Ken Declares War on Raccoons

Ken opens the show with Jason Lloyd sitting in for Lima, and the morning's first crisis has nothing to do with sports: a raccoon problem has reached a boiling point, with Ken calmly calling his 11-year-old son at 4:50 a.m. to clean up the garage, setting off a chain reaction of chaos that woke up the entire family and sparked a heated text exchange with his wife over whether to get a third garbage can. Listeners flood the phones with solutions, with ammonia emerging as the consensus answer, and Ken is already on the Target app by the end of the segment. On the actual basketball news, the Cavs used the 34th pick on Malik Thomas, a shooter out of Arkansas who projects as an upside play and a future trade asset rather than someone expected to contribute right away. Ken also explains the second apron constraints driving Cleveland's roster decisions, drawing a parallel to a similar move the 2015 championship team made when they traded out of the first round to manage tax penalties.