Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd criticizes the Lakers for trying to hold onto 41-year-old LeBron James when they should be going all in on building a championship contender with Luka Doncic in his prime.
He talks to Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to explain why the Warriors have committed a basketball crime with their handling of the roster surrounding Steph Curry and why the Chiefs would be making a mistake to bring back WR Tyreek Hill.
Colin also discusses Mark Cuban’s comments about tanking in the NBA and why he makes a great point about the real problem that league is dealing with.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the HARD podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.8 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeart radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. |
| 0:23.8 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:31.5 | Here we go on a Tuesday. |
| 0:33.7 | We are live. |
| 0:35.6 | Surprisingly a lot to talk about. |
| 0:37.8 | In Chicago, we're the herd, wherever you may be, and however you may be watching or listening. |
| 0:46.0 | Thanks for making us part of your day. |
| 0:47.7 | J. Mack is back, and I was thinking this morning, two fatal flaws, or maybe they're just challenges in business because we're going to start the show |
| 0:57.5 | talking about the Lakers and the Yankees. Two fatal flaws are when you build a business is |
| 1:03.0 | what's your identity? What are you? I'm a shopper. You're a company. When you put your name out there, what do I think of? |
| 1:12.8 | What are you? |
| 1:14.2 | You need a strong identity in any business, including the NBA. |
| 1:19.4 | And the second big flaw in business to me is you can't look in the mirror and own your stuff. |
| 1:25.6 | That's more the Yankees. |
| 1:26.7 | I'll get to that in a second. |
| 1:28.3 | But it was interesting. Big story. Dave McManneman, ESPN's writing a big, big story on the |
| 1:32.9 | Lakers and why they didn't do anything at the trade deadline because they're waiting for a big |
| 1:37.9 | move next year. And buried in this article is a line. If LeBron does want to play next season, his 24th, he would be welcomed back in LA. |
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