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Speaker 1: This is wfnz's twenty twenty five Charlotte Hornet's.

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Speaker 2: Schedule release specially. Now here's your hosts.

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Speaker 3: A six six shooting guard from Charlotte Water maybe.

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Speaker 2: A shooting guard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, put the inad coach, Ah you schedule sick goes,

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Speaker 4: We love you. It's NBA schedule release Day, the NBA

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Speaker 4: revealing the slate of NBA games for the entire season.

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Speaker 4: Today at three o'clock is when they released them, and

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Speaker 4: we got some Hornets basketball to talk about, folks, Walker Mail, smoke,

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Speaker 4: drive of the ship for the next hour. We'll be

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Speaker 4: That's all the Carolinas personal injury lawyers. I'm hoping we

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Speaker 4: don't need to call them this Hornet season and we

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Speaker 4: just have everybody healthy for once all year long. And

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Speaker 4: I'm happy to talk about that world. I want to

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Speaker 4: live in that perfect world scenario. And we'll get to

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Speaker 4: some of that with Charles Lee joining us in just

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Speaker 4: about ten minutes or so to talk about what a

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Speaker 4: healthy team will look like. All the guards that they

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Speaker 4: signed the center rotation. I kind of like the center rotation. Surprise.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little bit higher on Mussa diabate than a

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Speaker 4: lot of other people out there, so I'm not nearly

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Speaker 4: as worried about that.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk with Charles.

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Speaker 4: We'll have Sam Farber Sunshine Sam, the voice of the Hornets.

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Speaker 4: He'll be hopping on at six point thirty. We have

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Speaker 4: all of that in store for you Hornets fans. Let's

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Speaker 4: get down to business and go through some of the highlights.

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Speaker 4: The Hornets open up the season October twenty second at

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Speaker 4: home against the Nets. That's your first one and smoke.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we can go back and forth here a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Because of the encyclopedia that you are, the Hornets actually

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Speaker 4: have really nice luck in season openers. Four straight home openers,

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Speaker 4: four straight season openers. I should say that they've won.

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Speaker 4: They've won five of their last six. They're looking to

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Speaker 4: make it five straight against Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: The problem is they've been losing the second game of

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Speaker 4: the season and then falling to an early losing record

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Speaker 4: right away. The last time they had a winning streak

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Speaker 4: to begin the year was twenty twenty one. Their last

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Speaker 4: playoff season or play in tournament season, I should say,

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Speaker 4: so let's make a streak this time around. You got Philly, Washington,

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Speaker 4: Miami all consecutively after that on the road, but still

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Speaker 4: a winnable stretch. So the Hornets open up the season

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Speaker 4: October twenty second at home against the Nets, and they

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Speaker 4: fared pretty well. I feel decent smoke about opening up

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Speaker 4: against the Nets and then having some teams that feel

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Speaker 4: like winnable games the rest of the way for that

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Speaker 4: first five games to open up the year. How do

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Speaker 4: you feel about the way that the Hornets open up

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Speaker 4: the season.

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Speaker 5: Well, definitely feel confident about starting the season against this

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Speaker 5: Nets team just because they're over.

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Speaker 4: You know, they're really starting to rebuild now. Drafted seventeen

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Speaker 4: rookies and kept all of them. Yes, they didn't trade in.

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Speaker 2: Kept all of them.

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Speaker 5: And of course they you know, made a big trade

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Speaker 5: for Michael Porter during the Saw season. Gave up Cam Johnson,

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Speaker 5: who was one of the belles of the ball when

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Speaker 5: it came to the trade deadline scene this year, so

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Speaker 5: you know, you lose a lot of continuity, and essentially

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Speaker 5: this year is just fully looking at the roster and

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Speaker 5: seeing what it is for him.

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Speaker 2: It's an evaluation year.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I think I'm not saying that they're

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Speaker 5: especially at the start of the year. But it's one

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Speaker 5: of those that's like, all right, you're not jumping ten

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Speaker 5: toes deep or ten feet deep into.

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Speaker 2: The water at the pool.

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Speaker 5: You're walking into the kittie section. You know, we're you're

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Speaker 5: slowly getting the water underneath your feet.

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Speaker 2: He toes a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we're you know, kind of like Rick James

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Speaker 5: I know that the two games following that are back

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Speaker 5: to backs, but I do like the fact that they started.

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Speaker 2: On a Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: They didn't have two days off before they go into

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be.

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Speaker 5: Hungry, specifically for that Sunday game because they know Charles

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Speaker 2: You guys, got swept by that team last year.

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Speaker 4: I can't do it again. I can't lose to Washington again. Hornets, Please,

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Speaker 4: if you do nothing else in the first month of

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Speaker 4: the season, and really October is what I'm telling you,

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Speaker 4: Please just beat Washington because I can't lose to the

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Speaker 4: Wizards anymore. Plus Wizards, Yes, Plus we had beef with

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Speaker 4: them on social media.

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Speaker 2: We had an the weirdest things I've ever seen on

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Speaker 4: Probably should be beefing with the Wizards back and forth.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say you win that battle. I'm not sure

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Speaker 4: to beat the actual Wizards out there on the court.

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Speaker 4: Let's go over some of the highlights, some of the

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Speaker 4: things you care about on NBA schedule release day, the

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Speaker 4: back to backs, the national games, all of it. Let's

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Speaker 4: break it all down. The Hornets are scheduled to have

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Speaker 4: sixteen back to backs. That is a five way tie

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Speaker 4: for the most in the NBA. But again, eight teams

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Speaker 4: have thirteen back to backs, so that's the least amount,

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Speaker 4: not a huge discrepancy. There are plenty of other things

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Speaker 4: to get mad about the NBA, how they treat the Hornets,

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Speaker 4: I don't think this is one of them. But the

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Speaker 4: Hornets do have sixteen back to backs. It is quite

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Speaker 4: a bit home and home back to backs, three home

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Speaker 4: to road, two road to home, five road to road,

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Speaker 4: five away games that will be back to back.

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Speaker 2: So that's what you have.

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Speaker 4: Longest home stretch of the season seven games from March

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Speaker 4: seventeenth to March twenty ninth. In of course, twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 4: I'll get back to that because I do think that's

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Speaker 4: the five game stretch they have from January tenth to

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Speaker 4: January eighteenth, and so five homer and that's not bad.

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Speaker 4: Remember last year it was the weirdest schedule I've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Last year, when I think you had eight home games,

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Speaker 4: last year, much more normal in twenty twenty five, twenty

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Speaker 2: Home stands are four more games.

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Speaker 4: You have four games from February ninth to February twentieth,

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Speaker 4: March March eighth to March fourteenth. But after they're done

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Speaker 4: with that, then you get to play a whole bunch

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Speaker 4: of home games, which I do like. Time to now

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Speaker 4: go to the nationally televised games here smoke, yeah, you're ready,

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Speaker 4: but air.

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Speaker 2: Quotes with these nationally televised I's gonna ask.

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Speaker 4: I was like, how confident are you that we're going

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Speaker 4: to see these nationally televised games actually take place?

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 5: I would get chastised when Kyle would say nationally televised

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Speaker 5: these games nationally televised. And I didn't hear them say

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Speaker 5: the time I actually embraced it being a national game,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Amazon, Prime, Peacock, they're in the mix. Now you

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Speaker 4: do get one game on ESPN. So your first nationally

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Speaker 4: televised game takes place against the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's on

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Speaker 4: Peacock at seven o'clock. Astionally televised game against Cleveland again,

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Speaker 4: this time at January twenty first, ESPN seven o'clock, and

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Speaker 4: then you have won January thirty first against the Spurs.

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Speaker 4: That's on Amazon Prime. That's at three pm. By the way,

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Speaker 4: just going with the home roads late there. The first

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Speaker 4: the road against the Caves. The next one against the Caves,

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Speaker 4: that one's going to be at home, and then the

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Speaker 4: home as well. That's when Wimby comes to town. The

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Speaker 4: NBA Cup schedule, if you care about it, I know

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Speaker 4: I do. I like seeing the end season Cup happen.

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Speaker 4: It changes things just a little bit. November seventh, Miami Heat,

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Speaker 4: November fourteenth, Milwaukee Bucks. Both of those games tip off

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Speaker 4: that eight o'clock. Those are going to be both road

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Speaker 4: games within Hornet's NBA Cup play. Then they'll play a

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Speaker 4: couple of home games against the Knicks and the Bulls.

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Speaker 4: November twenty sixth November twenty eighth. If they get to

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Speaker 2: Smoke. Do they play well in Vegas? I'm trying to remember.

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Speaker 5: I think they are as LeVar Boss says.

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Speaker 4: Never lost, never lost. Look I get me to Vegas,

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Speaker 4: that's it. Hornets. Like I like the draw. I know

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Speaker 4: other teams look at the Hornets and they think that too,

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Speaker 4: But I like the draw that you have the Miami

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Speaker 4: some chemistry out between Miles Turner and Yannis, Like, that's

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Speaker 4: just such a different Milwaukee Bucks team from years past.

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Speaker 4: So I like that. That's one of the better teams

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Speaker 4: That is going to be at home though, so maybe

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Speaker 4: I kind of like that grouping that they have here.

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Speaker 2: Smoke. What's say you about the Cup schedule?

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Speaker 5: It's definitely I think a little bit more lenient for

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Speaker 5: the Hornets this year, but definitely still has its fair

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Speaker 5: share of challenges. You know, you're going against more of

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Speaker 5: the middle class of the East instead of the top

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Speaker 5: half at this time around. You know, I don't really

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Speaker 5: think that Milwaukee until Jannis leaves or retires, it's just

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Speaker 5: gonna be. They're kind of hanging on to top end

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Speaker 5: talent and that still gets them above going to mediocrity stage,

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Speaker 5: but it's not that far above mediocrity unless they make

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Speaker 5: a massive change. And Heat are kind of in the

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Speaker 5: same spot too, where it's like it kind of feels like,

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Speaker 5: what's the right way to put it. I kind of

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Speaker 5: feel like they're like the Montreal Expos with lad Vladimir Guerrero,

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Speaker 5: except Bam Outabayo is not as good as.

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Speaker 2: You're saying, I got you, and.

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Speaker 5: But BAM's the one thing keeping this team together and

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Speaker 4: much for the time, my man.

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Speaker 2: Love to see you. That would be exciting, And he

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Speaker 2: talked about it. We talked to him, I think not

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Speaker 2: too long ago.

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Speaker 4: He said that you guys told him to let it

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Speaker 4: fly if he's open from three, and sure enough he

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Speaker 4: did that hit a couple out there in Vegas. Last

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Speaker 4: thing before we get you out of here coach, just

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Speaker 4: some injury house cleaning, Howard Grant Williams and Josh Green progressing.

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Speaker 4: Do you think they'll be ready by the regular season?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think both guys have been attacking their

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Speaker 3: rehab plans really well. Again, I can't. I always have

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Speaker 3: to just give credit to our performance staff and to

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Speaker 3: our coaching staff. They work so well together and putting

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Speaker 3: together these roadmaps for our guys to be able to

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Speaker 3: return to play, and both guys are.

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Speaker 6: National limiting progress.

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Speaker 3: I can't put a timetable on it as right now

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Speaker 3: when they will be back, but they are making positive

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Speaker 3: strides and I'm just really happy with how they show

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Speaker 3: up every day, how they're attacking their rehab. And you know,

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Speaker 3: you take a couple steps forward and then all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden you might have a stepward step back. But

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Speaker 3: I think that their mindset has just kind of been

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Speaker 3: not to let that slow them down, and they're really

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Speaker 3: focused on trying to be around the team and get

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Speaker 3: back to the team as soon as they can.

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Speaker 4: Charles Lee joining us here to discuss the schedule on

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Speaker 4: NBA schedule release Day, the head coach of the Hornets,

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Speaker 4: certainly wishing him a lot of luck coach, Thank you

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Speaker 4: so much for the time.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it, and we'll talk you down the.

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Speaker 3: Road, no problem, Thank you, get excited.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, same here, coach. Thanks again.

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Speaker 4: That's Charles Lee joining us here on Sports Rated ninety

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Speaker 4: two to seven WFNZ. Good stuff from the Hornets coach.

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Speaker 4: Awesome stuff from Charles Lee, who is ready to get

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Speaker 4: out to Vegas again, possibly win an NBA Cup and

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Speaker 4: hopefully we can get to some postseason basketball. More schedule

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Speaker 4: analysis on the horizon. Sam Farber, Hornets play by play announcer.

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Speaker 4: He'll be hopping on at six point thirty and then

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Speaker 4: again we'll tell you all about the roadies, the back

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Speaker 4: to backs, the nationally televised game, my favorite stretch. I

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Speaker 4: got something like that for you in store. Coming up

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Speaker 4: soon on the Hornet Schedule Release Day show Sports Radio

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Speaker 4: ninety two to seven WFNZ.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the FNZ twenty twenty five Charlotte Hornet's Schedule.

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Speaker 4: Release special, Talking Hornet schedule on NBA Schedule Release Day.

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Speaker 4: It's Walker Mail at Smoke Ludwig. We're broadcasting live from

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Speaker 4: the Chandler Vault to Studio CV Injury Live dot Com.

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Speaker 4: CV injurya dot com one call. That's all Baby Carolina's

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Speaker 4: personal injury lawyers, big thanks to Charles Lee. That'll be

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Speaker 4: up on the website WFNZ dot com. Charlotte Hornet's head

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Speaker 4: coach talking about some of the things that he takes

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Speaker 4: note of first and foremost, and he told you one,

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Speaker 4: I'm looking when the season starts, spoken like a true coach.

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Speaker 4: That'll be October twenty second against the Nets. Already discussed

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Speaker 4: a little bit about how the season begins, and he

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Speaker 4: also said, I'm just looking for all the home games,

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Speaker 4: and so we have the longest home stretch in late March.

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Speaker 4: That'll be a seven game home stretch, so that's a

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Speaker 4: nice long stay at the Spectrum Center. And then you

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Speaker 4: have a couple of home stands of four games or more.

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Speaker 4: One in February that'll be a four game homestand and

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Speaker 4: then that one in March. Like we were talking about,

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Speaker 4: if you care a little bit about the preseason, I'll

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Speaker 4: let you know that schedule as well, that was released

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Speaker 4: just a couple of days ago. The Hornets will first

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Speaker 4: play a basketball game October fifth against the Thunder at

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Speaker 4: five o'clock, and then they'll play the Thunder again October ninth.

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Speaker 4: So October fifth, October ninth, back to back games against OKC,

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Speaker 4: and then they'll play Dallas Cooper Flag get to see

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Speaker 4: him in action, hopefully we get to see him in

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Speaker 4: action October eleventh, Memphis October fifteenth, and then the New

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Speaker 4: York Knicks October seventeenth. So that'll be the preseason. And

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Speaker 4: I'll say this, I actually take a decent amount of

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Speaker 4: way from the Hornets preseason games. I feel like we

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Speaker 4: get to find some stuff out. I remember PJ. Washington

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Speaker 4: when he was drafted. Of course, Walker Male loves himself

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Speaker 4: some PJ. So I'm going to bring him up. Save

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Speaker 4: the jokes, Save the jokes. But in all seriousness, it

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Speaker 4: was when we found out he was actually going to

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Speaker 4: be a huge part that season right away. When he

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Speaker 4: played all the minutes in preseason, played well, and then

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Speaker 4: played over thirty minutes a pop his rookie year, that

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Speaker 4: was something serious. Malik Monk, I remember when he was playing,

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Speaker 4: we kind of got to see, Okay, I don't know

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Speaker 4: how involved he's going to be, but like we thought

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Speaker 4: he was going to immediately contribute when he was drafted,

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Speaker 4: I think you find some stuff out in preseason as

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Speaker 4: to how it's going to play in the regular season.

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Speaker 4: So again early October when we'll figure that out, sorry,

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Speaker 4: more than we do in the NFL preseason. But you

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Speaker 4: still can't take the final scores because remember.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember the radio losing her mind to text

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Speaker 5: line losing her mind when Horn's lost by fifty or

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Speaker 5: sixty points. And then they make the play in tournament

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Speaker 5: that year and have forty three wins, one of the

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Speaker 5: best years in the last decade for the Hornets, if

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Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 2: I think that game was that game on ESPN it was.

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Speaker 2: I think that game is Ondio his Man.

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Speaker 4: But it's preseason and they actually played well I think

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Speaker 4: in terms of like stylistically and rotation and what they

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Speaker 4: think about the players coming out of camp. I really

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Speaker 4: do think you can actually take a decent amount away

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Speaker 4: from NBA preseason. So don't just brush that off your shoulder.

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Speaker 4: October fifth and October ninth, those back to back games

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Speaker 4: to open up preseason against OKC, there's going to be

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Speaker 4: something to take note of there. And also you should

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Speaker 4: be listening to every single Hornets game right here on WFNZ.

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Speaker 4: When you do, you get to hear the man, Sam

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Speaker 4: Farber on the call, the voice of the all the

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Speaker 4: Hornets again, the voice you can hear right here on

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Speaker 4: ninety two to seven FM. Sam, It's almost that time, man,

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Speaker 4: I know you're excited.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Examely excited, extremely excited now that the schedule is out

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Speaker 1: and official, and wholeheartedly agree with you, guys. The best

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Speaker 1: preseason of all the major sports is by far NBA preseason.

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Speaker 1: Even if it ends with a sixty eight point loss

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Speaker 1: in one of the games, don't worry about it. It

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Speaker 1: might lead to a winning year.

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Speaker 6: After all.

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Speaker 2: Did he get to sixty eight? Oh my god, I

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Speaker 2: did not realize that.

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Speaker 4: But again, it means that we can actually get over

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Speaker 4: that once the regular season game comes. Again, totally agree

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Speaker 4: as we talk about that, you can take some stuff

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Speaker 4: away from the preseason. And there are lots of questions

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Speaker 4: to ask of this team, Sam, just because of the

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Speaker 4: roster makeup they went out, They got all the guards.

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Speaker 4: They brought in Colin Sexton, who is a true six

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Speaker 4: Man of the Year candidate, and they pair him with

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Speaker 4: last year's coming into the season six man of the

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Speaker 4: Year candidate in tray Man. I'm really excited about the

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Speaker 4: guard play. I think that brings up a lot of

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Speaker 4: intro in questions. What are some of the questions that

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Speaker 4: you have for this squad looking at this Hornet's team

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Speaker 4: for twenty twenty five twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the big one the team obviously has

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Speaker 1: to answer here is about durability. It's about being able

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Speaker 1: to put the core of this team that's so talented

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Speaker 1: and has performed very well individually at times out there

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Speaker 1: on the floor consistently, and to have the guys do

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Speaker 1: it together for fifty sixty seventy plus games. That's going

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Speaker 1: to give us our answers as to just how good

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Speaker 1: in reality this team is when in theory there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of good pieces that are already assembled here

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Speaker 1: for Charlotte, and so I think getting off to a

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Speaker 1: good start is important. I think you know the play

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Speaker 1: of LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller, and you know there's

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Speaker 1: certainly different position groups where you've got younger players and

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Speaker 1: guys jumping into opportunities. But it really comes down to durability,

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Speaker 1: I think for this squad and their ability to prove

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Speaker 1: consistently what they're capable of.

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Speaker 4: All Right, Sam, I know you've done some scribbling, the

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Speaker 4: same scribbles researching the schedule, giving us some main takeaways.

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Speaker 4: What you got for the people? What are some things

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Speaker 4: you're taking note of first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a really strong schedule for the

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Speaker 1: Hornets and for fans. You look at some of the

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Speaker 1: marquee opponents. I mean, really, we want fans to come

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Speaker 1: to all the games. You'd love for you to buy

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Speaker 1: season take it. If you want to guarantee yourself all

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Speaker 1: of the biggest games, call seven h four Hornets. Visit

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Speaker 1: Hornets dot com right now. You can skip the line

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Speaker 1: and get full season or half season memberships and guarantee

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Speaker 1: yourself to some of those highlighted games. But you know,

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Speaker 1: we've all got different things in our lives and different places,

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Speaker 1: and maybe that's not in the cards. So what really

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Speaker 1: stands out to me is the opportunities to see some

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Speaker 1: of the biggest names in the games at really advert

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Speaker 1: advantageous spots. For instance, Saturday November First Saturday games are

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Speaker 1: always going to be highlights on anyone's schedule. To have

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Speaker 1: Minnesota coming in with Anthony Edwards, that's huge. One of

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Speaker 1: Carolina's favorite sons, Steph Curry, and the Golden State Orias.

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Speaker 1: It's not on a weekend, but it might as well be.

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Speaker 6: It's New Year.

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Speaker 1: If you're working December thirty first and you're not a

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Speaker 1: member of the Hornets front office, I feel for you

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Speaker 1: a little bit there. But come on out join us

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Speaker 1: a one pm tip time on New Year's Eve to

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Speaker 1: see Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors Saturday, January

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Speaker 1: thirty first against the San Antonio Spurs. Another matinee three pm.

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Speaker 1: Victor Wembin Yama coming to town for that one. So

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Speaker 1: those are some of the games that really stand out

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Speaker 1: to me. They're opportunities to bring the family out, bring

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Speaker 1: the kids out, see some of the legends of the

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Speaker 1: game on nights that are not school nights, and take

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Speaker 1: in some great Hornets basketball. But even if you're not

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Speaker 1: looking for one of those games, one of the marquee

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Speaker 1: attractions in the NBA bar Nun is LaMelo Ball, and

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Speaker 1: there's going to be forty plus opportunities to see him

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Speaker 1: in the Hornets this season at Spectrum Center.

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Speaker 4: Gonna be good stuff here. As we go down the

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Speaker 4: schedule and talk about some of the more important stretches

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Speaker 4: and some of the dates for some of those more

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Speaker 4: interesting home games. I'll tell you this, Sam, I agree

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Speaker 4: with you. I do think the schedule lines up well

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Speaker 4: for the Hornets this year, and to be honest, if

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Speaker 4: you go back to last year, has to be an

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Speaker 4: all time weird schedule, right, like saying, when you were

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Speaker 4: on the road, you were on the road for two

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Speaker 4: three weeks. If you were at home, you were at

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Speaker 4: home for two to three weeks, and then we just

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Speaker 4: felt like kept playing that out all season long. This year,

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Speaker 4: I told Kyle, I'm a big fan of ending the

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Speaker 4: season on a strong note. And the fact that you

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Speaker 4: have all those home games in March against some teams

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Speaker 4: that I deem winnable games. That's what I'm looking at right.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at that March schedule and I really like

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Speaker 4: what I'm seeing as you head into some possible postseason play.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a stretch that you like the best

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Speaker 2: on this schedule?

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Speaker 1: March stands out favorably to me as well. The home

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Speaker 1: games are nice, but really it's the rest factor that

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Speaker 1: you have in there. You've got I think four different

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Speaker 1: sequences where you've got multiple days off that are not

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Speaker 1: an all starbrate, not anything you know that everyone's getting

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Speaker 1: these are things that are a natural advantage to the

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets, where you've got multiple days off leading in

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Speaker 1: too in three of the cases a home So I

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Speaker 1: think March is a real advantageous part of the schedule.

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Speaker 6: The most difficult one's got.

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Speaker 1: To be January, and that's because there's a ton of

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Speaker 1: back to back and a lot of road games. But

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Speaker 1: after that, if the Hornets are where we hope they're

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Speaker 1: going to be, you've got a chance to really take

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Speaker 1: advantage of the schedule, take advantage of home games, take

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Speaker 1: advantage of rest, and for the fans, take advantage of

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Speaker 1: some really you know, premium matchups on the calendar, those

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Speaker 1: Friday Saturday games that everyone loves to be a part of.

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Speaker 4: All right, Sam, as a play by play announcer, I

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Speaker 4: know that you have your favorite cities that you like

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Speaker 4: to travel to. We've talked about that a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: Is there any announcer favorable stretches that you see when

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Speaker 4: you look at the schedule or are you just so

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Speaker 4: company man team oriented that you're looking at how the

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Speaker 4: Hornets might be able to take advantage of the schedule

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Speaker 4: rather than you.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is company team oriented and also you know,

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Speaker 1: my personal team, Team Farber. I got young kids, So

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Speaker 1: the first thing I gravitate towards it. I'm home on Halloween,

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Speaker 1: I'm home on Thanksgiving, I'm home on Christmas. Those are

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Speaker 1: great things from a family perspective. And even though I'm

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Speaker 1: working on New Year's Eve, one PM tips on against

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Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry can't beat that either.

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Speaker 1: So all the major holidays, dad is home. That is

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Speaker 1: a big win in the farmer household. But yeah, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to go to New York and be there

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Speaker 1: for a few days, that's going to be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun for us. In early December, a similar action

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Speaker 1: for the team in Los Angeles. It's nice to be

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Speaker 1: able to settle into a city for a couple of

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Speaker 1: days and enjoy it. From that regard, but it's not

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Speaker 1: so much being you know, the company man, it's being

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Speaker 1: a dad. I'm really looking forward to being home. Bookending

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving in particular, that one could be really interesting. It's

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Speaker 1: the Emirate NBA Cup Group play on Wednesday, November twenty

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Speaker 1: sixth against the New York Knicks and then Black Friday

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighth against the Chicago Bulls. Those games are

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Speaker 1: going to be brought to you by Bank of America.

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Speaker 1: Those are both home games. So if the Hornets are

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Speaker 1: alive in Emirates NBA Cup group play going into the

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Speaker 1: week of Thanksgiving, it could be a Rockets atmosphere at

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Speaker 1: the newly reimagined Spectrum Center and two games with really

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Speaker 1: big opportunities for the Hornets to make some early noise

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Speaker 1: and make a statement to the entire NBA world that

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Speaker 1: Charlotte's you know, maybe coming around here, and if they

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Speaker 1: have something to play for that week, that could bode

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Speaker 1: well for the whole season.

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Speaker 4: Sam, Me and Smoke, we're talking about it. We like

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Speaker 4: the group play draw. It's about as good as you

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Speaker 4: could ask for. And the fact that you have a

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Speaker 4: couple of home games, the home game against the best

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Speaker 4: team in group play with the Knicks. I like the draw.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you. I think it lines up favorably. I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully we can get off to a hot start and

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Speaker 4: then finish well at the end of the season. NBA

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Speaker 4: taking care of Sam as well, letting them be home

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Speaker 4: as a dad on some of those holidays. I love

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Speaker 4: to see it. Final things, Sam, what else do you

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Speaker 4: want to tell the people that we might have forgotten

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Speaker 4: to mention.

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Speaker 6: I think the.

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Speaker 1: Biggest thing for fans is when you go through the schedule,

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Speaker 1: whether you're circling day games, weekend games because you've got

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Speaker 1: a family, whether you're circling games based off you know,

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Speaker 1: your your personal favorite player or whomever it is that

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Speaker 1: you want to see. Just keep in mind that you're

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Speaker 1: not the only one doing it. That these are the

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Speaker 1: most popular games on the schedule for a reason. And

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Speaker 1: so if you're contemplating going to see the Hornets play

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Speaker 1: against the Golden State Warriors on New Year's Eve, or

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Speaker 1: you really want to see Lebron and Luca when the

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Speaker 1: Lakers come to Monday, November tenth and defending in Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: City here in Shay gild just Alexander Saturday November fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: you're not the only one thinking that. So single game

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Speaker 1: tickets go on sale this Saturday ten am, Hornets dot

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Speaker 1: Com and the Hornets App. I would not wait till

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Speaker 1: ten fifteen. I would be ready locked and loaded ten am.

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Speaker 1: Get whatever seat it is for that most important game.

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Speaker 1: If you're only going to one, and if you're in

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Speaker 1: the market and you have the opportunity and the ability.

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Speaker 1: Full season half season memberships are available right now called

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Speaker 1: seven h four Hornets or visit Hornets dot com and

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Speaker 1: then you don't have to sweat about is my favorite

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Speaker 1: seat available for my favorite games? You can just buy

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Speaker 1: them all. But we know that's not in the cards

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Speaker 1: for everyone. So if there's only one game or only

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Speaker 1: a couple of games that are really your favorites, make

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Speaker 1: sure you're ready ten am this Saturday, Hornets dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Hornets.

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Speaker 2: At your radio.

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Speaker 4: Voice of the Charlotte Hornets, Sam Farbert, joining us here

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Speaker 4: on sports Raded ninety two to seven WFNZ. Sam, look

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Speaker 4: forward to you being on the call, my man, looking

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Speaker 4: forward to talking a lot more Hornets basketball with you

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Speaker 4: down the road.

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Speaker 2: Have a good rest of your day and then we'll again.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 1: Walker, you two. Thank you both for doing this. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to all the listeners out there. I think we're like

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Speaker 1: fifty days away right now for training camp, so countdown

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Speaker 1: is on. We'll see y'all for the start of the

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Speaker 1: news season and all the dates are locked and loaded.

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Speaker 4: It happens quickly. Good stuff from Sam. We'll put that

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Speaker 4: interview on our website. As well WFNZ dot com anywhere

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Speaker 4: you get your pods will upload it so everybody can

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Speaker 4: listen to. Sam and Charles Lee both break down the

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Speaker 4: upcoming NBA schedule. Here it is NBA Schedule Release Day,

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Speaker 4: breaking down everything as it pertains to the Hornets. We

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Speaker 4: have one more segment to go, Well, we'll put a

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Speaker 4: bow on this, we'll wrap it up, and then we'll

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Speaker 4: discuss just a few more things that we forgot to

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Speaker 4: mention maybe in the first couple of segments. Right here

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Speaker 4: on Sports Radio ninety two seven FM.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the FNZ twenty twenty five Charlotte Hornet's

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Speaker 1: Schedule Release.

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Speaker 4: Special Hornet Schedule Release Day. Baby, we're breaking it all down.

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Speaker 4: Smoke helping me out. Sam Farbar doing the same thing.

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Speaker 4: Charles Lee joined us at the beginning of the show,

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Speaker 4: bringing you all the takeaways from the back to backs

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Speaker 4: that they'll be playing sixteen to be exact, the nationally

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Speaker 4: televised games three.

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Speaker 2: To be exact. I guess is what we're calling it

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Speaker 2: with the streaming options now?

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Speaker 5: And do you want to point out two of those

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Speaker 5: games are against the calvs talk do you want to

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Speaker 5: point out guess who's now on the Calves. That's right,

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Speaker 5: Lonzo ball, that's right, of course, take a sip, take

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Speaker 5: a drink.

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Speaker 4: No more Chicago Bulls every single year when we see

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Speaker 4: the nationally televised games, now it's the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Speaker 5: Just basically right it up to whatever team Lonzo balls on,

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Speaker 5: and that's who is going to get your guaranteed national game,

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Speaker 5: no matter what.

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Speaker 2: For the Hornets right.

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Speaker 4: Now, I actually really want to talk to you about

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Speaker 4: this because I was looking up a tweet of all

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Speaker 4: of the nationally televised games and there's this really interesting graphic.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how you pronounce this person who tweeted

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Speaker 4: it out. It's leave okubus on Twitter. I don't know,

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Speaker 4: but they tweet out all of the nationally televised games.

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Speaker 4: What's interesting is you see the top four teams. Okay,

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Speaker 4: the thunder the Knicks, the Lakers, the Warriors, they're all

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Speaker 4: going to be nationally televised thirty four separate times on one.

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Speaker 4: If we just take a moment to focus on that,

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Speaker 4: the jump the gap between thirty four and three is

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Speaker 4: absolutely nuts. But those teams are all really good, have

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Speaker 4: stars on those squads. Whatever, It's not crazy to think

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Speaker 4: that they would be nationally televised thirty four times. Next

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Speaker 4: on the list is Minnesota and Houston they have twenty eight.

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Speaker 4: Denver has twenty six nationally televised games. Boston is the

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Speaker 4: only team who's nationally televised schedule went down to twenty five.

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Speaker 4: So they decreased because a Jason Tatum, Because of Jason

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Speaker 4: Tatum and Calves make the big jump to twenty four.

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Speaker 4: But it's because of what they've accomplished. And then you

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Speaker 4: see the Hornets here at three. Here's my point, just

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Speaker 4: speaking generally about the NBA smoke, I think this is

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Speaker 4: a real issue. Like I look at this and I

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Speaker 4: see a real issue because I know the association is

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Speaker 4: so player driven, but they keep on hanging too these

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Speaker 4: players that are about to exit the league. Houston makes

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Speaker 4: the biggest jump of anybody because they have Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 4: Now you have Lebron who you're still holding on to.

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Speaker 4: You have steph who you're still holding on to. Right Like,

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Speaker 4: to me, it does make business sense. I'm not even

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Speaker 4: saying this from a Hornets fans standpoint. I am thinking

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Speaker 4: of this from a business standpoint. LaMelo Ball has all

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Speaker 4: of these followers LaMelo Ball is pinned against his brother

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Speaker 4: because you truly and apparently you find some real value.

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Speaker 4: So it's not even that I'm begging the Hornets to

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Speaker 4: be on ESPN constantly. It's just, don't we want to

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Speaker 4: uplift some of these younger fun stars that don't get

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Speaker 4: nearly as much recognition and then they can carry the torch.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to rely like they put all their

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Speaker 4: eggs in the SGA basket. They put all their eggs

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Speaker 4: in the Luka Doncic basket, which they're great players, Duh,

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Speaker 4: you want to televise them as much as possible. You're

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Speaker 4: just squeezing out some of these younger, more intriguing players

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Speaker 4: so much so to where nobody gets to watch them.

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Speaker 4: It's such a player driven league. I get it, but

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Speaker 4: that seems like a business flaw in my opinion.

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Speaker 5: Putting too many eggs in a basket, I think is

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Speaker 5: definitely a very big risk, especially with the way that

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Speaker 5: the NBA players have been hurt in recent years. And

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Speaker 5: I think that's part of the problem that happened in

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Speaker 5: the NBA in the late nineties. They really didn't have

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Speaker 5: that good of a plan because it's like, oh, it's

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Speaker 5: MJMJMJMJ didn't really promote many teams outside of the or five,

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Speaker 5: and then once he got to that point in a

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Speaker 5: new era, it's like, oh crap. And it was not

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Speaker 5: to say that the league at that time was not

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Speaker 5: very deep, so that also didn't help. But it's one

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Speaker 5: of those things where it's like, okay, Lakers, I get it,

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Speaker 5: you say Lebron, but they also have Luke on the team,

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Speaker 5: Lucas entering his prime years. Yeah, that makes total sense.

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Speaker 5: And unfortunately we see a lot of these teams with

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Speaker 5: young superstars have to fight twice as hard just to

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Speaker 5: get more recognition if they're not in one of the

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Speaker 5: big three to four cities. SGA of course now getting

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Speaker 5: that recognition now with the Thunder, Anthony Edwards now getting

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Speaker 5: out with the Wolverines, but it takes a lot of effort,

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Speaker 5: you know. And it's kind of like in the NFL too.

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Speaker 5: Remember Carolina only got like two or three primetime games

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Speaker 5: after winning the division in twenty thirteen. It took them

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Speaker 5: making the Super Bowl to get five primetime games. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: it bit them in the butt because that was when

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Speaker 5: you know, they fell back down the earth six and

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Speaker 5: ten records. So it's definitely one of those things that's things,

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Speaker 5: and you would want them to maybe be a little

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Speaker 5: bit more liberal of how many games certain teams get,

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Speaker 5: but you know, they are also bottom line business. They

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Speaker 5: want the ratings and they want it now, and they're

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Speaker 5: not looking at the long term edification.

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Speaker 2: It's it just doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 4: It really doesn't like they've got to have smart people

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Speaker 4: up there at the front office. I know they do,

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Speaker 4: yet it's still it seems easy to say, Okay, well,

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Speaker 4: we can still give all those teams thirty contests, So

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Speaker 4: if we bring them down from thirty four to thirty

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Speaker 4: and then we give the rest of the sixteen games

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Speaker 4: to some of these other younger stars where we try

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Speaker 4: to build just a little bit of entry.

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Speaker 2: To have them more on weak nights like Grizzlies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and again you can even dabble into the social

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Speaker 4: media era, like it's LaMelo Ball. He's got as many

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Speaker 4: followers as almost as almost to anybody that's in the

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Speaker 4: NBA outside of the Monster Stars. But instead Houston has

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Speaker 4: this crazy jump from like three nationally televised games to

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Speaker 4: twenty eight because you're it just shows me that you're

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Speaker 4: still so dependent on these guys that Kevin Durant, who

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Speaker 4: was a monster draw the guy is must see television.

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Speaker 4: But my god, you are so dependent on KD and

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Speaker 4: Lebron and some of those older players, and it just

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Speaker 4: doesn't It feels shortsighted. Even back to the Hornets when

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Speaker 4: they were everybody's second favorite team with the starter Jackets

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Speaker 4: and LJ and Zoe, you're telling me you couldn't get

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Speaker 4: a Christmas Day game when you have so many more

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Speaker 4: eyes on television screens to give everybody the second favorite team,

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Speaker 4: which is what was all over the place. Anyways, that's

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Speaker 4: my NBA ran, that's my NBA ran.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and hopefully that will change more soon, but I

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Speaker 5: think more in more of a streaming age, maybe you'll

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Speaker 5: see them distribute it out a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's gonna be interesting. That's gonna be the

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Speaker 2: main thing.

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Speaker 5: For as excited as I am about this upcoming Hornet season,

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Speaker 5: I'm excited to see what the new networks, Amazon and

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Speaker 5: NBC look like. And I think it's going to be

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Speaker 5: very big, and I think it'll expose somebody current broadcast

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Speaker 5: network's weaknesses ESPN.

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Speaker 4: And actually prop up some of the local broadcast crews

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Speaker 4: like Eric Collins and Dell Curry, who it's We love

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Speaker 4: it a little bittersweet, but we do love it, and

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Speaker 4: we do want to see Eric Collins and Dell Curry

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Speaker 4: have all of this success. They're going to Amazon Prime,

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Speaker 4: but still going to be broadcasting a lot of locally

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Speaker 4: televised games here as well. All Right, that'll do it

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Speaker 4: for the Hornet schedule release show. Big thanks to Smoke

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Speaker 4: for helping me out not only by running the ones

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Speaker 4: and twos, but with all of the analysis as well.

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Speaker 4: And thanks to you the listener for hopping in on

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Speaker 4: the fandual text line seven oh four five, seven oh

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Speaker 4: ninety six ten. We'll be back with you tomorrow all

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Speaker 4: day long with local coverage from six am to six pm.

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Speaker 4: Kyle Bailey Show. Have a great rest of your night.