The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Crater Transaction

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

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If you think you could be funny as an anonymous person, 305-486 gots. I've got very little data so far to support that you. You can be funny as an anonymous person. The best call we've gotten here is as an impersonation of Steve from Sex and the City. Miranda? This segment has produced only that. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Damn it. I had finally gotten it out of my head for a couple of weeks. No, Miranda. This segment gives us a lot of funny callers, man. These people are excellent, including my bartender at the American Airlines on yesterday in Phoenix. Joseph, shout out to you, bro. He was one of them? He wants to be one of them.

He said he's working on his bit. He soft-launched it with me. What did you just shout out? Shout to the bartender, man. No, but you shout out of a bartender who has nothing to do with this second. No, because he's working on his bit. He soft-launched the bit with me. I said, it's good.

I gave him some tweaks and stuff. We'll hear him for him. Name drop you. That would help his cause. The Boost Mobile Boldest Take is presented by Boost Mobile. The newest 5G network in the country. The Miami Dolphin should name their team the Miami-A. and change her logo to an ass, not a nice ass, like an old man's ass.

If all of mankind had to agree on one haircut, it would be the Billy Ray Cyrus. Dan's overuse of the word, apocalyptic, really sticks me off. My dog just took an apocalyptic deuce. I feel like everybody who grew up in middle America has an aunt that looks like lion's rookie right guard, Tate Radledge. Great Grote faked his knee injury, so he wouldn't have to walk to Seattle. There is no coach in college football that looks more like their team's mascot than Dan Lanning. Whenever the color commentator draws two yellow circles around the two deep safeties,

I'm always hoping that they'll actually draw a penis. Do you ever notice how when you look at the words, I'm sane, the M kind of looks like two little ends, so it still just looks like insane. So you have fingertips, but no toe tips, yet you can tippy toe. but nobody tippy fingers. Is an orange called an orange because it's orange? Or is an orange called it orange because it's an orange? My dad says Jonathan Zaslow is a sucker.

Come on, Dan. That was good bad. That might be the best one ever. Let me tell you something. Miami ass. Do you know what Tate Ratlitz looks like? Throwing up, video team. That's somebody's on. That's somebody's aunt right there with a mustache.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebitard show. Should the Dolphins helmet logo be an old man's ass? You hear that Zad said, you're a sucker. Yo, I'm trying to forget that, all right? The telephone numbers, 305-486 got. But, I mean, I'm wondering, for all the people having opinions, okay? And I don't see this particular thing happen very often. where the internet rises up, social media, international fandom rises up and says that move that was just made in sports is so shocking that I know the executive to be a fool.

And then a few months later, the organization after trading away, Luca says, you're right, that executive is to blame. He needs to be fired. This sports story compares to what In terms of the internet getting to be right And feeling like Greg Cody singing Ethel Merman songs Because everybody was right Oh yeah, Dallas Mavericks You didn't actually know what you were doing

Hey, hello Dan, I think Zach Harper said it best Me and him did live radio on Series 6MMBA radio yesterday And he said the irony is On January 31st, 2025 If you pulled NBA media, NBA personnel, NBA fans How good of a job has Nico Harrison done as general manager of the Mavericks? Overwhelmingly, people say, this guy's done a great job.

He's a great job. He's really, you know, he drafted Derek Lively. Great trades in the finals run. PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford and like, oh, and the Kyrie Irving trade, which was a little bit like risky at the time, but totally paid off. Not a little bit. That wasn't a little bit risky at the time. That was a home run.

Yeah, yes, a home run in terms of the amount of risk and the payoff. It's the awesome thing. And it's like, yeah, this guy's done a great job. And 48 hours later, you're the worst general manager of all time. Dan, I used to do this thing where I had to explain to people what front office work really is. It's like, I say, look, anyone could say, yeah, I'll take LeBron. That's easy. It's a no-brainer.

Real front-office work is all the minutia and the details and finding these weird players and pieces from all over the world. Front office work isn't Duke versus North Carolina. It's Iona versus Marist. Front office work fine and Davy on Mitchell. Right. It's stuff like that, right? That's what I always say that's front office work. And now Nico ruined that completely because apparently the no-brainer stuff is pretty important too.

It's just ridiculous. Dan, dare I say it, it's on the Mount Rushmore of worst transactions in NBA history. We can have said that when it happened. Yes. You're absolutely right. So one of the things that is pretty shocking is sometimes things in hindsight, or bad. So I'll give you a great example. The Clippers trading all that stuff for Paul George in order to sign Quiet Leonard. At the

time, we're like, Steve Price, but wow, what a gutsy move. Wow, they've really moved their names into the echelons of like championship contention, right? And now we look back like, oh my God, they're still paying up the picks and the guy that they traded is the MVP and the finals MVP and all that. I mean, in hindsight right now, essentially the Clippers trading Norman Powell for Bradley Biel and John. Collins bad move bad move right but the reality is Luca donchitz the moment it happened then it was then it was so outrageous that people literally were texting and calling sham saying yo you got hacked think about how outrageous it has to be for not even people say oh this is nba centelle they called

the source and told him yo there's something wrong with your social media someone that having fun with your account. That's how ridiculous it was. In the moment, Dan, I went to All-Star Weekend, and I had presidents of basketball operations and GMs come up to me and say, what are they doing? Not on a, oh, I can't believe they're doing, what are they doing? But like, serious curiosity, no, tell me, because as a front office person, your usual inclination is if something happened that is unexplainable on the surface, that means there's

some shit happening behind closed doors that nobody knows about. And so clearly there must be something more to the story. Nine months later, Dan, we realized there was nothing more to the story. He just thought that was a good deal. But that's not new, I mean. The thing that I'm sort of blown back by on the mushroom cloud of this is it happens. It's seismic. We all back away from it dumbfounded.

Everyone has the same opinion. There are no dissenters on a sports opinion. This is something you do not do. and then eight months later they're like yeah something happened in the last eight months that makes this fireball even though that wasn't fireball while we were all calling it fireball things like this don't happen i mean i mean people aren't ever this unpopular they put emergency stairs next to his seat so we could get out of their quicker like on when they travel on the road people are drowning the lower bowl out with fire nico their own fans hate that their team now. He is so unpopular. One of the things that I think has to be marveled at here is how badly ownership miscalculated the importance of the emotional relationship that a region has with this player so that the betrayal is so seismic that you're firing somebody eight months late for what they did eight months ago because you underestimated what the reaction would be.

So, Dan, this is, I've talked about this also, like the idea of crater transactions. And what I mean by that is it is so deeply hurtful to the fan base that it never comes back. A great example of this is Dominique Wilkins. In 1994, the Hawks had the number one record in the Eastern Conference. They had, there were a couple of games back for the best record in the league. And they traded Dominique Wilkins. For Danny Manning. For Danny Manning, who was going to be a free agent at the end of the year,

ends up leaving at the end of the year, spoiler alert, right? By the way, the heat almost traded Glenn Rice before that for Danny Manning. Yeah. That's it. Danny Manning was the guy. But so Dan, useless information. I know. Not to me.

I remember. You were on that beat in the Herald. Not to me. Dominique Wilkins, homegrown, went to UGA. Like Atlanta loved him, and Atlanta loved Hawks basketball, right? And Dominic Wilkins was this guy, and he went up against Bird, toe-to-to-to-to in a game seven and had the incredible scoring back in back and then he had the dunk contest battles with michael jordan and held his own and beat him and all that stuff so

dominique was like Atlanta's identity and then they traded him across sports and generation right like maybe the most famous athlete in Atlanta not named Hank Aaron no Dionne Sanders like there's a lot of names but at that he was first at that moment at that moment in time Dominique was everything right you know Hank Aaron obviously for you know societal cultural reasons but like dominico was like, yeah, because he's ours. They traded him, and the team was still good. Like, it's not like they fell off across it, but the fan base resented it. And to this day, they have problems with attendance because that was a crater-inducing

transaction. They killed NBA basketball in that city for three decades because they made a deal that did not take into account what these people are. You could argue that Marlins have had several crater transactions, but the one that me in was the one with the Blue Jays, and then they won that trade, but it didn't even matter. And the Deshaun Watson thing totally cratered my fandom. Right, but it didn't crater. Well, it cratered the team.

And the NFL's a different animal. Like, I'm talking about a transaction that is so outrageous. You have fans leaving in droves and never coming back. It's 2025. He got traded in 1994. They still haven't come back. Not to the levels it was at the Omni, right? Another example, this is a little different.

I talked about it a couple weeks ago, I think, George Shin. was the owner of the Hornets and he was just an awful person and the fans in Charlotte with Dan you remember this Charlotte used to be a model NBA market look at how fervent these people are such those games were so fun

NBA basketball the hive sitting on the top of that hill right with the parking lot I went to the last game went out there 20,000 people in that parking lot went inside maybe 5,000 people they hated they hated what they had done to the Hornets and this man in particular. He moves the Hornets

to New Orleans. They bring him the team back as the Bobcats. Bobcats change their name to the Hornets. Guess what? It still has never come back. They've never gotten to the levels that they had back in the 90s and the early 2000. Is that what's going to happen to the Mavericks? Well, given that they fired him this quickly, I'm wondering

if they got out in time. But if this thing had continued, if you let this guy continue to do these things, who knows? Maybe it would have been created because remember, new ownership group, no one's fond of them. They're not locals. No one feels an affinity to them. And then this guy comes in and he does, like I said, a Mount Rushmore worst deal of all time. Dan, if I give you two other transactions, you tell me what's worse than this one, right? So we got Luca for Anthony Davis in a

first round pick. You have James Worthy, or the number one overall pick basically that became James Worth for Don Ford and a first round pick. Or you have Joe Barry Carroll for Robert Parrish and a first round pick that was Kevin McHale. What's the worst trade of all time? I need a fourth. I'm still looking for a fourth. Delke Baratray. All right. Smearnoff, official vodka of the NFL,

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That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can catch up. A thousand impersonations. That's not bad, man. Finally. Not terrible. Pretty good. Stugats.

Yours is terrible. You just got to get a little redder, a little pinker. You're right there, man. Yours is not. You're Biden. What do you mean? Oh, this is good, Dave. That's actually not bad.

That's not terrible. That's not terrible. We've got to come together. A little southern twush. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. The part about this is really something that is stupefying to me as somebody who's. sports all his life is to have an ownership so disconnected from whatever the

emotion of sports is their business it's the emotion business so that of all of the people that you mentioned there the one with the greatest promise that gives you wait a minute for 10 years we get to have a guy we get to have a guy who might be an all-timer we get to watch him grow up this is the beginning of our relationship with him. We are going to only grow this over 10 years because when he hurts, we will hurt with him. And if he finally wins, he's ours. We saw it from the beginning. This is the best of the players you're talking about. Like this kind of trade is the modern day. It's the modern day trading of Babe Ruth that haunted the, you talk about crater trades that haunted

the Red Sox for a hundred years. How is it good business to literally do something that your entire customer base is going to hate. So, like, so here's the thing. Luca came into a situation where this franchise had grown to love, Dirk Novitsky, eight billion years playing for the same team. They saw him when he was a skinny teenager and then the champion and everything in between. And they had the really rare thing that doesn't always happen in sports where the passing the torch, there is no dead period in between.

Oh, what are we going to do? Larry Bird retired. Oh, like, oh, finally, here comes Paul Pierce. 10 years later. No, no, no. It was real time. We're teammates. My name is Zirk Novitsky. His name is Luca. Boom. Luca loved Dallas. He embraced Dallas, right? If there was any sort of rumbling that I'm like, this guy's looking somewhere else, he's not happy. I think it might have been different. But the fact that he was so ingrained there, that's a shocking thing for this. Again, this fan base had gotten used to. Hey, our stars don't leave. So I think those are the things. But then, in order to move this story forward, because I know everyone has pretty much said all these things. I like that. I like that. to quote something from the substack of a guy I worked with in Phoenix. His name is Jeremiah Engelman. What you say? He used to work for the Mavericks. He said the day

after the Mavericks lost their final game of Golden State into the 2022 conference finals, I met with Nico to formally quit my position and to have an exit interview. There, I warned Nico about some of the developments I had witnessed during his first year in office. In particular, that he did not have a good grasp of who he should trust

and who among those under him were simply kissing ass. Nico had drowned out many of the voices who could provide perspective, including those of the department where I was an analyst. Instead of being willing to hear critical input, Nico had empowered people who had little basketball knowledge, and those tend to be people such as attorneys who had worked their way up this ladder, thanks to Nico himself. These people stroke Nico's ego at every turn. So he surrounded himself with yes, man. So you say, how could they, what bad business sense? If everyone around

he said, yeah, good idea, boss. And you literally worked to show. shield all the people who say opposing opinions, then all you're going to hear is like, yeah, this is a great idea. Yeah, he is fat and out of shape. Yeah, no, we should be. Defense does win championships and all those ridiculous reasonings to do that deal. That one's cutting a little close to the bone. And so this was in 2022.

You said that? Yeah, well, Jeremiah wrote that today or yesterday, but yes, he left in 2022. I mean, like, Cuban hired him, and Cuban was still the owner of the team and super involved when, for several years, when Nico Harrison is running, the team that year, like, just slips under the cracks? Yeah, I mean, I think, again, he's talking about a point

in time at the beginning of this, right? And so Mark Cuban's probably saying, oh, he's good, he's got a great relationship with people, et cetera, et cetera. He's not coming to Mark with, let's trade Luca in 2022. I'm trying to think of most unpopular executives ever. I'm trying to think of, yeah, Jerry

Kraus. The executive betrayed at Gretzky in Edmonton. Jerry Kraus, yeah, that's a good one. No, hold on. Years for them to climb back. back out of terms of cratering transactions. I forget his name. He ain't on the list. He can't win this game.

Yeah. We got to know your name. Don't do the name three songs. It was a good point. Thanks, Mike. Nico Harrison will go down after, and I understand how it is you would get lightheaded with the success of we were praising those Mavs trades when they got to the finals and we're thinking, oh, look, look, look, look, look, look, how soon before he wins it. championship the way Dirk does because that city, that town had invested emotionally in a player.

Like, I really think that even everyone listening to this, I think we all underestimated what that relationship was. I don't think any of us would have said at the time of the trade, you know, Nico's going to need secret stares to get out of the arena faster eight months from now because there are going to be death threats and the hostility is going to be such that the entire customer base is going to turn on the franchise. Anthony Davis isn't going to play in any of the game. They're not going to have any success whatsoever.

It's obviously going to be a disaster of a trade right from the beginning, and he's going to need secret stairs as an escape hatch. But Dan, like, here's the thing. Part of it is how could you trade our prodigal song, right? But part of it is, how could you trade him for that? If you come back with Anthony Edwards, they'd be upset, but they'd be like, all right, I kind of see your logic. I think Luca's better, but whatever.

They didn't trade him for someone of equal status or equal age. They traded him for someone who's older. And also, your whole thing is, I'm worried about Lucas durability. You can't then go out and get someone who is known for their lack of durability. It would be like saying, yo, I got to trade in my suburban because it doesn't get good gas mileage. And you trade in him, so what did you get? What's the new car? It's a Hummer.

Like, no, you got an older car that is worse of a gas gustler. It doesn't make sense. Dan, Anthony Davis has been a Dallas Maverick for 48 games now. You want to take a guess at how many games he's played? 20. 14. That's the guy that Nico Harrison identified as the – that's why they only negotiated with the Lakers. That's the guy that he identified. This is the guy that's going to help me win a championship right now.

Well, and when you're talking about loyalty, like when you have someone you've grown attached to that you've seen year after year, like imagine you're a fan of all my My Children, and you've watched your favorite actress get nominated 18 times for an Emmy, and then they would have decided to cut her from the staff just before winning her 19th Emmy, Susan Lucie. Who the one of the Susan Lucci? Who moved? You're such a theater kid. All my children? Is that still on? Is the soap opera? All my children's still on? What is the go-to soap opera that people go to now? General Hospital. It's still General Hospital?

Can I just get all of the sound of Mad Dog? Because we didn't do nearly enough of this yesterday. And I'd like to just tickle Mike with it because it is a rant that no one disagrees with. Mad Dog Russo is a man of the people. He is speaking nothing but drooling truth here when he yells at the federal government because everyone's flights are delayed. Airports are terrible. And he chooses all the right words and almost breaks character entirely when he starts talking about

why is Donald Trump talking to Jonathan Vilma about the 2000? and five saints. Flights are delayed and shout out to Joseph, the bartender. All of you should be ashamed. Every single elected official on both sides of the aisle should look themselves in a mirror how they let down the American public and made us a laughing stock around the world. This is not about winners and losers who is right and who is wrong. This is about doing something good for the American people and say, you know what, all right,

they're wrong, but I got to step up here and make sure that the air traffic controllers on there with aircraft and in towers. Not saying, you know, your turn, LaGuardia, your turn, Kennedy. Newark, it's been 40 minutes, send a plane out that's been sitting there for 15 hours. That's not the way this works if you're the President of the United States or you're a Republican who controls everything. You do what's right for the American person, and they didn't do that. And the Democrats, you're dead wrong too. The both of you, you all go to hell, every single one of you.

That's the first part. I mean, it's ridiculous what they put us through. I mean, who knows how dangerous it was to fly with nobody in the freaking towers. I mean, my God Almighty. And I got the president sitting there with freaking Vilma breaking down to 2003 saints. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. And chest bumping Wilma. When America, when they got a 75-year-old who has been sitting in Miami International for three days.

He's got hearing age. He can't hear the announcements of when it's Jet Blue Flight takes all. off for Bozeman. Oh, my God, it's sickening. I can't stand it. I should move the hell. I should be, well, who the one of, who, Susan Lucci, who moved? No, Lengoria moved. I should do the same thing. I do the show from Madrid. I'll do it live at six, nine o'clock at night. Jesus. Oh, my God, 11 in front of the hour. Returning on Madrellaudition. But ours. Put it on the poll. Are there any direct flights from Miami to Bozeman? because I don't believe there are.

I don't even think we have Chip Blue at M. I'm a lot of though, right? I'll tell you what, that 75-year-old man with the hearing aids who was stuck in Miami International for three days. I'll bet he wasn't lying on the floor. That shit's disgusting. People are so mad at what's happening right now in the airports, and that general frustration that he just articulated is happening inside of everyone who's wandering around airports right now

with seven, eight-hour, ten-hour delays. That's why I was in the lounge yesterday. Chotting it up with Joseph, listening to him, give his Booth Mobile hot take. Okay. Enough. Look, your bartender crafting a callback, Dan. Thank you, Chris, for, you know what? Hold on a second.

Me? Yeah, you. Yes, you, because you're explaining to me that it's a callback. Minor penalty, two minutes for explaining the show. Wow. Yet that he was trying to annoy me for the third time With the bartender who gave a joke That we didn't use on the air

Shout out to Joseph Run out of here like Jim Fix, Chris Yo, stop trying to make Joseph a thing Nobody cares Hey man, I look after my people I'm not like you, a user I look after my people Who have you looked after?

Anyone who's my person has been looked after Name one It's too many to name You threw trash at me Okay, that's a callback That right I deny that There's no way that was true

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But you're going to die. Big time. That is my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a, that's a 7.6. Solid. Good job, that's a sui nominee right there. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. For those of you who do not know,

Zaslo's show 2.0 is Jonathan Zaslo's solo's solo adventure. He is a toddler and his wife, how many times a week or month, do you guys have, date night? We try to go one night a week. You know, I travel on the weekends now during football season, so yeah, one night a week. Okay, so one night a week, you're going on date night, and what is the, how long have you been doing this, and what is the philosophy behind the importance of date night because you're very hard workers. So I imagine your wife is like, at least one night a week, we're not going to be watching the Panthers. Yeah, I mean, I think I said the philosophy.

I travel on the weekends during football. season, so one night a week we try and go out. You did say the philosophy. I wasn't listening to you. I was just thinking of thoughts in my own head. Regardless, the leaving yesterday on an important night.

Yeah. She was into it, too. You were going to be present and available and as sexy as you've ever been. Panthers weren't playing last night. Heat weren't playing last night. Perfect night. What does you sexy look like? Taste the taste of wetness. I mean,

it's this. Is that? I can style you You know, I can do that for you I don't need that Well, do you? No, I don't need that Well, but what happened?

Well You do need that I don't know what was wrong With what a god I mean You wear your dress like that On the day? Well, yeah, I was just like what I was wearing yesterday on the show

Alright, because it was yesterday I hated that I hated that You hated that And she wanted me to change I was wearing a Roman Raines shirt All right, that's travel chief right there And I was actually like you're wearing that

I go, yeah, this is what I'm wearing. And I was like, yeah, let's go. And she wouldn't let me keep my Roman Raines shirt. So she's like, I'm going to dress you. I'm like, no, I don't need to be dressed. This is a great shirt, Roman Raines. And she wouldn't let me wear it. Does she buy clothes for you?

No, I bought my own clothes, dog. Come on. So all she's picking them is different shirts. I think that was implied with the whole Roman Rainer shirt. I think it was implied that she doesn't buy your clothes. What a great question from Amin. So you think that his wife put together today's outfit, do you? No, when she says you're not wearing that, you've got to wear something else.

It implies like she bought him regular clothes. If he's taking the Roman rain shirt and put down a John Cena shirt instead, hardly an upgrade, you know? Yeah, it's a lot of Panther shirts, some heat shirts, a lot of WWE shirts. That's my style, man. Well, that's what she fell in love with, to be fair. That's what I'm saying, man. Don't try and change me. What did you wear to your wedding?

tuxedo shirt and Jorzson how does this go over how often does this happen how long have you been married like this is not the first time you've gone out on a date dressed as zazzed our wedding was our anniversary was last month

and that was 18 years ago you were at my wedding and yes I do I remember going to your wedding and now that I think about it you were wearing a tuxedo but your wardrobe since then has just been 18 years of collecting sports shirts and wrestling shirts. How often does she tell you to change the attire? How often do you comply in the changing of attire? She really doesn't tell me that often. Look, we got a good thing going here,

the two of us, you know? I don't tell her what to wear. She doesn't tell me what to wear. But last night was a bridge too far? Last night, you know what I think it was? We were going to a restaurant, we were going to a bar where there was going to be a bunch of people from her work there. That's not a date night. So, we got news for you. No, no, we sat the two of us at the bar. We did not Sit with the work people, all right? They're in the same place, though? No, they were at tables. We were at the bar doing our own thing.

It was a date, all right. You don't know what a date is. I know what a date is. So last night, she, yeah, I guess she didn't want me wearing my Roman rain shirt. It's a conversation piece. That's what I'm saying. It says, acknowledge me. You know about that tribal chief?

I know. I know. You know about that Ula Fala? Do you guys want to play? Do you know about that? Are you ready to play? Always ready. You're always ready to play?

You know about that? Born ready. Really? Always ready. I want you to imagine Zazel right now in a Roman rain shirt The confidence of a man who can tell Whoever it is in his life that is telling him out of dress No, you will not dress me

And then go to the closet and get dressed the way that he's supposed to Who are you directing? Do you know about that at? Amin, not do you know about that, Dan? It's you know about that, that's right. Another edition of You Know About That. Amin is here with us in studios It's a good opportunity for us to go over some of the big stories, the NBA.

Welcome to another edition of you. know about that. You ready, Amin? I'm always ready. What is that? Was that your game show? Yeah. That was you applying for the job of Jeremy Teshe,

Mario Lopez game show host, the fake laugh? Yeah. I'm going to have to work on that. All right. Amin is always ready. Not so easy, huh? Unless you ask me about Michelle Bito.

Amin? Traymond Green. Very upset last night. Talking about players' agendas. I don't know. Who do you think he was talking about? Maybe Steph Curry. You know about that agenda?

I know about the agenda. The speculation is that he's talking about Jonathan Camingo, who is young and up-and-coming. And sometimes the follies of youth demand greater than what the team is requiring. And so I think him and Jimmy were probably both talking about him. I can't think of anyone else. Not Steph Curry? No, it's not about Steph Curry. All right.

Sounds like you know about that player agenda. All right. Amin, the NBA announced yesterday. yesterday, the new All-Star format. It's the U.S. versus the world. A bunch of cockamamie ideas for how they're going to pick the teams and play in this many quarters. You know about that new cockamamie All-Star format? Yes, first of all, shout out to the Cockney because they'll be airing all-star festivities this year.

The format basically is you're still going to vote for 24 All-Stars. They'll split them up into three different teams of eight. Two of them are World, to me, USA Teams. one of them as a world team. Here's the thing, though, guys. This year, there are no position. So in years past, you get two guards and three front quarter. None of that is just 24 All-Stars.

Now, the part that I don't get is what happens if we have nine foreign players are really good? Or what if we have six foreign players are really good? And, like, two guys are just kind of like, all right. You know about those uneven players? I'm honestly a little bit more worried about the Americans at this point. Can we not get 16 American players? Yeah. All right.

Sounds like you know about that new All-Star football. I mean, the Dallas Mavericks lost again two nights ago at home. They're terrible at home. The Mavericks, they were blaming the fans' behavior that they're chanting for the GM to be fired. It's not a home court advantage. They're blaming the fans. You know about that? I didn't know about them blaming the fans.

It is you know about that. He just said you know about that. It's you know about that. It is you know about that. Why'd you correct me? You know about that? It is, you know about that. You said, do you know about that?

Do you know about that? You had the did, do. You say it like a dork. Like an undercover cop. Did they blame the fans? Yeah. I don't see that. I saw the part where a fan.

Cooper Flagg's mom retweeted it. Well, Cooper Flagg's mom is not the math. Respectfully. All right. Respect. Okay, so he did know about that or he didn't know about that? I didn't know about that. Yeah, no, I mean, he didn't know about that.

All right. I mean, the Celtics dropped to five and seven after last night's lost to the Sixers. You know about the Sixers? that was two under 500 Celtics? I do know about that. And this is the part that I've been, I can't lie, I've been waiting for for years. Oh, yeah.

This is the Mike McDanielization. Love it. Of Joe Missoula, because all that cute stuff. Not so cute anymore. It ain't so cute anymore when you're winning. The media game. Oh, that was fun. Oh, yeah, yeah.

We're going to beat them. All right, how about you beat the Sixers? How about you do that? Wow. God, Cooper, get a nickname. Hurry. Sounds like you know about that. I mean, Amin?

John Morant. is shooting just 35% on the season after going 4 for 14 in last night's loss at the Knicks. You know about that John Moran who can't shoot anymore? I know all about that. And last night is cementing in my head he wants out because it felt like at times like this is a guy on strike. This isn't a guy who's, I'm trying my best and I can't fit.

It's like, you know what, to hell with this system, to hell with this team. I'm going to do whatever. I'm good. Eight turnovers. Eight turnovers. You know what? I know all about that. I also know about who are the teams that have been picking up the phone and making a little call.

Well, give it to us. Happened to know. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You can't bury a happen-to-know on John Moranthus late in the show inside of us. Seems to you know. Do you know about that? He happens to know?

Great Scott, he happens to know. He happens to know. Gather everyone. Get the children. He happens to know. So wise. Dan, both the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Sacramento Kings are monitoring the situation and making calls with the Memphis Grizzlies. Monitoring.

Oh, my God, he knows. He happens to know. Come, everyone. Come and listen. Happens to know. He happens to know. Well informed. Talk to John Krasinski of the Associated.

the press the other day. Yeah. Not that junk. And the office. He was great on the office. Not that one. You're giving up your sources? Happened to know who protects the sources. Oh, he said it on air. It wasn't. It wasn't a... So it's a happen to know that you're borrowing from someone who already happened to know, happen to say? Well, no, he didn't happen to say I asked him on air

because he did on my show. His question. I questioned. I got the answer. I'm so facto. And unlike some scared journalists out here, I do my question asking out in the air. Wow. In public. out in the air. Are we done with Do You Happy to Know? Nope, got one more.

I mean, I'm not done yet, Dan. The Detroit Pistons are nine and two. They host the six and four Chicago Bulls tonight. You know about them Pistons? I know about the Pistons. And I've been dying to talk about this because everyone was swooning about Cade Cunningham's gutsy performance, 46 points,

and an overtime went over. He took a lot of shots. He missed 31 shots. He didn't take 31 shots. If he took 31 shots, we'd be like, wow, you shot a lot. He missed 31 field goals against one of the top five or bottom five worst defenses in the entire NBA. How do you miss 31 shots against the team that can't guard a shadow? Off night.

You know how that goes. That's, oh, that off? 31 shots missed. He sounds like he knows about that. I mean, I'm going to tell you something. Yes. You know about that. Oh, yeah.

Do you know about that Doug Christie press conference, Amin? I'm sorry, could you repeat the question? Do you know about that Doug Christie press conference? Oh my God, this one was last night now. They got their heads caved in by the Denver Nuggets, expected, right? The Kings are not off to a great start. Again, I would have thought expected. This is how Doug Christie literally started his press conference.

Good evening, good evening. Some of you guys, I think everybody in here knows me. If you don't, my name is Douglasdale, Chrissy. I'm head coach of the Sacramento Kings. Change is hard, y'all. We about to work at it like crazy. We totally get that. And it'll be bumpy.

It will. Because change is like that. But buckle up. For the real ones, buckle up. And for all the rest of you, you know who you are. You know how I feel about that. When I see the hate, the haters, the fakers, the faker. all you guys, you keep that energy.

That's good. You keep that. And you know who you are. Because why are you doing that, we're going to be working. And why you doing that, we're going to be growing. And why you do that, eventually, we're going to be coming. The King Show. Sack proud.

Know that. Ten games into the season, Dan. 10 games into the season The context is they got their ass beat again They suck They suck, they're the Sacramento Kings How many times did he practice that? Oh my God

Mike turned to me and said Is he beeping with Stephen A He sounds like he's beefing with Stephen A But the segment that is Do you know that ends with Doug Christie saying know that and threatening us Like threatening us Yes, by the way it's not Doug Christie

It's Douglas Dale Christie How dare you And when he workshoped it he's like pound the table at the end. Oh, yeah. Sack Proud. Folks, the leaves are turning. The weather's getting a little chillier.

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