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Speaker 1: is up? Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 1: fire for Monday, June twelfth, nine days until the NBA Draft.

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Speaker 1: It is rapidly, rapidly sneaking up on us and the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals Game five tonight. The series will undoubtedly end

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Speaker 1: in Denver. I'm sure you saw Game four Denver. Roles

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Speaker 1: in Miami covered the three and a half with EA's

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Speaker 1: unbelievable performance. We'll get to the Nuggets a little later.

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Speaker 1: Kind of melancholy Monday, if you will, with the NBA

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Speaker 1: season ending, and now, folks, once the Nuggets put the

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Speaker 1: heat away tonight, barring some miracle, it's officially the summer

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Speaker 1: Doldrum season, where we will spin off and talk about

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Speaker 1: whatever the hell we want to like, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with my weekend. It was a banner weekend

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Speaker 1: in the McIntire household. I know you guys care deeply.

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Speaker 1: For those who don't follow all my shenanigans on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: there was no real sports for your boy, but it

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Speaker 1: was just fun and a first. This is for the

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Speaker 1: hashtag dad life crowd out there. My son has gotten

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Speaker 1: heavily into chess in the last like three months. I

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Speaker 1: used to smoke him. Now he's beating me regularly and

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Speaker 1: starting to crush me pretty quickly. If anybody out there

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Speaker 1: knows what a scholar's mate is, if your twelve year

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Speaker 1: So anyways, we rushed and got our kid into his

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Speaker 1: first chess tournament over the weekend. It was out here

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Speaker 1: touch a piece and move well. According to the rules

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Speaker 1: of these tournaments, it's touch move, meaning if you go

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Speaker 1: And the other thing was they want you keeping track

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Speaker 1: and I don't follow his antics. I know he's done

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Speaker 1: Barstool congratulations awesome, but in a bizarre set of circumstances

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Speaker 1: any of their content. Somehow, someway, he got in a

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Speaker 1: Rob sent me this, my first reaction was, Oh, this

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Speaker 1: is out of character for Kyrie. Why would he respond?

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Speaker 1: It's not like this character, this Portnoy guy, He's not

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Speaker 1: Go look at his history of replies on social media.

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Speaker 1: when are we going to do this? And in my mind,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. It's called misdirection.

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Speaker 1: So Kyrie Irving has been in the news a lot lately,

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Speaker 1: gonna maybe sort it out here quickly. Remember the draft June. Dang,

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Speaker 1: I don't have my calendar open. The draft is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty second. It's rapidly approaching. If deals are gonna

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Speaker 1: I am the sours. Don't worry about it, ignore it.

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Speaker 1: They'll fall for the bait every time they hear Kyrie

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Speaker 1: against one on one against this guy. Oh, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving if you beat it. Let's just say he

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Speaker 1: on past j mac Okay, Kyrie, And yes, I refer

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Speaker 1: can we just get some fun straight up? Everybody's been

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Speaker 1: meant Michal Bridges is my guy. Go get him Portland

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Speaker 1: somewhere else, probably, but this Denver team is going to

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Speaker 1: be around for a while. You know, you can scoff

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Speaker 1: all you want at Jokich and Murray, but this this

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Speaker 1: is a nasty tandem. I like Denver tonight, and I

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Speaker 1: think we'll have the coronation tomorrow here on Straight Fire.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you then,