Six-Time NBA All-Star & Pacers Legend, Jermain O'Neal, Joins + Dunk Contest Winner Fred Jones!
(00:00-22:33) – Query & Company opens on a Friday with Jake Query, Jimmy Cook, and producer Eddie Garrison congratulating Oscar Robertson for finally getting a statue in Indianapolis at Crispus Attucks. They discuss his importance on the sport and basketball in the state of Indiana. Also, they continue teasing and previewing their conversation later in the show with Jermaine O’Neal!
(22:33-42:36) – Former Pacer and 2004 Dunk Contest champion Fred Jones joins Query & Company to walk us through his experience as a dunk contest participant in 2004, how he feels about today’s dunk contest, if he watches any of the dunk contest participants prior to the contest, where the Indiana Pacers rank on teams that he played for, and how fun the kickoff event was last night being able to catch up with some of his former teammates and Pacer greats.
(42:36-49:15) – Hour one concludes with Jake and Jimmy talking about Caitlin Clark breaking the women’s college basketball scoring record last night. They talk about the potential of her playing for the Indiana Fever next year.
(49:15-1:22:41) – Six time NBA All-Star and Indiana Pacer legend Jermaine O’Neal joins the show ahead of All-Star weekend to share his experiences as an All-Star, take us through everything that he had to go through after the brawl, how long it took him to put the Netflix documentary together, the impact his family had on his career as he started becoming older, his relationship with Isaiah Thomas, Donnie Walsh, Reggie Miller, and various other people that helped him grow up, and explains the emotions he felt putting together the Netflix documentary. Finally, he states that he fell out of love with basketball because of the brawl and had to pick himself up to come to Indianapolis with the All-Star game coming.
(1:22:41-1:30:20) – With the All-Star game this weekend, Jake and Jimmy compare the starting rosters for the Eastern and Western conferences from the last time the game was here in 1985 to the 2024 roster. Additionally, they pick a winner from the four different teams if they all played head-to-head.
(1:30:20-1:35:04) – The one o’clock hour concludes Jake and Jimmy discussing the toughness of the NBA in the 1980’s and players in today’s NBA not being able to play in that era according to some people.
(1:35:04-2:01:01) – Co-host of the Wake-Up Call with KB & Andy in Kevin Bowen joins Jake Query & Jimmy Cook for his weekly appearance on the program to highlight what he has coming up this weekend from a coverage standpoint with All-Star weekend. He also recaps the Woj Pod event last night at The Vogue with Tyrese Haliburton, grades the Pacers from the “first half” of the season, and which contest he would be best at if the NBA asked him to participate in any of the events.
(2:01:01-2:15:24) – We head to the phone lines for the first time in the show for Jonah in Arizona to share his thoughts on the Jermaine O’Neal interview from earlier in the show. Additionally, Jake recaps the great news for Scot Pollard that was announced earlier today, and then last night’s news of Oscar Robertson have a statue built at Crispus Attucks.
(2:15:24-2:20:49) – Today’s show ends with the JCook Plays of the Day, Eddie sharing a couple All-Star weekend bets, and a listener calling in to echo the sentiments Jake shared pertaining to Oscar Robertson.
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