Transcript of Ali G Is Back?! | Hour 2

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Conor McGregor's 1-5 record since 2017 in combat sports includes the last time I got this mad about the attention that Conor McGregor was getting for fighting, which is the fight against Floyd Mayweather, which was a similar type of money grab that has next to nothing to do with being good. At the sport now. It has everything to do with being good at the sport once upon a time. Where are we with Tony and the Miami Heat and this camp that he is doing?

Is he, uh, is he gonna play against the, uh, 8-year-olds?

I hope so.

One of the funniest things Peyton Manning has ever done was an assortment of videos that he made in which he was just throwing footballs at children and, and hitting an assortment of children.

Is Tony gonna start posting up 8- and 9-year-olds here?

Is he doing drills against 8- and 9-year-olds?

So we're going to check in with Tony at the Heat's facility in just a second.

But before, before we do that, I was delighted to see at Wimbledon something that happened.

I can't believe that enough time has gone by that the following is true.

Sacha Baron Cohen many, many years ago became internationally famous creating a character, Ali G, who was an idiot sort sort of hip-hop guy who would go around interviewing people, serious people, political people, serious powerful people, not just political people, and it's an assortment of people who took themselves seriously, would agree to an interview with Ali G. I'm not sure how many people know this because it was so long ago.

So at one time he was famous in England, Sacha Baron Cohen was, as this character Ali G, who crossed over with satire that was so funny, fake interviews with serious people where he was playing the straight man as an idiot character. He did so much embarrassing of important people that he could no longer do the character because they couldn't find people to be fooled by it because he was becoming too famous. And so he had to retire the character and become Sacha Baron Cohen. He's bringing back Ali G because the time has gone by and now people don't remember this entire time. A generation does not remember this character.

It's awesome.

So he can bring back the character now. And evidently what he's done after the Borat movies, he is now going— he's already done the Ali G movie. Like, he's already done the filming for this, and this is the last stages of promotion where he's appearing at Wimbledon as the character. He's resurrecting a character from how many years ago? 20 years ago?

I was in college watching it.

Yeah, he was in the Madonna music video in the late '90s. Uh, he's already filmed this film, the Ali G comeback movie, which is why he feels comfortable letting the cat out of the bag, hard launching himself, putting a social media video of himself as Ali G in character on social media.

And he doesn't look that different.

He can pull it off. He's taken on a lot of serious roles since then. He's not just doing comedy.

In fact, I'd be curious how, uh, harmed he was creating negatively by everything that happened with, uh, The Dictator. Because Ali G arrived at a level of stardom that allowed him to be a true movie star. I've told you the story before about Hank Azaria.

After he, uh, what is the movie that Hank Azaria did here where he—

Birdcage.

Birdcage, thank you. Yes, after he— that was sort of his coming out party in terms of stardom, even though he had done a lot of different roles.

And he said that he would, uh, after that he got 3 giant movies offered to him, and that's sort of how you become a leading man, with the 3 choices you've made after you've broken out. Sacha Baron Cohen did the Borat movies and then had those 3 movies.

I don't remember, but one of them was The Dictator, and then the others disappeared because Hollywood was like, never mind, we're not gonna, we're not gonna honor our commitments, etc., etc.

And so since then, he's had some serious roles and has had nothing that's broken through. It's been The last time you guys— is Talladega Nights the last time you guys saw something where Sacha Baron Cohen was being Sacha Baron Cohen?

Oh yeah, maybe.

Has it been that long?

I don't understand being Sacha Baron Cohen. He's always playing someone else.

No, when he was in Talladega Nights, that was a starring role that he did successfully that everyone liked. Since then, his most prominent role in a film that people have been talking about is blank.

The Shave of the Face, The Trim of the Beard. Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

I would never watch that movie.

Oh, he's great in it.

What about Les Misérables?

I'm not watching that either.

When is the Ali G movie supposed to come out? Because you're saying that it is—

I don't have the answer to that.

That it's completed, so it would be relatively soon. And the character was just great. I don't know how to explain it.

He did dust off Borat fairly recently and had that incredible moment with Rudy Giuliani.

The Ali G character, though, was so perfect for the time, and Zaslow is having a similar experience. I don't know how many of these you have in your life, the experience of discovery in entertainment where you are in college and you're seeing something for the first time that's so different from anything that you've ever seen and is a bit of an inside joke for just you. We're going to have a South Beach session soon here that I really enjoyed doing with Phil Hendrie because it was—

Wow.

It was similar to this.

For those of you who do not know who Phil Hendrie is, he would do a show where he was all the characters and certain members of the audience—

A radio show.

Yeah, he would do a radio show. Yeah, thank you, Zazz. It was not a visual show. He would do a radio show where he was all the characters, and the first few times I listened to it, I did not know that, did not understand that. And so what he was doing was—

the genius of what he was doing was lost on me because I didn't realize that he was playing all of the characters, including some, some women. And, uh, in playing some of the characters, one of the characters would say something outrageous, and he, as Phil Hendrie, would always be the straight man interviewing the character, and Phil Hendrie would just, uh, do the interview as a traditional radio host, and then Phil Hendrie would be saying, as the other character, outlandish stuff, and the whole point of the exercise was just to find somewhere in the audience a caller who would get upset by what the other Phil Hendrie character was saying, and then to watch Phil Hendrie and all his characters argue amongst each other and support the caller or yell at the caller. And it was simply genius. Discovering this was, to me, illuminating and inspiring. And I imagine Ali G in some respect was that to you when you were in college and you're seeing for the first time Who's this young person who clearly shouldn't be in this position because he's an idiot? And then you realize, oh, wait a minute, he's being an idiot on purpose and he's doing it to embarrass the, the powerful who don't get that he's doing it on purpose.

Phil Andrew is amazing. I mean, I was— I discovered Phil Andrew when I was in high school down here, and it was introduced to me like I didn't fall for it because it was introduced to me as, yo, you're not going to believe what this guy does. This is the show. It was amazing. But yeah, Ali G was something we discovered when we were in college, and we just— we didn't understand how— A, how he's getting these politicians, these senators and representatives, how he's getting them to actually be there with him, and the way that he would make them look stupid. It was incredible to us. We'd never seen anything like it.

The Ali G Show on HBO introduced all these other characters— Bruno, Borat.

Right, they had little skits mixed in.

The ones that resonated with American audiences most, 'cause Ali G was always, Ali G had his own standalone movie, but it was produced out over across the pond. Because in terms of resonating with American audiences, Ali G is the one that struggled the most because to get the jokes, you have to be really familiar with English culture. So I'm surprised that it's making a comeback, but he put out a social media video on his own here. So let's see what the character's doing here in 2026.

I is here at the men's singles in Wimbledon, which actually, Despite its name, ain't a party for gaylords. It's like the World Cup of something called tennis, which is like a crap version of ping pong. Them say that tennis is better played on grass, which is why I intend to sell as much of it while I is here. So if you want some herbal remedies, me has got anything you want. Bok choy, kush, me got Some homegrown. I was in row HC329. There ain't any brothers here, so it'll be easy to find me in it. Respect.

Are you surprised, Zazz, that it's been long enough now that the character became so popular that he could no longer successfully prank anybody because everyone ended up seeing him coming, no matter the generation? But here he is coming back, and I didn't think he could. I didn't think that that character would ever get resurrected.

I love it. It's, it's just watching that there, that's the first I've seen it. And so that's the first I've seen anything new from Ollie G in like 20 years. It's like a nostalgia act that's all of a sudden back and I could enjoy again. That's awesome. I would definitely watch that.

Tony is out at the Heat facility.

He has bait and switched us.

I thought he was going to be playing against professionals. Instead, he is playing against 9-year-olds. What are we doing out there, Tony?

What is this camp for kids? And are you going to do a drill with somebody or what?

Um, yeah, Dan, it is the Camp for Kids, but I also think this is also a tryout for me, um, with the brass of the coaching staff, right?

Like, they're going to be able to go and tell the team— we can't hear you, can you speak louder please?

I can hear the coach, I can hear the coach pretty well.

Louder, Tony.

Okay, coach, coach.

All right, coach is trying to explain offense.

I can't hear you, bring the microphone closer to your mouth.

Okay, coach, coach is trying to— he's trying to go through the option offense right now, teaching the kids, making sure that They understand passing cut or passing screen away, right?

So we're working on that.

I've got my team. I think one of my two teams is going to be here. I don't know if I'm going to be the Bucks or the Celtics. See, passing screen, passing screen away. Dan, you ever heard of that option offense? You know that or no?

Uh, yeah, yes, but what are you doing? Like, are you going to be—

are you going to be participating with them? I'd like to get your Conor McGregor thoughts while you're doing drills with them. I don't want your— I don't want your Conor—

I don't want to hear—

I heard a lot of yours. I don't want your Conor McGregor thoughts.

This guy, am I right?

Uh, before I don't want your Conor McGregor thoughts before you're doing the drill. I want during the drills.

Are you going to be doing drills with them?

Yeah.

Yes.

So, so after they, after they, they go through the option offense here, then we're going to go through working on our, our shooting, our dribbling, different drills and stuff, bank shots, layups, all that. So I'll give you my Conor McGregor thoughts during that. Or if you want them during the 5-on-5, I can really confuse kids by talking about Conor McGregor while I'm dribbling basketball. So one of the two. Which one do you want?

Tony, how much would we have to give you to run out to that far hoop and make— and just take a layup right now.

Which, which one?

The one behind me? All the way back there? Yeah, all the way back there.

Yeah, like you'd be running straight through the presentation drill and you'd be running through.

He's trying to make this team. You're gonna, you're gonna put him in that spot in front of the staff?

I'm not putting him in that spot. Zazz is putting him in there.

Yeah, how much?

100 bucks. 100 bucks right now.

$100?

Do we want to pool together $100 here?

No, I want him to make the team.

Yeah, yeah, I don't want it.

So is that— look at what just happened.

Secondhand embarrassment.

Hold on, hold on. Look at what just happened there. Zazz tried to get Tony to do something Tony doesn't want to do.

Tony's bidding price wasn't that expensive. Zazz tried to all of a sudden go socialism.

Everyone pays.

Yeah, you want him to do that? You won't give him $100?

I want him to do that because he's gonna get yelled at if he doesn't.

But why wouldn't you pay for it as opposed to asking everyone else?

Why did you try to come to work today and spend money? I'm trying to make that money.

Well, but it was your idea.

I know, it's a good one.

To try and entice Tony. He came in with a reasonable fee to do what it is that you wanted.

I think $100 is enough.

Tony, $20 right now, take it or leave it. I'll Venmo you right now.

No, leave it.

No, leave it.

Tony, which coach are you most afraid of yelling at you if you were to do hijinks?

Coach Fiorentino right here.

Tony, Tony, Tony, my boys went to that camp for years. I've seen Coach Fiorentino yell. You don't want that smoke.

I know, I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, Coach Tony, I do not want any smoke whatsoever.

All right.

Good action there by that guy.

That was Coach Lucas, Dan.

All right.

Well, Coach Lucas right there.

Let's put him back in picture in picture. And we'll come back to him when he's close to doing a drill so that I could get his Conor McGregor thoughts while he's doing a drill. That's how I want to do this. Get back to us when you're ready, Tony, and we will, we will check back in. I appreciate all of your efforts out there.

The Heat brain trust can indeed lord over the facilities and see what he's doing, and he's trying to show them that, that he can indeed play. And I believe he can be dominant among these 8- and 7-year-olds. I believe that he's got a chance to post up some kids kids have some size advantages. And so we will see if he ransacks some children and leaves them scarred for life with the trauma that they will wear in their body for decades.

He's learning from some good coaches out there. Assembled quite the staff. Jay Lucas, Tony Fiorentino out there, Tommy Tighe.

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Dan Levitar.

Analytics have/are ruining the game. We're playing AI hoops.

That's his team. His team's in the forefront of all this.

Dan's ass.

Don't steal my thunder.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Jonathan Sasslow.

I get carried away.

This is the Dan Levitar Show.

The news— I'm going to put that in quotes—

the news that was reported that LeBron James is getting voice memos from teams.

I, I am really enjoying the scraps of information coming out on the diluted and distorted, cheapened LeBron watch that has gone from what it was 15 years ago when we were laughing about the idea that Donnie Walsh was recruiting for the Knicks and he was showing up to LeBron's place in a wheelchair because he was not at his greatest strength. And so what the Knicks were offering back then seemed like it was mockable because Donnie Walsh was doing the recruiting and he was showing up in a wheelchair because he was in a weakened state. To go from that to the reports of the quote-unquote news teams trying to lure LeBron with voice memos seems like the decision has really lost some of its luster in 16 years.

It doesn't mean that we still are aren't interested. It doesn't mean that it's not going to be a viral thing the moment LeBron does pick his team. I find interesting that LeBron is milking this for all that it's worth.

Do you believe that it's because he's undecided?

I'd like them to start this week, by the way, soliciting handwritten notes. That seems more effective than the voice. Like, you have to— if you write a hand— if you write a note by hand, that's, you know, you're putting in some effort.

It certainly plays to our strengths down here in Miami. I'm a little worried about the all the phone technology that we have to use here with Pat.

Dan, there is no way LeBron doesn't know what he's doing right now. Get the hell out of here. I mean, this has been going on for like 3 weeks now. LeBron hasn't taken any time to sit down and decide what— what is he still thinking about? What is he still mulling over? He doesn't know what he wants to do. He 1000% already knows where he's going.

I disagree.

I think he's still listening to pitches. I think he's still hearing voice notes. Now, he may have a good idea. He may be he have been leaning a whole way this entire time and is letting people have the opportunity to perhaps talk him out of that. But I think it's pretty clear that he doesn't know quite yet. And I think the thing that's most clear is that nobody knows.

Nobody— that I agree with you. No one knows anything. And the funny thing is, only one person out there in the media And the media, look, they showed their ass in the whole Giannis Heat Celtics horrendous coverage. Only one person in the media is actually coming out and telling you, I don't know anything, no one knows anything, and it's Windhorst. Everyone else is, I'm hearing this, they're in the lead right now, they're the favorites. Windhorst is the only one who's being honest here and telling you the truth, which is no one knows shit.

Let's examine this for a second though, because for those of you who do not know Brian Windhorst's, uh, history, he's been covering LeBron since he was in high school. A lot of people who are critical of Windhorst— I am not one of them— uh, they, uh, deduct points from who he is as a credible source because they accuse him of having made his entire living off of LeBron James because he was covering him back in Akron. He be more likely to have information than just about anybody given how many relationships he has and how long those relationships go back.

But, uh, examine with me for just a second the detail on the only reason we do know that there are voice memos is because LeBron's camp is telling you that. You're saying you think LeBron 100% has his mind made up. Mike just said it's clear to him that it's not made up. My question to both of you is is what's the voicemail that sways it? Like, what's— what is a voicemail that anyone could possibly send, or voice memo that anyone could possibly send, where he's like, well, I was thinking I was gonna go to Cleveland, but now that I got that voice memo, now I'm thinking differently?

Perhaps it's just a test to see if Pat can do this at 80 years old, execute a voice note, and that goes a long way. He's not even listening to see if— well, what he says. He's listening To see if he did it and it doesn't catch him midpoint.

Pat's definitely starts with like, how do you start this thing?

Yeah, okay, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1.

Are we rolling?

Do you think he says on it, hey, this is Pat, and then he leaves his phone number the way that we used to? You used to say who's calling and you used to say your phone number. Usually you say your number twice too.

Does he drop the rings on the table?

Hear that?

Let me put this on the poll at Levitar's show. Do you ever leave voice messages? Yes or no? @LebatardShow.

When calling someone, do you ever leave voicemail?

Yes or no? Because I do so, but I always do so self-consciously, and I always do so announcing that I'm the only person still doing it.

Like, I, I always say, yes, this is an old-fashioned voice message I'm leaving you.

But do you guys even check your voicemail? Put that on the poll as well. Put it on the poll as well.

@LebatardShow.

Show, do you even check your voicemail?

Yes or no?

I delete it so fast without even listening to it. Sebastian Maniscalco does this bit, right, where it used to be back in the day if someone knocks on your door of your house, that's very exciting. But now if someone knocks on the door, you hide. What the hell is going on? It's the same, it's the same thing with the cell phone. It used to be very exciting if someone's calling you, and now if someone's calling me What are you doing?

Yeah, something must have gone sideways. Stugatz, when I spoke to him more regularly, would always leave voice memos or voicemails, and it would always be like, hey buddy, call me back. How good is that? That's the implication with a missed call.

I see you called.

It's Stugatz, call me back.

But wait a minute, when did this happen, and why did no one alert anyone else? There had to be a point, okay? I don't know what year this is, I don't know what time it is, it cannot be the same for everybody.

It just simply can't be.

There is a date somewhere in the past, and I think it's different for all of us, where I can say to you, "Hey, when did you stop using your phone as a phone?" There has to be a date where the phone became a computer and just a computer. There has to be a date when I say to people, "Hey, did you realize you were no longer answering your phone ever?" Or, "Did you realize you're no longer checking your voicemail?" ever. That date is different for all of us? How does that work? Because we didn't all discover text messaging at the same time, but there's something you say, the Maniscalco bit about, yes, the door, the knock on the door. Now, what a funny and interesting thing to have happen with very little awareness, this kind of change where we become so disconnected because we're so connected to these things that, A, a knock on the door goes from something exciting to something you don't ever want to happen, and a voicemail goes from something you would look forward to checking because someone called you to being like, I don't need to ever check my voicemail, I have the missed call.

This can't have happened to all of us at the same exact time. How is it that it happened to all of us though? How, how is it that it's happened to everyone in the world where you no longer use your phone as a phone? And now when your phone rings, when your cell phone rings, I never see anyone talking on a cell phone. Like, it's just, it's never happening where people are using their phone as a phone. They're always using it as a computer. When did this happen? Happened 10 years ago?

Uh, more than that. Yeah, more than that.

I would say after BlackBerrys went out of style is when people start doing that.

Oh, you know about that BlackBerry, Dan?

I do know about that BlackBerry. When did they— it seems like they started going out of style, uh, longer than 10 years ago.

There was no announcement. What an odd—

what—

it is an odd thing. We can agree that it's an odd thing that everyone is the same in this regard.

Yeah, who likes getting a phone call. It's terrible. It's a terrible thing, get a phone call.

I kind of do from like, oh my God, if a friend of mine that I haven't talked to in a while cold calls me.

Oh, horrible.

First, I'm a little worried that something is, has gone wrong. But then when I answer and it's like, hey, just if you're free, like, would love to catch up. That's one of the best feelings ever. I've actually been trying to make, I've been writing in my calendar, randomly assigning days after the show to call friends that I haven't talked to in a while from like my closest friend group group because I like catching up with people over the phone. I talk on the phone probably every day, mostly more often when I don't get to talk that much here because then there's just all these words that need to come spilling out of me, so I gotta talk to somebody.

Uh, put it on the poll at @LeBittardShow, uh, do you talk on the phone to somebody every day, yes or no?

I just saw Tony's in this layup line and the two kids before him threw it right at the bottom of the rim, like they just got under the basket and threw it as hard as they could and hit the bottom of the rim as hard as they could.

It's the first day, week-long camp. Let's check back Thursday, Friday. They'll be better.

They didn't ask for this.

Secondly, given the current cap situation, we may need contributions from them.

Yeah.

Tony, it is funny seeing him visually in this line be twice as large as all of the human beings that he is dealing with.

What did Kenny Atkinson say, Zazz, about the LeBron situation?

Kenny Atkinson, the coach of the Cavs. He said analytically LeBron's already on the team right now. No, he did not say that. —during a Summer League game, he was on the broadcast with George Sidano and I believe Danny Green and Kenny Atkinson. He sat down with them and, you know, just talk about the upcoming season, what they're excited about. And you tell me, Dan, is this Kenny Atkinson saying he knows something?

And then you guys know there's a little free agency thing going on right now, so you never know what's going on. You know, that could be our real jump. Yeah. And you know what I'm talking about. So, um, You know, that, that's exciting too.

As intriguing as that sound is, this reminds me more of what I saw from Sedano over the weekend, which is him sort of awkwardly dapping up someone as they walk by. Look at this form from Sedano. Not great here. It's not his best. I mean, if you see what happens here, there's Danny Green. Alligator arms from Sedano. Almost seems like I'm owed an apology.

You got, you gotta curl the fingers and the hand there. His problem is really just he goes in with like a straight just a plank of wood. It's like a plank of wood hand. And then he gets— he kind of— the actual connection and the, the dap is not terrible. It's the hand straight going up that we don't like.

I will analyze that in a moment because he really did throw a limp fish in there and there wasn't a lot behind it. But I more want to analyze how quickly, uh, Jeremy, uh, took what we were talking about, me and Zazz, totally ignored it, and then did whatever he wanted to do. Yeah, that's right.

Like, we were talking about Kenny Atkinson and who cares, it's a nothing, it's a nothing sound. We were talking about LeBron James and Kenny Atkinson, a something that has at least moderate interest in the audience, and Jeremy immediately went and took it to what about my dap compared to Sidano's dap, which isn't in any way what we were talking about.

Not even close. Nobody would have thought, hey, I wish Jeremy would jump in and talk about the way Sidano daps.

You wanted us to show the Marci dap. That's really what you were aiming for?

Yes, dude, I was smooth and he wasn't.

You weren't. You, you— no, there was nothing smooth about any of this, but we, we were talking about We were talking about whether Kenny Atkinson had given America a clue as to where it is that the LeBron sweepstakes were. We were analyzing whether or not Kenny Atkinson knows something, and Jeremy just totally disregarded everything that was being talked about and decided to do his own thing.

I do the Jeremy Show. Why?

Because I don't have time to talk on the phone after the show. So I got to get the words out.

Is it because it's always the Jeremy Show? Like, does, does Jeremy always think it's the Jeremy Show? You're a little too confident.

Confident today, Jeremy, if we're being honest.

Well, it's what the Today Show thinks and SportsCenter thinks, and it's kind of all over the internet.

So what is this? Go ahead, what is this? You talked to some dogs?

Yeah, I did. I did talk to a dog, Jonah the dog. In fact, he had his dream day at the ballpark yesterday. It was incredible. He's, uh, he was a dog who looked jealous of another dog eating a hot dog. It went really viral. This was about a month ago on the Marlins broadcast, and the Marlins sent out a PSA like, we need to find this dog, oh my God!

And then they found him.

How often do they do this? Bark at Every Monday.

You can get your tickets at Marlins.com/tickets.

Every Monday? That's, that's it. Because I've noticed it too, Zaz. It feels like every week, and we learned it is every week.

Every week dogs are at the park?

Every home Monday.

You get 2 a season. That's my rule.

I mean, I've gone once. I went a long time ago. It used to be a once a season thing. And now it's every home Monday.

And this dog, Jonah the dog, was at the game watching another dog eat a hot dog, and then the Marlins brought him out for his dream day. He threw out the first pitch. I got to interview him on the broadcast, and that clip went viral because I'm good at my job.

I think Bark at the Park's weird. I'd like more evidence of that while you're doing this job. You want me to go get the 3 Emmys, or what? You didn't win any of them for anything you've done here.

Yeah, no, I'm good at all my other jobs, just not here. I wonder if it's the way I'm positioned. We're all wondering why.

Okay, Tyler Hero, it's everybody else's fault.

All right, I can punch you in the face if you'd like.

I would like, actually. I'd like— I'll give you the $100 that we didn't crowdsource. We'll see how professional Jeremy thinks that is.

I'm sure there are DMs out there of Jeremy badmouthing us behind our backs. Oh yeah. Come on. Down levitar! For 5 minutes I was watching everyone just like, nope, not letting you in, not letting you in. So when I got up there, I had to say something and I said it. Cheaters never prosper. Chris Cody! My buddy was saying, not today. Yeah, but you're trying— not today. I think that was what he was adding. Yeah, that would have been so much better. But I'm telling you, the response I got from this guy, what I said was amazing. Cheaters never prosper. This guy yelled as angry as he could. I ain't cheating!

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Can you guys, uh, tell me whether we would have any interest in having the guestbookers go after, uh, the DM account?

That betrayed Tyler Herro?

Like, I thought you were going to say the guy that got attacked by a bison.

I thought you were going to say the dog. Okay.

How about what I said, though? How about what I said? How about we stay on what I'm saying as opposed to what you guys want to say?

Can we do that for a little while?

Yeah, but if it's—

how about we do that for a little while?

Can we do it for a little while? Just a little while where we're doing what it is that I want to do as opposed to what you guys want to do. Is that possible? Do you guys think it would be interesting, Zazz, to talk to that person, or would we feel skeeved out and kind of gross by the doing of that?

I think when you ask him why did you do it, and then he says why, I don't know where we go from there.

Isn't that it? I don't know.

I don't know whether people would be interested in hearing from that person or not.

It is a betrayal, is it not? Because we certainly like the information, and we certainly like clucking about the results of him doing that with the information, but if I'm Tyler Herro and I have any sort of relationship with that person— I don't know whether he has any sort of relationship with that person, but I'd be I'm just as mad at him right now as I am at Bam Adebayo for everything that happened there, because that's not a great way to start your new experience in a new city, to head there as a— as an all-star caliber player. And for that, this— this was interesting to me, the way that this was sort of absorbed. Giannis is such a huge star that it's sort of lost that those are really good players, young players that the Heat sent over there, that because the team didn't make the playoffs, but they won more than they lost and they had some other reasons that the losing happened other than they're all never going to be good enough. Like the Lakers with Khalil Ware.

I think they really could have made him a special player if he was doing nothing but taking Doncic and Austin Reeves alley-oops all the time.

Like they need exactly what Khalil Ware nowhere is. And I just think that everyone is sleeping on the amount that the Heat had to give up because the Heat didn't want to give up that amount. But because it was a nowhere team, they're not looking at what that haul was and being like, that's a lot of players to get for Giannis, a lot of good young players who are going to get better.

I think the— there is something to the gripe that the Heat have with how the national media constantly diminishes their trade packages because because what ultimately got Giannis was players that have been in the mix for these superstars plenty of times now. It wasn't the full lot of them, but constantly anytime the Heat come out with these trade rumors, they kind of shit on these players. Wait a second, Jaime Jaquez was in contention for Sixth Man of the Year. Khalil Ware has shown in his career he can pop off for 20 and 20. Tyler Herro was an All-Star. And I think Giannis Antetokounmpo has a chance to be the best one of them. And I think he was very clearly the tipping point point in getting this deal done. Yeah, not enough was made about how much the Heat extended themselves in this trade. And if it doesn't end with LeBron James this offseason, they've got some work cut out ahead of them too. I'm sure the team will be fine and they're an effort team and they'll do something at the midway point near the deadline. But, you know, it's—

they got a lot of holes on this roster now. From a local perspective, that's the part that I'm afraid of, where if the Heat fall short of acquiring LeBron, I hope the Heat fan isn't disappointed, isn't too disappointed, because this offseason it's been a huge home run. Like, they made the biggest move of the offseason. They, they got the best player to— who will change teams this offseason. This has been a massive success this offseason for Miami.

But in terms of what the Bucks got, as everyone was saying that Jaylen Brown is a better offer, um, Tyler Herro is a formed player, and you can have your quibbles with what Tyler Herro is, and you would not be wrong in saying Tyler Herro is not clearly the player that Giannis is.

But the 4 other players beyond the draft picks, the, the other players, the— they're not as good as they're going to be. You have not seen the best of what those players are. Those are still players who are, who are forming, and, and they're young. And while the team finished a little bit over .500 with those It's not with the best version of those players.

Jaquez is probably who he is because he was drafted, he was older already, but Ware is certainly going to continue growing and Chakasounis is certainly going to continue growing.

Tony is out there, can we go to Tony again? They're doing drills, I don't know what— Tony, what is this drill that you're presently doing? What is this? What are you doing?

I know you have no idea what's going on, Dan. It's called waking up the hands. When you're doing dribbling drills, you gotta wake up the hands first. Then we'll probably do some of these, we'll probably do some of these, we'll probably do some of these. It depends. So right now we're working on just waking up the hands.

You've been out there for 3 hours. Why are the hands asleep? Good job, good job.

The hands should have been awake already.

Yeah, I agree. I agree. But again, this is more of a learning situation, more so than a—

Are you waking up the hands because those kids always take a nap at 11 o'clock during the day?

Yeah, lunch is actually in 10 minutes. Minutes. So I'll be joining my team. We're the 76ers, Dan.

Wait, I thought you were going to be the Bucks. I didn't, I didn't think the 76ers changed.

They changed it. So they changed it. Clippers, Lakers actually playing in the far court. We got Suns and Rockets playing here on this near court. We're the 76ers, and I want to say those are the Bucks maybe.

So we'll be playing them later on. You're never too foreign on Coach Phoebe's team, Dan, to not revisit the fundamentals every now And I think so far I've been watching picture-in-picture. Tony's flashing.

Yeah, uh, the fundamentals, as far as I can tell, being used by the player behind Tony is he keeps hitting himself in the forehead with the basketball. He just— you were—

why are you so bad with kids?

Why are you bullying children? He put the basketball on his forehead and then careened out of the screen.

Everyone saw what I asked one of the kids if all they're good for is crying and Shitting. Do that.

These are older kids. All they're good for is complaining.

They've graduated beyond the crying and shitting stage, and now they just complain about everything. It's like Meadowlark employees.

Hey, man, what do you mean? The kid just put the ball on his forehead for some reason.

I was just pointing out what it is that he was doing.

Tony, you're doing excellent with all of the skills here. Zazz, would you like to visit what I was originally talking about before we were derailed by Jeremy's self-involvement. What Kenny Atkinson said there— does he know something the rest of us do not know? Let's play that sound again. Uh, we have not heard Kenny— from Kenny Atkinson since he said that analytically they had won a series that they were swept in.

And then you guys know there's a little free agency thing going on right now, so you never know what— you know, that could be are real jumps. Yeah. And you know what I'm talking about. So, you know, that's exciting too.

I do think it's interesting that he so willingly mentioned that. I think if Eric Spolstra was in front of a microphone, I don't think he acknowledges that whatsoever.

Pretty cocksure. Cocksure Kenny.

Is it because he knows something or is it just because he's always cocksure Kenny?