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

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Speaker 2: Well, it was eight days after the anniversary of Chamberlain's one hundred points in a game that nobody saw on TV. There were eyewitnesses and radio witnesses, and last night with Bam out of Bio scoring eighty three, I couldn't find the game. And I think late in the game Peacock did bring that game in so you could see the final seconds. But Bam out of Bio scores eighty three. And I'm not surprised somebody has scored that many points, because we've brought it up numerous times. Somebody's going to get there. With the volume of threes, somebody's going to get there. And we've had a couple of players getting over seventy. If you said, hey, who's the guy who's going to break the record? I would have said, now, I would say Kobe's record Wilts is not going to be broken, probably in our lifetime and another lifetime. I would have thought, Devin Booker, maybe you would have Luca. I mean, you gotta have high volume guys. You gotta have guys who can shoot threes. But Bam an underrated superstar. His previous high was forty three, and I think he had forty one at halftime, but towards the end they let him shoot. He had a lot of threes. He took twenty two threes, and he's not a good shooter, but went to the free throw line and ended up with eighty three. Here's the call when he surpassed Kobe Bryant's eighty one points last night, and.

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Speaker 3: Quickly in the band he's got space, head down, spins, puts it up.

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Speaker 4: And BAM's going to the line again.

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Speaker 5: Bam on a bio is a complete monster.

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Speaker 6: And really get the ball into BAM's hand the right way.

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Speaker 4: Only Wilt Chamberlain has more. It's in an NBA game in association history. Thembam Adebayo, who has eighty two.

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Speaker 2: That's Jason Jackson with the call. He'll join us next hour about the honor of calling the second highest individual scoring performance in league history. So eighty three. He went twenty of forty three from the floor. He shot twenty two threes, he made seven, but going to the free throw line, that's an all time record thirty six of forty three. Wilt had twenty eight made free throws. I think he was twenty eight of thirty two. But you know, you're looking at that many free throws and you throw in twenty some vehicals, you're going to put up a big number there. Dwight Howard had the previous free throw attempts record at thirty nine, and that was back in twenty twelve and also twenty thirteen. But congrats, pretty incredible night. You're playing against the Wizards, which that helps, but towards the end, it felt like maybe the strategy was, let's just let him go for the record, and that's exactly what his coach did. The Wizards were trying to foul other people to keep him away from getting the record against them. But bam out o bio. Now, I don't know if because we didn't get to see it. Now we saw highlights, but you know, Wilts was did he really score one hundred? That was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, back in what nineteen sixty two and no video, there's pictures. But we're like, and I've said this before numerous times, we really don't welcome Wilt's numbers, Like Babe Ruth, we do Wilt averaged fifty points in a season. We're like, yeah, but who was he playing against Well, we can say that about Babe Ruth too in some regards, but we don't. We're like, yeah, the babe. But with Wilt, it's like these numbers don't really matter. They're like, well they didn't you know, those aren't real. He didn't play against real guys. Check his numbers when he played against Bill Russell. I think he had fifty five rebounds in one game against him, Yes, Marv.

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Speaker 5: But you could say that about Bam. He's playing against the Wizards, right, doesn't really count?

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah. And then you go back to Kobe's eighty one and Kobe did that on a game in January, but he said, you know, we were down big at halftime and so we had to stay in the game. You know, that's the thing. Will I think won by a what one sixty nine to one thirty seven or something like, there was a blowout there, and even last night with Bam Outebaio. You know, you're winning by twenty five points, but Kobe said, hey, I had to stay in there. In fact, let's go back to do we have that, Marvin? Do we have Kobe yet?

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Speaker 5: What Marvin?

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Speaker 2: We got him? Okay, now you did both of these, but if I said you could only have one on your resume, you could get the eighty eighty one or you could get the sixty in your last game, you have to pick between those two. You only get one.

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Speaker 7: Oh, man, I'd probably go with the eighty one because we were like one game out of making the playoffs that year, so we needed literally needed every single game to get into the postseason. So if we had dropped that one, I think we would have been in serious jeopardy of missing the playoffs that year. So I'll go with the eighty one.

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Speaker 2: Reggie Miller and I got into a heated discussion, like he kept saying, you're gonna end your career with sixty, and then he put exclamation points on his text message, and I said, but eighty one exclamation points. That's come on.

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Speaker 5: Eighty one.

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Speaker 2: And Reg goes, no, sixty on your last game.

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Speaker 7: I'm just I'm enjoying the fantasy that actually happened. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: So that's Kobe after his eighty one point performance. Reg and I still argue about that because I'm like, man, I got a Now that Bamus there passed Kobe, then I might go, well, all right, I'll take sixty in my final regular season game, final game that I ever played. All Right, we'll come up with the pole question, play of the day, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. The Max Crosby trade reversed, and I don't think I can overstate how devastating I think this is for the Raiders. They were going to get two first round draft picks, one this year one next year. Plus their philosophy and free agency probably was, you know, banking on the fact they were getting rid of Max Crosby and his contract and going to the Ravens. So they had a different philosophy here, who they were going after, how much money they were going to spend. But the Ravens said, hey, didn't pass our physical and we're sending him back. This has happened before, now, It's happened in other sports. Remember Carlos Korea with the Mets, Mark Williams the Hornets. He was going to go to the Lakers, but and the Ravens have done this before. Now, these weren't big names. Ryan Grant in twenty eighteen failed a physical. Twenty twenty, Michael Brockers had an agreement with the Ravens, but they were concerned about his left ankle, and that deal fell through as well. I'm just surprised that the Ravens said, oh, you know, upon further examination, you know, maybe there's long term damage in that knee because it was a torn meniscus. And then they said, because it's going to take time for that to heal. That was what was surprising. Now, I'm sure the Raiders doctors said, you know, he's good to go, and then you trade him, and then the Ravens doctors said, no, we don't like looks like there's more damage in there. So now the Ravens could be in the for Trey Hendrickson. Now what do they do? And then the Raiders are you gonna get dollar for dollar from Max Crosby? Now if he's damaged goods? I mean, this is devastating, I think for the Raiders because Max Crosby is making over thirty million dollars for this year and next year. Can you trade him? But what are you going to get in return? And I think that's the interesting part of this. If he's viewed as damaged goods, then you're not going to get two first round draft picks. But Max Crosby headed back to the Raiders. Yes, Paulie boy right on.

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Speaker 6: Cue Dan from Adam Schefter. Moments ago, the Ravens and Trey Hendrickson reached an agreement on a four year, one hundred and twelve million dollar contraend just came through minuts ago from Adam Schefter.

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Speaker 2: That's a pivot. Yeah, I thought this was going to happen. Diana Roussini, who's covering the NFL for the Athletic she'll join us a little later on. Yeah, that one's devastating for the Raiders because it felt like, Okay, we can move on. Max can go play for a team that can compete for a Super Bowl. We're not ready. We got a couple more years here. We can get our center, we got Mendoza, get a couple more offensive linemen, get a couple of wide receivers. We can be respectable this year. But now you have the Max Crosby. Now I have to, you know, probably walk back my words of the Raiders tanking if it's true that you know this knee injury was far more serious than what we're leading on. But Max Crosby did have surgery. I think he knew he had to have surgery. But it's a torn meniscus. You can play through that. He can, but that's where you had this falling out between him and the Raiders front office because he wanted to play those last two games, and then it felt like, we're gonna sit you down because the last thing we want to do is win another game. Now, looking at that knee, and I don't know how many knee surgeries he's had, but if they're saying that, you know, could be long term damage in there, then it doesn't sound right. But you know, the Ravens have every right to be able to do it. It's like, yeah, we're bringing him in and that change. Look at free agency, it felt like a lot of dominoes fell after Max Crosby went to the Ravens. Yeah, Paul, I'd really love to know the timeline of this. Did the Raider did the Ravens when did they know they were going to move on from Crosby? And when did they kick the tires on Hendrickson? Did they think maybe a buyer's remorse situation where oh, we can get Hendrickson for the same price and not give up draft picks. I'm curious how the timeline played out in the past twenty four hours with all that, Oh, I understand what the Ravens did makes more sense knowing the Ravens with their draft picks, they don't give up draft picks. Certainly won in the top fifteen. And you're going to get Trey Hendrickson, Okay, he's not Max Crosby, and you're gonna bring him in. You're gonna have to pay him and it's a longer you know, contract there, but you get to keep your draft picks.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, se Man, that is a tough situation for Max Crosby though, now, I mean his value has plummeted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I would lowball the Raiders. Now, now I give you a first and maybe I give you a third or something if that. Now, I don't know if the Cowboys see I don't know how this works with Rashawn Gary who came over from Green Bay to Dallas. Now it's not official yet. Could they then say, hey, you know what, uh, we're going to rescind that trade. Like it's not official yet, you're just agreeing to a trade. I don't think there's anything in writing, but can you until after like four o'clock today, could they then go, hey, let's go after Max Crosby I mean, if I'm Dallas, I would do that if I thought Max Crosby was going to be healthy enough. But the fact that now the Ravens have put that out there that you know, he could have long term durability concerns, that's the language that I was given, long term durability concerns. All right, Seaton poll question today? What are we going to go with? First hour?

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Speaker 8: I appreciate their concern on long term, you know, their concerns about how he's going to hold up over the long term, because that's one thing that NFL teams do, is they really hold on to their players for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Are they worried about him in his fifties.

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Speaker 8: We're not sure because we're planning on cutting him after the third year, but now it looks more like a year two cut to save money.

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Speaker 2: So that's a little too long term for us. Yeah, we're concerned about how he's going to be walking in his fifties.

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Speaker 8: Long term, you know durability here?

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Speaker 2: What is long term? Is it three years? Two years? Two and a half? Yeah? Yeah, all right, So what's the first hour poll question? I think you're gonna find that out after the break. Oh, Okay, Alrighty Paully, famous for the after the break poll question.

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Speaker 8: I got the dolphin symbol from him, just the oh, it's like a dolphin jumping out of the water.

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Speaker 2: Over after the break, After the break, we'll jump the shark. After the break. We'll get to your phone calls. Coming up. Jason Jackson, he is the voice of the Miami Heat, and he'll join his top of next hour, Dian and Russini. More on the Max Crosby situation. Our good buddy Ross Tucker has some thoughts on the Max Crosby situation as well, and Team USA. Team USA is gonna be an anxious spectator watching Italy and Mexico coming up tonight and their hopes of moving on in the WBC. We'll hinge on that. We'll talk about that coming up back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Jason Jackson, voice of the Miami Heat, was on the Call on Radio last night. By the way, before I get to Jay Jacks, there was some logic that crept in last night with the Washington Wizards broadcast. Their announcer Chris Miller, suggested that the Miami Heat were prepared to take Bem out of bio out and out of respect for Kobe Bryant and that didn't happen, of course, and we welcome in Jason Jackson. What should we remember about this performance? That I had to make the call on free throws. I think that's the only thing that you should have to worry about. Daniel Lovely Flattel.

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Speaker 3: This morning, by the way, there in Maine, eighty degrees here in South Florida with my Bam T shirt on. I think the thing that we have to do, and I'm not sure if you're willing to do this, that's at this stage in lifetand we have to step back sometimes.

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Speaker 5: Remember we cover sports. It's just sports. It's fun.

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Speaker 3: It was funky, it was weird, it was cool, and then we move on like we won another game. So the Miami Heat have won six in a row, moved out of the play in spot. That's all that really matters. The main thing is the main thing, it's winning. But for Bam, I think it's going to be one of the most memorable things in his life because he grew up in a single wide trailer with a single mother in North Carolina dreaming about Kobe Bryant and had a really cool moment as a guy who has done everything right, who doesn't really focus on scoring, who made his craft in this league as a defender and rebounder, who took the mantle from Alonzo Mourning, Dwayne Wade, and Udonis Haslam as a culture carrier for this organization and has been to the finals twice, hasn't been able to stay at the mountaintop just yet in those areas, and then also takes on the responsibility of being the lead force in the community for organization. That part of it all feels good. This is one of the first let's put air quote great heat players who I have been able so I'll make it about me now, Dan who I've been able to see from Draft night to all the way through. When I arrived here in two thousand and four, Dwayne Wade was already a player, Lebron James came to Miami already was a player, And so this is it's just fun for the fan base. Anything outside of that it just kind of filters into this hater mode.

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Speaker 5: We didn't have social.

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Speaker 3: Media in two thousand and six when Kobe went for eighty one, so I'm not sure the response probably would have had its level of in it as well. There's literally no video we have a sheet of paper with one hundred on it for Willed. I'm sure old Knicks fans are still trying to wonder what happened.

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Speaker 5: To them that night.

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Speaker 3: Let me just say, a good friend, Chris Miller going to my good friend Chris Miller for a moment, I will filibuster, sir. I will say this, what were you pressing full court and triple.

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Speaker 5: Teaming the man for in the second half of the fourth quarter? Uh?

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Speaker 3: It it created what probably you're not loving as the basketball purest that I know the proud son of Mason Ohio is presenting right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, I keep telling everybody, it's still eighty three. Okay, it's still meant the at the end of the day. Ten years, twenty years, and still eighty three. I did think about this. How do you think Kobe, if he were still with us, would have viewed that performance last night? The way there was intentionally fouling, keeping him in the game, the game's out of reach. How do you think Kobe would have viewed that performance?

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Speaker 3: Uh, Kobe had a level of rancor that would have possibly finger wagged it. But I think Kobe would have liked Bam and BAM's game overall from a night in, night out basis, So there might have been a little love there, you know, the gold medal club from Team USA. You never know how those things go. As I've gotten older, Dan, I will turn fifty three heres as winter turns to spring. I've decided that I am in search of joy all of the time, all of the time.

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Speaker 5: So when you're.

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Speaker 3: Calling a game like this, obviously you can't anticipate on a Tuesday night against the Wizards that something unique and special is going to occur. So I say thank you, adrise Bam out of bio. And by the way, Bam hates when you use his given name, but I don't get to say it up, so I thought I thought it.

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Speaker 5: Out for you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, did you talk to Spolster about his philosophy down the stretch when he realized that he had a chance to surpass Kobe.

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Speaker 3: I am on the set live at about two hundred yard away when that happens, Dan, But it was asked of him and it was aired on Heat Live last night, and I think he gave the most beautiful answer in the sense that for that guy, for what he's meant for nearly a decade to the head coach and to the franchise. For those that don't watch Miami Heat basketball every single night, you're not going to connect with this fiber, right. This is about a guy that took the church from a guy who played for twenty years in Eudonnas Haslam and the best player in the history in Dwayne Wade, and put the entire organization and what it means, and the Heat culture that makes everybody roll their eyes and all of that on his shoulders. He went to Kentucky just like the president of the organization, pat Riley, like all of it and does a beautiful job with it his own way. You know, he's not necessarily a big, in your face, raw Rob Barker, but the way that he goes about his craft as a world class defender, a outstanding, if not elite rebounder, and a guy who's developed watched it over nine seasons, developed his game into the modern big man, got to go out and knock it down from twenty three feet.

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Speaker 5: Dynamic man.

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Speaker 3: When it came out of Kentucky, there was no way I would have thought, man, it would be a three point shooter. But has become super serviceable and does whatever is asked of him. I think this is the thing that's most warming about it. He thinks about scoring least from the dribble handoff to the actual assist. He's setting up other guys offensively to score, and so it's just I'm leaving it as what I assume is a one off.

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Speaker 5: Like I was.

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Speaker 3: Quarter was fantastic. That was real basketball. That was just him lighting guys up. And then when he got to halftime and they already had his career high plus it was it was wild to where it could go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, being the basketball purest that you are, take yourself out of take your Miamidad headphones off, and look at that in the last five minutes of the game, right, would you have a problem because you're the anomaly, Like you're all in. You saw history, you saw something great. The reaction I've gotten this morning is people are really upset. But I think part of that has to do with Kobe. But let's just look at the actual basketball style that was played in the last five minutes or so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably if I was calling it on the other side, I would have been snarky ish with a hint.

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Speaker 5: Of but it's still competition. You got to try to stop him, you know. So that's where I always get because I do get.

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Speaker 3: Nut, Like if it's a Celtics Heat game and you know, Brown or Tatum's going nuts and they're still in and the game's gone and there's three minutes to go. I note that there are sometimes special moments and if you're gunning for something, I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 5: I tend to be. But I will at some serious of Evandale snark will be coming out fully from my throat, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: He's Jason Jackson, the voice of the Miami Heat. Greatest NBA performance you've ever witnessed, whether regular season, postseason, did I have to be in person?

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Speaker 5: That I have to be in person for it? Was that the key? No, I will tell you know what, there's two of them.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you when san Antonio closed out in ninety nine that that was it was. It was not a it was a moment more than a performance. I'll give you the performance in a moment because Avery knocked down that last jumper baseline.

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Speaker 5: If I'm remembering that correctly. The only reason I wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Remember is because you and Stuart Scott would push me out of the way, and I couldn't do any sports center hits.

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Speaker 5: So thank goodness for ESPN News.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you News for giving me some time to talk about these things of allegedly covering you and.

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Speaker 5: Didn't see the reference coming Dad, Thank you for that focus. And then lock it in, lock it in. I'm a bro.

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Speaker 3: But the best performance I've ever seen was Game six Lebron James in Boston. You win that game where it's not by the way, you gotta win the game right because it doesn't allow for the lore of him becoming a champion to even present itself in appropriate way. But on the road forty plus leave, nine rebounds, handful of assists, that scowl looking underneath the brow that forever hangs on the walls in Miami, that thing was that was just it was literally like watching a lion walk the sering get it and eat everything along the way.

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Speaker 5: But that was pretty.

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Speaker 3: Astonishing by the way that has to watching someone score that much, and the willingness of the Wizards to put that man on the line as much as they did, again, it was it was astonishing in a different way. And so I don't want to take anything from from BAM because Bam has given us so much.

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Speaker 2: Is the broadcast going to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: The dunk to pass, the bronze, the handle game recorda the Bam slam, which was all first of all.

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Speaker 5: Always tasty.

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Speaker 3: All right, you want some pumper nickel with that one, all right, and you might want to toast it, you might want it listen. And that was the thing after that, and then I will I'll admit this only to you and in your illustrious audience here on Peacock. And the great thing about being here with you is there's literally a peacock outside my window screaming all morning long.

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Speaker 5: And then I'm on Peacock with you. It's the best bring.

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Speaker 3: But I started thinking about this, and you've known me since I was a young young adult. I lean towards fun and funny. It's what I It just it provides me with myself. It's but after he passed lebron, I was like, Okay, now you're calling stuff that might play forever. Let's just kind of let's get it right down the middle. And it was tough because I've listened back and the moment for eighty three happened at the free throw line.

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Speaker 5: Anyway.

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Speaker 3: So it wasn't going to provide for this full beautiful baritone that I've that I've that I've cherished and presented through bourbon and cigars all these years.

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Speaker 5: It didn't. It didn't have that full moment there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to love that the BAM slam, which you oh yeah, of course, but you you got cheated. You needed a jumper, You needed a slam. You needed something, not free throws. You know, when you're calling something.

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Speaker 5: Let's make it about bam. Let's not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's all right.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you know what you need on the wall back there, buddy, I want you to hop on Miami heatstore dot com right now for eighty three dollars. You can get yourself authentic BAM.

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Speaker 2: Now, if if we could, Seaton, would you go back there by the bar every Seaton.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh you already have a BAM. You already have it. Yeah, oh you have everything. What was I think?

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Speaker 2: Autographed? Oh? Come on, yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I got for you right there, hot bam sandwich.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it says from one score to another.

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Speaker 3: I thought it says, if you reach.

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Speaker 5: I thought that's what that said.

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Speaker 2: Right there, sat Glory it's a van of white work out of you. By the way, thank you. By the way, that whole story about me playing against Stuart Scott that was supposed to be in the documentary, it didn't make it in the documentary.

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Speaker 5: Who had the audacity?

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Speaker 2: They wanted me to tell the story and I said, no, let somebody else and they said, oh, we're gonna get Jason Jackson to tell the story. And then it doesn't even make it.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think I was in it at all.

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Speaker 2: By the way, boo yah, Yeah. I'm here to cheer you. I'm here to boo yah man. All right, yeah, good luck with the next game and encoreporated.

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Speaker 3: Listen, how about this in honor of BAM's number, thirteen thirteen dollars tickets to Buck's Heat tomorrow night in Paradise where it will be eighty plus degrees and not a low of thirty six like you'll enjoy there in May.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: Why why do you do this?

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Speaker 5: No?

00:28:43
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just July in August, when crying, when you're calling you ever, no.

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Speaker 5: Baby, that's when I that's when I swept. The weight goes big.

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Speaker 3: Get that water, bourbon, brother, you get to the only time Dan comes to uh Miami's if LeBatard calls, I can't.

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Speaker 5: I can't get that man down here at all.

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Speaker 2: That is true, Yeah, that is true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but darkness remains your weakness. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hello, darkness my own friend.

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Speaker 10: Yeah it's Jason damn it. Yeah, it's Jjacks. If you're nasty, If you're nasty. Next time he scores eighty three, I'm going to have you back on the show. Okay, Yeah, it's been three years.

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Speaker 3: Dan, So man, I wasn't I wasn't counting, but I could go back on my phone. Fritzy hit me in during the finals in twenty three.

00:29:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, to have me on.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: That's let's all say goodbye to Jay Jacks, Jason Jackson. Everybody's waving to you. Booyong, peace out.

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Speaker 2: Diana Rassini has been very busy this morning. Senior NFL insider for The Athletic and co hosted the Athletics Scoop City podcast with Chase Daniel. What can you tell us today that we didn't know yesterday about this Max Crosby situation.

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Speaker 11: Well, we're still learning lots of facts as this has been really the biggest story in sports because you just don't see this a lot. And from what I gathered over the last twelve hours, we'll call it fourteen hours now. Max Crosby was in Baltimore for a physical. Right, the Baltimore Ravens had done their research, They've done their work on his medicals. All teams do that. In fact, other teams that were trying to trade for Max had conversations with his surgeon. They had conversations with the Raiders doctors to basically try to get an idea of where Max's knee was at. So Baltimore knew the exact timeline of where Max was at in terms of the return and the rehab process, and six months appears to be kind of like the timeline of when he could be a full go. And so when he went in for his physical, from what I've learned, and things just seemed really off in the building all day that something wasn't right, and he had his physical and the Ravens doctors looked at the MRI and then they had four or five independent doctors take a look at it as well, and together they made the decision that this trade was not worth it based on what they discovered in his knee. And I think the way they view it is in the short term Max would be fine for twenty seven, he would have been okay. The long term was their hang up, and that was the problem. And that's when they made the decision. And they sat Max Crosby down in their offices and said, look, thank you for flying out here, thank you for saying your farewell goodbye. I'm not sure if we're gonna, you know, we're doing the right thing here, but we believe we are, and this trade is off the table. So now Max, he's back in the facility today, he's under contract with the Raiders. He's doing what he does all the time, which is work out and try to get that knee ready to go. And I think there's a good chance that Max Crosby is a Raaider for twenty twenty seven.

00:32:11
Speaker 2: I just wonder if there was buyer remorse with this, Diana, where the Ravens don't give up draft picks, they don't draft in the top fifteen. Now all of a sudden you're giving up too. Maybe you realize, you know, we could get Trey Hendrickson and not give up all of this. Yeah, I don't mean to be cynical about the medicals not being cynical this.

00:32:32
Speaker 11: Thing stakes, what are you talking about? You're spot on. There's one hundred percent shadiness going down right now. And the reason why I say that so firmly is because I've had so many conversations with people around football who understand where Max is at with his knee. Nothing was surprising, and this trade wasn't really about what Max was going to be able to do for the Baltimore Ravens twenty thirty, twenty twenty nine, right, this is what twenty twenty seven. So let's just say they look at this MRI and the knee is a disaster compared to the way you, you know, projected it to be. Because teams do do that too. I had a general manager this morning explained to me just going through their process of what they do and team doctors do this. They go, Okay, this is what the knee looks like. This is what we're giving it in terms of length. When it will become a problem when this will bubble up and and the Baltimore Ravens had that information and for them, they didn't feel that this knee would hold up for the long term. So I just think with the Trey Hendrickson situation out there and him holding off waiting for the numbers that he was looking for, I think the Baltimore Ravens, who already did a move that they don't normally do. You've got to have a certain type of philosophy and stomach to give away two first round picks for a soon to be twenty nine year old pass rusher. And I think after the last few days, they sat there and go, you know what, we eight players to the New York Giants. We lost Tyler Linderbaum, like we need more, and they made the decision to go aggressive and they were able to secure Tary Hendrickson last night.

00:34:13
Speaker 2: It feels like a convenient failed physical to me. Is that a nice way of putting it.

00:34:19
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:34:19
Speaker 11: I think there's definitely things that they saw on the MRI that they weren't thrilled about. But I think most around the league are looking at what the Ravens just did. They're certainly frowning upon it. Everyone's got strong opinions about it. I don't really think it's going to change anything. It doesn't mean that no one's going to do business with the Baltimore Ravens. If next year Lamar Jackson says he wants out, you know, I don't think that's gonna change. People are still gonna deal with them. But look, this stuff happens, you know, and they have every right because this was all a hypothetical trade essentially right because it really doesn't become official until four o'clock today anyways, So they had the right to do it, and they did it.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: The Cowboys rescind the offer to Rashaun Gary and engage re engage with the Raiders for Max Crosby. If they do it before four o'clock today, Yeah.

00:35:11
Speaker 11: They absolutely can because nothing is official yet. But most organizations don't want to do business that way. Most don't want to have the kickback that we're seeing right now around Baltimore. And look, they can't come out and say anything. I think a lot of people are warning, why aren't they putting out a statement, Why aren't they talking to one of us to say here's what happened. According to them, they can't speak on medical right now. Max Crosby was never their player. He was never a Baltimore Raven. He was just there to go through the process of the physical before they signed the paperwork and made this thing official. So now Vegas is sitting there, and of course they're hoping teams call, but from what I understand, they're not moving off the two first round asking price that they have, like they're sticking with that. And I see the way this is going to play out. Least, this is how I think it will go. I think Max will be you know, play out the twenty seven year. He's only twenty nine, And I bet you we're doing this story next year where you're just gonna run this whole thing back.

00:36:13
Speaker 2: Max's reaction to this, of being told face to face that go back to the Raiders when he thought he was done with the Raiders.

00:36:23
Speaker 11: Well, just think about what that's like for him and his family. You say you're goodbye, you do the messaging, you've already moved on mentally from playing with the Raiders, which I don't believe was easy for him either. I know it didn't work out well at the end of the season. He obviously had issues with the way they managed him in regard to his injury. He wanted to continue playing. He didn't want to be shut down. They of course didn't want him to be out on the field because of the knee, but also they wanted to secure this number one overall pick, which they got. So now, look, we've all watched Max Crosby. He showed so much of his life on social media. We see him in a lot of interviews. I don't think this is somebody who is going to just be so frustrated and angry by the situation and declare that he's not going to play for the Raiders. This is someone that's just gonna probably be I had one person in football reach out over text of like I am frightened for whoever's got a line up against Max Crosby this season, like the chip he's gonna have on his shoulder to shove it back to the Baltimore Ravens. But also I think there's probably just embarrassment here, a bit, you know of I can't believe I just went through all this. I just got on a jet, flew to Baltimore with my family, spent the day with the team, and it just doesn't it doesn't work out so I.

00:37:43
Speaker 2: When when did they engage with Trey Hendrickson? Do you think, like this pretty quick.

00:37:48
Speaker 11: Turnaround yesterday they had conversations with Trey Hendrickson over the phone. They spoke with him because you know how now the teams can have these conversations with with with with free agents.

00:37:58
Speaker 2: They spoke with or after Max Crosby decision.

00:38:02
Speaker 11: I don't know when they I know they informed Max leader in the afternoon because I was talking to some people in the building when I started to get text that something was going on, which, by the way, like you want to trust your instincts in these situations, that was not what I thought that was like when I heard something was going on, you know, I'm thinking Lamar's deal, like I was barking up their untry full disclosure there. But as soon as the Raiders put out the statement, I knew. Me I'm like, physical, oh my god, you know, and unfortunately we were able to report that. But you don't tell the Las Vegas Raiders the trade is off for Max Crosby unless you got a backup plan. Yeah, I'll put it that way.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: You're not doing that.

00:38:50
Speaker 11: It's a hard decision. You're taking heat, You're you're possibly affecting the relationship with John spy Tech there, you know in readers, in terms of doing deals with them. There's a lot that comes with that decision. But I think in the end, Eric DaCosta looked at the situation was like, I'm not willing to do this. I can't I can't go along with this, and in the end they made the call.

00:39:14
Speaker 2: Talking to Diana Rossini, a senior NFL insider for The Athletic co host of the Athletic Scoop City podcast with Chase Daniel, yeah, I feel bad for the Raiders because they had a whole different mindset of we're moving on from Max and we're going to move on from this contract. And they spent money and they started to build their team as if they needed a couple of years before they're going to be, you know, respectable competitive, And now all of a sudden, you got a guy who's great, but you know, if you trade him, you're probably not going to get what you thought you were going to get. I just I'm actually rooting for the Raiders to maybe get this right Monday, and I thought that they were headed in that direction, and then all of a sudden, I mean, if the consolation prize is you get Max Crosby back, but you don't need him now. Maybe in two years you need a Max Crosby kind of player, but you don't need Max now at that price. But this team, and I.

00:40:16
Speaker 11: Know you're looking at the moves and you're coming up with that philosophy of this is what their plan is, that they're just rebuilding.

00:40:22
Speaker 7: But that's the truth.

00:40:22
Speaker 11: That's that's how they've been, that's how they've been speaking to free agents and to agents about where they're at. This isn't a team that's going all in for right now to try to win a Super Bowl like we've seen around the league. This is a team that knows they're trying to rebuild. They're trying to rebuild it the right way, and they they've got the money and they've got the picks to do it. So look, is it awkward? Probably? I Mean I give credit to Max Crosby for driving into the facility today right to just go back to work, and I guess I'm a raider. I mean, I think he had a going away party based on his social media. Now in the building, he's in the building working out, like going through rehab as a reader, you know. And and by the way, in credit to him too, just you know, six year anniversary of his sobriety is today. You know, I, by the way, this is just me like Kleman is. I got way too much time in my hand on his social media. But but you know, first of all, just shout out to him six years clean and obviously has had a tremendous career, but now just head down back to work. He is the sort of model leader you want on your team. So I do think there will be organizations that are having conversations right now, going all right, we need a pass rusher. Who's out there. There's not that many great ones left. You've got Grenard in Minnesota. The teams are poking around on You've got the Philadelphia Eagles who said a lot more goodbyes than Hello's lately. You know that how he's got something up his sleeve. They're engaging in some of those hugs. But maybe there will be some shift to Max Crosbit. But but you know, I think this is going to be more of a scenario where we see him in a Raiders uniform.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: Great stuff. Are the kids in school?

00:42:06
Speaker 11: This look Mikey's biting Joey in the middle of all this. And I don't mean like a little like you know, one of you know, like a little fake fite. It was deep teeth in the arm scream. I'm like, guys, not now. My husband's like, what do you want me to do? I'm like something something, This is the.

00:42:25
Speaker 2: Biggest storys W.

00:42:26
Speaker 11: I was doing all my tweeting last night on my back porch, just like a weird I was just thinking myself. I sometimes I wish I could just video this for my kids to see one day of like, look what you did to me, Look how you aged me.

00:42:40
Speaker 2: You know, Chefty don't have to deal with this, Glazer don't have to deal with this.

00:42:46
Speaker 11: I think they all have their own things that everyone's got family, everyone's got things. No one's got Mikey and Joey though, I can.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: Tell you, oh no, they don't. I know you're busy. Thanks for taking time, appreciate you having me in a resini