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Drive Williamson and the strength of North Carolina's with the Tar Heels include making up the draft and pick Brooklyn's artistry is usually about pushing the conversation forward rather than looking backward and even as college basketball.

The chapter of Zion Williamson blanket ended months ago.

I wanted to take a few moments to examine the last year we fix.

With him before we officially turn the page to his MBA chapter later tonight. Zion's Garrett Duke will never be forgotten.

Here he did the impossible. He made America love Duke think about that for a second number we first acknowledged this when we were sitting courtside operation basketball in Charlotte.

CL Brown was with us from the athletic.

I presented it is a question. Is it possible for the hype surrounding this player if he's able to meet it to make Duke likable and we dismissed it said come on now, no one's gonna fully the nations not to fully take on Duke and I filed it away started thinking about it a little more during the season and I remember it was Syracuse playing Duke in the same building. Months later inside the spectrum center Brian Ives who is researcher for College Game Day football and basketball tapped me on the shoulder and said, I've been to so many of these ACC tournaments, especially in the state of North Carolina.

This is the first time I can ever remember Duke being sheared when they're introduced Duke being rooted for not being the villain as they were facing Syracuse and as I looked around the crowd that day. It was a little surreal to take that in. That's all because of Zion. Williamson he made college basketball mainstream outside of March we talk about college basketball 12 months out of the year.

There aren't many places you could do that you could do that in Louisville you could do it in Lexington you could do it around here in the state of North Carolina. There's your list. Nowhere else will sports radio stations local sports stations talk about college basketball around the calendar, but around the country. College basketball was a regular talking point and it was because of Zion we sing great stars come through here, we sing great one in Don's tire. Your vein, Harrison Barnes, even though he was here for two years, Jabari Parker, Julia local four, you name it. Dennis Smith Junior at NC State. None of those players is bringing Drake around Drake wasn't wearing any of their high school jerseys at concerts. JC wasn't going to Dennis Smith Junior's games.

Even though Jay Cole was but that's for a different reason. Him being from Fayetteville I don't recall Lebron James going to see Harrison Barnes play or Kobe white play.

I don't recall a President of the United States making time out of your schedule to watch any of the previous one in Don's watch Marvin Williams or to watch you fill in the blank Austin Rivers. They did with Zion and that that game probably will be the one that sticks out to be the most just when it all hit the epicenter the hype reached the highest point where you felt like the roof was going to explode. He felt like the building. The roof was going to explode. But instead of the roof. It was Zion shoe when Duke face North Carolina.

Pres. Obama pointing and saying his shoe broke sitting 1015 feet away from Spike Lee and Todd Gurley, a figure for Junior and Devon punches hated Patty Eric and Greg Olson and and Maverick Carter like it's easy for us to move on from this is just go onto the next thing that still works but these last 12 Months Have Been Insane Way I right now you will hear nothing back. This is going to be obnoxious.

Last week we did this with Thailand and I got interrupted 13 times during the show sweetens a pretty good team so three minutes in the Americans are leading here.

Surprising stuff, but good for the US soccer team, so we will interrupt whatever were doing to update you on US women's national team goals.

Your thoughts are what welcome on Twitter at sports on triad 336-777-1600 is the phone number but think about what these last 12 months of been with Zion.

It was nonstop content from August through now. It started in Canada a couple of exhibitions. Zion, with a full head of steam jump from the foul line and dunked it one-handed and that was the first time we all truly marveled at what this guy was capable of doing. Then in the preseason. It was a vertical jump that broke the Duke record and then he is listing was released we marveled that 67, 285 pounds 18 years old. The Kentucky game. The hype machine began the dunks. I remember I was at the Indiana game. He stolen from half-court and it almost resembled the opening scene of saving Pvt. Ryan. When everything slows when everything slowed down as Tom Hanks was looking around the beach.

Everything was quiet in that moment when Zion stole the ball there was a hush and what was a zoo. The rest of that game and then Zion dunked the basketball and everything just rushed back forward. The Clemson game steels one reverses dunks with the left hand. I mentioned the shoe game he returns after the shooting gone a month 13 for 13 shooting which is an ACC tournament record of shots made without a mess. The pizza North Carolina with that second jump jump and puts it back 7473 Wednesday ACC title UCF Drive on taco fall so I know we hear a lot about Zion Williamson. It's too much it's too much coverage in all of these things this guy is the biggest star or sport or state has seen in probably the last 25 years probably sent shack Zion Williamson. We haven't seen a talent like this in college basketball. He's in our state.

He's home to the Carolinas.

I never really understood the criticism of us talking too much about the guy at any rate, 336-777-1600. Let's go to Chatham Winston-Salem Chadron the sports of what you got for me on going to jail and her or let Zion every every day of early do you a favor to hold what really quickly. I got Danny Manning on today's show going to be with us at 530. How's that sound will talk like basketball in jail and warred with him. How's that, that's all. But another thing you can win late this year North Carolina live Kobe white guy and talk about all with just work out for the next day so I'm just saying there's other people to talk about besides Zion at about you and you got thank you so much to for the phone call. Talk bad about me until I got I said Kobe white was a lottery. Yet he worked out according the loads with the Knicks but in that same report. He said RJ parent there locked in to take him. We hope to hear more about the North Carolina guys. It's an interesting perception people have the biggest star, our state has seen also. I made sure to point out the one the ACC tournament title and did not tie for the regular-season Virginia tied with North Carolina so I get the beef North Carolina fans. The North Carolina fan Wake Forest as we mentioned were to talk with Danny Manning a little bit later on in today's program. Joe Wilde in a chat with us to look forward to catching up with him voice of the Winston-Salem – Zion stepped to the podium yesterday was meeting with reporters and he put a very damning rumor to rest about him at damning rumor that's been circling the mill the last few days. He put the rest is as yet others see his own to say those fries sure it's never okay just get chicken tenders as an adult, just as and if you're in New Orleans you're going to a restaurant. I assume to be a nice restaurant that is a rumor, you need to put away Zion. He's been in the new cycle everyone's talking about their people were questioning his game.

People were saying critical things. That's all good and well but the moment you accuse him of going to New Orleans.

One of the best places to get food in this country in the world and ate chicken tenders. That's a line too far for Zion to dismiss that. I hope you and think the segment was built in without me pushing back slightly on this whole notion that now Duke is the nation's darlings. Everyone's cheering for them because it is severe. This past year.

They were now what what is happened to be if you had to do before Zion rotten campus is still hated them when they were there and you haven after he left know that change what's happened is that some of the reasons why people used to hate to Change because the players don't stay long enough to develop the hatred, grace, melons, perfect example that he was there for four years by Tommy left it reach Christian Lake Mayor JG Reddick status in terms of hate. These kids are here eight months so light week we people that aren't Duke fans don't attach them to do their not sharing for Duke the school nurturing forging Bert the player and once in the player they like that.

The town with their say yes, but that didn't happen before nobody rooted for Duke players before. I don't remember that little very first incomes month. Grant Hill for Granville Hilda Milligan was the one Duper the people did not hate and actually put Duke on the back on his back in 94 to always to the title game in Charlotte. So I mean there's been is the players most popular team in the country are polarizing with the fat by the time you had players were calling 94 before his senior year by time the five files going out the first two years before you ever hated it ring. It was never really hated by by Duquesne, Michigan 55 spoke out saying how much they grant Hill and some of fans, not players depleted dense green I'm telling you, nobody dislikes Zion Williamson. I haven't heard anybody go out there and said you know what the bleep Zion one person Williamson that was my point.

People were hitting the coverage of Zion will to weak it attracts tweets I'm getting tweaked right now we get phone calls. Here's the thing. Here's all sports talk radio works and break it down for you the same way it works for anybody else in music.

The biggest critic if they play too much of the same song so much. You know why because that works going national sports radio.

What are they talking about the NFL in the Braun there you have it that's in college basketball in this market. In this state. If you're not talking about Zion Williamson today. You're not doing it right. So any other critique to the contrary, doesn't quite make sense to me next.

Why the Tampa Bay rays should just pass the sticks. This is the drive live with Josh Graham Courthouse, 609 20 way you broke that was the winning call yesterday loaded volume 3 of Joe Wilde's movie life that is done in the first half the season. The second half begins tonight. The Lynchburg Hill, Catherine town weather holds up. I plan to be in this – came later on tonight.

Joe joins us live and you can listen to Joe starting at 7 o'clock for that game continue to send us in movie lines as many of you are doing right here at sports on triad, but Joe before we get to that.

I want to get your thoughts on two different stories in baseball today, one regarding the club that the – is associated with the White Sox announced earlier in the week that they're going to be moving the nets all the way down to the foul pole.

What's your reaction to the White Sox taking this what seems to be a very rare a progressive step. I think you're great and it something that you will be directed, how the game has evolved over time because the nets have already been expended in recent memory, because the most recent thing that happened the players wanted this to happen. I think of fans over hi Amber, going to realize it really won't do much acting watching the game because I never heard any fans are ballpark complained about being a net in front of hers. I don't really think it affects everything to myself move and it's pretty cool that the White Sox again. If you just said there could not.looking at were affiliated with really being a pioneer in in being the first, the Tampa Bay rays receive permission for major league baseball to explore a plan that would have them play early-season home games in Tampa and the remainder of the year in Montréal. This is a good baseball team.

But it's an old stadium. They can't get a new one. Fans aren't showing up. Could the days of the Tampa rays be numbered. I think they are acting they are already numbered in some way because it is apparent to everybody that this working Tampa Bay Dave tribe.

It had a good team really think 2008 date they've been solid baseball team and yet the fans that don't show out and you have a city in Montréal that actually back in the day was one of the best places to watch the game of baseball.

I didn't know that I read John Kerry's book follow up up and away about the Montréal Expos but in the 1980s. They were among the most popular teams in terms of actual fan attendance than they may have truly memorable players good time like Andre God and rain the mothers as well, but they drew and what happened was that just continued to get a kick in the groin when it came to their team and and the fact that they can make quite often have a 94 year where there probably the favorite to win the world. And that's one bit at a spot right and then because of that they lost a lot of money they can keep their players led to what it really became and that the longer any based on Montréal.

I think that it almost seems inevitable and in some way that baseball will return their people need to remember that again there was a viable was a viable place back in the day. My memory of it being a kid that grew up in the 90s first mentor doubt that they would like to think that we went. But that's not it was in the 80s really was one of the best places to watch a baseball game and and and I think people in Montréal thought by members of the team and I know they want that back to follow Joe on Twitter@Joe_while let's get to the final of Joe's volumes of movie lines in the first half of the year. It's the fourth and final one that is go ahead and hit it is 515 all you still get the rest of dotmatrix line and is the longest call we've given them in the first half of the year which one of those are you most proud of the board. I was so thankful that ninth-inning ball hit toward a woman with a hot dog and I thought that that was my load… One in one movie lineup will work… That's what I love.

I will get a pull-up shortly probably in the next hour or so narrow it all down to four, but let's get to the second half. It starts tonight at 7 o'clock we have movie lines for you that the audience is sending in Dez which of these two do you like more from the audience. Since today is draft day.

Someone's given me a quote from that awful Kevin Costner movie where is running the Browns in their go to fantasy movie where he says were living in a different were living in a different world than it was 30 seconds ago were living in a different world than it was 30 seconds ago is one the other Clint Eastwood line. Go ahead, make my day, like the live in a different world one writer. It is draft day so that's the one were going to go with from the audience were living in a different world than it was 30 seconds ago that you can handle actual wallet.

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What kind of name is Jesus. Anyway, that's the line that Joe's cannot find a way to work in the night. That's over, I figured out I'm confident we've given the more difficult things than that, I mean he worked. If I were tumor my name would be Marla, I just literally told him don't worry about the biscuit line clear in the ninth-inning and he was found a way to get in there smoothly, so does give me a line. Actually, this is going to come from Internet today Internet we got Ashley into Joe Adrian Joe Adrian okay you have to say it like Rocky or no not be as I think you got away got the second half the right way to live a good call tonight. That's Joe on Twitter@Joe_while at will decide what belongs on this Twitter poll for the fourth and final installment of Joe's first half calls a little bit later on, but be sure to vote on that on Twitter at sports hub triad were doing a Disney Pixar movie draft next on the drive is 620 now with Josh Graham now been joined by Wake Forest basketball coach Danny Manning.

Once upon a time course was the number one pick in the 1988 NBA draft a lot. Talk to you about Danny NBA draft coming up this evening. First, let's go back to 1988 what you remember about draft night most what memory sticks with you. Still today remote humbling overwhelming feeling of being selected to play in the league.

I had dreams of wanting to be a part of all of it coming on draft night. David called walking up on the stage for the commission and then from there comes a whirlwind of interviews in constant conversation from different people.

Wishing you well congratulating you so a lot to take yeah but it's something that you do so very humbly and thankfully as well. How many teams have asked you about Galen Ward over the last few months Danny got a call the jailer, always a good thing to get those phone calls. One major recruiting quality people that complete that next level so looking forward to hear his behavior cold out the watching him continue to grow and develop the probably best basketball behind-the-scenes know when you have these conversations with teams what you tell them about Galen Ward. You know what a lot different now than in the past because most guys come to quite a few practices they watch all of your games again don't want in person. They watch on their own so many secrets in that regard will go to great people are great evaluators more so just trying to figure out the personality respectful to go to class for the help with all the things that they really want to know all because basketball lies with their analytics department. I got it all figured out. So you know if you're lucky to really wonderful young man spectacle works really hard and the pleasure to be around and we enjoyed. How did the conversation go you in jail and trying to figure out what was best for him and whether he should have gone from what you know jailer goal to be NBA player and felt like this was the time for him to go all in on that aspiration dream. That's what he wanted to do. You know he's going to stop academically did everything he needed to do really put all of them directed toward getting prepared for this moment of this opportunity we can basketball coach Danny Manning with this year on the sports once the first time, the name Zion Williamson appeared on your radar 12 years ago you hear about talented eyes. Groupware is a college coach you want to look into it to a certain extent, you know, lots of video watch employed coming out of high school, but you will see flashes of templated different event. You said that he reminded you of Rodney Rogers when you finally had a chance to watch him in person. What's the single thing that stands out about a most basketball IQ really tremendous basketball player with great feeling to understand your pregame passage all time target the way he sees the game very very impressive. Now I know everybody think about all the other spectacular plays and makes what I was really impressed with basketball IQ was on the court, as somebody who actually experienced the end the number one pick in the draft I'm interested in how expectation meets reality you're talking about something you always wanted to do as a basketball player what you think Zion is feeling at this present moment. You know what burgers probably a little little bit of food knowledge to a certain extent because of the general information out there that the pelican going to select got there for little bit more calm. This mindset that a lot of the other players out there nobody else really really to that extent what's going to happen on you know what further if you get back to Berkeley. Possibly you traded, especially when creative people that need to sublet, but he's probably still pretty comfortable in knowing that he's going get the opportunity to hear his name selected a good opportunity to play in the league always want to play and the type of person player you wherever you go to go to make them better. That's what you want talking to Danny Manning we can basketball touch. I'd be remiss not to mention since I Rodney Rogers name came up that it is his birthday so happy birthday to Rodney Rogers as well. The last time we spoke, Danny. We were talking about Kobe white and you said his physical build reminded you that of Devon Booker, the former Kentucky star now place with the Phoenix Suns and it checks out a 65 has great speed.

Some of the concerns that scouts had of regard his wingspan and maybe some of his defensive concerns. But that's not a rare thing you see with younger players position. Do you see Kobe white playing at the next level and point guard, think you this in North Carolina this year really helped out and gave him that platform show people that he could play it and I think that professional level besides the athleticism of the players at your play about the gift that I think is measurable. Into that category along with him being able to score the basketball.

I think he's very underrated score in terms of the different ways we can score.

We know we can shoot it from three the ramp like a pull-up game as well that he did a really good job picking moments where force the issue offense will be going to get a bucket and teammate so I look at Heather so watercolor that new age point guard. He's not a true point guard, but he could play the point guard started cam Johnson is being seen as somebody who might be generous three point shooter in this draft is 23 years old, which means he's going to drop a little bit when most of the lottery. Of course consist of 18 and 19-year-olds. How do you think cam Johnson's games can translate to the process of the character would be really really think the skill set agreement restrict the basketball his way is maturity.

People forget. Mark brought to school five years year.

That's the story that need to be told. You know nobody talks about that now.

He felt that he be very successful with the Milwaukee Bucks so cam Johnson for that realm. In terms of the experience level in the skill set that he has bring about sin. Since you mentioned Malcolm Brogdon. I'm interested in what you're making of what Tony Bennett stewing in your league right now and how he repairs guys for the post Malcolm brought Dan was a little bit overlooked when he went into the MBA.

But then you see guys like Joe Harris to go into the we can have success Justin Anderson to and of course DeAndre Hunter is expected to be taken in the lottery. What what are some things you see from these players or what Tony Bennett coaches over there the way they play repairs guys for the Pro so well coached first and foremost a player on a partner in how he developed player you know God, we project that they're ready for that next level offense of this year. You gotta do that. Coaches are great. You will have sticky notes before you let you know Danny John Kerry's in his post with Lake Athletics for a few months now. He's been in leadership or a little over a month and 1/2 at what one of your initial dealings with him been like your initial conversation going very well. You look back, and always will have a great deal of gratitude for whelming to her leadership changes happen in our professional regular basis.

A lot of times, and I'm looking forward to work John and followed his leadership for what you have for athletic department and done a lot of fun to be around looking looking forward to working with him for tell us what these new facilities look like what you expect them to be when you get in there without a basketball what we feel like you want to basketball development centers in the country was located on campus. The amenities that were going to have what worksite it will practice you will have a bigger basketball overweight in the country. Everything will be state-of-the-art to give us a chance to really show people what were all about a fellow young man, not only on the corporate office. We covered a lot. Danny Danny Manning. Wake Forest had basketball text gotten into some of these players years, ones that you coached them once you coached against what's going on Lake Athletics. But what I'm most interested to know is you have camps going on. I understand. This week's we appreciate you squeezing us in. Does Danny Manning ever step back in their and show some of that competitive fire we saw decades ago. Even even as your couple decades. Remove from playing no quite happy with how worked up about. We could almost have a right place. Working out a new replacement right now so I enjoyed my time on the court go out this couple spot gave but I got no grant… They are trying to do with it. Really crazy because I don't want to go under the knife again. Listen to what it is I'm telling you that if you caught it in the paint. Danny I know will move that will get everybody. There's no way it would would be stopped from Danny Manning just throw that out so that elbow. Nobody called Fallon Danny Manning no one thought it really is going over that little save that for next time. Danny, thanks for doing daycare, you got it.

That's Danny Manning. Wake Forest had basketball coach kind enough to spend some time with the ball in the pay that elbow out there like when people go in there and play today. If MJ could go in the paint points would Danny Manning score on twitter export sub Tria if you throw them in an NBA game and you start on that elbow Lewis I think is good. Getting 10 points, 12. He's 53 years old. He turned 53 in that I'm telling you, you put Danny Manning in the game today I know is got under the knife as he pointed out I'm I think he wants to point out that elbow buckets happen. We take it to the house next on the drive