Local Hour: The Court Sauntering

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Court Sauntering
Date: February 11, 2026
Summary by Podcast Summarizer

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Overview

In this Local Hour recorded at the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew roam through the South Florida sports scene and pop culture, with a strong focus on University of Miami sports triumphs, traditions, and eccentricities. The episode takes a comedic, irreverent look at Miami's recent basketball “court storming” (or rather, "court sauntering"), its deeper meaning, the Canes' resurgence, quirks of fandom, roster rebuilds, and some classic internal banter. The show is laden with hometown pride, self-deprecating humor, and love for the oddities of sports life in Miami.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Court Storming—or Sauntering? Miami Beats North Carolina

• The crew recaps Miami’s big basketball win over North Carolina, which should have triggered an energetic court storming but, as Jeremy describes, was more of a “court sauntering” with “milling about” as fans (including kids and parents) hesitated to actually storm.
  • Quote:
    “I don’t think I stormed. I just sauntered.” — Jeremy (02:54)
  • Quote:
    “This was universally a court sauntering.” — Jeremy (03:38)
  • The reluctance is ascribed to Miami's culture: “Miami football does not do that. Because down here, you’d get shot.” (03:46)
• Dan jokes about calling child services because Mike Ryan brought a child onto the court, against “court storming” etiquette.

2. Miami Basketball’s Remarkable Turnaround

• The Canes’ victory is hailed as a program-defining moment, marking their return to NCAA tournament relevancy after squandering Final Four momentum and enduring a near-total roster turnover.
  • “In less than a year, Jay Lucas has a team that is bigger, stronger, more physical than North Carolina, which is a very good team.” — Jeremy (06:01)
  • Praise for the new coach, Jay Lucas, who “built a roster out of thin air.”
• Realism is sprinkled in: The Canes are thin on depth, and were only able to play their top five without substitutions, risking collapse late in games.
• Miami’s newfound physicality is discussed—out-muscling traditional powers like UNC, a reversal of usual ACC dynamics.
  • “It’s not just a size thing. The team is unusually physical the way that they're playing defense. Nobody slows...North Carolina got bullied last night.” — Dan (22:45)

3. The Enigma and Joy of Miami Basketball

• The panel highlights oddball favorites—like Sally Altuntaj, an awkward, possibly ageless bench player who has become a mascot for Miami’s quirky cast.
  • Quote:
    “He might be 40 or he might be 18. I’m not 100% sure.” — Gwen (07:07)
  • The show breaks into a visual roast of Altuntaj’s appearance, especially his hair, armpit hair disparity, and overall “dry cleaning rack” build (24:53–28:18).
• The joys of March Madness are punctuated by wives and partners walking in and questioning who these oddball players are. Dan: “March Madness in full bloom is...the wives and girlfriends discovering that the thing you’re watching has a player that makes them ask, who is that? And why is he out there?” (29:01)

4. Miami Football: Emotional Relevance and Cristobal’s Compliments

• The football team was also honored, with coach Mario Cristobal giving rare public praise to star Mark Fletcher.
  • “It’s very hard to get a compliment from an older Cuban man and from that generation.” — Jeremy (08:55)
• There’s debate over how to process the heartache of losing the national championship—a pain only slightly eased by the nostalgia of past Hurricanes’ glory.
  • “That program raised you and set the expectations in a place that the standard is totally unreasonable.” — Dan (11:20)

5. Broader Trends: NIL, Rebuilding, and the Miami Way

• The crew laments how even major programs like Miami can lose their momentum in the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era, and how rebuilding is both harder and more exciting.
• Comparison with other Florida teams who made a deep run (like FAU in basketball) but couldn’t sustain momentum because they're often “feeder” programs for bigger schools.

6. Pop Culture, Internal Banter, and Signature Absurdity

• Cascading jokes about memory loss, Greg Cody’s facial hair, aging, and his cartoon likeness used on merchandise.
• Extended riffing on pronunciations of names (Jay Lucas/“Hi Lucas”) and Miami’s repurposing of “JLI” as a badge of honor for their pro Jai Alai team.
  • “Can I make Jay Lucas High Lucas? ... Can I then call it JLI? That you’re the champions? That the Cyclones are now the champions of JLI instead of High Alai?” — Dan (31:45)
• Greg Cody’s memory and participation are mocked, with Dan proposing his next evolution is performing the show from a “memory loss unit” (36:03).

7. NBA Tangents: LeBron, Rest, and Awards

• Quick pivot to current NBA issues: LeBron James missing enough games (“out for arthritis”) that he’s ineligible for All-NBA, sparking debate about the league’s 65-game minimum rule.
  • “It is pretty amazing to go 21 straight years All-NBA. Like, it’s something that doesn’t have a precedent. He’s out for arthritis.” — Dan (43:53)
• Reactions vary: Some defend the minimum, others want exceptions for aging or injured stars.
• Tanking and “rest games” are maligned, with a sarcastic exchange about the Kings and Jazz mutually sitting players.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Moment | |-----------|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:54 | Jeremy | "I don’t think I stormed. I just sauntered." | | 03:38 | Jeremy | "This was universally a court sauntering." | | 06:01 | Jeremy | “In less than a year, Jay Lucas has a team that is bigger, stronger, more physical...” | | 08:55 | Jeremy | “It’s very hard to get a compliment from an older Cuban man and from that generation.” | | 11:20 | Dan | “That program raised you and set the expectations in a place that the standard is totally unreasonable.” | | 22:45 | Dan | “Nobody slows...North Carolina got bullied last night.” | | 24:53-28:18| Gwen, Dan, others| (Extended roast of Altuntaj’s physical appearance: "He might be 40 or 18" ... "dry cleaning rack...") | | 29:01 | Dan | “March Madness in full bloom is the wives and girlfriends discovering...who is that?” | | 31:45 | Dan | “Can I make Jay Lucas High Lucas? ... Can I then call it JLI? ...” | | 36:03 | Dan | “We have to make it so that the evolution of your father on this show is him joining us from something that appears to be a memory loss unit.” | | 43:53 | Dan | “It is pretty amazing to go 21 straight years All-NBA. ... He’s out for arthritis.” |

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Flow, Tone, and Style

• The episode, while sports-centric, is loose and full of the show's signature improvisational, comedic energy.
• Dan and his crew alternate between insight, nostalgia, and sharp satire about sports and Miami culture.
• The tone is affectionate but dryly self-mocking—equal parts reverent and ridiculous toward both local athletes and their own inner workings as a broadcast team.
• The language and banter utilize local slang, playful insults, and running inside jokes.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:54 - 03:57]: “Court Sauntering” explained; Miami’s hesitation to storm the court.
• [06:01 - 06:39]: Miami’s basketball turnaround; Jay Lucas’s impact.
• [07:07 - 08:55]: Sally Altuntaj segment; oddball player fun.
• [11:20 - 12:19]: How expectations in Miami sports are both a burden and a blessing.
• [22:45 - 24:30]: Miami’s unusual physical dominance over UNC.
• [29:01 - 29:33]: March Madness as an anthropological event in Miami households.
• [31:45 - 34:37]: JLI/Battle Court inside jokes and team pride.
• [43:53 - 44:44]: LeBron James, NBA awards, and the aging legend’s durability.

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Final Takeaway

This episode is a showcase of the distinct, self-aware Miami sports culture—its pride, its cynicism, its weirdness, and its warmth. It revels in the joy of a city and fanbase finding itself again—sometimes awkwardly, sometimes idiosyncratically, but always, as Dan and the crew show, together. The vibe is both a love letter to South Florida and a celebration of embracing your own brand of sports absurdity.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

At 11:59pm Eastern Forgive Greg Cody for not being quite ready for what it is that we're doing right now and being off mic. He's doing a bit of arts and crafts right now. Cody, do you want to tell people off mic? Oh, you're going to lean into the mic, Gwen. This is how it works. This is how it works with Greg Cody. When I want him near the mic, he doesn't do the mic. When I wanted him off mic, he.

[Greg Cody]

Does the closest he's ever been to the mic.

[Dan Le Batard]

He pulls the mic right to his mouth and does his job totally correctly.

[Mike Ryan]

Damn right I'm multitasking right now, Dan. That's what that's called.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, Zaslo unfortunately is Wearing a Miami football shirt on a day when Miami basketball deserves every sort of pinnacle and attention. And so I'm creating for him something that is going to remedy that situation.

[Dan Le Batard]

A different shirt. He's wearing a Miami football shirt that reads simply Miami football with the Adidas logo over it. And you are coming over. We're not on air right now. So you are not video on air. So nobody can see what you're doing. He's walked across the room as you theatrically do that.

[Greg Cody]

He's now covering up the football.

[Jeremy]

I like that. The.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Shad show is. Is not video.

[Mike Ryan]

Is that right? Who can keep track?

[Jeremy]

Yeah. But viewers will have a payoff once we go live.

[Dan Le Batard]

They will. It doesn't match great, though. It's a good. It's a good shirt. But the colors are not green and orange. Green, orange, and blue really don't. Green, orange, and masking tape really don't work.

[Zaz]

It's my first time wearing this shirt, too. New shirt.

[Dan Le Batard]

Miami football was celebrated last night, too. Mike Ryan stormed to court and feloniously.

[Jeremy]

I don't think I stormed. I just sauntered.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Stood on the outskirts.

[Jeremy]

No, no, no. I definitely was on the court. I said security that was assembled with a human chain that was presumably there to prevent me from going on the court. Hey, can my daughter and I go in? And they're like, go right ahead. And I just sauntered on.

[Greg Cody]

Did you instantly feel old? Because I did that when Duke.

[Gwen]

We beat Duke.

[Greg Cody]

What was it, a few years ago? And I was at the game, and.

[Gwen]

I was like, all right, I'll go.

[Greg Cody]

Out on the court. And I was just like, I'm old.

[Jeremy]

I guess I would feel old if I were just doing it to make myself happy. Father, daughter. To make a memory with my daughter. Which I did. And no, I didn't. I guess I felt old because I'm a dad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, and you sauntered. And a court storm.

[Jeremy]

You're supposed to storm. No, every. Nobody stormed.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is why this was.

[Jeremy]

This was universally a court. Sauntering.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're so right about this. It did seem to me more like milling about.

[Jeremy]

We all collectively, like, should we do this? Like, you could see the students. Like, we're trepidatious to do it because we don't storm the field. Miami football does not do that. Because down here, you'd get shot.

[Zaz]

Because they have self respect.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. And also they'd shoot us. They straight up would. At least for football. That's not something. That's something that you can get away with, you know, in Appalachia. It's not something that you can do in Miami. Gordon.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, to be clear, okay. During a court storming, do not bring a child like that. A legitimate and real court storming.

[Mike Ryan]

What about courts?

[Greg Cody]

Sauntering.

[Jeremy]

Sauntering. It's totally illegal. That's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Totally fair.

[Tony]

He's a child.

[Jeremy]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

We've had some heaters around here occasionally. Zaz is the one that most recently has had a giant heater where he parlayed the Miami Heat getting into a play in game, into a job.

[Zaz]

I had a good year last year.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, like just a lot of winning that Zaz did. But Mike Ryan is presently doing a great deal of winning. It's not just that he and Chris Cody, your GM of the year and the Battle Court Cyclones are reigning champions like Inter Miami. Harder for the Panthers to repeat than it than it is going to be for the Cyclones or Inter Miami. So I feel like that's one version of winning. But then last night you get the biggest victory of the year. And I think I can say this. They made the tournament last night. Like things can happen. I suppose they can get injured because they don't have any depth. They're playing five people and they have to play everybody. But what was evident last night in not being much of a surprise against North Carolina is, oh, look, North Carolina is still young and looks a little bit like students, whereas Miami's physically, those are men. Like those are physically men out there. And if you can do that to North Carolina and not get tired late like I thought they were going to, I thought for sure they were going to lose that game in the last five minutes because they played all five guys. They're playing their starters the whole time. And I really thought that North Carolina would wear them down late, but they didn't have the size, the physicality to wear them down.

[Jeremy]

There were zero players on this roster in late March. Zero. There wasn't a staff. It was just the Jay Lucas hire and totally rebuild a basketball program that wasted all the momentum from a Final Four appearance. And in less than a year, Jay Lucas has a team that is bigger, stronger, more physical than North Carolina, which is a very good team. I'm not saying better, but last night they were in a couple of months, he just built a roster out of thin air that is getting a signature victory. And in all likelihood, unless they really trip up here down the stretch, puts him in the tournament.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, the refs. So that we know the refs allowed them to play a physical style of basketball. What ends up derailing. This is renew in foul trouble. Like they can't even afford that, never mind an injury.

[Jeremy]

We have Sally Altuntaj.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, they can't.

[Gwen]

That guy's a joke running around.

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Jeremy]

You're joke.

[Gwen]

No, no, respectfully.

[Jeremy]

You're a joke.

[Gwen]

Respectfully. We were watching.

[Jeremy]

Be careful.

[Dan Le Batard]

Three minutes.

[Jeremy]

Choose your words wisely.

[Gwen]

My father in law was watching the game. He's like, who's that guy? And I'm like, that's Altuntaj.

[Jeremy]

Sally Altuntaj.

[Gwen]

He might be 40 or he might be 18. I'm not 100% sure. He looks like Arvidus Sabonis at the end.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's play some sound of the fans excited and what was a genuine court milling about. God bless Americ America, God bless Malachi, Tony and God bless Uday.

[Jeremy]

That was me. They caught me in an emotional moment. Those are the three things that I love with my whole heart.

[Mike Ryan]

Malachi.

[Dan Le Batard]

The, um, football team was celebrated last night as well. We've got Mario Cristobal riding his players during an interview. Mike was moved. Were you moved to tears, Mike, during the halftime celebration of this most beloved team of yours?

[Jeremy]

Yeah, it was a special season and I wasn't moved to tears, but I.

[Zaz]

Good.

[Jeremy]

I've been. Yeah, that would have been. Come on, man, what's up? I'm a red blooded American male, but, you know, I've been kind of sad because we lost. I've been on a heater. Yeah, it was great to see the football program be there, but I still haven't really completely shaken off that loss. But it was good that to see a highlight package that firmly established Miami back into relevancy. I don't have to hear when's the last time Miami was relevant on a football field. And it was cool to celebrate the achievements of last year. And honestly, it was cool seeing some of these, these players again. And the Mario Cristobal. It's hard to get a compliment from Mario Cristobal. Mario Cristobal. After the highlight and trying to pump the crowd up, he was like he was turning the microphone over to Mark Fletcher and he touted Mark Fletcher's achievements. Most rushing yards in the history of the College Football Playoff. He's a great player and a better man, which is just, you know, like that. It's very hard to get a compliment from an older Cuban man and from that generation.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I was raised by one.

[Greg Cody]

It is kind of a blanket thing.

[Jeremy]

A lot of coaches yeah, but it's not something.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not saying like, Mark, I think they mean it, but it is kind of a thing you hear.

[Jeremy]

It's kind of crazy. Like, Mark Fletcher's coming back for his senior year. And with that helmet, that logo on that helmet, after a national championship game previous years, the discussion would be, look at these thugs. Look at Mark Fletcher. Look at him being a sore loser. And that wasn't there because everybody, even nationally, when they heard Miami people speak with reverence to Mark Fletcher, they all kind of took our word for it. And Mark Fletcher is that dude. He's the unquestioned leader of this team. And then Mark Fletcher took over the mic and essentially said, we're going to finish the job next season.

[Zaz]

He said, they're going to finish.

[Jeremy]

That was a pretty cool pop.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow. It's a promise.

[Dan Le Batard]

He also told Mike at halftime that the University of Miami basketball team is going to win. And Mike believed him just because Mark Fletcher was saying it. And he's in the cult. He's full on in the cult of Fletcher.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I'm a big Fletcher guy.

[Zaz]

So you've been like. I know you're saying you've been heartbroken. You're having a very hard time getting over losing the national championship game. This doesn't qualify as one of those years for you as a fan where you're going to like that You're. That you shouldn't be upset. You should be looking at it fondly about how amazing it was. Like, when the Panthers lost the Stanley cup in 2023. I. I wasn't upset. Like, I mean, yeah, it would have felt great to win the Stanley cup for the first time, but it was such a thrill, the whole thing. Like the Miami Heat, when they lost in 2023, the same year, I was like, I wasn't upset.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was.

[Zaz]

It was so amazing, the run. Like, you're. You're still down about that.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. Because the difference here is, look, Florida didn't have enough. They got really injured and they lost in five, and it was a miracle that they got the one game there. Another comparison would be that Miami Heat team that this city really loved, that was scrapping with Karam Butler, Lamar Odom, they went toe to toe with the Pacers in the conference semis. Yeah. But like, you. You kind of felt good. Like, yeah. All right, Miami. Miami is back. Great. The way that this one is different is Miami had the ball with, you know, time left on the clock, and they were driving down the field. It was in their home stadium. You had gone through so much, like, just to make it into the College Football Playoff was a war in itself, and you had it right there for you. So it's a little bit different. The heartbreak there wasn't that we just lost. It was like, damn it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, I wouldn't say, though, that that's the only difference. What Zaz is talking about is having a general gratitude. That program raised you and set the expectations in a place that the standard is totally unreasonable. Like the Panthers. You got it. And we're like, holy shit, I got to do that. But you've already done this with the Hurricanes. You did this for many years with the Hurricanes. So you've taken the beating the last few years. But you're right when you say they squandered the basketball team, squandered all the momentum that they had. They were in the position the football team's in. You're supposed to take that and springboard it. The idea that they didn't have a team a few months ago, that their coach had retired and they'd squandered it all, and now we're beating North Carolina. And while that's not much of a court storming, because it wasn't milling about, I was ready to call child services on Mike Ryan. I was ready to use the telestrator correctly today and said, show me all the other children who are on this court. You don't bring a child to a court storming. Like, everybody knows you don't do that. But this wasn't a court storming. This was a gathering.

[Jeremy]

It was a gathering.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was an English skip.

[Greg Cody]

They're skipping out onto the court.

[Jeremy]

It was an occurrence, like a picnic.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it was also. The court wasn't totally full, so it doesn't.

[Jeremy]

No. We didn't know if we were allowed.

[Zaz]

No. Good. So it wasn't dangerous. It didn't feel dangerous.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike was allowed to saunter on the fringes because there wasn't a bustle at the middle. Too many people.

[Mike Ryan]

A little bit of. A. Little bit of a sad court storm, if I'm gonna.

[Dan Le Batard]

It wasn't a storm. It was a gathering storm.

[Greg Cody]

Look what we got right here.

[Jeremy]

This looks lit, like your standard hurricane. Really powerful in the middle. And then. Not the eyes.

[Zaz]

No, the middle is actually. No, no, no.

[Jeremy]

The eye wall. The eye wall. Yeah. Dirty side of the storm. The dirty side of the storm.

[Greg Cody]

Dirty undercarriage.

[Jeremy]

To Dan's larger point.

[Zaz]

You know about that eye.

[Jeremy]

The last two seasons of Miami basketball have honestly been disrespectful to what the team that made it to the Final Four did. It was last year in particular was one of the worst power conference seasons of basketball I have ever witnessed in my life. I was at those games I had. I have season tickets. I just stopped going because they didn't seem to care to try. And what Jay Lucas does with his teams is they're going to compete like that. That was evident. Dante Allen was a demon defensively.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's talk about this part of it. A second game analysis for just a second. Ok. Watched a little North Carolina basketball this year and they don't get slowed like Kentucky Duke and Navy are the two team. The three teams that did this. And I'm assuming it's because Navy plays that shot clock bullshit where they take every like they're doing. I'm assuming Navy's doing backdoor cuts basketball. I'm assuming they're trapped just trap, trap, trap, trap, trap corners like whatever they're doing. I'm assuming they're trying to do it as slow as possible. And so. But when Kentucky slows North Carolina offensively I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting the defensive 5gu guys to not wear down. They're supposed to wear down against the depth and the blue, The all the McDonald All American of North Carolina. You're supposed to wear down when North Carolina is resting at starters. But you're. And. But high is not.

[Jeremy]

It's J. I know it's the spelling of highlight but it. But it's Jay Lucas and God bless him for reminding me last night that I'm a traditional power. I had forgotten.

[Greg Cody]

Why doesn't he personally.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. I'm a blue blood.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh okay.

[Jeremy]

I'm a traditional power in the acc. A college basketball power. And the last two seasons made me forget that. I almost forgot who I was. I mean last season guys. I cannot articulate how pathetic last season's basketball team was.

[Greg Cody]

You've done well.

[Jeremy]

They did not give a single crap. It was revolting. Revolting. Given that there's a banner from the Final Four from post Covid like it felt like a lifetime ago.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And the Larynier era which was successful. Still going to go with Laryn Yeager really fizzled. Yeah. Laryniega.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was squandered. Be clear on how hard that is to do. There are any number of Cinderellas that get to the Final Four and then disappear. But the University of Miami as a campus, as a reputation. It's not a mid major like you should be able to build off of that they've done it with the football program.

[Greg Cody]

Isn't it easier in this nil age to squander than it would have been?

[Zaz]

Definitely passed, yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

But if you're one of these schools who has reputation and can't get your players bought by others because you you.

[Jeremy]

Build it correctly, they went to the Final Four and they lost Zay Wong who was ACC Player of the Year and Jordan Miller who is still hanging around the NBA who was really unsung hero of that team. But they brought back Wuka Poplar, they brought back Nigel Pack, they brought back Nor Chad o' Mear baby Food who by the way is absolutely killing killing the G in the G League and is going to get a call up. They brought back what I thought that team was going to be the best team in Miami history the year after the Final Four because I was Nor Chad brought it. Nobody else did. And then the following season was just.

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[Mike Ryan]

I wouldn't expect you to apologize. Then you're a giant infant, okay? You have no control over your emotions. You have no control over your emotions when you're calling someone you know an idiot. I don't deserve it, okay? I don't deserve it.

[Jeremy]

All right?

[Mike Ryan]

And you're a fool for saying it.

[Jeremy]

Okay, Stugarts, you're a fool.

[Greg Cody]

I was kind of following you.

[Jeremy]

Oh, you're locking in right now. You're locking in on us.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

All right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's drop the gloves, pal. Let's rock.

[Jeremy]

You should be thanking me.

[Tony]

For what?

[Jeremy]

Every day. For what? For what I've done around this character. And the second shit gets real for you, you want to come at me and call me a fool?

[Dan Le Batard]

Huh?

[Jeremy]

No, no, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

Seriously, Jeremy.

[Jeremy]

Seriously, pal. I've added 10 years to your career. This is the Dan Leb with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

To your point, though, Chris? Yes. FAU also made a run and now has faded back to the pack. But they lose their head coach gets taken by somebody else. They're a power that other teams use as a feeder system. Miami is trying to get into the biggest game. ACC is the biggest game like that. They're in the conference that plays the biggest basketball games. And so they're trying to get. Get to the top of. Of what that is. But what I enjoyed about yesterday, because Zaz comes in with his shirt and his pride today I'm going to ask the same question of Cody that I asked of, Of Zaz. Are you familiar with Ernest Uday?

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you know who that is, though?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I know he's a player on, um. I'm not really well versed.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but I'm. I'm not even here. I'm not here to make fun of you about that, that I'm here to tell you March is approaching, and this is how everybody does it who's not immersed in the college basketball of it throughout the year. Zaz. I asked him before the show, Ernest Uday, and he's like, who's that? And I'm like, the guy who played best last night. The guy who looked like he was more adult than the players who play for North Carolina.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, last night was the ultimate attention getter at exactly the right time. I mean, if you're a marginal, um, fan or somebody on the periphery going, are they having a good season? Now you know, now you know how good they are. If you didn't know before, I think they should have been ranked a long time ago. When they were 15 and 2, there were only two losses to top 10 teams. But now they're going to be ranked and everybody's paying attention at exactly the right time. Because most people think college football season doesn't even start until football ends. And so what a college basketball. College basketball. So what a gorgeously timed victory lesson.

[Dan Le Batard]

What happened, Tony?

[Tony]

That was right there.

[Gwen]

Yeah, he's making a great point.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was gonna get this revin. And then he got the sport wrong. And then it all fell away.

[Gwen]

Now I forgot everything.

[Jeremy]

He says. I don't know if you were watching the game last night.

[Zaz]

No, I watched the whole game.

[Jeremy]

You watched the whole game?

[Zaz]

But I watched it on mute.

[Jeremy]

Okay, so Uday is the guy that.

[Zaz]

Was like, I don't know anyone's name.

[Jeremy]

The guy that was DeAndre Jordan last night.

[Zaz]

Okay.

[Jeremy]

That's who they're talking about.

[Zaz]

I Prime DeAndre Jordan was a fun player to watch. I like it.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. And he was playing in coral cable.

[Zaz]

All right, cool, cool.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's their fifth best player. I think I can say that right? Like they, they're. Their Achilles heel is going to be free throws. And if they get injured or foul trouble, like they don't, they don't have any depth. Mike, it really is five. It's five guys like they, I mean.

[Jeremy]

You got, you got Trey, you got Shelton Henderson. He's a, he's a piece by the way.

[Greg Cody]

Say the name again.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, no, but look, the post presence of renew is he missed in the Boston College game. He missed three layups and two dunks. But, but again, more adult than the people he's playing. Again, it's not, it's not just a size thing. The team is unusually physical the way that they're playing defense. Nobody slows. North North Carolina got bullied last night. Like say, say it plain.

[Jeremy]

I was North Carolina.

[Dan Le Batard]

North Carolina. Yes, yes, that too.

[Gwen]

And he came out in a boxing glove.

[Jeremy]

That's what happens when you try to box out.

[Dan Le Batard]

Celia, just to be clear, because many people are going to correctly be hearing overreaction in what we're saying about Miami. For this reason, they will not be allowed by the refs to play a game like that again all season. Like the refs let everybody play in that game. And so Miami more adult bullied. North Carolina coming off of a giant win where it's. You can just. You're watching a basketball game and you're, you want to switch the uniforms because, for example, when you're watching Duke, Cam Boozer's more adult. He's a freshman, but he's more adult physically than the people he's playing against. And I'm just not used to seeing that North Carolina can be finessed, but they've always got the athletes like they step on every court and unless it's Duke, they've got the athletes. And so to see Miami, to see freshman goes to the locker room, looks like a kid. He's going to figure out how to play basketball in the next three years. And. But these, but at the, at the moment he's a sixth grader playing against a bunch of guys who have been playing at the park and are coming home from the construction job and are putting an elbow in his ear.

[Jeremy]

It was so hard for North Carolina to get a clean shot up. And last year I was screaming and they could hear me because not many people were there. Put a hand up. Just, just try to put a hand up in a passing lane every single shot was like pulling teeth from North Carolina because these kids compete. It was great to see. So refreshing because last year really killed my passion for the sport.

[Gwen]

The other thing too is Wilson would get the ball at the low block and try to do the same exact move every time. Spinning jump hook. And it was like, buddy, if that's your bag. He would try to back down any of Miami's frontline guys and he would just bounce back. There was no. He had no motion to get to.

[Jeremy]

The old built like Sally Alton. Taj, literally, he would.

[Gwen]

He would sit there and like, push against the wall and then just turn around and shoot a jump hook. And it was like, if that's your offense, you guys are done.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys, please get me some optics on Toontaj, please, so that everyone can know what we're talking about because this is always a fan favorite. The guy who's just cardboard stiff, his hair bad. You don't know whether he's 18 or 40. He's going to give you three minutes. He's going to flop around out there, get an offensive rebound for you, and you'll run him off the court, both laughing and hoping that you don't have to rely.

[Gwen]

Zero lateral movement.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't want to rely too much on him in March.

[Zaz]

Every time I have the Canes game on, my wife walks in the room. She says, it's Constantine Popa playing.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Constantine Popa. I recognize you. Just look at him and be like, that's a basketball player. It's unusual. Usually not that skinny. Constantine Popa was the big guy who can play at 7:3 from the perimeter before that was a popular thing. This is not that. This is a dry cleaning rack making its way through the lane. Just trying to grab an offensive rebound. And it's missing dry cleaning rack. It's missing hair.

[Jeremy]

With a park bench for shoulders. A dry cleaning rack. Salio Tuntaj is carved of granite.

[Mike Ryan]

No, not two minutes. What a two minutes he produced last night.

[Jeremy]

It was electric. He's a pillar. He's a pillow.

[Gwen]

Got a hell of a board and then turned it off to a fast break.

[Jeremy]

Can we look at all these Europeans that are playing defense for Jay Lucas? I am telling you, it's going to be very hard to retain this young man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put up Reynoo real quick because I want people to see that he had his nose bloodied and I think his mouth was bloodied too. Correct. Like they. They really let them play last Night. At one point, I saw North Carolina late in the game, had four free throws.

[Jeremy]

Dude, two positions. And I'm like, we're covering.

[Zaz]

I feel like it's.

[Jeremy]

And I was like, yeah. Yes. They're going to let us play today.

[Zaz]

I feel like it's always embarrassing no matter what you're doing. And there, of course, he's playing basketball, but when he got the gauze sticking out of your nose, that's always embarrassing.

[Jeremy]

Look. No, that's culture. This is Miami's basketball team right now. This is a team that doesn't take the privilege of stepping onto the wood for granted.

[Gwen]

I need a worse picture than that. That's a good picture.

[Dan Le Batard]

I need a bad picture.

[Greg Cody]

So much hair under one armpit and not a lot of hair under the other. Is that the shadow?

[Zaz]

That's his look.

[Greg Cody]

Can we pull that back up?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it's here. Okay.

[Greg Cody]

One hairy armpit and one.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's even better than that. Let's not armpit. Shame him.

[Jeremy]

Photoshop hair.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's shame the entirety of him, not just the armpits. Okay.

[Jeremy]

Why are you shaming this legend?

[Greg Cody]

I need the other shot. Like, what's going on here? That's a shadow.

[Mike Ryan]

He looks like a young Ronnie Cycle.

[Greg Cody]

All right, it's a shadow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Greg Cody]

He's good on the armpit.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is not Ronnie cycling. No, he looks like an old Ronnie Cycley. That's why it's funny.

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you, DJ Ronnie Cycley. DJ Ronnie Cycley still has all his hair. This guy has more hair under one, and some of it's missing off of the top of his head. The effect. You need to understand that one of the reasons that everyone is noticing him, they would not if he were simply bald. But the hair is distracting because it looks out of place, because it looks disheveled, like he's. He's run panicked from a building.

[Jeremy]

I don't know. I think he'd look even crazy or bald. And this guy looks pretty insane, you guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

You would notice. He would not. He would not look older.

[Greg Cody]

Let me see these armpit again. I'm going to break this down a little if I can. Here, there's more.

[Dan Le Batard]

That part of it is shadow.

[Greg Cody]

Right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's shadows.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, I'm going to mess this up. All right, right here. Not a lot of hair. Then here. It looks like way more hair. But as I really dissect it. As I really dissect, there's a shadow here. So you know what? Normal amount of hair.

[Zaz]

That should be like a look for some players. You're like one arm. Oh, man, that's the pit with all the hair.

[Dan Le Batard]

Louis, do me a favor, please. Surely you will find a photo that shows us the top of his head because it's what's distracting. Those are the camera angles that hurt him when. When wives. When wives are noticing.

[Jeremy]

Good luck. I'm sure the Internet is littered with in game action photos of Sally.

[Gwen]

I found one. I'm send to Lewis now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. I'm. I'm sure. Look, Lewis.

[Jeremy]

Oh, that one was unfortunate. I remember that play.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's a bad.

[Jeremy]

He gathered and he turned with momentum behind him, which means the wind was starting. The inertia of it all was pushing that hairline back.

[Dan Le Batard]

What I need everyone listening to this to understand because this is March Madness in full bloom.

[Gwen]

Right after you.

[Dan Le Batard]

March Madness in full bloom is the wives and girlfriends discovering that the thing that you're watching has a player that makes them ask, who is that? And why is he out there? Women don't watch basketball.

[Jeremy]

You're right, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is. Thank you, Jeremy. It's a good correction. But Tony brought up the fact that somebody wasn't my father in law.

[Gwen]

My father in law on the couch watching the game. And he's like, who's this guy? And I'm like, arvidus Sabonis, I thought.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was your wife that asked you.

[Gwen]

Because my wife.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because you should assume my wife is asking me those questions when. When I'm watching. She's like, she. She comes over the television, she's like, well, those aren't the pros. Those aren't as good as. Those aren't. Why are you watching this? Who's that? Who's that? Oh, honey, he couldn't get enough minutes in tonight's game. He's not going to get any. But he. He's going to. You're going to want to watch the three minutes that he's out there. That's one of the great discoveries. It's not just that. Zaz is watching on. On mute. And you're learning, right? We're learning that Earnest don't get to be good at sports. That's not. It's Ernest Byner. And that's the list.

[Jeremy]

Like Ernest Graham had a moment for Florida.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ernest Uday made a name for himself last night.

[Jeremy]

What about Ernie's.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Ernest Borgnine.

[Greg Cody]

He's not athlete.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not helpful. It's not.

[Jeremy]

He was great in basketball.

[Dan Le Batard]

You just wanted to say in earnest that you know.

[Mike Ryan]

I did. Yeah. Because I don't count Ernie's. Ernie Elves. You can't count the Ernie's. Earnest is a totally different name.

[Dan Le Batard]

Somebody's going to be less good at sports when they're named Ernest.

[Zaz]

Correct.

[Tony]

Ernest Banks.

[Jeremy]

That was several generations ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

Though it's 1950s, 60s, we can all.

[Jeremy]

Agree deck is stacked. If your name is, it's Mr. Cub.

[Dan Le Batard]

Though it's the shortstop.

[Tony]

Let's play two.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a Hall of Famer, Don LeBatard.

[Jeremy]

I feel like we need to normalize saying the scientific terms for organs on the air. Like if someone. Yes, you know what?

[Gwen]

If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he.

[Jeremy]

Took a foul ball to the penis. Stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

That free kick hit him right in the cock. A doodle doo.

[Jeremy]

This is the Don lebatar show with the Stugach. I mean, just what an incredible night at the Scope. We became Dunk City. It was just so great to watch. So refreshing to watch that brand of basketball. I'm telling you, in five years, provided we keep this coach, which is going to be very difficult, we're going to make a Final Four again.

[Dan Le Batard]

So this coach spells his name High, goes by J. Is he allowed to make that distinction for us? Because I was arguing on last names recently that you don't get to decide what your last name is pronounced by me. If you're spelling it in a way that puts double Ls on it. And you don't want to be Hispanic. Like Castellanos doesn't get to be that terrible. No, he doesn't get to be that. That's incorrect. It's Castellanos. Even if he wants to be called that. Can I do the same thing with High? Can I make Jay Lucas High Lucas? And can I go? Furthermore, if we're not going to allow this and you're going to bend this many rules, can I then call it jli? That you're the champions? That the Cyclones are now the champions of JLI instead of High Alai.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. If we go to a Final Four, I'm all on board renaming it jli. I'm down with that. Thank you for mentioning the champion Cyclones. Spring season started yesterday. Man, this is a whole new game. All right, The Fronton has changed. We're at the Jam arena now, and it looks spectacular.

[Dan Le Batard]

I saw a giant cartoon replica of you two holding up a trophy and enjoying the triumphs of last season. Chris and Mike were commemorated in a giant thing that I saw celebrating you as reigning excellence in that sport.

[Jeremy]

New venue means new banner. So we refresh the banner because we are Two time champs. But guys, this place is spectacular. And now what's that good sound? JLI Fridays at Battle Court at the Jam Arena. The JLI happens before a headlining comedy set. Whitney Cummings is probably the strangest opener in her career. That's a pretty strange one. I'm sure she's gonna tell stories to her comic friends. Like, yeah, they had this weird Basque country sport that played before me.

[Tony]

J. Li.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, J. Li or something like that. But the Cyclones take the front on today at 3:00 clock YouTube, ESPN app if you want to follow your reigning defending Cyclone champion.

[Greg Cody]

And it's tough when you're a champ, Dan.

[Jeremy]

It's a whole new sport. Like the. The glass wall is now in the back. So it even sounds different.

[Greg Cody]

Sounds like Dania highlight childhood $2 beers and quinellas. Yeah, the sound. Because, you know, if you've been to the. The Magic City Court, it had this, like, thickness to it. This is this sound that you get now. This is the highlight sound off the wall that. I can't even describe what it sounds like. Just that sound of the highlight hitting the wall.

[Dan Le Batard]

It sounds. It sort of sounds like a billiard ball. If you were to throw it across a pool table is what the sound.

[Jeremy]

It sounds great. But the bigger court means more winners from the back court. Thankfully, we're blessed to have two incredible backquarters. Our captain, Manu, It's a different game. You, you, you. Yeah, man. Who's a legend. He's not going anywhere, dude. We texted Manu. How we feeling about the. The new court? He said terrible. But Manu is never happy about any.

[Greg Cody]

Manu is very. He loves to set expectations low. It's his thing. It's our banter.

[Gwen]

How about the Undertaker?

[Jeremy]

The Undertaker, always confident. He's. He's been playing. He's been saying sharp. He's been playing overseas. He's back now. And this fronton plays to his strengths, which is why we made the very difficult decision to keep him. We could only bring back four players. We also brought back Bradley, who had an incredible season last year in his backcourt part and his front court partner from last year. They went undefeated. The greatest athlete in the history of sports, Jettin. Now, before you look at me like I'm crazy, hear him out. We talk about Bo Jackson, right? We talk about Deion Sanders.

[Greg Cody]

Checks out.

[Jeremy]

And why do we. Why do we do that? Because they just merely played in these other sports. Tanard Davis won a Super bowl and a Battle Court championship. All right? That's who Jedden is who else has done that? He's got two rings, two world championships in two different sports.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you smiling about? Greg Cody. Last time he's talking about a champion. And the only story I know about you at JLI is coughing so much and until you passed out and laid on the floor.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's true. That was a highlight of high life.

[Jeremy]

A jlight.

[Greg Cody]

Mike Fuentes thinks he saved your life.

[Mike Ryan]

Have I been back yet? Since I've been.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, yeah. We won the championship.

[Greg Cody]

You were there for our championship.

[Dan Le Batard]

Have I been back?

[Jeremy]

I know it was a bit of a fever dream.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, this is just my life.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys, listen, okay, we have to make it so that the evolution of your father on this show is him joining us from something that appears to be a memory loss unit.

[Greg Cody]

What is happening?

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know what's happening with this him, but he's just asking you guys.

[Jeremy]

At one point I pointed to you and I said, this is for you.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know he continues to ask you guys questions about himself because he's get. He's sinking into. All right. The entitled malaise of Chris Cody is the producer of my podcast. Just handles everything. And so I just throw things over my shoulder and don't retain anything. Like I'm the star. I don't retain my catchphrases. I don't have to retain anything. This is my inheritance. Kid did. It's me not trying at all at the end. Just running into the light. Glory for me, everyone. Remember me for me. Please tell me what I did that was so interesting yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you. I have a staff that remembers for me. It's a wonderful thing.

[Greg Cody]

Did you bring in the two catchphrases from yesterday?

[Dan Le Batard]

You couldn't remember.

[Zaz]

You were especially terrible yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

I said one yesterday that you didn't bring it.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are the two?

[Mike Ryan]

I'm gonna repeat it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, there we go again. You know what?

[Mike Ryan]

I said it yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

One was I love you like a pet.

[Mike Ryan]

That's what I said yesterday.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't remember what you said yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

You like a pet.

[Greg Cody]

You don't talk into the mic.

[Mike Ryan]

I love you like a pet. Let's make I love Dan like a pet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's make it a memory loss unit. Let's sell some Greg Cody T shirts here just so that you can get [e-mail] just in time for Valentine's Day. If you have any love questions, we're going to try and do this live with Cody on Friday. 305. 486 got 305486 got. It's a terrible idea to do this live. Like, I think it's better this way. So Friday, we're going to do it live. 305 your. Yeah, of course. Your love questions. 305, 4, 8, 6. Gotts.

[Tony]

In case you're not watching, we did make a new shirt for LeBatardaf.com that has Greg Cody's face. A speech bubble that says, my wife always handles the wand.

[Mike Ryan]

My wife always handles the wand.

[Tony]

I have already purchased a T shirt.

[Jeremy]

How are you feeling about these new merch drops that just increase the amount of liver spots? I'm not a fan of.

[Mike Ryan]

It's not a flattering caricature. I have to.

[Jeremy]

Every new drop, there's a new liver spot.

[Mike Ryan]

It is not flat.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why wouldn't your cartoon get older? That would make sense. Like, it would age the rest the way the rest of you. You broke out the 90s goatee today in order to hide the aging on your face.

[Jeremy]

Why does Steve Bannon have a wife that is handling his wand? Ew.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you mean?

[Mike Ryan]

Ooh?

[Dan Le Batard]

This is Steve. He looks like Steve Bannon. His hair makes him look like Steve Bannon.

[Jeremy]

Military green is a ch.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's going on with your goatee? Can you explain what's happening here? You're bringing back a 90s goatee. You have a little bit of Fred Durst in you.

[Mike Ryan]

It's laziness. You know, sometimes as a routine, I go four or five days without shaving just because. And I went long enough this time where it started to grow in a little bit. I can't grow a beard because my cheeks are, like, awful, and it doesn't really come in as a beard. So I decided to de beard it and just leave the goatee, partly because my wife hates facial hair.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fred Durst.

[Mike Ryan]

Fred. Yeah, Fred Durst.

[Dan Le Batard]

At most maybe a chin thing.

[Mike Ryan]

So this is a compromise. Goatee, Greg. Goatee.

[Jeremy]

Say Drewski. Drew.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ski. No, not for me.

[Zaz]

You can hear me.

[Greg Cody]

Not you.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was for me. You can hear me. That was for me. Greg.

[Gwen]

He's off to a great start today.

[Jeremy]

Dano.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg. This is how we're doing this.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's my inner monologue. Okay, now you're. I'm supposed to ignore my. I'm supposed to ignore my inner monologue. By my inner monologue was indeed feeling insecure about my Limp Bizkit reference. It fell limp, and I knew it, and he knew it, and so he came to the microphone, and he's giving voice to the Audience making fun of me, right? You're supposed to run right past it. I keep arguing with it because occasionally he doesn't appear as my inner monologue. He just appear to give me things. He's secretly thinking shipping container. Greg, say Drew Ski again.

[Jeremy]

You are explaining the show now, Dan, that's not good.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm explaining it to Greg, but okay, fine. I can't believe he said Drew Ski. I mean he did. I'm explaining it to him because he doesn't understand who Drew Ski is, why someone's saying drusky and he's just parody. Also because he thought it was said to him privately.

[Greg Cody]

He also still doesn't understand anything you just told him.

[Dan Le Batard]

But the other ask him to explain.

[Greg Cody]

Back what you explained.

[Dan Le Batard]

The other part of it is that there's so many people talking in ears as the show's going on that Tony hits the wrong microphone yesterday and says to Chris, Cody and the rest of us go to fake or real podcast when none of us were doing that as the show are you doing to me.

[Jeremy]

This is Greg Minor penalty. 2 minutes for explaining the show.

[Gwen]

The nerve of this guy, really. Zaz is the one that, you know, took care of all of our sins yesterday. Walking out the door and stumbling on the way out.

[Jeremy]

Is Jason Tatum really coming back?

[Zaz]

Oh, man, this NBA.

[Jeremy]

We're going to be joined by Nick Wright in a little bit and he's getting loads of fanfare for a podcast that he did with Bill Simmons where he tries to fix the NBA.

[Zaz]

Well, what do you mean? Well, okay, so the NBA needs a lot of fixing. But what was like the crux of.

[Jeremy]

I haven't heard it yet. We can ask him for like the good stuff, but I assume, you know, not knowing when the stars are playing is a big deal.

[Zaz]

Last night you saw The Lakers, like LeBron James now is not eligible for any post season awards.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a crime.

[Zaz]

So it ends his streak of all NBA. Like 21 straight years of all NBA. Why is it a crime?

[Mike Ryan]

Because I like the 65 game minimum. But that's to prevent tanking and too much rest and all the other reasons a star might not play. In this case, if it's a legitimate injury, which apparently this was was. And he's at 64 games because of a legitimate injury. I don't think it should be a hard fast.

[Zaz]

Oh, but it's. You say that as if, you know, he's not going to miss any other games and he's going to fall one game short of 65. Like there's going to be plenty more games this season where he actually does rest.

[Mike Ryan]

Right.

[Zaz]

Because of his age. Like he's. I mean, he'll probably be somewhere around mid-50s at the end of the season.

[Mike Ryan]

I just think it needs to. And I know this is hard to do, but if it's tanking, if it's like Utah resting starters, obviously just resting them because they don't want to win, or if it's because two, you know, ridiculous amounts of rest. But there has to be a way to exclude the legitimate injuries from the penalty. It's difficult, maybe it's impossible, but I just think it's terrible.

[Greg Cody]

Seems like you just want this for LeBron, though. It's not. I don't even know if you want this as a rule. You're just like, lebron should get this treatment.

[Jeremy]

Was LeBron going to make any of those posts season teams like now he gets to blame it on a technicality.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, he might have made the third team. Right.

[Gwen]

But why he's played right now he's played 35 games and he's been playing okay, but there's a lot of other better players. By the way, just checked his stats. You want to know how many games or how many seasons he's played 82 games in his entire career?

[Greg Cody]

Zero.

[Dan Le Batard]

22 seasons.

[Zaz]

Maybe one, but I'm not even confident.

[Gwen]

In that one time he's played 82 games.

[Tony]

On the tanking, though, you got a big one. The in night Kings in Jazz. We know the Jazz have been sitting their starters. They're out tanking each other. Because tonight for the kings, DeAndre Hunter out. Zach Lavine out. Malik Monk out. Keegan Murray out. Demonte Zonas out. Russell Westbrook out. And that's against the Jazz.

[Jeremy]

Why would the NBA need fixing? I don't get it.

[Greg Cody]

I saw Bobby Marks, like ripping them for Tank. For the Jazz. Being like, what they're doing is bad for the NBA. I know the Heat let. Let one buy him the other. Like the Heat just can't. They're trying so badly. They're like, what they're doing should be illegal, but they still beat the Heat.

[Dan Le Batard]

The thing that you guys are ignoring because it is pretty amazing to go 21 straight years all NBA. Like it's something that doesn't have a precedent. He's out for arthritis. Like it's sciatica and now it's foot arthritis. Like LeBron James is literally so old, he's out for arthritis.