Amin Elhassan
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Standard of the day. Dan, there were a bunch of people walking around with signs that said, just tank, baby. The Raiders fan base is very into tanking.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Yes, and the people were asking for you, Juju. A lot of people were like, where's Juju? I said, he'll be back.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Not really. That's just the lighting. Dude, the Monday Night Football, man. I went to Raiders and Falcons. Yeah. It was a great experience, but I was surprised how many Falcons fans wore Deion Sanders jerseys. But I thought there would be way more Michael Vicks and there weren't. There was like maybe two or three.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Greg, I'm going to suggest something to you because I've thought about this for Black in My Day several times. If you pull one from like seven years ago, will anyone remember?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
So Dan, you know, obviously I'm out in the room where Greg is wrapping a gift, but we know his mic is hot. So all of us are kind of speaking in whispers and we're having side conversations. And at one point I remember looking up at the screen to see kind of what you guys were on and I'm like, why is Nick Turturro and Michael K still here? It was like 40 minutes later, I'm like, they're still here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
The people loved it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
I will reveal to the audience I was surprised afterwards. Mike was legitimately, like, offended. You will not reveal any such thing to the audience.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Oh, so that's why. I'm like, this is a lot of, because I remember when you had your Deon jerseys, I was like, wow, where'd you get that? And then I'm like, I didn't know there were this many Deon jerseys out there. Right, right. Hey, and mine, you know, mine from actually 1994.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
That's what I'm saying. Like, you have one that was like a original prod, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Yeah, I mean, I would say I care deeply. I don't want to compare, but I think the problem is many of the arguments are straw man arguments. They're red herrings that you guys are following. Straw man. Thank you. But now we have that sounder. For example, I'll give you an example, Dan. You mentioned it yesterday when I was on the show briefly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
But the Bulls and the Hornets played a game where 75 missed three-pointers. And everybody was like, oh, my God, this is why the NBA sucks. And I said, okay, so the headline is two horrible teams play against each other and play in a horrible game. And that's what we're judging the sport on. That's what we're doing? Why don't we judge it off Raiders, Panthers, and NFL?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
We could do this across the board. There are bad teams in every sport, and bad teams play bad games. The reality is, everyone who's crying about the lack of a mid-range shot in the NBA, or the demise of the mid-range shot is, you look around the league. Does Steph Curry shoot mid-range shots? Yes or no? Occasionally. Not occasionally. He shoots quite a few. Kevin Durant? Yes. Devin Booker? Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Jimmy Butler? Sure. Jason Tatum? Mm-hmm. Jalen Brown? Yep. Luka Doncic? Yeah. Kyrie Irving? Yes. Okay, so it seems to me the mid-range shots we got rid of was from the Eric Snows of the world. That's what you guys are missing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Yeah, you're missing all these guys who— I do miss Eric Snow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You're pretty certain it's not going to go in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Stugatz, you missed the Tyrone Hill pick-and-pop 18-footer? Yeah, I do, yeah. You miss Kurt Thomas on the baseline? I do, actually, yes, money, yep. Udonis Haslam, remember when he learned how to shoot? Yeah. See, like, Dan, that's the mid-range shots that got legislated out of our game, because basically what we told every role player is, hey, either you're going to,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Make a three to spread the defense out so that Luka and Steph and Kevin Durant can do these amazing things that we all actually paid to see. We wanna see those guys do amazing things. So you need to stand out there at the three-point line so the defenders can't just sag and sit right there and help.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Or you're gonna be an amazing athlete who's gonna catch lobs and dunks like Clint Capella and Rudy Gobert and all these guys that just exist for an alley-oop in case someone tries to collapse. What we got out of the game was all the people we didn't want to see shooting. That's what we got. Now, are you going to have nights where people shoot poorly? Yeah, that's the game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
But to base it all on one thing like that, to me, the NBA doesn't have a three-point problem. It doesn't have a load management problem, despite what you guys were ridiculous to talk about earlier. What the NBA has is a marketing problem. We don't know how to market our game in a way that's... Salient. I just came back from Vegas, the NBA Cup.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You know who there was an abundance of with great access to everything? Influencers. And that's awesome. These people have millions of followers. They get millions of views on Instagram. You know what the NBA has not yet learned how to monetize? The Internet. Right? So if we say, hey, the way we make our money, more than anything, is people watching on TV. Right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Let's market to the number one audience that doesn't watch TV. That's what we're doing. And I'm like, that's the part where we're behind. Or maybe we're ahead. Maybe the NBA says, look, in the future, no one's going to watch TV. And then we'll have the market cornered. For sure. But right now, our metrics for success are not measuring the things that we are going after. And that's your problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
It's not wokeness. It's not load management. It's not three pointers. It's not any of that. Yes, still super defensive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So, Greg. Let me pitch you this. Maybe it's too gimmicky for Greg Cody, but let me give it a try. I'll be the judge of that. I got one better than that. Watch this. In baseball, how far is a home run from home plate?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Depends on the park. From 312 feet to 412 feet. Right? And we could say that some teams have players that benefit greatly from the way the park is designed, right? Yeah. What if the three-point line was subjective by NBA Arena? So if I'm Milwaukee, Giannis gets a lot of stuff in the paint. I'm putting the three-point line right there in the paint.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
If I'm Golden State, I'm like, no, no, I want it as far as possible. And now there's a little bit of strategy when you go from building to building. Hey, how many threes are we taking?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Because, Dan, I don't mind rule changes. Thank you. Our game has changed rules more than probably any of the other sports. Maybe not football in the last 10 years. Those guys are going crazy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Dirk, you're good friends with Steve Nash. You guys played together in Dallas and then Steve obviously went on to Phoenix. Did you guys ever talk about what would have happened had you guys stayed together?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Plumber? It's one of two things, I think. I don't think anybody knows what you're saying.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's in my mind. Let me hear the second one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
It's a different frog. It is. It is a different species.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
The other one is a statue.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You played quite a few minutes in the last meeting when you were playing for the Utah Jazz. You played 20 minutes. You were 0 for 4 in that game. Nice, nice work. Zero points, two fouls, four rebounds. Dirk had 21 and six, so pretty good job right there. Yeah, I mean, not bad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You were three and four against Dirk in your career, so you can hold your head high. Now, if you want the averages, Dirk averaged 21.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, and almost a block a game. You averaged 1.3 points, 2.3 rebounds, and almost a turnover and a half a game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stoogatz!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
The name started with an A. He's been cooking today. The chat has been saying I've been very good today. Yeah, you're cooking. You're cooking. Hold on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I tell you, your voice is so wonderfully restrained. It's amazing. It's like you treat the song with such reverence despite the fact it's about bollocks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's not easier, though. You're right that it is easier, but it's not more accurate, and it doesn't solve any problems for you, but it does make you feel better and more superior than the people you're talking about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Okay, super creepy. Incredibly creepy. That is incredibly, I mean, talk about giving Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang vibes right there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
The way he moved his fingers when he was talking at the beginning, as if he's just about finished licking them after eating chicken. That is gross. If I wasn't already gay, I'd be gay after watching that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is what I thought.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And who noticed him first, by the way? I did. Oh. Are you saying Miami is special? It's so special. It's not special. The man looked like a sociopath. Miami is special. He had a dogger or Stephen A? You know, what is the Christian Bale in the film with the obsession over business cards, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He looked like he was running, listening to Huey Lewis in the news, waiting for the next person to approach him, who he felt threatened by, to murder them. That's what he looked like. There's nothing attractive about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He clearly had baby-oiled himself before he left the house. That's correct. Gross. Who doesn't? Special.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Look how much I can lock in on something completely immaterial and unimportant. This segment is going to descend into your listeners just sending in thirst traps. I can see what's going to happen now. And I'm here for it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Agreed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
You can do too much, you know. Plus, half the time you look at these people, they don't look... like human beings anymore. It's odd to me. It's odd to me. I don't want your skin to be like paper. That's odd. It's an odd sensation to be with somebody who has no fat whatsoever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, plenty of that. That's one of those things, yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's so sad though. I feel so, I mean, he's a man, he has his own agency. I get that. But I feel so sad that you can be so unloved or so exploitable that no one around you is willing to forcefully be there to help you not embarrass yourself publicly, not humiliate yourself, not make you more liable for the things that are going to happen to you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It just seems incredible to me that no one loves you. This is the same as that scene in President Trump's first term when he had toilet paper on his shoe. To me, it's that again. I saw that, and regardless of the fact that I don't like him, I felt sad for him because he's surrounded by people paid to be around him, none of whom felt enough about him to stop him from embarrassing himself.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And here it is, again, my geniusness-ness. And one of whom is his lawyer. You would think that he would have said something. Right? Especially if I'm paying you. You have one job. How about you prevent me from being more of a liability to myself and maybe even not humiliate myself? Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Listen, nothing good happens when your occupation becomes your definition. When what you do becomes who you are, nothing good comes from that. You guys have talked about this with athletes that finish their career and then spectacularly go off the rails, whether it's drugs or other substances, whether it's gambling, whether it's sex, whatever it is, they lose themselves.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Because what happens if you've defined yourself for a period of time by the fact that you are beloved on television or you're a cartoon character on television or whatever else, or you're a genius with music? And then all of a sudden you find yourself in front of a lawyer who doesn't give a shit about your creative skills. They just want you to answer some questions. It creates this schism.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It doesn't have to be a pathology. I'm not suggesting it's some kind of psychological disorder. I think that's often, we often pathologize this stuff. I still think it's sad that you can be that successful and have managed to reject everyone who might love you a little bit enough to challenge you out of your sphere.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Listen, I'm not suggesting that he doesn't have traits of people who've got real psychopathy, real problems. I'm simply, nor even that you can recognize it when you see it in your family members, these behaviors. What I'm saying is it does a real disservice to the millions and millions of people out there who have similar disorders but don't behave in such aberrant ways.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
That's something to consider, right? We try and say this is because of your diagnosis. When there are millions of people out there suffering similarly or sometimes even more acutely, who don't behave in these aberrant ways.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And it is different if you're in the spotlight, if you're in sports, they're exacerbating factors. So I'm not suggesting it's not a contributor. I suppose my thing here is I don't want people to think that they do that thing where they think because of it's because of the diagnosis that this person behaves in these reprehensible ways. That is a contributing factor.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But there are other factors and some of them are totally within the control of the individual. It isn't just that. Oh, how unfortunate your brain chemistry was was effed up when you were born. And now you're in this tough position. It's you also made some terrible choices and you're now doing things purposefully.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
and relying on the fact that we're going to let things slide because of your diagnosis. We work in companies sometimes where people say things like, well, the reason that we've got so many bullies in our environment is because these really clever people are on the spectrum, they'll say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And what an incredible disservice to people who might have ASD, autism spectrum disorder, to imagine that because you have this, you're a terrible person who's awful to other people. No, these people are assholes who have ASD. That is not the same thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Bill, it's just my face was showing and your name was showing underneath it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, I've spoken to some teachers, actually, in schools, universities, and high schools in the States and in Europe, and they are dealing with kids who have either self-diagnosed or been told by their parents they have a certain disorder, and therefore, them being rude in class or speaking out when they shouldn't be or not participating is somehow... like they have license to do it now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I think it's really problematic. It's why the advice for psychologists is that we don't diagnose from a distance. It's really tempting because you see these constellations of behaviors and you think, I've recognized this. I've seen this before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But I just think agency, you're going to give people a chance to say, what part are you playing in this before we kind of throw away everything else and say, yeah, it's not your fault.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He has a pair of abs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is where you can tell the straight guy standards are entirely different.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
We all have abs. Well, yes, mine are covered, but he has a pair of abs that are exposed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's a deal. I'll do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, it's just that even in the arguments that I've heard from everybody, there's so many accurate pieces to it that describe to me, and I don't, you know, of all the people in this studio, I don't know anything about these teams, but the way you've described... when you got granular with it, I could completely understand the frustration.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's simply that to me, that frustration is lost when we start using words that are bound to trigger for no other reason than it's easy and we kind of like the fact that Joel, this person who is otherwise untouchable, knows that we all think he's soft.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
If you really want to win, your go-to for a person who really wants to win is nepotism, for starters, and then nepotism with people who are too young to drink or vote. Yeah, those are the sources of information I'm looking for. I'm not telling you that young people don't have anything to offer. That's not my point.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But if what they're offering is, by the way, have you checked out the score that's in a video game for somebody? I've got to think there's better sources. I've got to. That's like asking me. That's like if they approached me to say, hey, what do you think of this Judy guy? And I'd be like, yeah, yeah, you know. Go for it or don't.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
That's the quality of insight you're getting from a 16-year-old who's relying on a Madden score. Jerry Judy, two first names.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
A few weeks later, Douglas and his Broncos counterpart, George Patton, were deep in negotiations for a trade that would have sent Judy to the Jets and given a future Hall of Fame quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, another potential playmaker. The Broncos felt a deal was near. Then abruptly, it all fell apart. In Denver's executive offices, they couldn't believe the reason why.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Douglas told the Broncos that Johnson didn't want to make the trade because the owner felt Judy's player rating in Madden NFL, the popular video game, wasn't high enough, according to multiple league sources. The Broncos ultimately traded the receiver to the Cleveland Browns. Last Sunday, Judy crossed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Most of my team tells me it's soporific.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Ding, ding. That's how you know I'm a fair competitor, man. I got to give it to him, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, we picked. the ambassador for sports to go on that show, right? It has to be someone that is palatable for those people. You couldn't, you know... A model minority.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
It's one of those things where it's like, if you gave him an actual sports person, it might be too much, too intense for them. So you add a little bit of milk. You give him one from the library. Get me a sports person from the library. Bring him over here. Let him push his glasses up the bridge of his nose. Well, actually.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
I believe. My calculations serve correct. Pablo Torrey finds... Oh, that's right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
And it only cost $242 million. Well. This month.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
You don't know anything with all your math.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Are you talking about the baseball theory? So, guys, every baseball park, where's the home run line? Well, it's different in every park, right? So I came up with the suggestion the three-point line should be home court dependent as well. So in Milwaukee, they might have it in the paint. Because their best player, their highest volume player is Giannis.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
He's going to get hit a bunch of threes from right in front of the rim. Meanwhile, in Golden State, they're like, hey, we got the best shooters. Let's move it as far back as possible. Let's move back to 30 feet or whatever. And so now you've got some variance, some strategery going, right? Hey, guys, we're playing at Milwaukee tonight. Pound the paint. I don't want to see anybody standing outside.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Change up the rules for that one. Test it out. I mean, he's blasphemed against you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
I mean, I mean, he's... Look, man, the NBA Cup is not for any of us. It's for children. It's for people who are 10 years old who are watching this and seeing guys celebrate and be happy, and then 10 years from now when they're in the league, that becomes a point of emphasis. I want to win MVP. I want to win finals MVP. I want to win NBA Cup MVP.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
It's not because the example those guys set, those are guys that a bunch of kids grow up wearing their sneakers, buying their jerseys, idolizing them. Those kids one day will be in the NBA and they'll say, I want to do everything that my idol did. Look, Dan, how do we get to a place where you got kids saying Paul George is the greatest player of all time?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Because 10, 11 years ago, these were the kids who were like, I don't like LeBron. Who's in his way? That guy. He's really good. And that's how you get kids grow up saying Paul George is the greatest player of all time. And those kids are in the NBA now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
So if you're telling me that a kid can grow up thinking Paul George is the GOAT, they're not going to grow up thinking that the NBA Cup is something worth winning?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Look at this, Dan Levitard. He didn't even answer your question. He didn't even address your question. The question was, the defense is great and has been shredded the last two weeks. You know why, Dan Levitard? I'm going to tell you exactly why that's happened. Because they figured him out. Because the book was out. You know, he comes in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Yeah, he's been in the NFL before, but he's been gone for a while. So a lot of guys, they don't know what he's doing, what he's thinking or whatever. So he comes in with some new stuff and everyone's like, oh, how do we adjust? But guess what? The NFL, if anything else, is a study league. It's a league where we get playbooks and other playbooks, and we watch, and we learn, and we make notes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
And we see what worked against other people and what didn't. And what's happened in the last couple weeks, Dan Levitar, is the league has figured him out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, Dan Levitard, I think when you talk about Joel Embiid, there's a lot of things going on. Number one is I never want to fault a guy for getting injured. Injuries happen. Brandon Roy, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, there's so many great players, Bill Walton, whose careers were shortened and their legacies were impacted by injury.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
At the same time, I don't think Joel Embiid does himself any favors when he talks in the media talking about, look at all I've done for the city, even though they haven't got out in the second round of the playoffs since Allen Iverson was on the sidelines there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
even though he came back not to run in the playoffs, but because he wanted to go to the Olympics, he came back for a good show of face to play in the playoffs for the Philadelphia 76ers. These little things, these little microaggressions, as these kids like to call it, those are the things that do not endear him to a city that otherwise would love him.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Also, one last thing, he ran the scapegoat out of town. If Ben Simmons were here, nobody would be blaming Joel Embiid for anything.
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This is my Toradol, is that what you're saying?
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All of these guys. The only person I will allow grace to is Roy, because Roy said it means playing hurt. But all the other guys say, oh, no, Andrew Hawkins, this, whatever. You guys don't understand. I do this for a living. There it is. See, that's what I'm talking about.
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Now, here's the thing that I never thought. I know that the scoreboard already says I've won this thing. But if you mean to tell me I'm afraid of Andrew Hawkins, I will put my reputation on the line, and I will say this. Winner take all for this laugh.
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Which witch? Which witch? Okay. Did it on purpose. Here we go. Here's the thing, Dan Leventhal. I love Wicked. I took my kids on Thanksgiving Day to watch Wicked, and they were excited. You know, we pre-gamed. We prepped by watching Wizard of Oz to get ourselves into the mood, get ourselves into the mind state to watch this wonderful, wonderful pellicular, as they say down here in Miami.
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And I love Miami. Miami's different. But I digress. Both actresses delivered an amazing performance. Both sang, both made us laugh, they made us feel. Now, what I will say is this. I felt like Ariana Grande's character was more of a one note, so it was easier for her to play. Meanwhile, the Wicked Witch of the West had a lot more complexity, a lot more texture to her.
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And so she had to go high, she had to go low, she had to go left, go right. Talk about Latinas. I'm going to go...
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I feel like that's a Bay Area thing, right? Hella. That's a regional slang, right? It's like saying shoddy. You don't say shoddy.
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Don Levitard. If Daniel Day-Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourself. Oh, come on.
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That would be fun, right? It would be a more fun story than tripping, falling, and falling face first in the middle of the road, on a curb.
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I'm looking at him like, oh, wow, because it's Mahomes, Mahomes. Stafford is over 35 now. Brady, Mahomes, Brady, Nick Foles. Retired. Brady. And then Peyton Manning. Brady. Then Russell Wilson. Then who was that? Was that Flacco?
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Yeah. Eli. Aaron Rodgers. Now I'm like almost 10 years.
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Now, this is the interesting thing, because while that stat is cool, it also illustrates that six of the last eight Super Bowls have been won by two guys. Brady and Mahomes. That's the other part of this is that for all this accolades and this guy and that guy and this guy's winning MVPs, two guys have been winning this thing.
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Yeah, it was not on the Elser block, so that's already out. That's too bad.
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when we watched the Britney Spears documentary on Hulu. And in it, there's a scene where she pulls up to Starbucks drive-thru and gets mobbed. And she's like, oh my God. And I'm like, yeah, man, you don't get to live a regular life anymore. Like, these things have to be... your life has to be curated almost in the sense that you don't go to a Starbucks.
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You need Starbucks, someone gets you Starbucks. Or you get a Starbucks in your house like some rich people have done, right? Bobby Witt Jr.
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A bit of jealousy there. I felt that too. Dan wants to renew his vows now. Just to get a...
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Because when you approached, I approached on purpose right side first. Now I have a good side, ladies and gentlemen. So I went dap like this and then— Dip right. Dip right. Like shoulder to shoulder, he's going this way. So I was like, there's nothing. And then I walked away. So all he saw was the back of my head.
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Dan, I'd like to just say right now, that is the most informative he's ever been in the history of this show. You're kicking him out?
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Every one of those law enforcement officers get to say, look at me, I'm in the picture. I'm in the background. That's what this is, right? That's all that was. That's just like, hey, man, let me get a little closer to Luigi. Eric Adams was in this photo. Come on, man. Look, he murdered someone, allegedly. He's not a mass murderer.
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He's not like this incredibly dangerous person that, oh, my God, he could take out three guys. We've got to surround him by 40 officers. he's a high-profile suspect, but he's not like John Wick. Yeah, he's not a serial killer. It seemed like he was Superman. It's like Arkham, where are they taking him?
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Okay, hold on. Is there a difference between him and let's say The beltway sniper from D.C. from like 15, 20 years ago?
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Let me be clear, because before everyone takes what I said out of context, I didn't say what he did was all right or justified or anything. All I said was they are escorting him with the type of escort usually reserved for someone who's incredibly dangerous. Like, over the regular dangerous people, above and beyond. And I think that is just performative.
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Like Mike said, it's like guys are just trying to, dude shows up wearing his off-white Jordans, you're trying to flex. You're trying to be like, I was there and I looked amazing.
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People are number than the left side of my face, Dan.
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Definitely concerning, Dan. But I think the story today is about the Memphis Grizzlies, about how everyone forgot that this was a team before the injuries, before John Morant's legal troubles. This was a team that was right at the cusp. This was the Oklahoma City Thunder of a few years ago, right? Where we're saying, oh, that's the next team right here.
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These guys are going to elevate and they're going to take the mantle. And John Morant is going to be the face of the league, right? We're quick to forget. And yes, John made mistakes. I'm not here to defend him or dismiss those accusations. What I am here to say is that didn't mean he forgot how to play basketball. Mm-hmm. You watched the Grizzlies last night. That is a well-oiled machine.
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Don't be surprised if we see them in the Western Conference Final.
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You tell a little story about the blanket, and then you tie it back to what happens to something. Like that 17-year blanket, there's comfort there. There's a level of familiarity.
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I have an answer for you. It was me. Like four years ago on ESPN, I had a massive eczema outbreak and it attacked literally just my eyes. And so my... You can see how swollen my face is. That's what it looked like, except it was everywhere as opposed to just on one side of my face. Why would you come to work? Because I'm a gamer.
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Now, Jeremy, how do we know that he's not doing this for December to remember from Lexus?