April 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan rants on Lakers superstar Luka Dončić and the technical foul that got him tossed from their game against the Thunder last night. The Denver Nuggets fired Head Coach Michael Malone and GM Calvin Booth, and Dan thinks the timing couldn't be more awkward. Yahoo Sports NBA writer Vincent Goodwill joins the show.
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We did it, We did it.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We got nominated for a Sports Emmy yesterday right after
the show, Paully in dramatic fashion telling us that we
had been nominated for a Sports Emmy. Congratulations to all
involved here, certainly the studio audience here that we have
called the dan Eds, in the back room, guys, and
also you at home or in your car, all your
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support over the years. This is the sixth time this
show has been nominated for a Sports Emmy.
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We're oh for five right now, so we're due.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Right, No, no, nobody, Yes, Paulin.
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I think our buddy Scott van pelt is oho for six,
so he's in the same wheelhouse like the Bills.
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Well, Scott van Pelt, well join us coming up next hour.
We can commiserate there, Seaton.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
There's a storyline here with this nomination now that is juicy.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hesitate to bring it out.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I hesitated exactly ninety seconds. This is Marvin's first time
being nominated since joining the front row. Congratulations Marvin. That's
very exciting. That feels good. That would mean that it
is our first time being nominated without Andrew pearl Off
aka McLevin here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't I don't know. It just felt right.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So that would mean, man, if if we somehow win
this time with Marvin and not Andrew, it does beg
the question what was the difference between this time and
the other five? Just saying that that is a storyline
that some people here are kicking around.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay, did anybody get congratulated by McLevin?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes, Pauline, Yes, I got a text that's after the
nomination was announced. Quote Emmy's back on. Are you guys
going to come into the city for the ceremony? Congrats?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Anybody else get a congratulations from McLevin? No, no, I
only get updates on shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Todd, what about you?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I got a congratulation from Chase Daniel.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, no, no, I said McLevin.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, that was the question. Marvin, how about you? Did
mcleven reach out?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
He did not? Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we couldn't have gotten here to this point without
McLevin and maybe with Marvin. Maybe this is this is
what's going to push us over the top.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You're the you're the addition, you're that magic magic elixir here.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, yes, see, if.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We win this year, do we finally admit that Andrew
was holding us back all those years?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Fine, I'll just say it, yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
All righty Wait, this was supposed to be a positive okay,
fun okay, and in case Garrison enjoying this. In case
you're wondering what we put on our Sports Emmy reel
to get nominated. When we had Steven Wilson Junior singing
in the studio, when Josh Jacobs tackled Paulie at the
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Super Bowl, that whole encounter when Jerry West died, we
put that on the tape. And Dion joining us at
the Super Bowl, the Nation League All Star manager Tory Lavello,
when we had Paul's schemes on and the manager called
in to tell Paul that he would be his starting
pitcher in the All Star Game. So that's what we
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Malone got fired. Vincent Goodwill, great reporter as well from
Yahoo's Sports, will join us in about fifteen minutes from
now to tell us why this happened and why it happened.
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Speaker 2 (05:09):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you're watching on Peacock, it's our streaming partner. Download
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good morning to our radio affiliates as well. Watching last
night the Lakers against Oklahoma City, it was a great
first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You had both.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Teams scoring forty three points at the end of the
first quarter, which is rare, certainly this time of the year,
with OKC already wrapping up everything with home court advantage.
But OKC one by sixteen, But this was a close game.
With seven forty to go and the Lakers led by one,
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Luca got ejected and then OKC went on a twenty
nine to twelve run. Now once again the Lakers were
playing to win. Ok see I think decided to play
to win and end up picking up that victory. Now
you have the Lakers now they're playing in Dallas tonight,
and this was the game so I didn't know how
(06:07):
focused they would be in OKAC.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I didn't know who was going to play an OKAC.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Now you have this game where Lucas going back to Dallas,
and it feels like this has been circled on the
calendar of all hands on deck. We want to make
sure Luca has a big night tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You may not be.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Aware of this, but over the last five seasons, Luka
Dancik has seventy three technical founds. That's most in the NBA,
and he got tossed last night with a couple of technicals.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Now, stead of a day, stantaa day, Statata day, Stanatata day,
this is the stat of the day Stata to.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Day, Ronchi buy Panini America. There are times when I
watch players and I go why, Like why does everything
bother you? We had Dan Hurley, the Yukon coach, and
he said, I don't know why referees, you know, bother me,
But you let them bother you. Then it affects you,
and it affects maybe you're coaching, this affects Luca's playing.
(07:11):
You get caught up in this Rashid Wallace used to
do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
He just it's almost like he needed it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Draymond Green, It's almost like that fuels him for some reason.
And Luca gets involved with officials, he winds way way
too much.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And really a great player like that, you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Can send a message, but don't do it in a
way that embarrasses an official. And you're, you know, jawing
back and forth with a fan and then the official
thinks you're talking to him, you're talking to the fan,
and then he runs you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I mean, come on, you're a franchise player.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You can't be tossed in a game like this, and
don't let everything bother you and you don't deserve every call.
And yes, have I watched the NBA for fifty years
and do I see the great players and they seem
to whind the most, Yes, but I don't. I don't
know if it helps you Just imagine that official is human.
(08:13):
So when you yell at him and you say something
to him, how does he compartmentalize that and go, you know,
I'm gonna let him blow off steam. Really, I would
think that you, if you're going to curry favor, then
maybe go out of your way to not try to
embarrass an official. You know, he's still young, but he's
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been doing this since he got into the NBA, and
it's something he really has to be aware of.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
When Lebron retires, your team and you know they're watching you,
you're the leader.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, see, if we're.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Going to give an official passer being human, don't we
also have to do that with the player. If we're
worried about how the referee the official is going to
take those words because they're only human, we kind of
have to do that with the player too.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Right, Yeah, but the official doesn't know that Luke is
talking to a fan. He thinks he's talking to him.
His reputation put him in that position. So yeah, there's
the human element, but the official has the last word.
No matter what you say, how you say it, when
you say it, where you say it, that official has
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the jurisdiction to run the game and give you a
technical and toss you from the game.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So, yes, you can say what you want.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's like your children can say something to you. You're
the official. You decide, hey, time out, Hey ground you.
So Luca's got to understand that official, whether he likes
him or not. That's the parent on the floor. So
you can say what you want to say. But this
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isn't free speech. Now there's repercussions there, and to watch
that last night and he engages, but maybe it fuels
him in all fairness to that personality, but that's just
something he has to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know, Draymond would do this.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They get into the postseason, then he would he'd get tossed,
he'd have sixteen technicals and then all of a sudden,
you get the next You know, you just can't put
yourself in that position there. And were they a beatn Oclac,
I don't know, but we know that they didn't beat
him because he wasn't in there. And now you have
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this game coming up tonight. You got to win these games.
You know, these are so important. Back to Denver, they
haven't played well since the All Star break. Reportedly there
was tension between the GM and the head coach, Calvin
Booth and Michael Malone.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I mean timing is everything. So you look at Denver.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In Memphis, the Grizzly said goodbye to Taylor Jenkins and
he had done a great job with a young group,
trying to keep them together. The Nuggets are just two
years removed from a title. You have Michael Malone who
was there to help build them into something. And as
I said, after they won the title, and then he
got up there on the microphone at the parade, he
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was in his cups and he was saying nobody's good.
You know, we're not going to let any of these
guys go, and I go, yes, they are. This is
what happened. Sometimes when you win, that's when your problems start.
You would think that the hard part is winning a championship.
It's once you win that championship, can you keep everybody?
And Denver was not going to keep everybody. And I've
said the last two years, we're going to look back
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on the malpractice that happened. That they did not surround
Joker with bench players, deeper vent That's how they won
the title. They had depth and they don't have that now.
And Malone turned this team into a consistent winner. You know,
they weren't underachievers. And we don't know the full story
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yet maybe we won't, but if you're going to make
a decision like this now, you don't get many chances
to roll the dice again. So it must have been
really bad between the GM and the coach that they
didn't get along that you're going to fire both of them.
That's rare because usually you go, okay, we're going to
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part ways with the coach. The GM's going to stay.
But you know, this was a fractured relationship, and hey,
Michael Malone's spirited god, and he's probably thinking, this guy
just came in as our GM. You lost your previous
gym who went to Minnesota, and now all of a sudden,
this guy and probably was like, I don't want to
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be told, Hey, give me a bench, help me out here.
And you could see frustration. Jokers showed frustration on the bench.
But three games to go in the regular season and
the odds didn't change on Denver their title chances. So
I don't know what that says. And you know, maybe
Vegas is saying, hey, matter who's coaching, this team isn't
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going anywhere in the postseason. Maybe that's what they're saying.
But the odds they're long. But I don't know if
people looked at Denver and said, you know what, they
can win this thing. It feels like that we've given
credence to the Lakers winning, Golden State winning, and OKAC winning.
I think we've dismissed the Rockets because we feel like
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they're too young, and Denver because they just aren't consistent.
You have the best player in the game, but they're
nowhere near what they were now Maybe maybe you're going, now,
this will spark them.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Here is the owner of the Denver Nuggets, Josh Krunky
on the timing of the firings.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
You know, outside of the decision, there was thinking around
two separate things, you know, involving with the timing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Of it all.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I think that you know, the awkwardness of the timing
with only three games left and then the playoffs looming.
But you know, it came down to two factors. One,
I have a complete belief and trust and our group
of players that are in there. And I have complete
trust and belief in our assistant coaches and their ability
to step up into different roles. And maybe if their
voices are a little louder in certain areas, maybe they
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can squeeze some of that juice that I've been talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, good luck with that. They're just not a you know,
they're not a formidable team.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Now. Can they have moments? Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But I'm curious, and you know, Joker has two more
years and then I think there's an option. So it's
around fifty five fifty seven, fifty nine million over the
next three years. And then I saw there's already odds
on his next team. Take a guess the odds that
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came out yesterday the team that you know, Joe Kich
is going to end up with, Yes, paulin.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I'm joking because it's they're going to go to the
one that gets clised.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, No, it would be the Lakers. That's the one
that gets closed. Yes, So it's the Lakers. And then
the other one is I think it's a home team
back in Serbia. The odds for his next team, I
believe it or not, but you know, and then I
was told that he wasn't told that they were firing
Michael Malone. I don't know how that's possible. Do I
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think that Lebron James didn't know Anthony Davis is going
to be traded. I'm going to guess they ran it
by him, Joker. I mean, this might be an impulsive
move by ownership where they just go, you know what,
I'm tired of dealing with this, We're gonna you're fired.
And maybe it was that, maybe it was just building, building, building,
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But therefore, I don't think Joker could be surprised that
it happened, maybe that it happened right now, because I
don't think either and this is one of those. We
don't want to have Michael Malone stay in there all
of a sudden they go on a run like That's
my coaches get fired sometimes during the regular season in
the NFL because we win a couple of games and
we got to keep him. But Michael Malone is going
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to get another job quickly, probably in the next week
or so. He'll he'll get an opening somewhere. Somebody might
bow out of the playoffs early. If the Knicks bowed
out early, Could Michael Malone end up with the Knicks?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I could see that happening.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, Memphis has an opening there, and you know
he's a great coach, so he'll get a job here.
All right, Vincent Goodwill, great reporter for Yahoo Sports. You'll
have more details on this. We'll get phone calls coming up,
settle on a poll question, a lot of things to
dive into the Master's par three contests. Today, we'll hear
(16:50):
from Scott Van Pelt, who will join us from Augusta.
We're back after this on the Sports Emmy nominated Dan
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Speaker 3 (18:07):
We'll settle on a poll question. Got our play of
the day coming up as well. I got the NBA
title odds the Thunder they're the big favorites, followed by
the Celtics and it's basically a two team race according
to Vegas. Then it's the Cavaliers, the Warriors, the Lakers,
and then it's the Nuggets after that. Vincent Goodwill, Yahoo's
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Sports NBA writer, host of The Good Word podcast on
Yahoo's Sports Ball Don't Live Channel Serious XMNBA host What
the heck happened in Denver yesterday?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Vincent?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Before we began, that was the greatest song ever written
that you were playing coming out there on the bump.
Stevie Wonder's ass just put me in a really, really
good mood. What happened yesterday? Those that the NBA is
very unpredictable, Like you've seen more championship coaches fired in
the short span than anybody, but this on this particularly,
I guess you could say bizarre. You were hearing over
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the past couple of months that Michael Malone was probably
not going to be there after this year bearing something
miraculous happening, bearing another championship run, and then after the
y'all start break, it just seemed to accelerate, like the
way that the team had performed the losses they had,
you know, the defense, and honestly, some of the things
that he said in the postgame press conference is kind
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of alluded to man, maybe he lost his voice with
the team to some degree, and maybe that did happen.
The total house cleaning was more shocking to me than
Michael Malone, and even the timing of it, because now
you don't have a chief basketball executive, you don't have
a head coach, and you're walking into arguably maybe the
playing tournament, depending on how these next few games shake out. Like,
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it's a lot of questions for what we consider to
be one of the model franchises in the NBA, and
we don't have a lot of answers as yet. I
don't know if we're going to get the answers as
clear beyond what we've been saying and writing over the past.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There So any chance Joker wasn't involved in this.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I don't think he ordered the cold red one of
those things he did the Colonel Jessup ordered the cold
red and all that type of stuff. No. I think
in the NBA, Dan, you know this, like I know this,
Sometimes the star player is alerted and they have the
opportunity to say, hey, that's not happening. I'm going to
the wall for my guy or whatever. That doesn't seem
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like Nicola Jokic and his type of personality. He's more
or less the type that it seems like to me
from a distance. I don't know him well, I don't
know many people who do. That's more or less like, Okay,
that's what you want to do. Okay, fine, Like he's
not going to step in front and obscure what an
organization wants to do. And besides, he doesn't want to
pick his head coach anyway. He just wants, I'm sure
(20:52):
to be in a stable situation right now. That looks
like nothing but stable. Even though from what I understand, Dan,
the players do like they it out of them. They do,
they do have They have reacted positively to him throughout
the season since he's been there.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Do you make this move because you think it's going
to give your team a little bit of a bump
going into the I just I don't know how that
works where you go, hey, look what we did.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now go out and try to win.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, I there's a reason this is unprecedented because it
doesn't work. Like there's a reason why. You know, the
Miami Heat and you know some of the other model
franchises they ride these waters out. But some coaches have
different personalities too, and some coaches almost like from a
certain tree of coaches, almost they run very, very hot.
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And Michael Malone ran very hot. And one of the
concerns that I knew from the front office and from
people in the note was that, hey, is he holding
the top guys accountable? Is he playing those top guys
too many minutes? Almost tipsy in right, like Jamal Murray
who has acl playing the career high minutes, Nicola Jokic
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career high minutes. The numbers look great, but you run
the risk Dan of that team wearing down throughout the
course of a playoff run. Remember they wore down in
the last two games of that playoff run against the
Minnesota Timwolves. They had nothing left. Jamal Murray his legs
were wiped out. Nikola Jokic looked wiped out. And if
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you're responding by playing those guys career high minutes. Ain't
no joke. That's going to happen when you change the
coach or when the coach is still there. It's almost
like this is going to be another tired run. If
there is some type of run, it's but it's really
really bizarre that it happened with three games left in
the season, not bizarre that they fired.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, the problem I had with this team they win
the title. I wanted to know they were going to
lose bench players. I just don't think they restocked. And
I called it malpractice because I said, this team won't
win another title with Joker. You have the best player
in the game, and I just don't think that you
gave him. You know, that's why they're playing these minutes.
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Because maybe Michael Malone didn't have confidence in that bench,
And that leads us to this. Joker had a wonderful year.
Murray is hurt. You're limping literally into the postseason. You
don't have a coach, and you don't have a GM
other than that, how was your season, Nuggets.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Other than how's the play? Missus? Lincoln? Like, that's what
this sounds like. But I understand this from this standpoint.
They signed Michael Porter Junior, the third star to a
max contract under the old paradigm, under the old CBA,
where you didn't have punitive luxury tax penalties and fewer
mechanisms that you could actually improve your team. Most teams
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don't have three max salary guys, including a big time
max salary guy in Yokish. No matter how good you are,
it is really hard in the financial reality of today's
NBA to have three max guys and to build a
team around have to hit on all of your draft picks.
You have to have value signings, and he's done that. Actually,
like Christian Brown is one of those guys who's the
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most improved player candidate like Calvin Booth actually actually restocked
to some degree with value young players. Michael Malone didn't
trust them, and subsequently, because you didn't trust them, you
play your veterans more and you don't have any other resources.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Luca last night getting tossed.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Last five years, he leads the NBA in technicals with
seventy three. I mean, you're not Draymond Green, You're not
Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why does he.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Why is he not Raceived Wallace? Why is he not Draymond.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Hungreen well, because for sure he's one of the best
players in the game. He shouldn't be Draymond Green and
shouldn't be Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Why is he?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I mean, look, he's a child prodigy. Like I read
his book, not Shame with pluck with my man Tim McMahon,
the wonder Boy, but everything with him out to me
like a child prodigy. And those child prodigies they act
out a lot. They act out at people around them,
They act out at fans. Luka Doncich is a is
a chirper. He has ways that he goes about it.
(25:12):
I don't think people love it and like it. Oh no,
That's one of the reasons that the Dolls not because
they had a litany of reasons why they traded him.
I don't know if I would have done it. They
had a litany of reasons, and that was one of them.
Getting distracted and you don't remember the places. In the
NBA Finals, he picked up his fifth file in the
fourth quarter of Game three, and a play he shouldn't have.
He ordered the team to challenge it. It was a
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bad play. It was a bad challenge, and then a
few minutes later he files out like it's these impulses
in the moment. Now. Granted, Dan, he was talking to
a fan in that moment, but he had already drawn
one technical file with that same official, thus eliminating benefit
of the doubt. I feel like that's the theme in
the NBA for the past couple of weeks with Jahn
Morant and now Luka Doncic. Some people don't have benefit
(25:57):
of the doubt when you're when you've eliminated a lack
of a good raise goodwill.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Uh, Speaking of which, Vincent Goodwill Young who's sports NBA writer,
Jo's got a new celebration. Now he tosses the grenade.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Hey, look, man, look if he wants to go full rebel,
Look he's clearly going full rebel, full villain. And I
find it hilarious Dan that the NBA they didn't suspend him,
they didn't find him immediately, They told him, Hey, man,
just don't do it again. And you want to know
why they did that, Dan, Because they don't want to
(26:37):
hurt him. They need him as a young face of
the future. They just wanted him to stay on the
floor a little bit longer, to get people used to
seeing him again without associating him with the nonsense, and
what was the first thing that he does. Twelve hours
after receiving a warning, he goes out and Besidol National TV.
You're daring the league. You're daring Adam Silver, the most
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player progressive commission in the history of professional American sports.
You're spinning on him. Okay, fine, go ahead, find you
seventy five thousand dollars. And people are still pissed off
about that they didn't suspend him, Like, we have to
be honest about this stuff. If he's gonna go full villain,
go full villain, but then don't complain and say that
everybody's against you. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
As long as he's not driving with one of his
buddies and he's actually got a live grenade, then I'm
okay with this. But you're right now, all of a sudden,
everybody's against Jaw. He doesn't realize he created all of this.
I don't think people he was a great feel good story,
came out of nowhere, and all of a sudden you
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watch him and you go, damn, this is I mean,
he should be one of those guys that we talk
about with all of the greades of the game, and
we don't, and I hope that there's somebody who can.
They don't have that veteran leadership there. You just fired
your coach. I don't know what role he played in that,
but you know, you see these guys that they're in
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the embryonic stages of greatness, Zion, and I just don't know.
You got a lot of money, you're not. You don't
need to work for it anymore. And I just wonder
if you know that's to the detriment of a lot
of these younger players getting fifty million dollars by the
time you're twenty five.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot of pressure, it's
a lot of expectation. I will say this for Job,
I don't think from my reporting for my gathering, he
had anything to do with the firing of Taylor Jenkins.
Like so I won't put any I won't put that
on him, just like I won't put Michael Malone on
the Kola Jokics. I will say this man for the NBA,
they want their next generation of young players and man
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Zion Victor Jock to take the mantle from the old guys.
This is the league that depends heavier on stars. So
you're going to give star treatment to stars. The model
is there that is going to play for twenty years.
Lebron's going to play for twenty years, Kevin Durry's going
to play for twenty years. They got all the money,
all the fame. All they have to do is just hey,
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don't play with guns on Instagram, don't use laser pointers
against the Indiana Pacers traveling party and a loading dock.
Don't do dumb stuff. It's not that difficult. Nobody's asking
you to be a model citizen. They're just saying, hey,
go play basketball. Be entertaining, be electrifying. Just don't make
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it hard for yourself. Don't be job versus job. This
ain't a job versus the NBA. Then you want them
to succeed. To succeed, Oh man.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What kind of reception will the Mavericks give Luca tonight?
What kind of reception should they give him?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What type of reception will the Mavericks fans give the
Mavericks tonight. This is going to be a role game,
and now that's what y'alls this is gonna be. It's
gonna be a lot of Laker purple and gold in
this building. I think he's going to, of course get
the standing ovations. I'm sure there's going to be a
tribute video, you know, given to them by the franchise.
And he made five NBA First teams in his first
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six years, carried them to the NBA Finals in the
Western Conference Finals. I think his relationship with the city
of Dallas is solid. His relationship with the Dallas Matt
Bicks is a different thing. So I am far more
curious how the fans are going to react to the
home team looking at the other side and seeing Anthony
Davis and not seeing Kyrie Irving. Like, I think it's
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going to be an electric, sometimes angry atmosphere because they're
going to be treated to all the things they missed Dan.
Have you ever ran into an ex girlfriend and she
looks finer than when she was with you? Have you
ever seen that before?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah? The revenge body, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
The revenge body. You know, Hey, sometimes guys have revenge bodies.
I mean, maybe not Luca, but you know some people
have revenge bodies.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I'm gonna leave you with this.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Are we giving the Oklahoma City Thunder enough credit for
one of the greatest regular seasons?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They have They have fifty one games where they won
by at least ten points. At least ten that's the
all time record. Previous record was the nineteen seventy one
seventy two Lakers who won thirty three in a row,
Golden State in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Milwaukee Bucks with
Kareem and Oscar seventy seventy one, the Bulls with Mike
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in ninety five and ninety six. Are we giving ok?
I know we're waiting for Well, let's see what happens
to the postseason. That's it, right, Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
I mean, for one, double digit wins is a proxy
of the three point shot in the importance of it.
Like when you talk about Kareems teams and the Lakers
teams of the early seventies, they were doing that without
the three point shots. So there's a little more I
guess you'd say equity that you can put into that
being translatable to the playoffs. But we're trying to see
if this franchise, that this team can finally get over
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to hump And if you look at how they play
against the Lakers the last their last two games, you
could say, man, we got We got some doubts here,
like what does this team look like without shape Gilders
Alexander performing like the MVP. Do you have a second
guy that can take advantage of his matchup and create
his own shot and make his own shot. I don't
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know if they're going to run through the Western Conference
playoffs like they ran through the regular season. I wouldn't
say I'd be surprised that they get to the finals,
but I think there's a lot more competition in this
blood bath of a Western Conference to get to the
finals that I'll be impressed if they do so, more
impressed than the winning by you know, double digits and
the highest net rating in NBA history and all that
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other type of stuff, Like they have to prove proved
right now, and the thing is then nobody's afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Great to talk to you have fun tonight in Dallas.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
More Stevie Wonderdan.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Okay can't go wrong. That to mention goodwill y'all, who's
sports NBA rider. He'll be at the game with the
Lakers tonight, and then he's got Nicks and the Pistons tomorrow,
and then likely wherever the Lakers and Warriors are for
round one of the postseason. Always great to talk to him.
All right, we'll take a break, got to settle on
our poll question. We've got to play the day coming up.
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Oh my God, play the Day.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
My God.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
This is the play of the day.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Celtics will not call time out here down by three
nine seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Tatum into the front door. Tatum, Steph's back away from Ananobi.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Three in the air.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Jason Tatum ties the game with.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Two point nine ago.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
The Celtics went nineteen for forty nine from three point range.
They already set the NBA record for most three pointers made,
most three pointers attempted in a season. They've also won
nine consecutive road games. They're the best team on the road.
At thirty three and seven, that's your play of the day.
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Update the poll results, Seaton, what did you go with
with the first hour of this program?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, we got up there right now.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
League with the least job security Major League Baseball, NBA
or NFL.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Okay, I have some data on this, you do, yes?
I do? You have a definitive answer? Yes?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I do?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
What yes? So I'm not guessing. I have data.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I have research since two thousand, this league has the
lowest average coaching tenure.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Paul, start with you.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I would guess the NHL seems like they bounce pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
NHL Todd, what about you? MLB, Marvin, NFL seatan MLB
it's NBA two point nine years. NHL is second just
over three years, NFL three point two. Baseball has the
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best job security at three point seven years.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Believe it or not. The day, best oat of the
day stat of the day here comes that what stat
of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Brought to you by Panini America. Although I think we're
seeing a little bit of a shift with the NFL,
feels like these GMS owners have a little bit more
of an itchy trigger finger to fire your coaches usually
after three years.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yes, Tom, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
We can wink at that in the sports world, but
in most lines of work, three and a half years
to consider that, Wow, you've got a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Three and a half years, you got to be there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yes, there's a stereotype. I'm not putting this out there
that major League baseball managers.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
What do they do?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What do they You've heard that before over the years,
but they have the longest tenure.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I guess they look at a lot of data and
then they fill out their lineup card and then they
maybe gets up to chew on uh, do some scratching,
put on a uniform, go out to the mound.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yes, some people say that about the NBA, or you're
watching a college coach they just screaming play defense, box up,
like obviously, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
But they're involved in every play baseball manager, I don't
know if they're how involved they are, like come on,
come on here, base it, come on now, or you
might yell at the umpire, But I I don't know.
Football and I could see that you're involved in that.
On the headset, you got a lot of things going on,
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but baseball baseball feels like it's you know, they got
one hundred and sixty two of these.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm gonna leave him in. I don't think i'll go.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
You know, I need some I need to get my
steps in today. I'm going to walk out to the mound. Hey,
what do you what are you doing? I got a
one hit?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Shut up? Yeah, I just came out. Man.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I try to sit in that bench, you know, on
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I mean it's boring. Yeah, okay, skip, yes, ton.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
Oh, you got to bring the infield in.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
You gotta ship.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
There's all kinds of things. This guy's start warming up writing, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Do you think it's ever gonna change where baseball managers
don't wear full uniforms because they never play in the games.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
There are certain managers who shouldn't wear uniforms down through history.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I saw a new thing that some managers don't wear
at the top, the jersey top. They wear just like
a hoodie or something.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think that was.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Terry Francona who started that, okay with the Red Sox,
and they wanted to know if he had his uniform
underneath the hood and he didn't. And I think they
told him that you can wear that, but you have
to have your jersey underneath.
Speaker 12 (38:07):
Yes, Martin, the manager shouldn't have numbers like Joe tory
Ward number six. I was like, man, that's a prime
number that the manager has, or like Billy Martin had
number one when he was a manager. Like, man, he's
taking a really good number, not like seventy eight or
forty four.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
See.
Speaker 13 (38:24):
I feel like the manager should be number one. I'm
the guy. I'm the manager. I'm number one. Well, Billy
Martin thought he was. He was he thought he was
Rob or Bob in New York. It's Bob in New York. Hi, Bob.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Hello.
Speaker 11 (38:38):
I had an idea, could you have one of your
award nominated crew check to see if Denver can actually
drop all the way out of the play in with
enough losses? Could that firing actually be also a badly
thought out tank job idea by the ownership.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
I don't think they're tanking. And what are you tanking? Four?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You're not going to get Cooper Flag. I mean, you know,
maybe you get Jace Richardson or something. I don't know,
but no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I do think that there's the odds of them not
making the playoffs are a little more interesting than you
would think, yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Yeah, the Denver Nuggets have forty seven wins. There are
four teams with forty seven wins in the West. A
team with forty six wins, they could go from right
now being the five seed to a playing game by
losing two games in a row.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Okay, if they if they lose their last three games.
I thought that there was like thirteen to one odds
that they don't make the playoff. There was there was
a I.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Think if you count the playing game as not the playoffs. Yeah,
if they lost the rest of their games, they could
end up in a nine to ten playoff game and
have a one game season.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Connor in Chicago, Good morning, Connor, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (40:00):
But nine a hard one eighty new member of the
DDC club starting in January. So cancer sucks. Go to
the doctor, guys. Second thing, probably pay a play at
the golf course, dudes, Brian Harmon, My good lord. People
please pick it up, dude, get to the ball, swing away.
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It's not that complicated. You hit so many balls throughout
the day. Probably the best thing I think in is
like fifteen second shot clock or something. They approach it
and stuff like that or something.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I don't know. All right, thank you, Connor. Yeah, you
gotta speed it up a little bit.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
They just do.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
There's certain golfers and if you've ever played with somebody
who's deliberate, even if you're playing the weekend and you
got the guy who lines up his pott all different angles,
you know the I played with a guy who got
down on his hands and knees and I went, no,
we're not, We're not doing this and he was digging
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into the green when he was doing it with his
shoes and it's like, Mike, Mike, no, come on, it's
my routine. It's my routine to tell you Mike no. Yes, Paulie, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Brian Harmon has the reputation as a slow player. The
other day he was in a NBC was covering him.
He was in a bunker and he was just standing
there for two straight minutes waiting for the wind to
come from a bunker.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Stet Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
And it was in San Antonio where it gets windy
and he ended up winning too.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
He won the British Open a couple of years ago.
He sent me a golf ball.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I think he's the Is he the first PGA tour
player to have two hole in ones on the same day,
and he sent me one of the golf balls that
I have autographed there, so I thought, hey, why don't
you send me one of those things. Scott van Pelt
will join is from Augusta coming up, and more on
the Lakers heading into Dallas.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Hour two coming up.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We did it, We did it.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We got nominated for a Sports Emmy yesterday right after
the show, Paully in dramatic fashion telling us that we
had been nominated for a Sports Emmy. Congratulations to all
involved here, certainly the studio audience here that we have
called the dan Eds, in the back room, guys, and
also you at home or in your car, all your
(00:30):
support over the years. This is the sixth time this
show has been nominated for a Sports Emmy.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're oh for five right now, so we're due.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Right, No, no, nobody, Yes, Paulin.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I think our buddy Scott van pelt is oho for six,
so he's in the same wheelhouse like the Bills.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, Scott van Pelt, well join us coming up next hour.
We can commiserate there, Seaton.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
There's a storyline here with this nomination now that is juicy.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hesitate to bring it out.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I hesitated exactly ninety seconds. This is Marvin's first time
being nominated since joining the front row. Congratulations Marvin. That's
very exciting. That feels good. That would mean that it
is our first time being nominated without Andrew pearl Off
aka McLevin here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't I don't know. It just felt right.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So that would mean, man, if if we somehow win
this time with Marvin and not Andrew, it does beg
the question what was the difference between this time and
the other five? Just saying that that is a storyline
that some people here are kicking around.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay, did anybody get congratulated by McLevin?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes, Pauline, Yes, I got a text that's after the
nomination was announced. Quote Emmy's back on. Are you guys
going to come into the city for the ceremony? Congrats?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Anybody else get a congratulations from McLevin? No, no, I
only get updates on shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Todd, what about you?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I got a congratulation from Chase Daniel.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, no, no, I said McLevin.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, that was the question. Marvin, how about you? Did
mcleven reach out?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
He did not? Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we couldn't have gotten here to this point without
McLevin and maybe with Marvin. Maybe this is this is
what's going to push us over the top.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You're the you're the addition, you're that magic magic elixir here.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, yes, see, if.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We win this year, do we finally admit that Andrew
was holding us back all those years?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Fine, I'll just say it, yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
All righty Wait, this was supposed to be a positive okay,
fun okay, and in case Garrison enjoying this. In case
you're wondering what we put on our Sports Emmy reel
to get nominated. When we had Steven Wilson Junior singing
in the studio, when Josh Jacobs tackled Paulie at the
(03:16):
Super Bowl, that whole encounter when Jerry West died, we
put that on the tape. And Dion joining us at
the Super Bowl, the Nation League All Star manager Tory Lavello,
when we had Paul's schemes on and the manager called
in to tell Paul that he would be his starting
pitcher in the All Star Game. So that's what we
(03:37):
put on our tape and it's great, great being nominated.
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from four until six. The aforementioned Scott van Pelt will
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(04:43):
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now to tell us why this happened and why it happened.
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Speaker 2 (05:09):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you're watching on Peacock, it's our streaming partner. Download
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good morning to our radio affiliates as well. Watching last
night the Lakers against Oklahoma City, it was a great
first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You had both.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Teams scoring forty three points at the end of the
first quarter, which is rare, certainly this time of the year,
with OKC already wrapping up everything with home court advantage.
But OKC one by sixteen, But this was a close game.
With seven forty to go and the Lakers led by one,
(05:45):
Luca got ejected and then OKC went on a twenty
nine to twelve run. Now once again the Lakers were
playing to win. Ok see I think decided to play
to win and end up picking up that victory. Now
you have the Lakers now they're playing in Dallas tonight,
and this was the game so I didn't know how
(06:07):
focused they would be in OKAC.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I didn't know who was going to play an OKAC.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Now you have this game where Lucas going back to Dallas,
and it feels like this has been circled on the
calendar of all hands on deck. We want to make
sure Luca has a big night tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You may not be.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Aware of this, but over the last five seasons, Luka
Dancik has seventy three technical founds. That's most in the NBA,
and he got tossed last night with a couple of technicals.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Now, stead of a day, stantaa day, Statata day, Stanatata day,
this is the stat of the day Stata to.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Day, Ronchi buy Panini America. There are times when I
watch players and I go why, Like why does everything
bother you? We had Dan Hurley, the Yukon coach, and
he said, I don't know why referees, you know, bother me,
But you let them bother you. Then it affects you,
and it affects maybe you're coaching, this affects Luca's playing.
(07:11):
You get caught up in this Rashid Wallace used to
do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
He just it's almost like he needed it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Draymond Green, It's almost like that fuels him for some reason.
And Luca gets involved with officials, he winds way way
too much.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And really a great player like that, you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Can send a message, but don't do it in a
way that embarrasses an official. And you're, you know, jawing
back and forth with a fan and then the official
thinks you're talking to him, you're talking to the fan,
and then he runs you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I mean, come on, you're a franchise player.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You can't be tossed in a game like this, and
don't let everything bother you and you don't deserve every call.
And yes, have I watched the NBA for fifty years
and do I see the great players and they seem
to whind the most, Yes, but I don't. I don't
know if it helps you Just imagine that official is human.
(08:13):
So when you yell at him and you say something
to him, how does he compartmentalize that and go, you know,
I'm gonna let him blow off steam. Really, I would
think that you, if you're going to curry favor, then
maybe go out of your way to not try to
embarrass an official. You know, he's still young, but he's
(08:35):
been doing this since he got into the NBA, and
it's something he really has to be aware of.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
When Lebron retires, your team and you know they're watching you,
you're the leader.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, see, if we're.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Going to give an official passer being human, don't we
also have to do that with the player. If we're
worried about how the referee the official is going to
take those words because they're only human, we kind of
have to do that with the player too.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Right, Yeah, but the official doesn't know that Luke is
talking to a fan. He thinks he's talking to him.
His reputation put him in that position. So yeah, there's
the human element, but the official has the last word.
No matter what you say, how you say it, when
you say it, where you say it, that official has
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the jurisdiction to run the game and give you a
technical and toss you from the game.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So, yes, you can say what you want.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's like your children can say something to you. You're
the official. You decide, hey, time out, Hey ground you.
So Luca's got to understand that official, whether he likes
him or not. That's the parent on the floor. So
you can say what you want to say. But this
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isn't free speech. Now there's repercussions there, and to watch
that last night and he engages, but maybe it fuels
him in all fairness to that personality, but that's just
something he has to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know, Draymond would do this.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They get into the postseason, then he would he'd get tossed,
he'd have sixteen technicals and then all of a sudden,
you get the next You know, you just can't put
yourself in that position there. And were they a beatn Oclac,
I don't know, but we know that they didn't beat
him because he wasn't in there. And now you have
(10:31):
this game coming up tonight. You got to win these games.
You know, these are so important. Back to Denver, they
haven't played well since the All Star break. Reportedly there
was tension between the GM and the head coach, Calvin
Booth and Michael Malone.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I mean timing is everything. So you look at Denver.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In Memphis, the Grizzly said goodbye to Taylor Jenkins and
he had done a great job with a young group,
trying to keep them together. The Nuggets are just two
years removed from a title. You have Michael Malone who
was there to help build them into something. And as
I said, after they won the title, and then he
got up there on the microphone at the parade, he
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was in his cups and he was saying nobody's good.
You know, we're not going to let any of these
guys go, and I go, yes, they are. This is
what happened. Sometimes when you win, that's when your problems start.
You would think that the hard part is winning a championship.
It's once you win that championship, can you keep everybody?
And Denver was not going to keep everybody. And I've
said the last two years, we're going to look back
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on the malpractice that happened. That they did not surround
Joker with bench players, deeper vent That's how they won
the title. They had depth and they don't have that now.
And Malone turned this team into a consistent winner. You know,
they weren't underachievers. And we don't know the full story
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yet maybe we won't, but if you're going to make
a decision like this now, you don't get many chances
to roll the dice again. So it must have been
really bad between the GM and the coach that they
didn't get along that you're going to fire both of them.
That's rare because usually you go, okay, we're going to
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part ways with the coach. The GM's going to stay.
But you know, this was a fractured relationship, and hey,
Michael Malone's spirited god, and he's probably thinking, this guy
just came in as our GM. You lost your previous
gym who went to Minnesota, and now all of a sudden,
this guy and probably was like, I don't want to
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be told, Hey, give me a bench, help me out here.
And you could see frustration. Jokers showed frustration on the bench.
But three games to go in the regular season and
the odds didn't change on Denver their title chances. So
I don't know what that says. And you know, maybe
Vegas is saying, hey, matter who's coaching, this team isn't
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going anywhere in the postseason. Maybe that's what they're saying.
But the odds they're long. But I don't know if
people looked at Denver and said, you know what, they
can win this thing. It feels like that we've given
credence to the Lakers winning, Golden State winning, and OKAC winning.
I think we've dismissed the Rockets because we feel like
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they're too young, and Denver because they just aren't consistent.
You have the best player in the game, but they're
nowhere near what they were now Maybe maybe you're going, now,
this will spark them.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Here is the owner of the Denver Nuggets, Josh Krunky
on the timing of the firings.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
You know, outside of the decision, there was thinking around
two separate things, you know, involving with the timing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Of it all.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I think that you know, the awkwardness of the timing
with only three games left and then the playoffs looming.
But you know, it came down to two factors. One,
I have a complete belief and trust and our group
of players that are in there. And I have complete
trust and belief in our assistant coaches and their ability
to step up into different roles. And maybe if their
voices are a little louder in certain areas, maybe they
(14:18):
can squeeze some of that juice that I've been talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, good luck with that. They're just not a you know,
they're not a formidable team.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Now. Can they have moments? Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But I'm curious, and you know, Joker has two more
years and then I think there's an option. So it's
around fifty five fifty seven, fifty nine million over the
next three years. And then I saw there's already odds
on his next team. Take a guess the odds that
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came out yesterday the team that you know, Joe Kich
is going to end up with, Yes, paulin.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I'm joking because it's they're going to go to the
one that gets clised.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, No, it would be the Lakers. That's the one
that gets closed. Yes, So it's the Lakers. And then
the other one is I think it's a home team
back in Serbia. The odds for his next team, I
believe it or not, but you know, and then I
was told that he wasn't told that they were firing
Michael Malone. I don't know how that's possible. Do I
(15:25):
think that Lebron James didn't know Anthony Davis is going
to be traded. I'm going to guess they ran it
by him, Joker. I mean, this might be an impulsive
move by ownership where they just go, you know what,
I'm tired of dealing with this, We're gonna you're fired.
And maybe it was that, maybe it was just building, building, building,
(15:47):
But therefore, I don't think Joker could be surprised that
it happened, maybe that it happened right now, because I
don't think either and this is one of those. We
don't want to have Michael Malone stay in there all
of a sudden they go on a run like That's
my coaches get fired sometimes during the regular season in
the NFL because we win a couple of games and
we got to keep him. But Michael Malone is going
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to get another job quickly, probably in the next week
or so. He'll he'll get an opening somewhere. Somebody might
bow out of the playoffs early. If the Knicks bowed
out early, Could Michael Malone end up with the Knicks?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I could see that happening.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, Memphis has an opening there, and you know
he's a great coach, so he'll get a job here.
All right, Vincent Goodwill, great reporter for Yahoo Sports. You'll
have more details on this. We'll get phone calls coming up,
settle on a poll question, a lot of things to
dive into the Master's par three contests. Today, we'll hear
(16:50):
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Speaker 3 (18:07):
We'll settle on a poll question. Got our play of
the day coming up as well. I got the NBA
title odds the Thunder they're the big favorites, followed by
the Celtics and it's basically a two team race according
to Vegas. Then it's the Cavaliers, the Warriors, the Lakers,
and then it's the Nuggets after that. Vincent Goodwill, Yahoo's
(18:28):
Sports NBA writer, host of The Good Word podcast on
Yahoo's Sports Ball Don't Live Channel Serious XMNBA host What
the heck happened in Denver yesterday?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Vincent?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Before we began, that was the greatest song ever written
that you were playing coming out there on the bump.
Stevie Wonder's ass just put me in a really, really
good mood. What happened yesterday? Those that the NBA is
very unpredictable, Like you've seen more championship coaches fired in
the short span than anybody, but this on this particularly,
I guess you could say bizarre. You were hearing over
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the past couple of months that Michael Malone was probably
not going to be there after this year bearing something
miraculous happening, bearing another championship run, and then after the
y'all start break, it just seemed to accelerate, like the
way that the team had performed the losses they had,
you know, the defense, and honestly, some of the things
that he said in the postgame press conference is kind
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of alluded to man, maybe he lost his voice with
the team to some degree, and maybe that did happen.
The total house cleaning was more shocking to me than
Michael Malone, and even the timing of it, because now
you don't have a chief basketball executive, you don't have
a head coach, and you're walking into arguably maybe the
playing tournament, depending on how these next few games shake out. Like,
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it's a lot of questions for what we consider to
be one of the model franchises in the NBA, and
we don't have a lot of answers as yet. I
don't know if we're going to get the answers as
clear beyond what we've been saying and writing over the past.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There So any chance Joker wasn't involved in this.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I don't think he ordered the cold red one of
those things he did the Colonel Jessup ordered the cold
red and all that type of stuff. No. I think
in the NBA, Dan, you know this, like I know this,
Sometimes the star player is alerted and they have the
opportunity to say, hey, that's not happening. I'm going to
the wall for my guy or whatever. That doesn't seem
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like Nicola Jokic and his type of personality. He's more
or less the type that it seems like to me
from a distance. I don't know him well, I don't
know many people who do. That's more or less like, Okay,
that's what you want to do. Okay, fine, Like he's
not going to step in front and obscure what an
organization wants to do. And besides, he doesn't want to
pick his head coach anyway. He just wants, I'm sure
(20:52):
to be in a stable situation right now. That looks
like nothing but stable. Even though from what I understand, Dan,
the players do like they it out of them. They do,
they do have They have reacted positively to him throughout
the season since he's been there.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Do you make this move because you think it's going
to give your team a little bit of a bump
going into the I just I don't know how that
works where you go, hey, look what we did.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now go out and try to win.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, I there's a reason this is unprecedented because it
doesn't work. Like there's a reason why. You know, the
Miami Heat and you know some of the other model
franchises they ride these waters out. But some coaches have
different personalities too, and some coaches almost like from a
certain tree of coaches, almost they run very, very hot.
(21:41):
And Michael Malone ran very hot. And one of the
concerns that I knew from the front office and from
people in the note was that, hey, is he holding
the top guys accountable? Is he playing those top guys
too many minutes? Almost tipsy in right, like Jamal Murray
who has acl playing the career high minutes, Nicola Jokic
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career high minutes. The numbers look great, but you run
the risk Dan of that team wearing down throughout the
course of a playoff run. Remember they wore down in
the last two games of that playoff run against the
Minnesota Timwolves. They had nothing left. Jamal Murray his legs
were wiped out. Nikola Jokic looked wiped out. And if
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you're responding by playing those guys career high minutes. Ain't
no joke. That's going to happen when you change the
coach or when the coach is still there. It's almost
like this is going to be another tired run. If
there is some type of run, it's but it's really
really bizarre that it happened with three games left in
the season, not bizarre that they fired.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, the problem I had with this team they win
the title. I wanted to know they were going to
lose bench players. I just don't think they restocked. And
I called it malpractice because I said, this team won't
win another title with Joker. You have the best player
in the game, and I just don't think that you
gave him. You know, that's why they're playing these minutes.
(23:03):
Because maybe Michael Malone didn't have confidence in that bench,
And that leads us to this. Joker had a wonderful year.
Murray is hurt. You're limping literally into the postseason. You
don't have a coach, and you don't have a GM
other than that, how was your season, Nuggets.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Other than how's the play? Missus? Lincoln? Like, that's what
this sounds like. But I understand this from this standpoint.
They signed Michael Porter Junior, the third star to a
max contract under the old paradigm, under the old CBA,
where you didn't have punitive luxury tax penalties and fewer
mechanisms that you could actually improve your team. Most teams
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don't have three max salary guys, including a big time
max salary guy in Yokish. No matter how good you are,
it is really hard in the financial reality of today's
NBA to have three max guys and to build a
team around have to hit on all of your draft picks.
You have to have value signings, and he's done that. Actually,
like Christian Brown is one of those guys who's the
(24:07):
most improved player candidate like Calvin Booth actually actually restocked
to some degree with value young players. Michael Malone didn't
trust them, and subsequently, because you didn't trust them, you
play your veterans more and you don't have any other resources.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Luca last night getting tossed.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Last five years, he leads the NBA in technicals with
seventy three. I mean, you're not Draymond Green, You're not
Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why does he.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Why is he not Raceived Wallace? Why is he not Draymond.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Hungreen well, because for sure he's one of the best
players in the game. He shouldn't be Draymond Green and
shouldn't be Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Why is he?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I mean, look, he's a child prodigy. Like I read
his book, not Shame with pluck with my man Tim McMahon,
the wonder Boy, but everything with him out to me
like a child prodigy. And those child prodigies they act
out a lot. They act out at people around them,
They act out at fans. Luka Doncich is a is
a chirper. He has ways that he goes about it.
(25:12):
I don't think people love it and like it. Oh no,
That's one of the reasons that the Dolls not because
they had a litany of reasons why they traded him.
I don't know if I would have done it. They
had a litany of reasons, and that was one of them.
Getting distracted and you don't remember the places. In the
NBA Finals, he picked up his fifth file in the
fourth quarter of Game three, and a play he shouldn't have.
He ordered the team to challenge it. It was a
(25:33):
bad play. It was a bad challenge, and then a
few minutes later he files out like it's these impulses
in the moment. Now. Granted, Dan, he was talking to
a fan in that moment, but he had already drawn
one technical file with that same official, thus eliminating benefit
of the doubt. I feel like that's the theme in
the NBA for the past couple of weeks with Jahn
Morant and now Luka Doncic. Some people don't have benefit
(25:57):
of the doubt when you're when you've eliminated a lack
of a good raise goodwill.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Uh, Speaking of which, Vincent Goodwill Young who's sports NBA writer,
Jo's got a new celebration. Now he tosses the grenade.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Hey, look, man, look if he wants to go full rebel,
Look he's clearly going full rebel, full villain. And I
find it hilarious Dan that the NBA they didn't suspend him,
they didn't find him immediately, They told him, Hey, man,
just don't do it again. And you want to know
why they did that, Dan, Because they don't want to
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hurt him. They need him as a young face of
the future. They just wanted him to stay on the
floor a little bit longer, to get people used to
seeing him again without associating him with the nonsense, and
what was the first thing that he does. Twelve hours
after receiving a warning, he goes out and Besidol National TV.
You're daring the league. You're daring Adam Silver, the most
(26:58):
player progressive commission in the history of professional American sports.
You're spinning on him. Okay, fine, go ahead, find you
seventy five thousand dollars. And people are still pissed off
about that they didn't suspend him, Like, we have to
be honest about this stuff. If he's gonna go full villain,
go full villain, but then don't complain and say that
everybody's against you. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
As long as he's not driving with one of his
buddies and he's actually got a live grenade, then I'm
okay with this. But you're right now, all of a sudden,
everybody's against Jaw. He doesn't realize he created all of this.
I don't think people he was a great feel good story,
came out of nowhere, and all of a sudden you
(27:41):
watch him and you go, damn, this is I mean,
he should be one of those guys that we talk
about with all of the greades of the game, and
we don't, and I hope that there's somebody who can.
They don't have that veteran leadership there. You just fired
your coach. I don't know what role he played in that,
but you know, you see these guys that they're in
(28:03):
the embryonic stages of greatness, Zion, and I just don't know.
You got a lot of money, you're not. You don't
need to work for it anymore. And I just wonder
if you know that's to the detriment of a lot
of these younger players getting fifty million dollars by the
time you're twenty five.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot of pressure, it's
a lot of expectation. I will say this for Job,
I don't think from my reporting for my gathering, he
had anything to do with the firing of Taylor Jenkins.
Like so I won't put any I won't put that
on him, just like I won't put Michael Malone on
the Kola Jokics. I will say this man for the NBA,
they want their next generation of young players and man
(28:44):
Zion Victor Jock to take the mantle from the old guys.
This is the league that depends heavier on stars. So
you're going to give star treatment to stars. The model
is there that is going to play for twenty years.
Lebron's going to play for twenty years, Kevin Durry's going
to play for twenty years. They got all the money,
all the fame. All they have to do is just hey,
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don't play with guns on Instagram, don't use laser pointers
against the Indiana Pacers traveling party and a loading dock.
Don't do dumb stuff. It's not that difficult. Nobody's asking
you to be a model citizen. They're just saying, hey,
go play basketball. Be entertaining, be electrifying. Just don't make
(29:24):
it hard for yourself. Don't be job versus job. This
ain't a job versus the NBA. Then you want them
to succeed. To succeed, Oh man.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What kind of reception will the Mavericks give Luca tonight?
What kind of reception should they give him?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What type of reception will the Mavericks fans give the
Mavericks tonight. This is going to be a role game,
and now that's what y'alls this is gonna be. It's
gonna be a lot of Laker purple and gold in
this building. I think he's going to, of course get
the standing ovations. I'm sure there's going to be a
tribute video, you know, given to them by the franchise.
And he made five NBA First teams in his first
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six years, carried them to the NBA Finals in the
Western Conference Finals. I think his relationship with the city
of Dallas is solid. His relationship with the Dallas Matt
Bicks is a different thing. So I am far more
curious how the fans are going to react to the
home team looking at the other side and seeing Anthony
Davis and not seeing Kyrie Irving. Like, I think it's
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going to be an electric, sometimes angry atmosphere because they're
going to be treated to all the things they missed Dan.
Have you ever ran into an ex girlfriend and she
looks finer than when she was with you? Have you
ever seen that before?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah? The revenge body, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
The revenge body. You know, Hey, sometimes guys have revenge bodies.
I mean, maybe not Luca, but you know some people
have revenge bodies.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I'm gonna leave you with this.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Are we giving the Oklahoma City Thunder enough credit for
one of the greatest regular seasons?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They have They have fifty one games where they won
by at least ten points. At least ten that's the
all time record. Previous record was the nineteen seventy one
seventy two Lakers who won thirty three in a row,
Golden State in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Milwaukee Bucks with
Kareem and Oscar seventy seventy one, the Bulls with Mike
(31:22):
in ninety five and ninety six. Are we giving ok?
I know we're waiting for Well, let's see what happens
to the postseason. That's it, right, Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
I mean, for one, double digit wins is a proxy
of the three point shot in the importance of it.
Like when you talk about Kareems teams and the Lakers
teams of the early seventies, they were doing that without
the three point shots. So there's a little more I
guess you'd say equity that you can put into that
being translatable to the playoffs. But we're trying to see
if this franchise, that this team can finally get over
(31:56):
to hump And if you look at how they play
against the Lakers the last their last two games, you
could say, man, we got We got some doubts here,
like what does this team look like without shape Gilders
Alexander performing like the MVP. Do you have a second
guy that can take advantage of his matchup and create
his own shot and make his own shot. I don't
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know if they're going to run through the Western Conference
playoffs like they ran through the regular season. I wouldn't
say I'd be surprised that they get to the finals,
but I think there's a lot more competition in this
blood bath of a Western Conference to get to the
finals that I'll be impressed if they do so, more
impressed than the winning by you know, double digits and
the highest net rating in NBA history and all that
(32:38):
other type of stuff, Like they have to prove proved
right now, and the thing is then nobody's afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Great to talk to you have fun tonight in Dallas.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
More Stevie Wonderdan.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Okay can't go wrong. That to mention goodwill y'all, who's
sports NBA rider. He'll be at the game with the
Lakers tonight, and then he's got Nicks and the Pistons tomorrow,
and then likely wherever the Lakers and Warriors are for
round one of the postseason. Always great to talk to him.
All right, we'll take a break, got to settle on
our poll question. We've got to play the day coming up.
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Your phone calls as well. We're back after this.
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with the first hour of this program?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, we got up there right now.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
League with the least job security Major League Baseball, NBA
or NFL.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Okay, I have some data on this, you do, yes?
I do? You have a definitive answer? Yes?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I do?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
What yes? So I'm not guessing. I have data.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I have research since two thousand, this league has the
lowest average coaching tenure.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Paul, start with you.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I would guess the NHL seems like they bounce pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
NHL Todd, what about you? MLB, Marvin, NFL seatan MLB
it's NBA two point nine years. NHL is second just
over three years, NFL three point two. Baseball has the
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best job security at three point seven years.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Believe it or not. The day, best oat of the
day stat of the day here comes that what stat
of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Brought to you by Panini America. Although I think we're
seeing a little bit of a shift with the NFL,
feels like these GMS owners have a little bit more
of an itchy trigger finger to fire your coaches usually
after three years.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yes, Tom, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
We can wink at that in the sports world, but
in most lines of work, three and a half years
to consider that, Wow, you've got a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Three and a half years, you got to be there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yes, there's a stereotype. I'm not putting this out there
that major League baseball managers.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
What do they do?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What do they You've heard that before over the years,
but they have the longest tenure.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I guess they look at a lot of data and
then they fill out their lineup card and then they
maybe gets up to chew on uh, do some scratching,
put on a uniform, go out to the mound.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yes, some people say that about the NBA, or you're
watching a college coach they just screaming play defense, box up,
like obviously, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
But they're involved in every play baseball manager, I don't
know if they're how involved they are, like come on,
come on here, base it, come on now, or you
might yell at the umpire, But I I don't know.
Football and I could see that you're involved in that.
On the headset, you got a lot of things going on,
(37:00):
but baseball baseball feels like it's you know, they got
one hundred and sixty two of these.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm gonna leave him in. I don't think i'll go.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
You know, I need some I need to get my
steps in today. I'm going to walk out to the mound. Hey,
what do you what are you doing? I got a
one hit?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Shut up? Yeah, I just came out. Man.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I try to sit in that bench, you know, on
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I mean it's boring. Yeah, okay, skip, yes, ton.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
Oh, you got to bring the infield in.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
You gotta ship.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
There's all kinds of things. This guy's start warming up writing, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Do you think it's ever gonna change where baseball managers
don't wear full uniforms because they never play in the games.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
There are certain managers who shouldn't wear uniforms down through history.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I saw a new thing that some managers don't wear
at the top, the jersey top. They wear just like
a hoodie or something.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think that was.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Terry Francona who started that, okay with the Red Sox,
and they wanted to know if he had his uniform
underneath the hood and he didn't. And I think they
told him that you can wear that, but you have
to have your jersey underneath.
Speaker 12 (38:07):
Yes, Martin, the manager shouldn't have numbers like Joe tory
Ward number six. I was like, man, that's a prime
number that the manager has, or like Billy Martin had
number one when he was a manager. Like, man, he's
taking a really good number, not like seventy eight or
forty four.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
See.
Speaker 13 (38:24):
I feel like the manager should be number one. I'm
the guy. I'm the manager. I'm number one. Well, Billy
Martin thought he was. He was he thought he was
Rob or Bob in New York. It's Bob in New York. Hi, Bob.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Hello.
Speaker 11 (38:38):
I had an idea, could you have one of your
award nominated crew check to see if Denver can actually
drop all the way out of the play in with
enough losses? Could that firing actually be also a badly
thought out tank job idea by the ownership.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
I don't think they're tanking. And what are you tanking? Four?
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You're not going to get Cooper Flag. I mean, you know,
maybe you get Jace Richardson or something. I don't know,
but no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I do think that there's the odds of them not
making the playoffs are a little more interesting than you
would think, yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Yeah, the Denver Nuggets have forty seven wins. There are
four teams with forty seven wins in the West. A
team with forty six wins, they could go from right
now being the five seed to a playing game by
losing two games in a row.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Okay, if they if they lose their last three games.
I thought that there was like thirteen to one odds
that they don't make the playoff. There was there was
a I.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Think if you count the playing game as not the playoffs. Yeah,
if they lost the rest of their games, they could
end up in a nine to ten playoff game and
have a one game season.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Connor in Chicago, Good morning, Connor, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (40:00):
But nine a hard one eighty new member of the
DDC club starting in January. So cancer sucks. Go to
the doctor, guys. Second thing, probably pay a play at
the golf course, dudes, Brian Harmon, My good lord. People
please pick it up, dude, get to the ball, swing away.
(40:22):
It's not that complicated. You hit so many balls throughout
the day. Probably the best thing I think in is
like fifteen second shot clock or something. They approach it
and stuff like that or something.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I don't know. All right, thank you, Connor. Yeah, you
gotta speed it up a little bit.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
They just do.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
There's certain golfers and if you've ever played with somebody
who's deliberate, even if you're playing the weekend and you
got the guy who lines up his pott all different angles,
you know the I played with a guy who got
down on his hands and knees and I went, no,
we're not, We're not doing this and he was digging
(41:00):
into the green when he was doing it with his
shoes and it's like, Mike, Mike, no, come on, it's
my routine. It's my routine to tell you Mike no. Yes, Paulie, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Brian Harmon has the reputation as a slow player. The
other day he was in a NBC was covering him.
He was in a bunker and he was just standing
there for two straight minutes waiting for the wind to
come from a bunker.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Stet Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
And it was in San Antonio where it gets windy
and he ended up winning too.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
He won the British Open a couple of years ago.
He sent me a golf ball.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I think he's the Is he the first PGA tour
player to have two hole in ones on the same day,
and he sent me one of the golf balls that
I have autographed there, so I thought, hey, why don't
you send me one of those things. Scott van Pelt
will join is from Augusta coming up, and more on
the Lakers heading into Dallas.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Hour two coming up.
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