The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The 2024 NBA Playoffs Spelling Bee

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

Dan, Jeremy, and Mike check in with Papi about his feelings surrounding the Miami Heat including Erik Spoelstra, Pat Riley, Tyler Herro, and his lust for The Butcher. Then, Deion Sanders is going after his former players on X, and it's time for The 2024 NBA Playoffs Spelling Bee. Is it possible for Stugotz to pull off the upset over Dan? Plus, the key is under the mattress for LeBron, Billy only makes problems worse, and it's time for AGAINST! THE! SPREAD! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Every time you come in and you say, I don't want anything, and every time I'm looking over there, you're eating everything that's over there. Yeah, I got too late to the buffet. By the time I got to the buffet, there were only peanuts left. Yes, everybody else ate all the good stuff. Yes, Papi, we are happy to see you. You came in today to rejuvenate one of our most popular segments.

We have not done it in a while, the spelling bee. But since you're here, I thought I'd bring you out of retirement here because people haven't heard me make any of those calls to you about the heat that I used to make. And you go and watch all the games with mom and you have been I would say very negative this year you've been my fire mom is complaining that you've been very negative about the heat yeah you say have I mom says it's very unpleasant to watch games with you this year that's not true that's not true I only told

your mother that they have a plan B. They had a plan A. Plan A didn't work, and then they were left hanging the back, you know, holding the back. No plan B. That's what happened. But they'll be back. They'll be back, you know. Okay. Well, do you know who that is over there? Do you know who the biggest heap homer? Do you know who that is over there?

Oh, yeah. That's Jeremy Tachet. Okay, look at that, he knows your name. I am so flattered. Congratulations, yes. He, like you, is somebody who's very passionate about the Heat, but you're doomed right now, right? I think he's probably more hopeful about winning games than you are.

You know they're going to lose, correct? I'm not sure until the fat lady sings. Love it. Who's the fat lady? Is that even allowed anymore? Sure. I don't think I think. That's a good one. Put it on the poll. I don't know. Put it on the poll. Are you allowed to say that the fat lady sings anymore as my

father all of a sudden aged out? The ozempic lady. Let's cancel my father. Poppy, what do you mean until the fat lady sings? You're not, hold on a second. Jeremy, let me let you in on a secret. This is the God's honest truth, and we can call my mom at the end of this to get verification. My father is a giant fraud because in private he talks very badly about the heat, about air expolstery, he complains, but then you put a microphone in front of him and he's Because in private he talks very badly about the heat about Eric's bolster

He complains but then you put a microphone in front of him and he's very publicly supported who would do that He's he's yet poppy. You're a phony. I'm a phony. Tell me I don't know I don't know Why why you what makes you say that because because I sat at dinner with you and Sedano the other day and all you did Was complain about spolstra the entire meal. Well, you know, the 18 million dollars is a lot of money, you know. What, he's got a 25-year deal? The best coach in the NBA, Poppy.

I don't know. And grateful for a few championships, no? Yeah, I don't know. Is he the best? I stick to the butcher. I like the butcher better. Poppy! No! Bobby! Sacrilege Bobby! Bobby! That is unkind! My father has now become a Knicks fan! My father prefers the butcher!

I'm talking about... Tom Thibodeau! That's a shocking revelation! Bobby has turned on the heat! No, wait a second. That's only the head coach. I'm not talking about the whole team now. You'd rather have Tom Thibodeau than Eric Spolstra, Papi. I think that they need the change in... You're firing, what? Papi, you're firing, you're, wait a minute. No, I don't fire anybody.

I kick him upstairs. You're promoting Spolstra. That's right, Spolstra deserve a bigger job. The firing failed is the promotion. Well done, Poppy. The GoFundMe is ready to retire, so that's the perfect fit. So we pushed Riley out. Great. Poppy, hold on a second.

The heat are down 3-1, and so you are now essentially firing both Riley and Spolstrow. Oh, I'm saying the golf fire has been saying a long time ago that he's retired to retire. He's ready, he's ready. So I'm saying the golf fire retires, you kick Spolstrow upstairs, he got that big office on top of Biscayne Boulevard there, a nice view to the ocean there, you know, with all the goodies, and then you bring in a guy that hates losing. He never smiles.

Tom Thibodeau. The butcher, call him the butcher. I know, you call him the butcher. A shocking thing you have said here. How about Tyler Hero? How are you feeling about Tyler Hero these days? Well, I'm not sure sure because he's always hurt. So, why are you going through with him?

I don't know why you're going through with him. Do you think he would have been good enough for this team if Jimmy Butler was healthy alongside him going into the playoffs, or do you think this is just too much for him as the only guy? Well, yeah, I mean, Hero cannot do it all. Jimmy cannot do it all. So you know, you need the third wheel, the fourth wheel.

Why do we need a fourth wheel? Because you gotta win. Without a fourth wheel, you're not going to win. Is that true? Yeah. So Tyler Hero needs to be a fourth wheel? Well, you can get- You've been complaining about Tyler Hero all year, Dad.

All year. All you do is say he's made of balsa wood, and you say that he falls apart, and he's unhealthy, and now you come in here at the microphone and you're super gentle about the thing. No. Don't tell me no, Poppy. No. I'd say that they are know they are they are tough players and their soft players

seen as a result player you know bc how many how many games he was on the bench this year for the heat he was hurt quite a bit what was the last time people who we played a playoff game before these play of serious it was uh... It was a while ago. 2022. And they were slightly better when, what's happening back there?

What is happening? There's Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan creeped in here. Mike Ryan is coming into the room and I'm not sure what he's doing here. He wants to get in on some heat talk. Bobby, maybe, I think you might have some interesting opinions that you share with Mike Ryan back there.

Mike Ryan has been negative on the Heat recently too. Well, you know, you need the Plan B. There was no Plan B. What can I tell you? What happened with Damien Lillard says, well, I can make it to the Heat. They had Plan Bs, Poppy, but they failed on the Plan Bs too. No one wants...it's sexy to talk about the failed pursuits of Damien Lillard and Donovan Mitchell. It's not as sexy to say that they also failed on Pascal Siakam. Well, Pascal, old good Pascal, you know what I mean? My old good Pascal.

I don't know about Pascal. OG Ananobe would have helped, wouldn't he? I guess he would, you know, there's always LeBron in the background. You want to bring back LeBron? He's on the map. Why not? Papi, another, why not? You want to bring back LeBron? Yeah, on the mat. Why not? Poppy, another why not? You want to bring back LeBron?

He's one of your mimesis. He's mom's least favorite player. You miss it though. If he brings another ring, why not? This is shocking. My father's revelations in this are shocking. You were in your prime when LeBron was here. We need to get that back.

One last run for all of us. He fired Spoh called Hero Soft and wants LeBron back. Oh I actually, what is this nonsense about you pulling punches? Well he was, I had to drag it out of him. It requires some follow-up punches. It started soft on all of them. I have to accuse him of the front. I hear what he says in private. I mean Spoh, I can't follow you there. Everywhere else though. He kicked him upstairs. He wanted Tom Timidow instead. He kicked him upstairs. What the butcher? He wanted the butcher. I can't follow you there everywhere else It's been shocking so far now he wants LeBron back after feuding on television with LeBron for many years and

People don't remember this my father just he ripped LeBron so much and then LeBron sent over about 12 boxes of blaze pizza and my father never that's it my father stopped ripping it he was pizza is pretty good blazer pizza blaze pizza not blazer whatever it is blaze pizza. Blaze, okay. Yes, they bought you with a few slices of pizza. What are your honest opinions about how they're going to fix this? Because you can say they're gonna fix it.

Mike said the other day they're gonna fix it. Jeremy says they're gonna fix it, but what are they gonna do to fix it? Well, they got this Mexican kid that looks like he's a fireballer. Then they have this Russian kid. He's a fireballer, then they have this Russian kid. He's a fireballer. You know, the Russian kid.

All right, all right. Two prospects in there, you know what I mean? I mean, those are. Throw a couple prospects in there. 15 years from now, they'll be hell of a players, you know what I mean? I tell you what. I mean.

You gotta look at the ad. The man's speaking logically. I'm sure at some point it was probably this. Long range planning. So he did. They call that long range planning. Yeah, Russia calls it that. That's right, that's what it's long-range planning.

We're gonna like, we're using war-torn to describe some of these ideas. Nicola. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure that the Russian kid is Russian, maybe he's a Latino. He's not, he's not, we're trying to help you guys. Yeah, we're trying to help. Thank God that the Mexican kid's Mexican.

Yeah, for real. Well, I think you could've gotten away with that one, though. I think my father's got a bit of immunity there on the Mexican kid. He's got cachet. I would maintain that my father is one of the last remnants of the sitcom dad that has ever been on television.

That my father, on daily television for eight years, every day in the middle of ESPN's lineup, my father was the sitcom father. It dies with my father retiring. Wow, that is morbid and also so cocky. They couldn't find somebody that would say so many nonsense like I did, you know what I mean? That's right.

Every time I opened my mouth, it didn't make any sense. That's true. So, a victory lap on it. That's right. As it should be. You guys know it's not a bit that my father didn't know how to Leave at the end at ESPN and so he was holding out and complaining that they weren't paying him enough because is that the move I'm asking he just

Wanted to stop working. He wanted to just go home and do what he's doing now taking lots of naps shuffling around the house bothering My mother well, then I followed the plan and I know that's a blueprint right there that's all I'm doing I go home and I take a nap when I leave here that's a good that's a good Chris and Jeremy's problem. That's a good move on your part. Sleep as much as you can while you can. It's good life advice. Sleep as much as you can while you can. It's excellent life advice. My father's lesson after retiring from television. Just not the front office. That's right. Because they've been taking naps plenty. You hear that old urban legend?

Someone literally slept through the deadline? Very healthy for you. Sleep all the time if you can. That's all. Not all the time. But my mom is bothered by how much my father's sleeping, but he wanted to retire from television after many years of working way too much in order to sleep around the house more. And he's been sleeping for a long time.

And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. And he's been sleeping for a long time. time but my my mom is bothered by how much my father sleeping but he wanted to retire from television after many years of working way too much in order to sleep around the house more but the funniest part of that is he held out not wanting to tell me that he didn't want to do the TV show anymore and then ESPN gave him a raise he successfully while not wanting to actually have more money complained about needing more money

when he didn't want more money and they gave it to him. And so he had to work longer than he even wanted to on that television show. I still have a mug in my house that says, pay Poppy with his face on it. That's good, I like that. I like that very much. So hold out, that's what we all need to do?

That's right, ESPN has a tendency to abuse employees. I was able to abuse ESPN. That's right. I've redacted. Well, leap it. Thoughts and opinions don't reflect that as a damn lebiton show prop. He's old. Forgive us.

Sitcom's died with him. He retired, sitcom's died, you know. The Russian. I don't want to relive that one. Let's do this. Can we just have a really fast spoken apology at the end of this and none of the thoughts reflected by my father. The Daily Cart Show does not believe he's actually Russian. Hey, it's Mike. As you know, sports are a bit crazy right now. It kind of feels like everything is happening all at once and you have to make some decisions

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they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston. Oh, they are going to have their ass. You know what? In Boston, you know, Stugats. They were wrong. They were. Are they going to lose a job? No. Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting. What is the obvious?

They are going to say, oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? nuggets are going to win oh Denver the altitude and you know what the heat are going to win at all this is the Don LeVatar show with the Stugats Stugats I am fully aware that people are good and tired of me talking about Deion Sanders, but I do believe there is some legitimately very interesting stuff happening around the me first of Deion Sanders that people might want to hear about and that I've lost Jessica on. Like she has been swept out to sea by this story because Stugatz, I don't know that I could give anyone a better,

a college football fan a better birthday gift than Deion Sanders' chaos. So a very happy birthday to one Jessica Smetana. Happy birthday to her. I don't care. Good luck. Thank you. I want to get to this Colorado story,

but we've got to get to the spelling bee. Me maximum. Thank you. Didn't need to hear from him. As you mentioned, Dion saying like me first. Happy birthday. A little late. A Notre Dame national championship would be nice, but I guess I'll take this.

I can't give you... This is the off season. Yeah, I can't give it to you on this day to give you Deion Sanders news. Which we are monitoring, by the way, because yesterday Max Olson from The Athletic published a story that said, What happened to Deion Sanders' Colorado cast offs, revisiting a record setting Exodus? And the story was going back to when Deion arrived at Colorado, seeing where all the players that left in the portal ended up and he charted out

which ones went to Power Five schools, which ones went to group of five schools, which ones didn't play, who got scholarships where, did they start the next season, et cetera, et cetera. And I would say the crux of the article was that it was a lot of players and most of them just felt like the way Dion did what he did wasn't the best way to do it. And it really bothered some of them

and really hurt their confidence. So it came off making Dion Sanders look not great, I would say, and so there's been a lot of criticism and pushback from Colorado fans to this article saying that what Deion Sanders did was just normal business in this era of college football and The person clapping in the background agrees. Yeah, whoever that was I don't know what Chris Cody is doing to not even pots open not support you this segment. Okay, that's supportive A clap is a you a universal sign of support. You're

doing great, birthday girl. Just giving Jess her flowers. I'm working. So the athletic tweeted out, Deon Sanders recommended Xavier Smith hit the transfer portal like many others. He didn't. During spring practices, Smith felt more like an extra in the background of the reality show. Frustration set in before he eventually left. And Shadur Sanders quote tweeted that and said, I don't even remember him TBH, bro had to be very mid at best. Which was kind of proving the point some are pointing out of the article, which was that it's not so much that 53 players or whatever the number was left, it was just like the manner in which they were told to leave was a little callous.

So their former teammate, Dion's son, calling this guy mid on Twitter publicly is like kind of proving the point, I would say. And now Dion Sanders is also tweeting. An hour ago he quote tweeted the stat line of that player and said, Lord Jesus. And so Dan, we are monitoring the situation right now there is a a large kerfuffle happening on the internet surrounding the story in the athletic

you can continue to give me a lot of information and i'll eat it all up because to god's uh... one of the great me first athletes of all time who uh... provided a great life for his kids and they now run a program the max may maximum they run a program is running the business of college football of course dion sanders would treat everybody like commodities of course he is there to get in and get out quickly as possible with all of his mercenaries and they probably are gonna like like how much business this feels like. It's a bit the antithesis of coaching if you think of a coach as someone who's supposed to mentor your child but please understand who's coaching this football team. He's shown

us who he is for a long long time. Char, fun, and all about business. Business is gonna be cold, and it's not gonna feel like coaching young people up. That's a nice story, but what Deion Sanders is, first and foremost, is a me-first businessman, and it's to get rich. But the act does wear thin without the success, right? If he doesn't start winning, this isn't gonna work out.

No, it's not. And part of that job responsibility, Dan, that he decided to take is to not bash someone's confidence. I understand what you're saying, but there is a larger role for Deion Sanders as the head coach at the University of Colorado. It's not all about him.

It's not all about his sons. It's not. I understand, but you're asking him to be somebody that he has not. I'm asking him to be a coach. There are players that probably love what Dion provides and based on this article, there's players that clearly feel like cast aside by him.

So I think inconsistent at best would be a way to describe this entire thing at colorado it's like not it doesn't work for everyone and clearly some of these players were stung by it but how how could it right it's callous it's a but understand this is a man who beat that business at business i'm what they got is a stopgap measure and it's going be real noisy and it's gonna be a little crazy because you've handed somebody The keys to something that's shaking the system and he's going in and telling you again if I get to the NFL

This is where my son is going and this is where Travis Hunter's going like he's not here to play polite on the parts of this That feel callous to you. He's here to win the game at the end, by any means necessary, as a businessman. Like, he's not going to be porcelain about respecting amateurism, and I'd like him to be more human too as a coach, but of course these players are just bodies to throw into the prophet mill. I'd like him to win, I mean.

Yeah, but I mean, putting all all this on Twitter is pretty crazy. Mm-hmm. And of course his son who grew up in that house Can you please imagine this for a moment? How does someone get the confidence to be a great quarterback living at the knee of one of our great? boastful athletes of all time Of course his son is going to on behalf of family be like no we've run the program now here are Rolex's who wants to fight us at midfield it's Dion Sanders is team and they're renting at Colorado to see if they could build the business to the next Empire but this is quick fix stuff

this is not somebody who's here to build a legacy at Colorado I would also add that the article in the athletic did a pretty good job explaining the NCAA transfer rules and the waiver policies and everything like that. So there was genuine news value to following up with all these players. And that person clapping agrees. All right, let's get to what Chris Cody

is trying to get us to. We're 60 minutes now, huh, Dano? Yeah, that's right. It's gonna be fun to watch. It's going to what Chris Cody is trying to get us to. We're 60 minutes now, huh Dano? Yeah, that's right. It's gonna be fun to watch. It's going to be a tire fire that is burning and everyone's gonna be running in every direction. It could still work by the way, but it has to work in Colorado to work somewhere else.

That is correct. But I love the guys who are here to be wreckers of the system. All right, let's do the spelling bee, go ahead. That's great. That's right, Dan-O. It is time for the 2024 NBA Playoffs Spelling Bee. Who will win?

Wait to see, because we're gonna do it right now. We do this every year. Dan and Stu get words, and we see if they can spell them. It's a hoot. Can't wait for Dan to get Gary Harris. Okay, let's see what we've got here because this is gonna take a minute. Let's get the first word is for whom,

for me or for Stugots? The first word is for Stugots. Wow. Wow. Precious ashua. I mean, seriously? Sentence, please. When a baby tries to eat. They are a precious ashua Jeremy get out What for laughing at that get out I didn't write it for laughing at that get out when a baby tries to eat

They are a precious ashua like the show Two minutes for liking the show two minutes minutes for smiling at that terrible joke. Stugots, go ahead and smell it. P-R, God. P-R-E-C-I-O-U-S. Are you listening? She doesn't get it. I'm explaining the joke to Jess Becker.

It's word play, a precious achooer. When a baby tries to eat, they are a precious achooer. That's why Jeremy liked it. It was a stretch. It's terrible, because it's terrible. Go ahead. P-R-E-S-C-I-O-U-S. I don't even know.

I think he spelled it right. I heard him. I think he got it right. No, but the rest of it. You guys weren't listening. He spelled the first and last name. He already did it. Yeah. I think he got it.. No, but the rest of it. Yeah, you guys weren't listening He spelled the first and last already get it. Yeah, I think he boom. He got it. He said P. R. E. S Ding do no listen the spelling never multiple times

precious ashua P-R-E-C-I-O-U-S-A-C-H-I-U-W-A Precious ashua C-H-I-U-W-A, precious Ashua. Nailed it. Boom. Well, he got it right the first time. Amazing, now that I've re-heard it, you're absolutely right, Billy.

Stu gots with a stunning one-nothing lead. Thank you, Billy. What about my word? All right, moving on for Dan. Donovan Mitchell. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. What happened in that game last night?

I'm gonna need to hear that in a sentence, please. Dan Levatay really needs to stop taking it so easy on his friend, Pat Rowley, so that the Heat will finally trade half their team for Donovan Mitchell. Okay, yeah, a good point, a good point by my father. D-O-N-O-V-A-N M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L. Donovan Mitchell.

D-O-N-O-V-A-N M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L. Donovan Mitchell. Stugats, word number two. It's never tied after one. Nod it up at one of these. Shay Guilchos Alexander. S-G-A. That's amazing. He got that one too. To nothing. That's amazing he got that one too do nothing that's amazing to one

don't take my I wanted in a sentence I don't need the sentence yes but I still want to see that whether bro wants commercial one more time I'm going to have to kill Shay Gildos Alexander can't imagine how long that took with my dad. I saw Stugatz sniffing around my father yesterday, trying to get some clues, trying to cheat at this game. What's my word? Michael Porter Jr. Oh, that's a tough one.

Let me hear it in a sentence. How much do you want to bet that things will be awkward between John Tay and his brother Michael Porter Jr. at the next family dinner. M-I-C-H-A-E-L-P-O-R-T-E-R-J-R dot. Michael Porter Jr. M-I-C-H-A-E-L-P-O-R-T-E-R-J-R. Michael Porter, Jr. I'll tie it up. I put a dot on it.

My father didn't put a dot on it. I think Stugatz is ahead two to one. Stugatz is ahead two to one. It's weird that you put the dot on it. I mean, no one's spelled with a dot. Stugatz is ahead two to one. Let me hear another word for Stugatz. Paolo Banquero.

Oh, enough. Sentence, please. I'm pretty sure your mother's favorite telenovela star is Paolo Banquero. Paolo... Paolo Banquero. Paolo Banquero. Paolo Banquero. How was it done?

He was halfway there. You got it right and Chris Cody got it wrong. Chris Cody penalty box will continue the game after this. What? Order up for Damien. Hey, how did your doctor's appointment go, by the way? Did you ask about rubellsus? Actually, I'm seeing my doctor later today.

Did you say rubellsus? My dad's been talking about rubellsus. Rubellsus, really? Yeah, he says it's a pill that's. Well, I'll definitely be asking my doctor My dad's been talking about Rebelsis. Rebelsis? Really? Yeah, he says it's a pill that's... Well, I'll definitely be asking my doctor if Rebelsis is right for me. Rebelsis. Ask your doctor or visit Rebelsis.ca. Order up for Rebelsis.

Don Lebatard! I don't like smutty either. Stugats! Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. Billy, since you like anarchy so much. No, false it. Chris, get out of here.

No, no, no, no, no. Go sit in the penalty box. Billy, you take care of this right now for the next two minutes, because I thought that Chris Cote fouled all of that up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no's correct. I'm willing to give it, you know, listen, you got it right. Like you had it a dime. They heard you out there. A lot of people heard you. Some people heard, oh, I wasn't listening. I didn't say you, that's you on Washington.

All right, we got controversy here as always, but Stugats is up. Check the tape. Stugats is up three to one. I'm good with three, too. I want to give you that one. No. I'm good with it, no?

Okay, three, one. I don't want it. You're up're up three one. All right Dan's turn Christoph Spurs English Why are you still here? KR? I'm sorry. Let me hear it in a sentence I can't remember where Christoph Spurs English ranks on that list of centers in the NBA We're better than Bama the value. Can someone else stand? We're better than Bama the Bayou. Can someone ask Stan? Maybe it was Poppy's list.

Whose list was that? Are we ever gonna get to the bottom of this? Because I met Stan somewhere, and he shook my hand and it felt a little frosty. All right, now we gotta stop here and do this, because Billy got me in legitimate trouble with- No, I did not. This is how I describe it to someone else

who asked me what was going on with that situation. I go, I did not cause that problem, I just made it worse. I felt was a fair assessment. He takes problems and makes them worse. Christophe Sporzingis. and makes them worse. It's Christaps Bersingis. All right. K-R-I-S-T-A-P-S

P-O-R-Z-I-N-G-A-S. Oh! Christaps Bersingis! K-R-I-S-T-A-P-S P-O-R-Z-I-N-G-A-S Christaps Bersingis! P-A-P-S-P-O-R-Z-I-N-G-I-S, Christos Bersingas. So Stugatz is going to win.

Does that mean it is over? The spelling for the first time over. Hope so. For the first time ever. Well, it's three one, we have two each, right? Okay. I can get these wrong, then I can get his two right,

and then we're tied three three, overtime. Extra session. How many plates do I need to speak? Can someone keep score? Boat is spelling. We had never considered this before. Go ahead, Sturgots, it's your turn. Dante Di Vincenzo.

Oh. You might be able to win here. The Italian kid from Delaware. Sentence, please. I swear, Dante Di Vincenzo is a real basketball player from Delaware and not a character from Goodfell fellas. He does seem like a pretty good fellow though Joke by my dad at the end there He's working love the way he delivered that work in the cat skills my dad

He don't seem like a pretty good fellow though Noting his tie there and he's like I nailed that one did, didn't I? He does seem like a pretty good fellow though. Yes. You just put him in Dirty Dancing. That's my father. Go ahead, Stugant. What was the name again? Dante Di Vicenzo.

Thank you, D-O-N-T-E. D-I. You got a chance to win here. D-I, gonna choke like the Knicks. D-I-V. This is unbelievable. He might win right now. E-N. I-E-N.

Oh! I-E-N. Oh! I before E, except after C. Are you going to tell me? I before E, except after C. That was the bad easy part. Oh no!

You got the hard part. That was the hard part. D-O-N-T-E. D-I-V-I-V. D-I-V-I-V. Oh The IV in C en Z O Dante de Vicenzo Can Dan win it with this one? No, I tie it I can I can know I know it's three one What are you guys doing on here? Chris you're not. LeBron James. LeBron James. What a lucky break. LeBron James, the fourth one.

What a lucky break for me. This is... LeBron James. Let me hear it in his sentence. No, no need to. The most overrated player in the NBA. The NBA is a cow. And LeBron James is milk on it all the way to the bank for years and years and years to come. He's lousy, he's all, he's making too much money. But listen, LeBron, if you wanna come back to Miami,

the kid is under the mattress, buddy. We love you for you to come back. We've always loved kids. The kid's under the mattress? Too much money, but listen, LeBron, if you wanna come back to Miami, the kid is under the mattress, buddy We love you for you to come back Billy is right. It's the last place. I would check

The kiddies under the mattress buddy We love you for you to come back your dad accidentally been stashing cash under the front mat and the key under the mattress Has your dad accidentally been stashing cash under the front mat and the key under the mattress instead of the other way around? Is he asking LeBron James, welcoming him back, by telling him you're gonna need to break into the house to find the keys? I'm not keeping them here, I'm keeping them hidden from you,

so inexplicably, under my mattress. When I come back to Miami, the kid is under the mattress, buddy. We love you for you to come back to Miami. The kid is under the mattress, buddy. We love you for you to come back. I don't know what the score is right now. I think if you get this one right, it's a tie. No, it's 3-1 me. But this would only be the second one I've gotten right,

but I've gotten only four clues so far. Is there five clues or four clues? Five. Do we have another one after this? This is it. Oh. So I won. So it's over anyway. So it's over. No, it could be a tie. Five. Do we have another one after this? This is it. Oh. So I won.

So it's over anyway. No, it could be a tie. No, because I haven't gotten a third one. I've only gotten a second. This would be the second one I'd be getting right. Oh, the microportage. Stugat's wins! Yeah!

Congratulations. It's the second time, I believe. I think you got microportage, Jr. Second? He took it away from himself second time, I believe. I think you got Michael Porter's junior. He took it away from himself. Yeah, I guess. I mean, I was willing to give it to him. It is a period, not a dot.

There's controversy surrounding the spelling bee. We will have to get an independent arbiter. And that's time for Again, Subscribe! And it is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear about all that DraftKings has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is the show DraftKings the crown is yours Jeremy kick us off the New York Yankees playing the Baltimore Orioles Billy's brother Lewis Gill Pitching for the New York Yankees. Actually my dad plus one and a half the New York Yankees again

Jessica I hate that by the way. I hate that bet. Baltimore Orioles. It's just Billy's brother. So much negativity. I would always bet them. It's baseball. I would get this right, but I would always bet them to win by more than a run. Baseball's going to happen, Dan.

Close out game tonight in Boston. The Celtics in the Heat. The spread is Celtics minus 14, the Heat have so many injuries, Hamehaka's not traveling with the team, Jimmy Butler not traveling with the team, the spread is only 14, I should say, because I'm taking the Celtics to cover that.

Again! Yes! Yes! That's right! Billy Gale! Is that gonna conclude our Heat coverage for the season? That might be it. If they lose by more than 14 tonight,

we should not be allowed to talk to them until the first game of next year. Tomorrow night, the New York Knicks are headed to Philadelphia to take on the 76ers. Now, the last time the Knicks were there was almost a home crowd for them. But when Taylor's at a game, the Knicks don't win. So if Taylor makes this trip to Philadelphia on a train

that we're not sure he's gonna make or not, then I have the Philadelphia 76ers winning minus 3 1⁄2 and forcing another game in New York. That is a game. A game. A game. Roy, bring us home. Game five, Kings versus Oilers tonight.

The Oilers have covered the park line in 10 of the last 11 games at home after a road win. They won on Monday, won nothing in game four. And Conor McDavid scored a goal in four of the Orlers' last five closeout games. It's a closeout game tonight. I believe that trend is gonna continue. The Orlers minus one and a half tonight

against the Spurs. Real analysis from Roy. Roy, bring us home, change this music. I wanna gallop toward the finish line by covering hockey, by giving attention to Roy's show. Dwork Belly, Puck Boys. Belly Boys. Casa Dwork.

Belly and Dworky. I want, can I get music? I need music because we're headed into, we have not talked hockey today at all. We have not, and it's a fun and exciting time in hockey and we got obsessed with the Knicks. Well, it's a great time. The Panthers just sitting around waiting for a winner

of the next series. I love that. I love waiting around. I want to gallop toward the finish line here. Bring us home here. Dwork belly. Yeah, it was amazing. The Maple Leafs won last night without Austin Matthews

and they continue in the series. Now it's gonna go to game six. And so far, my Eastern Conference picks have all been perfect. Okay, yes. Roy is always right. I got that right. That's right.

Well, we want it. Yes, it is, but I want more hockey analysis, faster. Faster, all right. Well, we're just waiting around for that series and I believe the Bruins will win game six and the Panthers will end up playing them next week. So just waiting around. Sounds like something's brewing in Boston, am I right?

Hey, hey, hey. Yeah, yeah, something is brewing in Boston. Can we talk about Billy's against the spread pick being conditional on if Taylor is in attendance? I don't think you can do that against the spread. Are we supposed to change it? I have the heat on the money line, just so we're clear. Okay, good.

Billy, why don't you respect anything? Brave. Billy. I don't know. Why can't you respect a single thing? Respect's boring. Billy. He's right, Taylor. What is he right about?

Respect being boring. Congrats on the win, StuGots, or the tie. The other day, I sent him into traffic because he shouted, DraftKings want you to lose. No. I don't remember that at all.