Hour 2: Knicks Sweep the Sixers, WNBA Tips Off, plus Comedian Ron Taylor In-Studio

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1:15Rich Eisen:That's what he got. Elbow by Victor. This is the Rich Eisen Show. You don't miss shots, Chris. The prize even more open and he hits a corner triple. The Rich Eisen Show. Earlier on the show. ESPN senior writer Vincent Goodwill. Coming up, comedian Ron Taylor, former SportsCenter and Late Late Show host, Craig Kilbourne. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Here on Disney +, the ESPN app, Craig Kilbourne's going to be in studio hour number three. In 20 minutes' time, Ron Taylor, the winner of the contest show, Funny AF with Kevin Hart is going to be here to lighten our day.

2:00Rich Eisen:844-204-RICH. Number to dial right here on the program. Chris, you got in my ear during the commercial break and said there's breaking news out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Baby, let's go, Rich Eisen. Here it comes. Boom! M-R-A-I-C. Breaking news. What do we see? Rich, we've been waiting for this news since the season ended, honestly. I mean, we've all been on the edge of our seats here. This is the setup. in Pittsburgh. I feel like this is a long national nightmare is over. We have a signing. What do we have? The Steelers have agreed to terms with Chris Boswell on a four-year,$28 million exchange.

2:38Boswell now locked in through 2030. Is that the Cold-Blooded Assassin, right? According to Mike Thomas? It's Serial Killer, I think. Serial Killer. Super necessary. Not the news you were thinking.

2:53Rich Eisen:listen i understand you know expected to and that's why this is why the um information men and women of the national football league or in any sport always couch their reporting with words like plans to expects to because you never know until it's done it's not done and you know things might take longer and whatever but aaron rogers going to pittsburgh to what? Like, get real estate? Buy property? Go for dinner? I don't know. I don't like... See a show? Apparently he went to Pittsburgh but didn't see anyone from the Steelers to stop by, but that strains credulity. That just... It's so odd. It is.

3:36Rich Eisen:But in the meantime, it just hasn't happened yet, but it's gonna happen. Was he playing Oakmont? Maybe he was golfing. Could be. I don't know. No one knows. Who knows? Nobody knows. Don't know. or he was just like gonna do it but just because somebody would ian reported it i'll show him i'll just go we'll get some dinner see a show now that's a level of petty right i don't know like i was gonna do something but an insider leaked it so now so now i'm not gonna do it or he was never in pittsburgh at all and he's not gonna sign there or he will and we geotagged rogers i'm sure he's got a crib there right maybe he was just going to the crib maybe he left something if we yeah maybe left something he's gonna open it up open it back a couple maybe left his passport to the coast had a few laughs i don't know had a t-shirt it's just so wild it's a spring he has to open up the windows and crazy that's insane like what well i mean he could be airbnb so you know we're wondering what's where aaron rogers is and if if he is geotagged we can only assume the fact that we don't know is he's been geotagged by the philadelphia 76ers no let ask you this question.

4:43Rich Eisen:What is more porous? Come on. The Philadelphia 76ers geotagging ticket program. Or their perimeter defense on the three-point line. I mean, the Treya Palooza from Deuce McBride to start the game. The Knicks reign in 11 threes in the first quarter. 11 of 14 from three-point range, and it was only 11 of 14 because Landry Schammett tried to throw one in from 35 feet with no time left. Does that count? That shouldn't count. It did. Come on. Look, they had 18 in the first half, right? We've all seen games like this. It doesn't matter the defense you're going to play. It's over. It's written. It's already done.

5:23A wrap.

5:24Rich Eisen:There's nothing you can do. Oh, my goodness. The only starter for the Knicks that didn't have a plus minus above 30 was Carl Anthony Towns with a plus 23. I mean, my goodness gracious. Just a crushing, crushing sweep victory. for the New York Knickerbockers. 144 to 114 was the final. That's the most points in a playoff game in franchise history, breaking the record from earlier this month. That's how they're rolling into the NBA Eastern Conference finals, sitting back, chilling like the villains that they are in Philadelphia. My favorite moment was Jalen Brunson crossing over, getting to the basket, going up and under underneath of Joel Embiid, who, wait for it, This is going to drive you crazy because it's so wild.

6:14Rich Eisen:Wound up on the floor. Oh, come on. No way. Wound up on the floor. And then quick turnover. Brunson was hardly running up the court. Spotted up for three and jammed that one down. And then you could just see all the Knick fans in the background just going absolutely nuts in that building. that program of geotag and we are not selling our tickets to anybody unless you have a philadelphia address and i just based on this photograph right here uh everybody in the front row just staring into the abyss of an off season looks like they live in philadelphia um and everybody you know from the second row on back looks like they don't no jeez that's a new york rep i mean it's just was Did you see Mitchell Robinson posterizing Joel Embiid?

7:09Rich Eisen:A bunch of Knick fans showed up with that on a piece of paper and holding that up to try and get Embiid distracted while he's shooting threes in his home building. Didn't work. The geotagging program, back to the old drawing board, sort of like the Philadelphia 76ers season. Oh, this is so much fun. I sent you guys in the Rich Eisen Show guillotine league text chain That includes my son, whose Celtics got eliminated by this Sixers team that couldn't even get a win against the Knicks. A local report from a Philadelphia news station filled with Philadelphia 76er fan tears. Knicks aren't going anywhere.

7:50Rich Eisen:Hopefully they enjoy this. They're not going to do anything after this. Okay. Listen, it was tough to hear them over the Knicks fans chanting in the background. Mike Brown had this to say afterwards. I got a lot of respect for you, Nick fans. I'm going to applaud them, too. Let's go, Nick. Great job. But I got a lot of respect for them. And the more you obviously you're around, that's the more you appreciate and understand why they are like that. But more than anything else, they're knowledgeable. It's a knowledgeable group or knowledgeable fan base. and you respect that just as much as their their their passion shows and i i love mike brown for saying that i i will say this um as he's holding up what looks like the donny baseball sign that i did years ago okay uh be careful be very very very careful because uh as charles barkley i think um accurately pointed out on inside the nba just two weeks ago that every single one of those nick fans that showed up wanted him fired.

8:55Rich Eisen:What are you doing? Why do we bounce Thibodeau? We're down to one of the Hawks. And that can happen, you know, starting next week. You know, one week from today. That's what it could start for Mike Brown. Can change in a New York minute is the way it's referred to. Great song. Because every single one of those Nick fans, that's why it's kind of tough to even cape for my fellow New York, New Jersey, Knick fan brethren and sisters, if you will. Because they act like the series is seasons over and there's a parade coming and we're raising a banner. Do you raise a banner for sweeping the 76ers and showing up in full force?

9:41Rich Eisen:But Josh Hart loves it too. One of the Nova Knicks. Were you a little surprised at how many Knick fans were here tonight? Nah, man, because everybody was begging for Philly to not sell their tickets and all that stuff. So, man, yeah, it's, I used to think Philly was a sports town. I don't know if it is anymore. Oh, I hadn't heard that sound bite. That's a shock. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. I mean, it's like you're staring at me like you want me to have some type of reaction. I've never lived in Philly. I never. no no no but i i'm sorry look it's yeah it was a basketball team i like that's my only connection so he says with the put that shot up again it's dr j behind you man yeah okay but that's dr j dr j he played for the sixers years ago that i believe today's the anniversary of that famous uh it was underneath up and under up and under i think today might be yeah that's sick yeah i have No.

10:47Rich Eisen:Tyrese Axie, man, he's feeling it. This is one of those young Turks there in Philadelphia that's supposed to be reversing all of this. And he seemed like a very beaten young individual. It's hard. It's definitely difficult. You know what I'm saying? And it's only one way to put a stop to it, and we have to go out there and win these games. Like, just being completely honest, we were better when we played them in the Garden this entire season. Like, I know we lost game two and one, but like game two was better. Regular season was better. Here we was, you know, I was telling them it just felt louder here for them than it did in the garden.

11:25And it's like, well, we got to put a stop to it as a team, like winning these games. That's what's going to make, you know, our fans like louder than theirs or whatever. I don't know how to keep them out. I don't know the logistics of it, but, you know, it does suck. I can't even lie. It definitely does suck. Okay.

11:48Rich Eisen:Chris, how much do you enjoy beating teams from Philadelphia? Oh, it's up there. Normally, you feel the same way in football. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Carl Anthony Towns, I mean, if you take a Venn diagram, one circle here is Eagles fans, one circle here is the Philadelphia 76ers fans. It's a large Venn diagram. Yeah. He's making a lot of his own fellow Eagles fans very upset right now. Probably.

12:11Rich Eisen:Knicks get a week off. Ooh. Potentially. week. The thing is, for me, a lot of my boys are Knicks fans. The Sixers got stomped, but I got a lot of friends who are Knicks fans and I know they're going crazy. I'll tell you why. Do you want a week off? Well, with OGN and OB out, I do. You bet I do. Yeah, but you've got so much momentum. I got it. I hear you. I got it. They also had half a week off after dispatching the Hawks. That's true. and it didn't and and the Sixers that's all I heard after that first game is it'll be better in game two because we're just you know we were tired um no take the week off enjoy it and this is why it feels different this Knicks team is deeper very deep that's true this Knicks team is deeper they're playing Jordan Clarkson they're playing Jose Alvarado they're playing Landry sham it i'm gumby sham it they're playing you know what i mean mitchell robinson they're nine deep nine yeah when were they ever nine deep with tibet oh never right never every single nick all not a single starter not a not a single player played over 30 minutes in this game and then they're gonna get a week off of if we're gonna have a game one conversation in detroit or madison square guarding against Cleveland.

13:36Rich Eisen:Oh, they were rusty. So be it. I can't. I'd rather it be that than banged up and tired, just like last year when they ran completely out of gas in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers, completely gagging in the final moments of games. This doesn't look like that team at all. Not at all. That's a fact. So Knick fans have every reason to be very excited this time around prior to any other. There's a problem. There's three words that's a problem. Massive problem. And those three words are Oklahoma City Thunder. You got to get to them. But I think you got to get to them. And then I understand San Antonio Spurs are still sitting there.

14:19Rich Eisen:There's the Minnesota Timberwolves. I get it. I understand it. But long story short, halfway home. Halfway home having won seven playoff basketball games in a row. boat race style for damn near all of them. The only other team winning seven in a row right now in the playoffs is the aforementioned Oklahoma City Thunder. So there's all of that, man. All of that. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial here on the program. Who's that on line to? The name has disappeared from my... Nick in Alaska. Okay. Nick. It's always sunny in Alaska right now. What's up, Nick? Yeah. I mean, I've just been hearing all this crazy talk about how Philly's not a sports town and all that.

15:11That was real quick, Nick.

15:14Rich Eisen:That's Josh Hart, who played in Villanova. And he knows what he's doing. He was just saying that. He knows that that's just a troll job. But I understand for me to be pissed about that. Anyway, I just had a question. Who do you think is worse, Knicks fans or Eagles fans? And then also, yeah, the way we went out was rough. I was so high after that win over the Celtics. I mean, I love beating Boston in any sport. But, yeah, I mean, I think we're trending up. But, eh, I mean, I kind of just went higher register there. You did. We were just saying that off camera, Nick. You couldn't see us, but we did notice you went higher register.

15:57Rich Eisen:And I appreciate you pointing that out. But listen, Edgecombe and Maxie are two tremendously young, terrific players. Terrific. Terrific. Stars of the game, right? And Embiid, he can't stay healthy. He can't stay off the damn floor. It's absurd. It's positively absurd. And in terms of this, real quick before you answer, Nick, thanks for the call. I'm not going to sit here and say who's worse, Knicks fans, Eagles fans. They're both insanely passionate fan bases that live in the Northeast Corridor, which means we're obnoxious. That's just the only way to put it. It's true. I'm not going to lie. You too in Boston.

16:44Rich Eisen:Obnoxious. For sure. New York fans love beating Philadelphia teams and Boston teams. Boston teams love beating New York teams and Philadelphia teams. And Philadelphia teams love beating New York teams and Boston teams or Dallas teams. You know what I mean? Yeah. You don't have to riot after every win, though. Yeah. Huh? Knicks fans. You don't have to go absolutely. They didn't riot in Philadelphia. They just were loud, and they were obnoxious, and they were in everybody's faces because the Philadelphia 76ers tried to cut it off at the pass by saying, we're not going to sell you tickets. You know?

17:21They tried it, and it didn't work. They tried. I mean, I don't hate them for trying. I guess. You want your own fans in your building. Sorry you were saying about Embiid. No, I mean, look, since you put me in this spot back in 2020, I've always been saying about Embiid that he's too big to constantly be fallen like the way he does. It's frustrating to watch as a fan of his. It's frustrating to watch as a Sixers fan. It's like literally every play, it seems like he's on the ground more than he's up. And it's how are you that big in your constant? And I don't even think it's, I don't even know if it's flopping.

18:00And I don't even know what that is. Neither do I. I just watched that whole series, man. It's truly frustrating to watch, man. Yeah. Like, there were definitely parts of me that, again, and I say this all the time, if I had that paper in front of me, it probably would have gotten signed. The Sixers, you're done? Oh, yes. Is that because the Clippers got the fifth overall selection? Very much so. That was pretty much, I was already on my way out there, too, to be honest with you. Like, look, this team is where they're at. They OMB'd$180 million over the next three years. You can't get rid of them.

18:39I just don't see where this team, yeah, they came back three from down through one to Boston. Right. That was awesome. That was probably the highlight of the basketball season. But am I ever going to sit here and tell you with confidence without joking that the Sixers are a championship contender? No. I'm not going to say that. I hate this team. How the hell did they beat your team three games in a row?

18:59Rich Eisen:Do you want to pull up the three-point shooting percentage? Is that what it is? I mean, yeah. As simple as that? Yeah, simple as that. If they decide we're not going to shoot 43s, we're going to attack the basket and shoot mid-range jumpers, they beat us. Which is why Brad Stevens said in his post-season mortem that they have to get better around the rim. He mentioned dunks several times. well talk to your coach about that right yeah well he's uh that's what i'm saying kind of a beautiful psycho he believes what he believes but knicks fans just watching the celtics get eliminated by the sixers who they sweep it really is just a delicious turn of events yeah when you thought they were years ago toast brunson shows up dropped in the laps of knick fans by the basketball gods turning into what he has turned into when all they were trying to do was find any all-star to take the Dolan money and free agency to the point where they put remember they put Durant's face on a season ticket email and he wasn't even free yet and it was pathetic and then they bounced Thibodeau and they start going coach shopping in other people's houses and it was pathetic.

20:20Rich Eisen:And now here they are, seven wins in a row, just crushing opponents. They just sweep the Sixers after the Sixers try to sweep them out of their ticket campaign, try to sweep them out of their stadium and their arena, and they show up even more, even louder with a broom for a team that got the Celtics out of the way in advance. and they're wondering what's going on in their world. This is unbelievable. So yeah, now you're wondering why Knick fans are out of their skulls right now. Out of their skulls. But they're not in the finals yet. And then when they get to the finals, look out. When, huh? In a world in need of a hero, one man rises to the challenge in style.

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24:23Rich Eisen:Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio audience for the Disney Plus and ESPN app viewing audience. We just saw a clip of the moment that Ron Taylor won Funny AF with Kevin Hart, meaning he's going to get his own Netflix special. when he was at the roast last night, and he is here on the Rich Eisen Show. So how was the roast last night? Man, the roast was wonderful. I've seen many roasts before. Yes, sir. Obviously, I've never been up there on the dais and whatnot. I didn't know where the camera was, so I didn't know how much I was on screen, but it was pretty intense, man. It's one thing to hear those jokes on TV at home.

25:04It's another thing to be there. And they were throwing some shots, brother. They were going crazy. But one of the best sets of that night, Cheryl Underwood, of course. She killed it. Destroyed. And I've seen her stand up for years. I didn't know that she had all of that. And that was fun. You know, Tony Hinchcliffe, good friend of mine. He killed it. Shane Gillis killed it. It was a blast. Tony also took it, too, man.

25:32Rich Eisen:He really got both barrels from Chelsea Handler. Well. Just to name one. I'll tell you what. He deserves it. Yeah, that's true. You know, he got it. All right. So if you want to rank your top five, because that's what we do around here. Okay. So rank your top five sets that you heard last night from the roast of heaven. First, Ms. Cheryl Underwood. Let's see. Now it gets harder. It's less in order at this point. Okay. I'm going to go, I'll go Kevin Hart, actually. He had a lot of time. He is Kevin Hart. Yes, he is. He kind of went crazy. Then I'm going to say Naeem Lin. Okay. Naeem Lin, he is very good.

26:14That's three. Hmm. You know what? The Rock did pretty good, man. You think so? I think so. Okay. Maybe I was just fanboying out up there, but I didn't know he was going to come. There was fire behind me. I thought my afro was going to burn up like Michael Jackson, you know, but the rock, he was good. What's that? Four. And he got one more. How about Cat Williams? I forgot he was there. I feel like I blacked out when he was wild. Cheryl Underwood, Cat Williams, everybody else. Okay. Yeah.