August 1, 2026 • 47 mins
Dan had absolutely no problem with LeBron James decision to take a minimum salary and chasing a ring with the Philadelphia 76ers. And he wonders exactly what was behind the San Francisco 49ers attempts to keep the details of HC Kyle Shanhan’s recent car accident under wraps. Hall of Fame hooper and basketball icon, Charles Barkley joins the show to weigh in on LeBron’s move to Philadelphia and the rest of the NBA offseason. Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield is at camp without a contract extension, and it sounds like the relationship is souring.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Charles Barkley, former sixer, didn't mince words. He was on
the Stephen A. Smith Show on Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Initial reaction upon here in the news that Lebron James
is going to Philly, Ah shocked because I want him
to go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I mean, he has no affiliation with the seventy six ers,
but the.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Number one knock on Lebron, Yo, man, you always stacked
in your team.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
He's stacked it in Miami, He's stacked it.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In Cleveland, He's stacked it in La Now he's stacking
it in Philly.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
He's always stacked his team.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I have no problem with what Lebron James did. None.
At this stage in your career, you can do whatever
you want. You want to go back home, just to
go back home now you do have a great chance
of winning with that lineup. If he wanted to go
back to Miami, because why not go to Miami. You
want to go to Philadelphia because you have the best
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chance to win. You've earned that right chasing rings. If
Jannis didn't want to go to Miami, he would have
told the Bucks, I don't want to go to Miami.
Why did he go to Miami? He probably thought he
had a better chance of winning there. If the Knicks
didn't win the title this year, I think Giannis would
be a New York Knick and Karl Anthony Towns wouldn't
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be there, or Lebron might be a New York Knick.
But I don't know. If you go, I have a
chance to decide where I want to go, let me
go to a worst situation. Who does that? You know
I'm thinking about going to the Nets. If he had
gone to the Nets, well, he's just gonna pad his stats.
Michael Jordan went to the Wizards. Why because he wanted
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to have part ownership of an NBA team. Is anybody
critical of Mike because he went to the Wizards. It
wasn't for basketball reasons. It was for business reasons, and
the business of winning another title is what Lebron is
all about. I have no problem with it. If he
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had gone to Golden State, we would have said, oh, okay,
Durant had to go there to win titles, You're gonna go.
It didn't matter if he had gone to Cleveland. I
think people would have been okay with it. Philly hadn't
been to Philly. They haven't won a title in over
three decades, haven't been to the finals since what two
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thousand and two thousand and one. I don't have a
problem with it chasing rings. We chastise him because he
doesn't have the rings that Mike has or Kobe has,
and now he wants to go get one more. He
took the minimum. There are quarterbacks in college making more
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money than Lebron James' salary with the Sixers, I'm okay
with that. You sacrificed. And yes, he's going to align
up up and it'll be similar to when he went
with Miami. It'll take a little while for them to
kind of feel each other out, understand what you do,
how you do it. When you do it, I can
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take over, you take over. But I'm not worried about
touches with Lebron. He already proved that with Luca in
Austin Reeves. I can figure this out. We marvel at
his basketball IQ. Let's give him credit for that basketball IQ.
He wants to win and also knows he's forty one.
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He also knows that he's got Tyrese Maxey, who was
wonderful and now you bring in Jaylen Brown. This doesn't
happen without an assist from the Celtics. Still mind boggling.
You trade one of the better players in the NBA
in your division. And I think July sixth, when Jalen
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Brown was traded to the seventy six ers is when
Lebron changed his mind. He wasn't going to Philly in
my opinion, here is his agent, Rich Paul.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
When did it start the scale start tipping toward Philly
like fifty five percent?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know, when it was like, you know what, I'm
leaning toward Philly or now it's more and more and more.
I think I think that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I mean the eyeball came after obviously the Detroit like
the Brown.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, to even be really really considered Max Kellerman on
there on the podcast, Yes July sixth. July sixth is
when all of this started to formulate. I think because
Lebron went okay, embiid, I can't prop him up, MAXI
and Edgecomb they're really good. This team isn't better than
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Miami's going to be, or Cleveland's going to be, or
Golden State's going to be. Now I get Jalen Brown.
Top five top ten player. I got something here, I
got it. I got a chance to win at least
one more title. The basketball world would explode if he
got to six titles. But it just feels like Lebron's
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doing it. Therefore there has to be a negative attitude.
What's the negative part of this? No, he's chasing titles. Okay,
that's what you play for. If he said, hey, I
want money, Oh don't you have enough? You made a
half a billion playing in the NBA salary wise, so
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he's not going to win no matter what. But you
have to accept that. If you're Lebron, you know, it's
not going to be popular. You know, people are always
going to have a negative slant on this. Well, Mike
never did this. Mike came back to get part ownership
of the Wizards. Great business decision. Lebron's chasing a title.
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I think that's admirable. If you look at he goes
to Cleveland, he doesn't win. Yeah, but he went back home.
He went to Miami. Oh you know what, maybe going
back feels bad about leaving them in the first place. Hey,
you know, I want to be a great story. Hey,
when you're old, you go retire in Miami. Philly. Wait
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a minute, he actually cares about winning. Wait a minute,
how dare him? Oh he knows nothing about Philadelphia. Okay,
remember the story that came out before he made the decision.
Lebron and his wife were touring schools in Philadelphia, Remember
that big story. He was there for a charity, I
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think thing. But I think they were like, hey, he's
looking at schools. Maybe he looked at those school systems
and now he's coming back because maybe his daughter can
go to school in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I loved it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thought it was great. I think it's great for the NBA.
The NBA was the big winner in my opinion. I
get Lebron at seven thirty Eastern TV primetime for everybody.
This is great. Schedule's gonna come out, Nick's sixers, probably
opening night Christmas, Lebron again, maybe against Golden State, maybe
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against Miami, maybe against the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And this is great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is this perfect for the NBA. So I loved it. Now, Okay,
do I appreciate Lebron more than the average fan or
media person, Yes? I do. Do I think Mike's the
best player I ever saw? Yes? But I can think both.
I mean, it's okay, to think both. How dare you?
I know it's okay? Oh yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
When I say I like both Michael Jordan and Lebron James,
people look at me like I'm a nuts like man,
I just like both of him.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What's wrong with Burger King and McDonald's. It's okay Burger
Donald burg Odonald, Lebron Jordan.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, it's okay. Best and worst of the weekend. What
you saw that you liked you didn't like? Eight seven
seven three DP show Operator Tyler's sitting by. He'll take
your phone calls. It was fun. It was fun just
talking basketball possibilities here and it still went back to
the Celtics. I know you got a couple of first
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round picks. I know you got a couple of second
round picks, but it was a salary dump. Like if
you would have said to the Sixers, how do you
get out from underneath James Harden Paul George And they
did it, And I truly believe now, once again, I
don't have any information on this. If Darius Garland was
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still on the Cavaliers and not James Harden, that's I
think Lebron would have gone to Cleveland now it would
have been close because I got Jalen Brown now, so
Lebron can kind of see this. And he doesn't have
to be the lead singer. He can be the bass player,
so some nights he can play the tambourine if he
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wants to. He doesn't have to be the lead singer here.
And I think Cleveland he could have done that. And
Darius Garland I like, and Donovan Mitchell resigns and you
got bigs up front. I understood that, But having James Harden,
that's a non starter for me. If I'm trying to
win a championship Miami, I don't know what the roster
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is going to look like. Pat Riley always does a
wonderful job in filling out that roster. Philly's ready to
win now. And I got the odds. These are the
updated odds from DraftKings, just got them this morning. Spurs
and Thunder still the big favorites to win the title
next year. Sixers in the Knicks are tied at plus
nine hundred, Spurs, Thunder plus two seventy, then the Celtics
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plus thirteen hundred. But it was fun, you know, big surprise,
even when Pauli said it I was like, man, the
way he's saying it, I'm going to be surprised. And
then I thought, is it golden state? Because I never
had golden State in the picture. I know there were
people host who had that last week and they're like,
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I'm hearing, I'm hearing. There was no information. So whoever
you were hearing it from, you weren't hearing it from
the people who were going to make the decision. And
Lebron kept it in his head or i'm sure his house,
but he's not letting it out. But I think July
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sixth is when Lebron went, wait a minute, let me
look at that lineup. I wouldn't be surprised if Lebron
didn't have a whiteboard with all the lineups, starting lineup, roster,
how much money like a GM would and said that
gives me the best chance. Now it looks like he'll
play one, and he had that other option, so he
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might look at this as a two year window. If
he wins the time this year, let's just do that
bigger picture. Now he's got five, there is no way
he's retiring without one more shot to get six. We'll
come up with the pole question. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Going back to that trade with Jalen Brown from the
Celtics to the Sixers. Those draft picks that the Celtics
are getting, It's a twenty twenty eight first round pick,
so it doesn't help them for two more years. And
you would think that the Sixers are going to be
really good, so that pick might be the twenty sixth
pick of the draft.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean, even if you don't like Jalen Brown, or
you didn't like him in the locker room, or Jason Tatum,
or send him to Sacramento, send him to Phoenix, send
him somewhere. The only way he can hurt me is
in the finals. But a salary dump. I understand it.
(11:50):
We said it at the time. You're gonna have two guys.
You're gonna be really top heavy. But they are good.
They can get you to the Eastern Finals, they can
get you to the the NBA Finals, they can help
you win a title. But still mind boggling out of
all of this, you trade him to the Sixers. Well,
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you now get to see Jalen Brown and you get
to see Lebron James because you sent Jayleen Brown to
the seventy six Ers. Brad Stevens does a wonderful job.
I just maybe I'm not smart enough to understand how
brilliant this move was.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yes, Ton, is there even a small part where Lebron's like,
been there, done that, winning in Miami and Cleveland, or
it's strictly like you just gope he would have gone
back if he thought Cleveland Miami had a little bit
better a chance than Philly.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think he wanted to go where he could win.
That's what this came down to, plain and simple. Family.
His wife and daughter stay in La. He comes out
here for business. Broni's still going to be with the Lakers.
This is a business trip. He's on a business trip
this entire season. His business is to win another championship.
I have no problem rings. If anything, he could have
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kept it really easy, simple and retired in a nice
polite way, and everybody would have given him a round
of applause and say thanks, it was great seeing you.
You're know, Michael Jordan, he chose. He chose to go
to a place he hadn't been, and he knows the
expectations are through the roof, so he had attacked that.
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I loved it. I think it's great and it's great
for the NBA and great for you. I can't wait
for this opening night they play the NIXT, they beat
the nixt seventy wins, question mark or if they lose. Yeah,
I knew this was going to be a failure. I
knew it can't sharing the ball and let me see
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how you're playing in April and May and June, because
it's going to be rough at times, it'll be ugly
at time times. But if they get magic like they
did late in the season when Embiid started to play
really well and MAXI and all of a sudden, you go,
Philadelphia is gonna beat the Celtics, and now you get
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Lebron and you get a good Lebron with those kind
of glimpses, those hints of being great again. I wouldn't
be surprised if he's top five and assists this year
because he'll want to. He led the NBA and assists before.
If he wants to do it, he can still do it. Yes, Marvin, I.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Think the underrated part is I think he's gonna help
on the boards. I think he's gonna average eight or
nine rebounds, where I think that's such an underrated part
where It's like, man, he's gonna help on the glass.
I think he's gonna play the five, play some small ball. Okay,
I'm excited. All right, Well we were kind of on
a roll there and you gave me rebounds here. I mean,
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what is this, Angel Reese? So watch it happens if
they lose a game, Oh man, if they have somebody
on the glass, it always comes down to something small.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, has Angel re scored yet in the All Star Nice?
Be nice?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
She was the wrong person to be in that kind
of All Star game where they're athletically talented on the
offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Yes, Paul, all Star games in all sports but basketball.
They're not conducive to power forwards like LaMarcus Aldridge isn't
running the show at an All Star game, and he
was a good player, doesn't get the ball enough.
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
Charles Barkley Hall of Famer inside the NBA. How's your
summer going.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I played golf favorite day. I have a great day
on summer. I don't do anything. I got to stay
off TV. I'm all to do on this because of you.
I try to stay off TV. I play golf every day.
I don't want people to get sick of me. So
I do like one thing every two or three weeks,
but the rest of the time, I'm playing golf every day.
I'm taking the day off because it's raining. So I'm
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gonna go get a Manny Petty and a massage because
it's raining like hell here in Philadelphia all day.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That's my day to day, Dan, No, that's not a
bad day.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Oh, I'm going as soon as I hang out with you,
I'm gonna go get a Manny Petty. I'm gonna go
get a massage, and then I'm gonna chill and I'm
gonna back on the golf course tomorrow. They rain like
hell yesterday and today, so I'm back on the golf
course tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right. Well, maybe you should have stayed in Arizona
where you could have been able to play, or is
it too hot out there for you?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Hold up, there's like one hundred and twenty degrees every
day right now. It's brutal.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So how's the morale in Philadelphia here?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh, it's off the charge right now, Dan's The people
are going crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
They should be excited.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know, getting Lebron is a coup, so they're gonna
be favorites, probably in the East on paper. But man,
it is going crazy here. I mean because I think
it caught everybody by surprise, to be honest with even myself.
You know, I was hoping he went back to Cleveland.
But man, it is on fire here right now. Twenty
(18:16):
four to seven Lebron right now. Ever since the story
broke last.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Week, feels like you had a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I didn't have a problem with it. I want him
to go to Cleveland. He has no affiliation to Philly.
What's really funny. I guess the story broke yesterday that
he's not even gonna live in Philly. He's gonna live
in New York and helicopter back back there for practicing game.
So the city's kind of pissed right now. I was, like,
I told y'all, he didn't have no affiliation with Philly.
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That's why I was shocked he came here.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, I was. You know, it was so funny.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I was playing golf yesterday early and my phone starts
going crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
They're like, he believed this. I'm like, what, y'all just
got Lebron be happy. He's not even gonna live here.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
He's got to live in New York and take a
help helicopter in for practicing games.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Like, I just started laughing because you can't make this
stuff up.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why didn't you let him stay at your place?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's a condo, Dan, You know, I'm a firm belief
in the Hermet was rude. One house, one car. You
don't need more than one house, doesn't waste of money.
Don't waste your money on jewelry. I drive a Kia
and an Explorer. That's all you need. Brother, don't waste
your money on cars, your young dummies.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You were on with Steven A. Smith. That's why I
thought you had a problem that Lebron's always stacking his teams.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, that's been one of my credits. Well, most people
criticize him for that. He always stacks his team.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But what's wrong with wanting to build a team that
can win a championship? We're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, let's see, there you go. He didn't build a team.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He manu build a team in Los Angeles. They were
bad before he got there.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And he and his Agentcy forced them to trade for
Anthony Davis, who was ran by his group.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay, but he didn't he didn't go to a team
that was Oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He did. He's listen, Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Everybody in the league would have wanted Anthony Davis plus
specifically said he has to go to the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
That that's that's that's a fact, Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But you still have to pull off the train to
get him. They didn't say, oh, here you go.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
He would. He said he would only go to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He said he would like everybody wanted Anthony Davis, but
he's a clutch.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Said no, he could only go to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So it is what it is. It's a fair criticism. Yeah,
everybody wanted Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis specifically saying it because
of clutch, I will only go to the Lakers. So
you think that's naturally organic, No, that is stacking your team.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But that's Lebron's power. Okay, and it reterms that credit
that we want to play with him.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And we can't criticize it that we think it's unfair.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What's unfair about wanting to go better your life?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Like he no, no, no, no, no, you should You're not.
You shouldn't be guaranteed the championship. One of the reasons
Michael Jorde is to go. He got beat in the head.
He kept going, oh, you know what, I'm gonna get bigger, stronger.
That to me is the way I would like to
see it done. That's why my dirt nubisky.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
He's like, you know what, I'm not going anywhere. We
just gonna keep getting better. That's why Steph Courvey same thing.
They never He's like, you know what, we got a team.
They were not in the good in the beginning. Then
Clay got good, Draymond got good, igodala everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
So listen, we can disagree. I'm not mad at Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But I can you know, I'm not gonna do the
Stepford wife thing like all Lebron and his friends do,
like these guys on television now, Like, I don't want
to upset Lebron because I wanted him to talk to
me and I wanted him to do it interviews, Like
if you don't like that's then you know Lebron's a
great dude too. But the people around him and now
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guys on television, they're like Stefford wives. It's like you
have to say Lebron's the greatest ever, or like he
not gonna talk to you, and you you're commit treason. Fake,
Like I said, Lebron is the third best basketball greatest
basketball player I've ever seen. But when you're around them
Stepford wise that around Lebron and people on television are
like that. They want to be friends with him. Like
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I think me and me and Lebron, I think we're cool.
But I don't have to say he's the greatest basketball
player ever.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't. I mean, I don't think I'm committing treason.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I just did not. I don't have a problem if
he wanted to go to Philly. I think it's a
big risk, but it's his best chance to win a championship.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I stuid think if he went to Cals, they would
have had the best team in the East.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now they got James Harden. I don't think he wanted
to play with James Harden.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
He's hard not even on the team right now.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well, but they're they're they're talking to him about a contract.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Let me tell you something. We can disagree. I mean,
this is all that's we all have an opinion. I
thought of Lebron and went to the Cals, they would
have the best team in the East. That's just my
personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
If Darius Garland was there, I would say yes, not
James Harden.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Well, you don't have to play James as much as
Lebron is there. And also think about this, there are
a lot of questions about this seventy six team. Can
Lebron and Joel Embii stay healthy, That's a big question.
Lebron hasn't played the full season in five years, Joel embiid.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Ain't never played the full season. Those are fair questions.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And what's scary man one of the dark secrets nobody's
talking about. The Eastern Conference might be better than the
Western Conference right now. The Eastern Conference, Like I say,
can Lebron stay healthy, which he hasn't done in five years?
Can Joel stay healthy which he hasn't done ever? The
Eastern Conference has quietly become the better conference. I'm trying
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to think there's no team in the East that's bad.
There's not one single team in the East. You can
say it's bad. I mean, and can Joel and Lebron
stay healthy? Man telling you Dan, people aren't even talking
about because they look at OKC and the Spurs rightfully,
so they're head and shoulders. But the Knicks, Boston, Atlanta, Indiana, Orlando,
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the Wizards man the East.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
The only bad team is probably the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They are better.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Oh, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I think the chicag I said this, I think the
Chicago Bulls got the best rookie in the NBA. When
I was talking to coaches and general managers, which I
do and I always keep our conversations private because it's
a private conversation, they're like, who's you take the number
one pick?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Said Caleb Wilson. They're like, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I says, Hey, I like the Boston I like Peterson,
but the one guy who I think and like I said,
we're all kind of thinking about the future. There's no
player I would have taken before Caleb Wilson, not one
because the way his athletic ability. Now, like Peterson and Demonster,
they're probably better scores at this stage, but he can
(25:07):
learn how to shoot. And let me tell you something
from an athletic point where you can goud one, two,
three four. Ain't nobody more talented the Caleb Wilson period.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Talking to Charles Barkley, Hall of Famer, I'm still trying
to understand what the Celtics did and are doing. Are
the Celtics better now than they were a month ago?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Damn?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Let me tell you, men, you can go out and
get drunk all night long and we can wake up
the next day, and that still won't make no damn
sense to me. Whatever, And listen, what's okay? You don't
like Jalen Brown. I get that they clearly didn't, But
I'm not trading him to a team I got to
(25:49):
play five times a year and got the beat.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
In the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The Cubsters are not better, and I don't understand, Like
I say, Okay, you want to trade a player, I
have no problem with that. And Jalen's a hell of
a player. I'm not trading into my division. I'm trading
him out West more than anything. So I have no
idea what the Celtics are doing. And then you hear
(26:18):
people talk about the money Paul Gehn's making a lot
of money, so you can't say they didn't because they
about that. I heard I hear guys talking about, well
they didn't want to pay Jalen Brown.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'm like, Paul Georg's making fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
A year, but only for one more year, two more too.
There's an option, but well, he go, damn, she'll take
the option. Well, Jayleen, Jalen is you know you're locked
in for three more years, and Philly is going to
extend him as well. They're not trading for him and
then letting him go.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, so okay, but at that point they didn't know
they were going to get Lebron either. So that trade,
even though Jaylen Brown is a better player, you still
bought back one hundred million dollars for the next couple
of years. I think Jalen makes a little bit more.
But I didn't understand that trade whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Your guy Shack said he thinks Joe el Embiid's gonna
have a great year and he's gonna be the best
big man in the game.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well, what somebody gonna kill the joker.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Somebody kill the joker by now, listen, No, I think
the two winners in this trade are Maxie and MBU
in the trade and Lebron because.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
They are a better.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Team and Joel he's got to be the fourth best
player because Maxie and Brown are the two best players.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
They're the two best players on the team.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Lebron's the third best player if he's healthy, and he's
the proud of the guy who can play with Doctor Baltimore.
It's gonna be some growing pains with this team because
they are need the ball to be successful. But make
no doubt about it, Brown and Maxie are the two
best players on the team. Joelle just got to get
healthy and he can be the fourth best player on
(28:12):
the team. Now, that's gonna be an adjustment for him
because he's just gonna have to play defense and rebound
and he's gonna have to sacrifice. He probably gonna have
to sacrifice the most cause they're not gonna walk to
with them three thoroughbreads. They're not gonna walk the ball
up and down the court and let him post up.
He's gonna have to concentrate on defense and rebounding, so
(28:32):
he's gonna have to sacrifice the most. But the number
one thing he's got to do is get healthy, then
he's never played I mean, I'm not even sure I
shouldn't talk like that. I mean, I'm pretty sure he
hasn't played a full season in five or six years.
So the notion that he's going to be healthy, you're
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gonna have to wait and see. And the same thing
with Lebron. But man, it's not gonna be as easy
to just put those four guys out there and think
the Sixers are gonna win the championship.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, let's match up the Knicks with the Sixers. Who
do you like?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know, I think they gonna miss Mitchell Robinson? I do.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I think they're gonna miss Mitchell Robinson. I think that's
a Pickham series. I think that the none of the
Pistons got to figure out what to do. I didn't
even mentioned him when I mentioned him earlier. They got
to figure out the Jalen during situation. But the East
is gonna be fun to watch, man, even though they
got Lebron and Jalen that don't the Sickers are not
(29:40):
gonna have a Cakewalker. It's gonna be a huge adjustment
for those guys because all four of those guys need
the basketball to be successful and the A's guys like
that say, hey, I need you to just play defense
a lot. And like I said, it's gonna be the
hardest for Joel, but he he gonna get the ball
at least out of all those four guys he can.
(30:01):
Does he have the mindset to be like, you know what,
let me just play defense and rebound and some nights
I'm gonna get big A few nights, I'm gonna get
big numbers.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
But I just got to play.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Defense and rebound and that ain't not going to be easy.
But the number one question with the Sixers is their health.
Can can them be and Lebron can they be healthy
for eighty two games.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Which right now the heart is probably a hard no.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And then what position are they gonna be in because
they're gonna have to if those guys are unhealthy, they're
gonna have to win three series on the road against
really good teams because hey, man, Indiana might be the
sleeper in the East next year they get Zoo balls back,
you know so, But it's the East is gonna be
(30:50):
very interesting going forward.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We missed you in Tahoe. We were out there and you, uh,
you were really busy apparently.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, that's called winning money.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I was winning money.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So I was like, when you win money, you have
to you have to check between doubling down on eleven
or doing interviews, and you get that face card on
that eleven because you always double down on eleven and
you always dumb it down on ten. If a dealer
don't have a face card, showing lake talk was very
profitable for Chuck this year.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Dan Well scores on the course.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I beat you. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I wouldn't say that too loudly that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, listen as long as I beat you and
Grant Hill because Grant Hill is a coward too. He's
a coward.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Is Grant Hill a coward?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
He won't play with me. He could see I want Dan,
I'm like a gunfighter. I want to look at you
your eyes.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I want to look at your eyes. Grant Hill won't
play because he know he can't beat me, So I
want to look y'all in the eyes. I'm like an
old school gunfighter. I want to play with Like Anthony Anderson.
He came out there all blustery, and then I got
to look him in the eyes on the first t
and he crumbled like.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
A Yeah, you're sounding like you're, you know, young tiger here. Yeah,
a guy who's gonna go get a manny petty acting
like a big tough gunslinger.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I know who to go up against, though, I said,
you gren Hill and Anthony Anderson. I didn't go out
there and grab the heavy guns was fighter. I went
out and grabbed the bottom of the men.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Of course you did. Why didn't you go after Dylan
Dryer in Rich Eisen next time?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
You know, I think Dylan I love her, but I
think I'm bett rich Eisen. I am. I think I'm
better than Rich.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I think he finished last, did he?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I think you know? Hey, listen, you should be Charles.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You played golf all the time. You're a former professional.
You make it sound like you know we should be
surprised that you can play decent golf. You played all
the time.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I've been Dan, listen, I've been to hell and back shot.
You could have they shut out to my coach staying early, Dan, Dan,
I've been to hail and back. I played one handed,
I played left. I have done it all. I have
done it all.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I listen, there was a time when I quit, when
I had the years for twenty some years.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It was brutal.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I shot out boy Jackson Corvin Auburn WARDWN Eagle. That
was awesome to watch Sunday. We're so proud of that kid.
You know, Auburn went back to back national championship because
of him. He was the leader of the team. But man,
I spilled my whole Sunday around watching him at the three,
and that was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So Ward day, I am eagle to our nation. Brother.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
All Right, well, good luck with your manny petty tough guy.
And uh well, I'll tell Fritzy to leave you alone
for the next month or so.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Well, that's nothing happening in basketball.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Okay, But this did, and that's why we were reaching out.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
And I hate and I'm here, Dan. I know I've
never turned you down.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Dan, I know that.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I'm not doing any more interviews for like the next month,
probably unless somebody in the NBA get traded, which is
which I.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Will tell you this, Dan. The Jaalen doing thing is interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't want him at that price, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
The key, but something you know that there could be
a team that's the best, desperate that might want to
pay him that price.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know, the salons, the salons waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Okay, you go, hey, brother, But first of all, I
don't do salons. I don't have that type of mind.
I go to a spa. I mean, I just go
to a regular nail place. Come on, Dan, thank you, Charles,
all right, brother, appreciate you all.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
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Speaker 2 (34:51):
We start with the Baker Mayfield situation. We've discussed this.
I think that he has performed admirably for the t
up the Bay Buccaneers. We always attached the salary though
it's okay, is it commensurate to what you're getting paid.
It's a sliding scale. Baker Mayfield at thirty six thirty
five million dollars a year. Okay, had a good year
(35:14):
last year, previous year, had a great year. You got
a division that's getting tougher and not a foregone conclusion
where you just win nine games, you're going to win
this division. Baker Mayfield thinks he's being disrespected, and he
said the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
Disappointing in that regard to it to not have, you know,
to feel disrespected a little bit, And that's really the
disappointing part, to feel undervalued after you know, thinking you've
earned it. This is not a poor me thing. It's
there's a lot other people that have it way worse off.
But I can sit here and look at other quarterbacks
and peers and evaluate myself based on that and put
(35:55):
myself in certain categories that I deserve to be compensated
for that. And I think I'm a franchise quarter I've
been told I'm a franchise quarterback. It's been said publicly
from ownership down here, and so to not have a
deal done is very disappointing.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now, I don't know if somebody followed up in the
media and said, Okay, where would you place yourself, because
I would want to know if I look at some
of these salaries. Jalen Hurts is at fifty one million dollars?
Is he Jalen Hurts? Is he Sam Darnold? Sam Donald's
thirty five million, So he's already in that category. Sam
(36:29):
won a Super Bowl? But is he Daniel Jones? He's
making around forty four forty five Deshaun Watson forty four
forty five million, Like where do you place yourself? Would
be my question, just so I would get an understanding.
And I don't know about this business philosophy, this strategy
with Baker Mayfield unless he's gotten to the point where, hey,
(36:52):
this is training camp vitevea once out, like things are
starting to unraveled just a little bit. And I don't
know if saying it publicly, hey, I'm being disrespected if
that helps. Because it's personal for you, it's not personal
for management ownership, Like they can't attach emotion to this.
(37:15):
They have to be very pragmatic in saying, hey, here's
here's where we see you, here's the slot, here's the
sweet spot, and what's Baker Mayfield going to do? You're
going to have to play out this year. Then you
can go wherever you want to go after that. But
they can franchise tag you and then you might be
(37:37):
there for you know, two years. This year's salary and
then I think franchise tag is around forty eight six
forty seven million for quarterbacks. But if I'm Tampa, are
we rebuilding? Then maybe we don't even know we're rebuilding.
How good are we? Yes, you lost Mike Evans. Still
(37:57):
a good team, but that division is going to be
a lot more challenging, I think. But we'll check in
Rick Stroud. We haven't had on in a little while.
He's the great reporter in Tampa. He'll join us. Coming
up in a little bit. Poll question for the first
hour of the program is what Dylan Uh?
Speaker 11 (38:16):
We got one from Todd to kick things off? Baker
Mayfield dot dot dot preach on preacher or keep it
in house?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Dude, Well, this is Baker Mayfield. Like that personality is
what you love about make Baker Mayfield. And you know
if you look at the headline, it's not he went,
didn't go scortched to earth, but you got that feeling
from the headlines like oh oh yeah, disrespected. Okay, I
(38:45):
mean that's the word that jumps out there. But this
is who Baker Mayfield is. He's out in front, He's
going to say what he feels. If he feels disrespected, okay,
then figure out how do you respect it? What is
a respectable number there? That's what I would be curious about.
But we see these other quarterbacks, I mean, Dak Prescott's
(39:08):
never been the best quarterback in the NFL, but he's
the highest paid. I mean, do other quarterbacks feel disrespected
because of that? Kirk Cousins always got a fully guaranteed contract.
He wasn't anywhere near the best quarterback in the NFL.
It's all about timing and it's about leverage. Now, if
Baker Mayfield had not last year's season, last season, but
(39:32):
the season before that, now you probably have a little
bit more leverage. Is he a forty five million dollar quarterback?
Maybe in their eyes, probably so?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Jalen Hurts probably not, Yeah, Dylan, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
It's kind of funny because I think it was twenty
eighteen Matt Ryan became the first thirty million dollar quarterback,
and now only eight years later that is like considered
sort of lower end of the barrel money for a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah. Well, look at receivers when somebody got to twenty
or twenty one and we went, oh my goodness, and
then it was thirty. Now we got defensive players, Megan forty,
it's going to continue to go up. The question is,
and you know we've said this before about Jerry Jones
(40:23):
with Michael Parsons, he could have gotten him at a
cheaper price earlier chose to play the game and then
decided to trade him, but he could have kept him
if he wanted to. It's rare when you say, you
know what, let's see how this plays out, and it,
you know, plays out where you get somebody for less
than what they were negotiating for. So, if I'm Tampa,
(40:45):
I got to decide do I want Baker Mayfield. I
got to decide at what price I want Baker Mayfield
because the following year he's going to be more expensive
just because of, you know, the quarterback next guy up mentality?
Can you get him for less than fifty million dollars
at the going rate? If I'm Baker Mayfield or his agent,
(41:09):
I'm better than Daniel Jones. You can count on me
over Deshaun Watson. Although we have to kind of take
Deshaun Watson out of this because that was desperation by
the Cleveland Browns the Colts. I still don't understand why
they did this with Daniel Jones, but you know, that's okay.
It's their money, their quarterback. But I think Baker Mayfield
(41:30):
probably thinks he's a fifty million dollar year quarterback. But
if Jalen Hurts is at fifty one and he's accomplished,
I can't pay him more than that, although that doesn't
mean he's not going to want more than that. Yeah, Paul, it.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
Does seem like a prudent move by Tampa if they regress,
If he regresses, Baker Mayfield, they're not locked into anything. Yeah, well,
they have to pay him fifteen million more on the
next contract, four years, two hundred million. Yeah, but the
danger is he balls out and it's complete free agent
and Pittsburgh calls or another team calls.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know the philosophy, but that's why
we'll have Reck Stroud on of what is the mentality
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I also I get a
kick out of, and I understand the hype machine. You
got to report on things or you got to kind
of create things. NFL reporters talking about somebody had a
great day in camp, somebody threw two interceptions, somebody threw
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three touchdown passes. I want to take you back to
when Jamar Chase came out. If LSU is a rookie,
do you remember social media talking about all the drops,
Oh my gosh, this guy can't hold onto the football.
He went on to have over fourteen hundred yards and
thirteen touchdowns as a rookie and is widely considered one
(42:50):
of the top two or three receivers in the game.
But we got caught up in that he's dropping the ball.
Oh my goodness, well he's going to be a bust.
And then all of a sudden, it's like, uh, never mind.
It's something to say in training camp. Uh, Marvin Harrison
struggling with drops. Okay, Uh, let me see what happens
(43:14):
when the season starts. It'd be like if somebody says, man,
you know who is bawling out Shadoor Sanders two touchdown passes,
no interceptions. I mean like, uh, does he have pads on?
They playing? Is he wearing shorts? It's he got foot
flops on? Is the defense able to hit him?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Like?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Those are things I just go, Okay. I know it
gives us content you're searching for content here, but I
have to laugh when these headlines. You know, Baker Mayfield's
a headline, Vita vea. That's a headline. That's real. Somebody
dropped Uh Like that to me is not like stats
(43:58):
in training camp there's probably some guys. I mean, I
counted all my shots that I made in warm ups
when I was in college and be like, man, I'm
killing it. Yeah, go sit down, Golden boy. Okay, yeah, Pauline.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
What if we made like a negative version of it?
Shador Sanders is twelve for till twelve verse during a
scrimmage and then then we say, you know, the Browns
defense does not look good this year. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, you can spin it any way you want, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Yeah, my favorite thing was training camp Hall of Famers
for me. First ballot Kevin Cobb of the Philadelphia Eagles. Boy,
they were like Cobb or Vic. I was like, are
you serious?
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Kevin Cobb? Though he got paid, didn't he Then he
suffer a concussion and think bad concussion? What other pole
question do we have for the first down? Favorite cut
of steak?
Speaker 4 (44:50):
Then?
Speaker 11 (44:50):
Since I have a whole steak day, are you a rabbi?
A strip of filet or another guy?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Probably a strip. I always think of New York strip.
I always think of a stake. It's New York and
it's usually New York strip, So I would say that, yeah,
New York strip. Oh, by the way Deebo Samuel backed
with the Niners, and the Niners got a lot of
questions if I start to look at everything that's going on.
So you had a quarterback. They split quarterback games last
(45:22):
year nine to eight. I think so Perdy and Jones.
I think Perdy had nine starts and mac Jones had eight.
Mike Evans missed nine games last season, Ricky Pearsaw could
be out for the year, Kittle coming off an injury,
Deebo and Christian McCaffrey consistently banged up. So and you
(45:42):
got a coach who's banged up as well. So the
injuries they just keep mounting for the Niners. But we'll
get to that story about information on this Kyle Shanahan
car accident, because I mean, once again, if you tell
me up front your coach involved in a car accident,
he is non life threatening injuries. We hoped having back
(46:05):
to start training camp, okay, but all of a sudden,
it's information that's now leaking out. Nothing leaked out for
eleven days. But it just feels like this makes me
question it even more. And then the police aren't going
to give us information TMZ. I think filed a report.
(46:26):
They wanted to. Maybe it's the Freedom of Information Act
they were hoping to get and the police said no.
Paloel to A police said no, we're not releasing any
other information. Why what is it that they don't want
us to see? Now? Is it available for us to
be able to see this or read this? So I
(46:49):
just want to make sure that but TMZ is asking
for this that you know from what I read, paloel
to A police are not giving up any more information,
even dash cam bit like nothing, which makes me wonder
even more why or why not
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Charles Barkley, former sixer, didn't mince words. He was on
the Stephen A. Smith Show on Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Initial reaction upon here in the news that Lebron James
is going to Philly, Ah shocked because I want him
to go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I mean, he has no affiliation with the seventy six ers,
but the.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Number one knock on Lebron, Yo, man, you always stacked
in your team.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
He's stacked it in Miami, He's stacked it.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In Cleveland, He's stacked it in La Now he's stacking
it in Philly.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
He's always stacked his team.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I have no problem with what Lebron James did. None.
At this stage in your career, you can do whatever
you want. You want to go back home, just to
go back home now you do have a great chance
of winning with that lineup. If he wanted to go
back to Miami, because why not go to Miami. You
want to go to Philadelphia because you have the best
(01:00):
chance to win. You've earned that right chasing rings. If
Jannis didn't want to go to Miami, he would have
told the Bucks, I don't want to go to Miami.
Why did he go to Miami? He probably thought he
had a better chance of winning there. If the Knicks
didn't win the title this year, I think Giannis would
be a New York Knick and Karl Anthony Towns wouldn't
(01:21):
be there, or Lebron might be a New York Knick.
But I don't know. If you go, I have a
chance to decide where I want to go, let me
go to a worst situation. Who does that? You know
I'm thinking about going to the Nets. If he had
gone to the Nets, well, he's just gonna pad his stats.
Michael Jordan went to the Wizards. Why because he wanted
(01:46):
to have part ownership of an NBA team. Is anybody
critical of Mike because he went to the Wizards. It
wasn't for basketball reasons. It was for business reasons, and
the business of winning another title is what Lebron is
all about. I have no problem with it. If he
(02:07):
had gone to Golden State, we would have said, oh, okay,
Durant had to go there to win titles, You're gonna go.
It didn't matter if he had gone to Cleveland. I
think people would have been okay with it. Philly hadn't
been to Philly. They haven't won a title in over
three decades, haven't been to the finals since what two
(02:27):
thousand and two thousand and one. I don't have a
problem with it chasing rings. We chastise him because he
doesn't have the rings that Mike has or Kobe has,
and now he wants to go get one more. He
took the minimum. There are quarterbacks in college making more
(02:49):
money than Lebron James' salary with the Sixers, I'm okay
with that. You sacrificed. And yes, he's going to align
up up and it'll be similar to when he went
with Miami. It'll take a little while for them to
kind of feel each other out, understand what you do,
how you do it. When you do it, I can
(03:12):
take over, you take over. But I'm not worried about
touches with Lebron. He already proved that with Luca in
Austin Reeves. I can figure this out. We marvel at
his basketball IQ. Let's give him credit for that basketball IQ.
He wants to win and also knows he's forty one.
(03:35):
He also knows that he's got Tyrese Maxey, who was
wonderful and now you bring in Jaylen Brown. This doesn't
happen without an assist from the Celtics. Still mind boggling.
You trade one of the better players in the NBA
in your division. And I think July sixth, when Jalen
(03:57):
Brown was traded to the seventy six ers is when
Lebron changed his mind. He wasn't going to Philly in
my opinion, here is his agent, Rich Paul.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
When did it start the scale start tipping toward Philly
like fifty five percent?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know, when it was like, you know what, I'm
leaning toward Philly or now it's more and more and more.
I think I think that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I mean the eyeball came after obviously the Detroit like
the Brown.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, to even be really really considered Max Kellerman on
there on the podcast, Yes July sixth. July sixth is
when all of this started to formulate. I think because
Lebron went okay, embiid, I can't prop him up, MAXI
and Edgecomb they're really good. This team isn't better than
(04:46):
Miami's going to be, or Cleveland's going to be, or
Golden State's going to be. Now I get Jalen Brown.
Top five top ten player. I got something here, I
got it. I got a chance to win at least
one more title. The basketball world would explode if he
got to six titles. But it just feels like Lebron's
(05:08):
doing it. Therefore there has to be a negative attitude.
What's the negative part of this? No, he's chasing titles. Okay,
that's what you play for. If he said, hey, I
want money, Oh don't you have enough? You made a
half a billion playing in the NBA salary wise, so
(05:31):
he's not going to win no matter what. But you
have to accept that. If you're Lebron, you know, it's
not going to be popular. You know, people are always
going to have a negative slant on this. Well, Mike
never did this. Mike came back to get part ownership
of the Wizards. Great business decision. Lebron's chasing a title.
(05:55):
I think that's admirable. If you look at he goes
to Cleveland, he doesn't win. Yeah, but he went back home.
He went to Miami. Oh you know what, maybe going
back feels bad about leaving them in the first place. Hey,
you know, I want to be a great story. Hey,
when you're old, you go retire in Miami. Philly. Wait
(06:16):
a minute, he actually cares about winning. Wait a minute,
how dare him? Oh he knows nothing about Philadelphia. Okay,
remember the story that came out before he made the decision.
Lebron and his wife were touring schools in Philadelphia, Remember
that big story. He was there for a charity, I
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think thing. But I think they were like, hey, he's
looking at schools. Maybe he looked at those school systems
and now he's coming back because maybe his daughter can
go to school in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I loved it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thought it was great. I think it's great for the NBA.
The NBA was the big winner in my opinion. I
get Lebron at seven thirty Eastern TV primetime for everybody.
This is great. Schedule's gonna come out, Nick's sixers, probably
opening night Christmas, Lebron again, maybe against Golden State, maybe
(07:13):
against Miami, maybe against the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And this is great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is this perfect for the NBA. So I loved it. Now, Okay,
do I appreciate Lebron more than the average fan or
media person, Yes? I do. Do I think Mike's the
best player I ever saw? Yes? But I can think both.
I mean, it's okay, to think both. How dare you?
I know it's okay? Oh yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
When I say I like both Michael Jordan and Lebron James,
people look at me like I'm a nuts like man,
I just like both of him.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What's wrong with Burger King and McDonald's. It's okay Burger
Donald burg Odonald, Lebron Jordan.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, it's okay. Best and worst of the weekend. What
you saw that you liked you didn't like? Eight seven
seven three DP show Operator Tyler's sitting by. He'll take
your phone calls. It was fun. It was fun just
talking basketball possibilities here and it still went back to
the Celtics. I know you got a couple of first
(08:17):
round picks. I know you got a couple of second
round picks, but it was a salary dump. Like if
you would have said to the Sixers, how do you
get out from underneath James Harden Paul George And they
did it, And I truly believe now, once again, I
don't have any information on this. If Darius Garland was
(08:42):
still on the Cavaliers and not James Harden, that's I
think Lebron would have gone to Cleveland now it would
have been close because I got Jalen Brown now, so
Lebron can kind of see this. And he doesn't have
to be the lead singer. He can be the bass player,
so some nights he can play the tambourine if he
(09:03):
wants to. He doesn't have to be the lead singer here.
And I think Cleveland he could have done that. And
Darius Garland I like, and Donovan Mitchell resigns and you
got bigs up front. I understood that, But having James Harden,
that's a non starter for me. If I'm trying to
win a championship Miami, I don't know what the roster
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is going to look like. Pat Riley always does a
wonderful job in filling out that roster. Philly's ready to
win now. And I got the odds. These are the
updated odds from DraftKings, just got them this morning. Spurs
and Thunder still the big favorites to win the title
next year. Sixers in the Knicks are tied at plus
nine hundred, Spurs, Thunder plus two seventy, then the Celtics
(09:51):
plus thirteen hundred. But it was fun, you know, big surprise,
even when Pauli said it I was like, man, the
way he's saying it, I'm going to be surprised. And
then I thought, is it golden state? Because I never
had golden State in the picture. I know there were
people host who had that last week and they're like,
(10:12):
I'm hearing, I'm hearing. There was no information. So whoever
you were hearing it from, you weren't hearing it from
the people who were going to make the decision. And
Lebron kept it in his head or i'm sure his house,
but he's not letting it out. But I think July
(10:34):
sixth is when Lebron went, wait a minute, let me
look at that lineup. I wouldn't be surprised if Lebron
didn't have a whiteboard with all the lineups, starting lineup, roster,
how much money like a GM would and said that
gives me the best chance. Now it looks like he'll
play one, and he had that other option, so he
(10:56):
might look at this as a two year window. If
he wins the time this year, let's just do that
bigger picture. Now he's got five, there is no way
he's retiring without one more shot to get six. We'll
come up with the pole question. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Going back to that trade with Jalen Brown from the
Celtics to the Sixers. Those draft picks that the Celtics
are getting, It's a twenty twenty eight first round pick,
so it doesn't help them for two more years. And
you would think that the Sixers are going to be
really good, so that pick might be the twenty sixth
pick of the draft.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean, even if you don't like Jalen Brown, or
you didn't like him in the locker room, or Jason Tatum,
or send him to Sacramento, send him to Phoenix, send
him somewhere. The only way he can hurt me is
in the finals. But a salary dump. I understand it.
(11:50):
We said it at the time. You're gonna have two guys.
You're gonna be really top heavy. But they are good.
They can get you to the Eastern Finals, they can
get you to the the NBA Finals, they can help
you win a title. But still mind boggling out of
all of this, you trade him to the Sixers. Well,
(12:11):
you now get to see Jalen Brown and you get
to see Lebron James because you sent Jayleen Brown to
the seventy six Ers. Brad Stevens does a wonderful job.
I just maybe I'm not smart enough to understand how
brilliant this move was.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yes, Ton, is there even a small part where Lebron's like,
been there, done that, winning in Miami and Cleveland, or
it's strictly like you just gope he would have gone
back if he thought Cleveland Miami had a little bit
better a chance than Philly.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think he wanted to go where he could win.
That's what this came down to, plain and simple. Family.
His wife and daughter stay in La. He comes out
here for business. Broni's still going to be with the Lakers.
This is a business trip. He's on a business trip
this entire season. His business is to win another championship.
I have no problem rings. If anything, he could have
(13:03):
kept it really easy, simple and retired in a nice
polite way, and everybody would have given him a round
of applause and say thanks, it was great seeing you.
You're know, Michael Jordan, he chose. He chose to go
to a place he hadn't been, and he knows the
expectations are through the roof, so he had attacked that.
(13:27):
I loved it. I think it's great and it's great
for the NBA and great for you. I can't wait
for this opening night they play the NIXT, they beat
the nixt seventy wins, question mark or if they lose. Yeah,
I knew this was going to be a failure. I
knew it can't sharing the ball and let me see
(13:51):
how you're playing in April and May and June, because
it's going to be rough at times, it'll be ugly
at time times. But if they get magic like they
did late in the season when Embiid started to play
really well and MAXI and all of a sudden, you go,
Philadelphia is gonna beat the Celtics, and now you get
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Lebron and you get a good Lebron with those kind
of glimpses, those hints of being great again. I wouldn't
be surprised if he's top five and assists this year
because he'll want to. He led the NBA and assists before.
If he wants to do it, he can still do it. Yes, Marvin, I.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Think the underrated part is I think he's gonna help
on the boards. I think he's gonna average eight or
nine rebounds, where I think that's such an underrated part
where It's like, man, he's gonna help on the glass.
I think he's gonna play the five, play some small ball. Okay,
I'm excited. All right, Well we were kind of on
a roll there and you gave me rebounds here. I mean,
(14:57):
what is this, Angel Reese? So watch it happens if
they lose a game, Oh man, if they have somebody
on the glass, it always comes down to something small.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, has Angel re scored yet in the All Star Nice?
Be nice?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
She was the wrong person to be in that kind
of All Star game where they're athletically talented on the
offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Yes, Paul, all Star games in all sports but basketball.
They're not conducive to power forwards like LaMarcus Aldridge isn't
running the show at an All Star game, and he
was a good player, doesn't get the ball enough.
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
Charles Barkley Hall of Famer inside the NBA. How's your
summer going.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I played golf favorite day. I have a great day
on summer. I don't do anything. I got to stay
off TV. I'm all to do on this because of you.
I try to stay off TV. I play golf every day.
I don't want people to get sick of me. So
I do like one thing every two or three weeks,
but the rest of the time, I'm playing golf every day.
I'm taking the day off because it's raining. So I'm
(17:14):
gonna go get a Manny Petty and a massage because
it's raining like hell here in Philadelphia all day.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That's my day to day, Dan, No, that's not a
bad day.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Oh, I'm going as soon as I hang out with you,
I'm gonna go get a Manny Petty. I'm gonna go
get a massage, and then I'm gonna chill and I'm
gonna back on the golf course tomorrow. They rain like
hell yesterday and today, so I'm back on the golf
course tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right. Well, maybe you should have stayed in Arizona
where you could have been able to play, or is
it too hot out there for you?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Hold up, there's like one hundred and twenty degrees every
day right now. It's brutal.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So how's the morale in Philadelphia here?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh, it's off the charge right now, Dan's The people
are going crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
They should be excited.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know, getting Lebron is a coup, so they're gonna
be favorites, probably in the East on paper. But man,
it is going crazy here. I mean because I think
it caught everybody by surprise, to be honest with even myself.
You know, I was hoping he went back to Cleveland.
But man, it is on fire here right now. Twenty
(18:16):
four to seven Lebron right now. Ever since the story
broke last.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Week, feels like you had a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I didn't have a problem with it. I want him
to go to Cleveland. He has no affiliation to Philly.
What's really funny. I guess the story broke yesterday that
he's not even gonna live in Philly. He's gonna live
in New York and helicopter back back there for practicing game.
So the city's kind of pissed right now. I was, like,
I told y'all, he didn't have no affiliation with Philly.
(18:44):
That's why I was shocked he came here.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, I was. You know, it was so funny.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I was playing golf yesterday early and my phone starts
going crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
They're like, he believed this. I'm like, what, y'all just
got Lebron be happy. He's not even gonna live here.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
He's got to live in New York and take a
help helicopter in for practicing games.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Like, I just started laughing because you can't make this
stuff up.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why didn't you let him stay at your place?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's a condo, Dan, You know, I'm a firm belief
in the Hermet was rude. One house, one car. You
don't need more than one house, doesn't waste of money.
Don't waste your money on jewelry. I drive a Kia
and an Explorer. That's all you need. Brother, don't waste
your money on cars, your young dummies.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You were on with Steven A. Smith. That's why I
thought you had a problem that Lebron's always stacking his teams.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, that's been one of my credits. Well, most people
criticize him for that. He always stacks his team.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But what's wrong with wanting to build a team that
can win a championship? We're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, let's see, there you go. He didn't build a team.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He manu build a team in Los Angeles. They were
bad before he got there.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And he and his Agentcy forced them to trade for
Anthony Davis, who was ran by his group.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay, but he didn't he didn't go to a team
that was Oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He did. He's listen, Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Everybody in the league would have wanted Anthony Davis plus
specifically said he has to go to the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
That that's that's that's a fact, Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But you still have to pull off the train to
get him. They didn't say, oh, here you go.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
He would. He said he would only go to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He said he would like everybody wanted Anthony Davis, but
he's a clutch.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Said no, he could only go to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So it is what it is. It's a fair criticism. Yeah,
everybody wanted Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis specifically saying it because
of clutch, I will only go to the Lakers. So
you think that's naturally organic, No, that is stacking your team.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But that's Lebron's power. Okay, and it reterms that credit
that we want to play with him.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And we can't criticize it that we think it's unfair.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What's unfair about wanting to go better your life?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Like he no, no, no, no, no, you should You're not.
You shouldn't be guaranteed the championship. One of the reasons
Michael Jorde is to go. He got beat in the head.
He kept going, oh, you know what, I'm gonna get bigger, stronger.
That to me is the way I would like to
see it done. That's why my dirt nubisky.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
He's like, you know what, I'm not going anywhere. We
just gonna keep getting better. That's why Steph Courvey same thing.
They never He's like, you know what, we got a team.
They were not in the good in the beginning. Then
Clay got good, Draymond got good, igodala everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
So listen, we can disagree. I'm not mad at Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But I can you know, I'm not gonna do the
Stepford wife thing like all Lebron and his friends do,
like these guys on television now, Like, I don't want
to upset Lebron because I wanted him to talk to
me and I wanted him to do it interviews, Like
if you don't like that's then you know Lebron's a
great dude too. But the people around him and now
(21:53):
guys on television, they're like Stefford wives. It's like you
have to say Lebron's the greatest ever, or like he
not gonna talk to you, and you you're commit treason. Fake,
Like I said, Lebron is the third best basketball greatest
basketball player I've ever seen. But when you're around them
Stepford wise that around Lebron and people on television are
like that. They want to be friends with him. Like
(22:15):
I think me and me and Lebron, I think we're cool.
But I don't have to say he's the greatest basketball
player ever.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't. I mean, I don't think I'm committing treason.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I just did not. I don't have a problem if
he wanted to go to Philly. I think it's a
big risk, but it's his best chance to win a championship.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I stuid think if he went to Cals, they would
have had the best team in the East.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now they got James Harden. I don't think he wanted
to play with James Harden.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
He's hard not even on the team right now.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well, but they're they're they're talking to him about a contract.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Let me tell you something. We can disagree. I mean,
this is all that's we all have an opinion. I
thought of Lebron and went to the Cals, they would
have the best team in the East. That's just my
personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
If Darius Garland was there, I would say yes, not
James Harden.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Well, you don't have to play James as much as
Lebron is there. And also think about this, there are
a lot of questions about this seventy six team. Can
Lebron and Joel Embii stay healthy, That's a big question.
Lebron hasn't played the full season in five years, Joel embiid.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Ain't never played the full season. Those are fair questions.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And what's scary man one of the dark secrets nobody's
talking about. The Eastern Conference might be better than the
Western Conference right now. The Eastern Conference, Like I say,
can Lebron stay healthy, which he hasn't done in five years?
Can Joel stay healthy which he hasn't done ever? The
Eastern Conference has quietly become the better conference. I'm trying
(23:45):
to think there's no team in the East that's bad.
There's not one single team in the East. You can
say it's bad. I mean, and can Joel and Lebron
stay healthy? Man telling you Dan, people aren't even talking
about because they look at OKC and the Spurs rightfully,
so they're head and shoulders. But the Knicks, Boston, Atlanta, Indiana, Orlando,
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the Wizards man the East.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
The only bad team is probably the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They are better.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Oh, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I think the chicag I said this, I think the
Chicago Bulls got the best rookie in the NBA. When
I was talking to coaches and general managers, which I
do and I always keep our conversations private because it's
a private conversation, they're like, who's you take the number
one pick?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Said Caleb Wilson. They're like, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I says, Hey, I like the Boston I like Peterson,
but the one guy who I think and like I said,
we're all kind of thinking about the future. There's no
player I would have taken before Caleb Wilson, not one
because the way his athletic ability. Now, like Peterson and Demonster,
they're probably better scores at this stage, but he can
(25:07):
learn how to shoot. And let me tell you something
from an athletic point where you can goud one, two,
three four. Ain't nobody more talented the Caleb Wilson period.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Talking to Charles Barkley, Hall of Famer, I'm still trying
to understand what the Celtics did and are doing. Are
the Celtics better now than they were a month ago?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Damn?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Let me tell you, men, you can go out and
get drunk all night long and we can wake up
the next day, and that still won't make no damn
sense to me. Whatever, And listen, what's okay? You don't
like Jalen Brown. I get that they clearly didn't, But
I'm not trading him to a team I got to
(25:49):
play five times a year and got the beat.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
In the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The Cubsters are not better, and I don't understand, Like
I say, Okay, you want to trade a player, I
have no problem with that. And Jalen's a hell of
a player. I'm not trading into my division. I'm trading
him out West more than anything. So I have no
idea what the Celtics are doing. And then you hear
(26:18):
people talk about the money Paul Gehn's making a lot
of money, so you can't say they didn't because they
about that. I heard I hear guys talking about, well
they didn't want to pay Jalen Brown.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'm like, Paul Georg's making fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
A year, but only for one more year, two more too.
There's an option, but well, he go, damn, she'll take
the option. Well, Jayleen, Jalen is you know you're locked
in for three more years, and Philly is going to
extend him as well. They're not trading for him and
then letting him go.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, so okay, but at that point they didn't know
they were going to get Lebron either. So that trade,
even though Jaylen Brown is a better player, you still
bought back one hundred million dollars for the next couple
of years. I think Jalen makes a little bit more.
But I didn't understand that trade whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Your guy Shack said he thinks Joe el Embiid's gonna
have a great year and he's gonna be the best
big man in the game.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well, what somebody gonna kill the joker.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Somebody kill the joker by now, listen, No, I think
the two winners in this trade are Maxie and MBU
in the trade and Lebron because.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
They are a better.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Team and Joel he's got to be the fourth best
player because Maxie and Brown are the two best players.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
They're the two best players on the team.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Lebron's the third best player if he's healthy, and he's
the proud of the guy who can play with Doctor Baltimore.
It's gonna be some growing pains with this team because
they are need the ball to be successful. But make
no doubt about it, Brown and Maxie are the two
best players on the team. Joelle just got to get
healthy and he can be the fourth best player on
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the team. Now, that's gonna be an adjustment for him
because he's just gonna have to play defense and rebound
and he's gonna have to sacrifice. He probably gonna have
to sacrifice the most cause they're not gonna walk to
with them three thoroughbreads. They're not gonna walk the ball
up and down the court and let him post up.
He's gonna have to concentrate on defense and rebounding, so
(28:32):
he's gonna have to sacrifice the most. But the number
one thing he's got to do is get healthy, then
he's never played I mean, I'm not even sure I
shouldn't talk like that. I mean, I'm pretty sure he
hasn't played a full season in five or six years.
So the notion that he's going to be healthy, you're
(28:55):
gonna have to wait and see. And the same thing
with Lebron. But man, it's not gonna be as easy
to just put those four guys out there and think
the Sixers are gonna win the championship.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, let's match up the Knicks with the Sixers. Who
do you like?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know, I think they gonna miss Mitchell Robinson? I do.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I think they're gonna miss Mitchell Robinson. I think that's
a Pickham series. I think that the none of the
Pistons got to figure out what to do. I didn't
even mentioned him when I mentioned him earlier. They got
to figure out the Jalen during situation. But the East
is gonna be fun to watch, man, even though they
got Lebron and Jalen that don't the Sickers are not
(29:40):
gonna have a Cakewalker. It's gonna be a huge adjustment
for those guys because all four of those guys need
the basketball to be successful and the A's guys like
that say, hey, I need you to just play defense
a lot. And like I said, it's gonna be the
hardest for Joel, but he he gonna get the ball
at least out of all those four guys he can.
(30:01):
Does he have the mindset to be like, you know what,
let me just play defense and rebound and some nights
I'm gonna get big A few nights, I'm gonna get
big numbers.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
But I just got to play.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Defense and rebound and that ain't not going to be easy.
But the number one question with the Sixers is their health.
Can can them be and Lebron can they be healthy
for eighty two games.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Which right now the heart is probably a hard no.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And then what position are they gonna be in because
they're gonna have to if those guys are unhealthy, they're
gonna have to win three series on the road against
really good teams because hey, man, Indiana might be the
sleeper in the East next year they get Zoo balls back,
you know so, But it's the East is gonna be
(30:50):
very interesting going forward.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We missed you in Tahoe. We were out there and you, uh,
you were really busy apparently.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, that's called winning money.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I was winning money.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So I was like, when you win money, you have
to you have to check between doubling down on eleven
or doing interviews, and you get that face card on
that eleven because you always double down on eleven and
you always dumb it down on ten. If a dealer
don't have a face card, showing lake talk was very
profitable for Chuck this year.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Dan Well scores on the course.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I beat you. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I wouldn't say that too loudly that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, listen as long as I beat you and
Grant Hill because Grant Hill is a coward too. He's
a coward.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Is Grant Hill a coward?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
He won't play with me. He could see I want Dan,
I'm like a gunfighter. I want to look at you
your eyes.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I want to look at your eyes. Grant Hill won't
play because he know he can't beat me, So I
want to look y'all in the eyes. I'm like an
old school gunfighter. I want to play with Like Anthony Anderson.
He came out there all blustery, and then I got
to look him in the eyes on the first t
and he crumbled like.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
A Yeah, you're sounding like you're, you know, young tiger here. Yeah,
a guy who's gonna go get a manny petty acting
like a big tough gunslinger.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I know who to go up against, though, I said,
you gren Hill and Anthony Anderson. I didn't go out
there and grab the heavy guns was fighter. I went
out and grabbed the bottom of the men.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Of course you did. Why didn't you go after Dylan
Dryer in Rich Eisen next time?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
You know, I think Dylan I love her, but I
think I'm bett rich Eisen. I am. I think I'm
better than Rich.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I think he finished last, did he?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I think you know? Hey, listen, you should be Charles.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You played golf all the time. You're a former professional.
You make it sound like you know we should be
surprised that you can play decent golf. You played all
the time.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I've been Dan, listen, I've been to hell and back shot.
You could have they shut out to my coach staying early, Dan, Dan,
I've been to hail and back. I played one handed,
I played left. I have done it all. I have
done it all.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I listen, there was a time when I quit, when
I had the years for twenty some years.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It was brutal.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I shot out boy Jackson Corvin Auburn WARDWN Eagle. That
was awesome to watch Sunday. We're so proud of that kid.
You know, Auburn went back to back national championship because
of him. He was the leader of the team. But man,
I spilled my whole Sunday around watching him at the three,
and that was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So Ward day, I am eagle to our nation. Brother.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
All Right, well, good luck with your manny petty tough guy.
And uh well, I'll tell Fritzy to leave you alone
for the next month or so.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Well, that's nothing happening in basketball.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Okay, But this did, and that's why we were reaching out.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
And I hate and I'm here, Dan. I know I've
never turned you down.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Dan, I know that.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I'm not doing any more interviews for like the next month,
probably unless somebody in the NBA get traded, which is
which I.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Will tell you this, Dan. The Jaalen doing thing is interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't want him at that price, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
The key, but something you know that there could be
a team that's the best, desperate that might want to
pay him that price.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know, the salons, the salons waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Okay, you go, hey, brother, But first of all, I
don't do salons. I don't have that type of mind.
I go to a spa. I mean, I just go
to a regular nail place. Come on, Dan, thank you, Charles,
all right, brother, appreciate you all.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
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Speaker 2 (34:51):
We start with the Baker Mayfield situation. We've discussed this.
I think that he has performed admirably for the t
up the Bay Buccaneers. We always attached the salary though
it's okay, is it commensurate to what you're getting paid.
It's a sliding scale. Baker Mayfield at thirty six thirty
five million dollars a year. Okay, had a good year
(35:14):
last year, previous year, had a great year. You got
a division that's getting tougher and not a foregone conclusion
where you just win nine games, you're going to win
this division. Baker Mayfield thinks he's being disrespected, and he
said the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
Disappointing in that regard to it to not have, you know,
to feel disrespected a little bit, And that's really the
disappointing part, to feel undervalued after you know, thinking you've
earned it. This is not a poor me thing. It's
there's a lot other people that have it way worse off.
But I can sit here and look at other quarterbacks
and peers and evaluate myself based on that and put
(35:55):
myself in certain categories that I deserve to be compensated
for that. And I think I'm a franchise quarter I've
been told I'm a franchise quarterback. It's been said publicly
from ownership down here, and so to not have a
deal done is very disappointing.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now, I don't know if somebody followed up in the
media and said, Okay, where would you place yourself, because
I would want to know if I look at some
of these salaries. Jalen Hurts is at fifty one million dollars?
Is he Jalen Hurts? Is he Sam Darnold? Sam Donald's
thirty five million, So he's already in that category. Sam
(36:29):
won a Super Bowl? But is he Daniel Jones? He's
making around forty four forty five Deshaun Watson forty four
forty five million, Like where do you place yourself? Would
be my question, just so I would get an understanding.
And I don't know about this business philosophy, this strategy
with Baker Mayfield unless he's gotten to the point where, hey,
(36:52):
this is training camp vitevea once out, like things are
starting to unraveled just a little bit. And I don't
know if saying it publicly, hey, I'm being disrespected if
that helps. Because it's personal for you, it's not personal
for management ownership, Like they can't attach emotion to this.
(37:15):
They have to be very pragmatic in saying, hey, here's
here's where we see you, here's the slot, here's the
sweet spot, and what's Baker Mayfield going to do? You're
going to have to play out this year. Then you
can go wherever you want to go after that. But
they can franchise tag you and then you might be
(37:37):
there for you know, two years. This year's salary and
then I think franchise tag is around forty eight six
forty seven million for quarterbacks. But if I'm Tampa, are
we rebuilding? Then maybe we don't even know we're rebuilding.
How good are we? Yes, you lost Mike Evans. Still
(37:57):
a good team, but that division is going to be
a lot more challenging, I think. But we'll check in
Rick Stroud. We haven't had on in a little while.
He's the great reporter in Tampa. He'll join us. Coming
up in a little bit. Poll question for the first
hour of the program is what Dylan Uh?
Speaker 11 (38:16):
We got one from Todd to kick things off? Baker
Mayfield dot dot dot preach on preacher or keep it
in house?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Dude, Well, this is Baker Mayfield. Like that personality is
what you love about make Baker Mayfield. And you know
if you look at the headline, it's not he went,
didn't go scortched to earth, but you got that feeling
from the headlines like oh oh yeah, disrespected. Okay, I
(38:45):
mean that's the word that jumps out there. But this
is who Baker Mayfield is. He's out in front, He's
going to say what he feels. If he feels disrespected, okay,
then figure out how do you respect it? What is
a respectable number there? That's what I would be curious about.
But we see these other quarterbacks, I mean, Dak Prescott's
(39:08):
never been the best quarterback in the NFL, but he's
the highest paid. I mean, do other quarterbacks feel disrespected
because of that? Kirk Cousins always got a fully guaranteed contract.
He wasn't anywhere near the best quarterback in the NFL.
It's all about timing and it's about leverage. Now, if
Baker Mayfield had not last year's season, last season, but
(39:32):
the season before that, now you probably have a little
bit more leverage. Is he a forty five million dollar quarterback?
Maybe in their eyes, probably so?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Jalen Hurts probably not, Yeah, Dylan, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
It's kind of funny because I think it was twenty
eighteen Matt Ryan became the first thirty million dollar quarterback,
and now only eight years later that is like considered
sort of lower end of the barrel money for a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah. Well, look at receivers when somebody got to twenty
or twenty one and we went, oh my goodness, and
then it was thirty. Now we got defensive players, Megan forty,
it's going to continue to go up. The question is,
and you know we've said this before about Jerry Jones
(40:23):
with Michael Parsons, he could have gotten him at a
cheaper price earlier chose to play the game and then
decided to trade him, but he could have kept him
if he wanted to. It's rare when you say, you
know what, let's see how this plays out, and it,
you know, plays out where you get somebody for less
than what they were negotiating for. So, if I'm Tampa,
(40:45):
I got to decide do I want Baker Mayfield. I
got to decide at what price I want Baker Mayfield
because the following year he's going to be more expensive
just because of, you know, the quarterback next guy up mentality?
Can you get him for less than fifty million dollars
at the going rate? If I'm Baker Mayfield or his agent,
(41:09):
I'm better than Daniel Jones. You can count on me
over Deshaun Watson. Although we have to kind of take
Deshaun Watson out of this because that was desperation by
the Cleveland Browns the Colts. I still don't understand why
they did this with Daniel Jones, but you know, that's okay.
It's their money, their quarterback. But I think Baker Mayfield
(41:30):
probably thinks he's a fifty million dollar year quarterback. But
if Jalen Hurts is at fifty one and he's accomplished,
I can't pay him more than that, although that doesn't
mean he's not going to want more than that. Yeah, Paul, it.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
Does seem like a prudent move by Tampa if they regress,
If he regresses, Baker Mayfield, they're not locked into anything. Yeah, well,
they have to pay him fifteen million more on the
next contract, four years, two hundred million. Yeah, but the
danger is he balls out and it's complete free agent
and Pittsburgh calls or another team calls.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know the philosophy, but that's why
we'll have Reck Stroud on of what is the mentality
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I also I get a
kick out of, and I understand the hype machine. You
got to report on things or you got to kind
of create things. NFL reporters talking about somebody had a
great day in camp, somebody threw two interceptions, somebody threw
(42:26):
three touchdown passes. I want to take you back to
when Jamar Chase came out. If LSU is a rookie,
do you remember social media talking about all the drops,
Oh my gosh, this guy can't hold onto the football.
He went on to have over fourteen hundred yards and
thirteen touchdowns as a rookie and is widely considered one
(42:50):
of the top two or three receivers in the game.
But we got caught up in that he's dropping the ball.
Oh my goodness, well he's going to be a bust.
And then all of a sudden, it's like, uh, never mind.
It's something to say in training camp. Uh, Marvin Harrison
struggling with drops. Okay, Uh, let me see what happens
(43:14):
when the season starts. It'd be like if somebody says, man,
you know who is bawling out Shadoor Sanders two touchdown passes,
no interceptions. I mean like, uh, does he have pads on?
They playing? Is he wearing shorts? It's he got foot
flops on? Is the defense able to hit him?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Like?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Those are things I just go, Okay. I know it
gives us content you're searching for content here, but I
have to laugh when these headlines. You know, Baker Mayfield's
a headline, Vita vea. That's a headline. That's real. Somebody
dropped Uh Like that to me is not like stats
(43:58):
in training camp there's probably some guys. I mean, I
counted all my shots that I made in warm ups
when I was in college and be like, man, I'm
killing it. Yeah, go sit down, Golden boy. Okay, yeah, Pauline.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
What if we made like a negative version of it?
Shador Sanders is twelve for till twelve verse during a
scrimmage and then then we say, you know, the Browns
defense does not look good this year. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, you can spin it any way you want, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Yeah, my favorite thing was training camp Hall of Famers
for me. First ballot Kevin Cobb of the Philadelphia Eagles. Boy,
they were like Cobb or Vic. I was like, are
you serious?
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Kevin Cobb? Though he got paid, didn't he Then he
suffer a concussion and think bad concussion? What other pole
question do we have for the first down? Favorite cut
of steak?
Speaker 4 (44:50):
Then?
Speaker 11 (44:50):
Since I have a whole steak day, are you a rabbi?
A strip of filet or another guy?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Probably a strip. I always think of New York strip.
I always think of a stake. It's New York and
it's usually New York strip, So I would say that, yeah,
New York strip. Oh, by the way Deebo Samuel backed
with the Niners, and the Niners got a lot of
questions if I start to look at everything that's going on.
So you had a quarterback. They split quarterback games last
(45:22):
year nine to eight. I think so Perdy and Jones.
I think Perdy had nine starts and mac Jones had eight.
Mike Evans missed nine games last season, Ricky Pearsaw could
be out for the year, Kittle coming off an injury,
Deebo and Christian McCaffrey consistently banged up. So and you
(45:42):
got a coach who's banged up as well. So the
injuries they just keep mounting for the Niners. But we'll
get to that story about information on this Kyle Shanahan
car accident, because I mean, once again, if you tell
me up front your coach involved in a car accident,
he is non life threatening injuries. We hoped having back
(46:05):
to start training camp, okay, but all of a sudden,
it's information that's now leaking out. Nothing leaked out for
eleven days. But it just feels like this makes me
question it even more. And then the police aren't going
to give us information TMZ. I think filed a report.
(46:26):
They wanted to. Maybe it's the Freedom of Information Act
they were hoping to get and the police said no.
Paloel to A police said no, we're not releasing any
other information. Why what is it that they don't want
us to see? Now? Is it available for us to
be able to see this or read this? So I
(46:49):
just want to make sure that but TMZ is asking
for this that you know from what I read, paloel
to A police are not giving up any more information,
even dash cam bit like nothing, which makes me wonder
even more why or why not
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