Transcript of Local Hour: The Florida Cold

I see a record-breaking amount of clothes in here that's been in the corner of the closet for 20 or 30 years that no one around here has pulled out of their closet in a long time. My trainer this morning showed up in a leather jacket that he worn at an Atlanta nightclub 25 years ago because South Florida people are so unaccustmed to, What do you mean it's 35 degrees?

Wait a second. He trained you in a leather jacket?

Yes, and jeans. He showed He showed up like you went for a club on a Friday night. Was he Blade? His wife asked him, Hey, don't you have sweat pants? And he's like, Sweat pants ain't doing it today, honey. He's like, It can't be cold down there. I've got to wear jeans. The rest of you, though, Chris Cody is wearing a Bob Saget sweatshirt.

I had to go deep into the closet for this one.

How did you guys experience this morning? My dog didn't want any help with sweaters, blankets, nothing. Didn't know what to do with what is that this weather is.

I didn't want to get out of the shower. I made the shower extra hot this morning, and I just stood there for a good 10 minutes after I got done washing. I didn't want to get out.

How are we so bad at this? How is it that Nobody here is equipped in any way to deal? The rest of the country, in New York right now, the temperatures are not humane. You cannot be outside. That's not what's happening here. It's It's 35 degrees.

I was on ESPN yesterday, and I spent a good portion of the start of the show talking about how cold it is here in Miami. Everyone must have thought I was an asshole.

There was a little bit of frost on the card today when I turned it on. A little bit of frost?

I I think the rest of the country would be listening to this and mortified by us, by how soft we are. But everyone came in here this morning complaining about some form of, The animals are not safe. We're not safe. What is this? How do people live in this? As if all of us were the slay dogs in the Iditarod.

I woke up with two sweaters on and my dog's just chilling. I don't get it. Are they cold? They just can't explain it.

Here's the problem with us here in South Florida. I wake up, I don't want to get out from under the covers because it's freezing in my house and the tiles are freezing when I step on it, and it's because we refuse to turn on the heat. Why do we refuse to turn on the heat? Because the smell, the smell, when you turn on the heater, you get the smell.

It smells like that only because you haven't used it in a long time. I know. But that is the only reason. Heaters all over cold weather cities don't smell like that if you're using them every day. Right.

I refuse to use it because of the smell.

That smell is just dust burning off of the coils from how long you haven't used it.

Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Lebitard Show. Is that smell from the heater just dust from the coils because it's been so long that you used it in Miami? Because I think Tony's got that right, but I haven't lived anywhere else, and I don't know what the amount of time is. If you don't use it for a month, six weeks, or in my case, didn't even know I had a heater. Legitimately did not know if I had a heater in my apartment because I've never used it. I'm not even making that up. I'm serious to you. So what it smelled like is, wait a minute, we've got a heater? We've got a heater in our house. This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast. Oh, yeah. It's Super Bowl week. That's something that will get started a little stronger later in the week. I don't think you're going to feel it very much around here or very much around the Super Bowl this week.

Why didn't we go to Radio Row?

It's far. I never want to go to Radio Row. We went one time to Las Vegas, but-We had fun, Dan. Yeah, we did have fun, but it cost us half a million dollars, and I don't really want to do that again.

You take half. Okay, you pay me and Zaz. Me and Zaz will go. We'll have fun over at Radio Row, and we'll put it back.

We'll start Super Bowl week in the customary place, which is talking about a boxing match over the weekend. The thing that I wanted to ask all of you is, because boxing is a pretty historic sport, I'm guessing you guys have been familiar and watched boxing for a good amount of time. Have you ever seen someone step into the ring that you would accuse of wearing a toupee? Is it something that you've ever seen in all your time watching boxing where you're like, Oh, that fighter there, that hair is not real? Is that something you've ever seen? A guy with fake hair in the boxer ring at Levitard Show, put it on the poll. Have you ever seen a boxer in the ring that you suspected of wearing a toupee? Because over the weekend, somebody got their hair system punched off. Now, I don't know if this person won or lost the fight. Do you guys know? Jarelle Miller is his name. His nickname is Big Baby. Do you know if he won the fight or not?

He won by split decision. Hair lost, though.

Who cares? Okay, so we see there this video, which is amazing, and I want to get to his sound after the fight because the excuse is also amazing. The excuse for how it is and why it is he lost his hair, how long ago he lost his hair.

Why did he punch his hair instead of his face?

Well, he's trying to punch his face, and sometimes it's hard to box. I know that you have a lot of expertise in the skills of boxing. Heavyweight fighting is awfully hard, awfully dangerous. But I'm serious when I say, I've never seen a boxer that I would say, Oh, that guy's got fake hair. I've been watching boxing a long time, and it's not an I'm not sure I would have known this guy had fake hair, if not for the fact that he got punched off.

If you're him, you got to know, Hey, there's a chance that if they hit me hard enough, my hair might fly off like a can.

Well, I think if you do think there's a chance of that, you will not do it. I I don't believe he thought there was a chance because how many times have you seen that happen? I don't believe this man stepped into the ring thinking that this was a possibility, that at the beginning of Super Bowl week, this is what we'd be talking about without knowing whether he won or lost the fight. But let's get his explanation because his explanation is great. Listen to his explanation. It's so much better than Paul George's explanation for his embarrassment. It is an excellent explanation that I absolutely believe. So it's a fun I get to my mama house and I actually had some shampoo bottles under her table and I shampooed it. The shit was like a morning in bleach. I really lost my hair like two days ago. I called my master, Do me in a man. Let me knock that shit off real quick. A bee's a knock, that shit off.

He knocked that shit off.

He had forewarning, Dan.

He knew, Hey, there's a possibility that something might happen here if he hits me hard enough and then plow.

I don't think he had forewarning. Again, I don't think that you can wash your hair with ammonia bleach. I I do think it's an innocent mistake to see that your mom decided to hide some ammonia bleach in the shampoo bottles, and you thought it was shampoo, and now your hair is falling off.

I love how after the hair was off his head, it got a ringside seat, and the fight was continuing, and the hair was sitting ringside watching.

The hair looks like a big cookie.

Mike, you are an expert in these matters. You're always accusing people of fake teeth, of hair systems, of all sorts of Botox. You are a cosmetics expert. Have you ever seen a boxer walk into a ring with a toupee?

Can't say that I have. Can't say I've ever seen anything like that, Dan. The guy's hair system got knocked off by a punch. Give me all the examples.

I want you guys to look at the video behind Tony and Mike here because you will see that as soon as his hair gets punched off, he tries to punch off the hair of his opponent who doesn't have hair. He tries to do the same thing. He's like, I'm not going to be the only one out here without hair. That's what I'm saying. Then he realizes, Well, that guy already doesn't have hair. You really need to go bald in that circumstance, don't you? You need to not put in the hair system. You need to admit your mistake. I did the ammonia bleach thing. I'm sorry, but I wonder if he had like, splotching or something.

You're falling for that? The ammonia bleach. I am. I had a full head of hair until two days ago. Trust me.

Look, I told you this. When the lie is so outrageous, That the details can't be believed, I tend to believe it. I told you the story of Edwin Pope, who got so drunk out in Indianapolis one time that he stepped outside of the hotel, asked the taxi driver to take him to his hotel, and the taxi driver said, Sir, you're standing in front of your hotel. He goes upstairs, he falls down, he hits himself on the corner of a bureau and cuts himself. But his wife doesn't know that he drinks on the road. So when he comes home, what does he tell her? He tells her, I came out of the elevator and I got hit by a and she believed it.

Don't believe this one. Are we to believe the bleach just affected the follicles, none of the surrounding skin? It just burned off the hair.

No, I think that he had a splash problem. I think that that's the reason that he went with the hair system. But put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Which do you believe more, that Paul George was suspended for mental health medication or that the boxer lost his hair with some bleach and a shampoo bottle? Which do you believe more?

Tony nailed it with it looks like a can being opened.

Like the lid of a can, you know how you can leave it halfway open?

It's like, oh. Well, one of the...

Look- You could cut yourself on that.

If I may, if I may chronicle this even more than we already have, the way that it happened is the funiest way it could have happened. Because if it had simply dislodged and not opened like a can opener, if it had simply flown off and ended up in the ring, it wouldn't be as funny as it flapping in the wind. I must admit, sponges are tough for me to spot.

It's a to America's thing. I remember when Steve Harvey had his grand reveal, I was like, You fooled me. I didn't know that I didn't know that that was possible. But then I directly pointed my attention to Jamie Fox.

I'm like, I'm all over that one. Oh, so this is something that you don't have expertise in.

It's more difficult. Two Americas.

Shams He is reporting the latest on Yannis Antetokounmpo. He says that over the weekend, the Bucs remain engaged in teams making aggressive offers and have also submitted counter offers. He's ready for his exit, whether it's at the deadline or the offseason. The most active suiters are Miami, Minnesota, Golden State, and New York. Has also emerged as a serious shooter. The big thing to monitor over the next three days is if a team emerges that matches the price point that Milwaukee has set, and That his indications are that they want a young blue-chip talent or a surplus of draft pick. The Golden State Warriors don't really have a young blue-chip talent. No, they do not. Kamenga doesn't have any value there. So according to Dunlevy himself, who said, If you're going to demand a trade, there has to be demand somewhere.

This is why I don't understand. You got people all over television and radio. They're talking about they're hyping up this Golden State offer because, yes, they have four draft picks that they can offer, and they're going to give up Kominga. They sat Kominga 17 consecutive games. Steve Kerr, a champion coach, decided this player is not worth a single minute on my team, and that's the centerpiece of your trade? It's a pathetic offer.

It's bad GMing, too. If you're done leaving and you know there's no demand for your guy, you still can't say there's no demand for your guy because it nukes what's going on.

You're right, but also- It was a message sent.

I get it.

You're right, but also the The Heat are quite guilty of that lately, too.

I was going to say that, too.

Well, let's talk about that for a second. The situation that you have with the heat is that Khalil Ware has been ransacked by Eric Spolstra in a way that's publicly odd for this organization. Spoh rarely does stuff like this. And he even walked it back the last time he did it when he hammered Kaleil Ware for a lack of professionalism because he produce the same effort when he's not starting.

Kalele, no. This is like the third time he's done this, and it's always where. So maybe we should stop being surprised.

But he would be the centerpiece of whatever it is that you're trading for Yannis, would he not? If you're the Bucks- Or Tyler. No, see, that's a bad contract.

I think both. Young, blue-chip prospect is where?

I don't think Tyler's a bad- He's from Milwaukee.

He's literally expiring next year.

He's from Milwaukee. Okay, the expiring part is something that gives it more value.

It's market value, I think. It's fair for a former All-Star?

Okay, but you need to do better than that if you're taking back money on Giannis. Well, they are, but for the region and the fact that he's still in the prime of his career, it's not a bad contract.

I wouldn't do that. But it's a part of the deal, not the singular part of the deal.

There's not a bad contract that the heat would be offering, period. There's not one that's immovable or not expired this summer. I don't think they have any bad contract. There are no bad contracts on this deal.

Except next year, Bam, making 50.

Because you're making all expiring contracts good contracts, right?

Well, if Tyler Hero and Andrew Wiggins are on expiring deals, they're valuable to get you a first-round pick based off the market. That's what everyone's talking about with Wiggins right now, and he still has a player option at 30 million for next year. The biggest reason you haven't seen that explored, more likely than not, is because the heat are waiting to see, do the Bucks want Wiggins as a part of that deal? And as we were talking about last week, you could combine Tyler Hero and Andrew Wiggins to fill out that salary and potentially be pieces that the Bucks could move next season. If they wanted. They have Terry Rozier as an expiring deal right now. Tyler Hero is not a net negative. He's not a centerpiece prospect to build around only because he's about to turn 26. But that's a former All-Star guard at 30 million.

Adam Silver, I don't even dare you. I double dare you.

You already did this. I've already seen this. You got to do better than this. I've already heard you- Adam Silver, I triple dog dare you.

I haven't done that. Yeah, he hasn't done that.

I haven't done that? Dan, triple dog.

You finish the thought. You still haven't told the people what you're repeating.

Adam Silver, I triple... I dare you? I double dare you. I triple dog dare you to void a deal that the Miami Heat trade away Terry Rozier's expiring contract. I triple dog dare you. Adam Silver.

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Dan Levatard. All these high-paid analysts, I don't want to mention names, TNT, ESPM. Oh, yeah, they are dead. They're not going to make it. Even if they win, if they lose in Miami- I need to calm you down. I need to calm you down. That's right. They lose in Miami. They don't got a chance in Boston. Oh, they are going to have their ass in Boston. Stugats. They were wrong. Are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious. They're going to say, Oh, the are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. You know what? They are not going to win at all. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats. Let me walk back what I said a little bit on Tyler Hero and that contract. Okay, if all expiring contracts are good, then I will concede to you that the Andrew Wiggins contract isn't, for example, bad in the context of what it is that we're doing here, which is you have to make the salaries match. But Milwaukee doesn't want Andrew Wiggins.

They want young pieces. Tyler Hero is young. He was an all-star last year. He's hurt way too much. You've got to get the money to match up, and it's going to be hard to get the money to match up. But if I'm Milwaukee, and this is the piece I have, I understand why you guys look at it from the Miami perspective. But if I'm Milwaukee and this is the piece that I have, everything I'm getting back has to have value and more value than just it's an expiring contract. Now, Tyler Hero, you can make the arguments on behalf of Tyler Hero, but I'm here to tell you that Tyler Hero for Giannis isn't enough. Obviously. That's not going to be the best offer. No, but I'm saying, you're sitting here saying, Oh, take the Rozier contract, take the Wiggens contract, take the Tyler Hero contract. And I'm telling you that if they're going to pay that much money for a contract, maybe it'll be for an expiring contract. But my guess is that they'll want somebody better than that.

Well, those are just the parts to make the money work, Dan. The pieces that you would theoretically be building around as the centerpiece of these deals are the two available picks that the heat have, a couple of pick swaps, and they can get to a third if they simply get Milwaukee to shift the protections from the 2027 pick to 2028. Now you would have- Charlotte. Oh, sorry. I appreciate that. Charlotte. It would be a 2026, a 2030, a 2032. Those would go right to them. That's without doing anything else other than calling up Charlotte. Plus, there's Kalel, where there's Hyme Haukees Jr, a 24-year-old, six-man-of-the-year candidate. There are several other young pieces. A first-round pick in Casper Siakachonis, who's a 19-year-old point card, getting minutes. Obviously, there's Pela Larson, but we don't want to talk about him because he's too good, and I don't want to trade him. But there are so many really good young pieces that are a piece of this. Stop. Look, obviously- I got to stop you.

I got to stop you. I don't want to lose Pela Larson for Giannis onto Tukumpa. I could strangle you right now. I could strangle you.

The way I vocally modulated didn't insinuate that I was getting it all.

Throw you into the ocean by your head. You turn over the entirety of your roster to Milwaukee, and you say, take who you want.

Remember when Heat fans didn't want to trade Kieran Butler for Shaq?

Yes. That was my favorite. And Lamar Odom. No, I love Lamar Odom and Kieran Butler. And I like Brian Grant, too. Brian Grant is the contract that you're talking about here, where you got to make the contracts match up. So you got to throw in Brian Grant, too. And people liked him, so they didn't want him to go either for Shaq.

I think you're just seizing on something that Jeremy said when he was clearly joking. I think he'd be okay with including Pele Larson in there.

It's every possible piece, right? And the heat in terms of what is available right now. We laid it out last week. Everybody has been hyping up this Golden State package because of these pics and pick swaps.

Can I tell you why I think everyone's, Jeremy, hyping up the Golden State package? I think people just want to see Yannis play with Steph. That's right. That's all They don't have a good package. They just want... But it's a great story for us to pay attention to for Giannis to play with Steph.

And there have been reports, I believe it was nick Fridaell that said Golden State has reassured Jimmy Butler that he is not a piece of that potential trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo, insinuating that the financial things there would be Draymond. To me, all that insinuates is the Bucks didn't like the package that was built around Jimmy Butler, and Golden State is saving face because the Reports from the very beginning from everyone were, All right, they'll be willing to trade Jimmy Butler and anything else. It's everybody but Steph. And now it's, Oh, we're reassuring Jimmy. He's a piece of it. Which shows me the counter from Milwaukee was, Well, we don't want that contract because that contract is actually difficult to move. You're probably right. It's only an expiring deal. It's not one that you feel you can flip for further value. That's why I mentioned Hero and Wiggins. You can flip those for further value later on if you don't want them as a piece for the future. Tyler you could extend as you continue to rebuild. He's a 26-year-old All-Star.

The back story on some of this that presents problems for the Miami Heat is, do you do it in the next three days or do you do it in the offseason when you have the picks? And Milwaukee doesn't have any urgency on this, right? Miami would need to do it in the next three days because they want to compete this year in an Eastern conference that's suspect. But Milwaukee is incentivized to wait for a better offer in the offseason, are they not?

Milwaukee is incentivized to wait because they can get at least one more pick if they wait until the summer. But how much does Milwaukee care about what Giannis wants in this case? How much should they care about what Giannis wants? Because two things. Number one, they could say, Hey, Giannis, we want to wait until the summer because it's more beneficial for us. But Giannis would be like, Yeah, I don't want to waste another year of my career. I want to win right now. I want to go to a team that is going to be a playoff team right now. And then the second part, which is important, is Giannis is eligible in October to sign a Supermax deal, but he can only sign it if his current team has had him for six months. So if they trade him over the summer, he's not eligible for Supermax.

Also, the other teams in the mix would suggest that these are teams looking to see on this very window right now. You're probably not going to get as good an offer from certainly not these teams that are looking to add Yannis at 32 years old for this postseason.

On top of that, if you're Giannis and they don't trade you the deadline, they want something better in the offseason, do you just not play? Because it's four to six weeks, quote unquote, of his calf strain. But now it's like, All right, well, I'm not going to go out and get hurt in April. I'm done for the season. I just basically put him on the shelf.

Just so that I continue to explain what it is that I'm saying about the Tyler Hero contract, because I don't believe that Milwaukee just wants an expiring deal, and he's going to want a massive deal, a player who doesn't play defense on an expiring deal. Kalil, where is the blue-chip talent in that deal? It's not Tyler Hero, even though Tyler Hero is the All-Star, because you have to pay Tyler Hero- I don't think anybody's disagreeing. If you want to keep him, let's Let's get to something here else that happened over the weekend that doesn't have to do with this. But I'm finding funny that the statue of Dwyane Wade is having some post-traumatic effects that is affecting the legacy of other players who now don't want statues at all because of how bad Dwyane Wade's statue looked. Derrick Rose was on a television show, and he was being asked whether or not he wants a statue. Derrick Rose, I know you were objecting, Zaz, last week to the fact that Reggie Miller went on Dan Patrick and said something. What were you objecting to?

Well, yeah, Derrick Rose had his jersey retired by Chicago, which is great. I'm not going to sit here and agree or disagree with that. It's up to the team. They want to retire a Jersey, okay? But then Dan Patrick asked Reggie Miller if he believes that Reggie, if Derrick Rose would be the Hall of Fame, which is debatable. He's going to get in because everybody gets in, but it's certainly debatable. Reggie Miller said that Derrick Rose, of course, he's a Hall of Famer because for a good 6-8 years, he was battling LeBron as the best player in the NBA. The hell are you talking about? He didn't even play for the Bulls for eight years, first of all. And he had three good years, Derrick Rose. Three. The rest of his career, he was hurt. 6-8 years was battling LeBron for best player in the league. What are you talking about? I don't understand. Reggie Miller, he's supposed to be an MBA analyst. Can you know a little bit, a little something about the game?

All right, let's hear Reggie Miller first before we get to this, Derrick Rose having post-traumatic Dwyane Wade statue reflexes. I would be surprised if he doesn't.

He will be the only MVP not to be in the Hall of Fame. Man, if he didn't get a third though. If he was first ballot, I doubt he'll be first ballot, but he'll get in at some point.

For a 6-8 year stretch, him and LeBron were battling for who was the best player in the game.

Dan, help me out here. I I can't be the only person screaming in here about this. Can somebody agree with me?

I'm looking at his basketball reference right now, and you had mentioned it. Three years where he was over 20 points per game, one of them being the MVP season. Let me read you the stat light from his MVP season Twenty-five points a game, seven and a half assists a game, four rebounds a game. Lebron is way better than that.

It's like LeBron's worst year of his career.

It's not only better, it is is legitimately flabbergasting that Derrick Rose's career has been over for as long as it's been over and that LeBron is still getting into this year's All-Star Game. That makes no sense if you have any appreciation whatsoever for, I don't know, mortality, just the aging process.

Reggie, was he battling LeBron for a best player in the year in the league the year that he played 39 games? Was he battling When you look at LeBron for best player in the year in the league the year that he played 10 games? Was it the year that he averaged 15 points per game? What are you talking about?

Lebron this season is averaging 22 points, 6 rebounds, and 6. 5 assists.

The Lakers are funny because they're like 10 games over 500, but they've got 16 double-digit losses, and no team with their point differential has ever been quite this good in terms of record. And they're almost 10 games over 500 with Austin Reeves and LeBron James missing 20 of the games. Don't trust them at all. They don't play any defense. You can't trust them. They lost to the Knicks yesterday, and now Brian Windhorse is saying the Knicks have no interest in aggressively pursuing doing Yannis because they like their current team. And as it relates to what it is we were talking about before with nobody in Miami wanting to trade Karon Butler for Shaquille O'Neill, I'm not kidding when I tell you I have talked to a number of Knicks fans who are just romantically in love with these tough, tough Knicks. And what they say to me on Yannis is, We can't give up Ogie Anunobi. And I'm like, Who are these people? What is happening? It's multiple people who are saying this to me because they fall in love with the gritty guys who play defense and stuff. And they're like, I don't want an immortal.

You can't trade Mitchell Robinson, Dan. He only plays 19 minutes a game.

What does it matter with people? Don Leverthard. John Zaslow, how you love that catchphrase. Bad news for opposing teams in the Triple A. Stugatz. These are smiles till the bloods are clutch again, clutch again, clutch again. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats. Let's get to Derrick Rose here, though. This was legitimately funny. Derrick Rose surprised me in the middle of this when he just gave his reasoning for, Yeah, I don't want a statue.

You had the jersey, you had the book.

A statue is next, right? Right outside of the 90s. Right outside, right where Jordan's is. No, not the way. I saw that statue. I'm good. No, come on, man. You need a statue outside of Chicago. I don't need no statue. So they say, We want you to build your statue. You're going to say no? I should also mention the context of he's a religious man, and he doesn't like the idea of human being worshiped that way. So it's not just the Dwyane Wade scars, but it is also the Dwyane Wade scars. I'm looking at it on the TV right now.

Good Lord. Can we walk up to that? Can I go across the street and walk up to that right now?

It's slightly gated off, but yes, you can get pretty close to it.

Okay, Tony's top five from the Dwyane statue this week.

Okay, I take it today if you wanted to do it today. But I'll ask you guys the question here, does that statue look more like Dwyane Wade or Michael Chicklas? Tony, that means get your ass in gear.

Reggie, was Derrick Rose battling LeBron for best player in the year in the league in his sixth year when he shot 40% from the floor? Was that one of the years?

Can you Guys, please get for me the video that everyone on the internet has been enjoying this week, and not just the video of the bar fight, but a video as well of the news report chronicling some of the details in what it is that What happens? Zaz, have you seen this? No, I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, so listen to this because a lot of people are talking about this today, and it seems like something more likely to happen in Australia, which has more creatures that can kill you than any other place on Earth. No, there's not going to be any spiders here, right? I I don't think there are going to be any spiders here.

Keep an eye. You never know.

But let's take a look here at this news report. The man and a mate had been inside but were thrown out. One of them grabbed a chair from a restaurant next door despite staff and customers there trying to stop him. It suspected he was trying to throw it at security at the front door, but instead, it hit his mate in the head.

He recovered reasonably quickly, got up and walked away.

It's understood no one rang police. Or an ambulance. We'll have full detail. 7 News. For the audio audience, this is a special drunkenness. When you throw a chair, put it on the poll, Juju, at Levitard Show, have you ever been so drunk that you could have thrown a chair at security that instead hit your friend in the back of the head. Hit your mate, man. Because he didn't come close to hitting security. Security was watching him. He seems to think because of the amount of liquid in his system that he had more accuracy than he actually had. I guess, well, the accuracy wasn't terrible in that it would have, I suppose, hit security if it had not hit his mate in the back of the head.

But it's not like his mate emerged and it was like, Oh, I got a clean shot at security. And then his mate walked in front. His mate is standing there the entire time. He's always going to hit his mate.

And then the security guard was hysterical laughing at him.

Can you imagine being the mate there? You're talking to security. Hey, look, my friend's a good guy. My mate's a good mate, right? We don't need to call the cops. He's not a cheeky, you know what? And then all of a sudden...

He's like, All right, you know what? Get him out of here.

Tony Soprano end scene.

Honestly, if I had told you that this scene was choreographed artistically by stuntmen in a movie, they couldn't have done it a lot better than this in terms of if you're doing a comedy and you're trying to have your friend be so drunk that his judgment is impaired but not as accurate. He's thrown a chair. We're all in agreement that that chair would have successfully hit security if security hadn't moved or flinched because they saw, no, this is going to hit his mate in the back of the head. There's no circumstance under which this chair is going to make our tope fly off because it hits us in the head.

Let me go ahead and tell the straight this one for you, Dan. Let's get the video back up on screen. You could see security right here, off screen, right over here is the friend who's about to throw the chair. Now, this is another security guard. Obviously, Obviously, this ends up being the target for the throw. Let's see this happen. Let's see it unwind.

Come on.

Come on, draw it. There. There it is. You can see it right here, and you can see that. Of course, that's the guy who throws it right away.

Yeah, there it is. Let's play that back again without the helpful telestrator that always draws a penis. Look at this guy in the front of the whole situation. He's walking by. He just Casually, yes. Moves to his left with a drink in his head because it's the most normal thing in Australia to have all of that. Casual dodging of a chair. This guy's just walking. He's like, No, don't roll back. Just move.

Stop right now. The guy just moved his stuff. Stop right now. Louis, stop right now. Stop right now. All right, that's perfect. Now, You can see the man who is about to launch the chair. This.

Right now, that guy's realizing, Oh, that guy's about to throw a chair.

This person is seeing a chair being thrown, so he's speeding up. You could see the bend in the knee right here. Of course, you have security. You have a woman walking out of the picture. Draw another ball. Then, of course, this right here is the ultimate target. Go ahead and play this, and we'll see the launch of the chair. Oh, right to the back of the head. Of course, laughter right here. A fallen patron over here and right over there is ultimately the man who threw the chair.

Getting back to what it is that we were talking about before about Kaminga, how can the heat with a straight face say that the Warriors offer is no good? They're offering Kaminga a player who hasn't played in 17 games. Here, take our blue-chip talent that the coach keeps ripping and they won't start because Kalil Ware is someone you can trust, even though Spoh is taking the rare measures of consistently ripping Kalil Ware. How can you make that argument with a straight face?

Yeah, it bothers me. And look, I think Eric's Bull is just the best coach in the league. I love him, but I don't get it. It bothers me on Saturday night because Dan, they played the Bulls three consecutive games. My God, enough of heat Bulls. But on Saturday night, Kela Ware played three minutes. Played three minutes. And we're in the midst of a week where we are trying to offer that as the main piece for Giannis onto Tukumbo, and he can only play three minutes off the heat's bench. Then, Speo, after the game was talking about, the game was moving too fast for him. Couldn't play. I was like, Whoa, hold on a second. In a league that is getting faster and faster, you're telling the Bucks that this is a guy who you can't keep on the floor in that spot? I don't understand.

It just feels like sometimes The perceived value is almost better than actual value. The perceived value of Kaleh where is that he's his blue-chip prospect. The problem is if you put him out there and he's a little bit too slow for a game that, as Jeremy said, they started a center who was 6'7. Yeah, the game might be a little bit too quick for him. They'll play him off the floor, and then he doesn't look like that blue-chip prospect. Putting him on the shelf and being like, Yeah, he's great, but right now, we're not going to put him in, the perceived value is increased there.

He had 17 points and 6 rebounds in 18 minutes last night. It was just a game where they started a 6'7 center, and all Chicago was doing was run, run, run, run, run, run. They played both big men off the floor, both Niko Jovich and Kala Ware, just defensively had too many mistakes. And so Bam was out there anchoring the defense, and that was how the heat kept themselves in the game. Their offense was struggling.

Put it on the poll, please. My God, enough of heat bowls, yes or no. I will tell you that I am not yet so used to what has been the last 10 years of incredible basketball and human evolution, that you can tell me that a unicorn like Khalil Ware, who can shoot threes, block shots like that, and is uncommonly athletic, that that doesn't have a place as a blue-chip talent in this league. I know that the league is changing at an unbelievable rate. I know that many of you don't like watching basketball because you don't want a team going nine for 50 from three. It's not fun to watch when the threes aren't going in. But Kalil Ware, to my experience, is a basketball player who simply did not exist 10 years ago. Like that Kevin Kevin Garnett is something like that? Although Kevin Garnett has an actual mid-range game that Kalil Ware doesn't actually have. Kalil Ware is either the post or threes. But a seven-footer like that, you cannot convince me under any circumstances that that is not a player who has value to somebody who knows how to grow players and build a culture around players that protects them.

I just don't know if the Bucks feel like they have that with Doc Rivers, Miles Turner, and Kyle Kuzma.

I would think, well, first of all, Kuzma likely gets sent out in one of these trades. But Miles Turner is actually the perfect guy as one of these first freaks who was playing out on the perimeter as a seven-footer offensively. He's a guy who's been in an NBA Finals, has been that stretch five, has been a great shot blocker. He's actually a really wonderful guy to bring Kala wear along as a veteran. And obviously, they think Doc Rivers is one of the great coaches in the league if they have him as their head coach. What the Heat have is an organization that's been doing this with young big men for years and years and years. You guys forget, six, seven, eight years ago, Heat fans were having the same argument about Bam out of bio. Why isn't he on the floor? Why isn't he on the floor? Why isn't he on the floor? Why isn't he shooting threes? The heat like to bring guys along when they feel like they can become complete products, especially when they feel like their talent- I know, but Bam was in the middle of a trade where we're trying to get one of the best players in the world.

We weren't talking about this is the centerpiece.

Do you think that, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think a talent evaluator, a general manager is looking at what the peaks of Klauware have been thus far this season, what he literally did yesterday, and looking at one game against the play in Bulls with 6-7 guys.

No, it's more than one game.

I understand. But you think that a few games where he plays less than the full amount of minutes. By the way, Nico Jovich is a 22-year-old who they've been bringing along slowly, too. Also getting those minutes at center, and the best player on your team is a center.

Can I make a point for you guys that echoes what it is that Zaz is saying here that if you want to get in the game for Giannis, to my way of thinking, when you're playing three games against the Bulls, because basketball can be confusing in the way I'm about to mention, Jared Allen had 16 points yesterday in the first quarter. Why? Because Because Evan Mobley is not playing. None of us would know how good Jalen Brunson is if he hadn't left Luka's side. Against the Bulls, run everything through Kalil Ware. I don't care if you win those games now. You have to showcase that person so that you can trick Milwaukee into thinking the opposite of whatever they think now because of what the coach is saying. Run the whole thing through him, showcase him so that you can maximize his value. There are all sorts of players in that league. If I just give them a usage rate, you would be amazed by their statistics. Trey Young went to having no value just because everyone knows, Oh, if I let him hold the ball all the time, of course, he's going to go 25, 5, and whatever.

And those numbers aren't going to end up meaning anything. To me, you have to showcase Kalil Ware. You have to put him on the court. You cannot, during this time, be playing him three minutes in games that Zaz is saying, My God, enough with heat bowls.

I just don't know if it's a madman presentation Pat Reilly walking in to Andy Ellesberg in the roundtable and being like, What if we trick him? I just don't think that's plausible. I hear what you're saying. Let him beat up on these bad teams and pad his stats. But I think their eval is their eval.

That's fine. But their eval is being aided by the people who have the most information saying out loud about a player like they've said of no other. I don't trust him.

That's the Heats MO, ruin their own assets over the last few seasons.

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero.

Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

Everything else?

Everything else.

Wearing clean underwear every day?

Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth?

Obviously smart, but not a rule.

Never PP on an electric fence.

Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jägermeister must be drunk ice cold. Or don't drink it at all.

Damn, that's cold.

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

Drink responsibly. Jägermeister L'Core, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by Mass Jägermeister US, White Plains, New York.