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Listen to Good company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Knicks over the Celtics 3 1. Jayson Tatum with an injury. No update on that. He'll probably be having an MRI this morning, but they might have to wait until the swelling goes down. Whether it's a ankle or an achilles. The Timberwolves up 31 on the warriors and the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA draft lottery, followed by the Spurs 76ers and the Hornets. It's one of those moments where you're watching and you're watching it, it almost slowed down. I, I'm watching. I'm going to. Oh my goodness. So Utah's out and Washington sound. New Orleans is out. Okay. And let's go to break. And then they come back. I go, don't be damn. Dallas is going to win the NBA draft lottery. And we gave you a heads up yesterday. Here is Fritzi on the show. All right, Todd, you are going to manipulate the draft lottery. What is in the best interest of the NBA? My initial thought was from Durham to Charlotte that Cooper stays in North Carolina and the Hornets get the pick. But I'm actually going to go with the Mavericks after the fans got blindsided by that Luker deal. I'd like to see Flag go to the Dallas Mavericks. All right. Okay. You kind of picked two there, but you did, you know, I guess finally focus on the Dallas Mavericks. So I'm going to give you credit. I in fact I text that to the Dan Ants. I said, Fritz, he got it right. Ish. And Dallas gets their man. But you know, there's going to be people who say conspiracy theory or why would you, you know, do something go out of your way to help the Dallas Mavericks? As our good buddy Vincent Goodwill says, I've watched the lottery, picked up the ping pong balls myself to see how they they're weighed. Etc. Not only is draft rigging in that way really hard to do, it's also a federal. We don't want to, you know, have something like that get in the way of our conspiracy theories. But when you do think about it, there are times when you go things that make you go so Patrick Ewing going to the Knicks, Derrick Rose going to the Bulls should get a little more emphasis here because they had like a 1.8% chance to get him. And he goes to his hometown. LeBron goes to his hometown. The Dallas Mavericks don't deserve this. But then they get Cooper Flag, and I'm thinking, Cooper Flagg is there for the lottery, and he's got to be thinking, please, not Washington. Please not Washington. No offense to Washington, D.C. of course, but, you know, he goes to Dallas, and you do have some veterans there. I think that will help. I don't think the focus will necessarily be on just him. You get A.D. you get Kyrie. You know, they got some younger big men, too. And I think he might be able to ease in a little bit better with a place like Dallas, as opposed to Utah, where he'd be singled out, and certainly with Washington, D.C. but the Mavericks win the lottery and let the conspiracy theories resume. Yes, Paul, they were immediate yesterday. Whether online or just walking into people outside my house, people like, oh, this is classic NBA. They convinced the Mavericks to quietly trade Luca to the Lakers and do him a solid on the back end. And, I mean, these were grown men walking up to me. I know. Yes. The conspiracy theories were so prevalent that we actually did it on our show yesterday with that clip. You just. If we were to manipulate the draft, where would we put them? That's how far ahead everybody was on. Let's see how they rigged this. Yeah, yeah. And I didn't even think, but there I saw some of the threads that said, oh, I see what the NBA did. You know, the Mavericks did the Lakers a solid, gave them their future with Luca. Well, we got to do something nice for them. We're going to give them Cooper Flag. Also, the speculation on where Giannis is going to go. He just said he would be open to a trade. He'd be open to it. Now, that's a polite way of saying, you can trade me or we're going to trade me. I'll decide where I want to go. But, you know, hopefully it'll benefit you guys because the window is closed. You know, Dame time is. Is over. That clock stopped now with Giannis at 30. And there were a lot of analysts who, you know, they had trade scenarios for the Bucks and the San Antonio Spurs. And I was like, why San Antonio for Giannis? If I'm San Antonio and I have de' Aaron Fox, Stefan Castle was the rookie of the year. I got Victor Wembanyama. I just build it, just add a little bit more. You're going to need another veteran. You're going to need somebody who's probably in their late 20s, early 30s. And then, you know, that'll be a steadying force that you're going to have. I said, from the time that they drafted Wembanyama, just get a point guard. Well, they have a couple of them that will, you know, help his growth. But they have the second pick in the draft, and Ace Bailey might be the guy. Ron Harper's son might be the guy. And I did watch a little bit. I watched more Rutgers basketball than I should have. And these guys, while they're great, they didn't even make the tournament. They. They have potential. Potential means that you haven't done anything. And I think that's the scary part of, okay, you can add them. Is that really going to change your fortunes? And San Antonio has two draft picks, I think the second and the 14th. You know, maybe you can pair that together. Maybe you can put together a package. Maybe you could get some. Some pieces there. But I think San Antonio, you know, quietly did well last night. And, you know, we go back to the teams that lost, the teams that had 14% chance. You know, it was the lottery. Fair. Well, is tanking fair? You know, that's the problem I have that you had teams that tried not to win. Maybe they weren't trying to lose as much as they were trying not to win. I know it's semantics here, but, you know, we've gone through a lot of iterations of the NBA draft lottery, and I don't know what is considered fair, but is this five consecutive years, that team with the worst record didn't get the number one pick in the. The lottery in the draft. But I don't know what the probability of that is of the worst team is not getting the number one pick in the draft. All right, we'll come up with a poll question. Obviously, with the Knicks situation, Jayson Tatum, we don't know the severity. And look, can we speculate on how he reacted to the injury? Look more of an Achilles than an ankle or even a knee, but even the pain reaction, and I don't know if it's the pain of. I'm. I know I'm not going to be able to help my team or the actual pain of the injury, because I've been around people, I've mentioned this before, played hoops with a guy who blew out both Achilles on the same right at the same moment, and he was in tremendous pain. But then I see Aaron Rodgers or Kevin Durant or Kobe. You know, everybody reacts differently to this. But my reaction when I saw it was that look like an Achilles. Now, Boston can still win this series. Like, you gotta, you gotta approach this as they're going to be dangerous. And sometimes you're more dangerous because you know what Derek White's going to say, I'll take up the shooting slack. Peyton Pritchard, you know, maybe Porzingis plays a big game. Drew Holiday, we're waiting for him. Like, they, they have a deep team and you probably have six guys who can get you 25 points on any given night. But I, if I'm a Knicks fan, wouldn't look at this and say we're going to the Eastern Conference finals because Boston is a great team. And. But, you know, we're going to remember these playoffs for injuries because you have Steph Curry out. That's affected that series. Jason Tatum perhaps out. Look at all the injuries with the Cleveland Cavaliers. I mean, yes, this does hurt the defending champs. I don't think anybody's sympathetic about the Cavaliers, and they had more injuries than Boston does, and they had the best record in the East. But I hate seeing Jason Tatum, who was having a incredible game, going toe to toe with Jalen Brunson. But Boston can still win this series. And I think sometimes when that, that star is out, you, you ease up a little bit here. And if you're the Knicks, you. You cannot, you cannot go in overconfident. You know, you have to go after them and you have to take them out, because if you don't, they're. They're going to have some confidence here. And we've seen this so many times. Star player goes out, everybody rallies. Now the question is, how long can you rally for? It's like Golden State. I thought Golden State was going to win. Not last night, the previous game. And I said if they don't win that game, then they're not winning this series. And I don't think Steph Curry's coming back. But last night they got roughed up. And it looks like, you know, that series is going to end maybe one more game, but we're going to look back on these playoffs and probably single out. The one thing is injuries change the entire landscape here of who's going to win the title, who's going to play for the title. Oklahoma City's been healthy. You know, they got Chad Holmgren back. They've been healthy for the most part. Denver, I think, is just tired. I think Joker is tired. Now. That's not an excuse, but you can watch somebody be tired. And OKC's done a lot. They've done a really good job there. And yes. Have I talked about great players stepping up? Yes. And Joker had better step up. Jimmy Butler didn't step up. You know, this is playoff, Jimmy. You know, I can't sit there and go, oh, I'm going to count on Buddy Healed. I shouldn't be counting on Buddy Healed. I should be counting on Jimmy Butler. But Golden State, they're wounded and they're not going to go much further than this. Seaton, what's the poll question today? Well, I mean, we can start right there with the draft lottery, I think. Oh, okay. All right. Right. Actually, we have a bunch here from the tow too. I don't know if you really want to get into that this early on Tuesday. Fritzi is a. Is a new brand of Todd. How about Fritzs after the break? Because that usually sends us in a direction where it's kind of hard for me to get back on the road. Do you have. This is true? Yeah, this is true. Yeah. I mean, I've seen some of the samples here of questions that Todd has had. By the way, I already have NBA title odds for next year. How does that happen? DraftKings just sent me the odds for winning the NBA title next year. Okay, I'll have those for you. Coming up, somebody on social media submitted if Nico Harrison presented Anthony Davis and Cooper flag for Luka Doncic, would you do it? Oh my God. That's funny. That's essentially. Yes. Yes. Mass tough. Yeah. Damn. Yikes. Like to the. The end of the season is, hey, so if we could all just try a little harder, maybe work on getting back in shape, that'd be cool. Here's something to consider. And I don't know if many people have singled this out in that there was a play in game between Dallas and Memphis. This is in April. Memphis beat Dallas like 120 to 106. Knocked Dallas out. Dallas goes into the lottery. Also, I believe there was a coin flip the the Bulls and the Mavericks. And the Mavericks won the coin toss and their percentage was 1.8, I believe, and the bulls 1.7%. That's right, Dan. The Mavericks based off a coin flip with the Bulls were in the 11 spot. The Bulls were in the 12th spot. So two different breaks had to happen for the Mavericks to get this. Things that make you go just like a meaningless game against Memphis and you're like, okay, Dallas, bunch of injuries, they lost and now they're out and you win a coin toss to improve your odds. Now, granted 1.8 to 1.7, but who knows? Yes, Paul, that's what's bothering people as well. Beyond conspiracy. It's like, do the Mavericks deserve this good luck after how maybe questionable it was with the Luca trade? No.
