The Beat of Sports

The first domino of NBA free agency toppled over this weekend when the Lakers acquired Anthony Davis. Now armed with cap space teams like the Knicks, Nets, Clippers, and Lakers will look to add more talent. But what else do teams like them need a star players help recruit and only the Lakers have that. Marc talks about how the Magic need a Jonathan Issac to become a superstar to entice free agents to sign in Orlando.

After making a public trade demand in February, Anthony Davis finally got his wish. Saturday night he was dealt to the Los Angeles Lakers for a package of players and picks. This led Marc to wonder who could be the next star player to make a demand and then get his wish, and only one name fits the bill. Giannis.

We've all seen Darren Rovell on Twitter, usually he's posting about stadium foods or sports business news. But now that he joined The Action Network he has put all his eggs into sports gambling. Recently though he found himself in hot water after gambling aficionados posted evidence he’d edited his bets after they’d been placed.

Kawhi Leonard, free agent. Kevin Durant, free agent and coming off major surgery. Klay Thompson, free agent and coming off major surgery. The 2 teams that played in the 2019 NBA Finals could look drastic different, and that doesn't even include Raptors GM Masai Ujiri being offered the role of basketball czar for the Washington Wizards.

We already know that Kevin Durant will not be playing the rest of this postseason and is expected to miss the entire 2019-2020 season after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured achilles tendon, but is he rooting for the Warriors? If reports are to be believed that he has already made up his mind on who he will be playing for next season does he care about the outcome of this finals?

Jordan Binnington was drafted in 2011 and then spent 7 seasons in the minor leagues. In December 2018, he was called up by the Blues and became their starting goalie. His play helped the St Louis Blues go from last place in the NHL to winning the 2019 Stanley Cup. AND on top of that he now holds the NHL record for the most postseason wins by a rookie goaltender at 16.

Did the US Women's National Team disgrace the integrity of soccer by scoring 13 goals against Thailand to open up play in the Women's World Cup? Eric Adelson joins the show to give his thoughts are their performance yesterday. He and Marc talk about the team trying to get equal pay to mens team and if what they did will help their case.

Get your popcorn ready because Jon Gruden and his Oakland Raiders will be the Hard Knocks team this summer. Why are they the perfect team for this platform, Michael McCarthy covers sports media and talks about why they were selected. He and Marc discuss the ratings problems for the NBA after the Finals ratings have been down this year. Then they talk about the potential musical chairs that will happen when it comes to high paid sports debate personalities like, Stephen A. Smith.

Before he suffered a devastating injury in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Kevin Durant missed a month of playoff action recovering from a calf injury, this led the NBA media to criticize him and say that he should be out there playing. This is the exact same thing that the media did throughout Kawhi Leonards final season with the San Antonio Spurs.

The US Women's National Team kicked off their first match of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in spectacular fashion with a 13-0 victory over Thailand. But the way they won has drawn the eire of members of the soccer media because they were offended the US kept celebrating after scoring goals. Marc asks why this is such a problem but when the Canadians Women's Hockey team ran up the score against Slovakia. Or what is wrong with running up the score when goal differential can play a factor in the next round of the tournament.