HOUR 1 – Time’s running out for the Vikings, Gambling scandal is worst case for NBA

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Speaker 2: Made it to a Friday. It's hour one. Come on in stay a while. A lot to talk about, looking forward to this weekend, recapping what we had yesterday morning at this time. Also football last night as the Chargers roll the Vikings, Game one of the World Series coming up tonight in Toronto. It'll be an interesting first at bat for show. Hey, o Tani, because if you go back to when we didn't know if he was going to Toronto or he was going to the Dodgers, there were reports he was on a flight to Toronto and then all of a sudden he left them at the Altar and then went to the Dodgers. So that first at bat tonight in Toronto will be interesting.

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Speaker 2: DP Show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show, Brian Winhorst to the Mothership. We'll try to recap what happened yesterday with the gambling probe. The FBI involved in this. This is in a NBA issue. It's way above their pay grade with the FBI. So we'll talk to Wendy about this. He'll join us coming up a little bit later.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know how to start with pole questions for the gambling thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a few yesterday, but good grief, yeah, I mean, looking at the last twenty four hours, this is the perception. Let's say, six months from now. Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups totally exonerated, Damon Jones totally exonerated.

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Speaker 1: It feels like this is going.

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Speaker 2: To be lasting because it felt like, if you're a fan, you probably already have suspicions. Most fans are like, ah, it's fixed, Oh, they fix it. This is where it kind of is a stamp that stays on you. It's like when you go to the nightclub and you still have the stamp on you the next day and you can't get it off. That's what this feels like. It's just perception in reality. Now it could turn out to be just plain reality, and that would be devastating for the NBA. You got all these new TV partners, NBC Peacock spent billions of dollars on this, ESPN brought in the TNT guys. I mean, this was a big rollout. Everything's gone great until the FBI stepped in. But try to recap this, and I mean it felt like it was out of Goodfellas and a James Bond movie it or you know, Law and Order or Rounders. I mean, there was so much involved in this, and then the Mafia's involved. In this, and then are you giving information who are you giving the information to? How much money are you getting kicked back if you take part in these poker games? I mean, and everybody says the same thing about that. Chauncey Billets made a lot of money. I've never met somebody who's made too much money or doesn't want to lose money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I.

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Speaker 2: Chauncey Billups, Yes, he makes two and a half million dollars, you know, as the Portland head coach. I mean, this is a dream of his to be a head coach in the NBA, and this happened before he got there. But he knows, he knows that he.

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Speaker 1: Can't do this.

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Speaker 2: Damon Jones. I assume all of these guys know that they can't do this. But the you know, when you have individual prop bets that I've been screaming about this, don't let college kids have prop bets attached to them. There's already enough pressure you can't do it. And even with the pros, I don't like prop bets. And we always think, oh, you know, imagine if it's going to be a big name. It's not going to be a big name who's going to do this? Now, Terry Rogier is not a big name. Damon Jones is not a big name. It's guys who need the money. They get information. If Damon Jones knows somebody who says Lebron's not playing, then you give that information.

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Speaker 1: That's so valuable.

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Speaker 2: Terry Rosier, Hey, I'm going to pull myself out of a game. Bet the under on my props, you know. And you never think somebody's watching. If you go to Michael Porter's brother, Johntay Porter, he's probably thinking, I'm in Toronto, I'm on the bench. Nobody cares. Well, Vegas cares because Vegas monitors all of this. They have to. If they see a spike, where what are the normal prop bets for a guy like Johntay Porter coming off the bench? Probably not a lot until there is and everybody wants their piece, and then they go, well, nobody'll know that I put ten grand on this. Nobody's going to know that I put fifteen on this. Well, then you add it up and all of a sudden, it's like something's going on here. That's when the red flags happen. It's always somebody who thinks I'm at some university or I'm a role player on some team and I can get away with this. Vegas is your watch dog. But there's so much illegal betting. There's billions and billions and billions of dollars bet illegally. I'm going to give you some information here. Spoke to a source yesterday who said an individual who bets on sporting events checks their betting app and average of two hundred and ten times a day. Twenty percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds in New Jersey have a gambling addiction. College kids. There are up to two thousand mic bets. So these are bets on the pitch, the swing, the hit, the run available per baseball game, per Major League Baseball game, two thousand micro bets. Ninety percent of your gambling is done online, and at least six percent of individuals who gamble are addicted to doing so. These are real numbers. Okay, they're real numbers, And I caution you, Yes, DraftKings is a partner, but I'm telling you to have fun with this. You will not win if you're doing it, and you have dispensable income and you can have fun. But an eighteen to twenty four year old, that's where it's where it starts. That's where it started for me, and that's where it metastasizes. And then all of a sudden, you're in a hole. And then you're putting things on a credit card or you're taking your parents' credit card.

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Speaker 1: It's all real. This is all real.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's entertainment to see all of those things. I'm just telling these are real numbers that I have in front of me. Twenty percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds in New Jersey have a gambling addiction. It's real. And you know, we all have that DNA that trait you know where, and I have it, you know where I get addicted to things and I'm all in on things and then you have to go cold turkey and stop.

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Speaker 1: So where this.

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Speaker 2: Goes, what this does to the NBA, This could be one of the biggest scandals that's happened in our lifetime. They said it's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know who else is involved in this, but there was a report that was Chauncey Billups giving information on a game where he's telling people we're going to tank, We're going to tank, We're going to have our first you know, four guys sit down and a lot of people bet on that bet on that game. So now you're fixing a game. And I mean you're committing a crime here. Terry Rozier prop bet he was investigated before this, Damon Jones. He was getting information is Lebron going to play? I'm told Lebron's not going to play? And then you give that information out and then they have text messages. Those text messages don't go away, folks. As a friend of mine who worked for the FBI, he's like, you can delete them, Oh, we still got them. And that's what you saw yesterday where you go, wow, this is like four years ago, five years ago, and they have the conversation back and forth and it's not like, oh, what are they talking about. I didn't have to read between the lines. It was right there in bold print, right in front of me. But this is and these leagues can't act like they're victims. They took all of this money, all of these moneies, but they are rules. There are rules in place, and now you have this situation and where Adam Silver has got to meet with the media and answer some pretty tough questions. All right, So I don't know if there's a poll question seatan that can be attached to this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean I have one for sure, goof for your name, Operation nothing but bet or operation royal flush might lead with that.

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Speaker 4: Real flush is funnier.

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Speaker 3: At first I had lamer name, but then I changed it to goofy your name good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, go ahead and pick one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, Todd, I got to kick out of the police yesterday because I love to play on words.

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Speaker 6: They couldn't use more gambling analogies.

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Speaker 5: With sports, everything was like you bet things are gonna be worse for you going forward, and I don't care how many chips you think you could put into a game, and just everything was like a sports casino.

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Speaker 2: Well that's sometimes I'll be around people and they think they have to dumb it down so I'll understand it so they'll go okay. This would be like Patrick Mahomes, I go, no, no.

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Speaker 1: You just talk to me. You don't have to use the analogies.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: Process like.

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Speaker 4: He accused her on house arrests. There's no traveling, get that, NBA.

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Speaker 6: He took a gamble and it's game over for all of you.

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Speaker 1: Crap.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's assume these accusations are real and they are proven against the Chauncey Billups or Terry Rogier. Chauncey Billups is currently in the Hall of Fame and he was borderlined to get in, and you know, Pete Rose didn't get in the Hall of Fame, and he was not accused of sharing information with gamblers or possibly fixing a game or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're taking him out of the whole. No, I know they didn't take oj out of the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's sports crimes, and there's crimes crimes and billips. If he's what he's accused of is a sports crime.

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Speaker 2: Well if he did this now and wasn't in the Hall of Fame, then he wouldn't get in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, agree, Dan, you don't want to be loved in with OJ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate you bringing that up.

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Speaker 2: Don't get that many opportunities for your oj impersonation anymore.

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Speaker 7: Who would you rather work with the mafia or me O J?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 4: I think the toughest thing is for the NBA is that people are going to move on with their weekends and the casual fan is going to say, look what the NBA was accused of, and they won't follow up. Like you said, if people are exonerated or it goes away. And now when you're in a bar and you run into that guy who says, oh, the NBA it's all fixed. They've got more ammunition. They always had Tim Donneghe, you know seven. Now they got three more guys in twenty twenty five, and you know, it's an easier case for them to make. I'm still still doubt their case, but it's easier for them to make.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the odds here for Chauncey Billups for Coach of the Year, and.

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Speaker 1: That's too sick.

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Speaker 6: Hello, incentsive.

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Speaker 4: He was playing a game of chaunts.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you, I don't know if you know that corner.

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Speaker 6: Quietly, let you guys take it.

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Speaker 2: I blew right by the Meat Friday menu. We have tried tip French dip sandwiches and poutine.

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Speaker 1: Has it better than we do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just went out there to check out the try tip French dip.

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Speaker 1: Yes, is that some kind of Russian food?

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Speaker 6: What's the poutine?

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Speaker 4: Canadian?

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Speaker 1: You've never heard of poutine?

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Speaker 6: I was trying to make a little putin poutine joke, which obviously fell.

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Speaker 1: Wow, we really hit the jackpot with this menu. I think you took an over here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah so far.

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Speaker 2: I think you went over the first second.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get out of the hole that I've been Right now, Chauncey Bellis is having a better day.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you double down?

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, how about we take a break here?

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Speaker 1: Okay, we take a break.

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Speaker 1: A sports story. This is bigger than that.

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Speaker 2: But I couldn't help but think of about Bob. I hope he's feeling better and me Shap a good friend as will Yes, Pauline, I have.

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Speaker 4: A question for the room. I was thinking about during the break. If you were NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, would you jump on this and publicly address it before the weekend to get your narrative out there or your side of it out there, or go oppo and let it quiet down?

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Speaker 1: Well, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to put my commissioner in front of the media where he may not have the answers or he may not want to give you an answer right now about this. I would let it cool down, hopefully over the weekend, and then probably once you have I mean, he's got to get a handle on this too. I don't know how much information, how much he was downloaded on this, but he's got to be He's got to be buttoned up because if you're in there, and it's not just sports people, when you have newspeople who are going to be in a press conference asking you questions, then you.

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Speaker 1: Got to be ready.

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Speaker 2: You got to be ready for every possible question you're going to get because you had Lebron in this where Damon Jones was getting information about Lebron. Lebron has not been implicated, but that's part of the headline. People sort of read things, they sort of watch things, they sort of listen to things. That's the danger of this where they're like, is Lebron I had somebody, a friend, you know who watches the NBA. You think Lebron's involved in this? I go, no, No, somebody got information on him, not playing Damon Jones, former teammate Lebron.

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Speaker 1: What did Lebron get?

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Speaker 3: My heads up again, it's Lebron's league, Lebron James league in gambling scandal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's where you sort of listen, you sort of read, you sort of watch, and that's where sometimes it leads us to false conclusions. All right, let me see, by the way, Steph Curry, last night, I had forty two. How about Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon was killing it. He had fifty and he was killing it from three point range. And Aaron Gordon has never made an All Star team. I thought in Orlando, don't they usually take somebody from each team?

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Speaker 1: Or is not just baseball that they do that nice idea, though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he didn't win a slam dunk contest, and Seaton brought this up. Would you rather win slam dunk contest or be an All Star for one year?

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Speaker 1: Marvin?

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Speaker 6: All Star?

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Speaker 4: Paul for one year? All Star, Cut.

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Speaker 1: All Star, Seaton slam Dunk. I'd rather be an All Star.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of guys who won the slam Dunk contest, a lot more All.

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Speaker 7: Stars than slam Dunk contest winners.

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Speaker 2: But you remember those who play in an All Star game. We've forgotten most of the people. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if we do. Okay, who won the slam Dunk Contest before Mac McClung.

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Speaker 7: Who was the starters for the All Star Game West.

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Speaker 1: Luca two years ago? Yeah, same guys, all the same guy. Yeah, nobody knows. Yeah, same guys. Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 9: Would you rather be Kenny Skywalker or Chris Gatling that old questioning One was an All Star, one was a slam dunk champ.

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Speaker 1: Neither either though too like neither or either. I'd be both of those guys. That'd be awesome. Neither neither.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Skywalker that was the only thing he could do. Didn't he have the kid in play?

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Speaker 6: He did?

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Speaker 1: Cut Yes, that's a solid nickname.

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Speaker 2: Though, Skywalker, No it is. That's great, Yeah, Poul.

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Speaker 4: I've got the Slam Dunk winners list, and there's a ton of randos. Anthrony Simmons, Derek Jones, Junior Hamadu Diallo, uh, John Wall won one in twenty fourteen. He's not a random but I had no idea even entered it. Terrence Ross remembers that era a lot of randos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: Fred Jones of the Pacers, he played basketball Jones.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I flipping through the channels yesterday afternoon and I stumbled upon the very end of Hoosiers and No Spoilers. And I had a problem with the opposing coach, you know, facing the uh what were they the Hickory Huskers. That's right, Hickory Huskers. Every time they showed this coach, he was smiling, like his player turns the ball over with twenty seconds to go and they have him kind of.

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The cutaways weren't very good with him instead of being angry, and I thought, man, that bothers me.

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Speaker 1: For some reason.

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Speaker 2: He had three cutaways I think in the last you know, three minutes of the movie, and he didn't seem unnerved by anything, and he had a smile on.

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Speaker 1: His face as they turned it.

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Speaker 2: I mean they double teamed him, you know, ill advised shooting. I mean, you know, I would have been upset with my kids there. I'm just a purist, that's all. I'm just a purist.

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Speaker 11: Right.

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Speaker 2: Let me get to David in Ohio. Good morning, David, Welcome.

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Speaker 12: Back, Hey Dan, happy to meet Friday. Nobody during last night's broadcast, Al Michaels, they somebody from the Home office or something had to correct him on the Minnesota vikings sticker wil Car I think his name was that the ball did the ball was? It was an optical illusion the ball you can clearly see on the video that it hit the camera wire and they made him practice. I guess my question is, is Roger Goodell have like a feed into my Al Michael's ear during the broadcast, And.

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Speaker 2: That's what I got for you say no, no, the commissioner that the Home office is going to alert the broadcasting team. They're not talking down Michaels. They'll send a note or the production truck. Your producer executive producer would hear from the home office of the NFL, not the commissioner, but you would have people saying, hey, by the way, you need to correct this, and now had to come back and correct that. Buddha in San Francisco, Hi, Buddha, No.

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Speaker 11: Buddy, let's go for see. Man. Watching this whole NBA situation is absolutely ridiculous. I mean, and I can't stop thinking about David Surton right now, like he must.

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Speaker 13: Be rolling over in his grave. I mean, they'll blab and I mean last night, even though last night, you know, I still call the T and T boys, but when they were talking about Rosier Tying what's his name is the NBA three point.

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Speaker 11: You know, shooting record and then Charles Barkley was like, we should probably go to a commercial now.

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Speaker 13: It was like so awkward.

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Speaker 11: But anyways, that's that's the whole that's the whole different situation. But Dan watching Steph Curry to me is like he's like the closest thing that we have to Kobe since his passing. I mean, he's a winner, he's be loved and he's he's been totally confirmed.

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Speaker 2: And got a bad connection there. Buddha have a good weekend. Good luck to your Dodgers tonight, Chris and Syracuse.

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Speaker 14: Hi Chris, Hey, thanks as always, Dan, I wanted to comment on baseball and last night's football game. Yeah, very excited for the World Series to get going tonight. And as a Cincinnati Red fan, my favorite World Series statu is that the Reds are currently riding a nine game win streak in World Series games and I just hope in my lifetime him go after number ten. And yeah, tonight, I'm looking forward to Smalcy doing the games. And Dana I used to love when he used to interview when he was on the golf course and you would have him put his phone next to the t so your audience could hear him t off.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: And as a Viking fan, yeah, last night was pretty awful, but it was good Rodney Harrison. It was good to see him get on by the Chargers and a silver lining for Viking fans. Chuck Formant and the late great Jim Marshall both made the cuts, so they still got a shot at getting into the Football Hall of Fame in twenty six and Jim Marshall definitely deserves it. And I know he's known for running the wrong way. But I always said, at least he was smart enough to throw the ball out of the end zone. And I really hope Jim Marshall gets in.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Chris, have a good weekend. Yeah, you can get to the super Bowl. But if you lose the super Bowl, it's held against you. And you know, they put way too much weight on that you lost, you know, those Buffalo bill players, And I kept thinking they got to four consecutive the Vikings back in the seventies. It was held against you because you got dominated and you lost these super Bowls, and that hopefully they're correcting that because that Viking team was great.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Foreman was great.

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Speaker 2: Jim Marshall, he played in more games consecutive games. He had that streak for a long long time. And yes, the one moment that he had he ran the wrong way in a game. Yes, I'd say it all the time.

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Speaker 3: But people really underappreciate how difficult it is to just get to the Super Bowl. I get, okay, you win and you lose, but just getting there you in a different category of quarterback for.

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Speaker 1: The most part.

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Speaker 2: Well that's why I should I'm a big proponent of what you're saying, because we get to the Sports Emmys, we just don't win, and I don't want that held against us.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's better to get there and lose than to not get there at all.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely right. Yes, me too.

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Speaker 9: I think as time has gone on, we've appreciated the Buffalo Bills because all of those guys got into the Hall of Fame, Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, Andre Reid, Thrman, Thomas James Lofton. So those guys ended up getting in, So we do appreciate what they did twenty five years later.

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Speaker 2: But in the moment, we're kind of the Buffalo Bills, are we?

00:28:39
Speaker 1: Well?

00:28:39
Speaker 2: I think we've lost five. We haven't won in five consecutive trips, so.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: We've it might be six six, I think, oh, not consecutives, okay, but but we have I think we're on a on a heater where five.

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Speaker 2: Consecutive maybe, and that we haven't won. We didn't lose, we just didn't win.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, I think SVP is oh for seven, So he's in the club with us.

00:29:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're a group.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an individual. You know, we lose. I have to come in and see everybody's sad faces. Van Pelt just looks at himself and goes, I look good. I'm all right. Yeah, how's my hair?

00:29:21
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:29:21
Speaker 2: I knew him when he had hair. Oh yeah, early SVP at the Golf Channel.

00:29:26
Speaker 7: That was really his window to win.

00:29:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, when he had hair. Yeah, when he had hair, that was really.

00:29:31
Speaker 4: If you asked him, would he rather have his hair of age thirty or a couple Sports Emmys?

00:29:37
Speaker 7: Sports Emmys all day?

00:29:38
Speaker 4: No way?

00:29:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's saying he is he Scott van Pelt is saying I'd rather have the Sports Emmys then hair.

00:29:44
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:29:45
Speaker 2: It's not like he had moss like mine.

00:29:47
Speaker 4: No, but he had a nice, decent head of hair.

00:29:50
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right.

00:29:52
Speaker 4: Van Pelt does have a nice skull though. It's very friendly to baldness.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I have a dent in the middle of my my head. Yeah, swimming accident. So if I go bald, not good. It's like this indentation my cousin.

00:30:07
Speaker 1: Eddie from the Vacation movies. Right here.

00:30:11
Speaker 7: If I get a dent right here, my hair just isn't gonna look cry. There's nothing but here but a pizza government plastic.

00:30:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine's right in the middle, right in the middle of the top of my head.

00:30:20
Speaker 4: Bill Bondo in there. We could fill it in dove and.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: You could actually put cocktail sauce and dip shrimp in there.

00:30:28
Speaker 1: It is meat Friday.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: Yes, I dove into a creek or a creek and hit a piece of tile boom right in the middle of my noggin.

00:30:42
Speaker 1: All right, all right, todd, he nearly died. He nearly died.

00:30:46
Speaker 6: Top I did the joke about.

00:30:48
Speaker 1: I did nearly die? I did.

00:30:50
Speaker 6: They stitched up?

00:30:51
Speaker 2: You're right, well, no one hospital did. Then they sent me home. And then a neighbor who was a doctor said, what are you doing home? And I said, they sent me home, and he called the emergency. He called the ambulance, took me to another hospital, and then they had me for three days where my dad slept next to me because he didn't think I was going to live.

00:31:12
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:31:12
Speaker 5: Oh, now, I was just going to make and stitches joke and all of a sudden, guys insensitive.

00:31:21
Speaker 1: Thought I made it. I'm alive. Okay, Thank God for all of us, the dear alive. Thank you.

00:31:28
Speaker 6: God bless us all everywhere.

00:31:29
Speaker 2: How about we take a break, take a break. More phone calls. Brian wyndhors Wendy will join us coming up next hour, and John Tesh with round Ball give us a little bit of round Ball rock.

00:31:40
Speaker 1: Todd, that's enough.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: I got to ask him about that Saturday Night Live skip. But that'll that'll be in the final hour of the program that John Tesh will join us. Better theme song here, round ball rock or entertainment tonight. Because I would argue entertainment tonight, all right, I would argue stop it?

00:32:08
Speaker 6: What stop it? Thank you? That would be a terrible argument. I'm just saying that's not You're not going to win that.

00:32:17
Speaker 1: God, I maybe suffered some brain damage.

00:32:21
Speaker 6: Comparing those two. You may still have some issues. P T s D.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, post Todd stress very nice.

00:32:31
Speaker 6: Friday is what you're doing?

00:32:32
Speaker 1: Oh God?

00:32:33
Speaker 2: All right, let me take a break. We're back after this with our play of the day. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at f s R or stream us live on the Peacock app.

00:32:51
Speaker 1: Oh God of the Day.

00:32:58
Speaker 2: This is the play of the day.

00:33:01
Speaker 6: Check this out.

00:33:02
Speaker 2: Ray Mot pops out on guard, It gets the ball, flipped it to Curry straighte for Curry three.

00:33:06
Speaker 9: From half courty.

00:33:09
Speaker 1: First one person of a.

00:33:11
Speaker 4: Planet that would take that shot.

00:33:12
Speaker 1: And he nailed it.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: If we're tied twenty one point four.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: To Goo six three pointers, that's the two hundred and forty first career game with at least six made threes. That's more than the next two players on the list combined, James Harden Klay Thompson. That's courtesy Warriors Radio Network Play of the Day. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. Ship fast and free back by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot com the way tire buying should be. Got a tweet sent to me, I'm guessing the new official shoe of the NBA will be the over under armor. Okay, serviceable, Yeah, jokes are coming in. Todd wants to do a song based off the Gambling investigation.

00:34:09
Speaker 6: If there are a couple of.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: Quick verses together, it's like thirty forty seconds off of Billy Joel's we didn't start the fire.

00:34:14
Speaker 2: Okay, did you run these by Paulie?

00:34:16
Speaker 6: I didn't show them the lines. There's nothing inappropriate about the lines. I didn't let him know that I had that. If you guys thought there was room for it.

00:34:22
Speaker 1: Okay, why didn't you do it? Right now? It's you know, ready to go? Here we go.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: This is Todd and having fun with a gambling investigation to the tune of Billy Joel, Chauncey, Billups, Damon Jones, the mafia.

00:34:33
Speaker 6: You will break your bones, tam Donaghye, what a clown.

00:34:36
Speaker 5: Charlie hustle block from Cooper's town prop bets just behave.

00:34:39
Speaker 6: Taking games point shave over under point spread. Someone better call the feds. Chauncey, Terry and Damon didn't start the fire. Sometimes we play the fool, So don't blame Fendl. They didn't start the fire.

00:34:52
Speaker 5: So gamble Latcher row risk, Well, the police will come frisk.

00:34:55
Speaker 6: That's how it's far as I got. Ye, that's pretty good.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tom, I like, thank you, give you a blue bloup on that Paully has a quick NBA quiz.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: Okay, this is pretty obvious. What The answer is, it's based off the stat that you just gave about Steph Curry. NBA players that has the most career games with ten plus three pointers made ten plus three pointers made, The answer is.

00:35:22
Speaker 1: Steph Curry.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: Steph Curry by far, who is second or third? Steph Curry has twenty seven games with ten or more three pointers. Okay, the next closest is nine.

00:35:35
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: Marvin Terry Rosier.

00:35:42
Speaker 6: Oh, damn damn today.

00:35:45
Speaker 2: Well, he had a game where he had like eight or nine or ten something turnover.

00:35:51
Speaker 1: Yes, Marvin, you got.

00:35:52
Speaker 6: One, might be obvious. Klay Thompson.

00:35:55
Speaker 4: Klay Thompson has nine in his career. Damian Lillard has six. Nobody else in the history of the NBA has more than three. Steph Curris twenty seven games.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: So everybody combined, they still don't equal Steph Curry.

00:36:08
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?

00:36:09
Speaker 4: Clay is nine, Lillard has six fifteen, and then Zach Lavine Harden and j R. Smith have three each. So the top five don't equal. Step did dang, dang dang.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: But there are deep threes and then there are ridiculous threes and that one that he had last night. You're just going it and the strength that you know you have to have the legs to be able to do that, and through all of this, you know, his entire career to be able to have the legs to be able to do that is remarkable. And he's still he's such a good shooter that people don't realize he might have the second best handle in the NBA. Kyrie by all accounts has the best handle in the NBA. But Steph at his age, still getting separation because not a big guy. When we were out in Tahoe and I stood, you know, he was sitting down having a drink. He got up, gave me a hug, and he's just a little bit taller than me. And that's what's amazing about this. He's still able to do this, but he gets that separation because he has great handle, and he'll hopefully be able to do that the rest of his career. I'd hate for him to be just a spot up shooter, but if it meant he stayed in the NBA, you know, I'll take that. But I love seeing him run. I always tell kids move. It's so much tougher to guard you when you're moving than just standing there.

00:37:40
Speaker 1: Take it.

00:37:41
Speaker 2: From somebody who just stood there.

00:37:43
Speaker 9: Yes, Marvin, And if he decides to retire, I want him to do it at the beginning of the season so he can get a farewell tour because he was a game changer unlike anybody I've ever seen in my lifetime.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: It'd be great if the NBA on one night just made that three point line like it was Steph Curry. You made a tribute to Steff. I don't know how you do that, but maybe you make it golden state yellow in every arena.

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Just a thought.

00:38:12
Speaker 2: I wanted the NFL to pay tribute to Pat Tillman and decorate the forty two yard line that was his number, and I thought, do that. Well, if we do that for him, then we have to do it for.

00:38:23
Speaker 1: Okay, do it for others.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: I wanted more people talking about Pat Tillman. Why is that forty two yard line decorated that way? Let me tell you about Pat Tillman.

00:38:34
Speaker 9: Yes, Marvin, also Chase Arena. They need to start building the statue for Steph right now. He should get it while he's still playing.

00:38:42
Speaker 2: It'd be great to watch them build it outside, you know, maybe in real time.

00:38:48
Speaker 9: Make sure it looks like him.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: Well, yes, yeah, but that would be you start from the ground up, then you get up to his head and all of a sudden he looks like Rinaldo.

00:38:55
Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, the Steph statue should be like four blocks away away from the stadium. All right, I have a topic off Steph. Do you think he's a bit underrated basketball wise? He hasn't won an MVP in ten years, he hasn't been a he's only been Top five once in the past ten years. I honestly think he might be underrated and people pigeon him, hold him as just a shooter.

00:39:24
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they do that, but that's what he is. Well, he's not a great passer, No, Draymond's a better.

00:39:31
Speaker 4: Passer, not great passer. He's an unstoppable force, and no one's been able to figure out.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: Well, he does have the ball as much as anybody in the NBA except for maybe James Harden. Yeah, so you're going to get assists. I'm just saying he's not a defender. He he's not really a point guard.

00:39:50
Speaker 1: He's a points guard.

00:39:51
Speaker 2: But yeah, if you want to say he's under he's going to be top ten all time. I think, although who comes out of the top ten.

00:39:58
Speaker 6: Somebody.

00:39:59
Speaker 1: Oh, really, some bodies got to come up.

00:40:01
Speaker 2: I think there's fifteen players in the top ten.

00:40:03
Speaker 6: That's so usually the way it works usually yeah.

00:40:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's in, and then he's in and then he's in. Wait, that's thirteen players. Oh, let's see a couple of phone calls in here. Yeah, we can say that Steph is under eight if you want to. John and Portland. Hey, John, how's morale?

00:40:22
Speaker 10: Hey it's okay.

00:40:23
Speaker 1: Brother.

00:40:25
Speaker 10: I'm a father of five and I actually coached three of my boys in basketball. I'm a season ticket holder for the Trailblazers, and I feel like I've never been cheated on in my life, but I feel kind of cheated on. And I don't know how to go today, kind of looking back at this like I'm rooting for a team that's always going to be the under and what chance is going to give us all this information and we're losing. I just I don't know how to wake up this morning and tell my boys, like it kind of feels fake. And I don't want to hear from Adam Silver because he's just going to protect the league.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Well, let's let this play out, though, John, you know in fairness to Chauncey and Rosier and Damon Jones. That's you know, maybe there's a reason, maybe there's an excuse, maybe it's been misreported.

00:41:18
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:41:18
Speaker 2: The FBI sounded pretty strong when Cash Pttel was there telling us just the tip of the iceberg, and you know, talked about really how egregious this was of what they were doing fixing these games. The mafia involved somebody giving inside information. Man Brian Windhorst will join us in about twenty five minutes from now. Get some more information from him. One hour in the books on this meet Friday with Fritzie Seat and Marv Pauli years truly back after this