The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[16] After accusing me of being someone who leaks information before it's ready, Amina al -Hasson gave the audience something that I was not ready yet to report it is not fully baked.
[17] So I will simply tell you on the front end of this as context.
[18] I have partial information on something that will be explosive if it happens.
[19] And I'm just going to set you up for something here that is speculative right now, but is something to keep an eye on because...
[20] Hang on a second.
[21] Do I need to hold onto my seat?
[22] Is this like heat information?
[23] Because you've got to prepare us.
[24] Well, I mean, Amin just teased it.
[25] I didn't.
[26] I was just on a hypothetical.
[27] But it's half baked, okay?
[28] Because it's not a fully formed thing.
[29] I'm just getting a handful of texts on something that is worth watching if you're interested in the transaction and speculation.
[30] And of course, everybody's wondering, right?
[31] The Miami Heat have been left behind here, Stugats.
[32] Stugats.
[33] Hi.
[34] The Miami Heat have been left behind here, I mean, and that's a funny verbal clutch I have.
[35] It's just funny.
[36] What are you going to know?
[37] It sure is, Hawk.
[38] They've been left behind by transactions, and I don't believe that Pat Riley is going to sit out at his age.
[39] I don't believe that he's going to just sit out and wait and watch.
[40] I mean, I'm assuming in New York aren't Hart and DeVincenzo going to the bench now because Bridges is going to do what he does there?
[41] like that the nicks are now substantively better than the miami heat and uh the the sixers are substantively better the celtics are obviously substantively better the bucks are probably better and i just don't believe that they're going to sit all of this out and he's done a lot of striking out so here's the information that i have for you to keep an eye on uh and it's it's not coming from the miami heat because i haven't had time to do any of the reporting on this seems a little premature then well that's your fault I just thought a hypothetical I know but you betrayed me and you leaked it and you put the audience in a position where they now want something the regular great Cody over there yeah I feel like you leaked it I could have just you could have just let me say this hypothetical no one would ever bat it an eye but the moment you leapt up onto that microphone and let it be known everyone's like wait a sec this is real I mean wasn't just doing fever dreams now well but you betrayed me though I just told you moments earlier during the commercial break something that I thought you'd find interesting that was just for you.
[42] Classic, Stugats.
[43] I mean, what are you going to know?
[44] I encourage all of you to listen to Pablo Tori finds out in the episode about what is happening with the mess at the top of power.
[45] You usually don't get this kind of access to where the money is.
[46] The money can shield some of these things from ever becoming public.
[47] But Amin can speak to some of the mess happening in Minnesota because there's an owner's fight there that is super interesting and Glenn Taylor is the owner of the Timberwolves and I don't think anyone considers him a good owner.
[48] Does anyone consider him a good owner?
[49] I mean his reputation in the league is not quite Donald Sterling but I think a lot of people think he kind of stinks.
[50] Up until maybe the last couple of years with Anthony Edwards the Timberwolves had the losingest winning percentage in all of major American professional sports, the NBA and MLB, NFL, NHL.
[51] It was, that's, that is their legacy.
[52] It's just awful.
[53] Oh, Kevin Garnett played there.
[54] Awful.
[55] Oh, and Anthony Edwards is there.
[56] And that's just the results.
[57] On top of that, he is viewed as somebody who is a little bit crazy.
[58] And he sold the team to Alex Rodriguez and Alex Rodriguez's consortium of people.
[59] And I encourage you to listen to Pablo Torrey finds out because he did a deep dive on how messy and ugly all of that stuff is.
[60] There's an arbitration coming up in which we're going to find out who gets that team.
[61] Is it going to be Glenn Taylor or is going to be A -Rod?
[62] And this is what you need to watch out for, okay?
[63] If Glenn Taylor keeps the team, what's going to happen after that is they're going to lose their team president, Tim Connolly.
[64] He's going to leave because he signed a long -term deal with the A -Rod team, and I think it's contingent, I believe, on A -Rod being the owner.
[65] Everybody thought A -Rod was going to be the owner of that team.
[66] And if Tim Connolly leaves, the next step on that is Anthony Edwards possibly wanting to leave with him and requesting a trade to Miami because of the relationship he has developed with A -Rod.
[67] And just, you know, loves it down.
[68] Do we get A -Rod, too, or no. Loves it down here.
[69] Well, no, you would not get A -Rod down here.
[70] You don't get Tim Connolly either.
[71] No, you don't get Tim Connolly either.
[72] But, of course, obviously, that would be something that would excite Miami fans.
[73] I don't, I haven't done enough of the subsequent reporting to even know when that arbitration is or when that possibly would happen.
[74] But Valentine's Day is something that's being floated as you should, you should, Watch for all of that.
[75] Wow.
[76] That is some information right there.
[77] You haven't even talked to the Miami Heat yet, and you've got a date.
[78] You've got Valentine's Day as a potential Ant Man to Miami.
[79] This is humongous, dad.
[80] Well, it's just speculation so far.
[81] It's half baked.
[82] I cannot report that with any sort.
[83] I can't report that as concrete.
[84] It has to be speculation.
[85] Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to tell you right now it is terrible speculation because Because the trade deadline is February 7th.
[86] So that's a week before.
[87] Okay.
[88] Well, close enough.
[89] Around Valentine's Day.
[90] Like Super Bowl Day.
[91] We're back.
[92] Dan never knows when Valentine's Day is.
[93] I've never been good at that.
[94] That's true.
[95] I've never, I've been recently taught the importance of Valentine's Day.
[96] Not important.
[97] By who?
[98] Hallmark?
[99] No. No. Why would I've been, yes.
[100] I went to a training course at Hallmark where they taught me the importance of Valentine's Day.
[101] Not important at all.
[102] Not a real day.
[103] All the days you can show your significant other love are important days.
[104] And if there's one that is important to him or her, you should probably pay attention to that.
[105] You don't strike me as much of a romantic.
[106] No, you got to let them know, Dan.
[107] You got to let them know, hey, this, you can pick a day.
[108] It's not going to be the day that everybody else then chose because Hallmark told us.
[109] Because American capitalism told us, this is the day you love your person.
[110] No, no, no, no. I love my person every day.
[111] And if your person's birthday is anywhere near Valentine's Day, pick one, you're not getting both.
[112] Exactly.
[113] Which one's more important to you?
[114] What are your thoughts on everything that I just speculated?
[115] That's a lot of dominoes.
[116] That is a lot.
[117] Man, we could go down to Cairocho with that many dominoes, right?
[118] Like you're saying, okay, so first we have to have Glenn Taylor prevails in this arbitration, which?
[119] Is it him prevailing?
[120] Because didn't he try to sell the team?
[121] And now he wants it back?
[122] Is that a win for him?
[123] I don't know.
[124] It's a win for him if he gets it back because then when he tries to sell the team again, he can get fair market value as opposed to the paltry, paltry number he agreed to when he first decided to do this sale.
[125] So that's part one.
[126] Part two is the idea that Tim Connolly says, I'm out of here.
[127] Now, there might be some legs to this because he signed an extension in June, five -year, $40 million deal that includes an ownership stake with the team, presuming that Alex Rodriguez and Mark Lurie.
[128] take over majority ownership from Glenn Taylor.
[129] So I don't know if that language means if they don't, then that contract becomes null and void or it becomes renegotiable or whatever it is.
[130] But I could see Tim Collins and say, well, look, I went from owning a piece of an NBA team and a lot of money to just a lot of money.
[131] I don't need that.
[132] Especially where I'm at now, I've got like the highest kind of cue rating as far as execs.
[133] Well, most leagues are strategic.
[134] And we usually wonder, especially in the NBA, we ask aloud, who benefits from this being out there?
[135] I think A -Rod, right?
[136] Because, like, now you, this league kind of frames it, like, if I don't win, you may lose the player that brought you back.
[137] Absolutely.
[138] Like, if I don't win, everything goes back to the dark ages.
[139] Like, back to the Stone Ages.
[140] The problem that I have with getting too excited, despite my excitement a second ago, is the part where it's a trade demand to Miami.
[141] Like, does Anthony Edwards have that type of pull now?
[142] Will Minnesota give him what he wants?
[143] Will they trade him to Miami, which everybody, nobody wants to trade anybody to Miami these days?
[144] That part has me less than excited, but I like the idea that it's already leaked over to Minnesota, if that's the case, if they're nervous over there.
[145] We're not at that domino yet.
[146] We're still at the domino.
[147] Is Tim Connolly going to just quit, walk away from $40 million perhaps because he doesn't get an ownership stake in the team because Glenn Taylor?
[148] Or he doesn't want to work for Glenn Taylor.
[149] I don't know enough about Glenn Taylor.
[150] what the results are and I know what his reputation is among other owners but I don't have I'm not privy to any good information on what kind of chaos would be wrought if Glenn Taylor resumes as the bad owner of the timber wall right because there's a way to think about this that you say hey wait Tim Connolly it's a lot of money Tim Connolly might say look I've been able to do my job as well as I have over the last few years because I had owners who could vouch for me and fight for my decisions or whatever, having to deal with just Glenn Taylor might make my job harder and might tarnish my reputation.
[151] Right now, Tim Connolly is the guy, right, in terms of front office people of great reputation.
[152] Maybe he's like, it never gets higher than this.
[153] So if I'm going to ever command a crazier salary, a crazier contract demand, I should probably walk out before this thing falls apart, right?
[154] So that's the next domino.
[155] So the next domino's Anthony Edwards says, Look, I like my teammates, I like my coach, I like living in the city, and we've done a lot of great things, and I'm 23 years old, and even though I'm 23 years old and most 23 -year -olds think that all the success is because of me, I did it, and I can do this with anybody, he's going to have the foresight of saying, no, no, actually, the genius behind all this is Tim Conno.
[156] If he walks out and Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie walk out, this whole thing falls apart, even as great as I am, I can't save it from Glenn Taylor.
[157] That's a huge domino to assume.
[158] So then that domino falls, and then you say the next domino is, I want out and where I want to go is to Miami because I have a relationship with Eric Sposal to Team USA because I have a relationship with Duane Wade, no, Tom Crean.
[159] He's been down here a lot lately.
[160] Well, I mean, a lot of guys come down here a lot.
[161] A lot of people can connect those dots because of things that Anthony Edwards has said before and because of the relationships that you've highlighted.
[162] Right.
[163] So then that's the next domino.
[164] And then the final domino is, okay, all of this is.
[165] true.
[166] Glenn Taylor wins.
[167] Tim Collins says, I'm out.
[168] Anthony Edwards says, I'm out too.
[169] By the way, I want to go to Miami.
[170] What is he just highlighted?
[171] The last dominoe is, okay, Damien Lillard wanted to come to Miami too, and we saw that.
[172] It's a very, very long road, ladies and gentlemen.
[173] We have until a week before Valentine's Day to keep an eye on it.
[174] All my report was keep an eye on all the dominoes.
[175] A dozen of them have to fall.
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[177] Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days.
[178] Stugats, guess what?
[179] What?
[180] You know what you can do with Peloton?
[181] What?
[182] Get the app.
[183] Go outside, ride a bike.
[184] Well, I thought you'd ride Peloton inside.
[185] Well, you do.
[186] You can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloud or you just don't want to get outside.
[187] Maybe it's too hot.
[188] It's summertime.
[189] Go outside.
[190] I record a lot from my office with you.
[191] And you've noticed it's sitting there yet it hasn't been used.
[192] Well, now's the time.
[193] Summer's the best time to start that push, Stugats.
[194] Right.
[195] Can we do it together?
[196] Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together.
[197] I used to do that.
[198] We just have Guillermo Ton.
[199] I'd invite people.
[200] We'd all take a class together, same time.
[201] So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy.
[202] I sense that with you.
[203] We're beyond starting.
[204] Okay.
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[206] It's not just a bike, a treadmill, too.
[207] I'm going to go outside.
[208] I'm going to get in shape.
[209] I'm going to do it with Billy Gill.
[210] I want to be in your class.
[211] I want you to be my instructor.
[212] You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together.
[213] I won't be the instructor of the class.
[214] We can have Camila could be our instructor.
[215] Like the Grateful Dead class.
[216] My daughter, she uses the Peloton.
[217] She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes.
[218] Let's do that.
[219] Okay.
[220] Why don't we go for a run?
[221] Outside, guided run, Peloton.
[222] Me and you, that's something we can do together.
[223] Okay.
[224] Turn on the app.
[225] Me and you, go outside.
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[228] At one peloton.
[229] All right.
[230] Don Lebertard.
[231] Quiet man. Yes.
[232] You know, I'm married man. I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line in back in my name.
[233] Stugats I wish you were here My wife I really miss her No I don't That's the thing about Being married You know you're not allowed to say I don't miss my wife I've been gone two days I haven't been gone long enough To miss my wife I'm sorry I call her You just said you do miss her You know what am I Hello all right All right we'll see ya All right And then you know I'm gonna see her in two days I was jumping Charlie good This is the Dan Levitar show With the Stugats I mean Wasn't the Damian Lillard, a case instance that you just highlighted, something that was focused on by the NBA.
[234] And didn't they have meetings on this in which they stressed?
[235] Because it seemed as though that was a real moment in time for the NBA.
[236] We're like we're done being held hostage by these superstars.
[237] We're not going to honor the superstar that's been with one franchise and just made this one request.
[238] We're not going to do that.
[239] And there were a lot of people.
[240] I don't know if it was a Heat's involvement.
[241] That's my persecution complex as a Heat fan.
[242] But this was like the one instance where the superstar didn't really get his way.
[243] So are we, are gone, are the days gone where a superstar can just say, I just want to go to one place?
[244] Well, a couple of things.
[245] One, I want to point out that Dan has his eyes on all the dominoes, all the Papa Johns, all the pizza huts, and all the other chain restaurants that might be out there.
[246] It's a pot shot.
[247] Well, it was a pot shot that would have been better made when he meant to make it where there were no windows before and he circled back around and made the pizza joke now.
[248] Crockpot shot.
[249] Number two, yes and no, because I think there's some things going on with that particular situation.
[250] You had a GM his first time as a GM.
[251] He's trying to kind of almost like the first day in the prison yard trying to show, I'm nobody's bitch, right?
[252] Like, I'm going to fight for whatever, even if it comes at great cost to me. Now, in the long term, because of what they got in the Drew Holiday deal, it looked a lot better.
[253] By the way, I don't know if you guys saw this, DeAndre Hayden.
[254] I wanted to ask you about that.
[255] I wanted to ask you guys about that because DeAndre Aiton was the, when you talk about Dame Lillard, Mike, the piece that was agreed on everywhere with Miami, when Dame Lillard was going to come here, the piece that was already set up with Miami was DeAndre Aiton being traded.
[256] And the report in Portland is he's going to be traded now if he has any value, but there's no market for D 'Andre Aiton.
[257] That's a pretty precipitous fall for somebody who was real close.
[258] to the top of the sport with Devin Booker, like they were, the two of them were in a game seven playing very close to what felt like championship basketball.
[259] And what happened there?
[260] Well, okay, so I live in Phoenix, so I've seen the DeAndre Aiton experience the whole time, and I knew everyone in Phoenix knew.
[261] Real Hoopers.
[262] Yeah, real Hoopers knew, but also real hoopers who were local, right?
[263] This wasn't a guy at this stage of his life, his career, who's going to help you win.
[264] He's talented.
[265] that's undeniable he's got great physical abilities he's got nice skill but the motor is not there not at this point i'm not going to give him a death sentence but at the point that he's been to his career he's got no value he's got no trade value then he went to portland and and had every opportunity on a the worst team in the league pretty much to show out to be as dominant as he wanted he's the one that called himself dominating right that was his own nickname to himself.
[266] Unless there's frost on the ground.
[267] Unless there's ice on the ground.
[268] Remember he couldn't go to a game because he was surrounded by frost.
[269] That and also, he...
[270] Landlocked in his own home.
[271] He didn't have a bed until January, something like that.
[272] You couldn't use the bed to slide over the frost and get to the facility.
[273] Well, he didn't have a bed.
[274] He couldn't do that.
[275] Well, then you'd do it like chilly -willy.
[276] The point is, these are the things that we know about DeAndre Aten from last season, not of any dominatine of any sort, but of these kind of stupid -ass stories.
[277] And it kind of highlights and underscores, like, a little bit of the immaturity and a little bit of the lack of a motor that he's kind of exhibited throughout his career.
[278] Is it too late for him?
[279] No. But at this point, what his number is, teams are like, I'm not going to take a flyer on this guy.
[280] I don't know how committed he is to this, right?
[281] But that was the thing that they waved their flags.
[282] This is way better than anything we could have gotten from Miami.
[283] And, you know, like I said, up until the Drew Holiday part of that, I disagreed.
[284] but then once they got what they got for Drew Holiday, I was like, okay, that's a pretty good haul.
[285] But the fact remains, Dan, or Mike, because you're the one to ask a question.
[286] Ors Tugats.
[287] Ors Tugats who's not here.
[288] Yeah, but I think the NBA specifically kind of got involved or just revisited this and asked them questions.
[289] They got involved because of the public nature of the request.
[290] And it's not about send me here.
[291] It's they don't like.
[292] They've decided to crackdown on players saying, I want to get traded.
[293] They don't want that.
[294] They want that to be in -house.
[295] exactly what's happening here because there's caveats, but it's in the same neighborhood.
[296] If we get to the point, if we get to that point where Anthony Edwards wants to come to Miami and says to the team, I want to go to Miami, as long as he doesn't get in front of mics and or a podcast or whatever and says, yeah, I really like want to play for Miami because I love playing with Bam out of bio, or I love Eric Spolsor, which is kind of what Deemey Lillard said.
[297] Yeah, Lillard was pretty sloppy on social media.
[298] I mean, he made it clear, but he was also operating within the confines of rules that everyone else seem to get away with.
[299] And they just decided not here, not now, not them.
[300] I understand hitting him with not much of a motor.
[301] I understand questioning how much DeAndre Aiton cares.
[302] And I know that you are in Phoenix.
[303] You come from the Phoenix front office.
[304] But I don't want to undervalue how important a piece he was on a team that was like that, you, You correct to me game seven to game six.
[305] They lost like by 40 points in a game seven at home, correct?
[306] But even on that team, he was looked at as part of the problem.
[307] If he could just be a little tougher, if he could just go grab that extra rebound.
[308] And that's why they were considering even when they were making the finals run moving on from him afterwards.
[309] He got a ton of money as if he was a player you can count on.
[310] And then all of a sudden we're like, nobody wants him?
[311] So there's two things about that.
[312] Number one, Izzy's 1 ,000 percent correct.
[313] If he could just dunk it, how many times?
[314] In that Denver series they lost last year, he would just do this little floater, and everyone was going nuts.
[315] It's like, you're in front of the rim.
[316] Yokic isn't going to block you.
[317] Just dunk it.
[318] And I'll never forget this.
[319] They went to a timeout after he missed one of those bunnies.
[320] And during the timeout, he just stood under the basket practicing that same little.
[321] Like, it never clicked in his head.
[322] No, I have to dominate like I'm trying to use that nickname.
[323] The question you're asking, Dan, is like, but he got paid all that money.
[324] He was a restricted free agent.
[325] They told him to go try and get an offer sheet.
[326] He couldn't get an offer sheet.
[327] And then they, or I guess Indiana was getting ready to offer an offer sheet.
[328] And then that's when the Sun said, fine, we'll give you.
[329] Or did they match?
[330] My memory doesn't serve.
[331] But I know he went into a restrictive free agency, and it was very late in the game that he got his max money.
[332] He did get an offer and they matched.
[333] He was, I think he was hoping that they would not match.
[334] He wanted out of Phoenix.
[335] To Indiana, yeah.
[336] To Indiana.
[337] So he got Max money basically off of a, a dare almost.
[338] Like, I bet you won't.
[339] And then they're like, well, we can't let him walk completely because he does offer value.
[340] I'm not trying to say he's a bad player.
[341] He did contribute.
[342] But the money was based on we think you can be this.
[343] He's still young enough.
[344] Right.
[345] He's young enough to change who he is.
[346] He doesn't look young enough.
[347] Like he looks Greg Oden -ish 40 years old.
[348] A slightly younger cousin of Greg Oden, yes.
[349] Minimal compensating.
[350] He had agreed in principle to a four -year deal with Indy for.
[351] for 133, and then the Suns had 48 hours to match where they matched.
[352] There you go.
[353] So it's one of those things where you pay a lot of times you get younger players, especially young bigs, and you're paying them based on where you think they're going to get to, not what they're worth right now.
[354] It's not like Anthony Edwards who gets his extension, and we all know right now he's already underpaid.
[355] For Ait, it's like, okay, if he just gets his shit together, this dude can be a monster.
[356] But part and parcel of that is you have to want to be a monster.
[357] You can't kind of be like the shy monster.
[358] This isn't a Sesame Street segment.
[359] Are you and Izzy as fascinated as I am in real time the way that the sport has changed that Rudy Gobert played off the court, DeAndre Aiton has no value.
[360] Hey, the Celtics are champions and they don't need anybody that size in order to be champions because all we've got is wings and that's all we need.
[361] Well, I mean, they got poor Zengis and that was sort of what they needed to break.
[362] it but the funny part about what you're saying is who's coming to change the league it's Victor Wembenyama it's him and how do we take advantage of that size how do we utilize that size that's why I'm so excited to see Chris Paul with him because with somebody of that size you just need to simplify things and Chris Paul knows basketball probably better than any point guard out there but I just think if you are a big that can contribute to today's game you can still do it DeAndre Aiton just doesn't if he were to grab 25 rebounds a game you don't think they're gonna find a place they found a place for what's the guy former Yukon guy who, Andre Drummond.
[363] I mean, that guy seemed to have fallen off and, oh, he's too, not good enough for today's game.
[364] But here, he's playing.
[365] Why?
[366] Because he gets those tough rebounds, those offensive boards and he dunks the ball on occasion.
[367] And by the way, Dan, I think you're also highlighting a really big problem in basketball conversation where people say he has no value.
[368] He has no value at $130 million over four years for minimum, for mid -level, for $10 million, for $15 million, absolutely how John Aiton has value.
[369] He's a good basketball player.
[370] But if I'm paying him, him and more importantly I'm treating him like a number one overall pick max player no he doesn't have value for that he has value if he walks in and says I'm just a guy trying to make my way through this league and that's a very big mindset shift for a guy who's I think still believes in himself as like no I'm a marquee player I was drafted first overall still in the devaluation of bigs Nicole Yokic three -time MVP and he's the best friend in the league basically no look at By the way, Yochich, if you look at who the Celtics beat on the way to the championship, I'm not put an asterisk on it.
[371] I'm just saying, you say, they don't need a big.
[372] Yeah, because they played Bamadabio, who's not an offensive juggernaut.
[373] He's more of a defensive guy.
[374] They played Jared Allen, who was hurt, and Evan Mobley, who's still kind of young.
[375] They played Miles Turner, who, again, is a good player, but not a juggernaut of a big.
[376] And in the finals, they played against Dallas, who Derek Lively and Daniel Gafford, those guys are role players catching law bigs.
[377] They didn't play Embed.
[378] They didn't play Yolkish.
[379] They didn't play any of the, or Ionis, or any of the monsters inside that would say, we need a big.
[380] You guys are talking about different bigs, though, because you're right to correct me as Ian Porzengis, but Porzengis is not playing the same style of basketball DeAndre Aiton and Andre D 'Anne and Andre Drummond.
[381] No, but he has options, right?
[382] If DeAndre Aten would just be, say, a dominant defensive player, because we have Yokic out there, because we have Embed out there, because we have all these quality bigs, you can create that level of value for yourself.
[383] Hassan Whiteside got a $100 million contract largely because of his defense, not because of his offense.
[384] And so it's just a matter of how DeAndre Aitin wants to affect the league.
[385] Will he just sort of continue with his game and say, oh, the league's got to catch up to me, or will he adjust and play today's game?
[386] I'm sorry, but got to play with a fire and a hunger.
[387] You want to get every rebound, want to be the premier pick and roll, lob threat in the league.
[388] These are things that he absolutely can do.
[389] And then every once in a while, pick and pop, hit that mid -range, maybe out to a corner three.
[390] You do those things and defend.
[391] Like, everyone's happy, but the problem is he floats in and out of focus of doing those roles versus just floating around on the court.
[392] If I may, on behalf of all Miami Heat homers that have seen their team fail in pursuits of whales for several instances now, this is not a Miami Heat story.
[393] I think we muddied the waters.
[394] We threw up a Miami Heat graphic behind you, and we involved.
[395] the Miami Heat.
[396] This isn't Anthony Edwards, the general displeasure with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
[397] This is an ownership story.
[398] And now we're dragging the heat into the headlines.
[399] And did you not see how that worked out the last time for them?
[400] We're not going to get this guy now because of you, you two.
[401] Because of a mean.
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[403] It was not me. It was not just me. It was both of us.
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[419] Don Libetard.
[420] I heard that as a woman faking pain.
[421] I didn't think that sounded real.
[422] I really didn't, you know.
[423] It was not fake.
[424] It was in no way fake.
[425] You can spot a woman faking it.
[426] Stugats.
[427] Yes, I can, Jess.
[428] Expert.
[429] I've been married 40 years.
[430] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
[431] I mean, if I can get you out of that phone, you're addicted to.
[432] I'm not addicted to it.
[433] I understand why you would be addicted to it.
[434] Why wouldn't you be addicted to the phone if anyone had told me in any point in my life, hey, there's something you can hold in your hands and have access to all of the wisdom anyone's ever had throughout history.
[435] Would you like to have that in your hand?
[436] That's not what's in the phone, though.
[437] I don't think.
[438] I'm assuming, as always, that it's porn.
[439] But why is it that you have been talking about a ramen prank?
[440] I don't understand why it is that I don't know what you're talking about.
[441] Yeah.
[442] So, first of all, I'd like to point out that you remind me of something that happened to me when I was way back when working in the front office in Phoenix.
[443] I remember we were having a meeting and the owner of the team, Robert Sarver, is there and he's talking.
[444] And I'm taking notes on my phone.
[445] And he said, get off that damn phone.
[446] And I'm like, I'm working.
[447] I'm doing, I'm engaging with what we're doing here.
[448] So you ask me about this ramen thing and I'm pulling it up on my phone so I can give exact details.
[449] And you're like, if I can get you away from your phone, like I'm playing Pocket Monster over here.
[450] Sorry, I'm actually working here.
[451] Would that be an erroneous accusation most times that you're distracted by something in your phone?
[452] This time you happen to be working.
[453] But you came here saying today that you'd rather be in salt minds.
[454] No, I said I am in a salt mine right now.
[455] I've been sent back to the salt mine.
[456] And now you can see.
[457] Now, all my fellow salt miners out there are like, oh, okay, now I see it.
[458] You have notes on this ramen prank you're talking about?
[459] I do, I do.
[460] Well, that sounds natural and organic.
[461] Well, I mean, look, man, just because I'm prepared doesn't mean I can't be organic.
[462] I love how there are certain shots where you can't see the first word in a means shirt, and it just says drink, as if he's just giving advice to everybody watching.
[463] Well, I kind of am giving advice.
[464] The rest of the shirt also gives that advice to drink, drink, not nice.
[465] More specific, yeah.
[466] Day drink.
[467] So, yeah, so this happened in Australia, and there's a YouTuber who did this prank.
[468] He set up this very fancy looking restaurant.
[469] He called it Nisei Jangara Raman, with Nisei actually meaning fake in Japanese, but nobody knew.
[470] So these people all lined up, he invited all of these influencers and, you know, kind of TikTok people, say, you've got to come.
[471] This is the soft launch for this very, very exclusive.
[472] high -end ramen restaurant.
[473] And so then they went in there and everyone was encouraged to post about it.
[474] And they were like, oh, my God, 10 out of 10.
[475] It's the best ramen I've ever had.
[476] It tastes authentic.
[477] It's like, it reminds you when I was in Thailand and I was backpacking through Fouquet.
[478] And there was a little ramen play.
[479] They did all that stuff as they do.
[480] I don't know if the algorithm has you in this way, Dan, online.
[481] For me on TikTok, it's a lot of food stuff.
[482] A lot of, hey, I went to visit this restaurant in, you know, South Detroit.
[483] and it had the best wings ever or whatever, you know.
[484] So there's a lot of this content.
[485] And all these people went out and they posted these platitudes.
[486] And then it turns out the ramen that they served was none other than top ramen.
[487] They just made top ramen and then plated it and then served it.
[488] And all of these people fell over the old banana in the tailpipe in the same way, Dan, it was like four or five years ago.
[489] Do you guys remember this in Philadelphia?
[490] Payless.
[491] Yes, Pales.
[492] Yes, Pellas.
[493] I, L -I -S with a line over the I or whatever.
[494] An um -lot, throw an um -lot in there.
[495] What is the pay -less?
[496] I don't know this story.
[497] Same story.
[498] They made what was pay -less shoes and made them seem like they were designer shoes and everybody was coming in and complimenting all the gear and buying it and paying ridiculous prices for it.
[499] And then the reveal, hey, you just bought pay -less shoes.
[500] I didn't know that ramen, that there was, that there were high -end ramen places.
[501] I didn't know it got better than top ramen.
[502] What?
[503] I didn't know that.
[504] I'm not an aficionado of ramen, so I didn't know.
[505] Am I the only one who's ignorant here?
[506] Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Lebitard Show.
[507] Did you know there was high -end ramen?
[508] There's high -end everything, Dano.
[509] It's elevated.
[510] No, high -end ramen is a thing, for sure.
[511] If you go, I think this might be a, because the Asian population here is not as robust as it is.
[512] Yeah, South Florida does not have a great ramen situation.
[513] Like, D .C. was the first place where I had amazing ramen, and I was like, wow, There's a whole category of food I didn't know about.
[514] D .C., New York, very much so, California.
[515] We have good fa.
[516] Derivative.
[517] I don't know.
[518] I don't think you guys give a foe out here.
[519] That's not a joke that's ever made with the word fa.
[520] No?
[521] I went too far.
[522] No, no, no, no, no, no. You've gone too far.
[523] You rescued it.
[524] It is not true, right, that Evian is, the urban myth that Evian started.
[525] as tricking dumb people with the idea that they'd buy bottled water and it's naive spelled backwards.
[526] I mean, it is that.
[527] Right, it is naive.
[528] That's not a rumor.
[529] That is true.
[530] But isn't that the same thing that happened kind of with liquid death?
[531] They decided to make a water that looked like a can of energy drink and it would absolutely kill and it has.
[532] You know what's funny?
[533] This reminds me, do you guys know blur, the group blur?
[534] Yeah, where's this going?
[535] Like song two?
[536] Yeah, that's their most popular song ever.
[537] Apparently, it was a lark.
[538] They wrote it like, oh, all music is dumb now.
[539] The music that they make, people weren't savvy enough to, so in order to mock, like, the music that was dominating the other day, they made that song, and it turned out to be their biggest song ever.
[540] I had this experience recently with a song called The Hillbillies by Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar.
[541] I had no idea that this was just a mockery of Drake.
[542] They did his song in complete Drake style, basically copied a beat and rapped like they were themselves, but absolutely a Drake type of rap.
[543] There's a line in there.
[544] It just blew my mind because, you know, we talk about Drake and all the stuff that Kendrick is saying, oh, he likes minors and all that stuff.
[545] There's a line in there from Baby Kim.
[546] He says, Messy, get them girls off the stage because somebody's going to get taken.
[547] Somebody's going to invade on your one -on -one conversations, meaning like FBI.
[548] I was just jaw dropped.
[549] I was like, he was telling everybody way before all this, and that's what he were doing, just mocking Drake in that song, which, by the way, banger.
[550] I want to get to some Olympic stuff here in a second, but do we know if Hagenas, is it indeed, is it a foreign ice cream?
[551] No, it's Jersey.
[552] Hagenas is completely made up, it does not mean anything.
[553] They just wanted to make a word that looked and sounded like it was Scandinavian, and people felt for it.
[554] Sounded fancy, sounded gourmet.
[555] Scandinavian, right?
[556] Like, oh, this ice cream isn't, you think this is like, Briars?
[557] No, this comes from the glaciers of Norway.
[558] Straight from the Swiss Alps.
[559] Yeah, from the fjords, right?
[560] And they're like, oh, this is Hagendars.
[561] Can you pronounce that Hagen -Dars?
[562] Yes, you can't, okay.
[563] You can house some of the Hagen -Ans.
[564] But what are you talking about?
[565] Tony, is it indeed from New Jersey?
[566] My bad, Minneapolis.
[567] All right, put it on the former home of Anthony Edwards.
[568] Put it on the poll, please, at Lebitard show.
[569] Did you know that Hagen -Daz was made in Minneapolis.
[570] Let's get to Tony's top five Olympic moments, shall we?
[571] Wow, we are back, Dan, oh!
[572] Yeah!
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[575] So we're going to do a little something different because we did top five moments earlier this week.
[576] This is going to be the Olympic top five superstars in the making.
[577] That's the top five list, superstars in the making.
[578] We're going to start with number five.
[579] Somebody that Izzy was very excited I put on this list, Sprinter Gabby Thomas.
[580] Oh, my goodness.
[581] Gabby Thomas is an absolute superstar, a Harvard grad.
[582] She's like the long, like beautiful runner.
[583] Gold medalist, too?
[584] Gold medalist in the 200.
[585] Probably, now there's Sharika, I forget her last name from Jamaica, who might also, who wasn't in this 200, who might also compete with her.
[586] But these two women might actually touch Flojo's 200 -meter world record, which was a number that, I mean, we've been talking about for 40 years, that why is that still alive?
[587] And they're actually coming close to it.
[588] Gabby Thomas is going to be a super star.
[589] Number four, another Izzy favorite, Quincy Hall.
[590] I mean, this guy.
[591] All right, look, if you missed the 400 meters yesterday, I've never seen a more pained face on a runner through about 300 meters.
[592] I was like, that guy is going to fade.
[593] Uh -uh.
[594] That guy turned that ugly face into the most remarkable comeback.
[595] won gold, and I have a theory on him why he was showing that ugly face.
[596] He's got a gorgeous grill.
[597] He's got a gorgeous grill, and he was just like, I'm not to show you how I'm going to come get this 400 meter medal, and it looks like he doesn't know how to run.
[598] This guy is spectacular.
[599] Wait till he learns how to run.
[600] Sprinting expert, Isi Gutierrez.
[601] Enthusiastic.
[602] Number three, women's rugby player, Ilona Marr.
[603] Of the stiff arm and of the bronze, I think they won, first time ever.
[604] It wasn't her.
[605] Alex Cedric, I think, was the one who did the walkoff, but she was part of the team.
[606] Biggest player on that team, TikTok star.
[607] She's going to become super famous now.
[608] Is this happening throughout sports talk where many people are talking enthusiastically, and they have to say, I forget somebody's name.
[609] Of course.
[610] Or that person from over there that represents that dramatic moment.
[611] A lot of names in the Olympics, Dan.
[612] It's usually somebody from another country.
[613] I'm sorry.
[614] Alex Cedric is the one that scored the walkoff touchdown, by the way.
[615] Quick question, Tony.
[616] Was she a TikTok star?
[617] before the Olympics or had she become one now?
[618] She was a TikTok star, well, I get, yeah, in Tokyo in 2020.
[619] When they had those Olympics, she was one of the first people to, like, comment on the beds.
[620] And, like, when TikTok was really starting off, she built her brand there.
[621] But now she's kind of household with not only the clips that she's putting on on tape in the actual games, but then what she's doing offline online as well.
[622] You don't have to apologize for that.
[623] I feel like everyone is doing that right now, that we have sort of mainline two weeks of sports and we're all learning a lot of names.
[624] No, I'm agreeing with you.
[625] I'm apologizing directly to Sharika Jackson.
[626] 92 countries imagine.
[627] There's a lot of people to know.
[628] Number two, another Izzy favorite.
[629] Wow, does he dominated this list?
[630] Noah Lyles.
[631] I mean, there's so much pressure on this guy, first of all.
[632] And did you see in the warm -ups where he just jumps over everybody?
[633] He just brings his knees to his head and his feet are leveled with everybody else's head.
[634] It's crazy.
[635] He's kind of like a good athlete.
[636] What time is he running?
[637] tonight well our time 25 I think I believe it's about 1525 yeah number one there's only one answer I'm gonna crumble this up and throw it at the bam it's the turkish shooter guy number one superstar the turkish shooter he's incredible I don't even know his name don't need to know his name jeans glasses untucked shirt just air pistol right at the right at the market win a silver medal guy was on the couch smoking a cigarette three months ago like I could do that 30 months ago and they brought a well - I know it's backwards, but I got to give you an O -L -I, and it's Kenneth Rooks.
[638] Okay, he won the silver in the steeplechase.
[639] Dan, I spent about a full hour mocking the steeplechase two days earlier, and then I saw the men's final.
[640] Holy shit was that action -packed.
[641] There was this gentleman.
[642] If there was anybody from these Olympics who would star in sort of a Borat remake, it's this guy, this glorious -looking Moroccan who just, like, dominates the steeplechase, and won the last Olympics, the last two world championships.
[643] And then there's this American Kenneth Rooks.
[644] He just comes from the outside, and there's like, a Kenyan dude who looks at him like, who the hell is this guy?
[645] And he's just coming hard, coming hard, giggity.
[646] And then we're pushing, right?
[647] And then there's this other guy who's like elbowing the Olympic champion, and then he gets in front of him.
[648] What happens to that guy?
[649] He hits the next steeple, goes down like he got shot, and then the American is still on the outside, on the outside, who just comes barreling in gloriously?
[650] It's the Borat -looking M -FER, and he wins another goal.
[651] But the U .S. guy finishes in second, holds off the third place guy.
[652] Holy cow, I was out of breath and I was so worried about the dude who fell down.
[653] Izzy is sweating, his enthusiasm is soaking his shirt.
[654] Afternoons in my house are lit this week.
[655] I've got the dictator.
[656] Borat, I've got Sasha Baron Cohen in the dictator jumping in steeple case.
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