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It’s time to get your morning started with the news you need to know news up news up this is what’s trending with DJ and PK # Utah Jazz feeding Shay straight away on the dribble on George cross over right to left down the lane snaking free spins in
The left hand layup gorgeous hesitation and duck through move by gildas Alexander who has 16 OKC by seven again gety top of the key angles right into first to dub Jaylen Williams left twing to hren open snaps off the three this time looks good it is to Ching of thund
Money Ball to Jet hren flexing considerable muscle tonight ducking right to the rim lays it up block going up by H is third Block it’s free in the lane and dub says I’ll take that blasting back long leading Wiggins to the trailing H to the rim the right hand Sledgehammer slam 31 for
Chad the Utah Jazz get beat by the Oklahoma City Thunder exactly as you foresaw 119 to 107 it was 8280 it was a good game they were starting in the fourth quarter and Oklahoma City went on an 18-6 run and that was the end of that
186 and that game was over 3 minutes later the one thing that I do not ever want to see during the Jazz game again and neither do you and neither does Danny a except he’s probably watching a person not on TV and maybe on the road game is
Watching on TV there’s a picture of the Oklahoma City bench and they’re laughing at some point somebody has to get sick of players on the opposing team laughing during the fourth quarter of Jazz games cuz that means one thing they know they got you they got way more points than
You do I have to say it was more of a giggle and a chuckle than it was an outright throw your head back and laugh that’s what happened in Boston and it’s happened in another games we can sit here and go through the box score and the numbers and all that
But when it gets the most important time the Jazz can’t do it so that’ll be what the offseason is about fixing getting the guys who are here better and finding more guys and how long is this going to last and are the Jazz going to speed it
Up because that is the question to use the draft picks or to trade the draft picks for veterans and which veterans will be available in the meantime the Jazz get to play back toback they play the Dallas Mavericks tonight pregame at 5:30 tip off at 6:30 tonight is game 70 and by
Game 70 we went no that was a different coach in a different season but game 70 will always crack me up in every Jazz season for the rest of time it’s game 70 bring your best DJ and PK # NBA nine on the shot clock Butler
Working from up top down the right side of the paint crawls underneath lost the ball got it back and puts it in beautiful jumper outside the right block Butler with 30 points Tatum deep on the right side against Beasley Tatum spins to his left inside the free throw
Line drive Scoops and scores take a layup if if nothing else take a layup fake the free throw line swings to Allen for three got that one from the left corner and ties his career high with his ninth three of the night 32 points for Grayson to lead all scores and the suns
Are back up 15 George on the Basel tight ropes gets by Walker and jams with two hands Paul George turnning it on late highlights around the NBA the games fall into two categories I don’t think either one of them is very good but hey the league keeps making money they’re selling
Tickets and people are watching on TV two groups of games here you got one group of games where a good team that’s headed for the playoffs plays a bad team that wants no part of winning and you get a completely predictable result I think this is why we like March Madness
March Madness may be the best thing that happens in the NBA we all get distracted when we watch March Madness while over here you got completely predictable games Raptor’s bad kings good Kings win by 34 Pistons horrific Pacers good Pacers win by 19 Blazers bad Clippers pretty good Clippers win by double
Digits I mean it’s just so predictable Warriors by 21 over the Grizzlies Grizzlies want no part of winning Warriors are desperately trying to get from 10th to like 9th or eighth of course that happened then you got the other group of games where it’s two pretty good teams squaring offs but
There’s always a key guy missing now it’s not always something nefarious you know resting and all that stuff load management I mean sometimes it’s just injuries and Beads hurt Sixers don’t have their guys they’re not beating the suns suns win 115 102 bucks didn’t have HED to Kempo got
Downn big to the Celtics rally made it close got within two but they end up losing 122 119 predictable Milwaukee Boston Milwaukee doesn’t have Giannis you know exactly how that’s going he’d beat the Cavs 107 104 Donovan Mitchell has the uh you I mean it’s not that’s not load management nasal
Fracture dude broke his face the nasal bones connected to the face bone so that’s a real that’s a real thing so he’s out and there is a night in the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers coach JB Bickerstaff revealed he received threats from gamblers last season reported at the NBA they got my telephone number and
Were’re sending me crazy messages about where I live and my kids and all that stuff so it’s a dangerous game and a fine line that we’re walking for sure Bricker sta said security located the gamblers who threatened him but no charges were ever filed that’s a wild
Story I mean we got the other kind of gambling story which we’ll get to but by all accounts at least publicly so far you’re doing nothing and they Spotlight you and think they can pressure you DJ and PK # basketball I don’t have to answer anything I don’t want to CU I’m working for free today so it’s like a you guys see the Seinfeld when he when when George castanza was trying to get fired and couldn’t get lose his job and still going to work every day and that’s
That’s me is it an opening statement was that it what do we got going yeah I thank you nelon coach we’ll go ahead and uh start with questions right here please depending on who you are that was either awkward or hilarious and for me and my people that was hilarious
Hilarious I love that Dan Monson you are a legend sir that is that is the soon to Bex Long Beach State basketball coach how soon will he be the ex coach keep the story going win a game bring it back work up some new material bring the
Stick back to the uh the press conference that was not your average NCA press conference NCA tournament two games last night gramling in overtime beats Montana State 88 8881 Montana state is that rare team that can say we went to the NCA tournament and we had a losing record
They finished 17 and 18 on the year as the Big Sky tournament Champs coming out of nowhere in a Big Sky tourn tourament that got completely scrambled as all the big dogs got knocked off Colorado beat Boise State that was some seriously ugly basketball they must have watched
Virginia the night before and thought the only would’ be cooler if two teams were chucking it up like that that was that was rough but it worked for Colorado they won and they got through now law of numbers may they have a great shooting game next time out maybe they win maybe
They Advance it could happen we’ve had multiple examples now of teams that had to be in Dayton and they get through the first week and get to the second week in the case of UCLA they went to the final four so you wouldn’t think so but you never
Know look out Florida cuz Colorado’s coming for you tomorrow but we got games today including BYU first game gets under 10:15 Michigan State and Mississippi State BYU and Duan are the second game they’ll tip off at 10:40 on True TV full coverage of the NCA tournament airing on 1280 The Zone
Beginning at 9:00 a.m. so you go to the Am side for the NCA tournament stay on the FM side 975 for all of our regular shows DJ and PK # NFL I think it’s going to another big city um I’ve heard that um they love football so if that’s the place I’m
Excited for that um the fans love football just wanted to biggest things that I care about is is a place that cares you know if that was a place I’d be excited what place doesn’t care about Football I guess maybe the LA teams routinely get outd drawn at home I think La likes football I just think you know those teams are new to town and they’re all rooting for teams from other places I mean the Rams game s it seems like 40,000 50, 49er fans show up every time
I mean those teams are selling tickets but it feels like they’re just s them to scalpers and the visiting teams take over Jacksonville maybe I don’t know if Jacksonville doesn’t love football I think they love college football more than Pro and there aren’t a lot of people there I mean Jacksonville just
Isn’t by percentage I think as many people love football there as anywhere else they just don’t have enough millions of people they also got an ownership group that is routinely mentioned as the franchise most likely to move across the pond as it were because of their connections yeah they
Keep talking about that but it doesn’t happen I’m just saying like I know it’s true doesn’t and that no and and I know from San Diego once the ownership isn’t committed and they’re talking about where they’re going to go the fan base just kind of shrugs and like what are we
Why are we giving you our money you’re looking to blow us off and that does cool the passion the NFL is just so wildly popular that wherever you go I don’t think Kayla Williams it’s a good thing to say though it sounds good whenever but realistically wherever you
Go people are going to be nuts about the team maybe Washington that place which was a passion fan base Dan Snider 20 years a recking that but they got new ownership they can flock back in a hurry especially if they get a good team ramstar Aaron Donald explained why
He’s retiring seemingly at the top of his game I’m complete I’m full I think the passion to play the game is no longer there for me all all those love football but to think about going through camp and going through another 17 Game season I just don’t have the
Urge to push myself to do that no more I’m burn out if anything the best way to say it is that I’m full I’m completely well that’s got to be a pretty good feeling you come in you dominate you have what I think is roundly easily
Recognized as a Hall of Fame career you win the Super Bowl you’re the guy you make a ton of money get out why go through more injuries or tooo many stories about football players when it hurts to get out of bed that’s a lot of pain and if
You’ve dealt with chronic pain why would you want to do that so he moves on congrats to him well done nl’s competition committee proposed a revamp kickoff yesterday that resembles the alignment used in the XFL during its 2020 and 2023 Seasons the move is in hopes of increasing kick returns
Committee is also looking at a Prohibition of the hip drop tackling technique which has been criticized you’re chasing them across the field to the sideline you grab them by the waist and you drop your hips across their legs and we see a lot of feet and ankles get crunched by that and
The Players Association already pushed back on that one yesterday it’s I I got to feel for the defensive players I don’t I don’t know how you’re supposed to tackle I know what hip drop tackle looks like and when I see it I cringe and a lot of times it
Leads to injury so I get why they’re talking about it I just think if the 250 to 300 lb guy is going to tackle the 200 to 225b guy injuries are going to happen and uh how to fix that I don’t know and apparently NE the day right now
So we’ll see if they figure it out police in Florida looking for Detroit line quarterback Cameron Sutton and been unable to locate him for the past two weeks after he had a warrant issued on a felony charge of third degree domestic strangulation that sounds awful like they’ve been looking for two weeks and
Apparently put it out like an APB to the public yesterday in Florida saying hey if you can find this guy let us know I don’t want to get into the whole legal thing but is he in Florida well that’s a great question of itself they’re looking for him in
Florida and they can’t find him I mean maybe he’s Hol Up somewhere and somebody’s helping him out but DJ and PK # colge football I’ve really pretty much done a personal survey I really truly in all my heart believe that parents don’t want me at that house they want to come see my
House they want to see how I live how I get down they want to see what I got going on what God has done in my life I know when I was in college I did not want Bobby B in my house because I knew
At the 7:00 it was going to be rats and Roaches on Parade I have never heard one guy say I chose this college cuz this coach came by my crib have you I can’t do the things other coaches can do you know why I’m coach Prime coach Prime AKA Dion Sanders that is a defense of the attacks on him that uh he doesn’t recruit he doesn’t go to players houses this is going to be just super interesting he definitely marches to the beat of his own drummer he always has
Has and whether you like him or not you have to admit it’s worked for him at a pretty high level now can it work as a college football coach what we’re seeing right now is what everyone says they don’t do but many many people lie about it and they do it negative recruiting
Don’t pump yourself up tear the other guy down not publicly but you know how to get a story out there you whisper it to somebody Whispers it to somebody and eventually it ends up out in the public sphere one way or another traditional reporting now you got social media which
Makes it easier to whisper things and put them in an echo chamber and make them louder and we can talk as much as we want about traditional recruiting but man the rules have changed if Dion has enough nil maybe he doesn’t have to go to people’s houses I have heard stories
Dian say name me one kid man I’ve heard stories talk about how coach X is the closer when he comes into the home and visits the parent it seals the deal locally that’s how everybody talked about level Edwards we’ve had people on the air talk about Stu moral like he was
One guy when he recruited me and he was another guy when he was yelling at me at practice what happened to the guy who recruited me that guy was funny I think a lot of coaches are like that that was Ty Wesley who told us that okay well
Yeah he would know he would know and he was a good player yeah and he would know and you’re right I think a lot of coaches are like that but we’re all like that we just say it about somebody else oh that person and get really mad well
Yeah when times suck and things are and there’s conflict and yeah people can get worked up and over here when you’re standing around telling jokes after the show it’s hilarious what people have different emotions no you’re kidding me shocking the ACC counter suit Clemson yesterday so here we go can Clemson
Break Free or not to me this just underscores the point which I think is getting missed I just think it’s getting missed yes the Pack 12 was run by num skull but I think if it had been run by Geniuses it was doomed anyway there aren’t enough people and there isn’t
Enough passion and that leads to not enough money two things generate money for college sports and probably for most businesses but we’re talking college sports how many people do you have how many customers and how much passion is there will they put the Crowbar in their wallet and start popping out $100 bills
Or ,000 bills cuz those luxury suites aren’t cheap and there’s more people and there’s more passion around the Big 10 in the SEC the Pack 12 should have gotten a partner for its Network they screwed up distribution yeah maybe they did but the ACC got a partner and what’s
Happening they’re getting pulled apart the Big 12 didn’t launch a network they tried a third path they got pulled apart now the Pack 12 doesn’t exist but honestly without USC the Pack 12 isn’t really the Pack 12 there’s one game here every youth fan got fired up for there
Was I don’t not know a single youth fan and Nei that is yak and Nei that is PK I don’t know a single youth fan that said you see football coming to town big whoop big deal nobody cares whatever there’s another game next week you know
I mean Oregon State’s coming so why are you so excited no it’s SC and once they’re gone it’s a different Beast I mean the big 12 exists but it’s not the big 12 we all grew up with and for starters some of us are old
Enough we grew up with a big eight hey but even the Big 12 no Texas no Texas A&M no Oklahoma no Nebraska and no Missouri all right I don’t necessarily need Missouri but the other four were a big deal and they’re gone so congrats to the Big
12 for reforming itself and moving on and they’ll be good games and it’ll be exciting but it’s not really the Big 12 the SEC and the Big 10 are doing this because they want to do this and the networks want them to do it and they’re teaming up and they’re making more money
It’s the American way there’s lots of companies that have a division of the company called mergers and Acquisitions and you know what they do they get in lawsuits with the ACC and they try to pry Clemson away that’s what they do personally I think Clemson’s overvalued Clemson has had two brief
Runs where they really mattered when they hired the right coaches they’re going to launch this conglomerate going forward and they need Clemson and South Carolina I don’t believe you it’s my best world of FAL I don’t believe you DJ and PK # Major League Baseball so LW of numbers people and
We’re going to get a baseball team here and if you don’t know it you’re going to learn it it was a pitcher duel in the opener it was two to one going into the eighth inning walks and double plays and sacrifice lies and no one
Could get a clutch hit a broken glove a broken glove was the key play as four runs scored in the eighth inning the Dodgers won the opener 52 so if you have a pitchers duel then what do you get you get hits you get runs the Padre’s and
The Dodgers are entertaining the people in Soul right now 21 runs on 29 hits and you have three errors by the Dodgers helping things along Padre’s are up 12 to9 in the bottom of the eighth and it ain’t over till it’s over Yamamoto only made it through one inning five earned
Runs in his MLB debut $325 million and Dodgers fans are already losing their minds yes we got Larry the Laker where’s Danny the Dodger I want to hear him whine last year is my team that spent a lot of money very poorly they had no one to
Blame but themselves and it sucked and they still almost backo to the expanded playoffs at the end of the year Larry the Laker could Moonlight for us yeah Larry the Laker could Moonlight is Danny the Dodger yeah he do Laker fans and Dodger fans are basically the same
People there’s very few Laker angel or Dodger Clipper fans basically a bunch of teams in LA are they’re they making money and there’s people nobody really cares but whatever but the Lakers and Dodgers they get people fired up those two are the real deal they have enormous fan bases and
Tons of passion to people angels are up the track a little bit but they’re not bad not bad and then everybody else is way up the track but the Lakers and Dodgers they move the needle in a big way what a crazy day in dodgerland by the way yesterday well
Let’s get to it we we almost need a full segment for this so it comes out otani’s interpreter says he has a gambling problem and that Otani covered his debts which may well be true but when you dig up a tree if you’ve ever had to do that if you ever done
Manual labor in your life and I have and the roots go everywhere I think in a story like this you got to follow every possible rot so I don’t have any idea what the truth is going to be but the the conspiracy theorists are right out there with
Hey it’s otani’s problem and they blame it on the interpreter but it’s otani’s money it’s otani’s problem I don’t have any idea if that’s true or not it’s got to be investigated and baseball knows it and they better do it cuz I think there’s a ton of reporters out there who
Are trying to do it and there’s people in the gambling world who know well in LA and it may be it may be exactly sure what it’s been portrayed as but now the the thing is the story’s already changed once and once the story changes what
Else what else is there yeah how many more times is it going to change and whose convenience is the story changing for because originally Otani paid he’s I mean he’s like they’re like brothers right they go everywhere together they do everything together this guy was hired when Otani sign with the Dodgers
Hired by the Dodgers and otani’s English has gotten much better but he had him the guy was in team meetings he was like cuz didn’t know what was going on and they’re in the Dugout together they go out and eat together I mean they’re together all the time so it’s plausible
That for a guy $4.5 million do is you know couch cushion money it’s plausible the original story is true but then when the lawyers get involved and say who whoa whoa whoa aon’s had the money stolen from him all right what is going on and the thing is they offered this
Guy up for an interview with ESPN and then before that interview actually gets published they’re changing the whole thing say money so I know what is the truth well see my thought is that yeah they may he may have covered half million you talk about those roots DJ
Did they start digging into this and realize that there was more money missing y I don’t know I mean it’s a weird story but there’ll be a lot of people trying to get to the bottom of it the race is on baseball needs to figure it out and the thing is gambling in
Baseball over here Rose has gone for a lifetime Calvin Ridley’s gone for a year and the NFL gives him a ton of money and the public doesn’t care tell me more about how many receivers and linemen the Jets are signing to check Aaron Rogers tell me more about what the Bears are
Doing with a quarterback I mean football just let I mean Calvin Ridley isn’t as good a player as Pete Rose but football just let their Pete Rose back in the game well and we had four other NFL players suspended for different periods of time last season and it’s not new you
Can go back to my dad’s generation absolutely and Paul horning was a big- time star and he didn’t play for year I think Alex Caris who did Monee football for a while again my dad’s generation this is not a new problem people have been gambling
Forever and in the NFL we love the NFL it’s okay and then we hold baseball to this different standard over here and now here’s the game’s biggest star in the middle of some story and the story is already changed and we don’t even know what it is you can conjure up all
Kinds of horrific scenarios and he’s the game’s biggest star and it’s not even close DJ and PK golf PGA 2 are taking part in the valpar championship this week Palm Harbor Florida locals in the field include Tony fenale Zack Blair and Patrick Fishburn I have a problem figuring this out they
Always they have these stops in Florida right so basically they have stops in Miami Tampa Bay Jacksonville where all the NFL and baseball and basketball teams all right Orlando but like I don’t know my Florida geography Palm Harbor where are they this week which one is that I know
Because you know the island green all that I know that’s Jacksonville that’s the Jacksonville yeah but the other three are a blur I don’t really know where they are I guess it doesn’t really matter but whatever gives me something to look up during the break so I got that going for
You all right DJ and PK that is what is trending there are your headlines coming up next the question of the day this is the opening day of the NCA tournament and BYU plays so you know what the question of the day is and there’s many
Answers we will get to those coming up Ken pomoy college basketball analytics Guru and owner of kenpom.com will join us at 8:00 he’s got all these numbers and it seems like they crossed him up with the tournament field how much do his numbers help us uh fill out
Our brackets you just go to kenpom.com and let him go to work will that work we’ll talk with him coming up Andy Bailey NBA riter for Bacha report at 8:30 Steph Johnson TCU beat rider for the Fort Worth Star Telegram get you ready for the Utah State game he he’ll
Be here at 9:00 they play Friday night TCU and USU and later today we will give away tickets to see Breaking Benjamin and stained at Utah First Credit Unit Amphitheater don’t call now later today we’ll give those tickets away DJ and PK it’s 975 the zone
