Hour 2 – One Dining Moment, Carlos Boozer

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show – Hour 2 Summary

Date: March 17, 2026
Main Guests: Carlos Boozer (ACC Network analyst, former NBA/Duke player)
Theme: March Madness anticipation, college basketball expansion, legendary sports stories, and a dose of show humor

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Overview of the Episode

This hour of The Dan Patrick Show blends the anticipation of March Madness with a hilarious look at sports traditions, quirky show rituals, and an engaging interview with Carlos Boozer. The first segment kicks off with lively debate about NCAA Tournament structure, segues into an irreverent musical parody, and concludes with Boozer sharing classic stories about Prince renting his house and Coach K's motivational antics. Throughout, the tone is playful and insider, with a focus on the culture and character of the sports world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NCAA Tournament Structure & “First Four” Debate

• The crew discusses when the NCAA tournament truly “starts”—with a strong consensus that Thursday feels like the real beginning, not the play-in games. [(03:04)]
• Dan: “The NCAA did itself a disservice by calling it the play-in games… we look at these teams as not worthy of the tournament.” [(03:14)]
• Marvin points out how expanding the “First Four” helps grow the tournament without alienating traditionalists. [(03:39)]
• Todd: “Teams that win their conference championship should not be playing in the first four.” Boozer (agreeing): “Agree.” [(04:52)]
• The group laments the optics of automatic qualifiers “playing in” while larger schools get a pass.
• Dan predicts more expansion and more games on Tuesday/Wednesday, always chasing TV money: “Money is always at the bottom of every one of these decisions.” [(03:59)]

2. Humorous Show Rituals: "One Dining Moment"

• Todd Fritz revives his humorous “One Dining Moment” parody—a food-centric spoof of the NCAA’s “One Shining Moment”—marking the unofficial tournament kickoff. [(08:17-10:24)]
• Notable moment: Todd sings the parody live, with mock-heroic fanfare and jokes about overeating.
• Paulie jokes about the performance being a “one take wonder,” likening it to famous songs recorded in a single take.
• The group debates whether this or Todd’s Olivia Newton John spoof (“Let’s Get Quizzical”) is funnier.

Quote:
Todd Fritz: “I don’t understand why I would do a second song. I’m standing there with my hands in my pocket… Yet I wanted to do it a second time. Was weird.” [(13:51)]

3. Classic Sports Anecdotes with Carlos Boozer

• Boozer joins to relive being a landlord to Prince and the oddities that ensued—purple everything, disco balls, portraits, and—eventually—everything restored. [(19:28–21:24)]
  • “I rented [my house] to Prince… I come in and he basically turned all the rugs purple and black. He had his picture everywhere… he turned my weight room into a nightclub.” [(19:52)]
  • “He was paying $95,000 a month. And he’s Prince.”
• On playing with LeBron James as a rookie in Cleveland:
  • “The hype was nuts. We had a hard time warming up [in Sacramento] because of all the media… Every warm-up dunk, every move… But during the game, LeBron was outstanding.” [(22:21)]
  • Dan: “If I would have told you that night… LeBron would still be playing when your sons go into the NBA…?”
  • Boozer: “There’s no way I would have believed that.” [(23:25)]
• On being a sports dad vs. analyst as both his sons play for Duke:
  • “It’s harder being a dad watching than being a player… You want to get out there and jump in.” [(26:19)]
  • Boozer explains taking a hands-off approach to his sons’ recruitment, letting them decide their futures. [(24:07)]
• On Mike Krzyzewski’s legendary “Attack” locker room moment:
  • “Coach K comes somersaulting in—two hip replacements!—yelling ‘Let’s attack!’” [(28:37)]
  • The whole crew is incredulous at this mental image (“Is there video of this?”).

4. Listener Interactions and Sports Philosophy

• Fans call in with opinions on college basketball expansion (including skepticism about Jim Boeheim’s pro-96-team stance) and irreverent NCAA/WBC topics, plus comedic takes on birthdays and load management. [(14:43–17:21; 37:44–43:35)]
• Dan and the crew riff on favorite spring training and minor league ballparks, underscoring the communal, tradition-heavy nature of baseball and sports nostalgia. [(41:48-43:26)]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Expansion:

  Dan Patrick: "Once these guys realize how much money they're going to make… they'll go to 10 or 12 [teams in the playoffs]. As soon as we get to 12, 'Oh, we gotta go to 16.' Now they're talking about 24. I'm like, slow down. Slow down." [(03:59)]

• On Prince Transforming Boozer's House:

  Carlos Boozer: “Everything is purple… He had his picture everywhere… My kids liked the weight room turned disco, but other than that, I was livid. But he changed it all back before moving out.” [(20:58)]

• On Coach K’s Motivational Antics:

  Carlos Boozer: “He comes somersaulting in and is like, 'Let's attack!' ... He’s got two hip replacements!” [(28:40)]

• On Being a Sports Dad:

  Carlos Boozer: “As a dad, your dad is the only person that wants their sons to be better than them.” [(25:36)]

• On Todd’s Singing:

  Paulie: “Posthumous Disservice—wasn’t that a hardcore punk band?” [(12:21)] Dan (reading a listener comment): “My dad has been paralyzed for 10 years, but when Todd started singing ‘One Dining Moment,’ he got up and walked across the room and shut off the radio.” [(33:59)]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• NCAA Tournament Debate / Play-In Game Discussion: 03:04–06:16
• "One Dining Moment" Parody Performance: 08:17–10:24
• Todd Fritz Song Reflection & Olivia Newton John Tribute: 10:41–12:15
• Carlos Boozer Interview (Prince story, Duke, LeBron, Coach K): 19:28–31:38
• Coach K Somersault Story: 28:37–29:34
• Listener Calls (Re: NCAA, birthdays, WBC): 14:43–17:21; 37:44–43:35
• Favorite Minor League / Spring Training Parks: 41:48–43:26

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Additional Highlights

• "One Dining Moment" Lyrics: Played up the humor of overeating and NCAA food traditions.
• Bracket Talk: The crew and listeners share bracket projections; Todd reveals his Final Four picks as Duke, Houston, Purdue, Michigan. [(37:15–37:22)]
• Humor Integrated Throughout: From food jokes to spoofing music and hardcore bands, the show's tone is irreverent and affectionate towards sports culture.

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Overall Tone and Takeaway

The episode is high-spirited, mixing genuine sports analysis (particularly around NCAA structures and traditions) with humorous, self-deprecating segments and legendary storytelling. Boozer proves to be an engaging guest with unique perspectives ranging from Prince’s eccentricities to behind-the-scenes at Duke. The heart of the show is community—whether it’s sports families, listeners, or the recurring in-jokes among the hosts.

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Best for listeners who love:

• Bracketology and tournament culture
• Behind-the-scenes sports stories
• Locker room and coach anecdotes
• Irreverent sports humor and traditions

Skip to:

• [08:17] for “One Dining Moment”
• [19:28] for the Carlos Boozer interview
• [28:37] for the Coach K somersault story

Transcript

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[Dan Patrick]

You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on fox Sports Radio. Ah, Tower 2 on this Tuesday, morale is high because we got food. It's St. Patty's Day. Dylan out there slaving over bangers and coal cannon, which I guess is cabbage and leeks and bacon. Maybe we have Guinness soda, bread and Irish cheeses. Who has it better than we do?

[Carlos Boozer]

Nobody.

[Dan Patrick]

Alrighty. You can be in the Celebrity Bracket Challenge with us. You gotta have your brackets in before noon on Thursday. You can sign [e-mail] on our social media platforms as well. We'll talk to Carlos Boozer, a former dookie and now works for the ACC Network. His two sons, of course, playing for Duke. He'll join us. Coming up a little bit, John Smoltz. He'll be on the call for tonight's the World Baseball Classic. It's Venezuela against Team usa and then Reggie Miller will stop by as well. The first four UMBC versus Howard and Texas versus NC State coming up tonight. 8773-DP-SHOP, email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network or our radio affiliates, including iHeartradio and Fox Sports Radio, seat in the poll question. Results from hour one. What are we going to go with an hour two?

[Paulie]

Yeah, we got up there right now. The tournament starts tonight or Thursday. Your results. 80% say the tournament starts on Thursday. That feels like that is the most correct answer.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Yeah, Yeah. I think that the NCAA tournament did itself a disservice by calling it the play in games initially. Now it's the opening round, but it feels like the damage is done. We look at these teams as not worthy of the tournament. They have to play their way into the tournament. I don't like the designation. You're either in or you're not. You know, and you're part of the 68 team field. Yeah, Paulie.

[Marvin]

One thing they did though, by this first four, it allows them to expand the tournament and keep 64 in the bracket. So they'll expand the first four and it'll appear like it's the same tournament because it'll end up being 64 or 1 in 16 seeds. And it allow them to expand without really offending people.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I think we're headed towards that. And I think we just bulk up the Tuesday and Wednesday night games and I think everybody will be okay with that. I mean, I would like for it to kind of top out. It's just like college football with the playoffs. You know, we. We were on with two forever, and then we went to four. And I thought in my lifetime, I didn't know if we would see that. And once we went to four and I said, once these guys realize how much money they're going to make, how much these conferences are going to make, how much money the, you know, the TV partners are willing to spend, they're gonna go. They'll go to 10 or 12. They go to 12. As soon as we get to 12. Oh, we gotta go to 16. Now they're talking about, do we go to 24? I'm like, slow down, slow down. But the problem is money is always at the bottom of every one of these decisions. Yes, Marv, the thing about the first

[Todd Fritz]

four that always irritates me is that teams that win their conference championship should not be playing in the first four.

[Carlos Boozer]

Agree.

[Todd Fritz]

Those should just be bubble teams, the teams that barely got in for the at large births. You guys should be playing in Dayton, not Howard that won their conference championship game. They shouldn't have to play in Dayton on a Tuesday. Or Wednesday night.

[Dan Patrick]

I agree with you. If you win your conference, I don't think you should be in the play in the opening round. Yeah, see, didn't we just have a

[Paulie]

problem with that though, with football, where people who won their conference got a better bid than people who are clearly better teams but didn't win their conference?

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. Yeah.

[Paulie]

And if people were pissed about that or upset about that.

[Dan Patrick]

Excuse me.

[Paulie]

Shouldn't say that.

[Dan Patrick]

No, you shouldn't. Yeah. But they quickly rectify that. It should be the best teams as far as the ranking goes with the college football, with basketball, I just can't give Boise State or Arizona State a buy because I don't think they were better teams than, you know, these other teams. But yeah, the play in the opening round, if you win your conference, you. You shouldn't have to do a play in. Yes, Todd.

[Todd Fritz]

And if you're the four teams in the play in game that just barely got into this whole tournament, shouldn't they all be 16s? I know there's other reasons for that, but 2 or 16, 2 or 11 seeds, and I'm sure they have their reasons for competitive balance or things that are above my pay grade, but seems like they should all be 16 teams. Whoever comes out of those four.

[Dan Patrick]

For the first time ever, every top four seed is a double digit favorite in the round of 64. The smallest spread is Alabama by 11 and a half against Hofstra. And as I mentioned, to start this show used to be the 12, 5. That's where you usually got at least 112 over a 5. Now it's the 11 seed that. It feels like that. History shows if you're looking for a surprise in 11 over a six might be the way to go. All right. 8773 DP. Show operator Tyler sitting by. And it's not the official start of the tournament, but we're going to treat it because Todd normally, you know, ends the tournament with one dining moment. It's a tribute to the food version of one shining moment. Todd did this a couple of years ago and this was one of those one takes. You know, this is where people years and years from now say, I was there. He did it. It was just one take. And they'll be like, oh my God, only one take to sing this song. Yes, Todd.

[Todd Fritz]

I think they'll say I was there is how they'll probably pronounce that.

[Dan Patrick]

Come on, you can sell it better than that.

[Todd Fritz]

And I was there for that special moment in the Dan Patrick show studios where magic was created.

[Dan Patrick]

Stat of the day. Brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Here you go. You didn't ask for it.

[Marvin]

Yes, Paul, before we get there, I did look up great rock songs that were done in one take. Twist and Shout by the Beatles. One take. You'll like this one. The House of the Rising sun by the Animals. One take.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

Great song. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag by James Brown. It's a one taker. And this.

[Dan Patrick]

It's the moment these sandwiches have always dreamed about. Eight sandwiches will enter and one will live on forever. Hello, friends, and welcome to the Elite eight.

[Guest Singer]

The food is served. Meats are carved. You're drooling with anticipation. Cause you're so starved.

[Dan Patrick]

The shrimp pulled me.

[Guest Singer]

Log sandwiches. They don't see your taste buds glow. All that hard work well now it shows in one dining moment it all tastes divine. One dining moment Stuff your face but no wine, bang.

[Dan Patrick]

The chicken parm rolls on.

[Guest Singer]

No, the scale's not off. Yes, the pounds pack on you say I'll have just one more until the plates are gone now your jeans won't close.

[Dan Patrick]

Nashville knocks off the street what's a man to do?

[Guest Singer]

Your stomach's full and your bowels are too that one dining moment how did you get so. One dining moment? Be it grilled, baked or fried?

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Guest Singer]

One dining moment Bon appetit. One dining moment Feel that grill heat

[Dan Patrick]

Just another reason you feel that clog

[Guest Singer]

in your heart A double chin on your face Ate way too fast Slowed down your pace. You've satisfied your hunger but put on some weight well, that's how it goes when you've Elite 8. That one dining moment no fork, spoon or knife One dining moment the time of your life One dining moment from 8 down to 1 one dining moment can't you taste all the fun? That one shining moment who's got it better than us? Our one shining moment Nobody does.

[Todd Fritz]

Smattering.

[Dan Patrick]

You kept singing. There's no music left.

[Todd Fritz]

Yeah, that was about seven verses too long. And then I went to shining moment at the end. I don't know why I didn't stay with Dining moment at the end.

[Dan Patrick]

So that was weird, too. Yeah. And believe it or not, that was one take.

[Todd Fritz]

That all in one take?

[Dan Patrick]

One take. Only one.

[Paulie]

Okay, which one is better? One dining moment or the Olivia Newton John tribute?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, what do you mean? Better better?

[Paulie]

I mean. I mean better better or better better better. Whichever you want to say.

[Marvin]

Better content.

[Dan Patrick]

I'm more beloved. I'm gonna go Olivia Newton John because

[Guest Singer]

that was with questions that I know you like. It makes good sports radio conversation. You gotta answer it just right. You know what I mean? Don't Google it. Just try yourself mentally. Make sure you know what you're talking about. Or get embarrassed on radio and tv. Let's get quizzical. Quizzical I wanna get quizzical. Let's get quizzical. Let me hear your answer now.

[Dan Patrick]

Alrighty. See, Olivia Newton John just passed away, and Todd was paying tribute to her.

[Marvin]

Lucky for her.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. She didn't have to hear that.

[Todd Fritz]

Listening back, that was much more disrespectful than honoring Olivia John, who I love. And while I was performing that and writing it, I thought I had a nice, fun idea there. But listening to that makes me feel like I just did her some terrible posthumous disservice.

[Dan Patrick]

But you never, ever listen when I say posthumous disservice.

[Todd Fritz]

That was so well said.

[Dan Patrick]

But I will say to you, are you sure you want to do this? And you'll go, yes. I go, okay. Are you sure you want to do this?

[Todd Fritz]

In my stupidity, I'm like, I'm all in. I already wrote it. We're going to do it. I'm going in the back, and we're going to record it. It's too late now.

[Paulie]

Posthumous Disservice was an old New York hardcore band, if I'm not mistaken, ladies

[Dan Patrick]

and gentlemen, Posthumous Disservice.

[Paulie]

Like, they toured early days of Metallica, maybe double bill.

[Dan Patrick]

They might have been with the Ramones. When you went on stage with Darius Rucker, I said, one song, Todd. One song.

[Todd Fritz]

My hands in my pocket.

[Dan Patrick]

I kept telling you one song. Kept telling you one song. And you blew right through the stop sign.

[Todd Fritz]

What I heard at the end of singing the first song, we want more. They weren't saying that in my head. They were like, please, one more.

[Dan Patrick]

No, they were saying, wonder why I

[Guest Singer]

call you all the time.

[Dan Patrick]

What can I say?

[Guest Singer]

I don't feel the need to give such secrets away. You think maybe I need help?

[Dan Patrick]

No, I know I'm right.

[Guest Singer]

All right.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. So there's. There's 6, 000 people in the audience.

[Paulie]

That is why they paid to be there.

[Dan Patrick]

They did a lot of money to be there. Oh, they paid all right.

[Todd Fritz]

They didn't sign up for that. They're like, dallas Rucker is what I paid my ticket for.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, my goodness. Yes.

[Todd Fritz]

Marvin and Darius, after Fritz, he performs the first song.

[Dan Patrick]

He looks over at you. I know.

[Carlos Boozer]

I always pay.

[Todd Fritz]

My bed.

[Dan Patrick]

I know. I know, man.

[Todd Fritz]

He's gonna do another song.

[Dan Patrick]

Darius lost a bet. Todd. Todd got to sing two songs. Then I backstage with Todd and his wife, and I said, hey, one song, right? No, no, no, no. I think I'm gonna do two. I said do one.

[Todd Fritz]

I was so nervous, yet why would. I don't understand why I would do a second song. I'm standing there with my hands in my pocket. I'm looking down at the screen to make sure I got the words right while I'm singing. Yet I wanted to do it a second time. Was weird.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, Paul.

[Marvin]

But if Todd had basic human awareness, none of this content would be here.

[Dan Patrick]

That is true, right? That is, That's. That. That is true. So I would rather have this, you know, the train wreck that it usually is. But I will say got up there with his hands in his pocket and just. He sang as if he was Daryl Hall. You did?

[Todd Fritz]

I took it very seriously, but Paulie

[Dan Patrick]

put it very well that way.

[Todd Fritz]

No, but I am in my own world, and I guess if that creates some contact, being in my own world and in denial about how things sound versus how I think I want them to sound, then it's all good.

[Dan Patrick]

Michael in Fort Wayne. Good morning, Michael. What's on your mind today?

[Caller]

This whole segment dedicated to Todd Bombing. I just wanted to talk about Jim Boeheim. He was on your show last Friday. I used to think that his take on expanding the college tournament was crazy. Now I know it's crazy. That's got to be one of the worst takes heard to open up the tournament. And everybody wins. The coaches win because more coaches get in.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I know, I know that, that, that I had a problem with that. You want to expand it to 96 and. Thank you, Michael. Mad bad connection there. But, you know, these coaches, their jobs hinge on making the tournament or advancing in the tournament or getting incentives in their contracts. But I, I, at some point, it's just too many. But if I'm TNT or whoever's, you know, cbs, any of the true tv, like, I want content, and if I get content and, you know, we'll pay extra money. And you as a, you know, a viewer probably go, hey, I'm fine with it. Like, But I, you know, I guess I go, let's draw a line and make sure we're getting the best teams in. And Jim Boeheim's argument was, hey, there's a lot of really good teams that don't make it, but they should. That, yes, you're going to put in the automatic qualifiers, but you still some of These teams are in tough conferences and why not just expand, you know, the Tuesday and Wednesday and I'm like, I get it, but I don't want 96 teams in. Dan in Indiana. Hi, Dan, what's on your mind?

[Caller]

Hey Dan, you know the guy that called in? Want to know what holiday is the best one to have your birthday on? I say Valentine's Day. You know, I mean if, if you're not going to get any for Valentine's Day, you'll certainly get some for your birthday. So you may even get it twice that day.

[Dan Patrick]

Alrighty. He's talking about chocolate. I think he's talking about chocolate. Cameron in Indiana. I can.

[Caller]

Yeah, so. Hey guys, so I got a couple of things for you. So I know in the end of the NFL season you'll hear about a player that needs one catch for, you know, whatever it is, $500,000. So they just got me thinking that the only way to fix the NBA and their load management issue is to have GMs just operate solely on incentive based contracts. If I'm a gm, I'm not given any, any guaranteed money because that takes away the, takes away the incentive of playing for your money.

[Dan Patrick]

So, so if you got paid by wins, you got paid by making an all star team, all defensive team.

[Marvin]

Yeah, Paul, but ownership is going to task the GM with the tanking. The GM is not going to do it blind. If you're one of these teams like Utah, the owner goes to you and says, do whatever you can to get us a top five pick.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, well, Mark Cuban said that a couple of years ago on the show cost him $600,000. But he said, hey, we were tanking and it's, it's front office tanking. Well, we'll talk some college basketball and we'll talk about Prince as well. Carlos Boozer involved in both of those, ACC network analyst, former Dukey, and of course his two sons playing for the Blue Devils. He'll join us coming up next. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekday 9:00am Eastern, 6:00am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast Straight fire with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod, pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the

[Todd Fritz]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Carlos Boozer]

Dan, how you doing, man? Good morning. It comes up, it comes up often for those that know the story.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, the one thing that stands out because when you told us the story that you rented your house in LA to Prince and then you came back, how long did he rent that house for?

[Carlos Boozer]

He rented it for a year. Okay, he rented it for a year?

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. And then you come back after a year?

[Carlos Boozer]

No, so he rented it for me for a year. I had tore my hamstring in Utah when I was playing for the Jazz. Came to LA to get physical therapy and I popped in on, I called him a couple times, hadn't heard from him, popped up at the house and it's my first big purchase. By the way, I'm a young 21 year old guy, bought this huge house in Bel Air trying to show off, you know what, go for it. And then rented out the Prince because I'm not gonna be there for eight months, going to be in Utah anyway. And I get there and everything is purple. You know, my wife at the time had decorated the house beautifully. Italian rugs and all this fancy stuff that I have no idea what it is. And then I come in and he basically turned all the rugs purple and black. He had his picture everywhere in the house. One of the cool things that he did that my kids actually liked is he turned my weight room into like a nightclub. He had a DJ booth and like a disco ball. My kids kind of thought that was kind of cool. But other than that, I was, I was livid. But he ended up changing it all back before he moved out.

[Dan Patrick]

He doesn't ask for any. He's not saying if he can have permission to do any of this stuff. Ah.

[Carlos Boozer]

I mean, he was basically playing 95 grand a month and he's Prince. So, you know, he get, he gets, he gets grace when he's Prince when most of, most of us Were was born to his music and then he was on Tour doing his 3121 album. So he was kind of hard to reach, but did not ask for permission. But he did change it back, and I appreciated that.

[Dan Patrick]

But did he leave you anything? You got any memorabilia from Prince?

[Carlos Boozer]

I did get a signed photo that him and I took when he signed the. The lease agreement when we met.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, no. You need a guitar or something like that.

[Carlos Boozer]

That's what I should have got, right?

[Dan Patrick]

Absolutely. Well, thank you for sharing again, because it feels like whenever that story kind of surfaces once a year and I like poor Carlos, you got to tell that story again and again and again. You were there with. So LeBron's rookie year in Cleveland. That was your second year. So that. That's the only year you play with LeBron, right?

[Carlos Boozer]

Correct. Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Carlos Boozer]

We also shared some Olympics and All Star Games together.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, but he. That he makes his debut in Sacramento, right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. What do you remember?

[Carlos Boozer]

Fight against the Kings, who were loaded.

[Dan Patrick]

What do you remember about that night? The hype around LeBron making his debut?

[Carlos Boozer]

That was nuts, man. Because I was there in Cleveland the year before we got LeBron and they weren't that excited to have us and said there was probably. It seemed like there was 300 cameramen at the baseline. If you go back to that film and watch the warm ups like, we. We had a hard time warming up because that arena, the Arco arena, was kind of tight on the baselines. And so we had so much media trying to get every move that he made, every. Every warm up dunk that he was doing between the legs and all these windmills and different things. And it was. It was difficult just to warm up. But I'll tell you, during the game, he was outstanding, man. He played terrific. Obviously we lost to a much better team. Older veteran group with Chris Weber and Stojakovic and Vivac and those guys, Mike Bibby, they were loaded, but he put on a show, man. He had a hell of a game for his first game in the NBA as a true 18 year old. And obviously you guys know the rest is history. Became one of the best players we've ever seen.

[Dan Patrick]

But if I would have told you that night, that guy is still going to be playing and might be playing when your sons go into the NBA.

[Carlos Boozer]

Yeah, there's no way I would have believed that. The fact that he's still playing and I retired in 2017 and started my career before him is remarkable. Like his genes and his work ethic and how he Takes care of his body is a testament to his greatness. It's, it's impressive that literally if he decides to come back next year, he'll be playing with one of my sons. That's, that's incredible.

[Dan Patrick]

When did your sons get their first recruiting letters?

[Carlos Boozer]

I would say about 8th grade. 7th. 8th grade. They were like 13, 12, 13, 14 years old and started getting some, some notoriety nationwide.

[Dan Patrick]

And how did you and their mom deal with that, getting recruited that early?

[Carlos Boozer]

Yeah, I mean, we're excited. Obviously you get excited when you, you realize your kids following their passion and they're, and they're getting recognized by some of the best coaches in the country. Very excited for the, the possibility of what their future might look like.

[Dan Patrick]

But the recruiting of you as opposed to your sons.

[Carlos Boozer]

No, I stay out of it. I told, I told the boys and I told their mom. I was like, I don't want colleges recruiting, dad. I'm not going to be the one that's going to be there at 6am for workouts. I'm not going to be there at 2 in the morning getting ready for, you know, crashing for an exam. They have to recruit the boys and the boys have to make that decision for themselves to see if they want to go to that school. They like that coach, they like the team and how their make the makeup is, do they have a chance to win a championship, all those kind of things. So I didn't go to any of the recruiting visits. I just, I got all the notes from, from, from the boys when they got back, got the notes from mom when they got back and literally let the boys make their own decision. And they also, you know, to be quite frank, they could have chosen a path of going their individual ways if they wanted to. You know, if it was best for Kaden to go somewhere else, if it was best for Cam to go to a different place, we would have welcomed that as well. But they made the choice together to stay together because it was going to be the last time that they got to choose to play together. Obviously the NBA, you never know what's going to happen down the road. You know, God willing, they get to play together in the NBA, but, you know, thinking that this year could be the last year that they actually play together or something that we all had in mind.

[Dan Patrick]

When did Cameron get better than you?

[Carlos Boozer]

That's a good question. I would probably say right around like 16, 17. I stopped playing, playing the kids one on one. I wanted to retire undefeated. I got that goal in mind. But you know, as a dad. Think about this, though. As a dad, your dad is the only person that wants their sons to be better than them. Every other man wants to be better than the next man. So I'm proud of my kids for being better than me and having more skills and being able to do more with that basketball than I could.

[Dan Patrick]

He's Carlos Boozer, ACC Network basketball analyst, joining us on behalf of DraftKings. How are you as an analyst with the ACC games? How are you as an analyst with Duke games?

[Carlos Boozer]

Yeah, very different. It's. It's difficult for me because I'm such a dad, and I'm obviously always coaching and trying to figure out ways to get my kids better and get them prepared for what lies ahead. So. But, you know, as an analyst, you try to be, you know, unboxing, biased and. But come on, man. You know, I got Duke blood running through my body. I'm rooting for Duke like crazy. This is my. This is my. My most exciting time of the year. Also want to tell the listeners out there, go to DraftKings. They're putting together this super apps. You can go to one location and have all your fun there and be responsible out there. Don't go crazy, but enjoy responsible at DraftKings. For me, I would say it's harder being a dad watching than being a player because you have all this anxiety. You want to get out there and jump in and play with your kids and have them do what you see from the sideline. As a player, you actually get to go get a rebound and go to the screen and go make a basket. But I'm proud of my kids no matter what, though.

[Dan Patrick]

What was your favorite Mike Krzyevsky story?

[Carlos Boozer]

Man, there's so many. I mean, I remember we lost the game, and he felt like we didn't attack that game, that we were too passive and on our heels. And we had a game coming up, and the next game, we go in the locker room and there's a white piece of paper that's covered the locker room all over the place. White pieces of paper everywhere. We can't even sit down in our lockers. On the paper is, in small black letters is the word attack. And then they have. We have a big TV in the room. They're playing that Braveheart scene. I think it's Mel Gibson. Yeah, it's like riding on the horse, and he's getting the. The guys ready to go into battle. And then Coach K comes somersaulting in and is like, let's attack. Like, screaming it like that. Now Mind you, let me set the stage. This is Coach K. He's won championships. He's been coach of the year. He's one of the most decorated coaches of all time. He's got two hip replacement surgeries and he treated, he treated every. Like he had something to prove. So our group, I'm 17, 18 years old, I'm a teenager. And seeing the legend that he is do that for us to get us motivated was like, man, if we don't attack this game, then what the hell are we doing? You know what I mean?

[Dan Patrick]

Coach K did a somersault in the locker room.

[Carlos Boozer]

Somersault with two hip replacements. Unbelievable.

[Dan Patrick]

Is there video of this?

[Carlos Boozer]

I don't. Maybe. I don't know. I didn't have a video out. I was. I was in the moment, but maybe.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, my God. I remember when I went to a game, Leitner and Hurley were there, and I went to a game and then somebody said, hey, if you get a chance, go to practice because you're going to change your opinion of Coach K. And I go, what do you mean? I go, if you see him in practice and he is a different. Like, he was, I don't want to say maniacal, but, man, was he on fire. And he demanded, he demanded greatness. And I. It was one of those where you go, wow, they, they're not lying like he is. And he's going after Leitner, he's going after Hurley. He didn't, it didn't matter. He's going to, he's going to take you to task there.

[Carlos Boozer]

Yeah. I mean, Coach Kate, one of the, one of his brilliant abilities is to be able to get the most out of his players. Right. Like, he's able to get guys like I was from Juneau, Alaska, Shane Baddies from the Michigan, Jay Willis from Jersey, Donald Beast from Oregon. You know, just, just talk about us. For all of us that are player of the year in our state or Gatorade player of the year, we're McDonald's, all Americans. He's able to bring us together and strip us of our individual ego, to build us up to have one collective ego where we need the guy next to us. And that's a rare talent to have, especially going from an era where there's guys that are staying in college for three or four years, like Leitner, Grant and like we did, and then moving into the one and done era that happened for so long and still having the success that he had. It's an incredible ability. And it takes, it takes a guy who's had star players like, he's coaching us the same way he coached that group. And they won back to back championships and went to four final fours. And he's coaching every player that's come through Duke has left a better player after playing for coach.

[Dan Patrick]

Guy, you grew up on a military base in Alaska.

[Carlos Boozer]

My dad was in the military, yeah, man.

[Dan Patrick]

What do you think of the cold weather?

[Carlos Boozer]

I'm used to it. I love Juneau, man. I opened my eyes to a different way of life. I snowboard, I go fishing, I go camping and hiking and.

[Dan Patrick]

But what about finding competition in Juneau, Alaska?

[Carlos Boozer]

Yeah. I mean, early on, it was a lot of competition when I was young, but as I got older, it was tough. And so travel ball, you know, playing on the, on the circuit, you know, down in, down in California, in New York and, you know, states where they had more competition for me ended up being the right route for me. I played for EBO Darren Matzoboros travel team and got a chance to play against the best players in the country.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, good luck with the ACC Network and of course, joining us on behalf of DraftKings, one of the most exciting places to experience March Madness. You get the DraftKings sportsbook, a proud sponsor of this program. Predictions, daily fantasy sports. Thanks again, Carlos. We appreciate it. Great to see you.

[Carlos Boozer]

Appreciate you, Dan. Great to see you too.

[Dan Patrick]

That's Carlos Boozer having to retell the Prince story again. It's just such a great story.

[Marvin]

He got to meet Prince, signing the lease.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, yeah, but you rented to Prince. And what is he, 21 years of age, buys this mansion he's living. He's in Utah playing for the Jazz. You're just checking in periodically and Prince isn't calling you back. Next thing you know, you're like, what, What? What'd you do to the house? It's all purple. Guest hut.

[Todd Fritz]

And then on top of that story, he tells us a story where coach Kate does a somersault.

[Dan Patrick]

I never heard that story. Two hip replacement, Paulie, we gotta find out. Yeah.

[Marvin]

On it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Yes, Marvin.

[Todd Fritz]

And I love the fact that he bought this big mansion in Bel Air. He was a second round draft pick.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Todd Fritz]

So the Utah money was his first real money that he saw. Like, you know what? I'm gonna spend all this money, $95,000 a month to rent that house out. Well, that Prince did.

[Dan Patrick]

But then Prince would have been the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

[Marvin]

All right.

[Todd Fritz]

Nice. I like it.

[Dan Patrick]

You got it. You got it.

[Todd Fritz]

Done. Took a couple seconds. Nice.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Todd Fritz]

I was on delay there for a second.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Paulie]

Carlos Boozer, underappreciated storyteller.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Paulie]

He. Every time he comes on, he's got a million stories with incredible detail. A great storyteller.

[Dan Patrick]

Imagine that. They. They've got all of these pieces of paper all over the floor. They're playing Braveheart. And then Coach K does a summer song.

[Marvin]

Yes, Paul, I can find no other record of this story except for Carlos Boozer telling it here, and I think he told it on a podcast. But I can't find any other former Duke player or Shashevsky talking about the somersault.

[Dan Patrick]

Todd, would you reach out to Duke?

[Todd Fritz]

Absolutely.

[Dan Patrick]

Just maybe the sports information director or Coach K. Maybe Coach Cake. Just tell him we want him to come on and just tell the summer song story. That'll be it. We don't need to talk about anything else. By the way, just got this sent to our Twitter account. I would like to thank Fritzi. My dad has been paralyzed for 10 years, but when Todd started singing one dining moment, he got up and walked across the room and shut off the radio.

[Todd Fritz]

Glad I could help.

[Marvin]

Making miracles.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

Wow.

[Todd Fritz]

What a wonderful thing.

[Dan Patrick]

That's. That's from Ross Van Houten. Thank you, Ross. And we'll take a break. We're back after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our [e-mail] and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live.

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[Dan Patrick]

Seaton, would you update the poll results?

[Paulie]

I would be happy to. We got a few of them working right now. The NCAA tournament starts tonight or Thursday. 82% have that as Thursday. Here's one from Todd, you're more excited to watch the NCAA first four world Baseball championship game or neither, actually. Right now, baseball is winning that with about 57% of the vote. And a better song from Todd, One dining moment or Quizzical. Right Now, Quizzical's got 56% of that vote.

[Dan Patrick]

Wait.

[Paulie]

And I think I agree with it.

[Dan Patrick]

You didn't give neither as an option.

[Paulie]

Hey, I did not.

[Todd Fritz]

Why are we skewing negative?

[Dan Patrick]

We'll talk to John Smoltz. He'll be on the call tonight for the World Baseball Classic championship game. Reggie Miller will join us as well. The latest odds from DraftKings. Duke is your favorite, slight favorite against Michigan in second place, followed by my Arizona Wildcats, then Florida. So the top four, it's. It's certainly top heavy with those four schools. Houston is plus 1300. They were plus 1000 yesterday. Iowa State plus 1800. They were plus 1500 yesterday. What's going on here? Illinois plus 2200. They were plus 1900 yesterday. Yukon plus 3000. They were plus 2500 yesterday. It's a top heavy final, or I shouldn't say final four, but it looks like that with Duke, Michigan, Arizona in Florida. Fritzi feels like you're gonna have three number ones making it to the final four and a number two seed.

[Todd Fritz]

Definitely looking. Looking like it's going in that bullet point.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Todd Fritz]

I've been very successful with the three ones and the two.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, you'll. I'm not going to guess how you're going to fill this out, but I have an idea how you're going to fill this out. But let's. So anybody filled out their brackets yet? Todd has.

[Todd Fritz]

I have.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. You want to give me your final four?

[Todd Fritz]

My final.

[Dan Patrick]

Let me see if I can guess. Duke, Michigan, Florida, Connecticut.

[Todd Fritz]

You got two of them, right? We could play, like, prices, right?

[Dan Patrick]

No, no, no. Just tell me.

[Todd Fritz]

I've got Duke in Houston. I've got Purdue in Michigan, and Duke beating Michigan by a score of 84.79.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, so you don't have three numbers.

[Todd Fritz]

I don't. I mix it up a little bit. Duke, Houston, Purdue, Michigan. And according to that graphic we put up, Purdue is like, in the eighth spot.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Todd Fritz]

To go all the way. All right, I have him in the

[Dan Patrick]

final four, and you can join Celebrity Bracket Challenge. You can sign up now, Dan patrick.com or on our social media platforms. Tripp in Vegas. Welcome back, Trip. What's on your mind?

[Caller]

Good morning, dp. Always a pleasure to speak with y'. All. Last week, we are talking About Wilt Chamberlain, I had a few things I was curious about. With him boasting over 20,000 women in his life, isn't he the true scoring leader? And wouldn't he also be the originator of load management?

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you, Tripp. Let's see. Curtis in Indiana. Hi, Curtis. What's on your mind?

[Caller]

Good morning, Dan. Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I have an idea to improve the NCAA tournament. There's 31 Division 1 automatic conference seats. And my idea is relegation, where you would take the bottom 16 based on their RPI rankings and they would have to play each other off. And that would allow the NCAA to have eight more games and also allow eight more at large teams to get into the tournament to still keep it at the the perfect number.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, I don't know what the perfect number is. I thought we had the perfect number a couple of times prior to finding a new perfect number. I don't know what that perfect number is, but I do think they're going to beef up the Tuesday and Wednesday games. Nobody's going to be bothered by that. And then we'll start the tournament on Thursday. Jeff in Tampa. Hi, Jeff. What's on your mind?

[Caller]

Hey, dp. Good morning. I'm just calling, you know, because the WBC has blown me away. Dp, uh, I paid zero attention. The NCAA tournaments so far, uh, it's definitely become the premier, you know, every couple year events to me. But I was just trying to think of ways, if you can help me out of how they can take it to the next level. Like akin to how the 92 dream team really globalized basketball. Because right now you got like, the Italian team has no real Italians, everyone's team has no real people from the Netherlands. So maybe. Any ideas? The only one I could think of was maybe to have it on, on those in those countries, because having it there live might inspire the population. And rumor has it that letting the 92 dream team loose on the nightlife in Barcelona greatly improved the gene pool there.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, well, thank you, Jeff. I don't know if you can make it much bigger because it's spring training. I do think that there was a sense of there was tension with it. Like there was anticipation, there was excitement, there was passion. And certain players playing for their country. It will just bring out the best in them, it'll bring out passion, and we'll talk to John Smoltz about this. I don't know if you can make it that Olympic feel, a World cup feel, but you got to get everybody who's Willing to play. But I think what they've done, they got a lot of eyeballs on this, and I think it's. It's been very exciting. I mean, you would obviously love to have Shohei against the United States. You'd love to have that, But I think it's been pretty exciting. Joe in Connecticut. Hi, Joe. What's on your mind?

[Caller]

Hey, Dan. Happy St. Patrick's Day. 5, 10, 200 pounds I get. I just like to weigh in on the poll question. My son's birthday was New Year's Eve. I think that's a great birthday because the whole world's partying. And just for you, I also got the tax write off. I think that's a great birthday. What do you think?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, thank you, Joe. Yeah. You know, it's New Year's Eve. Everybody's going to be excited. I don't know if you're going to be able to celebrate your birthday at. At the house. You know, if you're getting. Getting gifts, if you're younger. I mean, once you get to be, you know, in your 20s. Yeah, you're right. Everybody's celebrating. I don't. I don't know. Seems like Christmas is the one you don't want, because then you're like, wait a minute. Is this a birthday gift or is this a Christmas gift? You get less Tim in Arizona. Hi, Tim.

[Caller]

Hey, good morning, Dan. So I live in Arizona, and I went to all of the spring training ballparks this year in Arizona, and then I drove all the way out to Florida, and I have one more ballpark to go to after today, but I'm also a big fan of the minor league ballparks, and I'm wondering if the Dan Patrick guys to Dennis. You guys have a favorite minor league ballpark that I should go check out, or maybe your favorite logo team or whatever. And lastly, today's my daughter's birthday. St. Patty's Day. Girl would love for you guys. I wish her happy birthday.

[Dan Patrick]

And her name is what, Tim?

[Caller]

Her name is Jamie Rose. She's named after Pete Rose. She even has 4256 tattooed on her.

[Dan Patrick]

On her leg.

[Caller]

She's all in.

[Dan Patrick]

Named after Jamie Moyer and Pete Rose, apparently. Happy birthday. Happy Jamie Rose and Jamie Moyer. Okay. I always wanted to go to the Isotopes. Was that Albuquerque Isotopes? I don't know if there's a. Like, I like Scottsdale Stadium for spring training. I think that's. That's just fun. But I. I mean, I did all of those in Florida and all of those in Arizona, but there's not one where I go. Boy, this is Scottsdale Stadium is great because then you can walk into old Scottsdale, you can stay there, restaurants there. It's very convenient. Yeah.

[Marvin]

Paulie, there's another one we went to a bunch of years ago. I think it used to be the A's. And that was the angels Tempe Diablo 7 with those red Papago peaks.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

Very cool.

[Dan Patrick]

Coming up, John Smoltz will join us. And Reggie Miller, more of your phone calls as well. Make sure you fill out a [e-mail] the celebrity bracket Challenge Fritz he's still corralling celebrities to be in the celebrity bracket challenge. Two hours in the books on the St. Patrick's Day final hour, right around the corner.

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