WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Nick Nurse (05-14-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.160 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program already in progress. It's 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.640 our two on this Thursday, Dan and the Dan Nstan 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.360 Patrick Show. Glad to have you on board. Check in 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.160 with the Toronto Raptors Nick Nurse. They're a great head coach. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.400 He's part of my great trivia question. I have have 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.000 that for him coming up in about twenty minutes from now. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.600 Phone call is always welcome here on the program. Eight 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.600 seven seven three DP show email address DPA, Dan Patrick 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.560 dot Com, Twitter hand too DP Show. I'm being asked 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.560 by Marcus in Syracuse. Dear mister Patrick is the commissioner 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.519 of the AUAA. You have been mainly silent on the 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.680 return of the league. Do you have a statement to 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.239 make on the current status of the league in a 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:52.599 potential return the American Unathletic Association of America. I am 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.720 ready to go where anybody will have us. Will go 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.960 anywhere nobody wants. It's going to have a process here 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.920 or I don't think so where. If they want us 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.240 to go to Disney World and we'll play our league 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.160 down there, I'll go there. They want us to go 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.480 to Arizona, I'll go there. It doesn't matter wherever we're wanted. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:19.000 We will go and play the American Unathletic Association of America. Yes, point, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.000 what if our current state asks us to go? If 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.320 you know what I mean? What if they don't even 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.640 they want us to leave? Yes, they would like you'd 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.320 like an excuse you from the state. Yea, we don't 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.720 want you. We want you to leave. All right, we'll 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.160 get phone calls here, McLevin. As a poll question, we're 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.120 gonna stay with that pole question. Yeah, do you have 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.560 a problem with networks pumping in fan crowd noise? Fifty fifty, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.520 So people are totally split. I'm surprised. I thought people 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.720 would social media seem to be against it last night. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.760 Well that's what you told me this morning, and I thought, okay, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.240 I understand it. I would like to hear all of 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.600 the sounds of a game that you wouldn't normally hear. Now, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.880 I don't know if we grow tired of that. I 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.880 don't know if we have to be Does somebody have 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.400 to tell us when to cheer or help us cheer. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.600 If I'm watching a game at home and I'm watching 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.640 with my guys, you know, my family, you're gonna celebrate. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.000 I don't need the crowd noise to tell me to 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.840 celebrate or help me celebrate there. I'd like to hear 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.880 the ambiance sound there. I think that would be interesting 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.880 to hear that basketball, Definitely, I want to hear that. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.520 And I'm sure you might have to have a seven 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:29.519 second delay with some frisky language there. Yes, poland see 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.280 I know has watched a few soccer games. I watched 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.800 a few soccer matches where there's no crowd for different reasons. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.560 Sometimes there's different political reasons, reasons where crowds get barred 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.480 from the premises. It's weird because there's a mental cues 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.480 in your head that aren't being served. Like when a 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.639 guy runs a nigg of the goal. The guy still celebrates, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.119 he runs and his teammates are going crazy on top 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.560 of him, but there's not the background of the noise 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.200 to go with it, and it doesn't make sense in 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.200 your head. It's like it's very disconcerting. You get used 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:01.480 to it, but not really. I'm at this point I 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.720 don't care what it is that I have to put 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.440 up with as long as I get to see a 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.680 product on the field. If you don't have sound, if 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.799 you do have sound, if you have cardboard cutout fans there, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.120 I'm okay, this is not the way it's going to be. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.800 This is the way it probably will be for at 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.120 least this year. After that, we should return to normal, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.520 whatever normal is after that. All right, you can watch 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.000 on YouTube dot com slash the Dan Patrick Show all 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.240 three hours, and you can listen on our three hundred 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.680 and sixty two radio afhiliates around the country. States are 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.480 looking to open up. How can they help some of 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.000 these sports leagues. I mentioned that Florida is open for 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:45.040 business for getting leagues down there, NCAA loosening up rules 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.040 on underclassmen with the NBA Draft. So there's a lot 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.600 of things that are on the table right now, probably 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.320 not one definitive headline today, it feels like there's a 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.920 couple of things that are percolating, and I don't know 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.120 where we go. It feels like it's every day, almost 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.960 every hour, where we're going. Wait, now, what is California doing? 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.440 Because yesterday it was like we're going to extend the 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.480 stay at home for three more months, and then all 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.400 of a sudden you had somebody walk it back and 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.720 the Maribela go no I'm not quite sure we're going 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.960 to do three months. This is going to affect sports, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.080 and this is what we do. We cover sports the 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.160 aspect of the element of sports and how it's affected 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.320 by This is what we've been talking about with the 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.039 PAC twelve. We've been talking about the NFL teams in 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.200 California as well. These are all real things. How they 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.520 play out, we don't know, but these are all real 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.680 things that are being discussed. Do the NFL teams in 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.760 California have to play elsewhere to start out the season? 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.080 Do you share a stadium? And these are the contingency plans. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.599 What happens with the Pac twelve teams, what happens to 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.719 the teams in California, what happens to UCLA, what happens 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.880 to USC what happens to Stanford. Are we waiting for 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.799 college football season to start? Other parts of the country 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.920 open for business? I certainly understand that. And one other 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.640 thing I wanted to say, and I hope you if 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.560 you're listening and you've listened for a while, then you 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.200 trust me when I'm telling you something. I don't play 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.560 political games, I don't troll, I don't want to weaponize 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.480 anything here I don't mention anything about presidents. I don't. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.360 I try not to do any that I don't want 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.279 to do that. You have enough of that if you 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.240 want it. The reason why this is so close to 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.040 home for me in a variety of ways is I 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.680 have a compromised immune system. Okay, so it is a 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.080 little more important. It is personal for me when I 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.240 tell you this. I have to take precautions every single 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.560 day I go to work, I go home. I don't 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.560 go any place else. Home, work, that's it. But I 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.680 have to do that. My children. My son came back 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.120 from Singapore, I said, you have to quarantine for fourteen days. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.880 He went to Vermont and he quarantined for fourteen days. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.560 My daughter is in California, has been out there for 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.800 six weeks because I didn't want her to come back 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.640 to New York. If she comes back to New York, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.240 she has to quarantine. They know the risk. I know 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.080 the risk. That's why when I tell you this, it's 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.760 personal for me. I haven't lost anybody close to me. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.719 I haven't felt any symptoms here. And I said to 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.080 the Danets, if you feel like you're sick or you 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.400 don't want to come in, you stay at home, and 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.839 Fritzie's at home, Mclevin's at home, and Seaton's at home. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.680 Paulie keeps a twenty foot distance from me in here. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.520 We've cut the staff in half of those who show up. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.280 So this isn't about politics. And I know people want 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.159 to grab it and make it political. It's not. This 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:41.200 is personal, okay, not political. I hope you know me 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.839 well enough and you trust me that I would not 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.920 do that. That's not what this show does. So when 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.360 I brought it up yesterday and I even was done 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.440 with the show, and my wife was surprised, you said, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.760 I'm surprised that you brought it up. And I said, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:07:00.159 because it's personal. Every single day you wake up and 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.960 you worry about other people around you, who's wearing a mask, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.640 who's not where you go? Like, these are all things 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.080 that are real to me, maybe not to you. I 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.080 have a friend in Arizona and he says I can't relate. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.200 I said to him, I said, Andy, you understand my 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.320 immune system and you understand where I'm living, and if 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.080 you can't relate to that, then that's on you, not 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.160 on me. But I'm not here to sensationalize. I don't 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.720 want your sympathy. This is what I have. I went 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.600 through something bad, but I'm healthy ish, but I was 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.800 told you can't get this virus. So when your doctor says, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.000 at one of the best hospitals in the world, says 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.320 you can't get this, not if you get this, you 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:52.680 can't get this. That's why it's personal, not political. So 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.280 thank you for allowing me to say that. All right, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.920 And I don't even know how to follow that up, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.800 but I did want to mention that because this relationship 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.760 is important to me what we have every single day, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.480 and I do it because I enjoy it, because and 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.840 there are times when you ruffle my feathers and I 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.000 do the same to you. But we've been in this 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.880 together and you listen, and I would never ever be 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.120 disingenuous with you. I would not. I would rather quit 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.400 this job than be disingenuous. I never troll you, and 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.440 if I do, we're in it together and we have 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.160 fun with this. But I just I want you to 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.600 understand that the approach of this show is reflective of 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.640 me and my personality and who we are, and the 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.160 people I have here who get a chance to speak 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.960 on the air understand that of who we are and 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.320 how we do this. That's always been our motto, and 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.199 we'll be my motto until I stop doing this. So 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.760 we're in it together. I want sports back. If you 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.400 said we're going to have it, we're overreacting. I told 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:06.160 you yesterday. I am guilty of overreacting because I have to. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:13.400 It could be tragic if I don't. Okay, So that's 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.079 why when I say something, I'm saying it from my heart, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.920 not from some playbook. You know, somebody's telling me something 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.600 or you need to get this agenda. I don't have 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.840 an agenda. It's just us. It's just this group that 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.440 you see right here. That's us. That's it. That's what 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.440 we do and how we do it, and hopefully we 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.040 do it in a way that is different. It's professional, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.560 and that's always been our approach. Yes, Seaton O'Connor, I 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.160 hate to do this right now, but earlier this morning, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.720 Andrew told me that he thinks Lebron at two is 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.920 too high on that NBA list. Thank you, Setan, sorry 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.960 and thank you for that segue. Really, Lebron at number 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.360 two is too high? No, I just try to Like 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.199 I was thinking, what can I get to aditate the 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.679 Lebron went to title this year is eron Asterix. Yeah, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.120 well I did look at the clock and I go, okay, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.760 I normally break around seventeen. After I got six more minutes. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.320 I don't have anything else to say other than what 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.280 I just said. And then you want to make that segue, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.080 So thank you, McLevin. Do you do you want to 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.160 talk about the dan AT's at home bodily functions with that? No? No, no, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.559 I don't want to do that either. I've got money, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.720 I don't want to do that. All right, we'll get 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.920 to phone calls here and hopefully we're open for business. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.480 Really it would make my job a lot easier, and 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.760 hopefully it gets the economy back. And you know, I 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.440 heard from somebody last down or Robin Florida, who called 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.560 in right at the tail end, and he said, you 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.800 know this is difficult. You know you're you're out of 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.360 work or you can't have a normal life, and you know, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.559 we're lucky we get to go to work. The hardships 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.800 are going to be felt for a long, long long time. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.640 And I hate hearing those stories, seeing those stories going 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.160 by restaurants that you normally go to and they're boarded up. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.680 I went into New York City. I had to pick 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.080 up my son when he flew in from Singapore with 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.240 his fiance. We packed up two cars, so we were 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.480 in our car and my wife John drove down in 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.520 the other one. We parked at Newark Airport and there 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.440 was nobody in the parking lot, and he came out. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.280 He had been gone for six weeks. We had not 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.760 seen him for six weeks. I waved to him. He 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.720 had his mask on. I had my mask on. He 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.079 got into the other car, and then we drove back 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.719 up to Connecticut. We drove through New York. I just 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.400 wanted to see what New York looked like. This is 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.400 a couple of weeks ago. Three weeks ago, I could 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.040 have shot a cannon up Sixth Avenue and not hit anybody. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.600 So just when you see it, when you see it 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.800 up close, I mean, it's as realists can get. And yes, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.120 it's hard to get away from it. That's why we 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.920 tried to provide a diversion, and I've tried my best 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.480 to be that diversion. Every single day we come in 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.640 and go, what do we do, how do we make 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.120 this fun? Who do we have on That's why when 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.520 we reach out to Will Ferrell, Brian Cranston, Adam Sandler. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.760 I just want to make you laugh, have some fun. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.200 If you can check in with us for an hour, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:21.119 thirty minutes, whatever's and we can help you in any way. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.800 That's our job, that's our public service, that's what we're 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.199 here for. And to be able to do that is rewarding. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.160 When people say thank you, hey for whatever small thing 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.800 we do that, you're welcome and we hope to be 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.400 able to continue to do it because you allow us 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.920 into your life. There's no better compliment than you allow 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.200 us into your life, into your car, into your home. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.120 You're watching now on YouTube. I mean, you can't give 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.320 me a better compliment than that. And it's never it's 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.920 always on my every single day. We do this, all right, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.600 A couple more phone calls and we'll check in with 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.680 Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors. He better 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.920 be damn funny, That's all I gotta say. After Fritzie, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.200 tell Nick Nurse to be funny when he comes on here. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.480 Hopefully not your material. Oh whoa, whoa, where'd you come 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.480 up with that? Kevin and Alabama joins us. Hi, Kevin, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.920 how are you today? Hey, you're doing pretty good, mister Patrick. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.000 How about you? Oh, spectacular, spectacular? What's on your mind? 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.400 I'm just thinking, all right, there's no pro football teams 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.400 in Alabama. If you can get one hundred and ten 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.079 thousand in Tuscaloosa, I'm sure you can get fifty thousand 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:48.080 Charger fans in Tuscaluso and spread of my Hey, as 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.600 long as everybody is safe, Kevin, and we do this, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.680 I hope that wherever anybody could host a football game, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.520 they're able to do that. But thank you for their 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.440 phone call, and yeah, I'm all four. Let's let's push 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.880 the boundaries on this a little bit to understand what 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.000 we can and can't do right now, that's all. If 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.360 we can. I told the audience as stat last hour 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.360 that I heard from somebody affiliated with the NFL. If 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.720 NFL teams the leaves come back they were looking at. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.440 This was the estimate. And I was given sixty thousand 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.760 test per week. And I was told by this my 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.280 source who said, how could we possibly use up those 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.960 sixty thousand tests with the right mind with other people 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.880 not getting test? So there's so many things that we 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.400 want to happen. But there's hurdles of making that happen 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.120 and getting over those hurdles, and there's smarter people than 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.400 me who are going to help us figure that out. Yeah, Poet, 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.560 I think what I'm most fascinated is with the NBA 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.320 because their window is so short right now, and they've 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 been very quiet. Adam Silver has been kind of on lockdown. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.080 Remember he did him about three weeks ago. I was 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.400 out with Rachel Nichols. I haven't heard a word from 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.400 Adam Silver, but even Rob men for the Baseball's Commission, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.600 they're doing the smart thing. I don't want to hear anything. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.840 I want you to be able to show me something, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.640 because it feels like when they tell you something then 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.360 you go, well, wait a minute. You said we were 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.800 coming back March or May fifteenth. Now we're talking July fourth, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.960 July fourth with Baseball and Rob Manfred hasn't said that. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.040 My source said May fourth, July fourth, now, not Rob Manfred. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.080 But I'm glad that the commissioners are kind of hunkered 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.760 down here to try to come up with solutions yeap 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.040 until the day they make their announcement. Like Adam Silver 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.520 right now is probably going through many different scenarios with 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.359 his people going through with doctors and lawyers and liability. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.040 But there's gonna be a day out here in the 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.160 next two or three weeks where the NBA announces we 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.840 are doing this and they're going to have to have 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.760 everything buttoned up. I'm fascinating to know the backstory to 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.480 get to that day. I can't imagine what it must 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.680 be like for these commissioners where you go from one 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.720 zoom meeting to another zoom meeting to another zoom meeting 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.080 of I'm going to talk to this politician, I'm going 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.360 to talk to this member of the players associate, Like 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.560 you're just going on and on and on trying to 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.880 come up with solutions, contingency plans. Greg and Illinois joins us. Hi, Greg, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.360 what do you have for me? They DP? Tomorrow's meet 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.760 Friday Baby, who cheer up? Who Hey? Quick question for you. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.880 I think these some of these types of articals and 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.000 sports coming back has us fans thinking a little bit 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.040 selfishly again. But a lot of this, in part comes 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.160 back to the guys who are actually playing the games. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.840 So is there a certain number of players who who 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.920 have to say they won't come back, or a certain 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.120 caliber player who says, it says no, that might change 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.040 whether or not a sport comes back, Like what if? 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.920 What if Mike Trout says, I don't want to move 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:48.280 my pregnant wife to Florida to not make the playoffs again. Well, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.800 I don't know if you need to add the don't 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.600 make the playoffs again, But I understand what you're saying there, Greg. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.520 I don't know if every player is gonna want to 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.120 come back. You know, every marquee player, they want to 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.280 get paid. And that's another thing. You have this squabble 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.840 going on with the players association and owners. Here are 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.560 you going to pay us? How much you're gonna pay us? 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.600 Do you get a year of service here? Like, there's 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.640 a lot of things in play, not just let's open 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.840 up the gates and come back and play. I wish 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.560 it was that simple. It's not going to be that 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.919 simple anytime soon. But I hope when we hear from 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.280 these commissioners, that's when they say, here is our plan. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.680 As much as the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.440 is full speed ahead with this NFL season, I know privately, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.520 I've been told after telling the owners no hypotheticals, nobody 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.320 talks hypotheticals because he didn't want that. He wanted to 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:48.640 have the schedule release with no hypotheticals. What if. Well, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.159 those are in place right now, and I had it 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:57.240 reiterated to me yesterday that my source says he truly 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:03.320 believes the NFL season starts in October, truly believes that 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.359 that there will be a four week sort of grace 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.199 period and they just remove that front part of the 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.760 schedule and put it at the tail end. But that's 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.280 just a source that told me, and I trust the 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.240 source who said thinks that we do open up with 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.480 the Buccaneers and the Bears October eighth, on a Thursday nine, 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.679 So hopefully things change in the inner Hopefully take a 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.760 break and we'll get some more phone calls coming up. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.160 We'll check in with the Raptors head coach Nick Nurse. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.560 What has he been told? How often does he stay 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.600 in touch with his players? We'll take a break in 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.119 does he think that the NBA champ will have an 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.399 asterisk by its name at the end of the season 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.439 if we play twenty after the hour back after this 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.440 on The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.000 Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us Live 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.480 every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six to 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.639 nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.600 for the Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.600 or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.600 searching f s R. Got the trigger girl fired up, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.040 got Burgers. There you got meat Friday tomorrow. But I 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.440 said to Paulie, we should probably do like a preliminary 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.080 meat Friday. Gotta get our weight up for the season. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.240 We don't. I always like to say that he's Nick Nurse, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.159 the head coach of my Toronto Raptors. No matter where 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.520 he goes, he wins. He's won in the D League, 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.159 British Basketball League, the Belgian Basketball League, all of the 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.080 great leagues around the world. And he joins us down. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.560 Good morning, coach, how are you? I'm good, Good morning Dan. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.040 What's happening today? If we don't have an NBA season, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.160 do then the Raptors carry the title for another year? 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:45.600 Are you two time NBA champs or one time? Really long? 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.399 I had a trivia question. It's not a trivia question. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.640 I think it's just an interesting fact. Schools to produce 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:59.160 an NBA Finals winning head coach and a super Bowl 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:06.160 winning quarterback back. You're on that list? Nick? Wow. Kurt Warner, Yes, great, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.359 Kurt Warner, Northern Iowa. You're on that list with Steve 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:16.919 Kerr Arizona. Nick Foles won a super Bowl. Awesome And 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:21.560 here's one for you. Michigan is on the list, Tom 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:26.919 Brady and Rudy tom Janovic. Wow. So there you go. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.280 You learn something. That's it. That's all I needed to 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.480 talk to you about. Coach. That is five really cool 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.720 names to be associated with. That's awesome. That's awesome. How 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.880 often do you stay in touch with your players? Um? 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.600 Not that often, to be honest. We've had a few 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.840 zoom calls. We've certainly got somebody from our training staff 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.080 in touch with them almost every day, every other day, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.000 assistant coaches every every three or four days, just to 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.080 just to check in. What did you make of Shaquille 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:02.360 O'Neil saying they should scrap the season altogether? Um, well 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.760 that's a school of thought, I guess. I mean, it's 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.800 been two months now. I think the time is on 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.120 our side. The longer we go and get things out, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.280 push things out, the safer things are going to be. 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.800 But I also think that we've put in a lot 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.439 of work this year. We've we've we've only got you 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.240 know what, We've played sixty two games or something like that. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.760 We've almost got it, got it done. So crowning a champion, 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.920 if it's possible and if it's safe, I think we 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.040 should still strive for that for sure. Have you heard 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:35.040 a plan that you think would work? Well, um, I'm 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.600 only hearing you know the same plans you guys are hearing. Um, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.119 And I think that getting it done and getting the competition, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.240 and I think for everybody's general psyche, I mean fans, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.280 no fans, just getting something on TV and some competition 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.000 that the that the world, not not only this country 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.880 but globally can can tune in and watch, I think 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.359 would be would be great for everybody. What would we 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.080 hear if there were no fans and we're watching an 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.960