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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breathe? and it's beautiful.
The guys are young and cute and fit.
It's not just a game. It's your culture.
I like watching it with my dad.
It's a connecting force.
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Chapter 2: How are the Boston Celtics navigating Jalen Brown's trade rumors?
Oh, boy. Yeah, it feels like that. Yeah, Paul. I'd like to tweak that poll question to, are they doing it intentionally or because of incompetence? Yeah, but I don't know how we get an answer to that. I know. If it, like... Would they come out and say that they did this intentionally with the poster? I just don't understand that. By the way, another thing.
I just saw where Darius Acuff Jr., the Arkansas player, went to Sacramento. He's got a signature shoe already coming out with Reebok. It took Nike how many years to get Kaitlyn Clark's shoe out? I think it's not out until October anyway. You know what, let's wait until the WNB season's over. Yes, Dylan? What about Darius A. Cufflinks? He could partner with Tiffany. My bad. Thank you, Todd.
I thought that was pretty clever.
You're welcome.
That's not a good sign. When Todd co-signs, you know you're in trouble. All right, we'll take a break. Yes, Marvin? Darius Acuff and Reebok, they did the right thing because they were promotional shots with Acuff and Allen Iverson. Caitlin Clark should have done something with Cheryl Seuss or somebody that had a signature shoe from the previous generation.
And I was like, man, everybody's doing it right. Except the WNBA. Aber with Jordan. Yes. Relax. No, no, no.
Aber with Jordan.
But she's not on the Jordan brand. She's not on the Jordan brand. Well.
Two different entities.
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Chapter 3: What impact do Caitlin Clark's injuries have on her career?
And Willis Reed is the best second-round pick of all time. I don't think I'd put Chris Middleton ahead of Jalen Brunson, certainly after what happened a couple of weeks ago. Chris Middleton, nice player, but he is the third-best second-round pick of all time. And, yes, Bowie? I had to throw, no offense, the BS flag on Willis Reed.
The draft back then, Willis Reed was the eighth overall pick of that draft. Round one was seven picks. Round two was nine picks. Wait, are you sure? I'm looking at the 1964 draft, unless this is... I think he was 36th overall. this is weird i'm looking you look uh... joker went forty first brunson went thirty third chris middleton who was drafted by detroit he went thirty nine overall
Yes, Paulie. This is very confusing. So I have basketball references, official 1964 draft. They categorize the first round as the first nine picks. And then it appears that round two, it's listed as round two. Willis Reed is the first pick of round two. He was the tenth pick of that entire draft. This is Chris Middleton.
He was drafted by Detroit, went to Milwaukee, and he made three All-Star teams and, of course, won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks. Yeah, this says Willis Reed drafted 36th overall by the Knicks. I don't know why they have him as a top ten pick. Again, I'm looking at the official NBA draft website, and it looks like he was the first pick of round two. Honorable mentions.
Michael Redd, Rashad Lewis. Paul Millsap, DeAndre Jordan, Isaiah Thomas, the other Isaiah, Goran Dragic, Lou Williams, Monte Ellis, Jeff Hornacek, they call him Horny, and Cliff Robinson. Those are your second-round picks. Let's bring in our first-rounder lottery pick. He's Chris Maddox, who joins us on the program. Chris, how are you? Hi, Dan. Did you watch the second round last night?
I monitored. Monitored. So did I. And I wasn't working. You were probably working. Is there a name that we should know from the second round? Uh... I mean, no. I can't sit here and say that any of these guys are – I don't see them as impact players necessarily.
There was some size I thought drafted in the second round, especially in the first five or six picks that could be interesting, especially like the way this league is trending now, and you saw this in the first round of the draft, like –
If you've got an opportunity, even when you have bigs, you load up on bigs because everything now is being geared towards how do you defend Victor Wibinyama in a playoff series. Maybe one of these second-round bigs, the kid out of North Carolina, could turn into something, but it's a crap shoot when you get past the first round. How close were the Celtics to getting Giannis?
I don't think they were ever close because I was hearing and reading for days that the Celtics were all in, but everything I heard out of Boston was that they were not all in. Miami was all in. would have traded, like, Pat Riley's grandchild plus, like, a stake in the Clevelander. Like, they would have given everything to get their hands on Giannis. Boston was never willing to do that.
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Chapter 4: How does the WNBA's promotional strategy affect its players?
I like Nas Reed. You just basically had a salary dump with Julius Randle. Let me go back to the Celtics. Do they have to trade Jalen Brown now?
so you know i've been chronicling the jalen brown drama for it feels like a decade now i mean this was i mean this is a guy whose draft rights was booed on draft night like he has had a very tumultuous tenure in boston the reason this feels different though than previous jalen brown trade chatter is because all that trade shatter in the past was tied to one player like
They were after Kawhi Leonard, and they knew they had to give Jalen Brown up. They were after Anthony Davis, and they knew they had to give Jalen Brown up. 2022, they were after Kevin Durant, and they knew to get him, they'd have to give Jalen Brown up. This feels different in that, from what I'm hearing, it wasn't just about Giannis.
Now they're turning around, and maybe there's a level of interest in Evan Mobley. Maybe they can talk to Houston about an Amin Thompson type of deal that might include Alperin Sangoon. They are talking... to multiple teams about multiple different players. And that's never really been the case in the past with Jalen Brown. So it does feel like we've crossed a certain threshold.
Is it the point of no return? I don't know. I don't think the Celtics are going to just offload him. I think that's for sure because he's too valuable an asset and has too many years left on his contract.
But if there's a deal to be done that the Celtics are happy with and they feel like it maximizes Jason Tatum over the next three or four years, I think the Celtics will be motivated to get it done. Austin Reeves' deal, his extension means what to LeBron's future? I don't think it's necessarily tied to LeBron's future because the Lakers always knew this was coming.
They knew the threat of Detroit was out there. The threat of Brooklyn was out there. Like someone, Utah was a team that prior to all their willing and dealing was a team that was really interested in Austin Reeves. They knew somebody was going to come to the table with this type of offer.
Now with LeBron, what it's really going to boil down to over the next couple of weeks and what I hear is like how much money can they give him? on a short-term deal?
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Chapter 5: Why was Caitlin Clark left off the WNBA anniversary poster?
What is the maximum dollar? And does he want to be there? Is he willing to accept, as he did during those brief stretches last year, of being a third option behind Luka Doncic and behind Austin Reeves? How valuable is it to LeBron to be in Los Angeles? Remember, in 2018, he came to the Lakers in large part because he wanted LA. That team stunk when he got there.
It wasn't like, we're going to step into a championship team. He wanted to be in L.A., and that hasn't changed. In fact, that's probably magnified over the last couple of years with Bronny being there and his wife and daughter entrenched in the Southern California area. So my gut feeling, Dan, has been for weeks that they figure it out. Like Mark Walter, the new owner of the Lakers, is not cheap.
Like he's going to spend the money that he's needed to spend. If he has to go into the luxury tax... to pay LeBron James $25 million on a short-term deal. He's going to do that. So my feeling is that with LeBron, they'll figure it out in L.A., and he'll wind up back there. Yeah, I just wonder. It feels like when you see that the Lakers would love Jared Allen from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Cleveland's a team to watch, too, for a lot of things. Yeah.
could you do a sign and trade with LeBron in that he would be willing to go back to Cleveland? Like, how far-fetched do you feel like we're getting here with LeBron's future? I don't think we're far-fetched. The great unknown is how small a salary is he willing to take. Like, LeBron James, even in his 40s, is worth every nickel of a max salary because of the revenue he drives a team.
Like I've always said, these... These max salary guys, and we're at $70 million per year. These guys are underpaid. Like the middle class are the guys that are getting almost overpaid at this point because the stars drive revenue in the NBA. So Steph Curry, LeBron James, they're worth every nickel to their respective teams. But cap wise, you can't pay LeBron those types of numbers anymore.
So what is the number? that he's willing to settle for and feel like he's getting his worth, his value with that team. We just don't know the answer to that question just yet. I think with Cleveland, though, Dan – Like, to me, and I've reported this a little bit the last couple of days, to me, Cleveland's move might be an Evan Mobley, Jalen Brown type of swap.
Like, Cleveland, there are a couple ways you can look at Cleveland's season. You can look at it the Kenny Atkinson way, the optimistic way, and say, like, we made it to the conference finals. Yes, it took us seven games with Toronto Raptors to get there, but we made it to the conference finals, so we're moving forward. The more realistic way is that they're not there.
And Evan Mobley is an excellent player. But I think they get closer to being there by adding Jalen Brown, who is a proven winner at the championship level, who would fit into their need for wings, who has a phenomenal relationship with Donovan Mitchell. That's another big part of this, trying to get Donovan Mitchell to stay over the long term.
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Chapter 6: What can we learn from the NBA's approach to player promotion?
I'm going to see Zeppelin or Bowie. I'm going to get hammered. I went to all of those shows. And not at one point did I go, man, I'm not messed up. I don't know if I'll be able to enjoy myself. Dylan. You don't have to do any of that, and plenty of people don't. You get to if you want to. What would you say the percentage of those who do and those who don't at a Dead or Fish concert?
I think it depends. I mean, there's a decent amount of people probably in recovery as well, so they're opting out, but it's a mixed bag. It's a much more mixed bag than I think you would expect, but obviously there's plenty of people partaking as well. I just never needed to get to a state where now I could go watch a show. Well, it's not that you have to be in that state.
I mean, anything is fun. I've been around people. I've been around people. I was in the garden at a steakhouse a couple of years ago, and three guys at the table were going to go see fish. And they all pulled out Molly and said, all right. And they took Molly, and they go, we're ready to go to the show. Okay, so I did see it right in front of me. And then they said, do you want to go?
And I said, do I have to take Molly? And they go, no, but it might help. So just letting you know, I did listen to music. Just letting you know. I have other bands that might be better than Grateful Dead, but I've already created an uproar here. Yes, Paul? There are more women at a Rush concert than non-high people at a Grateful Dead concert. Gabe in North Carolina. Hi, Gabe.
What do you have for me today? Hey, good morning, guys. Long time, fourth time, six foot tall, felt as a kitten. I wanted to make a band real quick before I got to my point. Y'all are kind of leaving out widespread panic. Just want to throw that out there. But also, Dylan, he absolutely looks like a public defender. But what completes the look here, and you're never going to be able to unsee it,
is Todd in his red and white striped shirt. He looks like the prisoner that Dylan would be defending that just got out of jail in the morning and waiting to see the judge. All right. Well, thank you. By the way, Todd looks like the guy from Monopoly where they get out of jail card with the stripes there. Yes, Dylan. I was going to say there's a bit of a cat in the hat vibe. Oh, with Todd.
Yeah, I get that. Nate in L.A. Hi, Nate. What do you have for me today?
Hey, morning, Dan. Actually, just recovering from emergency gallbladder removal surgery. So anyone listening, you know, take care of your body. Let's do it. But actually, I want to follow up. I was watching Rich Eisen's SportsCenter series when you were the first episode.
The story you told about Chris Berman and you told him he was too loud on air. After the show, when it went off air, did anyone talk to you about that? Or, like, was there any follow-up? Or was it just like, hey, good job? I don't remember. Like, it wasn't a big deal. And Chris didn't say anything after. I mean, if anything, he would have laughed at it. Because Chris was and is really loud.
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Chapter 7: How does Chris Mannix view the future of Jalen Brown?
I like watching it with my dad.
It's a connecting force.
From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Echavarri, and this is American Football, a show about soccer culture in the U.S. and its underdog roots.
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