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They blow out the heat, they close out

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the heat. mAbs roll the Clippers.

1:20

They're up three games to two tonight, Bucks

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at the Pacers, Game six, the Knicks

1:25

at the Sixers. That'll be a nine Eastern

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start game six. Case

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you're wondering entertainment purposes

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only according to DraftKings, the Knicks

1:34

are getting three, the Bucks

1:37

are getting eight. I'm assuming

1:39

then that Dame and Giannis will not

1:41

be playing if they're getting eight points

1:43

against the Indiana Pacers. As

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far as the Knicks, I got some over

1:48

unders here. I'm always curious about

1:51

that, specially with joelnbid

1:54

this according to DraftKings over

1:56

under Joel Ebiid game

1:59

six tonight, mar been gonna start with you twenty

2:02

eight and a half, all right, Seaton O'Connor

2:05

twenty six and a half, Paul.

2:07

Thirty one and a half, Todd thirty

2:09

two and a half, thirty and a half for

2:12

Joel Embiid on one leg

2:15

banged up a little bit has to be

2:17

tired, not literally.

2:18

He's got both legs out of there, Yes

2:20

he has. He has both legs. I checked

2:24

Jalen Brunson over under

2:27

Todd.

2:29

Twenty nine and a half.

2:30

Paul thirty three and a half Blue

2:33

Blue Blue, Oh Tyrese

2:36

Maxey Marvin

2:38

over under tonight.

2:40

Thirty five and a half, Paul.

2:44

Twenty nine and a half, Todd thirty

2:47

four and a.

2:47

Half, Seat twenty

2:49

seven and a half, twenty six and a half,

2:52

twenty six and a half off night. Yes.

2:55

Yeah, so that's what

2:57

we have coming up tonight with the

3:00

Knicks and the Sixers. And

3:03

apparently the team moment owner went

3:05

out and bought a couple thousand tickets, which

3:07

sounds like a really nice gesture to give

3:10

those tickets to first responders. I

3:12

think he's trying to ensure that the Knick

3:14

fans don't come in and gobble up

3:16

these tickets that somehow were

3:19

available. Yes, Marbon, but.

3:21

His Amtrak against the Knicks.

3:22

Also because the last train leaving Philadelphia

3:25

tonight is at twelve eleven am.

3:27

Twelve eleven am. Eight

3:29

game starts after nine, never

3:31

starts right at nine. Is it gonna be like a

3:34

nine oh seven?

3:35

I think so nine six nine oh seven, yeah.

3:37

Ten o seven eleven oh seven.

3:40

So you're gonna have a little bit more time in there.

3:43

The last couple of minutes take thirty

3:45

minutes. Man,

3:49

you can't just go from the arena right

3:51

to Amtrak in Philadelphia. I'm

3:53

not sure how far that is, although

3:55

I have made that commute

3:58

from the arena to a track, and

4:03

at that time of the night, trying to get out of the arena

4:05

traffic trying to get a cab an

4:08

uber. You can't run there. It's

4:11

going to be tight. Missed that last

4:13

train staying

4:15

in Philadelphia. Yes, Mark

4:17

Hurts and Enterprise. They're gonna have some business tonight.

4:20

Yeah. Yeah, so the last

4:22

train out of Philadelphia. Yes, Pauline.

4:25

That story you mentioned about the ownership group and Michael

4:27

Ruben and those guys buying tickets for the Sixers

4:29

game, it's interesting to see that it's being covered

4:31

different newspapers. The Philadelphia

4:34

papers, owners step up, do the right thing,

4:36

buy tickets to prevent Knicks fans from coming

4:38

down. The New York Post Desperate

4:41

embarrassed seventy six owners by

4:43

two thousand game tickets to keep Knicks fans from

4:45

taking over their arena.

4:46

Well, I do think it's a great gesture,

4:49

but it's embarrassing that they

4:51

got to the point where he needed to make

4:53

a great gesture and buy all these tickets, right,

4:57

because if the tickets weren't available, I don't

4:59

think he's going to go out and buy all these tickets

5:01

and give it to first responders. So, yes,

5:04

great gesture, first responders get

5:06

to go. Don't know if

5:08

they would have gotten to go if this was again seven

5:11

in Philadelphia and it was sold out. But

5:14

I agree with the New York Post, which is rare

5:16

that, Yeah, it seems a little desperate

5:19

here, trying to keep the nick fans from invading,

5:21

Yes, Seaton.

5:23

I mean, really, what the story that we're

5:25

talking about is the Sixers

5:27

owners are giving away a bunch

5:29

of tickets they already own. Yeah

5:32

right, I know they didn't really I know that they

5:35

had to quote buy them, but ultimately they're

5:37

buying them from themselves anyway, So they're really

5:39

just giving out the ticket, probably.

5:40

To diskind of rate that they're buying these tickets

5:42

too, right as well? All right, what value?

5:45

I watched the MAVs and the Clippers last night.

5:47

I'm just curious because I

5:50

knew that Kawhi wasn't going to play, but

5:52

I thought, okay, is this where James Harden

5:54

and Russell Westbrook junior, the third step

5:56

up, Paul George, you know he's going to

5:58

play well well. James

6:01

Harden and Russell Westbrook went four for twenty

6:03

three. That's not good. And

6:06

here we go with this team moving into a new

6:08

arena next year, and you got the

6:11

Kawhi Leonard question. Now

6:13

he's getting forty five million this

6:15

season. He has

6:18

missed one hundred and eighty one regular season game

6:20

since he joined the Clippers. What's

6:22

that five years now? One

6:25

eighty one regular season I'm surprised

6:28

when he's playing they

6:30

lose by thirty in a pivotal

6:32

It's always a pivotal game five. But

6:35

the bigger picture here is what

6:37

do you do with him for the next couple of years?

6:40

And if you're Paul George, what do you want

6:42

to do James

6:45

Harden, Russell Westbrook.

6:48

They do have a great coach in ty Loo, and

6:51

they have an owner who spends. But

6:53

it's the Kawhi question mark, the

6:55

Kawhi issue, and

6:57

I think they just extended him in January,

7:01

like what did you see in January? Where you

7:03

go? You know what? We asked him if

7:05

his knee is good? He said yeah, better

7:07

lock him up. Yeah, we

7:10

we decided, Yeah he's needed.

7:12

Okay, here, we're gonna pay

7:14

you fifty million dollars a year. And

7:16

remember how they kind of slanted

7:19

the story a couple of years ago. Yeah, but he'll

7:21

be ready for the postseason. Okay.

7:24

The last time he was ready for the postseason

7:26

he played in Toronto. So

7:30

he's not ready for the regular season, you know, load

7:33

management. Oh, he'll be ready to go when

7:35

they get Hey, when the lights go on, he'll

7:37

be ready and be like, no he's not.

7:42

Yeah, that all may be true, but you know what

7:44

attendance is great. People

7:48

are going to watch the Clippers. Yeah, okay,

7:50

all right, we're good. Okay, don't worry about winds

7:52

Man.

7:52

We got people. We got eighteen nineteen thousand a night,

7:55

whatever it is, you know, new

7:57

arena coming on. Heck, yeah, kawhi,

7:59

it's gonna be there. Like he's

8:01

on the bench. He shows up.

8:04

Yes, they are so fortunate to be

8:06

in La, just second fiddle because

8:08

no one really cares that much. If they

8:10

were Lakers. Oh, this would

8:12

be a different story. And they did actually the same thing as the Lakers

8:15

did. Yeah, they got a big time free agent

8:17

and they traded the farm for a secondary star.

8:19

Yep, there's still nothing.

8:21

But I wonder. I wonder if Paul George

8:23

is on this team in a year, because

8:26

he might look around and go, what what am I

8:28

doing?

8:30

What?

8:30

Like I had playing with these guys. Here's

8:32

Paul George after the game.

8:35

I think the beauty of it is the older I've

8:37

gotten, the less pressure has been.

8:40

Honestly, I

8:42

think you know, when it comes down to it,

8:44

you work your tail off all

8:46

summer. You train for these moments

8:50

to where you know if you fail,

8:52

you fel but you know

8:55

you just go out there and you give it all you have. Live

8:58

with the results. But it's far as

9:00

pressure, not anymore. I

9:02

don't feel that pressure anymore. I'm

9:05

not out there to prove nothing to anybody. But

9:07

what I do want to do is just go and show up for my

9:10

teammates. You know, leave everything

9:12

on the floor. Like I said, you just try to be a

9:14

leader.

9:15

Okay. I don't want to hear

9:17

that from ball George. If I'm a Clipper

9:19

fan, you may think that. Don't

9:22

verbalize that. I got no

9:24

pressure. I'm good at a

9:26

big deal. I'm content with all I've accomplished,

9:29

great living in LA.

9:32

I'm making fifty million dollars. I'm

9:34

doing okay, it's good. Yeah, but I'll get

9:36

out there and I'll go for a loose ball or so.

9:39

I mean, he at least plays came

9:41

back from the devastating you know, leg

9:43

injury and he's still

9:46

a really good, high end player. But you're

9:49

trying to Okay, I can't trust Westbrook

9:51

anymore, I can't

9:54

trust Harden anymore. And

9:56

then you know Kawhi is not going to be in there. I

10:00

it's I would look around and go,

10:02

yeah, there's no pressure. And if you're fine

10:04

with no pressure, but no chance of winning a title.

10:06

And it feels like the last couple of years the

10:09

Clippers have been there in the top four

10:11

or five odds on favorites

10:14

to win the NBA title, and

10:16

I keep thinking they're not going to be

10:18

healthy, just not. And

10:21

the older they get, I tack on another year.

10:24

Do you think these guys are going to find the fountain

10:26

of youth? And the answer is no, But

10:29

you lose by thirty.

10:31

I know you don't have Kawhi. You lose by thirty.

10:35

And you know what they were talking to Luka Doncik

10:37

about after the game, his

10:40

defense. So game four,

10:42

James harn got thirty three.

10:43

Today, you guys walking down to seven

10:45

points, it's something different or something special.

10:47

They guess did smoral Game four to game five?

10:50

I think the Jones and Fiza, you

10:52

know, they played great defense. Kyrie

10:54

was flowing great defense, you know, pressuring him the whole

10:56

time. Like I said, we're

10:58

just locked in. We communicate, Oh, we

11:01

know there's counting, so we just follow as carding.

11:03

Okay, I'm

11:05

gonna take his word for it, but we're talking

11:08

defense. With the Dallas Mavericks, by the way,

11:10

Luka Doncik had thirty

11:12

five. He outscored the big

11:14

stars there. With the Clippers, I think

11:16

he outscored the starting five. So he

11:18

had thirty five, twenty of the thirty five in

11:21

the second half. So

11:23

now he has over a thousand points

11:25

in thirty three playoff games. There's

11:27

four players to score at least one thousand

11:29

points in their first thirty three career

11:31

playoff games. Michael Jordan, Wilt

11:34

Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and

11:37

now Luka don Chick. Who

11:41

stead of a day, start of a day,

11:44

start out a day, stant out a day,

11:48

this is the start.

11:49

Of the day.

11:56

And Elgin Baylor had

11:59

one thousand and fifty points, Mike

12:01

had one than one hundred ninety, Wilt

12:03

one thy one hundred and fifty four. So Lukadan

12:06

chik is in there. And once

12:08

again he had the flu or he wasn't

12:10

feeling well and he's got a knee.

12:12

That's a little circumspect

12:15

there. Not sure. He said he wasn't

12:18

completely healthy, but he was going to play. I

12:20

don't know. The diagnosis on his knee

12:23

might be a spring but not bad

12:25

on one leg last night.

12:27

As for the Celtics in the heat, you

12:30

know the heat on those nights when they

12:32

can shoot threes, okay, they

12:35

might be able to pull off his surprise like they did.

12:38

They had one of the worst shooting percentages

12:41

in the NBA playoffs in history. They

12:44

went three for twenty nine. You

12:47

know what that is ten percent,

12:50

ten point three percent. The Nuggets

12:53

twenty nineteen ten

12:55

percent, went two for twenty, the Jazz

12:58

twenty twenty two against the MAVs ten

13:00

percent, three for thirty, the

13:02

Wizards nine percent.

13:05

That was twenty twenty one first round

13:07

versus the seventy six ers. So congratulations

13:10

to your Miami Heat, who are now

13:12

on vacation.

13:14

Yes, Paul, I think casual

13:16

people could go three for twenty nine. I

13:18

know the NBA three is hard, but that's drastic.

13:21

And like you said, they're an above average three point shooting

13:23

team.

13:24

Fascinating. Yeah, but they keep shooting. Yeah,

13:26

that is the logic. You know, the

13:28

map says you gotta keep shoot your way

13:30

out. Well that's the

13:32

way you do it. Yeah. Well,

13:35

great shooters shoot their way out of it. Not

13:37

everybody is supposed to shoot their way out of it. Hey,

13:40

Jimmy, Yeah that's enough. Yeah,

13:43

just ask John Starks. Uh,

13:45

John, I don't know. Maybe maybe we don't shoot

13:47

any more threes. That's enough. Now I'm feeling

13:49

pretty good. Tyler

13:52

hero was I think one of eight from three

13:54

point range. That's one of those where all

13:56

right, I'm gonna watch and then you go, I don't need

13:58

to watch anymore.

13:59

I'm good.

14:01

All right, Well, get the phone calls, pull question

14:03

Seaton. What are we going with today?

14:05

Yeah? I got one right now that

14:07

I've been thinking about all day. Worse

14:10

to wrangle a

14:12

bunch of bees? Are a mad dog? M

14:17

that's bath off of our guest today.

14:18

Okay, a mad

14:21

dog? And then we have the beekeep.

14:23

Would you rather wrangle a bunch of bees that

14:25

are swarming or would you try to get a

14:27

mad, an angry.

14:28

Dog off of you?

14:29

Oh?

14:30

Off of me? Yeah, you have to wrangle

14:32

it, wrangle it. Yeah, you have to control it.

14:36

Well, I'd rather worry about one

14:39

than a thousand, because I have

14:42

been tracked down by bees, chased down

14:44

by bees. When I stepped on a nest, a

14:47

nest that was in the ground, and I think

14:49

it was hornets, and all

14:51

of a sudden, the guy that I'm

14:53

with, Tom, was running faster

14:56

than me. So they got me, and

14:58

they stung me, and they threw

15:00

me in a bathtub full of ice

15:03

because they were worried that I would die with

15:05

all of the beastings that I had. So

15:08

I would say, and

15:10

I'm kind of a dog whisper, you know, I

15:12

think I could talk to the dog and I could settle

15:14

it down a little bit, bease you can't negotiate

15:17

with.

15:17

You know, you're the only person that my

15:20

dog Ruby ever growled that in her

15:22

whole life, her whole life, she

15:24

never growled at another human being except for you.

15:26

Yep, that is true, that is true.

15:29

I was at Seatans for Thanksgiving

15:32

my family was out of town. Seatan's wife

15:34

was pregnant, and Seatan goes, wait, come

15:36

over and I go, sure, and much

15:39

to the surprise, I think of his wife.

15:41

But I was coming over there. I'm

15:43

watching the Lions game. Seatan's

15:45

large dog, Ruby, gorgeous dog,

15:48

is sitting there looking out into

15:50

the kitchen, and I'm petting the

15:52

dog and I'm thinking, you know, maybe

15:54

I'll get her to kind of snuggle with me a little

15:56

bit. I pull her front legs down, wrong

15:59

idea, and she went. Seatan's

16:06

like, what what's going on? We go, no,

16:08

man, I just pulled her legs down, and what

16:11

are you doing? Why did you do that? I don't

16:13

know why I did it? Come here? Ruby?

16:16

Yeah,

16:19

yeah, the dog whisperer. All right,

16:21

We'll get an update on Lebron James's

16:24

future. Also, they're head

16:26

coach Darvin Ham his future

16:28

as well. And in

16:31

Minnesota beat Denver? Well they can? Will

16:34

they beat Denver? I like their

16:36

chances. We'll talk

16:38

to Tim mcmanimon. He'll

16:41

be a Dave mcmanimon. It's

16:43

Dave mcmannmon. Is there a Tim

16:45

mcmanimon, Tim McMahon,

16:48

who is there? You go, Dave mcmanimon

16:51

mister mcmanimon. Tim

16:53

bond Temps was on this yesterday.

16:56

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18:01

that starts on Saturday. Dave, thanks for

18:03

getting up early with us. Let me start with the Clippers

18:06

first. Paul George said he didn't

18:08

feel any pressure, and you know, just

18:10

going out and play, it feels

18:12

like they're in no man's land. How

18:15

do you assess the Clippers moving forward? Granted

18:17

they're not out of the series yet, but losing

18:20

by thirty at home last night.

18:22

Yeah, so they win Game four in Dallas,

18:24

obviously they could win Game six and bring

18:27

it back home to try to advance

18:29

to the second round. But think about

18:32

all those stands in that arena last night. Crypto

18:34

dot com, you put

18:36

up a goose egg lose by thirty to

18:39

the Mavericks, and you're trying to convince a

18:42

bunch of those folks to, hey, next year,

18:44

we're gonna up the ticket prices, We're going to

18:46

be playing games in Englewood and get

18:48

extended for this group when

18:51

you know, we completely fell on our face

18:54

in a similar fashion. I

18:56

remind you that not just the

18:58

guys on the court underperforming, but

19:00

the face of this current team

19:03

in street clothes on the bench not even able

19:05

to give it a go. So just as

19:08

about as abject of a failure last

19:10

night as possible. Of course, they can

19:12

still win the series, but you start

19:14

to wonder this entire experiment,

19:17

basically since twenty eighteen, putting this group

19:19

together, has it been worth it? Because

19:21

you see what's happening over

19:23

in Oklahoma City. That guy Shay gillis

19:26

Alexander is going to be an

19:28

MVP candidate for years to

19:30

come, and he's still going and you traded

19:32

him to get this mess.

19:34

Yeah, but I look at Kawhi. They extend

19:36

him in January, what were they

19:39

basing that on?

19:40

Dave?

19:41

I mean, he's certainly had stretches

19:44

this year where he looked really

19:46

good, and that extension led

19:48

to a run in you know,

19:50

January and February. I think they went sixteen

19:52

and two. They looked like the

19:55

real deal, and there was chemistry between

19:57

Kawhi and James Harden and Paul George

19:59

and they all have that kind of shared

20:02

La background connection and it

20:05

seemed to kind of make sense.

20:08

But if you can't play from April through

20:10

June, I

20:12

kind of the entire operation

20:15

revolves around that. If

20:17

you can't do it, what's the point?

20:18

Yeah, because people would say, well, it's about

20:20

load management. He'll be ready come postseason

20:23

time, and then he's not ready postseason time,

20:25

and then you go, you got three more years here.

20:28

I'm wondering if Paul George looks

20:30

around and goes, do

20:32

I want to go through this for three

20:34

more years? You got hard and getting older? Westbrook

20:37

his role, Kawhi, You're not sure you

20:39

got a really good coach. But I wonder

20:41

if Paul is the one who says, maybe

20:44

I need to get out of here, and.

20:46

If he decides to do that, there's gonna be plenty

20:49

of suitors. You look at a team like the Philadelphia

20:51

seventy six ers, they're going to have cap space

20:53

and they're kind of knocking on the

20:55

door of being at that next tier

20:58

of contender status. You look at it team

21:00

like the Orlando Magic that could get out

21:02

of the first round if they can come back from

21:04

down three to two to Cleveland. They

21:06

have Pala Vankara, another young stud,

21:09

Jamal Moseley Coach the Year candidate, no

21:12

state taxes. There's

21:15

some attraction there or maybe

21:17

you go down the hallway. If

21:19

he made it known he wanted to play for the Los

21:21

Angeles Lakers. There are machinations

21:24

place that the Lakers could pull off

21:26

to try to, you know, put him in purple

21:28

and gold. And so there

21:30

are plenty of options for Paul George.

21:32

It's going to come down to are the

21:34

Clippers going to give him the number

21:36

that he wants to get, Because

21:39

to me, like the Clippers are by

21:41

extending Kawhi, you're pocumitted

21:43

already. Like, I don't see how you kind

21:46

of go one foot in, one foot

21:48

out at this point as you move towards the into

21:50

it Dome and opening up that new building, I

21:53

imagine they're going to keep it together. I just don't

21:55

know how much kind of belief

21:58

that this group is going to inspire in

22:00

this city as the Clippers try to siphon

22:02

fans away from the Lakers.

22:04

What are the options for the Lakers moving

22:06

forward?

22:07

Well, first of all, they need to make a decision about

22:10

head coach Darvin Ham. I'm

22:12

told that as recently as yesterday

22:14

he still hadn't spoken to the

22:17

Lakers' front office in terms of

22:19

his fate and what that's going to be there's

22:21

still a couple of days left this week, and

22:24

the team continues to go through kind of its

22:26

post mortem of what happened

22:29

this season and why they didn't end up where they

22:31

wanted to be. You think back a year ago, four

22:33

playoff losses to the Nuggets by twenty

22:35

four points. A year later, four playoff

22:37

losses to the Nuggets by twenty two points. So they

22:40

made some great progress. But there

22:43

I would anticipate

22:45

that there will be a coaching change there

22:48

and then you have to make that decision

22:50

who that's going to be to fill his role.

22:52

And then I think the next thing

22:54

you look to is the point guard and Dangelo

22:56

Russell. He has a player option next year for eighteen

22:59

point seven million dollars. If he

23:01

picks it up, does he

23:03

just become a trade piece that

23:05

you can attach potentially up to three first

23:07

round draft picks to to try

23:09

to get someone that you feel like could

23:11

be a more reliable contributor

23:14

on the postseason stage, because we saw blameouts

23:17

from Russell in the last

23:19

two playoffs, even though quite

23:22

frankly, he was during

23:24

the regular season this year the third most reliable

23:27

Laker.

23:28

Talking to Dave mcmanhamon ESPNNBA

23:30

reporter and he was covering the Lakers

23:33

series with Denver now Denver

23:35

against the Timberwolves. They tip off

23:37

on Saturday. I know this sounds

23:39

crazy. I think it was brought up yesterday or

23:41

maybe the day before that. If

23:44

look, Lebron does this podcast with JJ

23:46

Reddick, JJ Reddick being

23:48

interviewed or reportedly interviewed with

23:51

Charlotte. Do you think

23:53

that there's any thought in Lebron's

23:55

mind or how much

23:57

of a role would he play and who's going to be the next

24:00

head coach? Would they consider JJ

24:02

Reddick because of Lebron's friendship

24:05

partnership with him.

24:08

Well, certainly Lebron's opinion is

24:10

weighed by Rob Polinka when

24:12

he goes about doing his business, he calls

24:14

him a stakeholder. But that said,

24:17

Lebron's opinion was known back

24:19

a couple of years ago when Lebron

24:22

wanted ty lud be the head coach to replace

24:24

Luke Walton. That didn't happen. So it's not

24:26

just because Lebron puts the rubber stamp on a

24:28

guy that the Lakers are automatically

24:31

going to ink them to be the new

24:33

guy running the sidelines. But certainly

24:36

his influence matters.

24:38

And also the Lakers are a

24:41

glamour franchise. They liken to they

24:43

like themselves to be considered that way.

24:45

And you get a guy with some

24:48

cachet and JJ Reddick

24:50

if you were to pull him off the

24:52

number one broadcast team at ESPN

24:55

and ABC right off to the sidelines.

24:57

A good looking guy looks good in a suit. I mean,

25:00

they did this with pat Riley many many years

25:02

ago, right and we saw how that worked out.

25:05

JJ certainly is a

25:07

real candidate if they do open up

25:09

this coaching search. And but there's

25:12

there's you know, I'd say half a dozen folks

25:15

out there, included

25:17

possibly the guy who just

25:19

lost US night against the Mavericks and toront lou

25:22

He's had one year remaining on his contract.

25:24

What's going to happen with his deal with the Clippers that

25:26

there will be a you know, a

25:29

process there that there are several viable

25:31

candidates that will get an interview.

25:34

How beatable are the Nuggets?

25:37

I don't think so beatable. I know the Lakers

25:40

gave them a competitive series, but the thing

25:43

about the Nuggets is when it comes down

25:45

to winning time, they have so much continuity

25:47

and confetence among one another, and they have a superstar.

25:50

They have the best player in basketball. And I understand

25:53

the ascending star that the Wolves have in Anthony

25:55

Edwards, but he is not where nikolay Yokich

25:58

is right now. So you can put in at

26:00

any part of the floor and he

26:02

can kind of cater his game

26:04

to what he needs to do in order to help the

26:06

team succeed. It's

26:09

remarkable, quite frankly. He

26:11

can turn into a

26:14

passing center, he can turn into a post up

26:16

score, he can turn it to a

26:18

passing kick guy. And there's

26:20

no sweat on his part in terms of, oh,

26:22

I wish I was doing this more often. It's

26:24

just whatever I can do to manipulate

26:26

the defense to help my team win. They

26:29

have a ton of confidence now. Obviously

26:31

you saw Jamal Murray and that calf

26:33

issue hampering him a bit in

26:35

the first round. But they're gonna get four or five days

26:37

to try to get that right before

26:39

they start the Wolf series. I think

26:42

it's gonna be a long series and competitive series.

26:44

Denver does have home court in it. I think

26:46

that's going to matter. I see

26:48

Denver getting through that

26:51

series and getting back to the finals.

26:52

Quite frankly, you don't

26:54

have Steph, you don't have Katie, you don't

26:56

have Lebron, So you don't have your big

26:58

stars, recognized stars. Is

27:01

this a good thing for the NBA?

27:05

At some point you're going to have

27:07

to get into the new era? And why

27:09

not it be?

27:10

Now?

27:11

Honestly, this Wolve's Denver

27:14

series, it can't be more exciting. You saw

27:16

what the Wolves did in the first round dispatching

27:18

Phoenix and just the killer mentality

27:21

that Anthony Edwards displayed

27:24

when they needed it.

27:26

That guy is electric. Anybody, if

27:28

you watched NBA at all for the last

27:30

forty years, you're gonna blur

27:33

your eyes and rub your glasses

27:35

and think at times you're watching

27:38

the second coming or third coming of Michael Jordan

27:41

and Kobe Bryant. When you watch Anthony Edwards, that's

27:43

fantastic, and you have him putting

27:45

his powers up against a true team

27:48

that if you've been watching the basketball

27:50

last forty years and seeing teams like the San Antonio

27:52

Spurs and you appreciate their

27:54

style of basketball, you're going to get some of

27:56

that too with the Nuggets. And then

27:59

on the other side of the isle, back in the East,

28:01

you have the most exciting Knicks team maybe

28:03

since ninety nine getting

28:06

it done. And obviously the Boston

28:08

Celtics as another group that

28:10

had been knocking on the door. And you kind of always

28:12

like to see a team that you

28:14

know has been kind of roughed up a few times

28:17

finally get through those

28:19

past transgressions or past

28:22

disappointments to do something

28:24

together as a group. You

28:26

know, there says something about the continuity

28:29

that you know with grosspec and

28:32

that group has allowed that team to grow

28:34

with. So I think there's a ton of

28:36

great storylines, a ton of great players,

28:38

and a ton of like talented

28:41

players who care about the game, care

28:43

about basketball. I think it's

28:46

a great time to keep watching the NBA playoffs and.

28:48

Go back to Lebron and

28:51

Bronnie. When does Bronni have to make his decision

28:54

if he's going to go to

28:56

another college or he's going into

28:58

the draft.

29:00

It's in I believe it's like the very end

29:02

of May. So there's still plenty of time

29:04

here. You know, he's officially

29:06

in the draft pool right now, and I'm

29:09

told that he's been working

29:11

out and trying to get his body

29:13

right. There's been no decision

29:15

made. James family has been very

29:17

clear that's going to come down to what Bronni wants

29:20

to do. Now, there was a report in The Athletic

29:22

that the Lakers would be willing to draft Bronnie

29:24

James in order to get Lebron to sign

29:27

a new contract. Now, Lebron's made

29:29

it quite clear for more than a year

29:31

now that at one point, yes, it

29:33

was his dream to play alongside

29:36

Bronnie James on the same team, share

29:38

locker room, share buses, share film sessions,

29:40

all that stuff. That's not the

29:43

case anymore, and that hasn't been the case

29:45

for a while. If it was to happen

29:47

organically, that's a wonderful

29:49

thing. But there's no demands

29:52

from Lebron James and his representatives

29:55

for the Lakers to draft them. If you think about it,

29:57

they had the seventeenth pick, and

30:00

that could be a pick that they would package in

30:02

a deal to get you another

30:04

talented player of the likes of a Donovan

30:06

Mitchell or Trey Young or de John

30:09

tay mary Uh. They had the fifty fifth

30:11

pick, and if Bronnie

30:13

remains in the draft, I don't know if he'd still be on

30:15

the board at fifty five, So it's

30:18

not so realistic for the Lakers to think about

30:20

drafting him. If Bronnie

30:22

remains in the draft, I expect

30:24

him to be drafted by a team and

30:26

it'd probably be in the second round. And those

30:29

teams that would consider drafting

30:31

him, they're not looking at like, if we get Bronnie,

30:33

it means we're getting Lebron. It's not a package

30:36

deal at this point.

30:37

Save travels to Denver. Thanks for joining

30:39

us as always, hiks Dat

30:42

Dave McManaman, ESPN

30:44

NBA reporter and covering

30:46

the Nuggets and the Timberwolves. I

30:49

like Minnesota's chances a lot. I

30:51

do. I like their chances.

30:54

As I said before about Denver, Denver

30:56

has the best starting five, but

30:59

I just think you gotta have some depth. They had

31:01

depth last year. And if you're going to win

31:03

another championship here, you're going

31:05

against a very

31:08

interesting, big Minnesota

31:10

team. You got, you

31:13

know, Rudy Gobert, he's your

31:15

defensive player of the year, going against Joker,

31:17

you got Karl Anthony Towns, and of course

31:19

you got ant Man. And

31:22

I don't know, just feels Denver's

31:25

great, but Minnesota is

31:27

dangerous. Yes, Paul, there's

31:30

a.

31:30

Couple of Game seven possibilities on Saturday

31:32

night, but also Saturday night Timberwolves

31:35

at Nuggets Game one, the spread four not the

31:37

series, but game one. Denver's given

31:39

four and a half points.

31:40

Not a big spread. Yeah, I could see that, but

31:43

I think Minnesota's got to hold

31:45

serve. If they don't win in Denver, you go

31:47

back home and then win your games, and

31:50

then maybe you go back there and you're able to

31:52

steal game five, but

31:54

it's going to be, you know, obviously an uphill

31:56

climb with going against that

31:59

starting five is wonderful and

32:01

Michael Malone has done a great job coaching

32:03

them, but they don't have the depth

32:06

they had last year.

32:06

Yes, we're just talking about it in here while

32:08

you were discussing. That's a very watchable

32:11

series from names and star power

32:13

and the quality basketball.

32:15

It's a lot of fun.

32:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you

32:18

wouldn't normally think, man, can't wait to watch

32:20

Denver in Minnesota. Now

32:23

you're looking at that, going dang, that's must see

32:25

TV. All right, we'll take a break, we'll get

32:27

phone calls. Our play of the day is up

32:29

next.

32:30

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32:32

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32:44

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32:48

the play of the day.

32:50

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32:53

out.

32:53

There was left lost the handle and here's the steal

32:55

from Tyrae. Here comes Tyree behind his

32:57

back.

32:57

That's the right time.

32:59

That's the with a fowl, finishing

33:02

with his left.

33:02

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33:04

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33:05

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And it's all quiet on the Kyrie front.

33:39

He's just playing great basketball, no

33:41

drama whatsoever. And

33:44

they're a dangerous team. But

33:46

watching Luca last night, now,

33:48

I don't get into all the

33:52

history. Onics like he loves

33:54

to celebrate a little too much. From

33:56

me, like every shot he wants to

33:59

stare you down, flex or all

34:01

of that. But there was one might have been

34:03

his last shot that he hit. Goes into the lane

34:06

and he hits a little floater and he just stands.

34:09

He just stands there and he's basically

34:12

taking role of all the people

34:14

in the crowd, the Clipper fans just kind of

34:16

like looking at going all right, all

34:18

right, all right, But

34:20

he does he does love to take a

34:23

victory lap or two, yes, hud.

34:25

He also likes to whine incessantly throughout

34:27

the game to the officials when he's not doing that.

34:29

Every great player loves to

34:31

complain. It's rare when you have a

34:34

star, superstar who doesn't

34:36

complain. How many of those players,

34:38

I mean even Tim Duncan, who didn't say much,

34:41

still complained. All

34:43

the great players do because

34:46

the officials have allowed them to complain

34:49

and they usually get the benefit

34:52

of the doubt on these calls. And

34:54

I remember one player who played against

34:56

Michael Jordan. He said, we tried

34:59

it's you know, Jordan would go to the hoop and we

35:01

knew somebody was gonna get called for a foul

35:04

even if you didn't foul him. And it was like, as

35:06

soon as Mike went to the hoop, we tried to

35:08

get as far away from that official so he

35:10

couldn't go thirty two. I

35:13

didn't touch him. Yeah,

35:15

and then Mike would, you know, kind of smirk and

35:17

smile when he went back to go to the free

35:19

throw line and make his free throw. Somebody's

35:23

gonna get called for this. I didn't touch him,

35:26

Yes, you did, Yes, Marv.

35:28

Mike had a great move.

35:29

He would do like layups and he would smack

35:31

his own hand yep, and they would get a foul

35:34

call and Calbert Cheney what

35:37

or George McLeod I didn't touch him.

35:39

Yeah, I know, Jay Ryder, I'm sorry

35:41

but that those are the rule. That's Mike.

35:43

But they they hear so

35:45

you can hear the foul and

35:47

then they're gonna call, well, somebody hit Mike. I

35:50

got a call foul. Here a couple of phone

35:52

calls. Sean in Indiana, Welcome

35:54

back, Sean. What's on your mind today?

35:56

Hey, good morning, Dan, thanks for calling me back.

36:00

I just wanted to ask a question. The

36:02

Salary Game has such a great theme

36:04

song, and I don't know the answer. I'm counting on

36:06

PAULI for the research. But I wanted to

36:08

know who has made the most money

36:11

playing.

36:11

The least basketball. Would that be.

36:13

Kawhi, Leonard, Ben Simmons

36:16

or John Wall. I'll take it off the air.

36:18

Wow, Okay, Sean gonna

36:21

have our research department, which is Paulie,

36:23

look for that information there. Ben Simmons

36:26

has got to be up there though. He that's

36:28

a lot of money for not a lot of work.

36:30

Kawhi has got a ring, He's

36:32

got two, He's got two, yeah.

36:35

And two finals MVPs. Right.

36:37

I mean so that that alone is like, well, I'm

36:39

not gonna bag him too much for that,

36:41

yes.

36:42

Paul Yeah, Kawhi, Leonard and Ben Simmons

36:44

aren't even in the same category. Ben Simmons

36:46

the last four seasons has played fifty eight games,

36:49

none games, thirty three games

36:51

and twelve games and he's not being paid

36:53

quite as much. But it's he's

36:55

playing half as many games as Kawhi. Checking

36:58

this out.

36:58

John Wall too, Yeah, John

37:00

Wall.

37:01

Was healthy, scratched, he wanted to

37:03

play.

37:03

They sat him down in what Houston

37:06

and he didn't play. I

37:09

they are going to pay you not

37:11

to play. It's amazing.

37:14

But if you look at percentage

37:16

of games to the amount of money

37:18

that you've made. I'd be curious

37:20

about that. Uh Jake and Minnesota.

37:23

Hi Jake, what's on your mind today?

37:25

Good morning, DP, Thanks for taking my call. I

37:27

got a stat of the day for you.

37:30

James Harden actually did

37:32

set an NBA.

37:33

Playoff record last night.

37:34

Believe it or not. Believe it or not, he has

37:36

the most games with ten plus shots

37:39

and two or fewer makes. He has a total

37:41

of ten of those games in the playoffs.

37:44

Thank you, Jake. Stat of the

37:46

Day, stat of the Day, That best

37:48

stat of the day. Stat of the day?

37:52

Here comes that?

37:53

What stat of the Day? Stat

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trade cards for the Dan Patrick Show. Yeah,

38:02

there's a difference between regular season basketball

38:04

and playoff basketball. James Harden is wonderful,

38:07

or at least he was during the regular season. Once

38:09

you get to the postseason, that's when teams

38:12

actually try to gear up and have a game plan

38:14

for you. They're going to be facing you four,

38:16

five, six, seven games and they

38:18

have to have a philosophy. It's the same team

38:21

instead of oh, we're playing Cleveland tonight

38:23

and then we got Orlando, and then we go back

38:26

home. Well, James is

38:28

great in the regular season, but

38:30

he's been terrible in the postseason. Arnaldo

38:36

in North Carolina. Hopefully we got spelling

38:38

right there.

38:40

Oh yeah, five ten sleek.

38:46

I just want to know, Dan, where are we at on the discussion.

38:48

You just had that Kyrie Irvan highlight

38:50

play from yesterday. That was my favorite

38:52

player of the week, by the way, as

38:55

far as the most skilled player in the NBA. If

38:57

Kyrie's maintain's playing at the pace he's played

39:00

this week and goes on to

39:02

get to the finals at least, how are

39:04

we feeling about that? Because I know you had the discussion

39:06

earlier this month and you were not with

39:09

him.

39:09

Well, he is talented, you

39:12

know. I confused it with the

39:14

talent and then the end result. You

39:17

know, Kyrie hit one of the biggest shots in NBA

39:19

history, you know when Cleveland was

39:21

able to beat Golden State. I

39:24

always wanted more from him. I think

39:26

he's that talented. And it goes along with

39:29

the territory of you're one of the most

39:31

talented, if not the most talented player

39:33

in the NBA. What are the

39:35

end results there? Didn't

39:37

end well in Cleveland, didn't end well in Boston,

39:40

didn't end well in Brooklyn, and

39:42

right now he's playing well good

39:46

he should he's one of the most talented

39:48

players in the game. Like

39:51

we're going, hey, how about Kyrie? Now,

39:53

okay, if you tell me he's the most

39:55

talented player in the game and he's

39:57

getting you know, fifteen points in you

40:00

know, four assists, then I'd be like,

40:03

Okay, that's a disappointment,

40:06

playing well, playing some defense.

40:09

Still love when he's got the ball in traffic.

40:11

I love watching him. But if you're

40:14

going to tell me he's most talented player, that's

40:17

a disappointing career. Update

40:20

the poll results. If you can satan from the first

40:22

town.

40:22

Does that mean Kyrie is the Aaron Rodgers

40:24

of whoa most

40:26

talented?

40:29

But I don't know. That's not enough wins

40:31

for me.

40:32

No, just saying okay,

40:34

just saying, all right, well

40:36

I did put up there. Is it worse to get attacked by a swarm

40:38

of bees or a mad dog?

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Right now?

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Swarm of bees is crushing

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at fifty six percent.

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But do you run from bees? I did?

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I ran from I think they were hornets, but they were in

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the ground. You can't really run from either. Both

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are catching you. Well,

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we're going to talk to the famous bee keeper

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who was there for the diamond back against the Dodgers,

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and maybe he can give us some tips, like what happens.

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Usually bees don't care about you, They

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don't. They're all they care about is the queen.

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They take care of her. Now, if they think something's

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going on, then you got trouble.

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Yes to the instinct is to run, because if you stay

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still and still get attacked, then you're left

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to wonder. I wonder what would have been if I would actually just

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run away instead of just got destroyed

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by them by standing there.

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Well, you know there's logic

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on what you do if a bear's coming after.

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You shout out to all my letter carriers out there by the

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way, battling both daily.

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You didn't battle a bear, You just know dogs

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and bees. Though. Yeah, our

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two on the way, mad dog Russo, is

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going to join us.

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I see what you did.