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Speaker 1: Leota passed away at the age of sixty seven yesterday.
Speaker 1: We had ray on I think back in November. We
Speaker 1: had tried to get him on for quite some time.
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of times talking about Field of Dreams, Goodfellows,
Speaker 1: what's the other one with Melanie Griffith? Oh, something Wild? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's his first breakoup movie with Jeff Daniels. Really good
Speaker 1: movie and Melanie Griffith looked great in that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Ray Leota passed away at the age of sixty seven.
Speaker 1: He let us ask some questions that Dan Atz got
Speaker 1: to ask him some questions as well, and we hope
Speaker 1: he had a good time, but passing away at the
Speaker 1: age of sixty seven. Also, when Glenn Fry the Eagles
Speaker 1: joined us, I think he joined us any eight months later,
Speaker 1: he had passed away. And I have a friend who's
Speaker 1: friends with who's friends with Glenn Fry, and I remember
Speaker 1: him telling me over Christmas and he said, Glenn's not
Speaker 1: doing well, but he said, don't tell anybody. And and
Speaker 1: I knew Glenn's wife, Cindy. I played golf with her
Speaker 1: back in the mid nineties at Pebble Beach pro Am
Speaker 1: very sweet sweetheart. And I just kept waiting for that
Speaker 1: news that it was going to happen, because my friend said,
Speaker 1: Glenn's not going to get out of the hospital. And
Speaker 1: you know, there was no lead up build up to that,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, we just heard that
Speaker 1: ray had passed away. And we did play a clip
Speaker 1: from the interview that he did with us as he
Speaker 1: joined us back in November. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: there's Hollywood immortality, Like I don't know if ray Leota
Speaker 1: made a lot of money, but he was in Goodfellas,
Speaker 1: Like that's Hollywood immortality. Like James Kahn, he was in Godfather,
Speaker 1: Sonny Corleone immortality. I don't know who else comes to
Speaker 1: mind when you think of that that. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you got somebody who is going to make millions and millions,
Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, But who has
Speaker 1: Hollywood immortality? The movies that last where um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there'll be tons of movies that come
Speaker 1: to mind you you'll remind me, but just those iconic
Speaker 1: moments a movie where you go, oh yeah, like we'll
Speaker 1: always talk about that movie. Yeah, morphs Tim Robbins, for yeah,
Speaker 1: is he in that category? Yeah? A bunch of movies,
Speaker 1: but that one is one. Yes, But it's Morgan Freeman
Speaker 1: in there with Tim or is it because Morgan has
Speaker 1: been in so many movies that you don't think of?
Speaker 1: To me, the player with Tim Robbins is sneaky, great,
Speaker 1: sneaky great movie camera work, and that is wonderful. But
Speaker 1: I would say Tim Robbins Hollywood immortality because of it
Speaker 1: works the same way with sports movies. Tim Robbins also
Speaker 1: has Nukela Loush and it feels like Bull Durham will
Speaker 1: be around a long long time. You know, Gene Hackman's
Speaker 1: known for a lot of things, so he's he's okay
Speaker 1: either way. But guys like Dennis Hopper, he was hel
Speaker 1: for a lot of things too. But you've got Hoosiers,
Speaker 1: You're good for a long time with sports fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but wasn't heasy writer? Yes, Dennis Hopper? Um, what else
Speaker 1: comes to mind? He's also in Speed. Remember he's the
Speaker 1: bad guy in Speed? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. They're just
Speaker 1: certain guys that you go you'll never forget them. You
Speaker 1: may not know any of their other movies, or they
Speaker 1: may not have cashed in, but they were the they
Speaker 1: were in these movies iconic ones, yes, Charlie Sheen or
Speaker 1: is he too big to be in that list? Or
Speaker 1: like a burgess Meredith the iconic role as Mick. But
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily you know, one of the hugest actors
Speaker 1: in the world. Well, you do remember him well, but
Speaker 1: didn't he play the Penguin? Yes, Batman? Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say as as Rocky's first trainer. Yeah, Charlie
Speaker 1: Sheen's too big because you would say, well, is it
Speaker 1: Wall Street that would come to mind? Yes, he was
Speaker 1: also in Major League, which is just as iconic is
Speaker 1: Wall Street. So he's got two or three or four
Speaker 1: of those. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you can have
Speaker 1: two or three or four. I think you have to
Speaker 1: have one where you go, oh, I remember that person
Speaker 1: because that movie. Yes, So like Harrison Ford is too
Speaker 1: big because he has these iconic parts, but he has
Speaker 1: He's in two of the best trilogies of all times.
Speaker 1: Now he made too much money, too big of a star. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: touch like Roy Scheider because of Jaws. Yeah you don't
Speaker 1: see him. Good call. But about Norman Bates, uh Perkins, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty empany Perkins. That's a that's a pretty
Speaker 1: serious role. Yeah, okay, we're rolling. Yeah, Marv. Is it
Speaker 1: like the equivalent of like not one hit Wonders But
Speaker 1: they had a bunch of good songs, but then there's
Speaker 1: that super duper you know, number one hit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be. Come on, Eileen's feeling, Eileen, do you
Speaker 1: like that old girlfriend from college? Oh? Yeah, Polly had
Speaker 1: one legged girl, girl, one legged girlfriend soon. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can make that joke. You guys know, I have one eye.
Speaker 1: So I'm in this in the club with her. The club,
Speaker 1: she she had half a leg, the lower half was
Speaker 1: missing in action. Yes, yes, you can't see Anthony Hopkins
Speaker 1: without thinking of Hannibal Lecter. Yeah. Yeah, a great career.
Speaker 1: But that's probably when you say their name, you go,
Speaker 1: oh that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right about Anthony Hopkins.
Speaker 1: He scared a lot of people, I know, ysening fingers
Speaker 1: in the backs of cause running running all the way
Speaker 1: to the FBI, quit pro quicklibs. You tell me things,
Speaker 1: I tell you things. Thank you to Yeah, Polly. So,
Speaker 1: there's a scene in Good Fellas, it is Friday, It
Speaker 1: is Friday. He's a scene in Good Fails where Paul Sorvino,
Speaker 1: he's the mob boss and he's yelling at Henry Hill
Speaker 1: ray Leo's character, and they're doing a take and at
Speaker 1: the end of the scene he smacks him in the face.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't in the script and I was just
Speaker 1: listening to Paul Sorvino talk about it. It was a
Speaker 1: taped interview. Paul Slorvina said it was a last take.
Speaker 1: They said do something different, and he smacks Henry Hill
Speaker 1: in the face Ray Leota, and Ray just stays with
Speaker 1: it and doesn't break character, and he was not expected
Speaker 1: to get smacked hard in the face by a guy.
Speaker 1: And that's the scene they used in the movie. It's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I like that because sometimes it's hard to
Speaker 1: rehearse something like that because then you have to do
Speaker 1: it again. And if you're gonna do it but you're
Speaker 1: not going to hit the person, you know, it's one thing.
Speaker 1: But if you're actually gonna hit that person and it's
Speaker 1: a real smack. Because there were there were scenes in
Speaker 1: Rocky where Sylvester Stallone actually got hit and I don't
Speaker 1: know if he wanted to feel it. I think he
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, give that portrayal of you know,
Speaker 1: the guy who's going to get beat up and almost
Speaker 1: you could see the look on his face is real.
Speaker 1: But I think he took some body blows there that
Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't expecting, or he was and wanted them.
Speaker 1: Let's see, So we have Nick Wright coming up. Nick
Speaker 1: thought that we were going to see the greatest comeback
Speaker 1: in history. The Dallas Mavericks were going to come back
Speaker 1: and somehow win three games in a row against Golden State.
Speaker 1: Game six heats Celtics coming up tonight. Celtics are eight
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. By the way, Lucas scored
Speaker 1: twenty eight, nine rebounds, eight assist. He's one of two
Speaker 1: players in NBA history to average at least those numbers
Speaker 1: in the postseason. The other person Lebron James. Stat of
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Speaker 1: the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Freeman
Speaker 1: in Utah joins us on the program. Good morning, Freeman,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey? I was just wondering because
Speaker 1: I just watched the live look in with PAULI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if Mike Green's call with Mim with Ray
Speaker 1: Allen hid in that corner three against the Spurs and
Speaker 1: two of them thirteen with a bigger call more important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bigger situation. Yeah, And so how do you
Speaker 1: feel about that call compared to the step hitting against Okay, see,
Speaker 1: well I'm not surprised that Ray Allen hit that shot.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the phone call, Freeman with Steph. You're not
Speaker 1: surprised that he made it, You're surprised where he took
Speaker 1: it from. He took a forty foot jump shot. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a desperation Heath. It just felt like that was
Speaker 1: the moment Steph Curry ruined basketball. I mean, just because
Speaker 1: he was able to do it and he took that
Speaker 1: shot and he made it. Then after that, everybody became
Speaker 1: an imitator, and like I want to do that. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Muhammad Ali, Like every athlete owes something to
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali because Ali he said it and then he
Speaker 1: did it. Nobody did that and like the charisma that
Speaker 1: he had and he owned the media. But I just
Speaker 1: feel like we talk about trash talking or somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: say something controversial. Ali did it and then backed it up.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry took that shot and then he backed it
Speaker 1: up because he kept taking those shots and making those shots.
Speaker 1: It's everybody else who goes, I want to do that.
Speaker 1: No you can't, Well I want to try, all right,
Speaker 1: go ahead and try. And that's what you have with
Speaker 1: the NBA. They all want to be Steph Curry, even
Speaker 1: the big men. I mean, in my lifetime, I never
Speaker 1: thought i'd hear big men are averaging six seven three
Speaker 1: point attempts a game. And when you think about a center, now,
Speaker 1: the great centers had the ability to play outside the
Speaker 1: joker embiid everybody. But I mean, Rudy Gobert is not
Speaker 1: a great center, but he's a defensive player. DeAndre Ayton
Speaker 1: like he wants to shoot three, like they all do.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a nice player. But big men are
Speaker 1: like it's commonplace now, but you're also coming up practicing
Speaker 1: those shots where it used to be a big man
Speaker 1: get down low. They stay down low. Even if you
Speaker 1: came foul on extended, you were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's out there foul on extended. What's he doing? Yeah? Point,
Speaker 1: I have a five minute pole questions and how do
Speaker 1: you know basketball better than us? How would this work
Speaker 1: out on the floor if you remove the three point line?
Speaker 1: If you just said that's it. Next summer, next year
Speaker 1: they announced people who are sick of threes and sick
Speaker 1: of the overvaluing the threes and too many three sing shot.
Speaker 1: You just take the line, tear it off and say
Speaker 1: everything's a two. I would love it. I would love it. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you think a lot of people would love it. No, no,
Speaker 1: because that would make the inside game much more valuable
Speaker 1: and deemphasize twenty five ft shot. There'd be more movement,
Speaker 1: more passing that you would you would have a different game.
Speaker 1: It would look different, that'd be different. But I would
Speaker 1: love to try that, just to see how these players
Speaker 1: would react, Like are you still taking those jumpers? How
Speaker 1: about we have two point week in the NBA, Like
Speaker 1: all this week, no three pointers. But you surprise the
Speaker 1: teams when they, you know, they show up for their
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, like the lines are gone and you go, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: where's the where's the three point line? Oh, we're not
Speaker 1: having it for the game. Maybe just one night. I
Speaker 1: always think back to when I did Sports Center and
Speaker 1: one night I said dunks. No. It always felt like
Speaker 1: we'd always end a highlight with a dunk. Hey, nothing
Speaker 1: else to show, Here's here's a dunk. And and it
Speaker 1: might have been get off my lawn before it was
Speaker 1: popular to say get off my lawn. You started that.
Speaker 1: Yes I did, Yes I did, but I I said,
Speaker 1: no dunks. Let's just see if we can do highlights
Speaker 1: that show basketball and no dunks. Well, we almost did
Speaker 1: it last highlight of the night. I remember who did it,
Speaker 1: Sharene Saski great pat at a sports center, and she
Speaker 1: rushed to get the highlight done. And it was like
Speaker 1: right at the end of the show and I'm doing
Speaker 1: the highlights, and right at the very end, it was
Speaker 1: like a throwaway dunk and I went oh. And I
Speaker 1: think people thought I was going, oh, what an incredible dunk.
Speaker 1: I'm going, oh, we almost made it through with no dunks.
Speaker 1: By the way, get off my lawn. Here's James Worthy
Speaker 1: talking about today's NBA players the Laker Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: And I think because of the you know, the rush
Speaker 1: of guys not going to college. I mean, Kareem had
Speaker 1: four years with John Wooden, Michael Jordan and I had
Speaker 1: three years with Dean Smith. You know, Isaiah had some
Speaker 1: years with Bobby Knight. So you learn the fundamentals. Not
Speaker 1: only that, you learn how to live, you learn how
Speaker 1: to balance your freaking checkbook in college. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things. So when you don't, you don't
Speaker 1: get that. Guys are coming to the NBA that not
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound, you know, so all they do is practice threes,
Speaker 1: lift weights, get tattoos, and tweet and go on social media.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's James Worthy courtesy of ninety seven point
Speaker 1: one the Ticket. We'll talk some basketball with Nick. Right, well,
Speaker 1: let me see what he thinks of no three point night,
Speaker 1: one night for every game, every team who would be
Speaker 1: the most of probably Golden State would be the most
Speaker 1: affected by it. I'm guessing all right, we'll come back
Speaker 1: after this Dan Patrick Show. Hey, it's Ben, host of
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Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Justin Timberlake,
Speaker 1: has joined the ranks of major musicians who have sold
Speaker 1: their music catalog. Anybody want to take a guess what
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake's catalog is worth. This is an estimate according
Speaker 1: to The Wall Street Journal. Paully, I've seen a few
Speaker 1: of them, like one hundred and fifty million. I would
Speaker 1: say eighty eighty million, eighty million, Todd, seventy five million,
Speaker 1: Seaton this is just a solo music. Yeah, and seventy
Speaker 1: six million dollars. I see what you're doing, Marvin. I'm
Speaker 1: about nine one hundred million dollars. Justin Chimberlake. Is the
Speaker 1: move there that you get it all up front and
Speaker 1: they use your music and movies and TV shows and
Speaker 1: your state will get money forever. We like, don't worry
Speaker 1: about my state. I'll take it now. Yeah. Yeah. Paully
Speaker 1: has a game here guests who took the most threes
Speaker 1: team wise, guests who took the least amount of threes.
Speaker 1: But that also leads me to a question I have
Speaker 1: for Nick Wright, the popular co host of First Things
Speaker 1: First on Fox Sports One. We'll play the game, Nick,
Speaker 1: but also, what about this next year? What if we
Speaker 1: had a no three point line for one night in
Speaker 1: the NBA, like every game there's no three pointers, we
Speaker 1: remove it just to see how the game is played. Oh,
Speaker 1: I like that idea. I like the idea that many
Speaker 1: of postulated, which is make the arc and actual arc
Speaker 1: so it would extend out a bound right, so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have the corner threes anymore. Kurt Goldsberry had the
Speaker 1: single best idea, which is each team gets to draw
Speaker 1: the three point line where they want on their own court,
Speaker 1: like baseball teams do with the fences. So if you
Speaker 1: don't want to have one, you don't have one. If
Speaker 1: you want to have it at the NC double A line,
Speaker 1: you have it at the NC double A line. If
Speaker 1: you want to have it thirty five feet out because
Speaker 1: you're the Hawks and you have Trey Young and you're like,
Speaker 1: we're the only guy team that can hit those, I'm
Speaker 1: good with that. I like those ideas. I really like
Speaker 1: the idea of turning the three point line into something
Speaker 1: like a baseball stadium's outfield. I think that's a fun wrinkle. Okay,
Speaker 1: PAULI are we going to do most threes or least threes? First?
Speaker 1: Let's go with which NBA team attempted the most three pointers?
Speaker 1: Per game in the twenty twenty two season, Nick A'll
Speaker 1: let you start. You're the guest. Oh in the regular season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess. Utah, all right, utaw a second. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was gonna meet my pick uh Seaton. It feels
Speaker 1: kind of obvious, so it must be wrong. But the Warriors, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it not them, marvlet to say. The Hawks, Oh, Paully, no,
Speaker 1: they're not even in the top five. Todd Memphis also
Speaker 1: not in the top five. Can I say something? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: Where are the Warriors? Does your crew watch sports? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: these are some bad guess the Hawks are eighteen? Is
Speaker 1: it the Rockets? It's the Minnesota Timberwolves number one, forty
Speaker 1: one threes per game? They Well, you do have Carl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns taking six three pointers at night. Golden State
Speaker 1: is third, yes, okay, yeah, that's not okay, So the
Speaker 1: least attempted threes. Okay, there's a hint. The team took
Speaker 1: only twenty eight threes per game. Their best player is known. No, no,
Speaker 1: no hint yet, Nickoll'll start with you. The team that
Speaker 1: attempted well that that half hint is now messing with
Speaker 1: I don't even Uh, it's a not a hint. It's
Speaker 1: it's just like if he was gonna say their best
Speaker 1: player is known four shooting threes, yet they shot the fewest.
Speaker 1: It's obviously I was gonna say San Antonio because Popovich
Speaker 1: was late to the game on the three, I don't
Speaker 1: know who shot the fews. It would be a bad team.
Speaker 1: I do know that it's a bad team. All right. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Rockets. Rockets. Rockets are fourth for
Speaker 1: the most Yeah, I said, yeah, were you just listening?
Speaker 1: I said, Rockets were one of my guesses, and I'm brilliant, Satan.
Speaker 1: How about the Phoenix Suns? All right, Suns are a
Speaker 1: good decent Gas are fifth from the bottom. Marv the Heat.
Speaker 1: Talking about the Heat, I'm gonna go the Knicks. You're
Speaker 1: all very wrong. The hint is their best player is
Speaker 1: known for not taking threes. Oh, well, that would be
Speaker 1: the Heat with Jimmy Butler. Or no, it's the Chicago Bulls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only guy on that team that shot threes was Levine.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about your Mavericks. Yeah. I mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier in the show that there are playoff losses that
Speaker 1: are not equal, like Phoenix. You got to be disappointed
Speaker 1: if you're a Phoenix Suns fan. If you're a Dallas fan,
Speaker 1: I mean, you may be disappointed with last night, but
Speaker 1: there seems to be more hope that you're building on something.
Speaker 1: So what do you think happens next for the Dallas Mavericks. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: I think this was a wildly successful season, but I
Speaker 1: also think they have very tough choices, which is they
Speaker 1: might have to choose to take a slight step back, Dan,
Speaker 1: because I don't think Jayalen Brunson is worth twenty eight
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. If you if you someone's gonna
Speaker 1: offer jail and four for one hundred around there, that's
Speaker 1: twenty five million a year for your crew that doesn't
Speaker 1: watch basketball, and I assume can't do basic math, but
Speaker 1: that's what it would be. The sorry and taking a
Speaker 1: lot of shots here, guys, My apologies is Friday, I
Speaker 1: lost a lot of money on this series. How much
Speaker 1: did you lose? How much did you lose on the MAVs?
Speaker 1: I mean five grand? You're talking about last sighter total
Speaker 1: in the series total in this series, more than five,
Speaker 1: less than ten. However, it's it's really the unrealized games.
Speaker 1: I was looking at a smooth seventy two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: Dan if the MAVs, well, it was gonna be seventy
Speaker 1: two if they won the title, it was gonna be
Speaker 1: thirty eight if they made the finals with a less
Speaker 1: than three thousand dollars total risk outlet. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was the unrealized gains. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the mini crypto folks that FEELI
Speaker 1: feels like I was so close to being rich and
Speaker 1: now I'm not. But that's either here nor there. So
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I wouldn't tie myself to jail
Speaker 1: and Brunson as Luca's co star. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: good enough to be Luca's co star. So I think
Speaker 1: you might have to take a step back, keep flexibility
Speaker 1: until you find the right costar. And so when I
Speaker 1: picked the MAVs on this show and others to make
Speaker 1: the finals a couple of months ago, I said, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like Lebron and Oh seven with that Cavs team.
Speaker 1: But if you remember, that Cavs team never made the
Speaker 1: finals the eighth, nine, twenty ten, they had Lebron, they
Speaker 1: couldn't find the right pieces. They never made the finals,
Speaker 1: So that's team wise. Individually, Luca got banged on for
Speaker 1: his defense, like he wasn't trying the Luca's below average defensively,
Speaker 1: but it's not for lack of effort. It is because
Speaker 1: he's not in good enough shape and he does so
Speaker 1: much on offense he rests on defense. So he's twenty
Speaker 1: three years old. I understand the man likes some beers
Speaker 1: and some hookah. I get it, which of us didn't
Speaker 1: at twenty three. But he's got to get in better shape.
Speaker 1: He should be right now the second best player in basketball.
Speaker 1: He needs getting better shape so we can be better
Speaker 1: on that end of the court. Who is the second
Speaker 1: best player in basketball? It might be Luca. Jannie is
Speaker 1: clear number one. Steph is so impactful and he keeps winning.
Speaker 1: Durant it's weird. Durant's better than Steph, but Steph's had
Speaker 1: a better career. I think Luca is the second best
Speaker 1: player in the league, but I can't prove it. But
Speaker 1: you know, believe it to be true, but I can't prove.
Speaker 1: Why do we always hesitate with Steph Curry, like like
Speaker 1: we still don't want to go he's he's in the
Speaker 1: top five or top three, or he's great. It feels
Speaker 1: like we hesitate, maybe having a time defining his greatness
Speaker 1: for some reason. Well, I think missing the playoffs and
Speaker 1: back to back years you know, in your early thirties
Speaker 1: didn't help. I mean, that's just had the injuries. They
Speaker 1: had injuries. Yeah, but last year he was there. The
Speaker 1: first year he had you know, the world's worst hand injury.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the Warriors tanking at all because they knew
Speaker 1: they couldn't win. But last year, you know, and he
Speaker 1: lost back to back play in games. That hurts him.
Speaker 1: But I and now I know that the new thing
Speaker 1: is Steps top ten, Steps top ten all time and
Speaker 1: stop ten all time. And it's not an outrageous statement.
Speaker 1: The problem is, in order for Step to be in
Speaker 1: the top ten, you must have a twelve person top ten,
Speaker 1: because there's there's simply you, Lebron Crane, Michael Magic, Wilt Russell,
Speaker 1: you're at six, Kobe Duncan Bird you're at nine. So
Speaker 1: for Step to be in the top ten, he must
Speaker 1: be then be better than everyone I haven't listed. So
Speaker 1: that's better than Shack, that's better than a team that's
Speaker 1: better than Doctor Ja, not to mention Katie Janis, Moses
Speaker 1: those guys. So I listen. I think he's twelve. Whether
Speaker 1: he wins this title or not, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a why. I think it's hard though he's gonna
Speaker 1: jump Shack. I don't know. I don't think Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is better than Shack. I don't I think Steph curR
Speaker 1: is amazing. I don't think he's better than Shack, I certainly,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's better than the King. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's tricky with these lists because I think it has
Speaker 1: to start nineteen eighty on. I think you have to do,
Speaker 1: you know, the TV era. I think you got to
Speaker 1: be fair to everybody involved here. Okay, so let's listen.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, he said nineteen eighty on so on
Speaker 1: a very popular, I don't know if you've heard of it,
Speaker 1: new podcast called What's Right with Nick Wright. They're doing this.
Speaker 1: They're doing the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years,
Speaker 1: and it's a countdown fifty to one. So it's Kareem
Speaker 1: to now. I don't know, you have to start with
Speaker 1: the TV era. I think Kareem's rookie year to now
Speaker 1: is fair because that gets you. Kareem that gets you,
Speaker 1: Doctor j that gets you, Rick Berry gets you, Elvin
Speaker 1: Hayes to now. So if we were to do that,
Speaker 1: then Steph Curry's top ten, he's top ten of the
Speaker 1: last fifty. I think he's tenth, but he's, you know,
Speaker 1: top ten of the last fifty. I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: When are you doing your top ten? Or have you
Speaker 1: done your top ten on that popular show? Not a subscriber,
Speaker 1: not a viewer on YouTube, not a subscriber on the
Speaker 1: old iTunes, like to just talk to you, like tonight,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you at dinner. Oh you brought up
Speaker 1: dinner first? Oh fancy that? Who lost that bet and
Speaker 1: guys in the back. But I didn't. But I didn't
Speaker 1: lose a bet. If I get to go to dinner
Speaker 1: with you? Oh that's it. I meant who lost the bet?
Speaker 1: On if I was going to bring up dinner first,
Speaker 1: I meant a bet about the bet. We are going
Speaker 1: to dinner because you foolishly picked the sun. Well, I
Speaker 1: just did that for content, Nick, that was content? Oh okay, no,
Speaker 1: want no, that's interesting. Store audience knows Dan gives you
Speaker 1: takes for content. They're not what he truly believes in
Speaker 1: his merri his soul. I wouldn't be the only host
Speaker 1: who does that, well, the only host I was tell
Speaker 1: you that much right now. But what was the question
Speaker 1: you had asked me? I had forgot your top ten
Speaker 1: on your show? Oh? When is it coming out? So players,
Speaker 1: he comes out every Sunday that we are getting into
Speaker 1: the top twenty. We're doing I think twenty one, twenty
Speaker 1: and nineteen this Sunday and then next Sunday, you know,
Speaker 1: so on so forth. We'll do three per day until
Speaker 1: we get to the top ten. So over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks, the Joker has reaffirmed his long term commitment
Speaker 1: to Denver, clearing the way to sign a two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars Supermax in the off season. According
Speaker 1: to Shams, that makes sense. Yeah, has anyone ever turned
Speaker 1: down the Supermax on either first real bite at the
Speaker 1: massive money apple? I mean, oh, of course. And they're
Speaker 1: a good team. And with that, Jamal Murray's good, maybe
Speaker 1: a touch overrated, but good, and Michael Porter Junior, if healthy,
Speaker 1: could be their hope is this that Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: can be the second best player, Jamal Murray. If he's
Speaker 1: your third best player, you can win a title. But
Speaker 1: the question is Michael Porter Junior and his health and
Speaker 1: his back. All that's very concerning. But they are now
Speaker 1: gonna be locked. That's their team. Joker's gonna be making
Speaker 1: fifty million. They paid Porter Junior early when they didn't
Speaker 1: need to, when the questions were about his back. He's
Speaker 1: making thirty and I think Jamal's making about thirty. That's
Speaker 1: probably why they didn't have the money to pay their GM.
Speaker 1: The GM left, He's like, yeah, you got money for
Speaker 1: the players, got and they don't got money for me.
Speaker 1: I found the players. So he's out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll be I mean they'll be good. I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll win the title. Explain the Celtics turn around in
Speaker 1: mid January. I can't. It's email Udoka. Credit to him.
Speaker 1: Credit to Smart, Tatum and Brown for staying together for
Speaker 1: not because do you remember Marcus Smart had that odd
Speaker 1: quote where he was like, essentially it was Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: needs to pass the ball more. It's Marcus Smart's time
Speaker 1: to cook and that could have ripped its team apart.
Speaker 1: Credited him for a good trade deadline move. Credit to
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens for attaching a pick to Kimball Walker to
Speaker 1: bring in Al Horford, a move that I didn't totally understand,
Speaker 1: like Al Horford, but Al Horford has been invaluable to them.
Speaker 1: They've developed their players well. Robert Williams, who has been healthy,
Speaker 1: has been excellent. I didn't see this one coming at all. Now,
Speaker 1: don't put it past the Celtics to blow three two
Speaker 1: lead in the conference finals. They love doing that. However,
Speaker 1: usually Lebron's the reason for it. If the Celtics, you
Speaker 1: know how they named all these trophies. You have the
Speaker 1: Larry Bird Trophy, now the Magic Johnson Trophy, bobcuzy if
Speaker 1: the Celtics lose, if they end up losing this conference finals,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they will. Do you think they'll
Speaker 1: name the Eastern Conference runner Up Trophy after the Celtics
Speaker 1: because they keep getting it? Well, that's just shot. Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the Celtic fans. Man, what
Speaker 1: if I can't believe they're gonna get this? Do you
Speaker 1: think Jordan is bothered that he got left out? So
Speaker 1: isn't that interesting? So I was thinking it was like
Speaker 1: three greatest players ever, Lebron, Kareem, and Jordan none of
Speaker 1: them got anything named after him. But then I was like, no,
Speaker 1: Kareem as a social Justice Award named after him, So
Speaker 1: Lebron and Jordan not having anything named after him feels
Speaker 1: odd to me. I also felt like Eastern Conference MBP,
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference MVP and Western Conference MVP should have been
Speaker 1: Kobe and Lebron. I was surprised maybe they didn't want
Speaker 1: to give it to an active player. It felt like
Speaker 1: that was a weird because the MVP they gave it
Speaker 1: to Kuzie and was it Elgin? Elgin was in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals three times. I think he only won
Speaker 1: it twice. Like, I love Elgin, but it was an
Speaker 1: odd choice there, and Kuzi's fine. I'm sure it made
Speaker 1: Mad Dog happy, but I would have thought it should
Speaker 1: have been Lebron and Kobe for those two. I like
Speaker 1: Chris Brussard's take though on Kouzi and that he was
Speaker 1: sticking up for the old school basketball player, you know.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick called out Mad Dog Rousseau and said that
Speaker 1: that basically Bob Kuzy was playing against what fireman and
Speaker 1: policeman or whatever, plumbers or what I mean one thing.
Speaker 1: Here's what I believe. I believe that both of these
Speaker 1: things can be true. I truly believe that if you
Speaker 1: took Bob Kuzy in his form, at his apex of
Speaker 1: basketball and dropped him into today's NBA or today today's world,
Speaker 1: he could not get a Division one scholarship. I believe that.
Speaker 1: I also believe he's one of the thirty greatest players ever,
Speaker 1: just like Jesse Owens could not qualify for the finals
Speaker 1: of the latest n C Double A Championships, but he
Speaker 1: might be the greatest track and field athlete ever or
Speaker 1: certainly one of the greatest. Both of those things can
Speaker 1: be true. And it's what to me, It's it's unfair because,
Speaker 1: like so, JR. Smith is better than the majority of
Speaker 1: people Bob KUZI played against. But that doesn't mean JR.
Speaker 1: Smith's better than Bob Kuzy. Like I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair to analyze things that way. You can only
Speaker 1: compete against the your era. And so, I yeah, I
Speaker 1: think JJ was half right on Kuzy. I'd also way wrong.
Speaker 1: I'll leave you with this. You can sign one of
Speaker 1: the two long term, all right, James Harden or Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving Kyrie because Kyrie is still very good. He's just
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass and he's unreliable. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Harden's good anymore, Like i'd rather I'd rather
Speaker 1: deal with It's like someone's like, hey, who do you want?
Speaker 1: They're both free agents. Who do you want to sign
Speaker 1: to a long term broadcasting deal? Nick Wright? Uber talented
Speaker 1: but a bit of a X fact, like a wild card,
Speaker 1: not that reliable, kind of a pain in the ass
Speaker 1: to work with. Or Dan Patrick clearly passed this product,
Speaker 1: Like we were like, who what are you going to
Speaker 1: do in that spot? And neither's great. But I think
Speaker 1: people probably are like, ah, give me the young talent.
Speaker 1: That's a hypothetical though. Right, well, I'm not a free
Speaker 1: agent anytime soon. I don't know about you. But past
Speaker 1: his prime thing, I mean, he's still a good actor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well according to your wife, no, she said you were
Speaker 1: good looking. Oh not past my prime there. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know that's a weird thing. You're better looking now. I
Speaker 1: don't mind complimenting your looks. You're an objectively handsome man,
Speaker 1: just like you're objectively used to be a better broadcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: And now you've got these guys telling you the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: don't you three? I mean it's it's not I mean,
Speaker 1: you can only carry this squad so far. That's what's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing what Lebron did with the Cavaliers, you know what.
Speaker 1: You know what not the O seven caps with the
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen caps. Also in older Lebron people question was
Speaker 1: he passed his prime? Then it's like, could anyone else
Speaker 1: have taken these guys this far? You know what? I
Speaker 1: take it back, Okay, excited to see at dinners now.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just don't want to overdress or
Speaker 1: underdress because last time you came in with a full
Speaker 1: length red you know cod no I was wearing you
Speaker 1: look like Lenny Kravitz. You looked like Lenny Kravitz. I
Speaker 1: was wearing a nice coat. It was chilly out. I
Speaker 1: am leaving dinner and driving straight to a casino in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be dressed in gambling attire. So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little jewelry. You're seeing him wearing
Speaker 1: some of it. Now, I'm already there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of cash in my pocket and you know, some
Speaker 1: nice jeans, nice shoes, and ready to roll man, I'm
Speaker 1: picking up the town, damn straight. Yeah, and I you're
Speaker 1: taking me to a mutton chop house. I said a
Speaker 1: wag you beef, and you're like, Hey, where's some sheep
Speaker 1: we can get. I look forward to having breaking bread
Speaker 1: with you tonight, you two. I can go earlier too.
Speaker 1: I know you know, I know guys your age, they
Speaker 1: tend to want to get going at six o'clock. That's
Speaker 1: that's early enough. Okay, that's early enough. All right, talk
Speaker 1: to you then. That's Nick Wright. First things first, we'll
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Speaker 1: extended weekend, but we'll be back here on Tuesday. We'll
Speaker 1: get some more phone calls here. This Day in Sports
Speaker 1: History fund of results of the poll question. You got
Speaker 1: Game six coming up tonight with the heat and the Celtics.
Speaker 1: Let's do this day in sports history Polly eighteen seventy
Speaker 1: for three The eighteen seventy three Wow. The first Preakness
Speaker 1: Stakes was won by Survivor nineteen sixty eight. After forty
Speaker 1: eight years as head coach of the Bears, George hallis retired.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be a record. Let's see it was reported
Speaker 1: Patrick wa I always have trouble that named Patrick Waw.
Speaker 1: You guys loved him and him on sports Yes we did,
Speaker 1: retired from He retired in two thousand and three. You're
Speaker 1: more of a Ron tug Nut again, I was tug Nut.
Speaker 1: That was a guy you, Yes, I was. Yes. I
Speaker 1: remember he faced fifty four shots and I said that
Speaker 1: he he saw more rubber than at tire salesman tonight.
Speaker 1: For some reason, Ron tug nutt in baseball in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight. Franchises awarded to San Diego and Montreal on
Speaker 1: this date. In nineteen eighty one, this player playing for
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners third baseman had a slow roller coming
Speaker 1: towards him and he blew the ball foul. So he
Speaker 1: was blowing on the baseball as it's hugging the line
Speaker 1: by third base. Does anybody remember the third baseman or
Speaker 1: does anybody remember who was at the plate? Todd, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm thinking the name Ken Phelps, for some
Speaker 1: reason was involved in that place. Ken Phelps. Note Lenny Randall,
Speaker 1: playing for the Mariners, a slow roller by amos Otis
Speaker 1: and he blew the ball into foul territory. The umpires
Speaker 1: awarded amos Otis a single on the play. Lenny big
Speaker 1: lungs Randall that blows. Leonard Ferry didn't make contact with
Speaker 1: the ball and he coerced it. Yes, he did, Yes,
Speaker 1: he did. Nineteen ninety one, losing one fifteen to ninety
Speaker 1: four and about to be swept by the Bulls in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons walked off the court
Speaker 1: with eight seconds remaining in a game at home. Soft. Wow,
Speaker 1: when you watch that one Lane Beer and Isaiah and
Speaker 1: they walk off, they're not going to acknowledge them. Soft.
Speaker 1: All you need to do is look at Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: like Jordan just staring at him. He's like, all right,
Speaker 1: I will never forget this, and he didn't. He still
Speaker 1: has into this day. It's like, you bring up Isaiah,
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, bring him up, be like, hey, what
Speaker 1: you got about eight seconds left? You want to take
Speaker 1: off an hour? Yeah? Phill in Indiana High Phil, Great
Speaker 1: to hear from you again, Dan, Always a great pleasure,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Real quick Hollywood immortality actor by the
Speaker 1: name of John Pizzale. He was in Godfather's one and two,
Speaker 1: The Deer Hunter, and Dog Day Afternoon. That's a really
Speaker 1: good list. Before he passed away. Have that great long weekend, Dan,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Phil. And I think he was married to
Speaker 1: Meryll's Streep or dating Meryl's Streep, that's correct. John Kaze,
Speaker 1: he was fredo' corleone. Yeah, you'll remember in there, but
Speaker 1: he's also in those other movies, all in like a
Speaker 1: three year window before he passed away from cancer. But
Speaker 1: that's not just a singular moment like he had. He
Speaker 1: had those Hollywood immortality moments in those movies we were
Speaker 1: looking at. You know that one movie that that you
Speaker 1: when you hear that actor's name actress, then you go, oh,
Speaker 1: that that's Hollywood immortality. Yeah, Paul, what was the name
Speaker 1: of the actor And if I have to ask, I
Speaker 1: should know Niedermeyer and Animal House? Remember the guy who
Speaker 1: played Niedermeyer an Animal House? And then he was in
Speaker 1: the video with h We're not going to take it
Speaker 1: a pledge pen on your uniform. That's one of those
Speaker 1: classic movies. Yes, Or who's the actor who played Michael O'Keeffe,
Speaker 1: played Danny Noonan and Caddyshack. I'm sure he did lots
Speaker 1: of other stuff before and after he was married to
Speaker 1: Bonnie rate on his coverage faithfully submitted Douglas C. Niedermeyer,
Speaker 1: sergeant at arm could call Mark metcalf Na. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if we don't remember your name, then what a role? Though? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh remember d Day, He's had a lot of roles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big time actor. Yeah, Daniel Simpson Day. Yeah, when he's
Speaker 1: riding his motorcycle up the steps. Yep. Bottom results of
Speaker 1: the poll question, Seaton, Dan, we've got a perfect poll.
Speaker 1: Fifty yep, thank you, yep, fifty fifty between Champions League
Speaker 1: and Indy five hundred. Okay, how about that. Thanks for participating, everybody.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the room. What we learned? Todd, you
Speaker 1: don't want the backup to be the most famous or
Speaker 1: covered athlete on your team. Seaton O'Connor junior is a
Speaker 1: nice guy. Yes, Marv, you had a good rapport with
Speaker 1: a Brize Mead. Yeah, I do. Oh yeah, yeah. For
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Poet Nick Rod has some type
Speaker 1: of podcast. Dodd wooded. I learned it's generally okay to
Speaker 1: tell somebody has a hot wife, as long as they're
Speaker 1: not blatantly trying to hit on. Yeah. I don't know
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