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Speaker 3: Anthony Davis is back. I don't know for how long.
Speaker 3: Joellenbeid is done. I don't know for how long. And
Speaker 3: Jahmorants in another jam. So we've had the gun issue
Speaker 3: with Joah Morant. He went viral actual guns with him before.
Speaker 3: Now league officials are looking into Jamaran and he healed
Speaker 3: after Tuesday's night. A Tuesday Night's game. The talk to
Speaker 3: involve parties as soon as Wednesday. So I don't know
Speaker 3: what happened this according to the Mothership, but there is
Speaker 3: a photo of John Morant and he is gesturing as
Speaker 3: if he has a gun pointed towards Buddy healed, but
Speaker 3: he healed reportedly did a similar gesture back to John Morant.
Speaker 3: We've talked a lot about Ja Morant. We've talked about talented.
Speaker 3: You get the opportunity, you make a lot of money,
Speaker 3: you can be the face of a franchise. Your coach
Speaker 3: just got fired, You're heading into the playoffs, and.
Speaker 2: We're still doing stupid things.
Speaker 3: And I wonder if you know John Morant, whoever, truly
Speaker 3: understand it. You would think with all the games that
Speaker 3: he missed, he was suspended, you know, you're publicly ridiculed
Speaker 3: by the media. He was docked the first twenty five
Speaker 3: games of the twenty three to twenty four season. He
Speaker 3: flashed a handgun on a social media live video, suspended
Speaker 3: eight games in March of twenty twenty three for another
Speaker 3: handgun on social media at a strip club shotgun Willies
Speaker 3: of course, like, at some point, you go, you're twenty five.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not nineteen twenty twenty one, Not that
Speaker 3: that's an excuse for you to be able to show
Speaker 3: a gun on social media, but you're twenty five. You've
Speaker 3: got so much ahead of you, and I know it's
Speaker 3: just a gesture, but I mean really, isn't there another
Speaker 3: way to get back at Buddy Healed, like scoring, dunking,
Speaker 3: maybe have something go viral that has to do with basketball.
Speaker 3: But he's played in forty six games this season and
Speaker 3: he's averaging twenty two to twenty three game an assist.
Speaker 3: I mean, he has the potential to be great. And
Speaker 3: I remember we brought this up. This was maybe last year,
Speaker 3: maybe it was the year before. Who would you want
Speaker 3: long term Zion or Jahn Morant? And I said I
Speaker 3: want Jahn Morant because I don't have to worry about
Speaker 3: his health. Well, I don't know if I want either
Speaker 3: of them when you think about it, because I don't
Speaker 3: know if Zion loves basketball. He had a like a
Speaker 3: month or six week pocket where it was like, damn,
Speaker 3: that's what Zion's supposed to be all about. Now they
Speaker 3: just shut him down so they can tank for Cooper
Speaker 3: Flag and then you got Jahn Morant. Just doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like we talk about John Morant the way like Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3: Now Anthony Edwards, you know, gets a little loose as well,
Speaker 3: but you know we're not pointing guns or you know,
Speaker 3: giving the a gesture of a gun towards an opponent.
Speaker 2: But John Morant should be like Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3: He should be, Oh my gosh, the future, so bright,
Speaker 3: so talented, and here we are talking about him again.
Speaker 2: Maybe he gets suspended. I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you're the commissioner. All I know is the previous commissioner,
Speaker 3: this would be different. David Stern would be exactly living
Speaker 3: up to his last name. You would not be getting
Speaker 3: by with this. Not to say that Adam Silver is
Speaker 3: a softy or easy but I think he's more of
Speaker 3: a player's commissioner from the standpoint of, hey, come here,
Speaker 3: let's talk about this. Maybe you find him, maybe you
Speaker 3: suspend him, but at some point you go, is this
Speaker 3: getting through?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 3: You are the home stretch of the season. You probably
Speaker 3: had a role in your coach getting fired. I mean,
Speaker 3: how many times do coaches get fired with two weeks
Speaker 3: to go going into the postseason.
Speaker 2: I think they're a number.
Speaker 3: Five seed, so there's something going on there, and maybe
Speaker 3: the commissioner comes down on him again, suspends him as well.
Speaker 3: But the latest news from the NBA, all right, see
Speaker 3: what's paul question today?
Speaker 5: Well, what if we just stick with the Jamran thing.
Speaker 5: It is kind of funny that the league is loaded
Speaker 5: with video of people doing exactly the same thing. It's
Speaker 5: never been an issue, or it certainly hasn't bubbled up
Speaker 5: the way that it is now. You can watch just
Speaker 5: everybody from Lebron James to Joe Kim Noah.
Speaker 2: All did it? You know anyway, that's funny.
Speaker 5: I also think it's funny that when you watch the video,
Speaker 5: it's Draymond Green who complains about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it's him, Yes, of course it's him.
Speaker 2: But you do have a rule now.
Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't have a rule in place before, but
Speaker 3: now you have it now you'll have to, if you're
Speaker 3: the commissioner, enforce that that, yes, people have done this before.
Speaker 3: But the gesture that he does to Buddy healed and
Speaker 3: vice versa. So I don't know what happened yesterday with
Speaker 3: getting the parties together to talk about this, other than
Speaker 3: it looked like, hey, what was said prior to that?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what's said. It doesn't mean you can
Speaker 3: do a gun gesture like, oh, I understand why you
Speaker 3: did the gun gesture?
Speaker 5: Yes, I do like too that Buddy hil is doing
Speaker 5: it right back to Ja Moran or even did it first,
Speaker 5: whichever it is, but they're sort of clearly doing it
Speaker 5: towards each other.
Speaker 2: And then Buddy Hildes like, hey, he did that. He
Speaker 2: did that. He did that. You can't say you can't
Speaker 2: do that. He did that, Like, Doug, you you just
Speaker 2: did that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Buddy did that. Buddy doesn't have baggage. John
Speaker 3: Morant does right with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's I think I do think it's
Speaker 5: easy to there's a certain amount of like morality being
Speaker 5: played about this.
Speaker 2: You know that is.
Speaker 3: I don't know, well, I I just I don't have
Speaker 3: any patients for Jamran doing this. Of all the people
Speaker 3: who could be doing this, he's the last one can't
Speaker 3: because we've already seen you do it with a gun,
Speaker 3: doing something stupid, stupid on social media and then getting
Speaker 3: suspended and then getting suspended again. Oh man, they wants
Speaker 3: to play with their guns, all right, fake tough guys.
Speaker 2: Oh I got my gun? Really, what are you gonna
Speaker 2: do with your gun? Nothing?
Speaker 3: And then Buddy healed, Buddy, he's up. You know your
Speaker 3: name is Buddy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you a gangster named Buddy? Heck? Who's your buddy?
Speaker 2: I am? Oh?
Speaker 6: Buddy's rolling up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Buddy coming h Yeah, it's not like Omar coming.
Speaker 3: It's Buddy, Hey buddy. You know, it's like Buddy and Elf.
Speaker 3: You know Will Ferrell's character, Hey Buddy and his nemesis Pal.
Speaker 7: There comes.
Speaker 2: Watch out for Pal, not Gasol? Yeah, p A L. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, what else do we have today? Marvin sent
Speaker 2: in a poll question.
Speaker 5: Thrown with this one out there since for stick with
Speaker 5: basketball a little bit. But should the Nicks retire Carmelo
Speaker 5: Anthony's number?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 2: Well he just kind of named the Hall of fame
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 3: I'd have to look at what he accomplished with the Knicks, Marvin,
Speaker 3: do you have that at your fingertips?
Speaker 7: He was an All star a few times, he got
Speaker 7: to the conference semi finals. He never got to the
Speaker 7: conference finals or finals.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many years was he there?
Speaker 7: Checking?
Speaker 2: Okay? Wait, I thought you had this already researched here.
Speaker 7: No, what Paul does?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: I have Carmelo Anthony playing seven years in New York,
Speaker 6: half a season, then six more. He was an All
Speaker 6: Star all six of those years. The league, scoring once
Speaker 6: did not get them to the NBA finals. Can you
Speaker 6: retire a jersey of a non wired a wire player?
Speaker 6: That doesn't take you to New Heights.
Speaker 3: I'd have to see who else the Knicks have retired,
Speaker 3: because I'm going to guess, you know, Willis Reed and
Speaker 3: Walt Frazier, probably Bill Bradley and Dave de Busher, Earl Monroe,
Speaker 3: maybe Dick Burnett, Yes, probably EWI yeah, Pat Patrick Eway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right with all those.
Speaker 6: Every one of those and almost everyone except for you
Speaker 6: ing has a title.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know it gets Yeah, sure, I don't care. Now,
Speaker 2: like of all the things today.
Speaker 3: Where you go, should Carmelo Jersey be retired and be like,
Speaker 3: I don't care. I mean, he's in the Hall of Fame. Great,
Speaker 3: and it's the Basketball Hall of Fame. He won a
Speaker 3: national title. But Syracuse, I hope they've retired as Jersey,
Speaker 3: But I still go back to Christian Latner belongs in
Speaker 3: the Basketball Hall of Fame. I mean, it's embarrassing that
Speaker 3: he's not in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He's one
Speaker 3: of the top five college basketball players of all time.
Speaker 3: If you look at his resume, it's hard to argue.
Speaker 3: And he played better than average in the NBA. He
Speaker 3: wasn't great. He made an All Star team first year.
Speaker 3: I think he averaged seventeen points nine rebound. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's once again, it's the totality of your career. He
Speaker 3: should be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Back to Carmelo,
Speaker 3: if they want to retire his jersey, great, build a statue,
Speaker 3: Like I don't, I don't really care. I you know,
Speaker 3: if you're a Nick fan, then maybe you go, does
Speaker 3: he really belong up there with those guys. I'm not
Speaker 3: a Nick fan, and so it doesn't bother me. You know,
Speaker 3: does Lebron's jersey get retired by the Lakers? And I
Speaker 3: don't know if all the Lakers you know, fans would
Speaker 3: be on board with that, like does He's not really
Speaker 3: a Laker, Like we kind of got him. He came
Speaker 3: here at the very end trying to win a title.
Speaker 2: So I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I guess you do, it's Lebron getting his jersey retired.
Speaker 3: So it's Cleveland, it'll be Miami, it'll be with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 6: By the way, Syracuse University, they retire everybody's jersey. They
Speaker 6: have seventeen retired jersey numbers, including Carmelo, Jerry McNamara, and
Speaker 6: Hakeem Warwick have retired numbers.
Speaker 2: They won a title, Yeah, a lot more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pearl Pearl Washington, Sirm Douglas, Yes, Todd, Alan Houston, John.
Speaker 8: Starks, Bernard King are among those that have not been retired.
Speaker 8: So where does Mellow fit in with that? When you're
Speaker 8: thinking of all time great knicks? Is Mellow really anywhere
Speaker 8: near the well?
Speaker 2: I would have Bernard King over Carmelo, Anthony Houston.
Speaker 3: Hello, I don't know. I'd have to look at his numbers.
Speaker 3: He was beloved or beloved?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Is John Starks? Is he going to get his jersey retire? I? No, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm just he's beloved.
Speaker 7: Oh there's a bunch of guys that are beloved.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I see all those guys in Nick Row with the
Speaker 7: celebrities and all that. They're there every game. The numbers
Speaker 7: not get retired.
Speaker 2: Yes to Yeah.
Speaker 8: If we retired a number every time we really liked it,
Speaker 8: someone was considered beloved, he'd run out of numbers. Someone
Speaker 8: would have to be like sixty three and fourteen and
Speaker 8: I would be the whole team.
Speaker 7: Uh, he had four every other numbers taken.
Speaker 2: We really liked that guy.
Speaker 7: Put him up in the rafters. It was really fun.
Speaker 7: He was cool with the media.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I if you won, too great. I mean it's
Speaker 3: really about the fan base. But for me on the
Speaker 3: outside looking in, Bernard King was the baddest man in
Speaker 3: the NBA for a while as far as scoring, and
Speaker 3: then he had a knee injury, but he was unstoppable
Speaker 3: at six six unstoppable and having witnessed those games in
Speaker 3: person when they'd played the Celtics, when the Celtics were loaded,
Speaker 3: and man, they feared Bernard King down on the low post.
Speaker 3: He's scoring on anybody, everybody, Yes, Martin.
Speaker 7: Just like Carmelo Anthony. He's okay. I don't want to
Speaker 7: fight about this, no act Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I saw him both. Did you see him both? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Waning BeTV.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, you saw on YouTube. Yeah, I'm fine
Speaker 3: with it. But if you put Mellow in, put Bernard
Speaker 3: King in, put them both in, and put their you know,
Speaker 3: jersey up there in the rafters. How did I get
Speaker 3: here with that?
Speaker 7: My question?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's okay.
Speaker 3: I just get sidetracked and and I forget where I am.
Speaker 3: It's like, how did I get here? It's like driving
Speaker 3: someplace and then all of a sudden you turn around
Speaker 3: and you go, where am I?
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, I'm looking a list of all the retired
Speaker 6: numbers in the NBA. There's some wacky ones.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you're Wayne Gretzky, do you now
Speaker 3: have to be on the road with Alex Ovechkin? He's
Speaker 3: three away. We'll talk about that, because how's it going
Speaker 3: to look. I don't want to video tribute where it
Speaker 3: comes on the jumbo tron where Wano is congratulating Ovechkin
Speaker 3: and you know, in a prepared speech, but now with
Speaker 3: three to go, you get a hat trick. Wayne's gonna
Speaker 3: be putting in some miles.
Speaker 2: It feels like.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and phone calls will settle on
Speaker 3: our poll question Jim Nance a little later on Hello friends,
Speaker 3: We're back after this.
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Speaker 3: Alrighty, get some phone calls here a little bit more
Speaker 3: on Carmelo Anthony getting his jersey retired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine with that now.
Speaker 3: He'll be in the rafters with Wald Fraser, Dick Barnett,
Speaker 3: Dick McGuire, Earl Monroe, Willis Reed, David Busher, Bill Bradley,
Speaker 3: Patrick Ewing, the former head coach Red Holtzman. Let's see,
Speaker 3: Ewing and McGuire have had their numbers retired without winning
Speaker 3: a championship.
Speaker 2: They're the only ones.
Speaker 3: Alan Houston, John Starks, Bernard King have not had their
Speaker 3: jerseys retire. But Mellow is going to have his jersey retire.
Speaker 3: This is per a report, all right, So congratulations to
Speaker 3: Carmelo Anthony. He's going to have his jersey retired, I guess,
Speaker 3: and he's going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Now,
Speaker 3: maybe they make room for Bernard King in the rafters.
Speaker 3: All right, So what do you do if you're Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 3: Ovechkin has seven games to play and he needs three
Speaker 3: goals to surpass Wayne's all time record. Does Wayne have
Speaker 3: to hit the road now feels like he has to
Speaker 3: seven games? Islanders Chicago, Carolina, Columbus, Islanders Pittsburgh. Do you
Speaker 3: just jump on the charter, the Capitol's charter and sitting
Speaker 3: next to Ovechkin because you can't do a video tribute.
Speaker 3: It's like when Mark McGuire was breaking Roger Merris' all
Speaker 3: time record. And here's another thing. There are certain players
Speaker 3: that you know. Roger Marris was known for the single
Speaker 3: season home run record, and here you have Mark McGuire
Speaker 3: break it. That's that's the one thing. And Roger Merris
Speaker 3: had passed away. But the family, they were the family
Speaker 3: of the guy who was the single season home run record.
Speaker 3: It's like Mark Gastono, he was once the single season
Speaker 3: sack leader and then all of a sudden, Michael Strahan
Speaker 3: came along, and of course you had that awkward encounter
Speaker 3: where McGuire or a Gastana goes and sees Brett Farvan said,
Speaker 3: you hurt me, you know, basically because he gave up
Speaker 3: that sack to Michael Strahan basically walked right into Strayhan
Speaker 3: and said, here, now you get the record. That's what
Speaker 3: Mark gaston was all about, that one thing, the sack dance,
Speaker 3: and he had the single season sack record. And that's
Speaker 3: why you know, now you've lost your identity. Every time
Speaker 3: he'd sign an autograph, you're Mark Gastono, sack leader. Seeing
Speaker 3: you know, whatever you want to put the number of sacks.
Speaker 3: You had what was it, twenty two and a half.
Speaker 3: Now you lose that identity. Wayne is not losing his identity.
Speaker 3: In fact, his identity, his greatness has been enhanced by
Speaker 3: Ovechkin because now there's that reminder of goly.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of goals. Oh my god, look at
Speaker 2: the assist.
Speaker 3: So Wayne, I think is benefited from Ovechkin passing his
Speaker 3: you know, all time goal scoring record. And now you're
Speaker 3: going to be on the road watching and Wayne will
Speaker 3: handle this, you know, in a gentleman way like he
Speaker 3: handles everything else.
Speaker 2: He'll be awesome. He's so.
Speaker 3: I know, you know how to describe when you're around him,
Speaker 3: You'd never know that that's the great one. You'd never
Speaker 3: know it. And that's the beauty of him that he
Speaker 3: makes you comfortable.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: It's never there's no diva, there's no nothing. It's just
Speaker 3: that's Wayne. Oh hey, Wayne. I remember going to South
Speaker 3: Bend and I went for a Notre Dame game, Notre
Speaker 3: Dame football game, and Digger Phelps invited me, the longtime
Speaker 3: Notre Dame head coach. And I walk in the door,
Speaker 3: I think it's ten thirty in the morning, and I
Speaker 3: hear and I walk in the kitchen. Gretzky has opened
Speaker 3: up a beer and he's there to go to the
Speaker 3: football game, and could not have been just a down there.
Speaker 3: And I'd met Wayne before, but that's Wayne. I felt
Speaker 3: bad because Digger Phelps took him into the stands and
Speaker 3: he's getting autographs and pictures. And I was down on
Speaker 3: the field because I not that I was going.
Speaker 2: To get bombarded with that, but I thought Wayne.
Speaker 3: And I see Wayne at halftime and he's got his
Speaker 3: arms up like help me. And then I kept telling
Speaker 3: him to come down to the sidelines watch the game
Speaker 3: down there, because you know, unless a player goes out
Speaker 3: of bounds and says, hey, Wayne, I get a selfie here.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he spent the whole day signing autographs up
Speaker 3: there with Digger Phelps. But I'm guessing Wayne is gonna
Speaker 3: have to travel a little bit. That's when you you know,
Speaker 3: he leaves the house and he says, you know, his
Speaker 3: wife says, how long you're packing for? Well, I don't know,
Speaker 3: seven days, ten days, but you're gonna have to be there.
Speaker 3: It feels like for you know, these moments. Yeah, Paul, So.
Speaker 6: If Gretzky goes on the road. He would have to
Speaker 6: go to d C, then in New York, then to
Speaker 6: CA d C, then to Columbus, then the d C
Speaker 6: New York. This would be a you know, seven game,
Speaker 6: thirteen day road trip for Wayne Gretzky to commit to
Speaker 6: all these games.
Speaker 2: How much does he have to do it? Well, he
Speaker 2: is the sport.
Speaker 6: And there's a finite window. It's the season's over on
Speaker 6: the seventeenth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then if he doesn't break the record, then
Speaker 3: Wayne has to start the season with Alex Ovechkin again.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he he I don't want.
Speaker 3: To say needs to be there. He should be there.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a great moment celebrated, but yeah,
Speaker 3: he absolutely needs to be Oh okay, I thought you
Speaker 3: were gave me a m I gave you.
Speaker 5: Like he I don't know if he needs he y,
Speaker 5: Hey he does, Hell, yeah he does.
Speaker 2: He's Wayne Gretzky. It's take two weeks, go see a
Speaker 2: bunch of games.
Speaker 1: He sees.
Speaker 3: He's seen enough games in his life. I know these
Speaker 3: ones are special. Hey, he's gonna get the standing Oh,
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, Wayne Gretzky, Yeah, dude, put him up
Speaker 3: on the jumbo tron. You know, maybe he takes his wife,
Speaker 3: says Janet about a little vacation here.
Speaker 2: Where are we going? What country? We're gonna go to
Speaker 2: d C. We're gonna go to.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh, the Long Island. Why don't you go, Reno. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he has to be.
Speaker 8: There as an ambassador of the sport and what he's meant.
Speaker 8: It's just it's just a bad look for him not
Speaker 8: to be there. I don't see how you can not
Speaker 8: be part of that for that one day and support
Speaker 8: the guy that broke such a huge record in hockey.
Speaker 8: I just don't see how that could even be an option.
Speaker 8: I don't and I don't think the average fan would
Speaker 8: see it as he's taking some kind of victory lap
Speaker 8: or look at me, or he's doing it for attention.
Speaker 8: He's doing it, you know, you would hope for the
Speaker 8: right reasons to support.
Speaker 2: Oxevechk oh Okay, I don't think.
Speaker 8: I don't think people would be like, oh, Gretzky's got
Speaker 8: to be here, look at me, or remember how great
Speaker 8: I was?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I don't think that's.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it from that angle that Wayne would
Speaker 3: be doing it so he could be recognized as the
Speaker 3: great one.
Speaker 6: He didn't start going to Avetchkins games when he's twenty
Speaker 6: eight goals away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, look at me, I'm Wayne Gretzky. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: just you have to go. You passed the baton and
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. Uh.
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, I just heard from a writer named Chris
Speaker 6: Johnston from The Athletic who covers hockey. Okay, he has
Speaker 6: the exact details about if Wayne Gretzky is attending or not.
Speaker 6: What do you guys think Gretzky's doing? Think he's in
Speaker 6: or out?
Speaker 2: In? In? In?
Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone think he's in. Yeah, totally, he's in when
Speaker 6: the Great One will be in attendance part of a
Speaker 6: traveling caravan that will attend every Washington Capital's home and
Speaker 6: away game. According to Chris Johnston of The Athletic, Gretzky
Speaker 6: will be joined by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman as well
Speaker 6: as other league personnel when the Capitals take on Carolina
Speaker 6: on Wednesday. So, starting last night, Gretzky's been in the building, okay,
Speaker 6: and he will commit to it till the end of
Speaker 6: the season.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Fritzie sent me something to maybe clarify what I said
Speaker 3: about Mellow. He has support for his jersey retirement.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no official decision has been made, but there's been
Speaker 8: talk ever since he retired a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: There will talk about that.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of people that would like to see
Speaker 8: his jersey retired, but there's no official word that that's
Speaker 8: going to happen.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, So he's going into the Basketball Hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: but according to sn wise Ian Begley, there is a
Speaker 3: chance that he will be represented at Madison Square Garden
Speaker 3: in perpetuity as there is support within the organization to
Speaker 3: retire his number seven jersey. So no fine decision has
Speaker 3: been made, but still retire Bernard King's jersey too, when
Speaker 3: you get around to it. All right, A couple of
Speaker 3: phone calls in here, David in Ohio, Hi David, what's
Speaker 3: on your mind?
Speaker 4: Hey Dan?
Speaker 12: Yesterday guys were talking about street names. I've done a
Speaker 12: lot of reseharts. They're the Todd Fritz Lane in Williams Fort, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 12: And like Todd's comedy timing.
Speaker 4: It's the dead end.
Speaker 2: Thank you, very nice, thank you, thank you. That's perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're looking at all the street signs in Green
Speaker 3: Bay outside of lambeau Field, you were talking about some
Speaker 3: of the retired jerseys around the NBA.
Speaker 2: You have the list of that.
Speaker 3: You said, there's some surprising names that have had their
Speaker 3: jerseys retired.
Speaker 6: Well, there's some names that you were like him and
Speaker 6: not about the person, but so the window of time
Speaker 6: they were there. The Atlanta Hawks retired to Kembe Mutumbo's
Speaker 6: fifty five jersey. He was there for four seasons, four
Speaker 6: really good seasons, but four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who else are the Hawks going to retire?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 2: You have to have a ceremony occasional.
Speaker 6: Right, Dominique Wilkins, Pete Marrivich, Bob Pettit's Lou Hudson.
Speaker 2: That's all they got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean see, sometimes you have to have these
Speaker 3: moments where you go that guy.
Speaker 6: How about this one? Is this surprising or am I
Speaker 6: just being a little petty here. The Celtics retired Kevin
Speaker 6: Garnett's jersey short window, a lot of success, But the
Speaker 6: Celtics have a lot of jerseys retired. I was a
Speaker 6: lightly surprised on that one.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, is Rajon Rondo's jersey retired? Paul Pierce's, Ray Allen's.
Speaker 2: Pierce's is Allen's not mm okay Rajon Rondo unfortunately, No.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a lot of politics to me, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, some internal situations.
Speaker 2: Dino Raja is his jersey retired? Oh again? Should be.
Speaker 2: I think he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7: He is, soo Is Blotti, Deva Gloody, Devac Charusis and
Speaker 7: Malos Marcealonis. How you say his name, Sharuna's marshal Oonna
Speaker 7: That's what I said. Yeah, yes, Tom, But the Celtics.
Speaker 8: Aren't the team that have to latch onto every great player.
Speaker 8: I know there's certain teams that are death. But for
Speaker 8: that one guy, he was very good. But we need
Speaker 8: to have somebody up in the raft of someone to
Speaker 8: represent our team. So I think you know you got
Speaker 8: a certain teams can be a little more careful with
Speaker 8: who they're gonna immediately pay.
Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised with KG up there. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 7: The Kevin Garnet was the culture changer for that team.
Speaker 7: As soon as he got there, they became championship contenders.
Speaker 3: Well they won one, okay, I mean okay, you changed
Speaker 3: the culture. Yes, won a championship by an injury. Middle
Speaker 3: Minnesota stupidly traded Kevin Garnett to the Celtics, Kevin McHale
Speaker 3: helping out Danny Ainge.
Speaker 2: But that's what friends are for, yes, Paul.
Speaker 6: The Detroit Pistons names you'd expect like Dennis Rodman, Isaiah Thomas,
Speaker 6: Bob Lanier, Dave Bing, Vinnie Johnson's numbers retired by the
Speaker 6: Detroit Pistons, a player who primarily came off the bench.
Speaker 7: But was part of their greatest success.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little surprising, you know, is Rodman retired? Yes? Okay, Yes, Tom,
Speaker 2: If I.
Speaker 8: Yell anything is possible, will you put up my name
Speaker 8: and a number up on top of the raftives of
Speaker 8: the studio?
Speaker 7: Would that be en effort to do that?
Speaker 8: There's like a moment in time where everyone sees that
Speaker 8: anything is possible moment. Then, So my point is, okay,
Speaker 8: you want to see a lot of people have won
Speaker 8: a championship with a team.
Speaker 7: That doesn't necessarily mean no one could wear your number
Speaker 7: ever again in that city. Back to you.
Speaker 6: Nick Collinson's number is retired by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 6: A nice player, not a superstar, but I think he
Speaker 6: was og and a fan favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a surprising one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But once again, if you're with a team of
Speaker 3: franchise and they don't have much to celebrate, like you,
Speaker 3: you want to have some of those nights where you
Speaker 3: welcome somebody back and it's a feel good moment.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it, and I don't.
Speaker 3: It's really it's about the fan base if they're bothered
Speaker 3: by it. Like that guy, I think Laker fans would
Speaker 3: have some would have an issue with Lebron's jeersy being retired.
Speaker 2: Why because he's not a Laker.
Speaker 7: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Kobe's a Laker, Magic's a Laker, Kareem's a Laker, Jerry
Speaker 3: West is a Laker. Elgend Baylor's a Laker. Shack, you
Speaker 3: can call him a Laker. Lebron just kind of came
Speaker 3: in Chamberlain his numbers up there. Will got traded. He
Speaker 3: got traded.
Speaker 7: Well, that doesn't matter how you get there.
Speaker 2: Well, Kareem got traded.
Speaker 7: I'm not understanding.
Speaker 3: Well Lebron chose to go to the Lakers, like, he's
Speaker 3: not a homegrown guy.
Speaker 7: Most of those guys, just like you said Kareem Shack,
Speaker 7: Well they weren't homegrown guys.
Speaker 3: But you're gonna have him up there with Kobe and
Speaker 3: you know Jerry West and no Jim Baylor, the guys
Speaker 3: who are homegrown Hall of famers for the Lakers, so
Speaker 3: you have to be home. And Kareem spent most of
Speaker 3: his career with the Lakers. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: how many years will spent there, but he was part
Speaker 3: of one of the greatest teams of all time, the
Speaker 3: you know, seventy two Lakers once again. Is Gail good
Speaker 3: Rich's jersey up there?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 6: With Lebron, I think if he had gone to the
Speaker 6: Lakers for three seasons and then bolted for somewhere else,
Speaker 6: you could say, like, nah, he just did a pit stop.
Speaker 6: I think he's on year eight. This is year eight,
Speaker 6: and Shaq had eight years with the Lakers. I once
Speaker 6: you get past five, you made a commitment to a franchise.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant getting his jersey retired in Golden State.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's very much like Reggie Jackson with the Yankees.
Speaker 7: You weren't there for long, but you got memorable moments.
Speaker 3: Man, he could have been back with them. KD makes
Speaker 3: some bad basketball decisions. You know, I'm thinking about taking
Speaker 3: my talents to Brooklyn. Hey, you know, I got to
Speaker 3: get out of Golden State. I'm going to go to Phoenix. Hey,
Speaker 3: do you want to go back to Golden State?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 3: I don't want to uproot my life here and there
Speaker 3: you are with the Phoenix Suns. Could have been playing
Speaker 3: at least in the playoffs with Golden State.
Speaker 2: And I get it. If Draymond's still there, do you
Speaker 2: want to go back and be around him? Maybe not?
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: Your legacy is solidified, is it? I mean, one of
Speaker 3: the great players of this generation but also kind of
Speaker 3: known as a vagabond. I mean, we would call this
Speaker 3: a journeyman. It's weird to call one of the greats
Speaker 3: of all time kind of a journeyman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, you can't make more than twenty million dollars
Speaker 6: a year and be called a journeyman. There has to
Speaker 6: be type of a financial rule.
Speaker 3: Let me see what do we have here? Guy in Minneapolis,
Speaker 3: Hi guy, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10: Hi?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 4: First time, long time, five five?
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 4: Know in regards to the tush push, you feel that,
Speaker 4: like the Eagles, they just do it the best and
Speaker 4: the other teams they can do it too. Well, what
Speaker 4: if they adapted by putting a tush pusher on their roster,
Speaker 4: maybe a four hundred and fifty or a five hundred
Speaker 4: pounds dude, or a big weightlifter, and that would be
Speaker 4: his job. So sitting on your bench, you could bring
Speaker 4: in your little dude to kick a field goal and
Speaker 4: get your three points, or sitting next to him, you
Speaker 4: could bring in your big dude to run out and
Speaker 4: get you the extra four points.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you guy. I hadn't thought of it
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 3: But if you're going to put somebody on your roster
Speaker 3: and they allow you to do it, and it's within
Speaker 3: the rules, then sure fine. If they're going to get
Speaker 3: rid of this, they're working on the language, and all
Speaker 3: they have to do is say, we're going back to
Speaker 3: the way it used to be in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3: We never should have allowed this to begin with, and
Speaker 3: we did, and now we're going to go back. It's
Speaker 3: like kind of reinstituting the pitch clock that was always
Speaker 3: there for Major League Baseball for a long long time.
Speaker 3: They just never enforced it. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: we're gonna do a pitch clock. You can't do that.
Speaker 3: We've had one, we just never enforced it. All right,
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got up there right now. Should Gretzky traveled
Speaker 5: to Ovechkins games? Seventy three percent say yes, Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's great for the sport that you have
Speaker 3: the biggest name, the greatest player, and he's going to
Speaker 3: be there to acknowledge this. And I do think that
Speaker 3: Wayne's legacy has been lifted a little bit because now
Speaker 3: we've got you go back and you start to examine
Speaker 3: the numbers, the sheer numbers, the sheer greatness, and he's
Speaker 3: done this wire to wire. You know, he's but eight
Speaker 3: years of age and he's scoring eight goals in a game.
Speaker 3: Hence the nickname Great you know, the great one. And
Speaker 3: he lived up to that. You know, we talk about
Speaker 3: Lebron living up to the hype, certain God, Bryce Harper
Speaker 3: living up to the hype, Serena Williams living up.
Speaker 2: To the hype.
Speaker 3: Tiger Wayne got hyped before anybody did like, I think
Speaker 3: he might have been eight or nine years of age
Speaker 3: and might have been given that nickname when he's like
Speaker 3: nine or ten years of age.
Speaker 2: That's the great one, yes, Pally.
Speaker 6: If Ovechkin breaks the record, according to the Athletic, the
Speaker 6: league will allow the capitolist players to leave the bench
Speaker 6: and celebrate. There will also be a formal celebration on
Speaker 6: the ice that will halt the game. This is the
Speaker 6: same approach the league took when Gretzky broke Gordy House
Speaker 6: record in nineteen ninety four. The NHL halted the game
Speaker 6: for a fifteen minute ceremony to honor Gretzky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine with that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me see Casey in North Carolina. Hi, Casey,
Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
Speaker 11: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. Second time, long time.
Speaker 11: Formerly Casey in Texas, now Casey in North Carolina. Has
Speaker 11: that of the day? First wanted to introduce possibly the
Speaker 11: youngest and smallest member of the DP show, our second
Speaker 11: son ever was born at twenty three weeks five day,
Speaker 11: currently weighs one pound eight ounces twelve math inches tall,
Speaker 11: and they nick you and fighting like a champ.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Good luck with that Catay. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's he's fighting like hell, so he's doing good.
Speaker 1: That of the day.
Speaker 11: After his win yesterday, Paul Schemes is the only picture
Speaker 11: to record over one hundred and seventy five strikeouts while
Speaker 11: posting a sub to era over his first twenty five
Speaker 11: starts and then will be history.
Speaker 2: Thanks them, Thanks case. Stat of the day, I'm Dad
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Speaker 3: you go into the ICU. You see those premies and
Speaker 3: my oldest daughter was a Premie, but nothing compared to
Speaker 3: those little babies and the nurses there are miracle workers.
Speaker 2: My goodness. Well, I like.
Speaker 3: You know, you walk out of there and you realize
Speaker 3: what those women are doing every single day with those
Speaker 3: premies and they're so so so small, and we you know,
Speaker 3: we're concerned about our daughter, but you know, it turned
Speaker 3: out to be fine. But what you think is a
Speaker 3: Premie is not. But those women amazing work, amazing. Dave
Speaker 3: in Arkansas, Hi, Dave, good to have you back.
Speaker 13: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody
Speaker 13: knows things are bad. It's free agency. Everyone's out trying
Speaker 13: to find the right player. The salaries are going bus
Speaker 13: gms or keeping the salary cap going up. Players are
Speaker 13: running wild with new contracts and there's no one there
Speaker 13: anywhere seems to know what to do about it, and
Speaker 13: there's no win to it.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, Dave, what are we talking about?
Speaker 13: And you interrupted the network speech? Howard feel I'm I
Speaker 13: want you to sign Aaron Rudders and I'm not gonna
Speaker 13: watch you anymore.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Dave. I wasn't sure what's sport now. I
Speaker 3: know he loves his Steelers, but yeah, I don't have
Speaker 3: any information on Aaron Rodgers. So you know, people say
Speaker 3: you're not talking about Aaron Rodgers. I don't have anything
Speaker 3: to tell you. I don't know if it happens. You know,
Speaker 3: the latest report is he doesn't want to go there. Okay,
Speaker 3: then I see him. You know, he's throwing passes to
Speaker 3: DK Metcalf somewhere. Okay, that he still wants to go
Speaker 3: to the Vikings. Okay, he's thinking about retiring. Okay, Steelers
Speaker 3: they may take a quarterback in the draft. Steelers, they're
Speaker 3: not taking a quarterback in the draft. Like at some
Speaker 3: point I just have to say, I'm just gonna sit
Speaker 3: this one out for a little while. When he signs
Speaker 3: or doesn't sign, then we'll cover it. But I don't
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make up stuff or just keep
Speaker 3: regurgitating this.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes, Tom, the.
Speaker 8: Front officer, Mike and can say all the right things
Speaker 8: publicly and patience and all that, but you've got to
Speaker 8: believe behind closed doors.
Speaker 7: That they have to be saying that this is ridiculous
Speaker 7: with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wait, we've got to put a
Speaker 7: deadline on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't just let this go on.
Speaker 7: And told July August, Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you have to let it go on because the
Speaker 3: answer is Mason Rudolph or you're in a draft a quarterback,
Speaker 3: So what else are you going to do? You put
Speaker 3: yourself in this position? Exactly how did they let themselves?
Speaker 3: They should desperate Justin Fields? In my opinion, I would
Speaker 3: have kept Justin Fields. I would have had him for
Speaker 3: one or two more years. Two years, let's say give
Speaker 3: him the same deal that he got.
Speaker 2: With the Jets. He gets to stay there.
Speaker 3: I just you know, you're waiting for Rogers and everything's
Speaker 3: on hold. I could see the Giants doing that, or
Speaker 3: the Jets doing that, other franchises, but not the Steelers.
Speaker 3: I just can't imagine Mike Tomlin's gone, hey, we're just
Speaker 3: gonna wait, Yeah, Mike tom And it feels like there
Speaker 3: would have been a deadline a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem. Steelers have no leverage. They can't say
Speaker 3: to Aaron Rodgers, Hey, if you don't come in now,
Speaker 3: then we're going to sign who Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: We're going to trade for him.
Speaker 3: And Kirk Cousins, in my opinion from at least what
Speaker 3: I've been told, if he's traded, won't be traded until
Speaker 3: after the draft, because teams are going to see is
Speaker 3: Cleveland going to draft a quarterback? Probably not, But if
Speaker 3: they decide then they're not going to bring in Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: Is there another team that might bring in Kirk Cousins?
Speaker 3: And what do you have to give up to trade
Speaker 3: for him?
Speaker 2: All right?
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