The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Dan Is Not Well

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

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Thank you. The hockey playoffs and the basketball playoffs are going to rattle and shake this show over the next couple of months. Amin's flying in. Last night he's doing Memphis Golden State and he's flying in for this. And I have to get to what I am telling you, Stugatz,

I am serious about. It's one of the most embarrassing things to ever happen to me professionally or personally but it'll be in minutes that I will get to and I'm gonna minutes yes I'm gonna make the apology publicly in minutes but Chris Cody was telling me because he's been doing a private show for me here the last couple of days it's very funny I wish you could hear it that David is annoyed again that David is bothered at the start of this that's just me reading body language I haven't heard from he looks okay he looks annoyed all the time okay are you mad at us are you is there something wrong I just had

the time wrong so it's all good so you made it yourself yeah it's my fault I thought it was supposed to be 1020 when it was 1027. Okay. Eastern. My bad. How you guys doing? Well, no, but Samson's right about one thing. We run a loose ship around here and he doesn't have a lot of time. 1027. I know, but he's a show business, baby. Like what is like, come on. This is not this is not nine to five here. This is we're wheeling and dealing.

You're wheeling and dealing Chris. Yes, you are the executive producer who's supposed to be wheeling and dealing. You're wheeling and dealing, Chris? Yes, you are the executive producer who's supposed to be wheeling and dealing. You are supposed to be driving the show so that things happen when they're supposed to be happening. We were cooking with Tim Kirkjian. We were cooking. But sometimes things happen.

By showing a picture of Mel Kuyper. No, you're wrong. Listen, I had to tell Greg Maddux one time because we had a conflict with guests that, hey, we'll call you back in an hour, and he was fine with it, okay? I mean. And you're not Greg Maddux. And you're not Maddux one time because we had a conflict with guests that hey, we'll call you back at an hour and he was fine with it Okay, I mean and you're not Greg Maddox and you're not Maddox, right? And it was rusty stop by the way, not Mel Kiper. Yeah, that's a fine. No was also Mel Kiper

Yeah, it was rusty stop. It was rusty. It was an eagle. Definitely. It was Mel Kiper with the protective eagle Tony Regardless you're you're annoyed because we're late again Roy. What you laughing about? He's annoyed because he got his time wrong. I mean, I don't like the way he said that to me, by the way. I didn't like that. What don't you like? It was very just dismissive. Well, but I'm, look, man.

Because it was! But we have a problem around here generally about how David Sampson would like things run and how it is that we run things here at Metal Art. Like, it's a recurring theme. He's recurringly angry at everyone. Sounds like David Sampson has a problem, not us. Yeah.

Does David have a ticket guy? Does David, I imagine that David... Oh, David has a ticket guy. Let's get right to it. He has a ticket guy. Zazzla wants Pearl Jam tickets. Needs. Do you think that you could get him Pearl Jam tickets?

Well, the answer is would I? Cause of course I can. Mm-hmm. But the answer is would I? Well, would you? Well, yeah, what are we weighing here? Like what are we talking about? Well, clearly not now.

It's a week before the show and the shows were announced months ago, so it can't be that you're that disorganized that you're just making the ask today. Oh, I think my ticket guy could do that in a week. I can't have a better ticket guy than you. There's no way that I've got a better ticket guy than you. Do you really have a ticket guy

if you gotta give a month's advance notice? Like, I feel like a ticket guy. Ticket guy is a guy like, hey man. Five minutes before the show, yes. And it's not a ticket guy ticket guy as a guy like five minutes before the show. Yes. And it's not that I'm disorganized. It's that I don't want to have to count on someone else. Like I I'd like to get it done myself and I have failed.

I have failed miserably. So now I need help. Well, there's something you mentioned before that got me nervous because you talked about seats in the rafters and I know, you know, the venue they're playing at. It's a very small intimate venue. So you say rafters, I think AAA or I think Hard Rock. No, that's fair, but you got away.

It's sitting up top and am I also able to pay $2,000? And it's like, eh. This is what I would say. And Zazzalow, I don't wanna over promise and under deliver on this one because i don't think that i can do better than samson here i don't think i can do better than samson could uh... but

but me yes i do believe i do believe that i could not only get pearl jam tickets i believe that my ticket guy could get good pearl jam take now would you and with the week's notice all of them said what what do you need about six months advance notice in writing? I believe I could get those tickets by the end of the day for Zasmo. Oh my God. COB.

I'll work for free this week if that happens. Face value? Yeah, hold on. I just heard something. Wait one second. I thought I just heard he said he would work for free. No doubt. Okay, so now we're just calculating.

Now it's an easy math. Now we're cooking, Samson. Now we're hooked up. Now we're cooking. All right, so we're going on to game time. So make the deal, make the deal, Samson, that you think if you- Oh, if it's an easy one?

Okay, you think it's an easy one to get Zazzlo to work for free. Now we're cooking with gas. You think it's easy? Wait a minute, you can't have a lack of faith in your ticket guy and then say, but if Zazzle is willing to work for free. Yeah, but now he has a reason. All of a sudden you have a ticket guy that could do what I'm saying. My ticket guy. Not talking about six months anymore. I'm going on game time and I'm doing the arbitrage. What, I don't understand this conversation.

I will have tickets in your mailbox, Zazz, and you will be on the schedule for tomorrow and Friday for free and you will have two tickets to the concert next week. I'm going on the game time. Two shows, Thursday and Saturday. Two shows, two shows. Thursday, Saturday.

Thursday and Saturday. And you're doing two shows tomorrow and Friday. 100%. What about, what about, wait a minute, what about instead of one ticket both nights, how about two tickets one night? You're asking me? I was asking Zazz though.

Oh no, I need to go to both shows. But you need two tickets to each show, right? Yeah, how do I not take my son, he loves them too. My son! Okay, well, wait a minute, Now multiple tickets where we got a problem. Like we got a problem. No, I would accept just one. No, no, I would accept just one.

We do the arbitrage thing. No, I'm not gonna be a snorer. If you present to me with one ticket, I'm very happy about that, very. Put it on the poll at LeBataard Show. Do you know what a snorer is? It's not that. Everyone does.

I don't know what a snorer. I don't know what those are. Like is there someone who is greedy, doesn't appreciate, yeah. Me. Okay. So I'm sorry David, that we still haven't gotten to your segment,

but I'm going to have to, and this is rude of me, I am going to have to knock Sampson out of the way here to tell you about one of the most embarrassing personal and professional moments of my career and to welcome in Pablo Torre in order to do so because beyond being the person who married me and my wife I am just extraordinarily proud of him for a number of different reasons the work that he's doing the awards that he's winning the things that he's doing on MSNBC, and the way that I did something on air this week made Mina Kynes ask me if me and Pablo were

okay. And if she asks me that, I did something very wrong on air that then got aggregated, and Zazzle comes in here today and asks me, what did you ask me? Well I read it yesterday on Barrett Sports Media and the tone of the article was very much Dan is really mad at Pablo Torre. Okay, so anyways a lot of people thought this because of something that happened on air this week and it's just totally my bad that that's how that came out because I'm I'm not kidding you

when I say professionally and personally wildly embarrassing to me that any of that would land on Pablo because the work that he's doing is singular and it's extraordinary I don't know what's happening right what are you apologizing for are you making an apology? Yes I am. So listen. Do we need to relive this though? I do, because I didn't live it.

Hey guys. For those of us who don't know, yes we do. Me, me Pablo. I'm also here beaming in from 30 Rockefeller Center in New York. What's funny about all of this, you can imagine is that. When Dan mentions that Mina was concerned about me and Dan and our friendship I hadn't even known about the Barrett sports media thing, by the way

I was dealing with DMs from a separate sports media writer, so that's cool Great to know that Something that Mina and I both advised was that Dan not do what he's doing right now live. So cool, but let's do it. No, I, well, I didn't get that part, but regardless, the thing that I wanted to play for all of you and one of the many reasons that I am proud of Pablo is

he is doing on Morning Joe something that I have not seen. Never mind on that show. With an easy grace he is capturing our times in a way that you need to listen to what he is doing journalistically and you need to listen to what he's doing socially because I'm gonna play a clip from Morning Joe here and he's got a facility around things that are happening in America right now that are deeply deeply troubling and I'm just really happy to see him doing things like this on MSNBC on behalf of us and the company.

It's a test. We are now taking a test. What's the test? The test is do you see these people as human beings deserving of the protection as human beings of the country that has styled itself the foremost protector of decency and due process in human history? And when you show these videos and you allow this administration to cast these people as people who should be shackled, who don't look like you, what they don't want you to realize, in the case of Mr. Abrego Garcia, is that this was a dad who was apprehended while in a parking lot of an Ikea with his autistic son in the back. And one of the most primary criteria for why he was apprehended was because he was wearing a

Chicago bull's cap and hoodie. Everybody acknowledges that this guy, as we see photos of him and his family, did not deserve any of this. And if this was somebody who looked a little bit more like the people we tend to be intuitively sympathetic towards, which is to say very clearly, if he was a white guy who wasn't generally associated with what it means to be scary and foreign. John, this is the sort of story, the suspension of due process, the deportation to a terrorist prison camp in El Salvador that has Americans typically saying this is why we need our Second Amendment.

And here I just wonder why that level of panic has not risen to the level of action because it is absolutely horrifying. Woke bullshit. I'm still not clear on what you're apologizing for, Dan. Right, I mean, Phyllis and? I just wanna rank quarterbacks. Can we rank quarterbacks? Thank you. Can we do that?

David, what are your general thoughts on everything that's happening here? We've pushed you out of the way, you're busy texting. You still here? You look like you're annoyed again. We've got Pablo from the set of MSNBC where he's becoming a huge star. So yeah.

So does- Yeah, I'm just trying to calculate whether we're losing monetization by clipping that long a clip off MSNBC and whether or not Pablo was aware that we were doing this because I think it's fantastic. And the focus should be on what Pablo is doing with Metal Arc as part of Pablo Torre Finds Out,

just one of the most unbelievable things, getting nominated for a Peabody Award and the aggregation of you being upset with Pablo. It's a fricking Tuesday that you're aggregated for people misunderstanding things that happen, if not members of your family and friends. So my focus to the extent that I'm still sitting here 18 minutes later is that Pablo's show is so good

that for anything metal arc adjacent to be recognized the way his show is, is a credit to what Dan you have done and started and you should be damn damn freaking proud of it. You want us to celebrate a nomination? Congratulations! Congrats, David! Yes, yes, a nomination! Wonderful.

This went very quickly and I have to say, maybe even predictably went from, I am feeling my heart growing full to I hate you guys. I really do. We love you. Dan, I got you a Peabody nomination. Yes, it's a nomination. I nominate.

It is a nomination. Relax. The winners are announced at some point in the future. I want to explain what's happening to Amin. Amin, remember when your parents were like, well, I don't know if this is the right metaphor, but it feels like when your parents were like, well, I don't know if this is the right metaphor, but it feels like when, as a kid,

the adult in the room starts off by complimenting you, and it's so effusive that it becomes suspicious? Yes. It's that setup times the time that you and Izzy were fighting on air. Oh! It's kinda like that stuff. That was great. Kinda like all that stuff.

You know what's funny? When you get nominated for these things, the show's nominated, but typically they submit a particular episode. Pablo, I just want to make sure. Was the episode submitted the Haunted Hotel one in Oklahoma City? That was not what we submitted.

But I still get a Peabody if we win, right? Yeah, we cut this thing up. We cut this thing up into pieces. Samson, what's the face that you're making? Because I will let everyone know that Samson, among the budget cuts, that he's recommending award prices, nomination prices. Samson doesn't want any, look. You gotta save what you can.

Can we go through a day without being aggregated? Can we go through one day without Barrett Sports Media getting in my inbox about the awards budget? Jesus Christ. What is Samson laughing about? He's trying to come up with to go bad you are at this What's the apology for the balloons aren't helping Chris Another great we're trying to be an adult media company winning most prestigious awards in journalism and getting Emmy nominations for documentaries

And signing giant deals and all I'm seeing is Chris Cody waving balloons like this. Give me fireworks. Yeah, please get fireworks. Just visually. Visually. That's our budget for fireworks? They're gonna take back the nomination.

They're gonna take it back, guys. Guys, I stayed at a haunted hotel for one night, man. No, no, no, no, this can't be. Come on. This can't be, this can't be, this can't be. They're gonna take back the nomination? I'm gonna screw it up while I'm apologizing? While I'm apologizing. Again.

No, this can't be, this can't be true. Dan, please help me, help me please. I swear to you all listening and watching on the Levitard Network and live, Dan and I spoke this morning about myriad things. One of them was, here's two words that we should consider not saying, awards budget.

Oh, I don't even remember that. I don't even remember that. We have learned, we have. I don't even remember that. We are unsurprised to hear Dan say that. I'm just gonna speak for everybody now. Cue the fireworks. Don't even remember You gotta be kidding me you have I just I don't know if people realize I'm not well. I'm not well I'm not well. I'm not well. I'm missing so many f***ing things.

You are having fireworks. This is not on Dan. You need to know when you tell Dan not to say something, he's gonna say it. He's gonna say it. This is on whoever told Dan anything. This is mortifying to me. Mortify, I'm not doing this on purpose.

It's not your fault. It is my fault. No, it's Samson's fault. No, your teammates. It's definitely Pablo and Samson's fault. It is absolutely my fault. It's Amici's fault It is my no it's Samson's fault. No your teammates So it's a me cheese fault, I'll say fault it's nobody's fault, but I've been hearing more about a me She and his fault. So I'm gonna You're mark that for a future. So, okay, so I am very proud of you Pablo the fireworks overdue. I am very

So the episode that you got nominated for a Peabody Award and honestly you could have selected 40 of your shows and nominated them and any of them would have gotten a nomination overdoing it like the hotel one The one that did get a nomination. how did you select it over the others? I swear to God, Pablo, I'm trying to apologize to you and I just did it the same. The fireworks that Chris is playing over your face are a bit less persuasive than the words coming out of your mouth.

I told David this morning that I was willing to fly to New York this weekend to apologize to you and. Or budget, am I right, David? Yeah. I said no. Most expensive apology in the history of apology. The apology budget, the apology budget is a remarkable line item for this company to consider.

I don't know, I don't know. I don't know what's happening anymore. I just, by the way, like the entirety of MSNBC is on the other side of this door. I presume now just like listening to what sounds like their new alleged star employee being a crazy person, yelling about fireworks and balloon boobs.

Like, I don't, I don't really know how to. Pump your brakes, you're not an employee, you're just a contractor. Take it easy. I will say to you, and letting people look behind the curtain, that this right here is precisely the reason that our former executive producer, before I got all heavy tongue over here,

said I do not trust Dan on live television anymore. Yeah. Oh man. I think David is peeing himself at the moment. Oh he is. I just can't even imagine what just happened. What happened? Did the apology happen?

I have no idea what he's apologizing for. So Pablo, what episode was it finally? Sorry, it was the Dallas Cowboys. You can't, okay, well we can't hahahaha We did a press release! We did a press release.

We did, we did do a press release. I missed that, my bad. Get out of here, David. I just want you to know that part of my goal here at MetalArk, part of my. Stop with the fireworks, please. It's fast. Chris, stop with the fireworks. One of my goals is to get Tony

to listen to an episode of my show. And this may seem as unlikely as converting a Trump voter in 2025 to the notion that we as Americans have partnered with a guy who calls himself the world's coolest dictator in El Salvador. It may be as unlikely as that very proposition, but I'm gonna try.

I'm really gonna try. Tony, watch the haunted hotel one. It's awesome. Okay, I was gonna say it all means on that one I'll watch but if you tell me the one that that got nominated for a Peabody. I'll check it out But I think it was that one Send me the link guys. It wasn't that one But it could have been according to death

I I'm I'm not fooling around here that while apologizing for what is one of the most embarrassing moments of my professional and personal career I'm repeating the mistake and parts of it that I was just apologizing for because I'm not well I'm forgetting things that people say to me. And I have, David Sampson is laughing to keep from crying because he has not been able to protect me from myself. He lost that battle. He lost all the battles you've mentioned.

Crying, you versus you. Everyone. Just a series of defeats. So how is it that this was nominated over other things? Because I imagine on what is an extraordinary podcast, unlike any other in the space, not just sports space, the podcast space, doing important journalism, you had a top five or top 10 list

and it was hard to get it down to one. Yeah, look, the whole thesis of what we're doing at Metal Art, by the way, the whole reason I do my show is because I believe that sports is a way into really genuinely entertaining and nourishing stories. Like my whole thing, as I've said to Dan many times, is that I want to melt some cheese on broccoli, right? Like I'm not just trying to scold you and shame you into caring about something. I want to tell you a story

And so the story we picked is the episode in which we sent one of our correspondents to a supermax prison in Texas To meet a guy on death row to talk about how at an alarming and frankly insane and eye-opening rate People who are about to be executed in Texas shout out the Dallas Cowboys. They shout out their favorite sports teams. And so this was an episode in which we went inside a Supermax prison, went inside Death Row to talk about what it's like to be in a fantasy football league.

What's it like to care about the most popular American thing? What's it like to be able to laugh about what it's like to be a Cowboys fan? What it's like to actually consider as this man we interviewed, Charles Flores, told us. What it's like to consider your Dallas Cowboys fandom in some ways even sadder than the fact that you've been fighting for your innocence

for 25 years on death row, right? Like there is absurdity and laughter and like actual news you could use about capital punishment in there. And no one else is doing it like this company, man. Look at the pride I have, the authentic fireworks I wanna set off here, or that you look at this list of nominees

and it was shocking when we got it. It's that it's a bunch of enormous, enormous companies with all the pedigrees and the awards already. And then it's this company with these people who can't even apologize, right, for an apology they attempted to do, also in that room. It's kind of amazing And nothing personal all of it and also not not that but sure let's just throw some stuff in at the end

Yeah, also that so he's apologizing for I Don't know question mark. I mean Where do I start? Where do I start? Where do I start? You can start with the time you thought I worked at the Clevelander. Let's start there. This is so much worse. This is so much worse. All right. I'm sorry, Pablo. Zazzalil, do you have it? Congratulations. I'm super proud of you for the fireworks

for merely a nomination. It's not yet a prize. Does it work when the EP says, allowed, cue the fireworks? Is that part of the... You didn't really answer my question of what finished second place to that one. Because it must have been hard to pare down your list. You're doing really good comprehensive work that podcasts it. In sports, it's unseen.

Oh, no one's trying, dude, no one's trying to do this. And by the way, this is the argument I always have behind the scenes now increasingly about like degree of difficulty, what it takes. You guys, we're a company that hires journalists to do work like this at a time when everybody's running away from it. And so the follow-up, you know,

or the runner upup episodes sorry someone's knocking at the door can I just take this I actually don't know who this is Joe I bet you let's see if it's Scarborough or his boss who's firing him yes I'm just thinking work call okay Shh. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, absolutely. Yep, very good. Wasn't you? I got kicked out of the room.

So I gotta go. Cue the fireworks. All right. What was second place? What finished second place? I don't know, subscribe and find out. Pablo, Pablo, one more question. One more question, Pablo.

Have you ever done an episode? Oh, God. It's too bad. What were you gonna ask? If he's ever done an episode on oh, come on. Oh, it's too bad. What were you gonna ask? If he's ever done an episode on helping a friend get tickets. Oh. I can't find that. Zazz, I thought you'd never ask.

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The Canadiens can clinch a playoff spot with one point if If they lose in regulation, and Columbus wins tomorrow in regulation, then Columbus makes the playoffs. So this is a big game for Montreal. Carolina has nothing to play for. Now Montreal has won eight straight games against the East, and Carolina has failed to cover the puck line in the last eight games against the Atlantic Division. So I got the Canadians winning this one.

They are one and a half cool favorites I've got to tell all you guys the hockey show sometimes on Fridays I couldn't believe when I walked in here today and Roy and Zas low are so confident about their hockey team Stanley Cup champs Why wouldn't you be? No, no, I'm just saying that when the Panthers lose 5-1 to the Lightning, you would understand how and why I have some post-traumatic stress disorder,

even if the Panthers are not actually playing their people. It's just Tampa in general. You'd all understand why I would have some visions that perhaps you don't have. Hockey can hockey. I'm with Dan on this. I'm nervous. Look, it's been a year. It's, think come get that ass took.

All right, let's go. Yeah, man. Tony, bring us home. Big one tonight in the association, the Miami Heat versus the Chicago Bulls tonight. Dan, I know what you're thinking. This is a Miami Heat show. Okay, this is Miami.

We want the Heat to win. Not so fast, my friend. 2% chance of Cooper flag. You know exactly what we're doing. We're betting with the Miami Heat. Why? Reverse jinx. If I put money on them, they're gonna lose.

All of a sudden, that Pick'em spread becomes a lot larger. I'm gonna take the Miami Heat plus one. Bulls have been feisty by the way. I see you in there. Giddy has been incredible. I'm gonna take the Miami Heat plus one. I'm in bulls have been feisty by the way Incredible Colby white bazillas Very good. I'm gonna go Miami Heat. I mean are the Bulls indeed very good They put 150 up on the Lakers Giddy was good. He was good

there I I would say they're Younger and more fun than the Heat. This is the most optimistic Chicago has been in years in terms of like, oh, now it looks like we have the makings of something that can grow into something a little bit more. They're fun to watch, they play up and down. Kobe White, what a story about him,

because remember, he was in the doghouse and Billy Diamond first came in, they didn't want him. They put him out to pasture but then through injuries and his own improvement he won back his spot and now I think Billy Donovan's one of his favorite guards. So Chicago, believe it or not, the feel good story, if you want something new and exciting you root for Chicago against Miami tonight.

But Dan I just wanna say one more thing about last night. Walking into that building and seeing all the chairs with the gold shirts on it, and then watching Orlando and Atlanta, everyone had the blue shirts on, God, this is the best time of year, ain't it? Oh my God, it's like all that other bullshit about, like load management, blah, blah, blah, it's done. Now we're back, baby.

Our basketball is at a high level, everyone's going crazy. When Steph Curry hit that last three and just walk down the court looking dead. It's at the camera Everyone lost their mind. I was like, oh my god, the NBA is bad But it's not bullshit though because the NBA last night is showing you they're a good product when the players try Like it's not bullshit when they play Okay, you guys are saying that and I understand your love of basketball. I love it too, but please do not bring Orlando Atlanta around here.

Just the colors, just the colors. Hold on, you didn't like Palo Bankero of it last night, taking over? Trey Young, frustrated, gets ejected? Dan, you're rooting for a Pacers Clippers final. That is true, you are rooting for that. Trey Young gave me some of the content I need there. Orlando and Atlanta playing games that I can hide on NBA TV

and not have to worry about them mattering in six weeks or not. I've been watching those for... Look, Trey Young, is that frustrated? Because he's been playing in many of those games for Atlanta. One of my favorite pastimes, I'm sure Tony shares this with me, is which one of these series is going to be the NBA TV series? I'm going to tell you right now, Cleveland Atlanta, book it. Cleveland Atlanta straight to NBA TV.

You're assuming Atlanta's going to win that. Yeah, I'll get Chicago or Miami. Really? Yeah. I'm not impressed. I mean, look, Trey Young is that frustrated because it's been frustrating to be Trey young since he left Madison Squad Square Garden in the playoffs and he's frustrating his trade value like what happened last night with Trey young immature

unprofessional ridiculous and not at all surprising. He's been a hawk for a long time and the Hawks have been the Hawks for a long time Yeah, I mean like I think it's always chicken and the egg, right? Are the Hawks the Hawks because of Trey Young, or is Trey Young suffering because the Hawks are the Hawks? It's probably a little bit of everything feeding into each other as far as what's happening. There are a lot of people who feel

like Trey Young should be the one to go if you're at Atlanta and you're trying to repurpose yourselves. They've got pieces to like, right? Jalen Johnson, who's hurt? But like when he was playing, that's when the Hawks were at their best. I like, obviously Dyson Daniels was a great find for them this year. After everyone said, oh my God, they traded De'Jonte Murray after a couple of years of that experiment not working. You get Dyson Daniels, who was okay in New Orleans, comes in here. He's one of the front runners for defensive player of the year. Like I think the Hawks have things to look forward to

But there does seem to be a cap as far as how good they can be as long as Trey young is there I don't think we've mentioned this yet today Golden State in Memphis last night great game Sir ever been a more anti climactic finish. Oh no look in the building that it was amazing television it was brutal, brutal. Five seconds. The five second count was, you know what's crazy? Everyone, all my friends in the group text said,

that felt like faster than five seconds. And I sat next to Nate Duncan and we timed it. We literally put the timer on. And it was like six and change. Like the dude, and it didn't even look like he was about to pass it in. Maybe he didn't know. Does he it didn't even look like he was about to pass it in Maybe he didn't know does he think you just get all the time you want to throw it in and curry was on ball, too So it's not like they have posts. They have a seven footer. It's curry trying to do his best and Aldona's here like

I'm good. I mean, what are we doing with the Rockets with the Warriors or minus 190 to win that? So Stu guts this is what's happening here. On the one hand, the Rockets, great season, tough defensive team, very physical, and of all the players in the NBA who have had to guard Steph Curry this year, I think Thompson has done perhaps the best job. He's just exact in terms of size, in terms of defense and IQ and all that stuff.

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