The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: White Chocolate Keeps It Real

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

🎶Baby, if you give it to me, I'll give it to you🎶 JuJu gives us his picks for Thursday Thunder, Jason Williams is incredibly honest, Zaslow gives us his MVP of the Day, JuJu has a Mariah Carey recommendation for Dave, and we give Pat McAfee one last deserved shoutout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I hear this music track bed in my nightmares on some Saturday nights. I just be like, oh, man, Thursday Thunder. So let's make sure we get it right this time so it can be a sweet dream if you dig me. First leg, I'm going to the association, pulling up on my brother, Paolo Bancetto. man, aka Patrick Mahomes. My boy got that look in his eyes lately. He's been stepping up. He had a couple down games,

but him and Desmond Bain got something going. Over 21.5 points for my boy tonight in Houston. Second leg, I'm traveling. You already know the return of dominating to Phoenix tonight going against all his old homies. You got to know he's going to be motivated. So I'm going with Austin Reeves for over 20.5 points tonight. Do not bet on DeAndre A.

Take my advice. If it happens, lucky him. Last leg. Come on, man. Dylan Brooks got his hand in the cast. Jalen Green, sometimes he plays. Sometimes he's not. D-Book, he on the sideline, the newest D-Book shoes ever you ain't seen.

but them brothers ain't playing. So I'm going with the Lakers money line tonight. Lock it in with confidence. You smell. Good job, Juju. Juju, what are people saying about the show today? People enjoy us? Man, people enjoying it, man.

We've had sometimes in some weeks where we have substitute teachers and the audience is pretty loud of how they feel about them. And I've got to tell you, bro, this week has been fantastic. It's been refreshing to listen to. and be a part of.

You brothers are killing it. Of course, my boy, Zad's experience. He ain't new to this. He's true to this. And Dave, it's been a pleasure getting to know you more and seeing you as well under them bright lights. How about that, Dave?

We've put my traitorous actions behind us both. Absolutely not. That's too far. That's too far. Okay, okay. I got something for you, though, David. What does this make you? What does this do to you or for you?

Baby, if you give it to me, I give it to you. I know what you want You know I got I know that That's Mariah Carey There we go Yes sir

Definitely not It definitely wasn't Joy Division Really Oh bad What else you got here for us Juju What do you got for us today

Yeah man In the world Full of liars And cappers And people who want to put on for you I enjoy people who keep it real. And the latest person who kept it the most real is my brother, White Chocolate, aka Jason Williams. People didn't know that him and Randy Moss were high school teammates in

the basketball. So they always think like, dang, you and Randy Mike could have did something. Maybe Randy should have took his talents to the NBA. And so they asked my brother Jason Williams what his opinion of him versus the current talent in the NBA. Check it out. You and Randy Moss versus these NBA duos, I want you to tell me who's going to win. Jordan and Pippin. We're going to get beat? Joe Kitchin Murray. Yeah, we're going to get beat?

Katie and Russ. Yeah, beat bad. Jack and Kobe. Yeah, Kobe take care of all of us. Steph and Clay. Yeah, Steph and Clay beat us too. We're going to go 0 for 7. It's awesome.

It's awesome. Salute, man. Keep it real. They thought of this fun game to play. It's just like, yep, same answer. I love Jason Williams. I remember the first time that I saw him because he started his career at Florida. He was a gator basketball player.

And I went to, he was a freshman and I went to, I think it was the first ever Orange Bowl basketball classic down here. And in one game the hurricane played. And back then in the next game, the Gators played. Now it's the Seminoles, but it used to be the Gators. And the Gators

won their game and they had this white kid playing point guard freshman who dominated. And I was watching the game on my dad. I'm like, who the hell is that kid? And he won the, they give out an MVP, you know? and he won the MVP. Jason Boylems was like, holy shit, that kid is awesome.

Of course, after that year he got kicked off the team. But, like, that was my first introduction to him. He was so good. And then a few years later, you had the same conversation about Teddy Dupe? Yes, of course. And he got kicked off the team as well. Yeah, Gators, they like those point guards who eventually got to throw off the team. But love Jason Williams, man.

Juju, we haven't done this in a few days. You got some free game for us? Oh man, yes, sir, man. I got some free game for the world, man. We always want to live in the moment. That's the true, true freedom and true just living of life is to live in the presence or whatever the code is you did. And so while you're remembering who you are every step of everyday hero who's listening to this out there, remember that you're going to be 90 year old one day, 90 years old one day, you did. And you're going to be sitting around a campfire telling your grandkids.

your cousins, the people in the nursing home with you, all the stuff you did right now. So make the story fire as hell. Get out there. Don't be scared. Put the music out. Make that artist. Put the shirts out.

Do whatever your dreams is. Because guess what? You don't want to grow old with that regret because that's when it comes sour. So trust yourself, man. And get up out of there, man. Many years ago, I was on the radio. And I was challenged by my colleagues. And I'd never heard of the band named Joy Division.

End of story. Oh, no. I said too much. Headass. I haven't said enough. Juju, we were talking about Tony Dungee earlier today. He is out at Football Night of America. He is no longer going to be on the broadcast.

Fair or unfair? I think that's fair because them folks can run their organization how they want to in the operation. But I think when it comes to Bill Belichick, what's important to remember is that Tony Dungey, that's a church man. You know what I mean? He's church folks.

And he lead with that. You did? So his opinion and his bias of what a Hall of Famer represents is going to be slightly different than the next voters. And so he's probably voting in some character issues and voting on somehow this last couple of years have played out.

as far as it represents to him as a man of faith, you dig? And so I think that that may play a part in it. I don't, I didn't talk to anybody. I don't know anything, but that may play a part in why he may or may not vote. Well, you know what? And I could, I could totally respect that point. And then I would ask, so with all of that said, why doesn't Tony Don't you say that? That'd be a good lesson to teach people.

Right. That's true. Love thy neighbor, though, right, Juju? Belichick's his neighbor. He's his neighbor, but he kicked his behind and them playoffs too, like they said earlier. A lot of NBA. NBA's been back a few days.

Second half of the season got underway. Let's get to an MVP of the day. That's right. Son, I don't know if you saw last night, the Detroit Pistons got back in the wind come. They had a tough loss a few days ago to San Antonio. Spurs never lose anymore. Last night, though, yes, banged up.

Oklahoma City team, I understand, but the Pistons got back in the win column with a 124, 116 win. They are 43 and 14 on the season. That is the best record in the NBA, and they were led last night by 29 points, 13 assists, four rebounds, three block shots from Cade Cunningham. All I'm saying is, if we're going to have a conversation about MVP, Somebody better start talking about Kate Cunningham. Been talking about him, boss. The crazy thing is Tom Havissel wrote about it,

and since Tom Havisra wrote about it, the odds have shifted heavily to Kate Cunningham's favor. I've got the stats right in fitting me right here, gentlemen. That's why I did my voice like this. On Drafking Sportsbook, he moved from 14 to 1 to 9 and 2 during this stretch over the last week. I think that was Tony. That moved the line. Well, Tony got it because he read time.

I was sure. You stole it from him? Yeah, I just... MVP Of the day! I looked at the numbers of all people. And the numbers indicated, hey, Kate might have an interesting chance. Criticizes other media members for stealing takes from you

in which they never actually heard of your take. Insane. I think it's also important to remember that with the amount of games that the Joker and SGA has missed, they're almost on the line of not being eligible for that MVP award. So you might have a case right there, you did? Juju, if there was one song that you will recommend to Dave Damashek from Mariah Carey that he needs to get up to speed with, what are we going?

You know what? I'm going to take it old school and I'm going to go for a heartfelt one because someone needs to learn a lesson about life and liberty. Let's go with hero by Mariah Carey, because it seems as though you need to listen to that and just look at a flag fly, brother. You can go break down, which featured bone thugs in harmony, and they did the impossible.

They somehow harmonized with Mariah better than boys to men did. Break, break down. Hey. Steady rig me on down. Still breaking me on down. That was hard. She was so hard.

She was gorgeous in that video. She's gorgeous all the time. But that's when she said, you know what, I'm hopping out of this tire. Tommy Mottollas in my back. Yeah, no more jeans shorts. Gorgeous all the time, huh? Gorgeous all the time. She shows up on my algorithm.

All the time, dude. All the time. Mariah Carey. I saw a suggestion. Anytime. Absolutely. And she's a big listener of the show. But Mike, we should get the fans involved with these LeBron Bronny's shoes situation.

Because we need to make this noise loud. whatever contests we can get are gone, but we need to send this all the way to the top to make sure that Bron and Bronie hears that, yo, I wanted these goal guys. What are these? Juju, I mean, what was your take on how I played myself there? I'm not even blaming.

I know this is a bait and switch, and what Nike did was very mean. But I'm embarrassed. That ball went off me. But I got tricked, and the intention was to trick. I understand, bro, as an aging veteran myself, I don't know how to buy shoes. sometimes, man. I'd be like, oh, damn,

those shoes come out tomorrow. Where do I start? I know I can't win them here. Do I go to the store? They laugh at me in the store. You're trying to get a pair of ease. You walking in, you want the ease? What a idiot. Everybody, look at this asshole. It's exactly right. The

industry's got to be turned upside down. That's like me going to a box office saying, one ticket to Taylor Swift, please. They laugh me out of the room. That's funny. Juju walks in and grabs the shoe off the rag and looks at this asshole, right? At 13. What are you buying there?

Right. On the way out of here, man. Also, listening at DLS Hoops, man, the Alley U.S. show with me and Trista on YouTube, as well as the Goodfellow Show at Goodfellow Show, wherever you get your podcast. Listener of the day, Pat underscore Rick B, I see you, fam. And lastly, much love and just hearts and every type of unconditional love goes out to Chris Bosch right now and his family and everyone who celebrates and love the big three here we got send that brother some love man get well soon brother that's some scary shit that he was going through he

talked about it on his Instagram account about waking up and having blood all over him from obviously he's had the blood clot issue so prayers and shouts out to Chris Bosch and also shouts out one last time to Pat McAfee yeah let's get up yeah thanks juju thank you guys