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Final hour on this meet Friday. Morale has been very high. It was a sad day on Tuesday and, and I said let's lift our spirits here. Let's lift all boats in the water here. And it's a meat Friday to remember. Dylan did a great job. We ordered all of this on Monday thinking we'd be nominated for a sports Emmy on Tuesday. Then we didn't get nominated and Dylan had already committed to Chicago. Hot dogs, chili dogs, crab dip, hot dogs, ballpark, nachos, sausage and peppers, peanuts, cracker Jacks and also those little batting helmets with ice cream in it. Who has it better than we do?
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Get to more phone calls coming up. Also, the curious case of who is the Iceman? Because Caleb Williams filed a trademark that he wants to be known as the Iceman. There's a little bit of a problem with that. We'll have that for you. 877-3-DP Show Email Address dpdanpatrick.com Just heard from Will Ferrell. He said that he would be busy when I die and would not be able to do my eulogy.
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Dan Patrick
Yes. So that means Adam Sandler, the stage is yours. I don't want to get Nikki Glazer because I think that she would be roasting me a little too much. Sandman would probably do that. Maybe a song. Get Darius Rucker sing a song. Yeah. I don't know how we stumbled on this morbid topic, but we did. Robbie Hummel, NCAA NBA analyst for NBC, CBS Turner Big Ten. You're probably listening to all of this going, what the hell are they talking about? Robbie, part of the broadcast team last night for Iowa and Nebraska, Houston and Illinois. Thanks for joining us. I know you had a late night. At what point do you realize Nebraska has four players on the floor?
Well, first off, I, you know, you did arrest Adam Sandler in the longest yard, so he may have something to say about that. For, for the eulog. Realized it when Coach Van Gundy pointed out, honestly, I, I was in the middle of a thought and then I just was like, oh, my God, he's wide open. And. And that's, you know, Coach with the eyes right there. He saw that, and that was a great catch by him. I don't think Dan, I've ever seen in a. In a high major college or, you know, NBA at this level. I've never seen four guys on the floor out of a timeout. That. That was shocking.
Okay, but give me accountability for something like that. How. How does that happen with coaches, assistant coaches, and the players themselves?
Well, you see now in these broadcasts where there will be an assistant coach with a board and there will be five names on it with five numbers, and that's who you're guarding. I can only imagine that it's just a total miscommunication where coach put somebody in and that guy's not paying attention. And then you get to the floor and Ray Mast was sort of standing up and trying to get in the game. But I. I just think it's on both, you know, it's on the players to listen, it's on the coaches to double check. And it's just a. It's a total failure all the way around in that situation.
Does the official. Can he play a role in this, to say to coach, hey, you only got four on the floor? That.
That is a good point right there. And a lot of those. You'll see the officials in all of these games where they're counting guys to make sure there's not six. And I'm sure that a lot of officials would say to that bench, hey, you've got four guys out here. Yeah, that's. That's a great point, but that's definitely a better question for a guy that has refereed in NCAA Tournament games than. Than for me. But, yeah, that's. That's a really good point.
But you get penalized for six. You don't get penalized for four.
Correct, Correct. You just get scored on.
How good is. Yeah, that's true. How good is Iowa?
I think they're good, and I think they're playing their best basketball at the right time. You know, for so much of this season, it's been. Well, it's. It's been. It' and it's just kind of everybody else and can he get enough help? And his usage is so high and his minutes are so high, and he's just having to do so much. But whether it's full Garris in the Florida game with the shot or even last night, he was tremendous in a number of ways. Tate Sage, you know, Tavian Banks in The, in the Florida game had 20. They've gotten contributions from some other guys and they, they're just so well coached. Like Ben McCollum is an incredible story of winning everywhere and scheming and the attention to detail. You go to a practice, they're, they're working on stuff that is so, you know, like minute and just, hey, I don't want you here. I want you to be a step to the left or the footwork needs to be this like just things that, you know, a lot of people or even a lot of players and coaches would probably let slide. He's not letting slide. That dude is on it with the details.
Illinois surprised me. I know they're a really good team. I know they got the, the players from the Balkans, but you know, that defense, I mean, Houston's not a high scoring team, but still you held them to 55 in a home game. Yeah, that one surprised me a lot. How about you?
Well, and, and yes, because I saw Illinois in February and they were giving up 90 points to seemingly. It felt like everybody. The problem has never been offense for Illinois. It has been the defensive side of the floor. I thought VCU could give them some problems because I saw them in the 810 championship game and they had dynamic guards, they had some shooting on the perimeter. It's like, all right, that's going to be a tough cover. And they overwhelmed them. And they kind of did the same thing with Houston and not just the home game, but like Milos Use and Emmanuel Sharp and JoJo Tucker played the national championship game last year. So you have the home environment. You've got experienced players, you've got probably two lottery pick freshmen and they just kept them stuck in the mud all night long. And Illinois's got the positional size and right now they're guarding at a high level and we know they can score like they're a scary team if they're going to guard.
Like this is the Big Ten a basketball conference or a football conference,
I guess we've won the last three national championships with the Big Ten, so I guess football. But this is quite the season for the Big Ten in basketball and certainly the just the overarching story of no national championships from 2000 on with Tom Izzo being the last to do it. Maybe this is the year to break out of that. But, you know, we'll see. There's some really good teams left from other conferences, but the Big Ten has had a great season. And you know, we were laughing yesterday that Nebraska and Indiana have like flip places where the Nebraska basketball team is all of a sudden in the second weekend and Indiana football is a national champion. That is hard to believe for childhood me.
Robbie Hummel, NCAA NBA analyst for NBC. You were second round pick in the draft in 2012. Yeah, I was.
Yes.
Yes. Did you have an NBA moment like that? You want to share?
Yeah, I have a good one. So my. This is like the second or third game, you know, I. We're playing the Thunder in. In the Target center, and Kevin Durant is off to a tough start. Corey Brewer is guarding him, and he's doing a good job. Like Durant. Durant missed some shots that he normally makes early on, and he misses one, and the ball gets knocked out of bounds. I'm sitting next to Gorgi Dang, who ended up having a really good NBA career, played at Louisville. We're both rookies at the same time. Gorgi makes the mistake of clapping and yelling, good D Brew. And Durant hears him, and this is the clean version, but he goes, it wasn't good deep Brew. It was bad fricking shot, Kevin. I was like, man, that's. That's pretty good comeback there. Durant gets the ball, we're up eight points, and he drills a three and stares down the bench the whole way. And we miss. They come back down, same thing. Durant gets the ball, drills another one. So our eight point lead is now two. And the whole way down, he is tractor beam on Gorgy Dang, like, literally just staring him down. We miss again. They come down. There's like a foul or a, you know, ball out of bounds. He comes over, and Kevin Durant verbally eviscerates Gorgi. I don't know who you are. I don't know where you played in college. I've never heard of you.
You'll.
I don't know how you'll ever play in this league. And in my mind, and Gorgy's like, you don't want to know me. You don't want like. Like. He doesn't know what to say. Jack Sigma is one of our assistant coaches, the legendary Jack Sigma. He's screaming at Gorgy, stop talking to Kevin Durant. And I'm like, thank God I didn't say anything. Durant gets the ball.
Literally.
Step back, fade away. Three drills. It beats his chest of, man, I'm a bad man. You don't ever forget it. And I'm like, oh, my God. Like, this is a whole nother level. But then you fast forward like a month, and I'm Playing. And I will never forget this, where I've, like, moved into the rotation a little bit, and we got some injuries and we've got some real foul trouble. Corey Brewer gets his second file, and I remember thinking, like, man, if he gets his third, I think it's. I think it's going to be me. And he garden Durant. And as soon as I thought that literally file, Corey's coming out. I will never forget looking at the floor and Rick Adam and goes, rob, you got him. And literally I sub in. There's like two and a half minutes to go in the first quarter. And me and Kevin Durant played one on one in front of 17,000. He started bringing the ball up literally every time, clear out ISO. It was like. It was horrifying because you're like, dude, this guy, seven foot tall, two guard, unbelievable player, hall of Fame player top, you know, 10, 15, whatever, and you're just at his mercy. It was terrifying.
Is he unguardable?
Yeah, because he can get to his pull up whenever he wants. You know, like, he's. He's just. Whether it's playing pick and roll, getting to the elbows, shooting his pull up, he's. He's an incredible player. I love watching Kevin Durant play. I'm such a fan.
All right, so what do you force him to do?
Well, I followed him on a three. That was a good start. And then I actually got some stops. But, Dan, I promise you, it was not because it was good defense. He just missed a couple. But the NBA, like, everybody is so good, you know, like. And I've played all over the world. I played in Russia, I played in Italy, I played in Spain. I played two years in the NBA. But, like, just the talent level in the NBA for all 450 guys is truly remarkable when you. When you're there.
Well, you were first team all Big Ten, what, three times?
Yeah, yeah. But I blow my knee out twice my junior year and came back as a senior, and I certainly was trying to kind of figure my way back physically. And I played my rookie year in Spain and then two years with Minnesota. I played for Giorgio Armani's team in Italy. So we had good uniforms, did a lot of modeling, and then I was. I was cut by the Nuggets. I was last cut, and I went to Moscow and played a year, which was an adventure in itself.
What does adventure mean in Moscow?
Well, there's just corruption. There's just rampant corruption throughout the wait, like, throwing games. There's probably some of that, like, the officiating I think teams are trying to avoid. Cheska was like the. The best team. They have the biggest budget. You know, everybody's trying to avoid Cheska. That really my best overseas European story. Our team had signed Alexi Schfed, who I. The reason I went, I'm cut by the Nuggets. Alexi was my teammate and I sat with him really on all the planes in Minnesota. We'd sit together on the flights. And so when I got cut, this team makes me an offer. And Alexi had left the. I think it was Philly. He was out of the NBA. He goes back. He's the highest paid player in Europe this year. So I talked to him. I'm like, how is it? He's like, yeah, it's great. You know, he's living at home. He's the highest paid guy in Europe. He's shooting like, you know, 20 times a game. So for him it's great. And they signed Jacob Poland, who, if you remember at Kansas State, they got Markel Brown who was in the NBA for the Nets, and he was out. And then they, they brought him in a guy named E.J. rowland who played at St. Mary's and then Jeremy Evans from the NBA. So they signed all these NBA guys because the team had been relegated from Euroleague to Euro Cup. It's kind of like soccer where you're playing in the Russian League, but you're also playing a second game during the week and you're playing in a Euro cup or Euroleague game. So the way to get back to Euroleague is that you have to either win Euro cup, which we don't, we lose in the quarterfinals in Valencia, or you make the final. So some of the. The corruption. I'm talking about like teams. If you're the. The four of the five and you've got Cheska in the semis, there's no way you're going to beat them because they've got the biggest budget. They're kind of like the. The national team of Russia. So we end up playing our first round series in Siberia. We're the. We're the two seat. We're in Siberia where we sweep them and then we play in the semifinals. The team from St. Petersburg, five game series, they've got Trevor Embark way who played at Minnesota, Aaron White who played at Iowa. And some of these guys swear that game five was fixed. I need to go back and watch and see. But we lose the first two, win the next two decisive game five in St. Petersburg. Our owner, who's like an oligarch, comes in the locker room 50 minutes before the game. And at this point, I'm like, dude, I'm going to retire. If we lose, I don't care because I want to leave so bad. I just. I'm over this. I hate being here. I'm ready to go home. Owner comes in the locker room and goes, guys, this is the biggest game in franchise history. You win tonight, I'll pay each of you US$100,000 from my safe. And if you win the final, 250 more. So I went from, I hope we lose that. We gotta win. Like, we have to win this game. We end up winning. It's controversial finish. Some of our Russian players who aren't being paid all that much are like, hugging on the court. We won the semis, hugging, like we won the NBA Finals. The crazy thing, though, about this story is that a couple days later, we have a lunch at the owner's. He's got like a 20 story office building in Moscow, and he's got a really nice restaurant on the first floor. And the spread's incredible. Your filet mignon, lobster, whatever you want, they've got it. There's. And the owner literally says, like, Joe. And he's kind of like, says it laughing, but it's not a joke. He goes, man, the funny thing is I paid the rest to get a fair whistle. So he admits to bribing the refs, which I'm sure the other team was doing too. And then he points to the corner of the room and he literally says, all right, I got where you guys came from. Let's win the final. We'll do this again. And he lined us up like we were third graders and literally doled out a hundred thousand in cash in bags and just handed them and doled them out 15 times. And we all had drivers. My driver was Roman, spoke no English. We could only talk on Google Translate. I get in the car and he's like, what's in the bag? I'm like, we're gonna get carjacked. All of us are gonna get carjacked here. And the craziest thing, Dan, is that we had to go to practice. So there was $1.5 million in cash in the locker room while we practiced. And the next year, some guy, during a game, walked in that same locker room and stole everything. Wallets, money, watches, everything. So, like, luckily he didn't pick that day because he would have. He would have left with a good haul. But, yeah, Russia's. There's a lot going on there. A lot going on there talking to
Robbie Hummel, TNT CBS basketball analyst. All right, what happens tonight?
Well, who's playing when you do the tournament? You're The Duke and St. John's who else?
We Michigan State, Connecticut.
Michigan State. Connecticut. Yeah. That'll be interesting because Connecticut has, has certainly had moments, but they've been so up and down and you know, for a lot of the other defense was really good, but then they went through a lull and their offense was better. That's about toughness. You know, who can be the tougher team when you play, Tom, as those basketball teams, whether it's when I was playing or when the team Cleaves are playing or in today's era, it's all about rebounding and transition defense. And the funny thing is I can give you the scouting report in 07 and it would be relevant, you know, today in 2026. And for Yukon, Terrence Reed is definitely the X factor. For me, I just think he's one of those guys when he's playing well, they're hard to handle because their guard play is good. Caravan's the ultimate winner. So if Terrace Reed can hang in there against those Michigan State bigs and the wave of bigs they're going to throw at him, that, that would go a long way.
Thanks for sharing. You're doing a great job and people are noticing how good you've been as an analyst, certainly during March Madness. But thank you. We appreciate it.
No problem. Yeah, thanks for having me, Dan. Appreciate it.
Robbie Hummel, part of the tournament there. You got the cbs, tnt, TBS all over the place. Former player. Yeah, guys have nightmare stories about being in Moscow because there's some stuff that goes on. Plus, you know, a guy I know played there. He said that the fans would, they would heat up coins and they'd throw coins at you. We'll take a break. When we come back, who is the Iceman? We'll explain right after this. Dan Patrick Show.
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Learn more@electricforall.org the numbers tonight Duke by six and a half over St. John's Michigan by eight and a half over Alabama, Iowa State minus three and a half over Tennessee and Yukon minus one and a half against Michigan State. Let's see, somebody was asking me if Seattle is going to get the franchise. Expansion franchise. They still own Sonics. It seems like they would want to, you know, re embrace the Seattle supersonics. But what about Vegas? Because this is truly an expansion team. So what is the name, the nickname for Vegas going to be? I don't know if anybody's seen any names out there, but I don't know. I guess you're going to play off gambling, you're going to play off cards. I Don't know.
Paulie Fusco
Yeah, Paulie, the Golden Knights. The hockey team. What's that based off of?
Dan Patrick
Because the owner, I think, went to West Point, and it's about the Golden Knights of West Point.
Paulie Fusco
I could see the NBA, even in this gambling era, trying to avoid anything racy, for lack of a better word, with the name of the team. Like the high rollers.
Dan Patrick
Well, you have the Aces of the wnba. Okay, but. And that's a. That's a good. You don't want to be the joke. Somebody suggested the Jokers. I go. No, no. You don't want your team calling. Being called jokers. But then you have to trade for Joker and get him in there.
Paulie Fusco
You don't want the Las Vegas dealers. That's a lot of.
Dan Patrick
You don't want the Vegas craps, Right. Brought to you by Dude Wipes.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah. Todd, you got any names for the Vegas expansion franchise?
Todd
The Dice could do all kinds of things with two dice and light it up and do all kinds of, I think, marketing things with a pair of dice.
Dan Patrick
All right, the biggest dice. Yes, Marvin.
Marvin
This may be Frisk Fritzy esque. The Show Boys.
Dan Patrick
The Show Boys.
Paulie Fusco
Sounds weird.
Dan Patrick
That sounds like some creepy website you're on.
Marvin
Stay out of my personal life.
Dan Patrick
But I was looking over your shoulder. Yes, Todd.
Todd
The Las Vegas Gentleman's Club. Like, they have the Washington Commanders Club.
Dan Patrick
We were talking about real names, Todd.
Todd
I think that could be fun, though. But Adam Silveretti kind of nixed one of those things recently. Can't do the Magic City thing, so we definitely can't call them the Las Vegas Gentleman's Club.
Dan Patrick
No, no. Can't do Olympic Garden or anything like that.
Todd
Good times, though.
Paulie Fusco
Spearmint Rhino.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, the Rhinos. Yes, Mark.
Marvin
Maybe something like from one of their old xfl. The Outlaws or something like that. I don't know.
Dan Patrick
I haven't seen any names.
Paulie Fusco
And yes, Paulie, I've got kind of a rando betting site. They have the Mirage, the Jokers, the Outlaws, the Scorpions, the Venom, the Diamonds.
Dan Patrick
The Diamonds, Yeah, but that. Yeah, that should have been for the Las Vegas A's, Right? The Diamonds. Las Vegas Diamonds.
Paulie Fusco
Right.
Todd
The Excaliburs.
Dan Patrick
Thanks. Yes, Marvin, for me and Paulie, more
Marvin
important than anything, team colors. Like, what do you do?
Paulie Fusco
Because you can't look like the Brooklyn Nets with black and white. Oh, no. One will confuse you, because nobody watches the Nets.
Dan Patrick
But then are the Oakland A's. The Vegas A's. Are they going to continue their green and gold Colors. I'm guessing the Raiders kept their colors.
Paulie Fusco
Yeah, Paulie, based off, I got an article from Sports Business Journal. Just a speculative article that says they wouldn't be surprised if they went a total different direction with their uniforms, which allows them to do A's throwback weeks and nights like most teams would do.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Seaton
Part of the thing that's tricky for Las Vegas is a lot of names that would be perfect for them are already taken. So, like, you have the magic. That would be great for Las Vegas. Already taking the heat. Then the desert. Oh, that's already.
Dan Patrick
The Aces.
Seaton
Well, you already got an Aces. The good names are already taken. You could be like the Neons or something.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Todd
Don, can they go into business with the Sphere and be the Spheres and do something? Maybe there's something marketing wise and you
Dan Patrick
can catch something there. Kind of a tough nickname.
Todd
The Spheres.
Dan Patrick
Let's go watch the Spheres. The Outlaws. Yeah.
Todd
The Golden Nuggets. You got the Denver Nuggets. You got the Golden Knights. The Golden Nuggets.
Dan Patrick
All right, you can do that. I like that. All right. Okay. You're rallying.
Todd
You probably wouldn't have the Golden Nuggets. If you have the Denver Nuggets, though, that would probably be a problem.
Dan Patrick
Good call, Todd.
Todd
It seemed like you were excited there for, like, that was something that I
Dan Patrick
did, but, you know, it was better than the other suggestions you had. So now that I think about, you
Todd
can't have two Nuggets.
Dan Patrick
No, you can't.
Good call.
Todd
I don't even know if the Golden Nugget even exists. Anything.
Dan Patrick
All right. Cuba in Arizona. Hi, Cuba. What's on your mind today?
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What's up, dp?
Dan Patrick
Hey, Cuba.
Caller
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Dan Patrick
Wait a minute. I'm getting. I'm getting criticized for my corduroy?
Caller
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Oh, well, that's what I was worried about. Am I getting, like, social media hate for my corduroy. Baker and Bozeman? Hi, Bake.
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Happy Friday. And speaking of your corduroy love, listen, I want to fuel that corduroy love with a gorgeous chocolate brown corduroy Levi's jacket. I just emailed the photo of it to Tyler, the moderator. If you want to see it. I'd like. I'd like to offer that jacket up in exchange for. For a game. Use ESPN tie. You said you got 75 of them laying around doing nothing. How about a swap?
Dan Patrick
All Right, we'll do that, Baker. Thank you, Zach. And Knoxville. Hi, Zach. Thanks for holding. What's on your mind today?
Caller
Thanks for taking my call, dp. I always pictured Marvin, you know, with
Chris
the Jake Moscow jersey on, when he's
Caller
up there at the Pearly Gates. But I just wanted to ask you
Chris
about that NBA expansion.
Caller
We already have quite a few teams that go into the season and remain irrelevant. Do you think that it's a good
Chris
move to move into expansion right now?
Dan Patrick
Well, we've talked about that, and we had Tracy McGrady on. He goes, I don't know if we have enough players to expand. And he does make a really good case there. I mean, if you look at some of these rosters and I could give you names, and you'd go, what sport that, you know, they just wouldn't ring. They'd ring hollow. And you'd be like, I have no idea who that is. I follow it. And there are times when I go, I have no idea who that guy is or who he plays for. I do not. But, man, you look at the Money, it's between 7 and $10 billion. This is the entrance fee. And that money will then go to the other owners. The other owners are going to make probably somewhere around, I don't know, 400, $500 million for not doing anything. You imagine you show up one day and you look in your bank account and it's got $450 million and you didn't do anything. Man. Great to be an owner. Chris in Syracuse. Hi, Chris. What's on your mind?
Caller
Hey, thanks for getting me in, Dan.
Chris
Hey, I got a few things to throw at you. And also a possible mock headline to be written on your casket. Yeah, I guess Vegas can't go with because of the Chicago Bulls. They can't go with the Pit Bulls either. You were talking about the Pirate center fielders. Non error. Now, MLB says it has to be a physical error, not a gentleman. Judgment error. When your judgment tells you to put your glove in a certain spot and the ball bounces off the heel of your glove, that's an error. Just like when your judgment tells you to run forward after a ball instead of backwards running is a physical activity, it's an error. And I have to disagree with Robbie Hummel saying he's never seen a coach only having four players on the floor. Let's not forget about that other Husker coach, the legendary Norman. Dale And Dan, you guys were talking about having your funeral in the man cave on your beloved basketball court. The casket May read, former Western Kentucky hilltopper finally passes.
Dan Patrick
Nice. All right. It's Eastern Kentucky. We weren't even Western Kentucky. They were good. They were Eastern Kentucky. It's very good. Thank you, Chris. Caleb Williams has submitted four trademark applications related to the name Iceman. A logo name and silhouettes that mimic Caleb Williams pose as he rolls left, jumps, and completes a pass. So George Gervin, the Iceman, he has a problem with this because he is filed for a trademark. He had iceman and iceman 44. That was his jersey number. So four days after Williams application was filed, George Gervin, his trademark application was also, I guess, submitted, but he's been called the Iceman, and that was first used in 1979. I actually have the Iceman poster, and ice is. He's sitting on a block of ice and he's. These basketballs, you know, look like they're ice as well. It's great. Great poster. But I sent me that, autographed it a couple of years ago. But I guess there is a. A soccer player in Chelsea, right? Satan.
Seaton
Yeah, Cole Palmer.
Dan Patrick
And he's called Iceman.
Seaton
Well, no, they'll call him Cold Palmer.
Dan Patrick
Oh.
Seaton
But his celebration was that sort of like, I'm freezing kind of thing, because, like, every time he scores a goal, he's like, that was too cold.
Dan Patrick
Okay, so Caleb is imitating this soccer player, Cole Palmer. Yeah. Okay. So when Palmer scores, he gives you
Seaton
the old shivers, like, whoo. And so they call him Cold Palmer.
Dan Patrick
Okay. I think Chuck Liddell, former MMA fighter, wasn't he known as Iceman? There's a lot of guys who are laying claim to this Naval pilot Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer, the original Iceman.
Seaton
O.J.
Dan Patrick
yeah, I believe. What else, Paulie?
Paulie Fusco
Actually, the timeline would be George Gervin first.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Paulie Fusco
The George Gervin's company, Girvan Global Management, thought they had the nickname trademarked already. They found out they never did. They. The confusion was a death of a business associate who was tasked to do this years ago, and he didn't get it done. So when Caleb Williams went in to do this, he had the green light to do it. It was not already trademarked. And when they realized that, they scrambled the Gervin people to Get Iceman and Ice44. Trademark. The nickname was not self given by Caleb. It's kind of the press did it after he did the Cole Palmer thing.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie Fusco
And. But he already took the logo and is kind of making maybe a clothing line out of this or other things.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, they're talking about Jerseys and hats and sports equipment, eyewear, posters, trading cards, sweatshirts. George Gervin is Iceman. Yes.
Seaton
I'm looking a little deeper into the George Gervin situation. You know who had the rights to it that was supposed to do it on his behalf and didn't? Alec Baum's parents. Damn it. No, wait, I'm confusing my stories.
Dan Patrick
Wow. Wow.
Seaton
Sorry.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Paulie Fusco
Okay, this is the question for the room. If you were the judge in this case and had to decide, how would you make your decision?
Dan Patrick
I would say Iceman. You're the original Iceman. You get it? Court adjourned. But he did make. He thought he had trademarked it. It's not like he. He all of a sudden go, oh, my gosh, I got to trademark that.
Caller
He.
Dan Patrick
He did think that he was filing the trademark papers. There was a death, and they weren't able to. He did not realize that. I. I would. I would give it to Iceman. Yes.
Paulie Fusco
Paulie, Some people use nicknames of people from the past, but if. If I refer to you by your nickname and it's more well known than your actual name, I think it's yours. Tiger Woods. No one calls him Eldrick. No one says, hey, George Gervin was on TV today. You say, I saw Ice Girvin on a TV show. Yeah, I think that would be the default judgment. No one goes, iceman Williams of the Bears. Yeah, no one says that yet.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, but Gervin has. You know, he's got some kind of documentation. He's got a poster that says Iceman on it. I would just bring the poster to court, find him. I was like, here it is. That there's me. Yeah. See, I do.
Seaton
I think there's something, too. If you bring all of them into court and line them up and ask the jury which one of them is Iceman, and they point to George Gervin, they're like, okay, you. That's clearly. You win. You get the patent.
Dan Patrick
You do a. You do a focus group, and you bring the focus group in and say, all right, you line up Chuck Liddell. You line up Ice Curve, and you line up Caleb Williams. Go, okay, who is Iceman? And you point. Now, if I'm. If I'm Gervin, I'm wearing my uniform. I'd be wearing my San Antonio spurs jersey. Yes, Marvin.
Marvin
That said Ice on the back.
Dan Patrick
Yes. Yes.
Marvin
It doesn't say Ice on the Chicago Bears uniform.
Dan Patrick
No, it doesn't.
Marvin
One is Iceman. The other one is a guy that pretends to be cold.
Dan Patrick
I would I would come in and do a finger roll. Like I would do the little girl and finger roll there. Maybe grow his hair back, get a fro back. Yes, Paulie.
Paulie Fusco
It's like if I said, oh, I saw. I was watching NFL Network and LT was being interviewed. I'm referring to who?
Dan Patrick
Well, that's different. Yeah, that is because that could be Lawrence Taylor or like Danian Tomlinson. Right, but those are just initials.
Paulie Fusco
I wonder if either trademark that for clothes or merchandise.
Dan Patrick
I don't know. But Abdul Carter also wanted to be called LT as well. It's weird. He wanted his number. He'd like to be called LT as well. I think he's changing his number again. Is Abdul Carter changing his number or did I make that up
Marvin
to 56?
Dan Patrick
No, no, no, no. He can't do 56. But I don't know, for some reason I thought maybe he was changing. He was changing something. All right, let me take a break. It's time for sausage and peppers. We also have our little batting helmets with ice cream in it. The nacho cheese dip. We have crab. Crab dogs. Is that what it is? Oh, boy. You guys don't come in sick on Monday or with a stomachache. All right, Todd.
Todd
I will try to avoid that.
Dan Patrick
All right. Everything in moderation.
Todd
That's the problem. It's very easy to say those words.
Dan Patrick
All right, we'll take a break. Alaska phone calls. What we learned after this.
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Marvin
Come on.
Dan Patrick
No, no, I'm serious. Happens all the time. And you know, they're the official lawn care treatment provider, the PGA Tour, so they know what it takes to get golf course quality lawns.
Seaton
So you're saying we could host a tournament out back?
Dan Patrick
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Paulie Fusco
I feel like you see them everywhere.
Dan Patrick
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Caller
Hey, Dan, second time, long time, 6ft 222. Last chance. Last time I had a chance to chat with you was just before my first foray to Notre Dame Stadium for that Use USC game that you guys were at. I didn't get into town until Saturday, so I didn't get a chance to see you guys do your thing. So just wanted to give you a shout out for that stuff. And I'm already fretting about who I'm going to turn to after you guys are done during the show and get a suggestion from you as to who's a good quality program that we could follow after you guys are done doing your show. But some ideas about the franchise name for Vegas. I like some of those ones you just mentioned. They're out in the desert. So I was thinking Vegas Snakes or Vegas Snake Eyes. Or if you're out in the desert for too long, you start to see funny things. So they could be the Vegas Mirage. And that has another connotation, of course. So there's a couple of ideas that I had right there.
Dan Patrick
All right. Well, thank you, Dana. They have a Mirage hotel in Vegas, but the Vegas Mirage is it you're seeing something good or you're seeing something bad when you're watching the expansion team. John in Ohio. Hi, John. What's on your mind today?
Caller
Hey, how are you So I was thinking chips.
Chris
And the reason chips is a perfect
Caller
name is because they'd never be tanking because they'd be all in. And you got your colors, you know, orange for a thousand dollar chip or purple. So I think the chips is a pretty good name.
Dan Patrick
All right, thank you, John. Jim in Michigan. Hi, Jim.
Caller
How are you?
Dan Patrick
Good.
Caller
I had another idea about how I want to be buried. Not so much what I want to wear, but the positioning. I like to be buried face down so my friends that visit the grave can park their bikes.
Dan Patrick
Okay. Bob Knight said he wanted to be buried face down so his critics could kiss his ass. I think. Dave in la. Good morning, Dave. What's on your mind today?
Caller
Hello, Dan. Thanks for getting me in. Two quick things regarding the Iceman sobriquet. Kimi Raikonen, the Finnish F1 driver, was famously referred to as the Iceman for his cold, unruffled demeanor. And I think most of the world outside of the US Would be quick to note that. Second, Dan, I wanted to mention that when I heard Barry Bond's comments, I hearkened back to 2005, when I had the privilege of visiting the Giants clubhouse while working on a documentary. And I can personally attest to the fact that after the game, Bonds retired to a personal suite that was in a separate part of the facility, complete with reclining chair and his own shower. Not exactly the paragon of the best teammate you could ever have. And he also insulated himself from the press, I might add.
Dan Patrick
Oh. Now, when I visited him in the locker room, he had two lockers. But I understood that, you know, sometimes bigger names because you don't want to have the guy next to you have a bunch of people trampling all over you so you can get a microphone in front of the star. But, yeah, Barry was not a great teammate. He was just a great player.
Paulie Fusco
Yeah, Paulie, a lot of people made jokes around that time. Even his lockers are getting bigger. It was such an.
Marvin
It was.
Paulie Fusco
It wasn't mine. It was an easy one back then.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. If you're gonna have Barry Bonds, at least ask Bonds about your teammate is going in before you're going into the hall of Fame. Jeff Kent. I don't know. Some of these things are so obvious, and it just kind of breezed by that stuff. But, Bo, I don't know. Look, they're not using Bonds. You know, maybe he's there for Home Run Derby and maybe the Field of Dreams, but that's it for Netflix.
Marvin
Yes, Marvin, why is everyone on their moral high Horse, I don't want to get into this because we're almost out of time, but the whole. His head was changing sizes and he won the MVP award four years in a row. Now you don't want to put him in the hall of Fame. Well, his arms were busting out of his uniform.
Dan Patrick
I know, but you had to have some kind of evidence here. I don't know. Put him in. I don't give a damn anymore. You know, just put something on his plaque that says this was the size of his head when he was in Pittsburgh. This was the size of his head. Give two different, you know, give two different bust. Give me the Pittsburgh one and the San Francisco one. I don't care. After a while, spent so much time on this, like Pete Rose, whatever the hall of Fame put him in. Yeah, Paulie, right on cue.
Paulie Fusco
This day in sports history. Dan. 1989, Sports Illustrated exposed Pete Rose's gambling activities cover magazine article. And in 1994, Magic Johnson became head coach of the Lakers.
Dan Patrick
Not for long.
Paulie Fusco
Not for long.
Dan Patrick
What a fun day. Meet Friday was great. And what's the lead story Monday, Paul, what's the lead story?
Paulie Fusco
Rick Patino, Todd.
Todd
Arizona once again bowsed out sooner than they should have.
Dan Patrick
Seaton.
Seaton
Oh, man.
Dan Patrick
Yukon out.
Marvin
Marvin, Iowa in the final four.
Dan Patrick
Better not be my Wildcats bowing out. My Wildcats. What'd you learn today?
Todd
Todd Marvin would like to be buried in his Yukon Rip Hamilton jersey.
Dan Patrick
Seaton, what'd you learn?
Seaton
I learned most of our audience is not going to be buried in their sports gear.
Marvin
All right, Marvin Abdul Carter will wear number three.
Dan Patrick
See changes number. Paul.
Paulie Fusco
Russian basketball is fun.
Dan Patrick
Thanks for the phone calls, emails, tweets, the all around support. Have a great weekend. A safe weekend for Fritzie, Seaton, Marv, Paulie, yours truly in the back room, guys. We'll talk to you on Monday.
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Date: March 27, 2026
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
This episode centers around the spirit of "Meat Friday" following the disappointment of missing a Sports Emmy nomination, and explores lively debates in the world of sports, including a deep-dive interview with analyst and former NBA/college player Robbie Hummel. Key topics include wild March Madness stories, the ongoing battle over the "Iceman" nickname, expansion team naming in Las Vegas, and a host of humorous, nostalgic, and insider sports moments. The show features classic Dan Patrick banter, candid industry anecdotes, and listener call-ins debating all things sports and pop culture.
| Segment/Topic | Timestamp (MM:SS) | |-----------------------------------|----------------------| | Meat Friday menu and Emmy snub | 03:03–03:46 | | Robbie Hummel Interview Start | 04:12 | | Four Players On The Floor Story | 04:55–06:47 | | Big Ten and Illinois Discussion | 06:51–09:44 | | NBA Rookie/Durant Story | 09:54–12:50 | | Overseas Basketball/Russia Tales | 13:43–18:35 | | March Tourney Games Preview | 18:41–19:41 | | Naming Las Vegas Expansion | 25:07–30:08 | | "Iceman" Trademark Debate | 33:55–40:07 | | Hall of Fame, Bonds, and Rose | 49:27–50:17 |
This hour of The Dan Patrick Show delivers a dynamic mix of lighthearted crew banter, unique guest insights, and fan engagement. Robbie Hummel’s stories—from March Madness mishaps to Russian basketball madness—are show highlights, offering both humor and behind-the-scenes intrigue. The “Iceman” trademark feud receives the full Dan Patrick Show treatment: funny, fair, and rooted in sports history. The potential naming of the Las Vegas expansion team inspires comedic gold, while listener calls keep the mood irreverent and interactive.
Recommended for: Fans of basketball, sports pop culture, anyone interested in insider athlete stories, and listeners who enjoy thoughtful yet playful debates about sports branding and legacy.