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is the Dan Labatteur Show with the Stukas Podcast.

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Chris Cody, I got something

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from your father that while it

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may not be quite unprecedented, it's

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about as close to an apology

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as he ever comes,

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which was just explaining

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and excusing that the reason

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that he yelled at the security guard is because

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he's cranky and tired because the local

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teams win too much. And

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he has to work too much. Been waiting for

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this his entire life.

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Now the result is, and I think we can say

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this is true of all fandom, put it on the poll

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please, Juju at Levitar Show, is

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the greatest sign of sports passion

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yelling at the security guard because you're cranky

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and tired from your teams

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winning

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because there's a lot of emotion spilling

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out in all directions. Charlotte

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doesn't know what to do with hers. What

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the hell's the take? What's this hottest

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take that's not the hottest take that you

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think is a good take that you're not sure is

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a good take before you've even finished half of

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it?

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Okay, that if the NBA were

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truly diabolical and they wanted

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to get the most juice out of this finals,

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you've got Miami, you've got Denver, have

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them play in LA and

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New York and get all the

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celebrities courtside and blow

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it up into this huge big thing.

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It's a great take. And totally scoring

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your fans make it national.

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That's a great take. I actually think it shouldn't be New

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York and LA. I think it should be Boston

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and LA that to please

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Adam Silver and what that nation actually

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wants. We can't give you those teams

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in the finals, but we will give you those

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city, the teams you don't want

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playing in the arenas that would have

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been- That you want them to play in. That the arena

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you wanted to see, you wanted to sell Lakers

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magic in a toolbox and Celtics

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magic in a tool, history in a toolbox.

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I think you're on to something there. Greg, are you okay?

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Yeah, I'm fine. I'm a little tired.

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You know, I feel bad that I yelled at a security

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guy. He was just doing his job. That's

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not on him. That's on me.

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I apologize. This is a regular thing for my

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dad. He has moments of rage and

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then he realizes it about a half hour, hour

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later and is always like, I'm sorry. He

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regularly will apologize for

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his outburst. But he got the thing that he wanted. Had

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he not gotten the thing that he wanted, I mean-

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He'd still be enraged. We're also not exploring the root

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of this anger, which is his son not answering

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his call, telling him one thing, that not

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being the case and setting-

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him up to be in this position. Like,

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you have a parking pass you could have given him

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if you knew that he was going to drive today.

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My parking pass has actually expired because I

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ride the train.

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Mine was through May 12th. They

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all say that. Okay, well, thank you,

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Billy, for bringing up this topic. Billy's

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right. Yes, there is a source

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of great tension, and it extends beyond Father's

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Day, which Chris thinks that now he's a father.

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It's Father's Day, should be his, and his father's here to say,

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nope, it's Grandpa's Day, it

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will forever be Grandpa's Day. Something

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I legitimately had not considered that

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just came across the news.

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LeBron James has slightly

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walked back, and Chris Cote, you pointed

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this out a couple of weeks ago. He slightly

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walked back the idea of playing

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with his son, and this is what he

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says.

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Just because that's my aspiration

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or my goal doesn't mean it's

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his. I'm absolutely okay

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with that. I had not considered

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Ronnie's viewpoint on this. Of course you

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want to play with your dad, and you're thinking, you're saying,

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Ronnie doesn't want his dad on the road trips? That's

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still his dad. It's embarrassing. But

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it's also his dad's going to get all the attention.

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Like, Ronnie would like to have his own experience

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with basketball. He doesn't need that particular

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shadow in his life. I'm sure Ronnie's had a really

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tough life because of LeBron being his dad.

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I'm just saying father-son relationships

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are father-son relationships, and Chris Cote can tell

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you he's fed up with his. I

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do like when my dad gives me money though, so

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that helps. You know what I mean? Okay,

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well, you know, I'm rewriting my will

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after this morning. I don't know. Classic break.

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Shifting it on a billy. Classic break that you do. I

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mean, you know, I think I do pay your phone bill. I could be wrong,

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but you know, when I call you four times,

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I get you to pick up the thing. But

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by the way, before I get back to that, I would

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love it if Ronnie said, Dad, I'd love

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to play with you, but you got to wait four years

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because I'm going to be the only college basketball

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player in the last 30 years to actually

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play four full seasons for USC.

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How about brawny show dad some respect

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because brawny's not playing in the NBA

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unless his dad is an all-time great No,

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I think that's true You

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two have not watched a second of brawny

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Either if dad was a bench player

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barely in the rotation brawny's

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like I'm better than

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that already. I don't want to play with that Are you just

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speaking to genetics because I agree with your point

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that if his dad wasn't an all-time great He wouldn't

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be in the NBA either. I'm just saying

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I don't think brawny is that good. He's been elevated.

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He's in the top If

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his last name was you know white or

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something tell me about his games do

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brawny's Great from the perimeter

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inside outside game really is conformed

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to today's NBA could shoot the three from

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anywhere on the court I mean listen

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the kid has talent. I'm not saying that

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he doesn't Buddy's not nearly as talented

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as just about everyone else in the NBA does he have the

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want to?

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He doesn't have the want to LeBron has all

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the want to he doesn't have enough wants.

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He doesn't want enough You know he

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does it, but he has a nice game. He's very

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athletic about six five He can

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play the two the three and in today's NBA

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could probably play a little four as well Mike Why

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are you versatility off the bench? You just said he

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couldn't play in today's and well Well

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he's going to because of LeBron he's six two

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Stu gots a bit past is he still growing

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Stu gots his past his prime on even being

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able to fake it and

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And so he just accused for

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some reason brawny of not having want

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to because it didn't

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fit with perimeter inside

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outside games some of the Things

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that he wanted to make up about brawny's game

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because he doesn't know anything about brawny's game Yeah,

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he's a big six to though. I mean

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That was on the bigger side closer

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to six three than six one you know what I mean Excellent,

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let's just call it six four excellent

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Analysis and but here's the thing right

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I can make fun of Stu gots about this But

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I just realized this last segment the

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game has passed me by as well it

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has and

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The reason I noticed it is

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because Mike Ryan was talking and

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he said correctly Hey,

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Dan the NBA the last four years,

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you know cuz it's changed a lot

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It is kind of random

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in the playoffs. Why won that one title?

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That was weird and Basketball

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is now more random than it has been and

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the Warriors were dead. They were back another dead

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again Yeah, but it was chalk last year

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Was it not Celtics were to see the

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the Warriors were the one seed right right

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and look where

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where they are? Typically

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a team like the Celtics they

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stick around for a while and they have to their credit

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they've been a what like five Eastern Conference Finals

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recently, but

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They've done a lot of suffering. They're not supposed

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to get wiped out by an ATC That's not the way that the NBA

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goes well That's the traditional thing

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right Stu gots the traditional thing

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the thing that hasn't changed about basketball

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is Yo, Kitch, you've got to hurt

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for a bit before you get there Jimmy You've

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got a hurt for a bit before

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you get there and actually win it It

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doesn't happen where you show up and you're

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the dynasty LeBron You got a hurt for a

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bit before you become the dynasty staff You're

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gonna fail a few times before

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you get to be the guy who controls the

9:24

NBA Honest did it before he eventually

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won a championship You're right. You never you never

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just show up and win, but to already arrive

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at hey Should they break up tatum and Brown when

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three games ago? I?

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Brown you give him the supermax period richest

9:38

player in the sports history You

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give it to him because the Celtics need him because you

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need to have two of those guys You used to need to have

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three of them

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Not anymore. The two teams that

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are likely to play in the finals got to The

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super team era the LeBron brought in was

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three George Cole just got done telling you

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yeah, Anthony Davis and LeBron Not quite

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enough. They probably need something

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else. I'm like, two is now enough. You

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can, you can win again with two. Look at

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how three went for Brooklyn. The heat have one.

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I mean, right. And we

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thought before the season that the heat needed a third.

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I think that there's also something to be said for

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going in with very low expectations. I

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think the lower the expectations, the better

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a team can do now. Like Miami,

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everybody keeps saying that they weren't going to do

10:23

it. They keep doing it and they

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have one superstar because you have a coach

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who knows how to get stuff out of his bench players

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and how

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to box full of magic.

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It's Barney bag. I

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can't believe that that's where I am with the analysis

10:38

after all of these years watching basketball. You

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know why the heat are going to win because spouse going

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to blow a mist in the face

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of Michael Malone and it's going to disorient

10:48

him at the end of games and

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yo, kids, isn't going to be able to do step

10:52

back one legged, you know, the

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three pointer. You would have torn George

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Carl a new one about seven years

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ago. How do you say it's all infuriated.

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Yeah, but it's better than what we have. No,

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it's the whole game has passed me by. I know

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long and not that I ever knew what I was talking about,

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but now I know less than I've ever known because

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you know what? You can lose to a toolbox filled

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with magic. I

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told you what kind of analysis is that

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the intangibles baby heat culture

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is going to defend. Oh God. That's

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where people go with it. It's coaching and

11:26

in tangibles and things like culture because this

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is so

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impossible to explain. This

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isn't the lockout season where the Knicks made it

11:34

where everyone looked at the Knicks roster and said,

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yeah, if they get healthy,

11:38

they have a shot. If they get past Miami like

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this is, this is something

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without precedent in this sport over the course

11:45

of a full series. And I just

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saw something on social media that really excited me. Michael

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Jordan's private jet has been spotted

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locally. The elephant print

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jet has been spotted. Is

11:57

there a chance that he's in

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attendance today? to watch what

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the internet has been convinced of is his son.

12:06

That Jimmy Butler's his son or isn't just a- Did you see the

12:08

Wheaties ad from 1989 where

12:11

Jay Butler is spray painted on the wall? Did

12:15

you see that? Definitely not photoshopped. His

12:18

wife is also from here, but I like your

12:20

story better.

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He also has a golf course down here. Like

12:24

his own golf course. No, I mean, there's

12:27

a million reasons why Michael Jordan would be

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down, hopefully. It's to tell Jimmy

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Butler I'm your father, to tell him for the first time.

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This jet looks sick. Yeah, the jet looks

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really cool. Also, Jimmy is so crazy

12:39

that I wouldn't put a pass Jimmy telling Michael Jordan,

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no, I'm your father.

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No, I'm your dad. You are my

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son. What

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is happening in this

12:51

sport when at 38 years

12:55

old last night's dugats, LeBron

12:57

is being asked to play all 48 minutes

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and then doesn't have anything left in his legs

13:04

at the end of the game and the Lakers,

13:06

the fumes of what the Lakers have been

13:08

for four years because these have been the best teams

13:11

in the sport for the last four years.

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It's been Denver and Milwaukee

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and Boston and the Lakers in

13:17

and out of it, right? The Lakers winning a championship

13:20

and then when LeBron's injured, they can't do anything, but

13:22

they need it to me, man,

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Cody, you're an expert here because you've seen what's

13:27

happened here with Pat Riley and the building

13:30

of organization.

13:32

LeBron James being at the end of his career

13:35

with the Lakers at the end of his time with

13:37

the Lakers and it's still

13:39

all reliant on him and

13:41

Riley's deeper in the playoffs now

13:44

than he is. LeBron doesn't wanna come out of the

13:46

game. He's like Jimmy Butler. He's gonna say, nope,

13:48

I'm not coming out. I'm your guy. Hi

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Dan shear that type of stuff. Tom Brady went

14:49

down with an Achilles the only time he got hurt in his entire

14:51

career and I was fist pumping in my living room at home

14:53

because the Jets finally had a chance to win a division. I mean

14:55

I'm sorry I'm not going to apologize for that. I'm

14:58

sorry I'm not going to apologize for that as

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one of the most amazing sentences you've

15:02

ever uttered. Stugats. From

15:04

the maker of trust me don't

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trust me. Comes

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I'm sorry but I'm not going to

15:11

apologize.

15:14

You are amazing. Thank you. I

15:17

know. You are a flabbergasting

15:19

delight. You happen upon genius

15:22

comedy by accident. That's

15:25

my gift. This is the DALIBITARED

15:28

show with Stugats.

15:33

30 minute break becomes

15:35

a five second break. We're

15:37

on air. We are on air Greg. He's rolling.

15:39

We are live. We are

15:41

on air. You are

15:43

exasperating. You think you nailed

15:46

it because you if you're going

15:48

to

15:48

nail the hard network out you have to

15:51

do so with a well dismounted point

15:53

that's funny. Not just a shitty

15:55

sports point that ends the segment

15:58

and has

15:58

you raising your hands because you the

16:00

hard network out. I did so by making

16:02

the show shitty at the end of the segment. I have my

16:04

credibility to uphold. I

16:07

do not intentionally miss hard

16:09

networks out.

16:10

Occasionally I will miss one. Right.

16:13

I like this version of the game though where Greg

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is just talking as the mics are being

16:17

turned on. Well listen, people should

16:19

be in my shoes. Actually

16:21

these are terrible shoes I'm making. Disgust so you don't want to be in

16:24

my shoes today but in general. Because

16:26

here we've had a half hour break.

16:29

This is like a four second break.

16:31

All over the place. I thought we were taking a break. I'm taking off my

16:33

headphones to relax for a minute. And all

16:35

of a sudden somebody shouting, we're on the air

16:37

put on your headphones. There's no rhyme or reason

16:40

here.

16:41

Kind of a slip shot operation you're running around

16:43

here. Christ almighty. Man.

16:46

Put on the pole Juju are we running a slip

16:49

shot operation around here? You spell

16:51

that.

16:53

This is true what I'm about to say.

16:56

He's now delirious.

16:58

He's so tired. You

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need to sweep. No he's so, you can't be this tired

17:03

this old and be expected to do this

17:05

for three or four hours. He's mad

17:08

at, he's lashing out at everybody. Hey

17:11

you know what the heat want to sweep, I want to

17:13

sleep. He's right. That

17:16

should be your chance.

17:18

That would have been a good way to end the last segment.

17:21

That kind of thing. And you

17:23

know it. Put it on a t-shirt. I

17:25

should that'd be great. It wouldn't

17:27

be a big seller. Well no.

17:32

But on the Greg Cody show we sell anything

17:34

in my merch store. You know the

17:36

heat wants a sweep.

17:38

I want to sleep. I

17:40

want sleep. Get that going Christopher. Make

17:43

the right call. Just the worst merch of all

17:45

time that nobody wants. That's right

17:48

I'll buy it. You're keeping

17:50

your own business afloat. I want that

17:52

in the merch store. I want that in the merch

17:54

store by the end of the business day. If

17:56

you bought your own merch you'd be losing money. Yeah

17:58

I would. I'm losing money.

17:59

already what's I get paid for doing this

18:02

show the Herald that didn't give me a raise in nine years

18:04

thank God my wife makes a decent wage don't

18:07

get me started are you kidding me

18:10

Wow I pay my son's phone bill I mean

18:12

I got I got money going out that was

18:15

like eight years ago that kind of thing you

18:18

know we'll see about that I'll ask your mother she handles

18:20

all the bills things the gag

18:23

what's in my material what size

18:25

would you like in your home merch shop I'll

18:27

take excel do

18:29

we sell double x occasionally I'll take it I mean

18:32

not if you keep missing your window that's

18:34

a good point

18:36

do we have good material on our t-shirts

18:39

cuz that you know the shrink if I said no

18:41

right now probably wouldn't help ourselves well

18:43

neither is the slogan can

18:45

you imagine people getting their

18:48

sports passion the heat can

18:50

sweep I need to sleep yeah

18:52

that's not it's honestly

18:55

with as much as you've discussed it you need

18:57

to have that shirt up in your merch store yeah ASAP

19:01

well we have a we have a line of nice hat

19:03

merchandise now that's flying off the shelves

19:06

flying off the shelves nice hat merchandise

19:08

yeah jumping Charlie t-shirt

19:11

is doing well you can also get a nice hat shirt

19:13

that's true yeah

19:15

you can get a shirt that says nice hat

19:20

every day of my life give it to me

19:22

Christopher arranged for a free shirt for

19:25

Charlotte over here they say who

19:28

we say who another

19:30

good slug we have your

19:33

slogans are only good for about

19:36

three days I know you got longer to

19:38

get a long shelf life on this longer

19:40

you gotta get them while they're hot man you

19:44

can buy a nice hat shirt and

19:51

the shirt jumping Charlie

19:54

standing on top of your pool table which is

19:56

a caption baby

19:59

Click here for more designs

20:02

absolutely yeah we'll have a calmly shirt coming

20:04

out soon because my racehorse is on fire

20:06

really yeah big win right big

20:09

win we know

20:13

about the sport it's treatment

20:15

of the horses don't get me started on commie

20:20

right there it's five dollars

20:24

come he's a moneymaker man I'm

20:27

about to get a check in the mail for almost $11 really yeah

20:29

I am the tip of his left

20:31

ear

20:34

so that's my winning

20:36

how much did you invest if you don't mind me asking

20:39

it was a it

20:41

was thousands of dollars but a small number

20:43

but you're getting it back eleven dollars at a time

20:46

exactly and and you know what I didn't know

20:48

this I'm gonna come off like a horse racing expert

20:50

I'm not I'm learning but

20:52

the win he had she had it's a filly

20:54

the win she had was impressive enough where it was called

20:57

in the industry is called a black type victory

21:00

and what that means is that

21:01

her future breeding

21:04

fee

21:05

just raised by like $200,000 baby so that's so

21:07

so if you have

21:09

a racehorse you know everybody thinks oh

21:12

you get a win a triple crown race no you don't

21:14

it you if you win some some smaller

21:16

races your breeding fee

21:18

goes up exponentially and pretty soon

21:20

you're an extremely valuable horse

21:23

even if nobody's ever heard of you

21:24

so we have a lot of high hopes for calmly

21:27

the King's nag former

21:29

owner King Charles of England and

21:31

now I own a piece of it and we're very proud thank you

21:33

calmly for all the work you do appreciate

21:35

that run thank you all for the jockey whose name

21:38

I can't remember what a great run he had I'll

21:40

tell you that he was call me was way behind

21:43

middle of I videotaped me the

21:45

the call of the race call me was way behind

21:48

I was going crazy my horses in the last place

21:50

all of a sudden the jockey finds an opening oh

21:53

here comes got calmly is making a move calmly

21:55

is making a move calmly is making a move ends

21:57

up winning by four length

21:59

Wow, I mean going

22:02

away what a finish what

22:04

a run. I'm so proud Greg

22:06

did the did the coronation do anything

22:08

for the value of calmly?

22:10

You know, that's that's an interesting question No,

22:13

it isn't. Yeah Before was

22:15

a princess horse now. It's a king's horse. I tell you

22:17

what Billy That's the reason that I agreed

22:20

to invest in this horse Is that my

22:22

whole thought process my whole thought process

22:24

was he sleep deprived if bucking

22:27

up Look he asleep what

22:29

is happening? He's falling apart. He's cooking right

22:31

now What I'm telling you my four

22:33

lengths day and he has not been he started

22:36

the day shot look I

22:38

Need to explain to the audience what's happening

22:40

right now? Greg Cody

22:43

Has planted himself here for

22:45

the entire day

22:46

in the middle of a playoff run that is exhausted

22:49

a dinosaur He's got a heat game

22:51

tonight. He's staying right here across

22:53

from the arena. This is the sharpest

22:56

He's gonna be today. This is the this

22:58

knife in the magic toolbox This is

23:01

the sharpest it gets and it's been fading all

23:03

show since he yelled at the security guard It's

23:06

eat wanna sleep. Yeah,

23:08

he'd want to sleep. I want to sleep. I didn't even get

23:10

that I was gonna do it for you Okay

23:16

Queen Elizabeth loved horses She

23:19

passes away King Charles. I'm gonna break

23:21

some news King Charles hates horses

23:24

Really? He has divested Buckingham Palace

23:26

of almost all of their horses. Hmm. Okay.

23:29

I have an opportunity to invest in one of the King's

23:31

horses My thought is Wow

23:33

imagine how much? The

23:36

King of England the Queen of England Invest

23:38

in a horse like she she knows what's

23:41

the bloodline this that and the other so

23:43

it turns out I think we have a pretty good. We

23:45

have a pretty good horse here

23:54

Come on on the fire side. Oh, come on Beirut.

23:57

Now. The favorites are coming across and yes long

24:00

distance from the final yes

24:02

calmly on top of the

24:04

way the bay routes on the outside yes calmly

24:08

from the back but still yes

24:10

just calmly clearly, clearly,

24:13

clearly calmly on top of everyone

24:16

yes to

24:18

the pole, then number whoa

24:22

we will see about the rest

24:24

of the scene a grass

24:26

track, huh Greg? yes a

24:29

turf track, a lot of them in Europe are yeah

24:33

I tell you what, Clark Spencer, my

24:35

co-partner in this horse thing he

24:38

told me didn't Clark get you into

24:40

it? he did, and he told me something

24:43

that has proven true

24:44

he's like, we're what they call a fractional owner I own

24:46

a little bit less than 1% of a racehorse but

24:50

Clark told me and he's right

24:52

you will feel like you're the owner you will watch

24:54

your horse run even though you own the inside

24:57

of his right nostril you will feel like that's your

24:59

racehorse and for the first time I experienced that and

25:02

that was real that was

25:04

not me faking it that's

25:06

how I imagine Packers fans feel you know

25:08

what? I think

25:10

there's something to be said there when you literally

25:12

own this much of a team even if it's that much you

25:16

feel invested and I do

25:20

well because you're actually invested literally

25:24

but it's so little though it's

25:26

a lot to you it is a lot to me and

25:30

the thing of it is the syndicate I'm in,

25:32

Team Valor International they have a lot

25:34

of major investors so

25:37

Comly may only have 20 investors

25:39

but some of them

25:41

are like big 20% investors, 10% so

25:44

I'm one of a fairly small

25:46

amount of people who own Comly I

25:50

just happen to own a very small part you

25:52

ever think about maybe buying tip of the tail type

25:54

thing oh pardon

25:58

me

25:59

I thought they did. He

26:01

needs to sleep. He

26:04

want to sleep? Greg wants to sleep, you know? Exactly.

26:06

Thank you, Billy.

26:07

Billy hits it on the head, doesn't he? Nail

26:10

on it. I

26:13

thought you were taking a nap. Go back to sleep. He

26:16

was. You

26:19

owe $15. Whoa!

26:23

What? It's all his wedding. That's

26:25

too calling. Jesus,

26:27

I'm hosting your show for you over here. I mean,

26:30

you're acting

26:33

golfs into the microphone.

26:36

You're delirious. We're doing the show

26:38

with a crazy sleep-deprived person.

26:41

I'm out of money. Are

26:48

you checking the wall? It's

26:54

the other compartment. It's all $11. That

26:56

happens sometimes. There's like two compartments

26:58

in my wallet. Sometimes you use

27:00

only the one. I

27:03

bought a nice hat. Did

27:05

you?

27:06

Yeah! Yeah!

27:08

Thank you. Yeah!

27:12

Putting bread in my jar. Thanks

27:14

for that. You just paid back those $15, Greg.

27:17

Yeah, I'm right I did. Thank you. Nice

27:20

hat. I was

27:22

torn between that, a nice hat hat

27:25

or a nice hat apron. I went with a nice hat hat.

27:27

That's a good, that's a wise investment. Oh

27:29

my God, great for Father's Day to imagine. I

27:32

think the nice hat shirt is really the

27:34

what's flying off the shelves right there. We

27:36

don't have shelves, but if we did, they'd be flying off.

27:40

What happened to the shelf? You know,

27:42

I don't know. What happened to the hot

27:44

cake? Yeah. Go ahead and tell

27:46

the people where it is that they can buy these

27:48

hats and the merch store information they need. Christopher,

27:52

do you

27:52

know? This is a new aluminum-proofed, unlevered

27:54

shirt with the Stugas. I can

27:56

never remember the

27:58

address of the merch store. The Greg Co. Hey

28:01

folks,

28:03

it's Mike Ryan at Summertime. I'm a grill master.

28:06

I spend a lot of time during

28:08

these summer months behind the grill. And

28:10

when I'm doing that, you can usually catch me with a Miller

28:12

Lite in my hand because I enjoy

28:15

myself some Miller time in my free time.

28:17

Miller time is when me and my

28:19

friends can get together,

28:21

enjoy some barbecue,

28:23

and enjoy the simple things in life. That's

28:25

what Miller time means to me. The

28:27

next time you want to make the most of your summer memories

28:29

like me, crack open a white can and let the

28:31

great taste of Miller Lite hit your taste buds so hard

28:34

you can feel it in your heart.

28:36

Heaven knows, I feel it in my heart every

28:38

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28:41

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28:44

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29:00

Dan Lebattard.

29:01

I'm going to get some golf

29:04

ASMR. Stu-Gats. Oh,

29:06

f*** me. This is the Dan Lebattard

29:08

Show with the Stu-Gats.

29:13

We're going to get to Greg Cody's back in my

29:15

day in a second. I want

29:17

to see, because I don't think Greg Cody is

29:20

terribly self-aware. I want

29:22

to play for you, Greg, the sound

29:24

of you coughing in the middle of everything

29:27

that we were doing to show to you

29:30

what I believe to be a general obliviousness,

29:34

especially when you get delirious like this,

29:36

because it's we're not joking

29:39

when we say this run is we're not even

29:41

done with it.

29:42

We're not quite in the middle of it, but it's,

29:44

you know, it's still

29:47

going to be something that for several

29:50

days and possibly weeks continues

29:52

to wear you out. The

29:55

job is hurting you right now. You

29:57

are legitimately exhausted.

29:59

You are sleep deprived you

30:02

are crazed and I don't think you

30:04

hear yourself when in the middle

30:06

of a you know National thing

30:08

that we're doing you do this

30:11

as a professional broadcaster, which is not something

30:13

I hear very often in professional broadcasting Don't

30:15

get me started on commie Yeah,

30:20

I mean you heard the frog in my throat I had

30:22

to clear it don't get me started on commie Frog

30:25

gotta be free. Don't get me started on commie

30:29

That wasn't really a cough it was just a It's

30:33

different clearing my throat not Have

30:36

you ever heard that in broadcasting before

30:38

you like watching whatever entertainment? You're

30:41

watching and the brought the professional broadcaster

30:43

does that

30:43

sounds like this the sound calmly would

30:45

be It

30:48

sounds like an animal grunting

30:54

About

30:58

that sound what I would what would the

31:01

joke be? Use

31:03

your imagination just my imagination

31:05

running away from me Sounds

31:07

like you're creating another phone bill

31:11

All right quit playing that I would pay you

31:13

to quit playing that sound no you yeah, I would

31:21

Damn I don't have any money. Give me

31:24

your wallet He's

31:29

one of the cheapest people I know The 15

31:33

compartment again there it is

31:37

So would you pay $21 to

31:39

have him stop playing that no

31:41

that's what you have left. I'd pay a dollar Can

31:47

you guys help me out with

31:49

something That I

31:51

think we sort of skipped past yesterday

31:54

and did it again today where

31:56

we are

31:58

talking about Carmelo

31:59

Anthony, a player during

32:02

a time of a time that was one

32:04

of the best scorers

32:06

we've seen. He's retiring yesterday

32:08

as LeBron is somehow still playing and

32:11

Dwayne Wade's about to go in the Hall of Fame

32:13

and Carmelo Anthony, who was exceptional

32:15

at basketball, our tribute to him was

32:17

he was a hawk.

32:19

For a day. Our

32:21

tribute to the end of his career,

32:26

it's hard to get

32:27

where Jokic has just gotten Denver.

32:30

Carmelo was really trying. He had really

32:32

good teams there.

32:34

He and LeBron came

32:36

out in the same draft and LeBron

32:39

somehow at 38 years old, his coach is

32:41

deciding 38. I

32:43

need 48 minutes from you

32:45

tonight against that

32:49

unicorn thing that is the

32:51

MVP of the league that is

32:53

trying to wrestle the league away from you. We

32:56

didn't celebrate Carmelo Anthony very well,

33:00

neither yesterday nor his entire

33:02

career. I mean, I think Carmelo was

33:03

a very good player and everyone

33:06

expected him to be great. And

33:08

he wins the national championship. As a freshman,

33:10

we expected greatness. What we got

33:12

was very good, good scorer, a

33:15

guy who never won a title. Great scorer. A

33:18

great scorer, fine. Not a guy who never won a title.

33:20

Not a guy who never won a title. But not good scorer,

33:22

a great scorer. I

33:25

understand that, but. A historic

33:27

scorer. A great scorer,

33:29

Dan, but not a great. Inefficient. But not a great

33:32

player. I think people expected great player,

33:33

guy who could be the best player in

33:36

a team that wins multiple championships. Here's

33:38

a really brutal headline about Carmelo

33:40

retiring. Carmelo Anthony was an NBA

33:42

great, but his legacy will be defined by title

33:44

winning freshman year at Syracuse.

33:46

It's true.

33:49

It should be defined a little bit more about with

33:51

some of the international basketball. Banana

33:53

boat. Because you can make an argument that

33:56

he's

33:58

probably the best performer. in a

34:00

USA jersey. You could say he's our most

34:03

decorated American basketball player. But no one

34:05

cares about that. No, no, they don't care about that. And

34:07

to a lesser degree,

34:09

actually, probably to a little bit in this country,

34:11

international basketball doesn't really resonate unless it's

34:14

a gold medal game. People care when they lose. But

34:16

a Syracuse national title means more, I think, in

34:18

the eyes of basketball fans in this country. The all or nothing

34:21

thing is just generally annoying to me. Because

34:23

there are a lot of really great players. And sometimes

34:25

Giannis gets knocked out. And it doesn't make him

34:27

any less great. Carmelo came up in

34:29

an era, oh, look, look, holy shit,

34:31

what it took to beat him. LeBron and Dwayne. And

34:33

then they teamed up.

34:35

And Carmelo got to the Western Conference finals.

34:37

Hey, good job, nah, not really. You

34:39

got traded to New York. And now New York

34:41

has the conversation of, should we retire

34:43

your number?

34:45

And that creates. They should,

34:47

right? But that creates laughter. But it creates

34:49

laughter. And it should. Shouldn't

34:51

it? Yeah. I think if

34:54

Carmelo happened a generation before,

34:56

he'd be talked about in

34:59

this insane tier. But

35:01

his game peaked as the game started evolving.

35:03

And people started paying more attention to efficiencies

35:06

and defensive side of the game. Whereas

35:09

if you hold him up to his contemporaries, he

35:11

has shortcomings

35:12

when it comes to efficiencies. And when it comes to

35:15

the defensive side of the ball, he was kind of an afterthought.

35:18

Defensively, he was just a bucket getter, scored

35:20

her by any means necessary. But when you say his

35:22

contemporaries, his contemporaries

35:25

are holy shit historic. And yeah,

35:27

a lot of people are going to pay. A lot of people are

35:29

going to pale

35:30

there. It's why we're still sitting

35:33

here, Denver just advanced. And we're still talking

35:35

about LeBron because holy shit, look who is contemporary.

35:38

And his contemporaries separated themselves by

35:40

ring chasing because they were all about ghosts

35:42

and

35:43

Kobe and Jordan were kind of

35:45

hanging over every discussion, even

35:47

though Melo split like

35:49

half of his tenure with Kobe even

35:51

more so. It's just, he

35:54

was a solid player, especially

35:56

for the Knicks. He was probably the best

35:58

player. He was very good for the Knicks. He's the best player.

35:59

21st century but I think that's an indictment. He

36:02

made it to a single Western conference final.

36:04

I know but Stugat's the all or nothing

36:06

in it. Giannis hasn't made

36:08

a whole lot of

36:10

finals yet like it's one-one though.

36:12

I understand but he came

36:14

very close to not winning one and to me he wouldn't

36:17

be any less great if Durant had stepped

36:19

back a foot further but the way

36:21

this stuff gets remembered is deeply unfair

36:24

when we're talking about echoing historic

36:26

greatness and you guys are saying solid

36:29

good and it's like no that's not what

36:31

that was. That wasn't just solid and good. It

36:35

wasn't Giannis. That's what it was. I

36:38

understand but if there are 10 guys better than

36:40

you

36:40

and you're the 11th best for an era

36:42

in which the entire sport is changing generally

36:45

speaking if I was that I wouldn't want to be laughed

36:47

at. I'd like to be celebrated a little more than that.

36:50

But the ring does a lot for a player.

36:52

Dan if Jokic wins an NBA

36:54

championship we won't be you know. No

36:56

less great for me if he doesn't.

36:59

But he will in the eyes of many like

37:01

same with Jimmy Butler. But what I'm

37:03

telling you is that both of those two

37:05

have proven to me already

37:08

whatever needs to be proven and if

37:10

Jokic gets hurt

37:12

right now and Jimmy wins

37:15

Jokic isn't going to be any lesser

37:17

of I can't believe that that exists.

37:19

But just Carmelo wasn't

37:22

that good. He was he

37:24

was looked at as this guy that was really good. Go

37:26

ahead run the numbers between Carmelo and Lamarcus

37:28

Aldridge. What you'll find is Lamarcus

37:30

Aldridge was a better player. And

37:32

that's that's what New York what forcing

37:34

his way to New York did for Carmelo Anthony.

37:37

He was a huge superstar entering the game

37:40

but he totally nuked that Knicks roster

37:42

by trying to force it to maximize his dollar over

37:44

there. And he never got to play in these

37:46

hugely important games in the pros where

37:49

you'll see now Jokic is finally getting the credit

37:51

that people have been begging for. Why? Because the spotlight

37:53

has grown.

37:54

Carmelo isn't that good when

37:57

you compare him to the greats of his time. He

38:00

is just LaMarcus Aldridge, that is all he is. I

38:02

think Carmelo is hurt by the idea that

38:05

his career took a slow fade.

38:07

He played for five teams his last six

38:09

seasons, mostly as a reserve. So

38:11

when he announces his retirement,

38:14

the initial reaction is, oh, he

38:16

was still around? Because that

38:19

hurts the legacy. When a chunk of

38:21

your career is spent slowly

38:23

fading and not being what you used

38:25

to be. I've got to be honest. I

38:28

didn't think we could do it worse

38:30

as an honoring of a man's greatness

38:33

than we did by simply laughing at him. But

38:35

we've done it worse. We are urinating

38:37

now, actively urinating, aren't

38:40

Carmelo Anthony being good at basketball?

38:42

Zagaki. And I just want to say that,

38:45

brother, the eyes of many is the problem.

38:48

We need to be able to say, yes, he won a

38:50

championship as a freshman. That is spectacular.

38:53

How many championships such freshmen in the

38:55

room? Anybody? This is people

38:57

who

38:57

are great at what they do. Forget

39:00

the titles, man. Forget all this stuff. 90% of

39:03

people don't win what we are putting

39:05

on top of this mountain. Let that man go off

39:07

on a sunset, man. Salute to you. Retire

39:09

the number, dawg. Thank you, Melo, brother.

39:12

For what? He's positive. And there's

39:14

no room for that around here. Juju, go sit

39:16

in the penalty box. Yeah, go get him. He's

39:20

behind

39:20

the wind shears of LaMarcus Aldridge.

39:23

Yeah, he was a great college player. Fantastic. Shifted

39:25

the paradigm in college basketball. He had

39:27

a really good career. He was not a top

39:30

echelon superstar. I think he's getting the

39:33

amount of retroactive praise that he deserves.

39:35

I don't think we're talking enough about hoodie Melo.

39:37

What he did for hoodies, unprecedented

39:40

in this league. Yeah, especially by gassing

39:42

up, like, oh, he's a different guy now, and no, he's not.

39:44

He's just the same guy. Guys, like. Also,

39:47

be friends with the best players in the league. That's

39:50

a good hint. Can you imagine

39:52

what the reason? Like Chris Paul. To do

39:54

this in the middle of the conference finals,

39:57

when I thought he had retired two years ago,

39:59

Very look at me, Louie. Super look

40:02

at me, Louie. You don't deserve all of

40:04

this. He doesn't. He doesn't.

40:07

And I'm always there defending him, saying he's the best

40:09

international baller that we've had on the international level.

40:11

But it's ridiculous. We're having

40:13

a conversation about what?

40:16

About who? No, Mike is right, Dan.

40:18

You want to make this announcement. You want to announce your

40:20

retirement. You don't do it while LeBron's

40:22

making another run. You do it in July. He's

40:25

not Paul George. He's not even Paul

40:27

George. Where it's just me. I told you he's not even

40:29

LaMarcus Aldridge. Like, he's

40:32

just all right. No. He's

40:34

just all right. He did so in a Knicks uniform.

40:36

And then everything gets overrated. Come on,

40:38

man. Greg, do you understand what I'm saying? The

40:40

timing of the announcement is very important.

40:43

Because you do it during the NBA Finals, and no

40:45

one's going to pay

40:46

attention. Because you were a good player.

40:48

You do it in July or August,

40:51

where it's just me, you, baseball, and Joey

40:53

Chestnut. And then we celebrate

40:55

Carmelo Anthony, the way Carmelo Anthony

40:58

deserves to be celebrated. You

41:01

know who was a better pro?

41:02

You know who had a better pro peak? Sean Marion.

41:05

Did we do this for Sean Marion? Yeah. For

41:07

the love of God. Sean Marion

41:09

should announce his retirement.

41:11

Has he retired?

41:16

I'm kidding, of course.