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I'll explain it.

Not only did he see a camera crew around, I had a microphone in the reporter's face. It was reporter inception. And he still didn't know what was going on. And so, yeah, next thing you know, there's a story in the Sun Sentinel.

It's a real story.

You don't have to do it in his voice. Well, I didn't.

By the way, great reporting. Now we know where he's from. See, we should give this reporter some standing ovation maybe.

I'm sorry, there are people every day that I see with fake eyelashes. So what's wrong with a little bit of an extra enhancement of your mustache?

This is... I thought you were saying it was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend, a South Florida journalist, did not recognize me.

And what's wrong with that? I mean, what do we do? What do we watch all day on TV? It's just that drama. And I think after five and a half years of them being together, to go from even the fake platitudes and the fake niceness and just, hey, that's my teammates, those are my boys, to just absolute nothing, like, yeah, that has to be a falling off, like one of the worst you've ever seen in the NBA.

Like, I even, like, Kobe Shaq wasn't even, I mean, I know it was bad, But, you know, people figured, hey, they'll get over it. This one, it just feels like this is just the end of any relationship he could possibly have. And he said they didn't want to burn any bridges with the organization. It seems like he has.

I mean, it is the relationship that ended. It's not like it's dissimilar. But I think the best part about this, to me, was all the pettiness from the heat. It was not just not talking to him. I think Alec Burks might get in trouble, by the way, because he actually did go in.

But he did call people called Kevin Love and Terry Rozier. But the relationship didn't end when he left. The relationship was over while they were here. So they don't I mean, they they're not happy with Jimmy as well.

This is fake, right? This is acting. He's wearing glasses. You need a mustache. We got Akbar in here.

That was the strangest part of the whole night because as the beginning of this show had no sound, as soon as you're supposed to hit the music, they played this one part and it was like, I think it's this part of Eminem, right? Where he's just like, it's the return of, just kidding. And I was like, wait, wait a second. That seems like a shot at Jimmy Butler.

But it was like the Vice jersey thing, right? So that was the beginning of that one. And then the music just didn't play. The video was playing, but no music. There was a popping sound.

It was a feeling of, oh, Jimmy Butler's gone and everything goes to shit.

Wait, but you can read it for like five seconds before the paywall comes up. So you can get like a different graph each time.

Thank you.

So perfect.

Competitiveness is overrated as just a value to have, right? Because it ruins a lot of things. It ruins relationships. It ruins a lot. And when you talk about somebody like Steph Curry, for example, who's kind of in the center of their universe, what do people say about him? I mean, what do people say about Steph all the time? First thing they say. He's a nice guy. Great guy.

Jimmy Butler said in a story by Anthony Slater in The Athletic, he's real real, right? He just treats everybody really nice. You know that's not like a skill, right? You know that's something that you can just do to people, right? And so when you watch the end of that game, or beginning of that game, where they don't shake hands, I mean, nobody, like Bam walks past him as if he was a stranger.

And then after the game, they have, you know, Not only does Jimmy just kind of slink off and go back to the back without talking to any Heat players, what does every single Warrior do that played with Andrew Wiggins, including Steph Curry, who had already gone back to the locker room, came back out to talk to Andrew Wiggins? Why? Nice guy. People love him.

Like, how is that not so telling about as much as we enjoyed this Jimmy Butler experience for five-plus years, it was always going to be that because that's who he is. And I'm sorry for the Warriors, but at some point he's going to be that there, too. Wow, are you calling the shot now? Well, I mean, you know what? I take that back.

Steph Curry could be that powerful of an alien that his power of friendship is just more, you know, stronger than everybody else's. But it's just, it was the relationship between Miami and Jimmy Butler in a nutshell last night.

But that normally happens. Like, the issues between the player and management, it's usually, hey, I'm dunking and I'm yelling at the GM on the sideline. This was just icy. This was worse than Kobe Shaq because it was nobody on that team that Jimmy wanted to talk to. Nobody on the Miami team.

What is he going to do, punch an 80-year-old? Are you kidding me? What is that?

No, you wouldn't. I would absolutely love to see them fight.

Jeremy was so excited about today, and with two words, in seven minutes, you have crushed him, Billy. Not me.

Well, they definitely didn't. I mean, look, that intro video was half-baked. It wasn't. It didn't have the play-by-play. It didn't have the celebration, oh, Miami Heat win the Eastern Conference Championship. It didn't have quotes from Jimmy Butler showing his personality and everything else.

Is it because they were all lies? They also don't normally do that. Jeremy, please. They also don't normally do that in the intros because they want it to build up a little bit, right? And they do that after the first break.

Because no one's there. That's another reason. That building was packed.

90% of the Steph Curry fans didn't speak English. This man is an international megastar. Jimmy Butler's just another teammate to them.

I do. I make a show, yes.

Odd, like strange, weird, like ball. Ball. Ball is life. Art is life. Life is art. I do a show with somebody called Amin Elhassan. Amin Elhassan.

Just to be clear, I know he's got some French accessories. I don't believe he's French. Not French. I asked him a million times. He's not French.

Well, since Amin wasn't there, I'll explain what happened. Akbar and I were sitting there trying to get fans' votes on which Jimmy Butler statue pose we should pick, right? Because I told everybody, hey, things are going to ease off between the heat, cool down between the heat and Jimmy Butler, and they're going to put a statue up there. And so what were the options again? Jimmy Butler was tired.

He made all that money from the Sharon Stone statue.

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But who gives out these awards? Because Mick Overrated deserves an award. That column in itself, top two, I would say, of the last decade.

Well, actually, if you don't mind just leaving this loop open for a second, because I'd like to. Chris gets beat up a lot when he misspeaks, right, when he makes mistakes, and he just gets tortured all the time by you mostly, Dan, who misspeak, by the way, Stouffer Stovetop, probably the worst in the history of the show. Chris read the liner, right? Can we do it again for Peloton, please?

It's easy to understand. If it sounds like a mistake from Chris, it probably is, which is why I just wanted to get out in front of this one, say not a mistake.

Loop closed. Now, what was the original question? Your allegiance.

Dave Hyde or Greg Cody. This one's interesting. Definitely Cody. So I actually checked in on myself the other day when it was the same day, right, where the Heat lost in overtime to Detroit and the Panthers came back and beat the Oilers. That was one of those deals where I watched the Heat game and was in pain. I actually felt it.

I was like, Tyler, what the hell are you doing with five seconds left on the shot clock taking that ridiculous three? And then I said to myself, all right, let me see if the Panthers can soothe me because they've never been on the same level. And that comeback win did it for me. I forgot all about the Pistons. I forgot all about Tyler Hero.

And it was not just like blindly cheering for sweaters and laundry. I know these guys now. I know how they play. And I know how big a win that was in Edmonton.

And there was no Barkoff the other night. The thing about the Panthers comparing to the Heat just when you watch them, one team clearly just won the championship, but still feels like every game is important. While the Miami Heat have done that, at least going into the season, labeled it as, hey, every game's important. Jim's going to try to play every game. You know that it's just not the case.

You know that they're experimenting with stuff. You know that they're floating around one through six seed and they're perfectly happy. Every game doesn't matter as much. So the passion and the want to to actually experience the game, it's a little different now from the Panthers to the Heat.

Body parts everywhere.

100%.

Largely equal. It's like an extra medium. Are you trying to be hurtful on purpose?

I was a columnist at the same time as both Dave Hyde and Greg Cody. It's at the Miami Herald, the paper of record. Let's be honest. And there is just something about the weight of a Greg Cody column because you know Greg believes it. Like deep down in his soul, he believes it.

And this is nothing against Dave Hyde, an absolute true professional, a wordsmith, knows how to sort of hit some notes with the fans and the readers, but not quite. quite the same as Greg Cody. Sometimes it might just be a roundup column. Hey, how are all the teams in the city doing?

But every once in a while, when he hits you with that big energy, that trade merino energy, there's nobody else like him.

That was wrapped in store.

That's a tough one.

Please.

I cannot remember off the top of my head one singular Dave Hyde impact column that had anywhere near the impact of Trade Marino. I mean, it's on our wall.

Everything from Zaslow to my dad is just Dan being like, this is how Zaslow feels about Greg.

If I did what you just did, you would be like, you don't explain the show. You would kill him.

That's how I feel. I don't know. Billy's honestly perfect for Cameo.

It's incredible.

Zas, $50. Put 50 bucks, you get 75%. How much does Jeremy do?

This feels like a seven-game series to me. I don't know what that means for tonight. They're going to play a seven-game after the Panthers have already clinched it in six? I think... That this goes seven. Unprecedented! That's what I feel strongly about. I think this is a seven game series.

Chris, did you feel that way? You know, like I said yesterday, I feel nothing anymore. But I did receive a lot of texts yesterday. Really?

Can I get top five people that love their sons?

Nothing.

I think that was like the last bit of culture oozing out of him. He's like, I got to inspire the group.

It's almost as if, you know, you didn't know you had somebody who was on the show over the course of, well, what just happened?

over the course of uh 16 years um but no i'm not talking to tony i can talk to tony whenever i want to tony asked me for permission to come on the show today okay i'm talking to amin here because amin asked who the worst panelists of all time were i'm gonna go back and tell you who the best panelists of all time was only one panelist took a halloween obama impression and to

I decided to use it throughout the show, setting the tone for future Halloween episodes forever. Only one panelist spent, where am I? Spent seven hours doing fake tattoos on my body, becoming Conor McGregor and doing an Irish accent that I'd only practiced on the drive over there, okay? All of this was accomplished because I did it and I was on that show.

Outside of the old heads, outside of, you know, the Kalashas, the Plaskys, the Woody Pages, wins leader, this guy over here, more than Pablo Gori.

And it just made me realize that I just, I grew up on the show. I grew up because of you and because of everybody else. And we're, you know, we're going to miss out on that. There's a lot of people that, you know, even at our age who still watch the show religiously and are going to miss what you sort of created and sort of bonding everybody together there.

So we're definitely going to miss you, man.

If we uncancel the show, can we get you a tripod for that phone, please?

Do you ever have people come up to you and they ask if you're who you are and you say no? I had someone come up to me and be like, are you Lucy? And then he was like, actually, Lucy's a lot taller than you are. And I was like, yeah, I'm not her, but I do get that all the time. And then he kept talking to me about me and he was like, yeah, she's like several inches taller than you are.

And I said, yeah, I've never met her, I don't know. And then eventually someone came up and called me Lucy and he was like, are you serious? And I was like, oh, yeah, gotcha.

Aber er hat gute Dinge über mich gesagt. Nur, dass ich kurz war.

Ich denke, Körper ist für andere, Haar ist für dich.

Nicht mein Haar.

I can show you how to ramp it if you want, Billy.

It's very easy to explain. Have you guys seen the hats that are like the upside down letters? They're very popular right now and I think they're very cool and I want to buy one. But I have a feeling that in like three months they're going to be so out. It's kind of dumb. I'm not going to lie, Lucy.

Ich bin nicht der Einzige, der Haare besser sieht, wenn es dreckig ist. Yeah, day two. That's my best look.

My friend almost hit Bruno Mars with her car.

Yeah, that was crazy.

Oh, ich liebe ihn so sehr. Das ist der Weg, das zu machen. Du sagst entweder nichts, oder du gehst einfach schnell zu dir und trinkst deine Arbeit und gehst weg.

Ja, das ist der dritte Mal, dass du diesen Witz gemacht hast. Mein Vater ist da rausgegangen, um Make-up zu bekommen.

That is how I judge an airport, the food situation. I like to take a good lap, even if my gate's to the left, I'm walking right. I gotta see what they got to offer. And then you walk over there and it's just like a zone of fresca. It's like, god damn it. Very disappointing.

Das ist das Team. Die Defense war die Erklärung gestern Abend. Wenn diese Defense so spielen kann, wie sie es gegen einen heiligen Rams-Offense macht. Aikman sagte gestern Abend, dass das der beste Passing-Offense ist. Die Dolphins haben sich die ganze Saison verfolgt. Und sie sahen gut aus. Wie er sagte, Seeler war zurück, Javon Holland war zurück. Ich bin mit dir, Dan.

Das ist nicht ein Superbowl-Team, aber ich bin in Ordnung mit dem 7er-Sieger zu sein und einen Playoffspot zu kämpfen, auch wenn man das Spiel verliert. Es ist besser als nur die Playoffs zu verlieren.

You can see it. Mother effing. Can we bother?

Das ist das Gleiche. Und alle sagen immer, wie können wir diese immer noch herausfinden? Aber einmal pro Woche sagt er etwas und ich sage, ja, ich habe das schon die ganze Zeit gehört.

I'm just saying, they technically kept their season alive last night. I really think that's all any of us are saying.

I just, I mean, after the next, there's two games that are easy and then it gets tough again. But it's just, I'm not ready to quit on this team yet. I'm just not ready to quit on this team. But the macro, Dan, it is sad that last year we felt like we had arrived. The Dolphins are a good team now. And we're a year later and we're back to just being middle of the road. So I'm with you on the macro.

This is a middle. Your starting quarterback missed four games. This is like, Das ist ein mittleres Team, talentweit. Das ist nicht einer der schlimmsten Roster in der Liga. Aber zu deinem Punkt, das ist der letzte Ort, wo du direkt im Mitteln sein willst. Es ist einfach traurig, dass wir aus einem guten Team zurückgehen, zu einem mittleren Team. Und das ist traurig.

Ich dachte, dass unser Rundum, ein gutes Team zu sein, länger dauern würde als letztes Jahr.

Tua, hör mir an. Wenn du einen Interzeption schießt, sitzt du auf dem Feld und trinkst Apfelsauce. Das machst du sofort. Du gehst nicht nach dem Spiel, wo auch immer du auf dem Feld bist, sitzt du auf dem Feld und trinkst Apfelsauce. Das ist ein lustiges Visual von Tua, in der Mitte des Spiels einen Interzeption zu schießen.

Er ist die letzte Linie der Defense. Er geht durch die Seite. Nein, er ist nicht. Es waren so viele Dolphins. Der 72er ist gerade da. Ich sage dir das.

I know in this shot Armstead's there, but there's a shot when he's approaching where Tua is the last guy.

I'm just saying, it would have been an odd look if Tua was just like, oop, and he got out of the way and let the guy go down the field.

He's on his knee. He doesn't know how to tackle. He's just a guy trying not to die. He tried to make a body tackle.

Ein Team gewinnt mit einem Tor, und dann gewinnen sie alle mit einem Tor. Es gibt mehr als nur die Superbowl, Dan.

Das ist toll. Ich habe dich mit jemandem, der das Zeichen Levitard hat.

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I won't believe the committee didn't put Alabama in until those games start. I want to rub my face. Feels pretty good. If you bet on James Franklin in a big game, you have nobody but yourself to blame. Well, who else would you blame if you were the one making the bet? James Franklin. Okay. I mean, I do it all the time. I bet on James Franklin. He loses. I yell at James Franklin.

I should be yelling at myself. That's all. It's my fault. I fell for it.

Good thing we spent five hours last week debating Alabama versus Miami for that final playoff spot.

The Witching Hour in December, where good losses turn into bad wins and bad wins turn into good losses. How about that? Carolina Panthers, the hottest team on a three-game losing streak in NFL history.

Bryce Young has mastered the game-winning drive that doesn't actually win you the game. He leaves just enough time on the clock for the other quarterback to come out and get the victory. It's amazing. He wins while losing. He's unbelievable. They should surround him with some talents. I'm happy for Bryce Young, aren't you?

Die B in Boise State steht für Buy. Ich kann ein Spiel auf dem blauen Turf für mehr als einen Moment sehen, ohne einen Schmerz zu bekommen.

Ja, das war es. You've been tricking me the last couple of weeks. You've been leading me. I figured that's why you would guess something outlandish and I was going to come back and just say Army.

The committee should be embarrassed for leaving Army out. Ward Manuel should have to go to every single cadet's door, door to door, knock on their door and tell them to their face, you're not good enough.

Texas, Georgia, the rare game with two backups who are better than the two starters. Dan, if you listen carefully, you can hear Bill Belichick sniffing around. He's got a big schnoz. A 72-year-old Bill Belichick. You can't fault Carolina for trying to get younger. Chapel Hill, more like Chapel Bill. If Belichick coaches Carolina, I fully expect Matt Castle to be the backup quarterback.

Josh McDaniels, UNC offensive coordinator, collision course. The Chiefs can't keep getting away with it. If there's a way to win, the Chiefs will find it. Jameis Winston giveth, Jameis Winston taketh. Dan, that big sigh of relief you heard over the weekend. Was every team in the playoff realizing they don't have to do it against Alabama? I can't decide if I like a 12-team playoff.

Losing a conference championship game is supposed to end your season. I didn't like it. I don't like Championship Weekend. I mean, the whole thing's a mess. I have no idea who's who, who's playing who, what team is in what conference. I have no idea. This is confusing. College football used to be easy. If you lose, lose early. Otherwise, don't lose at all.

I do. I like when these games meant something. I like when Ohio State losing to Michigan would end Ohio State's season. Ohio State could still win a national championship. I don't like that.

Das stimmt. Dieses Jahr, ja. Wenn George Steinbrenner lebte, kann ich dir eines garantieren. Juan Soto wäre nicht ein New York Met.

If we were doing... So Georgia's in, they won the SEC Championship game, Oregon's obviously in, right?

Juan Soto. Good luck without the short porch. Taylor. Want Soda. Have fun. When it isn't Aaron Judge behind you anymore. And it's Mark Ventius. Taylor.

Less tailored. That's amazing. Back in the mix. What do you think?

I was trying to play along with the show, man.

Wenn du den Tank versuchst, wird es nicht viel besser werden als Drew Lock.

Es gibt keinen anderen, der als Quarterback spielt, der das so gut wie Drew Lock macht. Tua ist 6-0 gegen die Jets. Weißt du, was das bedeutet, oder, Dan? He has their number. Now that I'm thinking about it, Drew Locke should hold out. Drew Locke is as important to a team trying to tank as Joe Burrow is to a team trying to win. How about that? A tanking quarterback. A new position. TQB. Oh man.

82 points in a Big Ten Championship game. Just feels wrong. It really does. I can't see Puka Nakua without singing Greg Cody's song. I can't. Me neither. I thought I was the only one. Kirby Smart, remember when you said everyone forgot about you and nobody believed in you. That was cute.

Arizona State wins the Big 12, Oregon wins the Big 10, and yet the Pac-12 was the conference that got dismantled. Pittsburgh Steelers lead the NFL in grit. Taylor Heineke is a charger. The Green Lizard, New York Jets, that's how you lose a game. Well done. Show me one person who thinks SMU would beat Alabama, and I'll show you a liar. No one thinks that.

Juan Soto turned down 440 million, only to sign for 765 million. You know what he did, Dano? I do not. He bet on himself.

And he won. 765 million dollars to hit a baseball. Holy hell. Speaking of hell, Barb Riles. Dan, those are the weekend observations.

You're surprised that there's so much interest in this story because like Dateline 2020, these shows get amazing ratings. People are intrigued by stuff like that. Ja, genau.

Wer ist der Wasp? Er kann uns nicht sagen, wer der Wasp ist.

But Dan is thinking then the deal won't happen because Riley isn't playing for tomorrow.

That a boy. The time is now.

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Dan, dieses Spiel ist mehr als nur ein Spiel. Dieses Spiel ist eine Begegnung von Ehre, Dienst und Einheit, die zwischen zwei Teams gespielt wird, die einen Tag nach vorne stehen werden, um diese große Nation zu verteidigen. This game is so big, it gets its own weekend. Triple options, mutual respect, an iconic flyover that will send chills down your spine.

And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it, Army Navy is back!

Yeah, I'm not in the mood. Yeah. Du musst in der Stimmung sein, um das zu machen.

He said he wasn't doing it, and now he's doing it. Well, he sees someone who's not an expert. He's like, I gotta show him how. Show him the ropes. I'm just learning. Tariq Hill, good to see you again. Arch Manning wins that game. Army, Navy, no losers, Dan. Just winners. I still believe there's a chance for Alabama to get in.

Danke, Dan. Wir unterstützen Jeremy Taché mit seinen psychischen Problemen. Er hat hier einen guten Job gemacht. Aber hey, du hast mich jetzt. Für das Spiel, wir versuchen zu entscheiden, ob das Ding menschlich ist. Und ich schwimme in diesem Jackett. Dein Name, David Sampson, klingt auch computergeneriert. Wie der Sohn von Sam. Klingt wie ein Roboter-Name. Aber egal. Nächste Frage. Weirde Seite.

Fühlst du Musik-Lyrics ohne Drogen? Natürlich.

Chicago, hard habit to break, hard to say I'm sorry. Sounds like a generated list that AI did, but we're going to go ahead with human.

Gehen Sie, Izzy. Okay, es ist die NBA Finals. Ein Spieler, der nur 30 Punkte, 10 Rebounds und 9 Assists hatte, kommt auf das Podium. Aber er bringt sein zweijähriges Kind. Ihre Gedanken?

What else do you have, Izzy? Okay, Rami Malek won a primetime Emmy Award for his starring role in which TV show? Es ist nicht die Menendez-Brüder, es ist nicht die Dahmer-Story.

Okay, okay. Ein weiteres Fragezeichen. Domo Origato.

Robot.

Können wir das machen? Okay, erste Frage. Halt die Türen offen im Publikum. Das ist schwierig, weil du ein bisschen ein Germophobe bist, aber das könnte auch sein, dass du nur Germen für dein Computersystem nicht willst. Halt die Türen offen im Publikum.

You say all these things. Not human. Sexist robot. Not just a robot, but a sexist robot. I don't think that's sexist. I'm being helpful.

Alright, this is a tricky one because it's a difficult question for real humans, okay? Describe the flavor of Dr. Pepper.

Ich stelle das von Comedian James Acaster. Es riecht wie eine sexy Batterie. Eine sexy Batterie.

You can adjust it, by the way. No, your gut is right. You look fab in that. Not only did I give you a Christmas present, I told you exactly why I got it for you, because it's the Monopoly man, and you're the Mr. Money man, and he's got a white mustache, and your mustache is turning white.

No, you don't. No, you don't.

I was considering just saying, I'll take it because I have the receipt at home.

Now I just feel bad because I said the other day, yesterday, I was like, wow, holidays are treating Dan really well, and now I got you a hat that makes you look fat.

It's such a good bargain that people will just put a second one on there just in case this paper's too heavy.

You're welcome.

And it's worse of the two options, Chris, because if it would trickle up to the green, somebody would be like, hey, hey, easy, we're still up here. But this guy's imagining it hitting him directly on the head, which probably would have killed him.

If you have to mouth my bad, it doesn't count as a universal symbol.

Chris, you hit the shot of your life.

Oh, my God.

That's a great dick.

It's A-Men and A-Sar. Just go A every time you want to talk about them. Houston is at Brooklyn. They are nine and a half point favorites. Brooklyn loses every game by double figures these days. I just want to remind everybody that I told you about A-Men Thompson first, and everybody who's been glazing him ever since, you can thank me for putting him out there.

Wow, you're putting that flag out there first.

Yes, putting that flag out there.

That is correct. And I'm also going to remind everybody, Stephen Adams is 31 years old. That's crazy.

Madness. Like me, the Joker. And also, that quote that you have never really happened. It's attributed to Einstein, but there's no evidence that he ever said it. Well, Dan, congrats. You said it.

I think Izzy was saying, if nobody knows of the original game, then he doesn't have to give it credit. What were you saying, Izzy? I'm right about everything.

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That's why they can survive the apocalypse, Dan. Nuclear bomb hits one of them, bam, the other heart kicks in. A lot of heart.

Every Hispanic family has the towels that are in the bathroom that you can't use, right? They're just there for show, pa bonito, so that I go in to wash my hands and then I sneak it and actually do it. So I sneak Ich kann meine Hände auf diese Stoffe drehen, auch wenn meine Frau... Nein, Mann, du musst das Wasser drehen.

Nein, warte. Das ist das, was du verpasst hast. Ich mache es nicht vorne. Ich gehe in die Rückseite der Stoffe. Ich gehe in die Rückseite der Stoffe und dann bewege ich sie. So kommt Izzy zu meinem Haus, geht auf die zeremoniellen Stoffe. Ich dachte, diese Stoffe waren da, um die Hände zu drehen. Nein.

There's actually three. It's a tier system. It's the bath towel that's the big one. Then it's like a face towel that's a medium one. And then there's the hand towel that sits on top of all three.

Mine doesn't have embroidery or lace on it. It's just a regular towel, but it's the towel that my wife says I cannot use, which makes me want to use them more.

So to Amin's point, what are you using that towel for with its intended purpose of being expensive?

Ich bin ein Hard-Towel-Guy. Ja, Hard-Towel-Guy. Aber Dan, du bist ein großer Typ, ich bin ein großer Typ. Manchmal, was ich gerne tue, manchmal weiß meine Frau, manchmal nicht. Ich nehme die Bathtauschen, die kleiner sind, und dann schalte ich sie mit den Beach-Tauschen, die das rougheren Gefühl haben, weil ich eine ruffe Tausche mag, nicht eine leckere Tausche.

Und dann benutze ich die Beach Towel, die ist so groß, sieben Füße von vier Füßen. Und ich benutze das anstelle der Beach Towel.

Business Casual.

Ich denke, KD muss draußen ein bisschen Gras trinken, Yoga machen. Geh offline. Weil der ganze Punkt ist, je mehr Zeit du online spielst, desto unglücklicher bist du. Und ich glaube, das ist zumindest persönlich für mich. Je mehr ich auf Twitter, je mehr ich auf Instagram, je mehr ich auf was auch immer, es ist wie, verdammt, das tut weh, richtig?

Und dann, wenn du auf das lebst, nur perpetuierlich, und du hast so viel Geld und du hast so viel Zugang zu sagen, was auch immer du willst, ohne diese Verletzungen, es bleibt schlecht für deine mentale Gesundheit. Was ist Screen Time?

Es ist der Chud. Der Chud bewegt sich von einem Stomach nach dem anderen Stomach und dann zurück.

But I do have a pair. So at home I have flip-flops that are designated just for when I'm coming in and out of the shower. And here I have slides that I pack in my Tupperware boxes. Is there a surface you'd prefer your shower floor to be? I mean, I like a stand-in shower. By the way, I don't like tubs. What's that good floor? I don't like tub showers. I like a walk-in shower.

But yeah, so I guess in that way, I guess I would prefer the tile over the smoothness of a tub, which is just, oh, that's so gross.

It's just gross. It's not a cleanliness thing. I just don't like the sensation. Do you clean your own tub? I don't have a tub. I have a walk-in shower.

It's like the Foot Locker.

Bowling socks. They've got grip. You know what they're really good for? You ever want to rob a bank? Just over your face right there. No, not those. Oh, not those?

It is laugh party.

No.

That statement cut it by itself.

I like doing reads and voices. Everyone else does their read. They just do their read. I'm like, no, you know what? I did a 1-800-Flowers one the other day. Made it real sensual.

Whoa. but thank you steven smith's voice stephen a smith oh yeah every read should be done in that voice the obama voice i've thought about that before but never actually saying anything explicit that would identify me as obama but just saying you know when i you know want to give my wife flowers i go to 1-800 flowers you may get secret service knocking on your door really

2010 Winter Olympics, Canada's playing in the gold medal game for hockey, and I have never in my life seen a more unanimous crowd where every single person was wearing the authentic Canada jersey, stitches and everything. It was just a sea of red.

But it just staggered me that there wasn't a single person who scalped their ticket or a single person said, oh, I don't have the jersey. I got this other T-shirt. Everyone was wearing it. It blew my mind.

Every hockey team practices at something where it's a weird ice pun. Because the Coyotes, when they used to be the Coyotes, were at the ice den.

They're like, Mr. President, are you okay? You're doing reads.

And then also the thing about the ice den was, same thing with Izzy, it's like, it's your practice facility. Also, it's kind of open to the public where other kids have- Like practices from nine to 11, and then there's free skating from 12 to two. Yeah, and they have a gift shop. And I'm just like, I don't think this exists in any other sport where you can just come and get some open run in.

Oh, the NBA trade deadline, guys. It never stops. And someone get Ryan Cortez on live support because his beloved P.J. Tucker is being rerouted.

PJ Tucker is going to his original NBA team, the Toronto Raptors, along with second-round pick and cash in exchange for the man they call off-night, Davion Mitchell. Does that bring them below? Is that the same as trading Kyle Anderson?

I beg your pardon. That guy's polling great with the NFL audience. Stephen Smith. Wide receiver.

So... Ladies and gentlemen, Andy Ellsberg has done it again. Well, they had no choice. He is the absolute master. I don't know if there's – well, you guys don't have a salary cap, so no. But, like, in our sport, when we talk about, hey, they've got 12 hours to get under this threshold right here.

There is nobody, nobody in our league who's as good and creative as Andy Ellsberg, including the year where he got – what's the Slovenian guard? Not Goran Dragic, the other one. Zoran?

Beno Udre. He got Beno Udre to just lower the – the guarantee on his deal in order to get under?

Junior.

Close, I would say it's the second round pick in the cash that they squeezed out of him. They got another little draft asset and some money out of it as opposed to just a player for player or maybe a little bit of money.

They got you, too.

David, right now, other than guys like Luka Doncic, for all these flotsam, salary flotsam— Jetsam, even— Sure. A Greg Cody moment right there. Meet George Jetsam. That's a good Greg Cody moment. But for all these guys, nobody gets on a plane. Everyone just hold on, relax, until we figure out where all the pieces will land. You think Butler didn't get on a plane?

Also, there's another Steven A. Smith that's from American Dad, Steve Anita Smith. Yeah, that's a great show. I love it. I feel like I'm Greg Cody right now.

Okay, thank you. Flotsam is like debris, and then it's like this is the debris.

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake. You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake. Just look at the world around you right here on the ocean floor.

I don't know. That might, no, no. You put him on tilt. No, no. You finally did it. Not because I can't, but because I won't. Mitch McConnell doesn't want you under the seat. Well, Mitch McConnell wants me to stay under the seat. That's what it is. The folks across the aisle, they don't want us to get off the land.

Did you guys see Mitch McConnell fell?

Yeah.

Cortez, I'm gonna dig deeper with you on this. I'm gonna dig deeper with you on this. So Pat Riley may have made the decision, hey, we've gotta get under, but the man who made the numbers sing is Andy Ellsberg. And them numbers be singing. Let's go ahead and edit this.

Them numbers be singing. Better you than me, man. Them numbers be singing.

The Miami Heat are now $1.96 million below the first apron. Congratulations. That's a winner. Yep. They did it.

This is the part that Parakeet doesn't want to.

Wait, you say Dan doesn't do, it's not real when Dan does it?

Right up the...

No. Hold on. Is this really happening right now? Is Jess here today?

My stream has such incredible aim, I get zero splash.

Yes. Well, they have those seat covers. You do that?

Yeah, that's what I do. Gladly. Rare, you know me. I'm pretty regular, so I don't have to deal with that. There's some times when you're at a friend's house.

I never sit. I never sit. The only time I sit is to do the other thing. But even at a friend's house? Not at a friend's house, no. That's just rude. Lift that seat up. Nope, my aim is true. Like a laser.

David, I'm going to tell you right now. Let me tell you right now. No.

David, you're hosting like there's a big fight, right? There's a boxing match. You're hosting people over, right? All right, David, I'll come. I'm not doing anything. I want to watch the fight at your house. I show up. Okay, well, thanks for inviting me, David. What's going on?

Hey, David, where's the bathroom? I just need to wash my hands.

And there's no toilet in there?

The half bath is just a toilet and a sink. Is there a bathroom?

If they're doing work like that, it's not happening. It's fight night, right? Hey, David, the gardener's here.

Hey, David. Amin Jr. needs to go to the bathroom, too, by the way, just to wash his hands, though. Different directions.

Wait, did he give you the instruction? Did he give you the pamphlet when you walked in?

Or are you the one?

I'm not criticizing. I'm merely asking, how do you actually police all these rules? Pablo's going to the bathroom. Chris is throwing up. I've got to make another drink. How are you making sure the gardener's here? Amin Jr. has to wash his hands. How are you keeping track of all these different things all at once?

I swear to you, you should try it sometime. No, I hate hosting.

God damn. David, I got to go.

There's nothing wrong, by the way, as long as it's because you're drinking a lot and not because of other health issues. There's nothing wrong with going to the bathroom. It's a go problem, not a flow problem.

You were thinking whether he was like this. Yeah, gargoyle style.

But, David, you realize it, right? You know that— It's a habit now. No, but I— It should not come as a shock to you, I guess is what I'm saying. You look like at the beginning of this conversation, you guys don't sit down.

I'm talking about the act of urination for men that sitting down is the norm.

I got the best angle. I assume you're lying. What's him dunking with a bank shot? I'm really good. Are you Tim Duncan? What's happening here? I'll give you one better, Jeremy. That's true. Earlier, Izzy said, sometimes I don't want to make sound. This typically doesn't happen when I'm at home, but sometimes when I'm at someone's house,

I do want to do the silent P so I can aim it at the exact angle where it won't make much of a sound, but also it reduces splash because it reduces. It does not eliminate. Yes, it's true. That's true. There is a little bit of trickle, but a lot of it gets caught up under the rim, which is the whole point of the aim.

You just got to lean into it.

The thing that I do that I realized very early on that I'm the only person who does this. I abhor walking into a shower barefoot. I always have slides.

Even at my own house. Wait, in the shower? In your own home? In my own.

What's that? What I'm talking about?

You don't trust your own shower? I could have the shower have been built and installed. I'm the first person to use it and was cleaned and everything. The feeling of my bare foot against tub or tile. disgusts me. Oh, I'm with you here. It disgusts me. Do you pee in the shower? What? No, I don't. Even though Costanza says it's all pipes.

This is me backing you up. That's all true, I mean.

Look, if you've watched the games, you recognize this guy as a talent. He is exactly what Luka needs. There are plenty of people who I believe have been wasting their careers in Charlotte, and he is early one of them. I'm glad he's gone somewhere else. But unless you think Dalton Connect is going to be, I don't know, even J.J.

Redick or some sort of, you know, laser of a 2-3 combo guard or small forward. I don't think you overpaid for that. The Lakers are one of those teams where picks don't matter. It's just like the Miami Heat. Picks don't matter. I'm going to be good all the time.

You said Sam Hinckley and Pablo has never been more lit.

The real winner here is Chris Cody, who now knows what Kyle Anderson and Mark Williams look like.

Why you got to bring that back?

Again, it's overpaying by your opinion. I don't think too many people are assuming that.

David, anybody who's seen Mark Williams play, probably not agreeing with you.

That's got to be a Venmo. It has to be a Venmo. Like, this is the worst phone interruption of all time. We were talking about basketball, and now we're talking about polishing your trophy?

Why are you still here? Yeah.

I mean, you want to hear a scenario that's going to either make you laugh or drive people crazy? I hand it over to Jeremy. So Phoenix is terrible, right?

Is Pat Riley eventually going to land Kevin Durant?

I will not hear Mickey Harrison hatred because somehow he's been able to own a team and still be fiscally responsible while allowing Pat Riley to do his thing for 30 years. And they've been relevant for a long time. So maybe he's doing it right.

No, we're still in the air. You can go a little bit longer. Is there a penalty for that?

What? It's a Japanese, what are you talking about? No, don't move. Just stay perfectly still.

So Cortez, can you speak for Heat fans then? And how do we look back on this Jimmy Butler era? Do we feel bad for Jimmy Butler on the way out because it doesn't seem like he'll be embraced as much? Or is this kind of the bed that he made?

He's really good.

Turns out you have not seen a Charlotte Hornets game since.

No. In a win-now situation for the Lakers, needing a center, no.

Stugatz. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

We got Kyle Anderson, Dennis Schroeder, and Andrew Wiggins.

Yeah, no, she does that. You got a good one. She's...

I don't like steal. More just seeing, hey, is this something Dan actually wants? Because, Dan, your name's on everything around here. Every package essentially has your name on it. So we're just going to peruse through it. Make sure it's, you know, we don't want to waste your time, Dan.

I'm done with it on this show. I'm done with it driving in today. The big dog and Dono just talking about, oh, Miami and quality wins over 500. Just done with it. That's good. I've gotten from Miami got screwed here too. If you would have said at the beginning of the season, and here we are, we're going to do this conversation again.

I just want to say this one line. If you would have said to Mario Cristobal at the beginning of the year, okay, here's what you got to do. Only two games matter. Georgia Tech-Syracuse, you got to win one. You do it, you're in the playoff. You take that, Mario? He would say, hell yeah, and if I don't win one of those, I don't deserve to be in. He would have said that. And now that's what happened.

So you're out. You're barely out. It proves how good of a season you had. You're the first one out, but you deserve to be out.

Big brand, Miami and USC. We're doing it again. I need Poppy. Yeah, go ahead. You're right.

I can see Lucy doing it with Iowa.

Like, get out of here. Major penalty, five minutes, ruining comedy.

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He would have announced that. He's going to have a full, like, this is my final year. Everyone praise me.

Do you see yourself becoming him when you're alone now watching Notre Dame? Like, what parts of him do you do on your own?

Like, are you throwing ornaments? Like, what's...

We're good this year. I would if we were bad.

Fine. What did I call him? Liam. I was thinking about Neeson. His nickname is Lehman. The thing that I want to ask you is...

So all the games in the future are embarrassing. How about that? I hope not. What about the opposite end of the spectrum? When you guys are as happy, the biggest touchdown you've ever been around each other. Is it like a chest bump?

It's a fun spot. I'll be out there. God bless football. I'll be out there. Check it out. Vivo at Dolphin Mall.

I mean, that's what I do when I'm explaining something, all right? You go out there if you want. If you don't want to, you don't have to.

I was talking to him last night at bowling about that. I'm like, what did you do? You pitched a fit, and then you're like, out of nowhere, okay, fine, I'll do it.

But I think the more he is out there and just puts himself out there and is vulnerable and for whatever missteps he takes, somebody has to be critical of him. Right. You can't just let him walk past and be like, OK, because then he'll never mature. So, yes, I think they're afraid. But I also think they're sort of confident that maybe he grows up and doesn't make any huge mistakes.

And this is the worst of Anthony Edwards.

He's like, oh, no, yeah, I'm him. That's cool. And this is what I'm saying about, like, sort of watching him grow. And the league being sort of on eggshells, maybe on pins and needles, but confident that he will grow. Because, like... What are we talking about here? What are the things that he's done?

He's done the one thing where he sort of decided to videotape a line of what appeared to be gay men going into a club and saying, what does the world come to, right? I think Tony had touched upon it earlier that there's a conversation, hey, he probably has too many kids from multiple women, if that's the case. I don't even know all the details there.

And then this personality thing where you're talking about, hey, my blank is bigger than yours. Are these all things that we...

think somebody is going to continue to do as they grow into their late 20s and early 30s or are we saying okay we're putting the spotlight on him he is authentic authentically himself from the beginning which is not what john morant is john morant was a little bit more through some closed doors you have to like figure out who he is anthony edwards is showing you who he is and the league is basically saying oh we might be gritting our teeth through some of it but we're confident he will mature past this

Which is why I'm saying people have to be critical. They have to call him out on things. I don't think this is one of the things to be critical of. To go outside and be a man of the people with the enemy's fans right there,

old-fashioned fun go 15 of 19 from the field hey hey anthony edwards do it after a win that you haven't gone over for 11 he cost him the game but they won how much do you think it kills luca that rudy gobert took him out like rudy gobert absolutely killed in that game and luca's sitting there holding his back like ah

That's less than Duncan Robinson. Even Duncan Robinson has responded to you more than Boog Shombie. That's true. Duncan Robinson.

very far away this is what they call a make or miss league right this is what they mean you make them you're a hero in new york you miss them and they call you a coward in minnesota like it if he misses these shots it's oh here goes cat again scared of the moment because he's taking long distance shots which are bailout shots let's be honest right and he's making them now now he looks like a clutch player before or if he misses them it's oh wow

What a bailout shot. What a terrible clutch player Cat is.

Like, if you are in multiple playoff series where you are somebody who is relied upon often, you're going to get past some of those nerves. Like, those things were obvious in Minnesota. It wasn't just the shots that he was taking or wasn't taking. It was the fouls. He was constantly fouling and just terrible reach-ins and things that you realize maybe a first or second year player would do.

He was doing in the postseason. Not happening as much now as in New York, Nick. Of course, he's gotten more tough and more calloused by everything that's happened around him. I don't love the fact that people mock how he talks because I guarantee in his head that's something that is just I mean, he did an interview with me where he lowered his voice because he didn't want to be mocked.

So I think you're just calloused. You're just toughened. And he is now just playing a little bit more freely. Let's get a couple of rounds in. If they continue to win, see how free he plays, because I think the nerves will come back.

There was a post-game pressure last season with him and Anthony Towns, I believe in the post-season. Who and Anthony Towns? Carl Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards, excuse me. A couple of Anthony's cutting it up. Well done. And somebody said, after all that. And then Anthony Edwards mockingly said in the Carl Anthony Towns voice, after all that. And they kind of laughed about it together.

And I looked at Carl Anthony Towns and that dude was in hell. Like, he had to just laugh off, ha ha ha, I get it, you're making fun of me, that's funny, I sounded crazy. He doesn't sound crazy in his mind, he's just talking. But he has to laugh about it, laugh it off.

There was another player recently that just did an entire, a podcast guest, did an entire bit as Karl-Anthony Towns in this super feminine voice, and it's just like, can't we talk about something else? Like, do we have to make fun of the way this guy talks?

But that is the way to celebrate when you take out an opponent on the road floor. Just go outside. Just go outside and celebrate. Like, give me all the tears right here. I didn't see a ton of security around them. Like, there could have been a lot of fans that went up to him. He just wanted all the smoke, and I love it.

I mean, that's definitely security slash friend.

Yeah, he's he's effectively telling everybody, hey, I'm going to grow up in front of your eyes. I'm not going to hold back, not going to do it behind closed doors. Everything's going to get out there anyway. This is me. I'm imperfect. I don't know how much he feels like he needs to improve personally or wants to improve personally.

Everything you're saying. It's all been said. It's all been said.

Yeah, it is.

Is it? Yeah.

Harold Baines has a statue. I mean, Harold Baines.

Don Staley, not yet. What? Not yet. He said not yet. But Dwayne Wade, borderline on the statue? He is.

Well, she's won how many championships? Two?

But the 10th guy on my ballot... Should there be one for Jeter or no? In New York, there should be.

No, I'm with you. I'm 100% with you. And I think this is a perfect –

second round series for them this season assuming they can get past it is because you know the same round they got knocked out last year doing it against the only one left right because the jason tatum being out you can't really go heart of a champion when they're missing their best player so really the heart of a champion team and in the denver nuggets and this was an interesting part about that last game uh game five which i still think this game can go the series can go seven but i

It was a point there in the fourth quarter where it felt like, all right, if this keeps going this way, Oklahoma City is going to have a lot of explaining to do. Like maybe Shea's overrated. Maybe the supporting cast is overrated because neither one of them were overwhelming in any sort of way.

In a way that you say for certain, hey, in the playoffs against the best of teams, this is how we're going to win. And then they went and did it. Like the second half of that fourth quarter, it was Shea doing it. And it was, you know, other guys hitting threes with Lou Dorton and a couple other guys.

But for the most part, they reminded themselves or told themselves, hey, if we go to what we know works in the playoffs, it still works. It might not work every time, but it's going to work enough for us to win four out of seven.

And I thought that was so critical, such a huge game for them, for their continued growth in game five, that if they win this series, yeah, I absolutely have them as a favorite.

I think, look, if you switch teams, Shea Gilgis-Alexander and Anthony Edwards, Oklahoma City Thunder would be the most popular team in the world. I think it's just a matter of playing style. And it's nothing against Shea. You don't like Shea. He's a hooper's hooper, man. I admire him. It's just not like I'm not going to sit down and just watch his game.

Oh.

Yo, us? Jump sideways. You're jumping sideways, man. You're a foul merchant. They're not mutually exclusive. You can have all the skill and the ability in the world and still be a foul merchant. I can respect your ability and still say, hey, stop doing that.

And this part is going to make Amin crazy. But if the NBA finals are that AT&T commercial, DiVincenzo versus the Villanova boys in New York.

Holy cow, that's going to be crazy.

What would that look like? I see an edit where the Wolves win and they're tossing him the Larry O'Brien trophy. And he's like, ah, yeah, thanks, guys. Look, that's one of the, I would say the league definitely wants the New York Knicks in any capacity to get to the finals because every other combination, you're just like, hmm, we don't like small towns apparently.

But yeah, this is what I love about the NBA right now is like growing up, and I say growing up, I mean all the way up until that was about. 38 roughly. It was very predictable. Like you could probably pick four or five teams and say for certain that's going to be the final four of those five teams are going to be in the final four. Now you don't even know who the champion is going to be.

And I love that. And I love to be able to dissect what that champion did to become that because they separated themselves somehow. It wasn't just talent. Like I mentioned the 2022 warriors again, that's a team. They were not the most talented team that year. They knew how to win. They were healthy when it mattered.

And so if you start combining those formulas every single year, it's just like, hey, the playoffs are just going to be, you don't really know. And that's what I love about it.

You know what this reminds me of, Juju? It reminds me of the 2019 Warriors, right? They had so many deep runs into the playoffs and then they just physically were falling apart. KD, Klay Thompson. And they had to take a step back, the Warriors as a whole. Yes, KD left. And, you know, with this team, maybe you move on from Jalen Brown.

Great, Juju. Great.

Maybe you don't, but you can still sort of it's not it's like a breather. It's a little bit of a reset. Yeah, you do a little change a couple of pieces here and there, but know that your main guys effectively need like a year to breathe like that's what it is need a year to like take off the.

the championship pressures and physically to take off the physical pressures and then sort of reset, sort of come back refreshed in 26 and see, you know, maybe a couple of new pieces, but they know the formula can get them championships the same way the Warriors did. And, you know, they came back and won it in 2022 with different pieces around Stefan Draymond and Clay.

I don't know about soul, but he's got heart.

Right, go there and wait a year, right, for Jason, or you're not going to want to trade for him, like you said. Right.

Really? You don't think that his uniqueness is enough to want them to keep him to stay and maybe let him stay? Maybe he plays 70 games next year?

Well, look, we've known this. Look, if he would have done that in a Miami uniform this year, everybody would have said, look, he's not trying. He's clearly trying to get out of here. Okay. And I don't really care if you're telling me he had an illness. He's on the floor. He looks okay. You know what I'm saying? If you're going to tell me his butt was hurting.

I'm pretty sure I can shoot you up and you'll be fine. Like, it wasn't just that he wasn't doing, when he was dribbling, he wasn't looking to score half the time. He was just kind of going to the middle of the floor and just looking around and trying to find somebody.

And I told people when he got there in San Francisco, there's going to be at least a dozen times where you're going to scratch your head and be like, why didn't you take that shot as you were flying by the rim? You're not even looking at it. If he was Ben Simmons, you would say something's wrong with that dude. Right.

So the idea that there's nothing, nobody would have said anything to him if he went out there and took 40 shots, even if he went 10 for 40, it would be like, damn, he went out shooting his bullets and you know, we ended up where we ended up, but he was just sitting there like almost as if he was trying to make a point. Sometimes I'm running offense. Can't do anything without Steph Curry.

And like, I don't know if that's how he was thinking. My guess is, yeah, he wanted to win, but he just wasn't showing it. And so it's one of those situations where, uh, My eyes aren't lying to me. I know when people are really taking ownership and accountability and trying their hardest to win, it didn't feel like he was taking ownership. Not at all.

I mean, if he goes 10 for 40, good defense. He tried. You know what I'm saying? Like, I get it was good defense, but Jimmy seemed good defense. Jimmy was the number one option at the Miami Heat. He's seen people, you know, scheming for him defensively in the playoffs, and he still put a 50 against the Bucs.

But okay, my counter to that is, was it great defense that was making him just walk to the free throw line and look around? Was that great defense? Because I didn't see him attack the defense.

Well, it actually is probably the most fair criticism of Steve Kerr, not specifically with Kaminga, but that when he doesn't find players that are, not seamlessly, but work into his offense, doesn't know what to do with them. And I don't know if that's true or not. We have to wait and see.

If Kaminga goes somewhere else and realizes that he's not a great basketball IQ guy, maybe doesn't really have a whole lot in his bag, that maybe he's just a piece that in the regular season you can play and in the playoffs you can't trust, we don't know that yet. But I will say that was the most commonly heard critique of Steve Kerr.

I think what people don't see with the Pacers is defensively. They can be really good. Like they play so fast. And, you know, Tyrese Halliburton out there, probably the weakest defender of the group.

But with Miles Turner in the middle, Andrew Nembhard playing, Pascal Siakam, like they have a very strong defense that if you don't keep up with them and they start going on a little streak, like all of a sudden it's a 15 point, 20 point game. Like they have a little bit of that.

old Phoenix Suns team in them where you look up in the first quarter, it could be 45 to 20, and you just don't know what happened.

Imagine us with him. We're all about vibes here. I did want to talk about Miles Turner because a few years ago, he was so frustrated, man. The Pacers were just absolutely middle of the pack to bad. His people were talking to anybody saying, hey.

He's asking, his people are just wondering, why is he so underrated? Can we get him somewhere else? Maybe get him some attention. I'm just like, that's a

great question i don't know the answer to that i'm not a gm and then um now he's getting his due right he's getting he's not only is he playing well and they're winning but you realize man this dude is long can move can shoot can block shots a great modern day big whereas before you didn't really know what to do or say with miles turner so shout out to miles for sticking in there and getting his due eventually

My pleasure, man. I know I've been in your spot. I'm always in your spot, so I know it's helpful to just talk about it.

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Yeah, let's get this out of the way real quick, because somebody on the reels today I saw called it a squirmish. And I said to myself, oh, wait a second. It's always called a skirmish, but is it spelled squirmish, S-Q-U-I? And so I did all the looking up and it was like, no, people just sometimes people do spell it squirmish. Skirmish, but pronounce it skirmish.

And apparently that's allowed because it's like a nonce word or something. I don't know, but just know it's pronounced skirmish no matter how you spell it.

Ah, loser, yes. It's just a description.

They already were this team. And I'll tell you, it's just because of Isaiah Stewart, in my opinion, beef stew, as they call him. Because if you remember back when they played the Warriors recently, he actually got Steph Curry to do like a double take like and stare down.

One, you've seen over the course of these six years with this core of players what they can be when they're healthy and they look good, right? Like, they're not 100% healthy. Obviously, Ja has missed like 30 games. They have been significantly worse since the All-Star break.

Right. Right. There's not that many people that can do that and say the right things to Steph Curry or even want to, you know, poke the bear, if you will. And this one, it wasn't even his fight, really. He just came in. And if you show that that image of him, like he left the floor, like pointing at his Detroit jersey, like saying, this is us, like, do not mess with us.

And I do think that this whole idea that they are this, you know, young, lovable team. That's great.

But this Isaiah Stewart tells me that they're tough and maybe the bad boys are back.

they could be a contender in the Eastern Conference. Like, they could just be young, the combination of young and dumb enough and tough enough to surprise somebody. Because let's think about it for a second. You're the Boston Celtics, right? Who did the Boston Celtics really beat in the Eastern Conference last year? I'll help you out. Nobody. Okay, nobody.

So if they run into a tough opponent in the second round that's pushing back on them and can score the way this Pistons team can score, I don't know. I think they got shot.

It reminds me of the team of Dwayne Wade's rookie year, where he was the star, even though they didn't really know it as much. Cade is leading the way, and it's just a quality group around him that can play today's basketball. Didn't they lose to that Heat team losing the first round? Second round. Second round to the Indiana Pacers in six games.

And that was a Pacers team that was supposed to go far in those playoffs. I'm not saying that that team was a contender necessarily. I'm just saying it reminds me of that team. And if they would have beat the Pacers, wouldn't have been that crazy.

And I think when you've had a coach for as long as he's been there, when you've seen the ups, you've seen the downs, you kind of notice when it's not going to cycle back. to be a winning team again, to be at their peak.

I mean, if they're completely healthy, I'm going to say the Knicks, because as you said, they've been there. We've seen it happen. But Pistons are right there, if not overtaking them, if you just look at the last half of the season.

I mean, anything that involves Draymond Green is a possibility. It feels like Centel next time because I don't think he is purposely, this time, because I don't think he is purposely going after Rudy Gobert by proxy at this point. So, yeah, I'm going to go Centel on this one.

And if you look at their top six guys, really their top seven guys these days, if you include Scottie Pippen Jr., every single one of them have only known one coach, and that's Taylor Jenkins. Except for Triple J, his first year he had J.B. Bickerstaff. Everybody else, only Taylor Jenkins. So you kind of get the feeling of when, hey, this might turn around.

it feels like it should be fake, but I've heard Doc Rivers say this or seen him say this now, not once, but twice, which is, I mean, it's odd that he's going to hang up a banner that says never been swept. I think that was a, that's something that probably should look into when he retires, but man, like the, I guess the,

just inability the lack of awareness here just to say this again not just once but twice because he's been he's talked about this before um it's it's a little embarrassing and yeah i think if you go into doc river's impression it's probably the best way to answer this

All right. Did I tell you which one? You know, the first one I got got with, right, which is the quote from Anthony Edwards. It said, feels like Julius Randall's playing in jeans.

That one seemed pretty real. I got got on that one.

Well, I mean... If he were to chime in and he did say that, he would be probably lying, right? Because he grew up when his dad was winning MVPs. And there's a couple of them that people think, a couple more that people think should have gone to him and shouldn't have gone to somebody else like Derrick Rose. And so, yeah, he didn't grow up in an era where the best player got the MVP.

So I'm going to say this is Centel. I think Bronny would have been all over the place if he said this.

This is me doing the Will Ferrell meme where he's super pumped, but not doing it very well. I need to be in a robe.

Maybe they'll turn it up right before the playoffs. And when you think about, you know, John Morant reportedly not being in love with the offense and seeing how they've fallen off the last couple of weeks or a few weeks, especially defensively, which is the place where you look at mostly where guys are getting coached up. It's when you look at it, it kind of doesn't seem so crazy.

I like two teams. I like the Bulls and I think I like the Rockets. But shocking. The Bulls, I think just staying close within 15, even if they're getting blown out, might be able to score some points and just kind of keep it close. I think Rockets, Lakers.

I know the Rockets are on a back to back here and the Lakers are desperate, but the Rockets have just been cleaning up and the defense has been spectacular. I don't see the Lakers doing much with that defense.

All right. Let's put our money on the Chicago Bulls.

Like you're going to an assistant coach that might have a different version of the offense you're already running. And maybe it'll be the best. Maybe it'll be the honeymoon period during the playoffs. And, and you, you know, you get the best of this team because it didn't seem like they were going to go much further than they'd already gone with Taylor Jenkins.

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But that also helps out with the timeline, though. I mean, right? Sort of explaining it, right? Because it's like, hey, here's your chance. We need to know what this is going to look like. And as they got further into the season, looked worse and worse. Like, I don't know from the outside looking in, I don't know necessarily who was a Taylor Jenkins guy and who wasn't.

But just based on the quotes, seemed like Jaron Jackson Jr. was definitely one. But John Moran certainly was not. Seemed like he got out of bed. He said he was in bed. Saw the quote. Huh. Surprised me. That's pretty much what the extent of his quote. Not, hey, I really love that guy.

Let me say this, though. Whoever came up with the offense, I believe it was one of the coaches he was fired with just now. He came up with it as a model after a Division III school. Listen, man, if you're telling me if I'm an NBA front office decision maker and you are telling me you're going to devise an offense based on something that you saw with Division III something or other,

no thank you man i i don't want any of that not only do i not think it's going to work but you're going to tell your players that and they're going to be like why why do we need some division three gimmicky offense and just to answer your last question there in terms of like what does it mean like if they get the best out of their team with this new assistant code or with this new coach what's that going to mean is that going to mean title contention not necessarily but if they make a western conference finals

If they go to a game seven in a second round, as opposed to flaming out in the first round, which a lot of people assume they might have done under Taylor Jenkins, that's enough confirmation for them that they made the right move. I'm not saying that that's what's going to happen, but this isn't one of those championship or bust type of scenarios.

It's let's just see in these playoffs, because we know what it looked like under Taylor. Let's see what it looks like with this guy.

Well, and the other thing is, is like the the idea. You're right. The idea of that offense was they weren't running as many pick and rolls, even though like somebody like Zach Eady drafted number nine. He says out loud, hey, I love pick and roll offense and they do less of it. Right.

And, you know, the idea is that they draft him so they can punish small ball teams instead of just take them out and do the traditional thing. It doesn't seem like they were aligned on a lot of things. And so I wonder if it was something of, you know, they were just waiting for this opportunity, right? Because they've been, you know, they've been up and down all season long.

They've been dancing around the two seat for a while. Maybe it's now they're just like, all right, we've seen enough. It was never going to work. You're not doing what we asked you to do anyway. Let's let's use this assistant coach. He might put a couple new wrinkles in the offense. And so people won't complain as much. But yeah, you weren't doing what we asked anyway.

I don't think this puts him in the coach killer category because, again, you've had six years with Taylor. I think if anything was going to sort of force him out of Memphis, it was last year and it was everything around that. And so I don't know if this in itself is that telling. I will say that In the games that he missed, they were basically hovering above 500.

And so I don't think that is very encouraging if you're the Grizzlies and say, hey, we can move on from Ja whenever we want. I still think they consider him and Triple J as franchise cornerstones.

Definitely not. I think I was sort of still getting over the Lakers and Bulls, just taking all the madness from Marcher themselves with the finish of that game. And then I'm sort of getting the Taylor Jenkins news. And it's just... It's weird for a few reasons.

Well, first of all, I thought you were going to put me in a jock sniffing hole. Instead, I'm surrounded by Barry Jackson's not the best situation here. But look, I think you can tell where the Heat are in their whole building, rebuilding phase, whatever they are, just based on Barry Jackson's reactions. OK, you've talked about Barry on the show before. He's been doing this forever.

He's the intrepid reporter. This is the reason why he's shown up on the show. He's just a little bee. He'll just be anywhere that you need him to be. OK, but this is not the LeBron era. This is not the Dwyane Wade and Shaq era. He doesn't have to treat this the way he treated those. This is the Jimmy Butler era.

This is the third best era, third best iteration of this team that Pat Riley has put together. So now it's Jimmy's time. Okay, whatever. Do you know how many franchises would have loved this six year stretch? Would have been the best six year stretch of their entire franchise. For Pat Riley, it's light work. Oh, I've got to get rid of him now? Nobody thought I could even get him.

And you want to talk about full circle moments. I know this is supposed to be a Barry Jackson thing.

Because, look, it's a new year. I've got to get these things out, okay? The idea. Happy new anus. I will take one, by the way, if you're offering. I mean, a new body part, why not? You want a trade? Ooh, no, I'd need a brand new one. Brand new one, not used, please. But this full circle moment for Jimmy Butler, like, I don't understand how Jimmy checkmated Pat Riley.

No one wants my anus. Is he? Is he? At 47 years old, Dan, I don't care what body part you offer me, I'll take a new one. If it starts with the... Then that's where it starts, okay? But I don't understand how Jimmy Butler checkmated Pat Riley when this is very much a full circle moment here for Jimmy Butler. The Warriors will not trade Andrew Wiggins for him.

Karl-Anthony Towns is dominating in New York, and Jimmy can't find a team. And I don't even think this is about leverage, because the Warriors did not want to trade Kaminga and Wiggins for Jimmy before all of this mess, and now it just shows you that Jimmy overachieved here, Pat Riley and the Heat overachieved here, and now it's breakup time. Oh well. But what about Barry?

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Oh, well. Because I wasn't prepared for this segment.

You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugatz!

Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

Cuervo.

That's Tony! That's not Cassidy! That is Tony! Cassidy does not look like her!

Whoa! Stugatz! I can't believe it! It's official! He did it for all the world to see! He confirmed it! It's a fact! It's not subjective! He cannot argue it! Lance Stevenson blows! Hoosier State! Hoosier State! I ask you once again, Hoosier Daddy! That's a pretty good chance it's Paul George. Ouch! Indiana! Out, Deanna! You have cities named French, Blick, and South Bend!

We have strip clubs that offer the French Lick and the South Bend! Give it to me again! Give it to me again! Indiana, I'm so very sorry, but David is as close as you're going to get to meeting the West.

Rashard Lewis is the black Mike Miller. Go, Ed Molloy! Game sevens and Paul George's internet girlfriend have something in common. Neither of them actually exist. They're fantasy. And one of them's a dude.

Indiana has a famous shrimp dish. We'll just give you crabs. Don't sleep on LaVoy Island. Barkley actually said that. Why? He said Evan Turner would make them unstoppable. Give me a gun! Give it to me a gun! Stugatz props to Paul George, though. He looked real, real sharp after game six. Do you think that was Armani? Oh, no, I'm sorry. That was a paternity suit.

Indiana's football owner gets arrested with $29,000 in a briefcase and drugs in a laundry bag. You call that a scandal. We call that a Monday.

What's the matter with you, man? Indiana!

Get the f*** out of here with that. Get that out of here. Indiana's official fish is the largemouth bass. And now your signature pacer is a largemouth f***. Give it to me again. Get your football updates out of here. Give it to me again.

More than 100 species of trees are native to Indiana! And Michael Beasley finna smoke all of them! Paul George's house was burglarized, found missing, $16,000, an all-star ring, a flex watch, a pair of Air Jordan 4 Toro, and Roy Hibbert. They have Paul George, Paul and George, that's the name of two Beatles. Guess who's got two ringos?

I'm exhausted. You got another one. My arms are numb. Should I grab Greg Cody? No, no, no. Go get somebody a little bit younger to help me out here. Eat Grandma. Get in here. Get in here. Eat Grandma.

Kill him, Grandma. Kill him. Kill him, Grandma.

Well, that's too nice, Grandma. That's not the way you do this.

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That's how you do it, Grandma! You sicko! Now just throw in like a random and funny pop culture reference real quick to break it up. Turn down for what? Stugatz, I feel bad about dragging this nice little old lady into our sewage. This was mean. It was not nice, Stugatz. Grandma, are you mad at us? I ain't got no worries.

No, get out of here, old lady. I got my second win. Let's go. Give it to me again. Give it to me again. Give it to me again. Miami's first white guy off the bench puts the ball in the net. Indiana's first white guy off the bench puts his hair in the net. Stugatz, what do you call a beautiful person in Indiana?

a visitor! You blow in our ear, we'll snort blow off your rear! As of today, Odin has as many finals appearances as Durant! Ha! Beasley has more finals appearances than Rose. Justin Hamilton is about to go to the finals as many times as Barkley. Ah, yes. Our coolest Kravitz is Lenny. Your coolest Kravitz is Bob. What? I thought that was visually funny. Bob Kravitz.

I like Bob Kravitz, but it's visually funny. Give it to me again. Give it to me again. Who is wearing Larry Bird's skin? He looks like a grandmother. It's one of the greatest players ever. You have South Bend, we have South Beach. You have Larry Bird, we have Larry O'Brien. You have Rudy, we have Booty. Odin and Paul George had public internet pee-pee scandals.

And suffice it to say, in every way, Indiana, Miami's is bigger than yours. I cannot breathe. You got one more. You have Hoosiers. We have Hooters. I woke up like this. Give it to me again. Give it to me again. That was so awkward. Give it to me again. Channeling that Beyonce. Go ahead, Lance. Put your hand in his face. And then America will watch him put your a** in his face.

You have merely one Skola. Miami only has a million leases. The Indianapolis 500 isn't a race. Indianapolis 500 is your basketball team's record since the All-Star break. So give me that toot, toot. Let me give you that beep, beep. Running her hands through my throat. What did I just do there? What was that?

That was so bad. You have the Colts and Andrew Luck, and we have a quarterback whose wife ends up with a machine gun in the back of her car. Give it to me one more time. Give it to me one more time. I'm running out of material, running out of breath, running out of oxygen, running out of heart capacity.

Hey, everybody, let's gather around. Let's count with LeBron. Let's all add up how many finals games the Pacers are going to play this year. Not one, not two, not three, not four. Congratulations, Pacers. You worked all season for it. You can have game seven on your floor. Indy has race cars. I have the race card. Playing continually on this show, always getting ripped for it. Parking lot.

Oh, my gosh, I'm exhausted. Hey, Grandma, get in here and hit him with the dismount, will you? What do you have to say to Paul George to echo throughout the offseason? Slap my daddy.

But the way he did it didn't work.

So, wait, Jim, you've got your face pressed against the netting and all you can see is the horror on your mother's face?

We have missed him so much. Just thrown flowers on the stage.

That's Phil Cassidy! That is Tony! Cassidy does not look like her. It's the same girl you saw this morning that you introduced.

You even offered advice to me two weeks ago if you need help with anything. Tony! Tony! Stop it right now. Don't get mad at her. Tony, stop it right now. Tony, I love you. I apologize. I feel terrible.

It was my client's idea. How can you not know that this is Tony?

So wait a minute. What was that? What was happening there? You just, you sized up. You went back to back. Who were you fighting against?

So you're back-to-back with some football players. How'd that go?

I don't understand how it's taken this long for somebody to bring this up. It's such an obvious void that's been there. It is the one area of that sport that doesn't get rewarded. Everything else can be. Even in college, do they have that at the Home Depot Awards? They have Outland. Now it's interior lineman, right? So in the NFL, absolutely. It's an entirely different situation.

And please stop doing that to Jokic. If an offensive lineman could throw the ball, catch the ball, intercept the ball, then I would maybe make that comparison.

There's nothing there. I just don't think he's watching that many Nuggets games. I'm just going to say it.

Be better. It was as if I started watching Patrick Mahomes this year and him winning these close games and like, he's doing some things, but I'd be like, he's okay. But I have no context for that.

So you're racist.

Can we find you for this, Dan?

I didn't say any of those things. You did say... There was also not a bridge. It was just a glass door.

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Can they name a route after Wes Welker? Eric Decker?

What is there to steal? Isn't it just quickness? You're either quick or you're not.

But why did they think you were a valet person? Were you just hanging around the keys at an event and they would throw them at you? Yeah, because I'm standing in the front.

I don't think so. I think more people I mean, me personally, I think, yes, obviously you should have run the ball. I don't think that, you know, diminishes everything that he did. It's also was a great play. It was a great play by Malcolm Butler.

He was already the oldest coach when he was coaching, right? He's got to be in his late 70s. I would guess 73.

I don't think you understand how water works, right? This actually happened to me. When I was doing this, and everybody was in the sauna and still could see me, I went from the sauna... to the cold plunge, to the whirlpool, without showering in between, right? I showered before.

And then I had this, I want to say German gentleman, could have been Austrian, come up to me as I was in the whirlpool, while other people were kind of standing around, sort of carrying me, saying, excuse me, next time, if you could please take a shower. I was like, well, thank you. One of the people who work here never told me to do that. I took a shower beforehand.

And also, I'm not sure you know how sweat works. Because it's not like it just comes out dirty. And if I get into the whirlpool, I'm going to sweat anyway, whether I took a shower or not. Sorry, I'm just taking it out on this dude. You know what?

But we're all in this shared space supposedly clean beforehand. Again, this is a matter of not knowing how pores work. Okay, so you showered before you got in.

Can we put that sign on the door? What if I cover them with my hands?

I just want to remind people, I was not doing this in an NFL locker room.

Yes. Tell me more.

It is such a simple ask. Like in every gym you go to, right, there's walls between showers. I would argue I want full walls between urinals.

Careful.

For the record, I did not give Dan this list of questions.

It would make sense it would be offensive lineman, because defensive lineman can be, defensive players of the year, offensive lineman would never.

He's got to take clothes off for that, right? You don't want him sweating in his clothes.

Last time I was there, I was in Europe. Everybody was nude. It's a thing. Okay, I don't do saunas.

Do you wear the nipple covers on there?

We were in this very group sauna situation. We do aromatherapy and stuff and there's just a lot of people in there. And right outside the sauna, the walls are glass, is a cold plunge pool and a hot tub, right? Yeah. I like saunas. They're very helpful health-wise. But for some reason, this sauna was burning my nose after like 12 minutes. I had to get out of there.

I got out of there, and I went into the cold plunge pool completely naked, came out of the cold plunge pool, and everybody in the sauna was clearly facing my direction. And I'm just like, man, if I were less cold than this, I'd be worried about shrinkage and stuff. Nah, it's freezing. I'm getting into that hot tub.

And it's not just that. It's the elements of everybody else's game that you've seen these highlights of over the years. It's Magic Johnson, no look, perfect, over the head, bounce passes, which you don't ever see. When we go back and we look at these highlights 20, 30 years from now, we're going to be more odd somehow than we are now.

And I still argue, I said this on The Shadow Show, part of it is he's playing in Denver because if he was playing somewhere in Southern California, New York, Chicago, wherever else, you would probably speak highly, more highly of him, even more so. I think, as you said, in terms of the boredom of MVP voters,

If they give this to Shea Gildress Alexander, which I believe the voters will do, and they have their sort of classic reasons as to why, I think it's one of the worst case, would be, one of the worst case of voter fatigue for an MVP than I've ever seen.

Because I was going to make this argument about winners in the NFL anyway, right? Winners do the boring stuff over and over and over again. The things that they know are going to win. And not everybody does that. Jokic does whatever it takes to win. He's so bored by it. He's like, oh, it's a double team. Okay, fine. It's just obvious. It comes to him so easily.

And then the skill with all that shot making is incredible. And yeah, of course he's playing the best basketball of his career, shooting 47% from three to make up for Russell Westbrook, who doesn't bring any floor spacing there. It's absolutely crazy. And I'm telling you, you will be more impressed by this 20 years from now than you are now.

Well, that's another thing. I think as opposed to sort of the thing we did to Peyton Manning, the things we did to Aaron Rodgers, hey, you need to win another one.

I'm of the opinion that if Jokic doesn't win two or more championships, all of his teammates are going to live the rest of their lives regretting that they didn't do it for him, thinking of themselves as failures because how good do you have to be as the leader of the team?

But we're arguing, or you're arguing that Nicole Jokic is doing the equivalent of three-yard dump-offs every time, and he's not. He's doing what you say Patrick Mahomes does, figures out everything the defense throws at him, and sometimes it's spectacular.

It's a leviton siren.

Technically, I brought him up. I was the one who said he was boring, though.

Can't I make the argument, though, that they had specific skills, not as Dan is saying, not complete wide receivers, not great wide receivers, where their amazing quarterbacks are taking advantage of those specific skills. And so I'm with Dan here. Like Xavier Worthy, he's fast. Yes, he's not a complete receiver yet.

I will take advantage of what he can do because I'm that offense and I'm Patrick Mahomes. Same thing with Josh Allen. I don't need a stud wide receiver. I can buy enough time out there to just let anybody get open and make that person get a bunch of yards. It's the quarterbacks taking advantage of those guys, no?

Aren't we making the same argument for different positions, right? What I'm saying is a great quarterback will make a system receiver into being pretty good, right? Into being a good, productive receiver. And you're saying a good receiver, A.J. Brown, can make a quarterback better like Jalen Hurts because we see Jalen Hurts doesn't have the skill set as these other quarterbacks.

I mean, if you think about Aaron Gordon, what he was supposed to be in Orlando, like you mentioned, and what he sort of settled into as effectively, in my opinion, the best role player in the league, that's almost a gift, right? You're getting a guy who is supposed to be a star, and it's like, no, no, it's almost like Amari Cooper.

I'm okay playing this role, and so he's an elite role player, right? The other guys that won a championship with it anyway, KCP is an elite defender in the perimeter and a really good shooter. So it was almost a great opportunity. perfect fit around Jokic. But I think what we're seeing now is that, yeah, he can adjust to whatever teammates he has.

He and Russell Westbrook are making magic out there sometimes. And so, yes, if you put him on the Detroit Pistons, as long as there's some level of balance there, it's not just a bunch of Jalen Durans around him, then they will absolutely be top

I think absolutely. And I think that's part of the gift. That's part of the brilliance of Jokic is he makes everybody else better. Like Cade Cunningham, I like him. He's, you know, last year with bad teammates and a worse coach was not doing very well. That's where I formed that opinion on him. This year looks a lot better. Still has a bunch of turnovers, but he is not elevating everybody, right?

There's actually just better players around him, Tobias Harris and whatnot. But I think with Nicola Jokic, he would make everybody around him better, and that's just something that you can't really measure.

I mean, he changed the whole way people thought of the NBA. They thought you have to win with a big guy. Now you have to win with this. Now you can win with a guard. But I'm with Mike here. Like when he was losing to the Pistons, there was still that conversation of, oh, yeah, he doesn't pass the ball. He can't be the best player in the league, right? Total ball hog.

Like the first three-peat where they're just like, wow, this is incredible. I don't think anybody's done this before. And it's a small guard doing it. Best player ever. So 94?

Well, how do you define what's a better offensive player?

Just because he doesn't take guys off the dribble and pull up on them like Michael Jordan does.

Not yet, but you've seen what he's doing. You talk about a mythological figure. He will be after he retires. Did you see how bored he looked after he hit that 66-footer last night? Just an absolute savant. And Michael Jordan was a savant as well, but I don't think he was this complete. He needs five more titles.

I think he might be onto something, though, because I think people are going to pull a Jokic by just doing something amazing and looking absolutely bored about it. It's no big deal. I do this all the time.

Don't tell me you're one of those guys that say Jordan would average 45 in today's game.

12 rebounds and 12 assists?

I'll take it a step further. That's a relationship. Like, you're in trouble. Like, that happens to me all the time. Anthony's on the phone with somebody trying to make plans. And he's asking me on speakerphone. Knows damn well I don't want to go to this place. But he's putting extra pressure. Do not ask me questions in public.

I can't get over the fact that he invoked your mom's name. Well, not name, but your mother. How is his mother supposed to help him with traffic?

Oh, right this way.

Times have changed, man. People aren't afraid of authority anymore. When I was a kid, I'll just say it. My dad used to whoop my ass, like belt at whatever tool he had used to whoop my ass. And even in third grade, There was this teacher, I don't know if she's with us anymore, probably not, Miss Harrison, thank you for everything.

She would make kids who got in trouble stand in the middle of the room holding a book in each hand until their shoulders were on fire, crying, and then if that didn't work, she would just take you to the restroom, drop your pants, give you a smack on the ass.

Pablo finds out. Now that you stepped on his episode, I can't imagine what he's going to do to you in his next episode.

Entirely different numbers and letter combinations. Different numbers, different letters. Amen. You have no idea who Michael Jordan is.

You ain't up on it. And they're up on you. It's ridiculous.

Du bist ziemlich gut bei der Strategie, wie du einen Skandal unter den Koffer hättest. Ich würde ihn einfach nur sprechen lassen. Ich habe angefangen zu denken, oh, ist er sich gerade verurteilt? Welche große Name hast du mitgearbeitet, um diese Strategie so gut zu kennen? Ich bin eine große Name. Was redest du hier über? Oh, okay. Komm schon, Mann. Das ist alles ersthand.

Das bedeutet, ich bin wirklich Teil der Familie und ich mag es, Mann. Egal, ob Leute denken, mein Name ist Walter, ich bin okay damit. Walter? I've actually started to embrace the name Walter. I looked up t-shirts this week that said, hi, my name is Walter. But they wouldn't have got here on time for me to wear it to the studio. I could see you as a Walter. You'd give off a little Walter.

90s tactical. It wouldn't be Walt, but Walter. I feel like it has to be Walt as a black man. There's no way I could be Walter and not be called Walt. Walt Williams.

Was denkst du davon? Ich bin gespannt, Mann. Ich hoffe, er hat in der Superbowl gespielt. Es war unmöglich, dass er es machen konnte. Aber es war ein motivierender Rallye-Kreis für seine Teamleute, um ein bisschen aus ihm zu kommen.

All right, Izzy, you look. There's a whole studio of people. Cam Ward und Tonys Tochter, die das Bild nicht sehen kann.

Es kam runter. Es war nicht ein Goal-Tend. Es war ein Goal-Tend, weil es runter kam, bevor du es sahst. Es war ein Upward-Scratch am Ende. Weißt du warum? Weil ich meine Nase so gescratcht habe. Mit deinen Rüsten. Vielleicht war er ein Signal für jemanden, um Cam Wards Knie zu nehmen. Ich habe drei von euch da drin.

Pick oder No-Pick? No-Pick. No-Pick für Izzy. Pick. No-Pick.

We got a Walter shirt. Do we find one? I need a shirt. There it is. Hello. My name is Walter. If we can get that sent ASAP, I will wear it at whatever next big event. How about the retreat? I'll wear it to the SBJ 4040 retreat. Which is going to be very confusing to people if I wear that shirt, but whatever. Hey Walter, my name is Andrew. Mein Name ist eigentlich Andrew.

I try so hard. From the other goat of racially ambiguous... What is he? He has the authority to speak on it.

Das verlorene Team hat immer einen Grund, warum sie verloren haben. Es ist immer so, dass wir verloren haben. Nicht, weil wir gewonnen haben. Es gibt immer eine spezifische Verschwörung gegen die Dinge, die gegen sie geschehen sind.

Oh mein Gott, Bro.

That is such a great take. Powering through to this is so difficult. You look like Shannon Sharpe.

You look like Doug Bunny growing up. It became... Eine immediate Persönlichkeit. Ein bisschen Haar. Und das Gefühl, dass sie die Musik immer noch spielen. Verdammt! Doug, es ist schön, dass du gut gemacht hast.

Was that Greek?

I don't know what it is.

I mean, forgive me, because I'm obviously the novice NBA fan, but isn't the Oklahoma City Thunder... Roster Composition in large part because of the Paul George trade. It's been a while.

Nein, nein.

In football, you build a roster. It's either you draft Great, or you have a bunch of draft picks. Did they have the increased draft picks?

Und es hat ihnen absolut geholfen. Und sie haben beide gewonnen, richtig? Gute Draftpicks und mehr Draftpicks.

Es ist so, dass wir es für einen besseren Spieler handeln.

Ich liebe es, es ist mein Lieblingsspiel. Ich wünschte, MJ wusste mich weniger. Hey, Mann.

Du willst nicht so lange sitzen.

Er hat dich nie in seinem Leben getroffen.

I like how you keep it vague. It's like, I'm not telling you because if you know, you know, or I'm not telling you because...

Okay, egal.

Ich habe keinen Raum, um mich anzunehmen. Und ich bin einer von denen, die die Tabs öffnen, bis ich denke, okay, ich habe meine To-Do-Liste. All meine Tabs sind meine To-Do-Liste.

That's not a violation of HIPAA.

Wait till we transition from the BTS view right to the ring cam.

Ein wirklich kleiner Airbnb, übrigens. Das ist nicht der Bereich, in dem ich Bill Belichick erwarten würde.

Sie ist außerhalb von Boston.

Ich glaube, sie ist jung. Und ich will nicht versuchen, sie zu beurteilen. Klein zu sein, um große Dinge zu tun. Du kennst nicht das Spiel. Und sie ist überzeugt von diesem älteren Mann. Und ich will nicht, dass es klingt, als wäre Bill Belichick das Verbrecher. Das ist nicht, was ich verurteile. Aber sie sagt, okay, in diesem Weltraum... Du musst ein öffentliches Bild haben. Du musst es nutzen.

Das ist, wie du die Möglichkeiten bekommst. Und jetzt sagt er, okay, ich werde es dem Experten geben. Aber der Experte ist 24 Jahre alt. Also, wenn sie auf Pablo schlägt, du merkst nicht, es ist wie ein Kind, wenn sie lügen und sie denken, ich denke, das wird übergehen. Und sie sind zwölf und du denkst, ich bin zwölf.

Das ist einfach zu sehen und hier ist warum, weil ich das schon ein Millionen Mal gemacht habe. Pablo und sie waren so, oh, du glaubst nicht, dass ich mehr Informationen bekommen kann?

I've been searching your Jordans for the last 10 minutes and have not found them. You can't find them. The Mosquito Valentine ones. SP1, nothing showed up. I think you're lying. I'm not lying. Hold on. Well, no, you keep the show going.

Wie kann man nur so... Ausgeruht sein? Ganz einfach. Trainiere deinen Schlaf und werde auch du zum Morgenmenschen. Mit der Galaxy Watch 7 oder dem Galaxy Ring und der Samsung Health App.

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Izzy, to your point where you're like, oh, I can play with these guys, right? Like when you do the pickup games and you see Anthony Edwards up close and you're like, wait a second, like I kind of compare. There's that moment of realization of I can play with these guys. And then there's the moment of realization, like Amin said, like, oh, I can't play with that guy. That guy's so much better.

Is that guy Steph?

You saw what happened the last time they played. They were off a back-to-back. They have played the Nuggets, the Lakers.

With good reason. Yeah. No?

441 Powerline Road. Second down to nine.

We were talking about it earlier. We had Jake Plummer on the show. Yeah, Jake Plummer's going to be here.

Amen.

I just wanted Chris to do the entire thing and just really be hooked up on the elephant bathrooms.

Just let me ask questions. Let the record show that a couple of years ago when I said the Heat should have tanked for Wemby and Yama, in my personal record book, the Heat already have Wemby at that point. So we have Wemby on this team in my personal record book. Now we're trying to get Cooper Flagg to pair with Wemby in my personal record book on my team.

Imagine Nico Harrison at that ping pong. He traded Luka for an American white.

Okay.

Yeah, well, my bad. I'm just trying to feed Chris all this stuff. The whole thing would be conspiratorial anywhere you put him, right? Like, Cooper Flagg, if he goes to San Antonio, he goes to Dallas. If he goes to Philly, you know, obviously the— Miami deserves it. Thank you, Jeremy. They deserve it. Look, now you're finally starting to figure it out.

They try hard.

That was the point. According to DraftKings, the Heat have a plus 150,000 odds to win the NBA championship, which is 0.07%.

6.6% chance to get a top three pick, 9.4% of the top four.

I feel like the next one feels like very much a disappearing act.

You guys didn't know that? I had no idea.

No, no, no.

That's something that we grew up with religiously was VeggieTales. It was like a part of our- Literally religiously.

Aww. Aww.

I was going to say, you got to hold it like you just got back.

They didn't wear helmets, the ladies that went up. No, they just hung out. What happened there? Weren't we told you got to wear helmets just in case? Just in case. You'll be fine. That's a habit.

Are you not worried about Rockets offensively, though? Like, who's going to be the guy down the stretch that you're going to give the ball to and be like, all right, buddy, go get us a bucket when we really need one?

He's been there.

Are firehouse poles the same as stripper poles where the pole itself actually rotates? Do you guys know the stripper pole like the pole itself rotates? Wait. Which is crazy. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Nein, die Polen circulieren langsam. Sie können sich bewegen.

Ich werde das sagen, ja. Ich werde meine Ressourcen auf das schreiben. Mein Partner Anthony hat Polen-Dancing-Klassen mit ein paar Freunden meines. Und er hat sehr starke Beine. Aber er hat sehr viel mit dem Polen gespart. Aber er hat Dinge gelernt, wie die Polen tatsächlich rotieren.

Was wartest du für Angst? Was wartest du so sicher, dass du das hören wirst?

But yeah, he took the dancing classes. The girls that he took it with kept taking it. He stopped, I think, after two.

Aber ich meine... Ja, nicht der Tag, um Jalen Williams zu verteidigen, würde ich sagen. Welcher? Der All-Star. Okay. Der All-Star. Er sah nicht wirklich aus wie ein All-Star gestern. Einen Tag später, glaube ich, habe ich gesagt, dass Darius Garland der größte Verrückter der All-Stars war. Ich glaube, Jalen Williams hat gesagt, hol mir ein Bier. Weil das nicht ein großartiges Performance war.

Different styles of drawing in all of them. Maybe he just changed it up because he's got different kids.

Was ist das Lied, dass er seine Kinder liebt oder dass seine Kinder ihn lieben? Hm.

Er hat es mit Roy verabschiedet, nachdem er es mir verabschiedet hat. Es war also fast so, dass er es mir verabschiedet hat und dann hat er gesagt, warte einen Moment, ich habe eine bessere Suche hier in Roy. Ich meine, technisch gesagt, er hat es verabschiedet. Und dann hat er es überhaupt gesagt.

Get out of here. They're smart, you're right. The kids know. It's like, hey, there's an accent I need to make larger. And yeah, there's my dad, but not the hairline. Dad has a five head.

Give that a couple inches here. Poor Dominique. Thank you for Cody's phone, by the way, for taking that photo. No, poor Dominique.

Rory, seit dem Liv-Split, war der Menschen-Golfer. Er hat gegen Liv gesprochen, er hat seine Moral gehalten und gesagt, dass der PGA-Tour für sich aufstehen sollte. Und jetzt sagst du, dass er nur ein Arroganz ist, um genutzt zu werden?

And I'm with you now. He's a jerk. Ich würde Rory McIlroy ein paar Wörter lernen. Sie sind ein Ja und. Komm schon, Mann. Spiel das verdammte Spiel. Die erste Partie wäre gewesen, haha, ich hab dich, ich habe Wörter verwendet. Nimm dich selbst. Sag, ich fahre. Da geht es. Nimm einfach das Spiel. Oder wähl jemanden, der tot ist. Das ist immer ein guter Schritt.

We should get this guy on the show sometime.

A Bachelor of Arts who went into real estate, man, that's interesting.

Ich sage dir, ich weiß immer, dass es irgendeine Art von Scham gibt. Es gibt irgendeine Art und Weise, wie sie den Lotto manipulieren können. Ich habe, okay, ich nehme das zurück. Ich kenne eine Person, eine Relative meines besten Freundes, die eine Lotterie gewonnen hat. Außerhalb davon habe ich nie einen Menschen erlebt, der die Lotterie gewonnen hat. Sie haben diese Schriften jede Woche.

Wie ist es möglich, dass ich einen dieser Menschen nicht kennengelernt habe?

50-50 Raffle at Panthers Games, oh my goodness!

Weil sie nicht da sein müssen. Du kannst die Tickets online kaufen.

This one's better though. Talk about suspicious.

Definitely more successful than me. You gotta go to Texas, dude. All I develop is stupid opinions. This guy's got olive oil.

Dancing. The other guy's dancing. Terrible skill I chose. Writing. You're kind of the worstest. Ich bin der Oli von den Izzy Gutierrez. Ich suche nur eine normale Izzy.

3?

In the corner like Bob was during that fricasse in front of the net.

Unglaublich, ich bin unnötig. Alle in Austin, Texas, wahrscheinlich.

Nein, das sind alles verschiedene Kopfschüsse. Komm schon, Internet.

So kann ich es retweeten.

Er ist definitiv, wie LeBron, er ist offiziell mehr in L.A. als in Miami. Oh, sicher.

Ist er da? Keine Ahnung. Ich glaube nicht, dass er noch da ist. Ich glaube, er war auf dem mexikanischen Nationalteam. Is he still with us?

I can't confirm that for sure. I have not seen an obituary that said Israel Gutierrez on it, because I probably would have freaked out. Do you think they call him Izzy? In Spanish, Israel. I don't know, Izzy? When people call me Izzy with a Spanish accent, it just comes out as Izzy. Izzy? Izzy? Izzy?

Was, wenn er sich entdeckt hat, weil er so groß ist? Ist das der Weg, den du sterbst?

Tony?

Ich habe mich immer daran überrascht. Ich kann das bestätigen. Er hat immer noch seine Hände. Ich habe mich daran überrascht, wenn es um Helikopter geht. Weißt du, große Leute.

Kannst du mir aufmerksam machen, ob es auch einen Israel Gutierrez gibt, der ein Salsa-Danzer ist?

But we have to be specific, like the most famous Izzy Gutierrez in Mexico.

Right.

Nobody else is Izzy. Izzy, we have to go Izzy.

Mach ein bisschen mehr Recherche. Was auch immer das beeindruckendste Obituarium ist, lass uns es sehen. Oder hören. Was, du... Denkst du, du bist der beeindruckendste Israel Gutierrez?

Er ist nicht nur ein Typ mit super Fähigkeit, er ist einfach groß. Wow. Den Salsa-Tanzer würde ich beeindrucken.

Keine Ingenieure, keine Ärzte, keine Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter. Nur Kreative. Was ist das, Tony?

Wie sein Kopfschuss.

Sehr feste Kleidung. Okay. Die Ruffles.

Okay, das ist eine tolle Pose.

Es ist wild für mich. Salsa ist so viel schwieriger als Meringue. Es ist so ein subtiler Unterschied. Ich denke, es ist nur ein paar Schritte nach vorne.

Was meinst du, sie haben ihre Körper literally gewechselt, sobald sie fliegen. Chris, bist du blind? Du hast, als du das gemacht hast, du hast einen Trussfall gemacht.

Wir haben es nicht gemacht. Wir haben es nicht gemacht. Wir dachten, dass das, was du das erste Mal machst, ist, das zu finden. Der Junge ist wirklich direkt so.

So does Izzy. A more successful Gutierrez.

Ich wusste es nicht.

Ich werde dir sagen, dass ich jemanden, den ich von weitem hasse, und dann schnell wissen musste, weil es meine Profession ist, gerade aus dem Wettbewerb. Du hattest, glaube ich, die andere Nacht sein Shirt.

Oh, Anthony Mason. ...Anthony Mason. Und er war so viel ein Arschloch, wie ich dachte, er wäre. Nein, das ist nicht das, was wir hier spielen.

Okay, ich sage dir das. Ich habe eine sehr blühende Geschichte über ihn geschrieben, also war er klar ein toller Kerl. Wie Dan dir gerne erinnern möchte, Brüder mit Jay Fiedler. Aber ja, ich glaube, nach einiger Zeit hatten wir eine gute Beziehung, aber er war immer noch verrückt enttäuscht. Intimidierend, sicher. Er hat immer Babyöl über seinem Körper verwendet. Was?

Ja, nur Babyöl, fünf Finger an der Zeit. Warte, warum? Ich weiß es nicht.

Das ist eine Kommission von 92.000 Dollar. Das ist verrückt, weil jedes Mal, wenn ich in irgendeine Stadt gehe,

Now all of a sudden. I would love to believe that ESPN was strictly trolling Shaq. If you look at the scheduled flex potential, there wasn't really a lot of other things.

Shaw versus Zion. It's still that, you know, fake. Oh, God. Zion. It's still the fake sort of draft year war, right? Who's actually better between those two? No.

Is this Kate Cunningham related?

So much better than they were. They had nine wins. They were the worst team in the league. They had nine wins before. By the way, I don't want to sound like a hater. Just don't say the word look, please. I think this is why. Well, let's not. Let's not look. Don't say the word look. If you don't look now, then you won't see me as a hater. Right. And I don't think I'm a hater.

I just want to tell people my opinion hasn't changed on Cade Cunningham despite this great season.

That is not laughing you out of the room. Laughing you out of the room is saying, no, close both eyes. Don't look the way Mike's doing. What you're supposed to do. I said keep a small eye. And the sixth seed. Who's the sixth seed out west right now? Is it Houston? If I would have told you at the beginning of the season, keep a small eye on Houston, let's say Houston.

If I would have told you keep a small eye on Houston, would that have been an insult? Nah. It's a team that you should keep an eye on.

Oh, God. Dick Van Dyke over here. Oh, no. Yeah, that's the same pratfall he took last time, but he did it better this time.

He used to have an all-interview team, which I think they should bring back the all-interview team because it'll encourage people to do interviews, damn it. Yeah.

Is he odds-on favorite? Tyler's second or third, right? I hate that. Because he's not the most improved player. He's on a team with better teammates and a better coach. That's what makes him better.

He should be most improved player.

Or down. Is it lock him up or lock him down? Lock him down.

Dyson Daniels.

Was there nothing on that bagel that was shoved in Mike's mouth? It looked very dry. You should be careful. You could choke.

That's insane. I just saw an article that said he might be top two, and he's actually 15,000.

Mike, come on back here. You can look now because I want to make everybody stare at Shea Gilgis-Alexander for a second. This is a good topic for you, Tony. You want to talk hoop, right? Shea, I will tell you, I will admit to you, he's special. That guy can be the number one.

I don't believe I'm saying anything crazy here. He can be the number one on a team that wins a championship. I just want to know what people's... like likability, like what they actually think of him. Is he a guy, because the reason this came up in my head is was like, when, if ever, will Shea get embraced? When will America like Shea? Will it have to be him winning a finals, winning finals MVP?

And I thought to myself, no, It's not going to happen. If it was going to happen, it would have happened already the same way it's with Anthony Edwards or, you know, whenever Zion Williamson plays like people love him. People don't love Shea Gildress Alexander. And I'm trying to figure out why. And to me... I think he's pretty funny. You think he's funny? Yeah. Oh, that's Shane Gillis, Alexander.

That guy. Different guy. Different guy. You can put your... Different guy. Don't look, because we're just... Jesus Christ. I mean, if you're going to mistake one for the other, just don't look. How's that empanada, by the way? It's a bagel. Oh, see, I knew it was a bagel. I'm getting lied to constantly in my ears today. I'm just saying. You deserve it. Why? You deserve it? You've wrecked the show.

I've wrecked the show? You've wrecked the show. This segment, at least. By continuing a sponsored segment and telling Mike not to look now. And he's getting fed, you know, by other people. This is a great bit for Mike. Like, he gets to walk around, not look at anything, and he gets fed. He just got his face on the door. I mean.

What is this, like an Innie Audi Severance situation? Like I have to have a note with him and say, hey, the reason you have things on your... Look, Shea Gilgis Alexander. Why don't people like him?

Anthony Edwards is in a small market.

I don't want any of that bagel if that's what you're doing here, Mike.

Wow, let's go. You want a steak after?

Watch that, Ellie.

Can we put up the photo while I'm eating of fat me next to the kid from Modern Family? Oh, no way. Because we're pretty much the same person.

I'm telling you. Hold on. What is his name, Manny? Yeah, Manny. Yeah, there it is. Look at that. Oh, no. Who's who, I ask you? Who is who?

Mike, look for a second.

Look where you are. And now look at the monitor.

That's me on the left. That's Manny. That's you on both. That's you on both. Oh. I'm legit going to eat the rest of this. Don't look, Mike.

Great number two, that guy. Like Giannis. I don't even want to stay on this because it's like, especially because I'm going anti-Tony. But you've capitulated. No, I haven't. I just put cream chips on my face.

Taylor's the Mike Wrangler. I just don't want to be seen as a hater. It feels like... I am just properly putting him in his slot while everybody else. Look, I'm doing him a favor. See, if you set the expectations too high. Wow, what a pickup from Taylor.

And also not a Cade hater. Not a Cade hater. Do you want a napkin? I mean, what do we got, 13 minutes? I can deal. Okay, don't get that dried on your face there. And I kind of like the smell, because like I said, I haven't eaten cream cheese in forever. They got vegan cream cheese. It's not the same. Of course not. Why not? It's not the same. Why not?

Wait, the Canadian thing. People like Steve Nash just fine.

Lock him in the green room, please. I think Mike might. Mike, you can look now. Because what you did is you just put your boy Marshawn on the screen. And that's not what you want to do.

Yeah. Let's go. Mike, you can look. Come on back. I don't look. I believe in Oklahoma.

Buddy, what happened? People really liked KD before he won an MVP. You can be an OKC and be likable. I think it has everything to do with his game. I think it has everything to do with the fact that he sort of operates in the middle of the floor, not really like dynamic athletic, just kind of, you know, footwork and grace and ability and obviously the shot making.

But if people like clamor for the mid range and what used to happen back in the day, like you're asking for 48 minutes of what Shea does and what Shea does again, while it can carry a team is not like I must watch this guy play. It's not like Anthony Edwards. It's not like John Moran. It's not like Steph Curry. It's not like any of these guys. It's not like Dwayne Wade back in the day.

They forget Tom Cruise is a pretty good actor.

Or even Kate.

I mean, the only reason I would say it's different is because, you know, Shea does it with his length and Sam was not that person. He was a 6'1", shorter shooter.

I mean, he absolutely killed a pick and roll with Elton Brand. I don't know if Shea is exactly that type of guy that makes his bigs better.

That's why he hates Cade.

Look, or don't look. It's totally up to you. 15 years from now, Tony, let's revisit this conversation because I don't think at any point.

On the 35th anniversary of the Dan Levitar show when Mike is finally looking again and doing another recap of this bit right here. We can talk about Cade Cunningham again.

Well, did he fix the cabinet or is that still there?

Mike, is Indian Wells, is that the tournament that Venus and Serena stopped playing because of racist situations?

Not the French Open. It's the one out in L.A., right? It's in the desert. It's in Palm Springs.

Jeremy just said the two best words anybody can hear. Game seven. You're right.

I would watch a Where Are They Now from those animals. Probably all dead. But if there's one or two that are still around. That used to be the one food, like the annual food that comes around every year that I would just absolutely like love. And I was so excited. I didn't care what time of year it was. I just wanted those Cadbury eggs. They're so good.

Wow. It doesn't even fill the screen. There's so many of those. There were, I think, the Bill Simmons columns where they put a wacky background.

But you didn't see Venus and Serena for 14 years at Indian Wells. And the next tournament is in Miami. So I always thought, wow, Miami's the one to pay attention to. I mean, you watch the men in any big tournament. It's going to be the same three or four guys, right? So I'm thinking, yeah, Miami's the place to go. I get to go see Serena.

Not quite the boom you were expecting there, I think. It is. It is. It ended. Boom. Boom. There it is. Where's Chris with the bang when we need it?

He's 38?