Kevin Harlan
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Podcast Appearances
It's like his name now.
Yeah.
I know it's you don't plan that stuff.
If it happens, great.
If it doesn't, you just it's a it's a line in a game and you move on to the next play.
Well, you're nice to say that.
It came from a James Bond movie, and then it extended to our son's Nerf basketball games with me in his room when he was like four and five years old, and he would dunk on me.
He'd be like a running back in football, but the Nerf ball would be up here, and he would just drive right into me and put the ball up and
And I said, have you no regard for human life, you know, and just joking around in his room.
But it came from a James Bond movie, Dr. No, when Bond is sitting at the table of a villain and as all good villains do, they tell you how they're going to rule the world and the process going to take to doing it.
And it was in the underwater lair of Dr. No, and he's explaining to Sean Connery, James Bond, what he's going to do.
And Bond responds by saying, Connery responds by saying, clearly you have no regard for human life because you're going to kill all these people.
So it came from there.
It extended to our little guy's bedroom and Nerf basketball games and then went on into the game.
And I may have said it once with Kobe on a dunk, maybe with KG, but the LeBron one came over a reigning โ
Defensive Player of the Year in Garnett around a pretty defensive-minded Boston team, a defending champ, in a playoff game that then swayed the outcome of that series at a big moment in that game in Cleveland.
And Doug Collins was with me.
And when LeBron went up, Doug, and I always kind of played off of his physical reaction to a play.
Like if he jumped up or got excited or I could hear it in his voice, then that triggered me to get even more excited.
jazzed about what just happened.