June 6, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan continues to explore the now multiple reports that Dan Hurley will be offered the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job. And University of Connecticut Head Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma joins the show and says he spoke to his colleague Dan Hurley just before the news broke that he was being pursued by the Lakers. He also weighs in on what Caitlin Clark is facing as a WNBA rookie.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our two on.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This Thursday, and the Lakers could have a new head
coach soon, and probably not the coach you thought this
Woje bomb earlier this morning. The Lakers have had preliminary
contact with Danny Hurley of Connecticut. The sides they're planning
to escalate discussions in the coming days. Do you sit
around and go, hey, it's time to escalate these discussions here.
(00:29):
I'd love to be in one of those meetings where
all right, now it's time to get serious. Hurley had
been at the forefront of the Lakers search from the
beginning of the process. According to Woje, they did a
great job at bait and switch or decoy's or everybody
holding onto a secret that usually doesn't happen in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, is there a moment in those conversations, by the way,
where someone goes, WHOA wait a minute, did things just escalate?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think they just escalated things.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
When Danny Hurley goes, Okay, it's a seven year deal
and I'd like to get a twenty million dollars. Oh hey,
I think day easy there, Danny. Thanks just escalating are
you escalating things right now?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I just want to make sure we're all on
the same page, that we're both ready to escalate.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Marvin is a of course, graduate of Connecticut Distinguished Alumni,
and he's wearing all black today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
How bummed are you? You know what.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
I had a good start to my morning, had a
hearty breakfast, and then I just see the text message.
I'm like, no, it can't be true. Yeah, and he
was so, yeah, it's been a little somber.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, keep your head up. I will.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I'm going to wrestling these back to back national championships.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Uh So, once again WOJ is saying that they're targeting
Danny Hurling. We spoke with Gino Oriema a couple hours ago.
We taped the interview because he had practice and wasn't
going to be available during our show hours. And wait
till you hear this in about twenty minutes from now.
We touch it on Danny Hurley, the fact that he
(02:01):
was with Danny Hurley last night, didn't know anything about
Danny Hurley and the Lakers, but then jokes about Danny
Hurley could probably lead the Lakers to a title. He
does talk about the state of college basketball now, and
we talk about Caitlyn Clark. Has some very very very
strong opinions on Caitlyn Clark how she's been treated social media.
(02:22):
So the Yukon women's coach Gino Oriema in about twenty
minutes from now. NBA Finals Game one coming up tonight,
and the Celtics are giving six and a half to
the MAVs.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The MAVs have I think a five game road.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Winning streak going into this game, and they are expecting
Luca to put up well to be Luca with thirty
one and a half points is the over under with DraftKings.
The over under with Jason Tatum twenty six and a half.
Jalen Brown is twenty two and a half. That's kind
of interesting there, but you balance out the roster with
Derek White over under fourteen and a half and Chris
(02:57):
TOMPs porzingis over under fifteen half Kyrie at twenty three
and a half. We say good morning to those watching
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Sports Radio as well. Poll question from our one seaton
and are we going to change it up for hour two.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hour one.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
We put up there Dan one week from today, Dan
Hurley is coaching dot dot dot the Lakers or Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Anybody think that Dan Hurley is still coaching Yukon in
a week?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Woh, Paul Seton Marv Okay, yeah, Seed.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That could be a preview to the second hour poll
cost Okay, this story is dot dot dot the Lakers
looking to the future, or Dan Hurley leveraging Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well that I don't know, I think, I I mean,
I have to be fair to the entire story here.
Dan Hurley, I think was looking for a contract extension.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He had expressed actually that he was a little surprised
at how long it's taking to get wrapped up.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Gino Oriema, the women's coach just got his contract extended.
Do you say, hey, you know what, how about we
just kind of floated out there that you might be
interested in the Lakers job, and then all of a
sudden it's like, oh, that'd be funny.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
See if we could scare them.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And then all of a sudden it's like the Lakers like, wait,
you're interested because the Kentucky thing didn't work fast enough,
so it didn't like.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No, we got to think bigger than Kentucky. Okay, let's
see how about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they might give him an offer he can't refuse.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Yes, Paul, you mentioned earlier that it's tough for state
schools to spend wantsonlely for someone like Dan Hurley. He
did get a new six year deal just last year
after his first title, six year, thirty two million. But
stay with me on this. I saw some stories about
Dan Hurley. Can the state afford to pay someone who
coaches basketball? That's not the mission of you as a university.
(05:01):
But you can make the case that Dan Hurley will
do more for the university as a whole with recruitment
of students than any professor could. Like if you look
at what Doug Flutie did for Boston College back in
the day, or Nick Saban's influence at Alabama, you could
say that Dan Hurley at eight million a year would
be a bargain for that university overall, not just the
(05:22):
basketball team, but recruitment overall.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Who's the highest paid college coach right now?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
By the way, you got to do a lot to
get people to go to stores Connecticut, but you got
to be a really good team, meaning meaning like if
you're like, hey, Dan Hurley, he'll help like with recruiting
and players, he'll get new students in because people like
to come to polices that are winning. And then you
get there and you're like, oh, all right, so we
are in the middle of nowhere. There's not a lot
(05:51):
going on here. I could have gone to what, I
don't know, Miami or Okay, yeah, this is where I
want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But you're going to have the transfer portal open if
Hurley leaves.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Every player on Yukon who you know, will have that
opportunity if they want to transfer.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
That could be unprecedented really, like certainly in this modern
portal era.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, you're going to find out how much they like
the environment at Connecticut. But if Danny Hurley's leaving, then
I'd give strong consideration to at least dipping my toes
into the transfer portal.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Yes, yes, Paul, the highest paid college of basketball head
coach is this is estimated. I got Bill self at
nine mili plus. Okay, I got Klipari in that eight million,
plus Tom Izzo six plus Bruce Pearls in there. Rick
Barnes at Tennessee and then it goes down. Dan Hurley
was last year was the seventh highest paid coach in
college bass.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But I wonder if he was getting ten million dollars
a year, five year deal, ten million dollars, would that
be enough for him to stay at Connecticut? Was that
Is that a factor here? Is it leverage? Or was
this the only job that he would leave Connecticut for?
He never he said he would never leave for another
college John And he told me that, but in April
(07:04):
that it was about if you know, maybe burnout would
be a reason why you would leave or you know what,
let play it. And this is back in April, I
think April seventeenth, when we had Danny Hurley on after
they had won their second national title. What would make
you leave Connecticut?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Maybe just burnout at this point for me, just uh,
you know, pushing too hard and probably you know, just
breaking down at some point, just uh, because you just
can't keep up the intensity and the energy and and
you know the output.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And then maybe down the road, if I could grow
up a little bit mature, matroil a little bit with
the emotions, maybe the NBA, you know, down down the road.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Uh so why do you want to do that? Why
do you want to do that to yourself? Go to
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Well, you know, I think college has become like the
G League.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Uh yeah, in a way.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean it's uh, you know, no, that's obviously tongue
in cheek, but you know a lot of the college
game has changed. You know. You you you win the
national championship, and obviously we're going to do things, go
to why do these we had to parade? You do
these things. But you're you're basically right into free agency frenzy.
So you know, uh, it's uh, I'm more worried about
(08:30):
burnout that I am going to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, once the Lakers reach out, then all of a sudden,
the time frame, you know, speeds up dramatically. Stat of
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coming up tonight, so the Lakers maybe zeroing in on
Dan Hurling. College football playoffs schedule was released, So now
it's real. Now it's real. This was you know, in
(09:18):
the making and all they're gonna have games, and they'll
have home field advantage and then you'll have the Rose
Bowl and the Cotton Bowl and then the winner plays
the Sitters. You know all of that, and Okay, it's
been in the works for a long time. Now all
of a sudden you see it on a piece of
paper and you're like, man, it's real. We're gonna have
football in December. January first is going to mean something.
(09:39):
We're not gonna have thirty five days in between, you know,
an SEC title game in the National Title Game. Now
you have football. Now you have dates, Now you have location.
Now it got real. I just don't know how long
this format will last because it still feels like college
football is not settled yet. You know, it just feels
(10:01):
like the earthquake is still rumbling. Maybe some after shocks here. Yes, Paul, the.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
First round college football playoff games will be December twentieth,
twenty first, ABC, ESPN Friday Saturday night, some eight o'clock
kickoff on a Friday night. But then there's some games
on Saturday afternoon because you know, the NFL has a
few Saturday games. Late December, there'll be college football playoff
first round games up against Houston Kansas City. That's a
(10:27):
nice NFL game and Baltimore Pittsburgh, which is always.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
A tune in, always spicy.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
We should bet on the ratings. M Maybe we'll wait
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, that's only June.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
But those games will be at home at the higher seed.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yes, and those might be blowout games. The potential for
a blowout game, you know when you have what twelve
versus one?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Or are the top two getting buys? Yes?
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Byes?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, so the number one and number two in the
rankings get buys.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The top four conference champions will receive first.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
All right, New Year's Even and New Year's Day is back.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's good. Yeah, it's good. So much for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
NBA once again get kicked in the head there, NFL,
and now you know what's going on with college football.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Yeah, Paul, if you were the NBA, I think someone
suggested this long time ago starting on Christmas Day. Couldn't
you bump your entire season back six weeks and go
into deep June and July and not affect anything and
have more eyeballs on the home stretch.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Of your sport. I'm not the first person to suggest.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The fact that you know, these networks are spending over
a couple of billion dollars, that you know what is
good for programming. I think summer months kind of dead
for TV viewing. That would be an issue. I guess
do you want?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I know? Basketball in July?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
A couple of phone calls in here Drew and Georgia
leads us off, Hey Drew, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Hey? Dan?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
You guys looked me up this morning with the news
and so Van Hurley and the Lakers, and I was
just curious. As a head basketball coach, high school basketball
coach canahere in Georgia. The first thing that came to
my mind was interview that Dan Hurley did with CBS
during March Madness about how he recruits players and what
does he do. And one of the biggest things he
(12:23):
said was, we don't just look at the skills that
comes with every d one athlete. We look at the
parents and the families. I'm just curious what and I'll
take this off there. I'm just curious what you think
Lebron's roll and Van hurley roll might be in that
parent conference on when Ronnie's not necessarily getting enough minute
or things like that. I thought it was a funny dynamic,
(12:44):
but it definitely something I would definitely consider if I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Was Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, he told me that too, that he looks at
the parents and not only looking at the kid, but
also looking at the parents. I don't know what his
pro style is going to be, like how you coach?
How do you coach for eighty two games? How do
you keep that passion, the interest energy? You know, he
was talking about burning out at Connecticut. Now you're going
(13:07):
to have twice as many games under the microscope. Every
game under the microscope when there's a time out, when
Lebron is talking to Dan Hurley, or if he isn't
or Dan Hurley is trying to get Lebron's attention. Everything
is going to be under the microscope every game. And
people aren't going to have patients. They're going to want results.
(13:30):
Oh if you lose two in a row, Oh, question
marks you know Lebron has a problem.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean, you could factor in Bronnie. I guess. I
don't know if that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But you know what, Lebron might appreciate Danny Hurley coaching
Bronnie because he does need to be coached, he does
need to play, and he needs to go to the
G League. If you bring him in, Yes, Mark.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Brian should go to Yukon.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He could get some shots. Now.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Maybe he could have had Brownie getting coached by tonight. Yes, Tod,
there's no and we mentioned it earlier. There's no worst
case scenario for him if it didn't work out.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
So many coaches, so many college apports will be like
he could probably even go back to Yukon in a
few years if he wanted to, if it didn't work
out in LA other than being away from your family
and having to move across the country. If theyre going
to give him that kind of money, he seems like
the kind of person that would be eating himself up
to not take this job, especially if they don't three
peat next year if he stayed.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't. I once again, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I don't know what drives him No, it's probably coaching
at the highest level with the best players. I don't
know if you know he's driven crazy by the transfer
portal and nil, like most coaches are. But you've won
back to back. Now all of a sudden, players are
going to want to play for you. It's like when
Gino Oriema with the Yukon women he was winning. They
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wanted to be part of a winner.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes, I do think I mentioned it last hour, But
I do think the family part of it is a
strong poll to stay on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's maybe the biggest surprise because he mentions his wife,
He mentions his family.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
He's an East Coast guy. And now you're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
All the way across country, right And it's not like
you're just going all the way across country. You're going
to Los Angeles and you're coaching the Lakers. His parents
go to every game right now.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes they do.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I wouldn't underestimate how significant that is for someone like that.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, I think that those are fair points to bring up,
because that's what surprises me, not that he's taking the
job or would take the job. It's that the you know,
the family aspect of this is real for him because
he does bring it up. All right, let me take
a break. I said it was appointment listening. It's gino Oriema.
(15:48):
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thought he was wonderful and just he never holds back.
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
Fritzie has got a wild numerology.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Uh wow, I'll get to this coming up in a
little bit there, but there's a numerology going on with
the Lake and Danny Hurley and JJ Reddick, so we'll
have that for you coming up here in a little bit.
Two hours ago, we talked to Gino Oriema before we
started our show live and we wanted to talk to him.
(17:13):
He signed a contract extension, had some things to say
about Caitlin Clark, and then of course the Danny Hurley
story falls into our lap.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So I tape.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The Geno interview and this is it in its entirety,
has not been edited, and it's just Geno being Geno
after signing a five year contract extension to stay as
the head coach of the Yukon Women. And I started
the interview by asking Geno his reaction to the Danny
Hurley to the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
You know, this is really funny because I happen to
be with it at a thing with him last night,
and I have no idea what's going on, you know,
I have no idea where this is going or what's happening.
But I said, just leaned over and I said, hey,
I think you can win a lot of championships with
the Lakers, you know, more so than a guy who's
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never coached, and he just looked at me and you know,
nodded and we had a good laugh. And then this
morning I wake up and while I so, I don't
know what's going on, and it'd be a bad day
for Yukon for sure if this happens, and it would
be a great, great day for Dan Hurley, and I'm
sure a bittersweet day for Dan early.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, now you're being serious that you did bring this
up to him last night about the Lakers jump.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Out of nowhere. I just leaned over and I said,
you know, I don't know why it came to me.
I don't know why, but I said it, and if
you ask him, I'll tell you. And I had no idea,
And I woke up this morning and somebody sent it
to me, and I went, you got to be kidne meed.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I know that he's talked about not going to another
college job that if he does go down the road
when he thinks he's mature enough to coach in the NBA.
This happened a lot quicker, But I'm wondering the state
of college basketball, certainly men's college basketball, GINO, Does that
make this decision a little bit more, I guess palatable
(19:04):
or easier when you think about him wanting to go
to coach the NBA instead of trying to go for
a three peat, all.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Those are true. I think the state of college basketball
is a mess anyone who, if anybody, could manage it, though,
it would be Danny because he coaches this program like
it's a high school program, like he coached the Saint Benedict's.
Their player development program is second to none. But I
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do think that being at Yukon and given the state
of college basketball and the amount of money now that
it's going to take to be able to put together
a national championship team every single year, I think, and
without knowing where it's going, it's a charade. It's this
idea of student athlete student athlete welfare. Every single thing
(19:56):
that comes out of the NCAA's mouth about student athlete
welfare meant it's booth that has no factor ever anymore.
And I never want to hear anybody out of those
words associated with college basketball. They are professional athletes, just
not called that. So you might as well go coach
professional athletes where it's real. Now. If Danny were to
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leave and somebody said to me. You know, he just
took this NBA job. I won't name any particular city.
I would say, you know, you're set up for failure,
but it's the Lakers. And if I don't know the
details of it, but if you're saying, hey, I want
a ten you to deal, I want the same deal
Brad Stevens guy to Boston.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It might be more than that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Well, Dan, you know what, Hey, Andrea's wife might not
like me, but it's crazy if he doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But that's what surprised me though, Gino is he's an
East Coast guy. Yeah, and he'd have to convince her
to go out, you know, to Rodeo Drive.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well that part she might not. She might not, you know,
she might not argue with it. Maybe all the other
parts you might have a problem with. But yeah, yeah,
it's a it's a huge family. It's a huge family decision,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
How many offers have you had, and let's say the
last fifteen years, ten years.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Well they all came too late. But you know, one, two, three,
four total, including you know, between men's college basketball and
NBA stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
What was the men's what was the NBA stuff?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
I talked to a couple of people about being an
assistant when I thought this game was going where it's going,
and I thought, well, I wish I was younger, because
it was at an age where it's like, do I
really have it in me to be that and be
fair to that for one hundred and some games if
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you're lucky enough during the season. And I wouldn't be
so pretentious enough to think that I could go from
where I am or where I've been coaching women's basketball,
and I listen, coaching is coaching. I get it. But
the distance and the gap. I thought, you know what
if I could be an assistant here for a couple
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of years, three four years, I think I could do
this job. But it just came at the wrong time
in my career. But if I come earlier, I would
have done it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Talking to Gino Orima, the Hall of Fame head coach
with Connecticut and just signed a five year deal. Any
talk of retirement when you sat down with the family.
Now yet No, So you were signing this extension, there
was no do I want to do it five more years?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
No, I'd already decided that I wanted to. Now what
pisses me off is that if I'd have known that
this was happening with Danny, because I think I gave
them the old AARP discount to university because I thought
they're going to have to pay a lot of money
to keep Hurlely. Well, if he leaves, I'm gonna be
pissed and I'm going to rip up that contract and
(23:07):
i want a new one and I want some of
the money that they were going to give him.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So just call it the Hurley clause. If Hurley leaves,
then you want a Hurley clause.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
That's right. I'm envisioning the Hurley clause. And this might become,
you know, a commonplace in college sports.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now. I don't know if you use it as leverage,
but you can always say, hey, I'll just coach the
men's team at Yukon if you're not going to give
me this kind of money.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Now, I would never do that, you know, I'd be
like moving your shortstop to second base. You'd screw up
both programs.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So no talk of retirement. You're going to be what
seventy five when this is all said and done.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Supposedly, you know, but you know what really motivated me
when Pop signs his new deal.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So Pop.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, but Popovich with wembn Yama, I'm sure he's like, hey,
you know what, let me hang around this guy for
a little longer.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Okay, Well, I think I got a couple of guys
in my program that I want to hang around with
a couple a couple of years long. And I actually,
seriously when Pop signed his deal, so I said, you
know what, I'm going to go to my ID and
said I want.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Half of that.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
He signed for ten years for eighty million or five
years for eighty million. I said, I've signed five years
for twenty million. But didn't play out way? But actually
did they played out exactly that way? Actually? Good.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I saw where you said the WNBA they're targeting Caitlyn Clark.
What do you mean by how she's being guarded or
you know, in FULLMCE.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I think yeah. I think you and I both know
the landscape that we live in today, both sports wise
and nonsports wise. Right, we are in a red blue
and if you're red, you can't agree with blue, and
if you're blue, you can't agree with red, Whereas most
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things are in the middle. If you're a college player,
and you're a great college player, like Caitlyn was the
delusional fan base that follows her disrespected the WNBA players
by saying she's going to go in that league and
tear it apart. There were actually odds on what are like,
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she's third or fourth embedtting odds of being MVP at
a WNBA. These people are so disrespectful and so unknowledgeable
and so stupid that it gives women's basketball a bad name. Okay,
so the kid was set up for failure right from
the beginning. So if you're a WNBA player, and I
believe me, I've coached the best and I've pissed them
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off a lot, and they let me know about it.
But they were tremendously disrespected and none of them are
going to say it. But human nature is okay, this
kid's coming into the league, and Diana said it best.
This kid's in for a rude awakening, and they all
jumped over her. But they didn't read the whole thing
that she said. But nobody's printing. You know, Diana Trassi
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was right. This kid's on the wrong team. She's got
the wrong skill set. They handled the physicality of that
league and she's a rookie and if you're a WNBA player,
if you're any kind of player, you're gonna say, I'm
gonna make a statement. Targeted, targeted by society, targeted by
her looks, targeted by her reputation, targeted by the disrespect
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that they've shown to the WNBA. There's a huge target
on this kid's back. I thought Cameron Brin said something
really smart. She said, now they're expecting this rookie class
to be perfect. This rookie class isn't even one of
the best rookie classes in the last ten years, but
they've been put out to be that because the way
social media is today. So what kind of impact is
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this rookie class having in a WNBA.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
How do you think Clark is handling this.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I think she's handling great. I think she talks a
lot and she gets a lot of back. So she
deserves everything she gets because she gives it as good
as she gets it. She's just not built for the
physicality of this league, and she's not freaking off to
get away from the physicality. So there's a lot of
learning her, like Diana said, and when she gets it,
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she has elite skills that are going to really help her. Yeah,
so she needs to be a better she needs to
be on a better team, and she needs to be
more experienced, and that will come. But for these ridiculous
fans who had her slotted as the next Diana now
through out of their mind, and and for these people
that are waiting outside the bus for the Chicago Sky team,
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what else? What it would become a third world soccer
country that when a soccer player gives up their own
goal in the World Cup, you're waiting for him in
the bar to shoot them, Like, what the hell are
we doing here?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
When Paige Becker said she was coming back, you said what.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I said?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I knew that she's having too good a time here.
Her impact here is so great, her impact nationally is great.
And she doesn't want to be known as the greatest
player ever to play at Ukon without winning a national championship.
And I remind her that every day.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Does she have the build to play in the WNBA?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, But her.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Game is different. Her game is different than Caitlyn's in
that she's more of just a distributor get the ball,
you know. Her game is more like Sue Bird's game,
all right, And not that Sue had the physicality to
play in that league. But obviously she's the best point
(28:34):
guard ever. But I think her game, the subtleties of
her game, will translate however, her rookie year, she will
get it as bad as Caitin is getting it right now.
Because that's just the world, man, that's just the world.
Then you got to learn to live with it. But yes,
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she will have a target on her back as well.
I just hope the social media thing, doesn't, you know,
envelop her like they've like they've done to this kid.
This kid, she doesn't This kid doesn't deserve all this.
Nobody deserves all this. And and how about this, Dan,
you and I have known each other long enough. Have
you ever called the player on your show a white
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We'll give someone the right to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I think McAfee wuld say, so, that's the world. He
was trying to do it as a compliment. I guess
I think he was praising her. I don't know, yeah
that's what he said.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, I didn't, okay.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
But just the fact that, just the fact that we
live in a society where today you can't say that, Well,
if you look at society as a whole. There are
things that are being said that have never been allowed
to be said before. There was years ago when somebody
made a comment on TV or radar, they lost their
job the next day. Well, we live in a society
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today where you can say anything, do anything and nothing,
just apologize and everything is okay. Well right now sports
is a reflection of that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Keep fighting a good fight.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And uh, sorry, Hurley's taken away your headlines here with
you coming bat Let me.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Ask you something. Do you know something? I don't know
that he take the job.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He's being targeted.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Uh, Woje said, wait, just walk down the hall and say, hey,
Danny taking the Laker job.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
You know my agent is his agent, Brett just and uh.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Just call him.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
No, I don't know. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wait, you just asked me. You just asked me. You
can go get the answer here.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I Am going to go down the hall soon as
what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Great to talk to you, Hey, congrats on the extension.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Thanks my man.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's Gino Oriama unplugged straight shooter. Just the fact that
he's with Danny Hurley last night at an event and
jokes with him about taking the Lakers job and that
he could win a couple of championships there, and Danny's
got to bite his tongue like.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Wait, does he know anything?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And the fact that you're in the basketball building, just
walk down the hallway, Danny, you're taking the Laker job.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
He's asking me what I know. I'm just reporting what
Woge is reporting.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
People are going to pick some things out of there,
what he said about Caitlin Clark. But if anybody's going
to try to argue with what he is saying about
women's basketball, you're not in his league because he has
coached some of the greats and he knows some can
play in the WNBA, some can't. He said that she's
on a bad team. She does have tremendous skill set,
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but she's physically not built for this, at least right now.
And he's being honest. I've said this before. I need
to see what she's going to be like next year,
because now she knows every time down the floor, there's
gonna be an elbow, a forearm, somebody's gonna bump you,
somebody's gonna smack you, some stuff called some not.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's going to happen. It is happening.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I do think maybe the last four or five six
games you might see a different Caitlin Clark. It's been
a tough schedule, but they are out to be physical
with her. I mean, you're trying to win the game,
you're gonna be physical. Not to the point with you know,
Kennedy Carter because there's no place in the game and
she should have been suspended. But there's going to be
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hard fouls. Stuff that she got an Iowa that she's
not going to get now. You're not in Iowa anymore,
and she knows that. But I think the less you
say the better. Just take it, learn from it, and
then come back next year with a vengeance. All Right,
we'll take a break. Fritzy has six degrees of Lakers
(32:56):
coming out. I do numerology. I didn't know I needed it.
I still don't know if I need it, but I'll
let you decide if you need it. We'll have that
for you coming up. Reggie Miller in about forty minutes
from now as well. NBA Finals starting tonight, and we'll
get Regi's thoughts on the possibility of Danny Hurley coaching
the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
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DP show operator Tyler sitting by ready to take your phone.
Calls Tyler the operator once again, we're getting information, but
nothing official about Danny Hurley and the Lakers, but they
are having talks and it's supposed to escalate later on
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this week. Whatever escalate means that pretty much sounds like
what are you willing to offer me? And then that's
when we'll find out. I'm now I'm going back in
one wondering was JJ Reddick really in play? If boje
with what he's saying that they targeted Danny Hurley from
the outset, was JJ Reddick in play? And you had
(34:10):
some insiders who said it's his job, he's going to
get it mere formality, and once the finals is over,
it's going to be JJ Reddick. He does the podcast
with Lebron. We missed all of it, but was JJ
in play? That's what I'd be curious about when it's
all said and done. Now, JJ did say to a
(34:32):
report yesterday all address this once the NBA Finals are over.
That led to even more speculation that, oh, it's a
done deal. Hey, he's going to tell us about the
process once the NBA Finals is over. Now, what does
he say when somebody asked him about this the process?
Are you getting the job? Why didn't you get the job?
(34:54):
Did you know Danny Hurley was in the mix here?
What did Lebron tell you? What did you say to Lebron?
You know there's a lot of quot ques students that
might come out of this. Yes, Mark for the game tonight.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
If you're JJ Reddick, you just come right out with
it and say something tongue in cheek regarding the Lakers
coaching position.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I don't know if he's a tongue in cheek guy
kind of serious what he gives you his basketball talk.
I guess on the pregame show that you have JJ
on and maybe discuss it there, because once the game starts,
you can't discuss it. And if Mike Breen is bringing
(35:32):
on you and Doris Burke and you're gonna get ready,
you're ready for the game, not about JJ with the Lakers.
JJ and the Lakers and Danny Hurley. That's your pregame show.
That should be when you come on, you know, a
live shot in Boston. You'll show Luca. Now, you'll show Tatum,
you'll show Brown, you'll show Kyrie. That'll be coming up.
(35:53):
Come on inside. But the big story that started earlier
today and WOJ joins us. Now WOJ will recap and
JJ Reddick is going to be on the call. JJ, Well, hey,
y ESPN's paying him.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I got to have you on, and you got to
tell me what you know?
Speaker 8 (36:10):
It's an in house story.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yes, you can't let somebody else break this, oh man, Yeah,
I gotta. I gotta ask him the question. It may
not be comfortable. You're in the in the business of
breaking news and your news is right there at least
a portion of that news. If I was hosting, I
would say we have to have JJ Reddick on. You know, JJ,
(36:34):
when did you find out about Woja's report with Danny Hurley?
He might say, Hey, like everybody else, what have you
been told? Then whatever his answer is, are you still
in the mix for this job?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I mean, these are tough questions, but you have to
ask these things. He may not want to, but you're
an employee. We got to make good TV here. We'll
get to the end NBA Finals. Let's take care of this.
We own this story. Woge broke it. It's ours. Don't
let it get outside here. That's the risk that you
run here, Ryan in South Dakota, Hi, Ryan, what's on
(37:14):
your mind today?
Speaker 14 (37:15):
Morning?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Morning Ran.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
Let's say let's say Danny Hurley has actually offered this
job by the Lakers and he turns it down. What
does that say about the Lakers job as a whole.
If somebody that's never coached in the NBA doesn't want it.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, I think he's really desirable candidate here. Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It does say something, and it's something that you know,
I would probably then reiterate what I've been saying for
a while. Is it a desirable job? They may have
given him an offer he can't refuse. You know, Is
JJ Redditt going to be a great coach? I don't know.
Danny Hurley is a great basketball coach. Now you can
(37:55):
say I and coach, you know the pros. But I'm
guessing with new philosophy that he has what he's done
at Connecticut, how he incorporates players almost like a new
triangle offense with what they're running at Yukon. All right,
maybe that's intriguing. Players will follow you. They want to
know if you know what you're talking about. And I
(38:18):
would think Danny Hurley was he in his early fifties,
He's got a lot of basketball knowledge. There quite a
family tree there, But yeah, I don't. I mean, you
still got Lebron for a couple of years, and you
got ad. It gets interesting after that after two years,
then what happens with the team?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
We've been talking a lot about the family with the
Hurleys on the East Coast, New Jersey based and the
parents are older. You know, a lot of people said
the same thing with Jim Harbaugh. His dad didn't he
live next door to him in ann Arbor. I don't
know if his dad's also moving to Los Angeles to
be near the facility or not.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
I would assume he is.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Maybe he is, But I thought people a lot said
that would hold Harball back. He's not gonna leave Michigan.
His family's there. It's all said, he's king of the
hill and his family travels.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I guess, all right, Todd, you got six degrees of
Lakers here. Explain your numerology.
Speaker 10 (39:13):
Okay, I was just thinking about relating to the story
and is Hurley going to go to the Lakers, stay
at Yukon or all that kind of thing, Reddick and everything,
and just seemed like a lot of names all had
six letters. Okay, so this is why we called six
degrees of Lakers. This doesn't mean or predict anything at all,
but just for giggles, Lakers six.
Speaker 15 (39:30):
Letters, Hurley, Reddick, stores Crypto, Lebron.
Speaker 10 (39:39):
Genie is in Genie, Buss Andrea as in Hurley's wife,
Jersey as in his family in New Jersey.
Speaker 15 (39:46):
But Gamble is six letters as well. That puts a
little curve in things. Also.
Speaker 10 (39:51):
So all these things related to Yukon and Lakers and
Reddick and Hurley all had six letters.
Speaker 15 (39:56):
I found that kind of fund Lebron wre number six.
Period of time with the Lakers before we went back
to twenty three after Bill Russell passed away.
Speaker 9 (40:01):
Okay, a lot of six going on there.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Okay, Yukon's five, Ukhan.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
And Husky's a seven. So maybe it's more towards that
he's going to.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
Take the Laker Joe, Yes, I'm gonna give that to you.
Tod that's say so a little put together there.
Speaker 15 (40:15):
Thanks, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 9 (40:17):
It's lightly interesting, lightly yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
All right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I see him and he's writing down letters and I
just see he's writing down stores and crypto and Genie,
and I go, what are you doing?
Speaker 15 (40:29):
And then I checked the bio like his wife's name
is Andrea.
Speaker 9 (40:32):
This is perfect.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Six letters, it's all coming together numerology ride curly.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Sorry why six?
Speaker 15 (40:41):
I don't know. This doesn't predict Anything's just so happens.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
That all of the number six isn't significant in any way,
not in.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Any way at all.
Speaker 10 (40:47):
It's just that all these names associated with this breaking
news and this story.
Speaker 15 (40:51):
Have six letters. I just found that interesting. But it
will not predict anything about it will not in the future.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
It will not. But six more letters. Reggie Miller.
Speaker 15 (41:02):
Coming up like this, Yes, I did you saved me
with her?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Reggie Miller will join us. Coming up in the final
hour of the program. What are the results from our
two's poll question? There Seaton sixty six percent.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Karma this story is the Lakers looking to the future
or Hurly leveraging Yukon sixty one percent say Early's leveraging.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yukon's WHOA.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
The last time a coach left a national champion and
coach the NBA. Larry Brown in nineteen eighty eight left
Kansas and he went to the Spurs.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our two on.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This Thursday, and the Lakers could have a new head
coach soon, and probably not the coach you thought this
Woje bomb earlier this morning. The Lakers have had preliminary
contact with Danny Hurley of Connecticut. The sides they're planning
to escalate discussions in the coming days. Do you sit
around and go, hey, it's time to escalate these discussions here.
(00:29):
I'd love to be in one of those meetings where
all right, now it's time to get serious. Hurley had
been at the forefront of the Lakers search from the
beginning of the process. According to Woje, they did a
great job at bait and switch or decoy's or everybody
holding onto a secret that usually doesn't happen in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, is there a moment in those conversations, by the way,
where someone goes, WHOA wait a minute, did things just escalate?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think they just escalated things.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
When Danny Hurley goes, Okay, it's a seven year deal
and I'd like to get a twenty million dollars. Oh hey,
I think day easy there, Danny. Thanks just escalating are
you escalating things right now?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I just want to make sure we're all on
the same page, that we're both ready to escalate.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Marvin is a of course, graduate of Connecticut Distinguished Alumni,
and he's wearing all black today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
How bummed are you? You know what.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
I had a good start to my morning, had a
hearty breakfast, and then I just see the text message.
I'm like, no, it can't be true. Yeah, and he
was so, yeah, it's been a little somber.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, keep your head up. I will.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I'm going to wrestling these back to back national championships.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Uh So, once again WOJ is saying that they're targeting
Danny Hurling. We spoke with Gino Oriema a couple hours ago.
We taped the interview because he had practice and wasn't
going to be available during our show hours. And wait
till you hear this in about twenty minutes from now.
We touch it on Danny Hurley, the fact that he
(02:01):
was with Danny Hurley last night, didn't know anything about
Danny Hurley and the Lakers, but then jokes about Danny
Hurley could probably lead the Lakers to a title. He
does talk about the state of college basketball now, and
we talk about Caitlyn Clark. Has some very very very
strong opinions on Caitlyn Clark how she's been treated social media.
(02:22):
So the Yukon women's coach Gino Oriema in about twenty
minutes from now. NBA Finals Game one coming up tonight,
and the Celtics are giving six and a half to
the MAVs.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The MAVs have I think a five game road.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Winning streak going into this game, and they are expecting
Luca to put up well to be Luca with thirty
one and a half points is the over under with DraftKings.
The over under with Jason Tatum twenty six and a half.
Jalen Brown is twenty two and a half. That's kind
of interesting there, but you balance out the roster with
Derek White over under fourteen and a half and Chris
(02:57):
TOMPs porzingis over under fifteen half Kyrie at twenty three
and a half. We say good morning to those watching
on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app allowing us
into your homes and our radio affiliates iHeartRadio and Fox
Sports Radio as well. Poll question from our one seaton
and are we going to change it up for hour two.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hour one.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
We put up there Dan one week from today, Dan
Hurley is coaching dot dot dot the Lakers or Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Anybody think that Dan Hurley is still coaching Yukon in
a week?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Woh, Paul Seton Marv Okay, yeah, Seed.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That could be a preview to the second hour poll
cost Okay, this story is dot dot dot the Lakers
looking to the future, or Dan Hurley leveraging Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well that I don't know, I think, I I mean,
I have to be fair to the entire story here.
Dan Hurley, I think was looking for a contract extension.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He had expressed actually that he was a little surprised
at how long it's taking to get wrapped up.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Gino Oriema, the women's coach just got his contract extended.
Do you say, hey, you know what, how about we
just kind of floated out there that you might be
interested in the Lakers job, and then all of a
sudden it's like, oh, that'd be funny.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
See if we could scare them.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And then all of a sudden it's like the Lakers like, wait,
you're interested because the Kentucky thing didn't work fast enough,
so it didn't like.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No, we got to think bigger than Kentucky. Okay, let's
see how about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they might give him an offer he can't refuse.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Yes, Paul, you mentioned earlier that it's tough for state
schools to spend wantsonlely for someone like Dan Hurley. He
did get a new six year deal just last year
after his first title, six year, thirty two million. But
stay with me on this. I saw some stories about
Dan Hurley. Can the state afford to pay someone who
coaches basketball? That's not the mission of you as a university.
(05:01):
But you can make the case that Dan Hurley will
do more for the university as a whole with recruitment
of students than any professor could. Like if you look
at what Doug Flutie did for Boston College back in
the day, or Nick Saban's influence at Alabama, you could
say that Dan Hurley at eight million a year would
be a bargain for that university overall, not just the
(05:22):
basketball team, but recruitment overall.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Who's the highest paid college coach right now?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
By the way, you got to do a lot to
get people to go to stores Connecticut, but you got
to be a really good team, meaning meaning like if
you're like, hey, Dan Hurley, he'll help like with recruiting
and players, he'll get new students in because people like
to come to polices that are winning. And then you
get there and you're like, oh, all right, so we
are in the middle of nowhere. There's not a lot
(05:51):
going on here. I could have gone to what, I
don't know, Miami or Okay, yeah, this is where I
want to be.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But you're going to have the transfer portal open if
Hurley leaves.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Every player on Yukon who you know, will have that
opportunity if they want to transfer.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
That could be unprecedented really, like certainly in this modern
portal era.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, you're going to find out how much they like
the environment at Connecticut. But if Danny Hurley's leaving, then
I'd give strong consideration to at least dipping my toes
into the transfer portal.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Yes, yes, Paul, the highest paid college of basketball head
coach is this is estimated. I got Bill self at
nine mili plus. Okay, I got Klipari in that eight million,
plus Tom Izzo six plus Bruce Pearls in there. Rick
Barnes at Tennessee and then it goes down. Dan Hurley
was last year was the seventh highest paid coach in
college bass.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But I wonder if he was getting ten million dollars
a year, five year deal, ten million dollars, would that
be enough for him to stay at Connecticut? Was that
Is that a factor here? Is it leverage? Or was
this the only job that he would leave Connecticut for?
He never he said he would never leave for another
college John And he told me that, but in April
(07:04):
that it was about if you know, maybe burnout would
be a reason why you would leave or you know what,
let play it. And this is back in April, I
think April seventeenth, when we had Danny Hurley on after
they had won their second national title. What would make
you leave Connecticut?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Maybe just burnout at this point for me, just uh,
you know, pushing too hard and probably you know, just
breaking down at some point, just uh, because you just
can't keep up the intensity and the energy and and
you know the output.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And then maybe down the road, if I could grow
up a little bit mature, matroil a little bit with
the emotions, maybe the NBA, you know, down down the road.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Uh so why do you want to do that? Why
do you want to do that to yourself? Go to
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Well, you know, I think college has become like the
G League.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Uh yeah, in a way.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean it's uh, you know, no, that's obviously tongue
in cheek, but you know a lot of the college
game has changed. You know. You you you win the
national championship, and obviously we're going to do things, go
to why do these we had to parade? You do
these things. But you're you're basically right into free agency frenzy.
So you know, uh, it's uh, I'm more worried about
(08:30):
burnout that I am going to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, once the Lakers reach out, then all of a sudden,
the time frame, you know, speeds up dramatically. Stat of
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Reggie Miller will join us in the final hour of
the program will preview game one of the NBA Finals
coming up tonight, so the Lakers maybe zeroing in on
Dan Hurling. College football playoffs schedule was released, So now
it's real. Now it's real. This was you know, in
(09:18):
the making and all they're gonna have games, and they'll
have home field advantage and then you'll have the Rose
Bowl and the Cotton Bowl and then the winner plays
the Sitters. You know all of that, and Okay, it's
been in the works for a long time. Now all
of a sudden you see it on a piece of
paper and you're like, man, it's real. We're gonna have
football in December. January first is going to mean something.
(09:39):
We're not gonna have thirty five days in between, you know,
an SEC title game in the National Title Game. Now
you have football. Now you have dates, Now you have location.
Now it got real. I just don't know how long
this format will last because it still feels like college
football is not settled yet. You know, it just feels
(10:01):
like the earthquake is still rumbling. Maybe some after shocks here. Yes, Paul, the.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
First round college football playoff games will be December twentieth,
twenty first, ABC, ESPN Friday Saturday night, some eight o'clock
kickoff on a Friday night. But then there's some games
on Saturday afternoon because you know, the NFL has a
few Saturday games. Late December, there'll be college football playoff
first round games up against Houston Kansas City. That's a
(10:27):
nice NFL game and Baltimore Pittsburgh, which is always.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
A tune in, always spicy.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
We should bet on the ratings. M Maybe we'll wait
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, that's only June.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
But those games will be at home at the higher seed.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yes, and those might be blowout games. The potential for
a blowout game, you know when you have what twelve
versus one?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Or are the top two getting buys? Yes?
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Byes?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, so the number one and number two in the
rankings get buys.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The top four conference champions will receive first.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
All right, New Year's Even and New Year's Day is back.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's good. Yeah, it's good. So much for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
NBA once again get kicked in the head there, NFL,
and now you know what's going on with college football.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Yeah, Paul, if you were the NBA, I think someone
suggested this long time ago starting on Christmas Day. Couldn't
you bump your entire season back six weeks and go
into deep June and July and not affect anything and
have more eyeballs on the home stretch.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Of your sport. I'm not the first person to suggest.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The fact that you know, these networks are spending over
a couple of billion dollars, that you know what is
good for programming. I think summer months kind of dead
for TV viewing. That would be an issue. I guess
do you want?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I know? Basketball in July?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
A couple of phone calls in here Drew and Georgia
leads us off, Hey Drew, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Hey? Dan?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
You guys looked me up this morning with the news
and so Van Hurley and the Lakers, and I was
just curious. As a head basketball coach, high school basketball
coach canahere in Georgia. The first thing that came to
my mind was interview that Dan Hurley did with CBS
during March Madness about how he recruits players and what
does he do. And one of the biggest things he
(12:23):
said was, we don't just look at the skills that
comes with every d one athlete. We look at the
parents and the families. I'm just curious what and I'll
take this off there. I'm just curious what you think
Lebron's roll and Van hurley roll might be in that
parent conference on when Ronnie's not necessarily getting enough minute
or things like that. I thought it was a funny dynamic,
(12:44):
but it definitely something I would definitely consider if I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Was Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, he told me that too, that he looks at
the parents and not only looking at the kid, but
also looking at the parents. I don't know what his
pro style is going to be, like how you coach?
How do you coach for eighty two games? How do
you keep that passion, the interest energy? You know, he
was talking about burning out at Connecticut. Now you're going
(13:07):
to have twice as many games under the microscope. Every
game under the microscope when there's a time out, when
Lebron is talking to Dan Hurley, or if he isn't
or Dan Hurley is trying to get Lebron's attention. Everything
is going to be under the microscope every game. And
people aren't going to have patients. They're going to want results.
(13:30):
Oh if you lose two in a row, Oh, question
marks you know Lebron has a problem.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean, you could factor in Bronnie. I guess. I
don't know if that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But you know what, Lebron might appreciate Danny Hurley coaching
Bronnie because he does need to be coached, he does
need to play, and he needs to go to the
G League. If you bring him in, Yes, Mark.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Brian should go to Yukon.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He could get some shots. Now.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Maybe he could have had Brownie getting coached by tonight. Yes, Tod,
there's no and we mentioned it earlier. There's no worst
case scenario for him if it didn't work out.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
So many coaches, so many college apports will be like
he could probably even go back to Yukon in a
few years if he wanted to, if it didn't work
out in LA other than being away from your family
and having to move across the country. If theyre going
to give him that kind of money, he seems like
the kind of person that would be eating himself up
to not take this job, especially if they don't three
peat next year if he stayed.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't. I once again, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I don't know what drives him No, it's probably coaching
at the highest level with the best players. I don't
know if you know he's driven crazy by the transfer
portal and nil, like most coaches are. But you've won
back to back. Now all of a sudden, players are
going to want to play for you. It's like when
Gino Oriema with the Yukon women he was winning. They
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wanted to be part of a winner.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes, I do think I mentioned it last hour, But
I do think the family part of it is a
strong poll to stay on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's maybe the biggest surprise because he mentions his wife,
He mentions his family.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
He's an East Coast guy. And now you're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
All the way across country, right And it's not like
you're just going all the way across country. You're going
to Los Angeles and you're coaching the Lakers. His parents
go to every game right now.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes they do.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I wouldn't underestimate how significant that is for someone like that.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, I think that those are fair points to bring up,
because that's what surprises me, not that he's taking the
job or would take the job. It's that the you know,
the family aspect of this is real for him because
he does bring it up. All right, let me take
a break. I said it was appointment listening. It's gino Oriema.
(15:48):
We tape the interview a few hours ago and I
thought he was wonderful and just he never holds back.
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
Fritzie has got a wild numerology.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Uh wow, I'll get to this coming up in a
little bit there, but there's a numerology going on with
the Lake and Danny Hurley and JJ Reddick, so we'll
have that for you coming up here in a little bit.
Two hours ago, we talked to Gino Oriema before we
started our show live and we wanted to talk to him.
(17:13):
He signed a contract extension, had some things to say
about Caitlin Clark, and then of course the Danny Hurley
story falls into our lap.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So I tape.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The Geno interview and this is it in its entirety,
has not been edited, and it's just Geno being Geno
after signing a five year contract extension to stay as
the head coach of the Yukon Women. And I started
the interview by asking Geno his reaction to the Danny
Hurley to the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
You know, this is really funny because I happen to
be with it at a thing with him last night,
and I have no idea what's going on, you know,
I have no idea where this is going or what's happening.
But I said, just leaned over and I said, hey,
I think you can win a lot of championships with
the Lakers, you know, more so than a guy who's
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never coached, and he just looked at me and you know,
nodded and we had a good laugh. And then this
morning I wake up and while I so, I don't
know what's going on, and it'd be a bad day
for Yukon for sure if this happens, and it would
be a great, great day for Dan Hurley, and I'm
sure a bittersweet day for Dan early.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, now you're being serious that you did bring this
up to him last night about the Lakers jump.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Out of nowhere. I just leaned over and I said,
you know, I don't know why it came to me.
I don't know why, but I said it, and if
you ask him, I'll tell you. And I had no idea,
And I woke up this morning and somebody sent it
to me, and I went, you got to be kidne meed.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I know that he's talked about not going to another
college job that if he does go down the road
when he thinks he's mature enough to coach in the NBA.
This happened a lot quicker, But I'm wondering the state
of college basketball, certainly men's college basketball, GINO, Does that
make this decision a little bit more, I guess palatable
(19:04):
or easier when you think about him wanting to go
to coach the NBA instead of trying to go for
a three peat, all.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Those are true. I think the state of college basketball
is a mess anyone who, if anybody, could manage it, though,
it would be Danny because he coaches this program like
it's a high school program, like he coached the Saint Benedict's.
Their player development program is second to none. But I
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do think that being at Yukon and given the state
of college basketball and the amount of money now that
it's going to take to be able to put together
a national championship team every single year, I think, and
without knowing where it's going, it's a charade. It's this
idea of student athlete student athlete welfare. Every single thing
(19:56):
that comes out of the NCAA's mouth about student athlete
welfare meant it's booth that has no factor ever anymore.
And I never want to hear anybody out of those
words associated with college basketball. They are professional athletes, just
not called that. So you might as well go coach
professional athletes where it's real. Now. If Danny were to
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leave and somebody said to me. You know, he just
took this NBA job. I won't name any particular city.
I would say, you know, you're set up for failure,
but it's the Lakers. And if I don't know the
details of it, but if you're saying, hey, I want
a ten you to deal, I want the same deal
Brad Stevens guy to Boston.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It might be more than that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Well, Dan, you know what, Hey, Andrea's wife might not
like me, but it's crazy if he doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But that's what surprised me though, Gino is he's an
East Coast guy. Yeah, and he'd have to convince her
to go out, you know, to Rodeo Drive.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well that part she might not. She might not, you know,
she might not argue with it. Maybe all the other
parts you might have a problem with. But yeah, yeah,
it's a it's a huge family. It's a huge family decision,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
How many offers have you had, and let's say the
last fifteen years, ten years.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Well they all came too late. But you know, one, two, three,
four total, including you know, between men's college basketball and
NBA stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
What was the men's what was the NBA stuff?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
I talked to a couple of people about being an
assistant when I thought this game was going where it's going,
and I thought, well, I wish I was younger, because
it was at an age where it's like, do I
really have it in me to be that and be
fair to that for one hundred and some games if
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you're lucky enough during the season. And I wouldn't be
so pretentious enough to think that I could go from
where I am or where I've been coaching women's basketball,
and I listen, coaching is coaching. I get it. But
the distance and the gap. I thought, you know what
if I could be an assistant here for a couple
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of years, three four years, I think I could do
this job. But it just came at the wrong time
in my career. But if I come earlier, I would
have done it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Talking to Gino Orima, the Hall of Fame head coach
with Connecticut and just signed a five year deal. Any
talk of retirement when you sat down with the family.
Now yet No, So you were signing this extension, there
was no do I want to do it five more years?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
No, I'd already decided that I wanted to. Now what
pisses me off is that if I'd have known that
this was happening with Danny, because I think I gave
them the old AARP discount to university because I thought
they're going to have to pay a lot of money
to keep Hurlely. Well, if he leaves, I'm gonna be
pissed and I'm going to rip up that contract and
(23:07):
i want a new one and I want some of
the money that they were going to give him.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So just call it the Hurley clause. If Hurley leaves,
then you want a Hurley clause.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
That's right. I'm envisioning the Hurley clause. And this might become,
you know, a commonplace in college sports.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now. I don't know if you use it as leverage,
but you can always say, hey, I'll just coach the
men's team at Yukon if you're not going to give
me this kind of money.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Now, I would never do that, you know, I'd be
like moving your shortstop to second base. You'd screw up
both programs.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So no talk of retirement. You're going to be what
seventy five when this is all said and done.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Supposedly, you know, but you know what really motivated me
when Pop signs his new deal.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So Pop.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, but Popovich with wembn Yama, I'm sure he's like, hey,
you know what, let me hang around this guy for
a little longer.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Okay, Well, I think I got a couple of guys
in my program that I want to hang around with
a couple a couple of years long. And I actually,
seriously when Pop signed his deal, so I said, you
know what, I'm going to go to my ID and
said I want.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Half of that.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
He signed for ten years for eighty million or five
years for eighty million. I said, I've signed five years
for twenty million. But didn't play out way? But actually
did they played out exactly that way? Actually? Good.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I saw where you said the WNBA they're targeting Caitlyn Clark.
What do you mean by how she's being guarded or
you know, in FULLMCE.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I think yeah. I think you and I both know
the landscape that we live in today, both sports wise
and nonsports wise. Right, we are in a red blue
and if you're red, you can't agree with blue, and
if you're blue, you can't agree with red, Whereas most
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things are in the middle. If you're a college player,
and you're a great college player, like Caitlyn was the
delusional fan base that follows her disrespected the WNBA players
by saying she's going to go in that league and
tear it apart. There were actually odds on what are like,
(25:10):
she's third or fourth embedtting odds of being MVP at
a WNBA. These people are so disrespectful and so unknowledgeable
and so stupid that it gives women's basketball a bad name. Okay,
so the kid was set up for failure right from
the beginning. So if you're a WNBA player, and I
believe me, I've coached the best and I've pissed them
(25:32):
off a lot, and they let me know about it.
But they were tremendously disrespected and none of them are
going to say it. But human nature is okay, this
kid's coming into the league, and Diana said it best.
This kid's in for a rude awakening, and they all
jumped over her. But they didn't read the whole thing
that she said. But nobody's printing. You know, Diana Trassi
(25:52):
was right. This kid's on the wrong team. She's got
the wrong skill set. They handled the physicality of that
league and she's a rookie and if you're a WNBA player,
if you're any kind of player, you're gonna say, I'm
gonna make a statement. Targeted, targeted by society, targeted by
her looks, targeted by her reputation, targeted by the disrespect
(26:14):
that they've shown to the WNBA. There's a huge target
on this kid's back. I thought Cameron Brin said something
really smart. She said, now they're expecting this rookie class
to be perfect. This rookie class isn't even one of
the best rookie classes in the last ten years, but
they've been put out to be that because the way
social media is today. So what kind of impact is
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this rookie class having in a WNBA.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
How do you think Clark is handling this.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I think she's handling great. I think she talks a
lot and she gets a lot of back. So she
deserves everything she gets because she gives it as good
as she gets it. She's just not built for the
physicality of this league, and she's not freaking off to
get away from the physicality. So there's a lot of
learning her, like Diana said, and when she gets it,
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she has elite skills that are going to really help her. Yeah,
so she needs to be a better she needs to
be on a better team, and she needs to be
more experienced, and that will come. But for these ridiculous
fans who had her slotted as the next Diana now
through out of their mind, and and for these people
that are waiting outside the bus for the Chicago Sky team,
(27:24):
what else? What it would become a third world soccer
country that when a soccer player gives up their own
goal in the World Cup, you're waiting for him in
the bar to shoot them, Like, what the hell are
we doing here?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
When Paige Becker said she was coming back, you said what.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I said?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I knew that she's having too good a time here.
Her impact here is so great, her impact nationally is great.
And she doesn't want to be known as the greatest
player ever to play at Ukon without winning a national championship.
And I remind her that every day.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Does she have the build to play in the WNBA?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, But her.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Game is different. Her game is different than Caitlyn's in
that she's more of just a distributor get the ball,
you know. Her game is more like Sue Bird's game,
all right, And not that Sue had the physicality to
play in that league. But obviously she's the best point
(28:34):
guard ever. But I think her game, the subtleties of
her game, will translate however, her rookie year, she will
get it as bad as Caitin is getting it right now.
Because that's just the world, man, that's just the world.
Then you got to learn to live with it. But yes,
(28:56):
she will have a target on her back as well.
I just hope the social media thing, doesn't, you know,
envelop her like they've like they've done to this kid.
This kid, she doesn't This kid doesn't deserve all this.
Nobody deserves all this. And and how about this, Dan,
you and I have known each other long enough. Have
you ever called the player on your show a white
(29:21):
We'll give someone the right to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I think McAfee wuld say, so, that's the world. He
was trying to do it as a compliment. I guess
I think he was praising her. I don't know, yeah
that's what he said.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, I didn't, okay.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
But just the fact that, just the fact that we
live in a society where today you can't say that, Well,
if you look at society as a whole. There are
things that are being said that have never been allowed
to be said before. There was years ago when somebody
made a comment on TV or radar, they lost their
job the next day. Well, we live in a society
(29:57):
today where you can say anything, do anything and nothing,
just apologize and everything is okay. Well right now sports
is a reflection of that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Keep fighting a good fight.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And uh, sorry, Hurley's taken away your headlines here with
you coming bat Let me.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Ask you something. Do you know something? I don't know
that he take the job.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He's being targeted.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Uh, Woje said, wait, just walk down the hall and say, hey,
Danny taking the Laker job.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
You know my agent is his agent, Brett just and uh.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Just call him.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
No, I don't know. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wait, you just asked me. You just asked me. You
can go get the answer here.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I Am going to go down the hall soon as
what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Great to talk to you, Hey, congrats on the extension.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Thanks my man.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's Gino Oriama unplugged straight shooter. Just the fact that
he's with Danny Hurley last night at an event and
jokes with him about taking the Lakers job and that
he could win a couple of championships there, and Danny's
got to bite his tongue like.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Wait, does he know anything?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And the fact that you're in the basketball building, just
walk down the hallway, Danny, you're taking the Laker job.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
He's asking me what I know. I'm just reporting what
Woge is reporting.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
People are going to pick some things out of there,
what he said about Caitlin Clark. But if anybody's going
to try to argue with what he is saying about
women's basketball, you're not in his league because he has
coached some of the greats and he knows some can
play in the WNBA, some can't. He said that she's
on a bad team. She does have tremendous skill set,
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but she's physically not built for this, at least right now.
And he's being honest. I've said this before. I need
to see what she's going to be like next year,
because now she knows every time down the floor, there's
gonna be an elbow, a forearm, somebody's gonna bump you,
somebody's gonna smack you, some stuff called some not.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's going to happen. It is happening.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I do think maybe the last four or five six
games you might see a different Caitlin Clark. It's been
a tough schedule, but they are out to be physical
with her. I mean, you're trying to win the game,
you're gonna be physical. Not to the point with you know,
Kennedy Carter because there's no place in the game and
she should have been suspended. But there's going to be
(32:33):
hard fouls. Stuff that she got an Iowa that she's
not going to get now. You're not in Iowa anymore,
and she knows that. But I think the less you
say the better. Just take it, learn from it, and
then come back next year with a vengeance. All Right,
we'll take a break. Fritzy has six degrees of Lakers
(32:56):
coming out. I do numerology. I didn't know I needed it.
I still don't know if I need it, but I'll
let you decide if you need it. We'll have that
for you coming up. Reggie Miller in about forty minutes
from now as well. NBA Finals starting tonight, and we'll
get Regi's thoughts on the possibility of Danny Hurley coaching
the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
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Calls Tyler the operator once again, we're getting information, but
nothing official about Danny Hurley and the Lakers, but they
are having talks and it's supposed to escalate later on
(33:49):
this week. Whatever escalate means that pretty much sounds like
what are you willing to offer me? And then that's
when we'll find out. I'm now I'm going back in
one wondering was JJ Reddick really in play? If boje
with what he's saying that they targeted Danny Hurley from
the outset, was JJ Reddick in play? And you had
(34:10):
some insiders who said it's his job, he's going to
get it mere formality, and once the finals is over,
it's going to be JJ Reddick. He does the podcast
with Lebron. We missed all of it, but was JJ
in play? That's what I'd be curious about when it's
all said and done. Now, JJ did say to a
(34:32):
report yesterday all address this once the NBA Finals are over.
That led to even more speculation that, oh, it's a
done deal. Hey, he's going to tell us about the
process once the NBA Finals is over. Now, what does
he say when somebody asked him about this the process?
Are you getting the job? Why didn't you get the job?
(34:54):
Did you know Danny Hurley was in the mix here?
What did Lebron tell you? What did you say to Lebron?
You know there's a lot of quot ques students that
might come out of this. Yes, Mark for the game tonight.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
If you're JJ Reddick, you just come right out with
it and say something tongue in cheek regarding the Lakers
coaching position.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I don't know if he's a tongue in cheek guy
kind of serious what he gives you his basketball talk.
I guess on the pregame show that you have JJ
on and maybe discuss it there, because once the game starts,
you can't discuss it. And if Mike Breen is bringing
(35:32):
on you and Doris Burke and you're gonna get ready,
you're ready for the game, not about JJ with the Lakers.
JJ and the Lakers and Danny Hurley. That's your pregame show.
That should be when you come on, you know, a
live shot in Boston. You'll show Luca. Now, you'll show Tatum,
you'll show Brown, you'll show Kyrie. That'll be coming up.
(35:53):
Come on inside. But the big story that started earlier
today and WOJ joins us. Now WOJ will recap and
JJ Reddick is going to be on the call. JJ, Well, hey,
y ESPN's paying him.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I got to have you on, and you got to
tell me what you know?
Speaker 8 (36:10):
It's an in house story.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yes, you can't let somebody else break this, oh man, Yeah,
I gotta. I gotta ask him the question. It may
not be comfortable. You're in the in the business of
breaking news and your news is right there at least
a portion of that news. If I was hosting, I
would say we have to have JJ Reddick on. You know, JJ,
(36:34):
when did you find out about Woja's report with Danny Hurley?
He might say, Hey, like everybody else, what have you
been told? Then whatever his answer is, are you still
in the mix for this job?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I mean, these are tough questions, but you have to
ask these things. He may not want to, but you're
an employee. We got to make good TV here. We'll
get to the end NBA Finals. Let's take care of this.
We own this story. Woge broke it. It's ours. Don't
let it get outside here. That's the risk that you
run here, Ryan in South Dakota, Hi, Ryan, what's on
(37:14):
your mind today?
Speaker 14 (37:15):
Morning?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Morning Ran.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
Let's say let's say Danny Hurley has actually offered this
job by the Lakers and he turns it down. What
does that say about the Lakers job as a whole.
If somebody that's never coached in the NBA doesn't want it.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, I think he's really desirable candidate here. Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It does say something, and it's something that you know,
I would probably then reiterate what I've been saying for
a while. Is it a desirable job? They may have
given him an offer he can't refuse. You know, Is
JJ Redditt going to be a great coach? I don't know.
Danny Hurley is a great basketball coach. Now you can
(37:55):
say I and coach, you know the pros. But I'm
guessing with new philosophy that he has what he's done
at Connecticut, how he incorporates players almost like a new
triangle offense with what they're running at Yukon. All right,
maybe that's intriguing. Players will follow you. They want to
know if you know what you're talking about. And I
(38:18):
would think Danny Hurley was he in his early fifties,
He's got a lot of basketball knowledge. There quite a
family tree there, But yeah, I don't. I mean, you
still got Lebron for a couple of years, and you
got ad. It gets interesting after that after two years,
then what happens with the team?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, pulling.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
We've been talking a lot about the family with the
Hurleys on the East Coast, New Jersey based and the
parents are older. You know, a lot of people said
the same thing with Jim Harbaugh. His dad didn't he
live next door to him in ann Arbor. I don't
know if his dad's also moving to Los Angeles to
be near the facility or not.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
I would assume he is.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Maybe he is, But I thought people a lot said
that would hold Harball back. He's not gonna leave Michigan.
His family's there. It's all said, he's king of the
hill and his family travels.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I guess, all right, Todd, you got six degrees of
Lakers here. Explain your numerology.
Speaker 10 (39:13):
Okay, I was just thinking about relating to the story
and is Hurley going to go to the Lakers, stay
at Yukon or all that kind of thing, Reddick and everything,
and just seemed like a lot of names all had
six letters. Okay, so this is why we called six
degrees of Lakers. This doesn't mean or predict anything at all,
but just for giggles, Lakers six.
Speaker 15 (39:30):
Letters, Hurley, Reddick, stores Crypto, Lebron.
Speaker 10 (39:39):
Genie is in Genie, Buss Andrea as in Hurley's wife,
Jersey as in his family in New Jersey.
Speaker 15 (39:46):
But Gamble is six letters as well. That puts a
little curve in things. Also.
Speaker 10 (39:51):
So all these things related to Yukon and Lakers and
Reddick and Hurley all had six letters.
Speaker 15 (39:56):
I found that kind of fund Lebron wre number six.
Period of time with the Lakers before we went back
to twenty three after Bill Russell passed away.
Speaker 9 (40:01):
Okay, a lot of six going on there.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Okay, Yukon's five, Ukhan.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
And Husky's a seven. So maybe it's more towards that
he's going to.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
Take the Laker Joe, Yes, I'm gonna give that to you.
Tod that's say so a little put together there.
Speaker 15 (40:15):
Thanks, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 9 (40:17):
It's lightly interesting, lightly yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
All right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I see him and he's writing down letters and I
just see he's writing down stores and crypto and Genie,
and I go, what are you doing?
Speaker 15 (40:29):
And then I checked the bio like his wife's name
is Andrea.
Speaker 9 (40:32):
This is perfect.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Six letters, it's all coming together numerology ride curly.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Sorry why six?
Speaker 15 (40:41):
I don't know. This doesn't predict Anything's just so happens.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
That all of the number six isn't significant in any way,
not in.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Any way at all.
Speaker 10 (40:47):
It's just that all these names associated with this breaking
news and this story.
Speaker 15 (40:51):
Have six letters. I just found that interesting. But it
will not predict anything about it will not in the future.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
It will not. But six more letters. Reggie Miller.
Speaker 15 (41:02):
Coming up like this, Yes, I did you saved me
with her?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Reggie Miller will join us. Coming up in the final
hour of the program. What are the results from our
two's poll question? There Seaton sixty six percent.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Karma this story is the Lakers looking to the future
or Hurly leveraging Yukon sixty one percent say Early's leveraging.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yukon's WHOA.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
The last time a coach left a national champion and
coach the NBA. Larry Brown in nineteen eighty eight left
Kansas and he went to the Spurs.
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