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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in Side Hour too, The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with My best friend Mike Harmon, Apple.

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Speaker 1: like that cause thing, Yeah, you're in LA except you're

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Speaker 1: actually just watching a movie. Well, I'm waiting to see

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Speaker 1: if my fire shoe gets here. On time for Friday showing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna go im in his cosplay. Everybody

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Speaker 1: else dresses like wizard or whatever. I'm gonna dress like

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Speaker 1: a driver. I think what kind of patches you got

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Speaker 3: There? Your driver's suit to the move.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a helmet.

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Speaker 3: Is he an F one driver? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's really hot. I'm gonna pull Russel. Just take your

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Speaker 2: Nobody ruins the illusion.

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Speaker 3: Goog the helmet up.

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Speaker 1: But I'm suck fuck man, I'm five foot nothing. I

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Speaker 1: might be Tom Cruise in this fire suit watching this movie.

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Speaker 3: You don't know, take on the just rivulange pouring down

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Speaker 3: your face. How much weight did you lose?

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven pounds and all in my head because I

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Speaker 1: lost it all because it was you got like a

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Speaker 1: shrunken head. You'd be like the guy at the end

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Speaker 1: of Beetlejuice that he's sitting next.

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Speaker 3: To Hey been here a long time? What are you

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Speaker 3: waiting for?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's great, So we'll have more on the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals coming up in a few minutes. A big reaction

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Speaker 1: to Tyres Halliburton's achilles injury, which is now gonna put

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Speaker 1: But I gotta think the NBA not quite as happy

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Speaker 1: with the Hey, we got Game seven coming up today.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, by the way, we're gonna kind of hit

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Speaker 1: you off the bat with the Kevin Durant trade. Oh

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Speaker 1: you couldn't wait a day, couldn't wait a day to

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Speaker 1: announce it, couldn't wait two days to announce it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know your trading picks and everything, but this morning,

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Speaker 1: the morning of Game seven of the NBA Finals went. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: that was just as big a headline as Game seven

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Speaker 1: I was in in studio doing my Fox Sports Sunday

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Speaker 1: But it was done at fanatics Fest, which is a

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Speaker 1: huge event being put on Michael Ruven, lots of money,

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Speaker 1: lots of activations, your heavy hitters, hel Victor Webbanyama was

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Speaker 1: back from his monastery break to go buy some sign

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Speaker 1: Star Wars Worst cards, as well as a number of

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Speaker 1: other luminaries from Entertainment Sports Brady buying a two hundred

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Speaker 1: much of it's a k fabe for video only kind

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Speaker 1: was a nice choreographed orchestrated thing with kd Up there.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Rooks had no notes in her hand or a

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Speaker 1: questions and evidently with the particulars of the deal as

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant sat there. So yeah, with the finals that

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Speaker 1: celebrate all championship runs. They're not all created equal, but

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, here's what's gonna happen. Now.

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Speaker 1: Well, it did get people fired up on all sides,

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Speaker 1: two big thoughts on the Durant trade. First one is

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Speaker 1: a second. You're getting a score. You're getting Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: You've given up your leading scorer, right, and another great

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Speaker 1: he will also hit his threes. And no, by the way,

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Speaker 1: here's a tenth overall pick and then a bunch of

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Speaker 1: You decided, hey, we have enough pieces. I get you

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Speaker 1: have some good players. Yo Shangun is really good and

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Speaker 1: Fred van Vliet is incredibly solid. Look, I like I

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Speaker 1: But you're giving away a twenty three year old stud

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Speaker 1: and the tenth overall. But it's way too much.

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Speaker 3: I think every.

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Speaker 1: Every NBA team is just sitting around right now looking

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Speaker 1: at that, going oof, all right, Glad we backed out

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Speaker 1: that was just way too much. I really want to

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Speaker 1: believe it was anything close to this the Rockets. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: you want to add Kevin Durant. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: Green is terrific. I don't get that you you had

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Speaker 3: And you still did it. Phoenix was desperate. They were

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Speaker 3: desperate to get rid of Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: Mark Stein joined us last week and.

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Speaker 1: Said, hey, they so want to make this trade before

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Speaker 1: They give up way too much for Kevin. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: all the time on the show Distress Properties, right, not

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Speaker 1: to you want to be a ghoul, But where's your

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Speaker 1: best opportunity? Something bad has happened in a marketplace that

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Speaker 3: The housing market.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's a divorce, there's a loss of job, there's

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Speaker 1: you still need you still see the rest of the game. No,

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Speaker 1: But but that's the thing, though, is that you know

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Speaker 1: the trade when de Aaron Fox goes to San Antonio,

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Speaker 1: one of the teams that was also rumored to potentially

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Speaker 3: But remember when dearon Fox got.

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Speaker 1: have to give up a whole lot to get him, right,

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Speaker 1: They kept all of their pieces, their top picks all

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Speaker 1: of that and here like here's here's a bunch of

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Speaker 1: second round picks. Who cares number ten pick outside of

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag? Has anybody really captivated anybody? But the asset

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Speaker 1: it when you look at that, you know, the the

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Speaker 1: see one of those NFL chart values of him.

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Speaker 3: This is what we have here, but look at apply it.

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Speaker 1: You know, we need you know, we need like like

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Speaker 1: the Dynasty Football trade calculators, which are awesome, right uh,

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Speaker 1: where you type in what what a what a trade

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Speaker 1: you want to make in Dynasty and they calculate the

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Speaker 1: overall value of a player for not just this year,

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Speaker 1: but their career, and it tells you, hey, you are

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Speaker 1: trading a player with a value of seven thousand and

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Speaker 1: If they did something like that, the Rockets go, oh wow,

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Speaker 3: But the thing about this KD trade, right, why I

434
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Speaker 3: just kind of sort of like it. Right?

435
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Speaker 1: Do they have a guy now they can go to

436
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Speaker 1: at the end of games? Yeah, because that was a

437
00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,240
Speaker 1: big thing for the Rockets. He's not having a guy

438
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Speaker 1: like who's who's going to be their guy? They go to, well,

439
00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,040
Speaker 1: all right, we need that guy. Was so they did that, right, Why?

440
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Speaker 1: I sort of like it. But Kevin Durant is a

441
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Speaker 1: guy honestly at this point, in his career. He gets

442
00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,720
Speaker 1: his right, that's what he does. He gets his staff.

443
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Speaker 1: But that's the thing, points is how much of that

444
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Speaker 1: is different from what you had in the twenty three

445
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,480
Speaker 1: year old right? If he gets it, he gets his

446
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 1: points and and and said, yeah, but it's Kevin Durant.

447
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Speaker 3: Make suaw Okay.

448
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Speaker 1: You know who else thought they were Kevin Durant away

449
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Speaker 1: from winning a championship. The Brooklyn Nets and the and

450
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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. And this is when they had him,

451
00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, younger, when he.

452
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Speaker 3: Was coming back. You know, he's still in his early third.

453
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Speaker 1: Both those teams thought Kevin Durant was gonna lead them

454
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Speaker 1: to somewhere, and he led them nowhere. Well, you know what,

455
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,000
Speaker 1: no way to why he didn't lead him anywhere because

456
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 1: his shoe was too damn big.

457
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,640
Speaker 3: If his shoe wasn't too damn big and he hits

458
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,720
Speaker 3: that shot, boom, all of us the NBA world changes

459
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Speaker 3: as we know it.

460
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Speaker 1: If if Kevin Durant was still really that good, other

461
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Speaker 1: teams would have jockeyed him. Other teams that are more

462
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Speaker 1: championship ready would have jockeyed in and spent money to

463
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Speaker 1: get him. But instead it was a very small mark.

464
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Speaker 1: He didn't hear a lot of teams want to talk

465
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Speaker 1: to him. Normally you would hear that. You would hear, oh,

466
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Speaker 1: here's an offer for this team, and offer this. But

467
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Speaker 1: it was still was the Rockets is trade and it happened.

468
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Speaker 3: I mean it.

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Speaker 1: The Nets thought Kevin Durant's gonna lead us to a title. Okay,

470
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Speaker 1: well that didn't happen. All right, well, all right, well

471
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Speaker 1: we went through. But he had great players around Well

472
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Speaker 1: that's just k that's the thing. Though, great players around him.

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Speaker 3: It did work. But same thing in Phoenix, they had

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Speaker 3: great players around him. Didn't work.

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Speaker 1: Now suddenly, oh it's gonna work in Houston. Yeah, sorry,

476
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Speaker 1: KD gets his points. Okay, that's what he does. Is

477
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Speaker 1: he gonna make you a championship team?

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Speaker 2: No?

479
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Speaker 1: Will they win some more games at the end, because

480
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Speaker 1: KD will make some shots y end theory, as long

481
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Speaker 1: as he's still Kevin durantu is again getting to his

482
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Speaker 1: late thirties. That's why I only sort of like the

483
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Speaker 1: other store because I love KD is still a terrific scorer.

484
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Speaker 1: But this team fitting in right here. He's not gonna

485
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Speaker 1: lead you anywhere, and you've brought him in to be

486
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Speaker 1: the missing piece. If you brought him in and he

487
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Speaker 1: was gonna be like your third guy and say hey,

488
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Speaker 1: like if the Lakers brought him in and say, hey, okay,

489
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Speaker 1: you know what, it's Luca and it's Lebron and we

490
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Speaker 1: have kd Okay, well that that can be down with,

491
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Speaker 1: because all right, well Kad now is gonna be able to

492
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Speaker 1: pick his spots. You're not relying on him as much.

493
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Speaker 1: You still have other big scores, and he can pick

494
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Speaker 1: when he gets hot. He gets hot on like any

495
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Speaker 1: other player in the NBA. But you brought him in.

496
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Speaker 1: Now he's the missing piece. He's the guy we're gonna

497
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Speaker 1: go to it. And again, he's not led his last

498
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Speaker 1: couple of teams anywhere. What makes you think this is

499
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Speaker 1: gonna be different. He's not let anybody anywhere in six years,

500
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Speaker 1: six years it's been Mike. So now this is not

501
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 1: suddenly just gonna happen in Houston six years. It's like

502
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 1: we're talking about those ratings, hi sense, Hey, all those

503
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, So Green goes out twenty one game,

504
00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,440
Speaker 1: Shanngoon sticks around, he's at nineteen one. Couple of guys fourteen,

505
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 1: you got an ascending Amen Thompson, and this is where

506
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 1: you get into the devil. You know, the details. The

507
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 1: devil's in the details of the deal. Of the guys

508
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Speaker 1: you got to keep is that you do have a

509
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: number of other young players that are in their second

510
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: third year to rise up, and then veterans like Van

511
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: Vliet still hanging around. That you also resigned your coach

512
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: to a long term deal, so you've got him around,

513
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,640
Speaker 1: so it runs through him. And for Kevin Durant, well,

514
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: they tried the star building in Brooklyn and that didn't work.

515
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: They tried the star laden build in Phoenix and obviously

516
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: that didn't work. Whatever you believe about that back and

517
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 1: forth we talked about at the end of last week

518
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Speaker 1: with DeMarcus Cousins claiming they were having a bunch of

519
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 1: fistfights and then Durant's like, that didn't happen, brother, what

520
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 1: are you talking about?

521
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 3: And he goes, my source is one of your teammates.

522
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Speaker 1: So you know that's neither here nor there, but swirling

523
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Speaker 1: in the backdrop of all that. You know, now you

524
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: go to a squad that's built for team all right,

525
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: it's not star Leyton, you are the one star. You're

526
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: also in the Shacknas or a big leprechaun version of

527
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. Of how many jerseys has he got now?

528
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: I think someone said he's got the full rainbow, depending

529
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: on which jersey he's wearing over the course of his

530
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: time in the NBA. But you bring him in the

531
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Speaker 1: opportunity they are the fourth favorite to win the NBA

532
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: title right now, and he gets to, you know, reignite

533
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: any hatred he may have, Layton hatred with okay s

534
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: as soon as he misses a shot. Mister unreliable becomes

535
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: the backdrop. But the Thunder at plus two twenty, Calves

536
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: at plus seven hundred, Knicks at plus seven fifty even

537
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: with no coach, and the Rockets at plus eight fifty.

538
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 1: And then there's a gap before you get to the

539
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: Pacers and Tea Wolves Pacers that.

540
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Speaker 3: Hang an asterisk on that because there will be no Haliburton.

541
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Speaker 1: Now speaking of that, all right, So Halliburton gets hurt,

542
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: and it was a shocker last night. We see him

543
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: crumple in early in the first half of the game,

544
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: and now he's out for maybe all of next year.

545
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: It was really tough, and right away when I said it,

546
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: I thought back to our conversation at the end of

547
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: last week, which was, Okay, one of two things is

548
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: happening here. Either Halliburton's injury is being completely overstated because

549
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: of his confidence level coming off a bad Game five,

550
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 1: or if he's if he is this hurt, the question

551
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: is going to be how does he get back on

552
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Speaker 1: the court. Right, So, going by the facts as to

553
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: what we knew of them going last week. Okay, So

554
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Speaker 1: Game five is one of the worst games of his career,

555
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: one of the worst games anybody's had in the finals,

556
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: and it comes out, Yeah, he's got a strained CAF. Okay,

557
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: still played thirty four minutes in game five, second most

558
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Speaker 1: minutes of anybody. He was examined during the game after

559
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: he left after his slipped, was allowed to come back

560
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: into play. Okay, then we get the story comes out

561
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: full bore. Mri is You're gonna be re examined and

562
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: we'll see what a status is for game six. M

563
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: Ari apparently comes back clean and he's allowed to play

564
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: in Game six, and he plays terrific in Game six

565
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: and they blow out the thunder Get ready for game seven.

566
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: Halliburn's doing interviews. It's our time. It's all this stuff, okay,

567
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: joking about watching Love Island with his girlfriend and her

568
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: helping with the treatments.

569
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Speaker 3: Did say that his calf was sore, right, did admit

570
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 3: to that part.

571
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: And again not that I not that I was thinking

572
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: he was making it up, but obviously I thought, well,

573
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 1: are they really over selling it for, you.

574
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 3: Know, to try to make an excuse me.

575
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: I'm saying it was a multi week injury regular season,

576
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: which multi right, so it's like, okay, so all right,

577
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: but I said, I can't believe it's that bad an

578
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: injury because he wouldn't be allowed on the court if

579
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: it was that bad. So now all of a sudden,

580
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: Sunday comes up and his achilles blows and he's out

581
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: now for whoever, however long, and I go back to Okay,

582
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: now I'm back to the beginning. I said, forget about

583
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: the whole, you know, the injury being overblown, and now

584
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: it's okay. All the stuff we have gotten throughout the

585
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: the last few days of the Finals has been here's

586
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: how we've looked at him, here's how he's been evaluated,

587
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: and still full minutes in Game five, full minutes in

588
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: Game six, out there for Game seven. MRI comes back clean,

589
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: he is evaluated by the medical team in Indiana and

590
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: he's okay to play. And now I come back to

591
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: how was he on the court at that point, then, like,

592
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: what was he looked at? You can't tell me he

593
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: got all of this looked at here after game five

594
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: before he said, and yet go out and play, Go

595
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: out and play, go out and play. And I get that,

596
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: he says, Hey, if anything I can, if I can walk,

597
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm going out there to play.

598
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 3: I get it.

599
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: But like there so there was no inclination that it

600
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: was that it was this bad, because again I'm going

601
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: by what we were told in the facts of what

602
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: we saw, and this was full minutes in game five,

603
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: full minutes in game six, and MRI is cleaned all

604
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: of this and examined and looked at. However many times

605
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: he needs to be going into going into game seven,

606
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: and still this happens. Now I come away from, hey, okay,

607
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: this is being overblown, because again, what did I say?

608
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 1: What did I say? There's no way medically they're blowing this,

609
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: and and he's out there when he shouldn't be safe.

610
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: A medical team is a team is not going to

611
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: do that. But now I want to go back and

612
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: look and say, okay, what we're all the what were

613
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: all the h the examinations, what were all these findings

614
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: really that show yes, he could have all these full

615
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: minutes and again everything in game six and especially coming

616
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: back in game five after he slipping fellon you're getting

617
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: blown out. Hey, okay, maybe we don't need you the

618
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: rest of this game. Will come back in game six

619
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: and try to figure it out like really that That's

620
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,239
Speaker 1: what doesn't make sense to me now is all of

621
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: these full minutes, full workload, and the examinations and the MRI,

622
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: and still this is what happened. Yeah, you get down

623
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: to it, and you know, I saw a number of

624
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: the the tweets and discussions that were going on for

625
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: all you that said he wasn't really hurt. It's like no, no, no,

626
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: the conversation wasn't you know, how is he hurt?

627
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 3: It's you know, how severe? Is it?

628
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: Right? Is it being overblown in that regard to your

629
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: point thirty four minutes in game five? Come back in

630
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: a blowout scenario in game six. Fortunately you only needed

631
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: to play half the game because Oklahoma City, as I

632
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: discussed on Friday and again yesterday with Dan I was incensed.

633
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: You got a close out opportunity, and once the lid

634
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: went on the basket for five minutes, he said, that's

635
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: not our night and started playing some really lazy basketball.

636
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: Still the champs, you move on. But then Haliburton comes

637
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 1: out hits a couple of big shots. Going back to

638
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: Game six, he's flying around right, diving for balls out

639
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: of bounds, keeping plays alive. One of the the highlights

640
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: will be forever the pass he made off of the

641
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: save that led the Siakam dunk, all of those things,

642
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: but it now becomes the all right, what.

643
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: Was the likelihood?

644
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: And this is something we talk about all the time

645
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: of was it going to pop? And was it inevitable?

646
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: So it was let me test fate as long as

647
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Speaker 1: I can, since we've made it to the finals, and

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Speaker 1: see how many minutes I can give and maybe I

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Speaker 1: can get through to where we're now in the offseason,

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Speaker 1: rest and he have and whatever to get there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: You're playing the percentages right as to how severe that

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Speaker 1: calf strain was, what was on the MRI. What is

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Speaker 1: clean mean something like is that you can put that

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Speaker 1: blanket on you know it's a bigger blanket, so you're

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Speaker 1: actually covered in a lot of ways because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: show obvious rips. I don't know what what that from

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Speaker 1: a medical standpoint. You know, we try to play doctors,

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Speaker 1: lawyers and everything on the radio, but that's where the

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Speaker 1: gray is in this of you know, if he was

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Speaker 1: just going to give it the try, since he could walk,

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Speaker 1: as he said, he was going to try to play

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Speaker 1: and try to gut through it, somewhere in the truth

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Speaker 1: lies and in the end he's got a torn achilles

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Speaker 1: and he begins the long rehab process. Whatever was gone

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Speaker 1: on in the background, I would like to think that

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Speaker 1: the NBA at least goes in and asks a couple

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Speaker 1: of questions, or the players Union for that matter. That

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Speaker 1: and don't wear number zero because yeah, playoffs were not

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Speaker 1: kind to you. If you more than number zero, you

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Speaker 1: had a zero playoffs. If that that is right, nicely done.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Mike and I love putting this content out for you

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Speaker 1: every single night time. How to find out what's trending

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Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports from special delivery Steve

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Speaker 1: the Seger, who has everything going on tonight except with

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Speaker 1: no baseball.

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Speaker 3: A very light schedule. So what do you got?

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Speaker 4: There was apparently no game in New York today. No

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Speaker 4: game no least for the Mets offense for most of

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Speaker 4: the game.

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Speaker 1: We need Grimace back. We gotta have Grimace back throwing

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Speaker 1: out that first pitch tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: If there's a squirrel that crosses the field or a

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Speaker 4: mascot coming, you got some rallying point. That's what's needed

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Speaker 4: at this point. Yes, the Mets have lost nine of ten,

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Speaker 4: We'll get to that in a moment. But in the NBA, yes,

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Speaker 4: Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton tonight has had his surgery for

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Speaker 4: the torn achilles from last night, he could miss next season.

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Speaker 4: Haliburton in the past hour tweeted, honestly right now torn

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Speaker 4: achilles and all I don't regret it. I do it

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Speaker 4: again and again after that to fight for this city

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Speaker 4: and my brothers for the chance to do something special.

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Speaker 4: Oklahoma City's Game seven win drew over sixteen million TV viewers,

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Speaker 4: the largest NBA audience since the twenty nineteen Finals. The

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Speaker 4: series had been averaging about nine mil until last night.

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Speaker 4: The Pacers were in the finals for the first time

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Speaker 4: since two thousand. Tyrese Haliburton was born in two thousand.

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Speaker 4: The MAVs are giving Daniel Gafford a three year extension.

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Speaker 4: Washington's Chris Middleton picked up his contract option. The NBA

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Speaker 4: Draft starts on Wednesday. The WNBA is off tonight four

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Speaker 4: games tomorrow. Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson, after a bad shoulder,

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Speaker 4: said and he'll be ready for training camp next month.

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Speaker 4: Chargers training camp starts in less than a month. Players

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Speaker 4: they report July sixteenth. They'll be playing in the Hall

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Speaker 4: of Fame exhibition in late July. US Men's soccer plays

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Speaker 4: its Gold Cup quarterfinal on Sunday against Costa Rica in Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: It'll be on Fox TV. The tournament is on Fox

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Speaker 4: and FS one, but it's off tonight. Group play ends

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Speaker 4: Tuesday night on FS one with the Canada game against

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Speaker 4: El Salvador in the FIFA Club World Cup Paris Saint

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Speaker 4: Germain one two nothing at Seattle and then tonight Paulmiras.

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Speaker 3: With two late goals tied two two at Miami.

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Speaker 4: Inter Miami with Messi goes up against PSG in the

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Speaker 4: Round of sixteen. Two late games in Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 4: the Red Sox have tied it up in Anaheim five

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Speaker 4: to five against the Angels top of the seventh and

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Speaker 4: Boston has bases loaded one out Trevor Story with the

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Speaker 4: tying solo homer in the sixth. Boston starter Walker Bueller

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Speaker 4: allowed the five runs in the first inning. He wound

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Speaker 4: up pitching four innings with seven walks issued seventh inning stretch.

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Speaker 4: In San Diego, Nationals still lead the Padres six to

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Speaker 4: ten two. The Dodgers and Giants are idle tonight. Arizona's

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Speaker 4: a Hennio Suarez left the game at the White Sox

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Speaker 4: tonight after being hit by a pitch on the hand

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Speaker 4: X rays were negative. MLB reports that Diamondbacks outfielder Corbyn Carroll,

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Speaker 4: who missed a fifth straight game tonight, has a fractured

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Speaker 4: wrist and is due to go on the injured list.

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Speaker 4: Arizona beat the White Sox in Chicago ten to nothing.

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Speaker 4: Saint Louis and Pittsburgh with wins Atlanta at Baltimore as well.

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati beat the Yankee six to one, Aaron Judge his

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Speaker 4: twenty eighth homer, Seattle an eleven to two winner at Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: The Twins have lost four in a row.

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Speaker 3: This game was on FS one.

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Speaker 4: Tonight, the Mariners Col Raley hit his thirty second home

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Speaker 4: run of the season. He is by the way, leading

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Speaker 4: by a lot at catcher in the All Star voting.

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Speaker 4: He has thirty two homer sixty eight RBIs already. Toronto's

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Speaker 4: Vladimir Guerrera Junior now leads the All Star voting at

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Speaker 4: first base, ahead of the Yankees Paul Goldschman in the

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Speaker 4: American League. The leading vote getters overall for next month's

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Speaker 4: All Star Game are still Aaron Judge in the American

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Speaker 4: League and shohe Otani and the National League. The current

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Speaker 4: stage of fan voting goes through Thursday, and then the

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Speaker 4: top two at each position each league have a runoff

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Speaker 4: to see who starts back to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Steve O.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the

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Speaker 1: Ti rack dot Com Studio. Straight Ahead, what is the

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Speaker 1: impact of Tyres Halliburton's injury.

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Speaker 3: On the NBA?

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Speaker 1: Not gonna be what you think it is? That's next

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Speaker 1: right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend

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Speaker 1: PG thirty. Wait a second, did you say Brad Pitt?

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Speaker 1: I said, Brad Pitt is in this movie and he

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Speaker 3: I'm going to see it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the news involving What's gonna happen now?

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Speaker 1: As a result of the NBA of Tyre's Halliburton, we

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Speaker 1: have a trade to announce. ESPN Shamsterrani reporting this a

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Speaker 1: few moments ago. The Celtics are trading Drew Holliday to

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Speaker 1: the Blazers in exchange for Anthony Simons and two second

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Speaker 1: round picks. So the Blazers trading away Drew Holliday to

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Speaker 1: the Blazers getting back Simons and a couple of picks.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was watching the purge last night and

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Speaker 1: I started to think about it in the context of

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Speaker 1: the NBA, knowing that the Celtics needed to shed some

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Speaker 1: salary and change some things up.

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Speaker 3: So it begins.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, man, you could look no Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: for a while next year, depending on lot it takes.

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Speaker 3: Him to get back.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, these trades are happening. So coming

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Speaker 1: off of the Halliburton injury yesterday, right, a torn achilles

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Speaker 1: that's gonna cost him most of maybe all of next year.

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Speaker 1: And look, Achilles. You know these are injuries that sometimes

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Speaker 1: it takes players a full season to come back from

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Speaker 1: after they get hurt. Uh, this is what this is

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Speaker 1: gonna mean for the NBA, because now we have seen

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Speaker 1: too many times in the last few years, strain calves

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Speaker 1: turn into blown achilles, Right, Kevin Durant in the NBA finals,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. We've seen it with other players in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs this year in your NBA And now you have

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Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton's strain calf turned into a blown achilles. You

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Speaker 1: are now going to see NBA team this is now

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Speaker 1: going to become a strain calf is going to become

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Speaker 1: a long term injury. The abundance of caution, it's going

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Speaker 1: any a strained calf of any with any degree of

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Speaker 1: seriousness is going to be a six week injury.

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Speaker 3: At least we were not gonna work. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: it's a couple week injury. Now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to go on a month, now, we'll

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Speaker 1: see you in six weeks because it's just simply not

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Speaker 1: worth it, because we see what strained calves can turn into. Now,

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Speaker 1: not every strain calf is gonna be a blown Achilles,

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Speaker 1: but when you talk about some of these heavyweights that

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Speaker 1: have blown their achilles out after having a strained calf, it's, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: so maybe it's not quite worth it. Maybe an extra

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Speaker 1: couple weeks of caution is gonna be there. And I

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Speaker 1: mean you see teams the championships and seasons are derailed

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Speaker 1: by these injuries. So now calf strain is gonna be Okay,

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Speaker 1: six weeks, that's gonna be a you're coming back. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna you're in no basketball activity for a while.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna ramp you back up really really slow. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna cut your minutes as you get back so so

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Speaker 1: so your calf gets stronger. You're not gonna play tons

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Speaker 1: of It's going to be a long term preventative injury.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you're gonna see teams doing now because

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Speaker 1: you saw Halliburton, look at what it.

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Speaker 3: Did for them.

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Speaker 1: Right now, you're gonna go back say, well, the Pacers

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Speaker 1: just kept him out after Game five and just he

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Speaker 1: didn't go back in for the rest of that game

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Speaker 1: when they didn't need him they were getting blown out.

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Speaker 1: Maybe things would have been better, they would have come

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Speaker 1: back for game six. Maybe Game seven would have been okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know, because it's obviously it's an injury,

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Speaker 1: but you're looking back saying, oh, we could have played it.

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Speaker 3: We could have played a little bit differently and NBA

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Speaker 3: teams are gonna are doing it.

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Speaker 1: They tried to run it through your different probabilities again,

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Speaker 1: like we were talking before, of you know, what was

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Speaker 1: the likelihood that it was going to snap that Halliburton decided,

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Speaker 1: whatever that risk was, he with the doctors and everything,

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Speaker 1: let's give it a go, and if it's inevitable, it's inevitable.

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Speaker 1: But certainly during the course of an NBA season would

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Speaker 1: they play one hundred and six on one hundred and

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Speaker 1: five games, I think respectively in the in this playoffs,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of heavy minutes, a lot of workload,

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Speaker 1: particularly when you look at the way Halliburton handles the

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Speaker 1: ball a ton, so you got a lot of pick

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Speaker 1: and roll, a lot of bumps, a lot of plays

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Speaker 1: along the way that you saw how they tried to

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Speaker 1: hide that as best they could. Going back to Game

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Speaker 1: five that now in the eighty two game season, you

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Speaker 1: don't like load management, Well, now it's going to be

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Speaker 1: the how injured is a guy questioned on a whole

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Speaker 1: other level. Remember baseball had their issue years ago where

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Speaker 1: it just seemed every other day somebody had a torn

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Speaker 1: labram that became the injury. We learned about and now

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Speaker 1: it became the ucl UH and how you manage pitching

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Speaker 1: staffs and and starters and and innings and all of

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Speaker 1: those things. Workloads have changed, and we can say to

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Speaker 1: the detriment of the game in terms of being stronger,

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Speaker 1: our guys being babied whatever. For the NBA, they've got

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Speaker 1: to look at this seriously as well, when you talk

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Speaker 1: about the star power that's been lost on the court,

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Speaker 1: trying to gut through whatever mild strain, grade two strain,

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Speaker 1: whatever it may be, as opposed to all right, you

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Speaker 1: miss a month of the regular season, but you're back

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. Is where you get the two season

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Speaker 1: in one kind of thing. For the NBA becomes the handwringing.

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Speaker 3: Operation as well, what do we do? What do we

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Speaker 3: got eighty two games here? We got potentially how many

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Speaker 3: months of playing And.

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Speaker 1: It's a bigger conversation we have, which we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes on this topic. But just to

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Speaker 1: understand that there's certain injuries now that when you see

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Speaker 1: a teams are gonna say, okay, this is now how

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Speaker 1: we're blanketly going to treat this well. And because the

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Speaker 1: because because the the the bad is just too bad.

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Speaker 1: The risk is not worth it at all because you're

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Speaker 1: talking them again. It's gonna be a season and maybe

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Speaker 1: into another season, just because it takes players that long.

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Speaker 1: It's not you know, it used to be, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: have a torn acl. It takes you no Now the

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Speaker 1: way medicine has come back, you come back from a

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Speaker 1: torn ACL. You get back to that level of play

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Speaker 1: pretty fast now that but the torn achilles is still Hey,

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Speaker 1: it may be a full year after it until you

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Speaker 1: come back and see what kind of well. The other

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Speaker 1: is the way roster constructions change. Based on the rules

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Speaker 1: and the second Apron and all these financial pieces.

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Speaker 3: That have been put in by the NBA.

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Speaker 1: You're building rosters differently, which is how we got to

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Speaker 1: this NBA Finals, to where if a guy needs to

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Speaker 1: sit for five weeks, you might not have the same

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Speaker 1: disastrous consequence to the standings as you would in years

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Speaker 1: past because you weren't so star Layden in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five exit out bout a Fresca Exit, Swollen dome coming

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Speaker 1: up next. What this means even further for the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Plus Tyrese Halliburton has just put out a huge statement

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Speaker 1: in regards to his injury literally love moron. This coming

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Speaker 1: up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,