April 24, 2024 • 36 mins
Doug dissects the criticism that quarterback Caleb Williams has received coming into the draft, and explains why Williams acts and thinks the way he does. Former NBA Champion and NBA Analyst Antonio Daniels joins Doug to cover all of the major headlines in the NBA playoffs right now. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a Tuesday edition of "The Press".
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We'll get to Kaitlin Clark signing a twenty eight million
dollars deal with Nike and what I'm sure will come
out of that conversation. But I did want to talk
about this Kayleb Williams thing because the quotes about Kayleb Williams,
so many of them are man is he confident? Man
is he arrogant? Man is the act entitled? And some
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of it does revolve around anil. Have you ever heard
this quote before? Hard times create strong men. Strong men
create good times. Good times create weak men, and weak
men create hard times. Has ever heard that? So everybody
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I know apparently grew up poor. How do I know that?
Ask anybody? Oh, I grew up poor?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Really?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah? Yeah? I walked barefoot uphill to school, uphill home
writers uphill both ways. It's really a hard route to
go to you ask anybody. No one goes like, yeah,
I kind of grew up like upper middle class, Like
we belong to a country club.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
My dad had a good job, My mom had a
good job. Nobody's in trouble with love. Everyone's like dude,
My mom and dad before they got divorced, they fired
weaponry at each other, the knives across. And then we
lived in the toughest part of town, and nobody spoke
English or Spanish or French. It was all everybody spoke
to Gibberish, you know, like you name it. There is
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some form of tough upbringing that we all had and
we want to prove. I think by saying that that
we're tougher than this generation, it does stand to reason.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's like, I give you an example. My son last
Wednesday night, I'm take him to basketball practice and the
basketball workout. It's only like fifteen minutes away, but at
that time of night, it takes like forty five minutes
to get there. So we get there and we had
a little miscommunication about his basketball bag. He asked if
I had his bag, and I was like, yeah, I
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picked you up from school. We went and got something
to eat, we hung out a little bit, and then
we went to your basketball practice. I didn't know he
didn't bring his basketball back to school, so we didn't
have his shoes. So he's like, hey, could you just
go over to Dixon buy me a pair? Like think
about saying that to your parents, Like, hey, I forgot
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my shoes for a practice, can you just go buy
me a pair. Now, the reality is he's growing like
a weed, so he always goes out of his shoes.
He did kind of need like a practice pair. They're
not like crazy expenses like he needs like the nicest
or best or whatever. And we did drive forty five
minutes one way, it's thirty five minutes back, Like we're
really going to go there and not and just sit
there and not practice. That seems very as opposed to
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I can go get a pair of shoes and in
ten minutes he can be practicing. Right, But think about
how our parents would respond to that, right, Like do
you remember when you went shopping for shoes with your
folks and trying to talk them into buying a you know,
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the the nicest sneakers and then you would do you
wear them home? Right? Do you wear them home? And
then you put the old sneakers in the into the box.
I bring this up because the question about Kayleb Williams
and the questions about these players they have, by and large,
very few of them will have played. This is Marvin
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Harrison played at one school, Kayleb Williams at two. Most
of these guys have played at one or two schools.
But this is the last year or two that you're
gonna have that you're gonna start to have a litany
of three four school guys. Why is that important? Well,
if you haven't been in one place for more than
a year or two years. You don't know anything about
relationship building and culture building. You haven't been through the
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tough times. Now, if a kid goes to a school
during his freshman year and he doesn't play well, then
he leaves and goes to another program where he can
play immediately correct, So you haven't done the I was
a backup for two years, then a spot starter, then
bec came an All league guy, and now I got
a chance to make some money. Like, they haven't been
through that. They haven't been through the hard times, which
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creates strong men, and then the strong men create the
good times. They've been in the good times, which create
the weak men, and weak men create hard times. This
is a real thing. There was the Josh Rosen. When
Josh Rosen was drafted. You know, there was a lot
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of Josh Rosen in the personality. Both his parents were
Ivy League educated, and the thought was that Josh Rosen
because one of his parents I believe is some sort
of brain doctor. Like the second he gets concussion, his
mom's going to come in and go like, what are
we doing? Shut this thing down. We got plenty of money.
We don't need it. That turned out Josh Rosen wasn't
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good enough to hang out and be in the league
long enough. But again, the reality is, or the perception
which becomes the reality, is that Josh Rosen, because he
came from affluence, because his parents were educated, because he
was educated, he didn't really need football. So if the
going got tough, he would get going. That's the same
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thing we think about all these quarterbacks now.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yes, Sami a similar quote, Doug that it sort of
runs parallel to the weak men's strong men quote you
just shared. I actually learned this from me the John
Adams miniseries with Paul Jamonti. But John Quincy Adams, former president,
actually said this, I have to study politics and war
so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture,
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so their sons can study poetry, painting, and music.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, it's a good quote, yes, the accurate. And look, yeah,
all of my friends that were better than, not as
good as for light years better than in terms of players, Like,
it's really interesting what their kids are like. Almost all
of them. The kids are just amazing kids. Some of
them are spoiled brats, most of them are like amazing kids,
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you know, and you always want to send your kid
to a better school than Like I went to public schools.
You know, my first three years of education in California
K through three, I was it was at a school
that was bilingual, and it was not It was not
a great school. So I had to go. I had
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to go up levels for math and for English classes
and until I went to a different program like four
through six and then high school. I went to a
public school. So I didn't want my school. There was
a big shooting on the tennis courts during my senior year, Like,
you don't want that for your kid, right, You want
to On the other hand, when you go to a
school of affluence, there's all kinds of other issues. And
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everyone I know who's quote unquote made it on some
level financially, they all like, how do you get your
kid to be as wanted as bad as we wanted it?
And we wanted it because whether it was real or imagine,
we thought this was our only way to get it
to get out. Honestly, Like, I'll tell you another part
to it, and you tell me if you guys, tell
me if I'm crazy A motivator for many kids, And
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I would say myself included right is you'd watch a
college game be like, man, don't you want to be
on TV? Don't you want to be somebody? It wasn't
the money. It was I love the sports, I love competing,
and you could become somebody. And I became somebody because
of it. But now you can become somebody just commenting
on other people on your phone without ever leaving your home.
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I don't know who's in the Phase clan, but my
son does. He can name everybody in Phase clan.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Who.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There's also something that migos right, obviously they lost a
take off?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What died?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's takeoff right, rip to takeoff. They're apparently arguing about
who's better in basketball when he got shot, always a
smart reason for an argument. But there's another group. I'll
have to tell. I'll text him he's home sick that
he's like, oh Dad, you don't know about the Fox
group or something like that. Here's all the people that
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are in it. I like all the rappers that are
in it. The point is like, you don't actually have
to accomplish anything. You can just find ways know the algorithm,
have a YouTube page and comment on people that have
accomplished things, and that is your that could be your startup.
So we've taken away the the energy some kids have
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to win financially. We've taken away that some have to
make it in terms of into a broader platform where
you can become a star outside of your chosen field.
And we have all these talented kids that have been talented,
have been revered, have been on top ten lists, top
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one hundred lists, and getting paid at a lower level.
Now they get to the NFL where they made it,
but in many ways, their locker rooms, stadiums, and some
even their salaries were better at the college level. I
just think it's a fascinating experience, experiment into what will
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life look like now that we have players that have
been in college when they went through COVID and then
they went through you know, all this online stuff which
keeps people away from each other, which makes them it
and the cell phones make it harder to have them
have regular discussions with each other. And then you threw
it throw in the fact that they're already famous and
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they're already wealthy and they don't need it. Hard times
create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times
create week Ben and week Ben create hard times. It's
going to be interesting to see if that quote proves
accurate as this year's draft class matriculates into the NFL.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Hey, Doug, next time your son forgets his shoes, yeah,
just remind him that Jim Thorpe won two gold medals
after he fished a mismatched pair of shoes out of
the trash.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Say you can do that, Tucson.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe. You think Jim Thorpe, when he
chose Syracuse worried about what the nil was going to be.
I don't know. I don't know. You only knew nil
as nil. Caitlin Clark simfer. Was it twenty eight million? There?
Jay stew Is that it twenty eight million over eight years,
or could be. It's also says it could be worth
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up to eight twenty eight million dollars. We have no
idea the actual value of it. My guess is some
of it's time to tied to sales. My other guess
is going to be that they'll probably put it in
a really, really good shoe so that they can sell
it like this. The Sabrina, how do you pronounce it?
They're anscue you, escue you Escue.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yes, it's like a why en Escue?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yep. Okay, her shoes are crazy popular, but really, in truth,
I believe those are actually the Kyries, and so when
they stop doing business with Kyrie, they just move those
over to hers, and they made them the team shoe,
so it's in play the sales, but it's a gigantic
success as a shoe, so it could be up to
twenty eight million. That's a lot of money. So do
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we still think Nike's racist because they don't have a
black woman with her own shoe yet like basketball play women,
because that's what social media thought right.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That to me is the most interesting part of this
entire thing. I don't care about the shoe, what it
looks like. I don't even care about how much she makes.
I do like the fact that in the wake of
this being reported last week, someone put out a news
report I think it was a sporting news and they
had three pictures and all three women that have signature
shoes from I think Puma, Adidas, and Nike are white,
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And for some reason that means that Nike is against
black people.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, even though Nike is synonymous with Tiger Woods, I
know they're not in business anymore, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams,
Venus Williams, as well Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick, Yeah, I
just I will tell you this for the the I
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use the term mob because it is it becomes like
a Twitter mob mob mentality sort of thing. Not the mob,
not the Italian a and not that mob, but to
the Twitter mob out there. The point is this actually
makes a great point, which is it is never enough.
There's no amount that will ever be enough. You have
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to if you want in on that line of thinking,
it has to be the first thing you think of
every day and every night before you go to bed.
And no one decision can be made without taking that
into account. Right, And I listen, I understand if we
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go back sixty seventy and some place even forty years ago,
there are parts of society which it's disgraceful how they
treated people who if their skin wasn't white. But we
have gotten to a point where there is that It's like,
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how many times can you take out past vengeance on
every white human being? Especially when a corporation like do
they have their own issues with how the clothing and
shoes are made overseas, sure, okay, but in an effort
to whether it's cover up for or make good on.
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I mean, remember, this is an organ based company that
has supported every different part of women's rights, you know
women's rights or or even you know, minority hiring practices whatever.
Like literally they have Nike is not someone who anyone's
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ever pointed at as going like hey, man, like what's
going on with Nike? And this is like the most
obvious signing ever ever, ever, And I believe and again
this is based upon reading. I don't know this from
firsthand knowledge, like having talked to an agent about it.
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But the three players to have a signature shoe, right,
one is Sabrina, one is Caitlin Clark. Who's the other
one it's what's her name that played at Yukon, won
four national titles, right, Brianna Stewart Is that Brianna Storret. Yeah,
Brita Stewart I think has a shoe with Puma. And
the reason she has a shoe with Puma was Nike
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wasn't going to give her a signature shoe, so she left.
Because here's a weird thing about Nike. They like to
make money and the other part that's really interesting is
how do you say, Jah Wilson, Asia Asia Wilson, Asia Wilson.
Asia Wilson doesn't have her own shoe, but she had
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her own shoe kind of colored design on a shoe
that's been out there. What does that feel like? That
feels like dipping the toe into Hey, let's just see
how popular she is. Are you guys familiar with the
cactus jack shoes at all? I am not anybody, because
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Travis Scott has his own shoes, right, but their version
of Nikes and the reason that he has his own
version of Nikes that are tailor made and specifically and
they are up to one thousand dollars a pair. Do
you know why? Because they sell? Okay, because they sell
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and we talked about this Monday, or we talked about
this last week, and we'll talk about it forever. Right.
If Nike can sell Asia Wilson's shoes and get a
return and and increase on shoe sales that I think
I think twelve percent is their minimum at twelve percent
per year, they will design her shoes because that covers
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all the marketing, the R and D, everything that takes place.
If they don't, they won't. We do this in every
other business. It's like, why did the Longhorn Network fail?
You know why Longhn network fail? Well, they did a
study and the study showed that the Big twelve did
not have enough people to watch their games on TV.
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They couldn't form a network. And the research showed that
the only two brands in that league that could together
form a network where Texas and Texas A and M
well A and M left and went to the SEC.
So Texas tried to have one by themselves and guess
what did It failed? And the same thing happened with
the Pac twelve. That's why they had all those dumb
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regional networks because everyone said, like, this won't work as
one network. There's just not enough people that care enough
about all the Olympic sports in the football and guess what.
It worked for a period of time, but it didn't
generate enough buzz and enough money and that's why it's
going away. Here's the biggest problem. We have non business
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people making trying to say that businesses are making decisions
about something that has nothing to do with business.
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Antonio Daniels joins us. Of course, he played thirteen years
in the league. He's a member of the Spurs NBA
champion team in ninety nine. Of course, he's a Coloradus
for the Pelicans, and the Pels lost Game one, great game,
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well played, close game. They lose to the Oklahoma City Thunder,
and Tone joins us here in the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. What's it likely we see Zion
in the series?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I have no idea. I mean, obviously, two weeks from
the injury would be May first, right, And he spoke
to the media for the first time today, and he
has to test that he has to pass. So two
weeks from reevaluation, right, simply reevaluation would be May first,
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And I'm unsure, but we know how this works. You know,
there's if by some chance he gets clear, there there
are tests that he has to pass. You know, there's
a ramp up that has to happen. So I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know, it feels like again outside, it feels like
you get kind of one chance at a road win, right,
you get one chance. The Lakers sort of had a
chance the game one. Game two had a legit shot.
I don't know if the Sons have a shot in
Game two. They definitely didn't in Game one. What about
the Pels? How likely are we to see as competitive
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a game too, as we were in Game one.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
The thing is, there's not a team in this league, Doug,
that has more road wins than the Pelicans do. That's
where they have sales all year. And I can't even
explain to you why, because usually younger teams tend to
play better at home, but this Pelicans team, it was
almost an anomaly. They're younger, a little more inexperienced, so
to speak, but they played better on the road. They
had the best road record, the most road wins in
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the league this year. So I mean leading up to
that game on Sunday, leading up to the game on Sunday,
they had won six previous road games. They won their
last six row games. That would have been the second
time this year they have won seven road games in
a row. So I have confidence in the team on
the road. I have a lot of confidence in the
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team on the road for whatever reason, a reason I
can't explain, and they have an issue explaining they played
better on the road this year than they have. They
performed better on the road this year than they have
at home.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I thought, and like, you've been on a championship team, right,
And so the questions about the Thunder we sort of
had answered in Game one because at the end of
the day, no matter what everybody else does in the
regular season, and Shay's really your your guy to carry
you in the postseason. And though he hit you know,
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his two big shots, you know he's still he's not
a three point shooter. And it doesn't feel like they
have anybody else who can create for himself and create
for others. Am I am I missing? That is that
is an unfair determination to make based upon one game
played in playoffs.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Here's my thing. I don't like making determinations on one
game anyway. This is always a We had this conversation
on My Tyris XIM show yesterday. It's always funny to
me too. During this time of the year, people are
swayed so easily by one performance, by one game. Like
there's different interviews that I've done where somebody will pick
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a team prior to the interview and after one game
they're ready to switch what they said after one game.
And here's the thing. When you're on the road, when
you're the road team, even though there hasn't been a
road victory yet in these playoffs, you're only going for
a split. Yeah, it's a blessing win both. That's very rare.
But no matter how bad you play in game one,
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think about how bad Dallas looked in game one, Think
about how bad Phoenix looked in game one. If Dallas
wins in game two, if Phoenix wins in game two,
that's the sole purpose of going on a road court.
You stolen back on court. So for me, it's I
don't like making determinations on because things the narrative switches
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so quick, Doug, It switches so quickly, So we say
things like, well, I think I've seen all I need
to see from the thunder lo and behold something happens
where they lose three games in a row. Then then
the thought processes, ah, well, I knew they were too
young to win, So the narratives changed too much, And
for me, I kind of like to sit back and
watch things play themselves out.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, what about the Mavericks. How fixable were their issues
from game one?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
For me, it was weird. For me. That was the
most disappointing performance for me, just because I felt like Dallas, honestly,
with the most dangerous Western Conference team coming into the playoffs.
By the way they were playing, they were extremely dangerous
when you have Kyrie and Luca, and they wanted to
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trade that line by getting Daniel Gafferd. They upgraded PJ.
Washington from Grant Williams. They upgraded to Daniel Gafferd and
Dereck Lively as opposed to MAXI Cleband Dwhite pal They've upgraded,
and then to go out in the game of that
magnitude and then say after the game, well, Kawhi Leonard
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wasn't playing, so we let our guard down. They came
out with zero energy, zero energy, which was surprising to me.
But it was also surprising to me to watch the
Dallas Maverick at we have home court like they did.
It was almost like there's a I don't know if
you want to call it organizational confidence or organizational arrogance
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that we don't need home court. We don't need home
court to beat the LA Clippers, because throughout the course
of the regular season they had an opportunity to secure
home court and they chose not to. So then for
them to come out in Game one and play with
that little amount of energy with disappointing and somewhat surprising
to me.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Doug Antonio Daniels joining us, of course, he's the he's
the lead analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans. He's got
his own show covering the NBA on Serious XM. And then,
of course he played thirteen years in the league, was
the NBA champion with the Spurs. He join us in
the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
you talked about disappointment, for instance, I mean, we thought
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that the Heat would give us some fight. Of course,
Jimmy Butler's hurt, it doesn't appear to be a fight.
But give me your thoughts on what we've seen from
the Celtics so far in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I think we've seen exactly who we thought the Celtics were.
And this is no disrespect to the Miami Heat, but
when you don't have Jimmy Butler and when you don't
have Terry Rosier, it's a daunting cask, it's a daunting cast.
And they did show fight. They did show fight, honestly,
even though there were times where the game looked completely
out of hand. Demimi Heat will never stop to playing.
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And there was a point in that fourth quarter where
they actually cut the lead down and Boston had to
put their starters back in the game. I think Boston.
For me, it's Clearcut the best team in the Eastern Conference.
Clearkcut the best team, and they have been throughout the
course of the seasons. And what helps Boston is the
fact that Giannis isn't healthy in Milwaukee, Joel Embie's not
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healthy in Philadelphia, Julius Randall's not president in New York.
So it's it's and I mean this was because this
is this isn't Boston's fault. This is not their fault.
You play whoever is in front of you. But I
don't want to say they had a have a easier,
easy road, but they have a much easier road than
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the East than any team does coming out of the West.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I would totally agree Sixers lose a game up five
at the freezing line, chance to make make at six
complaints about the officiating. As a guy who's been in
those games in those situations, what did you see?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Okay? Okay, I'm a firm believer, Doug, that two things
can be true at the same time. Was there a
miscall at the end of the game. There was, But
did the Philadelphia seventy six Ers do what they could
have done to prevent that call from impacting the outcome.
They didn't. Kyle Lowry split two free throws. And here's
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my biggest issue with the game yesterday. When that ball
goes through Jalen Brunton gets that kind bounce from that corner,
why not call a timeout when the ball goes through
in advance the basketball? That's that's my question. But whyn't
wait for Listen, Doug, you've been in this position before,
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You've been in this position numerous times. Where's the worst
place to inbound the basketball at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Underneath the basket if you don't have a plan.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Right into dat Man's corner, into dat Man's corner, so
you basically put terse Maxie in a position where he's
being double teamed, and he's also had the sideline and
the baseline as a defender. You have an opportunity to
prevent all of that the moment that ball goes through,
call timeout, Like, why be apprehensive about calling a timeout
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in that you could call a timeout in advance to basketball.
Now you come to the side, you script up and
out of bounds play. Now we're not even talking about
the officiating. We're not even talking about the fact that
Terse Maxie's jersey got held or that Josh Hart knocked
him off of his spot. We're not even having that discussion.
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So two things can be true at the same time.
Did the officials myths two calls at the end of
the game yet? But did the Philadelphia seventy six ers
do all that they could have done to prevent those
myths calls from impacting the outcome? I don't think they did.
That's my issues the officials or not why the New
York Knicks won that game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
He's Antonio Daniels. Of course, if you enjoy him, you
can hear him on Serious XM or check him out
when he calls the Pelicans game, telling you the best man.
Really appreciate you, join us for sure, appreciate you, all right.
Antonio Dani's played thirteen years in the NBA, member of
that Spurs championship team in ninety nine. I'll add to this.
I don't agree actually with the now part of it
is again, I am playing the NBA as much I did.
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I played NBA rules, play international rules, and I know
you can advance the ball, getting the ball in bounds
when you have the full court and you can run
the baseline. On a made shot, you can run up
and now the baseline, that's absolutely I think that's the
best place to get in. Now he's talking about the
what did he call it? The what corner of the
dead man's corner that's when you throw it in. Dead
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Man's corner is actually right in front of if you're
taking the ball at you don't take the ball out
of underneath the basket. You know why Jase do when
I don't, Because there have been times in which guys
go to throw a baseball pass and they hit the backboard.
If you hit the back of the backboard, it's out
of bounds. So you're taught to never take the ball
out of out of bounds anything. So dead man's corner,
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you're off to a side just to the side of
the hoop. That side of the court is where you're
not supposed to throw the ball into because the guy
guarding you can then turn and double team the ball
and there's no space to get the ball back to you.
But there's a million different inbounds options. I just thought,
I thought, I agree that Nick Nurse did a bad job,
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but they should have a set inbounds play or series
of them to get the ball in bounds. And once
you do, you hold the ball and you get fouled,
or you have easy options. And if Joelan beads a
good free throw sh to which he is, that should
be the number one guy you get the ball to
because he's the biggest target. But all these things you
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us you usually learn growing up. That's like aau inbounds,
one on one. Just get it, get open and get
the ball.
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the Bucks the what's.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Your level of the conference in the Bucks?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I think tonight is going to be much more difficult.
I would not be shocked if at the end of
the night, that series is tied up at one apiece.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You just heard it. He called for an upset tonight
with the Bucks are going to lose at home. Dan
byer Is, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
That's all right, Hey, it's how I feel it could
play out. I think they can win one in Indianapolis,
so it's not over. But Indiana for at least what
they did in the second half. Again, Dame didn't score
in that second half.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Sure, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Think that there could be some be some carry over there.
Kawhi Leonard questionable tonight for the Clippers. Nikola Jokic has
been great for the Denver Nuggets, but things aren't great
within his family. The NBA has confirmed it's looking into
an alleged altercation between one of Jokich's brother and a
fan at ball Arena shortly after the Nuggets won last
night against the Lakers. The videos shows one of the
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brothers punching a fan or throwing a punch in a
row below him. In that video. Law enforcement authorities also
investigating the matter.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
As impressed whoever that guy was. He took a punch
from a Yokich brother and was almost fine, but seem fine, right, Yeah,
you take a straight right from a Jokich brother, you'd
think like, Okay, I want, I'm gonna get paid, but two,
I'm gonna go to the hospital get checked out a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He ESPN put a picture up on their article and
I quote retweeted it that the picture they used he
looked photoshopped in the picture because he was so big.
It was like he was sitting in the stand and
it just didn't it didn't match up. But so the
NBA and law enforcement officials are looking into that. One
other point, Doug bet online has been taking data geotagged
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x data as they call it, finding out who America
is rooting for in the NBA playoffs. The Lakers lead
amongst these sixteen teams with nine states favoring the Lakers
to win. The Nuggets and Celtics are next with six
states that those states want those teams to win, according
to the data tracked by bet online. So seeing you know,
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if you see the hashtag Lakes show, they will analyze that.
Over one hundred and thirty thousand tweets were tracked, Lakers
had the most with nine, Nuggets and Celtics. As I
mentioned next day, at six states the Mavericks the least amount.
Only one state wanting the Mavericks to win it all,
and that would be the state of Texas. All right
now to the NFL. The NFL Network says the Washington
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Commanders have received calls about the second overall pick, but
right now, Adam Peters and crew willing to stay at
number two to likely grab their quarterback. But the report
says the Raiders were one of the teams to call
Washington about a deal.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Tom Klesco, trying to be trader, Tom, Yeah, what do
you know about that? They do need a call. I mean,
I do think they need a quarterback, and they put
themselves a position. When you have Gardner Minshew you put
yourself into and you have an O'Connell who people like
in the building. You put yourself position though to have
Gardner Minshew take over and feel good if you're going
to have a developmental prospense. So I don't know. I'm
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sure they like Jayden Jane Daniels. I think that would
be their guy.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Jerry Jones speaking today on the Cowboys draft, but also
talking about Dak Prescott, who they're going to let it
play out the final year of his contract.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We'd like to say some more action. It's called option.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I've spent my life being an option quarterback. It'd be
madness not to know that the contracts are ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I want to see a few more cards play right
off Jason Stewart's alley. That's perfect, right if you are
cards played like, I'm not gonna until I see the river.
Right until I see the river, don't let me? Is
that right? Was that the river lost card?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
See? You can go all in with cards to play,
but the the problem is you got to be all
in first.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, great about what were agency? All in? All in?
That from Jerry today. So Jerry get out there and pressed.
Jerry doesn't play cards right right? Apparently it's called Texas.
Hold him.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
He should know the game.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
He's an option quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
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We'll get to Kaitlin Clark signing a twenty eight million
dollars deal with Nike and what I'm sure will come
out of that conversation. But I did want to talk
about this Kayleb Williams thing because the quotes about Kayleb Williams,
so many of them are man is he confident? Man
is he arrogant? Man is the act entitled? And some
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of it does revolve around anil. Have you ever heard
this quote before? Hard times create strong men. Strong men
create good times. Good times create weak men, and weak
men create hard times. Has ever heard that? So everybody
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I know apparently grew up poor. How do I know that?
Ask anybody? Oh, I grew up poor?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Really?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah? Yeah? I walked barefoot uphill to school, uphill home
writers uphill both ways. It's really a hard route to
go to you ask anybody. No one goes like, yeah,
I kind of grew up like upper middle class, Like
we belong to a country club.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
My dad had a good job, My mom had a
good job. Nobody's in trouble with love. Everyone's like dude,
My mom and dad before they got divorced, they fired
weaponry at each other, the knives across. And then we
lived in the toughest part of town, and nobody spoke
English or Spanish or French. It was all everybody spoke
to Gibberish, you know, like you name it. There is
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some form of tough upbringing that we all had and
we want to prove. I think by saying that that
we're tougher than this generation, it does stand to reason.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's like, I give you an example. My son last
Wednesday night, I'm take him to basketball practice and the
basketball workout. It's only like fifteen minutes away, but at
that time of night, it takes like forty five minutes
to get there. So we get there and we had
a little miscommunication about his basketball bag. He asked if
I had his bag, and I was like, yeah, I
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picked you up from school. We went and got something
to eat, we hung out a little bit, and then
we went to your basketball practice. I didn't know he
didn't bring his basketball back to school, so we didn't
have his shoes. So he's like, hey, could you just
go over to Dixon buy me a pair? Like think
about saying that to your parents, Like, hey, I forgot
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my shoes for a practice, can you just go buy
me a pair. Now, the reality is he's growing like
a weed, so he always goes out of his shoes.
He did kind of need like a practice pair. They're
not like crazy expenses like he needs like the nicest
or best or whatever. And we did drive forty five
minutes one way, it's thirty five minutes back, Like we're
really going to go there and not and just sit
there and not practice. That seems very as opposed to
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I can go get a pair of shoes and in
ten minutes he can be practicing. Right, But think about
how our parents would respond to that, right, Like do
you remember when you went shopping for shoes with your
folks and trying to talk them into buying a you know,
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the the nicest sneakers and then you would do you
wear them home? Right? Do you wear them home? And
then you put the old sneakers in the into the box.
I bring this up because the question about Kayleb Williams
and the questions about these players they have, by and large,
very few of them will have played. This is Marvin
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Harrison played at one school, Kayleb Williams at two. Most
of these guys have played at one or two schools.
But this is the last year or two that you're
gonna have that you're gonna start to have a litany
of three four school guys. Why is that important? Well,
if you haven't been in one place for more than
a year or two years. You don't know anything about
relationship building and culture building. You haven't been through the
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tough times. Now, if a kid goes to a school
during his freshman year and he doesn't play well, then
he leaves and goes to another program where he can
play immediately correct, So you haven't done the I was
a backup for two years, then a spot starter, then
bec came an All league guy, and now I got
a chance to make some money. Like, they haven't been
through that. They haven't been through the hard times, which
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creates strong men, and then the strong men create the
good times. They've been in the good times, which create
the weak men, and weak men create hard times. This
is a real thing. There was the Josh Rosen. When
Josh Rosen was drafted. You know, there was a lot
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of Josh Rosen in the personality. Both his parents were
Ivy League educated, and the thought was that Josh Rosen
because one of his parents I believe is some sort
of brain doctor. Like the second he gets concussion, his
mom's going to come in and go like, what are
we doing? Shut this thing down. We got plenty of money.
We don't need it. That turned out Josh Rosen wasn't
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good enough to hang out and be in the league
long enough. But again, the reality is, or the perception
which becomes the reality, is that Josh Rosen, because he
came from affluence, because his parents were educated, because he
was educated, he didn't really need football. So if the
going got tough, he would get going. That's the same
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thing we think about all these quarterbacks now.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yes, Sami a similar quote, Doug that it sort of
runs parallel to the weak men's strong men quote you
just shared. I actually learned this from me the John
Adams miniseries with Paul Jamonti. But John Quincy Adams, former president,
actually said this, I have to study politics and war
so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture,
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so their sons can study poetry, painting, and music.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, it's a good quote, yes, the accurate. And look, yeah,
all of my friends that were better than, not as
good as for light years better than in terms of players, Like,
it's really interesting what their kids are like. Almost all
of them. The kids are just amazing kids. Some of
them are spoiled brats, most of them are like amazing kids,
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you know, and you always want to send your kid
to a better school than Like I went to public schools.
You know, my first three years of education in California
K through three, I was it was at a school
that was bilingual, and it was not It was not
a great school. So I had to go. I had
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to go up levels for math and for English classes
and until I went to a different program like four
through six and then high school. I went to a
public school. So I didn't want my school. There was
a big shooting on the tennis courts during my senior year, Like,
you don't want that for your kid, right, You want
to On the other hand, when you go to a
school of affluence, there's all kinds of other issues. And
(07:51):
everyone I know who's quote unquote made it on some
level financially, they all like, how do you get your
kid to be as wanted as bad as we wanted it?
And we wanted it because whether it was real or imagine,
we thought this was our only way to get it
to get out. Honestly, Like, I'll tell you another part
to it, and you tell me if you guys, tell
me if I'm crazy A motivator for many kids, And
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I would say myself included right is you'd watch a
college game be like, man, don't you want to be
on TV? Don't you want to be somebody? It wasn't
the money. It was I love the sports, I love competing,
and you could become somebody. And I became somebody because
of it. But now you can become somebody just commenting
on other people on your phone without ever leaving your home.
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I don't know who's in the Phase clan, but my
son does. He can name everybody in Phase clan.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Who.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There's also something that migos right, obviously they lost a
take off?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What died?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's takeoff right, rip to takeoff. They're apparently arguing about
who's better in basketball when he got shot, always a
smart reason for an argument. But there's another group. I'll
have to tell. I'll text him he's home sick that
he's like, oh Dad, you don't know about the Fox
group or something like that. Here's all the people that
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are in it. I like all the rappers that are
in it. The point is like, you don't actually have
to accomplish anything. You can just find ways know the algorithm,
have a YouTube page and comment on people that have
accomplished things, and that is your that could be your startup.
So we've taken away the the energy some kids have
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to win financially. We've taken away that some have to
make it in terms of into a broader platform where
you can become a star outside of your chosen field.
And we have all these talented kids that have been talented,
have been revered, have been on top ten lists, top
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one hundred lists, and getting paid at a lower level.
Now they get to the NFL where they made it,
but in many ways, their locker rooms, stadiums, and some
even their salaries were better at the college level. I
just think it's a fascinating experience, experiment into what will
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life look like now that we have players that have
been in college when they went through COVID and then
they went through you know, all this online stuff which
keeps people away from each other, which makes them it
and the cell phones make it harder to have them
have regular discussions with each other. And then you threw
it throw in the fact that they're already famous and
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they're already wealthy and they don't need it. Hard times
create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times
create week Ben and week Ben create hard times. It's
going to be interesting to see if that quote proves
accurate as this year's draft class matriculates into the NFL.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Hey, Doug, next time your son forgets his shoes, yeah,
just remind him that Jim Thorpe won two gold medals
after he fished a mismatched pair of shoes out of
the trash.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Say you can do that, Tucson.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe. You think Jim Thorpe, when he
chose Syracuse worried about what the nil was going to be.
I don't know. I don't know. You only knew nil
as nil. Caitlin Clark simfer. Was it twenty eight million? There?
Jay stew Is that it twenty eight million over eight years,
or could be. It's also says it could be worth
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up to eight twenty eight million dollars. We have no
idea the actual value of it. My guess is some
of it's time to tied to sales. My other guess
is going to be that they'll probably put it in
a really, really good shoe so that they can sell
it like this. The Sabrina, how do you pronounce it?
They're anscue you, escue you Escue.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yes, it's like a why en Escue?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yep. Okay, her shoes are crazy popular, but really, in truth,
I believe those are actually the Kyries, and so when
they stop doing business with Kyrie, they just move those
over to hers, and they made them the team shoe,
so it's in play the sales, but it's a gigantic
success as a shoe, so it could be up to
twenty eight million. That's a lot of money. So do
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we still think Nike's racist because they don't have a
black woman with her own shoe yet like basketball play women,
because that's what social media thought right.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That to me is the most interesting part of this
entire thing. I don't care about the shoe, what it
looks like. I don't even care about how much she makes.
I do like the fact that in the wake of
this being reported last week, someone put out a news
report I think it was a sporting news and they
had three pictures and all three women that have signature
shoes from I think Puma, Adidas, and Nike are white,
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And for some reason that means that Nike is against
black people.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, even though Nike is synonymous with Tiger Woods, I
know they're not in business anymore, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams,
Venus Williams, as well Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick, Yeah, I
just I will tell you this for the the I
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use the term mob because it is it becomes like
a Twitter mob mob mentality sort of thing. Not the mob,
not the Italian a and not that mob, but to
the Twitter mob out there. The point is this actually
makes a great point, which is it is never enough.
There's no amount that will ever be enough. You have
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to if you want in on that line of thinking,
it has to be the first thing you think of
every day and every night before you go to bed.
And no one decision can be made without taking that
into account. Right, And I listen, I understand if we
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go back sixty seventy and some place even forty years ago,
there are parts of society which it's disgraceful how they
treated people who if their skin wasn't white. But we
have gotten to a point where there is that It's like,
(14:53):
how many times can you take out past vengeance on
every white human being? Especially when a corporation like do
they have their own issues with how the clothing and
shoes are made overseas, sure, okay, but in an effort
to whether it's cover up for or make good on.
(15:15):
I mean, remember, this is an organ based company that
has supported every different part of women's rights, you know
women's rights or or even you know, minority hiring practices whatever.
Like literally they have Nike is not someone who anyone's
(15:38):
ever pointed at as going like hey, man, like what's
going on with Nike? And this is like the most
obvious signing ever ever, ever, And I believe and again
this is based upon reading. I don't know this from
firsthand knowledge, like having talked to an agent about it.
(16:01):
But the three players to have a signature shoe, right,
one is Sabrina, one is Caitlin Clark. Who's the other
one it's what's her name that played at Yukon, won
four national titles, right, Brianna Stewart Is that Brianna Storret. Yeah,
Brita Stewart I think has a shoe with Puma. And
the reason she has a shoe with Puma was Nike
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wasn't going to give her a signature shoe, so she left.
Because here's a weird thing about Nike. They like to
make money and the other part that's really interesting is
how do you say, Jah Wilson, Asia Asia Wilson, Asia Wilson.
Asia Wilson doesn't have her own shoe, but she had
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her own shoe kind of colored design on a shoe
that's been out there. What does that feel like? That
feels like dipping the toe into Hey, let's just see
how popular she is. Are you guys familiar with the
cactus jack shoes at all? I am not anybody, because
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Travis Scott has his own shoes, right, but their version
of Nikes and the reason that he has his own
version of Nikes that are tailor made and specifically and
they are up to one thousand dollars a pair. Do
you know why? Because they sell? Okay, because they sell
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and we talked about this Monday, or we talked about
this last week, and we'll talk about it forever. Right.
If Nike can sell Asia Wilson's shoes and get a
return and and increase on shoe sales that I think
I think twelve percent is their minimum at twelve percent
per year, they will design her shoes because that covers
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all the marketing, the R and D, everything that takes place.
If they don't, they won't. We do this in every
other business. It's like, why did the Longhorn Network fail?
You know why Longhn network fail? Well, they did a
study and the study showed that the Big twelve did
not have enough people to watch their games on TV.
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They couldn't form a network. And the research showed that
the only two brands in that league that could together
form a network where Texas and Texas A and M
well A and M left and went to the SEC.
So Texas tried to have one by themselves and guess
what did It failed? And the same thing happened with
the Pac twelve. That's why they had all those dumb
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regional networks because everyone said, like, this won't work as
one network. There's just not enough people that care enough
about all the Olympic sports in the football and guess what.
It worked for a period of time, but it didn't
generate enough buzz and enough money and that's why it's
going away. Here's the biggest problem. We have non business
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people making trying to say that businesses are making decisions
about something that has nothing to do with business.
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Antonio Daniels joins us. Of course, he played thirteen years
in the league. He's a member of the Spurs NBA
champion team in ninety nine. Of course, he's a Coloradus
for the Pelicans, and the Pels lost Game one, great game,
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well played, close game. They lose to the Oklahoma City Thunder,
and Tone joins us here in the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. What's it likely we see Zion
in the series?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I have no idea. I mean, obviously, two weeks from
the injury would be May first, right, And he spoke
to the media for the first time today, and he
has to test that he has to pass. So two
weeks from reevaluation, right, simply reevaluation would be May first,
(21:09):
And I'm unsure, but we know how this works. You know,
there's if by some chance he gets clear, there there
are tests that he has to pass. You know, there's
a ramp up that has to happen. So I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know, it feels like again outside, it feels like
you get kind of one chance at a road win, right,
you get one chance. The Lakers sort of had a
chance the game one. Game two had a legit shot.
I don't know if the Sons have a shot in
Game two. They definitely didn't in Game one. What about
the Pels? How likely are we to see as competitive
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a game too, as we were in Game one.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
The thing is, there's not a team in this league, Doug,
that has more road wins than the Pelicans do. That's
where they have sales all year. And I can't even
explain to you why, because usually younger teams tend to
play better at home, but this Pelicans team, it was
almost an anomaly. They're younger, a little more inexperienced, so
to speak, but they played better on the road. They
had the best road record, the most road wins in
(22:12):
the league this year. So I mean leading up to
that game on Sunday, leading up to the game on Sunday,
they had won six previous road games. They won their
last six row games. That would have been the second
time this year they have won seven road games in
a row. So I have confidence in the team on
the road. I have a lot of confidence in the
(22:33):
team on the road for whatever reason, a reason I
can't explain, and they have an issue explaining they played
better on the road this year than they have. They
performed better on the road this year than they have
at home.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I thought, and like, you've been on a championship team, right,
And so the questions about the Thunder we sort of
had answered in Game one because at the end of
the day, no matter what everybody else does in the
regular season, and Shay's really your your guy to carry
you in the postseason. And though he hit you know,
(23:06):
his two big shots, you know he's still he's not
a three point shooter. And it doesn't feel like they
have anybody else who can create for himself and create
for others. Am I am I missing? That is that
is an unfair determination to make based upon one game
played in playoffs.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Here's my thing. I don't like making determinations on one
game anyway. This is always a We had this conversation
on My Tyris XIM show yesterday. It's always funny to
me too. During this time of the year, people are
swayed so easily by one performance, by one game. Like
there's different interviews that I've done where somebody will pick
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a team prior to the interview and after one game
they're ready to switch what they said after one game.
And here's the thing. When you're on the road, when
you're the road team, even though there hasn't been a
road victory yet in these playoffs, you're only going for
a split. Yeah, it's a blessing win both. That's very rare.
But no matter how bad you play in game one,
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think about how bad Dallas looked in game one, Think
about how bad Phoenix looked in game one. If Dallas
wins in game two, if Phoenix wins in game two,
that's the sole purpose of going on a road court.
You stolen back on court. So for me, it's I
don't like making determinations on because things the narrative switches
(24:25):
so quick, Doug, It switches so quickly, So we say
things like, well, I think I've seen all I need
to see from the thunder lo and behold something happens
where they lose three games in a row. Then then
the thought processes, ah, well, I knew they were too
young to win, So the narratives changed too much, And
for me, I kind of like to sit back and
watch things play themselves out.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, what about the Mavericks. How fixable were their issues
from game one?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
For me, it was weird. For me. That was the
most disappointing performance for me, just because I felt like Dallas, honestly,
with the most dangerous Western Conference team coming into the playoffs.
By the way they were playing, they were extremely dangerous
when you have Kyrie and Luca, and they wanted to
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trade that line by getting Daniel Gafferd. They upgraded PJ.
Washington from Grant Williams. They upgraded to Daniel Gafferd and
Dereck Lively as opposed to MAXI Cleband Dwhite pal They've upgraded,
and then to go out in the game of that
magnitude and then say after the game, well, Kawhi Leonard
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wasn't playing, so we let our guard down. They came
out with zero energy, zero energy, which was surprising to me.
But it was also surprising to me to watch the
Dallas Maverick at we have home court like they did.
It was almost like there's a I don't know if
you want to call it organizational confidence or organizational arrogance
(25:54):
that we don't need home court. We don't need home
court to beat the LA Clippers, because throughout the course
of the regular season they had an opportunity to secure
home court and they chose not to. So then for
them to come out in Game one and play with
that little amount of energy with disappointing and somewhat surprising
to me.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Doug Antonio Daniels joining us, of course, he's the he's
the lead analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans. He's got
his own show covering the NBA on Serious XM. And then,
of course he played thirteen years in the league, was
the NBA champion with the Spurs. He join us in
the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
you talked about disappointment, for instance, I mean, we thought
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that the Heat would give us some fight. Of course,
Jimmy Butler's hurt, it doesn't appear to be a fight.
But give me your thoughts on what we've seen from
the Celtics so far in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I think we've seen exactly who we thought the Celtics were.
And this is no disrespect to the Miami Heat, but
when you don't have Jimmy Butler and when you don't
have Terry Rosier, it's a daunting cask, it's a daunting cast.
And they did show fight. They did show fight, honestly,
even though there were times where the game looked completely
out of hand. Demimi Heat will never stop to playing.
(27:07):
And there was a point in that fourth quarter where
they actually cut the lead down and Boston had to
put their starters back in the game. I think Boston.
For me, it's Clearcut the best team in the Eastern Conference.
Clearkcut the best team, and they have been throughout the
course of the seasons. And what helps Boston is the
fact that Giannis isn't healthy in Milwaukee, Joel Embie's not
(27:27):
healthy in Philadelphia, Julius Randall's not president in New York.
So it's it's and I mean this was because this
is this isn't Boston's fault. This is not their fault.
You play whoever is in front of you. But I
don't want to say they had a have a easier,
easy road, but they have a much easier road than
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the East than any team does coming out of the West.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I would totally agree Sixers lose a game up five
at the freezing line, chance to make make at six
complaints about the officiating. As a guy who's been in
those games in those situations, what did you see?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Okay? Okay, I'm a firm believer, Doug, that two things
can be true at the same time. Was there a
miscall at the end of the game. There was, But
did the Philadelphia seventy six Ers do what they could
have done to prevent that call from impacting the outcome.
They didn't. Kyle Lowry split two free throws. And here's
(28:31):
my biggest issue with the game yesterday. When that ball
goes through Jalen Brunton gets that kind bounce from that corner,
why not call a timeout when the ball goes through
in advance the basketball? That's that's my question. But whyn't
wait for Listen, Doug, you've been in this position before,
(28:51):
You've been in this position numerous times. Where's the worst
place to inbound the basketball at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Underneath the basket if you don't have a plan.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Right into dat Man's corner, into dat Man's corner, so
you basically put terse Maxie in a position where he's
being double teamed, and he's also had the sideline and
the baseline as a defender. You have an opportunity to
prevent all of that the moment that ball goes through,
call timeout, Like, why be apprehensive about calling a timeout
(29:24):
in that you could call a timeout in advance to basketball.
Now you come to the side, you script up and
out of bounds play. Now we're not even talking about
the officiating. We're not even talking about the fact that
Terse Maxie's jersey got held or that Josh Hart knocked
him off of his spot. We're not even having that discussion.
(29:45):
So two things can be true at the same time.
Did the officials myths two calls at the end of
the game yet? But did the Philadelphia seventy six ers
do all that they could have done to prevent those
myths calls from impacting the outcome? I don't think they did.
That's my issues the officials or not why the New
York Knicks won that game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
He's Antonio Daniels. Of course, if you enjoy him, you
can hear him on Serious XM or check him out
when he calls the Pelicans game, telling you the best man.
Really appreciate you, join us for sure, appreciate you, all right.
Antonio Dani's played thirteen years in the NBA, member of
that Spurs championship team in ninety nine. I'll add to this.
I don't agree actually with the now part of it
is again, I am playing the NBA as much I did.
(30:28):
I played NBA rules, play international rules, and I know
you can advance the ball, getting the ball in bounds
when you have the full court and you can run
the baseline. On a made shot, you can run up
and now the baseline, that's absolutely I think that's the
best place to get in. Now he's talking about the
what did he call it? The what corner of the
dead man's corner that's when you throw it in. Dead
(30:50):
Man's corner is actually right in front of if you're
taking the ball at you don't take the ball out
of underneath the basket. You know why Jase do when
I don't, Because there have been times in which guys
go to throw a baseball pass and they hit the backboard.
If you hit the back of the backboard, it's out
of bounds. So you're taught to never take the ball
out of out of bounds anything. So dead man's corner,
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you're off to a side just to the side of
the hoop. That side of the court is where you're
not supposed to throw the ball into because the guy
guarding you can then turn and double team the ball
and there's no space to get the ball back to you.
But there's a million different inbounds options. I just thought,
I thought, I agree that Nick Nurse did a bad job,
(31:32):
but they should have a set inbounds play or series
of them to get the ball in bounds. And once
you do, you hold the ball and you get fouled,
or you have easy options. And if Joelan beads a
good free throw sh to which he is, that should
be the number one guy you get the ball to
because he's the biggest target. But all these things you
(31:53):
us you usually learn growing up. That's like aau inbounds,
one on one. Just get it, get open and get
the ball.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
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Speaker 5 (32:29):
Doug News, just in jannisin Teta Kompo out tonight for
the Bucks the what's.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Your level of the conference in the Bucks?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I think tonight is going to be much more difficult.
I would not be shocked if at the end of
the night, that series is tied up at one apiece.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You just heard it. He called for an upset tonight
with the Bucks are going to lose at home. Dan
byer Is, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
That's all right, Hey, it's how I feel it could
play out. I think they can win one in Indianapolis,
so it's not over. But Indiana for at least what
they did in the second half. Again, Dame didn't score
in that second half.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Sure, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Think that there could be some be some carry over there.
Kawhi Leonard questionable tonight for the Clippers. Nikola Jokic has
been great for the Denver Nuggets, but things aren't great
within his family. The NBA has confirmed it's looking into
an alleged altercation between one of Jokich's brother and a
fan at ball Arena shortly after the Nuggets won last
night against the Lakers. The videos shows one of the
(33:26):
brothers punching a fan or throwing a punch in a
row below him. In that video. Law enforcement authorities also
investigating the matter.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
As impressed whoever that guy was. He took a punch
from a Yokich brother and was almost fine, but seem fine, right, Yeah,
you take a straight right from a Jokich brother, you'd
think like, Okay, I want, I'm gonna get paid, but two,
I'm gonna go to the hospital get checked out a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He ESPN put a picture up on their article and
I quote retweeted it that the picture they used he
looked photoshopped in the picture because he was so big.
It was like he was sitting in the stand and
it just didn't it didn't match up. But so the
NBA and law enforcement officials are looking into that. One
other point, Doug bet online has been taking data geotagged
(34:14):
x data as they call it, finding out who America
is rooting for in the NBA playoffs. The Lakers lead
amongst these sixteen teams with nine states favoring the Lakers
to win. The Nuggets and Celtics are next with six
states that those states want those teams to win, according
to the data tracked by bet online. So seeing you know,
(34:38):
if you see the hashtag Lakes show, they will analyze that.
Over one hundred and thirty thousand tweets were tracked, Lakers
had the most with nine, Nuggets and Celtics. As I
mentioned next day, at six states the Mavericks the least amount.
Only one state wanting the Mavericks to win it all,
and that would be the state of Texas. All right
now to the NFL. The NFL Network says the Washington
(35:01):
Commanders have received calls about the second overall pick, but
right now, Adam Peters and crew willing to stay at
number two to likely grab their quarterback. But the report
says the Raiders were one of the teams to call
Washington about a deal.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Tom Klesco, trying to be trader, Tom, Yeah, what do
you know about that? They do need a call. I mean,
I do think they need a quarterback, and they put
themselves a position. When you have Gardner Minshew you put
yourself into and you have an O'Connell who people like
in the building. You put yourself position though to have
Gardner Minshew take over and feel good if you're going
to have a developmental prospense. So I don't know. I'm
(35:41):
sure they like Jayden Jane Daniels. I think that would
be their guy.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Jerry Jones speaking today on the Cowboys draft, but also
talking about Dak Prescott, who they're going to let it
play out the final year of his contract.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We'd like to say some more action. It's called option.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I've spent my life being an option quarterback. It'd be
madness not to know that the contracts are ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I want to see a few more cards play right
off Jason Stewart's alley. That's perfect, right if you are
cards played like, I'm not gonna until I see the river.
Right until I see the river, don't let me? Is
that right? Was that the river lost card?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
See? You can go all in with cards to play,
but the the problem is you got to be all
in first.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, great about what were agency? All in? All in?
That from Jerry today. So Jerry get out there and pressed.
Jerry doesn't play cards right right? Apparently it's called Texas.
Hold him.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
He should know the game.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
He's an option quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Option quarterback. Don't give it to the full quarterback went
to Arkansas, now, not to Texas. Doug Gotlie Show, Fox
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