WEBVTT - 01/14/21 DPS Hour 1 Tim MacMahon 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.600 Sports Radio. Made it to a Thursday Dan and the 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:11.800 Danets Dan Patrick Show twenty four hours ago, just rumors, speculation, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.360 and now twenty four hours later, one of the biggest 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.240 deals we've had in NBA history as far as teams, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.919 draft picks and some star power there. You'd like to 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.240 get in touch with the program, you can a variety 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.000 of ways. Your opinion is always valued here. You can 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.200 dial us up each seven seven three d P Show 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.599 email address dpat dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.760 DP show. Before I get to the hardened stuff, Adam 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.080 Schefter tweeting moments ago. Jacksonville and former Ohio state head 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.000 coach Urban Meyer are in advanced talks to see if 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:50.280 they can finalize a deal. Per league sources, they met 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.840 again yesterday. Also understand this that if you hire urban Meyer, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.400 that means he is going to be the GM for 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.440 at least a little while and maybe have final say 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.640 on the roster. So he's going to be doing more 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.039 than being the head coach here because he'll probably be 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.039 picking his general manager, which is interesting. So we'll get 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:12.600 to that coming up. We got a play of the 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.760 day stat of the day. We also have a poll 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.000 question as well. 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You can go through the motions. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.960 When you do show up, go through the media, ask 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.240 your agent to ask for a trade. You can go 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.400 talk to the owner. Two nights ago, James Harden came 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.360 out and said things weren't working in Houston. And when 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.920 I heard this, I said on the show, that's his 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:13.240 exit interview. Those are his final comments. I wondered if 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.160 he would play again. And then as it turned out, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.800 they sort of ramped up the trade talks and we 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.120 have a deal because the Rockets, trading hardened to the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.359 nets and the Mega deal that will have a big 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.080 impact on the title race. It should. Harden will team 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.200 up with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, two players who 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.000 have had somewhat messy departures from their last teams. And 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.840 you don't know how these things work out. If you 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.239 go back to when Kevin Durant joined Golden State, it 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.800 was incumbent upon Steve Kerr and the other Warriors to 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.519 accommodate Kevin Durant. You got to have him come in 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.200 and let him feel like, we want you to be successful, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.240 we want you to be the star. You can be 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.840 the go to guy. It was really important for Raymond Greene, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.480 Steph Curry, Klay Thompson to welcome in Kevin Durant and 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.760 make sure that he wasn't the odd man out. Now 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.600 it turned out that he was. He was never fully 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.799 immerged in the you know, the Golden State Warriors. He 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.079 was there and he was you know, as we found out, 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.160 he wasn't there very long, but he was there, he 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.840 was successful, had the Achilles injury, and then now he's 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.320 in Brooklyn. If you look at what happened with Lebron, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.720 Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving and Cleveland. You have to 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.239 have a pecking order. You have to know your place. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.680 Kevin Love knew that he was going to play the 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.320 role of Chris Bosh when Lebron and d Wade teamed 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.360 up in Miami. Chris Bosh was as important to that 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.880 success as anybody was, because here is a future Hall 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.880 of Famer, perennial All Star in Toronto. He goes to Miami, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.440 but he knew, I have to be the third guy. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.840 Then it was up to Lebron and d Wade and 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.440 who was gonna who's team it was, and who gets 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.920 the last shot and all those things that we try 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.520 to come up with arguments about. But when you go 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.160 to a team, you have to know where you stand 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.520 with everybody because you can't have three alpha's in there now. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.719 As much as Chris Bosh was able to do what 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.640 he wanted to do in Toronto and get twenty two 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.039 and twelve a night, when he went to Miami, it 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.279 was what is my role tonight? What do you need? 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.640 I'll do that Kevin Love. Kevin Love put up historically 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.040 great numbers in Minnesota. One night he had a thirty 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:40.039 thirty game, he goes to Cleveland. He realizes, Hey, I 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.640 gotta be fifteen and eight. Whatever you need me to do, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.320 I can do it. I can shoot the three. I'm 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.120 gonna compliment what you guys do. Now you've got three 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:57.320 alpha's here, Katie, Kyrie and James Harden, and right now 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.440 you got one of them missing. It's fascinating. I thought 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.279 it was going to be fascinating before they got James Harden. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.479 Now you look at this and you say, the upside is, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.159 you guys can win the championship. The downside is it's 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.360 going to be a mess. And it's not just a mess. Now, 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.600 this is a mess that could impact the nets for 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.680 a decade. What they gave up. They're rolling in the 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.760 dice that they can bring in James Harden. You got 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.000 a rookie head coach and Steve Nash. Now you do 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.480 have Mike D'Antoni, who coached James Harden, and he's on 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.000 the bench with Steve Kerr or Steve Nash. And you're 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.680 trying to figure all this out. And first of all, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.920 you got to figure out Kyrie Irving, because we don't 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.800 even know where he stands with all of this. Does 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.919 he want Steve Nash is the head coach, Does he 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.719 respect him? How's he going to feel that James Harden 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.200 is going to be ball dominant here. Kevin Durant would 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.400 have gone anywhere, and he decided he wanted to go 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.400 with Brooklyn and he wanted to go and be with 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:12.000 his buddy Kyrie. And now there's varying reports on Kyrie 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.400 getting maybe he's a little distant with Kevin Durant, that 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.240 maybe he doesn't respect Steve Nash, who he thinks may 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.960 have jumped to the front of the line to become 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.280 a head coach. Kyrie's not even in uniform, which is amazing. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.600 But if you look at what you're doing, you run 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.359 the risk of adding Harden, and he can be great. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.279 But if Harden, Durant and Irving learned to play together 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.240 by playoff time, then you have something truly incredible. But 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.520 these things don't always work out, and trying to figure 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:49.240 that out of the chemistry part of this is is 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.120 a delicate balance because everybody thinks they're the star. They 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.440 want their touches. Hey, I used to average thirty. Kyrie's 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.240 gonna want it crunch time. That's when I'm known or 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.960 KD wants to be one of the top ten players 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.880 of all time. I want to win championship. Like, there's 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.960 so much that you throw in here, and then Steve 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.800 Nash is just trying to establish himself as the voice 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:18.040 in that locker room and good luck with that. Mclevity 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.280 got a poll question for me. Yeah, as you suggested, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.160 we talked about before the show, are the Nets the 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.600 team to beat in the NBA? Basically? Will they win 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.520 a title with this group this year? Or is that 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.640 even too much to ask right now? I feel like 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.600 it's a fair question. Well, we're only nine, ten eleven 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.640 games into the season, although we're lopping off ten games 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.680 so it's a little bit more of a shortened season. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.320 We're coming off the bubble, guys getting into shape. I e. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.760 James Harden rookie coach, and Steve Nash got a good 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.560 bench though, got good assistant coaches there. I think it's 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:02.040 asking an awful lot. I think it's an awful You know, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.120 the Lakers still have the infrastructure there and they got 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.960 better in the off season. I don't know who else. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.520 I think Philadelphia is still the team to beat in 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.400 the East. And the fact that Philadelphia didn't give up 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.240 Ben Simmons, which we can talk about because Ben Simmons 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.000 was gonna Ben Simmons thought he was going to be 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.960 traded yesterday thought and then you didn't trade him. If 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.000 I'm Houston and I look around at what happened, I 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:34.040 eventually got Victor Oladipo, who's on an expiring contract. If 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:38.280 you get Ben Simmons, you're going to be a good team, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.439 you're gonna be a playoff team. They got Victor Oladipo, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.360 who I don't even know if he'll be there at 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.160 the end of the season because that expiring contract. Somebody 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.719 may want to pick that up. But you know, keep 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.600 this in mind, the Rockets don't even have a first 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.120 round pick. It's not like they can tank because Oklahoma 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.200 City owns Houston's draft pick. And by the way, we 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.640 get caught up in these draft picks. These draft picks 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.240 don't mean anything because keep in mind, Houston had no 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.760 draft picks. Remember that they gave it up for Russell Westbrook. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.480 Now they got a bunch of them. It can happen. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.760 You can get draft picks back, and we saw a 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:22.040 lot of that. I think the Indiana Pacers did a 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.760 great job in getting Caris Lavert. Now you're gonna say, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.520 wait a minute, through all of this, you're gonna go 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.720 I think Indiana did extremely well with Carriss Lavert. The 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.760 folks in the Midwest are going to find out. You're 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.480 going to get somebody who shows up who is really good, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.199 plays hard, and is going to be He's gonna fit 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.199 in with that nucleus that you have. You got Sabonis 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.800 and you got Brogden, and I know Oladipo went to 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.679 Iu now even said who's your Okay, I don't think 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.719 he wanted to be there. Plus, I don't know how 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.199 healthy is and he's got an expiring contract and he's 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.280 gonna want a lot of money, and maybe you've seen 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.400 the best out of him. Pacers did well with Karas Lavert. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.720 In my opinion, I love Jared Allen. He was going 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.160 to get paid. I think he's a really talented young player, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.160 team player, energetic player. And now he goes to Cleveland. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.120 The Nets don't have defense, they don't have a rim 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.680 protector here. You know, there's a lot of things you 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.760 can look at and go, Okay, how good are they? 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.079 I think the Nets go We're all in. But did 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.280 you get James Harden because you don't know about Kyrie Irving. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.600 How much did that factor in? And coming up we'll 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.800 talk to Tim mcmah of ESPN. He's done a great 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.080 job in covering this trade. Frank Eisla, who does pre 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.240 and post game for the Yes Network. He's a studio 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.880 host there covering the nets. He'll join us coming up 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.400 a little bit later on. All right, any other poll 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.800 questions there? McLevin Well, I just piet, I just say 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.480 Malcolm Braden. I forgot Malcolm Bragden was on the Pacers. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.080 He's good. He's shooting forty eight percent from three this year. Yeah, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.840 he's played well. He's played well and he needs to 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.319 take over that. Hey, this is my team. They got 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.840 Miles Turner. Sabonis has been good, and I like what 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.439 the Pacers are doing. I don't know if they're challenging 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.160 anybody in the East, but I like what they did. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.720 They got Caris LeVert and he's a talented player, a 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:17.560 young player, and with Houston Victor Oladipo Okay, I like him. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.800 I don't think he wants to stay in Houston. Yeah, mclub. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.920 One side question we were throwing around, are you happy 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.520 if you're a Sixers fan that Ben Simmons was not 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.840 traded for Harden, I would be. But you know, I 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.200 just told this last night, and this is somebody who 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.439 is he's involved in the NBA. Don't I don't want 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.160 to give too many details, but he's involved in the NBA. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.040 He works in the league right now. And he said, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.440 he goes. I had to laugh, he goes. I saw 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.559 the reair of you or the podcast. I listened to 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.760 your podcast and you were talking about would they trade 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.040 James Harden to Philadelphia? And I laughed out loud because 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:00.319 why would Why would Houston help out the Philip Delphia 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.760 seventy six ers. Theyre GM who said I'm gonna take 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.520 some time off and you know, step down as the 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.880 Rockets GM. Darryl Moorey then goes to Philadelphia. They were 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.600 not going to help out Daryl Moorey because Darryl Moorey 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.240 wanted James Harden and they didn't want to give up. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.960 They were trying to figure out, how can we do 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.280 this and not give up Ben Simmons. Then they realized 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.719 they had to give up Ben Simmons. But if I'm 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.840 Houston and I could have gotten Ben Simmons. I don't 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.680 think he's a franchise player, but I think he's a 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:33.200 he can be a very good player. And they decided 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.079 that they wanted Victor Oladipo instead, and you got all 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.520 of these draft picks from the nets, which I don't 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.160 even know what it's gonna mean, you know, five years 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.959 down the road. It's one of those where you go, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.880 you know, five years down the road, we're gonna go, man, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.960 how did they get that guy? Oh? That was the 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.920 trade with Harden and oh Hardened. Okay, It's almost like 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.359 you need a map that's going to tell you exactly 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.800 this went there, that goes there, this goes there, and 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.920 this is up in twenty twenty seven. There's an eleven 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:08.360 year old kid right now who's going to be involved 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.960 in this trade, right so he's going to be a 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.840 Houston Rocket. So there's an eleven year old walking around 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.720 playing with his Xbox or whatever, and you know, he's 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.520 six to four and he just started dunking, and he's 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.679 gonna be a Houston Rocket in twenty twenty seven. I mean, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.760 that's how crazy old of this is. Yeah, Paulie, you 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.680 know when the story broke yesterday, I think Ramona Shelburne 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.480 and Woads broke it. It just said James Harden has 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.960 been traded to New Jersey Nets. My mind went instantly to, oh, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.960 they traded Kyrie Irving for him straight up, or you 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.640 know something picks. But I was a little surprised that 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.000 they didn't use this as an opportunity to dump Kyrie. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.240 That was before I knew there's a ton of draft 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.199 picks involved. Yeah, my first reaction. Yeah, But if I'm Houston, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.040 I don't want Kyrie Irving. But that's interesting because with 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.920 the Nets, we think they're gonna win titles or people 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.000 do well. I'm ass him in Kyrie with Kevin Durant 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.000 and somehow they make that work. And Kevin Durant had 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:10.080 played with James Harden. But if I'm Houston, I don't 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:11.840 want a guy that I don't even know that the 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.959 team can't find the guy that you might want to 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.080 trade to me. Yeah, I'm mcclevin. Wouldn't that risk making 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.800 Durant mad if they traded Kyrie too? Don't they run 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.200 the co coaches? I don't even know what's happening. Probably, Yeah, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.720 Seed Funny had to just keep forgetting that Houston has 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.040 John Wall. Now, yeah, yeah, you know they had they 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.680 had a team that can make the playoffs with Harden 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.360 if he wanted to play John Wall, Boogie Cousins, Christian Wood. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.680 You know they they had, they could they could be 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.080 a five seed, four seeds, the Rockets they could have been. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.000 But I think they're gonna be your rockets, aren't they. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.240 Now they're not my rockets, but they can be an 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.080 Oklahoma City type team. They might overachieve, but I don't. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.360 I think they're gonna surprise some people, but I don't 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.800 think they're going to be consistent. 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But Tim McMahon ESPN NBA reporter will join us, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.400 and did they make this deal because they're not quite 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.440 sure about if Kyrie Irving wants to play anymore. Yeah, Paul, 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.680 I have a bet James Harden's first game as a 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.360 New New York Brooklyn net is Kyrie Irving also on 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.320 the floor with him? No, Is that weird that you'd 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.040 lean towards. No, he's perfectly healthy and ready to play. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.360 He's got zoom calls to be on. There's birthday parties 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.360 to go to. Come on, PAULI. He can't make time 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:48.040 for a game a game? How weird is that? Oh? Man? I, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.280 I you know, I would like to say, yeah, it's weird, 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.000 but in today's sports society, it's not weird, which is 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.200 saying a whole lot. 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Adam Schefter reports Jacksonville and 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.760 Urban Meyer are in advanced talks to see if they 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.640 can finalize the deal. Per League sources, they met yesterday 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.320 and I think they met on Shod Khan's yacht, which 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.440 would be a home field advantage, a home sea advantage. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.160 I would thing for Shodkun come on into my yacht. Yeah, yes, Paul, see, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.160 I think that's a mistake by Shod con. I've seen 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.919 that yacht and that's like the yacht there's only like 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.879 five in the world that big. You know, if you're 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.679 negotiating contract with Irban Meyer, you can't like, well, you know, 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.680 we can't really afford nine million, you're on this yacht 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.560 that has eighteen bathrooms. Why is it that every time 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.000 I went into management, yeay, we got to tighten the 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.800 budget here like no no boss I ever had. When 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.520 I went into negotiate a contract, said are you kidding me? 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.080 We got so much bleeping money? What do you want? Yeah? See, 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.879 Shot Khan's yacht is so awesome. It has its own 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.440 Wikipedia page, it's got a I've seen it in person. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.200 It's got a helipad. Oh yeah, most of those guys 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.000 have those. It's got a boat on the back of it, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.040 like a jet ski boat, like a jetboat, like an 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:56.119 eight person But Paul Allen had a submarine on his opera. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.880 Yes see, you can rent it if you want shodka yacht. Yeah, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.360 there's like a per week charter feed. Do you want 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.600 to guess how much it is per week? Per week? 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:13.480 Five hundred thousand dollars a million? Oh are you gonna 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:20.240 do it? Midweekly? Tuesday three discounted rate one point two mills? Okay, 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.240 per week? All right, but now that is excluding food, fuel, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.560 and dockage costs, so he still got to pay for 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.160 all that too. Boy. Let me bring in Tim McMahon, 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.680 the ESPN NBA reporter who has done a great job 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:36.000 keeping an eye on the James Harden situation. And Tim, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.040 thanks for joining us. If I had you on yesterday 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.959 at this time, what would you have said was going 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.440 to happen in Houston with James Harden? Well, I would 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.000 have said that a trade is closer to happening than not. Um, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:54.520 you know, obviously, I think the trade was close to 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.560 being completed, or they knew that they were close to 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.960 a trade, whether it was going to be Philly or Brooklyn, 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.880 and then Harden's performance Tuesday night. By performance, I don't 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.960 mean five to sixteen from the floor, I mean the 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.560 postgame press conference was basically his way of saying, Hey, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:11.800 I'm pretty much to the other side of the bridge, 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.439 so let me just burn this and you know, you 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.560 guys can figure out the rest. Do you think he 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.679 knew he was going to be traded? It was a trade, 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.920 was eminent with what he because I said the same 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.440 thing yesterday morning when I heard that, I said, that's 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.080 his exit interview. He's basically saying, see you do you 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:29.800 think he knew at that time that he was going 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.960 to be traded? Well, I think he knew that it 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.520 was very close to happening, and he wanted to make 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:41.560 sure it happened. You know, So again, whether it was 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.000 Philly or Brooklyn, he was fine with either place. Obviously 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:46.680 he wanted to get out of Houston. Those are the 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:48.800 top two teams on his list, and I think that 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.560 was his way of saying, hey, i'm done here. You 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.119 figure out which one of those two teams I'm going to, 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.400 but I'm done with the Rock. It's a tricky legacy 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.639 with James Harden. I don't know if he cares about 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.320 his legacy, but you wrote a column on this exact 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.040 topic here. How do you think Houston will remember James Harden? 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.119 That it is, it's tricky, complicated, whatever you want to say. Look, 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.840