Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour on this Thursday, and I get
Speaker 1: the honor of talking to Jerry West coming up, just
Speaker 1: turned eighty two. Why does he look better at eighty
Speaker 1: two than I do at sixty four? That's not fair
Speaker 1: And it still feels like he get hit a jumper.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Jerry, he'll join his coming up. Why
Speaker 1: the obsession with Mike Tyson suddenly? Like what happened? Where
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we want to see Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: He's gonna fight Tyson fury, maybe bare knuckles, maybe MMA wrestling.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you have downtime. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson is getting back in the ring and we
Speaker 1: see his workouts. Now, Vander Holyfield says, hey, I'd fight him,
Speaker 1: all right, But I was just surprised that this Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson's in his early fifties. Here he still looks good.
Speaker 1: But do I want to see a Vander Holyfield Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson Tyson Holyfield three? Not really. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: see Floyd Mayweather going against Gonna McGregor, but they want
Speaker 1: to try to do that again. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: see Manny Paciel go against Floyd Mayweather again. But they
Speaker 1: were talking about doing that. God, I hope we are.
Speaker 1: I don't like sequels. Now. Occasionally, when it comes to boxing,
Speaker 1: you'll have a sequel, you'll have a rematch, and it
Speaker 1: works out. Ali Frasier was wonderful. It doesn't always work out.
Speaker 1: But you know, you had that time period where you know,
Speaker 1: Sugar Bay, Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns. You know,
Speaker 1: they were fighting each other a couple of times and
Speaker 1: they were great fighters. But when it comes to Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson of Ander Holyfield and you want to see him
Speaker 1: back in the ring again, Yeah, I'm not that desperate
Speaker 1: yet for Sports Live Sports. You want to Tyson in
Speaker 1: the wrestling ring, Okay, I'm okay with that. Mma. I
Speaker 1: don't know how good Mike would be with m Yes, Todd,
Speaker 1: would they embrace a whole bite night promotion and kind
Speaker 1: of play it up the whole third fight? I think
Speaker 1: that might be interesting, Thank you, Tod. You probably that
Speaker 1: probably hasn't been used after it before. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think so, Yes, point, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Tyson holy Field fight thing?
Speaker 1: Is that crazy right now because of what the landscape.
Speaker 1: It's not crazy, but that's my problem with what's going
Speaker 1: on right now. It's not crazy, but I think they
Speaker 1: have about a month and a half left to get
Speaker 1: this fight off. Like the Tiger Phil golf thing, it
Speaker 1: got six million people because there wasn't a lot on
Speaker 1: it was really well made. But they're still relevant. Yes,
Speaker 1: And then you put if you don't have Brady and
Speaker 1: Peyton in there, because when Tiger and Phil first played
Speaker 1: the first match, it wasn't exciting, but Brady and Peyton
Speaker 1: made it really interesting. Here. I'd like to say that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay for holy Field versus Tyson, but I
Speaker 1: might be lying to you right now. It depends on
Speaker 1: what the undercard was. If you had an interesting, legitimate undercard,
Speaker 1: then maybe yeah, I might be interested in that. But
Speaker 1: if you say, hey, would you shell out a one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to see Tyson fight holy Field? And people
Speaker 1: probably would. But if you said, all right, fifty bucks
Speaker 1: to watch Tyson and Holyfield as long as it doesn't
Speaker 1: start at midnight Eastern, then yeah, they're too old. They
Speaker 1: gotta start like a four pm Eastern. You imagine it
Speaker 1: gets to be like nine thirty and Mike's nodding off
Speaker 1: just tired. Early Bird special pay per view got a
Speaker 1: big day of me to. I saw this from Mark
Speaker 1: stein He's a great NBA writer for the New York Times.
Speaker 1: His prediction on the Stein line. At the Stein line,
Speaker 1: NBA invites twenty teams to Orlando. Thirty is too many
Speaker 1: to host comfortably, twenty four too arbitrary. Some non playoff
Speaker 1: teams and they would want to play some don't. Sixteen
Speaker 1: is the fairest of all. Thirty can't be invited, so
Speaker 1: twenty is the easiest compromise. Top eight in each conference
Speaker 1: in the West, it would be nine through twelve, so
Speaker 1: that would give you your twenty teams. Mark stein Us
Speaker 1: go on to say one related matter of interest for
Speaker 1: record book nerds in quotations like me parenthesis, I should say,
Speaker 1: to be exact, who obsessed about such things? If San
Speaker 1: Antonio was invited to Orlando as team number twenty, will
Speaker 1: that count as a playoff berth number twenty three in
Speaker 1: a row? You're right, Mark, you lost me here because
Speaker 1: there's way too many things to worry about. Then does
Speaker 1: that officially count as a playoff berth for the San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs. I couldn't care less sure, let him celebrate
Speaker 1: twenty three in our own This is in new times,
Speaker 1: new rules, and put an asterisk by. Doesn't it feel
Speaker 1: it feels like we're handing out asterisk. Let's put an
Speaker 1: asterisk by the year of the Asterisk. I talked about
Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks ago that, you know, with
Speaker 1: what's going on with quarantine and when we have games,
Speaker 1: can you get fans to come out? But what about
Speaker 1: the college football atmosphere? Because let's say your football team
Speaker 1: is playing in the stadium. You can't go in, but
Speaker 1: you're going to be outside. You're as close as you
Speaker 1: can possibly be. Now, can police cordon off the parking
Speaker 1: lot and not allow anybody to go in? Are they
Speaker 1: just going to go somewhere else close to Maybe you're
Speaker 1: a half mile away from the stadium, but you're sort
Speaker 1: of tailgating here. And can you get people to come in,
Speaker 1: allow them to come in? And can there be social
Speaker 1: distancing here? Will Leach wrote an article for a New
Speaker 1: York magazine on this topic, and he talked about the
Speaker 1: mayor of Athens, Georgia, Kelly Gertz, Georgia hosts ninety thousand fans,
Speaker 1: so six times a year they fill the stadium with
Speaker 1: ninety thousand fans SEC football. Upwards of thirty thousand people
Speaker 1: will go to Athens, Georgia from across the state without
Speaker 1: any intention of attending the game. You have ninety thousand inside,
Speaker 1: you may have thirty thousand who are coming in and
Speaker 1: they're not going to go to the game, They're just
Speaker 1: going to tailgate. If you have a high profile opponent,
Speaker 1: as will Leach mentions like Notre Dame, you're getting a
Speaker 1: big number here. The contact tracing nightmare and one that
Speaker 1: local officials are almost powerless to withstand. The mayor of Athens,
Speaker 1: Georgia says that the job would be a lot easier
Speaker 1: if nobody was allowed into the stadium, letting twenty thousand
Speaker 1: fans in the stands, which would still be only twenty
Speaker 1: percent of capacity. Quote is basically waving a flag that
Speaker 1: says come on down. But because Georgia is a state university,
Speaker 1: it does not have to adhere to any local statutes
Speaker 1: that might differ from the state, and the university's current
Speaker 1: plan anticipates a full football season and quote relatively normal
Speaker 1: conditions that means you're going to have fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to get maybe twenty
Speaker 1: thous and that will be allowed in. Are you going
Speaker 1: to allow fans to tailgate? Can you stop them from tailgating?
Speaker 1: And I think that this is it's a question. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it's a concern, but I mean,
Speaker 1: we know what concerns are now. We have real concerns,
Speaker 1: not Hey, could I tailgate or not? Boy, that's a
Speaker 1: real concern. It's a question that I have And I
Speaker 1: don't know if college football is ready to answer that
Speaker 1: just yet. And maybe they shouldn't answer it because we
Speaker 1: have a little bit of time here before you let
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty twenty five thousand into a stadium safe distancing.
Speaker 1: But they're going to be people who show up to tailgate.
Speaker 1: If you let fans in, there'll be people who show
Speaker 1: up to tailgate. Even if you don't let fans in,
Speaker 1: there will be fans who will show up to tailgate.
Speaker 1: Greg and Illinois joining us. Hey Greg, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me? Hey? Dan? How are you doing? Good? Sir? Good? Good? Hey?
Speaker 1: Actually will each and I are from the same hometown
Speaker 1: and all that's where my dad reside. He's currently alive
Speaker 1: and well. By the way, anyway, I was wondering where
Speaker 1: your favorite place is to tailgate or watch a college
Speaker 1: football game. By the way, thank you, Greg, Greg with
Speaker 1: a shot saying his dad was still alive as a
Speaker 1: shot at myself and Paulie and Fritzie. Well done, Greg,
Speaker 1: show off. Yeah, Elda, And because of that, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to answer your question made fun of my dad
Speaker 1: being dead. Doug in North Carolina, Hi Dock. First off, Dan,
Speaker 1: thank you for what you guys have done for the
Speaker 1: last couple of months. You've kept me from being absolutely
Speaker 1: lonely and going insane. So I hope you guys sincerely
Speaker 1: a heartfelt thank you for what you add to my
Speaker 1: day every day. Thank you. I wanted to ask I
Speaker 1: think this is a brilliant question. I haven't heard anyone
Speaker 1: talk about this. But when you have a players association
Speaker 1: negotiating with the league, even if it gets ugly like
Speaker 1: it's getting in baseball, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when there's an agreement, there's no liability worry for the league.
Speaker 1: College football, college sports in general does not have a
Speaker 1: players association. So my question is and I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 1: I know you're not. It's are they going to have
Speaker 1: to have a waiver from every single player before they
Speaker 1: can come back and play the games? Probably? So, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know legal details here, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a parent and your son is going to
Speaker 1: be playing football in the fall, what safeguards are there?
Speaker 1: What measures are put in place? And you don't have
Speaker 1: a union, you know, these players, we just assume, Hey,
Speaker 1: you're getting a free scholarship here, come on in, you're
Speaker 1: gonna play. And that's why when we had Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: on a couple of weeks ago, I said to Chip
Speaker 1: how much of a voice do your players have? He said,
Speaker 1: they have a large voice here and they should. They're
Speaker 1: the ones taking the risk coming back Gary and I
Speaker 1: will join us. Hi, Gary, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me morning? Dan? I just wanted to give it a
Speaker 1: goal that you know that I almost want to get
Speaker 1: work anymore because you're not on my TV anymore? How
Speaker 1: to raid my service? But anyway, I'm watching that movie
Speaker 1: on Netflix stall the gins of that satellite and wow,
Speaker 1: saying the man's perspective on that, and I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for you in every movie, and I was
Speaker 1: seeing you in this one yet well that wasn't produced
Speaker 1: by Sandler, but thank you, that was the Safti brothers
Speaker 1: who did that. So sand Man didn't bring me in.
Speaker 1: But he is working on a movie in conjunction with
Speaker 1: Lebron James's production company, and it's about a basketball player
Speaker 1: in Europe. And I've helped Sandler a little bit in consulting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a role in that,
Speaker 1: but you know we have discussed that. But he is
Speaker 1: working with Lebron James's people for this project and still
Speaker 1: waiting for my script. But I uncut JEMs. It's on Netflix,
Speaker 1: now watch it. You know. I love sand Man but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't stare you wrong. He's great in this movie
Speaker 1: and you can see why I thought that he deserved
Speaker 1: an Oscar nomination. I thought he was really really well done.
Speaker 1: The movie was well done and he was great. Yes,
Speaker 1: MC club, I could think of four guys who could
Speaker 1: play Europe and basketball extras. I think you could, mclovin.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody else could. How about like a
Speaker 1: ball boy or something could do that, could do that,
Speaker 1: could do that? Mm, yeah, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: the days of you getting in Sandler movies might be over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels well about six years ago. Well, yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't bring it up as much as he used to.
Speaker 1: And remember when we say, Danny, I'll get the Dane's
Speaker 1: in it, and then I'd go because I said, look,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to leave the show to go
Speaker 1: shoot a movie. It's great if the Danets are in it.
Speaker 1: And then he puts you guys in a couple of
Speaker 1: them and uh, I think the windows closing? Yeah, mc
Speaker 1: was it our performance? And when we were walking across
Speaker 1: the parking lot in that one, that, uh, because I
Speaker 1: thought I walked really unnaturally. I was worried about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You it's weird if I say, hey, you're gonna walk
Speaker 1: on camera. Mclovin, you you can't walk on You don't
Speaker 1: walk naturally. Nope. Yeah, point, it is weird to have
Speaker 1: someone tell you to walk and controlled fashion. The director
Speaker 1: Robert Smichael goes, just walk next to each other like
Speaker 1: you're walking into a baseball game, and we all try
Speaker 1: to keep in line with each other, which you would
Speaker 1: not do if you're walking before bros. It would just
Speaker 1: walk and chit chat, not notice what's around you, but
Speaker 1: you're also couldn't talk, so it looked like we were marching. Well,
Speaker 1: the worst thing is is when they see it, just
Speaker 1: act naturally. You don't know what natural is. They just
Speaker 1: act naturally. Okay, what is natural about this setting? Then
Speaker 1: I'm in, But I still go back to the prison scene. Boy,
Speaker 1: we nailed it. Todd almost got kicked out of that scene,
Speaker 1: which is really hard to do. When Sandler says, you're
Speaker 1: in the scene and you guys were the news cameras
Speaker 1: that were following me around. Such a surreal experience that
Speaker 1: we were all there and what you been. The first
Speaker 1: thing in my mind was the last thing in my
Speaker 1: mind to look like I was actually shooting something with
Speaker 1: a fake camera. Instead, I was pointing at the wall
Speaker 1: and just watching a movie scene that we had no
Speaker 1: business being a part of happening before my eyes. Todd
Speaker 1: is supposed to be giving the impression that he's shooting
Speaker 1: this scene with me interviewing Adam Sandler and his son
Speaker 1: Andy Sandber and Todd. So Todd puts the camera to
Speaker 1: the side and is watching the scene. And that's the
Speaker 1: only way you could get yelled at is just put
Speaker 1: the camera up and Todd puts the camera down and
Speaker 1: he's watching the scene as if you know, he's a
Speaker 1: member of the audience. Such a simple thing to do,
Speaker 1: but I became a spectator. I forgot I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be actually in the scene. Yeah, point And it
Speaker 1: stands out because Seaton was also camera and it scenes
Speaker 1: all crouched down, and I don't know they ever held
Speaker 1: a camera in a professional fashion, but he's got the
Speaker 1: eye thing. It's not that difficult to look like you're
Speaker 1: the filming is what's hard, not holding the camera looking
Speaker 1: like you're filming. Todd's got the camera at nine angle
Speaker 1: away from the action and just going oh, that's cool
Speaker 1: air Susan Surrandon wouldn't have made less sense when I
Speaker 1: was doing with the camera bear God. Yeah, see, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, to be fair to Todd. As the
Speaker 1: other cameraman on that shoot, there wasn't. I just kind
Speaker 1: of assumed we were supposed to be pointing that way,
Speaker 1: but it was never really said like, oh, hey, so
Speaker 1: you're filming these people. I just kind of assumed it.
Speaker 1: I got lucky. I got lucky, and I was so
Speaker 1: happy that I wasn't when the producer had said, now, boys,
Speaker 1: it's fine. If you see me, that means it's terrible.
Speaker 1: That means it's really bad. And we did one take
Speaker 1: and he came storming out of the door. What are
Speaker 1: you doing? You're there's no bedside. Now I believe the
Speaker 1: words were Todd, You're terrible. Yeah, And so now I
Speaker 1: feel now I'm even more nervous because I'm not I
Speaker 1: have to have my lines and I'm there with Susan Surrandon.
Speaker 1: I got Sandler and Andy Samberg, and I got to
Speaker 1: get my lines. Right now, I'm worried that Todd can't
Speaker 1: hold a camera that's a fake camera to give the
Speaker 1: appearance he's filming the scene. Not to mention, you went
Speaker 1: out of your way to get us all into a
Speaker 1: scene in the movie, and I'm like, totally ruining it
Speaker 1: for you. So it looks bad for Sandler and the gang,
Speaker 1: but he allowed that to happen. Yeah, it's just bad
Speaker 1: in every possible direction. Yeah, what are you doing? Oh?
Speaker 1: And of course Susan Sarandon has no idea who we are, none,
Speaker 1: and see she sees Adam Sandler's partner Jack Carapood to
Speaker 1: run out what are you doing and then starts yelling
Speaker 1: at Todd and I go, oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: going to be really bad. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is hold a camera, Todd and give the appearance you're shooting.
Speaker 1: Seems simple enough. Yeah, You're like, hey, they're shooting a
Speaker 1: scene over here. Let me put down my camera and
Speaker 1: look over. Always got to complicate everybody. All right, More
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up, and Jerry West will join us
Speaker 1: in the on deck circle. Just celebrated his eighty second
Speaker 1: birthday seventeen after the hour. This is the Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 1: Of course, former Laker GM and player Jerry West joining
Speaker 1: us on the program. Jerry, is that a real background there?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Is that a real background? Is that you've
Speaker 1: got palm trees behind you? Yes? I actually been in
Speaker 1: Palm Springs for about two and a half months, and
Speaker 1: let's getting a little hot down here. It's about ready
Speaker 1: to have back to Los Angeles here very soon. Happy birthday,
Speaker 1: by the way, is the best gift to not bring
Speaker 1: up that it's your birthday? Well, then I guess I've
Speaker 1: been fortunate to be around for eighty two years. And
Speaker 1: also it's my anniversary, so I thought it would the
Speaker 1: best to get married on my birthday, so I'd never
Speaker 1: forget it. But I did forget it one time. That's
Speaker 1: for size. What happened just in the middle of a season.
Speaker 1: And sometimes when you get there, you just birthdays when
Speaker 1: ever important? When I when I grew up, and I
Speaker 1: guess it was just a minor thing, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: you know it was it was just something. It wasn't important,
Speaker 1: And I guess you should go along today and been involved.
Speaker 1: And obviously a few people know me. I've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of notes and everything, and it's really nice to
Speaker 1: hear from people at this point in your life. And
Speaker 1: this is your fortieth wedding, end of three, So forty
Speaker 1: years ago. How many NBA players showed up for your wedding?
Speaker 1: I don't know if any did. Forty actually forty two, Dan,
Speaker 1: all forty two years ago, right, Okay, so you didn't
Speaker 1: have teammates who showed up for your wedding. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: this was This was well after my career, and I
Speaker 1: mean playing days, and it wasn't a huge wedding anyway.
Speaker 1: But anyway, a lot of a lot of crazy things
Speaker 1: I've seen in my life in my eighty two years
Speaker 1: a time for sure, Well, happy birthday. How how many
Speaker 1: conversations have you had with Clippers players or Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: or anybody Steve Balmer with the possibility of when we
Speaker 1: come back? Actually a number, Dan, we uh are like
Speaker 1: all teams. I'm sure we've had a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like this going on. We have to try to have
Speaker 1: a guest each week that provides some insight on some
Speaker 1: of the things they've done as athletes, very successful people,
Speaker 1: and issues that they've gone through in their lives, and
Speaker 1: they're really talking about how do you keep yourself motivated
Speaker 1: during this period of time when there's so much uncertainty around.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I think these
Speaker 1: conversations of help because they keep people aligned, and I
Speaker 1: think more importantly, here's some people who had enormous success
Speaker 1: and their expective feels in their lives. Yeah, we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure this out, and then I don't know what
Speaker 1: safeguards are put in place, and can we put everybody
Speaker 1: in Orlando? And how many teams do we take? Playoff wise?
Speaker 1: Do you have suggestions on that of do we make
Speaker 1: it twenty because there's four teams that are closer in
Speaker 1: the West for that final playoff spot. Well, Dan, I
Speaker 1: think first of all to me, and I've said this before,
Speaker 1: and I don't want what they'll do, but I think
Speaker 1: they need to have at least teams play at least
Speaker 1: seventy two games, okay, because it's only twelve less in
Speaker 1: a regular season, and also it gives a team that
Speaker 1: are on the bubble and trying to make a playoff.
Speaker 1: It'll give them a chance to get in there and
Speaker 1: compete at a high level to try to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And then I'm not sure how the playoff
Speaker 1: format would work, and on would they expand a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I think the most awkward thing and the
Speaker 1: questions we ask all of these really fun people that
Speaker 1: that we've been involved with, great players and a lot
Speaker 1: of respective fields, what their advice might be. And you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing I think most people don't realize when
Speaker 1: you're trying to stimulate your players and keep them involved
Speaker 1: with their friends and also their teammates, it's communication. And
Speaker 1: the league is communicating as much as they can. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of things they have to take in consideration here.
Speaker 1: But this is obviously Dan an awkward time and trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what the dynamics they're going to be.
Speaker 1: People were talking about playing in a bubble with both,
Speaker 1: with both with no fans. I'm not sure of how
Speaker 1: they could do it. In one point, he said to me,
Speaker 1: that would be better to let the teams in the West, say,
Speaker 1: play in Las Vegas, where it's facilities, there plenty of
Speaker 1: hotel rooms, and in Orlando to keep the teams in
Speaker 1: the East. That would make it a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: I think also to satisfy the contents of our relationship
Speaker 1: with ESTN, a relationship with TND and all our providers
Speaker 1: who are broadcasting the games. Were people who are frankly
Speaker 1: starving for competition. Yeah, I'm with you. I thought that
Speaker 1: they were going to do, you know, like a satellite
Speaker 1: city and have it in Las Vegas and have the
Speaker 1: West Coast teams play there, and then have the East
Speaker 1: Coast teams play in Orlando. The question would be, then
Speaker 1: where do you play the NBA Championship. I guess you
Speaker 1: could have one team go to Orlando or Vegas. What
Speaker 1: about the possibility that you could have a Lakers Clippers
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. If we're just going to seat at one
Speaker 1: through sixteen and not have the East Coast West Coast Jerry, Well, well,
Speaker 1: for me, Dan, that would be the ultimate competition. I
Speaker 1: think in Los Angeles, you know, they have so many
Speaker 1: Laker fans. My goodness, the enormous success of the Lakers
Speaker 1: have had over the years. They have a really good team. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, two of the best players we've seen in
Speaker 1: a long time on one team. I think it would
Speaker 1: be incredible for the team, the people in the West.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that would go over for the
Speaker 1: teams back east or want to see their respective teams
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to deployee. But that would be a
Speaker 1: situation where I think it would be unbelievably competitive. It
Speaker 1: would be compelling that. I don't know how many teams
Speaker 1: in the same city have competed for champion chip in
Speaker 1: any sport, much less that the NBA. But it's a
Speaker 1: it would make a compelling story. But in all likelihood,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see things that are that
Speaker 1: will be a little bit more more normal without offending
Speaker 1: any of the teams. We have a lot of team
Speaker 1: in this league, and it's not about one or two teams.
Speaker 1: A league is comprised of all of the teams, all
Speaker 1: the players, and what you want, more importantly, what you
Speaker 1: want you want competition against the best teams. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Jerry West, the Hall of Famer Clippers consultant. Did
Speaker 1: you see the Last Dance the Bulls documentary? You know,
Speaker 1: I did? Uh? You know a lot of the sub
Speaker 1: damn I knew about you know, I knew some of
Speaker 1: the partners. I mean a lot of the players obviously,
Speaker 1: because I was very really involved then and also knew
Speaker 1: Jerry Krauss and I'm you know, I've known to Ryan's
Speaker 1: Dworf for years and I've always really liked Jerry and
Speaker 1: Jerry Crouse at one time had worked with us and
Speaker 1: h you know his there's some people that have been
Speaker 1: hurt in this documentary. I don't think there's any question,
Speaker 1: and there's probably some hard feelings, but it was pretty
Speaker 1: raw at times. The language, if you listen to it
Speaker 1: was was offensive for some people, but that's really the
Speaker 1: way the players talk to each other in the locker
Speaker 1: and not. It's become much more prevalent by the way.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like that when I played, and it was
Speaker 1: because people. You know, Michael, I love Michael Dooart, Okay,
Speaker 1: He's one of my best best buddies in terms of
Speaker 1: never changing. He does not change. Okay. He's a fun
Speaker 1: loving guy. He's compason and I think you can see
Speaker 1: that really competitive part come out of him. But he
Speaker 1: also I think some of that stuff gets, you know,
Speaker 1: when you see the real raw part of it. A
Speaker 1: lot of was kidding and everything because he does like
Speaker 1: the kid and I'm not trying to defend him from
Speaker 1: people who look at him as anything other than this
Speaker 1: iconic player. But there's you know, Scottie Pippen. To me,
Speaker 1: it was damaged in this because they made a point
Speaker 1: to talk about a couple of things in his career
Speaker 1: that certainly weren't what you'd like to see um And
Speaker 1: I know I'm sure he feels horrible about it. Then
Speaker 1: Jerry Krauss, who just a nice guy and who had
Speaker 1: done a very good job in Chicago, become almost Panada
Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, hitting throw things at derogatory remarks. And
Speaker 1: when he has success, success players are the ones who
Speaker 1: bring the ultimate success. But someone hasn't how to put
Speaker 1: those pieces together. And I also I thought it was
Speaker 1: with Phil Jackson there as a coach. I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure any coach could have handled this situates. And except him,
Speaker 1: you know, Dennis leaving someone. I do really like Dennis myself,
Speaker 1: him leaving, going to a WWF wrestling thing, body slamming someone,
Speaker 1: then going back and playing games. I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: any coach could handle it, except for when I watch
Speaker 1: the Jordan documentary, it just brought back what Kobe like.
Speaker 1: Kobe never shied away from being the next Michael. He
Speaker 1: wanted to be better than Michael Jordan. Mannerisms, the way
Speaker 1: he talked, the way he played, similar size there. Did
Speaker 1: you ever talk to Kobe about you know that? Or
Speaker 1: did you know that he wanted to be Michael Jordan? Well, Dan,
Speaker 1: almost everything he did. You could watch him in practice
Speaker 1: and you say, oh my gosh, I've seen Michael do this.
Speaker 1: I've seen Michael do that. I really think the crowning
Speaker 1: moment to that, the real crowning moment. And when Michael
Speaker 1: first jumped up on the bench, the benches where the
Speaker 1: staff are, the writers are right courtside there he jumped
Speaker 1: up and started this very exuberant celebration. Who did that?
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant exactly the very same thing, And I think
Speaker 1: he admired him so much. He admired how he played
Speaker 1: and also the enormous success he had both as a
Speaker 1: team but also as an individual. And you're talking about
Speaker 1: players that are obviously wired differently. You hear some of
Speaker 1: the incredible players that played the game today in all
Speaker 1: sports and just see how that really different they are
Speaker 1: in their pursuit of excellence, And certainly his suit of
Speaker 1: excellence was but just like Michael's yeah, because guys wanted
Speaker 1: to sort of shy away from Hey, Grant Hill's the
Speaker 1: next Michael Jordan, Tracy mcgrady's the next Michael Jordan. And
Speaker 1: for any hart, Kobe was the only one to say,
Speaker 1: bring it on, like I want that, and I always
Speaker 1: admire he never shied away from that, and I mean
Speaker 1: that it's pretty incredible that he didn't shy away from
Speaker 1: that possible comparison or that title. No, Dan, if you
Speaker 1: knew him at an early age, that's who he was.
Speaker 1: He was so committed and so driven. You know, he
Speaker 1: would go play basketball any place against anyone and every year,
Speaker 1: every practice, you're going to see something different out out
Speaker 1: of him. And for a while it was a problem
Speaker 1: because it's not an individual game. Individuals win can win
Speaker 1: game for you and big game. A lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of players don't want the pressure, the really good
Speaker 1: ones to bring it on. And that's who he became
Speaker 1: when he learned how the nuances of the game to
Speaker 1: tone his game down a little bit so you could
Speaker 1: have a team instead of an individual. But late in
Speaker 1: the game and times when you needed a basket, he
Speaker 1: was going to get it for you. Just as Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan did, but his infatuation with him was far greater
Speaker 1: than most people know. I think Michael talked about in
Speaker 1: the documentary some how they communicated, and I think it
Speaker 1: shows you that there's certain people in this world that
Speaker 1: are leaders, and there are certain people that have the
Speaker 1: same kind of desire to reach that status. And it's
Speaker 1: a learning process. You just don't pick it up immediately.
Speaker 1: It takes time. Also, it takes success and a belief
Speaker 1: that people that you're playing with and the successes you
Speaker 1: have that people are going to follow that. But only
Speaker 1: a few people can follow. You can be the greatest
Speaker 1: confederitor in the world, and you can be the greatest trainer.
Speaker 1: You hear this Kobe mentality, the mentality of of Michael.
Speaker 1: There's tons of players out there that have that same
Speaker 1: mentality Dan, but they don't have the ability to be
Speaker 1: able to go out and dominate a game. You know,
Speaker 1: they can have great games, but they can't dominate games,
Speaker 1: and they can't dominate it season like certain players do.
Speaker 1: Did you keep any of your jerseys? Do you good stuff?
Speaker 1: You don't strike me as a guy who's going to
Speaker 1: keep memories or memorabilia, but I'm just curious, no, And
Speaker 1: I look around you. I have no idea where that
Speaker 1: stuff you give come from. The working on the screen
Speaker 1: here right now. And I guess if anyone sent you
Speaker 1: anything that would have any significance you would have out there.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, I have a collector dan of anything
Speaker 1: and nothing. Uh. You know, I just say, if you
Speaker 1: would come in my house, you would not see maybe
Speaker 1: one or two things that might remind you that I
Speaker 1: was a player in yesteryear. And I've always been that way.
Speaker 1: To me, it was about any played. You played for
Speaker 1: the city, you played for the organization, and you played
Speaker 1: to have success, and all of those things for me
Speaker 1: were what drove me in my career. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'll look back and you know what's these guys today
Speaker 1: was All and Kobe and Michael. Obviously, Michael, I think
Speaker 1: first started at his desire to get fitter, stronger, and
Speaker 1: be able to compete against the Pistons, who are notoriously physical.
Speaker 1: And at that point in time, I think their presence
Speaker 1: in the league probably helped change the league because some
Speaker 1: of the fouls that they committed were very hard. But
Speaker 1: this had gone on for years and because of the
Speaker 1: Detroit success. Certainly they didn't care who it was. Your
Speaker 1: fanning was going to be in their ground if you're
Speaker 1: in the air going for a lad. But they helped
Speaker 1: change the rules. To be honest with you, But Michael
Speaker 1: and Michael started this. You could see the difference in
Speaker 1: him in a couple of years, just how just how big,
Speaker 1: how much bigger, he got, leaner looking, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen an athlete like him that has
Speaker 1: ever been that explosive and the quickness and his ability
Speaker 1: to run. I read somewhere that Michael said he like
Speaker 1: he ran like a three forty and he wasn't even
Speaker 1: pushing it. And I'm saying to myself, how can you
Speaker 1: have that kind of running ability and the enormous quick
Speaker 1: leaping ability had I don't know what a vertical was,
Speaker 1: but it was ridiculous, but the skill involved just put
Speaker 1: him in another class. Yeah, not fair. Happy birthday, My
Speaker 1: thanks to your lovely wife Karen Frell that she's done
Speaker 1: over the years and setting up these interviews. We always
Speaker 1: appreciate your time and hopefully we get some basketball and
Speaker 1: thank you, Jerry Dan always great to speak to you.
Speaker 1: And we need something, We need something. If It's time
Speaker 1: in the world, that's for sure. That's the great Jerry
Speaker 1: West Hall of Fame, returning eighty two today and celebrating
Speaker 1: his wedding anniversary as well. We're back after this and
Speaker 1: The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every
Speaker 1: weekday morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific
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Speaker 1: Last call for phone calls, what you learn, what's in
Speaker 1: store tomorrow? All of that coming up. Jerry West Birthday.
Speaker 1: I believe it's John Fogerty's birthday. I think John is
Speaker 1: seventy five. Maybe you guys could check that John Fogerty icon.
Speaker 1: Still love listening that voice, that guitar, John Fogerty Credence
Speaker 1: Clearwater Revival. I think is today's seventy fifth birthday there? McLevin, Yep,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, see quick shout out Seal Gosford my
Speaker 1: grandmother ninety four today. Yeah, yep, Well, happy birthday there,
Speaker 1: anybody else that this day in sports history? Any other
Speaker 1: birthdays in there? Pauling than I need to be aware
Speaker 1: of famous birthdays. May twenty eighth. I think we got
Speaker 1: most of them. We got Jerry, we got John, we
Speaker 1: got Seal. Yeah, she's a big fan. How is she
Speaker 1: going to celebrate today? Probably a little online poker, okay,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. Maybe a trip to church. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure. Okay, yeah, all right, can you go
Speaker 1: to church? I don't know. Actually, they're not gonna keep
Speaker 1: Seal out at ninety four if she comes there. Yeah, gosh,
Speaker 1: I haven't been to church in a while. The local
Speaker 1: church by me is having a drive in, Like the
Speaker 1: priests is gonna be up there on like all podium,
Speaker 1: like a flatbed. I'm old enough to remember going to
Speaker 1: drive in, so I don't know if you guys did,
Speaker 1: but drive ins were a big deal when I was
Speaker 1: in high school. I was up in Rhode Island last
Speaker 1: week and there was a drive in and they were
Speaker 1: showing Jaws on a big screen and they were sold out.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get a ticket. You guys want to open
Speaker 1: a drive in? Uh? Two months ago? I would have
Speaker 1: four three months? Yeah, I don't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to do it now, but I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long term impact. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: big piece of property that you need for your drive in. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's open it. I love to drive in. Did you
Speaker 1: ever have a date at the driving Yes? I did
Speaker 1: that work out all right? Yeah? Yeah that was the
Speaker 1: closest thing to privacy back in the days. Probably, Yeah
Speaker 1: it was. But see, you know I had six brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters, so we had one car, and I never
Speaker 1: got the car. I was eighteen when I got my
Speaker 1: license because I'm like, why do I get my license?
Speaker 1: I can't drive any car. There's no car. My mom
Speaker 1: with six kids, didn't have a car at home because
Speaker 1: my dad would take it to work. Yeah. See, you
Speaker 1: know how there's like that kind of dumb thing that
Speaker 1: like Netflix and chill is code for like, do you
Speaker 1: want to come over and hook up? Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, that's like that's like a code.
Speaker 1: I think most people get that wrong. But it's like
Speaker 1: the real submeaning is like, well, wait a minute, you
Speaker 1: want to come over and watch Netflix and chill. Netflix
Speaker 1: and chill is like code word for like and let's
Speaker 1: hook up? Was Hey, do you want to go to
Speaker 1: the drive in? Was that the same thing, Like, if
Speaker 1: you're going to the drive in on a date, it's
Speaker 1: on right, makeout s makeout sash probably like we would
Speaker 1: if you want up to the concession stands, you could
Speaker 1: see like steamed yeah, windows, I mean be like, uh,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's going on
Speaker 1: in there? Yeah? I felt like a loser many many
Speaker 1: times in my life. But one time, I think I
Speaker 1: was a junior in high school, me and three buddies
Speaker 1: went to the drive in and again this is the
Speaker 1: end of the drive in era wasn't that popular anymore.
Speaker 1: But I was in high school. We all went to
Speaker 1: the drive in, and all our other friends were with
Speaker 1: their girlfriends and their nice cars. We would actually, you know,
Speaker 1: you would always sneak somebody in in the trunk. Usually
Speaker 1: let's see he didn't have to pay. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: so bad, and you you know, we'd throw like a guy,
Speaker 1: Jim Asher in the in the trunk and poor Jim
Speaker 1: and be like there you are, we there, and we
Speaker 1: would we would stop and then we wouldn't tell him
Speaker 1: we were at the theater. In the theater, and he'd
Speaker 1: be in the trunk for a little while. Longer you
Speaker 1: shut up, we're gonna get caught. Yes, any tinted windows
Speaker 1: back then, you're just on full display unless it's steamy
Speaker 1: for anyone to just well blin and see what's going on. No, tenth, No,
Speaker 1: it was just you know, there's professional courtesy there. Drive
Speaker 1: in courtesy was what it was. Jim in Oklahoma joins us, Hi, Jim,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hi finally made
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you so much for talking about call sure, Hi,
Speaker 1: but the Tyson fight. I would pay for that. But
Speaker 1: the reason I'm calling, how in the world did you
Speaker 1: get hooked up with Sandler? I've never heard. And by
Speaker 1: the way, you have one of the best lines and
Speaker 1: the ridiculous six. I don't know if I can fight
Speaker 1: that line on the air, but best line in the
Speaker 1: whole entire movie. It was z A. Lincoln. I don't
Speaker 1: think you need to we could say that, Jim. But
Speaker 1: thank you. The only I've known Sandler for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: I think, And I thought he wasn't putting me in
Speaker 1: a movie. I wasn't ask him to be in a movie,
Speaker 1: but I knew that he was going to do a
Speaker 1: movie called water Boy, and he wanted to cash in
Speaker 1: on ESPN's popularity sports centers, and he used me on
Speaker 1: that as one of the broadcasters, one of the sportscasters
Speaker 1: on there. I think he used some other people. I
Speaker 1: think Jim Rome is in that movie, Peter King is
Speaker 1: in that movie. But you know, they wanted some authenticity,
Speaker 1: and Sandler just said, whatever lines you want, say whatever
Speaker 1: you want, but you know this is the scene and
Speaker 1: use of the highlights there. So he let me do
Speaker 1: basically a highlight be a sports center. And and then
Speaker 1: I was at a Knicks game and I went out
Speaker 1: into like the bowels of the stadium Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: and Sandler was out there by himself, and I just
Speaker 1: walked up to him and said, hey, sam Man. And
Speaker 1: then he looked up and he goes, dan Ap your boy.
Speaker 1: He bleeped me, and I go what. He goes your boy, Oberman.
Speaker 1: He bleeped me. I go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah. He was supposed to show up for
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore and he couldn't fly and we had to
Speaker 1: get Verne one Quest in there. Whatever. And I said, look,
Speaker 1: if you ever need some buddy, you let me know.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be there for you. And he goes,
Speaker 1: all right, you're Danny Mcbleepanpatrick, and you're going to be
Speaker 1: a police officer in my next movie, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: wear a mustache. I didn't think anything of it. I
Speaker 1: just laughed and I left. Well, we did The Longest
Speaker 1: Yard and I'm there in one of the early scenes
Speaker 1: as a police officer with a mustache as I arrest Sandler.
Speaker 1: And after that he would just write in parts for me.
Speaker 1: He would just say, Danny, got a part for you,
Speaker 1: and then he would tell me what it was, and
Speaker 1: then he would send me the script, tell me when
Speaker 1: to show up, and that was it. And I think
Speaker 1: it's been seventeen movies. He even put me in as
Speaker 1: a police officer with Ana Ferris and I was a
Speaker 1: police officer in House Bunny, I see. I like that one.
Speaker 1: That was a good, little good scene there. I didn't
Speaker 1: know all the stars who were in it because I'm
Speaker 1: only there for one day. Actually I was there for
Speaker 1: a night because my scene was in the evening. But
Speaker 1: I think you had a couple of you know, big
Speaker 1: time stars. Who was it, uh? Who was the star
Speaker 1: of the easy Ah? Emma Stone? I think Emma Stone
Speaker 1: is in there. In the sorority, but I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Anna Faris was very talented. She had no idea who
Speaker 1: I was, As per usual with most of the women.
Speaker 1: I like when he I meet Anniston on a movie
Speaker 1: set and he goes, Danny, you know Anniston. I have
Speaker 1: no idea who Jennifer Anniston is, and then I know
Speaker 1: who she is, and then you know, he goes, uh,
Speaker 1: Danny's the sports guy. So I was the sports guy
Speaker 1: the whole week when I was in Hawaii with Anniston.
Speaker 1: This day in sports history, tough one. Dan. The NL
Speaker 1: owners allowed the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and New York Giants moved to San Francisco. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine if we were on air that day, if they're
Speaker 1: a sports radio that day, dam can imagine if they
Speaker 1: were still in New York. What we learned, what we
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