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Speaker 1: Welcome back, and the NBA Playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Have truly been, for lack of a better word, amazing.

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Speaker 2: He did heat and the seven seeded Lakers each of

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Speaker 2: three and one as of this recording, and just total

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Speaker 2: fist fights love best in the other two matchup.

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Speaker 3: That's gonna be Those series might be over by the time,

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Speaker 3: y'all they're hearing us, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I could be a very happy little chat. But

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Speaker 2: we'll get into all.

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Speaker 3: Of that, like little pantaloons with like his socks piked

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Speaker 3: up to his knees and he's.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll have to talk about book and everything

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Speaker 2: else with journalists and longtime NBA writer Jared Wade on

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Speaker 2: today's podcast.

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

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Speaker 4: Is Smiles and.

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Speaker 2: Dad driving Spinny Curry a three punter.

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Speaker 3: Steph Curry from Downtown again. Be honest with the tail

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Speaker 3: look out no shirt.

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Speaker 4: Time, won't you go honest?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back one and all all of our wonderful boost

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Speaker 2: these listeners, and welcome guest Jared Wade.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show Man. It's really good to have you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for having me. Been a fan for

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Speaker 5: a while and happy to be on oh.

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Speaker 3: For a while. Wow, fan, Miles, we have a fan

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Speaker 3: in the house.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: But I like how much how professional we are that

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Speaker 3: someone mentions their fan and we're like there's like a

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Speaker 3: beat of silence. I'm like, all right, tell us, oh man,

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Speaker 3: uh LaVar, you burned us, burned us man. So you

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Speaker 3: came up a Celtics fan and now you're not a

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Speaker 3: Celtics fan.

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Speaker 5: What happened was a Pacers fan.

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Speaker 6: So I grew up in Maine and like, ok, I'm

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Speaker 6: probably maybe saying same age group as y'all probably, but

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Speaker 6: you know, back in like late eighties and stuff, you

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Speaker 6: really can watch that many games, right, So I definitely

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Speaker 6: watched like the late Larry Bird era more than anything.

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Speaker 4: Sure that I was a.

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Speaker 5: Fan and all that, I don't really had a team

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Speaker 6: I think the Celtics were like too good for me

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Speaker 6: to like jump on their fanwagon.

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Speaker 2: You know, wait, like when you were younger, the appeal

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Speaker 2: of a winning team never caught You're like.

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know, it's so weird.

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Speaker 6: Everyone who like loves success and Lebron and even like

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Speaker 6: the Jordan era took that over.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I never really liked the.

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Speaker 6: Team that was winning, like it was when I was

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Speaker 6: growing up, like the Cowboys and the Yankees, like you

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Speaker 6: were lame if you were a.

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Speaker 5: Fan of them, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so I did.

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Speaker 6: And then I remember the Celtics played the Pacers like

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Speaker 6: three years in a row in the first round and

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Speaker 6: I think it lost in five every year, like they

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Speaker 6: were never close. But I started like them, and then

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Speaker 6: Reggie came up and I just became a Pacers fan.

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Speaker 5: That's like someone that didn't wow the team.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting. I don't know too many Pacers fans who

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Speaker 3: like chose Pacer fandom. But you mean not being Indiana, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: not being from Indiana. Right, that's pretty.

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Speaker 5: There's not many of us. I've met like three in

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Speaker 5: my life.

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Speaker 1: We have a support group. We all get together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really fun.

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Speaker 6: What part of mean did you grow up in Central

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Speaker 6: Maine bangor area?

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Speaker 2: Ohor yeah? I used to play I was a very

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Speaker 1: But it was happening.

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Speaker 6: Well, specifically, I grew up in Orno, which is where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, man, xactly this man, Ye,

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Speaker 2: get your hockey hair out. But Jack, you want to

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Speaker 3: Sure, we can start off like I just I'm a

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Speaker 3: where I consumed so much commentary from like really smart

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Speaker 3: basketball analysts. You're I talk about Zach Lowell lot, not

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Speaker 3: like the Warriors have figured them out. Like, I don't

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Speaker 3: a one way series. They cannot score. Lebron is basically

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Speaker 3: it's also like underestimating Lebron James, which is never a

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Speaker 3: good gamble. But yeah, it just it does seem to

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Speaker 3: math equation where you have one team figures one strategic

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Speaker 1: You're like, whoa, it's over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the one team I would say that

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Speaker 3: he is so shrewd and just like calculating and figures

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Speaker 3: things out. But like, for the most part, it's it's

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Speaker 3: not over after one team wins by a lot, and

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Speaker 3: that's never been the case in the NBA playoffs, So

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Speaker 3: I don't know, there were I'm also noticing like different

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Speaker 3: First of all, I'm not going to tell you that,

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Speaker 3: he's going to And then there was also this like

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Speaker 3: they're back in their home court? And he was like, no,

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Speaker 3: my friend, I expect that they surrender and they give

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Speaker 3: so we've figured this out and it's it's it's a

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Speaker 3: out right, figured them out. I just don't want to

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Speaker 1: Jared, Are you guilty of the recency bias thing?

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Speaker 2: I mean I certainly was. I was like, oh, Devin

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Speaker 2: Book and Kevin Durant have laid down, and I was

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Speaker 2: just like after game two, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was very not good take. But I mean, how

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Speaker 2: are I'm guessing you do this for real? So maybe

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Speaker 6: I mean, I really don't do this for real anymore.

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Speaker 6: To be honest, I'm mainly a fan on Twitter at

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Speaker 6: this point, but like, yeah, I totally by mid second

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Speaker 6: thought that was a wrap And then I said, we

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Speaker 6: saw last night, maybe it was right, Like maybe they

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Speaker 6: were the better team, and like good teams just get

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Speaker 6: blown out sometimes, right, Like I mean, the Warriors and

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Speaker 6: Lakers have both gotten blown out. The Warriors got blown

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Speaker 6: out against the Kings. It just I think that's what

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Speaker 6: the biggest thing is, Like the point margin doesn't really

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Speaker 6: but like you got to get to four.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I said, I said in Game two when the

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Speaker 3: Lakers are getting blown out, I was like, this is

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Speaker 3: better that it's a blowout for you. You get to

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Speaker 3: rest your you get to rest your horses, Like Lebron

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Speaker 3: like he is probably the thing I've been. Like, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, I'm a I'm a huge Lebron stand so

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Speaker 3: people are probably tired of hearing me say this, but

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Speaker 3: like that people would.

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Speaker 1: Forgive you for being an off Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but like what he's doing in these playoffs is

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Speaker 3: pretty cool. Yeah, I think Lebron James is pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: And that's my take. Thanks folks.

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Speaker 6: That's Jack by Sizzler to what you were saying though,

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Speaker 6: when people were like Lebron's kind of cooked. He looks

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Speaker 6: a little below in some games, like he has a

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Speaker 6: bad second quarter and he misses three shots and doesn't

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Speaker 6: do much, but ultimately he's still Lebron James, and he

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Speaker 6: controls games in ways that like no one else can.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, obviously Lonnie Walker won that game for them,

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Speaker 6: but like I don't want to discredit Lonnie, but Lebron

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are some cool things where he like pulled

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Speaker 2: Let's start with that series with the Lakers and Warriors,

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Speaker 2: because yeah, I think I mean Jack, we're even talking

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Speaker 2: just Lebron. He's he's getting into his like wisdom phase

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Speaker 2: now too, where he's like, I don't need to be

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Speaker 2: to like bring in players like Austin Reeves or Lonnie

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Speaker 2: to show up and like, for like, Lonnie put up

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Speaker 2: fifteen points in that fourth quarter, which was a terrible

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Speaker 2: sight for Warriors fans but a wonderful thing for Lakers

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Speaker 2: It is nice to see him, you know, get a

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Speaker 3: That was almost comical. They were like, all right, you're back,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know, Ad looks incredible on d

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Speaker 3: he They just seem to have figured something out and

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Speaker 3: just the mindset of the Lakers team really seems to

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Speaker 3: like have things going in a in a pretty great way.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if like they've gotten blown out and every

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Speaker 3: like the Warriors have figured them out again.

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Speaker 2: Right, and it could be a storybook comeback, but we'll

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Speaker 2: see about that. Jared, how how are you looking at

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Speaker 2: that series and uh where you think it's eventually going

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Speaker 2: to go.

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Speaker 6: I would never count out the Warriors, We've seen them

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Speaker 6: You know, Clay's looking rustier than ever. Coming back three

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Game six is tonight. I guess when this episode

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Speaker 3: No, my friend to expect them to surrender. I also,

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Speaker 3: I just I really like that he's got he's got jokes.

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Speaker 3: He's a funny dude.

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Speaker 6: I think for me, like I was gonna say with

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Speaker 3: And that tiny horse that he that doesn't doesn't he

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Speaker 1: His whole off season is just going to Serbia and

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's gotta be wild too, because like with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, finished the job. They did have a T shirt

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Speaker 3: So I just I still think like it's probably easier

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Speaker 6: you Jack talking about it and you had no faith

438
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Speaker 6: in them at all, and I was like, Wow, listen

439
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 6: to this up three too.

440
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 5: I was like, amazing, still still there. Yeah, the second

441
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 5: round as usual, like like just.

442
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,360
Speaker 3: The most toxic parent where I'm like, well, let's see

443
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 3: how you screw it up.

444
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 1: That's your own kid, man. Yeah, I know, but I've

445
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: seen it one hundred times.

446
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's three to two. They're playing at home.

447
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 4: You gonna have some faith.

448
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 3: I don't know.

449
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, were a bunch of bums. Really, No, They're doing great.

450
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 3: There is like I always I keep saying, like it

451
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 3: does remind me of the year the Red Sox finally

452
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 3: beat the Yankees, Like there there are just these like

453
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 3: weird things where it's like, man, it just seems like

454
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 3: it's our year, like this year for like they're just

455
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 3: some of the things that have broken the way of

456
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 3: the Sixers just inexplicably. Yeah.

457
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, like even like wasn't like Embiad's like first shot

458
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 2: like a step back three that like like bounce, yeah,

459
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 2: with real goofy into the rim and I'm like, hey,

460
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: you know what take that?

461
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 4: You take that?

462
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 2: And I think it's It's really interesting too, because as

463
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 2: those kinds of shots begin to fall, you could.

464
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: Really see the Celtics just kind of crumble.

465
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 2: It was really and like the garden turned into a library,

466
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I wasn't expecting like the enthusiasm to sort

467
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 2: of like empty out of there so quickly.

468
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 3: There's maybe an overall sense that, like the Sixers don't

469
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 3: have anything to lose because everybody, all of their fans

470
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 3: are like me, They're like, say, they're gonna lose in

471
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 3: the second round, that's all right, We're We're happy he

472
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 3: got the MVP, and the Celtics came into the season

473
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 3: with like losing in the finals was a failure and

474
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 3: we need the you know, like there's just an expectation

475
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 3: among their fan base and their players, and there might

476
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 3: just be like a bit of a tightening that happens

477
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 3: with a team like that. That' said they were down

478
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 3: three to two to Milwaukee last year in this same

479
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 3: round and then came back, so we'll see.

480
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, but they don't have an answer

481
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: for that pick and roll at the moment, so long

482
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: may that last?

483
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 3: Yeah for the Sixers, you.

484
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Speaker 6: Know, and when MB got hurt, I was kind of like,

485
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 6: oh no, here we go again. The Sixers two and

486
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 6: the Sixers thing. Yeah, but that, you know as pretty

487
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 6: much like who are the Celtics gonna play in the finals,

488
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 6: because you know that other series didn't seem that serious

489
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 6: compared to these two.

490
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.

491
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Speaker 6: I mean the fact that Embid was able to come

492
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 6: back and like get through that injury after missing games

493
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 6: and still look this mobile. I mean, it's one thing

494
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 6: for him to get buckets and stuff, but he looks

495
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Speaker 6: like he's moving pretty well. So I would actually be

496
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 6: surprised at this point of Boston put it together. They

497
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 6: just seem there's just something off of them.

498
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Speaker 3: That is my one hope. I like last week when

499
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: the Sixers were up one, oh, I think when we recorded,

500
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,719
Speaker 3: I didn't have as much hope as I do now

501
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 3: because it does seem like Embid's getting stronger and we

502
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 3: still haven't seen the game where he it's his yeah,

503
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 3: where he really just like takes over which and those

504
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 3: games they do tend to win. It's not like a

505
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 3: thing where you know, there's some players who will like

506
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 3: have fifty and their team like yeah yeah, yeah, So

507
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting. I will say, though, I'm hearing that

508
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 3: a lot that like this Celtics Sixers is like the

509
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 3: series that's going to determine who's in the finals. I

510
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 3: feel like, speaking of Buckets, Jimmy Buckets might have come

511
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 3: into this season with an unfinished business shirt, finished the

512
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 3: job shirt. Yeah, under his wig. Yeah, still the coolest

513
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 3: thing anybody did this year. I'm waiting to see if

514
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 3: anybody does anything in the playoffs that's cooler than Jamie

515
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 3: Butler coming in with a long haired wig for media

516
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 3: day and just like having keeping a straight face through

517
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Speaker 3: the whole thing.

518
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Speaker 5: It's amazing. Every every every graphic they put up on

519
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Speaker 5: screen media photo.

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00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 3: Every time, it works every time because.

521
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Speaker 5: I forget he did it every time and then I

522
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: re see it.

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Speaker 4: My laugh.

524
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Speaker 3: It's amazing.

525
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 5: It's amazing.

526
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you were you were saying, like, Jared,

527
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Speaker 2: how do you think, I mean, without casting any aspersions

528
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 2: on the the heater Nicks that really the strong the

529
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 2: stronger sides are coming out of that other series in

530
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Speaker 2: the East. But you see any you know, how are

531
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Speaker 2: you feeling about the I mean the heat do you

532
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: do you see them you know, doing something, putting something together.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I will say I would have said said

534
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 6: they probably had more of a chance than I saw

535
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 6: Jimmy get hurt, But then like, I guess he's not hurt.

536
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Speaker 5: He's just fine.

537
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: Injury.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you missed the game in the playoffs, and I

539
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 6: assume it's gonna linger. But for both him and somewhat

540
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 6: for Embi there they seem to be fine.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: But even go back to the hero thing. I mean,

543
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 6: they seemed like they were possible when they were beating

544
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 6: the Bucks, and it's like, but I don't know, without

545
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 6: Tyler hero, like this just feels like someone getting hot

546
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 6: at a craps table in some way. I mean, I'm watching,

547
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Speaker 6: you know, Gabe, Caleb and Dunky like these How are

548
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 6: these guys beating anyone they can meet the next anyway?

549
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Speaker 3: They're just out of their mind?

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Speaker 4: That is that is that?

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Speaker 2: You know?

552
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Speaker 1: Because Jabari was bringing this up, is like, is that

553
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: just heat culture?

554
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

555
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 6: Is it?

556
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: That's just the state ready mentality that you can just

557
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 2: be like, hey, they stay ready.

558
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it is.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Like the thing I keep seeing with

560
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 3: the Heat is first round, what I saw was an

561
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: individual player imposing his will on a game, unlike I

562
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: had seen like in ages. But everybody else was like

563
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 3: Milwaukee choked. The Bucks are like though, you know, and

564
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 3: now we're seeing the same thing where people are like

565
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: the Knicks are just a limited team and like they're

566
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: going to lose to Miami because they're limited. And I'm like,

567
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 3: maybe the Heat are making everybody look bad because they're

568
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 3: actually really good and just did what they needed to

569
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Speaker 3: get through the regular season and now they're actually really

570
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 3: really hard to beat, and so I don't know, it'll

571
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Speaker 3: be It'll be interesting to see, but I don't I

572
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 3: don't think that the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals

573
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: is going to be easy for either the Celtics or

574
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Speaker 3: the Sixers. Whether or not I will be rooting for

575
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 3: the Heat is the question. But they they look tough.

576
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: Jared Quick prediction before we go to break, who do

577
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: you see in the finals?

578
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Speaker 6: Nuggets Sixers gonna get the MVP battle.

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: I like that that would be pretty I would like

581
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 2: that personally, but I like the idea of it, you know,

582
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: fandom aside fandom.

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00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Celtics Slakers.

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00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: Jack, It's Sixers Lakers, the mad Boost actually Heat Lakers.

585
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 3: I'd love to see.

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00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: I'd love to see the rematch.

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00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, Bubble bubble, bubble two point zero.

588
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, bubble double toil in trouble.

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00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: I'm with that.

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00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: I I want to see. Like I said, I'll say

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00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: it again, Jack, we deserve it.

592
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 3: You've been cultures Lakers.

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00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back to just wrap this thing out

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00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 2: with the rapid fire round of questioning right after.

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Speaker 4: This, and we're back, and you know what that means.

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00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: It's time for the rapid fire round of questions.

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Speaker 4: Jared.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know you've listened to the show.

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00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: You are fans, so I don't have to tell you,

601
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: but I will for the first time listeners at home

602
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: because there are many in the thousands, I believe, actually,

603
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: because this show is on a strataspirit meteoric rise. This

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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: is the fastest question to answer segment in all of

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00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: sports podcasting. What we're gonna do. We're gonna ask you

606
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: a question. Don't think about it. Don't expand too much

607
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: on your answer. Just chest pass it right back. Just

608
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: keep it quick, keep it tight. And if Jack and

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00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: I start rumbling and ranting about other things like how

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00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: much we are more proud of Lonnie Walker the fourth

611
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: than even Miles Junior, then it'll be on you to say, please,

612
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: we have to keep this segment moving, and so that

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00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 2: is your responsibility.

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00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 5: Do you accept the challenge? I'm in Okay, good, here

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Speaker 5: we go, Brian start the clock.

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Speaker 3: So mean to Brian, It's.

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Speaker 1: Just the way I started off. You know, I apologize.

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Speaker 1: I text him right after I said it.

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Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 3: Man. You don't know. You know, I can't control myself

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Speaker 3: in rapid fire.

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Speaker 1: Jack, you want to go first?

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Speaker 3: I go first. What do you wanna do here? Why

624
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 3: do you go first?

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00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 4: Wow? Again? Okay, thank you.

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00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: You're a gentleman and a scholar.

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00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: Jared.

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Speaker 2: Eleven of the last twelve NBA finals have featured at

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Speaker 2: least one of Lebron or Steph. If you were to

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Speaker 2: pick two guys to go on such a run moving

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Speaker 2: forward to take that man, who.

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Speaker 3: Are you rolling? Yo?

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00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 6: Kic mm hmm, Jason Tatum Boom, I don't really believe that.

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00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 7: I don't think I've ever boot now, but yeah, I

635
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 7: just I don't know, does Tatum I feel like I'm

636
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 7: I feel I feel a statement coming on that I'm

637
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 7: going to regret.

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Speaker 3: Uh, so I won't say it, but uh, there's heat.

639
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 3: I don't know. Everybody's always throwing up those side by

640
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: side like here's Kobe doing this shot and here's Jason

641
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 3: Tatum doing this shot, and that feels inappropriate. That comparison

642
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: feels inappropriate to me when it comes to like having

643
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: the sickness that it requires to be like the level

644
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 3: of competitor where you impose your will on Yeah, you know.

645
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: To quote the great Reddit viral video compared like that. Yeah,

646
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: and if my grandmother had wheels, she could be a bicycle.

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00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 5: It's easy, right, Yeah.

648
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: He just seems like a good person, like Jason Tatum,

649
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 3: like a nice person, well well balanced person.

650
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: Not the singular focus that you know just puts you

651
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: at odds with everybody. Yeah, all right, but Jared, what

652
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 2: are we saying?

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00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 3: Man?

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00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: We got to keep this moving, mad, I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: Is there a single NBA player you would take right

656
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 3: now over the chance of taking Victor wembing Yama with

657
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 3: the first pick this summer outside of giannis Onto. Takoupa

658
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: Yannas has just reached out to us and informed us

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00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 3: that he wants his name taken out of consideration for

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Speaker 3: this question because that has been the answer that everybody's

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Speaker 3: given for it up to this point. And he said,

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Speaker 3: I'm actually not interested in being traded for Victor Wembingham.

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Speaker 6: I would take the guy that I would have said

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Speaker 6: for the last answer if he had been in the East,

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Speaker 6: and that's.

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Speaker 3: Luca Luca over Wembanyama.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think I don't watch a ton

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Speaker 6: of guys who are not in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: I've seen the clips obviously.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a little injury risk, there's a little everything

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Speaker 6: risk with someone who's not in the NBA. And I

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Speaker 6: think Luca is the real deal. So and just the

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Speaker 6: age thing, right, like the guy like Yo Kichen NB

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Speaker 6: and stuff. They're a little a little too old, I

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Speaker 6: guess to be like a ten year run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we like Luker around here, definitely. I almost called

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Speaker 2: Jared Luca. I don't know why I got Luker on

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Speaker 2: their brain. Jared, what is your favorite NBA city to

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Speaker 2: visit and what is your must have meal?

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Speaker 6: In that town Miami mm hm and maybe some repeubeha wow,

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Speaker 6: good on Cuban food.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, yeah there you go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 3: You can take any former pacer and put them on

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Speaker 3: this current group in Indie. Which former great are you

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Speaker 3: choosing to make a run in today's NBA?

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Speaker 6: I mean, the best player they've ever had for today's

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Speaker 6: NBA is probably still Paul George.

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Speaker 3: Wow that yeah, over wonder over Roy Hibbert. Wow.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I was gonna say, I was

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Speaker 5: gonna say Jermaine O'Neil was a monster. Yeah, years before

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Speaker 5: he got he was man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just want to see Rick Smits

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Speaker 2: against Embiid real quick.

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious just to see, like Prime Smith's.

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Speaker 2: Because you know, he was always I just I mean

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Speaker 2: not to say that that's the right answer, but I

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Speaker 2: am very because because of how highly shackle I speak

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Speaker 2: of him. I would be curious just to see if

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Speaker 2: you could simulate that what that looks like or if

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Speaker 2: he's just getting absolutely dusted.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but at something.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he would get dusted.

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Speaker 6: But I mean he's seven to four, you know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: he's a big boy, so He's one of the few

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Speaker 6: people you put up next to EMBIID it would actually

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Speaker 6: like look normal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And finally, Jared the most important question of them all,

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Speaker 1: Jack or Miles.

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Speaker 5: Gotta go with Jack?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Whoa?

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Speaker 6: He was telling Jami that I I know Jack actually

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Speaker 6: more from Crack Days from that podcast probably.

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Speaker 3: So Yeah, we got a ringer, baby, you got You've

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Speaker 3: brought a planting.

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Speaker 1: Well, great to have you, Jared. Next week, my mom will.

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Speaker 3: Be the guest on the show and kim let me

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Speaker 3: get a winning streak. Kim let me get a winning streak.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a full on plant for the next one.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, Jared, thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 2: on Miles and Jack got mad boost He's where can.

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Speaker 3: People check you out?

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Speaker 1: Follow you and all that kind of good stuff?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: On Twitter, Jared underscore Wade. That's probably the best place

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Speaker 6: for any basketball takes. And then I'm on Instagram, Wade, Jared,

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Speaker 6: there it is photography over there.

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Speaker 3: We also asked our Boosty's listeners to vote on the

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Speaker 3: best postseason player so far, and the results are in.

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Speaker 3: We got forty Jimmy, which is who I would have

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Speaker 3: voted for. Jim He Butler jim He yeah, him, He

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Speaker 3: Butler yeah, him hit me.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry Himmy Butler yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yes, twenty eight percent, Booker fifth, Corn, Jokic fifteen say

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Speaker 3: other ad staff, But I think someone's got to come

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Speaker 3: take that mantle from Jimmy at some point.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be Lonnie.

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Speaker 3: Lonnie Yeah. And you know what I gotta say, Lakers

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Speaker 3: fans are really good basketball fan Like I was having.

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Speaker 3: I was on what was supposed to be like a

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Speaker 3: work call with super producer Sophie Lichterman from Cool Zone

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Speaker 3: Media Behind the Bastards, and she was talking NonStop for

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Speaker 3: twenty minutes about how they need to get Lonnie Walker

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Speaker 3: the fourth more involved and like why isn't he in?

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Speaker 3: And that night he put up like twenty in the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter. It was really and She's like, I've been

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Speaker 3: talking about this for two months, and Lakers fans are

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Speaker 3: are really good basketball fan.

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Speaker 2: He was, he was producing for us, and I was

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Speaker 2: always a big Lonnie fan. And then we kind of

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Speaker 2: he kind of went back of mind. But anyway, shout

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Speaker 2: out to lawn he Walker.

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Speaker 1: The quarter God, that's right, we all know about you.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And we also asked if we might eventually see a

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty finals rematch. Forty three percent of you said yeah,

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Speaker 2: La would make it, Miami doesn't, thirty percent said yes,

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Speaker 2: twenty two percent absolutely not. In five said Miami makes it,

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Speaker 2: but La doesn't. And yeah, we'll make sure you follow

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Speaker 2: us on Twitter Miami. No, definitely, definitely b w st I. Yes,

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Speaker 2: to follow us where you get all kinds of fun

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Speaker 2: stuff like that. Yeah, that'll do it for us this week.

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Speaker 3: Sie Go Lakers, go, Lakers go.

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Speaker 1: Everybody you know.

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Speaker 3: Go pay, And we just want everybody to have a

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Speaker 3: good time out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what if we just cut the trophy up into

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Speaker 1: eight pieces?

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Speaker 3: Right, thank you? That would be nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, very good, very good.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, well we'll see you next week and

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Speaker 2: hopefully we'll be very happy little chats after that.

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Speaker 3: Hope we shall see good day, a good day you

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Speaker 3: Bye bye.