April 16, 2024 • 53 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP discusses the attention that he hopes Caitlin Clark will bring to the WNBA. Dan shares some details on the fun afternoon he has coming up with an Estate Planning meeting. Plus, ESPN NBA Analyst Tim Legler explains why he would be completely against the Lakers tanking to avoid the Nuggets in the 1st round.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Well we did it. We made it to our one.
There were some doubts, but morale is high. We were
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look up and I go, I got to do a
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is the bad news. We did not get nominated this
year for a Sports Emmy. I should have said it yesterday,
but it was too painful. I needed another twenty four
(00:48):
hours to process this. But once again, we're not going
to win the Sports Emmy this year.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And it's almost impossible if you're not nominated.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes, that's true, and I blame Mario because as Mario
puts together the tape that they send to the Sports
Emmy people and then they vote on this and then
they decide if this is a great daily show. And
you know, as the years go on the year's dwindle.
We only have so many, so many more years here
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for an opportunity to win a Sports Semmy. And it's
not about me. It's really about the Danis. It's about
the audience. Because I've already won a couple of Sports Emmys,
I know what that feeling is like. But I see
the disappointment on Seatan's face, and uh, you know what
puts more pressure on me. Yeah, and uh, I'm sorry, guys,
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I'd let you down again. We got three more tries
and then that's it, because I don't want to get
one posthumously when I'm dead. And then all of a sudden,
they say, you know what, on second thought, we should
have honored that show because that show did spawn a
lot of other shows. You don't have Pat McAfee without
the show. Well, you don't have Levatard without this show.
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We've left a legacy, but it'd be nice with a
Sports Emmy for that legacy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah. See.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
See.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That's the problem though, is that you would get one
posthumously for this show. Then it'd be like, oh yeah,
those guys, I mean, they were along for the ride,
But we got to give one to Dan for the
dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, she did so, well, somebody has to be there
to pick it up. If I'm not around, you guys can't. Okay,
and I already got it planned that there's only one
voice at least, that's what they say when you go
up there, it's one person accepting. But I would like
for everybody to speak at the same time. So when
they say, oh, here on behalf of the dan Patrick Show,
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it's Todd Fritz, Satan O'Connor, Marvin Prince, and Paul Paps
and then you guys go up there collectively and then
you start the acceptance speech by going time that jerks, well, no,
we don't want to say that, but that that would
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be it. That would be how I'd like to go out.
I think that would be nice. That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I've resigned myself to the fact that's never going to happen. Well, no,
you're not anyone. No, you're the one that says, no,
don't say that we.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Need to win.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We're going to win.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm the one that used to say, okay, good, I'm
glad that you've lowered expectations.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's not gonna happen. Yeah, yes, So we went we
went over five. We were nominated five times, Open Bar
five times. A couple of them were remote though, that
kind of stunk. Yeah, you know, so we only got
to go three times. Outstanding Studio Show Daily. The nominees
this year were MLB Tonight, NBA Countdown, NFL Live, Part
of the Interruption, which is always there, and Sports Center,
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which is almost always there. And m'be Tonight is almost
always there.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, but pardon the interruption. They only do thirty minutes.
They don't even do thirty minutes. They do twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's a good twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Tony doesn't even have to leave his house.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean, okay, maybe we should scale our show down
to thirty minutes and we'll.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Maybe should maybe twenty two minutes. Maybe we'll do twenty
two minute.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
We get able to get a great twenty two minutes
every day? Wow, can we do a truly great twenty
two minutes?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I think we could do a consistently good twenty
two minute. Ask me the name of the show, PTI yeah,
consistently good, yes, ton But it goes back.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
To what we've mentioned a few times before, like they
need to kind of look into some other category because
so many times we're put up against shows and doesn't
match up with the traditional sports talk show and other
programs they're highlight shows or they're very different than what
we do.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
If they got to see how we put this all together,
we'd win a Sports Emmy every year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Mean, somehow we or it would really devalue the nominating process.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But look, I'm not I'm not begging for anything here.
I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm just letting the audience know,
letting the DANZ know that we did not get nominated
this year, and we'll we'll try again next year.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I don't wanna I don't want to be like, if
we're gonna win one, I don't want it to be
best radio show on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's a bunch of crap. I don't want to win that.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'd rather I want to beat the Sports Center people
or best TV show on five thousand of them. Yeah,
you know, I mean we're going up against behemoths.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It just us.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We're just a couple of guys here in a converted
with tool rental place shot or something and somehow, I mean,
look at I got guys doing jobs they never did before.
But you know what, that's the beauty of it. It
might be why we're not nominating. No, I think you
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know what it is. I think I need more hot takes.
That's why we're not getting nominated. I think we open
up with the Cowboys and the Lakers today and we
just have a Cowboy Laker day and we just do
hot takes and see if that works.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, Paul, but if you look at the list, these
aren't hot take shows that got nominated for Sports Emmys. Well,
pardon the interruption. They give you some hot takes, but
they're not Fox takes. They're actual opinions. Oh I don't.
I don't find that to be a hot take show
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Baseball Baseball tonight or MLB tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, we did it again to us. Ever, they're nice guys,
but come on that nice.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean they are all guys who weren't great baseball
players and they threw them in a studio.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Hey, you skippy, roll up your sleeves and show us
how it works.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, yeah, great, yeah great?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How about another Harold Reynolds demonstration.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
See, when you're turning two, your hips have to be
this way, so that.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Thing you could get a give the people what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, they have a jib. Great, You're never gonna
win without a jib. Yeah, the jib camera. Okay, all right,
they sweeping shot of the studio. Yeah, oh wow, look
at that. That's impressive. Oh yeah, that's a GiB.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And underestimate the jib though.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
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Speaker 2 (07:43):
All right, So we have a poll question play at
the day. Stat of the day, all of that coming up.
Operator Tyler is standing by. He will take your phone
calls each seven to seven three DP show WNBA Draft.
As per expected, Caitlin Clark goes to the Indiana Fever,
the immediate sell out all of their merchandise Lakers at
the Pelicans, Tonight Warriors at the Kings. The Brooklyn Nets
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have a new head coach. I don't even know their
old head coach. And I started to think about this
with the Brooklyn Nets. They almost had it. Now, they
were never going to be the favorite in New York City.
They could win an NBA title and I don't think
Manhattan would care, and I don't know how much of
Brooklyn would care. But they almost had it three years
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ago Eastern Conference Simmis.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But then it all went away and we.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thought, Okay, they got their coach, they got Steve Nash,
they got Katie. Oh, they're gonna have Kyrie. They got
it all. Then they don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The Brooklyn Nets have had two coaches this year. Can
you name one of the two, Marvin Jacques Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Okay, that was the one. I was going to go
with yes, Pom, Marvin should be able to get the
other one. There's the hint. Okay, it's in Marvin's wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, that sounds like a Connecticut Kevin Ali Ali income free.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Kevin Ali is correct? Okay, Yeah, he did a month
and a half, all right, that's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
A month and a half, a month and a half
and got out, Yeah, got paroled. Okay, So the Brooklyn
Nets are hiring who is it, Jordi Fernandez.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Let's say he has to play thirty Kevin Ollie's already out?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who did they hire?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We should wait till they play. You know it's not
gonna last. What do you mean the yeah, let's let's
talk about it after fifty games.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, we have to wait till next season because there's
season's over with. We have the play in games coming
up tonight. And of course you got the Warriors at
the Kings, Lakers at the Pelicans. I'm looking at the
numbers here, according to DraftKings, the Lakers are getting more
one against the Pelicans. The Warriors are giving two and
a half at the Kings. Wait, what do you going here?
(10:13):
Was that a stat of the days Okay, all right,
give me Darius Rutger. Then here we go, two three four.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Stat of the day, that of the day. Here comes
the stat of the day. Yays that of the day.
Stat of the day. Here comes the stat of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I think that the Nets were looking at Mike Budenholzer,
but Jordi Fernandez was an assistant with the Sacramento King,
so he will get that opportunity with the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The good news for your Kings, Dan Fernandez will continue
to be on the bench and help the team throughout
the playoffront.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, my Sacramento Kings. But that'll be fun tonight with
the Golden State against the Kings, and then the Lakers
will be at the Pelicans. All right, let's pull question
today Seaton.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
And so Paulie, if you were going to buy stock
in dot dot dot, or you could buy stock in
dot dot dot the WNBA, the other options here MLS, MMA,
other neither neither.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is there another sport on there? Lacrosse? Maybe perhaps I
would say MMA, you would that's a billion dollar industry.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What are you buying it? High?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Still buying it? The billion dollar industry? I mean, WNBA
has to build off this momentum just because you have
Caitlin Clark. You know, you still have to have people
watching these games, going to these games. You know, when
Gretzky came to the LA Kings, you had a lot
of Southern states that wanted to have hockey franchises. They
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wanted Gretzky coming through town. Well how many times is
he coming through town? That's where you have to build
a league that people want to see. And Caitlyn Clark
comes in a lot of eyeballs on the league and
a lot of young talent there. Now you want to
see if those people who wanted to see her in
college want to see her as a professional. I think
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that's going to be the key. And then they've talked
about expansion with the WNBA, and that will also help
because when you travel, if you can do like an
East coast swing or a West coast swing, now you're
going to cut down on the travel costs instead of
going here for one game and then back that you
have other franchises, so they might add two more teams here.
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But Caitlyn Clark getting taken number one last night no surprise,
and she spoke about the honor.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
I think the biggest thing is, like I always just
believed in myself. I went to Iowa with the goal
of taking us to the final four.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
We did it twice.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
We went to two national championships, four Big Ten championships. Yeah,
there's my team. It's a pretty awesome And I think
just a belief in myself and my parents always instilled
confidence in me from a young age when I was
a young girl, and I think that's something a lot
of young girls can learn to have, and I think
people supporting them certainly helps. So yeah, I think the
biggest thing is the confidence. But I told my mom before,
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this is like, you know, I earned it, and that's
why I'm so proud of it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Good, happy, Yeah, this is a kind of a coronation,
culmination of a lot of things that have happened and
allowed her to become the focal point of women's college bounsketball. Now,
can you take that to the WNBA? Are you as curious?
In the WNBA, they're not a very good team. That's
the reason why they have the number one overall pick.
(13:35):
In fact, the Las Vegas Aces are your big favorites there,
The New York Liberty, Connecticut, Son, Seattle, Storm, Indiana Fever
way down the list. But Caitlin Clark, Leah Austin, that's
pretty good inside outside combination and maybe it'll be fun
for people to watch go out of their way to
find it, but the Mothership is going to put them
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front and center. That helps out. You want to be
able to like the Live Toward doesn't have distribution. If
if you said how do you find it? I go,
I think on the CW, but I don't even know
if that's true. Do I watch it on YouTube? You
got to have distribution. I think without that, you can't survive,
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you know, the XFL, the UFL, having ESPN there or
Fox involved in it. You've got to have that people
can watch. And let's face it, we do watch. We
want movement. We want something that's going on on a
nightly basis and you tune into something and hopefully people
will be tuning into this because they're still curious. But
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you got to be curious about everybody else or other
teams in the league and other players in the league.
You have to, you know, totally commit to that. You
can't just go, I'm going to make this secular and
it's only going to be about Caitlin Clark. The league
doesn't you know, they don't benefit off of this as
much as you would hope that they would. And there's
some there's some names there, and I think that that's important.
(15:00):
But there have been names here. The WNBA has been
around for a long long time, and you've had some
great players. So that's where I'm curious about can you
get If you don't get it now, I wonder if
you will get it because this is the biggest marketing
ploy that you have, and she'll be coming to a
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city near you.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
Yes, Marvin, So after the WNBA season, do you have
Katelin Clark come back and host SNL to just keep
it rolling.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm not going to program for Saturday Night Live. But
it depends on how popular she is. I mean, Jake
from State Farm was pretty popular last night too.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, I mean, come on, Jake, Like, do you have
to hug everybody backstage?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah? Seton. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
It does depend on how comfortable Caitlin Clark is. I
know she's the the face of women's college basketball and
certainly you know of Iowa, but how comfortable she is
with the spotlight and being out front long term, you know,
especially in like situations outside of basketball.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I didn't think she looked comfortable last night, which might
sound weird because she knew she was going to be
the number one pick. Everybody loves, you know, seeing her,
but she strikes me as the kind of person who
is comfortable doing what she does, not talking about what
she does, or sitting there where everybody's you know, all
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eyes are on her and the focus on her, and
all she's doing is sitting there looking at her phone.
But when she's playing basketball, she's in her element. And
you'll find that with athletes. They you'll find guys or
you know, women who are shy and then you put them,
you know, in their world, their sports world, in their vacuum,
and then you see that personality. And that was the
feeling I got watching last night because she was just
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sitting there, okay, and she was sitting sort of by herself,
and you know, they kept her around too, did a
couple of interviews, just say hey, coming up round two
and we'll talk to Caitlin Clark. So they were doing
their best to kind of keep that momentum going.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Get her reaction to the later round picks, any surprises,
for it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We'll take a break, we'll come up with the poll question.
Phone calls are welcome, and Jim Legler from the Mothership,
we'll get us ready for the play in game. He'll
join us, coming up a little bit later on. We're
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
I have an unbelievable day ahead of me. After I
get to entertain a nation for another two and a
half hours, I get to drive an hour and then
I get to meet with somebody who is an estate planner.
So when I die, how we divvy up everything? Yeah.
And how exciting is that I get to talk about
(18:25):
death and then divvying up things for my kids. You guys,
of course, Yeah, see.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You're you're fortunate to have an estate to divvy up, Dan,
So you're looking at this wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't know if it's an estate. I think it's
just called a state planning.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But think about this. Do you have the option to
go today, or go tomorrow, or maybe go next Monday.
It's not like pending. What do you mean going going
to the appointment?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Oh? I thought you meant and all the above, because
you know we're all day to day. Sure, I have
to do it today. I can't put it off till tomorrow.
You actually could. I could your health, I'm rolling the dice.
You never live it up.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Shouldn't that person come to you? Aren't you any customers?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay? My wife said, no, I want to see the office.
I want to see what it looks like, the people
who work there. And I said, you know, you're really
looking forward to this a lot more than I am,
hunt and uh, I mean, I'm not accusing her of
anything here, if it's just we got to get this done.
(19:24):
And I might have overheard her say, I don't know
how much longer he's gone. But she was talking to
the estate planning guy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If you're where it's like probate and arsenic in the
same sentence, run.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Yes, you're going to do that thing to your kids
where you're like and nobody gets anything, we're giving it
all away.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, you're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, no, I'm not going to do that. But you know,
the kids are curious about it. They're like, uh, so
do you put it in writing?
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What we're getting?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They asked that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, they just want to they're curious about it. I said, hey,
you damn vultures. You know you'll get something, so don't
worry about it. Yes, Todd, Now your wife.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You said it's in Greenwich, so she's not concerned that
this place is in some alley somewhere next to a
check No.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, it's a nice community. Probably going to cost me
even extra to talk about death.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I think they do a state planning well in Granwich, Connecticut,
if I'm not mistaken. I haven't spent much time there,
but I think it's a nice place. Things are going
well there. It's a nice place to talk about death.
It is, so I get to do that today. And
I said, hon, how long do I have to talk
about death? And she said, will you stop saying that
and don't say that in the interview. And I said,
I was going to walk in and say, hey, Jimmy Lipper,
(20:39):
I'm Dan and when I die, let's divvy this up.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And then she goes, you do know, I said, I'm not.
I'm not. I'll go in. I'll be professional, but there
will be a dead joke in there.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Some people don't get your humor all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They do not, but when it comes to dead humor, man,
I mean, I'm going to be deadpanned when I'm there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, thank you, Todd, Yes, yes, yes, you know how
guys like Tupac and Prince when they pass away, their
estate has like recordings.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, they sell later. What if we taped a couple
of segments. Oh no, I have stuff in the archives. Yeah, yeah,
I have shows and interviews that I've done that you
guys don't even know about.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Banked Yeah, yeah, they're in the vault. Like Johnny Cash
releases album.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, they're like, oh my god, he did this interview
with Michael Jordan and he kept it back there for
decades yes.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Is that gonna be one of those things where if
you're hearing this, I'm already dead. Here's Nolan Ryan part two.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Maybe I'll do that, Thank you, Todd. Yeah, I know,
And then but I do. I'm trying to figure out
when you go to my grave, like what you press
a button? I think you should press a button. And
then I say something like Jim Nance. I'm Jim Nance.
I would have a button at my gravesite. Hello friends. Golly, yeah,
I don't know what I I don't know, and I
(21:56):
don't know what the Sports Center theme song theren uh,
but I got I'm trying to work this out here
a little bit. I did have a friend who recorded
something before he died, and then we were at the funeral,
and I realized that he was going to speak from
the dead, and that there was something that they that
(22:17):
they he had it planned where he says, get me
out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh you mean they held up like a recorder.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, he did something. I don't know how it was done,
but somebody pressed something and you heard him say, hey,
get me out of here, and and then you had
people who were freaking out and others who were laughing hysterically.
So maybe I do that, like, hey, let me out, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
I can't wait to be at the funeral so I
can cry during People hate Marvin very much.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Marvin's so soft.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So I got that later today.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, yours could be like a roast. You could make
like twenty or thirty lines about people you know, and
then when they go to the casket, they press their
own custom button and they get a line from them
on the way out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Okay, yeah, I canna do the Michael Jordan My Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Speech turns into a roast.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
No, I won't do that. No, No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, how are you gonna do? I'm Dan Patrick and
I'm gone, gone gone, or you know maybe uh I'm
in Fuego. They just uh if you're cremated, Yeah, they're creamated.
Yeah that would make sense in their ashes and in fuego.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yes, yes, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Who do you think would be the most famous person
at your funeral?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Ooh, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I would say Sandler, Will Ferrell, Linda Cohane, Helko, Legend, Reggie,
Reggie Aloisious.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Who else would be here?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Darius?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Would he perform? I would like for him to perform
a song. I don't know what. I'm not quite sure
what that song would be. I'm trying to think who
else might be, well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, like a surprise. It is like Patrick Ewing would
be a great. Yeah, it'll be a book of an
advance Pat, Yeah, great. Paul Bears, we've talked about this,
you know. I got to narrow this down to six.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And I don't know if I'm going to get people
who are going to be glad I'm dead and volunteer
to be a pall bearer? Do I have dan Etz?
I mean Marvin's small hands. If you drop me, you
won't feel it, Yeah, but my wife will. It'll hurt.
And then Todd Todd did big beefy arms. Should be
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able to do it. I can't make any promise. Yeah,
so that's my day to day. I get to go
talk death. Yes, Paul, I think Van Pelt's in. I
think he'll make it, no matter where. You know, he's
in DC now he'll run up for that. Yeah, yeah,
he'll make it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He's tall. It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Rangy guys like well, no, I think I could find
enough people to carry my canskit, but.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Tall people it seems more impressive. You get like Ewing
and Van Pelt. Oh start off there. Yeah, but then
you don't want.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
To have it lopsided where I have it a seven
footer and a six ' five guy, and then you
know I have Todd, you know, might have a problem.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Would you forgive Standle if he said, Danny, I'm in
Australia filming right now. I sent a fruit basket. I
just I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I just can't. Hey, I understand that. I mean he's acting,
that's that's part of the business. If he can't be there,
I know they'll be there in spirit.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I mean, it's no different than the Master's topic we
had yesterday. If you're off working and somebody dies, ah.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, sorry, Yeah, I understand it. Can't make it if
it's during the season and all of a sudden, you know,
the Joker can't make it because he's got like a
match up with the Lakers, I understand that. Or Luca
can't make it. Yes, well, Barkley's in a hot Barkley.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yes, Chuck would be there'd be there early. Yeah, we'll
get the party going.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes, I'm saying keg, I think a keg or Kegs.
That's and then we do Tragger Chad Chad from Treger
and he'll be out there whipping up a batch and uh,
we'll just have a nice, nice time. It'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, I think Guy Fieri will attend you guys would
be you guys have gotten close up the past.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yes, Guy Fieri diners, drive ins, dives and death.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
He runs in, does a quick segment and bolts.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
That'd be great if you get the Main cabin Master's
guy builds you a casket Casket Master.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Ryan from the Main cabin Masters. It's a lovely not
in fine up there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Main Casket Masters. I love it right Belt Sanders had
me pulled this out of the river by Dan's houses.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yes, if you had to pick between a happy or
sad occasion for where you'd want it to be a
celebration or.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'd like some tears.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, I felt like, wow, you guys.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Are having way too much fun. I just died here,
Taylor here.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No, I'd like to have tears, and then it be
tears of joy, like hey, wow, you know what, that
show never won a Sports Emmy. And then that's when
it gets emotional and then all of a sudden, we celebrate.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
With your permission, I'd love to ask Will Ferrell to
sing Dust and the Wind like he did in Old School.
That'll bring the house down. Done, and Will's a showman,
he'll do it. Done.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Done, great call, Paul.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'll put it on the list.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, start producing this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I got three and a half years left for the show.
I mean, the show's dying, you know. I just don't
want to go down with the ship.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Okay, Sandler on guitar, he loves to break out the guitar.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, but I always want him to play the Honkah
song and he never plays. Then there's gona he'll figure
something out to be an Emmy worthy about dan Ka Patrick?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Maybe sure, be nice old friend. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
There's a couple of people that I have to put
in writing that can't show up. Though I can't say that.
I'm just saying, well, there'll be laminates that if you
show up.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I mean you're gonna have a press bound how about
what you response?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
But there'll be a b I p Eric, Yeah, if
you'll be uh, and there'll be bottle service there.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Of the Dead Carpet, they set it up for Dead Carpet.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think someone like Steve Levy in charge of entertainment.
He's a fun guy, good friend of yours, always a
fun person. Yeah, Levy's in. I don't know if he's
the life of the party. If there's at Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Does Keith Oberman speak at your funeral? Like magic Bird?
Magic dies Bird's gonna speak.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
You gotta let Keith speak? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If Keith wants to get political, yes, don't get political.
Don't don't get political. That would be the only thing.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
Everyone. He would introduce himself.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, DP killing Dan vote suppression.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
What is this? What did you say? Okay, so that's
what I have later today? Who has it better than me? No, No,
let's talk some death. That'll be great. Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well, then I'm thinking about sports superstitions. When you open
the show today, I start to think about that Billy
Goat in Chicago and the curse of the Bambino.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And I have was.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Harry that the Dan Patrick Show may be under the
curse of mcleven. You haven't been nominated since he left.
I think he took his little Robert Griffin Junior third
jersey that you gave him, and I think he planted
a curse on you guys, and I wanted your opinion
on that.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The curse of mcleven. Is it the curse of Marvin
or the curse of McLevin, because I I'm not sure
the answer is yes. Well, the show has been better
with Marvin in my opinion. We love McLevin. Uh gave
gave a lot of great memories there. But is it
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the curse of Marvin or the curse of McLevin. I
guess I'll say the curse of McLevin. Yeah, but we
did have him on in Vegas. Maybe if we put
that that segment on our tape for this Sports Emmy,
then maybe we could have gotten nominated. Or did we
I don't know. I just heard from Will Ferrell. He
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says he's technically unavailable for my funeral already.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
He knows already.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That was quick, the fact that he knows he's not
going to be available. He doesn't know what I'm dying,
but he's technically unavailable. I respect that, so he would
have sung, but he's booked it. He just says, I'm
technically unavailable.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
He came all the way to Ireland.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
But he won't come for the not surprise.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It yeah, well it's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Look, there's gonna be some no shows that just will
be and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yes, Morvan, is.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
The funeral here or in Cincinnati?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I was thinking a couple of funerals, almost like a tour,
like tour stops to make shirts. Yes, San Antonio, you know,
because I want to get Greg Papa.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But we're big in the midwest, Wisconsin and Iowa, Iowa. Yeah, Iowa, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, that would be great too.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Let's get there, yeah, up now the coast.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, and then we give the presentation of putting me
in the ground, but we're not. Then we just take
the casket and then we head to another city. We're
going to be barnstorming.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's like, dude, perfect, we just come to your town
and attain and leave dead.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Perfect. Perfect. Okay, how about we take a break here.
We got a quiz coming up. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. We're taking suggestions though on planning this, but
my estate planning later today.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
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Speaker 2 (32:29):
A lot of people with suggestions for my funeral. Later
today I get to go talk to an estate planner. Yeah,
so when I die, then what happens?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yes, Paul, we're gonna get the fun in funeral. Yeah
that's the motto. I like that. All right.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
We've already heard from Will Ferrell who said he will
not be available to sing dust in the Wind at
my funeral.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
But you know, we're.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Still taking suggestions for being pallbears. And I got a
couple of people who have, Uh, Paul, you have to
be since your name is Paul, you have to be
a pallbearer.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, Todd, you will not be a pallbear.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
I got the hernia thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, I cannot afford you to drop the casket in
front of my wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yes, yes, see a lot of people saying that that
would be Todd stands to let you down one more time.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Oh that's a great lie. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
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the NBA three point shooting Contest champ in nineteen ninety six.
Do you remember when you said that Legs?
Speaker 9 (33:55):
I do vividly and I still feel very strongly about that.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
By the way, real quick, I love this topic about
the estate planning because it's funny because I've recently had
conversation not not necessarily meet with a state planner, but
just kind of going through the rolodex in my head,
like who I want to be a pallbearer, Who I
want to speak that I think would do my life
justice right, you know, because because you know, my mom
passed away last summer.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
I delivered the eulogy.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
It was a it was a Catholic Mass, and they
they were kind of pretty strict on we don't want
multiple speakers. So I was like the one guy that
got up there and had a chance to do that.
And I'm telling you right now, when I go. I
want as many people that want to speak about me
they can. I don't care if we're there for three
or four days. I want anybody who's got something nice
to say about me to have a chance to do
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so and honor me the right way.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Dan, Okay, if you could pick some people maybe that
you played with or against, who could be your pallbearers,
who would you use?
Speaker 12 (34:51):
Oh, man, that's a great one. Well, I would definitely
have Calbert Cheney on there.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That name ring about, Yeah, former Indiana.
Speaker 12 (34:59):
And probably my favorite teammate I had as a pro,
just consummate professional. I'd have some randos that probably you'd
be surprised about. Brent Price would be in there. I'd
have Brent Price in there, Okay. Jim mcelvains, I'm going
back to my Washing's seven. Absolutely, i'd have him in there.
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Who else would I have in there?
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Probably? Yeah, Chris Webber would probably get a call.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
And he's got great hands too, which is important, something
like that softest set of hands I've ever seen.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
I want him kind of like running point on that operation.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
All right, let me start with the play in games,
and this circulated yesterday. I don't know if actual NBA,
former NBA players or NBA writers are suggesting this. But
it came out that the Lakers should somehow tank tonight
against the Pelicans to avoid then moving on and facing
the Denver Nuggets. And my logic, my suggestion to this
(35:56):
stupid suggestion was, You're gonna eventually have to run in
to Denver. I'd rather face Denver now than I would later.
And then let's say you lose. Now you face the
Warriors who have won ten of their last twelve and
three straight against you, or Sacramento. Sacramento has beaten you
five times in the row. How did we get to
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this point that the Lakers should somehow tank tonight to
avoid facing the Nuggets the next round.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
Yeah, And unfortunately I was put part of those conversations yesterday,
and I took the opposite approach as you did.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
I just don't buy into it.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
I think competitive integrity says you go out there and
you try to win. Like I understand, if it so
happens that the Lakers were to lose the game, and
then you know, you assume they win the next game
against the winner of the Golden State Sacramento game, which
I think is a reach because of what you just said,
the success those two teams have had against the Lakers
this year. But let's just say you go ahead and
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make that leap and now they're in. There's no doubt
that it's a better series for them to play Oklahoma
City than Denver, Like, there's no denying that. And that's
where the basis of this comes from. And also this
dire need that some people have for the Lakers to
continue to play on, like, how are we gonna survive
if the Lakers aren't continuing to play. I've actually made
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jokes Dan that once they're eliminated, whenever that may be,
let's say they don't make the playoffs, they losing the
play in two games.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Let's just say that happens.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
I said, we'd be three games into the first round
of the actual playoffs, and one of the questions I
would get asked on the air, I guarantee you, is
how do you think the Lakers would be doing right
now if they were still alive?
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Like this is the mentality. I think that's what it is.
More than anything.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
It's inconceivable to people to think we're gonna have a
postseason without Lebron in it. So let's figure out the
best way to ensure that they have a longer run,
and that's a void Denver, as long as you can. Obviously,
I'm fully against it. I think Number one, you put
yourself in a precarious situation because then you're in a
one game situation to go home for the summer against
either Golden State or Sacramento.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
Okay, and now.
Speaker 12 (37:56):
You don't even get to participate in the postseason if
you put yourself inntionally in that situation. A road ankle,
Anthony Davis gets another backspasm, somebody has a bad shooting night,
foul trouble, anything can happen in a one game situation
to prevent you from even getting a shot at the
Denver Nuggets. So obviously I'm fully against it. I don't
think the Lakers are going to buy into it. Yeah,
but how can you win the night they're gonna win,
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tim you would be throwing a game?
Speaker 9 (38:20):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Cleveland did this at the end of the regular season. Yes,
they pulled their best players because they wanted to set
up a better matchup in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
If yes, I mean you can't.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
How do you manipulate a game like this without drawing
attention from the Kim.
Speaker 12 (38:37):
Can the league would come down heavy. And here's the
other thing, Dan, No one's raised the prospect. What if
New Orleans had the same idea. So what do we
got tonight? We got a bunch of backups playing each
other in a playoff game like this is what.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
We're good at. The league?
Speaker 12 (38:50):
The league would come down with a heavy hammer if
that were the case. Now, we'll say this, at the
end of the regular season, if you know that you're
gonna be one of those top six teams, like you're
in a playoff series, you already know that.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
You see it all the time.
Speaker 12 (39:05):
It's going on for decades, manipulation of players to try
to affect who you would play. But at least you
know you're gonna have a seven game series against somebody.
This is totally different. This would be literally putting your
season in the hands of one game one night.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Do we get to move on?
Speaker 12 (39:24):
Because that's what you'd be left with, winner goes loser
goes home if you ended up playing the winner of
the nine to ten in that situation. So I just
don't think the Lakers want to bring themselves to the
precipice of going home for the summer, take your shot
at the Nuggets. Win the game tonight. Take your shot
at the Denver Nuggets. You've got Lebron James and Anthony Davis.
That the psyche of those two players, particularly Lebron, shouldn't
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be to duck anybody. Go play them, and yeah, you'll
probably lose that series, as will every team probably in
the Western Conference that sees them.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Do you have an MVP vote?
Speaker 9 (39:55):
I don't have an official vote.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
No.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
I think actually, years ago, it kind of meant more
to me. I think because I think I believe there
are a lot of people that vote Dan that I
don't think are watching games, and I'm kind of going, wow,
and they get a vote to affect something that important.
Now I'm actually watching the games, I think it's kind
of diluted. But No, to answer your question, no, I
just give my strong opinions on it, but I don't
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actually cast one.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
And I felt that there was a push from Kendrick
Perkins to prevent Joker from winning a third MVP last year,
and he said this kind of late in the game, like,
oh my god, basically, this guy can't join the Larry
Bird and some of the other players he won three
MVPs and then he goes out and they give it
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to Embiid, and Embiid was wonderful. Joker wins an NBA title.
Now we're getting the late push that Shay Gilgess Alexander.
They're the number one seed he should get you know,
maybe he's the MVP. I keep saying. I know, we
get tired of stories and nobody, you know, we run
out of things to say about the Joker. He's still
the best player in the game. He's still the most
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valuable player in the game. Why is there this late
push for maybe Anthony Edwards? I mean, Luca, you can
put him in there as well. It just seems like
Joker is the MVP again. Like it or not.
Speaker 9 (41:15):
Yeah, he'd get my vote. It'd be very close.
Speaker 12 (41:18):
I actually think if if Dallas had another ten games
to play, I think Luca could have run him down
in the home stretch because Dallas has been unbelievable since
they made their acquisitions at the trading deadline. Lucas had
the best individual season of any player in the league.
You can't argue it. He's created more offense between scoring
and facility and any player in history. It's the best
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individual season in the league, no question about it. But
when you have another really valuable candidate and it's close,
which obviously Joker is in that category, it's hard to
dismiss the win.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Gap between the two teams. It just is. It's hard
to dismiss that.
Speaker 12 (41:54):
That's why I say, if Dallas could have played ten
more games, they may shrink that gap to two or three.
Now it's a toss up in terms of the winning Now,
I think Lucas had a better year and it would
be him, but I don't think he quite was able
to run him down.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
So I think Jokis is gonna win his third and
four years.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, I agree with you with Luca, but it's almost
And we liken Luca to Josh Allen in the NFL,
like we keep waiting for him to take that next
step and maybe this is the year. But and he's
relatively young, but it's quick. How we kind of move
on like Jason Tatum, Like certain guys were like, let's
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move on to the next guy. We're waiting. Anthony Edwards
is here and Shay gilgis Jason Tatum is still a
wonderful player, but it's like you got your window to
capture our imagination and then if you don't capitalize, we're like,
all right, let's talk about Victor Imbayama.
Speaker 12 (42:49):
You know there's there's less one hundred percent, right, there's
no doubt that's what happens. And actually what happened with
jokis if he were to win it again, there aren't
there aren't a lot of examples historically where you know,
you you get that hot name, you win a couple,
which he did, and then they go in a different direction,
the voters, and then you come back and get another one.
Like it's hard to do that once they've kind of
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moved on. It's hard to do that. But I think
what helped him clearly was Embiid going down Embiad at
the time he got hurt was I think he had
it in his grasp.
Speaker 9 (43:21):
So when back to back.
Speaker 12 (43:22):
MVPs and I think Philadelphia would have been within striking
distance of the Celtics, they would have been the two
seeds in the East. They would have been the Celtics
won what sixty four games, They would have probably been
upper fifties, fifty eight to fifty nine. There wouldn't have
been the gap you have now between them and the Knicks.
The Sixers would have been in there if he didn't
get hurt, and with what he was doing statistically, I
think it beat had a great chance to win it.
Once he went down, it opened it all up for
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everyone again, and that's when I think you got back
to the appreciation of what this guy is doing every
single night, and so I think he's going to win it.
I don't know who's going to finish second between Luca
and Shay. I think Shane's going to get a lot
of votes because it's such a young team. No one
expected them to be the one seed in the West
that deserves a lot of credit. When you're a thirty
point score, it's driven around you. For me personally, it
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would be Luca two, Shay three, and then actually my fourth.
Speaker 9 (44:10):
Guy would be Bruntson.
Speaker 12 (44:11):
I think Brunson deserves to be on the ballot, Like
you're gonna vote for five people, his name's gonna be
written in there to some extent where when you add
up to totality the points, he's got a great shot.
I think to finish fourth, he and Giannis probably four
and five round out that five.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Jim Legler, the former three point shooting Contest champ and
an analyst with the Mothership. Also, you know Lebron hasn't
won an MVP in over a decade, right, yeah, you
know they kind of like, we moved on. We take
him for granted at four.
Speaker 12 (44:40):
And five years, I believe, and then that was a
rap on that and you move on. I always describe
the guys that are in line as being at like
the counter, the deli counter at the grocery store, right
where you take your number and you kind of stand
there and wait for your order, because it's eventually those
guys are gonna get in VP consideration or win one.
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And you start checking the list. Okay, who dolsen't have
one yet? Okay, now he's got one. And there's this
there's always like this core group of young players like
Tatum you would expect has to get one.
Speaker 9 (45:11):
Of the problem is it's so weird. As he's been
in the running the last three years.
Speaker 12 (45:15):
Now, what happened was they made their team so good
it actually hurts his chances.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
That's how that's how bizarre.
Speaker 12 (45:21):
The whole thing is, like, well you have that much help,
of course you're not gonna get MVP votes When he's
exactly the same player, but because of the help around
him and the emergency of Jalen Brown, who's playing his
best now, they go, well, now you can't win it,
Like I don't think Tatum finishes in the top five
and they have the best record in the league, and
he's bet at the top five multiple times, but this
year he won't despite the fact it's his best team.
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Like that's that's kind of the logic behind it. Embiid
was on that list, got his, so I don't know if.
Speaker 9 (45:47):
They'll get another one.
Speaker 12 (45:47):
And with the injuries and everything else, Luca obviously it's
gonna be his turn.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
Eventually he's going to get one. So there's there's guys in.
Speaker 12 (45:54):
The waiting, and once they get it, you kind of
move on from the guy that's that's the perennial winner.
And that's eventually going to happen to Jokic, but I
don't think it's going to happen this year.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Victor Wembayama, if you don't get him, if you didn't
get him now, you're not going to get him, because
it just feels like they got to make that roster better.
I don't think he had a great point guard and
to get him, like he's still kind of learning positioning,
like where am I supposed to be? And that's what
struck me when I would watch him. There were times
where he was muscled out of the way or he
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got lost. He just and then all of a sudden
it started to click with him. First of all, what's
San Antonio do to make him better next year? And
do you agree that as he said, Hey, I've only
shown you fifty percent, no question about.
Speaker 9 (46:43):
It, that the league's in trouble.
Speaker 12 (46:45):
The league is in trouble, and I agree with you,
And so obviously you didn't have a reason to watch
the Spurs except for him. So as the season's going on,
I've always I'm covering the whole league. I'm watching other
teams that are more relevant to the postseason, but I
always make sure I got one Spurs game in a
week because I wanted to see the progression.
Speaker 9 (47:02):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 12 (47:03):
The beginning of the year, first twenty games, at least,
he didn't really have a purpose Offensively, He kind of
drifted around. He spent way more time on the perimeter
than he did anywhere near the paint. They didn't run
anything for him by design. Greg Popovich wanted to deflect
all pressure away from him. That we're not gonna come
down and run ISOs for this guy when he's not
(47:23):
physically strong enough or has the confidence yet to operate,
because he's gonna look bad and we're gonna deflect that.
So we don't care how many games we win. And
that's the approach they took. And as a result, you win,
you know.
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Fifteen games, whatever it is. So that's the approach they took.
Speaker 12 (47:36):
But as you watched him each each month, even if
you watched him once, say wow, now he's running the
floor and he's getting a guy on his back and
he's turning and sealing that guy and putting his arm
up and he's holding his position and demanding the basketball.
Look at the way now he's handling the ball in traffic,
which is something we saw on film against weak competition
before he came to the league.
Speaker 9 (47:57):
And then early on.
Speaker 12 (47:58):
He was like, wow, that's a steal. That the flex
and that's a strip. Now not so much. He can
operate as a guy seven to four handling the ball
like that, and it looks amazing. He's shooting turn around
jumpers into post over people, big guys, and he's having
no hesitation whatsoever. His defensive presence and the ground he
covers is unique.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Unto him.
Speaker 12 (48:20):
He makes plays every night defensively that he's the only
player in the league that can make that particular play.
So when you look at the totality of it, the
league's in trouble with a guy that does this many
things well at this size.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
Now to your point, what do they need to add?
Speaker 12 (48:35):
You're one hundred percent right, Dan, You've got to go
out and get a veteran, accomplished point guard, someone to
set the table, put guys in position, give him the
ball an easier places to succeed. They didn't really have that.
They got a couple of nice young wings that I
like that can score. They don't have that leadership at
the point guard position. Everybody thought Fred van Vliet had
(48:56):
an opportunity to end up there last year. That would
have been a tremendous acquisition for Wemby. He ended up
in Houston. So now they'll hit this summer and they'll
continue to look because that's something you need to do
to help him max out and get where he needs
to be to help you contend.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
Sooner rather than.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Later, could you out shoot Caitlyn Clark right now.
Speaker 12 (49:16):
I think I think right now, though I don't think
I could. I don't think I could. As we said,
now you give me a month to prepare, I'll take
a run at her. I don't shoot a lot anymore. No,
she's she's listening. She's amazing, She's she totally captivated me.
I look, this might be I don't know if you
think I'm nuts. I have these conversations with people in
terms of sheer entertainment value for me to watch basketball players.
Speaker 9 (49:41):
I think she might have cracked my top five all time,
and that's Metro.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Women all time.
Speaker 12 (49:46):
Yes, I'm going MJ's in that category. Steph Curry is
in that category.
Speaker 9 (49:55):
Caitlin Clark is in there. Believe it or not, I
got a random one.
Speaker 12 (49:58):
Russell Westbrook was in that category for me for about
a five year stretch with Durant and then right after
Durant because of his relentlessness. I just was so enamored
with a guy that played that hard and was that productive.
So Westbrook for me, I didn't miss a Russell Westbrook game.
Caitlin Clark goes in there. Man, I just Larry Bird
would be the other guy. That's my five, And yeah,
(50:20):
you could. I could watch Caitlyn Clark every single night
play basketball. I'm not fascinated with her mind, her toughness,
obviously her shooting ability, but it's just I think it's
her her IQ and her her mental toughness because she's
a target every night and she doesn't she doesn't allow
it to get her off her game, and I just
(50:40):
I have so much respect for that.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
It's like Jason Kidd with a jumper. No, she runs
the floor, she knows the floor. She finds people telling
you you can't leave her open, even when you're not
leaving her open. I would probably put Magic in there
over Russell.
Speaker 9 (50:54):
Magic's right there for me too. I know it's tough.
It's tough for you start.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
You really never say it a lot though, that you're
put her in the top five all time basketball entertainers.
Speaker 12 (51:04):
Oh yeah, sign me up. I didn't. Now I'm at
this point. I'm gonna be catching as many of those
games as I can. I'll tape them, I'll watch them.
I did her last couple of years in Iowa. I'm
gonna do the same thing. When she's a pro. Her
passing ability alone guarantees her success at the next level
even if you don't see as many displays, and you
clearly won't as you had at Iowa when she's playing
(51:25):
with inferior players and she could take whatever shots she
wanted whenever she wanted. Different in the WNBA, all those
girls can play, all of them can score, and she's
going to be a target of defenses to limit it.
You're not going to see those types of numbers at Iowa, clearly,
but you know what she is going to do make
every single one of her teammates a better basketball player
because they're rewarded because she sees things before anyone else does.
Speaker 9 (51:48):
And that's why even.
Speaker 12 (51:49):
If she's an eighteen point scorer, twenty points, whatever it
may be, she caps out at the WNBA, she's going
to be a double a digit assist type of player.
With that dual threat is going to make her one
of the bet in the league pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yeah, I think you bring up a great point. I
think people are gonna go while she's only scoring this amount,
but she does have talented scorers on the team, and
I think that Sho'll ingratiate herself by being that pass first.
Speaker 9 (52:15):
And that's no doubt about it.
Speaker 12 (52:18):
Yeah, even if there's people in that, because I think
she got a lot of unfair resentment. It's really strange
what happened with her, where just by your own success
and greatness, you become a targeted resentment and jealousy. It
was a weird thing to watch, and I felt actually
some empathy for her going through that. And it's gonna
be even worse at that. There will be the NBA
level man day one. They're coming for her, there's no
(52:39):
question about it. But the difference is now every single
person that's around her is going to support her in
that locker room now, even day one. If you've got
a problem with her because you're jealous, you're lacing up
for that first day of practice and you're looking over,
I go this, this girl getting all this attentions, made
all this money already. I got news for you that
will go away about an hour into your first practice
(52:59):
when you get hit in the side of the face
with a basketball in her back cut and you didn't
even know you were open, and you go, wow, Okay,
this girl is really fun to play with. She's going
to find me when I'm open. Her passing guarantees success
at the next level.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Let's talk again in the playoffs. Always great to talk
to you, Legs, thank you.
Speaker 9 (53:16):
Love to day.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
That's Tim Legler from the Mothership
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well we did it. We made it to our one.
There were some doubts, but morale is high. We were
just chatting about gossiping and all of a sudden, I
look up and I go, I got to do a
show and entertain a nation. And here we are, Fritzie Seaton,
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year for a Sports Emmy. I should have said it yesterday,
but it was too painful. I needed another twenty four
(00:48):
hours to process this. But once again, we're not going
to win the Sports Emmy this year.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And it's almost impossible if you're not nominated.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes, that's true, and I blame Mario because as Mario
puts together the tape that they send to the Sports
Emmy people and then they vote on this and then
they decide if this is a great daily show. And
you know, as the years go on the year's dwindle.
We only have so many, so many more years here
(01:17):
for an opportunity to win a Sports Semmy. And it's
not about me. It's really about the Danis. It's about
the audience. Because I've already won a couple of Sports Emmys,
I know what that feeling is like. But I see
the disappointment on Seatan's face, and uh, you know what
puts more pressure on me. Yeah, and uh, I'm sorry, guys,
(01:40):
I'd let you down again. We got three more tries
and then that's it, because I don't want to get
one posthumously when I'm dead. And then all of a sudden,
they say, you know what, on second thought, we should
have honored that show because that show did spawn a
lot of other shows. You don't have Pat McAfee without
the show. Well, you don't have Levatard without this show.
(02:04):
We've left a legacy, but it'd be nice with a
Sports Emmy for that legacy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah. See.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
See.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That's the problem though, is that you would get one
posthumously for this show. Then it'd be like, oh yeah,
those guys, I mean, they were along for the ride,
But we got to give one to Dan for the
dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, she did so, well, somebody has to be there
to pick it up. If I'm not around, you guys can't. Okay,
and I already got it planned that there's only one
voice at least, that's what they say when you go
up there, it's one person accepting. But I would like
for everybody to speak at the same time. So when
they say, oh, here on behalf of the dan Patrick Show,
(02:43):
it's Todd Fritz, Satan O'Connor, Marvin Prince, and Paul Paps
and then you guys go up there collectively and then
you start the acceptance speech by going time that jerks, well, no,
we don't want to say that, but that that would
(03:03):
be it. That would be how I'd like to go out.
I think that would be nice. That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I've resigned myself to the fact that's never going to happen. Well, no,
you're not anyone. No, you're the one that says, no,
don't say that we.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Need to win.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We're going to win.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm the one that used to say, okay, good, I'm
glad that you've lowered expectations.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's not gonna happen. Yeah, yes, So we went we
went over five. We were nominated five times, Open Bar
five times. A couple of them were remote though, that
kind of stunk. Yeah, you know, so we only got
to go three times. Outstanding Studio Show Daily. The nominees
this year were MLB Tonight, NBA Countdown, NFL Live, Part
of the Interruption, which is always there, and Sports Center,
(03:40):
which is almost always there. And m'be Tonight is almost
always there.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, but pardon the interruption. They only do thirty minutes.
They don't even do thirty minutes. They do twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's a good twenty two.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Tony doesn't even have to leave his house.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean, okay, maybe we should scale our show down
to thirty minutes and we'll.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Maybe should maybe twenty two minutes. Maybe we'll do twenty
two minute.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
We get able to get a great twenty two minutes
every day? Wow, can we do a truly great twenty
two minutes?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I think we could do a consistently good twenty
two minute. Ask me the name of the show, PTI yeah,
consistently good, yes, ton But it goes back.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
To what we've mentioned a few times before, like they
need to kind of look into some other category because
so many times we're put up against shows and doesn't
match up with the traditional sports talk show and other
programs they're highlight shows or they're very different than what
we do.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
If they got to see how we put this all together,
we'd win a Sports Emmy every year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Mean, somehow we or it would really devalue the nominating process.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But look, I'm not I'm not begging for anything here.
I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm just letting the audience know,
letting the DANZ know that we did not get nominated
this year, and we'll we'll try again next year.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I don't wanna I don't want to be like, if
we're gonna win one, I don't want it to be
best radio show on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's a bunch of crap. I don't want to win that.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'd rather I want to beat the Sports Center people
or best TV show on five thousand of them. Yeah,
you know, I mean we're going up against behemoths.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It just us.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We're just a couple of guys here in a converted
with tool rental place shot or something and somehow, I mean,
look at I got guys doing jobs they never did before.
But you know what, that's the beauty of it. It
might be why we're not nominating. No, I think you
(05:32):
know what it is. I think I need more hot takes.
That's why we're not getting nominated. I think we open
up with the Cowboys and the Lakers today and we
just have a Cowboy Laker day and we just do
hot takes and see if that works.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, Paul, but if you look at the list, these
aren't hot take shows that got nominated for Sports Emmys. Well,
pardon the interruption. They give you some hot takes, but
they're not Fox takes. They're actual opinions. Oh I don't.
I don't find that to be a hot take show
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Baseball Baseball tonight or MLB tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, we did it again to us. Ever, they're nice guys,
but come on that nice.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean they are all guys who weren't great baseball
players and they threw them in a studio.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Hey, you skippy, roll up your sleeves and show us
how it works.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, yeah, great, yeah great?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How about another Harold Reynolds demonstration.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
See, when you're turning two, your hips have to be
this way, so that.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Thing you could get a give the people what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, they have a jib. Great, You're never gonna
win without a jib. Yeah, the jib camera. Okay, all right,
they sweeping shot of the studio. Yeah, oh wow, look
at that. That's impressive. Oh yeah, that's a GiB.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And underestimate the jib though.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
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All right, So we have a poll question play at
the day. Stat of the day, all of that coming up.
Operator Tyler is standing by. He will take your phone
calls each seven to seven three DP show WNBA Draft.
As per expected, Caitlin Clark goes to the Indiana Fever,
the immediate sell out all of their merchandise Lakers at
the Pelicans, Tonight Warriors at the Kings. The Brooklyn Nets
(08:09):
have a new head coach. I don't even know their
old head coach. And I started to think about this
with the Brooklyn Nets. They almost had it. Now, they
were never going to be the favorite in New York City.
They could win an NBA title and I don't think
Manhattan would care, and I don't know how much of
Brooklyn would care. But they almost had it three years
(08:32):
ago Eastern Conference Simmis.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But then it all went away and we.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thought, Okay, they got their coach, they got Steve Nash,
they got Katie. Oh, they're gonna have Kyrie. They got
it all. Then they don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The Brooklyn Nets have had two coaches this year. Can
you name one of the two, Marvin Jacques Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Okay, that was the one. I was going to go
with yes, Pom, Marvin should be able to get the
other one. There's the hint. Okay, it's in Marvin's wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, that sounds like a Connecticut Kevin Ali Ali income free.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Kevin Ali is correct? Okay, Yeah, he did a month
and a half, all right, that's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
A month and a half, a month and a half
and got out, Yeah, got paroled. Okay, So the Brooklyn
Nets are hiring who is it, Jordi Fernandez.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Let's say he has to play thirty Kevin Ollie's already out?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who did they hire?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We should wait till they play. You know it's not
gonna last. What do you mean the yeah, let's let's
talk about it after fifty games.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, we have to wait till next season because there's
season's over with. We have the play in games coming
up tonight. And of course you got the Warriors at
the Kings, Lakers at the Pelicans. I'm looking at the
numbers here, according to DraftKings, the Lakers are getting more
one against the Pelicans. The Warriors are giving two and
a half at the Kings. Wait, what do you going here?
(10:13):
Was that a stat of the days Okay, all right,
give me Darius Rutger. Then here we go, two three four.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Stat of the day, that of the day. Here comes
the stat of the day. Yays that of the day.
Stat of the day. Here comes the stat of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I think that the Nets were looking at Mike Budenholzer,
but Jordi Fernandez was an assistant with the Sacramento King,
so he will get that opportunity with the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The good news for your Kings, Dan Fernandez will continue
to be on the bench and help the team throughout
the playoffront.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, my Sacramento Kings. But that'll be fun tonight with
the Golden State against the Kings, and then the Lakers
will be at the Pelicans. All right, let's pull question
today Seaton.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
And so Paulie, if you were going to buy stock
in dot dot dot, or you could buy stock in
dot dot dot the WNBA, the other options here MLS, MMA,
other neither neither.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is there another sport on there? Lacrosse? Maybe perhaps I
would say MMA, you would that's a billion dollar industry.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What are you buying it? High?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Still buying it? The billion dollar industry? I mean, WNBA
has to build off this momentum just because you have
Caitlin Clark. You know, you still have to have people
watching these games, going to these games. You know, when
Gretzky came to the LA Kings, you had a lot
of Southern states that wanted to have hockey franchises. They
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wanted Gretzky coming through town. Well how many times is
he coming through town? That's where you have to build
a league that people want to see. And Caitlyn Clark
comes in a lot of eyeballs on the league and
a lot of young talent there. Now you want to
see if those people who wanted to see her in
college want to see her as a professional. I think
(12:12):
that's going to be the key. And then they've talked
about expansion with the WNBA, and that will also help
because when you travel, if you can do like an
East coast swing or a West coast swing, now you're
going to cut down on the travel costs instead of
going here for one game and then back that you
have other franchises, so they might add two more teams here.
(12:34):
But Caitlyn Clark getting taken number one last night no surprise,
and she spoke about the honor.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
I think the biggest thing is, like I always just
believed in myself. I went to Iowa with the goal
of taking us to the final four.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
We did it twice.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
We went to two national championships, four Big Ten championships. Yeah,
there's my team. It's a pretty awesome And I think
just a belief in myself and my parents always instilled
confidence in me from a young age when I was
a young girl, and I think that's something a lot
of young girls can learn to have, and I think
people supporting them certainly helps. So yeah, I think the
biggest thing is the confidence. But I told my mom before,
(13:10):
this is like, you know, I earned it, and that's
why I'm so proud of it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Good, happy, Yeah, this is a kind of a coronation,
culmination of a lot of things that have happened and
allowed her to become the focal point of women's college bounsketball. Now,
can you take that to the WNBA? Are you as curious?
In the WNBA, they're not a very good team. That's
the reason why they have the number one overall pick.
(13:35):
In fact, the Las Vegas Aces are your big favorites there,
The New York Liberty, Connecticut, Son, Seattle, Storm, Indiana Fever
way down the list. But Caitlin Clark, Leah Austin, that's
pretty good inside outside combination and maybe it'll be fun
for people to watch go out of their way to
find it, but the Mothership is going to put them
(13:56):
front and center. That helps out. You want to be
able to like the Live Toward doesn't have distribution. If
if you said how do you find it? I go,
I think on the CW, but I don't even know
if that's true. Do I watch it on YouTube? You
got to have distribution. I think without that, you can't survive,
(14:17):
you know, the XFL, the UFL, having ESPN there or
Fox involved in it. You've got to have that people
can watch. And let's face it, we do watch. We
want movement. We want something that's going on on a
nightly basis and you tune into something and hopefully people
will be tuning into this because they're still curious. But
(14:39):
you got to be curious about everybody else or other
teams in the league and other players in the league.
You have to, you know, totally commit to that. You
can't just go, I'm going to make this secular and
it's only going to be about Caitlin Clark. The league
doesn't you know, they don't benefit off of this as
much as you would hope that they would. And there's
some there's some names there, and I think that that's important.
(15:00):
But there have been names here. The WNBA has been
around for a long long time, and you've had some
great players. So that's where I'm curious about can you
get If you don't get it now, I wonder if
you will get it because this is the biggest marketing
ploy that you have, and she'll be coming to a
(15:20):
city near you.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
Yes, Marvin, So after the WNBA season, do you have
Katelin Clark come back and host SNL to just keep
it rolling.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm not going to program for Saturday Night Live. But
it depends on how popular she is. I mean, Jake
from State Farm was pretty popular last night too.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, I mean, come on, Jake, Like, do you have
to hug everybody backstage?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah? Seton. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
It does depend on how comfortable Caitlin Clark is. I
know she's the the face of women's college basketball and
certainly you know of Iowa, but how comfortable she is
with the spotlight and being out front long term, you know,
especially in like situations outside of basketball.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I didn't think she looked comfortable last night, which might
sound weird because she knew she was going to be
the number one pick. Everybody loves, you know, seeing her,
but she strikes me as the kind of person who
is comfortable doing what she does, not talking about what
she does, or sitting there where everybody's you know, all
(16:28):
eyes are on her and the focus on her, and
all she's doing is sitting there looking at her phone.
But when she's playing basketball, she's in her element. And
you'll find that with athletes. They you'll find guys or
you know, women who are shy and then you put them,
you know, in their world, their sports world, in their vacuum,
and then you see that personality. And that was the
feeling I got watching last night because she was just
(16:50):
sitting there, okay, and she was sitting sort of by herself,
and you know, they kept her around too, did a
couple of interviews, just say hey, coming up round two
and we'll talk to Caitlin Clark. So they were doing
their best to kind of keep that momentum going.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Get her reaction to the later round picks, any surprises,
for it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We'll take a break, we'll come up with the poll question.
Phone calls are welcome, and Jim Legler from the Mothership,
we'll get us ready for the play in game. He'll
join us, coming up a little bit later on. We're
back after this on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
I have an unbelievable day ahead of me. After I
get to entertain a nation for another two and a
half hours, I get to drive an hour and then
I get to meet with somebody who is an estate planner.
So when I die, how we divvy up everything? Yeah.
And how exciting is that I get to talk about
(18:25):
death and then divvying up things for my kids. You guys,
of course, Yeah, see.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You're you're fortunate to have an estate to divvy up, Dan,
So you're looking at this wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't know if it's an estate. I think it's
just called a state planning.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But think about this. Do you have the option to
go today, or go tomorrow, or maybe go next Monday.
It's not like pending. What do you mean going going
to the appointment?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Oh? I thought you meant and all the above, because
you know we're all day to day. Sure, I have
to do it today. I can't put it off till tomorrow.
You actually could. I could your health, I'm rolling the dice.
You never live it up.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Shouldn't that person come to you? Aren't you any customers?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay? My wife said, no, I want to see the office.
I want to see what it looks like, the people
who work there. And I said, you know, you're really
looking forward to this a lot more than I am,
hunt and uh, I mean, I'm not accusing her of
anything here, if it's just we got to get this done.
(19:24):
And I might have overheard her say, I don't know
how much longer he's gone. But she was talking to
the estate planning guy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If you're where it's like probate and arsenic in the
same sentence, run.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Yes, you're going to do that thing to your kids
where you're like and nobody gets anything, we're giving it
all away.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, you're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, no, I'm not going to do that. But you know,
the kids are curious about it. They're like, uh, so
do you put it in writing?
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What we're getting?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They asked that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, they just want to they're curious about it. I said, hey,
you damn vultures. You know you'll get something, so don't
worry about it. Yes, Todd, Now your wife.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You said it's in Greenwich, so she's not concerned that
this place is in some alley somewhere next to a
check No.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, it's a nice community. Probably going to cost me
even extra to talk about death.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I think they do a state planning well in Granwich, Connecticut,
if I'm not mistaken. I haven't spent much time there,
but I think it's a nice place. Things are going
well there. It's a nice place to talk about death.
It is, so I get to do that today. And
I said, hon, how long do I have to talk
about death? And she said, will you stop saying that
and don't say that in the interview. And I said,
I was going to walk in and say, hey, Jimmy Lipper,
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I'm Dan and when I die, let's divvy this up.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And then she goes, you do know, I said, I'm not.
I'm not. I'll go in. I'll be professional, but there
will be a dead joke in there.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Some people don't get your humor all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They do not, but when it comes to dead humor, man,
I mean, I'm going to be deadpanned when I'm there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Okay, thank you, Todd, Yes, yes, yes, you know how
guys like Tupac and Prince when they pass away, their
estate has like recordings.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, they sell later. What if we taped a couple
of segments. Oh no, I have stuff in the archives. Yeah, yeah,
I have shows and interviews that I've done that you
guys don't even know about.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Banked Yeah, yeah, they're in the vault. Like Johnny Cash
releases album.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, they're like, oh my god, he did this interview
with Michael Jordan and he kept it back there for
decades yes.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Is that gonna be one of those things where if
you're hearing this, I'm already dead. Here's Nolan Ryan part two.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Maybe I'll do that, Thank you, Todd. Yeah, I know,
And then but I do. I'm trying to figure out
when you go to my grave, like what you press
a button? I think you should press a button. And
then I say something like Jim Nance. I'm Jim Nance.
I would have a button at my gravesite. Hello friends. Golly, yeah,
I don't know what I I don't know, and I
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don't know what the Sports Center theme song theren uh,
but I got I'm trying to work this out here
a little bit. I did have a friend who recorded
something before he died, and then we were at the funeral,
and I realized that he was going to speak from
the dead, and that there was something that they that
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they he had it planned where he says, get me
out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh you mean they held up like a recorder.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, he did something. I don't know how it was done,
but somebody pressed something and you heard him say, hey,
get me out of here, and and then you had
people who were freaking out and others who were laughing hysterically.
So maybe I do that, like, hey, let me out, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
I can't wait to be at the funeral so I
can cry during People hate Marvin very much.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Marvin's so soft.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So I got that later today.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, yours could be like a roast. You could make
like twenty or thirty lines about people you know, and
then when they go to the casket, they press their
own custom button and they get a line from them
on the way out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Okay, yeah, I canna do the Michael Jordan My Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Speech turns into a roast.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
No, I won't do that. No, No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, how are you gonna do? I'm Dan Patrick and
I'm gone, gone gone, or you know maybe uh I'm
in Fuego. They just uh if you're cremated, Yeah, they're creamated.
Yeah that would make sense in their ashes and in fuego.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yes, yes, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Who do you think would be the most famous person
at your funeral?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Ooh, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I would say Sandler, Will Ferrell, Linda Cohane, Helko, Legend, Reggie,
Reggie Aloisious.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Who else would be here?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Darius?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Would he perform? I would like for him to perform
a song. I don't know what. I'm not quite sure
what that song would be. I'm trying to think who
else might be, well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, like a surprise. It is like Patrick Ewing would
be a great. Yeah, it'll be a book of an
advance Pat, Yeah, great. Paul Bears, we've talked about this,
you know. I got to narrow this down to six.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And I don't know if I'm going to get people
who are going to be glad I'm dead and volunteer
to be a pall bearer? Do I have dan Etz?
I mean Marvin's small hands. If you drop me, you
won't feel it, Yeah, but my wife will. It'll hurt.
And then Todd Todd did big beefy arms. Should be
(24:51):
able to do it. I can't make any promise. Yeah,
so that's my day to day. I get to go
talk death. Yes, Paul, I think Van Pelt's in. I
think he'll make it, no matter where. You know, he's
in DC now he'll run up for that. Yeah, yeah,
he'll make it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He's tall. It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Rangy guys like well, no, I think I could find
enough people to carry my canskit, but.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Tall people it seems more impressive. You get like Ewing
and Van Pelt. Oh start off there. Yeah, but then
you don't want.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
To have it lopsided where I have it a seven
footer and a six ' five guy, and then you
know I have Todd, you know, might have a problem.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Would you forgive Standle if he said, Danny, I'm in
Australia filming right now. I sent a fruit basket. I
just I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I just can't. Hey, I understand that. I mean he's acting,
that's that's part of the business. If he can't be there,
I know they'll be there in spirit.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I mean, it's no different than the Master's topic we
had yesterday. If you're off working and somebody dies, ah.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, sorry, Yeah, I understand it. Can't make it if
it's during the season and all of a sudden, you know,
the Joker can't make it because he's got like a
match up with the Lakers, I understand that. Or Luca
can't make it. Yes, well, Barkley's in a hot Barkley.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yes, Chuck would be there'd be there early. Yeah, we'll
get the party going.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes, I'm saying keg, I think a keg or Kegs.
That's and then we do Tragger Chad Chad from Treger
and he'll be out there whipping up a batch and uh,
we'll just have a nice, nice time. It'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, I think Guy Fieri will attend you guys would
be you guys have gotten close up the past.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yes, Guy Fieri diners, drive ins, dives and death.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
He runs in, does a quick segment and bolts.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
That'd be great if you get the Main cabin Master's
guy builds you a casket Casket Master.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Ryan from the Main cabin Masters. It's a lovely not
in fine up there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Main Casket Masters. I love it right Belt Sanders had
me pulled this out of the river by Dan's houses.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yes, if you had to pick between a happy or
sad occasion for where you'd want it to be a
celebration or.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'd like some tears.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, I felt like, wow, you guys.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Are having way too much fun. I just died here,
Taylor here.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No, I'd like to have tears, and then it be
tears of joy, like hey, wow, you know what, that
show never won a Sports Emmy. And then that's when
it gets emotional and then all of a sudden, we celebrate.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
With your permission, I'd love to ask Will Ferrell to
sing Dust and the Wind like he did in Old School.
That'll bring the house down. Done, and Will's a showman,
he'll do it. Done.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Done, great call, Paul.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'll put it on the list.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, start producing this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I got three and a half years left for the show.
I mean, the show's dying, you know. I just don't
want to go down with the ship.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Okay, Sandler on guitar, he loves to break out the guitar.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, but I always want him to play the Honkah
song and he never plays. Then there's gona he'll figure
something out to be an Emmy worthy about dan Ka Patrick?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Maybe sure, be nice old friend. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
There's a couple of people that I have to put
in writing that can't show up. Though I can't say that.
I'm just saying, well, there'll be laminates that if you
show up.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I mean you're gonna have a press bound how about
what you response?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
But there'll be a b I p Eric, Yeah, if
you'll be uh, and there'll be bottle service there.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Of the Dead Carpet, they set it up for Dead Carpet.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think someone like Steve Levy in charge of entertainment.
He's a fun guy, good friend of yours, always a
fun person. Yeah, Levy's in. I don't know if he's
the life of the party. If there's at Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Does Keith Oberman speak at your funeral? Like magic Bird?
Magic dies Bird's gonna speak.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
You gotta let Keith speak? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If Keith wants to get political, yes, don't get political.
Don't don't get political. That would be the only thing.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
Everyone. He would introduce himself.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, DP killing Dan vote suppression.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
What is this? What did you say? Okay, so that's
what I have later today? Who has it better than me? No, No,
let's talk some death. That'll be great. Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well, then I'm thinking about sports superstitions. When you open
the show today, I start to think about that Billy
Goat in Chicago and the curse of the Bambino.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And I have was.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Harry that the Dan Patrick Show may be under the
curse of mcleven. You haven't been nominated since he left.
I think he took his little Robert Griffin Junior third
jersey that you gave him, and I think he planted
a curse on you guys, and I wanted your opinion
on that.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The curse of mcleven. Is it the curse of Marvin
or the curse of McLevin, because I I'm not sure
the answer is yes. Well, the show has been better
with Marvin in my opinion. We love McLevin. Uh gave
gave a lot of great memories there. But is it
(30:22):
the curse of Marvin or the curse of McLevin. I
guess I'll say the curse of McLevin. Yeah, but we
did have him on in Vegas. Maybe if we put
that that segment on our tape for this Sports Emmy,
then maybe we could have gotten nominated. Or did we
I don't know. I just heard from Will Ferrell. He
(30:43):
says he's technically unavailable for my funeral already.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
He knows already.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That was quick, the fact that he knows he's not
going to be available. He doesn't know what I'm dying,
but he's technically unavailable. I respect that, so he would
have sung, but he's booked it. He just says, I'm
technically unavailable.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
He came all the way to Ireland.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
But he won't come for the not surprise.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It yeah, well it's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Look, there's gonna be some no shows that just will
be and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yes, Morvan, is.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
The funeral here or in Cincinnati?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I was thinking a couple of funerals, almost like a tour,
like tour stops to make shirts. Yes, San Antonio, you know,
because I want to get Greg Papa.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But we're big in the midwest, Wisconsin and Iowa, Iowa. Yeah, Iowa, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, that would be great too.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Let's get there, yeah, up now the coast.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, and then we give the presentation of putting me
in the ground, but we're not. Then we just take
the casket and then we head to another city. We're
going to be barnstorming.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's like, dude, perfect, we just come to your town
and attain and leave dead.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Perfect. Perfect. Okay, how about we take a break here.
We got a quiz coming up. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. We're taking suggestions though on planning this, but
my estate planning later today.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
It's gonna be awesome.
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Speaker 2 (32:29):
A lot of people with suggestions for my funeral. Later
today I get to go talk to an estate planner. Yeah,
so when I die, then what happens?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yes, Paul, we're gonna get the fun in funeral. Yeah
that's the motto. I like that. All right.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
We've already heard from Will Ferrell who said he will
not be available to sing dust in the Wind at
my funeral.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
But you know, we're.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Still taking suggestions for being pallbears. And I got a
couple of people who have, Uh, Paul, you have to
be since your name is Paul, you have to be
a pallbearer.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, Todd, you will not be a pallbear.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
I got the hernia thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, I cannot afford you to drop the casket in
front of my wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yes, yes, see a lot of people saying that that
would be Todd stands to let you down one more time.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Oh that's a great lie. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
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Do you remember when you said that Legs?
Speaker 9 (33:55):
I do vividly and I still feel very strongly about that.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
By the way, real quick, I love this topic about
the estate planning because it's funny because I've recently had
conversation not not necessarily meet with a state planner, but
just kind of going through the rolodex in my head,
like who I want to be a pallbearer, Who I
want to speak that I think would do my life
justice right, you know, because because you know, my mom
passed away last summer.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
I delivered the eulogy.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
It was a it was a Catholic Mass, and they
they were kind of pretty strict on we don't want
multiple speakers. So I was like the one guy that
got up there and had a chance to do that.
And I'm telling you right now, when I go. I
want as many people that want to speak about me
they can. I don't care if we're there for three
or four days. I want anybody who's got something nice
to say about me to have a chance to do
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so and honor me the right way.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Dan, Okay, if you could pick some people maybe that
you played with or against, who could be your pallbearers,
who would you use?
Speaker 12 (34:51):
Oh, man, that's a great one. Well, I would definitely
have Calbert Cheney on there.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That name ring about, Yeah, former Indiana.
Speaker 12 (34:59):
And probably my favorite teammate I had as a pro,
just consummate professional. I'd have some randos that probably you'd
be surprised about. Brent Price would be in there. I'd
have Brent Price in there, Okay. Jim mcelvains, I'm going
back to my Washing's seven. Absolutely, i'd have him in there.
(35:20):
Who else would I have in there?
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Probably? Yeah, Chris Webber would probably get a call.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
And he's got great hands too, which is important, something
like that softest set of hands I've ever seen.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
I want him kind of like running point on that operation.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
All right, let me start with the play in games,
and this circulated yesterday. I don't know if actual NBA,
former NBA players or NBA writers are suggesting this. But
it came out that the Lakers should somehow tank tonight
against the Pelicans to avoid then moving on and facing
the Denver Nuggets. And my logic, my suggestion to this
(35:56):
stupid suggestion was, You're gonna eventually have to run in
to Denver. I'd rather face Denver now than I would later.
And then let's say you lose. Now you face the
Warriors who have won ten of their last twelve and
three straight against you, or Sacramento. Sacramento has beaten you
five times in the row. How did we get to
(36:17):
this point that the Lakers should somehow tank tonight to
avoid facing the Nuggets the next round.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
Yeah, And unfortunately I was put part of those conversations yesterday,
and I took the opposite approach as you did.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
I just don't buy into it.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
I think competitive integrity says you go out there and
you try to win. Like I understand, if it so
happens that the Lakers were to lose the game, and
then you know, you assume they win the next game
against the winner of the Golden State Sacramento game, which
I think is a reach because of what you just said,
the success those two teams have had against the Lakers
this year. But let's just say you go ahead and
(36:50):
make that leap and now they're in. There's no doubt
that it's a better series for them to play Oklahoma
City than Denver, Like, there's no denying that. And that's
where the basis of this comes from. And also this
dire need that some people have for the Lakers to
continue to play on, like, how are we gonna survive
if the Lakers aren't continuing to play. I've actually made
(37:11):
jokes Dan that once they're eliminated, whenever that may be,
let's say they don't make the playoffs, they losing the
play in two games.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Let's just say that happens.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
I said, we'd be three games into the first round
of the actual playoffs, and one of the questions I
would get asked on the air, I guarantee you, is
how do you think the Lakers would be doing right
now if they were still alive?
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Like this is the mentality. I think that's what it is.
More than anything.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
It's inconceivable to people to think we're gonna have a
postseason without Lebron in it. So let's figure out the
best way to ensure that they have a longer run,
and that's a void Denver, as long as you can. Obviously,
I'm fully against it. I think Number one, you put
yourself in a precarious situation because then you're in a
one game situation to go home for the summer against
either Golden State or Sacramento.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
Okay, and now.
Speaker 12 (37:56):
You don't even get to participate in the postseason if
you put yourself inntionally in that situation. A road ankle,
Anthony Davis gets another backspasm, somebody has a bad shooting night,
foul trouble, anything can happen in a one game situation
to prevent you from even getting a shot at the
Denver Nuggets. So obviously I'm fully against it. I don't
think the Lakers are going to buy into it. Yeah,
but how can you win the night they're gonna win,
(38:18):
tim you would be throwing a game?
Speaker 9 (38:20):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Cleveland did this at the end of the regular season. Yes,
they pulled their best players because they wanted to set
up a better matchup in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
If yes, I mean you can't.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
How do you manipulate a game like this without drawing
attention from the Kim.
Speaker 12 (38:37):
Can the league would come down heavy. And here's the
other thing, Dan, No one's raised the prospect. What if
New Orleans had the same idea. So what do we
got tonight? We got a bunch of backups playing each
other in a playoff game like this is what.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
We're good at. The league?
Speaker 12 (38:50):
The league would come down with a heavy hammer if
that were the case. Now, we'll say this, at the
end of the regular season, if you know that you're
gonna be one of those top six teams, like you're
in a playoff series, you already know that.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
You see it all the time.
Speaker 12 (39:05):
It's going on for decades, manipulation of players to try
to affect who you would play. But at least you
know you're gonna have a seven game series against somebody.
This is totally different. This would be literally putting your
season in the hands of one game one night.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Do we get to move on?
Speaker 12 (39:24):
Because that's what you'd be left with, winner goes loser
goes home if you ended up playing the winner of
the nine to ten in that situation. So I just
don't think the Lakers want to bring themselves to the
precipice of going home for the summer, take your shot
at the Nuggets. Win the game tonight. Take your shot
at the Denver Nuggets. You've got Lebron James and Anthony Davis.
That the psyche of those two players, particularly Lebron, shouldn't
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be to duck anybody. Go play them, and yeah, you'll
probably lose that series, as will every team probably in
the Western Conference that sees them.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Do you have an MVP vote?
Speaker 9 (39:55):
I don't have an official vote.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
No.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
I think actually, years ago, it kind of meant more
to me. I think because I think I believe there
are a lot of people that vote Dan that I
don't think are watching games, and I'm kind of going, wow,
and they get a vote to affect something that important.
Now I'm actually watching the games, I think it's kind
of diluted. But No, to answer your question, no, I
just give my strong opinions on it, but I don't
(40:18):
actually cast one.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
And I felt that there was a push from Kendrick
Perkins to prevent Joker from winning a third MVP last year,
and he said this kind of late in the game, like,
oh my god, basically, this guy can't join the Larry
Bird and some of the other players he won three
MVPs and then he goes out and they give it
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to Embiid, and Embiid was wonderful. Joker wins an NBA title.
Now we're getting the late push that Shay Gilgess Alexander.
They're the number one seed he should get you know,
maybe he's the MVP. I keep saying. I know, we
get tired of stories and nobody, you know, we run
out of things to say about the Joker. He's still
the best player in the game. He's still the most
(41:02):
valuable player in the game. Why is there this late
push for maybe Anthony Edwards? I mean, Luca, you can
put him in there as well. It just seems like
Joker is the MVP again. Like it or not.
Speaker 9 (41:15):
Yeah, he'd get my vote. It'd be very close.
Speaker 12 (41:18):
I actually think if if Dallas had another ten games
to play, I think Luca could have run him down
in the home stretch because Dallas has been unbelievable since
they made their acquisitions at the trading deadline. Lucas had
the best individual season of any player in the league.
You can't argue it. He's created more offense between scoring
and facility and any player in history. It's the best
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individual season in the league, no question about it. But
when you have another really valuable candidate and it's close,
which obviously Joker is in that category, it's hard to
dismiss the win.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Gap between the two teams. It just is. It's hard
to dismiss that.
Speaker 12 (41:54):
That's why I say, if Dallas could have played ten
more games, they may shrink that gap to two or three.
Now it's a toss up in terms of the winning Now,
I think Lucas had a better year and it would
be him, but I don't think he quite was able
to run him down.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
So I think Jokis is gonna win his third and
four years.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, I agree with you with Luca, but it's almost
And we liken Luca to Josh Allen in the NFL,
like we keep waiting for him to take that next
step and maybe this is the year. But and he's
relatively young, but it's quick. How we kind of move
on like Jason Tatum, Like certain guys were like, let's
(42:33):
move on to the next guy. We're waiting. Anthony Edwards
is here and Shay gilgis Jason Tatum is still a
wonderful player, but it's like you got your window to
capture our imagination and then if you don't capitalize, we're like,
all right, let's talk about Victor Imbayama.
Speaker 12 (42:49):
You know there's there's less one hundred percent, right, there's
no doubt that's what happens. And actually what happened with
jokis if he were to win it again, there aren't
there aren't a lot of examples historically where you know,
you you get that hot name, you win a couple,
which he did, and then they go in a different direction,
the voters, and then you come back and get another one.
Like it's hard to do that once they've kind of
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moved on. It's hard to do that. But I think
what helped him clearly was Embiid going down Embiad at
the time he got hurt was I think he had
it in his grasp.
Speaker 9 (43:21):
So when back to back.
Speaker 12 (43:22):
MVPs and I think Philadelphia would have been within striking
distance of the Celtics, they would have been the two
seeds in the East. They would have been the Celtics
won what sixty four games, They would have probably been
upper fifties, fifty eight to fifty nine. There wouldn't have
been the gap you have now between them and the Knicks.
The Sixers would have been in there if he didn't
get hurt, and with what he was doing statistically, I
think it beat had a great chance to win it.
Once he went down, it opened it all up for
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everyone again, and that's when I think you got back
to the appreciation of what this guy is doing every
single night, and so I think he's going to win it.
I don't know who's going to finish second between Luca
and Shay. I think Shane's going to get a lot
of votes because it's such a young team. No one
expected them to be the one seed in the West
that deserves a lot of credit. When you're a thirty
point score, it's driven around you. For me personally, it
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would be Luca two, Shay three, and then actually my fourth.
Speaker 9 (44:10):
Guy would be Bruntson.
Speaker 12 (44:11):
I think Brunson deserves to be on the ballot, Like
you're gonna vote for five people, his name's gonna be
written in there to some extent where when you add
up to totality the points, he's got a great shot.
I think to finish fourth, he and Giannis probably four
and five round out that five.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Jim Legler, the former three point shooting Contest champ and
an analyst with the Mothership. Also, you know Lebron hasn't
won an MVP in over a decade, right, yeah, you
know they kind of like, we moved on. We take
him for granted at four.
Speaker 12 (44:40):
And five years, I believe, and then that was a
rap on that and you move on. I always describe
the guys that are in line as being at like
the counter, the deli counter at the grocery store, right
where you take your number and you kind of stand
there and wait for your order, because it's eventually those
guys are gonna get in VP consideration or win one.
(45:02):
And you start checking the list. Okay, who dolsen't have
one yet? Okay, now he's got one. And there's this
there's always like this core group of young players like
Tatum you would expect has to get one.
Speaker 9 (45:11):
Of the problem is it's so weird. As he's been
in the running the last three years.
Speaker 12 (45:15):
Now, what happened was they made their team so good
it actually hurts his chances.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
That's how that's how bizarre.
Speaker 12 (45:21):
The whole thing is, like, well you have that much help,
of course you're not gonna get MVP votes When he's
exactly the same player, but because of the help around
him and the emergency of Jalen Brown, who's playing his
best now, they go, well, now you can't win it,
Like I don't think Tatum finishes in the top five
and they have the best record in the league, and
he's bet at the top five multiple times, but this
year he won't despite the fact it's his best team.
(45:42):
Like that's that's kind of the logic behind it. Embiid
was on that list, got his, so I don't know if.
Speaker 9 (45:47):
They'll get another one.
Speaker 12 (45:47):
And with the injuries and everything else, Luca obviously it's
gonna be his turn.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
Eventually he's going to get one. So there's there's guys in.
Speaker 12 (45:54):
The waiting, and once they get it, you kind of
move on from the guy that's that's the perennial winner.
And that's eventually going to happen to Jokic, but I
don't think it's going to happen this year.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Victor Wembayama, if you don't get him, if you didn't
get him now, you're not going to get him, because
it just feels like they got to make that roster better.
I don't think he had a great point guard and
to get him, like he's still kind of learning positioning,
like where am I supposed to be? And that's what
struck me when I would watch him. There were times
where he was muscled out of the way or he
(46:26):
got lost. He just and then all of a sudden
it started to click with him. First of all, what's
San Antonio do to make him better next year? And
do you agree that as he said, Hey, I've only
shown you fifty percent, no question about.
Speaker 9 (46:43):
It, that the league's in trouble.
Speaker 12 (46:45):
The league is in trouble, and I agree with you,
And so obviously you didn't have a reason to watch
the Spurs except for him. So as the season's going on,
I've always I'm covering the whole league. I'm watching other
teams that are more relevant to the postseason, but I
always make sure I got one Spurs game in a
week because I wanted to see the progression.
Speaker 9 (47:02):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 12 (47:03):
The beginning of the year, first twenty games, at least,
he didn't really have a purpose Offensively, He kind of
drifted around. He spent way more time on the perimeter
than he did anywhere near the paint. They didn't run
anything for him by design. Greg Popovich wanted to deflect
all pressure away from him. That we're not gonna come
down and run ISOs for this guy when he's not
(47:23):
physically strong enough or has the confidence yet to operate,
because he's gonna look bad and we're gonna deflect that.
So we don't care how many games we win. And
that's the approach they took. And as a result, you win,
you know.
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Fifteen games, whatever it is. So that's the approach they took.
Speaker 12 (47:36):
But as you watched him each each month, even if
you watched him once, say wow, now he's running the
floor and he's getting a guy on his back and
he's turning and sealing that guy and putting his arm
up and he's holding his position and demanding the basketball.
Look at the way now he's handling the ball in traffic,
which is something we saw on film against weak competition
before he came to the league.
Speaker 9 (47:57):
And then early on.
Speaker 12 (47:58):
He was like, wow, that's a steal. That the flex
and that's a strip. Now not so much. He can
operate as a guy seven to four handling the ball
like that, and it looks amazing. He's shooting turn around
jumpers into post over people, big guys, and he's having
no hesitation whatsoever. His defensive presence and the ground he
covers is unique.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Unto him.
Speaker 12 (48:20):
He makes plays every night defensively that he's the only
player in the league that can make that particular play.
So when you look at the totality of it, the
league's in trouble with a guy that does this many
things well at this size.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
Now to your point, what do they need to add?
Speaker 12 (48:35):
You're one hundred percent right, Dan, You've got to go
out and get a veteran, accomplished point guard, someone to
set the table, put guys in position, give him the
ball an easier places to succeed. They didn't really have that.
They got a couple of nice young wings that I
like that can score. They don't have that leadership at
the point guard position. Everybody thought Fred van Vliet had
(48:56):
an opportunity to end up there last year. That would
have been a tremendous acquisition for Wemby. He ended up
in Houston. So now they'll hit this summer and they'll
continue to look because that's something you need to do
to help him max out and get where he needs
to be to help you contend.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
Sooner rather than.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Later, could you out shoot Caitlyn Clark right now.
Speaker 12 (49:16):
I think I think right now, though I don't think
I could. I don't think I could. As we said,
now you give me a month to prepare, I'll take
a run at her. I don't shoot a lot anymore. No,
she's she's listening. She's amazing, She's she totally captivated me.
I look, this might be I don't know if you
think I'm nuts. I have these conversations with people in
terms of sheer entertainment value for me to watch basketball players.
Speaker 9 (49:41):
I think she might have cracked my top five all time,
and that's Metro.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Women all time.
Speaker 12 (49:46):
Yes, I'm going MJ's in that category. Steph Curry is
in that category.
Speaker 9 (49:55):
Caitlin Clark is in there. Believe it or not, I
got a random one.
Speaker 12 (49:58):
Russell Westbrook was in that category for me for about
a five year stretch with Durant and then right after
Durant because of his relentlessness. I just was so enamored
with a guy that played that hard and was that productive.
So Westbrook for me, I didn't miss a Russell Westbrook game.
Caitlin Clark goes in there. Man, I just Larry Bird
would be the other guy. That's my five, And yeah,
(50:20):
you could. I could watch Caitlyn Clark every single night
play basketball. I'm not fascinated with her mind, her toughness,
obviously her shooting ability, but it's just I think it's
her her IQ and her her mental toughness because she's
a target every night and she doesn't she doesn't allow
it to get her off her game, and I just
(50:40):
I have so much respect for that.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
It's like Jason Kidd with a jumper. No, she runs
the floor, she knows the floor. She finds people telling
you you can't leave her open, even when you're not
leaving her open. I would probably put Magic in there
over Russell.
Speaker 9 (50:54):
Magic's right there for me too. I know it's tough.
It's tough for you start.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
You really never say it a lot though, that you're
put her in the top five all time basketball entertainers.
Speaker 12 (51:04):
Oh yeah, sign me up. I didn't. Now I'm at
this point. I'm gonna be catching as many of those
games as I can. I'll tape them, I'll watch them.
I did her last couple of years in Iowa. I'm
gonna do the same thing. When she's a pro. Her
passing ability alone guarantees her success at the next level
even if you don't see as many displays, and you
clearly won't as you had at Iowa when she's playing
(51:25):
with inferior players and she could take whatever shots she
wanted whenever she wanted. Different in the WNBA, all those
girls can play, all of them can score, and she's
going to be a target of defenses to limit it.
You're not going to see those types of numbers at Iowa, clearly,
but you know what she is going to do make
every single one of her teammates a better basketball player
because they're rewarded because she sees things before anyone else does.
Speaker 9 (51:48):
And that's why even.
Speaker 12 (51:49):
If she's an eighteen point scorer, twenty points, whatever it
may be, she caps out at the WNBA, she's going
to be a double a digit assist type of player.
With that dual threat is going to make her one
of the bet in the league pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yeah, I think you bring up a great point. I
think people are gonna go while she's only scoring this amount,
but she does have talented scorers on the team, and
I think that Sho'll ingratiate herself by being that pass first.
Speaker 9 (52:15):
And that's no doubt about it.
Speaker 12 (52:18):
Yeah, even if there's people in that, because I think
she got a lot of unfair resentment. It's really strange
what happened with her, where just by your own success
and greatness, you become a targeted resentment and jealousy. It
was a weird thing to watch, and I felt actually
some empathy for her going through that. And it's gonna
be even worse at that. There will be the NBA
level man day one. They're coming for her, there's no
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question about it. But the difference is now every single
person that's around her is going to support her in
that locker room now, even day one. If you've got
a problem with her because you're jealous, you're lacing up
for that first day of practice and you're looking over,
I go this, this girl getting all this attentions, made
all this money already. I got news for you that
will go away about an hour into your first practice
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when you get hit in the side of the face
with a basketball in her back cut and you didn't
even know you were open, and you go, wow, Okay,
this girl is really fun to play with. She's going
to find me when I'm open. Her passing guarantees success
at the next level.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Let's talk again in the playoffs. Always great to talk
to you, Legs, thank you.
Speaker 9 (53:16):
Love to day.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
That's Tim Legler from the Mothership
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