The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Moment of Silence for MJ's Drive
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
Someone was the happiest person in the world after LeBron and the Lakers collapsed against the Bulls last night, and someone was the saddest. The crew determines who those people are. Today's cast: Amin, Andrew Hawkins, Roy, Billy, Mike, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who was the happiest and saddest after the Lakers' loss?
There's nobody last night who was more delighted. by the turn of events than the one and only Dan Levitard. Oh my God, I had to do a two hour stream with him last night and it happened right when that Bulls game was ending. We had Nick Wright on and it was crazy, right?
I could see Dan, who's obviously not here, he's out of town, I could see him wanna parachute back in and do the show today, and I said, no, no, we can't do that. We got it from here. But the second happiest person has to be Stephen A. Smith. This is like the exact other side of the coin from the Pacers game, right? Pacers game happens. LeBron's in Indiana. He does Pat McAfee.
They post all the memes, him and Kevin Love are tag teaming, like the ha-ha, look at Stephen A. Smith trying to box and all that stuff. And then LeBron has a tip in to win the game, and it's like top of the mountaintop. That's why you don't mess with the big dog. And then literally one night later, LeBron has that turnover, and then Josh Giddey, of all people, hits a half-court shot over him.
And I know somewhere Stephen A. Smith popped. Just straight up explosion of ecstasy, right? But there is someone who is the saddest person in all of these proceedings. It's not LeBron. I don't think he's sad. I mean, it happens. They're gonna play another game. They'll play Memphis on Saturday. We move on, right? It's not the Lakers who are seeing their playoff seating in jeopardy here.
It's Skip Bayless. Do you understand Skip Bayless spent over a decade.
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Chapter 2: How did Skip Bayless react to the Lakers' collapse?
This is a great take.
Right? Like, needling LeBron, calling him all sorts of names, trying to bait him, like, acknowledge me. Just acknowledge me once. Come on. I dare you. I'll debate me here and all that stuff, right? And he did a show with Stephen A. Smith, and he was doing this. And he did a show with Shannon Sharper, and he was doing this.
And then he did a show with Lil Wayne and a bunch of other people, and he was doing this, right? And then he stepped away from doing a show. He said, I'm going to go chill in my house. I'll do some stuff on you.
That's definitely how that went.
Right? For Geraldine. For Ernestine. For Ernestine. For Ernestine. Right? So it's like, all right, okay, whatever. We gave it an old college try. 20 years. It didn't work. All right. And then the moment he steps aside, not only does this thing happen, it happens to Stephen A. Smith and not...
I've been here this whole time. I've been saying wild shit the whole time. Why didn't you acknowledge me? Why didn't you run up on me?
Isn't that connected, though, in some ways? Is it? Because isn't it probably why LeBron, when he felt... The comments from Stephen A. Smith was probably more disappointed in Stephen A. Smith than he doesn't care what Skip says. And that's probably just hurt Skip even more. Of course. That it's like I not even looked at with enough respect to get under your skin.
The most aggrieved part of here is Skip Bayless. Because not only did it not happen to him, Hawk. Uh-huh. He doesn't even have the opportunity to go on air across the nation, nationwide TV, and do his thing.
He's in like a straitjacket. You're at the crazy farm and all of a sudden it's like, that was me! And they're like, okay grandpa, I was the one doing that first!
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Chapter 3: What happened during the wild ending of the Bulls vs. Lakers game?
The very least par. And someone had to have bet him before he got to the golf course that he bet he could not – go for par and go to your funeral. That's a parlay, right? A literal parlay. That's good. Yes, that is the only way. If he eagles, he might speak.
He might share his thoughts. Oh, wow. Well, hold on now. This whole time I've been fixated on Michael Jordan being at my funeral. I never consider Michael Jordan saying a couple words.
Yeah, provided that everything is at the 17th hole at his local course and you work it out with his tee time, he will definitely speak provided he eagles.
Yeah. Oh, man. Okay, let me get on that. And by speaking, he's going to ask where the bathroom is. No, hold on now. You're not going to do this to me. He's not coming to your funeral with me. He's coming to my funeral. He's not. This is what we do on Fridays. I would be willing to bet so much money. Let's put it in your will. Sure.
That if I'm wrong, I will give this money to your estate, to whoever you like, whoever you're leaving all your assets to. Yes, I like that. And this is kind of doing me a disservice because Mike's going to see this and he's going to consider it a challenge because I'm saying something you won't do. Andrew Hawkins couldn't do it. I'm saying something that Mike Jordan can't do. Okay.
He is not coming to your funeral. And that's when he took it personal. He might take that personal, but that is my honest belief right now.
I want to see someone else take it personal. Let's take a look at the shot that Josh Giddey hit here. So, Austin Reese had just made a layup, right? Go ahead and run it. Inbound, Josh Giddey brings it up. Exactly half court over LeBron, might I add.
crowd goes nuts i understand you try to provide some context there was a layup made beforehand yeah there was so much that happened there's so much it was like the craziest 15 seconds yes the the entire segment sequence we'll play it in a second but i i wanted to show the shot itself because this was dan levitard's reaction his live reaction at finding out that the shot was made go ahead all right luca is inbounding it
LeBron breaking open to the top. He gives it to Reeves. Reeves to the basket. Layup good. Oh! LeBron never even touches the ball. The Bulls are out of timeouts. Giddey from half court. It is good!
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Chapter 4: Why is Josh Giddey's performance a significant talking point?
How about Patrick Williams in that three, by the way?
I was going to say that. Like, if you're J.J. Reddick, you're like, come on. It's a miracle. And then there's the Austin Reeves layup, and here comes no timeouts, Bulls inbound, get it back to Giddy. Great defense. Well, it's a great defense.
Somebody's got to be on Giddy there, right? I mean, you get the most dangerous guys are everywhere else.
LeBron had a hand up. It was a close out to the side. It was a heave from half court.
The most dangerous guy was Josh Giddey.
Who's the most dangerous guy? The guy with the ball. Thank you. That's always the most dangerous guy. So this was our version of March Madness in the NBA. Meanwhile, college basketball had a very different March Madness. Hold on.
Are you going to transition? Yes. To college basketball? Yes. All right. Can I give a disclaimer really quick? Okay. This might come to a shock. A shock to a lot of people. I have no idea who's won a game in the March Madness poll. What? Okay. It's not because I don't like college basketball or March Madness. I promised my kids that I would do a bracket.
Okay.
And I've been really busy and haven't had a chance to do a bracket yet. And so I've been not watching the game so I can still do my bracket and be ethical about my picks. Wait, hold on.
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Chapter 5: How did the Bulls' recent performance become a feel-good story?
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Don Levitard. If Daniel Day-Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourself.
Oh, come on. Yeah, I would be. Aggressive description. I mean, what is that? I'm just saying. That's me.
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Chapter 6: What were the reactions to Josh Giddey's game-winning shot?
He needs to briefly be the main character.
Briefly have a moment. But it's like for a shot. Have a moment. Could be a shot.
Could be an assist. A shining moment, if you will. Thank you.
Okay. Okay. Now, is that reverse engineered? That would be my rebuttal. Right? Can you start? That little moment, not even a big deal, but because that moment is the white guy doing it. That's a ticket. That's a ticket? All right.
That's what we call Bryce Drew.
Yeah, like we're not drawing up plays for the white guy.
Bryce Drew was pretty sick. But, you know, there's white guys everywhere. Yeah. The statistics. And so there's like this hot new theory that NIL and the portal have killed the mid-major, which is why you're getting less of the secret sauce. For one year. For one year it's killed the mid-major, yeah. If I may, I'm confused because we had Jim Laraniga on our March badness broadcast.
Yeah.
I saw Jim Laranega, and I really don't understand where he's coming from. He tweeted something to the effect of, like, Happy Portal. Well, he's like, Happy Portal, where you can lose your entire roster. And he's famously shared this story about how after Miami made the Final Four run, everybody on his roster came to him asking for a raise. It's just... May I ask you guys, how are we doing here?
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Chapter 7: How does the podcast integrate advertisements seamlessly?
She probably took Miami's first Final Four run away. Remember that Lonnie Walker team was loaded. Miami was going to make a run. They lost to Sister Jean in the first round, and they made it all the way to the Final Four.
I want to get to this story here. It's on the list. Part of it because this is a very interesting story, but more so because I was outraged by the reaction of one Ethan outside at the table. Oh, Lord. This basketball? This is not basketball. Okay. I don't know. Maybe you're like, Ethan, maybe this might be a revelation to you, too. Uh-oh. So Mike says, hey, did you hear?
They declassified the files on the Ark of the Covenant. And my mind goes to the warehouse, and like, oh, they found the box. Like, it was an unmarked box.
Remember, the box in the warehouse, a million boxes in there. There's a million boxes in the warehouse. So how do we go through every single box to find it?
How do we do that, right? And so as Mike is starting to explain the story that we'll get to in a second, Ethan says...
What's the Ark of the Covenant? Again. He said, what's the Ark of the Covenant? Again.
Because he knew it at one point.
I've heard it before, but I'm not quite sure what the Ark of the Covenant is.
That's how Ethan sounds when he talks about things. When you talk about things that you should know, young man, you sound like that to me. That's what your voice sounded like, Ethan. Is it possible? Juju put it on the poll? Like, do you know what the Ark of the Covenant is? Everyone knows what this is, right? And I'm not saying because you know from Bible study.
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