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Speaker 1: uh before we get to today's news and we have

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Speaker 1: a lot of it, and then later on you're gonna

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Speaker 1: take us through a sort of quick and dirty WNBA

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Speaker 1: play on Premium Dirty It's good. Get us all ready

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Speaker 1: for the postseason that starts this weekend Sunday. Yeah. In

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Speaker 1: the WNBA, I have to know, how was basketball last night?

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Speaker 1: How was our weekly Thursday pickup run? Because I didn't

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Speaker 1: make it out because of a flat tire.

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Speaker 2: The flat man couldn't come through in the clutch. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: people were saying kind of a weird night. Maybe the

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Speaker 2: full moon is getting to people. Oh, number one rule

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Speaker 2: of the pickup League, everybody's like forty's ish on up.

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Speaker 2: Number one rule is don't get hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the second rule as well.

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Speaker 2: That's also the second rule, and people were flagrantly violating

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Speaker 2: the rules. We had a head hit which was pretty

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Speaker 2: which was pretty bad sounding, though the guy seems to

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Speaker 2: be doing okay today. We had a lot of fingers

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Speaker 2: getting smacked, maybe like a poke to the face, and

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Speaker 2: of course some shots below the belts. Oh geez, sorry, Greg,

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Speaker 2: Sorry it happened to you. Oh wow, that wasn't me.

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Speaker 2: That didn't but you know it's bad when you get

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Speaker 2: hit in then and it looks like the guy got

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Speaker 2: his face. We're like, what's like, just nuts.

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Speaker 1: So in a weird way, you're saying, the best thing

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Speaker 1: that happened to me maybe last night was getting a

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Speaker 1: flat tire preventing me from coming to this dangerous run.

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Speaker 2: know it was bad all around. But then Showy Altani

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Speaker 2: of the night. From like nine o'clock on. Basically, this

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Speaker 2: guy went insane. They had the best baseball game of

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Speaker 1: Nobody hit three dingers.

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Speaker 2: Three dingers, two doubles, two steals, and had RBIs.

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Speaker 1: Yes and has created the created the fifty to fifty club,

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Speaker 1: actually fifty one fifty club.

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Speaker 2: Now amazing.

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Speaker 1: This guy's unreal. He's gonna win MVP as a designated hitter.

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Speaker 1: Got to I don't know, but it seems like it.

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Speaker 1: He's also he's also a great pitcher. He just took

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Speaker 1: He's gonna turn into like mister Perfect. He's gonna pitch

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Speaker 1: We got a whole lot cut that baseball music. Jeez.

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Speaker 1: A few hours ago, reports surfaced that Joel Embiid and

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six ers have agreed to a three year,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety three million maximum contract extension that

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Speaker 1: guarantees the former MVP a total of three hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars plus through the twenty twenty eight to twenty nine season.

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Speaker 1: The deal includes a player option on the back end

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid signing the maxed extension here. Were you surprised

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean it's a little surprising just because Embiid

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Speaker 2: is getting up there in age. You know, he's thirty

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Speaker 2: years now, thirty years old now, and this is a

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Speaker 2: little risky because you're going to be paying Joel Embiid

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Speaker 2: sixty nine million dollars when he's thirty five years old.

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Speaker 2: That is a big ass. But also that's a problem

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Speaker 2: for future Daryl Morey to worry about current Darryl Mory.

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Speaker 2: He's in the mix for a title here. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's time obviously for Embiid and the Sixers to make

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Speaker 2: a serious postseason run. But they're at least in the

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Speaker 2: mix in the Eastern Conference, and I think overall they're

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Speaker 2: probably not at the top tier of title contenders, but

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Speaker 2: they're in the second tier right after that, where if

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Speaker 2: Embiid is able to stay healthy, Paul George stays healthy,

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Speaker 2: Maxi progresses the way we've seen so far in his career,

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Speaker 2: they've at least got a shot, and now they've got

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Speaker 2: a shot, you would have to think for the next

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Speaker 2: five seasons, tacking on a couple of years here to

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Speaker 2: the deal that Embiid is already under. But the question

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Speaker 2: is going to be, and the way people are going

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Speaker 2: to grade this extension in general, how much do you

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Speaker 2: actually win? Like the regular season stuff with Embid right

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Speaker 2: now is kind of kind of not matter. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it wouldn't be surprising if they take the focus

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Speaker 2: away from him winning individual awards and get him healthy

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Speaker 2: for the playoffs, because if he plays these next five

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Speaker 2: seasons and they don't go to multiple conference finals at

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Speaker 2: least one finals, you're gonna think it's a disappointment. But

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Speaker 2: it's awesome for the Sixers that he's locking in here

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Speaker 2: basically saying, I want to be in Philadelphia for the

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Speaker 2: rest of my career. Sad for me, I think I

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Speaker 2: got to retire the future heat Joel Embiid take. It

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Speaker 2: seems like he's going to be sticking around Philadelphia for

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Speaker 2: don't know. Good stuff for Joel Embiid to be able

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Speaker 2: to lock in this deal considering the one he signed

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Speaker 2: after his rookie deal was like so many contingencies on it,

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Speaker 2: right with like his injury history at the time, how

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Speaker 2: many games he was going to be able to play.

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Speaker 2: He's been fairly healthy considering the way his career started,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see how it plays out for Philly.

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Speaker 2: Huge deal for Embiid. Hopefully he's able to play eighty

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Speaker 2: percent of the games that are on this contract.

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Speaker 1: The seventy six Ers and Dale Moury that ownership they

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Speaker 1: were not messing around this summer. Embiid's deal closes an

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Speaker 1: offseason which the Sixers committed five hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars in new money. Because you have the extension for

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Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxon, Tyrese Maxie two hundred and four million, Paul

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Speaker 1: George signed for four years two hundred and twelve million.

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Speaker 1: You got this Embiid here. They also read, you know,

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Speaker 1: sign Caleb Martin, Eric Gordon, Andre Drummond, re signed Kyle Lowry,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Hubray junior. They have over seven hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: in their Big three y Yes, we like they are.

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Speaker 1: They obviously are seeing like the Celtics are still the

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Speaker 1: team to beat. They think they're right there. That's the theory,

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Speaker 1: adding Paul George and maybe can beat them whatever, right,

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Speaker 1: and you know, injuries happen and all that, and then

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Speaker 1: suddenly there is a window to go to a conference

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Speaker 1: finals and finals, maybe win a championship, and that's what

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Speaker 1: they're banking on here. It's not a surprise Embiid got

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Speaker 1: this type of deal. You'll always go, yeah, risk injury, yeah,

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Speaker 1: playoff shortcomings. But you said it the other day. When

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Speaker 1: he does play, he's doing like Wilt Chamberlain like things

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Speaker 1: where he's like scoring a point per minute, like he

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Speaker 1: is one of the greatest scorers in NBA history. He's like,

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Speaker 1: that's the fourth highest points per game average, and I

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Speaker 1: mean history is sort of wild to think. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: so you're going to be paid handsomely for that. But

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Speaker 1: it's just you, Hey, we've seen the I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: eighty two game dwell, Embiid, you know a little less

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Speaker 1: than that. We've seen the regular season, dwell and bid.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to see the sixteen game dwell. Embiid.

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Speaker 1: Raising your game in the playoffs, and obviously staying healthy

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Speaker 1: is the biggest thing. And he came back last year.

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Speaker 1: He was pretty damn good coming back from injury. In

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Speaker 1: the postseason, you know they lose. Yeah, he had some

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Speaker 1: monster performances.

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Speaker 2: Monsters, he had monster games. The point was also dragging

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Speaker 2: a leg around out. Yeah. He was kind of a

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Speaker 2: liability defensively, I thought in the playoffs, and there were

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Speaker 2: definitely times when he didn't necessarily want the ball. There

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Speaker 2: were times when you would think this guy at the

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Speaker 2: that doesn't always happen with him.

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Speaker 1: Bid.

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Speaker 2: There are definitely criticisms with him, but yeah, of course

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Speaker 2: you lead the league in scoring, you're scoring a point

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Speaker 2: a minute, you're gonna get paid a gigantic contract here.

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Speaker 2: So five more years of Joel Embiid with the seventy

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Speaker 2: six ers, at least that he's agreed to, assuming he

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Speaker 2: picks up that option as last year. How many times

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Speaker 2: will they make the conference finals in five years?

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Speaker 1: How many times do they have two for this to

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Speaker 1: even be worth it? I mean they have to be

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Speaker 1: They have to go one finals.

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Speaker 2: They have to go to one finals. I would agree at.

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Speaker 1: The very least. Yeah, I mean, I'm putting the line

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Speaker 1: at one and a half. Honestly, do you go under

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Speaker 1: or over? You're saying conference finals appearances, yes, have on Betton,

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Speaker 1: I I guess I go under. Is that weird?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean the track record doesn't suggest that that's weird.

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Speaker 1: Zero so far. Yeah, yeah, I'll take over. His career

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Speaker 1: earnings are going to swell here to like fifty five

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen million dollars with this new agreement, fourth

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Speaker 1: highest in NBA history. Lebron, Steph Curry, and his new

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Speaker 1: teammate Paul George what yeah, career earnings.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, those two guys have definitely been worth

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Speaker 2: it in being and Paul George. When you compare their

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Speaker 2: statistical accomplishments to Lebron and Steph Curry, you can see

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Speaker 2: why they're up there.

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Speaker 1: One billion for those two here. When it's all said

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Speaker 2: So, six Ers won the off season though, yeah, Like,

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they got the biggest free agent out there, yep.

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Speaker 2: They signed their two guys in EMBIID in MAXI, yep,

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Speaker 2: to big extensions to keep them around. And then like

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Speaker 2: the coolest story of the Olympics was gershon Yabusele. They

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Speaker 2: brought him over like they've been kind of one of

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Speaker 2: the major talking points at every single step of the way.

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Speaker 1: the woj bomb of all woj bomps. Longtime NBA insider

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Speaker 1: in a shocking move. I mean, this one surprised everybody.

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Speaker 1: But he broke the news of course. Yeah, and uh,

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Speaker 2: very cool, very cool. That's like a full circle story

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Speaker 1: No, and yeah, walking out on his own terms here

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it was. We could still do the show

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the rumors were all Shams obviously Chris Haynes Uh

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Speaker 2: So there are people who have kind of followed Woja's

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Speaker 1: You have to imagine, Yeah, is Sham's the undisputed NBA

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Speaker 2: That's that's what the scoop scoop scoop Colin Colstone with

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Speaker 2: Hermit Sweeney, herbit.

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Speaker 1: Lantry Shammitt to Exhibit nine deals. Contracts serve as basically

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Speaker 2: That's what Exhibit nine is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard you like a heard you like Scoop,

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Speaker 2: So he put out woes in your trunk. Yeah, you're good,

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Speaker 2: This is a nice deal here for Isaac Acorro, three years,

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Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised. But yeah, I think this is nice,

430
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 2: you know, like the Calves. For all the talk we

431
00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,720
Speaker 2: had about are they going to split up Mobile and Alan?

432
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 2: Are they gonna split up Mitchell and Garland, what they've

433
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 2: done the past two seasons is stress continuity, right, Like

434
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 2: they brought back all of those guys, including Karris Lavert

435
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: on the outside, and they've added to their team with

436
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,920
Speaker 2: Struce and kneeing last year. So yeah, the Cavs, who

437
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 2: knows that they're able to take another step and get

438
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 2: to the next level in the Eastern Conference. But they've

439
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 2: got a good team. They've been playing together for three

440
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 2: or four seasons now, so the mind meld is growing.

441
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're playing the offseason coaching card. Yeah, it's like, Okay,

442
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 1: we're a good team, We're not going to switch it up.

443
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 1: I know everybody wants us to trade one of our

444
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: star guards, one of our sort of like young promising bigs,

445
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,640
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna do that. Instead, new coach, new

446
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 1: coach Kenny Atkinson time. You know, it's similar but quite

447
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,959
Speaker 1: different because of the players involved, like the Suns getting Bootenholzers, Like, well,

448
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 1: we were committed to this team and that's what the

449
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,120
Speaker 1: big three and all the pieces around them. We'll work

450
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: around the fringes, but we'll just go with the new

451
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: coach see what they can get out of the squad.

452
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 1: Obviously health comes into play here too, but yeah, that

453
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 1: is a good deal. I thought that as well. I

454
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's good work by the Calves and

455
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,199
Speaker 1: the coreo obviously has a role on that team. He's

456
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 1: like their best defender. Yeah, you know, whether whether he's

457
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 1: starting or coming off the bench, you need that in

458
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 1: a postseason. You know, hey, go try and shut down

459
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: star wing player at least contain them. And if you're

460
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: gonna do that, you also have to be able to

461
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 1: at least be somewhat of a threat that you can

462
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: maybe hit a three and space the floor a little bit.

463
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: Well he's not, but he has he improved, yes, but no,

464
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: he's not a knockdown shooter. Any other thoughts on any

465
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: of the other little minor moves there.

466
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 2: Not really No. I mean it's cool that Christian Koloko

467
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 2: is going to be back in the NBA. Yes, yea,

468
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 2: it's good for him, a good roll of the dice

469
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. But like, ultimately, maybe he could be

470
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 2: Jackson Hayes. Right, that's kind of what they're thinking. But

471
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 2: the Lakers don't have a lot of depth and definitely

472
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 2: not at the big man spot, so I think this

473
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: is worth a worthwhile gamble for them to at least

474
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 2: try it out.

475
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get to some leaks. The NBA

476
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: usually unveils its latest batch of City edition jerseys in November,

477
00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 1: but fans got a early look at these because yeah,

478
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 1: they leaked. Baby, you have to assume these are real.

479
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: It'd be really weird if they were. They're all fake.

480
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 1: But here for everybody on YouTube, we're showing you all

481
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: thirty of them on one screen. Here on one shot.

482
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: You know, we've done some short form content around these already.

483
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: I picked out five of my favorites. You picked out

484
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: seven of the worst ones. Yeah, it definitely feels like,

485
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: not only this season, but the last couple of years,

486
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: the Misses outnumber of the Gems.

487
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 2: The miss is definitely outnumbered the Gems, and.

488
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: That feels like it woul this crop here as well.

489
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 2: But yeah, if I were going to go through all these,

490
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 2: i'd be like up on six or seven. Okay, you know, like,

491
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 2: I think the five you named were pretty much the

492
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 2: best ones. I would add. I like the Hawks. I

493
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 2: just like white and baby blue together. It's like it

494
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 2: feels like a mashup of a lot of their jerseys

495
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 2: they've had. I also like the Golden State one. I

496
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 2: don't think many people do, but in general, I like

497
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: a jersey that has a circle graphic, So I think

498
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: that one's okay. The Pistons is maybe my favorite.

499
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: I love I love the I sort of like that

500
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: cream colored with that little I don't know orange, and

501
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: I love the wordmark same.

502
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks good like a I like a cream jersey.

503
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 2: It reminds me of the Boston Red Sox. I don't

504
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 2: know why. I feel like Ted Williams would wear that

505
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 2: jersey if you we're an NBA fan these days. And

506
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 2: the other two I would throw in the mix. I

507
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 2: think Denvers fifty to eighty is an improvement over the

508
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 2: one they wore last year. Of course, we're looking at

509
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 2: this without their team number on it. Yeah, it's kind

510
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: of look weird.

511
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: They all look sort of weird without a number.

512
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: Definitely true.

513
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: And then I think I think I might.

514
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: Like the Valley jersey that the Suns did, which is

515
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 2: kind of like a take on their ninety five All

516
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 2: Star jerseys a little bit. Yeah, but that's one I'm

517
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 2: gonna have to see when it's actually on the court.

518
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 2: But I'm I'm holding out hope that it looks cool.

519
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, And for those that haven't watched my short yet

520
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: on it, I did pick Memphis as one of my favorites.

521
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: You know, we've sort of seen these before, but you

522
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: know that bright red Memphis sounds from the ABA days.

523
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: I like that one. I like the Sixers because I

524
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: really liked the dark colorwave version. Now they just have

525
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: the white one that's like a spectrum sort of homage

526
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: the Raptors. We got a Vince Carter Duncan Dino, which

527
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: is sort of amazing.

528
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: We have got to be the first jersey on a jersey, Yeah,

529
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: I have to.

530
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, it's sort of like a Miami dolphin.

531
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 2: A Dolphin dolph. Yeah.

532
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: I like the bones. You can't really see them on

533
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: this graphic, but the Nola the New Orleans Jersey there

534
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: has uh you know, the bones are their dollars all

535
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: over it. But I like the colorway there. And what

536
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: was the other one I liked? I can't remember.

537
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, Yeah, we talked about the Pistons.

538
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, and then yeah, you went through the ones

539
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 1: that sucking. I mean, like, what's the worst one to you?

540
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: Is it the Celtics. The Celtics is so bad.

541
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 2: I don't like the Celtics for sure, But for me,

542
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 2: the MAVs I think is my least favorite, just because

543
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: it is so boring white and silver. There's nothing to it,

544
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: Like I thought they there wasn't much to it last year.

545
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 2: I think these are Leon Bridges designed jerseys or something.

546
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,719
Speaker 2: It's definitely a take on the ones they were last year,

547
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 2: which I don't remember if they were black or if

548
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 2: they were dark navy, but flipping it just looks like

549
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 2: hardly any design to it. And same with the Celtics.

550
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: Really like the Celtics to me have jerseys that are

551
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 2: hard to mess up, but as soon as you go

552
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 2: away from just green and white, they always messing up.

553
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and like you said, it just sucks absolutely

554
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: so generic, very just like, look, every year, each NBA

555
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: team has given new city edition jerseys. Here. We've been

556
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 1: doing this every year for every team since Nike took

557
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: over the NBA contract in twenty seventeen. Eighteen were wow,

558
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: we're coming up on ten years of this. I mean,

559
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: we're getting close. That's too many jerseys, is what we're

560
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: getting out here. Like I almost I'm almost at the point.

561
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm not even blaming the designers. I'm like, well, what sports.

562
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 2: Do I mean mapping it out. That's two hundred and

563
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 2: forty jerseys to come up with. That's ridiculous. That's just

564
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 2: the cities. That's just the cities that other they do

565
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: have other ones.

566
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

567
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 2: But then you go to a game and you see

568
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 2: people wearing every city jersey that has existed for every team.

569
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 2: You're right, people buy them. People like who buys these jerseys?

570
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: Go to a game, you'll see every single city edition

571
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 2: jersey that your team has ever worn.

572
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: And I have also as I've gotten older, and you know,

573
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: you have kids, obviously, and I've got god kids, and

574
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: it's like you start to realize everyone that I think

575
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: looks like shit and looks crappy. I asked Andreas my

576
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: ten year old gods, he loves it. It's like the

577
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: coolest jersey's ever seen, Like that looks like garbage. Nope,

578
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: that's cool. You don't know anything, old man. I was like, damn, yeah,

579
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: they're not really making them for us, just for the youth.

580
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, the merch always looks cool,

581
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: like that's the thing. Like the sweatshirts look great, the

582
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: long sleeve T shirts.

583
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: The raptors with the Dunken Dino in the non in there,

584
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: it looks awesome. Yeah. I like to like the merch

585
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: on a hoodie and stuff like that. I gotta get

586
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: myself one of those hay Raptors out to me slid

587
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: into those. In other leaks, Facebook user Christian Soleno has

588
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: shared NBA two K twenty five screenshots of twenty five

589
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: of the thirty NBA Cup courts. Again, these were in

590
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: two K twenty five. Uh, and I mean, I would

591
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: I assume these are real. I don't know why they

592
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't be, but Anyway, this season's design has large circles

593
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: that radiate from mid court, so no more contrasting stripes

594
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: down the center of the court. Yeah, we're showing a

595
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: few to everybody on YouTube. Here Rockets, Wolves, Raptors going purple.

596
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: Who else we got here? The Hornets, you know, with

597
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: the honeycomb, but that radiating circle. And one more. I

598
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: like the little details there on the on the Blazers,

599
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: like sort of roses or something like that.

600
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 2: Looks like an inside of a suit jacket a good way. Yeah, yeah,

601
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: you're right, you're right.

602
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: So, okay, that was just a give you a taste

603
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: of these leaked NBA Cup courts. Your thoughts.

604
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: I think they're better than the stripe. Okay, I think

605
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: I like them more than the stripe. I tweeted that

606
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: out yesterday, and unfortunately, somebody tweeted back at me Blazer's

607
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 2: UNI track and here's what they said. Okay, don't kill

608
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: me for this. I assume those lines are like a

609
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,479
Speaker 2: rocket blast off lines or something, but I'm getting some

610
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: butthole vibes. Can't unsee it.

611
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: And then I read that, I was like, Uh, these

612
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: are the butthole courts.

613
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at the rockets. One looks like a baboon

614
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: walking away from you, not in a good runs he

615
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: said that. I was like, uh, now, I'm gonna think

616
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: that every time a game comes up. But I think

617
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: these look better than like just the stripe running from

618
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: baseline to base.

619
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: I do too, because what I like about again, if

620
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: these are real, every one of these has some sort

621
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: of like almost subtle element to the team's jerseys, right

622
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: like there you know, you see the little trees there

623
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: for the wolves, like like and obviously there you got

624
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: the the pin stripes put in like the little uh

625
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: zigzag there for the rafts and stuff like that. So

626
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: I like that because they're like now they're they're all

627
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: similar because of the butthole radius, but you know, they

628
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: have these little elements that they're pulling in. I don't

629
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: mind them, and I think I do like them more.

630
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: But you also got to see them, you know, you

631
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: got to see them in action, some of them like

632
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: shot from the rafters. How'd you get up there? And

633
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, you could take your character in the

634
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: in the my park up there.

635
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 2: They've added a lot of features to the game, including

636
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: rafter mode, no balls one yet I'm assuming it's gonna

637
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 2: be red. Some of them look okay, they're like I

638
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: think the ones that are either yellow or gold they

639
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 2: just look like a cork because yeah, the gray ones

640
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 2: are fine. I thought the Hornets is kind of cool

641
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: with the honeycomb going everywhere. But it is weird because

642
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: you'll see highlights at the end of the season and

643
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 2: they've got these crazy courts on it. You're like, oh, yeah,

644
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: right right. We played a whole month of the season

645
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: with different courts.

646
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: We absolutely did. This is I thought was interesting too.

647
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: The twenty three designs matched every team's city edition uniforms,

648
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: which were warmed by the home teams during the tournament,

649
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,479
Speaker 1: whereas this year's courts pull elements at least from their

650
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: respective statement jerseys. I know, okay, are you following here?

651
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: So me, I think what they're saying is we may

652
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: not be seeing those city leak jerseys we just showed

653
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: you on these courts.

654
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 2: They don't necessarily correlate. I don't think so that makes

655
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 2: sense because Memphis is their court is like gray and stuff,

656
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: and it has like their three stripes M E M

657
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: on it. It's definitely not Redphis.

658
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: So I think it's the statement jerseys that the home

659
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: team will be wearing on these NBA Cup courts.

660
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: Nice.

661
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, cool, the NBA Cup.

662
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: I'm excited it starts.

663
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: It starts in less than two months.

664
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: It does what November twelfth, that's right. Clay Thompson returns

665
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: to Golden State's absolutely look like I think, yeah, I

666
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: think it was. We don't have it pulled that? Yeah, yeah, yeah?

667
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: Why why are why do we have five secret ones?

668
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't know why did they Why didn't they hit

669
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: it patch?

670
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,959
Speaker 2: Maybe they're not approved yet. Yeah, maybe going for something wild.

671
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: We will see final piece of NBA news here. Bronnie

672
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: James jersey from his NBA Summer League debut sold at

673
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: auction for thirty eight and four hundred dollars on Friday.

674
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: The jersey was originally estimated to sell for six to

675
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. Bronni's summer league jersey a game in

676
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: which I think he scored two points, right, he went

677
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: for nine or so. He struggled, but not a high score.

678
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: It was not a great performance, but it was his

679
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: first game thirty eight k and this was like a

680
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: part of like Southerb's like Summer league selects auction, so

681
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: they had other jerseys from some of the rookies that.

682
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: Was clicking through. Oh yeah, saying all kinds of stuff,

683
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 2: a lot of obviously a lot of Summer League rookies,

684
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: like Bronni's went for a lot more than Zachary Resachez dead.

685
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that went for under four thousand dollars steal, I know,

686
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: compared to straight up steel right, compared to Bronni's.

687
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this a look Sweden Lebron's man, cave you

688
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: about it. I don't know, thirty eight thousand dollars is

689
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: a lot of money unless you're a billionaire. Yeah, on

690
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: a summer league jersey.

691
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it could be could be Broun, it could

692
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: be Lebron.

693
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it does. But nice.

694
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: But then it's like, I mean, couldn't he just say, hey,

695
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: I want that.

696
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: That's a good.

697
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: Deal with middleman has to go to harsh Reed. Shepherd's

698
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: first Rockets jersey at Summer League sold for fifteen six hundred.

699
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: No.

700
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: Had sort of shocked me. I know, he looked great.

701
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: He was maybe the best rookie at Summer League. I

702
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: have high hopes. I drafted him to our under twenty

703
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: one team and we did that a few weeks ago.

704
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: But you know, going for a ballpark close to half

705
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: of what Bronni James nice. Yeah, so you can get.

706
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: Some weird stuff in here though, Like you want a

707
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: Chumo Caky City edition jersey. They were for sale, Like

708
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: what did that go for? I don't know. It was

709
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: estimated five hundred to one thousand dollars. But I would

710
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: have had to create a profile with sothabest to be

711
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 2: able to view the results of the auctions, and I

712
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna do that.

713
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: There's too much work. Yeah, you're right. I I got

714
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: to that page too. I'm like, I'm not doing that,

715
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: But then I found the info from somebody else. If

716
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: it would have had continue with Google, I would have

717
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: done it. Oh goow.

718
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 2: But you can just log in and register. I'm like, yeah,

719
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 2: you can have all of my in if I have

720
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: to type it ain't no way, no way, no way.

721
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: All right.

722
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: So that's some NBA news, But let's pivot now to

723
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: the w NBA. It was the final night of the

724
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,479
Speaker 1: regular season last night, so we now know the eight

725
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: teams in the postseason. We have the playoff bracket by

726
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: way of Yeah, who's sports? Thanks for this? So it

727
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: sets it up TK nice graphic, Yeah, beauty, Yeah, I

728
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: love that. I like their trophy. But yeah, like, let's uh,

729
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: let's get like sort of you explaining for especially someone

730
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: like me who only casually follows it, what I need

731
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: to watch, who's gonna win? Whatever you want to do

732
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: here in these matchups?

733
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you're a casual fan, I would say

734
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: I'm probably a hardcore casual fan.

735
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you are, you are, You're a level

736
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: above me.

737
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: And that I checked the scores regularly.

738
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: I have focus on the Dream, the Dream.

739
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: Of course.

740
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: I was happy to see they won last thing. Yeah,

741
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: they made it in.

742
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: How about that? Back to back playoff appearances for our

743
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: Atlanta Dream for the first time since twenty fourteen. Unfortunately,

744
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 2: they're running into the New York Liberty. They have the

745
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 2: best record all season long. They finished thirty two and eight.

746
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: They lost to the Aces in the WFNBA finals last season.

747
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 2: That was their fifth loss in the finals all time.

748
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: They've never won a championship. This has got to be

749
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 2: the year for them. Wow, they at least that yeah,

750
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 2: never won. They've been very very close, obviously, and they've

751
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: got one of the best teams here. They are kind

752
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: of the Boston Celtics of the WNBA. Stacked. Breonna Stewart

753
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 2: is their star. Sabrino Yenescu also great. They both made

754
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: Team USA won a gold medal this summer. John Quell

755
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 2: Jones a former MVP from her time with the Sun.

756
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: She's also an All Star. They've got the best title

757
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: odds in the w according to bet MGM. They're at

758
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: a plus one twenty favorite right now. And then our

759
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: Dream they did make it in They had an eight

760
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 2: game losing streak heading into the Midsummer break. They finished

761
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 2: fifteen and twenty five, the bottom two tame in the

762
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 2: playoffs in the WNBA, both under five hundred. But they're

763
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: on a little bit of a nice streak here the

764
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: Dream are. They beat the Sky and the Mystics, the

765
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: two teams that were also in the mix for the

766
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: eighth seed here, and then they beat the Liberty last night,

767
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: and I love seeing this. They all packed for having

768
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 2: to play three games in New York. They're not coming

769
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 2: back to Atlanta. They said, we're gonna go to Barclays,

770
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: we're gonna win, and then we're gonna stay in New

771
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: York to play on Sunday and then I think maybe

772
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: their Game two is on Tuesday.

773
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: Right, And can you remind again, casuals, especially the first

774
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: round here is a best of three. That's the three

775
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: and the first two games are at the higher seeded team,

776
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: So those first two games are New York. There will

777
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: only be a game three if the Dream can obviously

778
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: win one of them, split one, and it would come

779
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: back here.

780
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

781
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: It's so weird.

782
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unusual that the lower seed will have the

783
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: elimination game at home, but that makes more sense than like,

784
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: you know, play a game in New York, game one,

785
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 2: game two in Atlanta, game three back in New York.

786
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're only doing a best of three.

787
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeh yeah yeah.

788
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: Okay.

789
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 2: Atlanta was in the same spot last year. They were

790
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: the they might actually finished at the seventh seed. They got

791
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 2: bounced in two games last year, and I kind of

792
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 2: think that that's what will happen this year. I will

793
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: take Liberty two.

794
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: Oh, and you said the Liberty similar to the Celtics

795
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: in the NBA in terms of the structure of the team.

796
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: The big difference though Celtics maybe have one of the

797
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: worst mascots in the NBA a human. The Liberty have

798
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: the best Ellie, Ellie the Elephant.

799
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: Ellie's awesome. Elli's like probably the third in their big

800
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: three with Stewie and Sabrina.

801
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: I agree's sick. Okay, So you like the Liberty to advance.

802
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: I like the Liberty, and you don't even think we

803
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: get a game here in Atlanta. Unfortunate.

804
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 2: I would love to. I would definitely be a Gateway

805
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: Center arena if there's somehow a Game three, but not

806
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 2: anticipating it because the Liberty had been locked in all year.

807
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 2: In our next matchup, it's the Minnesota Links. They finished

808
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: with the two seed thirty and ten this season.

809
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: Oh wait, oh, sorry, I think JD went to Ace's Storm. No, no, no,

810
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,439
Speaker 1: that's okay, that do it. I guess they're on the side,

811
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: the same side of the bread.

812
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: That's true. Let's say I'm sorry Aces in Storm. Theace

813
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 2: has finished in twenty seven and thirteen. I think it's

814
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: fine actually to start talking Liberty in Aces. Since these

815
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 2: are the two title favorites. The Liberty are two time

816
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 2: defending champions. They're looking to become the first three peat

817
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 2: since the Houston Comets back when the WNBA started they

818
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 2: won the first four titles ninety seven to two thousand.

819
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how good we had it back then. Skeets. Wow,

820
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 2: the last NBA three peat was in the early two thousands. Yeah,

821
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: with the Lakers. Obviously, the Comets were the last in

822
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 2: the WNBA. There hasn't been one in college basketball since

823
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 2: Ucla like in the nineteen seventies. And the last women's

824
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: three peat was Yukon in the early two thousands as well.

825
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: Just happened all the time back then.

826
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

827
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 2: Will it happen this year? I don't know. We'll see.

828
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 2: The Aces started six and six this year. They eventually

829
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: got Chelsea Gray back. They finished the season twenty seven

830
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: and thirteen. The difference this year last season best defense

831
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: in the league by far, they may have even set

832
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 2: records at the time. This year, not nearly as locked in.

833
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 2: They're only fifth in defense. They don't have a ton

834
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 2: of death because four fifths of their starting lineup is

835
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 2: number one overall draft picks, so you run out of

836
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: money eventually the play players. But they have the second

837
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 2: best title odds according to Bett MGM, and of course

838
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: they have Asia Wilson, who is gonna win her third MVP.

839
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 2: She's the first WNBA player to score a thousand points

840
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: in the season. She also broke the record for most

841
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 2: rebounds in a season. She's like, I don't even try

842
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 2: and rebound. She averaged twenty seven points per game this season. Yeah,

843
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 2: number two.

844
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: Seasons across all Yes, Yeah.

845
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 2: Twenty seven per game, twelve rebounds per game, two steals,

846
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: two and a half blocks. Jesus, just a monster. They said,

847
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: you're She finished third I think in MVP voting last

848
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: year and took it personal. And then she's got a

849
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 2: bunch of awesome players on her team as well. Kelsey Plum,

850
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 2: Jackie Young, and Chelsea Gray all were on Team USA.

851
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: All won the title the last couple of seasons together

852
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 2: as well. So they are gonna be tough to beat.

853
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: They're going to out up against the Seattle Storm twenty five,

854
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: five and fifteen. It just feels like time has probably

855
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 2: passed this team by. They should maybe be a little

856
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: bit better. They got Jewel Lloyd. She scores twenty of games.

857
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 2: She's thirty six percent from the field, so you know,

858
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: more of a volume scorer. But you'll see her in

859
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 2: state farm commercials, handling, handling in the in the living room,

860
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 2: Necka Gluomackay's there, Skyler Digg and Smith. They're both still

861
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: pretty good fifteen sixteen points a game, but they're just

862
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: towards the end of their career. They're getting into their thirties.

863
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 2: Asie Magmagore block shots Aces two zero in this one.

864
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: As all, well, you think so and so we will.

865
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: There's no reconfiguring of the bracket, right, It's it's going

866
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: to be if they win one versus four, Liberty versus Aces, Yeah,

867
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: in the in the in the next round.

868
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right. I don't think I don't

869
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 2: think they result anymore.

870
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

871
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have they used to, Yeah, change the WNBA

872
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: playoff format often.

873
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, regular. I mean, if we can, if we go

874
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: by this bracket, it doesn't look like they switch it up.

875
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, what what a what a second round battle?

876
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: That would be?

877
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 2: All right? The two seed Minnesota Links. They have had

878
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: a great season. They're thirty and ten. They won the

879
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 2: Commissioner's Cup, basically the NBA Cup that the WNBA does.

880
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: They were seventeen and eight at the halfway point of

881
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: the season, finished thirty and ten, so they went thirteen

882
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: and two in the second half, and that includes losing

883
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 2: last night when they didn't play their start and a

884
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 2: piece of Collier or their sharpshooter Kaylee McBride. They've got

885
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 2: the best defense in the league. Collier puts up twenty

886
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 2: points ten rebounds a game, that's fifth and third in

887
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: the WNBA. She I think we'll probably finish second in

888
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 2: MBP voting after Asia Wilson great season for her cool

889
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: dark horse title. Pick I think as well. They got

890
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: the third best odds after the Liberty in the Aces

891
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 2: Mercury nineteen and twenty one. Biggest story is this might

892
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: be the last time. Diana Tarrazzi's plan could have been

893
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 2: her last home game last night since they're the lower seed.

894
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 2: She hasn't officially announced her retirement, but she kind of

895
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 2: gave like a going away speech last night. In her

896
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: last game nine points to assist. They lost to the Storm.

897
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 2: She was out in the third quarter of the fans

898
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 2: started going crazy. They brought her back out a that

899
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 2: would laugh. It's her twenty seat wow twenty a season,

900
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: she's averaging fifteen points, four rebounds and three assists. Of

901
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: forty two years old, so it's kind of like do

902
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 2: you want to retire, It's up to you. You've been

903
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 2: putting your life into this game for half of your life.

904
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 2: Do you want to chill go be the GM of

905
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: Saint Bonaventure or something like that, or do you just

906
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 2: want to come back? Because she's still obviously a solid player.

907
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 2: They also got one of my favorite players in the league,

908
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 2: Kalia Copper twenty one a game this season, third in

909
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 2: the league. She won a Finals MVP with the sky

910
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty one. Awesome Britney Grinder is still there.

911
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: Eighteen points, six rebounds, two blocks. They got a great

912
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 2: villain in Sophie Cunningham and I just recently watched a

913
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 2: video of them. I believe it was on Instagram and

914
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: as their players are coming in, they the admin is

915
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: holding a picture says, can you sign this picture? They

916
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 2: handed to the minutes a picture from like high school. Yeah,

917
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: and they're all disgusted.

918
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: Did they start this? Did they start that? I don't

919
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: know that other teams you're doing it? Yeah?

920
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 2: Would you be disappointed to see a picture of yourself

921
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 2: from high school?

922
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: Disappointed? Would die last?

923
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would be like, oh my god, I'd showing

924
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 2: it on.

925
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: And sign up for sure. I guess it depends a

926
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: little bit on the photo of there's better photos than

927
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: there are and then there's some crappy ones. But no,

928
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like some people take offense to it.

929
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: Do be tearing up their photos?

930
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 2: Yeah?

931
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: Exactly. Do you think the Mercury can win a game?

932
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: Could this be like a possibly a deciding game three?

933
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 2: Ah? My pick would be the Links in two games.

934
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: They got the best defense in the league, and you know,

935
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 2: CALLI a copper can score. Maybe we could have a

936
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 2: Tarazzi throwback game hot enough, I would at least give

937
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 2: I would at least give the Mercury a chance.

938
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going Link. I'm going Links obviously winning, but

939
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,959
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to happen in Phoenix. One more game,

940
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: one more game from the home crop.

941
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: Everything last night was like if this is it?

942
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

943
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 2: I thought that was funny. All right. Our best series

944
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 2: of the first round is no doubt going to be

945
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: the number three Connecticut Sun versus the number six Indiana Fever.

946
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 2: The Sun finished twenty eight and twelve. They are the

947
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 2: Sissifus of the WNBA because they keep getting very close

948
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 2: to winning the championship and they never do it. They've

949
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 2: made the semi finals or the finals in each of

950
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 2: the last five seasons without a championship, and they're good

951
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 2: again this year. Like I said twenty eight and twelve,

952
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: they're led by Alissa Thomas and Dewana Bonner, kind of

953
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 2: like a do it all forward, the all time leader

954
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: in triple doubles in the WNBA, Alessa Thomases and then

955
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: Dewana Bonner more of a scoring wing. They're engaged, and

956
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 2: they did a photo shoot together on the cover of

957
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 2: Slam magazine. Love and Basketball.

958
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: Holy, that's awesome.

959
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 2: Okay, what a wrinkle? Huh? Yeah, my god.

960
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: It's like, how do you beat love? How do you

961
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: beat Love's im Probably the Knicks are doing friendship. They

962
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: like straight love. Yeah, Okay.

963
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: They don't shoot many threes though they're a low three

964
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: point shooting team. They're like an old school smash and

965
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 2: bash kind of basketball team. They traded for Marina Maybriy

966
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 2: right after, like hours after we recorded with Sabrina Merchant

967
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 2: back in July. They're kind of like the Eastern Conference

968
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 2: against Lebron. They're good, The Sun are so good, but

969
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: they just don't have that number one to take them

970
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 2: over the top. They're playing against the Fever, who are

971
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 2: the most famous team in the history of women's basketball.

972
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: I would have to say, yeah, I don't think that's

973
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,720
Speaker 1: a stretch. It feels like every week I see Fever

974
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: because of Caitlyn' new Lark smash whatever attendance record. I

975
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: think they did another one last night in Washington probably,

976
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, it's like twenty one thousand or something.

977
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been awesome. They lost their first five games

978
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 2: this season, started one to eight, they were only eleven

979
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 2: and fifteen at the break, went nine to five in

980
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 2: the second half of the season, finished twenty and twenty,

981
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 2: and it basically feels like the reason they got so

982
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 2: good is Caitlyn Clark finally had a chance to rest.

983
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 2: The way the WNBA works, it's like she played her

984
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 2: college tournament, her last tournament there with Iowa, went into

985
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 2: the draft weeks later, and then is like into WNBA

986
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: regular season pretty quickly as well. Obviously there was the

987
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 2: controversy of her not getting selected to the Olympics team,

988
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,959
Speaker 2: but it meant she got an entire month off, came

989
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 2: back and has been awesome. Yeah, for the Fever, they've

990
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: been playing a lot faster. She's obviously feeling pretty good,

991
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: getting comfortable in the league. She had one of the

992
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: two best rookie seasons in WNBA history. It's like her

993
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: and Kandas Parker. Cannis Parker won MVP when she was

994
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: a rookie because she's the goat. But Caitlyn Clark did

995
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: break the all time single season assist record, first for

996
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 2: rookies and then just for every player. She iver just

997
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 2: twenty points and eight assists per game, finished in the

998
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: top twenty in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, free throw

999
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 2: percentage two point percentage, led the league in made threes

1000
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 2: and turnovers, and.

1001
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: So it's like Rookie of the Year lock. Especially I

1002
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: know Angel Reese and her like first month or so,

1003
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,959
Speaker 1: it was like neck and neck. Maybe it was a conversation, yes,

1004
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: and then obviously injury takes out Reece and Caitlyn Clark

1005
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 1: like up her game.

1006
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: She will win.

1007
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't the whole part too, didn't the fever have

1008
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: just because of the draw of Caitlyn Clark, all these

1009
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: nationally televised games, all these marquee games, and like their

1010
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: schedule was from what I recall, like really difficult, like

1011
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: they're playing all the best of the best teams because

1012
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: start of the season, the hype is real, let's cash.

1013
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 2: In on that totally.

1014
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: And then you know, as they started to play the

1015
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 1: wrestler of the season start racking up the wins.

1016
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 2: They played a lot of really good teams, like you're saying,

1017
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 2: and they were just jammed really close together, so it

1018
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 2: felt like they were playing every night that there was

1019
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: a WNBA game. And once they kind of got into

1020
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 2: the normal part of the season and Caitlyn Clark adjusted

1021
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: to playing and the w they've been great. She's an

1022
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 2: awesome pair with Kelsey Mitchell, another guard for the Fever.

1023
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: She averages twenty points per game. She's forty percent from three.

1024
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 2: You got those two in the backcourt. Tough to beat,

1025
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 2: especially with a Leah Boston up front fourteen points, nine rebounds,

1026
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: and every other big in the league hates her, hates

1027
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: her so much, like she gets in a fight almost

1028
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 2: every single game, and they're like, she like turns around

1029
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 2: and just looks very friendly. There's a lot of calming

1030
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: down that goes on with the Fever because Caitlyn is firing.

1031
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's fired, So they have I.

1032
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 2: Think they call it the de escalation committee so that

1033
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 2: she doesn't get technicals. Then I call him and calm

1034
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: her down. And then Leah Boston gets into fights like oh,

1035
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 2: I think he's just very physical and it wears on people.

1036
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: Like I said, this should be the best series of

1037
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 2: the first round upset watch, Yeah, Fever two to one

1038
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 2: over the Sun because.

1039
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 1: The way they're playing recently, and yeah, yeah, I just.

1040
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 2: Things change in the playoffs. But I don't think that

1041
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 2: the Sun can score with the Fever. As long as

1042
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 2: they're able to play their game, get into the open

1043
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: court and shoot a bunch of threes. It's definitely a

1044
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 2: possibility that Indiana could knock off Connecticut. Here. The Sun, though,

1045
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 2: are favorites in this series. I think they're a minus

1046
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: one eighty five according to Bed MGM.

1047
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Liberty Aces, who would you have winning that

1048
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: in the second round going to the final? I would

1049
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: pick the Aces whoa okay, and then hypothetically links versus Fever,

1050
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: you got Clark keeping the dream alive or is that

1051
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: links with the defense?

1052
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 2: I would pick the Links.

1053
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and then Ace's links Aces. It's a wow.

1054
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: Tk's calling it a hardcore, casual, hardcore, good stuff of breakdown.

1055
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: You cut me up. Hype that starts on Sunday.

1056
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 2: You said Sunday. All four games on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

1057
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 2: sun everybody's playing. It starts with New York's at on Connecticut,

1058
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 2: Indiana at three. That one's on ABC. A lot of

1059
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 2: eyeballs for sure, Phoenix, Minnesota, that's at five pm ESPN,

1060
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 2: and then Seattle Las Vegas ten pm ESPN, which I

1061
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 2: assume means we're waiting until after Sunday night football.

1062
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: There you go.

1063
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: I don't know who's doing.

1064
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: Okay, great stuff. In other WNBA news, too, professional women's

1065
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: basketball returning to Rose City for the first time in

1066
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: more than two decades after the WNBA announced Wednesday that

1067
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: has awarded Portland an expansion team that will begin play

1068
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. League record one hundred and twenty

1069
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: five million dollars for this franchise. That was ten million

1070
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Speaker 1: more than the ownership group in Toronto paid for its

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Speaker 1: expansion team, which is coming in twenty twenty five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Portland will join the WNBAS the league's fifteenth franchise.

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Speaker 1: After we know that San Francisco and Toronto are coming.

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Speaker 1: So Portland and I'll be us. I'd forgotten Portland had

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Speaker 1: a WNBA team. It wasn't there long. What was their name,

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Speaker 1: Portland Fire? Was there three seasons?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: My God says they won't go back with that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was two thousand to two thousand and two. That's it.

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Speaker 1: But Portland getting it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got Golden State Valkyries start next season,

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Speaker 2: and then Toronto and Portland are there for the next two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Portland. Their team does not have the same ownership as

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Speaker 2: the Trailblazers, just like the Raptors don't have any ownership

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Speaker 2: over the Toronto franchise. So I'm guessing the names won't

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Speaker 2: have anything to tie in, which like when you think back,

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Speaker 2: it's like Trail Blazers Fire. Maybe that's the league the

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Speaker 2: link there. Yes, yes, yes, Portland though they do have

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Speaker 2: the same ownership as the National Women's Soccer League team

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Speaker 2: that plays in Portland, the Portland Thorns. That's a cool name.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: Every rose has its thorn, and Portland is famous for

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Speaker 2: the Roses. I don't think Portland Roses necessarily sounds great

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Speaker 2: as a basketball team, but man Thorns is cool. And

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Speaker 2: they got a sweet logo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good looks cool. Well what else do

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Speaker 1: they have? What other was? It must be a MLS?

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Speaker 1: Is it the timber? Timbers? Yeah, timbers?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe it's timber. I don't know, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: No one knows.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you yell when a tree is falling

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Speaker 1: in a forest.

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Speaker 2: It's a timbers. It should be timber.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, well timbers is what I was. Yeah,

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00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: Paul Bunyan, maybe just chopping all on one swing. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the league is still planning to add a sixteenth team

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Speaker 1: as well. I know. Uh, the commissioner's on record saying

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Speaker 1: that because this league WNBA, it's a damn rocket ship,

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Speaker 1: like get in right now. Maybe we can pull some

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Speaker 1: money together. But uh, Philadelphia, Denver, and Nashville are all

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Speaker 1: among cities that have been most often reported as that

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Speaker 1: potential sixteenth slot. Cool, which I think they do want

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Speaker 1: to bring in not next year, but yeah when we

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Speaker 1: start talking Toronto and Portland, so maybe that would be

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Speaker 1: announced somewhat soon.

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Speaker 2: Philly, Denver, Nashville, Nashville seems like a.

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Speaker 1: Curveball a little bit. Yeah, with no I.

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Speaker 2: Mean Philly and Denver, obviously NBA teams. Maybe that's like Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I mean Tennessee is a women's or at least they

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Speaker 2: were a women's college basketball powerhouse. Yeah, similar to how

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Speaker 2: Connecticut has a team because Yukon is a powerhouse and

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Speaker 2: women's NCAA.

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Speaker 1: At the point, that's a good point.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they've been since pat Summit passed away, though,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they've been at the same level. Well,

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Speaker 2: they got a big they got a big fan base there,

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Speaker 2: so I'm sure that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: So we will see. So enjoy the WNBA playoffs this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll call it there. We will have new No Dunks

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Speaker 1: content next week, so make sure you subscribe, hit the

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Speaker 1: and we will be back next week with a few

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Speaker 1: As we get closer and closer and closer, yeah we are.

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Speaker 1: We are one month and change from the start the

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Speaker 1: NBA season, which is man, it's almost here. So we'll

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Speaker 1: start again gearing up to our sort of prediction content,

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Speaker 1: you know, where we start looking at the awards and

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Speaker 1: looking at the over unders and stuff like that. We're

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Speaker 1: getting closer. We're getting closer, but thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, Clipper Brooks.

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Speaker 2: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys. Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And I

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Speaker 2: always forget about thinking of a quote, but more hand Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like Portland fire, Is there anything there?

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00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: Like, nope, you got nothing.

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Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. There you go, have a tremendous weekend. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it's the Falcons playing something. So the Falcons Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's pretty well. I was gonna say it's pretty

1150
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: good game.

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00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:27,919
Speaker 2: Actually, it probably will be a goodame because the Chiefs

1152
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 2: just play close games. That's right. That's right there, Like

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Speaker 2: I let's just keep it close and we'll wins. Why

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00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 2: don't you check down again? It's like talking trash. I know,

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Speaker 2: I'm a Falcons fan.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're getting your buddy. No, are they going for

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Speaker 1: a three peet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: There you go. It might be the year of the

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Speaker 1: three pet three peaz are back to repeats? Aren't back there?

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Speaker 1: That's your quote? Finally we got there. Brace the weekend, people,