"Jeremy, please." The Jimmy Butler statue committee takes control of the show, and it goes completely off the rails. Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Izzy, Roy, Billy, Jeremy, Jessica, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding the Jimmy Butler statue?
The oddball guys made it about themselves yesterday. Like, it couldn't be about Jimmy Butler. It couldn't be about Miami. It couldn't be about the story. It had to be about oddball. It had to be about how can oddball trick a journalist? How can oddball make a name for itself on basketball's big stage? Oh, boy. This is how we're starting.
That's not even close to what we set out to do. What we set out to do was to... honor and commemorate Jimmy Butler and we wanted people to come up to us and share their thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler statue should look like.
if there should be a jimmy butler statue which most people agreed that they should i don't you're saying us i mean i don't remember you there well i produced the show oh okay i'm just saying like what that was the show objective was to have people come up and talk to us about a statue should there be a statue i feel like most people izzy were supportive of a statue very supportive nobody said no i mean where did you find the gentleman the artist where did you find him
Oh, he's known. He's known in circles. He's from the opposite side of the world. He came from all over, across the world. He's made statues of some very famous people. I don't remember the names. One was Abdul Khalif Mukhtar, and then the other one was Sharon Stone. And so... Diversity. Yeah, he's been around. He's done a lot of great work around the world.
And we got him and he was gracious to do it. I mean, you know, it's just a look book. It wasn't really, he wasn't like sculpting right in front of us. Sharon Stone because stone. I mean, you gotta ask him, I don't know. But the point is, Dan. The point is, is that that's what was the aim, and then the team was approached by a journalist.
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Chapter 2: Who is Akbar Domestique and what is his role?
who was very fascinated by the work of Akbar, and so he talked to Akbar.
Well, but this was Jeremy's friend, and this was embarrassing. Like, what happened? For whom? For whom? It's never whom. What do you mean? For Jeremy's friend?
This is... I thought you were saying it was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend, a South Florida journalist, did not recognize me.
That was bad. You recognized Akbar. I mean, it was a bad thing for everyone involved, right? That no one here who's of note was recognized and that journalism is clearly very, very dead.
Maybe we're not as famous as we think we are.
I was the only one here.
Well, Akbar's very famous. He got interviewed by the media last night, so he's famous.
Well, he had a giant sign in front of him that basically said, come interview me.
I mean, I don't know. How could you guys, how? I know it's oddball. I know, I get it. It's oddball. I get it. But how could you guys make Jimmy Butler about you the way that you did yesterday? By creating news. By creating news that appeared in the Sun Sentinel, doing so, making the day about you.
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Chapter 3: What happened with the media at the Jimmy Butler event?
Does the audio not work? Okay, see if you guys can get the audio up there so that we can... Jessica, why does that delight you? You've got a little Billy in you on a wild Willie Wednesday. That we can't get even the simplest things right? Is that what's making you laugh?
Yeah.
Yeah. OK, so sound is important in this medium, as you guys know. So if you're trying to set up a joke, you need to have sound with the video. We've been working hard on the video.
So perfect.
The sound is sort of a problem at the moment. Jimmy Butler last night, that entire spectacle, the entirety of it was sad. I was made sad by all of it. And which part specifically? that a relationship that was good with everyone involved can't even shake hands at the end. That the money would get that corrosive.
Look, I'm going to tell you a couple of stories here because allow me here to get here because it's going to take a second. But the nature of competitive people, okay? My brother was very competitive, okay? That's an impossible industry. Art, selling shit out of the back of your car. Fighting for money because you want to do what you dream about.
And at the end of his career, because somebody was getting in the way of his money. There was an 80-year-old man who runs a company that my brother was ready to fight, physically fight, because of whatever competitive is at the most competitive. Jimmy Butler is a million times more competitive than my brother, and I think Pat Riley is more competitive than that. And those two dudes want to fight.
And I imagine the marketing meeting where Riley's coming into the room and telling everybody, I know we want to be class and everything, but can we say at the end, and also bleep you, Jimmy, at the end of the video. I want to know who talked Riley into doing that. It had to be the Arisons.
I'm going to find out because I don't know what you guys made of the emotion of that, but it wasn't just that the game was a bummer. It's that, man, that was a good relationship. That was a good relationship for everyone involved, and the money gets in the way like that?
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Chapter 4: Why did the relationship between Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat sour?
Steph Curry could be that powerful of an alien that his power of friendship is just more, you know, stronger than everybody else's. But it's just, it was the relationship between Miami and Jimmy Butler in a nutshell last night.
But, like, what are we doing? He didn't leave on good terms. He didn't leave on good terms. And, again, we've made it about... the root cause, which is true, I think the money, but in his pursuit. He burned bridges inside. Before he was out of here, he burned bridges with people that he played with. And so, like, I didn't look at that and go, they're not saying hello. I'm like, yeah.
But that normally happens. Like, the issues between the player and management, it's usually, hey, I'm dunking and I'm yelling at the GM on the sideline. This was just icy. This was worse than Kobe Shaq because it was nobody on that team that Jimmy wanted to talk to. Nobody on the Miami team.
Can I talk to you guys about the idea of proud men being disrespected? Because when I tell you that Shaq wanted to fight Pat Riley at the end over money and disrespect, when the conversation is, and all of this starts with... Jimmy saying, and I would have taken us to the finals if I hadn't been injured. And Pat Riley publicly saying, shut your mouth. Shut your mouth.
The word shut your mouth on disrespect of a proud man. When I tell you that my brother wanted to fight an 80-year-old and Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler, whatever he was doing in private, that's where disrespect started. And so he enters the game yesterday saying, I've got nothing to say to Pat, and he better not have anything to say to me. Or what?
What is he going to do, punch an 80-year-old? Are you kidding me? What is that?
What's an 80-year-old going to do, punch him? This is a ridiculous scenario in which neither person is actually going to fight the other. I'd love to see them fight. I really would.
No, you wouldn't. I would absolutely love to see them fight.
This is tough guy bullshit that they're both going back and forth. I'll fight him. I'll fight him. And neither one of them wants to actually fight the other.
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Chapter 5: How does Steph Curry's international fame compare to Jimmy Butler's?
Now, 40% of them were Warriors fans. There were a lot of Steph Curry jerseys.
Can we talk about that?
Look, we thought the Warriors fans were going to be like, yeah, Jimmy Butler's going to go. No, they're like, Jimmy who? No, Steph Curry.
90% of the Steph Curry fans didn't speak English. This man is an international megastar. Jimmy Butler's just another teammate to them.
It's still the Beatles. Dan, I get it. They're like the seventh seed or whatever they are in the West. They're still the Beatles. People still show up and they show up early to watch that guy warm up.
But I mean, I mean, come on. Like if I told you in some incarnation of the future, there's going to be a bunch of human beings who are unbelievably athletic, but one is an actual wizard. floats around the court and does something that no one's ever been able to do.
Everyone who comes internationally to watch Steph Curry, just because you watch the games every night and know that you're no longer amazed by something amazing doesn't mean that you're watching something. It's not in sports.
It might as well be God coming to life and appearing before you because it's unlike anything you've ever seen before, and you can't imagine anything better than that either at that size.
I'm not desensitized by his magic, but I am... surprised that a team that has fallen from grace, relative to where they once were, still attracts the traveling caravan of people from across the globe to just glimpse him. Dan, I would- He doesn't even have to play. There was so much media at the game that PR had to seat us in the stands. That's how many people were there.
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Chapter 6: What was the purpose of the Oddball segment and its outcome?
Yeah, so first of all, Akbar worked tirelessly on this. We should take a second to thank him for all of his work that he did pro bono, by the way. Until the statue actually gets made, he doesn't get paid.
He made all that money from the Sharon Stone statue.
Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. So Mr. Domestique came up with five different options.
Monsieur.
Well, no, he's not French.
Oh, my bad.
Let's be clear, Jess. I just said that. Yikes. It's okay. He's from Kazakhstan.
No, he's not.
It's confusing. Wow, you guys are so jingoistic and nationalist. Where are you from, boy? Where do you come from? What country? Is that Dan? That's what all of you sound like. demanding to know his national origin.
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