Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jason McIntyre steps in for Colin to come to the defense of Luka Doncic from recent criticisms the young super star has received as the Lakers reset in the offseason to return to championship contention. He talks to U.S. Soccer legend Landon Donovan about the National Team’s run through the Gold Cup despite missing their best players and what this means for their World Cup preparation. Plus, NBA reporter Jovan Buha joins the show to tell JMac why LeBron James is not on the trade block and reacting to the Knicks hiring Mike Brown to be their next head coach
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Heard podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.9 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the |
| 0:19.6 | iHeart Radio app by searching fox sports radio or |
| 0:22.4 | fsrr this is the best of the herd with colin cowher on fox sports radio |
| 0:29.0 | hello and welcome to the herd it's me jason mackinty, in for Colin Cowherd, who is jet-setting once again. |
| 0:42.4 | Boy, nobody travels like Colin Cowherd. I'm joined today by Alex Curry. Alex, how are you feeling? We're on the eve of July 4th year. |
| 0:50.0 | I love this week. Growing up 4th of July was like my favorite holiday in Manhattan Beach. Vibes are immaculate down on the strand and on the beach. Obviously a little different for me this year because I'm in the red zone and like anything can happen. I'm about to pop. But I'm still so excited for it. I love it. Yeah. And we got great sports, obviously. A lot of soccer tonight. We're |
| 1:11.7 | talking soccer on the show. One of my favorite soccer players of all time, Landon Donovan, |
| 1:17.1 | joining the show in about 40 minutes. Very excited. We have a Lakers insider coming on to talk. I know |
| 1:23.4 | it hasn't been a great start to free agency. Laker fans, take a deep breath. It's going to be fine. |
| 1:28.0 | We're actually going to start the show, ladies and gentlemen, with the Lakers. |
| 1:32.3 | And, you know, listen, we are in a hot take society right now. |
| 1:35.4 | Everybody knows that. |
| 1:36.4 | It's really difficult to cut through. |
| 1:38.5 | There's so many outlets and mediums. |
| 1:41.1 | TV, radio, you got the web, you got social media, YouTube, TikTok to cut through, |
| 1:48.4 | you increasingly have to turn up the volume and get a little hot. And folks, I've been seeing |
| 1:53.0 | some stuff. You know I love a good hot take. Hot take happy hour, but I've been seeing some |
| 1:57.0 | stuff lately about my main man, Luca Donchich, that I got to step in. It's time for J. Mack to jump in and be like, guys, can we take a deep breath? Can we get some perspective? I know nuance isn't a thing a lot of people like to do in July. It's either black or white. You love him, you hate him, right? But let's just pump the brakes on the Luca Donchich bashing. And yes, I get it. |
| 2:20.0 | He's coming off a season where he was injured and he got traded. And hey, if the Dallas Mavericks |
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