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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving the Great episode for seventy two.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What Driving the Grid is presented to

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Speaker 1: you by boost Mobile and Demons. As you can see,

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Speaker 1: I am wearing my Brazil kit. You know why because

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Speaker 1: if not for Vinny Junior and Brazil, I would have

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Speaker 1: not won a single bet this World Cup. They say them,

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Speaker 1: I'm not out of the red, but I am venturing

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Speaker 1: towards it, and more importantly, as disastrous as some of

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Speaker 1: my betting World Cup favorites plays have been, as regretful

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Speaker 1: as I've been about not following the squares and just

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Speaker 1: betting the superstars to have multiple goals, which has literally

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Speaker 1: worked like every game for everyone, and I refuse to

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Speaker 1: do it. If Brazil wins this whole tournament, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be flush again. So I just I the good vibes,

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Speaker 1: and yesterday they looked awesome. How are you doing, Good

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Speaker 1: to see you.

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Speaker 2: I'm excellent, Good to see you, pops. Go Brazil, Yes,

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Speaker 2: let's see the Brazil.

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Speaker 1: The only way this goes poorly for me if Brazil

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Speaker 1: were to make the final is if on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the bracket is the US international team and everyone,

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Speaker 1: Because let me tell you this mark right now. My

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Speaker 1: patriotism only goes so deep. And if the if we

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Speaker 1: were to have a US Brazil final, I am speaking

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Speaker 1: Portuguese that whole day and wearing this.

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Speaker 3: Like it's all the way there. I feel like you

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Speaker 3: got to.

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Speaker 1: Take you the hell of an accomplishment. I'll send you

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Speaker 1: a screenshot of the hard rock bet futures that I

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Speaker 1: have on Brazil and then you or you'll tell me

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Speaker 1: if you think I would actually still be going for

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Speaker 1: Team USA. I also, for whatever it's worth, if if

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Speaker 1: Norway were to pull it off, I do all right.

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Speaker 1: And I think Germany is a touch undervalued because everyone

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Speaker 1: knows Germany has to play France in the round of sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and so because of that, their futures are they are

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Speaker 1: being valued as if they're not a top ten team

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Speaker 1: in the tournament, when they're probably a top six or

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Speaker 1: seven team in the tournament because they think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: lose to France in the round of sixteen, which listen,

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Speaker 1: they very well may. But Brazil wins, We're going to Sizzler,

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Speaker 1: Norway wins, uh, we're going to outback. Germany wins, going

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Speaker 1: to Longhorn. I'm torturing, this allergy, anything anything else happens

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Speaker 1: where in we didn't do great. We just we didn't

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Speaker 1: do great. So that's where we're at. More World Cup.

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Speaker 1: In a bit, LaMelo ball has been traded. We will

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Speaker 1: discuss that momentarily. Also, Oh, one other thing, Saturday, Colin

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Speaker 1: and I are doing a show together. I should have

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Speaker 1: asked if we're supposed to listen. I have not done

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Speaker 1: a good job asking about this. But Saturday, in Miami

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Speaker 1: or in Hollywood, Florida, Colin and I are doing a

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Speaker 1: get it right, Mickey Burns in South Florida. So that

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Speaker 1: is I assume that, you know, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: imagine it has to be where it's an event at

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Speaker 1: Mickey Burns, and Colin call her and I will both

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Speaker 1: be there doing a show together Saturday afternoon and then

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Speaker 1: demon say, I'm going with your mom to Portugal, Columbia

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Speaker 1: then get to the trade. Agana witch doctor has now

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Speaker 1: lifted the curse on Harry Kane. I really wish I

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Speaker 1: on the money line minus five hundred the Trailblazers Hier,

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Speaker 1: Mike and Norry and give him a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: Brew desperately wanted this in the TV show today and

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Speaker 1: then to talk about what it meant for coach contracts

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Speaker 1: as a whole, and Wild's almost passed out. He's like,

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Speaker 1: the World Cup's going on, When LaMelo ball just got traded,

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Speaker 1: Bru's like, it's a big deal. Brandon Ayuk wants to

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Speaker 1: quick before you get the LaMelo thing. When I first

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Speaker 1: And then some of his buddies went and kind of

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought was going to be the case,

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Speaker 1: You know that scene in the wire? Are you taking

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Speaker 1: notes on a criminal conspiracy? Do you have a group

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Speaker 1: chat that might as well be called the robbers where

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Speaker 1: you're texting about the robbery plans? And are you facetiming

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Speaker 1: too said robbery? Because if that's the case, you might

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Speaker 1: all flipped on him, so we haven't like again with

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Speaker 1: the police are alleging does not necessarily mean it's what happened,

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Speaker 1: it's a violent crime, really don't commit those Tell someone

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Speaker 1: that is by the books, kidnapping, and that is like

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Speaker 1: just stone life in prison, like the I remember when

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Speaker 1: there's none of the crimes are good crimes. There are.

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Speaker 1: There are a hand full of crimes that are really

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Speaker 1: really the bad ones kidnapping on there, and kidnapping doesn't

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if I were Tarrian Arnold's lawyer

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Speaker 1: Now to the actual news of the day, LaMelo ball

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Speaker 1: Demon's a go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Moving on early this morning, the Timber was traded LaMelo

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Speaker 2: three swaps in three seconds. Minnesota also just traded away Randall,

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Speaker 2: which opened ups in space. Do you think that they

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Speaker 2: are better now than they were a week ago. Something

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Speaker 2: tells me you don't love this move.

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Speaker 1: Oh I love this move. I love this move for

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Speaker 1: the Hornets. Smart, I listen, I'm not gonna do any

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Speaker 1: I told you so's it's unbecoming. But coming off his

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Speaker 1: and at the peak of his popularity, the Charlotte Hornet said,

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Speaker 1: For nas reed and won first and a handful of swaps,

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Speaker 1: and that's smart. I understand. There was a lot of

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Speaker 1: controversy surrounding my comments and criticisms of LaMelo Ball after

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Speaker 1: and understandably, his family got all mad at me, but

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Speaker 1: other folks, other commentators were acting as if I was

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Speaker 1: way out of bounds in saying what I thought everybody

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Speaker 1: who also agreed with it, the team that knew him best.

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Speaker 1: And so I think Charlotte saying knk Nipple, Brandon Miller,

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Speaker 1: Kobe White as a point guard who they just gave

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Speaker 1: building around that, plus a real pro and super valuable

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Speaker 1: guy nasried that we like that plan moving forward. I

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Speaker 1: think that's smart from Charlotte, particularly when you consider Demons

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Speaker 1: Lamello in about a week is going to become extinsion eligible,

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Speaker 1: where he right now has three years one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty million left on his deal, which is not terrible,

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Speaker 1: which would make it essentially a five year, two hundred

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Speaker 1: before I get to my Minnesota thoughts, demonse, what was

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Speaker 1: your reaction, because I was I can't say I was

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Speaker 1: shocked by it, because there was reporting late last night

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Speaker 1: that this could happen, but prior to the if I

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Speaker 1: been totally shocked by this, but we kind of got

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Speaker 1: a little precursor that it was on its way. What

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Speaker 1: was your reaction to seeing LaMelo Ball was traded to

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was a little strange, just because

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Speaker 2: they had they just gave Ale a new contract and

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Speaker 2: they were saying they were moving u Nazri to the

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Speaker 2: power forward and then Nasrita is gone, you get another guard.

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Speaker 2: I I like it. I think that I don't the

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Speaker 2: I mean the Charlotte is they have the tenth best

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Speaker 2: odds in the East right now, yep, Like I just

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Speaker 2: feel like they're not in a great spot. I think

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Speaker 2: that it makes the timber Bols better. I think it

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Speaker 2: gives them the perfect mix of offense and defense. I

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Speaker 2: don't I don't hate the move. And then also with

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Speaker 2: them being so successful this year, and for LaMelo, maybe

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Speaker 2: some internalization, you know, they got you out of here,

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Speaker 2: you got just had a really good year. Maybe that

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Speaker 2: forces you to kind of change some of your ways

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Speaker 3: I don't hate I don't hate them.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I wanted to go to you first,

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Speaker 1: because I think the way you feel about it is

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Speaker 2: You don't think they're gonna make any noise next year?

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Speaker 2: So that the Hornets get three swaps in this deal.

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Speaker 2: Like I know, I didn't wait what like they just

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Speaker 2: Today, Lakers signed ar to four years, one eighty five

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Speaker 2: MAX deal, and that new money doesn't hit for another year,

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Speaker 2: so the Lakers can have the most cap space in basketball.

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Speaker 2: This leaves the Lakers in Lebron in a weird situation.

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't say weird, but they got to do some

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Speaker 2: of Lebron.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so so okay, so few let me clarify there

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Speaker 1: that money Austin's money will hit the cap this season,

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Speaker 1: but they can wait for it won't hit the cap

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Speaker 1: this off season until they're done making all their other moves.

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Speaker 1: So they they have an agreement in principal with Austin

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Speaker 1: that's gonna pay him forty six million a year. He

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Speaker 1: right now as a cap hold of twenty million. What

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Speaker 1: the Lakers will do is they will make all their

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Speaker 1: other signings with Austin only taking up twenty million of

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Speaker 1: their cap. They then will sign him to the deal

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Speaker 1: they just agreed to and because they and then his

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Speaker 1: cap number will go from the twenty million to in

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Speaker 1: the forties, but because they have his bird rights, they

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Speaker 1: can go over the cap to resign him, which is

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Speaker 1: to say, even though he is getting this deal with

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, it doesn't change their cap situation for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the offseason, so they still have flexibility. And

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Speaker 1: so let's just first, let's talk Austin, then we'll talk Lebron.

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Speaker 1: This is a fair deal for Austin Reeves. I like

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Speaker 1: it more than the five years at the max they

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Speaker 1: could have given him any other team in the league

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Speaker 1: that had cap space. To Monsey, the most he could

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Speaker 1: have gotten from someone else is four for one. So

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Speaker 1: the Lakers were like, hey, we're not gonna give you

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Speaker 1: the most we can give you, which is five for

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Speaker 1: two twelve or something. I know it would have been

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Speaker 1: five for like two thirty. Yeah, but we will give

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Speaker 1: you a touch more than anyone else can give you

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Speaker 1: to ensure you have no reason to leave. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: with the belief being that a team like Detroit might

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Speaker 1: have found a way to open up cap space, as

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Speaker 1: you see, they get rid of Isaiah Stewart if they

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Speaker 1: thought they could get Austin Reeves. So that's why he

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Speaker 1: got the money. As far as can Austin and Luca

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Speaker 1: be a championship duo. Here's what I will say. The

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Speaker 1: proof of concept behind that would be if somebody goes

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Speaker 1: and looks at the playoff stats from the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four Dallas Mavericks, that team that made the finals that

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Speaker 1: in round one beat Kawhi, Paul George and Harden with

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. In round two, beat the Thunder and Shay

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Speaker 1: in round three, beat the Timberwolves with Aunt and Karl

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Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, and then in the finals got clipped by Boston.

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Speaker 1: That team here were there's six leading in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: minutes per game guys Luca, Kyrie, Irving, and then a

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Speaker 1: bunch of role players PJ. Washington, Derek Jones, junior Daniel Gafford,

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Speaker 1: and a rookie Derek Lively excuse me and Daniel Gafford

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Speaker 1: and PJ Washington Demonds had been picked up at the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline that year and they were an awesome playoff

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Speaker 1: team until they ran into a better team in Boston.

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Speaker 1: So you definitely can around Luca, have the co star

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Speaker 1: b an offense only pure scorer and build a contender.

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Speaker 1: The question is can the Lakers do that? Like it

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Speaker 1: is Polinka capable of it? Do they have the ability

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Speaker 1: to identify players as to his credit, Nico Harrison and

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Speaker 1: the MAVs front office did, and are they willing to

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Speaker 1: be as aggressive as that team was in you know,

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Speaker 1: making deals at the deadline and identifying the right types

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Speaker 1: of athletes and defenders and bigs that you need to

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Speaker 1: not only build around a Luca team, but build around

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Speaker 1: a Luca team where the co star is an offense

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Speaker 1: only guard. But we have seen it done, Okay, So

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Speaker 1: there's that piece of it, and then there is the

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Speaker 1: Lebron piece, which is is Lebron still a MAX player?

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Speaker 1: I mean on a year to year basis sure? Like,

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Speaker 1: look we saw on the playoffs last year, Lebron in

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Speaker 1: a playoff series against the Rockets was just clearly the

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Speaker 1: best player on the court. He is, even at his age,

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Speaker 1: as reliable from a health standpoint as any of the

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Speaker 1: three best players on the Lakers. But is he a

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Speaker 1: MAX player for the Lakers when you already have Luca

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Speaker 1: and Austin? I mean probably not. Ultimately, the MAX piece

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Speaker 1: of it doesn't matter because nobody's giving Lebron the max

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Speaker 1: on the marketplace. Nobody has max cap space and Here

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Speaker 1: is what is to me, like what I think the

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Speaker 1: most likely outcome demonte is Lebron resigns with the Lakers

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Speaker 1: and then if things don't go aren't going well. The

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Speaker 1: Lakers leaked to the media how annoyed they are that

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Speaker 1: they had to resign Lebron, when again, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do anything. They did it this year when Lebron

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Speaker 1: was months removed from sixth in MVP voting as he

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Speaker 1: was last year or the year before last, when the

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Speaker 1: Lakers had their little early season swoon. We saw the

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Speaker 1: long form ESPN dot com piece where Genie Buss is

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Speaker 1: basically like, yeah, I'm not. We're dying to get out

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Speaker 1: of the Lebron business. We just haven't been able to.

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Speaker 1: Here is to me, the what's a bummer about? How

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Speaker 1: I see this final Lebron chapter going. The two places

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Speaker 1: he's most likely to end up, the Lakers or the

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Speaker 1: Warriors can be fun, but not top tier championship contenders.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Lakers can do enough on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end, the the acquiring a big that fits with

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Speaker 1: Luca better than DeAndre Ayton, and that's whether they keep

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Speaker 1: Lebron or not. The Warriors unless they added Lebron and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. I don't think that a team would have

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Speaker 1: enough and it would just you know, Simmons been talking

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Speaker 1: about a long time, the Expendables, the super Old Guy team.

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Speaker 1: There are, however, four or five teams demands that I

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Speaker 1: think are good but not contender good, I'm sorry, not

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Speaker 1: top level contender good that if they added Lebron, I

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Speaker 1: would and I don't care that he's in year twenty

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Speaker 1: four and going to be forty two years old. Instantly

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Speaker 1: I would think could win the title. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think they are realistic places for him. But I think

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Speaker 1: if he were to go to Denver for the mid level,

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Speaker 1: that absolutely that that Denver team could win the title.

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Speaker 1: I think if he were to go to Detroit, as

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Speaker 1: Wendy lightly speculated about as a possibility yesterday, that Detroit

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Speaker 1: team could win the title. I think if he were

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Speaker 1: to go to Miami, a Miami team that I don't

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Speaker 1: really believe in at right now, but he would solve

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Speaker 1: a lot of what their potential issues are, that Miami

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Speaker 1: team could win the title. And there was one more

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Speaker 1: team that when I was thinking about.

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Speaker 3: This Minnesota prior to what happened.

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Speaker 1: Well, it definitely was Minnesota prior to this, but even

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Speaker 1: prior to the LaMelo deal, but there was one more team,

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Speaker 1: oh Houston, Houston. If he were to go there, I

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Speaker 1: think that Houston team could win the title. But I

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Speaker 1: just don't think those are likely any of those are

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Speaker 1: likely places for him.

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Speaker 2: With Detroit and so, I feel like that does Lebron

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Speaker 2: fix their problems with the lack of offense. I guess

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Speaker 2: the Rockets have kde and I'm not trying to say

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Speaker 2: that Lebron's not good at offense, but at the same time,

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Speaker 2: like those I think those teams need some offensive powerhouses.

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Speaker 1: So that's I think that those teams, because Lebron would

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Speaker 1: be able to run the show to a degree offensively.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Cade would run it, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: players around, and that Lebron could exert one hundred of

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Speaker 1: his energy on the offensive end. I do think he

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Speaker 1: would solve their offensive proms. He would just get guys

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Speaker 1: good shots. It would be what he did for the

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Speaker 1: Lakers during their playoff series against the Rockets, you know.

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Speaker 1: The I do think that I obviously, you know, Wendy

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Speaker 1: is talking about the Lakers being interested in a sign

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Speaker 1: and trade for Lebron for Jared Allen. And I do

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Speaker 1: think Jared Allen would be perfect for the Lakers, and

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Speaker 1: while Lebron is obviously way better than Jared Allen, Jared

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Speaker 1: Allen would be a better fit for what the Lakers

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Speaker 1: since the Lakers have luc and Ar. But I just

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Speaker 1: don't think and Lebron going back to Cleveland is fun.

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Speaker 1: If they hadn't made the James Harden move, I would

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Speaker 1: be more open to that, But Lebron just going from

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Speaker 1: Cleveland to LA to play in another place where he's

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Speaker 1: got to be the Swiss army knife role because your

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Speaker 1: top two scorers in Luke and Austin or in Mitchell

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Speaker 1: and Harden simply can't really adjust their game the way

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Speaker 1: you can is not I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how attractive that is. If he goes to Golden State,

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Speaker 1: the ball's in his hands because STEP's off the ball

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Speaker 1: a ton anyway, He's kind of still running the show,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't have to be the highest volume scorer

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Speaker 1: on the team. Steph can still be that.

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Speaker 2: It's just I think people would not Letbron here the

648
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Speaker 2: end of it.

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Speaker 3: If he went to Golden State.

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Speaker 2: I know Lebron doesn't care or any of that, but

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Speaker 2: I think that his final chapter. And it's like all

652
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Speaker 2: Lebron's always played and playing with these players that are good,

653
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Speaker 2: it's like, you know, always seeking the stuff out. I

654
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Speaker 2: get Curry's old. You don't you don't think that was

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Speaker 2: the mass here?

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Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, here's what I think. The Warriors

657
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: haven't been anywhere close to contending. And five since they

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Speaker 1: won the time that's fair the you know, they won

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Speaker 1: the title. Then the next year they won forty four

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Speaker 1: games and Lebron knocked him out of the playoffs. The

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Speaker 1: year after that they won forty six games and they

662
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Speaker 1: lost in the play in the year after that they

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Speaker 1: won forty eight games and lost in round two. And

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Speaker 1: last year they won thirty seven games. Now, I yes,

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00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: people would create you know, stupid Twitter graphics about teammates

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00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: Lebron has had and all that stuff. But the last

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00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: season Lebron was healthier than Steph Curry. His team was

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Speaker 1: better than Steph's. He made the playoffs and one around

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Speaker 1: like you can't it. And the only reason I'm even

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Speaker 1: bringing that up is Lebron would be going there because

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00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: they need him, not because he's writing coattails. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do think there certainly would be a school of

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Speaker 1: thought about of what you're discussing. All Right, before we

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Speaker 1: to the show. All right, Demanse, let's talk some Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 2: So after trying to get rid of Jalen Brown for

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Speaker 2: like the fourth or fifth time, Brad Stevens came out

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Speaker 2: and prof you know, just talking about Jaylen Brown's value

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Speaker 2: and how much he means to the team. Do you

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Speaker 2: are you buying that or do you think that he's

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00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: just trying to smooth the waters because we're now stuck

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Speaker 2: with Jaylen Brown. I don't know how stuck we are

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 1: I mean I still think they're going to trade him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? To you, yeah, do you want them to? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And I'm also like, I kind of want to. I

722
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 2: don't want to take anything back, but I've always just

723
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 2: been like, you know, get jam Brown off the team.

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00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 2: It's not that I dislike him. I think he's a

725
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 2: really good player. He's obviously great, but I just don't

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00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 2: think that I don't think that he has the same

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00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: goal in mind. And after after this and all the trades,

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Speaker 2: like I understand, it's I just don't see how we

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Speaker 2: go into this season comfortably and like with a with

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Speaker 2: a ad eas mindset.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that they are still shopping him to me,

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00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: means they've decided we're trading yeah, because you know, they

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00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: offered him in a trade for Kevin Durant four years ago,

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Speaker 1: they offered him in a trade for Yannis four days

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00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: ago when we talked about that on the show, you know,

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00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: Brew and Wilds were like or Bruce said, yeah, so

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00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: you've been offered for two of the twenty greatest players

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Speaker 1: of all time. Like yeah, you know, big deal. But

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00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: now they're still offering and on the other side of

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00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: those trades are probably like Paolo Boncaro or Trey Murphy

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00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 1: and other stuff. So I, you know, the it's it

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00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: to mix metaphors. But if when this, you know, shortly

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00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: after this podcast started, you know, I was like, Demonta,

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00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: we might have to replace you with Simmons. And then

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00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: if a few days ago or a week ago, I

746
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: was like, hey, we might replace you with Cowherd, and

747
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: then it's like, all right, those things didn't happen, but uh,

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Speaker 1: there are some up and coming broadcasters from Syracuse that

749
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: I want to like consider replacing you with as well.

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00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: You might be like, all right, well this is some

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00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: bull Like it's one thing like I knew, like right now,

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00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: so you what you're really saying is you don't want

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Speaker 1: me around and and you know, again to torture the

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00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,919
Speaker 1: metaphor further, and then people in your life are coming

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Speaker 1: to you as like you know who. They never talk

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Speaker 1: about trading off the show Nick. Why is that like

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Speaker 1: the US?

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Speaker 2: I almost thought like, would it have been good for

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Speaker 2: the Celtics even if they had no intention on trading

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00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, to just be like, hey, like you know,

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Speaker 2: like we're offering of Jason right right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: If I do think if they wanted to keep Jalen Brown,

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Speaker 1: I think that Brad Stevens should have called up Tatum

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00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: and been like, listen, yes, you're about to hear some bullshit.

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00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: I promise you it's not true. But we offered Jailen

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00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: for Grannis. It didn't work, and we are going to

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Speaker 1: leak to the media that we called up Minnesota and

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00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: all offered you for Anthony Edwards. We didn't do it,

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00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: but we were gonna put that out there that way,

771
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: like you can you and Jalen can unit have all

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00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,240
Speaker 1: we got to prove we both got to prove him wrong,

773
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: like oh, they're cold blooded over here. Instead, Jalen Brown's

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00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: like you never all, He's never in any rumors at all.

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00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 1: And Jalen Brown definitely thinks he's better than Tatum. That's

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00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: the other thing I don't listen. I I think he

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00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: obviously is not. But to Jalen's credit, he has the

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00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: finals MVP as the conference finals MVP. He's not. You know,

779
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: he was there last year. You're like, yeah, and so

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00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's tenable for the And it's

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00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: also why and you weren't here Tuesday, but it's why.

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Speaker 1: If I was this close to the finish line on

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00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: getting you, honest, I would have thrown in Yeah, yeah,

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00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: I would have. Just again, I wouldn't have given him

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00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: four first in three swamps. But if you were, if

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00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: if you have gotten to the point of we've agreed

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00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: on ninety five percent of it, we're giving you Jalen

788
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: Brown in two firsts. And it's not like you must

789
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: include Derek White. It's you must include Hugo Gonzalez or

790
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: Baylor Shireman, he's gotta to me. You gotta do that

791
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: because now you're gonna have to trade Jailen anyway, or

792
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: I think they're going to trade Jailen anyway, and I

793
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:34,959
Speaker 1: just don't know what, you know, what return they're going

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00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: to get. They've people have talked about them trading him

795
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: to Portland for pieces. Portland probably would not want to

796
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 1: do this, but rather than get a bunch of pieces

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00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: from Portland. What I would want from Portland is one piece.

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Speaker 1: I'd want Denny I because while Jalen is better than

799
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: Denny Avdia, Denny solves so much of Boston's over reliance

800
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: on threes because all he does is put pressure on

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00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: the rent like that's you know, he can't really shoot,

802
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: and so like, I really like that potential fit, but

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00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: I don't think he's available. Poolo would also solve that

804
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: to a degree, but I don't think Orlando would do that.

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00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't think Orlando wants to get that much older

806
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: like Powlo for Jail Jalen. I. I'll tell you the

807
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: team that could use it more than just about any

808
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 1: team in the league's the Lakers. He's the perfect fit

809
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: next to Luca, like the perfect fit, but the Lakers

810
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: have no way of making it happen. So I think

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00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hard trade to make, but I

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00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: do think they're gonna end up making the trade. The

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00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: All right, do you want to go to the other

814
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: potential trade stuff?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Kawhi is reportedly a name on the trade

816
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: block right now. Could he be the missing piece for

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00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: a team or is he or is he.

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00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: The way he was worry you know you're good. Well,

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00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: I think from what I'm the reporting I'm hearing, it

820
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, the team that think he can

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00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,760
Speaker 1: be the missing piece like he was for the Raptors.

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00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: The Raptors, I think the Raptors might go get him again.

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Speaker 2: Something about Detroit. I felt like that was being floated

824
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 2: a little.

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00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: Bit, so so Wendy. Wendy threw out Detroit connected to

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Speaker 1: Kawhi or Lebron, like could that those teams go big

827
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: game hunting? I Kawhi is a tricky one because there's

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00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: just a Obviously, the injuries and the durability is a

829
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: huge concern. But the other piece of it is last

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00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: year he had arguably the best year of his career

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Speaker 1: as a Clipper, arguably the best year of his career

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00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: since he was a Raptor and played sixty five games,

833
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: and the team was decidedly mediocre, like they missed the playoffs,

834
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: And so how much does he still impact winning is

835
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: to me a fair question. Plus how available will he be?

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Speaker 1: Like I would There is no way in hell I

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Speaker 1: would have Kawhi be the centerpiece de Mon's of a

838
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: jail in Brown trade that would be crazy to me,

839
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: like much and right and so much younger and so

840
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: much more reliable and durable. All right, I know we

841
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: have another one here. Uh.

842
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: With Trey young and and LaMelo being traded, Jaw remains

843
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 2: the last of the Southeastern silly point guards which team

844
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 2: could be interested in. Joh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there seems to be a lot of rumors

846
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: that Miami is going to try to buy low on Job,

847
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: but that doesn't fit fix their lack of shooting around

848
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: Giannis and vam uh. And if I were you know,

849
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: Job's friends or family, I'd be like, man, sending him

850
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: to South Beach is not going to you know, fix

851
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: some of his off the court foibles the play. So

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00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't know where Joe's gonna. Job's going to go

853
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: somewhere and try to reinvent himself. The Grizzlies are going

854
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: to build around Cambooser and that's smart. I'll tell you

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00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: who I want Miami, and I don't know that they

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00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: have the assets to do it. But the move that

857
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Speaker 1: I would want Miami to make demands and it would

858
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: make me reevaluate their ceiling, is if they are the

859
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: team that finds a way to get Kyrie from Dallas. Yeah,

860
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: that would be that would be a It's Joannis and

861
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 1: Bam are perfect for him. He's gonna be like he

862
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,760
Speaker 1: is nice and rested. He's gonna be nineteen twenty months

863
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: off the ACL and he provides the scoring and the spacing.

864
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 2: And the shooting like that up and play for like

865
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: three million, And I mean.

866
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: That would be sick. I got all right, that would

867
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: be sick. But that's a jaw to me. In Miami

868
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: would make no sense at all, Like you just you.

869
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: He never learned to shoot, and that team's biggest issue

870
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: right now is a lack of shooting.

871
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 2: Joh got a maturity problem. Going to Miami will surely help.

872
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's that's the other piece of it. That's

873
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: why I said when Joe was still like when Joe

874
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: was first having the like gunplay issues, but was still

875
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: an awesome player and face the league. I said back then,

876
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: I was like, man, David Stern was still the league,

877
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: is still the commissioner. Rest in peace, David Stern. He

878
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: would have just for behind the scenes, the forst Memphis

879
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: to trade him to the Utah be like, yeah, it's

880
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,439
Speaker 1: what's best for him, Like you listen, you'll thank me later.

881
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: But this is what's best for the league, it's best

882
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: for everyone. Send his ass to Salt Lake and let

883
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: him get it together. All right, we'll talk a little

884
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the US men's national team, which plays

898
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: in a few hours later tonight.

899
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 2: The US men's national teams faces Turkey a tonight with

900
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 2: a chance to sweep the group stage.

901
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 3: However, we already run the group.

902
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 2: And this game really doesn't count for us. We got

903
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,919
Speaker 2: none to gain. Do you still think, but you still

904
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 2: think that winning this game is importantly?

905
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 3: Why is that?

906
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: Because I a number of reasons, but one is I

907
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: just think they are If this team can achieve what

908
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: I believe it can achieve, which is beat Bosnia or

909
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: Ertzkovina in the round of thirty two, then beat Egypt

910
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: or Belgium or Korea in the round of sixteen, they're

911
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: gonna be staring at a quarterfinal game, the biggest game

912
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: in the history of this country in soccer, against probably Spain,

913
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: and if not Spain, a different powerhouse. And the the

914
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna believe you can compete with the

915
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: best in the world is if you have everything going

916
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: for you. And one of those things should be we

917
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: want a game even without all our best guys. And

918
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: I also think there's a real kind of like country

919
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: momentum in a home World Cup and a lot of

920
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: people are gonna be tuning in tonight de monse that

921
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: don't understand the games meaningless, don't understand that whether we

922
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: win or lose is all the same. There's there's some

923
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: people that are yet to watch the USB International team

924
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: game they're gonna tune in tonight and if they see

925
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: we lose to a team that's already been eliminated, to

926
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: be like, ah, you guys said this is different. I'm

927
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: so I think that matters. Here's the other thing, and

928
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: I have been not so subtle about this on TV

929
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: that I think Christian Polisic is He's been called by

930
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: our colleague Dacks McCarthy fragile, and I think that is

931
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: putting it kindly. I do not think you can rely

932
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have Polisic full go for the entirety

933
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: of the knockout rounds. I expect tonight he's not gonna

934
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: play the first half. And maybe more, I think more

935
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: evidence that these guys can have internally that you know what,

936
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: we can win games and score goals without Polistic out

937
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: there is really helpful, because I think they might be

938
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: playing a really big game down the road without Polistic

939
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: out there. And so I for all those reasons, a

940
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: nice two to one victory over Turkey eight to night

941
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: would just it would just be a perfect group stage.

942
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: And Mexico did it. Mexico played a meaningless game on

943
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: home soil last night and one and went three and

944
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: zero through the group and is feeling great. Canada wasn't

945
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: able to do it now, Canada didn't have everything locked

946
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: up in Canada is not as good as us. I

947
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: get all of that, but the other so I'm not

948
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: gonna freak out if they lose, but it sure would

949
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: be nice to win now. I also would demands like

950
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: to add just a little bit of a what's on

951
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: deck right now for us in the World Cup as

952
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: far as games that we are going to get like

953
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: that you want to circle in the opening rounds of

954
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: the tournament, okay, or in the next few rounds. So

955
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:47,160
Speaker 1: an unbelievable round of thirty two game that we will

956
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: get as long as Netherlands holds on and wins their

957
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: group is Netherlands Morocco with it the winner that is

958
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: in Monterey, Mexico in four days. The winner of that

959
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: game will play the winner of South Africa Canada, which

960
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: means the winner of that game will make it to

961
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: the quarterfinals. But that is a brutal round of thirty

962
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: two game, and the again, assuming France holds on to

963
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: win its group on that same little quadrant of the bracket,

964
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: while Morocco Netherlands is a brutal round of thirty two

965
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: game France Germany is what we are getting as a

966
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: round of sixteen game, and that could be a World

967
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: Cup final. And it's the reason people don't believe Germany

968
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: can win the World Cup is because they think they're

969
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: gonna lose to France in that game. But Germany can

970
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: win that game. So you are in, you know, the

971
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: top left corner of the bracket. The winner of France

972
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: Germany France in the round of sixteen and the winner

973
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: of of Netherlands Morocco in the round of thirty two

974
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: should be playing each other to go to the Semis.

975
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: The US. Everything has fallen absolutely perfectly. We are playing

976
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 1: Bosnia or Skavina in the round of thirty two, and

977
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: then we will end up playing the winner of probably

978
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: Korea Egypt in the round of sixteen, and then the

979
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: likeliest team that we would face in the quarterfinals is Spain.

980
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: If Spain somehow gets upset, you could be playing Columbia, Portugal, Croatia, Ghana,

981
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: any of those. But the US can they beat Spain

982
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals in the biggest soccer game in American history?

983
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: Is gonna be the question A few weeks from now

984
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: and then. One of the reasons demanse I have been

985
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: so bullish on Brazil is Brazil is Brazil's path should

986
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: be as follows. Playing Japan in the round of thirty two.

987
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: That's a good team, but a team they absolutely should

988
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: be playing. Hold on, let me make sure I have

989
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: this part right.

990
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 3: Uh, yes, the.

991
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: Yes, I hold on a second here, yeah, I do

992
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: have this right, Gosh darn it. Then playing the winner

993
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: of Ivory Coast, Norway in the round of sixteen be

994
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: big favorites there, and then playing the winner of probably

995
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: the two most likely teams England or Mexico in the

996
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: round of eight. That is again there are no easy

997
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: paths to the semi finals. But the fact that the

998
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: best team that would be in your little quadrant is

999
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: England and England is gonna have to get there by

1000
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: beating Mexico in Mexico City in the round of sixteen

1001
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: is you know, pretty pretty tough. And then if Mexico

1002
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: wins Mexico for the first time all tournament would be

1003
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: playing outside of Mexico, playing in Miami in the quarters.

1004
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: And then the bottom right quadrant of the bracket. What

1005
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: we are staring at is in Kansas City. One of

1006
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: the biggest games in World Cup history that is not

1007
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 1: a World Cup final up July eleventh in Kansas City

1008
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals Argentina and Messi playing Cristiano Ronaldo in Portugal,

1009
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: which would be one of the most epic events ever.

1010
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,919
Speaker 1: And I can't believe Kansas City is getting to host

1011
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: it like Kansas City already again, assuming Kansas City has

1012
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: already hosted Argentina. Yeah, assuming Portugal is able at the

1013
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: game I'm going to be at and this is a

1014
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: big assumption, but assuming Portugal is able to beat Columbia,

1015
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: Kansas City is going to host two knockout round games

1016
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: Portugal and Christiano Ronaldo against either Ghana or Croatia, and

1017
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: then a week later, in all likelihood Portugal playing Messi

1018
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 1: and Argentina. And that's just man. I what what day

1019
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: of the week is July eleventh, That's a Saturday. That's

1020
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: a Saturday. Oh yeah, you're your your birthday? Well let

1021
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: me make sure I'm not wrong, but uh, your birthday Monday?

1022
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so, I mean that would be pretty sick

1023
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: you can make that would be something we maybe would

1024
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: have to do. Yeah, maybe the I mean, you've got

1025
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Well let's you know what, let's

1026
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: not get ahead of ourselves. Let's see how things are going.

1027
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,639
Speaker 1: That could be a cool little you know, meet halfway

1028
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: midway point of the country. Uh. And so again, I'm

1029
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: gonna see Portugal play Columbia in Miami in a couple

1030
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: of days thanks to our friends at hard Rock Bet

1031
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: at the I'm not you know, at the Miami Stadium,

1032
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't. Even though I've been losing money

1033
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: hand over fist, I have loved this tournament so much. Also,

1034
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 1: I want to curesw had they won today, was gonna

1035
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: automatically qualify. They're down one nothing and a draw does

1036
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: them no good. So Ivory Coast is in great shape.

1037
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:09,759
Speaker 1: And Germany is playing Ecuador in a game that means

1038
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: nothing to Germany. That game is tied, and in a

1039
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 1: game that Ecuador again they have to win if they

1040
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: want to advance. I wonder I'm gonna check on hard

1041
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: Rock Bet real quick and then we'll go, because if

1042
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: you're not watching this live, then this is all passe.

1043
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: But what is the live one Ecuador to win right

1044
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: now is plus three twenty. It's just interesting because Ecuador

1045
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: a draw and they're eliminated. A win and they advance

1046
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:46,600
Speaker 1: and Germany it doesn't matter. But of course Germany, you know,

1047
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: wants to You don't want to lose, you want to

1048
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 1: keep all momentum. That's interesting, all right, I'm gonna go

1049
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 1: watch the end of those games. A huge thank you

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01:09:55,120 --> 01:10:00,320
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1051
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,800
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1052
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 1: and I doing a live show. I'm not sure all

1053
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: the details on that and the how that's gonna work,

1054
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: except I know we're gonna be in Miami and that

1055
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: is happening on Saturday and so and I'll check with

1056
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 1: everyone about how you know how that works and how

1057
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: I can you know who can go and if it's

1058
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:26,799
Speaker 1: open to the public. I would again I'm I assume

1059
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: it is, but I should have asked before I talked

1060
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: about it. And so another show will be coming up

1061
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: in your feed sometime this weekend, and I also might

1062
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: drop at some point in the next week a solo

1063
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: twenty minute World Series of Poker Slash Poker Hall of

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Speaker 1: for that one. That would be a solo endeavor don't

1066
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: you worry about it all right? Thank you everyone. Enjoy

1067
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: the World Cup, See you guys on TV Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe to the Pop It helps out a time. What

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