Hour 2 – Sirianni’s Handling of AJ Brown, Tim MacMahon on the Mavericks

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

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Speaker 2: On this Thursday, Dan and the Dana and Dan Patrick Show. Are the MAVs going to be trying to trade Anthony Davis and or Kyrie Irving. We'll talk a little bit more about the MAVs situation that showed a lot of promise when they got Cooper Flag in the draft. All of a sudden, if Anthony Davis comes back healthy, Kyrie comes back eventually, all right, you got a formidable team here. You got some veterans there. Jason Kidd as a veteran coach. But we'll talk to Tim McMahon. He covers the NBA. He joins us coming up in a little bit here, but what a mess. And then you know, Luca after a loss in OKC when they lost by thirty, Lucas asked about Nico Harrison being fired, basically like, you know, I'm just here and moving forward. You know, he did talk about his love of Dallas and the fans and all that, but it did feel like a move of let's give the fans something here that they can share about, and that's Nico Harrison being fired. The Anthony Davis situation, I guess the owner has to. Okay, when Anthony Davis can come back and play, you know, Kyrie's out for a while, and they may be back in the lottery again. Yeah, and there are some really good players in this draft coming up. You probably got five guys who could be the number one overall pick. But this is not going as scripted for Cooper Flagg's inaugural season. Someone is guilty, no one is innocent. Now I'm not talking about the MAVs here. In the new drama series All Her Fault, a seemingly perfect family's world is shattered when their young son goes missing. Streaming now only on Peacock, which is where you can see this show, And apparently on Monday you'll be able to see us on the NBC Sports Network as well. I just got the press release. They mentioned us in the press release, all these great things that the NBC Sports Network is going to have on baseball, basketball, horse racing, Pro Football Talk with Mike Florio, Dan Leviotard Show, and the Dan Patrick Show. Yeah. So if you're not able to get Peacock the NBC Sports Network, we will be open for business on Monday. Yes, Todd, can we say we're as proud as a peacock.

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Speaker 3: Is that a thing?

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Speaker 4: Or is that from the seventies eighties or is.

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Speaker 2: That that's that's on brand?

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Speaker 5: Still can say.

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Speaker 4: Proud of a peacock?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes you can.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if that was this from our younger days that they would always refer to, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: We're going to be really really popular. Now. You can tune in now on Peacock to see us. Fritzi's here, Dylan's in for Seaton. Seaton will join us from the road coming up a little bit later on this hour. Marvin is here, PAULI year's truly and of course the back room guys our one poll question and the results, Dylan, So our.

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Speaker 7: One pole, Dan was who would you bet now to make the Hall of Fame? Jaden Daniels, Drake May, Caleb Williams or none of the above. M okay, none of the above is leading with fifty eight percent, followed by Drake May with thirty.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're looking at that position, you can put up great numbers, but it feels like you're judged by your Super Bowl appearances and you got to have at least one super Bowl. It feels like now Josh Allen's going to be a Hall of Famer and Lamar Jackson's going to be a Hall of Famer, but they have put up incredible seasons. If you're going to be a quarterback who plays fifteen years and you're in the playoffs, you put up really good numbers and feels like you'd need a super Bowl in there and trying to stay healthy. I mean, there's so much, you know, the ebbs and flows of how good your team is. You know, Tom Brady went ten years without winning a Super Bowl, which seems impossible for the Patriots to, you know, not be able to do that or get back there. So I would I would say I would lean towards none of those three make the Hall of Fame. Even though Jayden Daniels had as good a rookie season, maybe the best rookie season the quarterbacks ever had, staying healthy and certainly with him, that's going to be the issue staying healthy, Caleb all of his talent. Drake may have shown promptly. It's only year two, so I mean bow Knicks was going to the Hall of Fame last year the way he was playing. Now this year, people are like booing bow Knicks and the Broncos offense and they're leading the division. So I at that position, pretty tough, Pretty tough already eight seven to seven three DP show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, handle at TP show football tonight Jets at the Patriots, and the Jets are getting twelve and a half. Paul Skeenes is your CY Young winner unanimous. Cherik Scoobel won the Cy Young again. That's back to back for him. If you look at Paul Skeens, here's the last twenty eight months. He won the College World Series, he was named the most Outstanding Player, he was the number one overall pick. He's been the All Star Game starter. Now back to back years, he was Rookie of the Year, and now he's won the National League CY Young. I had mentioned that there was a report out there yesterday that somebody was saying that he has talked about the Yankees going to the Yankees an anonymous teammate and tweeted this out. Paul Skeens has come out, I don't know if it was last night or this morning and said that's not true. I'm here to be a Pittsburgh pirate, which even if he was interested in the he's that's the right thing to say that he is a Pittsburgh pirate and he hopes that they can, you know, be winners and bring a winner to Pittsburgh. I get it. It has to be frustrating when you you're not going to win many games. But like his ten wins this year felt like twenty five, and his numbers even when he loses, I mean, he put up some incredible numbers here and at some point, either he, his agent, or maybe the pirates say what is going to be best for the pirates. And that's tough because you're going to say to your fan base, you know, one of the guys that you come out to see or you're watching or listening on the radio is not going to be here. Now do I look at Skeens the way I do Garrett Cole. Skeens is a personality. I mean he's not a personality. I think his presence, his girlfriend like it's that's a thing he's known in social circles. Garret Cole was just a great pitcher for the Pirates. But you don't want to lose somebody. You want to get something in return. And what can you get in return? And how much trust do you have in the front office of hey, we got five draft picks, okay, and maybe those five draft picks, four of them developed, and then maybe you have something for a couple of years at least before they end up going to other teams. It's it's going to continue to happen. It's unfortunate that Pittsburgh, you know, which is a great baseball city, and having grown up watching the Pirates in the seventies, I mean they were the Cincinnati Reds, you know, arch rivals. I mean that was their nemesis, the Pirates. Pirates were bad dudes, and now you see them occasionally get a player, but you're not holding onto those players with the amount of money. I mean, Bobashet's going to get a ten year, three hundred million dollar deal probably from Toronto. And this is where we're going. You know, the Pirates, what could they give Paul's schemes? What if they said We'll give you a ten year, three hundred million dollars deal and you do it right now? Can you do it? Should you do it? What Paul's schemes want to do it? Yes, Martin.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. When you see guys like O'Neill Cruz, you're like, look, he'll look good in pinstripes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you can't.

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Speaker 5: Afford those guys. I always feel that way about who's my man from Cincinnati? Da La Cruz say, man, I really hope he says the Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: But they made the playoffs, so at least you know they're making the Pittsburgh's not making the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, true. But it's just like the Athletics in the early aughts. They were getting to the playoffs, they were winning division titles, but they couldn't afford to keep Gimbi and the rest of those guys.

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Speaker 2: Uh. We talked a little bit about the Eagles situation with aj Brown, and it just seems like this is a constant storyline. Whether it's above water or below water, it's there. You can't get rid of him. You do need him, but it forces Nick Sirianni to have a moment yesterday in the press conference where he's asked about the AJ Brown situation.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of business as usual with AJ.

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Speaker 8: I mean, his latest comments, I mean made it seem like it's not business as usual, Like how do you kind of reconcile that with him?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, guys, I'm I'm close to being done answering these questions with us. Like he's working hard, and he is a big part of this game plan and there'll be a big part of the game plan going forward. And he's working like crazy when he's here, and I'm excited to have him.

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Speaker 2: You might be done talking about this. The media has not done. The media didn't create this. Your player created this, Yes, DoD.

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Speaker 4: Since you said you're close to being done, if I can ask the follow up question coach before you're done officially done?

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Speaker 2: I got just one more here. How about coach, you and Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown maybe get in a room together and talk about this. What is missing? Why is he unhappy? Last night looked he makes thirty million dollars, he's playing for the defending Super Bowl champs. Is it something as selfish as my targets? Oh my gosh, my targets? Is that it? So he got over six targets last year. Now it's down to four targets, maybe less than four. So that means if we if we bring it up to to seven, is he really happy? Kind of happy? Yes, Marman.

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Speaker 5: Well maybe not even targets catches.

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Speaker 2: Well, you got to start with being targeted before you can catch it. Yes, Dylan, did we know that.

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Speaker 7: Aj Brown finished reading in her excellence because maybe he missed it important last year?

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Speaker 2: Maybe a chapter there, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 6: The entire Eagles offense is down this year, though it's not like ever else is flourishing. Last year they were top eight, top ten year before, top ten year before that. They were the third ranked offense in yardage. This year they're twenty third. They're also top five and three and outs this year. So the entire Eagles offense is stagnant.

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Speaker 2: Here is Zach and Knoxville. Hi, Zach, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 10: H adp Thanks for taking my call. You know we talk about good locker rooms police themselves and.

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Speaker 11: Going back to.

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Speaker 10: One of my favorite DP rewinds during the commercial break when Carson Palmer would talk about how Ocho Senko would come back to the huddle every time and say he was open and he was able to kind of manage that. How much of this situation do you think is on Jalen Hurts because we see him as the calm, cool, collected guy, But do you think that the owners should be on him to kind of try to figure this out with his teammate.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got to bring the coach in on this, and I got to bring the offensive coordinator in on this, like, let's discuss this instead of, you know, having these sort of cryptic messages that are put out there. That's the problem that I have with this. Discuss it. And if you're going to bank on Jalen Hurts being Matthew Stafford, you are on the wrong team. But you got a chance to win another Super Bowl. You're getting paid. If they wanted you to have ten targets, they would target you ten times. Apparently they don't want to be that kind of offense. But I don't know, as DeVante smith Up said, is he getting the targets now that aj Brown got? Saquon Barkley's not getting the number of carries he had before. Did they get lucky last year changing coordinators?

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Speaker 11: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Just feels like there's a lot more there than it needs. To be. Let's see Wyatt in Florida. Hi Wyatt, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 3: Dan?

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Speaker 6: How are you?

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Speaker 8: Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I was just getting some breakfast and I sat next to a Cardinals pitcher down here in Florida, Okay, And I'm like, all right, you know, how do I approach this? Because I was going to ask, you know, how is it like pitching against Show?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 8: And so I asked, and you know, he was a little stand office. She's like, you know, you just want us try to stay low and away. That's the safest place to be low and away. He said he got a couple of grounders off of him, but no dingers. So it was just a really cool interaction with him. And he actually went to high school with him down here, so he said it was good bumping into you and have a great day. So that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: All right, thank you?

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Speaker 10: What?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would stay low and away from show. Heo, Tony. It's just for some reason that ball eventually drifts over the plate and then over the wall. Trying to be down in a way. Alan in South Carolina, Hi, Allen, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Dan?

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Speaker 12: Thanks for taking my call. This is about Dylan's betting strategy, It's not unprecedented. Do you recall a movie with Richard drax Has called.

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Speaker 11: Let It Ride?

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Speaker 12: Yes, okay, do you remember the one time he went through the entire race track asking who you're gonna bet on, strikes every name off, and the only name that's left he bets on it, and of course he comes in as a winner. So I just wondered if Dylan maybe watch that movie last night or recently. It's worth seeing again though.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you Allan, But Dylan is he has to deal in reality.

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Speaker 7: That's what I'm trying to do Dan, now, but Alan is totally right. That is I'm doing basically the live action version of the Analyst Jinks where they all Monday Night Football, they all picked the Eagles, the Eagles are favorites, they lose outright, I win some money.

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Speaker 2: Chris and s cues Hi, Chris.

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Speaker 13: Hey, thanks as always. Stand Hey. In the first hour, you guys were talking about NFL coaches who had bad opening press conferences, never really recovered. The one outlier I could think of is Dan Campbell of the Lions. I mean, he was universally mocked for that biting the kneecap comment and overall enthusiasm, and now his enthusiasm has really embraced as pressers and yeah, I guess winning helps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean we played those soundbites from his press conference. They had fun. You know, we're gonna be biting knee camps. Once you start winning, then people laugh less. They're they're more of a hull. Did you hear with that guy? Yeah, they're winning a little bit there. Oh wow, they do play in kind of his image. Yes, Dylan, if.

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Speaker 7: The Giants going a little run here with a Jamis do all of a sudden, the antics seem a little less antigy.

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Speaker 2: No, they're still crazy. No, no, they're still crazy. Yeah. But as long as he just plays football. I mean, he has the talent to be a starter in this league. He's proven that. It's just I think it hurts him by being as goofy as he is.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Dylan or yes, Marv, I was nod in my head completely. Jamis most must win game of.

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Speaker 2: Them No, no, no, no, no, it's Notre Dame against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was the Eagles against the Lions.

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Speaker 7: No, No, for me, it's the Jets against the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Now of course it is all right. Tim McMahon covers the NBA. He said, a lot to write about with the Mavericks and boy, what a mess, what a mess. But is their hope? Is their hope for the Mavericks, And we'll talk to him. Kevin Love will join us next hour, and Chris Sim's on loan from NBC Sports will try to help us understand exactly what's going on with the Eagles. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Away more phone calls coming up. Kevin Love will join us top of next hour. Chris Simms will try to make sense of what's going on with the Philadelphia Eagles. How can you have that much drama when your record is what seven and two and you got a big game coming up with the Lions. By the way, Dan Campbell intrude. Dan Campbell fashion said he has no problem with the tush and of course he would say that, but they are playing the Eagles. Imagine if he said, you know, I have a problem with it, and then all of a sudden the Eagles say, oh, you got a problem with it, now we'll keep doing it here. Tim McMahon ESPN, NBA reporter, he gave us The Wonder Boy, the book on Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness. He's been covering the MAVs as of late because we got some drama there. Nico Harrison gets fired. Was that just to playcate the fans? Tim Howdy?

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Speaker 3: Dan I had to say, there's a lot of justification for that one, including the fact that the reason the fans were outrage is because the man made the most shocking, the most controversial trade in NBA history, and it's been a complete disaster. I mean, this thing could not go worse. The Mavericks have the worst offense in the league, while Luka Doncic is lighting it up for the Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony Davis came into CAMPBA a little bit heavy, has a calf strain, you know. I mean they traded Luca for for those exact reasons last year. Honestly, this is it was just a horrendous case of general manager malpractice and it reached a point where there was no justification of Nico Harrison continuing to be the general manager of Mavericks. It was only doing harm. The fury from the fans that was the primary focal point. That like, that was the dominant vibe when you walked in the arena. The players felt like they had a home court disadvantage.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 3: One player said, it feels like our fans don't want us to win, and he was right, because the fans wanted them to lose so Nika would would get gone. And so it's a complete mess. They do have a chance to pivot out of it because the basketball gods gifted them the number one overall pick. Just complete luck. Obviously, not part of the plan. But it's going to take a lot of winning in the margins and a lot of you know, smart moves to be able to build a sustainable content around Cooper Flack and that has to be the priority now, not trying to contend in this three to four year window Nico Harrison thought he created.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but I can blame Nico Harrison, But does an ownership have to sign off on this trade as well?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and listen, the firing of Nico Harrison is an admission of the obvious. The Mavericks made a colossal mistake when they traded Luka Doncic, and not just that they traded them, but that the way they went about it.

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Speaker 5: You know, no trade.

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Speaker 3: You don't trade a five time first team All NBA selection entering his prime, fresh off of finals up here and I could put a period there, but you don't trade that guy, especially as a pocket listing like, hey a secret, We're not gonna We're not going to create the biggest bidding work in NBA history. And so Patrick Dumont allowed Nico Harrison to be the one basketball voice in his ear. He got bamboozled. Oh my gosh, Nico Harrison took us to the finals. That's what he thought. No, dude, Luka Doncics took you to the finals. There, Yes, there are some moves to put some pieces around, but come on, and it was it was new owner syndrome, just a complete disaster. My advice would be for Patrick Dumont to whether it's a press conference, whether it's a uh preferably a one on one sitting down with me, but to take verbal visual accountability for it and not kind of some you know, he put the letter out there. It was it was vague, kind of danced around it. But what I will tell you is, yeah, it's also on Patrick Dumont, absolutely. And he was less than a year into being an NBA governor. He was listening to one person, one person only, which is not the way to go about doing business. It's been a very difficult learning experience for him, and he understands there's a lot of work to be done to get this fan base fully back on board.

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Speaker 2: Why did Mark Cuban get kicked to the curb and did he have any say in Nico Harrison getting fired.

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Speaker 3: Let me start with the last part. Cuban's been lobbying for Nico to get fired for a while. He was not alone. He had a lot of people lobbying with him. I'm not going to I'm not going to say that Cuban's lobbying was a primary reason or even a major factor. But listen, he laid out a logical case why they needed to move on. It wasn't difficult to do. And Patrick Dumont one thing he realizes, Hey, i've you know, Cuban has been doing this for why he's been in this world for a while. I should at least listen to what he has to say, have dialogue with him instead of we're going to be trading the face of the franchise Mark. Oh, actually it's already done. Hey, I'm just giving you a courtesy call before it's about to be reported in two minutes, Which is that was Cuban's involvement in that trade. Now, why did he get kicked to the curb? There's a lot there. One thing I will tell you Cuban didn't help himself when he sold this franchise or the majority share of the franchise and you know, cash multi billion dollar check and then told everybody would listen, hey, I'm still in charge of basketball operations. These people there, it's just a real estate play for them. They don't know what they're doing with basketball.

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Speaker 14: I do.

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Speaker 3: I'm still in charge, don't worry. When that was not part of the discussion of the deal. I don't know if he was trying to speak it into existence or you know, Cuban. I don't know how well you know Mark Cuban, but I don't think he do real well on polygraph tests on a regular basis. He tends to be a little bit full of, you know, excrement. But that that didn't help because it's like, what kind of dummy do you think I am. We gave you all this money and you're telling hybody you're in charge when that's not the deal. So that didn't help. And I think Nico Harrison realized, Wow, oh, Cuban says he's in charge. Dumont says he ain't let me go cozy up to the guy who is in charge. And Nico Harrison, you know, former college basketball player, did a hell of a job boxing out great boxing out there, and you know, Cuban was complete. I called him the world's richest mascot. That was Mark Cuban's role. You know for the first probably plus of Dumont's tenure as the governor.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Tim mcmahony ESPN NBA reporter banded McMahon podcast on the Hoop Collective and wrote the book literally on Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness. How would we know if Luca is getting better? I know he's in better shape, But what would you see since you wrote the book on him? What is different about him this year than maybe in previous years.

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Speaker 3: Well, one, let me just remind you his last year with the Mavericks, he led the league in scoring, was rounding up averaging a triple double, and took a roster that wasn't loaded with star town around him. You know, Kyrie is a co star, but took that roster to the NBA Finals, So pretty high bar to get better from that. Now, I will say that I believe that this trade and unfrankly, the way he was backstabbed and fat shamed and all those kind of things on the way out the door. And look I reported on the fat shaming. The condition concerns are real, but it was embarrassing for him. It was a slap in his face. He has committed to conditioning in a more consistent way than he ever has before. You saw the body change. It's funny the Lakers listened to two forty four. It's actually fourteen pounds heavier than the Maps listened them. The MAVs just never updated to listen. The guy was in the two sixties a lot of times in Dallas, so you see the commitment to conditioning. He's also I think grown up a lot in terms of understanding the importance of being a leader exactly what a face of the franchise means, you know, having a working relationship with the front office. Luca never wanted anything to do with front office stuff early in his career. He didn't start giving input until the Mavericks completely bungled the jail Runson situation and lost his coastar from the West Finals team for nothing. Now he's he's not only is involved on you know, like consistent dialogue with Rob Polenka and Genie Buss, but he's making phone calls. He's calling DeAndre eight and hey, you know, we need you here a recruiting same thing with Marcus Smart. All things that are face to the franchise needs to do, you know, to maximize their chances of success and things that you know early in his career and even before the trade, you know that wasn't part of the Luka Doncics experience in Dallas.

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Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this. I'm wondering if ownership will just blow this up in Dallas. You look at you know, this draft coming up. There's probably five guys who could be the number one overall pick. There's a lot of talent there, and I wonder you don't want to go into the next three four years thinking you're going to get Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving. You got Cooper Flag and almost admit you know we need to start over. Will there be any sentiment towards trying to do that?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's complicated, okay, because in successfully building a contender around Luka Doncic, you gave up your first round draft capital, either outright or via swap. Twenty seven, twenty eight thirty okay, and hey twenty eight okay. See Houston has now thirty, the Spurs have it. So not only did you give up, but your closest geographical rivals. You have the downfall here. So but you've got you've got gifted Cooper Flag and this kid.

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Speaker 2: Look, but did you go to the wrong place though? Like Wenby went to the right place? Did Cooper flag go to the wrong place?

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Speaker 3: So far? Now, hey, they've they've really got to get a lot of things right to be able to do little sustainable contender around him. Okay, to your point bottoming out this year, which they've done unintentionally so far, Like, hey, that that's probably in the best interest long term in the franchise because this is their one and only chance to get a high, you know, mid to high lottery pick and that type of talent to pair with Cooper and you know, to grow with him. And I think there's Look, there's they will have discussions at least internally about exploring the trade market for Anthony Davis. He's got to get back on the floor. They got to make sure he's not in a situation where he's going to aggravate the calf injury or worse. He will have some type of trade value. They've got to explore that. Kyrie Irving, it might be mutually beneficial for him just to take the whole year focus on getting one hundred percent healthy, not help them wine four games down the stretch. But they can't do a complete rebuild Dan because if they're bad next season, they don't benefit that Charlotte Hornets do if they're bad the year after that. Okay, see he's going to get a high pick out of it, you know, and then then Houston, then San Antonio, So you can benefit from being bad one year and one year only. Another thing is Cooper Flag wants to compete a SAP. They've got to get a lot of things right to give them that chance. It's obviously not gonna be as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: Would you rather have Victor Winbanyama or Cooper Flag?

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, would I rather have Victor Winbnyama or any other player name? Okay, that's not a fair question, all right.

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Speaker 2: I like the All Star format. I didn't see the hoop collective if you guys were talking about it. But I do love that there is a chance that they play for pride and the world will play for Pride, and maybe we have an All Star game that feels like it's an actual game. Your thoughts, I can you gave me a little bit of a grimace there? If we're playing poker. You don't like your hand.

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, here's the deal. I don't give a crap about the All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: I don't I'm not Dan. Also, it's the problem though Tim, people don't care about the All Star guy.

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Speaker 3: I'm the wrong guy. You know why, Dan, Here's what I do on All Star weekend. I cash in Marriott points and Airline miles and I take my wife to a beach somewhere. I'm not the target demographic. Now, the product has been poor, but I think it's an overblown thing because like the Pro Bowl it's awful, the Major League Baseball All Star Game, like they're not competitive games. The NBA is the aren't league that acts like it's some kind of insane crisis.

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Speaker 2: But what if Baseball did this and had the United States players against the world.

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Speaker 3: It does add some intrigue to it. And I was talking to somebody I was in LA recently and I was talking some more to Luca and like, Luca has shown zero interest in All stro games, same with his buddy Joker, right, And they said, Hey, you know, I think these guys are going to compete now, Like to your point, the international players, I do think there's like, okay, hey, US against US against America, and you know, for the Americans. Maybe it is like, dude, we can't just like God, these guys are already winning all the m vps. We can't let these guys just come in and dominate us. That's a bad look for us. So look, it can't get worse, and it's it's a it's an interesting idea. I'll give them that. I don't know that. I'll tune in as I'm sipping a survey on, you know, with my toes in the sand. Thank you, Tim, Audios, amigos.

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Speaker 2: Tim McMahon ESPN NBA reporter banned McMahon podcast on the Hoop Collective. I like it, you know, but I just remember what it used to be now. I know it can't be that, but I would have baseball. I would do the same thing with baseball. Magine Otani. You know you got Japan, you got the dr I mean, you got other countries against the United States. That could be fun as well. Let's take a break. More of your phone calls coming up. Seaton's going to join us from the road, Kevin Love at the top of the hour. We're back after this.

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00:35:08
Speaker 11: Patrick? He Dan loved the show.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: He turned down your radio. There you go, okay.

00:35:17
Speaker 11: I was just about to get the comparison between Jaden Daniels and RG three. They've seem eerily similar, and do you think they're on the same career path?

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Well, I thought RG three took too many chances. The field that he played on was terrible. I think they both got injured against Seattle. Does that sound right? I know Jaden Daniels, I think RG three did, so. I know there's comparisons. And RG three talked about this. I don't know what he said. I just saw that he did talk about this. I hope Jayden Daniels can learn from MARG three. In fact, I think I said that when he got hurt, I would just talk to RG three and just make sure that you know how to protect yourself. You know, Jackson Dart is not protecting himself. If you're gonna have designed runs, you know, then that's on Brian Dable that my quarterback's getting banged up here, Yeah, Pauline.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: In six games this year, Jaden Daniels average nine rushing attempts per game, by far the most by any quarterback in the league.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: Maco wants to send you to Super Week give your car paint job. Visit Danpatrick dot com Enter Daily for a chance to get official rules. No purchase necessary void in Alaska and Hawaii. They have to be eighteen or over and ends eleven, twenty three, twenty five. In the Maco Van Seat O'Connor joining us somewhere in the Great Midwest, or are you officially in the Midwest?

00:36:58
Speaker 14: I mean I'm in Kansas, so that's all pretty Midwest to me.

00:37:03
Speaker 2: Wow, there's not much there. You're you're in the Plain state? I am, I am, Yeah.

00:37:09
Speaker 14: Yeah, I just passed a place called Selena, Kansas.

00:37:15
Speaker 15: I think that's how you say it.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:37:17
Speaker 15: I got a lot of time to myself, a lot of time with my thoughts.

00:37:22
Speaker 14: So yeah, it's been good. It's been really good. It's a beautiful day here. It's gorgeous.

00:37:25
Speaker 2: I can tell it looks you know, sunny, and a whole lot of cornfields there behind you.

00:37:32
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, yeah uh And you know, not to get all poetic or anything, but last night the sunset here was really really gorgeous. I don't know that we spend enough time talking about a Kansas sunset, but it is.

00:37:43
Speaker 11: It is.

00:37:44
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's beautiful piece of the country.

00:37:46
Speaker 2: Okay, so timeline, are you where where are you stopping? Later today?

00:37:51
Speaker 14: Later today, I'll be in Denver, OKAYU And then tomorrow morning i'll be at about eight o'clock eight am, I'll be in North Glen colleg Dorado, which I think is about ten or fifteen miles north of Denver.

00:38:04
Speaker 2: And people can come out and sale o and touch the Makeo van.

00:38:07
Speaker 15: They can, yes, yes, they can touch the Makeo van.

00:38:10
Speaker 11: Yeah.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Yeah. No more accidents, no more scrapes, no more scratches, no more nothing correct.

00:38:14
Speaker 15: No, no, no, no, We're good. We're good.

00:38:16
Speaker 14: Okay, we're It's smooth sailing from here, no scrape, snow accidents. I just got to survive the Denver parking garages.

00:38:24
Speaker 15: And then I think we'll be okay.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: Snow in Denver. You know, I don't know.

00:38:29
Speaker 14: I looked earlier today see what the weather was like, and it looked like everything was going to be all right.

00:38:34
Speaker 15: So I haven't updated though since then.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: Not a lot of traffic there on the road that you're on, is there? No?

00:38:43
Speaker 11: Not a ton?

00:38:44
Speaker 15: Okay, Ton, it's awesome, you know what I've been Can I ask you guys a question?

00:38:48
Speaker 3: Do you have time?

00:38:48
Speaker 15: If I could ask you a question?

00:38:50
Speaker 2: Okay?

00:38:50
Speaker 14: Because I don't get to talk to a lot of people, so this is really my only outlet right now. So I've been listening to this vand and I don't want to say the name of the band because I feel like this is going to be negative. And over the course of the last say thirty years, this band has released ten albums. The first two albums I love, absolutely love. They're super important to me from like when I was younger, Like great third album, it's kind of like, I don't know, this feels like a different band, but there's still some bangers on there. Every album since then, I really haven't paid attention to because I don't like But if you were to ask me, hey, do you like this band? I would be like, oh my god, I love this band.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: They're so good.

00:39:29
Speaker 15: They're what a great band?

00:39:31
Speaker 14: Can you really love a band if you only like about twenty percent of their music. I only like two out of their ten albums. But if you were to ask me do you like that band? I would be like, oh, love them, great bands, awesome Marvin.

00:39:47
Speaker 5: Yes, because you love them a lot at one point there's some stuff in their catalog that you love. So I'll say.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's past tense. You loved you don't love them now you love them. It's like an old girlfriend. You loved her, but you don't love them, love her now, Dylan, what.

00:40:06
Speaker 5: Do you think? I think you can? You can?

00:40:09
Speaker 7: You know, if it's a girlfriend, you can love her earlier work, but maybe not her past. It sounds like the Red Hot Chili Peppers to me, that was gonna be my guest.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: Now that might be not. That might be too mainstream for a Seaton.

00:40:22
Speaker 4: Uh, Todd, I'm gonna say yes, if you loved them at one point I felt that strongly about them.

00:40:28
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, Paul, Yeah, it reminds you of a point in your life when you're younger and you love that band, and I knowing Seaton, I'm going to guess Food Fighters.

00:40:39
Speaker 14: No, so far, it's definitely not Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was never an era that I was like.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: I love that.

00:40:46
Speaker 15: Come on, And no, not the Food Fighters either.

00:40:51
Speaker 3: They are a little.

00:40:51
Speaker 14: Less popular than that band though, for sure. And I don't want to name them just because I feel like it's still negative.

00:40:58
Speaker 15: But they I don't know.

00:41:00
Speaker 14: I feel like there was a point in time that I really loved them. And even if you just love those two albums, it still counts.

00:41:06
Speaker 11: Right.

00:41:07
Speaker 2: You're a lonely man, aren't you. You are a lonely person on the road. Safe travels to Denver. Hey see no Connor joining us courtesy of the Mayo Van. Go to Danpatrick dot com enter chance to join us. Super Weak in San Francisco. Kevin Love will join us. Coming up, we'll talk about the awkward moment that we had last year, and Chris Sims will stop by to make sense of the Philadelphia Eagles.