Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: check in with Brian Wynhorst covers the NBA for the Mothership.
Speaker 1: Any big name is going to sit out the rest
Speaker 1: of the NBA season, So we'll talk to Brian in
Speaker 1: a little bit. Darius Rucker he'll join us in the
Speaker 1: final hour of the show. NASCAR drivers showing support for
Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace at Tavadega yesterday. Bubba didn't win, but he won.
Speaker 1: Baseball has to deal right now with the aftershocks of
Speaker 1: a sixty game season. It's supposed to start July twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: I was told it could be a week later. Here's
Speaker 1: another thing, and it's another thing to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned this. I keep mentioning it because I
Speaker 1: do think it is more of a reality than just
Speaker 1: a maybe or what if. And that is the NFL
Speaker 1: season being pushed back. That might just be one week.
Speaker 1: And Albert Breer, the Monday Morning quarterback, had this yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, there is growing concern from a couple of
Speaker 1: owners right now of starting the season a week later.
Speaker 1: I keep hearing my source has said, Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're right, they're looking at removing the first four games
Speaker 1: and putting them at the back end of the regular
Speaker 1: season schedule. But that's just something that's going on right
Speaker 1: now with the NFL. We always feel like, well, the
Speaker 1: NFL just plows through everything. The NFL, they don't let
Speaker 1: anything stand in its way. Well, this is standing in
Speaker 1: its way. And I think that there is and I'm
Speaker 1: careful to use the word apprehension, there is concern here,
Speaker 1: but you know, apprehension of can we just push this
Speaker 1: forward and we start this season on time. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they're going to have preseason games. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's possible they're going to have a preseason
Speaker 1: game in the first week in August. But you know,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's full speed ahead for the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, college football. I think you're going to hear
Speaker 1: more and more stories about these presidents, these chancellors, athletic
Speaker 1: directors having a little bit more of a cautionary tone
Speaker 1: here of trying to get this season cram it in.
Speaker 1: You know, the NBA, with what's happening, it feels like
Speaker 1: they've got a really good head start here with the bubble,
Speaker 1: but there are players that aren't going to go, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Brian Winhorst about them. We'll take your
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Speaker 1: good morning to our radio and TV partners. The general
Speaker 1: rule of work stoppages in sports is they seem like
Speaker 1: a big deal when they're happening, but that significance fades
Speaker 1: over the years. No one really remembers which Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: the World Series, or NBA Championships happened in strike shortened seasons.
Speaker 1: We don't maybe we won't remember how ridiculous these negotiations
Speaker 1: were with Major League Baseball, if you want to call
Speaker 1: them negotiations. Yesterday, the union shot down the owner's latest proposal,
Speaker 1: and that opened the way for the commissioner to say
Speaker 1: we're having a sixty game schedule based on a March agreement.
Speaker 1: Keep this in mind, the commissioner could have said we're
Speaker 1: having a seventy game schedule. He could have said eighty games.
Speaker 1: He said sixty, and he said sixty because he knows
Speaker 1: what the bottom line is going to be, provided that
Speaker 1: there's no second wave of this coronavirus coming up. In October.
Speaker 1: This is going to cost the owner. Here, they've done
Speaker 1: the math. That's why I kept saying, this is all scripted.
Speaker 1: He goes sixty games and says to his owners, this
Speaker 1: is how much you're going to lose, and then you
Speaker 1: get to the postseason, this is how much you can make,
Speaker 1: and this is what you're going to pay the players
Speaker 1: if you're losing somewhere close to a half million dollars
Speaker 1: per regular season game. This is what the owners are estimating,
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not. They're looking at the math.
Speaker 1: That's all they did. They didn't look at this and go,
Speaker 1: you know what, for the betterment of the country and
Speaker 1: the betterment of the game aim and that's all be us.
Speaker 1: This is about the bottom line. How much am I
Speaker 1: going to lose? And how much am I going to
Speaker 1: make in the postseason. That's all this came down to.
Speaker 1: We talk about all this rhetoric and back and forth
Speaker 1: and we want this and we wanted and pro rated
Speaker 1: and it's all nonsense. It was all nonsense. We're gonna
Speaker 1: stall that was the word that was used by source
Speaker 1: said they're stalling on purpose. And what they did is
Speaker 1: the commissioner he took the slings and arrows to save
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars for his owners. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. They probably get him a new contract. We
Speaker 1: might look at him and say, what is the commissioner
Speaker 1: doing to the sport? The owners might say, hey, you
Speaker 1: did a great job, man Fred. It's it's a clunky
Speaker 1: process for baseball. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It
Speaker 1: feels like a missed opportunity, another missed opportunity for baseball.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to start up earlier. You could
Speaker 1: have owned. Imagine if baseball was playing right now. Imagine
Speaker 1: if baseball was starting next week, two weeks July fourth weekend.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this abbreviated season will work out. It'll be entertaining.
Speaker 1: A lot of teams will be in the playoff mix.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that makes it easier to forget
Speaker 1: how frustrating the last month has been for loyal baseball fans.
Speaker 1: But I certainly feel you. I do, because I think
Speaker 1: we all got played in this situation, all right. Prior
Speaker 1: to the end of last hour, PAULI had a hot
Speaker 1: pole question there, all right, So if you could change
Speaker 1: ownership of any team for the betterment of their fan base, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that this franchise has struggled on the field, on the court,
Speaker 1: or public perception or getting free agents or all of
Speaker 1: the above. What fan base in American sports needs new
Speaker 1: ownership the most. Okay, so Nicks, Redskins. You're saying Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's been a while since they've gone deep into playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and their ownership though he runs the NFL as he
Speaker 1: running a good team, he's a good businessman, is a
Speaker 1: good football owner. I mean, they've got a really nice
Speaker 1: TV in the building, But did they that's a jumboldrum. Yes.
Speaker 1: Don't you wonder like with all those eight and ete
Speaker 1: seasons that maybe if there was a different owner, if
Speaker 1: there wasn't the owner trying to be the owner and
Speaker 1: the GM, that maybe a couple of those eight mates
Speaker 1: could have been ten and sixes, and you know, they
Speaker 1: should have been going a lot further in a couple
Speaker 1: of those years. In recent Yeah, I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: going to argue that they're never awful. Jerry the owner
Speaker 1: and Jerry the GM are two different people. So Cowboys, Knicks, Redskins,
Speaker 1: who else is on that list? The Knicks have nine
Speaker 1: postseason victories since two thousand that's by far the worst
Speaker 1: in the league. Not a peer's victory. Yeah, that means
Speaker 1: games that they won, Yeah, but not nine playoff appearances.
Speaker 1: Nine games in the playoffs and that one year they
Speaker 1: had most of them with Carmelo Anthony. Yes, mclovin. If
Speaker 1: you're looking at futility, like the Browns haven't won a
Speaker 1: playoff game. The Lions haven't won a playoff game. O Bills,
Speaker 1: Jeff and Detroit's gonna call in on that. Um Bills
Speaker 1: are kind of newer, you know, they don't teams. NFL
Speaker 1: teams have not had a postseason win since two thousand
Speaker 1: of the Bills, Bengals, Browns, and Lions. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't look at the Bills as an eptitude. They made
Speaker 1: They made four Super Bowls, and I know that might
Speaker 1: seem like it's ancient history here, but that's a great
Speaker 1: fan base. The new family owns at the Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they've done okay, you know, they've made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's Browns to me, Like, I like
Speaker 1: see something about the Browns. It's one thing, like what
Speaker 1: Paula say, It's one thing not to win, but it's
Speaker 1: another to sort of do things. The wrong way, like
Speaker 1: the Knicks and the Browns. Yeah, the Knicks. It's how
Speaker 1: many of these franchises do you look at the top
Speaker 1: and say that's where the problem starts? You know? The
Speaker 1: Ford Family. I don't. I don't know if we ever
Speaker 1: look at the Ford Family and go, boy, they're dysfunctional.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys just Jerry wants to be too involved. The
Speaker 1: Knicks that starts at the top, The red Skins with
Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder starts at the top. The Browns Jimmy Haslem
Speaker 1: feels like it starts at the top. All right, that's
Speaker 1: the poll question. How's that? We'll go with that. A
Speaker 1: couple of phone calls in here, Nick and Iowa, Hey, Nick,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Heydp, thanks for
Speaker 1: taking my call first time, long time, six seven three bills?
Speaker 1: All righty, hey, real quick. I was just curious. I
Speaker 1: just saw a report on Yahoo that forty MLB players
Speaker 1: and staff tested positive for coronavirus last week. With all
Speaker 1: of that going on and this back and forth, do
Speaker 1: you think they even get I don't even think they
Speaker 1: get a season off this year if they don't with
Speaker 1: potential what you're talking about, labor, labor situation, next year
Speaker 1: as a kind of curtains for the MLB. No, it's
Speaker 1: not curtains, but you know it's really it's damaging. And
Speaker 1: thanks for the phone call, Nick. Yeah. I once again,
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm, you know, speaking into the
Speaker 1: wind here when I bring these things up about all
Speaker 1: these safety precautions that I don't know if Baseball is
Speaker 1: able to pull this off. I really don't because nobody's
Speaker 1: talked about this. We make it seem like, hey, if
Speaker 1: they get the finances worked out, everything else is going
Speaker 1: to take care of itself. And I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Some information that I learn, it looks like
Speaker 1: baseball teams will have thirty active players on the roster
Speaker 1: just in case players test positive, and then they'll they'll
Speaker 1: reduce that number like twenty eight, twenty six and probably
Speaker 1: settle on twenty six. But with no minor league season,
Speaker 1: the teams will have about sixty players is available. Total
Speaker 1: sixty players available. When players test positive, they're gonna need
Speaker 1: at least three days of testing. You gotta get players
Speaker 1: from Latin America here three days of testing. Then they're
Speaker 1: gonna work out for three weeks. They're gonna have training
Speaker 1: camp for three weeks and then they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: play here at the end of July. The players are
Speaker 1: going to play the sixty games, and they get paid
Speaker 1: whatever they get paid. They don't get paid anything over
Speaker 1: meal money during the playoffs and the World Series. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be happy campers. You know. We like to
Speaker 1: have the player miked up during the playoffs and Joe
Speaker 1: buckets to talk to them and man, this is good.
Speaker 1: What do the managers do? Do the managers side with
Speaker 1: the players on this and say I'm not going to
Speaker 1: cooperate because You're not going to get a lot of
Speaker 1: cooperation here from these players. They're not. Uh, Kurt and Oregon, Hi, Kurt,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? Um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to offer up a documentary, Uh, for fans
Speaker 1: out there. The NASCAR race was incredible yesterday. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a Netflix doc called Uppity about Willie t
Speaker 1: Ribbs and it's produced by The Dan Patrick Show host
Speaker 1: Adam Corolla and um, yeah, and it's it's an incredible
Speaker 1: story about this guy. And it didn't matter what vehicle
Speaker 1: he was in. He just wanted to race and he
Speaker 1: was the fastest at every single thing he touched, and
Speaker 1: people didn't want me to give him sponsorships, people messed
Speaker 1: with his motors, and uh yeah, but you know, through
Speaker 1: it all, he he just went kind of uh sport
Speaker 1: to sport, different different tracks and and he he did
Speaker 1: it and he was really good and uh but you know,
Speaker 1: never really got to love that he deserves. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. And Adam Corolla loves loves him
Speaker 1: some cars and he can tell the story. Was Willie
Speaker 1: t Ribs the first African American to win a NASCAR race? Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but he raced all over in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties, two thousands. He's sixty five years old.
Speaker 1: He was an IndyCar, Champ car all over get like
Speaker 1: he said, he went a different bounce round from different series,
Speaker 1: but he was pretty well known. Mike and Michigan joins
Speaker 1: us him. Mike, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: This is Mike five six one sixty and I would
Speaker 1: like to make the argument for the Fords. I know
Speaker 1: you mentioned it's hard to dislike the Fords because there
Speaker 1: they are nice people. However, they're also pretty indifferent people.
Speaker 1: They like because we have a loyal fan base they're
Speaker 1: content with fans in the stands and that's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at Matt Millen. We had him for eight years.
Speaker 1: His best record as a GM seven and nine. So
Speaker 1: the Lions love my Lions. But man, it is hard
Speaker 1: because I just feel like our owners do not care.
Speaker 1: So thanks all right, Well thank you Mike. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know if if you know that you're making a profit,
Speaker 1: how much profit you're making, what is you know? And
Speaker 1: it's do you have ego or you are you competitive?
Speaker 1: Or you just say, look, we can kind of just
Speaker 1: put a team out there and we know we're going
Speaker 1: to make money in the NFL. And it sometimes feels
Speaker 1: that way, but then you get other owners who get
Speaker 1: too involved, and that's usually to the detriment, Like your
Speaker 1: genius is not making football moves. Your genius was another
Speaker 1: business that allowed you to buy a football team, and
Speaker 1: that is what is lost on these owners, some of
Speaker 1: these owners who get so involved. I always look at
Speaker 1: you know, there's owners who just stay out of the
Speaker 1: business decisions. Now they may have the final word, but
Speaker 1: when the owner goes and this happened with the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: when he is saying I want to take Johnny Manziel
Speaker 1: and they could have taken Derek Carr. Now you can say, well,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr is not great. Derek Carr is a huge
Speaker 1: upgrade over Johnny Manziel. And somebody who worked in the
Speaker 1: organization said, at the time they were taking I was
Speaker 1: I was told, we're taking Derek Carr if he's if
Speaker 1: Derek Carr's there, were taking him. They passed on him
Speaker 1: twice and Cleveland would have been better off with Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Then they'd be better off with Derek Carr than Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield probably right now. But that ownership, I mean they
Speaker 1: may luck into something here and it would be lucking
Speaker 1: into something. But yeah, it starts at the top. It's
Speaker 1: hard to look. You know, when you look at a
Speaker 1: team and you go that that own you start with
Speaker 1: the owner. It's hard to go, you know, we're really
Speaker 1: successful and we have a terrible owner. Like how many
Speaker 1: teams do you look at and you go, they're great,
Speaker 1: but their owner is not good. It's it starts there.
Speaker 1: Look at this success, look at the Rooney's even back
Speaker 1: when you know the Cowboys were good, you know, under
Speaker 1: a different regime. You know, Jerry, I think when Jerry
Speaker 1: first started, he let Jimmy do it, and then I
Speaker 1: think Jerry wanted more credit and therefore he got rid
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Johnson. And they haven't been the same because
Speaker 1: Jimmy is a football guy. He came up with the whole,
Speaker 1: you know, draft strategy of trading draft picks. He came
Speaker 1: up with that table adding value to each draft pick.
Speaker 1: You know the forty nine Ers with Eddie de Bartelow,
Speaker 1: you know the Steelers with a Rooney family. If you look,
Speaker 1: we don't even know who the owner of the Spurs is,
Speaker 1: right that RC Buford will come up. He's the GM ownership.
Speaker 1: Lets people do their job. And I've I've been very
Speaker 1: fortunate because you know, when I had bosses before I
Speaker 1: went out on my own recently, those bosses knew. They
Speaker 1: can't tell me how to do radio or TV. They
Speaker 1: can't tell me what to ask in a question. They
Speaker 1: can't tell me they run the business side of this.
Speaker 1: I run this side of it. I'm the talent involved
Speaker 1: in this, for the lack of a better description, and
Speaker 1: I always appreciated that let me do my job, you
Speaker 1: do your job, and then I'll meet you later and
Speaker 1: we can celebrate but you know, ownership that's tricky because
Speaker 1: they all think you can't tell a billionaire no, or
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Point, I think
Speaker 1: we found something that the Knicks are going to win.
Speaker 1: I think that run with this question. I'll bet they
Speaker 1: gotta be at sixty percent. Yeah, ask me clean. You know,
Speaker 1: but the guys who move the teams, that's a different
Speaker 1: level of hate. Like they hate for Art Modell, the
Speaker 1: Ursay's Stan Crocky. I've heard seen things like people hate
Speaker 1: them when they the old town. Well, I understand that,
Speaker 1: and if I'm a Rams fan, a Saint Louis fan,
Speaker 1: I would despise Stan Cronky. You know when you when
Speaker 1: you build something for somebody and then they go, you
Speaker 1: know what, I need something better now. Business wise, he
Speaker 1: made an incredible business decision to be able to relocate
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and to have that multi billion dollars stadium.
Speaker 1: It's just there's collateral damage, and the fans are always
Speaker 1: collateral damage. You're finding that out in baseball right now.
Speaker 1: Fans are collateral damage. We're gonna take a break. Brian
Speaker 1: Windhorse kind enough to join us, We'll talk to him
Speaker 1: or as PAULI likes to say brain windhorse is all.
Speaker 1: That's how you spelled it. You put brain Windhorst art correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: or I'm compiment him. He seems like a very bright
Speaker 1: fellow brain. He might like that brain Windhorst. He'll join
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Speaker 1: by searching f s R. Wendell Scott the first African
Speaker 1: American driver in NASCAR history to win a race that
Speaker 1: was a Grand National Series, NASCAR's highest level. We didn't
Speaker 1: know if it was Willie t Ribbs, but Wendell Scott.
Speaker 1: And we'll have Bubba Wallace, I believe on the program tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I think his schedule was pretty full today, but Fritzie's
Speaker 1: been in contact with his people and Bubba's set to
Speaker 1: join us tomorrow. Darius Rocker will join us coming up
Speaker 1: next down our Brian Winhorse ESPN Senior NBA rider kind
Speaker 1: enough to join us. He'll be part of the Jump
Speaker 1: and ESPN news information platforms covering the NBA in the
Speaker 1: return here closely, and Brian joins us, are you going
Speaker 1: to the bubble? Brian, I don't think so. But the
Speaker 1: reason I have to say don't think is because they
Speaker 1: haven't announced the media rules yet. Not that that's a
Speaker 1: big priority, but UM, we don't know. We don't know
Speaker 1: what the what the law of the land is going
Speaker 1: to be. We have to hear about it. What are
Speaker 1: your what's Do you have a like a singular biggest
Speaker 1: concern here going into this and what they're trying to
Speaker 1: pull off? Yeah, I have two. One is that and
Speaker 1: and my guess it would be a star player, but
Speaker 1: it could be anybody. Is that somebody comes down with
Speaker 1: the virus and the players just lose confidence in the
Speaker 1: entire thing, and whether there's an outbreak or not, they
Speaker 1: say I don't want to do this anymore and they defect. Um.
Speaker 1: The other concern I have is of a genuine outbreak
Speaker 1: where you know, there's a lag time. As much as
Speaker 1: the NBA is doing here and they are doing everything,
Speaker 1: just about everything that we know to do. Um, is
Speaker 1: that there there, they miss it, somebody gets sick and
Speaker 1: infects five or six other people, and it's an outbreak
Speaker 1: to the point where not only do you have to
Speaker 1: shut it down, but it becomes unclear whether you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to restart it again anytime in the the near future.
Speaker 1: That I think would be a whisk. It's name. How
Speaker 1: many name players have you heard from off the record
Speaker 1: that might not go? I guess it depends on your
Speaker 1: definition the word name players. From my read on, folks,
Speaker 1: everyone is ready to go. Whether they're going to be
Speaker 1: ready to go in in a month when this actually
Speaker 1: starts a different question. You know, yesterday the Toronto Raptors
Speaker 1: left to go to Florida to begin this because of
Speaker 1: you know, issues with Canada the US border crossings. They
Speaker 1: had to leave early. And if they make it back
Speaker 1: to the finals, that's a long shot. But if they
Speaker 1: make it back to the finals, Dan, they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: back home until October. October, that means they left yesterday,
Speaker 1: it's a possibility they would not be back until the fall.
Speaker 1: Explain what the deadline means tomorrow, So the players have
Speaker 1: until tomorrow to raise their hands and say I'm not going.
Speaker 1: But that I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna be clue.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. The NBA is changing the rules
Speaker 1: all the time. It's not like we have a fifteen
Speaker 1: year history of this playbook working. If somebody says they
Speaker 1: decide they don't want to play in three weeks, do
Speaker 1: I think the NBA is going to like put them
Speaker 1: in shackles and twurce them into into an airplane. No,
Speaker 1: I do not. But the reason that they have to
Speaker 1: tell the teams now is that for the next week,
Speaker 1: starting in noon today, a transaction window opens that you
Speaker 1: can sign replacement players. And if you want to be
Speaker 1: able to replace a player who's either injured or who's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't want to go, or have something open
Speaker 1: to other concerns, you have to do it within the
Speaker 1: next seven days. So that's why this window opens by
Speaker 1: today's deadline. Yeah, I'm just I'm curious about the raws
Speaker 1: size here too, Brian. We're seeing with Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to expand the rosters, you know,
Speaker 1: just in case or when it happens at somebody test positive.
Speaker 1: How much of a talent pool will these NBA teams
Speaker 1: have to draw from not much. You know, most NBA
Speaker 1: teams have two minor league players. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: having options on a baseball contract. You can call the
Speaker 1: guys up a certain amount of times, so they kind
Speaker 1: of have those two guys. There's a there's a few
Speaker 1: guys kicking around out there who are free agents who
Speaker 1: may be decent additions, but you know, you lose a
Speaker 1: starting line player, you're not going to replace them with
Speaker 1: the starting line player. You're going to replace them with
Speaker 1: a warm body. And I think one of the concerns
Speaker 1: here is, remember they're going to place three weeks of
Speaker 1: these regular season games before the playoffs start. If you're
Speaker 1: in ninth or tenth place and you lose is the
Speaker 1: first two or three games and you're out of it
Speaker 1: and you're still faced with being in that bubble for
Speaker 1: another two weeks, are you just gonna say forget this,
Speaker 1: I'm going home. And because the NBA is not stopping
Speaker 1: anybody from leaving now, if you leave, want to come back, now,
Speaker 1: we have a problem. But if you leave, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna say stop. And so that's a bit of a concern.
Speaker 1: What happens to that group of players in the office
Speaker 1: because you are going to be committed to being there
Speaker 1: for five or six weeks. There's two and a half
Speaker 1: or three weeks of training camp, then these eight games
Speaker 1: over the course of two and a half three weeks.
Speaker 1: You may be tired of being there. If you're in
Speaker 1: ninth place, they have no chance of advancing. You're not
Speaker 1: doing a good job addressing this up, Brian. Sorry, you
Speaker 1: got a sneaky team. So the team that has underperformed
Speaker 1: all year long has been the Philly seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: And nobody can figure out why they would be twenty
Speaker 1: nine and two at home, because I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1: To be twenty nine and two at home, you got
Speaker 1: to be a damn good team. And you look at
Speaker 1: their roster and you know that their talent doesn't exact
Speaker 1: they fit together, but there's some really good players there,
Speaker 1: and they were like below fight. They were like thirteen
Speaker 1: and fifteen on the road and twenty nine and two
Speaker 1: at home. Okay, Well, the guess what, they don't have
Speaker 1: to play They don't get to play home games anymore.
Speaker 1: That's a disadvantage. But that is a good team. And
Speaker 1: if they could align together and hit their you know,
Speaker 1: hit some sort of stride. They could really be dangerous.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to see is what the
Speaker 1: hell happened to Nikola yokicha somewhere. My guess is forty
Speaker 1: to fifty pounds. When I saw him last year, I
Speaker 1: was over in China for the World Cup. He was
Speaker 1: playing on the Serbian team. He was not interested at
Speaker 1: all in that in being in condition. I would say
Speaker 1: from last summer, I would guess he's down sixty to
Speaker 1: seventy pounds. I have no idea what he's going to
Speaker 1: look like. That's a huge she questioned Mark to me, yeah,
Speaker 1: but Marcus Saul looks like he's on the same diet.
Speaker 1: Marcus Saw has been losing weight steadily over the last
Speaker 1: five years. And Marcus Saul is not the number one
Speaker 1: player on a team that's you know, on that team.
Speaker 1: Nikola Yoki is a first team All NBA player who
Speaker 1: just lost forty pounds and three months. Will that make
Speaker 1: him an MVP candidate or will that make him something else?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's one of the most fascinating
Speaker 1: things I want to see. I want I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: watching the Nuggets scrimmage games that they're gonna have in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, maybe you could you write up
Speaker 1: a story on the joke diet we find out what
Speaker 1: that workout regiment is, because I could probably institute that
Speaker 1: here on my show. I've got it here. He hasn't
Speaker 1: given an interview yet. Not only that, though, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you he was just photographed last week hanging out
Speaker 1: with the Joker Nova Joker over in Serbia. Well joking,
Speaker 1: Mitch has got coronavirus. Now today, Dan, today all the
Speaker 1: players are being tested. Okay, Now, now Yokis would have
Speaker 1: just come back in the country and you know would
Speaker 1: have would before he and be hundred some odd guys
Speaker 1: are being tested by today. Now, last week we saw
Speaker 1: the NFL. They said they tested two hundred people. I'll
Speaker 1: take them at their word. At eleven tested positive. I
Speaker 1: did not go to Harvard, but I think that's five percent.
Speaker 1: If you have three hundred NBA players testing, and let's
Speaker 1: just say it's roughly the same rate, around five percent,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have you know, fifteen to twenty a number
Speaker 1: who are test positive. And here's something that the NBA
Speaker 1: has not articulated very well. If I was a schedual
Speaker 1: guy would say it's on purpose, But I can't say
Speaker 1: that if you test positive under their rules fourteen days
Speaker 1: no exercise, not fourteen days isolation, fourteen days in your bed,
Speaker 1: and then you've got to test negative twice in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. And so the question I'm going to have
Speaker 1: is if a bunch of guys here today test positive
Speaker 1: we're asymptomatic, and are asymptomatic in a week, that's going
Speaker 1: to become an issue. They're gonna be like like, hey, let
Speaker 1: me get down the court, and they're like, no, fourteen days, sir.
Speaker 1: And so that's going to be interesting. And you know, well, well,
Speaker 1: teams haven't announced the players who have tested positive in
Speaker 1: the past for hipper reason, it's going to become pretty apparent.
Speaker 1: If you don't see your team's backup shooting guard for
Speaker 1: ten days, you're going to know that he's come down
Speaker 1: with it. So I don't know how that's all going
Speaker 1: to work. When you understand that some of these guys
Speaker 1: are going to say I don't feel sick, it's going
Speaker 1: to be an issue. He's Brian Wynhorst, ESPN, Senior NBA writer.
Speaker 1: The Lakers reportedly working out at a billionaire's Holt. What
Speaker 1: do we know about this story here, Brian. I've been there.
Speaker 1: This guy Steve Jackson, he I think he sold the
Speaker 1: company a long time him ago that he founded La Gear.
Speaker 1: You remember lay Shack had La Gear deal. He built
Speaker 1: a gym on his property in bel Air and he
Speaker 1: made a replica of the Staples Center. The court is
Speaker 1: the exact same court, except instead of saying Staples Center
Speaker 1: in the same stenciling, it says Jackson Center. He's got
Speaker 1: photos all over the walls of teams that have come
Speaker 1: there and players that have come there throughout the years
Speaker 1: and worked out. It's in a gaming community. When I
Speaker 1: went there, I had to go through the gate and
Speaker 1: he comes out and hangs out with the players as
Speaker 1: they did. There's been commercial film there over the years.
Speaker 1: Teams have used that to shoot around. It's basically been
Speaker 1: a sort of a secret underground NBA hub, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's been available to many players. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing. One of the reasons why these NBA players
Speaker 1: were not coming to work out of team facilities because
Speaker 1: they had to follow all of these rules that the
Speaker 1: NBA put down, Whereas if they go to another place
Speaker 1: a run that they can get a private gym, they
Speaker 1: can do whatever they feel it's necessary to keep themselves safe.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I think today's testing. But you
Speaker 1: know it, they'll take a few days for it to
Speaker 1: come back. Who knows when they'll actually announce it if
Speaker 1: they have a will. That's why I think today's test
Speaker 1: is going to be very interesting. We're gonna have guys
Speaker 1: who don't think they're sick or feel fine end up
Speaker 1: coming up positive. One other item has to do with Nicks,
Speaker 1: so it's not a playoff team, but it does have
Speaker 1: to do with the Bucks. Jason Kidd given permission by
Speaker 1: the Lakers to interview for the Knicks job, and then
Speaker 1: you know the possibility of bringing in the Greek freak.
Speaker 1: What do you make of this with Jay Kidd and
Speaker 1: the Knicks. Well, look, the Knicks have a long way
Speaker 1: to go before they could even think about getting any
Speaker 1: free agents. And you know, Yannis has the opportunity this
Speaker 1: summer to extend for you know, we'll see how it
Speaker 1: happens with the salary cap, but for more than two
Speaker 1: hundred millions. But I will say that I think Jason
Speaker 1: Kidd and Jim Dolan have a really good relationship, and
Speaker 1: Jason has been interested in going back there. Remember he
Speaker 1: played there one year at the end of his career
Speaker 1: and was a transformational figure. So I still think it's
Speaker 1: Tom Tibodeau's job, but I think the Knicks could do
Speaker 1: a lot to help themselves with free agents, that is,
Speaker 1: outside of some coach they have a connection to. They
Speaker 1: have done a horrible job for the last ten years
Speaker 1: on this. Their decisions, specifically Jim Dolan's decisions in the
Speaker 1: last month to six weeks have been very damaging. If
Speaker 1: anybody thinks that they're going to fix that by just
Speaker 1: hiring a coach who happens to no a star player,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit easy. Can the commission so the
Speaker 1: commissioner have any power over that franchise? Bryan, He's tried.
Speaker 1: He's tried. He's gone to people in the franchise. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he made would ever admit to this,
Speaker 1: but because it's you know, it's not sort of deemed stare,
Speaker 1: but he has gone to people in the franchise and said,
Speaker 1: what can the NBA do to help the Knicks? And
Speaker 1: the thing about Jim Dolan, you know, the more people
Speaker 1: I talked to have worked for Jim Dolan. A lot
Speaker 1: of them really like him. But Jim Dolan has a
Speaker 1: blind spot and that he's got horrible judgment and he's
Speaker 1: over the years hired people to help him with that judgment,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't listen to him. And so you can't
Speaker 1: help a guy who won't help himself. David Stern tried.
Speaker 1: David Stern got him to hire Donnie Walsh. David Stern
Speaker 1: tried to get to hire other people and make moves.
Speaker 1: Adam Silver has tried. You can't force the guy into
Speaker 1: making good decisions. You can only help him. He won't
Speaker 1: accept the help. You have. Somebody hire advisors to help you,
Speaker 1: and then you don't listen to the advisors that you're
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. Didn't didn't David Stern help the
Speaker 1: Knicks once where he fixed the lottery so they could
Speaker 1: get Patrick Ewing. I mean, that's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: And I'm joking. I'm joking. He's up in been yelling
Speaker 1: at me right now. Let me tell you something. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened back then, but I can tell
Speaker 1: you last year, when the Lakers and Nicks were in
Speaker 1: the lottery the same final four to get jah at
Speaker 1: Zion and they ended up three and four, and New
Speaker 1: Orleans and Memphis ended up one and two. All lottery
Speaker 1: conspiracy died that night. I'm gonna tell you right now, yes,
Speaker 1: and I oh boy, if you ever wanted to get
Speaker 1: Commissioner's stern going, who do not bring up that lottery
Speaker 1: was fixed with Patrick Ewing. That was good time for him. Hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: good luck with everything. A great job. We appreciate your
Speaker 1: time and thanks for joining us. Thanks Dan having a
Speaker 1: good day. That's Brian Windhorst, ESPN, Senior NBA writer. He
Speaker 1: didn't paint a real positive picture there, but he painted
Speaker 1: a realistic picture. And that's what we need to hear.
Speaker 1: You need to hear a realistic picture because there will
Speaker 1: be some potholes here. They're going to be some speed bunk,
Speaker 1: there will be roadblocks here, They're going to be issues.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be smooth for any of
Speaker 1: these sports. And you could have a star player, imagine
Speaker 1: a star player. Now you might say, well, they're quarantine,
Speaker 1: so who are they going to come in contact with.
Speaker 1: Hopefully nobody. Hopefully everybody gets tested and then if somebody
Speaker 1: test positive, they get quarantine. And then everybody stays on
Speaker 1: campus and nothing happens. But imagine if a team wins
Speaker 1: a series because a player tested positive, or a couple
Speaker 1: of players tested positive, or a forfeit. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know it sounds crazy, but this is crazy. If I
Speaker 1: would have told you back in March, get ready, you
Speaker 1: would have said, I have a friend who works for
Speaker 1: the FBI, and he's the one that told me, hey,
Speaker 1: things might get back to normal in June, and he
Speaker 1: works in New York City. He said, we're preparing for
Speaker 1: the word first subway shut down, like he told me.
Speaker 1: All of these things, hospitals overrun, things that he told
Speaker 1: me happened, and he said, we hope to get back
Speaker 1: to normal in June. Paulie just sent me this picture
Speaker 1: of the Joker with Djokovic. Oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: one week ago and they're hugging each other. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: and Djokovic just tested positive for the coronavirus. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break here. That was good, good appearance
Speaker 1: by Brian Winhorse. A lot of information there, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I would not be hiring Jason Kidd if I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna If it's based off getting the Greek freak,
Speaker 1: I would hire Jason Kidd because maybe he'll have a
Speaker 1: style and he's gonna get some free agents. If you
Speaker 1: don't get free agents, then this is futile. They don't
Speaker 1: get any free agents. Nobody wants to go there. But
Speaker 1: if I get a coach who has his style that's fun,
Speaker 1: that is exciting, then maybe that's different. But right now,
Speaker 1: hiring Jason Kidd because you think you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: Greek freak like that, doesn't that sound just like the Knicks? Hey,
Speaker 1: why did you hire him? Well, at the time, we
Speaker 1: thought we were getting a Greek freak. M Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that didn't go well. Yeah, yeah, but we tried. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You go back a couple of years ago when they
Speaker 1: brought in David Fisdale after he was bounced from Memphis.
Speaker 1: Everyone lauded the next thing, Hey, this is the right guy,
Speaker 1: he's a player's coach, this is the way to get
Speaker 1: free agents. There, good point, but the problem was Dolan
Speaker 1: was still there. They couldn't overcome their owner. When Durant says,
Speaker 1: it's not the Knicks aren't cool and and you're you're
Speaker 1: not relevant with these players, you know that's the sad
Speaker 1: part of this. We'll take a break. I'm back after
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Speaker 1: Patrick Show. All righty, we have it's not controversy, but
Speaker 1: it could be. We had the big match between Mario
Speaker 1: and Tyler the moderator and a shower shame. That was
Speaker 1: last Friday. Mario lost. They played nine holes and there
Speaker 1: was a moment where Mario was in the fescue and
Speaker 1: he took a couple of swings but he missed the ball.
Speaker 1: But he said he was practicing, and I think once
Speaker 1: you would dress the ball, hello ball and you swing.
Speaker 1: That's a stroke. But Paulie going back and looking at
Speaker 1: the tape one to know if that was true. Mario
Speaker 1: lost by I think three strokes. Now he's saying that
Speaker 1: it shouldn't count. I don't know if it did count.
Speaker 1: I just know he was in there and the fescue
Speaker 1: was up to his knees and he whiffed a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Yes, Pully. I check with a couple of
Speaker 1: golf people and a few golf websites, and they said,
Speaker 1: once you are done, practice swinging and addressed the ball,
Speaker 1: and it's a judgement call. And you appear to be
Speaker 1: swinging to hit the ball. If you whiff, that counts
Speaker 1: as a stroke. If the ball falls off the tee,
Speaker 1: then that's a different story. But if you address the
Speaker 1: ball and you just don't make contact with it, that's
Speaker 1: a stroke. Yeah, I mean to me, it was. There
Speaker 1: was no controversy. In fact, I think Mario didn't count
Speaker 1: some strokes he should have lost by more than that.
Speaker 1: But then Mario pointed out that Tyler, the moderator whiffed
Speaker 1: on one of his swings as well. It was ugly.
Speaker 1: And I know that the Tyler and Seaton Dylan who
Speaker 1: does graphics, and Mario are gonna maybe go play tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And then they said do you want to go? And
Speaker 1: I go, good God, no, No, I couldn't witness that again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not busy, I don't have anything going on.
Speaker 1: I just I can't watch that again. Like I want
Speaker 1: to golf with golfers, not these guys. But I thought
Speaker 1: It was a stroke of genius puntended on my part
Speaker 1: to put Tyler, the moderator and Mario in the cart together,
Speaker 1: and there was some real tension there they it got bad.
Speaker 1: So Mario is in the middle of a part par
Speaker 1: five and we had talked about maybe do we cap
Speaker 1: the score to double bogey and I thought no, it'd
Speaker 1: be more entertaining if they put up like, you know,
Speaker 1: a snowman or you know, maybe double digits like that
Speaker 1: would be good and it would keep everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: in the mix they're trying to win. And that's what happened.
Speaker 1: So Mario is on a par five. I think he's
Speaker 1: lying nine in the fairway and he says, are we
Speaker 1: are we capping our scores? And I go, well, the
Speaker 1: answer is no, and you can't ask me in the
Speaker 1: middle of a hole. Then you have a nine already.
Speaker 1: And then he put up a twelve. When he put
Speaker 1: up a Brady, I went, wow, this is good because
Speaker 1: if he would have had a seven, then that's different
Speaker 1: because he put up a twelve and I think a ten. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I've never seen worst golf etiquette on a golf course.
Speaker 1: By the way, people were parking their carts in front
Speaker 1: of the path of a person. While I was getting
Speaker 1: ready to chip, people were walking over each other's lines.
Speaker 1: People were not away and they were hitting well. Tyler
Speaker 1: picked up his ball because he thought it was a
Speaker 1: gimme yeah, like three feet away. And then Mario did
Speaker 1: it and Tyler goes no, no, no no, and he said, wait,
Speaker 1: you did it on a previous hole. And then Tyler
Speaker 1: goes hey, and I said, well, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: If there's a rematch, I would like to hire a
Speaker 1: rules official. All that rules official would quit. Oh, but
Speaker 1: he would. I think that person would enjoy themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace will join us on the program tomorrow at
Speaker 1: first hour, nine twenty five. Yeah, setn con Why are
Speaker 1: you not allowed to ground your club in the bunker
Speaker 1: before you hit to give you an advantage? I guess
Speaker 1: like you normally have the club grounded when you're going
Speaker 1: to hit a shot from the fairway, And I think
Speaker 1: it's a comfort level. There's uh, I don't. It doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me when I get in the bunk. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're in the bunker a lot. I become a
Speaker 1: really good bunker player. It's because I'm in the bunker.
Speaker 1: People get in there and they don't like you're it's
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for you. But I think just because you ground it,
Speaker 1: you can put the club right behind the ball and
Speaker 1: it feels like you're going to hit it. But I
Speaker 1: think that that's the answer. Yeah, Paul, there really isn't
Speaker 1: a why. They just say it's a rule. I looked
Speaker 1: up a couple of places they really do it. They
Speaker 1: said it's a hazard the bunker, so you can't ground
Speaker 1: your club to test the condition of the said hazard.
Speaker 1: Said hazard? Who right? Who talks know where to now here? Too? Four? Yes? McLevin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so bad at all this. They asked me to
Speaker 1: play Dan they did, Yeah, Tyler and Mario like, why
Speaker 1: don't you come out with us? Because can you imagine
Speaker 1: if he's getting a twelve, what would I get? I'd
Speaker 1: have to cap your score. Yeah, I'd have to cap
Speaker 1: your score. But there was a moment where both of
Speaker 1: these knuckleheads are in the fescue and they didn't even
Speaker 1: know what fescue was, and maybe it's not even fescue.
Speaker 1: I just love saying it. But they spent so much
Speaker 1: time in the fescue, and then they're both swinging and whiffing,
Speaker 1: and I'd laughed, I blurted out, you know, some kind
Speaker 1: of laughter. But I don't want to see that ever again. Never.
Speaker 1: Darius Rucker will join us. More of your phone calls
Speaker 1: coming up as well. Two hours in the books, one
Speaker 1: more to go.