Postgame Show: BREAKING NEWS (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Postgame Show: BREAKING NEWS (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Release Date: April 14, 2025

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Introduction and Hosts' Banter

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard, Tony Franklin, and guest JuJu Gotti engage in their signature blend of sports commentary, humor, and camaraderie from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami. The episode kicks off with light-hearted banter about JuJu's physique, setting a relaxed and engaging tone for the discussions to follow.

NBA Updates

Mike Budenholzer Fired from Phoenix Suns

At [03:10], Tony breaks the news that Mike Budenholzer has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Phoenix Suns. JuJu weighs in, expressing that the Suns were one of the most disappointing teams despite their star-studded roster, including Bradley Beal, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant (KD). He remarks, "The writing was on the Wild all year... KD can't even make the playoffs." This sentiment is echoed by Dan, who delves into the potential conspiracy theories surrounding a controversial game-winning shot by Buddy Hill, questioning whether strategic decisions were made to manipulate playoff outcomes.

Buddy Hill's Controversial Shot

Dan discusses a specific play where Steve Kerr allegedly instructed Buddy Hill to pass the ball to another player, sparking theories about intentional game outcome manipulation. He states, "I'm just going to make such a dumb decision that I make everyone think it's conspiracy because they don't understand why." JuJu counters by highlighting Kawhi Leonard's impact, suggesting that a healthy Kawhi could pose significant challenges in the playoffs.

WNBA Draft and Contracts

Paige's Three-Year Deal with the Unrivaled League

Juju brings attention to a significant development in the WNBA, revealing that Paige has signed a three-year deal with the Unrivaled League. At [05:34], he emphasizes the magnitude of this move: "It would be in her first year 10 game salary with the unrivaled league will be more than her entire four year WNBA contract. That is banana clips if you ask me." This revelation sparks a discussion about the financial disparities and contractual opportunities within women's basketball.

Legendary Sports Moments

Michael Jordan's "Smitty"

The hosts reminisce about iconic basketball moves, focusing on Michael Jordan's legendary "Smitty." JuJu recounts the move at [01:45]: "Famously, Michael Jordan did the smitty around John Stockton and Charles Oakley and dunk Patrick Young one of his best highlights." Tony adds, "Only Michael can do that. Meanwhile, it's patterned and named after Steve Smith," underscoring the unique flair Jordan brought to the game.

Additionally, Jeremy Tache points out Duncan Robinson's rendition of the "Smitty" against Victor Wembanyama, adding another layer to the discussion about signature moves in basketball.

Audience Polls and Interactions

The show features interactive polls sourced from their Instagram Stories, engaging the audience in light-hearted debates:

• Simpsons vs. South Park: At [09:19], JuJu shares poll results with "58% of the audience says the Simpsons over South Park." The hosts discuss the cultural impact and popularity of both animated series, highlighting the strong preference for The Simpsons among listeners.

• Scratch-Off Lottery Cards: Polls reveal that "82% of the audience says a coin" is the preferred tool for scratching off lottery tickets, with the majority favoring scratching at home rather than in stores.

• Cashier Demographics: A humorous poll questions whether cashiers are always old. "54% of the audience says, no, the cashier is not always old," reflecting diverse cashier ages across different regions.

These segments not only provide entertainment but also foster a sense of community among listeners.

Tributes and Somber Moments

The hosts take a moment to pay respects:

• Kyron Lacy: JuJu extends prayers to the family of Kyron Lacy, a notable player for the NC Football LSU Tigers, acknowledging the importance of supporting friends and loved ones during tough times. "Just remember to check on your friends because I'm sure that family right now is having a rough couple of days," JuJu emphasizes.

• Savannah Bananas: At [09:19], JuJu congratulates the Savannah Bananas on their feature in 60 Minutes, highlighting their unique approach to baseball.

Host Interactions and Humor

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in playful wagers and humorous exchanges:

• Sports Wager: JuJu challenges Tony and Dan to a bet regarding Malik Beasley and Peyton Pritchard's performances, promising to jog if either player wins their respective honors.

• Stugotz's Pronunciation: Dan jokes about Stugotz's pronunciation of "McLeroy," setting an over-under bet at [05:13]: "What's the over under on number of times that Stugotz does that? Four and a half."

• Random Email Story: Dan shares an amusing anecdote about receiving a random email from a listener named Ted Howe, who references a longstanding baseball record. The hosts humorously discuss the improbability of breaking Johnny Vandermeer's 1938 record of two consecutive no-hitters. Dan remarks, "Good luck with that, Ted."

These light-hearted moments underscore the hosts' chemistry and ability to blend sports analysis with entertaining dialogue.

Closing Remarks

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts briefly mention the firing of Mike Budenholzer from the Phoenix Suns, reiterating the day's breaking news and setting the stage for future discussions.

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Notable Quotes:

• "The writing was on the Wild all year. Of course they were one of the most disappointing teams in the league this year with that all-star cast. Bradley Beal, Devin Booker. KD can't even make the playoffs."
  — Juju Gotti [03:19]

• "It would be in her first year 10 game salary with the unrivaled league will be more than her entire four year WNBA contract. That is banana clips if you ask me."
  — Juju Gotti [05:48]

• "Only Michael can do that. Meanwhile, it's patterned and named After Steve Smith."
  — Tony Franklin [02:14]

• "Good luck with that, Ted."
  — Dan Le Batard [09:03]

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz effectively blends in-depth sports analysis with engaging conversations and interactive segments, providing listeners with a comprehensive and entertaining postgame discussion.

Transcript

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[Dan]

Nice Juju is sponsored now by delicious sandwiches. It's always nice to see juju. It's always nice to hear from him, even when the critique is withering of what it is we have done that day. Juju, nice to see you, sir.

[Juju]

Nice to see you guys as well, man. Good to see y'all. Salute to everybody in the building. You dig it? Like to start off by saying I'm 6 2, 2 20. So you can make that comparison to big old trunk. You dig it? The vid.

[Dan]

So you're 6:2, 2:20. What's the percentage of body fat there, juju? It can't be. Can't be more than 9 or 10%.

[Juju]

I'm not sure that my scale don't be letting me know that I'm in the ghetto. So I just see advanced scale there that Dan's got. I don't got that one either.

[Tony]

I think most would not be prepared to answer that question.

[Dan]

I agree. But I would say that most people who have bodies that are as fit as juju might be closer to being equipped to answer that question. Regardless, what do you have from today's show that you found interesting or bad subject matter?

[Juju]

First of all, the Steve Smith conversation. Oh, my goodness. You can't call yourself a ball knower and not know the smitty. Famously, Michael Jordan did the smitty around John Starson and Charles Oakley and dunk Patrick Young one of his best highlights. You feel me?

[Dan]

That's right.

[Juju]

But that's the greatest.

[Dan]

That is one of the greatest highlights that no one would call the smitty or tricky. Like they would just be amazed by that as a highlight without. But you're right, we should.

[Tony]

That's great to point out, though. I remember that specific move and I'm like, man, only Michael can do that. Meanwhile, it's patterned and named After Steve Smith.

[Juju]

Hell yeah. Also welcome back to the play in Jimmy Butler. He cannot avoid it like no matter what he does. Great game. Joker of the day real quick. Steve Kerr drawing up a play for your Buddy Hill for the with sixth place on the line like Chef's Kiss. Unless they were trying to do the thing that they might be trying to do. Maybe they wanted to go to the play in and avoid having to play certain Lakers and certain Don in the first round, try to squeak their way in and play those Houston Rockets in the first round. Which isn't necessarily to be sneezed at either. But I don't know bro. I think some ulterior motives could have been at play when you see Buddy Hill checking in the game for the game winning shot.

[Tony]

Juju we do have some breaking NBA news. Mike Budenholzer has been relieved of his duties down in Phoenix.

[Juju]

The writing was on the Wild all year. Of course they were one of the most disappointing teams in the league this year with that all star cast. Bradley Beal, Devin Booker. KD can't even make the playoffs. Like that's it's not surprising, especially seeing whenever KD snatched his hand away from him in that one time out. There's been a lot going on over there. So it's not as surprising as the other coaches being fired.

[Dan]

I do understand why it is that we might see some conspiracy in a Buddy healed shot at the end. Especially if any of you saw that video from last week of Steve Kerr talking to Buddy saying, buddy, I love you but you got the greatest shooter in the world over here. He's wide open. Pass him and pass him the but when you think of conspiracy, I generally don't think of the warriors trying hard all game long, really hard to stay exactly even with the Clippers and then at the end saying, you know what, never mind this last shot. I'm just going to make such a dumb decision that I make everyone think it's conspiracy because they don't understand why.

[Juju]

I made that decision to say Tashay Touche. Because also Kawhi Leonard people have been sleeping on Kawhi. He's been a sleeping giant lately. A healthy Kawhi spells trouble for the Joker in that round. Also, Tony, my brother, I love you. You know you my brother. We share the same blood but and salute to Malik Beasley. But Peyton Pritchard Secret Sauce is definitely the sixth man of the year this year.

[Dan]

Close. Close.

[Tony]

I mean look, would the put it this way, would the Celtics be in the same position they were without Peyton.

[Dan]

Pritchard, he's been so good though. Pritchard shooting. I mean, is he shooting better than anybody in the league by percentage from 3?

[Tony]

Close to it. Would. Would the Pistons be the same without Malik Beasley?

[Juju]

You know what? I'm gonna do a wager. I'm going to wager you Malik Beasley wins, I will give you two miles on the track. Videotaped it. If Peyton Pritchard wins, I need the same from you. All right.

[Dan]

Done. All right. The bet has been made. What is the bet for number of times that Stugatz tomorrow pronounces it McLeroy. What's the. What's. What's the over under on number of times that Stugatz does that? Four and a half. Thank you. I appreciate that. Stu Bots, what do we have for. For the polls and before we get to the polls, surely you have some WNBA draft thoughts.

[Juju]

Oh, yes sir. Man. Look, Paige, of course number one pick. I got kind of a mini mini stat of the day with Paige. She of breaking news signed a three year deal with the unrivaled league. You feel me?

[Dan]

Wait a minute, that can't be breaking news if I just mentioned it six minutes ago. That's a mini stat of the day. That is.

[Juju]

That's a mini stat of the day.

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[Dan]

Mini stat of the day.

[Tony]

Jeremy Tache also has pointed out you like to invoke Michael Jordan as someone else that famously did the Smitty. Jeremy texted me how can you forget when Duncan Robinson did the Smitty to Victor Wembanyama? And that's another good one I had forgotten.

[Juju]

Yes it is. Yes it is. But yeah, Paige signed a three year deal with the unrivaled league which will be this. This is the crazy part. It would be in her first year 10 game salary with the unrivaled league will be more than her entire four year WNBA contract. That is banana clips if you ask me. But salute to the wnba. Salute to Miss Kathy. They gonna get it together.

[Dan]

It is banana clips. But it's not breaking news because I said all of that 10 minutes ago.

[Juju]

Also. Also prayers out to. Sending prayers out to the family of Kyron Lacy, superstar over there from the NC Football LSU Tigers this year. It's always just important to check on your friends, man. Even though they're going through a lot. Just remember to check on your friends because I'm sure that family right now is having a rough couple of days, man. Salute.

[Dan]

This is awkward to do this to you as you hit a somber note but.

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[Dan]

You can't come on and do breaking news, Paige Beckers, after we mentioned it five minutes earlier. So we're going to talk for two minutes here as juju sits out. I would like for you to walk off the screen and pretend like you are. That you are. You are going to a penalty box there in your house and I'm going to simply. Oh, more breaking news. Wow, Dan. Oh, my holes are fired. I have here. I wanted to ask you guys this because it made me laugh this weekend. I just get a random email. Okay. Just sent to my account. And the context is it's just a listener who I've never heard from before who is emailing me directly because he wants me to know something. He is telling me that there's something he wants me to know and this is what he wanted me to know. Again, no context for it whatsoever. He says, he writes, you don't talk about the sports record that will never be broken. In 1938, Johnny Vandermeer threw two consecutive no hitters. In order to break that, someone would have to throw three in a row. Good luck with that, Ted Howe. Yeah, you're absolutely right, Ted. Thank you. First sharing that with me. That's probably. Do you guys have anyone, any record that's harder to break than that?

[Tony]

Best someone can die. At best someone would have to throw three. Thanks, Ted.

[Dan]

Good luck with that. Thank you, Ted. And how would they do that? Hey, that's Ted Howe. Ladies and gentlemen, Ted Howe. Welcome back, juju. Let's update the polls here. Sir.

[Juju]

Yes, sir. And while I get to the get the pose. Salute to the Savannah Bananas for making it to 60 Minutes last night. Salute. Early whole Sunday Masters good for a nap.

[Dan]

Great friend.

[Juju]

90 of the audience says yes it is.

[Dan]

We got a big poll coming up here. I hope that he gives us an answer to Simpsons or South Park. That one's gotta be. That one's gonna get a lot of votes.

[Juju]

What a co wonky dank. Simpsons or South Park. And this is from the Instagram story audience. 58 of the audience says the Simpsons over South Park.

[Dan]

I don't know, I. I think the Simpsons might be more popular, but I don't know if it's better. And that's no, that is no knock on the Simpsons pose, I suppose. Oh, that's it. Are you done?

[Juju]

Oh, no, no, no. I said the polls are the polls. Not, not. Those are the posts. It's all good.

[Dan]

You know what? Hold on. I'm gonna do this to myself here. Hold On a second.

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[Juju]

Damn it. I think that might have been more of an enunciation problem on my end, because, you know, I speak like I have marbles in the back of my mouth.

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Tough penalty call for Dan there.

[Juju]

Right? Very tough. But instant replay decided he was out of bounds. Did Rory try to. Rory? 94 of the audience says, yes, he did. If you win the Masters and Tiger wasn't in the field, did you actually win the Masters?

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[Juju]

50. 56 of the audience says, no, you did not win that. Damn. Do you use a key or a coin to scratch off your scratch offs? 82% of the audience says a coin.

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Really?

[Juju]

Yeah. No one uses the fingernails, Roy, that you might.

[Dan]

That was weird.

[Juju]

I don't know what that was. I'm in a pin. Do you. Do you scratch off your scratch off in the store you bought the scratch off from, or at home? 78 of the audience says at home. Yeah, I'm with them because. Right, right. You don't want no instant loss. That's. That's very bad on you.

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Plus, if I win, if I want a million, I don't want everyone knowing, like, I wanna. I wanna be in secret if I win this million dollars.

[Juju]

Right. Also, earlier in the show, Dan said, like, what's the drawback from putting your card. The germs in the card thing? Yeah. Oh, that's so I agree with Mike. You got to tap it, man. Because if you put your card in there, you putting your card in there with every card that's been in there since the Tiger King, like, just germs on germs. Last poll. Is the cashier always old? That might be a Miami thing, because here in the United States of Atlanta, we got teenagers everywhere, really?

[Jimmy John's Advertiser]

But to me, it's like teenagers or really old. Like, you never see a 40 year old cashier. They're either like in their 20s, teens, or they're in their 60s.

[Juju]

Right. I could dig it. 54 of the audience says, no, the cashier is not always old. And those are your polls.

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Oh, we got something here.

[Dan]

The Phoenix Suns have fired Mike Odin.

[Juju]

Come on, Jeff.

[Tony]

Oh, what are we doing?

[Juju]

No.