The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Thu, 01 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What is Greg Cody's recent award and why is it significant?
It actually has a name. It's the FSNE. Talking to the mic. Florida Society of News Editors. It's just a state award, but they named me the column writing winner. And the reason that that means something to me is that it's not just sports columns. It's, you know, metro columns and all sorts of columns.
Yeah.
So... I'm happy about it.
So you are the best columnist in Florida, in the state of Florida. That's what they say. Yes.
Of any kind, of any kind, of any subject.
I didn't even know I'd been nominated. I have no idea what columns won. I just, they told me and... You sound like a champagne bottle opening.
Like, it's just effervescence spewing all over everyone. Congratulations on winning an award that you were bored to tell us what the acronym was for.
Okay. No, Florida Society of News Editors, FSNE. Duh. I believe I mentioned that. Roll back the tape.
It's just bored. You mentioned it, but your tone, the undercurrent, was just indifferent. Pablo, do you have any thoughts?
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Chapter 2: What are Greg Cody's top sports topics this week?
Is there a Peabody nomination on that list somewhere?
No, there isn't, which is why I'm only pleased and not ebullient.
Your right glass lens is fogging up again.
That happens to me when I get agitated.
When you win column awards? What are your first four topics? Let's see if Pablo bites on any of them.
Well, the first one was I have a bag of old shirts and I'm not quite sure why. The second one was Lionel Messi and Inter-Miami imploding in an embarrassing ouster from the CONCACAF Champions Cup. Just embarrassing the way they lost that. And all of a sudden, Lionel Messi and that team looked very, very old. And Vancouver ran all over them and around them.
My third item, we've talked about this a lot, was the Florida Panthers declaring with intent and ability that they can repeat as Stanley Cup champs. And I'm the one who prefers Toronto in the second round, not Ottawa. Ottawa would be the great brother versus brother. Toronto Maple Leafs fans are chirping loudly all over social media. We want the Panthers. Are they saying that? Yes.
And you know what? Two things. Number one, how about you get past Ottawa first? And number two, the Panthers rolled you out of the playoffs last year. And the Panthers would love to play Toronto again. The next item is the Miami Grand Prix is Sunday in Miami. And the only two F1 drivers that anybody can name are not the favorite, which is good for the sport.
And then comes my award, which is a state award, and I'm not overselling it. Just pleased. What came after the award? Goals. Oh, the Belichick girlfriend drama getting better and better. I mean, this is great.
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Chapter 3: How did Giannis Antetokounmpo handle the postgame controversy?
Dan, you're talking to a guy with a bag of stuff. I find out stuff out of this closet, which is a closet full of bags of old stuff, so I'm ready for whenever you guys are ready.
Excellent. It sounds like people are prepared in the interim, though. I want to play for you something. I don't do this very often.
I'm going to play three and a half minutes or so of sound of Giannis talking here, because I believe that he diffused a bomb in a way that was really graceful, because in a different language than is his preferred language, and I think is his third or fourth language, he walked through crisis in a way that was honest and vulnerable and...
showed great grace to someone who had disrespected him in front of people. And then afterward, in the emotion of it, handled it exactly the way that anyone would want the face of the league to handle something. Listen to the grace that he shows in telling you, my story is a one in a lifetime story.
and you have insulted both me and my late father when as a father you come out on the court as the guy's father to the guy who just beat me and is standing on a table because my team just choked away a game away the way the basketball is never seen. possibly ending my career and my relationship with the city and Milwaukee that is as strong as the one that Luka has in Dallas.
And in that moment of rage, this is how that man calms himself down and speaks on behalf of his family, his teammates, champions everywhere, and a league.
This is the last time I'm going to say it. I won't talk a lot because it doesn't really matter. One thing I'll say is that I believe like being humble in victory. That's how I am. Now there can be a lot of people out there that are like, no, when you win the game, you gotta talk shit. And you know, it's a green light for you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree.
I've won the championship. They haven't. Okay. And that doesn't say anything. I'm not trying to minimize their effort. But I remember when I won, my mom, My mom, she's never missed the games from February, February 11th or 13th when she came in Milwaukee against the Knicks. She's never missed a game. When we won the championship, I remember my mom, she was scared to cross.
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Chapter 4: What does Giannis reveal about his family values and humility?
She was like, am I allowed to come and hug my son? I see, except now my brother does media for this year. He wants to come back and play. But like, except the Nets, you've never seen my family. Like, of course I see this is not something that we do. We don't. I try to keep my family away from the game. But...
Losing the game, emotions run high, having a fan, which at the moment I thought he was a fan, but then I realised he was Tyrese's son, which I love. Tyrese, I think, is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry. Coming in the floor and showing me his son a towel with his face, this is what we do, this is what we effing do, this is the eff we do. I feel like that's very, very disrespectful.
You know, my dad, my dad, if you guys go and ask and learn, my dad's not with us no more. My dad used to come in the family room and he was the most respectful person ever. You know, when you come from nothing and you work your whole life, to sell stuff in the street and your whole life you'll be scared of the police of deporting you and sending you back to your country.
You have to protect your kids with all means. You create this mentality of being humble your whole life to not kind of disrespect anybody, not make the tension high, the emotions high, so anybody can, you know, snitch on you, say something bad about you. So when he came here, I remember, I was like, Dad, why are you so humble? Why are you going to the family room? You don't even say a word.
You sit in the back. Why are you like that? Don't worry about it. That's how I grew up. That's what I had around. So when I see other dads, which, don't disrespect, maybe if my son plays basketball, I might be in the court. I might be the one on the court and, like, 20 years later, you can play this interview and say, Giannis, you're contradicting yourself. But we'll see in 20 years.
But I'm talking about right now how I feel. You know, having a... Somebody's that which I'm happy for him and I'm happy for his son and I'm happy that he's happy for his son. That's how you're supposed to feel. But coming to me and disrespecting me and cursing at me, I think it's totally unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. Okay?
And I'm not the guy that points fingers because in my neighborhood, snitches get stitches. So I don't want to say something for him to say to get fined or anything. But it's not respectful. I talk with him at the end and I think we're in a good place.
Pablo, I'm floored by the amount of understanding and compassion that he showed given what his rage had to be in that circumstance and how he also managed around the understanding and compassion to give you his very strong opinion.
It's hard to do all of those things together without emotion, to be that stoic about being very strongly opinionated on that was disrespectful and doing it with such compassion that he convinced me it was disrespectful by the time he was done.
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Chapter 5: How do the panelists interpret Giannis' public relations approach?
Kawhi stepped in there and won three of them. And Kevin Durant had to win a couple that Stugatz will not give him because Kevin Durant had to go to the Warriors to do it. And the one that Giannis won, he only won by a toenail over Kevin Durant. So you tell me.
Pablo, the legacy of Giannis as we go on face of the league stuff, people are real interested to make Anthony Edwards the face of the league. Giannis is going to have to go somewhere else to be the face of the league. Like you want all the stuff that he does, but you also need that person to be winning the championships.
Yeah, I think the context for Giannis, though, is that he did it in the age of every person you just mentioned. Like, when he wins a title in Milwaukee with, you know, Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday, and Drew Holiday weirdly has become, in retrospect, like the second most valuable player on that team, which is a lot about who Giannis had on that team with him. I think that's the testament.
It's the context. That he did it in the era of all of those guys at the most talent, rich talent, saturated era, you could argue, in the history of the NBA. So one title from Giannis in Milwaukee at that time, I feel like that, you know, again, we should we should be grading on a curve relative to what is the era he played in.
We all agree he needs a second title, right? That goes without saying. He needs to have a second title. But how about this, okay? Don't tell my family how to celebrate my son doing something remarkable. How's that sound? Your family wants to celebrate their way. My family wants to celebrate their way. Don't criticize my family when we beat you.
This is what Tony was saying yesterday. He said that John Halliburton stood on bidness.
Well, this is also, I mean, Tony, Tony, Stu Gatz, as your ally here, Stu Gatz is the guy who patrols lacrosse sidelines with a lacrosse stick. Yeah. Like I feel like he's the worst possible messenger for this.
Two things. Number one, Stu Gatz, in the next edition of your personal record book, you need to give Giannis a second championship just for that class he displayed.
I will not. I don't agree with Giannis. No, I get it. Listen. I get that he's being Giannis, okay? I get it. But here's what I am telling you. You celebrate how you want to celebrate. Your family has their story. Halliburton's family has his story, and they celebrate how they want to celebrate. I will not give Giannis another ring. I will not. I will not give him a second ring. Go earn that ring.
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Chapter 6: What is the debate around NBA family celebrations and sportsmanship?
I think there are plenty of people who are going family first there and saying, I don't care if my father disrespects you. I'm not sure John Morant isn't doing finger guns at Giannis right next to his father and rolling a grenade at him.
I feel like we do a thing in sports where we assume, and by the way, this is now connecting to one of the top five items, or the OLI, excuse me, of the list that Greg brought in. We assume that someone, because they're either the partner of someone or a family member of someone, is acting with the authority of the someone.
Like I was just watching in the Instagram comments today, Steve Belichick, Bill's son, his wife, Steve's wife, get in the comments arguing with Nikki Glaser against...
The way that Jordan Hudson was conducting herself in that CBS interview, meaning the Belichick camp is now divided, meaning that when it comes to how your dad is acting on business on the court side, like why would we ever assume what about our history of family members in general in humanity has ever led us to assume, oh, they're doing that because he feels the exact same way as the person who's actually the star of the show here.
Tony, I'm with you on the face you made. I believe you are right when your face crinkles up in a disgust when either Pablo or I say bidness.
Yeah, I was acting on bidness, too. I didn't like that one.
It felt bad coming out.
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Chapter 7: What is the controversy involving John Halliburton and Giannis?
The problem is you've got to do it quick and with confidence, Paul. Act on business. Boom. Stand on business. Boom.
He got permission from me. I shouldn't have done it either. I did it for effect, extra enunciated.
That was third degree business that I was quoting.
It's a capital D there, a hard D I don't like. Yes, we will get to put it on the poll.
Hey, man.
At Levitard Show, can you say business with a hard D if you're over 35 years old at Levitard Show?
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Chapter 8: What are the latest insights on the Belichick family dynamics and media stories?
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Don Levitard. Our Panther group chat, we're confident against the Lightning. This is a different team. You're a Panther group chat, though. No, but dude, you're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever, and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the Lightning.
Stugatz. I want t-shirts made for this Panther run, what could be this Panther run. Our Panther group chat, we're not afraid of the Lightning.
That's a tagline for World Raw 3. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats.
I want to ask you about the Lakers last night and that Belichick story. I do want to get your thoughts on what is most interesting from that Belichick story as well.
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