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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Best of SBS: NBA's Toughest (ft. Stephen Jackson, Joakim Noah, & Baron Davis)

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dan Le Batard talks with some of the NBA's toughest players over the years including Stephen Jackson on what really went down during “Malice at the Palace”, Joakim Noah on his struggle going from the Chicago Bulls to the New York Knicks, and Baron Davis on the true behind the scenes of Donald Sterling’s Los Angeles Clippers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Welcome to South Beach sessions.

0:28.5

I'm very excited to do this one for a number of reasons.

0:31.1

Stephen Jackson played 17 years in the NBA, unrelentingly authentic, an NBA champion.

0:37.8

But so how things escalate, you're surrounded by paying customers, and at some point here,

0:45.2

Ron our test gets hit with a drink.

0:47.0

So take me through this from your perspective, what it is that you're seeing and what it

0:51.5

is that you're remembering here through this.

0:53.9

But at this point, pause, can we pause?

0:57.0

Yeah, pause that real quick.

0:59.0

At this point, so right now, Ron has come on the table.

1:03.0

His therapist told him, when something happens like that during the game,

1:07.0

go somewhere lay down, or just try to put some headphones on the block. He did exactly what they told him to do.

1:12.9

But at this time, Ben, they're just walking off, Ron is laying down, but the players on the other

1:18.3

team that's still talking and still pushing and stuff.

1:20.3

So during that time, I walk around, y'all, y'all a little bit ahead, but I walk around

1:25.0

and I pull out my jersey and square up with Rip

1:28.8

Hamilton and Lizzie Hunter. Rip Hamilton is a friend of mine. This is a good friend of mine. I just told me we were some McDonald's game together. So, but it's just a rival at the time, so we're willing to go at each other. You did pull out the shirt. I'm not squaring up. I square it up. If that's what I want to do, like we're trying to break it up, but y'all's still talking.

1:45.6

So let's fight. If that's what we want to do, like we're trying to break it up, y'all's still talking.

1:45.6

So let's fight.

1:46.3

That's what we're going to do.

1:58.5

You were the only one who pulled out his jersey, though, and squared up. Like, I need to be, I need, you know, if we're just what we're about to do, right? So I seen that that's what really what it was. they really didn't want to fight.

1:58.7

You know,

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