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Speaker 2: will be one and a half point favorites as of now.
Speaker 2: All right, poll question there for the final hour of
Speaker 2: the program. Deal and then we'll get to Patrick Ewing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got a couple options.
Speaker 3: You want to do it?
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers or another of Tony Wemby question, you can
Speaker 4: give me Aaron Rodgers all right? Do you actually think
Speaker 4: this will be Aaron Rodgers last season?
Speaker 3: Yes? Or now?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm gonna take him in his word. I
Speaker 2: have no reason not to. I mean, I covered a
Speaker 2: couple of Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements, including his first one
Speaker 2: in Baltimore, and I think he had five retirements after that.
Speaker 2: But that's boxers. Boxers don't retire. The phone just stops
Speaker 2: ringing because we've seen Tyson get back in the ring,
Speaker 2: of Ander Holyfield get back in the ring, Roberto Durant.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're all like, do you want to put
Speaker 2: Manny Pakia, Patrick Ewing the Hall of Famer and now
Speaker 2: the number one New York Knicks fan. Man, look at
Speaker 2: you walking around Madison Square Garden. You got your your
Speaker 2: hat on or whatever that hat and chapeau that you've got.
Speaker 2: It's like you you own the building. Patrick.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know about owning the building, but I
Speaker 3: do feel like it's one of my homes. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been I've had fifteen years, fifteen great years here
Speaker 3: in New York as an athlete. You know, four also
Speaker 3: four more as a college as a college athlete. So
Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time in the garden.
Speaker 2: Do you get to choose who you sit next to
Speaker 2: in the front row?
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, they've been putting me next to
Speaker 3: my good friend John Starts, But I might have to move.
Speaker 3: He's just too fired up. I'm like, I keep telling him, John,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get us a check. You keep trying to
Speaker 3: get onto the floor. I'm like, God, calm down, No,
Speaker 3: But you know what, you know what, Dan, It's it's
Speaker 3: great being around the guy. You know, the former guys,
Speaker 3: you know, former teammates, and you know, we all feel
Speaker 3: like we are part of it because you know, we
Speaker 3: have bled, bleds, you know, sweat and tears, a lot
Speaker 3: of the things that they they're going through now. So
Speaker 3: you know, we're just did to support them. And I
Speaker 3: think that Leon and West and Macedona have done a
Speaker 3: great job of making us feel like we are part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: How do you explain what happened in game one at
Speaker 2: the garden?
Speaker 3: Look, you know, it's never over until it's over. You
Speaker 3: know a lot of people thought that the game was
Speaker 3: over some people, and I might have been one of
Speaker 3: those people. That turned the TV off if I was
Speaker 3: at home. But I thought that Jalen Brunson did an
Speaker 3: outstanding job of putting on his Superman cape and being
Speaker 3: able to score all those points for US. Then we
Speaker 3: locked down defensively. I thought that the coaching staff made
Speaker 3: some you know, shine Landry came in and did an
Speaker 3: outstanding job on the defensive end for US. O g
Speaker 3: made some some big plays for US. Kat was able
Speaker 3: to do some things. You know. I just thought that
Speaker 3: the team as a whole did everything right at the
Speaker 3: right time to be able to come away with that win.
Speaker 2: What's your most memorable moment in the garden?
Speaker 3: You know what, I've been asked that a lot, and
Speaker 3: I really don't have one particular. You know, I guess
Speaker 3: if I was just gonna, you know, put it in
Speaker 3: as one. You know, when we beat Indiana to finally
Speaker 3: make it to the to the final. You know, we've
Speaker 3: been trying to get to the finals for a lot
Speaker 3: of years and that was my first opportunity to be
Speaker 3: able to get there. And uh, you know, we struggled
Speaker 3: the game game six, but we were able to get
Speaker 3: it done in game seven. You know, I thought that
Speaker 3: I showed my emotion. You know, my gratitude for the fans,
Speaker 3: for all the that they had to endure and we
Speaker 3: had to endure. When I got up on that tape
Speaker 3: with my arms stretch out, was trying to show them
Speaker 3: my appreciation.
Speaker 2: When did you stop hating Reggie Miller?
Speaker 3: You know that, you know, tell me sometimes I wonder,
Speaker 3: you know, do I really still hate him? Do I
Speaker 3: like him? Now? But no? I mean, you know, we
Speaker 3: we as athletes, we go through some some ups and
Speaker 3: some downs, and we had some great some great time
Speaker 3: battling against those guys, the pacers and us. We were
Speaker 3: built and you know a lot of in the same way.
Speaker 3: Reggie was a master. You know, if they if they,
Speaker 3: if they you know now they talk about flopping all
Speaker 3: the time. That guy used to flop all the time.
Speaker 3: But then he also, you know, just call him an actor.
Speaker 3: He's a great actor. I think he would have gotten
Speaker 3: an Academy Award for his acting. And he knew how
Speaker 3: to poll strings, and you know, he knew how to
Speaker 3: you know, pop certain people's strings. He polled John string
Speaker 3: a few times, got John to head butt him. But
Speaker 3: you know, it's all water under the bridge now I
Speaker 3: see him. I hug him. I showed the respect that
Speaker 3: I have for his game and also the things that
Speaker 3: he's doing now. He's his life after basketball, well after
Speaker 3: playing basketball. He's done an outstanding job of getting into
Speaker 3: his next career. So all you can do is just
Speaker 3: admire the work that he does.
Speaker 2: Talking to Patrick Ewing the Hall of Famer, you faced
Speaker 2: Ralph Samson, I try to remind people that Ralph he
Speaker 2: Wally's not as good as Win ben Yama is now.
Speaker 2: But to be that skilled at that height and being
Speaker 2: on the outside, being able to shoot, being inside as well,
Speaker 2: playing both ends of the floor. Do you see similarities
Speaker 2: with Ralph Sampson and Victor Winbanyama?
Speaker 3: Definitely. You know, I've been talking to a lot of
Speaker 3: people about the same thing. You know, I see Ralph
Speaker 3: would have been a great player in this era. In
Speaker 3: our era, you know, people used to get mad at
Speaker 3: you if you were a big and you don't get
Speaker 3: into the poles, so you start shooting too many jump shots.
Speaker 3: And you know, that was Ralph's game. He was a
Speaker 3: skilled big. He was you know victors height, he's seven four.
Speaker 3: He wanted to be a perimeter big. But in our
Speaker 3: era people look down on that, but I thought that
Speaker 3: he would this era would have embraced him and embraced
Speaker 3: his abilities, and which is what they're doing with Victor.
Speaker 3: And Victor is a special young man. Every time I
Speaker 3: watch him play, I see how special that he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got these unique traits that you know, you
Speaker 2: don't want your seven foot five guys shooting a three pointer.
Speaker 2: But in today's game we kind of accept it. Like
Speaker 2: even with you at Georgetown, I never knew you could
Speaker 2: shoot that well. And then you get to the NBA
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you're hitting fifteen eighteen footers.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why didn't coach Thompson unleash this in college?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, like I said, back in those era,
Speaker 3: they wanted us to be back to the basket dunking it.
Speaker 3: Even when I first got to New York, they I
Speaker 3: remember talking to Dicky McGuire and he said the exact
Speaker 3: same thing. He's like, Patrick, I never knew you could shoot.
Speaker 3: And Dickie was was, you know, the head scout for
Speaker 3: for the Knicks for a lot of years. His numbers
Speaker 3: and the raptors next to mine, I do have to
Speaker 3: say next to mine.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 3: He just said, you know, I really never thought that
Speaker 3: you could shoot. I thought all you could do was
Speaker 3: block shots and dump. Well, I say, you know, Dick,
Speaker 3: you know, the Big John was like, son, get your
Speaker 3: butt in the post. Work on those. You know, when
Speaker 3: you go to the NBA, then you can then you
Speaker 3: can show them the rest of your game. But you know,
Speaker 3: I always could shoot. I could I could shoot in
Speaker 3: high school.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I developed an more all around games as I got older.
Speaker 3: But I thought that, you know, I showed that that
Speaker 3: I had the ability to do these things, and you
Speaker 3: know what, could I do it? In this era? I
Speaker 3: didn't really shoot many threes or I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: i'd be profession at as a lot of these guys are.
Speaker 3: When be uh Yoke you know yr kids and uh
Speaker 3: and be those guys you know, you know, but if I,
Speaker 3: if I practiced, practiced it, I probably would be just
Speaker 3: as proficient as they are.
Speaker 2: I got you with nineteen three pointers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's too many. Back in my era, that's too many.
Speaker 2: When when would you put Joker in a top ten
Speaker 2: player of all time? Uh? Is he close to being
Speaker 2: a top ten player of all time?
Speaker 3: You know what Joker is? He's another one that's special.
Speaker 3: You know his you know, whatever he he lacks in athleticism,
Speaker 3: he you know, definitely makes up in all the other
Speaker 3: things that he does. He plays every night, he very
Speaker 3: rarely gets hurt. He can shoot, he can pass. He's
Speaker 3: more of a facilitator than than most bigs. We were
Speaker 3: all the ones that you know we're getting. You know,
Speaker 3: we had to depend We played a dependent position. He
Speaker 3: doesn't need UH to play a dependent position. He can
Speaker 3: bring it, bring it down, he can score, he rebounds,
Speaker 3: He does all the things that UH and that this
Speaker 3: era that big need to do. And you know, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna sit here and say he is the greatest
Speaker 3: player of the greatest big of all time, because there
Speaker 3: was a lot of great bigs. Keem was a great
Speaker 3: big in my era Colleen before that. So there's a
Speaker 3: you know, shock you guy to talk about shocking all
Speaker 3: those guys. But you know, he's definitely special. I would
Speaker 3: have loved to have tried to impede against him, to see,
Speaker 3: you know, you know how I would fare against that
Speaker 3: talented young man. I had the opportunity to meet him
Speaker 3: this year when we played in Denver. I went up
Speaker 3: to him and told him that, you know, I love
Speaker 3: what he's doing, continue to do it, and he's a
Speaker 3: very special player.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about facing Kareem at the end
Speaker 2: of his career.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm gonna tell you a story. So we're getting
Speaker 3: ready and Rick Bettino was our coach at this at
Speaker 3: this time, and we are getting ready to face the Lakers,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you know, Rick was like, no, we're
Speaker 3: not going to double Kareem. He's getting older. And I'm like, Rick,
Speaker 3: he may be getting older, but he is still good.
Speaker 3: So Kareem got heated, he got hot, and I don't
Speaker 3: care what I did. I could push him to the
Speaker 3: three point line. He still was rolling that skyhook and
Speaker 3: I said, Rick, what did I tell you we need
Speaker 3: to double him? No, you know, Kareem, I'm.
Speaker 2: Looking at the video. He hit six, six consecutive sky
Speaker 2: hooks over you.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's I mean people talk when they talk about
Speaker 3: greatest of all time, I mean they never you know,
Speaker 3: they very very rarely put him in there. And what
Speaker 3: he did was was special. I mean, you know, he
Speaker 3: was seven to he had he developed a shot that
Speaker 3: was virtually unstoppable. I remember when pat Riley came to
Speaker 3: the next he tried to get me to you know,
Speaker 3: develop a sky hook. I'm like, coach, that's not my game. Uh.
Speaker 3: The captain was was special. He developed that. That's his
Speaker 3: that's his thing. I'm a jump shooter.
Speaker 2: Wait, you didn't want to even try to do the
Speaker 2: sky hook.
Speaker 3: I just didn't. I just didn't get the feel of
Speaker 3: the sky hook. I was more of a of a
Speaker 3: jump hook guy. You know. I used the jump hook,
Speaker 3: as you know, one of the pieces the pieces to
Speaker 3: my to my to my game.
Speaker 2: Do celebs come up to you at the garden and
Speaker 2: want pictures?
Speaker 3: Yes they do. And you know what, I'm like, Like
Speaker 3: Lenny Kravitz was at the game, the last game, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I'm a huge Lenny Kravits fan. I'm like,
Speaker 3: forget you asking me for the picture. I need to
Speaker 3: take a picture. You know, I've got to send this
Speaker 3: to all my kids because you know, it's it's funny.
Speaker 3: I was at a game last year and I brought
Speaker 3: my kids with me, and you know that the next
Speaker 3: asked me to take a picture with with a group,
Speaker 3: one of the one of the K pop groups. So
Speaker 3: I didn't know who they were. So I took the
Speaker 3: picture of my kids, Like dad, you know, that's probably
Speaker 3: the most famous person that you were ever taking a
Speaker 3: picture with.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what, who?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: I was like I had I hadn't. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: Well in their world k pop, yeah, those are big stars.
Speaker 2: They don't care about Lenny Kravinz, who's you know in
Speaker 2: his sixties, or even Tracy Morgan or Spike Lee.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know they do. They do. They have
Speaker 3: more of a knowledge about all these things than I didn't,
Speaker 3: you know, and than I do. My I was so
Speaker 3: tunnel vision as a player. I was just locked in
Speaker 3: on trying to be the best I could be as
Speaker 3: a player. I wasn't I didn't care who was in
Speaker 3: the stand, just as long as it was filled with
Speaker 3: all of our fans. And you know, one thing I
Speaker 3: love us before you go down, one thing I love
Speaker 3: about our fans. I don't care. I'm in Boston and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, I never saw New York
Speaker 3: Knicks fans in Boston. Maybe in LA or what happened
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia. I could not believe that. I'm like, we
Speaker 3: we we show up, we show up, and we show
Speaker 3: out on these road games.
Speaker 2: Did it ever bother you that Spike Lee was a
Speaker 2: Knicks fan, but he was friends with Michael Jordan during
Speaker 2: doing those commercials.
Speaker 3: No, you know, I mean Michael and I were friends.
Speaker 3: We got to meet each other in college before you know,
Speaker 3: in high school. I should say we've developed the friendship.
Speaker 3: We stayed friends, still are friends today. But once we
Speaker 3: get on that floor, as you as you saw, and
Speaker 3: it wasn't just about the friendship. We're both trying to
Speaker 3: kick each other's butts. And he lets me know every
Speaker 3: time I see him or I talk to him, Daddy,
Speaker 3: I was not able to beat him. He's the you know,
Speaker 3: we people talk about Larry Bird talking trash. I think
Speaker 3: he's probably the biggest trash talker that I've ever been around.
Speaker 2: Wait, did Larry talk trash to you?
Speaker 6: Did he ever?
Speaker 3: I mean, if I saw Larry today, he still probably
Speaker 3: talk trash. You know. I think that's how we got
Speaker 3: to be friends with the Dream Team. You know, he
Speaker 3: was talking so much trash. Uh, you know, he talked
Speaker 3: trash and we played against each other, but back then,
Speaker 3: so now we were around each other all the time,
Speaker 3: and he talks about how you know, his team would
Speaker 3: have always used to kick our butts, and I was
Speaker 3: more of a power forward than a center. And you know,
Speaker 3: we just we just got into all these you know,
Speaker 3: Joe King things, and we called ourselves the Harry and
Speaker 3: Larry Show. But Larry was a great competitor, a great teammate,
Speaker 3: and I got the opportunity to become good friends with
Speaker 3: him doing that during that time.
Speaker 2: But you know that the Dream Team birthed all these
Speaker 2: great players from around the world. Like you look at
Speaker 2: the timeline, Patrick, I mean, I think you can you
Speaker 2: can point right towards the Dream Team dominating everybody. Next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, you got a player out of Africa, out
Speaker 2: of Germany, out of you know, you know, the Croatia,
Speaker 2: I mean, variety of places due to the Dream Team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everywhere. I agree with you, because every other country
Speaker 3: in the world soccer was the number one sport. I
Speaker 3: used to want to play soccer when I was growing
Speaker 3: up in Jamaica. I wanted to be the next PLA
Speaker 3: moved to America fell in love with this game of basketball,
Speaker 3: and I thought that, you know, when David Stern decided
Speaker 3: to let the NBA players play in the Olympics, that
Speaker 3: that made basketball a global sport. It was loved all
Speaker 3: over the world, and I think that that was one
Speaker 3: of the smartest things that he did. So everybody who
Speaker 3: used to play soccer at that time, football everywhere else
Speaker 3: except for here. That's when they fell in love with basketball,
Speaker 3: and you can you saw a huge boom and everyone
Speaker 3: wanting to play basketball after that.
Speaker 2: Olympics have fun tonight. Behave tell John Starks to keep
Speaker 2: it down a little bit so you don't get teed
Speaker 2: up out there. And thank you again.
Speaker 3: Oh my pleasure, my friend. And it's always great to
Speaker 3: be on your show. I still need to come up
Speaker 3: there and be in that that man cave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to bring you up here in school
Speaker 2: you a little bit, you know, maybe take.
Speaker 3: You, take you Hey, look you might be able to now,
Speaker 3: you might be able to now, haven't I haven't really
Speaker 3: been shooting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you Patrick. When we were in San Antonio,
Speaker 2: I think at the Final four, and I had the
Speaker 2: ball during a commercial break and Patrick came out on
Speaker 2: me and I'm like, uh oh, and then I did
Speaker 2: a little hesitation and ended up somehow scoring on him
Speaker 2: and that was it. I was one and done, just
Speaker 2: walked off. I have finger raised like I'm Larry Bird.
Speaker 2: The three point shooting contest. All right, let me take
Speaker 2: a break. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2: It's always great to talk to former greats of the game,
Speaker 2: and I never take it for granted. You when you're
Speaker 2: around Isaiah, Patrick, Ewing, Reggie whoever it might be, you
Speaker 2: get guys who were in their fifties and sixties and
Speaker 2: you've been with them almost every step of the way.
Speaker 2: Certainly Patrick Ewing his freshman year at Georgetown. I remember
Speaker 2: I went there and they didn't allow the players, certainly freshmen,
Speaker 2: to do any interviews. And if John Thompson was going
Speaker 2: to sit down with then you got your interview. And
Speaker 2: I remember sitting down with Big John, and he was
Speaker 2: always intimidating, but he wanted to be intimidating. He wanted
Speaker 2: his teams to be intimidating. And therefore Patrick Ewing was
Speaker 2: just a mystery. You were like, I don't know who
Speaker 2: this is. He doesn't do interviews. The way he played,
Speaker 2: he was so aggressive, he was so defensive minded, and
Speaker 2: then he gets to the NBA. He's not defensive minded.
Speaker 2: He's shooting fifteen eighteen foot jumpers. It was like, now
Speaker 2: that was college NBA. I'm shooting yes, Mark.
Speaker 9: DP Pauly just might be a question for you guys.
Speaker 9: Can you guys explain to me the Georgetown phenomenon because
Speaker 9: Patrick Ewhan played the bulk of his career in New
Speaker 9: York City at the Garden, but he's probably more iconic
Speaker 9: and more famous for what he did at Georgetown. He
Speaker 9: had an all time Hall of Fame career in New York.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you know there was something different about
Speaker 2: Georgetown basketball and they would have those starter jackets and
Speaker 2: everybody wanted like you were wearing Georgetown gear because and
Speaker 2: it was for a younger audience because they were like, man,
Speaker 2: I love the way they play. You know, they had
Speaker 2: those gray uniforms that were ugly, but you know they
Speaker 2: they just had this persona, this bravado. When they came
Speaker 2: on the floor, it felt like they were already up
Speaker 2: five nothing. And then you know that National title game,
Speaker 2: Patrick's blocking every shot. I think John Thompson so said
Speaker 2: go after every shot to start that game against Jordan
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, and he might have go attended five
Speaker 2: or six shots in a row. It was we're gonna
Speaker 2: send a message whenever they put something up, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go after it. And they played defense. I mean that's
Speaker 2: I always marvel when you know people talk about today's athlete.
Speaker 2: You know the superstars back in the seventies, eighties, nineties,
Speaker 2: you had to play defense. John Thompson got his players
Speaker 2: to think defense first. Jerry Tarkanian got UNLV to think
Speaker 2: defense first. Mike Shushev got his teams to think defense first.
Speaker 2: There's you know, there's a correlation there to winning. John Wooden,
Speaker 2: it was about defense. Playing defense now it's sort of lost,
Speaker 2: But back then, even with all these teams and these
Speaker 2: great players, you were playing defense first, Bob Knight, defense first. Yes, Punk.
Speaker 10: I was twelve years old when Ewing showed up at Georgetown,
Speaker 10: and he was a household name when he arrived there, basically,
Speaker 10: and they were the team. They were like the counterculture team.
Speaker 2: They did it differently.
Speaker 10: John Thoms was defiant and didn't take anything from anybody,
Speaker 10: just like his team didn't on the court, and young
Speaker 10: people gravitated toward Georgetown. The look, the feel, the tone,
Speaker 10: the clothes, everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had great respect for John because John
Speaker 2: stood up for people causes, you know, prop forty eight,
Speaker 2: which was a terrible label for students because that meant
Speaker 2: you weren't smart enough or you know, the perception was, oh,
Speaker 2: prop forty eight, and it would be you academically, you
Speaker 2: weren't able, you weren't at the same level as everybody else,
Speaker 2: and it was unfair. It was like a scarlet letter
Speaker 2: that you put on these players. But he was tough.
Speaker 2: He was tough. He's another one of those guys that
Speaker 2: I wore down eventually and we became friends. It took
Speaker 2: a long time. It's like Bob Knight, I'll wear you down.
Speaker 2: I'm playing the long game. And the same thing happened
Speaker 2: with Coach Knight, you wear him down. I'm still here.
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving. Yeah, Paul Dan.
Speaker 10: A bunch of years ago, when we were just starting
Speaker 10: this version of the show, you brought us down to Washington,
Speaker 10: d C. At the local radio station and Coach John
Speaker 10: Thompson did a show before your show, our show, and
Speaker 10: we walked in the room and I looked up at
Speaker 10: John Thompson at six'. Ten he, goes, hello young, man
Speaker 10: AND i was, like holy call it him very.
Speaker 2: Cool and it's nice when you get on somebody's level
Speaker 2: or they allow. You it's like when your kids get
Speaker 2: on a level where you, Go i'm talking to an adult.
Speaker 2: Here but you got to prove. Yourself. Man back, then
Speaker 2: you had to, yourself you. Know coach k Even John.
Speaker 2: Wooden WHEN i went To Coach wooden's, condominium and this
Speaker 2: had to be in the early, eighties AND i remember
Speaker 2: that we were sitting outside doing the interview AND i was.
Speaker 2: TRYING i wanted to go inside the condo and it
Speaker 2: was really a modest. Condominium BUT i thought IF i
Speaker 2: get in. There that means that he is kind of
Speaker 2: opening up the gates that he knows THAT i know,
Speaker 2: basketball and, man AM i piling it on With John.
Speaker 2: Wooden i'm bringing up guys who were eighth or ninth
Speaker 2: on the. ROSTER i, Mean i'm bringing up all these
Speaker 2: guys where they went to high school BECAUSE i KNEW ucla.
Speaker 2: Basketball we get towards the, end my cameraman, says, Hey
Speaker 2: i'm pack up and, go And Coach wooden, said do
Speaker 2: you want a? SANDWICH i, said of, Course and it
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Speaker 10: That's the greatest walk of all. Time you're probably sitting
Speaker 10: there having an out of body. MOMENT i was just
Speaker 10: In John winn's apartment and you're probably just soaking it.
Speaker 3: In.
Speaker 2: YEAH i, mean you still think back on those kind of,
Speaker 2: moments And i've been very fortunate BECAUSE i got the
Speaker 2: opportunity to be around these people in different, moments throughout
Speaker 2: different stages of their. Careers kent In, Indiana good, Morning,
Speaker 2: kent what's on your? Mind good Morning?
Speaker 7: Dan Dan ed's five nine and old one. Five listen
Speaker 7: until you talk To, Patrick ewing reminded me and a
Speaker 7: jogging my memory of one of the great latest lines
Speaker 7: of a sports REPORT i ever, heard AND i still remember,
Speaker 7: it AND i think.
Speaker 11: You delivered the, line But i'm not.
Speaker 12: Sure he showed a clip Of patrick going.
Speaker 7: Around Rick smith's and you, said And Patrick ewing abused.
Speaker 2: The used the duo dutch boy in the. Pink, yeah
Speaker 2: because it, was you, know The dutch boy in the
Speaker 2: paint and so, Yeah, kent thank.
Speaker 13: You you're proud of that, one aren't. YOU i don't
Speaker 13: know IF i am proud of that. One that's a nice,
Speaker 13: duff the Dunking. Dutchman rick Schmidts Uh andrew And. MICHIGAN, I, andrew.
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Speaker 2: Florida Hey? Chad what's on your? Mind?
Speaker 11: Hey how's?
Speaker 5: Going Dan Trullion honor on the on the?
Speaker 14: Radio hey real, Quick harsside and Holding wemby and clutching
Speaker 14: him allowed and not Allowing wemby to close out or.
Speaker 5: Elevate it's like holding.
Speaker 14: A two hundred and forty pounds dumbbell on your hand
Speaker 14: and becoming an AVERAGE NFL i, mean, SORRY nba. Center
Speaker 14: and also About Aaron, rodgers, Like i'm tired of seeing
Speaker 14: that angry, scowl bitter from on my television.
Speaker 5: SCREEN i, mean it's.
Speaker 2: Just a bad look for THE.
Speaker 5: Nfl i'd rather.
Speaker 14: See somebody like just, energetic excited and just a joyful
Speaker 14: to play the game and just it's just.
Speaker 5: Competitive you.
Speaker 2: Know he's just different. Though aaron is not that, happy go,
Speaker 2: lucky big smile. Guy just Not And i've been around
Speaker 2: him for a long. Time he's just not that. Way
Speaker 2: So i'm not sitting, there go, hey be, happy have.
Speaker 2: Fun how about a smile or?
Speaker 15: Two, Yes, tod he does have his moments when he
Speaker 15: smirks or winks at a receiver or back to the
Speaker 15: coach when they got away with something or a certain
Speaker 15: play was drawn.
Speaker 6: Up so he's not completely frowning or angry or. MISERABLE
Speaker 6: i think he's still having fun with.
Speaker 2: IT i don't know If Tom brady was having fun
Speaker 2: like there most of the moments see pretty, intense, Yes, mark.
Speaker 9: If Aaron rodgers had Five Super, bowls we would have, said,
Speaker 9: man he's just always cool under pressure no matter. What
Speaker 9: but because people don't like.
Speaker 6: Him, oh he's always.
Speaker 2: Sulking luke And. Columbus, Hi, luke what's on your?
Speaker 5: Mind good, morning, guys five, NINE a hard one seventy. Seven, Yesterday,
Speaker 5: dan you gave a great rundown of the different murals
Speaker 5: you guys have in the man cave there and how
Speaker 5: they're about matchups that we will never, see one Being
Speaker 5: lebron Versus. Jordan i'm curious now if you think That
Speaker 5: lebron is into, golf if we'd ever Get netflix or
Speaker 5: something like that to put together kind of like the
Speaker 5: match did with, quarterbacks and we could See lebron Versus
Speaker 5: jordan's in.
Speaker 2: Golf lebron would take years to get to Where mike.
Speaker 2: Is mike plays thirty six a. Day that ain't. Happening
Speaker 2: mike would love If lebron wanted to challenge him to.
Speaker 2: GOLF i would Have Steph curry go Against Michael. Jordan
Speaker 2: then we would have something interesting Because Steph CURRY i
Speaker 2: think could play on like A Dp World, tour Corn
Speaker 2: ferry something like. THAT i think he's that. Talented, Yes,
Speaker 2: PAULIN i think you should produce up this.
Speaker 10: Show you Get Steph curry And Michael miked, Up get
Speaker 10: TWO nfl greats miked up or other?
Speaker 2: Sports you got something, Here Barkley barkley Versus Tom, Brady Michael.
Speaker 2: Phelps he loves the. Golf, yeah but you got to
Speaker 2: get handicaps that are very. Similar you, know you can't
Speaker 2: get it too crazy.
Speaker 4: There, Yes, DYLAN i actually saw a video the other,
Speaker 4: DAY i think it was on TikTok Of bronnie swinging
Speaker 4: the golf club AND i was, like he is light
Speaker 4: years ahead of his. Dad so the basketball, thing he's
Speaker 4: probably not going to catch up to his, dad but
Speaker 4: he's not his number in.
Speaker 2: Golf, Yeah i'm good at guess that he'll never get
Speaker 2: close to his. Dad, Yeah i'm curious what happens When lebron.
Speaker 2: Retires what happens to Bron oh? Boy, Yeah see that
Speaker 2: to me is the interesting part of that that you,
Speaker 2: know you're kind of on. Scholarship although he did have,
Speaker 2: moments BUT i think he's playing like somebody who was.
Speaker 2: Drafted when he was, DRAFTED i think he's you, know
Speaker 2: he's a capable, player not a great, player not a,
Speaker 2: starter but you, know every time he, walked it's on the.
Speaker 2: Floor he's being compared to his. Dad so you're always
Speaker 2: going to lose that. Battle, Yes, mark he'll.
Speaker 1: Be on The.
Speaker 9: Lakers the question is will he be on The Los
Speaker 9: Angeles lakers or The South Bay.
Speaker 2: Lakers, wow well that's a shot, There. Marv would you
Speaker 2: say it to his? Face?
Speaker 6: No, No, NO i like behind people's. Back, now.
Speaker 2: You like stabbing people in the? Back far. BETTER i
Speaker 2: always say that To. Todd, hey you know when he
Speaker 2: says something about an athlete and you, Go, okay what
Speaker 2: happens when they call? In he, goes, Oh i'll be
Speaker 2: nice to. HIM i, go, Okay, YEAH.
Speaker 6: I got a lot Of bravada. Before and then Once
Speaker 6: i'm dever, There, hey what's going, on?
Speaker 2: Buddy Well Philip? Rivers When philip bri you used to
Speaker 2: Bash Philip? Rivers and THEN i, go what happens When
Speaker 2: Philip rivers calls? In and then we had him on
Speaker 2: when he, played.
Speaker 6: AND i changed a little. BIT i changed Which.
Speaker 2: PHIL i really enjoyed you with the, charters AND i
Speaker 2: think what you're doing is.
Speaker 15: Incredible aren't you the guy that's the bronco for that
Speaker 15: always rips?
Speaker 6: Me not a't somebody? ELSE i know what you're talking.
Speaker 2: About all, right let's take a. Break last call for phone,
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Speaker 1: results to the poll, Question, dylan can you offer up those?
Speaker 2: Results?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Dan do you actually think this Is Aaron rodgers last?
Speaker 4: SEASON i might be in the minority here because eighty
Speaker 4: one or eighty nine percent say yes it.
Speaker 2: Is, YEAH i think it. Is i'll take him at his.
Speaker 3: Word.
Speaker 4: YEAH i mean if you're if you're A steeler, fan,
Speaker 4: though what would be your? Preference BECAUSE i think.
Speaker 2: Okay, well let me ask. You you're A ravens. Fan
Speaker 2: are you Hoping rogers retires or comes back for another
Speaker 2: season after this? One as A ravens, Fan i'd want him.
Speaker 3: To come, back?
Speaker 4: Okay as opposed to them basically essentially tanking this year
Speaker 4: With Drew holler And Will howard or platoon them or,
Speaker 4: whatever getting a higher draft, pick getting a real quarterback next.
Speaker 2: Year terry In, Seattle, Hi, terry what do you have
Speaker 2: for me?
Speaker 14: Today, hey good, Morning.
Speaker 11: Dan your conversation With ewing reminded me of another player
Speaker 11: from that era THAT i know you watched a lot
Speaker 11: who would still clutch the bigger the, moment the better he's.
Speaker 11: Got but he was a nine time defensive player on
Speaker 11: The All Defensive. Team And i'm talking about the great LATE,
Speaker 11: CJ CJ, Dj Dennis johnson ALL.
Speaker 2: Dj, Yeah and you know he got To boston And
Speaker 2: bird called him his favorite teammate Because Dennis johnson did
Speaker 2: whatever it took to just. Win AND i remember when
Speaker 2: he first came into the. League he was a great.
Speaker 2: JUMPER i think his brother was even, greater like a high.
Speaker 2: Jumper BUT i REMEMBER dj was a really good, player
Speaker 2: and then they ended up getting him On boston and
Speaker 2: just solidified that backcourt With Danny. Ainge mark In South,
Speaker 2: Carolina Hey, mark good.
Speaker 5: Morning good, Morning.
Speaker 3: Dent fourth, time long.
Speaker 16: Time you guys have documented for over the years how
Speaker 16: Cheap fritzy. Is And i'm a season ticket holder to
Speaker 16: both The Carolina panthers and The Atlanta, falcons And i'm
Speaker 16: willing to offer tickets To.
Speaker 2: FRITZY i don't.
Speaker 5: Know how many he would need if there's if one
Speaker 5: or two. CONDITIONS.
Speaker 2: A i could go with.
Speaker 16: Them if that's not an, option that's, Fine but THEN
Speaker 16: b would be if you could give me a.
Speaker 5: Shout Out limerick on the Following.
Speaker 16: Monday BUT i got four tickets to The panthers That
Speaker 16: i'd be offering up To, god so you wouldn't have
Speaker 16: to pay because he's apparently super, cheap, Right.
Speaker 15: God i'm not as cheap as though you guys have
Speaker 15: made out to be number, one number. TWO i was
Speaker 15: considering going to that game because my daughter goes to
Speaker 15: school In North carolina AND i was going to make
Speaker 15: a weekend out of it to visit her and then
Speaker 15: go To charlotte for The Broncos panthers. Game that's a
Speaker 15: very generous. Offer and, uh if ALL i need to
Speaker 15: do is A limerick to take my wife AND i
Speaker 15: to A bronco, panthegon that's something we can.
Speaker 2: Explore, well why didn't you just go With? Mark we
Speaker 2: can do that.
Speaker 6: Too he's welcome to join.
Speaker 15: Us my wife will be with, me and he could
Speaker 15: hang out with, us as of course we would hang out.
Speaker 15: Together he's not four, Tickets, yeah so we could double.
Speaker 15: DATE i don't know who's who's with him or a.
Speaker 15: Friend but the four of us can go to the,
Speaker 15: game all, Right.
Speaker 2: Mark, fritty does your wife have a, Sister?
Speaker 6: Fritzie she does, not, unfortunately BUT i would have been
Speaker 6: happy to try. To she's an only.
Speaker 2: Child does she have a?
Speaker 6: Brother?
Speaker 2: Uh is the deal contingent on DoD bringing a girl for? You?
Speaker 5: Mark, no maybe we can get somebody the audience that
Speaker 5: wants to go as.
Speaker 2: Well, well you know, What i'll Have tyler take down your, Information,
Speaker 2: mark and then Maybe fritzie can reach out its very though.
Speaker 2: Time maybe you can get a. Girl? Uh nick In? Texas?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 2: Nick what's on your? Mind matchmaking FOR.
Speaker 17: I think he's been bullied around and pushed around and
Speaker 17: Held maybe he should work For since he's worked With
Speaker 17: garnet And, crawford he needs to start working with karm
Speaker 17: And Tim duncan and work on the bank shot and the.
Speaker 2: Skyhook, well he's been working With Tim duncan And David.
Speaker 2: ROBINSON i, mean let's let him work on so many,
Speaker 2: things you, know not everything all at. Once he's not
Speaker 2: going to get the sky hook and the bank. Shot
Speaker 2: plus he's working on his ball handling, skills and then
Speaker 2: he's working With Kevin. Garnett and let's give him. Credit
Speaker 2: he's twenty two years of age that he's willing to
Speaker 2: be doing this in his off, days off. Months nick
Speaker 2: in The Ozarks, Hi.
Speaker 12: Nick Hey, dan a long. Time congratulations on your daughter getting.
Speaker 12: Married i'm just going to say you're a professional, speaker
Speaker 12: one of the. BEST i don't think you need a.
Speaker 12: Speech just stand up, there tell it from the, heart
Speaker 12: and if the tears, flow they.
Speaker 3: Flow.
Speaker 12: Then the other thing was bought a new Rec tech
Speaker 12: eight pork buts four racks. Ribs excellent.
Speaker 2: Smoker that thing is built like a, tank isn't, It, Nick.
Speaker 3: Yes it.
Speaker 12: Is it was very.
Speaker 2: Surprising all, Right, well thank you for taking my. Recommendation
Speaker 2: MAYBE i just take questions from the audience When i'm
Speaker 2: up there doing a, speech you, know maybe we make
Speaker 2: it interactive that, way you, know MAYBE i get like
Speaker 2: an appearance feed from my daughter showing up for a
Speaker 2: meet and greet and signing some autographs and taking some.
Speaker 2: Pictures anybody Have cleveland Tonight we have The gambling podcast
Speaker 2: coming up after the. Show Shan irving And Dylan Picture
Speaker 2: Day ray is going to be there And dylan famously
Speaker 2: had the money line of The cavaliers against The, knicks and,
Speaker 2: man oh, man you had to feel. Good you'll never
Speaker 2: guess What i'm doing.
Speaker 3: Tonight then.
Speaker 1: The same.
Speaker 2: THING i want to pay. Back you're taking the money
Speaker 2: line with The cavaliers, AGAIN i, am and this is
Speaker 2: why you normally lose it, gambling, right, yeah but it's
Speaker 2: not my. Fault it Was mario's uncle's fault this time
Speaker 2: or well last. Game, oh because he signed off on,
Speaker 2: boy you got this, one he mushed.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait it's called.
Speaker 4: Mush, yeah it's like the being like the.
Speaker 2: Cooler oh, okay, yeah, Yes.
Speaker 15: Todd don't you guys think it's a wake up call
Speaker 15: that they went down twenty two and it required them
Speaker 15: to make that wild, comeback that they're not gonna let
Speaker 15: it get to that point and they're gonna go all
Speaker 15: out and make sure it's not particularly close and they
Speaker 15: take the two o lead To.
Speaker 2: Cleveland, okay, well then why don't you Bet? Dylan oh
Speaker 2: so you got The calves to?
Speaker 14: Win?
Speaker 6: Alright, yeah straight, Up, okay let's do. THAT i don't,
Speaker 6: know we'll figure out what the win, is but what
Speaker 6: the winner.
Speaker 15: Gets BUT i think The knicks will go up two
Speaker 15: oh AND i think they got woken up by The
Speaker 15: Reggie moos, said, like if they take the cabs for,
Speaker 15: granted they're gonna run into a. Problem so twenty two point.
Speaker 15: Lead who definitely woke up The KNICKS i think for
Speaker 15: this game?
Speaker 2: Time, wow and they woke up you? Too book me? Up, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yes we'll. Win, no we.
Speaker 9: Can't The knicks can't. Win New York city cannot handle
Speaker 9: The knicks being up two to oh in the conference.
Speaker 9: Finals do you Think Seventh avenue can handle? That, uh
Speaker 9: there will be a lot of topless dudes.
Speaker 2: Tonight, oh Seventh, avenue here we. Go what was? It
Speaker 2: dylan gave us a Sixth avenue freeze out the Seventh
Speaker 2: avenue topless tarps? Off, Yes, Paul why.
Speaker 10: Did the wrong people always take their shirts?
Speaker 2: OFF i know the right. People, yeah you're you're right about.
Speaker 2: THAT i take my shirt off a. Lot my point exactly.
Speaker 2: Exactly you And mario taking your shirts? Off that is not. Good,
Speaker 2: Dodd DID i learn anything on today's award nominated?
Speaker 15: Program we all, Did isaiah says when he played today's ball,
Speaker 15: down THE nba players were simply called the hogs that
Speaker 15: didn't want to.
Speaker 2: Pass, thanks for the phone, calls, emails, tweets the all around.
Speaker 2: Support it's a Meet friday Tomorrow dylan will do the.
Speaker 2: Honors thanks for joining, us our pleasure to serve, you For, Fritzie, Dylan,
Speaker 2: Marve paul yours. Truly we'll talk to you tomorrow