Transcript of The Dan Le Batard Show With Your Mom's A Sl*t | Hour 3 (feat. Andres Cantor, JuJu Gotti, and Trysta Krick)

Denk an den 31.

Juli! Wieso?

Last Call für deine Steuer!

Oh no, ich weiß gar nicht, wo ich anfangen soll.

Bei Wieso Steuer? Das ist wie Steuererklärung, nur ohne Stress.

Ist das einfach?

Klar, macht fast alles automatisch.

Dauert das lange?

Nö, einfach per App.

Na dann.

Hol dir jetzt dein Geld zurück mit Wieso Steuer. Bis zum 31.

Juli abgeben.

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We've got a broadcasting legend, a soccer legend joining us now. The voice of soccer, I would say. I could say that. I didn't mean to say it as if it was a question. It's not a question. Andres Cantor is with us. And so that's a thrill. We've got a lot of soccer for you remaining in the show. We've got some good follow later this hour. Whittingham and Tom Bogerts are going to be on with Mike Ryan during the morally abhorrent postgame show. And also, Whitty's going to be on with Zaslow tonight on ESPN Radio because Whitty is now challenging Andres Cantor for the voice of soccer. So, Andres, you've only been at this 26 years, Telemundo. You're covering your 10th World Cup. Thank you for being on with us. Is Argentina-Egypt the craziest game you've personally ever called?

It was definitely then the craziest comeback I ever called, that's for sure. I really thought Argentina was going out. I mean, they had 11 minutes to go and they were down 2-0. I got some beef with you guys.

Qué pasó? What happened?

To clear with you guys, come on, you know better.

Qué pasó?

That game, I mean, that narrative about being the game being fixed and all that BS. Come on, guys, you haven't fixed the game. Yeah, yeah, I'm talking to you.

Yes.

Who are you talking to? Me.

I'm on your side, pal. Like, I'm one of those people that, that have been saying let's acknowledge his greatness. You got it twisted. I think I, I'm over an apology.

Wait a minute, let me tell you something, you and everybody else.

You don't risk— you don't rig a game by giving Egypt a 2-0 lead. That's not how you rig them.

Exactly, exactly. I'm gonna put it in NFL terms. I don't know how you rig a game anyways, but you wouldn't think that a rigged game, uh, at the Super Bowl would be 35-7 at the 2-minute warning. No chance. If, if you rigged anything You rig it way before. So, okay, end of story. Who are you coming after?

Who are you?

I'm your ally.

I don't— but I don't know who was he accusing of what.

I'm gonna flip 180 faster than Dan on pool stick if Jude Bellingham gets a yellow.

Was this show— did this show claim that the game was rigged? I think it's fairly scandalous that Egypt's coach put his name on that though, Andres. Like, that's not— in American sports, that does not happen.

That, that is fine. Yeah, but this is not American sports. I just love, I just love the fact that you guys are covering the World Cup so much. And I really, really hope that you keep covering soccer, Inter Miami, after, after the World Cup is over. I know you, you will.

We might not. Don't, don't, don't be so sure. If Messi scores 7 goals a game, maybe we will talk about it occasionally. You thought the game was over, though, against Egypt. You had lost hope.

I had, I had, I didn't, you know, I was in my mind, I was thinking about the obituary for the world champion. That is the truth. But I never said outright. I've learned through 40 years of broadcasting this game that like Yogi Berra said, it ain't over until it's over. And especially if you have a GOAT like like, like Messi in the pitch. And I didn't see it coming, honestly. I thought there was no way for Argentina to come back. So I, yeah, I saw it. I saw the champions bowing out against Egypt. That's, that's the truth.

Andres, the type of emotion that we saw from Messi after he tied the game at 2, we rarely see that type of emotion from him, right?

It was a decompression. Yes, it's right. But It was the emotion that all Argentinians had. You should have seen the press box. I mean, we were all in tears. I guess the tears were tears of relief because, you know, Egypt had the game of their lives and they almost knocked Argentina out. So it was really, really tough. It wasn't definitely the way Messi would have wanted to go out. In his illustrious career. So it was just tears of joy, but tears of relief, the same tears all Argentinians shed after the match.

So hold on a second. So you're— wait a minute. So you cried when they won the World Cup famously during your— you can hear your voice cracking, your weeping when they won the World Cup. You were looking around the press box and how many of the people in there with you, allegedly objective journalists, were crying.

But you have to understand that. And then The Argentinian journalists, they're all very objective, but they're all Argentinian, obviously, and they only talk to one public, which is Argentina's public back home. So they have, you know, leeway more than I do, at least here in this country where I speak Spanish to 26 different nationalities. So it is understandable that they were overcome by emotions. I tried to compose myself as much as I can. And then when, you know, I had the 3-1, you know, you're off, I just like didn't faint, but I was— I had given it all my all, you know, and I said regardless of— I think my parting shots was regardless of the outcome of this match, the Egyptian players probably will be received as national heroes. They played their match of their lives. And in front of them, they, they had Leo Messi, none other. So, yeah.

How many of the people around you were crying, though? I'm asking the question.

All the Argentina, all the Argentinean press.

So, so everybody around you was just weeping and you're waiting and you take your headsets off. You tried to stay composed on the air, but you start when you take your headsets off because of the decompression.

I, I didn't— I don't know if I cried per se, but, you know, I expressed my emotions privately as soon as I went off the air. And I was, you know, the, you know, the the big letdown when after, you know, maximum effort. So I just like relief. Yeah, relief.

That's what it would be like in the press box if the Dolphins won the Super Bowl, right? We'd all be crying.

Something like that. Yeah. Greg Cody would be crying. I want to— I want to play for you, Andres. Pablo Giralt, you tell me how professional or unprofessional this is. He is doing the call here and he uses a lot of words. I think he said you— so you're from—

are you from here?

Okay. You saw it.

I saw your show yesterday and you missed some context. Okay.

So, okay, please. I'd like— please help me understand what happened here.

Translate.

It was moving too fast to me.

Argentina, Argentina, Argentina, Argentina, carajo. Nunca te dejás de creer, nunca te dejás de creer. Vamos Argentina, carajo. Vamos Argentina, carajo. Dos abajo. Acá está el campeón del mundo, acá está el campeón del mundo. Vamos Argentina de mi vida, nunca te das por vencido. Dos abajo. Vamos Leo de mi vida, vamos leyenda. Leo de mi vida y de mi corazón. Vamos leyenda. Vamos Leo, un viejo nomás. Vamos Leo, un viejo nomás. Dos abajo, Pablo. I love it.

That's Pablo. He's one of the greatest. But you have to put in context, la puta madre in Argentina in Spanish, and your audience will understand. He's not cussing at anybody. It's just an expression. We have many colloquial expressions that have very bad words but have no meaning. He's not cussing at anybody.

He's saying your mom is a slut, Andres. Like, I don't know what you're—

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

He—

that's the, uh, that— hey, don't laugh. This is Argentinian culture. No, like, if I burn— okay, if I burn myself, okay, or let's say I'm drinking mate right now and the water is very hot, I will go, la puta madre, your mom, the way that I say MF-er.

What do you mean?

Yeah but it's not what you think it is! And then Carajo— I know you went into looking it up and everything...

Don't we have hold on don't we have a store US 127 no that's New York Barato or you're talking about Dick's Store named "Carajo"?

No no no that's Hialeah!

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Dan Levitar.

What is the worst part of the life Jonathan Sasslow. The worst part of the life of what?

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

It's a fair criticism.

Like, you know, but Dickson, in America we have a store called Dick's. No, but that's, that's someone's name though. Your mom is a slut is not someone's name, and carajo is hell, and it's a curse word.

Well, Dick can also be a name. Different meanings.

Within the Argentinian, and that is the license, there you go, exactly. We gotta go there and get some free, what's it say? Wine store, tapas, and bakery. Hey, what a plug. Let's all go, Dad, after the World Cup, you and I go and do a live remote from there and get free pastries. Anyways, in context, you know, he's broadcasting for Argentina, That is the way in Argentina, that's the way they talk, you know, for good or for bad. That's the way we all talk in Argentina, which it's, you know, you have to put it within cultural and context. So it's not that bad. I know it sounds bad here, but it's not.

The culture.

I wouldn't say that here. I mean, I would say that.

You would not say that.

No, the minute I say that, I'm joining your show. I'm taking over Stu Gotts for Dan Levitan and Stu. It'll be Dan Levitan and Cantor.

Yes.

Show.

That'd be out of the job.

Dan Abattard show with your mom's a slut. Your mom, like, that is what he said. Like, you're not even disputing that that's what he said.

I'm not disputing verbatim. That's what he said contextually in a cultural context. It's not that bad.

All right. The cultural context is he said your mom is a slut.

We can move on.

It's fine. We don't have to argue. We don't have to argue about this anymore. When you watch the way the United States is presently covering its World Cup appearance when I, I just thought that the world knows that this is what the United States is. This was not surprising. This is about where the expectations are for this team. What do you make of how critical everyone is being jumping on the back of this team, saying that this World Cup was an abject failure?

It wasn't a failure. And I will put an asterisk on everything that happened against Belgium and I will explain why. I will just reiterate what I said, my parting shot in that broadcast cast on Telemundo that day. I said that Belgium was the better team, but hopefully soon we will know if all the noise around the red card, um, the, the lift of the red card on Balogun and the fact that he played, all the noise around it had anything to do and impacted the players. Because obviously Belgium, again, was a better team, but the US had played a hell of a World Cup up to then, and they were not up to par. They did not come out firing. They did not play well individually. You know, they were very bland. They didn't have that, you know, gut performance that they showed in the previous matches. So, you know, for the good of this team and Pochettino's process of 2.5 years, I think the truth has to be told. And I compared it to the 1998 World Cup when many years later we found out why the US finished last in that World Cup, because they had a very internal issue, very delicate internal issue within the locker room right before the World Cup by, you know, excluding the captain, John Harkes.

And then we found out what had happened. Many years after the fact, and that obviously had repercussions within the team. So yes, we were outclassed by Belgium, but I would really like to know one day how much all the noise around, you know, what happened with Balogun interfered with the mental preparation and physical response of the team that day in Seattle.

I would have thought if you were objecting to something that our show did over the last couple of days, that it wouldn't have been about Egypt's rigging, it would have been about me saying that Argentina Argentina is not very good if not for Messi. They're just another team.

You're right. You're right. You're right. Where Argentina is hanging. I mean, look how crazy soccer is. We all asked— we all people that cover Argentina and that have covered Messi since, you know, he plays for Inter Miami, we see him every weekend. We all asked, what is he?

What?

What will his role be in this World Cup? He's going to be 39. Is he going to come off the bench when the game needs— is he going to come out of the games and play 45 minutes if, you know, Argentina has a comfortable lead? And look at him now. He's the savior of the team. He's the goal scorer of the tournament. He plays every single minute. He was against Cabo Verde in Miami, in the heat and humidity of Miami the other day. He was the 4th Argentinian player that ran the most, and he's 39 and he has won it all. And yet he's, you know, showing the way. And I totally agree with you. Argentina is running out of legs. They're a very good team. But, you know, they have a heart this big, this big. And you know what else they have? And that's what's keeping them in the tournament. Messi plus heart plus that.

It's a pleasure to listen to your work after all of these years. He'll be announcing Saturday night's Argentina-Switzerland quarterfinal match. That's on Telemundo. He's the biggest voice there is in this sport. Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure.

Likewise. And I hope you, you bring Argentina luck all the way. So you think— I really hope that they win handedly. So the discussion will be somewhere else over the weekend.

Carajo. Cuídate.

Carajo.

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I know it well.

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Down, Lebatar! I ain't never met nobody in the world that's done hate on Blue's Clues.

Great nomination.

Like, who don't like Blue's Clues, bruh? If you don't like Blue's Clues, you're a loser. Juju Gotti! Look, you get one paw print, that's the first clue. You put it in a notebook. Now what do you do? Blues Clues, Blues Clues. Sit on the chair and think about it. This is the Dan Levitan Show. Hey, welcome back to Good Follow presented by DraftKings. Sports. Now let me repeat that, it presented by DraftKings Sports. I am the Kid Juju Gotti, joined by my sister Trista Crick. As always, how are you doing, sis?

Just touched down in Las Vegas, Juju, the home of the Las Vegas Aces. May come out and catch a Fever Aces game in the next couple of days. We'll have to keep a close one on that, but I'm here for Summer League, but I'm also for the W.

Let's stick right in Las Vegas. Headline news, man, broke my damn heart. Kennedy Carter has been waived by the Aces, man. What is your first thoughts? I saw you was live when this news happened with our sister Carrie Champion. Salute. What is your thoughts behind this, bro?

This is sad situation. Because you're talking about someone who's so skilled. You're talking about someone who's just a certified bucket. Me and you were very excited about this decision to bring her in, to envelop her in a place where the culture is championship DNA level. And for, for her to be waived, not even to be moved or traded, for some of the ways that it already started at the beginning of the season where she was talking a lot out of school, out of line with what the Vegas Aces normally allow. The stuff on social media where Asia's online being like, I think it's time for you to log off. It felt like the writing was a bit on the wall. And Juju, I'd love to get your thoughts on this, but it's like, if you can't make it in, in a place like Vegas where they're giving you all of the tools all of these champions to take you under their wing about like what it means to be a pro.

Yeah.

And like, I don't know what WNBA team you'll fit on, right, bruh?

And like you say, the wording behind it, my dog been waived, because the folks at the Vegas Aces facility, they're not idiots. They know that without a lot of information attached to why she's been waived, it's gonna cause us to think that, damn, my dog was a headache again. In the locker room. And so for them to not lend no voice to the contrary, I feel like it's very, very revealing because they would have got in front of that if not, in my opinion. I could be wrong, and I hope I'm wrong, but for them to know what we was gonna think when this happened and to make it so vague— no trade either, man. Damn, bro, it just— it break my heart for my dog. Hopefully I'm wrong as hell and my dog is right now being pursued by a team and she makes that roster, but damn, this is definitely tough to I'm back from here, bro.

Would you— I heard that they scoured the entire league looking to trade him, man.

Man, man. But how about this? Because we've been faithful and we've been trying to have faith in Sis. Could this, or should this have been expected? Like, that's the question. Because in my opinion, I was like, bro, if anybody get in trouble this year, I know who ain't. But damn, should we have expected this, dog?

It's so hard for an adult to change their behavior and their patterns, you know, and you need to do a lot of work. I mean, as someone who's gone through therapy on my end, I know Juju, you, you understand what it's like to work on yourself as well. And like, we have things that trigger us, we have things that cause us to act outside of our own minds. You know, and mental health is a real thing. Just because you're elite at putting the ball into the hoop and elite at breaking somebody down off the dribble and can rebound and is an athletic freak and like can defend and all these things that we know Kennedy's always been able to do, that doesn't mean that everything is everything upstairs. And I think like this is a wake-up call. I don't know what it is. I don't know what you're dealing with. With. But like, this is a time to find people to support you, to get you to— if this is what it is, which I think it is— to get the somebody around you, or somebodies around you, to like put you in a position to stop making these decisions and stop getting in your own way.

Because you're that talented. And we're seeing this also, Juju, with Skylar, and like her getting in her own way.

When that phone be ringing off the hook with them wake-up calls, it'd be fire. But sometimes them calls slow down, and now them wake-up calls even— they don't even come to your room no more. It's expected for you to wake your behind up on your own. So I'm— I fear that my sis might be out of wake-up calls, bro. Luckily though, she is a legend in China, or where— where is it from? Hong Kong? Beijing?

I think she was in Mexico as well. She was like Mexico City. She was in China. Like she went on a world tour last year, Juju, and she was balling. But guess what? When there's— when not everybody else speaks English and you speak English, a lot of problems go away.

You feel me? They be like, wait, what'd you say? You're like, oh no, I said I love you. But yeah, man, moving on, bro. You hit it right on the head. My dog Skylar Diggins is not necessarily happy right now. She took the Instagram and shared a wee bit of frustration. You did with the sky, saying that, hey man, I don't miss that. To the bench, man. I'm about to something on the damn bench, bro. What you think about Skylar, bro?

She also said, Juju, I don't know if you saw her roaming around the streets of Phoenix The scene of the trauma. Gets off the plane and goes, goes on Instagram stories walking around with palm trees in the background.

Bro, did you see the quality of that camera, bro? Who shot this?

And the crazy part about it all is that I've been so quiet. I've been so good and quiet. I've been so good and quiet.

What's your first thought seeing this? Because a couple weeks ago we predicted that, hey man, y'all might need to free my dog before we get too crazy up there, and we weren't far from wrong.

Listen, they didn't— they didn't bench her for no reason. This is how she— what she did to react to being benched, okay? All alone when she's supposed to be with the squad. Why aren't you with the team right now?

Where is Sidney Taylor right now, bro? Does anybody have eyes on you?

You shouldn't be out wandering Phoenix, okay? You're supposed to be at practice.

Oh, but, but we forgot though, Phoenix, that's her hood for real. She been there, done that in them streets, so she probably bit Skyler in them streets.

And I know that it's like a tough thing. You go back to the scene where a lot of frustrations and trauma live. You find out you've been benched when you touch down, you know, you get on Instagram Live. The question that I have is, you know, it's not because of Slew. Slew knew they were— they knew they were gonna play together. Yeah, they knew that that was gonna be the case. They figured out a way to have Slew, Tosh, and, and Sky all together. They knew what time it was.

Well, let's get to the logistics because I— we guessing no matter what. Do you think that this was a justified move from Tyler Marsh? Because yes, it's going to cause a stir anytime you have to sit one of your vets down, you feel me, and get that first taste of that bench. But what I'm for, right, to sit her?

Listen, you're not about to flash on me and think I'm gonna start you. Listen, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, I have to enact some level— these people don't respect me, okay? They don't respect me as a coach. You're out here like saying in the press conference that our half-court offense stinks because of me. Like, listen, you're not about to just say whatever you want to me and think that the one piece of power that I have I'm not going to use. Which is— sit down, let's see.

Nah, nah, nah. Juju, this is funny. This is hilarious. I'm laughing because this is hilarious, ladies and gentlemen. What'd you say?

If you're in charge of the team, yeah, and somebody flashes at you in public, yeah, okay, just hypothetically, okay, are you gonna start them the next game?

Man, see, look, this is what I do. I'm gonna start them the next game, but I'm gonna just make sure I get this apology in front of all these folks you flashed on me in front of before we do anything. Look, all of this is speculation. I don't even know if none of this happened. We talking about me, so I don't know, bro. I just think that sometimes, bro, you just— I think my boy Tyler was probably just tinkering with the lineup, you feel me? Because now we got Snoop Doggy Dogg back and see it going crazy. C is giving us way more than we planned for before this season. You feel me? So I think that's more so what's going on than any kind of— what is it, like some kind of punishment or some kind of relegation or retaliation?

Okay, so let me ask you this. If it wasn't a punishment, yeah, uh, why did Skylar then say, I think I'm done putting my body on the line, and then was out Uh, for injury management.

Moving on, I think let's check out, you know, I mean, the little mid-season form that the Seattle Storm has had, has had lately. Because now a little bit of confusion from me at times watching them play. Some nights Flau'jae is LeBron damn James. I think Kevin Durant need to sit courtside every, every Seattle Storm game. No doubt, some games she don't shoot the ball. You dig? And I get it, she a rookie, so we judging on this scale anyway. But the rest of the roster construction, what do you think so far about how Seattle has handled this, this first half of the season?

I think they have the chance to be really good. I think their roster, they have a bunch of pieces that are individually quite good. The question that I have is like are we buying? And I want to hear you as a hooper, uh, Juju. Not like what could be, right, but what you think will be the outcome of, uh, Awafam Ezi Magbagor and Dominique Belonga on the team at the same time. Yes, do they play differently than one another? Sure, they're not twins. But do they also occupy the same position and have similar things that limit them that they can't do that if they played a different position they would have to do?

And we both— we're talking about Ezi and A'whaa mostly. Dom is just, just a generational talent. We can't really put her on the list.

But, but, but is Ezi gonna cut into Dom's minutes at all?

Oh, I don't, I don't think so.

When it's gonna—

when it starts mattering, I don't think so. Hopefully they can win and put a couple of wins together so it does matter by end of the season this year. But if it starts mattering, I'm thinking we're gonna see that killer lineup that we expect. Awa, Ezi, Dawn, Flau'jae, uh, and Tee, you feel me, at the point guard. Salute to Jay. Jay been— Jay Melbourne been one of them ones this year for me because she come off the bench with that spark every time. But I think if it comes down to it, that's the lineup we gonna see. And I don't necessarily see too many problems with the potential, like you said, of the lineup. Now what we seeing right now, currently, I think we seeing a, you know what I mean, somebody come back from injury. And like the, uh, the Skylar Diggins situation, we testing out some of these lineups to see which ones work. You did? What you think?

Yeah, I mean, I'm asking around the league because I'm asking everybody like, hey, you know, it's the same question that we all have when we see them. Yeah, people who evaluate talent that I trust, smart people. I'm like, yo, you think You think Izzy, Izzy Dom, and Awol are gonna work together? Like, you think long term they're gonna share the floor together?

Yeah.

And like, I don't think I've heard one yes.

Oh, except for you.

And you could be right and they could be wrong. But I think just the thing that needs to be— they need to be held accountable for. Number one, number one, you, you totally miscalculated who the Minnesota Lynx were going to take, because everybody knows you wanted Olivia.

Now, now everybody knows. I didn't know that just now. Put me on game.

They wanted Olivia. That was their— okay, the Lynx were supposed to take Awa in all the mocks, or Lauren, because they thought, you know, a lot of people who, you know, talk, write about basketball, like, oh, they need a big. They lost Jess Shepherd, they lost Lambman. Like, they need somebody to help Fifi out for a bunch of the season. They just need another pick. So that was what was— and then it was like, oh, Seattle's gonna get— Seattle's gonna get Olivia Miles. They're just so pumped about it. And then, and then, you know, Cheryl Reeve was sort of misdirecting the whole time, and then was pretty much always intending to take Olivia. And Olivia is very special. So then, then Seattle has to figure it out on the fly. And then they take best available player, and Awa is special, and I think she could be transcendent. But you, you probably should have waited to pay Ezi like $1.25 million a year until after the draft, because you signed her a day before the draft. One day, 24 hours before, when you thought it was sweet when you were gonna get Olivia Miles. Secondly, then now you pivot and you go get Flau'jae, which I totally respect and love, but then you go out and spend a first-round pick on Tyena Mare who at this point is 0.7 points per game, 0.7 rebounds per game, 0.7 assists per game.

And you cored Ezi when you could have cored Gabby Williams. And so you could have had—

there we go—

Gabby, uh, you could have, you could have, you could have Kiki Rice.

You feel me? Oh, oh wow, I forgot about Kiki. But this is instead of A'Whaa though.

Instead of A'Whaa. And A'Whaa would be somewhere else driving. Or you could have had A'Whaa and no Ezi and figured it out.

I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. It's a serious situation. You would have Gabby. Right. Because gimme Gabby no matter what a lot of times. You dig it?

Yeah.

Can I say— I was shocked. Juju, $1.25 million for 3 years for Ezi. Go get your bread, Marcus. Get that girl her bread, Marcus. Holy shit, I didn't know Ezi was a max player. And she was— listen, second team all-defense, 10th in the league in blocks. We love Ezi.

I got a question. All right, how long has Ezi been in the league? I can't— off the top of my head, what year is this for Ezi?

6.

This is Ezi's 6th year right now?

6th, 7th year. I think she has 6 years of experience.

And how old is Ezi?

I think she's 20.

I think she's 26. 26. Damn. See, I was finna play the man. She just got here not too long ago. Look, bro, hopefully they get it together. The whole, like, it's looking good right now for me. I don't know what they're seeing. You did— they probably looking down the road and they seeing what you're saying. Mathematically, we could have been what we are, and that Gabby Williams tape does not help matters because I don't give a damn where Gabby Williams wanted to Sis, you with us until—

that's why we franchise tag players. If the NFL looked at their players and they were like, well, I don't want to play for the Jets anymore, it's like, I'm sorry, Quinnen Williams, you're getting franchise tagged. You will get tagged one after— like year after year after year they're getting tagged.

Exactly, bro. I'm so sorry, Gabby. We got some green and yellow for you, sis. I'm so sorry. We'll get you a new windbreaker. But you're gonna be playing in Seattle.

No, we're the only ones that can offer you the real bread.

It's now time for the DraftKings Sports Pick of the Week, presented by DraftKings Sports. This week we watching the New York Liberty take on them girls— excuse me, pardon me— the Minnesota Lynx this Saturday. Who we watching, sis?

I'm watching Sabrina Nesku Juju because she's looking like her back and her legs and her ankles are right. I've seen the little wiggle, I've seen the step back, and if Sabrina's fully healthy— I know they just lost to the Wings and they got smacked down, but I'm watching Sabrina fully because I'm also watching Nastia.

On the Lynx side of things, I'm watching— it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Bitdorka Juhasz back in the the streets. Keep your eye on sis because I think she want to make an immediate impact because it's a lot going on over there in Minnesota. She got that UConn blood in her and it's time to put up or shut up in that West. And I think sis plan on putting up, especially this Saturday. You dig it? And that right there, this segment is presented by DraftKings Sports. DraftKings Sports now available in all 50 states. 50 of them things, man. The crown is yours. And that's gonna be it for this week's episode of Good Follow, man. Make sure to subscribe to all the Good Follow's YouTube pages, social pages, every page you can think of. We there at Good Follow Show.

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