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Speaker 2: to us being at Lambeau for the draft coming up
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Speaker 2: that's it until the next day. Good morning if you're
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Speaker 2: a lot of time first hour talking about Luca's return
Speaker 2: and the over under was thirty and a half. He
Speaker 2: had thirty one at halftime, cooled off in the second
Speaker 2: second half, certainly the third quarter where he had two points,
Speaker 2: but the damage was done and to be able, that's
Speaker 2: one of those that you just want to go in
Speaker 2: and get it over with and hopefully you get a win,
Speaker 2: because as you can tell from some of these other
Speaker 2: teams limping towards the finish line, Miami Heat, Golden State
Speaker 2: Warriors losing games last night, can't be losing those games.
Speaker 2: But the Lakers did get a big win and trying
Speaker 2: to secure the number three seed in the West. Uh,
Speaker 2: we need some juice here with the NFL Draft. We
Speaker 2: need something to be happening here. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it's going to be. You know TJ. Watt with a
Speaker 2: you know, cryptic Instagram message where he holds up in
Speaker 2: a peace sign like peace out, like I'm out of here.
Speaker 3: We need something, Yeah, see.
Speaker 4: Get the number two pick, like trade up to go
Speaker 4: get number two. Why don't we just start a rumor? Oh,
Speaker 4: why don't we just start a crazy maybe not TJ.
Speaker 4: Watt related, but if we want some juice, why don't
Speaker 4: we just throw out sources say.
Speaker 3: That's all you need to do. Let's just do a
Speaker 3: sources say why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's rarely just source, it's it's sources.
Speaker 2: So then it sounds more impactful like that. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: now it's real.
Speaker 4: Two sources from people speaking to people inside the organization
Speaker 4: have said unsure which direction they're going in.
Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, like the New York Jets are considering trying
Speaker 5: to trade up to number two dot dot dot considering
Speaker 5: that's juicy.
Speaker 6: Yes, and there's not a yearly generational talent.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you're going to have a Hall of
Speaker 2: famers come out of this draft. But you're not going
Speaker 2: to have that. You know, it's not at the quarterbacking position.
Speaker 2: Cam Ward is a really good quarterback. You know that's
Speaker 2: not headline worthy, but you know, I saw him play
Speaker 2: in a playoff game at Incarnate Word, and I think
Speaker 2: I was watching that just because they were called Incarnate
Speaker 2: Word and that's the FCS playoffs. It's like the School
Speaker 2: of Mines. And I watched that they were in a
Speaker 2: playoff game as well. I think it's Colorado's School of Mines.
Speaker 2: Am I an ees, and so I ended up watching
Speaker 2: and I just remember seeing cam Ward and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: he's too good to be playing it Incarnate Word. Then
Speaker 2: he goes to Washington State and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden he ends up at Miami. Now he's going to
Speaker 2: be the number one pick in the draft, and apparently
Speaker 2: the coaching staff for Tennessee went back and they were
Speaker 2: looking at all of Cam's highlights. They also went back
Speaker 2: to look at Joe Burrow. When Joe Burrow was at
Speaker 2: LSU and he was going to come in as the
Speaker 2: number one pick, Brian Callahan, who's they had coach in
Speaker 2: Tennessee said, and he was with the Bengals, they wanted
Speaker 2: to see what they could take from LSU and add
Speaker 2: it to their play playbook in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: So they were trying to make the transition smoother for
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: You're basically saying, this is the third year at LSU,
Speaker 2: this is the place we would have called, this is
Speaker 2: what we would have used. You gave him familiarity. Now
Speaker 2: they're doing that with cam Ward. They want to take
Speaker 2: what Miami did run pass options. And Kevin Clark of
Speaker 2: the Mothership was talking about this this morning. So you
Speaker 2: have the head coach who's trying to bring some of
Speaker 2: Miami the Hurricanes offense with cam Ward into Tennessee. And
Speaker 2: I've always said, you want to get a quarterback that
Speaker 2: you want to be able to fit his needs too,
Speaker 2: Like it's not just I'm going to bring that guy in.
Speaker 2: Now you have to adapt to what we do. I
Speaker 2: want to draft somebody, but I also have to factor
Speaker 2: in what do you do really well? If you if
Speaker 2: you scramble, if you run, Now, you may not want
Speaker 2: your quarterback to do that. I just saw where Kyler
Speaker 2: Murray said he needs to run more.
Speaker 7: Yes. Yes.
Speaker 2: How many times does Steve Young Hall of Famer come
Speaker 2: on the show and say it's there, go get it.
Speaker 2: They're just giving you yards there and just be smart.
Speaker 3: That's it?
Speaker 2: But cam Ward run pass options bringing a little bit
Speaker 2: of the Miami Hurricanes offense into Tennessee, which means they're
Speaker 2: taking cam Ward. By the way, teams aren't allowed to,
Speaker 2: you know, publicly say what they're going to do. The
Speaker 2: commissioner discourages that because he hey, this is my big
Speaker 2: moment here.
Speaker 3: We want people tuning in. Who are they going to take?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know, you know they've entertained offers. No,
Speaker 2: I don't think they Maybe they've entertained offers. I haven't
Speaker 2: heard anything my sources, but cam Ward will be the
Speaker 2: number one pick.
Speaker 3: I think the interesting part WHOA yeah all that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, According to my sources, cam Ward will be the
Speaker 2: number one pick, but I'm curious about the second pick overall.
Speaker 2: What did the Cleveland Browns do. I saw where Deshaun
Speaker 2: Watson said, Hey, I'm going to be better than ever? Like,
Speaker 2: what's anati? What does that mean? You're going to be
Speaker 2: worse than ever? Average than ever? I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be holding out a lot of hope for
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson coming back. I don't know if he's going
Speaker 2: to be on the field this year, but you can
Speaker 2: take it. Feels like a couple of potential Hall of famers.
Speaker 2: Abdul Carter has that, he has that it. He is
Speaker 2: waiting to be a star now if he stays healthy.
Speaker 2: He is so quick. Travis Hunter generational talent. So you
Speaker 2: know that you've got a couple of guys there that
Speaker 2: have the potential to be a Hall of Famer. I
Speaker 2: don't know about cam Ward being a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: Odds are probably not. Shod or Sanders odds are probably not.
Speaker 2: But teams will pass on those players because everybody's searching
Speaker 2: for their quarterbacks. See, you would pass on somebody who
Speaker 2: is in line to be a Hall of Fame caliber talent.
Speaker 3: But that's the draft.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the best player is right there, but you don't
Speaker 2: take the best player you reach, and that's what's going
Speaker 2: to happen with Shadoor Sanders. Does somebody reach? Do the
Speaker 2: Giants having two quarterbacks, do they still take Shador Sanders?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think he's the over unders eight and a half
Speaker 2: and the ninth pick is the Saints, and I think
Speaker 2: that's where he'll end up unless somebody trades. And I
Speaker 2: think there's going to be teams Philadelphia will trade, but
Speaker 2: they're not moving up, you know, that high to get somebody.
Speaker 2: But I still think that you're going to have a
Speaker 2: couple of teams and you might have one or two
Speaker 2: teams where they go. He fell right in our lamp.
Speaker 2: We had to take him. Is he gonna be he's
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh today. Is Pittsburgh going to take Shador Sanders
Speaker 2: or Jackson Dark twenty first pick or do they do
Speaker 2: something else? But that's you know, we're kind of waiting.
Speaker 2: It's wishful reporting here leading up to the draft, where
Speaker 2: you're like, is anything gonna happen here? Anything fun gonna
Speaker 2: happen here? Anything that we break into programming and say,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this just happened, and maybe teams have
Speaker 2: learned stop giving up all of these draft picks to
Speaker 2: move up to take a quarterback who maybe had one
Speaker 2: really good year in college. Hey we're gonna go up
Speaker 2: and get Mitchell Trubisky. Hey we're gonna go up and
Speaker 2: get Trey Lance. You know, maybe you don't need to reach.
Speaker 2: How about you get a quarterback, the right quarterback for
Speaker 2: you instead of the potential is so dangerous, you know.
Speaker 2: That's why I said, look, we know what Deshaun Watson
Speaker 2: has turned into. But he did every thing right in
Speaker 2: front of you. You got to see him in big games.
Speaker 2: He won a national championship. He was right there and
Speaker 2: you had gms. Who I think felt, is this the
Speaker 2: ceiling for him where you could look at Trey Lance
Speaker 2: and go man, he was great at North Dakota State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he only played, you know, one year.
Speaker 6: NH.
Speaker 3: The potential Danny Dimes man, the potential Mitchell Trubisky, the
Speaker 3: potential Nick Foles, the potential man that gets you fired.
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson, The potential potential gets you fired. It does
Speaker 3: put some respect on Nick foles name. Yeah, fella won
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl. It was a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 6: I'll take that.
Speaker 2: I'll take that potent. Oh my bad, Carson Wentz. My bad,
Speaker 2: not Nick Foles. Carson Wentz because they went goo goo
Speaker 2: gaga for him too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Pull, We've talked about this before.
Speaker 5: Nick Fole does have the weirdest career in sports history.
Speaker 5: They chip Kelly year where he went twenty five touchdowns,
Speaker 5: two picks and kind of gone, kind of gone super Bowl,
Speaker 5: kind of gone back up, back up.
Speaker 2: Wild crazy. Hey Joe Flacco, Hey, win a super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, it's like where Joe go?
Speaker 2: Then Joe comes. Hey he's playing for the Browns and
Speaker 2: they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think I'm most curious for the draft is
Speaker 5: not who takes Travis Hunter of Colorado, is what they
Speaker 5: answer when they're asked about their plan for Travis Hunter,
Speaker 5: because you have to know your plan before you draft him.
Speaker 5: I think because if he were just a cornerback, he's
Speaker 5: still top ten. If he were just a wide receiver,
Speaker 5: I would think he'd be top fifteen. But when they
Speaker 5: announced on drafta we're taking you know, Jacksonville takes some
Speaker 5: fifth and they're asked, how do you plan on using him?
Speaker 8: Do you shake off that answer or do you answer it.
Speaker 2: I don't think you take him unless you know how
Speaker 2: you're going to use him, and he knows how you're
Speaker 2: going to use him, because I think he has told
Speaker 2: the or his representatives told the Commissioner's office that he
Speaker 2: wants to be introduced as cornerback wide receiver. When when
Speaker 2: he is announced, I don't know if it's in that order,
Speaker 2: but that when he you know, and the New England
Speaker 2: Patriots take cornerback wide receiver Travis Hunter. Now I was
Speaker 2: told that that. I was thinking, okay, because he wants
Speaker 2: to make sure he gets the opportunity to play both.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to be otawani, like what's your salary?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: I know that they lock in where you're drafted, but
Speaker 2: he is going to be doing one and a half
Speaker 2: to two jobs. Can you ask for Like that's another
Speaker 2: thing down the road after your rookie deal. Derek Stingley
Speaker 2: Junior just signed a thirty million dollar a year deal
Speaker 2: as a defensive back with the Texans. Well, is Travis
Speaker 2: Hunter going to be that? But then he's going to
Speaker 2: be a guy who's involved in twenty offensive plays?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know that modern corporate culture works that way. Hey, I
Speaker 4: do two jobs, now can I get two salaries? No,
Speaker 4: here's four jobs for your one shrinking salary.
Speaker 6: Yes, Martin, I think it would be really important for
Speaker 6: him to get a bigger salary if he was a
Speaker 6: Pro Bowl or All Pro selection on both sides of
Speaker 6: the ball.
Speaker 2: I just throw it out there though, whatever happens down
Speaker 2: the road. But yeah, I think that'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see what the Giants have a coaching staff that has
Speaker 2: to win. Now you got the Browns that coaching staff
Speaker 2: needs to win. Now you just re signed Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: Do you take Abdul Carter and put him with Miles Garrett?
Speaker 2: Do you take Travis Hunter? Do you trade out of that?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Those are the things I'm curious about with these teams. Certainly,
Speaker 2: you know when you look at the the Raiders Raiders,
Speaker 2: it feels like it's been asked in gente since this
Speaker 2: season ended. But look, these teams aren't going to tell
Speaker 2: you the truth for the most part. I have somebody
Speaker 2: who I really trust and who knows the Browns a
Speaker 2: part of that organization. He will not give me a morsel,
Speaker 2: not scraps nothing. I keep going. Quarterback question mark, and
Speaker 2: then I don't get a response, and I'll go quarterback
Speaker 2: question mark, and.
Speaker 3: Then you get.
Speaker 2: Probably best player available? Is that a quarterback question mark?
Speaker 2: So I'm not getting any information from somebody that I
Speaker 2: truly trust.
Speaker 3: He's the one.
Speaker 2: Who told me about the Baker Mayfield going to the Browns.
Speaker 2: So maybe we're not that close. Because I remember coming
Speaker 2: in that Monday morning NFL Draft week and I said, guys,
Speaker 2: get ready for this. I'm going to break some news
Speaker 2: coming up here in about twenty minutes. And that's when
Speaker 2: I said the Browns are going to draft Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: And people were like, no way.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: The draft people were like noah blah. And I said
Speaker 2: to him, man, I trust my source on this. And
Speaker 2: then Adam Schefter I think, swooped in and took credit
Speaker 2: for it and then said, oh, the Browns are going
Speaker 2: to take Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3: I'm like, uh, yeah, I just told you.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 5: If we did a show about the ten biggest mistakes
Speaker 5: in the past ten years in the NFL, the Brown's
Speaker 5: not giving Baker Mayfield a decent contract for four years
Speaker 5: is right up there, because they compounded it as it afterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the problem was that they brought in OBJ
Speaker 2: and Baker Mayfield is young, impressionable and trying to please him.
Speaker 2: And I thought that was the big mistake because Jarvis Lander,
Speaker 2: I thought was a better receiver. But you know, Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield I found his place. And that's what I hope
Speaker 2: in the future with these quarterbacks is if you're going
Speaker 2: to go top dollar, you know, be prepared for the
Speaker 2: fall out there, because if it's all or nothing, I
Speaker 2: think you're going to find teams that are go, uh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna move on from you. But if you find
Speaker 2: that soft landing spot there, and Baker Mayfield found that
Speaker 2: and he seems to be fine with that, then I
Speaker 2: think that's really the key.
Speaker 5: Yeah, paulm Just two years ago, Baker Mayfield was on
Speaker 5: Carolina in the Rams. Remember that messy season. He was
Speaker 5: one in five as a starter, one and three as
Speaker 5: a starter. Last year he threw forty one touchdown.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But you see these guys, it takes a while. We
Speaker 2: want immediate results, and it's not always immediate.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: A lot of these guys, you know, Sam Darnold, you
Speaker 2: get kicked to the curb in a couple of places
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, you get your chance again. Well,
Speaker 2: you get your chance with the right team at the
Speaker 2: right time, with the right coach. And he did, and
Speaker 2: he got this deal with Seattle. You know, uh Gino Smith,
Speaker 2: right place, right time, right coach. Now you know, he
Speaker 2: goes to the Raiders.
Speaker 6: Hopefully, hopefully one of these guys are Josh Rosen. They
Speaker 6: become a top ten pick, and then the next year
Speaker 6: he's gone.
Speaker 2: Well that was amazing that he went what tenth overall,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, they're like, next year, we're
Speaker 2: gonna take Kyler Murray, Josh Rosen. And he was one
Speaker 2: of those you know, that guy's ready. Of all the quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: he's the one who's the readiest. And then he wasn't.
Speaker 6: If he came out after his freshman year. Yeah, he's
Speaker 6: one of those guys.
Speaker 2: The draft is loaded with. Man, if he could have
Speaker 2: come out earlier, take a break. Dwight Howard's going to
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. He'll join us coming up next.
Speaker 2: More of your phone calls as well. Back after this
Speaker 2: drafts at the draft with Miller Lyte ready to go,
Speaker 2: hope you'll join us.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a great time.
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Speaker 2: Update the poll results here hour two. Get some more
Speaker 2: phone calls coming up. Luca drops forty five. More importantly,
Speaker 2: the Lakers beating the Mavericks. You got this time of
Speaker 2: the year where there must win situations. Certainly for the
Speaker 2: Miami Heat the Golden State Warriors, they have no room
Speaker 2: for error. They may not make the playoffs. They ended
Speaker 2: up losing to San Antonio. Dwight Howard he'll be inducted
Speaker 2: into the Basketball Hall of Fame coming up in September.
Speaker 2: Former NBA champ, three time Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: five time All NBA First Team Dwight, How are you doing, man.
Speaker 7: And bless man?
Speaker 11: I'm so happy and thankful to be back on your
Speaker 11: show again. You ever did it so in a while.
Speaker 11: I think the last time I did it so I
Speaker 11: was actually Orlando. I was driving in my car. He
Speaker 11: was like, hey, you turned down music a little bit
Speaker 11: so we can hear you.
Speaker 3: What was your reaction when you got the call for
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 11: I cried so hard It's just like the first day
Speaker 11: soon as he got as soon as I got the call,
Speaker 11: seeing the name the Nation Basketball Hall of Fame calling
Speaker 11: my phone, you know, seeing that and then hearing them
Speaker 11: actually say you have made it in to one out
Speaker 11: of four hundred and fifty six people who have been.
Speaker 7: In the Hall of Fame for basketball.
Speaker 11: I just every memory of basketball that started, my youngest memory,
Speaker 11: shooting on my first basketball go watching my magic justin tapes,
Speaker 11: and then just the tears start flowing, and man, there's
Speaker 11: just this an incredible journey with a lot of ups
Speaker 11: and downs, but to make it to basketball header it
Speaker 11: is for me, it's everything.
Speaker 2: What would you be, Like, what kind of player if
Speaker 2: you were coming into the NBA now, given the way
Speaker 2: the NBA is.
Speaker 7: Oh man, what kind of player would I be? Well?
Speaker 11: I feel like my time in Orlando I was very
Speaker 11: unstoppable with office and then the side that I played.
Speaker 11: I believe that if I was playing now, I would
Speaker 11: still be a dominant player, uh, the top five center
Speaker 11: I believe in the league if I was playing right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the game has changed so much with the perimeter.
Speaker 2: And I knew you grew up idolizing magic, but maybe
Speaker 2: you would have geared your game to be more perimeter based.
Speaker 2: I mean, we got seven footers playing on the perimeter
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 7: Look, that's true.
Speaker 11: Actually, when I started playing basketball, I didn't play center.
Speaker 11: I didn't play center actually until I got to the NBA.
Speaker 11: Uh So, when I got to the NBA, that's when
Speaker 11: my positions hanged. Then back then, there were no stretch forwards.
Speaker 11: There were no stress, no stress fives. It was only
Speaker 11: dirt and whisky. And the next person close to him
Speaker 11: that was sooning that much was Sem Duncan, and he
Speaker 11: was shooting more so off the glass side and free throw.
Speaker 7: Line and their shots.
Speaker 11: And I remember the last conversation I had with Kobe
Speaker 11: before we joined team. It was what he wanted me
Speaker 11: to work on was those free throw line and then
Speaker 11: jump shots and stuff like that. But today's game, well
Speaker 11: today's game, and when I was coming up in the game,
Speaker 11: that shot was taken out. Uh So, now I would
Speaker 11: be a perimeter bass player, and that'll be a lot
Speaker 11: of fun. I'd get to show people my other skills
Speaker 11: and the skills that I've had growing up.
Speaker 7: And I go back to just being a kid again.
Speaker 3: How tough was Kobe on you?
Speaker 7: I would say he was that tough on me?
Speaker 11: What what like people would assume because I was a
Speaker 11: hard worker, You know, it wasn't.
Speaker 7: I wasn't somebody that he had to worry.
Speaker 11: About getting in the gym, working hard in the games
Speaker 11: and stuff like that. I just think we just at
Speaker 11: the time, we was in two different places in life
Speaker 11: and we didn't see.
Speaker 7: How to eye.
Speaker 11: We didn't give each other a chance to eat to
Speaker 11: see how to But are you living?
Speaker 2: You learn if I gave you a mulligan on getting
Speaker 2: out of Orlando, would you have still left Orlando and
Speaker 2: gone to the Lakers?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 7: My intentions was not to go to the Lakers after Orlando.
Speaker 11: I now do it what I know now, Leaving Orlando
Speaker 11: taught me many lessons of life that I needed, and
Speaker 11: I feel like if I would have stayed in Orlando,
Speaker 11: maybe I wouldn't have learned those same lessons. And it's
Speaker 11: just how you look at it, you know. I hate
Speaker 11: the fact that I did have to leave Orlando, that
Speaker 11: was my first home. But I believe that everything happens
Speaker 11: I was exactly supposed to happen, and I can't question fate.
Speaker 11: The only thing I'm glad about is that it led
Speaker 11: me to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Most physical player you ever played against?
Speaker 7: Was who? Most physical player?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 11: Pekavis from Minnesota. You father was the strongest player that
Speaker 11: I could say, I played this really okay.
Speaker 7: The most out or than anybody else.
Speaker 3: What was your welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 7: Welcome to the NBA moment? Kobe Bryant duncan on me.
Speaker 3: Well, You're not alone in that category there, Dwight.
Speaker 11: Well, that was It was a funny one because I
Speaker 11: remember actually Brian Grant, he actually after that play, he said,
Speaker 11: welcome to the league. I'm telling and I couldn't wait
Speaker 11: to dunk on him back or block his side of
Speaker 11: some So we played against him in Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 7: I took it personally to just try to destroy him.
Speaker 3: Did Kobe say anything to you when he dunked on you?
Speaker 11: Uh? He just said in an interview that he baptized
Speaker 11: me and he woke me up in actuality he did
Speaker 11: that dunk. Was so embarrassed and I was like, I
Speaker 11: gotta block everybody's dunk. I put everybody to the ground,
Speaker 11: and I'm gonna go get me a Defensive Player of
Speaker 11: the Year.
Speaker 7: So it did wake me up. He baptized.
Speaker 3: He had forty one in that game.
Speaker 11: Jesus Spice, we must have had the thirty eight thirty eight,
Speaker 11: thirty nine.
Speaker 3: Who is the best player you faced?
Speaker 7: The best player that our face? Ooh we best player
Speaker 7: that our face? Oh my goodness? Uh skill wise or
Speaker 7: do you mean like overall overall?
Speaker 3: Just best player? Like that guy is he's different?
Speaker 7: Oh? Man?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 7: Well, obviously U.
Speaker 11: Kobe did a shot in the finals, and I'll never
Speaker 11: forget the shot. He was driving to the basket and
Speaker 11: he went up and I put my hands up to
Speaker 11: try to block the shot, and he took the ball
Speaker 11: between my arms and then brought it.
Speaker 7: Back, came back up and then shot the shock. It was.
Speaker 7: It was incredible.
Speaker 11: After that moment, I was like, this, that's the coldest
Speaker 11: player that I've never played me.
Speaker 3: You think you and Shaq will ever be friends?
Speaker 7: Yes? We Actually I saw him in Orlando.
Speaker 11: Actually after I was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 11: I was out at a restaurant eating with my family
Speaker 11: and my friends, and the owner said that Shaq was
Speaker 11: actually at the restaurant, and I said, I'm going to
Speaker 11: go talk to him, and everybody was like what I said?
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm going to go talk to him.
Speaker 11: I got up, went over to where he was at,
Speaker 11: shook his hand as do we have a minute a
Speaker 11: loan and we had a real good conversation, and I
Speaker 11: was very happy about it. We expressed some things, and yeah,
Speaker 11: the next time you see both of us together, we'll
Speaker 11: talk about the stuff that we had a sit down about.
Speaker 11: But it was a really good talk and I'm glad
Speaker 11: that the universe everything worked out perfectly for us to
Speaker 11: be in Orlando at the same place at the same
Speaker 11: time that I'm a conversation.
Speaker 3: But when did it go south or sideways between you two?
Speaker 11: I have no clue. I really believe that it was
Speaker 11: outside noise and people. He say, she says stuff like that,
Speaker 11: and then now I mate both of us irritated. So
Speaker 11: when I hear something on TV that he says, I'm
Speaker 11: pissed off about it and I'm responded to him and
Speaker 11: vice versa. And to be honest, I'm just just like, man,
Speaker 11: we're too olden. You know, we have children, people who
Speaker 11: look up to us, and you know, we both need
Speaker 11: a lot to a lot of people in this world.
Speaker 11: We both us some amazing things, and you know, we
Speaker 11: don't need this. I don't I don't like it. I
Speaker 11: grew up watching Sack. I respect him as a player
Speaker 11: and a man in a businessman that he is. When
Speaker 11: his father passed away years back, it's one of the
Speaker 11: first people to reach out because I knew how much that, you.
Speaker 7: Know, losing his father. You know, it was hurting him. Man.
Speaker 11: You know, I really as a as a young man,
Speaker 11: you know, looking up to smiling like you know, sagers
Speaker 11: like my big brother.
Speaker 7: So we just had a miss.
Speaker 2: Unsett Yeah, I thought it was. You were both in Orlando,
Speaker 2: both had Superman nickname. You end up following in his
Speaker 2: footsteps to the Lakers. So it's maybe he was thinking
Speaker 2: you were following in his footsteps, trying to be like Shaq,
Speaker 2: and for some reason he had a problem with that,
Speaker 2: that's all I Yeah, well I wouldn't.
Speaker 11: So my thing is this, also, if someone is trying
Speaker 11: to follow in my footsteps, that means to me that
Speaker 11: first that's an honor, that's all humbling, and that means
Speaker 11: that I've done such a great job with my life
Speaker 11: and my career that somebody wants to follow in those footsteps.
Speaker 7: So I don't see anything wrong with that. No, now
Speaker 7: I did not do that.
Speaker 11: It's just everything seemed to pan out like it was
Speaker 11: a mirror image of Shacks like and career. We're both tall,
Speaker 11: we're both funny, we're both comedians, like to have fun dance,
Speaker 11: we both dunked the ball a lot with both dominant centers.
Speaker 11: I understand that we both say we're superman, So I
Speaker 11: get it. If I am following his footsteps, I should.
Speaker 11: I would love that. You know, Shack has saved a
Speaker 11: way for so many big men. He's done an amazing job,
Speaker 11: so you know that's amazing to follow in the footsteps
Speaker 11: were one of the greatest, most dominant big men to
Speaker 11: ever play.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna present you at the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 7: Well, I would love Kevin Gardinett, h.
Speaker 11: Keem Elijah One, and Shaquille O'Neill to walk me in.
Speaker 11: If it's not Sequille, if he can't do it, Martin Jackson.
Speaker 3: Wait, have you reached out to these guys? Are you
Speaker 3: reaching out to them now?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 11: Yes, I have to reach back out to Mark Jackson.
Speaker 11: Mark Jackson's story about him. I met him in high
Speaker 11: school at the Top one hundred camp, and I asked
Speaker 11: him could he meet me every morning at around six
Speaker 11: point thirty to work out before a camp started, and
Speaker 11: he thought I was playing around and I wasn't going
Speaker 11: to show up. I told him I was serious about
Speaker 11: being the number one pick and the best player in
Speaker 11: the Nations. I was there every morning. He was there
Speaker 11: every morning. That helped me get better, and I remember that,
Speaker 11: you know, that really helped shape the mold before the NBA.
Speaker 7: So you know, I would love for him to, you know,
Speaker 7: walk me in, but I don't.
Speaker 11: I said, I think it's players who have made it
Speaker 11: into the Hall of Fame, Okay.
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like you got a posse there,
Speaker 2: not just one person, Dwight so Shack, Kevin Garnett, Cheam,
Speaker 2: Elijah Well, you.
Speaker 3: Got to pick one. I don't know. Can you have three?
Speaker 7: I think you can have two.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: My favorite player all time is Will Chamberlins, So if
Speaker 11: he could do it, I would love what chimaman would
Speaker 11: be there.
Speaker 7: That's my favorite player.
Speaker 2: Uh So, yeah, well that's not gonna happen. So I
Speaker 2: think it would be awesome. I mean, if Will Chamberlain
Speaker 2: walks you in, hey, that'll be a pretty great moment.
Speaker 3: He's been dead for a long time. Dwight.
Speaker 2: I think Shack Shack walking you in would be awesome.
Speaker 2: That would be pretty special to see you two walk
Speaker 2: in together.
Speaker 3: Hopefully you would.
Speaker 11: It would it would be very special, not only because
Speaker 11: of all the noise that over all the years. People
Speaker 11: would love that. But one thing we both say is
Speaker 11: people would love to see us fight.
Speaker 7: And we're not fighting. We don't need to fight.
Speaker 11: But the moment that people would really love to see
Speaker 11: is I think that moment right there, and it shows
Speaker 11: that we have mature in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 11: We're able to squash whatever beef people to say we're having.
Speaker 11: And you know, he's inducted me into that level, that
Speaker 11: that space that he's always pushed me at every single
Speaker 11: time he's been on uh, you know, the shows that
Speaker 11: T and T and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: So just to see him do that, I think it'll
Speaker 7: be really awesome.
Speaker 2: And this I'm gonna script this for you. You and
Speaker 2: Shank walk in and then you open up your jackets
Speaker 2: and you got Superman T shirts on.
Speaker 7: Ah, that would be hilarious.
Speaker 2: All right, We just got to get Shack on board,
Speaker 2: you know. That's it. We get we got a little
Speaker 2: bit of time, You got a couple of months.
Speaker 11: I think we got some time. I will start working
Speaker 11: on sending us a more message and see if.
Speaker 3: The work well.
Speaker 2: More importantly, congratulations on all of this, and thanks for joining.
Speaker 11: Us, Thanks for having me man. I don't know you know,
Speaker 11: I'll be joining the Big Three this year. Play some
Speaker 11: Big Three basketball with ice Cube and if you have
Speaker 11: any players that's interesting in playing.
Speaker 7: And I have my whole professional league and Asia. It's
Speaker 7: called the Asian Tournament.
Speaker 11: We're having a draft April eleven and April twelve this
Speaker 11: month coming up. We have twelve teams in our league
Speaker 11: and we want to expand it and get more guys
Speaker 11: in America and the States opportunities to play in a
Speaker 11: national ball. Get an awesome job for me my career,
Speaker 11: and I can do an amazing job of the guys.
Speaker 7: I'd love to give him that opportunity.
Speaker 3: Can Cube play anymore?
Speaker 2: I mean, he messed around and got a triple double Dwight,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if he really did. Dwight, he
Speaker 2: kept his own stats in a pickup game.
Speaker 1: You are let me so good?
Speaker 3: Can Cube still play? Can Cube play?
Speaker 7: He can still play? That's why he had it. The
Speaker 7: four point four point shot.
Speaker 2: Oh man, uh, good luck with all of this, and
Speaker 2: again and thanks for joining.
Speaker 7: Us, thanks for having man, I have an awesome day.
Speaker 2: That's Dwight Howard going to be inducted into the Basketball
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame in September. Let's take a break. We'll
Speaker 2: come back with your phone calls after this.
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Speaker 3: What's the poll question for hour two? We got two
Speaker 3: of them up there right now?
Speaker 4: What is TJ. Watt signaling in his photo on social media?
Speaker 3: Okay? Uh, utah? Get me two?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 3: World peace or trade me peace out?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Peace out?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 4: Fifty four percent of the audience say trade me a
Speaker 4: respectable twenty six percent saying utah, get me too. Say
Speaker 4: a point break reference there.
Speaker 2: How about a two year contract extension two two years
Speaker 2: two two.
Speaker 4: We also have if you gave Mark Cuban a mulligan,
Speaker 4: would he take three point five billion dollars still or
Speaker 4: Luca still on the MAVs?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 4: Fifty three percent say he would give back the three
Speaker 4: point five billion to keep Luke on the MAVs.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah? All right.
Speaker 3: Mark.
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Speaker 2: a bar and he got a tip on an amateur.
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Speaker 2: A couple of phone calls in here Andrew in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Hi Andrew, thanks for holding what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: Good morning, DP and the day maps. I was calling
Speaker 12: a reference to the gentleman who called earlier this morning
Speaker 12: about his test sicular cancer, and you not to make
Speaker 12: light of it. I've got a friend who has lost
Speaker 12: both of his plumbs now okay, and before the afford
Speaker 12: the surgery, he asked for one liners. One of his
Speaker 12: was when life, when life gives you lemons, cut them off.
Speaker 12: Mine was these notts are now on a swimsusue.
Speaker 2: Okay, nice, well, thank you Andrew, Yes, sure, Tim and
Speaker 2: Orlando will be happy to have people making fun of him.
Speaker 2: He's got one tactical after but hey, he's got a
Speaker 2: clean bell of health. That's more important here. Jordan in Texas,
Speaker 2: Hi Jordan, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. First time calling.
Speaker 13: I had testicular cancer about thirteen years ago. Everything's good now,
Speaker 13: good health. It just so happened that the day I
Speaker 13: was supposed to have surgery to have the testicle removed
Speaker 13: was my second wedding anniversary. And on the way to
Speaker 13: the hospital that morning, my wife hands me a card
Speaker 13: and the card says, I'm nuts about you, but the
Speaker 13: s out of the word nut.
Speaker 3: It was singular.
Speaker 7: Too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is before you have the surgery and
Speaker 2: your wife.
Speaker 3: Are you still married?
Speaker 13: Yes, we're still we married?
Speaker 2: Okay, good, all right, Well, thank you for sharing that, Jordan.
Speaker 2: Jim in Ohio. I didn't think we were doing testical
Speaker 2: jokes today, but you know, it's what I love about
Speaker 2: the show. Hi Jim, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: Yea, I have a request. I know in the last
Speaker 14: maybe a week or two, you've got some pushback from
Speaker 14: some Bills fans that said about a lack of coverage. Yeah,
Speaker 14: as a Steeler fan, I like the request that you
Speaker 14: not cover the Steelers, says if at all possible.
Speaker 2: Well, they might give me reason to not cover them
Speaker 2: unless you get Aaron Rodgers and then everybody's going to
Speaker 2: be talking about your team. Jim, thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. Yeah, I didn't know that. We somehow are
Speaker 2: persona and grato with Bills fan so at least a
Speaker 2: couple of them. They called in that we don't give
Speaker 2: them enough coverage or credits, and oh, I think this
Speaker 2: stems back to me gushing over Dan Marino. And then
Speaker 2: a Buffalo Bills fan called in to say, Jim Kelly
Speaker 2: is far better quarterback than Dan Marino. He's far more decorated.
Speaker 2: But the point I made was Dan Marino changed football.
Speaker 2: He did, he changed football, and no he didn't win,
Speaker 2: but he went to one Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Jim went to four. And Jim's a Hall of Famer
Speaker 3: as well. Yes, marm not more decorated.
Speaker 6: I think he just had more team success.
Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah, it depends on how you want to
Speaker 2: describe to find decorated.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Buffalo. Jim Kelly's a great quarterback.
Speaker 7: Yes he is.
Speaker 2: He's a great quarterback. Matt in Ohio, Hi, Matt what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 15: Hey guys, I am Oh, I'm sorry six foot HILLO
Speaker 15: two forty and I'm not calling to talk about plums
Speaker 15: or anything. I just wanted to touch up on the.
Speaker 16: Live golf tour thing.
Speaker 15: My thought was, uh, why not just go all.
Speaker 16: Out and do like an and one mixtape tour and
Speaker 16: you could, uh, you know, have the guy on the
Speaker 16: side of the green, you know, uh yelling oh baby
Speaker 16: after you know, just just go all out with how
Speaker 16: ridiculous that's getting.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you man for that suggestion. Professor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that dude was fun. He was awesome. The professor
Speaker 2: had a moment there. Yes, that whole tour was was great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: really really great. Yeah, they had a moment skipped Tom
Speaker 2: Alou Yeah, they Professor. I think we had him on
Speaker 2: This was years ago, but he I think was giving
Speaker 2: clinics on how to you know, with ball handling.
Speaker 3: But he was fun. That was that was fun to
Speaker 3: watch those and ones mixtapes.
Speaker 6: Do you think Tim's going to that ball handling course?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, Tim and Orlando. Wow, Marvin Marvin, all right, Marvin
Speaker 3: can make that joke Final Hour on the way. Marvin
Speaker 3: could make that with your small hands. I'm flying.
Speaker 8: Its testical situation.
Speaker 11: But.
Speaker 3: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go clean it up, clean it up.
Speaker 2: Final hour on the way, King of Comedy. We're still
Speaker 2: waiting for that comedy Fritzy uh Seaton, Mar Paula years. Truly,
Speaker 2: we're back after this