The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Rick Barnes Would Rather Be At Practice (feat. Rick Barnes)

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

How would you react if a puck hit you in the face in the middle of a hockey broadcast? Also, the crew relives an awkward moment from Dan at this past weekend's South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Then, legendary college basketball coach Rick Barnes of the Tennessee Volunteers joins the show to discuss why he'd rather be at practice than talking with us, his love of NASCAR, the Yankees of his youth, and the Summer of '49. He also explains what he learned throughout his career from Bobby Knight, T.J. Ford, Richard Petty, and Kevin Durant before playing a game of Shot For Your Life. Plus, Patrick Willis joins the NFL Hall of Fame, Chris Cote has a great "looks like" for David Baker, and Roy has an Alexander Ovechkin Stat of the Day.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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of a Buffalo Sabres broadcaster being hit by a puck? I'm always in hockey, floored when anyone gets hit in the face with a park i would be very scared of the park the park is i'd i'd don't know whether it's underestimated in hockey because hockey players are so tough but to get in the way of a slap shot is an act of bravery every last time and uh... this announcer is hit by a park that's just ending up in the crowd let's

hear what that sounds like when that happened The puck has dropped and it's four The opening period and razor just took another one And that was a rocket Doctors checking razor out very quickly. That was close to the Kevin James got hit right in the forehead and very quickly that was close to the eye. Kevin James got hit right in the forehead and when that happened, you can all understand whether you're broadcasting or not,

the reflex like a doctor hitting you on the knee and making it kick out is going to be to say the F word. It's not even another word. The opening period. Even if you're not a cursor, even if you're someone who never curses, if a hockey putt hits you in the face, that's how that's gonna go.

The opening period. I love the, church, if you're on the broadcast, if you're at a funeral, any place that that happens, it doesn't matter whether you're supposed to be appropriate or not. Ah! The opening period. It's Rob Ray that got hit in the face, not Kevin James. It wasn't Kevin James?

Ah! The opening period. Tough son of a gun when he was playing. Sixth all time in penalty minutes. All that from fighting majors. But that, you guys all, you guys all understand. Fighting majors. Forgetting that you're on the broadcast and just cursing.

In fact, we'll all allow it, no? Yeah, you have to. Oh, f***ing the opening period. Thank you, Billy, for the support. I appreciate the no there. As an in-game broadcaster, I can tell you there's a certain level of professionalism that you have to compose yourself within said position You know what I mean? I would never say the f-word during a live broadcast

But you know here rules a little loosey goosey and we're on the DKN and the podcast and we just throw around some Curses on the Mac etc etc. All right since the rules are a little bit loosey today Not on a broadcast, though. Didn't you get dumped during one of our Marlins broadcasts? Didn't you say something? I said hell. Yeah. That was a curse.

Like, come on, hell? Get the hell out of here with that. Hell was a curse. They dumped me. That was crazy behavior. I try, when I get in broadcast mode, to change my entire lifestyle and not curse at any aspect of my life. I understand, but if you get hit in the face with a hockey puck, my entire point is that whatever your rules are,

whatever your plan is, the hockey puck to the face is going to alter that plan. Good one's Duck. I actually have here Billy cursing on the broadcast. We should get through the Trevor Rogers stuff early though, because he's probably only going to go four, right? Well, last time he went four. It would be really good if he went maybe five. That damn Jordan Walker wasn't felling off so many pitches, you know? Did you just swear on the air?

How can I not say that? No. Let's refrain. Might have to hit the dump button back in the station. It was damn not hell, but they didn't catch him because Billy's an unruly loose cannon. You can catch him on FIU Baseball ESPN+. Saturday, Friday. I didn't catch him because Billy's an unruly loose cannon. You can catch him on FIU Baseball ESPN+. Saturday, Friday.

That was a star-making broadcast. Billy is now on the FIU Baseball broadcast, and Kyle Seeloff is now the television voice. I think about SportsBank sometimes, to be honest with you. I look around at who was on SportsBank with us back in the day, Stu Gotts, Goldie, Amber. We had a who's who. Bryant McFadden was on there, Joy was on there.

We had everybody on the show. local Asia. Bree Beauty. Oh yeah, Bree Beauty was on there performing. She was obviously one of Bryant McKinney's artists, but they had a falling out. I don't think he represented her anymore in the musical front.

She performed, our only performance on Saturday morning. Do you guys have any sound? When Stu Gotz on Saturday morning television? When Stugots on Saturday morning television, when Stugots on Saturday. You're at 11, a little later. When Stugots on Saturday morning television, Sports Bang commercial content, had Bryant McKinney, the famed left tackle,

who had a music production team and decided that Bree Beauty was going to play on Saturday morning. All of a sudden Stu Gotz and Billy got bullied by the musical act and next thing you know sports bang has a musical act out of nowhere because Billy couldn't say no. Well okay. To Bryant McKinney. Hold on a second. What am I supposed to do in a situation because I was in a control room and by the time I'm called over to come in from said control room to have a conversation this conversation has clearly been had multiple times the decision was made like

so Billy Bree's gonna perform for us at the end of the show I think it's gonna be awesome and I was like okay yeah Billy we have an extra chair Billy the control room would seem to be a place where you would be able to exhibit control No, cuz that they had these conversations off mic in the studio So I wasn't there to kind of you're the producer handle the situation. Yeah, but I was in the control room imagine It's like saying Lewis can control we're doing here. I mean you've stood next to Bryant McKinney Exactly. Thank you. How do you say no to that guy? That wasn't even my favorite Bryant McKinney story

from Sports Bang Off Air. My favorite one was during Bullygate, we had him in studio. And we're like, so, Bryant, they found your guy's journal. And they've released photos of the journal. He's like, they found that? And then just started laughing. And I was like, okay,

guess we're not gonna cover this seriously. Moving on. Not journalism, it's highest standard with. Well, I mean, it was come on Saturday morning. We were the lead into, I don't even, exactly right. Our demo, by the way, when I would look at the ratings, dude, we killed it in women 60 plus. Like killed it, That was our demo.

Can you explain to me, because I really do want to relive this entire time with you, do you believe we can do an oral history on SportsBank that's as long as- No, it's too traumatic. Can someone tell me whether or not I was ever on SportsBank? You were.

Because I don't remember. I think at least twice maybe. We have you down as a three. Yeah. Okay. You're a three. Mike was ever on SportsBank. Because I don't remember. I think at least twice maybe. We have you down as a three. Yeah. OK. Mike was on it. Mike hosted a couple of times, I think. Twice maybe.

When I came in here today, can you guys explain to me? Because I hate the lack of respect that there is around here. And I sort of careened in here with the meat sweats off of Food and Wine Festival. And everyone was laughing at something involving me, but I don't know exactly what it was, Chris. Can you give me some background on what it is

that you guys were mocking when I came in here today? It was you at the event with Belkis, just, you have your glasses on, and you're kinda talking to the crowd, and you're kinda hitting some sponsors, and your way of doing it, you're used to us, you wanted to get a chant going, and you got help from about one guy. It's a nice crowd here. Big turnout, but not everyone bought into the cheer.

So let's relive this video. Like Belichick, huh? Wow, no days off. Why are you wearing sunglasses? It's a good question Billy. Thank you. Belkis Nerey of Deco Drive. I felt bad for Dan because I heard her intro him as, he's the sports guy. I was like, oh Belkis.

You can hear Dan sweat in that video. So thank you for asking the question, because it's funny. I'm driving there, and my wife says, and it's rare for me to feel quite this old. It did happen one time at a stoplight when there was an accident near me, and a guy tried to hit and run. And Valerie's like, step on and get him. And I just go through the traffic light

at 14 miles an hour. I'm not going fast enough. I just I'm like oh my god I'm my grandfather. This particular thing Valerie says to me as we're going in did you bring your glasses? Because the only instruction that I got was to bring my glasses and I had not brought my glasses and as soon as they hand me the copy as to what the only thing I have to do there is Which is just be there to say Coca-Cola and get off the stage like it's what it did it Yeah, but I yes, but I'm putting on sunglasses I look like a jackass and I tried to get a chant going I can't tell you're reading the glasses did a lot of work There but I felt like an asshole for for wearing sunglasses while doing this in like an airplane hanger at at seven o'clock at night let's relive it coca-cola didn't feel like a sellout

going up there Dorothy Boyd how is it to feel that a chant you tried to start well I think I tried right after that I think I went to another spot, you guys didn't even air the part that was the most embarrassing there, which is I went to another sponsor after that that was more syllables than that, and then I got the chant like the wrong cadence on it, because I needed it to just be coca cola, but the next one had too many syllables in it. How about that one guy though? Good on that one guy.

Thank you for the support. Wait, you did that twice? But you have food and spices. Well, Goya. I did. When I say Goya. Was it Aquafina you screwed up? I say Goya, you say foods.

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Don LeBretard! Is there back in my day? There is actually. What? Were you not going to tell anyone? In what day? Wait a minute. You guys.

What day? Guys. It's a Tuesday! Wait a minute. You guys... It was a Tuesday! Guys... How the hell am I even doing this? It's a Tuesday. Stugots! Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Shit, I hope I... Hahaha! Okay, here it is. Hahaha!

Sorry. Adultery! Oh! Yeah! Yeah! We are back. I can't wait for this one. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Is that Rick Barnes? Nobody told me Rick Barnes was coming on. It's delightful to see Rick Barnes. Let me talk to Rick Barnes here for a second. Rick Barnes has been doing this for about 40 years. Kickin' ass. His team is in the top 10 again, as it almost always is. And thank you, Rick, for joining us.

Tennessee is 22 and five on the season. It's coming off a victory at Texas A&M. And I'm just curious, before we get started here, Coach, what kind of appetite do you have for this particular give and take where you have to come on here and sell your basketball team after 38 years and say all the things about,

that maybe are boring to you, that you'd rather be at practice and not talking to media members about? Well, you're right on it. I'd rather be in practice. You really are. I'd rather be in. I would much rather do that.

But, you know, we as you know, we owe it to the program and we owe it to our fans to get out there and talk about our program. And we're proud of what we've been able to do here the last 10 years. But this time of year, you do get so focused in on your team. And, you know, from game to game, how hard this league is. I mean, it's ridiculous what this league has become this year, but it is what it is, you know, and you've got to be ready to play.

Our preparation, we, as soon as I get done with you, we'll go in and start our film session for today and then get ready for LSU. Then we got a late game there tomorrow night, which is tough when you play those nine o'clock games on the road, but it is what it is. And then we come back and we were supposed to play Alabama at 12 o'clock on Saturday, but they moved that back to four.

So whatever comes your way this time of year, you just have to do it. Is there a correct way for me to do this in order to make this more fun for you than the average interview? What is the thing? What are the, what are the topics that I need to bring up that would be in the Barnes wheelhouse? Cause he doesn't want to talk about that much about Tennessee basketball. He wants to talk about the delicious yogurt that he was having right before he came on here because he's all about fuel efficiencies when it comes to making

juggernauts. Well, since you're talking about fuel efficiency, we can talk about NASCAR. I love NASCAR. I'm a big NASCAR fan. What'd you think about that caution finish that was that was terrible we had. Yeah I'm not I'm not into that rule I'm not into that one I think they ought to have to race it all the way to the finish line and you know the last week the Daytona race it must be a big sport because they stayed on the air from about 12 o'clock till 10 o'clock that night because of rain delays and all this and all that but uh yeah, I grew up in Hickory, North Carolina,

where NASCAR started over in that area. And at a young age, my brothers and I, we'd find a way to get to Hickory Speedway or the Lenore Burke Antioch Speedway. And we'd go to a race on Friday or Saturday night. And my first love was NASCAR. But then I fell in love with the New York Yankees and baseball was probably my second love. but I don't mind talking about basketball because it's

changed so much in my 40 years in over 40 years in the business and now you open the NASCAR door now my friend now we're now we're talking NASCAR you did but also you mentioned that you're a Yankee fan so I would love your opinion on the on the policy reversal from the New York Yankees that well-groomed beards are now allowed. Well, I haven't kept up with anything other than when I talk about the Yankees, I'm talking about 1963, 1964. Good old days. There you go.

They have a little gold trip now. That's because, you know what? Be honest with you, there's only three TV stations on TV at the time, and for whatever reason the Yankees were on every Saturday and playing somebody. But I was, Coach Knight gave me a book one time because he was an avid reader. And one of the books he gave me,

he thought it was one of the greatest books he's had ever read was the Summer of 49. You know, talking about the rivalry with the Red Sox and the Yankees. And I would recommend anybody that loves sports and wanted to get a history of, you know, announcers and everybody in the game, that is an incredible book to read by David Halberstam, the summer of 49. It is.

Halberstam, a great author. What would you regard as the greatest of the sports things that you have read? I am assuming that you're always looking for, whether it's leadership help or self-help on how it is to get better at this. I imagine you're always searching. Well, you know, I go back when I first got into coaching, you know, I knew at a really when I was in college, I wanted to be a coach and I played for a really good basketball coach by the name of Bob Hodges, who still is East Carolina's all time leading scorer. And he made us put together a coaching book.

And so back then, the coaches I really, first one I really, really, really dove into trying to learn everything about was Vince Lombardi. And then from there, obviously Coach Wooden was in his prime at that point in time. Dean Smith, Bob Knight, those were the guys that I really, anything and everything I could get my hands on, I wanted to learn about them and study them. And I really, and I'll be very honest with you, every game that I have coached, I have used something from Coach Knight and Coach Smith, every game. We went, when we went to A&M, we actually did some things that we hadn't done all year

that Coach Knight would have been very proud of because when he retired, he called me one time and he said, you know, you need to come out here to Lubbock and let me teach you how to play, how to coach basketball. That's what he said to me. And he said, offensive basketball. And so I went out, spent a day with him, and we had a wonderful time.

And, you know, he's just so passionate about what he believed in, and that's what made it work, obviously. And it was hard, as hard to guard as anything. We'd go into every game against him thinking that we were this great man-to-man team. And after two minutes, we'd end up going zone because we couldn't guard him. And to be honest, we had better players at every position, but he made every game so competitive. And then Coach Smith, when I was in college, I had to do a coaching book.

And everything I did in that book was based on what I could find about what Coach Smith, when I was in college, I had to do a coaching book and everything I did in that book was based on what I could find about what Coach Smith, being from North Carolina, going to school in North Carolina. We have some special situations that we used. And then when I got into coaching, I learned so much from going around with the best high school coaches,

Morgan Wooten, Joe Gallagher, Stu Vetter, some coaches that were just great high school coaches that you could learn from. And to be honest with you, I really think if I stop even today trying to go back and doing some of the things and trying to continue to learn how to play, coach this game, I think I'd quit because that excites me that I know that even as long as I've been in this game, I can still learn it, learn some things about it and learn from everybody. I've learned something from everybody I've coached against, but

that's what's exciting about it because you can coach this game, play this game a lot of different ways. But I don't ever want to get stale and mundane. And so that's what I do to keep myself going. I'm always looking and Bob McKillop has been a major influence on my career. We were together my first year in coach when I was a volunteer and he was a full-time coach at Davidson, he and I would go running every day

and I'd pick his brain about everything and he's had a tremendous influence on my life. Rick, we are gonna get some more NASCAR out of you, whether you want it or not, and we also have Shot for Your Life with one of your players that we're gonna play where we're gonna pin you down and we're gonna make you pick one player. You're not gonna be able to do this coach wiggle dance

where you can't, we're gonna force you to pick one player. But Mike, what do you got for him on NASCAR? Well, who's your driver? Are you loyal to a team? Are you loyal to a number or a specific driver? You know, I was growing up, I was a Woods brother guy back in the day, you know, Kelly Arbor, David Pearson, those kind of guys.

And obviously I became a big Dell Earnhardt senior. And when he passed, you know, I obviously would have loved to see his son do well. Then became a Martin Truex guy. But also knowing Joe Gibbs, I pulled for his because he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins when I was an assistant at George Mason back in the day. And I got to spend a lot of time at Redskin Park out there with a friend that knew Coach Gibbs. And so I do pull for those guys. But for some reason, I caught myself yesterday pulling for Kyle Busch.

I don't know if it's because last year was the first time he hadn't won in 20 years. And but as he's getting older, I love to see him have a great run. I don't know if it's because last year was the first time he hadn't won in 20 years, but as he's getting older, I'd love to see him have a great run. Like last year, I was pulling hard for Martin Trueaxe to finish it up on a great note. So this year, I think my guy is going to be Kyle Busch and hope that he can get back where he wants to be one more time. Were you mad at Hosevar? Because Kyle Busch certainly was.

You watch that radio transmission? Yeah. Yeah. I get to guys being competitive. And I will say this to you. I've become very impressed with Michael Jordan's team, you know, with Denny Hamlin and Bubba Wallace's mother, I think, ran track here at the University of Tennessee. So I've met Bubba and he tries to bring his dad over to a game every year. And so I will be pulling for him obviously too. But yeah, some of those guys, I wish I could be back in the day,

like when Richard Petty, you know, they were the first family, I think they had multiple cars and one of them went out and was a blocker. I'd like to be a blocker. I don't think I'm good enough to win, but I could definitely wreck somebody. Well, wait a minute. So could you have been a driver?

Like how close were you to being a driver? Was it just something you were dreaming about? Or did you actually do anything to start down that path before basketball? No, I dreamed about it. I used to, I can remember sitting in the third and fourth grade getting in trouble because I'd always draw race cars.

My teacher would come by and I'm not doing the schoolwork and I'd be trying to draw different race cars and love trying to put these creative numbers on them and all this and all that. But I did- You failed at your dreams. You failed at your dreams. You did not succeed.

I did get a chance to drive the pace car over at Bristol when I first got here. And I'd ask somebody, I said, what's the fastest this car has ever gone around this track? And they said, Carl Edwards took it around the track at 97 miles an hour over there. It's a small track. I said, well, I'm gonna beat that that I got it to 75 and I had enough

Before we get you out of here coach Tony's got a game for you How many shot for your life one shot for your life picking only from among the 38 years of players Rick Barnes is coach That's right And I've narrowed it down to the guys that he's put in the NBA to because sometimes there's people That you haven't heard of that coach would bring back from like 1991 So this is gonna be coach NBA players that you've coached in college shot for your life So you can only pick one when I give you these sets of players you ready, okay? All right, Grant Williams or Avery Bradley shot for your life

Grant Williams Good dad dad. PJ Tucker or Lamarcus Aldridge? Oh man. Are you saying when you say shot for my life? Shot for your life coach. They got the ball in their hands. They're gonna shoot it. Is it in the corner? Coach the clarification is unnecessary. It's for your life. Get it wrong. You're joining Dale Senior. I love Lamarcus Aldridge, but PJ Tucker, second best score I've ever, second best college score I've ever coached. Wow.

Woo! Wow, okay. First and first? Real Hoopers, no. First is KD obviously, Dan. Come on, what are we doing here? All right, this one's gonna be tough because neither were known,

well one's known for a shooting, but one wasn't. Dexter Pittman, Miami Heat legend, or Miles Turner Myles Turner. That was quick. That was quick. All right we're going back to the old school Dan. Greg you'll remember some of these names Austin Crozier or Chris Mim. Austin Crozier. Stretch four for his time right coach. DJ Augustine or Booby Gibson? DJ Augustine. Did you call him Booby Coach or no? Yeah, I did. He was a great player, but DJ Augustine played with KD

and had a big influence on KD too. I can't remember, could tell you how many times DJ would go over to Kevin and say, man, we need you to take this game over. And I'd say, I agree with him. Take this game over. It's good coaching. That's why you're the genius that you are.

Denny Hamlin or Kyle Larson? Yeah, race for your life. Denny Hamlin. Wow, really? Oh, it's the Gibbs thing. The intimidator or the king? I know you think I'm crazy when I say that. It's just, Denny's been around a long time.

When you get to my age, you kind of like those older guys. Yeah, better speedway racer. Do you think the speedways are too random? I'm sorry, it's your time. Thank you. I cede my time. Thank you. I cede my time. Earnhardt or Petty, Coach?

You know what? I have to tell you this story. I was at Providence. Do we have time for me to tell you this story? For NASCAR story? Absolutely. Here's what happens. I'm at Providence College and I've taken the Clemson job and I get a call one day from the guy from the Providence Journal. He said, I'm going to ask you a quick question, kind of what you did right there, and say you can't think about it, you've got to be spontaneous. He said, if you could have dinner with any two people, who would it be? And I said Billy Graham, Richard Petty. Because when I was growing up in the state of North Carolina, Billy Graham, the great evangelist, I mean everybody knew him around the world telling everybody about Jesus Christ,

and then Richard Petty was the king, right? Darrell Bock And there was Christ and then there was the king. Richard Petty I get a call from a guy and he says, would you really like to meet Billy Graham? And I said, yeah, so he's going to be in Boston at a function up there. You and your wife can come up. So we drove up there and went to a ballroom.

I didn't know how many people were going to be there. Just happened to be about 5,000 people, but they took me over to meet him. And he was in his 70s and wanting as healthy as, you know, he was getting older. But when he went up on the stage, I mean, I've never seen a guy transform himself and start talking about Jesus. And then two years later, I get a chance.

I'm at a Speedway and the year we went to the Final Four, and Dale Jarrett, who I grew up with, and Dale's racing on NASCAR, his family, and Dale invites me to the race up in Texas, and I go up there, and as we're getting ready to leave, Dale's brother is hustling us out so we can get on a helicopter and get over to the airport to get out.

And I see Richard Petty standing by himself, and I go over and I say, I gotta meet the king. I say, I grew up really loving this guy, so I walk over there, he's eating an apple, and I'm telling him this story about that. Red or green, yeah. You know, I'm telling Richard about it, and he looked at me and he said, Richard Petty,

Billy Graham, he said, we're a long way apart, man, but he said, I appreciate that. And, but I did get a chance to meet him, and obviously growing up, I don't know why, I wasn't a big Richard Petty fan growing up, but, and for some reason, I love Dale Earnhardt and and obviously like everyone involved with NASCAR it was a sad day when he lost his life but I admire watching Richard Petty still doing what he's doing going to

the track and doing what he does. Rick we're gonna he was wearing the cowboy hat obviously when you saw him we're going to get you on to recapadega, but ask him one last question before we get out of here. Toughest for last, Coach, TJ Ford or Kevin Durant? Wow. No, come on. I tell you what, you're going to have to hang because I'm not going to pick between those two. Oh, you've got to pick one, Coach. You've got to pick one, a soccer life coach.

Forget how bad TJ Ford was. Why would we hang you? Well, because you know what? TJ Ford taught me a lot about college basketball and coaching a great player. And then Kevin Durant, because of what T.J. taught me, when K.D. came in, I said, hey man, you're gonna be who you are, do what you do,

because T.J. Ford won 77 straight games, and one of the greatest stories in my coaching career, we're playing Oklahoma the year that Kansas, us, and Oklahoma are one, two, three, we all get a number one seed and we're at senior night up at Norman and Kelvin's the coach and we had some epic battles. And I get mad at Brian Boddicker, he gave up three straight offensive rebounds and I called timeout and this is when I was really emotional and I reamed Brian Boddicker and say, hey man, you are done.

I'm not gonna play anymore the rest of the tonight. And he goes over, I put him on the bench and they're up 11 points and I'm walking to the bench and TJ walks up behind me, puts his arm around me, he said, coach, what are you thinking right now? And I said, I think we're getting our butt kicked. And he said, do you wanna win? I said, I wanna win.

He said, well, for us to win, you had to put Brian Bottacher back in the game. I said, TJ, you heard what I just told Brian. I told him not, I'm not going to play him anymore tonight. And he looked me dead in the eye and he said, coach, you don't want to win then. So I walked right down to the bench and I said, Brian, I'm going to give you one more chance. Whoa.

And he goes in the game. And this is a true story. In 45 seconds, he hit three straight threes. And we ended up coming back, winning the game. And when I'm walking off the court, TJ came up and he hit me so hard on the butt and looked at me and he said, you're a heck of a coach. And I wanted to hit him because he hit me so hard. I didn't know it was.

And so I learned right then and there more than ever. When you got a guy like him and then when Kevin came in, I'll ever told Kevin Durant, we're going to help you get better at what you do, but you got to guy like him, and then when Kevin came in, I'll ever told Kevin Durant, we're gonna help you get better at what you do, but you gotta be who you are. And obviously, if he told me Kevin's gonna be a Hall of Famer, I wish TJ's career could have gone on different for him, but he had that neck problem.

But those two guys taught me a lot about how to deal with great, great players. And in some ways it's been a curse, because those two guys love basketball. Pick one Barnes. Work harder than anybody I've ever touched. When you get guys that work that hard, you expect that from everybody.

Pick one. You gotta pick one Barnes. You're not gonna be a coward about this. Don't question about TJ, but I'm gonna pick KD. There it is! Yeah, we battered him into it. We lived. We battered him into it.

Yeah. They got a body on somebody. We will not hang you. There it is. What do you think about the 12 cars ability to come back to the field? We battered him into it! They got a body on somebody! We will not hang you! What do you think about the 12 cars ability to come back to the field? Well after Talladega we'll talk to Rick Barnes. Thank you Rick. Good team. Roger Maris or Joe Pepitone.

Raise hell, praise Dale, right Coach? Get out of here! Goodbye Rick. Robin is... That's right, racing. Alright, stop it. All of you stop it. Hey friends, it's Jerr Bear here. And I'm here to tell you all about boost mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5g network.

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I asked the best question. Serene. He refused to answer. All those legacy fans are Wood brothers guys. Yeah, it's crazy I want to play some video for you guys here and this I wonder if you guys I don't know if you do this I don't know if you care about these things almost every time that I see one of these videos where someone's getting into the Hall of Fame and they're surprising a Hall of Famer and

You get to see the genuine emotion of somebody that you may not have seen before. Let's play this Patrick Willis video of, Patrick Willis is a very feared man. He was also not somebody, you're breathing during the Rick Barnes interview. Your nostrils, like, I've heard your breathing all showed today and your nostrils are substantive

in the amount of air that they're sucking. I lead the league in nostrils. This is kind of on Roy and I because my dad for weeks now, he's had his mic way too far away. So today we gave him a big speech of like, please adjust the mic so you don't have to lean your head down.

So I think the mic is just closer today, but it is so annoying. Have you not noticed, I saw Chris was telling you, Chris was making hand signals toward his nostrils, trying to get your nostrils away from the microphone. It really made me feel like I was at the height of entertainment, like that I was really doing something important in show business.

You lead the league in nostrils, huh? Yes, ma'am. The Cody man. Ma'am! I got my mom's nose, but yeah, my dad and wild bill. He's running out of gas Do listen he's running out of gas because I'm gonna just be honest, okay? Rick Barnes took it out of Cody. Come on. Well, it was electric. I thought Rick Barnes was good. Yeah I'm not saying he wasn't good. I'm saying that you got tired listening to him I'm not saying you weren't I ordered the summer 49. It was incredible. It was really good

It was the learning tree with Rick Barnes. Let's PJ Tucker the second best Little flip shot over Lamarcus Aldridge You really lured him out there Tony come on real hoop. Come on. Real hoopers know that, Dan. You knew what was going to happen. We will play the Lamarcus Aldridge sound that's classic from Stu Gotts in the second. He didn't mince words when it came to Carson Hosobar. Yeah. But before we do that, let's play this Patrick Willis video, because this is not a demonstrative man. He's one of the best linebackers ever. you don't see a lot of emotion out of him this is the most I've seen no way look He said, good pray God bless you. That's a family running out of the house.

It's children running around. One sent the kids out. I'm sure he has no idea anything's happening She's covering his eyes walk through the front door could be dinner nope Oh man. Come on man. Come on man. P Willie. Oh man.

The fountain of youth that that is for players who are probably in a great deal of pain in retirement to be able to go and revisit what was five years ago. Those are always emotional in ways that show a gratitude post career for something that they might not have felt or could have articulated during their career because they were so busy being competitive. There's no time to sort of slow down and realize how great it actually was until you have the appreciation

of being five years removed from it. You guys get, will you stop on one of those every time or not, will you? I become a cynic with those? I'm always like the producers probably showed up an hour before and they're like he'll be here soon That would seem like no one planned that happening which seemed like you kind of should have maybe that was great Yeah, that was great need a little David Baker for gonna be honest with you. Yeah a big David Baker, yeah big guy. Yes David Baker Baker, for those of you who do not know,

the Hall of Fame man is, in size, he is ogre-ish. Ogre-ish. Well, I don't know how else to say it. You guys say David Baker and nobody knows what you're talking about. I'm talking about a substantive man, a man who fills out the jacket, a man that when he arrives to welcome you

into the Hall of Fame is the size that that human being should be. I just found a photo of him where a construction helmet doesn't fit his head, which I'm going to send over to him. There he is. So you could see. He's a big guy. Like Jon Taffer, if you just inflated him a great deal.

Yes, that's a good call, Dan. But he has the face of Jon Taffer. In child. Yes. In child on Jon Taffer. And Rolagasi. He also sounds like he looks. That helmet's doing nothing, right? He has the face of John He also sounds like he looks Protecting a beer whatever fall his head is protecting the helmet

His ear is the size of the helmet. Now wait a minute. I know that I'm not being fair, right, just, honorable in any way when I call him the consistency of an ogre. But how else would you say it? Look, if Shrek and Richard Kind had a baby. Yeah. What I told him is he's welcome right up until the last moment. He does sound like he... Well, he doesn't sound like Richard Kind.

No. That is such a great call by you. If they can get a picture of Richard Kind, can you get for me before you do that though, the famous dugout sound of Lamarcus Aldridge? Because at some point, I hope to have top 100 show moments at some point in our history like the great Cody show at some point in our history I would like to have the show moments that are most memorable because Rick Barnes interview of five I believe I believe that Stu got taking out Lamarcus Aldridge for being a choker in a game that

Lamarcus Aldridge won is one of the best sounds Stugatz has ever produced. Lamarcus Aldridge? Awful. I mean. No, he's an embarrassment, man. I'm telling you, Greg Popovich is going to get rid of that guy in the offseason. He was an embarrassment last night He is so out of shape

there are so many times where The Rockets were playing five on four on offense because Lamarcus Aldridge was sit was walking back on defense. He's bad He's not a good player. I don't know what happened to him because when he was in Portland, he was fantastic He is not good. Dan. He cost them the game last night. Although they won the game. But had they lost, I'm telling you, it would have been on the Marcus Aldridge. And the only reason it's not is because they won the game. Otherwise, San Antonio would be crushing him today. I'm still going to crush him even though they won. Let's do start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day, this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, initiate start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, initiate start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, initiate start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, initiate start of the day. Stat of the Day is presented by Miller Lite. Alexander Obrechkin is the first player in NHL history to score 200 or more goals in three different decades, respectively. He scored 245 in the 2000s, 437 in the 2010s, and 200 in the 2020s.

How are we going to revisit this particular time of science and sports when an Ovechkin can have three goals the last time he played and be what is he 12 away now from what was supposed to be an Unbreakable record. I'm usually with you there We can have that discussion with LeBron you've seen what Alexander Ovechkin looks like Like this is like the first offseason that I've actually seen him like try to get in shape This is not a guy that's aged in terms of like physically with grace looks like the cookie monster I'm not saying he's ever looked like anything other than somebody who's Yarmir Yager-Lite

able to do amazing things even though he parties his face off. The Yvette you can sound that I have that's most memorable to me is him at a parade slurring his words through the speech. I think of him as an epic partier. What I don't understand is how you can be an epic partier 39 years old and challenge a record that I did not Think was challengeable like I don't get how how Yager and Ovechkin

Yager can do Yager does these workouts at at 50 at midnight in the rink wearing all sorts of ankle weights and stuff After partying all day, I don't get how people like this are able to do this That's sports too hard to do that at 39 the way of etchkins doing I couldn't explain how people like this are able to do this. That sport's too hard to do that at 39 the way of Etchkins doing it. I couldn't explain this other than saying in terms of goal scoring he's as gifted as they've ever come. I know the record, Tony knows the record, but what record are we talking about? Wayne Gretzky's goal scoring record.

Ah, gotcha. It does look like Richard Kahn. It's such a good call by Chris Cody there. It's yours boys and girls and bros, let's go! day, try to clear my mind, make my body feel right. Take your health routine to the next level with the magic of contrast therapy. Meet our new amazing sponsor, Redwood Outdoors. They're making it easy to bring the benefits of saunas and cold plunges right to your backyard. A Redwood Outdoors backyard sauna seats 2-8 people, where you can relax, unwind and enjoy all the benefits like reduced muscle tension, improved sleep, and glowing skin.

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