WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Chris Mannix (06-05-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.720 Sports Radio. Oh, come on in, stay a while, spend 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.880 some time with John Smoltz, hall of fame pitcher working 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.680 for the MLB Network. Chris Mannocks from Sports Illustrated will 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.960 stop by as well. Have a poll question, play of 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.080 the day, a couple of stats of the day. Your 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.240 phone calls are welcome. Eight seven seven three DP Show 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.439 email address DPA, Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter, hand to 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.720 a DP show. Say good morning to our great radio affiliates, 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.560 including the Fox Sports Radio lineup, and you can watch 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.880 on YouTube dot com slash the Dan Patrick Show. It's 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.720 been pretty good news this week for the sports leagues 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.160 coming back. The NBA is coming back, NHL is back, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.560 MLS is back, NFL still on target to open his schedule. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:50.080 There's one exception that's becoming even more glaring every single day. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.400 Where is baseball. It's gone from you know, maybe they're 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.840 just negotiating. They'll work all of this out to players 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.440 and owners really don't like each other. Maybe they salvage 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.560 something here. It's hard to believe that they would forego 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.360 an entire summer, but at least publicly, nothing positive is 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.319 coming out both sides seem entrenched in their point of views, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.120 and they canceled the season back in nineteen ninety four 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.160 no World Series, when the sports suffered, and if not 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.160 for Cal Ripken's streak and Sammy Sosa Mark McGuire's home 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.679 run record chase, I don't know where we would be 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.320 right now. I'm not sure that they ever really recovered 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.080 from nineteen ninety four. Not coming back now would risk 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.240 falling even farther down the sports food chain. Hopefully it's 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.839 all posting and baseball will come back soon, but as 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.080 of today, hard to feel confident baseball knows what it's 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.200 doing or where it's going. Their proposals that went from 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.000 the players won over one hundred games, the owners would 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.200 like to have fifty games, and then we thought, well, 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.960 of course they'll meet in the middle. Now you're talking 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.720 about a forty eight game schedule, the owners, owners talking 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.640 about how much they lose every single game without having 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.800 fans in the stands, still have revenue from local TV deals. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.680 But if you're a player, specially a pitcher, and I 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.880 said there's going to be a forty eight game regular season, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.680 are you going to risk that twenty five percent of 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.040 a season for twenty five percent of your salary. And 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.120 if I'm a pitcher, a starting pitcher, I would really 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.000 have to question that. Now, you do have the safety 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.280 precautions you have to factor in, but let's just look 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.920 at the monetary aspect of this. If I'm a pitcher, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.000 do I want to risk going out there rushing to 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.639 get in shape? Now the fifty game schedule, forty eight 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.240 game schedule, how are you going to use me? If 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.400 I'm an ace, are you going to use me even more? 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.160 Because with fifty games, we might have a chance to 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.200 make the playoffs, we might have a chance to win 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.200 our division. You might be using somebody a little bit 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.440 more than you normally would would. Pitching rotations going to 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.280 look like. If I'm a hitter, I'm okay with this, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.560 But a pitcher, I really have to question this. Just 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.359 from that aspect. Now we can talk about COVID nineteen 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.600 and safety precautions. I do believe that baseball will be 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.520 able to do that. Being an outdoor sport, you're not 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.840 in contact with each other. I do believe baseball will 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.600 be able to provide some kind of safety precautions there. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.200 But if I'm a pitcher, I would really question, do 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.160 I want to come back for this? This program is 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.520 brought to you by the great folks at legal Zoom. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.680 You don't have to leave your home. They will make 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.360 sure you can take care of your loved ones. That's 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.120 why legal Zoom has made it easy to set up 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.120 the right estate plan without leaving your home. Take care 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.800 of your family today the right estate Plan at legal 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.280 zoom dot com. Mclovity got a pull question for me today. Okay, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.080 so the NBA is coming back. They have afternoon games 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.800 and night games apparently in the regular season. Which team 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.400 will get the most primetime games? I'm only going to 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.240 give you actually two choices unless you can think of 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.160 anybody else. Is it gonna be the Lakers or the 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.160 Pelican Lakers? I think I'll be the Pelicans because at 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.240 the beginning of the season it was Pelicans, Pelicans, Pelicans, Pelicans. Well, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.440 I think they're gonna get a lot more airtime than 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.760 they deserve. But you do have Zion and this is 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.640 this is marketing, this is pr this is get our 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.719 product out there. We want you watching when once you 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.680 engaged and let's enjoy Zion why you can. But the 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.280 Lakers are going to get the most primetime games. I 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.400 would think they know they have the Lakers in the playoffs. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.400 That's why maybe they pushed ion. But okay, who gets 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.880 the least I can. Let me give you these choices. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.880 I know you don't like to maybe, but let's be 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.760 honest here, Spurs, they're a strong contender there, the Magic, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.600 the Wizards, and I know you and Seton love the King. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.000 So I don't know if I could put them on 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.440 the list. But I like the Kings. But it's it's 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.080 always a train wreck because I thought they were going 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.200 to make the playoffs this year? Do I get credit 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.160 for them? Almost? Like they're sort of almost in the playoffs? 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.800 They could make it. Yeah, Paulli, we're giving that to you. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.000 You are, Yeah, and it's time and yeah we're giving 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.240 that ing ing ing ing Thank you. I needed that. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.719 But are there two less watchable teams in the Wizards 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.440 and the Spurs. I'm sorry, this is me. You can 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.400 throw the Magic in there as well. They got Aaron Gordon, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.440 Yeah they do. He dunked off as got a couple 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.719 of years ago. I like how whenever anybody says saying 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.440 about Orlando, well they got that guy who lost the 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:27.760 Slam dunk contest. Yeah, that guy Aaron Gordon, Hey, come 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.240 on down, let's watch Mo Bamba. Don't they have and 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.480 Jonathan Isaac think just keep collecting like top five picks. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.479 I don't know what they're all doing down there should 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.599 be Evan four and yeah, yeah see there. Yeah, no, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.000 that's impressive. I had no idea where that came from. Yeah, yeah, Paully, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 I just saw like the five different field houses. That's 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.280 how I described more that the NBA's can be playing 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.400 down in Orlando. Do you ever watched Summer league basketball. Yeah, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.600 and there's a mishmash of people there and it's kind 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.279 of quiet, and it feels like a casual run. It 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.640 doesn't feel that serious because the setting or it's like 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.919 Shamanad tournaments in college basketball. There's not that many people. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.040 These are gonna be empty gyms that are also small, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.680 but the players are gonna be wearing their full uniforms, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.240 like they're gonna look like they're in the middle of 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.240 the NBA Finals, and but they'll be playing at like 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.839 junior college type facilities. Well, they've had this in Vegas, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.919 but they had crowds there. They had summer league games 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.240 in Orlando and there's there's no depth to the arena. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.840 There's no ambiance there. I don't know what they're gonna 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.920 do with the cameras to dress it up a little bit. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.080 The angles can help a little bit there, you know, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.440 can you get a different look to this? And I 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.760 think that that would be important with the NBA, they're 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.680 all there. I guess the players are going to be 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.760 housed in one hotel because there was talk that hey, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.680 you're gonna get to pick your hotel depending on your seed. Here. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.800 Now you got all of these NBA players in one hotel. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.039 It's the NBA's real world here. That's a Brian Windhorse 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.880 report that they're all ding in one hotel. Yeah, because 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.160 it makes it easier to contain the safety precautions. And 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.039 I guess that you can get they're calling it in 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.120 the bubble. You can get out of the bubble to 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.520 go play golf. I don't know how much socializing you're 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:14.880 going to be able to have. This is going to 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.160 be a fascinating test. It really is like how do 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.400 how do we make this? Remember? You know, we see 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.160 these uh movies where somebody is living in a bubble 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.600 and and you know, hey, can you survive in a bubble? 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.720 How long can you survive in a bubble? Didn't they 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.400 have a show where it's like you were under glass 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:37.320 for Biodome Stephen Baldwin and Pauly Shore Classic One of 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.720 the great Man And there was a seventies movie about 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.280 a bubble boy. Right, that's different, Okay, that was That 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.320 was John Travolta. He was he was one boy in 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.800 the bubble. Bubble Yeah boy bubble Yeah yeah, good movie. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.160 The heartbreaking, heartbreaking. All right, So that's what's happening with 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.640 the NBA. They at least have a plan and they're 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.920 going to be able to I guess roll this out 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.960 at the end of July. Home court advantage. There is 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.520 no home home court advantage. And I wonder, and I 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.360 want to ask Chris Mannix about this. There are have 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.760 to be a couple of teams that you're looking at 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:15.000 as spoilers here, because remember you had players. The Bucks 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.440 did this with the Greek Freak. They were load managing 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.440 the Greek Freak this season he was playing thirty minutes 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.520 a game, Kawhi Leonard load managing all of that. That's gone. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.320 That's not an advantage because everybody has been on everybody 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.880 has load managed thanks to the coronavirus. You don't have 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.960 that advantage with Kawai. He's fresh coming back for the playoffs. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.160 The Greek freak the same way. You know, James Harden 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.079 might benefit because normally he's run down by the time 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.480 we get to the postseason. Load management not going to 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.160 factor in this year. Yeah, McLevin, I don't know if 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.319 that's a pole question, but I feel this The empty 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.880 arena is so unfair to the number one seeds, both 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.360 the Bucks and the lay. It's I know, I'm not 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.240 saying astric or anything, but it just feels like a 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.679 real is justice that they work so hard to get 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.440 the one season. I don't know what else you could 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.760 give them, though, I mean the desperate times, desperate measures. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.080 We just have to get through this season. Hopefully you 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:16.560 get true championship caliber basketball in the finals, the Eastern 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.080 Western Conference finals, hopefully. But then there's part of you 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.480 that's saying, you know, are the Celtics one of those 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.360 sneaky outlier teams where you go, man, they're one of 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.880 the younger teams in the NBA, but they can win 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.640 it all? Does Philadelphia? With Ben Simmons coming back are 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.440 they going to be ready to go? Will they be 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.320 healthy enough? You know, is Toronto going to be a 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.040 sneaky team? You just you want to know who can 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.320 start in right away and be good because you have 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.000 eight regular season games and then the playoffs start. And 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.000 there were certain teams at the end of the year 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.559 where you started to see some progress, certainly with the Pelicans, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.959 but I don't know if where they are to win 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.040 that many games and then the matchups to try to 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.280 be a spoiler there, but I do think that you 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.040 have one or two teams that could be Wow. I 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.079 didn't expect that. Yeah, McLean. One team shot up dramatically 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.960 in the Vegas odds yesterday. I saw this story the 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.520 Brooklyn Nets. They're afraid that they don't they don't want 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.680 to get caught flat foot if Katie does come back. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.240 So it shot up crazy high. Would that be amazing? 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.080 I know I'm being fantasy. Here is Kyrie playing that 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.360 They say they don't Vegas. The story said Vegas doesn't 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.480 want to get caught if Kyrie and Katie come back. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.920 They don't know anything that no one else does. That. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.400 I haven't heard much about Kyrie. I've heard a lot 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.240 about kad In that he looks good, but we haven't 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:42.520 seen him in game like situations here. I guess if 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.800 you're thinking he's healthy, everybody signs off on it. He 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.400 feels healthy. You got a chance to maybe steal the 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:55.400 Eastern Conference. I guess you do. I mean, if Kyrie 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.199 and Durant come back, you have a chance to steal 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.080 the Eastern Conference. Yeah, Paul, You've been saying for months 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.640 that you would even consider having Durant back. But with 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.720 this new policy and the season being even a month 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.679 later than we expected a while ago, the Nets are 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.040 a seventh seed, but now that seating has gone as 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.120 far as home court advantage, which I would not have 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.120 had at all in the playoffs. But you could steal something. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.200 You could, like you said, you could steal a title maybe. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.400 But the concern I have is you have you know, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.640 the games are not spread out now, and if you're 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.920 bringing back guys who have been injured, certainly with an achilles, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.280 with Kevin Durant, he doesn't get a rest period of 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.240 two or three days in between games, You're going to 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.480 have a finite amount of time to get all of 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.679 these games in there. And that would be my biggest 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.520 concern if you're bringing back somebody from that kind of injury. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.560 Durant might be ready to go, but can he play 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.120 back to back games? Can Kyrie play back to back games? 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.560 And is it worth the risk with this kind of 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.360 season under these circumstances, And that's why I would caution 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.480 against it. Yeah, McLevin. You know how when the NFL 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.760 comes back, a lot of guys have soft what's called 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.280 soft tissue injuries, Like don't you afraid they're going to 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.720 ramp up so fast and be at intense levels that 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.719 they're gonna be blown out knees and things. Can you 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.520 can you help somebody help themselves? Durant's gonna want to play, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.120 and then you have to say, no, you only get 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.319 to play twenty five minutes. Now there's a game, you know, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.520 hanging in the balance. Do I put him in because 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.240 all of these games mean so much. Now that would 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.040 the risk that I would have the risk and the 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.880 reward is not great enough. Let's say something happens to 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:37.400 Durant now I've lost him for another year, or something 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:42.120 happens to Kyrie. Brooklyn should just pace itself, Okay, you 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.280 have time, don't rush, And this is not the year 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.480 to try to do this. Sixty to one, I believe 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.960 is what now. They went from one fifty I believe 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:59.280 the Nets to sixty to one to win it all. Well, 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.600 this quote him Caesar saying he didn't want to post 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:06.400 one fifty. I'll find out what they were before this, Okay, Yeah, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:11.800 Caesar's director of trading Jeff Davis. So I would rather 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.320 be cautious in deal sixty to one than get hurt 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.120 when we hear the news Durant and Irving are returning. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.040 I don't want to post one fifty to one odds. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.360 And the problem is you take a bet of a 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.360 couple of thousand and it pays three hundred thousand, and 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.080 you're stuck if Durant is good. This according to Caesar's 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.200 do you have the odds there? I haven't seen the 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.480 uploaded as another part in the story. According to Doug 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.800 Kazarian of ESPN, the NETS odds were his highest seven 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.040 hundred and fifty to one when both Duran and Irving 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.440 were ruled out for the season. I'll try to get 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.880 the whole odds, but that doesn't seem right, Yeah, Kevin Durant, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.080 he injured his calf a year and a month ago 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.520 May seventh, twenty nineteen. If he does not play in 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.800 this abbreviate NBA season and next season gets put pushed 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.200 back to use Christmas as starting date, he will have 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.719 not played competitive basketball in one year, seven months, in 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.040 three weeks, closer to two years than one year, one year, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.760 seven months and three weeks. And he knows this, like 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.920 he's aware of this as he's sitting doing his rehab. Yeah, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.800 but I'm okay given that Achilles injury and they talk 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.520 about nine to twelve months, but it's probably more like 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.200 twelve months and to be able to come back from that, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.520 and what's he going to be like when he comes back. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 I would love to ease him in more than just hey, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.520 let's play eight games now, let's get ready for the 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.800 postseason and if Kyrie comes. But I haven't seen a 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.640 timeframe for Kyrie. I I haven't seen any update on Kyrie. Yeah, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.760 I'm club By the way, they have the whole list 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.240 of odds here from Caesar's Lakers one Bucks right behind them, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.600 and then Clippers right behind them. So Lakers a plus 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.600 two hundred, which two to one. I guess who would 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:57.280 surprise me in there? Is there anybody who's higher than 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.720 you would expect or lower than you'd expect with those odds. Wait, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.160 what are the Pelicans odds? Pelicans and this are plus 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.440 five thousand. Okay, yeah, here's a sneaky team. I like 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.480 to look at point differential. The Dallas Mavericks are the 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.120 seventh seed in the West, traditionally seven seed. They're forty 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.960 and twenty seven, nothing special, but they beat their opponents 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.240 by an average of six point one points per game. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.360 That's top three in the West. That's almost that's almost 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.680 the same as the Clippers. Their point defferential in their wins. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:30.960 They're the highest scoring team in the league. And you 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.840 got an experienced coach, you know, Porzingis started to round 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.840 into shape, and then you've got you know, Lucas Sensation. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.800 But I don't know who Dallas would be matching up with, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.400 and that that's always interesting to see. Yeah, that's where 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.320 it gets. You start to look at a team that 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.760 could surprise somebody. It's going to be because of a matchup. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.720 You know, the team that they're facing might be a 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.680 better regular season team, but in a seven game series, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.240 you might match up better with that team. Your strategy, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.520 somebody you know, if you're facing the Rockets, Rockets in 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:09.000 a seven game series with Russell Westbrook and James Harden 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.360 going full tilt, and if they happen to capture some 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.560 magic there, then maybe, you know, Houston could be one 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.400 of those teams that, given this format, could surprise people. Yeah. Mcleven, Yeah, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.400 you're right. The next year or two teams you mentioned 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.360 the Celtics and the Rockets are at fifteen to one. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.960 They're the next year after those big three teams. Yeah, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.360 the Celtics would be somebody that, like I would put 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.160 money on the Rockets just because I think there's some 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:38.280 fascination there, curiosity, and that's not an easy matchup the 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.160 Rockets either, you know, they either win or they beat themselves, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.800 it feels like. And if they happen to get it 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.240 all together in a four game you know, for four 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.360 games to win. I think the Celtics are sneaky too. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.880 You know, I could see the Celtics winning the East. Yeah. Mcleven, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.360 we're putting together. We're collecting my team back together. Let's 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.600 call our guy, let's let's get out on the playoffs. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.320 We got it. You gotta go dark Horse, right, you 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.399 can't go like what kind of would you take? I 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.159 don't want you to get into this dand no, no no, no, 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.760 I can't. Would you take a top ten team or 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.720 like I would tend to fifteen team? I would go 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:17.199 Celtics Rockets if I was gonna do something interesting, and 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.920 I would take Portland as a long shot. If you bet, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.520 if I bet, do you want us to bet? And 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.600 you no, no, no, I'll no. I told you that 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.440 story of a friend of mine and we were having 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.879 beer and wings and it was a Monday night and 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.800 he said, who do you like? Now? That always triggers 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.120 something in me that I get nervous. Who do you like? 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.920 I go back to Pete Rose in the nineteen eighty 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.560 six playoffs between the Mets and the Astros, and he 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.159 says to Bob Costas and me at the top of 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.040 the dugout steps the Mets dugout, who do you like? 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.000 And Bob and I looked at each other, going, I'm 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.800 not going to are you going to? And we didn't 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.160 say who we liked because we knew Pete was gonna 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.560 go bet. So fast forward to a couple of years ago, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.680 friend sits down, he goes who do you like? To me? 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:13.520 And I said, oh, gosh, I don't know Raiders. He goes, 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.280 all right, he goes, order me a beer, he goes outside, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.479 he comes back, he goes, I go, where'd you go? 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.639 He goes, oh, just on the phone. I had to 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.679 put a dime on the Raiders. I go, no, no, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.240 don't put no. Now, I have to sit and watch 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.040 this game. And he didn't give me any money when 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.480 he won. But I was gonna get blamed probably if 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.480 he lost. Wait, dude, who won the game? The Raiders covered? 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.639 And I went, oh my god, he's gonna bug you 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.879 like a get it again. Well I get that. I 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.280 get that all the time, and I just say, no, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.960 entertainment purposes only. Hey, I saw your Super Bowl pick. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.720 Would you put money? No? I would not put I 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.840 do it because I have to do it. I don't 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.160 want to do it. Yeah, Paul, what if we bet 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.359 on the team that you like as your dark course 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.080 and not tell you, and if it wins, we tell you, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.720 and if it doesn't we never mentioned it again. That's 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.639 a good police. Whatever you do. I don't want to 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.480 know about it, super And that's not just gambling. Okay, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.560 whatever you do, I don't need to know anything. About it. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.680 So you like the Kings at two hundred one. No, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.840 I do love the Kings. I don't know why, but 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.879 that's a team that I do. I'll watch because I 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.280 don't think anybody else watches, and I'll go I gotta. 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.520 It's like, you know, I'm watching my son play and 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.199 the team's not very good, but but I feel like 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.080 I have to. That's what I'm watching here. I'm watching 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.719 the Kings, and I just I don't know, I'm just 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.480 rooting for him a little bit. There. Chris Mannox will 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.320 join us. We'll talk to him about well a few things. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.920 Give us that surprise team or teams that could create 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.080 maybe a little bit of a run here in the 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.400 NBA Playoffs. Twenty one after the hour, just getting started 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.159 on this trigger Meat Friday. Back after this. Thanks for 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.639 listening to The Damn Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.000 catch us live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.120 or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.400 your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.440 Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.480 on the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. We'll 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.400 settle on a poll question. Phone calls are always welcome 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.479 eight seven seven three DP show email addrestp at dan 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.320 Patrick dot com, Twitter handle a DP show. Kevin Durant 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.600 had a long layoff earlier in his career. He missed 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.359 the last two months of the twenty fourteen fifteen season 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.200 with Oklahoma City. He went over eight months without playing 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.959 a game. In his first seven games of the next season, 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.480 he averaged thirty a game, shot better than fifty percent. 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:48.040 Soon after that, he strained a hamstring and missed six games. Yeah, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.439 the rush to have him come back. I get it 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.840 that you feel like the Eastern Conference is maybe there 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.760 for the taking. I don't know about Kyrie. Did you 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.320 get an update on Kyrie's health at all? Did anybody 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.520 see anything on this? I mean, he is a man 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.760 of mystery. But yeah, we were talking about if Durant 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.719 comes back. Vegas is already lowering their odds just in 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.760 case Durant and Kyrie coming back. Chris Mannox covers the 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:17.240