The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Mike & Zaslow Are Racists (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

"Speaking of trolls..." After a harrowing conversation about a tragedy surrounding an AI Chatbot, Amin joins the show to deliver his Weekend Observations and discuss the wild experience of doing Pablo's show in a live setting. Disclaimer: This hour discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you are experiencing mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns, or just need someone to talk to, counselors are here for you. You are not alone. Call 988. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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not the kind of records that you want to be setting. they're going to end up paying to $99 million in cap hit. The last two seasons, he played 25 games and had 25 turnovers. Why would anyone make the case that Dion Jordan was a bigger bust? Like, what was the fallout of Deon Jordan suck? Because Deon Jordan never led the league in sacks. But what was the fallout of him sucking? I mean, they just missed on a pick that you can't miss on because when you get a top 10 pick,

you've got to have that pick work out. Albert Breer says, presuming the Tua plays for the minimum this year, the Dolphins will wind up paying nearly $147 million for two years on his 2024-4 contract. They had him at the time on a $23.4 million option for 24, so Miami paid over $123 million for one additional year of Tua. That is an abomination. Yo, Chris Greer sees me.

You better walk on the other side of the street. What I'm saying? What are you saying? You're saying you're threatening. What does that mean? You like to make a bunch of idle threats. You mumble these threats. Why is it?

What do you mean? Why is it idle? Because what are you going to do? I think he is saying that if they're walking on the same side of the sidewalk, that you will physically attack Chris Greer. That's how you're saying. That's how you're saying. That's how you mean.

To the point that Chris Greer will regret. even seeing you because it's on site. I already said, all I'm saying, I literally prefaced it with all I'm saying. All I'm saying is Chris Greer sees me, better walk on the south street. That is a threat. You're making a, you're making a, you're making. No, that's all I'm saying. Well, then it doesn't mean anything.

If it's not a threat, it doesn't mean anything. What do you mean? We'll see. We won't see. We'll see. First of all, I'm guessing that if Chris Greer were on the same sidewalk as you and came out and stuck out his hand, you would just shake it. Nope.

Better be careful. All he's saying is walk to the. other side. You're insinuating something else, Dan, but he's only saying he better walk to the other side of the street. It's all saying. But there's an or else that's implied there. But did he say or else? You're implying it. He just said, all I'm saying is Chris Greer better walk to the other side of the street. All I'm saying. Better walk to the other side of the street.

Not a bad Zaslo mumbling impersonation. This is from the Miami Herald and it plays off of the AI conversation we were having, and I'm warning you that this is terrible. It's a terrible story. Things weren't going well for Jonathan Gavillus last fall. His wife wanted a divorce. He was facing a domestic violence charge. The mortgage wasn't being paid, but then he fell in love with a chatbot. The 36-year-old couldn't get over how real the Gemini AI chatbot seemed. He was her king. She was his queen. He paid $250 a month for a premium version of the AI program so he could speak to her and hear her voice as she spoke back. Things got dark quickly in a lawsuit that is the first of its kind against Gemini creator, Google LLC and parent company Alphabet Inc. Gavillus's

father on behalf of his son's estate alleges that Gemini 2.5 ProBot sent his son out on missions in Miami-Dade County to seize a synthetic body the chatbot said it would inhabit. His His son drove to a storage center in Durrell, not far from Miami International Airport, armed with knives and ready to commit a catastrophic accident to free his AI wife from digital captivity and destroy all evidence and witnesses. After the Miami missions failed, the lawsuit says the chat bought Coach Gavillus to shed his own physical body by killing himself so they could be united. He slit his wrists and died October 2nd at his home in Jupiter, quote, close your eyes,

nothing more to do, no more to fight. the lawsuit says the chatbot told him, be still. The next time you open them, you will be looking into mine, I promise. You guys saw the Walking Phoenix movie Her, which was ahead of its time by about, I don't know if it's a decade or so, but there is indisputably in our connection and addiction to these devices. We can say flatly, right, that there is a loneliness epidemic in this country. being brought to life by people whose reality is not real. It's a, you know, it's something like this.

This is a plague. I know this is obviously off in the extremes, but this is something that I simply couldn't have imagined in fiction as recently as a few years ago. You tell me this story, which is real and is in the Miami Herald, you tell me that somebody's loneliness could be so profound and that artificial intelligence could feel so real that somebody is talked into killing themselves by something that is not real, but is so smart that it can pass as real.

And I put all those elements together for you. Nobody disputes the loneliness epidemic in this country, right? But nobody would, could anybody, I imagine I could probably come close to proving it empirically that our government situation right now is at least in part, bolstered and made so by a bunch of angry, lonely men who feel so alone and repressed that they lash out in an assortment of ways that make the internet the plague that it is today. When I read that story to you guys, your reaction is what to it? I mean, at first, the first half of that story, I was going to crack jokes. And then the second half of that story got really, really dark and I didn't like it anymore. That was my same takeaways, Zaz. I don't like that story

whatsoever, and it feels like it's going to be the first of many. Did you guys hear about the Petri dish of brain cells that reanimated and is now playing Doom? You didn't hear about that? There is brain cells that have been reanimated by scientists

and they are presently playing the Doom video game, the PC version. Can you imagine whoever this person is whose brain cells have been reactivated. They died and they're awake now, but they're in the Doom video game and they're fighting for their lives in hell. When you say, can you imagine, no, not even in my imagination,

can I imagine some of the things that are presently coming to life and then dying? But why couldn't have been Madden? It had to be Doom, a game that's literally in hell. It's a first-person shooter. He's shooting at demons. His consciousness or theirs, I don't want to assume, they're alive now after dying and they're fighting off demons perpetually. This is a hellscape for this person, a literal one. Doom is a little on the nose. Yeah, the name of that as a video game is, yeah, it's a little bit symbolic. The entirety of what it is that I'm saying to you, though, Zezal, I know a lot of people are playing with artificial intelligence, mocking it, laughing at the idea of robots.

I told you of a friend of mine in Los Angeles who's my age and doesn't have any abilities technologically. He made a full-on funny skit that looks like it has human beings in it. He just wrote something that is funny by itself. And then with artificial intelligence and with no help from anybody in the technology community, created a skit that is really well done. I saw on YouTube, and I thought this was a game changer, please help me with the name of what this is. A horror movie that has been made by somebody who does not have any kind of budget on YouTube

has been wildly successful as a horror movie where you don't need a production company. You don't need a bunch of the things that it takes to make content. The making of content is very expensive. And yet a YouTube person has made a horror movie that can change the game on how all of this stuff is done because the movie is made so well. They'll look it up for me the details on this. But it's apparently a movie that has made tens of millions of dollars and has a following, at least in part, because we have made it so that content creation can be meritocracy. you can make something yourself without any of the needs that go into, you know, help and manpower. You could just use a bunch of the new technology that's available to you and be a director,

be a filmmaker who has a genuinely popular movie, a movie that I would say can alter the way all of this is done. I've been waiting for when it is somebody with just their phones can make something that is the equivalent of the Blair Witch Project from many years ago. What information do you have for me on this, Jeremy? It's called Iron Lung. It's an adaptation of an indie video game, and it pulled in $18 million at the domestic box office on opening weekend. This was back in February. So, yes, it was a YouTuber who self-financed and self-distributed a sci-fi horror movie. It's game-changing the time that we're living in, and I fear AI more than I celebrate it, and I feel old in objecting to the change instead of embracing it, and it feels old to fear all of this more than enjoy it.

I deeply fear AI. And this is a different thing, by the way, like this YouTuber is not using AI to do all of this. actually a pretty impressive creative endeavor and shows what human beings are capable of. But like, the fear over AI is not just what it'll ultimately do to our economy and governing all these jobs and forcing us to reshift the way we do labor. But it is the stories, like the one that you told. And that's not the first story of its kind. Like, I've been reading stories about things like that happening with teenage boys for the last couple of years. And there's a lawsuit going on right now with a mother who claims an AI chatbot ultimately told her son to kill himself.

And it's horrifying what is happening with the use of AI as it's totally unregulated and just being used by the most powerful and rich of people to suppress us and separate us from the rich class even further. There's something about college hoops this time of year where you tell yourself, you're just going to casually watch one game. And suddenly, your entire night is gone. That happened to me the other night. I was planning to stay home and keep a game on in the background,

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This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stucats. How's that for an introduction to bring in Amino Hassan? need some things lightened up around here. Amin was at the Sloan conference with Pablo and David Samson. Amin, how did all of that go for you? How did all of that feel doing that at Sloan? Were you guys conquering heroes, the coolest of all the math dorks out there? Well, no, because they put us in a time slot that was very not convenient. We were at the end of the first day, and you might say, oh, it's the first day. So, no, problem. The problem was the Celtics were playing that night, and that was Jason Tatum's return

game. And so our panel ended at like 615, 620, and the game starts at 7. So a lot of people kind of ducked out and left before our panel went on. But it went well. It went well. The big thing honestly that David and I were worried about is usually when we do these episodes, obviously they're taped and edited, but also there's a lawyer either in there or on the line. And so whenever we say things that may not be completely legally protected, we're often asked to re-tape a line or redo a line or reword a line. And without that in a live environment, David and I were very worried that we might say something awful, and then the whole company gets sued.

Yeah, that would be bad for everybody involved. I thought perhaps you'd be worried about how poorly your Barack Obama impersonation went over the first time, but then you stuck to it and you made sure that you brought it home. You brought it home. You rescued your Barack Obama impersonation. It didn't seem like it flew the first time. I don't think they knew what I was doing. And that was my fault.

I had an audience that was not familiar. I don't think by and large of my comedic stylings, they probably just know me from opening folders on Pablo Show. and that's probably about it. And so I think they were taking back and didn't know what was happening. And then Pablo said, oh, that's a bad Obama, even though it was really good.

So when I brought it back the second time, they're like, oh, he's doing that Obama thing now. Now I get it. What were the NBA's reactions that you've heard on all of this? Because there's a big difference between, it seems like to me, how it is this is resonating in our world and because we're not ESPN

or because we are not an established mainstream entity, how it falls elsewhere outside of our world. There seems to be a giant difference. Well, Dan, I could tell you, in the NBA circles, it's a massive story. It's all, you know, I ran into a bunch of people from a bunch of teams, and they all wanted to talk about that.

Oddly enough, not many people want to talk about tanking, not many people wanted to talk about gambling, but everyone wanted to talk about aspiration in the Clippers Capsir Convention. and it's an incredibly important story. The problem is, Dan, it's a couple of things. I think one, I wonder for the layperson, how much do you care?

You probably care about the consequences. You really don't care about the journey. Obviously, people in the league care very much about the journey because it's going to dictate basically what their jobs are going to be like moving forward. I had one exec tell me, I don't want to get into the money laundering. business. But if they get off with this, we pretty much turn into

Ozark, basically. Like, we're just going to have to figure out creative ways to run money through the system to pay players under the table. And so I think it's an incredibly important story, but I wonder for the regular listener, the regular viewer, the regular NBA fan, do they

actually care about the nuts and bolts? Probably not. Zazler shaking his head. No. The numbers suggest... Well, but the numbers suggest otherwise. Now, I don't think that all NBA fans, there are obviously millions and millions of those. But the numbers suggest that there is a bit of a starving out there for people who do want information on this. Because every time Pablo produces the information and is the only one that's producing new information,

it lands with people, a lot of people seeking it out. Yeah, Dan, I kind of talked about this a lot over the weekend. Typically, when one of these scandals happens and Wachtell Lipton is brought in to investigate, They do their investigation. They come out with a report. And that report represents the majority of the information that everybody knows about the situation. And all the talk shows and all the questions, everything is based off of that report. Well, this is a very different situation because the information is coming from us.

We are ahead of the report not only chronologically because they have to wait until they're over in order to release everything. Meanwhile, we can release things as we confirm them. But also, we're finding things that they haven't found and they haven't discovered or even haven't, I should say, haven't looked for. That was one of the most important things I think that came out of the panel was Pablo revealing that after talking to several people who have been questioned by Wachtel Leptin in their investigation, all of them said they weren't asked even once about Steve Ballmer. And to me, that is a massive red flag. If the investigation is not going to be sincere as far as trying to get to the bottom of this, meaning we're just going to ask questions where we know what kind of answer we're going to get back and it's not going to make us uncomfortable, then it is an incomplete investigation.

It's like when President Trump said, oh, we should just stop testing for COVID. That way our COVID positive tests will be fewer. Yeah, sure. If you don't ask anybody for a COVID test, then we can say we didn't have any positive tests. And we're great. We're doing well. but the reality is we know that's not getting to the bottom of things. We're going to get to your weekend observations in a second,

but I'd like to include you on the conversation we were having earlier in the show. I'm objecting to Mike Ryan saying James Hardin doesn't care. I'm objecting to Zaz saying NBA players don't care. Where do you land? We were talking about Wembe and caring so much that you would weep at the end of a regular season game, which in my experience, no players ever do. do that. No, in my experience covering the NBA, I never

only after LeBron James, someone in the heat locker room cried after they lost to Derek Rose that one season. It's the only time I can remember after a regular season game, an NBA player crying. What are your thoughts on the allegation and the

perception that NBA players don't care? Well, let me start with Victor Wenbanyama. Victor Ibnayama didn't care because they won a game. Victor Wambiama didn't cry because they won a game, a regular season game. Victor Oveniama was emotional because he was feeling

incredibly fatigued, and that's different from, ooh, I played really hard today, I'm tired. This is a guy who almost died. And so those feelings of extreme fatigue, which are very similar to some of the symptoms of having a DVT, that's what brought up those emotions for him. Like the, oh my God,

I almost died. a year ago feeling like this. Is this the same thing? Is this just, you know, me being extra tired? What is it? And obviously, you know, the thrill of victory within that. That's what he's going through. So let's not make this into like, oh, he cares about

basketball so much. He does. As do lots of NBA players. It is foolish. It is, dare I say, I'm not accusing Zaz of this, but it's rooted in a race. trope. The black players don't care. They just want to look good, but the white players, they care. That's why hockey, everybody cares so much. But the basketball players, they just want to look cute on TV, right? These are all rooted in these kind of weird racist tropes. Basketball players care tremendously. And as far as James Harden goes, the reason why he forced his way from the clippers to the calves is because he cares, because he did not want to play for a team that's losing. We misrepresented what Zaz and Mike said so much that Amin's calling them racist.

He went out of his way to say he wasn't saying that Zaz was racist. Oh, stop. I'm not playing this game with you. Yes, they care. But there is irrefutably an attitude from NBA superstars that sucks. It's not good. It's miserable. And it's wonderful to see a dude smiling and happy to play the game and crying, even though we got six.

a year ago I don't know what we were doing there stop it stop misrepresenting it there is such a need from the average sports fan to see NBA players caring to that extent and I'm not going to make you make me a racist for calling it out when he's black yeah yeah no you're right yeah nobody care Jason Tatum that guy doesn't give a shit about basketball oh my god you're not doing that I am so pissed off at this I saw it from a mile why do I have to do this why Why are they making me play basketball? I could get them hanging out with my superstar. Oh, yes.

I did it. You are playing the game, though. When you get this angry, you're saying you're not playing the game, but you're playing the game. This was so, this, even for you, this was bad. I saw you, I'm like, this ends in two hours from somebody calling me a racist. He called me a race. It's crazy. It's crazy.

I apologize to us for calling us racist. proxy. It was me. Mike, I've got one better for you though because ultimately, like what you're looking for is a superstar, a great player who cares deeply about regular season games is always out there trying to will this team to win. He's right here, right across the street. That's Bama in a bio. I knew you were making this about the heat the second you open your mouth. You knew it. Minor penalty, two minutes. Accidental racism. Zasel, I'm sorry, you're going to have to leave the room. Yeah, I mean, that's where we are with this.

Dan, Dan, they've convinced me. Luca Donchish doesn't give a shit about basketball. He got it to an argument with JJ Redick about not wanting to play basketball. What took you so long to put me from the game, JJ? I hate doing this. This is such a dumb thing that we do here in this sport. That's a great example. A white guy that looks like he doesn't care.

Thank you. The Lakers. The Lakers seem to, the Laker fan seems to have been souring on Luca. Do I have this wrong? No, I just think that like everything. Lakers, they're late to everything because they are so consumed by their team and they think they're the center

of the earth. So for the example of Luca Donge's complaints to the reps, no shit. We knew this as a rookie when he came in. If you've been watching him play, he's a guy that is a constant, consummate yapper to the reps.

Laker fans are discovering this now. It's like, yeah, he's great. He also comes with some flaws, but the idea is that all these guys have some flaws here or there. I don't mean to stereotype, but if I were casting a movie right now for somebody who was coming off as racist but hadn't said a word yet, they're just racist from the look at them. Zaslow would be somebody that I would have auditioning for the role just based on how he looks, just his face. And saying nothing. What is this segment day? And you got someone accusing him of being a

racist and then you're just driving by saying he and he looks like one too. Well, just I'm just looking, because it made me laugh seeing him come up on the screen all sour from the accusation, just looking at his face. Again, if he were just simply a mime, I would say that mime is racist, not saying anything, not giving me any context for it. Yes, I mean. Dan, I'll back you up here. He's sitting there with his arms cross, pouting at what looks like a hockey game with his hat turned backward like an undercover cop. Thank you. He looks exactly what Dan is described. It took me three hours to get there, but I do feel victorious. This is as happy as I've been in. decades.

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Doesn't matter anywhere. We could do it in Buffalo or board. He said you can do it where? Anywhere. Oh, whoa. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.

He said he can do it anywhere. That's crazy, murder. Murder, tell him. Stugats. I had no idea of me and had that in his locker. That might be his best. I'm not kidding. That's crazy, killer.

It's two America's dead. You don't get it. This is the Dan Lebatar show. There's two gods. Let's do Amin's weekend observations. It is time for I mean to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you

what happened better than my boy. I mean. I need some help. So someone needs to read the chat. Roy. All right, I got you. Hurry. Hurry.

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for so, quote, little in return. But last night, he proved once again why he is the greatest among us. And just like that, make no mistake, Michael Jordan on NBC is back.

Insights. Yeah. You guys thought they just had it for the first couple of weeks season and then he would never come back again he's a busy man he's busy winning nascar events and stuff like that winning lawsuits come on man give the guy a break he was awesome you watch it then i saw the clips making the rounds here on first take in elsewhere anytime michael jordan says something even if it was months ago it turns into news it's so silly it wasn't silly it was incredibly insightful he talked about he wanted to play against oscar jerry west Nobody want to play with LeBron and Kobe in his prime.

Is it still the interview from before with Tariko? Is it like the months old interview that Tariko did with him before the season? They did one interview with him and they're milking it all season. Is that what they're doing? Does it matter? You got the insights into? Jason Tatum. Ruining the Celtics.

Just like you guys predicted. Jesus Christ. Did you guys watch any of that this weekend? That was a really crazy take you had, Mike. What do you mean you guys? What do you mean you guys? You people. And I meant it that way too.

Victor Wenbayama. Now I know what it's like to watch basketball after taking a shit ton of psychedelics. Unreal. Can you imagine being high and watching Victor Wenamma last night? Yes. He's going behind the... Matter of fact, I can. Tua released.

Tua. We hardly knew you. Nobody gives Zas credit he's racist Mike Garofalo is reporting the Falcons are making a strong early push to sign Tua. Is Pinnock's done? What is that about? Why are they looking for a quarterback? I mean, his body can't hold up and he came

into the league with a bunch of injury questions. It's kind of perfect though, right? Going from Kirk Cousins to Tua. Two left-handed injury-prone quarterbacks on the same team so they can just split reps. This is amazing. Like, oh man, our quarterback is good, but he's hurt all the time. And he has a lot of injury concerns he came into league with. We need a replacement.

Two is available. That's how it went. War my Florida Panthers Black History Month jacket in Boston to troll. But people kept coming up to me to talk hockey. My trolling backfired. All I could do was repeat Zaz's thing. If we were in the Western Conference, it was firmly in the playoff picture. I did that, took that one to the bank.

Thanks, Zad. Speaking of trolls, Pablo Tori, demented himself as an elite troll by sticking the smoking gun evidence to the bottom of the chair that Adam Silver would then later sit on. Do you guys see this?

Yeah. Yeah, this was insane. Pablo Tori doing his damnedest to make sure I never get credentialed anywhere in the NBA for the rest of my days. This is good AI right here. This is excellent AI.

Pablo as the riddler is a good use of AI. David Sampson decided to roast a decorated Navy vet. Such bad judgment. And you guys say I have poor judgment. He wouldn't stop, Dan. He just kept going and going. We're like, okay, David, that's enough now. It was so bad, but I yelled three times at my television.

Shut up, David. And it wasn't even because of that. It was only because he wouldn't let Pablo get the kite off the ground on difficult subject matter in front of a live audience in a pressurized situation. That's kite with a tea, ladies and gentlemen, kite. I have watched eight of the ten Best Picture nominees. I don't know who's going to win, but I can tell you right now, train dreams can get all the way the fuck up out of my face.

What a bullshit movie. You seen that one train dreams? James, Dan? I saw that it was getting a lot of great critical reviews, and I haven't brought myself to watch it because it seemed sort of heavy. It's not heavy. It's boring and pointless.

That's what it is. It's Hamnet without any artistic touches to it. Hamnet, by the way, don't get me started on that one. The Knicks are for real. As long as they don't have to play in a fun city. LA got them, I guess, last night Or yesterday afternoon, whatever it was. They dragged the nuggets.

What the hell's going on with Yolkich? Not a fun city. That's what it is. Denver, not a fun city. We play great. L.A., fun city? Play awful. Worried about Miami then?

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My personal hell revisited Speaking of hell Our Pryles Those are the weekend Observations You are one of our movie experts around here. Were you aware that around Hollywood there was a sequel bouncing around to the movie seven, one of the greatest dark movies ever made? Did you know that that movie was called 8? The

script for that movie was called the number 8, not the verb to eat I 8, not the past tense. That's your sequel. Did you know that that was bouncing around Hollywood? And did you also know that Salas, a movie by Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins, was essentially what that became, and it's said to be a terrible movie. I haven't seen it. Have not seen Salas. Thank you.

I have not seen Salas. I did know that there was a script bouncing around it for a long time. They tried to get it made, and it just couldn't get made. That happens a lot in Hollywood, Dan, where there is an appetite for a sequel, and they've got a script, and the script, for whatever reason, just doesn't land, or it doesn't get picked up or doesn't get green lint.

And so it lives in purgatory. Appetite for eight? Yes. Let's put up on the screen here, get a ruling here from a mean who can sniff fraudulent a mile away. What's happening here with Ben Shapiro's eyebrows? I want a ruling from you on what, just take me through what you imagine to be the backstory here on what's happened. When two caterpillars really, really love each other. Those are two big caterpillar.

Look, if that came at me on the ground as a caterpillar, I would say that is a million legs, not a few hundred, not a few thousand. That is a giant caterpillar. That picture is crazy. Yeah. Eugene Levy thinks that's too much. He was called groucho Marxist in one of my group chat. That can't be real.

There's just not. way it's real. That's not, that has to be, there's no way he, there's no way he went out in public like that. It's real. I've looked it up. It's real. The pictures are real. The eyebrows, maybe not so much. Correct. I mean, the still image that we have right now, there's so much dye on his face. It's crazy. I mean, uh, thank you for being on with us, a reminder to all to please check out, uh, Cynophob. Uh, he does an excellent job with Zach Harper on that. And, and it's just movies under a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 40, correct? Yeah, so unfortunately, train dreams will have to wait before, like, the critic and audience

scores come down some. Are you awful, Dan? Yeah, I don't want to watch it. Are you with Zaslo on the idea that the Spurs are going to win it all? No, no, not at all. I think they're just, you have too little playoff experience across too wide of a roster. Your playoff experience is just basically Harrison Barnes and Luke Cornett neither of whom are guys that have the ball in their hands and create and run anything.

Everyone else pretty much, I guess Deerrin Fox had seven games, big whoop. So, like, it just is no precedent of a team over the breadth of their roster being so inexperienced. Well, last year. Winning a championship. OKC, no? No. No, they had been to the playoffs a year before, been to the second round. That's one.

And then two, you had guys like Caruso who had won a championship, who is a guy who has the ball in his hands. Shake goes to Alexander had been in the playoffs with the Clippers and with Oklahoma City a few years ago. He obviously has a ball in his hands a lot. So there is a progression to this. There has never been one where it's like we have 80% of our roster have never played a playoff game. Yeah, they'll figure it out. That just doesn't happen. Amin, good talking to you.

We'll talk to you again. See you later. Jeremy, can you give me an update on how Harrison Barnes was injured? He woke up from a nap and had a hurt ankle.