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Speaker 2: Alrighty, tomorrow is April one.

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Speaker 3: We finally reached the month of the playoffs for the NBA. Gosh,

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Speaker 3: we start like twenty five years ago the season started,

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Speaker 3: and here we are now is the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 3: limping to the finish line, but have clinched of course,

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Speaker 3: a playoff spot. We'll talk to Sam Amock about that.

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Speaker 3: We haven't seen our guy, Steph Curry in since January thirtieth, dude,

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Speaker 3: We'll see what's going on with that. And of course

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Speaker 3: he wrote a whole piece about the MVP race, which

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Speaker 3: is heating up as Wemby. He's closing in on SGA,

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Speaker 3: who did his thing again last night, got to the

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Speaker 3: fell line twenty five times I think in his game.

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Speaker 3: So lots to get to with Sam amic on the

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Speaker 3: UMA guest line and Sam.

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Speaker 2: From the Athletic How are you doing? Sim Hey? Hey,

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Speaker 2: what's up?

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Speaker 4: Sam?

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Speaker 5: Good morning? Guys doing great. Good to be with you.

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Speaker 5: How you guys doing.

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Speaker 2: We're doing good, man, We're doing good.

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Speaker 3: We're sort of like looking at the Warriors thirty six

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Speaker 3: and thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: The ten spot is theirs.

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Speaker 3: They can theoretically get to the ninth spot Portland with

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Speaker 3: thirty eight losses. I don't know about the Clippers in

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Speaker 3: the eighth spot with thirty six losses. What's your assessment

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Speaker 3: of the Warriors sort of seven game finishing kick and

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Speaker 3: what's the best case scenario?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's brutal as you guys know that

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Speaker 5: bankers are never kind to that slot. So I mean,

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Speaker 5: a tough schedule this week with the Spurs and Cavs

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Speaker 5: They're still fighting, but obviously continue to be doing this

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's been a tough two months now without

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Speaker 6: and Sam, over the last two months, every time we

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Speaker 6: year hearing on a potential Steph Curry returned, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 5: Mean, we'll see I think, you know, if I was

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Speaker 4: It's funny.

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Speaker 5: A few days ago, I was finally starting to think, man, like,

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Speaker 5: it sounds like he has made some decent progress, and

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Speaker 5: Then you're into dicey territory where I think he probably

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Speaker 3: So that would be just the final five games if

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Speaker 3: of the Steve Kerr season. Do you have any more clue,

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Speaker 5: And right now, like, I'm not hearing anything hard in

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Speaker 5: I don't think he's gonna, you know, kind of just

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Speaker 5: So we'll see, I mean, but I think even Steve

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Speaker 3: Wow, man, so many things going on with the Warriors.

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Speaker 6: We are now ten games into the Christopsports Zingis Warriors era,

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Speaker 6: and yes, it did take a while for him to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 5: But for two, it just showed you his versatility and

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Speaker 4: Then what does that discussion look like in the summer.

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Speaker 6: Sam. There was a report from Mark Stein that the

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Speaker 2: Last night was a big night.

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Speaker 3: Wemby had a double double and eight minutes SGA went

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Speaker 5: I mean, last night was incredible, even like, yes, he

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Speaker 4: But it's a fun race.

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Speaker 5: I mean, those four guys I think have separated themselves

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Speaker 2: Here, It really is.

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Speaker 3: There's something about Wemby's to me narrative is like such

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Speaker 2: You know what's funny.

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Speaker 3: You know, SGA gets criticized so much for being quote

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Speaker 3: it's Luca. It's Luca who does it. So yeah, he's

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Speaker 5: We don't give Luca a hard time because he doesn't

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Speaker 3: The rest, Right, Sam, I brought this up with you

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Speaker 3: nothing has happened to dissuade me from this. I am,

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Speaker 3: in many ways of juvenile and adolescent. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: I don't like them.

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Speaker 2: I don't like their culture.

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Speaker 3: I have battle scars from the eighties and here they are.

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Speaker 2: See? Are you not ruling that out?

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Speaker 4: That's the hell of a stretch.

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Speaker 5: The thing that if you're a Laker fan, you know,

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Speaker 4: One year old Lebron James. You know, you do have

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Speaker 5: But the Lakers perimeter defense I think is going to

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna hang my head on that.

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Speaker 3: NBA defenses do matter and Lakers can't hang good Go

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Speaker 3: Spurs go thunder.

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Speaker 2: There we go, right, Warriors?

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Speaker 1: You know what it was?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Go Warriors make a run from the ten seed. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: It's like the way the Dodgers are treating the Giants

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Speaker 5: So, I mean to be honest, it's the way that

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Speaker 2: Good point, good point.

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Speaker 3: I was like, when it's my team taken over, I

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Speaker 3: don't like it what the other team takes that's funny

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: We love it when the Niners do it, not so

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Speaker 3: Niners do take over a lot of stadiums. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then when you you know, they get a traditional team,

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Speaker 2: You're like, what is this? What's going on here? All right?

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Speaker 3: Always fun, Sam, always fun catching up, look forward to

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Speaker 3: the next one. We'll keep reading in the Athletic.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Yeah, thanks Sam, appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam ayk does a great job.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a do you We haven't really, you know,

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Speaker 6: No, not really, to be honest with I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 6: I mean I'll care about it. Once you handicapping the

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Speaker 3: Do you do you have a feeling on how it's

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been big on the Spurs and Wenby all

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Speaker 3: You're describing my NBA fandom from ninety four to ninety

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Speaker 6: And obviously I'm still watching Warriors games every single night.

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Speaker 6: I'm checking in on porzingis and pods, but it's just

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Speaker 3: No, no, by the way, Warriors here he comes Wemby

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Speaker 6: Yeah, go see that French freak. I could say that

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, the French do a lot of freaky things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the number three, a freaky deeky French.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, guys, good stuff with Sam. Always

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Speaker 3: like talking to him. Warriors host the Spurs on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Go see your Wemby