The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: I Cry Your Pardon, Sir

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

Chris Cote slayed his best man speech, but will it spark his brother Michael to start an OnlyDans for his feet? Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg Cote, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, and Roy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Yeah. That's what I hear. I mean, I was there, but, you know, it takes video evidence for me to believe that I was dancing that much. Usually in weddings that I've been to with my dad, you have to drag him onto the dance floor. That's right. This one?

Not this time. You'd see him and he's just making his way out there. I'll tell you what that was. That's the joy of relief. The youngest one is out. I could live for myself as the giant toddler I've always wanted to be well I'm free of responsibility now the parenting never stops Michael she's your problem well that's true and then she or the no yo name I got that Tati. He's your problem now. It's a fine Tiana is a fine. I'm fine. I think it is a fine anymore. You've been gone a while

This is the down laboratory show with this to God's podcast Billy hockey's fun, huh? I've been told that the hockey playoffs are fun. Fortunately down here in Florida we've only had one and it was a cake walk and we knew them exactly how one was gonna go so I'm hoping the next round down here for the Panthers is fun but like wow you score a game-tying goal with like a second and a half left in regulation. Oof hockey. Greg yeah what do you need? What happened? Why are you grabbing your microphone making all sorts of noises if we didn't already start the show and

you don't know where the microphone's supposed to be? Okay okay. Because you danced too much this weekend. I mean he is coming off a big wedding weekend. Are you gonna be this today? Are you gonna be this? Okay I don't need to be scolded by you. Greg's sort of in a bad mood. Bad boy. For a couple of different reasons. An unnamed voice in my head, while we're on the air,

told me to move over a little to my left, so I did as I was instructed, and I therefore had to move my microphone. If it made a tiny little sound I cry your pardon sir now go on with your show leave me alone Christ Almighty treat me like a child I warned Christopher I'm not in the mood to be scolded on the air for something that wasn't my fault right okay mm-hmm so I treat you like a child cuz you are one cuz you danced this weekend like a fool, cause you got rid of the young one.

Well, whether I got rid of him or not is a whole nother question. But you never get rid of the kids. How old is he? Never. Isn't he like 40? No, he's like 33. In fact, he is 33.

So he's not like 33. He's been 33 for several months. Tell me about the wedding, what hurts, where does your body hurt, why does it hurt, and how was the best man speech? Because I assume, I don't think I have this wrong, I don't know that Michael has a lot of best men to choose from, but like here at Metal Arc

with the executive producer chair, this is the best we got. And so his best man isn't the best. It's just the best the pirate ship's got. I don't know how to take what you're saying, Ray. Neither do I. Quite a compliment. It's not a compliment.

That your brother made you the best man because his choices made you the best man. Well, that's what you do, right, with brothers? When you have friends, you don't know which one to choose, you're just like, all right, the brother. No, you two are very close. No, we you do right with brothers. When you have friends you don't know which one to choose. You're just like alright the brother. No you two are very close. No we are but it's like he has other friends that he could have chosen but you just.

No a brother breaks the tie. You just make it easy. It gets him out of a bad spot. It goes to the brother. It's honestly what I did. It's what I did. I had friends I could have chose. And I just you know you choose your brother.

I mean way back in the day I chose Uncle Dick. You know you choose your brother. It's the default. He chose Dick. You sorta have to. Yeah. But the day. I chose uncle dick. You know you choose your brother. It's the default He chose dick you sort of have to yeah I got I don't want to oversell it, but I got praises the rest of the night people coming up to me Oh, man, you really are the funnier brother that was one of my lines in the thing Yeah, I'm the funnier brother But we see that speech and see if it holds up in court

Can we can we get the audience to decide with the expectation of funding? You told us on Friday you didn't want to make it about you. Well, I had to throw in some zingers. Okay, look, I've got sources on this and I'm surprised. I don't know, you guys will have to tell me. You guys will have to explain to me what I missed this weekend at Michael's wedding as Greg released, he received his freedom

and now the only one left to raise a child is early in the house this giant toddler now at home who is a granddad and it's been a delight to watch him be that good god it's the softest him i've ever seen it's he's so much more delightful with them than he ever was with these young boys who ruined with all of his parenting and chris made a good speech according to the discerning eye of Greg Cody who knows what good writing sounds like? It was a very good speech. He really overthought it and by that that's a compliment. He was concerned about

particular words and how it would sound and what he should say, what he shouldn't say. He put a lot into it and it was long. I'm going to be very honest. It was like seven and a half minutes long. Too long? Too long. Say it, Greg. Too long? It was long-ish. It might have been. Too long? But he nailed it. I did it quicker because when I was recording it in my house, I went so

thorough with it that I recorded how long it would take. And it took me like nine minutes in my kitchen. Wow. Yeah. So I, you know, when you do it, you get a little nervous. You did a practice run, huh? Multiple. Really? I told him not to hurry it because you know,

when you're a little nervous or whatever, you tend to talk too fast. So I told him to take your time. You got to cap it off. Was it too long? No, it wasn't. You said it was longish. I said it was longish, but the time flew.

Let's put it this way. You noticed it was long though. The time must not have flown that fast if you noticed it was long. After the fact, somebody told me it was longish, but the time flew. Let's put it this way. You noticed it was long though. The time must not have flown that fast if you noticed it was long. After the fact, somebody told me it was seven and a half minutes long and I was surprised. Why was anyone timing it? Because people do that.

Because it was too long. People do that or whatever. No, it's because they were videoing it and they just looked at their videos. Right, I mean. And it's at 7.30. It's called technology. On Friday we spoke strategy with Chris Cody.

We were trying to give him a pep talk of what to do. One of the things that was discussed was should he just redo Greg's speech from the rehearsal dinner the night before and see how long before Greg noticed that he just recycled his speech. That would have been funny. I'm assuming he didn't do that.

He also was talking about pranking his brother and making him drink some sort of pickle juice or something. Vienna sausage juice. I ended up referencing the Vienna sausage prank that he did with me, did a call back to it, but I did not actually bust out the Vienna sausage. So what did you bore everyone with for seven and a half

minutes, you didn't do any of the pranks or anything we practiced? No, I did some fun stories about him and I think it went well. It was really good and I will say that fun snippets from his best man's speech are exclusively on The Great Cody Show podcast, which dropped this morning. We could play it here. It was really good and and I will say that fun snippets from his best man's speech are Exclusively on the great Cody show podcast now. It's dropped this we could play it here So listen to it if there were any communication between any of the

We would bring the universes together and it would be delightful instead We will just tell people and we'll have no planning and instead we will have an executive producer who hasn't been thinking about the show And well, no, it's actually very intentional. He doesn't want it played here. No, and an old man at 70 who now has his freedom. He's thinking about a show, his own show. Yeah, shouldn't I? Well, but this is, yes, yes you should, but the question I now want to ask based on the information I've just been given, are you guys telling me that he made the rehearsal speech?

How long was that? Because I can imagine him really falling along as he won I imagined he could really fall in love with his own voice there. Yeah, was he brief or did he go months? It was shorter shorter than mine. Wow. It was a few minutes It was also a different speech the the father at the rehearsal dinner much less Like pressure than the best man speech. Yeah, that's true much less like pressure than the best man speech. Yeah, that's true. Debatable. And the one nitpick on his best man speech

is that I fed him a couple of funny lines. Terrible jokes. He chose not to use. See, Michael, look, my newlywed has a little phobia, a little fetish. He never shows his bare feet. Oh, thank God. He just doesn't.

Thank God. When I tell you I'm his brother, and I've seen his feet maybe two or three times in my entire life. That's strange. Oh wow, okay, so wait a minute, wait a minute. This is not a fetish, and I don't know if it's a phobia, but you guys have certainly revealed it,

it would appear, your brother or son's greatest insecurity on air. And that, and we pointed out the night before at dinner, we're like, oh, should I joke about this? And Michael very clearly was like, don't do this. I know, but we kid about it all the time. It's like an open secret in the family. No, but that's an inner circle.

He clearly is ashamed of his feet. What's wrong with them? No, he actually, he has beautiful feet. He gets super defensive about, there's nothing wrong with them. I just don't like not wearing socks. Like he gets super mad. But dad, why don't you pitch the joke that you wanted me to say, it's a real doozy. I just don't like not wearing socks like you get super mad But dad once you pitch the joke that you wanted me to say it's a real doozy I have to hear he must have been scarred by his father's feet as a child

No for sure like for sure this lashes out at my dad's feet anytime my dad brings up Because we had thousands of people come over and see his toenail doesn't make the feet disgusting. They're prehistoric. That's not a human being's feet. That's an animal's feet. If I told you that thing lived in prehistoric times and was a pterodactyl's talon, you would say, yes, it was. Okay, you photoshopped that.

That can't be my feet. That is a demon gargoyle that fries chicken or fries turkey on Thanksgiving, and that's how those feet look, like the devil's feet if I Told you to be fair. Those are from previous story time I told you guys No other context in fact put that on the Twitter on the Twitter poll, please at lebatard show

Do these look like the devil's feet the devil's barefooted the devil's got the same Devil's got the same phobia. Or brials. The devil's got the same phobia that Michael Cody has about his feet. And those feet, he's scarred because his father has the devil's feet. He has been naked in bathrooms,

wandering around the house for 30 years. That boy got married and it's a miracle woman loves him. He's been scarred by his father's feet. Because of seeing those feet as a kid, he has foot dysmorphia. Instead of body dysmorphia, he sees his feet as his father's, even though he, according to his father, has beautiful feet.

That is the worst photograph of my feet I have ever seen. I don't say. I say it's not the worst. They're worse now. That we've been telling you this for years. We've been telling you. This is what I believe. I miss ever seen. You don't say. I answer, it's not the worst, they're worse now. That we've been telling you this for years. We've been telling you, this is what I believe. I miss that toe. This is what I believe.

Stu Gotts has twice cut that toenail because we're all on record knowing that's exactly what that looks like. That's not what that, he cut those toenails and we preserved them and people made a pilgrimage, thousands of people. That's true. To come see one of those toenails because why wouldn't you get the artifact of I've got the toenail from the devil's feet yeah that's true I think that's the one distinction

I have that perhaps nobody else on earth has can you guys can you guys get Jessica on the phone please I think some of the funniest things she did was being truly disgusted by Greg's feet this is on record Greg your feet are disgusting and your youngest son has been scarred for life by it in a way that I now insist that Michael send us a photo of his feet. Well it's a joke within the family and and I fed Christopher a lot of good lines that he shows not to use. Okay, let's do only Dan's with your your brother's feet. Let's find how many people will pay. Let's figure this out. Do it on your podcast, build a business over there. How do we get brother's feet. Let's find how many people will pay. Let's figure this out.

Do it on your podcast, build a business over there. How do we get Michael's feet seen by the public? Show us your shame, it's okay. Everybody loves feet. It's good, beautiful feet. Why is it called Only Dan's if it's Michael? I don't know. Because you guys need my name to make money.

Yes, Greg, tell the joke, the awful joke that you wanted me to do about my brother's feet. Okay, there were several lines I gave him and one of my favorites was, I don't want to say Michael's ashamed of his feet, but even when he gets a pedicure with socks on. I thought that was a funny line. That's what I was working with. So that's why I left it out. I think it would have killed.

He gets a pedicure with socks on. We got it. I get it. I'm just not laughing. He showers with dress shoes on. I mean, there's a million things you can say and he chose not to do any of them. Nevertheless, his best man speech, slayed. I thought it was really good.

Huh. I've been saying that all weekend and it annoys me every time. Slayed? Him using slayed? It's like a modern word to use. I mean, the hipster's are saying that. Put it on the pole. Put it on the pole.

Leave the man alone. I mean, seriously. Put it on the pole put it on the pole leave the man alone Is it put it on the pole lying it is slayed like a modern thing to say You're keeping up with the kids by complimenting his best man speech by using a verb that the kids use Yeah, it's slayed and your sons your sons annoyed that you're doing this Is it is it like me and Pablo saying standing on bidness last week? Exactly.

Yeah, that was it. You got that right. Okay, I just, to make sure. That shit is gas, what he said. I came from Lewis. For sure. What? Oh, do I miss that show?

Where are you guys there for him? That's, you guys are supposed to be producing him there. You guys should be giving him that joke. I'm wondering why it is that I got from Funny Guy, Slade Guy over here, I got sources that tell me, and I'd like to know which joke this was, that you had written on your piece of paper, pause for laughter.

Yes. Yes, and I actually was instructed by a comedian to actually say that line, because that's just what I'm doing. I'm pausing for laughter. That's just a reminder for me to lay out here. So Brad Williams told you that, huh? And he was like, you got to say the line, read it out loud. I didn't do it. I did not actually read pause for laughter. Oh, you have to. It's funnier if you play the oaf there. It's funnier if you say pause. Ron Burgundy. Did you do a bunch of short jokes as well?

I mean. I told him to say pause for laughter out loud. That would have been funny. I did a couple times in my rehearsal, but just it didn't make it to the final. Are you gonna admit who fed you the line that was your opening? Field Yates.

My opening line, my opening joke was a Field Yates. Did you write any of your speech? Yes, I wrote all of it. But I'm not, sounds like Field Yates wrote it and Brad Williams and Greg wrote some of it. I thought a lot about it. I went to, I used sounding boards. How'd you get to Field Yates in terms of like,

who should be giving you prep on speech? It was on the big show. No, Field happened to be on my podcast. The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody, and he made it about himself and narcissism and field. What advice do you have for me and my interesting family? It was a risque opening line. It got a lot of laughter, but it got some groans.

What was it? They say the best man's speech is only supposed to last as long as the groom does in bed. And that got a big laugh right there. So enjoy dinner everyone. Did you pause for laughter? Of course I did, I'm telling you that one's slayed. It was good, no it was great.

And here's the thing, in what we play from his best man speech on my podcast, which is out today, the Greg Cody Show, he insisted that the emotional parts not be in. He wanted just the funny stuff in because it did get very emotional. And I was moved I was touched as the father of both. I thought it was wonderful enough with the sentiment his body hurts

That's the excuse to Greg Cody today on why it is. He will be bad and cranky and everything else I do want to know how much you dance, but that was a pretty cool sports weekend I don't know where the rest of you would begin today And I know a lot of the story today is going to be about the warriors and steph curry as i'm like holy shit when a peg got yeah like i mean just what i want to get me there's a hockey coach it's nine and o in game sevens how is that possible and and it's just a total insanity is there were rockets for all the stakes

uh... but he'll beats everybody at that the night buddy he'll buddy you'll get another but we're just a total insanity is, yeah, warriors rockets for all the stakes, buddy healed. Beats everybody, that's the night buddy healed. The buddy healed game, man. But we're gonna say Steph Curry second half splurge, Jimmy Butler, buddy healed, okay. Can you, that's a bit surprising to see all of that happen. Joe, oh that's how the games played in game seven. It's not about anybody's toughness, it's about,

oh that guy makes threes better than a lot of people and whoa, hey, hey, whee. And the rockets can't score and they're really tough, the Rockets are really tough, but Buddy Heald makes all the threes and if he does that for any team in the league they'll win the championship! Who is this person? Yeah really. Isn't that what happened though? Do I have it wrong? I mean Buddy Heald had a game, yeah certainly.

No but it's not just Buddy Heald had a game, mean, Buddy Heald had a game, yeah. No, but it's not just Buddy Heald had a game. It's Buddy Heald had a game after Steve Kerr has been on a mic caught. Hey, Buddy Heald, that's your teammate, Steph Curry over there. Pass him the ball. He's the best shooter ever. And Buddy Heald's like,

no, tonight I'll shoot it in game, Steph. Yeah. I'll do it and I'm really good at it too. Not as good as Steph Curry, because no one is. Part of this was also though, the Rockets just being exposed for not having enough on offense. Like it's not like Steph or even Buddy Heald's big performance really meant that the Warriors

were scoring that much. It was the fact that the Rockets did not have a go-to scorer. Shangoon got shut down and the moment that Amand Thompson wasn't at full strength, that game was over. Well, so Draymond Green, who gets hustle awards and no one likes him, and he's just an unprecedented defensive beast that you just must give credit to,

because no, the Rockets do have an excellent number one option. They do. He's excellent. I'd like him against a lot of teams all over the league. I'm not saying that he's some of these other people. I'm saying that I'm a saying that he's some of these other people. I'm saying that I'm a bit startled that Draymond Green is still at this point doing that in game sevens as the

fuel and furnace for them as, hey, the Rockets, we've seen this so many times, right? I mean, LeBron just got knocked out and that's over there and you're going to wonder about it, but they got Jimmy and Steph for now and they got them to get over a Rockets team that's younger, better seeding and tough, tough, like a team, Emey, Uduka and what they did there. They deserved a better fate than all of that, but they run into a champion at the end with Jimmy Butler hanging on for life, Steph hanging on for life. Hey, we just saw LeBron get knocked out. We might not get another chance at this really, because these young kids all want the league, Houston included.

Yes. They beat us at home, and now we go to game seven over there, and they're tough. But we're tougher, because we've been here longer, and then Houston will be better next year, because you have to hurt like that to see, ooh, they're tougher than us. Ah.

They're going through the pain right now. But it's not that they're tougher than you. It's just that's the day Buddy Heal made all history. Yes. I'm not certain they're tougher. You're right. A guy just got hot. Yes. He's a professional shooter. What do you think is going to be said on ESPN and what happened in game seven? Like, you think they're going to turn on the television and it's not going to be, ah, the Warriors just tougher mentally, tougher, stronger, bigger, faster, better.

Oh, Draymond Green rules. He won that game like and and because he's tougher. Isn't that what's going to happen as the hockey playoffs happen? Yes. As as tougher like we agree that's tougher. Yes. In terms of credit, I agree with you nationally. It's going to be Steph. It's going to be Draymond Green. It's going to be Jimmy Butler. Again, no, again, no one's talking about Buddy'll today and everyone should be talking about buddy He'll so can you guys well, that's not true. Put it on the pole Should everyone I was nine of 11 and a close-up game seven. I mean put it on the pole at big shot bud Put it on the pole is big shot bud

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show with the StuGuts. Look, StuGuts is right in that that was the only difference here because if you look at the stars on both teams, all the stars were somewhere between 21 and 27 points. They cancelled each other out. The difference is always in the role players. And I think in the NBA right now, we've seen it in this first round more than ever. It actually doesn't matter if you have the best star. It matters that your team is the deepest. You're only as good in the NBA right now as your weakest link. And there's been people writing about this

recently, which is that the stardom has gotten to be so good. The superstars are so excellent and so consistent that James Harden in Game 7, it's the total aberration. It's a total aberration where most of the stars will play well. It's up to those role players to make you a championship level. Which is why the Heat got bounced the way they did. That's exactly right. It wasn't about the fact, I mean it is, look, Harden, Hero and Atabayo are not the best duo that we're seeing in the playoffs, but it's not about the fact that they fell short,

it's the fact that after the two of them, what else was there for Miami? Nothing. And you would think Wiggins, but he's not there, and there's no option to be the third and fourth. Well, that's the difference with the Warriors. Wiggins becomes Butler, and that's where they're great. The Clippers.

Oh, you really messed that one up, huh, Dan? I mean, you thought Zubok was gonna be a difference maker. The Clippers. I'm the guy who always goes to the strip club and falls in love with the other stripper who I think loves me. Nicholas Batu. Oh my God.

I'm that guy. What a horrible thing to see in the mirror. You still have the Pacers. Oh, my beloved Pacers, thank you. That won't last. Feel like Tony was with you. They're up one oh. That won't last, come on.

Oh, Tony was with me. And then he went off to Mexico. Okay, but Tony, yes, Tony was with me, but it wasn't. Really, so what with me, but it wasn't... Huh. Really? So what knocks me out, makes me look like an idiot, is a dunk at the buzzer off of that yogurt shot? That's what... Oh, really?

That's what's gonna... Oh. I fell... I went to sleep last night feeling bad at the end of another night when I went to the strip club and I thought that that stripper fell in love with me and I fell in love with her that night. James Harden is, I feel so bad for being so dumb. They lost to Russell Westbrook and Deandre Jordan.

Tyronn Lue, sir. Hey. They lost to a team that fired its coach nine games before the end of the season. And here's the best part. Here's where I tell you, here's where I knew I was doomed. This was the sinking feeling. We've been here, right? Jamal Murray and Yoke at your 0 for 9, Nuggets up by 3.

When he talks about role players on this one, do you realize, and not enough people will be talking about Buddy Hield and not enough people will be talking about what Jeremy's talking about which is a precision in the sport that has made it so that there are a lot of three-point shooters who can really change the outcome of how some teams are seen long term. To Jeremy's point if Dylan Brooks has the game that Buddy Heald had last night, Houston wins that game. Correct but it's that look we can drop that ingredient in any any bit any nba game and the analysis afterward will still be about toughness and whatever the things

are but what i did want to say to you that comes from the old analysis simplified we've been saying for a long time that role players are trade deadline pieces are what win championships and I have not agreed with that for the longest time I've always thought that superstars and monster talents do that and it's not about George Hill but the superstars have gotten so good and the people next to them have gotten so good

at the threes that Steve Ker curr is yelling at body heel body you stop dribbling steps over there he's better at this thing you are you know most nights but everyone's a lot in a hundred shots it'll be body healed is the one who makes the threes and now again small sample size right so before that series you know what the key to

that series was through six games but i could say the key that pirate steven adams he was plus fifty three when he was on the court minus thirty nine when he wasn't he played a bunch of minutes last night minus nine white body held yet that's why because body he'll just raining threes and i ask a couple of questions about Buddy Heald

as I really wanna celebrate him today for real. Not everyone should be talking about Buddy Heald and then we won't talk about it again. Who are the greatest athletes in the history of the Bahamas? I wish to know this because I wanna know Buddy Heald's, I'd like to make Buddy Heald the star he deserves to be today because he carried basketball

and we shouldn't be talking about, we should be talking about hockey, buddy he'll did something last night we're all curious because we were waiting for steph to do that i think there's so few superstars athletes from the bahamas the jazz chism gets to be in the conversation i i i i'd like i'd like a top five i don't know if that is true but we will find out momentarily uh... the thing that i wanted to say though that is true about the analysis today now body healed

is a player and i keep getting told that whatever it is the james hardin is in game sevens and it's dreadful stood outside just elimination games for james hardin like he just simply gets eliminated yes that's correct body he'll doing this on the road it can be proven empirically that Roleplayers shrink game sevens on the road on the road in general But game sevens on the road you cannot trust your role player. I believe that's a thing from the past I believe the sharp shooting has gotten so good that we're gonna see all of that analysis have to change in the face of No, man

We all know any of these guys in this league now can make nine of 11 threes on a night. And they can completely take the crowd out of it. That's what happened in Houston. Like when Golden State started going crazy early and it was Buddy Heald in particular, by halfway through the second quarter, Houston was completely, their crowd was completely

out of the game. They knew what was happening to them and it eliminated home court advantage. So the little advantage that you might have from having that better regular season is Annihilated by these role players going off that way and and it'll be more and more the postseason is what everyone plays for because all You need is the it doesn't matter whether you're a seven or two if you could trade for Jimmy Butler and then just rain threes Like it does what difference does it make you can give away the whole regular season and Draymond will be there in the playoffs when you need him to shut someone down in game seven.

Well, and that's where the depth comes into play, right? Because you need to be able to have enough guys that can get you through the regular season just to get to the post season. The Warriors didn't want to be in the play-in. They really wanted to be in the post season because they risked the potential for injury, whether it was to Jimmy or anybody else. And so now they get to move on, but all of these teams are in this really precarious spot of how do we know that we're actually the better team? Because these, there are so many veterans that are not really giving their best effort through the regular season. What do you guys do with this? Rockets not named, I'm in Thompson, shot five for 20 on layups in that game. So if you make all of those, you wore it off Buddy Hale.

I mean, we can do this analysis in ways that are funny, right? But as you extend the game, right? Because this part, I mean, God, this is one of the most interesting things that's happening in the evolution of human beings. Yeah, Steven Adams, you can only take that body so far. All of that stuff so far. Here comes Buddy Hield from three! And everyone get out of the way, it doesn't matter,

even if you don't know what you were doing all season! He's making his shots. It does not matter! Well, and to the same point, right, if you look at the Cavs on the other side in game one against the Pacers, they made nine threes. That's the first single digit three-point game of the year for the Cavs. So they did that in game one on their home floor. It didn't matter that they were at home. Sometimes the role players aren't gonna show up when you're facing a new opponent

and that's where you need moments from guys like TJ McConnell that are gonna show up and give you a plus 15 performance in like 23 minutes all the time. My beloved Clippers were 32 and nine down the stretch. Yeah, now they're watching with me and you. First round exit the last two years I've said that championship good those Clippers are if they can just stay healthy. Well

they did. The healthiest they've ever been. Oh my god that's how they went 32 and 9. And I feel like an idiot. I believed, I mean it's just an idiotic thing to say, I believed in the Clippers. Nobody says that. If they were in the East, they could have won the conference. Perhaps. Such a good team. They're amazing. Such a good team.

They're really so good, Dan. Yeah, but no one thinks Boston's good. I have some athletes born in the Bahamas. Go ahead. Mikael Thompson. Clay's dad. Who? Who?

Michael. Michael? Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Spelled with a solid player. And Freeney. Oh Oh no. Spelled M-Y. What's the matter? I mean that's that's it's just that's yes it's Anthony Hardaway it's not knowing a player he should know the spelling of his name because Chris you may have noticed not much of a reader right he doesn't read his father's

columns he's not I don't I don't imagine there are many books or magazines in the house. Do you think Chris is a reader? He read over his best man speech a million times. Like a million times. Do you think Greg ever wrote a column about Michael Thompson? Yeah, no, it would be the short answer there. Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Michael Thompson is from the Bahamas. DeAndre Ayton is from the Bahamas. Buddy Heald, as we said. Jazz Chisholm, as we said. And Kimbo Slice. Oh wow. In the Bahamas. Buddy Heald as we said, Jazz Chisholm as we said, and Kimbo Slice. In the Bahamas. Oh wow, the late great.

Miami legend. RIP. 15 NBA teams have winning regular season records. The Clippers rank eighth. The Clippers are the only one of those 15 teams that haven't won a playoff series. Your Clippers are the only one of those 15 teams that haven't won a playoff series. Yeah. Your Clippers.

Jokic took that shot and Aaron Gordon ruined me with a dunk at the rim at the buzzer. Do you know that I've watched basketball all my life without ever seeing a dunk at the rim at the buzzer? I don't think it's ever happened in the history of the NBA. Do you know I have watched basketball the entirety of my life?

Well, it happened in college once, right? Lorenzo Charles? No, that wasn't a dunk. It was sort of a little layup on an air ball. Semantics. Is it semantics? Semantics? I feel like you dunked it, Lorenzo Charles.

I mean, Wittenberg put up the shot, I believe. It was a shot. It was not a pass. I don't want to hear about it. And then Lorenzo Charles happened to be there. And I think he slammed it home. Okay, can you guys see if you can find that in video? We can have the reveal now because he may have this right.

I did think he sort of just put the ball in, but we can then examine whether it is or it isn't a dunk. I don't think it was a dunk. It certainly wasn't an alley-oop from Jokic falling out of bounds to Aaron Gordon to ruin me. That's not what it was, even though. Aaron Gordon's was more of a dunk, I will give you that. Well, thank you.

He flushed it. I do appreciate that, he slayed it. Yeah. Aaron Gordon, Aaron Gordon on that dunk, I will tell you this, that dunk, and I've been watching Aaron Gordon for three years, and if he's your fourth best player, I can win a championship, sure.

For three or four years, it's the reason I say Jokic is the best offensive thing I've ever seen. Gordon has done nothing but that for four years. He shoots three's fine, but like, it's just, oh, Jokic has the ball, everyone's scared. I alley-oop, Gordon dunk. And it's like, that's an easy, fun way to play the game when you can play with that guy and be more athletic than everyone else. Orlando originally tried to make him their number one. That's who the Orlando Magic have been for all these years. No, but no. And when he was their number one, he was Tyler Hero. He wasn't quite Tyler Hero. Yeah, okay. He was a fantasy stud though. I'll tell you that much. Oh my God, the stats

he would put up. Dunk champion. Oh my God. 49 out of 50. That's what defeated me. Greg Cody, the hockey weekend, did it grab you? Oh my gosh, I have to tell you. Okay, for me, I know we're talking about NBA and we should be, but for me the biggest story nationally, including Canada obviously, is the way Winnipeg won that game. Nationally doesn't include Canada, but that's okay. I was exhausted last night i was absolute i was exhausted from the weekend emotionally physically i had to get to bed but i'm watching the end of that winnipeg game and they scored a make it

support within one goal i did five minutes after i got a finish watching one point six seconds left they tie it a double overtime they win winnipeg has never won a playoff game in their history. Last night was the- Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy, they're good. Like they're, I was telling you during the regular season, you say you don't fear them and you're-

No, I don't. Especially the way Connor Hellebuck played in the first period, giving up those two goals. But he ended up playing very well the rest of the stretch and it was a miracle comeback by the Jets. I don't wanna make this all about the Panthers but watching the Blues those final couple minutes with a two goal lead, there was multiple times

the puck is in the corner and they just let it get out. A couple times they have the puck with control and they dump it down panicky. That's where the Panthers shine. That puck gets in the corner, they keep it there for seven months. St. Louis couldn't keep the puck in the corner. There was way too many chances late for Winnipeg to equalize

and they get just with, I don't know how that puck ends up in front of the net with second slap. Listen to me, listen to me. You guys need to pace yourself, okay? You need to pace yourself because the first 106 years of hockey, two goal comebacks in the third period in a game of seven, three, ever. 106 years. Last, two goal comebacks in the third period in a game seven, three, ever. 106 years.

Last two days, two. You guys need to slow your asses down, and you don't understand that we're just still in the first round, and I need to stop hyperventilating about I fear Winnipeg, and Roy, you need to settle everyone in the room down on, we're headed into another playoff series now And it's the second round and at the end of this the last couple of years

If you think his body is battered from dancing too much at a wedding like these hockey playoffs have beaten up your old man No, that's true, but we did get rid of the heat early Remember that's big for him a couple of years in the past. You were rooting for that. Yeah, I'm juggling both teams He was driving both places. Yeah, it's ridiculous. He was driving between Panthers that are in the Everglades and the Heat that are across the street. I tried to do that sort of yesterday to get to F1.

It took me two hours and 52 minutes. Wow, good God. Well, I could have gotten to Orlando. Another hour to go before you get to my house. I could have gotten to Orlando. I could have gone to Disney World. I need to see that outfit. In the traffic it took me to get to F1, driving very slowly to see cars drive very fast. Were you driving on, I was very confused

because I was there too. We didn't run into each other, but did you take regular streets? I couldn't figure out what took so long. Because Mike Malley went, he left at three and was there by 3.45. What happened? I had a driver that was taking me to the airport, I think regular streets, I couldn't figure out what took so long, because Mike Malley went, he left at three and was there by 3.45. What happened?

I had a driver that was taking us and he made a terrible mistake. Getting his money worth. Oh yeah, is he hourly? I mean, that could be what was going on there. Old taxi cab situation, you know what I mean? You run the clock. Whoopsie-doo!

Well, you guys all know I can be suckered on these fronts. Your helicopter wasn't working? What happened? It wasn't, although my wife was wanting one. My wife was craving one. She wanted the chopper, huh? I mean, yeah, three hours in traffic is. Did you dress better than last year?

Well, no one will know. There was only one photograph. I only took one photograph there, so somebody's got it. It's a very valuable photograph. I only took one photograph there. So somebody's got it It's a very valuable photograph. I was I was getting french fries Really? How are the fries there truffle? Everything's very overpriced. Oh my god $35 for garbanzos and fries What what that whole thing is so vapid where you gonna go once they got you there? Where are you? That is correct, but garbanzo beans with fries. Yeah, the hell are you talking nice actually?

I'm with Dan on this weird complete your protein catch up Buddy healed was scoreless in game six Just warming up So is not really the reaction that I don't know what you think I was saying there. It doesn't mean he's incapable of going nine of 11 the next night, he's a shooter! I'm saying, Buddy Hield, I want you to absorb how we do basketball analysis. Please, Golden State advanced

because they're tougher than Houston, or whatever. Or whatever, whatever it's going to be. I mean, these last games in basketball are tremendous, are they not? Like, what we're headed into are the teams you want to see playing against each other. It's the eight best of this, is it not? I think most people would have taken Golden State and the Lakers, and they're getting Golden State and Minnesota. It's still a great matchup, though. I miss that. I miss LeBron not being in there.

Okay, so that would have been, yes, that would have been a better series than Minnesota-Golden State. This is still good though No, they're words is fine. I don't know I would argue that Anthony Edwards against these guys against Steph and Jimmy and Draymond Better than a Luca and LeBron Yeah, because I think we all knew that Luca and LeBron was this sort of weird It was almost this weird conglomeration of stars that didn't choose to be together,

where it felt like this Butler-Curry-Dreymon thing is one last ride for it, and now you have Anthony Edwards, who's looking to take the throne from yet another Western Conference superstar, to me, those two attitudes of teams against each other is gonna make for better television than an actual series between the Lakers

and Warriors would've.