Pardon the Interruption | Michael Wilbon slams NBA Refs after 76ers loss to James Harden & Clippers

Pardon the Interruption | Michael Wilbon slams NBA Refs after 76ers loss to James Harden & Clippers

Tony Kornheiser of course Herbert Hoover had just taken office yeah what a Time the Great Depression right that’s Hoover you know anything about Herbert Hoover like you’re too young to that’s all I got okay you’re too young to remember all in the family which is the Breakthrough comedy probably of all time

And in the song that Archie and Edith sang before each episode they talk about Mister we could use a man like her Hoover again but it’s lost on you can say welcome to PTI boys and girls wian couldn’t even make it to Thursday I am pleased to be joined by our great friend

The host of the podcast Pablo Tor finds out Mr Pablo Fory that’s nice and we begin today with the traditional ride of spring baseball’s opening day there are 26 teams playing today including matchups between the Yankees and ostros the Giants and Padres and wilbon’s Cubs and the defending World Series champion Rangers Pablo I’m not asking you to pick

Winners I’m asking for your biggest questions about teams or players in the season ahead I’m going to stay local I’m going to stay Naval gazy Tony I’m thinking about the Yankees and I’m thinking about the AL East honestly which is seemingly a division unlike any other perhaps in professional sports

Right now given how good it was last year and so this year I’m thinking about how the Yankees had the worst season I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime that was last season right I had to look up and see the Orioles and the Rays and the Jays and everybody and now I’m

Thinking to myself okay how good would it feel if the Red Sox finished in last place for a third consecutive season and I’m like okay pretty good but really what I’m thinking is this team with Juan stto this team with Garrett Cole who is suddenly injured we need to win a World

Series or all of this is actually just miserable it’s a binary experience for me this question and this season with the Yankees I love that you said we I hadn’t seen you with the uniform on but maybe you have one in the in the trunk here

Car I got a uniform of Washington Nat’s uniform behind me okay in baseball this year Pablo everything starts with the Dodgers you know and not just show hotani there’s mukie Betts there’s Freddy Freeman there’s Yamamoto is Yamamoto as advertised or are we going to see more of what he did in an actual

Game against the Padres when he lasted just one inning and he gave up five earned and I know I said it’s more than just Otani but to be fair it is mostly Otani mostly Otani and it is complicated now by the fact that we aren’t quite

Sure what happened with the money in his bank accounts and we aren’t quite sure what The Interpreter has done and what he is accused of doing and we aren’t quite sure who bet and who didn’t bet you know and and so that that’s all out there I think the the Dodgers more so

Than the Yankees are a rock band and it was going to be like a bigname rock band all year but now maybe they’re a bigname rock band being pursued by the sheriff a little bit you know you don’t know yeah yeah no it’s there’s a bit of cruel

Irony here Tony it’s a great Point by you we’ve been crying out for I use we the Royal Wii now having Rob Manfred as part of his Collective we’ve been wondering when are we going to get sh Otani as the face of baseball well we kind of have it now it’s just under

These these offices that are the absolute nightmare scenario for you know the Genie’s wish that gets granted except oh right there’s this wrinkle it’s going to be from a perspective of everything everything being ruined with him as your star but I suppose we should move to the

Sixers because uh they got hosed by the refs last night Tony they were down one with just seconds left Phillies Kelly UB drove he appeared to be fouled by Paul George of the clippers but nothing got called and all that set off Sixers coach Nick nurse who had to be restrained and

After the game officiating crew chief Kevin Scott admitted to Keith pompe of the Philadelphia Inquirer that after reviewing the play on video a foul should have been called on Paul George and so Tony should the league have some way to address this kind of mistake in the moment as opposed to just having

Everybody eat it so how many times have we seen this recently I’m going to go back just about a month this happened to the Knicks there was a foul call with the Knicks and it cost them the particular game and they protested the game and the league

Pretty much laughed at them and then within a week or 10 days the the Pistons got hosed and the Knicks were the beneficiary of it because a Nick player was not called for a foul and they were allowed to go down the court and make the winning basket and now we have this

Thing last night which if I’m not mistaken is a foul you can’t say to me he didn’t get a shot off before the buzzer rang or something like that no he was impeded on his way to do whatever he was going to try to do and that’s a foul

And nothing happens the referees pick up the ball and they run off the court and and there’s an Integrity of the game issue right here that is made worse by all the gambling that all the leagues sponsor Pablo there’s got to be a way to review last second plays that determine

The winner of a game just that I don’t want to go back five minutes last second plays I fully agree and when it comes to Integrity the stakes are just higher you mentioned the gambling money that is the foremost reason the complaints on top of that the mistrust that fans have about

Basketball efficients basketball officials right this is the hardest game to referee I’ve long believed that anything could conceivably be a foul depending on who’s doing it the time and the place it’s complicated it too is like jazz it’s free form how the whistle gets deployed but the last second last 5

Seconds last 10 seconds you got to have the ability to review this and I know the slippery slope argument right if there’s not a call then you can protest everything under the Sun but I believe the constraint you’ve laid out is the most reasonable solution the only other

One I have is if you if you mess it up you can’t find the guys complaining about it and Kelly UB earned the fine he’s going to get so choose which one you like I’m just going to say this quickly the n NBA is a mess right now you’ve got

Players actually saying that referees are making calls for money you’ve got a player being looked at as to whether he manipulated that game for gambling purposes and you can’t get the endings of games right where’s Adam Silver on this one honestly you got to come out it’s an Integrity issue and let’s move

On and because this is a day ending and why we’re going to talk about the Warriors and of course we’re going to throw in the Lakers as well on this show let’s start with Draymond Green getting thumbed four minutes into last night’s win over Orlando Steve K said Green’s

Early ejection does not erode his confidence in green Pablo does it erode yours I I know that Steve CER has to say this even though it’s ridiculous everybody’s confidence in Draymond Green anybody who can see or hear has at least one of the five senses knows that this guy is

Untrustworthy you can’t count on what he says you can’t count on anything but what he shows you and we know who he is Tony just look at how Steph reacted as soon as Draymond got ejected he looked like you being asked to discuss summer league right like this was a guy almost

Weeping into his jersey almost and I mean that literally weeping and so the Warriors are terrified of not making even the play in Steph knows what he has to do he knows who he can’t count on anymore and that is what’s been breaking his heart so this is interesting cuz I too

Was completely taken when I saw that this morning with Steph C reaction it seemed to me that Steph Curry was saying oh no here we go again and he’s going to be suspended now he shouldn’t be suspended for what he did he didn’t hit anybody he shouldn’t be suspended but

You could see Steph Curry basically thinking we’re sunk I saw this this morning and I saw it without sound and so I didn’t really have context on it and I wondered immediately would Draymond Green get suspended and and it seemed to me he shouldn’t yeah he shouldn’t get suspended because

He’s been suspended for physical altercations he and I know he’s a recidivist and I know he’s on a short leash but he should have the same rights as other NBA players to yell at referees and just get thrown out get thrown out get fine but but not get suspended and

And I I’m I’m always worried about the time so indulge me on this don’t let me leave without the Lakers the Lakers won last night they beat Memphis it’s their fifth in a row their longest streak of the Season LeBron had a triple trip double so now I can ask you between the

Lakers and the Warriors which is going to go on a run and you can come back and say to me they’re both going to make the finals I believe that the NBA mathematics have not changed I believe if you have the best player on the court

You are likely to make a run the Warriors have Steph Curry the Lakers have LeBron but here’s the thing Tony with the Warriors right the Houston Rockets are breathing down their necks they’ve won 10 in a row 12 of 13 and the Warriors we should point this out they

Won this game against the magic they won it because of Steph Curry because he went night night down the length of the floor because that’s who he is it’s the day exmachina of the NBA they have him so they should be okay what I’m worried about is just how that guy feels about

The about what he has to work with it’s lonely being step right now Tony and that from a longer term perspective than just this season has to be horrifying for warriors fans I I I’m just going to say this that Draymond Green I believe the statistic I

Got today what he’s now played in 36 games since he was suspended and he hasn’t done anything really flagrant so I think maybe you can count on on him a little more than you think but we’ll see let’s take a break okay coming up four sweet 16 games tonight we’re going to

Ask Jay bis whether Yukon or North Carolina could be vulnerable and whether Purdue or Houston could fall tomorrow night so apparently green on his podcast took all the blame and said it was his fault and it can’t happen but it did happen you know you can’t say it can’t

Happen when it did happen and did there are so many podcasts he’s recorded with stuff like that that would be the issue at this point for me the sweet 16 of the men’s tournament tips off tonight which makes it a perfect time for a visit from our great

Friend jumping Jay bis did they really call you jumping Jay at Duke I suspect they did not but I remember jumping Johnny Green when I was a fan of the Knicks when I was a kid here let’s start with this Yukon and North Carolina are the number one seeds going tonight Jay

Do you see either one as vulnerable I wouldn’t say vulnerable I think North Carolina playing Alabama probably has a tougher game of the two because Alabama is one of the top two or three offensive teams in the country and Mark Sears their left-handed guard is averaging over 20 a game and has been

Magificent in the tournament but because Alabama can put so many points on the board but Carolina’s defense has been great all year long and especially over the last probably half of the Season they’ve been excellent I just don’t know that as good as San Diego State’s defense is that they’ve got enough to

Beat Yukon I mean yukon’s had eight straight games uh in the NCAA tournament dating back to last year when they won the National Championship where they won by double digits and nobody’s come close to them uh in this tournament they’ve blown everybody out Jay wilbon has Illinois winning the whole thing I’m

Sure his Geographic bias is a total coincidence on that front but I got to ask you do you see the Ali actually beating Iowa State tonight I do uh I had Illinois in my bracket Illinois beating Iowa State to get to the Elite 8 uh Illinois is really

Good on the offensive end and they’re kind of an isolation team they don’t they don’t run a lot of stuff that uh is kind of false motion to get into something they go after the matchup they want they do it right away and with Teran Shannon Jr playing at the level he

Is over his last six games he’s averaging 30 points a game and then Marcus domask who transferred in from Southern Illinois he’s an isolation guy that can back you down and he’s a great mid-range player they they’ve just got weapons and I think Illinois uh has

Enough to get by it’s the number one offense in Illinois going against the number one defense in Iowa State you don’t see that very often yeah I want to ask about wilbon’s other Geographic bias Arizona and Clemson I hear some underdogs barking perhaps Jay what do you got between Clemson and Arizona

Incidentally yeah Arizona is just the stronger team and I think for Arizona if they can get out in transition that the better transition team they’ve got great size uh I I think Arizona is a very very difficult matchup for Clemson uh and Caleb love who’s played Clemson a number

Of times when he was at North Carolina he’s the best player he’s the pack 12 player of the year he’s the best player that Arizona puts out there but a guy would really watch is pel Larson uh who essentially plays the three uh for Arizona he reminds me a lot of Christian

Brown when Kansas won the National Championship because he does a little bit of everything he’s not quite as athletic as Christian Brown but he’s a little bit bigger and uh and he’s a he’s a great player he’s going to play in the NBA all right we will get you out of

Here on this I go to the glasses because tomorrow like tonight we have two number ones we have two number twos going because the seeding people really did get it right so far so among Purdue and Houston and Tennessee and Marquette who do you see as perhaps the wobbly of those four

Teams I would probably Tony say Tennessee uh Tennessee is going against kraton and kraton can really score they’ve got a big guy named Ryan caul brener who protects the rim he’s a lob threat scores really efficiently around the basket and he never fouls you know he’s able to block shots and change

Shots without fouling and if Tennessee doesn’t shoot the ball better than they did against Texas if they play like they did against Texas kraton will beat them and remember kraton went to the elite eight last year lost uh to San Diego State they got a late foul call that

That that tubed the game for him San Diego State wound up winning it but they’re gonna have to score points against kraton because even against that really good Tennessee defense kraton’s going to put up numbers they can really score was that actually your dog barking in the background was that your dog

There my there my dog and then my daughter’s dog and anytime they see anyone walking outside the house they go nuts so I’d have to tape all the windows shut in order to get this done in complete silence that’s so fabulous I got my we don’t allow my dog in the studio but

She’s right outside thank you so much for being with us as always Jay thank you Jay always thank you let’s take one last break still to come a-rod’s did to buy the Timberwolves appears to be off really Andy Reed Tony appears to have a new offensive

Weapon I now feel that I could bring my dog chesse yeah right here and just total jealousy oh yeah chesse has now that’s just this makes me people happy 80th birthday Rick Barry named one of the 75 greatest NBA players of all time Barry was Rookie of the Year in

1966 for the San Francisco warriors he jumped to the Oakland Oaks of the ABA in 1968 because his then father-in-law Bruce hail was going to be the coach Barry later bked at playing for the Virginia Squires in a famous cover piece in Sports Illustrated and went instead

To the New York Nets Barry jumped back to the NBA in 1972 he was the finals MVP in 1975 when the Warriors SW the Washington bullets Barry was a 12-time Allstar LED both the NBA and ABA in scoring always a controversial figure even as a broadcaster I covered him on

The Nets I found them to be direct egocentric generous and a total Delight so Rick Barry of course the granny style free throws underappreciated so many more NBA players should have copied him but obviously Tony he was before my time I do remember reading though I believe

It was 83 a Sports Illustrated article I found once by writer who also I think was described as something like uh egocentric brilliant and a total delight and I wonder what happened to that gu really really huh yeah never happened to him he’s sitting here not so happy

Anniversary to the city of Baltimore on this day 40 years ago Bob ERS the owner of the Baltimore Colts had 15 green and yellow Mayflower moving vans pull up to the Colts training complex in owing Mills Maryland at 2:30 in the morning as snow fluttered down all the Colts memorabilia merchandise and memories

Were loaded into the trucks and driven to Indianapolis knowing how Baltimore fans would react ERS deliberately fled the city in the we hours an unforgivable act Baltimore was repatriated with an NFL team in 1996 the Ravens As Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore but publicly and not under the

Cover of Darkness unforgivable is the right word this is total coward total cowardice I believe is the term that I was looking for and if you look look at Jim ‘s Twitter account today and God bless you Tony for never being on Twitter you’ll find him commemorating a

Surreal Night 40 years ago glad it worked out for both sides or some such maybe just don’t tweet that if you’re Jim mer just a thought don’t tweet anything at all on a day like this happy trails to a moov to Northern Virginia for the capitals and wizards

The owner of these teams Ted leanis who tried in gloriously to move them out of Washington DC has come back to the district now that the new Golden Palace he sought in Alexandria blew up in his face Virginia Republican Governor Glenn yunan who conspired with leanis ran into strenuous objections by the Democratic

Legislature leanis who originally demanded $600 million in improvements to keep his teams in DC yesterday agreed to $515 million improvements and signed a 25-year lease to stay put so the capital of the United States of America is whole again with hockey and basketball and leanis can work on his reputation

Which took a huge and Justified hit for his villainy you know the other story I’ve been monitoring when it comes to NBA owners in this case is Glen Taylor who is retaining majority control of the Timberwolves A-Rod was going to be the guy who got that majority share some

Expiration has passed and so Glen Taylor still in the league incredible let’s go to the big finish Cavs owner Dan Gilbert says he’s confident Donovan Mitchell will sign an extension this summer are you I’m not but I do know what font Dan Gilbert will use if he doesn’t resign Louisville

Hired Pat Kelce to replace Kenny Payne is that a good fit he was not their first choice but he went twice in a row to the NCAA with Charleston and then twice with winr in one bid leagues pretty good the Chiefs agreed to terms with European rugby star

Lewis ree zet are you intrigued I’m intrigued that he might play receiver or running back that is interesting to me the meanwhile are shutting down Lam Melo ball for the rest of the season does that make sense yeah they’re not going to make the playoffs and he gets hurt a lot I mean

He and his brother they’re never healthy last one bucks and Pelicans tonight are you intrigued Zion Williamson looks great he looks healthy he’s bouncy he’s dominant in the month of March yes absolutely more Zion this Zion specifically please did I not say College of Charleston I thought I had perhaps I

Hadn’t we’re out of time we’ll try and do better the next time Scott Richards shout out your sign Pablo T thank you for watching this is my show Pablo Tor finds out please subscribe but for now your sports center that Sports Illustrated Story by that guy was pretty good I mean come on

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Pardon the Interruption | Michael Wilbon slams NBA Refs after 76ers loss to James Harden & Clippers