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Speaker 2: We did it, We did it.
Speaker 3: We got nominated for a Sports Emmy yesterday right after
Speaker 3: the show, Paully in dramatic fashion telling us that we
Speaker 3: had been nominated for a Sports Emmy. Congratulations to all
Speaker 3: involved here, certainly the studio audience here that we have
Speaker 3: called the dan Eds, in the back room, guys, and
Speaker 3: also you at home or in your car, all your
Speaker 3: support over the years. This is the sixth time this
Speaker 3: show has been nominated for a Sports Emmy.
Speaker 2: We're oh for five right now, so we're due.
Speaker 3: Right, No, no, nobody, Yes, Paulin.
Speaker 4: I think our buddy Scott van pelt is oho for six,
Speaker 4: so he's in the same wheelhouse like the Bills.
Speaker 3: Well, Scott van Pelt, well join us coming up next hour.
Speaker 3: We can commiserate there, Seaton.
Speaker 5: There's a storyline here with this nomination now that is juicy.
Speaker 4: Hesitate to bring it out.
Speaker 5: I hesitated exactly ninety seconds. This is Marvin's first time
Speaker 5: being nominated since joining the front row. Congratulations Marvin. That's
Speaker 5: very exciting. That feels good. That would mean that it
Speaker 5: is our first time being nominated without Andrew pearl Off
Speaker 5: aka McLevin here.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. It just felt right.
Speaker 5: So that would mean, man, if if we somehow win
Speaker 5: this time with Marvin and not Andrew, it does beg
Speaker 5: the question what was the difference between this time and
Speaker 5: the other five? Just saying that that is a storyline
Speaker 5: that some people here are kicking around.
Speaker 3: Okay, did anybody get congratulated by McLevin?
Speaker 4: Yes, Pauline, Yes, I got a text that's after the
Speaker 4: nomination was announced. Quote Emmy's back on. Are you guys
Speaker 4: going to come into the city for the ceremony? Congrats?
Speaker 3: Anybody else get a congratulations from McLevin? No, no, I
Speaker 3: only get updates on shark attacks.
Speaker 2: Todd, what about you?
Speaker 6: I got a congratulation from Chase Daniel.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I said McLevin.
Speaker 6: I did not.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was the question. Marvin, how about you? Did
Speaker 3: mcleven reach out?
Speaker 7: He did not? Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, we couldn't have gotten here to this point without
Speaker 2: McLevin and maybe with Marvin. Maybe this is this is
Speaker 2: what's going to push us over the top.
Speaker 3: You're the you're the addition, you're that magic magic elixir here.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, see, if.
Speaker 5: We win this year, do we finally admit that Andrew
Speaker 5: was holding us back all those years?
Speaker 2: Fine, I'll just say it, yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 3: All righty Wait, this was supposed to be a positive okay,
Speaker 3: fun okay, and in case Garrison enjoying this. In case
Speaker 3: you're wondering what we put on our Sports Emmy reel
Speaker 3: to get nominated. When we had Steven Wilson Junior singing
Speaker 3: in the studio, when Josh Jacobs tackled Paulie at the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, that whole encounter when Jerry West died, we
Speaker 3: put that on the tape. And Dion joining us at
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, the Nation League All Star manager Tory Lavello,
Speaker 3: when we had Paul's schemes on and the manager called
Speaker 3: in to tell Paul that he would be his starting
Speaker 3: pitcher in the All Star Game. So that's what we
Speaker 3: put on our tape and it's great, great being nominated.
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Speaker 3: join us from Augusta. Tim McMahon, he covers the NBA
Speaker 3: for the mother Ship because we got surprised yesterday Michael
Speaker 3: Malone got fired. Vincent Goodwill, great reporter as well from
Speaker 3: Yahoo's Sports, will join us in about fifteen minutes from
Speaker 3: now to tell us why this happened and why it happened.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: night the Lakers against Oklahoma City, it was a great
Speaker 3: first quarter.
Speaker 2: You had both.
Speaker 3: Teams scoring forty three points at the end of the
Speaker 3: first quarter, which is rare, certainly this time of the year,
Speaker 3: with OKC already wrapping up everything with home court advantage.
Speaker 3: But OKC one by sixteen, But this was a close game.
Speaker 3: With seven forty to go and the Lakers led by one,
Speaker 3: Luca got ejected and then OKC went on a twenty
Speaker 3: nine to twelve run. Now once again the Lakers were
Speaker 3: playing to win. Ok see I think decided to play
Speaker 3: to win and end up picking up that victory. Now
Speaker 3: you have the Lakers now they're playing in Dallas tonight,
Speaker 3: and this was the game so I didn't know how
Speaker 3: focused they would be in OKAC.
Speaker 2: I didn't know who was going to play an OKAC.
Speaker 3: Now you have this game where Lucas going back to Dallas,
Speaker 3: and it feels like this has been circled on the
Speaker 3: calendar of all hands on deck. We want to make
Speaker 3: sure Luca has a big night tonight.
Speaker 2: You may not be.
Speaker 3: Aware of this, but over the last five seasons, Luka
Speaker 3: Dancik has seventy three technical founds. That's most in the NBA,
Speaker 3: and he got tossed last night with a couple of technicals.
Speaker 8: Now, stead of a day, stantaa day, Statata day, Stanatata day,
Speaker 8: this is the stat of the day Stata to.
Speaker 3: Day, Ronchi buy Panini America. There are times when I
Speaker 3: watch players and I go why, Like why does everything
Speaker 3: bother you? We had Dan Hurley, the Yukon coach, and
Speaker 3: he said, I don't know why referees, you know, bother me,
Speaker 3: But you let them bother you. Then it affects you,
Speaker 3: and it affects maybe you're coaching, this affects Luca's playing.
Speaker 3: You get caught up in this Rashid Wallace used to
Speaker 3: do this all the time.
Speaker 2: He just it's almost like he needed it.
Speaker 3: Draymond Green, It's almost like that fuels him for some reason.
Speaker 3: And Luca gets involved with officials, he winds way way
Speaker 3: too much.
Speaker 2: And really a great player like that, you.
Speaker 3: Can send a message, but don't do it in a
Speaker 3: way that embarrasses an official. And you're, you know, jawing
Speaker 3: back and forth with a fan and then the official
Speaker 3: thinks you're talking to him, you're talking to the fan,
Speaker 3: and then he runs you.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, you're a franchise player.
Speaker 3: You can't be tossed in a game like this, and
Speaker 3: don't let everything bother you and you don't deserve every call.
Speaker 3: And yes, have I watched the NBA for fifty years
Speaker 3: and do I see the great players and they seem
Speaker 3: to whind the most, Yes, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it helps you Just imagine that official is human.
Speaker 3: So when you yell at him and you say something
Speaker 3: to him, how does he compartmentalize that and go, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let him blow off steam. Really, I would
Speaker 3: think that you, if you're going to curry favor, then
Speaker 3: maybe go out of your way to not try to
Speaker 3: embarrass an official. You know, he's still young, but he's
Speaker 3: been doing this since he got into the NBA, and
Speaker 3: it's something he really has to be aware of.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: When Lebron retires, your team and you know they're watching you,
Speaker 3: you're the leader.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see, if we're.
Speaker 5: Going to give an official passer being human, don't we
Speaker 5: also have to do that with the player. If we're
Speaker 5: worried about how the referee the official is going to
Speaker 5: take those words because they're only human, we kind of
Speaker 5: have to do that with the player too.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, but the official doesn't know that Luke is
Speaker 3: talking to a fan. He thinks he's talking to him.
Speaker 3: His reputation put him in that position. So yeah, there's
Speaker 3: the human element, but the official has the last word.
Speaker 3: No matter what you say, how you say it, when
Speaker 3: you say it, where you say it, that official has
Speaker 3: the jurisdiction to run the game and give you a
Speaker 3: technical and toss you from the game.
Speaker 2: So, yes, you can say what you want.
Speaker 3: It's like your children can say something to you. You're
Speaker 3: the official. You decide, hey, time out, Hey ground you.
Speaker 3: So Luca's got to understand that official, whether he likes
Speaker 3: him or not. That's the parent on the floor. So
Speaker 3: you can say what you want to say. But this
Speaker 3: isn't free speech. Now there's repercussions there, and to watch
Speaker 3: that last night and he engages, but maybe it fuels
Speaker 3: him in all fairness to that personality, but that's just
Speaker 3: something he has to be aware of.
Speaker 2: You know, Draymond would do this.
Speaker 3: They get into the postseason, then he would he'd get tossed,
Speaker 3: he'd have sixteen technicals and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you get the next You know, you just can't put
Speaker 3: yourself in that position there. And were they a beatn Oclac,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but we know that they didn't beat
Speaker 3: him because he wasn't in there. And now you have
Speaker 3: this game coming up tonight. You got to win these games.
Speaker 3: You know, these are so important. Back to Denver, they
Speaker 3: haven't played well since the All Star break. Reportedly there
Speaker 3: was tension between the GM and the head coach, Calvin
Speaker 3: Booth and Michael Malone.
Speaker 2: But I mean timing is everything. So you look at Denver.
Speaker 3: In Memphis, the Grizzly said goodbye to Taylor Jenkins and
Speaker 3: he had done a great job with a young group,
Speaker 3: trying to keep them together. The Nuggets are just two
Speaker 3: years removed from a title. You have Michael Malone who
Speaker 3: was there to help build them into something. And as
Speaker 3: I said, after they won the title, and then he
Speaker 3: got up there on the microphone at the parade, he
Speaker 3: was in his cups and he was saying nobody's good.
Speaker 3: You know, we're not going to let any of these
Speaker 3: guys go, and I go, yes, they are. This is
Speaker 3: what happened. Sometimes when you win, that's when your problems start.
Speaker 3: You would think that the hard part is winning a championship.
Speaker 3: It's once you win that championship, can you keep everybody?
Speaker 3: And Denver was not going to keep everybody. And I've
Speaker 3: said the last two years, we're going to look back
Speaker 3: on the malpractice that happened. That they did not surround
Speaker 3: Joker with bench players, deeper vent That's how they won
Speaker 3: the title. They had depth and they don't have that now.
Speaker 3: And Malone turned this team into a consistent winner. You know,
Speaker 3: they weren't underachievers. And we don't know the full story
Speaker 3: yet maybe we won't, but if you're going to make
Speaker 3: a decision like this now, you don't get many chances
Speaker 3: to roll the dice again. So it must have been
Speaker 3: really bad between the GM and the coach that they
Speaker 3: didn't get along that you're going to fire both of them.
Speaker 3: That's rare because usually you go, okay, we're going to
Speaker 3: part ways with the coach. The GM's going to stay.
Speaker 3: But you know, this was a fractured relationship, and hey,
Speaker 3: Michael Malone's spirited god, and he's probably thinking, this guy
Speaker 3: just came in as our GM. You lost your previous
Speaker 3: gym who went to Minnesota, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: this guy and probably was like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: be told, Hey, give me a bench, help me out here.
Speaker 3: And you could see frustration. Jokers showed frustration on the bench.
Speaker 3: But three games to go in the regular season and
Speaker 3: the odds didn't change on Denver their title chances. So
Speaker 3: I don't know what that says. And you know, maybe
Speaker 3: Vegas is saying, hey, matter who's coaching, this team isn't
Speaker 3: going anywhere in the postseason. Maybe that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3: But the odds they're long. But I don't know if
Speaker 3: people looked at Denver and said, you know what, they
Speaker 3: can win this thing. It feels like that we've given
Speaker 3: credence to the Lakers winning, Golden State winning, and OKAC winning.
Speaker 3: I think we've dismissed the Rockets because we feel like
Speaker 3: they're too young, and Denver because they just aren't consistent.
Speaker 3: You have the best player in the game, but they're
Speaker 3: nowhere near what they were now Maybe maybe you're going, now,
Speaker 3: this will spark them.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Here is the owner of the Denver Nuggets, Josh Krunky
Speaker 3: on the timing of the firings.
Speaker 9: You know, outside of the decision, there was thinking around
Speaker 9: two separate things, you know, involving with the timing.
Speaker 2: Of it all.
Speaker 9: I think that you know, the awkwardness of the timing
Speaker 9: with only three games left and then the playoffs looming.
Speaker 9: But you know, it came down to two factors. One,
Speaker 9: I have a complete belief and trust and our group
Speaker 9: of players that are in there. And I have complete
Speaker 9: trust and belief in our assistant coaches and their ability
Speaker 9: to step up into different roles. And maybe if their
Speaker 9: voices are a little louder in certain areas, maybe they
Speaker 9: can squeeze some of that juice that I've been talking about.
Speaker 3: Okay, good luck with that. They're just not a you know,
Speaker 3: they're not a formidable team.
Speaker 2: Now. Can they have moments? Sure?
Speaker 3: But I'm curious, and you know, Joker has two more
Speaker 3: years and then I think there's an option. So it's
Speaker 3: around fifty five fifty seven, fifty nine million over the
Speaker 3: next three years. And then I saw there's already odds
Speaker 3: on his next team. Take a guess the odds that
Speaker 3: came out yesterday the team that you know, Joe Kich
Speaker 3: is going to end up with, Yes, paulin.
Speaker 2: The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I'm joking because it's they're going to go to the
Speaker 4: one that gets clised.
Speaker 3: No, No, it would be the Lakers. That's the one
Speaker 3: that gets closed. Yes, So it's the Lakers. And then
Speaker 3: the other one is I think it's a home team
Speaker 3: back in Serbia. The odds for his next team, I
Speaker 3: believe it or not, but you know, and then I
Speaker 3: was told that he wasn't told that they were firing
Speaker 3: Michael Malone. I don't know how that's possible. Do I
Speaker 3: think that Lebron James didn't know Anthony Davis is going
Speaker 3: to be traded. I'm going to guess they ran it
Speaker 3: by him, Joker. I mean, this might be an impulsive
Speaker 3: move by ownership where they just go, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of dealing with this, We're gonna you're fired.
Speaker 3: And maybe it was that, maybe it was just building, building, building,
Speaker 3: But therefore, I don't think Joker could be surprised that
Speaker 3: it happened, maybe that it happened right now, because I
Speaker 3: don't think either and this is one of those. We
Speaker 3: don't want to have Michael Malone stay in there all
Speaker 3: of a sudden they go on a run like That's
Speaker 3: my coaches get fired sometimes during the regular season in
Speaker 3: the NFL because we win a couple of games and
Speaker 3: we got to keep him. But Michael Malone is going
Speaker 3: to get another job quickly, probably in the next week
Speaker 3: or so. He'll he'll get an opening somewhere. Somebody might
Speaker 3: bow out of the playoffs early. If the Knicks bowed
Speaker 3: out early, Could Michael Malone end up with the Knicks?
Speaker 2: I could see that happening.
Speaker 3: You know, Memphis has an opening there, and you know
Speaker 3: he's a great coach, so he'll get a job here.
Speaker 3: All right, Vincent Goodwill, great reporter for Yahoo Sports. You'll
Speaker 3: have more details on this. We'll get phone calls coming up,
Speaker 3: settle on a poll question, a lot of things to
Speaker 3: dive into the Master's par three contests. Today, we'll hear
Speaker 3: from Scott Van Pelt, who will join us from Augusta.
Speaker 3: We're back after this on the Sports Emmy nominated Dan
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Speaker 3: We'll settle on a poll question. Got our play of
Speaker 3: the day coming up as well. I got the NBA
Speaker 3: title odds the Thunder they're the big favorites, followed by
Speaker 3: the Celtics and it's basically a two team race according
Speaker 3: to Vegas. Then it's the Cavaliers, the Warriors, the Lakers,
Speaker 3: and then it's the Nuggets after that. Vincent Goodwill, Yahoo's
Speaker 3: Sports NBA writer, host of The Good Word podcast on
Speaker 3: Yahoo's Sports Ball Don't Live Channel Serious XMNBA host What
Speaker 3: the heck happened in Denver yesterday?
Speaker 2: Vincent?
Speaker 7: Before we began, that was the greatest song ever written
Speaker 7: that you were playing coming out there on the bump.
Speaker 7: Stevie Wonder's ass just put me in a really, really
Speaker 7: good mood. What happened yesterday? Those that the NBA is
Speaker 7: very unpredictable, Like you've seen more championship coaches fired in
Speaker 7: the short span than anybody, but this on this particularly,
Speaker 7: I guess you could say bizarre. You were hearing over
Speaker 7: the past couple of months that Michael Malone was probably
Speaker 7: not going to be there after this year bearing something
Speaker 7: miraculous happening, bearing another championship run, and then after the
Speaker 7: y'all start break, it just seemed to accelerate, like the
Speaker 7: way that the team had performed the losses they had,
Speaker 7: you know, the defense, and honestly, some of the things
Speaker 7: that he said in the postgame press conference is kind
Speaker 7: of alluded to man, maybe he lost his voice with
Speaker 7: the team to some degree, and maybe that did happen.
Speaker 7: The total house cleaning was more shocking to me than
Speaker 7: Michael Malone, and even the timing of it, because now
Speaker 7: you don't have a chief basketball executive, you don't have
Speaker 7: a head coach, and you're walking into arguably maybe the
Speaker 7: playing tournament, depending on how these next few games shake out. Like,
Speaker 7: it's a lot of questions for what we consider to
Speaker 7: be one of the model franchises in the NBA, and
Speaker 7: we don't have a lot of answers as yet. I
Speaker 7: don't know if we're going to get the answers as
Speaker 7: clear beyond what we've been saying and writing over the past.
Speaker 2: There So any chance Joker wasn't involved in this.
Speaker 7: I don't think he ordered the cold red one of
Speaker 7: those things he did the Colonel Jessup ordered the cold
Speaker 7: red and all that type of stuff. No. I think
Speaker 7: in the NBA, Dan, you know this, like I know this,
Speaker 7: Sometimes the star player is alerted and they have the
Speaker 7: opportunity to say, hey, that's not happening. I'm going to
Speaker 7: the wall for my guy or whatever. That doesn't seem
Speaker 7: like Nicola Jokic and his type of personality. He's more
Speaker 7: or less the type that it seems like to me
Speaker 7: from a distance. I don't know him well, I don't
Speaker 7: know many people who do. That's more or less like, Okay,
Speaker 7: that's what you want to do. Okay, fine, Like he's
Speaker 7: not going to step in front and obscure what an
Speaker 7: organization wants to do. And besides, he doesn't want to
Speaker 7: pick his head coach anyway. He just wants, I'm sure
Speaker 7: to be in a stable situation right now. That looks
Speaker 7: like nothing but stable. Even though from what I understand, Dan,
Speaker 7: the players do like they it out of them. They do,
Speaker 7: they do have They have reacted positively to him throughout
Speaker 7: the season since he's been there.
Speaker 3: Do you make this move because you think it's going
Speaker 3: to give your team a little bit of a bump
Speaker 3: going into the I just I don't know how that
Speaker 3: works where you go, hey, look what we did.
Speaker 2: Now go out and try to win.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I there's a reason this is unprecedented because it
Speaker 7: doesn't work. Like there's a reason why. You know, the
Speaker 7: Miami Heat and you know some of the other model
Speaker 7: franchises they ride these waters out. But some coaches have
Speaker 7: different personalities too, and some coaches almost like from a
Speaker 7: certain tree of coaches, almost they run very, very hot.
Speaker 7: And Michael Malone ran very hot. And one of the
Speaker 7: concerns that I knew from the front office and from
Speaker 7: people in the note was that, hey, is he holding
Speaker 7: the top guys accountable? Is he playing those top guys
Speaker 7: too many minutes? Almost tipsy in right, like Jamal Murray
Speaker 7: who has acl playing the career high minutes, Nicola Jokic
Speaker 7: career high minutes. The numbers look great, but you run
Speaker 7: the risk Dan of that team wearing down throughout the
Speaker 7: course of a playoff run. Remember they wore down in
Speaker 7: the last two games of that playoff run against the
Speaker 7: Minnesota Timwolves. They had nothing left. Jamal Murray his legs
Speaker 7: were wiped out. Nikola Jokic looked wiped out. And if
Speaker 7: you're responding by playing those guys career high minutes. Ain't
Speaker 7: no joke. That's going to happen when you change the
Speaker 7: coach or when the coach is still there. It's almost
Speaker 7: like this is going to be another tired run. If
Speaker 7: there is some type of run, it's but it's really
Speaker 7: really bizarre that it happened with three games left in
Speaker 7: the season, not bizarre that they fired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the problem I had with this team they win
Speaker 3: the title. I wanted to know they were going to
Speaker 3: lose bench players. I just don't think they restocked. And
Speaker 3: I called it malpractice because I said, this team won't
Speaker 3: win another title with Joker. You have the best player
Speaker 3: in the game, and I just don't think that you
Speaker 3: gave him. You know, that's why they're playing these minutes.
Speaker 3: Because maybe Michael Malone didn't have confidence in that bench,
Speaker 3: And that leads us to this. Joker had a wonderful year.
Speaker 3: Murray is hurt. You're limping literally into the postseason. You
Speaker 3: don't have a coach, and you don't have a GM
Speaker 3: other than that, how was your season, Nuggets.
Speaker 7: Other than how's the play? Missus? Lincoln? Like, that's what
Speaker 7: this sounds like. But I understand this from this standpoint.
Speaker 7: They signed Michael Porter Junior, the third star to a
Speaker 7: max contract under the old paradigm, under the old CBA,
Speaker 7: where you didn't have punitive luxury tax penalties and fewer
Speaker 7: mechanisms that you could actually improve your team. Most teams
Speaker 7: don't have three max salary guys, including a big time
Speaker 7: max salary guy in Yokish. No matter how good you are,
Speaker 7: it is really hard in the financial reality of today's
Speaker 7: NBA to have three max guys and to build a
Speaker 7: team around have to hit on all of your draft picks.
Speaker 7: You have to have value signings, and he's done that. Actually,
Speaker 7: like Christian Brown is one of those guys who's the
Speaker 7: most improved player candidate like Calvin Booth actually actually restocked
Speaker 7: to some degree with value young players. Michael Malone didn't
Speaker 7: trust them, and subsequently, because you didn't trust them, you
Speaker 7: play your veterans more and you don't have any other resources.
Speaker 2: Luca last night getting tossed.
Speaker 3: Last five years, he leads the NBA in technicals with
Speaker 3: seventy three. I mean, you're not Draymond Green, You're not
Speaker 3: Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2: Why does he.
Speaker 7: Why is he not Raceived Wallace? Why is he not Draymond.
Speaker 3: Hungreen well, because for sure he's one of the best
Speaker 3: players in the game. He shouldn't be Draymond Green and
Speaker 3: shouldn't be Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2: Why is he?
Speaker 7: I mean, look, he's a child prodigy. Like I read
Speaker 7: his book, not Shame with pluck with my man Tim McMahon,
Speaker 7: the wonder Boy, but everything with him out to me
Speaker 7: like a child prodigy. And those child prodigies they act
Speaker 7: out a lot. They act out at people around them,
Speaker 7: They act out at fans. Luka Doncich is a is
Speaker 7: a chirper. He has ways that he goes about it.
Speaker 7: I don't think people love it and like it. Oh no,
Speaker 7: That's one of the reasons that the Dolls not because
Speaker 7: they had a litany of reasons why they traded him.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I would have done it. They
Speaker 7: had a litany of reasons, and that was one of them.
Speaker 7: Getting distracted and you don't remember the places. In the
Speaker 7: NBA Finals, he picked up his fifth file in the
Speaker 7: fourth quarter of Game three, and a play he shouldn't have.
Speaker 7: He ordered the team to challenge it. It was a
Speaker 7: bad play. It was a bad challenge, and then a
Speaker 7: few minutes later he files out like it's these impulses
Speaker 7: in the moment. Now. Granted, Dan, he was talking to
Speaker 7: a fan in that moment, but he had already drawn
Speaker 7: one technical file with that same official, thus eliminating benefit
Speaker 7: of the doubt. I feel like that's the theme in
Speaker 7: the NBA for the past couple of weeks with Jahn
Speaker 7: Morant and now Luka Doncic. Some people don't have benefit
Speaker 7: of the doubt when you're when you've eliminated a lack
Speaker 7: of a good raise goodwill.
Speaker 3: Uh, Speaking of which, Vincent Goodwill Young who's sports NBA writer,
Speaker 3: Jo's got a new celebration. Now he tosses the grenade.
Speaker 7: Hey, look, man, look if he wants to go full rebel,
Speaker 7: Look he's clearly going full rebel, full villain. And I
Speaker 7: find it hilarious Dan that the NBA they didn't suspend him,
Speaker 7: they didn't find him immediately, They told him, Hey, man,
Speaker 7: just don't do it again. And you want to know
Speaker 7: why they did that, Dan, Because they don't want to
Speaker 7: hurt him. They need him as a young face of
Speaker 7: the future. They just wanted him to stay on the
Speaker 7: floor a little bit longer, to get people used to
Speaker 7: seeing him again without associating him with the nonsense, and
Speaker 7: what was the first thing that he does. Twelve hours
Speaker 7: after receiving a warning, he goes out and Besidol National TV.
Speaker 7: You're daring the league. You're daring Adam Silver, the most
Speaker 7: player progressive commission in the history of professional American sports.
Speaker 7: You're spinning on him. Okay, fine, go ahead, find you
Speaker 7: seventy five thousand dollars. And people are still pissed off
Speaker 7: about that they didn't suspend him, Like, we have to
Speaker 7: be honest about this stuff. If he's gonna go full villain,
Speaker 7: go full villain, but then don't complain and say that
Speaker 7: everybody's against you. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: As long as he's not driving with one of his
Speaker 3: buddies and he's actually got a live grenade, then I'm
Speaker 3: okay with this. But you're right now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: everybody's against Jaw. He doesn't realize he created all of this.
Speaker 3: I don't think people he was a great feel good story,
Speaker 3: came out of nowhere, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 3: watch him and you go, damn, this is I mean,
Speaker 3: he should be one of those guys that we talk
Speaker 3: about with all of the greades of the game, and
Speaker 3: we don't, and I hope that there's somebody who can.
Speaker 3: They don't have that veteran leadership there. You just fired
Speaker 3: your coach. I don't know what role he played in that,
Speaker 3: but you know, you see these guys that they're in
Speaker 3: the embryonic stages of greatness, Zion, and I just don't know.
Speaker 3: You got a lot of money, you're not. You don't
Speaker 3: need to work for it anymore. And I just wonder
Speaker 3: if you know that's to the detriment of a lot
Speaker 3: of these younger players getting fifty million dollars by the
Speaker 3: time you're twenty five.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot of pressure, it's
Speaker 7: a lot of expectation. I will say this for Job,
Speaker 7: I don't think from my reporting for my gathering, he
Speaker 7: had anything to do with the firing of Taylor Jenkins.
Speaker 7: Like so I won't put any I won't put that
Speaker 7: on him, just like I won't put Michael Malone on
Speaker 7: the Kola Jokics. I will say this man for the NBA,
Speaker 7: they want their next generation of young players and man
Speaker 7: Zion Victor Jock to take the mantle from the old guys.
Speaker 7: This is the league that depends heavier on stars. So
Speaker 7: you're going to give star treatment to stars. The model
Speaker 7: is there that is going to play for twenty years.
Speaker 7: Lebron's going to play for twenty years, Kevin Durry's going
Speaker 7: to play for twenty years. They got all the money,
Speaker 7: all the fame. All they have to do is just hey,
Speaker 7: don't play with guns on Instagram, don't use laser pointers
Speaker 7: against the Indiana Pacers traveling party and a loading dock.
Speaker 7: Don't do dumb stuff. It's not that difficult. Nobody's asking
Speaker 7: you to be a model citizen. They're just saying, hey,
Speaker 7: go play basketball. Be entertaining, be electrifying. Just don't make
Speaker 7: it hard for yourself. Don't be job versus job. This
Speaker 7: ain't a job versus the NBA. Then you want them
Speaker 7: to succeed. To succeed, Oh man.
Speaker 3: What kind of reception will the Mavericks give Luca tonight?
Speaker 3: What kind of reception should they give him?
Speaker 7: What type of reception will the Mavericks fans give the
Speaker 7: Mavericks tonight. This is going to be a role game,
Speaker 7: and now that's what y'alls this is gonna be. It's
Speaker 7: gonna be a lot of Laker purple and gold in
Speaker 7: this building. I think he's going to, of course get
Speaker 7: the standing ovations. I'm sure there's going to be a
Speaker 7: tribute video, you know, given to them by the franchise.
Speaker 7: And he made five NBA First teams in his first
Speaker 7: six years, carried them to the NBA Finals in the
Speaker 7: Western Conference Finals. I think his relationship with the city
Speaker 7: of Dallas is solid. His relationship with the Dallas Matt
Speaker 7: Bicks is a different thing. So I am far more
Speaker 7: curious how the fans are going to react to the
Speaker 7: home team looking at the other side and seeing Anthony
Speaker 7: Davis and not seeing Kyrie Irving. Like, I think it's
Speaker 7: going to be an electric, sometimes angry atmosphere because they're
Speaker 7: going to be treated to all the things they missed Dan.
Speaker 7: Have you ever ran into an ex girlfriend and she
Speaker 7: looks finer than when she was with you? Have you
Speaker 7: ever seen that before?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The revenge body, Yeah.
Speaker 7: The revenge body. You know, Hey, sometimes guys have revenge bodies.
Speaker 7: I mean, maybe not Luca, but you know some people
Speaker 7: have revenge bodies.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave you with this.
Speaker 3: Are we giving the Oklahoma City Thunder enough credit for
Speaker 3: one of the greatest regular seasons?
Speaker 2: Of all time.
Speaker 3: They have They have fifty one games where they won
Speaker 3: by at least ten points. At least ten that's the
Speaker 3: all time record. Previous record was the nineteen seventy one
Speaker 3: seventy two Lakers who won thirty three in a row,
Speaker 3: Golden State in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Milwaukee Bucks with
Speaker 3: Kareem and Oscar seventy seventy one, the Bulls with Mike
Speaker 3: in ninety five and ninety six. Are we giving ok?
Speaker 3: I know we're waiting for Well, let's see what happens
Speaker 3: to the postseason. That's it, right, Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean, for one, double digit wins is a proxy
Speaker 7: of the three point shot in the importance of it.
Speaker 7: Like when you talk about Kareems teams and the Lakers
Speaker 7: teams of the early seventies, they were doing that without
Speaker 7: the three point shots. So there's a little more I
Speaker 7: guess you'd say equity that you can put into that
Speaker 7: being translatable to the playoffs. But we're trying to see
Speaker 7: if this franchise, that this team can finally get over
Speaker 7: to hump And if you look at how they play
Speaker 7: against the Lakers the last their last two games, you
Speaker 7: could say, man, we got We got some doubts here,
Speaker 7: like what does this team look like without shape Gilders
Speaker 7: Alexander performing like the MVP. Do you have a second
Speaker 7: guy that can take advantage of his matchup and create
Speaker 7: his own shot and make his own shot. I don't
Speaker 7: know if they're going to run through the Western Conference
Speaker 7: playoffs like they ran through the regular season. I wouldn't
Speaker 7: say I'd be surprised that they get to the finals,
Speaker 7: but I think there's a lot more competition in this
Speaker 7: blood bath of a Western Conference to get to the
Speaker 7: finals that I'll be impressed if they do so, more
Speaker 7: impressed than the winning by you know, double digits and
Speaker 7: the highest net rating in NBA history and all that
Speaker 7: other type of stuff, Like they have to prove proved
Speaker 7: right now, and the thing is then nobody's afraid of them.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you have fun tonight in Dallas.
Speaker 7: More Stevie Wonderdan.
Speaker 3: Okay can't go wrong. That to mention goodwill y'all, who's
Speaker 3: sports NBA rider. He'll be at the game with the
Speaker 3: Lakers tonight, and then he's got Nicks and the Pistons tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and then likely wherever the Lakers and Warriors are for
Speaker 3: round one of the postseason. Always great to talk to him.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break, got to settle on
Speaker 3: our poll question. We've got to play the day coming up.
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Speaker 11: Jason Tatum ties the game with.
Speaker 1: Two point nine ago.
Speaker 3: The Celtics went nineteen for forty nine from three point range.
Speaker 3: They already set the NBA record for most three pointers made,
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Speaker 5: League with the least job security Major League Baseball, NBA
Speaker 5: or NFL.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have some data on this, you do, yes?
Speaker 2: I do? You have a definitive answer? Yes?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 2: What yes? So I'm not guessing. I have data.
Speaker 3: I have research since two thousand, this league has the
Speaker 3: lowest average coaching tenure.
Speaker 2: Paul, start with you.
Speaker 4: I would guess the NHL seems like they bounce pretty quick.
Speaker 3: NHL Todd, what about you? MLB, Marvin, NFL seatan MLB
Speaker 3: it's NBA two point nine years. NHL is second just
Speaker 3: over three years, NFL three point two. Baseball has the
Speaker 3: best job security at three point seven years.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not. The day, best oat of the
Speaker 2: day stat of the day here comes that what stat
Speaker 2: of the day.
Speaker 3: Brought to you by Panini America. Although I think we're
Speaker 3: seeing a little bit of a shift with the NFL,
Speaker 3: feels like these GMS owners have a little bit more
Speaker 3: of an itchy trigger finger to fire your coaches usually
Speaker 3: after three years.
Speaker 2: Yes, Tom, it's interesting.
Speaker 6: We can wink at that in the sports world, but
Speaker 6: in most lines of work, three and a half years
Speaker 6: to consider that, Wow, you've got a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2: Three and a half years, you got to be there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yes, there's a stereotype. I'm not putting this out there
Speaker 4: that major League baseball managers.
Speaker 2: What do they do?
Speaker 4: What do they You've heard that before over the years,
Speaker 4: but they have the longest tenure.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess they look at a lot of data and
Speaker 3: then they fill out their lineup card and then they
Speaker 3: maybe gets up to chew on uh, do some scratching,
Speaker 3: put on a uniform, go out to the mound.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yes, some people say that about the NBA, or you're
Speaker 6: watching a college coach they just screaming play defense, box up,
Speaker 6: like obviously, yeah.
Speaker 3: But they're involved in every play baseball manager, I don't
Speaker 3: know if they're how involved they are, like come on,
Speaker 3: come on here, base it, come on now, or you
Speaker 3: might yell at the umpire, But I I don't know.
Speaker 3: Football and I could see that you're involved in that.
Speaker 3: On the headset, you got a lot of things going on,
Speaker 3: but baseball baseball feels like it's you know, they got
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty two of these.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave him in. I don't think i'll go.
Speaker 3: You know, I need some I need to get my
Speaker 3: steps in today. I'm going to walk out to the mound. Hey,
Speaker 3: what do you what are you doing? I got a
Speaker 3: one hit?
Speaker 2: Shut up? Yeah, I just came out. Man.
Speaker 3: I try to sit in that bench, you know, on
Speaker 3: the dugout.
Speaker 2: I mean it's boring. Yeah, okay, skip, yes, ton.
Speaker 12: Oh, you got to bring the infield in.
Speaker 1: You gotta ship.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of things. This guy's start warming up writing, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4: Do you think it's ever gonna change where baseball managers
Speaker 4: don't wear full uniforms because they never play in the games.
Speaker 3: There are certain managers who shouldn't wear uniforms down through history.
Speaker 4: I saw a new thing that some managers don't wear
Speaker 4: at the top, the jersey top. They wear just like
Speaker 4: a hoodie or something.
Speaker 2: I think that was.
Speaker 3: Terry Francona who started that, okay with the Red Sox,
Speaker 3: and they wanted to know if he had his uniform
Speaker 3: underneath the hood and he didn't. And I think they
Speaker 3: told him that you can wear that, but you have
Speaker 3: to have your jersey underneath.
Speaker 12: Yes, Martin, the manager shouldn't have numbers like Joe tory
Speaker 12: Ward number six. I was like, man, that's a prime
Speaker 12: number that the manager has, or like Billy Martin had
Speaker 12: number one when he was a manager. Like, man, he's
Speaker 12: taking a really good number, not like seventy eight or
Speaker 12: forty four.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 13: I feel like the manager should be number one. I'm
Speaker 13: the guy. I'm the manager. I'm number one. Well, Billy
Speaker 13: Martin thought he was. He was he thought he was
Speaker 13: Rob or Bob in New York. It's Bob in New York. Hi, Bob.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 11: I had an idea, could you have one of your
Speaker 11: award nominated crew check to see if Denver can actually
Speaker 11: drop all the way out of the play in with
Speaker 11: enough losses? Could that firing actually be also a badly
Speaker 11: thought out tank job idea by the ownership.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're tanking. And what are you tanking? Four?
Speaker 3: You're not going to get Cooper Flag. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe you get Jace Richardson or something. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but no, I don't.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I do think that there's the odds of them not
Speaker 3: making the playoffs are a little more interesting than you
Speaker 3: would think, yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Denver Nuggets have forty seven wins. There are
Speaker 4: four teams with forty seven wins in the West. A
Speaker 4: team with forty six wins, they could go from right
Speaker 4: now being the five seed to a playing game by
Speaker 4: losing two games in a row.
Speaker 3: Okay, if they if they lose their last three games.
Speaker 3: I thought that there was like thirteen to one odds
Speaker 3: that they don't make the playoff. There was there was
Speaker 3: a I.
Speaker 4: Think if you count the playing game as not the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if they lost the rest of their games, they could
Speaker 4: end up in a nine to ten playoff game and
Speaker 4: have a one game season.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 3: Connor in Chicago, Good morning, Connor, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 14: But nine a hard one eighty new member of the
Speaker 14: DDC club starting in January. So cancer sucks. Go to
Speaker 14: the doctor, guys. Second thing, probably pay a play at
Speaker 14: the golf course, dudes, Brian Harmon, My good lord. People
Speaker 14: please pick it up, dude, get to the ball, swing away.
Speaker 14: It's not that complicated. You hit so many balls throughout
Speaker 14: the day. Probably the best thing I think in is
Speaker 14: like fifteen second shot clock or something. They approach it
Speaker 14: and stuff like that or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. All right, thank you, Connor. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: gotta speed it up a little bit.
Speaker 7: They just do.
Speaker 3: There's certain golfers and if you've ever played with somebody
Speaker 3: who's deliberate, even if you're playing the weekend and you
Speaker 3: got the guy who lines up his pott all different angles,
Speaker 3: you know the I played with a guy who got
Speaker 3: down on his hands and knees and I went, no,
Speaker 3: we're not, We're not doing this and he was digging
Speaker 3: into the green when he was doing it with his
Speaker 3: shoes and it's like, Mike, Mike, no, come on, it's
Speaker 3: my routine. It's my routine to tell you Mike no. Yes, Paulie, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Brian Harmon has the reputation as a slow player. The
Speaker 4: other day he was in a NBC was covering him.
Speaker 4: He was in a bunker and he was just standing
Speaker 4: there for two straight minutes waiting for the wind to
Speaker 4: come from a bunker.
Speaker 2: Stet Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it was in San Antonio where it gets windy
Speaker 3: and he ended up winning too.
Speaker 2: He won the British Open a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: He sent me a golf ball.
Speaker 3: I think he's the Is he the first PGA tour
Speaker 3: player to have two hole in ones on the same day,
Speaker 3: and he sent me one of the golf balls that
Speaker 3: I have autographed there, so I thought, hey, why don't
Speaker 3: you send me one of those things. Scott van Pelt
Speaker 3: will join is from Augusta coming up, and more on
Speaker 3: the Lakers heading into Dallas.
Speaker 2: Hour two coming up.