you would come to the top of the stretch with Journalism and Sovereignty, that the front runners would back off a little bit, but most people then felt journalism would win. I, like you, was rooting for journalism just because what we did for so long in our lives. But Sovereignty was a stronger horse and began to pull away. And I, like you, was amazed that at the end of the race, all the horses looked alike. They all were covered with mud. The gray horses, the brown horses, they all looked exactly like. And Mike, what I wonder about is, do you think people turned into that or tuned into that because of the mud? In the way that you tune into an NFL game because of the snow?

[Mike Wilbon]

NFL game lasted three hours. The race lasted two minutes. You don't have time to do anything.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I think that you get into it about a half hour before. By the time they look at your.

[Mike Wilbon]

Test, in any case, you know, it's over.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Here's what bothers me.

[Mike Wilbon]

What?

[Tony Kornheiser]

What bothers me is the notion that both those horses may not go to the Preakness.

[Mike Wilbon]

You see that?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I want them to go to the Preakness and they may not.

[Mike Wilbon]

I'm not watching the Preakness if they're not. By the way, I know Churchill Downs is in Louisville, essentially, not Lexington. I got carried away with University of Kentucky.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Don't worry about it. It's still in the same Commonwealth of Kentucky.

[Mike Wilbon]

Enough email Commonwealth.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Let's take one last break. Still to come, Katie Ledecky, our own. Katie Ledecky.

[Mike Wilbon]

Katie Ledecky, our own.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's something she hadn't done in seven years. Years.

[Mike Wilbon]

But that's just Marlin's own. And a prediction as the Knicks and Celtics open their series in Boston tonight. Going to this series?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Wilbon]

Going to.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You don't like to predict things. You don't like to predict things. You like to just watch them.

[Mike Wilbon]

I can predict. We weren't on the air Sunday to predict the Warriors. I, I, I can't go against the Warriors. I just can't do it. I'm not going to do it.

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[Tony Kornheiser]

Happy time people. Happy 34th birthday, Austin Adams While pitching for the Padres in 2021, the reliever set the major league live ball record for most batters hit in a season. 24. Adams needed only 49⅓ innings to hit this many people. Adams is currently pitching for the Red Sox AAA affiliate in Worcester, Mass. Where he hasn't hit anyone in three appearances in four innings. Other than 2021, Adams pitched in seven major league seasons where he hit only 20 batters total and never more than 13. In one season, he has 188 major league appearances, a 77 record and a 410 ERA. Nothing drives you crazier than relief pitchers who let runners on base do walks. Hit batsman and I know because NAT relievers do this all the time.

[Mike Wilbon]

I'm gonna go with two and a half the number of times he must have hit Anthony Rizzo because Rizzo crowds the plate. He's just leaning over the plate like hitters used to do in the 1940s and 50s and 60s. People don't do that anymore. That's a lot of guys to hit in one season. It's 2021. Who remembers that? Anyway, right after the pandemic, I don't remember 2021.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Happy anniversary Dave Kingman around this day 41 years ago, while with the A's, the towering slugger hit a pop up high over second base that actually never came down. It nestled in a draining hole in the roof of the Metrodome. With no rule in place for this outcome, the umpires awarded Kingman a roof ruled double. On the 20th anniversary of that play, the Twins invited Kingman to throw out the first pitch before the hurricane closed Tropicana Field. For this season season, the Rays had similar issues with low hanging catwalks. So if a ball hit off a catwalk and was caught in fair territory, it was an out the ball didn't come down. It was a double. If it hit a catwalk in foul territory, it was a dead ball.

[Mike Wilbon]

Those domes need to go away. The Metro Dome has been gone. Beautiful open air stadium in Minnesota. It was great for football, not for baseball. Don't even get me started on the Tropicana, whatever that junk was. Get that stuff outta here.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Heavy trails to Katie Ledecky's own world record in the 800 freestyle. Ledecky broke her nine year old world record in the 800 free on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, swimming the distance 67/100 of a second faster than she did in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Since that time, no one had come within two seconds of the mark. It's Ledecky's first new world record in seven years and the 28 year old now owns the 10 fastest times in history in the 800 free. Ledecky has nine golds and 14 overall medals across four Olympics and has said she intends to compete at the Los Angeles games in 2028 when she'll be 31.

[Mike Wilbon]

You know, we don't live in Texas or California or Florida where you can ring every other doorbell. And there's probably a kid who's at least in the Olympic trials in suburban Maryland. Bethesda, Maryland. Katie Ledecky. We've watched her since the beginning and hope she does compete in the next Olympics. Congratulations.

[Tony Kornheiser]

One omission. The Ravens released kicker Justin Tucker. The organization maintains it is a football decision.

[Mike Wilbon]

Who believes that nonsense?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Let's go to the big finish. Michigan football head coach Jerome Moore is expected to get a two game suspension for the Connor Stallion. Spying issue. Is that okay with you?

[Mike Wilbon]

No. There's no rules anymore. It just looks old and stupid. No, it's not okay. Scotty Shepler won the Byron Nelson with a record tying 253. That's 31 under. I know you're impressed.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I am. Van Rooyen was 23 under. He'll never be 23 under again. He didn't win eight shots off. Royals hit seven home runs against the O's on Sunday. Is that significant?

[Mike Wilbon]

Well, considering they hit only 18 in their first 34 games, yeah. Washington D.C. d.C. Will host the 2027 NFL Draft on the Mall. You going? You gonna attend that?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Green Bay got 200,000 people in a parking lot. D.C. will get a half a million. Last one Knicks, Celtics series starts tonight. I know you care. You want to make a prediction?

[Mike Wilbon]

I'm gonna say Celtics in six. It's gonna be a tough series. The question is how the Celtics are gonna react to the next series. The Knicks can take a lot out of them even if they can't win.

[Tony Kornheiser]

We're out of time. We're try and do better the next time. I'm Tony Cornheim.

[Mike Wilbon]

I'm Mike Wilbon. Same time tomorrow, knucklehead.

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