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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One of our favorite players. I'm on Ron Saint Brown,
the Lions wide receiver former USC why out joining us
on the program. Did you hear about the trade this
morning with DeAndre Hopkins?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, I heard about it and I was eating eating
breakfast this morning, looked at my phone and saw it.
So guys won't guess we won't be going against DeAndre
Hopkins this week. Crazy news, but I mean I feel
like it's kind of been that way this year all year.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
A lot of crazy news, especially at the receiver position.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, I mean the value of that. I think Cooper
cub could be traded, you know, Mike Evans got hurt,
Chris God went out for the year. I mean, it's
how difficult is it to stay healthy at that position?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I think I don't think it's the hardest position to
stay healthy at. But you know, it's football at the
end of the day, and you get in so many
different positions, different angles throughout the game, different catches that
you make. You never know what can happen throughout a
football game. So just depends, you know. I feel like
a lot of it has to do with luck. But yeah,
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you gotta I feel like you gotta train, you gotta,
you know, kind of callous your body for certain things.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But at the end of the day, there's some injuries
that you just can't prevent.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But also you have a coach who's a tough guy.
So are there times where you go I can't say
that I'm hurt, or like you can't tell Coach Campbell,
hey can I come out of the game or take
me out of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think it really depends on what you have going on.
But something serious, you definitely got to come out or
you will come out. But there's you know, if you
get a contusion, small things like that rolled ankle or
nothing two serious. I mean most guys on our team.
I think most guys in the league are going to
keep playing because of the competitors that we are. But
like I said, it depends on the injury. But I
just want to let you know that everyone here at
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the lines locker room is thinking about your shoulder with
revery that you can come back and make it in time.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm ready. Every day is a super Bowl for me,
like I could play for Coach Campbell like it, I'll
be out there. I mean, I'll tape it up even
though I got stitches, like I'll play hurt. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
just gonna let you know I'm not soft. The story
that you'll tell your grandkids about coach campbells what.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I mean, there's so many, so many stories I feel
like for me. I mean, every day he has a
different story, something else that he's telling us.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Are there a lot of stories you can't tell on
the air?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I wouldn't say there's not really, Okay, yeah, a lot
of them are really.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know, he's a character though, man, Yeah he is.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I feel like us as players, you know, we really
we respect him as a coach so much because he's
the same guy every day. He brings the same energy
whether we win, lose, draw, whatever it is, he's the
same coach. Anybody knows how to get us going, whether
it's you know, long day of work, Wednesday practice, long
day of practice.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We got pads on. No one wants to have pads on.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He's gonna make it fun, he's gonna make it good,
and he's gonna make his compete at the end of day.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're supposed to learn from your losses. Certainly in the postseason.
What did you learn last year from that loss?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I think for us as a team, we learned a
lot last year. You know, obviously it was a big
year for us. We went we went pretty far. Obviously
we wanted to go to the Super Bowl and win it,
but we fell short. And I think going into this year,
the biggest thing for us was we just got to
do more. Whatever we did last year, it wasn't enough.
We got to do more in every you know, every facet,
whether it's in the weight room and the meeting room,
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out on the field and the training room, whatever it is, players, coaches, everyone,
we all have to do more because if we don't,
we expect different results. I mean that's kind of crazy.
So we got to do more and we got to
be better than we were last year.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
He's I'm on Ron Saint Brown, the Lions wide receiver.
What was that like? It's almost like I wish halftime
didn't happen in that game because you guys had so
much momentum. It's like you went into halftime in a
different team, or two different teams came out of that
locker room.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, it was like a tall two sides. I feel like,
you know, first half, everything went right. Second half, I
feel like everything went wrong. I remember going into the
you know, going into the locker room at halftime, feeling like,
you know, we're half away from going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I feel like we're going.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
We just got to continue we've been doing the first half,
don't mess it up. And I feel like as we
came out that second half, they did everything right and
we did everything wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And you know, that's how.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
This game is, to game of inches, and they just
made you know, a few more plays in us at
the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Who was your idol growing up? Playing wide receiver?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So my idol growing up, I didn't play receiver, you know,
growing up as a kid. I played running back for
most of my you know, childhood until I got to
high school.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But my audo was Kobe Bryant. I love Kobe. That
was my guy.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know, his mentality, his mindset, his the way he
went about the game was something that I really admired.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Did you meet him when you were at USC.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So I never met Kobe.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I went to the to the parade when they won
the the finals. I believe it was like an eight
went to the parade, But I never got to shake
Kobe's hand.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Wait, how old were you when I.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Was at the parade? I was about eight years old.
I was born in ninety nine, so eight years old.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That had to be a big moment. What did you
get to skip school that day?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I did. Yeah, it was awesome. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Did you watch the Lakers last night with Lebron and Bronni?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
No, you know, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Actually, I was busy doing my own podcast, doing my
own thing, and I had to get the better ela
to be up in the morning. But I saw I
saw some of the highlights this morning. I saw Bronnie
checking in. I mean, I think that the whole deal
with him and Lebron is it's something that you just
can't replace. I mean, it's a time in history. You know,
one of the best players ever played, his son is
playing with him. They got the dub. I think it
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was an amazing time for sports in general.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But can you take that Mamba mentality and play football
that way?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I think so for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I think you can apply his his mentality and any
sport and anything in life.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It doesn't even have to be sports.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It can be you know, you want to be a pilot,
you want to be a future whatever it is, you
can apply his mentality to try to be the best,
you know, version of yourself for you know, that particular
job that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
He called me the White Mamba, but he yes, he did. Okay,
I think I think it's a positive. He signed his
all star jersey to the White Mamba, and I'm like,
all right, you know I can at my age, I
can still take on that Mamba mentality if I need to.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Like, yeah, of course you can. Alth you gotta take
it on now.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, once again, But thank you for the prayers. I
appreciate that. But I'm I'm going to be able to play.
All right. You have a meeting in four minutes. If
you're late, what happens?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I get fined? So you got to pay it?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
How much is it?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I've never gotten fined, so I'm not sure, but I
know it's a pretty hefty amount.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Okay, But if Golf walks in late, he's getting fine too.
It doesn't matter, don't matter who you are. Oh man,
you know, I would like for you to be one
minute late, and I'd be willing to pay the fine. Really, yeah,
what's it going to cost me? Five hundred?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Probably like five thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, it's not costing five thousand.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Five thousand, No, you want to do that?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Let me know.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I know coach before he was your head coach, So.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Okay, I got stories. Maybe you can talk to him,
talk him out of finding me.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Hey, great to have you on and good luck against
the Titans. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Appreciate it, Dan, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's I'm on Ross Saint Brown Lions Wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern, six am Pacific
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Speaker 2 (07:37):
We welcome back Commissioner Major League Baseball. He's Rob Manfred
joining us on the program. World Series kicks off on Fox.
First pitch will be Friday night at eight oh eight
between the Yankees and the Dodgers. How often do people
hit you up for World Series tickets?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I would say I worked probably ten hours yesterday, say
about five.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Of them were devoted to ticket requests.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
How do you tell somebody no, you know.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Look, people understand you know that even we don't have
unlimited supplies of World Series tickets. Obviously, you know, season
ticket holders kind of go first, and you just have
to be honest with people about availability.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I could be your plus one, is what you're saying.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Dan, if you want to go, we'll find you tickets.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Okay, Yeah, what about throwing out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Is that is that booked already?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
The first pitch is well booked well in advanced Yeah,
that's done.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
How will Baseball honor Fernando Velezuela on Friday?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
There will be an activation in the ballpark.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I think best to leave the details of that to
be disclosed when it happens. But look, Fernando was a
really important part of our history. You know, you don't
have many players who take over a season the way
he did, and we will honor him accordingly.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Could he go into the Hall of Fame as a contributor?
If I look at his career? Really what he did
impact with race, relations with Mexico, with Los Angeles, you know,
it was more than just he was a pitcher for
a little while in baseball.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
You know, I think that's one of the you know,
I'm on the Hall of Fame board, but I don't
serve on these committees. I do think that after the
writers have their opportunity, which you know is a process
that I think has served the whole well, and I
had great respect for you know, I do think that
the era committees, if you'll let me refer to him
that way, are important in terms of giving consideration to
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factors like you raised with Fernando that you know, it's
not just how many wins and you know what your was,
but what did you mean to the game in a
particular era.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, that's why. I mean. It's tricky with being a
contributor because I argued for Buck O'Neil for years that
he Buck O'Neill was the voice for the negro leagues.
When somebody said what was cool Papa about? You know,
like what was Josh Gibson like, they went to Buck O'Neill.
So Buck was telling stories about everybody. I said, it's
an ultimate contributor while being a baseball player. So I
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like that part of it. But I just don't know
what qualifies and what does it.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Yeah, No, I do think that.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I think that in the Era committee process, you know,
individuals who didn't get in with the writers are given
consideration on a broader set of factors.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Than the writers may give credence to.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
He's the commissioner Rob Manfred. If I would have told
you in March, hey, you're gonna get through the show
heyo Tani situation, and you're going to have the Yankees
and the Dodgers in the World Series, you would have said,
what it's.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
About time I cut up with.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Look, honestly, the season has been phenomenal for us. Stand
I mean, I you know, our tendants really strong. You know,
our ratings are good, Our demographics are getting younger. You know,
our eighteen to thirty four numbers really strong. Our average
age off our ticket buyers has gone down almost five
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years in the last four years. All of those things
are really strong. We had great markets in the postseason
with some of our you know, most exciting players represented,
and maybe the best thing about the postseason so far,
the actual individual games have been so compelling. I mean,
we have had all of the things that you know,
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based on our research, fans want to see late inning, pitching, changes, action.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
I mean, it's just been phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think I love the three game series. I love
a five game series. I think it caught people's attention
earlier than normal because there was urgency there and therefore
we didn't wait til you know, Championship series of the
World Series. To watch it was you better watch now,
this team could get bounced.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
You know, I think that we kind of found the
sweet spot on the wildcard round. I think that, you know,
in the early years, it was a knockout game, and
obviously people pay attention to knockout games, but I think
for our fan base as a whole, that's not the
way baseball's played.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
And I think, you know, the quick three game series in.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
One market gives us an opportunity to capture fans earlier
in the in the playoffs, and when you get the
things I referred to before the late any lead changes
and those sorts of things going on, you know, you
capture people and it's you carry that audience through.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
When's the last time you got a raise?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Let me see, I got to think about that. I
think I'm going to get a raised in January. How
about that, you know raise in January?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Okay, So you have a contract now, you know, I
had a contract at ESPN that told me what it
was going to go up incrementally each year. Do you
have your Does your contract state what it's going to do?
You never thought you were getting this question today.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Did you No, I do have a contract. I got
four years left on my contract and it sets forth
compensation in a variety of forms, salary, bonus, whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
How do you know you've had a good year.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
There is actually a review process that goes on. There's
a committee of owners that you know, we present information
to and they go through and you know, I sit
with them at an owners meeting and they give me
their view of.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
How I've done for the year.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But do you want to hit home runs or you
want to have a great on base percentage? As commissioner,
you know, I think.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
It's important for a CEO to be steady.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I mean, I think that stability, consistent progress is really
really important.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I know we're not there at the off season, but
what rule tweaks are we looking at?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Well, the biggest thing that's going on right now is
the automated Strike Zone. We continued to testing in the
minor leagues last year. We are we have decided that
we're going to test the challenge version. You know, there's
two versions of ABS, one where every pitch gets called
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in the umpires of the year and the other that's
a challenge system. We're going to test this Challenge system
in spring training with major league players. You know, one
of the things that we learned with the rule changes
that we did a couple of years ago, and one
of the things we've heard from players is just remember
whatever you're do in the minor league is it's great,
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but the big leagues are different, and we're going to
try to determine whether the system we have is up
to snuff to be used by major league players.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Is it inevitable we're going to have automatic balls and strikes?
In your opinion during your next four years, will we
have automated strikes on?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
I think you will see some version of the automated
strikes one in the big leagues in the next four years.
You know, Look, the technology piece of it is so robust,
and I mean literally the path of the pitch is
tracked good to one one hundredth of an inch and
it's just hard to ignore that kind of technology when
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it's available.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And I think the key is that remember the well
obviously you remember the pitch clock was oh my god,
what are they doing? And then nobody brought it up.
It hasn't come up in months. All the bigger bases,
Oh we need pizza boxes out there, it doesn't come
up anymore.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
This is why you're so good at what you do.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
I have to tell you, when we think about change,
we think about it exactly the way that you describe it.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
That we're going to put a change out there, and.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
No matter how big or how small it is, the
first month is going to be hell on wheez.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, everybody's gonna hate it.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
And then you know, they see it and the game
is still the game, and it makes the game a
little better and people get used to it.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I mean even even little things.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Remember is a few years ago now we went to
the you can just signal for an intentional walk.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
You don't have to throw the four pinches.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
My voicemail after that change was made, for about the
first three.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Weeks, people called me.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You can't repeat the things people say on my office voicemail.
It's just people like literally lose their mind over a
change is completely inconsequential.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Wait, wait, I can call you in your office and
leave a voice message.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Oh just just yeah. Unfortunately people figure out how to
get here.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh, can I give out your number now in case
anybody wants.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
I could prefer we put them to the test.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So they're leaving messages on there.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, people leave messages, you know they you know, look,
one of the great things about the game. And you know,
it's taken me time to come to appreciate this, you know,
good better indifferent. The fact that people are passionate enough
about the game to take time to express their views
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in very strong ways.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
That is a strength of our sport.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
I mean, it demonstrates the connection that people have to
the game and how much they care.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
About the game.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know what, I think you had a great year,
and I've said this before the last couple of months,
but you took chances get rid of those stupid All
Star Game uniforms. That's the next thing on the list,
right We're doing. We're taking care of that, right, yeah,
we are. Okay, that's an easy fix. Right.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Well, you know, let's talk about that for a minute
because it's sort of an interesting one.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
You know.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
One of the reasons that we stayed where we were
for as long as we did is the All Star
Game uniforms was a product that's sold a lot. And
you know, usually when people are buying something, it's an
indication that they think it's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
This was a really interesting one. People were buying.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It, but they hated it.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
I don't know why. I mean I I don't know
why they bought it if they hated it that much.
But look, I think it's a change that's good for
us over the long haul.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, but you can still do that, Commissioner, you can
still make an alternative jersey. But let's go back to
the old school.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Yeah, we'll have jerseys that.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
We used during the home run derby probably that I
think that's where it will land.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
That so we will still have the product.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
But it was an interesting one, and I do think
it's one of those experiments where, you know, we did it,
people spoke, we listened, and we're back to where we were.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
The Pete Rose documentary Did you watch it?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I did? I did.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Did you find out anything that you didn't know or
something that maybe you cared a little more about?
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Look, you know, I'd spend enough time with Pete over
the years that I had a pretty good feel for
what he was about.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I think the best thing.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
About the documentaries that presented a pretty accurate picture.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Of who Pete is and was.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I mean it, and he was a complicated person, combination
of appealing and unappealing aspects that you don't often find
in the human being.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All Right, I want you to answer this so I
don't have to answer it anymore when my audience says, yeah,
but baseball is in bed with gambling, and so aren't
they being hypocritical with Pete Rose.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Yeah, here's here's how I think about that.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I think it's a privilege to work in Major League
base Ball and to be a Major League Baseball player.
Often when you have a privilege, it comes with obligations.
The obligation in this case is to stay away from
gambling because it involvement with gambling by people who work
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in the game and can influence outcomes, reflects and presents
a threat.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
To the integrity of the game. So that's a category
of people.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Fans are different, you know, the government, you know, in
this case, the Supreme Court paved the way for legalization
of sports betting. Fans want to engage with the game
in that way, they present no threat to the integrity
of the game or a minimal threat to the integrity
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of the game. And as a result, we have different
rules that are played to those fans that have taken
advantage of that business opportunity. I don't see any inconsistency
between those suit rules.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I really don't I worry about prop bets, Commissioner, Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I have to say we have lobbied against prop bets
in a variety of states, all the states. Actually they
are certainly more problematic then I'll come based. You know,
Google won the game kind of bets, and we have
tried to get the states to recognize that there are
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some well betting per se sports betting may be fine,
there are certain kinds of bets that are problematic.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Great to talk to you, take a victory lap. You
certainly had a great year. Major League Baseball had a
great year as well, and hopefully we get a great
World Series.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Thanks again, Thank you, Dan, so always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
That's Rob Manfred.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
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Speaker 2 (23:00):
He's the quarterback of Army, ranked in the top twenty five.
He's bricon daily, joining us on the program. I was
just talking about your rushing numbers, your passing numbers. How's
the offense different with Army this year? As opposed to
last year.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I think, you know, scheme wise, you know, we changed
some stuff, kind of went back to what we were
doing originally under center.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
But besides scheme, I think we're just a lot closer
as a group.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
You know, I have a really good relationship with coach Warley,
you know, first year offensive coordinator, really good relationship with him,
and I think things just really clicked from a relationship standpoint.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
How many schools recruited you out of high school?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
So Army is my only FBS school that recruited me,
and then I had about four FCS schools in Texas
and about four Ivy League schools.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Why Army?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It was really the easy choice.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
It was the best football, the best education, and an
opportunity to serve in the military, and those are all
things that were appealing to me. It was really the
easy choice.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Give us an idea what that first year is like
at west Point.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
It's tough, you know that that first basic training, those
six weeks pretty tough, especially when you don't come from
military background, which I did not.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
You know, you're learning new things every day.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You know, your question if you if you want to
go here, you're questioning if you know you're tough enough
for this, if you're built for this, it's it's very
mentally taxing on you.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And but luckily I made it through.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
How many phone calls to home about maybe leaving Army
that first year, Yeah, there was.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Really It came in letters during basic training, you know,
don't offer phones, so I'd write my grandpa, I think
wrote me a card every day, but I got one them,
which helped out a lot. But I'd ride home and
you know, tell him it was tough. I don't think
I ever really like I said, I want to leave.
It never got quite to that point, but just encouragement
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from them and seeing how proud family and friends were
back home really encouraged me to stay here and tough
it out.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Was football the easy part of trying to get acclimated
to West Point.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It was.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Physically harder, of course, but not near as mentally challenging,
because when you're going through a tough day in football,
it's like, all right, you still love football, so it
made it not as bad. But when you're doing, when
you're on the field getting yelled at, that's not something
you love naturally, so that was harder in that aspect.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Give us an idea of your schedule today.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
So I woke up about six point thirty. I got
my uniform ready. We went to morning formation. They and
we stand there and they count us off, make sure
we're all alive and well. We go to breakfast at
about seven fifteen, and then we have class from seven
to forty until lunch. Right now, I was able to
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miss miss some stuff to come up here and interview
with you today, and then practice and treatment start about
you know, one to two, and that goes on until
about seven and eight tonight, and then we'll go home
and do some morework.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
When's the last time you got yelled at or disciplined discipline?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's a good question.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You don't get yelled at as much as a first
year senior, but I'd say probably about two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
What you do wrong?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
I had had the wrong uniform. All they let me
know a quick correction. We got to fix.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Bryce and daily the Army quarterback. Are you rooting for
Navy or Notre Dame this weekend?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
That is a good question. You know, not too worried
about them. If they could both lose, that'd be awesome.
But you're never never gonna say we're rooting for that
school in Maryland. So I guess we'll say Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, if you could beat Navy or Notre Dame, you.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Had to pick. We're gonna try to be botimom.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
No no no, no no no. If you have two
plays in the huddle, you got to call one play.
So that's what this is. You got Navy or Notre Dame,
and I can wave a magic wand and you're going
to win one of those two games, not both, only one.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Well, there's a championship on the line for our game
against Navy, if you know, if everything goes as playing
against air.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Force, there'll be a championship on the line. So we'll
say Navy.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, do you hate Navy? I dislike Navy, But but
what did they do to you?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
They they're just our rival, you know they we say,
beat Navy is ingrained in us when we got here.
Beating Navy all the time is when we break it
down on So, yeah, we dislike Navy here.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But you don't hate air Force the way you hate Navy.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
It's a different it's a different relationship with air Force.
Different relationship for sure, But we also dislike them.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Have you ever done the Heisman pose?
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, privately, you've never done it. Joking around in the practice,
you've never done it.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Maybe as a maybe as a little kid or something.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Okay, there's a good chance you could get invited to
the Heisman ceremony. I mean the numbers that you have,
you guys are run defeated. I mean there's a real
chance here, Bryson.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Well, if if that were to be the case, chance Keith,
one of my teammates, would be very happy.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
He hits.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
He hits the Heisman pose every time I run to
the sideline, so he would be very happy about that.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Come true for him, for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Do you watch college football?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I do.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I'm a big fan of college football. You know. Bye
weeks are exciting, uh because I get to watch a.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Lot of good games this weekend. So yeah, I'm a fan.
As soon as we play on Saturdays, I try to
find the closest TV and catch all the games after What.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Are you going to do when you're done at West Point?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I'm gonna serve as an officer.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I'm gonna start out, hopefully start off as an infantry
officer and then move into the engineer Corps later into
my army career.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
But that's the.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Plan right now.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I don't know how long I'll stay in, but that's
that's my five year plan up to that point.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Let's play the rice and daily uh push up game?
How many push ups can he do? Todd? I'm going
to start with you. How many do you think he
can do?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
One hundred and twenty five?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
One five? He looks like he's in really good shape,
just saying seaton. I don't think he knows a number
that he would have to stop at. I think he'll
just go straight through, okay and be like, I don't know.
It might be one hundred and fifty, might be three
hundred and fifty eight. He just keeps going, Okay, all right, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
He's a man's man.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
So I'm going to say five hundred and eighty five
hundred and eight. Wow, Paulie, I've got the exact answer. However, men,
you however many you need me to do?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Beat navy ooh uh you want to you want to
answer that?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
I like that like that last time.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So whatever you need, could you could you do five hundred?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I couldnot not in one city. Now, I've never done
triple digits in one go. So okay.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, but if you had to give me one hundred today.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
In a day, I could give you one hundred.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Okay, if it meant you were going to beat Navy exactly. Yeah,
it's good to talk to you. Maybe I'll see you
at the Notre Dame game. Maybe I'll maybe I'll see
you and I'll be on your sideline by the way.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Good, I hope. So yeah, hopefully that shoulders up.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I can't even give you one push up right now.
Good to talk to you, and good luck with the
upcoming schedule there. Thanks for joining.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Us, yep, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Beating Mayvy Bryson daily Ready to go.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
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Speaker 2 (32:01):
Every time I bring up Robert Orri's name, I always
go Ri Ri, Oh Jungle Love. I don't I don't
know why we've been doing that for twenty years. Yeah,
never gets old. He's Robert or or Oh Jungle Love Lakers.
As for Spectrum Sports, now you know the game, you
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know that, you know that song?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Oh? I do know? They used to do that in
high school and that was until I get a dunk.
They would chant that, Oririo.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was that from Purple Rain?
Speaker 6 (32:34):
That was from Purple Rain?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Morris Day, Morris Day, Morris Day in the night. Did
you ever meet Prince?
Speaker 9 (32:41):
I met Prince once when we had the All Star
Game in Minnesota, just once.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
It was in Passing. So yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
But Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis, the whole crew, Janet Jackson.
That's one thing about the NBA. It allows you to
meet some of your the stars that you grew up
loving and one to be like the only person I
have met that I want to meet you as Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But you're in LA. Haven't you seen him in a
Laker game?
Speaker 9 (33:05):
No, I have not, and my wife has seen him
at a coffee shop plenty of times.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
But I don't drink coffee since I starting to got.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Coffee, and you can go meet him. I know, right,
who aside from Eddie Murphy, who is somebody else you
met along the way in the NBA where you went Damn,
I'm actually talking to this person.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Whitney Houston, you know, before she passed away. I met
her and she was so nice and she was talking
to me and Bruce Willis. I met Bruce Willis in
New York and I grew up a big Moonlighting fan.
So yeah, And it's so funny how when those people
they meet you, they talking to.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
You like they know you and they like fans of yours.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
So that's always a big pound in the back when
those guys know who you are and they love you.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Okay, but when you're playing for the Lakers, do you,
you know, kind of take in everybody who's seated courtside.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Yeah, especially like when Halle Berry came to the game.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
Oh oh, we're all fighting to take the ball.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Hey, that's my job, not the way.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
She's like staring into the sun though. Back then, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
I mean it was so many people come, you know, like, uh,
I can't remember the name, but she was from Days
of Our Lives. I was the big Days of Our
Lives fan, and she came to a game. She played
with Marlena on Days of Line and I met her
and it's like she really has a glow around her like.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
She does the show.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
All right, how was the atmosphere last night at the game.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
The atmosphere was great, man.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
You know something about the home opening for a Laker
game has always fantastic, but the buzz was really crazy,
everybody anticipating, you know, the Brinnie and Lebron moment when
they stepped on the court and everybody was looking at
me because I predicted. I said it's gonna be in
the second quarter. It's gonna be four to two minutes left.
And they looked at me, like, are we betting? Are
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we gonna bet on anything else this year? Because you
knocked that right on the nail?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Well, it is bet online and is Roberts joining us
on behalf. So check out bet online for updated NBA
Title Conference Division awards odds, plus updated win totals and
players stats. But I've said before and I had him
going in. I ended him checking in it like seven
minutes ago in the second quarter. But I don't know
how long he stays on the NBA roster here, What
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do you think happens?
Speaker 9 (35:25):
I think it's all depending on when Van Do gets
healthy and the other guys get healthy.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Because they're roster is stacked.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
You know, they're full, And there's no disrespect to him,
it's just the fact that those guys are veterans. They
got a little bit more you know, they a little
better than him, and he needs a little bit one season.
You know, he's like when I watch him, the one
thing that I don't know if they looking at it,
but his sense of urgency to get back down to quote,
on defense.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
It's not how it should be.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
It's great when he's on ball, but off the ball,
he kind of he doesn't pay attention to you know,
so if someone sees that they can hit him with
some lobs, but other than that, he you know, everybody's
going to hate on him because they think that he
didn't get there deservedly. But I think the kid has
a lot of potential and he just needs to be
you know, season, a little bit more season vet.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, I think, you know, get him down to the
G League, let him find out what he does well,
let him be healthy or get healthier for an entire season,
and then you want to bring him up for like
the I don't know, Christmas Day game, whatever it is.
You can bring him up and send him back down.
Kind of a carrot dangling out there for him. Yeah,
what do you think? I think I think that's perfect.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
You know, if you look at players around me, I
think one player that he reminds me is Gary Payton Junior.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
He's athletic.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Like him, he's strong, and you know, you have to
find a niche you think about it. You know, Gary
Payton Junior is not a great score, but he can
d you up. He does all those things that people
don't want to do, like dive on the floor, get
extra rebounds, extra shots and stuff like that. So I
think he can find a niche like that, he can
stay in his league for a minute.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well, I've mentioned, you know, focus on Dalton Connect because
that's the guy who's going to be in the rotation.
He could be the best shooter deep shooter on the
team already, and that's the guy who's going to help you,
not Bronnie. I know the novelty is there, but what
do you see with Dalton Connect?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
You know, I think I've said this from day one.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
I thought Dalton Connect was the best player in the
draft and I thought.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
When you But the thing is, everybody wants potential. You know.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
For me, I'm a type person. I want it now,
and you see Dalton Connect play. He can give you
something now, and I think the Laker's gonna have to
find a way to put him on the court because
if you watch, you know, you got Gabe Benson coming
in from the Jackson Hayes and all these people. I'm like, yo, man,
this rookie something special and you got to play him.
You got to throw him into the fire early. And
you see when he came out there, he ran plays
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for him and this day he doesn't. He doesn't run
plays with Gabe Vincent. He doesn't run plays well anybody
else coming off that bitch. So that's to tell you
something right there. As a coach, you got to play
Dalton Connect because he's he's he's a shooter. You know,
everybody talks about the guy the Rockets Gut that's a shooter.
But I think Connect is a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
He's Robert Rie the Lake's analysts for Spectrum Sports Net,
is this Lebron's last year?
Speaker 9 (38:05):
No, Hey, Broddy's in the league. Now He's gonna try
to play as mini as he can with with Broddie James.
So it did the crazy part about when you watch
Lebron's game, it really hasn't changed in the last six years.
You know, I know, his his ability to play a
lot of minutes is not there, but still that when
he's on the court, he plays with the same force
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you know, not you think about that baseline cut and
then he dunk.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
I'm like, dude, your head is still by the rim.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
In my tenth year, I could badly get my head
by nets and I'm sixteen. And so you got to
understand he still has a lot of bounce in him
and the love and the joy. And you know, think
about it. When you play sports, you come in as
a young man and you become you know, you have
that kid like love for the game.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
He's a grown man forty years old.
Speaker 9 (38:52):
He still has that kid like love like as a
twiny year old. So I expect him to be around
for as long as his body lets him.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Well that's what I said when people said, oh, you know,
Lebron got his son drafted. Okay, if it means Lebron
continues to play and he's excited about playing, then I
don't view it as a negative. Now, if Ronnie's taken
a roster spot away from somebody who can truly help
this team, then I could see, you know, there would
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be some negative reaction there. But Bronnie is going to
be the twelfth man. If he's even on the roster.
But if Lebron is still engaged, because these guys get
bored after a while, or you lose that enthusiasm you're
talking about, you know, that youthful attitude that he still has.
I can't see that's a negative if I got a
guy still giving me twenty seven, eight and seven exactly.
Speaker 9 (39:43):
When you talk about, you know, the top twenty players
in the league. This dude has been a top twenty
player in the league for thirty years, you know. So
he's so great. And that's one of the things that
people don't understand that the mind, when the mind goes,
you know, you don't want to play anymore. For me,
you know, I had a sick daughter. My kids were
starting to play four, they were starting to be acting.
He's like, I'm like, what do I want to want
to play basketball? Do I want miss? You know parts
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of their lives that happened with Brian. I know he
has two other kids, but he has one kid he
can go to work with every day. He can try
to get this kid to be an elite athlete like
he is. And so there's a different type of joy
and a different type of love, a different type of
push there. That's gonna keep Lebron James Senior in this
league for about maybe three or four more years.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
There's an award that I hate. You want to guess
what it is. I hate this.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Award clutch player. I don't know, no, because it's new.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
The defensive Player of the Year. Oh yeah, because there
was nobody more impactful last year in my opinion than
Victor Wembenyama. Whether he blocked your shot or he altered
your shot. He could guard inside, he could guard the perimeter.
He could do that on the same play where he
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could be inside and still be guarding the perimeter. I
know Rudy Gobert got it, but he's not the defensive
player of the year.
Speaker 9 (41:03):
I don't know what people. I want to know who's
voting for this defensive player of the year. Because when
you say Rudy Gobert, like dude, he can't even plan
in the play house. Come on, man, But I totally
agree with you. I was just talking about this earlyist friends,
I said, you think about it. There's so many people
that drive to the paint and they's like they looking around.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
He on the bench and they won't shoot the ball.
Speaker 9 (41:25):
And that's the impact defense that he has and people
don't understand how important that is, you think, But it
hasn't been a player, not Shaq, not Dream, not Patrick Ewan,
not David Robbins, not Tim Duncan. That players were scared
of like that. There's nobody you look over your show,
not even My New Bowl. This is the only part
I've ever seen what guys are afraid to try to
even challenge him. You think about when we came in
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the league, that was like a thing, you coming, Oh,
Mark Eaton, be dunking on him.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
But it didn't work out into your favorite.
Speaker 9 (41:53):
Nobody's challenged him at all because they're too afraid of
that length in his ability to block shots.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, and I know I picked on Rudy Gobert, but
you're right. I mean they sat him down in the postseason,
you know.
Speaker 6 (42:04):
Sat him down in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yes, because like just stomp. It feels like if you
have the most block shots, you're the best defensive player.
And that's like Michael Jordan could have won Defensive Player
of the Year every single year if he wanted to.
Speaker 9 (42:18):
True you know, like with Kobe, Bruce Bowen, all these
guys who can play perimeter defense and to me, that's
harder than blocking the shot.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
You know, and I was a shot blocker.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
You know, think about you sit back that you wait
for someone bring it to you, and you know they
come in. You blocked the shot. You know, are you
really playing defense? Yes, you're playing defense. But the guys
on the perim, like what eighty does he can guard ones,
he can guard doing guard five. You know, guys like
you know, Mike Bridges, mckil bridge. These are defenders, you know.
And to me, Drew Holliday, you know, the's are defenders.
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Rudy Gobert is not a defender. He's a shot blocker,
and it's defensive player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Drew Holliday Hall of Famer.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
You know, I think so.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
I think so because this is the thing everybody when
you talk about the Hall of Fame, people always look
at how many points does this go?
Speaker 6 (43:06):
Dude? Basketball is not about points.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
You know.
Speaker 9 (43:09):
The stupidest thing that you know, one of your pet
peeves is defense, But minds is two way player. Because
basketball is your basketball player. That means you played offense
and defense. Is that is the stupidest term I've ever heard.
And so for me, Drew Holliday can do it all
and he does what the team needs. You think about
how bad the Milwaukee Bucks missed him. You think about
how much the Celtics like, thank you for coming here.
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Because he's a game changer. He can control the offense.
He puts people in the position to succeed, and that's
what this game is about, helping your teammates to get
to the ultimate goal of winning a championship.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
How did the Celtics not repeat injuries?
Speaker 6 (43:47):
That's the only way they don't repeat.
Speaker 9 (43:48):
You know, you think about as Presidias comes back healthy
and he can sell on the court, that makes him
that much more dangerous. And you think, these guys, you know,
it reminds me when when Steph didn't win the NBA
Final was MVP.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
He was pissed off and came back that next year
with a vengeance.
Speaker 9 (44:04):
And I think, you know, looking at the first game,
I know it's just the first game, but JT looked
like he's coming out.
Speaker 6 (44:10):
To let everybody know.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
He would be my pick for MVP this.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Year, me too, him or SGA, because those two teams
I think have the best records in the East and West.
And I think also when you talk about Jason, you
talked about last year he was to me, he was disrespected.
He had the best record in basketball and nobody even
talked about him as MVP. And if you look at
the history of this game, that's one of the things.
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You look at best records and unless you do some
incredible or average triple double like Westbrook did, and he
was very disrespected.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I thought, last year, is there a big man you
would take over Shank?
Speaker 9 (44:47):
I had to It depends you give me two thousand,
two thousand championship Shack. No, but if you give me longevity,
it probably either like dream of Tim Duncan. You know
those two guys, and I played with them, so I
know what I'm gonna get with him. I know what
I'm gonna get with Shaq. But that two thousand Shack championship, Shack.
Speaker 6 (45:07):
MVP. Shack was one of the most dominant players I've
ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Tim Duncan told me a story about Kevin Garnett that
Kevin loved to talk trash, oh a lot of trash.
But Tim didn't talk trash at all. Tim didn't talk.
Speaker 9 (45:20):
You know, I got Tim to talk trash one time
and it was in practice, and it was it was
before we got ready to play Utah, and I was like,
I was like, this is why boozs be kicking your.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
Book and he's like, you can't stop me. He just
went to work. I'm like, okay, Tim, I'm like what
I said, why don't you do that? The booze? And
when we getting the game.
Speaker 9 (45:37):
With you talk you know, and then Pop actually started
me that game and it's like talk shit to him
language and so we and we had beat Utah in
Utah in a minute. So we went out and won
that game. I'm looking at Tim, I said, dude.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
Where is that fire every game?
Speaker 7 (45:53):
Like?
Speaker 6 (45:53):
Do I need to cuts you out every game?
Speaker 7 (45:55):
So?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, is he underrated?
Speaker 6 (45:59):
Tim? Yeah? I think when you have those quiet guys
like that.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Like we don't show his highlight. There's no real highlight,
the soring.
Speaker 9 (46:07):
That's why people won't excitement. And you think about Tim,
you know the bank shot. Nobody uses as boy. He blockshot.
He kind of walks with his head down, you know,
kind of unassuming for me, but he you know, in
the basketball world, when you talk about Dominic Biggs, we
talk about him because the dude was you know, he
was spectacular. He had a you know He wasn't flashy,
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He couldn't do any spectacular dunks. He was just basic,
you know, and people sometimes shy away from basic, and
I think for me, it's basic gets the job done.
You know, five championships, lads, he did a great job.
He's one of the best big men I ever played with.
You know, when you talk about top twenty five all time,
you got to throw him in there because he's a winner.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Well, he's probably banging on the top ten. I would
think with just winning five, Like, is Steph Curry in
the top ten?
Speaker 9 (46:55):
You know, it's weird because Steph is right there, and
think about it is Steph To me, I would put
him in the top ten. But my top ten, when
you look at it, probably twenty people because it's so
many people that are equal, you know, and you think
about you got guys that don't get talked about, like
Clyde Drexel, he was great. You've got guys like Joe
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Dumars that was great, you got you know, think about
he got.
Speaker 6 (47:18):
Through Larry Bird in it.
Speaker 9 (47:19):
But so it's so many people that, you know, because
of the athleticism, the athletes now kind of push guys down,
but still they're still great. You know, the only guy
I wasn't putting my top twenty five is Charles Bark
because he went to.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Auburn before I let you go. You have to place
a bet on this team to win the West.
Speaker 6 (47:39):
When the West is going to be Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (47:43):
You know, I think if you look what they did
this summer by adding a c Frest and Hartenstein, you know,
you always add something to you if you don't win
the championship, you add something to your team that you
really need that you're missing.
Speaker 6 (47:56):
And that's what they're missing.
Speaker 9 (47:57):
A big that can get up and down and play
different guys and get them extra shots. But the athleticism
they have, the energy and enthusiasm, and the way they
love to play together.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
I'm betting on. Okay.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
See great to talk to you again, Robert, Thank.
Speaker 6 (48:10):
You always, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
That's Robert or or Oh Jungle Love