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It's always the beginning until it's the end. Dude is a winner. Live from The Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Eagles laid the wood to the Kansas City Chiefs. Earlier on the show, Eagles cornerback Cooper DeGene, senior writer for the MMQB, Albert Breer. Coming up, ESPN NBA reporter Dave McMenamin. And now, it's Rich Eisen. All right, everybody. Hey, welcome to the third hour of this Tuesday edition of The Rich Eisen Show.
Cooper DeGene, what a fun chat with the young buck, 22 years old. By the way, B-U-C-K, he's a Philadelphia Eagle. It's kind of crazy, the Eagles, because we started the program talking about who could beat them next year, can they repeat, right?
Because what else are we going to do over the next 205 days waiting for the next season, right? And in terms of who they've played and who they've lost to in their playoff history, in the four years that Jalen Hurts has been a starter and Nick Sirianni has been the head coach full-time, you can't use their playoff history as much of an indicator as to who could beat them and who can they play. Because in the four years that they've made the playoffs, the Eagles have made the playoffs, their last game of the playoffs was against only two teams. They were eliminated twice in the wildcard round by the Bucks and played in the Super Bowl against the same team, the Chiefs. So the end of their road has come with one win against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, one loss against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl and two wildcard losses in a visit to Tampa. So you really can't say, well, that time that they lost to this team, there's no real history of cauterized wounds to bring up as a historical signpost.
And so we talked about it nonetheless. Albert Breer just joined us. And Dave McMenamin is about to join us from ESPN, serving fans everywhere. That's their new fruit. Oh, what happened to the worldwide leader? I've been told they're not fans of it. Because back in the day when I was there, we're the worldwide leader in sports, right? Now it's like you decide who's the worldwide leader.
We're just serving fans everywhere. A little more humility. A little more humility.
You know what's not lame? Humility. But if you're literally the worldwide leader, just tell people you're the worldwide leader. No, no, no. Excuse me. Listen, you and I know we're the worldwide leader in talk shows.
That's what I mean. So why can't we just say it? We don't have to say it. We don't have to say it.
Let other people say it. You know what we're doing? We're serving fans.
And consulting. We are. We are. One guy called us up.
If I'm on the line and being called up by a pharmacist for my meds and you say you're on the air, what do I do? We serve that fan. TJ and I, we got stopped on radio row by a British dude. We're serving the UK, baby. Exactly. We're serving fans. Literally around the world. So I understand their point of view. That's what I'm saying. While also being the worldwide leader. But we don't have to say that.
You get it? I'm going to change that. I'm going to change our banner to that.
Thank you. Which is what? We're serving fans everywhere?
We're the worldwide leader. You're not listening. What? I'm like, can we fix this? He's not listening. I need you to fix this. I honestly feel like I'm talking to my children at home. They're not listening.
So what are you trying to say? We're serving fans. Oh, serving fans.
Got it. Apparently, which we are big in London, though, we were told. Big in the UK, man. We are. We're leading worldwide. And they know us up in Germany. We're serving fans worldwide. Dave McShanniman is going to join us. Got it.
Luke and LeBron debuted. I got to be honest. Weird to see. Really weird to see. I hate it. Really weird to see. And by the way, the thing we were talking about at the beginning of the show on the video plate.
I did. Luca Doncic put us in his welcome to L.A. video. Well, his welcome to L.A. video that he posted on his sites included a lot of reaction and your reaction with O'Shea Jackson Jr. as you were recording No Contest Wrestling.
I couldn't be happier to see No Contest Wrestling on a Luca Doncic video. Your reaction and O'Shea's reaction is it was perfect. And it's still shocking. It's still shocking to now see it. Yeah.
Right? Well, because it actually came to fruition last night. Well, it happened last night and couldn't help but notice LeBron got introduced second to last. Luca got the final like, you know, from Slovenia. Lawrence Tanner. Luca Doncic. Number 77, Luca Doncic. And he came out. He's out. And his first big play was an assist to Jackson Hayes.
How are you? Yeah. That lob was his first play? Yeah. And then his first bucket was a step back three.
Step back three, right? Yeah. It was great.
I hated it. Okay, get used to it. 77 plus 23 equals 100. Luca LeBroncic. Great.
Here we go. Yeah, LeBroncic. There were a lot of 77 jerseys in the stands. They gave them away. It was a freebie.
It was a freebie t-shirt. Now I get it. See, you knew they were going to do it. You know the Lakers do this. This is their wheelhouse. How do they keep doing it? That's the question. I'll tell you why. It's all rigged. The whole NBA is rigged to help the Lakers.
Oh my God. Let me think about though. We go back to Wilt. Then we go to Kareem. Then we go to Shaq. Then we go to bringing in Pau Gasol. Then they get LeBron. You got Kobe. Don't forget Kobe.
They just happened to make a draft day trade with the way I come up. Yeah, I mean, Kobe wasn't an established star, so I don't put him into this argument. You left out Andrew Bynum.
What are we doing? Well, they drafted him. So that's why, again, I left him out. Bynum.
AD forces his way out because of clutch. Well, get out of here. They just keep doing it. I hate them so much. I know you're not a fan of it.
I hate them. But there was one moment where, what, Luka threw a pass to LeBron, like 90 feet. Yeah. That was fun. That was nice though. It's going to be fun.
I can't front. It's going to be fun. Nothing about it is going to be fun.
This is what Luka had to say about being in LA and being a Los Angeles Laker officially. Being special, the way they received me, everybody, it was amazing to see. I was a little nervous before. I remember when was the last time I was nervous before the game. But once I stepped on the court, it was fun. Just being out there again felt amazing. The camera and the microphone picked up, LeBron telling you in the pregame huddle to be you, don't try to fit in, fit out. What did that message mean to you and what does it look like for you to fit out with this team? Like I said before, it's special. For him to say something like that just feels amazing, give him confidence. After that speech, it was chills, so I'm just happy to be part of it.
It's cool, man. They broadcast last night, the local broadcast is where I was picking it up. They showed a photograph of Luka as a 16-year-old outside of Staples. Just a visiting, just being there, smiling with his family as a 16-year-old. Now he's inside that building as a 25-year-old teammate of LeBron James, man. Can't make it up.
There they are. And in terms of don't fit in, fit out, that line that LeBron said to Luka, did you guys see Kevin Love's Instagram? Guys, it's a must follow. Punching the air right now is what Kevin Love said about the Luka, be your effing self, don't fit in, fit the F out. He posted a tweet from 2015 of LeBron saying the exact opposite.
Stop trying to find a way to fit out and just fit in, be a part of something special. Just my thoughts, which I think was a message he had back in the day because Kevin Love's just like, hashtag 10 years later, still hater, hashtag LaHurtMyFeelings, almost 10 years to the day. Whoever Kevin Love has doing his stuff. I think it's him, man. He's great. Kevin Love's Instagram has been- He's very funny.
Listen, man, I can't wait to see how this whole thing plays out. And it's all love right now. And by the way, the Lakers, are they averaging 70 points a half in the last two weeks?
By the way, I mean, they just bucket it off right now. It helps when his debut against maybe the worst team in the league. I understand that, but they keep on coming up with 40 point first quarters and 70 point first halves. And I don't know what's happening with Mark Williams. We'll ask that of McMenamin when he joins us shortly. Because the Hornets are pushing back on his failed physical, that's weird. I don't know what's happening right now.
Yeah, that's weird. Cooper thinks Christian Wood is going to be the answer. He's going to get healthy and he's going to be the center. He'll find his inner, what, Houston Rocket of 20-23-24 or 20-22-23. And I don't know what they're going to do down low, but just watching these guys perform and Austin Reeves, they're just going to light it up and they'll light you up and score 130 and win, I guess.
Yeah, but the problem is they can't stop you from scoring a buck 40. Maybe. We'll find out.
But you know what? At least it's not Dallas. Did you see what happened on Monday night in Dallas?
Losing in overtime? I mean, they lost in overtime and apparently a couple of fans getting ejected because they were wearing shirts and holding up signs. Fire Nico. Fire Nico signs and they are angry and Cuban was verbally accosted by one and he F-bombed them back. Well, he had nothing to do with it.
I understand that. But fans are like livid angry a week and a half later. They still have that right. It's really angry to the point where protests are now inside the arena. They're booing the owner or the governor, if you will, the sudden law of Miriam Adelson who's showing up in his seat saying, we're not moving to Vegas and we understand your anger.
Just let it all play out. I mean, the fact that Anthony Davis is hurt now for a month and Luke is now having a love fest in Los Angeles donating, by the way, great job by him, a half million dollars towards the cause of helping people still. We're going to be dealing with the effects of this wildfire aftermath for years.
And he sent out, like he said, we donate a hundred, a half million bucks and he signed it your new neighbor, Luca, his message to fans. I mean, he's hit, he's hitting every right note and I just wonder if he's going to be, you know, 20 years too soon because normally, you know, when you arrive in Los Angeles and you start, you know, maybe rethinking the way you've lived your life and you start working out and you start, you know, it's usually you're 45 or you're 55 in LA. You're trained, you're transitioning to a new life, you know, you're starting to think about your mortality.
Yeah. You find your new love. You know what I mean? You change your diet. He's going to lose weight. You're going to start dating somebody younger. His hair gets a little thicker. I don't recommend that for Luca, but Luca has a, I'm just saying, just let's take this before picture. Let's see what he looks like, you know, a year from now. Oh, well the Zen pic will kick in this guy. We live in the South Bay, get that like green juice diet, you know what I'm saying?
Right. Or, or if you live in the South Bay, you can go get your nuts from Mike. He'll feed you straight from his hands.
I feed nuts right out of the hand. Like he's going to get a boat and put you in a ship. I wouldn't let him live in the South Bay if I were the Lakers. Too much temptation down there. Put them in the, put them in the suburbs somewhere. By me in the suburbs? Suburbs. You know, I honestly, he should live in their South Bay.
Their facilities are down the street. But there's too many bars and beaches and you know, let's find out what he, what is, let's see what he's into here. Come out to the coast. We'll have a few left. Come on. Maybe, maybe he, that was part and parcel of LeBron saying, I'll be introduced second to last.
You just got to use my trainer. Right. You know, I'll make that deal. But somebody, I can't wait to ask McMenamin. Somebody tell LeBron, hey, we're going to introduce you second to last, unless, is that a regular thing? And they always introduced Anthony Davis last, or they're going to go back and forth? I don't know, but LeBron, LeBron has got to at some point just go, I can't believe that's Luca that I'm, I'm playing with, although he's been there and done that. So he's probably a little bit less, you know, shocked about it then I'm Luca. That had to be an out of body experience for him last night. The whole week has probably been a whirlwind, right?
Like you said, he never thought he'd get treated. So I can't, I can't wait for Luca to get load managed before the all star game. It's going to be awesome. They're playing Utah again tomorrow. Is he going to play?
We're going to get him? We played 24 minutes last night, so it was his first game since Christmas, right? Okay. So he hasn't played in a long time. Yeah. He hasn't played in over a month. I know. It's good for him.
You don't want to put too much on him. Luca Doncic is going to be here as a Los Angeles Laker forever. Right down the street.
Right down the street. Until he goes to Miami. He's not going to Miami.
Lakers have him for, he's a Laker for life, unlike him being a Mav for life. He's here for the next 10 Chris, you know how that goes. God, this guy. All right. 8 4 4 2 0 4 Rich number dial Dave McMenamin and then overreaction Monday on a Tuesday is the rest of our show.
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Well, that's like that app thing, isn't that the slogan they're going for the app and stuff? So I'm just saying. Again, it's not as cool as the worldwide leader. Well, I mean, that's what it was when you were growing up. I would imagine they're not any less worldwide. I mean, the world's gotten bigger. You know? I don't know. Billions and billions.
All right. Yeah, it's like McDonald's. Billions and billions served.
Well, I mean, I think it used to be millions. It's McMena and going to a funeral, man. He looks. No, Dave dresses like that all the time. Are you serious? Oh, yeah. Top 10 dress.
Top 10 hair in the game. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, we know this. Yeah. He's I could see he just zoomed in.
Got the home office. Right now. We're in the suit pants, so that's the question. Can you hear us right now? I think. Yeah. He got it. Oh, Dave. Let's pop him up. Are you going to a funeral? Where are you going? Yeah.
You're opening up a bank account. He's like rarely does somebody suit and do it to zoom in with us, Dave. That's an eagle's green tie. I know my man. Yeah.
I know my man. You got it, Chris. No. I mean, come on. I didn't know that would be mocked for actually trying to be presentable for your program. We're casual around these parts, Dave.
I don't know. No, no, no. I don't mock people for being properly, Natalie, a quiet, you know, a tired sir.
I mean, never, never would do that. I'm just, I'm, I'm a little taken aback. You know what I mean?
I have an extensive quarters of collection if you want me to switch out. No, no, no. I'm not uncomfortable. I thought the NBA, the NBA way to do it is like, you should now dress instead of like you, you just dress like you're going on an airplane ride. That's what all the coaches do now. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. Just to say, dress for the job you want and uh, yeah, I guess I don't fit any NBA job the way I'm dressing these days. Except ESPN NBA reporter Dave McMenamin back here on the Rich Eisen Show radio network. Dave McMenamin of ESPN joining us here right now.
Uh, all right. You've been around tons of big nights in the home of the Los Angeles Lakers. Where does last night's rank, Dave? It met the moment. Uh, the Lakers organization kind of recognized that last week, their introductory news conference with Luca was not something that had the pomp and circumstance of say when the Miami Heat traded for Shaquille O'Neal, he gets to the arena and 18 Wheeler with a super soaker.
Uh, there wasn't like the celebratory field because Luca was still processing what happened. Uh, he was taken aback obviously by the trade. He thought he was going to retire a member of the Dallas Mavericks.
And so about a week passed between their introductory news conference and Monday night at crypto.com and it was the right time to kind of pull out the bells and whistles. There was 18,997 number 77 Laker gold, Luca Doncic t-shirts on the seats. They're playing Serbian music, uh, to make him feel right at home on the court during the pregame warmups. And LeBron James did a very cool gesture, reached out to Luca, uh, in the day, Monday morning and said, Hey, however you want to do pregame introductions, I'm with whoever you want to do it.
It's cool by me. And Luca said, yeah, I'd kind of like to have the moment if that's okay, you know, LeBron James, sir. And LeBron said by all means. And so LeBron was the second to last member of the Lakers starting lineup announced Luca was last.
There was a huge roar. And then the game was just, you know, it was a blowout, uh, all good vibes Lakers up by 34 points at one point went on to win for the 13th time in their last 15 games, they are rolling and they're only going to see more and more of Luca Doncic as the season goes on. Yeah. I was going to ask you, Dave, that, uh, it was definitely noticed by me and obviously you and others that, uh, Luca got announced last and that LeBron was second to last. You're saying that was a LeBron, uh, induced, um, floor is yours type moment.
Dave. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Luca, uh, told us that during the day, LeBron reached out to him and said, you know, we're looking forward to the night.
It's going to be exciting. Uh, we have the starting line of how we want to manage this thing. Uh, whatever you want, we'll do is what LeBron told Luca and yeah, Luca told LeBron it'd be cool to have the moment. Um, and he thanked him for acquiescing there, I guess you should say, but made it clear telling us reporters, okay, that's my one night it's going back to LeBron, uh, from here on out. That was my followup question right there. But you, you are right. The Lakers just are currently mastering in 40 point first quarters and 70 point halves.
It appears to be Dave. And so last night was, uh, an interesting moment for coming together and figuring out how to keep things rolling. Obviously having a Utah jazz team that isn't as, as good as most, the rest of the NBA would be helpful, but how does this work moving forward? Yeah, I mean, Utah is terrible, but the fact that it was Lucas first taste of basketball action since Christmas day with the brand new teammates dealing with the transition of, of a new city, a new life, et cetera, it was a smashing success for the first year that we got. And what they're going to have to figure out as Luca is off of his minutes restriction, he only played 24 minutes on Monday because of that left calf strain and Dorian Finney Smith is still on a minister restriction. They traded for him more than a month ago from the Brooklyn nets. Once they have all their players ready to go full, full bore, JJ red is connect to figure out lineup balances because there's a ton of offense in that starting unit right now with really LeBron, Austin Reeves, Luca Doncic and Jackson Hayes. But you may want to get some more of a defensive presence in there. And they're going to be looking at either Rui Hachimura or Austin Reeves at some point to play more at the second unit that might not necessarily be them coming off the bench. They could still start, but they will have a bulk of their minutes in staggered lineups. So you get the ball more in Rui's hand, away from LeBron and Luca in Austin's hands, I should say.
And then Rui, who's more of an offensive minded player, you can get a defensive minded player in Dorian Finney Smith in there helping to patch up the holes that LeBron and Luca provide on that end. What happened with Mark Williams? OK, so long story short, when the Lakers brought Mark Williams in for a physical, they saw things in their physical examination that caused them so much concern that I was told, quote, we just couldn't live with it. And the way trades work is both teams have to be satisfied that the players that they acquire have passed their physical examination. No two teams physicals are exactly the same. That's why in the medical world you have people go seek second opinions.
Well, all doctors are different. And so the Lakers, by their estimation, did not see Mark Williams passing their physical exam. It caused them to rescind the trade. Dalton Connect was back on the Lakers bench yesterday.
He didn't look too pleased about it. I reported over the weekend when I reached out to Dalton's agents, they had no comment on the deal being rescinded. So I do believe that that is a relationship that's going to need to be repaired. But now the Lakers need to figure out to add a some sort of center. They're not going to get someone like Mark Williams with that type of upside or even that type of ability to affect a game in the moment. They're just a center like that doesn't exist on the buyout market, but they need to do that. And then meanwhile, the Hornets, they're not giving up on this deal.
Sham Sharanya of ESPN reported last night that the Hornets plan or they are in the process of petitioning the NBA to kind of have a ruling on this trade. And they're going to try to reverse it once again because they're not satisfied with the Lakers explanation of Mark Williams failing the physical. So they get it like an independent doctor, like an independent hospital system to look at this. And then how does one team's interpretation of a medical chart jibe with the league office? Like I don't know how do you rectify something like that?
What do you do? But my understanding, this will be almost like a mock trial that the NBA will put on and both teams will present their cases. There's not much precedent for this. Back in the late 80s, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Cleveland Cavaliers had a similar situation. Ultimately, David Stern was the one with the gavel. And he determined that the blazers, I should say, they were unsatisfied with the player they received. And David Stern said, who are we to say as a league to go against what their doctors recommendation is? And so the precedent would be on the Lakers side to have this rescinded trade stand. But that is the process that the Hornets are currently undergoing and we'll have Adam Silver in that chair this time rather than David Stern.
Dave McMenamin here on the Rich Eisen Show. Okay, so Luca is introduced as a Laker and he plays his first game as a Laker and everybody who comes to the game gets a Luka Doncic Laker keepsake. And LeBron James is calling Luca up to say, how are we going to handle this?
We'll handle it how you want to handle it. That's the way that this is getting rolled out in Los Angeles. Meanwhile in Dallas, Anthony Davis is already hurt and fans are getting kicked out for bringing signs and t-shirts to the game.
And there's protests. It's kind of like the exact opposite in Dallas of the hunky dory Hollywood stuff going on. And quite frankly, Rich, there's no end to that story in sight for Dallas. I mean, there's going to be game after game after game. And if they don't have Anthony Davis on the court and obviously Daniel, Daniel Gafford went out with a neat tweak the other night, they've been missing Derek Lively. It's going to be tough for them to compete in the Western Conference.
So as the losses pile up, it could get even uglier. And then you throw in the fact that they have a game on February 25th against the Lakers in L.A. and then a game April 9th in Dallas would be Lucas return game. I mean, those are be the type of events hearkening back to 2010 when LeBron returned to Cleveland with the Miami Heat and there were things being hurled at the court when he was going through warm ups.
It's a rough situation. The only way I see the Mavericks being able to get out of it is to win and to win big. But in the moment, that's obviously going to be difficult with Anthony Davis estimated to miss at least a couple of weeks with the abdominal strain that he's dealing with in the fire. Nico signs that got people kicked out that that is that is the Mavericks prerogative. They can do that sort of thing. The league is going to be copacetic with what's going down in the metro.
It's a great point. There's a video that I watched this morning of a fan who was recording with his phone as security approached him. And he repeatedly said that, hey, I haven't violated any of the stipulations of the codes of the arena. What am I being kicked out for?
And I watched maybe two and a half minutes of the four minute video. He wasn't provided an explanation. It was you got to go, sir.
Come with us, sir. That can't sustain. That should not be the way things work in pro sports. Paying a ticket should give you the right to disvoice to voice your displeasure. If that is the case, we saw for years Saints fans wearing brown paper bags over their heads because they were so displeased with the product on the field. Should that have been grounds for dismissal?
Of course not. And so I do think there has to be some latitude for the Mavs fans who are going through it right now and want to express their frustration in a manner that doesn't involve curse words and doesn't involve threats. Booing should be allowed in sports. Well, I guess it's happening during Mavericks free throws and things like that to the point where where Cuban felt the need to step in and he got verbally, you know, harassed in a way is a way to put it in. I mean, that Cuban is now getting crap for.
I mean, what do you have to do with that? Did you see the video of him with Bill Gates over the weekend, Dave? Did you see that? Did you guys see that, too, where he asked Bill Gates in a one on one, he's interviewing Bill Gates and he asked Bill Gates, what if after you were done with Microsoft, you saw Dave Ballmer, you know, I mean, Steve Ballmer cough up, you know, the rights to the red hot service on your platform for something a little bit older. What would you what would you have done? And he actually said, what if what if you traded Windows 11 for Windows, Windows 10? Right.
I should have let you do it. Yeah. Right. But that gives you an insight as to what Cuban is feeling, too.
Right. I mean, it's just crazy what's happening in Dallas. Cuban was not involved with this trade whatsoever. You know, he's an adviser to the team now, no longer the majority owner. And you best believe that had he had any say in the decision making process here, he would have voiced the strong opinion that this was a terrible idea in both a basketball sense and a business sense. I think Dirk Dvitsky's presence at Crypto.com arena last night was as much a show of support for Luka Doncic as distancing himself from the Dallas Mavericks and their decision in this trade in particular. I'm not saying that Dirk isn't a maverick for life. He has a statue outside the arena. He's the greatest guy ever to put on the Mavericks uniform. At the same time, I viewed that as yes, I'm supporting Luka, but also a I'm not with you Mavericks on this move.
Dave McMenamin here on The Rich Eisen Show. Before I let you go, what's the one deadline stuff that we're not talking about, that we should be talking about? Either a significant trade that's more significant than we're giving it credit for or something that didn't happen that we should be keeping an eye on the aftermath of?
I think the one that happened that didn't get as much attention as it deserves because the player doesn't have as big a name. And we saw some tectonic shift that type moves around the league with big names. But DeAndre Hunter going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Cavs have been basically the best team in basketball since opening night through the All-Star break. And they added a 3 and D wing who filled up kind of a need there. I mean, Caris LeVert was a scorer, is a scorer, but didn't bring the defensive side of things. You plug him in that position, especially with Isaac Okoro not being totally available this year. You have him around that dynamic backcourt in Daris Garland, Donovan Mitchell, that tremendous growing frontcourt in Jared Allen and Evan Mobley, Hunter is a perfect fit. And he has the size and the defensive fortitude to go up against those Boston wings in Jalen and Jason Tatum. That's where they're going to need to get through to get to the promised land in the Eastern Conference Finals.
So I think that was a tremendous move by Kobe Altman and the Cavs front office and really set them up to not just be a team that wins 60 games in regular season and fizzles out, they have a legitimate shot of making the NBA Finals. Dave, you're the man. Thanks for the time. Greatly appreciate the suit and tie. Congrats on your Eagles, brother.
Congrats on your Eagles. Yes, sir. And I guess before I let you go with the suit and tie, what if an NBA coach decided to put on a suit and tie again with regularity? Would that rankle the rest of the coaches in the NBA that just love not having to worry about suit and boot and just putting on stuff like they're going out to walk their dog and that they're on the sideline? Dave?
What do you think? They do have a pretty strong Coaches Association. They have voted on it several times since it first started in that bubble season. Rick Carlisle is the head of the Coaches Association and he is pretty good at whipping together votes and keeping people together, but I would love to see it. I'm a Syracuse guy. I just saw Jerry the other day coaching for Siena in a jacket and tie.
He looked great. I think there's something about a basketball coach looking dapper on the sidelines that it just seems right. So I'd love to see it back in the NBA. You guys make enough money. I think it would be great. We could load manage the dry cleaning. You know what I mean? We could figure it out.
So I know that dry cleaners aren't overwhelmed. We need to load manage. We can figure this thing out, but thanks for the time, Dave. Greatly appreciate it, man. Thanks, Rick. Yeah, that's Dave McMenamin. He's been refaunted, diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan right here on the Rich Eisen Show.
We send him back off to Laker Land and the rest of the Association. I did. I texted him Sunday after the game to congratulate him. Did you go?
He said he flew his dad out to enjoy the game together because last time, Rich, I don't know if you remember this, after the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, we ran into him at the hotel bar where he was greatly celebrating with his brother. Indeed. Very good. Fun stuff. Let's take a break.
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Okay, let's do it. First fact, during my rookie season with the Chicago Bulls, I applied for a job at Circuit City. True meta or fake meta? I've heard this story. I believe that's true. Mike?
I'm going with him, true. True story? That's a true story.
That's a true story. Did you get the job at Circuit City? I did get the job. I got the job. I got my discount. I was trying to stay out of trouble. Okay.
And I needed a job. Next fact, I wore number 37 for the Lakers because Michael Jackson's album Thriller was number one on the billboard charts for 37 consecutive weeks. True meta or fake? No way. No way.
Was it fake meta? That is 100% true. That's true. That's true. I knew it was 37 weeks, but I wouldn't guess. Next one, right before his comeback with the Wizards, I broke two of Michael Jordan's ribs in a pickup game and delayed his comeback by three months.
I was so upset about it, I didn't leave my house for days. True meta or fake meta? I think that's true. I'm saying true. That's true. That's true.
I love Michael Jordan, one of my, well, probably my favorite player. You broke his ribs? It was on accident. It was a summertime pickup game and it was an intense game.
In 2010, an art show honoring me was held in Toronto, Canada entitled Lovable Badass. False. True.
That's true. We have a tie. I was surprised, man. I couldn't believe it. It was a really good show.
Lovable Badass. They just said, hey, we want to honor you. I'm like, for what? You know? And they just had all this art of me. All right, last one.
In 2010, I was cited for driving a race car with an expired registration down a city street. True or fake meta? Based on his reaction, I'm going to say true.
I got to go true too. That's true. That's true.
That's true. It was an Indy 500 car, which won. What city? You know, Westwood. Westwood?
In UCLA? Yeah, they pulled me over and, but it was street legal. That is fantastic. So it was street legal. It was just that you had an expired registration was the issue. What happened was the officer was like, what is this? That's why they pulled me over. Like, you know? Yeah.
They couldn't say I had my license. It was an Indy car? It was an Indy car.
Yeah. How did you fit in that thing? I didn't really fit. I was real like this and hitting the gas with my one little pinky toes. It was tough.
Why? Could you imagine you're walking around Westwood, which by the way is a college campus, okay? And here comes an Indy car down the street. Oh, okay.
And it's Metta World Peace driving with his pinky toe of his Bigfoot. Could you imagine? No, no, no, no.
Yeah, you could. We live here. We see everything. Oh, that's a good point.
Literally nothing should surprise any of us at this point. I'm talking about Westwood. I'm not talking about behind the airport. You know what I mean? You know what's funny? You keep talking about behind the airport. I want to bring this up to you.
We only have 30 seconds, TJ. You went to go film the Stuart Scott, your part in the Stuart Scott documentary piece you did on? Yes, sir. I noticed because I was behind you when you were driving there, which way did you go to get there that day? Behind the airport.
Yeah, okay. That's what I thought. Behind the airport.
Exactly. I cut through there all the time. That's one of the best cut throughs in the world. Well, because you know where the studio was? Behind the airport. Oh, I see.
So that's why I went behind the airport. So I just wanted to bring that up, you know. Thank you.
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It's basically my way of saying it's overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap.
That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays. Monday. On a Tuesday. There we go, everybody. Every Monday.
This is it, man. The floor is yours. We didn't introduce me. Oh, Chris. Hey, thanks.
The floor is yours. Hey, great to see you guys. Mike, what's up, man? I'm doing well, Rich. Everybody good? Hey, Chris. How you doing, bro?
You know what's good? Everyone on the Philadelphia Eagles. We talked to Cooper DeGene earlier, man, and he seems so happy.
Yeah, why not? He's still drunk. Nobody enjoyed the Super Bowl better than Tom Brady on Sunday. He enjoyed it more than anyone on the Eagles.
And you're saying that because Mahomes lost. He got the call to game for Fox. That's cool. He probably made, what?
Like two million bucks to do the game? I don't know. He sees the fine print. The goat gap got even further on Sunday. Yeah, that Mahomes didn't get his fourth before he turns 30.
And guess what? Brady had never been blown out like that before in a game, and he still beat him twice in the playoffs. The point differential in the losses is like 50 now or whatever, 40. And actually, who was the winning quarterback of the Super Bowl that was a blowout the last time there was one? Tom Brady. Against?
Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Yeah, so again.
All right, so I'll buy it. I mean, he wouldn't say it. He would never say it. He would never admit it.
No, we'll admit it for him. Tom Brady had the best day on Sunday. For somebody who's not rooting for the Eagles. Right. Okay. For somebody who's working for the- Or not on the Eagles.
For the Las Vegas Raiders. I don't want to say that's an overreaction. Okay.
No? There are a lot of people who had a better day than Tom Brady. All those Eagles fans.
Tom Brady had a pretty good day. Okay. So- Okay. He paid $2 million to West Virginia. Just don't- if he wants to be a troll, just let him. That's what he did for Colonel Anthony Towns yesterday. That's what he did for Colonel Anthony Towns yesterday.
You see that watch he was wearing? Just let him troll? Okay.
Brady? $750,000. That is an overreaction. Thank you, TJ. You swayed me. Nice. What else, Chris?
It was a little bit of stab padding, but you know what a nice day? Xavier Worthy. Indeed. He's going to be a top five wide receiver in 2025. Okay.
That's an overreaction. Top five wide receiver? You're talking like, you're talking Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, CeeDee Lamb.
CeeDee Lamb? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Oh, you're talking about- Look at his numbers. Look at his numbers this year with hardly a damn thing going on around him.
So I'm not even going to engage him with that. I've got your back on this one. New coach, new offense, Dak coming back after injury. We don't know. Come on, dude. Top five, like Ahmaan Ross, St. Brown, A.J. Brown. A.J. Metcalf. Come on.
Even now you're backtracking in your mind. I bet Xavier Worthy is better than Ahmaan Ross next year. Okay. See, I mean, why?
Why? Did you see how fast he is? I'm a fan. Did you see what he catches?
He catches everything in the playoffs. I'm a fan. Sure. And Chiefs fans should be excited that when Rashee Rice comes back and Xavier Worthy's got a second year and Cooper Cup looks great in red. Kelsey retires. Target's got to go somewhere. I don't know if that's going to happen.
I don't think that's happening. I don't know what else, Chris. I don't know.
An overreaction. All right. Before the season started and Derrick Henry went to the Ravens. Yes, sir.
We were like, you know what? Derrick Henry is probably going to be the last Hall of Fame running back. Scratch that. Saquon Barkley will be the last Hall of Fame running back. You mean to be enshrined in his, you know, years of eligibility, as you're saying? Yes. I'm talking about veterans.
It's not like one day Roger Craig should get what he's due. No, no, no. Current running back. Current running back. Playing. Playing. Last one who's going to make it. Right.
I'm going to say that's two glass half empty. I do like you calling your shot that Saquon Barkley is now on a path to the Hall of Fame. I think he's going to make it.
We need to see a little bit more than that. Maybe one more year like this one and even he could pull a Terrell Davis. Pretty good year. Okay.
Pretty good year. You could say that. But I can't sit here saying he's going to be the last Hall of Fame running back. Not after the Cowboys turn Ashton Jenti into a star.
That's true. They're not going to take him. Like, come on. We know they're not going to take him. Well, Chris, that's the one thing. For as bad as, as dumb moves that we make, we draft extremely well and there's no argument there. I know, but like the sexy pick that everyone wants them to make, they don't do it. We make the right pick.
What else, Chris? I shouldn't even say we, because this could be the last year on my contract. Oh, man. You're all in?
I might be all out. Oh boy. I still have the patience for this anymore, Rich. This guy.
Call Anthony Townsend. With the Cowboys? No, no, no.
The Cowboys. Cats beating it out of him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just wait for Arch. Sweet cat. Just wait for Arch.
Sweet cat with his big smile, his million dollar smile. When Arch mainly puts me on a boat, you know. Okay. I think it's just time to be honest with ourselves when we look back at Super Bowl 59. Yeah. The Bills or Ravens would have put up a better game against the Eagles. It would have been a better game. Some would think the Ravens running attack would have been a heck of a and that both running attacks would have been better. Yeah.
James Cook and and and Derrick Henry would have had a lot more. Yes. That and Alan and Josh. Yes. So you've got to sit there and think that matchups, right, Chris? Like matchups, matchups, you know, the two top MVPs, I, I, I, I just with those guys have had literally the worst game of their career on Sunday. Like Pat Holmes, I just think the way the Eagles showed up and man, are either of these offensive lines, you know, capable of, of, of having a better day? Sure. I mean, but I run over, man, they got run over.
Yeah. I mean, they got run over. I think the I think the Eagles would have won regardless.
But you have to say you have to sit here and think we would have gotten a better game. Wouldn't have been what was it? Twenty four. Nothing. Half time. Twenty seven. What was it? It was twenty four.
Nothing. Wasn't it seven? Hold on a minute. At halftime. It was felt like it.
I mean, it was a lot to a little obviously. Yeah. At halftime it was it was twenty four. Twenty four. Dot. I think it would have been better than twenty four.
Dot for. Yeah, for sure. Eagles. Eagles are still.
I'm not going to sit here and say one of these teams would have won. I can't do that. Yeah. On that day, man. But I can't call this an overreaction. What else, Chris?
We tell you about windows and all this stuff and front doors and back rooms and penthouse like Mike, the chief's championship window isn't all the way closed. Stop it. But it's close. Stop it. But it's close.
Stop it. It's close. They were the first free agency guys who are going to retire. Unbelievable getting all the first back to back champions to win 15 regular season games.
First back to back champions to make it to the Super Bowl. And we're just saying, you know what? It's done. They suck. Yeah. They suck. Oh, you're in there.
Kelsey's old. This guy's toast. Andy Reid's lost it.
Mahomes is fugazi. Spags has been figured out. Come on. Sometimes all it takes is one game. I got it. Sometimes all it takes is one game to realize to now get the flame turned on in a even brighter way.
Because the other teams don't aren't going to try to get better. It's not all the way close, but it's close. Get out of here. It's broken. It's broken. You got another one over there. What's up to everybody in the comments?
Yeah, I got a few more. The league needs to fix the onside kick rule to allow for surprises or we got to add a fourth and whatever play. Because you know what would have made the Super Bowl a little bit better? If the Chiefs could have onside kicked in the third quarter when they're down 34 to nothing.
Yeah, they were not allowed to. What are we doing? I know. If we had a fourth and 15 play when it's 34 to six, they would have been a little bit more interesting. I'm with you.
I understand this. The only issue with a fourth and whatever play is what is the whatever and what happens when invariably there's going to be a defensive hold, a defensive penalty. Then all of a sudden you're going to award someone the football because somebody grabbed? You know what? Why not? Why not? Don't get caught holding. Don't get caught. I understand that.
Doing dumb stuff. I understand that, but it's not going to be, you know, what are you going to give an automatic first down on a play that you must have? I don't know how you, I don't know what the fix is. Don't commit a penalty.
That's the fix. Don't fumble. Don't commit a penalty. What else? If it's fourth and 20, don't hold.
Let's try and sneak one more in here. Aaron Rodgers is going to be back in the playoffs next year. I think that's a total overreaction. We need to see where he goes. I'm all for believing that he can have a Brett Favre career, which is first ballot hall of fame. Packer goes to the Jets, has an absolutely nightmarish time, even though he would tell you how, you know, I guess he would say how great it was to be in New York last two years time of his life, whatever football wise total disaster. And then he goes to a third spot and, and has damn near a Superbowl run. I need to see where he's going.
Why can't he take the Steelers or why not the Titans and tape Travis Hunter. Can I see where he goes first? No, I want you to declare right now. I will call this an overreaction then. Well done. That's overreaction Monday on a Tuesday and that's it for our Tuesday show. Thanks to Dave McMenamin and Albert Breer and Cooper Dejeane.
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