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Dan wonders if Shedeur Sanders learned anything from his NFL Draft experience. Plus, NBA legend Charles Barkley joins the show and says the Heat should be embarrassed for quitting against the Cavaliers.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour on this Wednesday. Charles Berkley stops by in
twenty minutes from now. More of your phone calls as well.
We got basketball tonight. The Lakers on the brink, Timberwolves
are five and a half point underdogs, and the Warriors
four and a half point underdogs at the Rockets. That's
a game five as well as the Rockets teetering on

(00:27):
the brink. You know, that's a whole different story than
the Lakers on the brink because the Rockets, you know,
this is just an exploratory trip to the playoffs. Hey,
how does it feel? We're a young team, all right, now,
we know what that feels like. We went against one
of the great closers in NBA history in Steph Curry
and also Jimmy Butler, and we got some nice parting gifts.

(00:48):
As for the Lakers, if the Lakers bowl out, and
I keep saying this, and it's not to be an
alarmist or to get clicks, it's if you're Luca, how
many more years does Lebron have? How many more does
he want to play? Let's say two more years? Well,
Luca with one more year than what's going to happen.

(01:09):
What's he want to do? Where does he want to play?
Does he want to play in Los Angeles? Is there
another place that sets up better for him to win
a championship? And I think that's a question that has
to be Maybe it's not front and center, but it
has to be in the back of people's minds that
this could happen, that Luca might say, I want to

(01:31):
play someplace else. Now, how much of it of a
draw is it to play with Lebron? How much of
a draw is it to play in Los Angeles? I
think these are important questions because he looks around, going
Austin Reeves can play. We don't have a big man
Dalton connect I thought was going to play more of
a role here. We're basically five players. That doesn't sound promising.

(01:57):
If I'm Luca and maybe there's some other place that
he would say that's where I want to go, I
wouldn't it be crazy if he said, you know, I
kind of want to go back to Dallas. Dallas would
love it.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
He might have a condition of someone else has to
go before he comes back.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
No names, I'll come back, But there's one person I
don't want to stay. Saturday, the first Saturday in May
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(02:41):
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talked a lot about what happened in the Pacers Bucks
game and then after the game with the confrontation between

(03:04):
Tyrese Haliburton's dad and Jannis. We'll talk to Charles Barkley
about that coming up. Also, Chris Carter was on the
Fully Loaded podcast and the Hall of Famer had this
to say about what he thinks Shador Sanders learned after
the draft.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Let me tell you what he understands today. Okay, he
ain't running, Okay, let me tell you what they taught
him A great lesson. Okay, like you don't have this
figured out. Your dad don't have this figured out.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Who's they and world? No? Who tell you said they
taught him. I'm just curious, like, well.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
The system, the system.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
There's a system out there, man, Like you're you're going
for a job interview. So for a job interview, he
was so concerned about, oh, what his outfit was. His
necklace was over one hundred grand. He hadn't even convinced
people that you're the face of our franchise.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Matter of fact, he had.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Convinced people that they were better off going in a
different direction with people who had lesser talent.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
That's the rub he put on the.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
People he threw away at least thirty to fifty million dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
So that's Chris Carter Fully Loaded podcast. He's saying what
I've been saying that I just don't think they prepared
him for what was going to be asked. And you
got to play a game. You have to say what
you have to tell them what they want to hear.
It's a game. You can be the personality you want

(04:32):
to be, but not in that moment. You have to
go in there and when they ask you a question,
you have to defer to them. You have to be hey,
how can I make your team better? What do you
want me to do? Look at some of those reactions
that you got on draft night. You had men who

(04:53):
were crying, I will do whatever it takes. I will
die for you, coach, whatever you want me to do.
Bill Campbell drafted by the Patriots. That's what you want,
that's what you want to hear. Look, even if you're
faking it, at least you know humor me that you

(05:13):
do want to come to my team, because how humiliating
is that that you go in there and you're like,
all right, let's see what he has. Let's listen, let's
see if we give him a play on the whiteboard.
Can he can he you know diagram that we're going
to ask him about that interception? What happened here? Like
these are just standard. I want to know what his

(05:35):
tone is going to be. Is he defensive? Is he
a guy who says, hey, give me another play? Like
you can do this. But if you haven't been asked
to do this when you're in college, you don't have
to placate anybody. Your dad's the coach, you get star treatment.
I get it. But this is the NFL. And I

(06:00):
don't think people are going, we're going to teach dionn
a lesson? What lesson did you teach him? Maybe he
should have prepared his son better. Okay, Dion's not coaching
his son anymore. So what's the lesson now at Colorado?

Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
But these are the things that you're hearing. And you know,
there are fire starters. There are people who want to say, oh,
you know, they didn't like Kaepernick. No, they didn't like
Kaepernick because that was a huge political story. I mean
that took over the country. You had the president involved
in this. Granted you have the president involved in Shador
Sanders sliding as well, but it's just different. And I

(06:41):
think people trying to, you know, put those two together,
they're doing a disservice to both. And do you want
Kaepernick as a backup? No, you don't. I mean even
Jim Harbaugh, who drafted him, who loved Colin Kaepernick, he
never said, you know, I think about bringing him in.
If I'm coaching in the NNA, he could bring him in.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I saw a story where Colin Kaepernick says he's working out,
he wants to get another chance. That ain't happening. But
with Shaudor Sanders, I think he went in as shaud
Or Sanders instead of a potential draft pick for a
team like you guys are lucky. I'm going to stop by.

(07:22):
I'll spend a little time. I might sign autographs maybe
for your uh, you know, your son or daughter, and
then I got to move on. That's not what you
want to hear. And what I found really fascinating is
you had draft analysts, You had insiders who had inside information,

(07:45):
and I think that they were nervous about sharing that
because that first report that came out and then the
reaction was, oh, well, the coach should put his name
by it. Well, we have sources. We don't tell you
our sources, And all of a sudden, it was about
the reporter who is publicizing this? You know that's all

(08:08):
You're just going, why are you doing this to the kid?
And it did feel like a smear campaign. I just
didn't get enough information about it. And then when you do,
then you understand it. And now all of a sudden,
everybody's picking on Shador Sanders. I think you had people
who could have done their jobs better. Also, the number

(08:29):
of revisionist history experts here of everybody knew he was
going to slip. Everybody saw this, Well, no they didn't.
It was there right in front of everybody who covers this,
and not everybody went, you know, front and center. And

(08:49):
I think that's the disappointing part is we could have
seen this happening. Shador could have seen this happening. I
don't know if anybody said to him, Hey, just like
Chris Carr or said, you know, this is the NFL,
it's cutthroat. I don't think you're going to go. We
won't draft him even if he can help us. You

(09:11):
got coaches who's going to get fired this year, gms
who get fired this year. And now he's in Cleveland,
which I think is a great place for him. I
do think he'll play there. But I think that was
the owner who came in and went above the GM
and the coach and said we're taking him. Because why

(09:32):
would you move up to take him when you already
took Dylan Gabriel. Why would you run the risk that
you might lose him if you know he slips past
the third round. I don't know why you pass on him.
Why did Tom Brady pass on him? Seven times with
somebody telling to Tom Brady, hey, it's a collusion, you know,

(09:52):
don't do that. Was he overruled by Mark Davis?

Speaker 5 (09:56):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
I think Tom Saul should or sand and said nope,
even though you got Geno Smith, who is what thirty
five years of age. So there's a lot of tentacles
attached to this. Now it comes down to Kenny play.
It doesn't matter about any of the other stuff. Now
when he gets to camp, let's see if he can play,

(10:22):
because that is the meritocracy that you have with the NFL.
A couple of phone calls in here, Tie in Syracuse, Hi, Tie,
what's on your mind today?

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (10:34):
I called in last year and I said, I know
you're advocating for foreigner, but can we get Paul Rodgers
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Es You agreed,
you were surprised he wasn't in. Now bad company and
Paul Rodgers are in the Hall of Fame. You're humble,
you won't take credit, but you're on your generational run
of getting those overlooked into the hall DP. Let's run
it back. Tory Hope belongs in the Pro Football Hall

(10:55):
of Fame. Thanks Bud, love your body at work.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Thank you, Ty Paul Rodgers, one of the great frontmen,
great singer and foreigner, should have been in the Ronck
Roll Hall of Fame. Now I'm getting mel Kiper into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The NFL find the
Falcons two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and defensive coordinator
Jeff Olbrick one hundred thousand dollars for quote failing to

(11:21):
prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club
in advance of the NFL draft. Yes, should have been punished.
I would have taken away a draft pick here. But
the NFL came down hard on the Falcons two hundred
and fifty thousand and for the defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrick
one hundred thousand dollars because his son got access to

(11:42):
his rolodex with all of these players. And I don't
know if his son and his buddy in their frat
house were doing this with other draft picks. But there
were other draft picks who were also pranked as well.
Aside from Shudhor Sanders Mark in California, Hi, Mark, what's
on your mind today?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
GP?

Speaker 7 (12:01):
I got a broadcasting question for you, and one other
quarterback question in that out of all of your years
in broadcasting, the proverbial er earworms, Terrell Owens, Brett Favre
watched now Aaron Rodgers on and on what is the
one story that you went into work in the morning when,

(12:23):
for the love of Pete, can we not talk about
this anymore? Because Tebow and Terrell, if you remember right,
those were long sagas. That's one. And then looking at
Pittsburgh with Aaron Rodgers and Mike Commin, the guy is
so balanced. Is he really going to bring in the

(12:43):
tantrums of Aaron Rodgers over someone like Cousins. That doesn't
make any sense to me coming from him. I don't
see the upside being so great that you want to
put up with the malarkey that comes along with that.
Just appreciate your insights and by the way, best stic
Avo improvisation every day.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Thank you, Mark, Thank you for the compliment. There the
story that wouldn't go away. I think Lebron and Jordan
Pete rose in the Hall of Fame, those I mean,
those still continue. Nobody's bringing up Tim Tebow or Terrell Owens,
but you know, Pete and I think Pete's going to

(13:20):
get on the ballot. I do. I think this commissioner
is going to acquiesque to the president and make him
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we'll talk to Charles Barkley about that. What happens if
the Lakers bow out? What did he make of Tyrese
Haliburton's dad confronting Yannis on the sidelines? Jay in the

(14:02):
Bay joins us, Good morning, Jay, what's on your mind?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Fellows?

Speaker 8 (14:08):
To the lady who asked Doc Rivers how much longer
he was hoping to be employed for, I believe the
correct answer would be Christmas Eve of twenty twenty seven.
I was interested in what young contender you would like
to see honest go to if he was to go.
I personally think that the Rockets would be a really

(14:29):
fun fit. And lastly, a little dated of a reference,
but your regulars will get it. Eduardo, please call back.
America needs three more years of STADII.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Guy, Baby, let's go.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Thank you Jay. That's Jay in the bay. You know
the Rockets have a young nucleus there. But I don't
know if you want to get you know, what do
you have to give up if you're going to make
a trade like that. But if I'm Milwaukee, I go
to Jannis first and I say, what do you want
to do? And then you'll find out because that can

(15:03):
help you with your next step. If he says, look,
I'm thirty, you can build around me. You know I'm
in it. We're gonna win it one more time. You know,
let's go. But I don't know about Dame Brook Lopez.
I mean, I gotta look around and go. Let's take inventory.
Kyle Kuzman, Kyle Kousman, So goofy, Kyle Kouzman, all right,

(15:27):
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Speaker 2 (16:40):
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the Rockets and the Timberwolves getting five and a half
at the Lakers. He is the star of Inside the
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley back on the program, Chuck,
good to see you finish this sentence. If the Lakers
lose tonight, dot dot don.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
The Lakers. I told you two months ago, six weeks
the Lakers are on a good team. They got two
really really good players, but they're not a good team.
ESPN just swings on them like they choked, like everything
chased like chicken. But the Lakers is not a good team.
They're gonna lose either this round or next round, but
more likely this round. But they just they're not very good.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
What do you think the future? And like if you're
let's say you're Luca and you look around, JJ didn't
play anybody off the bench. Lebron's got maybe two more
years left.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
If you're the Lakers are not going to be a
contender with the team they have now, your best player
can't be forty or I just don't think that's that's
that makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, your best player can't
be forty I mean, uh, and JJ was wrong the

(18:00):
other night to play those guys entire second half because
number one, it's probably gonna affect them tonight. It definitely
affected them down the stress the other night. You know,
both of those guys missed layups and they made some
mental mistakes with the ball. So no, it's it's this
is not the Lakers year. And people think I hated
the Lakers. I told you, I said Lakers on a

(18:21):
good team. Uh, but ESPN was just swinging on him
like they were damn King Kong and so.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
But if but if you're Luca, do you want to stay?
Do you want to re sign? If you're looking around
at what you have with the Austin Reeves a nice player,
But what are you going to build on when Lebron's gone?

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well I don't know the answer to that question, first
and foremost, but I don't think he can go anywhere.
I mean, he's gonna be a Laker probably for life
from this point going forward.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, right, you know.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Then then you know, the clowns of the ESPN they
always make me laugh.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Because aren't you going to be working there?

Speaker 5 (19:01):
And yeah, but there you know, I'm gonna be a
straight shooter. It's interesting how they were discussing Gianni's this week,
like shit, Yannis want to leave. I'm like, I clearly
don't remember when I played. I don't remember saying we
need to get Charles Barker some help in Philadelphia or Phoenix,

(19:22):
or Carmelan some help in Utah, Patrick Ewn some help
in New York. I don't remember guys at the media
kissing my ass and calls ass and Patrick asked like, well,
Yanni should want to leave Milwaukee now because he can't
win the championship. I wonder what all the guys were
when I played ask for me to get some help.

(19:42):
I mean they were kissing I did. They were like
loving the Lakers, loving, loving itself, loving Michael, loving the Pistons.
But I don't remember all these kiss asses back in
the day saying, you know, we need to get Charles
Barker some help because he can't win a championship in
Philly or Phoenix. But it makes to me laughed. You're like, no,
Johanni's got to leave Milwaukee. You know that already started.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Like wow, y'all was concerned about us other great players
back in our day. But y'all All of a sudden,
Now y'all like, oh, Jannis has got to leave Milwaukee.
Now it's his championship, wasn't no close. I'm like, man,
thanks for helping me out when I went out there
with nobody.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
You had a great team in Phoenix.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
We had a really good team.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
You guys should have won the title that year.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
No, Michael was better.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Mike was better, but you guys had a better team
than the Bulls.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Uh. It was a Pickham series. But Michael was the
greatest ever. And then the next two years a team
was better than me when it counted. So hey, listen,
all I wanted one of the reason I got out
of Philadelphia. I just wanted a chance. I had three
chances at it, and we lost to the champions three
years in a row. That's all you want. But I
don't want to stack my team ever. That I mean,

(20:59):
I'm always be against superteam period.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
All Right, I'm watching last night, you guys after the
Pacers game, and Shack is blaming Yanni's for the altercation,
the incident with Tyre's Halliburton's dad.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, that was Shaq was one hundred percent wrong and
stupid on that subject. I've never did. I've never seen that.
Number One, I want to thank Tyreech for coming out apologizing,
and then I want to thank his dad for coming
out and apologizing, like, I ain't never seen that before.
In my over forty years in the NBA, I've never

(21:36):
seen a parent. You know. It was like AAU crap. Yeah,
you know how much I hate AAU. It's like these
parents they think they can scream their kid to the NBA.
It drives me flat crazy, but they apologize. And let
me tell you something, Jannis is one of my favorite players.

(21:58):
He became more one of my favorite last night because
ain't no way in the hell I wouldn't have clocked his.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Ass, Dare.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Ain't no way I wouldn't have clocked him. And I
ain't trying to be no fake tough guy on television.
There's no way I wouldn't have punched him in the
face when he did what he did. There's no way,
And I say, I ain't trying to be no fake
tough guy. But in the heat of the moment, and
y honest said it, I didn't know it was his dad.

(22:25):
If a regular fan came on the court and did
that to me, A one percent would have punched him
in the face.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Should he get the same punishment as if that was
just a fan in not Tyrese Haliburton's death.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I don't even know what the appropriate punishment is. Like
I say, I'm glad they both apologized. I'm not sure
what the punishment is. Uh, what's fair?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
How about you keep him away from the first playoff game,
the next playoff game at home?

Speaker 5 (22:57):
That's fair, That's fair. I don't think he should be executed,
but I think, hey, you can't come to the next
to the next two games at home. I think that
would be fair.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Or if he wants to be on the court so badly,
he must play five minutes for the Pacers, that would
be a great.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
He has to start the game and play the first
quarter for his son, that would be a great punishment. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, he's got to guard Donovan Mitchell. I think that's right.
For five five minutes.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hey, he has to play. No, you can break it
up how you want to. He has to play twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
He's Charles Barkley, the Hall of Famer Turner Sports Inside
the NBA analyst. I know athletes hate it when you
know people in my position say somebody quit. So I'm
just trying to come up with a better description for
what the Miami Heat did the other night against Cleveland.
If they didn't quit, what exactly did they do? Well?

Speaker 5 (23:55):
You know, it's interesting. I'm there's three things I don't
like doing. One thing I would never do that somebody
should get fired. I've made that clear for twenty five years.
I'll never like, I can say they're not doing a
good job, but I would never say somebody should get fired.
That's just like my number one rule. Secondly, I don't
like using the word choke or quit because that was

(24:18):
that's that's damning. But the Miami Heat quit in Game four,
because if you were not embarrassed after Game three, you
and to come out and play like you did in
Game four. The Miami Heat, they quit, they were ready
for can Coon. And it was really unfortunate because I

(24:38):
have so much respect for pat Riley, Alonzo Marning and
Eric Spost and like I say, the Cavs were gonna
win the series, but to come out there and quit
like that. But you know, Eric Sposed said that was embarrassing.
That was embarrassing for the Heat organization. And but I
have faith in pat Riley, Alonso Marning and Eric exposed.
They're gonna fix, They're gonna fit. I mean they were

(25:02):
once Jimmy Butler forced his way out of there. They
needed to get the season over with. I hated an
it ended as badly as did and it was unfortunate,
but they quit.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Steve Kirk came out and said Draymond Green is the
best defender he's ever seen.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Well, he can say that, but he's supposed to. That's
his player. But he's not a better off defender than
Michael Kobe, Dennis Rodman. He's a terrific defender, but he's not.
But I he gonna just say he gonna say that.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, but you got to be also honest when you
do it. From the standpoint of he did. He played
with Michael, so he he did see the best defensive player.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
Listen, I think in the moment he got he got
to say the reason Draymond wasn't in the game because
Sengun was cooking him. He got it out from him, like,
you know, Draymond was in foul trouble. Why was he
in foul trouble? And Gold was cooking him? So but listen,
Draymond is a heck of a player. He's a really
good player. He's a really good defender. But I expect

(26:09):
coaches to defend their players, I really do.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
He not a better defender than Rodman was when Dennis
was with the Pistons.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
No he was not. No, uh, he was not a
better defender than Rodman. I can und percent say that
Dennis was amazing.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
But Pippin, to me, was a better defender than Mike.
Scotty could guard everybody.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Well, he couldn't guard me. Hey, they doubled me with
Harvest Grant. Now let's get that out there.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, all right, that's that's fair.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
But you know what, I will agree Scott Scott is
a better defender than Draymond. I'll give him.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Miss Flowers, who did you love seeing on you? Like?

Speaker 5 (26:55):
I never I never even worried about it, Dan, nobody.
Do you remember back in the day when they had
the Jordan stopper. We used to laugh.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
About that, like Gerald Wilkins, Like, are you serious right now?

Speaker 5 (27:10):
There's no great player. There's no great player who can
be stopped. You can make him work hard, like you
can't stop Jannis, you can't stop Bird, You can't stop
Dominique Wilkins. You're not gonna stop me. You're not gonna
stop now. You can make us work hard. But this

(27:31):
notion that you're gonna stop a great player, that's insane.
You're not gonna stop a great player, period.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
But there wasn't a guy where you go. Because George
Gervin I asked him that question. I said, ice, who
was the guy that you couldn't wait to see on
the court? And he goes Kevin Greevy. He played for
the Baltimore Bullets. He said, I loved playing against Kevin
Greevy because I knew I was gonna score. You didn't
have that guy where you go. I'm putting up forty.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Well, you know, I felt like I was going to
get double team ninety five percent of the time. I
don't think I never thought that one guy could guard me.
It's interesting when people put up still photos of me.
A couple of people have noticed this. They're like, why
aren't you looking at the defender? I said, first of all,
I'm not even worried about the guy guard me because

(28:24):
I'm always looking past the defender.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, if you.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Get a steal photo of me with the ball, I'm
never even worried about the guy guard me. I'm looking like,
where it's the double team coming from, or where I'm going.
I'm and I didn't even know this one of my friends.
He says, Man, I'm looking at these old photos of
you when you got the ball. You're not even looking
at the guy. I said, Dude, I'm not even worried
about one guy stopping me. I don't care who it is.

(28:52):
I don't care if it's Rodman. I don't care if
it's Kevin McHale, who's a great defender. Kiy mckell's the
best player I've ever played against. I'm looking like, is
there a double team or what angle am I going.
I'm never worried about one guy stopping me, period.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
What if Jordan guarded you.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
He's too little, he's too little, He's he listen, Michael,
he can't guard me in the post. He's too little.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Did you say that to him?

Speaker 5 (29:21):
I've said it to him a thousand times, Little little man, late, Hey,
little man, at the wrong place. Hey say, little man,
you're at the wrong.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Place, at the wrong Wait. He's taller than you.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
He too little, though, he too little?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
He can jump.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, he gonna fly because I'm gonna hit his ad
I'm gonna hit him. He da, I'm hitting with bowls
and hands.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
What was it like when you guarded him?

Speaker 5 (29:49):
I can't guard him. It was really funny, he said.
He actually talked about this one time. We switched out
and I get down my defensive stand and he just
started he did, I switched out and he looked at me.
He just started laughing and just said, are you serious

(30:10):
right now? And he actually passed the ball, but because
he was laughing so.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Hard, Golden State didn't doub when you scored fifty six.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
And you know what's really funny about that. I had
I think twenty four twenty six the first quarter. So
I'm running by the bench and I said, Nelly, you
better double me. He says, nope. After I get like
the first ten the first quarter, I said, Nellie, are

(30:43):
you gonna double me? He said, not all night. I'm
not gonna w So I got like twenty four the
first quarter. Basically, I think I had twenty eight the
first half, and I'm screaming at Nelly, you better double me,
and he's screaming at me, not a chance. I'm w
Byron Houston's too little Chris galling too little. It's so

(31:06):
funny cause that it was amazing, and I'm screaming at him,
are you gonna double me? He's like, I'm not gonna
w all night. And that's absolutely a true story.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
That was your high fifty six.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yes, in uh in a in uh and uh. I
think that was the game. We because I was already man,
because Nike made a commercial with me. Well, Chris Webber
dunke it on me.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
And so.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
We uh did he bring the ball around his back
and then dun Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
My mind said to me, I said, Chris is not
a great free throw shooter. I'm gonna file him. So
I reached for the ball to file him, and he
took it. I was gonna take a file and he
took it behind his back and dunked on me. And
it was a three point play. So Nike calls me
and say, hey, can we use this in a commercial?

(32:02):
I said, of course, I'm not upset about it. I
get everybody's been dunked up. So then when they when
the commercial come out and Chris is, well, I don't
care what anybody saying, you're my role model. He's laughing
in the barbershop I said, oh, I got to make
him pay for that. I got to make him pay
for that.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
A side topic, what is Bill Belichick doing?

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Well? This is a very slippery subject for me because
Bill's one of my really good friends. I don't I'm
not sure what's going on. Uh, you know, he's been
a great friend for me for a long time. I'm
we've been friends since he coached for the Browns. I
think he got to be very careful right now. This

(32:50):
is starting to be on a very slippery slope. H
he's the greatest football coach ever for him and Nick
Saban for college, Nick Saban for Bill the NFL. Yeah,
I from what I'm hearing, it's starting to be a
very slippery slope. And I never talk about people's personal relationship.
That's that's another rule I got. But I will admit

(33:14):
I'm a little concerned with some of the stuff that's
going on, and I might actually reach out to him
and make sure everything's good. But I am concerned from
what I'm hearing, because yeah, it's a it's not a
good look right now, I'll admit that.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
And he's such a control freak, but he's relinquished control.
It feels like, that's what's surprising to me.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, listen, man, I have very strict rules on things
about don't ask me no personal questions. Nobody in my
family can speak. No, I'm the one who's famous. I'm
the one who have to deal with all the crap. No,
don't don't say anything, because if you say something, it's

(33:58):
just gonna muddy the water. That's what I call it.
If any family members speak out, it's just going muddy
the water. And yeah, I'm a little concerned. I'll admit that,
because you know, he's my friend through good, bad and whatever,
and I just hope he I hope everything's all right.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Whenever I see you doing those Capital One commercials you
got Spike Lee, it dawned on me the last time.
Could Spike ever play basketball?

Speaker 5 (34:26):
No? Okay no, And let me tell you something. There's
two people who I work with are the best at
what they do. There's a guy named Joe Picker, who's
one of the greatest directors of all time. The second
one is Sam Jackson. They are the two best I've
ever worked with when it comes to making commercials because
they know what works. Like sometimes, both of those guys

(34:49):
we're shooting a commercial. They're like, now that sucks, We're
not gonna do it like that. Joe Picker and Sam
Jackson they're like no. And Sam was like, who wrote
this crap quote this track? And he says, that doesn't work,
it doesn't make any sense. Let's do it like this.
But those are the two best I've ever worked with
as far as knowing what works on camera. Joe Picking,

(35:11):
Sam Samuel L. Jackson, they are the best. But Spike, Spike,
Spike has zero athletic ability. Zero.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
All right, I just wanted to know.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
No, zero athletic ability.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Are you golfing today?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
No?

Speaker 5 (35:30):
We got. It's kind of hard because you know, we
worked to two in the morning, and I have to
get up early to play because you know, we got
to be back in the studio about six o'clock tonight.
So I'll start playing next week, to be honest with you,
because once we get teams eliminated, we have a lot.
We work every night, but some nights we have like

(35:52):
one game, But right now we still have two games
going to two in the morning, So I'm not golfing
right now.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Shock had to go to the bathroom the other night.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
Oh man, that was hilarious, wasn't it. But you know
what's so funny, Dan, he not even my age yet.
You know, like back probably five or seven years ago,
if I had to go to the bathroom, like if
I was watching something on television, I can hold it,
and like once I got like fifty five, you can't.
And he's getting that age now, be like, yeah, if

(36:26):
you try to hold it, it's gonna come out on
his own. Yeah. So I told him, I said, welcome
to old time age. Brother. You can't. When you gotta go,
you gotta go. Is that simple?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
We gotta go. Great to talk to you again. Thank you, Chuck.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
All right, brother, thanks for having me. You take care
of brother.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Charles.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Barkley will take a break back after this.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
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 WAP.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
And the guests were great today. Barkley's always great, Ross
Tucker and Luke de Cock, the columnist from the Raleigh
News and Observer. He was on fire. That's good stuff today.
Good job, Fritzy. Considering how you started out the show,
I think you ended up maybe uh in a positive
areas rally rally right, Yeah you rallied is what you did? Congratulations?

Speaker 11 (37:19):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Let me see how about Ed in Chicago?

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Ed? What's on your mind today?

Speaker 12 (37:25):
Yes, thank you for getting to me so with all
due respect as a longtime listener. Fourth time caller six
two through thirty five, I'd like to I'd like to
rebrand today's show Todd Fritz and the Fritzsts, because yes,
she may have had the Doc Rivers nailing it off,
you know before the show started, but he redeemed himself.
He gave it back with doctor Phil. But what we

(37:47):
really need to hear of to have the definitives saying
about what happened with Giannis and the dad last night
is what did marg Simpson think.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
That's a very unfortunate situation. But you can't have your
dad coming out there and get in a great freak's face.
I agree with Charles, you got to punch that guy
in the face. Thank you, Barge. Thanks. I agree with Charles,
you have to punch that guy in the face. Manny
Manny in ocean side, Hi, Mannie, Dan.

Speaker 13 (38:19):
Boys, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Great food?

Speaker 13 (38:22):
Sneaky two oh five? Hey, long time, second time, real
quick I called back in OH four when you were
in the house studio and I got them free screening,
and Polly hung up on me. I wanted to talk
Tiki Barber as a budding great running back and he
didn't want to hear it.

Speaker 6 (38:38):
But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 13 (38:41):
Hey, I wanted to say, what if Bill Belichick's girlfriend
is playing everybody playing the media? What if she's staging
all this wild corny axe let's take these corny pictures,
these over the top moves. What if it's just to
stay relevant?

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Wait, she's she's trying to stay relevant. Boy, just kick
Billy relevant. Well, as long as he's coaching, he'll be relevant.
He'll be irrelevant if he loses. But I don't know
if Bill taking pictures at the beach is really what
he had in mind to stay relevant. But thank you,

(39:16):
thank you man.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, Paulie Belichick joining UNC was one of the biggest
and is one of the biggest stories of the college
football season upcoming as a standalone.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, he doesn't need to do anything to be relevant.
I wouldn't do these things to be relevant if I
was Belichick. If he wins, he'll be relevant.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
This stay in sports history Paul.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Nineteen thirty nine, Lou Garrigg played his last game with
the New York Yankees today.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Today. Today.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
He played twenty one to thirty consecutive games. The Miwaukee
Bucks nineteen seventy one swept the Baltimore Bullets in the
championship series.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Remember this one.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Nineteen ninety three, tennis player number one in the world,
Monica sellis stabbed in the back by Gunter Porsche. He
ran out of the court during the match and dad
ran the back. She was off the circuit for almost
six months. And in two thousand and two, a Rod
became the second youngest major league player to reach two
hundred and fifty home runs. He was twenty six years old.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Okay, On this date, the Niners selected Rock Party final
pick of the twenty twenty two NFL Draft. All right,
I'll join your Seaton.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
That guys saved jobs.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yes he did, Yes, he did. I just know that
Seaton was on Broctober before anybody in the national media was.
He came back and he goes, hey, my gude, I
was state Rock Purty Broctober, killing them, killing them, the problem.
We went into November and then I don't think it
went well after that, I was positive he he was

(40:51):
like a freshman or sophomore. I was like this kids
went in the highsman, you did say that this kid
is unreal. The numerous heismans maybe might be two times Todd,
What did you learn today?

Speaker 13 (41:00):
Charles Barkley wants to know why no one ever said
he Karl Malone and Patrick Ewing needed more help to
win an NBA title.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Seaton look to Cock is the guy. He was great today,
a lot of fun. Marvin Barkley is friends with Bill
Belichick and who knew?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Paul?

Speaker 2 (41:15):
What did you learn today?

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Thank mister Halliburton?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Playball?

Speaker 5 (41:18):
God?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
What did I learn today?

Speaker 13 (41:20):
Ross Tucker feels Travis Hunter could become the Steph Curry
of football.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Other five star recruits will want to play both sides
of the ball. No, it's shoe, Hey o Tani is
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