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Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbond. It's National Best Friends Day. Tony, who's your bestie?
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Tony Cornhotge. I thought it was you, but you've been spending a lot of time with Stephen A lately.
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Yeah, I have. Apparently. I don't know if the patent. I mean, if the. If the satin suits are gonna rub off on me, you know, I don't know if I'm coming back with those. I might be around Stephen A. So much.
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Y. Pretty soon you'll start looking for homes on i95 and all the New Yorkers you hate now you love. Welcome to C.I. boys and Girls. In today's episode, the Golden Knights escape. The Tigers have a mini surge and Golden Temple wins the Belmont. But we begin today with tonight's game three in the NBA Finals. This one is at Madison Square Garden with the home team Knicks up two nothing in games and realistically threatening to sweep the series over San Antonio. Victor Wembanyama was not dynamic in game one and called himself out for it. At the end of game two, Wembanyama had a costly turnover and missed the winning shot at the buzzer. Wilbon, for all the praise Wembanyama has justly received, is he actually to blame for the spurs predicament?
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No, no. Blame his parents for having him too late? No, there's no blame. He's overwhelmed at the beginning of these games. He got off to a terrible start in game two and of course finished with a flurry, but it wasn't enough. He's being outplayed right now by a veteran who makes like $50 million a year. Carl Anthony Towns. To be good, to be really good, borderline great sometimes. And Karl Anthony Towns has that in him. But when Benyama and his teammates at, you know, the primary ones at 19, 20 and 22 himself, they're not ready for this yet. How many times am I going to say that since October? What are they going to do? Go out and get some poise, develop it, find it, gather it. They can't do that. You got to live. You can't skip the steps. And that's what I'm just beating the horse, beating the drum on and a dead horse all year long. And they're not going to find it tonight either. Doesn't mean they can't win. But the Knicks have this advantage in the series right now. And so when Banyama has been good a couple of times in flurries in this series, he needs to have it be that for a sustained time, three quarters of the game tonight or they're going to be going home after Wednesday night's game four.
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So let me go back to the original question is when Benyama somehow to blame for the predicament the spurs find themselves in. And I would say I don't blame him. Not totally. Partially, yes, because he's the best player on the team and he is the self appointed leader of the team. So partially I blame him. He will talk about wanting to be the mvp. He will talk about needing to get better and say with confidence I will get better immediately. And in fact they're 02. So is it Stefan Castle? No, it's not Dylan Harper? It's not Mitch Johnson? No, it's this guy. And the point I want to make, Mike, is that if you want to be the face of the league, this is what comes with it. For good or for bad. This stuff comes with it. You have been very praising for a couple of years now of Victor Wembanyama. I know you believe that he will win multiple championships. You have said he's a transformational player. You also said that the finals of the Eastern Conference was the junior varsity. So I assumed, like me, you thought the winner of the Western Conference would actually win this series. They have to win. No, I didn't tonight, you know. Okay, I did. You know the last time that the spurs won in Madison Square Garden is 2019 and that includes 06 since then with a 25 point loss. Right. Now I would say this Mike, as briefly as I can. I don't think that because some team wins it means the other team stinks. I think it's sort of like golf that sometimes tournaments are won and sometimes tournaments are lost. I believe right now the Knicks are winning this tournament. That's what I believe. Not the spurs are losing it, Tony. Knicks are winning it.
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Tony completely agree. And no, I did not presume, I said that the Western Conference combatants were going to Ali Frazier each other into fatigue and they were in a tough place to recover for the NBA Finals. So no, I didn't believe that. And it was the JV the JV series, not a JV team. Knicks, Cavaliers compared to OKC spurs was the jv. And everybody knows that. But that's why also the Knicks were rooting for the spurs to win that series. I don't believe they would be doing this to a team that already had a championship ring on its finger in okc. San Antonio was the better opponent. We're seeing that. And again, can they win tonight to force this into a longer series? Yes, they can. But Tony, are they going to be able to acquire the necessities that you need to win a championship this year? I don't think so. Let's move to the Golden Knights averting disaster in game three of the Stanley Cup Final, Vegas got out to a 4 nothing lead, then blew it all with Carolina tying the game in the final two minutes. A first overtime solved nothing. But the Golden Knights won the game in a second extra period on a total fluke that bounces off the boards and then off goalie Brandon Bussy. Skate Tone, how important was it for the Golden Knights to not have lost that game?
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Oh, come on. If they lose that game, the roof falls in. Come on, they're up four nothing in the third at home. There's not two nothing. You and I know from talking to our friend Bernie Wolfe, who was the goalie for the Washington Capitals, that two nothing is the shakiest lead in hockey. So in game one, Carolina had a two nothing lead. They blew it. They lost the game. In game two, Vegas had a two nothing lead. They blew it and they lost their game. We're not talking two nothing here. We're talking four nothing. Then 39 seconds later, it's four to three. So if you lose that game and you are Vegas, you begin to smell like burnt toast. I mean, it's really. That's not going to work at all. This is not the same series as Carolina. Montreal. In that series, Carolina withstood the fact that Montreal came into their place and won game one. And then they beat him four in a row. This. This is not like that. This looks like it's going to go at least seven and it could go 11. And they are scoring like crazy in this thing. The scores so far are 5, 4, 43 and 5 4. The two teams have combined for the most goals in the first three games of a Stanley Cup Final series since 1981, when the Islanders and the Minnesota north stars put up 30. And that is so long ago, Mike, that the Islanders have moved to another building and maybe another county and there are no more Minnesota North Stars. This is, this is a different deal here. Different. Yeah, it's different.
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Yeah. Watching this, Tony was just jarring. Three goals in 39 seconds. I mean there have been some similar flurries. I mean this was historic. It was. The Kings were involved in a game like this way back in the Gretzky years. The Blackhawks finished off the Flyers in a championship game like this. I guess that was the 2010 championship. But you, to see three, I mean people score a couple to see three like this and then the fluky nature. What are you supposed to feel if you're Carolina and you come back almost heroically and have this thing you can't draw up, you know, go in the net. I mean it just, you can see, I mean the bodies, they just sank and you. I just, it was a scream out loud moment for me watching this. And I don't know what to expect now going forward except a bunch of more goals. It seems like that's going to be what's trending in this series.
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It's not a defensive series. No, no it is not. It's a score series. Score series. Let's move to baseball in the ongoing saga of Tarek Skubal and free agency and the Detroit Tigers. When we last left school, he'd had floating bodies removed from his elbow and was hoping to pitch again in four to six weeks. Yesterday, Scuba pitched in a minor league game in high a hit 98 on the gun, went five scoreless innings and threw 54 pitches, 44 of them for strikes. Without Scuba, the Tigers have now won five of their last six, all against division leading teams. Everyone assumes the Tigers are going to trade Scuba Wilbon. Have conditions changed this assumption?
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Yeah, and the first one is Scubal's health. That apparent health. That's the first condition. Look, you know, I know minor league ball ain't the bigs, but when you can control velocity and location, I mean that's a huge part of what it is that any pitcher wants to do and particularly one like Schuylville. So yes, conditions have changed and conditions are going to change. There have been other teams, my Cubs with wild swings this season so far and the American League is there's going to have to be wild swings at least in the direction of competence because those teams by and large have not been that so far this season. There is time 100 games left to, to change your season gradually. You don't even need a burst. Just, just, just win this. Win two out of three games six or seven times, which teams often do particularly around the All Star break as June turns into July and then late July. Yeah, conditions have changed and they change again before we get to the trade deadline. So the Tigers have some figuring to do and some waiting to do.
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So let me just say first that if this is real, if Scubal will indeed get back to the majors in four weeks, if he's going 98 to 100, then I want his doctor, Dr. Neil Elatrache, to operate right here on my rotator cuff. I need that done, and I need him to do it because look at what he's doing with Skubal. Yes, conditions have obviously changed. And part of that is what you're alluding to. The American League isn't any good. The division the Tigers are in isn't any good. So if you are five and a half out of the last wild card now with 100 games to go and you get Scuba back, you can make that up easily. That is not a hard thing to do. The team that holds that wild card now is Texas. They are below.500. You don't have to be the 1927 Yankees to make the wild card. And this is the Tigers dilemma, what to do. Because if they feel they can make the postseason, then in the American League, they can get to the World Series. The American League is just not that hard. So now you have seven weeks between now and the trade deadline. So you have enough time to look at that. But then it has to be a hard and fast decision. You either trade him and get something or you let him go to free agency. He's going to leave. You're going to get nothing. So you keep him if you honestly think you're in the playoffs. Let's take a break. Coming up, major horsing news out of the Belmont.
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Is the Belmont still around? They weren't relegated.
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It is still around. No, it's still around. It's just not in Belmont Park. It's in Saratoga. This year, not next year.
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Nelly Korda almost missed a gimme to win the US Open. Almost. That, I think, means she made it.
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Trying to find out what the commoners are curious about in mail time. Let me put on my glasses and read the first one.
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Mail time.
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What would you be saying if Nelly Korda, I know she's your girl, had missed her putt to win the US Open?
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I would say, my God, she feels like I do probably 100 times a year having some putt swirl out. Instead, she's Nelly Korda. It swirls and stays in and she wins her fourth U.S. open. And she, Tony, just a couple of years ago, she had a year where she won seven times, including a major, and she was just great. Annika Sorenstom, great. Well, she's on that kind of role already this year, and we got quite a bit of the summer left to play. So Nelly Corder, when she's playing like this, she's owning the LPGA Tour and it's wow, it's a spectacle to watch. I, I, you know, I root for Nelly Corder. I find this incredible. And so I'm glad that putt stayed down yesterday and she got our second major of the season. Now there are five majors in the women's tour, and so she's got a ways to go to, to win the whole. I mean, I don't what's a slam when you win Four. I I Is it five? What? What's the definition?
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No, it's got to be five. It's got to be five. You got to win them all.
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I love watching Nelly. I was happy yesterday.
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All right, so it's her fourth major, it's her first US Open, just to set the record straight. Here's what would have happened, what I would have said if she missed that part, that it's one of the great gags of all time. I missed that part. You missed that part. But a pro is not supposed to miss that part, especially not to close out the U.S. open. Nelly Corden makes that part 99 times out of 99 times, and that's what happens. And in this one, I don't know if she approached it too casually. I don't know if she hit it too hard. It almost went out. And you could see in her face, it was an my God moment. I mean, you know, that would have been unbelievable. But she closes it out. I will remind you of this. Some years back, there was a good player on the PGA Tour, Scott Hoke, and he missed a two foot putt shorter than this one. And he lost the 1989 Masters. Sports Illustrated that week came out with a story that said hulk, as in choke. And I have remembered that for almost 40 years now, by the way, in
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the men's tournament, Jack's tournament, the Memorial, the guy who's playing against Poston, he missed about a three foot putt, Gerard. So I mean, about five feet. Is it five feet on the par putt? All right.
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Yeah, it was five feet. It was about five feet. Here we go. Here's the next one. Oh. How does Golden Temple look after winning the Belmont? I'm just going to take this myself because you and I texted, I asked you if you swat a race. Yeah. You didn't do it?
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No.
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So how does Golden Temple look after the Belmont? The horse looks. He looks like a Triple Crown horse in the same way that Sovereignty last year was looked like a Triple Crown horse because they both did the same thing. They both won the Kentucky Derby, they both won the Belmont, and they both skipped the Preakness. I don't know how you can have a Triple Crown, the most famous thing in your sport, if nobody runs into Preakness. This horse, Golden Temple, did the same thing in this race that he did in the Kentucky Derby. And I told you this, Mike, he's dead last at the top of the stretch. Dead last. And he runs down every other horse in the race. But it's not if you don't run into Preakness. It's not the Triple Crown. Last year, the trainer Bill Mott kept his horse out. This year, Sherry Devoe kept her horse out. It has to change. They have to change the schedule. It's very simple because you want to save your sport. And the casual fan only pays attention to the Triple Crown. So you go first Saturday in May for the Derby, first Saturday in June for the Preakness, and July 4th. July 4th for the Belmont. And I think that's how you do it. Now, I'm willing to take any questions. I'm pretty good at state capitals, so anything you want to ask me, go ahead.
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Let me just say this. I completely rip load management in the NBA. You let it slide because you care about tanking more. This load management at its worst.
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Yes, 100%. 100%.
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Because if this horse had done that in the Preakness as well, which it seems capable of, and had won three times, last of first, it'd be one of the great Triple Crown events.
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Yeah. All time. All time, ever.
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Instead, they said, no, let's protect the horsey. I mean, I, you know, I'm saying that knowing nothing about the health of horses, I grant you that. But you. You better be ripping this, because we are. We both ripped the NBA for load management.
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That's what I'm ripping it. I'm not ripping it for load management. I'm ripping it. What they want to do now is they like to say, take care of the equine athletes. If nobody wants to run two weeks after the first race anymore, change the schedule, keep the Triple Crown, just kick it two weeks. That's all I'm saying. That's enough email. Let's take one last break. But still to come, Texas Tech gets good news in the case of their transfer. Quarterback.
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Please. I don't believe any of that is settled. Tony has ties that are older than the big new star in Formula 1.
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This one Canali, at least 20 years old. How old is this kid? This is 2019.
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Happy time people. Happy 51st birthday yesterday. Allen Iverson Iverson was the most electrifying player ever at Georgetown. Although unlike Patrick Ewing, Iverson never won the national championship. Iverson was drafted overall number one in 1996 by the Philadelphia 76ers. He was rookie of the Year and ultimately had his number three retired in Philadelphia. Iverson averaged 26.7 points a game over his 14 year career. He was the league MVP in 2001, led the league in scoring four times and was an 11 time All Star. Curiously, of the Mount Rushmore object Georgetown players Iverson, Ewing, Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo, only Mourning ever won a ring he won with Miami. Iverson is in the hall of Fame and who will ever forget practice? We're talking about practice.
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Tony Tough keep a Sleepy Floyd off that Mount Rushmore. But Allen Iverson isn't just the most electrifying player ever at Georgetown. He's about the most electrifying player ever anywhere. I mean, just still, you look at those highlights alone and we have forgotten because it's been a little while. It's great to see Iverson now sitting in the front in Philadelphia at those games because you know when he was playing, those fraudulent fans in Philadelphia didn't sell their tickets to Knick fans if AI was taken to court.
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Here we go again. Happy Anniversary Don Drysdale this is posthumous, but on this day 58 years ago in 1968, the year of the pitcher, Drysdale ran his major league record scoreless inning streak to 58. Drysdale has spent his entire career with the Dodgers in Brooklyn and in Los Angeles, held that record for 20 years until another Dodger, Oral Hershiser, recorded 59 consecutive scoreless innings, a record that still stands today. Coincidentally, Drysdale was a Dodger broadcaster at the time and called Hershiser breaking his own record. Recently, Christopher Sanchez of The Phillies won 50⅔ innings without giving up an earned run. Drysdale was 209 and 166 in his career with a 295 ERA, a nine time All Star, a three time World Series champion.
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Tony starters go so few innings now. It would take a starter like half a season to just get to the 60 inning mark that we're talking about and that we're celebrating. But man, Drysdale, Drysdale and Koufax think about how much better baseball would be now. Not if you had those two, but just guys like them in that class, you know, pitching, starting pitching, games in the bigs. Now you don't have many and when they're out there, you better look quick.
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A melancholy trail is to Stacey King. The BROS broadcaster has died at the age of 59. King was a huge star at Oklahoma, leading the Sooners to the title game as a junior, then averaging 2610 as a senior. The Bulls drafted him sixth overall in 1989 and he won three titles as a reserve on teams that starred Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. But King came into his own in Chicago as the beloved color analyst for Bulls games, mixing game analysis with outside playfulness, outsized playfulness and passion for a team that's posted a winning record just once in the last
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too big, too fast, too strong, too good. We all who follow the Bulls remember Stacy King describing Derrick Rose that way early in his career. And it seems like those two that you wanted to hear Stacy King talk about Derrick Rose and now Tony. It's just impossible to hear somebody else's voice do those games. Stacy was unbelievably connected to the fan base, the city and everybody who cared to listen to him. And I was one of them.
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Let's go to the big finish if we can. Quickly. Alexander Zverev and Mira Andreeva, your French Open champion. Significant.
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Yeah, because it's a major championship, but wow, didn't see that coming. I think we can both agree. 19 year old Kimi Antonelli won the Monaco Grand Prix for his fifth straight win. Is that a big deal?
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PTI has been on six years longer than this kid's been alone. A judge in Lubbock County, Texas granted an injunction that will allow Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech this season. Are you surprised?
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I hear the words appeal and overturn in our future regarding that story. The LA Kings hired Peter Laviolette as their new coach. That makes sense.
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He's one of Stanley Cuppy's coach six different teams on the U.S. olympic team. He's good. Last one. Christopher Sanchez back on the mound for the Phillies at the Blue Jays tonight. What do you expect?
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The start of a new streak? Tony, Wouldn't that be fun?
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We're out of time. Try to do better the next time. I'M Tony Kornheiser.
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