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It’s time to get your morning started with the news you need to know. News of the day. This is what’s trending with DJ and PK. #NBA. Gordon peels off to the right wing, throws out Murray for three. Yes. 11-point lead for Denver, 93 to 82. Murray behind the three-point line. Back over to Joic. Joic for three. Yeah. 12-point lead for Denver. Their big lead of the night. And the Denver Nuggets beat the Oklahoma City 119 107. They win game six. They force a game seven. Shake Gilis Alexander getting in early foul trouble. That didn’t help PK. It’s going to limit your aggressiveness, put you on the bench with four fouls in the first half. They need to change that rule. Don’t take the best players off the floor for that long. Two minutes in hockey is long enough. I don’t know how to address it, but the fact that you could foul out of a game, it’s ridiculous. I mean, there’s so many fouls that just happen in the course of a game, particularly in the postseason. Do I really want to see that as a consumer of the game? Some rule that states, you know, let’s go sit down. That’s so dumb. Denver Nuggets bench was able to score it after getting absolutely dominated in multiple games in this series. 15 points for Julian Straw there. Eight during a 100 run gave him a boost. They were outscored but only 32-27. So the bench looked good and Christian Braun supported the Joker and Murray with 23 points. Brown with 23 points. Doesn’t make any sense. I know. With 23 points and 11 rebounds and five assists. Look at him go. I tried to derail you from getting in his stat line, but I couldn’t. Yeah, I know you really couldn’t. That was derail. That’s That’s three guys posting allaround numbers. Are they going to be able to do that again in game seven? That’s what got them through game six. Can roll guys like Christian and Julian. Can they do it again on the road in game seven? Because if it’s just Joker and Murray, odds are that won’t be enough. Rats. Tonight, the attention shifts. Tonight, can the Knicks close out the Celtics? Game six in New York 6:00 on ESPN with New York up 3-2, trying to finish them off, trying to avoid the game seven that got him eliminated last year in the second round. I have no memory of that whatsoever. Phoenix Suns director of safety, security, and risk management, Gene Taylor, sued the team in US District Court in Arizona, citing allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Fourth lawsuit filed against the Suns by a current or former member of the organization in the past seven months. Piling up, Cleveland Browns owner Dan Gilbert paid more than $500,000 to install fake snow machines at Rocket Arena. Yeah, I don’t think he owns the Browns. No, that’d be Cleveland Cavaliers owner. Avalanche, he says when they go on a scoring run, they’re going to have a patented Cavalanche. That’s clever. Machine turned out to be a dud. They went off just once in their playoff run. Rats, DJ and PK #NFL. Think Caleb Williams didn’t want to go to the Bears. Now, Chicago Bears quarterback so concerned about being drafted by the Bears in 2024 that he and his family weighed circumventing the entire NFL draft, consulting with lawyers to figure out a way around the league’s collective bargaining agreement. Yeah, but they didn’t. They didn’t thought about signing with the United Football League. A million things I thought about just this morning. But you didn’t do them. Yeah. Top 10 things PK could have done instead of coming here this morning. Chicago’s the place quarterbacks go to die. I don’t want my son playing for the Bears is the quote attributed to Carl Williams, Caleb’s dad. Carl, he is playing for them. There he is. NFL owners will vote next week on a resolution that would allow players to participate in flag football during the 2020 Olympics. Proposal will introduce a limit of one player per NFL team on each national team participating. Permission for any player They need permission for any player in NFL contract to participate in these triyouts. You want to see NFL players playing flag football in the Olympics? Would that intrigue you? I’d have to see how you just shrug and look at a clip and go, “That’s kind of odd.” Okay, fine. Would be college players then. College players would be fine. Uh would be I I have to see it first before I can uh comment on it because obviously it hasn’t been done. Yeah. Sitting here right now, I find it hard to believe I would sit down and watch some I don’t know how long is a flag football game. I don’t even know what they’re pretty quick. It’s summer Olympics and you watch the Olympics. I mean I Tyreek Hill cooking some dude in flag football I’m here for. There’s plenty of stuff that that I that I don’t watch ever but it’s the summer Olympics. Why wouldn’t I watch that? Some rando Italian. Some dude from Germany is getting coached by Tyreek Hill. Sitting here right now I can see myself watching it. for all the stuff that I watched last winter uh summer Olympics. Sure, why not? DJ and PK # Major League Baseball. One, two again to Brandon Laauo with a runner at second. Swinging a high-fly ball belted deep to center field. Straw back to the wall. Gone off the batter’s eye. Brandon Laauo with his first multih homer game of the season. His seventh home run makes it an 83 Rays lead in the ninth. The 1-1 swing and there’s a drive. Well hit ball deep up the alley in right center. This one’s got a shot. It’s gone. Jake Burgerer opposite field home run. Here’s a 3-1 pitch and Otani just hammers one to center field. It is back. It is gone. His second home run of the night. Show Otani getting it done. Dodgers getting it done 19-2 over the Athletics. Are they bound by the same uh laws of physics and rules of baseball? You have all these runs in one game, then you probably go out and get one run on three hits in the next game or they are so loaded with talent that that doesn’t apply to them. Well, it it already appi applied to them. They had uh what uh 13 runs last Friday and then on Saturday they had zero. That already applies. Clayton Kershaw will make his 2025 debut for the Dodgers against the Angels tonight. He’s had surgery on his shoulder and on his foot. 37year-old has been with the Dodgers for 18 years. Doesn’t seem like he’s been a part-time pitcher for the last five years. Yeah, but everybody is. When was the last time that guy threw 150 innings? You heard the highlights in there. The Rays hammer the Jays 8 to3. The Twins have won 11 straight games. Best in Major League Baseball. Anything about the Twins you would think would say, “Hey, they’re going to sustain this. They’re going to be really good or this is a team on a hot streak. It happens over 162 games.” Well, it’s an open division, so yeah, I think they can uh continue to find success in that division and get themselves in the playoffs. They’ve won 11 straight and currently sit in fourth place. They started from a poor position, but look at them now. Seven and 15, I think, is what it was. Salt Lake Bees shut out the Sacramento Sacramento Rivercats 6 nothing. Game four tonight. First pitch 7:45. Tony Parks will be on the air at 128 to the zone at 7:30. DJ and PK # RSL Ral Salt Lake headed to Colorado to play the Rapids tomorrow. First kick set for 7:30. Colorado’s winless in their last five. They got off to a good start, but it has been rough lately. They’ve lost three in a row, outscored six to one in those games, so this could be a good time for RCL to be playing Colorado. Both teams will be playing their third game in eight days. So, we’ll see about roster rotation, all that. Jazz, the uh Arsel gets Justin Glad back from his suspension and William Magata back from his. So, there’ll be a couple guys who didn’t play midweek in there with fresh legs. Pablo Merrone will join us coming up at 8:30 this morning. And Utah Royals are in Washington DC. They play the Spirit tomorrow at 5:30. That game will be on the zone at 5:00. Royals will be on 1280 and RSL will be on 975 the zone. DJ and PK # NHLnikov he’ll get it right back from Walker and he scores a sharp angle. Andrevetchnikov he beats Thompson and Carolina with a minute 59 to go takes a 2-1 lead. High follow back in where the corner on in front shoot [Applause] score bar down for Bislam Domestic. Most of the action at least most of the goals coming in the third period in a couple of playoff games last night. Washington won the division and they are sent home in the second round. Carolina beats them three to one. 1-1 going to the third. Carolina with a couple late goals. They win. And they win the series in five. They’re on to the Eastern Conference Finals. And the Winnipeg Jets hold on, win game five. They’re still down three games to two, but they shut out the Stars four to nothing, scoring three times in the third period to wrap that thing up. Most of the top teams in the league out. I guess we’re going to have one or two 100point teams will advance to the conference finals out of the four. Just get in. Get in and play great. Everything seems to be a pretty level playing field at that point. Tonight, Maple Leafs Panthers game six. Toronto won their division, but they’re in trouble down 3 to2. Florida trying to wrap it up tonight 6:00 on TNT. That is what is trending. Brought to you by Shamrock Plumbing. There’s no job too big or too small. Get the personal touch with Shamrock Plumbing. David Lock, radio voice of the Utah Jazz, is going to join us at 8:00. Pablo Mroni, RSL head coach, will be here at 8:30. Brian Taylor, real golf radio co-host at 9:00. DJ PK, it’s 975 the zone accessing. This is Hance Olsson and Scotty G. Kurt Healing from NBC Sports and Proasktalk.com. Ultimately, if you’re in a market this size, you need a break. and this lottery did not give it to you. And it hasn’t under this new system. I mean, look, Detroit turned it around this year cuz they’d gotten the number one a few years back with Cade and they made some smart moves around him. But this is the third straight year the team with the worst record has fallen to fifth. The league has to reconsider how they’re doing this lottery. I get that this was a reaction to the tanking of the 76ers and and the process. But if the team that’s got the worst record keeps landing this deep, it’s not okay. They need to do something to give these teams like Utah that are not perpetually trying to lose and give them a chance. Catch Hansen Scotty weekdays from noon to 3 on 975 the KSL Sports Zone. Join Hans and Scotty Tuesday from noon to 3 Sleep Medical. They’ll be there. 8941 South 700 East in Sandy. Question of the morning. Do you want the Jazz to make a move to get Aigor Demon? Should they get the BYU product, Brian? Absolutely not. The Jazz need to package both those first round picks in a trade and bring in a solid, proven player with experience. Brian’s tired of the youth rebuild. Give him some veterans and start winning now. A solid proven player. Exactly. To go with most of the youngsters who will be playing. Exactly what Brian wants to do. Tired of the youngster playing. No more young guys. But they will they will bring in a youngster. Yes, I believe they will, too. No, they will play the youngsters. No, they will play the youngsters. I believe that, too. They’re already here. They will play. So, whoever you bring in, you can bring in as veteranish as you want. And that man will play with first, second, and third year individuals. Travis. Oh, Ryan Smith will do it for sure. Does it really matter what we think? No, it does not matter what we think. Yeah, but most of what we say here doesn’t matter. Every owner in that same Governor. Governor, I’m sorry. Gosh, we hate when I’m racist. Governor, my bad. My bad. My bad, DJ. I know that gets you caught under the collar. My bad. Yeah, I’m on fire. governor. Uh, put them every single one in the same box because no one is doing what fans think or media thinks. Governors, owners, general managers, coaches, not not very worried. Not very worried about what the local morning shows spouting about. So, that doesn’t change anything. Here’s one for you. When you posted that, you didn’t I don’t think you thought you’d get this one. You ready? I am. Brent, I would be shocked if he gets drafted. Oh, that’s ridiculous. Thank Thank you. Excuse me. Prepare to be shocked. He’s moving up. I said this before the workout started. He will get there and they’ll look at his measurables and they’ll be incredible. And the shot, I don’t think it’s broken. I think he was an 18, 19 year old kid who came all the way on the other side of the world trying to fit in, trying to figure it out. Now at the pro level, especially in these workouts when there’s nothing to figure out, it’s simply go play. You don’t He’s shooting guard with no one guarding him. He doesn’t have to worry, am I making the right play? The the play, the drill is to shoot. and he was going to rise up big time. I believe he’ll be a lottery pick. I believe you’re right. But David says, “Demen, is he really that good?” He’s not a lottery pick. I don’t think he is. I would think he is. The NBA will think he is. When there are 14 picks and they are all done, I believe his name will have been called. I’m gonna go top 10. I might even go top eight. Really? This is no surprise to me that he’s rising. Get that Babcock. See if you can get that Matt Babcock who was on there talking about uh he’s got Phoenix roots, too. I think he grew up in Atlanta, but his family, his uh it’s a real big-time success story. He’s a scout and puts stuff out there or does some NBA stuff. his uh dad and uncles wanted to get in the NBA and they just he started the the uncle I think started sending stuff to NBA teams just out of out of West Phoenix very well known in the Phoenix area and and uh ends up his he his uncle his brother his uncle’s brothers and then they all got in the they’re all doing this NBA stuff and he’s been tweeting about uh Jaor just rising up the stock level as far ladder I should say as far as that goes. And that that’s zero surprise to me. You put there’s there’s no guard better than he is right now on a Utah Jazz. No guard better than him. Nope. You really like Collier? I do. You like Demond better? Yeah. I mean, you’re the big thing on tall players. Yeah, I know. But you don’t necessarily go for that. So, well, they both have shooting issues, so why wouldn’t he go with someone who’s seven in taller, but I don’t think he’ll have shooting issues. Another reason to go with him then. If he doesn’t have shooting issues, go get him now. I mean, he’s not going to be Steph Curry. I understand that. But I I don’t draft guys or project because I don’t draft anybody, but project guys on what they can’t do. It doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m far more worried about what they can do because once I assign they can’t do it, you assume that’s you assume they’re not getting better when they’re done there. Yeah. And all these guys are going to have stuff they can’t do, right? They’re drafting guys so young. Yeah. And there was stuff guys couldn’t do when they were drafting 21 and 22 year olds when the draft was all third and fourth year players, right? Those guys still needed time to adjust to the NBA. are the what they can do so positive that I can live with the other stuff understanding that the other stuff what level of improvement can they make maybe they can’t maybe some of them don’t and so that’s one of the reasons why I back off or the what they can do is not good enough for me but I think you need to look at what they can do and and what can they work on? And it’s a tricky proposition because you’re basically asking yourself to be some form of a a sear, a revelator, those types of things to be able to figure out what do you don’t give me that look. I don’t need that look. I don’t need that look. Seer revelator. Yes. Can’t just be a general manager. No. What about a prophet? in a sense general manager. I mean, that that takes on such a wide term when it comes to the draft. You have to be able to look into the future. That’s why it gets so dang tricky is because it’s not all the facts aren’t presented in the moment. Nope. You have to look 7 to 10 years down the road and think, what is this player going to be doing at 26, 28, 30 years old? That is so hard to do, man. to be able to figure that out, to think about that and and go, you can’t just go gut and you just can’t go analytics. You got to have all these things. And then I I think when it comes down to it in the especially, you know, if you’re drafting one, two, or three, you got a pretty good idea right now today. So, you got weeks to figure that out. Well, when you start drafting a little later, you’re wondering who’s going to be gone? You got minutes. Is somebody going to trade in front of you and no matter what you project, that messes up all the projection. So, your work is literally being done right now. All those folks are in Chicago. They’re doing all this work, right? And they’ll do it. The draft is I think the 25th of June. So, that is uh five weeks in a day, right? and they’re doing a lot of work that in the end won’t really matter if you’re ranking. If they don’t trade ranking guys 10 through 15 or whatever, great. But they’re probably all going to be gone before you pick maybe. So, but you’re still going to spend time evaluating those guys up and down if you have a chance to trade up. Yeah, you have to. Right. And you get access to these guys now. What if they’re available later? You want to have have interviewed them and done all that stuff. And then I think that you do all that work, you’re doing this tremendous amount of groundwork, and then you’ve got five, 10 minutes to make a gut decision because you’ve already done if if you’re thinking about analytics when the Utah Jazz are now on the clock. Well, you know, this guy that stuff has already got to been done. No, you already have to have the list. You have to know who you’re probably picking and you’ve got to feel the phone call that inevitably is going to come, hey, what about this deal? and then decide if you want to make it or not. And then I think in the end you got to go gut, but you don’t go gut exclusively. If you’re going gut right now, that means you’re lazy. And none of these guys are lazy. They all want to win worse than the fans, I think. I would I would assume that. And so they do all that stuff and in the end, okay, what do we think? Nope. And hopefully that there’s a strong conviction. I was talking about a few weeks ago that they have this conviction. know this is the way to go and then they do that. But to try to anticipate and then you don’t know what’s really really in that guy’s heart, the player once the money starts flowing in and how bad does it burn. It it it has to burn, man. It just has to burn so freaking bad for you to be able to succeed at a high high level. If you’re any form of casual about your development, that’s exactly what you’re going to get. You’re gonna get casual development. It’s it’s got to be a passion above all other passions. Particularly at this young age where most likely, you know, you don’t have a family. You have a family, but I mean you the family that you have when you’re 30, 40, 50, that type of thing. Obviously, that’s extremely important. But at that age, you shouldn’t be involved in that, right? You maybe have a girlfriend or whatever. Uh, and this is where something the point I’m making is this is something that you can just devote as much time as possible to this and still have a little time for the other stuff. So, it’s a crazy job, but yet that’s that’s the job. That’s what they got to do. Landon says, “Watch BYU turn into the Jazz pipeline like Lone Peak was for BYU in the Quincy Lewis era. It won’t work out well, and I hope Smith and A are smart enough not to fall victim to it. overrate your guys because you have personal relationships. Well, you also don’t have control of just bringing them in if you want to. Yeah, I don’t know that that’s the same. I mean, obviously BYU’s recruiting has changed dramatically. It used to be get the best LDS guy. Now, the LDS guy, it’s not an afterthought, but it is not foremost on the mind anymore. and and may maybe Kevin Young and his folks will bring that back, but so far in his year plus tenure at BYU, that hasn’t been the case. He’s simply going after the best player, and it seems like it’s irregardless of uh religion. I think that if there’s a player who happens to be LDS that they think is good enough, they’ll go after them hard. But it it’s the LDS influence on BYU basketball is being reduced as we speak. Caleb says, “Eiggor Demon, that only makes sense with the lower pick. If he’s available at 21, it makes absolute sense. I don’t think he’d be available at 21.” Doesn’t seem to me if he was 63. Maybe they’ll have to trade to get him. They have to make some maneuver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Because they’re not going to use him with the fifth pick. I don’t think they’re going to draft him with the fifth pick. I don’t think they’ll use the fifth pick on him is what I was trying to stumble towards. I got you. But I’m not sure that’s right. I think it’s a long shot, but I wouldn’t eliminate it because in my conversations with Travis Hansen weeks ago when he kept saying he’s going, he’s going, I I gave Yak the story. I wanted him to tweet it out and he didn’t. And some some other ding-dong. I told you the night before. Don’t tweet that out. But I told you to. I said, “Here’s the story, young buck. I’m giving it to you.” You’re not as young as you used to be, by the way. So, I don’t know that I can call you that anymore. You’re a veteran guy now in this business. So, uh, but I gave you the story. I gave you the story the night before and I said, “Here it is.” And you went you went Twitter silent and you tweet about what hamburger you ate the night before. And I I gift wrapped you the story that he was going and they felt that it was utilized. Oh, just in your other stuff. Yes. Okay, there you go. My bad. Uh, that it was utilized middle-aged at that time before the workout started. Yeah, but you nailed it. That it’ be 5 to 15. And that’s where he’s projected right now by almost everybody. So, you’re saying there’s a chance at five? I think there is. I wouldn’t bet on it though right now, but that could change. We still got five weeks to go. True story, right? So, stuff does change. This is a five seems high. I I I thought your earlier analysis of there’s a group of players in that four, five, six and he you didn’t have him in it. Yes. And I thought that group and given there’s this time for it to change, right? Guys can have interviews. Yeah. Now I would think every agent is talking to their player about don’t tank interviews. Did you see what just happened in the NFL draft? Don’t do that. Maybe some thought that that Sanders wanted to do that, but uh yeah, I don’t think that I don’t think these kids will tank interviews. I think they’re sophisticated enough these days that they know what’s at stake as much as an 18, 19 year old can have the maturity level to understand it. But I think it’s I think that all the kids that they will interview, Edgecomb, Johnson, whomever it might be, I think they’ll all be fine. So I I would so I get that group he’d go that high that Edgecomb and Trey Johnson are going to go in front of him. I would too. But your whole point about hey can he get up to eight? Yeah we see people moving the draft all the time. Plus by the time you get to eight there’s always someone oh they must really like him. They take him there. The consensus sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. And exactly and the consensus can be right. Mhm. Most teams would have taken him at 12, but it just matters what the team picking eighth or ninth does and then suddenly somebody’s moved up three or four spots. So anywhere in the second half of the lottery, seven seems high. And I don’t know, maybe I’m just drawn some arbitrary line. Okay. And midway up the lottery, but I I don’t see how you can know if he’s going to go unless you’re on the inside and you’re talking to people, you know. Well, they don’t know that either. The inside people don’t know. Not yet. But down the line, you may have a feeling that okay, whoever’s drafting 10th really likes him. I always hear that on the draft shows, his back stop is Chicago at 12 or And sometimes it sometimes it works. Sometimes that’s true. Some some Yeah. Sometimes they get uh the handlers get word if X player is available at 9, we will take him and we’ll see how that plays out at nine. So, we hear that all the time and and these kids got uh a lot of handlers to be able especially now when they can have handlers legally in college and it’s not viewed as uh against some rules, right? They can they can I’ I’ve had literal kids say I’ve got to talk to my agent and that that took me a little bit getting used to you know so to tell me just to my face whereas I knew it was out there before but it was like unspoken stuff blurted out when you’re sitting there with a tape with a old school tape recorder going right and why not you know why not why not have an agent at because uh some of these kids a lot of them particularly in the sport of basketball. They know at 16, 17 there’s a legitimate possibility that I will be playing professional basketball, whether it’s in the NBA or somewhere else. And if you play it other places on this planet, you still need an agent. So, by by 17, they’ve got a really good idea of that they will be able to make a living for an extent because it’s all just an extent. uh they don’t go for 25 30 years like the rest of us do that they will be playing ball. So why not have that contact and work with people who can uh guide you along the way, find out who has your best interest and who’s just trying to cop a buck off of you, that type of thing. So yeah, they’ll have a better idea in the weeks to come. But I would agree with you on the five. I wouldn’t I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he goes in the top 10. And the kid is so freaking lovable. What we saw here is real and that’s going to help in the draft, right? Everybody wants to know if somebody is coachable, right? That is of all the things they dig into when they talk to all the people around somebody trying to figure that out. And his closest American confidants are two NBA people. So that’s gonna happen. Travis Hansen and Kevin Young. Those are two NBA people. So, there’s relationships and trust there. And when they give the glowing report that they’re inevitably going to give, and those are two those two guys are two grinders had had to overcome significant odds to get where they got right. So, they know about work ethic. They know that it you have to bleed it. Travis Hansen bled it. We saw that when he played at BYU. We just literally saw it. The kid had all sorts of passion, intensity, fire, whatever. And Kevin Young, this kid out of Atlanta be able to work himself to the level that he worked himself in. I mean, clear. He talked about that. He talked about basically living in a van with his wife. I mean, I’m I’m poetic license here, but what he had to do to get into No, he lived by himself. This was with his by the river. But yeah, but nobody cares about yourself. That’s he was with his spouse and what they what Kevin Young had to do to get to the point where he was going to be a head coach in the NBA. He chose college and now he’s off and running with a high-flying program. But those guys understand what it takes. and to have those two uh be able to give recommendations. I man I could see him going eight. I would think that’s the high end of where he’ll go to seven six. There’s work to be done. It’s too early, right? But right now early early prognostications know we still have five weeks to go and they’ve got individual they still have the Chicago thing. They’ve got individual workouts. They got all that stuff that they’re going to do over the course of the next several weeks. That seems high to me. But if there’s somebody like Toronto at nine and they really love him and they want to move up to six or seven to get him, I suppose you could be right. I’d be surprised. There’s just a group of players there that has consistently been in front of him and maybe they’ll fall. you know, but you’re drafting on potential, man. This draft is potential, right? I I look at the stuff that’s said and u here’s one of the reviews. This is the ESPN.com mock draft. He’s a polarizing prospect, right? Yeah. And it goes on about his shooting, right? So, it’s a lot of what we know. But listen, you listen to that and then you listen to Derek Queen from Maryland. He’s perhaps the most skilled big man in this class. Terrific target and pick and roll. Can create his own shot facing the basket with a wide array of moves and his intriguing passing ability. his conditioning, occasional apathy defensively, and lack of shooting range are things NBA teams picking this area picking in this area or earlier will want to get a better handle on in the pre-draft process. Those are some huge red flags. Conditioning, occasional apathy, it’s got to burn. Okay, Jokic was a doughboy when he came into the league. I can see him moving past, right? But see, Queen, these guys are going to move, right? This is the difference between drafting 12, 11, 10, 9. The guys in this group are all gonna move. If you decide that his conditioning is a problem, Queen falls. If you decide that you think Edgar Demon’s gonna shoot it better, he’s going to climb. But there are some of those guys he’s going to climb past Trey Johnson. No. Exactly. And I just think there’s a group of guys there that he’s just not going to pass up against that whole 456 thing. But I that’s I said seven. Okay. I said seven, eight. I’m looking at eight. I said top 10. That’s not five. That’s top 10. I get that. You think you can pass those uh the other Duke kids, not named Cooper Flag, Maluchcci, and uh Canipple? Well, maybe not Kips. Uh the other putting a seventh or eighth player in front of him, you know, and Mama watch. Yeah, I mean he’s a big dude, but you’re drafting him on potential, too. Enormous potential. all sorts of potential. Yeah, he’s like flagged. He was like 17 when he enrolled. Yeah. You The only reason you’re drafting him is at 25, not now. When I say 25, not spot, I’m talking age. And you got to the the Maryland kid that you just mentioned, you got to be careful. You can’t fall into the Ed Oannon syndrome where he had the great NCA tournament. Now, he who’ he beat when he hit that shot. Who was it? He hit that phenomenal shot in the NCA tournament at the buzzer and uh they won. Maryland won. I can’t remember the I can see the shot, but I can’t think of the game. Right. Was it CSU? I think it might have been. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was CSU. Yeah. Yeah. And I because I was rooting for, you know, the the Mountain West team and all that stuff. They had a good team, that Clifford kids a player. Uh so uh you got to be careful on that uh that you don’t look at in the moment because it in the moment really has nothing to do with it because a the moment’s gone and b you’re looking at the moments ahead. Everything is about the future. It is the past gives you a form of a foundation to make some judgments. That’s why they’re there. The past is why they’re why they’re in Chicago right now going through all that stuff, right? But you can’t get too caught up in the past for good or bad. And that’s this is a tough job that these guys have to be able to project. Uh and then and then when they get money, uh who is involved with them? Who are the hangar honors that are going to come out of the woodwork? I told you I had lunch with Harpering once and he’s telling me about one of his teammates calls him up and asks him to buy him a car. See, I like the way you phrase that. Who are the hanger runners? Not will there be hang no there will be. Right. But who is that? How does that work? Right. Yeah. And you got to know all that crap as much as you can. And you can’t ever really really know it. You know, some guys money. Whoop do you do? It goes over here. I’m not I’m not interested in the money now. That’s you know I I’ll buy my parents a car. I’ll pay off their mortgage. We all see that and that those are heartwarming stories. Uh but you know Steve Young, he didn’t cash the checks. They said Jay Leno, he never cast the Tonight Show checks. He lived on his standup stuff that he did outside of the freaking 30 million and it’s still over there. So that’s why he’s got all those cars in that garage and very careful. The guy was a grinder. You know what I mean? Oh, he was. Yeah. And so I think most of the people who get to the top like that, there’s very few. If you get to the top and you stay there a long time, stay there a long time. But how does money affect people? And it’s not and and maybe it’s not necessarily a a negative. You want to help all these people. Absolutely. So it doesn’t it’s not just you just turning some sloth. It could be I’ve heard stories. You must have heard stories. Now that Yak is middle-aged, maybe he’s heard stories that the person has a big heart and wants to help these people and and the people around them in the club are like, “That person’s going to be out of money within two to three years of leaving the NBA.” Yeah. Not because they’re a bad person, but they can’t say no. And they’re helping and there’s a long line of people coming up with their hand out and they bring that baggage with them when they enter their arena. There’s two things I want to say is I got a tiny heart. I had to work for every freaking penny. You ain’t getting any of my money. Get out there and work your butt off. And how can you call Yach middleage? Suppose he dies in two years. I don’t think he’s going to. But you don’t know that. That’s the point. I don’t I don’t know where the light is. Avoid the lightning Yak group. We’re not middleage or old age or young age because we don’t know how long. What’s the If you’re middleage and get run over by a truck, what difference did it make? Well, I don’t want to say that. Never mind. I got ahead of myself there. You don’t have any idea. Yeah. Thanks. That’s why I savor each moment that I’m able and fortunate to live in the state of Utah and hopefully I have many, many years to come in the state of Utah because this state means everything to me. It’s my home. It’s where I built my nest. We got to go to break and I continue for as long as God will allow me to. So, you went on too long. He’s going to play the drop and embarrass me, but we’re out of time. DJ PK, it’s 975 the zone. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present This is JJ and Alex. Now, every team has been assigned a Heisman contender. Here’s the dirty secret about BYU. Its best offensive player barely got to play last season. LJ Martin has serious ability when healthy. Is BYU is Aaron Rodri comfortable enough having a guy who will carry the ball 23 times? And I love this pick because that means that BYU will be centered around the run first and then everything else can come from that. And I think that’s where they’re going to have a ton of success. The best thing that can happen to Jake Rutz’s career 100% is LJ Martin not just being healthy, but the run game being healthy and the run game getting 5.5 per that’d be amazing. Your first best friend is a tight end, but another best friend is that running back because if he’s doing his thing, makes things a lot easier for you. It’s a lot easier to find guys open because defenses are keying on the run. So that would be very important for BYU. Catch JJ and Alex afternoons from 3 to 6 presented by G2G bars on 975, the KSL Sports Zone. The artist of the day today is Janet Jackson. She’s celebrating her 58th birthday. Artist of the day brought to you by Live Nation. For all the live concerts and events in 2025, check out livenation.com. You What do you think about her her uh boyfriend Alex Gordon? I don’t think about her boyfriend, Alex Gordon. Yeah, they go by JJ and Alex. Okay, nice. Does he actually have a boyfriend named Alex Gordon or does he uh No, I just made that up. That’s what I thought. I get paid for this. PJ Championship continues. PK, were you surprised by the leaderboard, the absence of uh power brokers and big names? I was surprised Sheffler did all that whining about uh clean, lift, and replace. or lift clean and replace. A lot of mud in that fairway. A lot of guys hooking the ball. He’s got mud on his golf ball. A lot of guys hooking the ball into the water. Third lies. Lot of double bogeies. Uh but I mean it’s it’s even across the board when there’s that many double bogeies. I did wonder if like Vegas played later in the day and he went low and did the course dry out a little bit over the course of the day or something or did he just get lucky and not land in some mud pudds out? That’s a big deal on Thursday and Friday. Yeah, Vegas has already given he got to the back this morning. Yeah, he has. And then what what do you do, son, with the lead and how do you handle it on Sunday and when all the pressure is on? So, I don’t know that that’s that big of a deal in the moment. I was surprised Sheffller made his voice so well pronounced on that very issue. He’s not out on the course yet. Two under, so he’s within range. He didn’t shoot himself out. Mroy, now that’s a long way to go. Three over. Yeah, that that’s typical though. Masters hangover. He’s still basking in the career grand. The fact is if Roy Mroy never played golf again, it wouldn’t matter. He’s done it. He’s done he’s done the biggest thing he can do. This there’s only smaller boxes left to check along the way, right? and he’s and he may check them, but and he’s not going to move way up the the majors list and all that other stuff and he’s got a kid now. Life is getting in the way. We see this frequently with LPGA players. Life gets in the way. Yeah. Jack Nicholas said it would happen to Tiger Woods that he would have kids. Yeah. And life would get in the way. And boy, did life ever get in the way. Life got in the way more ways. So, uh, that those things happen. Uh, so Mroy, he’s not playing with house money because in the moment you’re still trying, but this is golf and and things happen round to round, hole to hole, shot to shot, and the margins are slim. 72 holes, one shot, right, routinely. I mean, I certainly think Mroy will win again and probably win maybe even multiple majors, but the fact that he had a a subpar round is not that shocking to me because it happens in this game. Things and some sometimes, you know, putts just drop. It’s like a a baseball player, the the objective is to put a good swing on it, right? And then after that it’s hard to control and you can hit a screaming mimi right at somebody or that person makes a diving catch and then the Diamondbacks win the World Series on a bloop that doesn’t even get out of the infield but the infield was in so won the game. Yeah. So and the series and sometimes putts drop. You hit a great shot and it just it doesn’t bounce the way you want it to. and and Sheffler talked about that too when so much of it is to the fates of the game how things go. Now those guys obviously are very very good but you get a bounce here or there so we’ll see how that plays out and you know Sheffller to the surprise of no one would be in the mix on Sunday. Max has gone out and is on fire six under. He’s playing the back nine for started the 10th hole, but six under through his first nine. So four under for the tournament. So he was only one shot in front of Mackoy. It is possible to go low and get back in it. Home is just two shots off the lead. Oh yeah, he’s the he’s the guy moving this morning the most. If you can go and do your thing for three days in a row. Homer, if he ever won at a high level, would be good for the game because he’s got personality. The two people who have the most personality on the PGA tour now are Homer and Hadwin’s wife. She can be funny on social media. But who dropped the quote of the week? Hunter man. Yes, that was a brilliant quote. Quail Hollow is like a Kardashian. Okay, you’ve got everybody’s attention in the media room now. Go ahead, Hunter. Yeah, but I didn’t understand. It has no soul. I mean, I I can tell you this through uh secondhand experience, Khloe Kardashian has a soul. I don’t know if we want to pursue this line of questioning. Yach shaking his head. No. My godmother, her granddaughter, her granddaughter’s agent is Chris Jenner, the mother. And there’s your connection. Yeah. Hunter Man describes Coil Hollow like a Kardashian. Very modern, beautiful, and well-kept, but it lacks a soul or character. And that’s just wrong. Now, I don’t know about the Kardashian’s character, but I know about their souls. No, you do. Oh, you do. I’m this close. My godmother’s grand, my mother’s sister that we lived right next door to in Han, East Hanover, New Jersey. her and she was my godmother. My aunt Rose, her granddaughter agent is go. You can go look it up. Give me something to do during the break. David Lock, radio voice of the Utah Jazz joins us next. Pablo Master on at 8:30. Brian Taylor from the PGA Championship at 9:00 right here on the zone.
Hour two of DJ & PK for May 16, 2025:
• What is Trending
• Hot Takes or Toast
• PGA Championship leaderboard lacks stars
