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Speaker 3: with the games and tasks. Whoa Babe Dame scores fifty

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Speaker 3: as the Blazer's rally from seventeen down in the last

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Speaker 3: woke up to Dame time. My goodness, this guy fifty

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the Pelicans are a bit of a horror show.

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Speaker 2: They're fun to watch because you never know what you're

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Speaker 2: a big deficit this season. The last six minutes they're

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Speaker 2: up seventeen. That does not happen. I think it was

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Speaker 2: This morning. Of course I went to bed. I had

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Speaker 2: I watched that Dame performance and it was a quiet

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Speaker 2: And that's what I was thinking watching this. He's a

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Speaker 2: You know. He hit six threes. That gives you eighteen

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Speaker 2: for a Dame, even though they didn't deserve to win

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Speaker 2: this game, and the Pelican should have should have sealed it,

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Speaker 2: no doubt. But you always got a puncher's chance when

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Speaker 2: you got Damian Lillard Lee.

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Speaker 3: You must have been going crazy when you saw the

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Speaker 3: with only one second inbounding it from your own basket,

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Speaker 3: but obviously didn't fall. But what'd you think of Lillard's

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Speaker 8: Yeah, incredible stuff.

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Speaker 4: Stan van Gunda, you could just see it on the

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Speaker 8: Low and lower.

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Speaker 4: He just knew what was coming. And it wasn't the

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Speaker 4: free throw line, as you mentioned it Ae Friday and

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Speaker 4: the Blizes thirty one for thirty one. The Pelicans actually

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Speaker 4: went sixteen for twenty, which is not bad, but it

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Speaker 4: have sealed this game for him if he basically and

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Speaker 4: And I looked at that stand Van Gundy and he

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Speaker 4: just knew it in that moment it was going to happen,

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Speaker 4: and they did. And when Lilard went to the free

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Speaker 4: But Lillard, he started off, he sort of knew it

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Speaker 4: I'm going to have to put up one of his

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Speaker 4: sort of thirty foot threes.

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Speaker 8: That one dropped.

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Speaker 4: Then he had a sort of spin around three, that

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Speaker 4: even though it was still about nine points, eight points,

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Speaker 4: it just sort of felt like the Pelicans were panicking already,

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Speaker 4: there and get that victory. But the Pelicans did themselves

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Speaker 4: bit of a holt. The player's defense is okay, but

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Speaker 4: it was more that I just didn't think the Pelicans

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Speaker 4: Look lenso here to three, but that was really about it.

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Speaker 4: So this one, this is a tough one here for

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Speaker 4: the Pelicans to lose this one. I mean, a seventeen

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Speaker 4: We always say he can come back from any margin.

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Speaker 8: You should not blow that.

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Speaker 4: One, but lillid Yeah, I mean, it wasn't Lillard just

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Speaker 8: It was just more sort.

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Speaker 4: Of like slowly, slowly just going to sort of wait

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Speaker 4: leading my team to victory.

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Speaker 8: And that's what he did.

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Speaker 4: So I'm disappointed we didn't get a classic Dame step

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Speaker 4: back three, you know, with the celebration, but it's just

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Speaker 4: as effective when you do it at the free throw

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Speaker 3: Steven Adams must have went to bed last night and

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Speaker 3: closed his eyes and saw in his nightmare Stemia Lillard. Man,

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Speaker 3: were they abusing him, putting him in the pick and roll?

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Speaker 3: And then Dean just going to work. And like Jackson Hayes,

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Speaker 1: Can move a lot quicker, he's a lot younger.

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Speaker 3: He can shuffle those feet, so he can do a

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Speaker 3: better job trying to stay in front of a guard

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Speaker 2: But that's all right.

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Speaker 3: Lillard can hit from thirty, he'll pull in his eye.

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Speaker 3: But my god, Steven Adams was just getting embarrassed, like

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Speaker 3: I mean it was, you know, just Lillard sees they

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Speaker 3: I saw that worldwide. WOB tweeted test that this is

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Speaker 3: no surprise to everybody that's been watching the show all season.

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Speaker 3: Here no dunks, but Lillard leads the league in clutch

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Speaker 3: points scored one hundred and twenty four total clutch points

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Speaker 1: He has not missed.

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Speaker 3: he's shooting fifty five percent from three and sixty one

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Speaker 3: the Blazers have an incredible record in these close games.

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Speaker 1: I mean that right there is his MVP case, right,

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: you know, Nurk coming up.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe in the next two weeks.

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Speaker 3: But that's Lillard MVP case, it's just like the guy

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Speaker 3: takes over in close games. But you wonder how high

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Speaker 3: how many wins do the Blazers need to get.

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Speaker 1: Where do they need to be.

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Speaker 3: In the standings for him to actually legit have a

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Speaker 3: where they are now? Like, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think this goes back even to the All

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Speaker 2: Star Game and where Luka Doncic was picked over him

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Speaker 2: as the starter. Dame didn't complain, you know, he didn't.

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Speaker 2: He didn't mention that he should have been the starter.

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Speaker 2: But he definitely should have been the starter. And I'm

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Speaker 4: You could clearly see though that offense for the Sixers

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Speaker 8: Was a good win for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 4: It looked like the Knicks were going to be able

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Speaker 4: what he did last night against Nicks. A couple, I

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Speaker 4: That's what you need from Alida. And so he was

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Speaker 4: Tobias Harris. I didn't know Tobias Harris talk trashy.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know he even knew what to say or

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Speaker 3: last night for the seventy six Ers. He didn't good

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Speaker 3: for them all season, There's no doubt, shooting unbelievable percentages,

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Speaker 3: you know, a lot. There was a lot of debate

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Toby, Toby, Toby, It was fun to watch him go.

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Speaker 2: It never rains in southern Philadelphia. That's a Tony Tony

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Speaker 2: let's it feels good to see Tobias Harris talk some trash.

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Speaker 2: Let's get down with that. I want to see more

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Speaker 2: He is their fourth quarter score. He's got to be

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Speaker 4: And that's what happened down in the Bubble. He was

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Speaker 8: But this is fine. It's now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, next game, Donovan Mitchell's late three helps the Jazz

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Speaker 3: Had d Wade fallen in love with Jordan and Clarkson.

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00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess Shaqo was sort of too. Everybody's

437
00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,280
Speaker 3: loving Jordan clarks I thought Lee was the only one

438
00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,120
Speaker 3: saying that guy should be an All Star. Mike Conley

439
00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,119
Speaker 3: scored seventeen and then Rudy Gobert I thought, had like

440
00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,680
Speaker 3: a dominant game for only sixteen twelve in the box score,

441
00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,399
Speaker 3: a huge difference maker over his last two games. Rudy's

442
00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,440
Speaker 3: got forty points, forty four wards, and eight blocks. That's

443
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,359
Speaker 3: what you want from your center position. So like they

444
00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,040
Speaker 3: got contributions the Jazz did from their their main four guys,

445
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,760
Speaker 3: and that's big. But let's talk a little Celtics, because

446
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,160
Speaker 3: this team is weird.

447
00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:12,920
Speaker 1: They now fall.

448
00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,159
Speaker 3: Into eighth to eight this season against the teams with

449
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,920
Speaker 3: the five best records in the NBA.

450
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:19,600
Speaker 1: They're zero and two against the Jazz.

451
00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,280
Speaker 3: They lost to the Suns, they lost twice to the Sixers,

452
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,440
Speaker 3: lost twice to the Nets, and lost once to the Lakers,

453
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,040
Speaker 3: oh and eight. When you add it all up, they're

454
00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,000
Speaker 3: the worst fourth quarter team in the league. What do

455
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,680
Speaker 3: you make of this squad? I mean, Danny Ainge has

456
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,200
Speaker 3: to has to do something right at this All Star

457
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,800
Speaker 3: break and lean into maybe like as big as a

458
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,440
Speaker 3: move that he can make, because this is like they're

459
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,680
Speaker 3: just looking like a five hundred team here. And that's

460
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,960
Speaker 3: with a great Tatum performance and a great Brown performance

461
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,480
Speaker 3: last night. But they should be much better than this. Totally.

462
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,919
Speaker 2: They are one of the enigmas of this season for me,

463
00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,440
Speaker 2: and I don't know if a trade really makes them

464
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,439
Speaker 2: much better. It has to come within. They have to

465
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 2: play defense like they did in the fourth quarter in

466
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 2: this game. They cared in the fourth quarter, but they

467
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 2: got to play it a little more consistently throughout the game.

468
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 2: They just don't look like Brad Steven Celtics teams that

469
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 2: play really hard. They don't, you know, it's it is

470
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 2: a weird season, and they didn't have Tatum for several

471
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 2: weeks and something happened.

472
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Speaker 1: I just don't there for a good chunk.

473
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I thought, yeah, I thought Smart would come

474
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,119
Speaker 2: back and just everything would be, you know, key into

475
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,920
Speaker 2: the key hole done. You know, I thought Smart would

476
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 2: just bring everything back. But they're they're not them. It's

477
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,159
Speaker 2: not them. So what like a Harrison Barnes is the

478
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 2: rumor from the Sacramento that would kind of be you know,

479
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,760
Speaker 2: you know, they're they're sort of glue guy, whether it's

480
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,160
Speaker 2: a small ball five, they try and figure it out

481
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 2: that way. With Harrison Barnes a very good player. He's

482
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 2: still having a good year for Sacramento, but I don't

483
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 2: think he changes their defensive mentality, and I just think

484
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 2: it really has to come within. So there this team

485
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 2: just I don't know something something is off and I'm

486
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 2: not sure any trade, like if is there a rumored

487
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 2: deal out there that makes them great? Yeah, there's Emmanuel

488
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: Guzman is throwing it out in the stream team if

489
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 2: the Celtics should trade for Thagic as they're calling Thaddeus

490
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 2: Young in Chicago because he's having a great season. He

491
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 2: is great a small ball five there. Yeah, he would,

492
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 2: he would, he'd be he'd be a good glue piece,

493
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 2: no doubt. Again, I don't. I don't know. There's a

494
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 2: there's a there's a mentality that even Thaddeus Young who's

495
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 2: having a great year, doesn't really change on the defense. Man,

496
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 2: I hate to talk about defense, especially here, you know,

497
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 2: filling in for TK here, but uh yeah, that's what

498
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 2: it is to me. It's not the offense. As you said,

499
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown are all stars and then

500
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 2: can carry a team offensively. Yeah, they didn't get to

501
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 2: the free throw line a ton yesterday and that's an issue.

502
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 2: But I don't think Thaddeus Young is is going to

503
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 2: solve who they are. That's that's that's different. That's a

504
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 2: that's a that's another question. And maybe it's just a

505
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: strange season that's throwing them off, or maybe they think

506
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: that they can just go into the playoffs and kick ass,

507
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 2: because that's the way they played yesterday against the Jazz.

508
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: They kind of just waited till the fourth quarter to

509
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 2: turn it on.

510
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 3: What do you think lee from this one or the

511
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 3: Celtics overall here basically five hundred.

512
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was up until basically halfway through

513
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 4: that fourth quarter when the Jazz took control and the

514
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 4: Celtics then just seemed to be scrapping. And it's really

515
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 4: I mean, you've mentioned Gobert and I thought he was dominant.

516
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 4: He needs to be more dominant when he doesn't really

517
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 4: go up against another team that has a big that

518
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 4: can really contain him because he's long, he's athletic, he

519
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,959
Speaker 4: run the floor last night. Yeah, Robert Williams is athletic himself,

520
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 4: but he is a reserve center. And then you've got

521
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 4: Tys who's he's a stretch center. You know, he had

522
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 4: a decent game himself there last night. But I think

523
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 4: that's where the Celtics need to improve. I don't think

524
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 4: Harrison Barnes is the answer. I think they need to

525
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,719
Speaker 4: decide what they're don't doing in the middle. Andre Drummonds

526
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 4: out there, I don't know if he's the answer or not,

527
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 4: but I'm just not sure that Tys is also the entry.

528
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 4: He's more just a stretch big rather than the big

529
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 4: that I think they need. Because you know, Marcus Smart

530
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 4: last night, he was back, he's been back, and he

531
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 4: didn't shoot all that well. He gives them that perimeter

532
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 4: defense that I think they need. Offensively, when you've got

533
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 4: Kember playing, Tatum and Brown, They've got enough offensive weapons

534
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 4: out there. I don't think they need another guy like

535
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 4: Harrison Barnes because he's not a great defender for them.

536
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 4: I just think they need some more help in the middle.

537
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 4: But also just in that fourth quarter, like they gave

538
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 4: up forty points. You can't afford to do that. Even

539
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 4: though the Jazz are a great team, you know, offensively

540
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 4: they're exceptional, and they scored a lot of points and

541
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 4: Donovan Mitchell hit those big threes late, which is, you know,

542
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 4: that's what a good team should do. But you can't

543
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 4: give up forty points at home. It just cannot do

544
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 4: that in the fourth quarter. If it happens in the

545
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 4: first quarter. Okay, sometimes that happens. Teams will get out

546
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 4: to a slow start. But in a situation where you've

547
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 4: got one of the best teams, not quite on the ropes,

548
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 4: but in a position to beat them, and you can

549
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,919
Speaker 4: see forty in that last quarter, it's just not going

550
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 4: to get it done. So I think they need to

551
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 4: look into someone like Drummond and just see if he

552
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 4: can help them in the middle a little bit, because

553
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 4: I don't think Tyson Williams can together can fill that hole.

554
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 3: You think there's a trade still be made for Miles Turner.

555
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 3: You may have to sweeten the pot a little bit more,

556
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 3: but he sure would help inside if that's what you're

557
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 3: concerned about.

558
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he would be an upgrade for them, for sure.

559
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 4: He has his own issues defensively in the pick and roll,

560
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 4: but as far as his presence blocking shots, he's an

561
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 4: improves them there, and that is one of the rumors

562
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 4: that being touted. I'm not sure what the Pacers would

563
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 4: want in return though, for him, because that's the question.

564
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 4: I mean then obviously not going to give up one

565
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 4: of their younger players. I guess Danny Angel still got

566
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: some picks out there. But yeah, I think that's where

567
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 4: they have to win everything. I think that's where Danny

568
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 4: Ainge nearly needs to almost make a trade for it

569
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 4: anyway in that position and shore up the middle. Yeah.

570
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 3: I saw a Celtics blog rating this morning that it

571
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 3: feels like the Celtics at this point the season basically

572
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 3: being five hundred as we near the trade deadline, that

573
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 3: Danny Ainge has to pick like one or two roads here.

574
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: One you got to package all.

575
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 3: These young guys and the picks you do have and

576
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 3: really go for a difference maker and try and get

577
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: somebody in here to like help your chances to go

578
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 3: deep in the playoffs. Or Two, the opposite of that is, Okay,

579
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 3: we are what we are. We're probably not a title contender. Well,

580
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 3: now let's lean into playing some of our own young

581
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 3: guys more minutes because this is the thing that's going on. Okay,

582
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 3: So time Lord then has to get more minutes over

583
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 3: Tristan Thompson. Now Thompson was injured last night, he didn't play.

584
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 3: Time Lord got a lot of those, so that's fine,

585
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 3: but Pritchard needs to get more, you know, like they

586
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 3: need to then go that way and that's not tanking,

587
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,479
Speaker 3: that's just like that's development and getting some of these

588
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 3: young guys more reps and stuff like that. But that

589
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 3: the Celtics are at this point where they have to

590
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 3: pick one of the two. Now, like you're saying tasks, Well,

591
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 3: if you're picking the one where you're packaging your young players.

592
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: Who, by the way, aren't all.

593
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 3: That enticing I think to a lot of teams because

594
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 3: they have not knocked it out of the park with

595
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 3: a lot of these picks, and you put them together

596
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 3: in picks like who are you getting, Like who's the

597
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 3: difference maker? Because you don't think it's Harrison Barnes, you know,

598
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 3: it's probably not even like Aaron Gordon, John Collins. I mean,

599
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: I think you can just sort of go through the

600
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 3: list of available guys outside of putting Jaalen Brown in

601
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 3: any sort of trade deal where you're then maybe getting

602
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 3: now well exactly, but you'd have to do that to

603
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 3: get like a Beal or Karl Anthony Towns or like

604
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 3: a big name player, because you're not going to be

605
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 3: able to get them. And you're right, that's like yours

606
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 3: here you're saying no, no, no, you're not going to do

607
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 3: that you're not going to split up the Bean town

608
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 3: boys there in Tatum and Brown. Well, no, you're probably

609
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 3: not yet, not yet, you'd rather go the other route.

610
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 3: But I think they do have to pick one here,

611
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 3: one or the other because they're just not that great

612
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 3: a team right now. They're not a title contender. You

613
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 3: watch them, We watched a lot of Celtics. You don't

614
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 3: look at them going, oh yeah, this team's winning three

615
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: or four rounds. You just don't, like, there's no chance.

616
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 2: It's just why, it wasn't that long ago that you

617
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 2: would look at them like that, you know, last season anyway,

618
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 2: where they seem like they were on the precipice of

619
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 2: being good. So yeah, is it a glued dude as

620
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 2: somebody who somebody who can pull that defense together. Is

621
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,479
Speaker 2: it a big who can really influence on them on

622
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 2: that end or can influence the locker room on that end.

623
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 2: I think it's somebody that kind of just has to be.

624
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if it comes from the outside though,

625
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: like somebody that can just bring them all together, because yeah,

626
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 2: I love some of their young pieces. I know that

627
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 2: most people aren't high on them, and that that makes

628
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: sense because they haven't produced a lot.

629
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: What pieces are you high on in all honesty.

630
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: Only only one. I guess high high on a piece

631
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 2: I like. I like aaron Ne Smith. He hasn't been

632
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: able to play, never play a season. Yeah, yeah, he

633
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 2: was injured. He barely had a camp. And he's he's

634
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: played a little bit. I mean he is. He's a

635
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 2: wing score that's what he is. And he can shoot,

636
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: but he's you know, he's a little guy. If you're

637
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: gonna put him in Pritchard on the floor and play

638
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: them a ton, they're not going to be a playoff

639
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: championship team that way. So I understand there's there's something

640
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 2: has to happen, you know, bigger than that, Bigger than

641
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 2: those guys. And and yeah, maybe Drummond's something, but again

642
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: it's a locker room thing for me.

643
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 3: Other games from last night, just quickly. Jimmy Butler scored

644
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: twenty eight. He'd stay hot one thirteen ninety eight win

645
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 3: over the cast. Zach Lavine' scored forty as the Bulls

646
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 3: beat the Thunder one twenty three, one oh two. Hawks

647
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 3: would again one nineteen, one oh seven. The Rockets lost

648
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 3: now seventeen straight games. Wow, it's getting up there. What's

649
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Speaker 3: the record.

650
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Speaker 1: I mean they're getting closed.

651
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Speaker 4: Twenty six, the sixes, the sixes, I think it was, Yeah,

652
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 4: Calves are sixers.

653
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Calves. I think the Calves still

654
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 2: hold that streak. Now, if you go to that dumb

655
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 2: Wikipedia page, which I did this morning, the longest losing streaks,

656
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: there's a top The top team is twenty eight, but

657
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: that goes over two seasons.

658
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 8: Philadelphia.

659
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 2: Yeah it doesn't count. No, it doesn't count. So twenty

660
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: six I think is the actual record. Am I right?

661
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like, yeah it is. It's twenty six. It's Cleveland.

662
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: But Philadelphia has that record as well from the season prior,

663
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: but that was obviously when they were just tanking.

664
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Speaker 8: But yeah, we'll get there.

665
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 2: Is supposed to be back next game.

666
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: Oh that's true. They haven't won a game when he hasn't.

667
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: Played r Yeah, he left, they started losing, so you know,

668
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: if he could bookend that losing streak, he'd look awfo,

669
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: he comes back and they win, he's gonna look great.

670
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 3: And then the final game Lebron ninety ninth triple double,

671
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: the great, the great one. Wayne Gretzky shout it to him.

672
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: The Lakers crush the Wolves one thirty seven one. Just

673
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: a few things from those games. You know, we were joking,

674
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 3: we're always talking about the MVP conversation the table.

675
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: We said last time.

676
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 3: I think we talked about Jimmy Butler that he's at

677
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 3: the bar right lely, he's not at the table.

678
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: He's at the bar.

679
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: He is definitely ordering shots for everybody, bartenders included. He's

680
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 3: having way more fun I think at the bar. Everybody's

681
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 3: like a little more buttoned up, a little more formal

682
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 3: at the actual MVP table. But Jimmy's going crazy. He

683
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: is playing phenomenal as the heat keep rolling. So you know, yeah,

684
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: talk about yeah, go ahead.

685
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 4: Well just with the Celtics again losing last night and

686
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 4: you know it's a it's a game and a half.

687
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 8: They're up on them.

688
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 4: The Charlotte Hornes are actually in fifth now and the

689
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: hate I think I got the paces in the next

690
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 4: two games here. But yeah, this is this is Jimmy

691
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 4: Butler just out there, just like I'm a very very

692
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 4: good player when I play, and it just changes so

693
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 4: many things for Miami because when they were down and

694
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 4: I think they were seven games below five hundred at

695
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: one point, they look bad but he just comes back

696
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 4: and just installs the mentality on that team, that heat culture.

697
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 4: Okay it was against the Cabs, sure, but still this

698
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 4: is where they just need to quietly bank those wings

699
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 4: and climb in the standings. And they're doing a great

700
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 4: job of it. Jimmy, he hasn't played enough games. He

701
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 4: just can't get in the m VP conversation. They won't

702
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 4: let him at the table, the Waights coming over and saying, no,

703
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 4: I haven't got any more chance.

704
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 8: It's all crammed in there.

705
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 4: But yeah, you can buy a round of shots for

706
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 4: the boys.

707
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 3: He's celebrated. Trusts men might get there. Give him a

708
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: little bit more time here. They keep winning. Who's got a.

709
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 8: Better chance, jim Jimmy or Lillard? Do you think of

710
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 8: pulling it off as a dark horse?

711
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: Lillard by a mile? Yeah, I mean, I don't even

712
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 3: think that's a question. Like Lillard will be a top

713
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 3: five for sure at the end of the season. If

714
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: he didn't play a game from the should he should

715
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 3: be will?

716
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 8: It just depends on the wins and a big ISSU.

717
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 3: But Jimmy's going to try and get his way to

718
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 3: that table. He might figure out a way. He'll walk

719
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: over in his cow boy moods and stuff like that.

720
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, the wedder be distracted. He would just grab a

721
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 8: table from from an.

722
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 3: Pull up another table like he's slight like that. Shout

723
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 3: out to Tray Kirby. I wish he was here this week.

724
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 3: He's destroying me this week. I started thinking about it.

725
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 3: Bulls defeated the Raps, right, I think that was on Sunday,

726
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 3: so we're talking about it on Monday, Trace Bowles of course.

727
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 3: And then last night Trey's Bulls defeat my second favorite team,

728
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 3: Canadian Thunder. So he's rolling and Trey uh. If you

729
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 3: are watching or listening later in the day, Lowry marketing

730
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: huge dunk on sweet Moses Brown, who had a decent

731
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: game for okay, see by the way, but that could

732
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Speaker 3: be his first top shot moment. Who knows doesn't have

733
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: one yet?

734
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: You he doesn't have one yet. This has got to

735
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: be a moment. This was a monstrous Maybe because it's

736
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: lowry marketing it maybe it didn't go up like you

737
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 2: know in Anthony Edwards dunk. But this is huge on

738
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: a guy. Yeah, you know, people didn't give this enough love.

739
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 2: Stacey King went bonkers. Yeah you know it was on

740
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: Moses Brown and he Stacy King immediately he said, what

741
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: did Brown do to you?

742
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 7: Oh?

743
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: It's so good, good way to go see say you're and.

744
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: The final sort of, I guess it's a question. From

745
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 3: those other games, as I called them, Tess, I noticed

746
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 3: on this Morning's What you Need to Know that you

747
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 3: avoided saying anything about the Atlanta Hawks and they won

748
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 3: their sixth consecutive game. And I've been watching, I've been

749
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: loving your morning shows, and every time the Hawks would win,

750
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 3: you would make a point of saying, yeah, yeah, I'm

751
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 3: not buying into it. It doesn't really mean much. Yeah,

752
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: they have a loss with name may million. Not yet

753
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: you did it after like win three, four or five

754
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: and then six, you didn't say anything, So have you?

755
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: Are you coming around or now? I was against the Rockets.

756
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 3: Who cares even though they're six and zero under name mcmellon.

757
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I love my man Lloyd Pierce, so I'm

758
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: always gonna say the Hawks made a mistake when they

759
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: fucked him. But I did mention them. I said, you know,

760
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: Gallinari has As has finally turned it around. That's very

761
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 2: big for them. And you know he looks like the

762
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 2: guy that they signed for twenty million dollars per That

763
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: makes sense. He stretches the floor and Trey's finding. But listen,

764
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: they obviously have something going on that's good that I

765
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 2: will never give them credit for. But ain gonna happen. Listen,

766
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: They've got to flow about them. They seem to know

767
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: their roles. I mean, this is a week till the

768
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 2: trade deadline, and now there's going to be something else

769
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: that's going to be thrown at them. They can't go

770
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 2: forward with the same rotation. I don't think. I think

771
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: there's going to be another change, and I don't know

772
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: if this is going to last all that long. That's

773
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 2: all I gotta say. You know, John Collins feeling good

774
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: in his role, you know, playing seventeen and nine, but

775
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,239
Speaker 2: he wants to be a max guy. So is he

776
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 2: going to beat dealt? But they have beat the teams

777
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: that they are in front of, and Gallinari ball in

778
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: four of his last five games twenty plus yet twenty

779
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: nine in this one. Tony Snell can't miss, and so

780
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 2: you can't just load up on Trey Young at this point.

781
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're beating teams that they should be beating. Yeah,

782
00:33:59,160 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: because they.

783
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 3: Don't have a like big big comebacks too, like that

784
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: they maybe had no right to win. But you're right,

785
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: you're right. Look, hey, their whole goal with firing Lloyd

786
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: Pierce was get in the damn playoffs. Get in the

787
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 3: play in tournament. And you know, okay, six game winning

788
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 3: streak in the Eastern Conference, that's going to help you

789
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 3: in the standing. So they're getting the.

790
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: Dubs for them, and even if the competition hasn't been that.

791
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 4: Great, they've got They've got the Thunder next at home,

792
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 4: and then they go on game road.

793
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 3: There we go, there, we go right their.

794
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 4: Flat and they've got yeah, the clip as like as

795
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 4: the Nuggets Sun.

796
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 8: So we might find out which sort of team they

797
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 8: are at the end of.

798
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 2: That eight games. That's a lot. And Sam Youonodo mentions

799
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 2: this in the stream team that I did this to

800
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: Yannis when I called Jannis overrated in twenty fifteen. I

801
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: was you know, well, listen, I wasn't wrong then, but

802
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: I'm not smart enough to be using reverse psychology here either.

803
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: I live in Atlanta. I want to see the Hawks great,

804
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, I'm just not buying it quite yet.

805
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 2: But hey, I hope I really hope they do turn

806
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: it around. I thought this would be a playoff team

807
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 2: coming in the season. True, Hey, let's watch some some

808
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: thunder Hawks on Thursday night.

809
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 3: Can't wait, all right, steime for is this news? Oh,

810
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 3: it's been so long since I give you guys an

811
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 3: NBA headline and you tell me whether or not it's

812
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 3: actually newsworthy. First one, bleacher Report, Doc Rivers says Ben

813
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 3: Simmons is a lock, according him, there to win NBA

814
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Year. Juicy headline, Bleacher Report. They're

815
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 3: really good at these headlines. Lely, is this news?

816
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 4: No, this is not news that Doc Rivers would support

817
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 4: one of his own players. In twenty fifteen, he wanted

818
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 4: an investigation if DeAndre Jordan didn't win Defensive Player of

819
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 4: the Year. He didn't win Defensive Player of the Year.

820
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 4: Ben Simmons is a lock in my opinion for the

821
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Speaker 4: All Defensive team he was last season, but a luck

822
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 4: for winning Defensive Player of the Year. He's far from it.

823
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 4: I think Rudy Gobert is in the box seat to

824
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 4: win that this season. From it, I don't know both well,

825
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 4: he's far from a lock. I mean a luck to

826
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 4: me is like Jordan Clarkson's a lock to win six

827
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 4: Man of the Year. The LaMelo Balls are locked to

828
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: win Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 8: I would not.

830
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Speaker 4: Say, I would not say that there's anyone else really

831
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Speaker 4: in a award position who's a lock at this stage.

832
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 4: I would sa Rudygobert is the favorite. You know, MVP,

833
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 4: there's several favorites right now. But you know, a coach

834
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 4: really sees and has someone like Ben Simmons at disposal

835
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Speaker 4: to say, guard the point guard, guard, the center guard,

836
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 4: the power forward guard, the shooting guards. Is out on

837
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 4: the perimeter, rebound the ball, start the fast break. That's

838
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 4: clearly what Ben Simmons does for the Philadelphia seventy six

839
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 4: is and I think Doc Rivers wants more recognition for

840
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 4: him because of that. I think most people now, even

841
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 4: casuals to the game, appreciate what Ben Simmons does defensively.

842
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 4: But when it comes to defense, you know, statistically, these

843
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 4: things just don't stand out as much as if, like

844
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 4: a guy like Bradley Bill's having thirty five points a game,

845
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 4: for example, you say, wow, see he's clearly having a

846
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 4: great season. You can't always see in the box score

847
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 4: the statistical impact that someone like Ben Simmons has on

848
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 4: them defensively. But when you're watching the game and his

849
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 4: players got the ball, they almost every time pass out

850
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 4: or can't get a good shot off, or they can't

851
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 4: beat him off the dribble because he's so versatile and

852
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 4: he's so quick. So those sorts of things that the

853
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 4: eye test proves it more than the statistics do. But

854
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 4: he's an incredible defender. And you know, Doc Rivers I'm

855
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 4: sure is thrilled to have him, of course on his team,

856
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,959
Speaker 4: but he is not a lock to win Defensive Player

857
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 4: of the Year tas.

858
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: What do you think, No, he's not a lock. But

859
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 2: it is good that the common fan is understanding what

860
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 2: Ben does because he is a badass on that end.

861
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: And I think you know the stats of like deflections

862
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Speaker 2: and loose balls recovered and the hustle stats as they

863
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Speaker 2: are listed on NBA dot com. Thanks John Schuman for

864
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 2: updating that every morning. Those are becoming and should be

865
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 2: becoming a little bit more part of the chat when

866
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 2: we talk defense. I think those are super perperate. Fred

867
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 2: Vane Feliet has been thrown in there as the leading

868
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Speaker 2: deflections man, So I love, I love talking about Ben

869
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 2: Simmons because with what he does. But it's it's just

870
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 2: hard for a you know, a wing type guy, a

871
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: guy who doesn't guard the rim essentially because he does

872
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 2: guard everybody. It's it's totally true, but he doesn't necessarily

873
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 2: guard the rim. It's hard in today's NBA where nobody's

874
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 2: you know, touching anybody, to win it on the perimeter,

875
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 2: it's easier. It's still easier for for a big guy

876
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 2: to do it, especially because you can get to the

877
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: rim so easy. So big guys make an impact. So, uh,

878
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: you know, Ben could, he could, he could win it,

879
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 2: and uh, Doc is you know Doc's.

880
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: Trying to help.

881
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's also trying to help his guy, you know,

882
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: be more confident on the offensive end too. I think

883
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 2: you know, he's just trying to trying to pump him up, because, yeah,

884
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid, you're our m v P. But we're not

885
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: just gonna win with Joel Embiid. Tobias Harris, you're an

886
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: all star, but you know, we we also need Ben

887
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: Simmons to be great. So it's uh, Docs, Doc so

888
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: a master motivator. That's why he's been so good for

889
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:02,959
Speaker 2: so long.

890
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: I like this comment here from PJ. Lee does to

891
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 3: Ben what Task did to Giannis. Ozzy to Ozzie, Greek

892
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: to Greek, No hate, just love. I see what you

893
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 3: guys are doing your countryman. Yeah, and then you like say, ah,

894
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 3: you're not there yet, you can be better.

895
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Speaker 1: Just tough love.

896
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 3: It worked for Giannis two time MVP, you know, Task

897
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 3: calling him over righted way back in the day. And

898
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 3: then now I see what you're doing here, Lee, Yeah,

899
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 3: you could be better. You could hit us three, you

900
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 3: could lock it up a little bit more defensive. You

901
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 3: guys are smart man.

902
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 2: Yeah.

903
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 4: Well, Ben's dad, Dave, of course, used to play for

904
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 4: the Melbourne Tigers.

905
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Speaker 3: It's funny because my favorite sitcom in Australia Ben's friend,

906
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: Ben's dad Dave.

907
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: I think from what I remember that Dave, he was

908
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 4: a much more talented offensive player, but not as good defensively.

909
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 4: So somehow there was like almost like a Freaky Friday

910
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 4: sort of situations happened with right Ben's become an incredible

911
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: defensive player and not a great shooter of the ball anyway.

912
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 4: Offensively is good, but just not a great shooter of

913
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 4: the ball. But Andrew Gaze used to throw those loves

914
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Speaker 4: to beat Dive Simmons The Double D's Dave Simmons. Dave

915
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 4: called which shout out to the Melbourne talking my goodness.

916
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, four morning poops putting in the comment section

917
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Speaker 3: in the stream team skeets get that going for SGA

918
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 3: there starts saying he'll never make an All Star team.

919
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 2: Wow.

920
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to, you know, flip it on its

921
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 3: head here and stop saying he's gonna make it.

922
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: Say you're never.

923
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 3: Gonna make a kid, You're gonna be h. You're just

924
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: gonna be always on the outs. It's a good idea.

925
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 3: I love this reverse psychology. You get these guys playing harder. Okay,

926
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Speaker 3: next one the Athletic. Yeah, show out to the athletic guys.

927
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Speaker 3: Go subscribe the Athletic dot com slash no dunes. We

928
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Speaker 3: did confirmed tests one dollar a month for new subscribers.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct? I confirmed it was headed in that direction.

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Speaker 2: Have you checked? I haven't checked me neither.

931
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Speaker 1: But we we've been We've told the higher ups that.

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Speaker 3: We need to. We've done our Yeah, we we've done

933
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Speaker 3: our jump. It's a good way to put it.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

935
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Speaker 3: So the headline though from the Athletic Lebron James becomes

936
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Speaker 3: part owner of the Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: Is this news test.

938
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Speaker 2: Very good head The Athletic can write some good headlines too. Yeah.

939
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: So Lebron thirty six years of age, young man. He's

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Speaker 2: already owned two percent of the Liverpool soccer franchise, which

941
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: is owned by this same ownership group that also owns

942
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Speaker 2: the Boston Red Sox. He's got a relationship with him,

943
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: so he's expanding that relationship. And yeah, this is huge

944
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: news because the Fenway Sports Group which owns the Sox,

945
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 2: owns Liverpool. It's among the largest ownership entities in the world.

946
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Speaker 2: I've learned recently he and Maverick Carter will become the

947
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 2: first black partners of that entity. So yes, very very

948
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: big news. Congrats to them and congrats to FSG. Also though,

949
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 2: just on another front, when he was asked about this,

950
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 2: he was asked about purchasing an NBA team, So this

951
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: is big news to me. The Athletic writer Yova and

952
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 2: Buha transcribed it. He reiterated that he wants to own

953
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: his NBA franchise after he retires. Quote, that's my goal.

954
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 2: My goal is to own an NBA franchy and it'll

955
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Speaker 2: be sooner than later?

956
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Speaker 3: Excuse me?

957
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy's got a plan. Uh, you know, he's

958
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: always calculated. So when's it happening sooner rather than later?

959
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 2: He's still got to play a few years. There's no

960
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 2: way he can own one, you know, in the next

961
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: few years. That's not legal. You can own the Sacks,

962
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,959
Speaker 2: but you can't own any team in the NBA until

963
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: you retire. So, I mean, he's probably gonna do it.

964
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 2: When he was early forties, has already got a plan.

965
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 2: Was he bringing the Sonics back?

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Speaker 3: I want to know what team franchise is Lebron James

967
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,280
Speaker 3: going to own. That's fascinating to me, Like is it

968
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 3: is it an expansion team because by then or you know,

969
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 3: are we adding teams? Is there new squad?

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00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: I think I think it's the Sonics. I think it's

971
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: the Songs because how can he say how can he

972
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 2: say I'm going to own a team when he doesn't

973
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 2: know if it's going to be sold. He seems like

974
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 2: he's got a plan, you know, and that he was well.

975
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: I think he's just got a lot of money.

976
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 4: But does he have does he have does he have

977
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 4: franchise owning money?

978
00:42:58,920 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: Though?

979
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 4: I mean, you're looking at with think at least two

980
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 4: and two and a half billion to get started on

981
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 4: any team. I mean you can take teams like the

982
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 4: Lakers and the Knicks. He's not going to be able

983
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 4: to afford them. So maybe an expansion team. But even

984
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 4: for Lebron as much money as he's got, you know,

985
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 4: that's a that's a different level when you have owning

986
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 4: an NBA franchise money. And I mean he'll obviously get

987
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 4: other people to come along and investors and things like that,

988
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 4: but still, I mean he's like, how much what do

989
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 4: you think he's net worth is right now? I think

990
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 4: he's worth a billion. I mean probably.

991
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know.

992
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 3: I actually no, I never know when these things, but

993
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 3: I think Lebron wouldn't have a problem when it's all said.

994
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: Finding.

995
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's played finding people who, yeah, to go into

996
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: business with him. Yeah, franchise, let's just put that.

997
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, getting his tentacles out there right now. Yeah, for

998
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 2: years he has developed a relationship with with FSG here

999
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: Fenway Sports Group. That's monstrous. I don't know how much

1000
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: money he has, but I definitely know he can afford

1001
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: The Athletic dot Com slash no Dunk subscription for one

1002
00:43:59,360 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 2: dollar a month.

1003
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: Pretty you think Lebron has got a subscription to the Athletic.

1004
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: I bet you he does.

1005
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's reading Bouha for sure, there's no doubt.

1006
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 4: I want to know if there's uh some from some

1007
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 4: Bean town boys in the in the stream team here,

1008
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 4: how do they feel about Lebron owning a Boston team

1009
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: because he already owns the Celtics technically, but h chapters.

1010
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 3: Fans were catching strays like I saw that to be

1011
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 3: going around, like what Lebron already owns well living and

1012
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 3: now Boston's Red Sox and the Toronto Raptors.

1013
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: They're like, oh jeez, got yeah.

1014
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, still he doesn't have any official equity, but he

1015
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 4: certainly owns those franchises.

1016
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: Living rent free exactly.

1017
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 8: Lebrontoe. Yeah, yeah, no, you are right.

1018
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 3: This is news to me though, like this is just

1019
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 3: like him coming out, especially like clarifying to uh to

1020
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 3: b and the Athletic like that, like, yeah, I'm gonna

1021
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 3: be owning a franchise like an NBA franchise. So this

1022
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 3: is just just a start here for me and Madrick Carter,

1023
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 3: and I believe him if he says it, then yeah,

1024
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 3: I mean, he says, what, I'm sticking around to play

1025
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 3: with my son in the NBA basically on record, right,

1026
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 3: he's said that. Yeah, so I'll do that and then

1027
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 3: probably you'll play, you know, for a year or two

1028
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 3: with him, Brownie Jr. And then hang it up, I guess,

1029
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 3: and get into owning a team, and it'll just be

1030
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 3: figuring out, Yeah, what team he's gonna buy. It will

1031
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 3: be the craziest team for Lebron doo. And I mean

1032
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 3: it's pretty weird when you think that MJ has the Hornets.

1033
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, well then that's the thing, Like it's going to

1034
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 4: have to be one of those smaller franchis because you know,

1035
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 4: like I don't think the Bulls he won't be able

1036
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 4: to buy them. I mean, so who's available.

1037
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 7: It's got to be the Kings, right.

1038
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 8: Ah, very good?

1039
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 3: JD Yes, Yeah, the Wolves? Right, I guess the Minnesota

1040
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 3: timber Wolves, aren't they You know, wasn't Garnett.

1041
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: All pissed off that?

1042
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it wasn't taken seriously in their ownership group

1043
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 3: trying to get in there. Yeah we'll see all right.

1044
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 2: I saw yeah people saying, well the Wolves are up

1045
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 2: for sale. Just it's totally true, he could buy them,

1046
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: get get involved there, get Kevin Garnett in on it.

1047
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 2: But are they going to be sale for four years? Yeah,

1048
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 2: exactly when Lebron will be playing with his son. I

1049
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 2: just you know, when you say it like that, Lebron's

1050
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 2: going to own a team and he's going to play

1051
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 2: former years, He's going to become the all time leading scorer,

1052
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 2: and he's going to wait to play with his son.

1053
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 2: I mean the least likely thing in that equation which

1054
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 2: would happen is his son getting to the NBA. I mean,

1055
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 2: how much pressure on that kid? Yeah, but you know

1056
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 2: he's Lebron's kid, so I'm sure he can deal.

1057
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go say Lebron was under pressure like when

1058
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 3: he was like fifteen, sixteen years old, turned out okay

1059
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 3: for him. Maybe they thrive under those conditions. Final headline, JD.

1060
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: I'm coming to you first because this one was fantastic. Variety. Yes,

1061
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 3: variety is where we go to get our basketball news, right,

1062
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 3: Adrian Brody cast as pat Riley in HBO's nineteen eighties

1063
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 3: Lakers series.

1064
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: Is this news, JDI?

1065
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 6: Well, yes, finally there's some important news on this show.

1066
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 6: I have perked up when I saw this in the doc. Yeah,

1067
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 6: of course it's news. It's interesting news because it's an

1068
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 6: interesting choice. I had a little squizze at Brody's IMDb

1069
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 6: page and I realized.

1070
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 7: Oh, wow, I haven't seen I haven't seen a ton

1071
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 7: of what he's been in.

1072
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 6: I mean, I've seen a lot, but I didn't realize

1073
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 6: just how much he's been in. But what I have

1074
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 6: seen him in, he's always great, always one of the

1075
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 6: most likable people on screen. But I find it to

1076
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 6: be a bit of a weird casting choice, just because

1077
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 6: he sort of brings like a quiet vulnerability to all

1078
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 6: of his roles, you know, and I do not think

1079
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 6: of pat Riley as a quiet to vulnerable guy, you know.

1080
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 6: Like I mean, with all due respect to Rolando Blackman,

1081
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 6: pat Riley is the paragon of confidence, right, I mean,

1082
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 6: like yep, So, I mean it's it would be hard.

1083
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 6: It's hard for me to imagine Adrian Brody standing in

1084
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 6: front of a parade, guarantee being a second, a repeat,

1085
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 6: a championship, you know what I mean. Like, but you know,

1086
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 6: maybe he'll bring some humanity to uh to pat Riley,

1087
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 6: because I'm not that familiar with pat Riley. But every

1088
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 6: time I see him. He's just the he's just the

1089
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 6: ultimate cool dude, slick back hair, he's just just the

1090
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 6: you know, he's the quintessential champion. So but you know what,

1091
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 6: I think that they actually buried the lead of this

1092
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 6: story because Adam McKay is involved in this. He I

1093
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 6: think he's directing the pilot and he's he's he's the

1094
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 6: executive producer or what there's like several executive producers. But

1095
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 6: that guy, since twenty fifteen has just been batting a thousand.

1096
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 6: I mean, he's famous for you know, he's he's a

1097
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 6: Will Ferrell's partner and in his their production comedy. But

1098
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 6: he's he's done like Anchorman, the other Guy's step Brothers.

1099
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 7: Those are classic comedies.

1100
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 6: But really, like The Big Short is such an awesome

1101
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 6: movie Vice, which I loved, And he's executive producer and

1102
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 6: I think he's directed one of the episodes of Succession

1103
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 6: as like the best show on television right now.

1104
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 7: So this is going to be good.

1105
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 6: It's I'm I'm actually legit excited for this, you know,

1106
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 6: and I'm not that into basketball, but I think you know,

1107
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 6: I'm not that into finance either, But I loved The

1108
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 6: Big Short, so.

1109
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, this is news. I'm pumped. I'm super pumped

1110
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 7: for this.

1111
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 3: I was joking on Twitter yesterday a lead that I

1112
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 3: can't wait for the Magic Johnson tweet where he lists

1113
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 3: his favorite Adrian Brody performances, his favorite movies, all fifteen

1114
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 3: or sixteen of them. He just takes us through a

1115
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 3: list in no particular order. But what do you think,

1116
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 3: Lea this I had one.

1117
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 4: Do you remember Andy Gassi's character and Oceans eleven the hotel,

1118
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 4: casino or a. I think that is what they need

1119
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 4: for this role.

1120
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 8: I think, yeah.

1121
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 4: I think because he had the slick back hair, he

1122
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 4: had that sort of quiet confidence about him. But Andy Gussier,

1123
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 4: I guess he's uh, he's pretty old.

1124
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we need a young.

1125
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah Riley, Yeah yeah, But that's the sort of

1126
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,720
Speaker 4: character I think they would try to create for pat Riley,

1127
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 4: just that like, you know, no one messes with that guy.

1128
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 4: He's in complete control. And you know that that was

1129
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 4: Andy Garcier I thought was perfect in that position as

1130
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 4: the as the casino boss owner or casino owner, wasn't he?

1131
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 8: I guess?

1132
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, tass Any thoughts to this one?

1133
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 2: Succession is still the best show on TV j D too.

1134
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 6: Well, you know, it hasn't been on and over a year,

1135
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 6: but it's the it's my favorite show in the last

1136
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 6: I don't know, two years or whatever.

1137
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 2: Okay, for sure, all right, that's all I need to know.

1138
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I got an update because we're only talking

1139
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 3: about actors and sort of basketball. Our friend Joe Mandy

1140
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 3: he texted me yesterday because we were talking about Jason

1141
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 3: Sidaikis and whether or not he's like actually good at

1142
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: basketball or how good he you know, could Lee take him?

1143
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 2: Well?

1144
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 3: Joe Mandy he texted me, he said, haven't played with

1145
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 3: Sadeikis myself, but he's apparently very good and he played

1146
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 3: au ball. Wow, so you know, yeah, got to a

1147
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 3: somewhat of a higher level there, or a high level

1148
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 3: we were showing obviously news clippings. I guess it was

1149
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 3: task right on yesterday's show. So sudakaous Lee, I think

1150
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 3: I'd be going with him over you.

1151
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, how old is he? Do we know? Do we decide?

1152
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 3: I don't know?

1153
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 4: I know, Well, hey, fad Joe knows him, then text

1154
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 4: him back and see if Sadeikas is up for a

1155
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 4: little while on sure.

1156
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll make that happen for sure.

1157
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 3: Done do it for charity.

1158
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 8: I love it exactly.

1159
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's hear from you guys. Were those

1160
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 3: three headlines and newsworthy? They were to us? Damn it.

1161
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 3: We just talked about him here on no dunks. But

1162
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 3: let us know in the stream team, let us know

1163
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 3: what's comments. Okay, we still have tweeted the night and

1164
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 3: we'll obviously get to pick them, but tasks. Talk to

1165
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 3: me about your glasses.

1166
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 2: Man.

1167
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: Time for tweet of the night.

1168
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 2: Tweet O the night.

1169
00:51:53,840 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 3: Wow, got a great one here from last night, was

1170
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 3: making the rounds in the NBA twitter sphere. It's from

1171
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 3: at Mike vorkanoff from the Athletic. He tweeted this photo

1172
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 3: with the caption, damn Monty McCutcheon went all in on

1173
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 3: his quarantine beard and yes this is a photo of

1174
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: former NBA official and obviously still working with the league,

1175
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 3: Monty McCutcheon. Wow, what a beard, What a look. I mean,

1176
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 3: I don't know if those are Felix grays, but those

1177
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 3: are incredible glasses. And I saw the ringer NBA asking

1178
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 3: what does it look like he does for a living,

1179
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 3: because it sure doesn't look like he might be like

1180
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 3: the senior vice president of like officiating there in the NBA.

1181
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: Great answers. I just wanted to run through a couple.

1182
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 3: Nick Terry, he tweeted, he's a train engineer, but three

1183
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:49,479
Speaker 3: hundred years in the future in a dystopian landscape. Babe, Nick,

1184
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 3: He tweeted, he's the guy who offers you a choice

1185
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 3: of a craft beer or whiskey when you walk into

1186
00:52:55,560 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 3: a hipster barber shop. This one's for people with kids

1187
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: out there. Pedro said he causes problems.

1188
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: For the Paw Patrol.

1189
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: M He does look like sort of maybe like a

1190
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 3: little villain there in a kid's cartoon. Orange and Blue

1191
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 3: said he makes porn and Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, and

1192
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 3: finally a couple of people. Actually I saw Alex and

1193
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 3: Michael k It looks like he makes the magic happen

1194
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 3: or uh more on the nose, produces No Dunks podcasts. Yes,

1195
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 3: has the JD like beer. Different glasses of course, but

1196
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 3: what a look.

1197
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 7: Man, He's a handsome devil.

1198
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: Good stuff.

1199
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 3: Wow.

1200
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta get a pair of those. What are

1201
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 6: the hopefully they're Felix Grays, because.

1202
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 3: Those are the some of the thickest framed glasses I've

1203
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: ever seen.

1204
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: It looks like I could run track on those.

1205
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 8: They're incredible.

1206
00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 2: What mixed.

1207
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 3: So thanks to again at Mike working Off forgetting that started,

1208
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 3: and at Ringer at the Ringer NBA for asking that

1209
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 3: fun question and all the funny answers. I was laughing

1210
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 3: to myself there reading through some of those. Okay, pick

1211
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 3: them results from last night and pick them results brought

1212
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 3: to you by Bett MGM. It was the Jazz Celtics game.

1213
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 3: Jazz were favored by four and a half. Three of

1214
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,919
Speaker 3: us took Utah, three of us get a w task

1215
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 3: seven and two for the month of March. I'm five

1216
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 3: and four back to over five hundred. Loving that. Trey

1217
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 3: Kirby by way of JD another victory from JD's two

1218
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 3: and zero filling in for TK.

1219
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: So Trey is six and three. It's really JD at

1220
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: this point, and Lee he swerved.

1221
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1222
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: I hope I didn't put that on you ly, I

1223
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: sort of I felt like I was force.

1224
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 3: You to swear a little.

1225
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's fine, that's fine, but it was.

1226
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was funny because I think Jayleen Brown sort

1227
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,479
Speaker 4: of drove in when you know, it's like that sort

1228
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 4: of ump upt on that last play. Why are you

1229
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 4: driving inside man two to three? I think they still

1230
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 4: would have covered anyway. I think it was falling off

1231
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 4: the line. But uh, you just I want to see

1232
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 4: you because because it's funny when you are trailing and

1233
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 4: you know in the game you don't care about the result.

1234
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 4: You just want to see them hit those shots and

1235
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 4: get that cover. And of course, come on, man, hit

1236
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 4: that three anyway was wouldn't have mounted.

1237
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter.

1238
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 3: So Lee is in last place here now, two games

1239
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 3: back from me Lee's three and six. So what's tonight's game? There, tasks.

1240
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 2: We got the Clippers and the MAVs in a rematch

1241
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 2: of a couple nights ago. The Clippers went into Dallas,

1242
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 2: took care of business, switched it up, put Marcus Morrison

1243
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 2: starting lineup for for Nicolo bit two. Things worked out well.

1244
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 2: They were a little feisty and they won. So rematch

1245
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 2: Dallas at home getting two and a half points, Clippers

1246
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 2: favored by two and a half, have to win by

1247
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 2: three or more. JD. What do you got You're gonna

1248
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 2: go three for three for Trey or what? Hey?

1249
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 6: Well, you know it's Saint Patrick's Day. So I'm feeling lucky.

1250
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 6: I got an offer in on a house. I'm hoping

1251
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:55,919
Speaker 6: that comes through.

1252
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 7: But uh, I don't know.

1253
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 6: I uh, this is has nothing to do with anything.

1254
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 6: I skates. You tweeted a picture of Dirk Nabitskia yesterday.

1255
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 6: I think, yes, that's right, yeah, and I was just like, oh, yeah, Dirk.

1256
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 6: I missed Dirk. So Dallas. I'm taking Dallas because you know,

1257
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 6: Dirk was always so nice to us and he's just

1258
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 6: a great guy.

1259
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 3: So's Dallas.

1260
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1261
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 3: I tweeted that photo of dirkfe like looking like that

1262
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 3: because there was a pack drop last night on Top Shot,

1263
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 3: but there was a lot of people trying to get

1264
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 3: not a lot of packs, and I pulled like number

1265
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 3: like one hundred and forty thousand. I didn't have much

1266
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 3: of a chance last night. It was not lucky. So

1267
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 3: that's why I went with that dirt one hundred.

1268
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: And forty thousand reverse fourteen at the beginning of that's

1269
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 2: forty one. That's what Dirk wore on his jersey. My goodness,

1270
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 2: it was meant to be.

1271
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: So you're taking Dallas to cover? Yeah, man, man, man,

1272
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: I don't like.

1273
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 3: Picking against uh, against JD right now. So I'm not

1274
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna ride the hot streak. I'll go

1275
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,879
Speaker 3: Dallas too, even though the Clippers won the last game.

1276
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 3: Like you said, Tess, where do you go.

1277
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: After D's reasoning, I'm riding that.

1278
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this is for the taking, I'm telling you.

1279
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 4: But but I'm like, I'm sitting here just gone. I

1280
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 4: think the other guys. Someone's taking the Clippers. I'm going

1281
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 4: to take the Maps.

1282
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 9: But now it's like, look like Pat, I hate it

1283
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 9: because I want to.

1284
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 8: I want to take the Maps. I think they do

1285
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 8: cover it not.

1286
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 3: I think that was you know lately. You know again,

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Speaker 3: I felt bad I did. I felt like I pressured

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Speaker 3: you into that Celtic picture. If you want to take

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Speaker 3: the Mavericks, go ahead, and I'll take the Clippers.

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Speaker 8: Because the Clippers, I just don't know if I trust them.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if I trust them. They have given you.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you the Mavericks.

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Speaker 8: Jesus, Uh, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, I'll take him because I was going to take

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Speaker 4: the Mavericks.

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Speaker 3: I just know.

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Speaker 1: I will take the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: So I'm the only one taking the La Clippers with

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Speaker 3: two and a half, so they got to win by

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Speaker 3: three more. Everybody else has the matter.

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Speaker 8: Because I was like, I sort of wanted to see

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Speaker 8: what guys, and then you went.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, but I listen.

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Speaker 8: You know what, there's still enough times. So if you

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Speaker 8: want to take the Madge, I don't care if we do,

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Speaker 8: we don't do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want.

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Speaker 3: I hate when we all have this, So I'm taking

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00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 3: the Clippers the Mavericks. Oh this will be good. I

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Speaker 3: was already watching this game, but now we really lucked it. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's it for us here for the daily show. We

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Speaker 3: got another one coming later today, a brand new beach

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Speaker 3: step in podcast where we answer your emails and your comments.

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Speaker 3: You can email them in No Dunks at the Athletic

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Speaker 3: dot com. You can join us live on YouTube at

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Speaker 3: three pm Eastern. Uh you know, jump over there. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: get some comments up from the stream team during that one,

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Speaker 3: so a lot of fun like comments. Subscribe to No

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Speaker 3: four thousand. I think it was like right before we

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Speaker 3: no Dunks sent you. Oh task, you're smirking or laughing?

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Speaker 3: Does that mean you tried it and it doesn't work yet?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, I would. I would let you know. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm not ready to go to a website and check

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Speaker 2: quite yet.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I won't put that pressure on you to fire

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Speaker 3: up another tab.

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Speaker 1: All right, Clipper.

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Speaker 8: Roads, you heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 8: turn up, Love you guys.

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Speaker 7: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: You got to see this, Guyspathletic dot com slash no

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Speaker 2: dunks probably a dollar a month. Haven't gone yet, but

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's a dollar a month. What do you

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Speaker 2: guys think? Do you guys think? Let's just wait? Do

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Speaker 2: we have fifteen seconds?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: I gotta go to a browser where I'm not signed in?

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Speaker 7: Yeah that's the oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So but no problem, I'm not lugged in. It's so far,

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Speaker 2: no problem. It hasn't been updated. Oh come on, come

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Speaker 2: on jesus, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, we'll get on it by buch step and we

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Speaker 3: will have that updated. Everyone. Just hold tight, embrace the day.

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Speaker 2: People.

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Speaker 9: You could stay.

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Speaker 6: Every day.

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Speaker 2: I'll be happy every minute. It's been so long that

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Speaker 2: your wanna.

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Speaker 9: Way, It's happened already.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be grevy