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Speaker 2: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 2: straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: January twenty second. Wow, the NBA got super duper lucky.

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Speaker 2: The day after the NFL has massive ratings, awesome games,

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Speaker 2: huge drama. The NBA Yes, No NBA Ladies and Gentleman

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Speaker 2: delivers with the first time that two players have gone

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Speaker 2: over sixty points on the same night, same night since

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight. Yes, Joel emb drops a seventy burder

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Speaker 2: in just thirty four minutes and Karl Anthony Towns finishes

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Speaker 2: with sixty two in a loss. We'll do that shortly.

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Speaker 2: Apparently both we're kind of paying homage to Kobe Bryant,

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Speaker 2: who dropped eighty one points eighteen years ago last night,

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Speaker 2: and Joel Embiid first went up and got seventy. Now listen, listen,

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Speaker 2: I've been I've probably been too hard on Jewel Embiid

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Speaker 2: to be fair. You guys know I was a Ben

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Speaker 2: you know, start going to the gym, which is the

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Speaker 2: old Clippers facility. Meet some guys. They are in the

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Speaker 2: Ben Simmons camp. They work with him, they train him

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Speaker 2: like they're friendly with them, and they're saying, how great

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Speaker 2: of a guy he is, and oh this guy, and

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Speaker 2: it's I was who didn't like Simmons coming out LSU.

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Speaker 2: Guys had all the talent in the world, Magic Johnson capabilities,

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Speaker 2: you know, all NBA could defend five positions and just

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Speaker 2: didn't work with him and Embiid, But I was I

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Speaker 2: was a Simmons truther as long as I could hold out.

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Speaker 2: And then hey, I admit I was on the wrong side.

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Speaker 2: And Embiid is the guy, and Joel Andmbie wins the MVP.

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Speaker 2: Now he still has not had the playoff success that

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Speaker 2: he needs and deserves and wants and craves and maybe

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Speaker 2: it's his here, but undeniably the defending NBA MVP seventy

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Speaker 2: points in thirty four minutes, most in seventy six ers

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Speaker 2: franchise history. They had fifty nine through three quarters. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if they had kept him in longer. Kobe, by the way,

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Speaker 2: when he scored let me see here, Kobe, when he

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Speaker 2: dropped eighty one, I think he did it in forty

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Speaker 2: two minutes. So Embiid seventy and thirty four. If they

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Speaker 2: had kept him out there, you know, maybe he break

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Speaker 2: tops eighty one. I don't know. Seventy points eighteen boards.

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Speaker 2: Embiid is on such a tear. It's the twenty first

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Speaker 2: straight game he scored thirty or more. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: just unstoppable offensively. And by the way, he was going

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Speaker 2: up against the Spurs, the worst team in the league,

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Speaker 2: and when min Yama, the rookie, he had thirty three,

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Speaker 2: but nobody cares, like normally a rookie drops thirty three

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Speaker 2: on Embiid, It's like, oh, that's wow, Embiid, way to go, Wemby.

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Speaker 2: You're going at the MVP. That's awesome. And then you

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Speaker 2: realize the Spurs are maybe the worst team in the

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Speaker 2: league and it doesn't matter my wee Binyama Defensive Player

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Speaker 2: of the Year ticket that's up and smoke no shot.

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Speaker 2: But nevertheless, congrats to Himbiid. I probably have been too

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Speaker 2: harsh on him, but seventy points to thirty four minutes

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Speaker 2: is otherworldly. Karl Anthony Towns started incredibly hot, had forty

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Speaker 2: four at halftime, and then the Timberwolves kind of petered

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Speaker 2: out and then they got destroyed in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 2: at home by Lowly Charlotte, LaMelo Ball Bridges and the

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Speaker 2: young kid Brandon Miller from Alabama. He was cooking. Here's

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Speaker 2: the weird part about towns sixty two points, ten threes

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Speaker 2: and then seven turnovers and it's I don't have the

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Speaker 2: breakdown of when they happened, but the fourth quarter unraveled

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Speaker 2: so poorly that Chris Finch after the game kind of

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Speaker 2: buried his team in the media. You know, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways to be immature. We disrespected the game,

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Speaker 2: we disrespected ourselves. We got exactly what we deserve. Now,

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Speaker 2: you know the bozos on NBA Twitter who just defend

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Speaker 2: every player and love like you know, elite layup packages

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Speaker 2: over winning. You know they're they're going to come after

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Speaker 2: Finch and be like, oh, come on, craling Anthony Town's

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Speaker 2: other seventy five true shooting percentage, Like they lost the game.

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Speaker 2: You know, forget style points. Guys, cat had sixty two

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Speaker 2: where they lost, Like that's that's a brutal loss. And

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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves are good, right, they were a really good team.

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Speaker 2: Finch is a great coach. He came on the Herd

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Speaker 2: one day in the studio. You know, and of course

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Speaker 2: I'm a sponge. When I get around these guys, I'm

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Speaker 2: asking all these questions. Super nice guy, excellent coach, knows

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Speaker 2: x's and Rose as well as anybody. I kind of

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Speaker 2: got aside with Finch here, Like you go watch the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. It's on YouTube. Guys, it's selfish basketball. Oh

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Speaker 2: cat had forty four a half. We got to keep

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Speaker 2: feeding and keep fit. Win the freaking game. Okay, win

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Speaker 2: the game, worry about everything else. Now, I do want

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Speaker 2: to put some of this scoring into context. This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: I decided to look this up because I'm I'm like, man,

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Speaker 2: two guys dropping sixty, and you look around the league

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Speaker 2: and it's like every single night somebody's going off for thirty,

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Speaker 2: forty fifty. The offensive talent in the NBA has never

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Speaker 2: ever been this good. I don't care what the people

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Speaker 2: tell you. The offense has never been this good ever

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Speaker 2: in the league. So I looked this up. Nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 2: ninety four, Okay, this would be thirty years ago. There

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Speaker 2: were five players in the NBA who averaged twenty five

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Speaker 2: or more points per game. Okay, that's it. Five, And

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Speaker 2: tell me what these guys have in common. David Robinson, Shack,

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Speaker 2: Elijah Won, Dominique and Mailman three centers a wing on

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Speaker 2: a you know, ok team that was going nowhere, but

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Speaker 2: he had to score all the points. And then Karl Malone,

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Speaker 2: who was like, you know, fifteen feet and in everything

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Speaker 2: big dominated five guys twenty five points per game. A

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Speaker 2: decade after that, now, twenty years ago in three, two

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Speaker 2: thousand and four, kind of a wasteland, if you will,

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Speaker 2: for the NBA. It was the post Jordan pre Lebron era.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and three two thousand and four, only

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Speaker 2: two guys average twenty five points per game, t Mac

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Speaker 2: and Alan Iverson. Okay, now let's go a decade ago.

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Speaker 2: So we did thirty years, then we did twenty. Now

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Speaker 2: we're doing ten years ago, and we're back. Five guys

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Speaker 2: averaging twenty five points per game. Guys that you know

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Speaker 2: and are still in the league. KD. Mello, Lebron Love

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Speaker 2: and Harden Mello obviously retired this year. Okay, so ten

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Speaker 2: years ago, five guys twenty years ago, two guys thirty

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Speaker 2: years ago. Five guys averaging twenty five points per game.

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Speaker 2: This year, seventeen players are averaging twenty five points per game.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen folks, Okay, I mean, what is that three hundred

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is insane. Come on, seventeen guys averaging

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Speaker 1: twenty five points per game. Now, I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are shouting, Jay, it's not about the offense.

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Speaker 1: It's nobody plays any defense. Okay, that's certainly part of it.

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Speaker 1: Defense is not the level it used to be.

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Speaker 2: Undeniable. The league knows people turn on TVs and Philip

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Speaker 2: Arenas to watch offense. They don't go to watch ninety

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Speaker 2: four eighty seven rock fights, which is what two thousand

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Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs Detroit Pistons, like those were some of

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Speaker 2: the ugliest series ever and you could go look up

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Speaker 2: the stats and the numbers. Those games were brutal, like

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Speaker 2: forgettable stuff. It was like Jason Kidd and Kenyan Martin

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Speaker 2: those nets teams. Like again, the league had talent, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it was it was kind of a down cycle

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Speaker 2: after the high flying eighties, the Jordan led nineties, and

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Speaker 2: then there was like that kind of weird in between

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Speaker 2: years where you just started to like, who's the next superstar?

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Speaker 2: And they've ended up being Lebron and Kobe and got

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Speaker 2: twenty five points per game are like could have like

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Speaker 2: led the league in scoring back then, like Trey Young,

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Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell, Devin Booker, Jalen Brunson. And here's the crazy thing.

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Speaker 2: I just used twenty five as a cutoff, right, Tyrese

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Speaker 2: Maxey's at twenty six, Kyrie Irvings at twenty five. Here

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Speaker 2: are the two guys just under twenty five, Anthony Davis

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Speaker 2: twenty four point nine, Lebron twenty four point eight. So

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Speaker 2: if you were to extend it beyond twenty five points

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Speaker 2: per game, the numbers might even be more drastic. I mean, hell,

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Speaker 2: Terry Rogier is putting up twenty three points per game.

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Speaker 2: Terry Rogier, Okay, like just put that in context. He's

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Speaker 2: He's put up twenty three game. So the NBA scoring

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Speaker 2: is that we're just never seeing stuff like this, And yeah,

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Speaker 2: we can say it's logistical inflation, and we can blame

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Speaker 2: the lack of defense, and nobody wanted to try. The

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Speaker 2: reality is the players are more skilled than they ever

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Speaker 2: have been. One Ben Yama comes in, is a teenager

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Speaker 2: and goes for thirty three and it's barely registers. Go

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Speaker 2: the coaching stuff as Peter Dalt will get to it shortly,

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Speaker 2: but it's like the Dallas job staying closed, the Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: starting to heat up. In ESPN now has a countdown

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Speaker 2: clock to the deadline. I think it's at fifteen days

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Speaker 2: and something else, and you start starting to see Lakers

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Speaker 2: de jon to Murray heating up. I'm like, I just

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Speaker 2: I don't buy it. I don't what are we getting it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I like Dejeenta Murray and I was advocating

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Speaker 2: the Hawks as a team to watch. I love the

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Speaker 2: Dejan to Marie trade. I thought the Hawks could could

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Speaker 2: make a run last year. This year, it's like I

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Speaker 2: was wrong on both fronts. I just I don't see

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Speaker 2: what he brings to the table that is gonna maybe

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Speaker 2: get the Lakers over the hump and to beat the

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Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets and make a run back to the Conference.

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Speaker 1: Fine.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't see how Dejeanta Murray does that.

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Speaker 2: And I'm a firm believer. If you remember last year,

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Speaker 2: where these these coaches land Tennessee. Going with Callahan is

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