Former Indiana Pacers GM/CEO and New York Knicks GM, Donnie Walsh, Join!
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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Former Indiana Pacers GM/CEO and New York Knicks GM, Donnie Walsh, joins Jake Query & Jimmy Cook on the show to discuss how excited he is for the both franchises to be where they are today, goes back to how he would build the Indiana Pacers back in the nineties, reveal when he first noticed the fan base turn back to supporting him after not selecting Steve Alford, explains how similar Chuck Person and Reggie Miller were as players, and weighs in on what wins in today’s NBA Playoffs between offense or defense.
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| 0:00.0 | Pacers and the New York Knicks, Eastern Conference semifinals, game number one tonight from the Garden in New York City. |
| 0:07.1 | Joining us now on the program, he was the general manager of the Pacers from 1987 to 2006, also was the CEO and president of Pacer's sports and entertainment. |
| 0:17.2 | And from 2008 to 2011, he crossed over as the general manager of the New York Knicks in his hometown of New York City talking about Donnie Walsh, who joins us on the program. |
| 0:28.9 | Donnie, how are you? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm doing great, Jake. |
| 0:31.3 | How are you? |
| 0:32.0 | No complaints. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm excited for this. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm a little nervous because, I mean, I hate to tell you this. |
| 0:38.1 | I hate the Knicks, and so it makes me nervous. But let's go back to this. I wanted to begin by asking |
| 0:45.2 | you this. Is it odd for you? Is it sentimental for you? What is your overall, like, thought |
| 0:51.2 | when you see Pacers Knicks in a playoff series? I'm really excited because, you know, I haven't followed the league the way I did when I was doing it and all that. |
| 1:02.0 | I have followed the Pacers as much as I can. |
| 1:06.0 | But when I hear Knicks versus Pacers, it brings me back. |
| 1:11.6 | Because if you read the amount of competition we had in the playoffs, |
| 1:17.7 | it got me nervous reading it, and I knew how the games came out. |
| 1:22.3 | This is a big-time basketball now. |
| 1:27.0 | The Pacers will be going into the garden, which has the same kind of fans we have up there. |
| 1:34.5 | I see a real similarity between New York and Indiana when it comes to basketball. |
| 1:40.9 | New York, everybody plays basketball. |
| 1:44.1 | Indiana, everybody plays basketball. New York, everybody plays basketball. Indiana, everybody plays basketball. |
| 1:48.1 | And we grow up that way. |
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