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Dan Patrick
DAN OF THE DAN that's Dan Patrick Show. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. If you'd like to be part of the program, Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the program. We say good morning. Those watching on Peacock download the app if you haven't done so if you'd like to watch the program, Todd's here, Dylan's here, Marv, Paulie, yours truly, and of course, the back room. Guys, we have a new poll question for hour two. We'll talk to Reggie Miller. He'll join us next hour. He's on the call for tonight's Game five in okc. With the Thunder favored by five and a half, the Thunder are still the favors favorites to win the title according to DraftKings +1.10, the Knicks +2.10 and then the Spurs +2.70. So even your MVP odds, SGA is still a favorite over Jalen Brunson, then Wemby, and then Carl Anthony Towns. But it's about the Knicks. They move forward. They do it in dramatic fashion from the standpoint of they didn't give anybody a chance and Cleveland had a chance in Game 1. The Knicks are the only team to have five wins by 29 points or more in a single postseason. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. You know, in the NBA, you can build up a big lead and then you could lose a big lead, but to hold on to a big lead is kind of surprising unless the opposition is helping you. And it felt like that with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But they've won 11 consecutive playoff games. That's tied for the third longest winning streak in a single postseason. Only the 2017 Golden State warriors, who won 15 in a row, and the 1999 San Antonio spurs, who won 12 in a row, had more consecutive wins in a postseason.
Rob Parker
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Dan Patrick
We did talk about the Cavaliers moving forward. Is there a better chance, maybe a little higher percentage, that LeBron might entertain a possible reunion with the Cavaliers? Now, the only reason why I say that is if they had gotten to the Finals with James Harden. I don't think you're moving on from James Harden. And are you moving on from James Harden after you gave up a point guard who's 10 years younger than James Harden and Darius Garland? I didn't like the move. I understood Cleveland was swinging for the fences, but why am I going to bring in a guy who might be helpful during the regular season, but not during the postseason, if that's what it's all about? James Harden is not the guy. But James Harden has never been the guy in the postseason. But look, this a. This a team loss. Donovan Mitchell, you know, he was trying to implore his teammates like, don't give up. Don't quit. But it just felt like, hey, we're going to mail this One in. And it certainly looked like that yesterday. Poll question for hour two is going to be what? Dylan?
Dylan
Well, Dan, do you want a quick recap of our one poll?
Podcast Host
Sure.
Dylan
If you're the Knicks, who would you rather face in the finals, Thunder or Spurs? 58% say the Spurs.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Dylan
Our two poll. Dan, we got a couple options. One, did the Cavaliers quit? Yes or no. Or if we come up with another term that we think is maybe more appropriate.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I was trying to come up with something that's not as harsh as quitting, because, you know, me sitting in my chair here telling a professional athlete they quit. I, you know, if a coach wants to say that or a fellow teammate wants to say that or the opposition wants to say that, then fine. But I think when you say quit, we throw it out there and it may look like, you know, the aesthetics were not good at all. It wasn't like, man, you know, we're going to be hustling here. Hey, we're still, we're, we're, they're going to have to, you know, take us out. We're not going down without a fight. And then all of a sudden, yeah, you're going down without a fight. But I don't know if there's a better word or maybe expression. I don't want to say deflated. Chris and Syracuse offered that up last hour. Yes.
Dylan
Dylan, what about, and this is a term I'm very familiar with, mailed it in. It's not quite. You quit.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Dylan
You didn't necessarily max it out, though
Dan Patrick
I do use mail it in quite a bit. I'm, I'm okay with that. I'm comfortable with saying somebody mailed it in. Put it, put a stamp on it. Mailed it in. Yes.
Paulie
Paul, here's another phrase. Resigned to one's fate to passively accept a negative outcome. Resign to one's fate. I think that fits with what you're looking at on the court. They, they knew this series was over and their play matched it.
Dan Patrick
But I thought our goal was to come up with one word.
Paulie
Trying.
Dan Patrick
You know, I can't say resigned.
Paulie
How about they were uncompetitive in the second half?
Dan Patrick
Non competitive. Yeah, yeah. Yes.
Dylan
Dylan, what if we, that's the poll question as we throw those three, four terms out there and see what people resonate with the most.
Dan Patrick
Sure.
Todd
Okay.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, why not? 877, 3DP. Show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. So Reggie will join us next hour. You got spurs at the Thunder, Avalanche at my Golden Knights Game 4. Hurricanes over the Canadians in overtime. So it was a busy weekend. I watched both men's and women's lacrosse championships. One on Sunday, one on Monday. I watched the entire game, the entire match. Northwestern ended up beating North Carolina. The women's lacrosse championship. Little bit of a surprise. That was a home win for Northwestern. And then Princeton dominated Notre Dame yesterday. It was fun, you know, and it's one of those. Watch some of the Indy 500, of course, you know, a photo finish there. You had sort of. I watched some golf, you know, kind of those peripheral sports, and you're like, all right, you know, got a chance. I locked in on lacrosse. I'm like, all right, I'm enjoying this. As for the Indy 500, this is how it sounded.
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Caller Johanse
Hey, Dan, thank you so much for taking my call, man. I love the show. Been listening forever, man. Thank you so much. It's. It's Johanse, just like Beyonce.
Dan Patrick
Oh, okay.
Caller Johanse
Yes, sir. I got two simple questions. That's it. So these players, man, they. They want to get paid hundreds of millions of dollars. They want to be a For General. They want to be the man, but they can't call a timeout. Why is the responsibility of a timeout only on the coach? I mean, you watch your team go from 20 up to single. And players, they're on. Are they not on the court or something? Why can't the players be held responsible for calling the timeout? And my second question. I love the wnba. I'm watching Cameron Brink of the LA Sparks, and she just took a shot to the grill this weekend. She was bleeding like A UFC prize fighter didn't fall to the ground, didn't come out of the. Didn't even want to come out of the game. No foul was called. SGA Looks like a flopping simp with these phantom touches. Fall to the ground. If it's really so physical, how come he never falls to the ground on defense?
Dan Patrick
And what else?
Caller Johanse
Yeah, unless you want to show me undercover tape of an owner saying they're taking this season, you can't definitively prove taking, and you set up a whole task force to do something about it. Hello, NBA. Adam Silver. Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Do something. This product is disgusting. It doesn't even have to be anything major. Why can't they just allow a technical file to be reviewed? And if it's deemed to be a definitive file, flop, it's your technical fault?
Dan Patrick
All right, that's Johanse. Like Beyonce in Atlanta. Can you call a technical on somebody who is flopping? I think that's what he's trying to say. Now, I could call a foul on them, but I can't call a technical on them. Yeah, Cameron Brink, she got busted in the nose still out there. There's a lot of physicality. They let it go in the wnba. Whoo. Man. I, I, you know, I get. I grow tired of seeing Caitlin Clark complain every time. You know, it's like a luca. You know, it's. There's going to be contact, okay? You, You. You're a marked person. They have to be physical with you. They have to body you. They have to get close to you. They can't give you a step because you're going to hit that. But I'm watching, and it feels like every time down the floor, she's looking, pleading, you got to play. You know they're coming after you, and the more you complain, the more they're going to come after you. Yes, Marvin.
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Dan Patrick
I know everybody's an expert on the WNBA because they started watching when Caitlin Clark came in the wnba. There is physicality there. I don't find the flopping with the WNBA like I do with the NBA. I mean, Caitlin Clark is going to try to draw a foul, you know, or she's pleading for a foul and they are physical with her. Make no mistake about that. But it's been physical prior to her arrival. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
It is sort of reminiscent of the women's national team in soccer versus the men's. Or it's like there. It seemed to be like a tougher product there for a while. Or there's a lot less of that. Like, flopping is not really a thing as much where obviously in men's pro soccer, it's a massive thing.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. The same with what we're seeing in the NBA with sga. We hate seeing the best player get away with some things that seem to be beneath him. But until this is on the NBA, because the player will plead, but he's not the one who's got a whistle. If you don't like it, then let the. The officials know together. Let's stop calling this. Let's stop allowing this. Yes, Paulie.
Paulie
There was a play from the other day with SGA pulling up for a two pointer and dear. And Fox, he doesn't even graze him. He just goes in his airspace and then backs off. And they called the foul for not letting him land. And SJ flops to the ground as if he's been bumped hard. And it got 10 million views. And for people who don't even watch a sport. It was frustrating, though.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. And I get it when you go up and you should be able to come down and have, you know, space when you land. Deer and Fox probably was crowding him just a little bit too much. There was no contact to make you fall, but he did flop and then sold it. Yes. Dylan.
Dylan
And Brunson does that, too. There was the play the other day where he basically. He could tell that he could jump into Harden, which, ironically, it was Harden, but he. It was not. He was not taking a real shot, just looking for the foul. And I know you say, like, the refs in the league allow them to do it, so they're exploiting an open loophole, but, like, there should be a little bit of onus on them to not just completely drag the entire game down with flopping.
Dan Patrick
My goal is to beat you. That's it. My. My goal is to win. This is like a legal loophole for a lawyer. Do I like it? No. I didn't grow up with that. But do I understand it? Yes. How long did we spend on Duke basketball? All the flopping that they did? It's as if they invented that there was a class you could take at Duke on flopping. And some were summa cum laude. Yes, Todd.
Todd
So what can they do? The league as far as with the refs, train them better to notice flopping. You know, they're already heavily trained. I know some are part time workers in different sports as far as being a ref, but do they just have to watch out for that? Even closer than they are.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. All you got to do is look at the film and say, this is what he does. This is what James Harden used to do. This is what Trey Young used to do. I mean, John Stockton used to set pics like that. Like, if you. If you want to call it, you can call it, but you have to a know what you're looking for and then be willing to either call it or not call it SGA. This is what he does. He went from a 24 point score to 32, 33. He shoots a lot of free throws. He got two MVPs. He's got a title. Why would he quit now? Like, man, I got away with this. Maybe I. Maybe I can stop here. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
But to use sort of that business analogy, it's like when a massive corporation takes advantage of a tax loophole and is like, we paid $0 in taxes last year. That while technically within the framework, that is allowed. You're like, well, that still sucks.
Dan Patrick
It does. No, it does. I don't like seeing sga. I think he's too good a player to need this. But I understand if they're going to give this to me. Do you think that Tony Gwynn or Wade Boggs or Rod Carew would go, you know, that. That would. That was a strike. I'm just saying you're kind of giving me too many calls here at the plate. Or you're Greg Maddox and you go, that was out of the strike zone. You shouldn't be giving me that. No, nobody's doing that. Right. These guys made a career out of this. That they got the call. Yes, Paulie.
Paulie
So SGA needs a real nickname. The loophole can be in play. There. There is a rule, Dan. I looked this up the other day two years ago. The NBA has a rule that fouls should be called on shots that are in a natural shooting motion. And they shouldn't call things where you're like twisting your body or jumping into people, but it doesn't seem like the refs are doing it. There is a rule in place, though.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. All right, take a break. More phone calls coming up. 877-3DP show we're back after this.
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Dan Patrick
Thunder by five and a half coming up tonight, game five. We'll talk to Reggie in an hour from now. Kenny Atkinson, the Cavs head coach after Game 3, thought his team had played pretty well up until that point. They had lost two of the three, but here is the Cavs head coach. Analytically, I think we've won the I said three out of three. We're two out of three. And they expected follow that because I don't expect it score, you know, and we want two out of the three. I know. No One wants to hear that.
Ray Porter
I think you guys like hearing it.
Dan Patrick
I know. You know, general public, no one wants everyone's outcome based. You know, Sure, I, I get that, too. All right, so after game three, they're down two games to one, but analytically, they had won two of three. Is he showing up for game five? Because analytically, they're still alive. So that would be odd if he shows up at the arena getting ready for game five. This is the problem sometimes with analytics. We lean so heavily on analytics instead of what is reality. Analytics can accompany you, but I wouldn't lean on it and say everything we do is based on analytics. Just ask the 76ers with the process all those years, which is still interesting when you think about, let's embrace losing. So let's have a losing culture, and then when we get better, then we'll be a winning culture. Hey, we're going to get some draft picks and we're going to be a winning culture. The spurs had a winning culture. Like, we talk, we throw that word out. You know, the Heat culture, the Patriots way. And sometimes it's just, my guys are better than your guys. But the spurs did have a culture. I thought it was really telling that Greg Popovich went into the locker room and the hall of Fame coach basically dressed down the spurs and said, that's not how we play basketball. And he had a few other choice words. So this isn't even your, your head coach, but he's Greg Popovich and that's part of the culture there that they have in San Antonio, and they came out and played differently in a must win situation. So analytically speaking, Cavaliers are still alive in the postseason. Yes, Paul?
Paulie
I would like to know as a casual fan of analytics, what he was trying to say. That their model says they're on track to win those games or they had the right stats that they wanted in those games. It's unclear to the casual fan.
Dan Patrick
I don't know if somebody followed up with the obvious question of help me understand how you should have won and you should be up to two games to one. Like, that's what I want to know. Like, analytically. Okay, what are the, what are the analytics say here? Just so I can understand what your, your viewpoint is. Because we're not looking at the same picture. I don't think. Yes, Dylan, did the analytics say to
Dylan
not use any of your timeouts in game one when you're blowing a 22 point lead?
Dan Patrick
I'm not sure. I'm, I'm guessing, like, I don't know Kenny Atkinson. I think he's done a good job. But when you say something like that and then people are going, wait a minute, what's going on? That would concern me. That, okay, you're looking at something and then you see it differently because the analytics tell you that it's like looking at a piece of art and you go, boy, that that thing is priceless. Or somebody else saying, I wouldn't give a dollar for it. Okay. The analytics say you're looking at something different than I am. We're looking at the same thing. You're just seeing it in a different light. Yes, Todd.
Todd
It comes across to me anyway, at best as big time denial and at worst that he's having some kind of disturbance or he's just not good. Talking to the media. It just, it seemed like he was having a medical episode. That's how bizarre between the analytics and just what he said about, you know, off the. Off Game four and blaming the schedule and not having enough days of rest, which every team has to deal with these kind of things at some point during the postseason, just seemed bizarre more than anything else.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Paulie
Paul, I found an article on cleveland.com that talks a little bit more about what Atkinson was saying. He's saying is they took the shots we wanted them to take. We took the shots we wanted us to take, and they overachieved by hitting those shots that we wanted them to take. They wanted the Knicks to take more threes. The Knicks usually don't hit a ton of threes, but they did. So it's like the plan was the plan they wanted. The result was not.
Dan Patrick
Well, it happened the entire series.
Paulie
Right.
Dan Patrick
So you might say a quarter, a half, maybe a game, but it was the entire series. So at what point do you say maybe the analytics aren't working here? Yes.
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Dan Patrick
I mean, I. I'd love to have another game. I mean, I. Knicks would probably like to have a scrimmage here. Yes.
Todd
Todd, does Dan Gilbert bring a coach in and said, you know, the analytics said we need to let you go. Based on the analytics of what games there we thought we were going to win, and on paper we won, but we didn't really win them.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. You have to have a true assessment of your team, though. Yeah. Like James Harden saying we're the better team. Okay. I mean, I kind of like it that you got your guys back, but you're not better than the Knicks. You didn't play better than the Knicks. You personally didn't play well at all. To say that we're better than the Knicks. If you had been better, maybe you're better than the Knicks, maybe. But the Knicks situation feels like the guy who has a drinking problem, but he keeps blaming the bartender for giving him drinks. You're the problem. You got to remedy that problem. Yes, Dylan?
Dylan
I kind of had an issue just with that question that the reporter asked Harden, though, because it's a lose. Like, you can't answer it. Like, if you either say, like, yeah, we're actually way worse than them, or you say, well, we just got swept, but we're better.
Dan Patrick
Okay. No, ask me the question.
Dylan
Do you think the Knicks are the better team?
Dan Patrick
I think that they played better their style. They were. They were better prepared. And there's things that, you know, we'll look at and we'll be better next year in this situation. Keep in mind, you know, the Knicks lost to the Pacers last year, and you could say that the Knicks were better than the Pacers. We have to be better. We have to be better. Give credit to the Knicks, you know, this isn't a blame game. Give credit to them. They did beat us. They beat us soundly. And hopefully we'll regroup and we'll be back here next year. How's that?
Dylan
That's pretty good.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. David in Ohio. Hi, David. Then we'll give you our best and worst of the weekend. Thanks for holding, David.
Caller Johanse
Hey, Dan, got a best of the weekend for you. The New York Knicks are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999 after sweeping the Cabs in dominant fashion. But don't worry, Cavs fans, you can still raise the banner.
Caller Zach
Taylor Swift attended one of our games
Caller Johanse
because the second she walked in, Cleveland should have said, I knew you were
Caller Zach
trouble when you walked in.
Dan Patrick
I think Mike Breen said that Travis Kelsey was there with his fiance without saying Taylor Swift. I thought that was funny. Everybody knew. I think he was having fun with it. And then, you know, Travis courtside, pounding beers. Ah, that's love. That is love. Let's go around the room. Best and worst of the weekend. Todd, how about you?
Todd
Best of the weekend. I'm giving it to the Golden Knights. Down 30 after the first period Sunday night, Vegas dances with three goals in the second to tie it. Another two in the final period to take game three. They had already won the first two in Colorado, now in position to sweep the ABS tonight on their home ice in game.
Dan Patrick
Dylan.
Todd
I want to get my worst in.
Dylan
Oh, Todd is the worst.
Dan Patrick
Oh, your microphone caught cut out there.
Todd
I was. I was clearing my throats. I didn't want to do that on the air, so I shut.
Dan Patrick
Okay, Todd. Worst of the week, the Cubs get
Todd
swept by the Astros at Wrigley. They're lost on Sunday heading into a series at Pittsburgh, their eighth straight, the most since dropping nine in a row since the 2022 season. They actually lost again yesterday in Pittsburgh, two to one. What's going on with the Cubs?
Dan Patrick
Thank you.
Dylan
That feels like that was the best for you, Todd.
Dan Patrick
Dylan.
Dylan
My best.
Cal Penn
Then.
Dylan
Princeton men's lacrosse, little men's lacks. They win their first title in 25 years. And my other best, my guy, Sungjae Im with an ace on the seventh hole at the Byron Nelson. His first hole in one since 2019 at the Players. And it was. That was a long par three.
Dan Patrick
Okay, Marvin. Best and worst of the weekend.
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Dan Patrick
Paul.
Paulie
I'm gonna give it to the other lacrosse squad, the Northwestern squad, the women's squad. I think that's their 11th title. Man, what a juggernaut. Good for Northwestern lacrosse and the other best of the weekend. I will go with Felix Rosenkivist. He's fetish and he got $4.3 million for winning the Indy 500. That last move at the end was fantastic. Great TV.
Dan Patrick
Zach in Knoxville. Good morning, Zach. What do you have for me today? Ap.
Caller Zach
Thanks for taking my call. I don't know what's worse. Kenny Atkinson saying he knows people don't want to hear it and then saying it or just not having the awareness at all. But what I wanted to ask you is do you think the cabs should one, move on from him and two, maybe let LeBron hand pick the next coach like a Steve Nash to kind of placate towards him to get him to come back?
Dan Patrick
I'm not ready to pull the plug on Kenny Atkinson. I mean, I. I don't know enough about the situation to be flippant and say, oh, they need to move on from him. I think he's. I think he's proven to be a very good coach. I just don't know the analytics. I Wish somebody would have said, help me understand the analytics. So then it. It softens it a little bit instead of saying, we actually won two or three. No, you didn't. You didn't win any of them. But to say, you know, the analytics show that we statistically were in position to win two of those three. Yes. Dylan, he also.
Dylan
He won coach of the year last year too. Right. That would be a quite the fall from grace in a short period of time if they canned him after this.
Dan Patrick
No, it's happened before.
Caller Johanse
Yeah.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I remember George Carl in Denver got fired. There's been a few coaches that get coach of the year. Did Mike Budenholzer, did he get coach of the year and then get fired or win a title and then get fired? Yes, Marvin.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah.
Paulie
Paul, Mike Brown, Monty Williams, Tom Thibodeau, Nick Nurse, Mike Budenholzer all got fired after winning coach of the year at some point.
Dan Patrick
Aiden in Utah. Hi, Aiden. Welcome back.
Caller Johanse
Hey, Dan. Yeah, good to have you guys back. Listen, I. I know. Okay. He won coach of the year between him saying James Harden is their best defender and analytically they are up to one. You gotta boot that guy out of the.
Dan Patrick
Wait, did he say Harden was their best defender?
Caller Johanse
No, Kenny AK said that. I did not say that.
Dan Patrick
No. Kenny Atkinson said James Harden is. Wait, hold on. Evan Mobley and Jared Allen are considered really good defenders. Like, they get honored as really good defenders.
Paulie
Yes, Paul, maybe Kenny Atkinson was trying to fool James Harden into believing you are really good.
Dan Patrick
You are the second coming of Gary Payton. Mitten. You are the glove. You're the mitten. Yes, Marvin, the mitten.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Either last season or the season before.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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So I think he was just trying to defend this guy.
Dan Patrick
Well, that was the only defense played in this series with James Harden. Was Kenny Atkinson defending his defense? See what I did with that, Marvin? I doubled up a loop. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
Somehow it would be even crazier to say Harden is the best defender than saying that you were analytically up two games.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, well, maybe analytically James Harden is playing was playing good defense. Maybe that's what it was. Maybe he knows somebody named Anna Lytics and maybe he's just saying, you know, according to analytics, I talked to her and she said we should be up two games to one. Yes, Paul.
Paulie
After game one, Atkinson said, quote, he's been one of our best defenders in these playoffs. Is that an indictment of the rest of the team?
Dan Patrick
Yes. I would want to know kind of where I stood on that. If I'm, if I'm, if I'm on. Give me the list here of where's James Harden if he's one of our best defenders. Terry in Seattle. Hi, Terry. What do you have for me today?
Caller Johanse
Hey, good morning, DP and fellas. Fritzi very accurately took my best of the weekend when he commented on the Golden Knight.
Caller Mike
I would just add that the Astros
Caller Johanse
three pitchers combining to no hit the Rangers was a pretty good feat last night.
Dan Patrick
Yep.
Caller Johanse
As well.
Dan Patrick
The Astros have five combined no hitters all time. That's three more than any other baseball team. But they combined to no hit the Rangers nine to nothing. The Jacob Mizarowski had 12 strikeouts, and the brewers went over the Cardinals. So 57 pitches clocked at 100 miles an hour faster. That's the most that they. They started tracking pitches in.08. So it's the most by far in a single game. But it just feels like, I mean, it's all or nothing with baseball now. It's improving. Guess how many hitters batted above.300 last year. How many players, Todd, how many players batted.300 or better? Last.
Todd
I'm gonna go with my favorite number. 11.
Dan Patrick
11. Dylan. 6. All right. Marvin.
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Dan Patrick
Paul, 33. 7. It's not important anymore. Not important. Yeah. Bill.
Todd
Yeah.
Dylan
When you see someone towards the end of the season who's batting like.303 or something, that is essentially like batting.360.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Dylan
Not that long ago.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. It just. I'm looking at Mike Trout stats yesterday. He's batting.239, but he's got, you know, decent power numbers here. It just. Nobody, like, it's just not important. Yes.
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Dan Patrick
The analytics. The analytics. Hey, get up there, take pitches, work the count. Walk, homer, strikeout. Go get them next time. Yeah. Paul.
Paulie
In 1999, MLB had 55 players that hit over.300. Because of some help, maybe.
Dan Patrick
But yeah, it's true. Oh, they had those enhanced games over the weekend.
Paulie
Yes. I was juice for those.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Paulie
Sit on that line for two days, Dan. Go ahead.
Dan Patrick
It didn't do well, ratings wise. But then add one of the host, Emmanuel Acho, who said, oh, this shows that it's not the drugs you have to put in, the time, the. The work to make the drugs work for you. I think that's what he was trying to say. But you got to tune in and see people juiced up, swimming and running and whatever else they were doing in the Enhanced Games. Yes, still.
Dylan
Is it, like, Peter Thiel or Bezos, one of those guys, the, like, main investors of the Enhanced Games? I think there's some.
Dan Patrick
I believe so. Yeah. Yeah.
Dylan
Interesting.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I believe so. Yeah.
Paulie
Paul, there's an article. Right on cue. Enhanced Games runners have enraged beef after Sprinter loses like rage. They use that word a lot in the headlines, as you can imagine.
Dan Patrick
I was. I've been around a couple people who've had roid rage, but I didn't know it at the time, but, like, it was remarkable how they went from A to Z. And I was like, damn, what is wrong with him? And then a friend of mine said, roy's. I was like, oh, God. I mean, guy was jacked, but he. It. He just flipped, and I went, oh, okay. I wouldn't even do creatine, you know? Yes. Yes.
Paulie
Boy, what if it was, like, nascar? And after, like, a swimmer won in the Enhanced Games, he thanks steroids for all the help. Like his brand name of steroid. Thank the Dynaball people. They really helped me get here.
Dan Patrick
He's got it on his Speedo Dyna balls. Yes.
Dylan
Dylan, what if we do our own Enhanced Games here at the studio? Todd and I have been bouncing the idea around of maybe dabbling with some steroids a little bit.
Dan Patrick
Sure.
Dylan
Would you be.
Dan Patrick
How about hgh?
Dylan
Oh, we're going. Yeah, we're going all the way.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Okay. Since I'm your boss and I am human resources, I would say let's not do steroids. If you sign a waiver, then I'll let you do steroids.
Dylan
I'll sign my life away. Yeah, you might do a little blood doping, too. Maybe just do them all.
Dan Patrick
Oh, you're doping, all right.
Dylan
Except I'm not. It's not enhancement.
Dan Patrick
It's not blood. Let's take a break here. More phone calls coming up. We're back after this.
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Dan Patrick
Jesse in California Good morning, Jesse. What's on Your mind.
Caller Jesse
Hi, Dan, first time caller. Thank you for taking my call. I just saw a clip of all you sports analysts doubting Brunson back in June 2022, and we signed him. I'm pretty sure you were saying that he wasn't worth 27 million. So I just want to know. My question to you is, is he worth the money? Even though he left a lot of it on the table, too.
Dan Patrick
What do you think the answer is, Jess?
Caller Johanse
Of course he's worth it.
Caller Jesse
He's worth more than it.
Dan Patrick
Absolutely. If you want to go back and check everybody who doubted him, you'll be working for a little while today. But thank you, Jess. Yeah, I didn't think he was a number one scorer. I've already said that, Jesse. I didn't think that he was a number one guy. Prove me wrong. You good now? You're good now?
Caller Jesse
No, I appreciate the call, guys. Thank you guys every morning.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Jesse. Ah, you got me, man. There's a lot of things I've been wrong on. I don't have a problem telling you I'm wrong. I have no problem. I didn't think he was the number one guy. Yes, Mark.
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Dan Patrick
They thought Donovan Mitchell would have been a better option for them. Look, he's been great. I brought up the fact that Dallas. Nobody brings up that Dallas let him go for nothing. And that was on Mark Cuban's watch. Yes, Paul.
Paulie
I went back and looked 20, 22. When Brunson left Dallas, he was averaging 16 points a game. And a lot of the articles were, was about the Knicks not getting the guy, not getting Mitchell, the guy who was a local averaging 23 points a game. It was like they settled. They didn't say it wasn't going to work out. They said they settled.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. This is a great surprise. I thought Jaren Jackson Jr. III was going to be better than Luka Doncic. I mean, he ended up being a defensive player of the year and being a really good player. He's not Luca. You know, we swing, we miss. My batting average is pretty good. I had Jalen Brunson pleasant surprise. And he's worth every penny and then some. He took less money to help his team. All of those, all great things. Yes, Dylan. Yeah.
Dylan
It is kind of a testament to getting the opportunity to, to be the number One guy, I mean, not everyone capitalize on it, but he has. And I do think it's refreshing in sports today to see someone actually take less money in the pursuit of winning a title. And you're literally watching it kind of pan out in real time too.
Dan Patrick
I've said numerous times, he's one of my favorite players to watch because there are guys that you watch and you go, I don't know how he's doing it and doing it at a high rate, doing it on a big stage. And credit to him, you know, but he, he does have the opportunity that he didn't get in Dallas. And I think that's the big, big surprise is that it was there and players know players. If you're practicing against somebody, you know that it's like, oh my God, you know, this guy can score whenever he wants to. But you have Luca. Yes. Dill.
Dylan
Do you think we'll see that become more of a trend again? Because obviously, like Brady kind of popularized it in the modern era of taking a team friendly deal.
Dan Patrick
Well, Brady got paid all of his money. Patrick Mahomes gets paid all of his money. They restructure their deal.
Dylan
Yeah.
Dan Patrick
Shohei Ohtani is going to get paid all of his money. They just do a team friendly deal to help. Now Ohtani's going to be getting paid 50 years after I die. Brady got all of his money, but I. Brunson could have gotten more. That, that's what I thought was kind of interesting slash strange about that Mike in Tennessee. I'll squeeze you in here, Mike.
Caller Mike
Hey, three, three year listener, third time caller. Thank you all for making long, boring rides fun and entertaining. I got two things about flopping and complaining and then one thing for Fritz if I got time. So yes, being a big Bulls fan, not a huge Reggie Miller fan, but always had respect for him. You know, he's, he's awesome. And gained more respect him being an announcer. It was either game three or four. It was hilarious. SJ was followed by San Antonio and clear as day. Reggie Miller's like, was there contact? It was, it was hilarious. So he's even.
Caller Johanse
He even.
Caller Mike
He's getting sick of it.
Dan Patrick
Oh, ran out of time. Call back. We'll try to get in the rest of your best and worst of the weekend. More phone calls coming up. Two hours in the books. Todd's here, Dylan's here. Representing the back row, front row, it's Marv, it's Paulie, yours truly. Final hour on this Tuesday with Reggie Miller.
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Episode Title: The Door Opens for LeBron to Go Home, Indy 500
Date: May 26, 2026
Host: Dan Patrick
Guests: Dan Patrick’s team (Todd, Dylan, Marv, Paulie), Callers
This hour of The Dan Patrick Show covers the aftermath of the NBA playoffs, with a focus on the Cleveland Cavaliers’ exit, speculation about LeBron James’ potential return to Cleveland, and a lively debate on player flopping and officiating in basketball. The show also recaps the thrilling Indy 500 finish and highlights standout sports performances from the weekend. The Danettes join Dan for analysis and humor, with insights from callers enhancing the discussion.
Dan blends sharp sports insight with humor and humility – he freely admits past misjudgments ("I didn’t think [Brunson] was the number one guy. Prove me wrong."), and the Danettes offer a mix of banter, inside references, and real analysis. The show feels conversational and inclusive, with listener calls woven in for depth and spontaneity.
This hour is a snapshot of the NBA’s current playoff narratives, focused especially on the Cavaliers’ failures, coaching oddities, and rampant player flopping. The panel critiques team building, celebrates unheralded sports like lacrosse and auto racing, and connects with passionate fans. Subtle humor and at times self-deprecating commentary make the show approachable, even as it dives into contentious topics like analytics and the future of LeBron in Cleveland.
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