TH
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Investigating the Office Donut Crime Scene
From Dan Eviscerates The NBA Media Over Kawhi Leonard Story | Hour 2 — Jul 1, 2026
Dan Eviscerates The NBA Media Over Kawhi Leonard Story | Hour 2 — Jul 1, 2026 — starts at 0:00
Heat up your fourourth of July at the Home Depot with our wide variety of grills under three hundred dollars and make every gathering one to remember. Give your outdoor space a glow up. Wh whatever your budget is, with savings on seasonal plants starting at five dollars. With the grill fired up and your backyard set to perfection, you'll be able to invite friends and family over to kick off the party Start celebrating with low prices guaranteed at the Home Depot. Prices may vary h stor exisions the price see Home Depot com sign priceash for details We are listening to the Dan Lvatar Show in partnership with the Draftin Sports Act, now live in all fifty states If you've been with us a lot over the last five years, you've sort of seen us struggle to get up from a bit of an audio enterprise into a video enterprise that is now going three hours live every day. And when I say it's three hours live I don't think that many of the people who are listening to this sort of remembering all of the changes that happened around here, that there was a point toward the end at ESPN for the better part of eighteen months or so where we were basically doing thirty two minutes an hour. Everything else was commercials. So what you were getting of us was a lot less than what you're getting of us today when we're going mostly commercial free through those three hours. It ends up being lot more content than what it is that we were doing when we were encumbered by radio. So I remind you again that we're doing this for a while. It's going to be everything we're doing here between nine and noon is going to be live and it's going to come with without the safety net. So what happens is that Jeremy has a bit that he's been bothering me about for I'm going to say three months that he's wanted to go to And I haven't gone to it for three months and then we go to it and the sound doesn't work on it. and I never want to see it again now. Now I have a I have a very bad reaction. Awesome to what that is becauseony sabotaged I don't I sabotaged Oh it was me. I don't trust us going to a lefty when I'm doing that and that's what ends up happening Part of the fun of live for us always at ESPN. I'm gonna say the most fun, the thing that made it most dangerous is that we could sink into the mistakes in a funny way I'll let you know when we learn how to do that here when that when when that happens when we're throwing it to an audio clip and a bit. just so you know back here the appetite to have fun with those mistakes has always been here. Yeah. Okay. Well, go ahead then because I don't want to do the segment anymore. So go ahead and have fun with what I'm Mad. what I'm going to call mistake No, your tone's great. Go ahead and have fun with this mistake. I stayed several hours after the show. I had multiple days for that.. I wasn't ready to have fun and then Dan went into his thing and now Let's do it He dry humped them dance, sent them to the pen. He started warming up all of a sudden you pull them out of the game like what do we? Gohead have fun with it. show me what you got. Sh me how you Oh no, this is he. That's a great way to do it. Just keep throwing your arms in the air. I'd like to see you have fun with this segment. I not wanted to do this segment for three months and then when I go to it on a very busy day, that's how it goes. That's all right. All right. here. let's play it. Let's all have fun Gher ving fun Standing at six eight, two hundred and twenty pounds. Wait Six eight He is the wokest of the woke An ally through and through. Diversity is our superpower. Climate change is real. Our favorite leftty, Jeremy Tashe I got a top five female lip comedies from the last tenine years. All right Oh will Ie rough night Number five, Girls tririp. Number four, Ladybird. Number three, bottoms. It's a good movie. Number two, no hard feelings. Number one, bookmart That's fun. Are you Are you eating Yeah, you told me not to talk anymore so. Well I thought it was part of the bit. You're coming out of the pen, you got chewing Yeah. Yeah. I thought was good that was the bit. I thought you were a chw dog. Yeah. Let's get back to Greg Cody's catchphrases here because we're at number seventy improbably and implausibly months after starting with number fifty, we're now at number seenty. Yeah, not a short bit But again, I'm gonna say that again because of the absurdity of what's happened here. Months after starting on a top fifty catchphrase list, we are now beginning with number seventy. Y the bit that keeps on giving. Number seventy. Number seventy, I'm fuller than Verne Fuller. sixty nine. Where's my click click sixixty eight, hey, butter finger sixty seven pint sixty six. Clinton. sixty five. I'm busy in the one armed paper hanger, sixty four, George up Georgia. sixty three. I'm the kind of guy that's sixty two ball in the jack sixty one. Hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby. sixixty, thank you, Billy. fifty nine of them like a pet. fifty eight. Wh made it a salad fifty seven, We're rolling now, huh fifty six, your brain beating me. fifty five. let's hear it tonight. Let's go states. fifty four, driver comfort is paramount. fifty three, Dummy up, save up fifty two catches catch can, fifty one doesn't make it right fififty, so on and so forth. forty nine. very good forty eight, the Little League theory, forty seven, nice hat asshole, forty six, the others, they all learn from me. forty five, don't go showering to try to please me. forty four. Look at that jerk Fty three, It's like a packing house in here. forty two. What'd you learn? forty one. He haul three, buta forty. I'm not going to take a quiz. thirty nine Sassa Fz. thirty eight. would we break a window? thirty seven. hello thirty six, who won thirty five trailers for sao Rin. thirty four. You got to eat a pick of dirt before you die. thirty three three words. We are the loobos. thirty two. you're going to go to Buffalo Bernie Pmy thirty one Rppy Kack thirty. anotherother crisis solved twenty nine. nice chatting with you twenty eight. He ain't heavy. he's my blank twenty seven. Hey, that's what I'm talking about twenty six my favorite, by the way. twenty six. Wh let a pet. If it's your favorite, why isn't it at the time? you know, a lot of good material here. twenty twenty six, who let a pet twenty five good on you. twenty four dancing swwords, twenty three, QK quick crap twenty. twenty one, blanking it And now twenty twenty one. what just happened there? just told us earlier that What happened I don't know. I'm confused on what is twenty and what is twenty one? What is twenty two as well. Okay, twenty Okaykay, twenty three is QK quick crap twenty two is bad. twenty one is blanket it. Oh, so this is a new one. twenty one is blanket it. Is that a new one? or You were out last week. That was last week. Okay. Okay, now the new ones are number twenty and number nineteen. Okay, I have a number of different questions here. The list feels a little bit degraded because you have so many great ones that are that were in the fifties, but now they're in the seventies, L how many left So many great ones left. I know, but still I'm the kind of guy that deserves a better faith than sixty seven or whatever it is. Yeah Okay. That's the be Isn't that the beauty of lists though? the debate. Should I make my list for your list You could do that. takeake my top when all' said and done, take my top seventy and rework it into your. Wait, do you want to be the wry? How about this? Would Greg Cody be willing to make it a top seventy two list in honor of Richmond Webb? Who's not number seventy two? That's not my best moment. We move it to seventy eight after.ight All right, so we are now in the top twenty and you're alleging that we're going to stay in the top twenty because a cou the val top twenty Tple weeks ago A couple of weeks ago I thought we were at number eleven and now we're outside the top twenty. Okay. I thought we were about to enter the top ten.. Yeah. What number are we on right now that you're revealing for the first time on the Greg Cody showh featuring Greg Cody W Yeah came out Monday U Number twenty That's a fact, Jack What! That's twenty! twenty twenty Crect. Holy shit. The forerunner of all these songs ending in Jack. How good, how good are the next nineteen gonna be if that's twenty? I thought for sure that was a top ten Hall of Fer. We'll find out, won't we? And number nineteen Gotta wanna learn, Gotta wanna earn. I like that guitar Oh my god. There's no way those two are at the back end of the ninet thir We're gonna to be in the top ten a week ago. That was al. al. That was gonna make us soar into the top ten a week ago with like holy shit, one of these last nine gonna be? but now we got nineteen more. What else does Bret say? Well you see what's left overver for the top B. Pay nine more weeks. Allegedly. We don't we don't know it might become a top seventy two M Christmas will be done. How long will this bit actually be if we're going seventy It's thirty five weeks. We're talking over half a year. Yeah, that's correct. I'm trying to set the Guinness record for longest bit. Longest podcast bit So on and so forth. Is Is it longer than Chris Sims is didnn't he give us what was it? the top seventy? He was on with us daily for two months because he was giving us was it his top seventy quarterbacks that were better than who than Blake Bordles or what was it? I don't I don't remember what the bit was exactly or the numbers. Do any can anyone help me with it or top seventy quarterbacks and he joined us basically every day. He missed some. So yeah, it would probably be three months max. So this is this is absolutely approaching on the longest bit in show history, secondcond actually only to There's never been a fifty fifty poll Excited for summer, hosting a pool party, a barbecue, We or just looking forward to some relaxing time at home Orkin they've been building their best knowledge and expertise for one hundred and twenty five years and they know that no matter what your summer plans are, most people don't want cockroaches involved. shocking, right As supporters of summer plans, both big and small, Orkin is here to stay one step ahead of Pest so you can stay one step ahead of your schedule Visit forkin. com today for a free estimate Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks. I know it well. It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Quervo walking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Queervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it but again It's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it Cuervo. Cuervo, baby. For twenty two years on this show, we've debated the greatest athletes of all time Who's the goat in football? Who's the goat in soccer? Who's the goat in hoops? One thing that we all know is Dan's the go to finding the worst possible take But there's another kind of MVP slash goat that doesn't get enough credit. The friend who knows to show up with enough Miller lights. plus extra ice because they just know. the one who already has seats at the bar when you walk up is a millerim NV P I've been on this show long enough to know that Dan is going to make everything about his feelings and Jeremy is going to push back on whatever I just said. But here's something nobody on this show will argue with Miller life is the summer beer The original light beer since nineteen seventy five. This summer, recognize your MVPs. We all have that one friend who makes every game better. Now it's time to give them their moment. Head over to Miller Light's social media pages to learn more about being a Millerime MVP. You can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller Time. Celebrate responsibly, Miller Bwing comppany, Milwaukee Wisconsin ninety six calories And three point two carbs per twelve ounces Down Lebatar. I want to address Tony and all men Who would wear that shirt in public? Gre Cy, don't do it. This is thelevatar show Congratulations, Greg. You have now entered the the vaunted top five of Lest Bs and we'll see how much longer the top twenty goes because because it's been amazing and I encourage all of you to follow the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody where he unveils these for the first time. beforefore he gets to here and we get his recycled usages, he gives us the good stuff on the Greg Cody showhow featuring Greg Cody. Possible Jeremy'sefty bit will catch Cody's list? Yeah. that could last. Oh, I sure think so. For month after month after month after month That would that would work. We're just slow playing it I liked it You should play it in slow motion with your voice like talking very slow. I want to ask you guys some good idea. Let's export that. F From the transactions from yesterday, I am genuinely curious here how the American public is going to react to the following because I haven't quite seen a story happen this way before in my entire journalistic lifetime. and it happens to be that Pablo Torory finds out is at the middle of it, okay? The reporting that Pablo is doing is so far out in front of what anyone else is doing on this subject matter covering how much did Steve Balmer and Coi Leonard possibly cheat in Los Angeles And what can Adam Silver actually do when he works for Steve Balmer and everyone's telling you the league wants to keep Steve Balmer happy because money wins the day now in America more than ever in twenty twenty six. What you have with this story that is just unbelievably unique is One reporter has all of the information. and so anyt timee he talks about this, all of the people who are interested and they are many Go to him to find it because he's the only one talking credibly about this subject matter So the rest of the media gets to not make a story aboutout What's this punishment gonna be? becausecause it's pretty clear that this is as egregious as anything we've ever seen from cheating and ownership in American sports if it is true. And Pablo is making the case for it in a way that's bulletproof. Bulletproof enough This company Our company believes that the fact based truth of the reporting is such that we're willing to invite Steve Balmer If he's got a problem factually with anything that's being reported to be really threatening in a way that's personally scary to me. personally scary to me as someone who's responsible for the people here and the journalism has to be airtight when you're going after people who have money to make a mess for you and it doesn't even have to be airtight. When you have to fold your cards like CBS in front of the presresident of the United States and make a nuisance lawsuit go away for sixteen million dollars when you're in the right on the journalism and you still can't withstand the money pounding you. The reporting that Pablo is doing is vigorous and more difficult than anything anyone in sports reporting is doing And I think they're going to end up getting away with it because of the way the things have happened in the last few days, where Lawrence Frank, okay, who famously handled the preseason press conference with a butcher's knife after having months to prepare for it, told you a week ago publicly, we're building around Kawi Leonard Koai Leonard is a part of our plans. Publicly, he is saying to everybody, we want to keep Kaoi Leonard. And a week later, everyone's like what? Toronto. Wait, we had bud? We know everything about the transactions. This guy's a universal mystery He does weird things, He behaves outside of the sphere of everything. Nobody really knows him. He's the most unknown superstar you'll find just about anywhere in sports that isn't from a foreign country. Kawi Leonard is at the center. of what is quite possibly the most scandalous thing you have seen an owner do when it comes to doing wrong Allegedly, as we've seen I don't think at this point, given what's recently happened and where it is that they'll try to bury this in the news cycle whenever they try to bury it in the next couple of weeks, where the punishment is going to match the alleged crime like because you've got the head of Toronto is the board of governors guy and he's the guy most likely to make a big giant mess about the fact that Toronto had their star champion players stolen by what if you believe the reporting is millions and millions of dollars on the side outside of the salary cap. Like I just can't believe that the entirety of the media isn an up and down screaming on where is this investigation? And what are we going to do? Doesn't the media love a scandal Is it that you just don't have enough information and feel uncomfortable just borrowing it from Pablo? that you can't report this with the intensity it deserves as you're just sitting here in the middle of the news stream and you just saw that another country got a decorated champion out of nowhere quietly. And everyone's just sitting here shrugging their shoulders saying What's the punishment going to be as it gets delayed and gets delayed and gets delayed and looks more and more obvious like there's not going to be much of a punishment or not a not a punishment that matches what the reporting deserves on this. Well, not a punishment too C Right, which which I mean, I brought up a few days ago. I I don't know how much Kawai is going to be punished. Maybe the clliippers will still be punished like whatever. they should be, but it would appear that You can't punish Kawi now. He's on a different team. Why should the other team who by the way, like you said, lost him to said team in LA because of what they did illegally. You can't now punish Toronto. Well maybe the part of the trade is to try to make this whole thing go away. I believe the reporting and it's backed up by pulitz surprise winning reporting At the same time, if you're Adam Silver You want it swept under the rug. And if you're another reporter, if you're an NBA reporter anywhere else in the country, you just got your ass on a big Greg, Greg. O its face, these details make this one of the great cheating scandals of its time. If it's true, that can't be swept under a rug in the modern age of scandal and journalism in what world? And what world with what moves Can you actually sweep it under the rug? You cannot take the penalizing system of that sport seriously anymore. if what happens here isn't a penalty that sort of matches the idea this would be if true and it seems like it is true based on just the facts of the reporting. I'm going to say this part again because I think it's important because I think it gets lost all the time as people shout fake news, fake news, and nobody knows what goes into the making of the news. Pablo's reporting Risks. The richest man in sports, if you get anything wrong Anything. drowning you. drowning you Money that he keeps in the guest house of his fiftieth house. just You have to get everything right here and it's got to be air tight. It is the hardest thing to do and only Pablo's reporting on it. n Pablo' giving voice to this as we've told you now for years The media is compromised by corporate interests There is no incentive for today's media that is fighting to get all of the basketball games on their streaming networks There's no incentive pressure on Balmer There's no incentive pressure on the money. As ESPN drops jobs every day and journalism gets pushed more and more out the door as they say to themselves understood as a business concept, I don't want to do journalism anymore. Why are we doing journalism? Journalism gets in the way of everything. Journalism muddies this up, but the numbers show Everyone goes to Pablo every time he releases one of those eleven episodes because he's the only one giving people the real truth that's somehow in the shadows that's not being covered in a way that respects the sports fan for the amount of interest and investment that they put into these things. You cannot tell me as much about federal indictments and what it is that John T Porter was doing and ignore that the richest guy in sports, if you believe some of this, invented some bullshit job in order to get Caoi Leonard out of another country when everyone wanted Coi Leonard And everyone's just going shrug and say, ah swept it under the rug. They did it. They got they got they fooled us. They did it on a Friday. They did all the maneuvering in front of it that makes him go to Toronto of all places. L who had him in Toronto? A week ago, who had him in Toronto? not even Lawrence Frank, but Dan, I think the interesting part about reporting on this is that Pubble is an outsider, right? Like he's not NBA insider. He's not a guy that's connected to teams to agents to GMs to the league office. He can sit out from behind the wall and be like, all right, I can report this in a way that only I can because I don't need those people to do what I'm doing, right? I can do this completely outside in a silo where if I'm One of the big news brereakers in the NBA, like I need to be making sure that I'm in lockstep with what I'm doing to make sure that I get my story. So are you guys okay with all that? Because I'll ask you guys again this as we've built an entire company around the idea. No, we think there's still a lane for journalism. We think we think as everyone else goes in the other direction and sixty minutes gets pounded by one of these rich guys A sixty minutes gets dust smithereens because a rich guy comes in and that's what they can do with their money. tellell me what to do about everything that I just presented in front of you where if you want real and true sports coverage, they're going again and again to Pablo because they're like wait a minute. Why is this so much different than everything else I'm consuming over here? And I ask you this question seriously. What is the media's job around a scandal when they're compromised with all of the conflicts? If this is indeed just the hypothetical, donon't even make it this one Hey, I'm going to present to you one of the great cheating scandals of all time, period. Why is the media not covering Because of their partnerships and their conflicts. Well, I would conflicts it it Is it not because of what you stated you're very afraid of Th Th these companies have so much more money than what we're talking about here. so much more to lose. Just to be clear If we're all Pulitzer winners, like you've said many times, can we all get brought into a class action lawsuit? because if so they can have my my Pulitzer. I'm good I't want the smoke. So I'm talking here to Greg Cody who cares about like I'm going to leave this alone because I know I sound bad, but it's just it's both genuinely frustrating to me and genuinely confusing though we benefit from it because Pablo Tori's podcast has the trust of its audience because he's doing the hardest thing, the hardest way. Everyone's got a microphone, everyveryone's got a podcast. Who's gonna to do it better than everyone else because they're meticulous There are no breakout podcasts in sports unless you put the Kelse' together and have Taylor Swift involved. likeike that's not a thing anymore. There's just too many people podcast business. I've told you terrible business for all but a few because there are just too many people at microphones Pablo is doing is hard to do. So while I sound like I'm lecturing the media, I do understand how It's really hard to have anything on this story, but I've been bothered by No one's looking. Like it's not there is no one trying. They have given Pablo that corner and anyone who wants that information and the numbers explode every time he puts out anything, they're all getting it in only one place. Do you know how unusual that is when you've got a star of this magnitude, an owner of this magnitude, and what could be a scandal of this magnitude and you're like, where's the news here? and what are you going to do There has to be public pressure to punish for silver to punish. Otherwise it's just going to do what the rich people want. it Is it fair to assume that There are other journalists like NBA journalists. Paba's not an NBA journalist, you know, other NBA credentialed media they're afraid of losing their access if they get involved in this. That's a possibility. ESBN has done some stuff on this, but it is entirely possible that From what I've seen, Pablo iss the only person with this type of information It is he's won an award for it. I know, but may the other people are trying and they're not they don't have the juice that Pablo has on that be But that never happens. when when all of a sudden there's an Epstein scandal, then all of the reporters gatherered. when there's a Joe Pterno Nity lion Penn state scandal, then all of the reporters No one ses the corner And this isn't a small story. L you may be tired of it but we're talking about two different things. like they may not be capable of building on the story, but I think you're absolutely right and pointing out like, okay Forget building on it What's been laid out in front of you, why aren't we doing more with that You can always tell when a new business trend shows up because suddenly everyone starts talking like they invented it. Right now it's AI. every company says they have an AI strategy, every consultant says they have an answer. Meanwhile, most businesses are still out here trying to figure it all out And that's why there's Net Suite next You probably already know about NetSuite, the AI powered business management suite trusted by more than forty three thousand customers. It securely connects your financials, inventory, commerce, HR, and CRM into a single source of truth But Net Suite Next takes it even further AI is built into everything you do It services custom insights throughout your day. AI agents help solve problems and handle routine work, and when you have a question, you can simply ask it like you're talking to a colleague Net Suite is customized for a wide range of industries so it supports the way your business works Whether your company earns millions or even hundreds of millions, it's time for NetSuite next, where your business meets AI. For the first time ever, you can try NetSuite next for free. If your revenues are at least seven figures, go to netsSuite d. a slash dB built for every industry, ready for every boardroom Net sweite. Ai slash DOB The knockout round is here and Draft Kings Sports has he covered for every single match. The Draft Kings app is now available in all fifty states and includes all markets. Bringing the action straight to your fingertips wherever you are New Draft Kingss customers sign up with Code Dan, spend five bucks and get two hundred dollars in rewards within twenty one days. That's Code Dan In partnership with Draft Kings, the crown is yours Bet with DKports Book, gambling problem C call one eight hundred gambler one eight hundred My reset, Connecticut call eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven, or visit ccPG dot org onn behalf of Boothill Casino in Kansas. Bet tax passth through may apply in Illinois. twenty one and over. Void in Canad. Event contract trading with Draft Kings' predictions involves risk of loss Availability varies. Bet to get bonus bets that expire in seven days. Trade to get fifty dollars in predictions dollars that expire in one year. issued every seven days via click to cllaim for twenty one days. O non withdrawable reward redeemable. Predictions offer void in New York. ends july nineteenth. Terms at dkNG dot co slash audio Down Levatar. This is the quickest it goes Hey, this is the quickest it goes! Great Cy. Everybody, this is the quickest it goes! Yeah. This is the Leata show. Are you okay with the media being so compromised that the NBA could successfully sweep one of the biggest scandals allegedly in its sports history or in sports history under the table, a no show job paying millions outside of the salary cap in order to get Kawi Leonard Great reporting and I'm interested in it. by there's just so much overt corruption everywhere that a salary cap circumvention in the NBA Don't register. And fair enough, once you've gotten to the point of Donald Trump getting two billion dollars according to him sayaying it himself two billion dollars from the office. I guess we are a place we're at a place where everyone's numb to this. So the what used to be a scandal before in all of America is less of a scandal now. and we're going to go ahead and say, we're better with cheating than we've ever been now in sports. right We're better, Greg. I think that we're just broken by it Especially with the rich and powerful, they do what they want seemingly with impunity I understand. this is a little trickier because yes, Steve Balmmer is technically one of Adam Silver' bosses, but he is cheating to get one over on all the other bosses of Adam Silver. Allegedly This is a competitive advantage the salary cap circumvention, which other owners would be upset about. I'm surprised that the other owners are reaching out to sources driving this to Maybe they're afraid that it opens up a can of worms because we don't know how how prevalent this is. That's the weird thing to me is that the other owners should be in favor of of punishment for this behavior because it cheats them. This behavior cheats the other owners, but it's going to be up to Adam Silver to do something. When Adam Silver meets out some punishment Then you're going to see it reported as news by the rest of the media. Great, but where's there to punish, right? The clippers don't have any draft picks going forward. They just lucked into a draft pick with Vitzubots being traded where they got the number five pick. They trade a Kai Len so the playerss on the team or the contract's gone. Toronto's not going to get punished. This is the perfect crime, right? There is no punishment. You Adam Silver can't sit there and be like, yeah, here's the punishment. They don't they don't have draft picks and Toronto's getting Toronto can get punished. There is very recent precedent. again, totally different crime, but you could argue even though I would argue against it The Miami Heat were punished because Terry Roser got suspended for something that did not happen on their watch The player ended up getting suspended. that player was not available to Miami. his value was totally nuked. So there is very recent president that suggests that if there is punishment for Kai It lands on Toronto Per Samstrania, free agent Center Nikola. Vuchvich has agreed to a one year three point nine million dollars deal to return to the Orlando magic from the Boston Celtics, But speaking of the Boston Celtics, free agent guard Mike Connlly juni. has agreed to a one year deal to sign with the Celtics. Can I ask you something on the Celtics front? Why aren't they in this LeBron conversation? I understand the fit and I understand LeBron's noted rivalry there, But if they have to move on from Jalen Brown, they're in win now mode Why whyy haven't we heard anything about them? I I don't think that he would ever go play for them And and I don't think that that fan base would ever accept him playing for that. And he he went back to Cleveland after what Dan Gilbert did. It's not the same. He's considering going back to Miami and that relationship until very recent video evidence of him finally saying alllo to P Riley was a super frosty relationship I don't understand if he wants to win now I think he can move on. It's not like Boston will be like Still booing him. Well, he's coming off a fifty million dollars a year contract. Are a lot of other teams afraid that he's going to demand that kind of money so they're not even in the ring? There is no one who's going to give him that kind of money. that That place does not I should say I should say that differently. Any one of the franchises that needs an economic boom and would like to have his last year, none of which he would ever go to because they're small and losers those franchises would be interested in giving him money just to have the circus show of LeBron in their uniform. But among the contenders, there are none who can give him the kind of money that he wants. It have to be in trade. Yeah It would be a sign in trade and They're trying to find a spot for Jamalen Br. I'm just curious why we haven't heard anything the kind of money he want. He wants to be paid the max. He deserves the max. He's a player who bu who's underpaid even if he gets the max because of what he does to the economy around your business independent of basketball. He's not going to get what he wants that He's not going to be able to get the maximum amount of money allowable as the oldest player in the league. He's going to have to take discount of some kind because there is no one to give him the money that he wants. Theoretically here in Miami If the heat wanted to do that and if LeBron wanted to do that and you attached the salaries of Nikolaovich and Andrew Wiggins, even potentially with a future pick LeBron could get forty six million dollars, which is four million shy of his max for what it's worth And he says he wants the Max and he says he will not take a discount and it's not available to him what exactly he wants, which is probably the first time in his career that's happened. cororrect? Yes. And it's also just why it's total bullshit to me, this idea that he's going to go sign somewhere for six and a half million dollars. It's never going to happen. He's been pretty clear on that front that the money does matter. I'm confused by why Windhorse is reporting that the money doesn't matter because How does Golden State actually make the money to the Draymond Green frees up some money, but how does How does Glden State? together a contract that would be worth even half as much as the one that Miami could offer. Uh, they would have to trade someone. In they'd probably have to trade. No, Well, they just signed him to and. They just know the way that they restructured his deal is that now that the league year is started and new, he's instantly tradeable. They wrote it into the company fine Mike Are you okay? because it sounded, It sounded like you were running toward a finish line and then your neck got No on the finish line and it didn't break. The tape didn't break No No. I laid out so that Tony can make a really good point. No, but it sounded like you a teammate does. What did But what did it sound like to you, Mike? because it sounded like I was being a good teammate checking on my friend. It sounded like someone had grabbed Zaz by the neck while he was talking at the end ofo me as well. Yeah Are you okay? Is everything okay? I already said I'm o. Well I got repeat myself Well, because you didn't say it right the first time. So the repeating of yourself makes it clearer because the way that you said it the first time sounded like you were being strangled. R was Would still talk about this? You were being choked by the same person who left that donut on the floor. So I have more information on this. They've shown me some security footage and we have two culprits. One of them might be surprising, the other one will not be at all So who is the betting fan Wa Well as I was saying betting favorite, Mike just stared at you. Mike Mike simply stared at you on betting favorite if you have to pick a betting favorite, one name on who left the crime scene of a quarter of a donoughnut on the floor ten feet from a garbage can Greg Cody, your nominee for betting favorite would be? He may be related to me. hate. Okay. Jeremy, what would your betting favorite be? Obviously Zaz. Mike, who would your betting favorite be? It the dude presently resting his arm on his belly. I changed my mind. Tony, who is your betting favorite? Gino. Wow, o, went off the board.. Roy, who is your betting favorite? Oh, of course, it's Chris. Yeah It's Chris Cody for me too and I have not been given the information. I saw Frankie. Security here since since we were at the Clevelander, Frankie was howling with laughter while he was pouring through the security because this investigation is going to reveal who the culprit is. Wh's second place though, You have everyone to choose from out there, everyone in the company to choose from. Second place betting favorite to Chris Cody on leaving a donoughnut on the floor like a wolverine Roy, who would be your second choice Probably Z low And all the entire company. do you have a second choice here, Greg Cody? Do you have a second you'dote for it? Be I think everyone's going to find this surprising. I'm already telling you that it's surprising, so you shouldn't choose Zazlow. That would not be surprising I'm going to have to say Dan Letard because very often the one who's accusing others is the one who's guilty meelted delta theory That's right. Whoever denied it supplied it. Yes, exactly. Well put. Mike, second place for you on the list of culprits Ean O a left field, Howen. I am stunned that none of us are even close on this. Rose M Yeah. It does Rose. Yeah. So yes, the two culprits, we have some grainy video here from surveillance. We have not used surveillance video since. Kristin, not Chris. Awkwardly hugged Josh Norman at the Clevelander, but Rose who Rose Rose. Yeah. I mean, she can shovel food into her yeah, into her mouth or eat as people say. No it no, but it's chow down. No, seeee, that's. So she's takaking a bite of it Seems to be going toward the garbage. Okay, so that rut So yeah, that's garbage. That's the garbage g. O. So we've got more footage here. Oh I ate that out of the garbage. I don't know where you ate it out of, but there is footage that also accuses you ere is well It was hovering over for the lid on the top, right So saw video of roose throwing away what looked like a portion of a donoughut. And it does seem like we've got more here that accuses others. We'll find out because I have not I have not previewed any of this footage And I don't know what else it reveals. Ethan now come on So Ethan is around the sink and he is hovering and he's got the donnut box in his hand. Looking at the camera. is doing that. Okay, but that's not helpful at all. Okay. All right I'm gonna stop, Jesse's walking over. Is is part of the investigation? Okay, this this is Oh, this is when he discovered, Hey, who did this to the donut? Hey Yeah, he's pulling out like who would be so inconsiderate? Okay, but here's the thing though. I thought that the donoughut was placed on the floor because someone had thrown the donut on the floor. It was placed on the floor floor by others to make the accusation of who left half who left half a doughut in a box that was not eaten. And so now what Ethan is saying is it's clearly Rose. It's clearly Rose did that. She left half a doughut, but she didn't leave it on the floor She then took it and threw it in the garbage can. So our investigation is flawed and the police are corrupt. Why doesn't the rest of the media care about this? It's a big story. All we've done is expose Kristen taking a bite of food. The only thing that I know is that Chris possibly ate a garbage donoughnut. Yes. was that Team Per See, so this is quite a conflict. So in in general, our planning around here you may have noticed is a little bit poor. And what it has resulted in is Chris going for the joke of I need to eat things no matter what. had one of the best visual jokes you've seen on our show recently where he infiltrated and contaminated what was clearly a crime scene by eating a donoughnut off of the floor. However, it was under, it was over a napkin At the time. What he didn't know is that donoughnut was clearly fished out of a garbage can and then placed on the floor, making it dirtier than it even was when it was merely on the floor. St tasted good And strawberry, right
This excerpt was generated by Smart Features
Listen to The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz in Podtastic
For listeners, not advertisers
All podcast names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Podcasts listed on Podtastic are publicly available shows distributed via RSS. Podtastic does not endorse nor is endorsed by any podcast or podcast creator listed in this directory.