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And we say good morning to our radio affiliates, Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio and in some cities ESPN Radio as well as we always do every Monday, Best and worst of the weekend. We'll get to your phone calls. Also, we'll do fill in the blank and our play of the day coming up as well. The NFL combine later this week. The Rams have said to Matthew Stafford, go ahead, test the market. And if there's a franchise that knows about letting a quarterback go who is close to winning or has won, it's the Rams. They did this with Jared Goff, who had gone to a Super bowl with them. They got Stafford in return. Now they're going to let Stafford test the market and maybe you get his replacement. Maybe it's a Sam Darnold kind of situation where you go a little younger and I'm sure with Sean McVay. Sean McVay probably thinks I'm the genius here. I'll turn somebody into a great player. But the Rams letting Stafford gauge the market. We'll talk about the potential options there. The spurs have lost Greg Popovich and Victor Wembanyama for the year. Now Popovich has been out for a long time with the stroke. Wembanyama has a blood clot in his shoulder. And because it's the spurs and it's Rare when they have news and they make it even bigger than what it normally is. If this was New York or LA or Boston or Philly, it feels like it would be a bigger thing. To me, it's scary because we've had Chris Bosch, who had a blood clot that cut short his hall of Fame career. Here's when Benyama, who's 21, and the blood clot in your shoulder. Now, I know it's not a knee or a foot for a big guy, but this to me is. It feels like it should be more concerning that maybe nationally it's playing. Here's the. Here's the future face of the NBA, a player who I think will be the best player in the game by the time he's 25. This is worldwide and just feels like, oh, they shut him down and we moved on. Hey, let's talk about Lucas performance against Denver or the Knicks getting blown out, but Wembenyama done for the year. Very, very surprising with that news. Hopefully it's nothing, but then it could be something. It could be really, really something. So that was a little bit of a surprise. Alexander Ovechkin, a hat trick and now 13 away from topping Wayne Gretzky as the greatest goal scorer of all time. Not the greatest scorer. Nobody's going to get that. But Ovechkin is. He's chasing down Grats, Cav, Celtics, Thunder, Nuggets, all of 19 of their last 10. But the Nuggets did get roughed up against the Lakers. And the one thing I think we weren't fair to Luka Doncic about was the shock value of being traded by the Mavericks because he didn't know, nobody knew. The next thing you know, you're being traded. He thought he was being pranked. Thought it was an April Fool's Day joke a couple of months early. And I don't know if we ever gave him the time to get kind of acclimated to this. And that's what he was saying. He was like, you know, I haven't played very well. But I thought, give him two weeks to find out, you know, where am I living? I'm. He just. Just bought a, I don't know, 15 or $20 million home in Dallas. And then next thing you know, hey, what? Yeah, you're traded to the Lakers. No, I'm not. Yes, you are. And Lakers getting used to him. Him getting used to the Lakers. And you saw that the other night against Denver. But here's the thing, and I know this sounds a little bold, but if they play defense, and I know it's a big if, sorry, if they play defense, they can challenge for a championship. They play defense against Denver, and that's J.J. redick devised a scheme where you're going man and zone. They double triple team joker. They did an incredible job in Denver. They don't win in Denver, but see, that gave me the okay. Can they do that now? Luca doesn't play defense. LeBron can. This is where the younger guys really have to almost inspire the other players, LeBron and Luca, to play some defense here. If they play defense with the other weapons that they have in the west, they can challenge for a championship. Here is Luca on what the win against Denver does for the team. Great confidence. You know, I don't remember when was the last time I won here. You know, it's very tough to play here against that team. So, you know, just to win like that, it's an amazing win for us and gives me a lot of confidence moving forward. Like I said, you know, every day is going to get better. You know, I'm getting to learn the place, but I'm getting to learn that. But you know, us three, I think depends on the day. You know, everybody has so much talent. So I think today the way we did, the way we shared the ball was amazing and the ball movement was amazing. And LeBron talked about Luca as well and kind of getting that chemistry. I'm a natural born wide receiver and he's a natural born quarterback, so it fits perfectly. I've been running the floor and running lanes like, you know, pretty much my whole life. And he's been throwing great passes pretty much his whole life. So it's not, it's not hard to, to get a rhythm when it comes to that. You know, it's just all about, you know, eye contact and, you know, him being the great quarterback like he is and me being the recipient of it, so. And they got a pretty tough schedule coming up, some back to backs, but if they play defense and defense to me comes down to, do you want to play defense? Because if you're getting to the N B A, you're probably a really good athlete. And now it comes down to how much do you really want to play defense and is it a team commitment? Also your coach and J.J. redick once again did a great job because you shut down. Joker had seven, seven field goal temps. He has that in a quarter. He has triple doubles before the end of the third quarter. They did a great job. Now, is it going to work against everybody? No. But can you find that sweet spot of this is who we are every these teams Now Golden State's looking for its identity with Jimmy Butler. Who are you? What are you and can you continue? They won three in a row and I think they're all surprised at how good Jimmy Butler still is. Is that enough? You know, you're trying to figure out are we a three point shooting team? Like what, what is our offense and having that strategy. They have young players, but they're just young players. They haven't been great players. It's still Steph Curry, Steve Kerr and I still think Golden State has one of those magical runs still left in them. Now how long can that last in the playoffs? That's really the key, you know, do we trust Oklahoma City? Okay, maybe to a certain degree, yes. But it feels like in Houston is sneaky. I mean you may not watch them, you may not know him. Houston's good. And it's these, who's built for a seven game series now? Who's built for the next seven game series. That's how you win championships. You want to make them match up with you. How are you with half court? Do you play defense? All the things that, you know, come into play every single year and we get caught up in threes and offense and all of this and it comes down to what matchups. Half court offense, half court defense. But a long winded way of saying we got some, I think some interest here. The Cavs. The Cavs are here for the long haul. Celtics as well, Thunder, Nuggets. Throw in Golden State and throw in the Lakers as well. And you know, it'll be fun. Now the Knicks got blown out by the Cavs, got roughed up by the Celtics as well. And we keep waiting to see are you the best team in the East? 2nd best team in the East. 3rd best team in the East. So a lot of NBA that as we start to pick up a little bit here and maybe, you know, we'll focus on that. You got the combine coming up. So once again, here comes the NFL. You had your little window and I, I hope you're happy. You got a little window here. Hockey and NBA and now all of a sudden the combines this week. Then we're going to lead up to the draft. There's going to be mock drafts, there's free agency. Matthew Stafford, I mean this is where you hold on for dear life. If you're a sport that's kind of on the periphery. It's like can we get just something? The fact that the NBA overshadowed the NFL during the super bowl, but it took what is truly one of the blockbuster trades of all time with Luca. But it did. It overshadowed because it was a Super bowl matchup that we had had before a couple of years prior. And I don't know if everybody was all in on this, because you may not want the Chiefs to win, but I don't know how many people outside of Pennsylvania wanted the Eagles to win either. It's like, all right, hopefully it's a good game. All right. 8773 DP Show. Best and worst of the weekend. Seaton poll question for hour one. Poll question for hour one. How about more cemented legacy? Wayne Gretzky. Michael Jordan. Oh, God, that's hot. Scalding hot. I love it. We were talking about it a little bit before the show today. Okay. Obviously with Ovechkin getting very close to passing wing Gretzky, but you're still. Nobody's going to doubt that Wayne Gretzky is the great one, the greatest of all time. It doesn't seem like Michael Jordan, anybody's really going to be able to pass him either, in terms of perception. Well, we won't let them. Correct? Yes. Not on my watch. You have. You have Michael Jordan gatekeepers correct. Hey, don't. You're not going in. No. Don't even think about LeBron. Nope. You're not going in. Nobody's going to go in there with Wayne. If I said, how many. How many Stanley cup championships has wayne won, Marvin? 4. But we don't know. Right. What I'm saying. With Mike. Mike. Hey. 1 6. Wayne was he. You know, Edmonton had one of the greatest teams of all time, like hall of Famers talent. And then he got traded to the LA Kings and really changed hockey. You want to talk about somebody who changed the game? He did. He helped expand it in the United States, Southern States, where you would go hockey. But they embraced it because everybody wanted it. It's. It's very similar to what Caitlin Clark is doing in the wnba. You're starting to see, hey, Boston wants one. Portland, you know, everybody's kind of going, hey, we want one of those. You know, the San Francisco, the Bay Area. Now you're starting to see that Wayne did that with hockey. We love basketball no matter where it is, and women's basketball still rates well when they're big games. But hockey, I mean, that's. That's bringing in Canada's sport here. And all of a sudden we want to see Wayne Gretzky play for the LA Kings. It's pretty monumental when it happened. But you're seeing that with Caitlin Clark with expansion as well. So Wayno doing that. I mean, Mike didn't change the NBA. I think he changed marketing the shoe deals. But worldwide, you know, Mike had a large imprint on the game. Like Steph Curry changed the game probably more than Michael did. From a playing perspective that this is what Steph did. Like we can't be Mike, but you can think you can be Steph. So there's a difference. Even when you watch Wayne play, you go, how does he get away with that? And if you ever stand next to him, you're like, damn, dude, you're the great one. But he did change the game. Mike did to a certain degree. But I think his is more global marketing. Steph changed the game from a playing perspective. What else do you have seen? Yeah, you're still never going to convince anyone that Michael wouldn't have won somehow 20 championships in a row if he wanted to. If he didn't play baseball, you would have won eight in a row. Okay. Trust me. Okay. They didn't win those years is because he didn't want to. Actually, I don't think we look at Wayne the way we do Michael. Michael's was about championships because statistically there were going to be better players. But as far as winning championships, he was 6, 0. Wayne, it was, he's the greatest scorer, he's the great one. But I don't think we go well. How many titles did he have compared to Lemieux or Messier or Gordy? We don't do that. Wayne was just different. And we had not seen somebody who had that ability to score and be as if. John Stockton led the NBA in scoring. He was the all time leading scorer. That's what Wayne is. Wayne is the all time assist leader and the all time goal scorer. Yeah, pulling Ovechkin needs 13 goals to pass Gretzky. It'll happen in the next few weeks. He needs 1400 more assists to pass Gretzky with assists. I don't think he's going to get it. I don't think so. You got to wait a little bit, be patient. Yeah, I know. Gretzky has 28,57 points. In second place is Jagger at 1900 and Messi at 1900. 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That's a banger right out of the gate with Gretzky and Jordan. Clicks galore. Yeah. Well, I have another one here. Are the spurs tanking for Cooper Flag. That's ridiculous. Or obviously they can't. Too soon. They can't win the lottery again. They sure can. They. They can, but that's. They can and I believe they will. Oh, my gosh. Okay, I get the conspiracy theory, but I don't know where they. Where are they as far as worst teams and ping pong balls and all of that down? They're certainly the lower third of the West. Okay. No doubt about that. Oh, my God. Yeah. If they. Okay. Has anybody given this any thought? As crazy as this is going to sound, what if Cooper Flag goes? I can stay another year. I'm making, you know, probably I don't know, 3, 4 million, 5 million, whatever face of college basketball, aside from Danny Hurley, but. Although that might be Rick Patino now. Sorry, Marvin. Sorry, Yamar. Rick Patino is the national coach of the year. He's done a great job. I don't even think there's really a second place. Everybody else is second place. What he's done with St. John's is incredible. They haven't been good my entire adult life. Maybe the last time they were a real threat. I'll wait. Yeah. See? Yeah. So what he's done is incredible. Pitino has. If a coach can have nine lives. Rick Pitino has had nine lives. He wins everywhere he goes. He's. He's one of the great coaches, not basketball great coaches of all time. And you're seeing this with St. John's beating Connecticut over the weekend. All right, so that would be the Jordan Gretzky. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The most greatest of all time. Whose legacy. Yeah. More cemented, I would say, Jordan, because the sport is more popular for now. Yeah. But in. In a hundred years from now, do we look back on Wayne Gretzky's numbers and go like Babe Ruth? Although Babe Ruth's numbers have been surpassed, Gretzky's, you know, points total will never be surpassed. Never. But goal scoring, Ovechkin, and we thought that that was, you know, Mount Rushmore of, you know, scoring. That was not going to be surpassed. But Ovechkin has been incredible. Although you might get that argument who's been better, Sidney Crosby or Alec? Alex Ovechkin. And people probably would, you know, take Sidney Crosby as a better player. Very close in total points. Their careers have paralleled each other. You know, Wayne didn't really have a rival. I mean, you had the Islanders. And then Edmonton came in and Messier Coffee, Grand Fiore, Glenn Sather, you know, we. We're hoping Lemieux was going to be there. You know, health reasons. I think Lemieux could have been the greatest player of all time. I got see a guy, six, four, do what he did. And the grace. I. I thought he. I thought he was destined to be the greatest player I ever saw. Did get to see Gordie Howe at the end of his career, which was amazing. Ronick Finn, all there, just a goal scorer. Yeah. I mean, you know, hall of Famer. Yeah. Yeah. Messier, you can make a case. Greatest player of all time because he played both way. I mean, he was. He did everything for you. Great leader as well. But, you know, I don't want to Get. I want to stay in my lane here. But just from what. From what I witnessed, certainly to be able to see Wayne win a couple of Stanley Cups. So, yeah, it's fun conversation. Yes. Marvin, in basketball terms, was Sidney Crosby supposed to be LeBron as far as this is the next one, Was there big expectations on him? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We didn't know about Ovechkin like you. You did, but. And then you didn't have the. The Soviet players didn't get to play in the four nation tournament, which there were a lot of, you know, Russian hockey players, which I don't know how they get around that. If they get around that, certainly where we are, you know, globally with Ukraine and Russia, they may not be playing in the four nation, but, you know, you missed out on some of those players as well. Yeah, Paul. That tournament, though, had everything. They had eyeballs, it was on ESPN. It was easy. It wasn't 16 nations and you had to work through it. You got right to the Final Four. It's like we got straight to the good stuff and there was something to play for. Obviously you have the dynamics between the United States and Canada and booing, the anthems, bad blood. It's hockey. Then all of a sudden, you know, they drop the gloves as they get ready right after the face off, like slap shot. Yeah. I saw where Chris Mad Dog Russo said that. It felt like it was wrestling. And I was going to say to Chris, why don't you take one of those punches? And then you tell me if that's wrestling. That they were. That was scripted. They. They were faking it. I thought it was great because it did matter. Once again, this is what we care about. I think as fans, I'll care about it if I think you care about it. Is it really important to you? How important is this? Is it fair to compare the NBA's All Star Game being lackluster? And then you look at the four nation tournament with the NHL. Yes, because, you know, they were kind of connected as far as the timing of them. And we keep saying, how about the United States against the world in the NBA? And then you had that model, you know, a different model, but it turned out great that you played for your country. It was important the, you know, goes into overtime. Like it had everything that you wanted it to be. Can you do that with the NBA? Well, the NBA has to get to this point and they have to say the following. Do we need to blow this up? Can you. Can we tweak this? Will it even matter? Are we Just destined to be somewhere in between where we're not the Pro Bowl. Maybe we're baseball All Star Game. I mean, maybe that's the best you can hope for. But if they don't care, then I don't care. I didn't watch the All Star Game because they don't care. So I, I just like, I don't. You know, I watched a little bit of the slam dunk contest. I wanted to see if Mac McClung could do some different things. Okay. He's the greatest dunker of all time. In the dunking contest. Not in a game because he doesn't play. Yes, Marv. The thing about the NBA All Star Game is we don't even need to go through all these changes. If those, these guys during the summer, if you watch them play pickup basketball, that's all you want. You want them to play pickup basketball. They know how to play without hurting one another. You don't have to go all out because the outcome doesn't matter. It's never mattered. It's at least pretend or give off the illusion that you're playing some type of defense on somebody else. So you have to play all out, like it's the NBA Finals or anything. Just put a hand up in somebody's face. But you go back to baseball. In the All Star Game, it mattered because it was the National League versus the American League and you didn't play each other. There was no interleague play. Therefore there was a true rivalry. You wanted to show which league was better. Well, we don't have that anymore. You know, with the NBA, we don't have that anymore. If you had east versus west and you, you took pride in that, maybe, but they make so much money, all they want to do is be named to the All Star team and not get hurt. I get all of that, but it feels like the NBA keeps trying to sell us the same thing. They just package it differently. Like, wait, I'm still getting underwear and socks for Christmas. Yeah, but look, hey, we. The. The court's red, glowing. Yeah, this is great, isn't it? And you're like, no, but I would love to see the United States versus, you know, the other countries combined. I think that would be fun. It would be different. Now. Can you convince the Players Players association also, you know, there's bonuses if you make the All Star team. You know, there's a lot of things to factor in. I get that. But if college football can go from 4 to 12 team playoff, then I think the NBA can figure this out. And by the way, college football is going to 14 and then to 16. Real soon. The NFL is going to 18 games. Like, okay, come on, we can figure this out. Get some of our brightest minds on this. Hello? Yes, Paulie. Like the Four Nations. If college football ran the Four nations, hockey, it'd instantly be eight nations, then 16, then 24 nations. Yeah. And then they would want a couple of extra nations to get in there. From the SEC in the Big ten. Automatic bids automatically. Yes. All right, we'll get phone calls coming up, but I think the NBA, you got to get to that point where you go, can we do this? And will we care about it? Yeah. Where do you guys weigh in on Mac McClung kind of being an NBA player? So he's eligible to be in the dunk contest, but then not playing again. He has played in one game for five minutes for Orlando this year to be eligible to be in the dunk. Okay, if you said Sabrina and Caitlin, we're going to be in the three point shooting contest with the NBA, they played more in the NBA, but I would be fine with that. I don't care. It's. It's gimmicky, but they've made it gimmicky because they have to. There's. There's nothing else to see. I mean, look back on dunks before, you know, when Mike and Larry Nance and Dr. J, I mean, they're great dunks, but, like, what are you remembering? I'll remember Brent Barry, a white guy with his warm up still on leaving from the free throw line. I mean, let's be honest here. Mack McClung, it's a white guy who is jumping over cars. Now there's creativity in that. But Nate Robinson did this. But Mack, you know, you. You gotta factor in, you know, the elephant in the room here. Creative. He's really good at what he does, but not good in that. Amazing. You could be that athletic and you still can't play in the NBA. Pretty amazing. I mean, maybe he can play. I know he's got a little bit of run in Orlando, but he doesn't, you know, he's. And he probably is going to stop doing the dunk contest. Oh, no, no, no. McClung has played in five basketball games in four seasons of NBA. Okay, he's made $130,000 as an NBA player. He's made 325 grand as a dunk contest champion. Stat of the day. Stat of the day. Here comes that. What? Stat of the day. Yeah, maybe on second thought, if he wants to get paid. He's going to have to be. But if. If he can bring Ja Morant out, that would be great. If Aaron Gordon comes out of, you know, dunk contest, retirement. Okay. That'd be fun. I still think Ja Morant's the greatest leaper. Like that one shot that he blocks where he goes straight up and catches it off the glass or before it gets to the. Like, it's. It's one of those where you go, is he on a trampoline? But I don't know if he cares about that. I don't know. Like, the competitive juices that. Hey, I want to be the best. I don't know if it mattered. It used to matter. The dunk contest was big, but you had Dominique in there. You had Mike, you know, you had Larry Nance. These were all great dunker. Dr. J. Like, you wanted to be the slam dunk champion, and then after that, nobody wanted to be in the slam dunk contest. Yes, Marv. Yeah. Really, all you need is one big star. Because if you look at the slam dunk contest, even when Mike and Dominique were in there, you don't know the rest of those guys. Yeah. So all you need is, like, maybe one big star, like a Blake Griffin type or at least a great dunker, and everybody else in the competition, and you'll be all set. Well, you need to have guys so the really good guys can take a breather before they have to get back out there and dunk. So you need to have guys who, you know, they do some dunking. It's just so Jordan can rest or Dominique can rest. Yes, Todd. And also, how far can you take it? We've seen jumping over cars and trucks and everything. You know, is there that much room left between that and what you can do as far as an evil Knievel? You're gonna put two cars together, three cars. When does it become, like. It's not that big a deal. We've seen someone jump over a vehicle, so keep it interesting. If you don't have a big name in it. Still impressive to jump over a car and dunk. His head is up by the rim. His vertical has gotta be close to 50. I mean, I. Although Kenny Smith is a buzzkill. Oh, he is a buzzkill. When he does the slam dunk contest and he critiques, and I'm like, oh, God. And. And Kenny was a dunker, so he can speak from experience, but it just feels like it's never quite good enough for Kenny. Never quite yet, Mark. And there's been a couple of years. All right, so 2016, Aaron Gordon went up against Zach Levine. That's easily a top three dunk contest. Back and forth. Yeah, but other than that. Yeah, like Jeremy Evans win the slam dunk contest. Even before that, Kenny Skywalker. Name a basket from Kenny Skywalker. I'll wait. So it's kind of stars and then it takes a dip. They stopped the dunk contest in 1998, so this isn't a new thing. Kobe won it in 97 as a rookie. There's a terrible dunk contest and they stopped it in 1998. So this isn't a new thing. But I think Kobe wanted to win it because Mike won. I think Kobe was like, all right, I can do what anything Mike does, I can do it. Yes, Todd. I also wonder how do contracts, the wording are affected by like a top line player participating in something where you can conceivably get hurt trying to jump over a car as opposed to if McClung gets hurt, we'll be all right. Maybe we'll play next. Well, that's on you. Like you. If. If you decide to jump through a ring of fire, like, that's on you. But there's still a second half of the season to be played. Like when these guys, when they don't jump through the ring of fire, how are they not owners and GM saying, you know what, it's cool for the league, but it's not good for my team if you participate in this contest and try jumping over a car and hurt your neck or your knee or something. So maybe we don't do that. Why do you. Why do you always go to the. I think it's very important. Is that part of the reason why some of the biggest names don't do it? Because they like to do it. They don't jump over cars. We've only had that a couple of times. No chance of winning unless you do, say, jump over through fire or something. I think they should jump through fire. They shared a hoop of fire. Yes. I tune in Ring of fire. They play Johnny Cash. Perfect. I fell into. Nothing else would impress us. Yes, Paul. So you're saying if the lane were hot coals, you're tuning in? No, it's lava. Lava, like that TV show? Yes. The floor is lava. If you. If you told me five years ago Zion Williamson would never appear in a dunk contest because of mostly injuries. I don't know if he was ever thinking about it, but he had so many injuries earlier he couldn't do it. And justify it. Yeah, but John Morant too. Yeah, I'd rather see John Morant than Zion. I mean, Zion's power. John Morant would be different. But I don't. You know, we got numb to dunking. We're getting numb to three point shooting. Although Kevin Durant said, hey, you guys spend more time complaining about the NBA than watching the NBA. Kevin, you answered your own question. There, there is reason to complain about the NBA. You're right, we don't want to. But there's reasons to. How about we take a break? Play of the day up next, be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King. 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And you know, I actually miss Fritzi. Let's go. Let's go, Buddha. Let's go. Dp. I have some breaking news for you guys, but first five minute poll question. I was watching the Mavs and the Doves yesterday and it got me thinking, not if Dan, but when Steph gets his statue, do they go with his like the replica of his, like, you know, sheer shooting form from three or do they go with his now iconic night night gesture because, like, he cemented that with his Olympics performance. And I mean, people, they copy that across the landscape. Landscapes of sports now. So interest to see what you guys think. But the breaking news, Dan, Little Hurricane restaurant in Redwood city just turned 1 years old. We've already started corresponding with all the happenings that will come with Super Bowl 60 here in San Francisco and the invitation to come out and hold court out here. Dan on the Silicon Valley Riviera is still on the board. Plenty of room for you guys. You can live it up on the marina, be close to the super bowl venue. And so maybe the big German can come out and scope out the landscape and see what you guys all think about it. Well, thank you, Buddha. I think if when they have Steph curry statue, I want to see his shooting form. That's what I want to see. I don't want the night night. I want the shooting form because that to me, it's just classic. That's how you shoot right there. You can bring your kids over. Hey, we're going on a school trip. Where are we going? We're going to go and look at somebody's shooting form right there. That's how you shoot everything. Perfect. Yeah. Pulling. So his statue, he's got to be kind of in the air. Yeah. Is the ball gone or is it still in his hands? Because if the ball's gone, they gotta hover that as well. How are they doing that? That ball is never in his hands that long when he gets ready to shoot. Right. I don't know. Maybe you can make a statue where the ball just moves a little bit, like slightly going out of his hand, the release. Like a water fountain. Yeah. Perpetual. Just flying out of his hands. And he's got to be up about, you know, 10, 12 inches of lift. Yeah. And the Follow through. Yes. Todd, mouthpiece in your mouth, kind of dangling out of your mouth. Please stop. What do you do with the mouthpiece? Damn, are you old. You are partially out of his mouth. You know, that's actually an insult to old people. Yeah. Whoa. To us old people. Gus in LA. Hi, Gus. Good morning, Mr. Patrick. Hope you and the boys enjoyed your week off. Good to have you boys back. All right, let's get into this. Best of the weekend, my Lakers. I told Tyler I'm sitting in front of my TV on Saturday night, and I just, like, say, like, a little prayer. I'm like, just don't get blown out. Please don't get blown out. I, like, can't deal with it. And then to everyone's surprise, we go in there and smack the hell out of a fully healthy roster Denver Nuggets squad. I'm not. I'm not throwing the parade down to Polveda yet, but it was a very pleasant surprise to see it. Question I have is, at what point? I'm not saying that they're gonna, you know, win the championship, but at what point does the national media turn to J.J. redick and say, hey, we got you wrong. We had you figured wrong. I get that he's got Luke and LeBron, but at what point do we. Does the national media go, okay, it looks like you did know what you were doing. Gus, relax. Just. Just get a. How about. How about a playoff series win? Yes. Yes. Plasterers with. But Darvin Ham never smacked around the Nuggets by 23. Okay, if you're JJ Redick, you shouldn't be compared to Darvin Ham. I give you. He's better than Darvin Ham. If you're JJ Redick, you want to be compared to some of the great coaches, but thank you, Gus. Gus. Already starting the parade route? Yes, Marvin. Yeah, we stopped the comparisons when J.J. reddick called the timeout. Wow. Wow. Okay. Darvin Ham got fired. Okay. If the job was too big for him. J.J. redick never had any coaching experience. I think people were probably saying, did he get the job because he's LeBron's fan? Well, he's a very bright mind, very bright minded guy. We're starting to see that, that rotations, timeouts, defense, like that's what you're supposed to do. He could be the west coast version of Eric Spoelstra, you know, but yeah, there's a lot of pressure on him. And I thought that if you're going on what they did in Denver where they don't win and they played defense and they had a strategy against Joker, that's all I'm saying. They can compete for a championship. I truly believe that they can. But LeBron's got to stay healthy. You know, what's Luca's condition going to be like? Are you continuing to get contributions from Austin Reeves? Reeves has been great, but, you know, the west is not easy, whereas the east feels like it's a little top heavy. The west, you got six teams that might be able to win it all, but JJ Redick has done a very good job so far. If he bows out in the first round, are we going to go? Man, he did a great job. It's la, not about the regular season. Our two coming up. Where is Matthew Stafford going to end up? Who are the Rams going to bring in? More of your phone calls. 877-3-DP show hour two on the way, right after this. This is an ad for the Active Cash credit card from Wells Fargo. That's a mouthful, but that's because it packs a lot in. Earn unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases with it, big or small. So whether it's buying tickets to the game with your mom or grabbing a coffee with Your dog, earn unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases made with it. Let's say it together. The Active Cash credit card from Wells Fargo. Learn more@wells fargo.com ActiveCash terms apply. 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