The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: I Hope He Has the Day He Deserves

Episode Date: May 3, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Charlotte, Chris, Jeremy, Lucy, Roy, and Tony. The Knicks won a playoff series! The Knicks won a playoff series! The Knicks won a playoff series! AND VILLANOVA'S IN THE HOUSE. We discuss Donte DiVincenzo, Jalen Brunson, and Josh Hart giving the "finger guns of press conferences" after the win. Then, Patrick Beverly threw a ball at fan and tried to kick a reporter out of his postgame media scrum...all to promote his podcast? Plus, Mind the Game, Leafs vs. Bruins, and Amin delivers a stronger version of his original take on Pat Bev WITHOUT Dan interrupting him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. This is the Don LeVittor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I mean, I don't know if you're too inside the weeds of basketball for too long to enjoy what I enjoyed specifically last night that doesn't come around very often. When more and more people are gathered around whatever the thing is and then all of a sudden you realize that a whole lot of people watching and listening aren't aware of What I'm about to say which is we've all known for a long time that Pat Bev is an equal opportunity

Asshole like you guys are just getting here. You just, he sprinkles, he has made his brand as an irritant on someone who gets people to his podcast as a average starting NBA player for 10 years, if indeed he's been a starter for however many of the years he's existed in the league, him being mean to reporters is something that a lot of guys do, whether they're men or women. And more specifically, what I would say to you,

him being at the forefront of, I don't wanna give away my media for free, go to my podcast because that's where you will get my thoughts. Like, this is an interesting time for athletes to try and carve out their own space and be like, no, at this moment of great pain for me, I'm not just going to give away my pain for free. You got to subscribe to my YouTube channel in order to get it. It also assumes people want to hear what you have to say.

Can I be the one who says it? Who cares? Who cares about this guy, man? The eighth man on a team that got Molly-wopped in the playoffs by a bunch of first-timers? Oh, wait a minute, though. This is the Beverly brand, though. What do you mean, who cares? Beverly's entire brand is built on, I will make you care even though I'm just a middling player that you shouldn't care about He's more famous than he should be because he makes people care about dumb shit his brand is

I'm not that good And so I have to do other things to make people pay attention to me And I just I'm not gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe right like I'm gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe That's my guy right there file No, it just this is the behavior of our clown To say I'm not gonna answer a question because you don't subscribe to my shut up Sorry, how do you know? Just say, yes I do, and then he's like, can I see your Apple pod, wherever you get your podcasts?

Wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, can I see your app wherever you listen to my podcasts? Greg Cody did this exact thing early in the week. I need to go back for a second and just give people the context, and we'll get to this next game. Are we gonna get Stugots today? Are you hunting for Stugots to come?

I'm going to preemptively say no, Dan. I'm hunting. Lucy is also pessimistic. I haven't seen him. I didn't see him at all in Detroit. I have not seen him in months. No, we were staying in the same hotel and I didn't see him.

That is another level of skill. Chris Cody, what is the video that we have so that we, and I erred here in not giving people all of the context if they're not aware of what's happening with Patrick Beverly. It's not just that he snubbed a reporter last night. Milwaukee gets eliminated last night. Dame plays, but Milwaukee falls apart.

Now that's an interesting and fun Knicks Pacers series. I think the Pacers, I don't know how you guys feel, I do believe the Pacers can scare that Knicks team, but I am really enjoying the way people are falling in love with that Knicks team. I mean, this is not Larry Johnson and Luttrell Spreewell. This is a team that out-rebound Philadelphia all over the place, doing it with a bunch of underdog stuff,

and it's a lovable basketball team. Absolutely lovable. I don't know if you saw the postgame press conference with Dante DiVincenzo, Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson and it was every bit of, I could tell like if I didn't like, if you were someone who did not like the Knicks, that press conference would infuriate you because Josh Hart is eating Mike and Ike's in the middle of it.

They're doing little inside jokes. Throwing them to reporters. Mike and Ike's. Mike and Ike's? It's an underrated candy. Very good. He has his face on the box, right? Is that?

Yeah. Oh, so, okay. He's doing promotions. He was doing a thing. I was like, why is he going so vigorously at the Mike and Ike's? As a reporter saying, Josh, this question is for you, he takes a handful of them, was doing a thing I was like why is he going so vigorously at the Mike and Ike as the reporter saying Josh this question is for you he takes a handful of them he starts chewing on them

and I'm like why is he doing this why is he doing the Jessica Smetana it turns out because unlike Jessica Smetana he's actually getting paid to do it. Smetana. Let me get to some of these things first let, let's go to Josh Hart, because he did have a killer line. I don't know if this is the Mike and Ike's, and by the way, I will hear no slander on Mike and Ike's here just because I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, they kinda suck.

I mean, it's better than good and plenty. Go sit in the penalty box. Go sit in the penalty box for two minutes there. I just said I will hear no slander, and you can't say this kinda sucked. I will not tolerate that kind of disrespect in front of people, privately maybe. Absolutely not.

Mike and Ikes are delicious. Put it on the poll please at Levitard Show. Are Mike and Ikes underrated? But let's see here what it is that happened with Josh Hart. Is this the Mike and Ikes or is this him trolling Philadelphia by making fun of their fans? How's it feel being back in Philly taking this place over? and Ike sir is this him trolling Philadelphia by making fun of their fans being back in Philly taking this place over I just I just talked okay um man

it felt great you know we knew this was gonna be a tough environment a little tougher than last last game because there was 2,500 seats that were taken up. But we knew it was gonna be a battle. We knew it was gonna be a grind. That's good. It's good. I just wanna say, this is the important thing about these post-game press conferences,

particularly in the playoffs. A lot of times, people react to the quotes or react to the answers, but the questions are truncated. Right there, the full question was, this dude, this is journalismisdead101, right? This dude is like, Villanova's in the house! Villanova's in the house!

Huh, how's it feel boys to be back in Philly? I'm like, what kind of question is this dude? Why did we take that out i don't what because i tell you why because unless you watch the full press conference you probably did not know which is what happens all the time uh... because whenever he is p n or or turner any of these outlets

these interviews or these press conferences they usually get just the last big bit of a question because they're like, nobody cares about the question, nobody cares about, we care about the answer by the athlete. And a lot of times, the question informs a lot. For instance, a lot of times you're like,

oh, why would so and so even bring that up? It's like, well, because someone directly asked them about it. But we always cut it out. We always cut it out. It should be like a courtroom, objection, leading. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. I don't know what the objection would be for this guy,

other than, man, like, at least kind of be. No, I know what it would be. What? It would be act like you've been there before. Oh my God. It would be also, can I just say, it is very, it is a skill to do a press conference the same way that you play basketball.

They were lobbing it up, he was like, I just answered one, they were doing bits. It was like the finger guns of press conferences. If we can just play that again, I want you guys just the entire time, okay, to watch just Brunson here, okay? Because Brunson and Josh Hart are really clearly and obviously very good friends, such good friends.

And Dante. Yeah, friends. And Dante. Yeah. Well, but Dante is- Why are you leaving him out? I'll tell you why. I will tell you right now why. Because Dante, because he's white. Because Dante, because Dante-

You beat me to it. Dante is sitting there- You beat me to it. Next to Josh Hart, and he's amused by it. What Josh Hart is doing by saying they had to buy 2,000 tickets last time time it is just an exceptional troll deadpan but Brunson's kind of tired of his friends sense of humor has no reaction whatsoever to it being back in Philly taking this place over I just I just talked Man it felt great. You know, we knew this was gonna be a tough environment

Little tougher than last last game because there was 2500 seats that Were taken up but we knew it was gonna be a battle. We knew it would be a grind Just looking at his own stat line he's not man that looks good Not even listening. Well, he's just looking at his own stat line. He's like, man, that looks good. That puts me in top five Knicks ever right there. That game.

Look at that stat line. He's just staring at it like you would in a mirror if you were somebody who is impossibly beautiful and just like to be nude in a mirror. That's the sound of fried chicken with a spicy history. Thornton Prince was a ladies' man. To get revenge, his girlfriend hid spices in his fried chicken. He loved it so much, he opened Prince's hot chicken. Hot chicken in the window.

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This Knicks team right here is hard to crush. Like I'm a Heat fan, so I don't like the Knicks, but I don't have a problem with this Knicks team, but Knicks fans are a bit much right now. Taylor out here, Jalen Brunson, number two all time behind you, it's like, relax. So I'm married to a Knicks fan. Where does CF Jalen all time?

You guys think that now's too much? Wait, wait, you guys think now's too much? This is still trotting ground. Like if they get past the Pacers, then... I'm in Miami watching the game. I talked to my husband on the phone after the game, who was, he was like pacing around the apartment by himself. Also, that game was really fun, and for now, while I can enjoy both the Knicks and the Celtics,

I was like clapping in my hotel room. I was like, let's go for it, like by myself, like a psychopath. Wait was like, let's go for it. Like by myself, like a psychopath. Wait a minute, who's that accent? Let me hear this. This is Charlotte as New Yorker. No, no, no, no, no, no.

This is Charlotte as New Yorker cheering on a children's little league game as she's watching an NBA game. That's right. Here we go, boys. Not yours, kid. That sounds a little Boston, so this is the- I know, I'm confused.

Okay, so you don't summon the New York accent very well, but you're just, look, when Philadelphia was up 10 in the third quarter, they have to finish that game. You cannot allow the New York Knicks. You've got so much momentum, it was such a great game, but once you get up 10 in the third quarter, and I understand lead changes all the time in that sport But I mean you have to bury that team in that situation It's one of the reasons this Knicks fan base

Loves that team so much is because in the face of that they go and they end and be but I want to circle back Around to the Patrick Beverly stuff because I'm not okay with Amin just saying who cares, shut up. Plenty of people obviously care. Patrick Beverly is getting dragged today and it's not just a basketball moment and it's not just an asshole to reporters moment. It's cause he did it to a woman.

Like it's getting more and more inflamed because he did it to a woman and it's not who cares, shut up. People do care. He hit somebody in the face with a basketball We're gonna do this too So let's just play the sound from Patrick Beverly first so that you can get uncomfortable Where he's just saying if you want any of this sound of my pain if you're gonna profit off of my pain here I want to profit in some way to off of my pain here. I wanna profit in some way too. Go download my podcast.

Here. I'm serious, I'm sorry. I'm profiting. You subscribe to my podcast? Do I subscribe? I do not subscribe. You can't interview me then. No disrespect.

Jamal is here. You subscribe? Okay, cool. That's cool. Again, there were a couple times within a bucket or two. In previous games, y'all have been able to kind of get over that humber. Was it anything they did in particular? Was it just one of those where the bucket didn't go down, there wasn't the stop, they

made one? What kind of prevented that you all from being able to get over, kind of like you haven't in the past? Do move that mic please or just get out the circle please for me please, ma'am. If you're not subscribed to my pod, I appreciate it, thank you. He does not have the power to eject someone from media availability. PR does.

If PR wants to say, ma'am, you need to leave, then that's one thing. He does not have the power. I wish he had just stood there. I wish someone would have said, hey man, just shut up and answer the question. Like, one would hope that somebody in that room says, hey man, just answer the question.

Stop messing around. That's the part that's really disappointing, is that no one stood up and said anything. That's a tough spot for a general. People, someone not involved there, now you're gonna insert yourself in this? Oh no, this is someone who you've worked with, or even if you haven't worked with her this is

your job as well and he's out here literally pushing her microphone away from the scrum. It's one thing to say I won't answer your question disrespectfully off the bat. It's another thing to then say you can't even keep your microphone here to do your job and the fact that none of the other journalists in the room said anything is frustrating. But the bigger issue is that Pat Beverly is doing that himself. Like the fact that he's out here pushing a microphone away is just wholly disrespectful to the people doing their job.

My thing is this, it's like he can do that. Somebody needs to say, nah. Yeah. Like somebody needs to stand up and say, nah man, just go ahead and do your thing. This is wild that we're putting this on the journalists. This is just all packed bed for me. I'm not in locker rooms a lot, but skipping past that.

No, but allyship requires leadership, and this is not, this locker room is still not a place for women, just so that you understand. I'm not talking, just the locker room is still not a place for women just so that you understand i'm not talking and just a locker room in general can make it very uncomfortable and not equal for women but just put up for us still real quick there patrick beaverly both his stat line and uh... his behavior it's right on his scully it's right there he's telling you

as acts on his skull. It's right there. He's telling you. Ass. Ass. Just ass. The behavior because he also was throwing basketballs at people in frustration. Can we get to that video? I'll get back to what it is you guys are talking about, but let's have the full context of what we're talking about here. He is somebody who has gotten famous, at least in part because all, man do you know how many people there are in the nb a who average nine points is a season for their career like or whatever it is that patrick beverly averages he's famous and known for being this thing that is uh... a little crazy and a lot of the irritant and yappy

perpetually yappy and so you see him there just throwing a basketball at people and his teammates, yeah, he's hot because he's embarrassed and they're losing and he's out in the first round. This is what I'm gonna say, I don't know what the context is. I don't know, when we're talking about what's happening,

interacting with fans is always weird, because like, oh, how dare you? He says he was trying to get rid of those people all game with security and that they wouldn't take them out. I don't know what they said or did, so i am not going to overreact although i would say yes don't believe it whatever they said on a ball bad idea what i am going to say is i don't know what the context is

in the postgame scrum that journals did nothing wrong i believe she's a producer for usbm she did nothing wrong his whole thing was that this is his own stupid ass way to promote his stupid ass podcast, right? And in that moment where he says, I'm not going to answer, that's not the first time we've seen lots of athletes say specifically, I'm not going to answer a question from Dan

LeBattard because you wrote this, that, that. I'm not going to answer you. But to say, you're not allowed to stand here, you're not allowed to get out of here, that's where I think there's a line crossed. He's also done this to other reporters in Milwaukee this season. Like I think he got there. Injected people from.

No, no, no, said I won't talk to you if you don't subscribe to my podcast. I also think that at some point, you gotta do a calculus of like, if you're the PR person at Milwaukee, or if you're another journalist at Milwaukee, it's like, we're probably gonna be here longer than Pat Bev. So like, let's. But at Milwaukee, it's like, we're probably gonna be here longer than Pat Bev.

So like, let's, let's. But to me, that's more of a reason. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. When you guys are like. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying like, because he's probably gonna be gone, it's like, let's stand up for the people that we're gonna,

it's like, from a very cynical point of view. And if he had a 10 year deal, who the fuck cares? I didn't get the Patrick Beverly quote. Who the fuck cares? To that point though too, who the f*** cares? I didn't get the Patrick Beverly quote. Who the f*** cares? To that point though too, like the matrix of headache versus value as a player, like Pat Bev is like kind of already on the headache side of the spectrum, right? Like there's nobody who's going to be like, oh, you know

what, we need Patrick Beverly services next year. Well Milwaukee said it this year, so. In these locker rooms though, like it has become a much more equitable place. Like it's not just about. Well let me go back for a second here. Roy's been trying to get in here. Let me go back here for a second. What I would say, because I may have been misunderstood here

on what it is that I was saying earlier before, I don't believe that the locker room is still as safe for women as it is for men that everyone's trying but you're occasionally going to have your right the man in a locker room who's not okay with women in the locker room so that's what i meant i said it differently than that i'm not saying it's not an equitable place it's not the place it was when i was growing up in locker rooms, but there are plenty of men athletes still in locker rooms who are not welcoming women there. It is not as friendly to women as it is to men by consensus. Some people are just sort of tolerating it or pretending.

So he tells her to go away. Where she says no, and then he ends the post-game scrum. He just gets up and goes away. What happens then? He gets fined? Does he get fined? He doesn't get fined because he was available. He answered questions and then at some point he says, question's over. That counts for he was available.

I would also argue you could say that a lot of places are still better for men than like a subway. Yeah. You know? Like I don't know that that's a locker room thing. It's sort of like a- I would assume it's a locker room thing. It was sort of like a full life thing. I'm gonna say, I may have this wrong. This part I may have wrong.

I would say that generally, in my experience, it doesn't mean that I have accurate information at this minute, but the people in locker rooms who are dedicated to the obsessive compulsive craft of getting better at what it is that they do to the detriment of other things can be less evolved than the average workplace. I'm not arguing with you about the locker room thing. I'm just saying, yes, anding.

Yes, and. Yeah, and they don't want any of us there, by the way. Like they don't want me there, they don't want you there, they don't want any of us in that locker room. And that's kind of why I'm more inclined to criticize the behavior than to read into it. Like it's because she's a woman! Maybe it is because she's a woman, maybe it's not,

I don't know, but what I do know is he does not have the power to eject a journalist who's not doing anything out of the ordinary other than but he does have the power though in front of his locker room to control what he is saying and to whom and so if he doesn't do it that way away he can do it without creating the stir that would then bring publicity to his podcast is by simply saying by punishing her

by telling everyone Interviews over I am no longer available. I've answered a couple of questions I've fulfilled my contractual partnership agreement and now I'm getting out of there. It's like oh man We really wanted to hear what Patrick Beverly had to say hey what happened? Hey, what what what happened you threw that ball? I'm gonna go subscribe to Patrick Beverly podcast. Maybe he'll explain it there. Sorry, telling people to subscribe to your podcast

is lame, but please subscribe to Oddball. It is on, it's also a show. You can watch it on YouTube every day but Monday. It's funny. But it is lame to tell people to subscribe to your podcast. I don't do that other than the contractually obligated spaces where I do this here, right? Or at the end of our show or whatever.

But like when I'm out and about in public, and Lord knows I have no shortage of podcasts. Right? I've never in my life said, oh you do podcasts? Yeah I do podcasts. Oh well there's one about movies that are poorly rated, or Rotten Tomatoes. Greg Cody did this on Tuesday.

He did the exact same thing. Like walking out. Dude he had a bruised face he's like I'm not talking about this if you want to hear what happened go to my podcast. But that's different that's him creating actual content on his own time. I'm talking about walking down the street. I mean I love you hey how's it going do you have a podcast? I do it's called Cinephobe. Wow. Hey you should subscribe and like and rate and review please, and also catch us on YouTube. We put a call out.

Who does that? Who does that? I would say someone who's got a more successful podcast than you do. I don't think so. Patrick Beverly. I don't think so. You know what I say.

It's no knock on your podcast. Patrick Beverly has made himself. Guys, okay, listen. I don't want to be the one defending Patrick Beverly today. Patrick Beverly has turned himself into a voice and name in that league that has no- Has he? I mean, Patrick Beverly has a platform,

who else in that position has a platform when he's not that good? He's not that relevant. And. Are you unfamiliar with how popular this podcast is? Are you familiar with how popular Theo Pinson is? This guy, he is America's favorite teammate. You know what I say when people are like,

hey, which doesn't happen that often, but if they're like, follow you on Twitter, you know, someone, anyway, I'm like, sorry. I'm like, I'm sorry for everything. Ah, you apologize. Yeah, they're like, oh, follow you on Twitter. I'm like, ah, really? That's humility, people.

Sorry. Right there, like someone says, I'm a fan of your work, and you apologize. And you say, I'm sorry for the content. Lucy, it's been a long time since we've talked to you. You've been gone for three weeks. I haven't seen you. Do you have any thoughts here on everything it is that we are chewing on?

No, I think, like what more can I say? Charlotte said it perfectly. I don't care what he has to say. I'm not going to search out his podcast. He seems like a not nice guy, and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him, and I hope he has the day he deserves. Oh!

Wow! That's deep! You know what I do hope? I hope he sees this and quote tweets it for engagement. That'd be cool. I hope he has the day he deserves. That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go after yourself.

I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. It's a great kind. It's a great kind insult. Yes. Beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less southern bless your heart. I can't say bless your heart.

That's too hurtful. It gives you PTSD. It's a great insult that feels like it could be a compliment. It feels biblical I hope you have the day you deserve. You have to sit and think about it And what do you mean? What do you imagine he deserves? What would that day look like like food poisoning? A bad one. Don LeBretard It's a three the crowd goes into a delusion. Winning in the playoffs not an illusion. It's a heat check, he's on fire.

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God damn right I am. Charlotte, I want to ask you something in terms of working with Amin and if this is a frustration for you on oddball that it is for me here when he joins us every day, except for Monday on Oddball. Amina and Charlotte are breaking down basketball in a clever and creative way different than anyone else who is covering basketball. Lucy, why are you laughing? Why did she say yes? Charlotte, I don't know the voices she makes. I don't know.

I'd like actually, honestly, I would like her to remember the last three or four minutes of this segment I would like for her to get up. I think she's gonna forget We'll see I would like for her to get up and spend the last three or four minutes of this segment Just wandering behind us being the Little League advocate in the New York Boston accent that she was last night New York Boston accent that she was last night celebrating and trying to get her husband to have joy as a Knicks fan because of how much she wanted the Knicks to win last night on behalf of love. Not love of the Knicks, love of her husband.

Well I never finished telling you what happened after that. So we're on FaceTime and I was like, I'm so happy for you. He was like, you know, Knicks Celtics Eastern Conference Finals. And I was like, oh, and we were like, this is gonna be, He was like, you know, Nick Celtic's Eastern Conference finals and I was like, oh, and we were like, this is gonna be, I was like, you know, are we gonna have to go into counseling? What are we gonna have to do?

And he was like, well, I mean, we live in New York. And I was like, I'm sorry, what? And he was like, well, I'm just saying as a tiebreaker, like we live in, and I was like, are you trying to get me to root for the Knicks? He was like, no, no, no, you have your team. You love your team. And I was like, wait, so you're telling me

that you're trying to get me to root for the Knicks, and then telling me I can't root for the Knicks while trying to get me to root for the Knicks. This is collegiate, Nick's Celtics marriage collision course, Dan-o. Well put, confidently and well put, say it with your chest. I wanna ask you the question about Amin though,

if you have this frustration when we turn the microphones off He then made a number of very great and passionate points that were useless to me as an on-air vehicle because he was doing a better Show off the air than he was doing on the air because he was just railing about why no one stood up for Forgive me. I don't Andrews is her name, but it's not Malika, right? I don't know who the reporter was, I don't know her name, but Amin was yelling and screaming during the break in a way that would have been useful on air. No, he does that on our show, on air, usually. Yeah, it's amazing what happens when you don't get

interrupted three seconds into your statement. Well, go ahead and finish your point that you could have made in the first 24 minutes, but somehow needed the extra two minutes of the commercial break to fill my yours with. I just needed you to not interrupt me when I was making the point. And so go ahead and. So my point was it's irrelevant that she's a woman although obviously that dynamic always plays it right it plays regardless of whether it is outward or under a subtext. It's irrelevant that her question was not answered. Patrick Bradley's free to say,

I don't wanna answer that question. I don't wanna address you. I won't even look at you. What he does not have the power to do is eject someone from that space. And that's why I said, because during the break, Jeremy said, someone should have been like, hey, you know what, let me hold your mic and I'll ask the question and you'll get your

answer and I said no no we don't have to do this in a kind of passive aggressive way what Patrick Beverly is actually searching for in that moment is friction to someone say hey man just shut up and answer the question because at the end of the day doing this is promoting his podcast as others have been pointed out he's done this all season long to to local reporters you don't subscribe to my podcast i wanna answer question and that's fine

that's his prerogative what he does not have is the power to eject someone who hasn't done anything wrong and about me as p n have is the power to eject someone who hasn't done anything wrong. And if I'm ESPN, I'm having a very strong conversation with not only Director of Communications for the Milwaukee Bucks, but also at the League office that we are a rights holder, our reporter did nothing wrong, and this guy ejected her from the scrum? Who is is he why does he have LeBron doesn't have that power Patrick Beverly has that power come on man what are we doing the

idea that everyone stood there whether you're a PR person working whether you're another reporter whether you're a camera nobody said don't be a jackass just answer the question so what is the league gonna do in that situation if ESPN complains to the league office? They fine him. Isn't Barclay calling for a fine and a suspension? Didn't Barclay do that last night? He's not gonna get suspended because the Players Association

is gonna point to precedent and say like, there's no precedent for that, like, that you get suspended for being rude without being vulgar or anything like that. Also they're eliminated. And the throwing of the ball, it'll go into that season. That part is different. I was just gonna say, you know what else LeBron has?

A podcast. Oh yeah, that's right. And it's good. Forgive me, it is very good. You know what he doesn't do? In casual conversation, tell people to subscribe. Can I say one critique of the podcast? Which one?

Oh, Mind the Game, the new one with JJ. I love it, fascinating. Mind Games was right there. Yep, you know whose fault that is? No. It's Jason Gallagher. Jason. Jason Gallagher.

The man behind the scenes on that, we're going inside, inside baseball right now. Love Jason. Where's my camera? Love the podcast, everybody. Jason Gallagher, this is all your fault. You know what, if you don't subscribe to Mind the Game, I'm not going to talk to you. Exactly. Melinda Adams is the name of the reporter. I meant no disrespect by not knowing her name.

I want to, and Charles Barkley was calling for a suspension for the Throne basketball. Charles made me laugh last night with a bit of, I mean he does a lot, but this was, I don't think he intended to make me laugh this way, but he made me laugh because of the symbolism and the humor in this. Charles Barkley, expert NBA analyst who had just been paid to sit there with his friends and watch basketball games, saw the basketball game that we all saw, and yet had an incredulous comment that was genuinely confused when he said,

Tobias Harris didn't score tonight? Like, he didn't, he watched the game with us, none of us noticed that Tobias Harris wasn't out there the entirety of the game because he played 30 minutes and he scored not at all while making 40 million dollars a year and is made I think Has he made a quarter of a billion dollars in this league and none of the pressure falls on him They lost by a basket last night the guy who's making 40 million dollars None of the pressure falls on him as Barclay out loud, and he wasn't making a joke. He was like, Tobias didn't score last night?

I didn't realize this until just now. Tobias Harris is their Stugats. Yeah. Whoa. I mean, Stugats is important to the success of everything that we're doing. They just needed a basket from Tobias last night. We wanted him on the show today.

Don't give up hope. $212 million earned in the career of Tobias Harris. I see 248. 248. 248, yeah. It's a lot of, oh wait. That's insane. Is it Spow Track or Spot Rack?

I've always said Spow Track. I'm a Heat Fan. Yeah, me too. Yeah. The Heat Fan thing and also Spow Track. Yeah. Good commentary. It's Oh, cool. The Heat Fan thing and also SpohTrek. Yeah. Yeah. Good commentary.

It's a fart noise. Thank you. Thank you, I did. It's not raspberry. Thank you, I was not aware of what you were doing. That's a fart noise, Dan. Thank you. That's what we need from that chair right there.

A quarter billion dollars? This is insane. Is he the most overpaid player in NBA history? Remember when he had that cute little bromance with Bobon though? That was worth at least a hundred mil. He's never made an All-Stars. He has not.

You guys know what's gonna happen, right? This is insane. But you guys know what's gonna happen at the Biceratops. What? He's gonna be a free agent. He's gonna make more. He's gonna sign. Sign with the Heat.

He's gonna sign somewhere for minimum, maybe the Heat, and he's gonna play so well, and everyone's gonna be like, oh my god They did it again and like this whole thing because this is how We're conditioned to do this sport now because everyone's got access to salaries and all that people Value players by how much they make as opposed to what they did now He didn't score last night so he had a pretty bad game as opposed to what they did now. He didn't score last night, so he had a pretty bad game.

But the point is. Can you guys give me the whole box score for Tobias Harris, because I didn't notice him or think about him in any way last night. He missed a big shot. Missed a shot from the corner. Yeah, the corner, yeah. They just needed a basket from him last night.

0 for 2 from the field in 29 minutes, four rebounds, three assists. Two shots from the head from my couch, Dan. No fouls, no turnovers. At least he didn't foul or turn her over, so that's a positive, right? Yeah, there you go. Just zero impact.

I'm telling you, he's going to be somewhere next year and he's going to be cheap and he's gonna get buckets and everyone's gonna be like, wow, what a great signing. You know what I just thought of? Auto Porter? No. Okay. Now I can't remember what I thought, oh. you know who I hope, no hear me out.

Let my girl cook. Thank you, Chris. Do you know, I wonder how Ryan Archidiokano feels today. Dude, I thought the same thing watching that press conference. So here's the thing. So for those who don't know. They've got their own love language,

Oddball, Otto Porter, and this is where you can get your exclusive Oddball information Tuesday through Friday on Oddball, wherever Porter, and this is where you can get your exclusive Oddball information Tuesday through Friday on Oddball, wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oddball rocks. Listen to it, watch it. Here's the thing, Ryan Archidiakano was one of my favorite players before the Knicks traded him because he went to college also with Jalen Brunson,

Dante DiVincenzo, Josh Hart. He was about to set a record, if he didn't set a record, for minutes played without points scored. He was that first guy off the bench, every time out, everything, he was up there, he was doing the little league clapping, that's probably why I like him so much, and then they traded him.

They got rid of him, they shipped him off to Detroit. Of all places. Of all places, and you know, the Nets, they could have signed him back so that he could at least be with Mikhail Bridges, another Villanova teammate, but they didn't. Everybody hung him out to dry, he had the best life, he got to sit on the bench at Madison Square Garden

with those guys, and now. With his best friends. With his best friends, and they make it to the second round. I just hope Ryan's okay, shout out Ryan Archidiokano, we're thinking of you, we love you, buddy. I watched that press conference, and I thought to myself, Ryan Archidiokano. We're thinking of you. We love you, buddy I watched that press conference and I thought to myself Ryan Archidiokano is at home right now I would have cried with like this

Guys I miss you The Mike and Ikes Remember when he's all I'm the one that introduced him to Mike and Ikes Go sit again in the penalty box This anti-Nix agenda has been insane Dan, Jaylen Brunson had 40 points last night. They ever came up double digit deficit.

Ouch, ouch. We haven't talked any basketball. How is this anti-Nix? We're gonna talk about the Knicks right now. You're gonna leave though, because I've told you to stop slandering Mike and Ikes. Chris Cody, Taylor's in the other room. Taylor's like, I wanna shake your hand.

Okay. Okay. Okay.