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handle a DP show. All right, Seaton pull question to
lead off our one. Who had a better day yesterday?
College athletes? Right, Scottie Sheffler, Yeah, Louisville yesterday. Louisville police
did not have a good day.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Jalen Brown had a good day yesterday. Yeah, I had
forty Yeah, yeah, he did well. We could populate, we
could add some people.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, Okay, the Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Show had a great day yesterday. We did, we did. Yeah.
Charles Barkley interview made a lot of headlines. It went viral,
It did essentially go viral viral.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, yeah, and in some non sports publications like Hollywood
Reporter Variety, we crossed over it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, we did, we crossed over we did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, Charles was great. But you know what, if you
heard Charles yesterday, not that you had to hear it,
but if you did hear it. We spent sixteen minutes
with him. That's why he's the most valuable person in
the media because what he says, how he says it.
He's not a hot take guy. He's just these are
my opinions, whether you like it or not. Entertaining, also serious.
(03:47):
He was angry about what's going on. They're going to
lose the NBA on TNT. Now what do you do?
And we said, just you know, with your production company,
continue to do the show and then you can license
it to NBC if you want to. NBC is not
going to create a better show than that. ESPN is
not creating a better show than that. But here's the problem.
(04:11):
Sometimes if Charles and Shaq and Kenny, maybe Ernie go,
let's say to NBC or they went to ESPN, there's
somebody at those networks that will probably say, you know what,
I think I can make it better. No, like, pardon
the interruption, it works. There's certain things. Now, when we
(04:33):
were at a sports center, they tried to tweak it.
They tried to make sure that we weren't stars. They
wanted you ESPN to be the star, and they were constantly,
constantly involved in that, and then they kind of finally
left us alone. And then we figured it out. But
there's always somebody who thinks they can make it better.
(04:53):
And with inside the NBA, you're not going to make
it better. Don't even try to make a different. It
is what it is. It's a staple. Pardon the interruption.
Same way, don't need to make it better. You have
two great hosts, they get along, they've known each other
for decades. It works. But I hope that the NBA
on TNT stays intact. I don't know where it goes,
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and maybe they just start their own channel, maybe they
do something bigger with this. I don't know, but it
feels like I don't know if Ernie's going to go
with I don't know. It felt like Charles was hinting
that Ernie might retire, and you know, there's people who
could step in there. Adam Lefko would be really good
(05:39):
in a role like that. I'd still like to see
Tony really get into something bigger than just around the Horn,
because I mentioned that he would have been a great
replacement on Jeopardy with Alex Trebek. Young, bright, likable, energetic,
fun smart. I don't even know if he got a
(05:59):
call from Jeopardy. I don't know, if you know Wheel
of Fortune with Pat say Jack, you know retiring, You
got Ryan Seacrest in there. But I think Tony Rally
is one of those guys that could be hosting one
of these shows if Ernie doesn't want to do it.
And Ernie's close to seventy and I don't know if
he's going to continue to do it. Charles has kind
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of hinted that if they do go someplace else, Ernie
might not go, but if they stay in Atlanta, maybe
he does. All right, So we got a lot of
things to talk about. Any other poll questions they're seating
on other than who had a great day yesterday?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, we got lots of poll questions. Do you want
to dive into the college the news in college sports?
Do you want to dive in a little bit? To
Scottie Scheffler, do you want to get into the NBA?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't want to do college athletics in this revenue
sharing and there's billions of dollars until I talk to
Pat forty and I kind of understand it because I
don't know what it means. I always say, what does
this mean for the athlete? And what does it mean
for the FA? That's really what That's why I wanted
to have Pat on. What's this leading to maybe revenue sharing?
(07:08):
What's it going to mean? Are we going to have
forty or fifty schools all together playing football against one another,
haves and the have nots. That's what I'm curious about,
because I don't want to waste your time if it's
something that is kind of I don't know too much
detail there. I just want to know what does this
mean for the fan experience? What's it mean for your school?
(07:31):
What's it mean for your team and the players who
you know, what are they getting paid, When do they
get paid? How much are they getting paid? So we'll
talk to Pat forty. How about Scotty Scheffler. I watched
this press conference live yesterday afternoon on Golf Channel where
they had the mayor, they had the head of police,
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and they were talking about, you know, exactly what happened.
They had some cameras there at the entrance to Valhalla,
I mean, and the police officer, the arresting police officer,
didn't have his body cam on. He got disciplined for that.
So the case feels like it's fallen apart a little
bit from the standpoint of Louisville police.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yes, PAULI, Yeah, there's a couple of details that the
policeman did not have his activated camera and that's a
bit of a violation, which helped Scotty Scheffler's case. But
there was a camera like almost like a sort of
security camera across the way that showed a part of
the incident. And this is not my opinion, but it's
more of the opinion of social media. It didn't appear
that Scotty Scheffler drug a cop with his car for
(08:35):
twenty feet, at least that was not in the video.
It more appeared that Scotty made a left the cop,
ran over and kind of jumped on the hood or
hit the hood with his body like a hip check,
and then pulled him out of the car. At no
point in the video that we saw did the cop
go down. Scotty Scheffler had a good day public perception
wise yesterday for his situation. Yeah, be fair to say.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But he's got a court date I think coming up
in a couple of weeks. I don't I don't know
if he goes. Maybe it's next week, but or the weekend.
Maybe maybe doesn't even have to show it for it.
So Scotty Scheffler, what would be the poll question there?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Just they're still working off of who had the best
day yesterday? Yeah, yeah, I would say Scotty did.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, Paul, you know, I'll say Jalen Brown of the
Celtics had a nice day because he's always, you know,
one A with that team, not B. He's not a
B player, but he's always the one A guy and
he's having more games where he's the leading scorer, and
he took over last night, took over on National TV.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, sometimes it's the other guy since Jason Tatum is
going to get most of the attention Jalen Brown that,
you know, that's a great one A to have. Sometimes
you don't have the better defender on you. But he
put up forty And he talked about not being on
the All NBA team last year. He was second team
(09:57):
All NBA. We'll talk about that in a moment, but
here he is being asked about that and he used
at his motivation last night.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Was there any motivation for you after hearing that you
didn't make an All NBA team?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No, I want to say that, what would you say?
I mean, we took games from the from the finals.
So you know, honestly, I don't got the time to
give it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, he doesn't give a.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
This year.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Last year he cared because then he was eligible for
a Supermax. He made second team. That's you know. You
can say, hey, I don't care about this year because
it doesn't affect his paycheck. Last year when you made
second team All NBA, it did matter because then he
was eligible for sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And now that he's got it, who cares. Yeah, let's
get into game three. Yeah, I think what he said
makes perfect sense. Who the hell cares about that? Yeah,
it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm rich.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yes, Todd whodos to the report said what what you say?
We're supposed to have a dialogue here. I asked your
questions and you give us answers.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Then he became a different person with the follow up
question there.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Talking about you. Yeah, sound like, yeah, it's about played again.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Was there any motivation for you after hearing that you
didn't make an All NBA team?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
No, I want to say that.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What would you say?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I mean, we two games from the from the finals,
so you know, honestly, I don't got the time to
give it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Alrighty, that wasn't a Tyler Haliburton. Uh no, it's no,
there was a Haliburton situation. No, no, where his voice
changed mid midstride.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, Tyrese Haliburton questionable for Game three hamstring injury. And
here's Rick Carlisle, the PACER's head coach, on that topic.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Do you know anymore on tie right now?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or is it just left left hamstring?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Do you have any sense on if he can return
in this series?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Well, I will probably we'll no more tomorrow and then
probably even more Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not a lot of time, not a lot of turnaround time.
And uh, you know, in case you're wondering the Pacers,
I mean DraftKings has a line the Celtics are seven
point favorites against the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's a Saturday yep.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
They asked Rick Carlisle about three different ways about the
time about Halliburton's injury, and at the third way he goes, well, he.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Goes, you know, it's it's it's what I said, it's
it's the hamster.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I mean, you know, there's like I don't know if
there's like hippo laws here, but like can we move on?
He's like he was so done talking about he referenced
hip laws. I was like, there are no laws for
you to update your player.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I don't know if it's you know, going a little far.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Violating something like if you tell me he's hurt and
it's his hamstring, I don't know if it's violating his rights.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Right, we're not asked to see his blood work?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, yes, Tom.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
And even that being said, it's still infinitely better than been.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Bill Belichick would say, I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
I don't know about these things. I'm not a doctor.
If you'd ask the physicians, No, I do, was coach,
I don't not a doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stayed at a holiday in one time?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Uh Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
No, buddy, see what f DP boys happened Memori Day weekend. Dan.
I just had a call in and let everybody know,
and I'm sure everyone agrees that. I have been so
lucky to watch Charles Barkley, who's a national Treasure to
the NBA on tn T for all these years.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
I mean, he's the.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
Reason why I would go, I would watch the games
when they were bad, like like Charles will be complaining
the whole time. And that was the whole reason why
I wouldn't even watch this because of the show, you know,
I mean, And he's kind of like an older Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Dan.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
He's got you know, energy, doesn't lie, he's honest, he's
too honest at times, but he he shoots you straight.
And it's just this is what I love about Charles.
He's the best. And yesterday, Dan with all of the outfits,
I'm surprised you guys didn't put the dan Nettes in
movies like Paulie looked like an extra on the basketball
(14:14):
court and white Man Can't Jump. Marvin Marvin could have
been a barber in the Coming to America movie Let's
See Seton looked like he had better call saul vibes.
He looked like a breaking bad character. And then Fritty
not sure.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There, Not sure what Pritty, But have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Thank you Buddha. What was the best suggestion for your
look Marvin yesterday?
Speaker 11 (14:42):
Oh someone said I look like brother moves on from
the wire. It was a deep cut, Wow, she you
put some glasses on?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, that was good?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
Or a bartender at one of like a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Speakeasy Okay, yeah, I could see it.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There's some good ones. You guys look good, look sharp yesterday?
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Wait, hold on, sorry, DP, Are we gonna do another demonstration?
Do we put shirts and ties on another time?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I don't know. No, No, we did the MLB tonight
demonstration because they win the Sports Emmy. Because they do demonstrations.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
But but wait, not to cut you off, but to
cut you off. They have gloves when they do their demonstrations.
There brought in gloves.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I got my glove over here, my Crappensburg State baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Glove got right here.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Let's go crap.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hey, But yeah, I got my Crappensburg State.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Glove here.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Marvin, you could probably get your hand in this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
One a little easier than yah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I thought we were having a good time. We'll take
a break. Chris Mannix will join us from Boston. A
few things talked to him about the media has almost
made this a full time job of piling on the Celtics.
No matter what the Celtics do, it's never good enough.
Should we be a little more lenient on what they're doing.
We'll talk to Mannix about that and what are the
(16:04):
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back our good friend Chris Mannix, who joins us from Boston.
He was there for Game two last night on loan
from Sports Illustrated their senior NBA writer.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
How would you sum up last night?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know if.
Speaker 14 (17:38):
Dominant would be the word I'd used, but a pretty
convincing win overall by the Celtics. I mean that game one.
I think they needed a game like that. That was
just the second game they played in these playoffs, dam
where they've had to play some some clutch time minutes
like they did down the stretch of regulation and overtime,
and that that's kind of been the story of this
(17:59):
Celtics cea. Like they have one of the largest point
differentials in NBA history. During the regular season, they've largely
cruised through a lot of these games. In the playoffs,
they needed some kind of you know, kind of a
sharpening game, if you will, and I think they got
that in Game one. Then they came out in Game
two when yeah, Indiana had some moments you know where
(18:19):
they played well, but really, from start to finish, this
was a game in the self it's completely controlled.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Is it fair?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This seems like it's almost a national pastime of the
national media and their opinion criticisms of the Boston Celtics
that they have been incredibly successful up to a point
and then they can't win that title. But they had
a historical season. What they've done since twenty seventeen should
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be applauded, but they have to win. So the national
media's job role in all of this in kind of
piling on the Celtics. How does that feel to you?
Speaker 14 (19:01):
I think it's fair to a degree because they haven't
won that championship. I do think you have to look
at each of these seasons and you really go back to,
you know, the the twenty seventeen eighteen season, Jason Tatum's
first year in the NBA, and that's where it kind
of all begins. And you know, they've been to a
lot of conference finals, but how many of them do
you think they should have won?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Right like last year, I.
Speaker 14 (19:24):
Think is the one year where you can say this
team underachieved. To not be able to beat Miami in
a conference finals, you know, that was a letdown. This year,
you know, looking at the rest of the field, if
they don't win a championship, it is a disappointment, It
is underachieving. So I understand the criticism to an extent.
But you know, last year, unquestionably the one year that
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they they should have done more. And this year, if
they can't win the whole thing, and it doesn't really
matter who they play out of the Western Conference, Dallas, Minnesota,
it will be viewed as a failure.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
And I think rightfully.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
So, yeah, trying to figure this out that sometimes I
don't know if we looked at you know, the Bulls
with Michael Jordan and the degree of difficulty of what
they so call went through. You know, you went through
a banged up Lakers team, was Seattle a great team,
where the Utah Jazz a great team. The Phoenix Suns
were an older team. But I don't think we look
(20:20):
back and go, well, but Jordan, you know, but we
will do that to Lebron like way won in the bubble. Well,
last I looked everybody played in the bubble, but it's
we kind of pick and choose with, you know, certain
topics here. And I think the Celtics what they've done
has been pretty incredible. And if they don't win, I mean,
they're gonna get a sigh of relief. It feels like
(20:42):
it's like when the Dodgers won the World Series with
Dave Roberts Clayton Kerschwell, it's like it feels that way
for this Celtic team. And I don't know if it's
we're being fair to them.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
I think Dan, if the southis win a championship this year,
all the things that they've been kind of criticized for
up until this point will now almost become praiseworthy, right,
Like you know, it's like they've got the championship and
they've got the six trips to the conference finals, Like,
look at this unprecedented level of success. Look at how
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this team has been able to win at or near
the highest level every year. You'll start talking about like
six conference finals, two trips to the NBA Finals, one championship,
Like all of a sudden, the narrative they're getting slapped
around with that they're good enough to get to a
certain point, but not good enough to win that Peydam
and Brown are good enough to be a great regular
(21:37):
season team, but maybe not gooden to win a championship.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
All that will be gone.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
It will be part of a broader story where you know,
it's like this team has gone through the necessary steps
to get there, and now this could be the beginning
of a new Celtics dynasty.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, it's like the Braves in the nineties. They can
get to the World Series, but they can never win.
Who is this Kyrie thing? Where did he come from?
This version of Kyrie? How did this happen?
Speaker 14 (22:05):
You know, Dan we I didn't hear many of them,
but I did her a few chants at the garden
last night of we want Kyrie. So if you're looking
for a good storyline in the NBA Finals, it's Dallas,
Boston Kyrie making his return to the Guard Because I
promise you those fans there have not forgotten you know
(22:26):
that eighteen nineteen season in the Exit for Kyrie. To
Kyrie's credit, you talk to people in Dallas and he
has been just a model citizen from day one. Now,
some of that I'm sure for Kyrie was by necessity, right, Like,
he forced his way out of three championship level situations
(22:47):
in Cleveland, Boston, Brooklyn, And if he didn't make it
work in Dallas, I'm not sure where he would have
wound up in what kind of contract he would have
wound up on. So there was certainly pressure on him
to evolve and to be a good teammate, locker room guy.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
But he has been that. He has been that tenfold
with that team.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
You see the postgame press conferences that he has with
Luka Doncic, and it's clear they like, you know, playing together,
they like being teammates, and you just watch some of
these games, Dan, I had some coaches texting me during
the last round. They were saying to me, like, are
you watching Kyrie Irving? Like, yeah, he's great. He's scoring,
he's making improbable shots. They're like, no, Like, he looks
(23:27):
like he's trying on the defensive end much more than
they've ever seen him try in the past. Now, he's
never going to be a great defensive player, but if
he's giving you average the slightly above average defense, his
offense is so good and his shot making is so
good that there's very few players in the league at
least guards that are better than him. So this has
been a purposeful evolution of Kyrie irving to get him
(23:51):
back to the point where once again we're talking about
him as being one of the great players in the
NBA and not one of the great distractions in the.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
NBA's Chris Mannic Sports Illustrated NBA senior writer, what are
the Lakers waiting for hiring a coach?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
You know, whenever I talk to coaching agents and people
kind of that are staying abreast of the process, JJ
Reddick seems to be the front runner here, and even
those that have, you know, clients that have interviewed there
or have had discussions with them, they consistently say to
me like they think it's JJ's job to lose. Now
(24:29):
what they're waiting for, I'm not exactly sure. I do
think that the fact that Cleveland fired JB. Bickerstaff, which
we're gonna have a separate conversation about, but the fact
that the Caves let go of JB. Bickerstaff, I think
that will probably accelerate this process a little bit, because
I do think there could be and will be some
(24:50):
overlap with coaches the Caves are looking at and coaches
the Lakers are looking at. I'm talking about James Barrego,
who you know is high on a lot of teams
list right now.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I think Sam Cassell could.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
Have an opportunity in Cleveland as well, that that could
push the Lakers to make a decision soon a rapt later,
because Dan, if you're looking at this in a vacuum,
Cleveland's a better job than LA right now.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
It's kind of as simple as that.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
Not only is their younger talent there specifically Donovan Mitchell
and Evan Mobley and Darius Garland, but you're in the
Eastern Conference and you can have, as we saw in
the West, a great forty nine to fifty win season
and feel good about yourself and still wind up in
the playing tournament and not make the postseason overall. So
I do It's a long way of saying kind of
(25:35):
two ways. I do think JJ Reddick is the front
runner for this job, and I also think the Cavaliers,
now starting their coaching search, could push Cleveland could push
the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
To make a decision sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I just can't believe that when the reports say Lebron
is not involved in this, Okay, nobody has had a
more scripted, manicured career maybe in all of sports than Lebron.
He knows exactly what he's doing, how he's doing it,
where he's doing it, who he's doing it with. And
(26:09):
now at the end of his career he's all of
a sudden not involved in this. I find that really
hard to believe.
Speaker 14 (26:17):
Yeah, I think Lebron's camp would tell you that, by
and large, he's rarely been hands on when it comes
to hiring head coaches in whatever situation he's been in. Right, Like,
you know, there's no doubt that going back a few
years ago in what twenty nineteen, he wanted ty Loo
to be the head coach of the Lakers. That relationship
(26:39):
is well documented and you know it didn't work out
for different reasons, but that was the coach that he
certainly wanted. I think again, Lebron's camp will tell you that,
you know, he's going to get criticized for, you know,
whatever issues he has with a coach one way or
the other, so it behooves him to kind of stay
above the frame and stay out of that.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
But if you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Criticized involved in it, well I kind of agree with that.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
And I also think Dan, whether or not Lebron is
part of like a text chain with Rob Polenka and
Jennie Buss about who the next Lakers coach is going
to be. They're making these decisions in part with Lebron
and mind Like, they're not hiring JJ Reddick if they
(27:23):
think he and Lebron are going to clash. They're not
considering James Barrego if they think he and Lebron cannot
don't don't share similar basketball philosophies, don't have similar basketball
mind So in a way, it's like a distinction without
a difference. Yes, Lebron might not be hands on with
the next head coach, but at the same time, no team,
(27:43):
including the Lakers, has ever hired a head coach without
taking Lebron's feelings into account.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, because he's in a podcast with the leading candidate
for the Lakers job.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
So that's a weird if that comes to fruition.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
Dan, just to you know, kind of expand on a
little bit that I just find that to be, Like,
I think JJ is a very smart basketball guy. But
you know, you saw the Eudonnis Haslem comments from last
week and look Haslin has skin in the game there, right,
He's a Chris Quinn guy. He wants to Chris Quinn
get a job his former assistant down in Miami. But
(28:18):
he's not wrong about some of these things. I do
think there's there's an element to you know, players in
that locker room potentially, you know, looking at JJ Funnier
wondering certain things about that relationship with Lebron James. When
you can't have that, you need to have you know,
kind of unflinching faith in your head coach or else
(28:39):
it's just not going to work.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, but you none of those guys have status in
that Laker locker room.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean maybe Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
When Lebron's gone, a deal will be gone and you
know in two years sure now, the only thing I
could see with the Lakers is if I'm hiring JJ Reddick,
what kind of coach is he going to be two
years from now when he doesn't have Lebron and maybe
he doesn't have AD Is he the right guy?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Then?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So that would be the.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 14 (29:05):
You don't You don't want to hire a coach just
for kind of this two year window.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
You know, you're looking at, you know, the next five years.
Speaker 14 (29:13):
And look you mentioned something there, like, you know, everybody's
talking about Anthony Davis outlasting Lebron with Los Angeles. I'm
not so convinced that's the the end game there, Like
when Lebron hangs him up. I'm not sure ad is
going to have the stomach to kind of rebuild in
LA during the last prime years of his career. So
I think I'd be looking at a long term candidate.
But Dan, like, who is a long term coach in
(29:36):
the NBA not named Spoilster and Popovich. It's it's getting
insane out there right now. I mean, this has been
one of the wildest years in coaching that I can
remember in a while. But Adrian Griffin gets fired when
his team is the number one seed halfway through the
regular season. Frank Vogel, you know, in one year with
a team that nobody could have won more with, I'm sorry,
(29:56):
you cannot. You could not have done better given the circumstance.
Ansis Frank Vogel was handed in Phoenix than what the
Suns did this year, and they got beaten the playoffs
by a team that looks pretty good right now now
playing in the Conference finals and JB.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Bickerstaff we just mentioned, Like JB.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
Bickerstaff, all he did was clean up the disaster that
was the John Beeline era in Cleveland, got them into
the play got them into the playoffs, got them to
the second round of the playoffs, where they took a
game off the Celtics before the entire team went on
the injury list for the second half of that series. Like,
I understand, it's a players league, but at some point
(30:32):
you got to back your coach, right and if you
think if you have any questions about how you know
whether that's the rights philosophy.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Two of the most successful teams.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
In the NBA, you know, over the last couple of
decades are San Antonio and Miami and they have the
longest tenured coaches in the NBA. So I just get
you know, these coaches need to have a longer runway
to do their jobs or else they're never going to
be able to do them.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I can't imagine a year and you probably find this
out the last time you had three coaches who took
their team to the playoffs and got fired that year
that they took their teams to the playoff.
Speaker 14 (31:08):
I mean, I mean Darvin Ham on that list too,
Like what were we saying about Darvin Ham last year?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Conference finals?
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Coach?
Speaker 14 (31:15):
Look at what he got out of this team. You know,
they brought the band back together and they the team struggled.
The roster was the biggest problem, more problem than Darvin Ham,
and he's gone after two years.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Like what, you have to have some longevity here.
Speaker 14 (31:30):
You have to give coaches time to to you know,
instill their philosophy and still what they want to do.
When you can't just have the threat of them getting
fired every single year.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
It just doesn't work. It's proven to just not work.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Before I let you go, MAVs or Timberwolves. Who you
got to win this series?
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (31:48):
That game one was was was surprising, you know, although
I mean I guess it shouldn't be, as Minnesota won
the last series taken three games on the road.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
I'm still gonna go towards Minnesota.
Speaker 14 (31:58):
I think they're the more over all talented team.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I don't think that.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
I think again the Edwards will be more aggressive in
Game two as we've seen him in other games this series,
and I just think Minnesota and this might be the
same way if they play Boston. But they are uniquely
equipped to take on teams whose strength is on the perimeter, right,
I mean, they have got so many elite defenders from
Edwards to McDaniels to Nikhil Walker, Alexander, like, these guys
(32:27):
are are big time defenders. And I think ultimately that
defensive strength is going to make Kyrie and Luca a
little less efficient than they need to be, and I
think that's gonna help Minnesota pull it out in about
seven games. Would you think of the Barkley interview yesterday, Oh,
you're the best?
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
That was great?
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Like I mean, I I you know, we all kind
of grumble at our bosses from time to time, don't
Nate palmum like Charles did on that one.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
I do like your idea, and he.
Speaker 14 (32:57):
Kind of went along with it of just doing the
the independent route. Like I'd watch that show on YouTube,
I'd seek that out, I'd watch it wherever it was,
and you could certainly sell it off to any number
of outlets and and make a boatload of money for it.
I don't know how you feel, damn, but I'm I'm
of the opinion this is not the end of inside
the NBA. You can't have you know a bunch of
(33:18):
guys who are you know, even at their respective ages,
still in their prime television wise, like, still.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Elite at what they do. They're not gonna go away.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
So whether it's a turner or Independent or somebody else,
I have a hard time believing the end of Inside
the NBA is near.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, I'm with you. Great to talk to you, have
a great weekend. Thanks for joining us always.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
You got it.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's Chris Mannix, senior NBA writer Sports Illustrated. We'll take
a break or play the day is up next.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
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Speaker 9 (35:00):
And that was not Dallas Starr's car.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
That was that was that was Edmonton. That was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I could see where that could be a little confusing. Yeah,
yes of McDavid.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
So that's in double overtime, overtime, the Rangers hosting the
Panthers after being shut out at home in game one.
That's tonight, and uh, Mavericks at the Timberwolves. Mavericks are
getting five and a half. In case you're wondering over
under here, according to DraftKings, what's the over under for
(35:36):
Luca don chicch Marvin.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
Twenty nine and a half, Paul thirty and a half,
Todd twenty eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Bloop over under, Anthony Edwards Seaton twenty seven and a half.
Blue Blue, We're on our game today. We're on our
game today. Odds to be the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
It's Jalen Brown and then Jason Tatum, and then it's
Drew Holliday.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Odds to be the Weston Tatum is hopeful, Yeah, Ben,
Jaylen Brown, Jylen Brown is a no brainer. Jason Tatum,
that's hopeful.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Western Conference Finals MVP, it's Luca and then it's Anthony Edwards,
Kyrie Irvin and then Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Who's changed the game? EDA one of three, Yes, Yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Tatum and Brown are both averaging twenty four points per
game in his playoffs.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Pretty similar, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Is playing way worse though. You always get that feeling,
you do, Jason Tatum. It feels like, had a terrible
night last night.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Well what was he one for seven from three point range?
When he has three really good quarters and then he
plays well in overtime, but then people go, yeah, but
you see him in the fourth quarter and look, I
understand we're a bottom line, you know, sports society. We
want to see you win championships. They've had these opportunities.
(37:07):
They're sort of like the Buffalo Bills. I mean, they're there,
the consistency is there, they just haven't won a title.
Maybe if they do win a title, then we start
to look at the totality of what these young players
have done. And they are young. I mean, it's you know,
this is historical in what they've done at a young age,
(37:28):
Tatum and Brown. And they've had their opportunities last year
losing to Miami inexcusable. But they are a young team.
And maybe I look at it a little differently than
the national media because it does feel like, let's pile
on the Celtics. They should win. This is an easy
path to the NBA Finals. I understand all of that.
(37:51):
Now you have to win, and if you don't, yes,
it will be a disappointment.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yes, they feel like they're supposed to be too good
to keep letting teams hang around so much.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
They're supposed to be winning these games by twenty thirty points.
It feels like maybe that maybe I get that it's
a little bit of like exaggeration or hyperbole or something,
but there's supposed to feel like they're supposed to be dominant.
It feels like every game they're favored by ten.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It feels like every game.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
They're up by fifteen, and then it's two and then
they're up fifteen and a little too, and then fifteen. Yes,
martn are they young?
Speaker 11 (38:25):
They might be life young, but they're NBA like middle ages.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yes, I mean you're playing six or seven years. But
Jason Tatum is what twenty six? What's brown? Twenty five,
twenty seven, twenty seven?
Speaker 11 (38:37):
Oh, they're grown man now. Al Horford's not young. Drew
Holliday's not young. They're life young. They're they're not after young.
They're not basketball young.
Speaker 15 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
James in Jacksonville, Good morning, James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (38:56):
Pay good morning?
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Damn?
Speaker 15 (38:57):
Thanks for calling me back. Yep, six four two twenty.
Just had an update on the DDC and maybe a
quick word to Rob in Orlando. But I'm a three
time member myself. A few years ago my wife or
(39:18):
ex wife divorced me on my birthday.
Speaker 12 (39:24):
A couple of.
Speaker 15 (39:24):
Years later, she put my dog downs on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
What the hell?
Speaker 15 (39:31):
Yeah, this year we're going to bury my dad on
my birthday.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
So yeah, but okay, how does she tell you on
your birthday she's divorcing you? Does she wrap up something?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
No?
Speaker 15 (39:48):
That was when we final life day. Oh that was
like an exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Okay, I didn't know if she would like, wrap up something,
put a bow on it. You open it up and
say I'm divorcing you. Guess Paul gave him half a
cake for his Birthay.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
Wow, Wow, here's the hint.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
May soon.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
Sorry, James, I'm encouragement man. It's our life is tough
when we go through this stuff. And another friend of mine,
we started this ddu club divorce stabs, unite and help
out other divorce dads. No, you can if they if
they need a ride, if they need a lift, whatever
it is, you help him out.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Well, we're glad to have you a part of the
dead Dad's Club. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Well, I guess it's a little late for this, but
I was gonna say, James, all of that is meant
to garner a lot of sympathy. However, I'm just wondering,
I mean, putting your dog down on someone's birthday. Was
that done maliciously or did it just happen that way? Oh?
He hung up. It feels like maybe I don't know
if James bears some responsibility for maybe some of that
(40:53):
venom or not.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
But holy crap, that's really terrible. Yeah, honey, surprise, We're
putting the dog down. The dog's a puppy. You have
to do it today? Yeah, yeah, couldn't you like the
day before, day after?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Maybe maybe maybe they get along just fine, yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
And he only gets half attendance with that club every time.
Where is everybody the only about fifty percent of the
people's show up?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Thank you, Tod.
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(00:50):
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Good morning if you're watching on Peacock, Thank you and
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(02:35):
handle a DP show. All right, Seaton pull question to
lead off our one. Who had a better day yesterday?
College athletes? Right, Scottie Sheffler, Yeah, Louisville yesterday. Louisville police
did not have a good day.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Jalen Brown had a good day yesterday. Yeah, I had
forty Yeah, yeah, he did well. We could populate, we
could add some people.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, Okay, the Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Show had a great day yesterday. We did, we did. Yeah.
Charles Barkley interview made a lot of headlines. It went viral,
It did essentially go viral viral.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, yeah, and in some non sports publications like Hollywood
Reporter Variety, we crossed over it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, we did, we crossed over we did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, Charles was great. But you know what, if you
heard Charles yesterday, not that you had to hear it,
but if you did hear it. We spent sixteen minutes
with him. That's why he's the most valuable person in
the media because what he says, how he says it.
He's not a hot take guy. He's just these are
my opinions, whether you like it or not. Entertaining, also serious.
(03:47):
He was angry about what's going on. They're going to
lose the NBA on TNT. Now what do you do?
And we said, just you know, with your production company,
continue to do the show and then you can license
it to NBC if you want to. NBC is not
going to create a better show than that. ESPN is
not creating a better show than that. But here's the problem.
(04:11):
Sometimes if Charles and Shaq and Kenny, maybe Ernie go,
let's say to NBC or they went to ESPN, there's
somebody at those networks that will probably say, you know what,
I think I can make it better. No, like, pardon
the interruption, it works. There's certain things. Now, when we
(04:33):
were at a sports center, they tried to tweak it.
They tried to make sure that we weren't stars. They
wanted you ESPN to be the star, and they were constantly,
constantly involved in that, and then they kind of finally
left us alone. And then we figured it out. But
there's always somebody who thinks they can make it better.
(04:53):
And with inside the NBA, you're not going to make
it better. Don't even try to make a different. It
is what it is. It's a staple. Pardon the interruption.
Same way, don't need to make it better. You have
two great hosts, they get along, they've known each other
for decades. It works. But I hope that the NBA
on TNT stays intact. I don't know where it goes,
(05:17):
and maybe they just start their own channel, maybe they
do something bigger with this. I don't know, but it
feels like I don't know if Ernie's going to go
with I don't know. It felt like Charles was hinting
that Ernie might retire, and you know, there's people who
could step in there. Adam Lefko would be really good
(05:39):
in a role like that. I'd still like to see
Tony really get into something bigger than just around the Horn,
because I mentioned that he would have been a great
replacement on Jeopardy with Alex Trebek. Young, bright, likable, energetic,
fun smart. I don't even know if he got a
(05:59):
call from Jeopardy. I don't know, if you know Wheel
of Fortune with Pat say Jack, you know retiring, You
got Ryan Seacrest in there. But I think Tony Rally
is one of those guys that could be hosting one
of these shows if Ernie doesn't want to do it.
And Ernie's close to seventy and I don't know if
he's going to continue to do it. Charles has kind
(06:20):
of hinted that if they do go someplace else, Ernie
might not go, but if they stay in Atlanta, maybe
he does. All right, So we got a lot of
things to talk about. Any other poll questions they're seating
on other than who had a great day yesterday?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, we got lots of poll questions. Do you want
to dive into the college the news in college sports?
Do you want to dive in a little bit? To
Scottie Scheffler, do you want to get into the NBA?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't want to do college athletics in this revenue
sharing and there's billions of dollars until I talk to
Pat forty and I kind of understand it because I
don't know what it means. I always say, what does
this mean for the athlete? And what does it mean
for the FA? That's really what That's why I wanted
to have Pat on. What's this leading to maybe revenue sharing?
(07:08):
What's it going to mean? Are we going to have
forty or fifty schools all together playing football against one another,
haves and the have nots. That's what I'm curious about,
because I don't want to waste your time if it's
something that is kind of I don't know too much
detail there. I just want to know what does this
mean for the fan experience? What's it mean for your school?
(07:31):
What's it mean for your team and the players who
you know, what are they getting paid, When do they
get paid? How much are they getting paid? So we'll
talk to Pat forty. How about Scotty Scheffler. I watched
this press conference live yesterday afternoon on Golf Channel where
they had the mayor, they had the head of police,
(07:51):
and they were talking about, you know, exactly what happened.
They had some cameras there at the entrance to Valhalla,
I mean, and the police officer, the arresting police officer,
didn't have his body cam on. He got disciplined for that.
So the case feels like it's fallen apart a little
bit from the standpoint of Louisville police.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yes, PAULI, Yeah, there's a couple of details that the
policeman did not have his activated camera and that's a
bit of a violation, which helped Scotty Scheffler's case. But
there was a camera like almost like a sort of
security camera across the way that showed a part of
the incident. And this is not my opinion, but it's
more of the opinion of social media. It didn't appear
that Scotty Scheffler drug a cop with his car for
(08:35):
twenty feet, at least that was not in the video.
It more appeared that Scotty made a left the cop,
ran over and kind of jumped on the hood or
hit the hood with his body like a hip check,
and then pulled him out of the car. At no
point in the video that we saw did the cop
go down. Scotty Scheffler had a good day public perception
wise yesterday for his situation. Yeah, be fair to say.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But he's got a court date I think coming up
in a couple of weeks. I don't I don't know
if he goes. Maybe it's next week, but or the weekend.
Maybe maybe doesn't even have to show it for it.
So Scotty Scheffler, what would be the poll question there?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Just they're still working off of who had the best
day yesterday? Yeah, yeah, I would say Scotty did.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, Paul, you know, I'll say Jalen Brown of the
Celtics had a nice day because he's always, you know,
one A with that team, not B. He's not a
B player, but he's always the one A guy and
he's having more games where he's the leading scorer, and
he took over last night, took over on National TV.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, sometimes it's the other guy since Jason Tatum is
going to get most of the attention Jalen Brown that,
you know, that's a great one A to have. Sometimes
you don't have the better defender on you. But he
put up forty And he talked about not being on
the All NBA team last year. He was second team
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All NBA. We'll talk about that in a moment, but
here he is being asked about that and he used
at his motivation last night.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Was there any motivation for you after hearing that you
didn't make an All NBA team?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No, I want to say that, what would you say?
I mean, we took games from the from the finals.
So you know, honestly, I don't got the time to
give it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, he doesn't give a.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
This year.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Last year he cared because then he was eligible for
a Supermax. He made second team. That's you know. You
can say, hey, I don't care about this year because
it doesn't affect his paycheck. Last year when you made
second team All NBA, it did matter because then he
was eligible for sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And now that he's got it, who cares. Yeah, let's
get into game three. Yeah, I think what he said
makes perfect sense. Who the hell cares about that? Yeah,
it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm rich.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yes, Todd whodos to the report said what what you say?
We're supposed to have a dialogue here. I asked your
questions and you give us answers.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Then he became a different person with the follow up
question there.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Talking about you. Yeah, sound like, yeah, it's about played again.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Was there any motivation for you after hearing that you
didn't make an All NBA team?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
No, I want to say that.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What would you say?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I mean, we two games from the from the finals,
so you know, honestly, I don't got the time to
give it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Alrighty, that wasn't a Tyler Haliburton. Uh no, it's no,
there was a Haliburton situation. No, no, where his voice
changed mid midstride.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, Tyrese Haliburton questionable for Game three hamstring injury. And
here's Rick Carlisle, the PACER's head coach, on that topic.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Do you know anymore on tie right now?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or is it just left left hamstring?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Do you have any sense on if he can return
in this series?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Well, I will probably we'll no more tomorrow and then
probably even more Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not a lot of time, not a lot of turnaround time.
And uh, you know, in case you're wondering the Pacers,
I mean DraftKings has a line the Celtics are seven
point favorites against the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's a Saturday yep.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
They asked Rick Carlisle about three different ways about the
time about Halliburton's injury, and at the third way he goes, well, he.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Goes, you know, it's it's it's what I said, it's
it's the hamster.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I mean, you know, there's like I don't know if
there's like hippo laws here, but like can we move on?
He's like he was so done talking about he referenced
hip laws. I was like, there are no laws for
you to update your player.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I don't know if it's you know, going a little far.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Violating something like if you tell me he's hurt and
it's his hamstring, I don't know if it's violating his rights.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Right, we're not asked to see his blood work?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, yes, Tom.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
And even that being said, it's still infinitely better than been.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Bill Belichick would say, I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
I don't know about these things. I'm not a doctor.
If you'd ask the physicians, No, I do, was coach,
I don't not a doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stayed at a holiday in one time?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Uh Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
No, buddy, see what f DP boys happened Memori Day weekend. Dan.
I just had a call in and let everybody know,
and I'm sure everyone agrees that. I have been so
lucky to watch Charles Barkley, who's a national Treasure to
the NBA on tn T for all these years.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
I mean, he's the.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
Reason why I would go, I would watch the games
when they were bad, like like Charles will be complaining
the whole time. And that was the whole reason why
I wouldn't even watch this because of the show, you know,
I mean, And he's kind of like an older Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Dan.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
He's got you know, energy, doesn't lie, he's honest, he's
too honest at times, but he he shoots you straight.
And it's just this is what I love about Charles.
He's the best. And yesterday, Dan with all of the outfits,
I'm surprised you guys didn't put the dan Nettes in
movies like Paulie looked like an extra on the basketball
(14:14):
court and white Man Can't Jump. Marvin Marvin could have
been a barber in the Coming to America movie Let's
See Seton looked like he had better call saul vibes.
He looked like a breaking bad character. And then Fritty
not sure.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There, Not sure what Pritty, But have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Thank you Buddha. What was the best suggestion for your
look Marvin yesterday?
Speaker 11 (14:42):
Oh someone said I look like brother moves on from
the wire. It was a deep cut, Wow, she you
put some glasses on?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, that was good?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
Or a bartender at one of like a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Speakeasy Okay, yeah, I could see it.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There's some good ones. You guys look good, look sharp yesterday?
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Wait, hold on, sorry, DP, Are we gonna do another demonstration?
Do we put shirts and ties on another time?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I don't know. No, No, we did the MLB tonight
demonstration because they win the Sports Emmy. Because they do demonstrations.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
But but wait, not to cut you off, but to
cut you off. They have gloves when they do their demonstrations.
There brought in gloves.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I got my glove over here, my Crappensburg State baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Glove got right here.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Let's go crap.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hey, But yeah, I got my Crappensburg State.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Glove here.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Marvin, you could probably get your hand in this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
One a little easier than yah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I thought we were having a good time. We'll take
a break. Chris Mannix will join us from Boston. A
few things talked to him about the media has almost
made this a full time job of piling on the Celtics.
No matter what the Celtics do, it's never good enough.
Should we be a little more lenient on what they're doing.
We'll talk to Mannix about that and what are the
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back our good friend Chris Mannix, who joins us from Boston.
He was there for Game two last night on loan
from Sports Illustrated their senior NBA writer.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
How would you sum up last night?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know if.
Speaker 14 (17:38):
Dominant would be the word I'd used, but a pretty
convincing win overall by the Celtics. I mean that game one.
I think they needed a game like that. That was
just the second game they played in these playoffs, dam
where they've had to play some some clutch time minutes
like they did down the stretch of regulation and overtime,
and that that's kind of been the story of this
(17:59):
Celtics cea. Like they have one of the largest point
differentials in NBA history. During the regular season, they've largely
cruised through a lot of these games. In the playoffs,
they needed some kind of you know, kind of a
sharpening game, if you will, and I think they got
that in Game one. Then they came out in Game
two when yeah, Indiana had some moments you know where
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they played well, but really, from start to finish, this
was a game in the self it's completely controlled.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Is it fair?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This seems like it's almost a national pastime of the
national media and their opinion criticisms of the Boston Celtics
that they have been incredibly successful up to a point
and then they can't win that title. But they had
a historical season. What they've done since twenty seventeen should
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be applauded, but they have to win. So the national
media's job role in all of this in kind of
piling on the Celtics. How does that feel to you?
Speaker 14 (19:01):
I think it's fair to a degree because they haven't
won that championship. I do think you have to look
at each of these seasons and you really go back to,
you know, the the twenty seventeen eighteen season, Jason Tatum's
first year in the NBA, and that's where it kind
of all begins. And you know, they've been to a
lot of conference finals, but how many of them do
you think they should have won?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Right like last year, I.
Speaker 14 (19:24):
Think is the one year where you can say this
team underachieved. To not be able to beat Miami in
a conference finals, you know, that was a letdown. This year,
you know, looking at the rest of the field, if
they don't win a championship, it is a disappointment, It
is underachieving. So I understand the criticism to an extent.
But you know, last year, unquestionably the one year that
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they they should have done more. And this year, if
they can't win the whole thing, and it doesn't really
matter who they play out of the Western Conference, Dallas, Minnesota,
it will be viewed as a failure.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
And I think rightfully.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
So, yeah, trying to figure this out that sometimes I
don't know if we looked at you know, the Bulls
with Michael Jordan and the degree of difficulty of what
they so call went through. You know, you went through
a banged up Lakers team, was Seattle a great team,
where the Utah Jazz a great team. The Phoenix Suns
were an older team. But I don't think we look
(20:20):
back and go, well, but Jordan, you know, but we
will do that to Lebron like way won in the bubble. Well,
last I looked everybody played in the bubble, but it's
we kind of pick and choose with, you know, certain
topics here. And I think the Celtics what they've done
has been pretty incredible. And if they don't win, I mean,
they're gonna get a sigh of relief. It feels like
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it's like when the Dodgers won the World Series with
Dave Roberts Clayton Kerschwell, it's like it feels that way
for this Celtic team. And I don't know if it's
we're being fair to them.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
I think Dan, if the southis win a championship this year,
all the things that they've been kind of criticized for
up until this point will now almost become praiseworthy, right,
Like you know, it's like they've got the championship and
they've got the six trips to the conference finals, Like,
look at this unprecedented level of success. Look at how
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this team has been able to win at or near
the highest level every year. You'll start talking about like
six conference finals, two trips to the NBA Finals, one championship,
Like all of a sudden, the narrative they're getting slapped
around with that they're good enough to get to a
certain point, but not good enough to win that Peydam
and Brown are good enough to be a great regular
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season team, but maybe not gooden to win a championship.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
All that will be gone.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
It will be part of a broader story where you know,
it's like this team has gone through the necessary steps
to get there, and now this could be the beginning
of a new Celtics dynasty.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, it's like the Braves in the nineties. They can
get to the World Series, but they can never win.
Who is this Kyrie thing? Where did he come from?
This version of Kyrie? How did this happen?
Speaker 14 (22:05):
You know, Dan we I didn't hear many of them,
but I did her a few chants at the garden
last night of we want Kyrie. So if you're looking
for a good storyline in the NBA Finals, it's Dallas,
Boston Kyrie making his return to the Guard Because I
promise you those fans there have not forgotten you know
(22:26):
that eighteen nineteen season in the Exit for Kyrie. To
Kyrie's credit, you talk to people in Dallas and he
has been just a model citizen from day one. Now,
some of that I'm sure for Kyrie was by necessity, right, Like,
he forced his way out of three championship level situations
(22:47):
in Cleveland, Boston, Brooklyn, And if he didn't make it
work in Dallas, I'm not sure where he would have
wound up in what kind of contract he would have
wound up on. So there was certainly pressure on him
to evolve and to be a good teammate, locker room guy.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
But he has been that. He has been that tenfold
with that team.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
You see the postgame press conferences that he has with
Luka Doncic, and it's clear they like, you know, playing together,
they like being teammates, and you just watch some of
these games, Dan, I had some coaches texting me during
the last round. They were saying to me, like, are
you watching Kyrie Irving? Like, yeah, he's great. He's scoring,
he's making improbable shots. They're like, no, Like, he looks
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like he's trying on the defensive end much more than
they've ever seen him try in the past. Now, he's
never going to be a great defensive player, but if
he's giving you average the slightly above average defense, his
offense is so good and his shot making is so
good that there's very few players in the league at
least guards that are better than him. So this has
been a purposeful evolution of Kyrie irving to get him
(23:51):
back to the point where once again we're talking about
him as being one of the great players in the
NBA and not one of the great distractions in the.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
NBA's Chris Mannic Sports Illustrated NBA senior writer, what are
the Lakers waiting for hiring a coach?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
You know, whenever I talk to coaching agents and people
kind of that are staying abreast of the process, JJ
Reddick seems to be the front runner here, and even
those that have, you know, clients that have interviewed there
or have had discussions with them, they consistently say to
me like they think it's JJ's job to lose. Now
(24:29):
what they're waiting for, I'm not exactly sure. I do
think that the fact that Cleveland fired JB. Bickerstaff, which
we're gonna have a separate conversation about, but the fact
that the Caves let go of JB. Bickerstaff, I think
that will probably accelerate this process a little bit, because
I do think there could be and will be some
(24:50):
overlap with coaches the Caves are looking at and coaches
the Lakers are looking at. I'm talking about James Barrego,
who you know is high on a lot of teams
list right now.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I think Sam Cassell could.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
Have an opportunity in Cleveland as well, that that could
push the Lakers to make a decision soon a rapt later,
because Dan, if you're looking at this in a vacuum,
Cleveland's a better job than LA right now.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
It's kind of as simple as that.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
Not only is their younger talent there specifically Donovan Mitchell
and Evan Mobley and Darius Garland, but you're in the
Eastern Conference and you can have, as we saw in
the West, a great forty nine to fifty win season
and feel good about yourself and still wind up in
the playing tournament and not make the postseason overall. So
I do It's a long way of saying kind of
(25:35):
two ways. I do think JJ Reddick is the front
runner for this job, and I also think the Cavaliers,
now starting their coaching search, could push Cleveland could push
the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
To make a decision sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I just can't believe that when the reports say Lebron
is not involved in this, Okay, nobody has had a
more scripted, manicured career maybe in all of sports than Lebron.
He knows exactly what he's doing, how he's doing it,
where he's doing it, who he's doing it with. And
(26:09):
now at the end of his career he's all of
a sudden not involved in this. I find that really
hard to believe.
Speaker 14 (26:17):
Yeah, I think Lebron's camp would tell you that, by
and large, he's rarely been hands on when it comes
to hiring head coaches in whatever situation he's been in. Right, Like,
you know, there's no doubt that going back a few
years ago in what twenty nineteen, he wanted ty Loo
to be the head coach of the Lakers. That relationship
(26:39):
is well documented and you know it didn't work out
for different reasons, but that was the coach that he
certainly wanted. I think again, Lebron's camp will tell you that,
you know, he's going to get criticized for, you know,
whatever issues he has with a coach one way or
the other, so it behooves him to kind of stay
above the frame and stay out of that.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
But if you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Criticized involved in it, well I kind of agree with that.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
And I also think Dan, whether or not Lebron is
part of like a text chain with Rob Polenka and
Jennie Buss about who the next Lakers coach is going
to be. They're making these decisions in part with Lebron
and mind Like, they're not hiring JJ Reddick if they
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think he and Lebron are going to clash. They're not
considering James Barrego if they think he and Lebron cannot
don't don't share similar basketball philosophies, don't have similar basketball
mind So in a way, it's like a distinction without
a difference. Yes, Lebron might not be hands on with
the next head coach, but at the same time, no team,
(27:43):
including the Lakers, has ever hired a head coach without
taking Lebron's feelings into account.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, because he's in a podcast with the leading candidate
for the Lakers job.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
So that's a weird if that comes to fruition.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
Dan, just to you know, kind of expand on a
little bit that I just find that to be, Like,
I think JJ is a very smart basketball guy. But
you know, you saw the Eudonnis Haslem comments from last
week and look Haslin has skin in the game there, right,
He's a Chris Quinn guy. He wants to Chris Quinn
get a job his former assistant down in Miami. But
(28:18):
he's not wrong about some of these things. I do
think there's there's an element to you know, players in
that locker room potentially, you know, looking at JJ Funnier
wondering certain things about that relationship with Lebron James. When
you can't have that, you need to have you know,
kind of unflinching faith in your head coach or else
(28:39):
it's just not going to work.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, but you none of those guys have status in
that Laker locker room.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean maybe Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
When Lebron's gone, a deal will be gone and you
know in two years sure now, the only thing I
could see with the Lakers is if I'm hiring JJ Reddick,
what kind of coach is he going to be two
years from now when he doesn't have Lebron and maybe
he doesn't have AD Is he the right guy?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Then?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So that would be the.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 14 (29:05):
You don't You don't want to hire a coach just
for kind of this two year window.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
You know, you're looking at, you know, the next five years.
Speaker 14 (29:13):
And look you mentioned something there, like, you know, everybody's
talking about Anthony Davis outlasting Lebron with Los Angeles. I'm
not so convinced that's the the end game there, Like
when Lebron hangs him up. I'm not sure ad is
going to have the stomach to kind of rebuild in
LA during the last prime years of his career. So
I think I'd be looking at a long term candidate.
But Dan, like, who is a long term coach in
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the NBA not named Spoilster and Popovich. It's it's getting
insane out there right now. I mean, this has been
one of the wildest years in coaching that I can
remember in a while. But Adrian Griffin gets fired when
his team is the number one seed halfway through the
regular season. Frank Vogel, you know, in one year with
a team that nobody could have won more with, I'm sorry,
(29:56):
you cannot. You could not have done better given the circumstance.
Ansis Frank Vogel was handed in Phoenix than what the
Suns did this year, and they got beaten the playoffs
by a team that looks pretty good right now now
playing in the Conference finals and JB.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Bickerstaff we just mentioned, Like JB.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
Bickerstaff, all he did was clean up the disaster that
was the John Beeline era in Cleveland, got them into
the play got them into the playoffs, got them to
the second round of the playoffs, where they took a
game off the Celtics before the entire team went on
the injury list for the second half of that series. Like,
I understand, it's a players league, but at some point
(30:32):
you got to back your coach, right and if you
think if you have any questions about how you know
whether that's the rights philosophy.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Two of the most successful teams.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
In the NBA, you know, over the last couple of
decades are San Antonio and Miami and they have the
longest tenured coaches in the NBA. So I just get
you know, these coaches need to have a longer runway
to do their jobs or else they're never going to
be able to do them.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I can't imagine a year and you probably find this
out the last time you had three coaches who took
their team to the playoffs and got fired that year
that they took their teams to the playoff.
Speaker 14 (31:08):
I mean, I mean Darvin Ham on that list too,
Like what were we saying about Darvin Ham last year?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Conference finals?
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Coach?
Speaker 14 (31:15):
Look at what he got out of this team. You know,
they brought the band back together and they the team struggled.
The roster was the biggest problem, more problem than Darvin Ham,
and he's gone after two years.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Like what, you have to have some longevity here.
Speaker 14 (31:30):
You have to give coaches time to to you know,
instill their philosophy and still what they want to do.
When you can't just have the threat of them getting
fired every single year.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
It just doesn't work. It's proven to just not work.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Before I let you go, MAVs or Timberwolves. Who you
got to win this series?
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (31:48):
That game one was was was surprising, you know, although
I mean I guess it shouldn't be, as Minnesota won
the last series taken three games on the road.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
I'm still gonna go towards Minnesota.
Speaker 14 (31:58):
I think they're the more over all talented team.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I don't think that.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
I think again the Edwards will be more aggressive in
Game two as we've seen him in other games this series,
and I just think Minnesota and this might be the
same way if they play Boston. But they are uniquely
equipped to take on teams whose strength is on the perimeter, right,
I mean, they have got so many elite defenders from
Edwards to McDaniels to Nikhil Walker, Alexander, like, these guys
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are are big time defenders. And I think ultimately that
defensive strength is going to make Kyrie and Luca a
little less efficient than they need to be, and I
think that's gonna help Minnesota pull it out in about
seven games. Would you think of the Barkley interview yesterday, Oh,
you're the best?
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
That was great?
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Like I mean, I I you know, we all kind
of grumble at our bosses from time to time, don't
Nate palmum like Charles did on that one.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
I do like your idea, and he.
Speaker 14 (32:57):
Kind of went along with it of just doing the
the independent route. Like I'd watch that show on YouTube,
I'd seek that out, I'd watch it wherever it was,
and you could certainly sell it off to any number
of outlets and and make a boatload of money for it.
I don't know how you feel, damn, but I'm I'm
of the opinion this is not the end of inside
the NBA. You can't have you know a bunch of
(33:18):
guys who are you know, even at their respective ages,
still in their prime television wise, like, still.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Elite at what they do. They're not gonna go away.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
So whether it's a turner or Independent or somebody else,
I have a hard time believing the end of Inside
the NBA is near.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, I'm with you. Great to talk to you, have
a great weekend. Thanks for joining us always.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
You got it.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's Chris Mannix, senior NBA writer Sports Illustrated. We'll take
a break or play the day is up next.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wapp.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Oh My God.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Of the Day.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
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Speaker 9 (34:14):
It's Connor McDavid.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's courtesy of the Oil's Radio Network, Connor McDavid. He's
got a combine one hundred and fifty five points between
the regular season and the playoffs, third straight season of
at least one and fifty points, tied with Gui Lafleur.
Only Wayne Gretzky who did eleven consecutive seasons has a
(34:44):
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Speaker 9 (35:00):
And that was not Dallas Starr's car.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
That was that was that was Edmonton. That was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I could see where that could be a little confusing. Yeah,
yes of McDavid.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
So that's in double overtime, overtime, the Rangers hosting the
Panthers after being shut out at home in game one.
That's tonight, and uh, Mavericks at the Timberwolves. Mavericks are
getting five and a half. In case you're wondering over
under here, according to DraftKings, what's the over under for
(35:36):
Luca don chicch Marvin.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
Twenty nine and a half, Paul thirty and a half,
Todd twenty eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Bloop over under, Anthony Edwards Seaton twenty seven and a half.
Blue Blue, We're on our game today. We're on our
game today. Odds to be the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
It's Jalen Brown and then Jason Tatum, and then it's
Drew Holliday.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Odds to be the Weston Tatum is hopeful, Yeah, Ben,
Jaylen Brown, Jylen Brown is a no brainer. Jason Tatum,
that's hopeful.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Western Conference Finals MVP, it's Luca and then it's Anthony Edwards,
Kyrie Irvin and then Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Who's changed the game? EDA one of three, Yes, Yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Tatum and Brown are both averaging twenty four points per
game in his playoffs.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Pretty similar, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Is playing way worse though. You always get that feeling,
you do, Jason Tatum. It feels like, had a terrible
night last night.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Well what was he one for seven from three point range?
When he has three really good quarters and then he
plays well in overtime, but then people go, yeah, but
you see him in the fourth quarter and look, I
understand we're a bottom line, you know, sports society. We
want to see you win championships. They've had these opportunities.
(37:07):
They're sort of like the Buffalo Bills. I mean, they're there,
the consistency is there, they just haven't won a title.
Maybe if they do win a title, then we start
to look at the totality of what these young players
have done. And they are young. I mean, it's you know,
this is historical in what they've done at a young age,
(37:28):
Tatum and Brown. And they've had their opportunities last year
losing to Miami inexcusable. But they are a young team.
And maybe I look at it a little differently than
the national media because it does feel like, let's pile
on the Celtics. They should win. This is an easy
path to the NBA Finals. I understand all of that.
(37:51):
Now you have to win, and if you don't, yes,
it will be a disappointment.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yes, they feel like they're supposed to be too good
to keep letting teams hang around so much.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
They're supposed to be winning these games by twenty thirty points.
It feels like maybe that maybe I get that it's
a little bit of like exaggeration or hyperbole or something,
but there's supposed to feel like they're supposed to be dominant.
It feels like every game they're favored by ten.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It feels like every game.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
They're up by fifteen, and then it's two and then
they're up fifteen and a little too, and then fifteen. Yes,
martn are they young?
Speaker 11 (38:25):
They might be life young, but they're NBA like middle ages.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yes, I mean you're playing six or seven years. But
Jason Tatum is what twenty six? What's brown? Twenty five,
twenty seven, twenty seven?
Speaker 11 (38:37):
Oh, they're grown man now. Al Horford's not young. Drew
Holliday's not young. They're life young. They're they're not after young.
They're not basketball young.
Speaker 15 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
James in Jacksonville, Good morning, James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (38:56):
Pay good morning?
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Damn?
Speaker 15 (38:57):
Thanks for calling me back. Yep, six four two twenty.
Just had an update on the DDC and maybe a
quick word to Rob in Orlando. But I'm a three
time member myself. A few years ago my wife or
(39:18):
ex wife divorced me on my birthday.
Speaker 12 (39:24):
A couple of.
Speaker 15 (39:24):
Years later, she put my dog downs on my birthday.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
What the hell?
Speaker 15 (39:31):
Yeah, this year we're going to bury my dad on
my birthday.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
So yeah, but okay, how does she tell you on
your birthday she's divorcing you? Does she wrap up something?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
No?
Speaker 15 (39:48):
That was when we final life day. Oh that was
like an exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Okay, I didn't know if she would like, wrap up something,
put a bow on it. You open it up and
say I'm divorcing you. Guess Paul gave him half a
cake for his Birthay.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
Wow, Wow, here's the hint.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
May soon.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
Sorry, James, I'm encouragement man. It's our life is tough
when we go through this stuff. And another friend of mine,
we started this ddu club divorce stabs, unite and help
out other divorce dads. No, you can if they if
they need a ride, if they need a lift, whatever
it is, you help him out.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Well, we're glad to have you a part of the
dead Dad's Club. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Well, I guess it's a little late for this, but
I was gonna say, James, all of that is meant
to garner a lot of sympathy. However, I'm just wondering,
I mean, putting your dog down on someone's birthday. Was
that done maliciously or did it just happen that way? Oh?
He hung up. It feels like maybe I don't know
if James bears some responsibility for maybe some of that
(40:53):
venom or not.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
But holy crap, that's really terrible. Yeah, honey, surprise, We're
putting the dog down. The dog's a puppy. You have
to do it today? Yeah, yeah, couldn't you like the
day before, day after?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Maybe maybe maybe they get along just fine, yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
And he only gets half attendance with that club every time.
Where is everybody the only about fifty percent of the
people's show up?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Thank you, Tod.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Two more hours to go. By the way, we do
have more Dead Dad's Club gear in stock at danpatrick
dot com, including the coveted Dead Dad's Club shotting glasses.
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