WEBVTT - HOUR 1- Reggie Miller 081320 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.600 Sports Radio. Made it to a Thursday. Our one Dan 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.800 and The Dan Nstan Patrick Show will check in with 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.719 Reggie Miller. Ridge will join us from the bubble as 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.080 we get ready for the final game before we head 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.200 into the postseason. Chip Kelly, ucla head football coach, what's 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.400 he think of spring football? Kyle Brandt, one of the 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.800 co hosts Good Morning Football, had a really revealing interview 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.960 podcast with Aaron Rodgers. We'll talk to Kyle about that 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.800 coming up. You can get involved in the program of 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.720 variety of blays. You can dial us up each seven 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.000 seven three DP Show email address dpat dan Patrick dot Com, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.760 Twitter handle at DP show. Say good morning to our 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.760 radio and TV partners, those watching on YouTube, dot com, Slash, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.519 The Dan Patrick Show, and three hundred and sixty two 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.920 radio affiliates around the world. Sometimes what's going on in 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.240 the NBA Bubble feels like a completely different season than 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.000 the one we had before the pandemic. And we've seen 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.040 some unexpected stars. Who would have thought t. J. Warren 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.800 would be the Michael Jordan of the bubble. Michael Porter Junior. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.160 Last time you heard of him was probably when he 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.880 got injured at Missouri. Now you do have some stars 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.399 who have even elevated their games. Damian Lillard certainly has. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.280 Devin Booker as known in the inner circles as a 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.440 great player. You know, serious basketball fans know him, but 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.920 he's played well enough to take the next step. We 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.040 know about Luca don Chick. He's been dominant as Lebron 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.440 gets older. I keep bringing this up, who is going 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.920 to be that face, And it's probably not going to 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.039 be singular, it's going to be plural. They're gonna be 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.479 faces of the NBA. We know about Harden, the Greek 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.800 Free Kadie Curry. There's not going to be another Jordan. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.479 There's not going to be another Lebron. You know, maybe 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.240 it's Luca, maybe it's Zion, maybe it's somebody who's not 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.560 even in the NBA right now. But there've been some 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.480 interesting storylines from the bubble, and we'll talk to reg 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.840 about those coming up. Here is a story that is 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.520 sort of simmering and it has to do it Nebraska football. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.840 We've brought this up that Nebraska they're not an open 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.760 defiance of the Big Ten, but it certainly feels like 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.440 they're flirting with that that they want to play football. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.320 That you have the governor, you have the school chancellor, 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.960 the athletic director, the coach. Everybody's all in on Nebraska 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.520 wanting to play football and thinks they could do it 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.240 safely with fans in the stands. This is what I 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.480 was told earlier this morning by a source. The Big 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.119 Ten quote postponed the season and didn't cancel, and that 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.880 is something to keep in mind. Apparently there is a difference. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.200 According to my source, if Nebraska were to leave the 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.880 Big Ten, the Big Ten could sue. Their only option 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.760 is to try and go back to the Big Twelve. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.800 But they left the Big Twelve because they hate Texas 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:53.639 so much. Once again, they didn't cancel the season. They 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.400 postponed the season right now. And from what my source 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.760 told me, maybe Nebraska. Nebraska is not going to have 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.679 an en schools to play now. Maybe they could play BYU, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:10.519 maybe Conference USA American Athletic Conference opponents, maybe New Mexico State. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.919 Maybe if there's some openings with the sec ACC and 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.320 Big Twelve, Nebraska could fill in some of those spots there. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.959 Because I don't know if every school is going to 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.200 take on the liability that we're seeing with the sec 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.560 ACC and the Big Twelve. I don't know if all 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.120 those schools are going to be playing football. Big twelve says, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.720 we're gonna go. We're gonna try. You know, we have 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.720 clarity here on what we're trying to do. We don't 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.920 have certainty, but we have clarity here. But I don't 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.080 know what we're going to have with the other schools 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.440 in these conferences, because you might have a president chancellor 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.320 who is going to say, on second thought, we're not 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.200 able to pull this off. But as it is right now, 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.440 college football is going to be played somewhere somehow, And 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:02.480 the NFL starts a month from tonight, and you look 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.880 at the first test that came out under one percent 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.200 with the NFL. I don't worry about preseason. I don't 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.480 worry about the first couple of weeks. But boy do 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.000 I worry about once these guys feel like, hey, you 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.800 know what, maybe you could step out of the bubble. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.000 Keep this in mind. You talk about college kids and 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.279 you put them on campus and you say it's hard 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.960 to keep track of them, but you know, we're going 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.039 to try to do this. The Cleveland Indians had two 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:32.680 pitchers professionals who went rogue went on out on the 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:38.200 town in Chicago, and one was around the entire team 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.520 when he got back. They're getting paid to behave and 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.080 couldn't do it. That would make me nervous. That would 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.000 make me nervous. With the NFL, you have to police yourself, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.440 and these two pitchers police acing Clevenger couldn't do it, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.839 and then you run the risk of being with your teammates. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.200 Don't tell your teammates. You could have shut down your 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.279 entire season or at least hit the pause button there. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.480 But what's going on at Nebraska? What's going to go 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.880 on at some other schools? We keep hearing whispers about 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.400 Ohio State. Can they make this happen. I don't think 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.960 Ohio State would do this in defiance of the Big Ten. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.960 Can't see that happening. I know they want to play. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.400 All the coaches. I'd be shocked if a coach goes 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.640 you know what, I don't want to play. You know what. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.960 I talk to my players. They don't want to play. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.920 Everybody wants to play, and I understand why you would 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.760 want to play. And the NFL has to feel pretty 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.680 good because they'll start on time and as I've said 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.599 numerous on numerous occasions, I don't know if they finish 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.520 on time. They're going to start on time a month 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:54.560 from tonight the NFL starts. Meanwhile, college football, I don't 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.560 know what the schedules are going to be. College football 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.560 used to start late August. Now it's going to be 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.960 at the tail end of September. They may start on time. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.560 I don't know if they're going to finish, and even 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.080 if they do, are we going to have a national championship? 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.320 I have no problem if the ACC and SEC play 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.080 a championship game against one another and say, hey, we're 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.719 you're gonna be the national champ whoever wins. They normally 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.839 play against each other. So all right, Ohio State's not 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.479 in there, But other than that should be pretty good. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.200 You might not get too many arguments here. So that's 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.599 just some of the news here with what's going on 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.360 with college football and the fact that the NFL starts 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.120 a month from tonight. I can't wrap my head around that. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:49.320 I watched Hard Knox, and Hard Knox was basically about 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.920 the medical side of this. It wasn't much football there 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.000 with Hard Knocks, with both the Chargers and the rams. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.480 Then you find out Anthony Lynn, the Charger's head coach, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.960 he had COVID, and just how they're trying to pull 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.120 off these practices. So you had a couple of moments 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.040 where you're just watching nobody's throwing the football to anybody 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.200 else because you don't want to have somebody's hands on it. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.480 Then somebody else's hands on it, and you're not throwing 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.640 the football, you're not really having a practice, And I 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.840 just don't know how these teams are going to be 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:30.560 ready in a month four weeks from tonight first game. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.520 Let's go crazy. All right, let's go around. You gotta 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.720 pull question there, McLevin. Well, yeah, I was gonna ask, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.800 do you guys consider the college football season legit in 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.840 the sense of DAP BETWEENI with the championship be legit? 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.200 This year? What's not going to be legit? But it's 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.360 as close as we're going to get as Baseball going 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:57.760 to be legit. No, NBA, that'll be legit. Yeah, I mean, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.440 I once again I said I wasn't going to be 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.040 nitpicking here. If they play football, great, and you want 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.520 to have a SEC and SEC and maybe if the 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.800 Big twelve is still playing and they want to have 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.840 a you know, four teams, two games. I'm fine with that. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 You know, Ohio State not being in there, you know, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.200 does it legitimize it? No? But if that's the best 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.720 we have this year, fine, yeah. I McLevin. I don't 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.880 want to put you on the spot because I know 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.080 you're a voter. But should there be a Heisman this year? 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.880 That's a little bit different, but yeah, it is. I 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.560 think that there will be. I think that there will be. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.839 Has there ever been a year where we didn't have 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.199 a Heisman Trophy winner? I know that we've had winners 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.320 who lost their award, lost their trophy, but we did 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.199 have a Heisman Trophy winner. Yeah. Po. The nineteen forty 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.719 three college football season had a lot of teams tap out. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.839 I would say maybe fifty percent of the team's tapped 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.120 out for different reasons around World War Two. There was 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.960 a nineteen forty three Heisman Trophy winner, Angelo Bertelly of 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.560 Notre Dame, so they did keep the award even though 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.880 a good percentage of teams did not play the college 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.160 football season the nineteen forty three well, it probably helped 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.760 that Notre Dame played that year, so that hurt me. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.040 If Army, Navy, Notre Dame played, then you could probably 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.040 get a Heisman Trophy winner out of that. Yes, Todd. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.040 If you're gonna have NBA Bubble MVP Awards, you're gonna 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.080 give out a Heisman Trophy. I would hope you know 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.920 the fact that we have Bubble Awards. Why do we 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.160 need Bubble awards for eight games? Because they're handing out 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:34.960 Bubble awards like this feels like participation trophies. Here. You 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.319 got in the bubble, so we got to hand out 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.880 awards if you want to get Is t J Warren 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.120 the MVP of the Bubble? Yeah, mcgleban I thought so, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.600 but I just got the updated stats. A lot of 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.959 guys are making a run at TJ Warren. He's fallen 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.000 down a little bit. He's not the leading score anymore. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.920 Is he more valuable than Damian Lillard? No, Laylard is 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.319 by far at the leading score. Yeah, well no, I'm 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.199 talking about the MVP. Yeah, I mean Damien's run away 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.720 with it. I think why did he doing? I mean, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.120 Damian Lillard? If if you want to give out him, okay, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.160 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna complain. You want to 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.960 hand out Bubble awards, go ahead, hand down Bubble awards. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.040 Are He's saying November that you thought Damian Lillard and TJ. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.280 Warren would battle for League MVP. I thought it was 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.280 going to come down to those two. I thought it 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.400 was yes, yes, McLevin. You know, you look at these 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.520 scores at the bubble. You forget Luca and Harden are 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.560 both still scoring thirty five points a game. Are they 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.880 any less valuable than Lillard? Well, I think Luca has 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.960 had some pretty impressive performances. I don't think James Harden 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.160 has had those kind of performances. The Greek Freak is 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.560 going to be the MVP, the regular season MVP. That's 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.040 a foregone conclusion. I think the only thing is is 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.040 he going to be Defensive Player of the Year as well? 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.320 And how how much does he run away with this award? 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.160 Because I'm hearing that he's going to win it and 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:57.640 win it comfortably over Lebron and rightfully, so I understand it, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.680 you know, And I started to look at the Lakers situation. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.200 I want to bring this up to Reggie. If you 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.640 look at the Lakers and they face Portland, then they 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.199 have the Rockets, then the Clippers now this assuming they win, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.040 and these these are the possible matchups for them. So 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.599 they have Portland, who's playing as well as anybody, with 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.320 certainly Damian Lillard playing is better than anybody. Then you 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:25.520 have the Rockets, they're matchup nightmare. Then the Clippers and 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.720 you don't have home court advantage. And then let's say 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.839 you would face the Bucks in the NBA Finals. That's 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.839 as tough a road as you're going to find. So 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.439 that's why there is no asterisk. This will be even 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.080 more challenging. If Lebron and the Lakers win, this will 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.360 be as impressive as any postseason run we've ever seen. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.160 Of level of competition you're going through. But you start 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.160 to look at these numbers with the Lakers not a 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.199 good shooting team at least in the Bubble. And it's 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.200 not just three point shooting, it's just regular field goal percentage. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.480 I think there's only one team shooting worse than the 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:09.080 Lakers in the bubble right now. Kyle Kuzum a better 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.400 step up, Danny Green, better step somebody better step up here, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.040 because they're gonna need just a little bit of help here. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.080 By the way, this program is brought to you by 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.440 the great folks at legal Zoom need to make it legal. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.360 Make it legal zoom dot com. You can start online 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.400 and their network of independent attorneys can provide advice when 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.360 you need it the most. And since legal Zoom isn't 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.320 a law firm, you don't have to leave your home. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.040 Visit legal zoom dot com today for more information. So 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.319 what is the poll question? We're gonna go with mclove. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:37.920 I know you don't want it. Let's put up that 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.720 who's the bubble MVP? Come on, get the debate started. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.280 If we fuel this thing, it could become a thing. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.880 Byby Luca only shooting twenty nine percent from three in 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:54.520 the bubble compared to TJ. Warren fifty three percent, Luca 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.480 is not deadly accurate from three yet. Yeah, but I 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.520 think he takes some really tough shots contested shots there. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.520 I think as he gets older, he's going to be 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.800 smarter in you know, his shot selection there. But it 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.960 feels like they have to rely on him to get 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.720 shots up, and I think because of that, he does 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:20.960 take some four shots contested shot and you make fun 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.880 of someone in the NBA bubble even bursting their bubble. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.080 I just had a source who just sent me a text. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.520 A date to watch for in the NFL is August seventeenth. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.480 That's when players are allowed to wear pads and have 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.800 contact for the first time. So August seventeenth is a 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.280 date to keep an eye out on. All right, we'll 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.319 take a break here. Reggie Miller is set to join 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.640 us via zoom from the bubble. We'll come up with 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.840 the poll question. 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Hey, I have to admit, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.920 first time I tried to pronounce it, I didn't do 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.240 too well. But that was a couple of years ago. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 Not now bringing Reggie Miller, who joins us from the Bubble. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:59.760 How long did it take you to pronounce jannisadatakumpu oh wow, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.880 I still have it down cool and it's bow not hop. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.119 People don't understand that that it's bow not thank you. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.800 Rich Reg will be on the call mAbs Sons at 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.720 four eastern Blazer's Nets at nine eastern on TNT, so 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:22.720 double duty here. Should we have Bubble Awards? I think 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.320 it's fun. I mean we're in unique times, this is 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:31.760 a different situation, and certainly U yeah, I think just 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.560 to highlight again, some teams and some players have played 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.840 a little bit harder than others. Some are still getting going. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.879 But it's it's fun, it's catchy. Okay. Where would you 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.199 showcase your Bubble Award? If I came into your house 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.120 and you had won a Bubble Award redge, I would like, oh, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.160 kim here. I would have opened up my my bottom 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.480 sock drawer, okay, pulled it out and like, hey, I 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.520 was MVP the Bubble, you know, back at twenty twenty. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.280 I think we should just call it POTV the Player 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.240 of the Bubble? U is it? Well, who's your pick? 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.520 Damian Lillard, T. J. Warren? For a little while there 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.080 was the Jordan of the Bubble. So who is the 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.119 MV you're going with? Bubble MVP right now. Yeah, I 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:27.119 probably would go Damian Lillard has been fantastic, incredible numbers 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.679 what he's doing to push them probably to that a spot. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.600 I have to go with Devin Booker. I mean, look 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.280 as great as uh, you know, seven and oh for 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.879 the Phoenix Suns. No one expected them to be on 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.959 this run. And in contention to possibly they still can 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:47.800 get that a spot. But I still think they can 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.440 get that nice spot and have those playing games. I 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.160 think it's you can't go wrong between Lillard and Booker. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:19:00.600 I give this very slight, very slight edge to Devin 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.800 Booker just because right now they are the only undefeated 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.440 team in the Bubble and they have a shot of 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.359 actually you know, playing for those playing games in the 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:16.800 Western Conference. And then we have Sons and Blazers on Saturday. Yea, 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.240 if it is Phoenix, excuse me. Iphis is still in 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.440 play and San Antonio Spurs are still in play. So 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.680 it's gonna come down to tonight's games. Three of those 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.320 teams are on our network, San Antonio obviously, Phoenix. We 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.720 mentioned in Portland Portland plays of Brooklyn in the nightcap, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.639 the Greek Freak gets suspended for one game, for headbutting 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.600 Moe Wagner. What did you make of that? Well, it's 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.800 convenient that he gets one game. He wasn't going to 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.400 play tonight's game anywhere. Okay. If the playoffs started tomorrow, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.640 it's the Greek freaks suspended for that first game. Yeah, 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.639 I still think he would Okay, Okay, he still did. Okay. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.439 I just thought maybe they were going to give him 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:00.640 two games and then he would have been miss game 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.000 one of the first round. But it's a one game suspension. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.240 I get it. I've been there. I've been headbutted before, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.000 so I understand it waiting, But didn't you head budd No, 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.800 I was headbutted by John Starks. Oh, I was headbutted 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.560 by John Stark, And yeah, I reacted the same way Wagner. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.520 Did you know you act like you were like been 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:28.360 shot out of the canyon. Oh my god, what has 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.359 happened to me? Lord? Oh? But yeah, it wasn't that 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.920 hard of it. And actually more of his frow got 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.600 Wagner than anything else. But I thought, oh, okay, so 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.960 Starks is the one who hit you. He head budded me. Okay, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.000 got thrown out? Yes, you should have been a theater 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:55.800 major UCLA. The way you played. You gotta look look 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:57.879 at me. I'm not the biggest of guys. You've got 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.480 to be able to use a little bit of everything. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.880 So I wouldn't necessarily, as you say, it wasn't flopping Theodore. 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:12.800 I was acting, but it helped you. But how frustrated 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.920 did people get? Players get because you were flailing or 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.200 a little bit or acting a little bit and getting 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:25.040 calls very frustrated. And I think that's where the trash 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.080 talking kind of came in, because one time would get 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.679 the call and they're over there griping to the official, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.480 and then they would come to me, like, you know, 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.720 man up, and then I would kind of whisper things 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.400 back to them. And that's how a lot of these 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.560 like little end game rivalries kind of evolve, is during 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:45.240 those type of interactions or dramatic acting as I call them. 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.680 Did Jordan get suspended for trying to gouge your eyes ound? No? 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.960 Oh yes he did. Okay, I was suspended one game. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:57.040 You're talking about the big fight we had. I who 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.680 knows that was a big fight. That wasn't right. It 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:06.320 could have that wasn't undercar It could have escalatetta. I 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.960 got suspended a game. He got suspended I believe three 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.080 games for that. But if you remember I got thrown 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:18.760 out of that game, he got to continue that game 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:24.600 in Market Square in Indiana. Wow, that's the power of Jordan. Yeah, 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.280 we're talking to Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer. He's 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.960 got two games today, mAb's Sons at four Eastern and 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:34.199 Blazers nets at nine eastern TNT. I'm just looking at 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:38.160 the numbers here. I try not to be somebody who overreacts, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.439 but I'm just looking at the raw numbers with the Lakers. 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.760 Not a good field goal percentage from two point range, 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.280 certainly three point range here, and you could be walking 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.439 right into the Portland Trailblazers or Phoenix Suns here. How 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.920 much concern do you have with the Lakers now that 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.800 we're winding down the regular season and the postseason starts 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:00.040 next week. I will say this, if Kyle kuzmat and 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.119 play like he played against the Denver Nuggets when you 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.119 hit the game winner and he is that third outlet, 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:09.480 he is that third presence on the floor, I wouldn't 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.320 be so worried. But again, the game of basketball, it's 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.080 not a light switch. You can't turn it on and 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.200 turn it off. I like to see consistency. I like 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.520