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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you know what that clip is from?

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Speaker 2: Isn't it from they beat the Celtics and he lit

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Speaker 3: The common misconception?

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Speaker 1: That's what Javari said. You know how sad this one is.

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Speaker 1: It's from February fourth, twenty eighteen where twenty one and

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Speaker 2: Man, but I totally thought that there was when you

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Speaker 2: a tribute to him on air crip and people are like, oh, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's put rest in Peace Boso. Yeah, you know that

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Speaker 2: is probably the energy James would bring to that tribute.

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Speaker 3: But you know, but it's even funnier because they're like,

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Speaker 3: you're saying, recipe because we beat the thirty and twenty

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Speaker 2: They were only thirty twenty four. Then yeah, what a time?

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Speaker 1: I think I think we can prolong the show. If

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Speaker 2: Don't even trying it. We're trying to get it done.

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Speaker 1: Steve, I know you're gonna have to render my Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah one more time, guys. Yeah we still we got

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Speaker 1: edits and stuff on this. Is that really like Philibus

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Speaker 1: He was a minus three on the night.

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Speaker 3: M James is like, the guy's a bum. Guy's a

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Speaker 3: boom rest of piece, bozone. I'm out of here, resting

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Speaker 3: peace bow So Tucker better tucking into some Tim Wharton's.

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Speaker 3: That's been my time. That's been my time. We're honor.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a comedy club, sir, you're the defendant. Okay, sorry,

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Speaker 3: All right, that's been my time. You're honor. Tipperators on

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Speaker 3: the well.

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Speaker 4: Well well well, well well.

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Speaker 3: Well and finally, well well well, episode one seventy one.

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Speaker 3: If I met a lot of people who make it

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Speaker 3: to one seventy one. No, no, A lot of people

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Speaker 3: wouldn't think we would make it to two. Do you

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Speaker 3: know how Parson? You know how old Elvis was when

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Speaker 2: Fifty I was.

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Speaker 3: Gonna say, fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Who's forty two?

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Speaker 3: He looked bad.

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Speaker 4: I don't know fourth too, it's so ye. But look

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Speaker 1: Nobody said we could do it.

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Speaker 3: Nobody said so. But at the end of the season,

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Speaker 3: we do have a champion. It's the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Speaker 4: They took care of business in Game seven, although.

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Speaker 3: It was a kind of a downer Game seven. I

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Speaker 2: It was no games.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely I think, overshadowed by the Halberd injury.

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Speaker 1: But also we've got Katie trade news if that interests you,

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Speaker 1: and maybe talking about the future of the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who knows her this.

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Speaker 1: Is going because baby, this is the last episode.

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Speaker 3: Of I'm Miles Great and I'm Jack O'Brien and this.

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Speaker 1: Is Miles and Jack got bad Boostingtory get it.

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Speaker 5: Look at the East Okay, be driving Spinny.

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Speaker 6: That's good show something short, champion over the double team time.

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Speaker 2: What you got guys?

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Speaker 3: Wow, we got it, We got it and luckily did it.

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Speaker 1: And you know who we got on the guest chair,

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Speaker 1: The associate director of Pro Basketball for ASBI Nation, Harrison Bacon.

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Speaker 3: Finishing things off on Boost. He's like Kobe dropping sixty,

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Speaker 2: Lot of people have been calling me washed all year,

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Speaker 1: You got now we believe you. We didn't call you

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Speaker 1: what I repeatedly called the final for himself on the show.

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Speaker 3: So here what happened seven and six? What if somebody

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Speaker 3: I do like this clip the super producer Jabbari and

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Speaker 5: As I said earlier, we can't be reactionary or emotional

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just so impressed, you know, like because in

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's pretty similar to like Brad Stevens,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it sounds like I was just like having

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Speaker 3: Four years ago, five years ago, like four years ago,

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Speaker 2: Not only did your team move, but they moved with

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Speaker 2: Guys, yeah, the bad guys in the documentary, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, the Pacers were so memorable, Like I can't

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Speaker 3: It's always like iconic teams that like you had a

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Speaker 1: It felt like they were actually a great comp They

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about like it sounds like he's gonna

440
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: play with that calf.

441
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,680
Speaker 3: Injury, and everyone was like, of course he's gonna play

442
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 3: with that, is it?

443
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? And if we were joking like that.

444
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: Thing is going to be fall off the bone tender

445
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: by the time he's done playing that and it went

446
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 1: a little bit too literally, But that just completely changed

447
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 1: how I like, just for me, it was such a

448
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 1: blow to the enjoyment of that game, and it felt

449
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: like that's kind of how it even felt in the

450
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: arena too, Like it felt very subdued, like it was

451
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah, we won.

452
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 3: That was kind of.

453
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 1: A grim way to end it all though that felt

454
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: a little bit rough. I don't know if that was

455
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: the same for everyone else, but at a certain point,

456
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: like I had to actively just like kind of walk

457
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: away for like long stretches because like, oh, this is tough.

458
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 3: No.

459
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 2: It almost looked like the Thunder players were going through

460
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,719
Speaker 2: it too, of like yeah, thing of like did we

461
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 2: just watch this guy's entire career change and then now

462
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 2: it's you know, we got to go play do or

463
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: die basketball. It just seemed like, again, it takes nothing

464
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 2: away from Thunder. They were obviously totally deserving and legitimate Champiel.

465
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 2: It was just a really weird vibe for a game

466
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 2: seven of you had all these guys just clearly processing

467
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 2: it in the moment, and even like you said in

468
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 2: the arena, like, I think the Thunder players probably feel

469
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 2: bad to some degree. You know, they're professional athletes. These

470
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 2: guys are all human. Like, nobody wants to see that.

471
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: And they probably also want to win that like, and

472
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: just as competitors like I want to beat the best

473
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: version of my opponent. You know, I don't ever want

474
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 1: to feel like we only won because this happened, although

475
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: we were.

476
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 2: Playing very well.

477
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: But even like even the locker room felt very even

478
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 1: with those michelobe.

479
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 3: Joints michel ultrue joints.

480
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, our man, Chet, even did you hear that?

481
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 2: No, I saw the one of Alex Cruzo teaching them

482
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 2: how to open champagne. Yeah remember where you learned that, Alex? Yeah?

483
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 1: No, this is right after they were talking about to

484
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 1: Chet about like the you know, champagne showers of locker room.

485
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: What's going on?

486
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 1: And then he hits us with a brand new pronunciation

487
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: for michelob ultra.

488
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: But for now, I got my michelob ultra joints, My Michel.

489
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 2: Chet Chet is my favorite, like arks on rec side character.

490
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: You know, it's just truly he has written like a

491
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 3: we were trying to figure out what it wasn't like

492
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 3: extras maybe like he's like Ricky Gervais, the Ricky Gervais Show,

493
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 3: you know, like just a heightened version of like what

494
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 3: a comedy writer would think was funny if he had

495
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,959
Speaker 3: that personality. And uh, yeah, whoever's writing him, they're nailing

496
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 3: it because it's very funny.

497
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,479
Speaker 1: You could see him in parks and rec like at

498
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: those city council meetings.

499
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. He's at the

500
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: city council meeting like complaining about like fluoride in the water.

501
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: No, no, he's complaining about the varietals at the library.

502
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 3: There's not varieties of picture book. Yeah. We were obsessed

503
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 3: with his clip Harrison where he takes you through his

504
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 3: favorite books and he's, uh, he can't live without.

505
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 2: Yeah.

506
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, he says, these are a type of book with

507
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 3: pictures that I like to call coffee table books. And

508
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 3: then and then is like, shows you one that's about jewelry,

509
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 3: and he's like, but I've got all sorts of varieties

510
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: of these and then shows you another just like coffee

511
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 3: table book, the books or varieties. I've got different varieties

512
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 3: of books. Yeah, baby, Yeah. His car he needs to

513
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 3: be wearing, uh, snowboarding goggles on. Like I feel like

514
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 3: that's forever still yet to come for him and needs

515
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 3: to happen. That's the Definitely, he's like he feels like

516
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,479
Speaker 3: he'd be John Ralphiel's bodyguard or something.

517
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna get photos of him like celebrating in like

518
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 2: overseas somewhere. He's like on his like you know, like

519
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 2: post championship European vacation and he's going to be surfing

520
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: on like two surfboards that they had to weld together

521
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 2: or something. You know, it's just.

522
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: Duct tape them together. Man, coming down the way. Yeah yeah,

523
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: whoa easy, baby, easy.

524
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 3: I will say, shout out to him though he gave

525
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 3: He gave me the idea for my best bet, which

526
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 3: was betting on Oklahoma City last year in the off season.

527
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 3: Unfortunately a year too early. But man, just seeing him

528
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 3: in Summer League, I was like, he looks good. Maybe

529
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 3: they'll be good this year and uh, and they were

530
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 3: just not quite good enough.

531
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 2: What do you think, Harrison?

532
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: This like this sort of finals run kind of says

533
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: for a lot of people who were like, yeah, I

534
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: don't see the Pacers. It's gonna be the It's gonna

535
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: be thunder and four, five, maybe five probably at most.

536
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: Do you think they're like because I was talking to

537
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: one of my friends who was basically disrespecting the Pacers

538
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: the whole time, despite like performance after performance, and it

539
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: wasn't until game seven.

540
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 2: That he was like, all right, maybe like fine, I

541
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 2: was like, really, it.

542
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: Took you that long? It just feels I don't know,

543
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: I mean, like this, where where do where? How should

544
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: people be really be looking at this team? Because I

545
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: feel like some people might just go back to I

546
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: don't know, like without with knowing how halliburton injuries, Halliburton's

547
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: injury is gonna pan out and just all of it,

548
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, surrounding this the end of the season, does

549
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: this seem like, you know, are they gonna be right

550
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: back in it?

551
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean what sucks with the injuries. It's a

552
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 2: year long one and he literally had it in the

553
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 2: last possible basketball game that you could play, and so

554
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 2: he's like all of next year is probably wiped out

555
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: for them, you know, like bar again, they are a

556
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: team out of a sports movie, and so they could

557
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 2: prove us wrong. And it's like, oh, TJ McConnell's an

558
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 2: All Star next year.

559
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell's sister is now on the team, and you're like, okay, great,

560
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: I love this, dude, that's the sports movie plotline.

561
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 2: It's like, Hey, I got to invite my sister to

562
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: come play because we had an injury. You know, my

563
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 2: dad's a coach.

564
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a weird old by law that says if

565
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 3: I have the same last name as the person, they're

566
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: allowed to suit up.

567
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 2: Or than saying my sister can't play basketball. He's like,

568
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: they're like, no, airbud rules don't work in real life. Wow,

569
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: you know we actually do have a rule against that.

570
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are there are courts where people would adjudicate

571
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: this decision.

572
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, she has the same initials TJ McConnell, I broke

573
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: my ankle, but she can come in and play for.

574
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 1: It on paper the exact same thing.

575
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 2: Does the NBA not do trial by combat?

576
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

577
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: So I think they're probably done for next year, which

578
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: does suck. But I think that I've never felt more

579
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 2: like one of the pundits that they show in the

580
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: montage in a sports movie when like after games that

581
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: the Pacers played, where I'm like, you know, I was

582
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: down at my parents' house, you know, I'm I'm associate

583
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: director of Pro Basketball. They're asking me for my opinion

584
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: on the finals. I'm like, oh, I got it. Sound smart.

585
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, PACER's cute. Sorry, I just like,

586
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they can get a game.

587
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: This Thunder team, this Thunder defense is so good, and

588
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: then they win Game one and I just look like

589
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 2: an idiot. And you know, it's like I can see

590
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 2: the clips of you know, all the first take you know,

591
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,719
Speaker 2: talking heads, the you know, you're the people on Fox Sports,

592
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: the whatever, you know, it's it's the montage of like

593
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: this team has no chance. And then TJ McConnell is

594
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 2: like showing a video of it in the locker room

595
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: to all of his guys and he's like, Thomas Bran,

596
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: are you gonna let them talk about you like that?

597
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: And he's like, no, I'm not. I'm gonna score nine.

598
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did see. Your parents were in the comments

599
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 3: of our episode talking a lot of trash about your team.

600
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 2: I mean deservedly. So yeah, you know, they got three

601
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 2: other kids, so they'll be fine. But it's just, you know,

602
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 2: I feel bad for embarrassing them on a national stage

603
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: like this.

604
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 3: That's right, all right? Should we move beyond the finals matchup? Sure?

605
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 3: Look to the future. How long do we have with this? Like, yes,

606
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 3: the thunderlook set for the future. The West also looks

607
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 3: very competitive and there's a lot of intriguing people who

608
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: might jump up, such as Victor Webbing Yama. How long

609
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: do we think until the Spurs are a contender? Because

610
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: I think some people were like, I don't know, maybe

611
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: maybe this year, and that didn't end up being the

612
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 3: case because of an injury, but also prior to the

613
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 3: injury also didn't seem to be the case. What do

614
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 3: we think is it this year?

615
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: They just don't seem to be in a rush. I

616
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: think it's two more. I think it's another year after

617
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: this before they start to enter that conversation. I think

618
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: Wenby will have to keep developing obvious, although he's obviously

619
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: incredible already, but they're probably gonna lose something with Chris

620
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: Paul going out. I mean, I know they have to

621
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: Aaron Fox now, but it doesn't seem like they're rushing

622
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: to make an all and move this summer, Like they

623
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 2: didn't seem to get seriously involved in the KD sweepstakes.

624
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: Maybe they would have if Yannis was actually available, but

625
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like he's going to be and so

626
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 2: maybe that is what would have actually led to them

627
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: making an all in swing. But for right now, it

628
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: seems like they're sort of happy to patiently slow play it,

629
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 2: you know, draft Harper second and sort of go like

630
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: into next year. Is hey, we're going to continue to

631
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 2: figure out like which of these young guys are actually

632
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: good and try and you know, the Thunder honestly just

633
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: made a case for them to be patient and say,

634
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: you know, hey, let's figure out, you know, sort of

635
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: if any of these drafts, how good these draft picks are,

636
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: and then where we actually need veteran help.

637
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 3: Right man, It's just everything went right for the Thunder,

638
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: like all those players developed like the best case scenario.

639
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't it'll be it'll be interesting to see.

640
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 3: And like you said, I mean, maybe the Spurs were

641
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 3: like the people who gave Presty the playbook, since that's

642
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 3: where he hails from. But I don't know. I would

643
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 3: have liked to see them get Durant KD to the Rockets.

644
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 3: What do we think? I feel like the Rockets won

645
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: that trade. I think they're gonna be pretty interesting. It's

646
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 3: a lot of pressure on KD to be like a

647
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 3: bucket down the stretch, but that is like the thing

648
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 3: that he's maybe the best of all time at Do

649
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 3: we think the Rockets are a contender right away?

650
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, they were already so good

651
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: on defense last year that this was you know, it's

652
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: rare that you see a team plug their only hole

653
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: in one trade and just like immediately address all the

654
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: concerns about that. And it's just like that was there.

655
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: One thing that they could not do last year was

656
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: you know, they didn't have a go to guy down

657
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: the stretch of games. They could stay in games, but

658
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: teams continually out executed them down the stretch because offense

659
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: generally beats defense in those moments, and because of how

660
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: good offenses in the NBA are and how tough it

661
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: can be to play defense, And so I think KD

662
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: just sort of, you know, solves that problem. You know,

663
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: you're you're not gonna be able to guard him with

664
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 2: the game on the line, and so as long as

665
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: he can sort of contribute enough and they don't lose

666
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 2: too much in the Dylan Rooks sort of absence on

667
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,959
Speaker 2: defense or you know whatever sort of ephemeral like culture stuff.

668
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: I think they should be probably right into the contention conversation.

669
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: But then they're in the Western Conference, Harrison, and now

670
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: would mean if they're in this.

671
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: I didn't say they're gonna win the title. I think

672
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: they're gonna be in the Yeah.

673
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then but then that means that means the

674
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: Lakers can't be in the finals.

675
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 3: Well and and I and I can't.

676
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: I'm just much too fragile right now to even handle that.

677
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously seeing them keep like Aman Thompson and shanng.

678
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 3: Gun and all that, and I'm like, yeah, this is

679
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 3: trouble for sure. Yeah, how how did the Sons? I'm

680
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 3: not I'm going to stop asking myself hypothetical questions about

681
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 3: why the Sons do things?

682
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: If I if I'm a good GM, I'm calling the

683
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 2: Suns every day. I just want to see what they

684
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: offer me.

685
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: You know, what do you got?

686
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: Can you said anything? What do you got over there?

687
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 2: What do you have for me yeaheah. They're like they're like, hey,

688
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: well we'll give you Grayson Allen for a second round pick.

689
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: Oh right, sure, man collecting seconds now, we don't nobody

690
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: knows why he thinks he's going for Giannis, but he's

691
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: gonna make the trade before just set you got to

692
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: set yourself up.

693
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 3: You know, who's the ideal player to match with Luca

694
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 3: for the next five five years or so? If you

695
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: could choose any player from the.

696
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 2: League, Oh that's interesting. I mean, if I could choose

697
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: any player, it would be probably Wimby, just because like, yeah,

698
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 2: he's just such a cheat code on the lobs and

699
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and like so clearly addresses a lot

700
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,719
Speaker 2: of the defensive stuff, and just I think sort of

701
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: gives you a, you know, a version of what the

702
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: Lakers had, honestly in the Lebron ad tandem in the bubble,

703
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 2: where you have like the big that is incredible defensively,

704
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: still a problem on offense, and then you have the

705
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: incredibly talented wing scorer playmaker guy, and you just sort

706
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: of have to fill in defenders around that, but they

707
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 2: sort of have the offense taken care of as long

708
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 2: as you have enough credible shooting around them, and so yeah,

709
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: it would be Wemby. I mean the Lakers were obviously

710
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 2: not getting him, but if I could choose any player

711
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 2: in the league, it would be him.

712
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: Okay, of the people in the Mark Walter era that

713
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: we're entering, who do you think is like a realistic

714
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: sort of you know, people are like they'll maybe they'll

715
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: try and get Gafford, Like they're not gonna do that,

716
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: don't be silly, But like, what what do you think

717
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: is realistic in terms of if we're not gonna be

718
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: we'll be a little bit more reckless with the spending perhaps,

719
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: uh enough here with what you know, the financials of

720
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: it all.

721
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: Well, I think that the way that that's going to

722
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 2: affect things more is going to be in the Lakers

723
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: like sort of building out their organization, you know that,

724
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: hiring more scouts, hiring pro personnel scouts which they don't have.

725
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't have scouts.

726
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: I was like, what, No, No, no, they have scouts,

727
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 2: they just didn't have like out scouting the NBA.

728
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean, Like like other teams did.

729
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, we're truly like kind of resting on

730
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: our Laurels to be like, you.

731
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, a little bit, uh yeah yeah.

732
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: But when I read that, I was like, come on, baby,

733
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: you can't.

734
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: They're like sort of they were like, you know, Rob

735
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 2: watches all the Laker games, so he'll see the guys

736
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 2: when they play against us. I guess, like that's it's fine. Yeah,

737
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: And so you know, they're just gonna have a lot

738
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: of re sources like that. You've seen the Dodgers. It's

739
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 2: not just that they spent on payroll. It's that they

740
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: have like a best in class organization in terms of

741
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 2: you know, and that's what that guy did there, and

742
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: he sort of slow built that up. He found the

743
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 2: right gm, he built around him. He you know, like

744
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 2: fleshed out the front office with as many smart people

745
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 2: that he could hire. And like that's really the area

746
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: where your money can have more impact than on player salaries,

747
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: because especially in this second Apron era, you know, there's

748
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: so many basketball penalties to exceeding that that you're almost

749
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: better off. Like everybody's gonna spend essentially the same amount.

750
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 2: Very few teams are going to go like ware. I mean,

751
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 2: some teams may go under the first apron you know,

752
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: but very few teams are going to go over the

753
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: second apron for a long time, and so you almost

754
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 2: can get more bang for your buck. I think in

755
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: just like trying to build out your other advantages in

756
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: terms of scouting, in terms of getting the best coaches

757
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 2: possible on not just your main coach, but your assistant coaches,

758
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff.

759
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: But Harrison, you're talking about I found it sounds like

760
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: the concept you're talking about things like long term sustainability, stability, bruh.

761
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: The question is how am I getting to the finals

762
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: next year?

763
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: You know I need that.

764
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: Let's go.

765
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: Well, so I think the Bucks are really going to

766
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 2: want the Lakers twenty thirty one first round pick, you

767
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: know you'd think, And so I think that's enough to

768
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 2: get Giannis.

769
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: Twenty thirty one.

770
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a gale.

771
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: I think I want to hear. Yeah, you know that's

772
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: what I want to hear. Thank you, Thank you. Tell

773
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: me about the Rabbits, George.

774
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 2: I think you know, if you just if you throw

775
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: in Dalton connect yeah, I think it's like back. I

776
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 2: think you'll want to be a bar yeah, to.

777
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 3: Build around for the future Lakers. Then I think, yeah,

778
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 3: but no, no no, no, no no no no no no no.

779
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 3: I think I think side connect No maybe yeah, yeah,

780
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 3: just super producer Jabari is pointing out, like maybe we're

781
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: talking pick swap here.

782
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, You're right negotiating against myself if I'm

783
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 2: going to them, I'm calling up Milwaukee and I'm saying,

784
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 2: you can have one second round pick swap for Giannis.

785
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. By the end of the day, Lakers, the balls

786
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 3: in your court, sir, yeah, good night.

787
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: Do you want the number one draft pick next year?

788
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Baltimore court hangs.

789
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 3: Up one last thing on the off season, moves Drew

790
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 3: Holliday going back to the Blazers, Anthony Simon's going to

791
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: the Celtics. Sits so badly with me.

792
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: Such a weird trade, such.

793
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 3: A weird trade that just feel it feels like it's

794
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 3: being written by the Celtics, Like the Celtics just needed

795
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: this and so they got it, Like I don't know,

796
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 3: like they got they got the Blazers, Like, here's Drew

797
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 3: Holliday for the two years where you need him and

798
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: can win the championship, and then you give him back

799
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 3: to us for our young prospect who we currently say

800
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: is like completely untouchable. And I know he wasn't like

801
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: great last season, but still just feels like, I don't know, man.

802
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: They did, like what those the European soccer teams did.

803
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: They sent Drew Holliday to the Celtics on loan, you know,

804
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: and they're getting him back now and yeah.

805
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 3: You guys done? Are you sure? Okay?

806
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 2: Yeah?

807
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just send him back? And do you guys

808
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 3: want Anthony Simons? Maybe? I don't know.

809
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: Joe Cronin saw he's like the last team to show.

810
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 2: The last two teams to trade for Drew Holiday won

811
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 2: a title the first year. I gotta go get this guy.

812
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 3: That's right?

813
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: What's his contract even worth? Like this, isn't it something

814
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: wacky too? Like he's not he's on He's on big money,

815
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: isn't he.

816
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's thirty to forty million, I think if I'm

817
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: remembering correctly, I mean, yeah, he's.

818
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 3: From a salary perspective. Again, why the Celtics did it?

819
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 2: Right?

820
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: Right?

821
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: But I'm like, what, Okay, Well, good luck to you

822
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: in Portland, good luck to you all.

823
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 3: Right, let's uh should we take a break and come

824
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 3: back and do the final rapid fire round of questions.

825
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I guess we have to. Okay, okay, we'll

826
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: be right back.

827
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 3: Man, we're back back one last one, last evil laugh. Why, okay,

828
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 3: I'm fine. I'm fine.

829
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 7: Here's a thing, and you've just made it to the

830
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 7: full quarter of before the questions the christ this podcast

831
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 7: history in the podcast it's on iheard, co produced with

832
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 7: the NBA, co hosted by people named Johns and Jack.

833
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 3: Giles and Mac.

834
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask you a question of those words.

835
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: Just it's very important from a legal yeah, from from

836
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: legally you have to know.

837
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 2: But we're gonna ask you a question.

838
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: You just respond your chest passed it right back, just

839
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: right back to us. Okay, don't think about it, just answer.

840
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: I'm happy to I know how this works.

841
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: Okay, you are you are, my sweet sweet boosties child, Brian.

842
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: If you want to.

843
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: Go first, Jackers, I'd.

844
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 3: Love for you to go first.

845
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

846
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: Okay, Harrison, we're gonna do this player pairing or that

847
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: player pairing that you would prefer to see where you

848
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: could get with that.

849
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

850
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: I think you should get with this. This is where

851
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 2: it's at the first one.

852
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: Okay, this or that Luca and Yannie or Wenby.

853
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: Wenby and Yannis.

854
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 3: I think, whoa, that would be crazy. Those guys are

855
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: both so tall.

856
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 2: How does that work? I just think, is it not

857
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 2: rapid fire? But I think, uh, your defense is just

858
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 2: impossible to score on with.

859
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 3: Those defense is actually also important.

860
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 2: It turns out guys named Harrison love defense and think

861
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 2: of the championships, so you know they do say that.

862
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 3: All right, Luca and Joker where Joker and Wemby. I

863
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: feel like, we we know you're Wemby over Luca. Is

864
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 3: that correct? Ah?

865
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: I think I'd go Luca and Joker just because that

866
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: would be you know, yeah, yeah, I think I think

867
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: their offense would be so unstoppable that playing that Balkin

868
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 2: ball oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, sign me up. Wemby

869
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: Jokic just feels like a weird fit to me. I'm

870
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 2: not sure, like they they're both great, they'd make it work,

871
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: but it's just like it's a strange fit.

872
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: It feels like somehow they would get in each other's

873
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: way physically.

874
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you can't have that, not at the same

875
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: time on the same team.

876
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: Oh my god, get out of my way? What are

877
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 3: you doing?

878
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 2: Although Wemby would be thrilled. He's like, I don't have

879
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: to guard Yokic anymore.

880
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 3: I love this Luca and Wemby or Joker and Yannis.

881
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: I think we maybe know this Luca and Wemby or

882
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: Joker and Yannis. I would go. I think probably Joker

883
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 2: and yannism.

884
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just I'm just imagining both of those.

885
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 2: I just know.

886
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: Actually I'm going Luca Wenby.

887
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just like Giannis, I hasn't shown me enough

888
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: off the ball to be like that. It's like, oh,

889
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: he's immediately going to go sort of run off if

890
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 2: you get like you would want him to. Yeah, I

891
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 2: think I think it's Luca and.

892
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: That you will notice that we just go silent when

893
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 3: you do the wrong the wrong answer and until answer.

894
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: I'm not that one, Okay, Luca Shay, You'll just Alexander

895
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: or Luca and Ant And these are being presented by

896
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 3: jabari as just like these are options here because all

897
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 3: of these guys are gonna come home eventually.

898
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: I'm going Luca and Ant because I just think Aunt

899
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 2: was born to be a Laker like many great players

900
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 2: from the history of Minnesota, and you know, I think

901
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: he could be the city's latest greatest Minneapolis import.

902
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, absolutely, absolutely, it's just a pipeline something from

903
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 3: there's a there's a long tradition of Minneapolis handing things

904
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 3: to Los Angeles so that they can flourish.

905
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: We just drink their milkshake as it were. Okay, So, Harrison,

906
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: we just talked about the KD trade. Uh And we

907
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: had the Desmond Baine news last week where he said

908
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: I was in a chamber.

909
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: Of darkness like Baine.

910
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 3: It was so dark in that windowless facility.

911
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: Can you give us your predictions on where these players

912
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 1: are gonna end up next season?

913
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 2: And get getting silly with it? That cool?

914
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 3: Well, you had to do that or else it falls apart.

915
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 2: It really falls apart.

916
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 3: It really falls apart, to be honest, To.

917
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: Be honest, Harrison, where's Gianni's going to be next season?

918
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 3: Okay? And now and now do a silly one?

919
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 2: I just a Toronto?

920
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 3: Wow? Why Toronto?

921
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just seems like the type of

922
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 2: thing that they do, like where you know, they swine

923
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 2: on the wildly talented wing that is available to them

924
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: for some reason, for lower than it would be for

925
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 2: other teams, and you know, just go win a title.

926
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 2: That's what miss I does.

927
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 3: All right, joh and Triple J. Where are they going?

928
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 2: They're they're both going to the same team. They're getting

929
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 2: sent out in like a sure. No, I think I

930
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: think as good as you are, you can always get better,

931
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: you know, use some some more bench weapons. Yeah, Jos

932
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: six Man of the Year, you know, it's perfect role.

933
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 2: What about Lebron James, I mean really the only answer Actually,

934
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: you know what I'm gonna say. He wants to he

935
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: wants to go rejoin with a d and he's wanted

936
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: to play with Kyrie. Uh, you know, he's just like, yeah,

937
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: it seems like they get things done for their players

938
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 2: over there as long as they're not Luca. You know,

939
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 2: he wanted a center, he got, he got seven centers,

940
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 2: So you know, Lebron, Lebron's gonna get nine point guards

941
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: to take the load off of him until he gets

942
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: tired of them and takes over at point guard.

943
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 3: All right.

944
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 2: And finally, Jalen Brown, I would have said the Rockets

945
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: until they made the Katie trade, because that seemed like

946
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 2: it was something that was, you know, maybe gonna happen. Yeah,

947
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 2: the Hawks, they want to make some noise m hm

948
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: from Atlanta, bringing them home. Yeah, from Atlanta. Yeah, and Harrison,

949
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: all the right answers.

950
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's no. We got to bring it home now, Oh, yeah,

951
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 3: to bring Those were the right answers. But I can't. Oh,

952
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 3: this could be the wrong answer answer in that section.

953
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 3: Those are all the right answers.

954
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: This next section, this could be a wrong answer, and

955
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: there is a wrong answer one last time, Harrison Fagan

956
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: for everybody in the back.

957
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 2: Jacker, Miles, Miles, Uh, you know la receptionalism.

958
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 3: Oh, the right answer.

959
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: Look, I do it. I can't. I can't pick some

960
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: East Coaster come on.

961
00:45:59,000 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 3: Thank you.

962
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 2: I needed that.

963
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: I needed that.

964
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: Jack's fine, He's fine, He's gonna be fine. He's gonna

965
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: jack about him. Jack, you're my second favorite host, you know. Yeah,

966
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 2: You're means a lot. That's pretty good.

967
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 3: You know, it's huge top two Miles and Jack, it's okay.

968
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 3: I believe I was three and one hundred and sixty

969
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,959
Speaker 3: eight according to Ryan, So that's that all makes sense

970
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 3: for the hundred and seventy one episodes.

971
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: Or he asked that, Well, we stopped asking for a

972
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: while because it was getting a little silly.

973
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 3: No, So what happened is we we stopped leaving it

974
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 3: in the episode. We we asked every time, and it

975
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 3: was like whenever they'd say Miles, I'd be like, caught it, Yeah,

976
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 3: caught it.

977
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: You broke a lot of desks. I remember we did

978
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 2: you seriously used to ask every guest. Yeah, we know

979
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 2: that's insane.

980
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 3: Oh insanely good, right, good content.

981
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: I feel worse for Jack. I'm sorry.

982
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, man, no, sorry, it's been a hard road,

983
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:06,280
Speaker 3: you know, and me and taking some solace from Sam Press.

984
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 3: You just keep doing it. Keep wait, the show's ending.

985
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: Yeahs can cut a long run short, as they say,

986
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, and we took no shortcuts.

987
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 2: And this was a long and storied ride.

988
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: So, Harrison Fagan, thank you so much for joining us

989
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: on the final episode of Miles and.

990
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 3: Jack Got Mad Boosties.

991
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: Where the where did the people find you?

992
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: Because you continue on to cover the league.

993
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 3: Miles and I disappear at the end of this episode

994
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: like obibi just a pile of clothes.

995
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, Jack just went in a force

996
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: go he really just he just disappeared. It's just closed,

997
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 2: just dropped to the ground and he's blue. Yeah, I

998
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: uh you know. You can follow me on Twitter at

999
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 2: at h M Fagan. Uh and then obviously all of

1000
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: our work over at sp nation dot com. And guys,

1001
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 2: thanks for having me for the last one. It's an

1002
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: it's been an honor. And uh yeah I was. I

1003
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: was not excited to get the call because it means

1004
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: the show's ending, but you know, I appreciate the invite.

1005
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: Oh man, well, you can find me everywhere at Miles

1006
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: of Gray if you still if you still want, if

1007
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: you still wish, And.

1008
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 3: Obviously on other show, the Daily Zeitegist that guys still

1009
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 3: going on on that Jack Underscore Obrian on Twitter, Jack

1010
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 3: obi the number one on Blue Sky a reference to

1011
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 3: Obi Wan and my ability to just turn into a

1012
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 3: pile of clothes.

1013
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: Yep, oh my god, you came back.

1014
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, there he is there we are. Uh, that's it.

1015
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: That's it.

1016
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 3: Don't search hashtag mat boosties for links and updates because

1017
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,439
Speaker 3: it's can be it. But we will be talking NBA

1018
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 3: on uh.

1019
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: Dailey's Eitgeist and of course, yeah, the the chattering still

1020
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: goes on again. Thank you to everybody who played a

1021
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: pivotal role in this show. Obviously Jabari Davis, Brian the editor,

1022
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,479
Speaker 1: our two biggest day ones Literal day Ones on this show.

1023
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: This show would not be where it is without your work,

1024
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: your dedication, lending me your basketball intelligence to pretend I'm

1025
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: not just a totally out of my mind Laker fan,

1026
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: and I do know some things about the other teams

1027
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: from time to time.

1028
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 3: So I do owe you a debt of gratitude forever. Jabari. Also,

1029
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 3: just you know, the iHeart family, Sean Peter Race, you know,

1030
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 3: day one and the NBA people, Steven Channing, Meredith, love

1031
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 3: to you all.

1032
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking a chance on two.

1033
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 3: Just Adam is over, Yeah, Silver Adam was a big

1034
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 3: fan Lebron Jamee. Come on. We were like, let's not

1035
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 3: mix business and pleasure at him. But you know, always

1036
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 3: fun and you know these past three years as a

1037
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 3: Sixers fan a lot of times, but I'm looking back

1038
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 3: at that beach and I only see one set of footsteps, yep,

1039
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 3: And I say, Miles, why did you abandon me? You say, Jack,

1040
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 3: it was it was during those seasons that I carried you,

1041
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 3: and so I have to thank you as well.

1042
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 2: Oh man, Well Jack, I'll.

1043
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 3: See you tomorrow anyway, it doesn't matter.

1044
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: Hope listen, but thank you all for listening, and we'll

1045
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: see you soon.

1046
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 3: Later bribe