Postgame Show: Juju's Victory Lap
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I am indeed going to sit down for the first time all show today, not just because I'm exhausted and not just because Juju shamed me earlier by saying that that was lame, but because I want people to see that behind me, that is Juju Gotti on the court in Boston.

confetti all over the place. I really don't know. This is one of the great mysteries at Metal Ark, how Juju gets all access to all things that is better than any of the access that anyone else gets. What are some of the other criticisms that you have of today's show, Juju? I was stunned when

that you wanted less Greg Cody talk. I thought that you were the world's leading authority on wanting simply more Greg Cody talk wherever it is that we could put it. Nah, it's not that I don't, by the way, it's not that I don't want Greg Cody talk. I want all of us to be on one accord and know that this is a fantastic idea to put the billboard up

If we don't, brother, we want all these, we want to make fun of everybody's tears. We make fun of Taylor. We send him on the bus to New York. We make fun of everybody's tears until it's our turn. So weird. And this has the potential to, this has the potential to skyrocket

the numbers, the YouTube numbers, the views, the social media following. Nah, because not my team. Uh-uh, you're going to jinx them. That is the lamest thing I've ever heard from other grown-ups in my life, in my opinion. But I love all y'all. No, I'm with you. I, I, but,

what do I do? Juju, I'm not kidding here. I think people think that some of this stuff is a bit, and sometimes we turn up things that are true at an eight. Sometimes we turn it up to a 10, but the things that generally happen around here tend to be true. And what's happening around here is as the founder of this company, I don't,

don't actually have power over this because Chris and Roy and Mike are going to genuinely be mad at me, genuinely hurt and genuinely not forgive me for doing what it is that you're saying, which I think is not only a must. I think it's the easiest thing in the world.

juju for us to risk becoming the big joke at the end but there's just cowardice all around me and they are genuinely bothered by the fact that i'm considering any of this and i don't know what to do at this point because i just want to do it but they're not going to forgive me look at

Chris Cody shrinking in his seat right now. I just don't understand what's the difference. Why can't we do it after? Because one is cowardice and one isn't. We've never put up billboards predicting losses. One is brave and one isn't. One risks egg on the face and one doesn't. Like,

Like, what do you mean? What's the difference? Them the same people who wanted to put Josh Allen has a stupid face slash Billy Gill when the football season. But now it's their team. Now they care about something. They want to be all, I get it, bro. I understand. Just call it what it is. Don't disguise it in, I think it's not funny right now. Don't disguise it in that. You scared. Say you're scared. I'm very scared. Don't put all

on us. We want to make money because we a business putting up billboards, brand business for us, the company that y'all spend so many tireless hours dedicated to your life to missing out on your daughter's functions and stuff, dedicating your life to this job. And then when we can capitalize the most, now y'all care about y'all damn team more if they win or not.

I don't understand that from some grown up men who like money, but maybe y'all don't like money the same way I do. So salute. I love all y'all though. Y'all my brothers. And if somebody jump on y'all, I'm coming full force. No, I think that your criticism is fair. I too think it is weak and I think that I'm torn here, Juju, because look at what

they're doing to me on it, right? You notice what they're doing. Hey, Dan, at the arena, they're saying F you. You got seven or eight pants. You got eight. People say F Dan to me. I was at the arena and somebody said, Dan, you're a bad guy for jinxing my team. I love so much that I don't play for it all. I just love them. Oh my God, Dan, I have to endure 20 whole people.

Saying they didn't like you yesterday While I was spending thousands of dollars on the team I love, what are we talking about? That's why you're mad, Mike I love you, Mike But you're mad because you spent all that money Thought you was going to see the cut that day Be patient, the cut coming tomorrow

Tomorrow, be patient. Don't turn on the company, though, just because you don't like or you want to jinx your teams. I actually got the exact opposite of that. I got a lot of people being like, your dad, dude. Like, funny. Like, people kind of get it. Like, I didn't get a lot of people genuinely mad. I got a lot of people like, how funny is it that your dad's at the center of Canadian news?

or maybe mike just a good actor maybe he's just selling this no no no no no no capacity because i underestimate his acting chops nope nope this is all real he has threatened to quit he he says i've already ruined it and i'm i that one that one juju i'm so genuinely confused by because i jinxed it allegedly by approving the mc overrated t-shirts on lebitardaf.com after

which the Panthers won the next three games. You jinx. The next three games and held Edmonton to four goals, which is about as much as you can ever do over the course of the season over three games. But I don't know what, I legitimately don't know what to do if there is a game seven, because if I'm going to have to address this next week, I know people are tired of this, but I'm torn, Juju, between, look at

the allegation they're making in me. Dan, you've never been against the South Florida team. I don't know how this becomes against the South Florida team. Like, I'm just at a total loss for how that happens. As much of a loss as I am for how it is that this happens with Steve Levy when I didn't have anything to do with this.

because at the end of the day

however it makes you feel like this is the height of the hockey world this is the biggest thing in the entire world of hockey and they are mentioning our show during that broadcast if you can't find the cool in that and you're more worried about what he's saying i don't think you're cut out for this industry brother they hated jesus he's

Come on, brother. We got to keep it going. And speaking of Jesus on sidebar, it's amazing to hear how much grace McJesus got for a couple of the games during this series because he gets assists and he just does more. But the game, a couple of games in the playoffs, Jason Tatum was receiving a lot of hatred, but he had 11 assists, 9 rebounds, 18 points.

I'm sorry, when did that become something to snark at in the finals? 11 assists, 9 rebounds. He's not doing enough at that point. So I'm glad, neither here nor there, but you see how with this graces being showed in certain places, Aaron Rodgers do some shit, Kyrie do it. So it's like, hey man, we got to remember what we're saying into these microphones. People can hear and remember. And speaking of such,

I told the world Celtics in five we are gonna go clean these boys up

nobody it's like i says a tree fell in the damn woods because if amina hassan has said that we will set up a dunk tape in milwaukee for all his haters if charlotte wilder said that oh my god we probably have angel probably couldn't wait to sell those t-shirts but the kids say it and it's just nothing ah he's just uh i've been doing an nf nba show all year long the alley oop it's been going wonderful i've had nothing but

expert after expert come on and be wronger than me. I told Zach Harper and my sister Claire this exact thing would happen. Oh, Luca doesn't foul. Oh, so did the Clippers. The Clippers tried that. The Timberwolves, they were the number one. Get

the hell out of here expert who's working for all these esteemed companies and he deserves it because he's such a great analyst but not better than your boy sitting here in front of you has been telling you these things all year you keep paying these folks to come on your show and I'm telling you just how your boy on neither here nor there but I think Conor McDavid will go down tomorrow against the Panthers

I think it's both here and there. It is not neither here nor there. It is both here and there. I want to get some of your other criticisms from today's show, but something that I hadn't mentioned about Dallas that I think is interesting because Luke is getting killed and I don't know how many I'd read reports about shots to the ribs.

shots to the leg that he needed, you know, pain medicine extraordinaire. But one of the things that happens with the finals, because we have to blame the loser, is no joke, the Dallas Mavericks are one of the most improbable teams to ever make the NBA finals. It is one of the rarest things for a team to make the NBA finals when a lot of people didn't have them getting to the

playoffs because they didn't make the playoffs last year. The idea that Dallas' season would, I know you're about positivity, the idea that Dallas' season would crumble in a heap of criticism when it's one of the more improbable runs that we've ever seen in playoff basketball. Again, Juju, this doesn't happen where teams don't think that a finals team is worthy of making the playoffs. There were plenty of people who didn't think Dallas was going to do anything by returning Kyrie Irving.

Right. And I think it just goes to show you how much those trades at the end of the in the middle at what all-star break. They made the trade for Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington. Those were the pieces that stepped up early in the playoffs against the Thunder, against the Clippers, against the Timberwolves. Those guys stepped up and contributed in such a way that once you have Kyrie and Luka go off that.

plus that equals a W. But when the lights are so bright, some of these folks, they're getting all this attention for the first time in the NBA Finals. Lively, Gaffer, and the gang. Who else? Tim Hardaway didn't even really touch the floor other than that one blowout win when he went crazy.

It's like the structure around Kyrie and Luka were the things to me that did not show up in series. Luka, I mean, he did his best he could but certain people like myself, I remember you asked me who would I rather face in the Timberwolves versus the Mavericks. I said I would rather face the Mavericks because of this right here we could attack the only weakness you got that they had, which was Luka Doncic's defense.

And he complained to the refs so much. It's like he has a couple of things to grow from, which a lot of people who make the finals for the first time experience. Jason Taylor and Jalen Brown a couple years ago experienced. He had no left hand. Bruh, go work on your left hand. Go work on this. You feel me? And then...

It will happen if you stay dedicated. I think that the Mavericks are in that sweet spot that now that PJ Washington, Gafford and the gang and Derrick Jones Jr. Now they feel like, nah, I was in the finals and I came up short. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I feel like moving forward, it will help them. But that Western Conference is so tricky and so amazing.

They might not even make the playoffs next year. So I definitely think this loss is going to hurt Dallas as long as – the longer we get into the future, it's going to hurt more and more. But –

Some people called it. You keep coming back to that, Juju. I feel like you're getting plenty of credit in the mirror for what it is that you correctly predicted. What other criticisms do you have of today's show? I am definitely having some difficulty between the people who do like hockey who listen and the people who don't like hockey who listen with the amount of hockey we're talking because a team they don't care about is a team we're obsessing over.

But it's so much people is so many people in the chat today. I would say 10% of the people who tweeted us took the time out to tweet us. And I'm not speaking for 10% of the audience. 10% of the people who took the time and tweeted us. They say that you were wrong, Dan for for all of this stuff.

90% of the people say that might need to calm down and realize that this is good for the show. Some of the sentiment we got, you know what I mean? It's just, it's so many other people saying that. I don't want to just point out one or two because it's on one accord. I think that

We should lean into it. What should you say to Chris Cody here, who's sitting here? We've got Greg tomorrow. Chris is sitting here, and he's sort of shrinking into his seat because he sides with Mike. No, no, listen. I see both sides to this. I just don't see the value in putting it up before the win. Not everyone listens to our show. You act like if in Edmonton, let's say we lose this series.

If they see a billboard that says Greg Cody was right, they're not going to be like, oh, this is Leavitt. They're just going to be like, these dumbass, did they put it up too soon? Who cares? You know what they're going to say? Look, and you know what's rich, Dan? Coming from him. Mr. Zion's shoe exploding was good publicity. Mr. Everything is good. Mr.

come on brother like what we're talking about chris cody my brother and i hate to do this to you but you are the exact wrong person to be having this stance right here my brother don't you see it in it i get any pub is good pub but it's just like if the pub is these idiots like what like no this is the we're the joke us risking becoming the joke i'll leave it on this okay but the the

part that annoys me the most about this genuinely is everything you're describing, Chris, is my favorite joke. The one only our audience gets is my favorite joke. The one that people are driving past the billboard and we're like, what's wrong with these idiots? I don't have a... Our best joke, the best joke this show does is annoy Dan.

That's the best joke that we do. Lord knows I'm tired of that one. The fact that you guys won't let me make my favorite joke because you're cowards is pretty f***ing infuriating.

Exactly. And before we get out of here, Dan, this is one thing from the show today. I have to say this. And when did y'all become the Joy Police? Excuse me, I'm sorry. Jason Tatum can celebrate however the hell he want to celebrate whenever he win the damn championship. I seem to remember when you signed your DraftKings contract, you went to the roof and popped a bottle of Prosecco with Stu Goss with his shirt off on your damn daddy. So we can be like, look, some people win championships some way. Some people like to be around Stu Goss with his stomach out. I don't

I don't know what the hell going on. No, we all going to be the joy police now. The Celtics are the champions. Deal with it. It's over with. No more. We definitely sounded like haters during that segment. But Juju, you have to admit though, we did.

Felt a little forced. Bro, I didn't feel forced. When you win a championship, you can be as lame as you want to be or cool as you want to be. He made his decision. Whatever the heat got going on right now, just deal with that. Pat Riley, find somebody. Hell, SOS Code Red because you're going to need it next year when everybody better.

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