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Speaker 1: in homes across the country, as the Cleveland Cavaliers, led

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Speaker 1: Game seven against the Oakland the Golden State Warriors this

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. Quite a game, quite a showdown. And Scott

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Speaker 1: Sashnik is here, our sports reporter at large, to put

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Speaker 1: this in contacts for US. I guess Scott's starting with

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Speaker 1: what this means for the Cavaliers franchise if they pull

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Speaker 1: been watching these games, this has been amazing. Well, this

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Speaker 1: goes back to when Lebron left Cleveland. He left because

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Speaker 1: Didn't look good down three one. Stuff was playing well,

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Speaker 1: And if you're Lebron James, you have to let your

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Speaker 1: chances in a one one game lottery? Sure? Why not?

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, They're gonna be playing Sunday, as Kathleen

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Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors send Steph Curry take it? Why

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Speaker 1: you get paid for it. Well, to think of a

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Speaker 1: team that hadn't lost many games at all this year,

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Speaker 1: record breaking season for the Warriors. They did lose Andrew Bogat.

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Speaker 1: Let's not minimize they're not at full strength. But back

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Speaker 1: hard for me to fathom that team losing three games

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Speaker 1: This is the team he wanted. He no matter what

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Speaker 1: never have foreseen as nobody in the NBA did. Not

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Speaker 1: only the Warriors, but the rise of Steph Curry. Everything

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Speaker 1: has become about Steph. All those Lebron jerseys you saw

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Speaker 1: if you can add back to back champion to it,

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Speaker 1: because Lebron needs that. In Cleveland, can I get your

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Speaker 1: game is laid. They need to make their shots. You

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Speaker 1: What does it mean for the value of their franchise?

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Speaker 1: What does it mean for the city of Cleveland, Well,

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Speaker 1: about Ernest Binder and whoa is us? The fumble, all

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Speaker 1: the bad things that happened. Line man, come on the money.

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Game seven Sunday Oracle Arena, eight pm Eastern

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Speaker 1: Time on ABC. Thank you very much to Scott Sashnik,

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