Tricky
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
It's going pretty well there over at NBA TV.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
That felt real, though, did it not? Because they did. They went back. Rare is television quite that awkward. Didn't Steve Smith have something famous happen on the sidelines with somebody? You're going to have to help me here because there was an awkward moment between Steve Smith, who will fight anybody. Not Stephen A. Smith. I know about that one. No, not that one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yes, he says his pastor has told him to run for president. I saw that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I asked you guys to look it up while I was talking. When you've got computers. I asked you guys to look up how it is that he got the nickname Tricky because I was busy doing what I'm doing here. I don't know how to answer any of your questions regarding Steve Tricky Smith, other than to say that as a nickname, Tricky is not dominant. Tricky is not excellent. Tricky is not enduring.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
It's somebody who can trick you because you're not expecting anything from them. I'd like to know what the lost nicknames were, what finished in second and third place, that Tricky was the one that the Miami Herald, if indeed I have this right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Have you guys watched any Marcus Morris on first take? He is now today saying that if Giannis and Damian Lillard lose in the first round, they should just go to Miami, both of them. And it's not the most interesting thing that he has said. Marcus Morris, see if you can find the bias in this, says that Jokic is not a top 20 player of all time. Who? I'll run a Google.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I don't remember that. I don't remember a signature move from Steve Tricky Smith. Nor do I remember the details I need that we will soon find about Steve Smith, the wide receiver, as a broadcaster. This was last year, being on the sidelines. Was it...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
And then they had they there was the awkwardness of him doing that. And then there was the awkwardness of he and Jerry Judy getting into it on live television. So you will find that in a moment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
See if you can find the bias in this. Why is Marcus Morris saying that Jokic is not a top 20 player of all time? Is it because Jokic ended his brother's career by pushing him?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
It's not a lot. 852 is not a lot for someone to take on as their nickname. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Would you need more than 852 votes to accept those votes as your new nickname?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Okay, so I misunderstood what it is that you were telling me. Well, it's tricky. If I told you right now, hey, you're playing at the Y, or you're playing in order to become inclusive, the Jewish Community Center. You're playing wherever it is that you play basketball. And the person that you're playing against, I want you to create a visual in your mind.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I'm telling you that you're going to a place to play basketball against somebody. And this is all the information that you have on that player. His name is Smitty. He's got a move called the Smitty. And his nickname is Tricky. That person is 5'6", pudgy, and plays with a headband. In my mind. Calls every foul.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
That happens a lot with the Morrises, I would say, generally speaking. It's their fault for both of them having the same tattoos. It's not just that they're twins. They have the same tattoos. They're impossible to tell apart.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Oh, he's going to be good, though? Oh, yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Look, man, when Ja Morant calls Khalil Ware, a pigeon when Kahlil Ware is on him because he's grateful that Bam is not on him. And I'm watching what happens there where a 20-year-old of uncommon physical attributes can't guard Ja Morant because he too is of uncommon physical attributes. I can stop and remember my friend Jeff Miller, who was about half my size, and I could never block his shot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Anytime we were playing basketball, I'd get a hip. Something would get in my way. I got it. I'm clearly going to block his shot. I'm much bigger than him, and he doesn't have an angle here, and he's not faster than me. And now I'm retrieving the ball out of the hoop again because I can never get it because he's a tricky smitty.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Can you guys play for me, please, a gas bag of the week? And I want to get to a behind the bit here in a second because we've gotten away from celebrating our 20 year anniversary.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I did want to ask you guys in celebration of what is possibly us getting thousands of people out to see the part of Greg Cody's body over his belly button that will be surgically either removed or altered so that we may gather as pilgrimage in order to see it on display in a glass case with lighting one day. I believe that to be the greatest achievement in our show's history.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's a great trick. I have asked the McCourty's this as well and the Barber's like they they have done things to prank people because they are pretending one to be the other. Never as famously as Ozzie and Jose Canseco did it when Jose Canseco had a charity boxing match and his brother showed up and was able to reveal the fraud to all of us by having different tattoos than his brother did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Do you guys have anything in the way of nominees, other nominees that you think might but won't knock that off as the greatest achievement in our show's history?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Excellent nominees, but lesser nominees than what it is that I'm talking about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
All of them good nominees. None of them as good as getting thousands of people to make a pilgrimage to see a toenail of an old guy, a disgusting toenail of an old guy. Who's the gas bag of the week? Let's find out together. We'll probably know by sound, right? This is not an obscure gas bag of the week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Can you tell me who's editing that, that there would be a stray sentence at the end of that where he's just teasing to the upcoming draft? Like, who's our editor on this that we can't stop that after grilled cheese?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah. Exactly. Okay, I appreciate you guys arguing for the merits of that. We need better editing around here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Behind the bit is something that we have been doing to celebrate our 20-year anniversary around here. And in this case, and we talked about this last week... I don't know if you remember, Tony, your nemesis, Billy Gill, somehow magically beating the Freeze in Atlanta.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
The Freeze, a sprinter, a former sprinter, I guess he's still a current sprinter, who is part of the shenanigans during Braves games. They run the entirety of the warning track. It's a hell of a long run. Billy tried to pace himself. This is a good strategy by going slower at the beginning because the way the freeze catches you is he doesn't slow down, you do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
His speed never slows because he's got the stamina for the entire warning track. You, of course, have never run the warning track. You're also afraid because that sounds fast, what's coming from behind. And you have taken inventory of how tired you are and how far that foul pole looks now that you're 40 yards away from it. Let's celebrate together Billy Gill somehow, magically.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Our fastest guy, Billy Gill. He beat Chris Cody in a race. He beat Pablo Torre in a race. He beat Amin in a race. Billy's our fastest guy because he also beat the Freeze.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
And so otherwise they would have gotten away with it. They would have managed to fool everybody. Tony, when you say the Knicks are in trouble, is it because they're playing Detroit in the first round, or is it just more general than that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Did you guys have any reaction to the news that Paige Beckers had joined Unrivaled, the local basketball league that is 10 weeks long? Unrivaled, John Skipper, the CEO of Metal Ark, is one of the investors in that idea. Did you guys have any reaction to the reported details on Paige Beckers signing that deal? Because the details of that deal, as they were reported...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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was that she's going to get for one 10-week period, she's signed a three-year contract with Unrivaled, a made-for-television invention that is something that is happening around the schedule of the WNBA, 10 weeks that women have free, that they don't have to go to Russia anymore to make money. The reporting is that she will make more for those 10 weeks initial contract in the NBA.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
That's how badly in the WNBA. That's the reason that unrivaled has signed her, but they didn't give any of the actual numbers. They just, somebody reported it that way, that this is a league that is here, that is throwing around serious money, but they didn't give you the dollar amounts. They simply reported it as this will be more money than she gets in her entire career.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
The reporting was interesting to me. They didn't actually give the number, though. All of this was a marketing exercise in reporting where every story had that detail. without giving me the amount of money none of the stories had the amount of money that i saw all of the stories had this represents more than she in ten weeks she will make more than she will in four years which made me think
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
That that was something that Unrivaled was putting out there because it's a favorable thing for Unrivaled to have out there. Come down here, ladies. We have a whole area of a city near the airport in Miami where we're just making televised basketball. We don't need fans to do it. It's all part of trying to grab the TV streaming dollars so that you could flip that league.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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when you flip it for real dollars and that's some real money being thrown around where you can edge out the WNBA on something and send out a press release that can say to everybody look how poorly paid they are over there and look at how well we're paying over here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Instead of going to Russia and being Brittany Griner, they went to Hialeah. You go to Medley. Which... Truck stops in Medley.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
It's close. It ain't Russia, but it ain't where I'd put a basketball league. I'm confused by the airport. That we've got essentially a campus. It's a campus and it has all the amenities. It has childcare. It has the ability to, it's basically the bubble. And you could leave the bubble.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
There's not, you know, a pandemic going on, but you leave the bubble and there's not an area you want to be in because it's medley. Closest thing is Doral. I mean, there ain't nothing close. There ain't no closest thing. There are airports flying out loudly nearby. But it is a strange place. Hey, where are the best women basketball players in the world? Medley. Is that right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I cannot explain to you in this part of Miami how strange it is to see a thriving epicenter for future basketball commerce over there near the Pollo Tropical.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I would say that I feel pretty confident saying this. Tell me if you agree or disagree based on just simply matchups, because I will say again, I like this Knicks team. I think it's more talented than the Knicks team that New York fell in love with last year. They, New York, does not love this Knicks team the way they loved last year's Knicks team. That's a Carl Anthony Towns thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I would like the Knicks against the No. 5, but I think the No. 6 has a set of ingredients to make this possible. We might get to laugh at the Knicks in the first round.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Like, we're going to get set up to be able to laugh at the Knicks in the first round if this team that's more talented than last year's team underachieves and gets all those loud New Yorkers really mad, and they're all just going to blame Carl Anthony Towns.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I would like to offer to the group here, whichever one it is that you want to talk about, because I imagine Roy has some preferences here. If I offer you by way of playoff preview, if I say to you, would you like to talk about Nuggets Clippers? Somebody who can win the championship is going to get knocked out in the first round. Would you like to talk about Lakers, Timberwolves? Yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Or would you like to talk about Sharks Wild and what happens when 15 goals, two massive goals, superstar making an appearance?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So you'll take them against anybody, but you feel like they're going to get eliminated in the first round. Maybe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
If they, if they fail to get out of the first, I really do enjoy the Pacers, just their style of play. I really like Halliburton. No, I know. I know that this is not something that's being talked about, but I saw the way they came back against Cleveland. They score like crazy. Uh, I want to play some sound for you here of Isaiah Thomas.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I asked when this sound was brought to my attention, which Isaiah Thomas is this? And then I was told the old one, which didn't feel right. It felt disrespectful. It was. It doesn't feel like you could say the Hall of Famer. You could say the Piston. The old one. You knew who I meant. Yeah, but I just thought it was wildly disrespectful.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And here he is being disrespectful and old about LeBron James warming up shirtless on the sidelines wearing a do-rag?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I mean, we all know what's going on with Jalen. You've got Jalen Rose on that set. I don't know who that is between them. He's a host of some sort, it seems. A host of some sort.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm pretty sure you guys know that Steve Smith, maybe you don't know that Steve Smith's nickname. Do you guys know this? Any of you know this? I believe I have this right when I say and there's no reason for you to know it. It's a terrible nickname. His nickname was tricky. Which just stinks as a nickname, but I'm pretty sure it was given to him by Miami Herald readers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I believe he gave out the right to his nickname. I think a contest produced it. I just can't help but watch that. I know you guys are going old on this, but when Isaiah Thomas is sitting here talking about professionalism and he's got a sexual harassment, case in the resume when he was an executive, like on professionalism. One is shirtlessness while taking shots.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The other one is even less professional.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, Billy says, Billy Gill says that in the flight back from The Super Bowl, then Njoku was on the playing shirtless. Then Njoku goes everywhere. David Njoku, the former University of Miami guy and Cleveland Brown tight end who is a – I mean he's a statue. He's a Greek statue.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, and he knows it. And evidently he's just always shirtless. You can't go – look. You can be on the court shirtless before you can be on the airplane shirtless.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This is so good here. So they say this is a misunderstanding. They did another video after this one went viral in which they went to Sam Mitchell's home to just show you, hey, there's no awkwardness here. These people are friends, but this seems like awkwardness.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's former coach of the year, former coach of the year, Sam Mitchell. Stay out of other people's pockets, man. He did not. That was awkward. Sam Mitchell, I will say this again, former coach of the year, Sam Mitchell, because he has been known for a long time to speak out of pocket and be okay saying to people's faces things that they might not want to hear.