Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Chapter 2: What emotions are felt as the new year begins?
Happy New Year, everyone. And now the holiday blues set in. Jeremy, I'm instantly sad on this day. It's just like all the holidays were so fun. Christmas, New Year's, and now we're just like, we're to the new year. And I know it's like happy, but there's just like a sadness to the end of the holidays for me. I get more sad tomorrow, but I'm still not the happiest today.
And so in turn, you know what I think we need a dose of? What? Tony Reale's energy. That's some happiness. Now I'm happy again. That's what we're going to bring. See, now you're happy again. You're about to hear some of that. So remember Reale marching through the streets of Miami, talking to people, just being everything that Tony Reale is. As happy as anyone has ever been on this show.
Yeah, he was so happy to be here and what a wonderful, kind, Just ball of energy. The best. The best. And so we're going to do two things today. We're going to start with that because great, happy, awesome.
And then we're going to show you maybe the most angry I've ever seen anyone on the show ever, which is your dad being absolutely enraged when you took his laptop from him and exposed where he was going to have the Dolphins in his preseason ranking. Well, it didn't. I don't think like, you know, I don't want to spoil the segment, but I don't actually even reveal it. I just threatened to reveal it.
I have the laptop and I'm like, I'm just. Everyone's heard this already. This is already happened. It's fine. I'm not defending myself, but like, yeah, I mean, my dad was being a little sensitive, but judge for yourself. Yeah. Judge for yourself, everybody. Happy New Year. Enjoy the dichotomy of the Dan Levitard show. Dichotomy.
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Chapter 3: How does Tony Reali spread positivity in Miami?
I know what that means, but Roy doesn't. Could you explain it to him?
I should tell people, because I do know, Stugatz, that we've gotten to such rarefied air with the trades that Kevin Durant still in play with suitors is something that will garner a lot of attention beyond where we talk about Devers and Bain. Devers and Bain are players with a future. Kevin Durant is a player with a past, however. playing for a one-year contract and extension at his age.
I know everyone has looked at what happened in Phoenix, and because we were even talking about the last embers of Steph and Jimmy and LeBron last year, Kevin Durant didn't even make the playoffs, and so people are doing something now to Kevin Durant that they ought not do, because Kevin Durant will be able to hit that jumper until he is 60.
Kevin Durant still is a player, even at his age, 15-time All-Star. When you talk about 26 points a game, six rebounds, four assists, one block, and this stat, over 40% from three, over 50% from two, that's just him and Jokic. Only two players in the league can do that, where it's like, I will give you efficient scoring still. You can say what you want about his age.
You can say what you want about his defense. Don't tell me that somebody can't use that for a year. Well, someone can use it for a year or two years, for that matter.
He's a great scorer. No one has ever said otherwise. You have to factor in the age. He's 37 years old. What makes it strange is why a team, if he wants to win NBA championships... why the Heat would remain on the list. I understand the Rockets, the Spurs, that's the team I would choose.
If you could take Wemba and Yama and go win him a title, that's going to change a lot of people's opinions about you moving forward. So I'm just confused as to why the Heat are so high on his list.
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Chapter 4: What memorable moments did Tony create during his visit?
Durant would be telling you, I'm guessing, that that's previous flirtations with them. I've told you the story before of Eric Spolstra explaining Pat Riley explaining to Kevin Durant before he chose to go to Golden State, if you come here, we think Oklahoma City's been using you inefficiently.
We think that you can, with some support, be better than you are right now if we stretch the floor and get positionless basketball and have guys shooting threes. And Kevin Durant was like, great idea. I'll do that in Golden State. and that's where they lost him the first time. They've liked each other back and forth for a long time.
Chapter 5: What humorous incident occurred involving a bounce house?
He has respect for the organization, and whether you believe it or not, this would be Durant signaling to everyone that he knows it's toward the end of his career, and he thinks he could win here. He thinks he could win here with Bam.
He's not signaling, I just want one last contract with the teams he's choosing, because New York wanted to be in the game for Durant, and Durant was like, eh, or no, it went the other way there, didn't it? No, no, they made an offer.
Shams reported that the Knicks had an offer to acquire Kevin Durant at the deadline. Also, would it be foolish to say that, I think we're all assuming, alright, it's this heat roster, we trade picks for Kevin Durant and we're done. That can't just be the plan. I think they're a little further away from just adding Kevin Durant and being seriously considered in the Eastern Conference.
One would assume there's a plan, would there not?
I mean, usually. I don't think it's just that. Miami needs to do something. We know what the ceiling is, and I don't think it's a sustainable business model to be like, let's get in as a 10 seed and fight our way through the play and get hot at the right time. I think that's proven to maybe be a mistake. I think there's a few things here.
Kevin Durant probably has a relationship with Eric Spolstra for their time at Team USA. That stuff's important. Durant and Bam, from what I understand, they are close friends as well. There's that. And we don't know a ton about Kevin Durant personally. He's been in this league forever. And we don't know anything about him personally other than basketball is his whole life.
And that person with that personality, that aligns with what the Miami Heat are about. So he probably looks at that and says, yeah, that works for me. And the fact that the Heat Stugats aren't even in this, when you look at the other teams who are A, better right now, and B, have a ton more assets to offer, that to me signals... Durant's first choice is the Heat.
The fact that the Heat are even in the mix here, to me, must mean that his first choice is Miami. Mark Stein reported this morning, by the way, that the Suns are not committed to necessarily sending him to one of those teams. So, like, they could consider it. That's nice. That's where you want to go.
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Chapter 6: How did Tony's energy contrast with the show's usual tone?
But if it doesn't make sense for us, you're not going there.
Well, this is where the Lillard thing was the crossroads on player empowerment where the Ishbias of the world, guys, go, please, go listen to what Pablo Torre finds out, did on Ishbia.
and just do a little reading about what now runs the Phoenix Suns, how impetuous it is, how meddlesome in basketball matters it is, and how big a swing and a miss the whole Kevin Durant thing was in Phoenix, where they're now stuck with Bradley Beal as well.
Is there audio, or do I really need to read?
You can do both. There is audio on Pablo Torre Finds Out, though. He's not reading anything. That's a quick download on just the competition between him and Dan Gilbert in the mortgage industry and in basketball. But Ishbia is rich guy toy. embarrassed, came out, did the Stevie Cohen thing of don't care about taxes or whether I'm going to make any friends here. I'm here to win.
And there was no bigger calamity in the sport than that one last year. And that it happened to Kevin Durant's feet Probably not the way he wants to end his career with the added disgrace of whatever was happening in the shadows there that he wasn't being informed of when 15-time All-Star, not unlike three-time All-Star Devers or Devers.
Right.
Tomato, tomato.
Billy, I've been remiss, and I'm sorry. Welcome back from vacation. Thanks.
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Chapter 7: What are the dynamics of family and sports fandom discussed?
But I've been remiss because I've gone here for a couple of hours. Whenever you come back from vacation, you always come resplendent with sort of a bag full of vacation stories, observations from vacation. You had time to think. You weren't on the treadmill all the time. You went places. You discovered things. And so you usually come back with something.
I haven't gone to you for two hours on any of your vacation meanderings. That's fine. You don't need to go to me.
There's a lot of people in today. Tony Reality spreading positivity. Zazz is here. The Panthers are doing their thing. Breaking news moments ago. Darren Revell puts out after a year absence, Joey Chestnut will be back to Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest this year. Wow. I mean, things are happening in the world right now. Joey Chestnut is back. Who would have thought?
We thought it was impossible. We thought we'd never see him again, Dan. After last year, he signed that deal with the vegan dogs or whatever it was, and they banned him from the competition. And then what happened? We all tuned in on July 4th, and we saw the hot dog eating contest. And honestly, it was kind of a joke, if we're going to be honest with you.
They didn't come anywhere near Joey Chestnut's record. Joey Chestnut then did something on Netflix with Kobayashi that no one watched. And they said, you know what? We got to bring him back, Jack.
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Chapter 8: What unique perspective does Tony bring to discussions about sports?
And now, guess what? He's back. God bless America.
Well, but the last part that you said, did something on Netflix no one watched, that was where hot dog eating as a competition was about to soar into the sky with the individual brands of Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi, and then the whole sport fell apart because nobody wanted to watch unless it was on 4th of July. No one watched either. At a specific time. There's nothing else in sports going on.
If you want to gorge yourself on hot dogs in the middle of the day, none of us are working. Okay, but we don't want to watch this at any other time.
I think if I... I'm probably misremembering this, but I was watching the hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July and it felt like they were like 10 short of the record or 20 short. Like it wasn't even close to what Chestnut was doing. And then the Netflix thing happened against Kobayashi. And I think everyone just didn't know it was on or forgot.
Like it was a whole thing when the news came out. It was like, wow, this is huge. And then the day of, I remember looking for it. I'm like, is that today? And I couldn't find it. And then the next day I was like, yeah, it was yesterday, but we didn't know what time. It was like on Labor Day or something. It was just like, no one cares about Labor Day. If we're going to be honest, right?
Daz, you care about Labor Day? I haven't given it a lot of thought. Get back in a few minutes. I'll think about it.
4th of July. You care about the 4th of July? Put it on the poll. I don't know how we got to do you care about Labor Day from me asking you about your vacation me and drinks, but I am assuming we're going to get there at some point.
Well, I'm just breaking news. We have to address the news as it comes out. Yeah, we can get to that. I'm ready. I thought about it, by the way. Yeah. Big holiday? You care? Or not a big holiday? Or not a big holiday. Which one?
Wait a minute. Hold on a minute. Imaging? Hold on a minute. We don't have imaging for this yet. We should. Right now he's a judge. He's a doctor. Big holiday? Journalist. He's a journalist. Well, a doctor with prejudice?
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