Hour 2: Luka's Return

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On another episode of First Take, Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, Monica McNutt, Brian Windhorst, and Marcus Spears examine Luka's return to Dallas tonight. Then, Louis Riddick joins Mad Dog and Marcus Spears to breakdown Jalen Milroe's potential draft destination. Mad Dog also takes aim at the worst things in sports this week. Finally, the crew takes a look at the NBA team with the most pressure heading into the playoffs and discuss some of their favorite sports comebacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	dun dun dun dun lucca donchitch returns to dallas tonight for the first time since being traded luca led the mavericks to
0:07.2	three playoff berths including the NBA finals last season his 28.6 points per game with the franchise are the most in team
0:13.4	history here's luca and a d on how it will be to face their former teams emotional of course
0:19.9	it's going to be a lot of emotion for me. I don't really
0:23.2	know what to expect. I don't know what to, I'm going to feel honestly. I'm looking forward to
0:29.0	being back in Dallas, obviously, you know, with the fans, seeing my teammates, ex-teamates.
0:35.5	It's going to be very emotional for me, for sure.
0:38.7	It's another game.
0:40.2	Y'all will make it bigger than it needs to be.
0:42.0	It's another game for me.
0:44.7	Okay.
0:45.4	Well, earlier, Mad Dog told us Luca is impossible to root for him.
0:49.5	Monica didn't like that.
0:51.2	I'd like to ask Dallas about that.
0:53.3	Do you see how they reacted after his exit?
0:55.2	All right.
0:55.5	Tell me this, Mad Dog.
0:56.6	How intriguing is his return tonight?
0:59.6	I think it's intriguing to him in the city of Dallas.
1:02.2	I don't think it resonates anywhere else.
1:03.8	I think it's more intriguing when the guy who goes to the town gets booed because he wanted to get out in the worst way.
1:11.6	Carmelo back to Denver, Durant to Oklahoma City.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ESPN Radio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ESPN Radio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.