Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What were the best and worst moments from the weekend?
Dude, like, be aggressive. Like, this is it. This is it. Final frontier. You got your opportunity. You're playing for the Lakers. The long line of great centers with the Lakers. You're not even Andrew Bynum. Oh. Well, come on. I mean, you're right, but. I mean, they've had so many great centers. No franchise has had more great centers than the Lakers have. And here we are. Yes, Marvin.
But centers aren't a thing anymore anyway. So besides Wimby, where's the great center? Rudy Gobert. Relax. Yes, Paul.
Going back to the Lakers and Austin Reeves, he has a player option for the next season at about $15 million. If he bails on that, which he should and will, the Lakers can offer him five years, $241 million. The best other teams can do is four years, $177 million. Bodes well for them.
But it might be a sign in trade. Yes. But I don't study the what could you get for Austin Reeves, but it feels like you could get something. But you've got to make something happen now. I don't want Luka to get to 30 and you don't have anything. What is he now, 27?
Chapter 3: Is LeBron James considering retirement from the NBA?
Yeah. Going to be 28? 27. Yeah.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of LeBron's potential last game?
Yeah, I just, I don't want to, I got to have something to show for this before he gets to be 30. And, you know, and LeBron, to his credit, has played well with others. It took him a little while to figure out, okay, what is my role? And he's out there directing traffic. Even when he doesn't have the ball, he's directing traffic.
But you're 10.5 point, 9.5 point underdogs tonight against the Thunder, and you're trying to get a game in this series.
Chapter 5: What could a farewell tour for LeBron James look like?
Wow. Good luck. All right, Dylan, poll question from hour one, and what are we going to go with in hour two?
All right, Dan, we threw up two last hour.
The first one was, should Victor Wembanyama be suspended for game five? 60% say no, punishment served. I'd agree. Yeah. And then I threw your proposal for the NBA and the tanking issue where everyone who missed the playoffs has an even chance. 63% say yeah, they like that idea where there's every team that misses the playoffs all have the same draft lottery odds.
And I know the commissioner won't go for it, but still, I just think you've got to do something. And I know they're doing the 3-2-1, and it just feels like they keep putting lipstick on a pig and going, hey, looks different, looks better. These teams that tanked benefited from tanking. Now, usually when you're the worst team, you don't win the lottery.
Well, the Wizards were the worst team, and they won the lottery. Utah went out of its way. Memphis out of its way. And that's where... When you're openly, blatantly tanking, that's when it's bad. When we get to see that you're not starting players or you're going to rest players, you're going to bench players, then it's different.
Because the commissioner has to look at the totality of all of this, the integrity of the game. Are you putting your best product out there? Load management is going to be an issue, especially when these guys start to make $90 million a year. And that's coming. In the next five years, you're probably having guys who are going to make $80 million, if not more. SGA...
And then if they don't play and everybody does the math, so you're making over a million dollars per game, and then you don't play. And then people are being like, you get paid a million dollars to not do anything. That's where you get backlash on this. Yeah, Paulie. How about this as a penalty? On your second tanking violation as a franchise, you lose that draft pick, that upcoming draft.
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Chapter 6: How does LeBron's future impact the Lakers' strategy?
You lose it. So you get one chance, one big $500,000 fine. The next one is a loss of that next draft pick. Problem solved.
Yeah, but I don't know if Laurie Markkinen is hurt. If you say, you know what, they tweaked his ankle. So then the commissioner's got to kind of have this Orwellian, you know what, we think you're doing something wrong here, something nefarious here. The threat of it might be enough. Yeah. I mean, I do like, I hate that you have to threaten teams. I do. It's kind of embarrassing. Yeah, I do.
Yeah, stuff like that's tough where there's like a burden of proof that like you can't really totally. It's one thing if it's like, oh, you got an MRI. Clearly he's hurt. Boom, done. But it's like, what if you're like, you know, I've had the stomach flu. There's no real way to be like, no, you don't. Yeah, I know. That's the problem with this.
But maybe if you just say everybody's got the same odds here. Once you get eliminated from postseason, you all have the same odds. So it doesn't matter what you do. And that's what I don't like for the competitive balance –
When you're playing these teams that continue to lose after they've been eliminated from the postseason, they're still going against teams that are trying to make the playoffs or trying to improve their seed. So for the competitive balance, I want those teams to continue to play hard. And I don't know if there's any guarantee with that. Yeah, Dylan.
What if you do, of the teams that didn't make the playoffs, the team with the best record gets the first overall pick of that group, so then you kind of go down the line? Well, I brought that up to the commissioner a couple of years ago.
Could you incentivize, when you don't make the playoffs, every win that you get after you're eliminated helps you get higher on the list, but then you're going to get the pushback of, well, the teams that aren't any good, they're the ones that need help. So you're kind of stuck in this conundrum. Look, I want you to play hard when you get eliminated. I hope you play hard.
I hope you're still competitive. But these teams, all they have to do is say, well, we're out of the playoffs. We want to play our younger players. And they can say that. I mean, that's what Mark Cuban did with the Mavericks a couple of years ago when he got fined, whatever, $600,000 when he came on the show and said, yeah, we did that. Organizational tanking. But it is an issue.
And the fact that these teams, the Wizards, the Jazz, and Grizzlies all benefited from tanking. That's what probably bothers Commissioner the most. Chris in Syracuse. Good morning, Chris.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest updates on player trades and team strategies?
What's on your mind today? Okay, thanks, Dan. Yeah, I got a best and worst for you and a comment. Best, my New York Knicks Friday and Sunday. Two great games this week, Philly. And Mikkel Bridges, who has gotten a lot of heat this year for underachieving, has looked absolutely awesome in these playoffs.
And my worst, Caitlin Clark's opener looked like a few empty seats. And during the game, she had to go out twice to get her back realigned. I mean, physically, Caitlin Clark, it's a snap beat out of her. And kind of like Michael in his first few years in the NBA, but unlike Michael,
I don't know if Clark is going to be able to overcome that. That's a big problem for the WNBA going down the road. And the NBA has no playoff games Thursday night, which is probably a good thing because I'm sure the NFL schedule release would have totally overshadowed them. Yeah, you're right. Thank you, Chris.
You know, when we've talked about the WNBA, I think when people watch, they're surprised at the physicality of the WNBA. It's real. And certainly real when it comes to Kaitlyn Clark. Because those players are coming after her. They're going to get her off her mark. They're fighting through picks. You know, they're punishing people setting picks. I mean, it is physicality.
at an nba level of how they are how aggressive they are and certainly with her it was fun to see paige beckers and and caitlyn clark and i i think paige is a better all-around player uh caitlyn clark is obviously great tv still fascinating but paige becker's uh she's in the conversation She's a great all-around player. And finally healthy after a couple of knee surgeries there.
But got to watch quite a bit of that back and forth there. It was fun. Fun there at the very end. Caitlin Clark had a chance. Let me see. How about we take a break? We'll settle on our poll question for hour two. And when we come back, we will give you our best and worst of the weekend. We're back after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick Show weekdays at 9 a.m.
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Chapter 8: How do injuries impact the performance of key NBA players?
He's in the same vein as Reggie Miller and Jimmy Butler. In the playoffs, Anthony Edwards is money. 36 points, including 16 points in the fourth quarter. Worst of the weekend, we talked about it earlier. Philadelphia fans not showing up for their Knicks and selling their tickets. Not showing up for their team and selling their tickets to the Knicks fans. Phillies better than that. Are they?
Okay, maybe they're not, but it just looked terrible for a city like Philadelphia where the arena felt like Madison Square Garden. Here's Tyrese Maxey, the Sixers guard, on Philly being taken over by New York. Tyrese, can you describe what it was like playing against the Knicks here where their fans come down here and kind of take over your home arena? Do you use it as fuel going forward anyway?
Yeah, it absolutely sucks. It just sucks, right? It just sucks, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, it just sucks. That's really all I can say about it, man. It's hard. It's definitely difficult. It's only one way to put a stop to it, and we have to go out there and win these games. Just being completely honest, we were better when we played them in the garden this entire season. I was telling them it just felt louder here for them than it did in the garden.
But we got to put a stop to it as a team, like winning these games. That's what's going to make our fans louder than theirs or whatever. I don't know how to keep them out. I don't know the logistics of it. But it does suck. I can't even lie. It definitely does suck.
So to be clear, it sucks. Okay. Just want to be clear. It's cheaper going to Philly for Knicks fans to get tickets than it is to try to get in the garden. Anything else, Marvin? Nope, that was my worst. All right, Paul? I got two bests of the weekend. I'm going with Josh Hart of the Knicks.
I just like his game. All-around player, does whatever it takes to win. A really good rebounder for an outside player. And then my other best will be R.J. Day, the quarterback. His dad is Ryan Day, the coach of Ohio State. He's going with Northwestern. I kind of like that. Don't play for dad. Don't put him in a position where he has to play you. Go to Northwestern and play some football.
Apparently they didn't have room for him. He's a three-star quarterback. And Chip Kelly was the offensive coordinator out of Ohio State, and now he's the offensive coordinator at Northwestern, and he's going to go play for Chip Kelly at Northwestern. But that has to be weird where I want to know what mom says about all of this. That, okay, you're the coach at the Ohio State.
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