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Speaker 2: the Great Rider over with the Athletic He's going to
Speaker 2: join us just a few minutes from now and talk
Speaker 2: about what's going on down in San Antonio. In Carolina.
Speaker 2: Last night we had the Hurricanes evening up their Stanley
Speaker 2: Cup Final series against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Dan
Speaker 2: Patrick's Las Vegas Golden Knights. One of the things I
Speaker 2: first noticed is sit down and the at the jersey here.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of new things here in the Mancave.
Speaker 3: We were out there a few months ago for the
Speaker 3: F one race and the gold Knight sent over some swag,
Speaker 3: really nice stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good jersey also got a is it a gong?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff in this mancave I'm just
Speaker 2: unfamiliar with, having not been here for six seven years.
Speaker 2: The Las Vegas Golden Knights and the Hurricanes even up
Speaker 2: at one great game last night. Watched the third period.
Speaker 2: Not a lot happening. First ten minutes too nothing, Golden
Speaker 2: Knights lead, Then all of a sudden, Hurricanes came to life,
Speaker 2: score three goals in the third period, wind up winning
Speaker 2: the game four minutes into overtime. Tremendous fun. It's always
Speaker 2: fun to watch Stanley Cup Final hockey just because you
Speaker 2: never know what's gonna happen. The The Hurricanes look lifeless
Speaker 2: for most of that game, they turn it around, tie
Speaker 2: the game up and regulation win it in overtime. Game
Speaker 2: two of the NBA Finals is tonight. The New York
Speaker 2: Knicks with the one nothing series lead over the San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs. A must win game for the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 2: Gotta win it this time. There have been teams in
Speaker 2: NBA history that have come back from down oh two.
Speaker 2: We saw the Milwaukee Bucks do it in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: came back to beat the Phoenix Suns. The Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 2: they came back to beat the Warriors they were down
Speaker 2: two zip. Big win for the Cavs. The common thread
Speaker 2: with both those teams, though, is they lost the first
Speaker 2: two games on the road. If the Spurs lose the
Speaker 2: first two games at home, it is improbable. If not
Speaker 2: impossible to believe that San Antoni can come back and
Speaker 2: beat the Knicks with three of those next five games
Speaker 2: potentially being played at Massive Square Garden. Big Game for
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson gets thirty points in game one. We've been
Speaker 2: talking a lot about where he's elevated himself onto that
Speaker 2: next level. Is he the greatest nick of all time?
Speaker 2: If he wins a championship this year, does he go
Speaker 2: on the Mount rushmore of players six foot two and under.
Speaker 2: We've had some calls some comments about that over the
Speaker 2: last couple of hours. Some names that should be on
Speaker 2: that list. Isaiah Thomas on that list, we had Tiny
Speaker 2: Archibald added to that list. Alan Iverson of course belongs
Speaker 2: on that list. Chris Paul. A debate over Chris Paul
Speaker 2: being on that list, but Jalen Brunson winning a title
Speaker 2: in New York as the number one option on his
Speaker 2: team got to give him consideration to be on that list.
Speaker 2: Big Game for Victor Weiman Yaum and the Spurs as well.
Speaker 2: Wemby good stat line in game one, twenty six points,
Speaker 2: twelve rebounds, but he was six of twenty one from
Speaker 2: the floor and he was just a perimeter guy. You know,
Speaker 2: I love a seven ft four guy that can shoot threes,
Speaker 2: but you need a guy getting the paint. Two of
Speaker 2: nine of three point reigns, it's not going to get
Speaker 2: it done in Game two, must win game for the
Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs, playing on their home floor. Eight seven
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Speaker 2: DP at Danpatrick dot com. Sam Amick, senior writer over
Speaker 2: at the Athletic. He is down in San Antonio, Sam.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Jalen Brunson leads the Knicks
Speaker 2: to the championship. Is Jalen Brunson the greatest Nick of
Speaker 2: all time?
Speaker 5: Mister Mannix, good to see you. Is he the greatest
Speaker 5: Nick of all time? It's maybe?
Speaker 6: You know? I mean? That was quick side story from
Speaker 6: the playoff Road. Here.
Speaker 5: I was at an establishment last night with the lovely
Speaker 5: daughter of one Patrick Ewing, so Randy Ewing, so she
Speaker 5: might have something to say about this debate.
Speaker 6: You know, there's a long list of great Knicks.
Speaker 5: I don't care to be honest with you where Jalen
Speaker 5: falls in that debate. I'd like the other debate better,
Speaker 5: Like this six to an under thing is is wild?
Speaker 5: Chris Paul deserves to be on that list. But but
Speaker 5: Jalen is doing the type of stuff that sparks these debates,
Speaker 5: doing the type of stuff that you know, not to
Speaker 5: have somebody catch as straight. But I keep laughing about
Speaker 5: the Becky Hammond, like the whole.
Speaker 6: Commentary where Becky you know, said so long ago.
Speaker 5: That Jalen could not be the number one guy on
Speaker 5: a championship team, and she stood on that recently, which
Speaker 5: was kind of, you know, strange.
Speaker 6: He's just been incredible. Man.
Speaker 5: He's fun to watch and you know, you know, on
Speaker 5: West Coast base, so I don't see the Knicks as much,
Speaker 5: and buddy, to watch Jalen do what he did in
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter, it was fun. It was neat to
Speaker 5: see because it was like, oh, this dude is as
Speaker 5: advertised when it matters most.
Speaker 2: What's been the vibe around the Spurs the last couple
Speaker 2: of days.
Speaker 5: Fine, they're pretty for a young group, they're they're pretty
Speaker 5: even keeled. They you know, they're mature, you know, Wenby,
Speaker 5: I'm always really interest did how he's going to handle
Speaker 5: his voice and his messaging. I did think it was
Speaker 5: interesting after Game one that you know, and you know
Speaker 5: this like he kind of wasted no time sliding in
Speaker 5: quite a few comments about your confidence, and you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not worried in the slightest, you know, just trajecting
Speaker 5: the kind of way you would expect for a confident guy. Uh,
Speaker 5: they seem fine. I mean you just hit the nail
Speaker 5: on the head when you talked about game two. Is
Speaker 5: the like, let's do a false check if they lose
Speaker 5: game two. You know they're gonna be fine if they
Speaker 5: split this thing at home, and not to put you,
Speaker 5: you know, give you a homework assignment. I did wonder
Speaker 5: because you detailed the teams that went down oh too
Speaker 5: when they were you know, on the road. Have we
Speaker 5: had a champion who lost the first two at home,
Speaker 5: so we know.
Speaker 2: I forget what the six heat did? I know they
Speaker 2: were another team that was down oh two when they
Speaker 2: came back to beat Dallas. But that's the only one
Speaker 2: that there haven't been that netty that have come back
Speaker 2: from oh to It's only been a handful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Because when you said this was must win, I
Speaker 5: was gonna give you a hard time and say it
Speaker 5: was hyperbole, and then as you laid it out.
Speaker 6: It was like, it's pretty important. So what happens, Sam,
Speaker 6: I'm facts.
Speaker 2: He always fact. I don't think it's ever didn't have
Speaker 2: with Miami. I think they were they lost the first
Speaker 2: two on the road. Uh, and those are the teams
Speaker 2: I mentioned lost on the road as well. So adjustment
Speaker 2: for San Antonio. What do you think is the biggest
Speaker 2: adjustment they're gonna make going into game two.
Speaker 5: Well, it's the same thing they've battled throughout the playoffs,
Speaker 5: which is that as great as Wemby is, as part
Speaker 5: of this is youth and and it's him trying to
Speaker 5: figure out the chess match.
Speaker 6: He's inconsistent.
Speaker 5: He has a roller coaster, uh you know, kind of
Speaker 5: element to his game. So they've got to you already
Speaker 5: said this, They've got to get him inside more. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's it was super fun when he hit that thirty
Speaker 5: five footer in the last round in Game one. Okay, fine,
Speaker 5: but uh getting pushed out by kat getting pushed out by.
Speaker 6: Ogn No and Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 5: The problem is, I just don't know how you know
Speaker 5: doable that is because this is literally the roster construction
Speaker 5: that you should want to have to go at Wemby
Speaker 5: and going into the series. I wrote a whole piece
Speaker 5: where I talked to some front office folks about the
Speaker 5: domino effect of what Victor was doing. And the reality is,
Speaker 5: the irony is is that like most of the people
Speaker 5: I talked to pointed to the Knicks roster construction as
Speaker 5: what you should want. A guy like Kat who's seven feet,
Speaker 5: two hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 6: You know, Mitch big boy, a lot of halft.
Speaker 5: You know, he can bully Webby and he's athletic enough
Speaker 5: to keep up with him same you know, og and
Speaker 5: what he brings.
Speaker 6: So getting Victor going first and foremost.
Speaker 5: Secondly, you know the others in the West Finals for
Speaker 5: the Spurs, you know, Dierre Fox, Julian Champenny, Dylan Harper,
Speaker 5: all the way down line.
Speaker 6: Kell the Johnson had a fantastic finish to that series.
Speaker 5: You know, those guys have got to show up because
Speaker 5: you know, yes, Vick was sixty twenty one and struggled
Speaker 5: a bit, but but the other guys weren't.
Speaker 6: Weren't helping to either.
Speaker 2: What Kevin Johnson gain like eight minutes in this that
Speaker 2: game one that was surprising. Yeah, A thought sixth Man
Speaker 2: of the Year. I thought he'd be a natural guy
Speaker 2: to put on Towns for stretches. Uh, that surprised me
Speaker 2: our little minutes He's got we You know, I thought
Speaker 2: that the fatigue sam was a little bit overblown coming
Speaker 2: into the series, because I thought three days was a
Speaker 2: long time, and I thought think about being at home
Speaker 2: was going to be enough for San Antonio to recharge
Speaker 2: the batteries and not make fatigue as big an issue
Speaker 2: as somewhere. But I'm watching that game one. I'm sitting
Speaker 2: there and I'm looking at Victor Webbin Yama kind of
Speaker 2: grabbing his knees in the first quarter. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: some of these other guys just not look like they've
Speaker 2: had the same energy that they did early in that
Speaker 2: series in Oklahoma City. How big a fact do you
Speaker 2: think fatigue's going to be in this game too, and
Speaker 2: potentially the rest of the series.
Speaker 5: It's significant, But I'm confused, you know again, like I
Speaker 5: was not around Victor that much also long, So now
Speaker 5: you know this is we've done this a long time.
Speaker 5: You get in the gym with these guys and you
Speaker 5: try to study them and learn how they're wired, how
Speaker 5: they operate. Victor and the way that he crashes out
Speaker 5: from a fatigue standpoint is puzzling, because yes, I understand
Speaker 5: he's seven foot four, but he's not lugging around three
Speaker 5: hundred pounds, you know. But he absolutely does have these
Speaker 5: moments and you just hit on it, like early in
Speaker 5: the game when he's clutching at the knees or or
Speaker 5: you know, looking for a blow that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5: And that's where as transcendent great, you know, and talented
Speaker 5: as he is, the inconsistency part has got to be
Speaker 5: tricky for ms Johnson, you know, from a rotation standpoint,
Speaker 5: because you know, is that tied to not having as
Speaker 5: much of a break as the Knicks coming out of
Speaker 5: the West Finals, Like that's a little hard to believe,
Speaker 5: Like you said, three days, so they.
Speaker 6: Got to fight through that.
Speaker 5: You didn't see any of that from the Knicks, and
Speaker 5: I don't really think as necessarily because of you know,
Speaker 5: that long stretch that they had to rest. But Wenby's
Speaker 5: great again. I keep kind of hitting the same point.
Speaker 5: He's great, but he comes and goes a bit.
Speaker 2: How short a leash do you think the Aaron Fox
Speaker 2: will be on tonight?
Speaker 5: Very curious to see it because there are bigger picture
Speaker 5: implications of that kind of a choice.
Speaker 6: I've been asked this a couple of times.
Speaker 5: And my thing is the Spurs from a culture standpoint,
Speaker 5: are obviously incredibly savvy, and they know that the moment
Speaker 5: you open the door to the Dylan Harper era and
Speaker 5: you put the Aaron, you know, on the bench, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, because of the stakes of what's going on
Speaker 5: right now, like he's going to be a domino effect.
Speaker 5: And that's very tricky for them from a planning standpoint,
Speaker 5: because yes, they have this historical backdrop where Montageenobli famously
Speaker 5: agrees to go to the bench with Greg Popovich's you know,
Speaker 5: kind of nudging, and the rest is history.
Speaker 6: He's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: Montagenobili was not making sixty million dollars a year, which
Speaker 5: is what the Aaron is on track to make, and
Speaker 5: so the solution is not quite as even fd Aaron
Speaker 5: at some point was willing to yield to the young
Speaker 5: fella in terms of a contract, roster construction.
Speaker 6: That's an issue.
Speaker 5: So but you got a championship on the line, so
Speaker 5: you know, would I be shocked to see it, you know,
Speaker 5: I'd be surprised. I don't know how short the leash is.
Speaker 5: Dylan didn't show out though. That's the other thing. He
Speaker 5: had a good first half, but four points in the
Speaker 5: second half. You know, he faded a bit. But the
Speaker 5: more pressure that he applies with his play and then
Speaker 5: with the Aaron, you know, if he keeps doing what
Speaker 5: he did in Game one, which was having a hard time,
Speaker 5: then you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Talking to Sam an mix Sen, you're NBA writer over
Speaker 2: at the Athletic in San Antonio for Game two of
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals tonight. Sam, we are right around three
Speaker 2: weeks away from the NBA Draft, which is three weeks
Speaker 2: away from the self imposed deadline that the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 2: have to trade Jannistindecompo. What have you been hearing over
Speaker 2: the last couple of days about Giannis and how likely
Speaker 2: do you think it is that Giannis has traded before
Speaker 2: the June draft?
Speaker 5: Seems very likely, Admittedly, you know that it's not often
Speaker 5: you have an owner, you know, publicly framing the timeline,
Speaker 5: and that's what Jimmy HASLM.
Speaker 6: Did you know we just saw Jimmy has them do
Speaker 6: a blockbuster.
Speaker 5: Trade with Miles Garrett in the NFL, showing he's certainly
Speaker 5: ready to pull that trigger if he needs to. I
Speaker 5: do expect it to happen. Miami, as you know, is
Speaker 5: the loudest noise. You know, you continue to hear that.
Speaker 5: But what I tried to write the other day with
Speaker 5: my colleague Eric name, and it was interesting to get into,
Speaker 5: is yes, it appears, you know, everybody you talk to
Speaker 5: says Miami at the deadline, had a deal that was closed,
Speaker 5: had a deal that they thought was going to happen.
Speaker 5: The Bucks ended up backing out, and so the noise
Speaker 5: is tied to Miami. But there's also some intel discussion,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of understanding that Giannis has questions about
Speaker 5: what that Miami roster would look like on the other
Speaker 5: side of a deal. You know, it reminds me of
Speaker 5: the Carmelo Anthony dilemma when he went from Denver to
Speaker 5: the next Like you don't want to get the roster,
Speaker 5: go to the place that you're excited to be to,
Speaker 5: you know, be in, and then have a hard time
Speaker 5: contending for a championship. And that is where you know,
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens in the next few weeks. Because
Speaker 5: in one of your backyards, I think the Celtics are
Speaker 5: are pretty intriguing options where you know, in terms of
Speaker 5: being competitive, you know, if you do something with Boston.
Speaker 5: And this is what we had heard from Ghanis's side,
Speaker 5: that the intrigue is real, you know, the respect for
Speaker 5: Joe Mizula, the way that he might see that roster.
Speaker 5: So do I think it changes things? I don't know yet,
Speaker 5: but you know, I do think that's worth watching.
Speaker 2: I could see why Giannis would want to play in Boston.
Speaker 2: I still struggle to see why Boston would give up
Speaker 2: the kind of assets it would need to give up
Speaker 2: to go and get yn. It's not that they aren't
Speaker 2: considering it, but if I'm running the Celtics, I'm not
Speaker 2: trading Jalen Brown and a couple of draft picks for Yostivakopo.
Speaker 2: Not in a real action to a bad first round
Speaker 2: loss to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Mostly because I
Speaker 2: don't trust Giannis's health. Sam. I don't trust that he's
Speaker 2: had multiple years of soft tissue injuries and you're going
Speaker 2: to have to give this guy a multi year contract
Speaker 2: at the full max. Now you're talking about having two
Speaker 2: full max guys on your roster in Jason Tatum and Jostindecompoll,
Speaker 2: both of whom have dealt with significant injuries over the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. I know Jalen Brown is not
Speaker 2: a perfect fit. I know the Celtics want to get
Speaker 2: more pressure on the rim. Brad Stevens talked about that,
Speaker 2: but to me, the risk is just too big to
Speaker 2: go all in on a player like Giannis at this stage.
Speaker 6: Well, and it's very sensitive too, Like the Jalen Brown
Speaker 6: thing that you just hit on. It's like when the noise.
Speaker 5: Got loud a couple months ago regarding Dalen and how
Speaker 5: he saw him the season and all the chatter about
Speaker 5: what he said on the live stream that it was
Speaker 5: the most fun he'd ever had and that was confusing
Speaker 5: because you know, it just set this message that he
Speaker 5: wanted his own team. As you know the Celtics, you know,
Speaker 5: they went to great lengths to kind of massage that
Speaker 5: situation and get things back in a good place. And
Speaker 5: they're not the only team dealing with this, like Miami
Speaker 5: is and this is Giannis related. Miami is is loud
Speaker 5: with it right now. They don't care if everybody knows
Speaker 5: that they're chasing Giannis because they don't really care what
Speaker 5: Tyler Hero feels about getting traded. But like Boston's got
Speaker 5: to be sensitive, you know the Knicks are unofficially out
Speaker 5: because of what they're doing. But you remember Karl Anthony
Speaker 5: Towns was not real thrilled to have his name attached
Speaker 5: to the g honest discussion, you know previously. Like that
Speaker 5: is where I think we could see a wild card
Speaker 5: team come on strong, you know, and come out of
Speaker 5: the shadows, so to speak, because I think there's a
Speaker 5: lot of teams that are absolutely looking at this and
Speaker 5: interested here, but also have to pay attention to their
Speaker 5: own locker room dynamics.
Speaker 2: If somebody offered you one hundred thousand dollars for your
Speaker 2: press pass for Game three in New York, would you
Speaker 2: take it?
Speaker 6: I mean, journalistically, absolutely not. I would never consider such
Speaker 6: a thing.
Speaker 2: I think I think about it if you're a Nicks
Speaker 2: fan on the Capital.
Speaker 5: Journalist, if there's so, yeah, but the spirit of your question,
Speaker 5: like I mean, yeah, Hunter K's I'm good with that.
Speaker 5: That's you know, the production value on TV these days
Speaker 5: is pretty pretty high. I'll hang out with somebodies and
Speaker 5: watch this thing on a big old projector screen and you.
Speaker 2: Know, laugh all the way to the bank, and they
Speaker 2: transcribe all the quotes for you.
Speaker 6: Sam.
Speaker 2: It's all available fired out. You got kids. I got
Speaker 2: a kid now, it's like, you know, you gotta look
Speaker 2: out for number one. There, Sam, good Sam.
Speaker 6: Let me add on to this man. I'm fired up
Speaker 6: to go to New York.
Speaker 5: Man, Like I'm a West Coaster, So I don't know
Speaker 5: if I would take that money because like I don't
Speaker 5: I don't see the garden very often.
Speaker 6: I don't see the chaos.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't really Sacramento guy in New York.
Speaker 2: There we go. This is when we yea Sacramento guy text,
Speaker 2: by the way to get your take quickly on Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: question that came up, more dysfunctional, more irrelevant. Right now.
Speaker 2: The Brooklyn Nets are the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 5: I mean, uh, the Kings have things that they're trying
Speaker 5: to work on and to get out of the ditch.
Speaker 6: I don't know what Brooklyn's doing, so I actually probably
Speaker 6: go at Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: They got young players in Brooklyn, though, Sam, like, at
Speaker 2: least you've got like some hope like Sacramento, who wants
Speaker 2: to be there right now? Like who wants to be
Speaker 2: part of that team at the moment.
Speaker 5: It is Listen, it is painful. I mean, as you know,
Speaker 5: you have Mike Brown garon Fox. In the finals. You
Speaker 5: have ogananob a guy that I've contested and contend that
Speaker 5: they should have traded for to take the Beam team
Speaker 5: to the next level. There's all kinds of six degrees
Speaker 5: of Sacramento pains in this NBA Finals right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to hate that Sacramento watching their former
Speaker 2: head coach and their former star compete for a championship.
Speaker 2: One of them is going to win it at the
Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks. Great stuff, Sam, Good
Speaker 2: to catch up with you and I will see you
Speaker 2: in New York City. Try to, you know, keep it
Speaker 2: under control there these late nights in New York. They
Speaker 2: don't in New York City.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we know about that. I've met with you out there.
Speaker 2: You got it all right, buddy, Good stuff, Sam, Sam
Speaker 2: Annex senior writer over at the Athletic joining us here
Speaker 2: on the Dan Patrick Show. I say, Sacramento. I understand
Speaker 2: what he's saying about Brooklyn, but Brooklyn's got guys that
Speaker 2: want to be there. Nobody wants to be in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Like I would put every Nickel I owned the Doug
Speaker 2: Christie's not going to be the head coach of the
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings one year from today, not gonna happen. They're
Speaker 2: gonna go in a different direction. Hopefully get a good
Speaker 2: young player. See if they can win that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pauli mad You're King's management thinking. You know it's quiet,
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals going on. They're not gonna talk about
Speaker 3: us in our futilities.
Speaker 2: Just out you're burying though, all right? Eight seven to
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Speaker 2: Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. Charles Barkley,
Speaker 2: who is not afraid of the hot take, is that
Speaker 2: a few of them over the years. He was appearing
Speaker 2: on ESPN and he had this to say about Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson in terms of his status as a free agent signing.
Speaker 7: Listen, I said to a few years ago, I think
Speaker 7: Bronson might turn out to be the greatest free agent signing.
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about Lebron and Kevin Durandon guys like that,
Speaker 7: but I think Bronson, if he's able to deliver a
Speaker 7: championship to New York, it'd be the greatest free agent
Speaker 7: signing in NBA history. Nobody knew he was going to
Speaker 7: beat as good.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 7: You got nobody when New York signed him. They didn't
Speaker 7: think he was gonna be as good. He's turned them
Speaker 7: into a perennial contender. They went from being never being
Speaker 7: talked about to the conference finals last year. Now they're
Speaker 7: in the finals because the Bronson. So if he's able
Speaker 7: to finish this journey, Mike, it would be the greatest
Speaker 7: free agent sign in NBA history.
Speaker 2: So you got to go back and think about free
Speaker 2: agent signings, and free agency really came in vogue in
Speaker 2: i'd say the eighties nineties, when things started to open
Speaker 2: up a little bit. Now, Barkley qualified two of the
Speaker 2: biggest hitching signings of the twenty tens. You had Lebron James.
Speaker 2: I guess you could be talking about both Lebron James
Speaker 2: going to Miami, going back to Cleveland, going to Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: whichever one you wanted to focus on. Kevin Durant. Nobody
Speaker 2: expected Kevin Durant at the time to go sign with
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors winds up winning two championships there,
Speaker 2: probably would have won a third if you didn't get
Speaker 2: injured in that twenty nineteen finals. So he takes those
Speaker 2: two guys out of the picture. So Jalen Brunson signs
Speaker 2: with the Knicks. I would argue that Shack going to
Speaker 2: the Lakers in the nineteen nineties was a bigger signing
Speaker 2: than Jalen Brunson going to the New York next Now
Speaker 2: you can argue that Brunson was a more unexpected signing.
Speaker 2: Nobody thought Jalen Brunson was going to be this guy.
Speaker 2: I agree with Barkley on that one. At best, people
Speaker 2: thought Jalen Brunson would be the kind of guard we
Speaker 2: saw at the end in Dallas, a guy that could
Speaker 2: start be a great co star, be a serviceable top
Speaker 2: fifteen point guard who can give you eighty two games
Speaker 2: at that position, but never be great on either end
Speaker 2: of the floor. What he's become is nothing short of spectacular.
Speaker 2: He's on a short list for the top point guards
Speaker 2: in the NBA. We've discussed at length at this show
Speaker 2: what a championship would do for him. If he win
Speaker 2: the championship, do we elevate Jalen Brunson to the Mount
Speaker 2: rushmore of six too and undergo arts? The list is short.
Speaker 2: Iverson's on that list, Bob Coosey's on that list. Isaiah
Speaker 2: Thomas is on that list. After that, you're talking Tiny Archibald,
Speaker 2: you're talking Chris Paul. We made the point, John Stockton,
Speaker 2: I would have him on that list. Steve Nash six
Speaker 2: foot three doesn't count six foot three yet.
Speaker 3: Paul, you could probably put Nash on the greatest free
Speaker 3: agent signings of all time. I think he was a
Speaker 3: free agent at age twenty nine with Dallas.
Speaker 2: Very It's always Dallas. Why is that always Dallas the
Speaker 2: screwing this up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had made two straight All Star teams with
Speaker 3: Dallas and he was a really good player. He's averaging
Speaker 3: fifteen and eight. Then he goes to the Suns and
Speaker 3: he wins back to back MVP.
Speaker 2: So you remember the story about that was that the
Speaker 2: Mavericks didn't believe that Nash's body was going to hold up.
Speaker 2: He had the back issues that Mark Cuban, don Nelson,
Speaker 2: they didn't believe that wasn't mell Yes Cuba at that time,
Speaker 2: Cuban and Nelly were both They didn't believe that Nash
Speaker 2: would be healthy enough to validate the kind of contract
Speaker 2: that the Phoenix Suns game. Whoa were they mistaken? Woa
Speaker 2: they miss on that one. They've got a bad I
Speaker 2: mean just saying it out loud, like Steve Nash let
Speaker 2: him go. Luka Doncic traded in for nothing. Jalen Brunson
Speaker 2: wouldn't give him four years and fifty five million in
Speaker 2: the summer of twenty twenty one. What are we doing
Speaker 2: is what could have been with the Dallas Mavericks. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but Steve Nash not on that list. Def
Speaker 2: Curry sixty three not on that list either, but Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson belongs in the conversation for the best small player
Speaker 2: under six to two of all time. And as far
Speaker 2: as best freedom signing goes most unexpected, I would say
Speaker 2: is the best way to put it. I think Shaq,
Speaker 2: as far as free agent signs go, led the Lakers
Speaker 2: to three championships. You knew what he was like. He
Speaker 2: was an elite player when he left the Orlando Magic,
Speaker 2: and he went to LA for a lot of the
Speaker 2: same reasons Lebron went to La. Not Lebron didn't want
Speaker 2: to be in movies. I was in train Wreck, good movie.
Speaker 2: Shack went there for Hollywood aspirations in part. You wanted
Speaker 2: to be in Los Angeles on the biggest stage. We
Speaker 2: knew how good Shaq was, we didn't know how good
Speaker 2: Jalen Bronson was. Yeah, Dylan, Yeah. I feel like.
Speaker 8: Knicks fans were actually more excited about the Julius Randall
Speaker 8: signing when it happened to Jalen Runson. And then who
Speaker 8: do they get because of Julius Randall, Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2: You might be right, You might be right about being
Speaker 2: more excited about that signing because look at the time,
Speaker 2: it was considered a coup that the Knicks were able
Speaker 2: to lure Brunson away from the Mavericks. But it was
Speaker 2: also questionable how much money they gave him, like one
Speaker 2: hundred and four million dollars, I think it was at
Speaker 2: that time, was like, whoa damn. This guy's had one
Speaker 2: season where he took over when Doncic was injured. Is
Speaker 2: he really worked that? Can he be that guy? We're
Speaker 2: blowing up our salary cap because of Brunson. Turns out
Speaker 2: they made the right move. Yeah, Paul I just went
Speaker 2: back and looked at Shaq's stats. He was twenty three
Speaker 2: his last year in Orlando, but he had only played
Speaker 2: fifty two games.
Speaker 3: He started getting hurt. He was down to ninth on
Speaker 3: the MVP list. His stats were down a little bit,
Speaker 3: so anyone. His first year in Los Angeles, same thing,
Speaker 3: fifty one games, a bit injured, He was ninth for MVP.
Speaker 3: But then he ramped it up every year after that.
Speaker 3: He started playing more games and he went to like
Speaker 3: six for the MVP first third, third. So it started
Speaker 3: a little slow with Shack in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had some some tough goes of it with
Speaker 2: Orlando that magic team. I mean, injuries derailed what they
Speaker 2: could have been. Shack Penny Hardaway. Go back and watch
Speaker 2: that documentary, the thirty for thirty on Shack and Penny.
Speaker 2: That's pretty pretty revealing stuff.
Speaker 9: Yet, and when we talk about the Spurs, we cannot
Speaker 9: do what we did with the Thunder with Kevin Durant
Speaker 9: and those guys, and the Magic with Shack and Penny.
Speaker 9: And that's saying they'll be back. You don't know if
Speaker 9: they'll be back.
Speaker 2: That's the thing too. You don't know the Knicks much
Speaker 2: more than San Antonio. You've got a lot of questions.
Speaker 2: Even though the Eastern Conference is a lot weaker. I
Speaker 2: think the Knicks have a three year window here. You know,
Speaker 2: Kat is thirty years old, Brunston's right around the same age. Oh,
Speaker 2: Giannaobi young guy, Mikhale Bridge is still a young guy
Speaker 2: going into next year. If Boston runs it back with
Speaker 2: a healthy Jason Tatum, you'd probably make them the favorites
Speaker 2: if they go out in a dress some of the
Speaker 2: needs that they've got Cleveland, we'll see what they do
Speaker 2: in the offseason. But the Eastern Conference, like this is
Speaker 2: you know, people say, like, look at the Eastern conference like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's like the secondary conference.
Speaker 6: Then it is.
Speaker 2: It's a much lesser, less talented conference. But the argument
Speaker 2: for an Eastern Conference team winning a championship against a
Speaker 2: superior Western Conference team is being made right now because
Speaker 2: all credit to the Knicks were what they did in
Speaker 2: Game one, what they might do for the series. But
Speaker 2: San Antonio is shop worn coming in. San Antonio has
Speaker 2: taken a beating during the playoffs. They go what six
Speaker 2: games Minnesota, that's tough. They go seven with Oklahoma City,
Speaker 2: that's tougher. They're down three to two every and look,
Speaker 2: the West is not getting any easier. Like all those
Speaker 2: teams that stunk out the joint the bottom, they're gonna
Speaker 2: get better, Like Utah. Utah tried to be bad last year,
Speaker 2: but they're not really that bad. They've got Jaron Jackson,
Speaker 2: junior Lowry Mark and another high draft pick this year
Speaker 2: meant this, could they be better if they make some moves.
Speaker 2: Portland they're a team on the rise. New Orleans they
Speaker 2: just got a new coach. They could be better. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna get any easier. In the Western Conference playoffs.
Speaker 2: You could have first round series between an eight seed
Speaker 2: and one seed going seven games. It's very possible for
Speaker 2: these things to happen, and for the team that comes
Speaker 2: out of the Western Conference to be so embattled, to
Speaker 2: be so beat up that a team with lesser talent
Speaker 2: that has to go through a lot less has a
Speaker 2: chance to beat them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, all right, Chris, Chris Mannock's joining us today.
Speaker 3: You haven't been here in a long time. Some of
Speaker 3: the guys in the back room just heard today and
Speaker 3: maybe even listeners. Your first job in sports out of
Speaker 3: college was what.
Speaker 2: My first job in sports out of college? In college?
Speaker 2: Out of college?
Speaker 6: Your job?
Speaker 2: You're, oh, my ball boy?
Speaker 1: Years?
Speaker 2: Your ball boy? Yes, I was, I like to call
Speaker 2: myself locker room attendant with the Boston Celtics for eight years,
Speaker 2: most of the bad years. What years ninety five, the
Speaker 2: first year the garden opened, ninety five to three. I
Speaker 2: graduated college in two thousand and three and got the
Speaker 2: job as a fact checker with Sports Illustrated short thereafter.
Speaker 3: And part of your job, for those who don't know,
Speaker 3: you've got pictures like you helped warm up Michael Geordan
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, explain before Look, things were a lot more loose
Speaker 2: back in those days, before games I like to engage
Speaker 2: with some of the players on visiting teams in I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say games of one on one because I really
Speaker 2: got the ball, but i'd play defense against them. My
Speaker 2: Jordan's story was, which I've said, I think on the
Speaker 2: show before, is that Jordan was. I think it was
Speaker 2: ninety six ninety seven, last couple of years with the Bulls.
Speaker 2: Like most six foot two, six foot three white point guards,
Speaker 2: I wanted to be Bobby Hurley, like, I thought that
Speaker 2: was my future. So I was a big Duke fan,
Speaker 2: had the Duke shirt on at all times. Michael before
Speaker 2: Sell this game, I think was actually the first game
Speaker 2: of the season that year. If I go back that far,
Speaker 2: Michael was walking by and he saw the shirt Michael
Speaker 2: UNC guy Carolina Blue through and through. He said, Duke sucks.
Speaker 2: And I turned around and I said, you suck.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 2: Just was kind of reflexive in that moment, and he
Speaker 2: took it in the right way. He kind of dragged
Speaker 2: me over and we started to kind of go at
Speaker 2: it there a little bit. One on one. He was
Speaker 2: just as good as you might expect. He was nail
Speaker 2: and turn around jumpers on me. I was just some
Speaker 2: skinny seventeen eighteen year old at that time. He was
Speaker 2: kicking my butt, but it was fun. I have a
Speaker 2: lot of those.
Speaker 3: Stories, yeah, Paul, And I've seen a picture this year
Speaker 3: with your forum of George Bank. But he's so competitive
Speaker 3: that he had to take a ball boy with a
Speaker 3: Duke shirt on out there and say hey, here's a reminder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even he didn't. I was on the floor anyway,
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to oversell it, like I did
Speaker 2: say he sucked, like I said that in that moment,
Speaker 2: which looking back on it maybe not the wisest maneuver,
Speaker 2: but Kaye, it was kind of a reflex. He was
Speaker 2: kind of a reflex saying something like that. But Gray
Speaker 2: Omen he did a lot of that. Stephon Marbury was
Speaker 2: a guy that I went up against Ray Allen when
Speaker 2: he was on multiple teams. I used to go up
Speaker 2: against and a lot of guys. It's not to digress
Speaker 2: too much. Kobe a little bit too. I did at
Speaker 2: some with Kobe. I was I was a younger guy
Speaker 2: with Kobe Bryant. Always see it up on the screen
Speaker 2: there if you're watching on Peacock and Sports Network. I
Speaker 2: did that a lot with those guys, and a lot
Speaker 2: of those guys when I graduated college and they saw
Speaker 2: me walking around with a press pass on and a
Speaker 2: notebook and in the locker room as a journalist. A
Speaker 2: lot of those guys I could tell were wondering what
Speaker 2: they may have said to me and what I may
Speaker 2: have been because there were a lot of guys back
Speaker 2: in the day. One of my jobs when I was
Speaker 2: working the visiting locker room was whatever a visiting player needs,
Speaker 2: you go and you take care of right. A lot
Speaker 2: of times it was booze. A lot of times it
Speaker 2: was women. A lot of guys that were like I
Speaker 2: used to be the guy that if somebody saw somebody
Speaker 2: this says before at Internet tender, things like that hookup guy,
Speaker 2: the hookup guy. So if a guy saw someone a
Speaker 2: girl in the crowd and he wanted to get her
Speaker 2: phone number, he'd send me up, And of course I
Speaker 2: go up because usually if I got the numbers, one
Speaker 2: hundred old billion, it for me at the end of
Speaker 2: the night. I'm in college. It's great. There was a guy,
Speaker 2: Lee Nalon was his name. Lee Naylon played back in
Speaker 2: the day. Lee Nalon. I remember one game where he
Speaker 2: wasn't playing. He wasn't playing for this team at the time.
Speaker 2: He was on the bench, but he wasn't active or
Speaker 2: he wasn't playing.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He sent me up after one girl. The girl looked
Speaker 2: down said no, uh came back, so Lee went to
Speaker 2: another one quo jo girl up in the stand. I
Speaker 2: must have got up in the stands three times before
Speaker 2: I got somebody's phone number for my PALLEI dang it
Speaker 2: was then.
Speaker 3: It's hard to get numbers on the bench. If you're
Speaker 3: out playing, it's.
Speaker 2: Easy, I I guess, yeah, but I would go up
Speaker 2: there and do that. Alan Iverson the one I've told
Speaker 2: a couple of times in the past. Think I wrote
Speaker 2: a story about this once. Alan Iverson was after the
Speaker 2: Celtics beat the seventy six. I want to say, O
Speaker 2: two first round beat them in five games, kind of
Speaker 2: the rise of Paul Pierce and Nantwan Walker and those teams.
Speaker 2: After the game, Iverson gives me, I think it must
Speaker 2: have give me a two thousand dollars three thousand. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it was. Just told me to get
Speaker 2: as much corona and different drinks as I can get. So,
Speaker 2: if you're familiar with the Boston Garden area, there's not
Speaker 2: a liquor store across the street. You've got to go
Speaker 2: up the hill, and I don't have a car, A
Speaker 2: and B, even if I did, like driving around after
Speaker 2: a game in that area is impossible. You're not doing that.
Speaker 2: So I take one of those hand trucks and I'm
Speaker 2: rolling the hand truck up the hill and I go
Speaker 2: into the liquor store that's on top of the hill.
Speaker 2: I forget the name of the street, but it's up there,
Speaker 2: and I just start grabbing racks of Corona, grabbing musta
Speaker 2: at fifteen twenty, I don't know. I grabbed a couple
Speaker 2: of bottles of what they were looking for, and I
Speaker 2: start to make my way back down the hill. As
Speaker 2: I'm making my way back down the hill, the game
Speaker 2: is letting out, so I've got people trying to grab
Speaker 2: racks off the case. I'm doing my best to play
Speaker 2: defense on them, trying to bring them in. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: successful at bringing all this booze into the garden. As
Speaker 2: I get into the arena, the Celtics start coming down
Speaker 2: the stairs. And the Celtics just advance to the second round,
Speaker 2: so they're coming down the stairs and they're grabbing the
Speaker 2: thirty racks they're taking beer off the off the cart
Speaker 2: from me, and I'm not gonna say no to Tony
Speaker 2: Batti and Paul Pierce and guys like that that are
Speaker 2: celebrating winning. So I get back to the truck or
Speaker 2: I get back to the team bus and I'm unloading
Speaker 2: some of this and Iverson's like, you know, he didn't
Speaker 2: want to change back anyway, but he's like, this is
Speaker 2: all you got. I had like a third of my
Speaker 2: inventory by the time I got back to that truck.
Speaker 2: But I made sure there was a case on his
Speaker 2: seat and some other stuff that was there.
Speaker 3: I want you, I forget, but he said keep the
Speaker 3: change off of like whatever, Like he didn't care.
Speaker 2: He didn't It didn't really affect him how much money.
Speaker 2: He just wanted enough for him and his teammates to
Speaker 2: I guess drink away this first round series loss tough.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of good stuff, good gig. I
Speaker 2: got a lot of those stories. Now, that was the
Speaker 2: best college gig anybody could ever have, because you made
Speaker 2: like two three hundred bucks a night, And you guys know,
Speaker 2: in the nineteen nineties in college early two thousands, three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars, you might as well be a millionaire walking
Speaker 2: into the bar, You'd be like, Oh, let's spread it
Speaker 2: around our first rounds on me, second rounds on me.
Speaker 2: I was, I was feeling it during those days, all right,
Speaker 2: eight seven to seven three DP shows the phone number,
Speaker 2: email address of course, DP at Danpatrick dot com. Game
Speaker 2: two spur against Nick tomorrow night. But I want to
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about game three in game four?
Speaker 2: How much is it gonna cost to get into the
Speaker 2: building for Game three? In Game four? Get the poll
Speaker 2: poor results as well, what we learned? Go around the room.
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Speaker 2: like three minutes of heaven in the back. That was
Speaker 2: pretty impressive. Like that, I gotta come back more for
Speaker 2: these these fridays. All right, Paul, you have a news.
Speaker 2: I haven't done best weekend sports here and I've been
Speaker 2: on the show. Why don't you walk me through it?
Speaker 3: So it could be a person, an entity, a player, coach,
Speaker 3: anyone who had a great week in sports for whatever reasons.
Speaker 3: Your pick. I'll go first. I'll give you example. Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson retired from the NFL career wasn't going that great.
Speaker 3: He got a prime gig at CBIA Sports on their
Speaker 3: football show. And that's a really nice gig, a lot
Speaker 3: of dough, it's living in New York City. He had
Speaker 3: a great week considering how last year went.
Speaker 2: All right, Marvin, what do you got?
Speaker 9: Miles Garrett getting traded from the lowly Cleveland Browns to
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl contender La Rams.
Speaker 2: That's nice. That's nice going to Cleveland to La get
Speaker 2: a lot of money. Maybe Aaron Donald comes back and
Speaker 2: wants to play with you. I don't know what can
Speaker 2: happen there, Dylan, what do you got? I gotta go
Speaker 2: with the AFC North because Miles Garrett isn't there anymore. Okay,
Speaker 2: Fritzy recently buys him, giving it to forward Seth Jarvis
Speaker 2: of the Carolina Hurricanes. If he doesn't get that overtime goal,
Speaker 2: they lose their first two at home and it down
Speaker 2: O two going to Vegas. Yeah, you had no idea
Speaker 2: how Seth Jarvis was until last knock.
Speaker 5: Mike Jarvis at that former coach.
Speaker 2: George Washington.
Speaker 3: Sat john'step deep cut.
Speaker 2: Do you having his long It's good, Mike Jarvis. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with seven footers everywhere. And I say that
Speaker 2: because we're in today's NBA. The last five ten years,
Speaker 2: it's evolved towards more small ball, and even if you
Speaker 2: are a center, you're being asked to shoot three pointers. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're seven feet and you got some muscle on you,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be needed to defend Victor webgyon for the
Speaker 2: next fifteen years. Like if you're a team, I got
Speaker 2: to use Isaiah Hartenstein as an example, Mitchell Robinson as
Speaker 2: an example. These are guys that you'd look at and
Speaker 2: be all right, fifteen to twenty million a year type
Speaker 2: of players now because the demand for them is going
Speaker 2: to be so high. You got a big contract thirty
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, thirty five I don't know, something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Marvin, that's kind of like in the nineties when
Speaker 9: the Spurs gave him a leak Rose a big deal
Speaker 9: just because he can kind of deal with Shack just
Speaker 9: a little bit.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, three and D guys are still in vogue.
Speaker 2: They still get a lot of money, They're still popular.
Speaker 2: But now I think the days of like the plotting
Speaker 2: seven footer is back, the burly big Man is back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, PAULI you gotta give Marvin a little credit for
Speaker 3: the Molik Rose pole I did.
Speaker 2: That is a good that's a good poll. That's better
Speaker 2: than Mike Jarvis. I'll give him that much, that's for sure. Dylan,
Speaker 2: what do you got?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 8: Paul actually said this to me earlier as a poll question.
Speaker 8: We didn't get to it, but I think it's a
Speaker 8: good topic for the room.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 8: You can be seven feet tall and play in the
Speaker 8: NBA for five years as a backup and make like
Speaker 8: twenty million dollars, but you're seven feet you know, for
Speaker 8: the rest of your life, or just stay as you are.
Speaker 2: M I'd take the twenty million dollars. Yeah, I'd live
Speaker 2: with being seven feet The discomfort in cars, planes, things
Speaker 2: like that, and this is shopping.
Speaker 3: I know you got twenty millions to you custom clothes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about I mean, what if you're like seven
Speaker 2: to five? That's that's different, Like do you like taco?
Speaker 2: Fall is an example, Like a guy that didn't have
Speaker 2: a long NBA career, made a couple of bucks, made
Speaker 2: some money over in China too, so made a little
Speaker 2: bit of money. But he's seven foot five and travel
Speaker 2: is going to be difficult for him for the rest
Speaker 2: of his natural life. Like that's yeah, seven to five
Speaker 2: is tough. Seven foot I could probably get around with.
Speaker 2: I'm six three. It's it's a big difference. I'd give you,
Speaker 2: but it's it's right there.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I seven foot, twenty million dollars seven to five,
Speaker 2: I'd pass on it. Game two is tonight. Tickets are expensive,
Speaker 2: though Knicks fans are all there and droves. That's because
Speaker 2: the get in price for games three in game four
Speaker 2: is outrageous, outrageous in New York City, PAULI, as of today,
Speaker 2: what are the get in prices for game three? In
Speaker 2: game four?
Speaker 3: For one ticket bad seat seventy two hundred for Game three?
Speaker 3: It gets better or worse for Game four eights for
Speaker 3: the worst seat in the house.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you that some of these bad seats
Speaker 2: that you're talking about are really bad, Like they're really bad,
Speaker 2: Like they're not They're not only high, many of them
Speaker 2: are obstructed view, like you're some of the ones I've
Speaker 2: looked at from the Press Sex, which is also pretty
Speaker 2: high up. You watch are mostly watching on a monitor,
Speaker 2: the monitors right in front of you. It's kind of
Speaker 2: lowered down. You get a half look at the floor.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult to watch the game action in some
Speaker 2: of these seats. The idea of paying seventy five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars get in to watch Game three, that's wild to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Game four eight thousand dollars, you're buying the
Speaker 3: ability to stay for the rest of your life. I
Speaker 3: was there. No one's gonna ask you. If you're a
Speaker 3: Row four hundred or Row eight, they may ask you,
Speaker 3: but you just say I was there forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess I say no now. But
Speaker 2: it's like use like the Goodwill Hunting reference, like being
Speaker 2: at the game at the Carlton Fist game for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox and you get the home run, like you
Speaker 2: don't know what's gonna happen, Like if it's just a
Speaker 2: run of the mill game. You're like, I paid seventy
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks. S Thatt's a car. That's a new car.
Speaker 2: I could have bought for something like that instead. But
Speaker 2: if it turns out to be the greatest game in
Speaker 2: NBA history, then short you can say that, yeah, Fritz.
Speaker 2: And if you're a big Knicks fan and it's like
Speaker 2: I was there for the one thirteen seventy nine loss
Speaker 2: or whatever, if that goes really poorly, it's that much
Speaker 2: worse that you spent all that money so your team get.
Speaker 6: The kind of up.
Speaker 2: It's like the Knicks fans that you know, you probably
Speaker 2: thought three quarters into Game one of the Conference Finals
Speaker 2: when they're down twenty two points in the fourth quarter, like, damn,
Speaker 2: what did I pay for? I probably paid five grand
Speaker 2: to get this good seat to this one game. But
Speaker 2: I guess it all depends on how how the game
Speaker 2: plays on. I thought Jalen Brunson had a good answer
Speaker 2: to the question he was asked yesterday at Media Day.
Speaker 2: People were telling Brunson what these get in prices were,
Speaker 2: right around seventy five hundred dollars. He was asked what
Speaker 2: he would pay seventy five hundred dollars to actually go
Speaker 2: and see.
Speaker 4: There was a report that in the last row of
Speaker 4: the garden their seats on sale for seventy five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: I'm curious what show would you pay seventy five hundred
Speaker 4: dollars to go see.
Speaker 6: That's a good question. Alive Michael Jackson performance, That's a
Speaker 6: good one.
Speaker 2: I think that's probably off the table at the moment.
Speaker 2: But he's not gonna go see the theory. In theory,
Speaker 2: I guess you can go and see that. I can't.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you guys would pay seventy five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars to go and see?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Bally, If to get a ticket to cut
Speaker 3: Game seven of the Cubs World Series, I.
Speaker 2: Would have paid that. Yeah, because of the drought once
Speaker 2: in a lifetime.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I might have felt the same way about the Red
Speaker 2: Sox in Game four if I had the money and
Speaker 2: could afford it. Yeah, maybe I thought that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Fritzy, if I knew they were gonna win the
Speaker 4: Bronco Packer of Broncos first Super Bowl with the LA
Speaker 4: beating four Super Bowl thirty two in San Diego, I
Speaker 4: would have dropped a few thousand dollars to be there
Speaker 4: for their very first win.
Speaker 2: Dylan, anything for you. It would probably be a musical
Speaker 2: act that's not around anymore. And what about you, Marvin
Speaker 2: u com Final four. Well, somebody's gonna payeventy five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars or more six figures to get into these games anyway. Guys,
Speaker 2: great to be here, great to be back. Enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: See you guys in six years, seven