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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is back. I don't know for how long.
Speaker 2: Joellen beat is done. I don't know for how long.
Speaker 2: And Jahm Morants in another jam. So we've had the
Speaker 2: gun issue with John Morant. He went viral actual guns
Speaker 2: with him before. Now league officials are looking into Jamaran
Speaker 2: and Buddy Healed after Tuesday's night a Tuesday Night's game.
Speaker 2: The talk to involve parties as soon as Wednesday. So
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened this according to the Mothership,
Speaker 2: but there is a photo of Jahn Morant and he
Speaker 2: is gesturing as if he has a gun pointed towards
Speaker 2: Buddy Healed, but he Healed reportedly did a similar gesture
Speaker 2: back to John Moran. We talked a lot about Jamrant.
Speaker 2: We've talked about talented. You get the opportunity, you make
Speaker 2: a lot of money, you can be the face of
Speaker 2: a franchise. Your coach just got fired, You're heading into
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and.
Speaker 3: We're still doing stupid things.
Speaker 2: And I wonder if you know John Morant, whoever, truly
Speaker 2: understand it. You would think with all the games that
Speaker 2: he missed, he was suspended you know, you're publicly ridiculed
Speaker 2: by the media. He was docked the first twenty five
Speaker 2: games of the twenty three twenty four season. He flashed
Speaker 2: a handgun on a social media live video, suspended eight
Speaker 2: games in March of twenty twenty three for another handgun
Speaker 2: on social media at a strip club shotgun Willies of course, like,
Speaker 2: at some point you go, you're twenty five. You know
Speaker 2: you're not nineteen twenty twenty one. Not that that's an
Speaker 2: excuse for you to be able to show a gun
Speaker 2: on social media, but you're twenty five.
Speaker 3: You've got so much ahead of you.
Speaker 2: And I know it's just a gesture, but I mean, really,
Speaker 2: isn't there another way to get back at buddy healed,
Speaker 2: like scoring, dunking, maybe have something go viral that has
Speaker 2: to do with basketball. But he's played in forty six
Speaker 2: games this season and he's averaging twenty two to twenty
Speaker 2: three game seven assists. I mean, he has the potential
Speaker 2: to be great. And I remember we brought this up.
Speaker 2: This was maybe last year, maybe it was the year before.
Speaker 2: Who would you want long term Zion or Jahn Morant?
Speaker 2: And I said, I want John Morant because I don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about his health. Well, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I want either of them when you think about it,
Speaker 2: because I don't know if Zion loves basketball. He had
Speaker 2: a like a month or six week pocket where it
Speaker 2: was like, damn, that's what Zion's supposed to be all about.
Speaker 2: They just shut him down so they can tank for
Speaker 2: Cooper flag and then you got John Morant. Just doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like we talk about John Morant the way like
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards. Now, Anthony Edwards, you know, gets a little
Speaker 2: loose as well, but you know we're not pointing guns
Speaker 2: or you know, giving the a gesture of a gun
Speaker 2: towards an opponent. But John Morant should be like Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2: He should be, oh my gosh, the future, so bright,
Speaker 2: so talented, and here we are talking about him again.
Speaker 3: Maybe he gets suspended. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If you're the commissioner, all I know is the previous commissioner,
Speaker 2: this would be different. David Stern would be exactly living
Speaker 2: up to his last name.
Speaker 3: You would not be getting by with this.
Speaker 2: Not to say that Adam Silver is a softy or
Speaker 2: easy but I think he's more of a player's commissioner
Speaker 2: from the standpoint of hey, come here, let's talk about this.
Speaker 2: Maybe you you know, find him, maybe you suspend it.
Speaker 2: But at some point you go, is this getting through?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: You are the home stretch of the season. You probably
Speaker 2: had a role in your coach getting fired. I mean,
Speaker 2: how many times do coaches get fired with two weeks
Speaker 2: to go going into the postseason.
Speaker 3: I think they're a number.
Speaker 2: Five seed, So there's something going on there, and maybe
Speaker 2: the commissioner comes down on him again, suspends him as well.
Speaker 2: But the latest news from the NBA, all right, see
Speaker 2: what's pul question today?
Speaker 5: Well, what if we just stick with the Jamaran thing.
Speaker 5: It is kind of funny that the league is loaded
Speaker 5: with video of people doing exactly the same thing. It's
Speaker 5: never been an issue, or it certainly hasn't bubbled up
Speaker 5: the way that it is now. You can watch just
Speaker 5: everybody from Lebron James to joke him Noah all did it?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's funny.
Speaker 5: I also think it's funny that when you watch the video,
Speaker 5: it's Draymond Green who complains about it.
Speaker 3: Of course it's him.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you do have a rule now. Maybe you
Speaker 2: didn't have a rule in place before, but now you
Speaker 2: have it now, you'll have to if you're the commissioner,
Speaker 2: enforce that that. Yes, people have done this before, but
Speaker 2: the gesture that he does to Buddy Held and vice versa.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what happened yesterday with getting the
Speaker 2: parties together to talk about this, other than it looked like, hey,
Speaker 2: what was said prior to that. It doesn't matter what's said.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you can do a gun gesture like, oh,
Speaker 2: I understand why you did the gun gesture.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do like too that Buddy Held is doing
Speaker 5: it right back to Ja Moran or even did it first,
Speaker 5: whichever it is, but they're sort of clearly doing it
Speaker 5: towards each other.
Speaker 3: And then Buddy hildes like, hey, he did that. He
Speaker 3: did that. He did that. You can't say you can't
Speaker 3: do that. He did that, Like Doug, you you just
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Buddy did that. Buddy doesn't have baggage John
Speaker 2: Moran does right with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's I think I do think it's
Speaker 5: easy to there's a certain amount of morality being played
Speaker 5: about this.
Speaker 2: You know that is I don't know, well, I I
Speaker 2: just I don't have any patience for Jamran doing this.
Speaker 2: Of all the people who could be doing this, he's
Speaker 2: the last one can't because we've already seen you do
Speaker 2: it with a gun, doing something stupid, stupid on social
Speaker 2: media and then getting suspended and then getting suspended again.
Speaker 2: Oh man, they wants to play with their guns. All right,
Speaker 2: it's fake tough guys. Oh, I got my gun? Really,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do with your gun?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 2: And then Buddy healed, Buddy, he's up. You know your
Speaker 2: name is Buddy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in a gangster NYM, Buddy, who's your buddy?
Speaker 3: I am?
Speaker 7: Oh, Buddy's rolling up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Buddy coming.
Speaker 6: H Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not like Omar coming. It's Buddy. Hey Buddy. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like Buddy and Elf, you know, Will Ferrell's character.
Speaker 5: Hey Buddy and his nemesis Pal.
Speaker 3: Oh there comes Pal. Watch out for Pal, not gasol. Yeah,
Speaker 3: pl Yeah. All right, what else do we have today?
Speaker 3: Marvin sent in a poll question.
Speaker 5: Thrown with this one out there since we stick with
Speaker 5: basketball a little bit, But should the Knicks retire Carmelo
Speaker 5: Anthony's number of course or no?
Speaker 2: Well he just kind of named it the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame he did. I'd have to look at what he
Speaker 2: accomplished with the Knicks, Marvin, do you have that at
Speaker 2: your fingertips?
Speaker 8: He was an All Star a few times, he got
Speaker 8: to the conference semi finals. He never got to a
Speaker 8: conference finals or finals.
Speaker 3: Okay, how many years was he there?
Speaker 9: Checking? Okay?
Speaker 3: Wait, I thought you had this already researched here.
Speaker 9: No, what PAULI does?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 7: Tho, I have Carmelo Anthony playing seven years in New York.
Speaker 7: Half a season, then six more. He was an All
Speaker 7: Star all six of those years, the league in scoring
Speaker 7: once did not get them to the NBA Final. Can
Speaker 7: you retire a jersey of a non wired, a wire
Speaker 7: player that doesn't take you to New Heights?
Speaker 2: I'd have to see who else the Knicks have retired,
Speaker 2: because I'm going to guess, you know, Willis Reed and
Speaker 2: Walt Frasier, probably Bill Bradley and Dave de Busher, Earl Monroe,
Speaker 2: maybe Dick Burnett, Yes, probably Ewing, Yeah, Pat Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're right with all those, every one of those,
Speaker 7: and almost everyone except for Ewing has a title.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know it gets Yeah, sure, I don't care now,
Speaker 2: like I of all the things today, where you go
Speaker 2: should Carmelo jersey be retired and be like, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's in the Hall of Fame. Great, and
Speaker 2: it's the Basketball Hall of Fame. He won a national title,
Speaker 2: but one Syracuse. I hope they've retired as jersey, but
Speaker 2: I still go back to Christian Lake belongs in the
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame. I mean, it's embarrassing that he's
Speaker 2: not in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He's one of
Speaker 2: the top five college basketball players of all time. If
Speaker 2: you look at his resume, it's hard to argue. And
Speaker 2: he played better than average in the NBA. He wasn't great.
Speaker 2: He made an All Star team first year. I think
Speaker 2: he averaged seventeen points, nine rebound. I mean, it's once again,
Speaker 2: it's the totality of your career. He should be in
Speaker 2: the Basketball Hall of Fame. Back to Carmelo, if they
Speaker 2: want to retire his jersey, great, build a statue, Like
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't really care. You know, if you're
Speaker 2: a Nick fan, then maybe you go, does he really
Speaker 2: belong up there with those guys. I'm not a Nick fan,
Speaker 2: and so it doesn't bother me. You know, does Lebron's
Speaker 2: jersey get retired by the Lakers and I don't know
Speaker 2: if all the Lakers, you know, would be on board
Speaker 2: with that, Like does he He's not really a Laker,
Speaker 2: like we kind of got him. He came here at
Speaker 2: the very end trying to win a title. So I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know. If I guess you do, it's
Speaker 2: Lebron getting his jersey retired. So it's Cleveland, it'll be Miami,
Speaker 2: it'll be with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 7: By the way, Syracuse University, they retire everybody's jersey. They
Speaker 7: have seventeen retired jersey numbers, including Carmelo, Jerry McNamara and
Speaker 7: Hakeem Warwick have retired numbers they won a title, Yeah,
Speaker 7: a lot more.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Pearl Pearl, Washington Firm, Douglas Yes, John Alan.
Speaker 10: Houston, John Stocks, Bernard King are among those that have
Speaker 10: not been retired. So where does Mello fit in with that?
Speaker 10: When you're thinking of all time great knicks, is Mellow
Speaker 10: really anywhere near the well?
Speaker 3: I would have Bernard King over Carmelo, Anthony Houston.
Speaker 2: Hello, I don't know. I'd have to look at his numbers.
Speaker 2: He was beloved or be did uh? Is John Starks?
Speaker 2: Is he going to get his jersey retire. I no, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm just he's beloved.
Speaker 9: Oh there's a bunch of guys that are beloved.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I see all those guys in Nick Row with the
Speaker 8: celebrities and all that. They're there every game. The numbers
Speaker 8: I get retired.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, if we were tired a number every time
Speaker 10: we really liked it, someone was considered beloved, he'd run
Speaker 10: out of numbers. Someone would have to be like sixty
Speaker 10: three and fourteen and I would be the whole team.
Speaker 3: Thank you to Uh.
Speaker 9: He had fourteen every other numbers taken. We really liked
Speaker 9: that guy. Put him up on the rafts. He was
Speaker 9: really fun. He was cool with the media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I if he won too great. I mean
Speaker 2: it's really about the fan base. But for me on
Speaker 2: the outside looking in, Bernard King was the baddest man
Speaker 2: in the NBA for a while as far as scoring,
Speaker 2: and then he had a knee injury, but he was
Speaker 2: unstoppable at six six unstoppable and having witnessed those games
Speaker 2: in person when they'd play the Celtics, when the Celtics
Speaker 2: were loaded and man and they feared Bernard King down
Speaker 2: on the low post. He's scoring on anybody, everybody, Yes, Martin.
Speaker 9: Just like Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 3: He's okay.
Speaker 9: I don't want to fight about this, no fame.
Speaker 3: I saw him both. Did you see him both?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: BeTV okay, fair enough? You saw him on YouTube? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. But if you put Mellow in,
Speaker 2: put Bernard King in, put them both in, and put
Speaker 2: their you know, Jersey up there in the rafters.
Speaker 3: How did I get here?
Speaker 9: That's my pole question?
Speaker 3: Sorry about that's right, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I just get sidetracked in and I forget where I am.
Speaker 2: It's like, how did I get here? It's like driving
Speaker 2: someplace and then all of a sudden you turn around
Speaker 2: and you go, where am I?
Speaker 7: Yes, Paul, I'm looking at a list of all the retired
Speaker 7: numbers in the NBA. There's some wacky ones.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're Wayne Gretzky, do you now
Speaker 2: have to be on the road with Alex Ovechkin. He's
Speaker 2: three away. We'll talk about that, because how's it going
Speaker 2: to look. I don't want to video tribute where it
Speaker 2: comes on the JumboTron where Wano is congratulating Ovechkin. And
Speaker 2: you know, in a prepared speech, but now with three
Speaker 2: to go, you get a hat trick. Wayne's going to
Speaker 2: be putting in some miles. It feels like.
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Speaker 2: A little bit more on Carmelo Anthony getting his jersey retired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Now he'll be in the rafters with Wald Frasier, Dick Barnett,
Speaker 2: Dick McGuire, Earl Monroe, Willis Reed, David Busher, Bill Bradley,
Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing, the former head coach Red Holtzman.
Speaker 3: Let's see Ewing and mc s.
Speaker 2: Guire have had their numbers retired without winning a championship.
Speaker 3: They're the only ones.
Speaker 2: Alan Houston, John Starks, Bernard King have not had their
Speaker 2: jerseys retire. But Mellow is going to have his jersey retire.
Speaker 2: This is per a report, all right, So congratulations to
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony. He's going to have his jersey retired, I guess,
Speaker 2: and he's going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe they make room for Bernard King in the rafters.
Speaker 2: All right, so what do you do if you're Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 2: Ovechkin has seven games to play and he needs three
Speaker 2: goals to surpass Wayneo's all time record. Does Wayne have
Speaker 2: to hit the road now feels like he has to
Speaker 2: seven games? Islanders Chicago, Carolina, Columbus, Islanders Pittsburgh. Do you
Speaker 2: just jump on the charter, the Capitol's charter and sitting
Speaker 2: next to Ovechkin because you can't do a video tribute.
Speaker 2: It's like when Mark McGuire was breaking Roger Merris' all
Speaker 2: time record. And here's another thing. There are certain players
Speaker 2: that you know. Roger Merris was known for the single
Speaker 2: season home run record, and here you have Mark McGuire
Speaker 2: break it. That's that's the one thing. And Roger Merris
Speaker 2: had passed away. But the family, they were the family
Speaker 2: of the guy who was the single season home run record.
Speaker 2: It's like Mark Gastino, he was once the single season
Speaker 2: sack leader and then all of a sudden, Michael Strahan
Speaker 2: came along, and of course you had that awkward encounter
Speaker 2: where McGuire or a Gastano goes and sees Brett Farvan said,
Speaker 2: you hurt me, you know basically because he gave up
Speaker 2: that sack to Michael Strahan, basically walked right into Strahan
Speaker 2: and said, here, now you get the record.
Speaker 3: That's what more.
Speaker 2: Gaston was all about that one thing, the sack dance,
Speaker 2: and he had the single season sack record. And that's
Speaker 2: why you know, now you've lost your identity. Every time
Speaker 2: he'd sign an autograph, you're Mark Gastono, sack leader, seeing
Speaker 2: you know whatever, you want to put the number of
Speaker 2: sacks you had, what was it, twenty two and a half.
Speaker 2: Now you lose that identity. Wayne is not losing his identity.
Speaker 2: In fact, his identity, his greatness has been enhanced by
Speaker 2: Ovechkin because now there's that reminder of goly that's a
Speaker 2: lot of goals.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, look at the assist.
Speaker 2: So Wayne, I think is benefited from Ovechkin passing his
Speaker 2: you know, all time goal scoring record.
Speaker 3: And now you're going to be on the.
Speaker 2: Road watching and Wayne will handle this, you know, in
Speaker 2: a gentleman way like he handles everything else.
Speaker 3: He'll be awesome. He's so.
Speaker 2: You know, how to describe when you're around him, You'd
Speaker 2: never know that that's the great one. You'd never know it.
Speaker 2: And that's the beauty of him that he makes you comfortable.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: It's never there's no diva, there's no nothing, It's just
Speaker 2: that's Wayne.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, Wayne.
Speaker 2: I remember going to South Bend and I went for
Speaker 2: a Notre Dame game, Notre Dame football game, and Digger
Speaker 2: Phelps invited me, the longtime Notre Dame head coach.
Speaker 3: And I walk in the door.
Speaker 2: I think it's ten thirty in the morning and I
Speaker 2: hear and I walk in the kitchen. Gretzky has opened
Speaker 2: up a beer and he's there to go to the
Speaker 2: football game. And could not have been just a down there.
Speaker 2: And I'd met Wayne before, but that's Wayne. I felt
Speaker 2: bad because Digger Phelps took him into the stands and
Speaker 2: he's getting autographs and pictures and I was down on
Speaker 2: the field because I not that I was going to get,
Speaker 2: you know, bombarded with that, but I thought, and I
Speaker 2: see Wayne at halftime and he's got his arms up
Speaker 2: like help me. And then I kept telling him to
Speaker 2: come down to the sidelines watch the game down there,
Speaker 2: because you know, unless a player goes out of bounds
Speaker 2: and says, hey, Wayne, could I get a selfie here?
Speaker 2: But yeah, he spent the whole day signing autographs up
Speaker 2: there with Digger Phelps. But I'm guessing Wayne is going
Speaker 2: to have to travel a little bit. That's when you know,
Speaker 2: he leaves the house and he says, you know, his
Speaker 2: wife says, how long you're packing for? Well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: seven days, ten days, but you're gonna have to be there.
Speaker 2: It feels like for you know these moments, Yeah, Paul, So.
Speaker 7: If Gretzky goes on the road, he would have to
Speaker 7: go to d C, then in New York, then to
Speaker 7: cart d C, then to Columbus, then the d C
Speaker 7: New York. This would be a you know, seven game,
Speaker 7: thirteen day road trip for Wayne Gretzky to commit to
Speaker 7: all these games.
Speaker 3: How much does he have to do it? Well, he
Speaker 3: is the sport.
Speaker 7: And there's a finite window. It's the season's over on
Speaker 7: the seventeenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then if he doesn't break the record then
Speaker 2: Wayne has to start the season with Alex Ovechkin again.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he he I don't want to say.
Speaker 2: Needs to be there. He should be there. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a great moment celebrated, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he absolutely needs to be Oh okay, I thought
Speaker 3: you were gave me a m.
Speaker 5: I gave you like he I don't know if he
Speaker 5: needs Yay he does, Hell yeah he does. He's Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 3: It's take two weeks, go see a bunch of games.
Speaker 3: He sees. He's seen enough games in his life. I
Speaker 3: know these ones are special.
Speaker 2: Hey, he's gonna get the standing, Oh, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky, Yeah, dude, put him up on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Maybe he takes his wife, says Janet about a little
Speaker 2: vacation here. Where are we going? What country? We're gonna
Speaker 2: go to d C. We're gonna go to Pittsburgh, the
Speaker 2: Long Island. Why don't you go, WAYNEO? Yes, yeah, he
Speaker 2: has to be.
Speaker 10: There as an ambassador of the sport and what he's meant.
Speaker 10: It's just it's just a bad look for him not
Speaker 10: to be there. I don't see how you can not
Speaker 10: be part of that for that one day and support,
Speaker 10: you know, the guy that broke such a huge record
Speaker 10: in hockey. I just don't see how that could even
Speaker 10: be an option. I don't, and I don't think the
Speaker 10: average fan would see it as he's taking some kind
Speaker 10: of victory lap or look at me, or he's doing
Speaker 10: it for attention.
Speaker 9: He's doing it.
Speaker 10: You know, you would hope for the right reasons to
Speaker 10: support oxorvechk Oh.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think.
Speaker 9: I don't think people would be like, oh, Gretzky's got
Speaker 9: to be here, look at me, or remember how great
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I don't think that's I didn't see it
Speaker 2: from that angle that Wayne would be doing it so
Speaker 2: he could be recognized as the Great One.
Speaker 7: He didn't start going to Avetchkins games when he's twenty
Speaker 7: eight goals away. Yeah, like, look at me, I'm Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just you have to go. You pass the baton,
Speaker 2: and I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 7: Uh yes, Paul, I just heard from a writer and
Speaker 7: Chris Johnston from The Athletic, who covers hockey. He has
Speaker 7: the exact details about if Wayne Gretzky is attending or not.
Speaker 7: What do you guys think Gretzky's doing. Think he's in
Speaker 7: or out?
Speaker 3: In?
Speaker 9: In in?
Speaker 7: Yeah, everyone think he's in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally, he's in.
Speaker 7: When the Great One will be in attendance part of
Speaker 7: a traveling caravan that will attend every Washington Capital's home
Speaker 7: and away game. According to Chris Johnston of The Athletic,
Speaker 7: Gretzky will be joined by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman as
Speaker 7: well as other league personnel when the Capitals take on
Speaker 7: Carolina on Wednesday. So, starting last night, Gretzky's been in
Speaker 7: the building, okay, and he will commit to it till
Speaker 7: the end of the season.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Fritzie sent me something to maybe clarify what I said
Speaker 2: about Mellow. He has support for his jersey retirement.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no official decision has been made, but there's been
Speaker 10: talk ever since he retired a couple of years ago.
Speaker 9: There will talk about that.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of people that would like to see
Speaker 10: his jersey retired, but there's no official word that that's
Speaker 10: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, So he's going into the Basketball Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: But according to sn wise Ian Begley, there is a
Speaker 2: chance that he will be represented at Madison Square Garden
Speaker 2: in perpetuity as there is support within the organization to
Speaker 2: retire his number seven jersey. So no final decision has
Speaker 2: been made, but still retire Bernard King's jersey too, when
Speaker 2: you get around to it. All right, A couple of
Speaker 2: phone calls in here. Uh David in Ohio, Hi David,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: Hey Dan? Yesterday guys were talking about street names. I've
Speaker 12: done a lot of reshart. They're the Todd Fritz Lane
Speaker 12: and Williams Fort Pennsylvania, And like Todd's comedy timing, it's
Speaker 12: the dead end.
Speaker 3: Thank you, very nice day, Thank you, thank you. That's perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking at all the street signs in Green
Speaker 2: Bay outside of lambeau Field. You were talking about some
Speaker 2: of the retired jerseys around the NBA.
Speaker 3: You have the list of that.
Speaker 2: You said, there's some surprising names that have had their
Speaker 2: jerseys retired.
Speaker 7: Well, there's some names that you were like him and
Speaker 7: not about the person, but so the window of time
Speaker 7: they were there. The Atlanta Hawks retired to Ken Bay.
Speaker 7: Mutumbo's fifty five jersey. He was there for four seasons,
Speaker 7: four really good seasons, but four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but who else are the Hawks going to retire?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: You have to have a ceremony occasionally.
Speaker 7: Right, Dominique Wilkins, Pete Marrivitch, Bob Pettit's Lou Hudson.
Speaker 3: That's all they got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean see, sometimes you have to have these moments.
Speaker 3: Where you go that guy?
Speaker 7: How about this one? Is this surprising or am I
Speaker 7: just being a little petty here? The Celtics retired Kevin
Speaker 7: Garnett's jersey short window a lot of success, but the
Speaker 7: Celtics have a lot of jerseys retired. I was a
Speaker 7: lightly surprised on that one.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, is Rajhon Rondo's jersey retired? Uh?
Speaker 3: Paul Pierce's Ray Allen's Pierce's is Allen's not? Mmm? Okay?
Speaker 2: Rajon Rondo unfortunately, now sounds like a lot of politics
Speaker 2: to me, you know what I mean? And some internal situations.
Speaker 2: Dino Raja is his jersey retired?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 3: Should be? I think he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9: He is, so is Vadi Deva.
Speaker 3: Gloody Devac Charusis and Malos Marcalonis.
Speaker 9: How you say his name?
Speaker 2: Sharuna's marshal owned That's what I said, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 10: But the Subtics aren't the team that has to latch
Speaker 10: onto every great player. I know there's certain teams that
Speaker 10: are death. But for that one guy, he was very good.
Speaker 10: But we need to have somebody up in the raft
Speaker 10: of someone to represent our team. So I think you know,
Speaker 10: you got a certain teams can be a little more
Speaker 10: careful with who they're gonna immediately play.
Speaker 3: I'm a little surprised with KG up there. Yes, mar the.
Speaker 8: Kevin gard that was the culture changer for that team.
Speaker 8: As soon as he got there, they became championship contenders.
Speaker 2: Well they won one, okay, I mean okay, change the culture. Yes,
Speaker 2: won a championship by an injury. Minnesota stupidly traded Kevin
Speaker 2: Garnett to the Celtics Kevin McHale helping out Danny Ainge.
Speaker 3: But this one, friends are for Yes.
Speaker 7: Well, here's the Detroit Pistons. The names you'd expect, like
Speaker 7: Dennis Rodman, Isaiah Thomas, Bob Lanier, Dave Bing, Vinnie Johnson's
Speaker 7: number is retired by the Detroit Pistons, a player who
Speaker 7: primarily came off the bench but was part of their
Speaker 7: greatest success.
Speaker 3: A little surprising, Hey, you know is Rodman retired?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, Tom.
Speaker 10: If I yell anything is possible, will you put up
Speaker 10: my name and a number up on top of the
Speaker 10: raftives of the studio.
Speaker 9: Would that be enough to do that?
Speaker 10: There's like a moment in time where everyone sees that
Speaker 10: anything is possible moment then. So my point is, Okay,
Speaker 10: you want to see a lot of people have won
Speaker 10: a championship with a team.
Speaker 9: That doesn't necessarily mean no one could wear your number
Speaker 9: ever again in that city.
Speaker 7: Back to you, Nick Collinson's number is retired by the
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City Thunder. A nice player, not a superstar, but
Speaker 7: I think he was og and a fan favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a surprising one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but once again, if you're with a team of
Speaker 2: franchise and they don't have much to celebrate, like you,
Speaker 2: you want to have some of those nights where you
Speaker 2: welcome somebody back and it's a feel good moment.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it, man, I don't.
Speaker 2: It's really it's about the fan base if they're bothered
Speaker 2: by it like that guy, I think I think Laker
Speaker 2: fans would have some would have an issue with Lebron's
Speaker 2: jeersy being retired.
Speaker 3: Why because he's not a Laker.
Speaker 9: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Kobe's a Laker, Magic's a Laker, Kareem's a Laker, Jerry
Speaker 2: West is a Laker.
Speaker 3: Elgend Baylor's a Laker. Shack.
Speaker 2: You can call him a Laker. Lebron just kind of
Speaker 2: came in Chamberlain his numbers up there.
Speaker 3: Will got traded.
Speaker 9: He got traded, Well that is don't matter how you
Speaker 9: get there.
Speaker 3: Well, Kareem got traded.
Speaker 9: I'm not understanding.
Speaker 2: Well Lebron chose to go to the Lakers, like he's
Speaker 2: not a homegrown guy.
Speaker 8: Most of those guys, but just like you said, Kareem Shack, well,
Speaker 8: they weren't homegrown guys.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna have him up there with Kobe and
Speaker 2: you know, Jerry West and O Jim Baylor, the guys
Speaker 2: who are homegrown Hall of famers for.
Speaker 9: The Lakers, so you have to be home.
Speaker 2: And Kareem spent most of his career with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how many years Will spent there,
Speaker 2: but he was part of one of the greatest teams
Speaker 2: of all time, the you know seventy two Lakers once again,
Speaker 2: is Gail good Rich's jersey up there? Yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 7: With Lebron, I think if he had gone to the
Speaker 7: Lakers for three seasons and then bolted for somewhere else,
Speaker 7: you could say, like, nah, he just did a pit stop.
Speaker 7: I think he's on year eight. This is year eight,
Speaker 7: and Shaq had eight years with the Lakers. I want
Speaker 7: you to get past you made a commitment to a franchise.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant getting his jersey retired in Golden State.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's very much like Reggie Jackson with the Yankees.
Speaker 8: You weren't there for long, but you got memorable moments.
Speaker 2: Man, he could have been back with them. KD makes
Speaker 2: some bad basketball decisions. You know, I'm thinking about taking
Speaker 2: my challenge to Brooklyn. Hey, you know, I got to
Speaker 2: get out of Golden State. I'm going to go to Phoenix. Hey,
Speaker 2: do you want to go back to Golden State?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 2: I don't want to uproot my life here and there
Speaker 2: you are with the Phoenix Suns. Could have been playing
Speaker 2: at least in the playoffs with Golden State.
Speaker 3: And I get it.
Speaker 2: If Draymond's still there, do you want to go back
Speaker 2: and be around him?
Speaker 3: Maybe not? And I don't know.
Speaker 2: Your legacy is solidified, is it? I mean, one of
Speaker 2: the great players of this generation but also kind of
Speaker 2: known as a vagabond. I mean, we would call this
Speaker 2: a journeyman. It's weird to call one of the greats
Speaker 2: of all time kind of a journeyman.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Point, you can't make more than twenty million dollars a
Speaker 7: year and be called a journeyman. There has to be
Speaker 7: some type of financial rule.
Speaker 2: Let me see what do we have here, guy in Minneapolis,
Speaker 2: Hi guy, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 13: Hi Dan? First time, long time, five sixty five.
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 13: Know in regards to the tush push, you feel that
Speaker 13: like the Eagles, they just do it the best, and
Speaker 13: the other teams they could do it too. Well. What
Speaker 13: if they adapted by putting a tush pusher on their roster,
Speaker 13: maybe a four hundred and fifty or a five hundred
Speaker 13: pound dude or a big weightlifter, and that would be
Speaker 13: his job. So sitting on your bench, you could bring
Speaker 13: in your little dude to kick a field goal and
Speaker 13: get your three points, or sitting next to him, you
Speaker 13: could bring in your big dude to run out and
Speaker 13: get you the extra four points.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you guy. I hadn't thought of it
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to put somebody on your roster
Speaker 2: and they allow you to do it and it's within
Speaker 2: the rules, then sure fine. If they're going to get
Speaker 2: rid of this, they're working on the language, and all
Speaker 2: they have to do is say we're going back to
Speaker 2: the way it used to be in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: We never should have allowed this to begin with, and
Speaker 2: we did, and now we're going to go back. It's
Speaker 2: like kind of reinstituting the pitch clock that was always
Speaker 2: there for Major League Baseball for a long long time.
Speaker 2: They just never enforced it. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we're going to do a pitchclock. You can't do that.
Speaker 2: We've had one, we just never enforced it.
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Speaker 2: Hello Friends, Jim Dant's Hall of Famer lead play by
Speaker 2: play voice NFL and CBS host of The Masters on CBS.
Speaker 2: But this week, big time Houston Cougar fan Jim joining
Speaker 2: us on the program. How nervous do you get before
Speaker 2: watching your Cougar's play?
Speaker 4: Before, during, and even after. I love hearing you say
Speaker 4: hello friends. By the way, that a good way to
Speaker 4: start my day, my friend, But I am so stoked
Speaker 4: about this weekend. Listen, we all have that little boy
Speaker 4: inside of us, you know, that fan that still lives
Speaker 4: and has a place in your heart. What sports used
Speaker 4: to feel like? I have it with all things University
Speaker 4: of Houston, so football, basketball, whatever it might be. But
Speaker 4: I am absolutely in love with this team and Kelvin Sampson,
Speaker 4: the head coach.
Speaker 6: He's just incredible.
Speaker 4: And I will be there in the stands wearing red
Speaker 4: and cheering us on against the mighty two Blue Devils
Speaker 4: come Saturday evening.
Speaker 3: How much did Fi slam a jama break your heart?
Speaker 6: Oh? Big time?
Speaker 4: April fourth, nineteen eighty three, I was sitting in the
Speaker 4: standsurgerke in the pit at the opposite end from the
Speaker 4: Lorenzo Charles game winning basket. And you know that date,
Speaker 4: as you can tell, was only forty two years ago.
Speaker 4: It's still is very much in my heart forty two
Speaker 4: years ago. Tomorrow it's it's front and center.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I got to tell you that was a pivotal day
Speaker 4: in my life and career because people don't know this.
Speaker 6: It's more than just having gone to the school.
Speaker 4: My whole career really was channeled being on the golf
Speaker 4: team and the golf coach introducing me to Guy Lewis,
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame coach for Houston, who said, young man,
Speaker 4: I'd like you to be our public address announcer at
Speaker 4: our home basketball games, and that turned into me then
Speaker 4: while still a student, hosting his coaches show on the
Speaker 4: NBC affiliate. It gave me cred. I was just twenty
Speaker 4: years old. So yeah, it's been a long running love
Speaker 4: affair for some reason. They even have a banner now
Speaker 4: right next to the names of Elvin Hayes and keem
Speaker 4: Elijah Won and Clyde rexeler Otis bird Song. It's nuts
Speaker 4: commemorating my own NCAA tournament years and gifts. I've been
Speaker 4: able to do the tournament for so long, But in
Speaker 4: that eighty three game against NC State, I actually rode
Speaker 4: to the pit on the bus with the team. These
Speaker 4: were my buddies, you know. I named Clyde the Glide
Speaker 4: and we were just a very close knit group. Guy
Speaker 4: Lewis said, you come with us.
Speaker 3: Wait, you came up with Clyde the Glide.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, okay, you didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Did you come up with Fi Slama Jama?
Speaker 6: I did not. Tommy Bank did.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, great writer, Tommy.
Speaker 6: Tommy came up with that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wrote the forward to Clyde's book, And you know,
Speaker 4: we're all of us are still great friends to this day. Well,
Speaker 4: they showed up last year when they had that jersey
Speaker 4: banner race and I love these guys. Anyway, here we
Speaker 4: are at Albuquerque, and I don't have a credential or
Speaker 4: a ticket. I just ride in with the team. Guy says,
Speaker 4: meet us back here after the game. Get back to
Speaker 4: the hotel. So I go into this arena two and
Speaker 4: a half hours before the game, and where do you go.
Speaker 6: There are no seats with backs, There's only benches.
Speaker 4: And there in the corner, behind a basket was the
Speaker 4: CBS set. And I looked up and there was Brent
Speaker 4: Musburger running through the elements of the show. He was
Speaker 4: hosting it. It was Gary Bender. I love Gary. Gary
Speaker 4: and Billy Becker were gonna be calling the game, so
Speaker 4: I thought that's where I'm gonna sit. I sat right
Speaker 4: up against the set. I mean, Brent was I really
Speaker 4: could have tied his shoes. It was that close. And
Speaker 4: I was just looking at him. I was the only
Speaker 4: guy in the arena. He was probably wondering, why is
Speaker 4: this punk hanging out this close? And I saw Bill Egan,
Speaker 4: his stage manager with whom I would later work, saying
Speaker 4: let's go through this. And I turned around I saw
Speaker 4: there's a tunnel prompter there and I could hear everything
Speaker 4: was three feet away from me, and I mean I
Speaker 4: was mesmerized. The great Brent Musburger, who I adore and
Speaker 4: loved to this day, was right there, and that was
Speaker 4: a thrill for me. Three years later, as fate would
Speaker 4: have it, Brent's now calling the games. CBS is in
Speaker 4: an arena that no longer exists in Dabtas. They have
Speaker 4: a set just like the one in Albuquerque. And I'm
Speaker 4: the guy that was sitting in that chair. Three years later,
Speaker 4: in eighty six, I was hosting the Final Four and
Speaker 4: I was pitching it to Brent courtside at the start
Speaker 4: of the broadcast. So I've been given a lot of blessings,
Speaker 4: but that's a very big one.
Speaker 2: If I said, you can call one more Masters or
Speaker 2: one more super Bowl, but you have to choose. Come
Speaker 2: on what I'm a journalist. I got to ask these questions.
Speaker 3: Tom.
Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have. By the way, you
Speaker 2: could get problem one Masters or one more super Bowl.
Speaker 6: I think you know the answer to that. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'll let you answer.
Speaker 4: You know the answer to that, And as I listen,
Speaker 4: I've been given the blessing of having. I think it's
Speaker 4: the fourth most Super Bowl calls of all time, tied
Speaker 4: with Kurt Goudi. So they're all special. But I wouldn't
Speaker 4: trade the Masters for anything in the world. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's important me in a major championship golf. We have
Speaker 4: the PGA Championship. That means a lot to me, big time.
Speaker 4: I got to call the Open Championship over on the
Speaker 4: BBC for a number of years when the BBC still
Speaker 4: had it was the foreign voice over there. The only
Speaker 4: one I've never called is the US Open, which you know,
Speaker 4: would have been a thrill to have the chance to
Speaker 4: do a national Open because I care so much about it.
Speaker 4: But the Masters is just it's again that little boy
Speaker 4: we talked about what's inside here, what's inside the heart.
Speaker 4: I wanted to be one of those voices. I didn't
Speaker 4: care about being on television. I wanted to be able
Speaker 4: to tell the stories like the voices of my youth
Speaker 4: were telling me long ago.
Speaker 2: He's Jim Nance and he will be calling the Masters.
Speaker 2: What is this the fortieth It will be number forty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which in the Broadcasting Longevity graphic.
Speaker 6: If you have it there, time can put it up
Speaker 6: you're looking over it.
Speaker 2: Todd, he can't do it, Jim, Jimmy get to barely
Speaker 2: get you on the phone.
Speaker 6: I tie the.
Speaker 4: Great Vern Lunquist for the broadcast longevity records.
Speaker 3: So this is a eleven year retirement tour. Is that what? Tod?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Listen, I actually have it. We had this discussion on
Speaker 4: your show in twenty sixteen, Melissa Miller, my longtime chief
Speaker 4: of staff. This thing just went viral last week for
Speaker 4: no good reason. It was not the story. I just
Speaker 4: happened to say it in conversation. But when it gets fun,
Speaker 4: like I am declaring or making an announcement, this is
Speaker 4: my retirement. I would never want that attention. I would
Speaker 4: never do that. I just happened to say, like I
Speaker 4: said on your show nine years ago, and I said
Speaker 4: to Richard Ditch, and I said to many other people
Speaker 4: out there through the years, Alex Myers and some other guys.
Speaker 4: I said, that would be, in the perfect world, my
Speaker 4: last show. I'd be able to make it if I could.
Speaker 4: God Willing, CBS Willing, Augusta Willing. I would love to
Speaker 4: get to the one hundredth playing of the Master's Tournament.
Speaker 6: And if that's the case, that if we did get there,
Speaker 6: that'd probably be my retirement, Dake. But I say that
Speaker 6: with a twinkle in my eye.
Speaker 4: Dan, I don't really think about it. I'm thinking about
Speaker 4: this show now. By the way. Maybe I don't make
Speaker 4: it there, maybe I go beyond it. I don't want
Speaker 4: to start putting a countdown clock on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got a shot for a gift for you,
Speaker 2: and so I don't know, do I have eleven years
Speaker 2: to get you something or.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, don't get me one of those rocking chairs.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not going to get you that.
Speaker 4: You know, the first time I said it, and you're
Speaker 4: one of the first ever said it to And we
Speaker 4: did a whole show on this. My great teammate Kevin McHale,
Speaker 4: not the basketball player, got a countdown clock and I
Speaker 4: showed up at our next golf event and it was
Speaker 4: in the corner of our tower and it said like
Speaker 4: twenty years, eighteen days, and the second was going like
Speaker 4: you see down to times square. Yeah, And I thought
Speaker 4: it was funny.
Speaker 6: It was a nice gag gift.
Speaker 4: But there it was the next week and the week after,
Speaker 4: and it really made me uncomfortable. I did not like
Speaker 4: seeing my life go by like that. I said, you
Speaker 4: got to take that thing down. So I don't even
Speaker 4: want to think that way. No, there's no there's no
Speaker 4: announcement here. All I know is I'm less enough to
Speaker 4: be able to be there next week for the fortieth,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to give it my all but deep
Speaker 4: appreciation in my heart.
Speaker 3: Can you show up and just play golf at Augusta?
Speaker 4: No, No, I wouldn't probably show up anywhere and just
Speaker 4: assume anything. No, No, I would never do that. No, Okay,
Speaker 4: I've been invited as a guest, which has been a
Speaker 4: great gift. I played there a couple of times with
Speaker 4: Arnold Palmer bible Way. I just a name drop on
Speaker 4: you here. I was one of the several of my
Speaker 4: greatest thrills. And I've had some really treasured invitations to
Speaker 4: play there, and I have through the years, most recently
Speaker 4: March a year ago. And you would you shoot, it
Speaker 4: was a big number.
Speaker 6: It was a really big.
Speaker 3: Was it three digits? No, not that big, not that
Speaker 3: big nineties bad way.
Speaker 6: It's not that far away from it. Was not good.
Speaker 4: And it took me a long time before I've been
Speaker 4: registered a par Now. I used to you know, I say, like,
Speaker 4: I played there a lot of times, but I would
Speaker 4: get stuck on You got to realize, I'm in my
Speaker 4: sixties now. I mean I first started coming to Augusta
Speaker 4: when I was three and a half years out of
Speaker 4: college and I was twenty six years old.
Speaker 6: I could still hit it.
Speaker 4: I could hit it, I could take the club back
Speaker 4: to parallel and all these things I can't do any longer.
Speaker 4: And I could shoot in the mid to high seventies.
Speaker 4: Those days are gone for me there in Augusta or
Speaker 4: anywhere else for that matter.
Speaker 2: I always marveled that you go from March Madness where
Speaker 2: your voice is used differently and a football game your
Speaker 2: voice is used differently, to then the Masters where your
Speaker 2: voice is used differently, and you don't have that much
Speaker 2: separation between March Madness and the Masters, but just gearing
Speaker 2: up and voice wise, and then not gearing down. But like,
Speaker 2: how do you reset to go?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: This is my mindset's all different. My voice is completely different.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it at all.
Speaker 4: I'm glad to ask this question because if you did,
Speaker 4: it doesn't sound authentic to me. If you were to
Speaker 4: take your show right now and step outside from that
Speaker 4: warm fireplace environment you have, and you happen to walk
Speaker 4: outside and you were ringside for a UFC bout, or
Speaker 4: you were right in the middle of Auburn and Alabama
Speaker 4: in football, and you continued your show with the next segment,
Speaker 4: would your voice be like this, No, it wouldn't be,
Speaker 4: because there'd be all this ambiance sound, there would be
Speaker 4: all this energy and excitement, and you would naturally feel
Speaker 4: like you have to push your voice to cut through that.
Speaker 6: I never have given that a thought in my life.
Speaker 4: I just go with whatever the environment feels like where
Speaker 4: I feel like I've got to take my voice. And
Speaker 4: August is not a screaming place. Golf isn't a screaming sport.
Speaker 4: It's much more mellow. It's more of a ruthfully, it's
Speaker 4: more like the setting that I'm looking at you in
Speaker 4: right now. It's a conversation piece. I find it a
Speaker 4: great challenge. I know probably most people think how challenging
Speaker 4: is it. It's not like calling a basketball game up
Speaker 4: and down the floor.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I actually think it puts a premium on your ability
Speaker 4: to tell a story and to also be able to
Speaker 4: see what your skill set is as far as being
Speaker 4: able to communicate and your word choices and your phraseology
Speaker 4: and your ability to be succinct or long form storytelling.
Speaker 4: I actually think it's the greatest demand that I've ever
Speaker 4: had in my career, and I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people have done golf would say the same thing.
Speaker 2: More concerned about the future of college basketball or the
Speaker 2: future of golf.
Speaker 4: Not concerned about the future of golf. It's been around
Speaker 4: for five hundred years.
Speaker 3: But with Live.
Speaker 6: What about it?
Speaker 2: Those players playing there? What do we merge? Does golf
Speaker 2: need to merge?
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer to that. Now Lives, I
Speaker 4: think is in its fourth year. There hasn't been a
Speaker 4: whole lot of change in the last year. If you've noticed,
Speaker 4: the turnover has slowed down. Meanwhile, the PGA Tour is
Speaker 4: developing a lot of great young players. Let's take a
Speaker 4: guy like Lou vig Oberg, who might win next week,
Speaker 4: for example. I think the PGA Tour is doing just fine,
Speaker 4: and that's not an indictment of Live by any means.
Speaker 4: But my concern under question is future college basketball. That
Speaker 4: may not live as we know it another five hundred years.
Speaker 4: It may not live another fifteen years because the portal
Speaker 4: in the nil.
Speaker 6: It's difficult. I don't paint doom and gloom.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's about to be extinct.
Speaker 4: It's not going to be. But what we knew it
Speaker 4: as what we grew up with. That doesn't that model
Speaker 4: doesn't exist anymore, and some people have a problem with that.
Speaker 4: This is I want to put a pitch in here
Speaker 4: from my school here, the University of Houston, as we
Speaker 4: go into this weekend. We represent college basketball the way
Speaker 4: we used to know it better than anybody maybe in America.
Speaker 4: Our guys stay. We had everybody come back except Jamal
Speaker 4: Shad who was done eligibility and went to the NBA.
Speaker 4: He was a great leader. I grieve that he's not
Speaker 4: being able to experience his final four. But we have
Speaker 4: guys that have been there four or five because of
Speaker 4: the extra COVID year, even six years for Juwan Roberts.
Speaker 4: And yeah, we have to play the nil game. But
Speaker 4: our guys aren't racing to the portal. They believe in
Speaker 4: their coach. There's a family culture there. They're all in
Speaker 4: and they love their school. They love their brotherhood and
Speaker 4: bonding with their teammates, and they love that Samson family.
Speaker 6: And in a day.
Speaker 4: Where we have to every year be reintroduced to major
Speaker 4: programs and say, who are the can you cumbers? This
Speaker 4: year we're going to get to watch for one year? Well, Houston,
Speaker 4: we've gone through a long stretch and yet we've had
Speaker 4: to see guys graduate. But by and large, by and large,
Speaker 4: we are the model that won back in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Our guys stay and they care and it's neat to
Speaker 4: see the word loyalty still exist and not racing to
Speaker 4: a portal. I mean my last few years of doing basketball,
Speaker 4: I did the tournament for thirty seven years, either hosting
Speaker 4: or calling it. You know, I've seen five year players
Speaker 4: who were five different major Division I programs, even conferences.
Speaker 4: And you know, you bring a guy in, you train him,
Speaker 4: you coach him, and the next thing you know, the
Speaker 4: season ends and he's looking to see what opportunities are
Speaker 4: somewhere else. So I'm proud of this bunch. I'm proud
Speaker 4: of what Kelvin has developed. And this is our seventh
Speaker 4: time at the Final four. That's a major number. Second
Speaker 4: and four years under coach Samson, but we've never won
Speaker 4: the championship. We've got to beat a good Duke team
Speaker 4: to get to Monday night. But maybe this is our year.
Speaker 4: We still get undervalue and underrated that someone say to
Speaker 4: me yesterday, Yeah, you guys are good, but Duke's this,
Speaker 4: this and this and this. Okay, I hear that every game.
Speaker 4: I heard it going into the Tennessee game. Ared it
Speaker 4: going into the Purdue game? Or are going into the
Speaker 4: Big twelve Conference which we've been in for two years
Speaker 4: and we've absolutely run away with the conference two for two,
Speaker 4: very strong basketball conference.
Speaker 3: No, I like this, We'll say, jim nance fan, I
Speaker 3: like this the past. You know, you haven't had this before.
Speaker 6: I'm got to let it out somewhere, you know.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to help you. When Ludwig Oberg wins
Speaker 2: and you go Oberg, oh my, oh, it's a tribute
Speaker 2: to Dick Enberg.
Speaker 6: I like that. You know.
Speaker 4: You know how much I treasure the history of our
Speaker 4: industry and the names of yesteryear, and Dick worked the
Speaker 4: masters with us probably the last ten years of his career.
Speaker 6: Oh my, Ludwig Oberg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: That's not bad, But that one, I'll put that one older.
Speaker 4: What should I say when McElroy completes the career Grand Slam?
Speaker 6: Instead? Come on, on the spot. You gotta feel it.
Speaker 6: It's got to be organic.
Speaker 3: It's glory for Rory. He completes.
Speaker 6: That's the bad, glory for Rory.
Speaker 3: Thank you, let's go. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you right now, glory for Rory.
Speaker 4: It'll make the show wins next week. It may not
Speaker 4: be the final putt call m. It will be said
Speaker 4: somewhere from the end of the competition. So when we
Speaker 4: sign off the air, the glory for Rory, I will
Speaker 4: be channeling you, Dan at that moment. You have my
Speaker 4: word right now, if McElroy wins, I'm going to say
Speaker 4: something about glory for Rory.
Speaker 3: And you don't have to mention my name.
Speaker 6: You don't know. I was gonna ask you what kind
Speaker 6: of attribution?
Speaker 4: Now we don't run credits at Augusta, but maybe we
Speaker 4: can find a graphic that says.
Speaker 2: Glory for Jim Worried Jim Nan Jim Nance's words provided
Speaker 2: by Dan Patrick.
Speaker 1: You go.
Speaker 2: By the way I did my bad moment with CBS
Speaker 2: when they tried to hire me years ago. Sean McManus, Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Never heard this story. No, no, I was either hear
Speaker 3: it mid nineties.
Speaker 2: I'm a big deal at the Sports center and he
Speaker 2: wants to hire me at CBS. He said, pick any job.
Speaker 2: You can pick any job. And then I said, but
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to CBS Sport because that's
Speaker 2: all you.
Speaker 3: I think you just had basketball, you had just lost
Speaker 3: football or something.
Speaker 6: We had the n turnament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was gonna also had We also had
Speaker 4: a little tradition.
Speaker 3: Unlike anything. They wouldn't have let me. They wouldn't let
Speaker 3: me not a sport.
Speaker 6: Oh no, it's terrible championship, I know.
Speaker 2: But I said that I was going to take Pad
Speaker 2: O'Brien's job, and Sean says, pick a job. And then
Speaker 2: I was so smug, and I go, but I don't
Speaker 2: want to go to CBA Sport.
Speaker 3: It's terrible. I mean, we could have been cohorts.
Speaker 6: I feel like we are anyway we.
Speaker 3: Are we are.
Speaker 6: I mean I was talking about my Houston Cougars and
Speaker 6: a brotherhood.
Speaker 4: I truly feel like we are. And there's some others
Speaker 4: that are kind of now we're in the same age
Speaker 4: bracket here. Yeah, we've all been fortunate enough to beat
Speaker 4: on the national broadcast for about the same length of time.
Speaker 3: Yep, very lucky.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, how much I love you, and
Speaker 4: how Boston I know you are. So we have that.
Speaker 4: So I do feel like we're cohorts. Cohorts is what
Speaker 4: you call colleagues.
Speaker 2: Just remember it's glory for Rory. He is repleted the
Speaker 2: career Grand Slam.
Speaker 4: You're wanting it right over the plot now, yeah, Oberg,
Speaker 4: oh my ah, hey, what happened to the old sound
Speaker 4: alike contest to have about this time of year?
Speaker 2: Well, when you lost your own sound alike contest, I
Speaker 2: canceled it. We had somebody who sounded better as you
Speaker 2: than you, and I thought, you know what I did.
Speaker 6: I did. I lost.
Speaker 4: I lost a guy from I think he was from Arizona. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that was fun.
Speaker 6: I think we need to bring it back.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to my people, your people, I'll.
Speaker 6: Talk to my people. We'll see if they can work
Speaker 6: it out.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you great talk to you. Have fun.
Speaker 6: Appreciate you. I love you and your colleague