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Speaker 2: Let's bring in the commissioner, Adam Silver. Always good to
Speaker 2: see you again. Thank you for showing up being punctual
Speaker 2: as always. What did you think of the trade with
Speaker 2: Yannis last night?
Speaker 3: I was interesting.
Speaker 4: There have been discussions around Jannis getting moved for a
Speaker 4: while now. Yeah, obviously had a great run in Milwaukee,
Speaker 4: and you know, people had predicted under this new system
Speaker 4: with the second Apron, that we wouldn't have player movement.
Speaker 4: Certain amount of player movements good, you know, creates renewed
Speaker 4: energy and hope and markets. I think even in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: There was a sense there that it was time to rebuild.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of excitement around Giannis going to Miami.
Speaker 3: So at least for early reports are it's positive.
Speaker 2: How involved are you in the final process with that trade.
Speaker 3: Not at all.
Speaker 4: The only thing that happens from a league office standpoint
Speaker 4: is there's an official trade call where you have to
Speaker 4: match up rosters and caps for you know, CBA purposes
Speaker 4: there you know, physicals that get administered. But you know,
Speaker 4: I think people get confused sometimes as to whether we
Speaker 4: approve trades meeting we think it's a good trade, that
Speaker 4: that's not our role. It's only to make sure that
Speaker 4: the mechanics fit under the CBA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I always go back to Commissioner Stern with
Speaker 2: the Chris Paul trade that he betoed.
Speaker 3: Well, that issue always comes up.
Speaker 4: But you may remember at the time, David was in
Speaker 4: essence the acting owner of New Orleans and so I
Speaker 4: know there was enormous confusion around that, but he vetoed
Speaker 4: that trade that was brought to him by the THENGM
Speaker 4: as wearing the hat of the owner of the team.
Speaker 4: And it was why when we ran the Clippers, when
Speaker 4: I ran early on as commissioner having learned my lesson.
Speaker 4: There was a guy named Dick Parsons who was the
Speaker 4: interim governor, and I said, Dick, you're in charge of
Speaker 4: that team. Other than the league playing its role as
Speaker 4: it would with any trade, I have no say over
Speaker 4: what basketball decisions will be made for the organization.
Speaker 3: So lesson learned there.
Speaker 4: But again he David was in essence acting as owner
Speaker 4: of the team, not as commissioner.
Speaker 2: Where do we stand with the Clippers? Since you mentioned
Speaker 2: that with sort of off the court stuff with the
Speaker 2: owner and Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 4: Investigation is still ongoing. The law firm down the street
Speaker 4: from our office in New York walked Out is overseeing
Speaker 4: the investigation, and I know they're hoping to wrap it
Speaker 4: up this summer.
Speaker 2: But this I don't know if it affects oh, so
Speaker 2: it has to be later this summer. I didn't know
Speaker 2: if it would affect draft picks or anything going into
Speaker 2: this draft tonight.
Speaker 4: Certainly nothing affecting tonight, but beyond that, you know no
Speaker 4: decisions have been made.
Speaker 2: Help me understand the importance if I was going to
Speaker 2: look at a New York team winning a title in baseball, football, basketball.
Speaker 2: Where would you put the importance of New York winning
Speaker 2: that title in basketball over say the Giants or the Yankees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say really answering as a New Yorker that
Speaker 4: I think this championship was unique because of the fifty
Speaker 4: three year gap before they last won a championship. You know,
Speaker 4: I grew up a Yankee fan. The Yankees have had
Speaker 4: so much success in New York. It's a huge deal
Speaker 4: when they win a World Series. But I think again
Speaker 4: because so much pent up, you know, just fandom around
Speaker 4: this Nick team and desire to see a championship again. Also,
Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden, as you know, you know, located in
Speaker 4: you know, the heart of Manhattan. I always think of
Speaker 4: basketball as a city sport, so it seemed to take
Speaker 4: on this unique attention here. I will say again being
Speaker 4: in this market. I mean, over two million people took
Speaker 4: to the streets for the parade, and it just it
Speaker 4: felt like it brought people together like nothing else in
Speaker 4: recent history. It just there were viewing parties everywhere, walking
Speaker 4: to work, just being out on the streets in my neighborhood.
Speaker 4: You saw Nick merchandise virtually on everyone, all the store windows,
Speaker 4: et cetera. So you know, it's it was just amazing.
Speaker 4: I think this to see what this championship meant to
Speaker 4: New York right.
Speaker 2: Now, Your first NBA game was a Knicks game?
Speaker 4: Definitely yeah. As a kid, no, no question. My probably
Speaker 4: my my first, you know, thirty games. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, we didn't travel to NBA games.
Speaker 4: So I think I grew up to the extent I
Speaker 4: was able to go to games, it was exclusively going
Speaker 4: to Knicks games.
Speaker 2: You of course have to host the draft tonight. Can
Speaker 2: you look back now? Does everybody get together and help
Speaker 2: me understand when you're preparing for announcing these names, how
Speaker 2: does that work where you need to learn how to
Speaker 2: pronounce those who might be drafted?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, in terms of everyone getting together,
Speaker 4: actually right after this interview, across the street from a
Speaker 4: Rockefeller Center and there's a luncheon for all the lottery
Speaker 4: picks and their families and friends. Some of them bring
Speaker 4: their coaches, high school coaches. It's a really cool event
Speaker 4: and Andre Guidala, head of the Players Association, will speak
Speaker 4: to them. I will as well, but it's really an
Speaker 4: opportunity to welcome them to the NBA family and opportunity
Speaker 4: for the player Association talk to them a little bit
Speaker 4: about joining this unique attorney.
Speaker 3: I'm always amazed.
Speaker 4: I think we're up to about five thousand players in
Speaker 4: the history of.
Speaker 3: This league have been in the NBA.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's quite an amazingly small number considering the
Speaker 4: history of this league, and it's sort of a welcome
Speaker 4: So that happens today, just you know, an hour from now.
Speaker 4: In terms of pronunciations, we've sort of learned our lessons.
Speaker 4: So what we do now, for example, at the Chicago Combine,
Speaker 4: we actually we ask every player to to look into
Speaker 4: a camera and say his name the way he wants
Speaker 4: it said, because in some cases, what has become the
Speaker 4: pronunciation of the name in college or from wherever else
Speaker 4: isn't necessarily the way they want it said. Uh, you
Speaker 4: know AJ de Bonsea, for example, I was with him
Speaker 4: and his dad, and his father's name is a Nisse,
Speaker 4: and he AJ is a junior, and they both said
Speaker 4: to me, we want we want you to say whatever
Speaker 4: number he's picked to say on Niss de bon Set
Speaker 4: instead of AJ. I think he's still going to go
Speaker 4: by AJ. But you know, like that's that's an example.
Speaker 4: But you know we we also then they folks in
Speaker 4: the league office right out for me fanatically. I'm sure
Speaker 4: when you pronounce the names on air, it was the same,
Speaker 4: and they're the best I.
Speaker 2: Can Was there ever a name where you got tripped
Speaker 2: up or we're nervous about getting tripped up?
Speaker 4: I think Giannis is in the news. I remember practicing
Speaker 4: that one a few times. I think when you look
Speaker 4: at the spelling, you only got.
Speaker 3: That much more confused.
Speaker 4: You just have to say, you know, put it aside,
Speaker 4: so yes.
Speaker 2: Or when and Yama as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, then then we just go by wemby going forward.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that one too busier in the off season
Speaker 2: or during the season.
Speaker 4: Definitely during the season, just because there's things that come
Speaker 4: up every day, you know, with games every day every night,
Speaker 4: there's always something that that needs the league offices attention.
Speaker 4: But pretty busy offseason, I mean different addition, we also
Speaker 4: collectively oversee the WNBA with my WNBA colleague, so that
Speaker 4: keeps us pretty busy. But we are summer league coming
Speaker 4: up right around the corner. After the draft. We're looking
Speaker 4: at potential expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle. We're looking
Speaker 4: at potentially creating a League in Europe, so I'll do
Speaker 4: a fair amount of traveling in the off season as well,
Speaker 4: but I'll get some time in there as well, so
Speaker 4: it's a little bit more relaxed.
Speaker 2: We look in at twenty twenty eight, Seattle and Vegas
Speaker 2: still the leading candidates for expansion, and if so, Memphis
Speaker 2: or Minnesota going to the Eastern Conference does that sound fair?
Speaker 4: So if we expand at least we're thinking eight twenty
Speaker 4: nine season. The only two cities at the moment we're
Speaker 4: looking at our las Vegas and Seattle. We haven't had
Speaker 4: a vote on it, and it's not a foregone conclusion,
Speaker 4: but we're in the process of talking to groups that
Speaker 4: are interested in getting an expansion team in those two cities.
Speaker 4: And then yes, and then well, if we do add
Speaker 4: two teams, we'll want to likely even out the conferences,
Speaker 4: so there will be some movement then.
Speaker 2: But you're looking at two teams, not either Seattle or Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're currently looking at two teams.
Speaker 4: But what we've said is it's possible we won't expand
Speaker 4: at all, and we could expand to just one market,
Speaker 4: but we're officially looking at both those markets right now.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to the commissioner, Adam Silver NBA Draft coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. I think we've gone what eight years with
Speaker 2: a different champion. I think we've gone eight years with
Speaker 2: a non US born player winning MVP. Which trend would
Speaker 2: you like to continue as commissioner if you could pick
Speaker 2: between those two, you.
Speaker 3: Know, honestly, neither one.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's interesting that you've had so
Speaker 4: many international players as MVPs.
Speaker 3: I mean, we just talked about Giannis.
Speaker 4: And also it's interesting on draft night as a reminder,
Speaker 4: fifteenth pick in the draft, not the first pick, not
Speaker 4: a top five pick, but the fifteenth. So it shows
Speaker 4: how deep the town is in this and the majority
Speaker 4: of our players are still American.
Speaker 3: It's roughly seventy percent of the league are Americans.
Speaker 4: So you know, I think, if anything, that rash of
Speaker 4: international MVPs has got the attention of youth development in
Speaker 4: the US and the programs or whether that's just happenstance
Speaker 4: or there's a better job we all need to do collectively,
Speaker 4: No question, is enormous talent coming out of the US.
Speaker 4: This current draft is an example, and I think on
Speaker 4: the eight different champions in eight years, that wasn't our
Speaker 4: goal per se. The goal over time has been, you know,
Speaker 4: I've said it to be more NFL like where you
Speaker 4: believe your team has a shot. You know it maybe
Speaker 4: not every single season, but your view is regardless of
Speaker 4: the market size, if your team is well managed, if
Speaker 4: you have a little bit of luck in there, that
Speaker 4: you have a good chance to be in the playoffs
Speaker 4: and potentially be the champion. And so I think what
Speaker 4: we've seen is societal changes. I think that nobody's going
Speaker 4: to say that Victor Wembenyama in San Antonio can't get
Speaker 4: global attention because it's a smaller market. I think I
Speaker 4: love the fact this year, even San Antonio versus New York,
Speaker 4: I don't think the storyline was small market versus big market.
Speaker 4: It was you know, Wemby versus you know, Jaylen or
Speaker 4: whatever else. And so I think the players recognize they
Speaker 4: can have success regardless of where they are. And I
Speaker 4: also think that the changes we've made in the CBA,
Speaker 4: you know that we've it's still a soft cap system,
Speaker 4: but they're so called second apron. You know, we want
Speaker 4: a better distribution than the players, and we're seeing that.
Speaker 4: But having said that, my goal sitting here isn't to
Speaker 4: ensure we have yet a ninth different champion next year.
Speaker 4: I think if there's roughly parody of opportunity and through
Speaker 4: strong management and great players teams can repeat, that's great too.
Speaker 4: I just think that fans want a sense that it's
Speaker 4: not top heavy as it was historically in the NBA.
Speaker 4: Remember three teams won sixty percent of the championships over
Speaker 4: the first sixty five years of this league. And you know,
Speaker 4: David Stern used to joke, you know, when he first
Speaker 4: became commissioner, you were just going back and forth from
Speaker 4: Boston to LA that was the job.
Speaker 3: And I think, you.
Speaker 4: Know as much as and I get that question all
Speaker 4: the time, like, oh, aren't dynasty's great?
Speaker 3: They're great.
Speaker 4: I think depending on how they're formed, I don't think
Speaker 4: fans are as enthusiastic about them if one team is
Speaker 4: spending drastically more than another team. So I like where
Speaker 4: we are and I'm not rooting for either one of
Speaker 4: those trends to continue. And but again, let's I think
Speaker 4: going into this coming season, new talent coming into league,
Speaker 4: a lot of deep talent around the league. You know,
Speaker 4: I think there'll be teams that are favored, but I
Speaker 4: think more fans will believe in their teams than their
Speaker 4: teams have a legitimate shot to win.
Speaker 2: What has kept you up at night before an NBA topic.
Speaker 4: Always the sports betting stuff. I mean, no question about it.
Speaker 4: I mean both. You know, when it was illegal, it
Speaker 4: kept us up, and when it's legal, it keeps us up.
Speaker 4: I mean in some ways, you know, you can better
Speaker 4: monitor it when it's legal, but a lot of the
Speaker 4: bad stuff is happening illegally. But I think given the
Speaker 4: prevalence of enormous amount of sports in our society, and
Speaker 4: by the way it's now, it's the prediction markets too,
Speaker 4: those are really sports betting platforms. I mean, everybody's a
Speaker 4: lot of chatter around predictions around wars and elections and things,
Speaker 4: but the majority of the money on those platforms is
Speaker 4: around sports. So and that's not regulated state by state.
Speaker 3: That's federal.
Speaker 4: And then I'm always reminding people in a global sport
Speaker 4: like ours. Last I counted, there was something like eighty
Speaker 4: five other countries that had legal sports betting, legalized sports
Speaker 4: betting on the NBA.
Speaker 3: So is no way we're going to turn the clock
Speaker 3: back on that.
Speaker 4: You know, we're constantly looking at new ways to monitor activity.
Speaker 4: You know, even lines around the world, you can still
Speaker 4: pay attention to them and if there's sort of strange
Speaker 4: line movements, try to figure out what's going on. Continue
Speaker 4: educating our players and everyone involved in the game on
Speaker 4: the dire consequences of betting.
Speaker 3: But that's definitely something that keeps me up.
Speaker 2: Tanking or flopping. What do you spend more time on?
Speaker 4: Well, this season, we spent more time on tanking, and
Speaker 4: we came up with a new system going into next
Speaker 4: season which just in short, largely flattens the odds for
Speaker 4: the non playoff teams, and presumably we'll disincentivize teams from
Speaker 4: that sort of behavior. I mean, there's no question it
Speaker 4: got out of hand, you know, and we want the
Speaker 4: focus to be on winning games, and I think that's
Speaker 4: what's going to change. It'll be really interesting to see
Speaker 4: next season because we'll be going into a world we've
Speaker 4: never been in before where there's essentially no incentive to
Speaker 4: be at the bottom. In fact, you know, we have
Speaker 4: a concept we're calling draft relegation sort of you're actually
Speaker 4: odds of getting a top pick go down if you're
Speaker 4: one of the bottom three picks. So you know, was
Speaker 4: very focused on that. This year, flopping started to get
Speaker 4: more attention early rounds at the playoffs this year. That's
Speaker 4: something we have a competition committee meeting in Las Vegas
Speaker 4: for two days.
Speaker 3: We'll certainly be spending a lot of time on that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that the concept in terms of flopping,
Speaker 4: I mean historically in the league for us, it was
Speaker 4: when a player snapped his head back and then you
Speaker 4: saw in video replay, maybe often after the game, that
Speaker 4: the other player didn't even touch him, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Look like a player was shot out of a rocket, etc.
Speaker 3: And wasn't even touched, you know.
Speaker 4: As I've said, you know recently, I think what modern
Speaker 4: flopping is often more about players trying to sell calls
Speaker 4: to officials. They're taught that in certain circumstances, so in
Speaker 4: many cases it actually is a foul, but you could
Speaker 4: argue they're overreacting to it, and I think we got
Speaker 4: to spend time looking at where that line is, where
Speaker 4: it's just in some cases just a non call, you know.
Speaker 4: And historically if a player chose to fall to the
Speaker 4: ground but nothing was called and the ball still in play,
Speaker 4: it's just a disadvantage to his team. And the thought
Speaker 4: was players just going to get up and it's going
Speaker 4: to stop doing that if the officials aren't rewarding them
Speaker 4: for that behavior.
Speaker 3: But I also, you know, I'm.
Speaker 4: Listening to fans, and I think to a certain maybe
Speaker 4: to a large extent, fans don't necessarily want to see
Speaker 4: guys falling down on every play.
Speaker 3: So that's something we'll pay more attention to this summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I brought this up. It feels like the WNBA
Speaker 2: allows play on more than the NBA does. It feels
Speaker 2: like these guys are really skilled at I'm going to
Speaker 2: draw contact, and I'm going to let you know that
Speaker 2: I'm drawing contact where the WNBA might be a little
Speaker 2: more lenient. Now, I don't know if that's fair as
Speaker 2: a blanket to put over it, but I see a
Speaker 2: lot of WNBA games as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's an interesting comment. I mean, one thing
Speaker 4: I've learned. I mean, the women's game is just different
Speaker 4: than the men's game. I mean, ultimately, MONTI McCutcheon is
Speaker 4: overseeing the entire officiating program. So there are different WNBA
Speaker 4: officials and in certain cases different managers of those officials,
Speaker 4: but overall, the total and totality, the program's overseen by
Speaker 4: the same people. So again, I think lessons learned for
Speaker 4: us over the years too, just in different approaches to
Speaker 4: the women's game and the men's game. It's just it's
Speaker 4: just played differently to a certain extent. But maybe right
Speaker 4: I mean again, I think that you know, you know,
Speaker 4: the direction to the officiating crew for the last few
Speaker 4: years has been sort of to recalibrate a bit to
Speaker 4: allow a more physical defense. We don't necessarily want to
Speaker 4: go back where you know, it was sort of brute
Speaker 4: force defense, and I remember those years and in some
Speaker 4: cases less from a skill standpoint, it was just more physicality,
Speaker 4: And I don't necessarily think people want that, but I mean,
Speaker 4: I think the fans and the players like to be
Speaker 4: able to play physical defense, and so to the extent
Speaker 4: then that you know, a player is just falling down
Speaker 4: or whatever else is a result of that. I think
Speaker 4: in most cases, you know, fans just want to see
Speaker 4: the flow of the game. They don't want the constant
Speaker 4: stoppage and play. So it's it's it's always just looking
Speaker 4: to find that right balance.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you need from me before we before
Speaker 2: we say goodbye.
Speaker 3: Maybe just to promote the draft tonight, ab.
Speaker 2: Who took away my voting privileges? Commissioner.
Speaker 4: You know there's a guy named Mike Bass Communications. He's
Speaker 4: off camera right over there. Have your folks talk to him.
Speaker 2: I mean, there aren't many guys like me still hanging around, Commissioner.
Speaker 3: I didn't know your voting privileges were taken away.
Speaker 2: Yes they were. I think when I left. I think
Speaker 2: we left when I left ESPN. Apparently NBA left me
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna look into that one.
Speaker 2: If David Stern was still around, I'd have my I'd
Speaker 2: have my vote. Can you yell at somebody right now?
Speaker 2: Can you yell at Mike Bass right there? Mike?
Speaker 3: My media training is such that they say, like, don't.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Good to talk to you again, commission All right,
Speaker 2: that's Adam Silver. He'll restore my voting privileges. And you
Speaker 2: know what, I didn't even think of it, because I
Speaker 2: mean I do talk a lot about it. I did
Speaker 2: get to vote, and I you know, viewed it truly
Speaker 2: as a privilege, just like the Heisman and Paul goes,
Speaker 2: why don't you have a vote? I go, I'll be damned,
Speaker 2: why don't I have a vote. I'm gonna get some
Speaker 2: of my best people on that. Yes, Paul, I know.
Speaker 5: What's gonna happen now, because I know you. Now they're
Speaker 5: gonna say you have a vote, and you're going like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to vote.
Speaker 2: I want to be mark. No, no, no, I do want
Speaker 2: to vom you do want it? Yes? I do want
Speaker 2: to Do you want me to follow up on this? Yeah? Okay, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: How about we take a break. We'll get to phone calls,
Speaker 2: update our poll results. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2: You know, the commissioner made it sound like, now, once again,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take some poetic license here that Vegas
Speaker 2: and Seattle are a done deal. It's not a question
Speaker 2: of if it's going to happen, but when it's going
Speaker 2: to happen, And it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, and these are the only two cities
Speaker 2: that he mentioned, and then you're probably going to move
Speaker 2: either Memphis or Minnesota to the Eastern Conference finals. This
Speaker 2: has been talked about. I have a friend who deals
Speaker 2: in transactions. He pits, you know, he has two parties
Speaker 2: and one wants to sell and one wants to buy,
Speaker 2: and he usually gives me price tags on certain teams.
Speaker 2: And he mentioned this a couple of years ago. You
Speaker 2: were looking at probably an entry point of seven billion
Speaker 2: dollars to get an NBA team, certainly in Vegas. Vegas
Speaker 2: he thought might go for upwards of nine, maybe ten
Speaker 2: billion dollars. I think the Golden Knights owner has put
Speaker 2: in a bid to bring the NBA team to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: But this is not a question of if, but when
Speaker 2: they're going to have NBA teams in Seattle in Vegas Campauling.
Speaker 5: I did find this because there's been a little bit
Speaker 5: of a scuttle but on the internet. If Seattle gets
Speaker 5: an expansion team with the NBA, can it be named
Speaker 5: the SuperSonics or did their history go to Oklahoma City.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit of both. If you look up
Speaker 5: on Basketball Reference, the Oklahoma City Thunder's history includes the Sonics.
Speaker 5: But in the deal that sent the Sonics to Oklahoma City,
Speaker 5: the city of Seattle retains the right to use SuperSonics
Speaker 5: in a new team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is fantastic. Yeah, you can have the history book.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got Kevin Durant was there, and then
Speaker 2: you got him in Okay. See. But now, I always
Speaker 2: believe when a team leaves another city that that city
Speaker 2: still gets to retain that name, just in case you
Speaker 2: get another team. Also, the flopping part of this, the
Speaker 2: flopping part, it really feels like it's just Shay gilgis Alexander.
Speaker 2: I mean a little bit of Jalen Brunson, but Sga
Speaker 2: is the face of flopping. I still think that if
Speaker 2: you let these guys play a little bit, and I
Speaker 2: truly believe the WNBA allows more playthrough than the NBA does.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see a great player go to
Speaker 2: the free throw line. I want to see a great
Speaker 2: player score baskets, but nobody wants to see somebody go
Speaker 2: to the free throw line. Nobody, And it's almost like
Speaker 2: you're rewarding that. I think if somebody falls and you
Speaker 2: don't call anything, that player looks pretty silly. But I
Speaker 2: don't know how you demo this where you have somebody
Speaker 2: come in and then you're like, Okay, we're gonna call that,
Speaker 2: but we won't call that. Let's create scenarios. Do you
Speaker 2: use AI? Do you know some kind of form of
Speaker 2: let's look at this and see what we're seeing, and
Speaker 2: everybody sees the same picture here. It's just like past interference.
Speaker 2: There was a time where we're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: they call past interference on every play, and then, you know,
Speaker 2: the officials learned, players learned, and then it kind of changed.
Speaker 2: Oh there's holding on every call, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the players learned and the officials learned. Hopefully
Speaker 2: that's what happens here, because it's a shame that Sja
Speaker 2: is going to be known as a guy who flopped,
Speaker 2: because he's so much more than that, but James Harden
Speaker 2: same way. But he'll be remembered for well, he'll be
Speaker 2: remembered for a couple of things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dylan, Yeah, I think it's like you want to
Speaker 7: police it, but you don't want to add to the
Speaker 7: slowing down of the game either. It's like, how do
Speaker 7: you in real time kind of do it, which it's
Speaker 7: ultimately a very subjective penalty like pi or holding in football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's it's there's certain officials who are going
Speaker 2: to call it one way. Certain officials. This is this
Speaker 2: is why I hated what Baseball did. They empowered the
Speaker 2: umpires to have their strike zone Like no, no, no,
Speaker 2: there's a strike zone. Not your interpretation, it's our interpretation.
Speaker 2: And that's why. You know, umpires had the opportunity to
Speaker 2: police this a long long time ago and they never did.
Speaker 2: It's like, ah, I'm going to give you that outside corner.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna you know, I'm not gonna call a
Speaker 2: strike on that kind of pitch for you. You can't
Speaker 2: do that. You have to have uniformity there. And this
Speaker 2: is something that you know these other sports did to themselves.
Speaker 2: Randall in Virginia, Hi, Randall, what do you have for
Speaker 2: me today.
Speaker 8: Hol on once.
Speaker 2: Hey Randall, Randall, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Kay Dan, sorry about that, Thanks for taking my call again.
Speaker 2: Then I interrupt something there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was on a I was on a meeting call.
Speaker 8: I'm doing onboarding for a new job that I've just got.
Speaker 8: So unfortunate timing.
Speaker 2: But all the stay with the call. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't want anything to happen here.
Speaker 8: No, no, it's it's fine. I was on video call too,
Speaker 8: so they just saw me throw my phone away to
Speaker 8: pick up your call. But anyway, real quick, I wanted
Speaker 8: to mention the Lionel Messi comps that you mentioned. Marvin
Speaker 8: kind of saw my thunder because I was going to
Speaker 8: say Steph Curry seems to always be around the ball.
Speaker 8: I also had some football comps Ed Reid and Troy Polamalu.
Speaker 8: They always seem to have a knack to be around
Speaker 8: the ball whenever it needed to be. I feel like
Speaker 8: Liono Messi. You watch him, He's just strolling and he's
Speaker 8: some somehow, some way seems to find the ball.
Speaker 2: So all right, well, good luck with your job there,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. N Yeah, the beauty with Messi
Speaker 2: is that he just sort of lingers. He just there, there, there,
Speaker 2: and then it happens so quickly, like it's almost like
Speaker 2: a snake bite. It's just there, it's there, and then
Speaker 2: boom it gets you.
Speaker 9: Yes, Mart, He's almost like Joker in a way because
Speaker 9: they're not relying on just pure athleticism. Almost like Joker,
Speaker 9: like man, when he gets forty, he'll still be playing
Speaker 9: the exact same way because there's not a lot of athleticism.
Speaker 9: Not saying MESSI isn't, but he's not just using raw
Speaker 9: athleticism to get all the goals.
Speaker 2: JJ in Florida, Hi, JJ, what do you have for
Speaker 2: me to think?
Speaker 10: Dan?
Speaker 11: I love rock and roll. I love the Beatles and
Speaker 11: the Stones and led Zeppelin and Rush. But there is
Speaker 11: one American band that I dislike in Templey. In fact,
Speaker 11: I would say abhore, and that is the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 11: Can't stand them. I really get completely sorry Zone.
Speaker 2: Okay, why do you hate the Grateful Dead? I don't
Speaker 2: even know why I'm asking this question, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to JJ, why do you hate the Grateful Dead?
Speaker 11: I just don't like their music. They don't make music,
Speaker 11: it's just sound. I don't like the voice, I don't
Speaker 11: like the guitar.
Speaker 2: I don't like the songs.
Speaker 8: There's no demon.
Speaker 2: Quality all right. Would you like to respond, Dylan, Oh, I.
Speaker 7: Don't know if JJ has ears, but they certainly make
Speaker 7: music and some of the best. I mean, Jerry Garcia
Speaker 7: is undeniably one of the best guitar players and most
Speaker 7: influential unique guitar players of all time. Bob Weare is
Speaker 7: probably the best rhythm guitar player of all time. They
Speaker 7: both have great vocals, et cetera. You want to go deeper,
Speaker 7: Phil Lesh one of the kind of one of the
Speaker 7: originators of having like a dominant bass line.
Speaker 2: Well, they had to bring in John Mayer to kind
Speaker 2: of spice things up a little bit. Well, Jerry died
Speaker 2: and there's been other versions. There's further you know, Bob
Speaker 2: wear and Rattog. Jerry died a while ago, the year
Speaker 2: I was born. Yeah, that's a long time ago. Well
Speaker 2: not years ago.
Speaker 7: Not according to you when it comes to music knowledge,
Speaker 7: Apparently thirty is too young, Dan, it is it is, Yes, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because I want to be objective here a
Speaker 5: great band or an influential band. It's almost like what
Speaker 5: you talk about with Steph Curry. I'm not sure because
Speaker 5: I'm not an expert on what the influence of the
Speaker 5: Grateful Dead is. But you mentioned Rim earlier, and Rim
Speaker 5: and Rolling Stone magazine. They were the first college band
Speaker 5: to break, and a lot of other bands followed right through,
Speaker 5: so I think that's their influence.
Speaker 2: Ri Em is Okay, maybe I'll just take out the comparison. Okay,
Speaker 2: we won't compare. I'll just say ri Em is an
Speaker 2: incredible band. Incredible. Now you can say, well, did they
Speaker 2: influence other bands? Or yes they did? Yeah, Darius owes
Speaker 2: his entire career to ri Em. He says that I'm
Speaker 2: sure Dave Matthews was influenced by them. Yes, Still, if.
Speaker 7: You asked Dave Matthews, they were more influenced by the
Speaker 7: Grateful Dead than Arim. I would almost bet my life
Speaker 7: on it.
Speaker 2: Are you going to bet truly about your life? Oh
Speaker 2: that's good.
Speaker 7: You can kill me if the answer is wrong.
Speaker 2: Let me text Dave Matthews and say, more influenced by you?
Speaker 3: Know what?
Speaker 2: I will try to do that during the break. I
Speaker 2: will text Dave Matthews and see if he'll tell me
Speaker 2: who he was more influenced by the Dead or are
Speaker 2: you guess?
Speaker 5: And Dylan will be the dead. If he's wrong, Yes,
Speaker 5: he will be very dead. Let me see what else
Speaker 5: do we have here? Terry in Seattle, Hi, Terry, what
Speaker 5: do you have for me? Hey?
Speaker 12: Good morning, Dan and Dan at Hey. I just wanted
Speaker 12: to call in and give a shout out to Linda Kohne,
Speaker 12: who just announced her retirement from the mother Ship after
Speaker 12: thirty four years of some great broadcasting and being sixty
Speaker 12: eight years old. I feel like I've listened to her
Speaker 12: and you for half my life and it's been great.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. Maybe we'll have Linda Cone on on Friday.
Speaker 2: Todd want to see if Linda Kung can join us.
Speaker 2: Long illustrious career and more sports centers than anybody. I
Speaker 2: think they tabulated around five thousand there. Brett and Florida, Hi, Brett,
Speaker 2: what do you have for me?
Speaker 8: A DP?
Speaker 13: Dannett's great show? As always, You're the best interviewer I've
Speaker 13: ever listened to in my life. Get the voting privileges back,
Speaker 13: Dylan tom Beach, Florida.
Speaker 8: Hat got to give you props with.
Speaker 13: The Dylan soorsby Jersey yesterday. I'm calling in regards to
Speaker 13: three things. Yes, if he's healthy, you say we have
Speaker 13: players to be named later, Andrew Wiggins, Bobby Portis, Norwyn Powell,
Speaker 13: and I don't think pat Riley is necessarily done right now.
Speaker 13: The interview with Adam Silver phenomenal, and the fact that
Speaker 13: when Clark could win the US Open with the entire
Speaker 13: course booing him on that course is remarkable.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree. Thank you for the phone call, Brett. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so a lot of different things sprinkled in there, but
Speaker 2: thank you for the compliment. Nate in Richmond, So I
Speaker 2: just text Dave Matthews. I don't know where he is
Speaker 2: on his tour, but random question, were you more influenced
Speaker 2: by the grateful debt or are you I'll let you know,
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm sure he's touring. He's always touring. Nate
Speaker 2: and Richmond. Hi, Nate, what do you have for me?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 8: Lost count a long time.
Speaker 2: I've been around soccer and football my whole life, and
Speaker 2: I found out the new terminology yesterday. So I have
Speaker 2: a fun fact.
Speaker 11: Of the day here.
Speaker 8: If he scored two goals, that's a brace three obviously
Speaker 8: the hat trick four as a whole, and five is
Speaker 8: the glues.
Speaker 2: Okay, wasn't aware of that? How many five? Goal games
Speaker 2: have we had in World Cup history? Have we had
Speaker 2: a five goal game by an individual? But thank you
Speaker 2: for the lingo there. So four is whole and then
Speaker 2: five is glute.
Speaker 5: I think four is a haul. Oh that's what I say, hole,
Speaker 5: a hole. He scored a hole of goals. And then uh,
Speaker 5: five is glute like Maximus like like glutenus, gluttons or gluttonous. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm looking for most most goals scored in a single game.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about we take a break. Last call for
Speaker 2: from Oh, Linda Cone is going to join us on Friday.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Tod. Nobody, nobody can hear your
Speaker 2: head when you nod.
Speaker 3: Well, you just waiting for me to say you're welcome.
Speaker 10: I don't you said what you said enough that required
Speaker 10: a response.
Speaker 2: Why didn't No, I didn't know if you were going
Speaker 2: to say. Oh yeah, I got a hold of her.
Speaker 2: She's very excited.
Speaker 3: She's very excited.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tod. All right, we'll take a break back
Speaker 2: after this.
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Speaker 2: Paulie with some downtime, decided to look how often the
Speaker 2: commissioners have been on this show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're calling this Dan the commissioner tracker this show.
Speaker 5: And when I was at ESPN, no, just the new
Speaker 5: version of this show. So since so twenty years. Yes,
Speaker 5: Commissioner Silver has been the commissioner since twenty fourteen. He's
Speaker 5: been on the show nine times.
Speaker 2: Dan, okay, all right.
Speaker 5: Rob, Rob Manfred major League Baseball six times on this show,
Speaker 5: possibly seventh ones in question, and the NFL Commissioner Roger Gadell.
Speaker 2: I'll let you guess.
Speaker 5: Well none with me, none would be correct because we
Speaker 5: don't count it if another host is here.
Speaker 2: But is it just a coincidence that when Ross Tucker hosted,
Speaker 2: he came on.
Speaker 5: I don't think it is, because, and I remember this
Speaker 5: pretty well, Fritzy sending the request and he specifically said,
Speaker 5: we have a guest host who let them know to
Speaker 5: be fair, that's Fritzy doing his job to know you're
Speaker 5: not in.
Speaker 2: And we got the yes back. Oh man, how do
Speaker 2: I not take that personal?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: He should, yes, especially when they said to be clear,
Speaker 10: so it's not Dan, Dan, I said, yeah, okay, let's
Speaker 10: do eleven twenty.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm fair. I'm fine with that. If they
Speaker 2: just say that commissioner doesn't like Dan, I get, then
Speaker 2: we won't bother them. Well I don't. I tell you.
Speaker 2: I tell Todd. I said, don't even bother with it.
Speaker 2: You know, I have a relationship with Manfred and Silver.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can ask them some questions and
Speaker 2: they'll actually give me an answer. Yeah. If I don't
Speaker 2: have the NFL commissioner, then I'm the one show that
Speaker 2: he doesn't do. That's okay. Uh what this should help?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Does matter?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Like he can't come on less than he's come on?
Speaker 2: Right zero is zero and don't do this. Promise me,
Speaker 2: look at me. I don't want the commissioner on the
Speaker 2: last show that I do. I don't want that.
Speaker 3: I will make it. We could do the second to
Speaker 3: last day.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no yes.
Speaker 5: I got to jump in here then to protect Fritzi.
Speaker 5: How about with no six months left? If the commission
Speaker 5: is not on the show by that point, we rescind
Speaker 5: the invitation.
Speaker 2: I know he's had an opportunity to come on, he
Speaker 2: has chosen not to come on. He goes on every show.
Speaker 2: I don't know what he's afraid of I don't know
Speaker 2: why he doesn't like me, but no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we don't need him. If he comes on, great, I've
Speaker 2: shared the podium with him. I'm harmless. Sometimes, yes, Tom.
Speaker 10: You ask tough questions that require additional thought. There's no softballs,
Speaker 10: and that's a probably part of what happens. It's like,
Speaker 10: you don't want to have to be put on the
Speaker 10: spot and answer questions what people really want the answers to.
Speaker 2: It always sounds good. You know, when I first started
Speaker 2: out the Mothership, it'd be like, oh, man, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have the commissioner on, and then for the most part,
Speaker 2: they don't say anything. David Stern did because I had
Speaker 2: a relationship with it and I could poke him a
Speaker 2: little bit. But I've known Adam Silver for over thirty years,
Speaker 2: thirty five years. Maybe I remember when he worked at
Speaker 2: NBA Entertainment and he's this is the only interview outside
Speaker 2: of ESPN that he was going to do today. But
Speaker 2: he also knows that I'll ask some questions that maybe
Speaker 2: you're uncomfortable or he's willing to answer. Rob Manfred the
Speaker 2: same way. I appreciate that I don't want to waste
Speaker 2: this audience time. I don't want somebody dancing around a
Speaker 2: topic here. And if you come on you want to
Speaker 2: answer the questions, great, If you don't, it's okay. My
Speaker 2: career will be fine, it'll be complete. I don't need
Speaker 2: to go well, you know the one that got away.
Speaker 2: Roger Goodell is a busy man, and if he wants
Speaker 2: to go on other shows, good for him. Whatever he's
Speaker 2: comfortable doing. Yes, Dylan, I wouldn't take it personally. I
Speaker 2: think it's just business, am I the Jalen Brown It's
Speaker 2: just business? Yeah, Paul, I actually think Dylan is right.
Speaker 5: I think they the NFL sometimes wants to uh play
Speaker 5: to the lane that is the easiest with interviews and.
Speaker 2: Not you know what I'm saying that I actually a
Speaker 2: total compliment. I know, but it's almost like I wish
Speaker 2: they would just say to Todd, hey, Todd, he's not
Speaker 2: going to go on with Dan then, and just say
Speaker 2: ever period and it's okay. They're There are people who
Speaker 2: don't come on the show for you know, a variety
Speaker 2: of reasons, probably most notably the questions that are asked.
Speaker 2: It's okay, well, I don't know if I would be
Speaker 2: going on a show where I had to answer questions
Speaker 2: that you know, I was uncomfortable. I mean, even with
Speaker 2: Wyndham Clark, I wasn't dancing around the crowd. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure there were people handlers saying, you know, can and
Speaker 2: let's not spend so much time on the crowd at
Speaker 2: the US Open. Well that was the story. I mean,
Speaker 2: he fought through that. That was an important part of
Speaker 2: him winning that championship. Yes, Dylan, is.
Speaker 7: There one that got away in the guest department? Obviously
Speaker 7: not Goodell, but you know anyone else.
Speaker 2: Well, you would want Jordan on and you know what,
Speaker 2: I don't rule that out. I think maybe at the
Speaker 2: end of the you know, career, maybe Mike will join us. Yes, Tom,
Speaker 2: it could be.
Speaker 10: A coincidence if you're not available all the time, sometimes
Speaker 10: every single specific day of time.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it.
Speaker 2: Just it's not a good winner. You are right, did
Speaker 2: you do something three am on Thursday? Who who has
Speaker 2: their number one pick tonight? Who goes number one? Todd?
Speaker 3: That would be aj Debantsa, All right.
Speaker 5: Dylan, gotta go with the odds. I'm going to Bansa,
Speaker 5: all right, Marvin de Banca, Paul, Yeah, the same Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Debansa. That makes the most sense, but
Speaker 5: that doesn't mean that's what the Wizards do. This day
Speaker 5: in sports history, Paul.
Speaker 2: Just one for you, Dan.
Speaker 5: President Nixon in nineteen seventy two signed Title nine acting too.
Speaker 2: Uh law, Okay, there it is. Let's see. Nineteen sixty three,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Pearsall hit his one hundredth career home run. He
Speaker 2: circled the bases backwards. They allowed the home run to count,
Speaker 2: but he got ejected from the game. Twenty sixteen, On
Speaker 2: this day, the seventy six ers select Ben Simmons most
Speaker 2: goals in a World Cup Paul, anybody have five?
Speaker 5: Five happened once olegg Selenko of Russia against Cameroon in
Speaker 5: ninety four.
Speaker 2: Five goals. All right, let's go around the room. Todd,
Speaker 2: do you learn anything today?
Speaker 3: I learned from you.
Speaker 10: Do not underest rate Pat Rally as he went big
Speaker 10: game hunting once again, bringing the Greek Freak to Miami.
Speaker 7: Dylan, I never thought I'd say this, but my fate
Speaker 7: is in Dave Matthews's hands.
Speaker 2: Yes, I haven't heard back from him. Marvin.
Speaker 9: You take you one season at a time, Paul, would.
Speaker 2: You learn today shiny, halvy people.
Speaker 10: That's a bad song I learn ESPN Vincent Goodwill says
Speaker 10: the Bucks got about as much a they could for Gianni,
Speaker 10: who's gonna leave anyway.
Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody. We'll chat with you tomorrow.