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00:00but let's begin with the 2025 nfl draft which was held last night first round style in green bay
00:06wisconsin and arguably the biggest surprise of the night happened in the first 20 minutes as the
00:11jacksonville jaguars traded up to select travis hunter from the university of colorado and in
00:18return the cleveland browns get a second round pick 36th overall a fourth round pick and a first
00:26round pick next season moving up from five to two really did uh the browns a favor here by getting
00:33an extra pick from the jacksonville jaguars jaguars by the way even afterward was sort of unclear why
00:39they took hunter considering the fact that they didn't even speak to him after the combine very
00:44bizarre situation but needless to say hunter according to reports will play mostly wide receiver
00:49and some cornerback in the national football league here's their head coach liam cohen talking about
00:54all the intangibles that hunter brings to the table snaps that he takes uh the preparation
01:00the accountability the way that he's in the building at 5 a.m training his body uh he's a 4.0
01:06student and goes out on the on the field and impacts the game right on both sides of the ball he impacts
01:12the game he's got a great feel for the game itself when he's on the offensive side of the ball finding
01:19zones in the in the defense he's got really good ball skills he can do it do something with it after
01:24the catch and then on the defensive side of the ball he finds it and that's ultimately what we're
01:29trying to do here is is continue to find people that can help us get our hands on the ball on the
01:34defensive side and and go impact the game in that way the other trade in the draft were the new york
01:40giants trading back into the first round to select their quarterback of the future with the 25th
01:45overall pick they took jackson dart from mississippi the houston texans were the pick that they got it
01:50from 34th overall pick was exchanged back to houston for doing it also a third round pick and a sixth
01:57round pick as well most notably though in the draft uh shadur sanders from the university of colorado who
02:02was expected to be a first round pick was not taken at all in the first round of the 2025 nfl draft
02:07our coverage again tonight exclusively here on sports grid we'll see who ends up going in round two
02:12don't look now one of the hottest teams in the nba in the playoffs got to be los angeles clippers
02:16they dismantled the denver nuggets last night looks like they are big favorites now to win this series
02:21117 to 83 the final kawhi leonard had 21 points and 11 rebounds the clippers outscored the nuggets 23 to
02:28two at the end of the first quarter into the second this game was sort of over before it started
02:33nicola jokic did have a triple double 23 points 13 rebounds 13 assists but it was a huge game
02:41and the first playoff game in front of the new crowd in the new building in los angeles which
02:48certainly inspired the clippers to play well according to head coach ty lou yes this is what
02:55i was talking about um like i said our fans was unbelievable tonight and um just we had to come
03:02home play our first playoff game in into a dome um it was very exciting and um our fans came out
03:09they showed up and showed out and like i said guys played better play well norm was huge for us
03:14tonight um you know scoring the basketball but also making the right play in the pick and roll
03:19versus the blitzes and um you know we got to build off of it like i said it's only two games
03:23um but today i like the approach i like what we did defensively and um you know still gonna be a
03:29tough series it ain't over because we you know had a blowout it's only one game you know so we got
03:33to be ready to come about at that on saturday i mean we we were up with james he was successful
03:38early uh you know he made a couple pull-up threes uh and to their credit you know they moved the ball
03:44side to side and a lot of guys get going at the same time uh you know and i thought after that we
03:49got a little hesitant with what we were trying to do when you do that you're going to give up you
03:53know easy baskets to zoo bots and all of a sudden we're giving everything up at once
03:56uh and now you're searching for different coverages and when you're searching that's not a good thing
04:01yeah you know you got to put your head down and do things harder and better uh i thought our
04:05physicality wasn't good enough i didn't think on either end uh i thought they screened us all over
04:10the floor uh on the offensive end and on the defensive end they got into us uh they pushed
04:15us off our spots and we didn't respond well to it the memphis grizzlies covered a spread last night
04:22that's the good news the bad news is they're down 0-3 to the oklahoma city thunder thunder now up 3-0 in
04:29the series 114 to 108 shea gilgis alexander had 31 points and eight assists chet holmgren had 24
04:36ja morant was banged up in this one he only played 19 minutes fell on a layup and didn't play after that
04:43needless to say it was a very big comeback for okc 29 points down second largest comeback since 1997
04:51and they're in position and one win away from moving on head coach mark dagno very happy with the
04:58second half performance we kind of reconnected to who we are we were very out of character
05:02uh in the first half and some of that had to do with how well memphis played
05:06and the way they landed the first punch and multiple punches after that uh so credit to them
05:11but i just thought our response um in a game that doesn't feel attainable in certain parts of it
05:18our response was great how much do you think ja's injury kind of affected the energy of the team
05:25going into the second half i would say uh quite drastically uh from the end result but not only
05:33the energy but also the execution
05:35in a season that's finished with uh well not finished quite yet but has had a lot of hurt towards the end
05:49um or recently i guess how do you how does this one sit with you personally
05:55uh which part the loss and the the nature of a big comeback like this
06:03um i think it's very hard to describe it to anyone who's never been in that situation
06:12um and everyone who's been in that situation know how no knows how how it feels so um that's all i can say
06:23weak answer there weak answer basically telling the reporter he never played the game
06:29sorry buddy you're not going to be long for that team coaching uh doing that to the media i got news
06:33for you all right nicks played the pistons last night they come up big and take a two to one lead in
06:38detroit nicks are now up to one in the series great game last night 118 to 116 carl anthony towns 31
06:44jalen brunson 30 cunningham 24 nicks led the whole game pistons came back to make it close
06:50uh one more game coming up in detroit this weekend meanwhile golden state may be without jimmy butler
06:54for their next game when they're at home against houston he has a deep glute muscle contusion he is
07:00questionable for the game best case scenario because they thought maybe there were some structural damage
07:04butler usually plays through this stuff we'll see if he does coming to the weekend how about the st
07:09louis blues break it up for them everyone thought their series with winnipeg was over they put a seven
07:14spot up last night on jets seven to the final as the jets beat the blues and now the blues can still
07:21come back and potentially tie the series this weekend although winnipeg is leading the series
07:26after taking care of business in the first two games uh two to one that's the series lead the wild
07:31take a two to one series lead with a five to win over the vegas golden knights toronto looks like
07:36they'll be moving on in their best of seven series against the ottawa senators they take a 3-0 series
07:41lead and the defending champion florida panthers go to tampa bay and win games they'll be back home
07:46this weekend in sunrise trying to take a 3-0 series lead mike is chemsky matt chapman they homer the
07:52giants rally past the brewers in major league baseball yesterday on a light schedule six to five kade
07:57povich gave the orioles a good pitching performance man did they need that six and two thirds they beat
08:02the nationals two to one christopher morrell two run home run in the tent the rays rally to beat the
08:06diamondbacks seven to four and brian wu of seattle gets a win in boston four to three the final as he
08:13went six innings and gave up two runs welcome back to newswire we'll get back to the draft here in just
08:19a minute with bill bender first let's check in with pat evans from legal sports report he's got three
08:23stories to review with us that you can read about over at legal sports report dot com thanks again
08:28pat for coming on great to be with you here on this friday let's get started and uh talk about
08:32the retail shops in nebraska that are all cheering today because they just found out that there will be
08:37no online sports betting which you know obviously we don't like to see but no business in the sports
08:43betting uh community is good business in a place where you can only go to one spot they continue to have
08:48a monopoly over sports betting in the uh corn husker state well you say that but i mean every
08:54time we see a geo comply report coming out talking about the geo targeting or geo pings or whatever
08:59they're tracking they always see a corn field over in missouri that's gets a lot of action from people
09:05in omaha so you know i don't know if they're all going to the retail spots but yeah in uh nebraska we we
09:11had kind of high hopes for legislation to get through um based on last year there was a special
09:19session that there was talk of a sports betting bill that would get through to help relieve property
09:24tax uh burden on residents it didn't make any noise really last in that special session but governor
09:32jim pillan came out in support of it saying hey this is something we should look at do maybe it'll be a
09:37priority bill this year either case it came out it got some traction it got through a committee uh
09:44there was lots of opposition which i don't think we're we're surprised by anymore in any of these
09:49states that are left to go online um but it still got through that committee it got through its first of
09:55three floor votes in the nebraska legislator which is a unicameral uh body and from that point it was
10:03like okay well these next two you need to reach that 30 vote threshold and there were uh six senators
10:09absent from that first vote and elliot bostar the senator who sponsored the bill said you know i've
10:14got at least three so oh there's your 30. well the thing that kind of throws that for a loop here is
10:23when there's a filibuster in nebraska you need 33 votes uh to get that through and sure enough he did not
10:30have those votes was not sure he could meet those votes so he went ahead and pulled the legislation
10:36um and so now we're waiting for next year now the thing here is that if it would have passed it would
10:41have gone to the voters in 2026. so you know you've got next session as well this legislation does carry
10:50over so i think there's hope maybe that in the next year they can figure out how do you get a couple more votes
10:56uh in the senate and then get it to the ballot in 2026. um there's also the thought you know there's
11:02there were a couple senators who who have talked about it uh in committee hearings and in in the
11:08local media say you know we want to get ahead of this we want to get this passed uh because there could
11:13be a ballot initiative led by the operators and the operators would then get to kind of pick and choose
11:17what they're going for and of course we saw that in missouri this uh last year uh they they led a very
11:23expensive ballot initiative and got it to the ballot barely passed with 50.05 of the votes but
11:29it still passed but we'll see i mean the voters in nebraska did approve casinos in 2020 which includes
11:36as you mentioned in-person sports betting so yeah interesting in in nebraska but it you know it was
11:41one of those states that we were like oh this is certainly a possibility this year to go online
11:46of course it fell apart here but hey we'll see what happens in the next year it may still be on the ballot in
11:512026 yeah yeah you never know and as we kind of get through uh first quarter of the year now the
11:57second quarter it does appear that by the end of the year pat the only state that could potentially
12:02legalize sports betting may be hawaii which is just a huge surprise maybe later in the year in november
12:08to see where things stand but it appears as though there isn't a lot of opposition right now which you
12:14know certainly surprised a lot of people considering it's a place a lot of people vacation that they would
12:18accept this coming through i gotta tell you this will be the story of the summer as far as a
12:22potential state legalizing sports betting this certainly would be the story of the legislative
12:27session in sports betting online gambling really um because yeah no one expected hawaii to kind of be
12:34this dark horse that just comes through and legalizes i mean they're one of two states without
12:38any legal form of gambling including utah and in the past the most a sports betting bill did was pass
12:46a committee and this year it passed multiple committees and the house and then the house and
12:51then multiple committees in the senate and the senate um and right now what happened was initially
12:57in the house where it originated they stripped the online uh sports betting uh tax rate and license fee
13:06and they they were talking they said maybe these are too low let's keep this discussion going let's
13:10strip it and push it forward what happened was in the senate they just put those original figures back
13:15and then they passed it sent it back to the house the house said wait we stripped these out because
13:19we wanted them to be higher basically um and so now we're going to conference committee we've got
13:25the members of the conference committee they need to meet and iron it out and that has to happen by
13:29may 2nd when the legislator uh adjourns and now there isn't to your point a lot of pushback at this
13:36point because both chambers have passed it and the governor has came out this week and said hey i'm for
13:43this you know as long as we have the right protections in place this is a good thing so
13:48with the governor on board both uh legislative bodies saying yeah let's go for it and they just
13:54need to find those that that right tax rate and license fees and then then looks like we may have
13:58sports betting in hawaii to your point at the end of the year we'll see it could become a race of who
14:03launches first missouri or hawaii uh we we don't know yet um but it would be the legend the legislation has um
14:11at least four sports books and it sounded like the other day in the boyd earnings call which i
14:16did not listen to which they came out initially against hawaii sports betting in in this this
14:22process um because they've got a great tourism business going back and forth between hawaii and
14:27las vegas um it sounds like from their earnings call that they would be eager to launch a sports
14:33books in hawaii so you know even the people who came out against it are seemingly kind of okay with
14:38it um so we'll see where it goes it's i mean geez it doesn't seem like to your point there's
14:44opposition standing in its way at this point it's just can legislators get out of their own way and
14:50kind of iron it out and make sure that it's you know what they want and make sure it's good for the
14:55aloha state yeah definitely so okay so uh new bill in colorado coming you could read about this story
15:01over legal sports report this would be a trendsetter here and by the way not a horrible idea uh in the
15:07state to start trying to tax some of these promo spends i mean it's basically what's building the
15:13sports books at this point they're if they're capturing all these new people obviously who
15:17were betting on sports and and you know and they're all signing up but it's the promos
15:22that are getting people to come back over and over again and by taxing that uh i mean i guess it could
15:27accomplish one of two things either the states will get more money or the promos will stop
15:30yeah colorado's kind of an interesting case in in this is you know they launched um with a 10 tax
15:38and they allowed promo deductions uh you know it and then you know they've slowly seen their tax rate
15:46increase or their taxes increase they didn't uh do anything with the tax rate but it started to increase
15:54the the hall and then they put when they initially passed it they they put a cap of 30 million dollars
16:01of tax revenue and that just was voted to be removed by coloradans in uh november so they've got that
16:09coming now this bill in in here would probably bump up their tax rate probably about or not their tax
16:15rate their tax revenue by about 11 12 million dollars a year which is nice because it all goes towards
16:21colorado river projects and you know they love their rivers they want to make sure everything's
16:25all nice they need to make sure they have water for a long time and and you know well 11 million
16:31dollars and a lot of governmental uses doesn't seem like a lot it might be a lot for colorado water
16:35projects um so that's kind of what they're looking at uh colorado is one of the lowest uh for sportsbook
16:43operators one of the lowest percentages of promos like they don't spend a lot in promos in in colorado
16:49so i don't think it'll change that much in that sense um so yeah it's an interesting bill it's an
16:54interesting way to go about maybe increasing your tax revenue a little bit more rather than
16:59like we've talked about a lot of states raising the tax rates this is just a nice little way to
17:04maybe boost that that income a little bit more for the states yeah could be pat great stuff as
17:09always this week look forward to catching up again next week on newswire thanks for coming on
17:13thanks as always craig enjoy the draft this weekend
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