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Jermaine O'Neal: But here’s what I’ll tell you: If we’re playing a possession game, mid-post to post—say, one-on-one to five—I like my chances. Now, if we’re talking full court? No way. I’m losing that battle. These legs don’t have that much gas left. But in the post? I still like my chances against anybody." Dan Patrick: "Okay. So if I put you against Victor Wembanyama in the post—just straight post work?" Jermaine O'Neal: *"Yeah, I think I got a chance. Absolutely. Look, Dan, you know how these comments go—they’ll go viral! But if we’re saying, 'Throw me the ball in the post, let’s go one-on-one,' I still like my chances. I’m still nimble enough to get it done. If it’s about running up and down the floor, screen-and-roll action? Yeah, take me out. But mano-a-mano, low block battle? I still got that."
Adam Silver: There's cities worth thinking about. Dan Patrick: How many cities would you say are on that wish list? Silver: Well, let me begin by saying it. It's not obvious to me we should expand. I think it's likely over time we will. And and the reason I say it's not obvious is because as a global business, you know, where something like two billion people will connect with us on social media, over a billion people over the course of the year will watch some portion of the game: Adding another US city, arguably, it's unclear how much growth we'll get as a result of that. And when you're adding expansion franchises, you're diluting your competition. Let's say we expand by two teams, two more teams that you know are going to be competing for those same players and you're diluting your economics to the extent we have locked in television money now for the next decade you have two more partners. Having said that, I do believe certain markets potentially can be additive to the NBA and that's what we’re gonna look at. I think part of it is geographic it's a big country you know making sure we're represented you know all around the country and then over time maybe there's more we can do in Canada and Mexico City as a city we've talked about before.
As NBC came to Adam Silver with its plan to recruit Michael Jordan for an on-air role, the NBA commissioner’s response spoke volumes. “They told me they were going to try and I said ‘good luck,'” Silver told Dan Patrick on Wednesday’s episode of The Dan Patrick Show. “I honestly didn’t think he was going to do it.” And yet, to Silver’s — and perhaps also NBC’s — surprise, His Airness agreed to become a part of the network’s coverage when it returns to being an NBA rightsholder next season.
Dan Patrick: And you give him a contract extension last July. It's almost as if—now, okay, this may sound crazy, and I was told this yesterday—what if Leon Rose, who was Thibs' former agent, who's now his boss, wanted to take care of Thibs if, in fact, he got fired? That you get him this contract extension. Because why else would you give him a contract extension if there are already people in the building who do not like him and his style?
Dan Patrick: Could you see Joker saying to the front office in Denver, "What are we doing here?" Brian Windhorst: I would hope that he say that, but I don't know that he would say that. He has never articulated that and he has certainly never done it publicly and I've never heard about it privately. But if you're looking at this team, they're two players short. And what ended up unfortunately happening in this particular postseason was that Michael Porter Jr. got hurt and and he was a shell of the player that he normally is.
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Dan Patrick: I thought you were going to say that you meet with Nico Harrison in his hotel room, he tells you he's trading Luka and then you go back to your hotel room and cry, but that didn't happen, right? Jason Kidd: I didn't cry. I was more or less trying to figure out how we're going to make this thing work. This is a big trade. DP: But who do you call first after Nico tells you that you're trading Luka? JK: I didn't call anybody. I put my phone down and looked at the ceiling and started trying to brainstorm of how this is going to go down. I did not call anybody once this hit, My job as the coach is to make sure that we all are pushing in the right direction.
Dan Patrick: When's the last time you spoke to Luka Doncic? Jason Kidd: I text him on the that morning. And that's the last time I've talked to him. DP: How did he respond to your text? JK: I don't think he was too happy and just again from the experience of being traded, maybe being surprised, upset, feelings are high, but again, loved the opportunity of coaching Luka. He's an incredible person and we all know his talent, he is one of the best in the world. My mindset is to deal with the cards that I'm dealt and keep pushing forward. And I've always said this publicly and privately: I wish Luka the best, he's one of the best players in the world.
Gilbert Arenas: When I played against him in the NBA — it’s Jordan. So, for the most part, you're admiring him as a young fan. But you're also trying to show him that you belong, too. So, you know — I dropped 41 on him. Dan Patrick: — 'Do you think he remembers that as well as you remember it?' Gilbert Arenas: Yeah. No — yeah, he remembers it. Because, you know, I was a Jordan Camp kid. I was a counselor. I was performing very well then too. So when I got to the NBA, I used to talk a bunch of trash about how I did him. And he said, ‘This is the big league — nothing changed.’
Dan Patrick: Mike — and a lot of great players, former players — have a hard time assessing other players because their standards are so high. Gilbert Arenas: It's the standard, but it's also the delusion of what makes you great, right? Someone like Jordan, he thinks he’s great — or he was great — because of his fundamentals of the game, right? He doesn’t consider the raw athleticism that he had: the big hands, the 40-something-inch vertical, the fast twitch. He doesn’t consider that. So he looks at what made him the greatest of all time — not what he came into the environment with. You already had a Bugatti engine, and then you tweaked it for every terrain. He’s buying Hondas — drafting Hondas — thinking he can turn them into Bugattis. Like, no. It’s a little bit of the delusion — that he came into the world with the Bugatti already."
Kevin Love: For those who will take this as a shot at me…I don’t take it as such. I was pure skill & will. Cooper is far more talented than I ever was and if he stays healthy will have a far better career. He could very well have a statue by the time he’s finished. I’m a HUGE fan. NBA Central: "If you said his career was going to be like Kevin Love's, would that be a disappointment? And it probably would be." - Dan Patrick on Cooper Flagg
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Charles Barkley has been a member of NBA on TNT coverage since 2000 and recently announced that next season will be his last on television no matter what happens. Dan Patrick asked Reggie Miller if he believed Barkley was genuine in his announcement following Game 4 of the NBA Finals. “I don’t want to believe it,” Miller said on the Dan Patrick Show. “First of all let me say this – this could be retirement for all of us at Turner network next year.”
Fishburne went in blind, as he had no clue who Rivers was before taking the role, via the Dan Patrick Show. “When you get this offer to play Doc Rivers, what do you think of right away?” host and commentator Dan Patrick said. “Who’s Doc Rivers?” Fishburne replied. “Wait, you didn’t know who Doc Rivers was?” Patrick replied in shock. “I had no idea who Doc Rivers was, I told you, I’m not a sports fan,” Fishburne reminded him.
ClutchPoints: Dan Patrick: “If you don't make it [to the NBA] would football be something that you'd at least think about?” DJ Burns: "I'd probably explore some other options with basketball before all of that... But I'm not a closed minded person." 😅 (via @dpshow) pic.twitter.com/G2UtuzmQFl
Dan Patrick: “If you don't make it [to the NBA] would football be something that you'd at least think about?”
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) April 2, 2024
DJ Burns: "I'd probably explore some other options with basketball before all of that... But I'm not a closed minded person." 😅
(via @dpshow)pic.twitter.com/G2UtuzmQFl
Clutch Points: Dan Patrick: “What changed? He was playing perfectly for you guys.” Doc Rivers: “I would say not making the All-Star team really bothered him.” Doc on where it all went wrong for James Harden and the Sixers last season. (via @dpshow) pic.twitter.com/xDUGL2vdab
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