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There is more stuff about Giannis that I wanted to get into with Amin Elhassan, but he again is having some sort of stomach issues or whatever it is that he has to deal with all the time that makes him run in and out of the show. So what we're going to do is at the end of this hour, we are going to give you some concentrated Giannis talk from both Izzy and Amin on Giannis because so many people are interested and fascinated about Giannis.

what that is going to be because there's going to be very little in sports that's going to be garnering more attention than who's going to add the instant hope of we can get Giannis at 30 years old coming off of his best season. So we're going to put that at the end of this hour, a little sprinkling of oddball to go with your finals coverage.

I saw a headline the other day that I thought had been written by Stugatz, and it made me wonder what Stugatz would make of the following headline, which read, "'Coward' decommits from Duke, will stay in the NBA draft."

Coward decommits from Duke, stays in the NBA draft. I have no idea what that means. Did Cooper Flagg decide to, what happened? No, there's a player named Cedric Coward. Really? That's a terrible name. I get it. Poor guy. It is a bad name, but is it as bad as Braves reliever Scott Blewett? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

There was a kicker named Blewett, too. Wasn't there at Pittsburgh or FSU or something? Wasn't there? I was trying to think. We've talked before about Bob Walk being a terrible name for a pitcher, but I think Blewett's worse. Kenny Pickett, not bad. Chris Blewett. Yeah.

Chris Blewett. That's not the joke. That's his name. Right. Chris Blewett. The kicker's name. Yeah. Thank you. Was he from Pittsburgh or from FSU? Where am I remembering a Blewett? He was on the Bears in 2019. Not helpful. That's a different. He went to Pitt. Okay. Thank you. Blewett a terror. Put it on the poll as well. Blewett. Is it a worse name for a kicker?

or a reliever. Lifetime 40% field goal percentage. He's currently the kicker for the Houston Roughnecks. He still has a job. I want to play some funny sound for you guys from lacrosse. At the moment, the funniest sound that we have in our archive is Stugatz on ESPN calling

a game as the color man and getting it precisely wrong on a game winning situation. Here is Stugatz during his, this would be the greatest moment of your color commentary, play by play career at ESPN or anywhere else. Greatest and only. Yes. Yes. Well, it's not,

You have others, but you have bad moments that are around our team. But in terms of national pride on anything you're talking about, you calling a lacrosse game on ESPN is a broadcasting highlight for you. And for context here, he's talking about Sam Apuzzo, who's, I believe, one of the best players in this. At the time, she was the best player in the world. Yes. And you're saying here in this analysis, like late in the game, they shouldn't go to her.

They were doing that the entire game. They were using Sam as a decoy, and everyone else was scoring the goals. And so I figured they would stick with what got them there. Let's see if what Stugatz says should happen, happened. So I've noticed the last couple of BC possessions where it seems like they've tried to force Sam. Sam's tried to force something. I'd rather see someone other than Sam get the shot. And, Brick, what I mean by that is they've been better offensively today when Sam's not forcing the action, but more of a decoy than the one generating the offense.

Apuzzo. She's going. She's going. Shut up, goal in Boston College. Joggers of the Tahor Apuzzo will be heading to the national championship game for a third straight year. She was due. I mean, still a bad decision. Great call, by the way.

The analysis by Stugat sounded solid. The result is as bad as it could have gone. Actually, like the way he delivered it was as well as I was very confident. Yes. So this next analyst game, by the way, I mean, you got to say things, you got to fill time and occasionally you're going to be wrong.

Well, in this clip, we have Holy Cross versus Sacred Heart. This was a few weeks back. The Crusaders. Big matchup. And this is one of those instances where some fan realizes, oh, look, there's a microphone right there that I can get on this broadcast. So what you're hearing, you're going to hear here is just normal broadcast. And then all of a sudden, you're going to hear something out of left field. And it's just a fan who found a microphone. And now we'll get our penalty.

So Sacred Heart to the man up, trailing by two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd, Mike. What you do. Okay. The announcer getting in there that quickly before the Rhea gets out in diarrhea. The announcer realizing the predicament that the broadcast is in and coming in with an, oh,

Two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. Live.

A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd, Mike. He lets him go, though. Does he think for a second? Is this a sideline reporter? This is going to end well. You know what? I've got to say that the way that he did the sing song on a lot of people saying you wanted to hear him out. And it's not until he got to diarrhea, the key word that closes out the conversation, that things became problematic. Two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. A lot of people.

of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd mic. Fairness, that person's not saying it, just reporting a lot of people are saying it. There's a live mic. I've got to tell you, though, that once you've started with a lot of

people saying, you got to get to the end of it. Like you can't cut that person off. You got to find out what a lot of people are saying. Perfect execution by the stray ancillary sound of the person who got to the microphone and teased the broadcaster just enough to get to the word diarrhea.

And then the broadcaster's like, okay. How did he know the timing? Because this guy, like, starts talking right as they stop. It's perfect. He can't hear the broadcast. It's wonderful. Two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. Live.

A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd, Mike. I'm glad they played through it. If they do have diarrhea. Reckless speculation. I have some reckless speculation. That person sounds a lot... Wait, should I do it? Hold on a second. Hold on. You can't do this this way. What are you doing? Quit being irresponsible. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. You're good.

That sounded like Sarah Spain. Wow. The person who says, play it again. Sounds like Sarah Spain. Hold on. Let's hear him out. Two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd. Josh Allen married. I can hear a little bit of it. No, I don't. You need a good teammate, Tony. I think, though, we can all agree, I believe, that the sing-song nature of that fan...

Combined with the accusation that ends with spraying liquid shit is perfect, made better only by the announcer's discomfort comedically. Two at the beginning of this fourth quarter. Live!

- A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. - Okay, we apologize for our crowd mic. - I hear it more. - I hear it more. - I don't. - Tend to Spanish there. - I'm more confused than ever. - I mean. - It sounds exactly like Sarah Spain when she's trying to do like Chicago accent Sarah Spain.

Also, probably an inside job, right? How do you know where that microphone is and what that microphone is for? I'm not saying the person knew or the broadcaster knew, but someone knew and told someone who told someone else what that was for. And that's how that happened. Because how else would you do that as a broadcaster? I'm fine about that investigation. I'd also like a TV detective show where Pablo Torre shows up and happens to have a few questions for you about everything that happened there.

I believe that not only was it an inside job that the participant knew that a microphone was nearby, I believe it was practiced. That sentence was practiced. The conclusion of diarrhea was practiced. And the sing-song way that makes it that you have to stay with it till the end of the thought, I believe all of that is something that was not impromptu, that that was something that was given a lot of consideration. And I also believe that it's an excellent insult to file at Sacred Heart.

to say that a lot of people are saying that Sacred Heart as an institution has digestive issues that when they're in private they have liquid shit because they can't control their bowels. Is that an insult? Yes. Why? To accuse someone of having diarrhea. I love a good diarrhea. Put it on the poll.

I feel good after. A day or two after I have it, I'm good. Looking light. I go instantly. I'd say five minutes after I feel good. No way. It's kind of like throwing up afterwards. Much better. So much better than a diet, too.

Cagalitroso is a great Spanish insult. Cagalera is funnier as a word in Spanish than diarrhea is in English. And I believe it is an insult to accuse someone of having diarrhea. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. If you've accused someone of having diarrhea...

Are you aspiring to insult them? A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. Okay, we apologize for our crowd mic. That okay is just, okay. Dan, I have something here that just hit me, but I think Amin can help. Careful. So Amin, when you make a shot in a basketball game that's a random shot that shouldn't have gone in, what do you call it?

Happy birthday is usually what you say to the guy who shot it, right? A CAG, right? You call it a CAG. A CAG? Yeah, a CAG. Wow. That is something that's actually uniquely Miami. Is that a Miami thing? Tony, excellent. Excellent. Because I did not know until this moment. We've talked before about CAG being something that Hispanics in Miami say. And we've also talked before about whether that is just, as Billy likes to say, a Bafangas.

me a uniquely Miami expression, but I really didn't know until right now that... It's cagalera. I did not know that to cag, it's to get lucky on a basketball shot or to get lucky in general. I did not know that that was shortened for cagalera for diarrhea in Spanish. First time learning of that. When I play basketball, when we've always played basketball on here, like, oh, you made that shot from out court, it's a cag. Or you made the shot that banks off the side when you're shooting from the angle, it's a cag. Yeah.

You always used to say happy birthday to indicate like, okay. Now you know it's a CAG. Lucky day. You had diarrhea. Put it on the poll, Juju, at Levitard Show. What do you say on a lucky bank shot in basketball? Happy birthday, CAG, or banks open? How long have you been hearing CAG though, Dan? Only down here.

Banks open is only when you're the one who made it. Right? When you make the bank shot. You have to bank it. You got to bank it. Banks open. Banks open. Extra points if you do it either at night or on the weekend. Yes. Do it on a Sunday run? Oh, my God. Banks open. Do you guys not assume? Cade Cunningham hit a game winner earlier this year where it was from three and he banked it in. Here against the Heat? I would think that for a basketball player,

slightly diluted to hit the game winner that way. Just a little, that it's not quite as great. If there was no backboard, do you know how far past the rim that ball would go? I'm maintaining, though, that not all game winners are equal. That if a player in

the NBA makes one on a bank, it feels plenty good, but it doesn't feel as good as making it clean. Dan, the unwritten rule is if you hit a game or buzzer beating bank shot that you did not mean to bank, you have to shrug and smile like, oh my God, how lucky. You have to acknowledge that that wasn't on purpose. Now, if you're like Tim Duncan falling away and you hit that bank shot, bank's open. Yeah.

Well, he's the only one who has 24-7 bank hours all over the world, any country, any time of day. Dirk had extended hours as well. Not the same. He can get extended hours, but only Tim Duncan's got that private banker that's always answering when he's got a call. Him and you, Dan.

I also imagine Tim Duncan walking into a bank. I'm not making up what I'm telling you from yesterday. But I think you guys imagine me leaving with a garbage bag that has a dollar bill sign on the side. And it's not that. I wouldn't be smart. It was just a stack of bills that were wrapped in a small garbage bag. It was not... I had you like Santa Claus. The thing was over your shoulder. There was so much cash. Because remember, guys, it's too much money to take out from an ATM, apparently. Yeah.

So it's got to be an amount of money. The daily limit's $600 on an ATM. How much do you spend a day in cash? Again, I'm not doing it for the day. That's a daily limit. You keep doing that. Yeah, but I don't want to have to go back to the bank. I think you like going to the bank. I don't mind. I think you like interacting. You talk to your teller. Hey, Phyllis, how's it going? I sometimes go into the bank and just don't even take out any money. I make them say out loud how much I got in here. Mm-hmm.

And then I leave. I always learn my bank limits at a casino when it's like you can't take any more out. Really? Yeah.

Huh. They shame you. It's just like, yeah, you've taken it. I could have swore I had more. They're doing it for you, Chris. Buddy, you have a family. I wish I had a spot, like the bank or whatever, where I just kind of go and hang out. Like, that's my waiting room. I don't really have business that day. How about the bakery that you went to to get your patalitos? Nah. They pulled up a picture, by the way. See, not a home bakery, Dan. I knew it. This is Dan's money bag from yesterday.

It was a very small bag that I put in my pocket, but it was that material of trash bag. And it was very... I didn't even understand what was happening. It felt like I was doing something illegal. You felt alive, huh? They simply gave me... It was raining so hard. I don't know where else this is happening. It must be happening all over the world. Hold on, Dan. Are you called a 20? I am. What are you doing? I'm called a 20. Hold on. Dan, you said...

it was wrapped in the plastic and then you put it in your pocket right then if it's in your pocket why does it need to be wrapped from plastic to protect from the rain it's in your pocket uh again this is the teller not knowing where i was going to put it or if i was going to put it in my pocket big pockets it's not uh what are you doing phyllis is the name of the teller in the story you're just telling why did you just blur it was a callback yeah to the story you walk in hey phyllis how's it going how are the kids exactly phyllis gives you some mints

Are we still making Phyllises? Only at the bank. Do we do mints at banks? Yeah, yeah. And banks, I have a question for you guys on a technicality. We're going to take a full time out here. You go into the bank...

Banks have pens. You know what? I'm going to take an eight-minute timeout. Well, I'm answering. You go and you have... Eight minutes! You go and a lot of banks have pens now that are on those chains so they don't get lost or whatever. So they don't steal the pen, yeah. But if it's the cup and it says, like, Regions Bank, I don't even know if that's still a bank, but whatever. The bank is there and it's all a bunch of pens in a pen cup, right? And you take the pen and then you go home. Did you rob a bank?

You robbed something from the bank. Did you rob the bank? Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm following you here, Billy. Now I have some follow-up questions. The pen, does it have like a piece of paper at the end and a lot of scotch tape around it? No, not this one. This is a high-end bank. Just a regular pen? Just, it's a cup of paper.

It has a pen in it. You take the pen. It's locked in with one of those little tiny ball and socket pens. No, no, no. He's saying it's a loose pen. Loose pen. Loose pen. But it has the bank's name on it. There you go. That was the second question. It's branded. If it's branded and it's in a cup, that's yours to take, man. Really? Thank you for banking with us. Okay, what if it was on the chain and you're in a pinch and you go and you take it off? No.

And then you walk out. If it's on a chain, you're stealing. You're a bank robber. They chained it there for a reason. In and out bandit. They don't want you to take it. One of the things COVID did to us was at these doctor offices, at all appointments now, when you sign in anywhere, it's here's the clean cup. And then when you're done with it, put it in this cup. We're done with that, right? Can we get back to just cups? Put the pens in the cups. Chris, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think anyone ever followed the rules on that one. Sometimes I go crazy. I grab from the dirty cup. What's a cup situation?

They have two cups. They have pens in one cup, and it says clean. They sanitize pens now, so it's like there's a...

a cup full of pens, you take one, once you've signed with it, put it into the dirty cup. - Into the next cup. - Chris. - I never dealt with that. - I'm with Chris, let's just sign it and put it back in the cup. - Hold on, hold on. Chris, you have them sanitizing, I have them just switching the cups like this, alright, this one's pulled out. - To give the appearance of sanitizing. - The clean is the dirty, the dirty is the clean. - At this point, I'm with you, yeah, I mean, what are we doing here? The idea of someone still to like, ah, let me, well, yeah. - I wonder what the day was. Like, what was the day that you're like, you know what, I'm done with this.

Because you know how they tell you, like, oh, this is the last time you ever play outside with your brother and sister. This is the last time you were in your yard and you ever played. You didn't realize it at his time. Like those sentimental, like, posts, whatever. There was a day for everyone where you're like, you know what? I'm done with these protocols. Not for me anymore. I'm moving on. I'm no longer wiping down my groceries with wipes. I'm no longer sanitizing my pens after I go to the doctor. I did mine about six months before I admitted publicly. Well, that was everyone's move. Right?

we were still in coven we would come on the air like how dare people go to concerts and then this weekend like oh you're gonna go see this weekend i live in arizona and i work in florida and i can tell you unequivocally that there are plenty of people where it never began they just get i remember that first day tampa first day i went outside i was like okay i gotta go to the grocery store and i masked up and i had everything and i just i thought like i'm gonna go to costco and this can be empty

That shit was so packed. The parking lot looked like Black Friday. Everyone was in there. Nobody masked up. Everyone just running around, coughing and touching things. It was crazy. God bless America. What was the dumbest thing we did in that? I'm going to say that I'm just going to speak for myself. The dumbest thing I did during COVID was hold my breath.

Hold my breath while walking by someone in a grocery store. Oh, you meant that. I thought you meant the most reckless thing you've done. No, like I'm walking... Wait, you actually did this? Oh, like... I'm not playing that game. Like took the job. Wait, wait, hold on. I want to hear more about this. You were walking through the grocery store. And as like if I was going in an aisle and someone was passing me, I would...

Yeah. You did that as well? Yeah, of course. A lot of people were doing that. Was the other person doing it to you? I would walk off the sidewalk onto grass mounds and wave from six feet, six feet. And I would go up and things. And I was off-roading just with my legs. I think the wiping down of the milk carton was pretty dumb. I was washing milk cartons. And then I'd be like, oh, I missed a spot. I've got to go back and scrub it all over. But we had the indoor-outdoor clothes also. I think that was a common thing. I don't think I ever did that.

I think, I mean, like, I don't like, well, yeah, you're talking about taking off your clothes before you even enter the house, right? Well, I was in an apartment, so, like, I would come in and then, like, disrobe right in the doorway and just walk through. What a time to put on my other clothes. How do you think us now with, you know, young children that are growing up,

When they, like, publish, like, the new history books or whatever that come out, you know, in, like, 20 years. Because history really only happens in, like, 20-year increments as far as schools go, I think, right? Like, it's like, well, this one was printed in 2004. So hopefully nothing happens until 2030 because that's when the new edition is coming out. We're not updating any history between now and then, right? No chance. So when this comes out and is, like...

And your kids are in, I don't know, seventh grade, eighth grade or whatever. And it's like, so in 2020, right? 2020. 2020. It's this worldwide pandemic. No one could leave the house and you had to be in there. And then your kids are like, you went through this? What's the play? Let's all get on the same page here. So we tell our kids, what is the play? It can seem worse. A lot of video games. Are we like, man, it was...

You're never going to experience anything like this. Hopefully, if you're lucky, you will never experience anything like this. You'll be like, man, it's kind of chill. I'm not telling the truth. Talk to people. Got to work from home for a while. You're going to do the 15 miles to school every day kind of thing. We're still there. This is the thing. My kids, obviously, they went through it. They were in school when it happened. But my grandchildren, oh, I'm going to tell them.

Wow, it was a crazy time. And it'll be like Mad Max. I'm going to describe Mad Max. The bodies were on the floor in the streets. We were going around like people, one guy had a guitar and he was kind of like leaning back and forth on the front of this truck. There was a Tiger King. And I mean, you have to talk about how, like the measures you went to to protect the grandchildren, the kids, everything.

Well, I think the devil is in the details, right? Obviously, the medical stuff was very serious. A lot of people lost their lives. We're not making light of that. But once we get to the toilet paper section of the history, that's when it's like, and you had to go, and there wasn't toilet paper for weeks on end. And you had to go buy toilet paper, and you'd have to get a tip from someone. This is where the toilet paper is. This is where the good stuff is. That's where I had to go to Charmin. That's where the Angel Soft was. In New York, they used to, at the end of every day,

They would open their windows and take pots and pans and clang them. Oh, that was so annoying. To celebrate the people. Not in New York, but the Italian cities where they all decide, oh, you know what? We all play the trombone now. And it's like, I would have moved. I would have moved. Honestly, you open the window like, shut the fuck up. You're enjoying your silence. I can't get out of my house. Stop. You guys are terrible with your instruments. Stop it. Content creators exploded.

in 2020. That's what really happened. Everyone after that went out and bought a Shure mic and a webcam. The Shure mic. And that's when everything fell apart. I love it. Great year for Shure mics and blue mics. Oh my God. And weights, free weights. Oh, free weights? It never recovered, by the way. I wanted to get a pair of dumbbells for the house, like 75 bucks each. I'm like, 150 bucks for 25 pounds? No. And then you're like, you know what? It's going to go back. And it never did.

Sure must have meetings weekly of like, how do we get the pandemic back? Oh, Zoom for sure is out there trying to put out diseases into the world, right? The pandemic made Zoom, though, right? Yes. Killed Skype somehow. Wait, so you guys are accusing Zoom of trying to create another pandemic? Get your act together, Skype. Not trying to, but they're thinking like... You know who made a killing off of the Zoom blowing up? Andre Goddard. No.

He was invested before the pandemic. What? Yeah. Why? Get out of here. Dude, man, the guy's just smart. Seems like he knew something. Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go. Maybe it's that. Maybe it was an inside job. Golden State Warriors did this. You think Steph Curry knew? The luck of Andre Iguodala. I mean, seriously. It's not luck. He's shrewd. I'm sure he has some losers in there. Carl Anthony Towns? Coming up next, the mean oddball. Set it up for the people.

We're talking about Giannis Destinations, folks. Is he coming to Toronto? Is he coming to New York? Is he coming right here to Miami? We're going to look at it. We're going to talk about it, me and Izzy. Stay tuned. You don't want to miss it. Yeah.

All right, y'all. The Super Bowl is in the rearview mirror. The draft has come and gone. So now what? Now it's time to get the crew together. You keep the fandom energy going. It doesn't stop when the Super Bowl is gone. We gather. Exactly. And look, just because the pads are off doesn't mean game day stops. Around here, we do game days, even in the offseason. And what better way to do that than with a cold drink?

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Don Libetard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No. Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan. Where can I find a breakfast like that?

This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stoogads. Izzy, finals are in a couple of days. We got that little dead period media that hasn't happened yet. So there's not enough stuff to talk about. So what we're going to talk about is apparently Giannis Antetokounmpo could be on the move. Yeah.

That's the thing that everyone's talking about because he is the biggest superstar on the market. The free agency market, not really sexy. Giannis, that's sexy. And so we've got to find the sexiest location for sexy Giannis to be sexy under the bright lights. And we start, of course, on Broadway, right? Right, right. With the New York Knicks, not just because they were recently eliminated, not just because when Giannis was eliminated, he was seen walking the streets of New York City, but because the spokesman for New York,

Stephen A. Smith said something in regard to Giannis. And we have the quote, but we also have sound of the quote. So here it is. Let's play the sound. If you've got an opportunity to get Giannis, I don't give a damn who you have to give up to get him. You do it. That was Stephen A. Smith himself. I mean, we mentioned it yesterday. You like the fit.

I don't know of a team that's going to say, hey, I don't like the fit of Giannis, but you like the fit of Giannis in New York. You think what level of possibility is this? Let me be clear. We'll start with one thing and one thing. It was just we're not talking about what you got to give up to get him. We're just talking about he's here. OK, how does he fit? I think he fits pretty good. Look, the Knicks clearly need a couple of things. Number one, they need consistent offensive production. That's not named Jalen Brunson. Right. Number two, they need subpar.

someone who can be active defensively. Ideally that same player. Same player. Yes. And so Giannis fulfills those things. Giannis on his part is, is not known as a closer because of his shooting struggles, because it's free throw struggles. Who can forget Brickin' for Chicken? Who can forget Chris Whittingham famously saying that Giannis was a number two to Chris Middleton. I could forget it. I want to forget it. I never want to remember that. Okay. Never remember that one again. But the Brickin' for Chicken thing is real, right? And so Giannis,

Jalen Brunson, the best closer in the league, would, in theory, be a great fit. Counterpoint, that's what we said about Damian Lillard two years ago. Ah, true. I will say that Jalen is a different style of player, maybe not hunting for threes as often as Damian does, which probably would be a bad thing, right? Wouldn't that clog up the paint if you're the New York Knicks, if Jalen wants to drive all the time, but so does Giannis? Look, I don't think...

If you're talking about not worrying about who you give up for him, you can't really discuss it with the Knicks because you're probably going to have to give up Carl Anthony Towns, which most people wouldn't really say that it's like not even give it a second thought. Of course, you make that trade. And so if you're upgrading from Kat to Giannis, it doesn't matter if it fits particularly well. You just do it. Yes, absolutely. And by the way, any other combination of people, too, because, again, Giannis is a transcendent type player.

who just had the best season of his career. A lot of people are like, oh, he's passed his prime. I'm like, nope, you're looking at his prime right now. Can we do that really quick? Because again, I grew up in a time where the prime was pretty much detailed. Like it was explained, hey, you're in your prime from about the ages of 26, 27 to about 32. Like 33 was the high end of it. He's still 30 years old, to be honest. And in today's age where you feel like we're extending ourselves beyond our prime,

You could imagine his prime being well into 35, 36. So that conversation to me is out the window. Well, I mean, that's like Michael Jordan's prime was like most people would have gone by the definition, the first three Pete, but he was more dominant in the second three Pete, certainly a smarter, more cerebral player.

and the Bulls were way more successful despite not having way more talent than they did in the first three-peat, yeah, I would say that the prime is whenever you're playing your best basketball. That's what it is. So it's clear he would be great and welcomed and they'd tear down the streets in New York. Yes. What about Miami? Since we're here...

They've always been tied to Giannis back when he was available the first time reportedly. He's got some ties to Bam out of Bayou. They asked him, hey, what are your favorite cities, your favorite place in the league? It's on Twitter. And he responded unsolicited. He said Florida cities. Yes. But this feels like a situation where Miami is just out of its depth, right? Not only when you have the Bucks GM saying or reportedly taking the approach of we're going to tear down the roster or –

strip clean the roster of whoever we trade them to. Miami, A, doesn't really have a very attractive roster, and B, hasn't really shown the willingness to part with some of those attractive pieces. So it's really a non-starter, isn't it? It reminds me of the line from Dumb and Dumber, where they break into Lloyd Christmas' apartment because they're looking for the briefcase. Mm-hmm.

And like most other movies, I've only seen this the one time. So you're going to have to remind me. It's the two henchmen and they walk in and the one henchman says, maybe we like make a mess of the place to send a message. And the second henchman, henchwoman, I should say, looks around and says, I don't think they're going to get that message. It's like, we're going to strip clean to send them a message. And then you look around like it's pretty, it's pretty clean as is if you're Miami. Look,

Yeah, look, Bam Adebayo is not something to sneeze at as far as a starting point, right? Right. If it's Bam Adebayo and Tyler Hero, I mean, it...

It's pretty cool. It might as well be an expansion franchise if you're the Miami Heat getting Giannis and stripping everybody else. Right. But the flip side of it is if you're the Miami Heat, your claim to fame is we make lemonade out of lemons, right? We are the ones that squeeze blood out of a rock. And so you tell Giannis, look, we'll get this thing operational around you. We'll get tough guys who are going to play well. And obviously you're coached by the best coach perhaps in the entire NBA in Eric Spolstra. That's your sales pitch. Unfortunately,

I don't think it's the Giannis sales pitch that they'd have to worry about. It's the Buck sales pitch where you're telling them, hey, this is the best you can do for a Giannis offer. All right. So I don't know how much Giannis cares about repeating somebody else's path, but this was a LeBron path, right, to Miami. What about the Raptors?

Well, we had the Kawhi Leonard path there, obviously won the championship, and there has been a little bit of smoke when it comes to the Raptors and the possibility of him heading there. Yeah, I mean, and there's definitely a connection, right? Yeah.

There's a very famous video of the Raptors' war room on draft day 2013 trying to move up because they're trying to get to Giannis. They're trying to get to Giannis, and unfortunately, they could not. They just miss him because the Bucs take him at, I believe it was 15, I want to say? 18. 18, right? So he knows, Giannis knows for a fact,

They love him, right? Masai specifically loves him. Masai is Nigerian. Giannis obviously comes from a Nigerian family. You're right at 15, by the way. There was somebody else famously taken at 18, but that's another show. Okay. But, you know, you've got that connection there. Masai reportedly helped Giannis get his visa when he first came over here. So there's a lot of connections. And then obviously the Raptors have a history of going after players of African descent with, you know, Siakam,

OG Ananobi, Precious Achua, just to name a few from the conference finals alone, right? - Makes me sneeze. - So I think there is definitely an affinity there.

Again, it would be kind of the same situation we're talking about Miami. It's like, Giannis, are you prepared to go to what is essentially a rebuild? And it comes back down to, I trust the front office and I trust the coaching. Now, the difference between Miami and Toronto is that Toronto actually has some stuff that's a little bit more savory to offer. Is it some stuff or not so sweet, but savory? Scotty Barnes, right, would be...

Future face of the NBA, according to his coach. Seems like a positive, obviously, somebody that the Bucs would want back. And this was a quote from Brian Winhorst really quick, where he said that the Raptors are trying to look for a big fish. So you would imagine that, and this is also Doug Smith, who's been at it forever at the Toronto Star. He reported Giannis and the Raptors had some mutual interest there. So there is, like I said, a lot of smoke there. I don't think...

janice really cares about repeating somebody else's path it is what it is right he's already done it in milwaukee so nobody has the path that he took um but to me you're right it's one of those situations where it's like the miami heat if you give up on scotty barnes what do we really have there it's not like a kawaii leonard situation where he was forced to go over there and didn't have an option you know if i'm the toronto raptors you know what i don't as i'm trying to see you know all these people trying to court to try to court john horst the gm of the bucks say come on oh man we

Peach Pants League, Scottie Barnes. You know what I don't want them to see? The video of Scottie Barnes rollerblading. Because he's like, oh, Scottie's like a five-tool player and he's young. He's the sky's limit. He was an all-star for the first time this year. And then the video comes out and you're like... Yeah, one of those tools is not rollerblading, apparently.

And this, of course, is not Toronto. You can tell by looking at it. This is in Florida. And this is very much a Florida thing. Like Scott is just sitting on his couch and say, you know what? I'm going to try rollerblading in the middle of a busy intersection. Yeah. One of his teammates posted this and said like he actually fell immediately before this video starts. It's totally believable. He's going to mess up that face of the NBA. All right, Izzy. Let's go ahead and tee up the next possible destination. Where could that be?

What? The Houston Rockets give up on their homegrown talent that they clearly have enough of to win a championship just for this guy? No, I'm kidding. Of course, I do think that the Rockets should look into like they've already gone from up

and coming team to team that needs a quote unquote, like finishing piece, if you will. Obviously Giannis is more than that. They would have to, you know, probably give up on Jamar, Jabari Smith, Jr. Probably Jalen Green, probably one of those young guys on the bench, maybe a Cam Whitmore, which I think if you're a Houston Rockets fan, you're saying, okay, fine. Like I'm fine with that. Just keep me, leave me Sengoon, leave me maybe the backcourt if you want, but if you want to touch the backcourt too, leave me a men Thompson.

If you want to bring on Giannis, do it because that is like win the West automatically. It's like in Half-Baked when they break the noose to Kenny. Hey, we found a way to post your bill. I saw the movie just once. You're going to have to tell me exactly what happened. We got to bail you out, Kenny, but it's going to involve selling drugs. I know you're proud upon that. And Kenny's like, go. Yeah, go sell drugs. Do what I mean to do. Get me out of here. All right. Well, I think...

I think we have to get the headlines, but there is a possibility of the thunder. Let's do headlines tomorrow. Let's finish out with the San Antonio Spurs. How about that? You want to put them next to Wemby Yama and then have like 18 million feet of just length everywhere on the court.

They'll allow like 14 points a game. This is the most beautiful version of defensive basketball we've ever seen, no? So we're moving on from, we're not talking about who they have to give up. We're just talking about the vision. So they would effectively be like the anti-warriors of 2015, right? You won with all that shooting and not that much side. We win with nothing behind.

butt size and defense. And you know what? Every once in a while, make a three-pointer. Like that to me is if you want to go ahead and just talk about leaving your imprint and like changing the game, you won your little championship in Milwaukee. You became, you know, the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Llewellyn Sindor. And now you're going to do absolutely wild with the San Antonio Spurs. That to me is the gamble of all gambles and the move to make.

Yeah, I can see that. I mean, again, it's like Robinson and Duncan being together, where Robinson's still a great player, but then you got Duncan coming up in his prime. All right, well, we got one last thing. We got another soundbite from Stephen A. Smith. Turns out he was watching Oddball live. All right.

I mean, I asked the person they should to me is a defamatory abomination of linguistic gibberish. His acting is almost as bad as this ridiculous man's roll of writing abilities. They should both stay.

The weed. Look, I've been a colleague of Amin El-Hassan's for a long time, and I don't think I've actually seen him smoke anything. It's not really his drug of choice. I don't think that was an actual Stephen A. Smith quote. Really? Really? So I shouldn't defend you blindly? I'm going on a limb and think that one was doctored. All right. Look at him rollerblade. He looks like a baby giraffe.

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