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4:10Now, 15 former winners have told the Masters they will not be participating in the actual tournament. As of this morning, Tiger has not let anybody know anything. There is a report that Tiger is still practicing. And that would give you maybe some credence to Tiger will still try to play at Augusta. Will he even go, you know, if he's not going to play, will he go to the Champions dinner on Tuesday night? He's got a press conference. Now, at least he was scheduled for a press conference to talk about this public golf course that they're launching in Augusta. And he's part of it. He's part of the design team. Is he going to show up? They want Tiger there. They want him at a press conference. This is prior to his arrest. Is he going to go? And if he goes, is he going to talk to the media? Will he say, I can't talk about that, which I don't know who his advisors are

5:12and what their game plan would be for something like this. But this was supposed to be a really big deal. I didn't think Tiger was going to play. But as I said yesterday, I've said a couple of times, there is a photograph of his private jet there in Augusta recently. And you usually go a couple of weeks prior if you're going to be playing in the tournament. We'll talk to Jim Bones-McCuy, who now works for NBC, get his thoughts on the Tiger situation. He'll join us coming up next hour. Reggie and the final hour of the program. We've talked about it. I know I talk about it maybe too much, but keep this in mind. On March 24th, Victor Wimben Yamas MVP odds were plus 2200. As of this morning, they're listed at plus 225. Here he comes. He put up 41 last night. SGA put up 47. They won their 60th game. Reggie Miller text me late last night. He said, I want to revisit the MVP conversation.

6:16I don't know. Feels like Reggie. I was Reggie doing, I think it was doing the thunder and the next last night. Is that the Sunday night game you get thunder? Okay. That's probably why he wants to talk about SGA. You get to your 60 wins. If you have the most wins, I still think that SGA is going to be your MVP. But the fact that you know, J.J. Reddick, the Lakers head coach. Donate was suspended for a 16th technical. So he didn't play LeBron had a triple double last night. But J.J. said, hey, the way Lucas playing, he would be my MVP. Well, I expect him to say that. It would be news if he said, are you kidding? SGA is or Victor is going to be. But you're going to give your guy support there. Lucas, to me, is still the best player in the game. He's not going to win. And you know, it can come down to subtle things like if Denver had the best record in the West, then Joker would win the MVP.

7:18They're on a run. If the spurs have the best record, then Wembee would probably be your MVP. Should it come down to who has the best record? Is that the most valuable? You know, I've said before with Jalen Brown. You carry the Celtics for half the season, maybe three quarters of the season. Tatum comes back and now you're the team with the second best odds to win the championship behind OKC. Jalen Brown, to me, I would put him ahead of Luca. I wouldn't put him ahead of SGA. I wouldn't put him ahead of Wembee. You could put him ahead of Joker and have a legitimate case. You know, his numbers aren't the same, but he's been great. He's been great for the Celtics quietly. This was supposed to be one of those. Well, this will be an off year. Maybe the pistons of the team that plays for a championship out of the East or maybe the Nix or maybe the Cavs. Now it's Boston, but the second best odds of anybody to win the championship.

8:21The other story is Dan Hurley and his... I don't even know how to describe this because it's not a headbutt, but it's almost a meeting of the minds where they touch four heads after the shot. And you're thinking, what is he thinking to put yourself in a position like that? Where you're touching four heads with the official with four tenths of a second left for you to go to the final four. Now a lot of people... This became more than just a basketball situation. Everybody has an opinion because if I look at this and I listen to social media, you know, Danny Hurley is polarizing. But it doesn't look good, but I have to put it in context here. And I think that's the hard part for people because you've already made up your mind that Dan Hurley, why would he be taunting the official when you just hit a shot four tenths of a second?

9:21Your team is leading. And Seth Davis from CBS said, for context, the referee is Roger Ayers. He's worked multiple final fours known for his toughness and his sense of humor. This struck me as Danny Hurley messing with a buddy more than intimidating a ref. This is after the mullen shot so Hurley was obviously not mad at the officials. Social media wasn't as kind and didn't offer that context here. Why no technical? Well, I kept saying, okay, what is the context of this? Has Danny Hurley been interviewed since this to ask about this moment? I haven't seen anything, but I'm surprised. I would figure local media availability, somebody would ask him about that. But I don't think Danny Hurley would pick that moment to try to intimidate the referee. Because you're already leading, that would cost you the game.

10:23It felt like, hey, that was a moment. Almost, you know, like, how do you like them apples? That's the feeling I got. You know, Matt Damon in Goodwill hunting, how do you like them apples? Maybe he's saying, hey, what do you think of that? But I haven't heard anything from him. But the context of it, I think, is important with this official, veteran official, and their relationship, I don't know. But I would love to find that out if somebody is... I mean, we weren't going to ask for Danny Hurley again. He joined us last week and gave us a lot of time. But I haven't even seen a statement. That if I'm Yukon, the sports information director, can you put out a statement there? When is their media availability for Danny Hurley and Connecticut? Because it is a big deal. And he's polarizing to start with. And look, I've watched that video 50 times, it feels like...

11:25I just, I come away with these same... What the hell is going on here? I've seen a lot in 40 years doing this. That's wild. You're going to touch foreheads. I can't say it's a headbutt, it's not. But I'd love to hear from the official, hey, I've known Hurley, we went back and forth, whatever your reasoning is on this. We're description is on this. Yes, Marvin. I've seen a meeting of the minds between players, maybe the coach and Mullins. If they would have done that, that would have been fine. But the ref? That's almost like doing that, the John Shire. Yeah, it's just wild. Yes, Todd. You don't want to know or believe that a coach and a ref are buddies. At the very least, it's a bad look. So that's the only little problem I have there. If it's being described as that's just something between two buddies, that's just not... Well, I don't think that's correct. I don't think there are buddies, but I think there's familiarity there that they're both competitors.

12:29I don't know if... Unless Danny Hurley comes out and says, oh, yeah, man, we socialize. We're buddies, you know, on and off the... I mean, if he says that, then, yeah, you can read into that. However you want to, that, well, he's got his buddy out there. They travel in the same circles. And, you know, this official has done some final fours. I'm assuming they cross paths quite a bit if they're playing in big games. That's actually a bigger problem if they're like, well, we're buddies on and off the court. Yeah. Okay, that's not supposed to be happening. I do find, though, that the more like you, I've watched it a good million times. And it gets kind of more bizarre slash more amusing each time that I watch it. The thing, though, that I keep coming back to is obviously you watch Dan Hurley in that moment. You're like, dude, what is this guy doing? But when you watch the ref, he has no reaction. Yeah. He doesn't even, it's not even odd to him at all in the moment. If some dude came up to you and put his forehead on your forehead, 99.9% of people would be like,

13:29oh, what are you doing, dude? Yes. What the heck? Because it's just an odd motion to make this guy is like, just going through to the scores table, almost like, oh, I got to see how much time is left. You know, like, he's just doing business. Get out of my face, got to think. He didn't even, he didn't even react at all to it. And usually you would get the almost overreaction. If somebody was trying to head butt you, you would bounce back, flop. But there was no emotion. There was, I mean, there was pause. But then that was it. He just kept moving to the scores table because he wanted to get the exact time. Then, you know, all of a sudden it's three tenths of a second instead of four tenths of a second. Or maybe it's four tenths of a second. But Hurley is a mess. You know, his jacket is kind of on and off and he's walking down. He can't believe what just happened. And then all of a sudden he sees him coming. And it might have been something as, hey, what do you think of that? And then they move on. Yeah, Paulie. Like you guys, I've watched this 20 times. And if you had to describe this to someone, it's almost hard to find the words.

14:30It's like Danny Hurley was speaking in tongues or having an out-of-body moment because he turns and they kind of run into each other. And then if you keep watching the video, there's a longer video. The ref goes to the scores table. Doesn't say anything back and is working on the rest of the game. And Hurley just goes back to the bench and resumes coaching. But yes, it was a, if you look at the headlines there, you know, it's head buds official. Why not a technical call to mean social media? And I get it. I get it. Any other coach, we probably would have been a little more lenient. And if John Shire did that and they had a shot, big shot, now he could have done it to the official. After Mullins hits the shot, like, what the hell? What just happened here? Yeah, Paul. The headlines are fascinating all over the country, even international headlines. Dan Hurley, head buds ref. Dan Hurley physically confronts ref. And there's real people that were bothered by this. Terry McCauley is the NBC rules official.

15:31He said he was disappointed that the official didn't do his job and tee up Danny Hurley in the moment. Yeah. But that's why I think we need context here. And we need it from Dan Hurley and the official. I think this is really important. And I would hope that somebody can get, you know, some kind of statement. Or if Dan Hurley wants to join us and talk about that. Great. Or the official. Do the officials do any interviews, Todd? Can we get Roger Ares? We'll certainly ask. You see, I don't think he's working this weekend. So he's got some time. Sometimes we'll ump and rest. There's all kinds of rules about that. But if they say no, they say no. Yeah, Paul. He might be recovering from the attack. Oh, okay. And we should be getting a little patient. PTSD. Yes. Discharge from the hospital. We do know. Post-traumatic stress, Danny. Yeah. PTSD. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show. Weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific. On Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio app.

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21:33and he had done some math around some of what's the caddy said. Done. He told me I'd walked around the globe twice with a golf bag on my back. My knees still hurt, so if that's any indication, I've walked a lot. Have you had a game time decision, whether you were going to be able to caddy for Phil or Justin? Certainly traveling around the globe and doing certain things you've run into food poisoning and things like that. I've missed a couple of days over the course of 30 years of caddy, but I've never had a major injury or anything like that that kept me from working. Before I get to Tiger, I want to ask you about Phil Mikkelson because we haven't heard much from Phil either, and I don't know is he, do you expect him to be at the Masters? Is he still wanting to compete on a high level? I think Phil is the guy that would think he could win the Masters into his 60s, so it's just the way he's built. He's back playing competitive golf again now on his tour, so I would expect he'll show up at the Masters

22:34and he'll be intent on winning. What's it like, though, for a caddy and a player, let's say this time leading up to the Masters? What are you doing? What's your player doing to get ready? I think watching, you know, it gets back to what, some of what we're talking about today with what the Incredible Masters app and what's available out there in terms of watching previous Masters and picking up breaks on greens and wins on 12 and things like that. So there's so much you can delve into now, especially again, once you get into the Masters app, which is a award-winning and the greatest app in sports, if you ask me, that you can learn to help you out there on the golf course. But are you going to Augusta a week before? There's real rules in terms of what the caddies can and can't do. You can't, you know, just go out there as a caddy a week before and walk the golf course a number of times and roll balls on the greens. You can only do it once your players showed up to town,

23:36so to speak. The players can play as much as they want to, but the caddies really don't get a chance to get a crack at the golf course until tournament week. When's the last time you played Augusta? Last November. How'd you do? It's getting away from me a little bit. I'm at that age now where golf and I aren't getting along that well. But I did all right, thank you. IBM and the Masters are unveiling a new AI powered feature. This is what Jim was talking about. So this is an immersive way for fans to experience the Masters, you go masters.com. And tell me more about the app of what fans can experience with this. Well, you know, you can get out there through the Masters app and you can see every hole, every shot, every player in real time. It's an amazing thing. It's an award-winning app. It's a must-have in terms of keeping up with what's going on in the tournament. If you're not on property and it's got a couple of additional features this year,

24:36it's got the Masters vault search, which enables you to go back over 50 years and just type in Tiger's chip shot on 16. And it'll bring it up and show you great moments in past Masters history or Jack Nicholas' amazing putt on 16 in 1975 on his way to another win. It's just an incredible way to immerse yourself in the tournament and get ready fired up for this year's Masters. I was surprised how Hilly, when I first went to Augusta back in the early 90s, it doesn't, people don't assume that it's going to be Hilly in Georgia. Augusta, that's really surprised me. And the elevation, the changing in elevation, that's why, you know, when we talk about these guys have to walk this course. You don't get, you don't get cards. You've got to walk it. And that's what, you know, when you're looking at Tiger trying to be able to play in previous years, maybe this year, that elevation takes its toll on these guys. Yeah, it's, you're exactly right. It's what, you know, first time or say without, you know, question the shocks

25:37and the most about being on the property is, you know, walking up eight or, you know, walking up the, even the first spare way, if you will, to your T-shot. It's rigorous and it takes the toll on your body and not only does your golf game have to be in good shape, but you have to be as physically as well. What do you expect from Tiger next week? Where is he going to be in your opinion? Oh, man. It's such a tough question. I hope he's there. I certainly hope he's at the Champions dinner. You know, it would be great to have people rally around him there. Whether or not he plays, I don't know. I'm sure the events of last week may, you know, affect whether or not he ultimately does heat up in the tournament, but wherever he is, I hope he's got, you know, his friends close by and there's a lot of people out there that are there for him, so to speak. What was it like, though, you're there with Phil and Phil's going toe to toe with Tiger and you're the Caddy? Is there a part of you that's competitive with Stevie Williams, you know, Tiger's Cat?

26:40Like you, you have to, this is my guy, that's your guy. You know, how did the Caddy's kind of approach that rivalry? Yeah, there's a little of that. Certainly with Steve and I, you're competitive. I was actually pretty good friends with Tiger and still am. And certainly you don't want that to become a factor when you're out there trying to win the Masters on a Sunday. I'm out there doing my thing with Phil, but you know, those guys, you know, we're obviously on a different page for most of their careers in terms of, you know, how they went about things and their relationship itself. So I usually, you know, kept to what I was doing with Phil and, you know, if you had a moment, you might have a conversation with Tiger about this or that, but, you know, usually, you know, those guys got paired together late on a Sunday. You're trying to win the Masters or someone other huge event. You're just, you know, clawing and trying to pick up every shot you can. What is it like now? You're an on course analyst, but when you see the live players and the regular PGA tour players interacting like is it?

27:43Well, you tell me if it feels like forced a little, you know, they can't, are they buddy buddies still, even though they're playing on rival tours? I think it depends on the player. I mean, you know, you look at a guy like Dustin Johnson. I mean, he's still, you know, a lot of people love Dustin and for good reason, he's a, he's a wonderful guy and, and I think when he left to do his thing, he did it in the appropriate way. I just think it depends player to player. What were some other guys might have left in a different fashion? Tiger at his peak, Scotty Sheffler right now in the embryonic stages of his career. Can you make any comparisons between those two? I can say that I never thought in my lifetime. I'm 60 years old that there would be another player that I would say, hey, my gosh, he's entering that conversation. Is he as good as Tiger? No, he's not. Tiger is by far the best player I've ever seen, but I didn't think I'd see another player this good

28:45in terms of what Scotty Sheffler is accomplishing on the PGA tour. What's your signature moment? I guess that conversation with Phil in the trees at number 13 in Augusta in 2010, when we had a little back and forth as to what the best, you know, strategy was out of those trees. And of course, Phil wanted to go for it, you know, from the moment he set foot behind the ball and saw that there was a gap in the pines. And, you know, I, it's not that I try to talk them out of it because he was insisting on going, but we had to get that club selection right. It worked out nicely and on his way to his third master's victory. But how does that work where you have to have an opinion? He gives you the opportunity to have opinion. What happens when your opinion does and coincide with his? Well, he's the boss, certainly. And Phil was a, you know, was in a very opinionated, you know, strongly. He had, he had, he was, there was no self doubt there with Phil and that was great.

29:50He made it easy to work for him. And so, you know, usually when his mind, he had his mind set on something, you know, he was going to go ahead and go and do it, you know, and I would, I would say my peace and kind of back out of there. But the thing that's interesting about that shy out of the trees was I worked for the guy for 25 years. It was one of only two occasions where we got ourselves into a bit of a pickle where he told me what he was going to do before I even gave him the yardage. So he, on that particular shot, he had his mind made up and he was ready to roll. Yeah, and it turned out great for both of you guys. Tell us one more time how people can access all this data AI from masters. Yeah, it's just available through the master's app. You can get it there on your phone or on your on your device. And it's just an incredible thing to have and to be able to keep up with this year's tournament. And it's the most amazing app in sports that I've ever come across. Good to talk to you, Jim. Thanks for joining us.

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35:56Is that what happened? Not only Sunday night, but just watching the game last night in that overtime thriller versus the number one seed in the Eastern Conference of Detroit. Again, I know they were without Cade. I know they were without Durham. I know they were without Isaiah Stewart. But the Thunder were missing some pieces as well. J. Dub didn't play Isaiah Hartenstein. But who shows up? To me, SGA should be again. And I said this on air on Sunday. There's levels to this. I am never going to take anything away from Winby. Because Winby deserves, and he will be winning these awards for a long time. But if we are going to give out the highest award in our game, which is the MVP of the regular season, I get it, regular season, I'm going with SGA just for the simple fact, minutes played. I mean, I look at Winby's minutes, and they both missed around the same amount of time.

37:00I believe SGA missed 12 games. Winby has missed 15 games. Eight and four without SGA, 10 and five without Winby. But for a while there, Winby was on a minute's restructure. And if you look at minutes, this was a wild stat. LeBron has played less games than Winby. But it has more minutes than Winby right now. That's the point of making. Winby's coming off a blood clot, and look at the numbers that he put up, and look at the season that they've had. And if we do this, because this is what some of you animals like to do, certain guys don't play defense. Did any of those animals say anything about James Hardin when he was winning MVP that he didn't play? Nobody said that. Now all of a sudden, Luca can't play defense. Joker doesn't play defense. Jalen Brunson doesn't play defense.

38:00If we're going to use that, then Winby defensively isn't A plus, correct? Yes. Okay. As an offensive player. B plus. Okay, B plus. SGA. A plus A minus B plus. As an A plus score, A minus to B plus defender. That's really friendly. Oh, no, no. He was second in steals a year ago on his way to the MVP. There are a lot of guys who are up there in steals who aren't great defenders, Rich. Okay. So are you saying that SGA does not play defense? No. I'm saying he's nowhere near what? He's out of A plus for Winby in defense. B plus in offense. Maybe even. I'll give him a minute. Okay. All right. I'm just saying nobody talks about SGA's defense. Nobody. Now, he might be highly rated.

39:01Nobody talks about that. But I want to know where the analyst were when James Hardin was considered the best player in the game. Yes. And Reg. James Hardin doesn't play defense. Now, he probably was up there in steals. I'll bet you. Larry Bird used to be up there in steals. And Larry wasn't a good defender. He was a great team defender. Okay. Okay. But I've been saying SGA is the MVP. I think he's going to win the MVP. I think Lucas is the best player in the game. Who is the best score in our game? I will say that. But he's the best rebounder score in a. He's leading in a sith. I would. No, I think that. He's up there. You'll catch. I mean, you'll catch. That's what I'm saying. You'll catch is the best best player in the game in my opinion. I agree to. Okay. But if if you don't. If if Wendy's not getting it this year, he's getting it next year.

40:01If he plays enough games. Yes. Yes. I think from this point forward, SGA will win it. But starting next year, Wendy's on the clock. Yeah. He's on the clock. It's a point of the year. He's on the clock to win MVP. But also to. Can we please see the spurs in a playoff series? I agree. I agree. Okay. We're going to give him an MVP. And he hasn't even played one playoff game. Again, regular season. I get it. But I want to see the spurs in a playoff series. But I don't think that MVP. Regular season should be predicated on how well you've done in the postseason. We did that to Yannis. We did that to Joker. And I don't think it's fair. It's the regular season. It's almost as if. What if what if the spurs knockout OKC? SGA wins MVP and the spurs beat OKC. Then we should come back on here and re-evaluate. Well, then they've given the MVP to the wrong guy. Correct. Well, guess what? They're on a collision course.

41:02So let's find out. All I know is I do started the season 24 and 1. And right now they're 18 and 2 since the all separate. Again, I know the spurs are 18 and 2 or 19 and 2 as well. But I'm leaning towards. I'm not leaning. I am going with SGA as the MVP right now. All right. You sent me some notes last night. You want to talk on VP. Braylon Mullins shot and Dan Hurley. And then you want to talk about what Duke did wrong. OK. Let's start with what Duke did wrong. 10 seconds to go. Then we can get to the shot. And then we could get to Dan Hurley. And this is why you in practice. Whether you're at the grade school level, high school. And obviously in college, you work on situational basketball. OK. And knowing time, score, foul situation.

42:05There was no reason for Boozert to attempt to throw the ball over. I know all of the Yukon Huskies players were going for the steal and all that. But all King had to do was hold on to the basketball. Escape, dribble, dribble, left, right. They were going to foul him. He did not have to give up that basketball. So knowing time, score, because they were up to at the time, even if he makes one or two with no timeouts left, it was going to be virtually impossible for Yukon. But when you give up the basketball, when you attempt, all it took was a deflection, which happened, steal, buck it. Knowing time plays situational basketball. And I'm not saying they don't practice that at Duke. Obviously, they co-shire that system they do. But when you get caught up in the moment, people don't understand how big some of these moments are in the heat of the moment, stuff happens.

43:05And I feel for the Boozert boys. I feel for Carlos. It's tough. But I was telling people this too. This too shall pass. He's only 18. I felt bad. I felt bad. But I have to give Yukon credit. Because it was a great defensive play. A pass and Caravan had just made a tough shot. His was going to be contested. You see the trailer always worried about the trailer. And he finds Mullins who has wide open from 37 feet out. And he was able to take a jumper. And if there's one player on that team that you didn't want to leave open. Yeah. Was Brainland. I mean, arguably the best shooter on that team. Even as a freshman. And what a moment for him, his dad, Josh. A kid from Indiana. It's a hosier type ending for them.

44:06Because that's all we do in Indiana. I'm an adopted hosier. So when I say we, I consider myself a hosier. That's all those kids doing Indiana. And Indiana is think of moments like that. How did they lose him to Yukon, right? It doesn't matter how they lost them. We still claim him. Okay. It gives a chance for a shot like that to come home to Indiana for the final four. His dad, Josh, his family. Greenfield Central where he played high school. He was Mr. Indiana basketball. All these things were set up for that moment. And by the way, that's a logo shot, people. Yeah. I mean, that's the 35, 40 foot shot to advance your team to the final four. Kudos to you, Mr. Mullins. Reggie Miller on the program. It'll be the Knicks and Rockets at eight Eastern on NBC and on peacock. Okay. Then you have the Dan Hurley moment with Roger Errors, the official.

45:09How would you describe it? And if you're the official, what would you have done? Yeah. Wow. What a level of discretion here by the official. Because you can easily make a case. And I am, I'm going to say, instead of say, I am surprised a technical foul was not called. Because you could have, you could have lost it on that. I understand celebrating even jumping on the floor because there were still time left in the game. And some of the Huskies were on the floor. I've seen technical fouls called in the college game for that. None was given. But the mean rug and the slight, is it a headbutt? No. No. Head to head. Oh, they were, were they touching one another? They're, but that's not a headbutt. You and John. No. He didn't headbutt. But he smirked mean bug. I think they rubbed four heads.

46:09Okay. So they had bite. They didn't headbutt. They had rubbed. They met together. Very surprised. I was not caught. I give the, the official and officiating crew a lot of credit for swallowing their whistles. Because as unbelievable moment that was for Brayland Mullins, for you con vascular, it could have been mirrored in controversy. But if that official would have blew the whistle and gave, culturally, a technical for them. So that would have been two shots from anyone, I assume. Yeah. And you could have easily lost that game. Well, that, especially by the official theater. I think that's two people in a moment, a public moment, who understood each other. Yeah. And that's why nothing was called. I think there was history there between that particular official and Dan Hurley.

47:11Because again, you could easily made a case and far be it for me to support anything that Duke does. Sorry, Grant. But if you're a Duke fan, you could easily make a case that should have been a technical found. Do you hate Duke? No. Did you? Duke is, they're a lot like the Knicks. They just think they're better than everyone else. That's all. They think they're a brand of basketball, their style of basketball, their players are better than air. I had this conversation with Billy King all the time. One of my best friends in life, my assistant coach with the Pacers. And we just go back and forth all the time about Duke basketball, the brotherhood. And I get it. I love them. I love Coach K. I love a lot of the players that have played with a few Duke players in my lifetime. But they just think they're better than everyone else. And that's why it kind of rubs people the wrong way. How can the Knicks feel this way?

48:12They don't win anything. They won. They've been successful. 1973. They had a good run in the 90s. They had a great run in the 90s. They didn't win. They went to the finals twice. They knocked on the door. And not everyone could be a champion like you. We're all on your co-tales. What changes will the Knicks make? Are they going to make a change? Can we see how this goes through? You got two guys who were bad defenders in Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns. And the playoffs, they're just going to single those guys out and go Adam. Look, I will say this about Brunson. He leads the league and he leads his team and charges taken. To me, that's a form of playing defense. I'm sorry. And you can say what you want about him.

49:12I want Jalen Brunson on my team in close moments in playoffs basketball because the Duke just has it. So you can hate on cat all you want. I'm never going to hate on Jalen Brunson. I love Jalen Brunson. I don't want Carl Anthony Towns. Do you want Carl Anthony Towns? If you're Jalen Brunson, you just answered my question. You just answered my question. No. The pause. You don't want Carl Anthony Towns. Yes. That's your second option. He's a good player. Okay. He's a really good shooter. He's a great shooter. And that's it. But at times, he does get lost in a lot of times. Good teams and great players will find a way to put him in picking roles in certain situations.

50:17Yeah. He's gotten a little bit better. A little bit better. I know you got to choose your words carefully because you're running out of it. You got to choose your words carefully. Yeah. All of the mixed fans out there don't like you anyway. So it doesn't matter what you say about Carl Anthony Towns. They're seeing the same thing you and I are seeing. Yes. They see the same thing. Oh, by the way, you got a name for Vegas that the NBA, like Seattle still gets the supersonic. Oh, yes. I got to think about that one because there's a lot of ways we can go with this. What are some of the names that are being floated? Yeah. They're not Las Vegas. Somebody said the mobsters. Oh, no. No. Okay. Here is a suggestion. The Las Vegas strip. No. Because people are going to think about strippers. No. No. Well, don't you think about that anyway with Vegas? No. You don't have to be in Las Vegas. No. The Las Vegas.

51:17You know, I can't say high rollers. No. The Las Vegas. I got to think about this because you could be. You could be very creative with this franchise. Yeah, but you got to be careful with the whole gambling thing. I know. Even though there's so much gambling. That's why Las Vegas mobsters. Really? Come on. You're not a gambler. Are you? Not anymore. I mean, I used to play. What you play? It's a waste. I know. It's a waste. I mean, I don't mind going there and playing roulette. You know, that's like 50-50. Though a few numbers out there, see if your number is big deal. Did you ever put your jersey number out there? Always. I go with jersey numbers. I know it. Kids ages. I go with. I go with MJ. I go with Michael. I go with Larry. Yeah. Wait. There's a block. I go with 132, 133, Charles 34. Like when you're playing roulette, but you know, you can do a block of numbers. I can't.

52:17See, this is how bad I am as a gambler. What's it called when you do a block or somebody? Polly. You can do a block of numbers. You play one chip in four squares. On four squares. So I would do 31, 32, 33, and 34. And if one of them hit, then we're going to make it right. What would you put money on 23? Uh, yes. I do. Okay. I have. Okay. Yes, I do. It never hit for me. Mike never hit for me. Mike never hit for me. But it was you and it was magic. Larry and for me. Yes. Yes. For Charles 34. Yes. Okay. That's my go to. Michael never bet on 31. He would never. No. He would never. Or 11. I say look at you. Look at you starting things. All I would go 10 from my Olympic number.

53:17So I would do 10, 11. I did do Isaiah. Um, 12 was someone famous too. I'm trying to think 13. I did from our Jackson and Dan Marino. So there was blocks I would do. Good to talk to you. I love you. I love you. Thanks. Thanks again. Whenever you need to. Thanks you in the middle of the night. By the way, you responding to me had been asleep. Again, I know you're a vampire at all. It's sleep. It never. No. I can't. My mind's racing. You know. Nine two. It's always racing. All right. All right. We're a team. We're a good. Same. Say nice things about Carl Anthony Townston. I will. But he's got to rotate. Rotate on the inside. That. Durant's going to get 30. I'll. I have the next tonight. Winning. Oh, you do. Okay. I do. I do. All right. In Houston. In Houston.

54:17Jalen Brunson will take two charges tonight. Hey. It's warm of defense. Tune in to watch Jalen Brunson take a charge tonight. Carl Anthony Townston. Try. In the pick and roll. That's. In your hate mail to Theodore. Not to me. He's the one that's killing your team. Not me guys. Not me. Reggie will be on the call with Mike Tureko and Zora Stevenson. That'll be coming up tonight. Thank you, Reg. Let's break a break. Theodore Dennis. Love y'all. Honestly. Honestly. Honestly. No one wants to think about HIV. But there are things that everyone can do to help prevent it. Things like prep. Prep stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. And it means routinely taking prescription medicine before you're exposed to HIV to help reduce your chances of getting it. Prep can be about 99% effective when taken as prescribed. It doesn't protect against other STIs though, so be sure to use condoms and other healthy sex practices. Ask a health care provider about all your prevention options and visit findoutaboutprep.com to learn more sponsored by Gilead. If you work in university maintenance,

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