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Speaker 2: phone calls coming up. We've touched on a variety of topics,
Speaker 2: certainly the Lakers with JJ Reddick. We will check in
Speaker 2: with the Lakers, and the writer for the La Times,
Speaker 2: Dan Witki, covers the Lakers. We'll ask him if this
Speaker 2: is the right hire here, because we can point out
Speaker 2: a couple things. Oh, there have been guys who don't
Speaker 2: have experience and they've been very successful. And I would
Speaker 2: encourage you to look at the rosters that they inherited.
Speaker 2: Therefore it pretty much ensured that they were going to
Speaker 2: be successful. But then you also have Steve Nash and
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Derek Fisher with the Knicks, Jason Kidd with Brooklyn
Speaker 2: darn with the Lakers. Although I would probably argue that
Speaker 2: Darvinham was successful. He got his team to the Western
Speaker 2: Conference Finals. But then when things started to fall off
Speaker 2: a little bit, or maybe maybe the team started to
Speaker 2: notice that Darvinham wasn't making in game adjustments that needed
Speaker 2: to be made and therefore the strategy behind everything that
Speaker 2: it felt like they were getting out coached in games.
Speaker 2: And Darvinham got fired after two years. These coaches, after
Speaker 2: Phil Jackson, everybody lasted about two years. JJ Reddick got four.
Speaker 2: I'll take you back to a little over a year
Speaker 2: ago when JJ was on the program and I asked
Speaker 2: him the following question, I'm from wanting to maybe be
Speaker 2: a head coach.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you you certainly missed the competitive side
Speaker 3: of professional basketball when you retire, and that's probably the
Speaker 3: biggest hitch. I'm loving what I'm doing right now, and
Speaker 3: I'm in a very fortunate situation that I can kind
Speaker 3: of wait and just see if there's anything that materializes
Speaker 3: that that's that's sort of a perfect fit. But you know,
Speaker 3: I've talked with teams now going on a year about
Speaker 3: assistant jobs, and I'm interested in being a head coach.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't have to start as a head coach.
Speaker 3: I don't have to start as an assistant. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter to me. It's more just about the fit and
Speaker 3: the people that are, you know, at the organization.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he got four years here, Lebron, what's the
Speaker 2: over under two and a half years that he continues
Speaker 2: to play and maybe longer. He certainly hasn't had that
Speaker 2: much of a drop off here. And then you factor
Speaker 2: in his son, how long you know, does that reinvigorate him?
Speaker 2: Does he want to play longer? Or is it a hey,
Speaker 2: I got the opportunity to play with my son. Not
Speaker 2: everybody's all in on JJ Reddick becoming the head coach
Speaker 2: of the Lakers. Bill Plashke, the columnist for the La Times,
Speaker 2: didn't mince words last week.
Speaker 4: And I hope it's not JJ Redick, and I've written
Speaker 4: about that. He's he's not. He's not a coach. He's
Speaker 4: never coached before. I'm worried they're gonna go back to
Speaker 4: JJ with JJ Reddick. If not, I know they got this.
Speaker 4: James Barrego is on the A list. Why not Sam Cassell?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: In my opinion, why not go go get Becky Hammond?
Speaker 4: I'm serious? Why not to go completely outside the boxes there?
Speaker 4: Because there wherever's gonna coach her now is in the
Speaker 4: coaching for two years to get fired probably anyway. So
Speaker 4: that's it's so, it's so bad, it's so since since
Speaker 4: such disarray, Hell, why not draft Bronnie mcbrownie the player coach?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So that's a Bill Plashke. Now he said that last
Speaker 2: week before realizing who JJ Reddick may add to his bench.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna he's gonna be adding some experience here.
Speaker 2: And really, you're hiring a team. It's not a head coach.
Speaker 2: You're hiring a team, and it's a team of coaches.
Speaker 2: If Sam Cassell's coming over from Boston, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: have Scotty Brooks come in from Portland, maybe Jared Dudley
Speaker 2: from Dallas bench, maybe stan Van Gundy might be somebody.
Speaker 2: So you're hiring a group of people to help you
Speaker 2: coach and run the Lakers. And I like that. I like,
Speaker 2: you know, the infrastructure that he has here JJ Reddick
Speaker 2: on his own. And I go back to what I
Speaker 2: said yesterday, It is so difficult to be coaching a
Speaker 2: team like this that is analyzed constantly. It's like Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy with the Cowboys. No matter what he does, it's
Speaker 2: not good enough, never going to be good enough unless
Speaker 2: you win a title. Well, here's the situation where JJ Reddick,
Speaker 2: who might not take criticism too well, might have rabbit
Speaker 2: ears hearing everything reacting to that. You're gonna You're gonna
Speaker 2: be analyzed, scrutinized constantly everything you do, every game, every
Speaker 2: every moment, lebron a d all of this, Bronnie, are
Speaker 2: you ready for that? When you get in front of
Speaker 2: the media, it's it's not like you're coaching in Santa Antonio.
Speaker 2: But I will say understanding Reddick. He is media savvy,
Speaker 2: but you also can't take everything personally to heart. People
Speaker 2: are going to be looking for stories. There's so many
Speaker 2: members of the media who cover the Lakers. You have
Speaker 2: writers who have left other parts of the country to
Speaker 2: cover the Lakers. With lebron the importance, and you're the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys of the NBA. We're waiting for whatever it
Speaker 2: might be positive or negative, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: discussed every one of these shows ESPN, Fox, They're all
Speaker 2: going to discuss you every day. They discuss Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: every day, the Cowboys' salary cap every day, and they
Speaker 2: will cover you every single day, because that's what the
Speaker 2: research says. Play the hits, cover these teams, cover these
Speaker 2: stories every single day. He's going to be asked about
Speaker 2: this or people are going to scrutinize what he's doing. Now,
Speaker 2: he might do a great job, and then they're talking
Speaker 2: about you and upon way. But Dan wik is the
Speaker 2: LA Lakers beat reporter for the LA Times. And then
Speaker 2: I wonder, if you're JJ Reddick, you can't continue, Well
Speaker 2: you can't, you can? I would say you shouldn't continue
Speaker 2: to do a podcast with Lebron. Now I get it,
Speaker 2: big business. Focus on the main business, because if you're
Speaker 2: successful with that, that sets you up for other things.
Speaker 2: If you want to now you just beca't you were
Speaker 2: a broadcaster. I still love that. They part of the
Speaker 2: reason wink wink that ESPN fired Jeffvan Gundy as they
Speaker 2: were worried he was going to take another job, a
Speaker 2: head coaching job. So you bring in JJ Reddick and
Speaker 2: what's he do? He takes a head coaching job. To me,
Speaker 2: Jeff Van Gundy got let go him and Mark Jackson
Speaker 2: because they were not afraid to be critical of the
Speaker 2: NBA and officiating. Why is it you're going to fire
Speaker 2: those guys. But you love the TMT guys who criticize
Speaker 2: you far more than Jeffan Gundy and Mark j Did.
Speaker 2: It's like, we can't take that you're criticizing the officials. Meanwhile, hey,
Speaker 2: do you hear what Jack and Charles had to say?
Speaker 2: But that's a side topic there. And Jeff Van Gundy
Speaker 2: going to the Clippers now after being with the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Good for him, all right? Eight seven seven three DP
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Speaker 5: Let me update you real quick on some pressing matters here.
Speaker 5: Who lasts longer with the Lakers? JJ Reddick or Lebron James?
Speaker 5: JJ Reddick has two thirds of that book? Okay, all right,
Speaker 5: it's nice to see the confidence there. Yeah, who has
Speaker 5: a better first season? This is so JJ Reddick and
Speaker 5: the Lakers or Doug Gottlieb at you dub green Bay
Speaker 5: right now?
Speaker 2: Gottlieb holding on at fifty six percent? Way do I
Speaker 2: have Doug? Have I had Doug going to University of
Speaker 2: Wisconsin Green Bay? Stevens point, Oh, I think I got
Speaker 2: him coaching two teams. Oh that's okay. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: It's it's you, Dub Green Bay, our friends, you Dub
Speaker 2: Stevens point. They offered me an opportunity to go in
Speaker 2: there and play for the team. They did, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 2: But Doug said too, if I donated one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: he'd put me in a starting lineup. That's not bad.
Speaker 2: He's got to open up with his alma mater, right,
Speaker 2: Doug has got to face Oklahoma State to start his career.
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Or is that a bad thing if you did it?
Speaker 2: How about a home and home with Oklahoma State because
Speaker 2: he wanted that opportunity, didn't get that opportunity. Now, maybe
Speaker 2: a home a home, that'd be good. All right? What
Speaker 2: else do we have? We have?
Speaker 5: We got two more for you. Who has the best
Speaker 5: championship parades? NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL.
Speaker 2: I'm not really an analyst when it comes to a parade?
Speaker 2: Not no, because they always they look silly. Have you
Speaker 2: ever been asked to host a parade on TV? No?
Speaker 2: But I would I would do like, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe the Thanksgiving Day parade. It's a big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would do that. But that's fun and nobody's you know,
Speaker 2: hammered in the parade. Well people watching you don't know that,
Speaker 2: you know, but yeah, I to me, it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of embarrassing, how you know. You get these guys hammered
Speaker 2: jumping off the bus and then you got throwing a
Speaker 2: trophy over here, Brady needs help walking off a boat.
Speaker 2: It's uh, I don't know, kind of sad. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not fun. I mean I think for
Speaker 2: those in the moment, but if I'm watching it, I'm
Speaker 2: not entertained by it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Paul, there's almost injuries. I remember a couple years
Speaker 7: ago there's like an athlete. I think it's I don't
Speaker 7: know the Chiefs who's running and he fell with the
Speaker 7: trophy the Washington Capitals maybe five years ago when he
Speaker 7: won the Cup. That was a very boozy parade. I remember,
Speaker 7: well Veskin was in a fountain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, but it's not I couldn't
Speaker 2: care less watching a parade. I mean, Celtics won, they
Speaker 2: got a parade today, but I couldn't care less. It's
Speaker 2: not something I'm interested in. But you know, if your
Speaker 2: team wins, you want to celebrate with them great and
Speaker 2: if you get to be along the parade route, have
Speaker 2: fun with him. Good knock yourself out. By the way,
Speaker 2: Speaking of Bronnie lebron James, Paul George Podcast P with
Speaker 2: Paul George had this to say with Ronnie James and
Speaker 2: the comparison to an NBA player.
Speaker 8: What's most impressive is just his his basketball sappiness, like
Speaker 8: his basketball, like you like he can do it all,
Speaker 8: Like I don't. I feel like he hasn't shown that
Speaker 8: he can really be elite at a lot of things.
Speaker 8: But I think he can be elite at a lot
Speaker 8: of things. Like I feel like he's like in that
Speaker 8: Derek White, And it was interesting that that's his comparisons
Speaker 8: that he wants to be like or coming out look like.
Speaker 8: But I compare him to like the Drew Holliday, the
Speaker 8: Derek Whites, like guys that are glue, guys that can
Speaker 8: go through everything on the floor and help you win.
Speaker 2: Okay, pretty high praise there. If Bronnie James is Derek White,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm taking him with the seventeenth overall pick.
Speaker 2: I'm not waiting until the second round here. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: marm but a.
Speaker 9: Lot of this is best case scenario because earlier in
Speaker 9: that clip, Paul George said he hasn't put it all
Speaker 9: together yet, so this is best case scenario. He could
Speaker 9: be Derek White.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I mean how many draft picks in
Speaker 2: this year's draft? Can you say? All right, he's going
Speaker 2: to be as good as Derek White? Like Reed Shephard
Speaker 2: of Kentucky. Is he going to be as good as
Speaker 2: Derek White? I don't know. He might be a top
Speaker 2: five pick.
Speaker 9: It could be Alice Caruso.
Speaker 2: Alex Caruso just got traded Oka see yeh, Josh Getty
Speaker 2: going to the Bulls getting a young point guard, Alex Caruso.
Speaker 2: It's a nice pickup for ok see, white guy for
Speaker 2: white guys. WHOA, I didn't I didn't see it that way.
Speaker 2: But named later? Yeah, well, Derek White would be the
Speaker 2: white guy to be named later. I guess.
Speaker 7: Alice Chris a good fender, right, Yeah, Papa shot once
Speaker 7: in a while.
Speaker 2: No, he's very very valuable, Yeah, very valuable, gritty, held in,
Speaker 2: held in high regard. He is a lot of teams
Speaker 2: like Caruso, Layer would probably like to have him back. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm looking. So we got the parade today. You have
Speaker 2: hockey coming up tonight, Game six. You have Edmonton hosting
Speaker 2: the Panthers, you have the Travelers, it's the Pride of Connecticut.
Speaker 2: Some of the back room guys are going, by the way,
Speaker 2: hot dog eating contest on the Gambling Podcast. So Dylan
Speaker 2: the graphics guy was in there with Shaye and Irving
Speaker 2: h and also bad Larry was there with the Gambling Podcast.
Speaker 2: We set the over under I think at what ten
Speaker 2: and a half hot dogs in ten minutes? And uh,
Speaker 2: if you guys would like to guess how many hot
Speaker 2: dogs Dylan had during a ten minute period while he
Speaker 2: still had to give us who he was going to
Speaker 2: be placing money on in sporting events, Todd, how many
Speaker 2: hot dogs do you think Dylan had yesterday in ten minutes.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna say he came up just short, but by
Speaker 10: a little.
Speaker 2: I'm to say he got ten in ten. Couldn't get
Speaker 2: that left part. Seeing what about you.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure yesterday we had the over under at
Speaker 5: eleven and a half and Todd took the over by
Speaker 5: the way. Okay, that's okay, okay, I'm gonna say he
Speaker 5: had nine and a half, all right, Marvin, See he
Speaker 5: had seven Paulie.
Speaker 9: I'll go eight.
Speaker 2: I think he had six and a half. Wow, Marvin,
Speaker 2: you nailed that one. Yeah, only because you were in
Speaker 2: the room with me. That's crazy. I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to say six and a bite. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true. He had six and a bite. Very very disappointing.
Speaker 9: He started going down maybe around like four and some change.
Speaker 2: Well, the next time, I think we're going to have
Speaker 2: who can eat the most tacos, oysters or oysters, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh boy, or dumplings. So we're gonna do that, you know.
Speaker 2: I think Shyan Irving's going to be involved with that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, six and a half. Dylan wants to be
Speaker 2: a competitive eater. Then yeah, yeah, no, it be not
Speaker 2: very good. So some of the backroom guys are going
Speaker 2: to go to the Travelers the golf tournament there.
Speaker 5: Ay As Scheffler, isn't it, Zender Shoffley, Colin marcaw That's yeah,
Speaker 5: solid field right there.
Speaker 2: No Rory, but yeah, maybe somebody will match Jim Furicks
Speaker 2: fifty eight that he had on that golf course Game
Speaker 2: one of the College World Series Tennessee. The number one
Speaker 2: pick here, number one seed Texas A and M Tennessee
Speaker 2: roughed up Florida State and so they're in the final. Uh,
Speaker 2: that'll be fun. That'll be on the mother ship Copa America.
Speaker 2: Christian Polimsic here the area. Ac Milan's Christian Polisic. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he bawled this year. Yeah well yeah, twelve goals, eight assists.
Speaker 2: How about the fever in the sky. It's Caitlin Clark
Speaker 2: and Angel Reese. Here we go.
Speaker 7: Again, Sunday, four pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: So Monday, everybody will have an agenda to talk about
Speaker 2: with jealousy and hatred and racism and whatever whatever is
Speaker 2: going to be attached to this. Maybe maybe we'll just
Speaker 2: talk about how great the players are. Relax, No, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna happen.
Speaker 10: Yeah, why did it takes a long to have been played?
Speaker 2: They're like the Celtics in the seventies six ers that
Speaker 2: they played every Sunday back in the seventies. Braves at
Speaker 2: the Yankees and you could put this in parentheses a
Speaker 2: potential World Series matchup, that's true. It is so the
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Speaker 2: More phone calls coming up. He's Dan Woyking. He covers
Speaker 2: the Lakers for the La Times and kind enough to
Speaker 2: join us this morning here. All right, how's morale in Lakerland?
Speaker 12: I think people are excited to reach the finish line
Speaker 12: on this dand you know, it is one of these
Speaker 12: types of things like once you once you get to
Speaker 12: the destination, you know, people are excited. There's a general
Speaker 12: sense of excitement once you once you get your guy,
Speaker 12: even if the path may have taken you in different
Speaker 12: directions right away. I think that they are at least presenting,
Speaker 12: you know, a fully excited, I'm optimistic sort of view.
Speaker 12: They know there's rits, they know there's tremendous rit in this,
Speaker 12: but I think that they feel like they've hired a
Speaker 12: Ford thinking coaching prospect and they think it'll pay off
Speaker 12: in the short term and they think it'll paypen in
Speaker 12: the long term.
Speaker 2: But when you look at this, it almost feels like
Speaker 2: it'll be two different coaching careers. You're going to have
Speaker 2: the Lebron coaching career and then post Lebron coaching career.
Speaker 2: How does he navigate that?
Speaker 12: Well? That always works, right Dan, When you have to
Speaker 12: do two things at once, and I think it is you.
Speaker 12: I have not heard anybody use the phrase two timelines, right,
Speaker 12: which was sort of made famous by the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 12: And yes they won a championship, but two timelines were
Speaker 12: the real issue for Steve Kerr and Bob Myers in
Speaker 12: that office, where at one time you're trying to maximize
Speaker 12: the time you have with your veteran while off developing.
Speaker 12: You know, the Jonathan Wiseman, the Kaminga. I'm trying to
Speaker 12: James Wiseman and John the Kamenga is the most vooty
Speaker 12: for the world, et cetera. The Lakers don't have that
Speaker 12: level of young player on their roster, but there is.
Speaker 12: They are trying to maximize the Lebron years right provided
Speaker 12: he resigns, which I think is the expectation mostly around
Speaker 12: the league is that he will. But they're they're trying
Speaker 12: to maximize whether that's one year or two year, three or whatever.
Speaker 12: But they also need while that's happening to be building
Speaker 12: for tomorrow. And so that means, you know, Austin Reeves
Speaker 12: taking another step forwards. That means, you know, really tapping
Speaker 12: into the physical potential of early hachimorrow looking at young
Speaker 12: players like Max Christy last years first round draftic Jalen
Speaker 12: Hood Shapino. They picked seventeen in this draft, you know,
Speaker 12: the player that they could take there and really not
Speaker 12: just say like we're going to develop these guys. I think,
Speaker 12: you know, what I'm hearing is that there's going to
Speaker 12: be an increased sort of infrastructure investment in development, right,
Speaker 12: better tack better, better strategies on that front end, And
Speaker 12: I think the thought is that jj Reddick is going
Speaker 12: to be more open minded to that stuff. He doesn't
Speaker 12: really have any of the scars of coaching in the NBA, right,
Speaker 12: so so you could put whatever in front of him,
Speaker 12: he should give it a good look. And then I
Speaker 12: think the other part of it is roster building, Dan,
Speaker 12: you have to create pathways for these young players that
Speaker 12: you draft to play. And that's where it gets really
Speaker 12: tricky because you are trying when you have Lebron James
Speaker 12: and the way that they've gone about roster building and
Speaker 12: free agency is like they just grab the best available
Speaker 12: veterans you can get on minimum deals. You know, we
Speaker 12: would do the show probably in July tenth. We talked
Speaker 12: about what a great job Ropp like it did because
Speaker 12: you got Carmelo Anthony on a minimum you know, he
Speaker 12: got those kinds of guys on minimum deals, touring Prince
Speaker 12: last year on the cheap stuff like that. Well, as
Speaker 12: they move forwards into this new sort of CBA landscape
Speaker 12: where you know, drafting and developing is gonna matter so much.
Speaker 12: Not only do you have to draft developing a play,
Speaker 12: then you have to give them runways to play and
Speaker 12: runways to actually learn and do it on the court.
Speaker 12: And that's where it gets tricky because your clock is
Speaker 12: also picking with Lebron James the Western Conference, the margins
Speaker 12: are so slim, so it's the small needle that's gonna
Speaker 12: need to be threaded by Digiretick.
Speaker 2: But also his assistance. You know, you're hiring a CEO
Speaker 2: and you have that infrastructure and these if you're going
Speaker 2: to bring in Scotti Brooks who's been a head coach,
Speaker 2: Sam Cassell with the Celtics, Jared Dudley with the MAVs,
Speaker 2: I mean you're gonna uh Rajon Rondo. So you're getting
Speaker 2: some younger, I guess voices in there to be able
Speaker 2: to mesh with these players and help develop them. Do
Speaker 2: we know what's official as far as assistant coaches.
Speaker 12: Nothing is official at this point. I think you know
Speaker 12: that that list as a list I reported a few
Speaker 12: weeks ago. It's been re reported here. I think it's
Speaker 12: like it was like a target pool.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 12: Jared Dudley I think is going to stay Dallas. You know,
Speaker 12: we'll see what happens in terms of the type of
Speaker 12: job he gets. Dam Castell I think is going to
Speaker 12: stay in Boston. That you know, charls Lee moving through Charlotte,
Speaker 12: there's an opportunity there for him to slide up the
Speaker 12: bed into the number two spot. I mean those two,
Speaker 12: you know, those are the two final teams, right, like,
Speaker 12: those are pretty good situations. Yeah, you know, Scott brook
Speaker 12: is the name that I've heard a lot. I think
Speaker 12: the most interesting thing I've learned in is that the
Speaker 12: planet to not have just one former head coach on
Speaker 12: the front road, to have at least two, which would
Speaker 12: sort of mirror what the Lakers did in twenty nineteen
Speaker 12: with Frank Logel when they put him around Jason, well,
Speaker 12: they didn't put him around. They added Jason Kid and
Speaker 12: Lionel Hollins to that staff, and they really had sort
Speaker 12: of balance in terms of voice. And I think, you know,
Speaker 12: for a first time head coach, that's so critical to
Speaker 12: have to sort of know what you don't know, right
Speaker 12: And I don't doubt that will occur with JJ, to
Speaker 12: know what you don't know, and then to also be
Speaker 12: able to say, like you know, to delegate responsibility and
Speaker 12: to build a staff that both balanced experience but also
Speaker 12: willing to work with the guy who's going to be
Speaker 12: learning on the job.
Speaker 2: Dan Whitki covers the Lakers is the beat reporter for
Speaker 2: the La Times. What about the lebron JJ podcast?
Speaker 12: A great question. I can't imagine it's going to continue,
Speaker 12: sad right, like we might get a season finale episode,
Speaker 12: maybe the helicopter or you know, like manages, like like
Speaker 12: who knows what's gonna happen here? I think though, this
Speaker 12: is knowing JJ a little bit, and he is interested
Speaker 12: in a lot of things, right, Like this is the
Speaker 12: guy who is interested in broadcasting, He's interested in wine,
Speaker 12: he's interested in golf, he's interested in very fancy suits.
Speaker 12: He's gonna have to adjump, You're gonna have to learn
Speaker 12: how to be You didn't quarter them like all the
Speaker 12: rest of these guys in the NBA on the sidelines. Now,
Speaker 12: he's gonna have to learn how to focus in that energy.
Speaker 12: And I think I think that's what the Lakers think
Speaker 12: they're getting, right. They're not hiring a podcaster. I think
Speaker 12: they they view it as that they are hiring somebody
Speaker 12: who is a bright basketball mind, who is serious about this.
Speaker 12: I think that's one of the things and sort of
Speaker 12: the discussion throughout this process, right is I reported this today.
Speaker 12: You know, Lebron and Jj obviously have a good relationship.
Speaker 12: You can see it on camera. It's hard to fake
Speaker 12: that type of stuff, right, They've got good rapport. Their
Speaker 12: before the podcast end didn't really exist, Like this is
Speaker 12: still a relatively new relationship. Like you know, I've even
Speaker 12: been told this much that, like they didn't really hang
Speaker 12: out ever before this. I mean, there were competitors in
Speaker 12: the NBA, kind of an anomaly even though they're around
Speaker 12: the same age, Like Lebron had been in the league
Speaker 12: for four years. The first time a rookie JJ Reddick
Speaker 12: played against the James. But but I think interesting enough
Speaker 12: to to coaches in Corona that Lebron James has played
Speaker 12: with or against that will be coaching him in the NBA.
Speaker 12: But but I think their relationship to me is it's
Speaker 12: critical to what's going on. But but like you said,
Speaker 12: there's an expiration date to it and whether or not
Speaker 12: they I just don't think they can really continue the show.
Speaker 12: I guess that's my long winded way of thing. It
Speaker 12: seems like an unnecessary distracting. They're paying him to quote,
Speaker 12: they're not paying him the podcast. His divestment from his
Speaker 12: podcast Empire is sort of an interesting media side note
Speaker 12: for this to see kind of how much he steps
Speaker 12: back and kind of what happened to because it's been
Speaker 12: really successful for him.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't have the podcast podcast with Lebron finish
Speaker 2: that sentence.
Speaker 12: If he doesn't have the podcast with Lebron, James, Lakers
Speaker 12: have more questions, I think about his ability to coach.
Speaker 2: Would he still be the guy that they would hire.
Speaker 12: I think it's possible. You know, is a key figure
Speaker 12: Dan and all of this someone that Rob Polink has
Speaker 12: a lot of respect for, someone who Robbed Plink is
Speaker 12: known for a very long time his life. Attended Duke University,
Speaker 12: but Rob, you know through Kobe Bryant in t USA basketball,
Speaker 12: and look, I think there's a very real way that
Speaker 12: even without the podcast, Mike you know, would have said,
Speaker 12: you know who's thinking about coaching and would be really
Speaker 12: good at j J lending and and I think the
Speaker 12: questions though Dan would be like, well, how Lebron has
Speaker 12: pulled himself back from this prof that you know he
Speaker 12: doesn't want to be as involved in it. How do
Speaker 12: how do we gauge whether or not Lebron would even
Speaker 12: be able to do this? I think what the podcast
Speaker 12: can show you and if you watch certain clips. There
Speaker 12: was a clip that I treated the other day that
Speaker 12: really stuck out to me was they were talking about
Speaker 12: analytics and three point shooting right and Lebron James at
Speaker 12: a certain point most players will push back on analytics
Speaker 12: and staid like, well, what happened when you know a
Speaker 12: team misses twenty eighth straight like the Houston Rockets did
Speaker 12: in the finals or in the Western Conference finals, And
Speaker 12: JJ Reddick like like Razor Quick was like, as it
Speaker 12: happened since and Lebron kind of chuckled that this you know,
Speaker 12: Knight Boordau or whatever he was drinking was like, all right,
Speaker 12: you're right, And it was like it was an example
Speaker 12: of like watching JJ like this s arm and you know,
Speaker 12: win an argument really quickly on the spot. Now, how
Speaker 12: that plays in the locker room at halftime when you're
Speaker 12: down seventeen to the Charlotte Hornets and everbodys sign who
Speaker 12: knows like that that that is a huge question. But
Speaker 12: I think, you know, to be quite fair, like there
Speaker 12: was going to be elements of question with that with
Speaker 12: Dan Hurley too. I think they wanted Dan Hurley first
Speaker 12: because generally had the experience he's been in that position.
Speaker 12: But I think if we look at things like track
Speaker 12: records and stuff like this, I mean, the transition for
Speaker 12: college coaches in the NBA is really rough. Transition per
Speaker 12: a guy doing it from behind the microphone d NBA
Speaker 12: could be really rough. It's all projection.
Speaker 2: Can the Lakers at the introductory press conference say this
Speaker 2: is the guy we wanted all along, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick.
Speaker 12: I think I think it'll be more so some version
Speaker 12: of we were blessed to have found multiple candidates that
Speaker 12: we thought were incredible. I think would be I'm stealing
Speaker 12: from my own wedding bowsing. I remember when I said
Speaker 12: at violence, I said, honey, you're the right person at
Speaker 12: the right time, and then after that the three hour break,
Speaker 12: we were able to calm her down, we were able
Speaker 12: to finish off. I think I'll be some version of that, right,
Speaker 12: it's a great question.
Speaker 2: So Brownie uh is going to be a Laker? That
Speaker 2: more likely now with JJ their foregone conclusion.
Speaker 12: You know, it's interesting. I don't know if it makes
Speaker 12: it more or less likely. I think that, you know,
Speaker 12: fifty five does feel like this floor, right that provided
Speaker 12: that's when the Lakers picking the second round, currently they
Speaker 12: could move up, but provided that nothing, they don't have
Speaker 12: to go up and get him. I think it's yeah,
Speaker 12: I think it's possible. But look, I think that they're
Speaker 12: also dan right, Like, we know there's going to be
Speaker 12: a lot of questions about sort of JJ and Lebron
Speaker 12: relationship and stuff like that, and if the Lakers care
Speaker 12: about things like optics and they feel like optics would
Speaker 12: get in the way of a player development, which potentially
Speaker 12: it could. You know, maybe in that way it makes
Speaker 12: it less like it's I can tell you that they
Speaker 12: have tried their best. The people that I talked to
Speaker 12: in like their scouting depart right, and now granted they're
Speaker 12: not the one to alt point making the decision. But
Speaker 12: the people who are actually scouting the players have tried
Speaker 12: their best to remove Lebron from the equation when it
Speaker 12: comes to Browning James, and there are things that they
Speaker 12: like about the player that would make them comfortable drafting
Speaker 12: him at fifty five in a way that quite frankly,
Speaker 12: like a lot of different people. If you look at
Speaker 12: the track record of players drafted at fifty five, they
Speaker 12: hit rates are really low, do everythings like this, But
Speaker 12: the Lakers are seemingly comfortable not only drafting Browning games,
Speaker 12: but they take them at fifty five, not signing into
Speaker 12: a two way deal, which Rich Paul has been very
Speaker 12: open and adamant that he won't take. So the Lakers
Speaker 12: seem comfortable with that part of it. But they also
Speaker 12: know that that it would have to be a big,
Speaker 12: long developmental process. So maybe maybe that's where you know
Speaker 12: JJ's ability and they think he'll be a good developmental coach,
Speaker 12: you know, in that way, maybe it doesn't make more likely. Dan,
Speaker 12: I have no idea on this one. There's been a
Speaker 12: ton of smoke. It is unprecedented territory where a top
Speaker 12: sixty player is sort of the story of the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 12: but here we are.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bud. Great to talk to you again. That's Dan.
Speaker 2: Why the La Times? Yep, there's a lot of moving
Speaker 2: parts here and taking Bronnie James. I'm going to take
Speaker 2: four pies to the face, apparently because I had Bronnie
Speaker 2: James going in the first round. God, if he goes
Speaker 2: in the first round, it might be one of the
Speaker 2: great days of my life. Four pies instead, I'm going
Speaker 2: to take four pies from the Dan ask because nobody,
Speaker 2: nobody believed in me. It's all right. It's called content, Todd,
Speaker 2: it's content. Yeah, you should try.
Speaker 10: All different kinds of pies.
Speaker 2: We're going to mix it up forty time. It's all right.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to present me with an out,
Speaker 2: you can, but I'm not asking for one. It's just
Speaker 2: been suggested because Paulie said, do you want an out
Speaker 2: or would you? Would you entertain it? Yeah, paul you
Speaker 2: could keep.
Speaker 7: The bet you have first round for Bronnie James, or
Speaker 7: you could wipe that away and you say he's drafted
Speaker 7: by the Lakers or the field. M Is that more
Speaker 7: or less interesting?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I just I just made the first round
Speaker 2: interesting by saying Bronnie is going to go in the
Speaker 2: first round, but then most people probably only watch the
Speaker 2: second round though, like the second night. I can't believe
Speaker 2: they're having two nights. It's like, get it over with now,
Speaker 2: this isn't the NFL. Let's just get this draft over
Speaker 2: with because nobody knows anybody in this draft. Yes, Todd,
Speaker 2: what if you head.
Speaker 10: Your bets and go the other way and have a
Speaker 10: bet where if he doesn't get drafted at all, we
Speaker 10: each get two pies to the face.
Speaker 2: I would do it where I got the Lakers or
Speaker 2: the field, But would anybody take the field with Bronnie James,
Speaker 2: Because that I mean, you got to have somebody to
Speaker 2: take the opposite. I can do it, but then if
Speaker 2: nobody's taken the opposite, then I have to stick with
Speaker 2: my original bet. I mean, I'll take it. In fact,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't even want an ount. You
Speaker 2: take it like a man. This is content, and that's
Speaker 2: what I stand. I've got, Prince, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, and it'll go down to pul they're still applauding. Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you. You know what again, thank you. I forget.
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about. That's what a host does
Speaker 2: live up to your word, live up to your promise,
Speaker 2: live up to the bet Todd, thank you. Take a
Speaker 2: break back after this.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.
Speaker 2: I look forward to hearing this music because that means
Speaker 2: I won't see Todd for a couple of days.
Speaker 13: Here we go, Marvin, ever since I was a tiny ball.
Speaker 13: Don't need no care there, don't want no Tommy, I
Speaker 13: no want o work.
Speaker 2: Stat of Today brought to you by Panini America, the
Speaker 2: official trading cards of the program. Couple of phone calls
Speaker 2: in here before we set sail for the weekend. This
Speaker 2: day in sports history, PAULI, why don't we do that
Speaker 2: this day in sports history? Because sometimes we cut you
Speaker 2: short and you have to hurry, so we don't want
Speaker 2: to do that. I'm glad to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Nineteen thirty nine, Lou Garrett quit baseball due to illness.
Speaker 7: Nineteen forty two, Ben Hogan the golfer lowest score at
Speaker 7: that time in a major golf tournament. He shot two
Speaker 7: seventy one seventy two holes. Australian John Landy ran the
Speaker 7: mile in three minutes and fifty eight seconds, the new
Speaker 7: record in nineteen fifty four. He gets very little credit
Speaker 7: in history because he didn't break the four minute mile
Speaker 7: that was Roger Banister a month earlier. But John Landy
Speaker 7: get a little pub litt Late nineteen sixty three, Bob Hayes,
Speaker 7: the track star and ended up being a cowboy wide
Speaker 7: receiver ran one hundred yard dash in nine point one seconds.
Speaker 7: And lastly, Oh nineteen ninety seven, the Women's National Basketball Association.
Speaker 2: Made his debut.
Speaker 7: The New York Liberty beat the Sparks six fifty seven,
Speaker 7: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: On this date. In nineteen eighty six, Bo Jackson signed
Speaker 2: a contract to play baseball with the Royals. Also, the
Speaker 2: Lakers beat the Pistons by three in Game seven to
Speaker 2: win their second straight NBA title. And I think that's it.
Speaker 2: Let me see Robin Florida. Rob, thanks for holding what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 6: Hi Dad, they're on DNEX a long time. First time.
Speaker 6: I had an idea of a way to put Pete
Speaker 6: Rose out to the Bombs and those guys into the
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame posthumously. You know this is a two
Speaker 6: fold solution. Once it gives the stats only guys is
Speaker 6: the okay, and also the integrity of the band during
Speaker 6: the player's life is maintained. I just kind of thought
Speaker 6: that was an idea and see if it floated.
Speaker 2: All right, Look, I don't want to have it's either
Speaker 2: this or that. I'm open to it. I'm not big
Speaker 2: on these guys who benefited because I put him in
Speaker 2: there with other players that I grew up with, you know,
Speaker 2: Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays. You know, there's so
Speaker 2: many players, but then they benefit. You know. Look, I
Speaker 2: don't like a Rod Be in the face of baseball
Speaker 2: with what he did to baseball, but you know that's
Speaker 2: on Fox in the Mothership. If you can't come up
Speaker 2: with somebody better, then all right, fine, I don't watch.
Speaker 2: I feel bad for Jeters sitting there, But as many
Speaker 2: people have told me, you need to get over yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably do so I'll just get rid of steroid testing
Speaker 2: and there to be okay, right, I mean, we have it,
Speaker 2: let's utilize it. Maybe what we see is real, that's all.
Speaker 2: And look, I'll go to my grave feeling that way
Speaker 2: guys benefited. Bonds are passed, Hank Aaron All Time Home
Speaker 2: Run Champ. It's not it's not right, not right, Michael
Speaker 2: and Nashville. Hey Mike, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: Hey Dan? Five? So Dan, I know you like dark
Speaker 14: humor and referencing that chemo joke with Todd from earlier
Speaker 14: in the week, I think I might have you beat.
Speaker 14: I'm also part of the Dead Dad's Club. And quick
Speaker 14: reference for this joke, My dad died on a first
Speaker 14: date and he choked to death. So my girlfriend at
Speaker 14: the time and I were walking down Bourbon Street and
Speaker 14: she said, I don't think you can truly handle my
Speaker 14: dark my real dark humor. I said, Oh, come on,
Speaker 14: lay it on me. It can't be that bad. She said, well,
Speaker 14: I have a really good joke about your dad, but
Speaker 14: if I tried telling you, I would choke.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, so did you marry her?
Speaker 14: No, we aren't together anymore. But I dropped my jaw
Speaker 14: and I.
Speaker 6: Was amazed by how quickly she had that.
Speaker 14: Ready.
Speaker 2: Wait, your dad died on a first date and he
Speaker 2: choked to death.
Speaker 14: Yeah, he did at a restaurant called Folks Folly in Memphis.
Speaker 2: First date, last day, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Wait, what
Speaker 2: was the Yelp review on that when two stars great
Speaker 2: service for service to die for. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 7: He didn't have to pay for the day cost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't have to. She had to pick up
Speaker 2: the check. I guess. And I was at a Chinese
Speaker 2: restaurant in New York City when a gentleman had an episode.
Speaker 2: He was having a stroke and the restaurant was packed
Speaker 2: in Chinatown. People were stepping over the man while he
Speaker 2: was on the floor. I style, Yes, ty Lou was
Speaker 2: on the floor and everybody was iversent there. Willie in
Speaker 2: West Virginia, Hi, Willie, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1: Listen?
Speaker 15: Dan, trying to get a hold of you old like trying
Speaker 15: to get a hold of Chave people. I've been trying
Speaker 15: to call in and wish Mitchie welcome back from her
Speaker 15: LEBA absence of her relegation, So welcome back part time. Secondly, Dan,
Speaker 15: if I come out of retirement and knocking on that door.
Speaker 2: You're relegating, thank you. Willie doing his Charles Barkley impersonation,
Speaker 2: knuckle ahead, knucklehey, Ed Ryan and Sarahsota. Hi, Ryan, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not that Ryan, Yes, Ryan.
Speaker 16: No, not Ryan from Honolulu. Hey, you just want to
Speaker 16: save four pies to the face on this scenario. Since
Speaker 16: the NBA draft is.
Speaker 17: Not well stacked today, I believe what if one of
Speaker 17: the other teams picked Bronni first, since Lebron's a free agent,
Speaker 17: and then Lebron goes over to that team that picked Bronni.
Speaker 16: And there you go, he has another championship.
Speaker 2: You know, what we brought up was that you could
Speaker 2: draft Bronnie and hold him hostage and then say to
Speaker 2: the Lakers you have to give us whatever. But I
Speaker 2: don't know if you want to cross Rich Paul Lebron
Speaker 2: James agent there, and I don't think that Lebron is
Speaker 2: going to go. You know what, where did Bronnie get drafted?
Speaker 2: He got drafted by Brooklyn. I'm going to Brooklyn. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's going to happen. Chris and Idaho, Hi, Chris, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 18: First time, long time.
Speaker 6: So I was.
Speaker 18: Just thinking one way the Baseball Hall of Fame can
Speaker 18: get these players in and kind of meet in the middle.
Speaker 18: As old school video games, they used to not have players'
Speaker 18: names but their number and position. Like Bill Belichick was
Speaker 18: never in a video game of Coach Patriots, so maybe
Speaker 18: they can do like number twenty five San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. It's if they put him in,
Speaker 2: they put him in, and I'm not going to lose
Speaker 2: sleep over it. It just feels like baseball's trying to
Speaker 2: move fast. Leave that in the in its wake, and
Speaker 2: that it never happened or it wasn't that big a
Speaker 2: deal when it happened. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 9: In the general public, seven fifty five, seven fourteen, six,
Speaker 9: sixty five, twenty one, you know those numbers. I know
Speaker 9: Barry bonds home on total, but most people have no clue.
Speaker 9: It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: Let's go around the room. If we learned anything, Todd,
Speaker 2: would you learn today?
Speaker 10: The Lakers realistic goals should be to try and be
Speaker 10: a four or five seed, maybe second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 10: Not to be a playoff team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a in play in team. Seat No, O Connor,
Speaker 2: would you.
Speaker 5: Learn Denwyck He may or may not have been on
Speaker 5: stage with Kenjil Kamar this week.
Speaker 2: We don't know. I know, O boy, that was in it.
Speaker 2: You had some ball players up there, Yeah, I had
Speaker 2: some ball players up there. Yikes, Marvin, you're not big
Speaker 2: on championship parades. No, I'm not No, they get sloppy. Paul,
Speaker 2: what'd you learn today? JJ?
Speaker 7: Reddick's middle name is Clay Todd.
Speaker 2: Would I learn today?
Speaker 10: Doug Gottlie will be making his UW Green Bay coaching
Speaker 10: debut against Oklahomas.
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