Hour 1 – Western Conference Finals Postmortem, NBA Finals Preview

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show — Hour 1

Episode Title: Western Conference Finals Postmortem, NBA Finals Preview
Date: June 1, 2026
Podcast by: iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Dan Patrick Show dives into the fallout from the Western Conference Finals, where the San Antonio Spurs ousted the Oklahoma City Thunder, and sets the stage for an intriguing NBA Finals matchup: Spurs vs. Knicks. Dan and his crew balance analysis and humor, covering the implications of OKC's loss, the emergence of Victor Wembanyama as a generational star, and the stakes for both Finals teams. Listener calls pepper in fan perspectives, and the hosts riff on sports traditions, ticket prices, and even giant shoe sizes for NBA big men.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Western Conference Finals Postmortem: Thunder's Disappointment

• Chet Holmgren’s Vanishing Act ([03:44]–[08:30])
  • Dan Patrick scrutinizes Chet Holmgren's poor performance in Game 7, expressing concern about his future as OKC's core big man as his $240M contract extension kicks in.
  • "That's a rough Game 7. That would be a no-show. And that would really concern me, because you're going to be facing Victor Wembanyama for the next 10 years." — Dan ([04:47])
  • Holmgren's final series numbers: 10 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block per game.
  • Dan draws a sharp contrast with Wembanyama’s hunger: "Wemby took Chet's lunch money away." ([07:06])
• Thunder’s Future Outlook
  • OKC must decide whether to package their young core or make a bold move with their stockpile of draft assets (Giannis or Mobley trade rumors briefly surface).
  • The team is still deemed well-balanced and full of promising, maturing players like Dylan Harper and Darren Fox.

2. Wembanyama and the Spurs: The 'Now' Team

• “The future is now because he is the face of the sport.” — Dan on Wemby ([03:21])
• Comparing Wemby’s ascent to Tim Duncan’s rapid Finals appearance at 22, emphasizing the changing paradigm in team-building: “San Antonio skipped that chapter...they cut the line.” ([09:59])
• The Spurs’ youthful group — with stars aged 20-22 — is identified as mature beyond their years.
• Roster praise: Stefan Castle’s two-way play and Harper’s on-court maturity.

3. Listener and Crew Reactions: Framing Success, Failure, and Villains

• Was OKC’s Season a Failure?
  • Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (SGA): “It was a failure. Like I failed at my goal...But through my experiences, I learned the most about myself...” ([11:41])
  • Dan: “I understand what he’s saying...You didn’t even make it to the finals.”
  • Poll question debate: ‘Was the Thunder season a failure? Yes, SGA is right. Or no, they got to Game 7 of the WCF?’ ([13:12])
• The Value of Owning Disappointment
  • Paulie and Dan discuss the difference between a player owning the ‘failure’ label versus a journalist applying it (reference to Giannis’ 2023 comments) ([15:17]).
  • “It’s okay for SGA to say it, to volunteer it, because he believes it. But when a journalist says it to Giannis...That’s for us to judge.” — Paulie ([15:37])
• NBA Needs Both Heroes and Villains ([31:13])
  • Fan caller Chris and Dan discuss why the Thunder are already perceived as villains and why fan fatigue sets in even with recent champions.
  • "We’re really quick to move on. I don’t think we embrace the villain the way we once did...If you’re really good, then all of a sudden it’s like, okay, we’ve seen this now. What’s next?" — Dan ([32:26])
  • Broader sports commentary: Rivalries and villains are essential for audience engagement.

4. NBA Finals Preview: Spurs vs. Knicks

• Matchup storylines:
  • Wembanyama’s first Finals at 22, shades of Tim Duncan in 1999.
  • Knicks have a chance at historic achievement: “They could be the first team in NBA history to win the NBA Cup and the NBA Finals in the same season.” — Dylan ([14:52])
  • Dan: “Michael Jordan never did that.” ([15:05])
• Atmospheric hype:
  • “This is what you want if you’re the NBA...You just hope that it lives up to that billing.” — Dan ([14:15])
• Audience poll (end of hour): 53% of listeners are rooting for the Spurs ([49:18]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Holmgren vs. Wemby:
  • “When [Wemby] dunked on you in Game 7, that pretty much signaled the ‘see you later, Chet,’ because...he was missing on the court.” — Dan ([05:19])
  • “Wemby took Chet’s lunch money away.” — Dan ([07:06])
• On the Modern NBA:
  • “NBA has now gone eight consecutive seasons without a repeat champion. This is what you want. If you’re the NBA, you want more blood, new blood in there, and you got it.” — Dan ([14:11])
• On the Path to Finals:
  • “San Antonio skipped that chapter...they cut the line. That’s where they go, right this way, San Antonio Spurs, right there to the NBA Finals.” — Dan ([09:59])
• Listener Buddha on Wemby/Holmgren:
  • “Chet Holmgren’s disappearing act in Game 7 left me shaking my head...he got punked this series and [Wemby] is Chet Holmgren’s boogeyman. In Spanish, we would call him El Cucuy.” ([37:02])
• Greatness and Villains:
  • “I want to have the team that’s great. I want to have everybody trying to knock off that team…that’s what you want. You want a villain. At least I do.” — Dan ([33:45])
• On Ticket Prices:
  • “The get-in price [at Madison Square Garden] is what, $3,400? ... I think it’s about $4,000 right now.” — Marvin & Dan ([50:07–50:20])

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Fun Sidebars, Trivia & Crew Banter

• NBA Finals Quiz ([23:29]):
  • Which Hall of Famers made their first NBA Finals in the fewest games?
    • Answer: Magic Johnson (77 games), Tim Duncan (132), Larry Bird (164).
• Giant Shoe Sizes ([25:25]):
  • Biggest NBA shoe sizes: Shaq, Bob Lanier, and Tacko Fall (size 22); Wembanyama at 20.5.
  • “That shoe talks about as much as Tim does.” — Todd ([25:39])
• Birthday Party Bar Tab Story ([44:54]):
  • Dan recounts his grandson’s birthday party in Brooklyn:
    • “Nobody has a worse time than the person, the child whose birthday it is. There’s always tears and he’s got that stranger danger…” ([43:58])
    • The bar tab guess segment becomes a running joke.
• Knicks/Spurs Fan Culture
  • Dan is swamped by Knicks fans at a kid’s party: “What do you think our chances are? Why do people hate us? Do you think we’re underdogs? What do you think of Brunson?” ([48:19])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:49] — Show start, setup for hour & topics
• [03:44–08:30] — Holmgren’s struggles, OKC’s outlook, Wemby’s rise
• [09:59] — ‘Cutting the line’ analogy: Spurs skipping the learning stage, Wemby/Duncan comparison
• [11:41] — SGA post-elimination interview, ownership of “failure”
• [13:12] — Poll question: Failure or growth for OKC?
• [14:15–15:08] — Finals preview, Knicks’ historical opportunity
• [23:29–25:44] — Hall of Famers’ first Finals trivia, shoe size banter
• [31:13–35:23] — Fan perspectives: Thunder as villains, value of sports rivalries
• [37:02] — “El Cucuy” (Wemby as Holmgren’s boogeyman)
• [44:54–49:09] — Dan’s Brooklyn birthday party/bar tab story
• [49:18] — Poll results: 59% say Thunder season was a failure; 53% rooting for Spurs
• [50:07–50:20] — NBA Finals ticket price shock

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Summary

This first hour covers the emotional letdown for OKC and Holmgren, the rapid rise of the Spurs behind Wembanyama, and looks ahead to a Finals matchup rich in storylines and national intrigue. The discussion balances serious basketball analysis with the show’s trademark banter, trivia, and listener engagement for a comprehensive, energetic breakdown of the NBA’s biggest week.

Transcript

[Dan Patrick]

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[Paulie]

I turned off news altogether.

[Dan Patrick]

I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything. It's the rage bait. It feels like it's trying to divide people.

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[Kal Penn]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Kal Penn]

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[Dan Patrick]

Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody, gang's all here, ready to go. It's the month of June. Does AJ Brown finally get traded today? Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback, will stop by a little bit later on. Sean Elliott, former Spurs great now spurs broadcaster, will stop by next hour. You're with us all three hours. Hopefully you can dial us up. 877-3DP show. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. Our Stat of the Day is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the program. First hour brought to you by the Z Kliner revolutionary recliner designed by Flex Steel. Here's the problem with this thing. It's too damn comfortable. And I get the back room. Guys sitting in the Z Kleiner, I can't get them up. I got Anthony, I got big day Ray. They, I think they might have fallen asleep a couple of times. Sources close to me say z kleiner.com Dan Patrick find a Z. Kleiner at a store near you. Play the day poll question, stat of the day. All of that forthcoming. It was a year ago where we talked about at this time Wemby's blood clot and what it's going to mean moving forward for the Spurs. Here we are a year later and we're talking about the future of the sport. Actually, the future is now because he is the face of the sport. And the spurs beat the Thunder. They go to the NBA Finals. They will be favored to win it all. And they will be favored in game one at home by four and a half against the Knicks. As we always do, we tend to look at the team that got eliminated before. We look ahead to the finals matchup between these 2 with the OKC Thunder. It's easy to overreact sometimes and sometimes you just have to say, hey, we got here last year and we won the title. Yes, we were taken to seven games a couple of times. You went to seven games here. You did lose at home. You battled injuries, you had depth, but you battled some injuries there going into the last couple of games there. You do have the Chet Holmgren issue question mark. And keep this in mind because his contract, five years, 240 million dollar contract kicks off next season. Just over 41 million next season. Jalen Williams banged up throughout the postseason. His five year, $240 million extension begins next season. I understand Chad Holmgren fascination with guys who are that big, talented, can handle the ball both ends of the Floor. That's a rough game seven. That would be a no show. And that would really concern me because you're going to be facing Victor Wembanyama for the next 10 years. If you stay in the west, you're going to be facing him. And it's almost as if when he dunked on you in game seven, that pretty much signaled the see you later chat, because he was gone mia. Well, he wasn't even in action, but he was missing on the court. And that was really what was surprising here. That would be the one thing I would look at and go, okay, moving forward here, he's your guy. I second in defensive player of the year. He's been an all Star, and I just didn't see any fight. You're at home, the crowd is on your side. Teammates are imploring you to be a little more aggressive when you don't get a shot off in the second half. Like, it's impossible. You feel like somebody that big, that tall, and you're not involved in anything. And his numbers were kind of pedestrian in the series. 10.7 rebounds, had one assist, one block per game. Okay, you're supposed to be an all Star. You're supposed to act like an all Star, like Jalen Williams. I understand he was not healthy, but Chad Holmgren's got to be great or at least good. And if he was good, they win. But he was not. I mean, Wemby didn't have an incredible game. The team did. And that should be even scarier to OKC and everybody else, because you. If you shut down Wemby or you contain Wemby. I mean, Stefan Castle has been great both ends of the floor. And this is a team that's younger than you. That's another concerning aspect. Now, I know OKC has all these draft picks, draft capitals. We like to say, okay, what are you going to do with those? Are you going to do anything? Can you move Chad Holmgren? Do you want to move Chad Holmgren? I think, you know, in the moment, we love to react, overreact. And I would say it'd be an overreaction. I have to have Chad Holmgren learn how to be up to the moment, to rise to the moment, to want to be great. And I didn't see him want to be great. Wendy wants to be great. You saw how important this was. I mean, he's hugging people like he just got married. I mean, this was important to him. He took away his lunch money. Wimy took Chet's lunch money away. And that was really what was surprising. But give credit to okc. It's a balanced team. You got some players that you probably didn't realize were going to be contributors. Dylan Harper grew up right in front of us. You saw actually the maturity of him. Stefan Castle gets knocked to the floor and he's getting ready to get up and maybe, you know, start a fight with Caruso. Harper goes down and almost like an MMA move holds him to say, no, no, don't do anything stupid. Darren Fox rewarded after years in Sacramento, like, they have a fun team here. It's a good team and I know people are going to get caught up in, well, who would the Knicks rather play? What doesn't matter. This is who's in front of you. But I think it'll be a wonderful series. And I can't help but go back. I have a shoe in front and it's Tim Duncan, one of his shoes that he wore when he won the title in New York. He signed one of his shoes when he came in to do an interview after they won the title. And I've kept that shoe there. But that's from 1999, when Tim Duncan's 22 years of age, which is what Wemby is right now. It happens fast and it's all about winning now. OKC is built for the future. San Antonio is built right now. And you got these draft picks in okc. Do you use them? Is Giannis the answer? Because Sam Amick, great writer for the Athletic, said that OKC was not involved in the Giannis sweepstakes, but maybe they are now. Nothing should be off the table when the end goal wasn't reached. Also, maybe there's a chance the Thunder would reach out for Evan Mobley of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers GM Kobe Altman said Mobley isn't going anywhere. There's going to be some teams trying to figure this out of what do we do with Wemby, what do we do with the Spurs? Because you got a 20 year old, a 21 year old, a 22 year old. Those are the stars for the San Antonio Spurs. And I know we love to say, well, you know what? They're going to be overwhelmed with a moment. OKC defending champs, home court advantage. And I thought they don't know that, like from experience. I've seen it where you kind of had to lose on a big stage and then you learn from it and then you come back the next year. San Antonio skipped that chapter. Like, they're like, why can't we win in okc? That's where you cut the line. You know, there's, if you've ever seen like movies or you know, documentaries where there's people waiting outside the club, Studio 54 to get in. I was always on the outside and I couldn't get in. I couldn't get anybody's attention. I'm sort of, you know, the Orlando Magic, you know, I was like there, but I couldn't get in. They cut the line. That's where they go. Right this way. San Antonio spurs right there to the NBA Finals poll question. We'll have that for you coming up. Also Tyler sitting by. You'll take your phone calls. 8773 DP Show Email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow here's Shay Gilgis Alexander who did play well in game seven on his thoughts on this season.

[Shai Gilgeous-Alexander]

It was a failure. Like I failed at my goal. Like I didn't achieve what I wanted to achieve. But through my experiences I, I learned the most about myself and I

[Dan Patrick]

make

[Shai Gilgeous-Alexander]

the greatest amount of increases I have in my, my career when I fail at my goal and don't get what I want. And I look at this no different.

[Dan Patrick]

I understand what he's saying. You're the defending champs home court advantage. Yes. This is a disappointing season. He was great. MVP again. He played well in game seven. I thought, I thought the spurs did a wonderful job sending different bodies and sometimes it's not the same size that you send at a guy, you know, Castle, Dylan Harper, different sizes, that's what you want. You know, somebody can be quicker, somebody can jump higher, somebody can be a bigger body. That's what you want to do. You're sending different bodies and that's what they do with great players and they did that with sga. In the games that San Antonio won, he didn't play that well, but he played well in Game 7. But he knows bottom line is winning a championship and rightfully so. I understand. Like if San Antonio didn't win, I don't know if I'd say it's a disappointing season. OKC is defending champs home court advantage. Yes. You didn't even make it to the finals. Dylan, what's poll question for the first hour phone calls we'll get to those best and worst of the weekend. What do you have?

[Dylan]

Well going off that we can ask the people. Was the Thunder season a failure? Yes. SGA is right or no they got do game seven of the Western Conference finals.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Yeah, I would say it's a disappointment. Um, here is Shea Gilgis on just how well the spurs played. Shea, you guys had some. Some opportunities to kind of take control of this one. What did you see as kind of the differences and not being able to kind of get over the hump and wrestle control completely away.

[Shai Gilgeous-Alexander]

Yeah, they were just a better team tonight, start to finish. And then every time we try to, like, cut into it and take control of the game, it felt like they had an answer. And if a lot of times it felt like it was like tough shot making. So hats off to them. Yeah, they just. They played better tonight and they deserve to win again.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Taking ownership of it, it's not on him, but as a leader, he'll take it. And the Game 7 loss to San Antonio. The NBA has now gone eight consecutive seasons without a repeat champion. This is what you want. If you're the NBA, you want more blood, new blood in there, and you got it. I get the international part of this with Wemby. You get New York City, you get a team in San Antonio might be viewed as an underdog, even though they're the favorites. The Knicks with the crowd, with the Garden. This is what you want. You want to have these matchups, and you got it. So the NBA, this is like the Dodgers, Yankees last year. Like, this is what you want. You just hope that it lives up to that billing. Yes. Dylan.

[Dylan]

The Knicks actually have the opportunity to make a special kind of history, Dan. They could be the first team in NBA history to win the NBA cup and the NBA Finals in the same season.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Michael Jordan never did that.

[Dylan]

No, he did not.

[Dan Patrick]

No, he didn't. Yes, Paul.

[Paulie]

And we were here for that. Dan, I'm glad you stuck around for that.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I wasn't going to retire until somebody did that. Yes.

[Paulie]

Paul, going back to SGA saying the season was a failure. He said it and he volunteered it. It's like, it's okay. He volunteered it. Was it three years ago, 2023, Giannis was asked, was this season a failure. And it's different if you're asked it than if you volunteer it and take control of it.

[Dan Patrick]

How so?

[Paulie]

Well, like, it's okay for SGA to say it, to volunteer it because he believes it, but when a journalist says it to Giannis, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's for us to judge.

[Dan Patrick]

No. So, yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Who were you talking hairdo to say, was it a disappointment? Yeah, you're right about that. But I do think the Giannis sweepstakes. Does Golden State get involved in This, I guess you got to say, do the Lakers get involved in this? But what's it going to take if, I mean Milwaukee needs, needs to move on? The question is what would it take to get Giannis and what is Giannis now 34? Like he's a little bit older than what people think might be 34, but to be able to get him for a couple of years. And I think OKC has to look at this and say, do we want this? How does it work? A lot of times when you go, oh, they should go get that guy. Oh, Giannis is 31. They should go get that guy. Well, you got to have him. How does he figure into the lineup with a ball dominant guard? Because that's another thing. And if you're going to go get him, how does that change, you know, people's roles? And is Chad Holmgren there for the long haul or Jalen Williams? Now they're, they're moving into big money. All right, we'll take a break. Phone calls coming up, best and worst of the weekend. Settle on our poll question. We'll talk to Sean Elliott. What was it? The Memorial Day miracle? The anniversary was yesterday, I think for Sean when he hit the big shot and sent them to the NBA Finals. Is that right, Marvin?

[Marvin Little]

It is one of the harder shots you'll ever see because Rasheed Wallace.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Marvin Little]

All seven six wingspan of him.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin Little]

Stretched out and he hit that shot. Unbelievable.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, so Sean Elliott will join us in an hour from now. Albert Brer, the Monday morning quarterback. As we get ready, one of the worst kept secrets is AJ Brown getting traded from the Eagles. Is there a third team involved in this? Is it the Patriots and dot, dot, dot. And if you know what they're asking for, does somebody swoop in and say, we'll give you something even better than what the Patriots will. So a lot going on. Glad to have you part of the program. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections, and it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo. Is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that. That deeply, emotionally affected me, and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like, oh, my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too.

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[Dan Patrick]

Gang's all here, ready to go on this Monday, best and worst of the weekend. Fritzi, are you going somewhere? You and Paulie look like you're dressed up to go to some place afterwards.

[Todd]

I just decide to wear something nice. I'm always wearing jerseys and T shirts, and no real reason other than, you know, I start. Start the week on the right foot and wear something a little nicer.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. All right, well, Paulie is an adjunct professor, so I don't know if he's got something school related.

[Paulie]

After the show, I'm actually going to a little interview luncheon with my daughter at this job she's going for, so I told her I would attend with her.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Paulie]

I think I look fatherly.

[Dan Patrick]

Then we have Dylan. Thank you. No,

[Dylan]

I think I look. I look all right.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Todd]

Tom Dylan also shamed us a little bit, and rightfully so. He told us all to get dressed up for the big steak lunch for meat Friday. And some of us did, some of us didn't. And I was one of those that just wore my regular slovenly clothes. So I'm a day late, but.

[Dan Patrick]

No, a couple days late.

[Todd]

Couple days, yeah.

[Dylan]

Just do it on Monday. Who cares?

[Dan Patrick]

It was Friday. Marvin is here in the front row, the back Room guys as well settle on a poll question. Oh, Paulie's got a quick NBA quit. Let's do the quick NBA quiz, and then we'll settle on a poll question. First down.

[Paulie]

Here we go, Dan. Okay, I got a bunch of hall of Famers. That's the rule. You have to be a Hall of Famer or future hall of Famer to be in this poll.

[Dan Patrick]

All right.

[Paulie]

It's taken Victor Wembanyama a 181 regular season games to make his first NBA Finals. Which hall of Famer played the fewest regular season games before being in his first final? It might be a little easy, but we're gonna try to get the first three.

[Dan Patrick]

Magic Johnson.

[Paulie]

Correct. Magic Johnson, 77 games played.

[Dan Patrick]

LeBron James.

[Paulie]

LeBron took 316 games.

[Dan Patrick]

And that means what?

[Paulie]

Where is he is eighth on a list.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Paulie]

This second place is one hundred and thirty two regular season games.

[Dan Patrick]

Lu Alcindor Lewis, fourth with one hundred

[Paulie]

and sixty four games played.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. Marvin Little.

[Marvin Little]

Random, but Bill Walton.

[Paulie]

I don't have Bill Walton on there.

[Dan Patrick]

That's really, really random.

[Paulie]

Tim Duncan, 132 games played.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Paulie]

And then third place, tied for third. Larry Bird. 164. Luell Cinder. 164.

[Dan Patrick]

I'd mentioned that Tim Duncan signed one of his shoes for me, and I went back to Mario, and Mario said, I couldn't find it on your desk. I go. He goes, I saw the RG3 shoes, and I saw the Shaq shoe. I go, how do you miss Tim Duncan's Nike shoe right there. They autographed it right after they won the NBA title. He goes, well, I saw the RG3. I said, RG3 shoes are half the size of Tim Duncan's. No, it's right there in front. And then you put Shaqs there. Oh, my goodness. Shaq's 22s are. Although Bob Lanier, I think, wore size 22 as well. Will Purdue was. Had one of those. 20, 21. Yes. Yes. Dylan.

[Dylan]

Do we know what size Tim Duncan's is? If it's getting dwarfed by Shaqs?

[Dan Patrick]

I don't know. It's probably like a 17, 16. 17.

[Dylan]

Still gigantic.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, but you put it next to Shaq, and it's like, crazy. Yes, Todd.

[Todd]

And that shoe talks about as much as Tim does.

[Dan Patrick]

Wow. Guess we won't get him, will we?

[Todd]

We'll still not get him.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Todd always goes, yeah, I reached out to David Robinson and Tim Duncan. I go, we're not getting Tim Duncan. He just doesn't Care. He doesn't. He doesn't need to do any of this.

[Todd]

David's been with us a number.

[Dan Patrick]

David is. David is always been very accommodating. Tim has no interest in, you know, the media doing any of the interviews. Even if he's listening, he's. He's just. He's not interested in any of this.

[Todd]

He's got the hotline. It can prove us wrong.

[Dan Patrick]

He's got my number.

[Todd]

There you go.

[Dan Patrick]

I have his number, but I'm never going to call him. Maybe text him. Yes, Paul.

[Paulie]

Biggest shoe size in NBA history. Three way tie for first. Shaq, Bob Lanier and Taco Fall.

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[Paulie]

Second place, Wembanyama 20.5. The Lopez brothers 20. Carl Anthony Towns. He invented it. 20.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Could Shaq's shoes fit in the corner with the three point line and the out of bounds? How much space is there between the corner three and out of bounds? Because I. His shoes might not fit in that amount of space there. Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

I was surprised that Yao Ming's not up there. Just based on being like the largest human ever. I looked it up. Yao ming is an 18. That's like if I was like a size like 5.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, yeah. But I. I wonder what the dimensions are with these guys with these huge feet. Yeah, Paulie.

[Paulie]

The space between the corner three point line and the sideline is just under three feet. The measurement of Shaq's shoes, 14.66 inches.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, so he's got a little space there.

[Paulie]

Little space.

[Dan Patrick]

A little space there. I don't want him shooting the three Wemby. I do. Bob Lanier was a really good shooter. Bob Lanier is one of those big guys who wasn't afraid to take it outside and shoot. He probably underrated, too. Bob Lanier was a. And he went to Saint Bonaventure of all places. Yes, Paulie.

[Paulie]

Shaq was one for 22 in his career from three point landing.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, Here comes. Here comes that what? Stat of the day. Oh, by the way, we had Nate Bargazzi on on Friday in his new movie, the Breadwinner. And I saw some reviews online. I don't know what happened at the box office there, but Todd said that you went to see the Nate Borgetzi movie.

[Todd]

I did. I went late Saturday afternoon with my wife and daughter. And it was a lot of fun. It was what I expected. There'd be a lot of, you know, laugh out loud moments, you know, working in some of his stand up type of deadpan humor and his incompetence as a Father and husband. I just thought that was. It was well done. And I'm happy for him and I hope the numbers show it in the box.

[Dan Patrick]

You're happy for him.

[Todd]

He seems like a really good guy and he came on the show. He's been on the show a few times, and I'm rooting for it to. To do well. So I have other movie opportunities.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, well, that's nice of you. Thanks. Nice of you. But is this sort of a play off of Michael Keaton, Mr. Mom?

[Todd]

I guess you can draw that analogy. And it's been a long time since I saw that, but I don't know, I found it very refreshing and it has maybe a few common themes, but I thought it was done, well written.

[Dan Patrick]

And you did not see Mr. Mom, did you?

[Todd]

I did see Mr. Mom. I just. I don't have a great recollection of it. That was a long time ago. Even though I live in the 80s.

[Dan Patrick]

You know, Michael Keaton was great in Mr. Mom. He was great. Terry Gar is in there when he holds the baby up to the, the. The hand blower. You know when your hands. You're in the bathroom, hand dryer. You put the baby's butt up there after changing baby's diaper. He was good. He was really funny in that. So regular season games before the first NBA Finals, Magic 77, then Duncan, then Bird. You got Kareem, then Victor, then you got Shaq. LeBron Allen Iverson is in there as well. And then Michael Jordan. Jordan was seven years in before he got to his first NBA Finals. All right, Chris in Syracuse leads us off best and worst of the weekend. Good morning, Chris. What do you have for us?

[Chris]

Hey, thanks, Dan. Yeah. Best of the weekend I saw this weekend, Jalen Brunson on the COVID of the New Yorker really illustrates the importance and relevance of New York Knicks basketball, even beyond sports fans. And as a Knick fan, if the Knicks want to win a title, this is the year the stars have somewhat aligned for the Knicks. Next five years. Spurs and Thunder are only going to get better this year. I think OG Nobby can somewhat slow down a Wemby at the age of 22. But the next five or 10 years, I don't think anybody's slowing down Wemby. I think this NBA Finals, all the pressure is on the Knicks. They've been hyped up almost too much. In my worst, the Thunder have only won one title, but with fans, they already seem to have that Persona as a villain like the New England Patriots. And fans Want to see them lose? I know part of it, maybe. The Knicks is such a great story and the Wemby factor, but it just seems like there's more to it. I'm not exactly sure why NB fans are sick of them already and want to move on.

[Dan Patrick]

I think it might be the style of play. It's not exciting. Great home court, sga, you know, he's out there hunting for fouls. I don't know if there's the tune in factor maybe. And you know, you kind of go, I have to watch the Thunder because these are big games. This is to win the Western Conference finals or they're in the NBA Finals. I think that factors into it. I went through this with the spurs where people would be like spurs again. Instead of looking at how great the spurs were to be able to maintain, sustain that, you know, we tend to get style points. There are certain teams that you want to see, although Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, I think people grew tired of that. We're really quick to move on. I don't think we embrace the villain the way we once did is, you know, San Antonio will get to that point if they get really consistent here. That's what happens. And if you're really good, then all of a sudden it's like, okay, we've seen this now. What's next? I mean, this is how we consume social media. This is how you watch a TV show, streaming or a movie. You're like, you pause it and you move on. You come back to it. It's 15 minutes 15, as Andy Warhol said, 15 minutes of fame. And it feels like that's what you have. It's like, all right, I'm gonna watch. You better be good. You better be interesting. And it always helps when you have a foil that a lot of times, you know, Lennox Lewis was a wonderful fighter. He just didn't have somebody. So you could have these trilogy fights. I mean, Tiger really needed one, even though he was so individually fantastic that there was nobody who could stand up to him. But, like, Frazier had Ali and Frazier needed Ali, because without Ali, Frazier is just a great heavyweight. Now. You won one of the biggest fights in the history of the sport. You gotta have that. Pete Sampras didn't really have that foil. You know, these tennis players with Djokovic and Federer and Nadal, they had each other, and that made it great. It's a rivalry, and that's what you want. You want to have a villain. At least I do. I want to have the team that's great. I want to have everybody trying to knock off that team because we don't see greatness on a consistent basis as much as we used to. And there's reasons for that. Players move around. They have the freedom. You can't afford too many stars on your team. But when you do have that magic, you want to see it unfold. You want to see it to completion, to fruition. Yes. Dylan.

[Dylan]

Yeah, I was just thinking where the, like, the Tim Duncan spurs era. Were they ever really viewed as, like, villainous? I feel. I mean, I was younger then, but it seems like they just won consistently and didn't really bother anyone.

[Dan Patrick]

They were just boring to people.

[Dylan]

Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

Like that. That's when your best players. I've said he's known as the big fundamental. Not exactly tuning in for highlights of that. Pete Sampras. Yeah, he was unbelievably athletic, but didn't display a personality. Not really a flair for anything. Like, Jimmy Connors had flair and McEnroe had flair. Even Agassi had flair. Like. Like, that's sort of what we. We want to see what we haven't seen. That's why we were fascinated with Tiger. Is Tiger a better golfer than Jack Nicklaus? Probably not. More exciting. Absolutely. I mean, Tiger and Arnie would be more of an app comparison of, oh, my God, who's that guy? But that's what you want. Like Mike Trout, Wonderful player. Okay, you're not tuning. When's the last time you said, ah, I'm gonna settle in and watch the Angels. Right. It doesn't happen. Even though he's great.

[Marvin Little]

Angels in the outfield.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, maybe the movie. But if you said Paul Skeens is pitching today, I'd watch Paul Skeens pitch. Yes. Yes. Todd.

[Todd]

I was more fascinated by separatist eyebrows than anything he did on the court. Is that bad?

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you, Toddler. Thank you. Nobody advances a story that. Just like you do. Agassi and Sampras, the rivalry 14 years they feature. Faced each other 34 times. Sampras 120 of the 34. Buddha in San Francisco. Good morning, Buddha. What's on your mind?

[Buddha]

What up, dp? Happy Monday, boys. Spritzy. Well, dp, it finally happened. The spurs are gonna be able to avenge their NBA cup loss to the Knicks in the Finals, man. And honestly, DP Sneaky. Best. The refereeing in game seven wasn't a topic. And the NBA got the matchup it wanted. So good for them. Best of the weekend, as Shaq says, the others showing out in game Seven for the Spurs. And to your point, Dan, I mean, Dylan Harper is the truth. I mean, he's a stud. And the spurs win was like a true and like complete team win. And it was fun to watch. And I look forward to this finals matchup. And worst of the weekend. Chet Holmgren's disappearing act in game seven left me shaking my head, man. I mean, he got punked this series and whammy. Dan is Chet Holmgren's boogeyman. In Spanish, we would call him El Cucuy. And the matchup runs deep and has history going back to when, you know, they were teenagers.

[Brad]

Yeah.

[Buddha]

And now the complete lives rent free in Chad's head, man. Not good.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Wemby does not like Chad Holmgren. He, when he dunked on him, it was like one guy was taking the escalator up and the other guy was taking the escalator down.

[Paulie]

Yeah, Paul, Chet got there late. He rotated over and he did make a play. He didn't let it go by. Yeah, but he just got there late, man.

[Dan Patrick]

He still got dunked on. He got murdered. You usually get there late. If you get dunked on, chances are you got there late. Gus in la. Hi, Gus. Best and worst of the weekend.

[Gus]

Good morning, Mr. Patrick. Hope you and the boys had a great weekend. Couple good ones of the weekend. Not too many worse in my opinion. Unless you're UCLA baseball. But yes, we're talking college baseball. My USC Trojans scoring 52 runs in four games. Love it. Hopefully we we advance today. Another little good one of the weekend.

[Brad]

My Dodgers look like they kind of

[Gus]

turned the corner and they're doing good, even though we lost two key role players. I've got a question about the Thunder and the spurs series. Even though game seven turned out to be the one that we had kind of been waiting for, without the drama, without the noise of the refs and everything like that, what will people take from this conference finals? Wemby's dominance or the amount of times of foul baiting and everything that resulted in people disliking the Thunder?

[Dan Patrick]

I think it'll be Wemby. Wemby kind of graduating. I mean, you have to watch the Thunder to watch SGA do this. And I've said many, many times, I don't have any problem with it. I know aesthetically or look at what you're doing to the sport or the great ones don't do that. I get all that, man. I just want to win. And if I can bait you into a foul, get you. Wemby had five fouls. Luke Cornett came in and had maybe the biggest play of the game, the block. But I want to get you in foul trouble. I want to get to the free throw line. I want easy, easy points there. I don't have any problem with it. I don't do. I like watching it. I don't. But it is part of this. Whatever you can, whatever advantage you can get until I put the pressure on the officials in the NBA to change things. And that's why I said there should be more playthrough moments. And if you do that, then maybe SGA won't put himself in that position as much. Jake, take a break. Play of the Day Next Fox Sports

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Hey everyone, it's Kalpen. I'm the host of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. There's places in this book that that deeply, emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like, oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah dude, me too.

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Play of the day. Check this out. Swung out, broken bat up the middle. The dive per doo knocks it down. It's going to be a hit. Randy scores. The Mariners have done it again. They've walked off the diamond. Max. For the second time in the series. The Mariners on fire. Mariners Radio Network Victor Robles. That's his first walk off hit in his career. 650 career games. Play of the day brought to you by the folks who've been doing it for over 40 years now. Tire Rack helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive ship fast and free. Backed by free road hazard protection. Convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack.com the way tire buying should be. Went to a birthday party yesterday in Brooklyn. My one year old grandson. Nobody has a worse time than the person, the child whose birthday it is. There's always tears and he's got that stranger danger so nobody could pick him up. He's looking for his mom and all of a sudden you're like all right, so had A couple of beers. And now you wouldn't think that a bunch of neighborhood parents could run up a bar tab. Okay, I'm going to give you a guesstimate here. I'm going to guess probably 30 parents, probably 15 couples. And I will tell you that I had two and a half beers. What do you think the bar tab was? Two hours for a one year old birthday?

[Dylan]

Dylan, one question first. Okay, two and a half beers.

[Dan Patrick]

I did have two and a half.

[Dylan]

What happened to the third one?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I wanted to make sure that I didn't fall asleep at the one year old's birthday. And, and it was outside and I was like starting to doze off.

[Dylan]

Okay, gotcha. As for the bar tab, 30 adults, a bar in New York City, Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, which I'm gonna go $4,300.

[Todd]

Okay, Todd, I was gonna say something like 900, maybe a thousand.

[Marvin Little]

All right, Marvin, $2,300.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, Paul.

[Paulie]

$1150.

[Dan Patrick]

$850. How do you have $4,300?

[Dylan]

Well, you made it sound like they were drinking a lot. I was like, I don't know, say it's 120 bucks a person if they're

[Dan Patrick]

parents with their kids on a Sunday. I mean this isn't a wedding. I would have, I mean I thought 850 was a lot.

[Dylan]

Maybe I misunderstood.

[Paulie]

Yes, Paul, Brooklyn prices. I think you got off okay.

[Dan Patrick]

My son was a little surprised. There was a little bit of a sticker shock there. But yeah, I'm thinking, man, 850 for. And how many drinks were you going to be having? Like nobody's pounding. Yes.

[Paulie]

Paul, a couple questions. It's a one year old's birthday party. How do you go from wherever that is to a bar?

[Dan Patrick]

Or was it at the bar?

[Paulie]

A one year old?

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Awesome.

[Paulie]

Yeah, I think that's your first mistake.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, they had an outdoor area so you had to walk through the bar, but you had to have the kids out of there by six o'. Clock. That was the rule. I always think of that movie, Sweet Home Alabama. Oh yeah, it's a baby in a bar. Yes, yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

So I think I missed, I think I thought you were saying that they were like surprisingly these 30 neighborhood parents were just like deleting drinks at an alarming rate. I, I think that's where I got confused.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, it's a one year old's birthday party. These are neighborhood families. It's a Sunday. You're not pounding from three to five on a Sunday afternoon with your kids there.

[Dylan]

Well, maybe if Your kids are there. You might actually be drinking a little more.

[Dan Patrick]

No, but oh my gosh, it was. My grandson did not have a good time. Everybody else did, but he has stranger danger. Even when he was away from his mom, you could see him like, up periscope, he's looking, looking, looking. You know, my wife's holding him. I'm like, why don't you just send him back to his mom? We were holding other people's kids. You know, we got to the point where we couldn't hold our grandson, so he just grabbed one. We're like, all right, here's Nora. Hi, Nora. How are, oh, she's not crying. Yes.

[Marvin Little]

Marmon, one year old's birthday parties, they're not for the one year olds. Yeah, they're for the parents. Hey, we kept a child alive for a full year.

[Todd]

High five.

[Dan Patrick]

And then it was a cowboy theme. Oh, boy. Well, okay, I don't do theme, I don't do dress up. And I walked in my corduroys on and they gave me a, a bandana that I had to put around mine.

[Paulie]

Is there a photo? Because I'm gonna get it.

[Dan Patrick]

I, I, there has to be. I mean, obviously people taking pictures. Oh, the number of people wanted to talk about the Knicks. You would have thought I had had more beers because if you like, the woman showed up with a Knicks hat. And, and my son goes, hey, such and such is gonna ask you about the Knicks. I said, all right, all right. So sure enough, what do you think our chances are? Why do people hate us? Do you think we're underdogs? What do you think of Brunson? Is OG Anunoby healthy? What about Mitchell Robinson's finger? I said I, I, yeah, sure. Huh? Yes.

[Todd]

Todd, you could have the bandana and the corduroys. They don't make you no cowboys.

[Dan Patrick]

Fritzy Fritz. He wanted to know if the name of the bar was Chug E Cheese. That's not bad.

[Todd]

Workable. It's serviceable.

[Dan Patrick]

I'm going to give you credit for that. Yeah. Update the poll results from the first hour of the program if you can. Yeah.

[Dylan]

Dan, was the Thunder season a failure? Yes or no? 59 say yes. And which team are you rooting for? Knicks or Spurs? 53% say the Spurs.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Yeah. Brad in North Carolina. Hi, Brad. What do you have for me?

[Brad]

Hey, DP Step. Best and worst of the weekend for you, definitely best here in the rally areas. The Canes just Molly whopping the Habs to return to the final for the first time in 20 years. Feel really good about this team. I think the cup may come back through rally the worst of the weekend and is dynamic ticket pricing. Public sale of Stanley Cup Final tickets for game one and two went on sale I think Saturday at 1 o'. Clock. By 3 o', clock, dynamic pricing had them up to $2,000 a seat. Something's got to be done with antitrust on that.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, well the Knicks, I mean forget about it. I mean your get in price is what, $3,400? Something crazy. Yes. Higher than that, Marv.

[Marvin Little]

I think it's about 4,000 right now.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, it's, it's crazy.

[Marvin Little]

It's like it is. Obnoxious is whatever adjective, whatever word you want to use to describe the ticket prices in the finals period.

[Dan Patrick]

Greedy. And you and you know, I think we all have memories of being able to go to one of these big games when you're growing up. Like I remember going to a World Series game and I was young but I got to go to a World Series game now. Pretty tough. One hour in the books on this Monday. More phone calls. Best and worst of the weekend. Operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. Is it a done deal? At 4:00 clock, A.J. brown to the Patriots. We'll talk to Albert Breer. And former spurs great Sean Elliott stops by hour two right around the corner.

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