The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Amin Reacts To His TERRIBLE, NO GOOD, AWFUL Prediction | Hour 1

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

"Dawg..." Amin is here to deliver his Weekend Observations, but Dan wants to begin by picking a fight with him over his prediction that the Thunder would beat the Spurs. Was this the Spurs passing OKC, or was this a matter of health combined with an out-of-this-world performance? Plus, Luke Kornet's LeBron moment, Jaxson Dart's statement, and the musical acts pulling out of Freedom 250. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I think the thunder are going to destroy them. Okay. I love him. No selling that. He was wrong. Get over it. I think two weeks ago I said I've never been more certain in the eventual champion of both sports, Colorado and O.K.C. How do you watch the last few minutes of that game?

Are you actively rooting to be right? Just rooting for OKC to win because you want to be right on, or less wrong, I should say, because you weren't going to be right. Okay. He got so mad of you there. We'll see if we bring. put up his middle finger and then left. So that was a good appearance by Amin, one of his best yet. I feel like, I feel like we can learn some things from how quickly it is that Amin got in and out.

Yes, Amin, go ahead. Sorry, what was the question? Just play the sound for him again. I think the thunder are going to destroy them. Yeah, I mean, things happen. Things changed. Two of their three ballhandlers were injured for most of the series. I don't understand.

Like, people act like I'm supposed to be like a cleric who can just see into the few. future. First of all, hats off to the Spurs. Incredible series, well played, well coached, and the effort was phenomenal from everyone, not named Wembe. I know everyone wants to focus on Wemby. There were great contributions across the board for that team. So hats off to them. They deserve to win that series. But it's undeniable that the tenor of the series shifts when you don't have two guys who are the main ball handling responsibilities. outside of Shea Gildjus Alexander. Remember, Dan, a few years ago, we questioned the thunders like, oh, what's going to happen

in the playoffs when everything focuses on Shea? They don't have anyone else who can create for them. Well, it turned out the other person who could create for him was Jalen Williams, and that they led that to a championship. How many left-handed layups did he make in last year's playoffs? When you take him off the board and you take A.J. Mitchell off the board, now it's just Shea. And you saw how San Antonio was able to guard him, loading up one, two people on him, and then

Wembe's behind that. You know, at that point, it becomes a very difficult proposition indeed. I have no qualms about what I said. I mean, hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Now it's just Shea? You're the two-time MVP.

Now it's just Shea. Wait a second. Wait a second. Dan, are we talking basketball? Are we talking hot takes? You want to do hot takes? He had 35 and 9 in a close-out game. I don't think anyone looked at that game and said, oh, Shay, you need to be better.

Nobody said that. So don't talk to me about two-time MVP because you're just yelling out hot takes. The reality is basketball is a game of strategy, and it's a game of five guys on the floor. And if you have one guy who's the ball handler and there's nobody else who can reliably bring the ball up against that kind of pressure, which again, hats off to the spurs. Vassell, Johnson, Castle, those guys were absolute dogs putting pressure on the Oklahoma City ball handlers. But once you take those other two guys off the board, She has to do everything. And he did. And they had a chance to win that game, by the way.

Like, it's not like, oh, my God, oh, Shea did disappear. Now, if we want to have a conversation about Chey Hongren, I'm here for it. But I don't know what anyone today or yesterday were at any point this weekend said, ooh, Shea, I thought you were the two-time MVP. I guess I was wrong. No, I'm just saying that now it's just Shea at home in a game seven. You're the two-time MVP, and I was told, I was saying all of last week, man, that Spurs bench, not as deep.

They don't go as deep. They keep playing these long series, these long games. They're going to be tired by the end of the series. Like, now it's just. Shea, that's supposed to be enough. You're the two-time MVP and you're the defending champion. I understand that you're 71 and 14 against everybody but the Spurs. He had 35 and 9 in a close-out game.

And they were guarding him with two on the ball and Wemby, the third guy behind. I don't know what you, who in the universe is capable of doing better than that. Like, if he had two, if he was two of 17, he only had 12 points, I hear what you're saying, Dan. You're the two-time MVP. You're supposed to make it happen. 35 and 9. And the game was in question until basically the last minute and a half. Played 44 minutes, too.

So it's like not like he played 27 minutes and he did this. It's like 44 minutes. And when he wasn't in the game, it was like, oh my God, what is happening here offensively? Yeah. I mean, Dan's, you're the two-time MVP? I'm like, yeah. And he played like a two-time MVP. I don't know.

Again, I don't know anyone other than you, Dan, honestly, who's sitting here today and being like, oh, I thought Shay should have done more. You're at home. No, no one's saying that. I'm not actually saying that Shea should have done more. I'm saying you're the defending champion Thunder, and you're saying now it's just Shea, and I'm like, they went 10 D ball season.

Dan, Dan, you have a pretty nice car, right? Yeah. You got a nice car, yes? Yes? Nice stereo system, the top drops, all that stuff. If your stereo didn't work for whatever reason, could you still drive your car? Well, no, look, I took an Uber today that smelled like feet

because I had a flat tire. I couldn't drive my car because it had a, Okay. And you have a, you have a luxury car, Dan, what do you mean? What do you mean? A flat tire. Yeah, exactly. That's the point.

It's like, hey, this thing can be a massive machine that's capable of winning incredible amounts of basketball games. But if we remove wheels, that kind of, that's a problem. That's a problem. A.J. Mitchell and J. Williams, it could have been any other two guys or just one of those guys and maybe someone else. And I think the thunder depth and all that would have kicked. in. But when you talk about, hey, these are the only other two guys that do this thing, dribble and create for other people, it becomes problematic. And even with that, this is the thing,

even with that they still had a chance to win the game in the series. They could have won in six. They could have won in seven. They didn't because the spurs were awesome. I don't want anyone to be like, oh, good a man, you could never admit he's wrong. The spurs were amazing. They won, they did it. Congrats to them. I'm just saying that does have an impact. And if you pretend like it doesn't, then we're just doing hot take basketball. Let's briefly change the energy. sure Dan will get us back to fighting in a little bit, but this is a great NBA finals. I mean, you've been a caretaker for this sport, and I think this is a fantastic final because the one valid criticism is from the casual NBA sports fan. It's like, why aren't these guys playing? They

don't seem to care. And that is not at all an issue with Wemby. It was really the great miscalculation I made when he entered the league. I thought everybody was going to hate this guy, but he's a joy to be around. He's a joy to watch. He cares so much about this sport. and the energy in Madison Square Garden, that's going to be full of people that care. So how pumped are you forward this final, just from an emotional perspective? Yeah, from a business and marketing standpoint,

this is exactly, this is the NBA's dream, right? In the east, you have the Knicks who have the largest fan base in the nation outside of the Lakers, pretty much. You know, people are talking about, oh, my God, the Nick fans travel so much. Shout out to Jason Jackson said, no, they don't. They're already there.

Like every city in America has a bunch of people from New York who are not ashamed of live. letting you know how much better New York is at everything, right? So they don't have to have, like, zip codes or area codes to keep them away. They're already living in all of these towns. They're embedded cells. So you have the Knicks who have this, it's almost tantric drought of success, right, in terms of a championship, waiting to explode, right?

And on the other hand, you have the most marketable name and face in basketball right now in Victor Wenbenyama. This is when LeBron and Steph are gone, we're going to be like, we're fine. because this guy, just by virtue of being freakishly tall, brings attention. The number of people I've talked to in the last few days where it was like, my mom never cares about basketball, but she keeps asking about Victor Wenbanyama.

Like, that's pretty insane. That's exactly what every sport is looking for. We're looking for that name and face that can crack through to the casual fan who otherwise wouldn't care. And so in many ways, even better than the thunder repeating, you have Victor Wenbanyama. As far as him caring,

I heard Jeremy say this earlier. Other guys care too. It's just, you know what it is about Wembe? He doesn't mind letting you know he cares. And that's the big difference because there are a lot of guys who care immensely, but they act too cool for school. Remember a few years ago,

Nikol Yokic win the championship? We've got the parade on Monday. Oh, we have to go parade. I want my horse. Like, he cared, obviously. He cared deeply and immensely. But he wants to project this, oh, I don't really care.

I just want to ride more horses kind of thing. And I said at the time, I said, yo, when you're a superstar, it is your responsibility to sell this game. That is part and parcel of the benefits of being a superstar. You have to sell this game. I didn't think Yokic did a good job of it three years ago. I think Wembe does an amazing job of selling our game.

Dan, how much you think the get-in price is? Game three, Madison Square Garden, first finals back in New York City since 1999, get-in price for game three at the garden. I mean, just to get into the... Yeah, like worst ticket. worst seat, lowest price. $500?

$500? That's how you play the game. $4,500. $4,500 is the getting price. $500, huh? Don't ask me about the price of a milk gallon. I'd guess $35. I'm playing the game the way I wanted Stugats to play,

and I find Zaz is playing the game correctly. All right, now he's going to talk about us again. The price to get into San Antonio game one. $500. Closer. There you go. $1,200. bucks. So, if you're a Knicks fan, don't you have to get on a plane, get a hotel, and go to

game one in San Antonio? Be half the price for the ticket in New York, right? You have to get on a plane and go to game one in San Antonio, right? No, I don't, you're just going to get, you're going to get on a plane so that you can be in the worst possible seats. You're going to have terrible seats that are going to be worse than watching it on television. Well, if you want to go to a game, like if you're resigned to watch it on TV, fine. But you don't want to go to a game and then be surrounded by San Antonio. You want to go to a game and be surrounded by New York. Who the hell can afford $4,500 get in price? I think he's just making the point that you can fly to San Antonio. And hotel. Get hotel. Get a ticket and it's less than just the getting price. He is making

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We're going to do weekend observations with Amin in a second, but I want to ask him a couple of basketball questions first. What do you make of Zach Lowe saying of Stefan Castle, quote, he's a meaner, more aggressive Dwayne Wade? He's mad at you again. I am also speechless. Yeah, that's a crazy thing to say. It felt like a crazy thing to say.

Meaner and more aggressive, Dwayne Wade. To be fair, that was off the heels of him trying to think of another player and he really couldn't. So then he's like, Bill Simmons kind of was like, is he like kind of D-Way but like stronger? Arneneen was angry at you, but now he's back. A mean or more aggressive, Dwayne Wade, Zach Lowe says of Stefan Castle, your thoughts there?

More aggressive than Dwayne. Dwayne Wade was like average of 25 as a rookie, wasn't he? I can't imagine doing someone. He wasn't averaging that, but it's a cop. He's basically saying better than a first ballot, obvious Hall of Fame or one of the best shooting guards to ever play. I wouldn't put in those terms, but I'm trying to, I know Zach, so I'm trying to give Zach the benefit of the doubt of what he's thinking about. I think Dwayne Wade was pretty mean and aggressive. Maybe I have this wrong.

So like it's, it would be, it's a weird comp because you kind of would want to use. a comp for someone who wasn't as aggressive, right? If we were talking about, like, for instance, if Castle were a big, he's a mean or more aggressive, Chris Bosch. Chris Bosch, first ballot Hall of Fame are awesome. But I think we would all understand that. Yeah, Bosch was sometimes, like,

a little too nice out there. You know, he didn't have that kind of nasty street. But, like, Dwayne Wade, I don't think about that about him at all. Who's the comp? Who's the comp? Where would you go with the comp? Oh, I mean, like, D. Wade is a nice comp, for sure. I wouldn't put mean or aggressive.

I'd put taller. That's what I would put. But, you know, he's an incredible on-ball defender. He's great slashing. He's great in the mid-range. His one weakness is he's not a good three-point shooter. And I guess that's where the Wade comp comes in. He moves great off the ball, like Wade.

I like the Wade comp. I just wouldn't put the other adjectives in there. Chet Holmgren. Oof. Yeah. So do you change your team if you're OKC? And do you agree with my assessment? It doesn't sound like it if you say there are two ball handlers.

We're out. Do you agree with my assessment that the Spurs have passed OKC, given that the Thunder were 101, I'm sorry, the Thunder were 71 and 14 against the rest of the league and 4 and 8 against the Spurs? I don't think they can beat the Spurs if the Spurs are going to continue to get better with the core they already have. I mean, I think it's a very even matched proposition. I think, and the thing about the Thunder you got to remember is they always have guys that we don't know about because they just haven't been. playing but they might be down the line so a j mitchell for example if this we had this conversation a year ago none of us would be say well a j mitchell hasn't been playing like who and then this year now it's it's a problem that he can't play and so i don't think the gap is it's like so uh larger or or even getting

bigger enough to say that oh yeah it's done i think the bigger problem with the spurs is that alex me with the thunder they have a lot of financial issues coming up jaylon william wendantz Homegren's extensions kick in this upcoming season. And then Hartnstein and Lute Dort are both on team options. So they're going to have to be changes financially because otherwise Oklahoma City is going to have the highest payroll in the league. And we know that's something that they've never really embraced as far as spending money. That's also why they have a great development system.

The spurs, on the other hand, are set up beautifully because all of their guys are cascading. Like Wemby doesn't get even an extension until this summer. and then it's another year before Castle and then another year before Harper and so they've got this thing on subsidy for at least the next three to five years. Like Dan, when you say that the Spurs have passed the Thunder

can't beat them? Like, does that mean the Thunder can't beat them? They play again next season. Like, they can't beat them? No, just they were the defending champions. They've got a Wembe problem and I think that the Spurs three players are so young that all three of them are going to get appreciably better in the way that Shea Gilges-Alexander

isn't. That the three guys, their core of three young guys have another step to take. OKC has some of that not as much as the Spurs do. And so I think they've got a structural flaw in that. And I know this is one game, right? They lost one game seven

at home. They're the defending champions. But I just think that Presti is smart and I'll ask him in here. Do you think he goes after Janus? Because it's not something I would have said before the series, but it is something I'll say now. I agree with you. That's something that I didn't really

imagine because Janus is so much older than the rest of their roster. You know, like, Che is the old guy at 28, and then you got Williams is 25, and Holmgren is 24, and Dord is, you know, 27. Like, all those guys are around the same age, and then Janus is a guy who's 30 plus. It would seem, and also expensive right now. But, look, the way I saw Cheat Hungren scared in that game, I've never seen an NBA player scared like this. So tall Jalen Williams is trying to feed him at

one point in the fourth quarter and he's like, pump faking the pass because Chet wouldn't make eye contact. He literally he was worried that if I make eye contact, he's going to throw me the ball. I don't want, I just don't want the ball. Let me just stand over here all set a screen or whatever. That is, I've never

seen an NBA player so terrified of getting the ball. He wouldn't make eye contact in order to get a pass. Every time he dribbled at Weminyama, he seemed to lose his balance and fall. getting presumably out of fear. And then making matters worse, when Wembe wasn't even in the game, you would think, okay, now he'd feel comfortable.

He was letting Kelden Johnson and Devon. So, guys, much smaller than him, eat his lunch, grab rebounds from him, like block him at the rim. And so at some point, I'm thinking, wait a second, man. Like, is there some psychological thing that's bigger than just I had a bad game? Is this your Ben Simmons moment? Because remember, Ben Simmons was on his way. And then game seven, it's Trey Young under the rim, and he passes it.

And we're like, what the hell? And so to me, as a crossroads for Chah Holmgren this summer is either this is a deep psychological wound that I will never recover from like Ben Simmons, or this is the thing that makes me stronger and I come back next year a monster. And so what Sam Presi asks away is, if I trade this guy, am I trading away a 24-year-old perfect compliment to my superstar because I'm worried about basically his mental makeup? We're going to get to Amin's weekend observations in a second. But the last time I felt what I felt watching an NBA game as I watched, Chet Holmgren, was the last five minutes of game six. Miami is about to lose the championship to Dallas, and LeBron is passing the ball a thousand miles an hour around the perimeter

because he knows that we're all watching him, and we all know that he was scared and failed and needed to develop a post-up game. But the problem with that is LeBron, went, suffered, and then came back better, Chet Holmgren's not going to come back better enough to not be scared of Wembe. We don't know that, Dan. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Obviously, we're all playing armchair psychologist saying like, oh, he looks scared out there. We don't know. But I think with every player, every person, really, we all have failures. And at that moment, we have the opportunity. We should give them the benefit of the doubt. Like, look, you know you failed.

What are you going to do about it? And some people come back better as a result, like LeBron did. Right? He took it to heart. and he expanded his game. And some people just kind of crumble under that like Ben Simmons. He just never was the same. He couldn't even go back to being the regular Ben Simmons, let alone get better.

And so for Chet, regardless of whether he denies it, he says, oh, I think I have room for improvement. I'm like, yeah, no shit, Sherlock. But at the end of the day, for him, either this is going to be a moment in time where he's going to build off of it, or he's going to crumble under the immense weight of expectation. It is time for him to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy. I mean. Weekend observations is brought to you by Miller Light.

Legendary moments start with a light. Dan? It's over. Pack it all in. There's no use anymore. He's too big. His defense is impregnable. It's Luke Cornett's world and we're all just living in it.

LeBron on Andre Guadala. Deshawn Prince on Reggie Miller. D. Wade on Carmelo Anthony. LeBron on Tiago Splitter. And now we have Luke Cornett on Isaiah Hartnstein. Let's play the game. That saved the game and saved the series for them. Because they were crumbling.

All that stuff I was talking about poise. They were crumbling. They were doing the young guy thing of panicking. That turnover happens. Hardstein's going close to coast. And we're like, here it goes. Here we go. Oh, it's going to be N-1.

And nope. Cornette gets in there, probably offensive foul of anything, because Hardstant's trying to wave him off. And that block was amazing. Kelden Johnson and Lou Dort had a contest to see who could shoot their team out of the playoffs. Lou Dort won. Because he shot his team out. Jet Holgren.

He was shooting from far away. Yes. Every time he shot, I said, don't shoot that. Don't, that's not going in. Same thing for Kelden Johnson until those two threes in the fourth quarter. I was like, oh, this guy. Chet Holmgren, witness protection. Chad Holmgren, milk carton.

Chet Holmgren said in his exit interviews that he could have gotten more attempts up and that that's an area to improve. That's like Jeffrey Dahmer saying I could have had a better diet. Is my internet working or not? Yes. Okay.

I heard Spurs head coach Mitch John. Oh, damn. As soon as he asked, as soon as he asked, it goes down. I can continue if you want. You're going to just do it for him? Yeah, go ahead and do it. You have his notes. You can do both.

Hit the... I got it. I got it. I'm back. All right. All right. I heard Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson clear his throat in a post-game presser. Somehow he got worse.

Mitch Johnson sounds like Doc Rivers doing a Doc Rivers impersonation. Hey, Whimby, Webby? Can't even do it. Oh, my God. Put it on the poll at Levitarche. I'm sorry, Amin. Go ahead, go ahead. Put it on the poll. Why not?

Yeah, you got that? You got that poll? Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm sorry, I mean, go ahead, go ahead. I'm sorry, I mean, go ahead. Yes or no? Dylan Harper is the truth. Cason Wallace went out like a real one. French Open. That's Wemby anytime the ball's thrown in three feet over the rim. French Open.

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He said titties. He shocked me a little bit. I wasn't quite prepared for tities. This is the Don Levitar show with the Stugats. The reason that I bailed on the poll is because I couldn't quite remember whether you had said, was Mitch Johnson, did he sound like Doc Rivers doing a Doc Rivers impersonation? That's what you said. That's right.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Does Mitch Johnson sound like Doc Rivers doing a Doc Rivers impersonation? Can you guys get for me the sound of an uncomfortable Jackson Dart showing us all that he wasn't quite ready for what it is? Who, the New York media got him? It looked like. He seemed a little nervous. It was a lot of prepared statement. I've got to salute him for really looking like a quarterback.

He looks unbelievably like a quarterback, but he was clearly nervous. And listen to what he said that was very carefully structured. And thankfully, he met with everyone he needed to meet with so that Abdul Carter and he no longer have any differences. Jackson, respectfully, do you understand why introducing that president would be something that some of your teammates would have a problem with and why it's viewed as controversial. Okay. I respect the question. I understand the question. You know, my statement's all that I have for you guys right now. And that's just, that's where I'm at. Do you think you made a mistake? Like, I just gave my statement. So I asked that we can all respect and understand that that's where I'm at right now.

me he didn't have to do it. He caved with those questions. Like he didn't have anything. No, he just couldn't do anything after the statement. I'm going to be out here scared as Jet Home Grant. I'm going to just read what they told me to say. And then I'm not confident enough to say anything else here that's not going to get me in trouble. That's what that was. That's crazy. I mean, that's like, you have all weekend to prepare and you can't get out a sentence on what you believe that you're not scared of. Well, Dan, I don't know if you read Abdul Carter's statement. And it's very, very obvious that the same person wrote both of those statements and that same person

would be someone in the Giants PR department. These are young guys, young players, only a couple years in the league. What obviously happened is they told them, hey, we got to get past this, da-da-da-da, this is statement, stick to the statement, don't say anything else. I don't think this is him scared of the question so much as

he's been instructed very directly how to handle this situation. Because he's scared of the question. And here's Abdul-Carter, not quite being the same kind of scared. So first off, I'm going to say that some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things. Jackson is one of our leaders. He's the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself and what he does, but he represents all of us.

And that goes for anybody who wears a Giants uniform. But if he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world. and that doesn't mean that we have to spread hate it doesn't mean that me and jackson hate each other or we have beef i sit next to jackson every day every team meet and we close we talk and we just as long as we make sure we got the same goal as a team and our goals align which they do

and i feel like that's all that matters that sound is scared to you i mean he said it with a little bit more base in his voice but it's the same thing it's like hey we talked and it's like i know this guy i've known him for almost two years i know what he represents i know our goals aligned just because we have a disagreement doesn't mean that there's something more than that. It's just a disagreement. And Dart said, we just talked, me and Abdul came here at the same time. We shared a lot of similar experiences.

Like, they're saying the same talking points. They said they put it behind them, but I asked that in the Wicked and Observations. I was being serious. How? Because that doesn't seem like something that's pretty simple. It's not like, hey, I voted for so-and-so. I was like, no, I introduced this dude on stage, man. That's another level of like 10 toes down into this, you know, cult, I guess.

And so to me, it's kind of. difficult to understand how they're like, oh, let's just, let's just be friends. I don't know how that happens. But, you know, kudos to them. I'm a Giants fan, so obviously I want the team to do well. So if they can put it behind them and play well, I guess that's got to be good enough for me. I thought Abdul Carter also had a probably a better moment when he's like, he can say what he wants, but when I do, that can't be an issue. Take an aim at some of his recent detractors. I was satisfied with the pound of flesh. Like, okay, Jackson, you welcome that in.

Go ahead and tout the great city of New Jersey and show everybody your ass during this speech. But when it was all over, I was more than satisfied and realized this was all super silly because we're talking about Jackson, Dart, and Abdul Carter more than the chairman and co-owner emailing with Jeffrey Epstein directly about, quote, working girls. Thank you, Amin. Good seeing you. I'm sorry your prediction was so wrong. Shea shot 28% from the...

series for the series from three 40% from the field that's not 35 and 9 in a close out game i can't believe you're using counting stats though he was 28% from 3 from 3 28% dan i have to use counting stats because i don't know what you're watching if you watch that game 7 i'm like woof tough one from no i just object to the idea i have to use counting stats counting stats is the language of the lay person i could sit here and break down how the their offense worked and how the defense was loading up and how all these different schemes and stuff and how a secondary ball handler would have really helped in a situation like this. But I don't know if you're going to understand or even pay attention to all that.

So I have to go to accounting stand because you went with accounting stats. A two-time MVP. All right. 35 and 9 games. I just gave you 40% from the field for the series, 28% from 3. Those are percentage points that are 10% lower than his regular season averages. Actually, a lot, he shot 55% from the field from 3. I'm not actually being.

Make other people fight. We're never in this. I'm not actually being a critical of Shea here. I was critical of the idea that you're saying, and now all they had left was the two-time MVP. That's what I'm mocking. I'm just saying, like, again, given the responsibility of creation of plays, you kind of need someone else.

Otherwise, the defense that the Spurs ran will work incredibly. It's the reason, by the way, the Knicks are so much better, because they used to be give it a Brunson and then Brunson does everything and everyone else to stand in a corner and wait. And that works that can win you 60 games and that can win you a couple rounds of playoffs. But at some point you're going to run into someone who's going to run a defense that's going

to exploit that, right? And what changed the Knicks dramatically from the years they've played and even this season was Mike Brown bringing those Golden State -esque offensive sets where they're running the ball through at the high post and Brunson is now off ball and it makes it so much harder

to guard, right? That's why Why? That's why you do it because if you just give it to one guy and say, just save us, you're an MVP, right? At some point, the defense is just too good. The Spurs defense is elite as is. If you run just, this guy's going to dribble into them and make things happen, that's not going to be good enough. And it wasn't good enough in this series. And to me, that's the story. And I have no problem, not losing sleep.

Oh, my God, I thought the thunder. Not losing sleep. I understand how basketball works. And like, that is a very logical. reason for why the game ended the way it did. See you later, buddy. He hit me with a dog. He got caught in the middle.

He was trying to say, Dan, and then he says, I think you deserved it. I think he said it with base in his voice for a reason. He knew he could school you and then let you off the hook. What? He knew he could school you with his basketball knowledge. A defensive scheme. He said dog and then went, you know what?

Let me back up. And he let you off the hook rather than just doing it. He said, Dan, I could do this, but I'm not going to. So I was schooled. Put it on the pool at Lebitard show. Could have been schooled. Was Dan about to be schooled at Lebitard show? You're not going to like that result. No shit. Sherlock.

No shit Sherlock. Can you guys tell me why it's Sherlock? Is that the only sh that we have in terms of names that you can go to when he said, no shit Sherlock? You can't go to Shy. Sheldon. There's Shirley, we don't call me Shirley. It's because he was a famous investigator. Oh.

Yeah. Like you say that when someone says something pretty obvious and you're doing. Thank you. That is why that happens. Ignorant of me another time. No shit, Shay would be weird. Yeah, that's right. You know about that layperson?

Going back to what it is that we were discussing with Donald Trump and what is now falling apart on July 4th, a musical celebration in which all of the musical acts were told what it was and then started dropping out. Can you guys tell me what musical acts are remaining? Because I have read only a little bit about this celebration. And the one thing that I read, I simply didn't understand, which is Millie Vanilli was supposed to perform. And this was confusing to me on a number of fronts. If you don't know who Millie Vanilli is, they were a couple of guys. I think they were from England.

And they couldn't sing at all. They were bad singers, but they looked good. and so they were busted for lip-syncing. They didn't have singing talent, or not great singing talent. Should we give this Grammy back now? And so one of them, though, when they said Millie Vanilli was performing at this, one of the members of Millie Vanilli committed suicide, at least in part it was reported,

because of the shame involved with, it was fairly scandalous that they had hit songs and they weren't singing them and they were lip-syncing. So when you say Millie Vanilli is performing, at that celebration, given that one of the members, I don't know whether it was Millie or Vanilly, one of the members is not alive to sing anymore. How was that going to happen even if, I think also Millie Vanilli has now dropped out, so I don't know whether it was Millie or Vanilly. There isn't a Leonard and a Skinnerd. The name was Millie to Millie to Millie.

I was doing that for comedic effect. I thought it would be funny to keep wondering whether it was Millie or Vanilly that was still going to perform, but it doesn't answer my question. There was a lot of these legacy acts where there's like one surviving member. I saw the dance act of Lyme. I don't think either of those two people were the originals. I think I saw Boys to Men one time in the Mahamas,

and it was just one. It was just one of them. So it wasn't even men. Which one? It was actually two. No, boys, two men. It was the member two. Boy to man.

I still want an answer to my question. which is how does Millie Vanilli perform today? The surviving member sings now. Oh. He doesn't lip sync anymore. Like he, there was a whole, it was one of the famous episodes of VH1s behind the music.

And there was a whole redemption arc to them trying to get in the studio, perform together and perform live. And the surviving member has his spin on it. It doesn't sound like the original, but it's still, you know, the same choreography. And obviously only one of them is still around. but performs the hits that they had.

And then also sings with one of the female vocalists who originally backed the lip syncing. So that's how you end up with Millie Vanilly. What acts haven't dropped out? To the best of my knowledge, Vanilla Ice, FloRida, and C&C Music Factory, which I don't believe is a music factory. From what I saw, it's just one guy.

And he went to Facebook and did like a 30-minute rant from what was very clearly his toilet. I saw here, People magazine says that Donald Trump is now the headliner for the Freedom 250 festival. He's going to sing? I read his statement. He's like, I'm getting an act that's bigger than Elvis. I will headline.

What's a set list there? What is he doing? A lot of boss, right? He's going to headline? Yeah, he's headlining. Wait, just him and vanilla ice are going to be out there and one member of Vanilli. Oh, as long as the check is cash and Flowrider will still. Going for two when you're up.

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