May 28, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan opens the show celebrating his memories of the late, great Bill Walton. He talks about the Boston Celtics advancing to the NBA Finals after a 4-game sweep of the Indiana Pacers. And college hoops insider Jay Bilas shares his experiences with Big Red.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody, Gang's all here,
ready to go. Reggie Miller stops by next hour and
Jay Billis reflects on his friendship with Bill Walton. I'll
have that for you coming up as well. We'll recap
everything that happened Timberwolves Mavericks Game four tonight, the Celtics
sweep the Pacers, Jalen Brown wins your Eastern Conference MVP,
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the MAVs up three to zero in the Wolves, and
the big headline sports headline from yesterday, Bill Walton passing
away at the age of seventy one. We say good
morning to those watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading
the app and our radio affiliates around the country. We'll
have whole question play at the day stat of the day.
We weren't here yesterday obviously, so best and worst of
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the weekend. You can dial up Tyler standing by eight
seven seven three DP show.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I started my Memorial Day in a reflective mood, as
I try to do every Memorial Day. Remember relatives who
served in wars from World War Two to Afghanistan and
went to visit the graveside of my father in law
who was in the Air Force. So I started in
a reflective mood and then I ended my night day
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with a reflective mood with Bill Walton, and you know,
different emotions there. It hit me hard when I first
heard that Bill had passed away, because I didn't know
he was battling cancer. But knowing Bill, he's not going
to let anybody know that he was battling cancer. And
if you've been a fan of this show, you know
for over twenty years we've had Bill on back at
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the Mothership. Days Bill would call in, I'd say Hi, Bill,
how are you? And he would talk for eight to
twelve minutes stream of consciousness.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I'd just let him go.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I rarely had time to ask him another question because
I didn't have another eight to twelve minutes and I
had to move on with programming. But Bill would call
in give a stream of consciousness, and I don't have
those art those are owned by ESPN, or I would
give you a sampling of just what it was like.
I had no idea what Billy was going to talk about,
but so many positive memories. I was sad, but then
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I started to think about man. Bill would be so disappointed.
Why are you crying?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'd be like, I.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Don't know, you know, And then I started thinking about
all the positives, and there's so many of them because
Bill went out of his way to make you feel good,
make you smile, and he did that. And I had
so many interactions with him, and I don't even know
where to begin with my relationship with him. My intermural
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team in college was named the Walton Gang after Bill.
I love the way he played basketball. I love the purity,
the simplicity he understood the game. He understood that. He
was great in high school, grade, in college, and of
course great in the NBA when he was healthy. But
he was when you thought of college basketball, Bill Walton
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was the name, the face, and Kareem and Bill are
the two greatest centers of all time in college. Now
you can put in Bill Russell obviously a winner as
well at San Francisco, but Bill and Kareem are the
two greatest centers that I ever saw. But he was
so much more than that. He went to almost nine
hundred Grateful Dead concerts. He had almost forty different operations.
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He would call them procedures. And you know, he thought
about committing suicide. He had had so many back surgeries,
he was in so much pain. And you know, Jim
Gray was going to find the best spinal surgery doctor
in the world, and he did and helped prolong Bill's life.
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And Bill was in extreme pain, and he even came
on the show and thought about suicide. But after that,
it felt like he had a new lease on life
and he was going to squeeze every ounce of every topic,
every person, every game, every moment. And you can't help
but have a smile on your face when you think
about Bill. The story that I tell often, we did
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a show called NBA's Greatest Games at NBA Entertainment, and
so we look back on a game in the nineteen
eighty six NBA Finals and Bill came in as the guest.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We watched the game, we get opinions, and then you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We close it up and I'm getting ready to go
into New York City and he goes, can I get
a lift? And I go, Bill, I'm driving a Volkswagen Jetta,
And he didn't care. He got in the car and
he could arrested his chin on his knees. That's how
little space he had but he didn't care. He goes,
(04:48):
you got Twun's and I go, yeah, I said, I
got Dylan Greatest Hits Volume one. He goes, Dylan, Mozart
and Beethoven geniuses. So we're driving into New York. We
go through the Lincoln Tunnel and Bill goes, can you
put on blowing in the wind? I said yes, so
(05:13):
put on blowing in the wind. So we're going through
the Lincoln Tunnel. Bill is crammed in there and the
windows are down and he is singing the answer My
friend is blowing in the wind, blowing.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
In the wind.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And then he turns to me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He goes, that's a metaphor, and I go and he
could not have been happier.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And here he is squeezed in there.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He always wanted to be listed at six eleven because
he was told that seven footers are freakd so Billy
he was not. He was probably seven to but he
sent me a bunch of gear when we moved into
the man Cave, sent me his autograph jersey and autograph basketball.
I was there for his first pro game when he
faced Kareem at the University of Dayton his rookie year.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Waited for him.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
He came out of the locker room and I walked
across the parking lot with him. He had a red
plaid shirt and he had jeans, and he had a bandanna,
he had long hair. He had a bag, and I
remember saying, what's in the bag, and he goes nuts
and berries. He was vegan before vegan, and I just
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remember walking and watching him and I don't know why,
And then you know, he was fortunate to have Jack
Ramsey as his head coach. That seventy seven Blazer team
blazer Mania. It's one of the finest performances of a
selfless team I've ever seen in my life. And Bill
did not care about scoring. He did not care. He
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would rather have a block shot or a great pass
than you know, a dunk. He was selfless. That whole
team was, and some of the best basketball unless you're
a Philadelphia seventy six er fan that I've ever seen,
as far as team goes. But I can't help but
think of great things when I think of Bill, and
you know, in a lot of ways, he's similar to
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John Madden that people forget that John Madden was a
Hall of Fame coach with the Raiders. They know him
from the Madden video game. Bill's one of the great
centers college basketball history. Had a lot of injuries, won
two titles in the NBA, but they know him as
a broadcaster. And then nineteen eighty six he's sixth man,
you know, for the Celtics, coming off the bench, winning
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a title, playing with Larry Bird. Bill was Larry's idol
let that sink in. But Bill was as good a
passer as when he saw the game. You know, he
didn't have a great shot, but he was so active,
so springy, and great offensively and defensively, but understanding the
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concepts of the game. There were very few who saw
it better than he did. He just couldn't play. He
was even the following year after they won the title.
I think they were fifty to ten after six sixty games.
And then he got injured and his career was really
marked by those injuries. Foot injuries, back injuries as well.
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He was a character, and I remember talking to John
Wooden about him, and you know, John Coach would have
a smile, that smile that's like, boy, he put me
through the wringer, and it would say, oh, Billy Bill,
And you know, but they all had such reverence for
coach woulden't. So Bill passing away at the age of
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seventy one, and if you came in contact with him,
you were a better person because he was going to
make sure you had to smile on your face. So,
Billy passing away at the age of seventy one, thanks
to those who did reach out, because it did hurt.
It stung me hard, and then I kept thinking, God,
he'd be so disappointed. She knew I was sad, and
(08:48):
that's true. So we celebrate Bill Walton. I'm going to
bring back an interview. I think this might have been
the last interview that Bill did with us. I'll play
that a little bit later on, just so you get
a sense of and he came on and stream of
consciousness because there'd be times I would want to ask
him things, but he had other things that he wanted
to talk about. You know, it could be understanding and
(09:09):
explaining the confluence of three rivers to was Gungha dinn
a great athlete, Like you're just going, wait, what where
are we going with this? But he didn't grow up
in his sports household because his mom was a librarian,
his dad is social workers. Brother Bruce played for the
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman. But I don't think sports was
education was what was stressed. Bill had a stutter till
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he was close to twenty eight years of age. And
I joke with him one time, I said, you had
a hard time talking, now you have a hard time
shutting up, and.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
He goes, isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So I had that great voice, booming voice, and he
loved the game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
He always talked.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I remember saying to him, God, you had that series
against Kareem and you went down the lane and dunked
on and he goes, oh, my idol, like it almost
hurt him that he was dunking on his idol, Kareem
in a playoff game. But for those of you in Portland,
you're very, very fortunate you got to watch some of
the greatest basketball ever played, in my opinion, in Blazer
(10:13):
media when you beat Doctor J.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
They lost the first two and then they won the
next four. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's I was trying to sum up how I could
put this into words and not get emotional, and hopefully
I've encapsulated. But imagine when we all want to have
an impact, we all want to leave people thinking that
person was this Billy did that. Bill left an impression
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that puts a smile on your face, and that's a
damn good legacy. All Right, we'll get to pull question today.
Phone calls are always welcome. Reggie will join us a
little bit later on. He'll be on the call for
Timberwolves in the MAVs Game four coming up tonight and
the Celtics over the pace. I know we're going to
look at degree of difficulty and we're gonna go, well,
(11:04):
the Celtics didn't really face anybody. They can only play
who's in front of them. That's it. Now there, you know.
They trailed again. They trailed in the last two games.
The Pacers blew a nine point lead in the fourth
quarter of both games three and four.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Should it be could it be to two? Yes, but
it's not. They swept.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now they move on and now you have a chance
for a sweep with the Timberwolves at the Mavericks and
then you're gonna have nine games if that were to
happen before the NBA Finals. Is it nine days that
that'll happen, I believe Fritzy.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, Thursday, June sixth, Game one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, so nine days before they'll start the NBA Finals.
If that is a sweep coming up tonight? All right, seatan,
let's pull question today.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Uh, which is worse Dan getting swept or losing Game
seven at the buzzer? I would say getting swept. I got,
I got to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Be in the game.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It's like losing at the buzzer in game seven is
more heartbreaking, yes, but it's worse to get swept, yes, right, yeah, yes,
one of them is more painful. The other one is
just like, well, we got crush.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, I don't want to. I want to be in
the game. And if we lose, we lose, and yes
that's crushing. But then I take my takeaway is God,
we're that close as opposed to we're not close at all.
So I would say losing at the buzzer in game seven.
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Jerry West eighty six years of age. Today not be birthday?
Talking about a fellow who's not gonna put up with that.
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Nonsense, No he will know, yeah, nonsense, no, no, no, nope, nope,
no time for birthday.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, I don't have time. I'm the logo. He's busy
being awesome somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, he always looked like he came out of a catalog.
You're like, damn, you look great, hair combed, you know,
color coordinated outfits, just walking in like whoa right out
of a catalog of.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
James Bondish, but also like could be your coach.
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H Yeah, you look like he was out of the movies.
What else do you have there?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Seaton? What a boss? What an absolute boss? Yeah?
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You know, we stumbled on one that we're gonna save
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all right. Uh, we're talking earlier about professional race car drivers.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Hmmmm.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Watched Little Indy five hundred.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, yes, there's a little bit of a debate about
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Speaker 2 (14:05):
Year's practice not be in the race. Just drive the
car two hundred and twenty five miles now right, not
become someone like on the circuit or whatever. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
so we'll save that one. Yeah, we'll save that one.
Yeah yeah, all right, so Jay Billiston will join us. Also,
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Speaker 4 (14:35):
All Right, we'll discuss that.
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And for those of you who are piling on Anthony
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he's no Jordan. Look he's gonna verge of being swept
the media is doing. Anthony Edwards didn't say, hey, by
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the way, I'm the next Jordan. No, he even said stop,
I'm not Michael Jordan. He has characteristics, maybe a style,
maybe the aggressiveness, the uh I'm gonna kill you type mentality.
It would help if Karl Anthony Towns hit a shot
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billis college basketball analysts and Jay had a wonderful letter
column that he wrote on ESPN dot com yesterday, his
tribute to Bill Walton, and I thought, you know what,
if you didn't read it, I'd love for Jay to
recap some of that that feeling you had when you
worked with Bill. I brought up the fact that he's
sort of like John Madden to a different generation, that
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they know John Madden as the broadcaster or the video
game guy. They didn't realize he was a Hall of
Fame coach. I had to tell somebody yesterday, a thirty
three year old guy that I was talking to, how
great Walton was as a basketball player, and they said
that guy was a great basket I said, yes, one
of the greatest centers in college basketball history. How would
you sum up working with Bill Jay.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
A glorious adventure that every time you were around Bill,
he made it about you.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
He made it a tremendous amount of fun. Uh. And
he was so generous and kind uh.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
And and he had a spirit that was hard to define.
You know, you always wound up laughing, you know, sometimes
at him, so most of the time at what he
was saying. He was very self deprecating.
Speaker 12 (18:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
And he he had he could.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Bring the needle out, which I love he you know,
he called me Jake. He never called me by my name,
and and I loved it. You know, it was like Walton,
you know, is bringing me in. And even on broadcast
that I wasn't on, he would refer to me as Jake.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
And some people got it, some people didn't. But he was.
He was wonderful.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
And he would always uh if you tried to talk
to him about what may happen on the air, about
content or some eventuality, he would immediately give you that
big paw heisman stay it for the air, Jake, like
you know, he he wanted no part of discussing it
before h And just just fantastic and you know, he
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couldn't wrestle a check away from him. He was always interested.
If you're sitting with him around a table, he was
the guy everybody wanted to hear from, to hear his stories,
his perspective, you know, because he lived such a rich life,
basketball and otherwise. But he wanted to know about you
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and and your family and your hopes and dreams and
things like that. And he but he was genuinely interested.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
He was. He was really a wonderful human being.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
And for me, growing up in southern California, you know,
I idolized him. I was in I first started playing
basketball third fourth grade. So he was national player of
the year and at UCLA they were winning championships.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
And and all that and uh.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
And when you meet your idol and he exceeds your expectations,
that's got to be pretty rare, at least in my experience.
And he exceeded every one of the expectations I had
of him, which were really high.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And I talk about you know, I named my intermural
team after Moulton, called the Walton Gang, and because it
was a tribute to the teamwork that he had that
he expected, that he hoped for he had that simplicity.
He wanted perfection, but he knew what simplicity meant. And
having John Wooden there as his coach, and I just
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I fell in love with the ability to be selfless
but be the best player in college basketball, which is
really hard to do. And you know, taking that style
into that Portland team in seventy seven, that's the most
selfless you know, champion I've ever witnessed, and didn't have
really star power, had Bill and Molucas and Jack Ramsey,
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but that ability, that inate ability to see a game differently.
I mean we marvel at Joker. Now, Bill did Joker
like things, you know, fifty years ago.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Yes, aside from bringing the ball up court, I think
maybe you put west Unseld in this category, maybe even
Kevin Love. But to me, he was the best outlet
passer that ever lived. You know, he could he could
go up and get a rebound adder above the square
of the backboard and turn in mid air and that
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ball was gone down court for a break. He could
really run before he was injured. And I think his
NBA career, Dan, I mean you were about to say
age you remember that stuff like he was probably the
Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
In a way of the NBA that.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
When he was when he was healthy, it was him
and Kareem were the best centers, and that was it.
And I think it was him and Kareem as the
best players, not just the best centers, but the.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Best players to ever play college basketball. I mean, he
was eighty six and four in his college career.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
In three years he went thirty and oh, thirty and
oh twenty six and four. And his senior year in
nineteen seventy four, they called the lost Weekend in sports Illustrated.
They lost back to back to Oregon and Oregon State,
Digger Phelps and Notre Dame ended that eighty eight game
winning streak and then they lost in double overtime to
David Thompson at NC State in the Final four in Greensboro,
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North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
That was it, and teams used to stall against them.
You name it.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
But I remember, you know my coaches when I got
to college. You know, the trainer at Duke was a
guy named Max Crowder, and he insisted Bill Walton's the
best player I've ever seen, And they all talked about
him being the best. And then you get to know
him later on and he was. He was such a
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Later on his career he became a showman, but he
wasn't necessarily like that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Off the court.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
He was goofy and fun. But hey, can I read
you a text message?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
He sent one time? Sure is that you have time
for that?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Absolutely?
Speaker 11 (23:05):
So he's a I played golf with a high school
buddy of mine named Steve Howard.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
And Steve was a deadhead.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
There still is a deadhead, has gone to dead shows
for thirty five years, and he and Bill became friends
through dead shows. So Steve and I played golf this
last summer, and while we're playing, we decided, hey, let's
let's send a a video to Big Red. So we
sent a video to Bill and this was his response,
and I'll do it in his voice. Awesome, terrific. Step
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and Jake, two of my heroes. Thanks for your kindness, patience,
and my life. On your golf adventure, Jake mentioned going low.
Please remind him I'm much better going high. May the
four winds blow you safely home. May you stay forever young,
May you stay forever Steven Jake, with eternal gratitude and
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boundless everything.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I miss you, I salute you.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
I thank you BW from the bright side of the road.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Like that's his response.
And he sent that kind of stuff to everybody. I
mean everybody that I've shared this was said, oh, they
sent one back to me. They got something similar. I mean,
he was one of the guy great to talk to you. Jay,
thank you for sharing. And if you didn't see it,
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please go to ESPN dot com. And Jay's letter to
Bill Walton signed love Jake, Thank you, Jay, thank you brother.
That's Jay Bills, ESPN college basketball analyst and he liked
me growing up watching Bill. First time I saw just
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anything about Bill was faces in the crowd in Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Now that was a real small picture. And then have
a little bit of a bio of an athlete. Could
it be Division one baseball player, track and field and
it said Bill Walton Helix High and La Mesa, California.
They had won forty nine in a row and Bill
was going to UCLA. And I thought, all right, because
I was a big UCLA fan and couldn't play his
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freshman year, and then all of a sudden you saw
him a sophomore year and you go, okay, they're going
to win three more national titles, and they won two
that senior year. I think there were a lot of
distractions going on with Bill, and I don't know if
he and John Wooden were in sync, but you know,
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he couldn't play his freshman year at UCLA or he
would have been part of another national title team.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
But you got to see him.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Had one of the greatest title game performances against Memphis State.
I think he missed one shot and that was an
offensive goaltending. I think he was twenty one to twenty two.
He missed more free throws than he did field goals
of that game. I think he was twenty one to
twenty two, two for five from the line, something like that.
But a wonderful player, never as good. You know, we
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talk about Bo Jackson if he had stayed healthy, Like
there's a few at Kirby Puckett. There's certain athletes where
you go, boy, if they had stayed healthy, what could
they have been? And Bill's certainly in that very very
small category of greats who could have been even greater,
you know, historically great had he been able to stay healthy.
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All Right, we'll get to some phone calls. Yeah, Pauline some.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Of us because of our age, saw Bill Walton as
an I think he's coming off the bench with the Celtics,
and you'd heard about the Ucla days, but we didn't
see them. I went back and I've been looking at
some videos and some pictures. His head is hitting at
the rim often and his arm is, you know, a
foot and a half over the rim. He was a
very athletic guy, but we never saw that if you're
at a certain age.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
No, he was really athletic at UCLA, and then he
suffered a back injury and was really never the same
from that. He had had a cracked vertebrae. I think
that he felt that he was intentionally injured. I don't
know what game, but I think it might have been
his sophomore year. But he had all these back injuries,
foot injuries and was never the same. But you know,
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you leave a mark, and he left a mark in
a variety of ways, and that says something about the person,
something about the athlete as well.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Yes, Marv, is there anybody that you know that matched
his passion for life? It seemed like he had a
passion for music as much as he had a passion
for basketball.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, because I mean there's nobody like him. Just when
you meet him, he overwhelms you. It's this tsunami of
what is he thinking? You know, he's out in the galaxy,
and you know it was and he was always that way.
It wasn't like, oh, you know Bill's quiet. Bill was
(27:46):
always that way. You know, he just was able to
bring opinions, insight, enthusiasm, appreciation. He just had a spirit
about him that was awesome. Brian in Portland, Hey Brian,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (28:05):
Hey Dan, thanks for Holden and calling me back. Yeah,
six foot two fifteen, a little soft.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Walden.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
I got to meet him at one of his he
was pitching tequila later in his career, and guy who
went to a little event and there is nobody. I mean,
you just felt like you were his best friend. He
just he deflected everything. If you wanted to tell him
how great he was, he would just say, well, Kareem
was the greatest. Julius, you know, was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean, Larry Bird.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Was the best. He would never talk about how great
he was. And that's seventy seventeen. I mean that was Peake,
doctor j I mean that guy was amazing and ferocious
and Walton. You know, we all saw what he did.
But the incredible thing is that, of course Portland traded
Moses Malone, you know in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Is they had both.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Malone and Lucas out of the ABA draft, and you
think that, oh my god, if they keep him alone
and then maybe draft Larry Bird instead of Michael Thompson
and that seventy eight draft, Yes, that's perfect hindsight.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Let it go, Brian, let it go, Let it go,
Madden riverside, I'm att with's on your mind.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Hey, good morning, thanks for calling back. My condolences to
you and the Walton family. I got a quick story
and then an as for seating in the boys and
the T shirt manufacturers. I had a great interaction with
Bill back in twenty ten when I was working at
UCLA once when Coach Wooden passed, I got to walk
him and his wife to their seats, and I, you know,
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I of course was saying, hey, sorry for your lot.
He looked at me and said, law, we're going to
celebrate Coach Wooden's life today. And that still sticks with me,
and I think that he would want us to do
the same moving forward. My after seating the boys. Was
we just y'all just had Jay Bellison. We had a
great Bill Walton's shirt on one year when he was
(30:04):
out here on the West Coast, and I was wondering
if we could possibly mass produce that shirt so we
can purchase online with Bill's stream of consciousness. I'll hang
up the list and y'all have a good two today.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
All right, you know what, I'll talk to our research
and development there, Seeton O'Connor.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
It's a picture of yeah, Jay Billis has this T
shirt on and it's like a caricature of Bill Walton
and he's got like a tiight eyed headband on, tight
eyed shirt.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's a really it's a great shirt.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
It's really great. I don't know who made the design,
but it's really really good.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah, we have to be careful with those things.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Don't want to take too many liberties here other than
what we already do, yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
In the nineteen seventy seven NBA Playoffs, in six games,
Bill Walton there which nineteen points, nineteen rebounds, five assists,
and four blocks.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Can you imagine if we were discussing a big man
in the NBA doing that right now? In a series
nineteen five and four. Yeah, and his name would be Joker. Yeah,
I guess he's he's in that ilk.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
But there, you know, this is where it's tricky when
you're comparing. And Bill would hate me for doing this. Oh,
a Joker is far more talent. I mean, he would
never ever ever embrace his greatness. He would not because
I remember when I talked to him about Doctor J.
I was like, man, I can't believe you beat doctor
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Jay Goes. I didn't we meet doctor J. He would
never ever ever entertain that he was. He deflected, and
he admired Kareem so much, and Kareem sent out a
tweet yesterday saying, I lost, you know, a great friend.
Picture those two guys together. But he admired Kareem so much,
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and you know, but they were rivals. So you know,
it's a wonderful legacy. And my thoughts to Laurie and
certainly the boys. You know what your dad left to Mark,
that's a great, great indelible Mark.
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For this series, the Celtics outscored the Pacers in the
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and a half points. To eight and a half points
and outshot Indiana sixty percent to forty six percent from
the field. And those are the differences. Yes, it's as sweep,
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had great performances. It's almost as if Jalen Brown and
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I'm not I don't know if this is true or not.
He's kind of taking that role of this can be
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to have more of the attitude of, hey, this can
be my team now. They're both great players, obviously, but
here is Jalen Brown the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Speaker 14 (34:11):
After the win, we feel like we're a different team
than we were last year and the year before that,
and everybody wants to continue to kind of pigeonhold us
to what happened in the past. But we've had a
different team every single year, different coaches. We've had like
three coaches in the last five years, and still people
want to, you know, just make it seem like it's
the same. It's the same, it's the same. Time has
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gone by experience has been gained, and I think we
are ready to put our best foot four.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, you don't have to explain anything. Just do something.
I don't care what happened before. Just do it now.
You have the opportunity, do it now. And if you're
facing Dallas with Luca Kyrie, just be ready to go.
You know, finish what you started. Jason Tatum leads the
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Andrew in Washington, Hi Andrew, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (35:39):
Good morning, Dan, danned Thanks for taking my call. I
got a double best and double worst, double worst. Indiana
become the first team to shoot over fifty percent in
the first three games of the series, but then being
swept ultimately in the series. Also, as you mentioned the
passing of Bill Walton, I don't remember him as a
player as much as I remember him doing all the
PAC ten or Pac twelve games with day passed. Those
(36:01):
were just excellent. To listen to my double best of
the weekend you had mentioned it before. Luke and Kyrie
are in sync and playing great. They outscored the whole
Wolf's team in the fourth quarter of Game three, twenty
one to twenty. My other best, Hey, we finally reached
a milestone of Major League Baseball. Angel Hernandez, the umpire
unders so much scrutiny, is retiring effective immediately, so bring
(36:21):
on the electric calls.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah, I like to see if there's more to that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I don't know if it's health or not, but retiring
after thirty years as an umpire and immediately there were
top ten lists or top or bottom ten list of
bad calls that he's made throughout his career. But Bob
Nightingale had this story, and Angel Hernandez is stepping down.
(36:46):
Karl Anthony Towns is three for twenty two from three
point range, so he shooting thirteen percent from three point range.
If like Draymond Green went two for seven, he shot
eleven percent in twenty eighteen. In nineteen ninety seven, this
guy shot two for seventeen from a three point range.
(37:10):
Michael Jordan, Yeah, two for seventeen, eleven point eight percent,
and Barkley went two for sixteen in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Excuse me? Is that a different Michael Jordan?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I think it's the same. Maybe it's Michael B. Jordan.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Okay, yeah, maybe it's not the Michael Jordan, not the
one we know. No, he would never do that. You
can kidding me. Let me see Jonathan and Missouri. Hi, Jonathan,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Hey, good morning, go thanks for the holler back. I
am five foot ten and a newly appointed dad bod
two twenty five. I got a double best in the
spirit of Bill Walton. First of all, the sixty six
points combined for Doncic and Irving. It's good to see
my Mavericks back in the swing of things. I think
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they're going to win the finals in five games, and
in the second best is Birmingham Southern College in the
Division three World Series is going to outlast their college
that is going to officially shut down on May thirty.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
First, Yeah, I saw that story.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
They're playing, but the college is going to shut down
a little bit. More on Angel Hernandez, his attorney said
that he was not forced out that the athletic is
quoting his lawyer, Kevin Murphy. Baseball first approached him about
(38:32):
the possibility of retiring earlier this season. According to a
baseball source, the criticism had gotten louder. Hernandez was amenable
to moving on as an UPT game since May ninth.
I'm surprised that it took this long because there were
there are a lot of criticisms. I mean, he had
been criticized more than any other official in any other sport.
(38:55):
Pretty much all the other ones combined. They didn't compare
to a Hernandez. You don't want your umpire to be
famous for being bad or infamous, and Angel Hernandez that
was That was the baggage he carried everywhere he went.
Uh Eric in Virginia, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (39:16):
Hey? Good morning, Danny. Yeah, thank you taking a call.
U best and worst of the weekend? Best?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Uh man, dude. I love my MAVs.
Speaker 15 (39:25):
So these games have been amazing and I was talking
with Tyler about it.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
They have been wire to wire really great.
Speaker 15 (39:35):
I'm not gonna do comparisons to greatest closers ever, but man,
it is fun to watch them play.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Man. You have two guys who not afraid of that moment,
big moment, and Kyrie has one of the biggest shots
in NBA history, won a title with the Cleveland Cavaliers,
and Luca he's not shy either. They're taking advantage of Minnesota.
You know, it's not all on Anthony Edward. It's really
on Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns. When you tell
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people that you've changed the game or you're changing the
game the way you play, yeah, you're changing the game
in a negative way. Here, it just feels like Minnesota
is gonna get one of these, you know, get this
game tonight.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I mean they have to or they get swept. But
I don't know. It just feels like, is this how
you're going out?
Speaker 5 (40:22):
All this hype.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
You guys are ready to go.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You wanted Kyrie, you got him, you know, you just
you got to be ready for the moment.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
That's when you know, that's where you got guys who
are talented, and then all of a sudden you got
the guys who were stars, because this is when the
stars come out. Game on the line, get me the ball,
I'll I'll take over from here. But this isn't an
indictment on Anthony Edwards. He's a wonderful talent. He's twenty two.
Jordan when he got to the Eastern Conference Finals, he
(40:54):
was twenty seven and he lost. Give him a little
bit of time. Talk to Reggie. He'll be on the
call for the game tonight and get his thoughts on this.
Does he see Luca and Kyrie as the two best
backcourt mates in NBA history? Most talented, best scores? I
have to get official label on this. Hour two on
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody, Gang's all here,
ready to go. Reggie Miller stops by next hour and
Jay Billis reflects on his friendship with Bill Walton. I'll
have that for you coming up as well. We'll recap
everything that happened Timberwolves Mavericks Game four tonight, the Celtics
sweep the Pacers, Jalen Brown wins your Eastern Conference MVP,
(00:25):
the MAVs up three to zero in the Wolves, and
the big headline sports headline from yesterday, Bill Walton passing
away at the age of seventy one. We say good
morning to those watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading
the app and our radio affiliates around the country. We'll
have whole question play at the day stat of the day.
We weren't here yesterday obviously, so best and worst of
(00:46):
the weekend. You can dial up Tyler standing by eight
seven seven three DP show.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I started my Memorial Day in a reflective mood, as
I try to do every Memorial Day. Remember relatives who
served in wars from World War Two to Afghanistan and
went to visit the graveside of my father in law
who was in the Air Force. So I started in
a reflective mood and then I ended my night day
(01:15):
with a reflective mood with Bill Walton, and you know,
different emotions there. It hit me hard when I first
heard that Bill had passed away, because I didn't know
he was battling cancer. But knowing Bill, he's not going
to let anybody know that he was battling cancer. And
if you've been a fan of this show, you know
for over twenty years we've had Bill on back at
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the Mothership. Days Bill would call in, I'd say Hi, Bill,
how are you? And he would talk for eight to
twelve minutes stream of consciousness.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I'd just let him go.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I rarely had time to ask him another question because
I didn't have another eight to twelve minutes and I
had to move on with programming. But Bill would call
in give a stream of consciousness, and I don't have
those art those are owned by ESPN, or I would
give you a sampling of just what it was like.
I had no idea what Billy was going to talk about,
but so many positive memories. I was sad, but then
(02:12):
I started to think about man. Bill would be so disappointed.
Why are you crying?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'd be like, I.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Don't know, you know, And then I started thinking about
all the positives, and there's so many of them because
Bill went out of his way to make you feel good,
make you smile, and he did that. And I had
so many interactions with him, and I don't even know
where to begin with my relationship with him. My intermural
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team in college was named the Walton Gang after Bill.
I love the way he played basketball. I love the purity,
the simplicity he understood the game. He understood that. He
was great in high school, grade, in college, and of
course great in the NBA when he was healthy. But
he was when you thought of college basketball, Bill Walton
(03:03):
was the name, the face, and Kareem and Bill are
the two greatest centers of all time in college. Now
you can put in Bill Russell obviously a winner as
well at San Francisco, but Bill and Kareem are the
two greatest centers that I ever saw. But he was
so much more than that. He went to almost nine
hundred Grateful Dead concerts. He had almost forty different operations.
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He would call them procedures. And you know, he thought
about committing suicide. He had had so many back surgeries,
he was in so much pain. And you know, Jim
Gray was going to find the best spinal surgery doctor
in the world, and he did and helped prolong Bill's life.
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And Bill was in extreme pain, and he even came
on the show and thought about suicide. But after that,
it felt like he had a new lease on life
and he was going to squeeze every ounce of every topic,
every person, every game, every moment. And you can't help
but have a smile on your face when you think
about Bill. The story that I tell often, we did
(04:11):
a show called NBA's Greatest Games at NBA Entertainment, and
so we look back on a game in the nineteen
eighty six NBA Finals and Bill came in as the guest.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We watched the game, we get opinions, and then you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We close it up and I'm getting ready to go
into New York City and he goes, can I get
a lift? And I go, Bill, I'm driving a Volkswagen Jetta,
And he didn't care. He got in the car and
he could arrested his chin on his knees. That's how
little space he had but he didn't care. He goes,
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you got Twun's and I go, yeah, I said, I
got Dylan Greatest Hits Volume one. He goes, Dylan, Mozart
and Beethoven geniuses. So we're driving into New York. We
go through the Lincoln Tunnel and Bill goes, can you
put on blowing in the wind? I said yes, so
(05:13):
put on blowing in the wind. So we're going through
the Lincoln Tunnel. Bill is crammed in there and the
windows are down and he is singing the answer My
friend is blowing in the wind, blowing.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
In the wind.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And then he turns to me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He goes, that's a metaphor, and I go and he
could not have been happier.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And here he is squeezed in there.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He always wanted to be listed at six eleven because
he was told that seven footers are freakd so Billy
he was not. He was probably seven to but he
sent me a bunch of gear when we moved into
the man Cave, sent me his autograph jersey and autograph basketball.
I was there for his first pro game when he
faced Kareem at the University of Dayton his rookie year.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Waited for him.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
He came out of the locker room and I walked
across the parking lot with him. He had a red
plaid shirt and he had jeans, and he had a bandanna,
he had long hair. He had a bag, and I
remember saying, what's in the bag, and he goes nuts
and berries. He was vegan before vegan, and I just
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remember walking and watching him and I don't know why,
And then you know, he was fortunate to have Jack
Ramsey as his head coach. That seventy seven Blazer team
blazer Mania. It's one of the finest performances of a
selfless team I've ever seen in my life. And Bill
did not care about scoring. He did not care. He
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would rather have a block shot or a great pass
than you know, a dunk. He was selfless. That whole
team was, and some of the best basketball unless you're
a Philadelphia seventy six er fan that I've ever seen,
as far as team goes. But I can't help but
think of great things when I think of Bill, and
you know, in a lot of ways, he's similar to
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John Madden that people forget that John Madden was a
Hall of Fame coach with the Raiders. They know him
from the Madden video game. Bill's one of the great
centers college basketball history. Had a lot of injuries, won
two titles in the NBA, but they know him as
a broadcaster. And then nineteen eighty six he's sixth man,
you know, for the Celtics, coming off the bench, winning
(07:23):
a title, playing with Larry Bird. Bill was Larry's idol
let that sink in. But Bill was as good a
passer as when he saw the game. You know, he
didn't have a great shot, but he was so active,
so springy, and great offensively and defensively, but understanding the
(07:43):
concepts of the game. There were very few who saw
it better than he did. He just couldn't play. He
was even the following year after they won the title.
I think they were fifty to ten after six sixty games.
And then he got injured and his career was really
marked by those injuries. Foot injuries, back injuries as well.
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He was a character, and I remember talking to John
Wooden about him, and you know, John Coach would have
a smile, that smile that's like, boy, he put me
through the wringer, and it would say, oh, Billy Bill,
And you know, but they all had such reverence for
coach woulden't. So Bill passing away at the age of
(08:25):
seventy one, and if you came in contact with him,
you were a better person because he was going to
make sure you had to smile on your face. So,
Billy passing away at the age of seventy one, thanks
to those who did reach out, because it did hurt.
It stung me hard, and then I kept thinking, God,
he'd be so disappointed. She knew I was sad, and
(08:48):
that's true. So we celebrate Bill Walton. I'm going to
bring back an interview. I think this might have been
the last interview that Bill did with us. I'll play
that a little bit later on, just so you get
a sense of and he came on and stream of
consciousness because there'd be times I would want to ask
him things, but he had other things that he wanted
to talk about. You know, it could be understanding and
(09:09):
explaining the confluence of three rivers to was Gungha dinn
a great athlete, Like you're just going, wait, what where
are we going with this? But he didn't grow up
in his sports household because his mom was a librarian,
his dad is social workers. Brother Bruce played for the
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman. But I don't think sports was
education was what was stressed. Bill had a stutter till
(09:34):
he was close to twenty eight years of age. And
I joke with him one time, I said, you had
a hard time talking, now you have a hard time
shutting up, and.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
He goes, isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So I had that great voice, booming voice, and he
loved the game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
He always talked.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I remember saying to him, God, you had that series
against Kareem and you went down the lane and dunked
on and he goes, oh, my idol, like it almost
hurt him that he was dunking on his idol, Kareem
in a playoff game. But for those of you in Portland,
you're very, very fortunate you got to watch some of
the greatest basketball ever played, in my opinion, in Blazer
(10:13):
media when you beat Doctor J.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
They lost the first two and then they won the
next four. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's I was trying to sum up how I could
put this into words and not get emotional, and hopefully
I've encapsulated. But imagine when we all want to have
an impact, we all want to leave people thinking that
person was this Billy did that. Bill left an impression
(10:42):
that puts a smile on your face, and that's a
damn good legacy. All Right, we'll get to pull question today.
Phone calls are always welcome. Reggie will join us a
little bit later on. He'll be on the call for
Timberwolves in the MAVs Game four coming up tonight and
the Celtics over the pace. I know we're going to
look at degree of difficulty and we're gonna go, well,
(11:04):
the Celtics didn't really face anybody. They can only play
who's in front of them. That's it. Now there, you know.
They trailed again. They trailed in the last two games.
The Pacers blew a nine point lead in the fourth
quarter of both games three and four.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Should it be could it be to two? Yes, but
it's not. They swept.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now they move on and now you have a chance
for a sweep with the Timberwolves at the Mavericks and
then you're gonna have nine games if that were to
happen before the NBA Finals. Is it nine days that
that'll happen, I believe Fritzy.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, Thursday, June sixth, Game one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, so nine days before they'll start the NBA Finals.
If that is a sweep coming up tonight? All right, seatan,
let's pull question today.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Uh, which is worse Dan getting swept or losing Game
seven at the buzzer? I would say getting swept. I got,
I got to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Be in the game.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It's like losing at the buzzer in game seven is
more heartbreaking, yes, but it's worse to get swept, yes, right, yeah, yes,
one of them is more painful. The other one is
just like, well, we got crush.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, I don't want to. I want to be in
the game. And if we lose, we lose, and yes
that's crushing. But then I take my takeaway is God,
we're that close as opposed to we're not close at all.
So I would say losing at the buzzer in game seven.
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Jerry West eighty six years of age. Today not be birthday?
Talking about a fellow who's not gonna put up with that.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Nonsense, No he will know, yeah, nonsense, no, no, no, nope, nope,
no time for birthday.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, I don't have time. I'm the logo. He's busy
being awesome somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, he always looked like he came out of a catalog.
You're like, damn, you look great, hair combed, you know,
color coordinated outfits, just walking in like whoa right out
of a catalog of.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
James Bondish, but also like could be your coach.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
H Yeah, you look like he was out of the movies.
What else do you have there?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Seaton? What a boss? What an absolute boss? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
You know, we stumbled on one that we're gonna save
for hour two. Okay too, but we could tease it. Okay,
all right. Uh, we're talking earlier about professional race car drivers.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Hmmmm.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Watched Little Indy five hundred.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, yes, there's a little bit of a debate about
whether or not you could do that with a year's practice.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Year's practice not be in the race. Just drive the
car two hundred and twenty five miles now right, not
become someone like on the circuit or whatever. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
so we'll save that one. Yeah, we'll save that one.
Yeah yeah, all right, so Jay Billiston will join us. Also,
(14:25):
you had Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic. There was some
pretty high praise. That may be the greatest backcourt and
the most talented backcourt NBA history.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
All Right, we'll discuss that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And for those of you who are piling on Anthony
Edwards because he's not Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan failed the
first four years. Wrong, Yes he did, Anthony Edwards. See
this is what the media does. We go, oh, he's
the next Michael Jordan. He reminds me of Jordan. Oh
he's no Jordan. Look he's gonna verge of being swept
the media is doing. Anthony Edwards didn't say, hey, by
(15:01):
the way, I'm the next Jordan. No, he even said stop,
I'm not Michael Jordan. He has characteristics, maybe a style,
maybe the aggressiveness, the uh I'm gonna kill you type mentality.
It would help if Karl Anthony Towns hit a shot
because the average margin of victory for Dallas so far
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billis college basketball analysts and Jay had a wonderful letter
column that he wrote on ESPN dot com yesterday, his
tribute to Bill Walton, and I thought, you know what,
if you didn't read it, I'd love for Jay to
recap some of that that feeling you had when you
worked with Bill. I brought up the fact that he's
sort of like John Madden to a different generation, that
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they know John Madden as the broadcaster or the video
game guy. They didn't realize he was a Hall of
Fame coach. I had to tell somebody yesterday, a thirty
three year old guy that I was talking to, how
great Walton was as a basketball player, and they said
that guy was a great basket I said, yes, one
of the greatest centers in college basketball history. How would
you sum up working with Bill Jay.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
A glorious adventure that every time you were around Bill,
he made it about you.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
He made it a tremendous amount of fun. Uh. And
he was so generous and kind uh.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
And and he had a spirit that was hard to define.
You know, you always wound up laughing, you know, sometimes
at him, so most of the time at what he
was saying. He was very self deprecating.
Speaker 12 (18:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
And he he had he could.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Bring the needle out, which I love he you know,
he called me Jake. He never called me by my name,
and and I loved it. You know, it was like Walton,
you know, is bringing me in. And even on broadcast
that I wasn't on, he would refer to me as Jake.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
And some people got it, some people didn't. But he was.
He was wonderful.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
And he would always uh if you tried to talk
to him about what may happen on the air, about
content or some eventuality, he would immediately give you that
big paw heisman stay it for the air, Jake, like
you know, he he wanted no part of discussing it
before h And just just fantastic and you know, he
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couldn't wrestle a check away from him. He was always interested.
If you're sitting with him around a table, he was
the guy everybody wanted to hear from, to hear his stories,
his perspective, you know, because he lived such a rich life,
basketball and otherwise. But he wanted to know about you
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and and your family and your hopes and dreams and
things like that. And he but he was genuinely interested.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
He was. He was really a wonderful human being.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
And for me, growing up in southern California, you know,
I idolized him. I was in I first started playing
basketball third fourth grade. So he was national player of
the year and at UCLA they were winning championships.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
And and all that and uh.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
And when you meet your idol and he exceeds your expectations,
that's got to be pretty rare, at least in my experience.
And he exceeded every one of the expectations I had
of him, which were really high.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And I talk about you know, I named my intermural
team after Moulton, called the Walton Gang, and because it
was a tribute to the teamwork that he had that
he expected, that he hoped for he had that simplicity.
He wanted perfection, but he knew what simplicity meant. And
having John Wooden there as his coach, and I just
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I fell in love with the ability to be selfless
but be the best player in college basketball, which is
really hard to do. And you know, taking that style
into that Portland team in seventy seven, that's the most
selfless you know, champion I've ever witnessed, and didn't have
really star power, had Bill and Molucas and Jack Ramsey,
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but that ability, that inate ability to see a game differently.
I mean we marvel at Joker. Now, Bill did Joker
like things, you know, fifty years ago.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Yes, aside from bringing the ball up court, I think
maybe you put west Unseld in this category, maybe even
Kevin Love. But to me, he was the best outlet
passer that ever lived. You know, he could he could
go up and get a rebound adder above the square
of the backboard and turn in mid air and that
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ball was gone down court for a break. He could
really run before he was injured. And I think his
NBA career, Dan, I mean you were about to say
age you remember that stuff like he was probably the
Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
In a way of the NBA that.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
When he was when he was healthy, it was him
and Kareem were the best centers, and that was it.
And I think it was him and Kareem as the
best players, not just the best centers, but the.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Best players to ever play college basketball. I mean, he
was eighty six and four in his college career.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
In three years he went thirty and oh, thirty and
oh twenty six and four. And his senior year in
nineteen seventy four, they called the lost Weekend in sports Illustrated.
They lost back to back to Oregon and Oregon State,
Digger Phelps and Notre Dame ended that eighty eight game
winning streak and then they lost in double overtime to
David Thompson at NC State in the Final four in Greensboro,
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North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
That was it, and teams used to stall against them.
You name it.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
But I remember, you know my coaches when I got
to college. You know, the trainer at Duke was a
guy named Max Crowder, and he insisted Bill Walton's the
best player I've ever seen, And they all talked about
him being the best. And then you get to know
him later on and he was. He was such a
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Later on his career he became a showman, but he
wasn't necessarily like that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Off the court.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
He was goofy and fun. But hey, can I read
you a text message?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
He sent one time? Sure is that you have time
for that?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Absolutely?
Speaker 11 (23:05):
So he's a I played golf with a high school
buddy of mine named Steve Howard.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
And Steve was a deadhead.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
There still is a deadhead, has gone to dead shows
for thirty five years, and he and Bill became friends
through dead shows. So Steve and I played golf this
last summer, and while we're playing, we decided, hey, let's
let's send a a video to Big Red. So we
sent a video to Bill and this was his response,
and I'll do it in his voice. Awesome, terrific. Step
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and Jake, two of my heroes. Thanks for your kindness, patience,
and my life. On your golf adventure, Jake mentioned going low.
Please remind him I'm much better going high. May the
four winds blow you safely home. May you stay forever young,
May you stay forever Steven Jake, with eternal gratitude and
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boundless everything.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I miss you, I salute you.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
I thank you BW from the bright side of the road.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Like that's his response.
And he sent that kind of stuff to everybody. I
mean everybody that I've shared this was said, oh, they
sent one back to me. They got something similar. I mean,
he was one of the guy great to talk to you. Jay,
thank you for sharing. And if you didn't see it,
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please go to ESPN dot com. And Jay's letter to
Bill Walton signed love Jake, Thank you, Jay, thank you brother.
That's Jay Bills, ESPN college basketball analyst and he liked
me growing up watching Bill. First time I saw just
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anything about Bill was faces in the crowd in Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Now that was a real small picture. And then have
a little bit of a bio of an athlete. Could
it be Division one baseball player, track and field and
it said Bill Walton Helix High and La Mesa, California.
They had won forty nine in a row and Bill
was going to UCLA. And I thought, all right, because
I was a big UCLA fan and couldn't play his
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freshman year, and then all of a sudden you saw
him a sophomore year and you go, okay, they're going
to win three more national titles, and they won two
that senior year. I think there were a lot of
distractions going on with Bill, and I don't know if
he and John Wooden were in sync, but you know,
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he couldn't play his freshman year at UCLA or he
would have been part of another national title team.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
But you got to see him.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Had one of the greatest title game performances against Memphis State.
I think he missed one shot and that was an
offensive goaltending. I think he was twenty one to twenty two.
He missed more free throws than he did field goals
of that game. I think he was twenty one to
twenty two, two for five from the line, something like that.
But a wonderful player, never as good. You know, we
(25:59):
talk about Bo Jackson if he had stayed healthy, Like
there's a few at Kirby Puckett. There's certain athletes where
you go, boy, if they had stayed healthy, what could
they have been? And Bill's certainly in that very very
small category of greats who could have been even greater,
you know, historically great had he been able to stay healthy.
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All Right, we'll get to some phone calls. Yeah, Pauline some.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Of us because of our age, saw Bill Walton as
an I think he's coming off the bench with the Celtics,
and you'd heard about the Ucla days, but we didn't
see them. I went back and I've been looking at
some videos and some pictures. His head is hitting at
the rim often and his arm is, you know, a
foot and a half over the rim. He was a
very athletic guy, but we never saw that if you're
at a certain age.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
No, he was really athletic at UCLA, and then he
suffered a back injury and was really never the same
from that. He had had a cracked vertebrae. I think
that he felt that he was intentionally injured. I don't
know what game, but I think it might have been
his sophomore year. But he had all these back injuries,
foot injuries and was never the same. But you know,
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you leave a mark, and he left a mark in
a variety of ways, and that says something about the person,
something about the athlete as well.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Yes, Marv, is there anybody that you know that matched
his passion for life? It seemed like he had a
passion for music as much as he had a passion
for basketball.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, because I mean there's nobody like him. Just when
you meet him, he overwhelms you. It's this tsunami of
what is he thinking? You know, he's out in the galaxy,
and you know it was and he was always that way.
It wasn't like, oh, you know Bill's quiet. Bill was
(27:46):
always that way. You know, he just was able to
bring opinions, insight, enthusiasm, appreciation. He just had a spirit
about him that was awesome. Brian in Portland, Hey Brian,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (28:05):
Hey Dan, thanks for Holden and calling me back. Yeah,
six foot two fifteen, a little soft.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Walden.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
I got to meet him at one of his he
was pitching tequila later in his career, and guy who
went to a little event and there is nobody. I mean,
you just felt like you were his best friend. He
just he deflected everything. If you wanted to tell him
how great he was, he would just say, well, Kareem
was the greatest. Julius, you know, was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean, Larry Bird.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Was the best. He would never talk about how great
he was. And that's seventy seventeen. I mean that was Peake,
doctor j I mean that guy was amazing and ferocious
and Walton. You know, we all saw what he did.
But the incredible thing is that, of course Portland traded
Moses Malone, you know in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Is they had both.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Malone and Lucas out of the ABA draft, and you
think that, oh my god, if they keep him alone
and then maybe draft Larry Bird instead of Michael Thompson
and that seventy eight draft, Yes, that's perfect hindsight.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Let it go, Brian, let it go, Let it go,
Madden riverside, I'm att with's on your mind.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Hey, good morning, thanks for calling back. My condolences to
you and the Walton family. I got a quick story
and then an as for seating in the boys and
the T shirt manufacturers. I had a great interaction with
Bill back in twenty ten when I was working at
UCLA once when Coach Wooden passed, I got to walk
him and his wife to their seats, and I, you know,
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I of course was saying, hey, sorry for your lot.
He looked at me and said, law, we're going to
celebrate Coach Wooden's life today. And that still sticks with me,
and I think that he would want us to do
the same moving forward. My after seating the boys. Was
we just y'all just had Jay Bellison. We had a
great Bill Walton's shirt on one year when he was
(30:04):
out here on the West Coast, and I was wondering
if we could possibly mass produce that shirt so we
can purchase online with Bill's stream of consciousness. I'll hang
up the list and y'all have a good two today.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
All right, you know what, I'll talk to our research
and development there, Seeton O'Connor.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
It's a picture of yeah, Jay Billis has this T
shirt on and it's like a caricature of Bill Walton
and he's got like a tiight eyed headband on, tight
eyed shirt.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's a really it's a great shirt.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
It's really great. I don't know who made the design,
but it's really really good.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah, we have to be careful with those things.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Don't want to take too many liberties here other than
what we already do, yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
In the nineteen seventy seven NBA Playoffs, in six games,
Bill Walton there which nineteen points, nineteen rebounds, five assists,
and four blocks.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Can you imagine if we were discussing a big man
in the NBA doing that right now? In a series
nineteen five and four. Yeah, and his name would be Joker. Yeah,
I guess he's he's in that ilk.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
But there, you know, this is where it's tricky when
you're comparing. And Bill would hate me for doing this. Oh,
a Joker is far more talent. I mean, he would
never ever ever embrace his greatness. He would not because
I remember when I talked to him about Doctor J.
I was like, man, I can't believe you beat doctor
(31:26):
Jay Goes. I didn't we meet doctor J. He would
never ever ever entertain that he was. He deflected, and
he admired Kareem so much, and Kareem sent out a
tweet yesterday saying, I lost, you know, a great friend.
Picture those two guys together. But he admired Kareem so much,
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and you know, but they were rivals. So you know,
it's a wonderful legacy. And my thoughts to Laurie and
certainly the boys. You know what your dad left to Mark,
that's a great, great indelible Mark.
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Check this shap a chance to the Celtics to win.
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The Eastern Copperence Championship on the road.
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play of the day. The Pacers blowing a nine point
lead in the fourth quarter of both games three and four.
For this series, the Celtics outscored the Pacers in the
final four minutes of regulation by an average of twelve
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and a half points. To eight and a half points
and outshot Indiana sixty percent to forty six percent from
the field. And those are the differences. Yes, it's as sweep,
it's not one of those we had no chance to
win this. They did Tyre's Halliburton wasn't healthy and Boston
had great performances. It's almost as if Jalen Brown and
(33:49):
I'm not I don't know if this is true or not.
He's kind of taking that role of this can be
my team. Jason Tatum is wonderful, Jalen Brown's it seems
to have more of the attitude of, hey, this can
be my team now. They're both great players, obviously, but
here is Jalen Brown the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Speaker 14 (34:11):
After the win, we feel like we're a different team
than we were last year and the year before that,
and everybody wants to continue to kind of pigeonhold us
to what happened in the past. But we've had a
different team every single year, different coaches. We've had like
three coaches in the last five years, and still people
want to, you know, just make it seem like it's
the same. It's the same, it's the same. Time has
(34:32):
gone by experience has been gained, and I think we
are ready to put our best foot four.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, you don't have to explain anything. Just do something.
I don't care what happened before. Just do it now.
You have the opportunity, do it now. And if you're
facing Dallas with Luca Kyrie, just be ready to go.
You know, finish what you started. Jason Tatum leads the
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(35:02):
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Here's the group that he joins Lebron five times, Larry
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Andrew in Washington, Hi Andrew, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (35:39):
Good morning, Dan, danned Thanks for taking my call. I
got a double best and double worst, double worst. Indiana
become the first team to shoot over fifty percent in
the first three games of the series, but then being
swept ultimately in the series. Also, as you mentioned the
passing of Bill Walton, I don't remember him as a
player as much as I remember him doing all the
PAC ten or Pac twelve games with day passed. Those
(36:01):
were just excellent. To listen to my double best of
the weekend you had mentioned it before. Luke and Kyrie
are in sync and playing great. They outscored the whole
Wolf's team in the fourth quarter of Game three, twenty
one to twenty. My other best, Hey, we finally reached
a milestone of Major League Baseball. Angel Hernandez, the umpire
unders so much scrutiny, is retiring effective immediately, so bring
(36:21):
on the electric calls.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah, I like to see if there's more to that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I don't know if it's health or not, but retiring
after thirty years as an umpire and immediately there were
top ten lists or top or bottom ten list of
bad calls that he's made throughout his career. But Bob
Nightingale had this story, and Angel Hernandez is stepping down.
(36:46):
Karl Anthony Towns is three for twenty two from three
point range, so he shooting thirteen percent from three point range.
If like Draymond Green went two for seven, he shot
eleven percent in twenty eighteen. In nineteen ninety seven, this
guy shot two for seventeen from a three point range.
(37:10):
Michael Jordan, Yeah, two for seventeen, eleven point eight percent,
and Barkley went two for sixteen in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Excuse me? Is that a different Michael Jordan?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I think it's the same. Maybe it's Michael B. Jordan.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Okay, yeah, maybe it's not the Michael Jordan, not the
one we know. No, he would never do that. You
can kidding me. Let me see Jonathan and Missouri. Hi, Jonathan,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Hey, good morning, go thanks for the holler back. I
am five foot ten and a newly appointed dad bod
two twenty five. I got a double best in the
spirit of Bill Walton. First of all, the sixty six
points combined for Doncic and Irving. It's good to see
my Mavericks back in the swing of things. I think
(37:57):
they're going to win the finals in five games, and
in the second best is Birmingham Southern College in the
Division three World Series is going to outlast their college
that is going to officially shut down on May thirty.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
First, Yeah, I saw that story.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
They're playing, but the college is going to shut down
a little bit. More on Angel Hernandez, his attorney said
that he was not forced out that the athletic is
quoting his lawyer, Kevin Murphy. Baseball first approached him about
(38:32):
the possibility of retiring earlier this season. According to a
baseball source, the criticism had gotten louder. Hernandez was amenable
to moving on as an UPT game since May ninth.
I'm surprised that it took this long because there were
there are a lot of criticisms. I mean, he had
been criticized more than any other official in any other sport.
(38:55):
Pretty much all the other ones combined. They didn't compare
to a Hernandez. You don't want your umpire to be
famous for being bad or infamous, and Angel Hernandez that
was That was the baggage he carried everywhere he went.
Uh Eric in Virginia, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (39:16):
Hey? Good morning, Danny. Yeah, thank you taking a call.
U best and worst of the weekend? Best?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Uh man, dude. I love my MAVs.
Speaker 15 (39:25):
So these games have been amazing and I was talking
with Tyler about it.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
They have been wire to wire really great.
Speaker 15 (39:35):
I'm not gonna do comparisons to greatest closers ever, but man,
it is fun to watch them play.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Man. You have two guys who not afraid of that moment,
big moment, and Kyrie has one of the biggest shots
in NBA history, won a title with the Cleveland Cavaliers,
and Luca he's not shy either. They're taking advantage of Minnesota.
You know, it's not all on Anthony Edward. It's really
on Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns. When you tell
(40:04):
people that you've changed the game or you're changing the
game the way you play, yeah, you're changing the game
in a negative way. Here, it just feels like Minnesota
is gonna get one of these, you know, get this
game tonight.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I mean they have to or they get swept. But
I don't know. It just feels like, is this how
you're going out?
Speaker 5 (40:22):
All this hype.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
You guys are ready to go.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You wanted Kyrie, you got him, you know, you just
you got to be ready for the moment.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
That's when you know, that's where you got guys who
are talented, and then all of a sudden you got
the guys who were stars, because this is when the
stars come out. Game on the line, get me the ball,
I'll I'll take over from here. But this isn't an
indictment on Anthony Edwards. He's a wonderful talent. He's twenty two.
Jordan when he got to the Eastern Conference Finals, he
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was twenty seven and he lost. Give him a little
bit of time. Talk to Reggie. He'll be on the
call for the game tonight and get his thoughts on this.
Does he see Luca and Kyrie as the two best
backcourt mates in NBA history? Most talented, best scores? I
have to get official label on this. Hour two on
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