Hour 1: Are the Seahawks Getting Disrespected, plus ESPN’s Tim Legler Talks NBA Finals

23:00Rich Eisen:Thanks, Tim. I know you got to go. So are Richard and Mike waiting in the car for you?

23:06Tim Legler:Oh, yes. And Mike Breed is not likely to be late, so I got to hustle.

23:10Rich Eisen:Yeah, Fordham versus LaSalle right there going at it. Take care, Tim. You be well. All right, see you. You got it. You know what? Whenever I go off to an event and Kurt's waiting in the car, it's never good. It dies. I never feel Kurt Warner judges me, ever, until that moment. Is he always the first one in? What do you think? Let's just say 10 times out of trips in London, Germany, Los Angeles. Nine out of 10. Denver. The number of times I get in the car before Kurt. Oh. Out of the 10. One out of 10. That is incorrect. Zero? That's correct. And I'm on time. Where I like to be sometimes, I like to think I am.

23:58Rich Eisen:But, you know, and I know, certainly if you've got to go to the airport and it's like a 7A flight, you know, he's just like, is Rich awake? And then I walk in and I look him in the eye like, what's up, Kurt? Hey, good morning. If I'm more than three minutes late, I apologize. I figure there's a grace period. But Breen is sort of the Kurt of this equation. Next time Kurt's on the program, we're going to talk with him. You can ask him. Will do. You ask him point blank. Mooch is a coach, so he's there 15 minutes early. Irv. I always knew I had extra time. Irv is the me in this situation. Irv's on Irv time.

24:41Rich Eisen:Irv's on Irv time. but we haven't discussed this Chris because you were out at step up I mean good lord this thing was I again we're I'm still talking about it my friend group we're still talking about everybody craziest thing I've ever seen I don't recall uh an NBA finals game that echoes quite like this one that there was the Celtics come back against the Lakers in 08 Well, that was the last, that was the largest comeback until Wednesday night. Yeah, that was on the road. The Knicks were at home, obviously. Did Darian Fox get fouled? Did you guys talk about that? Actually, we did not talk about it.

25:28Rich Eisen:Jake Culp, Sixer fan, Rich Eisen show, social media maven. He did post that on our page yesterday. And I'm like, who approved this? Yeah, I was. I texted him. I texted him like, where did this one come from? And he's just like, you know, I'm just playing around with, you know, asking, you know, crowdsourcing and stuff like that. So all the fouls that didn't get called in this game, or all the fouls that didn't get upgraded to a flagrant. I think the Knicks had a friend wear whistle on. This is the one you're choosing? This is the one you're choosing. I got to be honest, I didn't see that picture until that post went out because they never showed that on TV.

26:12They didn't show the replay.

26:12Rich Eisen:They did not show that. So I was like, oh, hang on, hang on. You know, the NBA is still doing their two-minute report where they're going through the last two minutes of a game. Which is also the dumbest thing ever. They're CSI-ing it or they're law and ordering it since the task of law and orders that all these games of Madison's work. That moment was not on there because they said Ananobi got enough ball before he hit his arm. so the photograph you're seeing of him connecting with the arm sure makes it look like it is a foul it did but the ball had already been dislodged by that point in time according to the nba there was a foul on that heart um needed should have been called on stefan castle but it wasn't the last play of the game that was another last two minute banger that's the one thing that they said wasn't called on the Knicks.

27:07Rich Eisen:Man, I didn't think he got any ball. No, I think, listen, I think he did. Look, the Knicks got some whack calls against them. I thought it was a pretty pro-Knicks whistle on game four, no? Two cat fouls? The cat foul to start was, I thought, ticky-tack. But I'm like, all right, did he come back on? This one. This one was stupid. This one, when Bunyama's arm was pinned, Do we have the second photograph of this? There's two that I think we put. Okay. So this one was early on as he's driving. But towards the end when he got to the hoop, Wembenyama's arm could have easily been dislodged. And as a matter of fact, his hand was over Carl Anthony Towns' stomach.

27:54Rich Eisen:And I thought, okay, we're going to review this. And it's like, could have been an arm pin at the top of the play. Definitely wasn't an arm pin throughout. And certainly wasn't at the end. so that's kind of a soup that eats like a meal that comes out of a review saying play stands is called and instead it was an overturn and those guys are overturning it knowing they're popping a second on carl anthony towns now the result of that shouldn't have been a complete and total unraveling by the knicks and what helped that unraveling was san antonio's remarkable it made everything performance yeah it made everything like literally everything was going up like that's going to be in yep that's going to be in that and when and by the time and and it was a total complete barrage that i i almost got in a fetal position watching the game i'm surprised you didn't like shut it off oh i didn't shut it off i just you missed yesterday's show because you were at step up clearly you're not staying tuned to what we're talking about while you're watching cage in his big moment with sarah but suzy we were talking about suzy was beginning to say like do you want more wine like she was starting to feel for it like you want you you know and it's so funny they need something the spurs started out they were what 65 percent shooting early uh 80 from three they finished 42 from the floor that's how bad and atrocious they were shooting uh you know midway through the third quarter and through the rest of the game i couldn't believe that when Banyama, they didn't take him out.

29:25Rich Eisen:Like he played all, um, almost all second half. He sat down for less than a minute, but, uh, and then the fact that he's in the game, he was so unstoppable and he is unstoppable. It was, he is, he will be unstoppable for decades, for as long as he wants to keep playing in the NBA. They didn't feed him like down low. I mean, there was no stopping him no certainly with you know cat was always one or two fouls deep into this game in trouble no and castle and so and mitchell robinson wasn't stopping him and nobody was stopping him why why wouldn't and he's so good at shooting free throws even though he missed those two at the end that's kind of which was a stunner pretty bit pretty big stunner and And I didn't get it.

30:14Rich Eisen:I didn't understand why the hell they were, because again, they were, for you saying, and again, it was a whistle that was to the Knicks' benefit. They were in the bonus lickety split in the fourth quarter for a second straight game before the Spurs even had one called on them. Now, and I know you're like, so stop fouling. But the other team isn't? For real? Like, come on now. it just wasn't well it's also the way the game is being played they're playing a little more down low a little more physical the Knicks were trying to shoot their way back in so that's a lot of outside shots well also the reason why you know but we're sitting here saying the Knicks were fouling but the Spurs kept on shooting quickly and it was a slow motion car crash for them well that's why I was joking with you guys did Mitch Johnson get Wayne Kiffin after, you know.

31:13That was a rough coaching performance by the young pup.

31:16Rich Eisen:Well, I mean, the tarmac situation probably was Pop waiting for him. I'm curious as to what the 48-hour conversation between Popovich and Mitch Johnson and Popovich with the rest of this team. You know, and Legler just said, can they win three in a row? Yeah, they can. Yeah, you can make the case they've outplayed the Knicks all four games. Well, Mitch Johnson did hearts are gone and this is over mitch johnson said they decided the result of all four games that sounds like that analytical it sure did sound like you know analytically we're up three games to one not down three games to one but you know at the end of the day brunson doing what he did and og og ananobi you take a look at the rest of this roster and who's got a ring is og finals MVP he's certainly in the catbird seat right now even with Brunson having the fourth quarter of his playoff life you know and he he's he's just on fire Brunson in the fourth quarter clutch points Mr.

32:26Rich Eisen:Clutch but OG is in this mix and he's the guy with the ring saying this is the way like He's been awesome, man. And he's been something spectacular. He plays so hard. He's in the catbird position, too, on that front. Also, Josh Hart better be paying for OG's meals for a long time. Well, you heard the sound body. We played that yesterday. Did you not hear that? No. Here, can we cue that up? Well, I'll tap dance while Hoskins and Bowie go ahead and grab that. I mean, the clip of Larry David reacting to Hart missing the layup. Like his legs just gave out from underneath. it's because again it was the same rim that ewing went for a finger roll down two against the indiana pace oh and back rimmed and guess what hart did on the same rim he back rimmed it well it's like he got confused of like do i dunk it or do i lay it up and then i'm up there i'm like oh no he just felt so bad for him at that i was just like oh i don't think anybody you know went down granular with him but I bet he thought to himself is Wemby anywhere interesting I don't know but this is what Hart had to say afterwards this game was was crazy um like I said you know I got a special shout out you know for for OG man because he saved me uh at least for this game uh a lifetime of you know regret um so yeah man shout out to him straight up honesty that's cool yeah straight up and um yeah small small g goat if they lose that game also thank cat because the play that mitch johnson drew up to get to stefan castle with 1.2 seconds to go if you look at it he was going to have a wide open dunk if the dylan harper uh inbound yep the sideline out of bounds the slob um cory closes talks susie about sideline inbounds out of bounds passes and baseline the slobs and blobs had that slob worked had it gotten to castle it was defending but cat got his hands on the on the ball and had Hart not blocked Castle and he gotten the ball off and made the shot what would have happened is we would have replayed that and we would have seen Carl Anthony Towns did get his hand on the basketball which should have started the clock the minute it's touched the clock starts at 1.2 it would have been a review wiping out Stefan Castle's game winner oh wow 100 could you imagine if that insanity ended on a replay also that is that was possible like the world series because they played that out and by the time that castle collected it and put it up it was blocked by heart but let's say he didn't and he got it in and they're celebrating wait a minute carl anthony towns tipped it clock should have started and guess what by the time castle collected it 1.2 is gone over well there's a video that shows cat telling the crowd behind castle to move in how is that like i don't know why that's allowed but he had mariska hargitay there's a video her hands are on the referee's back that's how close the crowd was so i can imagine no but this was on the other side of where they were, but you could see Carl Anthony Towns telling two guys who look like extras from Wall Street, you know, come on in.

36:08Rich Eisen:Yeah. Come on in. You know, but the Bud Fox sitting there, you know, hey, come on in there and crowd them. And so he, and so Dylan Harper was surrounded by Knick fans. Nuts. That game was insane. Insane. Yeah. It's still buzzing about it. 844-204-RICH number dial. So what's more likely Friday? I've got a top five, my top five New York sports moments of my life. Oh, that's later on. Let's take a break. We're back with more here on the Rich Eisen Show.

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39:17Rich Eisen:The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast. We're back here on the Rich Eisen Show radio feed along with our stream on Disney Plus and the ESPN app, et cetera, and so on and so forth. So episode three of this was SportsCenter released today. I went on, I got up to get up. So how do I put this? So I got up and then went on get up. and um got uh promoting with uh mike greenberg on get up where he hosts the show and from the set where i interviewed him back in december for this was sports center cultivating this caper for a long time yeah with an idea greenie was the first interview of the six for season one that uh you You were there too, right?

40:12Rich Eisen:I was there. It was awesome. Because that's where we do the Rich Eisen show when we're in New York on the set of Get Up. Anyway, I got up today to promote This Was Sports Center. I saw it. With Mike Greenberg, the host of Get Up. And the conversation with Greeny on This Was Sports Center is great, and here's a little clip to indicate as such. Can I tell you the story of the first Sports Center I ever did? I would love to hear this. So when you first told me you wanted to have this conversation, I thought, what stories can I tell? Okay. This is my best story. Yes. So I get hired in August of 96.

40:45And as you said, you have to sit in meetings and watch and listen and all that. So the first time they put me on there is October. So I've been there six, eight weeks. And I'm going to do a 30-minute SportsCenter at 6 in the evening on a Saturday with Larry Beal. Welcome to SportsCenter. I'm Larry Beal alongside Mike Greenberg, who is making his SportsCenter debut tonight. Welcome. Thank you very much, Larry. Great to be here. I'll tell you all about myself another time. but we've got 60 minutes of highlights and just 30 minutes to do them, so let's get it going. Larry was my first.

41:11Rich Eisen:Larry Beal, my first. I literally just said those words. Hi, hello, and welcome to SportsCenter along with Larry Beal. Who am I and what am I doing here? I'm Rich Eisen. I'm making my national TV debut, and I'm a lot of fun at parties. But that is how we used to say things. That was a big deal, who you did your first SportsCenter with. Well, that's going to do it for this SportsCenter. Next one comes your way at 11 Easter. Brett Haber and Steve Levy will be along then. For right now, I'm Mike Greenberg. And I'm Larry Beal. Larry Beal, aloha. Means goodbye. Means goodbye. And so I'm sitting, we do the show.

41:43My then girlfriend, Stacey, flies in. You know, she's there. It's a big day. And we go out for dinner to celebrate afterwards. Yeah. So we go to this restaurant in Farmington, Connecticut. Yes. And we're having dinner and we sit down. Yeah. And the waiter says, oh, I'm a big fan of ESPN. I'm thrilled to have you here. And I was like, oh my God, I've done one show for 30 minutes. I can't imagine how famous I'm going to be being on ESPN. And they're bringing food out and they treat me like I'm the VIP to end all VIPs. And at the end of the night, the guy brings the check and he says, I just want to say, Mr.

42:18Levy, it's been an honor having you here. I swear in my life, that is a true story. Oh, my God. He 100 % thought I was Steve Levy. This was SportsCenter. Out now. Such a great story. I mean, the hair is, you know. You're thinking you're the man at that. Oh, man. I've done one show and I'm already getting recognized. Right. This is the life. This is the life.

42:46Rich Eisen:Okay. Thanks, Mr. Levy. Big fan. Yeah. Imagine the confusion if Steve did go to that restaurant like a day or two later. It was like, man, I just saw you here. Listen, man. Steve Levy was, he still is the man, but he was the man. He was the king of that area. I remember going off of sports centers. If I ever did an 11 o 'clock sports center and we were done at midnight, we would go to Hartford as fast as we possibly could to just go out. Is that where the nightlife was in Hartford? That's what the nightlife was. There were two places. There was Hartford and then there was Farmington, Connecticut, which is where I lived.

43:29Rich Eisen:I'll tell a quick story about that. this is what this is all about i might tell these stories on future this was sports center certainly with leaves um big bag of leaves which is what dan patrick nicknamed steve levy um and um so we we used to go to um uh coaches which was the name of the place in in hartford named after the uh great i think it was actually owned by jim calhoun oh nice yeah that's why they called it coaches duh so uh and and steve would steve was the only one who would be able to let us stay that they let stay after things closed down

44:15Rich Eisen:yeah that's the pull that he had so everyone else gets kicked out and dang yeah everyone else get out of here but if you're with steve you get to stay a little bit longer party is the after yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so it tracks that steve was getting free food but it was really mike greenberg that's pretty awesome great stuff there and and uh you know there's a really good stuff that uh mike hoskins found from the archives because greenie tells a story about the mike and mike years with him and mike golick right here on espn radio um a fabulously successful program that put Mike and Mike in the radio broadcasting hall of fame.

44:59Rich Eisen:They're in there. And they were doing a show from Cleveland, Progressive Field, I guess, whatever, or Jacobs Field, whatever it was called at the time. And his flight was delayed. So Mike Tirico, who was in town, agreed, I'll just do it for you until you get there. He was calling the game that night. That's what it was. Wow. and he's just like yeah i'll just i'll just sit in until you get here and the story he tells about listening to how good tariko was and telling the guy driving to drive it's really it's really well i'm about to get replaced it it's funny step on it bro it's funny and we have a good conversation about what the sports tv has become he arrived six months after i did and went straight to espn news uh while i was fortunate enough to go straight to the sports center did news exist when you started did not right chris mckendry and i were the last hires before espn news started we have this whole conversation yeah you know and that's out there on disney plus the espn app our youtube channel um presented by gusto our terrific sponsors of this was SportsCenter.

46:13And so it's a lot of good nuggets with Mike Greenberg.

46:17Rich Eisen:So I got up today. And then after I was giving my thoughts on the Knicks, and I heard the producer basically telling me to rap

46:30Rich Eisen:through the Zoom. I'm like, why is this person saying five? You're like, I got up, bro. Oh, I see what you're saying, five seconds. But of course, I kept talking. Did you see who came out right after you? That's why they were rapping. They were trying to get you, yeah. Because Irvin Magic Johnson. Oh, that guy. He walked out immediately. What has he ever done? A lot. I guess so. A lot. So he got up too. But he's in New York, so. That's correct. He didn't get up that early. He didn't get up as early. This was SportsCenter. Check it out, please. Dan Patrick, the first episode. We're still getting feedback from that, as well as Chris Berman, Mike Greenberg today.

47:09Rich Eisen:Linda Cohn next week. And that is, as I mention every single time, a giggle fest. The only human who've done SportsCenter over 5 ,000 times. So, of course, she's got to be in season one of This Was SportsCenter. Tom Pellicero is going to join us. Top of hour number two. Don't go anywhere. The Ridge Eisen Show podcast.

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