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Speaker 1: What's the reaction? I mean, you know, losing a rookie

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, but you know, we definitely didn't talk about

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Speaker 1: this is uh, you know news that just happened today.

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Speaker 1: So does does Joe bring that up to the whole

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Speaker 1: team though, and you know, in a in a quick

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Speaker 1: huddle or anything like that. I'm sure he might. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's gotten into it with the whole

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Speaker 1: open discussion about, you know, what's going on with him.

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Speaker 1: But I'm wondering if there's been any team discussions about

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Speaker 1: this most recent one that you just brought up, even

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Speaker 1: no matter where you came from, what what what background

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Speaker 1: But I think this is definitely a big picture, a

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Speaker 1: to ask you. We were talking to Kyler previously about

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Speaker 1: And do you have any reaction to the Milwaukee Bucks

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