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Speaker 1: Got a poll question. I think we're changing it because
Speaker 1: it was a runaway winner. Oh yeah, who would you
Speaker 1: rather have for the next seven years? Luca or Zion?
Speaker 1: Eighty nine percent said Luca. So the new question is,
Speaker 1: if you were a likely first round pick, would you
Speaker 1: play college football this season? It's actually fifty one percent
Speaker 1: said no, so it's close to fifty fifty. I would
Speaker 1: like to find out what's going to happen over the
Speaker 1: next month before I would make that decision or have
Speaker 1: to answer that question. There these players don't have that luxury.
Speaker 1: But I think you're going to see some more players
Speaker 1: who are going to opt out. Connecticut canceled their season.
Speaker 1: I think that there are some teams in the Big
Speaker 1: Ten who might have their seasons in jeopardy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: are we going to have a Final four this year?
Speaker 1: Are we going to have a national championship game? Big
Speaker 1: Ten released its schedule, So everybody's doing what I said
Speaker 1: they were going to do back in April, and that
Speaker 1: is they're just going to do conference games if they can.
Speaker 1: That is the game plan here. And part of the
Speaker 1: reason why Connecticut canceled their season is because they're not
Speaker 1: affiliated with any conference and they were going to play
Speaker 1: two games. I think in the ACC they had lost
Speaker 1: games already because teams in conferences are saying, we're not
Speaker 1: going to play out of conference games, and Connecticut just
Speaker 1: decided to cancel their season. But I think you're going
Speaker 1: to see schools, smaller schools announced that they're going to
Speaker 1: play in the spring. I don't think the IVY League
Speaker 1: is going to be the outlier. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have other smaller schools. Maybe not the FBS schools, but
Speaker 1: you're going to have smaller schools who are going to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Age seven seven three d P
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Speaker 1: country carrying The Dan Patrick Show talk a lot of basketball,
Speaker 1: and the first hour watched just the highlights. There's a
Speaker 1: power outage on the East coast, so still waiting to
Speaker 1: get power back. At our homes, but we have it
Speaker 1: here in the man Cave. And I was watching Luca
Speaker 1: don Chick and the MAVs against Sacramento. That was fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And you know, Luca might have that team
Speaker 1: in the fourth spot when the playoffs start, and it's
Speaker 1: a great race for that final spot. The eighth spot
Speaker 1: in the West is really spicy here because you start
Speaker 1: to look at Dallas is in Obviously, Oklahoma City plays
Speaker 1: the Lakers tonight, Utah Rockets, Nuggets, Clippers, and the Lakers
Speaker 1: Clippers lost last night at the Buzzer to the Suns.
Speaker 1: Memphis is holding on for dear life for the eighth spot,
Speaker 1: followed by the Blazers. San Antonio is playing well, the
Speaker 1: Pelicans are still in there, and the Phoenix Sun. So
Speaker 1: it's been a nice race here because we wanted to
Speaker 1: have some value to the regular season and it's been
Speaker 1: fun just to watch these teams to get in. The Lakers,
Speaker 1: of course, have nothing left to play for. I'm curious
Speaker 1: what happens tonight in this game against Oklahoma City. How
Speaker 1: much do Lebron and Anthony Davis play. I would think
Speaker 1: I would lean towards having them play a little bit
Speaker 1: more because I want to make sure that they are
Speaker 1: in shape, ready to go, playoff ready once the playoffs start,
Speaker 1: because the teams, the team they're going to face in
Speaker 1: the opening round is going to have to scratch and
Speaker 1: claw its way into that eighth spot, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be already playing post playoff basketball. They're not going to
Speaker 1: be as good as the Lakers, but they could catch
Speaker 1: them off guard at least that first game. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 1: The other day, when I was thinking about this, I
Speaker 1: thought the Lakers had opportunity to give their guys two
Speaker 1: or three nights rest, but they basically had three months rest.
Speaker 1: You're saying, hit the gas and tight it up. I
Speaker 1: don't want to play in thirty five, but I do
Speaker 1: want them playing at least twenty five minutes. I just
Speaker 1: think keeping fresh here, keep moving here, that would be
Speaker 1: my approach. Now. I don't know if there's anybody having
Speaker 1: injuries that they're nursing. I don't think they can be tired,
Speaker 1: but I want them to be ready to go once
Speaker 1: the playoffs start. Yeah, McLean, I was watching the Nets
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, and the honest played the first half,
Speaker 1: and some guy that the Nets just signed wrestled theannas
Speaker 1: to the ground. Yeah, is that a fear that you're
Speaker 1: playing against guys who are sort of borderline guys who
Speaker 1: wouldn't normally be there. That the little dangerous for Lebron
Speaker 1: and jannas well. I don't know. I mean the Nets,
Speaker 1: that's certainly an anomaly because they're lucky that they even
Speaker 1: fielded a team and to go in there and look,
Speaker 1: the Bucks had nothing to play for, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Nets were eighteen and a half point underdogs. How
Speaker 1: does Vegas not recognize that because that's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest upsets in NBA history, at least the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: I think as far as the point spreads go, you know,
Speaker 1: the Nets don't have anybody. Wait, you're what about your
Speaker 1: boy try What is that Luawa cabou TLC that they
Speaker 1: can't say his name? Timothe Luwawa Carow. Yeah, he scored,
Speaker 1: he dropped twenty four last night. That's your guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: TLC is the only thing they called. Yeah, they beat
Speaker 1: the Wizards a game before, who were also like a
Speaker 1: G League. Yeah, the Wizards in Nets shouldn't be in there.
Speaker 1: But I give the Nets credit. They played hard and
Speaker 1: picked up the victory. But I think that's one of
Speaker 1: the bigger upsets. I don't know how many people were
Speaker 1: taking the bucks over the Nets last night. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much action was on that game, but I
Speaker 1: know the Nets players were like, oh, nobody gave us
Speaker 1: a chance. Yeah we didn't. Yeah. Mcglevin, Paully and I
Speaker 1: were over the roof about Jamal Crawford's five minutes. Oh
Speaker 1: I felt terrible. I love Jamal Crawford. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who never made an All Star six men in the
Speaker 1: year a couple of times, and he can score. You know,
Speaker 1: it came out of Michigan. I just everything about him
Speaker 1: is you know, I can identify with He likes to shoot,
Speaker 1: but I think a hamstring injury and he was playing
Speaker 1: well and it's a nice little story, but man, Jamal,
Speaker 1: Jamal went down last night. That was that was uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to watch there. Lou Williams gave us an update on
Speaker 1: his trip to Magic City. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: want to hear more details on Lulu Lemon, but here
Speaker 1: is Lou Williams talking about the visit to Magic City,
Speaker 1: where the wings are great. In hindsight, I think as
Speaker 1: far as a public safety issue goes I probably could
Speaker 1: have made a better quality decision. I was a little naive,
Speaker 1: and in that aspect, I went somewhere after a viewing
Speaker 1: of somebody that considered a mentor, somebody that I looked
Speaker 1: up to, first black man that I've seen with legal
Speaker 1: money in my life. And the funeral home was a
Speaker 1: couple of blocks away from one of my favorite restaurants.
Speaker 1: Has been documented how much I talk about this place,
Speaker 1: how much I eat there, and so I just I
Speaker 1: just did something that was routine for me. I frequent
Speaker 1: that place at that time of day, five thirty six
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon. I thought at the time, I
Speaker 1: thought I was making a responsible decision. At the looking
Speaker 1: back on it, you know, with everything going on in
Speaker 1: the world in a pandemic, maybe it wasn't the best
Speaker 1: quality decisions. So, you know, I'm talking of his day,
Speaker 1: taking my ill and keep moving. Yeah, you can take
Speaker 1: out the word probably it was a bad decision there.
Speaker 1: Just go and get the takeout, because remember that's what
Speaker 1: we were told, You're just going for the takeout. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, some investigative reporter talked to
Speaker 1: one of the dancers and said, did anybody give Lou
Speaker 1: a lap dance. Oh yeah, yeah we did, and I went, okay,
Speaker 1: And I feel bad for him because he was leaving
Speaker 1: for you know, a family emergency here and you know
Speaker 1: that got hijacked because he went to Magic City where
Speaker 1: the wings are great well documented. Yeah, it's well documents,
Speaker 1: documents out there that could find out about Lou Williams.
Speaker 1: Love of those wings. Yes, you gotta love those wings.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard of the Blazers was talking about the greatness
Speaker 1: of Carmelo Anthony. I have some people say, do you
Speaker 1: owe Carmelo Anthony an apology? And I went, why, Well,
Speaker 1: you didn't think that he was gonna be And I said, no,
Speaker 1: he can do one thing. He can shoot, he can't
Speaker 1: do anything else. And I didn't know if Portland would
Speaker 1: be able to absorb that kind of one dimensional player.
Speaker 1: They do have a great they have a great team.
Speaker 1: That's a talented team. But he's not my go to
Speaker 1: guy where I go, Hey, let me go to a
Speaker 1: guy who hits you know, fifteen to eighteen footers here.
Speaker 1: But I give him credit. You know, Carmelo has played well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see it looks like he's having so much fun too,
Speaker 1: which is nice to see like this sort of you know,
Speaker 1: Carmelo three point zero or four point zero, whatever we're
Speaker 1: on right now is a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And I'm on a record who's saying I was hopeful
Speaker 1: that he would end up back with the Knicks where
Speaker 1: he could have a victory tour where they could celebrate
Speaker 1: him one more time. Now, maybe not going back to
Speaker 1: the Knicks, but to go back and have one more
Speaker 1: run through the league where people could appreciate Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 1: When we met him in the studio, I'd never been
Speaker 1: around him. I said, Carmelo, you've got to do more
Speaker 1: interviews so people can see who you are. Here, who
Speaker 1: you are. I don't think he was interested in that.
Speaker 1: Here is Damian Lillard talking about Carmelo. Carmelo Anthony hash
Speaker 1: massive shots for you guys. What has he meant to
Speaker 1: the team, especially here in Orlando. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: Hall of famer, you know. I think it's more disappointing
Speaker 1: that people are surprised by it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's a he's a Hall of famer. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he's a great teammate and that's what we expect from him.
Speaker 1: You know, we put him in those positions because we
Speaker 1: expect him to make those shots. We believe he's going
Speaker 1: to make those shots. And we brought him here because
Speaker 1: we knew he would make a difference for our team
Speaker 1: and he's been doing that. So no surprises here. We
Speaker 1: expect that from him, and you know, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: he's here to come through for us in and those
Speaker 1: big situations. That's Damian Lillard. And look, if you go
Speaker 1: back early in his career, the ball stopped when it
Speaker 1: went to him. But he's smart enough to know at
Speaker 1: this stage of his career that he's got guys who
Speaker 1: are better than him and guys who should have the ball.
Speaker 1: But he's hit some big shots here. He made two
Speaker 1: big plays in the final three minutes. He blocked a
Speaker 1: shot there with a score tide and then it hits
Speaker 1: a three, you know, putting Portland up by five. So
Speaker 1: no congratulations, good for him. And so I wasn't rooting
Speaker 1: against him. I just he's not my kind of player,
Speaker 1: you know. I know he wanted Syracuse and he was
Speaker 1: spectacular as freshman year, but he's just always been that
Speaker 1: one dimensional kind of player, certainly in the latter part
Speaker 1: of his career. Also Alan Iverson was interviewed on Complex.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a TV show or a
Speaker 1: podcast or a radio show, and he was asked about
Speaker 1: the greatest of All Time debate. I'm not gonna fight it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like as much as I
Speaker 1: love Michael Jordan, like Dug Man, Lebron James is the
Speaker 1: one dog, he'd one man one. I didn't expect that answer.
Speaker 1: Let me play that again. Here's Iverson and he is
Speaker 1: saying Michael Jordan is not the goat. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: fight it, you know what I mean. As much as
Speaker 1: I love Michael Jordan, like Doug Man, Lebron James is
Speaker 1: the one dog eat one man one. All right, Uh
Speaker 1: now we've just restarted that debate, Lebron or Michael. Who's
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time? Yeah, PAULI, Michael is going
Speaker 1: to add one more episode to the Last Dance where
Speaker 1: he just abolishes Iverson bunch of old video and I
Speaker 1: don't know. Iverson always has the trump card that one
Speaker 1: piece of video where he crosses Mike over twice, hits
Speaker 1: the jumper. But people want to ask this question all
Speaker 1: the time, especially after the documentary on Michael Jordan and
Speaker 1: I go it. You know, my answer hasn't changed that
Speaker 1: I just take Michael because it's easier. Like then, I
Speaker 1: don't spend hours talking about this because it's it's not
Speaker 1: a winnable argument. If you're if you're coming from Lebron's
Speaker 1: side of the argument, you're you're not going to win it.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. It's unwinnable, and that's why it makes for
Speaker 1: a great barroom debate. Mike, if you wanted making the
Speaker 1: greatest player of all time, what, I don't know what
Speaker 1: your criteria is, go ahead, I'm fine with that. But
Speaker 1: Lebron to me, Lebron is a more interesting player because
Speaker 1: of who he is, interesting person and player. Is he
Speaker 1: a better player, He's a different player. They are different.
Speaker 1: Kobe and Michael they were the same. Lebron is nowhere
Speaker 1: near what Michael. The way Mike played personality just not
Speaker 1: like that Kobe. Kobe wired himself or rewired himself to
Speaker 1: be like Michael Jordan the way he played that killer
Speaker 1: instant everything out it. Yeah. See, there was a video
Speaker 1: I just saw recently about and it's it's I only
Speaker 1: bring it up because it's clear how much of an
Speaker 1: impact Michael Jordan had on Kobe right, but he was talking,
Speaker 1: he was doing an interview, and he said at thirteen,
Speaker 1: he didn't he was like fifty seven on Street and
Speaker 1: Smith's like top one hundred ranking for his age group.
Speaker 1: And he said he made a list of those fifty
Speaker 1: six other kids, and over the next five years he
Speaker 1: called it his kill list. And over the next five
Speaker 1: years on the AAU circuit, he made sure that he
Speaker 1: got each and every one of those kids because he's
Speaker 1: just like, I I gotta kill these dudes, and they
Speaker 1: need to know that I'm legit now. And you know,
Speaker 1: Michael had to create eight situations, situations that weren't real,
Speaker 1: grudges that weren't real. Well, that's when you know you've
Speaker 1: gotten bored where you go. I kind of mastered this thing.
Speaker 1: I think that guy might have said something about me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out in torch him for fifty and
Speaker 1: then poor Bradford Smith goes. I didn't say anything. Well,
Speaker 1: somebody told me that maybe you said something. Here Jesse
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles on the program, Hi, Jess, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? Let it be hey. I
Speaker 1: wanted to comment on Luca and also had an NBA
Speaker 1: prediction of yours that I believe is now going to
Speaker 1: come true. If thatkay? All right? All right, all right.
Speaker 1: So I watched Luca dismantled my sacrament at King's last night,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell the shark guy in the
Speaker 1: back who was bashing him earlier, to stay in his
Speaker 1: laying on this, because Luca's statline from last night is
Speaker 1: something only like you said, Kareem's done. Will it's done,
Speaker 1: and Elgin Baylor have done and it's not some inflated
Speaker 1: four letter like network zionsta. So that's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say to him. But on the prediction of years, I
Speaker 1: believe it is going to come true. The NBA has
Speaker 1: seen the intensity and the quality of these games in
Speaker 1: the bubble and it's awesome. And because of the fear
Speaker 1: prediction of teams that are out of the playoff run,
Speaker 1: I'm now playing for something like the number one draft pick,
Speaker 1: like humulating wins instead of losses and you know, avoiding
Speaker 1: tanken to come true. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Jesse. Yes,
Speaker 1: shark guy. Well, I mean, just all the all the
Speaker 1: rings with Elgin Baylor and Will Chamberlain. I'm I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a great example God for Biddy brings up Bill
Speaker 1: Russell or Michael Jordan. Wow, perfect, he's proving my case. Hey,
Speaker 1: Alsa Baylor could put up thirty eight points a game.
Speaker 1: But show me the ring. Well, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who have won rings. Robert Or He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of rings. Yeah, Steve Kerr's got a lot
Speaker 1: of rings. He sure does. Yeah, there were guys who
Speaker 1: were role players on the Celtics who have a lot
Speaker 1: of rings. There's a lot of Alex english Is out there. Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm not dating myself at all with that reference. Uh,
Speaker 1: Luca doesn't play on a great team, right right. If
Speaker 1: he did, he wouldn't be scoring thirty four points, twenty
Speaker 1: boards at eleven assists. Obviously didn't have to share all
Speaker 1: those stats. Yeah, but then he would be greater because
Speaker 1: his team was winning. But his numbers aren't as great
Speaker 1: according to you. Yes, okay, I mean eventually he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to have some talent there, right, Unless you think
Speaker 1: Porzingis can be that guy, well you need a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I mean porzingis Is, you know, he's the
Speaker 1: unicorn out there. But you know they got other players,
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior. Uh, don't they have some guy named
Speaker 1: Finney on that team. I mean, come on, you got
Speaker 1: JJ Brea. He's starting. They don't have a good team.
Speaker 1: Is that? Like JJ Brea's son is starting. The guy
Speaker 1: from the finals like years ago. JJ Barea is still
Speaker 1: on the MAVs. He's probably thirty five, isn't he? How
Speaker 1: old is JJ Barea thirty six? Thirty six? All right?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that is a not a great storry. No,
Speaker 1: so you have to look around and go, Luca has
Speaker 1: to do more. You're not giving him credit for doing more.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're not you're taking away credit because he's
Speaker 1: a ballhaug and he should be putting up these kind
Speaker 1: of numbers. That's that's the feeling I always get when
Speaker 1: you talk about Luca. Yes, I mean he's on a
Speaker 1: not a great team, so he's got to disaccumulate numbers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So instead of saying, wow, he's got his team in
Speaker 1: a position. Maybe they're the fourth seed in the West.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, they don't look great in the bubble.
Speaker 1: You have to admit that they're kind of They go
Speaker 1: over time with the Kings and lose their other two games.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're a great team. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're a very good team. At times, they're a
Speaker 1: good team. Yeah, Paul MAVs Lee the league and obscure
Speaker 1: guys with hyphenated names, Michael Kids, Willie Calli Stein, Dorian Phinney. Smith.
Speaker 1: Just saw this from David Pollock from the Mothership, a
Speaker 1: former NFL player. I don't see the Yukon decision meaning
Speaker 1: anything to the main teams in college football. They folded
Speaker 1: because they would lose a ton of money. Others will
Speaker 1: play to make sure they don't lose money. Well, also,
Speaker 1: you got a factor in that nobody wanted to play
Speaker 1: Connecticut because they only wanted to play teams in their
Speaker 1: own conference. So Yukon was a team that was looking
Speaker 1: for opponents. They these these teams are getting boxed out here.
Speaker 1: You know that Notre Dame was brought into the ACC,
Speaker 1: and you're it's gonna be collateral damage with some of
Speaker 1: these teams that we're gonna try to play. Didn't Connectic
Speaker 1: could have two games in the ACC schedule, Maybe Virginia
Speaker 1: was one of them, and I know that I think
Speaker 1: they had one more Clemson where they scheduled to play Clemson,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. North Carolina all right, So the ACC just said, hey,
Speaker 1: look we're closing our borders here. We're just gonna play
Speaker 1: ACC football. Yeah, mclob those are basketball games. Let's say
Speaker 1: yukon unc ukon Virginia. There's no need for them to
Speaker 1: play football. Well, that might be one of those. Hey
Speaker 1: we'll play you in basketball, but we also want to
Speaker 1: play you in football, although not the men's team. They
Speaker 1: they've had a couple of down years though. Yeah, mclovin.
Speaker 1: So if Rutgers has to cancel, what the heck are
Speaker 1: we gonna do at noon? I mean it is Maryland
Speaker 1: just gonna do it on Saturday scrimmage. Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna watch Maryland football because Maryland always plays at noon
Speaker 1: Indiana Indiana noon Eastern on a Saturday, yampoint. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Hoosiers are getting a little better of that program. They're
Speaker 1: flirting with that three o'clock window. Wow, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you know you've made it. Yeah, you get out of
Speaker 1: the noon bubble there on ESPN. I always love that,
Speaker 1: be like who's the noon game? And then Fox started
Speaker 1: coming in and then they had their nooner as well.
Speaker 1: Wake Forest not a half of them, but there's his good, right,
Speaker 1: they decided to put a good game in noon, didn't they.
Speaker 1: By the way, Alex English most points in the eighties.
Speaker 1: How about that one, McLevin, Get out of here. Is
Speaker 1: that right? Alex English scored more points in the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties than anybody else. Yeah, days, shot spires, stat of
Speaker 1: the day, stat of the day comes that? What stat
Speaker 1: of the day? Yes, McLevin. Remember that whole school of guys,
Speaker 1: George Gervin, Kekey Vanderway, Alex you could just score. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing else at all. I loved watching Keiki Vanderway always
Speaker 1: would go left it, dunk on you left hand. No,
Speaker 1: Key was great Alex Alex English is one of the
Speaker 1: nicest people you ever meet. And he could score. They
Speaker 1: called him flick because he'd had the ball up so
Speaker 1: high and he just had this little flick shot. And
Speaker 1: the Nuggets were good teams, they just weren't great teams. Mcklevin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's very nice. Never bothered anyone during the playoff time.
Speaker 1: By the way, nothing because he sounds great to make
Speaker 1: love And the shark guy who's saying that about Alex English,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you came in, but mean spirited
Speaker 1: today I have this I just like I like it.
Speaker 1: But you just came in firing today. I was so
Speaker 1: happy when I got to watch Sacramento against the MAVs
Speaker 1: before the power went out, and then you all of
Speaker 1: a sudden said in Luca, Ballhog. It's getting harder to
Speaker 1: back my AUNTI lucas it is. Every day I'm bending
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Speaker 1: for Eastern and joins US. Now. We've been having a debate.
Speaker 1: Mclovin has been so down on Luca don Chick such
Speaker 1: a hater, I know, and I don't understand this because
Speaker 1: I think we've almost taken for granted that Luca puts
Speaker 1: in a night of thirty four, twenty and twelve and
Speaker 1: it's not headline worthy. Is he a great player? Oh?
Speaker 1: I look at how great players talk about young players
Speaker 1: as my barometer of greatness, because great players do not
Speaker 1: like to call young players great. They like to say
Speaker 1: that they have a it's easier for them, or the
Speaker 1: style of the game benefits them. He has Kristaps Porzingis
Speaker 1: and then it's Seth Curry, Tim Hardaway Junior, Like who
Speaker 1: else is there to get these assists too? And I
Speaker 1: think Luca, the way he controls the pace of the game,
Speaker 1: his shot, his physicality, the growth he made from year
Speaker 1: one a year two, I think he's just a hater.
Speaker 1: I think there's jealousy of the base tan that Luca
Speaker 1: has gotten in Orlando, because we know that there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of pastiness in the studio right now. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, Adam, like me, as a Philly guy,
Speaker 1: we're born to be cynical and not trust these guys.
Speaker 1: And he's ready to jump all over this bandwagon. Okay,
Speaker 1: if both these guys if Zion and Luca were open
Speaker 1: on the open market right now, Luca, Okay, to me,
Speaker 1: I like shooters, Yeah, like I would this is I
Speaker 1: would go shake Gilgis Alexander over John Moran, And I know,
Speaker 1: like that's crazy, but I like guys that are not
Speaker 1: getting hurt all the time. I like guys that have
Speaker 1: range because they're the guys whose career can last longer
Speaker 1: eventually that explosion and look, Zion is going to be generational.
Speaker 1: John Moran is one of my favorite players to watch.
Speaker 1: But the guys that have range, the guys that understand pace.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because they're also in years two and three
Speaker 1: and they understand stop and start and change of direction.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that can come because man, I saw
Speaker 1: some plays from Zion at the end of the game
Speaker 1: the other day that we're unbelievable. But Luca, to me,
Speaker 1: is a game that can last for a decade and
Speaker 1: a half. Would Zion I still have concern? Would you
Speaker 1: take Shay Gilgis, Alexander over Zion? No, okay, because Zion,
Speaker 1: I think in the NBA, it's like I look at
Speaker 1: like Janis and how he went. I think pick fifteen
Speaker 1: or Michael Porter Junior going where he went in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I want to take risks on the guys that can
Speaker 1: be franchise changing players, and I think Zion has that ability,
Speaker 1: Luca has that. I don't know about Shay yet. Should
Speaker 1: the Lakers. What's the approach for the Lakers now you
Speaker 1: have the number one seed in the West, this game
Speaker 1: against Okloma City tonight? What would you do if you're
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel with your stars? I think you need to
Speaker 1: keep them going because it's it's been very interesting to
Speaker 1: watch the impact of starting out of nowhere with these guys.
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford's the perfect example. Six minut it's hamstring there.
Speaker 1: I heard Stan Van Gundhi saying this before, where he
Speaker 1: actually thought that teams which would rest players early and
Speaker 1: get them worked up till later. But there's no home
Speaker 1: court advantage Dan, So like, if you come in off
Speaker 1: rest and you lose one or two, it's not like
Speaker 1: we're going back to the Staples Center and we're going
Speaker 1: to have that advantage. So for me, I would rather
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do what the Bucks did
Speaker 1: yesterday where you give Janis sixteen and they play thirteen
Speaker 1: guys at fourteen minutes or more. But I want Lebron's
Speaker 1: wheels to be turning. I want my main guys ready.
Speaker 1: And I also think you have to figure out your rotation.
Speaker 1: What is your seven, what is your eight? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you on that. I want Lebron playing maybe twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes, Anthony Davis, because my point is they're going
Speaker 1: to face somebody in the opening round who had to
Speaker 1: crawl and scratch their way in. And if it's Portland
Speaker 1: or you know, one of these other dangerous teams, they're
Speaker 1: already playing playoff basketball. I just want you as close
Speaker 1: to that as possible. And that's how if he gets
Speaker 1: twenty five then and then let's say it's the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and it's like, oh, we need Lebron. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put him in there now, you know, like you've locked
Speaker 1: up the one, Let your reserves, let Caruso, let Contavious Caldwell, Pope,
Speaker 1: let them get those valuable clutch time minutes because you
Speaker 1: never know whether they're gonna need it. But like Zion
Speaker 1: for the Pelicans, he needs to come in for those
Speaker 1: last three minutes because we're trying to get a playoff.
Speaker 1: See that's what I didn't understand that they would have
Speaker 1: had that win against Utah. If you're on a minute
Speaker 1: limit or restriction, I want you playing valuable. Does it
Speaker 1: matter when you have those minutes? It does to me
Speaker 1: if I can save you for the final four minutes
Speaker 1: of the game, even if the games will blow out,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna have you in there if all we're
Speaker 1: doing is playing fifteen minutes. All six teams that are
Speaker 1: fighting for that eight seed are now within four games,
Speaker 1: which was our metric to see who is going to
Speaker 1: play in the playing game. And when that Pelicans game,
Speaker 1: that very first one, and Alvin Gentry came off and said,
Speaker 1: you need to understand statistics, I said, okay, Alvin, but
Speaker 1: like you knew he had fifteen, So why didn't you
Speaker 1: save three of them for the end of the game,
Speaker 1: Like why did you use them in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the fourth and not Budge? Because now the Suns are
Speaker 1: three and oh this Spurs are two and one, and
Speaker 1: I'm never counting out Popovich in that playoff streak Memphis,
Speaker 1: I know they lose Jaren Jackson, but who knows. And
Speaker 1: Portland is looking like a five seed right now, So
Speaker 1: I really hope that for the Pelicans sake. We don't
Speaker 1: look back at that first game and go, you blew it,
Speaker 1: because you might if they get into a tiebreaker with Portland.
Speaker 1: People aren't realizing this right now. If you get into
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker for Portland for that nine seed, they have
Speaker 1: the advantage over everybody because it comes down to win
Speaker 1: percentage and they have played more games. So if it
Speaker 1: comes down to they will have played more games, their
Speaker 1: win percentage will be higher. They automatically win and that
Speaker 1: could be big for New One. Adam Leftco, Turner's sports
Speaker 1: host the This is Wild Dan, I just want to
Speaker 1: say this. I'm sorry for interrupting you. I'm on the
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show right now in an Airbnb in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: holding a microphone, and I just want you to know
Speaker 1: I feel goaded right now. I feel blessed. There's a
Speaker 1: halo above my head of joy. I just want you
Speaker 1: to know that. Well. I appreciate that. NBA on T
Speaker 1: and T Tuesdays, we're talking to the host, Adam Lefco,
Speaker 1: also with Bleacher Report as well. You're in Atlanta. Have
Speaker 1: you had the wings at Magic City? I've had the
Speaker 1: wings at JR Crickets. I'm working my way up. I
Speaker 1: wanted to try the rest so that when I try
Speaker 1: the Wings at Magic City, I'll have a bearing of
Speaker 1: what to compare to. And I will be going with
Speaker 1: my fiance. I don't know if we're going to go inside,
Speaker 1: but I think that's the only way that I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to get the wings. As she comes with, don't you
Speaker 1: were gone for two hours? Yea? It was congested on
Speaker 1: a long line on wow you know popular wings? Yes? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: If I gave you the Lakers or the field in
Speaker 1: the West, I'm taking the field because I still like
Speaker 1: the Clippers. I know that you know Devin Booker hit
Speaker 1: that shot, but I still think that the matter it's
Speaker 1: going to come down to can Anthony Davis drop forty
Speaker 1: every game against the Clippers. And for me, I look
Speaker 1: at Paul and Kawhi and Beverly is still getting back
Speaker 1: in lou Will Mantraz Harrell is not there right now,
Speaker 1: and that game came down to the wire, that Clippers
Speaker 1: Lakers first game. I think that I still have my
Speaker 1: doubts on Denver, but I do think it's interesting that
Speaker 1: they've been doing this without Jamal Murray, without Gary Harris
Speaker 1: and now with bullball and Michael Porter Junior. What could
Speaker 1: that bring? And then you look at teams like the
Speaker 1: Blazers and the Mavericks. The West to me is so
Speaker 1: deep that I agree with what you were saying earlier
Speaker 1: with the Golfers. Anytime I can get the field, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take the field. Just based on the odds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure this out. When you know, you
Speaker 1: start to handicap this. And I don't know if Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis has as much pressure on him as he should,
Speaker 1: because this is his moment. Now he will and Paul
Speaker 1: George is the same thing. I'm waiting for Paul George
Speaker 1: to reappear. We know what Kawhi does in the postseason,
Speaker 1: but I'm waiting for Paul George to be great again.
Speaker 1: And Anthony Davis, you know you toiled in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Now this is really your team. I mean you should
Speaker 1: be the star of this team. Me. D Wade and
Speaker 1: Kennis Parker were talking about this and I was going,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is going to be the one that explodes,
Speaker 1: and both of them immediately said, we haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: and until you're there, we don't know how it's going
Speaker 1: to be in a game seven in the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: And again, I like to listen to people that have
Speaker 1: been in Game seven's before and they said, look, he's
Speaker 1: a phenomenal player and we have faith in him. But
Speaker 1: Lebron is going to need him to be that guy.
Speaker 1: Because when Lebron has played the twenty playoff games and
Speaker 1: he's war and down a little bit, it's even gonna
Speaker 1: be more on Anthony Davis. But I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think Paul George is the guy that everyone's forgetting.
Speaker 1: When he signed with the Clippers, that's when everybody said
Speaker 1: they're a title contender and we're gonna need those big shots.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that Devin Booker shot was incredible. I'm still
Speaker 1: leaning Clippers. I just am at the depth of the
Speaker 1: amount of guys that they can throw at Lebron and
Speaker 1: tire him out. Before I let you go, let me
Speaker 1: get your opinion on this. This is Alan Iverson on
Speaker 1: Complex talking about the greatest of all time. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna fight it, you know what I mean. Like as
Speaker 1: much as I love Michael Jordan, like Dull Man, Lebron
Speaker 1: James is the one dog. He'd one man one. How
Speaker 1: much does him saying dull like that at the end
Speaker 1: give more validity to that argument, like he says it
Speaker 1: in a way in which you're like, I mean, that
Speaker 1: has to be the truth. He said it like we
Speaker 1: need to finally come out in a minute. There's been
Speaker 1: this conspiracy of holding it down. I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: because I always love to make the argument that Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson was the pound for pound goat, because it's always
Speaker 1: nice to weigh our greatest players of all time. I've
Speaker 1: also been the guy that said, Kareem. I've also been
Speaker 1: the guy that said, if we were playing against Aliens,
Speaker 1: I'm putting Shack out there first. But I think also
Speaker 1: coming off of the last dance and coming off of
Speaker 1: six MVPs or six finals MVPs and what he did,
Speaker 1: I'm still going Jordan. But again that's a thing forget
Speaker 1: the media votes. Let's get next year, seventy fifth year
Speaker 1: of the NBA. Let's get those seventy five guys to vote.
Speaker 1: It's an odd number, we're going to come up with
Speaker 1: a winner. I think that should settle it, and then
Speaker 1: we'll do it again in twenty five years for the hundreds.
Speaker 1: I think players are afraid to still say anything negative
Speaker 1: about Jordan, even guys who you know, you not on
Speaker 1: the floor with him, not involved with him, that they're
Speaker 1: just there's a fear factor with that. That's why I
Speaker 1: thought when Lebron did his video after his last Finals
Speaker 1: win where he said that's when I became the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time. For Lebron to say that, I thought
Speaker 1: it was very interesting. But yeah, when you watch Jordan
Speaker 1: and I just heard talking about the kill list or
Speaker 1: Jordan's over there at his Hall of Fame se speech
Speaker 1: bringing up the dude that beat him out for the
Speaker 1: like the because everybody wants to hang out with Jordan,
Speaker 1: and so they're afraid if they ever say anything, they're
Speaker 1: not going to get invested, invited to the cigar lounge
Speaker 1: or his incredible golf course in Florida. Because while we
Speaker 1: all want to compete with the greatest and say we're
Speaker 1: better than them, we also want their respect. And I
Speaker 1: think we know that Jordan will hold a grudge and
Speaker 1: nobody wants to be on the other side of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if you're critical of Lebron, which so many people
Speaker 1: in the media are, you know, Lebron is like maybe
Speaker 1: he's taken names, but it's not like there's repercussions. Mike,
Speaker 1: it feels like there's cushions, and then he'll track you
Speaker 1: down and he'll remind you. I sat at a table
Speaker 1: at the Jim Valvano golf tournament years ago Lou Holtz,
Speaker 1: Digger Phelps, Quinn Buckner, Jordan Barkley, and myself and Jordan
Speaker 1: did not let up on Barkley because Charles had a
Speaker 1: couple of shots at Mike and I, you know, it
Speaker 1: was just like friendly fire. And Jordan turned in a
Speaker 1: second and started peppering Barkley and reduced him to a puddle.
Speaker 1: It was amazing to see, and no one there was
Speaker 1: silence after he was done, like there was smoke that
Speaker 1: was coming out, and then people were like, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like that weird like after silence, where like nobody
Speaker 1: wants to get in there. I actually I got to
Speaker 1: have dinner with Barkley the other night, and it's one,
Speaker 1: it's amazing because the stories are incredible. Two it's annoying
Speaker 1: because everyone in the world it's like, masks be darned,
Speaker 1: I'm coming over to get Barkley. But I really hope
Speaker 1: and think that that relationship will get solved. I asked Charles,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, look, I said, how annoying was
Speaker 1: it for you to go on every radio station and
Speaker 1: to be asked, why isn't this working out? Like you're
Speaker 1: the only one involved in this not working out? And
Speaker 1: I feel like as they get older, it's the greatest
Speaker 1: relationship in sports that doesn't exist right now. When they
Speaker 1: went on the Oprah Show together, that's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite clips on YouTube. I implore people to go check
Speaker 1: it out. But I feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: love there. There's just also a lot of stubbornness. But
Speaker 1: Michael needs someone like Charles in his life that will
Speaker 1: always be honest. And Charles is the perfect companion for
Speaker 1: someone like Michael who can actually take that. And I
Speaker 1: really hope it gets fixed. Well, Michael can't take it,
Speaker 1: but he can get And that's part of the problem
Speaker 1: is Charles did his job and said Michael has not
Speaker 1: done a good job as an owner, and he hasn't.
Speaker 1: And I remember when he said it on my show
Speaker 1: and I went, oh, Mike's not going to like that.
Speaker 1: And if he said surrounded by yes man, I don't Charles.
Speaker 1: What he said was was real, that was true, and
Speaker 1: but Michael can he can give you grief, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like you can say anything negative about Mike.
Speaker 1: I am. I am optimistic, cautiously when when what we've
Speaker 1: seen lately with social justice, for Michael to get so
Speaker 1: involved after the Last Dance, all of us, what, Wow,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen this before. I mean, there was a
Speaker 1: whole chapter in the Last Dance about how he avoids
Speaker 1: that stuff. I'm curious as he gets older, will there
Speaker 1: be even a one percent softening of how he is?
Speaker 1: And I believe in that one percent is the forgiveness
Speaker 1: of Charles Barkley. That's that's what I believe, because he'll
Speaker 1: be the only one that because he has Michael's respect.
Speaker 1: Great to talk to you, left, Coo. I'm glad you're
Speaker 1: doing well up with the NBA on TNT Tuesdays. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us, Man dan Ets, I love you, guys, Dan,
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Speaker 1: Show last call for phone calls found the results of
Speaker 1: the poll question. And you're starting to see these college
Speaker 1: football players go to social media and you know, they
Speaker 1: just want the word to get out. The Players Tribune
Speaker 1: has published some articles from players from the PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: Now the Big Ten has reached out. They have a
Speaker 1: unity proposal and it's basically asking for the protection the
Speaker 1: well being of all athletes here. And what they're asking
Speaker 1: for they're not asking for fifty fifty rev share like
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve players. These are basically just safety measures
Speaker 1: and making sure that they keep their scholarship here. But
Speaker 1: you're going to see this, I'm sure acc SEC their
Speaker 1: players are going to be asking for the same thing.
Speaker 1: And you don't have a union, you don't have a spokesperson.
Speaker 1: That's part of the problem with this is you're going
Speaker 1: to go through the Players Tribune to be able to
Speaker 1: publish this and hopefully you get some eyeballs on this,
Speaker 1: and then you're going to have your you know, commissioner
Speaker 1: with the Big Ten going to be able to look
Speaker 1: at this and then hopefully, you know, listen at least
Speaker 1: to what's going on with these players. That's why I
Speaker 1: go back to what happened at Washington State, where you
Speaker 1: had some players who said, hey, you know what, we
Speaker 1: want some assurances here we're in line with some of
Speaker 1: these other players in the Pac twelve, and the head
Speaker 1: coach goes, then, see you, you're not on the football
Speaker 1: team anymore. You can't be a coach who says, hey,
Speaker 1: I care about my players and then say, well, I
Speaker 1: only care about them if they fall in line with
Speaker 1: what I want them to fall in line with. And
Speaker 1: I had a real problem with what went on at
Speaker 1: Washington State and Colorado State. And hopefully you got your
Speaker 1: story straight that you're not hiding positive COVID IT results there.
Speaker 1: The players are not going to protect you that you know.
Speaker 1: We saw this at Iowa with what happened. We've seen
Speaker 1: this at Michigan State. We've seen this in a variety
Speaker 1: of places, and it's going to continue here this day
Speaker 1: in sports history. Paulie, sorry about that house looking at
Speaker 1: the cal State. Sorry one final results of the poll question, mcleven,
Speaker 1: if you thought you were gonna be a first round
Speaker 1: or would you play college football up to fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent say no, Yeah, I'd like to know a little
Speaker 1: bit more here. I'd like to know and not to
Speaker 1: dance around an answer here. But I think things are
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit more illuminated here in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, and then we'll get a
Speaker 1: real sense of who's playing, how many games we're playing,
Speaker 1: who's not playing? Yeah, Paul. In twenty thirteen, bud See
Speaker 1: League issued a two hundred and eleven game suspension for
Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez for possession of a bad substance. It was
Speaker 1: reduced to one sixty two. Here's about nineteen sixty. For
Speaker 1: the first time, two Major League Baseball clubs traded managers.
Speaker 1: Detroit traded Jimmy Dike's to Cleveland for Joe Gordon. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Alex Roder requests with two hundred and eleven. Wow, what
Speaker 1: did you possess if you had? If you get two
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven, and do you think Sea Lakes in
Speaker 1: AFS going, you know, two twenties, that's a little harsh.
Speaker 1: Two fifteen is too harsh. I gotta go to eleven here.
Speaker 1: And then they reduced it and now a Rod's the
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