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Speaker 1: well the Celtics reached thirty wins.

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Utah is suddenly one of the hottest teams in

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Speaker 3: Why are you clinching your jaw.

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Speaker 3: You're getting choked out.

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Speaker 4: You get choked up. That's not what's going on.

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Speaker 1: And as the February eighth NBA trade deadline approaches, there

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Speaker 1: are rumors swirling all around the NBA, some interesting, some upsetting,

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Speaker 1: some fantastic, but bhoos and we'll get into all of

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Speaker 1: that and more with NBA reporter jov and Buh on

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Speaker 1: the episode today.

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Speaker 5: I'm Miles Gray, remm Jack O'Brien and this is my.

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Speaker 4: Sorry get hit Okay, there so be driving Spinny got

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Speaker 4: up with five? Is gonna try another three? Mister, look

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Speaker 4: on James, be honest with the tail looks how no

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Speaker 1: Yoh, thank you so much for coming to this wonderful

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Speaker 1: NBA podcast. Thank you so much for being with us

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Speaker 1: some hard times for me as a Lakers fan, and

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Speaker 1: I've not been living and dying by your tweets.

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Speaker 4: You're reporting.

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Speaker 1: Stop Jack, you already you I already know. I've already

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Speaker 1: seen the notes you've taken. You're gonna have fun with

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Speaker 4: And anyway, by thanks so much for joining us. Man.

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Speaker 4: How how how are you?

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Speaker 5: How are you?

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Speaker 4: What's how's life? Broadly before he zooming on basketball, I'm

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Speaker 1: I tore my achilles at the beginning of the season,

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Speaker 1: But other than that, I've been good, and I mean,

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Speaker 2: Is it true that you tore your achilles out of

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Speaker 5: That's just the rumor.

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Speaker 1: That's the rumor, right, But you did hit those free

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Speaker 1: me hit these free throws, right, Yeah, So it was

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Speaker 1: I'm justalking in a boot. I'm actually about to be

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Speaker 6: We just love the gap with all that.

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Speaker 4: So, you know, improvement, I don't know what, Yovan, what?

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Speaker 2: this is a Lakers podcast, and we're back. We're back,

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Speaker 2: and we saw a historic first career triple double from

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Speaker 2: future Los Angeles Laker Victor wembin Yama sixteen twelve eleven.

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Speaker 2: Some very fun highlights in that one, uh, some dominating moments.

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Speaker 4: This guy pretty good, guy, pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I think he said he's gonna play in the Skills

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Speaker 1: Christy has like eight feet of space and shoots this

438
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: floater that Wemby somehow reaches the top of it and

439
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: blocks it, and Knight's a fast break and then he

440
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,679
Speaker 1: gets an alley oop in transition, and it was like

441
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 1: this thirty second sequence of this is like the insanity

442
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: that this guy could do, of just what he could

443
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,640
Speaker 1: do on both ends. So I think he's a special prospect.

444
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a future multi time

445
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,399
Speaker 1: All Star. I think he's probably going to be a

446
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 1: top fifty player. Ever, I just I do think that

447
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,479
Speaker 1: the hype got a little out of hand entering the season.

448
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: But that's also kind of how the media works and

449
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 1: how some of the star shows.

450
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 2: If he or Chet make the All Star teams like

451
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 2: an alternate, they would be in the likes that the

452
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 2: last person to do it, it looks like is only

453
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 2: eleven Blake Griffin for that Yal in two thousand and three,

454
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Shack Matumbo, David Robinson, Ewing, and Jordan.

455
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: That's the list going back of rookies have made the

456
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 2: All Star team.

457
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 3: So prettysive.

458
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, basically other than Jordan used.

459
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 2: To be a big man's league back in my NBA

460
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 2: when the game was about the game, uh Dame time

461
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: had the big buzzer beater and Ot versus the Kings.

462
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: That's like one of the wildest thing is that he

463
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 2: hits a running at full speed, fading five feet to

464
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 2: his left, like four steps outside of the three point line,

465
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 2: buzzer beater. And my first response is to wonder how

466
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 2: the Kings let him get that look, because I knew

467
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 2: it was going in like the second that lift his fingertips,

468
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: just like he makes that type of shot looks so

469
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 2: easy that it's just a blast.

470
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 3: So here we'll watch it right now.

471
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: He two to tie to win, five point two left

472
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: the way he's running three seconds. I'm with you, Like

473
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: this is just terrible defense, such a hard time, you know,

474
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: Like it's like we've we've seen him make these types

475
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: of like you know it's name time. But like the

476
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: bonus right here, Like is Boos going to pull up

477
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: from half court? Like no, Like what why is bonus

478
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: behind the three point line there? I just he's that

479
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: was going to keep him up at night. This is

480
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: to me the fatal flaw of the Kings, Like I

481
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: just don't trust their defense. I mean their defense is

482
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: already bad, but like I just don't. Yeah, it's an

483
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: example like this of of why I don't think they're

484
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: gonna win a playoff series, right yeah, because that was

485
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: just sort of like it almost felt like a drill

486
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: for Dame. But it's like, yeah, go around this cone

487
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: and then I'll hold the broomstick up and then you

488
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: just shoot over it. Ye, Like about with that kind

489
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: of intensity, you'll be defended. Uh but yeah, I mean,

490
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: look he does what he does, that dame and Chris

491
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: Middleton looks so excited.

492
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 4: Chris, he looks so excited when he came on the court.

493
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 4: Great that guy the court? Who's this guy with? I love?

494
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: I just like his very simple like he keeps like.

495
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: I feel like he hasn't changed the way he's dressed.

496
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 4: For a long time, which I like to see.

497
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 1: You know it flashy exactly exactly, he just got off

498
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: your shift. And then also very heartening Gigi Jackson.

499
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 2: His react in the NBA. Yo, his reaction to the

500
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 2: youngest child in the NBA. He just turned it nineteen.

501
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Uh, his reaction to hearing Shack's voice through

502
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: the headphones so he's given like a postgame comment. It

503
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: was really I felt like a child for some I

504
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: don't know why like it. It felt like the thing

505
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: like I think for a lot of people of a

506
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: certain age, especially for like millennials, where we grew up

507
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: with like a gigantic Shack shoe in every mall, and

508
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: like and.

509
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 4: That's the size of Shaquille O'Neil's foot, Yeah.

510
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,239
Speaker 2: Famigiving, yeah exactly, Yeah, bigger than let's car.

511
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 4: Shack.

512
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: Shoot, but like, yeah, that was just a really really

513
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: great moment. And just to kind of see the excitement

514
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: on his face. Let's play that just because allowed to

515
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: play this, or yeah we got clearance, Oh hell yeah.

516
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: Just trying to be as coachable as possible, Juju Shack here.

517
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 7: I don't have any questions. I just want to say congratulations,

518
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 7: jump fella. You played the hell of a game and

519
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 7: the people didn't know who you were. They know who

520
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 7: you are. Now ready brother to.

521
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Speaker 4: Get to hear your voice.

522
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 3: Appreciate you well, GJ.

523
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 4: You could tell that with Shack.

524
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 2: He well he was mumbling, okay, you better act and

525
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 2: pressed to hear my voice too.

526
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 3: It was like.

527
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also like the way he tightened up, like

528
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: he suddenly had like the politeness of somebody we're going

529
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: to Chick fil a. Yeah, he was like, yeah, very much, sir.

530
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: I appreciate you all the time. Police pull up to

531
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: the next window. Thank you so much, God bless you.

532
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 2: Like so it was like a little a little kid

533
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: who saw Santa orself that it was so amazing.

534
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh it's beautiful, and well like he's he's joining

535
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: an interesting group right of like the last people the

536
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: youngest people to do, like put up twenty points at

537
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: least twenty points back to back, where like Lebron and

538
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: Katie I think the only people younger than him.

539
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a wild company.

540
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 5: Yeah for real long.

541
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 4: I hope it lasts.

542
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: I mean this this season has been so all over

543
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: the place, like we've seen it all that I'm like, please,

544
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: let I want to say.

545
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 4: I want to keep saying this young man's name.

546
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 3: With the Grizzlies.

547
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

548
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

549
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 2: And then speaking of joining wild Company, h and bead

550
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 2: forty one and ten in a blowout over the Rockets

551
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 2: on Martin Luther King Day, Uh, sixteen straight, thirty and

552
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 2: ten games.

553
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 3: Uh.

554
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: It's so I just found out that he's reached the

555
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: level that Lakers fans are actually willing to entertain him.

556
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 3: As a future Laker, like.

557
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 2: You guys are now we'll always talk about yeah, you know,

558
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 2: yeah we like him. Yeah yeah, but you've never been

559
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 2: like like there are certain players who you're always like, yeah,

560
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 2: he's a future Laker, and like that's I can't wait

561
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 2: to watch it seem in the Purple and gold.

562
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, yeah, this.

563
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: Is huge for me as as a Sixers fan, as

564
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: an Embad fan. I'm just so flattered that you guys like,

565
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: oh my god.

566
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 6: Really the league means.

567
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 4: He's put his head down, he's looking great playing for

568
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 4: his low teague. You know, we really like that. We

569
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 4: like the spirit.

570
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: The final level of stardom is like Laker fans willing

571
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: to entertain.

572
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

573
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's never at a moment of crisis for

574
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: us either.

575
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 4: No, you can't wait.

576
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: To see the trades, you guys invent. I'm a a

577
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: super producer. Jabbari was asking if he could interest me

578
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 2: in a slightly used d LO.

579
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: You know that was when we were talking about I

580
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: think that's when we were talking about the spurs for Wemby.

581
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 4: Oh okay, all right. Yeah.

582
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: Wemby obviously is another player that you guys have have voiced.

583
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 4: Some I mean we need that rebounding help man. Yeah.

584
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: Not.

585
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 2: You haven't voiced interest, You've voiced confidence that he will

586
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: eventually be on your team. So that's how Lakers fans communicate.

587
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: I'll show him.

588
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: I'll show him all the fine homes of the publishing

589
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: titans that are in the like San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena area.

590
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm like some of the greatest book publishers lived in

591
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: this area, Victor and you could you.

592
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 4: Could also live in the Rand McNally house. Think about that.

593
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 4: Just think about that, man, Just think about that.

594
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: We love books, We love Yeah, but no Embeade is looking.

595
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: I keep asking you this, are you Are you feeling good?

596
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: Are you still going to have your your ice heart

597
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: that you have to have to protect yourself as a six.

598
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: Ers, as a Sixers fan, I mean I default to

599
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 2: ice heart. I but last season I did not feel

600
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: good the entire season, Like even when they were putting

601
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: it together and winning some games with Harden, just the

602
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: fact that they had the same basic structure of doc

603
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: and you know, like where they looked too similar to

604
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 2: the teams that kept going out in the second round

605
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: for some reason. They seem like I wouldn't be shocked

606
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 2: if they got out of the second round this season.

607
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 4: Oh that's big.

608
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 5: Wow.

609
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

610
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 2: I also wouldn't be shocked if they didn't get to

611
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: the second round. I mean, I guess I'd be a

612
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: little bit shocked, But it depends on where they where

613
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 2: they face the Celtics, who I think have the It's

614
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: Celtics versus the field in the Eastern Conference. Basically in

615
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 2: my opinion, they got it all going right now, so

616
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 2: if they stay healthy, I don't I don't know. It's

617
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: really like whoever is not playing them in the second round?

618
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you? How do you have you heard of.

619
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 3: The Eastern Conference?

620
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: Have you heard of it a few times?

621
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 7: Yeah?

622
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 4: I thought it was like it's a little depressing.

623
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: Uh No, I think that the sixth I mean the

624
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: Sixers have had some obviously have I would say underachieved

625
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: to put it kindly, over the last few years in

626
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But we haven't seen the Milwaukee Philly matchup.

627
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: That's been one I've I've really wanted to see. I

628
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: just Yiannis versus Embiid in a playoff series and and

629
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: how that would go.

630
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 4: Uh.

631
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: You know, Philly always somehow ends up on the Boston

632
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: side of the bracket, and that's just been their Achilles heel.

633
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: Uh to bring up a source subject, except.

634
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: When they don't and they play the heat and get

635
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 2: beat by the Yeah, so I lose to anyone in

636
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 2: the second round.

637
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: Man, we don't care so the hot. Look, I mean

638
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 3: we're not we're not picky.

639
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: You give the second rounderies and a man, We're happy

640
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: to cough it up.

641
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: I think like getting rid of James Harden, Ben Simmons

642
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: and Doc River in the last couple of years has

643
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of cleansed the Philly like I think.

644
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: I think if they're on the opposite side of Boston

645
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: in the bracket, like let's say they're the three seed

646
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: and Boston is the one seed, I think they could

647
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: be Milwaukee or Miami or whoever else they match up

648
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: with on the way to the conference finals. Then it's

649
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: just a matter of can Embiid be the clear cut,

650
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: I guess best player in that series, you know, And

651
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: what's Boston's health looking like, you know, they've got some

652
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: injury prone players, So I think there's a lot of

653
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: ways they could shake out. But I've been really impressed

654
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: with Maxie. I think Maxi's should be an All Star.

655
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: I think you should potentially be an All Star starter,

656
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: depending on how the back court plays out. And I

657
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: think they're right there. And Nick Nurse is one of

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Speaker 1: the best coaches in the NBA. I think people it

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Speaker 1: with Toronto kind of being in the middle class the

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Speaker 1: last few years after Kawhi left, like people forgot how

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Speaker 1: good of a coach Nick Nurses but I've been impressed

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Speaker 1: with him. I think you should be in the Coach

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Speaker 1: of the Year conversation. And you know, Embiid is probably

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Speaker 1: the MVP front runner right now. So on paper, Philly's

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Speaker 1: got again. I give Boston the edge, but Philly's right

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Speaker 1: there for number two. I think potentially even out of Milwaukee.

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Speaker 3: We do kind of think of talent.

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Speaker 2: I tend to think of talent communicat cumulatively, like that

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Speaker 2: like yadd talent until you're the best team type thing.

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Speaker 2: But there's just seeing the standings right now. Philly is

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Speaker 2: in third, the Calves are in fourth, and we're seeing

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Speaker 2: the thing happen with the Calves right now where they're

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Speaker 2: like really putting a run together after two of their

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Speaker 2: three best players got hurt, Philly lost supposedly their best

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Speaker 2: player or second best player in Harden, and like they've

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Speaker 2: had a better beginning to this season. That that's just

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Speaker 2: always interesting to me when it's like, actually, you just

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Speaker 2: need to.

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Speaker 5: Like clear give people a little bit of.

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Speaker 3: Room to like cook in some ways that make it work.

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Speaker 3: I want, I do want.

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Speaker 2: If that's like something that's happening with the Lakers, I

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Speaker 2: don't know why it would be but just feels like

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of pieces there that aren't aren't necessarily

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Speaker 2: coming together, and I do. I am just throwing that

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Speaker 2: in there because I'm contractually obligated. This is a Lakers

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Speaker 2: fan podcast, so I.

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Speaker 1: Just want to bring up thank you, and you still

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Speaker 1: have to mention the team or the city four more

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Speaker 1: times before I absolute anchor fit.

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Speaker 2: That that's happening with everybody except the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: Who are they?

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Speaker 4: And yeah, they added to it and can be additive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wonder it's if it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are so many things too where you have around

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Speaker 1: the league. People are like, I just need some minutes, man,

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Speaker 1: that's all I need. That's all I need. I got

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Speaker 1: these other these pieces of dead wood that are in

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Speaker 1: front of me, and I'm telling you, if you just

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Speaker 1: get them out the way, like I will show you, but.

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Speaker 4: Just help me out.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like, yeah, I mean like any competitor

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Speaker 1: is going to feel that way. But yeah, when it

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Speaker 1: actually comes together, it there's definitely some Greek some credence

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Speaker 1: to that way of thinking. Just look, I'm willing the

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Speaker 1: Lakers please do something, Please do something, man, just for me,

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Speaker 1: for me and the rest of us.

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Speaker 2: They take the first couple of times, Miles burst in

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Speaker 2: tears when he was saying that.

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Speaker 1: Heyman, what I say about telling people about my courage?

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Speaker 1: Water coming out my eyes?

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Speaker 4: That's what we call it. We branded crying on this show.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, shall we take a break and come

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Speaker 1: back with the fastest segment in all sports podcasting?

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Speaker 4: I think we should. I think we will. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: be right back.

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Speaker 6: And you were about to go into the hot seat

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Speaker 6: after this, and we're back.

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Speaker 7: And.

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Speaker 4: He's unhinged. I know it's.

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Speaker 1: Because the state of the Lakers became too real in

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Speaker 1: my mind, and now I must retreat to a world

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Speaker 1: of fancyful with fantasies.

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Speaker 4: I can't even speak anymore.

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Speaker 2: But watching Wonka, you've just been in a theater for

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Speaker 2: the past.

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Speaker 1: Indubitably, just like like, how do you get so good

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Speaker 1: with that cane? But anyway, it's time for the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: It's a rapid fire a round questioning.

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Speaker 7: Yo.

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Speaker 1: You have wandered into this show and it's now time

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Speaker 1: to subject to you to one of the fastest questions

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Speaker 1: and answer segments that has existed in all sports podcasting history.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna ask you a question you just respond quickly boom.

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Speaker 1: Just be reflexive, don't think at all at all, because you're.

736
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Speaker 2: Not ready, because you're not in your athletic stance. You

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Speaker 2: don't have your feet chopping.

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Speaker 1: You're not I can't really chop my feet right now.

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Speaker 1: That right, we chopped that left foot, chopped that left foot.

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Speaker 1: Uh ready, here we go. Okay, I think we're ready,

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Speaker 1: shall we Jack, Let's do it? Brian start the clock,

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Speaker 1: Brian the editor, Brian.

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Speaker 4: The editor starts flock. Sorry, I need to use your.

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Speaker 2: Legal name or we're doing a branding thing with their editor,

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Speaker 2: Brian the editor, with the editor, Brian the editor.

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Speaker 4: And you really have to keep this segment moving.

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Speaker 2: Like when I start talking about Brian the editor and

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Speaker 2: his marketing plan for himself, you really need to stop

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Speaker 2: me and just say, hey, I'm here to talk about

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Speaker 2: NBA stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's get this thing. Get this thing moving.

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Speaker 1: Remember remember the goal folks, Here we go. Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: go first?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 3: Why don't you go first?

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Speaker 4: All right, well let's try that.

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Speaker 3: That sounds fun.

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Speaker 4: Yo. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Where are the following players following the deadline? Gut instinct?

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Speaker 1: Just say if they're gone or if you have a

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Speaker 1: team in mind that they go to tell you say

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Speaker 1: that team or if they're staying there, staying but whatever

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 4: Just answer me. Now here we go.

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Speaker 1: First question number the one, Donovan Mitchell Stang, Zach Levine Stang.

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Speaker 4: What Pascal Siakam traded? I'll say Indiana, Oh, that'd be fun.

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Speaker 4: D'Angelo Russell Atlanta traded for Joel embi straight up? Hey

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Speaker 4: stop stop.

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Speaker 1: La m Joel Ebid Joel Embiida?

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Speaker 4: Who go for?

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Speaker 5: Do you think Murray for Russell? A pick? Are you

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Speaker 5: throwing jjs?

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Speaker 6: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Interesting?

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Speaker 2: Who's the most underappreciated of the truly all time greats?

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Speaker 2: Like somebody who deserves to be mentioned? Put is off

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Speaker 2: and the left out of the all time debates? And

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Speaker 2: I will be asking my questions in rhyme.

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Speaker 5: Chris Paul, Chris Paul.

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Speaker 3: Interested? All right, what is it about Chris pa?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? What is it about Chris Paul?

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Speaker 1: I think he's I mean, depending on I guess. If

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Speaker 1: we're considering Steph Curry a point guard, I would say

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Speaker 1: he's right there at like maybe number four. But I

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Speaker 1: don't in my opinion, I don't think like magic Steph

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Chris Paul I don't think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: would put him at number four. I would Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: and we're nota have more on that later, but we

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Speaker 1: do have to keep this segment going.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you two players that you can take

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Speaker 1: from all of NBA history or film sport, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll widen this out even films that include basketball coachs.

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Speaker 3: From there into creating to create your.

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Speaker 4: Your I know, had to do something different. I'm messing

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Speaker 4: with the form.

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Speaker 1: It's jazz baby, uh, to create your mad Boosti's edition

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Speaker 1: NBA Jam Team.

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Speaker 4: Which two players are you combining to make that?

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Speaker 2: And just keep in mind that it is jazz and

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Speaker 2: jazz is about the notes you don't play.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go prime Shaquille O'Neill okay, and prime Steph Curry. M.

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Speaker 1: I think that's basically unstoppable.

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Speaker 4: Was that it last week? Was that also the combo

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Speaker 4: we got last week?

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Speaker 2: It's unfortunately it is the correct answer, and we do

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Speaker 2: have to stop this question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the best answer to white answer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you just to shoot the lights out and then

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Speaker 4: just dunk and then throw every.

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Speaker 2: Like would you really throw somebody across the court with

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Speaker 2: like somebody who has like high like full up power,

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Speaker 2: uh strength like that right, that's just demoralizing. You want

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Speaker 2: to quit the game of NBA Jam and Boostie's Edition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the defense is the one maybe weakness with that

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Speaker 1: that combo, but I'm going all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, shack, he was blocking five shots in some games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, won't play an NBA Jam too. Like you could

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Speaker 1: just sure there was no fouls, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: So just body them and then just have Steph on

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Speaker 1: fire and then it's a rap and then you take

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Speaker 1: another child's lunch money.

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Speaker 5: I hope you're proud of yourself.

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Speaker 4: NBA Jam Team Special Edition. Next one, Jack, you are

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Speaker 4: from the valley.

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Speaker 3: What's your favorite movie about the valley?

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Speaker 2: And try and describe it the way Magic Johnson would

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Speaker 2: in a tweet.

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Speaker 1: The super Bad count as a valley movie. Yeah, it's Burbank,

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Speaker 1: which isn't good valley. We Yeah, that's that's a hotly

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Speaker 1: contested thing, but we will take it. Super Bad is

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Speaker 1: my favorite movie of of all time.

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Speaker 5: So wow, okay that would be I guess, Uh, what'd.

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Speaker 3: You kept to say about that movie?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Uh, it's a movie about friends who stopped being friends

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Speaker 1: and then are friends again.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've all had friends like this. Sometimes you're not friends,

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Speaker 1: but then you become friends again.

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Speaker 4: Ten out of ten uh.

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Speaker 1: And finally, since you have that Southern California blood coursing

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Speaker 1: through your veins, ranked these Los Angeles chains in and

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Speaker 1: out Fat Burger, Tommy's.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm going to go in that order. In and

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Speaker 4: out Fat Burger Tommy's. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, we're taking Tommy's.

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Speaker 1: I've taken Tommy's pretty high. And that's because I used to.

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Speaker 1: My elementary school is right by a Tommy's, and that

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Speaker 1: used to be like the one fast food or drive

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Speaker 1: through that my mom would entertain going through just because

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Speaker 1: it was so close to my school.

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Speaker 4: Even though the chili destroyedeth me. I'ming back. That's what

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Speaker 4: I love about it though.

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Speaker 1: There's just something and they put when they put the

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Speaker 1: hot Chili's in there too, they will overload that thing

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Speaker 1: and you will have problems for the rest of your life, but.

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Speaker 5: Hey, it's a.

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Speaker 4: System will clear you out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like those are actual Those are actual pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 1: They have pharmaceutical needs and juices. Yovan Boha, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. A Moles and Jack got

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Speaker 1: mad Boosties. Where do the people find you? Follow you,

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Speaker 1: read you, support you, all that good stuff. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can find all my work at the Athletic and you

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Speaker 1: could find me on social at yovan Bouja j ov

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Speaker 1: A n b u h A. Appreciate you guys to

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Speaker 1: having me on Oh of course, of course. Man again,

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Speaker 1: like I said, thank you for honoring us with your presence.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been living and dying by your

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Speaker 1: reporting resaying like, oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going back to the old lineup. Okay, maybe, okay,

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Speaker 4: we're doing some much just okup. That was wild. That

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Speaker 4: was wild.

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Speaker 1: And I remember texting my friends and be like, it's

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Speaker 1: word's back, baby, and then be like, okay, we spoke

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Speaker 1: it too soon.

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Speaker 4: Darvin won over Lakers Twitter for like an hour and

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Speaker 4: then yeah.

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Speaker 5: The memes, the memes were beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, make sure you follow us on Twitter. I'm at

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Speaker 1: Miles of Gray.

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Speaker 3: And I'm at Jack Underscore O'Brien, and you.

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Speaker 1: e s for show links, updates and your chance to

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Speaker 1: ask some questions.

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Speaker 4: I know some of y'all had some questions, and I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: That we didn't get to them, but this is a

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Speaker 1: dynamic show, and I was in a state. I was

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Speaker 1: just in a downward emotional spiral talking about the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: So you'll have.

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Speaker 4: To forgive me until next time. Hopefully the things improved

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Speaker 4: for my.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers and and even your team as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm, I'm willing to grow a little bit and

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Speaker 1: say I want.

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Speaker 3: Everybody to do well, every team to do well in.

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Speaker 4: Terms and in terms and conditions, apply terms. Anyway, thanks

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Speaker 4: for thanks for joining us. We see you next time,

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Speaker 4: all right later bye.

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Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.

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Speaker 7: Mm hmmm

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmm