WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Adrian Wojnarowski (05-19-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.160 Sports Radio to our one on this Tuesday, Dan and 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.360 the Dan at Stan Patrick Show. Glad to have you 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.800 on board, allowing us into your live lives and come 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.000 in in stale wall. You can watch, you can listen, 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.439 you can tweet if you like, you can email, you 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.800 can do all the above. Coming up in a little bit, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.640 we'll talk about Lebron James talking about Michael Jordan as 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:31.680 a teammate and some interesting comments on that. Adrian Wojanarowski, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.199 the ESPN Senior NBA insider, will join us. Coming up 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.559 in a little bit. Are we inching closer to a season, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.120 inching closer to not having a season? We'll talk to 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.000 wos about that. Coming up. Governors of New York, Texas 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.800 in California said yesterday they will support the return of 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.320 professional sports. Now it looks like it's going to be 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.760 without fans, and it's a good sign for people rooting 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.640 for the return of sports. There was particular concern about 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.360 New York in California, but now that they're okay with 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.360 teams coming back, leagues can really get to work planning 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.360 this out. Maybe you don't have to have a Plan B. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.720 Maybe you're able to carry out Plan A, but it 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.120 feels like Plan B and Plan C are still on 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.039 the agenda. Various practice facilities are opening up around the nation. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.000 Some of the NFL teams are opening up. It feels 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.039 like there's movement, and I know it's been at a 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.680 snail's pace, at least it feels that way, but it 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.160 feels like one team, one league, one commissioner makes a decision, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.200 then others will follow. Now, it doesn't mean it's going 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.839 to be easy. Major League Baseball laid out a set 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.600 of restrictive guidelines that are going to be hard to meet. Here. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.240 The NFL is reportedly looking at can they incorporate the 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:49.720 medical mask into the game? Not hearing much from the NBA, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.960 and I view that as a good sign, because it 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.520 feels like when these commissioners are talking, it feels like 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.600 they're putting things out for the media to disseminate, for 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.960 us to provide opinion on it, and then they go 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.320 back to the drawing board. Feels like the NBA is saying, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.120 let's emerge with a plan, stick to the plan, and 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.600 see if we can make this happen. It's a long process, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.119 but having buy ins from the governors or the three 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.440 biggest stage is an important step and a reason to 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.720 be cautiously optimistic that we're going to have a full 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.400 slate of sports returning. Here is the Governor of California, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:30.800 Gavin Newsom on returning in June sporting events pro sports 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.600 in that first week or so of June without spectators 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:41.040 and modifications and very prescriptive conditions, also can begin to 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.440 move forward and a number of other sectors of our 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.720 economy will open up again if we hold these trend 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.200 lines in the next number of weeks, and that includes, 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.520 for example, getting a haircut. Okay, now you realize how 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.720 quickly this has changed to last week where the governor said, hey, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.240 we're going to extend this for three more months. The 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.480 stay at home. Now here we are. That's why when 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.360 you make these arbitrary deadlines. This is when we're coming back. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.000 This is what we're going to do. It's fluid. Hopefully 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.960 we're able to You get one chance, it feels like, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.160 to do this right, and that's what the leagues have 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.160 to understand. You got one chance, do it right, so 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.320 you don't have a second wave or a backlash or 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.519 something goes wrong. You ensure that this is the best 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.959 we can do, and we're going to try it because 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.640 it feels like if it doesn't, that's when she seasons 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.760 gets shut down. Here is the Governor of New York, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.320 Andrew Cuomo, on opening for business. I also have been 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:51.280 encouraging major sports teams to plan reopenings without fans, but 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.920 the games could be televised. New York State will help 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:01.920 those major sports franchises to do just that. Hockeysketball, baseball, football, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.640 whoever can reopen. We're a ready, willing, enabled partner. And 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.560 he's a big Buffalo Bills fan, so he says he 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.520 wants to see the Buffalo Bills. It's going to happen. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.440 The question is what's it going to look like when 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.680 it happens. What's it going to feel like when it happens. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.720 I go back to nine weeks ago. That's when the 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.800 sports world change. That's really when the world changed. That's 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:29.880 when our country changed. March eleventh, Wednesday saw the sports 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.919 world response escalate dramatically. It ended the day with the 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.440 NBA suspending its season. We started out with the World 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.479 Health Organization declaring the virus a pandemic. Baseball then was 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.760 starting to look at alternative sites. They weren't sure what 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.080 they were going to be able to do contingency plans. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.320 Could they play baseball in an empty stadium? The NBA 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.960 considered the same initiatives. The Warriors announced they would play 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.880 home games without fans in the foreseeable future. Then the 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.960 IVY League cam sold all spring sports. They canceled their 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:08.040 basketball tournament. The IVY League canceled their basketball tournament for 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.080 the team to go to the NCAA. That caught our attention, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.039 But then people responded by saying, yeah, but it's not 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.880 a moneymaker for the IVY League, so this isn't a 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.360 big deal. Okay, this is all on the same day, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.720 So the Ivy League did that. NCAA announced it would 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.719 hold March Madness without fans after days of pressure to 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:31.359 do so. You also had Rudy Gobert test positive for 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:36.360 the virus. The NBA properly suspended its season indefinitely. That's all. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:42.280 On March eleventh, five NBA teams quarantined after potential exposure 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:47.040 to coronavirus from Rudy Gobert. The next day, March twelfth, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.640 Donovan Mitchell the Jazz tested positive. One day after his 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.640 teammate Rudy Gobert tested positive. MLS has spended its season 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.839 for thirty days. The ATP shut down for six weeks. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.000 US Soccer called off its men's national team and women's 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.239 national team friendlies. Every power conference in the NCAA canceled 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.400 their conference tournaments. Big Ten, PAC, twelve, Big East ACC, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.920 Big twelve SEC decided to end their seasons because of 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.440 the virus. Multiple NFL teams limited travel for coaches in 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.320 scouts they were getting ready for the NFL Draft. Baseball 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.440 announced that it would delay the beginning of the season 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.000 for a minimum of two weeks. This is all within 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.360 a span of forty eight hours. NBA announced that they 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.680 would suspend play for at least thirty days before reassessing. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.960 Basketball tournaments were canceled men's and women's. On March twelfth, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.880 Rudy Gobert came out and apologized for people that I endangered, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.520 and after Round one of the PGA Championship, the PGA 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.440 Tour on Thursday night, canceled the event until the Masters 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:59.880 all events. That's two days and it's been a long 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:05.680 nine weeks. We're hopeful. We wanted to come back. It 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.920 kind of signifies that the spirit we have we can 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.080 make it through this. This helps I understand all of 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.240 those things. Here's something that you should really keep an 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:22.120 eye on. And once again, you have a lot of leagues, commissioners, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.040 schools that are waiting for somebody to do something and 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.440 then they can follow. Notre Dame announced that they're coming 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.000 back in August and wrapping up this semester before Thanksgiving. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.560 I think this is going to be a trend setter, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.840 and this is for college football. The president, Reverend John 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.600 Jenkins reimagine fall semester on campus might mean to sports, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.480 particularly football starts predictably with a hypothetical what you're going 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.160 to see and what we could see? I should say 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.880 what we could see. You start school on August tenth, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:04.280 and then you go until October, you finish before Thanksgiving, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.800 and then you're done with that first semester. So Thanksgiving 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.920 you're done. Is that when we have football coming back? 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.520 So the students leave, they go on their break, and 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.640 then they don't come back until after Christmas. Can you 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:27.280 put a football season in that window? So this is 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.680 just a hypothetical to allow these football players to come 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.560 back and play. And how you can do this in 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.280 that timeframe while still allowing students on campus. It's just 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.480 a hypothetical, but that's what we're dealing with. We're dealing 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.440 with hypotheticals right now, and the question is can we 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.560 get other schools to look at that window there. I 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.680 still think the PAC twelves in a lot of trouble 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.040 here of trying to I told you that they were 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.720 only going to play conference games, and that came out 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.480 yesterday that that's what they're looking at. They're going to 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.000 try to play conference games. Now you have the California 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.240 governor saying we're sort of open for business. That helps them. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.120 The NFL teams in California are they looking at alternative 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.160 sites for the first month of the season. All hypotheticals, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 Plan B, plan C, whatever it is. These are all 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.200 things that they're thinking of. But the governor's coming out 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:24.080 in New York, Texas and California is really big. Now. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.400 The question is what's the next step. What's the next 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.840 league to come back? NASCAR came back, no fans, six 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.839 million fans watching, six million viewers, best ratings they've had 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.920 in three years. There a little bit of soccer coming back. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.800 Premier League is going to be coming back. So we're 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.880 inching back, but we should be taking baby steps because 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.480 it comes back to what I said before, we got 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.760 one shot, because if somebody tests positive when we come 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.640 back for the NBA season, we're done. What are you 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.760 going to do with baseball now? They're saying, hey, you 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:02.920 can't spit if you're on base how there's just things 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.160 that need to be worked out. Can you hold a 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.240 runner on? How close? I mean that's not six six feet? 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.400 Social distancing, There's a lot of things here still in play. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.000 But do I think that we're making progress making a 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.200 turn here? I hope. That's all I can do is hope. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.679 This program brought to you by legal Zoom. They make 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.560 it easier to set up the right estate plan without 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.959 leaving your home. Take care of your family today with 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.880 the right estate plan at legal zoom dot com. We'll 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.520 check in with the former baseball player, the mayor, Sean 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.480 Casey from MLB Network. He'll join us. Coming up, we'll 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.560 talk about can we play base what is baseball going 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.400 to look like, feel like, sound like when we come back. Also, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.199 Mike Florio we'll join us. We'll talk to him about 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.760 some teams are they getting an unfair advantage that they 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.600 can open up their facilities and other teams can't. So 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.040 we'll talk to Florio coming up a little bit later 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.000 on once again Lebron, James has some thoughts about the 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.520 last dance about Michael Jordan is a teammate and of 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.320 course the Lebron haters are going to jump all over this. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.640 But welcome to the program. You can watch on YouTube 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.400 dot com slash The Dan Patrick Show. You can also 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.520 dial us up each seven seven three d P show. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.160 We're part of the Fox Sports Radio lineup three hundred 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.520 and sixty two radio affiliates around the country, have a 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.280 play of the day, stat of the day, and a 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.040 poll question Nick Lovin, what do you have for me today? Okay, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.800 I think we might have asked this before, but which 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.080 I the pro sports needs fans of most baseball, college football, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:36.240 Pro football, NBA or NHL college football or yeah, yeah, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.360 college football? What about a baseball and all the gate 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.400 they get because they have so many fans that come in, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.480 I feel like they also kind of need it or no, well, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.720 wait a minute, I'm I'm confused though, because if you're 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:53.160 saying college football fans are part of the event, whereas 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:58.240 baseball fans aren't, NFL fans aren't necessarily NBA fans aren't 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.040 necessarily like college football is part of the college football 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.439 fan experience. As far as losing money, we're looking at 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.880 some of these raw numbers that baseball owners are saying 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.840 what they're going to lose per game without having fans there. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.320 So one is a business decision. The other one is 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.000 the aesthetics of watching a sporting event and what those 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.080 fans meet to that sporting event. What else aren't they 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.080 tied together? Though? You know it doesn't college football stand 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.800 to lose financially at the water down their product. Oh yeah, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.920 but baseball is only talking about the amount of money 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.400 college football. It's about us going to a game. You don't. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.000 There's not the same passion of going to a baseball 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.360 game as there is going to a college football game. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.680 But yeah, they're all intertwined because the bottom line is 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.319 the amount of money that's going to be lost here. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.000 That's the reason why you have these athletic directors, these presidents, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.800 these governors. They're trying to get sports back in some way, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.240 shape or form because the amount of money that's at 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:59.280 stake here. Yeah, mcclub. Yeah. I wonder though MLB. I 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.680 feel like the fans we always show those beer spilling 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.480 videos and the you know, I feel like the experience 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.320 is sitting in a baseball game. We're underrating a little 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.160 bit because that's how I grew up on the sport, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.200 and now it feels like, is that gonna be a 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.520 good TV sport? Yeah? But I don't The fans don't 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:17.160 matter a baseball game, Okay, I mean, okay, I see 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.200 a foul ball and a guy makes a catch or something, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.440 and other than that, somebody's doing the wave. But it 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.080 doesn't matter. College football does, the NFL does, because there's 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.720 a home crowd advantage there in certain stadiums. There's a 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.160 true home field advantage. Once last time somebody said, boy, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.560 they got a great home field advantage in baseball. Not 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.640 at a long time. No, But the truth is, am 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.120 I gonna have to sit and watch nine innings of 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.640 a baseball game? Now? You would probably do that right now, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.960 you'd watch an entire baseball game. I watch a NASCAR race, Yeah, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.200 I have another an NBA pole with Woach coming up. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.520 If you were the NBA, would you consider jumping straight 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.280 to the playoffs. I don't think you can do it 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.079 right away because I think you have to have a 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.920 little bit of a grace period there. There has to 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.960 be a transitional period for these players. They have to 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.920 get ready and I'm thinking five games. So I'm gonna 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.840 give you two weeks to get ready and then there's 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.600 gonna be five games. And then that allows these teams, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.280 and I think there's a couple of teams that might 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:18.880 be able to still make it into the playoffs. You 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.000 got the standings palling. Yeah, the East is pretty set. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.720 The Orlando Magic are thirty and thirty five and they 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.280 have the A seed. The Washington Wizards are five games 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.720 behind them, so that would be really tough. The East 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.120 as just about set. The Memphis Grizzlies are thirty two 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.840 and thirty three. They have the eighth seed. In the West, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.440 the Trailblazers and the Pelicans and the Kings and the 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.600 Spurs are all within three games of the A spot. Okay, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.560 four games of the spot. Yeah, if you have three 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.040 games five games there and then you go into the postseason. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.560 But I would do an abbreviated postseason. As far as 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.400 the number of games in each series, I would I 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.240 would try to get as quickly to the conference finals 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.080 in the NBA Finals as I can. What else do 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.240 you have in the club? Okay, I have a m J. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.240 Lebron question, but I don't know if I want to 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.360 do this as early because you're in a good mood 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.160 now and it might get you fired up. Why don't 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.760 you save it? Okay, we'll save it there. We'll talk 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.560 to WOJ about what are the plans for the NBA 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:20.760 season to resume? Frank and Ohio joins us. Hey Frank, Hey, Frank, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:30.240 Hey Frank. See if Frank try again? Age seven seven three? 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.520 Starting not strong? Help the team a little age seven 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.040 seven three d P show. Yeah, we gotta start off, Marvin. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.760 We gotta start off with a great phone call. We 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.640 can't just start and all of a sudden, you go, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.800 where is Frank? Well, Frankie, you're better than that. Yeah, Paul, 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.160 you call on a sports radio show, you'd be ready 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.520 to talk unless he thought, look, Dan doesn't normally take 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.840 phone calls in the first segment, but I don't know. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.440 You gotta be ready there, Come on, Frank, You're better 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.480 than that. 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Adrian Wojnarowski ESPN senior NBA insider 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.920 joining us on the program. Wog Good morning, How are you, Dan? 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.800 Good morning? I'm great? All right, Where do we stand here? 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.480 The NBA has been pretty quiet. Is that a good 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.159 sign or a bad sign? I think it's been a 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.200 good sign. I mean, if if you're if you want 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.520 the league back, and that's the goal here, I think 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.200 they're moving toward that. Dan, and you know, they've been 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.200 putting all the contingencies in place, and really what they're 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.959 waiting for is Adam Silver to just kind of hit 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:49.480 the green light here probably sometime in June. But they've 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.440 been moving toward it and they've got you know, Silver's 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.040 done a pretty remarkable job of keeping a lot of 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:02.359 the details very tight away from his owners, front office, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.080 the union. In terms of exactly how many teams would 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.240 come back, I think the site is starting to narrow 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:14.359 down to a one or two site scenario. But there's 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.560 certainly momentum towards the league coming back. Now, when you're 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.600 talking about site or sites, are we talking about Vegas Orlando? 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.720 Are those are the two sites that are in conversations? 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.040 That's right, Dan, and Orlando has had a lot of 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.399 traction and I think the question is going to be, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.080 you know, are they going to put all the teams 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.200 in one place? Are they going to perhaps have teams 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:47.159 moving among two sites based on an Eastern Western Conference scenario. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.440 But the one thing Adam Silver has told the players 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.240 and told the owners what he doesn't want or teams 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.720 flying around. You're not going to see what Baseball's proposing, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.960 which is teams moving around, playing in home stadiums. The 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.960 NBA's focused on a one site, no fans, and then 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.520 they're going to deal with trying to get back into 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.280 arenas again, buildings again for the start of next season. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.879 So just to recap, you're looking at at least maybe 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.920 one permanent site here for the postseason, or possibly two 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.800 permanent sites with Vegas and Orlando where you have East 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.760 Coast and West Coast teams. And that's possible that that's 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.680 one way they could do it. Dan, they may put 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.320 everybody in one site. The thing that we don't know 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.680 yet and I think they're still working through, is are 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.160 they bringing back off thirty teams, are they bringing back 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.719 just a playoff teams or something maybe in between it 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.359 where you would have let's say the seven. There was 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:52.000 a talk last there was a vote that was actually 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.879 coming to do for next year, which was the playing 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.040 tournament at the end of the season. I mean, like 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:58.760 a year ago. That's all we are talking about. That 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.919 was the big issue in the league. Play tournament, mid 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.320 season tournament. But they could they could and bring these 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.080 teams back, do a play in tournament that might that 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.440 might take you through the ten seed or maybe even 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.280 the twelve seed. And you know, then it's how many 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.200 teams are you bringing back? Do you leave out maybe 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.400 the bottom few teams in each conference? But I don't 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.199 have I think they've discussed all of that Dan, but 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.560 they still may very well bring back all thirty. There 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.080 maybe teams who don't want to be left out in 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.560 that way. And this is where it gets tough for 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.800 Adam Silver, when you have to start making decisions. I 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.080 think it's handling of the matter has been very popular 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.720 within the league and probably even outside of the league, 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.200 but it gets more difficult when you start to have 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.200 decisions made that have consequences impact people, and then people 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.480 are less happy with you. Has everybody been paid all 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:56.119 of the players their entire salaries well starting on May fifteenth, 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.920 so I don't even know what the data is anymore. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.520 I think I think it's starting out May fifteenth, they 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:08.320 started to withhold twenty five percent of the players remaining salaries, 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.040 so that if games are canceled, then I think we 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.159 can assume there'll at least be some regular season games canceled. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.800 They're not going to come back and be able to 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.159 play them all. Then the owners take back a percentage 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.440 of that money. It's basically one percent of the players 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.960 salaries based on how many games they miss, and so 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.720 now they've had withholding taking taken from their salaries so 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:30.439 they don't have to take it all out at once 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.199 at the end of the season. It's the nineteenth wo 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.840 I was wrong. I'm right there with you, like I 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:38.840 at least know the month. I don't know the day. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:43.680 We're talking to. Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN Senior NBA Insider. Are 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:48.040 the powerbrokers in involved in this, Chris Paul, Lebron James, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.120 some of the other notable players with the commissioner. Yeah, 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.080 Chris Paul is the president of the Players Association, so 0:21:55.480 --> 0:22:00.280 you know he's very much in that conversation. Dan Him, 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:05.320 Michelle Roberts, Adam Silver. They talk frequently the one advantage 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:10.760 that Silver has in this scenario, maybe even over baseball 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.240 right now, I think there's a stronger relationship between the 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:18.320 star players and the commissioner, maybe not necessarily owners, but 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:22.040 the commissioner, and that helps in selling what has to 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.000 be sold here, which is the one site concept. And 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.080 he's gotten feedback from the players about how they feel 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:32.159 about that bubble idea, what they might like and not 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.560 like about it, because he really needs the cooperation of 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:39.160 the Players Association, and by extension, really the star players 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.639 because they do drive maybe more than any other sport. 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.600 I think they drive the conversation among the four hundred 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:48.920 and fifty players in the league. And if you can 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.280 sell your star players and what it is that you 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:54.640 want to accomplish, how you need to do it, they 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.160 can go out and start selling it with their peers too. 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.600 And Adam Silver's understood that and he has made his 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.680 star players a big part of the conversation because there's 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:08.080 a lot of real difficult economic conversations coming between the 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.879 union and the players. Are the union in the league 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.120