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Speaker 1: radio affiliates around the world. Sometimes what's going on in
Speaker 1: the NBA Bubble feels like a completely different season than
Speaker 1: the one we had before the pandemic. And we've seen
Speaker 1: some unexpected stars. Who would have thought t. J. Warren
Speaker 1: would be the Michael Jordan of the bubble. Michael Porter Junior.
Speaker 1: Last time you heard of him was probably when he
Speaker 1: got injured at Missouri. Now you do have some stars
Speaker 1: who have even elevated their games. Damian Lillard certainly has.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker as known in the inner circles as a
Speaker 1: great player. You know, serious basketball fans know him, but
Speaker 1: he's played well enough to take the next step. We
Speaker 1: know about Luca don Chick. He's been dominant as Lebron
Speaker 1: gets older. I keep bringing this up, who is going
Speaker 1: to be that face, And it's probably not going to
Speaker 1: be singular, it's going to be plural. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: faces of the NBA. We know about Harden, the Greek
Speaker 1: Free Kadie Curry. There's not going to be another Jordan.
Speaker 1: There's not going to be another Lebron. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's Luca, maybe it's Zion, maybe it's somebody who's not
Speaker 1: even in the NBA right now. But there've been some
Speaker 1: interesting storylines from the bubble, and we'll talk to reg
Speaker 1: about those coming up. Here is a story that is
Speaker 1: sort of simmering and it has to do it Nebraska football.
Speaker 1: We've brought this up that Nebraska they're not an open
Speaker 1: defiance of the Big Ten, but it certainly feels like
Speaker 1: they're flirting with that that they want to play football.
Speaker 1: That you have the governor, you have the school chancellor,
Speaker 1: the athletic director, the coach. Everybody's all in on Nebraska
Speaker 1: wanting to play football and thinks they could do it
Speaker 1: safely with fans in the stands. This is what I
Speaker 1: was told earlier this morning by a source. The Big
Speaker 1: Ten quote postponed the season and didn't cancel, and that
Speaker 1: is something to keep in mind. Apparently there is a difference.
Speaker 1: According to my source, if Nebraska were to leave the
Speaker 1: Big Ten, the Big Ten could sue. Their only option
Speaker 1: is to try and go back to the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: But they left the Big Twelve because they hate Texas
Speaker 1: so much. Once again, they didn't cancel the season. They
Speaker 1: postponed the season right now. And from what my source
Speaker 1: told me, maybe Nebraska. Nebraska is not going to have
Speaker 1: an en schools to play now. Maybe they could play BYU,
Speaker 1: maybe Conference USA American Athletic Conference opponents, maybe New Mexico State.
Speaker 1: Maybe if there's some openings with the sec ACC and
Speaker 1: Big Twelve, Nebraska could fill in some of those spots there.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if every school is going to
Speaker 1: take on the liability that we're seeing with the sec
Speaker 1: ACC and the Big Twelve. I don't know if all
Speaker 1: those schools are going to be playing football. Big twelve says,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. We're gonna try. You know, we have
Speaker 1: clarity here on what we're trying to do. We don't
Speaker 1: have certainty, but we have clarity here. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what we're going to have with the other schools
Speaker 1: in these conferences, because you might have a president chancellor
Speaker 1: who is going to say, on second thought, we're not
Speaker 1: able to pull this off. But as it is right now,
Speaker 1: college football is going to be played somewhere somehow, And
Speaker 1: the NFL starts a month from tonight, and you look
Speaker 1: at the first test that came out under one percent
Speaker 1: with the NFL. I don't worry about preseason. I don't
Speaker 1: worry about the first couple of weeks. But boy do
Speaker 1: I worry about once these guys feel like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe you could step out of the bubble.
Speaker 1: Keep this in mind. You talk about college kids and
Speaker 1: you put them on campus and you say it's hard
Speaker 1: to keep track of them, but you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to try to do this. The Cleveland Indians had two
Speaker 1: pitchers professionals who went rogue went on out on the
Speaker 1: town in Chicago, and one was around the entire team
Speaker 1: when he got back. They're getting paid to behave and
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. That would make me nervous. That would
Speaker 1: make me nervous. With the NFL, you have to police yourself,
Speaker 1: and these two pitchers police acing Clevenger couldn't do it,
Speaker 1: and then you run the risk of being with your teammates.
Speaker 1: Don't tell your teammates. You could have shut down your
Speaker 1: entire season or at least hit the pause button there.
Speaker 1: But what's going on at Nebraska? What's going to go
Speaker 1: on at some other schools? We keep hearing whispers about
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Can they make this happen. I don't think
Speaker 1: Ohio State would do this in defiance of the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: Can't see that happening. I know they want to play.
Speaker 1: All the coaches. I'd be shocked if a coach goes
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to play. You know what.
Speaker 1: I talk to my players. They don't want to play.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to play, and I understand why you would
Speaker 1: want to play. And the NFL has to feel pretty
Speaker 1: good because they'll start on time and as I've said
Speaker 1: numerous on numerous occasions, I don't know if they finish
Speaker 1: on time. They're going to start on time a month
Speaker 1: from tonight the NFL starts. Meanwhile, college football, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the schedules are going to be. College football
Speaker 1: used to start late August. Now it's going to be
Speaker 1: at the tail end of September. They may start on time.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to finish, and even
Speaker 1: if they do, are we going to have a national championship?
Speaker 1: I have no problem if the ACC and SEC play
Speaker 1: a championship game against one another and say, hey, we're
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the national champ whoever wins. They normally
Speaker 1: play against each other. So all right, Ohio State's not
Speaker 1: in there, But other than that should be pretty good.
Speaker 1: You might not get too many arguments here. So that's
Speaker 1: just some of the news here with what's going on
Speaker 1: with college football and the fact that the NFL starts
Speaker 1: a month from tonight. I can't wrap my head around that.
Speaker 1: I watched Hard Knox, and Hard Knox was basically about
Speaker 1: the medical side of this. It wasn't much football there
Speaker 1: with Hard Knocks, with both the Chargers and the rams.
Speaker 1: Then you find out Anthony Lynn, the Charger's head coach,
Speaker 1: he had COVID, and just how they're trying to pull
Speaker 1: off these practices. So you had a couple of moments
Speaker 1: where you're just watching nobody's throwing the football to anybody
Speaker 1: else because you don't want to have somebody's hands on it.
Speaker 1: Then somebody else's hands on it, and you're not throwing
Speaker 1: the football, you're not really having a practice, And I
Speaker 1: just don't know how these teams are going to be
Speaker 1: ready in a month four weeks from tonight first game.
Speaker 1: Let's go crazy. All right, let's go around. You gotta
Speaker 1: pull question there, McLevin. Well, yeah, I was gonna ask,
Speaker 1: do you guys consider the college football season legit in
Speaker 1: the sense of DAP BETWEENI with the championship be legit?
Speaker 1: This year? What's not going to be legit? But it's
Speaker 1: as close as we're going to get as Baseball going
Speaker 1: to be legit. No, NBA, that'll be legit. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I once again I said I wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: nitpicking here. If they play football, great, and you want
Speaker 1: to have a SEC and SEC and maybe if the
Speaker 1: Big twelve is still playing and they want to have
Speaker 1: a you know, four teams, two games. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: You know, Ohio State not being in there, you know,
Speaker 1: does it legitimize it? No? But if that's the best
Speaker 1: we have this year, fine, yeah. I McLevin. I don't
Speaker 1: want to put you on the spot because I know
Speaker 1: you're a voter. But should there be a Heisman this year?
Speaker 1: That's a little bit different, but yeah, it is. I
Speaker 1: think that there will be. I think that there will be.
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a year where we didn't have
Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy winner? I know that we've had winners
Speaker 1: who lost their award, lost their trophy, but we did
Speaker 1: have a Heisman Trophy winner. Yeah. Po. The nineteen forty
Speaker 1: three college football season had a lot of teams tap out.
Speaker 1: I would say maybe fifty percent of the team's tapped
Speaker 1: out for different reasons around World War Two. There was
Speaker 1: a nineteen forty three Heisman Trophy winner, Angelo Bertelly of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, so they did keep the award even though
Speaker 1: a good percentage of teams did not play the college
Speaker 1: football season the nineteen forty three well, it probably helped
Speaker 1: that Notre Dame played that year, so that hurt me.
Speaker 1: If Army, Navy, Notre Dame played, then you could probably
Speaker 1: get a Heisman Trophy winner out of that. Yes, Todd.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have NBA Bubble MVP Awards, you're gonna
Speaker 1: give out a Heisman Trophy. I would hope you know
Speaker 1: the fact that we have Bubble Awards. Why do we
Speaker 1: need Bubble awards for eight games? Because they're handing out
Speaker 1: Bubble awards like this feels like participation trophies. Here. You
Speaker 1: got in the bubble, so we got to hand out
Speaker 1: awards if you want to get Is t J Warren
Speaker 1: the MVP of the Bubble? Yeah, mcgleban I thought so,
Speaker 1: but I just got the updated stats. A lot of
Speaker 1: guys are making a run at TJ Warren. He's fallen
Speaker 1: down a little bit. He's not the leading score anymore.
Speaker 1: Is he more valuable than Damian Lillard? No, Laylard is
Speaker 1: by far at the leading score. Yeah, well no, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the MVP. Yeah, I mean Damien's run away
Speaker 1: with it. I think why did he doing? I mean,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard? If if you want to give out him, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna complain. You want to
Speaker 1: hand out Bubble awards, go ahead, hand down Bubble awards.
Speaker 1: Are He's saying November that you thought Damian Lillard and TJ.
Speaker 1: Warren would battle for League MVP. I thought it was
Speaker 1: going to come down to those two. I thought it
Speaker 1: was yes, yes, McLevin. You know, you look at these
Speaker 1: scores at the bubble. You forget Luca and Harden are
Speaker 1: both still scoring thirty five points a game. Are they
Speaker 1: any less valuable than Lillard? Well, I think Luca has
Speaker 1: had some pretty impressive performances. I don't think James Harden
Speaker 1: has had those kind of performances. The Greek Freak is
Speaker 1: going to be the MVP, the regular season MVP. That's
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. I think the only thing is is
Speaker 1: he going to be Defensive Player of the Year as well?
Speaker 1: And how how much does he run away with this award?
Speaker 1: Because I'm hearing that he's going to win it and
Speaker 1: win it comfortably over Lebron and rightfully, so I understand it,
Speaker 1: you know, And I started to look at the Lakers situation.
Speaker 1: I want to bring this up to Reggie. If you
Speaker 1: look at the Lakers and they face Portland, then they
Speaker 1: have the Rockets, then the Clippers now this assuming they win,
Speaker 1: and these these are the possible matchups for them. So
Speaker 1: they have Portland, who's playing as well as anybody, with
Speaker 1: certainly Damian Lillard playing is better than anybody. Then you
Speaker 1: have the Rockets, they're matchup nightmare. Then the Clippers and
Speaker 1: you don't have home court advantage. And then let's say
Speaker 1: you would face the Bucks in the NBA Finals. That's
Speaker 1: as tough a road as you're going to find. So
Speaker 1: that's why there is no asterisk. This will be even
Speaker 1: more challenging. If Lebron and the Lakers win, this will
Speaker 1: be as impressive as any postseason run we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Of level of competition you're going through. But you start
Speaker 1: to look at these numbers with the Lakers not a
Speaker 1: good shooting team at least in the Bubble. And it's
Speaker 1: not just three point shooting, it's just regular field goal percentage.
Speaker 1: I think there's only one team shooting worse than the
Speaker 1: Lakers in the bubble right now. Kyle Kuzum a better
Speaker 1: step up, Danny Green, better step somebody better step up here,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna need just a little bit of help here.
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Speaker 1: what is the poll question? We're gonna go with mclove.
Speaker 1: I know you don't want it. Let's put up that
Speaker 1: who's the bubble MVP? Come on, get the debate started.
Speaker 1: If we fuel this thing, it could become a thing.
Speaker 1: Byby Luca only shooting twenty nine percent from three in
Speaker 1: the bubble compared to TJ. Warren fifty three percent, Luca
Speaker 1: is not deadly accurate from three yet. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think he takes some really tough shots contested shots there.
Speaker 1: I think as he gets older, he's going to be
Speaker 1: smarter in you know, his shot selection there. But it
Speaker 1: feels like they have to rely on him to get
Speaker 1: shots up, and I think because of that, he does
Speaker 1: take some four shots contested shot and you make fun
Speaker 1: of someone in the NBA bubble even bursting their bubble.
Speaker 1: I just had a source who just sent me a text.
Speaker 1: A date to watch for in the NFL is August seventeenth.
Speaker 1: That's when players are allowed to wear pads and have
Speaker 1: contact for the first time. So August seventeenth is a
Speaker 1: date to keep an eye out on. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: take a break here. Reggie Miller is set to join
Speaker 1: us via zoom from the bubble. We'll come up with
Speaker 1: the poll question. Phone calls are always welcome, and I
Speaker 1: have what might be the worst attempt at pronouncing an
Speaker 1: NBA player's name, maybe the worst attempt in the history
Speaker 1: of the NBA and trying to pronounce a name. It's
Speaker 1: not even close, not even close. I'll have that for
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Speaker 1: Before we get to Reggie Miller, I got to play this.
Speaker 1: This might be the worst attempt at pronouncing the Greek
Speaker 1: freak's name in I don't know if anybody comes close.
Speaker 1: This is from A seven News in Australia. One of
Speaker 1: the NBA's biggest stars is in hot Water on the
Speaker 1: eve of the playoffs. Johnnie Annie Tuckatomato. Let's try it again.
Speaker 1: Let me hear one more time. One of the NBA's
Speaker 1: biggest stars is in hot Water on the eve of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Johnnie Annie to Tuatomato. Hey, I have to admit,
Speaker 1: first time I tried to pronounce it, I didn't do
Speaker 1: too well. But that was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Not now bringing Reggie Miller, who joins us from the Bubble.
Speaker 1: How long did it take you to pronounce jannisadatakumpu oh wow,
Speaker 1: I still have it down cool and it's bow not hop.
Speaker 1: People don't understand that that it's bow not thank you.
Speaker 1: Rich Reg will be on the call mAbs Sons at
Speaker 1: four eastern Blazer's Nets at nine eastern on TNT, so
Speaker 1: double duty here. Should we have Bubble Awards? I think
Speaker 1: it's fun. I mean we're in unique times, this is
Speaker 1: a different situation, and certainly U yeah, I think just
Speaker 1: to highlight again, some teams and some players have played
Speaker 1: a little bit harder than others. Some are still getting going.
Speaker 1: But it's it's fun, it's catchy. Okay. Where would you
Speaker 1: showcase your Bubble Award? If I came into your house
Speaker 1: and you had won a Bubble Award redge, I would like, oh,
Speaker 1: kim here. I would have opened up my my bottom
Speaker 1: sock drawer, okay, pulled it out and like, hey, I
Speaker 1: was MVP the Bubble, you know, back at twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I think we should just call it POTV the Player
Speaker 1: of the Bubble? U is it? Well, who's your pick?
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, T. J. Warren? For a little while there
Speaker 1: was the Jordan of the Bubble. So who is the
Speaker 1: MV you're going with? Bubble MVP right now. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: probably would go Damian Lillard has been fantastic, incredible numbers
Speaker 1: what he's doing to push them probably to that a spot.
Speaker 1: I have to go with Devin Booker. I mean, look
Speaker 1: as great as uh, you know, seven and oh for
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. No one expected them to be on
Speaker 1: this run. And in contention to possibly they still can
Speaker 1: get that a spot. But I still think they can
Speaker 1: get that nice spot and have those playing games. I
Speaker 1: think it's you can't go wrong between Lillard and Booker.
Speaker 1: I give this very slight, very slight edge to Devin
Speaker 1: Booker just because right now they are the only undefeated
Speaker 1: team in the Bubble and they have a shot of
Speaker 1: actually you know, playing for those playing games in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference. And then we have Sons and Blazers on Saturday. Yea,
Speaker 1: if it is Phoenix, excuse me. Iphis is still in
Speaker 1: play and San Antonio Spurs are still in play. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to tonight's games. Three of those
Speaker 1: teams are on our network, San Antonio obviously, Phoenix. We
Speaker 1: mentioned in Portland Portland plays of Brooklyn in the nightcap,
Speaker 1: the Greek Freak gets suspended for one game, for headbutting
Speaker 1: Moe Wagner. What did you make of that? Well, it's
Speaker 1: convenient that he gets one game. He wasn't going to
Speaker 1: play tonight's game anywhere. Okay. If the playoffs started tomorrow,
Speaker 1: it's the Greek freaks suspended for that first game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still think he would Okay, Okay, he still did. Okay.
Speaker 1: I just thought maybe they were going to give him
Speaker 1: two games and then he would have been miss game
Speaker 1: one of the first round. But it's a one game suspension.
Speaker 1: I get it. I've been there. I've been headbutted before,
Speaker 1: so I understand it waiting, But didn't you head budd No,
Speaker 1: I was headbutted by John Starks. Oh, I was headbutted
Speaker 1: by John Stark, And yeah, I reacted the same way Wagner.
Speaker 1: Did you know you act like you were like been
Speaker 1: shot out of the canyon. Oh my god, what has
Speaker 1: happened to me? Lord? Oh? But yeah, it wasn't that
Speaker 1: hard of it. And actually more of his frow got
Speaker 1: Wagner than anything else. But I thought, oh, okay, so
Speaker 1: Starks is the one who hit you. He head budded me. Okay,
Speaker 1: got thrown out? Yes, you should have been a theater
Speaker 1: major UCLA. The way you played. You gotta look look
Speaker 1: at me. I'm not the biggest of guys. You've got
Speaker 1: to be able to use a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't necessarily, as you say, it wasn't flopping Theodore.
Speaker 1: I was acting, but it helped you. But how frustrated
Speaker 1: did people get? Players get because you were flailing or
Speaker 1: a little bit or acting a little bit and getting
Speaker 1: calls very frustrated. And I think that's where the trash
Speaker 1: talking kind of came in, because one time would get
Speaker 1: the call and they're over there griping to the official,
Speaker 1: and then they would come to me, like, you know,
Speaker 1: man up, and then I would kind of whisper things
Speaker 1: back to them. And that's how a lot of these
Speaker 1: like little end game rivalries kind of evolve, is during
Speaker 1: those type of interactions or dramatic acting as I call them.
Speaker 1: Did Jordan get suspended for trying to gouge your eyes ound? No?
Speaker 1: Oh yes he did. Okay, I was suspended one game.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the big fight we had. I who
Speaker 1: knows that was a big fight. That wasn't right. It
Speaker 1: could have that wasn't undercar It could have escalatetta. I
Speaker 1: got suspended a game. He got suspended I believe three
Speaker 1: games for that. But if you remember I got thrown
Speaker 1: out of that game, he got to continue that game
Speaker 1: in Market Square in Indiana. Wow, that's the power of Jordan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking to Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer. He's
Speaker 1: got two games today, mAb's Sons at four Eastern and
Speaker 1: Blazers nets at nine eastern TNT. I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: the numbers here. I try not to be somebody who overreacts,
Speaker 1: but I'm just looking at the raw numbers with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Not a good field goal percentage from two point range,
Speaker 1: certainly three point range here, and you could be walking
Speaker 1: right into the Portland Trailblazers or Phoenix Suns here. How
Speaker 1: much concern do you have with the Lakers now that
Speaker 1: we're winding down the regular season and the postseason starts
Speaker 1: next week. I will say this, if Kyle kuzmat and
Speaker 1: play like he played against the Denver Nuggets when you
Speaker 1: hit the game winner and he is that third outlet,
Speaker 1: he is that third presence on the floor, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be so worried. But again, the game of basketball, it's
Speaker 1: not a light switch. You can't turn it on and
Speaker 1: turn it off. I like to see consistency. I like
Speaker 1: to see a team having a rhythm and playing well
Speaker 1: as they're building up, as they're ramping up getting ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. We have not seen that from the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Is it concerning, Yes, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you still have Lebron and you still have Anthony Davis, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, has struggled as well in this bubble restart.
Speaker 1: So I would love to see a little bit more
Speaker 1: consistency in terms of, as you mentioned, the numbers of shooting.
Speaker 1: But if they come out and if it's against Portland,
Speaker 1: if it's against Phoenix or who remember in Memphis San
Speaker 1: Antonio in their first round and they go four and one,
Speaker 1: this will be a mute point. But if they struggle,
Speaker 1: remember these teams that they potentially could be playing, every
Speaker 1: game has been a playoff game for them, so they're
Speaker 1: already playing at playoff level. It's not a light switch.
Speaker 1: If the shooting's out there, it could be a very
Speaker 1: long series for the Lakers. Yeah, that's what I wondered about.
Speaker 1: Let's say Portland gets in and every game has been
Speaker 1: a playoff game for them at some point you may
Speaker 1: run out of that energy that you have, or you know,
Speaker 1: can you go on a run because you've been playing
Speaker 1: at playoff level basketball there that that would be my
Speaker 1: big curiosity with no matter who the Lakers face, those
Speaker 1: teams are coming in scratching and clawing. Yeah, you're you're
Speaker 1: wondering if they're going to run out of gas. But
Speaker 1: I think for Portland they have. I think they've been campaigning,
Speaker 1: especially Damian Lillard. If you remember before this bubble restart,
Speaker 1: when they were questioning who were they going to bring
Speaker 1: and were they going to have a shot at making
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Dames says, Look, if we don't have a
Speaker 1: shot of making the playoffs, I'm just gonna sit on
Speaker 1: the sideline and share my teammings on I think that's
Speaker 1: why they format it. What we're seeing right now and
Speaker 1: the way he is playing, I don't see any let
Speaker 1: down on his end. The thing that kind of concerns
Speaker 1: me though with the Portland Trailblazers is the health report
Speaker 1: and the injury to CJ. McCollum. I know he's having
Speaker 1: a back issue right now, and he's that other guy
Speaker 1: that puts so much pressure offensively on you if he's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent healthy. I still believe Portland could
Speaker 1: upset the Lakers, but it diminishes their chances if he's
Speaker 1: not out one hundred percent. Give me the other team
Speaker 1: that you would say keep an eye on, if it's
Speaker 1: in the West or the East. Look, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some unbelievable first round matchups we have, like rivalry matchups.
Speaker 1: We've got Boston versus Philadelphia, Al Horford versus his old team.
Speaker 1: We've got Jimmy Butler versus t J. Warren, Miami versus Indiana.
Speaker 1: How about CP three getting a chance to go against
Speaker 1: James Harden and Russell Westbrook, Russ goin against Oksey's a
Speaker 1: lot of history in these first round matchups, something that's
Speaker 1: going to be exciting to see. I mean, if there's
Speaker 1: a team that possibly could rise up again, I'm putting
Speaker 1: my chips with Portland because the Damian Lillard is playing
Speaker 1: on a different planet right now, and if guys continue
Speaker 1: to taunt him in the bubble, I'm just telling you, guys,
Speaker 1: he is not the one to do this. With a
Speaker 1: guy that has the ball ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 1: with unlimited range and a purple light, you do not
Speaker 1: trash talk guys like that that can put fifty on
Speaker 1: you anytime they step on the floor and he goes
Speaker 1: back to back though over fifty. That doesn't happen very
Speaker 1: often in NBA history, and these are all big games.
Speaker 1: I'm also curious. You know, we saw what happened with
Speaker 1: the Greek Freak. We've seen some trash talking there. We've
Speaker 1: followed with Damian Lillard has been saying back and forth
Speaker 1: the Clippers, with what we're doing with Damian Lillard. Our
Speaker 1: players starting to go a little stir crazy there in
Speaker 1: the bubble. Redge, I think so. And I think I
Speaker 1: think it came out yesterday that oh my goodness, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring some family and friends in
Speaker 1: here pretty soon, because I think they've been in isolation.
Speaker 1: It's been them and fifteen of their teammates and coaching
Speaker 1: and coaching staff and management. I think so. I think
Speaker 1: they're going a little stir crazy, and I think that's
Speaker 1: why they've kind of let up on their restrictions a
Speaker 1: little bit, being able to allowing you know, family members
Speaker 1: and close friends. If you can prove that they're a
Speaker 1: close friend. I think they're going to open up their restrictions,
Speaker 1: and I think that will kind of lessen the tension
Speaker 1: a little bit. But again, we're getting ready for playoffs
Speaker 1: and usually company out times, that's when guys are probably
Speaker 1: at their moodiest. So I don't know. I think they're
Speaker 1: maybe they're going a little stir crazy. But it's fun
Speaker 1: to watch, I'll tell you that. Do you think the
Speaker 1: NBA adopts this play in scenario as we move forward?
Speaker 1: When we leave the bubble? I think if there is
Speaker 1: no vaccine in the near future, I think we could
Speaker 1: have multiple bubbles next year. I think we could have
Speaker 1: an East coast bubble in a West coast the play
Speaker 1: in you know what we're seeing, Okay, I like it.
Speaker 1: The only disadvantage I think it is it's for the
Speaker 1: number one seed because you don't know who. You can't
Speaker 1: prepare and you don't know who you're gonna play for.
Speaker 1: But if you're the number one seed, do you really
Speaker 1: care who the eighth spot? You shouldn't be worrying about
Speaker 1: the eighth spot if you're the number one seed. I
Speaker 1: think that's the only disadvantage. But it gives a little
Speaker 1: bit of a feel towards like the March Madness you
Speaker 1: got to play yourself in. It gives teams an actual
Speaker 1: shot of competing. If I look at you know, people
Speaker 1: want to look at this. Whoever wins is theirn asterisk
Speaker 1: attached to it? And I said, yeah, there might be
Speaker 1: because of the degree of difficulty is harder than probably
Speaker 1: any other year that we've had an NBA history. A
Speaker 1: bonus asterisk is what you get the Lakers with no
Speaker 1: home court advantage. Let's say they faced Portland Rockets, Clippers,
Speaker 1: and then let's say the Bucks. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can find a team in NBA history that has
Speaker 1: gone through something like that and not had home court advantage.
Speaker 1: You throw that in there as well. That's why I
Speaker 1: have no problem saying, anybody who wins the title, I'll
Speaker 1: give you one and a half titles this Whoever wins
Speaker 1: this championship will have won it all the points that
Speaker 1: you just mentioned. You're gonna be going through all the
Speaker 1: tough teams. And I cannot stress this enough because being
Speaker 1: in these arenas and with no fans, and these teams
Speaker 1: manufacturing their own energy, because there's been a tendency and
Speaker 1: to me, the games have been fantastic. They've been closed,
Speaker 1: they've been competitive, and I'll give all the guys credit
Speaker 1: because for the most part they came back in shape,
Speaker 1: but they have had to find motivation in other ways.
Speaker 1: And if you win this championship with everything that's factored in,
Speaker 1: You're right, it's an asterisk. It's an asterix on the
Speaker 1: good side because you will have actually had to go
Speaker 1: out and win it. Well, it's gonna be fun. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have preferential treatment or say I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for somebody, but if you said the Sons and the
Speaker 1: Blazers were going to be playing against one another, I
Speaker 1: would be or a plan. Oh my goodness, Devin Booker
Speaker 1: versus Damian Lillard. That alone, that's a headliner for that
Speaker 1: playing game. Remember, whoever is eight only has to win
Speaker 1: one game. The ninth place team has to win two
Speaker 1: games to get that a spot. So I love it.
Speaker 1: It would be fantastic. I'm not rooting for anyone as well,
Speaker 1: but right now my two bubble MVPs are Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: and Devin Booker. Let them settle it in a play
Speaker 1: in game, and right now they set themselves up for
Speaker 1: that to happen, And I'm glad that we've been able
Speaker 1: to see some of these players that we wouldn't normally
Speaker 1: see in Devin Booker is front and center because he's
Speaker 1: one of the great shooters in the NBA. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's one of the top five, you know, form
Speaker 1: his beautiful looking shot there. I don't know how good
Speaker 1: that team is, uh, you know DeAndre Ayton and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if that's a full team,
Speaker 1: but it is an exciting team to watch because of him,
Speaker 1: and the same with Portland. They have the ingredients to
Speaker 1: be a formidable team. I just don't know if they're
Speaker 1: going to be able to put it all together in
Speaker 1: time to do that. So it should be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And I'm glad, you know, t J. Warren,
Speaker 1: some of these other players he wouldn't normally see are playing,
Speaker 1: you know, some good basketball, and we're getting an opportunity
Speaker 1: to witness that. It's great to talk to you. Have
Speaker 1: fun this afternoon and tonight. I appreciate it, and I'm
Speaker 1: a little upset. I'm with you. I woke up groupie.
Speaker 1: The last couple of days we got robbed. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got robbed. I consider myself the fifth Danette and look,
Speaker 1: I give you a lot of credit. Your reaction was great.
Speaker 1: But me, if I would have been with you guys
Speaker 1: in front of that camera, I would be like, this
Speaker 1: is bulle, this is a bull. We were where's our
Speaker 1: Sports Emmy? You're lucky, You're lucky. I wasn't with you guys.
Speaker 1: That would pretty much guarantee we wouldn't have a shot
Speaker 1: at next year. Maybe that's why they haven't given it
Speaker 1: to Uh. Yes, but you know what, if we had won,
Speaker 1: you would have gotten a Sports Emmy. Well, I would
Speaker 1: have gotten I would have made sure that you got
Speaker 1: a Sports Emmy because your family always honored to be
Speaker 1: in your guys's presence. Again, I always tell people they
Speaker 1: always asked, you know, how's Theodore and how are the
Speaker 1: dann Adds. I'm like, I am a fifth dan Ad,
Speaker 1: I'm an adopted child. I'm part of the family. Thank you,
Speaker 1: reg appreciate it. Guys, love you. That's Reggie Aloicious Miller
Speaker 1: Junior the third. He's got double header today. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll get some phone calls. McLevin. Did you
Speaker 1: come up with a poll question too? Yeah, we said,
Speaker 1: should they award the Heisman for this season? Oh? This
Speaker 1: fall season, not the spring season. By the way, just
Speaker 1: to clarify, Wow, we're gonna open it up. Huh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get started. Manuel in Ohio joins us on the program. Man, well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Hey Dan, how you doing good, sir?
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? I want to do your opinion
Speaker 1: in thoughts. I'm Ohio State. I mean, Ohio's you know,
Speaker 1: moving off full ahead to play high school football, but
Speaker 1: yet we canceled all the collegiate you know, athletics in
Speaker 1: the fall. I mean, don't you think that high school
Speaker 1: kids would be more vulnerable because they're not being tested
Speaker 1: and so on? Yep, you know, I'm trying to understand
Speaker 1: the logic of Iowa State can play, but Iowa can't play.
Speaker 1: So they're in the same state, but one school is
Speaker 1: planning on playing and the other one is not. Conferences Man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it comes down to liability here, and the
Speaker 1: Big ten and Pac twelve are not willing to roll
Speaker 1: the dice on this. We'll talk to Chip Kelly, ucla
Speaker 1: head coach, will join us. Coming up at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Brad in Flavor Town joining us on
Speaker 1: the program. Higbra Hi, Hey Brad, my name's come on okay,
Speaker 1: thim for I'm for two seventy four pounds, all right?
Speaker 1: And and what can I do for you today, Shy
Speaker 1: for your loss? And you think college ball will um
Speaker 1: play this year? Yes, I think they're gonna They're gonna
Speaker 1: try to do this. And and and thank you for
Speaker 1: calling and expressing your sympathies for my loss. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, sorry for your loss? Uh, Ted? And Tampa
Speaker 1: is back? Hey, Ted? How are you great? Dan? Uh?
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean you already you know it's
Speaker 1: uh that was crap Monday night with the Emmy Award.
Speaker 1: All those other shows that you all are against. They're taped,
Speaker 1: you know, they're tape. They can run it back and
Speaker 1: four read a thing five or six times. How many
Speaker 1: people have sixty to seventy people a day call in
Speaker 1: and are put on hold for maybe like thirty minutes
Speaker 1: to an hour just waiting to provide input to you
Speaker 1: and the Dan Edge, none of them, right, you know?
Speaker 1: I think it just reflects a lot about the audience,
Speaker 1: the vote of you know, who was allowed to vote
Speaker 1: for those Emmys, in the audience of the real Hammon
Speaker 1: Eggs sports fans who are diehard fans of the Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick show. Thank you number two. Don Prady had his
Speaker 1: sports thing last week, his press conference, but the local
Speaker 1: sports heads sat in and took and they always give
Speaker 1: him softball questions, so they wouldn't take call in questions
Speaker 1: like the one that you gave me about did he
Speaker 1: have any influence with the Garoppolo trade? So the Brady
Speaker 1: press conference and then they didn't take phone calls from
Speaker 1: the lists. Yeah, the local radioheads always go to those
Speaker 1: and take them because they know, Hey, I got to
Speaker 1: come here tomorrow, I gotta come here for the next game.
Speaker 1: So we're not going to give Arians or Tom any
Speaker 1: hard questions to deal with, you know, So don't let
Speaker 1: those guys call in, because the call in guys asked
Speaker 1: direct questions, hard questions, and in the last think, Dan,
Speaker 1: I'll let you go. You probably know Kenny Payne coached
Speaker 1: at the University Kentucky, assistant coach to twenty ten, just
Speaker 1: got acquired by the Knicks. Yeah. I just saw that,
Speaker 1: But thank you Ted, Ted leading the charge. Take it
Speaker 1: to the streets. Ted, let them know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know who votes on these sports Emmys. I
Speaker 1: never met somebody who said, hey, I voted on your category,
Speaker 1: and that's probably a good thing. And I have fun
Speaker 1: with this. I know people go Yesterday after the show,
Speaker 1: I heard from some people in the business, in the industry,
Speaker 1: and they said, boy, you really took that hard. I said, well,
Speaker 1: it was a show. I mean, I am an actor
Speaker 1: and we're having fun. Am I disappointed? Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: disappointed more for the Danettes because you know, they haven't
Speaker 1: won one, and just to be able to share it
Speaker 1: with us, that would be great. But as I maintained
Speaker 1: a Seaton and he hates hearing it, it's bad for
Speaker 1: our brand if we win a Sports Emmy. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be the favorite. I've never been the favorite.
Speaker 1: I don't want to start now. It's not about being
Speaker 1: the favorite. It's about because you are actually the favorite,
Speaker 1: it's about being the winner. That's actually the thing. No,
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm not the favorite, but you won't
Speaker 1: be even if we won it. Be like, ats all right,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it again this year. Yeah? Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: if you told me in twenty fifteen the Cubs brand
Speaker 1: is going to change, I would have signed up for it.
Speaker 1: And nobody cares about the Cubs. Now. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: I got my one. That's okay, You're okay. If people
Speaker 1: don't care about us, that all of a sudden they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's move on. But because the well that aren't going
Speaker 1: to care about us and we'll move on, it's going
Speaker 1: to be probably the sports EMMI people. I think that
Speaker 1: our audience will stay with us. I don't know. We
Speaker 1: may sound different, act different. Yeah, approach to the show
Speaker 1: is different. I don't want to be an elitist here.
Speaker 1: I'm want to be a man of the people. I'm
Speaker 1: just an everyday Ham and Eggs. That's me. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: Ham and the you guys are my eggs. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break. Play of the Day is coming up next.
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Speaker 1: byrecon dot com. Slash Patrick. We settled on a poll question.
Speaker 1: We're trying to find out from the Heisman Trophy committee
Speaker 1: if there is going to be a Heisman handed out?
Speaker 1: Are they planning on handing out a Heisman? And I
Speaker 1: would think that they would The statement would be that
Speaker 1: they're still planning on handing out a Heisman Trophy this year. Yeah, Melvin,
Speaker 1: So you have three conferences basically, do you know, do
Speaker 1: you think it's fair? Justin Field, for example, might not
Speaker 1: get a crack at it. Wait won't Yeah, right, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't get a crack at it. So you could make
Speaker 1: an argument that incomplete field, I just don't know. You know,
Speaker 1: where we're going to be in a month from now,
Speaker 1: because right now it feels like you've got three conferences
Speaker 1: who say we're going to be playing All it's going
Speaker 1: to take are a couple of nervous presidents at some
Speaker 1: of these universities, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: might not have a full conference who's going to be
Speaker 1: playing football. That's my guests with what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: No other information than what I've had the first couple
Speaker 1: of days of this week. The information I have with
Speaker 1: Nebraska is once again, it's a legal loophole. I think
Speaker 1: where the Big ten is looking at Nebraska. If Nebraska
Speaker 1: goes rogue and says, wait, we didn't cancel this season.
Speaker 1: We postponed it to the spring. So you can't say
Speaker 1: we can't play football. You're canceling this, we're postponing it,
Speaker 1: and that means we're planning on spring football. Yes, but
Speaker 1: you might look at the other way. If I'm a
Speaker 1: Big twelve s sec ACC president and I decide to
Speaker 1: go rogue and cancel the football season for my team,
Speaker 1: my program, I would be concerned about my job long term.
Speaker 1: You know what stirs the drink a lot of those
Speaker 1: universities is booster donor money and if you're the president
Speaker 1: who takes name a team Mississippi State football out of
Speaker 1: the mix and everyone else is playing. But should the
Speaker 1: president of Ohio State be worried about his job? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the difference. My guess is the fan base there
Speaker 1: is very upset with them. You know what, Ohio State
Speaker 1: as a fan base that rivals SEC fan bases. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you this. You know that because you think
Speaker 1: with Ohio and you're you know, we don't lump them
Speaker 1: in with what the SEC has with their fan bases.
Speaker 1: Ohio State is right there, toe to toe with any
Speaker 1: fan base that you have in college football. And I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that anybody is sympathetic with what's going on
Speaker 1: and saying yeah on second thought, I mean, I would
Speaker 1: say that the majority of Ohio State fans want to
Speaker 1: be playing football and not going you know what, I
Speaker 1: understand the liability here, and it makes more sense with
Speaker 1: our student athletes. I don't think that's playing too well
Speaker 1: in Columbus Ohio. We'll talk to Chip Kelly, the UCLA
Speaker 1: head coach, get his thoughts on all of this. I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of impact the coaches or input
Speaker 1: the coach has had on this decision in the Pac
Speaker 1: twelve because I don't even know can you practice? And
Speaker 1: I know they're talking about spring football. I think spring
Speaker 1: football just takes away a little bit of the sting
Speaker 1: here where you go, hey, can't do it now planning
Speaker 1: on the spring. I don't know if you can pull
Speaker 1: this off in the spring. If you can't do it now,
Speaker 1: what's going to change Unless we have a vaccine? Is
Speaker 1: that it? And even then, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: going to have these Maybe the IVY League pulls this
Speaker 1: off in the spring, but I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a degree of difficulty is going to be high.
Speaker 1: But I still not quite sure why Iowa can't play,
Speaker 1: but Iowa State can play in the same state, but
Speaker 1: a different conference. More phone calls coming up. Also, our
Speaker 1: friend Kyle Brant, good Morning Football co host, had a
Speaker 1: podcast with Aaron Rodgers. It was really revealing and Aaron's
Speaker 1: take on the media I thought was interesting. I'll bring
Speaker 1: that to your attention. Kyle will join us coming up
Speaker 1: a little bit later on as well. One hour of
Speaker 1: the Books, two more to go on this Thursday Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show.