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Speaker 2: all of that forthcoming basketball coming up tonight. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying it will be, but it could be Lebron's last
Speaker 2: game as a Laker. Thunder are ten and a half
Speaker 2: point favorites against the Lakers. You have the Pistons and
Speaker 2: the Cavaliers. I've got the Pistons getting three and a
Speaker 2: half against Cleveland. By the way, on Tuesday, the Timberwolves
Speaker 2: are nine and a half point underdogs against the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Which is where I'll start.
Speaker 2: Because Victor wembin Yama was tossed last night in the
Speaker 2: second quarter of flagrant two. And let me give you
Speaker 2: the rule book here. A flagrant one is unnecessary contact.
Speaker 2: A flagrant two unnecessary contact and excessive contact. Therefore that
Speaker 2: can result in an ejection and possible suspension. I think
Speaker 2: because we like Wemby, we want to see Wemby, we
Speaker 2: don't think the NBA will suspend him. Go back to
Speaker 2: PTSD post traumatic Stern Disorder when David Stern was the commissioner,
Speaker 2: because if I brought this up to him and I said,
Speaker 2: if Victor webmbin Yama got suspended, and I would have
Speaker 2: the audacity to question the commissioner as I once did,
Speaker 2: you can't suspend him. He already got suspended, really got
Speaker 2: kicked out of a game in the second quarter, and
Speaker 2: then he would probably use the word plaver and then
Speaker 2: he would scold me with this, Commissioner, Adam Silver, do
Speaker 2: I think Now here's the one thing that's tricky with this.
Speaker 3: And look, I don't agree with what Wemby did.
Speaker 2: I know that he's getting jostled, he's getting hit in
Speaker 2: the face, he's getting pushed.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that go on.
Speaker 2: This is the way that you are going to combat
Speaker 2: Victor wembin Yama. His skill and his size. They are
Speaker 2: going to rough him up. We talked about this when
Speaker 2: the series started. They're going to be physical with him.
Speaker 2: He's got to be careful. He's got to be he's
Speaker 2: got to make sure he's not the one who's going
Speaker 2: to be the enforcer. That's where you have a guy
Speaker 2: come off the bench and say, all right, why don't
Speaker 2: you smack Anthony Edwards here? I mean, this is what
Speaker 2: happens in baseball. You kind of police yourself here. You
Speaker 2: can't be throwing elbows.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: And I disagree with the coaching staff with the Spurs. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's physical, it's playoff basketball. But there's a better way
Speaker 2: to do this than me losing Wemby for an entire
Speaker 2: game that you probably should have won. But I think
Speaker 2: that's going to be as we move forward. How do
Speaker 2: san Antonio protect Wemby. How do they let Minnesota know
Speaker 2: you're not going to get away with that again. But
Speaker 2: watching that last night, it's above and beyond and it's excessive,
Speaker 2: And I wouldn't rule out a suspension. Man, I've been
Speaker 2: around the NBA for over fifty years. I wouldn't rule
Speaker 2: out that they would suspend him.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If it's the regular season, he would probably be suspended.
Speaker 2: If this would have been a fourth quarter flagrant two,
Speaker 2: then he'd probably be out for this next game. But
Speaker 2: watching that last night, you watch it in slow motion,
Speaker 2: it doesn't help now, not that the officials get to
Speaker 2: look at that, but the commissioner does. And that's where
Speaker 2: you look at it and you go, it's beyond excessive,
Speaker 2: like he was hoping to connect with somebody. I get
Speaker 2: the frustration level, but you're the best player on the floor.
Speaker 2: You can't be thrown out of a game because you
Speaker 2: want to let everybody know you're not going to take this.
Speaker 2: Do we have the coach of the Spurs, Mitch Johnson, here,
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 4: It's getting to a point that it's if the people
Speaker 4: that are in charge of controlling the game and protecting
Speaker 4: the physicality of the game don't do that, then at
Speaker 4: some point he's going to have to protect himself. We've
Speaker 4: been asking him to do that now for a while.
Speaker 4: I'm glad he took matters in news old hands again,
Speaker 4: not in terms of hitting nasried Ville. I mean, be
Speaker 4: very clear about that. I'm glad Nasri was okay, and
Speaker 4: I didn't want him to elbow him, But he's going
Speaker 4: to have to protect himself if they're not.
Speaker 5: And I think it's.
Speaker 2: Disgusting that's a playoff voice there with the coach of
Speaker 2: the Spurs.
Speaker 6: You can't do it. You can't.
Speaker 3: Now, I know he.
Speaker 2: Wants to side with Wemby, wants to, you know, let
Speaker 2: him know that he has his back as a coach.
Speaker 2: You got to make sure that you keep your cool
Speaker 2: with this. You don't like it happening. You just don't
Speaker 2: want to lose him because Minnesota benefits greatly because of that.
Speaker 2: This is why when Wayne Gretzky was doing you know
Speaker 2: what Wayne Gretzky did Edmonton, all the other teams he
Speaker 2: played for always had an enforcer. If you're going to
Speaker 2: bang up Gretzky, Dave Simenko, is Marty McSorley is going
Speaker 2: to come in and pound your face. Now, you can't
Speaker 2: do that in basketball. But I would bring in Kelly
Speaker 2: Olennok and say, Kelly, why don't you rough up Anthony
Speaker 2: Edwards Accidentally? I can't lose Wemby and I do want
Speaker 2: to have his back, and I know it's frustrating. And
Speaker 2: there was a play in a previous game where he
Speaker 2: got pushed from behind. It's going to happen. Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: didn't get up and fight people. When the Pistons game
Speaker 2: plan was to knock Mike to the ground, the best
Speaker 2: player in the game. They roughed him up, but Mike
Speaker 2: didn't get up and say I'm going to fight Bill
Speaker 2: lame Beer.
Speaker 3: Now he probably wanted to.
Speaker 2: But that's where you have players who will do that
Speaker 2: for you, great players. That's when you know a great player.
Speaker 2: Somebody throws at your head. You know you've hit two
Speaker 2: home runs. I'm going to throw inside. I'm going to
Speaker 2: hit you. I don't like it, but this is what happens.
Speaker 2: And then that's when your pitcher does that to their
Speaker 2: star player. You police each other. And I hated to
Speaker 2: see Wemby getting tossed from that game, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Now he'll probably be fined then, therefore they'll keep him
Speaker 2: from being suspended one more game.
Speaker 3: And it's a second.
Speaker 2: Quarter violation, and I think if that was in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter now we'd have a real, real discussion here.
Speaker 2: But you're the Spurs, you're favored. Don't screw this up.
Speaker 2: You're better than Minnesota.
Speaker 5: Yes, Marvin, the rest looked at that replay a little
Speaker 5: bit longer than they normally would have. It feels a
Speaker 5: regular season game. That would have been a quick flagrant two.
Speaker 5: They did not want to eject him from the game yesterday.
Speaker 2: No, and you don't want to, but you have to
Speaker 2: in that situation. It was so excessive. You have to
Speaker 2: do it. You want to see stars be stars, But
Speaker 2: I can't have you out there after one of their
Speaker 2: players saw stars because you hit.
Speaker 3: Him in the jaw. You see what I did with that?
Speaker 3: Thank you? We got hit all stars, Yeah, stars, thank you. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7: I watched it about a dozen times and as Wemby
Speaker 7: as getting bounced around and the ball is in play,
Speaker 7: one of the players that Timberwolves kind of reaches around
Speaker 7: and hits him in the eye. Not too hard, but
Speaker 7: he hit him, and he clearly gets in his head
Speaker 7: and he loads up and swings, and that's the thing.
Speaker 7: He could have easily not done it. When you see it,
Speaker 7: it's hard not to call, very hard not to call him.
Speaker 2: Give credit to Anthony Edwards sixteen of his thirty six
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, but Minnesota was down eight points.
Speaker 2: They come back to win that game. Then you have
Speaker 2: the Knicks with the seventy six ers New York making
Speaker 2: eighteen first half three pointers. That ties the record for
Speaker 2: most first half three pointers in an NBA game, regular
Speaker 2: season or playoffs. Last time it happened the Cavaliers in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. The Knicks are doing everything right now. You
Speaker 2: got rest for Og Andnobi if you're going to need
Speaker 2: that runs in playing at a high level. If anything,
Speaker 2: you don't want to have two much rest here. But
Speaker 2: you were too good against Philadelphia, and the story will
Speaker 2: be about Philadelphia because we tend to put a period
Speaker 2: at the end of their paragraph this season. And now
Speaker 2: you look ahead to what do you have here? You
Speaker 2: got Joe Ellenbiid. Normally that's where you go, okay, great,
Speaker 2: we got him locked up for three more.
Speaker 3: Years at one hundred and eighty million dollars. You ever take.
Speaker 2: I like the back court, but I don't know, like
Speaker 2: it's weird to say it, but they're two different teams
Speaker 2: when Embiid is on the floor and when he's not,
Speaker 2: and Inbeid put up good numbers. It's just I can't
Speaker 2: count on him. I can't build around him. Am I
Speaker 2: going to trade him? We always do this where we go, oh,
Speaker 2: you know that team will just trade him. Well, then
Speaker 2: you have to always look at the other side and go,
Speaker 2: why would you trade for him? If he's not playing
Speaker 2: for them, he's probably not playing for you. So let
Speaker 2: me get this straight, expensive and injury prone. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: take him. Uh and you know, use correctly. Maybe you know,
Speaker 2: maybe you can get him for pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a like a golden state with Steve Kerr
Speaker 2: coming back two more years.
Speaker 3: Maybe you could.
Speaker 2: Get where you don't rely on him and get that contribution.
Speaker 2: But if you're Philly moving forward, they had a good year,
Speaker 2: surprising year, like Paul George, I can't count on him
Speaker 2: to be better next year. I can't count on him
Speaker 2: b to be better, Maxi and Edgecombe. I can count
Speaker 2: on that. Kelly Ubra played pretty well. Yeah, Paul, you.
Speaker 7: Got two more years of Paul George at one hundred
Speaker 7: and ten million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, yes, Marvin, you.
Speaker 5: Seem so stressed out about the seventy six ers. But
Speaker 5: do you think this was a successful season, Because if
Speaker 5: I tell the naked eye, if you just look at
Speaker 5: that team with the naked eye, like, hey, I have
Speaker 5: Paul George, I have Tyrese Maxi, I have Joel Embiid,
Speaker 5: a second round suite by the Knicks. It's not a
Speaker 5: successful season.
Speaker 2: I don't think people thought that the Sixers would be
Speaker 2: this good at the end of the season, or at
Speaker 2: least even get here, because we didn't know about Paul
Speaker 2: George and we didn't know about Himbiid, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think their odds at the.
Speaker 2: Beginning of the year were twelve to one to win
Speaker 2: it all, So maybe there were heightened expectations more than
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, smart, it should be. You see how much they're
Speaker 5: getting paid.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, but that doesn't there's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys who get paid who aren't good they're not healthy.
Speaker 2: It's not about your paycheck. It's Joel Eendiid and Paul
Speaker 2: George should be good when they're healthy. You know when
Speaker 2: that when you start your sentence with, you know, the sixers,
Speaker 2: when they're healthy.
Speaker 3: Okay, stop stop, I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 8: Yes, Dylan, I don't think anyone even had them beating
Speaker 8: the Celtics, including the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well that was another thing with the tickets.
Speaker 2: You know, Philly fans are going to get slammed because
Speaker 2: they probably sold their tickets yesterday. If I'm a Philly fan,
Speaker 2: I sell my tickets like Game four. The reason why
Speaker 2: they were selling their tickets is they didn't think they
Speaker 2: were going to win this series.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just a business move. Why is it.
Speaker 2: Teams can have business moves, but a fan can't have
Speaker 2: a business move.
Speaker 3: Hey, I got a two hundred dollars ticket. You want
Speaker 3: to give me two grand? Uh? Sure, I'll go to
Speaker 3: a pub and watch. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5: And if you're a Knicks fan, it's cheaper to take
Speaker 5: the train park, go to the game in Philadelphia, get
Speaker 5: a hotel room rather than it is just taking a
Speaker 5: subway and go into the Garden. Those prices are out
Speaker 5: of control at Madison Square Garden. So why not take
Speaker 5: a quick train ride or a quick ride to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Here is Josh Hart, the Knixt Guard, on taking over Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: You were you need a little surprised at how how
Speaker 3: many of the fans.
Speaker 8: Are non because everybody was bigging for that for Philly
Speaker 8: Andasta tickets and does so.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: I used to think Philly was a sports town.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it is anymore.
Speaker 2: Man and Josh Hart went to Villanova a little shot there.
Speaker 2: City of Philadelphia, Flyers get swept, Phillies fire their manager,
Speaker 2: seventy six ers. He got the Eagles, though you always
Speaker 2: got the Eagles. Okay, all right, Dylan, which poll question?
Speaker 2: First down with the program?
Speaker 8: All right, Dan, we got a couple Wembin Yama should
Speaker 8: be suspended for Game five or all good? He got
Speaker 8: his punishment.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 8: Do you have a problem with him being injected yesterday?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 6: No, he needed to be ejected.
Speaker 8: That's gotten dry.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: Look, just because they did something doesn't mean you get
Speaker 2: to do something.
Speaker 3: And he did.
Speaker 2: Load up the elbow. He had intent. I gotta throw him.
Speaker 2: I think now it's are you gonna find him and
Speaker 2: or suspend him. I think he paid the punishment being
Speaker 2: suspended for most of a playoff game, and I wouldn't
Speaker 2: suspend him another. But they might find him. Yes, Todd,
Speaker 2: I was less.
Speaker 10: Surprised he got ejecting, more surprised than he had to be.
Speaker 10: Explained what that means. A flagrant foul too, though he
Speaker 10: didn't know that.
Speaker 5: That means he's done for the night. I found out
Speaker 5: to be very wild.
Speaker 3: What else do you have, dyl Um?
Speaker 8: We could talk a little draft lottery.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna wait, wait, yeah, I'm gonna wait and
Speaker 2: talk about that because.
Speaker 3: Tanking one.
Speaker 2: Those who tank won paid off and probably the last
Speaker 2: year that you're going to be able to truly tank.
Speaker 2: Utah was blatant, blatant. The Wizards finally won something felt
Speaker 2: bad for A. J. Debonza because he didn't look like
Speaker 2: he won the lottery yesterday. It's like, Hey, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna go to Utah where you played your college ball
Speaker 2: with b Yu.
Speaker 3: You're you're gonna be a Wizard.
Speaker 2: Huh Yep, you're gonna play with him with That's where
Speaker 2: you start going.
Speaker 6: Who do they got on their team? You know where am.
Speaker 3: I going to Washington. Okay, who did they get Anthony?
Speaker 3: He didn't play Trey Young?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Who else do they have?
Speaker 3: Don't? Did I have the guy who got punched by
Speaker 3: Draymond Green? Do they have him?
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Speaker 2: Basketball coming up tonight, Pistons three and a half point
Speaker 2: underdogs against the Cavaliers, and the thunder are ten and
Speaker 2: a half point favorites against the Lakers. Looking at this
Speaker 2: number for Tuesday night, this according to DraftKings, it feels
Speaker 2: like the NBA won't be suspending Victor wembin Yama. The
Speaker 2: Timberwolfsir nine and a half point underdogs against the Spurs.
Speaker 2: I watched the lottery yesterday. I wouldn't have watched the
Speaker 2: lottery if PAULI didn't let me know. The lottery was
Speaker 2: on three o'clock and I went, that's interesting, interesting time.
Speaker 2: But I'm watching, and all of a sudden I felt
Speaker 2: bad for aj debansa made six million dollars this year
Speaker 2: at BYU reportedly, and now he's going to the Wizards.
Speaker 2: It's one of those where you say see you later,
Speaker 2: probably won't see in a while.
Speaker 6: It's a real reaction.
Speaker 2: Yes, I actually felt sorry for the kid because I
Speaker 2: think it was kind of stunned. But imagine that in life.
Speaker 2: If there was a lottery and we were all waiting
Speaker 2: to see where we were going to live, where, who
Speaker 2: we were going to play for, who else is going
Speaker 2: to be there? It's not the location it's the franchise
Speaker 2: the Wizards. Now, I go back to when they were
Speaker 2: the Bullets, and they were a great organization back then,
Speaker 2: won an NBA championship, wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Phil shiney
Speaker 2: Or had a lot of great players. It's been a
Speaker 2: while since we've been able to say that.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: The Pacers had the second worst record this season nineteen
Speaker 2: and sixty three. They traded a top four protected pick
Speaker 2: for a Vika Subach. He's with the Clippers, and then
Speaker 2: they just so happened to fall out of the top four,
Speaker 2: so the pick isn't protected and it goes to the Clippers.
Speaker 2: So they get Zubac from the Clippers. They gave up
Speaker 2: two players, two first round picks, and a second round pick.
Speaker 2: Now here's the problem that I have with this. The
Speaker 2: Clippers were thirteen and thirty eight when they made the trade. Like,
Speaker 2: what do you you think you're.
Speaker 3: Going on a run?
Speaker 2: You don't have Haliburton the entire season. That's the biggest
Speaker 2: problem I have with this. You got thirteen wins, your
Speaker 2: best players not playing, and you're gonna He's a nice player,
Speaker 2: but I don't need him now. He's probably would have
Speaker 2: been available after the season. This everybody knew was a
Speaker 2: great draft. And you know what this is where you
Speaker 2: just say, hey, we're not tanking, We're just not going
Speaker 2: to be a competitive team this year. And you know what,
Speaker 2: you take the hit, you get a top five pick,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you turn, you know, turn
Speaker 2: things around next year.
Speaker 3: This is a great, great day for the Clippers.
Speaker 5: But two first.
Speaker 2: Round picks, a second round pick, a couple of players,
Speaker 2: and I went, oh my god. And Kevin Pritchard apologized
Speaker 2: to the fan base. Thank he's the president of Basketball
Speaker 2: Operations or the GM. But you don't get that too
Speaker 2: often where he said, hey, you know what we tried
Speaker 2: didn't work out. And then when you talk about that
Speaker 2: you need a little bit of luck. I don't want
Speaker 2: my team relying on luck.
Speaker 3: I like skill.
Speaker 2: You know, call me old fashioned, but I like skill
Speaker 2: not I don't know. I hope we get lucky. I
Speaker 2: mean I said that in high school. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: And turns out I did as well as the Pacers did.
Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan, what about.
Speaker 8: It's better to be lucky than good, well or neither.
Speaker 8: In this case, I want to be good.
Speaker 2: Your luck runs out, As they say, but with the
Speaker 2: Pacers and you're going you got thirteen wins and now
Speaker 2: you're going to.
Speaker 6: Make this deal.
Speaker 3: You weren't going to be competitive. What do I know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I do think this is the last year
Speaker 2: of truly tanking. And look, Memphis tanked, Utah blatantly tanked,
Speaker 2: Wizards tanked. They all benefited from this. What if you
Speaker 2: just said, whenever you're eliminated from the postseason, then you
Speaker 2: go into the lottery. Everybody gets the same odds. All
Speaker 2: the teams that don't make the playoffs get the same chances.
Speaker 2: You get one chance to go first, second, third, on down. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know if the commissioner would go for that,
Speaker 2: Probably not, But that way you take out tanking because
Speaker 2: it's like, all right, you're bad, and maybe you start
Speaker 2: to develop players while you're getting ready for next season
Speaker 2: and you're going to be in the lottery.
Speaker 3: Yes, hun, it could help.
Speaker 10: With the tanking issue. But then there's always that team
Speaker 10: or two that they're just naturally terrible, and you can
Speaker 10: blame the GM or the front office, but that's those
Speaker 10: teams that need to be built up somehow a little bit.
Speaker 10: They're obviously gonna suffer because they weren't tanking. They're just
Speaker 10: naturally awful.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then you get better, I mean, or you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be in the job. Like I can't sit here
Speaker 2: and go, well you're bad again. Here you go, Well
Speaker 2: you're bad again, Here you go. I mean, Utah was
Speaker 2: sitting Jaron Jackson Junior the third and Laurie Markinen in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and Marketen is a really good player,
Speaker 2: like they were doing it. They got fined five hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars by the NBA. Now it's not the fine,
Speaker 2: it's the embarrassment of you guys are tanking right in
Speaker 2: front of us. I mean, this is manipulating a game
Speaker 2: when you think about it. I'm not saying they're throwing
Speaker 2: a game, but it's in the ballpark of this because
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna sit my two best players in
Speaker 2: a game that week and win. I mean, imagine in
Speaker 2: in any sport where you go, you know what, why
Speaker 2: are you sitting here? Why is Patrick Mahomes sitting in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter? You know, we just got to protect him.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: That's where I'd come down really hard on Utah. I mean,
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars is nothing. But there might be
Speaker 2: like a ceiling of how much you can find a
Speaker 2: team for sitting players.
Speaker 6: Yes, Pauli, it's not throwing a game. That word doesn't
Speaker 6: work here.
Speaker 7: But it's not like Lori Markenen had an ankle spring
Speaker 7: that was light and they said he's out for the
Speaker 7: next month, and that's organizational tanking. This was a game
Speaker 7: where they had a small lead going into the fourth
Speaker 7: quarter and the coaching staff or management or both said
Speaker 7: we're going to do our best to not win this game.
Speaker 7: How's that much different.
Speaker 2: I know I don't like it, but that's I mean,
Speaker 2: the NBA has got a couple of problems. Load management
Speaker 2: is one, tanking is one, and those are really really important,
Speaker 2: certainly the load management, but tanking and look, teams have
Speaker 2: done this throughout history, but they weren't latant. I mean
Speaker 2: the Cavs tanked for Lebron. Somebody was on the coaching
Speaker 2: staff said hey, look we had you know, instructions.
Speaker 3: Here, and mission accomplished. They got Lebron.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you can figure out a
Speaker 2: way to try to mitigate, you know, the damage of
Speaker 2: you've mailed it in, unless you say, you know, when
Speaker 2: the seventy six ers had the process. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you guys have an idea that you're not going to
Speaker 2: be good for a few years. Let the fan base
Speaker 2: know and you meet them halfway. How about we charge
Speaker 2: you in accordance to how well we play. How about
Speaker 2: that a novel approach. Here, we play great, tickets are
Speaker 2: going to be more expensive. We don't play great.
Speaker 3: Come on in. We still want you to come out
Speaker 3: and see our players.
Speaker 8: Yes, doing I mean tanking like by definition, is throwing
Speaker 8: the game. You're trying not to win the game. When, however,
Speaker 8: you managed to do that even if, like like PAULI said,
Speaker 8: you have a small lead and then you start sitting
Speaker 8: guys like, if if anyone in the organization was caught
Speaker 8: having money on the game, that you go to prison
Speaker 8: because they'd be like, you fix this game for doing
Speaker 8: that exact same thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, we I don't like to use fixing
Speaker 2: a game, but you kind of are fixing the opportunity
Speaker 2: for the other team to win the game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Do you're intentionally trying to generate an unfavorable result
Speaker 8: that you have control over? Yeah, Like, I mean, obviously
Speaker 8: it's not apples to apples but they are very much
Speaker 8: in the same.
Speaker 3: Their living room. Yeah, they're in the same fruit salad exactly.
Speaker 8: They're the honeydew melon of the fruit salad.
Speaker 2: We'll get phone calls best and worst of the weekend?
Speaker 2: What you saw that you liked, you didn't like? Eight
Speaker 2: seven to seven three DP show Lucas and Texas. I Luke,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind? Hey day, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to hit with a quick best and worst
Speaker 2: of the weekend.
Speaker 6: A best.
Speaker 12: It wasn't all just the men's basketball. The WNBA kicked
Speaker 12: off and I watched probably the highest percentage of an
Speaker 12: entire WNBA game that I have at least a couple
Speaker 12: of years. It was the Fever and the Wings, and
Speaker 12: it was just a great game, back and forth. There's
Speaker 12: a ton of playmakers on both teams that came down
Speaker 12: to a final shot that just barely missed out on
Speaker 12: the Fever's chance. So just a great experience. I had
Speaker 12: a couple of family members that never watched a WNBA
Speaker 12: that were kind of like, oh, wow, they're really good.
Speaker 12: It was just a lot of fun. I think it
Speaker 12: could be a good year on the WNVA side. My
Speaker 12: worst and I hate to tell this to Fritzy. I
Speaker 12: think we need to actually just admit that our astros
Speaker 12: are actually bad this year. That pitching staff is awful.
Speaker 12: They're wasting a good offense. So it's just never fun
Speaker 12: early on in a season realizing that your team might
Speaker 12: be one of the real stinkers of the season. So
Speaker 12: definitely a worst but it'll all balance out.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you, Lucas. They're not Todds astros. Tod's astros
Speaker 2: are from the eighties.
Speaker 8: That is a fact.
Speaker 9: That is fair.
Speaker 3: You would be a faux fan.
Speaker 10: I like the old uniforms with the rainbow stripes, and
Speaker 10: I like the Saysosidango's, Ninos Cabell's and Bob.
Speaker 3: Watson, Zach and Knoxville.
Speaker 6: Hi, Zach.
Speaker 9: Adip, thanks for taking my call. Best of the weekend
Speaker 9: was Anthony Edwards. I know he's not considered the best
Speaker 9: player in the game, but to me, the most exciting
Speaker 9: to watch and worst of the weekend. I'm glad he
Speaker 9: was a happy and healthy baby. But Lamello Ball naming
Speaker 9: his son La one Ball. That nickname's already taken. That's
Speaker 9: what the French called Lance Armstrong.
Speaker 2: As my mom would say to all of her children.
Speaker 2: When we had children, you have them, you name them.
Speaker 2: She never questioned any name. Now we didn't have any
Speaker 2: crazy names, but you know, there there should be somebody
Speaker 2: when you put in the paperwork for a name. There
Speaker 2: should be like a judge, Judy and I'm Budsman there
Speaker 2: to say, let's let's talk this one out a little
Speaker 2: bit here. Yes, Marvin, we.
Speaker 5: Gotta start canter about our future. We got to care
Speaker 5: about our kids.
Speaker 3: It's all about the kids. The one ball, one ball, No.
Speaker 5: One said that, no one. When my wife was pregnant,
Speaker 5: we literally said the full name, just all right, this
Speaker 5: sounds good. Yeah, Hey, the one LeVar ball No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one ball yeah, yes, yes, Dylan.
Speaker 8: At that point, is it kind of on the responsibility
Speaker 8: of the doctor to be like, guys, it's your kid,
Speaker 8: but the doctor's not there.
Speaker 3: Who's someone asked to be who's there? The nurses there?
Speaker 2: The nurse then, yeah, the doctor's gone, he's got other
Speaker 2: things to do. He's not going, Hey, let's just sit
Speaker 2: around and think up name.
Speaker 13: I haven't given birth yet before, Dan, Yes, DoD I
Speaker 13: don't understand like coming up with a unique or odd
Speaker 13: name where you could even have your kid get picked
Speaker 13: on or you spell it in a strange way.
Speaker 10: Does that somebody you're hoping your kid in the future
Speaker 10: is going to become this creative, special, unique person because
Speaker 10: they have a unique, odd name.
Speaker 5: Like, what is the motivation for doing that?
Speaker 6: Is my question?
Speaker 5: What do you think it is?
Speaker 6: I have no idea.
Speaker 10: It has to be that, right, If I come up
Speaker 10: with a unique, weird name, he's going to be a unique,
Speaker 10: special kid an adult because he's so different than everybody
Speaker 10: with his weird, cool name.
Speaker 3: I mean, say a lo to Hollywood.
Speaker 2: It's like, if you're not naming your son or daughter
Speaker 2: something different than, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 8: Yes, Dylan, I mean I've always said Todd, no disrespect,
Speaker 8: but naming a baby Todd was always funny to me.
Speaker 9: Love it.
Speaker 5: It's grown on, man, I don't love it.
Speaker 3: Or Harry Harry, Harold, Yeah, George.
Speaker 8: There's not a lot of Harold's and George's getting named
Speaker 8: these days though.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: But it's you know, it'll come around.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like fashion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's all cyclical. But I remember when
Speaker 2: we were naming my son and we're gonna name after
Speaker 2: my dad, and its name is going to be Jack,
Speaker 2: and then my mother in law was not having it.
Speaker 2: She goes, that's not a baby's name. I'm not calling
Speaker 2: him that, and I said, well, then don't call him anything. And then,
Speaker 2: you know, my wife gets a phone call from you know,
Speaker 2: the hospital bed and she's like, you know, her mom's
Speaker 2: ranting about me, not you know, being nice to her
Speaker 2: about the name we gave my son.
Speaker 3: She's like, put Dan on the.
Speaker 2: Phone and I'm She goes, I can't deal with this now, Okay.
Speaker 2: I said, all right, okay, don't worry about it. He'll
Speaker 2: grow into a grown up's name. Yes, doing.
Speaker 8: I feel like Jack's pretty like that's pretty basic. I
Speaker 8: mean it's not like uh l one or anything like that. Also,
Speaker 8: Jack Patrick has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 3: Well Jackson.
Speaker 2: It's a strong name, but it's not crazy, No, not
Speaker 2: at all. And then my mother in law wanted to
Speaker 2: call him Johnny, like John Johnny. I go, no, no,
Speaker 2: And then I go, well, then let's call him Saint Johnny.
Speaker 2: And then she was like, why would you do that?
Speaker 2: I said, never mind, it's a sports name, calling Mullen. Yes,
Speaker 2: then you know I love this topic off the ball name.
Speaker 2: Solomon Ball is the point guard for Yukon basketball, he
Speaker 2: goes by solo ball.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I would definitely stick with Solomon in that situation. That's
Speaker 7: an easy fix, all right. Another topic you mentioned having
Speaker 7: an ombudsman at the UH at the place so when
Speaker 7: no one leaves, no hospital, Yeah, the hospital. I grew
Speaker 7: up with a girl named April Showers. Great girl friend
Speaker 7: of mine, but they named her April Showers and that's
Speaker 7: a tough one growing up.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And lastly, most popular boy's name and girl's name in America.
Speaker 7: I had the list for twenty twenty five. You want
Speaker 7: to take a sh shot it.
Speaker 2: I think you should wait. Okay, because I got the
Speaker 2: play of the day. More phone calls and we'll get
Speaker 2: to that right after this.
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Speaker 2: New York Nick when the Knicks are good. Marvin was
Speaker 2: saying this to me. He goes who was more famous,
Speaker 2: John Starks or Mitch Richmond. I said, not even close.
Speaker 2: John Starks. Now Mitch is a better player, but John
Speaker 2: Starks plan for the Knicks. Knicks were playoff team. It's
Speaker 2: like when you're with the Cowboys, you're famous. Other players
Speaker 2: are great, but you're famous. Duke basketball, you're famous yes, Marv.
Speaker 5: Like Notre Dame is in that same category. Great player,
Speaker 5: Notre Dame really famous.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Paul, if you most wanted to not be famous,
Speaker 7: which is an all gread line, what NBA team would
Speaker 7: you play for if you most wanted to hide out?
Speaker 3: Uh, Sacramento would be up there.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for Sacramento.
Speaker 2: I do watch their games.
Speaker 3: I do. I somebody has to and I do watch though.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's why I feel like Chris Weber's underrated, only
Speaker 5: because he made Sacramento relevant and they were on national
Speaker 5: TV weekend and week out.
Speaker 3: Bad team was really good though.
Speaker 5: Oh I know, but it started with the Chris Webber trade. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Matrician and it's like man Sacramento and he turned them
Speaker 5: into a contender.
Speaker 8: Yes, dying, Yeah, it's funny. A few years ago. Okay,
Speaker 8: see would have been a great place to hide out
Speaker 8: for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, it might still be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Chad Holmgren as a commercial with SGA.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If they're getting too many national ones they win another title,
Speaker 2: then maybe I don't like when we try to force
Speaker 2: somebody into being popular or because there are times when
Speaker 2: I'll see a commercial and I'll go, I don't know
Speaker 2: who that is, but they must be a social media influencer.
Speaker 2: And then I'll ask my daughters, like, who is that?
Speaker 2: And then they'll go, you don't know, you know whoever?
Speaker 2: I'll go, No, I don't, but I'll find out, all right. Paulie,
Speaker 2: before the commercial break, said most popular baby names in
Speaker 2: the United States twenty twenty five. LaMelo Ball and his
Speaker 2: partner had a child who named him.
Speaker 3: One ball.
Speaker 6: They did do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, Yeah, low one ball.
Speaker 2: Don't you have to do LA two ball or you know,
Speaker 2: maybe a three point specialist, like a LA three in
Speaker 2: the side pocket?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Todd lay eight ball?
Speaker 6: Careful?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, have a couple of meetings there, all right.
Speaker 2: The most popular boy's name.
Speaker 7: We're gonna start with girls. Oh, girls first, Okay, all right,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna give you a hint. Okay, the number one
Speaker 7: name in America last year for a girl baby obviously
Speaker 7: four years in a row, Champion, this is the four
Speaker 7: straight year.
Speaker 6: Okay, would like a shot.
Speaker 3: Marvin's got his hand up already.
Speaker 5: Amelia.
Speaker 7: No, that's seventh day, Yes, Tod, check that. Amilia's fourth
Speaker 7: Todd Caitlin not on the list. Wow, Kendall not in
Speaker 7: the top ten.
Speaker 3: About what is in my household?
Speaker 6: Of course?
Speaker 8: Yes, del Ashley, but spelt like a dumb way like
Speaker 8: L E, I, G H or something like that.
Speaker 6: No, and no, not in the top ten. I'll give
Speaker 6: you some hints.
Speaker 7: Sophia Evelyn, Isabella, Mia, Sophia, Amelia, Emma, Charlotte and the
Speaker 7: number one is the last guests for.
Speaker 6: The fourth straight year. Olivia is number one.
Speaker 3: Olivia Tyler likes that name. Olivia.
Speaker 6: Oh jeez, you gotta give me a warning.
Speaker 2: Our former cleaning lady the name was Olivia Tyler called
Speaker 2: her live.
Speaker 3: That was his lib tour.
Speaker 9: Have to run right now?
Speaker 3: Oh you're gonna run me?
Speaker 6: You're a bro code violation?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, what's up? Ty boys? Names?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: Okay? Top ten. Here's a hint.
Speaker 7: A lot of these names almost seem European or British.
Speaker 3: Including the top one, Francis.
Speaker 7: I don't have Francis all right, Marvin Liam Liam is
Speaker 7: number one overall?
Speaker 3: Oh who would else?
Speaker 6: Who would like to go for two, three or four?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: Dylan Jalen Jalen not in the top Tenay, yes, Henry
Speaker 7: Henry is fifth. A couple of hints look at Lucas
Speaker 7: William Matteo making its debut on the Ace Spot, Elijah
Speaker 7: James Theodore, and then there's two more. Jack Jack is
Speaker 7: falling out of the top ten. Yeah for the first time, Damny.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dylan did.
Speaker 6: Not make it. Oliver is third, hast Eater and Noah
Speaker 6: is second.
Speaker 2: Noah Noah, Hey, thanks Ball, Uh Billy and Iowa, Hi Billy.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: Good morning Dan, Thanks for taking my call into the
Speaker 14: crew as well. I love watching you on Peacock. I
Speaker 14: have a best and the worst. I have a personal best,
Speaker 14: and then a quick question, Okay, best seeing the Timberwolves
Speaker 14: play and seeing that Illinois flavor that they have is
Speaker 14: really awesome. But they can continue that. The Sixers the worst?
Speaker 14: My gosh, I didn't expect them to win the series,
Speaker 14: but win a game. A personal best. Today is the
Speaker 14: thirtieth anniversary of me and my bride Jennifer to be married,
Speaker 14: so I love that, love her to death. And then
Speaker 14: I also sent a show the show an email on
Speaker 14: me for twentieth I hope you got a chance to
Speaker 14: read it. I went through a major medical thing and
Speaker 14: you guys were there to help me deal in the recovery.
Speaker 14: I'm kind of on the other side of it, but
Speaker 14: I'm doing taking care of a thing, and I just
Speaker 14: wanted to get my appreciation and thanks to the show.
Speaker 2: Well, happy anniversary, and thank you Billy, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 2: Michael and Nashville. Hey Mike, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Hey Dan how's it going.
Speaker 15: The other day, I was thinking, when the show ends,
Speaker 15: I thought it would be kind of a cool idea
Speaker 15: if you and the dan Ettz thought we could that
Speaker 15: y'all could host a really big party for everybody going
Speaker 15: away and like sell tickets to the event.
Speaker 14: It seems like everybody could all say kind of.
Speaker 15: Goodbye together, and I thought it'd be kind of cool
Speaker 15: to meet some of the regulars like James and Virginia,
Speaker 15: Gus and Lambuda.
Speaker 12: I was curious what you guys thought about that.
Speaker 2: Well, somebody came to me and said, what about a cruise?
Speaker 2: And we all got on a cruise, and then we
Speaker 2: invited people to get on a cruise. But given what's
Speaker 2: going on with cruises right now, probably not a good thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was broached with the possibility of hosting
Speaker 2: a cruise. I don't know where we're going, and I
Speaker 2: don't so but they were like, oh, yeah, you could
Speaker 2: have like five days and then you know, you could
Speaker 2: have a musical guests.
Speaker 3: Yes, Marvin, what.
Speaker 5: About one big live show in like a theater like
Speaker 5: a Q and A.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought the retirement is less.
Speaker 5: Work for me, I said before twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll get you. Don't take it under consideration
Speaker 2: probably means no.
Speaker 5: Do what you want to do.
Speaker 2: Todd is in the confessional coming up. If you're watching
Speaker 2: on Peacock one hour of the Books on this Monday,
Speaker 2: Best and Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 3: More phone calls coming up right after this