Former NFL QB, Ryan Leaf is sitting in for Dan Patrick this morning and he’s dissecting last night’s first round of the NBA Draft. From the four French players drafted to the possibility of Bronny James being drafted tonight, they’re covering it all.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome everybody to the Dan Patrick Show. That's quite an introduction. Uh, I think you could gain fifty pounds right there too, Ross Tucker, Especially on a meat Friday, on a meat Thursday. I had to ask the question when I walked into Polly Paps here do we what do we do when it's a Thursday, no show on Friday? Is there a meat meet Thursday?
We always eat meat Thursday Tuesday, Saturday if we have to. I've got Kings Hawaiian Right Seaton, Italian Cheese, steak sliders, roast beef sliders, Meatball palm sliders, the trifecta.
Fantastic.
I'm I'm excited.
I was.
I actually woke up, you know, this morning thinking there wasn't going to be a meat Thursday. I'm I'm that makes the show. In fact, if we want to just you know, chalk it up to a great show now because of the meat Thursday. We're excited here. I'm Ryan Leaf. I think I may have forgot to say that I'm in for Dan Patrick out on vacation. What a great honor once again. Fourteen minute drive into work today, Fellas, that's it. Just a little stroll down.
That is nice.
Yeah, it's nice.
Not a train into the city two hours, not a you know, a flight somewhere to do a broadcast.
You were in a T shirt to work, it's great.
Yeah, I'm in a Dan Patrick show T shirt. I stole this from you guys like two years ago or like a year ago, when I was a guest and it was it was in the cellophane or whatever, and I was just like, oh, that looks nice. I probably could fit in that a little bit better. Now it's an extra large and so I just I, you know, I'm going, hey, you know, I've been known to steal a thing or drift, So I stole on from you guys. You know, we've got a great show. We got a really great show because we had to have the great Andy Katz on today TNT Basketball analyst NBA Draft Round one last night. I'm gonna tell you right now, folks, not a huge NBA fan. In fact, I watched one NBA game this year. One NBA game the New York Knicks at home home in Madison Square Garden versus the Boston Celtics. My wife and I first night out after the baby was born, Date night, all right, we spent probably more time looking at the monitor than the actual game. What I did come away with that night was the Boston Celtics were the best NBA team in all of the NBA. So I thought I had answered my question, like who's gonna win the championship this year? Turns out didn't have to watch another game the rest of the year. Boston Celtics NBA champions. So having said that, we have Andy Katz on the show, He's gonna fill us in all about this French invasion in Round one of the NBA Draft, what it means, who really hit it out of the park, and what's next Round two. For the first time ever, back to back nights of rounds of the NBA Draft, making it even a bigger spectacle and a possible primetime moment for the ascension of the next James James's the Jameses in LA playing together. I think that's the part on all this. Andy Katz is going to join us to talk about that Brandal Chamblee from NBC Sports Golf. I'm really interested in speaking to him about the Scotti Scheffler effect in all of this right, he is dominating. This is Tiger Woods ESK. They're putting up records similar to that halfway through the year. Six wins, the amount of top tens, the scoring, all of it, But does he go up against the best competition weekend week out because of live golf. And I thought there would be nobody better than Brandal Shambley to talk about live golf in his very staunch approach towards what he thinks and what he doesn't. And I want to get into about the Rory Tiger aspect of things, on whether or not they were the right guys to trot out in front of all this, the two with the most generational wealth of the PGA Tour. I would have loved to seeing Max Homa as the one that was brought out to talk about the PGA Tour and what it's meant to him and how it's brought him to a place. I did not need to see Rory McElroy and Tiger Woods, who never had to worry about another dollar in their life, to be the ones at the top there speaking of you know, you know, the righteous moralism and all of this that was going on. Love to get his point on that where a fit's gonna come together at some point or not. And then Matt Hasselback, former NFL quarterback of course NFC champion, good friend of mine, has been really instrumental over the last decade of just kind of making me feel a part of something again. We've become pretty close. Lives in Boston. He's gonna be coaching in Nashville. His brother now he's going to join the show. Talk to us a little bit about you know, this this age of quarterbacks coming into the league, how much do they listen to? Right It's hard not to hear everything and anything that's being said out there, especially with social media. And I told Matt a while back about running into Baker Mayfield down in tamp at this event, and Baker can up to me, and you know, it's really interesting having interactions with current players now because a lot of the current players don't know me as the player or maybe the biggest bust partial part of all this. They actually know me as the analyst. And they liked the way my approach, They like how I have their backs, and I'm like a no nonsense a part of it. I don't just kind of throw the lipstick on the pig out there, you know. And he came up to me and said, hey, man, I heard you the other day about and I just wanted to say thanks and everything. He told me he was just about to have a baby girl himself, and so we were talking about that. So I mentioned that to Matt. Matt had a really interesting answer to what he did when he became the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks. Also that transition and how many years he got to be the starting quarterback in the league where maybe a guy drafted in the first round, like six of them this year, they don't have five years to make this go, all right, they may have, as we've seen with the trends transition of all these players that were drafted in the first round the last couple of years are on other teams. Now now you're not getting five years. Heck, you may not even get two through this process. So that's a great show, a lot of great guests excited for that. Let's start in the NBA. Okay, because this is a it's a weird draft, and drafts for me are always a bit weird, but it's amazing to watch to see the life changing moments of these players as they walk through this historic moment. But last night, usually, no matter what, when you're looking at an NBA draft and you look down the round one, you'll see Kentucky, Indiana, Kansas, Ucla, you know, Villanova, all these players. But instead, right off the bat, two young players from the country of France, two young players that we today are going to be learning how to pronounce their names. Zekuee ezekue Rush. You say, is that Russia?
Shit?
I think that's close.
Yeah, it's a bad French accent. And then Star. I don't think Star was very Sorr. Sorr was not very hard to to make into or a mistake, which I certainly just did. But Wemby is the one that set this all off. A year ago. Okay, a Frenchman. He was known though, I mean I even knew about him, the seven foot plus guy that can handle from the outside and shoot threes. It's gonna be the number one pick, There's no if ends or butts about it. He's gonna be the number one overall pick. This year not so much. And so when I'm opening up the app last night to go, hey, we're gonna have to talk about this tomorrow. Better know who's who's being drafted, why they're being drafted all of that. Two Frenchmen go one to two. And I looked at my wife and I'm just like, oh great, you know, two Frenchmen. That's the I mean, at least if we went, you know, Kentucky kids, I could go or Yukon guys, I could be like, all right, I watched some of March Madness. You know we can make that work. But no, what are your guys' thoughts around the French invasion? And Seatan made a point earlier before the show. Over the last decade or so, outside of the US, the next biggest country to be is influential in the NBA has been France. But it doesn't seem that way. Luka Doncik being in the NBA finals this year, you have Giannis, you have all these foreign players who have led two possibilities of championships or championships have led front office people to really do their due diligence and see that they can not only are we a local brand where we're at NBA basketball. Frankly, for as much as it's maybe dissipated in the minds of someone who loved NBA basketball in the nineties in the two thousands is a global brand now and that's the ultimate story here. It is everywhere, and it's why the NBA Draft was so influenced last night by foreign born players.
And that's what really stood out last night.
It's almost like the past thirty years of changes of basketball all played out last night. You know, you could go back in the past twenty five years and there's been drafts where the number one pick you're like, I don't know much about that guy, Kwame Brown in two thousand and one, or Andrea Barnani in six Markel Foltz, he barely played in college out in Washington.
You saw him a little bit.
But last night felt like you got two French players who really can't watch them play full games unless you tun on NBA TV some Feba game at two in the morning. And then there's a G League guy, and then there's a guy from Croatia, and then there's a Kentucky guy like, oh, I know him. And then there's a couple of kind guys like oh, I love them because I saw them play deep in the tournament for a couple of years.
But it's so wonky that it's all over the.
Place, and it's it's it's this is a learned thing for me, as I assume it was for you guys. You guys are much more I think invested in the NBA. You talk about it a ton on the show here with Dan last night, usually placed in kind of the background noise. But see you you told me a little something before the show around the idea of no matter what if, or no matter how much you were invested in, maybe watching it, all of a sudden you're pulled in because these are kids and their parents who may come from nothing and now are going to experience the most amazing opportunity. And that happens last night.
Yeah, It's almost like Hard Knocks where the team doesn't actually matter because the storylines are kind of always the same and they're always compelling. But we were talking yesterday about how much of the draft we planned on watching, and most of us were kind of like, well, I'll watch some, you know, and then you end up I get sucked in. And I don't know if it's because I'm getting you know, my age, or because I'm a father or what it is, but I just like, you just watch these kids, one after the other, their name gets called, they're hugging their parents, they're hugging their siblings or whoever, their coaches, their teammates. They get up there and you're like, God, this kid's dreams just came true. And you get to watch that over and over and over again, like they did it. They started out as a kid trying to make something happened. And this is the moment when they do that handshake, they throw that hat on, they just made it happen. A lot of times we just look at these kids about is it a reach where they drafted too high?
Were they that or whatever?
And there's a certain humanity to it that is really powerful of just you know, on a personal level, like dang, they just did it.
You made it. Yeah, And it's the analyst job to do that right to wonder if they were this high or that. It's our job as the consumer, as a dad, like you said, you know, as a person, as a human being, to look at it with some humanity and go, wow, what an amazing thing. And then the relatability for me just to think about it, like no matter how much people want to throw on the heap of what the draft means to them in reference to me, like that day is the greatest day of my sporting life. Like everything that I had ever worked for in my life led to that moment with my family who had sacrificed so much. So to your point, it's exactly what it should be. And that's why the NFL draft any other draft out there, is so compelling to watch.
And there is almost you can say to the I know I say to myself too, like anything that happens from this point is different than what then. This moment right here is like there is a certain pinnacle to that moment, like if nothing else ever happens in your life, you did this. Yes, you made this happen.
And that's enough. I'm hosting the Dan Patrick so twenty six years later because I got drafted. Se get overall right. I mean, this is no don't get me wrong. There's been a lot of in between there. But you know, this draft was interesting for many reasons, and I think there's been a bit of a resurgence and we're gonna we're gonna get into that here when we come back the big men. My biggest takeaway from the Celtics game that night I went to was how much longer, how much longer and bigger. They were than everybody in the rebounds, and we saw a couple teams step outside a bit of the norm and maybe grab a player that isn't going to be out there on the preimi, you know, spreading the field, spreading the you know, the floor and making three pointers. All right, we talk about that, how the Spurs impacted the draft once again. They are becoming this team and Pop is still in it the Hall of Fame coach. Is there another resurgence for Popovich? In San Antonio? The Lakers get a ready to go player, which means maybe it's green light for Browny tonight because they don't have to then settle for something else because they didn't get the guy they needed in Round one. Player fell to them. About seventeen, another big week for the New York Knicks. I know everybody here in the room's already been talking about it. I'll say this, great job, Nicks, But I mean, you're not gonna poot pooh, are you. We'll see, we'll see what that that looks like. All Right, We'll have the hour one poll question and we're gonna we're gonna get to the play of the day when we come back. You're listening to the Dan Patrick Show. Ryan Lee filing for Dan. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back everybody to the Dan Patrick Show. Ryan Leaf here filling in for Dan today, and we're looking forward to the tirerack dot Com, the official tire expert and reach tailor of the Dan Patrick Show. Go to tire act dot Com. Slash Dan try the Tire Decision Guide and see the full line of Perelli tires special offers, free road hazard protection and mobile tire installation. Tire track dot com the way tire buying should be. So was going to get into the NBA of course here from the draft last night, how teams did, But just found out there may have been an injury here locally in in the man cave.
Yeah, Ryan, you haven't been in the studio in a couple of weeks, a couple of months lately. A lot of the guys in the building have been playing wiffleball. We stumbled back into whiffleball a couple of weeks ago.
So great, I got a seat in.
Fritzy's team is just really dominating and the guys in back are like pitching, getting their arms ready for the season. Fritzy announced or maybe unintentionally release he may have injured himself playing wiffle ball.
Yes, Fritzy, what's the details.
Yeah, So for the past several days, I've had this discomfort in the middle of the creek with that's the word crick in my arm, the middle of the arm.
Something just feels tight. Like a tendonitis kind of feeling.
I mean the elbow.
Yeah, well on the other side of the elbow, like, you know, just like the crease over the arm.
And I definitely have some kind of issue.
I'm not running for any X rays just yet, but I never had that before. And then I did like a practice swing a little while ago, as if I was, you know, swinging a whiffle baw bat which has obviously no weight to it, and uh yeah, something whiffle bowl related in the right arm is just kind of flamed.
Well, I can, I can, I can? I can relate in that, all right. I joined a over thirty five softball league here in Fairfield County, Connecticut. It was through the Monroe Parks and rec They were saying they have this this league and and some teams were looking for singular players or to build a whole team, and I don't I don't know. I mean, I don't know enough people to build a whole team. So I just said, if somebody needs a single to pick me up, you know. But the team that picked me up, I didn't give my name. It was just Ryan El Okay. I didn't give the stats, you know, in six seven five you know, and and so I showed up the first night of the thing, and I don't think anybody really knew until a few minutes later, and then we were in it. But anyway, long story short, my wife has told me I can no longer play.
Oh, you're retired.
I'm retired. I'm officially retired now because I get hurt every time I play in softball. In softball soft I play third base. The first game foul ball, late in the game, I had a great day, was like three for four, made some great plays at third base, scored from first on a you know, a gapper. Legs were good, felt good. And then late in the game foul ball, third baseline whole dugout tell me to leave it, leave it. But the former professional athlete me, he believes he can get it right. So the explosive muscles in the body that existed twenty five years ago they don't at forty eight. And so about the third step of that explosive play to get the ball, now I got to it, I dropped it. The reason I dropped it is because I felt like a sniper had shot me in my quad. Oh no, it proceeded to get black and blue from the very top and wind around the leg all the way to ultimately the bottom. Okay, I get healthy. What do I do? I go play eighteen holes of golf and then show up for softball for a double header one night, and my wife's looking at me like you're crazy. Second game of the doubleheader, I hit a ball about as far as you can have hit it into the woods. It just gone and the fourth step out of the batter's box, the right calf just seizes.
Pinch runner.
You can get a pinch runner. Huh yes, But it still doesn't change the fact that I was set to go play in the BMW Championship for the corn Ferry Tour about a week and a half later. Just got back from Bandon. Golf is very important to me, and my wife has made that very clear because when I go to these things, I can win some money. And she's like, I'm the only reason I'm letting you go to these places that you can win some money and bring it back home to us, and and so so I get so fitzy. What what I'm trying to say is here there may be a there may be a moment where you have to take a look at things and really really think if if woffleball is worth, be worth before you go to Fritzy.
This is the first activity I've seen Fritzy participate in the studio in eight years. He is He wore shorts and like I think he wore cleats the other day and I had him backwards. He was so excited play whofofoleball and he's good. He's good at whiffleball. Right, I got a seat and back me up. But if Fritzy his elbow keys bottom? Can you go to the doctor for a wiffleball?
And yes, you go to a physical therapist.
I don't know if I would have made it to a wiffleball in jest, and I just I think I pulled something at the gym or I have to make up a.
Sor say you were hanging cleaning like four fifty or something like that. You know, just an enormous amount of weight seaton.
I just want to make sure I'm clear on this.
Todd.
You would choose to lie to your physical therapist about the injury, but tell the truth to the whole world about it on the show is absolutely she just told the whole world. It's a wiffleball injury. But the guy who's gonna help you, you're gonna lie to that.
I told my primary care position when he asked, so you were working out and what are you doing?
Are you watching what you're eating? I said, yeah, I'm gonna be doing I'll say I'm you know, three four times a week at the gym, which might be closer to one.
And I'm not going to share that I had like two medium pizzas with two toppings.
You know, that is the worst person outside of probably your significant other too, lie too. Probably Yeah, he's.
Your blood pressure one fifty eight over one oh three.
But I don't know.
I'm like, I'm exercising.
I'm excited to see you doc eating right, you know, I'm excited to see you take the bloo pressure again.
I get very nervous at the doctor's off. That's probably why it's time.
Good stuff. That was That was fun. So you have a retirement over here and you have a possible retirement over there, depending on whether or not he is honest with his physician. All right, Last night round one of the NBA draft, I wanted to get into this because there were two guys taken early one taking I think a lot earlier than than people expected. And Zach Edy out of Purdue he goes top ten, seven foot four, right, I mean he was played for the National Championship dominant force in college college basketball for years, three hundred pounds. I mean, this is this is in the vein of the Shacks, right, the immobile, the immovable object out there that can get your rebounds and all this stuff. But that's not what exists in the NBA anymore. Right, It's about spacing, it's about movement. It's about seven footers Wemby a La last year, who can handle the rock on the perimeter, can get to the hoop, or if you've got a guy lack in the defense, sit there and pop three's over the top of their head. Zach Edie Castle from or Donovan Klingen from Yukon. Not those guys, right, Those guys are you know, twelve points fourteen rebounds type of guys in the paint. That doesn't exist. The biggest takeaway I had from that Knicks Celtics game was how much longer the Boston Celtics were. They were bigger, they were longer, They out rebound the Knicks by I don't know. It was like twenty rebounds. They had more second and third chance opportunities at the buckets, and that for me is huge. Brad Stevens is kind of put together a roster that everything clicks and works for this organization right now. It's why they just stomped through the playoffs at the best record in the NBA during the season. Dominated that's what teams are looking at. It's a copycat league no matter where you look, NFL, NBA, major League Baseball, doesn't matter. So both of these guys go to teams that are, you know, kind of not necessarily in the in the in the place where people are going to be seen. But DeAndre Ayton's in Portland. But it's a guy that can get your buckets right, he can get your rebounds defense if you get two or three or four game those are the types of things you're adding pieces to it. But are they worth first round draft picks in a lottery draft?
Yeah.
I was watching the coverage last night and Jay Billis was really breaking this down. Well, says, like everybody wants a six to nine swingman who could shoot the three and who's very long. That's the goal with all these draft picks, and then they asked him, why you would you take a Donovan Klingon who doesn't shoot threes or Zakid who never shoots threes and is a true back to the basket guy. He goes, well, he goes, this is they're extremes. They're really tall, not just like tall tall, they're like extremely tall, and you don't you can't match up against them. So if you're playing Againt zach Edy, you don't have who you're gonna put on him, a six ' nine power forward, so it's like an extreme matchup nightmare for the teams. He goes, Analytically, it doesn't make sense because you're trading twos for threes. But these guys are a little bit different because they're true shot blockers.
And the idea of having those extremes may be limited to one or two players, and those are lottery available guys. You know, with Klingon at Yukon, he's a winner, right, He's won, He's played a ton, he's been he's been coached hard. You know, all the things that you don't have to worry about him. You bring him in. You get the same with with with Edie. You you have a situation where the guy played forever, UH, stayed in college to keep to keep doing what he was doing, and now is going to enter in a sit in a state where you're not gonna have to ask much from him, right, They're gonna ask him to be in there and be a defensive presence, UH, to rebound and to kick out to the to the shooters when he needs to marve.
You got some on that, Yeah, And I definitely think John Morink comes back for the Grizzlies this this season after being out all the last year, And I think that helps a ton because the NBA has a lot of high screen and roll and how are you getting around Clinging and Zach Edy. Those dudes are enormous and I've seen I've seen Clinging in person. It's like, no, he's like super duper tall, not like, oh you're kind of tall. No, No, No, you're tall next to tall people. And so he's a legit seven to two, and so it's a whole different thing. And like you were saying, he might be one of those guys where it's like high screen and roll, catch the alley U, and that's all you need him to do, because you need to be NBA, you're surrounded by shooters, hopefully in this NBA game, Yeah, today's game, at.
Least, it's when you meet a person that tall, there's a freakish nature to it. Not in a bad way at all, it's just whoa like that That has to be an absolute problem if anybody's trying to get up a shot anywhere near that individual. And it was, and there's a reason why Purdue was in the Final four and then ultimately the national chance every single year, like no matter how good of a team that came up against them, he was such a difference maker throughout his career that any coach out there was looking at an opportunity to do the same. So both those guys go very high, unexpected in terms of what the analytics of what this day and age's NBA looks like. The Lakers they get a player that I think a lot of people didn't expect to fall to seventeen.
Yeah, he was ranked seventh on a bunch of different boards. Definitely lottery pick. Dalton connect out of Tennessee BOUNDUND he played in the Big Sky. He averaged twenty one points in the Big Sky. But then he went to Tennessee last year led the SEC. The pre draft analysis said, this is the best all around scorer in the draft. And if you look at him compared to like Reed Shepherd from Kentucky, Reed Shepherd looks like he's a teenager. Dalton Kinnect looks like a man twenty three. Yeah, and the physicality is quite different. And if you look at the Lakers, they don't need a project, they need a good player now.
And playing in the Big Sky ages you ten years at least. It just does. Yeah, especially in the Northern Colorado seton. It's crazy what a great year could do for you.
Though.
Hey, you're looking at him, I get it, like you go out and have a career year, especially in the SEC. I mean in front of the eyeballs of everybody out there. You know, if there are players that are going to be taken in this draft, right, it's it's guys from the SEC. It's the blue bloods of Kentucky, Indiana, Yukon, UCLA. That's where those guys go. The biggest thing for me here is at on a team that the Lakers are hoping of course that Lebron doesn't that he opts into his contract, right, doesn't opt out? And look into free agency or resigns on that deal. If so, you have a guy that comes in is ready to go right, it's not a not a developmental player. And the fact that they were able to get him at that I think opens the door for what many believe at fifty five could be an opportunity to do what I don't you know, which is one of the most amazing things in the world, to play NBA basketball with your son. That is a possibility because they got connect who is going to be able to go. He's going to be able to spot up on the outside and be the guy, especially if they have to make some moves. Austin Reeves's name has been bounced around in terms of what that what that means. This is a big deal for the Lakers. I think it is the bit for there. For them to be able to get him at that spot was a real big win for the Los Angeles Lakers. Last night the Spurs, Greg Popovitch just keeps on going and going and going. They go and get a guard. They get Castle out of out of Yukon, and he played for Dan Hurley, who was very demanding. And he goes to a coach and Greg Popovich who can coach him hard like he can and knows he's going to get a lot. And then a few picks later, all of a sudden, all the analysts on NBA TV and ESPN and everybody are watching, they go and get Dillingham and they're like, whoa, Like this is perfect a shooting guard, a point guard. Wait, hang on, someone's in my ear. They've just traded him to Minnesota for what a two thousand and thirty one draft pick. I mean, it's rare that you get a bunch of analysts that agree on something and go, oh my god, like this is the Spurs have done it right. They've got Wimby, now they got these two you know, bookends to help through that problem. This is great. And then how do you put sugar back on that top? Like, like that's great too for a twenty I mean, and they know what they're doing, don't get me wrong. They there's a reason for everything, but it sure looked like it was the right fit in the moment. Yeah, it was.
Such wild TV last night because if you're a Spurs fan, like we got Castle Yukon, we know that guy. He was crushing it all during the postseason. Yeah, and then we got this guy who's a shorter guard, a true point guard, a speedy guard like the Aaron Fox, Rob Dilling having a Kentucky and like you said, they were glowing on the sturdy. They solve their back cart problems for the next ten years with wen ban Yama blah blah blah, and all of a sudden, you hear leak andrews, Oh excuse me, he's he's actually going He's not gonna go there, He's going to Minnesota.
He's going to Minnesota. And now and now you just have to flip that around and go, oh my god, that's huge. Anthony Edwards. Now you know Anthony, you know Karl, Anthony Towns. I mean, that's this is a team that everybody was so hot for in the playoffs that got dominated, you know, in the in the at the end there. But they're up and coming. So now you added player that type of speed newar all of a sudden, flipping around, go what what did San Antonio do? They had the they had it right there, and now they handed it off. You got that fritzee.
If you're not.
Sure how you're gonna get picked, they just jumped at me at nine Zach eighty and obviously you were number two in the NFL draft.
Do you not show up?
Do you take your chances and go there because you don't want to miss your big moment and your picture with the commissioner and to just be part of all the festivities at the risk of embarrassment when they keep showing you like Aaron Rodgers or someone that keeps falling in the.
Draft will love Us scenario two years ago, right, I mean, you trust in what your agent has to say. That's who you've trusted through this process. So if your agent tells you that you are going to get picked in the in the first round, I mean you have to believe it. Now, if there's if it's if it's hubris and you just believe that, even with the counterintuitive conversation from other people, then that's on you. I will say this, we remember those things. Will Levis really turned it around. He was picked right away in the second round and he's gonna be the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans. And I think it probably saved him a ton of expectation and were going into it. There was none being the second round instead of the first round.
So I know.
What is it?
Philipaski from Duke. I think he was expected to be a top twenty pick, and he goes and he's gonna be. He was there suited up, suited and booted. He's gonna get suited and booted again. Bill Levis went home. He didn't stay, but he was the second pick. He would have been in the green room to get it done.
Polly Zachi Edi. I found out he was with his Purdue teammates. They were at either a house or I can't talk with the restaurant, but they're outside this bar area and he's with all his teammates and coaches watching the draft.
You know, I think back to that, the nostalgia of what it is. It was pretty incredible, don't get me wrong. But if I could do it all over again, what I would have done is I would have extended an olive branch to my hometown and I would have made it about Montana. I would have made it about my family, my friends. Now I included them all, like when we flew back and I flew to Vegas. All my friends from Montana flew down to Vegas and we celebrated together. But if I could, if I did it all over again, I wouldn't have gone to New York.
Going back to when you were drafted, was it's assumed that if you're a top five pick, especially a quarterback, you attend the draft.
But does the NBA?
Does the NFL send you and your agent and an invitation? I know they pay for everything, but how is the process they did?
They invited? I think there was four or five of us that were invited.
Setan if somebody in that moment, because when you're younger, right as you you experienced, you're caught up in this whirlwind.
That train is moving. Yeah right, and yeah, I don't even know.
If necessarily if you realize how much is moving when you're in the moment, but it's just going. If somebody had said to you at that time, what if you just make it everything that you just laid out, would you have been able to make that decision? Then No, there's no way, right, there's just no way. It's all happening.
It's all happening. This was everything I'd ever wanted. Yeah, New York City had never you know, never been.
And there's nothing wrong with going and getting that, you know what I mean? Like that, you're right, Yeah, you earned that invitation, You earned that right to go there. You earned all of those things. Hell, yet, go get it.
There's perspective in it that exists now at forty eight years old, that simply I would have done things different, Like you know, it's rare that you'll catch me out past eight thirty, you know, or when the baby goes down, we're going down to like, I mean, it's much different. That was. That was that was a special, special thing, and it was interesting just to see how how many more friends we had. I mean, how I think my dad's boss at the time like invited himself or something like that in his family to come along. And what are you going to do as his employee? You know, you're like, no, sir, you can't come. But it is what it is. I wish I would have done things different. I think everybody out there probably would. I would tell you this. It's still one of the greatest days of my life, the experience I had that night flying on the private plane with mister Spanos and his family, with my dad landing in Vegas, my uncles, all my closest friends that I had growing up that I played sports with, they came to Vegas that night, and we got to celebrate together. And it's so odd right to be in Vegas. Here you'd be sitting at a table and the draft is being replayed all over those big TVs everywhere, and people are just starting to walk by in Now. I was I was decently known in Pullman, but I mean not on the perspective like you are in Vegas and your name and pictures on every television there and everybody's stopping now to watch you, you know, throw you know, five dollars down on blackjack. But it was an interesting mark.
Now, when you get drafted, do you see your sports life flash before your eyes? What you just think about when I was eight and I just first started playing the game in high school, in college, and now it's up to this moment, Like you just think about everything that you worked for at that moment.
Not at that moment that happens when you start to make the big plays in college. That's when that happens. Like when something com computes and you throw into a pocket of cover two that you've watched and learned when you were in high school, and then you remember, you know, Dad dropping you off at the school at six point thirty in the morning because you had to hit so many three pointers or free throws before you went to class like that. Like, no one sees that stuff going on. Everybody just assumes Tom Brady stepped into tom Brady's shoes. The work ethic the guy put in, Uh, he spoke to it, but I still don't think people believe the amount of work he put into it and what goes into getting to that place and then having to reinvest immediately in becoming and trying to work harder than everybody else once again, when you've done it your whole life, to get to that place takes a special, special, special individual. All Right, we have the hour one poll question coming up as well as to play the Day Huge week for the Knicks. It's trade for Bridges sign they're off there, they're off guard to some big money. Does this make this make the Nixon actual contender? Uh? The kid from Great Falls, Montana doesn't think so. But the East Siders out here think there's something that could be done. You're listen to the Dan Patrick Show. I'm Ryan Leaf will beer back.
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Three leadoff home runs since taking over the leadoff spot for Mookie Bets on June seventeenth, past fifty years, only two Dodgers have had more leadoff home runs in a single month. Mookie Bets, Davey Lopez said, Lopes, Davy Lopes, Yeah, nineteen seventy nine. Otani has a total eleven home runs in June and leads the National League with twenty five homers this season. That was courtesy of AM five to seventy LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network. Paul you and I talking about this. I had a chance to go watch him play against the Yankees. I'm I'm a Yankee season ticket holder by the way. Now, I don't know how I feel about that, but it's it is what it is. I went watched him play the other day. He wasn't anything special, but he went i think, one for three and hit one of the you know, bigger hits in the game. He was bat in fifth at the time, of coursebouting first. Now you mentioned this offseason there was supposed to be Tommy John surgery, right, that's that's the pitcher's reconstruction of the elbow essentially for a pitcher. But it wasn't that.
Yeah, And when Otani was injured and they talked about him seeing the doctor and getting surgery, they specifically didn't use the phrase Tommy John surgery. They said it was an elbow procedure. They didn't use the word surgery. It's a procedure. And this doctor has this new whatever it is. There's not a lot of details of it because of privacy. But Otani, if he had traditional Tommy John, I think would have missed a good chunk, if not all, of this season as a pitcher, obviously, and then as a hitter, because you can't hit with the big thing on you.
And said he's the best hitter in baseball.
He after eighty two games were exactly at the halfway point of the season. He's hitting three twenty two with twenty five homers, sixty one RBI, sixteen soul bases.
He's on schedule to exceed every single one of his hitting stats that he has ad in Major League Baseball so far. Does this mean is there a real possibility that that we may never see uh oh tany pitch again in the in the majors.
It's it's it's a topic that's swirling around him. Yeah, you're risking him as a hitter to pitch. But he's a very good, not great pitcher. I know, very good, but not great.
He's not great. You know, for as much as I've watched them, I mean the amount of strikeouts and it's special. But you're exactly right. Well, I remember when I was playing baseball and it was in nights, I was pitching. Our manager would simply say, it doesn't matter what you do with to play, Okay, your your your job tonight is to pitch, you know. And he does both. He does both at such a high level that he just got you know, paid what three quarters of a billion dollars to play professional baseball and deferred it all till when he's no longer in California, which I very smart, especially if you got your translator gambling it all away. You know, that's that's probably a big problem. So there you go. That's the day, Seaton. What is our poll question? An hour one?
Would you rather be drafted number one overall in a week year or middle of the first round.
In a great year.
I want to be number one. I don't care. When I don't care, I don't care if it's uh, you know, twenty nine other you know, garbage men, and I go number one. You know, like if I get drafted first in my my softball league next year, you know I'd rather go number one.
I see the.
Point though, there this this richet number one pick to the Hawks. There's not a lot of buzz around it this year.
There's not.
He's still the number one overall draft pick. I did not know what what'd his name from? Washington? Markel Folts, Yeah, he went number one.
Yeah, the Philly the Sixers traded up with the Celtics that year and got him. I think Lonzo Ball went second, Marv and then Jason Tatum third of the Celtics.
Well too soon. Well that seems to have worked out pretty well for the Celtics and not so well for for the other two. Well, I mean Lonzo did not go to his spot now, right, Lonzo's in Chicago and hasn't played for two years, right, Yeah, yeah, look at me, Look at me knowing NBA stuff. I feel like I'm just in the Dan Patrick mold here. He's Jedi mind tricks going on.
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When we uh, when we come back, we're gonna get into some headlines more Randall Chamblie from the Golf Network, NBC Sports. He's gonna join us. I can't wait to get it in with him for hour two here The Dan Patrick Show I'm Ryan Lee Well. Grab back.