Paul Pierce
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Southern Hockey Coach From Toronto (feat. Adnan Virk and The Kid Mero)
Jedes Mal, wenn sie den Ball abnehmen, ist es wie, oh, Karl-Anthony Towns, er ist so lecker, er ist so lecker. Schau auf ihn. Oh, Jalen Brunson ist so klein. Er ist nicht der beste Spieler auf dem Spiel, in der Serie. Und dann, 48 Stunden später, sind diese Tickets kalt, Bro.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Southern Hockey Coach From Toronto (feat. Adnan Virk and The Kid Mero)
If the Celtics lose game two at home, I promise you, I'm walking here tomorrow. I'm walking here. I'm walking here 15 miles. I'm walking here. In my robe. No shoes on. Bare feet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Rose was pepper sprayed and we have to take that very seriously.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
You're not reading about that loss to the Toronto Raptors last night?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Yeah, I know. I know. That's all right. We're not even worried. We went and toured with our premier players, and we just gave them some experience to the other guys. You know, this is every – you got to understand, the Celtics are every team's biggest game of the year. So, you know, once we understand that, when we go on the road and back-to-backs and all of that and accept that, they'll be fine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I don't know. We don't know. It's damn close. I ain't going to lie. This team is really good. Really good. But I will tell you this. Our team, I don't know. We knew how to break teams mentally. So, you know, what we lacked in skill versus them, we had with Will. Oh, wait a minute.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Absolutely. Absolutely. We're going to turn it into a bar fight. You know what I'm saying?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
This ain't going to be no finesse dancing on the ring. This is going to be body blow, body blow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I think KG has a good reputation of doing things like that. Whose will would you break? Listen, when you start getting guys in foul trouble in the first quarter and then they foul, I mean, it's just like, listen, I've known to break a few wills, you know, sent some of them from Cleveland to Miami.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Michigan. Michigan. Michigan. Let's go Michigan and Michigan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I don't know. You really didn't answer my question, though. What do you mean you don't know? You're not allowed to say I don't know to that. You can say that's a shitty question. It's leading. It's unfair. You can do all those things. It can't be I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
No, I didn't say I don't know. I said I've been known to break a few wheels.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Are you talking about the current Boston team whose will would I go after?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
All of them. All of them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
All of them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Listen, you just like LeBron. You've been on that same page for the last three days. Actually, I'm down for the LeBron shots. Never turned up. It's still on page one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Yeah, I mean, the thing about Miami right now is... And the beautiful thing about the NBA, every team is one trade away. You know what I'm saying? Especially when you got guys like Jimmy Butler and Bam on the roster and Terry Rosario. I mean, you got some talented guys and... Every team is one train away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I think they're missing a piece because you got the coaching, you got the culture, you know, and really haven't been known to be a great regular season team, but for some reason been great in the playoffs. So I would never count Miami out based on the history over the last four or five years. And so the problem with them is just probably staying healthy, the health of Bam and Jimmy Butler.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
You wouldn't count them out. I've been hearing a lot of trade rumors down there that, you know, I don't know if Roddy is going to re-sign Jimmy and maybe Jimmy wants to go somewhere else. I don't know, man. It seems like everything is – The sky is falling in Miami. I don't know what's going on. You guys give me the forecast.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Hey, listen. Hey, listen. I know the streets when the streets be talking. And I know, hey, word on the streets, things ain't too sunny down there in Miami. I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I am in the news-making business, and I'm not sure Jimmy is going to be there by the end of the year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I thought you were going to say the streets be talking. I thought that's what you were going to say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Word on the streets. I want to put... Hey, word on the street. If I can't tell you more, I can't tell you less.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
It gives me no proof that you've talked. No proof that you've talked to anybody. There are no words on those streets. I feel like you're just, you're an agent of chaos and you're trying to cause division in Miami.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Give me your thoughts here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
No, listen, first of all, shout out to Dwyane Wade for having a statue because that's truly an honor because not many players have a statue in the NBA. He's well deserving of it. He built the culture to what it is today. But I thought it looked like they gave him too much facial hair based on the picture that you showed next to it. And he always kept a low cut.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
So it was it feels like the statue was in between his rookie year and his final year. But nonetheless, well-deserving Dwyane Wade. Our ultimate respect, man. You know, but you listen. He was part of the process. He approved it. So we all live with it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
This is the perception you guys have to understand. I don't have beef with LeBron. I don't have beef with D-Wade. We just sometimes fire shots back and forth, friendly fire.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Well, listen. Hey, listen. I'm not the only one that thought that. So don't bless me. Don't bless me. So a lot of people said, hey, some people thought it was Morris Fishburne. I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Oh, my God. I love you both.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Listen, he's like, listen, if I say, KG, here go a billion dollars I got for you, you'd be like, no, out of here, right? Everything is no initially, everything. until it starts sinking in, but very stubborn about everything. Like, you wouldn't even believe it. Like, you could be the most, like, KG, hey, I just got this private jet for you. No, I don't need it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
And then he'll think about it like, oh, okay, thanks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
At the start of everything. It's no to everything. KG, your newborn is here. Would you like to kiss her? No. Like, KG. Like, come on. Come on, bro. I didn't think about it. No, literally it's like that with everything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
What we call insane and nuts to everyone else, I call it passion. You know, what we call different, I call it just, I call it love. It's his way of loving. Because if you ever around him, and I promise you, every teammate, like, he's the best storyteller. He sits there. He takes all the guys under his wings.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Like, just to know him off the court is totally something different that you see on the court or interviews and things of that nature. It's like the complete opposite. And I know it'll be hard to believe because of the passion and the energy, but he's always energetic. You know, he probably wake up and say, he probably wake up and y'all anything's possible. He probably do that on the wake up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Definitely not. I'll go hide in the steam room. I'll go hide in the steam room.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
The most reasonable challenger, man, Merle, in the east or the west?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
Yeah, I've counted Sixers out. So start with the East. I don't see how they recover. The Eastern Conference is weird, but I'm going to have to say, I'm going to have to probably say the Knicks. I'm going to say the Knicks. I like Cleveland and everything. You know, it looks good and they won. They beat them the other day. But that's obviously without Derek White and without... without Jalen Brown.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
So I think with those two guys, it's just not even close. I think the Knicks can challenge the Celtics, could probably push them to five games maybe. And out West? And out West, OKC. Man, are you seeing what's going on out west? OKC, Houston Rockets, and Memphis is in the top three, all the young teams. And it just feels like all the older teams are sliding.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
They get off to a great start, and they're all just sliding back to the pack. And then I don't know what happened with Minnesota or Dallas. Dallas is coming along a little more, but it just seems like these young teams are taking over the league right now. It's a new guard in town for the Western Conference. But you can't count out Joker either.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
It's not one thing. I think our stars are aging, our superstars. I think... International players are taking over, and I think there's a lack from that newer American star waiting to emerge. You know, I said it was Jason Tatum. And then maybe it's the style of play. You know, when you see games, I was watching a game the other day, and I saw like six threes get put up back and forth both ways.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
And maybe it's just early in the season because football, too. You know, once football is over, you know, people start – paying attention. Or maybe it's just the Celtics are so dominant.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
See you, Paul. You suck.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
All right, wait a minute. That sounds like someone stepped on a duck. A goose. That is absolutely the sound of someone stepping on a goose. One of the bigger birds, maybe a swan. They're unusually aggressive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
I don't think we can laugh at this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pierce vs. Ruiz Trilogy (feat. Paul Pierce)
It's a dog dying.