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Nearly four hundred cities carrying this program. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:37.720 Celtics Heat Game one tonight, Lightning Panthers Blues in the Avalanche. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.800 Phoenix Suns had the best record in the NBA this season. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:47.559 Regular season success doesn't always translate to postseason success. Losing 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.320 to the Mavericks an embarrassing fashion on Sunday, Chris Paul 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.560 turned thirty seven this month, and he started to look 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.600 thirty seven. And now there reports that the former number 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.920 one overall picked, DeAndre eight doesn't feel valued by the Suns, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.520 may be interested in playing somewhere else next season. Even 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.839 without DeAndre Ayton, the Suns would still have a competitive roster. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.520 But you know, the West is getting stronger. It's young, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.520 getting stronger, and you got to consider Chris Paul's age, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.199 injury history, the Sun's lack of cap space in the offseason. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.080 Phoenix's time as a top contender in the West could 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.240 be in danger of coming to an end a whole 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.760 lot sooner than a lot of people in vision. You 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.119 have the Draft lottery coming up tonight. Odds to win 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.600 the number one pick, it's a tie between the Pistons, Magic, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.880 and Rockets, Thunder at twelve and a half percent, Pacers 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:51.280 ten and a half percent. Then it goes Blazers, Kings, Pelicans, Spurs, Wizards, Nicks, Thunder, Hornets, Cavaliers. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.600 Cavaliers at a zero point five percent chances of winning 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.520 the lottery. We've seen some long odds win go back 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.720 to Orlando Magic, they were like one and a half 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.000 percent chance probability of winning. They ended up getting Chris Webber. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.680 But that'll be coming up tonight. I don't know how 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.120 many great players, potential great players will be available. I 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.680 think the most talked about is Chad Holmgren, who spent 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:23.440 one year at Gonzaga seven footer and he's the new 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.519 seven footer. He's got a handle, he can shoot, but 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:31.680 he's really, really skinny. It almost feels like I gotta 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.360 keep him on the perimeter because you go down low, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.040 he's gonna get abused. Now. I know he blocks a 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.000 lot of shots, but he's blocking a lot of shots 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.120 in college. When you get to the NBA, they're gonna 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.040 be putting a body on you. They're gonna be getting 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.480 into you, and you're gonna see if he can hold 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.920 his ground there. Yeah. Morph Yeah, if he was playing 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.840 right now, he'd have a tough time because Bama to 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:58.519 Bayou Draymond Al Horford, Oh, they'd be cleaning him up. Yeah. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.400 But even going out on the perimeter, or if you're 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.359 gonna be guarding you know, a lot of these big men, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.720 Karl Anthony Towns and Joe l Nbid, even the Joker. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.960 I mean, it's not fair to say, well, he's not 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.040 gonna do well against these guys. These are some of 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.800 the best players in the world. Yes, Ton seven feet 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.519 probably soaking wet. Yeah, yeah. And I remember the first 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.280 time that I saw him play, because there was a 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.679 lot of build up. It's like, oh, you got to 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.120 see this this kid seven footer or he's got a handle, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.680 and I go, all right, let me say he broke 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:34.680 somebody down off the dribble playing against another really good 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.480 high school team, and I go okay, And then he 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.520 went in and dunked. I go okay, all right, got 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.040 my attention there. But I wanted to see what would 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.520 happen when players start to come at you. They want 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.520 to see are you going to go after shots here? 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.119 You're gonna be aggressive? And he was. He went after 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.560 him and and I like that. I don't know how 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.880 much weight you can put on him. I don't know 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.640 what kind of position he's going to play, but he's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.400 probably going to be the object of desire. But he's 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.320 going to be a few years away. Yeah, pol Just 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.000 to give you a comparison, there was some criticisms or 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.320 warnings about Kevin Durant's being thin coming out of Couch. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.040 He was listed at six ten, two twenty coming out 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.720 of Texas. Oh, boll, I don't even know if he 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.560 was two ten, Yeah, but he did. He had the 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.839 ability though, he could get his shot whenever he wanted to. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.480 And that's somebody that you don't rely on physicality. If anything, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.520 it's the opposite. Kevin Durant can get his shot whenever 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:35.000 he wants to. Against anybody. Yeah, and there's only one 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.680 Kevin Durant. But be interesting. I think they got to 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.400 produce the draft lottery a little bit better than what 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.400 they're doing. I gotta have some stars up there. I 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.400 gotta have some people that I recognize I can't have. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:53.600 And here's the CEO, Jimmy Lipper, and they're going, okay, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.440 nobody cares. Didn't they have the actress who was that 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.760 Anna Hawks ownership. She's married to one of the owners, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.640 Jamie Gertz. Jamie Gertz. Thank you, Todd figured that that'd 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:10.479 be in your wheelhouse. Jamie Gertz. What was Jamie Gertz in? 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.800 Less than zero? Less than zero? Okay? I think she 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.760 was also a bootsy in Facts of Life? Remember Jamie Gertz? 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:24.680 Was she and Mystic Pizza. Let's say she was in Twister, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.479 she was in Sixteen Candles, she was in she had 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.320 a little run in Seinfeld. Okay, you know, so you're 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.919 not excited about seeing assistant general manager of the Pacers 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.320 Kelly Crosscoff, not lottery, not yet. You're not saying you're 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.520 not not. No, I'm not saying I'm not excited. I'm 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.080 just I'm waiting to be surprised. So Knicks executive vice 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.159 president senior senior basketball a visor William Wesley doesn't what 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.560 your appetite not as much. Okay, come on, it's New York. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.279 Give me something. There is Utah Jazz CFO Tom Quigley. No, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.359 I mean the Knicks. Only the Knicks should say to 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.120 Howard Stern, look, we give you front row seats. Why 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.279 don't you and your wife Beth be up there and 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.680 represent the Knicks. I do something for us, Yes, Ton, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.960 if you're a celebrity fan though you yourself, would you 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.280 sign up for that? It always seems a little corny, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.680 and then you're making different facial expressions based on your 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.599 enthusiasm or disappointment based on what we had the pingbong balls, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:27.159 bounce the one ping pong, ping bong, bing bong bong balls. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.680 Let's go Knicks bing bong bing bong. I watched these 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.720 draft lotters and it's just a kind of same mayor 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.160 and they have to fix smirk or or overly enthusiastic, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.440 which is like a way over the top. It's I 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.200 don't know, it seems kind of corny. I bet they've 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.800 reached out to somebody celebs and they're like, remember when 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.560 Kevin Love was up there representing the Minnesota Timberwolves, and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.640 then I said, look, when they interview you, you got 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.920 to say my passion bucket is full, and Kevin Love 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.760 got up there and said that it'll make it in. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.920 I always felt really bad for Elgin Baylor because he 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.799 was representing the Clippers. Felt like every year and here's 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.920 Elgin who missed out on the window of opportunity for 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.840 people to realize how great he was. You know, he 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.560 missed out on the TV era and there he is 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.200 up there as representing the Clippers, and I just I 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.480 always felt bad for him because I think that's there 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.560 are a lot of people that only knew him as oh, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.200 that's the Clipper guy, not realizing that this is one 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.880 of the great scores and rebounders in the history of 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.320 college basketball and the NBA. It felt bad. Yeah, Poe, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.679 it seems like someone like the actor Ryan Reynolds is snarky. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.680 He could be like the celebrity Sacramento Kings fan. He'd 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.640 be swagged out head to toe and just do like 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.400 a bit. Yeah, but you've got to be a fan 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.280 of the team. That'd be much more funny if he 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.600 was not at all, but he for one night he was. Yeah. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.640 That might be the hard part is trying to find 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.200 fans of some of these teams that are willing to 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:57.360 admit that is there a celebrity Kings fan you, Well, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.360 you would go if you were asked, right, I would. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.200 I would present the care we go. Yes, but I 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.360 would have told them to draft Luca, and then I 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.800 probably would have lost my job. I would be giving 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.160 my opinion if they came around they started an interviewing 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.480 and uh oh, here's a former Sports Center anchor talking 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.640 here to Dan Patrick. You're a Sacramento Kings fan. Yes, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.560 First of all, I would fire the front office and 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.200 we should have taken Luca. Okay, all right, well thank you, Dale. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.880 I think that would be good. We're talking about producing 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.640 content here, yes, like Eminem for the Pistons. Okay, John, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.439 you may get some more viewers that way. I'm right. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.880 I have Brie Larson as a huge Sacramento Kings fan, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.480 and I'm a Bree Larson fan. Yeah, all right, let's 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.240 get uh Carol Danvers out there. Didn't she play that's 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:54.120 superhero Brie Larson? Yeah? Wasn't that? I think so, Carol, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.800 Danvers Captain Marvel. Oh is that okay? I don't watch 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.920 those movies. Yes, Ton, are you a celebrity fan if 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:02.080 you show up for one minute of one game? Because 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.680 maybe you're shooting something in the area because this list 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.800 suggests Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks from 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.600 Sacramento King fans, celebrity Kings fans uh and the no, no, no, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:23.559 are you looking at the LA Kings? Oh more Hockey 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.160 DP more Hockey Blue Blue? That would be the LA 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:31.640 Kicks Blue. That seemed like some big names. For second, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:36.840 how I read it? That is a huge wow. Never 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.559 forget Pooled Pooled, Damie Levado also big LA Kigs fan. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:50.000 That is hilarious. God yeah, tension to detail I put 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.080 when you google celebrity Kings fans and forget that the 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.839 LA Kings applied more popular in the Sacramento Yes they are. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.080 I made a big assumption there than those seem like 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.880 very big names to go to sackdown. Is there a 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:10.120 Sacramento King celebrity fan googling putting in Sacramento with Kings 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.720 other than three Larson? Yeah? A san Manage okay? Uh, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.000 Greta Gerwig Okay, she's now like a director. I think 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.080 those are the three listed in the article. All right, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:31.760 which fan base? Which NBA team has the fewest celebrity fans? NBA? NBA? 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:42.040 Are the Calves there, Orlando Magic? Do the Milwaukee Bucks 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:46.960 have celebrity fans? It's Rogers? All the Packers go. Well, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:52.000 Aaron Rodgers part owner? That's big? All right? Yeah? Oklahoma 0:10:52.040 --> 0:11:01.680 City Thunder is justin Timberlake, Memphis, Memphis. Is he part owner? 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.280 I think so? Okay? Uh, yes, time, it seems a 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.840 little desperate to say Kevin Johnson is a big celebrity 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.679 Sacramento Kings fan. This actually says Sacramento Kings just because 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.200 he was a former mayor of Sacramento and he played. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.160 Can you call Kevin Johnson a celebrity Sacramento King? I 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.840 don't know if you should really be part of the 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.000 segment anymore after what you just did, LA King celebrity. Yeah, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.800 all of a sudden, you're going Tom Hanks, I'm going 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:33.480 non Taylor Swift. Yeah, I can't imagine Swift. He is 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.439 out there? Yes, Seed, that was just the funniest Yeah, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.240 what a wonderful moment to have happened, It says, uh, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:47.520 noted Orlando Magic super fan Tiger Woods. Okay, how about that? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.559 All right, all right, I'll give you that. Minnesota Timberwolves. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.839 You know who they're most famous celebrity fan? Is is it? 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.640 According to stadium talk dot com? Is it a rapper? 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.640 It's not well, I don't know if this person has Okay, okay, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:08.400 I'm not sure. Okay, Craig Kilbourne killed by all right, 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.920 he may have wrapped before. I'm not sure. But he 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.880 loves Minnesota sports and he loves the NBA. Kilby could 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:21.880 be a celebrity there. All right. What about Cavaliers? Do 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.880 they have usher Lebron James? I think yeah, yeah, Paul, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.880 if the Bulls were in the draft lottery, could you 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.559 think you could get Barrio up there? Barack Obama? President Obama, 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.760 he would go, He'd probably honored. I know he's busy, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.240 but less busy now. I don't want ever sleep on Barrio. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:43.120 He's not going. What other I'm trying to think? Oklahoma 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.720 City fan base, celebrity fan. There's got to be a 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.520 country music I'm yeah, I got to. I got Bill 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.520 Hayter listed as a thunder fan. The comedic actor Bill Hayter, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.839 your buddy I don't know if that's true or not. Well, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.560 he's from Oklahoma, but it is Blake Shelton, an Oklahoma 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.199 City thunder fan. Yeah, Mar, I'm gonna check on that now. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.840 I'm gonna call him. Oh you are, oh hockey and 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.960 country music. This is what we do today, Okay? All right? Yeah? 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:19.560 La Kings, La Kings. You're you're you're so excited when 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.920 you're just rattling off these Hollywood names, so shocked. I'm like, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.400 these are Kings fans on what tom for big names 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.360 that are going up to Sacramentoos. Did you ever question it? 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.040 It didn't. I'm like Kings fans and then all yet 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.959 it's more than one Kings professional team, and it all 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.800 makes sense now, La, Yeah, I guess you're in the 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.880 LA area. It might stop in. Let's take hockey game, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.520 Thank you, Let's take a break. Reggie Miller will join 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.520 us coming up next here on the Dan Patrick Shell 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.640 link soul. 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It'll be Game one of the Western 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.360 Conference Finals between the Mavericks and the Warriors, and always 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.000 great to see the Hall of Famer REGGI was back 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.600 in December, I think where you were talking about Luca 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.200 plotting and saying he was probably the heaviest he's ever 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.360 been on the court. Luca has since come back around 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.640 to say, you know what, basically, you were right. Did 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.760 Luca ever say anything to you since then in between 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.200 those comments and these comments kind of saying yeah, you 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.200 were right, He didn't per se say thank you. He 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.200 gave me a dap and shook his head and said 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:03.480 I understood more so Jason Kid. Jason Kidd said thank 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.680 you because it's almost and you know this very well 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.960 as a parent, you could say everything you want to 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.720 your kids and he goes in one ear and out 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.720 the other. But when they hear it from somewhere else 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.120 and it's the same message, they're like, oh, okay, I 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:28.000 get it. So he understood and he knew, and Jason 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.880 Kidd had been kind of verbalizing to him, You've got 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.600 the kingdom at your feet, young man, but you've got 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.120 to get in better shape and you've got to stay 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.480 off the officials. And he took both of those advices, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.480 coming from Kevin Harland and myself and obviously from Jason Kidd, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.520 and this is where we are now. Luca was around 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.920 two hundred and sixty pounds, which is thirty more than 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.520 his listed playing weight. He said, people are going to 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.560 talk about it, yes or no, but I know I've 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.440 got to do better. I had a long summer. I 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.480 think I relaxed a little bit, not taking care, but 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.840 I've got to be better. I had the Olympics, took 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.520 three weeks off. I relaxed a little bit, maybe too much. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.879 I just got back on track. And I remember when 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.879 you tweeted or you said it, and I text you 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.359 and I said, those are strong comments. And you said 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.200 I think was I fair? And I said yes, because 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.800 you're assessing what you're seeing that Luca was not the 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.560 same player. You weren't making fun as much as you 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.680 were being an analyst in that situation. And I was 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.480 curious if people were going to say, are you fat 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.600 shaming Luca? In a situation. Yeah, obviously some people did. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.520 But again, and that's the beauty of what you and 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.920 I do, and especially for myself, you know, having been 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.439 on Turner and T and T for the last fifteen 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.560 plus year. They give us a platform for us to 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.240 be honest. And I know how great Luca can and 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.320 will be in the future. And at the start of 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.880 the season he wasn't at his best. And for all 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.880 the reasons that you just highlighted words out of Luca's mouth, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.520 he understood it was a long and tough summer for 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.560 him too. For them to qualify for the Olympics, it 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.200 was very difficult, and I understand why he took three 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.440 weeks to a month off. First of all, I would 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.159 like to know where he was partying for three or 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.280 four weeks for him to pick up thirty pounds, because 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.800 that's the kind of party I want to go to 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.800 with you, Luca. I want to be hanging about with you. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.520 But he understood to be at this level in the NBA, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.240 he had to be better, He had to be lighter. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:50.159 And again we weren't fetch shaming because when he is 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.160 at his best, which we have seen in these playoffs, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.960 no one can touch him. And it's funny. Every time 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.240 we would speak with Jason Kidd before the games, he 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:05.200 keeps going back to he's Lebron. He's Lebron. He's too big, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.000 he's too physical. They have no answer for him, and 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.000 he's showing that because of when he's in shape and 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.119 his size being able to get wherever he wants on 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.560 the floor. Dan, help me understand this. I brought this 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.120 up earlier, that we look at the best point guards 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.119 of all time. You know, we'll have Chris Paul in 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.960 there and Isaiah and you have Magic and John Stockton 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.000 and Steve Knight, whoever is on your list. They're all 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.879 short guys except for Magic. Right, Why isn't Lebron in 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.240 there as the second best point guard of all time? 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.840 Where is Luca? He's a point guard? Why aren't they 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:48.320 designated point guards here? I think we're past that stage 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:54.480 now in today's game because it's positionless basketball now. When 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.840 you and I were coming up in the seventies, eighties 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.479 and nineties, there was you know, point guards, shooting guards, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:08.000 small forwards, power forward, centers. Everything now is gumbo. Everything 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:13.359 is all mixed together, and Luca handles the basketball eighty 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.680 five ninety percent of the time. Same with Lebron, and 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.200 you look at Lebron's numbers, he has point guard numbers 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.200 in terms of assists. I mean, he's up there with 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.680 the point guard. So you're right, Lebron, Luca at the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.280 end of the day will have the same type of 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:35.000 numbers as a top seven eight point guard. But you 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.240 look at their body size being six seven, six eight, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:43.080 six to nine. At times for Magic people kind of 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.080 scratch their heads because the whole notion of point guards 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.840 goes back to Bob Couzy at feet. You know, people 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.320 think of Bob Couzy as the ultimate point guard and 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.600 John stopped in in Isaiah, but that's no longer in 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.840 today's game. How do you explain what happened to the 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.600 Phoenix Suns on Sunday night? And when did you realize 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.480 they were going to be in trouble? Every timeout, Kevin 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.000 Harland and myself we would look at one another's like, 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.040 can you believe this is? Like we were in shock? 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.760 And when Luca set the tone early scored the first 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.040 eight with two of them being two step back threes, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.680 I knew something magical was going to happen that night. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.120 We thought it was going to be the reverse. We thought, 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:32.960 oh Phoenix, they're gonna put these kids in the bed. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:37.159 They're tired of this. And they were not two They 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.960 were really three steps behind the Dallas Mavericks. But I'm 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.720 going to give credit to Jason Kidd and his coaching staff, 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.760 very well prepared all series. But to me, Luca set 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.600 the tone in Game seven, and that's what your best 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.120 player has to do, because he has to give believe 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.040 and hope to the rest of the guy's like, okay, 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.720 jump on my shoulders, it's gonna be okay. When he 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.920 set the tone with those first aid, everyone fell in 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.679 line in formation and it was downhill for the Suns 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:11.800 after that. I don't know if you ever felt this. 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.840 I'm sure that you made other people feel this. But 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:19.240 when Luca hit the corner jumper and the net had 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.800 a zing to it like it wasn't he just made 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.280 it or kind of made it. It was whenever I 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.399 would play against somebody and they made a shot, it 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.720 was how they made the shot that sometimes stayed with me. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.639 Where you're going, oh damn, they're on tonight, And when 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.520 Luca made that shot from the corner, I think the 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.520 second three that he made. I went, oh, they're in trouble, 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:43.920 because he was feeling it and letting the crowd know, hey, 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.240 you better buckle up. We're in for a long ride tonight, 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.520 you know. And when he was knocking down those shots, 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:56.159 it was in front of Larry Fitzgerald, Travis Kelsey, you know, 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.280 it was a celebrity row that was right there, and 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.480 he was just giving it too, not to them per se, 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.800 but to that general area. And every time he made 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.520 a shot, it was like a gasp was in the air. 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:16.639 So they knew. The Phoenix Suns team knew that he 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:20.280 was coming for business. And sometimes when you're best player, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:22.719 he just let the air out of that whole building 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:28.399 and it gave confidence and life to the others on 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.399 that MAVs team. You know, Spisher Dinwoodie was a no 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.320 show the first five games. In Game six and seven, 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.720 he found his stroke. And that's because of the belief 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.320 that they all have in Luca. Do you think the 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:47.800 window of opportunity for the Suns is closed. I don't 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.520 think it's closed. You don't win sixty four games by accident. 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.040 I think they have some decisions to make this summer. 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:59.159 Number one being DeAndre Ayton, which you know, for him 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.400 to only play seveneen minutes in Game seven and then 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:06.640 for Monty to get on the podium afterwards and would 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.600 ask that question, why did he only play seventeen minutes? 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.600 His only response was its internal something obviously and clearly 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:18.160 was going on behind the scenes that we're not privy too. 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.840 But again, oh, you didn't see anything on the sidelines 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.960 between those two. No, and that's the way they've always 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.760 run their organization. You're not gonna see anyone get out 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.760