Hour 3 – LeBron and Luka, Ian Eagle

Dan thinks LeBron James and Luka Dončić may already be the best duo in the NBA. And legendary broadcaster Ian Eagles drops by to chop it up with DP.

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(00:26):
Iron Eagle was on the call at the Garden last
night with Steph Curry and the Warriors, who have another
game in New York. They play Brooklyn tomorrow night, then
they go home for a seven game homestand I mean
they start to put together a great run here and
with Jimmy Butler. Now granted you're looking at teams saying
when are you peaking? If you're Golden State, you'll peak

(00:48):
whenever you can peak, because at the All Star break
or around Christmas, we're like, what's going to happen with
this team? Same with the Lakers. The Lakers are playing great.
They roughed up inferior Pelican team. Although Zion played really
well last night. He's played really well in the last month,
but small sample size, but still, if you're the Pelicans,

(01:08):
and you're looking at Zion Whims and I don't see
him as a career Pelican. I don't know if his
next contract would be in New Orleans. It doesn't feel
that way, but I wonder where that franchise is headed.
But with the Lakers, they could be headed to the
NBA Finals, and you know, I wish they would have
a bigger guy. I wish they had a big man.

(01:31):
I mean, the thunder are going to be formidable. It's
a very deep team. You're going to have a couple
of those matchups where you go that team is a
whole lot better. Because we tend to focus shows like this,
the networks they focus on they're top heavy on a
couple of teams. Therefore, that's why when you saw Minnesota,
you know, like man, Minnesota is a good team going

(01:53):
to the NBA Finals. Yes, But sometimes, like the Celtics,
we sort of forgot about the Celtics because it's been
a lot of love for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now, do
you believe in Cleveland when there's a seven game series,
when you have to win a game on the road,
Because that's what it's going to come down to. Boston's

(02:15):
already proven this. Boston to me, should be the favorites
to go back in either conference, but they're not. But
I look at Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City's going to have
one of those moments where SGA has to act.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Like the MVP.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Or somebody else has to. Because you can look back
when Denver won the title, Joker was great, but Jamal
Murray had one of those coming out parties where people
forgot how good he could be. And they had they
had depth, they had a really good bench. I mean,
it's formulaic in my opinion, it's really rare when you go, boy,
they won and they didn't check these boxes there. You

(02:55):
got to play defense, You got to have a guy
that you can go to when the game is on
the lone and he doesn't melt. You got to win
a game that maybe you're not supposed to win. I mean,
there's a lot of different things, a lot of different
factors that go into this. But I think the Lakers
have the elements to be able to go back and
win a championship. I truly feel that. But it comes

(03:16):
down to Lebron and Luca. Luca and Lebron. Now everybody
else has to figure out their roles because they didn't
have this before. Luca and Lebron ball dominant. Now what's
it mean for the other players? And while you probably
are saying, well, I got to do a stand around
and wait for them to throw you the ball, No,
it's not as easy as that. Like you'll you'll have

(03:36):
a role, and your role might be different than it was.
And I think JJ Reddick's done a really good job
with that and I think defining roles.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
So it's not open to interpretation.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
But those two, Like if I say, give me the
best duo in the NBA right now, Jalen Brown, Jason
Tatum certainly should come to mind. Joker, Jamal Murray, Jimmy Butler,
Steph Curry, Like, where does Lebron and Luca rank of

(04:10):
the best duos in the NBA? And I would put
them as the best duo in the NBA because their
battle Lebron is battle tested. There's nothing that is going
to come up where he's going to go. I haven't
seen that before. And he might be, you know, an
influential figure when Luca. When Luca ends his career, he

(04:32):
may look back and say, thank god, I got.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Traded to the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because I was around Lebron for X number of years,
I got to see a professional and it's not to
say And there was this smear campaign with Luca because
you know the MAVs. Then there was a story that
came out that hey, you know what, we also wanted
to know if Minnesota wanted to swap Anthony Edwards for
Luca Donchets, which I still go back to. If they

(04:59):
called me and they all for Luca, I go, why
are you offering him?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Why? Why? And maybe there's more to the story.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
There probably is more to the story, but that'd be
the first thing I'd say, Wait, is this a trick question?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Like why do you want to get rid of this guy?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
That would raise eyebrows, But you know, the Lakers probably thought,
if it's about conditioning, we got a guy who can
and not babysit. But certainly Mentor and I think you're
seeing that, like Luca injured his calf on Christmas Day,
there was no real rush to get him back, or

(05:40):
didn't feel like there was a real rush. Now, I
don't know if anybody's brought up his calf, is that
you know, does he have to sit down? Does minutes
restriction because of his calf. And then you look at
the MAVs now so Kyrie's out. I think they're going
to shut down Anthony Davis. There's no reason to play him,

(06:02):
play for a draft pick. But you know, you start
to look at some of these teams that got better
at the trade deadline, and Golden State is a different
team because Jimmy Butler can compliment Draymond Green from the
perspective of I can do all the little things. Steph
can be Steph. I can I take care of the ball.

(06:23):
You know, Golden State used to be top heavy with turnovers.
You know, Jimmy Butler takes care of the ball. He
goes to the free throw line, he plays really good defense.
So you combine that, now you got to now it's
a different team, a different feel to them.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
See, sometimes you're so good that nobody's really threatening you,
and then you get into that first tough series and
that's when you can be surprised. I hope SGA because
he's going to win the MVP. He shouldn't, but he's
going to. I hope he has a great playoff run
because we always do this. Yeah, never should have won

(07:01):
the MVP. Yeah, ask Lamar Jackson. No, he was great
during SGA has been incredible during the regular season. But
Joker's numbers are better than when he won the MVPs.
It's scary. Here's a pass first guy who's averaging twenty

(07:22):
nine again. If he stopped passing, nobody average. And I
know there are a lot of guys averaging twenty nine,
thirty thirty one. You know it's guys are scoring points,
but guys aren't putting up assist numbers like he is.
He's averaging a triple double. Now I know that we're
numb to it. Not a big deal anymore, but it

(07:45):
should be because of the assist numbers. You have a
seven foot guy who's averaging what eleven assists again, twelve rebounds,
twenty nine points. He shoots great from three point right now,
his numbers are better. He shoots forty four percent from
three point range. It's the best he's ever shot. But

(08:11):
I think there is voter fatigue. I think it's real.
And this is where the get off my lawn guy
comes out because he doesn't want somebody to get more
MVPs than Well, he's not better than Larry Bird. He
can't have more MVPs than Larry. He can, Yeah, he can.

(08:33):
I mean, it's not Joker's fault. Bird got hurt in fact.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
On this date.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I think back in the eighties, didn't he have a
fusion surgery for his back, Yes, Martin.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, I think that was the big thing with Joke
is not winning his third straight MVP. Lebron James and
Michael Jordan neither of them won through straight MVPs, and
they're thinking to themselves, those two didn't win through straight MVPs.
There's no way this kind he can win through straight MVPs.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Nineteen ninety three, Larry Bird undergo back fusion surgery on
this day and he just couldn't stay healthy and the
way he played, couldn't stay healthy. But if you said
at age thirty you could have Larry or Lebron at
age thirty, I would have taken Larry over Lebron. Now,

(09:20):
over the length of the career, certainly you're taking Lebron.
But it's how great were you when you were great?
That's always fun when you look at a window and
you go, yeah, well you know it was you know,
you always had magic with Larry and vice versa. But
there were times when they had those windows. You know

(09:42):
what magic did is rookie year. I mean it was spectacular.
You go from a national championship to an NBA championship.
They'd never seen anything like that. But that's the fun
part of it, where you're seeing these players and I
hold on for dear life with Durant Lebron in steadf.
Now there's a new wave coming. But this opportunity, as

(10:04):
I said during the Olympics, when I watched them on
the floor, you had all this young talent on the
bench and I was I'm not going to say it
was emotional, but it was really rewarding for me to
watch them as great as they are in that moment.
Those were the guys Steve Kerr wanted on the floor
with the ball and what a what a tribute a

(10:28):
testament to them when you have all this young talent
and it's not about who's got the talent, it's those
guys know what they're doing when they need to do it.
And Steph you can look like Steph has had great
moments in his career, Like where does the Olympics fit
in with great moments in his career? Because that is

(10:48):
global We talk about the NBA being global. That was
truly global. It's live worldwide, and all of a sudden
you're learning curse words in French. You know, like, wow,
they're mad at him.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
He was so great, so great.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Pulling that last five minute stretch by Curry and the Olympics,
it was dizzying you're watching in it. It felt like
that's not what human beings do. He's the only human
who could have done that.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yep, yep, and he had he had one shot where
you go, I don't know how he got that shot off.
I have no idea but to be able to see that,
and you know, you miss him. I mean I miss
seeing Bird play. I miss seeing Magic play certainly. My
you know all these great players because you take it
for granted and then all of a sudden, it's gone,

(11:35):
It's done.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah man, Yeah, Marvin.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Is nineteen eighty six, Larry Bird one of the greatest
players you've ever seen, like just that one year. Yeah,
like in real time, did you guys know what you
guys were witnessing with Magic and Bird? Like in real time?
I know there wasn't all these sports shows and debate
shows and stuff like that, but did you guys know
in eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, like these guys

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are two of the greatest that have ever done it.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, yes, because it felt like there was really a
there were two great players, transcendent players, and then there
were really good players underneath Bird and Magic. But what
Larry did back to back to back and I'm curious,
Bill Simmons documentary on the Celtics looking back on that,

(12:22):
I mean, Larry's the baddest guy on the planet. He
was and brought up interesting debates between races where you know,
Magic's better, No, Larry's better. Spike Lee has this in
one of his movies, might have been Crooklyn or one
of those where they're arguing over you know, Larry Bird
or Magic Johnson. You did have those discussions, and they

(12:45):
would have that now on first take or any of
these other shows, like who's better Magic Larry Now? And
it was depending on the week or the month or
the year, you could say, no, it's Magic, No, it's Larry.
But Larry had a run there that you'd be hard
pressed to find somebody who was better than him over

(13:06):
a three year period. Statistically, it might you could find people,
but that's where you saw great great players, and the
Celtics were a running team back then. You wouldn't think
that McHale and Parrish and Bird, even DJ Dan Danny
Ainge's probably the best athlete in the starting five.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
But they ran. They had fast breaks, Larry out on
the break. You're like, I thought, that's magic. That's what
they did, yes, bawling.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
When they were rookies, Larry Bird won Rookie of the Year.
Magic finished second. Nobody else in the league got to vote.
Larry got sixty three votes, Magic got three. Not one
other player got a Rookie of the Year vote. Another
thing for Larry Bird, starting with age twenty four to
thirty two, he either finished first, second, or third in
the MVP voting.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I don't remember voter fatigue. Now, I wasn't a
voter back then, but I did go. I did see
all three of Larry's championships, and I got to go
to the guard. I was there when Magic hit the skyhook.
You know he was going to win another one. But
I I just remember at that time that was some great,

(14:19):
great basketball, and they were loaded.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Both of those teams.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
You know, you look at the Laker team and coming
off the bench, you know, that that wasn't a negative.
Bob McAdoo was one of my favorite players. You know,
you just it was fun, fun basketball, But they both moved.
It wasn't you know, sort of half court offense, even
though they could play that as well.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
All right, taking a trip down memory lane.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
We're living in the let's go I know, I know,
a long winded way of saying, appreciate Lebron and Steph
and Katie Katie. Last night and the Suns came back
to beat the Clippers. I think they were down what
fifteen or nineteen going in the final quarter. You know,
three of the greatest players scores of all time right

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in front of us.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, yes, Mark, three generational players in the same generation.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, yeah, they are all doing it differently, all do
it differently.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
All right, take a break.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Iron Eagle was on the call with Steph Curry at
the Garden and we'll talk to him about that experience
last night. More phone calls as well. We'll take a
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Speaker 2 (16:36):
I still have been seeing the led Zeppelin movie. It's
in movie theaters now. Now I should see it like
an Imax theater to be able to see that. One
of my favorite bands, probably my favorite band growing up.
Steph Curry last night leading the Golden State Warriors to
another win. They play Brooklyn tomorrow night, then a seven

(16:57):
game homestand after that. Here is Steph on the magic
of playing at Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
This massive square garden. It speaks for itself.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
This is a place that brings it just naturally has great, unique,
authentic basketball energy, and like the fans are unreal, like
the Who's who a celebrity rolling on that, but just
everybody's anticipating great basketball. And from my first game here
in college to now, I guess always delivered. So H

(17:29):
and for us on the Western Conference, we'll only get
one chance here and I'm trying to take to make
the most of it.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
And they did. Iron Eagle was on the call t
NT Nicks Warriors. What is it about the garden and
why is it different?

Speaker 9 (17:46):
There is a palpable buzz before the game even starts,
and it's nothing that's being pumped through the speakers. It's
not artificial in any way. It's real. There is something
special and unique about it. Even during the lean years,
you would go into the garden and maybe just the
way the arena in captures the sound, it just bounces

(18:11):
in a certain manner, so as the game was about
to get going, you could feel it. You could feel
that that energy. It's tangible and I know what Steph
is saying. It is special for him, and he makes
it even more special when he's there because it creates
an added layer of electricity.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
How do you know when you've done a good job
doing a game?

Speaker 9 (18:35):
I know, I know if I've covered the storylines. I
know if I've met the moment. I know if I've
hit the right beats. I think it's based on just
doing so many games. There's a way to view it.
For me, the amount of games that I do helps
me because it keeps me in that mindset.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
It keeps me locked in.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
I don't ever drop off because I'm not off for
three weeks and then I got to get back into it.
I'm doing sometimes five games in a week, and there's
a certain standard that comes with that. You want to
do your best. It doesn't matter if it's a Wednesday
night for a local Nets Washington game, or a Thursday
night for a Big Lakers Boston game, or a Sunday

(19:21):
in the NFL, or a Thursday night on the radio,
it doesn't matter. You just get to a point where
you can gauge it in the moment if you're doing
your job correctly and you're hitting all the high notes.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I still find it interesting that when a player or
team plays New York, they're playing the Garden. They're not
playing the Knicks. Yeah, they're playing the Garden. I don't
know if we do that at any other venue or
any other sport. Can you think of anything where you
go now it used to be the Garden, Boston Garden, Yeah,

(19:55):
you know, then it became like the Fleet Center and
TD Bank and so kind of lost a little bit,
you know, playing the Crypt, maybe the Forum. Yeah, great
Western form. But I don't know if there's any like Fenway.
You don't say, oh, you're playing Fenway, you're playing the
Red Sox. Even Yankee Stadium is not the original Yankee Stadium,

(20:15):
even though the Garden's not the original Garden. But yeah,
you're playing the Garden as opposed to it it's like
you're a musical group.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, we're on tour and then we play the Garden.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, Billy Joel is no longer doing it once a month,
But you're right, Billy Joel is playing the Garden and
the Warriors were playing the Garden. I don't know if
it's an extension of Broadway in some way that you're
in New York and it's this historic venue. You're right

(20:46):
about the ever changing names. That is a part of
it that chips away at the mystique a bit. I
remember I did a game years ago NFL on CBS
game in Oakland, and at that point it was a
revolving of names. And literally, I'm not exaggerating. Dan fifteen
minutes before kickoff, someone I'm not sure if they were

(21:08):
affiliated with the Raiders or the state. They walk in,
they hand me a sheet of paper and they say, hey,
just to let you know we're going by this now.
Fifteen minutes before the game, I go theod dot co
what is this? And that takes away from from the
sense of place and the sense of history.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
You're right, even with the Boston Garden.

Speaker 9 (21:32):
Once they went down that road, the Boston Garden became
a thing of the past, and now you've got to
rack your brain and say, what.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Is it now? Is it TD Garden?

Speaker 9 (21:41):
It's still Madison Square Garden, named after by the way,
James Madison, the former president. That was the connection. I
was going to use that over the weekend in regards
to the Saint John's Seed Hall game and make the
point that Bill Raftery was actually classmates with James and
that he knew him quite well.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
But we never got there.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Who is more unexplainable? Steph Curry's successor Lebron's Steph Curry.
Steph Curry, he was the number seven pick in the draft.
There were major questions as to whether or not his
style and approach would translate.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
To the NBA.

Speaker 9 (22:23):
Would he get his shot off, Like, think about that
for a moment. If we go back and check the
scouting reports, it would say great three point shooter, creative
offensive player. But will the NBA be too physical for him?
Is he big enough to handle the wear and tear
of the NBA. Those were questions coming out of Davidson.
That was the other part of it. He was coming

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out of Davidson. He was not coming out of Duke.
His brother had gone from Liberty to Duke. So you
saw him on a bigger stage and thought, Okay, he
can do it, it'll translate.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
And obviously he's had a nice career.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
Steph has had an all time career, and I think
at this stage the rejuvenation that we're seeing with Jimmy
Butler now on the team, Dan, I'm sensing that there's
even a greater appreciation for Steph than ever before. Because
as you see these incredible athletes hit the NBA, these
physical specimens, these adonises, Steph, it just feels like he

(23:25):
could be anybody. And he's obviously a terrific athlete and
he's in great shape, but he would blend in if
he didn't know who he was, and that's part of
the charm of it.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
This guy is.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
Doing it in a manner that I don't know if
we're gonna see it again the way he does it.
And just again Dan my experience, they're playing in Brooklyn,
so I'm going to see this for the second time
this week. I just happened to walk out onto the
court of my broadcast location as he was going through
his warm up, and the groundswell of people that want

(24:02):
to watch him warm up, warm up.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
That to me says.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
Everything you need to know that there is a special
quality and people realize that this is just something a
little different. This is just not a normal NBA player.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
He's an Eagle. He was on the call last night
TNT Warriors Knicks. He's got the Warriors' nets tomorrow night,
and then Michigan, Michigan State coming up on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (24:30):
That is right? Thank you.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
I didn't know where I was going until you mentioned it,
so I'd better book that flight.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Is there a backup plan in case you can't show
up at a game.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
It's a hologram. We've worked that out.

Speaker 9 (24:43):
They have a soundboard of all my calls and then
they just project me onto the screen. We're actually trying
to do that with RAF at this point. We don't
even need him to be at the games. We just
have onions on a loop, to the order on a loop,
and then you're good.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
You're good to go for the tournament.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Bill Raftery is and people will find him entertaining on
a game. He's a million times more entertaining when he's
not doing a game. And that's saying a lot. But
the first time I met Raf. I was in Atlanta,
Craig Sager's bar, Jocks and Jill, that's right, And I
just got through. I was working at CNN and I

(25:22):
went over to Seger's bar. I come in and Raf
has the corner of the bar. As you walk in
the corner of the bar, there had to be twenty
five beers, and he had ordered twenty five beers. Yes,
and it was just if you came up to talk
to him, just grab a beer. That's first time I

(25:43):
met him, and I mean, he is a delight.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Can I interject one thing to him?

Speaker 9 (25:51):
Because it just spurred a memory of mine. We were
in Seattle for a net game and we ended up
going to dinner, large group, and then the group got
a little smaller. We went out to a bar afterwards,
and we got to the bar, and literally ten minutes
into our stay at the bar, they call out last call,

(26:13):
and I see, like Bill's whole demeanor change in that moment,
and he just leaves the group and he goes to
the bar and he obviously gets in an order for
last call, and normally last call what ends up happening.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
They still let you hang around a little bit. They
did not they kick us out of this bar. We
spill out into the street.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
It's not even that laid out, and Bill's a bit
upset about it, and I understand they cut off his evening.
So he's wearing a long trench coat. And we get
outside now and our director who passed away, great guy,
Dave Hagen. He shows us that he snuck one beer

(26:58):
out to the street and all laugh, Oh, that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Rap opens his trench coat.

Speaker 9 (27:03):
He has eight years, but he has snuck out two
in eg side pocket, two on the interior in his pants.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
This guy is at another level.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I'm wondering. I brought this up when I interviewed Sonny vccaro.
I said, I hope that he would get into Basketball
Hall of Fame contributions to the game. And they're certain
like Dick VII tow contributions and Bill Raftery, yes, you know,
because he was a former college coach. He's in, Yeah,
but to have but Sonny Vaccaro is not Yeah. And

(27:38):
I don't know if we look at the shoe business
and the CD under belly of this and that's like
he had contributions to the game. He signed Michael Jordan,
he signed Kobe almost signed Lebron and you got these
coaches who got paid. I mean, he changed college basketball.
You may say, maybe not for the better, but where

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do you stand on contributions to the game and you
know people getting inducted.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yeah, he should be in. He should be in. He
played a large role in the development of the game.

Speaker 9 (28:11):
And you're right, there were some things happening that nobody
was completely aware of and it changed the sport. But
it was inevitable. If it wasn't him, it was going
to be somebody else. I do think the fact that
he had a big personality was a big part of
what made college basketball what it was, and I don't

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know if that's lost now a little bit. Just like
everything in life, as it goes to a different level financially,
business wise, commerce, you lose a little bit of what
made it so special. But the personalities made college basketball,
coaching personalities, behind the scenes, broadcasting personality larger than live

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Dick Vitale We'll obviously played a big role Raff as
you mentioned, and I think it is a little bit
of a lost art now when it comes to sports
because it's much more corporate and we're not going to
have that kind of Viscer rule reaction like we used
to have to people that had the impact that that
Sonny had. He he belongs in there, no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Your thoughts on Rick Patino still make it. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
He's He's on the short list of greatest basketball coaches
of all time. I mean really, you know the Celtics,
he couldn't control the roster, didn't get Tim Duncan, but
every place like we plugged him in at Iona and
we thought, oh, that's a cute loy story.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
And he wins any way, Dan, he wins. This is
who he is.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
And as the rules have changed, look, he's adapted to them.
He recognized way back when you may have to do
things in your way in a certain manner and maybe
a bended when the situation calls for it. I think
that Rick was so far ahead of his time in

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the eighties that eventually others picked up on it and
figured it out. But the thing about Rick that still
strikes me to this day is he always adjusts. He's
just a great coach. He's an incredible motivator, He's a
tremendous tactician. His x's and o's are through the roof
He's smart. He gets it. He understands the media side

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of it. He gets all of it, and you could
find great coaches that get some of it. He understands
every aspect of this job and the fact that he's
done it so quickly. At Saint John's, I was at
the garden this past weekend. It was sold out. Dan,
it is a happening again. You have to go back

(30:56):
really to my youth in the eighties when it felt
like this around New York. They've had good teams, they've
had competitive teams, they haven't had this, they haven't had
this kind of buzz and this kind of chain reaction
in the city. And it's Rick that's done it.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Safe travels to Brooklyn tomorrow for the ban, Thank you
for the nets, tilt Tree with Golden State, and then
and then just to let you know, on Sunday, you
have to do Michigan and Michigan State. Hold on, let
me Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan that is in east Land, Lansing.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
And they they got a player, you know, Jason Richardson's son, Jase.
He might be a top five pick in the in
the draft.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:40):
I had them earlier this season at the Garden against Rutgers,
he was coming off the bench. He is not coming
off the bench.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
How do you explain Rutgers will have two of the
top four players drafted and may not make the tournament.

Speaker 9 (31:52):
Yeah, chemistry means so much. You play basketball growing up,
it was important to you. I'm sure there were years
where you thought, oh, man, we have great individual talent
and then it didn't fit. Unfortunately, it just doesn't fit
or it doesn't translate into wins. But you're gonna hear
about those two guys, Harper and Bailey for a long

(32:13):
time because they're going to play in the NBA for
a long time.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
But they're going to look back at.

Speaker 9 (32:17):
The fact that they didn't take advantage of the opportunity
in college and there's nothing they can do about it.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Like Ben Simmons didn't make the tournament at L make
the tournament yep.

Speaker 9 (32:27):
At LSU, I actually had a game of his his
freshman year.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
I was wowed by his skill set. Their team just
wasn't that good.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Tell tom Izzo, I said, alot, I will, Yeah, I will,
He's great. Tell him I sett alone done. I will
say it. Tell him it's you know, getting about that
time that maybe steps down and lets somebody else. I'm
not gonna say that, No, don't don't, don't say Hey,
Dan Patrick.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Says hello, and maybe it's time to step aside.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
He would appreciate it, he's got to say probably.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Of course I'm going to deny it when he says,
you can produce, all right, thanks, all right, that's Iron
Eagle or Ian Eigel.

Speaker 10 (33:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
He did the next game last night, and you go
from the garden to Berkley's in Brooklyn, It's going to
be a whole different vibe there for that game tomorrow night. Uh,
Matthew and la Hey, matt what do you have for
me today?

Speaker 11 (33:24):
DP? Longtime, first time you were talking about Steph and
his Olympic performance, which I think topped his NBA championships.
He saved a country. A recommendation for you. Court of
Gold on Netflix. It is amazing all the superstars that
are in there. You got Patum patom ripping his France team,

(33:46):
Jokich going at his team really really well done. I
agree with you the emotional aspect of Kerr leaving all
of our quote unquote avengers out there are superstars. The
shot over France, the three point barrage by staff against Serbia.
It was really really amazing and the documentary is welcome.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, Marvin talked about it like you got true passion
out of players and it you can't help. But you know, gosh,
I wish they had that passion with their day job,
and you know, it's trying to do it every single night.
You're playing for your country. And you see that Joker
winning a bronze felt more important than winning an NBA

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title to him.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, poon Er, Uh, Marvin, Yes, because Joker didn't grow
up in Denver.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, so it means a lot more to him to
play with his countryman, guys he's probably played with since
he was fourteen to fifteen years old.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well, take a break, glass, Garlf for phone calls, What
we learn, what's in store tomorrow, this day in sports history.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wapp OH.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
One of our favorites, Jim Jackson, orm NBA player now
an analyst. He'll join us coming up tomorrow. Last call
for phone calls. What we learn Once in store tomorrow.
All of that forthcoming. I mentioned this earlier, it is
worthy of mentioning it again. DraftKings the betting lines on
which team will have the number one overall pick in

(35:18):
the NFL Draft. Two days ago it was Tennessee Tennessee
by a good margin over the Giants. Now two days later,
the Titans and Giants both have the same odds to
have the number one overall pick. New York's moving up?
Are they moving up to take cam Ward? Certainly feels
that way. Stat of the Day has been brought to

(35:40):
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Dan Patrick Show. James in Virginia. Hi, James, how are you, buddy?

Speaker 10 (35:49):
No body, let's go boys. Shout out to Budha, San
Francisco man, thanks for taking my call. Brother. Happy Wednesday,
DP damn it. You know the best thing I like
about the Devot Traders. It shows Washington fans that they
are going all the way for twenty twenty five. I
hope to see Devon Adams and Miles there down the road.

(36:11):
We'll see how it goes. But I love the conversation today, guys.
I'll tell you what for me. The best Baseball movie
All Time is nostalgic, stam lot all day every day,
sit down and watch them whatever. And one last thing,
crazy man. I went into a movie theater with a girl.
She said, you want to go see this new Jamie
Foxx movie. I'm like, yeah, I love Jamie. Push and

(36:33):
Lena to say. We were the minorities in the group
and it was Jane Go and in the first couple
of minutes you find out real fast with that movie's
about great movie. But Botley caught off guard.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
She was the minority in the movie.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, he's what your folks, Yeah, if you if they
heard you speaking, James, you know, if the theater's dark,
then they're not gonna be able to see you. And
they'd be like, all right, lights come on and they're like,
whoa you hear Oh hell.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
No, that's right, brother, I hear you. Oh hell now?

Speaker 10 (37:08):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Brent in des Moin, Hey, Brent.

Speaker 11 (37:12):
Good morning, sir, five nine one sixty five.

Speaker 12 (37:15):
Okay, I've kind of been waiting for the right morning
to ask you to rank three shows in order, number one,
of course being the best. I do think I know
how you'll answer it, but I'm curious to hear your answer.
So the three shows, in no particular order are The Wire, Ozark,
and Breaking Bad.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Okay, you want to tell me your guests on my
top three, sure I will.

Speaker 12 (37:40):
I don't have to, But if you want to just
tell me yours, that's fine too.

Speaker 11 (37:43):
But I'll tell you my guest if you'd like.

Speaker 12 (37:44):
Okay, So I think you're going Breaking Bad Ozark in
a wire.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Okay, let me see. I think it's really close.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I would say Breaking Bad, then I would do the Wire,
and then I would do Ozark. There's no wrong order
on this. But like Breaking Bad, was a chemistry teacher
who had cancer and all of a sudden became this
drug lord. You imagine pitching that, okay, And they always

(38:24):
talk about an elevator pitch that you should be able
to make your pitch while the elevator is. You're talking
to somebody on an elevator, so you're, you know, starting
on the first floor and you're going up to the
ninth floor. I got I got nine floors to get
my pitch. So just like what I did, Uh, chemistry teacher,
he's got cancer and he wants to make money for
his family. When he dies, he becomes a drug lord.

(38:47):
That's it. We're not even at the fourth floor yet,
and then all of a sudden they pull it off
the wire felt like that was it was voyeuristic. The
first season, You're you're like closed circuit cameras watching a neighborhood,
watching everything that was going on. Ozark was just you know,

(39:10):
And a lot of these shows, and certainly this was
with Breaking Bad. What can they get into that the
writers have to write a script to get them out
of it? Felt like every episode, you go, He's never
going to get out of this, And the same with
Jason Bateman and Ozark. Marty Byrd's How's he going to

(39:31):
get out of this? And I always found that fascinating that, yes,
the actors have to pull this off, but the writers
and what they did awesome.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
This Dane Sports History Paul.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
Nineteen sixty four, the NFL purchased Blair Motion Pictures, which
was renamed NFL Films was owned by Ed Sable and
his family. Wow nineteen ninety four, Michael Adams of the
Washington Bullets at the time became the third player in
NBA history to hit nine hundred career three point field goals.
Right now, there's over two hundred players in their career
who've hit over nine hundred career threes.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Michael Adams one of the ugliest shots in NBA history.
But hey, you knew how to play? Was he Boston College?
Michael Adams?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
There's some of those guys that you watch and you go,
I don't know how they did it, but they did it.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's truly it's like batting stances, your shot or how
you pitch. They're just uniqueness there and I always had
great appreciation for that. On this date, in nineteen seventy three,
the Yankee pitchers Mike Kekech and Fritz Peterson announced that
they were trading wives. They also traded children, and they

(40:44):
traded the family dogs.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
True story.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
We had Matt Damon on the show a while ago,
and I did ask him because I think there was
a time when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were looking
at purchasing the rights or developing that moving because okay,
once again two players trading lives, trading children, trading dogs.

(41:09):
I think one of the couples stayed together for quite
some time.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Yes, Paulieu Aflic and Damon bought the rights to it
in twenty fifteen. Nothing has come of it yet.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Who brings that up? But about swapping, yes, I don't.
I don't know. That's why we need.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
A movie now.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
Those mortgage rates are really hitting them.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I think you could just do
a family vacation. I don't think I need to take
your wife and your kids and your dog. Now, how
about we take a test drive here? Todd, what did
I learn today?

Speaker 3 (41:46):
When he's not pitching, Justin Erlo plays a lot of
chess with his new Giants teammates.

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