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3-time All-Star Julius Randle goes to the Nets. I'm assuming he's gonna be a little insulted by the fact that it was him and the 28th pick in the draft, and what Minnesota got back was the 33rd pick in the draft. So Minnesota said, "Let me send that contract over there and get 5 picks worse in tonight's draft just so I can get him the hell out of here." 3-time All-Star Julius Randle.

And he has to go back to New York after they won a championship on the team that traded him away for the player who had the hugest impact in that run. That has to hurt. He's going to be in Brooklyn looking over the water, looking at them celebrate all year long.

We know who won the trade finally because it was like a question at the beginning. Do you trade, you know, Karl-Anthony Towns and Julius Randle at a wash? They're kind of the same player.

Who won?

Who won?

He's had a weird career because by all accounts, Julius Randle is a really good player. This is going to be like his 6th team.

3-time All-Star. I was surprised when it came out of my mouth. I read it and then I said it and I still didn't believe it as I said it. I wanted to say to myself, you're lying, Dan, you're lying, because he's not that good a player. He's an inefficient player. He's somebody who's very good at 18-foot jumpers when they need people who are good at 30-foot jumpers. The whole game changed around him. He used to be a good player. My God, would he have been good in the '50s. In the '50s, like, Bob Cousy wouldn't have known what to do with all of that.

I mean, to be fair, in like the early 2000s, he would have been really good too.

Yeah, but in the '50s, he would have been amazing.

Dan, you would have been good in the '50s. What are we talking about?

There was that one year where New York was trying to tell us he's better than Chris Bosh. Remember that?

It is a weird career for Julius Randle. It's not just that he bounced around. I'm going to say it again. You guys are shocked by 3-time All-Star, are you not? Are you not? Do you not find that shocking? 3-time All-Star Julius Randle?

I don't like— he's super talented player. And I think the challenge for a player like Julius Randle is that he's not as flexible and versatile. He's the type of guy that to get the best out of him, you kind of have to build a roster around him, but he's not good enough to go very far.

Well, he's not good enough to build a roster around. That's—

they chose him over Nikhil Alexander-Walker too when they were doing the math of, all right, we're pressed against the cap, we're pressed against the second apron, like, what are we going to do? Let's keep Julius Randle instead of—

he's afflicted with sort of the same thing. Uh, I, I look at him a little bit like I would look at Aaron Gordon, where if he's your best player, you got a problem. If he's your second best player, you got a problem. If he's your third best player, you got a problem. But if he's He's your 4th best player. If he's your 4th best player, you might be okay.

Was he not the 4th best player on the Minnesota Timberwolves?

On the Lakers. On the Lakers, he might have been the 4th best player as well. If he's your 5th best player, if he's your, if he's your 6th best player, if he's your 7th best player.

That's not fair.

Aaron Gordon's really good at defense.

They chose Ayo Dosunmu over him.

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Dan, you heard about the Tartan Army.

This is the Cuban Army.

The Greek Army. It's got to be the Greek.

We need it to be a Greek Army.

Yeah, we'll change that.

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You think I had that off right off the dome, or—

uh, so I want to talk about everything here because, uh, it's extra special because you did it to Boston, and I got think that a couple of draft picks got thrown in at the end because you got to do it to Boston. This is the most aggressive, all-or-nothing move Pat Riley has ever made in a career filled with them, because it's the equivalent of 7 first-round picks is what it is. Because you just— you traded everything. You gave them your roster and you said, take whatever you want that isn't Bam. And they did, because it's— it's not just the first-round picks. It's all of your young players. You've gone from a young core to an old core overnight. And in 2030, when some of those other picks come through, Milwaukee's betting Giannis is going to get hurt and those picks are going to be really good and that the Heat are going to be bad for 10 years. Like, it is the riskiest thing, even though he's getting a whale, that Pat Riley has ever done. And it's aggressively desperate.

They have a unique front court now that is You think of Giannis, you want someone next to him who can stretch the floor. Bam is incredible. Let's start with the positive. The defense is going to be nuts. No one's going to be able to score in the paint on those two guys. They both can switch. Like, that's a good starting point.

And they're going to be able to score in the paint. They haven't been able to do that for 10 years. Giannis does that by himself. They're terrible in the restricted area for 10 years. Giannis changes that.

I'm excited to see what, what Spo does around this and what offense he builds around this. They don't have a ton of flexibility in order to bring in other stars. Like, it looks like it's going to be Powell and Wiggins if they cooperate. They may not even cooperate.

So you're looking at Portis, Bam, and Giannis, Davion Mitchell, and not a lot else. They're gonna have to go get shooting, but this is them betting on themselves. They say, we'll find Gabe Vincent, we'll find Max Struis, we will find Duncan Robinson, we will make shooters. And they will have it made easier for them by this guy playing, if he indeed does play, because he's not injured. But it's aggressive. It's, uh, what they gave up is more than they wanted to give up. That is not Boston getting in the mix to drive up the offer drove up the offer. Boston getting in the mix and offering Jaylen Brown, I assure you, Pat Riley enjoys causing that problem in that locker room.

Oh, that's such a nice secondary pleasure to this. I mean, look, the goal is you get Giannis, you get the guy, you got the best player in the trade. That's obviously the most important part. But the secondary part, when you sit back and realize, all right, at some point this afternoon, Jaylen Brown's hopping on Twitch and he's asking for a trade. All right. And that is especially pleasing.

Should we have a countdown? Like, there should be like a countdown clock until Jaylen Brown does or says something because he's not just going to sit there quietly and accept this trade. He's going to— he's going to— you're right. We got a stream. We had a Twitch stream coming and it's going to be the best.

Can we just thank Jaylen Brown for being so unlikable the last month? I feel like this might not work out for the Heat if he's the same guy we thought he was 3 months ago.— it's just such a clearly better player that they're getting to start over with. I just feel like him being the way he was the last month definitely helped the Heat win this trade.

I, I don't agree with that because the Heat's offer, now that it went through, like, the Heat's offer was so much better than Boston's because— and, and just factor in the idea that how do you know that Jaylen Brown wasn't going to be Giannis 2.0? He's not better than Giannis, and the team stunk this year with Giannis, and If Giannis, who has all the ties in the world to Milwaukee, became disgruntled with the losing, Jaylen Brown's just gonna be like, "This is awesome going from Boston to being shitty." Uh, Bill Simmons did an emergency podcast to say the Heat are not contenders, which makes you know they are.

And he said, uh, this is a quote, "I'm just gonna say I would be absolutely shocked if Hugo was/is thrown into any Giannis trade offer. The entire organization is all in on him. Stevens probably the most. They could not be higher on him. I genuinely don't believe he's involved." If the Celtics chose to not get Giannis because of Hugo Gonzalez and his rookie season of 4 points a game and 3 rebounds a game, uh, and chose to upset Jaylen Brown because they didn't want to throw Hugo Gonzalez in there, it seems, uh, foolhardy. All of that said, this could be the Milwaukee trade, uh, for Damian Lillard. It could be a disaster because this is a star at the age when these things start breaking down, before the league started breaking its players. Like, this is exactly the age where players drop, uh, precipitously. This is an all-in move for next year. Like, it's going to be for multiple years, but you're betting right now that the Heat organization can build something around Giannis Antetokounmpo that at the moment doesn't have nearly enough shooting. If you think Orlando was bad at shooting threes when they traded, uh, 4 runs for Desmond Bane and didn't get that much better at threes.

The Heat are banking on Spo and Giannis are going to make it so that anyone in the world who plays basketball will get wide open shots from three.

So first of all, I won't stand for the Baylor Shireman erasure. He was also a player that the Celtics refused to trade in order to get this done. And also, it sounds like you want to disagree with Bill Simmons, but you just agreed with him. Like you said, they still need a bunch of stuff. Like he's saying they aren't a contender. Right this very second. They aren't, and they don't have a ton of flexibility.

Oh, but this is the thing though, uh, I believe that this front office and this coach, uh, can build around one of the top 5 most talented players in franchise history. We will have an assortment of basketball-related guests. Uh, Mike Breen can't do it because he's got an emergency today, but he does pass along helpfully, and he said to make sure to use this, Antetokounmpo, the longest name in Heat history on the back of a jersey. So yes, very helpful.

It's like a rainbow because it has to go all the way around.

That always bothers me. Like, like when I was a kid and I'm gonna buy a jersey, you want to look good, obviously. I would never have considered buying the jersey where the name is like a rainbow. I don't think it looks good if you're gonna rock the jersey.

Would you, would you want smaller letters or would you like a dash and then underneath?

Like, I want it straight across.

Yeah, it's got it.

No, but I'm saying it doesn't fit.

Give me smaller font. Yes, straight across.

Okay.

I also never liked if the first initial was on the jersey. Like, I was very pleased yesterday, Dan, when I saw the Panthers are printing out Brady Kachuk jerseys, but it's just Kachuk. It's not B. Kachuk. I like that. I don't want to rock the jersey with the first initial. The same way I don't want the rainbow name on my jersey.

Did anyone else get excited when Dan said Mike Breen passes along? I thought he was just passing along bangs. Like, oh, you guys got Giannis?

Just pass to the group. A bang! You should do that. I mean, he should, he should be able to send the bang.

Rent a bang.

Send it on over. Hey, you guys are having a great day today. You got Giannis. I send you a bang.

What if this had been a double bang?

No, it's a single bang. Winning the offseason's a single bang. But I think that you should be able to request a bang, and Mike Breen can determine whether he's giving you one or not. So when good things happen for you, you call up Mike Breen. Cinematheque, like, hey, this is— let me give you all the facts. We got Giannis, but we gave up a bunch of this.

You're right.

Can we get a bang? Can we get a bang? And he's like, ah, no bang.

The Miami Heat absolutely did win the championship of today. Today, the Miami Heat win the championship of Tuesday. Congratulations to the Miami Heat.

We don't know yet because the NBA draft's tonight, Dan. Anything can happen in the NBA draft, so you can't really give that to the Heat yet. At 12 o'clock today.

I feel like I can, though. I feel like I can. I feel like I— you think there's something, you think that there is anything that will happen during the NBA draft that will create the amount of conversation that this creates? Anything?

You're—

anything?

LeBron?

LeBron moving? LeBron being traded?

Yeah.

No, no, I don't think LeBron moving does what this Giannis thing does. I think LeBron moving is like, it's something that we were anticipating, and I don't think it changes the balance of power the way Giannis does. What, what could happen is like the Thunder package up their trade, package up all their picks and move up to get one of those top, top guys that then you guys might have given up a 3-1 lead for a 2-state title.

What if tonight the Heat trade for the number 1 overall pick?

What are you talking about?

Just make stuff up.

What do you really—

anything?

How?

They win the title.

Hold on a second.

Hold on a second.

They don't want— you did that already. I heard it the first time. It was a tiny little miniature explosion. It was like somebody throwing a rock in a pool. It wasn't like a mushroom cloud.

Does that suggest that the brain that exploded is small, or the thing that took place is small? Because it's like a little— yeah, it was, it was the brain farting is what it seemed like.

It wasn't the brain exploding. It was a very small brain pooping out a rabbit pellet of sound.

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Jessica thinks you're pathetic. I saw the look on her face. It can never be the lane to victory, man. I know, I think Jeremy's pathetic. Jeremy just delivered the most absurd theater kid basketball analysis line that I've ever heard from him.

Jeremy Tatché.

My dad was talking about the adjustments that Spo 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 Levitan Show.

So tonight we still have our 13th pick, Texas. Technically, but it's going to Milwaukee.

I say, what a stupid rule.

We do a little funny business and pick the guy they don't want us to pick.

Boom, 13th pick, you still get him, we still get Giannis. A betrayal. But everything goes through July 5th. Like when I was talking to Heat people last night, they were all like, I will not be happy till July 5th. I will not be happy. There will be no happiness here until July 5th. I swear they told us to pick him. That's what they told us to pick. You're not listening to me. I got your, I got your thing. You're just not listening to me.

This is a house of cards, Chris. It can fall apart at any moment.

We can't do that.

We have sent Jeremy out, intrepid reporter. He was, he was with the Tartan Army yesterday at Marlins Park where they're getting 20,000 people a game. And that army of people is drinking, is drinking beer. I haven't gone to you yet. I haven't introduced you yet. I haven't said what you're doing yet. I haven't. All right, fade him down. I don't want to go to him anymore. Get out of there. Please just go away from him.

Was he doing a tartan hop?

He does whatever he wants. He just doesn't listen, doesn't do what he's supposed to do. He just does whatever he wants.

I also noticed he doesn't want to get next to the Wade statue, which is a thing for him. Like, I'll get up right on the Wade statue. I don't care.

Why don't you go over there and replace him?

Oh, look at him. He's feeling all right.

Okay.

He's getting close to the Wade statue.

Now we're talking.

The who statue?

The Dwyane Wade statue.

Nah, nah, nah. I know. I mean, I know you know him better than I know him, but I know Dwyane Wade and And I don't know, I do my weight.

No, that looks like Michael Chicklis. Uh, it doesn't look like Dwyane Wade. It looks like the guy who started in the, in the, in the Shield and in The Commission.

Can I tell you, it's funny that you say that. I'm watching Winning Time right now, the story of the Lakers on HBO Max, and Michael Chicklis is Red Auerbach. He's a great Red Auerbach.

Yeah, well, thank you for bringing up Winning Time because it allows me to revisit a Pat Riley quote. Dominique, I don't know if you remember this, but throughout Winning Time, which was done Adam McKay, Jeff Pearlman's book. Yes, that's what the Dwyane Wade statue looks like. Michael Chickleson, right there. Thank you. So Winning Time, the documentary— not the documentary, the dramatic reenactment of the Showtime Lakers.

Docudrama.

Thank you. In, in that show, you had Pat Riley just saying bleep Boston over and over again in that show because his hatred for Boston runs deep. I have told you guys before that when Pat Riley is in a room with Larry Bird or Michael Jordan, he still can't speak to him because of the scars they left. Like, he doesn't want to speak to them. So years ago, when they were playing Boston and Danny Ainge was the general manager of Boston, Pat Riley did something he hasn't done this before or since. I've never seen a team do this. He sent out a team spokesman to say the following here. I'm going to quote This is Pat Riley, but Pat Riley's words— you never heard Pat Riley say this. A spokesman was— a soldier was sent out and told, say this to the assembled media about Danny Ainge. And the quote is, Danny Ainge needs to shut the bleep up. It wasn't a bleep, obviously. And manage his own team. I can't imagine how Tim Donovan felt going out as the vice president of the Heat and using the F-word that way as a company spokesman.

Danny Ainge needs to shut the bleep up and manage manage his own team. He was the biggest whiner going when he was playing, and I know that because I coached against him. Uh, Pat Riley did have to give up more here than he wanted to give up. Uh, we weren't talking about Hákez being involved in this deal. And when I say to you guys it's 7 first-round picks, you don't disagree with that, right? You understand that it's all their recent drafts. They basically went from a team that Pat Riley coached for the first, I'm gonna say, 20 years here, where it was all Dan Marley an old people. They didn't develop anybody until Dwyane Wade. Nobody. Like, it was all old guys everywhere. Nothing got developed around here. And then they developed all of those young guys to be not good enough, and now they trade all of them for the guy who's an immortal, who's unquestionably an immortal, because the hardest thing to do is develop an immortal. Milwaukee developed this one for you, and now you steal him with 7 first-round Picks.

And Bobby Portis. Yeah, don't forget, he's a dog.

His eyes are crazy.

He can shoot.

He gets switchable defender.

It's an old team now. It immediately becomes an old team. Goes from a young team that wasn't good enough to an old team playing for right now, right now, for this minute. Throw the balls out there right now because you don't want anyone to get hurt before they're 32.

That— I mean, the, the age is interesting to me because everything I read about like Pat Riley's history, and of course this is Spurs team and it's not Pat Riley like over his shoulder coaching it, But the intensity of the Heat, or at least the perceived intensity of like Heat practices and generally how they are about their players, is something that sounds like it does not mesh. The more you say old, even the players like Powell, Norman Powell, if they're able to get him to re-sign for a smaller number, then he's also a guy who's older and injury plagued. It seems like if we look at the Finals in recent years, how it's so many different teams, the depth. A small injury here or there in the playoffs has cost so many teams their chances. The depth has seemed to be important. And I don't want to rain on today's championship, but if I were, if I were to consider how this may not be perfect, is you are creating a very thin, fragile little championship contender that can be a little bit risky.

What do you mean you don't want to rain on the parade?

That's all you've been doing for 22 minutes.

What are you talking about? I have been—

you started with they're not contenders, now it's like, oh, if they get hurt, something— yeah, Of course, that's the—

that's the NBA.

There are ways to rein on it though, because the point he just made, the team that won the championship last year was the healthiest one because OKC fell apart and that De'Aaron Fox injury killed the Spurs, just crushed them. The fact that he wasn't himself, that's all I'm saying, guys.

Let's just do some— I don't want to say that, listen, but it's fair, it's fair. I'm just saying let's, let's temper our excitement and joy and expectations.

On the day that the Heat signed one of the biggest players in franchise history, you want us to temper expectations?

All right, all right, bring out Okay, my bad. Apologies.

There are reasons, okay, to marvel at the all or nothing of this. If he stays healthy, they're a contender. Like, that's not up for debate. It's just not the— the— so Milwaukee gets Tyler Herro, but this player, when they built around him with Chris Middleton and Jrue Holiday, with no one as good as Bam, when it was Chris Middleton and Jrue Holiday, and Chris Middleton is going to be available for the minimum again, they've got an assortment of Bruce out there and a bunch of people that they now have their centerpiece on what it is that they built back when it was LeBron, Wade, Bosh, and nothing but minimum salaries. It was Mike Miller, Udonis Haslem, and then everything else was, you know, a bunch of centers who couldn't catch the ball because everything was flawed after that. The idea is you make yourself relevant enough with a superstar that he now— he brings you the players. Come play in Miami with me, shooter. Guy who's a shooter who thinks that all his life he hasn't quite gotten the chances that he needs to get. Here's a guy who's always at the rim, feeds at the rim.

The Heat have been bottom 10 in the league for about a decade at the rim, like since LeBron left. Guys, I don't know if you know these numbers, but they're horrific. Like, when you look at some of the things with the Miami Heat that have happened since LeBron James left, like, they've got a 50-win season win in the 12 seasons since LeBron. One 50-win season. Okay, in the playoffs since 2023, they're 1-7 and they're -22.2 points. They're not close. They haven't been close in any way. So now what you do is you restructure the whole thing. But Dominique's not wrong when he says the foundation is built on a fault line. If something happens to Giannis, they're done again.

I think one of the challenging things about analyzing these sports is it feels like they change so quickly these days in a way that they than they haven't before. And I think what you're— what you're explaining, Dan, is Miami's always been an attractive destination for players to come. The reason why you may not have been able to get those, like, ancillary— like, others, as Charles Barkley would call them— is because you didn't have the singular foundational centerpiece. And now you got that centerpiece. But the problem with it is the new CBA has made it so much more difficult to bring guys in and to go over the cap that it's still going to be harder to build. It's going to be harder to build this team team. There was a time where the hardest thing you could— you had to do was get that one piece, and then you go ahead and pay the tax. You'll go ahead and go into the double tax. You'll keep paying that money because it's worth it. But now you can get hard-capped if you do the wrong thing. And I think it's much more difficult to bring guys in that are willing to play for under the, um, the minimum.

Dan, every NBA team—

under the minimum.

He got caught up in here. It's okay.

I crashed on that.

Every, every Every team in the NBA is built on a fault line, right? We just saw Oklahoma City. We thought they were going to win 80 games last season or this season that just passed, and then they got hurt and then they got beat by a team that was a year ahead. And then now that team got to the finals and they lost.

But hold on, OKC's young. Look, uh, Tony, I, I understand everyone getting real excited about this. The Miami Heat are maybe the only team in the league that has two top 25 players on its roster, but it's all they have at the moment. And so I understand anyone saying seeing that this one's dangerous not because of what happened to OKC. Their young guys got hurt, their second and third ball handler got hurt. If Giannis gets hurt, you're not allowed to be surprised. You're not— like, it— he's more likely to get hurt than the average person given the amount of mileage on that body. This is not a young player anymore. It just simply isn't. It's more probable that he gets hurt than another player getting hurt because of what his last season was like.

I just want to add a small piece of context that while Giannis only appeared in 36 games last year, the rest of his career he's missed 20 games once. Yeah, like that. Okay, maybe he's at a point in his career now where he's going to be injury-prone, but like one time he missed 20 games.

When you were 20, how many times did you wake up and just not feel great?

I, I get it. Like maybe, maybe this is the tipping point.

Maybe not, maybe Maybe. I mean, not maybe. It's going to be harder to stay healthy for him at this point. Like, that's a fact. That's what happens with age. And I think the point that Dan made is a little bit, um, a little disingenuous in saying this is the only team with two top 25 players because they aren't complementary players necessarily. They're two really awesome players. And anytime you've had Giannis next to a big, or anytime you've had any lineups with two bigs that were successful, I think they're going to be great on defense, one of those bigs was a really good shooter. You think about Lopez and Giannis, one of them has to be— you think about when Minnesota had KAT out there, like he had to be a good shooter in order to be complementary of Gobert. Like, that's the concerning part about this is you have two really awesome guys who are really good at similar things, and shooting has been one of the defining traits of modern basketball.

I disagree.

You don't got a ton of it.

I disagree that they don't complement each other though, because Bam now plays more from the perimeter and Giannis is going to take up all the stuff in the paint because, uh, big dog eats first.

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It's the final nightgown.

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Let's go back out though to Jeremy. Uh, he is surrounded by wild enthusiasm outside of the arena as the Miami Heat, uh, have won Tuesday. They have won the championship of Tuesday. Maybe we'll decide in, uh, you know, in, in about Well, for the next 12 hours, the Miami Heat are the champions of today. Uh, Jeremy, what is the scene out there, uh, near the Michael Cicla statue?

I mean, the scene is wild, Dan. We've got 4 fans out here who are out here just soaking it all in, celebrating what is obviously an already great team. I mean, what you guys are talking about is, is shocking to me because you talk about Youth being this, this important thing to not get hurt. The young Thunder didn't win the NBA Finals.

Why?

Because they got hurt. Jalen Williams, with no miles on his body, got hurt. AJ Mitchell got hurt. Every team, as Tony said, is built on a fault line. But when we talk about this team as presently constructed and why it's—

what's that sound?

You guys see—

is that a train?

That's a crane, I think. I think it's a crane.

There's construction happening.

The banner, the Tuesday morning championship Hey, they should be raising the banner because you guys talk about a team here where you say shooting is not a part of it. That's a fallacy. Bobby Portis last year shot 46%. Andrew Wiggins, who was once the second-best player on a championship team, now the fourth-best player on this Heat roster, shot a career-high 42% from three last year. Davion Mitchell shot nearly 40%. Norman Powell, if he comes back, was an All-Star with the lowest three-point shooting percentage he's had in the last 5 years. That still itself was 38%. Pelle Larsson shot a career high from 3, and this is all with a Heat offense that wasn't built around Giannis Antetokounmpo working from the inside out. You guys are talking about a team like it's not constructed well. They still have a $15 million MLE. They still have a $5.6 million exception. They have a $5.6 million trade exception. There's so much more room to add with a roster that is already built well around these two big men.

Did you just say career high for Pelle Larsson? Pelo Larson.

32%, yes.

Yeah, but it—

yes, I did.

Last year was the first time he played.

I'm hyping things up. It wasn't the first time he played, it was the second time he played. He was a second-year player. Pelo Larson is—

I—

what I really excited me is I watched Bill Simmons say that the Heat are not a title contender, and he named the 6 guys on the team and he didn't include Pelo Larson. And I cannot wait until Pelo Larson goes into Boston in the postseason and drops 22 2, 6, and 4. And then Bill Simmons—

all right, turn him down again. Just turn it. Thank you. We'll come back to him later, maybe. Uh, agreeing with Tony, uh, while making the points that these Thunder people have gotten hurt, uh, the young guys getting hurt is a surprise. If Giannis gets hurt, no one will be surprised. Just like— am I wrong about that? If, if not only will everyone in the NBA celebrate rate if Giannis gets hurt. Everyone will be unsurprised because the only criticism that you can have of acquiring Giannis is that he might get hurt. There's no other criticism available to you. That's the one. The only reason you wouldn't trade for Giannis is because you're afraid he'll get hurt.

It's—

it is the single reason. There are no others.

My question is, how much of the hurt that he was last year was posturing for him to get traded, and how much was him actually being hurt and not being able play.

Oh yeah, I mean, there's— I think you could make a fair, uh, assertion that he would have played more if he was playing for a contender. I'm not arguing that last year is predictive. I'm arguing that every other year in the history of human existence is predictive, that guys get older and things are harder, their bodies are more likely to break down.

I—

this is not a criticism of Giannis in particular. It's just looking at how the league has operated in the last several years.

Criticism of Yeah, it's not a criticism.

You're criticizing God?

I appreciate breaking down because then you can value the things when you're here and you enjoy them. Yeah, I'm criticizing him. That's all right. He can— I mean, you know who can handle it?

Thick skin.

Yeah, I think God builds things the way Apple does. They break down with age quickly so he can create more of them.

Quickly is relative.

I mean, it takes 80-something years, 90 years.

No, it happens at— look, it's happening at 30. It happens at 30. Yeah, it doesn't happen. It doesn't He doesn't.

I got, I got to get plugged into the charger a lot more often and for a lot longer than I did when I was younger.

You're a great player though.

Thank you.

Let's go back out to Jeremy, who now is surrounded by just a huge fandom all around the Heat's arena where he has caught up with a couple of people who are clearly here for the World Cup. I don't mean to racially profile here, but they are not basketball fans. Jeremy, what, what kind of emotion do you have out there with your fans, stragglers and loiterers that you've picked up? Picked up.

I noticed the jubilance on the face of my new friends Francisco and Eric. They flew here from Guatemala just to celebrate the acquisition of Giannis Antetokounmpo. So Francisco, Eric, how excited are you about this move?

We're super excited. Giannis is awesome.

Giannis is awesome. What do you think, Eric?

Giannis has a champ mentally.

Yes, he does have a championship mentality.

Yes, yes, yes.

What I want I want to know is, are you planning to just stay here in Miami until the season starts?

Yes, obviously.

Yes, yes. All right. And do you think the Miami Heat are going to win the championship?

Yes, they're going to win.

They're the best. With him, the team can win. See, guys, he's right.

Yes.

Energy around this arena. Yes.

It's unbelievable.

I can't believe it.

Eric, I couldn't be more excited to be here with you guys.

Excellent work, Jeremy. Thank you. I appreciate it.

I mean, Eric had a couple things there that were locked in. Championship mentality. Also, can they win?

They can. Like a hostage situation.

They can, which is not something we could say 12 hours ago.

Exactly right.

12 hours ago they could not. 12 hours ago in the form that they were in, it seemed more likely that Bam would no longer be here and would be frustrated because they needed to get a player better than Bam. And those are a little bit hard to come by.

Can we go back to Jeremy Freeman?

Please, uh, we can— we, we will go back to Jeremy in just a moment because Jeremy is surrounded by a great deal of Miami Heat fandom everywhere you look. And so we will be going out to Jeremy in just a second as he continues to gather, uh, stragglers and hitchhikers and loiterers and whoever else is out there, uh, next to the Michael Chicklis statue. Let's go back out to Jeremy. Clearly some Heat fans are here, uh, they He's better than Jadad. We've got Super Giannis.

Oh, we've got Giannis.

Yes, thank you. Good interview.

Couldn't be more excited. Yes, couldn't be more excited, Dan. The Tartan Army is ready for a Heat championship.

Go Giannis, go!

You've got this, boy. Excellent work there. Our streets are filled with these people, and the amount of littering they are doing outside of my home is staggering. There were extra garbage people sent in. These people drank Boston dry.

That—

I'm not making that up. The people in— bartenders in Boston are being quoted in the local publication saying it is 3 times more drinking than St. Patrick's Day, and that's Boston. They are literally drinking bars dry. And what they're doing at the bar, uh, on my street is not only drinking it dry. They are singing songs all night in a way that's making my lovely angel of a wife saying she wants to start throwing things down there because they're so loud and singing songs.

Different songs?

Yes, all different songs.

Good set.

But all bad songs. All of them terrible songs. All of them uncommonly loud. But they have no respect for America's litter rules. Like, they really do believe—

Dad, you gotta stop, man.

You gotta stop.

Stop.

Like, it's just the most washed complaint ever. Like, there's too many gunshots in my neighborhood. That's one thing. It's too many fights.

A lot of days.

Yeah, a lot of stealing. Like, no, like, so much litter.

It's just so—

I mean, you know how many trash men are in my streets now?

The beach is not a trash can, Dominique. It's really disrespectful what these people are doing to our streets.

The only point I'm making is your complaints, while they feel really serious to you, it's— it doesn't is it for most of us? It's like, oh, okay, it's a little bit more trash. Like, you're talking about it like it's some sort of locust epidemic. It's not. It's a couple more beer bottles on South Beach where there are always beer bottles and dead bodies. Relax. You don't want to be in, in the nonsense, then maybe you don't live on South Beach.

You're saying that they, they have no respect for our litter laws. Do you think they're allowed to litter in Scotland? Yeah, maybe they are. I don't know.

They must be. They, they must be, given what it is that I'm seeing in the streets.

The fine for littering is $1,500 for the first offense.

$1,500.

Not there, not to them.

Put it on the poll at @LebatardShow. Did you know that the fine for littering was $1,500 for a first offense? I did not know that. In Miami Beach.

Let's do it.

I got some info here. AI is telling me no, you cannot litter in Scotland.

Thank you, good, uh, good work. Let's go, let's go back out to Jeremy and the Michael Ciclis statue. Let's see what Jeremy has found there. Clearly people are just going going totally crazy. Jeremy, who do you have out there?

Okay, who's your friend?

I'm here with my new friend Karine, and Karine had her family fly here from Brazil just to be here.

To—

yes, her family to fly here just to be here from Brazil to celebrate just how exciting this Giannis trade is. Karine, how excited are you about the Giannis trade?

We are super I'm excited.

Do you think that the Heat are now going to win the championship?

Of course, we are the champions.

Yeah, of Tuesday, of Tuesday.

She knows already.

Yes, thank you. Champions of Tuesday. Thank you, Jeremy. Jeremy, you've never had a better day. You are— your efficiency is extraordinary. I appreciate that you're out there hustling. Uh, I would appreciate if Dominique leered at people just slightly less.

A cheetah print. I don't want something for me with the tats too.

All right, that's my gimmick.

Seems like a good time. Sorry, sorry, my bad. I'll get out the way.

You can record that.

$1,500 for an initial offense on littering sounds aggressive and is more than I would have ever considered. Are you sure we have that right?

Uh, this is MiamiBeachFL.gov. This is the government site, so yes.

So you've got the security guards on the Segways on Miami Beach stopping at Tartan Army who are throwing cigarette butts and beer bottles at them.

The, the, uh, point that I'm trying to make is simply that the amount of garbage people who are now in the streets cleaning up the bagpipe debauchery that these people are leaving behind.

I just imagine that you could find a better way to illustrate the complaint. Saying we got a lot more people picking up trash, like, I don't feel like you're being overrun or in trouble by, like, we can't sleep at night because they're singing all different songs. Like, that's different. Can you imagine the number of people picking up trash in the streets? It's like, it's South Beach, Dan. It's always a lot of trash in the streets. Streets.

Uh, not exactly. Like, when you have those kinds of legislations, you, you tell me if you think that $1,500 fines— the streets are not dirty on South Beach. It is our most, uh, trafficked commercial tourist area. It is kept clean, and they spend a lot of money to keep it clean because it's the place where visitors get their impressions of Miami.

I get it, Dan. But it just sounds like you're just washed in elitist. It's like the thing that you're complaining about doesn't feel worth complaining about. I got to step over a bottle.

Yeah, it seems like you guys over on South Beach are going to have more garbage people than Little Havana is going to have. I feel like they're going to have less garbage people.

For sure.

That's why I pay the taxes that I do. Do you realize that when Memorial Day got closed down in a racist offense that had not just too much police, but also they put an air and sea show there so they knew the military would would be around too. And so that they eliminated Black people partying on that strip of land because they called a state of emergency, uh, DeSantis made a state of emergency and a curfew when some Black people were seen having sex on the street south of Fifth. South of Fifth, which is the rich area. It's not the area where I live. South of Fifth, as soon as anything trickles over there, the National Guard is called in. Air and sea shows are called in. Look, our military, really loud and strong. Really big. Ran off everybody. And all they do now is litter.

The Heat got into Takumpo 'cause the Celtics wouldn't trade some guy named Hugo.