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Speaker 3: Sweetie be yeah. Absolutely, let me welcome in my co host,

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Speaker 3: he is Kelvin Washington.

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Speaker 1: Look at the camera. Let me tell you something that's

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Speaker 3: I like that. Man, that's hard.

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Speaker 4: This is the one that I keep at the studio

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Speaker 4: now because it's always cold in here. All right, it's

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Speaker 4: been it's been pretty warm. Yeah, man up, where are

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Speaker 3: Here? Alex?

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Speaker 4: Can we throw another log on the fire? I know

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Speaker 4: it's July. It's been nice and warm and here it's

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Speaker 4: been fine. But I will agree today it's a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I will agree that most of the times you come

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Speaker 3: You have on basically a bra. What is going on?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Not a not a broad what you mean? You mean

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Speaker 1: You got on a b a bro. Yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to see your son's out gun. I'm just jealous, that's all.

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Speaker 4: I saw a picture of you with the buns out yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting more confused. Rob said, I'd recognize those buns.

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Speaker 4: I said, Alex, a picture with a chick with her

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Speaker 3: He does, actually, what are you? Ain't you in there too?

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Speaker 4: He says, it was just an accident, Okay, Kelvin, it

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Speaker 4: was an accident. Whatever, And I've deleted wife. He's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet have you deleted it?

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Speaker 4: As the question I've asked, it's deleted your wife my phone?

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Speaker 4: Or you know, like when you put them all up

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Speaker 4: Rob g is our producer. Shay is here in the Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yes, Soccer, you've been doing great.

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Speaker 1: Man. He's give me some hip hop questions. We got

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Speaker 1: to talk about some stuff. What are we talking about now?

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Speaker 3: That was because we had dinner in New Orleans. That's

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Speaker 1: Well, I just told somebody that story because somebody's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: We went to a fancy and the brother said, may

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Speaker 3: We said, we're working on a company. Uh, I haven't

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Speaker 4: You know what my expensions were done? On the flight

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Speaker 3: Yes. I don't play around, no doubt about it. Keep

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Speaker 1: I gotta figure out all right, let let's go here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some uh we talked about yesterday. Folks like to gamble. Yes,

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Speaker 4: So we got another thing, right, Major League Baseball. Lewis

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Speaker 4: Well, that's because people can bet on the first pitch

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Speaker 3: That's what they're alleging, which to me is really hard.

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Speaker 4: But I just think it's really that, like that is

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Speaker 4: three pointers right, I'm just saying, like, Okay, today I'm

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Speaker 3: Here's where I want to go.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not even I'm not even like kidding myself

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Speaker 4: saying pro sports is going to back away from gambling

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Speaker 3: The two two. Okay, it ain't happening. It's out.

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Speaker 4: They want all that money, bring it on, and if

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Speaker 4: do that. Your banned, your ban, but the money train

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Speaker 4: keeps rolling. We'll ban everybody if we have to but

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Speaker 4: we're going to take the money from the gamblers and

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Speaker 4: Stop the prop bets. Stop the bets where players can

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Speaker 3: Take those away.

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Speaker 3: You must be you know, got gambling? Did you bet

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Speaker 4: So I think if the sports and the Union should

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Speaker 4: come together and say we can't tempt it. They're tempting everybody.

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Speaker 4: You can't have it all in the ballpark. When I

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Speaker 3: Literally, I walk.

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Speaker 4: Out of the I don't know if it's BETMGM or what.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember, but you walk out of it and

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Speaker 3: So you can't invite everybody to be a part of this.

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Speaker 4: It's all on the television, it's all on billboards and

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Speaker 4: get it, you're playing. You shouldn't be betting on the sport.

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Speaker 4: We saw what happened to Pete Rose his career. But

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Speaker 4: I think the prop bets have to go. That's where

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Speaker 1: Way I unfortunately, I have to agree the prop bets

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Speaker 1: is what makes this difficult. And I'm gonna elaborate on

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Speaker 1: Shades and the Alex and the Martins, So I'm older

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Speaker 1: And my point is, it sounds fun, it sounds alluring,

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Speaker 3: It's real. It's real easy. This is not sleazy going on.

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Speaker 3: An the thinking I was right, betam GM is at Now.

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Speaker 1: So look at look at listen to these numbers, Rob,

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Speaker 3: I believe. And you know what the other thing is,

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Speaker 4: Sixty five popularly and doesn't bet, I know, which means

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, like that smaller going on?

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Speaker 1: So of that one hundred and forty nine billion, they

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Speaker 3: We know that.

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Speaker 1: But it's like we said the exact same time. It's

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Speaker 4: But I think that's why I played a role. It

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be under. It's an eight feet three point attempt.

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Speaker 3: That's so easy to control. That's easy.

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Speaker 4: It's like, hey, load up, cause don't ask me for

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Speaker 3: Is it time to do away with prop bets all together?

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm proposing. You agree with, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: that's that's the only funny way you can do it.

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Speaker 4: You can't do the games or whatever, spread games all

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Speaker 1: So of course he opted in in that fifty two

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Speaker 3: You know, he's trying to win out.

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Speaker 3: They're not. They're not.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna pay fifty two point six million whatever

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Speaker 1: they're still The hard thing about Lebron is he's still

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Speaker 3: In question his impact. But go ahead, and that's fair.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even mad at that impact. Winning.

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Speaker 4: we saw it in the playoffs where everybody was banking

435
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Speaker 4: on who wouldn't take Lebron and Luca.

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Speaker 1: And guess what, Minnesota, simmer Mia, we ain't taking it exactly.

437
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Speaker 1: I think he's at the first time in his life

438
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Speaker 1: where he has to look in the mirror and it's

439
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Speaker 1: an unreal thing. Since he's probably twelve years old, you're

440
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Speaker 1: not the best. Other teams will pass on you for

441
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Speaker 1: the first time. I say, now, we're good. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: run with our youth movement or roun the squad we

443
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Speaker 1: have now. And I think that's an unusual situation now,

444
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Speaker 1: and I don't think many teams will bite or you know,

445
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Speaker 1: take that bait like he probably thought they would.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, and I'm just gonna break it down.

447
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 3: You know, I'm into the clothes and shopping and all that.

448
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Speaker 3: I love to go.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you are, and Lebron used to be sax Fifth Avenue.

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Speaker 4: I know, ifans or but because of all the stuff

451
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Speaker 4: you talked about, now he's ross, he's going to ross

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Speaker 4: and teams as you say, I get the numbers and

453
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Speaker 4: all that, but you're not No, I'm not training for him.

454
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Speaker 4: He makes too much money. I have to give up something.

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Speaker 4: I'm not interested in that. And I'm not interested in

456
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Speaker 4: just having Lebron for a year or two to sell tickets.

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Speaker 4: I'm not interested in that either. And I think that

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Speaker 4: the Lakers A aren't going to give them a buyout

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Speaker 4: and give them money a going away present so that

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Speaker 4: some other team can have them.

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Speaker 3: So I don't see. I don't see where this could happen.

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Speaker 3: Where he's going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: And I understand that Dallas MAVERI sure you want to

464
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Speaker 4: take the veterans minimum, come on up five million dollars, right,

465
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Speaker 4: and you just want to play a.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll do that. Anybody would do that, right, But

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Speaker 3: he's not worth fifty three million to a team or

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Speaker 3: giving up players to have them and have to pay

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Speaker 3: him fifty three million.

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Speaker 4: Do you see what I'm saying? There's no and this

471
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Speaker 4: is one of the all time great players. He's forty

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Speaker 4: one plus.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're the Lakers, if he were to

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Speaker 1: have a farewell season, like let's say, for whatever reason

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Speaker 1: in the next month or two, it comes out, say hey,

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Speaker 1: just one of everybody notice to be and this is

477
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Speaker 1: my last season. I want that in the Laker uniform.

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Speaker 1: I want that to be. I don't want to I

479
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Speaker 1: don't want to buy him out so he can go

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Speaker 1: have that for the New York Knicks, the reunited with

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Speaker 1: the Calves, or you know, with the Warriors, so he

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Speaker 1: can finally have one year where he plays with Steph.

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Speaker 3: No, if you're gonna have this is it.

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Speaker 1: I want that farewell just like they did with Cat

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Speaker 1: Kareem and he was sitting there in a chair and

486
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Speaker 1: ever everybody's giving him rocking chairs around different cities and

487
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Speaker 1: having fun. I want that in a Laker uniform. I

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Speaker 1: want that to be what we talked about. I want

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Speaker 1: that to be a part of you know, a part

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Speaker 1: of our thing. So if this happened to have been

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Speaker 1: that last season, now, bro, we're gonna have to have

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Speaker 1: that last season here. But too many teams right now

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Speaker 1: in the NBA realize seven years straight different champion, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure many feel like we got a shot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in the West alone, you probably have legitimately five to

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Speaker 1: six teams that feel like, why why not US Rockets?

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Speaker 1: Why not repeating if you're the thunder Minnesota makes a move,

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Speaker 1: they feel like, hey, we can be in this thing, like.

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Speaker 3: We're right now. And they've been on the cusp Minnesota, yep.

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Speaker 4: And the Nuggets, we already know they won a championship

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Speaker 4: and now they've bolstered a team, got the pieces that

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Speaker 4: they had lost after they won the championship, bench help

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Speaker 4: some shooting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're looking like, hey man, the chance the current champs,

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Speaker 1: we took the seven games and we just got better exactly.

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Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of teams and then you got

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Speaker 1: a handful of teams in the East who probably feel

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Speaker 1: the same way. Hey man, we got a shot to

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Speaker 1: at least get to the finals. Then we don't beat

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Speaker 1: everybody in the West, but we got a chance to

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Speaker 1: get there. So point being this is there. I'm not

512
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Speaker 1: a heavy kneed base for him right now. And also

513
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Speaker 1: he's not even thirty eight year old version of him.

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Speaker 1: You say, all right, I'm taking a flyer two three

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Speaker 1: more years of this. I'm taking a flyer on that,

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Speaker 1: you know, but to forty one soon to be forty

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Speaker 1: one year old version. And does Father Time, who was

518
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Speaker 1: undefeated now he is Father Time on a bid on

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Speaker 1: the rose for Lebron. Father Time's been getting beat down

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Speaker 1: by Lebron, but he's still undefeated. And at some point

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make that trade. And this is

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Speaker 1: the year you finally snap a hamstring and you're out

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Speaker 1: forty games. And now I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 4: But it is interesting that people just this was a

525
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Speaker 4: couple of years ago, different story, a completely different story.

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Speaker 3: But dude, you cannot do it.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that under any circumstance you would be interested.

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Speaker 4: And and all the reporting that I've heard is that

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Speaker 4: no one's interested, well at Lebron as a player at

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Speaker 4: fifty three million dollars like that, like that, that's what

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Speaker 4: they're not for.

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Speaker 1: And we know now with the second apron, a lot

533
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Speaker 1: of teams are looking at all this. This isn't you

534
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: know five six years ago he said, all right, screw it,

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Speaker 1: let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Who cares the second apron? And like I say, everybody's

538
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Speaker 1: you need two aprons to cook, don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm living unless you got one in the front.

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Speaker 1: One of the back is that it is that what

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Speaker 1: you're putting in work in the kitchen. If you need

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Speaker 1: to ap two aprons right under, yeah, that might be

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Speaker 1: me tomorrow. People still put aprons on. I can remember

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Speaker 1: my mom with an apron cooking. My mother when she's

546
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Speaker 1: in town, she put ap But my mother is kind

547
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Speaker 1: of Martha Stewarty, like she has all the proper cooking.

548
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 3: She's really into that stuff.

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00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: So even when she's my mom is a type who

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Speaker 1: will tell like, I'm gonna order this apron and leave

551
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Speaker 1: it in the such and such closet for me. Rob,

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Speaker 1: nobody's putting on an apron to press three minutes on

553
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Speaker 1: the micro that's the problem. And you get you spotted

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Speaker 1: them something. I'm just asking that you've seen those pictures

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Speaker 1: of his refrigerator.

556
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Speaker 3: Your wife to be, she doesn't cook.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Look, I'm saying, no one puts on an

558
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Speaker 1: apron wait three minutes into the microwave.

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Speaker 3: That's what you coming to me. We all got the

560
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 3: joke on you, Rob. Why is fiance taking up in here.

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Speaker 3: I'm just asking. I'm asking you too. Does your wife

562
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 3: put an apron on when she cooks? No, okay, I don't.

563
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think she might have a seasonal like

564
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: a Christmas one on my It depends on what's being prepared. Yeah,

565
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: like she might have Thanksgiving jointed fire mistaken, but just

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Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of the cooking. No, ninety eight percent

567
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Speaker 1: of cooking. She got a daughter, you know, pulling on

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Speaker 1: her leg.

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Speaker 3: Another one is answer AIRB and because your homework.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with you right now, so when I

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Speaker 1: come in, I'm like, hey, baby, she's looking at me

572
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: like you when you were dating.

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Speaker 3: She might have put on an apron and you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And Bedman just a apron. But why you get all

576
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Speaker 1: excited about that? Why you get all excited about her aprons?

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00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 1: And aprons? Only this what I'll be talking about. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying that's what I be talking all right, All

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Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox will throw out

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Speaker 1: the number two. Uh but but but nobody Christmas. Bet

581
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Speaker 1: that'd be a aprons for my Christmas for me, Bet

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Speaker 1: not be apron for my wife roblem.

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Speaker 3: You know something it's gonna be a backless apron.

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Speaker 5: I'm just.

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Speaker 3: Look out a backless.

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00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: Either that you're gonna be trying your wife, Aaron, Aaron

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Speaker 1: Alex's boot.

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Speaker 3: Boo as your girlfriend cook Alex, Oh she cooks great? Okay,

589
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 3: what she wouldn't want a backless apron? You know what?

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00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 3: She probably will listen. No, no, no, let me tell

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00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 3: you who don't need a backless apron. Look at shade

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Speaker 3: like on all Apple aprons backless.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you who don't need that Alex in

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Speaker 1: his lean they they have. There will be no cooking.

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Speaker 1: There's already barely cooking.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, I'm just because the next one y'all

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Speaker 1: gonna do is something bacon in the oven.

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Speaker 3: And I don't line just haven't cooked anything yet. Here

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Speaker 3: you go, Yeah, something bacon, all right? All right? Eight

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Speaker 3: seven seven I'm not even call you about. That's all talk.

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Speaker 3: That's a bund of the I love that talk.

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Speaker 4: There you go, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

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Speaker 4: Is Lebron James still worth selling the farm for? Has

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Speaker 3: I'm be flipping a bit kill less, That's right, I'm

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Speaker 3: not hey, I'm not job shaming you. You do what

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Speaker 3: I never do that, can drive a Pento.

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Speaker 1: But today you did get your Lamborghini fix. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you did finally, My god, Yeah, glad you're back.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking right next to Alex in the VIP section, now,

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Speaker 3: no joke. They literally let me park in the VIP

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Speaker 3: baseball players that we need to is that what this is?

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Speaker 3: We need to know? Trying to I'm very forward looking

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Speaker 3: forward to this. Yeah, very nice. Should be fun.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Well, so we know we talked a little bit

665
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Speaker 1: about Lebron earlier and how the MAP said they'd only

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Speaker 1: be interested in him if he would get a buy

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: out from the Lakers, so on and so forth. Well,

668
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: there's the more conversations we talked about Lakers star and

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00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: then Cooper flag Avery Johnson, former coach for the Really

670
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Speaker 1: Good Coach Too for the Dallas Mavericks, was on CBS

671
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Speaker 1: Sports and he had a conversation about Cooper Flagg and this.

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Speaker 3: Is what he said.

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Speaker 1: Quote, man, give me Cooper flag. This is over Luca Doncons.

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00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: He said he would take him in a heartbeat, give

675
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Speaker 1: me Cooper flag. Cooper flag on this team?

676
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: What? Yeah, give me Cooper flag.

677
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: Man?

678
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: What the Mavericks? What team is he coaching? Now? I'm

679
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 3: just asking you. I don't know.

680
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: He might be cool his son's team or something like

681
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: that of your little peev league or something rec league

682
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: or something.

683
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 3: I just I just wanted to make sure.

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00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he'd take Cooper flag easily in a

685
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: heartbeat over Luca Doncons a Luca doncics.

686
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Speaker 3: And that they said, you have to talk about the

687
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 3: team they have.

688
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: If healthy, you got the Hall of Famers and Kyrie

689
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson a d It's gonna be really exciting the Mavericks.

690
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: Their future is bright. So do you agree with my

691
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: man who used to call David robertson the ad morale?

692
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 3: Do you agree with him?

693
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 4: No?

694
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 3: And I think this is a combination of two things.

695
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna agree on at least the.

696
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: Cooper flag hype, which is ridiculous. Okay, okay, can we stop.

697
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 4: He's eighteen, he played one college season. He wasn't the

698
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 4: greatest college player who ever played. Yeah, Like what, like, seriously,

699
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: they're making it like he's better than those two. We

700
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 4: just Bill Russell, We can go on and on and on.

701
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 4: Pistol Pete Maverage averaged forty four points with no threes, Like,

702
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 4: can we stop? Seriously the Cooper flag stuff. Everything that

703
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: happened yesterday is not the greatest thing that ever happened.

704
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: Guys, stop it. Cut it out.

705
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 4: And number two, I get it. People wanted to poke

706
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 4: Luca in the stomach and have him do the Billsbury dope.

707
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 4: Boycott him exactly, you know what I'm saying, Like that's

708
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 4: what he wanted to do. But you can't, you can't

709
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 4: discount it was all NBA five five of his first

710
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 4: six years. It's like, seriously, really, the guys twenty five

711
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 4: years old, really, you think he's Cooper Flag is gonna

712
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 4: you know how hard it is to be all NBA.

713
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 4: You think he's gonna be all NBA the next twenty years?

714
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 4: Come on, man, Really, that's what was so shocking about Luca.

715
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 4: But but this, obviously, I mean, Avery's just gone off

716
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 4: the deep end because you can you can tout Cooper

717
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 4: Flag without going overboard and without having.

718
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 3: To disrespect other people.

719
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 4: And to me, that's in Luca's case because what he

720
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 4: was able to accomplish so early in his career was amazing.

721
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 3: Everybody knows that, dude. You all right.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Avery Johnson, listen, this is the issue,

723
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: and this is one of the times we talk about

724
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: this when team, when guys still want to be connected

725
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: with the team. Everie Johnson still wants to be able

726
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: to come to the Mavericks game, get the floor, scenes,

727
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: gets the box, get the free tickets, get the hoodie,

728
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: you know, get to be invited to the golf outings

729
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: and have his family come to the family day. Because

730
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: there's no way that you're saying, I'm taking Cooper Flag,

731
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: who's done nothing in the NBA yet, who looks like

732
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: a fine player, who we expect good things from, but

733
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, also we expect him to grow into being

734
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: really good.

735
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 3: Luca came right off.

736
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: The bat, great all NBA multiple times, drag the team

737
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: to the five times, drag the team to the finals.

738
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Speaker 1: And is Luca perfect? No, do we want him to

739
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,439
Speaker 1: get in better shape up? Yes, we wanted to maybe

740
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: stop pounding the ball a little bit. Yes, but he's

741
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: already done his story. He actually could retire next year

742
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: and be in the Hall of Fame. You're saying, Cooper

743
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: Flagg is gonna do that immediately? Sounds crazy and it

744
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 1: sounds like what we get back to conversations when people

745
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: do this. Magic Johnson talking about deangel l Russell and

746
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: Linzo Ball gonna take my records down, and there's gonna

747
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: be up in their banners, and I get fanfare and

748
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: being excited, But come on, Magic, come on, Avery, Cooper

749
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: flag is gonna be nice. I have high expectations for him.

750
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: But what Luca was able to do in this league immediately,

751
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: immediately was really unprecedented for a guy again who was

752
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: his team wasn't crazy loaded. I mean he didn't walk

753
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: in like Magic walk right into Kareem and some other

754
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: players there, Jamal Wilkes and some other good players.

755
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 3: So you kind of like walked into a great situation.

756
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: But he was great. Oh but Magic, come on, its

757
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: magic is mad? Right?

758
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: Magic and Bird you know my theory, they're starting to

759
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: get pushed down these rankings a little too far. Now

760
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: hold on, now, these two dudes were insane and y'all

761
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 1: need to go refresh hit the refresh button and refresh

762
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: your memory and what Magic and Bird were able to do.

763
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, so just to say that you would take

764
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: it again, he's doing the Homer thing. He's connected to

765
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: the team, the organization had a lot of success. There

766
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: is coach completely get it. But the expectations because there's

767
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: really not many guys period in the NBA. Do you

768
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: know how many guys haven't been all NBA more than twice,

769
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: two or three times that week? Harold has great all

770
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: time greats Martin? Why are you ever are shaking your head?

771
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: Alex can get Martin for me, please, because just counterpoint. Sure,

772
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: maybe it's true that every johnson Is wants to get

773
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: the tickets and where and wave the rally flag and

774
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: all of that, But the Mavericks to say they would

775
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: rather have Luka Doncices than rather have Cooper flag than

776
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: Luka Doncics.

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00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 3: They already said they'd rather have Anthony Davis than Luca Dons.

778
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 3: But that's the right decision. But they already made that.

779
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 3: Do you see what I'm saying.

780
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: They were just saying they didn't know they were getting

781
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Cooper flag when they made that decision, and they were

782
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: so like if you ask them. If you ask them,

783
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: they said, I'd rather have Anthony Davis than Luca. Know

784
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: the list, the list might be long of the people

785
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: they'd rather have than Luca Dodgyes's and let me die.

786
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: That's not only is that as your thought, that is

787
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: in fact, as far as what happened and what also

788
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: happened has been my issue. You traded him for a

789
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: dude who's older. If he were this were Anthony Edwards,

790
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: I would okay, I get it. Maybe you just felt

791
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: like he has a higher ceiling or something or sga

792
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: okay round the same age.

793
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 3: I get it.

794
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 1: You traded him when someone's older, who's often injured and

795
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: guess who he did Game one like you couldn't Shakespeare

796
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: couldn't write this. I agree that it was a bad trade.

797
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm not arguing that fact by any stress, right.

798
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: I think it was so bad. It's not a bad trade.

799
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 4: If you don't want to pay a guy who you

800
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 4: don't believe, I think that's the three hundred and fifty

801
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 4: zillion and he won't work.

802
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 3: Out with you. He was over what like the stuff

803
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 3: that would scare you.

804
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 4: We talked about it before the Marcus Cousins didn't get

805
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 4: his two oh six in Seattle, he wouldn't fall in

806
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 4: line or be a team guy, you know what I mean,

807
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 4: And you're afraid to give the.

808
00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 3: Guy the machinations.

809
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: It was so bad that people ignored all of what

810
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: Rob just said because it happened in the middle of

811
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: the night, and it happened for what seemed to be such.

812
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 4: A small The only reason it can't be and I said,

813
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 4: it was never about his plug about basketball. It can't

814
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 4: be because of the five All pros right in the

815
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 4: finals with this. It can't be basketball. We know that,

816
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 4: And that's why I go back to Martin.

817
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: So the team does the ad move, Luca moves and

818
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: they and for the clearly non basketball reasons, or at

819
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: least none on the court, because obviously maybe for them

820
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: it's he's not doing what we asked for him when

821
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: it comes to being in basketball shape. But going back

822
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 1: to the Cooper Flag again, Polo van Carroll, we don't

823
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: know if Cooper Flag is gonna better than him and Polo,

824
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: who was really nice but hasn't done anything yet you

825
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying, Like he might another couple of years.

826
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: There have been plenty of guys who really good rookie.

827
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: That takes time, and they haven't done anything yet. We're

828
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: just now seeing Carl D. Towns, who was the number

829
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: one pick, get deep into the playoffs and make a

830
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: little noise. And even then we're still we were a

831
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: little bit underwhelmed. Let's not even talk about some of

832
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: the other and picks. Ben Simmons, who's all World. Have

833
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: you seen him lately? I don't even know if he's

834
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: in the NBA markel folks. So my only point is

835
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: where Avery is going crazy is saying, oh, man, give

836
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: me Cooper flag all day when he might just be

837
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: a What if he's just a really good player who

838
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: ends up being a five time All Star?

839
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 3: That ain't, Luca, is what I'm saying. And you've just

840
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 3: brought up this.

841
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 4: It's a different sport, but it tells you about the

842
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 4: All Pro and All NBA. Tom Brady played twenty see

843
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 4: whatever plus is? Yeah, how many times was he All Quarterback?

844
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 4: All Pro quarterback? We'll go five or six?

845
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 3: Three?

846
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 4: That's how hard it is. And Luca did it five

847
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 4: other first six? Do you know what I'm saying? Like

848
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 4: Tom Brady three times? Crazy and over twenty years and

849
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 4: it ain't that easy. So the idea that you think

850
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag's gonna show up and make all NBA might

851
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 4: do it twice in his whole career. Right, I'm just

852
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 4: saying right like like what Luca accomplished is in credible

853
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 4: for a short period of time.

854
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 3: The guy's twenty five with a thirty five year old body.

855
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 3: That's the issue.

856
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: This is the one time I want to argue with you,

857
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 1: but I ain't gonna lie. When I see Luca walk

858
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes the only thing that gives me hope is you

859
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: know I'm shut up in advance.

860
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 3: I'm watching Last Dance again for the fifty fifth time.

861
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 4: Shut up, Okay, I need to call your wife and

862
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 4: she needs to set up a VCR with something that.

863
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: Or wait, wait, I got problems. You just said VC you,

864
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean you, you with you? Somebody go backwards in time.

865
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: You passed, Blu Ray everything you didn't pass. We need

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Speaker 1: to get you went back to VC. I want you

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Speaker 1: to get a VCR. And why that's why when your

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Speaker 1: it's the actual show because I know you're going home

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Speaker 1: watching it. You know, Matt locking on it on v

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Speaker 1: VHS VCRs and all that Perry Mason from there.

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Speaker 4: six sixty three sixty nine is the phone number? Has

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Speaker 4: the Cooper flag hype train already gone off the rails?

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Speaker 3: We'll continue this conversation next with you.

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Speaker 4: It is the odd couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on

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