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Speaker 3: And more talented and healthier Denver Nugget squads certainly ran

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Speaker 3: away with that one against the Warriors. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 3: it is time to talk to Marcus Thompson of the Athletic,

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Speaker 3: as we do every other week. He joins us on

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Speaker 4: Marcus, what's going on? You got silver? You got JD

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Speaker 4: with you today?

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Speaker 2: How are you? Oh man, I'm chilling. What's going on? Homies? Now?

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Speaker 4: We're good? Man.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I'll just start the interview on a pretty sour note.

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Speaker 3: We haven't talked to you since that horrific Moses Moody

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Speaker 3: essentially know what their fate's going to be. How much

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Speaker 3: does the injury not only stink for Moody the individual,

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Speaker 3: but how much does it stink for the Warriors offseason

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think primarily he's such a good

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Speaker 2: Of your mits, right out of the culture. So I

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Speaker 5: And you know, and Moody he's you know, he's a

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Speaker 5: didn't as Kaminga, you don't have that anymore, and you know,

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Speaker 5: you'd have to do a like some kind of sign

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Speaker 5: you know, he's he's he's up for an extension and

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Speaker 2: So really, if they.

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Speaker 5: Did want to make a move, maybe not a significant one.

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Speaker 5: Moody is a desirable player on their roster at a

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Speaker 5: lost that ship because now he won't be treble. But

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Speaker 5: I think more anything is like the culture spirit. I mean,

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Speaker 5: So they don't have a wing for next season, so

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's it was a devastating globe, but largely

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Speaker 6: It's brutal Marcus, and it does create another hole. And

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Speaker 6: I think you could have made the case that because

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Speaker 7: Do you keep melting or not?

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Speaker 6: Can you even keep Melton if you're gonna keep porzingis

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Speaker 6: what do you do with Draymond? Like they're just all

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if if you if you got a

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Speaker 5: any free agent is, man, I got all the minutes

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Speaker 6: Right you don't have money, you can start at the three,

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Speaker 5: Money to throw up people, which they don't, right, Like,

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Speaker 5: that's that's the next best thing you can offer. So

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Speaker 2: Like money, money, money is really what this thing is

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Speaker 8: Out a deal with that, that's four guys who all

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Speaker 3: Well, and if Jimmy's one of them, that's the first

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Draymond, Steph porzing Is, Jimmy, Like, you need

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Speaker 5: You can't you just can't handle a Steph absence like

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Speaker 5: So they need they need some horses. They need some

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Speaker 2: There's no point to play having all these older guys.

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Speaker 5: Right, like Raymond has been playing this entire time, Well,

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Speaker 2: The playoffs, what does he have left? He's been having.

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Speaker 5: To play while you know, everybody else is hurt, So

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Speaker 5: they need horses, man, they need youth, and they need players.

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Speaker 5: They need real players, not not situational players, not like

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Speaker 6: Well along those lines, I mean, but can you believe

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Speaker 7: It blew me away.

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Speaker 6: Jimmy Butler has played thirty He played thirty eight games

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Speaker 7: You know how many games Steph's played.

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Speaker 2: Less than thirty eight?

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Speaker 6: That is wild to think like Jimmy who hasn't obviously

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Speaker 2: Do I have to give up for Kawhi?

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Speaker 7: All day, you think Lebron would take the minimum. You

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Speaker 2: Will be more likely.

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Speaker 2: Always been a case.

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Speaker 5: But I think the more likely option, and I don't

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Speaker 5: If Lebron says, hey, this is really emotional for me,

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Speaker 5: This is like, this isn't about money.

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Speaker 2: I just want to play with Steph one time for a.

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Speaker 5: Year like that, that to me is the most feasible

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Speaker 5: Kawhi come here if it ain't the money, is like

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Speaker 5: it ain't that far. So I guess I could do

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Speaker 5: the Bay Like that's about it. You don't get this

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, we got a lot of real endorsements

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Speaker 3: we could offer Kauhi up here. Actually, speaking of our

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Speaker 4: When you succeed, we succeed.

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Speaker 3: Visit us today at Goldenstate Lumbert dot com. Uh, Marcus,

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Speaker 3: you know, while we have all this talk about money

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Speaker 3: Porzingis is quietly put together a stretch of not only

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Speaker 5: I mean it's a I don't think it would be crazy.

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Speaker 2: Anything less than that is a steal, right, you do

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Speaker 2: So that's just to go awry.

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Speaker 2: They both need each other.

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Speaker 5: And when the Warriors with these salaries so exorbitant, with

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Speaker 5: It is kind of a really good fit for both

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Speaker 6: Marcus, and we're talking with Marcus Thompson here of the Athletic.

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Speaker 7: If you had to.

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Speaker 6: Choose between Porzingis or Melton, who would you choose?

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Speaker 2: Man? That's cold? Man, Come on, man, how you gonna

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Speaker 2: put me in that spot? Melton from Cali, Like you

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Speaker 5: I mean, the obvious answer is Porzingis because he is

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Speaker 5: you've told me he's giving you forty games, I'm taking Porzingis.

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Speaker 5: Melton as much as you know, as they as he's

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Speaker 5: Like there are other players who.

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Speaker 2: Can do what Melton does. You just gotta find them.

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Speaker 5: I mean Porgen, I mean Pajemski does a lot of

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Speaker 5: who can be replaced. Porzingis is a seven foot two

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Speaker 2: That's just not replaceable.

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna make me turn against my Cali homie,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, west Side, So we died

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Speaker 5: the Anthony Milton and choose the Latian like that. That's

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Speaker 3: Walter, I think we're gonna have to fade out this

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Speaker 3: interview with that Latvian Christaps for zingis rap. I think

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Speaker 3: there's actually like two of them. We discovered right around

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Speaker 2: So, uh yeah, what there's a rap?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's like multiple raps. It's gotta be in

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Speaker 7: I didn't know this either, Marcus Wow, yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The best part is like we don't even know if yeah, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: it's just wraps about him.

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Speaker 2: Oh say he rapped man? Come on. It reminds me

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Speaker 5: Countryman and Bedrins back in the Beans.

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Speaker 2: We were doing that.

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Speaker 5: We were doing an interview and a lot was interview

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Speaker 5: and I think it might have been Stephen Jackson or

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Speaker 5: and somebody's phone went remember back when and Greg don't

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Speaker 5: knowing about this, lady, remember back when you have a.

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Speaker 2: Song for your ringtone? Right?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah right, And so you were play So somebody's

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Speaker 2: Hey y'all right, So we try to do interview.

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Speaker 5: Somebody's phone is going ah right, we like so it

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Speaker 2: Like, man, whose phone is this?

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Speaker 5: Like suddenly, andres Be just comes running out of the

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Speaker 2: And everybody's like, what do you even know about outcast?

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Speaker 5: He has been on the team for like two weeks,

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Speaker 5: Like like what does he even though he's out here

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Speaker 2: Andre three thousand on his phone. So yeah, he was

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Speaker 2: my guy after that. After that moment, I was like,

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Speaker 3: I do remember the age of songs as your ringtones

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Speaker 4: But no, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know anything about Andris Biedrin's being an outcast

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Speaker 3: That was my what's it young Tony learned today moments?

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Speaker 3: I'm an old soul man. I remember so my dad was.

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Speaker 3: I think he personalized it.

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Speaker 6: He might have been about He might have been about

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right around that he.

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Speaker 5: Probably used to set up his dad song and put

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Speaker 2: Phone, right.

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Speaker 3: Well, I remember my dad personalized it to where if

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Speaker 4: But I was like, well, it's a good song, so

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Speaker 4: I'll give it to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was me.

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Speaker 5: I've programmed the song into like Beyonce song Daddy My

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Speaker 5: Daddy or something, so whatever, be stars Mega.

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Speaker 4: We old that's incredible.

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Speaker 3: Uh, before we let you go, I did love your

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Speaker 3: story about Carol Lawson and obviously Duke did not get

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a tough one.

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Speaker 5: I'm going Yukon and Yukon. How about that? Oh no,

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Speaker 5: I don't want the Yukon ment to win, so let's go.

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Speaker 5: Let's go Michigan and Yukon women. I just don't see

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Speaker 2: I'm going Michigan.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm going Michigan on the men's side, Yukon

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Speaker 5: This has not happened. Sorry, Dan Hurley, keep your jacket

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Speaker 3: That was incredible the reaction, say yeah, I mean, what

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Speaker 3: Dan Hurley is uh, he's certainly on the psychopath list

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Speaker 2: You cannot see him up there now, I just can't.

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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 5: Like the kids decided the game, yeah, right, Like the

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Speaker 2: Don't know that it was like as venomous ass.

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Speaker 5: It almost looked like playful, like they knew each other,

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Speaker 5: and he walked in for the ref like I told

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Speaker 5: happy that a collegiate ref did not watch that call, because.

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Speaker 2: Collegiate refs they watched calls like that, So I was

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Speaker 5: Historic moment that was unpaided by referee ego. So respect

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Speaker 5: to that ref for holding in even though Dan Hurley

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm totally with you, like you can't mess that up.

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Speaker 3: But also Dan Hurley doing that, I'm like, you are

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Speaker 3: by that standard, Dan Hurley takes it to a different level.

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Speaker 5: Now, if he, like the way he was walking away

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Speaker 5: He looked like he was about to do something crazy,

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Speaker 5: Like yeah, you know, he's just he was pumped drunk

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Speaker 5: like some that guy is a Hurley for real, Like

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Speaker 5: you know, they all got their own little crazy streak.

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Speaker 2: But he's just he's just far more open about it.

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Speaker 5: He's great though for college basketball, Like, especially in this era,

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Speaker 5: Roy Williams dancing into the you know what I'm saying

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Speaker 2: I want to see the coaches show some life. They

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Speaker 5: They've been getting in IL money before it was in

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Speaker 5: Hurley being crazy.

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Speaker 7: Now I'm with you on that. Yeah, the more crazy

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Speaker 6: I gotta ask you quickly about this f before we

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Speaker 6: is went through practice, but he's still got to do

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Speaker 6: this five on five scrimmage. Not playing tomorrow, not playing

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Speaker 6: Thursdays doubtful officially for Thursday. Uh so it sets up

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Speaker 6: sets up the Easter Sunday return. You can, uh, you

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Speaker 6: Steph returns on Easter Sunday.

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Speaker 7: But but would you wouldn't think.

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Speaker 6: That's exactly that, That's exactly where Greg, That's exactly where Greg.

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Speaker 7: Went when I when I mentioned that earlier.

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Speaker 6: But anyway, you'll create your own joke as it relates

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Speaker 6: to that, I'll let you run that one by steph

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Speaker 6: Uh if he comes back on on Sunday, but uh,

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Speaker 6: would you.

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Speaker 7: Bring it back against the Rockets? Would you bring it

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Speaker 7: back against Houston?

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Speaker 2: I mean it's better, it's better against pan Antonio, right.

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I do feel like I do feel like

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Speaker 2: Back is like largely adrenaline, right, and usually the second

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Speaker 5: So the comeback game, he already has some adrenaline and

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Speaker 5: KT in the building.

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Speaker 2: Right, like, yeah, turn it up? Why not?

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Speaker 5: Like I would bring him back and not to mention,

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Speaker 2: You know, it's, well.

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Speaker 7: It's it's it's it's before Houston. It's it's the two

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Speaker 2: There you go, I'll say, bring him back against KD.

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Speaker 2: Like what else do you have?

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Speaker 5: He hasn't played in two months, whereas fans deserve some excitement.

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Speaker 5: So STEP's going out there to cook Houston and KD

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Speaker 5: or at least Shrine like that. That's that's the plotline.

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking right now about my column. So as long

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Speaker 5: as he give me something right about that's cool, And

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Speaker 5: I could I could go with that I could go

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Speaker 5: with Steph's come back. He gets KD and I'm in

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Speaker 5: Thompson right, I can, I can.

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Speaker 7: I can make it on Easter.

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Speaker 2: Let's do that on Easter.

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Speaker 7: Marcus, you gotta work that in.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy work that in.

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Speaker 7: Man, work it in.

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Speaker 2: Brother, Watch Watch Watch the Resurrection puns.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, seriously, Uh, Marcus, you're the best man. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, for the next fifty minutes before

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Speaker 3: dirty work, I will let listeners decide whatever song can

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Speaker 3: be my next ring tone.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna bring it back in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's bring it back. You don't let

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Speaker 2: me pick.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I'm letting the listeners do it. You're off

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Speaker 3: limits right.

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Speaker 2: Now, all right. I guess you appreciate.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Marcus.

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Speaker 7: See it, Marcus,