Speaker 1: Come on, all right, let's get into some news around
Speaker 1: the NBA really quickly before we get into what happened
Speaker 1: in the Suns verse mav series and.
Speaker 2: The Bucks versus Celtics series. Just really quickly. Want to
Speaker 2: just clean some things up.
Speaker 1: We never talked about the fact that the Sixers went
Speaker 1: home and boyle boy, boy oh boy were the postgame
Speaker 1: comments by Doc rivers a site to behold the Sixers
Speaker 1: home again before the conference finals.
Speaker 2: Once again, for context for.
Speaker 1: Folks who aren't paying attention to the history of this,
Speaker 1: the last time Philly won a second round series was
Speaker 1: when Alan Iverson did the step over Tylo in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. That is twenty one years ago. That's
Speaker 1: how long it's been in since Philly has done anything
Speaker 1: of note in the playoffs. Nobody has disappointed more in
Speaker 1: the NBA in the last twenty years than.
Speaker 2: The Philadelphia seventy six Ers. I mean even the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any team that's had as many
Speaker 1: expectations but has performed as poorly under the big lights.
Speaker 1: Turn them lights down, turn those lights down, as Philly has.
Speaker 1: Since two thousand and one, this team has been bounced
Speaker 1: in the first round or second round twelve times, including
Speaker 1: four times in the past five years.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is horrible.
Speaker 1: No finals appearances in two decades, no titles in thirty
Speaker 1: eight years.
Speaker 2: Since the Sixers made it past the second round, there's
Speaker 2: been eighteen different NBA teams that have made the finals.
Speaker 1: And not you, Philly, and not you gross And yet this,
Speaker 1: this is the thing that kills me. This is the
Speaker 1: one of the reasons of many that I can't stand
Speaker 1: Sixer fans, like these version of Sixer fans, Like if
Speaker 1: you talk to Sixer fans, they'll come at you like
Speaker 1: they have twenty seven rings. They've got all of the
Speaker 1: annoying swagger of Golden State Warriors fans without any of
Speaker 1: the corresponding recent success. You, Philly, you would think doctor
Speaker 1: j had been like a recent phenomenon.
Speaker 2: How these Sixers fans, How these Sixers.
Speaker 1: Media, or at least some of them act. This is
Speaker 1: a train wreck of a franchise, and they have nowhere
Speaker 1: to go from here. And now they have to wrestle
Speaker 1: with the idea, the notion of signing James Harden, with
Speaker 1: the notion of whether they bring back Doc Rivers, rolling
Speaker 1: that ass back out there doing nonsense who who wants
Speaker 1: to run it back with Doc Rivers get out of here?
Speaker 2: Why do I not like?
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers is a fine person, Like I if Doc Rivers,
Speaker 1: God forbid was to hear this. I want to preface
Speaker 1: this by saying, like, I like him as a human being.
Speaker 2: He's a nice guy, has a good golf swing. He
Speaker 2: uses it a lot.
Speaker 1: Doesn't use it a lot in June. Just want to say, nothing, though,
Speaker 1: is ever Doc Rivers's fault. You get coaches when they
Speaker 1: get bounced, they're like, listen, we weren't ready to go,
Speaker 1: and that's on me. Manny Williams was out there saying
Speaker 1: that the sun's lost because I didn't have him prepared.
Speaker 2: That's my fault.
Speaker 1: The end of the day, it all, when it all
Speaker 1: comes down, it falls on me, Doc. Doc never thinks
Speaker 1: anything's his fault. It's everyone's fault.
Speaker 2: It's all. It falls on all of us. Doc.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a team game, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you're the man.
Speaker 2: You're the leader of the platoon.
Speaker 1: You are the guy on the front lines of the
Speaker 1: first person in the firing squad is and only will
Speaker 1: be you, no matter if it's your fault, no matter
Speaker 1: if your point guard passed up in open lay it
Speaker 1: or not falls on you, sir. And the fact that
Speaker 1: you another thing that I don't like, the side road.
Speaker 1: It's like Doc Rivers is just learning about how bad
Speaker 1: his reputation is around the NBA. It's like he just
Speaker 1: stumbled upon Twitter and how everyone thinks about him as.
Speaker 2: Being a bad coach.
Speaker 1: It's like he's just now annoyed to the point where
Speaker 1: he's addressing these things we've been talking about for five years.
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers, do you know that you've.
Speaker 1: Blown like eleven straight game sevens, like something crazy, eleven
Speaker 1: elimination games?
Speaker 2: Like you didn't know that We've been talking about this.
Speaker 1: We've been killing you online since you were in Los Angeles, sir.
Speaker 1: We've been killing you since you got one ring in Boston, sir.
Speaker 2: It's been a minute. And when he found out about this,
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, yeah, I mean Orlando.
Speaker 1: Do you see Orlando's roster dog? You are getting killed.
Speaker 1: This is not new. And yet for some reason, Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers doesn't believe that this is a results based business.
Speaker 1: I try really hard. Nobody's more confident. Yeah, yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: I try really hard. Guys, me too, me too, Like
Speaker 1: sometimes though you're just out over your skis my man,
Speaker 1: and nobody feels more confident somehow Someway in his job
Speaker 1: security than Doc Rivers in his measily won ring despite
Speaker 1: so many of the problems that this team that has
Speaker 1: falled on Doc Rivers's shoulders, I don't know, like blowing
Speaker 1: up players, throwing him under the bus, making them never
Speaker 1: want to come back to your franchise after a series ends,
Speaker 1: Like deciding to play Joel Embiid with a torn thumb
Speaker 1: in a fourth quarter up thirty to the Toronto Raptors
Speaker 1: in a closeout game in the waning moments, like constantly
Speaker 1: deflecting blame even when things are very clearly Doc Rivers's fault.
Speaker 1: Here is what Doc Rivers had to say after the
Speaker 1: series ended.
Speaker 2: It's unreal.
Speaker 3: I don't worry about my job, and I think I
Speaker 3: do a terrific job. And if you don't, then you
Speaker 3: should write it. Because I work my butt off to
Speaker 3: get this team here. When I first got here, no
Speaker 3: one picked us to be anywhere, and again this year
Speaker 3: the same thing. So if that's how anyone feels, right,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna feel secure about it if.
Speaker 1: It results face business, it.
Speaker 3: Is but you don't do it every year. Every time
Speaker 3: you're wrong, should you lose your job? No, So it's
Speaker 3: the same thing, all right, But listen, if you believe that,
Speaker 3: then go with it. I know how I know what
Speaker 3: I did this year, and I feel very good about that.
Speaker 3: But again, if if you believe that, then you just
Speaker 3: run with it.
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 3: So to be clear, you plan on still pan So
Speaker 3: to be clear, you plan on still out the Indian
Speaker 3: I'll be here, Yeah, I'll be here. Whatever makes this team,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever allows this team to continue to grow
Speaker 3: and get better and do the things necessary to win
Speaker 3: and compete at the highest level. James, She said, the
Speaker 3: ball didn't get to you. Does the coach called plays
Speaker 3: to try to get the ball to you?
Speaker 2: Nice question.
Speaker 1: He also said, in the middle of that Game seven,
Speaker 1: I realized the Miami Heat were just a better team
Speaker 1: than us.
Speaker 2: What excuse me? I do a really good job. I
Speaker 2: try really hard.
Speaker 1: This clip, by the way, is amazing. Why is it
Speaker 1: amazing because there's a little bit of Odyssey Entercom Radio
Speaker 1: inside the company history here. My man Howard Eskin is
Speaker 1: the one asking Doc Rivers the question. How Eskin, seventy
Speaker 1: plus years old, been covering the Philadelphia seventy six ers
Speaker 1: as a staple for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Also happens to be the father.
Speaker 1: Of WFAN program manager Spike Eskin, and nobody gets under
Speaker 1: Doc Riverskin more than Howard Eskin. Howie won't even refer
Speaker 1: to Doc as Doc. He calls him Glenn. He refuses
Speaker 1: to say the word Doc rivers because there's only one doc.
Speaker 2: In Philadelphia, and that's doctor j Holy.
Speaker 1: And Spike, his son, told me, you can feel when
Speaker 1: Howard's about that my dad's about to ask a question
Speaker 1: to a coach, because all of the life drains out
Speaker 1: of their face before he even asks said question.
Speaker 2: The only thing.
Speaker 1: Left that Doc has is the fact that Darryl Morey
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to fire outwardly. Listen, Darren Morry doesn't
Speaker 1: want Doc rivers on this as this coach. We know
Speaker 1: that we know who Daryl Moury wants. It's not a secret.
Speaker 1: He wants Mike D'Antoni, and Bee wants Mike D'Antoni. James
Speaker 1: Harden wants Mike D'Antoni. Is Mike D'Antoni the right fit?
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, probably not, But we know for
Speaker 1: a fact that Darryl Moury and the rest of the
Speaker 1: squad is not Roland with Doc Rivers. But Daryl Moury's like,
Speaker 1: I can't fire him right now because but Daryl Moury
Speaker 1: says he's going to keep Doc Rivers. The Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: is a long term coach for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 1: And if you believe that, given what we've heard and
Speaker 1: what we know about Daryl Moray, who is a fucking liar,
Speaker 1: I have some beachfront property in Montana to sell you.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: This is what to recap. Moury said, He's a great coach.
Speaker 1: I love working with him. I feel like I'm learning
Speaker 1: from him. I think Elton Brand and I make a
Speaker 1: very good team. We're gonna see where this journey takes us,
Speaker 1: but we feel very good about where it's going to
Speaker 1: take us. It's going to be where we have a
Speaker 1: very good chance to win a title. Pause And that's
Speaker 1: a lie. People in the know think Doc Rivers is
Speaker 1: headed to the Lakers, because why Doc Rivers loves nothing
Speaker 1: more than sunny weather and good golf courses and Philadelphia
Speaker 1: has neither.
Speaker 2: And the Sixers are only waiting.
Speaker 1: Around because they want to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: finagle the Lakers to give them something back to get
Speaker 1: rid of a guy they already want to get rid of.
Speaker 1: They want the good old Doc Rivers gets traded from
Speaker 1: Boston to La thing like, just do it again. Let's
Speaker 1: just do it again sixteen years later, folks.
Speaker 2: The problem is.
Speaker 1: That the Lakers have almost no trade assets to move
Speaker 1: to add insult to injury.
Speaker 2: Ema Udoka is the third coach to leave the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: Is an assistant coach tooenty sixteen and make the Conference
Speaker 1: finals in his first two years as a head coach. Yikes,
Speaker 1: that's Mike D'Antoni, that's Eme Udoka, and that's Monty Williams.
Speaker 2: Will Doc be back in Philly? I hope not. Don't
Speaker 2: bet on it. But what's that old thing?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: The definitive definition of insanities is doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: Thinking the results are going to be different.
Speaker 1: We know this Philadelphia fan base is insane. If they
Speaker 1: bring back Doc Rivers and they do a long term
Speaker 1: contract extension on a max deal with James Harden.
Speaker 2: The city will go up in Thames like the what
Speaker 2: is it? The Joker?
Speaker 1: And here we go