Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: McLevin still receiving hate mail tweets because he decided to
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Speaker 1: will join us. Coming up. We'll get you ready for
Speaker 1: Clippers MAVs Game six Saturday will be the Bucks and
Speaker 1: the Nets. Sons bounced the Lakers and the Nuggets dropped
Speaker 1: the Trailblazers. A lot of times what happens is after
Speaker 1: a big story happens, you know, the headlines should be
Speaker 1: about the Lakers today, a little bit about Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: and what happens with the Blazers, certainly what happened with
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. But we usually look at the team that
Speaker 1: lost more interesting, at least for the time being. The
Speaker 1: Lakers are still the most interesting team, and they're not
Speaker 1: even in the playoffs any longer, because there will be
Speaker 1: widespread speculation about now would do they do? I think,
Speaker 1: get healthy and then start to take inventory here of
Speaker 1: who worked and who didn't, and what changes do you
Speaker 1: need to make? And I think sometimes you want to
Speaker 1: make change for change's sake, and that's dangerous here. But
Speaker 1: give credit to the Sons. They were the better team,
Speaker 1: healthier team. Do I think Anthony Davis's injury was a
Speaker 1: big impact on this series? Yes, when he was healthy,
Speaker 1: he played well Lakers one. When he wasn't healthy, it
Speaker 1: didn't matter because Lebron could only do so much and
Speaker 1: this isn't Lebron of five years ago, let alone ten
Speaker 1: years ago. And I think getting Anthony Davis healthy, and
Speaker 1: I do think Anthony Davis played last night probably against
Speaker 1: his better judgment. And I don't know how that medical
Speaker 1: staff cleared him because when he was on the floor,
Speaker 1: he was obviously limping, he was laboring. He never looked
Speaker 1: good like the first sixty second, and so I thought
Speaker 1: he can't last. So it wasn't a question of if
Speaker 1: the Lakers were going to lose, it was when because
Speaker 1: the health issue and whether it was Lebron or Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: You know, That's why I looked at this and said
Speaker 1: get them early because I don't know how healthy they're
Speaker 1: going to be. And the same thing with the Nets.
Speaker 1: You know, the Nets have a little more wiggle room
Speaker 1: because they have three stars. And if somebody happens to
Speaker 1: go down, you have two that can probably still get
Speaker 1: you to the NBA Finals. Eight seven seven three d
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Speaker 1: so far. First two hours. Jalen Rose wonderful appearance. Dan
Speaker 1: Lebotard also spends some time with Mike Shashevski for his
Speaker 1: farewell tour, and then Kevin Garnett will join us coming up.
Speaker 1: The NBA playoffs may have an NCAA tournament feel because
Speaker 1: it feels like there's going to be a big surprise here.
Speaker 1: Anybody can win now. I know that the Brooklyn Milwaukee
Speaker 1: series feels like the two best teams are going to
Speaker 1: meet in the playoffs and the nets of the Vegas
Speaker 1: favorites to win it all. I like the Bucks. I
Speaker 1: picked the Bucks to go to the NBA Finals. I
Speaker 1: think as an underdog, they're far more dangerous. They're not
Speaker 1: good front runners. But the series kicks off in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, and going to answer a few questions here,
Speaker 1: you got the big three, how do they respond to
Speaker 1: a real challenge here? What does Milwaukee do to try
Speaker 1: to stop Kevin Durant, we might find out who takes
Speaker 1: that last shot in a game for Brooklyn. I love
Speaker 1: when we asked these questions, where you go, Hey, so
Speaker 1: Steve Nash, who's going to take the last shot for
Speaker 1: your team? He's got the luxury of three guys who
Speaker 1: can take the last shot, and as an opponent, you
Speaker 1: don't know for the most part, how many teams do
Speaker 1: you go? I know who's taken the last shot. I
Speaker 1: got three guys who can take the last shot. What
Speaker 1: a luxury here, and this should be a very competitive series. Yes, mclovin,
Speaker 1: are you sure it's not a problem because the other
Speaker 1: two guys are gonna be mad they didn't get the shot.
Speaker 1: If the guy misses it mad, Yeah, Kyrie will If
Speaker 1: Kyrie doesn't get the shot, you know he's I don't know, Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Come on, he wants that shot and he's good at
Speaker 1: it too. I mean, he has hit one of the
Speaker 1: biggest shots in league history. He won a championship with
Speaker 1: that shot. But I wouldn't be mad if somebody takes
Speaker 1: the shot. I'm only mad if you don't make the shot. Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny if I had to pick someone
Speaker 1: if I was coaching the nets to take the last shot,
Speaker 1: I would pick Kevin Durant because I think he's got
Speaker 1: every shot and the most clutch guy of the three,
Speaker 1: and I think he's the least selfish of the three.
Speaker 1: He'd be the most comfortable not getting his number called.
Speaker 1: He'd be fine with kicking it out or having to
Speaker 1: play call for someone else as long as they got
Speaker 1: the W which is another bonus for him. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: still think what Durant has done has been undersold. He
Speaker 1: he's unbelievable and to come back from that injury and
Speaker 1: be unbelievable effortless, like the fluidity of what he does
Speaker 1: is amazing. Just the fact that that's a seven footer
Speaker 1: and he's got a handle and he can get any
Speaker 1: shot he wants to. Yeah, mc don't forget. They have
Speaker 1: the best three point shooter in the league and Joe Harris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give him the shot they could. That's a good team. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean this is going to happen tonight with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: They have to make everybody around Luca take the shots.
Speaker 1: Lucas still going to get his, but you can't let
Speaker 1: him go for forty. If he goes for thirty Okay,
Speaker 1: but this is going to be about the supporting cast,
Speaker 1: and here the Clippers go again making it difficult. Now,
Speaker 1: I did think Dallas was a better team last year
Speaker 1: in the bubble before Porzingis got injured, and I really
Speaker 1: thought that they would eliminate the Clippers. It's an interesting
Speaker 1: mix of personalities, like that team doesn't have a personality.
Speaker 1: When I think of the Clippers, you have Kauai, Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know Kauai. Like there's certain players where you
Speaker 1: go that's kind of emblematic of that person their personality.
Speaker 1: But with the Clippers, I don't know what you have.
Speaker 1: Is it Rajon, Rondel, Patrick Beverley, ty Lou, Paul George Like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't get that. Where you go, man,
Speaker 1: they play like his personality. Now, sometimes you'll see that
Speaker 1: with players with a coach, that they play like his personality.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what to expect from the Clippers tonight,
Speaker 1: Like I expect the unexpected, which means I expect them
Speaker 1: to win right in that That's that's the odd part
Speaker 1: of this. The road team has won all of the
Speaker 1: games here, Yeah, Paul, But the Clippers got what they
Speaker 1: wanted they they're healthy, they got Kawhi Leonard, and they
Speaker 1: don't have to face the Lakers, which is what they
Speaker 1: angled for. They have no excuses. This is the this
Speaker 1: is the greatest opportunity in the franchise's history. They don't
Speaker 1: have a monster team to go through. I mean, at
Speaker 1: least the Lakers had the Anthony Davis excuse that they
Speaker 1: didn't have one of the top five seven players in
Speaker 1: the game healthy and that's why they bowed out. But
Speaker 1: the Clippers, they don't have that excuse. You tanked a
Speaker 1: game against Oklahoma City so you didn't have to face
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and everybody's healthy. It's just that roster is
Speaker 1: very suspect. Yes, McLevin, Yeah, you said it yesterday. The
Speaker 1: Clippers are two and a half point favorites though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which they're in Dallas and Dallas is up three two.
Speaker 1: Of course they're favored in this game. A couple of
Speaker 1: phone calls in here, then we get to Kevin Garnett.
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Speaker 1: us cry live on TV like you did last year.
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. I don't I think we have a
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Speaker 1: think we might be able to win that. Yeah, Seon,
Speaker 1: can we squeeze into some like best Digital Short It's
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Speaker 1: us lose because see, we give you the honest reaction.
Speaker 1: When you go to the Sports Emmys and you sit
Speaker 1: in the audience, you have to, of course be professional.
Speaker 1: You have to have decorum, like you can't be going
Speaker 1: are you hitting me? Like? You can't do that? But
Speaker 1: here we can in our man cave. Next Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: I was. I was visibly disappointed last year because I
Speaker 1: I know how important it is for the Danas and
Speaker 1: when when I win, then we all win. And when
Speaker 1: we didn't and I heard that, I didn't hide my
Speaker 1: I went and then you got to get your act
Speaker 1: together and like, okay, all right, I'm on camera here,
Speaker 1: all right, Okay, yeah, I mean I used to do
Speaker 1: this for Bob Costas, but I was in the audience.
Speaker 1: So they and the winner for Best Studio Host is
Speaker 1: and I started. I was already clapping because I knew
Speaker 1: it would be like Bob Costas this time around. We
Speaker 1: gotta win one, all right. I think we might be
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills of the Sports Emmys and lose four
Speaker 1: consecutive years. But you got to be good enough to
Speaker 1: be able to get in the position to lose four
Speaker 1: consecutive years. Yes, Paul, me personally, I'm worried that if
Speaker 1: we won the Sports Emmy, I turned into a cocky,
Speaker 1: smartass jerk, and I don't want that. Nobody wants that.
Speaker 1: People someone that people don't like. This Saturday, the final
Speaker 1: jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, Saturday at
Speaker 1: five Eastern only on NBC No Bob Bafford. We did
Speaker 1: reach out to Bob, but Bob I think is landlow.
Speaker 1: He's in the midst of an appeal there. Good luck
Speaker 1: with that. A couple of phone calls in here Blake
Speaker 1: in South Carolina. Good morning, Blake. What do you have
Speaker 1: for me today? Hey, Dany I was calling. I want
Speaker 1: to bet on the same side as Paulie. I absolutely
Speaker 1: think i'll I'm gonna win none that I've heard who
Speaker 1: you're going up against, and and I think you should
Speaker 1: win against anybody. So I'll donate one hundred dollars in
Speaker 1: the name of Penny or whatever organization I need to
Speaker 1: donate too. But I'm betting that you do win. So
Speaker 1: if you do win, that means Todd has to lose.
Speaker 1: And sorry Toddler, but I want a Limerick free summer,
Speaker 1: which is a win win for everybody because my ears
Speaker 1: win and I think it betters your chances for next
Speaker 1: year to repeat. So no Limericks this summer or I'll
Speaker 1: donate money. Okay, all right, Fritzie, are you capable of
Speaker 1: doing him? Oh? He just sent me a Limerick Blazer's nuggets. Limerick, Tod,
Speaker 1: do you want to do it? I would like Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it and just you know, maybe this is
Speaker 1: the last one you ever do. And I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: he wants me for an entire summer. He's not alone.
Speaker 1: He's not alone. He's not alone. Okay, here you go
Speaker 1: for Portland. It's more of the same, not surviving around
Speaker 1: one as a shame. Though it may sound extreme. Let
Speaker 1: him join another team, Yes, of course I'm talking about Dame.
Speaker 1: You can't let him join another team. Gotta let him
Speaker 1: fly with I mean it did rhyme. Yes, I'm just
Speaker 1: happy that we got that in. Yeah, now we needed to. Now,
Speaker 1: why don't we win a sports cold? So Cold? Jeff
Speaker 1: and Detroit joins us. Hi, Jeff, what I'm doing one
Speaker 1: Top of Chat Road twelve feet teen podcast back Room
Speaker 1: Boys shout out, loving this Friday vibe you guys got
Speaker 1: going on the show has been awesome. Fritzie stands up
Speaker 1: take about brother because at the beginning of the week
Speaker 1: they were cracking jokes about you taking a five day
Speaker 1: weekend and you came through the day. Baby. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna probably rent me a tux seat off the Tuesday
Speaker 1: because we're gonna bring home that hard work. Dan, I
Speaker 1: have bank to chewing the guys. We'll do it and listen.
Speaker 1: If you don't, just still want us in my books.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody loved man, everybody, Thank you. Jeff. Jeff
Speaker 1: is going to join the viewing party. I think Ryan
Speaker 1: and Honolulu is going to join the viewing part. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a mess. It'll be an absolute mess.
Speaker 1: Brad and North Carolina. Hi, Brad, what's on your mind today? Hey? DP,
Speaker 1: how do I get in on that viewing party? But uh,
Speaker 1: but just on your Coach K interviewing? Nice job. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Chapel Hill. My father was on faculty
Speaker 1: Carolina for thirty years and was coach Smith Dennis. So
Speaker 1: I grew up despising the man on the court, but
Speaker 1: as fate would have it, all her family on vacation
Speaker 1: property in the same building as Coach K. So I
Speaker 1: got to be friends with his daughter, his only his daughter, Jamie,
Speaker 1: and my interactions with him off the court. Coach K
Speaker 1: is pretty much as advertised. He's sarcastic, as you've come
Speaker 1: to find out your interviews, but could not have been nicer.
Speaker 1: But my only one job I could kind of get
Speaker 1: at him anytime I went into their condo I made
Speaker 1: sure I had a Carolina Basketball camp shirt. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that yeah. Thank you, Brad, thank you,
Speaker 1: and Coach k was a lot of fun. What's wrong
Speaker 1: calling to go out again? It there? You didn't think
Speaker 1: it was that a Fritzie like story, that it didn't
Speaker 1: really have a payoff? Hey, you know I paid it off.
Speaker 1: That took a while. Coach Case officially retired at the
Speaker 1: end of the story. It took that long. Ah, come on,
Speaker 1: let's go and let's rowley. We got forty five more
Speaker 1: minutes here, all right, yea, asked mcclumman. If we do
Speaker 1: lose by way, what is the etiquette like if you
Speaker 1: have about throwing your papers up in the air and
Speaker 1: looking like you do at the end of the the sports Center.
Speaker 1: At times, sometimes it's like, what can you do here? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is what this is what we're going to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want us to act as if we want. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're we're gonna I have champagne. I have I
Speaker 1: think five bottles. Everybody gets a bottle. No matter who wins,
Speaker 1: we start pouring champagne on each other. What do you
Speaker 1: think because we will have more fun than the show
Speaker 1: that wins the Sports Emmy. One of us just start
Speaker 1: telling a speech even if the camera Mike's not. I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: Todd can do it. It's like a Todd's Kanye West
Speaker 1: a moment when Taylor Swift won the VMA or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like Beyonce should have won so rigged because of
Speaker 1: the worst taste in program. You know what, why don't
Speaker 1: you have an acceptance speech ready? And and then so
Speaker 1: once it's announced, we're just gonna start porn champagne all over?
Speaker 1: What about it? Acceptance? Limerick, m there once was a
Speaker 1: trophy named Emmy. What do you know for years ago? Um, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: if you want to, you want to draw up the limerick,
Speaker 1: you can and now accepting on behalf of the Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show, Todd Fritz with a Limerick. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's ever been done in the history the Sports Emmy.
Speaker 1: Take the back because of the we will celebrate. We
Speaker 1: will sell a rate more than the the show that
Speaker 1: wins the Sports EMMI next Tuesday Night, guaranteed. Yeah, mcliver.
Speaker 1: What about if we are wear they got the ski
Speaker 1: goggles like they do in this uppers just wear them
Speaker 1: preemptively like all five of us yes, we can do it.
Speaker 1: You know when they pour champagne and you have those goggles,
Speaker 1: does that look bad though? We're wearing the goggles and
Speaker 1: don't win them. Who cares? Like now you're worried about
Speaker 1: how we look. We can put the tarps up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and another gets wet. That's perfect. Twenty one Sports Emmy
Speaker 1: winner shirts will hold up. Yes, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's let's get Can we get t shirts made by Tuesdays?
Speaker 1: I believe we can. Ok yeah, we have to do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought, twenty twenty one Sports Emmy winners and then
Speaker 1: we'll wear them. Yeah, that'll be awesome, awesome, Yes, and
Speaker 1: we're never welcomed back. All right, Kevin Garnett will join us.
Speaker 1: Last time he was on he cursed, So we have
Speaker 1: to have Kevin on his best behavior here or do
Speaker 1: we We'll take a break. We'll get more phone calls
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty Whole Fame Class NBA champ Kevin
Speaker 1: Garnett just released a new book a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: kg A to Z, an uncensored encyclopedia of life, basketball
Speaker 1: and everything in between, and as a showtime documentary Anything
Speaker 1: Is Possible that'll be released next month. Doing Big Things
Speaker 1: there KG joining us. When's the last time you played
Speaker 1: pick up? I saw I played pick up? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: probably three years ago, two years ago. When I used
Speaker 1: to train guys when I used to train guys, I
Speaker 1: was probably around the game a lot more, and you
Speaker 1: used to jump in a couple you know, twenty one
Speaker 1: or some three on threes or some fives on five
Speaker 1: just just just you know, just for a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Could you play it all? Could you play it all now? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can play. I can play for about ten to
Speaker 1: twelve minutes if I had to win a real NBA
Speaker 1: game to way a paces now, Because when you're younger, Dan,
Speaker 1: You're I'm chasing every rebound, and you know I'm attempting
Speaker 1: to try to get all those rebounds. You don't get
Speaker 1: them all. When you get older, you you're you use
Speaker 1: energy smarter, you know, like I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't attempt to go for every offensive rebound. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I would start. I would sprint three three point line
Speaker 1: and three point line to be you know, be good
Speaker 1: his ways that you can cut like corners if you
Speaker 1: will when you get older, to to not exhaust yourself.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if I had to, I feel like I could.
Speaker 1: How were you surprised that Anthony Davis played last night?
Speaker 1: He was clear to play last night I was, I was.
Speaker 1: I was shocked. Actually, I was actually shocked that he
Speaker 1: made the trip. I was shocked that he was standing
Speaker 1: up on the sideline. I know, I've had a growing
Speaker 1: injury before. Anybody that's had a growing injury. It is
Speaker 1: the worst or one of the worst injuries you can
Speaker 1: have that you you're very, very um limited to what
Speaker 1: you can do, and being mobile um the one thing
Speaker 1: you can't do. You can't laterly do anything. You can't
Speaker 1: you can't even you can't get an the lateral stands.
Speaker 1: So I was very shocked that he was on the
Speaker 1: floor and that he had got clear. I felt the
Speaker 1: same way because as soon as he stepped at sixty
Speaker 1: seconds in, I go he can't play. And I wonder
Speaker 1: if Charles Barkley giving him that nickname and street clothes
Speaker 1: played a role in him just saying I want to
Speaker 1: get I want to get in the game. I want
Speaker 1: to have my uniform on. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: sitting here in street clothes. Am I reading too much
Speaker 1: into the first off? If that was the case, and
Speaker 1: you cared about it any of this, then I felt
Speaker 1: like he would have came out with a better later.
Speaker 1: You would have known and warm ups. If he could
Speaker 1: have been able to go or not. That's one. Then two,
Speaker 1: on't think the young fellas. Actually I think he hears it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but this is all about doing something for yourself.
Speaker 1: He has to take another level of improving his body.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep it this real. Lebron came to LA
Speaker 1: to not just you know, you know, leave out the
Speaker 1: league on a great note with a you know, a
Speaker 1: great establishment like the Lakers. But he wanted to play
Speaker 1: with a younger version of someone and that he can
Speaker 1: actually like, similar to what d Wade did to him
Speaker 1: in Miami. Yo. He's he came to ads in in
Speaker 1: in LA to continue the legacy, to continue the championship legacy,
Speaker 1: to continue the spirit. And right now he's not doing that.
Speaker 1: He has to go to another level with his body
Speaker 1: and his training. Whatever he's been doing the last ten years,
Speaker 1: it's not working. He should not be out of shape
Speaker 1: during the regular season. I don't understand that one. Did
Speaker 1: you talk trash to Lebron? I talked trash to where
Speaker 1: I saw an advantage. You understand, and let me let
Speaker 1: me let me get something clear out here. Then I
Speaker 1: have never ever in my life disrespected a man or
Speaker 1: his family, or his wife or his mom or none
Speaker 1: of that. I have never in my life. Now I'm
Speaker 1: talking about how I'm busting your ass out here. I'll
Speaker 1: talk some trash about how you know I'm getting this
Speaker 1: turnaround off, how you can't stop this. How I used
Speaker 1: to love to call guys moves out before they do it.
Speaker 1: Anywhere I saw advantage or anywhere I saw weakness, I
Speaker 1: would actually attack that. That's what Carl Malone did to
Speaker 1: us as young boys. That's what Charge Barkley did the greatest,
Speaker 1: the greatest ever talk it and back it up. It
Speaker 1: comes with something too, though a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand talking trash comes with something. But I would never
Speaker 1: in my life. I always kept it basketball. We as
Speaker 1: basketball players know to keep it basketball. We know that
Speaker 1: crossing the line crosses the line. And now I've never
Speaker 1: crossing the line. But yeah, I've talked trash Lebron, and
Speaker 1: Lebron has talked trash. Back Chris the gag. Chris Bonsh
Speaker 1: was with us two days ago. He said he stopped
Speaker 1: talking trash with you because it took him out of
Speaker 1: his game. Talking trash is a mental is a mental game,
Speaker 1: you know, getting someone to First off, you have to
Speaker 1: have the energy to be able to talk, and then
Speaker 1: you have to have your information, you know, talking trash
Speaker 1: about breaking someone down mentally and getting them to do
Speaker 1: with multitasks when most people most people can't multitask, most
Speaker 1: people can't do two or three things at once, and
Speaker 1: to be able to master that, it's something something different.
Speaker 1: I watched Gary Payton, I watched Charge Barkley control games.
Speaker 1: I watched them control the refs. I watched them control momentum.
Speaker 1: And when I saw that, I saw that that can
Speaker 1: be done, then the referees and the game started getting better.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, man, the competition is about
Speaker 1: both a physical and mental state, and if you can't
Speaker 1: be in both of those, then you're exposed. But you know,
Speaker 1: I respect everybody and who I played every I was
Speaker 1: getting everybody's best and felt like everybody that was in
Speaker 1: the league was getting my best. So I've never played
Speaker 1: a guy where it was just an easy night. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You don't get easy knights in
Speaker 1: the league. That doesn't exist in professional sports. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Kevin Garnett and he's got a book out. It's
Speaker 1: KGA to Z and Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball and
Speaker 1: Everything in Between and Showtime documentary Anything Is Possible released
Speaker 1: next month. What's in the book that might surprise people
Speaker 1: because you say it's uncensored? Where did you get real?
Speaker 1: Where did I get real? Like? You know, there's things
Speaker 1: that you say, and then there's things like somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: go oh wow, Like is there an old wow moment
Speaker 1: or chapter topic that you have in the book. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just think sometimes that I would look
Speaker 1: up and some of this it was like a movie
Speaker 1: to me. Dan, Like I would be looking up and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, this is something straight out of You
Speaker 1: would see this in like theater or something right. Um
Speaker 1: the connection with the with all the Celtics in O
Speaker 1: way um uh. You know how my mom raised, how
Speaker 1: she raised me and my two sisters. I wanted to
Speaker 1: say it would be wow. And the reason I think
Speaker 1: I wrote the book was because to show the normacy
Speaker 1: and the human side of me, uh, and the things
Speaker 1: that you know I was able to be or be
Speaker 1: able to find solutions too. I wanted to create solutions
Speaker 1: for people who was lost or went through similar situations
Speaker 1: and was trying to relate and wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to find some common solutions to the to the problem.
Speaker 1: So you know, I get a lot of dms. I
Speaker 1: get a lot of um personal male about people and
Speaker 1: how they how to survive and doing rough times and
Speaker 1: sharing stories or be the subonus. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people were shocked that I actually knew who the
Speaker 1: Subonis was and that he was a huge play into
Speaker 1: my development just creatively and imagine and as an imagination
Speaker 1: to have an imagination of being that big and being
Speaker 1: creative and being mobile like he was. I don't think
Speaker 1: people were shot. I think people a lot of people
Speaker 1: were shocked that I actually knew his history. Don Stanley
Speaker 1: being Don Stanley being one of my idols growing up,
Speaker 1: even though she was a female. I loved their style.
Speaker 1: Her and Ken Anderson was my all time favorite guards.
Speaker 1: I took the rubber band idea from her. It kept
Speaker 1: me very disciplined at times where you know, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I don't know. It's it's like for
Speaker 1: whoever whoever was reading it, and for whatever reasons, they're
Speaker 1: reading it looking for whatever they're looking for. M I found.
Speaker 1: I found a lot of people found some solutions in
Speaker 1: the book, which is the biggest compliment to me. At
Speaker 1: least you come out of high school right to the pros.
Speaker 1: What kind of offers did you get to go to college?
Speaker 1: You don't have to give me names of schools, but
Speaker 1: what what were you offered to go to college? I
Speaker 1: won't embarrass anybody, or I won't put it out, but
Speaker 1: I got offered at a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: cash my mother and my family to have better opportunities
Speaker 1: to meet some of the most powerful people in the world,
Speaker 1: whatever that mean. And I think I told the story
Speaker 1: in the book where it was a situation where I
Speaker 1: was standing my grandmother at the time because recruiting was
Speaker 1: getting to the point where it was just obese, and
Speaker 1: I and my mother thought it'd be perfect or a
Speaker 1: better idea for me to change addresses. And life was
Speaker 1: running so fast at this time. But I had a
Speaker 1: certain recruiter come see me and offered me some cash
Speaker 1: in front of my grandma, and she went got a
Speaker 1: shotgun and told me to always set the tone with
Speaker 1: people that you can never be bought and if you be,
Speaker 1: if you could be bought once, you could be both always.
Speaker 1: And that stuck with me forever. Wait, what did the
Speaker 1: recruiter do when Grandma gets a shotgun? I had to
Speaker 1: tell him he had to get his bag and get
Speaker 1: the hell up out of here or him and his
Speaker 1: bag one't gonna make it out of here. And I
Speaker 1: thanked him for coming through. I told him I loved
Speaker 1: this school, but this this wasn't gonna work like this.
Speaker 1: And he wanted to talk. And I think the quicker
Speaker 1: she put the shotgun together, the quicker week into the conversation.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that guy's still around. Whenever I see him,
Speaker 1: I like to wink him, be like, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Like man? Yeah, so that's just between him, myself and
Speaker 1: God and my grandma, the best piece to Mom, mil
Speaker 1: Grandma Mill, Grandma's packing man. In the South, they are
Speaker 1: I definitely know that ain't no games, ain't no games.
Speaker 1: Were you were you concerned though with living in Chicago?
Speaker 1: You know, you know it was only one year, but
Speaker 1: just but Chicago was like back then? What was the question?
Speaker 1: What did you try? What what was it like? You know,
Speaker 1: you go from South Carolina to Chicago. What was it like?
Speaker 1: Were you ever concerned about just when you're not on
Speaker 1: a basketball court, everything you're concerned. You're concerned every day.
Speaker 1: Um um. Chicago is like a download to how to
Speaker 1: survive life. Like I'm like, I grew up in like
Speaker 1: a little rough neighborhood and you know, it's hood, the streets, whatever.
Speaker 1: But Chicago, big city, La New York, Houston, Miami, the
Speaker 1: bigger cities, they come with a lot more structure to
Speaker 1: come up. They come up with a lot more um,
Speaker 1: a lot less development in the neighborhoods. It's not a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, so you understand places like view centers.
Speaker 1: You understand the boys and Girls club. That's kind of universal.
Speaker 1: So I got to Chicago. I had to understand how
Speaker 1: the lay of the land works. You know, Chicago's full
Speaker 1: of gangs, It's full of structure. You know, over here
Speaker 1: is this, over there is this. Um. The police there
Speaker 1: is very different. They speak and deal with you very
Speaker 1: different in the big cities. So I had to get
Speaker 1: a download of all that. Every day in Chicago, your
Speaker 1: head on swibble. The head on swubble means you're looking
Speaker 1: left and right and if not, you're you're in something
Speaker 1: before you know it. And Chicago taught me. And I
Speaker 1: felt like Chicago built me so that I was able
Speaker 1: to go to the league both physical and mentally. You know,
Speaker 1: I was playing against guys that's in the street. There's
Speaker 1: probably better than some guys that's in the NBA and
Speaker 1: came up short. Or I had kids, or you know,
Speaker 1: got addicted to drugs and vices and just didn't make it.
Speaker 1: And I would encounter a lot of those didn't make it,
Speaker 1: And I encountered a bunch of different talent in Chicago
Speaker 1: that I felt like, man, not just living here as hard,
Speaker 1: but man, these guys can actually play the game. And
Speaker 1: it definitely sharpened me, and it definitely got me ready
Speaker 1: for the league, and I felt prepared. I felt like
Speaker 1: it couldn't be nothing worse than living or going through
Speaker 1: what I have to go through every day on these
Speaker 1: streets in the goal, you know, straight up and down,
Speaker 1: like trying to survive the big city is a real thing.
Speaker 1: Who was the best part of your experience working with
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler on the movie on cut Gems, seeing Adams
Speaker 1: m j nos his goldenness. You know, it's times where
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. I couldn't It was at times where
Speaker 1: Howard was at him and I didn't really understand. I
Speaker 1: really didn't understand like embracing the character, and he would
Speaker 1: be in this character. He would stay there, and he
Speaker 1: would stay there, he would be Howard, and and he
Speaker 1: would be talking to us and dealing with us as
Speaker 1: if he was Howard. And I had never experienced him
Speaker 1: like I had never experienced someone be great in there,
Speaker 1: in that craft and in this craft and acting. And
Speaker 1: it would It would be times where in this dialogue
Speaker 1: we had a dialogue in his office going back and forth,
Speaker 1: and he he was he was just playing with the
Speaker 1: dialogue and he was throwing it and I was catching it.
Speaker 1: But I was like, holy snap, this is this is
Speaker 1: this is this is greatness. I'm in it. I'm in it.
Speaker 1: I am in the dialogue of greatness right here. And
Speaker 1: I understand this connection. Like I totally got acting at
Speaker 1: that point. But the dope part of seeing someone in
Speaker 1: that greatness and seeing how that you can learn and
Speaker 1: soak up so much stuff it was it was one
Speaker 1: of the best and greatest experience I've ever had in life,
Speaker 1: like to see to try to do something that you
Speaker 1: you know, you know you're not as good in and
Speaker 1: then learn from it. And then it felt like I
Speaker 1: grew from that been around Adam every day makes you better,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Yeah, he's been an experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been around him a long time, been in I
Speaker 1: think now twenty of his movies. So I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know you're talking about. Let me leave
Speaker 1: you with this KG because I I still am baffled
Speaker 1: with what your Celtics are doing. So you you have
Speaker 1: a great coach who goes into the front office who
Speaker 1: now has to hire a coach. I gotta how about
Speaker 1: you just hire a really great GM and then keep
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens as a coach. Help me understand this. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this and this is my theory and
Speaker 1: this I have no equity nothing in the Celtics other
Speaker 1: than my heart and what I paid dues to. I'm
Speaker 1: always to see at heart. This is how. This is
Speaker 1: my theory on this though. So Batt Stevens came in
Speaker 1: and built this system and this I guess this um,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say pedigree, but he built He
Speaker 1: built a structure there that the guys I believed it.
Speaker 1: I feel like when you do that, the investment is there.
Speaker 1: You know, Danny has been whispering and has been hinting at,
Speaker 1: you know, leaving it. He and Brad have a great
Speaker 1: h not just a working relationship, but have a great
Speaker 1: communication and a great transparency about them. And I think
Speaker 1: Danny feels that if he was going to step away,
Speaker 1: if it couldn't be his son Austin, or if it
Speaker 1: couldn't be Numbers, who is like Danny's assistant jim Um,
Speaker 1: then it probably would be Brad that they put the
Speaker 1: investment there. The time has been that spent. They've gotten
Speaker 1: these players, they's gotten these players to believe in them
Speaker 1: in the ideal of the structure. Now it's about putting
Speaker 1: players and building players and braining players and building their structure.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like you're on baffled. I'm never known
Speaker 1: Brad to be able to be in charge of operations
Speaker 1: or any of that. He hasn't witness We haven't witnessed
Speaker 1: none of that yet. So let's see, let's find out.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's part of the family. I can see
Speaker 1: him wanting to keep things in family. But this is
Speaker 1: all Danny age and him thinking and thinking that Brad
Speaker 1: can do this, and uh, it just remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: I mean, just as baffled as you though. Great to
Speaker 1: talk to you, Kg. Good luck with the book, good
Speaker 1: luck with the showtime documentary that's released next month. Great
Speaker 1: to talk to you again. Always good to see you there. Man.
Speaker 1: Always a huge fan of you in the show, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me Man. Thank you. Kevin. That's
Speaker 1: Kevin Yarn at Hall of Famer. We'll take a break.
Speaker 1: If you're watching on Peacock, we will show you what
Speaker 1: we're cooking on the Tragger grills, and then we'll close
Speaker 1: up shop. We'll get to your phone calls back after
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Speaker 1: My thanks to Jalen Roe to the mother Ship, Mike Chachevsky.
Speaker 1: Dan Lebattard had some very nice kind words and I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. He's a good man. He's become a very
Speaker 1: good friend. And Kevin Garnett, the Hall of Famer who
Speaker 1: joined us as well, a couple of phone calls in
Speaker 1: here and this stage sports history. Garnett's very interesting, kind
Speaker 1: of a fascinating career. You know, he was in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They weren't you know, I think they went to a
Speaker 1: Western Conference final once, but you know, he was sort
Speaker 1: of stuck in Neutral but he never wanted out. He
Speaker 1: never I don't think there was any talk of him
Speaker 1: forcing his way out. You just had that trade with
Speaker 1: the Celtics and Kevin McHale. Gift delivered a championship caliber
Speaker 1: team by giving him Kevin Garnett with the Boston Celtics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: point I remember him, and I think it was ninety four.
Speaker 1: He came from South Carolina to join the Chicago Public
Speaker 1: League at Farragut Academy and he was nuts. His games
Speaker 1: were sold out. He and a guy named Ronnie. There
Speaker 1: was a show and they would play tournaments and you
Speaker 1: couldn't get tickets, you couldn't go see him in person.
Speaker 1: They would put him on TV. That's how big about
Speaker 1: high school team was. And he came out of high
Speaker 1: school and he said, look, Chicago prepared me physically and
Speaker 1: mentally to go into the NBA. A couple of phone
Speaker 1: calls here Dan in Los Angeles, Hi, Dan, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind today? Hey Danny, Mary Mary meat Friday? How
Speaker 1: are you? Thank you? Dan? Thank you? What's on your mind?
Speaker 1: I had a burning question, what is more possible this year?
Speaker 1: My Nuggets, who just closed out the Trailblazers last night
Speaker 1: winning the championship. You guys getting the Sports Emmy or
Speaker 1: mclovin getting another Meat Friday. I'll hang up and listen,
Speaker 1: enjoy the enjoy the wings and cold beverages. Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 1: Mclevin's not getting another meat Friday. Never, No, noah. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I had a good one about six weeks ago
Speaker 1: with salmon, which is amazing on the trigger. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's it's not a meat It's called meat Friday. Like,
Speaker 1: what part of meat Friday. Did you not understand you
Speaker 1: need to honor meet Friday like Matt Harvey honored qualcom
Speaker 1: here you go. Is there anything I could do that's
Speaker 1: worse than tofu? So I only have one direction up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I'm not ready right now. I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, hey, I just broke up. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just not ready to start dating again. I'm just
Speaker 1: not ready with that. What if I sneak in a
Speaker 1: random Turkey Burger on a Tuesday and build my way
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I don't know. I don't. It's
Speaker 1: too early right now. It's just the pain is too raw.
Speaker 1: Sean and Sacramento choines. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: My uncle from another mother? Man? My brother's behind the
Speaker 1: boys man. First of all, shout out Fritzie. What an
Speaker 1: amazing day of guests. Man, what a what a rollercoaster
Speaker 1: rider emotions before Don Lebotard made it weird at the
Speaker 1: very tail end of that, I was amazing. Man. I
Speaker 1: love the collabo, I love I love everything that went
Speaker 1: on today. And I think there's something to women what
Speaker 1: mclovin said. Now, I think you got a poto of negativity.
Speaker 1: Out there to get the positivity back. So for everybody
Speaker 1: in DP nation man to wish all the best suck
Speaker 1: a DP show. All right, well, thank you, Sean. I
Speaker 1: see what he's doing there. It'll be Tuesday night. It's
Speaker 1: the Sports Emmy viewing party. And we got a lot
Speaker 1: of great features looking back on this last year, some
Speaker 1: of our favorite moments. We were trying to get a
Speaker 1: top ten moments. We only came up with eight. Nice
Speaker 1: So Mario goes, hey, we should do a top ten,
Speaker 1: and I go okay. And then we started going through
Speaker 1: and he goes, um, we got eight. I said, that's okay.
Speaker 1: Everybody else does ten. We can do a top eight
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. This day in sports history, Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this day in show history. We lost the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: Sports Emmy Award. It was a year ago today, two
Speaker 1: years ago to day. Yeah, we lost a Sports Emmy.
Speaker 1: Don't remember we lost. I think that was party interruption, yes,
Speaker 1: PTI that year. Twenty two minutes. Yeah, they do twenty
Speaker 1: two minutes. Let's see it, twenty two minutes. I just
Speaker 1: start my day with twenty two minutes. I laugh at
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes. I think Mike Huchevski was twenty about
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes. Uh, this day in sports history? Do
Speaker 1: you have anything calling? They're all junk. That's why I went.
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth did something. Babe Ruth got sold a neverone complained,
Speaker 1: signed some contract that made him or Joe DiMaggio married
Speaker 1: somebody hit eighty games in a mclovin this final results
Speaker 1: pull question, will Lebron win another title? Sixty eight percent
Speaker 1: say no. Unfortunately, I thought I had a this day
Speaker 1: in sports history. Let me see if I have something here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cheat this audience. Uh, let me
Speaker 1: see Sandy Kofax through the third of his four career
Speaker 1: no hitters. I missed that Edwin Moses one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: two race winning streak was snapped. He was defeated by
Speaker 1: Danny Harris, a fellow countryman in Spain. Remember when that
Speaker 1: was a big deal. Nobody cared, nobody even knew what
Speaker 1: that race was, like, what is it? Hurdles? How long
Speaker 1: is it? But he he never lost, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it became this really big deal and
Speaker 1: then he ended up having it snapped at one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two consecutive races. Yes, mclove and you look post.
Speaker 1: I always remember Edwin Moses was such a big deal.
Speaker 1: But he didn't have a look of a fast guy.
Speaker 1: He kind of like, no, he looked like he would
Speaker 1: be slow. But then he just tore it up. He
Speaker 1: had a beard and receding hairline. It looked like, wow,
Speaker 1: that that's an older gentleman who's who's leading the race.
Speaker 1: Never felt like, wow, he looks fast and there's an
Speaker 1: older gentleman with the receding hairline and a beard, and
Speaker 1: he's leading the race. And down the stretch they come, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exactly you say, Bolt, No it was not. It
Speaker 1: was Edwin Moses. That doesn't sound like you're moving fast.
Speaker 1: You're Edwin Moses. Uh, let me see. Don't you part things?
Speaker 1: You're part things exactly. Yeah, like Moses would, he would
Speaker 1: part the field there, Todd, would you learn today? Kevin
Speaker 1: Garnett's grandmother threatened to recruit it with a shotgun. Who
Speaker 1: tried to persuade KG with money to go to his school.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good, uh MC Yeah, mine was. Don't mess
Speaker 1: with Kg's grandma. Whatever you do. She's in the back
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden she's loading shells into shotgun.
Speaker 1: Setan O'Connor, What did you learn today? Jalen Rose has
Speaker 1: the best hairline in the game. Yeah, just ask him, ye, PAULI,
Speaker 1: would you learn next time Lebert turns on, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about Tyler hero in the Miami Heat. We promise. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought that's why we were having him on. We
Speaker 1: never gone around to that. Todd Wood had I learned today?
Speaker 1: Coach k never recruited Shack, never knew about him, like
Speaker 1: LSU Coach Dale Brown dude, Well, I grew up on
Speaker 1: a military base in Germany. It's why he was like,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? Nobody knew anything about him. What
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