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Speaker 2: to seven three d P. Show spent a lot of
Speaker 2: time talking about the lottery victor Ie by Yama, who
Speaker 2: is expected to be a generational talent. You got Lakers
Speaker 2: and the Nuggets. That's game one coming up tonight. Started
Speaker 2: out as Lakers getting five and a half. It's now
Speaker 2: up to six according to Draft Kings Pole question for
Speaker 2: hour two is going to be what seat no Connor? Well?
Speaker 3: Dan the Joker ran away with the poll question from
Speaker 3: our one who will be him in Nuggets Lakers? Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis only had nine percent of the vote, and then other,
Speaker 3: which was the Jamal Murray Yeah six point seven, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's it. Other okay, Uh, Joker had sixty five percent
Speaker 3: of the vote.
Speaker 2: Though danger pretty good.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do one off the Aaron Judge
Speaker 3: thing we've been talking about?
Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of specific, and I want to be
Speaker 2: fair to the situation because I may have misspoke last
Speaker 2: hour where I said, did did the announcer say Aaron
Speaker 2: Judge looked over to the dugout in a previous at
Speaker 2: bat or earlier in that at bat, and Aaron Judge
Speaker 2: hit a monstrous home run and it sounded do we
Speaker 2: have the home run? Marvin?
Speaker 4: What just a part of play the day?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, do you want the Blue Jays call of it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: He can do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Buck.
Speaker 5: So you and I looked at each other at the
Speaker 5: same moment, right when we saw this three pitches ago at.
Speaker 4: What is that? Where's he looking?
Speaker 5: Where's he looking?
Speaker 2: And he did it more than once.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really really unusual. Then you and I both
Speaker 4: looked at each other way saw that.
Speaker 5: Like did you see what I saw? And you don't
Speaker 5: want to go, you know, throwing allegations around without knowing,
Speaker 5: but no.
Speaker 4: And he pumbled it.
Speaker 5: He hit it a country mile for his second home
Speaker 5: run of the night.
Speaker 2: The timing of it, so they're speculating, don't want to
Speaker 2: throw out any accusations saying anything, yes, and then all
Speaker 2: this sudden and he pummeled it. Annie pumbled it. But
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge afterwards said that the bench was chirping and
Speaker 2: it was bothering his concentration, and Aaron Boone had just
Speaker 2: been tossed out and he looked over almost I guess,
Speaker 2: with disgust at his teammates, like, guys, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: concentrate here. I don't know if he did it in
Speaker 2: previous advance, if he only did it at that at bat,
Speaker 2: you're aaron judge. If it's bothering you and you've looked
Speaker 2: over a couple of times, at what point does somebody
Speaker 2: in the dugout and go, hey, guys, let's stop. Stop.
Speaker 2: But he said he had a talk with his teammates
Speaker 2: after the game, so it wouldn't happen again. Just the
Speaker 2: coincidence of he's looking over looking what's and it's a
Speaker 2: side eye? Oh yeah, I would think if now you
Speaker 2: can't step out of the box now and you got
Speaker 2: you know, the pitch clock. But I mean, can you
Speaker 2: just go guy like guys or quiet or stop something?
Speaker 2: But it just is it just a coincidence that he's
Speaker 2: looking over side eye. It's not like he's even looking over.
Speaker 2: It's side eye. I would think if you look over,
Speaker 2: you're going like, guys, stop, side eye looks like you're
Speaker 2: trying to sneak something like what message are you sending? Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm giving you a side eye? What's that? Mean, and
Speaker 2: you're chirping and then all of a sudden, a couple
Speaker 2: of pitches later, you hit an absolute bomb. Yes, Mark,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 6: Don't think he had time to do the you know,
Speaker 6: full head tilt, just a side eye, like what are
Speaker 6: they doing? He hits the home run like two seconds
Speaker 6: after he side eyes him. That's impressive to me, the
Speaker 6: fact that I can side eye and look right at
Speaker 6: the picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 7: The great thing is that they play again tonight, so
Speaker 7: it's not the last game of the series. You gotta
Speaker 7: have a storyline that goes to tonight as well. So
Speaker 7: all the press in the press box got winded this.
Speaker 7: So when they went down after the game and they
Speaker 7: asked both managers about it, the Blue Jays manager discussed
Speaker 7: He said, yeah, I saw it. It was kind of odd
Speaker 7: that the hitter would be looking in that direction. He's
Speaker 7: obviously looking in that direction for a reason, and we'll
Speaker 7: dive into that a little bit more tonight tomorrow to
Speaker 7: make sure we're not susceptible to anything. So he addressed it.
Speaker 7: He did not accuse him, but he said, hey, we're
Speaker 7: gonna we're gonna take a peek at this. They're probably
Speaker 7: gonna go back and watch film and see if it happened.
Speaker 2: Well, did anybody else do it? Did he do it
Speaker 2: in any other advent?
Speaker 7: I'm reading the stories in the Toronto newspaper and there's
Speaker 7: nothing about other players doing it.
Speaker 8: But they got this late.
Speaker 2: Well, if the picture's tipping his pitches, then, but it
Speaker 2: was a blowout. It was like six to nothing at
Speaker 2: the time. Of course it was yeah, when you tip
Speaker 2: your pitch in your set, Yeah, but did anybody else
Speaker 2: look over to the dugout?
Speaker 3: I mean, that to me is the most obvious thing
Speaker 3: in the world. If nobody else on the team was
Speaker 3: doing it, then there's nothing to I mean, I think
Speaker 3: it's funny that the manager sitting in the dugout noticed
Speaker 3: him looking over the opposite direction. How in the world
Speaker 3: could he have possibly noticed that from.
Speaker 4: Where they are.
Speaker 3: It's impossible for the Toronto manager to be sitting in
Speaker 3: the dugout and be like, hey, did he just look
Speaker 3: over at the Yankee dugout. That's a little weird. You
Speaker 3: could never see that from their vantage point.
Speaker 2: Don't you have monitors in the dugout?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, how much are you allowed to be watching TV?
Speaker 3: Screens while you're in the dugout.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know the setup that.
Speaker 3: I would guess that isn't that Part of what the
Speaker 3: estros got in trouble for was having screens of the
Speaker 3: broadcast set up.
Speaker 2: Now they had garbage cans, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They had that, But remember they had the video of
Speaker 3: them running into the and looking at the TV screen
Speaker 3: to I mean, I don't know, I don't know that
Speaker 3: you're allowed to watch the broadcast?
Speaker 8: Yes, is stealing signs even possible?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 7: Does every pitcher and ketcher use the PitchCom system where
Speaker 7: it's on their body and it's signaled or is that
Speaker 7: a choice?
Speaker 2: But that doesn't matter. You can tip your pitches, tip.
Speaker 8: Your pitches from like your location and your arm and
Speaker 8: things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with.
Speaker 8: Oh I thought it was about tipping. I thought this
Speaker 8: was about a sign stealing.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know how you could do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's about the game.
Speaker 2: Tipping your pitches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like how you hold the ball, Like every
Speaker 3: time you throw a curveball when the glove is in
Speaker 3: your when the ball is in the glove in your hand,
Speaker 3: you turn it a certain way. And that means that
Speaker 3: you know, Okay, now we know a curveball's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This, this to me wasn't stealing a sign as
Speaker 2: much as it was. We're picking up on tendencies and
Speaker 2: you're saying something to Aaron Judge if that was the case.
Speaker 2: But if nobody else was doing it, then there's nothing here.
Speaker 2: If he did it in a previous hit bat, why
Speaker 2: would you just give Aaron Judge this information? Questions answers,
Speaker 2: we don't have them. Uh, let's see, so we got
Speaker 2: new pole question we're gonna go with. Do you want
Speaker 2: to do Aaron Judge?
Speaker 3: But I don't know, probably not. Maybe you want to
Speaker 3: just dive into the draft lottery? Sure, landing spots for
Speaker 3: for Victor?
Speaker 2: Are we doing what's best for the league for Victor
Speaker 2: wm Bayama with the have lottery coming up tonight.
Speaker 3: And do what's best for his development as a player.
Speaker 2: Of course, his marketing, his brand. Okay, if you said,
Speaker 2: where's the best are you going to have? How many
Speaker 2: can you put there? How many cities can you have? Five?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think if we do it on Dan Patrick dot
Speaker 3: com there's more options available.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we could blow it out, all right, Pistons, Rockets, Spurs.
Speaker 2: They have the best odds at fourteen percent, Hornets, Blazers,
Speaker 2: Magic Pacers, Wizards, Jazz, and I think the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 2: are after that three percent. So what do you do?
Speaker 2: Which cities do we want to put in there? Do
Speaker 2: we put in? You know, the top three you have
Speaker 2: the best odds? I think Dallas would be the best
Speaker 2: place because I get him, I get him there with Luca,
Speaker 2: that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: Yeah, as long as he doesn't want to ever shoot
Speaker 7: the ball.
Speaker 2: Well he could, he could, He can learn how to
Speaker 2: do other things while Lucas shot the ball. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the take of victory. He needs the ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, do you put Portland in there? Man? I love
Speaker 2: Portland with dang.
Speaker 3: Although a lot of people are talking about how you know,
Speaker 3: big men are sort of cursed there, that's true, Yeah,
Speaker 3: something worth thinking about. But Dang, I just feel like
Speaker 3: Dean deserves that.
Speaker 7: Oh so you're saying is if Portland got the pick tonight,
Speaker 7: Victory would get a bone spur immediately, like just immediately after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, what about the thunder?
Speaker 10: It further discourages tanking because they have a one point
Speaker 10: seven percent chance, and not too long ago they had
Speaker 10: some of the greatest players in their team and it
Speaker 10: didn't work out, and they all went in their separate ways,
Speaker 10: and now all of a sudden they get a new
Speaker 10: stud to try to bring the thunder back to some
Speaker 10: type of prominence or interest.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tod. What about the Chicago Bulls? Did they
Speaker 2: have similar odds when they got Derreck Rose. They're at
Speaker 2: one point eight percent, Oklahoma City at one point seven percent.
Speaker 3: How about we'll throw it up there, the most fun
Speaker 3: place for him to fun? You're you're kind of naming
Speaker 3: fun place places that you find fun fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that'll be fun fun. Yeah, let's have some fun.
Speaker 2: Was that applause there, Marvin?
Speaker 4: I was clapping for fun?
Speaker 2: Huh okay uh so eight seven to seven three DP
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Speaker 2: advanced to Thank you Marvin face Vegas there. I watched
Speaker 2: a lot of that game last night. And by the way,
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Speaker 8: This is pretty radical.
Speaker 2: I think I need to renegotiate with Peacock here. So
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Speaker 7: Yes, Paul, Yeah, this is the first ever exclusive live
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Speaker 2: I guess NBC Sports Championship season. It's the Preakness Stakes
Speaker 2: that'll be coming up at four point thirty Eastern on
Speaker 2: NBC and Peacock Andrew and Washington leads us off this hour.
Speaker 2: We'll check in on the Lakers as they get ready
Speaker 2: to take on the Nuggets coming up tonight.
Speaker 11: Hey, Andrew, stay, Good morning, Dan and Dan. Thanks for
Speaker 11: all the Pacific Northwest love, which your Seattle Cracken sweatshirt
Speaker 11: and seatons. Plea for Portland to get Yama, that would
Speaker 11: be great. I do think that if when Byama comes
Speaker 11: to Portland, Dame will stay. But if they don't get
Speaker 11: a good draft pick, I think they'll be a push
Speaker 11: for him to go to a more suitor, like a
Speaker 11: winning franchise. So I thought yesterday, also, I was listening
Speaker 11: to the podcast. The title of the third hour podcast,
Speaker 11: did Nick Wrong? Dirty is that Losers legacies Nick Wright.
Speaker 11: So I don't know who's in charge of that one,
Speaker 11: but anyways, I did have a little thing. I'm going
Speaker 11: to stick with the trend the Lakers in six they
Speaker 11: split the regular season series between them and the Nuggets.
Speaker 11: They each won their home games, but no games after
Speaker 11: the trade deadline, when the Lakers really became the Lakers.
Speaker 11: So I do have a trivia.
Speaker 9: Question for the room.
Speaker 2: If you don't if you can, all right.
Speaker 11: All right, Lebron James now has won forty one playoff series,
Speaker 11: which is an NBA record. Which player did he pass
Speaker 11: for that record?
Speaker 2: Okay, so forty one playoff series?
Speaker 11: Yes, the Lebron James now owns that record. Which player
Speaker 11: did he pass to get the record?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, it wouldn't be somebody who played in
Speaker 2: the sixties or seventies because they wouldn't have played his
Speaker 2: many playoff seriess Lebron.
Speaker 8: Yes, manage nobly.
Speaker 11: No right era?
Speaker 2: All right? Marvin Derek Fisher bo, Yeah, thank you, thank you, Andrew,
Speaker 2: thank you, good job there.
Speaker 1: Mark.
Speaker 4: I don't have a life back to you.
Speaker 2: You do know your NBA and you know the history.
Speaker 2: You know you know some of the older players I
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: I like that Andrew gave him the blue.
Speaker 2: Uh Alex in Salt Lake City, Alex Hi Hi Hi.
Speaker 12: Five eight one six, longtime listener. I just wanted to
Speaker 12: call in and wish you, my boyfriend Carlton, and my
Speaker 12: dead dad a happy birthday, love the T shirts, and
Speaker 12: just thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you. It's very sweet of you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we all share a birthday, but
Speaker 2: that's nice that she reached out to give me. And
Speaker 2: it's not going to be a week long birthday celebration.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no, no tour season. Although I
Speaker 2: walked in and seatings eating carrot cake, my birthday carrot
Speaker 2: cake from yesterday, and I go, all right, I like that.
Speaker 2: I respect that starting the day right away with your veggies.
Speaker 8: For as eyesight, beta karting, you're fine.
Speaker 3: Thank you to had a bunch of my normal breakfast
Speaker 3: options fell through unfortunately, and I was like, hey, you
Speaker 3: know what, I went for a run this morning.
Speaker 8: Austome carrot cake.
Speaker 2: There's some times when you go to the refrigerator and
Speaker 2: certain foods look really good, and then certain times they
Speaker 2: don't look good, and you're going like, all right, I
Speaker 2: can have that, you know, one in the morning, I
Speaker 2: could have the chrerizo burrito from earlier today.
Speaker 3: And you know, if truth be told, if that chocolate
Speaker 3: cake that's really what I wanted, but the one that
Speaker 3: was on top of the carrot cake, and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: that feels a little bit more respectful, healthy, play, a
Speaker 3: little more selfish.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have the chocolate cake for lunch. You're having
Speaker 2: definitely you're having the carrot cake for breaf. Yes, thank you, Todd.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll check in with the Lakers. Coming up next.
Speaker 2: More phone calls as well. We're back after this Dan
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Speaker 2: on the Peacock app. Lakers in Denver tonight over under
Speaker 2: for Lebron is twenty five and a half according to DraftKings,
Speaker 2: twenty seven and a half for the Joker, and twenty
Speaker 2: four and a half for Jamal Murray, which we tend
Speaker 2: to look at Lebron and Joker when you need to
Speaker 2: obviously look at Ad but also Jamal Murray. As far
Speaker 2: as team's success in this series. Dan wiki good to
Speaker 2: have him back on Lakers beat reporter for the La
Speaker 2: Times covers the NBA. If I told you three months ago, Dan,
Speaker 2: this is what we would be talking about, you would
Speaker 2: have said what.
Speaker 1: I would have said, Daniel, A crazy person, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: this is you have maybe had some sort of head
Speaker 1: injury or something like that, that this would not have been.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I ran into Thomas Bryant yesterday Denver practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, he requested a trade from the Lakers
Speaker 1: around the trade deadline. Ended up in Denver, and you know,
Speaker 1: he asked me how I was doing, and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm still surprised that I'm here, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: the two of us kind of had a big laugh
Speaker 1: about that, because, you know, the storyline for the Lakers
Speaker 1: from most of the season wasn't like can this team
Speaker 1: become a contender? It was like can this team get
Speaker 1: into the Plane Tournament?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like I spent a lot of time this year running
Speaker 1: sort of tiebreakers for twelfth place at most of the plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, it happened pretty quickly where you know,
Speaker 1: the team just started winning three or four games all
Speaker 1: the time, you know, and just kind of all right,
Speaker 1: they're not twelfth anymore. Now they're tenth, And now they're
Speaker 1: not tenth anymore, and now they're they could maybe be fifth,
Speaker 1: and you know, they ended up in seventh place, but
Speaker 1: they were playing really good basketball, and they've been healthy,
Speaker 1: and they you know, they've been the best defense in
Speaker 1: the NBA since the trade deadline. They've been the best defense,
Speaker 1: you know, in the league in the playoffs. At this point,
Speaker 1: I probably should stop being surprised. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I fully have embraced that part of it. Yet I
Speaker 1: still think that, you know, it's kind of wild that
Speaker 1: my season professionally is still going. I wasn't. I thought
Speaker 1: i'd be in Chicago for the draft combined to see
Speaker 1: where Lee Minyam ended up. I didn't think i'd be
Speaker 1: in Denver, But I'm in Denver.
Speaker 2: Why is it Lebron the GM failed, but then Rob Polenka,
Speaker 2: the GM saved the season. So Lebron doesn't get any credit.
Speaker 2: He gets blamed, but he didn't get any credit for
Speaker 2: what happened at the trade deadline. Is is that a
Speaker 2: fair fair approach to this story?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so. I mean, I think there was
Speaker 1: a fair amount of sort of hand washing of the
Speaker 1: GM duties post Westbrook that like, that was a trade
Speaker 1: that nobody really wanted credit for pretty quickly, and so
Speaker 1: a lot of people kind of step back from the table,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, Lebron's role as a decision maker,
Speaker 1: and this wasn't you know, go get me D'Angel Russell.
Speaker 1: It was more like, let's fix this. I want to
Speaker 1: fix this. And you know, it wasn't totally clear what
Speaker 1: the Lakers were going to do. They ended up, you know,
Speaker 1: the first shot was kind of trading for Ruy Hashimura
Speaker 1: and it was like, okay, well, maybe they're going to
Speaker 1: be aggressive, and you know, we got down to it
Speaker 1: and then they got they take part in this big,
Speaker 1: massive trade with Russell Westbrook where they bring in what
Speaker 1: at the time was three starters for them, Luke Beasley
Speaker 1: since moved to the bench, and they completely revamped their
Speaker 1: roster and you know, they totally changed their season. I
Speaker 1: think Dan, I think they were six games under five
Speaker 1: hundred on the day of the trade deadline, and you know,
Speaker 1: they lost that Milwaukee they only had like seven players,
Speaker 1: and then they beat the Warriors in Golden State the
Speaker 1: following day. And it has been kind of off of
Speaker 1: the races since then.
Speaker 2: Mike Brown did a wonderful job in Sacramento. But I thought, Yep,
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham quietly did a spectacular job with this roster.
Speaker 2: And he's always struck me as a guy who's not
Speaker 2: asking for credit. He's not a notice me guy, flamboyant
Speaker 2: in any way. He's just you're gonna come in. You're
Speaker 2: gonna play the way I want you to play, and
Speaker 2: that means you play defense and you play tough. Why
Speaker 2: hasn't Darvin Ham maybe gotten his flowers? As the kids
Speaker 2: like to say, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The kids do like to say that. Dan, I can
Speaker 1: tell you I'm very much in touch with the with
Speaker 1: the lingo out there. I think a couple things I think,
Speaker 1: you know. He was actually pretty routinely criticized at times
Speaker 1: throughout the season among Laker fans for things like lack
Speaker 1: of adjustments and games. I think John Moran had a
Speaker 1: twenty six point quarter or something like that against the
Speaker 1: Lake and they could never really turn the faucet off.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of what Darvin's done incredibly
Speaker 1: well has been more spiritual. It's been more He's a consistent,
Speaker 1: positive person. Consistency is the thing I remember when I
Speaker 1: spoke to Mike Budenholzer when he got hired. That was
Speaker 1: the thing that that he stressed to me most was that,
Speaker 1: pardon me, when Darwinham got hired with the Lakers, well,
Speaker 1: as Bud said, like, you see this guy and you're like,
Speaker 1: there's no way he can be this way every day,
Speaker 1: and then you're with him for six years and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's this way every day. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's tough, but he's caring. He's someone you like, wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to challenge, but at the same time, he's someone
Speaker 1: who will you know, will give you a big hug
Speaker 1: and embrace you when you need to be embraced. And
Speaker 1: he kind of walks that line. And it's funny.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: There was a running joke early in the season because
Speaker 1: Darbin ha said something like, you know, this isn't about
Speaker 1: w's and els, it's about wisdoms and lessons, And the
Speaker 1: joke among Laker fans and some of the writers was like,
Speaker 1: it looks like we're headed to like a fifty lesson season,
Speaker 1: maybe thirty two wisdoms and and you know, but it's funny.
Speaker 1: As he said it the other day, and it didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't hit the same way. It was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like this is a team that's been through
Speaker 1: a ton, and they play like a team that has
Speaker 1: been through a ton.
Speaker 2: Well, he's leading the league in wisdom.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, they've worked their way into more wisdom than
Speaker 1: less It looked like for sure it was gonna be
Speaker 1: way more lessons and no, and they've they've built i think,
Speaker 1: a really strong identity and they've taken on toughest in defense,
Speaker 1: which are certainly the traits that he used to become
Speaker 1: a success in the NBA. In a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest mark of a successful coaches, like does
Speaker 1: your team look like you?
Speaker 2: Dan Wiki is covering the Lakers in Denver for the
Speaker 2: LA Times, also covers the NBA. How good is Denver?
Speaker 1: They've been the best team in the West since early December.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think a lot of us in
Speaker 1: the media, and I was probably guilty of this at times,
Speaker 1: to have been kind of trying to invent ways for
Speaker 1: them to not be the best team in the West,
Speaker 1: where it seemed like, oh, who's gonna knock them off?
Speaker 1: Is Memphis more dangerous? Is it going to be Phoenix, Like,
Speaker 1: certainly it's going to be Phoenix. After the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: it always seemed like there was sort of an invention
Speaker 1: of a team that like that. There wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of faith in Denver quite frankly, because they've they've been
Speaker 1: this kind of team before. They've been this kind of
Speaker 1: team before, by the way, even in previous iterations. You
Speaker 1: know where they're just like they win at altitude in
Speaker 1: the regular season, it's a horrible place to play, and
Speaker 1: you know they're that's probably good for five or six wins,
Speaker 1: and then come playoff time that that tends to level up.
Speaker 1: They've been the most consistent team in this league since December,
Speaker 1: minus a late season low. They've got a star, like
Speaker 1: a star star Capitol letters in Nicola Jokic, Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: has worked his way back into pre acl form, and
Speaker 1: they have size on the wings, and they have an
Speaker 1: incredible offense in day but pretty good defense. Like it
Speaker 1: makes really good sense Dan that they are in this position.
Speaker 1: That being said, like I still think there are people
Speaker 1: out there that are like kind of like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: like now let's see, let's test them now, Like beating
Speaker 1: Phoenix wasn't enough of a mark on their season wasn't
Speaker 1: enough to kind of validate this group. But to me,
Speaker 1: I look at Denver and I see it. I see
Speaker 1: a team certainly capable of winning the championship.
Speaker 2: Lakers will win. If I think.
Speaker 1: If Anthony Davis is better than Nicola Jokic on both
Speaker 1: ends of the floor, I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: Is Like, obviously we know how Nicola can impact the
Speaker 1: him offensively, Canady have sort of jokic ish games defensively
Speaker 1: where you just kind of watch it. And I what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is there was a game early
Speaker 1: this year, Dan where Nicolio could shot five times against
Speaker 1: the Lakers and he was by far the best player
Speaker 1: on the court, and you just felt it watching it.
Speaker 1: It was crazy to see him sort of marrying at
Speaker 1: his way through a basketball game eighties, done that on
Speaker 1: defense at in this series. Yet I really did it
Speaker 1: in the first round, got stretched a little bit more
Speaker 1: against the Warriors, but I think kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: when it came time to close him out, was you know,
Speaker 1: just to get a master on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: If he can do that against the Denver team that
Speaker 1: that quite frankly doesn't shoot a ton of threes that
Speaker 1: wants to kind of challenge inside. If he can be
Speaker 1: that kind of an impact player, I think the Lakers
Speaker 1: can win the series.
Speaker 2: What should we know about Victor Wanbayama? Is he a
Speaker 2: generational talent?
Speaker 1: You should know that when you sit down to watch him,
Speaker 1: you will wonder how this is all possible. I saw
Speaker 1: him in Las Vegas this preseason when when he kind
Speaker 1: of came over with his French team to play the
Speaker 1: G League. I Knight and I remember watching him just
Speaker 1: kind of moving warm ups and you're just like you
Speaker 1: want to like almost adjust that your eyes, like the
Speaker 1: TV screen to be like the no, the ratios are
Speaker 1: off here, like this is not normal to see somebody
Speaker 1: who is this big, Like when I saw him stand
Speaker 1: next to Rudy Gobert, and I mean, he is bigger
Speaker 1: than Rudy go Bear. But then you watch him dribble
Speaker 1: and shoot and it's like like he looks like Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant and you wonder how anybody is ever going to
Speaker 1: stop him. He is skinny. He is very skinny, but
Speaker 1: you you know, and uh, the track record of players
Speaker 1: with that body type in the NBA as has generally
Speaker 1: come with injuries but talent wise, size wise, whoever wins
Speaker 1: that lottery tonight is going to have the next ten
Speaker 1: years of their franchise and maybe even more changed if
Speaker 1: he can stay healthy like he it's conceivable he is
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league very fast.
Speaker 2: Where's the best place for him? If you're if you're
Speaker 2: Adam Silver, where's the commissioner want Victor won bay Yama
Speaker 2: to go?
Speaker 1: I mean, not bias stand I'm from Chicago. I think
Speaker 1: it's always great if there are great players in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and that would be fun.
Speaker 2: Certainly they got you know, they have that chance.
Speaker 1: They won the Derrick Rose Draft. Yeah, with that chance,
Speaker 1: I think Portland is a really interesting one, and I
Speaker 1: think Toronto is a really interesting one. But oh and Charlotte,
Speaker 1: by the way, it would be fun to watch him
Speaker 1: in the metal ball play as well. But but you know, Portland,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you add him like they
Speaker 1: that could give that sort of late kind of chapter
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard push that he hasn't really had, and it
Speaker 1: would provide a bridge for them as they moved. It's
Speaker 1: a great basketball city ideally, Look, Adam Silver would say,
Speaker 1: like they'd probably start all their home games at four thirty,
Speaker 1: so people in New York could watch them, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, there would be maybe some element of that,
Speaker 1: But but I think like that that's a place certainly.
Speaker 2: I think I think Portland would take that that They'll
Speaker 2: start the games at four thirty, and yeah.
Speaker 1: They would make that great. They would make they would
Speaker 1: make that. Yeah, and luckily Portland has never had any bad.
Speaker 2: Lub's never happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah now, but yeah, I mean and look, and I'd
Speaker 1: also love to watch Greg Popovich Cochian too. I think
Speaker 1: that would also be fast.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you again, Dan.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dan a Christian, Happy belated birthday.
Speaker 2: Thank you bu enjoy that carecake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a vegetable, so it does.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, it is a vegetable plain ice tonight.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: That's Dan Wiki. It covers the LA Time for the Lakers,
Speaker 2: for the LA Times, very fun, had a good sense humor.
Speaker 2: There a couple of phone calls in here, Matthew and
Speaker 2: San Antonio. Him Matthew, Hi.
Speaker 13: Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 13: So, I've been in San Antonio about eighteen years and
Speaker 13: last year I've never seen the town say apathetic. And
Speaker 13: it was a fiftieth the year in San Antonio for
Speaker 13: this team they've had to ye, they've won it twice
Speaker 13: with David Robinson and Tim Duncan. He would change the format.
Speaker 13: You know, the town really wants to get around this player.
Speaker 13: And when they've already panted Mr Ols of Wimby here
Speaker 13: in San Antonio, so hopefully to get him, so I
Speaker 13: you know, putting it out there, you know, to get
Speaker 13: good karma for San Antonio to get another generational player.
Speaker 13: I think it would be great.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think people would be happy if San
Speaker 2: Antonio got another great big man. You know, they got
Speaker 2: David Robinson then lucked into Tim Duncan, and then if
Speaker 2: you would get Wim Bayama. And you know I've said
Speaker 2: this before, Greg Popovich first Battle Hall of Fame coach,
Speaker 2: great coach, but he doesn't get anywhere near the criticism
Speaker 2: that Bill Belichick gets. And when Belichick has an average year,
Speaker 2: a losing season, people are quick to criticize pop hasn't
Speaker 2: had a good season in a while.
Speaker 7: There, Yeah, PAULI, careful, now we're not going to get
Speaker 7: Popovich to call into the show.
Speaker 2: Pauli goes, Hey, Todd, why don't you reach out to
Speaker 2: the Spurs s if we can get Greg Popovich, and
Speaker 2: Fritzy's response was.
Speaker 10: If we get him, we'll be one for eighty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I said, all right, well, you know, take a shot.
Speaker 8: Are we all for a Papa? I think we're going
Speaker 8: back to the last place I think we had him on.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we did. I all I know
Speaker 2: is when I the Spurs won the Western Conference Finals
Speaker 2: years ago, when I was covering them, and I tried
Speaker 2: to get Popovich to take credit and he didn't even
Speaker 2: want to be on camera. This is after at the
Speaker 2: ceremony and he's like, no, it's all about the players.
Speaker 2: And then I remember seeing him out in South Beach
Speaker 2: during a NBA Playoffs finals something and he couldn't have
Speaker 2: been nicer and chattier. And I'm like, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: And I'm with John Barry and he goes, no, Pop's
Speaker 2: a great guy. He just not going to be a
Speaker 2: great guy publicly, and I go, okay, fine, yep, yeah,
Speaker 2: mar So.
Speaker 6: This might be true about Bill Belichick. Find him out
Speaker 6: in South Beach, go hang out with him. I'm sure
Speaker 6: he's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Like everyone says, well, you know they say that about
Speaker 2: Roger Goodell. You would love him. You know, I'll buy
Speaker 2: Pop some nice wine, and you know, maybe we do
Speaker 2: the interview at dinner. That would be fun. I mean,
Speaker 2: if I can sit down and become friends with Patrick Ewing,
Speaker 2: I think that we could probably have We could break
Speaker 2: bread with Greg Popovich. I get Pop and I get
Speaker 2: Belichick together, and we'll bring in pat Riley as well.
Speaker 2: Because I went to Dan Levitard's wedding and I swear
Speaker 2: this is true. I'm standing at the bar. Well that
Speaker 2: you know is true. I'm standing at the bar. I'm
Speaker 2: with my wife, and I saw pat Riley and his
Speaker 2: wife and I go, this, this isn't gonna go well.
Speaker 2: She goes, why, I go, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: think he likes media. And I had a run in
Speaker 2: with him when he was coaching the Knicks, and so
Speaker 2: I sort of turned earned to my wife and Ryle's
Speaker 2: comes up. He goes, Dan, how are you? And I
Speaker 2: was like, I had my hand on my beer. He
Speaker 2: put his hand out and he had his championship ring
Speaker 2: on or one of them, and then I shook his hand,
Speaker 2: introduced me to his wife. I introduced him to my wife.
Speaker 2: We'd started chatting, and you know, it lasted about you know,
Speaker 2: seven minutes, and then he leaves because he has to
Speaker 2: go to an event he wanted to show up for
Speaker 2: Dan Lebttard. My wife goes, he was very nice. I
Speaker 2: go and then I look like the jerk because I'm
Speaker 2: going on, this isn't gonna go well. And now she
Speaker 2: did you think that she thinks that I'm the problem
Speaker 2: with pat Riley, not pat Riley Me. Yeah, pum.
Speaker 7: Is it possible other people don't spend decades thinking about
Speaker 7: incidents from the past.
Speaker 8: I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 2: Okay. My wife brought this up, that there's a condition, yes,
Speaker 2: that people have that they can't let go of the
Speaker 2: smallest things like something. It bothers to me this to
Speaker 2: this day. I missed a layup against Carlisle that I
Speaker 2: would have scored thirty, so I scored twenty eight and
Speaker 2: I had a layup and I missed the lamp. Still
Speaker 2: bothers me to this day. My wife goes, why, I go,
Speaker 2: I don't know why. But there's a condition. Yeh See.
Speaker 3: Is it possible that your wife assumed it was your fault?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Because she knows you, yes, and knows like she didn't.
Speaker 3: She coin the you know, not everybody gets your sense
Speaker 3: of humor?
Speaker 2: Yes, at least at least once a week. My wife
Speaker 2: will say not everybody gets your sense of humor because
Speaker 2: when I go, yeah, I said this, and you know,
Speaker 2: they got mad or they said this, they didn't left,
Speaker 2: And then she'd be not everybody gets your sense.
Speaker 3: Of humor if they didn't think that was funny. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know I'm horrendously insulting.
Speaker 7: Yes, Matt Lower, do you women clo oh, but that
Speaker 7: was funny?
Speaker 2: Line?
Speaker 8: Had you met Matt Lower before?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: Okay, See that's the hook. Matt Lower is a pretty
Speaker 7: well known guy. You're a pretty well known guy. You
Speaker 7: got to have some light pleasantries then question his fashion.
Speaker 2: You know, I wanted to break the ice. I wanted
Speaker 2: to let him know that you're, you know, big deal
Speaker 2: on Today's show and I'm kind of a big deal
Speaker 2: on Sports Center and our world's collided on a putting
Speaker 2: green as he gets out of a limo and had
Speaker 2: these crazy looking shorts on. We were playing in a
Speaker 2: charity golf event, and we were with a bunch of
Speaker 2: people on the putting green and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Matt Lower comes down from his limo and I go,
Speaker 2: do they sell men's clothes? Where you got those shorts?
Speaker 2: And everybody was laughing, but Matt soft yeah. It is like,
Speaker 2: come on, Matt, who's laughing now?
Speaker 9: Me?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Probably you yeah, thank you, Todd. How about we take
Speaker 2: a break? All right? Everybody ready to take a break?
Speaker 2: All right? Pray. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
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Speaker 14: We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
Speaker 14: more about the stories about what made these people love
Speaker 14: their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way.
Speaker 14: We talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell
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Speaker 2: Just got a birthday gift from the Cincinnati Reds Daylight
Speaker 2: but these are the new uniforms, and if you're watching
Speaker 2: on Peacock, they are gorgeous. They are really really sharp
Speaker 2: new uniforms for the Cincinnati Renz. But thank you for
Speaker 2: sending me my personalized jersey there. Love it all right,
Speaker 2: Mike and Ohio, Hey Mike, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 11: Dan?
Speaker 2: Happy belated Thank you Mike.
Speaker 9: So, yesterday was the forty second anniversary of Lenny Barker's
Speaker 9: perfect game for the Cleveland India. Okay, I got a
Speaker 9: little trivia question for you. What player has been on
Speaker 9: the losing end of three perfect What player participated in
Speaker 9: three perfect games and was on the losing end all.
Speaker 2: Of all three?
Speaker 9: Yes? Okay, going one player in major league history that's
Speaker 9: been on the losing end.
Speaker 2: What decade are we talking about? Is this the eighties?
Speaker 9: I would yeah, in the eighties? Okay, it went into
Speaker 9: the nineties.
Speaker 2: All right. Did he become a manager? No?
Speaker 9: But a bench coach?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, a bench coach took part in three
Speaker 2: perfect games and he was part of the losing team
Speaker 2: in all three games. Hmmm, well known player.
Speaker 9: I would think Marv would know who he is.
Speaker 2: Marv would know.
Speaker 4: Okay, ellis Burks.
Speaker 9: No, I guess yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: Todd, you got one. You're mister eighties. Kevin Elster, I
Speaker 2: don't know I known that. Okay, Well, he said he's
Speaker 2: a bench coach.
Speaker 7: He was, yea Robbie Thompson the San Francisco Giants. No,
Speaker 7: I'm Marv was a Giants fan.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you big hit? Forty second anniversary of Lenny Barker's
Speaker 9: perfect game.
Speaker 2: Uh, Toby Harra.
Speaker 9: He played for the Indians. He wasn't above to lose that.
Speaker 2: Why are you yelling at me? I'm sorry, all right,
Speaker 2: give me the answer.
Speaker 9: Andre Griffa of the Toronto Blue Jays and twice but
Speaker 9: he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I gotta tell you him. Not one hundred percent
Speaker 8: sure that was worth the time.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, Yeah, Lack. You know, we had a
Speaker 2: build up, we had a runway, and I don't think
Speaker 2: it ever took off longer than a perfect Yes.
Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't even know that guy existed. I did not.
Speaker 6: Marvin wouldn't know that guy. Oh what, I I have
Speaker 6: no idea who that guy is.
Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna say. Andre Dawson's going Okay,
Speaker 2: ild Hawk. All right, Uh Jonathan in California. Hi, Jonathan,
Speaker 2: w's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 15: Happy belated mine world last Monday. And I found out
Speaker 15: me and t Swift share a birthday. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I saw Hustle that was my delated best over the weekend.
Speaker 15: And my best disc was the Lakers and Hustle was
Speaker 15: great and you were great in it as well. And
Speaker 15: again me and Adam worked on Spanglish together. And I
Speaker 15: still get my residual checks from other stuff as well
Speaker 15: for a couple of cents every now and then. I
Speaker 15: wanted to talk about Aaron Judge briefly. I am not
Speaker 15: a Yankee apologist. I'm a hardcore Dodger Blue fan, but
Speaker 15: stepping out of the batter's box is not worth the
Speaker 15: risk nowadays with the pitch clock, and you see what
Speaker 15: guys like Sures are do and play mind games and stuff.
Speaker 15: I could see why maybe a side eye is all
Speaker 15: he can do in that situation, not apologizing for it,
Speaker 15: but now we're all going to be leaning in its
Speaker 15: extra hard on his next at best.
Speaker 2: But you know what the reason why this happened is
Speaker 2: the Bluejays announcers. And thanks for the phone call. They
Speaker 2: made it a story because now you can notice that
Speaker 2: there's a side eye to the yankee dugout and what
Speaker 2: is he looking at? What is he looking for? And
Speaker 2: then they said he had done it previously, not previous
Speaker 2: at bats. I think just that at bat and maybe
Speaker 2: he was bothered by his teammates who were still chirping
Speaker 2: at the umpires because Aaron Boone got tossed down. I'm
Speaker 2: going to give Judge the benefit of the doubt there.
Speaker 2: Did anybody else benefit from this? Did anybody else? Were
Speaker 2: they getting somebody tipping their pitches? That's what I'd want
Speaker 2: to know. And it felt like Buck Martinez has been
Speaker 2: around probably you know, fifty years with baseball and a
Speaker 2: former catcher, and he brought it up. And then Dan
Speaker 2: Shulman as well the Blue Jays announcers like, don't want to,
Speaker 2: you know, have any accusations while we have accusations. Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 7: If you're Aaron Judge, you have a little fun with
Speaker 7: it tonight because you're the king right now with your
Speaker 7: batting titles all that.
Speaker 2: Do you look over do you get in that.
Speaker 7: Batter's box and do a full head turn and look
Speaker 7: at a big eyes to your dugout and then turn
Speaker 7: back to the pitcher and just getting everyone's head about it.
Speaker 8: They're basically accused stuff.
Speaker 2: You could be in the batter's box and you could
Speaker 2: look over and go, you know, shake your head or
Speaker 2: you know stuff. Tonight I'd get in there and I
Speaker 2: would be like side eye and then I would smile
Speaker 2: at my guys. Although you just got to make sure
Speaker 2: that Toronto pitcher has a sense of humor too, and
Speaker 2: he might not. Yes, ton and the catcher.
Speaker 10: If Judge strikes out right in front of you, do
Speaker 10: you make a little comment as it's walking back to the doug.
Speaker 4: Oh you didn't see what do you wanted to see?
Speaker 6: This particularly beat?
Speaker 10: Get a little comment to them, Howard andre Griffith, Yeah,
Speaker 10: thank you, Tom andre Griffith.
Speaker 4: Yeah, perfect games, losing end.
Speaker 2: Thank you to You know what will make it all better?
Speaker 2: Coming up next hour when Todd does his Sports Center
Speaker 2: tease that that'll bring the audience back, that'll do it.
Speaker 2: What are the results so far from the poll question
Speaker 2: an hour to see new Connor?
Speaker 10: Damn.
Speaker 3: We were asking the audience with the best landing spot
Speaker 3: for Victor Wimbinyama. Okay, yeah, right now, thirty nine percent
Speaker 3: are guessing other, which I think really means mind team because.
Speaker 2: Some people are thrown off. The Lakers are the best spots,
Speaker 2: like did the Lakers aren't?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: What was the answer to that guy's long winded trivia
Speaker 7: question again, Andre Griffith.
Speaker 8: Andre Griffith.
Speaker 7: That'd be great, but unfortunately his name was Alfredo Griffin,
Speaker 7: not Andre Griffith. So he had everything right except for
Speaker 7: the answer.
Speaker 2: Alfredo Griffin the Blue Jays shortstop.
Speaker 8: That's correct, an actual, an actual person.
Speaker 2: So you had that build up and he's still got
Speaker 2: the name wrong.
Speaker 4: That's Dre Griffith.
Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't a perfect call.