Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: Well come on in and stay awhile Dan and the
Speaker 2: Dan Ants Dan Patrick Show. We made it to a
Speaker 2: Thursday our one. We'll talk some hoops with Adam Lefgo
Speaker 2: NBA on TNT, the former Texas running back Bijon Robinson
Speaker 2: a little bit later on, and one of the great
Speaker 2: hockey players of all time, Mark Messier, will stop by
Speaker 2: as well. The Grizzlies were one point. They got one
Speaker 2: point last night according to DraftKings. The Lakers were favored
Speaker 2: by one and I thought, wow, that's interesting. That must
Speaker 2: mean John Morant's playing. And then when I found out
Speaker 2: Jahn Morant wasn't playing, I thought Vegas must know something. Well,
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies stepped up and beat the Lakers, as that
Speaker 2: series now tight at a game apiece. But this is
Speaker 2: a big opportunity for the Grizzlies, and they're a five
Speaker 2: hundred team without John Morant. You don't want to have
Speaker 2: a month where you go without Jahn Morant, or a season.
Speaker 2: But everybody seem to step up, and you see this
Speaker 2: sometimes one game where everybody else is like, hey, I
Speaker 2: get my chance, Hey, I got a chance to step up.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks without Giannis last night, Drew Holliday, everybody steps up.
Speaker 2: Bucks beat the Heat and they're now tied at a
Speaker 2: game apiece. The Nuggets up too well in the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: In case anybody cares, seventy six Ers at the Nets
Speaker 2: coming up tonight, Kings at the Warriors, Sons at the Clippers.
Speaker 2: In case you're wondering, and I know you are, the
Speaker 2: Warriors are five and a half point favorites tonight. The
Speaker 2: Clippers are two and a half point favorites at the Clippers.
Speaker 2: The Sons are favorite, which I found interesting. The Sixers
Speaker 2: are five point favorites against the Nets. Come on in
Speaker 2: stay a while, Gang's all here, Ready to go eight
Speaker 2: seven to seven to three DP Show operator Tyler standing
Speaker 2: by taking your phone calls. Come up with the poll question,
Speaker 2: Play the day. Stat of the Day brought to you
Speaker 2: by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan
Speaker 2: Patrick Show. If you're watching on Peacock, Good morning. If
Speaker 2: you're chatting on chat Row, play nice and our radio
Speaker 2: affiliates now numbering nearly three hundred and ninety cities around
Speaker 2: the country. Seaton Whole Question Today will consist of what
Speaker 2: And we got a bunch of options. We could start with,
Speaker 2: who was your standout performer last night? Xavier Tillman or
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday. Huh how about those heroes? Yeah, it is
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday, the least star of stars. When you think
Speaker 2: about guys who are really good, but you don't bring
Speaker 2: them into the conversation of he's great, But then you'll
Speaker 2: watch him in the playoffs and you go, Drew Holliday
Speaker 2: is good. Maybe maybe it's the name too, Drew Holiday.
Speaker 2: You got to have a little bit. Who's another name
Speaker 2: that comes to mind? Where you go, He's got to
Speaker 2: have a better name, Oh, say Shay Gilgus Alexander.
Speaker 3: Oh ours is thirty?
Speaker 2: Yes, if his name was like or something like that,
Speaker 2: you go, all right, or just Shay Alexander. It's the
Speaker 2: guild just that throws this off there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, Drew Holliday is always the guy who's thrown
Speaker 4: into a trade that you're like, oh, Andrew Holiday.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, no, it's not hell yet's nice?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, right, right, right, right, right now we're talking
Speaker 4: and is it Drew Holiday or Drew Holiday Holiday.
Speaker 5: And it ends with the e supposedly, Yeah, he's the
Speaker 5: kind of guy who always his average like eighteen and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a good two way two guard, you know, all
Speaker 2: a very good Yeah. Fellas made a healthy living for himself.
Speaker 2: Yes he had healthy Yeah. Yeah, he's gotten paid.
Speaker 4: He's got in the bag, got about a little over
Speaker 4: one eighty two. Yeah, I'll take that all day. That's
Speaker 4: not Ben all day. He's thirty two years of age.
Speaker 2: Like, he's one of those guys where you go, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's not great, but there are times when you go, man,
Speaker 2: he's pretty good. He's a piece though. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: piece like Chris Middleton gets credit because he doesn't credit.
Speaker 2: We'll go, don't forget about Chris Middleton. I'll go okay, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3: And it's k H R I S S yes, three
Speaker 3: s yes. It makes it confusing, man.
Speaker 2: Sometimes like Jean Robinson, that's a great name you can
Speaker 2: go with. Just be if you say Bijeon, if I
Speaker 2: say Draymond, you know who I'm talking about. There's certain
Speaker 2: Lebron you know, by the way you see the Grizzlies,
Speaker 2: they're not afraid of tugging on Lebron's cap last night,
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks who there were players throughout history who will
Speaker 2: make a name by going after the best player. You know,
Speaker 2: Lance Stevenson, remember him with Lebron, you know, blowing in
Speaker 2: his ear like all these things. And I, for some reason,
Speaker 2: when I was talking to Jim Jackson yesterday on the show, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, is wonderful analyst, So I was saying,
Speaker 2: I don't remember guys who were getting in Lebron's face.
Speaker 2: He goes, I dude Jordan's face. He goes, I did, Yeah,
Speaker 2: guys did that all the time. And then he started
Speaker 2: telling me, he goes, it rarely worked out well, But
Speaker 2: there were guys who got in Michael Jordan's face because
Speaker 2: I thought, man, there's real, there's a competitor. Then there's disrespect.
Speaker 2: And Dylan Brooks is a good player. He's a nice player,
Speaker 2: but I don't think you would know him unless you
Speaker 2: know we were talking about him where he's calling out
Speaker 2: Lebron James. You know, Dylan, Dylan Brooks trying of create
Speaker 2: you know, he's trying to be Draymond green Light. And
Speaker 2: here's Dylan Brooks, the Grizzlies forward, calling out Lebron James.
Speaker 3: You and Lebron have that exchange.
Speaker 6: There are people out there that say, maybe maybe you
Speaker 6: shouldn't do that with one of the better players in
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 1: I guess what what were you thinking of?
Speaker 6: I don't care. He's old, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: That's I was waiting for that. I was expecting him
Speaker 6: to do that. Game four, Game five. If you wanted
Speaker 6: to say something when I got my fourth file, you
Speaker 6: shouldn't have seen that earlier on. But you know, I
Speaker 6: poke bears. I don't respect no one until they come
Speaker 6: and give me forty. So I pride myself on You
Speaker 6: know what I do is defense and taking on any
Speaker 6: challenge that's on the board.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's trying to bait Lebron. See what happens in
Speaker 2: Game three, but you know he gets fifteen to night.
Speaker 2: He does play defense, wants to play defense, not afraid
Speaker 2: of Lebron. Okay, it's just Memphis still leads the league
Speaker 2: in talking. I want to see results, but right now
Speaker 2: they are the best team at talking. Yes, Tom, you
Speaker 2: could poke Bears.
Speaker 7: All you want, but something about poking like the biggest
Speaker 7: of the Bears that I have a problem with, especially
Speaker 7: if you don't have any rings or any major accomplishments
Speaker 7: to show for it. It seems like there should be
Speaker 7: some minimal respect for the great greats of the game.
Speaker 7: I just had a problem with that being in Lebron's
Speaker 7: face like that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jod, but it would be a grizzly bear
Speaker 2: poking the bear Nike. Here's Lebron James on last night's game.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we was prepared tonight.
Speaker 6: We just didn't execute as well as we did in
Speaker 6: game one force close to forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: So they made adjustments.
Speaker 6: We made some adjustments, and you know, you tip your
Speaker 6: hats to them, and they played well of.
Speaker 2: A game time they did. They played a well of
Speaker 2: a game last night. Now it's tied or the game apiece.
Speaker 2: This is one of those games where I'm watching Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis and it's not all on him. So he goes
Speaker 2: thirteen and eight and he's healthy, like it. That's almost
Speaker 2: worse than him being injured. Where you go, wait, a,
Speaker 2: do you get hurt? No? No, no, no. He blocked
Speaker 2: a few shots, but you know, offensively thirteen and eight.
Speaker 2: We played thirty eight minutes and I got okay, I
Speaker 2: need a little bit more out of you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Marv, I'm gonna give Triple Jason credit defensive player
Speaker 8: of the Year. He went to work on the defensive
Speaker 8: end last day against Anthey.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jaron Jackson Junior the third.
Speaker 9: To us, wasn't that your boy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I love coming out.
Speaker 2: I know when that draft. Prior to the draft, I
Speaker 2: forget who we had on and I go, you know,
Speaker 2: I like the most out of this draft. Jaren Jackson
Speaker 2: Junior the third. He was like eighteen coming out of
Speaker 2: Michigan State, could shoot the three. And then, you know,
Speaker 2: I watched Luca the highlights, you know, in Europe, and
Speaker 2: I go, I don't know if he's going to be
Speaker 2: able to be that good in the NBA. And I
Speaker 2: watched Trey Young and I thought, no, I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's going to be able to be that great
Speaker 2: in the NBA. I'm taking Jaron Jackson Junior the third.
Speaker 2: It took a while, but you know, he won an award.
Speaker 2: You know, has Luca won an award? He didn't. He
Speaker 2: hasn't won MVP. He won Rookie of the Year, didn't he?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, he got that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Or did he and Trey split the award? I
Speaker 2: don't know, but Jared Jackson got an award a Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year anybody want to invest in that
Speaker 2: stock over Luca with me? Jaron Jackson Junior the third.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jaron Jackson may play in the finals before Luca does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's probably true, and he could steal one of
Speaker 5: those andre Igodala style MVPs someday.
Speaker 3: Kay, nice player competent.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you? All right? What other
Speaker 2: pole questions do we have seton?
Speaker 4: Well, we could do a couple of Dylan Brooks pole questions.
Speaker 4: Dylan Brooks is more barker bite. We could do Dylan
Speaker 4: Brooks is helping his team or hurting his team.
Speaker 2: Uh. I mean it's not Draymond like, but I think
Speaker 2: he aspires to be Draymond Green. And that's not a
Speaker 2: bad thing to aspire to because he's going to the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Dylan Brooks doesn't do stupid things on
Speaker 2: the floor, I don't think at least. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: making a name for himself because of the antics here,
Speaker 2: the theat not in a big market. He's overshadowed on
Speaker 2: his own team by a couple of players, but he
Speaker 2: does get in the news. I mean, Patrick Beverly no
Speaker 2: marginal player past, but made a name for himself being
Speaker 2: that kind of player. Yes, time, is there a coach.
Speaker 7: Or a teammate of his that would say, like, you know,
Speaker 7: let's just make sure we're making it about the team
Speaker 7: and not about you.
Speaker 9: Would they have the guts to say that?
Speaker 7: Or Dylan has to have that edge, He has to
Speaker 7: play like that and be in Lebron's face to be
Speaker 7: at his best on the court.
Speaker 2: Well, if you were gonna do it, you'd be Steve
Speaker 2: Kerr saying to Draymond Green, I don't think I'd be
Speaker 2: worried about Dylan Brooks as much.
Speaker 8: Yes, Mark, you know what, toddam I disagree because they
Speaker 8: all talk on the Grizzlies, so I'm sure they're like
Speaker 8: egging him on, like, hey, don't be afraid of him
Speaker 8: getting his face, call him old or you know all
Speaker 8: that other stuff.
Speaker 2: I like it. I don't need the star player to
Speaker 2: do any talking. You know, Steph Curry doesn't do much talking.
Speaker 2: You got Draymond doing all the talking there. But with Memphis,
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks wants to be the mouthpiece. Go ahead, I
Speaker 2: just like when you back it up, you won the game. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now let's see what happens in Game three. And he
Speaker 2: is basically saying to Lebron, got there, you know, spend
Speaker 2: a lot of energy, try to get forty on me,
Speaker 2: or play a different game than what you would normally play.
Speaker 2: I understand this, but Lebron has seen this, He's seen
Speaker 2: it for twenty years. Guy's getting in his face. Oh
Speaker 2: you're the chosen one, Oh you're the king. Why don't
Speaker 2: you prove it to me? By the way, just to
Speaker 2: remind you on this date, it was in twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: Lebron put up forty one, thirteen and twelve Cavaliers rallied
Speaker 2: from twenty five down to beat the Pacers. You know,
Speaker 2: you forget these games where Lebron just takes over. He's
Speaker 2: done it to Boston, he did it to Detroit in big,
Speaker 2: big moments here. But yes, he is older, but he's
Speaker 2: still capable of those games. He's still a top five
Speaker 2: player in my opinion, come playoff time. He's a guy
Speaker 2: that you won on the floor. Now you can say
Speaker 2: Kawhi and you could say Kevin Durant. You can say
Speaker 2: you know quite a few players. Jannis Embiide, you know,
Speaker 2: the joker. But he's in that conversation still at thirty eight,
Speaker 2: with twenty years of mileage on those legs. So, yes,
Speaker 2: he is older than Dylan Brooks. Is he old? Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks won't be playing basketball, but he's thirty eight. But
Speaker 2: the fact that Lebron is and he's trying to get
Speaker 2: in his head, I'm fine with that, Like I'm okay
Speaker 2: with that stuff. It's the stuff that Draymond tries to
Speaker 2: pull that I'm not okay with where he can play dirty.
Speaker 2: And another thing that came out where he kind of
Speaker 2: incriminated himself when he was asked about stepping on Sabonis.
Speaker 2: He goes, well, the game before, Malik Monk, you know,
Speaker 2: grab my leg. Well, wait a minute, you just told
Speaker 2: us you had no place to put your foot, So
Speaker 2: why does Malik Monk come into the conversation here? Wait?
Speaker 2: Did you do it on purpose or it was an accident?
Speaker 2: So I thought he incriminated himself. And the fact that
Speaker 2: the reaction of players, current players, former players is interesting,
Speaker 2: you know, calling the NBA soft, like what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I mean that he should not have been suspended. I
Speaker 2: didn't think he would be suspended. But now you have
Speaker 2: Golden State. Let's see what kind of message they send
Speaker 2: to Sacramento tonight. Favored by five and a half. Okay,
Speaker 2: but then I wonder what it's going to be like
Speaker 2: for Draymon, Like this an advantage for Golden State somehow,
Speaker 2: how do you use If I'm Steve Kerr, how do
Speaker 2: I use this as an advantage that Draymon he's not
Speaker 2: going to play all right, somebody gonna step up and
Speaker 2: then we're gonna be ready to go because we're gonna
Speaker 2: blow him out and then we're gonna win the next
Speaker 2: game and then we're going down there and then that
Speaker 2: crowd is going to be so into it. But I'm
Speaker 2: wondering how you spin that as a coach to say,
Speaker 2: let's how do we use this as a positive because
Speaker 2: you want that momentum of two big blowout wins and
Speaker 2: then you remind Sacramento that you're the defending champs.
Speaker 9: Yes, Mark, I'm with you completely.
Speaker 8: I definitely think they're gonna send a message and we're
Speaker 8: gonna they're gonna say, look, we did this without Draymond.
Speaker 8: Now Draymond's back, we're gonna kick them. You know what
Speaker 8: I dot again, and now we're going, you know, ninety
Speaker 8: miles up north to Sacramento.
Speaker 3: Unlight the beam, unlike the beam.
Speaker 2: Unlike that rally.
Speaker 3: We're gonna pull the plug on you.
Speaker 9: Because Golden State light their own beam.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, that's smack talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah like this, yeah, like this beam? Beam him up, Scottie.
Speaker 5: We're gonna take away your power source. Man, can imagine
Speaker 5: me on the court just uting people out. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: but I am gonna take away your power.
Speaker 2: I am gonna unplug your beam. How about that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it all night, Not just that at halftime,
Speaker 3: but all night.
Speaker 2: I was annoying, you know, on the court that guys
Speaker 2: should have gotten my butt kicked because you just you
Speaker 2: just start talking.
Speaker 3: Would you like some of this? Yes, I'm not planning
Speaker 3: giving it all to you, but would you like.
Speaker 9: Some of you?
Speaker 2: Yes? Excuse me, I'm going to bring it all night.
Speaker 3: You want no part of me, not even a small part.
Speaker 2: Going to take away your power source? How about we
Speaker 2: unplug that game.
Speaker 5: I'm going to call the power company and have your
Speaker 5: bill boom.
Speaker 4: Oh that's kinda yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm not a polite you know.
Speaker 2: I know, and nobody does polite trash talking.
Speaker 3: We're not looking for a fight.
Speaker 2: Excuse me while I put forty on you. All right,
Speaker 2: Well take a break. Adam Lefko our buddy from TM two.
Speaker 2: Well John is coming up, bi Jeon Robinson and uh
Speaker 2: Mark Messier. That's what we got a few other stories
Speaker 2: that'll be fun to bring up, bring to your attention.
Speaker 2: We'll have those for you as well. Settle on a
Speaker 2: poll question just getting started. Dan and the Dan at
Speaker 2: stan Patrick Shaw. Oh tire rec dot com. You know what,
Speaker 2: tirerack dot com has ton.
Speaker 9: Lots of tires and great service.
Speaker 2: And theah tire we go Hong Kuk tires and they're
Speaker 2: shipped fast free. They have their own test track there.
Speaker 2: They have everything you need. And I said to Seaton,
Speaker 2: look they're one of our great partners. Go out there
Speaker 2: to South Bend, Indiana and see what it's all about.
Speaker 2: You said that, and I did, Yes, you did. It
Speaker 2: was a day he went out with the French Kid.
Speaker 2: They stopped in South Bend before they were going out
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl and they got to tour. Everything
Speaker 2: came back and Seaton goes, man, they are buttoned up.
Speaker 2: They know what they're doing there. They're great people to
Speaker 2: work with and what I love they have the the
Speaker 2: easy to use tied decision. Guy, it's going to take
Speaker 2: you a couple of minutes, you get a personalized tire
Speaker 2: recommendation right Tires for how and one and where you drive,
Speaker 2: including the hung Kuk tires.
Speaker 4: Little known fact the touchdown Jesus, he's actually rotating a tire. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a little known fact. He's holding up a set
Speaker 4: of radios.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, big tire rack dot Com slash down tire
Speaker 2: rack dot Com that wait tire buyings should be that's true.
Speaker 9: By the way, I just go.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be
Speaker 2: sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until
Speaker 2: noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 2: and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at
Speaker 2: FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. They
Speaker 2: say good things come to those who wait. The Mercedes
Speaker 2: Benz SUV Family proofs otherwise takes no time at all.
Speaker 2: Set up a test drive at your local Mercedes Benz dealer.
Speaker 2: Learn more at MBUSA dot com. Did we settle on
Speaker 2: a poll question?
Speaker 4: See Paul sent one in Drew Holliday is a Hall
Speaker 4: of Famer or a hall of very gooder?
Speaker 2: I added the good.
Speaker 4: It's all of very good, but I like gooder Gooder.
Speaker 2: Okay, like Famer and Gooder. Yeah, Hall of Famer, Hall
Speaker 2: of Very Gooder, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Poe and Drew Holidays. Actually he might be getting better.
Speaker 5: He's averaging like nineteen and eight. He's an All Star.
Speaker 5: He was an All Star like seven years ago, and
Speaker 5: then he's an All Star this year, which I don't
Speaker 5: know if there's ever been a bigger gap between All
Speaker 5: Star parents.
Speaker 8: Yes, I think it was an All Star ten years apart,
Speaker 8: as a matter of fact, even longer than that. So
Speaker 8: he's in Hall of Very good IOUs, Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: We discussed how his name hurts him for star Pound.
Speaker 5: It's like, here's a guy whose name hurt him for
Speaker 5: star Power, the running back Todd Gurley of Georgia Fantastic
Speaker 5: Ball Todd.
Speaker 3: Todd Gurley does not install Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not afraid of anybody named Todd, Right, that's true,
Speaker 2: even Paul Gurley. I'm not a right, I'm not afraid
Speaker 2: of Okay, but is it Todd or is it the
Speaker 2: name Gurley?
Speaker 3: It's the combo Tod. It's handed off to Todd.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Shay Gilgess, Alexander way way way way too
Speaker 2: much work there is left goo with us. Adam left
Speaker 2: Goo host NBA on TNT, joining us on the program.
Speaker 2: What do you think about that? Of all of the
Speaker 2: good play like Drew Holiday, I think it is hampered
Speaker 2: by his name, Shay, Gilgess, Alexander, the all of very good.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that Drew spells it with a
Speaker 1: J takes it. I think out of the disappointment of Drew. Also,
Speaker 1: I just want to confirm it is the longest gap
Speaker 1: between All Star appearances for an NBA player. But by golly,
Speaker 1: golden boy, I agree about Todd. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: be worried about a Todd.
Speaker 2: No, and like, if I'm a defense as great as
Speaker 2: Todd Gurley was, be like, you know, hey, we're building
Speaker 2: a defense to stop Todd.
Speaker 1: I do think, though, because I'm sure you've heard this,
Speaker 1: so they yell Peter on NFL punts when they don't
Speaker 1: want you to touch the ball, they yell Peter, Peter, Peter.
Speaker 1: And part of the belief behind it, according to the
Speaker 1: Sims family from what they've told me, is no NFL
Speaker 1: players are named Peter. Now, I would argue that Peter
Speaker 1: Warwick was a really dynamic Peter, But I do think
Speaker 1: it's interesting that when I look at my memory of
Speaker 1: the NFL, I don't remember a Peter. So apparently the
Speaker 1: reason you yell Peter, Peter, Peter is there's no NFL
Speaker 1: players named Peter.
Speaker 2: That is next level. That's next level stuff right there.
Speaker 2: Has nothing to do with your job with the NBA,
Speaker 2: but it is next level. I appreciate you know.
Speaker 1: I'm like you at Eastern Kentucky. Baby, I'm a Swiss
Speaker 1: army knife. I can kind of do anything.
Speaker 2: No, I I was not a Swiss army knife. I was.
Speaker 1: I was basically, well, no, you could be a Swiss
Speaker 1: army knife, but you just don't pull any of the
Speaker 1: knives out and just keep it in the container.
Speaker 2: When you're sitting on the bench. I was basically a
Speaker 2: spoon that was in the drawer and this never pulled out,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: You were the toothpick on the side that could come
Speaker 1: out of the little white one. All right.
Speaker 2: When teams step up when a star player is out,
Speaker 2: we saw that with Milwaukee with you know, one game,
Speaker 2: how do you that's playing Memphis last night against the Lakers.
Speaker 1: It is I have talked to a lot of NBA
Speaker 1: players about this. Candice and I had this conversation one
Speaker 1: time where there were times where she really didn't feel
Speaker 1: like she could go and when she sat, she saw
Speaker 1: a higher performance from her teammates because she wasn't there
Speaker 1: at all compared to when if she tried to tough
Speaker 1: it out, And so there is that reaction of oh,
Speaker 1: they're not here at all. This is what we've seen
Speaker 1: from Memphis though for two seasons. Remember last year, I
Speaker 1: think there were like twenty and two in the regular
Speaker 1: season when John Morant wasn't playing. I think seeing Xavier
Speaker 1: Tillman out dual Anthony Davis was shocking. And that's the
Speaker 1: takeaway that I have for the Lakers completely is this
Speaker 1: cannot be Anthony Davis steps up when he thinks it's time.
Speaker 1: This needs to be what Joelle Embiid is to the Sixers,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is to the Lakers. And I always go
Speaker 1: back to the Top seventy five and the fact that
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis made that list, and I know it's not fair,
Speaker 1: but Shack had this too. Shack was named to the
Speaker 1: top fifty and he was less than a decade into
Speaker 1: the NBA and he had to live up to that
Speaker 1: and then win all those championships after the fact, but
Speaker 1: he did, I think Anthony and he did. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the dilemma with Anthony Davis is you cannot get
Speaker 1: you cannot let up twenty three and thirteen Xavier Tillman
Speaker 1: and you don't even hit ten until the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: But I want to say that I really appreciate Dylan
Speaker 1: Brooks because Bruce Wayne would never put on the suit
Speaker 1: if there wasn't a joker, He would never get ready
Speaker 1: if there wasn't the Riddler. And the fact that Dylan
Speaker 1: Brooks is called we haven't seen this since Land Stevenson,
Speaker 1: someone that is getting in his face and calling them old.
Speaker 1: We get Lebron with two days thinking about him being
Speaker 1: old at I wanted to stay Staples Crypto dot Com arena,
Speaker 1: babe ethereum is going to go through the roof. I
Speaker 1: just I love the bad guys, because who wants to
Speaker 1: be the one that nobody likes. Dylan Brooks probably grew
Speaker 1: up with Lebron as a hero and he's calling him
Speaker 1: an MF and bum like to his face. It's not
Speaker 1: a fun role. But I appreciate him so much.
Speaker 2: Okay, he he's obviously baiting Lebron like he probably would
Speaker 2: love nothing better than Lebron to waste all of his
Speaker 2: energy in game three, try to put you know, forty
Speaker 2: on him and take him out of the game. You
Speaker 2: know where he had been relying on his role players,
Speaker 2: and now you know, I don't know if Lebron takes
Speaker 2: the bait because he's been down the road many, many times.
Speaker 2: But I brought this up to Jim Jackson yesterday and
Speaker 2: he sent it right back to me. I said, I
Speaker 2: don't remember guys doing that to Michael Jordan, this level
Speaker 2: of disrespect. He goes, oh, no, we did. You just
Speaker 2: paid the price. But guys did it. The Pistons as
Speaker 2: a team did it. And this is pre social media.
Speaker 2: But he said, you know, you would get in Mike's
Speaker 2: face or Kobe's face or Bird's face, and I just
Speaker 2: didn't remember the level of it feels like disrespect to
Speaker 2: Lebron what Memphis does, certainly with Dylan Brooks, well.
Speaker 1: I've heard so many stories about you don't want to
Speaker 1: wake the black Cat in Jordan, where somebody says something early,
Speaker 1: or somebody says something at halftime and then everybody looks
Speaker 1: at that guy or like, are you crazy that Jordan
Speaker 1: drops thirty on your head in the second half, or
Speaker 1: he heard something golfing and then goes out that night
Speaker 1: and drops forty. I just think, you know, right now,
Speaker 1: we're living each game in real time. And I also
Speaker 1: think this is going to be the media nerd side
Speaker 1: of me. I think we have more cameras than ever
Speaker 1: before that have that. I think there's always three dedicated
Speaker 1: to being on Lebron and they're in slow motion and
Speaker 1: they're zoomed in fifty X. So maybe we just missed
Speaker 1: them back in the days of Bob Costas on NBC.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, like now we're zooming in and spits
Speaker 1: flying and tempers flair.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Adam Lefko, host of NBA on TNT
Speaker 2: on Tuesdays. How does Steve Kerr spin this? How do
Speaker 2: you make this a positive and build momentum against Sacramento.
Speaker 1: I think Steve Kerr goes in there and says, the
Speaker 1: last six times we face this team at home, we've
Speaker 1: beat them by eleven or more points. I think he says,
Speaker 1: we've done what we've done all year. We were eleven
Speaker 1: and thirty on the road and we've been thirty three
Speaker 1: and eight at home. That's the part of this that
Speaker 1: I don't think people are thinking about the Warriors by
Speaker 1: the numbers. We're going to lose those two games. They
Speaker 1: are the lower seed in Sacramento, and they've been historically
Speaker 1: the worst home road split in the history of the NBA,
Speaker 1: and now they are going to where they are thirty
Speaker 1: three and eight at home. I think Steve knows that
Speaker 1: is often I believe if I'm going to make a
Speaker 1: bold prediction here on the Dan.
Speaker 2: Patrick whow whoa Okay, hold on here.
Speaker 1: This is it's gold on here. Okay, yeah, if I
Speaker 1: could get like a music or a drum roll or something.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Adam Lefko NBA on CNT Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: Tonight will be the Jonathan Kaminga game.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this will be the.
Speaker 1: Game where we got you doing the show tomorrow being
Speaker 1: like this is why they didn't trade the guy. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have thunderous dunks. He's going to be
Speaker 1: in that point forward role kind of audition it out.
Speaker 1: Tonight is the Jonathan Kaminga game. I think. I think
Speaker 1: the fact that I look this up today, Sacramento has
Speaker 1: not started a series up three to zero since the
Speaker 1: Championship in nineteen fifty one, the last time they won.
Speaker 1: Sacramento has not gone up three to zero a series
Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty one. Golden State has not lost three
Speaker 1: games in a playoff series since they blew the three
Speaker 1: to one lead to the Cavs. I don't think it
Speaker 1: happens tonight. I'm going Warriors.
Speaker 2: But bigger picture, who wins this series?
Speaker 1: Ooh, I'm still gonna take the Warriors. I think it
Speaker 1: goes game seven. I think it's in Sacramento, and I
Speaker 1: know we could talk about home road. One team has
Speaker 1: been in game seven's for the last ten years, and
Speaker 1: one hasn't been the playoffs since seventeen. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to take. I'm gonna man the odds probably right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what sportsbook you're affiliated with. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's pretty nice for the Warriors to win the series.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the early odds to win the NBA Finals. MVP. Yes,
Speaker 2: according to DraftKings, you want to guess early odds MVP,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Say the early favorite is Jason Tatum, He's second. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say the early favorite is Nikoli jokicch.
Speaker 2: He is fifth. Jannis Yes, Okay, Yeah, then Tatum, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: Joe l Embiid, and then the Joker. I'm also interested
Speaker 2: in this that the Sons are favored against the Clippers tonight.
Speaker 1: And in LA.
Speaker 2: Yes, but having watched the clip, the Sons had to
Speaker 2: play a perfect game in Game two.
Speaker 1: You know they were down twelve. Yeah, they're in the
Speaker 1: second quarter.
Speaker 2: But they don't have any depth. And I know the
Speaker 2: Clippers don't have Paul George because if they did, then
Speaker 2: they would win this series. And they still might. But
Speaker 2: why do you think Phoenix is favored against the Clippers
Speaker 2: when they had to play a perfect game in Game
Speaker 2: two and now the Clippers are at home?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I always look at the odds because I'm a degenerate.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about they're trying to induce bets, not that
Speaker 1: they believe. That's what's the spread?
Speaker 2: Do you have that I have the Sons by two
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 1: That's a lot, it is, Yeah, I So my degenerate
Speaker 1: brain goes, there was a big bet placed the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and the books are needing to induce more Betsy or
Speaker 1: there's a lot of money on the Suns and they're
Speaker 1: trying to get more money. To come onto the Clippers
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I think. Also there's just in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm always amazed at the recency bias from game to
Speaker 1: game and how uh you know a team wins and
Speaker 1: it's can you believe that the Sons are going to
Speaker 1: win this series? Yeah, Kawhi has looked masterful, masterful, but look,
Speaker 1: if the Sun's blow it, it'll be the biggest blown
Speaker 1: opportunity since Jenny Batschie.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can talk about my former girlfriend
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Well, you know when I talked to Jake Ketley every day, it's.
Speaker 2: J Jake Kefley almost you almost pulled it off there.
Speaker 1: My te's look like that was a Jenny batchie right there.
Speaker 2: Too soon, too soon? Still love it, Still love it.
Speaker 2: By the way, James Harden's storyline playoff time, because I
Speaker 2: love what the Sixers did this year. It was quiet.
Speaker 2: Most of the conversation was embied winning the MVP. Harden
Speaker 2: played at a really nice level, you know, leading the
Speaker 2: league and assists you can get you twenty one zero drama.
Speaker 2: There's no Ben Simmons's, no there's nothing going on here,
Speaker 2: which I like for this team. But in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: James Harden is going to have to be able to
Speaker 2: be a little bit more. And we've seen playoff Harden
Speaker 2: and it not a pretty picture.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the game to night, and I'm going
Speaker 1: with your buddies, Nick Wright and I this is my team.
Speaker 1: Like I was raised a Sixers fan. Game one is
Speaker 1: not sustainable. Seven threes most in a playoff game in
Speaker 1: Sixers history since Iverson and then. But we've seen in
Speaker 1: Games one and two his inability to explode in the lane,
Speaker 1: his inability to compete around the basket is a huge issue. Also,
Speaker 1: he's not going to the free throw line anymore, where
Speaker 1: him and Embiid were number one and number two in
Speaker 1: free throw attempts. And that's how they would change the game.
Speaker 1: They'd get everybody in foul trouble, They'd slow the game down.
Speaker 1: I think what gives me a little bit of hope
Speaker 1: for the Sixers is Tyrese Maxi made the jump from
Speaker 1: Game one to game two. The question is can Harden's
Speaker 1: facilitating plus Maxi's explosiveness and Embiid down low, can that
Speaker 1: be sustainable? My problem is right now the Nets are
Speaker 1: completely selling out and and be on doubling Embiid and
Speaker 1: Embiid is still catching the ball twenty twenty five feet
Speaker 1: from the basket and trying to play this facilitator role.
Speaker 1: Let's see if it happens tonight games one and two.
Speaker 1: First half, he catched the ball out there, the offense
Speaker 1: would be stagnant. Second half, he'd go to the block,
Speaker 1: and then he'd go from that. But from Harden's perspective,
Speaker 1: it's the reason why I don't think the Sixers can
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks or the Celtics is because I think
Speaker 1: that the Celtics have a number of guys that can
Speaker 1: take Harden off the dribble that I don't think Harden
Speaker 1: can take off the dribble. Harden's not faster than White,
Speaker 1: He's not faster than Tatum. He's definitely not faster than Brown.
Speaker 1: I think Marcus Smart locks him up. And then at
Speaker 1: that point you're a spot up shooter. And I don't
Speaker 1: think seven threes is something you can expect every game.
Speaker 2: How about a round of applause for Adam Lefko, who
Speaker 2: brought it. I think, I mean Fritzy didn't want him
Speaker 2: on the show today.
Speaker 1: But typical Todd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's afraid of somebody named Todd.
Speaker 1: So left go, and I have a I have a
Speaker 1: career question for you. Since this is like a staple.
Speaker 2: I saw, I saw you you got like this big
Speaker 2: interview on a website like offul announcing about your philosophy
Speaker 2: and doing your hosting stuff, and I thought I thought
Speaker 2: there might be a name drop in there that you
Speaker 2: know what? I drop you every time Dan Patrick said
Speaker 2: to be like John Stockton, just dish make everybody better.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't hear didn't did they edit it out?
Speaker 1: You literally read the one article where I I've been,
Speaker 1: I've been dropping your name and every interview the search terms.
Speaker 2: I'd like to correction, uh, you know, an update on that. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what's the career advice I can give you?
Speaker 1: Okay, I have I have a joke. So do you
Speaker 1: know what chat GPT is? Yes? Okay, So I heard
Speaker 1: you guys talking about trash talk, and so I asked
Speaker 1: chat GPT. I said, you're a world class comedian and
Speaker 1: you were playing basketball with Dan Patrick? What trash talk
Speaker 1: would you say to him? And I just I want
Speaker 1: to say one of them too for as a question.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, boy, their comedy stinks. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: Dan is your jump shot sponsored by NASA. Because it's
Speaker 1: taking so long to come back down to Earth, I
Speaker 1: thought it was an orbit. At GPT, it's too wordy, left,
Speaker 1: I've seen better defense in a Toddler soccer game.
Speaker 10: Dan.
Speaker 1: At least they all chase the ball together. You, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, seem to be playing hide and seek
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: Once again, too wordy and too much like dad jokes.
Speaker 1: If your basketball skills were a sports news headline, it
Speaker 1: did read breaking news. Dan Patrick's ankle breaker breaks own ankles,
Speaker 1: witnesses stunt.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to admit you're making me Miss Todd,
Speaker 2: giving me mock headlines.
Speaker 1: So I asked also chat GPT for three jokes about
Speaker 1: Dan's producer, Todd Fritz, and I thought this one was
Speaker 1: really good. Todd's love for sports trivia is legendary. I
Speaker 1: bet if you asked him how many dimples there are
Speaker 1: on a golf ball, he'd not only give you the
Speaker 1: exact number, but also provide a detailed history of dimple
Speaker 1: design and its impact on ball trajec and he'd do
Speaker 1: it while booking you or your next A list guest.
Speaker 2: Boom, wow that hold on?
Speaker 9: Is this a road?
Speaker 2: My insides are hurting from laughing so much. Okay, Mike,
Speaker 2: you know what, let me let me take back the
Speaker 2: round of applause for Adam left Goo. Oh he deserves
Speaker 2: way more that. That was hilarious.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just on here all the time asking like
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 2: Okay, shut the hell up.
Speaker 1: My career question for you can when you went from
Speaker 1: growing vertically to like I want to get the next job,
Speaker 1: to horizontally, when you were like I want to do more,
Speaker 1: what was the big decision that you make that You're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful I did that when you went horizontally
Speaker 1: instead of vertically.
Speaker 2: Well, I was doing Sports Center, but then I I
Speaker 2: would volunteer to do play by play on the weekends
Speaker 2: where I didn't even get paid at ESPN. I just said,
Speaker 2: could I do some college basketball games? I wanted to
Speaker 2: get out. I wanted to meet more coaches and players
Speaker 2: and kind of be a little bit more well rounded,
Speaker 2: get more sources, things like that. Then there was ESPN
Speaker 2: Radio and I started volunteering for that on the weekends
Speaker 2: as well. And this is when I was still doing
Speaker 2: the eleven o'clock Sports Center. I just said, you know what,
Speaker 2: and they didn't want me to do either one of those,
Speaker 2: and I said, well, I'm going to volunteer. You can't
Speaker 2: turn me down. So I was not afraid to try
Speaker 2: a couple of things, even though I was still doing
Speaker 2: something at a pretty high level doing the eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: Sports Center, And.
Speaker 1: You just started to see changes happen.
Speaker 2: N Yeah, yes, yes, it just makes you more well
Speaker 2: rounded with stories. You know, having people you can call
Speaker 2: is so invaluable in this business. When you have somebody
Speaker 2: you trust and you've been doing this for you know,
Speaker 2: now forty years, you're able to get that information, and
Speaker 2: information is key in this, in this in this small
Speaker 2: little world that we're in.
Speaker 1: I gotta start talking to more people than just.
Speaker 2: Todd and Nick.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll be my guy.
Speaker 2: Hey, when you when you see Nick Wright, tell him
Speaker 2: I ask about his wife. I will, Okay, I will.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a burner. You're actually being genuine.
Speaker 2: So you'll see by his reaction he really he loves that.
Speaker 2: I love his wife. I appreciate his way.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say hi for you once again.
Speaker 2: Round of applause for Adam Lefko. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love you guys. Yeah, all of a sudden, Todd
Speaker 2: seems funny. You know.
Speaker 3: That's sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel that left go so uh NBA on
Speaker 2: T and T Tuesdays. Also hosting Bleacher Reports NFL Draft
Speaker 2: Show for the tenth straight year. That'll be next Thursday.
Speaker 2: Take a break, play the day up next. Thanks for
Speaker 2: listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to
Speaker 2: catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern
Speaker 2: six and Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and you can
Speaker 2: find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream
Speaker 2: us live on the Peacock app.
Speaker 11: This is Steve Covino and Rich Davis, and together we
Speaker 11: are Covino and Rich, Caveno and Ridge.
Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, that's right.
Speaker 12: Covino on Rich, Fox Sports Radio's newest hit show, heard
Speaker 12: weekdays from five to seven Eastern two to four Pacific
Speaker 12: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 11: Every Coveno in Rich show is available as a podcasts.
Speaker 11: Just search Covino and Rich wherever you get your podcasts
Speaker 11: and subscribe of such a rockin dude.
Speaker 12: The show features our unique take on sports, injected with
Speaker 12: some fun, humor and relatability. Listen to Covino on Rich
Speaker 12: five days a week on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts
Speaker 12: or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 10: Give me the hell yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: The play of the Day of the day.
Speaker 6: Check this out.
Speaker 1: Gnard into the corner, Roddy open looking at three, ring
Speaker 1: it up, put three on the moard the Rookie David
Speaker 1: Roddy Berry's the triple. Grizzlies back up seven.
Speaker 2: Cannard steals the involves, he steps back for three.
Speaker 4: Oh gets done?
Speaker 6: Can it hits drig it up? Put three on the board.
Speaker 1: Cannard stole the invaluve path backed up to.
Speaker 2: The left wing, and Berry's the triple with contact. Courtesy
Speaker 2: of the Grizzlies Radio Network. Grizzlies five of twenty five
Speaker 2: from three point range. Other than Roddy and Canard, they
Speaker 2: went six for eleven. The Lakers were seven of twenty
Speaker 2: six from three point range. That's your play of the day.
Speaker 2: Play the Day brought to you by Hottest Rookie's Biggest Superstars,
Speaker 2: the All Time Great's only one place to collect them all.
Speaker 2: Panini Trading Cards the official trading cards of this program.
Speaker 2: They have autographed cards, memorabilia cards, rare inserts and more.
Speaker 2: Starter continue collection now Panini America dot Net update the
Speaker 2: poll results seat and if you could please, we'll get
Speaker 2: some phone calls as well.
Speaker 4: Gotta admit this is one that I I just didn't
Speaker 4: see coming. But Drew Holliday is a Hall of Famer
Speaker 4: or Hall of very Gooder right now. I'm sorry, Drew,
Speaker 4: but eighty nine percent of the audience as you as
Speaker 4: a Hall of very Gooder.
Speaker 2: I think you'll appreciate that he's just being mentioned today. Okay,
Speaker 2: Drew Holiday. A couple of phone calls in here. Brian
Speaker 2: in Washington. Hi, Brian, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10: Hey? Dan? I am living the dream. My friend flew
Speaker 10: into Las Vegas and picked up my twenty nineteen sprinter
Speaker 10: van and now I'm driving back home, got my tiny, little,
Speaker 10: little sized Marvin hands wrapped around the steering wheel, and
Speaker 10: I'm just making my way back to the great state
Speaker 10: of Washington. So, Hey, Dan, I had a request to
Speaker 10: ask of you, if it's possible. Okay, you know, you've
Speaker 10: given so much to so much a Dan nation, and
Speaker 10: I'd really like to be able to give something back
Speaker 10: to you. And you've talked to the story about how
Speaker 10: you lost your vinyl you know, years ago you had
Speaker 10: to give it up, and I know it's a sad story,
Speaker 10: and I want to make it better. And I just
Speaker 10: wondered if you could open up your mind and recreate
Speaker 10: that library. I bet Dan Nation could recreate the vinyl
Speaker 10: library in your home for you so that you could
Speaker 10: have could maybe give something back us that you'd get
Speaker 10: so given so much to us.
Speaker 2: Well, Rian, thank you for that offer. But it's fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred albums that I had. I had picture disc I had.
Speaker 2: I had rare, rare, rare records because I was in
Speaker 2: radio and my brothers were in radio, and I had
Speaker 2: a pretty good vinyl collection there.
Speaker 5: Yes, are there two or three that you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 5: I can't believe that one's gone or is it the
Speaker 5: entire collect it's the entirety of it, but not one
Speaker 5: we're like that was that was my go to.
Speaker 2: Now I had I had, you know, there were picture
Speaker 2: disc I remember Elo had a double album and one
Speaker 2: album was red and one was blue. There was an
Speaker 2: Elvis Costello. My Funny Valentine was a red forty five.
Speaker 2: I'd wait, wait way too many, but you know, I
Speaker 2: gave it up for love, plain and simple. We didn't
Speaker 2: have room in one bedroom apartment, and I figured, instead
Speaker 2: of giving up my wife, I decided to give up
Speaker 2: the record collection. And you know, it was a debate,
Speaker 2: you know, in my mind for a little while. But
Speaker 2: then I said, you know what, man, that Vinyl will
Speaker 2: last forever. I don't know if my wife will. But
Speaker 2: you know, conferred with my family and we decided that
Speaker 2: it was past. I got rid of the albums.
Speaker 9: Yes, were you married at that point when you gave
Speaker 9: them up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: No? Oh, so you didn't even have the ring owner?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: That's why I had to look at this and say,
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to play the long game here.
Speaker 2: She's going to be around for because Vinyl was going
Speaker 2: to last. But I opted. Yeah, I made the right choice.
Speaker 9: I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pully, I found that Elo album online. It's not cheap.
Speaker 2: I'd rather not know. I'd rather not know.
Speaker 3: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2: It hurts. It hurts, but it was worth it because
Speaker 2: nobody loved love like I do. Texas running back Bijon
Speaker 2: Robinson will join us coming up