The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Ghost of Rudy Gobert

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Greg Cote wants Anthony Edwards to go tell a walrus he has a bigger penis than him and Juju shows us some vintage gems from his closet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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DraftKings, the crown is yours. Juju, what do we got? What they do, what they do. We back again, man, after another two for three week. If two for threes game, if we had $10 for every two for three we have, we'll have a trillion dollars by now. Quote me. What's up Stu? I love that you're back for real for a year. You're looking handsome as ever. Thank you, Juju.

First leg, you feel me? We gonna go with, these guys gotta get it done tonight, somehow, someway. And their superhero is Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers. I'm going over 24.5 points for Kawhi Leonard tonight. In an elimination game, they have to have you feel me? Also, the first the second leg, I mean, I'm going with Carl Anthony Towns. We would all prefer Carl Anthony Towns to get on that block and be a big man.

Like Izzy said, let's stop talking about his voice. Let's stop talking about anything. Let's see that boy get in that pain and be a big man. But tonight, he's not going to do that as well. I'm going over his three-pointers. Over his three-pointers. Great setup, man. Over 1.5 three-pointers for him.

He's going to be playing that perimeter like we hate that he does. Last leg, I'm going. I said Kawhi has to get his points in order for the Clippers to survive, but I don't think they're gonna survive either. I'm taking the Nuggets, plus 6.5 points tonight in Los Angeles, rest in peace to the Clippers season. I see you guys. Wow, so you got them on the money line.

It's not just plus six and a half, you've got Denver beating them in LA. I got them beating them, but I'm a coward and so I took the put the points You've been okay. I actually love that feel like I feel like it's a bird. It's a plane Oh, yeah, it's James Harden in the playoffs being Trively as he always is so yeah I understand why you would arrive at that position Greg Cody is there any particular reason in the last segment you decided to offer a contribution of the ghost of Rudy go bear

I thought it was apropos He's right about that. Yeah, why what do you mean? He's right about that? It's apropos. How is it apropos? If he heard Rudy go bear, he's like, where's Rudy go bear. What has he even done the ghost of him? Yeah, you know that kind of thing. I think when you're beaten by Rudy Gobert, you know, you feel a little upset. That's my dad's move. Juju can speak to this. He's in the fantasy league. During a fantasy draft,

if you draft somebody over the age of 30, my dad is just gonna say, the ghost of Derek Henry. Okay, great. It slays in a fantasy draft. It what? It slays. It slays. During the break, you also said,

for reasons I couldn't quite discern, like as soon as the segment ended, your father for reasons I couldn't quite discern, like as soon as the segment ended, your father sort of muttered under his breath, did you know the walrus has a penis the size of a Louisville slugger? Right. I mean, you know. Greg Stadler, huh? Right.

When Anthony, when Anthony Edwards says, you know, my bleep is bigger than yours, say that to a walrus. What? That is what he said. Say it to a blue blue whale that's what he said during the break i don't know why exactly but he waited till the microphones were off to say it i'm thankful for that uh... juju you may have seen recently uh... in our feed uh... juju's uh... ali who show is getting very popular it is covering the playoffs slightly better than we do around here.

Do you have any bonus playoff thoughts for us here, Juju, as we head into the polls and some Belichick talk? Hell yeah, man. Mark Williams from the top rope last night showed America and the world, reminded him of us that the Lakers passed him up. And as soon as they lost the game last night, he was there with a smiley face tweet.

He did the meme at the funeral, like, yeah. He didn't get over it. We thought he got over it, but nah, bro. He was just as salty as we thought he was. And I give, like, I think when Anthony Edwards is getting double teamed every single time down the court, and it opens up the way for Rudy Gobert and the other people on the team to really have a night that they had. I think he's

allowed to celebrate, you feel me? You're like, Ant-Man, Batman, Dome Out of Lakers in five. All last night was Chef's Kiss to me. The ghost of Rudy Gobert. I don't like that we never went anywhere from Stu Gatz's first words on the show, which is, how do you imagine Nico was celebrating last night? Because was there a quiet Jeremy Tachay fist bump? I was just saying that to that. Like, where, what, what? He slept like a baby.

Slept really well last night. Do you think that he did any egg work on X where he's an anonymous account just firing off some Luca tweets, Luca's fat, overrated, and he likes the hookah too much. Someone from Niko 76443 to egg. That'd be too obvious. Egg on Twitter, you think that one's too obvious.

You think Nico is brighter than that, do you? It's like math for life. You think he'll cover his trail well with a great deal of meticulousness. He flees the Lakers, I mean. Yes. Not yet. Yeah, Nico was celebrating last night.

You got to know, you feel me? I came on here with a pretty bold take that the Mavericks were winning the trade. I wasn't specifically right, but this is kind of what I envisioned. I never thought the Lakers was gonna get over a hump this year. And I think that the rookiness in JJ Reddick

showed his ugly head throughout this series, walking off from press conferences, not playing anybody but the five in the last game for the whole second half when you got a 40 year old with all those minutes deciding now to bring back the ghost of Maxie Cleaver for an important game. Like, I don't know, but I think he overcoached and overthought in a lot of these situations. You feel me? Did you love the Rockets Warriors series, everything about it, how physical it is,

how Dylan Brooks is Dylan Brooks thing all over the place. Draymond Green is Draymond Green-ing all over the place and they're clearly going after Steph Curry's thumb. Right, right. I love, like you said, bro, they're going after the thumb. Dylan said, look, you out here, if my ankle was bad, I would expect them to go after my ankle. I wouldn't have said that into the microphone, I would have just left it theater of the mind. But hey, they don't, they clearly don't like each other. Jimmy Butler said earlier in the series, nah, that what you saw between me and Dillon Brooks, I do not like him. We're not playing. We're not going to be cool playing dominoes later. They don't like each other. And Spencer last night, like he said earlier, him getting in the face of Shangoon, that really kind

of got the bitch kind of like riled up, more riled up than I would have preferred if I was a Rockets with that big lead. So yeah, man, I think that series, it might be over with the next game because I don't see the Rockets, that their offense is so stagnant, you know what I mean? Like without the big night from Fred Van Vliet,

which is a sentence right there, I don't think they can keep that up. Where'd they get Spencer from? The guy looks like me. When I saw him I was like, I did the Leo DiCaprio, shh. He's a lacrosse guy. Stygots.

It is a little bit tough though when your entire foundation with Imae Udoka, and it's a good foundation, is to be tougher than everyone else, and then you get Draymond and Jimmy in the first round. Like the whole, when your whole thing is, we're gonna just be like super, super physical,

oh, oh, that doesn't, and then next thing you know, Draymond Green is out here and he's saying a bunch of things to Jalen Green. That last Draymond Green game, like, you can't throw him into lava and not expect him to be someone who gurgles more than everyone else with elbows and foreheads and knees and kicking you in the junk. He was the defender on Alper and Shangoon

on that potential game winner, right? Why would you call a play for your player to go up against arguably the greatest defender of all time For the win, you know for an individual player though your best against their best I mean, I don't know if you like Jalen Green better, but they seem to trust and goon more he is here's their all-star this year He is not necessarily their best closer. That's been their issue this entire season They don't have a closer get somebody who can even if're not, even if you want to go to Shangoone, get somebody else to collapse the defense because you're not doing it with Draymond

Green in front of you in the mid-post. Yeah I would prefer to see them use a pick and roll in that situation. Try to get the switch off of them at least, but that one-on-one did not prove fruitful at all. What did you have for us, Juju, in terms of your general mortification at the amount of old clothes that was poured out here? My guess is your closet has no crap in it. Oh, yeah, that's, I mean, I think you, I don't know about that.

I think you forgot who you're talking to right quick, because a lot of times I be having stuff on it that y'all would not even imagine. For example, this hat right here that I wore a couple days ago, this is from the 1988 Pro Bowl, like literally from the bills, 1988. And I got a couple of stuff right here. This is from 1996, the Olympics here in Atlanta.

You feel me? It's too clean, but Juju, it looks beautiful though. It looks okay, okay, you got some, but it doesn't look like, look, I'm not criticizing that you've got stuff from the 90s. I'm just saying you took better care of it than Greg Cody who clearly had it under some furniture in his garage.

Need moth holes. Yeah, you gotta have moth holes in it. I got some moth holes. Salute to Enrique Iglesias Tour in 2011. You feel me? I got that. I pull that out every now and then. We got, like you said, two clean

stuff. Anthony Mason, that doesn't count. Get that out of here. Jalen Rose, 1990, whatever. You can tell by the night. Yeah, but that's nice. All of it is good. I can't help how I keep my stuff.

This is a real original with with the light, the mold on it from 1990. A Mark Gobin, you feel me, eight ball jackets. Not the stuff you see these days. Did Damian Liller just wear that the other night? Yeah, he had it, but he got the new version. See, that's the thing, you gotta have the eye. I'm an actual collector.

This is from the 70s right here, a Lacoste 70s. Oh, wow. Hey, just flexing on us. Very impressive. With the hood and the thing right here, the cost seventies of. Oh, wow. Hey, just flexing on us. Very impressive with the with the hood and the thing right there. You did. That's it's just what I do. You feel me? And at the top it off, I got a 1989 Uncle Luke platinum plaque, which is he getting a street name after him this weekend.

So go check it out. I have brother Luther Campbell in the streets. You dig it? I'm a memorabilia collector. You dig me? I have the lamest of the nasty as you wanna be albums, the clean version. I have- Yeah, you didn't.

I know. You bought it? Well, it was against, the Supreme Court was arresting people with the other one. Come on, they weren't gonna arrest you. Not your Supreme Court, give me a break. What was the clean version of pop that? Yes, I have to find that so that I can get back to you guys

on how awful that actually was. Did we just have happen in the middle of that segment where Izzy said that something Juju showed us was like the Damien Lillard sweater and Tony chimed in with, that is the boyfriend, Cuddy, from Seinfeld. David Putty, yeah. was like the Damien Lillard sweater. And Tony chimed in with, that is the boyfriend, Cuddy from Seinfeld. David Putty, yeah, David Putty wears the eight ball jacket.

I was wondering who that was. Brother, that's exactly Tony. Thank you, that's why you're my brother. You feel me? And that episode was 19, bro, come on, man. Look, I ain't gonna neither hear nor dare, you feel me? But Tony, real recognized, real. People buy the new knockoffs and the new the reinventions of things But this is really from 1990 right? Did you call him, Huddie? I think I called him Cuddy

That one the literal the exact one man, I'd have had this one right here since like 2001 So I like this's old for me. I will pay the fine right now. We'll get to the polls in a second. But what do you have for us on the Halliburton stuff? And what do you have for us on the Belichick stuff? Ah, man, Halliburton dad, he went out so sad. Like no matter what, you can't do that as a father.

I don't think he stood on business at all. I think he stood on goof. Like we've all been in situations where we could get out there and show, I done seen y'all do 20 years. I ain't getting online saying, yeah, that's my brother Dan Leventhal, whoever like talking crap in folks face,

especially right after a loss. Like, bro, like we say how bad it was for Stephen Jackson to go into the crowd. We say how bad it was for Stephen Jackson to go into the crowd. We say how bad it was for Ron Artis to go into the crowd. But we have to keep the goofy on Tyrese Halliburton's name, his dad's name, because that was so disrespectful. And Janice's picture of class. Like, oh, my God, I don't know how many people in the NBA would have had

that much class and that much restraint in that exact moment. Agreed on all counts. Belichick? Belichick. Okay, cool. So now go with me. We might have to play the reckless speculation. All right, hold on a second.

Let me find it here. Give me just a second here. Hold on. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless rug less speculation. You're good. All right, man. We see how much that he's let sister Jordan take over his life.

And it's very questionable. Like what is going on? So I think my boy Bill Belichick was getting into a lot of sticky situations and he was probably in a very sticky situation where he was burying something, maybe a body or something. And maybe sister Jordan was walking her dog

and was like, hold on. I know that in who I think it is over there burying them bones. And oh my goodness, you got me. Shoot, I'll give you anything you want. What? I'm gonna be your girlfriend. I'm gonna be your business manager.

I'm gonna be everything. And if you let me do that, I won't tell nobody where the body is buried, literally. Okay, excellent. It's reckless. You wanted the reckless speculation, you got it. It is reckless, it is accusing her of both blackmail and him of murder.

Yes, absolutely. Accessory, yeah. It's reckless, yeah. And murder and covering up the murder. He's good. He's totally good though, because yes. We played the sounder. Yeah, you did. Alleged murder, I told him he's good. He's totally good though, because yes. We played the sounder. An alleged murder.

I told him he's good. It is alleged, thank you. Thank you over there from the ghost of Greg Cody. He's still here, huh? A ledge, he throws it in a ledge and we're all good. We're safe. Yes, so he has killed someone, is burying someone, and she is walking her dog

and comes upon it and gets, and it's like opening a genie's bottle. I've watched that TV show. Yeah. Yeah. Little check implicated in alleged murder. Okay, excellent. Polls to update, please.

Are Pete Carroll's delicious? 66% of the audience says, yes, they are. What? They are. You don't like that? I thought that would be the first 100%. Oh, okay, so you love it audience says, yes they are. What? They are. You don't like that. I thought that would be the first 100%. Oh, okay, so you love it even more, yes. They are delicious.

Right, they're good. Can it be shrink-flation if the bag of chips you got were free? 51% of the audience says, no it cannot. How is that that close? My father got a bag of chips from Mickey Harrison that were free. It was half full. You can't accuse it of shrink flation if it didn't cost you anything.

It cost you nothing. It can't be cheaper than costing you nothing. He knows what he knows. This was from yesterday. Is there always a scam going on? Stu guys, you know what I'm talking about. Yes. 99% of the audience says, yes, it is.

Right. Did the Mavericks win the Luca trade? 77% of the audience says no, they did not. Get out of here. Why would you slowly swaying them? You're slowly swaying them two guys, slowly swaying the people. Why wouldn't they have voted yes there? Has Bill Belichick been hypnotized?

I like that one Tony. 94% of the audience says yes he has. Wow. Pablo needs to get on that. Yeah, I like yours better Juju. Does Greg Cody have fossilized memorabilia falling out of his ass? Yes. 96% of the audience says yes, he does.

Are we giving out too many statues? 90% of the audience says yes. statues, 90% of the audience says yes. Oh, there he is! Yeah! Gentlemen! Woo, woo, woo! You get a whoop, whoop. Woo, woo, woo!

That's a big win. Another thing he's been doing my whole life. Last poll is did that hat not come with instructions, a good line to say to backwards hat guy. 100%, come on. 69% of the audience says yes it is. Oh, total. A bunch of hat wearers.