Tony thinks he just soothed me by whispering in my ear, I'm gonna be better today. Low bar. I thought to myself, as he said it, it's not possible to be worse. That's possible to be worse, but I'm gonna be better, I promise, okay?
I can't talk about later on for the live stream tonight. Today though, for show, I'm gonna be better. Well, today is an awkward day because things in the world are moving a little bit too fast to be sane. And if you're walking around life depressed or angry or scared because the world seems like it's on fire, we are solving it tonight by at the same time, and this has to be a live stream first in the history of sports media.
I don't believe that anything this pioneering has ever existed. During an 8 p.m. deadline where the president of the United States is threatening to nuke a civilization at an appointed time tonight, we're gonna be watching the Marlins Heat and Panthers. That's a first in the history of the media.
These things have to be planned out weeks in advance. We could not plan for an 8 p.m. war deadline. We could not plan for the Panthers not being able to defend their trophy.
We could not plan for the Miami Heat being a 10 seed and we could not plan for the Marlins coming off of a shutout loss. I think it's a short change in the heat a little bit because the season tie break is on the line with the Raptors. They're two games from the six, right? Like if they were to win out, they could get really good positioning and get you excited all over again.
Not that they're going to win out with two games against Toronto and Atlanta, but again, 8 p.m. tonight because this continues to escalate somehow, we are being run as a country by a totally deranged lunatic who needs to have the keys of the country taken away from him because he's gonna get everybody killed. Here's the post from this morning. I don't know how else to sort of put plainly the lunacy of America behaving this way.
But at 8 p.m., we're setting a lunatic deadline where we're just going to say we're gonna nuke a civilization because the guy in charge is clearly crazy and out of control and somebody needs to put a stop to this because we are in great peril as a people. That wasn't the statement. This was a statement from Donald Trump this morning. A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we haven't have complete and total regime change where different smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows? We will find out tonight, why is he treating this like American Idol?
One of the most important moments in a long complex history of the world, 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran. This is a couple of words after threatening to destroy the entire civilization. So the Marlins, the Heat and the Panthers, is the live stream tonight.
I'm gonna try to be better for that one too. We're gonna start at 6.30 p.m. And then we're gonna be on at 8 p.m. And the president is threatening to extinguish a civilization at an appointed time.
But God bless them. The Panthers, the Heat and the Marlins are what we'll be watching together at 8 p.m. A historic broadcast tonight. Cyclones also have a big one.
This is the Dunlebapart Show with the Stuka Podcast. We've got a basketball championship in college basketball to talk about. Chris Cody, you're already in character, because you're already tipping that cowboy hat. To the champs.
All right, so that was the tip of the cap to the champs, because you today are what? And I'm sorry about this. Jeremy, what were you yesterday? I never commented on the punishment you were paying.
Your voice was hoarse, you couldn't talk. And so we basically ignored you, but you addressed this something. What was the punishment you were paying? Randall Cobb.
OK, so you were a corn on the cob. And it was the Randall Cobb? Yeah, it wasn't a punishment. I just, it was self-imposed.
I figured if I couldn't contribute with my voice, I would contribute visually. By being literally corny. Yep. So, Chris, what are you doing today?
I'm proving how much better I look than Levi Mcathern, the attorney who can accua. Wow. That's really good. That is pretty good.
And yeah, that is excellent. So you're not, but you're not serving a punishment either. Maybe 25 years younger. I think I was wrong saying 20.
You don't look that much younger, but you do look better. You look cleaner. I assume that that suit is. What are you looking at?
You look cleaner than that, man, but not necessary. You look better, but not that much younger. Can I ask seriously? What's up?
How is that who can accua's attorney? How? You went to law school? Look, I don't want to touch a attorney cover, but how's that?
You want this guy on your side? No, I don't think so. I do want him on my side, at least. I do not represent you, but I want him on my side.
You don't want this guy against you, and I'm sure he's an excellent attorney. My guess is, well, instead of guessing, please, I'm sure he's very expensive, and my guess is he gets stories in the press, and my guess is that he is one of the most successful attorneys anywhere to be found in that region. Yeah, he is both the Dallas Cowboys lawyer and Jerry Jones family's personal lawyer. Okay, now I'm in.
You instantly think more highly of him. Yeah. Yeah, you have to when you hear that. No, but you don't.
Talk about that is, have you not noticed that our jurisystem is a clown show? Have you not noticed that our government systems are failing throughout and that the judges can be Jerry rigged, and you don't actually have to be the smartest. You could just be the guy who's next to Jerry Jones. On McCatharnLaw.com, it says, Levi's down-to-earth approach makes him uniquely effective both in the courtroom and in media engagements where he's often called upon to represent clients in high visibility matters.
Does look down to earth. I'll get back to that in a second because I can't talk about this guy enough because Naz is correct. How do you hire that guy? Because that guy can't get up in the morning dressed like that, go to work and be a lawyer and consider himself looking like a serious person.
It's not down to earth. He looks ridiculous. It doesn't mean he's not a good lawyer. He looks absurd.
You can't walk that way into a courtroom. It's the cowboy hat. I mean, that guy so obviously owns a car dealership. He makes cheesy commercials.
We'll get back to that in a second. We have serious things going on in America. At 8 p.m. tonight, we have a deadline with Iran because we've got a lunatic running this country and he's threatening to extinguish the civilization and we will be doing a live stream of Marlon's Heat and Panther.
That's what we're doing at 8 p.m. tonight. What we're doing right now is checking in on a sham's report as some details are coming forth for the first time, really, about everything that's happening with Janis and Milwaukee and what sham's is saying is the most toxic. Through quotes, it's saying is the most toxic environment that there is in the NBA.
The freshly reported details are confirming that the offer for Janis from the Miami Heat was the most seriously considered that the heat and bucks felt like they were pretty close to a deal less than 24 hours beforehand and then ownership stepped in and a different decision was made and then everything changed in 24 hours a deal that's centered around Tyler Hero, Khalil Ware, and draft picks. Now, what else was interesting in that story before we get to other matters locally here is that it's low because this sham's, this is an interesting space that sham's is traveling in, right? Because he's an information broker and he's also a journalist, but his sources clearly very often are agents with a story to tell. And so you get a distorted version of the truth from an angle depending on what his relationship is with which camp.
So this doesn't represent the truth. It just represents the truth through Janis's camp as far as I can tell from reading it. But sham's also writes now. He's one of the few still writing.
Mike, where are those newspapers you found? You never found a Miami Herald yesterday, but you found I don't know what the Epoch Times is. What is the Epoch Times right about that? That is a basically a once a week national newspaper, I think, and the Miami New Times.
I did. My plan of going to a hotel concierge did work to get a newspaper, just not today's paper. They told me over at the Intercon. No, which is a serious hotel.
They're surprising. It's where the Indiana Hoosiers stayed. They told me that they stopped having the daily Miami Herald delivered around COVID. I did find where you could reliably count on being able to pick up today's paper, though.
This was after the fact. If you want today's hard copy paper, your best bet is a local Publix. And I did bump into a pay phone on my walk back. A working pay phone?
A working pay phone with a dial tone right around this corner. This may be a stupid question. I hesitate to ask it because I think it is so stupid. Are there kids who don't know what a dial tone is?
Definitely. Like, because the dial tone, if I say dial tone to a kid of what age that child is looking at me and saying, I don't know what you're talking about, what is a dial tone? I'd say 12. Because my grind finding a pay phone, a landline, surprises me.
I would have thought that those would have gone extinct, him not being able to find a newspaper, a daily newspaper, makes me profoundly sad for both the state of journalism and the state of our country, I would say, as more than ever, we need a strong press to challenge the lunacy happening at the top of someone trying to break the government and make America his seventh bankruptcy. And now brings us to the brink of something that is war, but they're not saying it's war, they don't want to say it's war, because then they're going to be accused of crimes that are war crimes. And beyond that, we've got a president who's guilty of all of the major crimes, like the military operation crime. You understand what is happening in this country right now, and it is scary to all of us.
But the Sean's report is it relates to journalism in our small little playpen. What do you believe? Who do you trust? What's the reporting that's real?
What are the facts that's real when everyone is compromised in some way? And as you read that story, you can tell that's coming from Yannes' camp. Yes or no? Almost all of it is coming from Yannes, absolutely.
When you read stuff like, because you know, so this part I find interesting after back and forth discussions, including a meeting in Greece in late July, the New York Knicks became the only team that Yannes said he would play for other than Milwaukee. And then you have quote, Yannes has wanted to handle this professionally by being very upfront with the team, one source with direct knowledge of the situation, said this could have been a happy resolution, but instead might end up being a nasty breakup. And yeah, it's obviously coming from Yannes' side because I'm sorry, handle it professionally, like you're not handling it professionally if you're telling the team, hey, there's only one other team that I would go play for. Like, I understand the perspective of Milwaukee, you know, you want to do right by Yannes because, hey, he did so much for you, you want to championship in 2021, but it kind of works both ways a little bit, doesn't it?
Like, there has to be like a mutual respect between Yannes for the team and everything they've done for him. I mean, Dan, you've seen these highlights of his two brothers running around the court together. These are not NBA players. All right.
Like, Milwaukee's done a lot for Yannes as well. And it doesn't seem like there's respect being reciprocated. Oh, this is an interesting one, though, when you get into that because quiet as it's kept. That part he just said is ridiculous, like truly absurd.
Those jobs are really covered. The world is fighting for the jobs at the end of that bench. That's a friends and family plan. They work hard.
And Milwaukee. Those are not NBA players. But that's a friends and family plan. Look, man, that's Yannes being in a different country, being a superstar with monster temptations at every turn surrounding himself with the closest thing to family that can be to protect.
Look, Yannes is worth more than what the bucks are. Like, I know he's not worth more, but I, Yannes as a figure right now, I take him out of Milwaukee. I have gutted your franchise. I've gutted you.
Miles Turner is going to be an Albatross for years like that. When I say he's more valuable, the franchise has its value, but the bucks become irrelevant because the moment that he leaves and will be there for a very long time, even if they, even if they had Khalil Ware and Tyler here, which is the best that they were going to do in this incarnation. But when it comes to how it is that these breakups work, there is no good way ever to do this. This has not been done well by anybody.
There have been a great many different forms. No one knows how to do this correctly because not everyone's going to agree with how any of this is done. So now we enter the spin cycle of Yannes. As far as optics go, this person's story is crazy in terms of what a star he's become in a different language.
Okay. We don't really allow that in this country very much. Your commercial spokesman speak English. They're the ones who connect with the audience.
Yokech is excellent. As best as I've ever seen. Not a real star in this country, basketball star, basketball star. This is a foreigner who is a superstar in this country.
That franchise is protected and by keeping his family there, his family will move with him. The next place we'll have to do for him. Man, Dragach got this done. Like, there's a real power center.
They change. They change the worth of your franchise. This person moving. The reason LeBron's underpaid is because every city he's come to, he has increased its value while salary cap, the economy around the stadium by tons of money.
There are how many guys in this league who have this kind of value, this kind of interest, this kind of story is worth writing about them right now. They are the league. The league isn't whatever they're going to put in Seattle. This league made a star league.
They've got a star problem. Your franchises aren't your franchises. He's Milwaukee. When he leaves Milwaukee, the Bucks cease to matter.
So in that sense, that's why I'm saying the respect doesn't seem to be reciprocated because what you're saying is true. When he leaves, that franchise is going to cease to matter for a very long time. So why can't it be, let's both come up with a resolution that's good for each side instead of the honest, it only matters what I want here. Like, shouldn't we allow the Bucks to talk to other teams besides the New York Knicks?
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Oh, absolutely. Yeah, you've been at many big-time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of square file.
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Switching to zone when man isn't working. Oh, and building your new stadium in a state your team actually plays in. In sports, some things just make sense. You know what else makes sense?
Drinking Yeagermeister shots. Ice cold. Drinking in any other way would be like hunting on first down. Let me a worse hitter.
That first are like going for two when you're down three with a second to go. It wouldn't make any sense. So don't let the team down. When it comes to Yeagermeister, drink it cold.
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Mike Ryan's in there and he's the one with a baby. He's the one who's got to like worry about what the future is. And Mike Ryan bet on DraftKings because Mike Ryan bet on us. This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on.
Putting up a billboard in Edmonton. Still guards. Here's what's funny about how many different ways that gets contaminated. Though by the bias of whatever it is or whoever it is that's looking at it.
Whether it's shoms, whether it's the media, whether it's the betrayed fan. Of all the personality types. Because Janus cares about his image about the optics. How things look.
How things look in the commercials. The only guy who actually came close to getting this right. Not fighting with the franchise is the personality type of Russell Westbrook. That guy figured out how to get out as triple double MVP of the league.
Oh, they're losing anyway. Oh, Russell needs a new home. It's okay. Let's break up.
Not in five years ago or 10 years ago on Westbrook being the only one to be able to get this right. It's pretty amazing. Jeremy and I were laughing about it. He was left at the altar by Paul George.
And so OKC fans kind of understood his plight. Yeah, it was KD that leaves Oklahoma City, right? And Paul George ends up in Oklahoma City. And when he wants to be traded to the Clippers after extending in OKC because of Russell Westbrook, that sets up for SGA.
Then you have all of these big men that he made look better over the years. Guys like Enis Cantor and Stephen Adams and Sergio Baca at different points of his career who all gather picks. Then Russell Westbrook himself was flipped for Chris Paul. And two more first round picks.
And Chris Paul at the time was a leader for a young team that was needed to set them up for this show. You guys, he's playing hurt though. You guys can hear the not in his hamstrings. He tries to run.
I thought the pain in his voice was describing how he franchised turns the page and rebuilds. Jeremy, I am looking forward to you being your strongest self this evening during the live stream when we are going to be eager about the Marlins with you if we don't have to go off the air at 8 p.m. because America's done something horrible and criminal. Well, don't worry.
At 8 p.m. we'll be going to the your song, your choice selection. Setting up the songs we'll be able to listen to later in our program. As well as our first look at the Levittard AF, Mertraler.
We also have a 50-50 raffle. But save your voice, please, because it's not doing well. It's not doing much better than it was yesterday. And I hear the hurt and it's distracting.
I can't. I don't know if this is happening to anybody else. But you were making very good points. I couldn't understand because I heard the not in your hands.
Yeah, I found it sexy. I've been told it's sexy. Okay, but that's not what I'm telling you. It may be.
It may be indeed sexy, but what it can't be as audio is distracting to me when I don't understand what he's saying because I'm listening to the not in his hand strength. Thank you for telling me that it's fair how it is that I try to do an audio program. Speaking of Giannis's brothers playing for the team, who's the star in the league who thought he was good enough to get his sibling or cousin on the team? They're like, hey, sorry, buddy.
You know, Giannis. LeBron picturing Tyree's Halliburton being like, hey, guys, I got a good cousin. You don't know how funny it is that the media got so mad because LeBron put his kid on the team when Giannis's entire family is on the payroll. It's an absurd guy around the league that's like, I want to do this.
And the team's like that when you hear you. Look, I'm assuming the Yokech brothers have some sort of management position, ambassadors, or something. Wasn't there a controversy involving one of the Yokech brothers this last weekend? Didn't one of them try to fight an old man or something?
Dan, the one, I mean, both of them are obviously super big, but one of them is like significantly bigger than the other one. Just a, like, he looks like the mountain in Game of Thrones, like an incredibly giant scary man. Then it's going to act. He's about 300 pounds and you don't see, but 5% body fat on him.
He seems like he's made all out of his skull that the skull just runs the entire base of the skeleton and it's 300 sturdy muscled pounds. 350. He's about 610, 350 pounds. All tied it up.
All complete muscle. I'm not going to try and say his name is I'm trying to be better today. Okay. How's that working out so far?
Okay. We're going to be watching some contributions this evening. Again, when we're doing a live stream, unlike any I believe ever done in sports history, we're going to be watching the Marlon the Heat and Marlon's the Heat and the Panthers as there's a deadline for the world literally burning. You may remember at one point, Chris, JR Smith's brother was signed by the Knicks.
Wow. Now we're talking. I would have thought that would have got to know. Jeremy just whispered to me because he wants to win the argument while you guys are doing show and I'm trying to listen to you, people in the chat are saying, my voice does sound sexy.
It does. I see you put in the chat. I asked put it on the poll. Does Jeremy sound even sexier than usual?
That's what I asked. Yeah. You would represent it as the chat is saying when I saw you. I provoked it.
I asked the question. I was mad at Dan. And I said, do I sound sexy or do I sound sexy? And the answer was sexy.
I hear them not in his hamstring. Yeah. Like he was making great points. I heard like Paul George and Chris Paul and I was like, uh, it sounded like he was like, it sounded like he was wildly informed.
It sounded like you don't call him that, but I was distracted because he was hobbling down the baseline. And so everything he was saying, I'm like worried about his health because something doesn't sound right from that stories as low. The most interesting details and I want to ask you again, framing it in the journalism of our times. He's writing it.
That still means something. Okay. But he can't do that on television. What he just wrote there, where it's reported, it's framed.
That takes many hours to do. That's not just getting on television and gas bagging for 90 seconds. He's got to do substance of reporting. That takes him all night.
That takes him several days to put together the information there. He doesn't just spit it out. He's not a typewriter. What is in there that is meant?
Like, just, I want you guys to watch this part. Giannis just got his guy to do the story. Giannis is at the height of the fight with the union and the league's going to investigate. Giannis is getting out.
This is what it looks like at the beginning. At your gatekeeper, you tell him the story and you put Sean's to work on tell my story to protect my family's economy. Like the machine has kicked to work here. And Sean's passes as a journalist.
Journalists are not a journalist. Nice journalist. Okay. But we've got some Adam Schefter's guilty of some breaches here journalistically that would make somebody in a previous time no longer be allowed to be a journalist because the information guys are compromised.
Sean's is telling a story here on behalf of this entire agency. This might as well be a press release. It's got details in there. But what I'm telling you is this is an orchestrated thing meant to, hey, Giannis still has the commercials.
Let's go protect all this. Sean's go write this story. Well, but there is there is some other stuff like, you know, you have this one quote here where the crux of the issue is feeling Giannis doesn't want to be here on any given day, one team's sort set. Like quotes like that are not coming from Giannis's agent.
Most of the story is Giannis's agent. Oh, listen, I'm not, this is the thing about the dance that these guys are doing. I look, man, I've been, I've sold my soul to the entertainment vehicle over the last 20 years, where I'm watching what's happening here in journalism and this is the best there is right now. He's got all the contacts, all the sources.
I did not believe that this job could be done by anybody in the world the way that Woj did it. Like I literally thought there was no other personality anywhere walking the globe, seeing everyone who's come through journalism as uniquely qualified to be as cutthroat, as nuts, as 20 hours a day talking to every single person as Woj, but this guy is that. This guy learned at that tree and I didn't think anybody can do that. And he writes the stories.
And when I tell you that right now, Giannis and his family need protection on the optics of however this goes next, when nobody gets this right, but Westbrook, what do you do with the information that this person is writing a story that I'm telling you is part of an orchestrated plan to clean up, whatever it is that Giannis needs cleaned up here and it doesn't mean that he can't put in the other side here and there as well, but that was a wildly flattering article to Giannis. Oh, you think? I don't think so. I didn't think it was very flat.
Can you clear up for me? What you think is very flattering to Giannis? I don't think it wanted to be flattering. Yeah.
I didn't seize on that. I was interested in the machinations of the deal, but I didn't come out reading like, oh, Giannis looks really good here. I think it looks bad. Okay.
So go ahead. Explain to me why you think that it looks bad as they're trying to. Okay. So you're not making the jump that I am making that the team of Antitocompo and Giannis are in the mode right now, preparing for and in the middle of a public relations fight.
I do believe that they don't have the apparatus to execute themselves. So they have to summon somebody who wants the story and then give it to the person who's going to disseminate the story to give it more reach than it would have under any other circumstances. You can color in the lines here. I don't doubt that that's the intention.
I do believe that. Yeah. That's PR spin 101. And I think that it's backfired.
Yeah, but they didn't control the narrative. They're subject to whatever her job supplies to it, but I also think their story makes them look sympathetic and I think they're wrong. Yeah. It's just a miscalculation.
Go ahead. You think that they're wrong because the audience is predisposed, I believe to think that the money grubbing athlete is doing the wrong thing, behaving the wrong way when in a system that doesn't allow that athlete the freedom to ever do this with a way that will be met with grace from a public that's not already ready to be outraged. The Giannis is a sweet person. He got to that super stardom the best ways.
His story is crazy. The way he performed in the finals was nuts. He won a championship and that buys you forever. He won a championship for a market and did it the right way as all the other guys were fighting each other.
He did it as the one guy. You can get me middles in a true holiday, but it's going to be me. I'm going to be the star. I'm going to do it the old fashioned ways.
I'm going to take three guys. One, and his story makes it so that he's a bigger star than Yogic, who's a better player. It's a bigger star because he's in the commercials. He let us get to know him.
Books have been written about him and his connection to the city. The details of which are him jogging through the streets to practice because he came from such humble beginnings that he just ran to the practice facility, didn't have a car and would run miles to the facility because he could run from out, turned himself into an amazing player when he was super wrong, never considered to be this, like it worked his way to that. Giannis, I know we see it now and we're like, wow, what a amazing gift. Yes, of course.
Wasn't drafting in a way that would suggest that people knew that that that was going to be this. Nobody knew that was going to be this. The story has worked his way to it, wins the championship, perfectly humble, pillar for everything you want. Here come the commercials.
Here comes the connection to Milwaukee. Here comes the parade. Milwaukee hasn't felt this good as the city in a long time. Hey, time to break up.
Middleton, go to the wizard. It's Drew, get out of here. Win it for somebody else. Hey, Giannis, get left behind and he's waving his hands.
Get me help. Get me help. Miles Turner. Get me help.
Get me help. Ooh, they got you, Jamie and Lillard. Ouch. That one hurts.
That's the one that's supposed to work. All this plays out differently. If Jamie Lillard comes into camp and shape and doesn't get injured because he was sad because this connection with the city, Jamie and Lillard gets there emotionally broken and then physically broke. Like got their fat because whatever that stress was, didn't want to leave the city, goes back to the city now because these connections matter to people like down this.
I don't believe that's fraudulent. Like, I don't believe that Giannis ever thought that the love with Milwaukee was going to be temporary. I, obviously the player is by far the most important in this scenario. But why don't the Bucks get any credit?
Like the Bucks did draft this kid who no one thought was going to be this. He was a project. Huge project. They helped nurture it.
Like we want to learn about heat culture and the way that he developed players. The Bucks, at very least helped Giannis get to the place that he got to. The Bucks did get pieces including training for guys like Drew Holiday and helped him become a champion. The Bucks put his family on the team.
I'll tell you who wouldn't have done that. The Heat. I mean, if LeBron James had brothers that weren't NBA players, they wouldn't have been on the Miami Heat. LeBron tried that.
Look, this is no one within Heat circles. All the things LeBron and his camp wanted. Look, they were right to want them. Why wouldn't they want them?
Give us a ton of season tickets. We're coming to Miami. Of course. They know what they were worth.
They were trying to change and shake the system and get the skyboxes for themselves so that they could turn Miami into the party that I'm sure Los Angeles became in some ways where his kids on the roster. Okay. Flights on Air Canada. Where'd you want to go?
The Azores for Totsprings and volcanoes. Speaking of volcanoes. What about Japan? You know I love sushi.
Not as much as I love topless. Maybe Mallorca. We could hit the beach. Then go hiking.
Tricking. Or how about a seaside stroll in Sicily? Oh, I do love canoes. Wait.
What do you think? With a world of destinations to choose from. Good luck picking just one. Air Canada.
Nice travels. Don Libertard. It says I read this article and I just see more of the same. More of the same half measures from Giannis's camp who never really actually has the balls to say he wants.
That's the interesting part, right? If he would have said that before the trade deadline, I don't think box fans would have been angry. They would have understood. And now we have this story.
All this. Yes. We have the whole drama. It's still unclear.
Like, okay, come back and play. You don't like that we're waving the white flag. Oh, you don't want to do the things necessary to actually come back. He just wants to play with his brothers, which was, which I mean, you know, told us yesterday.
And that's a nice sentiment. But can you give the team a little bit of credit? Where are they? At every turn with his Giannis drama, there are obvious questions to ask.
Well, then why aren't you going to practice and working your way back here? If this is so important to you, if you take such offense to waving the white flag, but he's along for the ride. It seems like this is part of his plan. I'm thinking because him on the court helps them win and he doesn't want to be on the court.
It wasn't just the playing with his brothers. It was also apparently, according to the sources within this article, that not playing 41 games cost him a significant bonus in his Nike contract. Okay. Like he's been hurt.
Well, right. But if he wants to come back and get to that amount of games and the bucks are telling him, no, we don't want to clear you. No, we don't want to clear you. There are multiple reasons he wants to be back and have nothing to do with competition.
The team claimed, hey, we want you to play three on three and he wouldn't do that as a part of the game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's always the most obvious follow-up and the entire story from Giannis is camp. It just cracks. Okay. You say that, but we really are over here is the biased everyone is gathered around tired of the athlete leaving.
Like, who likes this? This is all broken. It's like, this was a lovely relationship. And now it's all, it's all busted up and he loved Milwaukee.
Now he's going to leave her. The league is investigating. The team. Again, he wants to play and isn't being allowed to, for whatever his reasons, whether it's the Nike contract or he really cares about winning three more games.
One correction. He says he wants to play. Okay. I think scrutiny should be applied.
When they're very clear and obvious benchmarks too clear here that he is just- Practice one day. Okay. He says he wants to play and here is a detail offered up for your perusal zone. I don't know what the amount was, but he wants a bonus from Nike.
That sounds like the truth because it's just cold and no one better, like just follow that trail. Follow that trail at all times. I don't know what the bonus is. Giannis will be okay without the bonus.
I was going to say, plus he's one of the biggest sellers for Nike. He doesn't play 41 games. All of a sudden people stop buying gan shoes. Bull prediction.
He'll be made whole. Yeah. I would imagine Nike takes care of that. Okay.
And that is all well and fine. The detail is in the article. Why? Why is the detail in the article?
Why do you know? Because it helps make him look good. Which is what Giannis's camp went into this doing, and yet the entire thing collapses when you apply a modicum of scrutiny to it, which has been the deal this entire season. This is a breakup.
Giannis is especially struggling with how to do it right. It's beneficial to the Bucks that he actually doesn't play because they know how good they can be when Giannis is on the court and they don't want to be good this here because they want a higher pick. This is just all posturing and half measures and anybody with a brain can understand what's going on here. It's a guy that wants to be well like this is the White Howard all over again.
That's a good comp. It is White Howard all over again. He doesn't have the guts to do what is necessary to force his way out because that burns some bridges and he doesn't want to be unpopular even if it's just for a few months. But this is this one.
God. This is so interesting, right? I watched a rod sort of collapse under the weight of this and rebuild himself from there. But the optics on who do I have to be so Americans will love me the optics on not who am I and then America loves me and he'd walk around and he'd ask Michael Jordan and he'd ask Cal Ripken Jr.
What like how do I shake hands? What do I need to do so that America will love me? This guy's been very good at the optics until now, right? Like there's that I remember the flames climbed real high on Dame Lillard when we all loved him and then it was like we're sniffing around because it's near the money and the relationship is as pure as I thought it was.
Oh, I thought that was love. No, you're the businessman. Only you get to be the businessman. The customer, the media, everyone here is aligned against this guy being able to do this correctly because you guys are wildly full of shit if you think somebody who comes out and just says, yeah, I want to leave, get my ass out of here isn't going to be perceived as arrogance and him shaking the system.
That guy doesn't care about team when everything he's shown you optically and has been trying to prove to America for the last 13 years is, do you know how much I care about team? It's not about me. It's about us. I'm the humble superstar.
I'm the best, but I'm pure. It's all about team. That's what he wants people to believe. No doubt.
But we know from the summer of reporting how serious he was in his flirtation with the New York Knicks. I have no doubt how important it is to be honest that people have a good opinion of him and he is afraid to go all in on fully requesting a trade and being that bad guy because he doesn't want to navigate what few weeks that might be in the new space. This is a lot. This is a less bad opinion that people will have of him than the prospect that you're telling him to do.
Right. That would go more poorly for him than this. Right. In terms of maybe Milwaukee in the eyes of the basketball world, he's a chump, but that relationship matters to him.
Can that relationship allowed to be realers are always going to be a business transaction? It's always going to be real. And even if he forces his way out, he can open up a car dealership in Milwaukee whenever he wants provided he waits six weeks and the fan base gets over it. On top of that, Dan, like is not the humble and his humility nature just part of the ego.
Right. Like you're going to tell me, Giannis has zero ego whatsoever. Oh man. Like this is part of who he is.
He's the alpha top tier athlete on the planet and the way that he's built is like nobody else. His ego is hurt right now. And the way that he fixes by being humble, that's got to feed into it. Okay.
But what I would just tell you is the way he got to be a superstar in America through all the obstacles I just said is because it was always well camouflaged. Whatever his ego was that got him to excellent always was shrouded in the humility of this guy's not one of the assholes. He's not one of the arrogant ones. We're going to allow him to be facing the lead for a little while here because he's one of the good guys.
Just like we made stuff, one of the good guys and it's because he's hidden that from us. Like yes, you do not want the championship coming back from what I thought was a career ending injury unless you are an assassin of ego who knows you're better than everyone who you're playing against. That is a cut for Buzzsaw. Like that guy is absolutely an ego monster in that furnace.
We'll bite anyone's face who comes at him with that kind of ego. But he wants it to look to America like he's sweet. Yes. There's no.
We don't have our wires crossed here. What's going to happen this summer is he's going to get to position himself is like look, the franchise is going in a different direction. They have this lottery pick. I wanted to play.
He's going to work out and he's going to get to play up to whatever narrative and you'll do all the profile pieces and you'll get to smile and take out a huge article in the newspaper. He'll get his way and it takes time. But I do think that people are right to call BS on it as it's happened. You guys are just mad because he nuked it.
Like everything that's happening. It's like the White Howard phony stuff. Like we all know what he wants. But you guys are mad here because the other detail of the story, the one that Miami cares about is this was 18 hours from done.
Yeah. Like this was it. Yeah. I'm mad about that in the Cauchy stuff.
No doubt because he's taking he's actively perpetuating this trade drama. Meanwhile, he has a minority stake in a prediction. And so it's all over it. That's an you have to admit that all of that is an amazing evolution of the superstar story in the in the places where you say, well, Janice has got enough.
There ain't no enough. These guys are competing on money the way that they're competing on the court. Like if Nike's if Nike takes $1,000 from Janice, someone's in his family's gonna notice another place where I I judge him is Janice, you're in the prime of your career, right? We don't know how long that frame at that level is going to maintain itself and the optics meant so much to you that you'd rather the good optics than force your way out and compete for another ring and that we judge everybody in that sport on rings and he just didn't want to have that mentality here.
He'd rather have the optics. He ain't no enough. You sound like Chris looks. Hey, it's Mike Ryan and I want to talk to you about the random midweek hang that you have with your friends.
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