May 13, 2025 • 42 mins
Dan and the Danettes consider the conspiracy theories surrounding the NBA Draft Lottery as the Dallas Mavericks land the top pick against historically long odds. And DP defends the coverage of Jayson Tatum’s injury during last night’s NBA Playoff game against the Knicks.
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Nick's over the Celtics three to one. Jason Tatum with
an injury. No update on that. He'll probably be having
an MRI this morning, but they might have to wait
until the swelling goes down, whether it's an ankle or
an achilles. The Timberwolves up three to one on the Warriors,
and the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Draft Lottery, followed
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by the Spurs, seventy six ers and the Hornets. It's
one of those moments where you're watching and you're watching
it it almost slowed down. I'm watching, I'm going, oh
my goodness, So Utah's out and Washington's Outlands is out
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going Uh okay, and let's go to break and then
they come back. I go, I'll be damn. Dallas is
going to win the NBA Draft Lottery. And we gave
you a heads up yesterday. Here is Fritzy on the show.
All right, Todd, you are going to manipulate the draft lottery.
What is in the best interest of the NBA?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
My initial thought was from Durham to Charlotte. The Cooper
stays in North Carolina, and the Hornets get the pick.
But I'm actually going to go with the Mavericks. After
the fans got blind sided by that Lucre deal. I'd
like to see flag go to the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, you kind of picked two there, but you did,
you know, I guess finally focus on the Dallas Mavericks.
So I'm going to give you credit. In fact, I
text that to the dan Ench. I said, Fritzy got
it right ish and Dallas gets their man. But you
know there's gonna be people who say conspiracy theory or
why would you, you know, do something go out of
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your way to help the Dallas Mavericks. As our good
buddy Vincent Goodwill says, I've watched the lottery, picked up
the ping pong balls myself to see how they they're weighed,
et cetera. Not only is draft rigging in that way
really hard to do, it's also a federal crime. We
don't want to, you know, have something like that get
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in the way of our conspiracy theories. But when you
do think about it, there are times when you go
things that make you go hmmm. So Patrick Ewing going
to the Knicks, Derrick Rose going to the Bulls should
get a little more emphasis here because they had like
a one point eight percent chance to get him. And
he goes to his hometown. Lebron goes to his hometown.
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The Dallas Mavericks don't deserve this. But then they get
Cooper Flag and I'm thinking Cooper Flagg is there for
the lottery, and he's got to be thinking, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Please not Washington, Please not Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No offense to Washington, d see, of course, but you
know he goes to Dallas, and you do have some
veterans there. I think that will help. I don't think
the focus will necessarily be on just him. You get Ad,
you get Kyrie. You know, they got some younger, big
men too, and I think he might be able to
ease in a little bit better with a place like
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Dallas as opposed to Utah where he'd be singled out,
and certainly with Washington d C. But the Mavericks win
the lottery and let the conspiracy theories resume.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yes, Paula, they were immediate yesterday, whether online or just
walking into people outside my house. People are like, oh,
This is classic NBA. They convince the Mavericks to quietly
trade Luca to the Lakers and do them a solid
on the back end. And I mean these were grown men.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
While I knew, yes, the conspiracy theories were so prevalent
that we actually did it on our show yesterday with
that clip, you just say, if we were to manipulate
the draft, where.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Would we put them? That's how far ahead everybody was.
Let's so let's see how they rig this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, And I didn't even think, but there I saw
some of the threads that said, oh, I see what
the NBA did. You know, the Mavericks did the Lakers
as solid, gave them their future with Luca. Well, we
got to do something nice for them. We're going to
give them Cooper flag. Also, the speculation on where Yannis
is going to go, he just said he would be
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open to that trade.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He'd be open to it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now that's a polite way of saying, you can trade me,
or we're going to trade me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'll decide where I want to go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But you know, hopefully it'll benefit you guys, because the
window is closed. You know, dametime is over. That clock stopped.
Now with Yannis at thirty, and there were a lot
of analysts who you know, they had trade scenarios for
the Bucks in the San Antonio Spurs, and I was like,
why san Antonio for Yannis? If I'm san Antonio and
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I have dearon Fox Stefan Cassel was Rookie of the Year.
I got Victor Wembanyama. I just build it, just add
a little bit more. You're gonna need another veteran. You're
gonna need somebody who's probably in their late twenties early thirties,
and then you know that'll be a steadying force that
you're going to have. I said from the time that
they drafted wemban Yama, just get a point guard. Well,
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they have a couple of them that will, you know,
help his growth. But they have the second pick in
the draft, and Ace Bailey might be the guy. Ron
Harper's son might be the guy. And I did watch
a little bit. I watched more Rutgers basketball than I
should have. And these guys, while they're great, they didn't
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even make the tournament.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They have potential.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Potential means that you haven't done anything, and I think
that's the scary part of Okay, you can add them.
Is that really going to change your fortunes? And san
Antonio has two draft picks, I think the second and
the fourteenth. You know, maybe you can pair that together,
maybe you can put together a package, maybe you could
get some pieces there. But I think san Antonio, you know,
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quietly did well last night. And you know, we go
back to the teams that lost, the teams that had
fourteen percent chance.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know, is the lottery fair? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Is tanking fair? You know, that's the problem I have
that you had teams that tried not to win. Maybe
they weren't trying to lose as much as they were
trying not to win. I know it's semantics here, but
you know, we've gone through a lot of iterations of
the NBA Draft lottery, and I don't know what is
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considered fair. But is this five consecutive years that team
with the worst record didn't get the number one pick
in the lottery in the draft. But I don't know
what the probability of that is of the worst team
is not getting the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
In the draft. All right, well, come up with the
poll question.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Obviously, with the Knick situation, Jay Tatum, we don't know
the severity and look, can we speculate on how he
reacted to the injury? Look more of an achilles than
an ankle or even a knee, but even the pain reaction.
And I don't know if it's the pain of I
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know I'm not going to be able to help my team,
or the actual pain of the injury. Because I've been
around people I've mentioned this before, played hoops with a
guy who blew out both achilles on the same right
at the same moment, and he was in tremendous pain.
But then I see Aaron Rodgers or Kevin Durant or
Kobe you know, everybody reacts differently to this. But my
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reaction when I saw it was that looked like in achilles.
Now Boston can still win this series. Like, you got
to approach this as they're going to be dangerous, and
sometimes you're more dangerous because you know what Derek White's
going to say, I'll take up the shooting slack Peyton Richard.
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Maybe Porzingis plays a big game. Drew Holliday, We're waiting
for him. Like they have a deep team and you
probably have six guys who can get you twenty five
points on any given night. But I if I'm a
Knicks fan, wouldn't look at this and say we're going
to the Eastern Conference Finals because Boston is a great team.
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But you know, we're going to remember these playoffs for
injuries because you have Steph Curry out that's affected that series.
Jason Tatum perhaps out look at all the injuries with
the Cleveland Cavaliers. I mean, yes, this does hurt the
defending champs. I don't think anybody's sympathetic about the Cavaliers,
and they had more injuries than Boston does and they
had the best record in the East. But I hate
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seeing Jason Tatum, who was having an incredible game, going
toe to toe with Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But Boston can still win this series. And I think sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
When that star is out, you ease up a little
little bit here, and if you're the Knicks, you cannot
you cannot go win over confident. You know you have
to go after him and you have to take them
out because if you don't, they're going to have some
confidence here. And we've seen this so many times. Star
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player goes out, everybody rallies. Now, the question is how
long can you rally for? It's like Golden State. I
thought Golden State was going to win, not last night,
the previous game, and I said, if they don't win
that game, then they're not winning this series. And I
don't think Steph Curry's coming back. But last night they
got roughed up, and it looks like, you know, that
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series is going to end. Maybe one more game, but
we're going to look back on these playoffs and probably
single out. The one thing is injuries change the entire
landscape here of who's going to win the title, who's
going to play for the title. Oklahoma City's been healthy.
You know, they got Chad Holmgren back. They've been here
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healthy for the most part. Denver I think is just tired.
I think Joker is tired. Now that's not an excuse,
but you can watch somebody be tired. And Okac, he's
done a lot. They've done a really good job there.
And yes, have I talked about great players stepping up, Yes,
and Joker had better step up. Jimmy Butler didn't step up.
Now this is playoff. Jimmy, Uh, you know I can't
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sit there and go, oh, I'm going to count on
Buddy healed. I shouldn't be counting on Buddy Healed. I
should be counting on Jimmy Butler. But Golden State they're
wounded and they're not going to go much further than
this Seaton.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What's poll question today?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Well, I mean we can start right there with the
draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think WHOA right? All right? Right?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Actually we have a bunch here from the t O
dub too. I don't know if you really want to
get into that this early Tuesday. Fritzie is a new
brand of Todd. How about Fritzi's after the break?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Because he sends us in a direction where it's kind
of hard for me to get back on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Do you have this is true? Yeah? This is true.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I mean I've seen some of the samples here of
questions that Todd has had. By the way, I already
have NBA title odds for next year.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
DraftKings just sent me the odds for winning the NBA
title next year. Okay, I'll have those for you coming up.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Somebody on social media submitted if Nico Harrison presented Anthony
Davis and Cooper flag for Luka doncik.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Oh my god, that's funny. That's essentially yes, yes, yeah,
that's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, damnikes.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
You like to the end of the season, is hey,
So if we could all just try a little harder,
maybe work on getting back in shape, that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Here's something to consider.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And I don't know if many people have singled this out,
and that there was a play in game between Dallas
and Memphis. This is in April. Memphis beat Dallas like
one twenty to one oh six. Knock Dallas out. Dallas
goes into the lottery. Also, I believe there was a
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coin flip the Bulls and the Mavericks, and the Mavericks
won the coin toss and their percentage was one point
eight I believe, and the Bulls one point seven percent.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's right, Dan, The Mavericks based off a coin flip
with the Bulls were in the eleven spot, the Bulls
were in the twelve spot. So two different breaks had
to happen for the Mavericks to get this.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Things that make you go hmmm, just like a meaningless
game against Memphis and you're like, okay, Dallas a bunch
of injuries, they lost, and now they're out, and you
win a coin toss to improve your odds now granted.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
One point eight to one point seven. But who knows, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's what's bothering people. Well, beyond conspiracy, it's like, do
the Mavericks deserve this good luck? After how maybe questionable
it was.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
With the Luca trade.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
No, that's what bothers a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, they don't deserve this.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
No, but.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
How is Nico Harrison being like he had nothing to
do with this, but he's going to benefit from this
as the GM of the Mavericks.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Yes, Stephen, right, and given the track record, right, I'm
not I wouldn't be shocked if they traded out of
that pick.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Or or they take like Dylan Harper or Ace Bailey.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We re looked at it and I would not be surprised.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, we didn't want another white superstar here.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know we're going to trade.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know, we got Ace Bailey here. We got everything
we need. Yes, he was Cooper Flogg with a umlaot.
There was a Homburg flog.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Hey, they got their Dirk Navitzkoper flog. Love him the
dark issues in he looks like me? Cool? All right?
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injury to Jason Tatum and once again once the MRI
that information and it might not come out until later
on this morning. But UH, hoping for the best that
maybe it's a you know, twisted ankle. But I'm judging
from his reaction how they helped him off the floor,
it certainly looked like an Achilles injury, all right. A
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couple of phone calls, uh Lucas in Texas. By the way,
here is the call last night on the injury to
Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Courtesy of ESPN.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Damn brown Back had lost a pall adamoping oh By
himself throws it down and Titum is heart Cauradive is down.
He wants a time out. Titum is so much pain.
I'm a suffix call time out, grabbing that right ankle.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Players will tell you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I remember Dan Marino was going back to pass and
he blew out his achilles. Kevin Durant looked back as
if you know who just kicked me? Kobe goes down,
got up to shoot his free throws. We've seen player
Aaron Rodgers. You know Rogers, you knew right away that
and he knew right away. But it wasn't pain or
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maybe his pain threshold is a lot higher than a
lot of players. But you know these players, you know,
something happens and it's a pop. And that's what surprised
me because Tatum, it looked like was in more pain
for somebody who was going to maybe blow out their achilles.
And that's why I thought, maybe there's hope that it's
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something different. But you know, when when your teammates gather
around you, that's when you know it's a little more serious.
And look, you're trying to get the pictures. You have
to you have to get that picture once. You have
to show the injury, and you know part of the
reaction there, there is a camera in the tunnel. Every
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every team knows that there's a camera there. It wasn't
something where you know you're gonna put a camera in
there and you didn't have one there. As he goes
to the locker room, every player knows, every team knows
there is that camera.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
What's that camera called, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
It's called a Marshall camp.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, so it's there.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And so when people said, oh, you shouldn't be showing this,
it's fair game. You see, it's a huge story. You
have to cover this story. This is this is news
that you have to cover. If you know the kid
from Louisville, Kevin Ware, when he broke his leg, that's
when CBS realized we're not going to show this. It's graphic.
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Gordon Hayward and you know he broke his ankle. You
have to show it. Remember Fred Kendall of the Pirates.
I think he was running down first base line, stepped
on the bag, awkwardly broke his broke his leg. You
have to show it. You do, like Jamar Hamlin, it's
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it's it's a news story. Now, I don't want it
shown over and over and over. And that's where you
can say to your audience, we're going to If you're
just joining us, you know this just happened a couple
of minutes ago. We don't have an update, or you
might have an update, but that's what you do. If
you're a news organization, you have to cover this. Yes
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it's sports, but it's news. And I know that there
were some people saying that there's a lack of sensitivity here,
and I disagree with that. It's a huge story. You
have to show it. Now is when you choose how
much you're going to show it. If you're ESPN or
Fox or TNT. Now you can decide how much of
this are we going to show? Because I didn't know
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the injury until they gave me the overhead shot, because
ground level, I'm not quite sure what just happened. I
thought maybe just slipped, and then all of a sudden
I realized that he was in pain. And until they
showed me up above where you got to see what
was happening, that's the first time I realized that's probably
an achilles. All right, Uh, Lucas and Texas Lee just off, Hi, Luke,
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what's on your mind today? Hey day, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
A little bit of snark, and then I want to
talk to the NBA offseason yos Giel were saying, all
these guys that got drafted or conspiracy got drafted by
their hometown team. He might not be from Dallas. Technically,
bro white guy named Cooper is going to be right
at home in a time like Dallas, I promise you.
But anyways, I'd like to talk a little bit about
the stuff you were mentioning yesterday related to Giannis, particularly
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going to the Rockets. You know, I got you on
the our Rockets bandwagon earlier this season, and I just
want to come out early and like forcefully and say
I do not want to trade for Yannis as a
Rockets fan, because if you go look back since the
creation of the Supermax Player system, I can only find
maybe one team that made the trade for a superstar
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that actually converted that into an NBA championship, and that's
the Raptors with Kawhi. And it just doesn't seem to
actually convert when you mortgage your future on one superstar
player to an actual championship on the court, and I
just I want to keep developing this young core and
see how far they can go rather than getting that
outside help.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I agree, although when the Phoenix Suns traded for Charles Berkley,
that that worked out.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
They went to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But yes, trying to get somebody who is the right
guy and what kind of assets do you have to
give up? Because it's one thing to say, boy, he
would be great on this team, Well what are you
giving up? We tend to look at it, you know,
trades from one angle, and being in the Northeast listening
to sports radio shows, they would always talk about what
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the Yankees should be getting. You know, I think the
Yankees they should trade for and they give up, and
then you know, and then you go, well, wait a minute,
you're going to give up you know, these scrubs and
you're going to get a superstar. Yeah, I'll hang up
and listen, you know. Okay, doesn't work that way, although
if you look at the Lakers and the MAVs trade,
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then sometimes it does. Imagine if somebody said this, they
called in to sports radio the day before. Hey, how
about the Lakers give the MAVs Anthony Davis and uh,
Doug Christie's son. I'll hang up and listen. Uh what
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do you think the host would have said?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Are you crazy? We're not going to do that. What's
Doug Christie's son's name?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Max?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Max Chris Okay, Max Christy, Yes, pony super Max Christy.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Well better, they had a ways to go. Yeah, but
that's when the Mavericks trade broke. I think Shaan Sharania
broke it from ESPN. Nobody believed it. It was that nonsensical.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah. Uh, let's see Jeff and Milwaukee. Hi, Jeff, what's
on your mind today.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Morning?
Speaker 12 (25:02):
So the guy they just called him, Houston Giannis is
built different. You're gonna love him if you get him.
I love that guy. But as far as the draft,
I'm not so concerned about the conspiracy with the lottery.
I'm more disgusted that this GM it should be got
to tick. I mean, so on companies should basically be
banned from the NBA. You don't even if you want
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to trade Luca, you have to market it. He didn't
market it at all. He didn't do his job correctly.
I called back when the Bears got fleeced and then
trade to get Minche Trubisky, And it's the same thing here.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well, he should have had a leak to one reporter,
maybe a local reporter, that this this could happen. Therefore
the other teams can then go, hey, is it true?
And then all of a sudden you could get a
you know, a discussion here. Do I want Anthony Davis?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I don't. Is he a Hall of Famer? Yes he is,
but I can't build around him. I can't build around
Kyrie and some of the younger big guys they got,
you're not really building around them either. You can build
around Cooper Flag, And what do you how about trading Kyrie?
(26:17):
I wonder if they would consider that. Send Kyrie to
a you know, somebody who's going to contend, still a
great player. Not sure his age? Is he around thirty three?
Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Marvin?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I know Anthony Davis is around that same age as well.
So you've got a window here of about two years
Cooper Flag can ease in and then all of a
sudden it becomes his team. Robert in San Diego, Hi, Robert,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 13 (26:48):
Awesome, Thank you so much for taking my call. This
is what I had in mind. I mean, it was
a cool draft for the MBA too, sick the tanking problem,
I I.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Think Robert right, No, you got get it together? Call back, Uh,
Dakota and Kentucky High. Dakota, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Then I don't know what it is, but you cannot
talk me out of it not being a conspiracy. I
don't know if it's because the NBA is, you know,
block trades and it's just been so.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But why would they want Dallas to win the lottery?
Speaker 14 (27:35):
It'd be if they I assumed there was a talk beforehand,
then maybe Luca, if they let Luca go there, then
that would help because the ratings have been down. I'll
listen to you guys talk about it. But uh, suck
at Fritzy all right?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Once again, it's just a guy who gets it right there.
But Dakota, you call in anytime.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's a federal crime to fix the lottery.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Do you really want to run the risk?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
In that case, don't do it. It'd be worth it.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Like if I were a Knicks fan, I would do
a couple of years in the pending get Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Come on, hey, that's against the law. You can't do it, Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Probably one of those nice prisons with tennis courts for
Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Sure, Joe and Michigan. Hi Joe, Hey, good morning Dan.
Speaker 15 (28:31):
My buddy and I have an idea that maybe can
fix the NBA draft orders collection and maybe maybe taking
our idea is the NBA team with the most wins
after being eliminated from the playoffs contention, they get the
number one pick, so you can tank for a portion
(28:52):
of the year going to you're eliminated from the playoff race.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I've talked about that, Joe. I've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Once teams are eliminated, how many wins do you have
after that? And then that will be the draft order.
So I brought that up to the commissioner as well.
I don't know if there's a fair way to do it.
I think they're trying to do what is the fairest way.
I don't know if it. You know, once again that
(29:20):
might be semantics here, but you're giving these three teams
fourteen percent chance. I think what the NBA also did
is those teams that aren't in the top four or five,
they improve their odds a little bit, so it's not
this drastic the haves and the have nots because these
teams that did play hard and maybe they didn't make
(29:42):
the playoffs, or they made the playoffs and they bowed out,
or maybe have somebody else's pick. I think that they're
trying to make it so you can tank, But that
doesn't mean you're going to benefit from tanking, because san
Antonio wasn't trying to tank. You know, Victor win ben
Yama had the blood plot, he had to sit down.
(30:05):
Dallas just had a bunch of injuries. Yeah, Pully.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The NBA in twenty nineteen changed the NBA draft lottery.
It used to be if you're the worst team, you
had the highest percentage. They changed it so these three
worst teams had a similar percentage, so you couldn't make
it any better for yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
In the last few weeks of the.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Season, Seth in West Virginia nic said, Hey.
Speaker 16 (30:27):
Dan, thanks for taking my call. H five to ten
soft two forty soft. What about a tournament for all
the teams that didn't make the playoffs, like a draft tournament.
So if you were, you know, the first team out
of the playoffs, you get a one seed, and the
winner of the tournament gets the first round or the
(30:48):
first pick. The second place team gets the second pick.
That way, you're kind of rewarding some franchises that try
to build but maybe are just one player away.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, I brought that up too. I didn't bring it
up to the commissioner, but you know, can you do
a round robin of the four worst teams? But then,
as a friend of mine who works with the NBA goes, okay,
we're going to benefit the best player of the four
worst teams. What's that say about the worst team? And
(31:19):
then I go all right, but can you imagine if
you had now I don't think the Players Association would
go for this, but if you said, hey, we have
a final four, we have a bottom four, and you
know you'll have one versus four and two verses three
in the seating and then all of a sudden, then
you'll play for the right for the number one pick.
(31:41):
But then you're also going to have players who might
not be on the team the next year. They'd be like, hell, now,
I don't want him take in my job. You know
we got to lose this thing.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yes, Todd, But if you're genuinely trying, and you just
are the worst team no matter what you do in
a tournament like that, and you want the worst team
should get the top player. The best of the four
are going to get rewarded and that's it. But they're
already one of the four best of the worst, and
they're going to have the best chance of getting the
number one.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, but I have to incentivize you.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, but a team that's actually trying and has proven
no matter what they did, that they're the worst team.
They weren't purposely losing. They are getting penalized for being
the worst that year when they should be getting the
top picked up the best chance of building on something?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Is it penalized checking?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Maybe it's a penal code?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
The you go not a penal code? Is it an
envelope or an envelope?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Ovelove sounds bougie?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You say envelope bogie? How about creek or crick I
grew up, I went to fishing in the creek.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
You get a criok in your neck. But I think
you go to a creek fish?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, envelope? Yes, hunt or yes.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Paul Merriam Webster Dictionary says penalized okay, yeah, pal, So.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Why isn't it a penal? We have a penalty? Why
not to go with penalty? I don't know. Penalty kicks? Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. We should bring it back,
I don't did it? Was it ever there to begin with? Yeah?
To bring back you got.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Kicking a groin, it would be a penalty. All the
other ones just a penalty.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I'll tell you, guys, these penalties are just killing us
right now. We got to stop with all the damn
penalties giving away yardage.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Raiders lead the league of penalties again. How about we
take a break. Our play of the day is up next.
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(34:30):
couple more phone calls. H Fritzie, you had some poll
question suggestions that I wanted to wait for a little while,
So now's the time.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Should changes be made to the NBA Draft lottery? Yes,
only the worst team should have a shot at the
number one pick. No, I like the drama. Keep it
just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'd say keep it the way it is. I'm fine
with that.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
The main reason the Knicks would advance to the Eastern
Conference Finals is they're simply the better team.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Jason Tatum just got hurt. Tom Thibodeau is out coaching Joe.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Mizzula, which one of those three is the main reason
the Knicks will advance.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
The Celtics are the better team, but they didn't play
that way in the first two games, so they put
themselves in this position with the injury last night to
Jason Tatum. I still think they can win this series.
I do, but I don't think the Knicks have been
given enough credit for coming back from twenty down in
(35:31):
the first two games. They got roughed up over the
weekend on Saturday, but then that performance last night. Whether
Tatum gets hurt or not, you know that that was
a great Knicks performance, certainly by a Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Yes, is there something to that coaching point that Todd made,
though I think Joe Mizzoula probably takes the analytics and says,
this is who we are.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We're gonna shoot sixty three pointers, and if we make
X number of them, this is what you need to
shoot from the floor from two point range, So the
math works in your favor. They have an unbelievably deep,
talented team, and I don't know if anybody in NBA
history has ever put together a team with this many
players who can shoot three pointers and make three pointers.
(36:20):
But without Tatum, they'll be obviously a tall task here.
But you do have teams that rally when their superstar
goes down. The question is how long can you keep
that rally going? Yes, Paulin, I'd like to.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Go back to the NBA draft lottery and suggest maybe
a little good idea, bad idea. Okay, what if the
NFL created an NFL draft lottery, but it was smaller,
it was only the worst four teams in the league
that year. You now would have a new TV show,
a new topic off the draft, and you'd avoid any
type of late season tanking and resting of players. So
(36:55):
this year it'd have been the Titans, Jaguars, Giants, and Patriots.
Imagine that those four teams were in play for the
number one pick and you had a TV show just
like this, and instead of always rewarding the worst team,
you have a little bit of drama to it. But
it's not a massive lottery like twelve thirteen teams.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
But it never stays at four, then it goes to six,
and then it goes to I mean, that's just what
we do.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Well, let's say it was suggested or the NBA or
the NFL entertained.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Well, if the commissioner would ever come on the show,
then I would say, commissioner, have you ever thought about
a lottery for the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
In the draft?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
There's a lot of upside for the NFL to do
a four team lottery.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Maybe I can reach out to Greeny and say, when
you have the commissioner on, why don't you ask? You
can take credit for this, But how about a draft
lottery for the number one pick?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
You can try that? What else do you have? Time?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Is an anti American root for the oilers, make beliefs
and jets to advance?
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yet it is absolutely.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Not No, not anti American. I could be pro Canada,
not anti American.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
I'm probably passionate fans. How could you root for a connage?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But these players?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You have American players playing in Canada and Canadian players
playing in the United States.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You got European players here.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
No, I think it's a great story if Canada is
represented in the Stanley Cup Final. It's been a long
time since they won the Cup. Anything else? Toddler one?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Other ones?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Do you like when select NFL games of the twenty
twenty five schedule leak out days before the official release?
Speaker 7 (38:27):
A little wordy, but sure give us a little taste?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Or no?
Speaker 7 (38:30):
I like it revealed all at once? Talking about Wednesday
night at eight o'clock the official reveal.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I think that each network gets to reveal one game,
and then you have Okay, they interrupt the NFL Draft
in Green Bay to announce that on May fourteenth there
will be the schedule release party. So they are announcing
an announcement, and then I got CBS's schedule already. I mean,
(38:56):
I can find out all of these if I want to,
but I don't. I would. If you're going to have
a schedule release or reveal party, then then wait for that.
But if ESPN wants to say this is our game,
NBC says first game of the season is going to
be this, Fox has their great Amazon, all these streaming partners.
(39:19):
You want to do one game, great, one game, but
let's make it a celebration, Let's make it a party.
It's like when you open up a gift when your
kids say it's Christmas Eve, can we open up?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Can we open up one gift? Just one? And then
all of a sudden you go, okay, can go can
we do one more?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Well, that's what the schedule release is. Just do one gift,
not all of them. And if you have this build
up to Wednesday night, then utilize that momentum. Yes, ton
anything else.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Not an exact not that was it with that, but
not an exact analogy. But I remember, leading up to
one honeka growing up, I was rummaging through gifts that
weren't just yet, and I came across something that I
really wanted. It was a police lego set, and I
kept talking about it and hinting about it to my mom,
knowing I was getting it because I saw it in
one of the bags until she realized that I must
have seen it, and I like ruined the whole surprise,
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and then she didn't actually give it to me for
weeks because I basically looked into the room where I
knew the unwrapped gifts were. I just wanted to share
that little Honika note.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Okay, maybe share that with your mom.
Speaker 7 (40:25):
Oh, she knows very well what happened though, Okay when
I was like seven.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Okay, yes, I kind of liked the discipline my mom there.
He has to pay the price for a couple of
weeks and not at the lego set.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
You didn't love that story.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
It didn't really match anything that we would talk to
leading up to that story.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
No, but you turn your blanker on from the right
lane your left blanker.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Yes, talk about gifts opening up the gift.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I know, I know, I know, yes, see.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I do.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Like how even after all these years, little drips and
drabs of Todd's childhood keep revealing themselves.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
You were scarred? You are?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Oh no, I do.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Yeah, I got to twenty three years ago. You figured
it out.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Yeah, I think I've heard everything. But you're scarred, absolutely,
you are.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Marmeter story is that? Was that the one that pushed
it over.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
The top.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
When you when your mom made you and your brother
go back to the doctor to get a shot, even
though you were told you didn't need a shot.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Just were about to go in the car and pull away.
Wait a second, why we have to go back inside.
I spoke to the doctor. He thinks might be best
to get a hut, which I used to get right
in the butt, back in the air in the old days.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
And then you know the rectal thermometer.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Yeah, put a little vasoline in there and it's and
my mom did not have good aim.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I was very thankful.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Once you get to junior high school, you shouldn't be
taking the temperature that way, but she.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
Said that's the only way to really get the accurate results.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You were in junior high, you know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
We definitely fell past the year because I would ask
my friends about their experiences and they're.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Like, what ask your friends?
Speaker 7 (41:53):
Don't you hate when your mom and missus with the
the what what did you do?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
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(01:18):
Nick's over the Celtics three to one. Jason Tatum with
an injury. No update on that. He'll probably be having
an MRI this morning, but they might have to wait
until the swelling goes down, whether it's an ankle or
an achilles. The Timberwolves up three to one on the Warriors,
and the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Draft Lottery, followed
(01:40):
by the Spurs, seventy six ers and the Hornets. It's
one of those moments where you're watching and you're watching
it it almost slowed down. I'm watching, I'm going, oh
my goodness, So Utah's out and Washington's Outlands is out
(02:01):
going Uh okay, and let's go to break and then
they come back. I go, I'll be damn. Dallas is
going to win the NBA Draft Lottery. And we gave
you a heads up yesterday. Here is Fritzy on the show.
All right, Todd, you are going to manipulate the draft lottery.
What is in the best interest of the NBA?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
My initial thought was from Durham to Charlotte. The Cooper
stays in North Carolina, and the Hornets get the pick.
But I'm actually going to go with the Mavericks. After
the fans got blind sided by that Lucre deal. I'd
like to see flag go to the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, you kind of picked two there, but you did,
you know, I guess finally focus on the Dallas Mavericks.
So I'm going to give you credit. In fact, I
text that to the dan Ench. I said, Fritzy got
it right ish and Dallas gets their man. But you
know there's gonna be people who say conspiracy theory or
why would you, you know, do something go out of
(02:58):
your way to help the Dallas Mavericks. As our good
buddy Vincent Goodwill says, I've watched the lottery, picked up
the ping pong balls myself to see how they they're weighed,
et cetera. Not only is draft rigging in that way
really hard to do, it's also a federal crime. We
don't want to, you know, have something like that get
(03:20):
in the way of our conspiracy theories. But when you
do think about it, there are times when you go
things that make you go hmmm. So Patrick Ewing going
to the Knicks, Derrick Rose going to the Bulls should
get a little more emphasis here because they had like
a one point eight percent chance to get him. And
he goes to his hometown. Lebron goes to his hometown.
(03:42):
The Dallas Mavericks don't deserve this. But then they get
Cooper Flag and I'm thinking Cooper Flagg is there for
the lottery, and he's got to be thinking, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Please not Washington, Please not Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No offense to Washington, d see, of course, but you
know he goes to Dallas, and you do have some
veterans there. I think that will help. I don't think
the focus will necessarily be on just him. You get Ad,
you get Kyrie. You know, they got some younger, big
men too, and I think he might be able to
ease in a little bit better with a place like
(04:16):
Dallas as opposed to Utah where he'd be singled out,
and certainly with Washington d C. But the Mavericks win
the lottery and let the conspiracy theories resume.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yes, Paula, they were immediate yesterday, whether online or just
walking into people outside my house. People are like, oh,
This is classic NBA. They convince the Mavericks to quietly
trade Luca to the Lakers and do them a solid
on the back end. And I mean these were grown men.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
While I knew, yes, the conspiracy theories were so prevalent
that we actually did it on our show yesterday with
that clip, you just say, if we were to manipulate
the draft, where.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Would we put them? That's how far ahead everybody was.
Let's so let's see how they rig this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, And I didn't even think, but there I saw
some of the threads that said, oh, I see what
the NBA did. You know, the Mavericks did the Lakers
as solid, gave them their future with Luca. Well, we
got to do something nice for them. We're going to
give them Cooper flag. Also, the speculation on where Yannis
is going to go, he just said he would be
(05:23):
open to that trade.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He'd be open to it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now that's a polite way of saying, you can trade me,
or we're going to trade me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'll decide where I want to go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But you know, hopefully it'll benefit you guys, because the
window is closed. You know, dametime is over. That clock stopped.
Now with Yannis at thirty, and there were a lot
of analysts who you know, they had trade scenarios for
the Bucks in the San Antonio Spurs, and I was like,
why san Antonio for Yannis? If I'm san Antonio and
(05:57):
I have dearon Fox Stefan Cassel was Rookie of the Year.
I got Victor Wembanyama. I just build it, just add
a little bit more. You're gonna need another veteran. You're
gonna need somebody who's probably in their late twenties early thirties,
and then you know that'll be a steadying force that
you're going to have. I said from the time that
they drafted wemban Yama, just get a point guard. Well,
(06:18):
they have a couple of them that will, you know,
help his growth. But they have the second pick in
the draft, and Ace Bailey might be the guy. Ron
Harper's son might be the guy. And I did watch
a little bit. I watched more Rutgers basketball than I
should have. And these guys, while they're great, they didn't
(06:41):
even make the tournament.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They have potential.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Potential means that you haven't done anything, and I think
that's the scary part of Okay, you can add them.
Is that really going to change your fortunes? And san
Antonio has two draft picks, I think the second and
the fourteenth. You know, maybe you can pair that together,
maybe you can put together a package, maybe you could
get some pieces there. But I think san Antonio, you know,
(07:06):
quietly did well last night. And you know, we go
back to the teams that lost, the teams that had
fourteen percent chance.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know, is the lottery fair? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Is tanking fair? You know, that's the problem I have
that you had teams that tried not to win. Maybe
they weren't trying to lose as much as they were
trying not to win. I know it's semantics here, but
you know, we've gone through a lot of iterations of
the NBA Draft lottery, and I don't know what is
(07:39):
considered fair. But is this five consecutive years that team
with the worst record didn't get the number one pick
in the lottery in the draft. But I don't know
what the probability of that is of the worst team
is not getting the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
In the draft. All right, well, come up with the
poll question.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Obviously, with the Knick situation, Jay Tatum, we don't know
the severity and look, can we speculate on how he
reacted to the injury? Look more of an achilles than
an ankle or even a knee, but even the pain reaction.
And I don't know if it's the pain of I
(08:18):
know I'm not going to be able to help my team,
or the actual pain of the injury. Because I've been
around people I've mentioned this before, played hoops with a
guy who blew out both achilles on the same right
at the same moment, and he was in tremendous pain.
But then I see Aaron Rodgers or Kevin Durant or
Kobe you know, everybody reacts differently to this. But my
(08:40):
reaction when I saw it was that looked like in achilles.
Now Boston can still win this series. Like, you got
to approach this as they're going to be dangerous, and
sometimes you're more dangerous because you know what Derek White's
going to say, I'll take up the shooting slack Peyton Richard.
(09:01):
Maybe Porzingis plays a big game. Drew Holliday, We're waiting
for him. Like they have a deep team and you
probably have six guys who can get you twenty five
points on any given night. But I if I'm a
Knicks fan, wouldn't look at this and say we're going
to the Eastern Conference Finals because Boston is a great team.
(09:22):
But you know, we're going to remember these playoffs for
injuries because you have Steph Curry out that's affected that series.
Jason Tatum perhaps out look at all the injuries with
the Cleveland Cavaliers. I mean, yes, this does hurt the
defending champs. I don't think anybody's sympathetic about the Cavaliers,
and they had more injuries than Boston does and they
had the best record in the East. But I hate
(09:44):
seeing Jason Tatum, who was having an incredible game, going
toe to toe with Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But Boston can still win this series. And I think sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
When that star is out, you ease up a little
little bit here, and if you're the Knicks, you cannot
you cannot go win over confident. You know you have
to go after him and you have to take them
out because if you don't, they're going to have some
confidence here. And we've seen this so many times. Star
(10:19):
player goes out, everybody rallies. Now, the question is how
long can you rally for? It's like Golden State. I
thought Golden State was going to win, not last night,
the previous game, and I said, if they don't win
that game, then they're not winning this series. And I
don't think Steph Curry's coming back. But last night they
got roughed up, and it looks like, you know, that
(10:39):
series is going to end. Maybe one more game, but
we're going to look back on these playoffs and probably
single out. The one thing is injuries change the entire
landscape here of who's going to win the title, who's
going to play for the title. Oklahoma City's been healthy.
You know, they got Chad Holmgren back. They've been here
(11:00):
healthy for the most part. Denver I think is just tired.
I think Joker is tired. Now that's not an excuse,
but you can watch somebody be tired. And Okac, he's
done a lot. They've done a really good job there.
And yes, have I talked about great players stepping up, Yes,
and Joker had better step up. Jimmy Butler didn't step up.
Now this is playoff. Jimmy, Uh, you know I can't
(11:23):
sit there and go, oh, I'm going to count on
Buddy healed. I shouldn't be counting on Buddy Healed. I
should be counting on Jimmy Butler. But Golden State they're
wounded and they're not going to go much further than
this Seaton.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What's poll question today?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Well, I mean we can start right there with the
draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think WHOA right? All right? Right?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Actually we have a bunch here from the t O
dub too. I don't know if you really want to
get into that this early Tuesday. Fritzie is a new
brand of Todd. How about Fritzi's after the break?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Because he sends us in a direction where it's kind
of hard for me to get back on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Do you have this is true? Yeah? This is true.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I mean I've seen some of the samples here of
questions that Todd has had. By the way, I already
have NBA title odds for next year.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
DraftKings just sent me the odds for winning the NBA
title next year. Okay, I'll have those for you coming up.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Somebody on social media submitted if Nico Harrison presented Anthony
Davis and Cooper flag for Luka doncik.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Oh my god, that's funny. That's essentially yes, yes, yeah,
that's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, damnikes.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
You like to the end of the season, is hey,
So if we could all just try a little harder,
maybe work on getting back in shape, that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Here's something to consider.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And I don't know if many people have singled this out,
and that there was a play in game between Dallas
and Memphis. This is in April. Memphis beat Dallas like
one twenty to one oh six. Knock Dallas out. Dallas
goes into the lottery. Also, I believe there was a
(13:16):
coin flip the Bulls and the Mavericks, and the Mavericks
won the coin toss and their percentage was one point
eight I believe, and the Bulls one point seven percent.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's right, Dan, The Mavericks based off a coin flip
with the Bulls were in the eleven spot, the Bulls
were in the twelve spot. So two different breaks had
to happen for the Mavericks to get this.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Things that make you go hmmm, just like a meaningless
game against Memphis and you're like, okay, Dallas a bunch
of injuries, they lost, and now they're out, and you
win a coin toss to improve your odds now granted.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
One point eight to one point seven. But who knows, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's what's bothering people. Well, beyond conspiracy, it's like, do
the Mavericks deserve this good luck? After how maybe questionable
it was.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
With the Luca trade.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
No, that's what bothers a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, they don't deserve this.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
No, but.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
How is Nico Harrison being like he had nothing to
do with this, but he's going to benefit from this
as the GM of the Mavericks.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Yes, Stephen, right, and given the track record, right, I'm
not I wouldn't be shocked if they traded out of
that pick.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Or or they take like Dylan Harper or Ace Bailey.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We re looked at it and I would not be surprised.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, we didn't want another white superstar here.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know we're going to trade.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know, we got Ace Bailey here. We got everything
we need. Yes, he was Cooper Flogg with a umlaot.
There was a Homburg flog.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Hey, they got their Dirk Navitzkoper flog. Love him the
dark issues in he looks like me? Cool? All right?
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(18:02):
injury to Jason Tatum and once again once the MRI
that information and it might not come out until later
on this morning. But UH, hoping for the best that
maybe it's a you know, twisted ankle. But I'm judging
from his reaction how they helped him off the floor,
it certainly looked like an Achilles injury, all right. A
(18:24):
couple of phone calls, uh Lucas in Texas. By the way,
here is the call last night on the injury to
Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Courtesy of ESPN.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Damn brown Back had lost a pall adamoping oh By
himself throws it down and Titum is heart Cauradive is down.
He wants a time out. Titum is so much pain.
I'm a suffix call time out, grabbing that right ankle.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Players will tell you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I remember Dan Marino was going back to pass and
he blew out his achilles. Kevin Durant looked back as
if you know who just kicked me? Kobe goes down,
got up to shoot his free throws. We've seen player
Aaron Rodgers. You know Rogers, you knew right away that
and he knew right away. But it wasn't pain or
(19:17):
maybe his pain threshold is a lot higher than a
lot of players. But you know these players, you know,
something happens and it's a pop. And that's what surprised
me because Tatum, it looked like was in more pain
for somebody who was going to maybe blow out their achilles.
And that's why I thought, maybe there's hope that it's
(19:37):
something different. But you know, when when your teammates gather
around you, that's when you know it's a little more serious.
And look, you're trying to get the pictures. You have
to you have to get that picture once. You have
to show the injury, and you know part of the
reaction there, there is a camera in the tunnel. Every
(19:58):
every team knows that there's a camera there. It wasn't
something where you know you're gonna put a camera in
there and you didn't have one there. As he goes
to the locker room, every player knows, every team knows
there is that camera.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
What's that camera called, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
It's called a Marshall camp.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, so it's there.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And so when people said, oh, you shouldn't be showing this,
it's fair game. You see, it's a huge story. You
have to cover this story. This is this is news
that you have to cover. If you know the kid
from Louisville, Kevin Ware, when he broke his leg, that's
when CBS realized we're not going to show this. It's graphic.
(20:38):
Gordon Hayward and you know he broke his ankle. You
have to show it. Remember Fred Kendall of the Pirates.
I think he was running down first base line, stepped
on the bag, awkwardly broke his broke his leg. You
have to show it. You do, like Jamar Hamlin, it's
(20:59):
it's it's a news story. Now, I don't want it
shown over and over and over. And that's where you
can say to your audience, we're going to If you're
just joining us, you know this just happened a couple
of minutes ago. We don't have an update, or you
might have an update, but that's what you do. If
you're a news organization, you have to cover this. Yes
(21:19):
it's sports, but it's news. And I know that there
were some people saying that there's a lack of sensitivity here,
and I disagree with that. It's a huge story. You
have to show it. Now is when you choose how
much you're going to show it. If you're ESPN or
Fox or TNT. Now you can decide how much of
this are we going to show? Because I didn't know
(21:41):
the injury until they gave me the overhead shot, because
ground level, I'm not quite sure what just happened. I
thought maybe just slipped, and then all of a sudden
I realized that he was in pain. And until they
showed me up above where you got to see what
was happening, that's the first time I realized that's probably
an achilles. All right, Uh, Lucas and Texas Lee just off, Hi, Luke,
(22:05):
what's on your mind today? Hey day, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
A little bit of snark, and then I want to
talk to the NBA offseason yos Giel were saying, all
these guys that got drafted or conspiracy got drafted by
their hometown team. He might not be from Dallas. Technically,
bro white guy named Cooper is going to be right
at home in a time like Dallas, I promise you.
But anyways, I'd like to talk a little bit about
the stuff you were mentioning yesterday related to Giannis, particularly
(22:34):
going to the Rockets. You know, I got you on
the our Rockets bandwagon earlier this season, and I just
want to come out early and like forcefully and say
I do not want to trade for Yannis as a
Rockets fan, because if you go look back since the
creation of the Supermax Player system, I can only find
maybe one team that made the trade for a superstar
(22:56):
that actually converted that into an NBA championship, and that's
the Raptors with Kawhi. And it just doesn't seem to
actually convert when you mortgage your future on one superstar
player to an actual championship on the court, and I
just I want to keep developing this young core and
see how far they can go rather than getting that
outside help.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I agree, although when the Phoenix Suns traded for Charles Berkley,
that that worked out.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
They went to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But yes, trying to get somebody who is the right
guy and what kind of assets do you have to
give up? Because it's one thing to say, boy, he
would be great on this team, Well what are you
giving up? We tend to look at it, you know,
trades from one angle, and being in the Northeast listening
to sports radio shows, they would always talk about what
(23:45):
the Yankees should be getting. You know, I think the
Yankees they should trade for and they give up, and
then you know, and then you go, well, wait a minute,
you're going to give up you know, these scrubs and
you're going to get a superstar. Yeah, I'll hang up
and listen, you know. Okay, doesn't work that way, although
if you look at the Lakers and the MAVs trade,
(24:07):
then sometimes it does. Imagine if somebody said this, they
called in to sports radio the day before. Hey, how
about the Lakers give the MAVs Anthony Davis and uh,
Doug Christie's son. I'll hang up and listen. Uh what
(24:31):
do you think the host would have said?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Are you crazy? We're not going to do that. What's
Doug Christie's son's name?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Max?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Max Chris Okay, Max Christy, Yes, pony super Max Christy.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Well better, they had a ways to go. Yeah, but
that's when the Mavericks trade broke. I think Shaan Sharania
broke it from ESPN. Nobody believed it. It was that nonsensical.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah. Uh, let's see Jeff and Milwaukee. Hi, Jeff, what's
on your mind today.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Morning?
Speaker 12 (25:02):
So the guy they just called him, Houston Giannis is
built different. You're gonna love him if you get him.
I love that guy. But as far as the draft,
I'm not so concerned about the conspiracy with the lottery.
I'm more disgusted that this GM it should be got
to tick. I mean, so on companies should basically be
banned from the NBA. You don't even if you want
(25:25):
to trade Luca, you have to market it. He didn't
market it at all. He didn't do his job correctly.
I called back when the Bears got fleeced and then
trade to get Minche Trubisky, And it's the same thing here.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well, he should have had a leak to one reporter,
maybe a local reporter, that this this could happen. Therefore
the other teams can then go, hey, is it true?
And then all of a sudden you could get a
you know, a discussion here. Do I want Anthony Davis?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I don't. Is he a Hall of Famer? Yes he is,
but I can't build around him. I can't build around
Kyrie and some of the younger big guys they got,
you're not really building around them either. You can build
around Cooper Flag, And what do you how about trading Kyrie?
(26:17):
I wonder if they would consider that. Send Kyrie to
a you know, somebody who's going to contend, still a
great player. Not sure his age? Is he around thirty three?
Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Marvin?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I know Anthony Davis is around that same age as well.
So you've got a window here of about two years
Cooper Flag can ease in and then all of a
sudden it becomes his team. Robert in San Diego, Hi, Robert,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 13 (26:48):
Awesome, Thank you so much for taking my call. This
is what I had in mind. I mean, it was
a cool draft for the MBA too, sick the tanking problem,
I I.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Think Robert right, No, you got get it together? Call back, Uh,
Dakota and Kentucky High. Dakota, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Then I don't know what it is, but you cannot
talk me out of it not being a conspiracy. I
don't know if it's because the NBA is, you know,
block trades and it's just been so.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But why would they want Dallas to win the lottery?
Speaker 14 (27:35):
It'd be if they I assumed there was a talk beforehand,
then maybe Luca, if they let Luca go there, then
that would help because the ratings have been down. I'll
listen to you guys talk about it. But uh, suck
at Fritzy all right?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Once again, it's just a guy who gets it right there.
But Dakota, you call in anytime.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's a federal crime to fix the lottery.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Do you really want to run the risk?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
In that case, don't do it. It'd be worth it.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Like if I were a Knicks fan, I would do
a couple of years in the pending get Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Come on, hey, that's against the law. You can't do it, Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Probably one of those nice prisons with tennis courts for
Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Sure, Joe and Michigan. Hi Joe, Hey, good morning Dan.
Speaker 15 (28:31):
My buddy and I have an idea that maybe can
fix the NBA draft orders collection and maybe maybe taking
our idea is the NBA team with the most wins
after being eliminated from the playoffs contention, they get the
number one pick, so you can tank for a portion
(28:52):
of the year going to you're eliminated from the playoff race.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I've talked about that, Joe. I've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Once teams are eliminated, how many wins do you have
after that? And then that will be the draft order.
So I brought that up to the commissioner as well.
I don't know if there's a fair way to do it.
I think they're trying to do what is the fairest way.
I don't know if it. You know, once again that
(29:20):
might be semantics here, but you're giving these three teams
fourteen percent chance. I think what the NBA also did
is those teams that aren't in the top four or five,
they improve their odds a little bit, so it's not
this drastic the haves and the have nots because these
teams that did play hard and maybe they didn't make
(29:42):
the playoffs, or they made the playoffs and they bowed out,
or maybe have somebody else's pick. I think that they're
trying to make it so you can tank, But that
doesn't mean you're going to benefit from tanking, because san
Antonio wasn't trying to tank. You know, Victor win ben
Yama had the blood plot, he had to sit down.
(30:05):
Dallas just had a bunch of injuries. Yeah, Pully.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The NBA in twenty nineteen changed the NBA draft lottery.
It used to be if you're the worst team, you
had the highest percentage. They changed it so these three
worst teams had a similar percentage, so you couldn't make
it any better for yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
In the last few weeks of the.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Season, Seth in West Virginia nic said, Hey.
Speaker 16 (30:27):
Dan, thanks for taking my call. H five to ten
soft two forty soft. What about a tournament for all
the teams that didn't make the playoffs, like a draft tournament.
So if you were, you know, the first team out
of the playoffs, you get a one seed, and the
winner of the tournament gets the first round or the
(30:48):
first pick. The second place team gets the second pick.
That way, you're kind of rewarding some franchises that try
to build but maybe are just one player away.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, I brought that up too. I didn't bring it
up to the commissioner, but you know, can you do
a round robin of the four worst teams? But then,
as a friend of mine who works with the NBA goes, okay,
we're going to benefit the best player of the four
worst teams. What's that say about the worst team? And
(31:19):
then I go all right, but can you imagine if
you had now I don't think the Players Association would
go for this, but if you said, hey, we have
a final four, we have a bottom four, and you
know you'll have one versus four and two verses three
in the seating and then all of a sudden, then
you'll play for the right for the number one pick.
(31:41):
But then you're also going to have players who might
not be on the team the next year. They'd be like, hell, now,
I don't want him take in my job. You know
we got to lose this thing.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yes, Todd, But if you're genuinely trying, and you just
are the worst team no matter what you do in
a tournament like that, and you want the worst team
should get the top player. The best of the four
are going to get rewarded and that's it. But they're
already one of the four best of the worst, and
they're going to have the best chance of getting the
number one.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, but I have to incentivize you.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, but a team that's actually trying and has proven
no matter what they did, that they're the worst team.
They weren't purposely losing. They are getting penalized for being
the worst that year when they should be getting the
top picked up the best chance of building on something?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Is it penalized checking?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Maybe it's a penal code?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
The you go not a penal code? Is it an
envelope or an envelope?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Ovelove sounds bougie?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You say envelope bogie? How about creek or crick I
grew up, I went to fishing in the creek.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
You get a criok in your neck. But I think
you go to a creek fish?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, envelope? Yes, hunt or yes.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Paul Merriam Webster Dictionary says penalized okay, yeah, pal, So.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Why isn't it a penal? We have a penalty? Why
not to go with penalty? I don't know. Penalty kicks? Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. We should bring it back,
I don't did it? Was it ever there to begin with? Yeah?
To bring back you got.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Kicking a groin, it would be a penalty. All the
other ones just a penalty.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I'll tell you, guys, these penalties are just killing us
right now. We got to stop with all the damn
penalties giving away yardage.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Raiders lead the league of penalties again. How about we
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couple more phone calls. H Fritzie, you had some poll
question suggestions that I wanted to wait for a little while,
So now's the time.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Should changes be made to the NBA Draft lottery? Yes,
only the worst team should have a shot at the
number one pick. No, I like the drama. Keep it
just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'd say keep it the way it is. I'm fine
with that.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
The main reason the Knicks would advance to the Eastern
Conference Finals is they're simply the better team.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Jason Tatum just got hurt. Tom Thibodeau is out coaching Joe.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Mizzula, which one of those three is the main reason
the Knicks will advance.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
The Celtics are the better team, but they didn't play
that way in the first two games, so they put
themselves in this position with the injury last night to
Jason Tatum. I still think they can win this series.
I do, but I don't think the Knicks have been
given enough credit for coming back from twenty down in
(35:31):
the first two games. They got roughed up over the
weekend on Saturday, but then that performance last night. Whether
Tatum gets hurt or not, you know that that was
a great Knicks performance, certainly by a Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Yes, is there something to that coaching point that Todd made,
though I think Joe Mizzoula probably takes the analytics and says,
this is who we are.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We're gonna shoot sixty three pointers, and if we make
X number of them, this is what you need to
shoot from the floor from two point range, So the
math works in your favor. They have an unbelievably deep,
talented team, and I don't know if anybody in NBA
history has ever put together a team with this many
players who can shoot three pointers and make three pointers.
(36:20):
But without Tatum, they'll be obviously a tall task here.
But you do have teams that rally when their superstar
goes down. The question is how long can you keep
that rally going? Yes, Paulin, I'd like to.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Go back to the NBA draft lottery and suggest maybe
a little good idea, bad idea. Okay, what if the
NFL created an NFL draft lottery, but it was smaller,
it was only the worst four teams in the league
that year. You now would have a new TV show,
a new topic off the draft, and you'd avoid any
type of late season tanking and resting of players. So
(36:55):
this year it'd have been the Titans, Jaguars, Giants, and Patriots.
Imagine that those four teams were in play for the
number one pick and you had a TV show just
like this, and instead of always rewarding the worst team,
you have a little bit of drama to it. But
it's not a massive lottery like twelve thirteen teams.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
But it never stays at four, then it goes to six,
and then it goes to I mean, that's just what
we do.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Well, let's say it was suggested or the NBA or
the NFL entertained.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Well, if the commissioner would ever come on the show,
then I would say, commissioner, have you ever thought about
a lottery for the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
In the draft?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
There's a lot of upside for the NFL to do
a four team lottery.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Maybe I can reach out to Greeny and say, when
you have the commissioner on, why don't you ask? You
can take credit for this, But how about a draft
lottery for the number one pick?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
You can try that? What else do you have? Time?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Is an anti American root for the oilers, make beliefs
and jets to advance?
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yet it is absolutely.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Not No, not anti American. I could be pro Canada,
not anti American.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
I'm probably passionate fans. How could you root for a connage?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But these players?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You have American players playing in Canada and Canadian players
playing in the United States.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You got European players here.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
No, I think it's a great story if Canada is
represented in the Stanley Cup Final. It's been a long
time since they won the Cup. Anything else? Toddler one?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Other ones?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Do you like when select NFL games of the twenty
twenty five schedule leak out days before the official release?
Speaker 7 (38:27):
A little wordy, but sure give us a little taste?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Or no?
Speaker 7 (38:30):
I like it revealed all at once? Talking about Wednesday
night at eight o'clock the official reveal.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I think that each network gets to reveal one game,
and then you have Okay, they interrupt the NFL Draft
in Green Bay to announce that on May fourteenth there
will be the schedule release party. So they are announcing
an announcement, and then I got CBS's schedule already. I mean,
(38:56):
I can find out all of these if I want to,
but I don't. I would. If you're going to have
a schedule release or reveal party, then then wait for that.
But if ESPN wants to say this is our game,
NBC says first game of the season is going to
be this, Fox has their great Amazon, all these streaming partners.
(39:19):
You want to do one game, great, one game, but
let's make it a celebration, Let's make it a party.
It's like when you open up a gift when your
kids say it's Christmas Eve, can we open up?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Can we open up one gift? Just one? And then
all of a sudden you go, okay, can go can
we do one more?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Well, that's what the schedule release is. Just do one gift,
not all of them. And if you have this build
up to Wednesday night, then utilize that momentum. Yes, ton
anything else.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Not an exact not that was it with that, but
not an exact analogy. But I remember, leading up to
one honeka growing up, I was rummaging through gifts that
weren't just yet, and I came across something that I
really wanted. It was a police lego set, and I
kept talking about it and hinting about it to my mom,
knowing I was getting it because I saw it in
one of the bags until she realized that I must
have seen it, and I like ruined the whole surprise,
(40:13):
and then she didn't actually give it to me for
weeks because I basically looked into the room where I
knew the unwrapped gifts were. I just wanted to share
that little Honika note.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Okay, maybe share that with your mom.
Speaker 7 (40:25):
Oh, she knows very well what happened though, Okay when
I was like seven.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Okay, yes, I kind of liked the discipline my mom there.
He has to pay the price for a couple of
weeks and not at the lego set.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
You didn't love that story.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
It didn't really match anything that we would talk to
leading up to that story.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
No, but you turn your blanker on from the right
lane your left blanker.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Yes, talk about gifts opening up the gift.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I know, I know, I know, yes, see.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I do.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Like how even after all these years, little drips and
drabs of Todd's childhood keep revealing themselves.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
You were scarred? You are?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Oh no, I do.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Yeah, I got to twenty three years ago. You figured
it out.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Yeah, I think I've heard everything. But you're scarred, absolutely,
you are.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Marmeter story is that? Was that the one that pushed
it over.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
The top.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
When you when your mom made you and your brother
go back to the doctor to get a shot, even
though you were told you didn't need a shot.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Just were about to go in the car and pull away.
Wait a second, why we have to go back inside.
I spoke to the doctor. He thinks might be best
to get a hut, which I used to get right
in the butt, back in the air in the old days.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
And then you know the rectal thermometer.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Yeah, put a little vasoline in there and it's and
my mom did not have good aim.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I was very thankful.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Once you get to junior high school, you shouldn't be
taking the temperature that way, but she.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
Said that's the only way to really get the accurate results.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You were in junior high, you know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
We definitely fell past the year because I would ask
my friends about their experiences and they're.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Like, what ask your friends?
Speaker 7 (41:53):
Don't you hate when your mom and missus with the
the what what did you do?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Thermometers now need to do? Orally one hour in the books,
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
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