After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

When the whole family comes together to watch the game, nobody wants to miss a second of the action to run to the grocery store. With Instacart, you can get all your weekly groceries in as fast as an hour. Less time shopping means more game time. Let's go. Visit Instacart.com to get free delivery on your first three orders. Offer valid for a limited time, $10 minimum per order.

Additional terms apply. Around New Year's, we get a little obsessed with changing ourselves and forgetting the things we're already doing right, like taking our supplements every morning or scheduling me time into our day. Therapy helps you recognize those victories and keep up the good work in the New Year without changing everything. BetterHelp offers affordable online therapy so you can try New Year's same you with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com slash grow today to get 10% off your first month.

That's BetterHelpHELP.com slash grow. You guys, we made it to Wednesday night. And now on into the latter stages of the week and still seven openings in the NFL at the head coaching position. I told you, unless I chill, I get the sense that we're just waiting. The whole industry's holding its breath.

Timely. Yeah, but we do have some coaching news. Sorry, Cowboys fans.

Mike McCarthy is not getting fired. Good for Jerry Jones. Seriously, I mean that with all of my heart. I'm not being snarky.

I'm being extremely sincere. Good for Jerry Jones. I know this was, according to him, one of the most painful losses, if not the most painful loss in his tenure with the Cowboys. He couldn't remember a loss that was more painful. And no doubt, even as a casual observer, I can understand why this would be extremely painful and why it's beyond disappointing. It's devastating. It's dejecting.

It's discouraging. You have so much promise and you work so hard to get to the point where you're the number two seed in the NFC playoffs. And you just you. Right. You lay a huge.

Nasty rotten egg. But to throw out all that was good about the season, I think would have been a mistake and a knee jerk reaction. Because when you consider body of work and I feel the same way about Philadelphia, when you consider body of work. Not just one playoff game. Well, then how can you say Mike McCarthy hasn't had a positive.

Successful. Winning approach as the head coach. Again, taking a holistic approach, which is the word that Jerry Jones uses.

So I appreciate that he said that. You can't honestly say that it's been a bad thing to have Mike McCarthy as the head coach. I don't think there's any way that if you're being rational and objective, you can say that even if you're being subjective. I don't know how you can say that. Are they closer to where they want to be?

I think they are. Certainly with Dak Prescott as the quarterback and Jerry Jones has chosen to hitch his wagon to Dak's star. Now we'll see what happens with the rest of the coaching staff. The reports are that Dan Quinn's already interviewed with three different teams. I heard virtually, which is interesting, and that he's got two more, including Seattle. Where he had his greatest success as a defensive coordinator and then translated that success into the head coaching job in Atlanta. Which I think is really interesting now because Atlanta is open again.

So is Seattle. Dan Quinn had success as a DC. Use that to springboard into a head coaching job. Is he about to do that again?

And will it be more successful the second time around? Even some of the greatest coaches of all time didn't have great success in their first stop or their first few years. Bill Belichick being a classic example.

So what will change in Dallas? Well, that remains to be seen, but it will not be the head coach. And I applaud Jerry Jones for not being knee jerk in his reaction. Speaking of that, that's the good advice that Jason Kelce is taking and the approach that Jason Kelce is taking. He may end up retiring, but he says because of the emotion in losing a playoff game and not just the Eagles losing to the Bucks, but how badly it went. How embarrassing it was. How the end of the season was this proverbial falling off the cliff.

I mean, for that reason, it's even more emotional. For that reason, it's even wiser to take a step back before you make a decision because they thought they had everything in front of them at ten and one. They thought they had unfinished business and now in a blaze of not so much glory. So there is news, but not the news we're waiting on. Other than Gerard Mayo in New England, who will take over for Bill Belichick being promoted from within, which doesn't surprise me about Bob Kraft. We're no closer. Well, the teams may be closer. We are no closer as fans and analysts and radio hosts. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. We are gearing up for divisional round playoff battles and waiting on this coaching news. And as we do so, former NFL wideout, and this is critical, Las Vegas native Mike Pritchard will join us just under an hour from now. We'll talk matchups, coaching carousels, Super Bowl 58 in his city. He's also the lead NFL analyst for Visa Network. If you've heard of what is a relatively young network based largely around gambling and seeing sports through that lens, which obviously is a growing industry around the country. So Mike will join us from Las Vegas coming up at the top of next hour.

You can find me on Twitter, A-Law Radio. Did I say that already? I might have. Sometimes when I've got my brain going a mile a minute, I think I might have said a few things more than once. Like the name of the show sometimes. I think I say it twice or three times in the span of about 90 seconds because my brain's already moving on to something else and has forgotten what I just said.

Yeah, it makes sense to me. On our Facebook page too, I'd love to hear from you. For those of you who sent sweet messages today, thank you.

You're very kind. It feels kind of corny, but I'm doing it anyway, and the hubs and I did it anyway, celebrating one month of marriage. I was having this conversation with one of my colleagues who's been married for a really long time, and he was saying, yeah, you count months until you get through year one. And then when you get through year one, well, then no more. Then you're done counting months. Well, I'm going to relish every month. It's kind of hard to believe it's been a month, but at the same time, I feel like such a baby wife, meaning like just learning how to crawl. Also, for those of you who've been so curious, curiosity killed the cat. Don't forget that. Oh, that's a fun little phrase that rhymes.

I feel like Dr. Seuss. If you are one of those people who has been desperate to see a picture of Bob, there's finally a picture of Bob. On Twitter, you can check it out. A Law Radio and producer Jay, would you mind helping me put the photos from Twitter up on our Facebook page?

Jay, why are you giving me that look like what? I did not know that Bob made his debut on your social. You're going to have to go check it out. Wow. This is big. Is it big because you are surprised or it's big because you didn't have any idea? I just didn't have any idea. All right.

I mean, you've seen Bob. You know what it looks like. Not in person, but you will in Las Vegas. Yes.

Yes. Looking forward to that. Yeah, that's going to be a lot because he's going to be working and I'm going to be working and he would like to come hang out at work, but I don't know how that's going to go. I told him I would attempt to get him a guest pass to Radio Row just so we can see what it's like. But I don't actually know if it's going to happen, especially now that we don't have a boss.

I mean, kind of a boss, but he's a lame duck boss or dead man walking. So I know not that. That's probably a bit dramatic. You know how people say, let's have some real talk here for a moment on After Hours on CBS Sports Radio, and then you can go back to trying to find the picture of Bob.

It's really not that hard to find. It was the celebration of month number one. So I wake up early afternoon just because I was hot.

Right. I had a bunch. I fell asleep cold because it was three degrees in my neighborhood and had a bunch of blankets on the bed.

And so when I woke up a few hours later, three, four hours later is because I was hot. So I kicked off covers. I always pick up my phone.

This bad idea. I always pick up my phone to see what time it is. I should just leave my phone there.

Who cares? The alarm will wake me up when it's time to get up. But I did pick up my phone to see what time it was when I picked up my phone. Would you believe I had a text message from a friend who also works in radio letting me know that our boss is leaving. That's how I found out that our boss is leaving the network. Huh. So I check my email. No, no emails. I check Twitter.

Oh, look at that. There's news on Twitter. So, you know, all those athletes or even coaches who would tell you they find out news about themselves on social media. No joke. That's how my friend found out.

That's why he texted me. And then I open up Twitter and there is the news posted 10 minutes earlier on Twitter. Are you kidding me?

Now I understand the indignity of it. We don't even get a courtesy email or a text or. Gosh, I don't know.

A personal message indicating that you are leaving. Apparently not. Once again. Well, I mean, I've told you this before. I was pretty sure that the boss didn't even know we had a show here on the overnight.

Didn't I'm not sure he's ever heard of after hours. But regardless, like how. How wrong is that? I know it's not quite like Jared Goff getting blindsided and traded without his knowledge, just never hearing from the coach or from the team before he got shipped, shipped to Detroit. But you there are certainly instances where people have found out that either their coaches got fired or they got traded or some other piece of news. And they find out on social media. That's how they find out that there's some impactful change coming to their organization or their team. Right. Seriously, Jay and I can now raise our hands. I don't know if anybody else was privy to the information.

Maybe it's because we don't work during the daytime. Maybe they walked around with a foghorn and said, by the way, I'm leaving. By the way, this guy's leaving. But yeah, we had no clue. I literally found out through a friend who saw it on Twitter. Isn't that what happens with athletes? Like they they they wake up. So how often do you hear an athlete taking a nap and he wakes up and his phone is blown up and it's a bunch of his buddies telling him that. I just saw this news on Twitter.

That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, your way was more personal than mine, so. What was your way? I just was going through. I woke up. I was just looking through the news. Were you seriously?

I don't want to see Mike McCarthy got fired yet, honestly. So I went on X or Twitter and I was like, oh, that affects me. But no way. So whose post did you see?

I don't remember. I think it was just the WFAN's post, general post. Oh, so WFAN is our New York affiliate. And apparently and we share studios with our New York affiliate. So that's where we are in Lower Manhattan. So we have office space. Well, we don't really have offices.

We have lobby space and we have desk space, cubicle space, essentially sharing the same area, general area with our New York affiliate. And apparently there was an announcement if you were in the building, but I guess we did not warrant that announcement. But no, seriously, I looked at my email. There's nothing like nothing. Wow. All right. Well, congratulations to him on a new opportunity and. Well, I guess we'll just go back to do what we do. Without a boss's input, which is essentially how it's been for the last three years or so.

Actually, it's been that way for quite a while, even going back to before COVID. I'm pretty sure they've all forgotten we we do what we do here on the on the overnights, but that's all right. We just keep doing our thing. Chug, chug, chugging along.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Do you think he still has the power to fire people? Nah, nah, nah. If you're leaving and taking a different position in another city.

Nah, I'm going to go with no. Seriously, has anybody else ever found out their boss was leaving on social media? Maybe that's the new way. Maybe that is the new way.

That's trend now. Did you think for a second that it might be a troll or it might be a fake account? It looked pretty legitimate from the start. Did it? Yeah, it did. It did. It was like official right away. I was like, oh, wow.

Yeah, I'm up. What did it say? Where's the post? It's up there.

So I should go to our New York affiliate and find the post? Yeah, it's up there. Oh, all right. Did it say surprise?

No, but that's how I felt. Yes, no doubt. Surprise.

My gosh. Very much later in the day, I saw an email from his boss indicating that it was happening much later in the day. Too bad news is already broken. Hope you don't mind hearing it from us now.

Yeah, it's a it's a strange industry these days. So, yeah, that's if anybody would like to apply for the job, we could use a new boss. I'm assuming they're going to do a nationwide search. But what do I know? On Twitter, because that's where news breaks, a law radio or our show, Twitter after hours, CBS. And then also on our Facebook page, as I say, there's finally a picture of the hubs.

You go check it out for yourself. It only took a month. You wore me down. But also thank you for your sweet messages. All right. Coming up. Let's see.

What do we have for you? We have got some pretty interesting revelations from one Derek Henry, who is. Relatively sure his time in Nashville is done.

Also. The real reasons. Why Jerry Jones is keeping. Mike McCarthy, though, we don't know about the rest of his staff, right? So you'll hear from one analyst with his insider intel.

And then Gerard Mayo, too, getting introduced. As the new head coach of the New England Patriots. And no, he's not Bill Belichick, although it's worked out for Baker Mayfield. No, I'm not Tom Brady. So no, I'm not Bill Belichick. I'm someone different.

And not only do I dress different, but I speak different and I look different and I act different and we're different ages and we're different everything. So it's time for a new era in New England. 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 2 2 7. That's our toll free line.

8 5 5 2 1 2 4. Your fever is high and the pressure to log in at work is too. But when you finally decide to take care of you, there's instacart. Just because that one perfect coworker of yours is attending all meetings, camera on while she's sneezing, coughing and aching doesn't mean you have to do the same.

Take it from us. Trying to stay on top of things will only get you further behind. Instead, get everything from tissues and teas to cough suppressants and comforting soups delivered through instacart in as fast as 30 minutes. If anyone needs anything, they can just redirect their questions to that one perfect coworker of yours. Around New Year's, we get a little obsessed with changing ourselves and forgetting the things we're already doing right.

Like taking our supplements every morning or scheduling me time into our day. Therapy helps you recognize those victories and keep up the good work in the new year without changing everything. BetterHelp offers affordable online therapy so you can try New Year's same you with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com slash grow today to get 10 percent off your first month.

That's betterhelp.com slash grow. Babysitter paid. Pizza ordered.

Flowers delivered. You can do a lot of things with your phone. And with Blue Link Plus, you can even access your Hyundai Tucson Limited remotely. Doors unlocked. Temperature set. Lost car found.

Oh, there it is. Get complimentary class leading Blue Link Plus. Just another way we make owning a Hyundai Tucson Limited more convenient than ever. Learn more about the new Tucson and Blue Link Plus at HyundaiUSA.com.

Call 562-314-4603 for complete details. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Here's a little song I wrote.

You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry. Be happy.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Who needs to hear this today? Me.

I do. I really do need to hear that because, you know, as human beings, change is hard. A lot of changes in my life in the last month, but they're primarily positive, overwhelmingly positive. But yet here comes another curveball. Just when you think you have it all figured.

Well, I've never had it all figured out, but just when you think you know what the routine is or you adjusted to whatever it happens to be personally or professionally. Here comes another zinger right in your face. I feel like all of my sound effects are essentially the same.

That's just all I got. I'm not real good at sound effects. Jay, what does a curveball sound like? A zinger. What does a zinger sound like? Yeah, a curveball would be more of like a... Alright, but that's not helpful. I need a zinger. I need a bullet. Like a Josh Allen rope hitting you right in the face. Was that alright?

Yes, that was perfection. Just out in the newsroom, we've got a couple of colleagues who are here. And they, well, one of them at least agrees with us that it was a little strange finding out the news about our boss leaving on social media. But that is, yeah, that is the new way of things. I'm not sure I like it.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Whether you find us on Twitter, AfterHourCBS, or whether you check out our Facebook page, we're always glad to connect with you. We'll try not to do breaking news there.

Though many of you, you get it, in 2024. This is actually why I'm on Twitter. Because this is where news breaks. Except I wasn't expecting that kind of news. Oh, Kevin. Now I know what it feels like.

I actually, this could be show prep. Now I know what it feels like. Just a small kind of glimpse of how it feels and what it looks like to be an athlete who finds out he's been traded or that his coach got fired on social media.

Right? Derrick Henry, speaking of coaches getting fired, we know that when he played in week 18 against the Jacksonville Jaguars and had a season high, what was it, 153 rushing yards, don't quote me, something along those lines, had a huge game to help spur that upset of the Jaguars and keep them out of the playoffs. A couple days later, Mike Vrabel got fired. So even though he was prepared and said goodbye, addressed the crowd, he'll always be a Titan, but on the microphone it felt like a farewell just in case, right?

Once Vrabel got the axe, he tells the Bussin' with the Boys podcast that now he's sure that he won't return to Tennessee. I feel like they're going in a different direction. And that's okay. That happens. That's the nature of the business. We want something to last forever.

Nothing does, especially in this business. I'll always be a Titan, even if I don't want to come back. But at the end of the day, I want to win the Super Bowl. And wherever that is, that gives me the best chance.

And that's what I want to do. I don't have no bad blood or feel no type of way if I'm not back. It's just what was supposed to happen. I mean, the story already written, we all just living it. Well, let's hope he didn't find out on social media. Let's hope that instead he was part of, I don't know, part of the revelation. It makes me really appreciate what Nick Saban did by keeping the retirement decision under wraps so tightly that he was still working in the building up until the point at which all the players were back on campus and could meet with him personally.

And I think I mentioned this on the show before, but you may have read it as well. He waited a couple of days. One of the reasons why this took until, I think it was last Wednesday, right? It was Tuesday that Vrabel got fired.

Wednesday was Pete Carroll and Nick Saban. So last Wednesday, a week ago, the reason why he waited is because there were a bunch of players who couldn't make it back to campus with some of the weather that was changing travel or affecting travel. And so he waited until every last one of his players was in the room. And he was still working and still interviewing potential assistant coaches so that no one had any idea that he was about to retire.

It did not break ahead of time. Chris Lowe of ESPN was the first to have the news, and it's because someone texted him from inside the meeting. I don't know who it was, but somebody did. Somebody let him know that Saban had just told his players that he would be retiring. Otherwise, the only people who knew were Saban's family members, presumably. Even his assistant coaches didn't find out until that day.

He was very careful. He wanted to deliver that news himself, and I admire that because it's just not easy to keep that kind of a secret in this day and age when people want to be the ones who break the news, who give the leak, who set off some chain reaction and go viral, so to speak. And it's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. So when Derrick Henry found out, he tells this podcast, Bussin' With the Boys, that he knew at that point they were going rebuild. So he would not be returning to Nashville.

But also, he shares this revelation. A lot of times we speculate about internal, I don't want to say politics, but internal relationships. Or there's speculation about a team quit on the coach, or a coach lost the locker room, or the chemistry's not there because of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, Derrick Henry actually gives us some insight into how the 2023 Titans weren't the same as his earlier days in Nashville. In years past, when s*** hit the fan, you can look to your left or your right, and you know when the pressure comes, you know the person to your left or right is going to respond.

And if you need to lean on them, you can lean on them by being in those situations with them before. And this year, like you said, when you came to the facility, it kind of felt like out of place. And whenever I came back for OTAs earlier last year, when I was talking to KB, we both kind of felt the same way. It just felt different. You know when we used to come back, it was kind of like that home feeling. Like the old line was all together. Everybody knew everybody, and everybody was like, we was all family. But it was just different this year because you had a lot of young guys, and you know, this year was like the first time I was like, it feels like they're taking the shift. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can just feel it at some point. They're going to shift. In case you don't know, bussing with the boys is Will Compton and Taylor Lewand.

And so having Derrick Henry on the podcast makes sense because we're talking about guys who understand Titans culture. And here's quite a revelation. Now, this was the headline, the clickbait, if you will, that he was almost traded during the season by the organization. It was close. It was close.

For real? You know something? It was close. It was close, boys. It was close. It was in the playoffs? Yeah. I know two for sure.

The other one, I don't know if that would have happened, but one of them I felt like it was pretty close. A lot went down between that little saga with the trade and all that stuff. So he says he nearly got traded during the season, and there were at least two teams that were interested that are currently in the playoffs. Wow.

Could you imagine adding Derrick Henry to any of these playoff rosters? I wish I knew which ones, but he doesn't identify them. And even at 30 years old, he says he is still a guy who can truck you. Well, he doesn't say that, but he's still got plenty left in the tank. I ain't done playing. I ain't even close to done playing.

I still feel I can run for another 2,000, but that's for the future to tell. Once again, Derrick Henry with former teammates, busting with the boys. So Marco Belletti, what do you think? Could you imagine adding Derrick Henry to say Buffalo? Now, I know James Cook has been, he's had this great run since they changed offensive coordinator.

So it's been a much more run-centric, or at least an attempt to run the football, and James Cook has found his stride. I'm trying to think who else? Ravens. Ravens? I think that's what it is. Yeah, I think it's exactly what it is.

Wow. I mean, I feel like they already have running backs. I know they lost a few.

And lost two of them. That's true. That's true. I think that would have been, I feel like Baltimore was definitely inquiring it out, to be fair.

And this is nothing against Derrick Henry. It's just the idea of where the situation of where the Titans are. I'm shocked they didn't trade them, because they could have got something for them and they're not going to resign them.

Right. So it really doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense, because they weren't going anywhere. Maybe at that point, they didn't know.

Well, maybe they didn't know. They thought they might still make the playoffs. When were they really in a playoff hunt? I don't feel like Tennessee was ever really hanging around at any point.

True. I guess depending upon where it was in the Jaguars arc, because at one point the Jaguars were 8-3 and had a 2.5 game lead in that division. That was post-London, right?

Remember, they won a couple games in London and then went on this nice run. Right. But after that, the wheels started coming off, so I can't remember exactly when the NFL train deadline is. Right, but the train deadline was already gone. Yeah, at that point it would have been. Yeah, and I don't feel at any point this season that I feel like Tennessee was ever in a playoff run, and they knew. They had to know, because we all know now that they're not going down the road of bringing back Derrick Henry. That seemed like it was a farewell on the last game of the season. Everybody seemed to know, and it was kind of like, you've been great, it's been fun, we're not doing this anymore. So everybody knows that. He is the highest paid running back in the NFL, or was this season. So it's surprising that they didn't try to get something for him, and maybe they did and it just didn't work out, which to me, something would have been something.

But I feel like the Ravens are, in my opinion, the most obvious choice, and I feel like Baltimore was dying to find another running back. Because they kept losing them, and they kept finding more. Everywhere they went, it was like, oh, let's try this. They did keep adding some. Oh, let's try this. And then they would add them and then they would cut them.

Add them and then they would cut them. So I feel like that was the road they wanted to go down. Just to happen again this week, yeah. I agree with him, though, that he's got plenty left to give. After seeing him in the final week of the regular season, just turned 30, it was like a 30 party.

He can still play for how much longer, I don't know. The only thing with Derrick Henry, and this is not a knock, but he's a guy that you've got to feed. If you think you're going to bring in Derrick Henry, give him eight carries, and think he's going to make a difference in the game, he's not. Derrick Henry's biggest attribute is the fact that he's going to keep hitting you, keep hitting you, keep hitting you. And carry 22 is going to rip off a 60 yarder because in the fourth quarter you don't want to tackle Derrick Henry anymore.

Because you're tired of it. But you don't think he can make an impact? I disagree. In seven carries, no. He's not the type of runner, I feel like he needs to get the ball constantly to wear you down and then eventually take over.

They're a team that in the fourth quarter, they'll wear you down and they'll grind it out and then they'll take over because you're just out of gas. But if you think three or four carries in the first quarter, he's going to all of a sudden rip one off. He might, but that's not really his game. That's not the impact that Derrick Henry makes.

I feel like he's better carry 22 than he is carry 2. He will still strong arm people and just truck them, which is great. Just looking at the Baltimore situation, so they just waved Melvin Gordon.

So that was an option they tried, it didn't work. They've got Dalvin Cook, they could promote him to go along with Gus Edwards and Justice Hill, excuse me. But yeah, they've kind of had a revolving door there because of the number of different guys they've tried, but then also lost injuries at the beginning of the season. And Dalvin Cook might be a guy that, he's another guy, I think he's got plenty in the tank. Now I know he didn't work out at all with the Jets, at all.

No, not at all. But they also didn't feature him in any way because Breece Hall was as good as he was coming back from the ACL. I think they were shocked with how good he was right from the get-go. And Dalvin Cook just never got involved in the Aaron Rodgers stuff, so everything snowballed. Cook's got something left in the tank, but same thing. If you think you're going to give him six or seven carries and say, all right, give me 80 yards and seven carries, it's not going to work properly. He's another workhorse type back. Not so much as Derrick Henry, but still in that same vein. And I don't know if they're going to have the patience to use Dalvin Cook the way he probably needs to. I mean, I would take Derrick Henry on my team. I'd be okay seeing how that would work out. I think he's a unique talent, strong, still powerful, and we've seen him mostly durable.

I know he's had a couple of injuries, but mostly durable at 30. And it all comes back down to the same thing for how much? Right. Everybody would say, if you want Derrick Henry, yeah, absolutely. Do you want to pay him this kind of money? No, I'm not going to pay him that kind of money.

So it still comes down to running backs. There's a lot of them in the league that everybody would go, I would love to have him. And the second they go, well, then I want $10 million.

That's not really what I was thinking. So I don't know what the market's going to be for Derrick Henry. My guess, similar to Dalvin Cook last year, where you're coming down to the wire and it's can he get a one year, five or six million dollar deal and see if someone thinks that he's the missing piece? Because I don't think he's going to get a multi-year deal. And I don't think he's going to get anywhere near the money that he got in his last contract. Well, I am really glad, though, that he ended up getting I mean, he had a couple of good years of being paid. His last contract paid him really well. He's one of the last few. There was only him and McCaffrey, basically, that's gotten the contract for the running back.

Everyone since? No. Nick Chubb was $12 million, if I remember correctly, or somewhere in that neighborhood.

That sounds about right. Yeah. So he got paid, too, but obviously spent this last year being hurt.

All right. Coming up, this was just a really sad piece of news from the NBA. And in reading the story today about an assistant coach that passed away, it reminded me how basketball is so international now and there's so many relationships. And this assistant coach, his death has really affected a lot of people. So just a story that we wanted to share a little bit.

But also, again, because NBA is becoming so international, this particular coach really had a great impact on Twitter, ALawRadio. Shall I take your order or do you need a minute? Yes, I'll be ready. Just buying a car on Caravana. What? It's super convenient. I already got pre-qualified in two minutes.

All I had to do was answer a few questions. What? That's handy. Yeah. Now I'm customizing my down in monthly payments. What?

That's an exquisite deal. And just like that, Caravana's delivering my car in a couple days. What? Oh, yeah.

Sorry. I'll have the burrito. Visit Caravana.com to finance your next car. Financing subject to credit approval.

Delivery fees may apply. When something happens to your car, you might say, No! My car! But what you really need to say is something that can actually help. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. And just like that, State Farm is there to help you file your claim right on the State Farm mobile app. So, just remember, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

State Farm, Bloomington, Illinois. Says here that Graybar is a distributor? Yeah. We support electrical and data com projects all over the country. So, you can get me the products I need.

Where and when I need them? Yeah. Thanks to our national logistics network. Any industry? Yeah.

Construction, industrial plants, schools, hospitals. So, you could say Graybar is much more than a distributor. Yeah. You could say that. When you need a hand powering, connecting, or maintaining your operations, join the thousands of professionals who rely on Graybar to help keep them up and running. Yeah.

Graybar does that. New year, new credit scores. Makes it easier to build credit using your own money and on-time payments with the secured Chime Credit Builder Visa credit card. Use it everywhere Visa credit cards are accepted. To apply, just open a Chime checking account with a qualifying direct deposit.

There's no annual fee or credit check required when applying. Get started at chime.com slash build. That's chime.com slash build. The Chime Credit Builder Visa credit card is issued by Bancorp Bank N.A. or Stride Bank N.A. Members, FDIC.

Late payment may negatively impact your credit score. Results may vary. Also on our Facebook page, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. First thing I want to say is my condolences to Decky, his family, and his friends, and the Warriors organization. Great, great man. Great man. And I don't even want to talk about the basketball stuff because it's a great basketball mind but great man and he'll be sorely missed.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The voice of Mike Brown, former assistant coach on the Warriors staff and that's how one of the ways that he encountered and spent time with Dejan Milojevic, who is the current Warriors assistant who passed away of a heart attack on Wednesday. And this happened in Salt Lake City. So the team announced this news on Wednesday afternoon and at just 46 years old, he had already made such an incredible impact on so many players and coaches around the NBA that the ripple effects are being felt in the league even as the news spread on Wednesday and the Warriors and Jazz canceled their game that was set for Wednesday night.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Milojevic died in Salt Lake City so he was hospitalized after there was this medical emergency. I'm not sure if you saw this news but the Warriors were having a private team dinner and whether he had the heart attack there or he started to suffer cardiac arrest, it's really traumatic to think about being there as one of your coaches.

So this is from the players perspective or as one of your colleagues from, you know, the other coaches and the staff members are either seeing this or watching him or hearing about it and try to put yourself in that situation just devastating and really difficult to process when you're there as someone is suffering an incident like this. I mean think back to what happened with DeMar Hamlin and his teammates who saw this happen on the field as he goes down, as he suffers cardiac arrest, as they're trying to revive him, it would have likely been something similar for Dejan Milojevic. So again he passed away in Salt Lake City, the Warriors were on a road trip there, the game Wednesday was canceled and the team released a statement so no one has spoken in front of a microphone but of course they're devastated, shocking and tragic. It's mid 40s and so you can imagine they're all very emotional about it but it wasn't just the Warriors and this is the part that I felt like was really underscored on Wednesday because there are Serbians like Nikola Jokic who are in the NBA and he's not the only one. I mean the Toronto Raptors head coach is from Serbia. I mean we know that there are plenty of players who have made their way from Eastern Europe but from Serbia specifically you think about the national teams they would have played on or the different times that they would have crossed paths in the NBA. So whether it's international teams, whether it's you know having played and traveled together or you know even Olympic teams right those types of situations but in the NBA with and there are a healthy number of Serbian players but in the NBA you know you understand how difficult, how challenging it is to get here.

You understand how it takes you away from your home country right so you're having to be somewhere else across an ocean and the culture is different and maybe you're away from your families and the language is different and all these things and so you can imagine the bond among these players and coaches again whether they know each other from international teams or national teams or whether it's just that they can support one another here in the NBA. What I'd read about Milojevic is that he is a mentor to Nikola Jokic. Have not heard from Nikola but also Bojan Bogdanovic of the Atlanta Hawks also Serbian. Like everyone else in Serbia I think we couldn't believe the news because that guy was a beast you know and always positive you know everyone remembers him as a guy who if you complain to him he was never the guy who complained first but you know if you complain to him he will always say like I just left man you know you only did once he was always saying that it's such a sad thing. So it's hard to hear he's standing in front of his locker but he says that he was one of those guys that made an impact one of those guys that you could talk to and so again you can imagine that this is extremely painful so Milojevic was also an accomplished player himself and then coached in Serbia worked with Jokic there before Jokic came to the US and had been part of the national team and joined the Warriors you know highly recommended and they really loved the impact that he had and then you think about the Toronto Raptors head coach and the fact that he's Serbian and I know we were having fun with some of his comments last week about it is complete crap remember he was ripping on the referees but still ripple effects and anyone who is from Serbia or even Eastern Europe understands what this man meant to to basketball. He was a player he was this undersized five-man he was about six four six five and he was the best rebounder and double-double machine in EuroLeague you know he played for national team and he was able to win couple of European World Championships he played for Partizan Belgrade and he was such a big influence on young people and then when he became a coach he was lucky enough that one of his first jobs was to work with Team Mega in Belgrade and he was coaching Nikola Jokic among others like a lot of NBA players went through his hands and his influence and he helped a lot of guys he stayed there for 10 years as a head coach he helps a lot of people to you know to make next step in their career. Talk about a resume talk about singing the praises of this assistant coach of the Warriors that had a whole career both player and coach before he ever got to the NBA that's Darko Royakovic as I say the NBA is so international now and the ties are run so deep for so many of these players with these coaches and national teams it's got to be a just a devastating loss it's after hours CBS Sports Radio around New Year's we get a little obsessed with changing ourselves and forgetting the things we're already doing right like taking our supplements every morning or scheduling me time into our day therapy helps you recognize those victories and keep up the good work in the new year without changing everything better help offers affordable online therapy so you can try New Year's same you with better help visit better help dot com slash grow today to get 10 percent off your first month that's better help H E LP dot com slash grow babysitter paid pizza ordered flowers delivered you can do a lot of things with your phone and with blue link plus you can even access your Hyundai Tucson limited remotely doors unlocked temperature set lost car found get complimentary class leading blue link plus just another way we make owning a Hyundai Tucson limited more convenient than ever learn more about the new Tucson and blue link plus at Hyundai USA dot com call 562-314-4603 for complete details when something happens to your car you might say what you really need to say is something that can actually help like a good neighbor State Farm is there just like that State Farm is there to help you file your claim right on the State Farm mobile app so just remember like a good neighbor State Farm is there State Farm Bloomington Illinois.