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Speaker 2: well as we always do every Monday, Best and Worst
Speaker 2: of the weekend. We'll get to your phone calls. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll do fill in the blank and our Play the
Speaker 2: Day coming up as well the NFL combine later this week.
Speaker 2: The Rams have said to Matthew Stafford, go ahead, test
Speaker 2: the market. And if there's a franchise that knows about
Speaker 2: letting a quarterback go who is close to winning or
Speaker 2: has won, it's the Rams. They did this with Jared Goff,
Speaker 2: who had gone to a Super Bowl with them. They
Speaker 2: got Stafford in return. Now they're gonna let Stafford test
Speaker 2: the market and maybe you get his replacement. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: a Sam Darnold kind of situation where you go a
Speaker 2: little younger. And I'm sure with Sean McVay, Sean McVay
Speaker 2: probably thinks I'm the genius here. I'll turn somebody into
Speaker 2: a great player. But the Rams letting Stafford gauge the market.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the potential options there. The Spurs have
Speaker 2: lost Greg Popovich and Victor wembn Yama for the year now.
Speaker 2: Popovich has been out for a long time with the stroke.
Speaker 2: Wem ben Yama has a blood clot in his shoulder.
Speaker 2: And because it's the Spurs and it's rare when they
Speaker 2: have news and they make it even bigger than what
Speaker 2: it normally is. If this was New York or LA
Speaker 2: or Boston or Philly, it feels like it would be
Speaker 2: a bigger thing. To me, it's scary because we've had
Speaker 2: Chris Bosh who had a blood clot that cuts short
Speaker 2: his Hall of Fame career. Here's ween ben Yama, who's
Speaker 2: twenty one, and the blood clot in your shoulder. Now
Speaker 2: I know it's not a knee or a foot for
Speaker 2: a big guy, but this, to me is it feels
Speaker 2: like it should be more concerning that. Maybe nationally it's playing.
Speaker 2: Here's the future face of the NBA, a player who
Speaker 2: I think will be the best player in the game
Speaker 2: by the time he's twenty five. This is worldwide and
Speaker 2: just feels like, oh, they shut him down and we
Speaker 2: moved on. Hey, let's talk about Luca's performance against Denver
Speaker 2: or the Knicks getting blown out, but wembin Yama done
Speaker 2: for the year, very very surprising with that news. Hopefully
Speaker 2: it's nothing, but then it could be something. It could
Speaker 2: be really, really something. So that was a little bit
Speaker 2: of a surprise. Alexander Ovechkin a hat trick and now
Speaker 2: thirteen away from topping Wayne Gretzky is the greatest goal
Speaker 2: scorer of all time. Not the greatest scorer, Nobody's going
Speaker 2: to get that, but Ovechkin is. He's chasing down gretz
Speaker 2: Cavs Celtic's thunder Nuggets all of one nine of their
Speaker 2: last ten. But the Nuggets did get roughed up against
Speaker 2: the Lakers. And the one thing I think we weren't
Speaker 2: fair to Luka Doncik about was the shock value of
Speaker 2: being traded by the Mavericks because he didn't know, nobody
Speaker 2: knew the next thing you know, you're being traded. He
Speaker 2: thought he was being pranked, thought it was an April
Speaker 2: Fool's Day joke a couple of months early. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if we ever gave him the time to
Speaker 2: get kind of acclimated to this. And that's what he
Speaker 2: was saying, it was like, you know, I haven't played
Speaker 2: very well, but I thought give ing two weeks to
Speaker 2: find out. You know, where am I living? He just
Speaker 2: bought a I don't know, fifteen or twenty million dollar
Speaker 2: home in Dallas. And then next thing, you know, hey what, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're traded to the Lakers. No I'm not, Yes you are.
Speaker 2: And Lakers getting used to him, him getting used to
Speaker 2: the Lakers. And you saw that the other night against Denver.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, and I know this sounds a
Speaker 2: little bold, but if they play defense, and I know
Speaker 2: it's a big if. If they play defense, they can
Speaker 2: challenge for a championship. They played defense against Denver, and
Speaker 2: that's JJ Redick devised a scheme where you're going man
Speaker 2: and zone, they double triple team Joker. They did an
Speaker 2: incredible job in Denver. They don't win in Denver, but
Speaker 2: see that gave me the Okay, can they do that? Now?
Speaker 2: Luca doesn't play defense, Lebron can This is where the
Speaker 2: younger guys really have to almost inspire the other players,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Luca to play some defense. Here. If they
Speaker 2: play defense with the other weapons that they have in
Speaker 2: the West they can challenge for a championship. Here is
Speaker 2: Luca on what the win against Denver does for the team.
Speaker 2: Corel confidence.
Speaker 3: You know, I remember when was the last time I
Speaker 3: won here? Is you know, it's very tough to play
Speaker 3: here against that team, so you know, just to one
Speaker 3: like that, it's it's an amazing win for us and
Speaker 3: gives me a lot of confidence moving forward. Like I said,
Speaker 3: you know, every day is going to get better. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm getting to learn learn the place, but I'm getting
Speaker 3: to learn that. But you know, us three, I think
Speaker 3: it depends on the day. You know, everybody has so
Speaker 3: much talent. So I think today the way we did,
Speaker 3: the way we shared the ball was amazing and the
Speaker 3: ball moving was amazing.
Speaker 2: And Lebron talked about Luca as well in kind of
Speaker 2: getting that chemistry.
Speaker 4: I'm a natural born wide receiver and he's a natural
Speaker 4: born quarterback, so it fits perfectly. I've been running the
Speaker 4: floor and running lanes like you know, pretty much my
Speaker 4: whole life, and he's been throwing great passes pretty much
Speaker 4: his whole life. So it's not it's not hard to
Speaker 4: get a rhythm when it comes to that. You know,
Speaker 4: it's just all about you know eye contact and you
Speaker 4: know him being a great quarterback like he is a
Speaker 4: meet beann recipient of it.
Speaker 2: And they got a pretty tough schedule coming up, some
Speaker 2: back to backs. But if they play defense, and defense
Speaker 2: to me comes down to do you want to play defense?
Speaker 2: Because if you're getting to the NBA, you're probably a
Speaker 2: really good athlete. And now it comes down to how
Speaker 2: much do you really want to play defense? And is
Speaker 2: it a team commitment? Also, your coach and JJ Reddick
Speaker 2: once again did a great job because you shut down
Speaker 2: Joker had seven seven field goal TEMs. He has that
Speaker 2: in a quarter. He has triple doubles before the end
Speaker 2: of the third quarter. They did a great job. Now
Speaker 2: is going to work against everybody? No, but can you
Speaker 2: find that sweet spot of this is who we are?
Speaker 2: These teams? Now? Golden State's looking for its identity with
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler, who are you? What are you? And can
Speaker 2: you continue? They won three in a row and I
Speaker 2: think they're all surprised at how good Jimmy Butler still is.
Speaker 2: Is that enough? Now you're trying to figure out are
Speaker 2: we a three point shooting team? Like what is our offense?
Speaker 2: And having that strategy they have young players, but they're
Speaker 2: just young players. They haven't been great players. It's still
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, Steve Kerr, and I still think Golden State
Speaker 2: has one of those magical runs still left in them. Now,
Speaker 2: how long can that last in the playoffs? That's really
Speaker 2: the key.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Do we trust Oklahoma City? Okay, maybe to a certain degree, yes,
Speaker 2: But it feels like in Houston is sneaky. I mean,
Speaker 2: you may not watch them, you may not know them.
Speaker 2: Houston's good, and it's these who's built for a seven
Speaker 2: game series?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Who's built for the next seven game series? That's how
Speaker 2: you win championships. You want to make them match up
Speaker 2: with you. How are you with half court? Do you
Speaker 2: play defense? All the things that you know come into
Speaker 2: play every single year, and we get caught up in
Speaker 2: threes in offense, all of this, and it comes down
Speaker 2: to what matchups half court offense, half court defense. But
Speaker 2: a long winded way of saying, we got some I
Speaker 2: think some interest here. The Caves, the Calves are here
Speaker 2: for the long haul. Celtics as well, thunder Nuggets. Throw
Speaker 2: in Golden State and throw in the Lakers as well,
Speaker 2: and you know it'll be fun. Now, the Knicks got
Speaker 2: blown out by the Cabs, got roughed up by the
Speaker 2: Celtics as well, and we keep waiting to see, are
Speaker 2: you the best team of the East, second best team
Speaker 2: in the East, third best team in the East. So
Speaker 2: a lot of NBA that as we start to pick
Speaker 2: up a little bit here and maybe you know, we'll
Speaker 2: focus on that. You got the combine coming up, so
Speaker 2: once again here comes the NFL. You had your little
Speaker 2: window and I hope you're happy you got a little
Speaker 2: window here hockey in NBA, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the combines this week. Then we're gonna lead up to
Speaker 2: the draft. There's gonna be mock drafts. There's free a
Speaker 2: see Matthew Stafford. I mean, this is where you hold
Speaker 2: on for dear life if you're a sport that's kind
Speaker 2: of on the periphery. It's like, can we get just
Speaker 2: something the fact that the NBA overshadowed the NFL during
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, but it took what is truly one
Speaker 2: of the blockbuster trades of all time with Luca, but
Speaker 2: it did it overshadowed because it was a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: matchup that we had had before a couple of years prior,
Speaker 2: And I don't know if everybody was all in on this,
Speaker 2: because you may not want the Chiefs to win, but
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people outside of Pennsylvania wanted
Speaker 2: the Eagles to win either. It's like, hopefully it's a
Speaker 2: good game, all right. Eight seven seven three DP show
Speaker 2: Best and Worst of the weekend Seaton Poll. Question for
Speaker 2: our one pole.
Speaker 6: Question for hour one, how about more cemented legacy Wayne
Speaker 6: Gretzky Michael Jordan, ooh.
Speaker 7: God, it's hot, scaldy hot.
Speaker 6: We were talking about it a little bit before the
Speaker 6: show today, Kenny. Obviously, with Ovechkin getting very close to
Speaker 6: passing Wayne Gretsky, Okay, but you're still nobody's going to
Speaker 6: doubt that Wayne Gretzky is the great one, the greatest
Speaker 6: of all time. It doesn't seem like Michael Jordan anybody's
Speaker 6: really going to be able to pass him either in
Speaker 6: terms of perception.
Speaker 2: Well, we won't let them. Correct, Yes, you have, you
Speaker 2: have Michael Jordan gatekeepers. Correct. Hey, don't you're not going in.
Speaker 2: Don't don't even think about Lebron. No, you're not going in.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to go in there with Wayne. If I
Speaker 2: said how many how many Standy Cup Championships as Wayne won,
Speaker 2: Marvin four, but we don't know what I'm saying with Mike.
Speaker 2: Mike Hey won six. Wayne was you know, Edmonton had
Speaker 2: one of the greatest teams of all time, like Hall
Speaker 2: of Famers talent, and then he got traded to the
Speaker 2: LA Kings and really changed hockey. You want to talk
Speaker 2: about somebody who changed the game, he did. He helped
Speaker 2: expand it in the United States, Southern states where you
Speaker 2: would go hockey, but they embraced it because everybody wanted it.
Speaker 2: It's it's very similar to what Caitlin Clark is doing
Speaker 2: in the WNBA. You're starting to see a Boston once
Speaker 2: won Partly you know, everybody's kind of going, hey, we
Speaker 2: want one of those, you know, the Bay Area. Now
Speaker 2: you're starting to see that Wayne did that with hockey.
Speaker 2: We love basketball no matter where it is, and women's
Speaker 2: basketball still rates well when they're big games. But hockey,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's bringing in Canada's sport here and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we want to see Wayne Gretzky
Speaker 2: play for the LA Kings. It's pretty monumental when it happened,
Speaker 2: but you're seeing that with Caitlin Clark with expansion as well.
Speaker 2: So Wayne O doing that. I mean, Mike didn't change
Speaker 2: the NBA. Think he changed marketing, the shoe deals, but worldwide.
Speaker 2: You know, Mike had a large imprint on the game,
Speaker 2: like Steph Curry changed the game, probably more than Michael
Speaker 2: did from a playing perspective. That this is what Steph did, Like,
Speaker 2: we can't be Mike, but you can think you can
Speaker 2: be Steph. So there's a difference. Even when you watch
Speaker 2: Wayne play, you go, how does he get away with that?
Speaker 2: And if you ever stand next to him, you're like, damn, dude,
Speaker 2: you're the great one. But he did change the game.
Speaker 2: Mike did to a certain degree, but I think his
Speaker 2: is more global marketing. Steph changed the game from a
Speaker 2: playing perspective. What else do you have, Seeton.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're still never going to convince anyone that Michael
Speaker 6: wouldn't have won somehow twenty championships in a row if
Speaker 6: he wanted to.
Speaker 2: If you didn't play baseball, you would have won eight
Speaker 2: in a row. Trust me. Okay, he didn't win those
Speaker 2: yuses because he didn't want to. Actually, trust you, I
Speaker 2: don't think we look at Wayne the way we do
Speaker 2: Michael Michaels was about championships because statistically there were going
Speaker 2: to be better players, But as far as winning championships,
Speaker 2: he was six. And oh, Wayne, it was he's the
Speaker 2: greatest scorer. He's the great one. But I don't think
Speaker 2: we go, well, how many titles did he have compared
Speaker 2: to Lemieux or Messier or Gordi, We don't do that
Speaker 2: Wayna was just different and we had not seen somebody
Speaker 2: who had that ability to score and be as if
Speaker 2: John Stockton led the NBA in scoring, he was the
Speaker 2: all time leading scorer. That's what Wayne is. Wayne is
Speaker 2: the all time assist leader and the all time goal scorer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pulling Oveska needs thirteen goals to pass Gretzky. It
Speaker 7: all happen in the next few weeks. He needs fourteen
Speaker 7: hundred more assists to pass Gretzky.
Speaker 2: With assistance, I don't think he's going to get it.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. You got a way of it,
Speaker 2: v Patient, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7: Gretzky has two thousand, eight hundred and fifty seven points.
Speaker 7: In second place is Yager at nineteen hundred and Messy
Speaker 7: at nineteen hundred. He's a thousand clear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but once again, fact just let that sink in.
Speaker 2: John Stockton would be the all time leading scorer and
Speaker 2: the all time assist guy at his size. By the way,
Speaker 2: crazy all right, just getting started. Great to be back.
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Speaker 2: get to phone calls coming up. We play fill in
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Speaker 2: Does it take longer to get back into work mode
Speaker 2: or does it take longer to get into vacation mode?
Speaker 2: Because sometimes when you work and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you're going to go on vacation, and if you
Speaker 2: have kids, particularly little ones, and then you're like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm on vacation, But it takes you a little while
Speaker 2: to ease into vacation, whereas does it take longer to
Speaker 2: ease back into work? I have a hard time with
Speaker 2: vacation because and certainly with social media now you can read,
Speaker 2: you catch up on everything, and then there are times
Speaker 2: when you go, oh, I wish we were still on
Speaker 2: the radio doing this. It's always there. It's a constant,
Speaker 2: you know. But with work, you know, you're back into it,
Speaker 2: like right away. Vacation is a little bit harder where
Speaker 2: you go because my wife would always say, hey, did
Speaker 2: you have a good time on vacation? Yeah, oh okay,
Speaker 2: it didn't seem like it, and being like, I think
Speaker 2: I did. You know, Sometimes after the fact, I'll say
Speaker 2: to my wife or my kids, man, I had a
Speaker 2: great time on that vacation. They're like you did, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I did. I had a great time. I don't know
Speaker 2: what you know we did on that vacation, but I
Speaker 2: had a great time, all right. Eight seven seven three
Speaker 2: DP show email address dpat dan Patrick dot com, Twitter
Speaker 2: handle a DP show. So Seeton, are we going to
Speaker 2: settle on that poll? Quint? You're gonna go? Would they?
Speaker 2: That's a banger right out of the gate with Gretzky
Speaker 2: and Jordan clicks.
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, well I have another one. Here are the
Speaker 6: Spurs tanking for Cooper flag? That's ridiculous or obviously they can't.
Speaker 6: They can't win the lottery again they can, but that's
Speaker 6: they can and I believe they will.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, I get the conspiracy theory, but
Speaker 2: I don't know where they Where are they as far
Speaker 2: as worst teams in ping pong balls and.
Speaker 6: All of that down, they're certainly the lower third of
Speaker 6: the West. Okay, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah if they Okay, has anybody given
Speaker 2: this any thought? As crazy as this is going to sound,
Speaker 2: what if Cooper flag goes? I can must stand another year.
Speaker 2: I'm making, you know, probably three four million, five million
Speaker 2: whatever face the college basketball aside from Danny Hurley. But
Speaker 2: although that might be Rick Patino. Now I'm sorry, Marvin sorry, yeh.
Speaker 9: Mar Rick Patina is the national coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: He's done a great job.
Speaker 9: I don't even think there's really a second place. Everybody
Speaker 9: else the second place. What he's done with Saint John's
Speaker 9: is incredible. They haven't been good my entire adult life.
Speaker 9: Maybe the last time they were a real threat. I'll wait,
Speaker 9: yeah see yeah, So what he's done is incredible.
Speaker 2: Patino has If a coach can have nine lives, Rick
Speaker 2: Patino has had nine lives. He wins everywhere he goes.
Speaker 2: He's one of the great coaches, not basketball, great coaches
Speaker 2: of all time and you're seeing this with Saint John's
Speaker 2: beating Connecticut over the weekend. All right, so that would
Speaker 2: be the Jordan Gretzky Yeah, okay, yeah, the most greatest
Speaker 2: of all time. Whose legacy yeah more cemented. I would
Speaker 2: say Jordan because the sport is more popular for now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but in a hundred years from now, do we look
Speaker 2: back on Wayne Gretzky's numbers and go like Babe Ruth.
Speaker 2: Although Babe Bruce's numbers have been surpassed, Gretzky's, you know,
Speaker 2: points total will never be surpassed, never, but goal scoring
Speaker 2: Ovechkin and we thought that that was you know, Mount
Speaker 2: rushmore of you know scoring, that was not going to
Speaker 2: be surpassed. But Ovechkin has been incredible. Although you might
Speaker 2: get that argument who's been better Sidney Crosby or Alex Ovechkin,
Speaker 2: And people probably would, you know, take Sidney Crosby as
Speaker 2: a better player, very close in total points, their careers
Speaker 2: have paralleled each other. You know, Wayne didn't really have
Speaker 2: a rival. I mean you had the Islanders, and then
Speaker 2: Edington came in and uh Messier coffee Grand feour h
Speaker 2: Glenn's uh say there, you know, we we were hoping
Speaker 2: Lemieux was going to be there. Uh, you know, health reasons.
Speaker 2: I think Lemieux could have been the greatest player of
Speaker 2: all time. I see a guy six ' four do
Speaker 2: what he did and the grace I thought he I
Speaker 2: thought he was destined to be the greatest player I
Speaker 2: ever saw. Uh did get see Gordy Howe at the
Speaker 2: end of his career, which was amazing? Got Roniic Finnin
Speaker 2: all there just a goal score the g Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, Hall of Famer. Yeah. Uh, Messier, you can
Speaker 2: make a case greatest player of all time because he
Speaker 2: played both ways. I mean he was he did everything
Speaker 2: for you, great leader as well. But you know, I
Speaker 2: don't want to get I want to stay in my
Speaker 2: lane here. But just from what from what I witnessed, uh,
Speaker 2: certainly to be able to see Wayne win a couple
Speaker 2: of Stanley Cups. Uh so yeah, it's fun conversation, Yes,
Speaker 2: Marmon and basketball terms.
Speaker 9: Was Sydney Crosby supposed to be lebron as far as
Speaker 9: this is the next one? Was there big expectations on him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, yeah, we didn't know about Ovechkin like you did.
Speaker 2: But and then you didn't have the the Soviet players
Speaker 2: didn't get to play in the four nation tournament, which
Speaker 2: there were a lot of you know, Russian hockey players,
Speaker 2: which I don't know how they get around that. If
Speaker 2: they get around that, certainly where we are, you know
Speaker 2: globally with Ukraine and Russia, they may not be playing
Speaker 2: in the four nation but you know you missed out
Speaker 2: on some of those players as well. Yeah, paulm that
Speaker 2: tournament though, had everything. They had eyeballs.
Speaker 3: It was on ESPN.
Speaker 2: It was easy.
Speaker 7: It wasn't sixteen nations and you had to work through it.
Speaker 7: You got right to the final four. It's like we
Speaker 7: got straight to the good stuff.
Speaker 2: And there was something to play for. Obviously, you have
Speaker 2: the dynamics between the United States and Canada and booing
Speaker 2: the anthems bad blood, it's hockey. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you know, they drop the gloves as they get ready
Speaker 2: right off to the face off. Yeah. I saw where
Speaker 2: Chris mad Dog Russo said that it felt like it
Speaker 2: was wrestling, And I was going to say to Chris,
Speaker 2: why don't you take one of those punches and then
Speaker 2: you tell me if that's wrestling, that that was scripted.
Speaker 2: They were faking it. I thought it was great because
Speaker 2: it did Matt once again, this is what we care about.
Speaker 2: I think as fans all care about it. If I
Speaker 2: think you care about it, is it really important to you?
Speaker 2: How important is this? Is it fair to compare the
Speaker 2: NBA's All Star Game being lackluster and then you look
Speaker 2: at the Four Nation Tournament with the NHL. Yes, because
Speaker 2: you know, they were kind of connected as far as
Speaker 2: the timing of them. And we keep saying, how about
Speaker 2: the United States against the World in the NBA, and
Speaker 2: then you had that model, you know, a different model,
Speaker 2: but it turned out great that you played for your country.
Speaker 2: It was important. The you know, goes into overtime. I
Speaker 2: get had everything that you wanted it to be. Can
Speaker 2: you do that with the NBA? Well, the NBA has
Speaker 2: to get to this point and they have to say
Speaker 2: the following do we need to blow this up? Can
Speaker 2: we tweak this? Will it even matter? Are we just
Speaker 2: destined to be somewhere in between where we're not the
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl? Maybe we're Baseball All Star Game. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe that's the best you can hope for. But if
Speaker 2: they don't care that, I don't care. I didn't watch
Speaker 2: the All Star Game because they don't care. So I'm
Speaker 2: I just I got to you know, I watched a
Speaker 2: little bit of the Slam Dunk Contest. I wanted to
Speaker 2: see if Mac mcclunk could do some different things. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's the greatest dunker of all time on in the
Speaker 2: dunkin contest, not in a game because he doesn't play. Yes, Mark.
Speaker 9: The thing about the NBA All Star Game is we
Speaker 9: don't even need to go through all these changes. If
Speaker 9: these guys during the summer, if you watch them play
Speaker 9: pick up basketball, that's all you want. You want them
Speaker 9: to play pick up basketball. They know how to play
Speaker 9: without hurting one another. You don't have to go all
Speaker 9: out because the outcome doesn't matter. It's never mattered. It's
Speaker 9: at least pretend or give off the illusion that you're
Speaker 9: playing some type of defense on somebody else. So you
Speaker 9: have to play all out like it's the NBA Finals
Speaker 9: or anything. You put a hand up in somebody's face.
Speaker 2: But you go back to baseball. In the All Star Game,
Speaker 2: it mattered because it was the National League versus the
Speaker 2: American League, and you didn't play each other. There was
Speaker 2: no inner league play. Therefore, there was a true rivalry.
Speaker 2: You wanted to show which league was better. Well, we
Speaker 2: don't have that anymore. You know, with the NBA, we
Speaker 2: don't have that anymore. If you had East versus West
Speaker 2: and you took pride in that, maybe, but they make
Speaker 2: so much money. All they want to do is be
Speaker 2: named to the All Star Team and not get hurt.
Speaker 2: I get all of that, but it feels like the
Speaker 2: NBA keeps trying to sell us the same thing. They
Speaker 2: just package it differently, Like, wait, I'm still getting underwear
Speaker 2: and socks for Christmas. Yeah, but look, hey, the courts
Speaker 2: reads going, yeah, this is great, isn't it, And you're like, no,
Speaker 2: But I would love to see the United States versus
Speaker 2: you know, the other countries combined. I think that would
Speaker 2: be fun. It would be different. Now, can you convince
Speaker 2: the Players Players Association? Also? You know, there's bonuses if
Speaker 2: you make the All Star team. You know, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things to factor in. I get that. But
Speaker 2: if college football can go from four to twelve team playoffs,
Speaker 2: then I think the NBA can figure this out. And
Speaker 2: by the way, college football is going to fourteen and
Speaker 2: then to sixteen real soon, the NFL is going to
Speaker 2: eighteen games like Okay, come on, we can figure this out.
Speaker 2: Get some of our brightest minds on this. Hello.
Speaker 7: Yes, like the four Nations. If college football ran the
Speaker 7: four Nations hockey, it'd instantly be eight nations, then sixteen,
Speaker 7: then twenty four nations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they would want a couple of extra
Speaker 2: nations to get in there from the SEC in the
Speaker 2: big automatic bids yeah, automatic, yes, uh, all right, we'll
Speaker 2: get phone calls coming up. But I think the NBA
Speaker 2: you got to get to that point where you go,
Speaker 2: can we do this and will we care about it? Yeah? Point?
Speaker 2: Where do you guys?
Speaker 7: Weigh in on Mac McClung kind of being an NBA player,
Speaker 7: so he's eligible to be in the Dunk Contest, but
Speaker 7: then not playing again. He has played in one game
Speaker 7: for five minutes for Orlando this year to be eligible
Speaker 7: to be in the dun Cos.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you said, Sabrina and Caitlin, we're going to
Speaker 2: be in the three point shooting contest with the NBA,
Speaker 2: they played more, but I would be fine with that.
Speaker 2: I don't care. It's it's gimmicky, but they've made it
Speaker 2: gimmicky because they have to. There's there's nothing else to
Speaker 2: see I mean, look back on dunks before, you know,
Speaker 2: when Mike and Larry Nance and uh doctor Jay. I
Speaker 2: mean they're great dunks, but like, what are you remembering?
Speaker 2: I'll remember Brent Berry, a white guy with his warm
Speaker 2: up still on, leaving from the free throw line. I mean,
Speaker 2: let's be honest here, Mac McClung. It's a white guy
Speaker 2: who is jumping over cars. Now, there's creativity in that.
Speaker 2: But Nate Robinson did this. But Mac, you know you
Speaker 2: got a factor in uh, you know, the elephant in
Speaker 2: the room here, creative. He's really good at what he does,
Speaker 2: but not good. Isn't that amazing? You could be that
Speaker 2: athletic and you still can't play in the NBA. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he can play. I know he's got
Speaker 2: a little bit of run in Orlando, but he doesn't.
Speaker 2: You know, he's and he probably is gonna stop doing
Speaker 2: the dunk contest. Oh oh no, no no.
Speaker 7: McClung has played in five basketball games in four seasons
Speaker 7: of NBA.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's made one.
Speaker 7: Hundred and thirty thousand dollars as an NBA player. He's
Speaker 7: made three hundred and twenty five grand as a dunk
Speaker 7: contest champion.
Speaker 2: Static day stead of the day, stat of the day
Speaker 2: he comes that, what stat of the day. Yeah, maybe,
Speaker 2: on second thought, if he wants to get paid, he's
Speaker 2: gonna have to be. But if he can bring Jahn
Speaker 2: Morant out, that would be great. If Aaron Gordon comes
Speaker 2: out of you know, dunk contest retirement. Okay, let's be fun.
Speaker 2: I still think John Morant's the greatest leaper, Like that
Speaker 2: one shot that he blocks where he goes straight up
Speaker 2: and catches it off the glass or before it gets
Speaker 2: to the like it's one of those where you go,
Speaker 2: is he on a trampoline? But I don't know if
Speaker 2: he cares about that. I don't know, like the competitive
Speaker 2: juices that, hey, I want to be the best. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it mattered. It used to matter. The
Speaker 2: Dunk Contest was big, but you had Dominique in there,
Speaker 2: you had Mike, you know, you had Blarry Nance. These
Speaker 2: were all great dunk or doctor j Like you wanted
Speaker 2: to be the slam Dunk Champion, and then after that,
Speaker 2: nobody wanted to be in the slam Dunk Contest.
Speaker 9: Yes, Mars, yeah, really, all you need is one big
Speaker 9: star because if you look at the slam dunk contest.
Speaker 9: Even when Mike and Dominique were in there, you don't
Speaker 9: know the rest of those guys. Yeah, so all you
Speaker 9: need is like maybe one big star, like a Blake
Speaker 9: Griffin type or at least a great dunker and everybody
Speaker 9: else in the competition and you'll be all set.
Speaker 2: Well, you need to have guys so the really good
Speaker 2: guys can take a breather before they have to get
Speaker 2: back out there and dunk. So you need to have
Speaker 2: guys who you know they do some dunke it. It's
Speaker 2: just so Jordan can rast or Dominique can rest yes
Speaker 2: time and also.
Speaker 10: How far can you take it? We've seen jumping over
Speaker 10: cars and trucks and everything. You know, is there that
Speaker 10: much room left between that and what you can do?
Speaker 10: As far as in Evil Knievel got we're gonna put
Speaker 10: two cars together in three cars? When does it become
Speaker 10: like that's not that big a deal. We've seen someone
Speaker 10: jump over a vehicle, so, uh, is it interesting.
Speaker 2: If you don't have a big name, still impressive to
Speaker 2: jump over a car and dunk. His head is up
Speaker 2: by the rim. His vertical has got to be close
Speaker 2: to fifty. I mean, although Kenny Smith is a buzzkill. Oh,
Speaker 2: he is a buzzkill when he does the Slam Dunk
Speaker 2: Contest and he critiques and then it's like, oh, and
Speaker 2: Kenny was a dunker, so he can speak from experience,
Speaker 2: but it just feels like it's never quite good enough
Speaker 2: for Kenny. Never quite yeah, Marv.
Speaker 9: And there's been a couple of years, all right. So
Speaker 9: twenty sixteen, Aaron Gordon went up against Zach Lavigne. That's
Speaker 9: easily a top three dunk contest back and forth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But other than that.
Speaker 9: Youet like Jeremy Evans when the Slam Dunk Contest. Even
Speaker 9: before that, Kenny Skywalker name my basket from Kenny Skywalker.
Speaker 2: I'll wait.
Speaker 9: So it's kind of stars and then it takes a dip.
Speaker 9: They stopped the dunk contest in nineteen ninety eight, so
Speaker 9: this isn't a new thing. Kobe won it in ninety
Speaker 9: seven as a rookie. There's a terrible dunk contest, and
Speaker 9: they stopped it in nineteen ninety eight, so this isn't
Speaker 9: a new thing.
Speaker 2: But I think Kobe wanted to win it because Mike won.
Speaker 2: I think Kobe was like, all right, I can do
Speaker 2: what anything Mike does I can do it, yes, Ton.
Speaker 2: I also wonder how.
Speaker 10: To contract the wording are affected by like a top
Speaker 10: line player participating in something where you can conceive it
Speaker 10: but get hurt trying to jump over a car. I
Speaker 10: suppose if mclung gets hurt, we'll be all right, be
Speaker 10: able to play next one.
Speaker 2: Well, that's on you, Like you if you decide to
Speaker 2: jump through a ring of fire, like that's on you.
Speaker 10: But there's still second half of the seasons to be played.
Speaker 2: Like when these guys, well they don't jump through the
Speaker 2: ring of fire.
Speaker 10: How are they not owners and gyms saying, you know what,
Speaker 10: it's cool for the league, but it's not good for
Speaker 10: my team. If you participating in this contest and tried
Speaker 10: jumping over a car and hurt your neck or your
Speaker 10: knee or something, so maybe we don't do that.
Speaker 2: Why do you? Why do you always go to that?
Speaker 10: I think it's very important. Is that part of the
Speaker 10: reason why some of the biggest names don't do it
Speaker 10: because they like to do it.
Speaker 2: They don't jump over cars. We've only had that a
Speaker 2: couple of times.
Speaker 10: No chance of winning unless you used to jump over
Speaker 10: through fire or something.
Speaker 2: I think they should jump through fire.
Speaker 10: They shared a hoop of fire.
Speaker 2: Yes, I tune in Ring of Fire. They play Johnny
Speaker 2: Cash perfect I fell into something else would impress us?
Speaker 7: Yes, Paul, So you're saying if the lane were hot coals,
Speaker 7: you're tuning in. No, it's lava, lava like that TV show. Yes,
Speaker 7: the floor is lava. If you'd told me five years ago,
Speaker 7: Zion Williamson would never appear in a dunk contest because
Speaker 7: of mostly injuries. I don't know if he was ever
Speaker 7: thinking about it, but he had so many injuries earlier
Speaker 7: he couldn't do it and justify it.
Speaker 2: You have a Jamma Rant two. I'd rather see John
Speaker 2: Morant than Zion. I mean, Zion's power. John Morant would
Speaker 2: be different, But I don't you know, we got numb
Speaker 2: to dunking. We're getting numb to three point shooting. Oho.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant said, Hey, you guys spend more time complaining
Speaker 2: about the NBA than watching the NBA. Kevin, you answered
Speaker 2: your own question. There there is reason to complain about
Speaker 2: the NBA. You're right, we don't want to, but there's
Speaker 2: reasons to. How about we take a break, play the
Speaker 2: day up.
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Speaker 13: I have some breaking news for you guys.
Speaker 11: But first five minute pul question.
Speaker 13: I was watching the MAVs and the.
Speaker 11: Doves yesterday and he got me thinking, not.
Speaker 13: If Dan, but when Steph gets his statue, do they
Speaker 13: go with his like the replica of his like you know,
Speaker 13: sure shooting form from three? Or do they go with
Speaker 13: his now iconic night night gesture because like he cemented
Speaker 13: that with his Olympics.
Speaker 11: Performance, and I mean people, they copy that across the landscape.
Speaker 13: Landscape of sports. Now so interested to see what you
Speaker 13: guys think. But the breaking news, Dan little Hert, a
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Speaker 11: Plenty of room for you guys. You can live it
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Speaker 13: Bowl venue, and so maybe the big german can come
Speaker 13: out and scope out the landscape and see what do
Speaker 13: you guys all think about it?
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Buddha. I think if when they have
Speaker 2: Steph Curry statue, I want to see his shooting form.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to see. I don't want the
Speaker 2: night night. I want the shooting form because that, to me,
Speaker 2: it's just classic. That's how you shoot. Right there. You
Speaker 2: can bring your kids over. Hey, we're going on a
Speaker 2: school trip. Where are we going. We're going to go
Speaker 2: and look at somebody's shooting form right there. That's how
Speaker 2: you shoot everything perfect. Yeah, Paull, So his statue, he's
Speaker 2: got to be kind of in the air. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: the ball gone or is it still in his hands?
Speaker 2: Because if the ball's gone, they got to hover that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 7: How are they doing that.
Speaker 2: That ball is never in his hands that when he
Speaker 2: gets ready to shoot, right, I don't know. Maybe you
Speaker 2: can make a statue where the ball just moves a
Speaker 2: little bit like slightly going out of his hand, the
Speaker 2: release like a water fountain.
Speaker 7: Yeah, petrol just flying out of his hands and he's
Speaker 7: got to be up about ten twelve inches a lift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the follow through.
Speaker 10: Mouthpiece in your mouth kind of which is, what do
Speaker 10: you do with the mouthpeas?
Speaker 2: Damn are you old?
Speaker 10: You are partially out of his mouth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's actually an insult to old people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whoa to us old people. Gus in La Hi, Gus.
Speaker 5: Good morning, mister Patchers. Hope you're in the boys in
Speaker 5: Georgia week off. Good to have you boys back. All right,
Speaker 5: let's get into the best of the weekend, my Lakers.
Speaker 5: I told Tyler, I'm sitting in front of my TV
Speaker 5: on Saturday night and just like say, like a little prayer.
Speaker 5: I'm like, just don't get blown out. Please, don't get
Speaker 5: blown out. I like can't deal with it. And then
Speaker 5: them to everyone's surprised, we go in there and smack
Speaker 5: the hell out of a fully healthy roster Denver Nugget squad.
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not throwing.
Speaker 14: The parade down to the pulvida yet, but it was
Speaker 14: a very pleasant surprise to see it. Question I have
Speaker 14: is at what point I'm not saying that they're gonna,
Speaker 14: you know, win the championship. But at what point does
Speaker 14: the national media turned to JJ Redick and say, hey,
Speaker 14: we got you wrong, we had you figured wrong. I
Speaker 14: get that he's got Luke and Lebron, but at what
Speaker 14: point do we there's the next one. Media go okay,
Speaker 14: it looks like you did know what you were doing.
Speaker 2: Gus, relax, just just get away. How about how about
Speaker 2: a playoff series win?
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, plaster is with but Darvin Ham never smacked
Speaker 14: around the nugget by twenty three.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you're JJ Reddick, you shouldn't be compared to
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham. I give you a better than Darvinham. If
Speaker 2: you're JJ Reddick, you want to be compared to some
Speaker 2: of the great coaches. But thank you, guys, Gus already
Speaker 2: starting the parade route. Yes, Marvin, yeah, we stop the comparisons.
Speaker 2: When JJ Reddick called the time out, wow wow, Okay,
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham got fired. Okay if the job was too
Speaker 2: big for him, JJ Reddick never had any coaching experience.
Speaker 2: I think people were probably saying, did he get the
Speaker 2: job because he's Lebron's fent. Well, he's a very bright mind,
Speaker 2: very bright minded guy. We're starting to see that that rotations, timeouts, defense,
Speaker 2: like that's what you're supposed to do. He could be
Speaker 2: the West Coast version of Eric Spolstra. Well, but yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of pressure on him. And I thought
Speaker 2: that if you're going on what they did in Denver
Speaker 2: where they don't win and they played defense and they
Speaker 2: had a strategy against Joker, that's all I'm saying. They
Speaker 2: can compete for a championship. I truly believe that they can.
Speaker 2: But Lebron's got to stay healthy. You know, what's Luca's
Speaker 2: condition going to be?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you continuing to get contributions from Austin Reeves? Reeves
Speaker 2: has been great, but you know, the West is not easy.
Speaker 2: Where's the East? Feels like it's a little top heavy.
Speaker 2: The West. You've got six teams that might be able
Speaker 2: to win it all. But JJ Reddick has done a
Speaker 2: very good job so far. If he bowls out in
Speaker 2: the first round, are we going to go?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 2: He did a great job. It's la not about the
Speaker 2: regular season. Our two coming up? Where is Matthew Stafford
Speaker 2: going to end up? Who are the Rams going to
Speaker 2: bring in more of your phone calls? Each seven to
Speaker 2: seven three DP show Hour two on the Way. Right
Speaker 2: after this