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Speaker 1: Celtics Heat Game one tonight, Lightning Panthers Blues in the Avalanche.
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns had the best record in the NBA this season.
Speaker 1: Regular season success doesn't always translate to postseason success. Losing
Speaker 1: to the Mavericks an embarrassing fashion on Sunday, Chris Paul
Speaker 1: turned thirty seven this month, and he started to look
Speaker 1: thirty seven. And now there reports that the former number
Speaker 1: one overall picked, DeAndre eight doesn't feel valued by the Suns,
Speaker 1: may be interested in playing somewhere else next season. Even
Speaker 1: without DeAndre Ayton, the Suns would still have a competitive roster.
Speaker 1: But you know, the West is getting stronger. It's young,
Speaker 1: getting stronger, and you got to consider Chris Paul's age,
Speaker 1: injury history, the Sun's lack of cap space in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Phoenix's time as a top contender in the West could
Speaker 1: be in danger of coming to an end a whole
Speaker 1: lot sooner than a lot of people in vision. You
Speaker 1: have the Draft lottery coming up tonight. Odds to win
Speaker 1: the number one pick, it's a tie between the Pistons, Magic,
Speaker 1: and Rockets, Thunder at twelve and a half percent, Pacers
Speaker 1: ten and a half percent. Then it goes Blazers, Kings, Pelicans, Spurs, Wizards, Nicks, Thunder, Hornets, Cavaliers.
Speaker 1: Cavaliers at a zero point five percent chances of winning
Speaker 1: the lottery. We've seen some long odds win go back
Speaker 1: to Orlando Magic, they were like one and a half
Speaker 1: percent chance probability of winning. They ended up getting Chris Webber.
Speaker 1: But that'll be coming up tonight. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many great players, potential great players will be available. I
Speaker 1: think the most talked about is Chad Holmgren, who spent
Speaker 1: one year at Gonzaga seven footer and he's the new
Speaker 1: seven footer. He's got a handle, he can shoot, but
Speaker 1: he's really, really skinny. It almost feels like I gotta
Speaker 1: keep him on the perimeter because you go down low,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get abused. Now. I know he blocks a
Speaker 1: lot of shots, but he's blocking a lot of shots
Speaker 1: in college. When you get to the NBA, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be putting a body on you. They're gonna be getting
Speaker 1: into you, and you're gonna see if he can hold
Speaker 1: his ground there. Yeah. Morph Yeah, if he was playing
Speaker 1: right now, he'd have a tough time because Bama to
Speaker 1: Bayou Draymond Al Horford, Oh, they'd be cleaning him up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But even going out on the perimeter, or if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be guarding you know, a lot of these big men,
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns and Joe l Nbid, even the Joker.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not fair to say, well, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna do well against these guys. These are some of
Speaker 1: the best players in the world. Yes, Ton seven feet
Speaker 1: probably soaking wet. Yeah, yeah. And I remember the first
Speaker 1: time that I saw him play, because there was a
Speaker 1: lot of build up. It's like, oh, you got to
Speaker 1: see this this kid seven footer or he's got a handle,
Speaker 1: and I go, all right, let me say he broke
Speaker 1: somebody down off the dribble playing against another really good
Speaker 1: high school team, and I go okay, And then he
Speaker 1: went in and dunked. I go okay, all right, got
Speaker 1: my attention there. But I wanted to see what would
Speaker 1: happen when players start to come at you. They want
Speaker 1: to see are you going to go after shots here?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be aggressive? And he was. He went after
Speaker 1: him and and I like that. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much weight you can put on him. I don't know
Speaker 1: what kind of position he's going to play, but he's
Speaker 1: probably going to be the object of desire. But he's
Speaker 1: going to be a few years away. Yeah, pol Just
Speaker 1: to give you a comparison, there was some criticisms or
Speaker 1: warnings about Kevin Durant's being thin coming out of Couch.
Speaker 1: He was listed at six ten, two twenty coming out
Speaker 1: of Texas. Oh, boll, I don't even know if he
Speaker 1: was two ten, Yeah, but he did. He had the
Speaker 1: ability though, he could get his shot whenever he wanted to.
Speaker 1: And that's somebody that you don't rely on physicality. If anything,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. Kevin Durant can get his shot whenever
Speaker 1: he wants to. Against anybody. Yeah, and there's only one
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. But be interesting. I think they got to
Speaker 1: produce the draft lottery a little bit better than what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I gotta have some stars up there. I
Speaker 1: gotta have some people that I recognize I can't have.
Speaker 1: And here's the CEO, Jimmy Lipper, and they're going, okay,
Speaker 1: nobody cares. Didn't they have the actress who was that
Speaker 1: Anna Hawks ownership. She's married to one of the owners,
Speaker 1: Jamie Gertz. Jamie Gertz. Thank you, Todd figured that that'd
Speaker 1: be in your wheelhouse. Jamie Gertz. What was Jamie Gertz in?
Speaker 1: Less than zero? Less than zero? Okay? I think she
Speaker 1: was also a bootsy in Facts of Life? Remember Jamie Gertz?
Speaker 1: Was she and Mystic Pizza. Let's say she was in Twister,
Speaker 1: she was in Sixteen Candles, she was in she had
Speaker 1: a little run in Seinfeld. Okay, you know, so you're
Speaker 1: not excited about seeing assistant general manager of the Pacers
Speaker 1: Kelly Crosscoff, not lottery, not yet. You're not saying you're
Speaker 1: not not. No, I'm not saying I'm not excited. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm waiting to be surprised. So Knicks executive vice
Speaker 1: president senior senior basketball a visor William Wesley doesn't what
Speaker 1: your appetite not as much. Okay, come on, it's New York.
Speaker 1: Give me something. There is Utah Jazz CFO Tom Quigley. No,
Speaker 1: I mean the Knicks. Only the Knicks should say to
Speaker 1: Howard Stern, look, we give you front row seats. Why
Speaker 1: don't you and your wife Beth be up there and
Speaker 1: represent the Knicks. I do something for us, Yes, Ton,
Speaker 1: if you're a celebrity fan though you yourself, would you
Speaker 1: sign up for that? It always seems a little corny,
Speaker 1: and then you're making different facial expressions based on your
Speaker 1: enthusiasm or disappointment based on what we had the pingbong balls,
Speaker 1: bounce the one ping pong, ping bong, bing bong bong balls.
Speaker 1: Let's go Knicks bing bong bing bong. I watched these
Speaker 1: draft lotters and it's just a kind of same mayor
Speaker 1: and they have to fix smirk or or overly enthusiastic,
Speaker 1: which is like a way over the top. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know, it seems kind of corny. I bet they've
Speaker 1: reached out to somebody celebs and they're like, remember when
Speaker 1: Kevin Love was up there representing the Minnesota Timberwolves, and
Speaker 1: then I said, look, when they interview you, you got
Speaker 1: to say my passion bucket is full, and Kevin Love
Speaker 1: got up there and said that it'll make it in.
Speaker 1: I always felt really bad for Elgin Baylor because he
Speaker 1: was representing the Clippers. Felt like every year and here's
Speaker 1: Elgin who missed out on the window of opportunity for
Speaker 1: people to realize how great he was. You know, he
Speaker 1: missed out on the TV era and there he is
Speaker 1: up there as representing the Clippers, and I just I
Speaker 1: always felt bad for him because I think that's there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that only knew him as oh,
Speaker 1: that's the Clipper guy, not realizing that this is one
Speaker 1: of the great scores and rebounders in the history of
Speaker 1: college basketball and the NBA. It felt bad. Yeah, Poe,
Speaker 1: it seems like someone like the actor Ryan Reynolds is snarky.
Speaker 1: He could be like the celebrity Sacramento Kings fan. He'd
Speaker 1: be swagged out head to toe and just do like
Speaker 1: a bit. Yeah, but you've got to be a fan
Speaker 1: of the team. That'd be much more funny if he
Speaker 1: was not at all, but he for one night he was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That might be the hard part is trying to find
Speaker 1: fans of some of these teams that are willing to
Speaker 1: admit that is there a celebrity Kings fan you, Well,
Speaker 1: you would go if you were asked, right, I would.
Speaker 1: I would present the care we go. Yes, but I
Speaker 1: would have told them to draft Luca, and then I
Speaker 1: probably would have lost my job. I would be giving
Speaker 1: my opinion if they came around they started an interviewing
Speaker 1: and uh oh, here's a former Sports Center anchor talking
Speaker 1: here to Dan Patrick. You're a Sacramento Kings fan. Yes,
Speaker 1: First of all, I would fire the front office and
Speaker 1: we should have taken Luca. Okay, all right, well thank you, Dale.
Speaker 1: I think that would be good. We're talking about producing
Speaker 1: content here, yes, like Eminem for the Pistons. Okay, John,
Speaker 1: you may get some more viewers that way. I'm right.
Speaker 1: I have Brie Larson as a huge Sacramento Kings fan,
Speaker 1: and I'm a Bree Larson fan. Yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get uh Carol Danvers out there. Didn't she play that's
Speaker 1: superhero Brie Larson? Yeah? Wasn't that? I think so, Carol,
Speaker 1: Danvers Captain Marvel. Oh is that okay? I don't watch
Speaker 1: those movies. Yes, Ton, are you a celebrity fan if
Speaker 1: you show up for one minute of one game? Because
Speaker 1: maybe you're shooting something in the area because this list
Speaker 1: suggests Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks from
Speaker 1: Sacramento King fans, celebrity Kings fans uh and the no, no, no,
Speaker 1: are you looking at the LA Kings? Oh more Hockey
Speaker 1: DP more Hockey Blue Blue? That would be the LA
Speaker 1: Kicks Blue. That seemed like some big names. For second,
Speaker 1: how I read it? That is a huge wow. Never
Speaker 1: forget Pooled Pooled, Damie Levado also big LA Kigs fan.
Speaker 1: That is hilarious. God yeah, tension to detail I put
Speaker 1: when you google celebrity Kings fans and forget that the
Speaker 1: LA Kings applied more popular in the Sacramento Yes they are.
Speaker 1: I made a big assumption there than those seem like
Speaker 1: very big names to go to sackdown. Is there a
Speaker 1: Sacramento King celebrity fan googling putting in Sacramento with Kings
Speaker 1: other than three Larson? Yeah? A san Manage okay? Uh,
Speaker 1: Greta Gerwig Okay, she's now like a director. I think
Speaker 1: those are the three listed in the article. All right,
Speaker 1: which fan base? Which NBA team has the fewest celebrity fans? NBA? NBA?
Speaker 1: Are the Calves there, Orlando Magic? Do the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: have celebrity fans? It's Rogers? All the Packers go. Well,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers part owner? That's big? All right? Yeah? Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder is justin Timberlake, Memphis, Memphis. Is he part owner?
Speaker 1: I think so? Okay? Uh, yes, time, it seems a
Speaker 1: little desperate to say Kevin Johnson is a big celebrity
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings fan. This actually says Sacramento Kings just because
Speaker 1: he was a former mayor of Sacramento and he played.
Speaker 1: Can you call Kevin Johnson a celebrity Sacramento King? I
Speaker 1: don't know if you should really be part of the
Speaker 1: segment anymore after what you just did, LA King celebrity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're going Tom Hanks, I'm going
Speaker 1: non Taylor Swift. Yeah, I can't imagine Swift. He is
Speaker 1: out there? Yes, Seed, that was just the funniest Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a wonderful moment to have happened, It says, uh,
Speaker 1: noted Orlando Magic super fan Tiger Woods. Okay, how about that?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, I'll give you that. Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: You know who they're most famous celebrity fan? Is is it?
Speaker 1: According to stadium talk dot com? Is it a rapper?
Speaker 1: It's not well, I don't know if this person has Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Okay, Craig Kilbourne killed by all right,
Speaker 1: he may have wrapped before. I'm not sure. But he
Speaker 1: loves Minnesota sports and he loves the NBA. Kilby could
Speaker 1: be a celebrity there. All right. What about Cavaliers? Do
Speaker 1: they have usher Lebron James? I think yeah, yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: if the Bulls were in the draft lottery, could you
Speaker 1: think you could get Barrio up there? Barack Obama? President Obama,
Speaker 1: he would go, He'd probably honored. I know he's busy,
Speaker 1: but less busy now. I don't want ever sleep on Barrio.
Speaker 1: He's not going. What other I'm trying to think? Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City fan base, celebrity fan. There's got to be a
Speaker 1: country music I'm yeah, I got to. I got Bill
Speaker 1: Hayter listed as a thunder fan. The comedic actor Bill Hayter,
Speaker 1: your buddy I don't know if that's true or not. Well,
Speaker 1: he's from Oklahoma, but it is Blake Shelton, an Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City thunder fan. Yeah, Mar, I'm gonna check on that now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him. Oh you are, oh hockey and
Speaker 1: country music. This is what we do today, Okay? All right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: La Kings, La Kings. You're you're you're so excited when
Speaker 1: you're just rattling off these Hollywood names, so shocked. I'm like,
Speaker 1: these are Kings fans on what tom for big names
Speaker 1: that are going up to Sacramentoos. Did you ever question it?
Speaker 1: It didn't. I'm like Kings fans and then all yet
Speaker 1: it's more than one Kings professional team, and it all
Speaker 1: makes sense now, La, Yeah, I guess you're in the
Speaker 1: LA area. It might stop in. Let's take hockey game,
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Speaker 1: to the Dan Patrick Show. Reggie Miller called Game seven
Speaker 1: between the MAVs and the Sons. He will be back
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Speaker 1: great to see the Hall of Famer REGGI was back
Speaker 1: in December, I think where you were talking about Luca
Speaker 1: plotting and saying he was probably the heaviest he's ever
Speaker 1: been on the court. Luca has since come back around
Speaker 1: to say, you know what, basically, you were right. Did
Speaker 1: Luca ever say anything to you since then in between
Speaker 1: those comments and these comments kind of saying yeah, you
Speaker 1: were right, He didn't per se say thank you. He
Speaker 1: gave me a dap and shook his head and said
Speaker 1: I understood more so Jason Kid. Jason Kidd said thank
Speaker 1: you because it's almost and you know this very well
Speaker 1: as a parent, you could say everything you want to
Speaker 1: your kids and he goes in one ear and out
Speaker 1: the other. But when they hear it from somewhere else
Speaker 1: and it's the same message, they're like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: get it. So he understood and he knew, and Jason
Speaker 1: Kidd had been kind of verbalizing to him, You've got
Speaker 1: the kingdom at your feet, young man, but you've got
Speaker 1: to get in better shape and you've got to stay
Speaker 1: off the officials. And he took both of those advices,
Speaker 1: coming from Kevin Harland and myself and obviously from Jason Kidd,
Speaker 1: and this is where we are now. Luca was around
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty pounds, which is thirty more than
Speaker 1: his listed playing weight. He said, people are going to
Speaker 1: talk about it, yes or no, but I know I've
Speaker 1: got to do better. I had a long summer. I
Speaker 1: think I relaxed a little bit, not taking care, but
Speaker 1: I've got to be better. I had the Olympics, took
Speaker 1: three weeks off. I relaxed a little bit, maybe too much.
Speaker 1: I just got back on track. And I remember when
Speaker 1: you tweeted or you said it, and I text you
Speaker 1: and I said, those are strong comments. And you said
Speaker 1: I think was I fair? And I said yes, because
Speaker 1: you're assessing what you're seeing that Luca was not the
Speaker 1: same player. You weren't making fun as much as you
Speaker 1: were being an analyst in that situation. And I was
Speaker 1: curious if people were going to say, are you fat
Speaker 1: shaming Luca? In a situation. Yeah, obviously some people did.
Speaker 1: But again, and that's the beauty of what you and
Speaker 1: I do, and especially for myself, you know, having been
Speaker 1: on Turner and T and T for the last fifteen
Speaker 1: plus year. They give us a platform for us to
Speaker 1: be honest. And I know how great Luca can and
Speaker 1: will be in the future. And at the start of
Speaker 1: the season he wasn't at his best. And for all
Speaker 1: the reasons that you just highlighted words out of Luca's mouth,
Speaker 1: he understood it was a long and tough summer for
Speaker 1: him too. For them to qualify for the Olympics, it
Speaker 1: was very difficult, and I understand why he took three
Speaker 1: weeks to a month off. First of all, I would
Speaker 1: like to know where he was partying for three or
Speaker 1: four weeks for him to pick up thirty pounds, because
Speaker 1: that's the kind of party I want to go to
Speaker 1: with you, Luca. I want to be hanging about with you.
Speaker 1: But he understood to be at this level in the NBA,
Speaker 1: he had to be better, He had to be lighter.
Speaker 1: And again we weren't fetch shaming because when he is
Speaker 1: at his best, which we have seen in these playoffs,
Speaker 1: no one can touch him. And it's funny. Every time
Speaker 1: we would speak with Jason Kidd before the games, he
Speaker 1: keeps going back to he's Lebron. He's Lebron. He's too big,
Speaker 1: he's too physical. They have no answer for him, and
Speaker 1: he's showing that because of when he's in shape and
Speaker 1: his size being able to get wherever he wants on
Speaker 1: the floor. Dan, help me understand this. I brought this
Speaker 1: up earlier, that we look at the best point guards
Speaker 1: of all time. You know, we'll have Chris Paul in
Speaker 1: there and Isaiah and you have Magic and John Stockton
Speaker 1: and Steve Knight, whoever is on your list. They're all
Speaker 1: short guys except for Magic. Right, Why isn't Lebron in
Speaker 1: there as the second best point guard of all time?
Speaker 1: Where is Luca? He's a point guard? Why aren't they
Speaker 1: designated point guards here? I think we're past that stage
Speaker 1: now in today's game because it's positionless basketball now. When
Speaker 1: you and I were coming up in the seventies, eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties, there was you know, point guards, shooting guards,
Speaker 1: small forwards, power forward, centers. Everything now is gumbo. Everything
Speaker 1: is all mixed together, and Luca handles the basketball eighty
Speaker 1: five ninety percent of the time. Same with Lebron, and
Speaker 1: you look at Lebron's numbers, he has point guard numbers
Speaker 1: in terms of assists. I mean, he's up there with
Speaker 1: the point guard. So you're right, Lebron, Luca at the
Speaker 1: end of the day will have the same type of
Speaker 1: numbers as a top seven eight point guard. But you
Speaker 1: look at their body size being six seven, six eight,
Speaker 1: six to nine. At times for Magic people kind of
Speaker 1: scratch their heads because the whole notion of point guards
Speaker 1: goes back to Bob Couzy at feet. You know, people
Speaker 1: think of Bob Couzy as the ultimate point guard and
Speaker 1: John stopped in in Isaiah, but that's no longer in
Speaker 1: today's game. How do you explain what happened to the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns on Sunday night? And when did you realize
Speaker 1: they were going to be in trouble? Every timeout, Kevin
Speaker 1: Harland and myself we would look at one another's like,
Speaker 1: can you believe this is? Like we were in shock?
Speaker 1: And when Luca set the tone early scored the first
Speaker 1: eight with two of them being two step back threes,
Speaker 1: I knew something magical was going to happen that night.
Speaker 1: We thought it was going to be the reverse. We thought,
Speaker 1: oh Phoenix, they're gonna put these kids in the bed.
Speaker 1: They're tired of this. And they were not two They
Speaker 1: were really three steps behind the Dallas Mavericks. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to give credit to Jason Kidd and his coaching staff,
Speaker 1: very well prepared all series. But to me, Luca set
Speaker 1: the tone in Game seven, and that's what your best
Speaker 1: player has to do, because he has to give believe
Speaker 1: and hope to the rest of the guy's like, okay,
Speaker 1: jump on my shoulders, it's gonna be okay. When he
Speaker 1: set the tone with those first aid, everyone fell in
Speaker 1: line in formation and it was downhill for the Suns
Speaker 1: after that. I don't know if you ever felt this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that you made other people feel this. But
Speaker 1: when Luca hit the corner jumper and the net had
Speaker 1: a zing to it like it wasn't he just made
Speaker 1: it or kind of made it. It was whenever I
Speaker 1: would play against somebody and they made a shot, it
Speaker 1: was how they made the shot that sometimes stayed with me.
Speaker 1: Where you're going, oh damn, they're on tonight, And when
Speaker 1: Luca made that shot from the corner, I think the
Speaker 1: second three that he made. I went, oh, they're in trouble,
Speaker 1: because he was feeling it and letting the crowd know, hey,
Speaker 1: you better buckle up. We're in for a long ride tonight,
Speaker 1: you know. And when he was knocking down those shots,
Speaker 1: it was in front of Larry Fitzgerald, Travis Kelsey, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a celebrity row that was right there, and
Speaker 1: he was just giving it too, not to them per se,
Speaker 1: but to that general area. And every time he made
Speaker 1: a shot, it was like a gasp was in the air.
Speaker 1: So they knew. The Phoenix Suns team knew that he
Speaker 1: was coming for business. And sometimes when you're best player,
Speaker 1: he just let the air out of that whole building
Speaker 1: and it gave confidence and life to the others on
Speaker 1: that MAVs team. You know, Spisher Dinwoodie was a no
Speaker 1: show the first five games. In Game six and seven,
Speaker 1: he found his stroke. And that's because of the belief
Speaker 1: that they all have in Luca. Do you think the
Speaker 1: window of opportunity for the Suns is closed. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's closed. You don't win sixty four games by accident.
Speaker 1: I think they have some decisions to make this summer.
Speaker 1: Number one being DeAndre Ayton, which you know, for him
Speaker 1: to only play seveneen minutes in Game seven and then
Speaker 1: for Monty to get on the podium afterwards and would
Speaker 1: ask that question, why did he only play seventeen minutes?
Speaker 1: His only response was its internal something obviously and clearly
Speaker 1: was going on behind the scenes that we're not privy too.
Speaker 1: But again, oh, you didn't see anything on the sidelines
Speaker 1: between those two. No, and that's the way they've always
Speaker 1: run their organization. You're not gonna see anyone get out
Speaker 1: of character. Whatever happens with the Phoenix Suns is going
Speaker 1: to happen behind closed doors. But it was a little
Speaker 1: surprising because coming into this series, we felt and everyone
Speaker 1: felt that Aiden had to be the difference maker because
Speaker 1: he was so dominant all season. He was dominant in
Speaker 1: that first round matchup versus the Pelicans, and you would
Speaker 1: think he would have the advantage because basically they were
Speaker 1: playing five small guys, with you know, Burton's and Maxie
Speaker 1: Cleiber being the tallest guys for the matter, at six nine,
Speaker 1: he should have the clear cut advantage. And after that
Speaker 1: twenty five point first first twenty five point first game,
Speaker 1: you didn't hear from DeAndre Ayden so it was a
Speaker 1: little head scratching, but they have some decisions to make.
Speaker 1: Talking to Reggie Miller, Reggie will be on the call
Speaker 1: Game one Western Conference Finals MAVs and the Warriors, that'll
Speaker 1: be tomorrow night, Game one tonight, Heat and the Celtics.
Speaker 1: Who do you like? Wow? I really feel this is
Speaker 1: a pick him series. You know, I can make a
Speaker 1: case for both sides. You look at Boston what they've
Speaker 1: done in the first two rounds, and I know it
Speaker 1: was a sweep of Brooklyn, but those were four very
Speaker 1: hard fought games versus the Nets, and then to defeat
Speaker 1: the defending champs in seven, having won twice in their building,
Speaker 1: it says a lot for Boston. My question going forward,
Speaker 1: do they have enough? And every possession is going to
Speaker 1: mean something in this Boston Miami series because both teams
Speaker 1: are fabulous defensively, and no one is talking about how
Speaker 1: great Jimmy Butler has been for the Miami Heat in
Speaker 1: these playoffs. You know, everyone's talking about Luca and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: and Jayson Tatum rightfully so you could put Jimmy Butler's
Speaker 1: name in there as well, because he's been that good.
Speaker 1: If you're asking me to make a pick. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: roll with what my son told me this morning when
Speaker 1: I posed him the same question that you just asked me.
Speaker 1: Who do you like? He's like, Dad, I'm rolling with
Speaker 1: Uncle Jimmy in Miami Heat. I think no one's giving
Speaker 1: Miamie Heat a lot of love. And I know Tyler
Speaker 1: Hero has been disappointing in these playoffs, but I just
Speaker 1: think something special is brewing in South Beach. I'm to
Speaker 1: go with Jimmy Butler in Miami in a very tough
Speaker 1: seven game series. See, I think that Tyler Hero is
Speaker 1: the key to the Miami Heat because if he's averaging
Speaker 1: over twenty a game, everybody else does what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, then I think Miami can win this. If
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero continues to give you a six, eight, ten
Speaker 1: points off the bench, I just don't think you can
Speaker 1: match the firepower there. I agree with you one, and
Speaker 1: he's got to show up. Another big X factor will
Speaker 1: be Gabe Vincent. Obviously he gets the start tonight. No
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry. We don't know if Lowry will be back
Speaker 1: at all in the series. You hope he would be,
Speaker 1: but Gabe Vincent is going to have to play above
Speaker 1: his means for the Heat to be successful. You were
Speaker 1: mentioning the celebrities at the Phoenix Suns game assigned from
Speaker 1: New York with your interaction with Spike Lee. What's celebrity
Speaker 1: on what team you noticed or you had an interaction
Speaker 1: with around the league? Interaction with I would say it
Speaker 1: was always cool to play the Lakers and obviously shake
Speaker 1: hands with Jack because he was the Spike Lee of
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and at the time, in the late eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties, it was you know, Jack Dilston, the actor there,
Speaker 1: Academy Award winning actor, so it was kind of cool
Speaker 1: for him to just acknowledge your play. Did he say
Speaker 1: anything negative to your skin? No? No, No. The only
Speaker 1: person I ever tried to do that was you know
Speaker 1: who from New York. Everyone else for the most part,
Speaker 1: celebrity wise, because I had already set the precedent in
Speaker 1: the bar high. If you're gonna talk to me, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a part of the day. So they all
Speaker 1: knew what I did to Spike, so they were so
Speaker 1: celebrities are always somewhat on. They were unnoticed that I
Speaker 1: could go off and I was gonna make them a
Speaker 1: part of the dialogue. So they were pretty cool with that.
Speaker 1: Did you ever think about fighting Spike Lee? No, it
Speaker 1: was never gonna come. What if he was six to five,
Speaker 1: then it's on us six above, Okay, it's on six below.
Speaker 1: It's all it's gonna be all about words. But when
Speaker 1: you you you try to use that to your advantage,
Speaker 1: Like that's the key sometimes that you know, I always wondered,
Speaker 1: and I always thought, maybe you got two into the
Speaker 1: conversation with Spike Lee and that could take you away
Speaker 1: from your game. Where Luca it felt like, was acknowledging
Speaker 1: the crowd a little too much, Like stay in your game,
Speaker 1: stay in the moment. How hard is that to do?
Speaker 1: At times it could be difficult. Look, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest here as well. Sometimes you have to to
Speaker 1: manufacture your own type of I don't know, well Jordan
Speaker 1: read this. Jordan would make up fuge with guys didn't
Speaker 1: even know he had a feud against him. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: got to you gotta manufacture it, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: manufacture bad blood. And I think at times that's what
Speaker 1: Luca we see him doing, all the talking to the fans.
Speaker 1: I personally, I like it, you know, it keeps you
Speaker 1: engaged and you know, and then sometimes it spills over
Speaker 1: to your opponent, because we saw him and Devin book
Speaker 1: are kind of going at it a little bit. You've
Speaker 1: got to build that up in a series because you're
Speaker 1: seeing these You're gonna be seeing each other for the
Speaker 1: next ten to twelve days, So I've got to build
Speaker 1: up bad blood. Right now, there's no bad blood between
Speaker 1: the Warriors and the Mass, but I guarantee you after
Speaker 1: Game one, something will be manufactured. Draymond Green will say something,
Speaker 1: Luca will say something, Jalen Brunson's gonna get into it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun series to watch how they
Speaker 1: manufacture the hate towards one another. Lakers still haven't named
Speaker 1: a head coach, and I'm curious why not. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: trying to exhaust their search. I felt that they were
Speaker 1: waiting for current coaches that were still in the playoffs
Speaker 1: to take a look at it. Is that a desirable job, REGI.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it is the Laker
Speaker 1: brand they do them, along with the Celtics, have the
Speaker 1: most championships desirable. I don't know, a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: comes with that, and it depends on who you're gonna
Speaker 1: be answering to are you gonna be able to coach
Speaker 1: the way you want? Or are you gonna be hearing
Speaker 1: from Genie Buss, Kurt Rambas rob Inca. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: be hearing from all these people? Or are you gonna
Speaker 1: be able to execute your game plan on a nightly
Speaker 1: basis the way you want? And now Phil Jackson's in
Speaker 1: the mix in terms of voices, right, and how much
Speaker 1: pressure is that, especially if you're one of these young
Speaker 1: coaches that they've been interviewing and potentially can get the
Speaker 1: higher You know, you've got Phil Jackson, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. Now he's chiming in, So it's
Speaker 1: very difficult, I doubt. Then you look at the roster
Speaker 1: redg we haven't hiven like, you still got Lebron James
Speaker 1: and you still got Anthony Davis. But other than that,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of work to do and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make Russell Westbrook work that they're not
Speaker 1: gonna trade him. You're gonna have to make him work somehow,
Speaker 1: and you can't change him, yeah, but there's ways where
Speaker 1: you can tweak him, hopefully to make him more successful.
Speaker 1: And on the flip side. Russell has to look himself
Speaker 1: in the mirror too and say, I'm not the twenty
Speaker 1: three year old Russell Westbrook and from OKC. Right, but
Speaker 1: some of those shots are like you don't even see
Speaker 1: that in a youth league game. He said, the side
Speaker 1: of the backboard, like he I sometimes you've got to
Speaker 1: look yourself in the mirror. Again, He's got to look
Speaker 1: himself in the mirror and say what when he looks
Speaker 1: at himself in the mirror, I'm not as good as
Speaker 1: I used to be. But I'm also not as bad
Speaker 1: as Theodore and the Danis and Reggie Miller are saying.
Speaker 1: I am as well. I would never let him take
Speaker 1: a jumper from eighteen feet out fifteen feet out like
Speaker 1: he can shoot free throws and he's a good free
Speaker 1: throw shooter. But I just have to say to him,
Speaker 1: you have a no fly zone in here. Everything is
Speaker 1: going to be going to the hoop there. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the problem. That's not the type of player that can
Speaker 1: play with Lebron James. Lebron James and Anthony Davis. They
Speaker 1: need space floor spacers. That's not Russell Westerner. My god,
Speaker 1: and that's what the new coach is probably saying right now,
Speaker 1: oh my, I know it's okay. Is Steve Kerr underrated
Speaker 1: or overrated as the head coach? Yeah? Well I certainly
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's overrated for a guy who's won. So
Speaker 1: he stepped into a great situation here. Well so did
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson. Yeah, okay, in both places. In Chicago, well
Speaker 1: no he didn't. He stepped into that, but then they
Speaker 1: got Scottie and they added some pieces there, and and
Speaker 1: Doug Collins didn't make them a winner, and he had Mike.
Speaker 1: So Phil, I'll give him credit. In Chicago. In LA
Speaker 1: that felt like, hey, I'm gonna show up on third base.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about the triple I hit. I
Speaker 1: would say Steve Kerr as great as Mark Jackson is
Speaker 1: and was for the Warriors. Steve Kerr just added a
Speaker 1: little bit more spice to the Warriors. I don't think
Speaker 1: he gets enough credit. Okay, I don't think he gets
Speaker 1: enough credit as well. With Mark Jackson. I think people
Speaker 1: tend to forget that Mark Jackson laid the foundation and
Speaker 1: it gets lost in the mix for what he did
Speaker 1: for the Warriors. And with the Warriors, yeah, because Mark
Speaker 1: made him they were a defensive team like Mark stress defense.
Speaker 1: It felt like Kerr came in and said, let's open
Speaker 1: this up. Let's Steph. You're gonna be taking those shots.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I mean, it took him a
Speaker 1: little while before he went, are you I don't know
Speaker 1: if I want you shooting out that far? And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's like, you came shooting out
Speaker 1: that far? Yeah, Clay, go on ahead. You know. Kerr
Speaker 1: added the offensive identity, and they kept Mark Jackson's defensive
Speaker 1: identity as well. Yeah, but he added to it, he's
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller. He'll be on the call tomorrow and I
Speaker 1: nine Eastern on TNT Game one A Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: maps in the warners. Regg looking great and we'll be
Speaker 1: watching tomorrow nine or you're the best, damn its love y'all.
Speaker 1: It'e Miller, Reggie Miller. If we win a sport, when
Speaker 1: we win a Sports Emmy, Reggie gets a Sports Emmy. Yeah. Poll,
Speaker 1: does he get a little Does he get the ride
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Mavericks float if they somehow win the title?
Speaker 1: He did? He inspire Luca to work out more. That's fair,
Speaker 1: fair point? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Regge kind of poked him
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Speaker 1: Brady challenged Lebron James to a hockey shootout excuse yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how it got around to that.
Speaker 1: But Lebron was answering questions on Twitter, and Brady jumped
Speaker 1: in and asked Lebron a question that he wanted to
Speaker 1: know how they would do five rounds of a hockey
Speaker 1: shootout who wins? And I would love just to see
Speaker 1: Lebron James on skates. It'd be like Zodano' Charle Lebron
Speaker 1: goes me, but barely, maybe swinging from my knees. Though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I'm Lebron, I don't stand on skates. They just
Speaker 1: get down on my knees. Probably have a couple of
Speaker 1: slap shots this day in sports history, Paulie, what do
Speaker 1: you have for us? Let's see the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: and Cleveland Indian set a record when they used forty
Speaker 1: one players in one game in nineteen fifty three. Let's
Speaker 1: see your guy, Hank Aaron nineteen seventy and the ninth
Speaker 1: player to get three thousand hits. He's probably underrated, don't
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, because he gets too much focus on
Speaker 1: his home run records. He was also a great player overall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the bat three hundred for your career and hit seven
Speaker 1: hundred home runs have three thousand hints? Did he never
Speaker 1: hit fifty in a season? Is that correct? Home runs? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Didn't think you had forty seven? Maybe forty eight. Nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight, David Wells and the Yankees became the thirteenth
Speaker 1: player in modern baseball to throw a perfect game. Didn't
Speaker 1: he say he was hungover? I think? But was he
Speaker 1: always hung over and he just threw a perfect game? Yeah? See,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, he I remember that night he
Speaker 1: threw the perfect game and it was awesome, and then
Speaker 1: he stayed up all night and ended up on Howard
Speaker 1: Stern the next morning after being up for the entire night. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he was in studio with him and it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't hungover when he pitched. He was hung
Speaker 1: over the next day after pitch. It's possible both. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can be called for David Wells to see if
Speaker 1: he's hung over anything else, PAULI, that's it. It was
Speaker 1: two years ago. In this day, Michael Jordan's autographed air
Speaker 1: Nike ones from nineteen eighty five sold four five hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars. That feels low for Mike shoes
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty five. Although I don't know the entire
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five season, how many pairs I didn't. I
Speaker 1: never knew how many pairs you would wear in the
Speaker 1: course of a season with some of these players. But
Speaker 1: you know, do you have a new pair of shoes
Speaker 1: every game? I mean, I wouldn't want to play in
Speaker 1: a new pair of shoes every game. Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: Lebron when he gives away his shoes, he keeps the inserts,
Speaker 1: like the molded inserts at the bottom. He always grabs
Speaker 1: those out and gives them shoes to the kids. That's
Speaker 1: more important. I still remember, and I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: done a story on this. The Yeah. See well I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say, well, speaking of inserts, when we
Speaker 1: were in Miami for the Super Bowl and we went
Speaker 1: to go to the heat talk about the heat, Yeah,
Speaker 1: their team of doctor was like, Hey, make sure I'm
Speaker 1: big on inserts for your shoes, your insults and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and gave us like a big bag of them,
Speaker 1: and it was like here, everybody, he's got their own
Speaker 1: custom ones. This is really important for your feet. And
Speaker 1: then we all started dunking like it was like that.
Speaker 1: It was like amazing. I remember after every championship that
Speaker 1: Jordan won, the PR director for the Bulls always asked
Speaker 1: Michael for his shoes. I don't know what those are worth,
Speaker 1: but those are game worn in the I remember when
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to interview Jordan after he hit
Speaker 1: the shot to beat the Utah Jazz. The PR director
Speaker 1: came in as Michael was getting coming into our Sports
Speaker 1: Center set and he said, he grabbed the shoes from Michael.
Speaker 1: I don't know what those things are worth. Yes, time,
Speaker 1: Tim Hallam shout out to the time. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was always very helpful and he helped himself to Michael's shoes. Yes,
Speaker 1: there was an equipment manager from the Bulls who, yeah,
Speaker 1: who would grab his shoes and hold him either from
Speaker 1: Michael or for the PR guy. But for every game
Speaker 1: that was his responsibilitycause they were going to somebody. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember. I think Mike's signed him, but I just
Speaker 1: remember that exchange right as were he's coming into our
Speaker 1: Sports Center studio in Salt Lake. I don't know what
Speaker 1: those are worth. Happy birthday to Jim Nance today. Hello friends,
Speaker 1: he's sixty three. Sugar. Ray Leonard is sixty six and
Speaker 1: Fritzie's wife Jennifer, happy birthday to chen of a certain age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a big Kings fan. He's a big, big, big
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Speaker 1: learn today you're a significant other? May be less than satisfied,
Speaker 1: but forty seven seconds at least in hockey circles a
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