Dan Le Batard

81 years old.

The court gets named after him.

The Lakers are giving him a statue.

He's getting all the things you get with the eulogy while he's still coaching.

And I don't believe, or while he's still in management, I don't actually believe

That there is a person or a group of people that you would put in charge of this that I would trust more than the five who are in charge of it.

But recent results shake the faith.

And when you don't make the playoffs and that is the press conference and it's an 81 year old man doing it.

And we've very rarely allowed people to age faith.

into this kind of age with grace.

That's not something we really allow in sports.

And so when I say I'm wincing, it's because the man up there knows what he's accomplished, knows what he's done, is secure in that knowledge.

But things have moved fast the last five years, and the Orlando's are past them, and the Atlanta's are past them, and the Toronto's are past them.

literally indiana's pass them well it's the vantage point that they're watching all of this from is pat riley sitting there saying during that press conference basically what orlando's doing that could have been us we didn't fear detroit okc and the spurs

are in the other conference, so we thought we had enough to beat everyone in this conference.

He's never going to admit to fearing the Celtics in any way.

And so when I say I'm wincing there, that press conference didn't show anything in the way of self-awareness.

It's the same sort of defiance on, I know who I am here.

It's who I've always been.

You can't take it from me.