The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Greg Cote's Top 1 Handles (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

JuJu Gotti joins us to discuss some of the major moves made in the NBA today, including Giannis Antetokounmpo's reaction to Damien Lillard being waived. He also weighs in on whether Mike Ryan is allowed to hate Angel Reese for no reason. Greg Cote reveals his Top 1 Handles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Proximo, cuervo.com, please drink responsibly. Cuervo. Damien Lillard waved. Hmm. I'm not gonna allow you guys to just skip past that to tell me about Miles Turner when I've got a Hawks Turner story without telling the Damien

Now there's more action there what's happening Chris Haynes? It doesn't stop trading Chris. Pat's gonna go wheel watching This is a point for standing Pat by the way I will I will say because things are opening up a little bit But Chris Haynes is reporting that Yanis is not happy about Damien Lillard getting waved now you could wonder what that's all about because it's not like Yanis was counting on Damien Lillard to be there or he can piece tea leaves together so you gots and I know you like to do this yeah we know from the Damien drama over in Portland Chris Haynes is Damien Lillard's guy what if

Damien Lillard fed this make Damien Lillard look a little bit better oh yeah Yanis misses me and he cosigns that with Yannis, which is the superstar doing the superstar thing when he wants to get out there. And also, trades from eight years ago that actually happened today, Dario Saric and Yonis Valanchunas got ruled for one another. Wow, still playing, huh? No. Stu, can you name where either guy is?

Valanchunas, I I think was with Sacramento. Yeah, there's a good bet if you're not sure where someone went And Sarich the Suns is two teams ago in Denver I I saw him wandering around with that mustache on the bench of the nuggets this offseason and collecting money. Yes Did not even get in the game once. Juju, thank you for joining us. I know you saw the voting much different than the fan voting. Caitlin Clark voted the ninth best guard in the sport, according to her peers. Yeah.

I think it's some context that has to be added there. You feel me? Caitlin has missed seven games due to injury. And as we all know, your best ability is your availability. So I think that's what's happening with the players. A smidgen of hate, I can't lie, a smidgen of hate to be number nine. I would go about like number five or six,

but yeah, her missing games played a big part in that. We were talking about transactions among the men. How about Vegas and Dallas? Surprising. I hate it when players are traded and are totally surprised by it. Had no idea it was coming. Right. That was a big shocker. Nellisa Smith traded to the Vegas Aces. And we all know her girlfriend, Dijonay Carrington, also plays with her in the wings.

So they were both blindsided. They both took to Twitter and told us how heartbroken they are. But it's not a bad thing to get to play with Aja Wilson right now. And Dallas is more in the rebuild stage because they got a lot of big players over there, but not necessarily a lot of space to play them. So I think it's a good trade, but still definitely heartbroken when you gotta leave your shorty. That one hurts there, but you're saying you're putting the spin on it,

but I get to play with Asia. It's like, it's like, it's like, That right there is also probably one of the other places where we won't get to full equality amongst both leagues. Thank you, Mike. I'm glad you brought that back up.

Can you imagine Ballon Tunis and Sarich are dating one another? Oh, what? This is awkward. I can't imagine it. I'd like to imagine it. Hey. Right, and Mike, you took a little bit of steam earlier. We had this conversation about a month back

with the girls from Jocular, the Jocular podcast, Adam McKay's new podcast with TN Tran and Katie Kershaw, where I asked them, when am I allowed to dislike a WNBA player? Now I have a little more context than you have with this angel. But I see Marina Mayberry, I'd be like, I don't like her. Can I just not like her vocally? There you go. I appreciate that perspective. And I also appreciate you falling for Dan's trap

of making me an Angel Reese hater when I just used her as an example. But that's true equality. To be able to irrationally hate an athlete regardless of gender, that's when we know we're even. Roz has just sent me a text that says that Angel Reese Eastern Conference Player of the Week, please show this to Mike Ryan.

To Ryan. To Ryan. Sweet, can you clarify? Number one, it's Mike. And number two, I don't hate Angel Reese, but now I do. 24.17, rebound seven to six in her last game, too bad timing on that one. But we all know my brother Mike don't hate her at all.

Until now. Until now, thank you. Mag don't hate her at all. Until now. Until now, thank you. Maga Mike Mondays is where we're headed. Top five handles earlier in the show. Surely you had opinions on that list. What did you think of AI climbing into a bracket where he could be found with Kyrie Irving? Yeah, that inspired me to make my own top five

NBA handle list ever of all time. Maybe we can get to Greg Cody's list of one, maybe. Maybe one handle, no? One handle, I can, yeah. Oh yeah, you're asking nicely. At the end, we'll close the episode. We'll get the big finish of the top one Greg Cody handle.

Thank you for doing that for us. Do you have it still, I mean? It's written down. Okay. I mean, it's committed to memory. All right, go ahead, Juju. It's a lot to remember as you know, so many. Oli, Stevie franchise. Tier four, according to that bogus list. All right. Number five, Jamal Crawford. Wow. Number four, Jason Williams Williams white chocolate He should be number three that's bullshit. Yeah, right number three Allen Iverson the answer

Number two Kyrie Irving Irving. Yeah. Here comes Pistol Pete. Wait a minute. What's he gonna be put higher than Kyrie Irving? Guns up. And number one, Skip to my Lou, Rafer Austin. No! Disrespect. He gotta fire up the Pistol Pete BHS. Geez. My God. Rafer Austin. He palm the ball. I mean, Skip to my Lou. We will get it at the end there, Greg Cody, from you. Number one handles of all time. But let's update some polls first here for us, Juju. Yes, sir. And while I get grabbed the polls, Billy, I got a little something for you. Chelly is allowed to be angry, but she should be a little bit more angry at herself from Love Island because Ace, Coco was very good. Coco, he eliminated Coco with thinking, you

know what? This is going gonna bring me and Shelley together. Ready to close things off, it looked like. Exactly, and soon as he let her back in, she said, oh, I wanna keep things open with Chris, the 6'8 stallion. And now he's in love with Huda, but Huda did take it too far. Neither here nor there.

Does there need to be a match in order for there to be a rematch? 97% of the audience says, yes, there does. We're going to have both small, small brains. Got to think bigger. The last poll, is it okay for you to say that you've taken a bigger crap than someone? If you say respectfully at the end, 69% of the audience says, yes you can. Yeah, what a victory. Billy always a man of the audience, a man of the people. Go ahead and finish us up here, Greg Cody.

The number one, top one handle of all time when it handles a nickname and not handling a basketball is? The leather loop strap on a 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air bit wordy I'm glad we waited for it. Couldn't come up with five when you got one that good. How can you come up with four more? Played hurt, delivered a bar.