The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: BREAKING NEWS (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

Mike Budenholzer, Paige Bueckers, and Ted How star in today's Postgame Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Nice, Juju is sponsored now by Delicious Sandwiches. It's always nice to see Juju. It's always nice to hear from him, even when the critique is withering of what it is we have done that day. Juju, nice to see you, sir. Nice to see you guys as well, man. Good to see y'all.

Salute to everybody in the building. You dig it? Like to start off by saying I'm 6'2", 220, so we can make that comparison to big old Trump. You dig it? The Vietnam? So you're 6'2", 220. What's the percentage of body fat there, Juju?

It can't be more than 9 or 10%. I'm not sure that my scale don't let me know that. I'm in the ghetto, so I just step in. That's the advanced scale there that Dan's got on him. I think most people would not be prepared to answer that question. I agree, but I would say that most people who have bodies that are as fit as Juju might be closer to being equipped to answer that question. Regardless, what do you have from today's show that you found interesting or bad as subject matter? First of all, the Steve Smith conversation. Oh my goodness,

you can't call yourself a ball knower and not know the Smitty. Famously, Michael Jordan did the Smitty around John Starks and Charles Oakley and Don Don was Patrick Ewing, one of his best highlights, you feel me? That's right. But that is one of the greatest highlights that no one would call the Smitty or tricky. Like they would just be amazed by that as a highlight

without, but you're right. We should have. That's great to point out though. I remember that specific move. And I'm like, man, only Michael can do that. Meanwhile, it's patterned and named after Steve Smith. Hell yeah. Also welcome back to the play in Jimmy Butler.

He cannot avoid it. Like no matter what he does, great game. Joker of the day, real quick, Steve Kerr drawing up a play for your buddy Hill with sixth place on the line. Like chef's kiss, unless they were trying to do the thing that they might be trying to do. Maybe they wanted to go to the play-in and avoid having to play certain Lakers

and certain dunk chichis in the first round, try to squeak their way in and certain dunkchiches in the first round. Try to squeak their way in and play those Houston Rockets in the first round, which isn't necessarily to be sneezed at either, but I don't know, bro. I think some ulterior motives could have been at play when you see Buddy Hill checking in the game for the game winning shot.

Juju, we do have some breaking NBA news. Mike Budenholzer has been relieved of his duties down in Phoenix. The writing was on the wall all year. They, of course, they were one of the most disappointing teams in the league this year with that All-Star cast. Bradley Beal, Devin Booker, KD,

can't even make the playoffs. Like that's, it's not surprising, especially seeing whenever KD snatched his hand away from him in that one time. It's been a lot going on over there. So it's not as surprising as the other coaches being fired. I do understand why it is that we might see some conspiracy in a buddy healed shot at the end,

especially if any of you saw that video from last week of Steve Kerr talking to Buddy saying, "'Buddy, I love you, but you got the greatest shooter in the world over here. He's wide open. Pass him the ball. But when you think of conspiracy, I generally don't think of the Warriors trying hard

all game long, really hard to stay exactly even with the Clippers, and then at the end saying, you know what, nevermind, this last shot, I'm just gonna make such a dumb decision that I make everyone think it's conspiracy because they don't understand why I made that decision. Touche, Tashay, touche. Cause also Kawhi Leonard, people have been sleeping on Kawhi.

He's been a sleeping giant lately. A healthy Kawhi spells trouble for the Joker in that first round. Also Tony, my brother, I love you. You know you my brother, we share the same blood. But, and salute to Malik Beasley, but Peyton Pritchard, what a secret sauce, is definitely the sixth man of the year this year.

You got to know that. Close, close. I mean, look, would the, put it this way, would the Celtics be in the same position they were without Peyton Pritchard? He's been so good though. Pritchard's shooting, I mean, is he shooting better than anybody in the league

by percentage from three? Close to it. Would the Pistons be the same without Malik Beasley? You know what, I'm gonna do a wager. I'm gonna wager you. Malik Beasley wins. I will give you two miles on the track videotaped it. If Peyton Pritchard wins, I need the same from you.

All right, done. All right, the bet has been made. What is the bet for number of times that Stugats tomorrow pronounces it McLaRoy? What's the over under on number of times that Stugats does that? Four and a half. Thank you, I appreciate that, Stubat.

What do we have for the polls? And before we get to the polls, surely you have some WNBA draft thoughts. Oh yes sir, man, look, Paige of course, number one pick, I got kind of a mini stat of the day with Paige. She'll, breaking news, sign a three year deal with the Unrivaled League, you feel me?

Wait a minute, that can't be breaking news if I just mentioned it six minutes ago. Start of the week. That's a mini stat of the day, that is, that's't be breaking news if I just mentioned it six minutes ago. Stata beat. That's a mini stat of the day. That is, that's a mini stat of the day. All right, mini stat of the day. Jeremy Tashay also has pointed out you like to invoke Michael Jordan

as someone else that famously did the Smitty. Jeremy texted me, how can you forget when Duncan Robinson did the Smitty to Victor Wemba Nyama? And that's another good one. I had forgotten. Yes it is. Yes it is. But yeah, Paige signed a three year deal

with the Unrivaled League, which will be, this is the crazy part. It will be in her first year, 10 game salary with the Unrivaled League will be more than her entire four year WNBA contract. That is banana clips if you ask me, but salute to the WNBA, salute to Miss Cathy. They're going to get it together. It is banana clips, but it's not breaking news because I said all of that 10 minutes

ago. Also, sending prayers out to the family of Kyron Lacey superstar over that from the NCAA football LSU Tigers this year is always just important to check on your friends, man Well, even though they're going through a lot Just remember to check on your friends because I'm sure that family right now is having a rough rough couple of days, man salute this is awkward to do this to you as you hit a somber note but Minor penalty two minutes for not listening. You can't come on and do breaking news Paige Becker's after we mentioned it five minutes earlier so

we're gonna talk for two minutes here as Juju sits out I would like for you to walk off the screen and pretend like you are that you are you are going to a penalty box there in your house and you are going to a penalty box there in your house and I'm going to simply, oh, more breaking news. Oh wow, Dan-o, my boon holes are fired. I have here, I wanted to ask you guys this because it made me laugh this weekend.

I just get a random email, okay, just sent to my account and the context is It's just a listener who I've never heard from before Who is emailing me directly because he wants me to know something He is telling me that there's something he wants me to know and this is what he wanted me to know Again, no context for it whatsoever He says, he writes, you don't talk about the sports record that will never be broken. In 1938, Johnny Vandermeer threw two consecutive no-hitters. In order to break that that someone would have to throw three in a row. Good luck with that

Ted how Yeah You're absolutely right Ted. Thank you First sharing that with me. That's probably, do you guys have any record that's harder to break than that? At best someone can tie. At best. Someone would have to throw three.

Thanks, Ted. Good luck with that. Thank you, Ted. And how would they do that? Hey! That's Ted Howe, ladies and gentlemen. Ted Howe. Oh!

Welcome back, Juju. Let's update the polls here, sir. Yes, sir. And while I get to get the polls, salute to the Savannah Bananas for making it to 60 minutes last night. Salute. Early whole Sunday Masters, good for a nap. Great for a nap. 90% of the audience says yes it is. We got a big poll coming up here. I hope that he gives us an answer to Simpsons or South Park. That one's gotta be, that one's gonna get a lot of votes. What a cold one he's doing. Simpsons or South Park? And this is from the Instagram story audience. 58% of the audience says the Simpsons over South Park.

Phew. I don't know. I think The Simpsons might be more popular, but I don't know if it's better. And that is no knock on The Simpsons. Pose or the pose? Oh, that's it. Okay.

Are you done? Oh no, no, no. I said the pose or the pose. Not those other pose. Okay. Sorry, I'm bad. It's the pose of the pose. Not those are the posts. OK, I said, it's all good. You know what? You worry. Hold on. I'm going to do this to myself here.

Hold on a second. Minor penalty, two minutes for not listening. Damn it. I think that might have been more of an enunciation problem on my end. Cause you know, I speak like I have marbles in the back of my mouth. Tough penalty call for Dan there. Right. Very tough. But instant replay decided he was out of bounds. Did Rory try to Rory? 94% of the audience says, yes, he did. If you win the Masters and Tiger wasn't in the field, did you actually win the Masters?

This is big. 56% of the audience says, no, you did not win. Damn. Do you use a key or a coin to scratch off your scratch-offs? 82% of the audience says a coin. Really? Yeah. No one uses the fingernails.

Roy, that you might. Yeah, that was weird. I don't know what that was. I'm in a pinch. Do you scratch off your scratch off in the store you bought the scratch off from or at home? 78% of the audience says at home. Yeah, I'm with them.

You got it. Because, right, right. You don't want no instant loss. That's very bad on you. Plus if I win a million, I don't want everyone knowing. Like I wanna be in secret if I win this million dollars. Right, also earlier in the show, Dan said, like, what's the drawback from putting your card, the germs in the card thing?

Yeah. Oh, that's so so I agree with Mike. You got to tap it, man, because if you put your card in there, you put your card in there with every card that's been in there since the Tiger King, like just germs on germs. Last poll is the cashier always old? That might be a Miami thing, because here in the United States of Atlanta, we got teenagers everywhere.

Really? But to me, it's like teenagers or really old. Like you never see a 40 year old cashier. They're either like in their twenties, teens, or they're in their sixties. Right. I could dig it. 54% of the audience says, no, the cashier is not always old.

And those are your polls. Oh, we got something here. the Phoenix Suns have fired my