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Speaker 1: announced that they're going to hold the Pro Bowl next
Speaker 1: year in Las Vegas, and wide receiver Golden Tap joked
Speaker 1: on Twitter that they had better play the game the
Speaker 1: day the players arrived, because after that, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody's gonna be focused on football, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it matters. You know, we don't really watch the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl for just how competitive they are, but get
Speaker 1: used to football in Vegas. The Raiders will hopefully be
Speaker 1: there in a couple of months, and sometimes teams struggle
Speaker 1: unexpectedly against teams that are in nice cities, cities that
Speaker 1: have a nightlife. The Dolphins in Miami they call it
Speaker 1: the South Beach Flu when the opposing teams come in there.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that works In Vegas. Not so long ago,
Speaker 1: the NFL wanted nothing to do with Las Vegas. But
Speaker 1: I always think back to Tony Romo wanted to have
Speaker 1: a Fantasy football convention there. That's it, and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: let him. They didn't let him host that. Now they
Speaker 1: didn't get to host the Draft this year, but that's
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. The Draft will be back there
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Las Vegas is a destination city
Speaker 1: for the league. That doesn't mean the Pro Bowl will
Speaker 1: be any better, but I'm sure the players will have
Speaker 1: a whole lot more fun when they You might have
Speaker 1: a lot more guys wanting to go to the Pro Bowl. Remember,
Speaker 1: it'd be like, man, do I want to go all
Speaker 1: the way to Do I want to go to Orlando? Oh? Vegas,
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Speaker 1: Patrick got a pull question Play of the Day and
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Speaker 1: McLevin will help us with the poll question here in
Speaker 1: a moment. The NFL teams are some NFL teams, and
Speaker 1: you may not know this is going on right now
Speaker 1: because there's other things to be worried about, but there
Speaker 1: are teams that are looking at asking the commissioner to
Speaker 1: push the season back. We keep talking about this second wave,
Speaker 1: whether it's baseball or football. We haven't gotten through the
Speaker 1: first wave yet, so until we get through the first wave,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can be worried about this
Speaker 1: second wave yet. Here's Albert Breer. He was on wfa
Speaker 1: N in New York. He is the Monday Morning Quarterback
Speaker 1: senior football writer. I know for a fact that there
Speaker 1: are teams that want the season backed up now like that,
Speaker 1: that would rather the league just by the ball right
Speaker 1: now and say we're starting October first, or when that
Speaker 1: date is right. They've got flexibility. I end. The point
Speaker 1: of a lot of these teams is why don't we
Speaker 1: wait a mark. We'll give our players time to get
Speaker 1: in shape, We'll give everybody a chance to get their
Speaker 1: house in order to adjust the rules. And you know,
Speaker 1: this is a point that I brought up a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I don't even know when it was
Speaker 1: when we released the schedule. How long ago has that,
Speaker 1: Ben mclovin, I have no clue about time. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. It was after the draft, about five weeks ago, yeah,
Speaker 1: and a month ago and May and I brought it
Speaker 1: up at the time, and leading up to the schedule release,
Speaker 1: I was told by an NFL source, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the first four weeks. I said, okay, I didn't
Speaker 1: know if it was going to be NFC AFC games,
Speaker 1: so it was going to be in a division, whatever
Speaker 1: it was going to be. I just wanted to know
Speaker 1: what were some of those games and could you take
Speaker 1: the first month of the season and put it on
Speaker 1: the back end of the season. That's what I was told,
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on that. And then it came
Speaker 1: out and I had some people say, hey, nice call.
Speaker 1: There was nothing attached to that, and my source said, yes,
Speaker 1: there is, because there are safety guidelines in place with
Speaker 1: the schedule from what I'm told, And the source has
Speaker 1: stayed with this and said no, they can lift the
Speaker 1: first month of the season, and they can move it
Speaker 1: to the end of the regular season. They'll just move
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, the playoffs, super Bowl be back a month.
Speaker 1: That's it. And so I maintain that because I trust
Speaker 1: my source on this, and I think the first game
Speaker 1: would be a Thursday night with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing.
Speaker 1: If that happens, maybe we get through this unscathed. Maybe
Speaker 1: there is football. Keep in mind, we're going to have
Speaker 1: preseason football in the first week of August. August that's
Speaker 1: the Canton that's the Hall of Fame game that they're
Speaker 1: still planning on playing. And you start to wonder, where
Speaker 1: are we going to be in August? Where are we
Speaker 1: going to be in September. You're looking at all these
Speaker 1: safety guidelines that the NBA is imposing right now. It's
Speaker 1: pretty incredible, over one hundred pages of safety guidelines for
Speaker 1: these players to go to Orlando and live in the bubble.
Speaker 1: I still wonder this because by September we're probably I'm
Speaker 1: assuming we're having baseball. We're going to have teams playing
Speaker 1: in their home ballparks. I still go back to, do
Speaker 1: we need to be in Orlando for three months? Can
Speaker 1: we start there, and then after that you get to
Speaker 1: the conference finals, and then you're able to play Let's
Speaker 1: say it's Philadelphia versus Toronto or Milwaukee, the Lakers are
Speaker 1: playing the Rockets, and then you're in your owns and
Speaker 1: it's easier to maintain that group of people. I think
Speaker 1: you may not have fans in the stands, but if
Speaker 1: baseball is playing now, I know basketball you got contact,
Speaker 1: but I'm dealing with less people there. And that's what
Speaker 1: I kept thinking. You know, by the time we roll
Speaker 1: around to late September, could we have basketball games at Staples?
Speaker 1: Could we have basketball games in Milwaukee or in Toronto?
Speaker 1: And my guess is yes, we will be. But I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anything to the contrary on that. There were
Speaker 1: some of these guidelines that came out. These are some
Speaker 1: of the weirder guidelines that came out. Adrian Wojonarowski. My
Speaker 1: favorite detail in the one thirteen page health and safety
Speaker 1: protocol for Orlando shared with teams in the past several minutes.
Speaker 1: No doubles in pingbong until directed otherwise by the NBA.
Speaker 1: Players should play singles only so they maintain six feet
Speaker 1: of distance from each other. Zach Low covering the NBA.
Speaker 1: Players and team staff will be given the option of
Speaker 1: using a wearable ring that tracks heart rate, respiration rate,
Speaker 1: and other variables, and an illness probability score that indicates
Speaker 1: a player might be at greater risk of contracting coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Zach Lowe also says, yeah, Paul, can we wear those
Speaker 1: all the time? As humans? I would like to know
Speaker 1: if I'm about to be sick er, about to get
Speaker 1: the fluor or that'd be fantastic they have these. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can google it and is the
Speaker 1: NBA store? I would get a nice raptors sickness man.
Speaker 1: Did Hey the NBA? Does Amazon have this? See if
Speaker 1: Amazon as this? Let's see here's another one. NBA health
Speaker 1: protocols concede maintaining six feet of distance during card games
Speaker 1: may not be practical. Players and staff must dispose of
Speaker 1: the deck of cards at the end of each game
Speaker 1: or session. Quote sufficient packs of cards will be available.
Speaker 1: Zach Lowe goes on to write, we are not currently
Speaker 1: contemplating allowing pets on campus, So no pets. What if
Speaker 1: I need my emotional dog? What if what if Lebron
Speaker 1: had a little like poodle that he had to take.
Speaker 1: It's his comfort dog that he takes with him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Only how about all bombs have to be at least
Speaker 1: six feet so when you handed to someone, you grab
Speaker 1: the top and then the bottom, and there's a six
Speaker 1: foot radius between when you pass the see you know,
Speaker 1: if you have the six footer, you would technically be
Speaker 1: two arms lengths away. Think that would be acceptable. Do
Speaker 1: they have a who come room down there? Because close
Speaker 1: too close, you're gonna need the hoses on that. Who
Speaker 1: going to be allowed longer? Oh? Yeah? Okay, because it
Speaker 1: feels like like they're setting up things for, you know,
Speaker 1: the players and their families to be able to do
Speaker 1: lawn games. But I don't know, do you have a
Speaker 1: separate room. I don't know what the what are the
Speaker 1: marijuana laws because they're not testing for marijuana down in
Speaker 1: the or Land in the bubble, but you can't smoke
Speaker 1: in your room? But do they have a smoking lounge there?
Speaker 1: There's a player's only lounge. I don't know what you
Speaker 1: get to do in there? The champags or champagne room.
Speaker 1: Yeah mclovin. Yeah, they set up all these activities they
Speaker 1: are short of focused on eight year olds like ping
Speaker 1: pong and like a movie room. When I was twenty four,
Speaker 1: that really wasn't top of mind for me. The things
Speaker 1: they have, like an ice cream parlor. It's not a
Speaker 1: nine year old's birthday party. It's a league. This is
Speaker 1: all insane. Are there gonna be ponies? Is there gonna
Speaker 1: be a clown? They're gonna be balloon zo? Yeah, by way,
Speaker 1: I do there might be. I do not want the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers staying in the hotel with the special
Speaker 1: ice cream bar. Joel cannot have that down there. That's
Speaker 1: a shot. They should call it emergency hot I went,
Speaker 1: Joel breaks into the ice that's terrible. I we'll strike
Speaker 1: that from the rear. Yes, I ask a question going back,
Speaker 1: you just did another one. You just did so Baseball
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci says they should end by the end of September,
Speaker 1: and football is like, we don't want to start to
Speaker 1: the beginning of October. Does anyone see some inconsistently what's
Speaker 1: going on? I don't know if anybody knows what's going on,
Speaker 1: because you know, some of these states Florida, Texas opened
Speaker 1: for business and now all of a sudden they got
Speaker 1: the hotspots and the spikes, here and here we are
Speaker 1: trying to put people in a bubble in Orlando, and
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be football. We're gonna have baseball games
Speaker 1: and they like, okay, all right, I'm cautiously optimistic, with
Speaker 1: the emphasis on cautiously. Yeah. See, why are these other
Speaker 1: leagues around the world able to open up at their
Speaker 1: own home stadiums and play home and away games. They're
Speaker 1: not all locked into like euro Disney. I don't know
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know. Why do they Why
Speaker 1: does the NBA have to be in a bubble? That's
Speaker 1: what I want to know. That's why I look at
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with the NFL, what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with baseball soccer, and here we are with basketball,
Speaker 1: and they got to be, you know, under the bubble. Yeah, point, yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with what you said earlier that it
Speaker 1: seems like the teams could be on lockdown at their
Speaker 1: home bases and go from their private jet to the
Speaker 1: private hotel, private bus to the game. But I want
Speaker 1: if the NBA thinks we can't take any chances, we
Speaker 1: must have an NBA Finals and the bubble will ensure
Speaker 1: that we get to the finals. These other leagues may
Speaker 1: run into issues if there's down the road, but they're
Speaker 1: trying to I think they're trying to ensure that they
Speaker 1: complete the season. And it's going to be not pretty
Speaker 1: down there in Atlantic. There'd be a lot of whining,
Speaker 1: a lot of complaints. But us at home, we'll get
Speaker 1: to see us a seven game series. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this NFL schedule back to what I said about removing
Speaker 1: that first month of the regular season. If this happens,
Speaker 1: and Albert Brier was on radio saying he's already heard
Speaker 1: from teams saying they want to push the first month
Speaker 1: of the regular season, Kansas City would be a Thursday
Speaker 1: night game. This is first week of the season. Kansas City,
Speaker 1: New England, Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, the Giants. That's a
Speaker 1: night game, Denver a night game. Those games would now
Speaker 1: be played, you know, in a cold weather climate, so
Speaker 1: these are cold weather teams that would be playing home
Speaker 1: games that week. We would be moving that towards the
Speaker 1: back end of the regular season, so Week one would
Speaker 1: actually be played in January. Kansas City's called New England's
Speaker 1: called DC called Baltimore, Buffalo's cold Cincinnati, the Giants Denver,
Speaker 1: all of these games where you're going to be playing
Speaker 1: these teams in these cities, now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's going to be even more of a home field
Speaker 1: advantage for those teams if it happens. I know, I'm
Speaker 1: Danny Downer sometimes, I'm just putting that out there. If
Speaker 1: that this happens, Yes, Seaton O'Connor, I'm sure they've looked
Speaker 1: into this already with the NBA. Does it it seem
Speaker 1: like putting seven or eight NBA teams all in the
Speaker 1: same hotel where they're all breathing the same recirculated air
Speaker 1: be an incredibly effective way to spread it through the
Speaker 1: league as quickly as possible. Well, they're not all staying
Speaker 1: in the same Scotch the hotel, right, or isn't it
Speaker 1: how you're seated? So you got three huge hotels, right,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have like, I don't know what, five
Speaker 1: hotels in each team or something like that. What did
Speaker 1: the lists say? So you have three hotels for twenty
Speaker 1: two teams? Is that right? Yeah? That's what I saw.
Speaker 1: Three hotels. There's like the Grand Floridian, the Yacht Club
Speaker 1: and another one and the yacht Club. I guess is
Speaker 1: the bronze medal of the three nice hotels, because that's
Speaker 1: where the biggest teams are all saying like Lasers and
Speaker 1: Sons and Kings are all yacht club book. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have all of those teams all in the
Speaker 1: same hotel. Are You're gonna have the Lakers, the Bucks,
Speaker 1: the whatever, all staying in the same place. It seems
Speaker 1: like it potentially could be an effective way to the
Speaker 1: entire association details details d of course they have if
Speaker 1: they looked into lawn charts here, I mean they've looked
Speaker 1: into everything they've looked into. Once you play a card game,
Speaker 1: you have to get rid of the deck of cards here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume they looked into that. How do
Speaker 1: you navigate the elevators in that place where that like,
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be one of the worst places you
Speaker 1: could be aside from a public restroom. I think elevators
Speaker 1: are supposed to be one of the worst places. What
Speaker 1: are you going to go two at a time in
Speaker 1: the elevator with all of those people plus those are
Speaker 1: some big men. Yeah, you know that's where the you know,
Speaker 1: the door shut. Somebody says, hold the elevator and you're like, Noah, no, sorry, sorry, Lebron,
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't see you. Yeah, And then they're
Speaker 1: talking about like the constant soaking of these basketballs, which
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense because as soon as it goes
Speaker 1: into play, with every single possession, they're going to change basketball.
Speaker 1: Have we settled social distancing at first base when you're
Speaker 1: leading off first base? Like, are we encouraging you to
Speaker 1: lead off like you must lead off six feet? See.
Speaker 1: I was going to try to get through the first
Speaker 1: segment without mentioning baseball. It couldn't do it. A lot
Speaker 1: of pickoffs. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. Yeah, mclivin.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite parts of the game. When
Speaker 1: the guy gets the first base and he is that
Speaker 1: friendly chatter with the first basement. What do they talk about?
Speaker 1: Do you have you asked Gracie that before? It can
Speaker 1: be the most mundane thing. It's just you're trying to
Speaker 1: make conversation. They hey, how you doing, how's family? Hey man?
Speaker 1: Hey got a couple of rips up there? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some of it a distraction though, as they're about to
Speaker 1: get picked off first base. I'm sure it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of gamesmanship, not caring so much about how their
Speaker 1: parents or their children are doing or something. Do you
Speaker 1: just let them have six feet a six foot lead
Speaker 1: and you can't throw over to first base because if
Speaker 1: you throw over then I got to go back to
Speaker 1: the first baseman there. What did they do in the
Speaker 1: Korean Baseball League? Do they I know they got mask on? No,
Speaker 1: they don't when they're playing baseball. They can't have a
Speaker 1: mask on. When you're playing baseball, you die. Well you
Speaker 1: might not die, well, yeah you would because carbon monoxide.
Speaker 1: You can't exercise with a mask on. Oh, people run
Speaker 1: all the time with mask on. It's very dangerous. No people,
Speaker 1: you people jog all the time you with the mask on.
Speaker 1: It's very very dangerous. Thank you doctor, thank you. Yes, yes, mclemmon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I jog with a cotton mask and I pulled down
Speaker 1: over my under my nose and yeah, it's it's horrible,
Speaker 1: but that is a I'm looking The Koream guys take
Speaker 1: off the masks when they're on the field for the
Speaker 1: most part, but on the sidelines they're definitely wearing masks.
Speaker 1: But like third base first base coaches, they have the
Speaker 1: mask on there. Yes, it's just to cover your nose
Speaker 1: on your I'm kind of with Paul. That seems like
Speaker 1: you're gonna pass out pretty soon if you're running with
Speaker 1: that thing on, especially in any kind of warm weather.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do that. Well, I'm just
Speaker 1: asking about the kream baseball like, it's not we're not
Speaker 1: gonna do an exposed Yeah. Yes, mclemon. Amba did lay
Speaker 1: out like the refs don't have to wear masks, the
Speaker 1: players don't have to wear a masks, The first row
Speaker 1: of coaches do not. The second row of coaches absolutely.
Speaker 1: Do they have like a hundred pages on who wears masks?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's gonna be tough. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for the thirty for thirty on this. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it would be like a month that we
Speaker 1: would do it thirty for thirty on this? Is this
Speaker 1: a ten part series? If we gave Jordan ten parts,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming we were going to give you the entire
Speaker 1: this calendar year of sports. And do people want to
Speaker 1: relive it? I don't know. Yeah, McClean. Is the NFL
Speaker 1: going to have two hundred page guideline as well? I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. Yet how are they going to possibly
Speaker 1: set up guidelines for their sport. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten that information is not out yet because I've
Speaker 1: asked a source on that, because I joked and said,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see you top this. I'm assuming it's
Speaker 1: got to be twice as long as the NBA guidelines
Speaker 1: because the NFL, you got fifty three to sixty players
Speaker 1: out there on each team, you got all the staffs,
Speaker 1: am like, you got what three or four times the
Speaker 1: number of people for each team. So the NFL has
Speaker 1: got to come up with two hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: pages at least with the safety guide. Lunch, All right,
Speaker 1: let me take a break. I'm want to talk to
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes. He covers the NBA. Get his thoughts on
Speaker 1: all to this here, and Bill Burr's in the new
Speaker 1: movie The King of Staten Island with Pete Davidson does
Speaker 1: a great job. Dayler and Hart Junior is going into
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Speaker 1: us coming up a little bit later on. We'll settle
Speaker 1: on a poll question when we return twenty after the hour.
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Speaker 1: mclove and what kind of poll? Question do you have
Speaker 1: for me? So we want to do something off the
Speaker 1: NBA If you were a player, would you a couple
Speaker 1: of questions? Would you bring your family? No? Uh? Okay?
Speaker 1: Would you want to go and leave your family? If
Speaker 1: you had a young family at home? I think that's
Speaker 1: a of course not. But I'm an NBA player. I
Speaker 1: have to go. Oh what do you mean? Of course not?
Speaker 1: I was thinking it's a no breaker. I'm saying it publicly.
Speaker 1: Of course, stay with me here? Yes? But can my
Speaker 1: family enjoy the parks? If but they enjoyed the parks,
Speaker 1: I think the parks I'll be open. They can't come
Speaker 1: back to the suite and hang with you, No, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna be out there with everybody else. So if
Speaker 1: you brought your family they'd basically be sitting in a
Speaker 1: really nice suite at Disney, not going to Disney Parks,
Speaker 1: which would be even worse than, you know, staying home. No,
Speaker 1: you can't. No, I don't want my family there. What
Speaker 1: else do you have? Make? Club? Yeah? Probably worded at
Speaker 1: spending two months at Disney eating grape food, playing basketball
Speaker 1: at hang with your cards? Is that something you're interested in? Okay?
Speaker 1: I have a heart anyone more handsome, Old Tom Brady
Speaker 1: or new Tom. I can't get to this yet, but
Speaker 1: that's I want to hit. To get back to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah we have I'm not letting you have to hook
Speaker 1: that easy, Dan Patrick, Oh my god, let me bring
Speaker 1: in Chris Hanks. I apologize to Chris if he had
Speaker 1: to listen to that. Yahoo Sports NBA senior insider who
Speaker 1: joins us now, Chris, good morning, how's morale? Good morning?
Speaker 1: Dp um morale? You know, as far as the NBA go,
Speaker 1: thinking people are optimistic, um seem like we're the tracks.
Speaker 1: And seemed like there was tracks and good tracks and
Speaker 1: actually a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed like
Speaker 1: that was deterred a little bit last week, but yesterday
Speaker 1: seemed like the league is doing everything that's power to
Speaker 1: try to, you know, reassure to the players that things
Speaker 1: will be safe and that it's in their best sisters
Speaker 1: to go over there in Orlando with a zoomed play.
Speaker 1: Why do I have to be there for three months?
Speaker 1: If you're the elite teams, you're gonna play for a title. Uh.
Speaker 1: It feels like other sports are going to be playing
Speaker 1: in their home stadiums. Why couldn't I have the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: Western Conference to be played in those four cities and
Speaker 1: then you have, you know, an NBA championship. I think, UM,
Speaker 1: this is the best way to um assured that the players. Look,
Speaker 1: there's players out there that were really hesitant, you know,
Speaker 1: even even prior to the George flood tragedy. UM. And
Speaker 1: you know the racial tension that we've had since then.
Speaker 1: You know, the players are really reluctant to to resume play. Um,
Speaker 1: just because of the unknowns of the COVID virus. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to start speaking up on you know, or
Speaker 1: is it even necessary? You know, I suppose to ce
Speaker 1: Jim McCallum of the Portland Trailblazers. He was like, you know,
Speaker 1: when the league open up the practice facilities back up.
Speaker 1: You know, he was saying, like he told me, like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we got all these restrictions. You know, at the practice cility,
Speaker 1: I gotta be six feet away from my trainer while
Speaker 1: I'm getting spotted. You know, how do you lift properly
Speaker 1: doing that? And if we have all these restrictions going
Speaker 1: back to just working out, like, is it even worked
Speaker 1: it to be playing? So I think the league did
Speaker 1: it this way to try to, you know, make sure
Speaker 1: that they have the best and safest measures possible to
Speaker 1: try to get the confidence of the players. And so
Speaker 1: I think that's why they resorted to just having it
Speaker 1: in the isolated city. If I gave the NBA a
Speaker 1: due over, what do you think Adam Schilver would do.
Speaker 1: I think it will do the same. Dp. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they're significant financial ramifications for not resuming the season
Speaker 1: for the players in the league, and you already have
Speaker 1: the Jerald Moorey tweet that that set the league really
Speaker 1: back as far as finances go. So I don't think
Speaker 1: he changes anything. You know, he's been really adamant from
Speaker 1: day one that he wants to get the season restarted,
Speaker 1: and for the most part, he has the majority of
Speaker 1: the players in agredeance with him, So I don't think
Speaker 1: much will change at all. Yeah, and I also wondered
Speaker 1: about these teams that you know, the Bucks and Lakers
Speaker 1: earned home courted avantage, but nobody's gonna have a home
Speaker 1: court advantage in Orlando. And I know that they toyed
Speaker 1: with some ideas to maybe rules for that. But as
Speaker 1: you know now, there is no advantage for the teams
Speaker 1: that have home court advantage as of right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, the player associations are still negotiating with the
Speaker 1: league on you know, you know some of the rules
Speaker 1: and protocol that's going to occur down there in um
Speaker 1: in Orlando. So I wouldn't be surprised if some some
Speaker 1: gimmicks are raised and some gimmicks are approved. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do for a true
Speaker 1: home court advantage. You know, there was going talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, install installing a court, the Lakers, Bucks bringing
Speaker 1: one of their courts, but we all know a true
Speaker 1: home court advantage is not true if you don't have
Speaker 1: you know, your fans, they're rooting for you, providing that
Speaker 1: momentum and that extra spark. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: really can be done honestly to make sure that the
Speaker 1: top seat has an advantage in the game. I don't like,
Speaker 1: you know, giving the ball up to you know, somebody
Speaker 1: else three times, you know, when you're starting each quarter,
Speaker 1: you know, just have the jump ball and do you know,
Speaker 1: do it a natural way? You don't want to Like
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan raised concerns in this call with owners call
Speaker 1: with Adam Silver, It's like he don't want to gimmick
Speaker 1: it up, like just keep it simple. We're talking to
Speaker 1: Chris Haines Young, who sports NBA senior insider. If people
Speaker 1: didn't know what Kyrie Irving was addressing the last week,
Speaker 1: how would you sum up what Kyrie has been uh
Speaker 1: credited or accused of here in the last week or
Speaker 1: so well. He's been accused of being a distraction, disruptor,
Speaker 1: you know, going against the union, and you know all
Speaker 1: of that, you know, but you know that call, the
Speaker 1: call that he organized last Friday, it was a really
Speaker 1: unifying call. There were um it was a platform to
Speaker 1: give younger players a voice who ordinarily wouldn't have a
Speaker 1: voice or who felt that like they couldn't speak up
Speaker 1: in meetings prior. And it was a turnout of you know,
Speaker 1: eighty plus players, and that's something that the players Union
Speaker 1: hasn't seen in quite some time when it comes to
Speaker 1: their meetings and their zoom calls. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: Kyrie every know, he expressed, you know, his concerns and
Speaker 1: he said he had no aspirations to go over there
Speaker 1: in Orlando. You know, Dwight Howard was an agreeance Avery
Speaker 1: Bradley um Carmelo Anthony to an extent. Domin Mitchell raids
Speaker 1: concerns about his situation being up for the extension this summer.
Speaker 1: But does Kyrie want to start a new league? Chris
Speaker 1: is that I haven't. I haven't heard. I haven't heard that, DP.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. I can't. I can't confirm that.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's there's rumors that he's always said that,
Speaker 1: so I but I can't confirm if he said that recently.
Speaker 1: Is he calculated or crazy? Oh? I wouldn't say crazy.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go crazy DP, because I'm not a medical professional.
Speaker 1: But I'll say, look, you know, Kyrie has always been
Speaker 1: I've covered Kyrie and Cleveland when I was a even
Speaker 1: a beat rider for Cleveland Plane Dealer, and for me,
Speaker 1: he was the like the toughest guy that I've ever
Speaker 1: had to cover, just trying to figure him out. You know,
Speaker 1: one minute everything's cool and the next minute, you know,
Speaker 1: it acts like he doesn't know you or you know whatever.
Speaker 1: But he's always been fair to me. I would say that,
Speaker 1: but I would you know, look, is he going against
Speaker 1: the grain? Absolutely? You know that wasn't a Players Association's
Speaker 1: sanctioned call, you know, if it last week, because if
Speaker 1: it was, Chris Paul would have organized it. So and
Speaker 1: Kyrie is the VP of the Players Association. So this
Speaker 1: is you know, this is going against the grain a
Speaker 1: little bit, but it was a good call overall last week. Now,
Speaker 1: there's a snitch hot line in Orlando that if you
Speaker 1: see somebody doing something where they're putting other people at risk,
Speaker 1: it's not called this snitch hot line, right and and
Speaker 1: and can you imagine all these people saying I saw
Speaker 1: Lebron or I saw the Greek freak, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the commissioners just, you know, he suspends Lebron
Speaker 1: for a game for endangering other people here because of
Speaker 1: the snitch hont line. Well, I got a few things
Speaker 1: and say about that DP. If it's not called if
Speaker 1: it's not officially called a snitch hot line. It's going
Speaker 1: to be called the ficially called that. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what it's going to be. A second, I expect that
Speaker 1: hot line to ring like crazy if there are violations.
Speaker 1: You know, they want to win, they want to win.
Speaker 1: You think that somebody would snitch. You think that Joe
Speaker 1: Lmbid's gonna call the snitch hot line one eight hundred
Speaker 1: narc and say that the Greek freak I saw him out,
Speaker 1: you know, and where he shouldn't be DP. If a
Speaker 1: player saw Lebron James hop the fence to do whatever,
Speaker 1: that buzzer will ring. You think you you don't think
Speaker 1: if they got opportunity to take Lebron James out for
Speaker 1: a week or so, would you snitch? Would you snitch
Speaker 1: on Adrian Wogan a round skiing if it helped your career?
Speaker 1: Would you snitch on Shams? I'm not snitching, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because I don't I don't want them to snitch on
Speaker 1: me when I jumped the fish. I still love these
Speaker 1: some of the no pets. If you have card games,
Speaker 1: we we have to have singles, ping pong games. We
Speaker 1: throw away the cards after again like, yeah, and are
Speaker 1: they allowed to smoke pot down there because they're not testing? Chris?
Speaker 1: And that's I was gonna look into that, DP. You
Speaker 1: know that, I'll bet you were. I was gonna look
Speaker 1: into that a couple of days ago. You know, I'm curious, DP.
Speaker 1: I think you know, DP, you know, you're talking about
Speaker 1: some of the safety measures that they're taking, you know,
Speaker 1: and so like as soon as they fish, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously they're not wearing face masks, you know why they're playing,
Speaker 1: but as soon as they leave that arena, face mask,
Speaker 1: face masks on all the time, all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's okay, why are you playing on the court, you know,
Speaker 1: sweating up against everybody, rubbing against everybody, But as soon
Speaker 1: as you step off the court, face masks all the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they would just have a pot room,
Speaker 1: because they have, you know, all these different rooms set
Speaker 1: up for people, and you just, hey, six six feet
Speaker 1: of distance, you sponsor it, Doritos sponsors it and Taco
Speaker 1: Bell and you just let everybody go in there and
Speaker 1: spark up. And since they're not testing for this, well,
Speaker 1: you know, well I could say this if that's the case, DP,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that would be the case. If
Speaker 1: that's the case, we're going to have a different brand
Speaker 1: of basketball. The final score will be forty four to
Speaker 1: forty two. Are you going to Are you going to Orlando?
Speaker 1: Are you going down? Um? That's the plan, that's the plan. Wow,
Speaker 1: what hotel do you get to stay in? Oh? I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you know, whatever screw up hotel they have left?
Speaker 1: You know, Look, the media is the last thing. You know.
Speaker 1: The Basketball Writers Association has been negotiating with the UM
Speaker 1: the league on how is it going to work for us.
Speaker 1: It's going to be different to a few tiers, but
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten back to us in time. In fashion,
Speaker 1: I understand who we're lowing the totem fold, but you know,
Speaker 1: I expect you know, whatever hotel they got tucked in
Speaker 1: the corner or motel that is you know, yeah, you
Speaker 1: might get a motel you're but are you what access
Speaker 1: are the writers gonna have to these players aside from
Speaker 1: the games themselves? As far as I know, UM, there
Speaker 1: would be the tier I forgot the tier name, But
Speaker 1: there will be a tier that's on campus and they'll
Speaker 1: have the access that they would have is you know,
Speaker 1: they'll be at the press conference. But still you know,
Speaker 1: you have the six feet rule protocol, so you'll have
Speaker 1: some access, you know with social distance proper social distance
Speaker 1: measures being on campus and now the ones that's in
Speaker 1: Orlando off campus, they're allowed to go to the games,
Speaker 1: but then they have to leave, you know. I'm autumn
Speaker 1: actually after that, and then they have zoom press conferences,
Speaker 1: and so the thing is with that tier, which that
Speaker 1: tier DP. I'm telling you, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that tier because
Speaker 1: there's no restriction. You're outside the bubble. You know, they
Speaker 1: get to go and go and leave as they please,
Speaker 1: you know, go to a club or do whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, to other tier on campus, you know you're restricted, confined.
Speaker 1: But you know, it'd be really interesting to see how
Speaker 1: the league comes up with the protocol for the media
Speaker 1: who can't be over there in Orlando and they want
Speaker 1: to cover Lakers, but they can't afford the cost because
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be expensive. So it has
Speaker 1: to be some incentive for a media to be out
Speaker 1: there in Orlando to give them some proper, great access
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't get if they worked there. And Harden
Speaker 1: loves the six feet separation, especially on defense, like he's
Speaker 1: gonna love because he plays defense that way anyway. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well well you can you can say that, DP, he
Speaker 1: has improved. But I tell you right now, DP, you're
Speaker 1: talking about why why it was in Orlando and not
Speaker 1: in their home, you know, home cities for some of
Speaker 1: the playoff rounds. I'll tell you right now. If this
Speaker 1: thing was in Vegas, DP, which I was all in
Speaker 1: favor of, here you were, you were really really has
Speaker 1: some concerns about all those things you said. Were you
Speaker 1: talking about whatever? You know, there's some players who have
Speaker 1: known to you know, be hitting the club throughout the week.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You think you think social
Speaker 1: distancing measures will really be in play in Las Vegas?
Speaker 1: So you know Orlando was the ideal fit. Stay in touch,
Speaker 1: Chris no snitching, No snitching, Chris, no snitching, Haynes, Yahoo
Speaker 1: Sports NBA Insider. Thank you, Chris, be safe. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. Play of the Day is up next. Thanks
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Speaker 1: slash the Dan Patrick Show. I saw where Bill Russell
Speaker 1: was tweeting. I never thought I would ever say that,
Speaker 1: but that sentenced. But Bill Russell, the great. Bill Russell
Speaker 1: was tweeting and Kendrick Perkins, who usually has something to say,
Speaker 1: he was talking about Lebron being the greatest athlete to
Speaker 1: ever play in the NBA, believe. And then Bill Russell
Speaker 1: tweeted a picture of him high jumping and then a
Speaker 1: video of him going full court. Well, he's tribbling to
Speaker 1: take it down to shoot a layup, and he was
Speaker 1: basically saying, you know, maybe Lebron's not the greatest athlete
Speaker 1: who's ever played in the NBA. Lebron at his size
Speaker 1: and speed, you know, could have played other sports. Bill
Speaker 1: Russell was a very good athlete. He could have been
Speaker 1: an Olympic high jumper. The greatest athlete is probably Wilt
Speaker 1: Chamberlain because Wilt was not only big, but he was mobile,
Speaker 1: He could run. He was an incredible beach volleyball player.
Speaker 1: He could have been in you know, an Olympic athlete
Speaker 1: in probably a couple of different things. The long jump
Speaker 1: or the high jump. You know, Wilt was an incredible athlete.
Speaker 1: There have been great athletes there. I mean, Vince Carter
Speaker 1: is a great athlete, Michael Jordan obviously a great athlete.
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson great athlete. So I don't know if you can.
Speaker 1: I love that Bill Russell is kind of pushing to
Speaker 1: be involved in the conversation there. I thought it was
Speaker 1: it was playful that he was doing that, just to
Speaker 1: say we love to look at today now, but don't forget.
Speaker 1: And obviously a pretty good athlete. Yes see. Just one
Speaker 1: quick update on a story we've been following. According to
Speaker 1: my sources, medical marijuana allowed in Florida, but even small
Speaker 1: amounts like twenty grahams and under illegal. Oh all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: medical marijuana though you're in thankasy, yes mcleub. How awesome
Speaker 1: is it? The eighty six year old Bill Russell is
Speaker 1: firing away on social media? By the way, can you
Speaker 1: just said him with his photos? Oh? I think it's great. Well,
Speaker 1: he might be dictating to somebody's Hey, I got a
Speaker 1: tweet for you, And I'll tell these guys, these young
Speaker 1: whippers snappers. I was a pretty good athlete and he was.
Speaker 1: He was, he was a great athlete back then, but
Speaker 1: they are great athletes all around in all sports nowadays. Yeah, poet,
Speaker 1: it'd be funny if Bill Russell is the opposite. He's
Speaker 1: sitting there on twit social media all day, playing video games,
Speaker 1: eating bad food, sit on the couch like like he's
Speaker 1: all one of those what else he's got to do.
Speaker 1: He's doing the opposite of what we think he's doing. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's on Twitch. Gamer, got a headset on yelling at kids.
Speaker 1: I'm Bill Russell. Damn it got some you know snot
Speaker 1: nosed thirteen year old plan. Hey dad, I got this
Speaker 1: old guy Bill Russell says he's a great athlete or something.
Speaker 1: We're playing World of Warcraft. I got more rings than
Speaker 1: you have years kid. I'm killing him and that's his handles.
Speaker 1: Got rings, Yeah, instead of gotten milk, got rings. He
Speaker 1: got rings with a Z. He blocks a lot of
Speaker 1: people on Twitter. I did I got that, Thank you, mclovin.
Speaker 1: It was well done. I'm just assuming he's a big
Speaker 1: black shot. Yeah. Yeah, he blocked live shots in the day,
Speaker 1: didn't They all average like twenty seven rebounds a game
Speaker 1: back then too, not quite that many, but you had
Speaker 1: guys who were averaging you know, twenty two, twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty four rebounds a game. But the shooting wasn't as
Speaker 1: good back then. Maybe you didn't squeeze, squeeze off as
Speaker 1: many shots. But I don't know if you had as
Speaker 1: many contested rebounds back then. Now nowadays, you know, you
Speaker 1: have these offensive rebounders and they made a living on
Speaker 1: being an offensive rebounder. I don't remember that being part
Speaker 1: of the NBA vernacular back then, like Paul Silas, if
Speaker 1: there were guys who were, but it was really Moses
Speaker 1: Malone was the first guy I remember where we talked about.
Speaker 1: Boy he's a great defensive and offensive rebounder. Yeah, Paul
Speaker 1: Bill Russell's worst season in the NBA, he averaged nineteen
Speaker 1: rebounds a game. Yeah, that was his worst year. Yes,
Speaker 1: mc clean. You know the saber metrics people only count
Speaker 1: contested rebounds. They don't want those Russell, Westbrook, everyone clear
Speaker 1: out of the foul line. So I could pad my
Speaker 1: stats rebounds and you all know that's true. Wow, come
Speaker 1: on the uncontested free throw, mislayup that rebound. That should
Speaker 1: not count it. And you know what, looking back in
Speaker 1: high school, I probably could have gotten maybe three or
Speaker 1: four more rebounds per game if I would have just
Speaker 1: done it off the free throw. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: get the ball out like I wanted to be moving
Speaker 1: down the cord. So when Tom's spaith got the rebound,
Speaker 1: he'd throw it out to me and I could take
Speaker 1: a couple of dribbles and let it fly. Yeah, mcclem
Speaker 1: I was always scared to be the lowest guy, because
Speaker 1: there's nothing worse than getting out rebounded on a foul shop.
Speaker 1: I think got it's You're right. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it you were good, it would ever happened to you.
Speaker 1: It happened to me all the time. Yes, But do
Speaker 1: you think the NBA gives more assists now than they
Speaker 1: did a generation to go? Because the definition to assist
Speaker 1: is that the pass directly leads to the score, that
Speaker 1: the pass assisted the guy. If you kick it out
Speaker 1: to a three point shooter who's standing motionless, yes, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's an assistant because I always thought
Speaker 1: that you had to create a scoring position for somebody
Speaker 1: to get an assist. And I think that they're a
Speaker 1: lot more lenient now. They're not quite like hockey that
Speaker 1: you can get it. You get an assist. If you
Speaker 1: passed to somebody, who pass this to somebody and they go,
Speaker 1: you get an assist there. Today is the anniversary of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty six NBA Draft, maybe the most star
Speaker 1: cross draft in history, and I got a chance to
Speaker 1: cover that. Len Bias was the number two overall pick.
Speaker 1: He died days after the draft. Three of the other
Speaker 1: top seven also had drug issues. Chris Washburn, William Bedford,
Speaker 1: and Roy Tarpley. Three players from the nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: draft are in the Basketball Hall of Fame. It's a
Speaker 1: good question here. I did not know this, and they're not.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't consider them great all around basketball players. Dennis Rodman,
Speaker 1: r Vitas Sabonis, and Drazen Petrovitch. Now, Sabonis and Petrovitch
Speaker 1: were really great eight internationally. Sabonis was great internationally. Petrovitch
Speaker 1: I loved him. He could, he had good lift on
Speaker 1: his jumper. He wasn't afraid of anybody. He died in
Speaker 1: a car accident at the age of twenty eight. In fact,
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller says Drowsin was one of the toughest guys,
Speaker 1: toughest matches, matchup set he ever had, and I loved
Speaker 1: his energy, he just ran all day and Petrovitch was
Speaker 1: a fun player. Yeah, I mclub. Mark Price is on
Speaker 1: here too. He I just looked up. He's not in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. How was Mark Price not in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I'm surprised. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's been out him since he's got to be
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Jeff hornessec on here too, Horney,
Speaker 1: what is your nickname? Do you remember not in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame? Do you remember Smart Price not in
Speaker 1: the basketball Hall of Fame? What he did at Georgia Tech? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mcclub. This is a day six Ers basketball died.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember we traded that number
Speaker 1: one pick that was Roy Hinson for Roy Hinson for
Speaker 1: Brad Doherty and jaded Moses Malone the same day for
Speaker 1: Jeff Ruland whose knees gave out afterwards. Yeah, that wasn't good.
Speaker 1: Moses didn't have much left, but no. Charles talked recently
Speaker 1: about how he wanted to play with Doherty. Mark Price
Speaker 1: is not in the Hall of Fame, man, because it's
Speaker 1: it's the basketball Hall of Fame and Price is one
Speaker 1: of the great shooters. Of all time. He was. He
Speaker 1: was that one of those. He could shoot ninety from
Speaker 1: the line and fifty from the floor. I don't know
Speaker 1: how prevalent to three point shot. I don't know what
Speaker 1: his three point numbers are. Probably not that strong, but
Speaker 1: he had range. Mark Price not in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Have to start that campaign to get him into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. All right, Next hour coming up, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to the great comedian Bill burr Dale. Earnhardt Jr.
Speaker 1: Who's going into the Hall of Fame, will join us.
Speaker 1: No statements, no offers, no talks between baseball and it's union.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's good or bad. I usually
Speaker 1: think when nobody's talking publicly, then they're talking privately. Who
Speaker 1: knows with baseball? Who knows with baseball? We'll settle on
Speaker 1: a poll question Phone calls coming up eight seven seven
Speaker 1: three DP show. One hour in the books. Two more
Speaker 1: to go on this Wednesday.