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Chris Cody, Dan Levitar.

In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, mics up, cue.

This is the Dan Levitar Show. We all survived the alien invasion last night. Alien invasion was predicted. Right on top of— don't say Hard Rock Stadium, Dominique, it's Miami Stadium. FIFA, they will come after you if you call it Hard Rock Stadium. We were warned about the alien invasion. We're here, we're doing just fine. We'll get an update on the alien invasion in a little bit here.

I mean, that's what we think. Yeah, you know, I mean, you've seen lots of alien movies. There's a distinct possibility that you you are the only person that's actually here and all of us have been replaced. The alien invasion happened, you got your memory wiped, we are now all aliens, you don't even realize it.

Do you have a favorite alien movie?

I mean, it's Independence Day, hands down.

The first or the second?

Either Independence Day or Arrival. Arrival's a great alien movie.

Arrival is such a good movie.

If I'm trying to impress you, I'ma hit you with Arrival. It's like, yeah, I love Arrival. I watch it all the time. The ink blots that communicate, that's amazing. Great, it's so deep. But actually, if I'm sitting home alone, I want to see Will Smith go at it with them aliens.

Arrival's the one you tell Pablo you like?

Oh yeah, Pablo, definitely. I see Pablo, he's like, what's your favorite Alien movie? It's Arrival. It's so smart.

I mean, the, the end where you, you get the twist, you know, and I'm not— no spoilers, don't worry about that. That's a great movie.

Do you consider Interstellar an alien movie? No, that's a space movie.

That's a space/time travel type movie.

There's an alien in it.

I know there is, but I don't know if you would consider it an alien movie.

Alien in Interstellar? Where is the alien?

The alien is when he's in the bookcase, like all this matter and all the stuff that's going around.

Do you understand the movie?

Hey, open your eyes.

You haven't watched it clearly.

No, no, no.

You clearly haven't watched the movie.

You're showing your ass. All right, there's no alien in Interstellar, and now we know you don't even know— you don't even understand the movie.

I think it's too deep for you. I think Tony understands the deeper meaning of—

hold on, it's too deep for me? You just said—

I think Tony's a little too deep for you.

Are you nuts? You're nuts, man.

I think Tony's a little too deep.

Where's the alien in Interstellar?

I'll look it up right now. I'll let you know.

Yeah, okay, can't wait for that.

What's your favorite alien movie? Um, don't say Superman. You're going to say Superman or something like that.

He is an alien.

I knew you're going to— you seem like a curveball type of guy.

My favorite alien movie? Uh-huh. Aliens. The sequel, what? Yeah, the sequel's better. See, the first one is Alien. The sequel is Aliens. That's the better one. Now I do like the third one. Rock's in the third one. Now I'm not talking about The Rock, I'm talking about Charles S. Dutton.

Yeah, Rock. All right, Rock, I know.

Yeah, Rock is in the third one, and that's a good one too. Eleanor!

The aliens that construct the wormhole near Saturn and the Tesseract inside the black hole are in the movie, though.

They're future humans that are aliens that are fixed, but they're not in the movie.

You didn't hear what I said.

Obviously, you can't have the movie without the aliens, so they're aliens in the movie.

Also, his Google AI search brought back aliens in air quotes.

Just say you're wrong. How could I just say you don't? You know what? You don't have to say you're wrong. Just say you don't understand.

You got to be wrong when you said like the quote aliens are humans.

They're future humans. That's alien to us.

You can't be alien.

What do you guys— what do you think aliens are? Just little green men? That's all aliens are?

I know they're—

I know they're little.

I know what they are historically.

Do you like Alien Resurrection? Ron Perlman's in that one. Winona Ryder. Spoiler alert, she's— she's one of like the robots. I'll tell you what though, Alien Romulus. That's a proper Alien movie. That's very good too. But to answer your question, Dominique, Aliens, that's my favorite Alien movie.

I got to be honest with you, I'm aware of all the Alien and Aliens movies. I've probably seen a couple of them. Not, not—

I don't love it.

Sigourney Weaver, original, uh, heroine, uh, uh, you know, all-time great action movie heroine. Right? Sigourney Weaver, she's the OG of female action heroes, right?

With the baldy, right? That was the—

well, she, she was bald in the third one, the one with— yeah, cuz she's in a prison.

I feel like that's the one that stands out in my mind. That's the iconic moment. That and jumping out the chest.

Well, of course, of course.

Is Rhea Ripley named after her character in Alien? Because that was like the first ever badass lady hero.

You know what, I never thought about that. And I think you're probably right, because she is, right? You can't come up with another one, right? Sigourney Weaver is the OG, uh, uh, action hero that's a female. You had Linda Hamilton afterward, of course, with Terminator, but that's a good 10 years later after Alien. All right, there you go.

Woman. I mean, it's okay.

All right, both are true. Yeah, I'm working on it.

Oh yeah, we're all working on it. No one's holding you, uh, to a higher standard.

Just gotta get better every day.

Yeah, every day you got to work harder. If you're not getting better—

calling out progress.

Yeah, that's all right.

So I got to get better every day too. You're not getting better, you're getting worse, and that's on me. I got to write a note. Gotta write a note. You're better off saying woman because sometimes people think female, feel like you're talking about—

he'll file it away, but we can all acknowledge he's trying to get better. He took your feedback.

I think it's, I think it's my fault too because it is— that's a, that's a very specific sector. I feel like the criticism of using female is very hip-hop coded. It's like, that was a thing that was said a lot. It was like, hey, these females. And it was— and I mean, I don't know if you know Zaz. Zaz don't know about the hip-hop.

Yeah, I try my best.

I don't—

I'll stop before I'm gonna say, and the Grammy goes to the best woman recording artist.

And then you're proud of yourself.

Yeah, I'm proud of myself. And that sounds so much better and smoother than female recording artist. Oh, why would I do that?

Nice.

No, no, no, I wouldn't do that. I'm an ally. Recording artist, that's a woman.

So you could hear Mike Ryan is back today.

Yeah. Yeah.

Mike Ryan spent the last few days in Guadalajara. And before we get to your World Cup updates there, I do want to update you, Mike Ryan. Giannis, he's on the Heat.

I saw that.

I saw that.

Saw that. And it's pretty much just him at this point.

Uh, are you excited? Like, yes, hugely. We checked in with you a couple of days ago when you were, you were in, in your hotel, very luxurious hotel, uh, may I add. But, but let's get some, let's get some real reaction. Yeah, because are you excited?

Yeah, I didn't want to be a guy that immediately goes to negative town after they do what we've been doing for— uh, everybody else did that. Look, I mean, the roster has clear holes that they have to fill, and it's going to be a challenge for them to fill them, but you have much better building blocks right now. As I mentioned, I think that they're going to be, uh, ranked highly inside the Eastern Conference. I think the days of the play-in are over for now, even if they don't add, just because they're going to be an effort team and the night-in, night-out grind of the NBA regular season, as Detroit kind of proved this year. If you're a pilled to play, you're gonna make the playoffs and you're not gonna have to worry about the play-in. And defensively, they're going to be force just with what they have on the roster right now. I do think the deck is a little stacked against them in terms of roster improvement this offseason. This offseason, this offseason, this offseason, what I think— they may make a move here or there. I mean, they're gonna have to, right?

The roster is pretty depleted. They need to put some shooters around, uh, their front court. But I think what the plan— unless I'm missing something obvious— I think that their best course of action is play this first half of the season, develop some guys into assets.

Right now, Jović is a sunk cost, you know, and right now he's going to have to play.

Yeah, he's going to have to play. I mean, there's not many guys on the roster, by the way. Shout out Trey Donaldson, signed with the Miami Heat, two-way contract. He plays the kind of style that really fits this mold. I mean, you don't want to play the Miami Heat from a defensive standpoint. It's going to be really hard to go up against these guys. That part is obvious. But I think the plan here is develop some guys, see what kind of value you can grow inside of individual players, and then wait for LaMelo Ball to just blow things up over Minnesota and go all in on, on Edwards.

Yeah, Mike mentioned, Mike mentions LaMelo Ball there, which if you stayed up late last night, you saw the reports are starting to come out where it appears Charlotte is going to be moving LaMelo Ball at some point here. We'll circle back to that in a second, but I'm glad you brought up the part, Mike, about how this offseason— because so much of the commentary that I'm seeing out there from folks on television is you would— it's as if the Heat got Giannis for one year and you got to do it all this year. They acquired Giannis for him to play the rest of his career here. That's, that's the plan. Okay. And realistically, You know, you would think Giannis probably has a good, like, 5 years left, I'd say, in his career. Now I'm not saying necessarily 5 years of being a superstar, but at least 5 years left in his career. The plan is to have him the rest of his career. So, and it's kind of like when they acquired Shaq.

Right.

You know? Now yes, they were great right away with Shaq. They went to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. But when they fell short that year, Then the next offseason, they made the big trades. They brought in Antawn Walker and James Posey and Jason Williams, and they, uh, redid the roster there. They didn't bring Giannis for one year. This is the first step, and it was the biggest step.

I think that what we have to understand, and I was rightfully corrected about, like, we can't, like, analyze this deal on just what they have on the roster now. Like, it's a big move, celebrate the move. It gives them a chance that they didn't have before, but But the challenging thing with the way that salaries work in the NBA and the way that aging works is as you get older, you are like able to get bigger and bigger contracts. There's a sweet spot where your talent and the compensation as a percentage of the cap match up. And I think that's the hard part right now is if you're going to keep Giannis, to your point, for the rest of his career, as he gets older, he continues to get more expensive. He also continues to get less effective, and that's the part that I think people are having a hard time reconciling, is figuring out how long will we be paying Giannis what he's worth or getting value for him because he's so great that he outstretches his, um, contract value. Or when we get to the point where, all right, we're paying Giannis like he's the number one guy on a championship team, but he's no longer that good and now we have to find other people to fit in around him that we will be underpaying.

So that's a hard— it's like a condensed window. I don't know how many years it is. I don't want to get yelled at or piss off Heat fans, but it seems like depending on who you talk to, we're looking at a 5-year stretch for Giannis or a 2, 3-year stretch for Giannis. And that's— I mean, that's the big question.

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Jessica thinks you're pathetic.

I saw the look on her face.

It can never be the lane to victory.

No, I think Jeremy's pathetic. Jeremy, you should hear him back here.

He's so sad. Absurd theater kid basketball analysis line that I've ever heard from him.

Jeremy Tatché.

My dad was talking about the adjustments that Spoh made and criticizing him last night.

And Jeremy, just back here, his adjustments were spectacular.

It's just like they lost. They're down 0-2. This is the Dan Levatar Show. Bam Adebayo is automatically the best player Giannis has ever played with right now. Before you want to say Damian Lillard, like, let's judge what Lillard did in his, you know, one-plus season.

Right now, right now, his, his talent level, it's better than Chris Middleton at the peak of his powers. Yeah, I think that's, I think that's safe to say. This is the best individual talent right now at this stage in his career that he's ever been paired with. That obviously wasn't the intention going into the Lillard thing, but we all saw what happened with Lillard.

Yeah. And, you know, we've been talking down here, hey, you got to get Bam Adebayo some help. And the Heat decided to make Bam the help, which is, is the best possible scenario if you have a star player on your team and you keep— like, we would have wanted looking back at it in hindsight, instead of getting Jimmy Butler help, it would have been great to make Jimmy the help, but they were never able to do that.

So that was just— that was the entire time with Jimmy. We know what our ceiling is and our ceiling is pretty damn high. It's Eastern Conference champion high. But just not good enough to win a championship with Jimmy Butler as your best player. Jimmy as your second best player, that's great. And for how great a season Bam had, I think we know what his ceiling is unless you get him more pieces around him.

I like being able— my son is asking me all of the machinations, the different machinations about the salary cap. And what do they have enough money to do this? Can they do this? And I'm pulling up— I'm pulling up Bobby Marks' Twitter on my phone. And he puts out, you know, the graphics. They have this amount of money and this guy's ever— my son's like, well, what's, what's the T stand for? I go, that's a team option. All right, what's a team option? I explain what a team option is, you know. Go, what, why would Andrew Wiggins not want $30 million next? I go, because maybe he'll opt out and the Heat will give him more money over more years so they get to spend more money this year. I, I like being able to explain that stuff to my son.

Yeah, becoming a modern sports fan is also kind of like becoming a bit of an accountant.

It's so much more complicated.

It's like, it's, it's still fun. It's a different type of fun. But realizing what your team could do and hoping that your team, that players will cooperate, like it's, it's a little bit fun, but it's also a little stressful. Like, I miss the old days of the NBA where it's like, actually, you can do whatever you want as long as your owner's willing to pay. Like, that feels like a much better place to be when you have a superstar.

I think the exciting proposition outside of finally making the big splashy whale acquisition is there's also a distinct possibility that Giannis can recapture previous form. Yeah, we— I think we've probably been a little too hard on Giannis a little bit, me in particular, just because they've, you know, they kind of checked out on this season and he certainly checked out and he did a lot of off-the-court stuff that I hope gets buttoned up a little bit because there was a lot of diva behavior that I'm not sure fits in right now, but the Miami Heat can make some concessions.

We could have said the same things about LeBron when LeBron got—

we did. We did. Although, like, this one's gotten a little uglier and we'll see how he reacts to Miami after finally getting his way, even though publicly it wasn't really his way. He was kind of caught in this in-between, still trying to stay popular in Milwaukee. But I do think that if Giannis is the guy that he was a couple of seasons ago, we're having a different conversation. I think we're all talking about the Miami Heat expecting that the best of Giannis is probably behind him. And this is a franchise that has prided itself on development.

Why do you say the best of Giannis is probably behind us?

Because he was unbelievable in an NBA Finals where everyone thought his leg snapped and then he came out and put up like all-time performances. Like, it's a high standard, is a very high watermark. You're talking about one of the most impactful forces in the history of the game. To hold him to that standard north of 30, I understand why, why that's a tough row to hoe. But if he can recapture something like that, if he can stay healthy and says to what you said earlier about him finishing his career here, yes, there are some flaws in his game. His shooting's probably going to go down over the course of time, although that's one of the things that can improve. We're all projecting that he's bad from the line.

He does got to get better from the line.

He does have some deficiencies. But one thing that's always going to be there if his health is there is that guy can play well into his mid to late 30s just defensively. He is going to be a defensive force provided he can move. He is always going to have a role. He can move, he can dunk, he can defend.

Can I throw in there also that I think we have to accept that the NBA has been NFL-ized a little bit in that there was a time and for most of our lives that it was like either you're the championship favorite or you're not winning a championship. Like it was one 2, maybe 3 teams that had a chance. We're not that way anymore. It feels like if you can get into the tournament now, you can make a run because of the injuries and because of like the harder cap, like the team, the, the talent is a little bit more spread out. So I feel like if we are projecting that Giannis is at his best and this team is able to build up a little bit around them, they're going to get into the playoffs. Obviously everyone gets in the playoffs who wants to be in the playoffs in the NBA. And then it's like you actually have a better chance than you have in the past. And I think it's taken us some time— or I can speak for myself, it's taken me some time to accept that the NBA Finals is not the foregone conclusion that it used to be.

There's parity in the NBA, like complete and utter parity. Last 8 champions or 9 champions have been a different team, right? Like, that used to never happen. We saw the Spurs win 5, we saw the Warriors win 4, we saw the Heat win back-to-back. Like, that doesn't exist anymore. Now, like you said, Dominique, if you get into the tournament, there's a chance that the war of attrition in the West, that if people get hurt in the East, all of a sudden you're in the NBA Finals. You're like, how did we get here? We just beat kind of nobody and like, now we're here and we're healthy.

I think the Pacers making it to a Game 7 last year is like the best possible example of that. And like, you don't have to go far, just got to cross the street to see a team that's like made deep runs with a low seed unexpected. So I think that's part of it. I'm having a hard time realizing that like Normally in NBA history, I know who won. I know that it's going to be one of 2 or 3 teams. I wouldn't have picked the Knicks before this season started. I think most of us wouldn't have. So I think that's another part of this that we have to kind of wrap our heads around. And that adds to the excitement. Like, I'm a lot more excited about this team when I look at the recent history of NBA champions.

Jeremy, you are back in studio with us today. Do you have any observations from yesterday's show?

Yeah, I do. A few things that got said. I just kind of took notes as we went along.

So let's hear—

you talked about about, um, watching sex scenes with your son. I remember on Christmas Day—

when you say it like that, it sounds like we are purposely sitting down to watch sex scenes.

That's right.

And that is not what we're doing.

I mean, it does sound like you are.

All right, continue.

Uh, I remember going to see Wolf of Wall Street on Christmas Day with my dad and exchanging the same look.

Oh, with Margot Robbie. But that's— that's— you know what was the worst experience for me when I was with my parents like that and watching a movie? And I'm probably 15 years old maybe, and I'm watching with my parents were watching at home Silence of the Lambs. Obviously an all-time great movie, but the scene where Buffalo Bill shows his mangina, that's tough with your parents. That's tough.

Did you look over like—

no, I try and just like— I, I, you know, I'm trying my hardest to pretend I'm the only one in the room.

My dad—

Dom said, uh, holding space, and it just always makes me think of, uh, the Wicked press tour where Uh, Cynthia Erivo was holding Ariana Grande's finger. It was a very weird thing. Do I, as you say, Dom, uh, got the lev? My man, yes.

Wow, really?

I ain't got no lev.

You don't think I was born with the lev?

Upset.

I think you have the lev depending on where you are. I feel like if you are like—

when he's at Lone Devo Park, he's got a lot of lev.

Oh, a lot of lev.

I feel like I'm looking at you I look at you today and I'm like amongst like college students, nerdy, like the Ivy League, the super nerdy, they look at you and they're like, hey, that guy's cool.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, I think that—

my man, my man.

All of us in different— so there's plenty of circumstances where I don't got no lev. There are other circumstances where I'm lev'd up. And so you just got to be in the right circumstance. I think here in this building, it's tough to get some lev.

That's fair. That's fair. Thank you, Zazz, for giving Tyler Herro his flowers. My man.

Roy bringing up—

still doesn't make it the all-time roster. Roy bringing up the idea of the trade being rescinded because of a physical. Roy, I hate you.

My man.

Dominique, you were issued a penalty and you apologized to your family. It's pronounced "flamily," and that was a mistake by you. What's it called when you're racist against aliens? Republican. Uptown Pale is one of the funniest things I've ever heard you say.

My man.

You guys think I have too much enunciation, but then we're making fun of me for not enough pronunciation, and I'm just feeling some consternation. Flamily.

So I thought this isn't 5.

First time I've ever heard Dominique sound insecure was talking about looksmaxing and mogging. And you were actually right about what you were saying, which is wild. My man. Jessica's Internet Minute. Just bad day for me not to be here talking about Club Chalamet. My man knew exactly what she was talking about, unsurprisingly. Um, and I found it very interesting, two of Juju's most influential fans were Steve Bartman and the purple shirt guy. Those are both South Florida things. Like, we've had some really weird fan experiences. And Dominique, uh, you won't believe the Heat will win until they have a closer. Sir, can I interest you in LeBron James? My man.

So you're, you're doing the thing, right?

Oh yeah, I'm doing the thing.

You're doing the thing that you can't, you can't rule it out.

Well, it makes sense. Look, at the stage that LeBron is at, if he wants to win, it should be in the Eastern Conference. Barry Jackson immediately came out with a report that said don't rule it out. Ethan Skolnick has now mentioned it. Ramona came on here, and when I asked her about it, she wouldn't rule it out. She's plugged in on the Lakers side. Uh, we had reports last year of the Heat and Clutch repairing their relationship. We even saw Pat Riley and LeBron hug. I think we even have video of it when, when Riley was—

where was this?

That was when Riley was out there getting his statue from the Lakers, and they shared a moment.

That's— they look very chummy.

They looked super chummy after all of this time. Pat Riley seems to be very forgiving. Um, and if you look back at the Olympics, there was nobody who was being hyped up more by LeBron James than Bam Adebayo.

Splash brother! Oh my God, the new Splash Brothers! Bam bam splash right there! You know, we made shots.

Okay, he's being sarcastic.

That's after Bam hit a bunch of threes in that game. And you say, you say they don't have shooting. Those guys got along great. Everybody was hyping up Bam. Forget, forget that individual video. LeBron was, was really bullish. But now yesterday, what's really interesting is the way that Rich Paul is talking about the Miami Heat.

This team could look totally different.

This, this, this is a lot of work to be done. The one good thing about Miami is when you talk about filling a roster, backfilling a roster with minimums, who don't want to go to Miami on the minimum?

So I get that.

But I'm saying in terms of who's going to be starting for this team, we don't know yet.

We can't say that.

Well, we know that Giannis and Bam are starting. Those are only two. You don't know that Wiggins is starting.

You think he's a tradable asset?

You don't know.

The first thing that I would say in regards to what Rich Paul just said there, where you don't know. 'Who doesn't want to go to— you don't know who they can get on a minimum. Who doesn't want to go to Miami on a minimum?' Do you want— do you realize the irony there? The guy who is talking, Rich Paul, is the guy who prevents you from going to Miami on a minimum deal.

That's right.

A little bit ironic, right?

Yeah, but he's the guy saying, 'Who wouldn't want to go there on the minimum?' And while people might say, 'No, that's not for LeBron James,' he did at the end there bring up Andrew Wiggins. And the immediate response to, do you think he could be a trade ship, is you don't know. Now, I love Andrew—

Well, what do you got here?

The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Nas Reid. Whoa. 2033 unprotected first round pick.

Guy's 12 years old right now.

3 first round pick swaps, 2028, 2029, 2030. And 3 second-round picks in 2029, 2032, and 2033. I don't think that's a huge return for LaMelo Ball, but a huge seismic move.

I don't think it's a huge return for LaMelo Ball either. And at the same time, I wouldn't have expected them to get more than that for LaMelo Ball.

Dan Levitar.

My algorithm on Instagram, it's dance, all boobs. Jonathan Sasselow.

It's a good algorithm.

This is the Dan Levitar Fire Show.

There was so much said there. I'm trying to keep track of all the things that I want to address. Maybe I'll go in order. First of all, is don't rule it out a report? You kept saying someone reports, don't rule it out. Like, doesn't a report have to be like more affirmed? I could say don't rule anything out, but it doesn't feel like a report. Like, that's—

no, that's totally fair. Look, this is not saying I'm not saying it's happening. What I'm saying is, is that there are lots of things you can read into.

Okay. Okay.

That show it's more possible than it was 4 days ago, certainly. And this pairing makes a ton of sense for a guy who has yet to communicate with the Lakers if he's even playing, according to Ramona Shelburne.

It feels like for Rich Paul, a bit of a Liam Neeson situation where it's like, you know, don't you want to give some money to the other actors? Like, why don't you take a pay cut?

He's like, no, no, no, no, no, not that.

Vet minimum is great in Miami, but not enough for my guys or anybody that I'm with, obviously.

For Chris Middleton, it will be. And if LeBron James wants to be here, there's a variety of ways to do it. Look, we were talking about $18 million for 5 roster spots. They just filled one with the, the second round pick yesterday, which I'm sure we'll get into, um, in Ryan Conwell. But with, with the maneuverability that we know Andy Ellisberg has with the free agency of Norman Powell that can always be manipulated into a sign-and-trade, with Andrew Wiggins in this player option with the $16 million of Nikola Jović, which we've talked about.

We don't know where he stands. I don't know if the Lakers would be interested in him. They got enough smaller guys who make a lot of money.

Yeah.

Would the Lakers be— Lakers would be interested in Norman Powell?

No. Yeah, they want a center bad.

Now they were interested in Khalil Ware and that deal is not official. So again, we can discuss what ultimately happens.

I mean, they were talking about maybe going after Jared Allen. And LeBron in Cleveland.

Yeah, he could end up in Cleveland.

I got a report.

Or Golden State.

Don't rule it out, LeBron in Cleveland. Don't rule it out.

No, no, no, no, no.

Who all say don't rule out LeBron in Golden State?

Oh, don't rule it out anywhere. The other thing, I know the point of the Rich Paul clip was to get into the LeBron discussion, but what jumped out to me on that clip was the Glasses situation. How Rich Paul and Max Kellerman both had lenses in their glasses that had different gradient of color. Like, what does that say about you if you got the complete dark ones or you got the blue shade or you go with the Jeremy, the clear shade, always indoors? Because, Jeremy, I know those, those are personality glasses. That's just so you look cute to—

No, I wear contacts.

Remember, that was a trend for a little while with the NBA players who were in the postgame. Dwyane Wade was one of the guys in the postgame press conference where they would wear the glasses, the clear ones, but they were non-prescription. Yeah, like it was totally just for show.

This is— I think you should be a dark lens guy inside. Like, inside, you should pull the full Rich Paul. It's hard to see though.

What do you got to see?

What do you got to see?

You got to give up into shit.

You got to get off a vibe.

It's called motion. That's what you're looking for, Dominique. Like, if you got the Cartier lenses like that, you got motion.

And I feel like Chris is a blue lens guy of the people here. That I think could pull off the Max Kellerman blue tinted lens, Chris Cody could kill it. It's not you, Jeremy. No, I got it. No, Jeremy, nah.

No, with these glasses, it's like, are you a hot nerdy woman who read a lot of Twilight in high school? Oh, here you go. That's my wife.

Perfect.

Smoke show.

So last night was the second round of the draft, which You know, it's— I think it's enough already with the second round being 2 days. You know, you did it the one year because, you know, there's got to be a standalone day for Bronny James, and you want to prove that that wasn't the reason why. So we've done it 2 more years and it's enough. We don't need the second round. It's its own day. And last night, the Heat, they selected Ryan Conwell, shooting— sharpshooting guard from Louisville, 22 years old, very much a Miami Heat draft pick, and they selected him last night by moving up to number 37. And the funny part of this, the part that I really enjoy, is apparently Boston wanted to select Ryan Conwell at number 40. The Heat were 41, so the Heat jumped Boston to 37 to acquire this player. So by my count, over the last few days, the Heat own the Boston Celtics again. Alright, the Heat own the Boston Celtics again. They beat them to the punch and acquired Giannis. The Celtics could be in a tailspin right now because the Jaylen Brown situation, because the Heat are the ones who got Giannis, and now a player that Boston wanted to draft last night, the Heat jumped the Celtics and selected that player.

We back up. We back up.

Are these day 2 guys, the second round guys? I get it. You boxed out the Celtics, so that's nice. And I listened to Jeremy this morning try to convince me that we're looking at a real contributor. But how often does that happen in the NBA that you get a second round pick that contributes? I know he's older, so maybe not more development, but it just is so rare. It's hard to get excited about a a second-round pick for an NBA team?

I can tell you of one, Kendrick Nunn, who was a rookie for the Miami Heat after going undrafted, a left-handed, undersized shooting guard who finished second in Rookie of the Year voting after going undrafted. And what they've talked about here with Conwell is that not only is he a strong shooter, there were, I believe, is No Ceilings NBA insinuated that he could be the best day 2 pick in the NBA draft. Um, but he's a sharpshooter, which is what they needed. He's a developed player and he's physical, and that's something that's really important to the Miami Heat. And Bobby Marks himself— well, let's listen to what he had to say.

When you look at the Giannis trade, they have hard-capped themselves at the first day. You have 5 roster spots available, basically $18 million to fill 5 roster spots. You get a player on $1.3 million contract. He can help you out with your depth. I met him in Santa Barbara when I went out and interviewed him. I talked with the people at P2 who do all the athletic testing. They compared his numbers to Anthony Edwards.

Oh, wow.

That's quite a comparison. High-level athleticism here in Hillfield. Certainly a void in that Miami bench here, especially at the 2 guard. How you load it?

I'll take an Anthony Edwards comp.

There you go.

That's insane.

How about that?

People got to talk so much during draft coverage, man. They say some wild shit.

Speaking of, uh, speaking of wild shit, I'm gonna first start with, uh, with admitting that I'm embarrassed of something that we didn't talk about yesterday and two nights ago. So, so this, first of all, it's on me. This should have been something that we brought up yesterday. We are a day late. I'm a day late on this. All right, I am embarrassed about it, but that's not going to stop us from bringing it up now because it's become a story.

How good the Miami Marlins are and the fact that they have the—

I'll give you your chance.

Third best start in Miami Marlins history through the halfway point of the season.

He said settle down.

That the other two times they made the playoffs and once it was the World Series.

Settle down. I'll give you your opportunity. So Dominique, two nights ago, the Marlins— Marlins have the most home wins in all of baseball, by the way.

Best home field advantage in the sport.

Let him finish.

I told— I'll give you a chance.

Stop talking.

And two nights ago, Sandy Alcantara was on the hill and he became the Marlins' all-time leader. In strikeouts.

That's a big deal.

It is a big deal. He surpassed Ricky Nolasco, and he is the franchise's all-time leader now.

Wow, you're right. It's crazy that you relate to that. Awesome story.

I—

what's the next story?

You're gonna lose your opportunity to say the fun stuff, all right?

Watch yourself.

So Sandy Alcantara, he gets his 4th strikeout of the night, which makes him the all-time leader in strikeouts.

That's an awesome moment to be a part of as a Marlins fan or player or anyone, anyone in South Florida. That's momentous occasion.

Well, no one in the ballpark knew. Huh? No one in the ballpark knew. Who what? And as a result, he gets the strikeout and the Marlins manager Clayton McCullough, he starts clapping as you should because you'd figure it's a tip of the cap moment. But the only people who are clapping and acknowledging and cheering for it are the Marlins manager and the guys in the— the guys who were left in the dugouts. And you wind up seeing Clayton McCullough, the Marlins manager, is kind of like egging on the crowd like, can you give it up? You know, but no one knows. And eventually, like 45 seconds later, they flash on the screen that Sandy Alcantara is now the Marlins' all-time leader. And then, you know, the crowd all in unison, all 4,000 people, they stand up and they clap. OK, I'll let you chime in real quick. Was it more than 4,000?

Yeah, it was much more than 4,000.

Very good. They all stand up and they cheer and they acknowledge.. And give this a listen here. So Tommy Hutton, who we love, on the Marlins television broadcast— we love Tommy Hutton— and he, uh, he took aim at the fans for, for needing to be told that this was a record that was just broken. Yeah, he did. He struck him out, and there it is.

Sandy Alcantara stands alone as Miami's all-time New strikeout leader.

They haven't really acknowledged that yet here in the ballpark. He knows. I think he was aware of that coming in, and he looks around to see if they put on the scoreboard.

They did not.

They still have the count as 1 ball, 3 strikes.

Look at Clayton.

He is not happy, and neither is that Marlins dugout. They're telling the fans to stand up and applaud Appreciate it.

Appreciate it out there. See, the problem I have, most of the fans here tonight should know that without having to look at the scoreboard. And now he's doffing his cap so the fans in the know know. That's great. A lot of problems. It wasn't put up on the scoreboard right away, which it should have been, and a lot of fans who came here should have known it anyway. Little things like that irritate me, Kyle. I know they do. I put extremely little blame on the fans in that spot. Extremely little blame. This isn't St. Louis. You know, this isn't Philadelphia. This isn't New York. And you gotta know the— you know the crowd. And we're not a baseball town. And they're not gonna know when Sandy Alcantara breaks the all-time record. The team has to put it on the jumbotron. Matter of fact, they have to do it every strikeout leading up to the record and let you know, 3 away, 2 away, One away. Uh, I, yeah, I don't agree with Tommy in that spot. I think that the team, it's on them to let the crowd know so their pitcher gets the acknowledgement that he deserves.