Hour 1 – Is OKC in the Conversation?, The Future of LeBron and the Lakers

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Speaker 2: Our one on this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan Ats Dan Patrick Show come on in stay a while. Gangs here ready to go fired up front row Marvin Pauley, backrow, Dylan Todd and of course the backroom guys and you at home are on the road with us. Stat of the Day always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the DP Show. Giving away a Rectech on Friday. Go to rectech dot com search the Dan Patrick Show for details. This first hour brought to you by tire rack dot Com. They've been doing it for over forty years, helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. Ship fast and free and back by free roadhazard protection, convenient installation options, tire rack dot Com the way tire buying should be. Play the day, poll question, stat of the Day, All of that forthcoming Reggie Miller a little bit later on. Nick Wright, our buddy from Fox Sports, will start by as well. Eight seven, seven to three, DP Show operator Tyler is sitting by. He'll take your phone. Calls. The Cavaliers over the Pistons last night and Donovan Mitchell had forty three. Now you could look at it this way, This would be a fun headline. Cavaliers overcome subpar first half performance by Donovan Mitchell because he scored four points in the first half and then thirty nine in the second half. That would be just the cynic in me. You know, maybe he had four in the first and then thirty nine, Like what happens? You only get four and then you get thirty nine and he goes for forty three. The Thunders say goodbye to the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: A J.

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Speaker 2: Mitchell, come on down, he had twenty eight and Thunder sweep the Lakers, and the questions begin or continue as the Lakers move forward? Will that be with Lebron without Lebron on Austin reeves in a variety of ways that you could probably look at this as the Lakers move forward. Timberwolves in the Spurs, no further suspension or fines for Wemby. If Spurs are big favorites in the game coming up tonight, I have them favored by ten and a half. Wednesday the Cavaliers, they will be getting three and a half against the Pistons. That's been the point spread each game. If it's in Detroit or Cleveland, it's been three and a half for the road team getting three and a half points. All right, Dylan, let's pull question for the first hour of the program.

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Speaker 4: Well, we can do a little Lakers talk. Dan, all right, you're into that sort of thing. What are you more interested in what Lebron does next or what the Lakers do next?

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Speaker 2: I would say the Lakers because I would want to know, like, what do the Lakers want Lebron to do? Does Lebron want to play another year? Two years? How important is maybe going someplace to win another title? Going back to Cleveland? You bookend your career, You've already mission accomplished with your son being able to play with you. The money aspect of it. You know, the Lakers with Austin Reeves. You know it's Luca's team. How do you surround him? What do you surround him with? I thought Lebron did a pretty admirable job, you know when you, oh, by the way, go for twenty one points, six or seven rebounds and six assists and that's like a down year. I mean, you're forty one, and I know not all points stats are created equal here because you're the third option there. But in the playoffs I thought he played pretty well. Now there are times when he looks like he's forty one, which is understandable, but I can't He's not my lead dog. But I got to have Luca out there. Do I want to pay fifty million dollars a year for Austin Reeves? What are you going to do at the center position? Marcus Smart who played well this year, ruiy Hachamra. So there's a lot of questions there. But it feels like, can you make any moves before or after Lebron makes a decision? Can you make any moves now or do you have to wait until Lebron? And hopefully it's not an Aaron Rodgers situation where you're kind of just waiting and waiting and waiting because the draft will be coming up. I don't know where they are financially free agency, not a lot of great names out there. The draft. You know, it's top heavy, probably six seven, eight players deep. So at the end, as I've said many times, you know, at best, at best, you would be the fourth best team maybe in the West. I mean, Denver still has Joker, but you know, the Spurs are great and OKC is obviously great. Well, those are the two best teams in the NBA are in the West. And if you're gonna start making moves, can you make a move? What are you doing with the money you would save? With Lebron who's out there you're gonna be able to get? Can you? Can you take a chance? Can you make a big swing? Is Yiannis in play here? And if so, does that mean Austin Reeves isn't in play? Like There's a lot of different things that I think moving forward are going to be tricky for the Lakers, But we'll talk to Reggie Miller. Nick Right will have a thought or two about that as well as for OKAC. Here they go eight to O in the playoffs, the eleventh team to ever start eight No. The last time we saw this the twenty seventeen Golden State Wars. They went they went out to fifteen and OH. Lakers in one, eleven and OH in twenty seventeen, ten and O Cavs in twenty sixteen started out ten and OH. Spurs in twenty twelve, ten and O and nineteen eighty two the Lakers started out nine and OH. But it's just a reminder of how great Golden State was in twenty seventeen. Starting out fifteen to oh, and you know, I start to wonder about this with Okac because I know the focus was on the Lakers because we knew that they weren't going to win this series. Could they get a win or two? I thought that they would get at least one win out of this. And you know what, they were competitive against okay See. When you think about it, they played about as well as you can play against Okac. It's just Oka See has so much depth, and I don't you know when people say, oh, it's a quality loss or a moral victory, I never bought into that. But you did put up a fight, unlike the seventy six ers in their close out game. It's like, you know what, it got some nice parting gifts for you enjoy can kun the Lakers. Lakers played hard, you know, they gave They did as well as you could possibly do against Shay, Gilgess, Alexander. It's just these guys are coming at you in waves, and these guys all are hungry. I mean they're they have load management, but it's only because their second unit is as good as some starting lineups. It feels like on some nights. Therefore, I don't need Shay Gilgis to play thirty six minutes. I don't need Chet Holmgren to play thirty five minutes. I got guys who were coming in, and when they come in, they want to shine, they want the spot. I mean, these guys off the bench and you're going, who's this guy? Where did he come from? Wait? Was he like Santa Cruz Close, Santa Cla, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara? A j Mitchell? Huh is that the initials A and Jay or is it A? And then Jaya? What Wade? Who are the And it's another Jalen Williams And they don't even have their second best player, the other Jalen Williams. It's remarkable, and I started to wonder, Okay, how do we I don't want to say shoehorn, that's not fair, but to kind of put them in the conversation of this two year run for OKAC, and if they do win back to back titles, and they do it in impressive manner of not losing many games, we might begrudgingly put them in there. And they're going to have a San Antonio Spurs feel to them because not exciting, not big market. Even their best player is great, but not exciting, not a highlight. But still they are just methodical. They know what to do, they know how to do it, and it doesn't feel like there's any ebbs and flows, like it's just a straight line of great here. Yes, Marvin, we.

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Speaker 5: Will be talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder as one of the best teams of all time if they hadn't slowed down in the regular season. Remember I think they started out like twenty five, twenty six, and three, and we were talking about can the Thunder win seventy five games? And they're kind of showing you what they would have been had they stay healthy all regular season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that was the oh my gosh, they're going to set the all time record. That got our attention. Then they cooled off, and then it felt like we moved on to you know, other big ticket items that we care more about, or they make headlines here. But okay, see doing what they're supposed to do. Don't let the Lakers get one, don't let them get back in the series, and they end up winning it by five. All right, Well, get to your phone. Calls coming up? What other poll questions, Dylan are you thinking about today?

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Speaker 6: Well, you brought.

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Speaker 4: Up Donovan Mitchell earlier, and something we had talked about was when he was potentially going to be a Nick at one point, and then obviously they end up with Brunson. That's worked out pretty well. But who would you rather have on your squad, Donovan Mitchell.

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Speaker 7: Or Jalen.

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Speaker 2: Brunson.

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Speaker 7: That's probably evolved over time.

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Speaker 2: But it's also who would be the right guy for the Knicks, Like Brunson's the right guy for the Knicks. Donovan Mitchell's a great player, but I remember that night and who would you rather have? And there's similar size, but I would take Brunson. I think Mitchell has these moments, like some of his best moments were in Utah where people didn't even get to see him, and then Jalen Brunson was sort of the oh yeah, look at the sidekick Luca has. He seems like a nice player. But when Mitchell went to Cleveland, I felt better about him being a number one star than Brunson going to the Knicks and being a number one star. But Brunson is not afraid of any of these moments. Here, Yeah, Doling, Yeah, I don't think. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be some revisionist history.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone expected the Brunson deal to work out this well for the Knicks.

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Speaker 2: Well, when he took less money too, that was when Pablo Torre probably has found out ears perked up a little bit. Remember when he said that, oh, by the way, you know, and like my next story is Jalen Brunson taking less to go to the Knicks, And then he immediately regretted saying that, yes, Paulie.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, four years ago with Dallas, Jalen Brunson was averaging sixteen the past four years twenty four points, twenty nine, twenty six, twenty six. Yeah, his stats are almost equal scoring wise to Donovan Mitchell scoring wise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well, it'd be fun if they go head to head here in the next next round. Detroit did really well against the next dominated the Knicks during the regular season. It just Cleveland wins at home, Cleveland loses on the road. That's what's happened in the playoffs. Yes, yes, Daling, it.

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Speaker 4: Does feel like whoever the next face in the next round is like, all right, whatever, and then you just have to walk into the finals into a buzz saw.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I mean, I think everybody has kind of given the green light to the Knicks that they're going to the finals no matter who is waiting for them. Correct, And I'm looking at the title odds DraftKings sent this over this morning. The Thunder are still the big favorites. Then it's the Spurs, then it's the Knicks. Then it drops down, so Thunder and minus one seventy five, Spurs are plus three ninety, the Knicks are plus six hundred. Then the Pistons are plus twenty five hundred, So really really top heavy here with three teams that can win it all. Then it's the Cavaliers, then it's the Timberwolves. So they're expecting the NBA Championship to be decided by San Antonio in okay, sing We've had that before, didn't we have that in March Madness, where we go, oh, this is going to be for the title. Was that the Arizona Michigan Yeah yeah, and then all of a sudden it wasn't Michigan dominated. But sometimes you have that. But in a situation like this, I don't think I would just rubber stamp. The Knicks are going to the finals here, yes, doll.

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Speaker 4: If you look at the Stanley Cup finals right now too, there's a similar situation where it's the Avalanche and the Hurricanes are heavily favored in their respective divisions to make it to win the title.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got Avalanche plus one forty, Hurricanes plus one fifty five and then it goes down to the Golden Knights plus nine hundred Canadians plus one thousand Sabers plus two thousand Ducks plus twenty eight hundred the wild plus forty five hundred for entertainment purposes only. Right, we say good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. That's our Screaming partner, download the app if you haven't done so, and our radio affiliates including iHeartRadio and Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 8: Guest Paul I got scolded lightly hockey wise on social media last night. I have said, hey, you know, the Lanch are looking great.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, you can't do that.

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Speaker 8: I thought it was a nice.

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Speaker 2: That they started out as the Lanch and then they went to the abs, right, but I think.

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Speaker 8: The Lanch is funny, like the lightning. I called them the ning.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they go by the nick they do.

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Speaker 8: I think, you know, I'm trying to stay in my lane, stay in my crease.

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, the lanch is fun, you have it. They don't want the lanch. I think they'd be.

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Speaker 8: A cool local nickname for the avalanche.

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Speaker 2: It's like people it was, they.

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Speaker 8: Don't they did it, and then they switched to the ABS.

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Speaker 2: I believe.

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Speaker 8: So was there a referendum.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, not quite sure. Yeah, but like people in San Francisco don't want to have it called Frisco.

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Speaker 8: So like Shy Town, no one who lives there calls it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, san Fran, we got it. We got a lot of blowback for San Fran.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then I talked to some locals and they said, no, we're fine with that.

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Speaker 7: Who cares.

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Speaker 2: You know, Todd calls Houston hugh Town instead of h Town.

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Speaker 9: If you have the calves and the habs, would you want to be the abs?

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Speaker 6: It sounds for you know, you already have things that sound very similar.

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Speaker 2: Swing it around to the to the suffix, the lance, the suffix. Okay, letter should call themselves the suffix the seffix. By the way, it's National Limerick Day, and you know what that means yeah.

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Speaker 6: After the limericks.

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Speaker 8: Sorry, paul I begged the guys, I'm back, not to tell you.

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Speaker 2: Todd told me, oh man, Todd told me. Yeah. Todd goes, hey, National Limerick Day. And then I said, and he goes, did I do a limerick? And I said, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 6: A Laker one, and there's one about someone on our staff.

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Speaker 2: And then he said this is what he does. Okay, he says, can I do one? I said, yeah, you can do one. He goes, what if I have two? He said, you just said you had one.

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Speaker 6: It's like the Darius Rucker two Hall of Notes song there.

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Speaker 2: How about you pick your best.

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Speaker 6: I actually liked them.

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Speaker 9: But because one is because it's someone's birthday today on the staff, and so I did a limerick for him, and one is Lebron Lakers related.

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Speaker 6: So I really it's only five lines. It's only gonna take like forty five seconds to do it.

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Speaker 2: Whose birthday is it? Weeks our camera man? Yeah, okay, yes, Dylan.

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Speaker 4: PAULI did you really not think Todd was gonna find out it was a National Limerick Day on his own.

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Speaker 7: He's like a truffle pig. He's just gonna sniff it out.

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Speaker 8: Fritzy lacks awareness.

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Speaker 7: I thought I do.

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Speaker 9: I saw someone tweeted that, like, that's Tuesday, March twelfth. This is a national limerick this so I'm like, I just started writing limericks. I guess with the show, I'm writing limerick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Uh, we'll take a break. We'll hear from Lebron James when we return Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Shay Gilgis scored thirty five and the thunder rallied again. This is their first fourth quarter deficit of the postseason as they sweep the second round series. Okay, see went eight and zero against the Lakers, with an average margin of victory of twenty two points.

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Speaker 2: This is the Stanle of the Day, brought to you by paniniam Era. Here's Lebron James talking about his future after last night's defeat. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what the future holds for me obviously as it stands right now tonight, and I got a lot of time. I'll sit back, Like I think I said it last year after we lost, I think to Minnesota to go back and recalibrate with my family and talk with them and spend some time with them. And then when the time comes out, obviously, you guys know what I decided to do.

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Speaker 2: I can't see him with another team. It's tricky because if you go back to Kobe's last two years, they weren't a good team. But it was almost as if come out and see Kobe and you know, kind of say goodbye farewell tour that lasted two years. That last year, didn't they win fifteen games, Marvin, did that sound right? Seventeen games?

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Speaker 8: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Kobe had that big night the Farewell game, and that was like their seventeenth win of the season. They weren't competitive, but you got a chance to see Kobe. Golden State Warriors are kind of in this situation with Steph Curry now, they're better than those Lakers were. I don't know if Jimmy Butler's going to be with them, there's probably you know, if there's an opportunity to move him, they might do that. You got Draymond Green, Steve Kerr coming back for two years, but you got Steph Curry and Steph Curry's going to retire a Golden State Warrior. But is that the best thing? Like Milwaukee with Yannis now they finally admitted, you know, they said the quiet thing out loud that they are now shopping Yannis. They should have been big draft coming up here. Now Milwaukee did at least try. They had a couple of swings there, you know, the Dame Liverard trade where they're still paying that that's over one hundred million miles Turner remember brought him in, So they've tried it. Just didn't work out and said last year and you gotta move Janis. I said, I would never sign Joe Ellenbiid up to an extension, just I gotta look at this. And as much as you know Joe Ellenbiid's gone through an awful lot in Philly and all the injuries, and you know, a MVP Jannis with a couple MVPs winning a title. I mean, it's nice to have a scrapbook with a player, but this is business. It gets tough when you say goodbye, but you'll have to do that for the betterment of the franchise. It's not about the player. Because you say to the Lakers, hey, what is the best business decision? That might not be the best basketball fan decision. But you know, I don't think Laker fans, you know, anywhere near as in love with Lebron as any of the other Laker greats, because the Lakers raised Kobe, they drafted him, He's eighteen, Lebron. Lebron's been there coming up nine years. Eight years. I mean, that's the longest stretch of any place for him. But I don't know if you're saying, hey, we don't know how good we're going to be we don't want Lebron to go and play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. I don't care about that. I care about what makes us better. Can we make a move or not make a move that makes us better? I mean, if he wants a statue, we can give him a statue. Do you want to give him sixty million dollars? Or is it a one plus one type of contract here? So I think there's there's some interesting decisions or potential decisions. But the direction where are you going if it's Luca's team, I'm just curious about Austin Reeves. That would be the guy that Okay, what direction are you going in? May depend on what you do with Austin Reeves. The guy that I would probably pick up and have somebody actually play like a center is Isaiah Hartenstein, who plays with Okac. I think he's going to be a free agent. I definitely bring him in instead of DeAndre Ayden. Like Hartenstein plays hard. I just want somebody who acts like a center, and that would be and Marcus Smart played really well. You have to have those role players. You have to have them. Here is JJ Reddick after the game.

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Speaker 12: You've seen these three games before and I thought there were two different times during the game where our team could have gave in, could have let go of the rope. We didn't. I thought the crowd was awesome tonight. And I've been part of these on both sides where it's a three to zero and you're playing on the road or you're playing at home and the crowd can just not be And crowd was awesome tonight. Our fans are awesome. Yeah, gratitude.

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Speaker 2: I think JJ Reddick did okay this year. And I know this kind of gets lost in the shuffle, but if you look at previous coaches, Darvin Ham, although Darvin Ham had success in the postseason, but you know, JJ came in a tough situation going into the playoffs, but they played hard, like you can really tell. I think the impact a coach has on a team when you see how hard they play in a situation where maybe you wouldn't expect them to play as hard. And look, I know this sounds like an indictment on Nick Nurse in Philadelphia, but that team mailed it in like there was there was nothing there on your home floor with you know, the Knicks fans taking up three quarters of the building, like show some survival instincts here, and the Lakers had that, like they did play hard. I did question can you be a good enough defensive team to be able to compete with Okac? And they gave them everything they had. I think Oka See would probably be honest and say that was a little bit tougher than we thought, especially with no Luca in there. But I still look at Austin Reeves because he's got the opportunity if he stays with it, and it might be a sign in trade, but it's what is it five years two hundred and eighty million Paulieu.

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Speaker 8: With the Lakers. He could get five years to forty one.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're jelt.

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Speaker 8: You're like I could have done that shooting.

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Speaker 2: And nobody knew this kid in college. Nobody knew him when he got to the Lakers. I remember talking to somebody who watched a practice session and he said to me, he goes, this kid doesn't look like he can play, but he can play. And he said, once you kind of get anointed by Lebron that you can play, then everybody else goes, yes, he can play, Like they're waiting for somebody to say, hey, can you can he get a shot off? Can he get to the hoop? And you know, my friend goes he can do all of those things. He said, he won't get many shots, but he might be better when he leaves the Lakers, And I go, now, this is two years ago, Yeah, Pauli.

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Speaker 8: Austin Reeves averaged nineteen a game his last year at Oklahoma, did not get drafted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're, oh, who's this kid? Dang. Yeah. I remember talking to Doug Gottlieb about Austin Reeves and Doug was saying, you know, how good a player he was, but he just wasn't a star, like nobody knew him. Nobody, you know, wasn't like, oh, that guy's getting six million, nil where we focus in on that kind of player. He just was a really good player. Like Kate Cunningham was a really good player, and he goes number one overall, so he should be really good. Like we're just getting to the point where we're acknowledging, Yeah, Kate Cunningham is a star in the league. He is, yes, Dylan, but.

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Speaker 4: He had some some run in the public coming out of Oklahoma State too. I mean that whole last season they were like this guy's gonna be legit.

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Speaker 2: Oh cunning, I'm yeah. But Austin Reeves, you were like really like did he go to Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or you know, you're kind of I didn't remember him.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulie, I've got the all undrafted players in NBA history team if you'd like it.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you know you love this. You didn't expect that.

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Speaker 8: Austin Reeves not on there yet? Okay, Ben Wallace low posting defensive purposes. I know you don't love him.

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Speaker 2: He's a m protector.

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Speaker 8: You Donnis Haslam, Afrey Johnson, Bruce Bowen, got a tough squad there. Fred van Vliet.

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Speaker 6: Should be Fleet.

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Speaker 2: It should be.

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Speaker 8: Van Fleet would flow so much. It would be Brad Miller, serviceable big man out of Purdue. Shoot, John Stark's undrafted. Okay, there's a few more, but like David Wesley, Rajah Bell, oh, Jose Calderone.

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Speaker 2: Okay, some good squad. You're deep.

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Speaker 6: That's a lot of great and a lot of right theah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's first in last down coaches sun type players.

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Speaker 8: It's good squad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Austin Reeves could be first team, you know, if he continues this trajectory.

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Speaker 8: He'd be the highest paid undrafted free agent ever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by far. All of those guys salaries together aren't going to compete with what Austin Reeves is going to make.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Dylan, well, unless he decides to take his player option next year for fourteen point nine million and not signed a massive super mega contract.

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Speaker 8: Basketball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I had a couple of phone calls in here. Do we want to play the Lebron James game?

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Speaker 13: Like?

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Speaker 2: Do we want to get it out of the way early? Yeah? Okay, do we have any theme music for the Lebron James?

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Speaker 14: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Paul, I'm going to start with you. Lebron James will be ware next year.

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Speaker 8: A one year deal with the Lakers, all right, Todd still with the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: Dylan a two year deal with the Golden State Warriors. Gutsytt? How good would that be? Would be so good? Like whoa whoa?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 6: All right, Marvin one year deal with the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to say one plus one with the Lakers for him. And I think there were a lot of people maybe at the All Star break they weren't sure if Lebron was going to retire at the end of the year. I don't see that happening. Nobody pick retirement here. I do think that he'll do a last dance documentary. He'll He'll have NBA Entertainment or his film crew follow him around from training camp till the playoffs and then they'll eventually put something together for Netflix or you know, Amazon Prime. Yes, Tom, will there be a decision, I'm keeping my talents in La. Yeah, that's kind of where it started, right when America was like, wait a minute, gonna spend an hour and you're gonna give us your decision and you're taking your talents to South Beach.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Marv Lebron James learned his lesson because it got less and less like big, you know, big ticket item type of deal.

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Speaker 6: He went from the decision.

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Speaker 5: He did an article with Lee Jenkins saying I'm coming home, and then there was a press release saying I'm going to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Speaker 6: It was literally just a press release.

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Speaker 8: What's less than that? Nothing? He just shows up a training camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, kind of like when Kevin Durant had the contract extension and no KC and he came in with his book bag and he had a little book bag and he just kind of sat down and he goes like, yeah, I'm uh yeah, I'm gonna stay.

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Speaker 8: It was a Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: You're like, whoa, okay, yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: After the decision, I was at the Mothership at the time, and everyone thought it was just man, this is amazing. Yet and once the show started, oh, this is an awful idea because it was an hour long at the Boys and Girls Club of Greenage.

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Speaker 2: You know. And I had a couple of friends who worked on that show, and I remember saying, why did you drag it out so much? And they were told that, you know, you got to have all the commercial inventory. And I just thought, let's let's make the decision. Now, get through the first fifteen minutes, do the build up. When we come back, Lebron makes his decision. Now, this is just me as a host if I would And look, I know Jim Gray was the host, and I've talked to Jim about this. I don't think he had a real say and when Lebron would make the decision, but it got to the point where you're like, we're dragging it out to drag it out, which I think infuriated even more people watching where make the decision at like seventeen or eighteen minutes after the hour. Now you get all your analysts there, you're experts. You go live to Cleveland, you go live to the Knicks. You know, you go live to these places where we weren't sure if he was going to go, might go? You know, you find out, you know it's going to be in Miami. Have Lebron tell you where it's going to be. So you can do a live shot with somebody in Miami with the Miami Heat, somebody with Cleveland and they're burning jerseys, somebody with the Knicks. Then I think you could you can move it forward instead of the very end where you make the decision. Now what So that would have been my approach to it. Let's tease it, then announce it. Now we get our roundtable discussion. What this means for the Miami Heat, for you know, the Eastern Conference, for d Wade, Chris Bosh, what's it mean for the Cavaliers the Knicks miss out on him? That would have been my approach. Yeah, Pauline, I'm looking back at this. This was July of twenty ten.

00:32:16
Speaker 8: The show. The decision was seventy five minutes long. He made his announcement twenty eight minutes into the show. I can remember doing the show this show the next day, and we actually had a different take on it. Lebron didn't go to college, he didn't have the three hats in the gym type thing, and this was his maybe one time in his career to do that. That's kind of how we looked at it that next day.

00:32:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I want to be fair. Then twenty eight minutes in, it felt like it was forty eight minutes in and it just it lacked movement there and then Lebron, you know, biting his nails and you know, Dania had was Kanye West in the crowd that day?

00:32:59
Speaker 8: He was He was neither invited nor kept out, but he just showed up.

00:33:04
Speaker 2: As part of the Boys and Girls Club.

00:33:06
Speaker 8: We actually emailed the producer of the show and they had no idea Kanye West was showing up. Yes, lastly, thirteen year old Donovan Mitchell.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's okay. Yeah, that's who I was going to say. And I was like, wait, was Kanye there? And then I realized yes he was. Yes, Dylan, you guys are.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: Forgetting that he did a decision last year. Also remember that big run up to that, and he announced.

00:33:33
Speaker 7: That he's partnering with the NFCVSOP got that one.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: You see that. That's not good. That's not good.

00:33:40
Speaker 7: Miss the mark.

00:33:41
Speaker 2: Don't remind him, Yeah, don't remind us of the decision. And the fact that it was the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich, which I didn't know they had one enough times and I just remember who was it Dudley who came out and Jared Dudley and he was saying, Oh, he's hearing Lebron's going to the Knicks, And I was like, well, he's in Greenwich, Connecticut.

00:34:04
Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulin a lot of people speculate on that. I'm looking at the article from that morning once it was announced that was in Greenwich, Connecticut. That's ten miles from the next practice facility. Yeah, and everyone was leaning Nicks.

00:34:15
Speaker 2: And I remember Steven A. Smith, he got it right going to the Heat. It was like, wait a minute, He's not going to the Knicks.

00:34:25
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:34:25
Speaker 8: Paul Lebron's agent called the Cavaliers three minutes before the show started in the hallway.

00:34:33
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00:36:02
Speaker 4: I would Dan. For starters, we had what are you more interested in what the Lakers do next? Or what Lebron does next? Surprisingly, fifty four percent say what Lebron does next? Another decision underway perhaps, And then we had who would you rather have, Donovan Mitchell or Jalen Brunson. Sixty nine percent say Jalen Brunson.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: Andrew in Washington, Hi, Andrew, what's on your mind today?

00:36:26
Speaker 14: Good morning, Dan Dannett. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, it was good to see the Lakers fight last night. They almost, you know, got back into that game.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: If Lebron would have made that late.

00:36:36
Speaker 14: Running shop, they would have been up late and maybe that would have turned at least to a gentleman's sweep. But yeah, I think that Lebron and Brony no joke, This is not one of those he I'll give you this guy for that guy radio trade calls. But I think they might end up in the Land. I think he might end his career there, especially if they get close this year with Donovan Mitchell. James Harden is just a rental piece anyways, and I could see something where Jannis and maybe Jared Allen come to the Lake. Maybe Harden Ayton and another player go to the Bucks and Lebron Browny and like Jackson Hayes go to the Cleveland Cavaliers. I don't know about aprons and caps and contract situations. That's just something I thought about. And my stat of the day is this is that the Lakers got swept this year, but the last two times they got swept out of the playoffs and the twenty twenty three Conference Finals in the twenty eleven Conference Semis, both of those teams that swept in Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks went on to win the championship. So I think the Thunder will do the same stat of.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: The day stat of the day, that best stat of the day stat of the day here comes that?

00:37:39
Speaker 2: What stat of the day? David in Ohio, Hi, David, what's on your mind today?

00:37:48
Speaker 1: Hey?

00:37:49
Speaker 13: What's going on?

00:37:49
Speaker 16: Dan?

00:37:50
Speaker 13: The NFL just announced that the Giants could be hosting the Dallas Cowboys opening weekend Sunday Night Football. Danny Cass with shake question mark, and then my other comment is, don't worry Cowboys fans. You can watch it next day on VHS tape. Next to the Cowboys Super Bowl highlights.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: David with another shot at the Cowboys. Yeah, I'm going to talk to Shay and maybe we do a Danny cast where Shay, Dylan, myself we sit out on the patio here, have some beers, cigars, and we watch the Cowboys against the Giants. So you can watch us watch the Cowboys and the Giants. Yes, Dylan.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: Last time we did that, the Cowboys tied the Packers, which is about as sweet of a result as you could ask for.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: But I tell Shay, I said, you know, I can't stay up till eleven thirty twelve o'clock, so it's kind of hard to do a Danny cast if I'm not part of the second half. We need that West Coast time zone. Oh we do, I guess we do.

00:38:52
Speaker 5: Uh?

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Alex in Utah, Hi Alex, what's on your mind today?

00:38:57
Speaker 16: Good morning, gentlemen, and thanks thanks for and me on so Dan, I'm curious. I saw after you know, the loss yesterday, and it was you just have to watch Lebron go out like that. But I mean, he played a great game. But I was seeing some stuff on the internet and I don't know if you've heard this or if if it's even true. But I thought Steve Kerr made comments about wanting to see Kevin, Steph and Lebron all win one more championship, kind of like winking at the proposition of getting them together in Golden State. I like, I don't know how much to read into that post, if that's just made up. But then the other thing I wanted to bring up was so yesterday, I'm having a great time listening to the Dan Patrick Show, and I'm laughing with everyone, having a great time, and then you bring up the speech to your daughter. Now, I welcomed my first child late last year and it's a baby girl, and you're talking about not getting it, being able to get through the speech. And I think PAULI brought up to Darius Rucker's song, and then I looked it up and looked at the lyrics, and I'm like seeing lyrics of like putting her to bed at night and like tearing up because you realize it's not going to last for very long. And I am just destroyed. I get puffy that I start. I'm like, I haven't even like she's She's not even a year old, and I'm already thinking about this and so I work from home. So I run upstairs. She's playing on the ground and she's just having the time of her life. I pick her up. I'm like bawling, and I'm holding her so tight, and my wife is freaking out, like what's wrong, what happened. I'm like, no that I just love her so much and I don't want to let her go.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Uh. Everybody tells you this when you have kids, it's gonna go by so quickly. But you're in the throes of chaos and you can't wait for your child to get older, get out of diapers, go to daycare. And then all of a sudden you look up and you're like, Paulie's daughter is going to go to college next year, and you're like, wow, and I haven't seen her in a while. All of a sudden, we see Peyton and Pittsburgh. I said, paul you're in trouble. You put your arm on my shoulder. I said, you're in trouble. You are in trouble. It happens, it's quick, man.

00:41:13
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Marvin a quote I heard when I first had my son, The days are long, but the years are short.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did I just call you Marvin?

00:41:24
Speaker 8: Marvi.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: I think I just called you, Marve.

00:41:27
Speaker 6: Your name Marvin added to the list.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Short for Marven less hour two on the way after this