Dan thinks Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Dončić’ has nobody to blame but himself for fouling out of last night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals and he’s delusional if he thinks otherwise. And he’s able to be a little more objective about Jerry West’s passing after an emotional show yesterday.
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Well, it got interesting last night, but the end result predictable. Boston now up three to zero as they hold off the MAVs one oh six ninety nine. Come on in, stay a while. We're a Danett down seating as the day off. His son is graduating from eighth grade. Wow, yes, tears will be optional. No, he said he's gonna cry eighth grade. So congratulations to Kieran as he graduates eighth grade. So we have Todd here. Todd will more than be happy to make up for the loss of Seaton.
I'm gonna try.
You got poll questions. I mean, you got it all.
You're ready to go, You're fired up, you got some of your best comedy.
Bits ready to go.
I don't know about that.
But Marvin is here as well, and paulis as well.
Yes, I also graduated eighth grade. Just want to go to brag.
And I cried when you graduated from eighth grade. Thank you.
Today's got to be better than yesterday, right, you know, in the last couple of weeks we've lost Bill Walton and yesterday Jerry West and thank you for the people who reached out, including Jerry's family that reached out. You know, I was honored a lot of people. You know, I couldn't hide yesterday. It's live, it's radio and TV, and you know there's part of me that, you know Jerry when he was going to pass away, you know, was I going to be on the air at the time to pay tribute. And what you saw and heard yesterday was just raw. That's I even said to somebody yesterday. I don't know what I said, but it came from a great place. It came from my heart.
You know.
It's the same thing with Bill Walton. Bill was more of a contemporary. You know, we're similar age, and you know when I was with him, I was talking to like an older brother. With Jerry, as I said yesterday, I was talking to my dad because my dad told me that's somebody that's how you played basketball right there.
And we did the best.
We could to kind of encapsulate capture who Jerry is.
He was a tortured soul, it really was.
And I told this story and it's in his book that you know he dealt with an alcoholic father who was abusive to his mom, and Jerry slept with a shotgun under his bed and said, I'll kill you if you ever do that again. So there was just so much kind of tied up, entangled with Jerry and his history. But I hope that everybody got an opportunity to maybe if you didn't know Jerry the basketball player or the GM that you got an opportunity and those who did know you open up the scrap book again and take a trip down memory lane. And you know Bill dying during the playoffs. You got tributes during the playoffs, which is great. You know Jerry passing away, You got tributes last night with the NBA shows. So yesterday was it was difficult, but it was rewarding in a way that I was able to give you a perspective of a fifteen year old who first met Jerry in nineteen seventy one and got his autographed and watched him play in person, to then have the opportunity to pay tribute to him and his legacy at the end of his life. I'm very, very, very fortunate to have that opportunity. All RIGHTY eight seven seven three DP show operator Tyler standing by taking your phone calls and we'll come up with the poll question. I think Todd's doing the honors today.
Yeah. Okay, we got a lot of pole questions.
Thank you, Tod. I only need one to start out with. Okay, we will start with no, no, no, I'm not oh not Yeah.
It's only four after the hour usually wait a.
One, yeah, I got away. I got to say good morning. Those launching on Peacock. How are we going to do today?
They're great?
Okay, okay, how about we just try to be good.
Just start out good and then maybe maybe it kind of elevate h two build it up from there.
Leg a B minus. Let's just start out.
So here's the pop question. No no, no, no.
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Okay?
He put himself in a position that it would be difficult to give him those calls.
I don't care. You're at home and you're a superstar.
And remember people were talking about Luca's defense going into the postseason. During the postseason, I go, okay, he's trying to play defense. He can't play defense. He's like Steph. Steph tries. He's not stopping anybody. But Luca, last night, you have a comeback. You got a chance you've had, you know, Game two, you guys had a chance like you've had your moments here.
It hasn't.
It might be a sweep, but it hasn't been. Boy, they're just you know, blowing them out. They stayed in the game. They had a chance there. Boston, their players did what you want great players to do. Kyrie goes for thirty five in the loss. If you include the regular season and the playoffs, He's now lost thirteen consecutive games to Boston.
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We were gonna have ice cube on yesterday, but when Jerry West passed away, we decided that we would wait till today, So ice Cube a little bit later on. Rich Lerner of Golf Channel, the US Open is underway up Finehurst. Number two Andre Igudala won four titles finals. MVP will join us a little bit later on as well, to recap what we saw last night. Here is Luka Doncic meeting with the media after the game.
Luca, what did you think of the whistles? That would against you in the fourth quarter.
I mean, no, I don't know. We couldn't play physical, So no, I want to say nothing. But you know, six follow in the NBA Finals. Basically, I'm like this, come on, man, better than that.
No, no, no, that's on you. You put yourself in a position where it's a judgment call. It wasn't cut and dried, like, oh my god, of course they're going to give him that call always at home. It's the NBA Final. Like you, If he's thinking that way, he is delusional. You're out on the perimeter and you're putting yourself in a pos position where you don't have a healthy knee, you got a chess contusion, you don't have mobility, and Jason Tatum is going to beat you off the dribble like you got to be smarter than that great player. We can all agree on that petulant behavior. It's embarrassing and people probably watching now are going, man, he complains a lot. We brought it up a couple of years ago. You got to stop. Yeah, I get it, you know, we think that's what great players are supposed to do. You're supposed to get every call, but you don't and complaining. I would take the you know, the reverse effect, the opposite effect. I would, you know, I'd go, hey, how about you be nice to the official? Hey, yeap, my bad, you got me. Even raise your hand like we did in high school when you you know, got a foul called up number twenty four.
Yep, you got me. I mean, what are you doing?
You can't you can't put yourself in a position like that, and you're so you're the one guy that the team can't lose in that moment, can't lose you. You went on a nice run, you made Boston nervous, and then all of a sudden, you gave him a bail out there so series could end. Coming up on Friday night, you start to look at the one loss percentages and the number of games that the Celtics, so this would be there. They're going to get their eightieth win. The question is is at eighty and twenty eighty and twenty one. With a win on Friday, the Celtics tie the eighty seven Lakers for the eleventh best combined regular season and playoff record of all time, now number one on the list by a lot. The ninety five ninety six Chicago Bulls.
Hold Michael, Michael two, he's the best ever.
Then Golden State in twenty sixteen, so the Bulls were eighty seven and thirteen. I don't remember a loss that season. Like, I'll check out thirteen number. Jordan didn't miss a shot. They did not lose a game. Golden State was eighty three and sixteen. Lakers in seventy one, seventy two with Jerry West, eighty one and sixteen. Then you got the Bulls again ninety six, ninety seven, eighty four and seventeen.
Yes, Marvin, that ninety six season, I'm sure they lost like the Grizzlies of the Raptors.
It's gonna be one of those. They partied hard in Canada one night.
God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you got teams, you know, some obviously great teams. Golden State won eighty eight games. I think that's the most games that a team has ever won combined regular season postseason. They in twenty fifteen, the Warriors were eighty eight and eighteen.
Yeah, it's impressive.
No ring though, No, no ring? All right, what's poll question? We're you gonna go with today?
Todd?
If you were a Celtics fan that has tickets for Game five.
At home if you sweat or you get to be there in person for game fun.
I'd want the Celtics to sweep the MAVs or lose Game four instead of a possible clinching Game five at home.
All right, we'll save that one for after the commercial break. What else do you have? Also?
Staying with the NBA, will the Celtics finish the sweep of the MAVs in Dallas tomorrow night?
Without a doubt this series is over. MAVs will win Game four and send it back to Boston.
All right, what else do you have?
Luka Doncic needs to play better defense, not foul out an NBA Finals game, stop whining to the officials, win an NBA title. All over the above?
Yeah, it is all the above, But I mean there's so much recency bias. With Joker out, Luca can be the best player. I said, no, he's not the best player in the world. He might win a title, and he's not the best player in the world. It's still Joker. But with Tatum and Brown, whoever's going to be the MVP here? I don't think they care. They both have Max on tracks and finally winning that championship. This would be such a great story if this was the first year that they were in the finals playing for a title, because then we would say the following, how many titles do you think they can win? Now we've gotten to the point is they're there. They finally won a title. Now we don't say anything after that. They won their title. Now we might they'll be the big favorite, certainly in the East, well in the NBA next year to win the title again. But they've won their title, or at least in root to their title. Now it feels like they can exhale and we can move on to well, when's embiid gonna win a title? Or is Luca going to win a title? Does Luca have to win a title to be one of the great? You know, we're going to do all of these things. That's what we do, all right. Let me take a break, just getting started. Phone calls always welcome eight seven to seven three DP Show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. We're back after this.
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I will settle on a poll question at least for the first hour. US opens underway, beautiful weather, Pinehurst number two, Tiger Wood's up on the leader board. It's early, but this is one of those bonuses if you have TV coverage and Tiger's doing well, and I think him making the cut would be a great story there. Of course he would contend then that would be uh blow out the budget coverage over the weekend. So keeping an eye on that. That is a very very very challenging golf course. Now I say that from the perspective of being a a nine handicap that it's very very very challenging. And if you're looking at you know what makes it unique. It's it doesn't look like your typical golf course, and you know, you might find this another country. But the greens, you know, it's like if you took a cereal bowl and turn it upside down and then put grass on top of it.
That's what the greens are like.
Very fast, probably thirteen on the stimp if you're familiar with that as being a golf fan.
But it's that whole facility.
If you get an opportunity, like if you say, hey, I want to have a guy's trip, Pinehurst would be the place to go. Now, there's Bandon Dunes, There's also Pebble Beach, but those would be three of the places that I would recommend. But Pinehurst, that whole facility. They got a wonderful par three course down there, and I think they have ten golf courses.
I've only played two.
I played Piner's number two and Pinehurst number eight, but they've added a couple more. And it's a wonderful, wonderful area down there, beautiful area about an hour outside of Raleigh, and you could take a group of people down there and you could have a good week of golf.
Yes, Pauli.
After six holes, Tiger is one under tied second. There's only one other better. It's two hundred. But it's actually doing pretty well because there's a bunch of people even after six holes. Overpart what's funny is on the USA coverage, Yeah, there's nine guys tied per second. Guess whose name is first? Of the nine guys on the leader porner the old TV trick, Tiger's there. Because you look at the leaderboard, you go, all right, I WHOA Tiger's there.
Okay.
If you put all nine guys but you put Tiger at ninth and they're all at one under, you're defeating the purpose. You got to get eyeballs there. All right, let's settle on. How about we do the If you have tickets to Game five and you're Celtics fan, do you want to have Boston lose Game four so you're there for Game five?
Is that the poll question?
Tom?
Yeah, if you're a Celtics fan that has tickets for Game five at home, I'd want the Celtics two.
And we have some early results.
Oh you do?
Oh really? Okay?
Okay, eighty three percent want the sweep of the MAVs and four go the chance.
To watch their team in person in game five.
How about that?
What would you do?
I would want to be there to see them win at home and risk them shockingly losing four in a row.
I don't see that happening. I want to see the game five, and yeah, I have to deal without the sweep.
This isn't a case of it's gonna be Game seven and you're gonna run the risk you want to be there for Game seven Game five, You're like, Okay, if we don't win, we're gonna win eventually, Marvin, what.
Would you do?
I would want the Celtics to lose Game four and be there for Game five.
All right, Paul, I'm usually the safe sweep guy. Not make it about myself. I'm changing my mind these days. I have enough confidence in the Celtics that they're gonna win it where I could afford a loss, and man, being there would be cool, but I'm not actually a Celtic fan. Like if you turn it around and you said this to me about the Cubs in sixteen, I would have been too paranoid and said, sweep, sweep, I don't need to be there.
Yeah.
I would have enough confidence in Boston or less confidence in Dallas, that Boston's gonna win the championship. And they don't need Chris top supportzingis. They're ten and one this year, so they don't even need him. You don't even have to go, hey boy, can you give me a little bit here? You don't need him. That's how good the team is. And then there'll be a debate about who's the MVP. And then if it's Jalen Brown, then we of course will bring up the conversation again, who's the leader of that team. Jason Tatum was wonderful, Jalen Brown was great. I don't know, if you get caught up in I think you got to be thankful that you do have somebody who can help you out. If you're not great, he can be great. And then we have guys who can be really good. I mean, that's a balanced team, and it's a team that Brad Stevens did a wonderful job bringing in Drew Holiday and Christapsporzingis, Derek White has been good, Al Horford a future Hall of Famer, and then you know, you throw in a couple of role players there, and you got Tatum and Brown and they are historically great team, certainly offensively. All right, A couple of phone calls in here, Jim in Youngstown. Hi, Jim, what's on your mind today?
Hey, I tell you what?
Good morning, Dan, first time read a long time, actually, I think the first time I heard your voice. I was a freshman at the University of Dayton and Founders Hall. So I've heard you for a while. I wanted to jump on the whole idea to sweep because I am a Celtic Can and I'd like to see a sweep. Heck, I mean you saw. I'm not going to go to Garden anyway, so I just think it'd be cool. And I think they just got too many horses. It doesn't seem like it's a you know, everyone talks about matchups, and it doesn't seem like it's a good matchup for the MAVs against the Celtics.
No, it wasn't.
To start, you needed to have Luca and Kyrie combined for you know, sixty five seventy points. If you get that, that's not a guarantee that you're going to win Boston, just a better team top to bond. And you know, you also get greedy sometimes, like how many teams sweep in the NBA finals in history that in route to your title, you swept the NBA finals Like some people want that. You get greedy your team's resume, like we were dominating and they were they have been, But how important is that, Hey, we got to sweep in the NBA finals. Oh, can be bragging rights there? Mike and Hollywood. Hey, Mike, what's on your mind today?
Hey Dan, good morning morning. I wanted to call and just thank you for yesterday. It was so personal and touching. You were so human, and I mean you always are, but yesterday was just one of the most really beautiful hour more than hours of radio that I listened to. When you couldn't go on, they gave you some time, Dan ess, and then Hollywood jumped in just to make.
Sure there was no dead air.
It was really really amazing and touching. Eye and Jerry West threw a share. But I was crying listening to you and thank you, just thank.
You, well, thank you, thank you.
Mike.
And Paulie helped out because he said, if you'd need my help, let me know. Well I could even say it, Paulie, I need your help. I couldn't get the words out, but once again it came. I didn't know where it came from. I didn't know, it was just it happened and all of a sudden. Now I can't hide it's live radio and TV. But that's the beauty of it. I mean, it's live. And even when I went home and my wife goes, what's wrong, I said, I felt like I lost my dad again, and she goes, what and.
I told her the story.
She knew what I thought of Jerry West, and you know, so you're trying to explain that and you don't know it's going to hit you until it hits you, and then you know. I couldn't get off the canvas. It's like I was Tyson looking for my mouthpiece with Buster Douglas. I was like, I don't know what to do here, because there's certain times when I can go to commercial break.
Well, it was six after the hour.
I usually have to wait till around twelve or thirteen, and I go, I can't do it.
I can't do it, and you're just.
And then I played Jerry talking about Kobe when Kobe died, and we had him on the next day, and oh my god. Now so you have that, you know, Bill Walton passing away, and I don't know, but I'm glad I was able to pay tribute. I mean, that's that's I've been doing this a long long time. But to be fifteen years of age, get his autograph, watching play in person, and then you fast forward fifty three years later and I'm giving a tribute.
To one of my idols. I. I mean it was.
It was a bad day, but it was also a great day because we got to tell you about Jerry West if you didn't know him, and I told you the story of how our relationship started is he called me and cursed me out for five minutes, did not stop yelling and screaming at me. Because on my show in ESPN, I had Rick Riley, the columnist on and Rick was accusing Jerry West in Memphis when he was with Memphis of tanking, and oh my goodness, Jerry called. I didn't even I said hello, boom five minutes and I'm like, Jerry, And then I finally got the Jerry I didn't say it. Rick Riley did and that it was okay. And then I was like, okay, what And then he said, next time, if you ever have you know something about that or me or my team, you call me. I said, I will, Jerry, and I did, and then we developed a friendship, at least in my eyes, we developed a friendship.
And he was always available.
And I know that there's been talk of should Jerry be the logo as the NBA moves on, and I'm like, Jerry didn't ask to be the logo. They didn't even get his permission to be the logo. So it's not like and you know, they are people in my business who are like Jerry should have somebody else be the logo. Jerry would have happily let anybody else be the logo. He never asked for it. He didn't sue the NBA. I mean, imagine all the merchandise it's got the logo on it. It's Jerry West.
Jerry didn't care. He didn't want to talk about it.
David Stern would not, to his deathbed, would not say that logo is Jerry West. But the NBA had a press release on the passing of Jerry West in the very bottom, it's the logo. They don't admit that Jerry's the logo, but they put the logo at the bottom of their press release. And you know, Steve and A Smith said, oh, they should have Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan has his own logo. Why does he want to be the logo and you can't do it where you go. I don't know if that's Michael or not. Mike would sue. Jerry West did not, didn't care. There's other things to worry about. So if somebody would have said, or new commissioner says, you know what, we're going to change the logo, Jerry West would not have said anything about it other than good, good, Well, I'm okay with it. It's not who he was. But you know, for Steve and A to say, oh, they should, you know, not have Jerry the logo. It should be Michael Jordan. Great, ask my if he wants to be the logo. He's got the jump Man logo. He doesn't need the NBA logo, and you're gonna have to pay him a boatload of money. It's silly, silly, embarrassing. Take hot take Oh, let's take away the logo from Jerry.
Jerry never asked for it to begin with, yes, yes, marm.
Going back to yesterday, you know, in all seriousness, Paulie had an MVD type performance yesterday, like where we talk about this type of stuff, and he was a big help yesterday. So Paulie, I just want to commend you on doing that, especially when DP didn't have the worst because I know yesterday was incredibly tough for you.
Yes, b yeah, I appreciate, but that, yeah, I wish it didn't happen. Let's put it that way. Wish yesterday show didn't have to happen. The one thing I did think about though, with Jerry West. I mean, anybody would love to have eighty six years, and his eighty six years were as good as they get. But I have this weird thing sometimes when I think about when superstar athletes or whatever pass away. It's almost a decent thing that Jerry West and Bill Walton passed away during the NBA Finals and the NBA Playoffs, So they got their due. If you're twenty five years old and tuned into the finals covers last night, you learned about Jerry West. They covered him multiple times a couple of weeks ago, Bill Walton multiple times during the broadcast. And if Jerry West had passed away September fifteenth, the Tuesday of an NFL week, he would have not gotten the coverage. And you know, there's no there's not a bright side to yesterday, But that's a bit of a bright side to me.
Yeah, And you know, people didn't know Bill Walton was one of the greatest college players of all time. They knew him as Bill Walton, that the goofy announcer having fun wearing the tied Knight shirts and then you start see the video and then you go, wait, that's the same guy. Yes, that's the same guy and Jerry. Most of you didn't see Jerry play, or if you did, you didn't see him play in person, and there's not a lot of YouTube there. The NBA Finals tape delayed. You know, he won one title, and it eats him up, ate him up that he lost in the end. I mean, he always was playing against the Celtics, so it was it was difficult, but I'm glad that it happened in real time. You know, I didn't want anything scripted, you know, I didn't have time to have anything scripted. It was, Hey, this happened, let's react. And that's when I take great pride in this show that we reacted and to have Reggie on and Bill Plashke at the LA Times on. We brought back some of the clips. That's what's great. And the guys that I have in the back room who jumped on it right away. I mean, that's that's why this there's no other show like this show.
Just not Terry in Rochester, Hi Terry.
Oh, by the way, JJ Reddick is going to interview with the Lakers. I just got this from WOJ. JJ will formally interview with the Lakers this weekend, and a strong performance is expected to move him to the forefront of the franchise.
Is search? Wait? Wait? Is this groundholds day? Did we wait?
What happened this past week prior to Oh that's right, Dan Hurley was going to get the job. So and a strong performance is expected to so the WOJ is already expecting a strong performance to move him to the forefront of the franchise.
Yes, paulm okay, if you're the Lakers that you somehow hired JJ Reddick, can you do the press comments? This was our this was our choice from the beginning. This is our dream candidate.
This is the guy we wanted all along. This is the guy.
Uh.
If you're JJ, you know what you uh, you do it, you take it, and then you hopefully you move on and then people forget you know, you wasn't even the first choice there.
Yes, mar do you ask for the same amount of years? Maybe not the money, but do you ask for the same amount of years?
Well, what leverage does he have?
None?
You know, Hey, if you don't give me that job, I'm going back to ESPN.
Okay, that's okay, Yeah, that's Rob Po Lincoln, Jennie.
Buss Uh okay, Terry in Rochester, Hi, Terry, what's on your mind?
Nobody touched that pandel box? I got me dry. Hi Dan, I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you this.
Then.
First of all, let me say, Michael Dosten to the Jerry West family. Uh we all, we all love Jerry Wess. Then I got three guys that I know you love. This isn't including the dan Nets and their family. I know you love all those guys already. Man, I wanted to say this before something happened to Jerry West. Uh we lost Vin Scully. Now we lost Jerry West. You know it's really father and that third guy, Dan, I know you love respect admirer are here to get in the senior voice, and you talk to these three guys. Is al Michael's so yeah?
Yeah, let's know, Yeah, I got a bubble wrapount.
Michael's here, oh show yes, yes, uh yeah.
I can't even uh no, we're not entertaining those thoughts. No, no, no, let.
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How's it going to a full question for you guys par golf and say that would you take a Tiger Woods win or Scottie Scheffer slam a hung up and let you guys go.
I would take a Tiger win. I think the fallout.
Granted, Scheffler is playing Tiger like, but keep in mind, Tiger had ten of these years that Scottish having Tiger had ten and might have been ten consecutive years of what Scotty Scheffler's doing. Just so you understand, you know, Connor McDavid and Edmonton as opposed to Wayne Gretzky and Edmonton. That's the difference here. Scotty has done a one wonderful job this year, the last couple of years, but Tiger had ten of these. J D and Tulsa, Hi, JD, what's on your mind?
Hey? Dan?
I just wanted to call in, not to keep on bringing it up, but Yesterday was probably the most emotional day I've ever heard the show, and I wanted to give a huge shout out to Paulie because I feel like he, even though Marv brought this up, I feel like he.
Kind of.
Carried I guess the show whenever once the emotions started hitting, I think he kind of did a good job of trying to fill in even though everyone was emotional. And I also wanted to say that I'm not a crier.
I know you are.
And I was sitting in front of a client's office with a meeting, and I literally called him and told him I was going to be a few minutes late because every time I would hear you choke up, it would make me tear up. And so it happened probably five times, and so I just called him to some gonna be running late and finally got in there. But again, I think Paulli just killed it yesterday. So he's definitely the MVD this year. I'm gonna call it now.
All right, Well, thank you, JD. That's why I hired Paulie. Is no emotion therefore or came in handy. I knew it was going to come in handy that you get to show no emotion. You never cry.
Years ago you said to me, I don't care if you know sports or radio, but if you have no emotions, you're my guy.
Yeah, I just need you there when I get emotional. You don't show any emotion. Although Paully slipped a little, you started to crack a little bit at one point. Well, and I was like, okay, come on over, PAULI.
I didn't want to get into it, but there's a psychology to it that you mentioned when your father's and your favorite athlete passes away. It's a time portal to when your dad passes away. And so when you said it, I started thinking about my dad and Walter Payton and what it must be for you, and you know you don't wish that on anybody, and it's just it's hard to stop.
Yeah.
Yeah, Like I said, I felt like I buried my dad again. And it was just it hit me so hard and I'm like I I couldn't get out from underneath it. And then I'm like, all right, bleep it. I mean this here it is. You want to listen, you want to watch here it is, but it's I was exhausted yesterday. I was I was It's one of those where you didn't do anything. I was so mentally exhausted and I just sat. I just sat by myself, and I just started thinking. And then I started looking at pictures at Jerry West. I started, I mean, it was just like one of those what am I doing? I gotta snap out of it, I gotta do something fun here. What am I doing?
Yes, you said something yesterday and again Jerry West as well before my time, that he was different, like people always say, Pete Marivitch was different. I went back and watched those YouTube videoscuse that you and Marvin were talking about Jerry West and how he looked like a modern basketball player in a different era. It's real, it's tangible. I was watching West highlights. He looks like he came from outer space. On the basketball court. People are still dribbling that on top of the ball thing and he's crossing over and he was.
Just he was athletic. Yes, And you didn't say that like Bob Coosey. People say, oh, he's athletic, not like Jerry. Jerry was beating you off the dribble, shooting jumpers. He was just he was different. He was different coming into the NBA, and you hadn't seen that.
Now.
Oscar was very athletic as well, and they came in at the same time, both on the Olympic teams. But Jerry, that jumper, you can study that. It's up there with great shooters of all time. Robert in Virginia, Hi.
Robert, Hey, Dan, really enjoy your show.
Thank you, Robert.
Fifty three summers ago, I got a summer job at the Jerry West basketball camp and it was a great collection of players and from all over and of course had a lot of college players there. There were guidance canters, but I used to run the canteen, which is where the kids would get cookes and food and that type of thing. And I was actually closed and I was reading a book about Jerry West. And I get a knock on the door, and a lot of times goes, hey, I'm closed, but I didn't do it. I went and answer the door and it was Jerry. And I'll tell you what, I was just so blown away to be one on one with him, and we talked for about ten minutes. But you know, he was just so authentic and so nice, and he asked about me and I was a point guard down our high school and just ask questions that your normal people would ask, and it just feel very, very real.
As you know, he was very he was curious about you. He could have been a know it all, but he wasn't. He was curious about you. Doug in North Carolina, Hi, Doug, welcome back.
Well Dan, I am not a huge basketball fan, and if not for your show, Jerry West, for me, he would have probably just been a name in the history book. But through your show, I got to see your feelings for him and what he meant to you. And then subsequently the Showtime show came out and I was like, wait a minute, this is the same he came off in that he was portrayed. It's kind of a I hate to say this as kind of a neurotic jerk. And I was wondering, Yeah, oh, your feelings about that? I mean, it wasn't the fun. Later on the kind of added some warmth, but it was not the most flattering of portrayal.
Sin Yeah, I felt bad about that.
I did, And I talked to the actor who portrayed him, and the actor said that he kind of got Jerry's mannerism's personality down by watching all the interviews that I did with him, But that's I mean.
Jerry was a tortured soul.
He was, but he accomplished an awful lot, maybe the most impactful him and Bill Russell and Michael Jordan, Larry and Magic David Stern One Hour of the Books two more ago. This Thursday, Dan Patrick's show