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Chapter 1: What are the main storylines leading into the NBA Finals?
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Chapter 2: How does Ryen Russillo view Wemby as the face of the league?
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It was exciting. It was fun. You know, nine goals scored and game one in the books. Game one tonight. The Knicks are a four and a half point underdog against the San Antonio Spurs. 830 Eastern on ABC. We'll talk to Reggie Miller a little bit later on. Get his thoughts on what he thinks will happen in this series. Ryan Rosillo, Barstool Sports. He'll be covering the NBA Finals.
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Chapter 3: What does Reggie Miller say about Dylan Harper's performance?
We'll discuss that. We'll hear from Sean McVay and get his thoughts on maybe getting Aaron Donald out of retirement. There were a couple of reports yesterday, including some text messages. Pat McAfee reached out to Aaron Donald of maybe getting him back. I'd be all in on this. If I'm the Rams, what do you want? There's no downside to this. I would say to Aaron Donald, you want to play home games?
You want to play? We're not going to have you play 60 or 70 plays. We're going to have you play 35, maybe 40 plays. That would be it. We want you ready for the postseason. And I would just gear up as if you were, you know, on a minutes restriction with him, a play restriction with him, have him out there, certain situations. And if you could have Aaron Donald playing,
even Aaron Donald half the time, even just home games, I would say absolutely. Sign me up because you got that guy with Miles Garrett. Now you're ready to go. And a defense that got roughed up I think five or six times last year gave up over 30 points, including two games against Seattle. All right, 877-3DP-SHOW, email address dp at danpatrick.com, Twitter handle at dpshow.
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But for the most part, I think most of your NBA fans consume highlights, not games. Unless it's your team, then you're going to be watching the totality of a season, a game. But this is different because now you're on the big stage. It's not just about highlights.
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Chapter 4: What hypothetical trade involving Giannis is discussed?
This is about watching the entire game. And that's fun. For me, I like when you're almost forcing people to watch a game instead of just a clip. Because somebody can watch a highlight and go, man, you know who's great? And you go, who? And then they'll tell you and you go, did you watch the whole game? No, I saw a highlight. Well, that's how we're consuming sports now.
And sometimes we think something is, boy, that was a great game. And I'll go, no, no, no. A great finish, that doesn't mean it's a great game. Like even the Western Conference Finals, it was a battle. Those weren't great games. I mean, the first game, overtime, and Wembley had an unbelievable performance.
I didn't think they were great games where it came down to, you know, diagramming one last shot. It was OKC. When they looked great, they won. When San Antonio looked great, they won. You know, the Knicks, it was interesting when they faced the Hawks when they're down 2-1. After that, it wasn't interesting.
I mean, Cleveland where you're down 22 and then you come back, and that was pretty much the series. Because I didn't think Cleveland was anywhere near what the Knicks were as far as talent goes. And they ended up getting swept, of course. Now you've got a battle here. I expect this to be a battle. I think now let's separate the Knicks fan from reality here, if you can do that.
And that is I think the Knicks are a great team. I think they they figured out cohesiveness. They figured out roles. I don't think they're deep, but I do think that they're really good.
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Chapter 5: How do the Knicks and Spurs stack up against each other?
And San Antonio is really good as well. And I know we're going to talk about experience or lack thereof. Well, the Knicks haven't been here. I know they've been in the NBA for a while. They're older players. In fact, San Antonio is the second youngest team in NBA Finals history. They average around 24 years of age.
The Portland Trailblazers in 1977-78 were the only team that were younger than them. I know the experience. You already went through OKC at OKC in a game seven. I think you're going to be OK. Oh, the Garden. OK. Well, Castle was played there. He played college games there. Harper has got NBA pedigree. Wemby's played in the Olympics.
I don't look at that and go, boy, these guys are going to be uptight. If anything, once it gets to the Garden, it feels like the pressure is on the Knicks because that crowd, you better be good. You better be great. We spent all this money to watch you play. You better be great.
San Antonio, that fan base is not turning on you, and maybe turning on you is kind of a harsh description with the Garden, but the Garden does demand great basketball. and they will want that when this series goes back to New York. But San Antonio, if you look at the history of teams that have come off multiple seven-game series before they get into the finals, they normally don't do well.
The Knicks are rested. I know maybe this is one of those rest-and-rust conversations we can have after game one, but San Antonio might be on just adrenaline alone you know, have the edge going into game one. Because you might say, well, the Knicks are rested. Okay.
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Chapter 6: What impact does experience have on the NBA Finals?
I think San Antonio is on that high that they had against OKC, and it wasn't that long ago. It's not like seven days ago. Now you're ready to go. We know what it means to Wemby, these younger players. It doesn't feel like the moment is too big. Now, I've seen that before with Chet Holmgren. The moment was too big for him. And you could say, well, he is young. Well, he played in the NBA Finals.
He's played in a couple of Game 7s. It shouldn't have been too big for him. I expect to have... A lot of conversation about just how great Jalen Brunson is. Wemby, I guess, different things that he could do at both ends of the floor. But I hope that you shine the spotlight that Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle, De'Aaron Fox, Carl Anthony Towns changing his game.
Bridges is the guy who got traded for five players, first-round picks. OG and Inouye, I think. might be the guy that decides this, his ability to be able to try to cover Wemby, if that's possible. So there's a lot of different storylines here, and I'm excited about it.
I mean, I like the Indiana portion last year just because Indiana, it felt like they were on this historical run, and maybe they had fate on their side. But OKC winning its first championship. So that... You're looking for storylines. Every year that I cover the NBA Finals, what is the storyline?
Now, I was treated to Jordan, so the storyline was, I'm going to win another one, going to win another one, going to win another one. But we did have Seattle storyline. We had Charles Barkley storyline, Malone and Stockton storyline. So you have that, but you want to have the best basketball on display.
And I think if you were going to script this, I think the NBA, now it's not scripted, I would say that they did a pretty good job. If they could script it, if you can't get the Lakers in there, having the Knicks against San Antonio, that would be high on my list.
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Chapter 7: How does Charles Barkley's legacy compare to today's players?
Yes, Marvin?
Yeah, this is the best case scenario for the NBA because Wemby is officially the face of the NBA. Right?
Yeah. Yeah.
This is what they've wanted because you're trying to transition yourself out of the LeBron and Steph era. We need somebody who's must-see TV, Joker, SGA, great players, but this guy, you got to see him.
Yeah, I don't know if there's anybody else on that list. Like, Anthony Edwards does not want to be the face of the NBA. He said it. I think he's a great player. I just think people don't watch him during the regular season. You see him in the postseason, and we all say the same thing. Man, he kind of reminds me of Jordan. And then it goes away.
John Morant, I don't know if he wants to be professional. Zion, same thing. I mean, you got guys who got in, got paid, and I don't know if they care. Wemby cares. Like, when's the last time you saw somebody? Yes, he did cry after winning the Western Conference Finals. Get over yourself. Nothing wrong with a grown man crying. I do it all the time. He won the Western Conference Finals.
He said, man, he says the Larry O'Brien trophy means so much to me. How many of these kids who are in their 20s even know that it's the Larry O'Brien trophy that they hand out? Who's Larry? Yeah. Wait, is this Larry O'Brien Bird?
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Chapter 8: What are the predictions for the outcome of the Finals?
What's this trophy for? I love that. I love what it means. I love how the garden is going to just be thumping. It's going to be great. Having been in that place for a variety of events, no NBA finals, but to be in there for playoff games, hockey, college basketball, Big East, I know what it sounds like. This will be unlike any other event that's been in there. in the last 30 or 40 years.
Even going back to 1999. I mean, and Wemby wasn't alive in 1999. Not even close. Tim Duncan was 22 at the time. But I don't think many people thought the Knicks had a great chance against that Spurs team. Yes, Marvin?
Yeah, the city's going to be rocking. The Knicks, this is the only time in my lifetime where the entire city will be behind one team. The only time that's even been remotely close is the 2001 Yankees, and that was because of 9-11.
Yeah, yeah, good point. Yeah, Paulie? The NBA Finals will be broadcast to 215 countries in 60 languages.
And you don't know what this game will mean on players who are going to be watching this when they're young. Because that's where I go back to the Dream Team. The Dream Team gave us Wemby. The Dream Team gave us Luka. They gave us Joker. They gave us these players from around the world. And the NBA is reaping the benefits of that.
I mean, David Stern, God rest his soul, he knew what he was doing. He wanted global expansion. And the only way you were going to do that is if you humbled the rest of the globe. And they did that with the Dream Team. And those countries realized, can we have a Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley or Larry Bird? And you see, yes, they can. Yeah, Pauline.
There's this great article from the USA Today a few years ago about the Dream Team in 92. And Dirk Nowitzki says, that's when I got into basketball. I was good. I was decent. But that's when I said, this is what I want to do. Tony Parker of the Spurs said the same exact thing.
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