June 13, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan thinks Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Dončić’ has nobody to blame but himself for fouling out of last night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals and he’s delusional if he thinks otherwise. And he’s able to be a little more objective about Jerry West’s passing after an emotional show yesterday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, it got interesting last night, but the end result predictable.
Boston now up three to zero as they hold off
the MAVs one oh six ninety nine. Come on in,
stay a while. We're a Danett down seating as the
day off. His son is graduating from eighth grade. Wow, yes,
tears will be optional. No, he said he's gonna cry
(00:28):
eighth grade. So congratulations to Kieran as he graduates eighth grade.
So we have Todd here. Todd will more than be
happy to make up for the loss of Seaton.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
You got poll questions. I mean, you got it all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You're ready to go, You're fired up, you got some
of your best comedy.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Bits ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But Marvin is here as well, and paulis as well.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yes, I also graduated eighth grade. Just want to go
to brag.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And I cried when you graduated from eighth grade. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Today's got to be better than yesterday, right, you know,
in the last couple of weeks we've lost Bill Walton
and yesterday Jerry West and thank you for the people
who reached out, including Jerry's family that reached out. You know,
I was honored a lot of people. You know, I
couldn't hide yesterday. It's live, it's radio and TV, and
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you know there's part of me that, you know Jerry
when he was going to pass away, you know, was
I going to be on the air at the time
to pay tribute. And what you saw and heard yesterday
was just raw. That's I even said to somebody yesterday.
I don't know what I said, but it came from
a great place. It came from my heart.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's the same thing with Bill Walton. Bill was more
of a contemporary. You know, we're similar age, and you
know when I was with him, I was talking to
like an older brother. With Jerry, as I said yesterday,
I was talking to my dad because my dad told
me that's somebody that's how you played basketball right there.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And we did the best.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We could to kind of encapsulate capture who Jerry is.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He was a tortured soul, it really was.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And I told this story and it's in his book
that you know he dealt with an alcoholic father who
was abusive to his mom, and Jerry slept with a
shotgun under his bed and said, I'll kill you if
you ever do that again. So there was just so
much kind of tied up, entangled with Jerry and his history.
(02:28):
But I hope that everybody got an opportunity to maybe
if you didn't know Jerry the basketball player or the
GM that you got an opportunity and those who did
know you open up the scrap book again and take
a trip down memory lane. And you know Bill dying
during the playoffs. You got tributes during the playoffs, which
(02:49):
is great. You know Jerry passing away, You got tributes
last night with the NBA shows. So yesterday was it
was difficult, but it was rewarding in a way that
I was able to give you a perspective of a
fifteen year old who first met Jerry in nineteen seventy
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one and got his autographed and watched him play in person,
to then have the opportunity to pay tribute to him
and his legacy at the end of his life. I'm very, very,
very fortunate to have that opportunity. All RIGHTY eight seven
seven three DP show operator Tyler standing by taking your
phone calls and we'll come up with the poll question.
(03:32):
I think Todd's doing the honors today.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah. Okay, we got a lot of pole questions.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Thank you, Tod. I only need one to start out with. Okay,
we will start with no, no, no, I'm not oh not Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It's only four after the hour usually wait a.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
One, yeah, I got away. I got to say good morning.
Those launching on Peacock. How are we going to do today?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They're great?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Okay, okay, how about we just try to be good.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Just start out good and then maybe maybe it kind
of elevate h two build it up from there.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Leg a B minus. Let's just start out.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So here's the pop question. No no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No ya sa. Good morning to those watching on Peacock.
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should b Celtics had when they survived a twenty two
to two Dallas run in the fourth quarter, hung on
to win, and they're now up three to zero in
this series. Last night, you did get both, you know,
(05:13):
he got a couple of punches right in the nose,
Jason Tatum with thirty one, Jalen Brown with thirty and
the Celtics now twenty eight and two all time, when
three to zero in the postseason, which really doesn't mean
anything because Larry Bird and Bill Russell aren't on this team,
so it's just this team. They need a championship. When
they get that championship, and it's going to be one
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of the more incredible runs that we've had in recent
history in the NBA, because if they win on Friday Night,
they're going to end up eighty and twenty with regular
season and the postseason. Jalen Brown right now is the
favorite to win the finals MVP. One person who's not
going to win it is Luca. Coming into the finals,
people were ready to, you know, take the crown from
(05:57):
Joker and give it to Luca. Luca is, even if
he won the titles, not the best player in the world.
It's still Joker. Luca helped get them there, but he's
part of the problem while they're there because last night,
inexcusable to foul out of a game where it's a
two point game, back to back fouls. You're on the
perimeter trying to take a charge. What are you doing?
(06:19):
You're too valuable to be in a situation like that.
Kyrie came through, but you saw the depth of Boston.
Boston is just a better team, plain and simple, and
you needed a herculean effort every night from Luca and
Kyrie had to have that, and then you were hoping
they had a third option who was going to fill
in the blanks the gray area Boston has that. There
(06:43):
was a moment where all five guys did something late
in the game where you had five straight possessions guys
did something, whether it was offense or defense, it was
a total team effort and that's why they're going to
win this championship. Now, the petulant behavior late in the
game is embarrassing, but you know, somebody has to be
(07:07):
able to say to him, you can't complain about every call.
You're not going to get every call. And also, it's
not like you're going to curry favor with an official
who's gonna go, yeah, all right, I'll give you a
couple of calls if anything. I mean, they're human. At
some point you tune him out, you go stop. Now
are they fifty to fifty calls?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
He put himself in a position that it would be
difficult to give him those calls.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't care. You're at home and you're a superstar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And remember people were talking about Luca's defense going into
the postseason. During the postseason, I go, okay, he's trying
to play defense. He can't play defense. He's like Steph.
Steph tries. He's not stopping anybody. But Luca, last night,
you have a comeback. You got a chance you've had,
(08:03):
you know, Game two, you guys had a chance like
you've had your moments here.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It might be a sweep, but it hasn't been. Boy,
they're just you know, blowing them out. They stayed in
the game. They had a chance there. Boston, their players
did what you want great players to do. Kyrie goes
for thirty five in the loss. If you include the
regular season and the playoffs, He's now lost thirteen consecutive
games to Boston.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
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Speaker 4 (08:45):
A little bit later on, we'll bring back Well.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We were gonna have ice cube on yesterday, but when
Jerry West passed away, we decided that we would wait
till today, So ice Cube a little bit later on.
Rich Lerner of Golf Channel, the US Open is underway
up Finehurst. Number two Andre Igudala won four titles finals.
MVP will join us a little bit later on as well,
to recap what we saw last night. Here is Luka
(09:10):
Doncic meeting with the media after the game.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Luca, what did you think of the whistles? That would
against you in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
I mean, no, I don't know. We couldn't play physical,
So no, I want to say nothing. But you know,
six follow in the NBA Finals. Basically, I'm like this,
come on, man, better than that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
No, no, no, that's on you. You put yourself in
a position where it's a judgment call. It wasn't cut
and dried, like, oh my god, of course they're going
to give him that call always at home. It's the
NBA Final. Like you, If he's thinking that way, he
is delusional. You're out on the perimeter and you're putting
(09:58):
yourself in a pos position where you don't have a
healthy knee, you got a chess contusion, you don't have mobility,
and Jason Tatum is going to beat you off the
dribble like you got to be smarter than that great player.
We can all agree on that petulant behavior. It's embarrassing
(10:19):
and people probably watching now are going, man, he complains
a lot. We brought it up a couple of years ago.
You got to stop. Yeah, I get it, you know,
we think that's what great players are supposed to do.
You're supposed to get every call, but you don't and complaining.
I would take the you know, the reverse effect, the
(10:40):
opposite effect. I would, you know, I'd go, hey, how
about you be nice to the official? Hey, yeap, my bad,
you got me. Even raise your hand like we did
in high school when you you know, got a foul
called up number twenty four.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yep, you got me. I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You can't you can't put yourself in a position like that,
and you're so you're the one guy that the team
can't lose in that moment, can't lose you. You went
on a nice run, you made Boston nervous, and then
all of a sudden, you gave him a bail out
there so series could end. Coming up on Friday night,
(11:18):
you start to look at the one loss percentages and
the number of games that the Celtics, so this would
be there. They're going to get their eightieth win. The
question is is at eighty and twenty eighty and twenty one.
With a win on Friday, the Celtics tie the eighty
seven Lakers for the eleventh best combined regular season and
playoff record of all time, now number one on the
(11:40):
list by a lot. The ninety five ninety six Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Hold Michael, Michael two, he's the best ever.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Then Golden State in twenty sixteen, so the Bulls were
eighty seven and thirteen. I don't remember a loss that season. Like,
I'll check out thirteen number. Jordan didn't miss a shot.
They did not lose a game. Golden State was eighty
three and sixteen. Lakers in seventy one, seventy two with
(12:10):
Jerry West, eighty one and sixteen. Then you got the
Bulls again ninety six, ninety seven, eighty four and seventeen.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Yes, Marvin, that ninety six season, I'm sure they lost
like the Grizzlies of the Raptors.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's gonna be one of those. They partied hard in
Canada one night.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
God.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So you got teams, you know, some obviously great teams.
Golden State won eighty eight games. I think that's the
most games that a team has ever won combined regular
season postseason. They in twenty fifteen, the Warriors were eighty
eight and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No ring though, No, no ring? All right, what's poll question?
We're you gonna go with today?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Todd?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
If you were a Celtics fan that has tickets for
Game five.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
At home if you sweat or you get to be
there in person for game fun.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
I'd want the Celtics to sweep the MAVs or lose
Game four instead of a possible clinching Game five at home.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All right, we'll save that one for after the commercial break.
What else do you have? Also?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Staying with the NBA, will the Celtics finish the sweep
of the MAVs in Dallas tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Without a doubt this series is over. MAVs will win
Game four and send it back to Boston.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
All right, what else do you have?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Luka Doncic needs to play better defense, not foul out
an NBA Finals game, stop whining to the officials, win
an NBA title. All over the above?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, it is all the above, But I mean there's
so much recency bias. With Joker out, Luca can be
the best player. I said, no, he's not the best
player in the world. He might win a title, and
he's not the best player in the world. It's still Joker.
But with Tatum and Brown, whoever's going to be the
MVP here? I don't think they care. They both have
(13:59):
Max on tracks and finally winning that championship. This would
be such a great story if this was the first
year that they were in the finals playing for a title,
because then we would say the following, how many titles
do you think they can win? Now we've gotten to
the point is they're there. They finally won a title.
Now we don't say anything after that. They won their title.
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Now we might they'll be the big favorite, certainly in
the East, well in the NBA next year to win
the title again. But they've won their title, or at
least in root to their title. Now it feels like
they can exhale and we can move on to well,
when's embiid gonna win a title? Or is Luca going
to win a title? Does Luca have to win a
title to be one of the great? You know, we're
(14:43):
going to do all of these things. That's what we do,
all right. Let me take a break, just getting started.
Phone calls always welcome eight seven to seven three DP
Show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at
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Speaker 2 (16:10):
I will settle on a poll question at least for
the first hour. US opens underway, beautiful weather, Pinehurst number two,
Tiger Wood's up on the leader board. It's early, but
this is one of those bonuses if you have TV
coverage and Tiger's doing well, and I think him making
the cut would be a great story there. Of course
(16:32):
he would contend then that would be uh blow out
the budget coverage over the weekend. So keeping an eye
on that. That is a very very very challenging golf course.
Now I say that from the perspective of being a
a nine handicap that it's very very very challenging. And
if you're looking at you know what makes it unique.
(16:53):
It's it doesn't look like your typical golf course, and
you know, you might find this another country. But the greens,
you know, it's like if you took a cereal bowl
and turn it upside down and then put grass on
top of it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's what the greens are like.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Very fast, probably thirteen on the stimp if you're familiar
with that as being a golf fan.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
But it's that whole facility.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If you get an opportunity, like if you say, hey,
I want to have a guy's trip, Pinehurst would be
the place to go. Now, there's Bandon Dunes, There's also
Pebble Beach, but those would be three of the places
that I would recommend. But Pinehurst, that whole facility. They
got a wonderful par three course down there, and I
think they have ten golf courses.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I've only played two.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I played Piner's number two and Pinehurst number eight, but
they've added a couple more. And it's a wonderful, wonderful
area down there, beautiful area about an hour outside of Raleigh,
and you could take a group of people down there
and you could have a good week of golf.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yes, Pauli.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
After six holes, Tiger is one under tied second. There's
only one other better. It's two hundred. But it's actually
doing pretty well because there's a bunch of people even
after six holes. Overpart what's funny is on the USA coverage, Yeah,
there's nine guys tied per second. Guess whose name is first?
Of the nine guys on the leader porner the old
TV trick, Tiger's there. Because you look at the leaderboard,
(18:19):
you go, all right, I WHOA Tiger's there.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
If you put all nine guys but you put Tiger
at ninth and they're all at one under, you're defeating
the purpose. You got to get eyeballs there. All right,
let's settle on. How about we do the If you
have tickets to Game five and you're Celtics fan, do
you want to have Boston lose Game four so you're
there for Game five?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Is that the poll question?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Tom?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Yeah, if you're a Celtics fan that has tickets for
Game five at home, I'd want the Celtics two.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And we have some early results.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh you do?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Oh really? Okay?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Okay, eighty three percent want the sweep of the MAVs
and four go the chance.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
To watch their team in person in game five.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What would you do?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
I would want to be there to see them win
at home and risk them shockingly losing four in a row.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't see that happening. I want to see the
game five, and yeah, I have to deal without the sweep.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This isn't a case of it's gonna be Game seven
and you're gonna run the risk you want to be
there for Game seven Game five, You're like, Okay, if
we don't win, we're gonna win eventually, Marvin, what.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Would you do?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I would want the Celtics to lose Game four and
be there for Game five.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All right, Paul, I'm usually the safe sweep guy. Not
make it about myself. I'm changing my mind these days.
I have enough confidence in the Celtics that they're gonna
win it where I could afford a loss, and man,
being there would be cool, but I'm not actually a
Celtic fan. Like if you turn it around and you
said this to me about the Cubs in sixteen, I
would have been too paranoid and said, sweep, sweep, I
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don't need to be there.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I would have enough confidence in Boston or less confidence
in Dallas, that Boston's gonna win the championship. And they
don't need Chris top supportzingis. They're ten and one this year,
so they don't even need him. You don't even have
to go, hey boy, can you give me a little
bit here? You don't need him. That's how good the
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team is. And then there'll be a debate about who's
the MVP. And then if it's Jalen Brown, then we
of course will bring up the conversation again, who's the
leader of that team. Jason Tatum was wonderful, Jalen Brown
was great. I don't know, if you get caught up
in I think you got to be thankful that you
do have somebody who can help you out. If you're
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not great, he can be great. And then we have
guys who can be really good. I mean, that's a
balanced team, and it's a team that Brad Stevens did
a wonderful job bringing in Drew Holiday and Christapsporzingis, Derek
White has been good, Al Horford a future Hall of Famer,
and then you know, you throw in a couple of
role players there, and you got Tatum and Brown and
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they are historically great team, certainly offensively. All right, A
couple of phone calls in here, Jim in Youngstown. Hi, Jim,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Hey, I tell you what?
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Good morning, Dan, first time read a long time, actually,
I think the first time I heard your voice. I
was a freshman at the University of Dayton and Founders Hall.
So I've heard you for a while. I wanted to
jump on the whole idea to sweep because I am
a Celtic Can and I'd like to see a sweep. Heck,
(21:23):
I mean you saw. I'm not going to go to
Garden anyway, so I just think it'd be cool. And
I think they just got too many horses. It doesn't
seem like it's a you know, everyone talks about matchups,
and it doesn't seem like it's a good matchup for
the MAVs against the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
To start, you needed to have Luca and Kyrie combined
for you know, sixty five seventy points. If you get that,
that's not a guarantee that you're going to win Boston,
just a better team top to bond. And you know,
you also get greedy sometimes, like how many teams sweep
(22:05):
in the NBA finals in history that in route to
your title, you swept the NBA finals Like some people
want that. You get greedy your team's resume, like we
were dominating and they were they have been, But how
important is that, Hey, we got to sweep in the
NBA finals. Oh, can be bragging rights there? Mike and Hollywood. Hey, Mike,
(22:30):
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (22:33):
Hey Dan, good morning morning. I wanted to call and
just thank you for yesterday. It was so personal and touching.
You were so human, and I mean you always are,
but yesterday was just one of the most really beautiful
hour more than hours of radio that I listened to.
When you couldn't go on, they gave you some time,
(22:55):
Dan ess, and then Hollywood jumped in just to make.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Sure there was no dead air.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
It was really really amazing and touching. Eye and Jerry
West threw a share. But I was crying listening to
you and thank you, just thank.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 16 (23:09):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And Paulie helped out because he said, if you'd need
my help, let me know. Well I could even say it, Paulie,
I need your help. I couldn't get the words out,
but once again it came. I didn't know where it
came from. I didn't know, it was just it happened
and all of a sudden. Now I can't hide it's
(23:31):
live radio and TV. But that's the beauty of it.
I mean, it's live. And even when I went home
and my wife goes, what's wrong, I said, I felt
like I lost my dad again, and she goes, what and.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I told her the story.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
She knew what I thought of Jerry West, and you know,
so you're trying to explain that and you don't know
it's going to hit you until it hits you, and
then you know. I couldn't get off the canvas. It's
like I was Tyson looking for my mouthpiece with Buster Douglas.
I was like, I don't know what to do here,
because there's certain times when I can go to commercial break.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Well, it was six after the hour.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I usually have to wait till around twelve or thirteen,
and I go, I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I can't do it, and you're just.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And then I played Jerry talking about Kobe when Kobe died,
and we had him on the next day, and oh
my god. Now so you have that, you know, Bill
Walton passing away, and I don't know, but I'm glad
I was able to pay tribute. I mean, that's that's
(24:42):
I've been doing this a long long time. But to
be fifteen years of age, get his autograph, watching play
in person, and then you fast forward fifty three years
later and I'm giving a tribute.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
To one of my idols. I. I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It was a bad day, but it was also a
great day because we got to tell you about Jerry
West if you didn't know him, and I told you
the story of how our relationship started is he called
me and cursed me out for five minutes, did not
stop yelling and screaming at me. Because on my show
(25:22):
in ESPN, I had Rick Riley, the columnist on and
Rick was accusing Jerry West in Memphis when he was
with Memphis of tanking, and oh my goodness, Jerry called.
I didn't even I said hello, boom five minutes and
I'm like, Jerry, And then I finally got the Jerry
(25:47):
I didn't say it. Rick Riley did and that it
was okay. And then I was like, okay, what And
then he said, next time, if you ever have you
know something about that or me or my team, you
call me. I said, I will, Jerry, and I did,
(26:10):
and then we developed a friendship, at least in my eyes,
we developed a friendship.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And he was always available.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And I know that there's been talk of should Jerry
be the logo as the NBA moves on, and I'm like,
Jerry didn't ask to be the logo. They didn't even
get his permission to be the logo. So it's not
like and you know, they are people in my business
who are like Jerry should have somebody else be the logo.
Jerry would have happily let anybody else be the logo.
(26:42):
He never asked for it. He didn't sue the NBA.
I mean, imagine all the merchandise it's got the logo
on it. It's Jerry West.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Jerry didn't care. He didn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
David Stern would not, to his deathbed, would not say
that logo is Jerry West. But the NBA had a
press release on the passing of Jerry West in the
very bottom, it's the logo. They don't admit that Jerry's
the logo, but they put the logo at the bottom
of their press release. And you know, Steve and A
(27:19):
Smith said, oh, they should have Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan
has his own logo. Why does he want to be
the logo and you can't do it where you go.
I don't know if that's Michael or not. Mike would sue.
Jerry West did not, didn't care. There's other things to
worry about. So if somebody would have said, or new
commissioner says, you know what, we're going to change the logo,
(27:42):
Jerry West would not have said anything about it other
than good, good, Well, I'm okay with it. It's not
who he was. But you know, for Steve and A
to say, oh, they should, you know, not have Jerry
the logo. It should be Michael Jordan. Great, ask my
if he wants to be the logo. He's got the
jump Man logo. He doesn't need the NBA logo, and
(28:05):
you're gonna have to pay him a boatload of money.
It's silly, silly, embarrassing. Take hot take Oh, let's take
away the logo from Jerry.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Jerry never asked for it to begin with, yes, yes, marm.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Going back to yesterday, you know, in all seriousness, Paulie
had an MVD type performance yesterday, like where we talk
about this type of stuff, and he was a big
help yesterday. So Paulie, I just want to commend you
on doing that, especially when DP didn't have the worst
because I know yesterday was incredibly tough for you.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, b yeah, I appreciate, but that, yeah, I wish
it didn't happen. Let's put it that way. Wish yesterday
show didn't have to happen. The one thing I did
think about though, with Jerry West. I mean, anybody would
love to have eighty six years, and his eighty six
years were as good as they get. But I have
this weird thing sometimes when I think about when superstar
athletes or whatever pass away. It's almost a decent thing
(28:59):
that Jerry West and Bill Walton passed away during the
NBA Finals and the NBA Playoffs, So they got their due.
If you're twenty five years old and tuned into the
finals covers last night, you learned about Jerry West. They
covered him multiple times a couple of weeks ago, Bill
Walton multiple times during the broadcast. And if Jerry West
had passed away September fifteenth, the Tuesday of an NFL week,
he would have not gotten the coverage. And you know,
(29:21):
there's no there's not a bright side to yesterday, But
that's a bit of a bright side to me.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, And you know, people didn't know Bill Walton was
one of the greatest college players of all time. They
knew him as Bill Walton, that the goofy announcer having
fun wearing the tied Knight shirts and then you start
see the video and then you go, wait, that's the
same guy. Yes, that's the same guy and Jerry. Most
of you didn't see Jerry play, or if you did,
(29:46):
you didn't see him play in person, and there's not
a lot of YouTube there. The NBA Finals tape delayed.
You know, he won one title, and it eats him up,
ate him up that he lost in the end. I mean,
he always was playing against the Celtics, so it was
(30:07):
it was difficult, but I'm glad that it happened in
real time. You know, I didn't want anything scripted, you know,
I didn't have time to have anything scripted. It was, Hey,
this happened, let's react. And that's when I take great
pride in this show that we reacted and to have
Reggie on and Bill Plashke at the LA Times on.
(30:29):
We brought back some of the clips. That's what's great.
And the guys that I have in the back room
who jumped on it right away. I mean, that's that's
why this there's no other show like this show.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Just not Terry in Rochester, Hi Terry.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, by the way, JJ Reddick is going to interview
with the Lakers. I just got this from WOJ. JJ
will formally interview with the Lakers this weekend, and a
strong performance is expected to move him to the forefront
of the franchise.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Is search? Wait? Wait? Is this groundholds day? Did we wait?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
What happened this past week prior to Oh that's right,
Dan Hurley was going to get the job. So and
a strong performance is expected to so the WOJ is
already expecting a strong performance to move him to the
forefront of the franchise.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yes, paulm okay, if you're the Lakers that you somehow
hired JJ Reddick, can you do the press comments? This
was our this was our choice from the beginning. This
is our dream candidate.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
This is the guy we wanted all along. This is
the guy.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
If you're JJ, you know what you uh, you do it,
you take it, and then you hopefully you move on
and then people forget you know, you wasn't even the
first choice there.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Yes, mar do you ask for the same amount of years?
Maybe not the money, but do you ask for the
same amount of years?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well, what leverage does he have?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
None?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know, Hey, if you don't give me that job,
I'm going back to ESPN.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Okay, that's okay, Yeah, that's Rob Po Lincoln, Jennie.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Buss Uh okay, Terry in Rochester, Hi, Terry, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Nobody touched that pandel box? I got me dry. Hi Dan,
I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you this.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Then.
Speaker 13 (32:21):
First of all, let me say, Michael Dosten to the
Jerry West family. Uh we all, we all love Jerry Wess.
Then I got three guys that I know you love.
This isn't including the dan Nets and their family. I
know you love all those guys already. Man, I wanted
to say this before something happened to Jerry West. Uh
we lost Vin Scully. Now we lost Jerry West. You
(32:43):
know it's really father and that third guy, Dan, I
know you love respect admirer are here to get in
the senior voice, and you talk to these three guys.
Is al Michael's so yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yeah, let's know, Yeah, I got a bubble wrapount.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Michael's here, oh show yes, yes, uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
I can't even uh no, we're not entertaining those thoughts. No, no, no, let.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Me take a break. Got her play of the day off.
Next Tom Brady Knight, who knew out of nowhere, Tom
Brady got a night. Okay, we'll talk about that back
after this.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
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Rich Lerner is on the call with Golf Channel with
the US Open and new leader Brooks Keepka after seven holes,
(34:45):
Tiger's playing okay, hanging in there. Let me see Nathan
and Indiana. Hi, Nate, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
ADP?
Speaker 9 (34:54):
How's it going to a full question for you guys
par golf and say that would you take a Tiger
Woods win or Scottie Scheffer slam a hung up and
let you guys go.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I would take a Tiger win. I think the fallout.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Granted, Scheffler is playing Tiger like, but keep in mind,
Tiger had ten of these years that Scottish having Tiger
had ten and might have been ten consecutive years of
what Scotty Scheffler's doing. Just so you understand, you know,
(35:33):
Connor McDavid and Edmonton as opposed to Wayne Gretzky and Edmonton.
That's the difference here. Scotty has done a one wonderful
job this year, the last couple of years, but Tiger
had ten of these. J D and Tulsa, Hi, JD,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Hey? Dan?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I just wanted to call in, not to keep on
bringing it up, but Yesterday was probably the most emotional
day I've ever heard the show, and I wanted to
give a huge shout out to Paulie because I feel
like he, even though Marv brought this up, I feel
like he.
Speaker 16 (36:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Carried I guess the show whenever once the emotions started hitting,
I think he kind of did a good job of
trying to fill in even though everyone was emotional. And
I also wanted to say that I'm not a crier.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I know you are.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
And I was sitting in front of a client's office
with a meeting, and I literally called him and told
him I was going to be a few minutes late
because every time I would hear you choke up, it
would make me tear up. And so it happened probably
five times, and so I just called him to some
gonna be running late and finally got in there. But again,
(36:49):
I think Paulli just killed it yesterday. So he's definitely
the MVD this year. I'm gonna call it now.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
All right, Well, thank you, JD. That's why I hired Paulie.
Is no emotion therefore or came in handy. I knew
it was going to come in handy that you get
to show no emotion. You never cry.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Years ago you said to me, I don't care if
you know sports or radio, but if you have no emotions,
you're my guy.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, I just need you there when I get emotional.
You don't show any emotion. Although Paully slipped a little,
you started to crack a little bit at one point. Well,
and I was like, okay, come on over, PAULI.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I didn't want to get into it, but there's a
psychology to it that you mentioned when your father's and
your favorite athlete passes away. It's a time portal to
when your dad passes away. And so when you said it,
I started thinking about my dad and Walter Payton and
what it must be for you, and you know you
don't wish that on anybody, and it's just it's hard
to stop.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, Like I said, I felt like I buried my
dad again. And it was just it hit me so
hard and I'm like I I couldn't get out from
underneath it. And then I'm like, all right, bleep it.
I mean this here it is. You want to listen,
you want to watch here it is, but it's I
(38:05):
was exhausted yesterday. I was I was It's one of
those where you didn't do anything. I was so mentally
exhausted and I just sat. I just sat by myself,
and I just started thinking. And then I started looking
at pictures at Jerry West. I started, I mean, it
(38:25):
was just like one of those what am I doing?
I gotta snap out of it, I gotta do something
fun here. What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Yes, you said something yesterday and again Jerry West as
well before my time, that he was different, like people
always say, Pete Marivitch was different. I went back and
watched those YouTube videoscuse that you and Marvin were talking
about Jerry West and how he looked like a modern
basketball player in a different era. It's real, it's tangible.
I was watching West highlights. He looks like he came
from outer space. On the basketball court. People are still
(38:55):
dribbling that on top of the ball thing and he's
crossing over and he was.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Just he was athletic. Yes, And you didn't say that
like Bob Coosey. People say, oh, he's athletic, not like Jerry.
Jerry was beating you off the dribble, shooting jumpers. He
was just he was different. He was different coming into
the NBA, and you hadn't seen that.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oscar was very athletic as well, and they came in
at the same time, both on the Olympic teams. But Jerry,
that jumper, you can study that. It's up there with
great shooters of all time. Robert in Virginia, Hi.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Robert, Hey, Dan, really enjoy your show.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Thank you, Robert.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Fifty three summers ago, I got a summer job at
the Jerry West basketball camp and it was a great
collection of players and from all over and of course
had a lot of college players there. There were guidance canters,
but I used to run the canteen, which is where
the kids would get cookes and food and that type
of thing. And I was actually closed and I was
reading a book about Jerry West. And I get a
(40:03):
knock on the door, and a lot of times goes, hey,
I'm closed, but I didn't do it. I went and
answer the door and it was Jerry. And I'll tell
you what, I was just so blown away to be
one on one with him, and we talked for about
ten minutes. But you know, he was just so authentic
and so nice, and he asked about me and I
was a point guard down our high school and just
(40:24):
ask questions that your normal people would ask, and it
just feel very, very real.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
As you know, he was very he was curious about you.
He could have been a know it all, but he wasn't.
He was curious about you. Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug,
welcome back.
Speaker 16 (40:40):
Well Dan, I am not a huge basketball fan, and
if not for your show, Jerry West, for me, he
would have probably just been a name in the history book.
But through your show, I got to see your feelings
for him and what he meant to you. And then
subsequently the Showtime show came out and I was like,
wait a minute, this is the same he came off
(41:01):
in that he was portrayed. It's kind of a I
hate to say this as kind of a neurotic jerk.
And I was wondering, Yeah, oh, your feelings about that?
I mean, it wasn't the fun. Later on the kind
of added some warmth, but it was not the most
flattering of portrayal.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Sin Yeah, I felt bad about that.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I did, And I talked to the actor who portrayed him,
and the actor said that he kind of got Jerry's
mannerism's personality down by watching all the interviews that I
did with him, But that's I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Jerry was a tortured soul.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
He was, but he accomplished an awful lot, maybe the
most impactful him and Bill Russell and Michael Jordan, Larry
and Magic David Stern One Hour of the Books two
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You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, it got interesting last night, but the end result predictable.
Boston now up three to zero as they hold off
the MAVs one oh six ninety nine. Come on in,
stay a while. We're a Danett down seating as the
day off. His son is graduating from eighth grade. Wow, yes,
tears will be optional. No, he said he's gonna cry
(00:28):
eighth grade. So congratulations to Kieran as he graduates eighth grade.
So we have Todd here. Todd will more than be
happy to make up for the loss of Seaton.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
You got poll questions. I mean, you got it all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You're ready to go, You're fired up, you got some
of your best comedy.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Bits ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But Marvin is here as well, and paulis as well.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yes, I also graduated eighth grade. Just want to go
to brag.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And I cried when you graduated from eighth grade. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Today's got to be better than yesterday, right, you know,
in the last couple of weeks we've lost Bill Walton
and yesterday Jerry West and thank you for the people
who reached out, including Jerry's family that reached out. You know,
I was honored a lot of people. You know, I
couldn't hide yesterday. It's live, it's radio and TV, and
(01:19):
you know there's part of me that, you know Jerry
when he was going to pass away, you know, was
I going to be on the air at the time
to pay tribute. And what you saw and heard yesterday
was just raw. That's I even said to somebody yesterday.
I don't know what I said, but it came from
a great place. It came from my heart.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's the same thing with Bill Walton. Bill was more
of a contemporary. You know, we're similar age, and you
know when I was with him, I was talking to
like an older brother. With Jerry, as I said yesterday,
I was talking to my dad because my dad told
me that's somebody that's how you played basketball right there.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And we did the best.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We could to kind of encapsulate capture who Jerry is.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He was a tortured soul, it really was.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And I told this story and it's in his book
that you know he dealt with an alcoholic father who
was abusive to his mom, and Jerry slept with a
shotgun under his bed and said, I'll kill you if
you ever do that again. So there was just so
much kind of tied up, entangled with Jerry and his history.
(02:28):
But I hope that everybody got an opportunity to maybe
if you didn't know Jerry the basketball player or the
GM that you got an opportunity and those who did
know you open up the scrap book again and take
a trip down memory lane. And you know Bill dying
during the playoffs. You got tributes during the playoffs, which
(02:49):
is great. You know Jerry passing away, You got tributes
last night with the NBA shows. So yesterday was it
was difficult, but it was rewarding in a way that
I was able to give you a perspective of a
fifteen year old who first met Jerry in nineteen seventy
(03:10):
one and got his autographed and watched him play in person,
to then have the opportunity to pay tribute to him
and his legacy at the end of his life. I'm very, very,
very fortunate to have that opportunity. All RIGHTY eight seven
seven three DP show operator Tyler standing by taking your
phone calls and we'll come up with the poll question.
(03:32):
I think Todd's doing the honors today.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah. Okay, we got a lot of pole questions.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Thank you, Tod. I only need one to start out with. Okay,
we will start with no, no, no, I'm not oh not Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It's only four after the hour usually wait a.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
One, yeah, I got away. I got to say good morning.
Those launching on Peacock. How are we going to do today?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They're great?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Okay, okay, how about we just try to be good.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Just start out good and then maybe maybe it kind
of elevate h two build it up from there.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Leg a B minus. Let's just start out.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So here's the pop question. No no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No ya sa. Good morning to those watching on Peacock.
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It's gonna be a long morning. Thank you for downloading
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should b Celtics had when they survived a twenty two
to two Dallas run in the fourth quarter, hung on
to win, and they're now up three to zero in
this series. Last night, you did get both, you know,
(05:13):
he got a couple of punches right in the nose,
Jason Tatum with thirty one, Jalen Brown with thirty and
the Celtics now twenty eight and two all time, when
three to zero in the postseason, which really doesn't mean
anything because Larry Bird and Bill Russell aren't on this team,
so it's just this team. They need a championship. When
they get that championship, and it's going to be one
(05:34):
of the more incredible runs that we've had in recent
history in the NBA, because if they win on Friday Night,
they're going to end up eighty and twenty with regular
season and the postseason. Jalen Brown right now is the
favorite to win the finals MVP. One person who's not
going to win it is Luca. Coming into the finals,
people were ready to, you know, take the crown from
(05:57):
Joker and give it to Luca. Luca is, even if
he won the titles, not the best player in the world.
It's still Joker. Luca helped get them there, but he's
part of the problem while they're there because last night,
inexcusable to foul out of a game where it's a
two point game, back to back fouls. You're on the
perimeter trying to take a charge. What are you doing?
(06:19):
You're too valuable to be in a situation like that.
Kyrie came through, but you saw the depth of Boston.
Boston is just a better team, plain and simple, and
you needed a herculean effort every night from Luca and
Kyrie had to have that, and then you were hoping
they had a third option who was going to fill
in the blanks the gray area Boston has that. There
(06:43):
was a moment where all five guys did something late
in the game where you had five straight possessions guys
did something, whether it was offense or defense, it was
a total team effort and that's why they're going to
win this championship. Now, the petulant behavior late in the
game is embarrassing, but you know, somebody has to be
(07:07):
able to say to him, you can't complain about every call.
You're not going to get every call. And also, it's
not like you're going to curry favor with an official
who's gonna go, yeah, all right, I'll give you a
couple of calls if anything. I mean, they're human. At
some point you tune him out, you go stop. Now
are they fifty to fifty calls?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
He put himself in a position that it would be
difficult to give him those calls.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't care. You're at home and you're a superstar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And remember people were talking about Luca's defense going into
the postseason. During the postseason, I go, okay, he's trying
to play defense. He can't play defense. He's like Steph.
Steph tries. He's not stopping anybody. But Luca, last night,
you have a comeback. You got a chance you've had,
(08:03):
you know, Game two, you guys had a chance like
you've had your moments here.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It might be a sweep, but it hasn't been. Boy,
they're just you know, blowing them out. They stayed in
the game. They had a chance there. Boston, their players
did what you want great players to do. Kyrie goes
for thirty five in the loss. If you include the
regular season and the playoffs, He's now lost thirteen consecutive
games to Boston.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
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Speaker 4 (08:45):
A little bit later on, we'll bring back Well.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We were gonna have ice cube on yesterday, but when
Jerry West passed away, we decided that we would wait
till today, So ice Cube a little bit later on.
Rich Lerner of Golf Channel, the US Open is underway
up Finehurst. Number two Andre Igudala won four titles finals.
MVP will join us a little bit later on as well,
to recap what we saw last night. Here is Luka
(09:10):
Doncic meeting with the media after the game.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Luca, what did you think of the whistles? That would
against you in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
I mean, no, I don't know. We couldn't play physical,
So no, I want to say nothing. But you know,
six follow in the NBA Finals. Basically, I'm like this,
come on, man, better than that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
No, no, no, that's on you. You put yourself in
a position where it's a judgment call. It wasn't cut
and dried, like, oh my god, of course they're going
to give him that call always at home. It's the
NBA Final. Like you, If he's thinking that way, he
is delusional. You're out on the perimeter and you're putting
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yourself in a pos position where you don't have a
healthy knee, you got a chess contusion, you don't have mobility,
and Jason Tatum is going to beat you off the
dribble like you got to be smarter than that great player.
We can all agree on that petulant behavior. It's embarrassing
(10:19):
and people probably watching now are going, man, he complains
a lot. We brought it up a couple of years ago.
You got to stop. Yeah, I get it, you know,
we think that's what great players are supposed to do.
You're supposed to get every call, but you don't and complaining.
I would take the you know, the reverse effect, the
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opposite effect. I would, you know, I'd go, hey, how
about you be nice to the official? Hey, yeap, my bad,
you got me. Even raise your hand like we did
in high school when you you know, got a foul
called up number twenty four.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yep, you got me. I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You can't you can't put yourself in a position like that,
and you're so you're the one guy that the team
can't lose in that moment, can't lose you. You went
on a nice run, you made Boston nervous, and then
all of a sudden, you gave him a bail out
there so series could end. Coming up on Friday night,
(11:18):
you start to look at the one loss percentages and
the number of games that the Celtics, so this would
be there. They're going to get their eightieth win. The
question is is at eighty and twenty eighty and twenty one.
With a win on Friday, the Celtics tie the eighty
seven Lakers for the eleventh best combined regular season and
playoff record of all time, now number one on the
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list by a lot. The ninety five ninety six Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Hold Michael, Michael two, he's the best ever.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Then Golden State in twenty sixteen, so the Bulls were
eighty seven and thirteen. I don't remember a loss that season. Like,
I'll check out thirteen number. Jordan didn't miss a shot.
They did not lose a game. Golden State was eighty
three and sixteen. Lakers in seventy one, seventy two with
(12:10):
Jerry West, eighty one and sixteen. Then you got the
Bulls again ninety six, ninety seven, eighty four and seventeen.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Yes, Marvin, that ninety six season, I'm sure they lost
like the Grizzlies of the Raptors.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's gonna be one of those. They partied hard in
Canada one night.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
God.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So you got teams, you know, some obviously great teams.
Golden State won eighty eight games. I think that's the
most games that a team has ever won combined regular
season postseason. They in twenty fifteen, the Warriors were eighty
eight and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No ring though, No, no ring? All right, what's poll question?
We're you gonna go with today?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Todd?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
If you were a Celtics fan that has tickets for
Game five.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
At home if you sweat or you get to be
there in person for game fun.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
I'd want the Celtics to sweep the MAVs or lose
Game four instead of a possible clinching Game five at home.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All right, we'll save that one for after the commercial break.
What else do you have? Also?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Staying with the NBA, will the Celtics finish the sweep
of the MAVs in Dallas tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Without a doubt this series is over. MAVs will win
Game four and send it back to Boston.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
All right, what else do you have?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Luka Doncic needs to play better defense, not foul out
an NBA Finals game, stop whining to the officials, win
an NBA title. All over the above?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, it is all the above, But I mean there's
so much recency bias. With Joker out, Luca can be
the best player. I said, no, he's not the best
player in the world. He might win a title, and
he's not the best player in the world. It's still Joker.
But with Tatum and Brown, whoever's going to be the
MVP here? I don't think they care. They both have
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Max on tracks and finally winning that championship. This would
be such a great story if this was the first
year that they were in the finals playing for a title,
because then we would say the following, how many titles
do you think they can win? Now we've gotten to
the point is they're there. They finally won a title.
Now we don't say anything after that. They won their title.
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Now we might they'll be the big favorite, certainly in
the East, well in the NBA next year to win
the title again. But they've won their title, or at
least in root to their title. Now it feels like
they can exhale and we can move on to well,
when's embiid gonna win a title? Or is Luca going
to win a title? Does Luca have to win a
title to be one of the great? You know, we're
(14:43):
going to do all of these things. That's what we do,
all right. Let me take a break, just getting started.
Phone calls always welcome eight seven to seven three DP
Show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at
DP show. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2 (16:10):
I will settle on a poll question at least for
the first hour. US opens underway, beautiful weather, Pinehurst number two,
Tiger Wood's up on the leader board. It's early, but
this is one of those bonuses if you have TV
coverage and Tiger's doing well, and I think him making
the cut would be a great story there. Of course
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he would contend then that would be uh blow out
the budget coverage over the weekend. So keeping an eye
on that. That is a very very very challenging golf course.
Now I say that from the perspective of being a
a nine handicap that it's very very very challenging. And
if you're looking at you know what makes it unique.
(16:53):
It's it doesn't look like your typical golf course, and
you know, you might find this another country. But the greens,
you know, it's like if you took a cereal bowl
and turn it upside down and then put grass on
top of it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's what the greens are like.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Very fast, probably thirteen on the stimp if you're familiar
with that as being a golf fan.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
But it's that whole facility.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If you get an opportunity, like if you say, hey,
I want to have a guy's trip, Pinehurst would be
the place to go. Now, there's Bandon Dunes, There's also
Pebble Beach, but those would be three of the places
that I would recommend. But Pinehurst, that whole facility. They
got a wonderful par three course down there, and I
think they have ten golf courses.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I've only played two.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I played Piner's number two and Pinehurst number eight, but
they've added a couple more. And it's a wonderful, wonderful
area down there, beautiful area about an hour outside of Raleigh,
and you could take a group of people down there
and you could have a good week of golf.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yes, Pauli.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
After six holes, Tiger is one under tied second. There's
only one other better. It's two hundred. But it's actually
doing pretty well because there's a bunch of people even
after six holes. Overpart what's funny is on the USA coverage, Yeah,
there's nine guys tied per second. Guess whose name is first?
Of the nine guys on the leader porner the old
TV trick, Tiger's there. Because you look at the leaderboard,
(18:19):
you go, all right, I WHOA Tiger's there.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
If you put all nine guys but you put Tiger
at ninth and they're all at one under, you're defeating
the purpose. You got to get eyeballs there. All right,
let's settle on. How about we do the If you
have tickets to Game five and you're Celtics fan, do
you want to have Boston lose Game four so you're
there for Game five?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Is that the poll question?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Tom?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Yeah, if you're a Celtics fan that has tickets for
Game five at home, I'd want the Celtics two.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And we have some early results.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh you do?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Oh really? Okay?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Okay, eighty three percent want the sweep of the MAVs
and four go the chance.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
To watch their team in person in game five.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What would you do?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
I would want to be there to see them win
at home and risk them shockingly losing four in a row.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't see that happening. I want to see the
game five, and yeah, I have to deal without the sweep.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This isn't a case of it's gonna be Game seven
and you're gonna run the risk you want to be
there for Game seven Game five, You're like, Okay, if
we don't win, we're gonna win eventually, Marvin, what.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Would you do?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I would want the Celtics to lose Game four and
be there for Game five.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All right, Paul, I'm usually the safe sweep guy. Not
make it about myself. I'm changing my mind these days.
I have enough confidence in the Celtics that they're gonna
win it where I could afford a loss, and man,
being there would be cool, but I'm not actually a
Celtic fan. Like if you turn it around and you
said this to me about the Cubs in sixteen, I
would have been too paranoid and said, sweep, sweep, I
(19:44):
don't need to be there.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I would have enough confidence in Boston or less confidence
in Dallas, that Boston's gonna win the championship. And they
don't need Chris top supportzingis. They're ten and one this year,
so they don't even need him. You don't even have
to go, hey boy, can you give me a little
bit here? You don't need him. That's how good the
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team is. And then there'll be a debate about who's
the MVP. And then if it's Jalen Brown, then we
of course will bring up the conversation again, who's the
leader of that team. Jason Tatum was wonderful, Jalen Brown
was great. I don't know, if you get caught up
in I think you got to be thankful that you
do have somebody who can help you out. If you're
(20:29):
not great, he can be great. And then we have
guys who can be really good. I mean, that's a
balanced team, and it's a team that Brad Stevens did
a wonderful job bringing in Drew Holiday and Christapsporzingis, Derek
White has been good, Al Horford a future Hall of Famer,
and then you know, you throw in a couple of
role players there, and you got Tatum and Brown and
(20:51):
they are historically great team, certainly offensively. All right, A
couple of phone calls in here, Jim in Youngstown. Hi, Jim,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Hey, I tell you what?
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Good morning, Dan, first time read a long time, actually,
I think the first time I heard your voice. I
was a freshman at the University of Dayton and Founders Hall.
So I've heard you for a while. I wanted to
jump on the whole idea to sweep because I am
a Celtic Can and I'd like to see a sweep. Heck,
(21:23):
I mean you saw. I'm not going to go to
Garden anyway, so I just think it'd be cool. And
I think they just got too many horses. It doesn't
seem like it's a you know, everyone talks about matchups,
and it doesn't seem like it's a good matchup for
the MAVs against the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
To start, you needed to have Luca and Kyrie combined
for you know, sixty five seventy points. If you get that,
that's not a guarantee that you're going to win Boston,
just a better team top to bond. And you know,
you also get greedy sometimes, like how many teams sweep
(22:05):
in the NBA finals in history that in route to
your title, you swept the NBA finals Like some people
want that. You get greedy your team's resume, like we
were dominating and they were they have been, But how
important is that, Hey, we got to sweep in the
NBA finals. Oh, can be bragging rights there? Mike and Hollywood. Hey, Mike,
(22:30):
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (22:33):
Hey Dan, good morning morning. I wanted to call and
just thank you for yesterday. It was so personal and touching.
You were so human, and I mean you always are,
but yesterday was just one of the most really beautiful
hour more than hours of radio that I listened to.
When you couldn't go on, they gave you some time,
(22:55):
Dan ess, and then Hollywood jumped in just to make.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Sure there was no dead air.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
It was really really amazing and touching. Eye and Jerry
West threw a share. But I was crying listening to
you and thank you, just thank.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 16 (23:09):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And Paulie helped out because he said, if you'd need
my help, let me know. Well I could even say it, Paulie,
I need your help. I couldn't get the words out,
but once again it came. I didn't know where it
came from. I didn't know, it was just it happened
and all of a sudden. Now I can't hide it's
(23:31):
live radio and TV. But that's the beauty of it.
I mean, it's live. And even when I went home
and my wife goes, what's wrong, I said, I felt
like I lost my dad again, and she goes, what and.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I told her the story.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
She knew what I thought of Jerry West, and you know,
so you're trying to explain that and you don't know
it's going to hit you until it hits you, and
then you know. I couldn't get off the canvas. It's
like I was Tyson looking for my mouthpiece with Buster Douglas.
I was like, I don't know what to do here,
because there's certain times when I can go to commercial break.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Well, it was six after the hour.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I usually have to wait till around twelve or thirteen,
and I go, I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I can't do it, and you're just.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And then I played Jerry talking about Kobe when Kobe died,
and we had him on the next day, and oh
my god. Now so you have that, you know, Bill
Walton passing away, and I don't know, but I'm glad
I was able to pay tribute. I mean, that's that's
(24:42):
I've been doing this a long long time. But to
be fifteen years of age, get his autograph, watching play
in person, and then you fast forward fifty three years
later and I'm giving a tribute.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
To one of my idols. I. I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It was a bad day, but it was also a
great day because we got to tell you about Jerry
West if you didn't know him, and I told you
the story of how our relationship started is he called
me and cursed me out for five minutes, did not
stop yelling and screaming at me. Because on my show
(25:22):
in ESPN, I had Rick Riley, the columnist on and
Rick was accusing Jerry West in Memphis when he was
with Memphis of tanking, and oh my goodness, Jerry called.
I didn't even I said hello, boom five minutes and
I'm like, Jerry, And then I finally got the Jerry
(25:47):
I didn't say it. Rick Riley did and that it
was okay. And then I was like, okay, what And
then he said, next time, if you ever have you
know something about that or me or my team, you
call me. I said, I will, Jerry, and I did,
(26:10):
and then we developed a friendship, at least in my eyes,
we developed a friendship.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And he was always available.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And I know that there's been talk of should Jerry
be the logo as the NBA moves on, and I'm like,
Jerry didn't ask to be the logo. They didn't even
get his permission to be the logo. So it's not
like and you know, they are people in my business
who are like Jerry should have somebody else be the logo.
Jerry would have happily let anybody else be the logo.
(26:42):
He never asked for it. He didn't sue the NBA.
I mean, imagine all the merchandise it's got the logo
on it. It's Jerry West.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Jerry didn't care. He didn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
David Stern would not, to his deathbed, would not say
that logo is Jerry West. But the NBA had a
press release on the passing of Jerry West in the
very bottom, it's the logo. They don't admit that Jerry's
the logo, but they put the logo at the bottom
of their press release. And you know, Steve and A
(27:19):
Smith said, oh, they should have Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan
has his own logo. Why does he want to be
the logo and you can't do it where you go.
I don't know if that's Michael or not. Mike would sue.
Jerry West did not, didn't care. There's other things to
worry about. So if somebody would have said, or new
commissioner says, you know what, we're going to change the logo,
(27:42):
Jerry West would not have said anything about it other
than good, good, Well, I'm okay with it. It's not
who he was. But you know, for Steve and A
to say, oh, they should, you know, not have Jerry
the logo. It should be Michael Jordan. Great, ask my
if he wants to be the logo. He's got the
jump Man logo. He doesn't need the NBA logo, and
(28:05):
you're gonna have to pay him a boatload of money.
It's silly, silly, embarrassing. Take hot take Oh, let's take
away the logo from Jerry.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Jerry never asked for it to begin with, yes, yes, marm.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Going back to yesterday, you know, in all seriousness, Paulie
had an MVD type performance yesterday, like where we talk
about this type of stuff, and he was a big
help yesterday. So Paulie, I just want to commend you
on doing that, especially when DP didn't have the worst
because I know yesterday was incredibly tough for you.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, b yeah, I appreciate, but that, yeah, I wish
it didn't happen. Let's put it that way. Wish yesterday
show didn't have to happen. The one thing I did
think about though, with Jerry West. I mean, anybody would
love to have eighty six years, and his eighty six
years were as good as they get. But I have
this weird thing sometimes when I think about when superstar
athletes or whatever pass away. It's almost a decent thing
(28:59):
that Jerry West and Bill Walton passed away during the
NBA Finals and the NBA Playoffs, So they got their due.
If you're twenty five years old and tuned into the
finals covers last night, you learned about Jerry West. They
covered him multiple times a couple of weeks ago, Bill
Walton multiple times during the broadcast. And if Jerry West
had passed away September fifteenth, the Tuesday of an NFL week,
he would have not gotten the coverage. And you know,
(29:21):
there's no there's not a bright side to yesterday, But
that's a bit of a bright side to me.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, And you know, people didn't know Bill Walton was
one of the greatest college players of all time. They
knew him as Bill Walton, that the goofy announcer having
fun wearing the tied Knight shirts and then you start
see the video and then you go, wait, that's the
same guy. Yes, that's the same guy and Jerry. Most
of you didn't see Jerry play, or if you did,
(29:46):
you didn't see him play in person, and there's not
a lot of YouTube there. The NBA Finals tape delayed.
You know, he won one title, and it eats him up,
ate him up that he lost in the end. I mean,
he always was playing against the Celtics, so it was
(30:07):
it was difficult, but I'm glad that it happened in
real time. You know, I didn't want anything scripted, you know,
I didn't have time to have anything scripted. It was, Hey,
this happened, let's react. And that's when I take great
pride in this show that we reacted and to have
Reggie on and Bill Plashke at the LA Times on.
(30:29):
We brought back some of the clips. That's what's great.
And the guys that I have in the back room
who jumped on it right away. I mean, that's that's
why this there's no other show like this show.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Just not Terry in Rochester, Hi Terry.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, by the way, JJ Reddick is going to interview
with the Lakers. I just got this from WOJ. JJ
will formally interview with the Lakers this weekend, and a
strong performance is expected to move him to the forefront
of the franchise.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Is search? Wait? Wait? Is this groundholds day? Did we wait?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
What happened this past week prior to Oh that's right,
Dan Hurley was going to get the job. So and
a strong performance is expected to so the WOJ is
already expecting a strong performance to move him to the
forefront of the franchise.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yes, paulm okay, if you're the Lakers that you somehow
hired JJ Reddick, can you do the press comments? This
was our this was our choice from the beginning. This
is our dream candidate.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
This is the guy we wanted all along. This is
the guy.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
If you're JJ, you know what you uh, you do it,
you take it, and then you hopefully you move on
and then people forget you know, you wasn't even the
first choice there.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Yes, mar do you ask for the same amount of years?
Maybe not the money, but do you ask for the
same amount of years?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well, what leverage does he have?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
None?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know, Hey, if you don't give me that job,
I'm going back to ESPN.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Okay, that's okay, Yeah, that's Rob Po Lincoln, Jennie.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Buss Uh okay, Terry in Rochester, Hi, Terry, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Nobody touched that pandel box? I got me dry. Hi Dan,
I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you this.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Then.
Speaker 13 (32:21):
First of all, let me say, Michael Dosten to the
Jerry West family. Uh we all, we all love Jerry Wess.
Then I got three guys that I know you love.
This isn't including the dan Nets and their family. I
know you love all those guys already. Man, I wanted
to say this before something happened to Jerry West. Uh
we lost Vin Scully. Now we lost Jerry West. You
(32:43):
know it's really father and that third guy, Dan, I
know you love respect admirer are here to get in
the senior voice, and you talk to these three guys.
Is al Michael's so yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yeah, let's know, Yeah, I got a bubble wrapount.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Michael's here, oh show yes, yes, uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
I can't even uh no, we're not entertaining those thoughts. No, no, no, let.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Me take a break. Got her play of the day off.
Next Tom Brady Knight, who knew out of nowhere, Tom
Brady got a night. Okay, we'll talk about that back
after this.
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Rich Lerner is on the call with Golf Channel with
the US Open and new leader Brooks Keepka after seven holes,
(34:45):
Tiger's playing okay, hanging in there. Let me see Nathan
and Indiana. Hi, Nate, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
ADP?
Speaker 9 (34:54):
How's it going to a full question for you guys
par golf and say that would you take a Tiger
Woods win or Scottie Scheffer slam a hung up and
let you guys go.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I would take a Tiger win. I think the fallout.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Granted, Scheffler is playing Tiger like, but keep in mind,
Tiger had ten of these years that Scottish having Tiger
had ten and might have been ten consecutive years of
what Scotty Scheffler's doing. Just so you understand, you know,
(35:33):
Connor McDavid and Edmonton as opposed to Wayne Gretzky and Edmonton.
That's the difference here. Scotty has done a one wonderful
job this year, the last couple of years, but Tiger
had ten of these. J D and Tulsa, Hi, JD,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Hey? Dan?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I just wanted to call in, not to keep on
bringing it up, but Yesterday was probably the most emotional
day I've ever heard the show, and I wanted to
give a huge shout out to Paulie because I feel
like he, even though Marv brought this up, I feel
like he.
Speaker 16 (36:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Carried I guess the show whenever once the emotions started hitting,
I think he kind of did a good job of
trying to fill in even though everyone was emotional. And
I also wanted to say that I'm not a crier.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I know you are.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
And I was sitting in front of a client's office
with a meeting, and I literally called him and told
him I was going to be a few minutes late
because every time I would hear you choke up, it
would make me tear up. And so it happened probably
five times, and so I just called him to some
gonna be running late and finally got in there. But again,
(36:49):
I think Paulli just killed it yesterday. So he's definitely
the MVD this year. I'm gonna call it now.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
All right, Well, thank you, JD. That's why I hired Paulie.
Is no emotion therefore or came in handy. I knew
it was going to come in handy that you get
to show no emotion. You never cry.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Years ago you said to me, I don't care if
you know sports or radio, but if you have no emotions,
you're my guy.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, I just need you there when I get emotional.
You don't show any emotion. Although Paully slipped a little,
you started to crack a little bit at one point. Well,
and I was like, okay, come on over, PAULI.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I didn't want to get into it, but there's a
psychology to it that you mentioned when your father's and
your favorite athlete passes away. It's a time portal to
when your dad passes away. And so when you said it,
I started thinking about my dad and Walter Payton and
what it must be for you, and you know you
don't wish that on anybody, and it's just it's hard
to stop.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, Like I said, I felt like I buried my
dad again. And it was just it hit me so
hard and I'm like I I couldn't get out from
underneath it. And then I'm like, all right, bleep it.
I mean this here it is. You want to listen,
you want to watch here it is, but it's I
(38:05):
was exhausted yesterday. I was I was It's one of
those where you didn't do anything. I was so mentally
exhausted and I just sat. I just sat by myself,
and I just started thinking. And then I started looking
at pictures at Jerry West. I started, I mean, it
(38:25):
was just like one of those what am I doing?
I gotta snap out of it, I gotta do something
fun here. What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Yes, you said something yesterday and again Jerry West as
well before my time, that he was different, like people
always say, Pete Marivitch was different. I went back and
watched those YouTube videoscuse that you and Marvin were talking
about Jerry West and how he looked like a modern
basketball player in a different era. It's real, it's tangible.
I was watching West highlights. He looks like he came
from outer space. On the basketball court. People are still
(38:55):
dribbling that on top of the ball thing and he's
crossing over and he was.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Just he was athletic. Yes, And you didn't say that
like Bob Coosey. People say, oh, he's athletic, not like Jerry.
Jerry was beating you off the dribble, shooting jumpers. He
was just he was different. He was different coming into
the NBA, and you hadn't seen that.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oscar was very athletic as well, and they came in
at the same time, both on the Olympic teams. But Jerry,
that jumper, you can study that. It's up there with
great shooters of all time. Robert in Virginia, Hi.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Robert, Hey, Dan, really enjoy your show.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Thank you, Robert.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Fifty three summers ago, I got a summer job at
the Jerry West basketball camp and it was a great
collection of players and from all over and of course
had a lot of college players there. There were guidance canters,
but I used to run the canteen, which is where
the kids would get cookes and food and that type
of thing. And I was actually closed and I was
reading a book about Jerry West. And I get a
(40:03):
knock on the door, and a lot of times goes, hey,
I'm closed, but I didn't do it. I went and
answer the door and it was Jerry. And I'll tell
you what, I was just so blown away to be
one on one with him, and we talked for about
ten minutes. But you know, he was just so authentic
and so nice, and he asked about me and I
was a point guard down our high school and just
(40:24):
ask questions that your normal people would ask, and it
just feel very, very real.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
As you know, he was very he was curious about you.
He could have been a know it all, but he wasn't.
He was curious about you. Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug,
welcome back.
Speaker 16 (40:40):
Well Dan, I am not a huge basketball fan, and
if not for your show, Jerry West, for me, he
would have probably just been a name in the history book.
But through your show, I got to see your feelings
for him and what he meant to you. And then
subsequently the Showtime show came out and I was like,
wait a minute, this is the same he came off
(41:01):
in that he was portrayed. It's kind of a I
hate to say this as kind of a neurotic jerk.
And I was wondering, Yeah, oh, your feelings about that?
I mean, it wasn't the fun. Later on the kind
of added some warmth, but it was not the most
flattering of portrayal.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Sin Yeah, I felt bad about that.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I did, And I talked to the actor who portrayed him,
and the actor said that he kind of got Jerry's
mannerism's personality down by watching all the interviews that I
did with him, But that's I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Jerry was a tortured soul.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
He was, but he accomplished an awful lot, maybe the
most impactful him and Bill Russell and Michael Jordan, Larry
and Magic David Stern One Hour of the Books two
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