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Speaker 1: having an incredible week. Have a jam packed show for

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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So rumbling started going out last

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Speaker 1: night that the reason for James Harden's recent absences. He's

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Speaker 1: it was under personal reasons. It turns out that those

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Speaker 1: recent absences centered around a trade request, and then Sam Sharania,

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Speaker 1: doesn't take too much critical thinking to figure out what's

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Speaker 1: going on here. James Harden has a player option for

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Speaker 1: next season, but that player option is only guaranteed for

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Speaker 1: thirteen zo point three million if he gets waved before.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact date, but it's right there,

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Speaker 1: in like middle July, so essentially James Harden could play

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Speaker 1: of the season, collect his thirteen million, and then be

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Speaker 1: have cap space to try to save and that could

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Speaker 1: severely limit his options. So I would imagine James Harden

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Speaker 1: and I'm about to turn thirty seven years old this summer.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to turn this season where I'm averaging twenty

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Speaker 1: five for the first time in several years, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to turn that into one more payday. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he had conversations with Lawrence Frank and the Clippers front office,

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Speaker 1: and the Clippers basically were like, no, And here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: Like Harden has been so good and is so beloved

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Speaker 1: is so beloved by the coaching staff and all the fans,

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Speaker 1: then I have a hard time believing the Clippers wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have retained him at a lower number. So I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that this was a situation where hard and

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Speaker 1: end of his career, and when the Harden when hardened

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Speaker 1: And if you guys, remember what did I talk about yesterday?

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Speaker 1: in recent weeks, as they've just been competing so hard

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Speaker 1: a bummer, But Lawrence Frank is just making a tough

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Speaker 1: one type of deal. The Calves are a second Apron team,

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Speaker 1: Between what Desmond Bane, James Harden, Franz Wagner, and Paula Bonkerra.

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Speaker 1: That was just a team that I looked at as

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. I think the Bucks taking

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Speaker 1: James Harden. Also, allegedly, Ema Udoka is not much of

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant pushed hard for that particular idea. Minnesota was

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Speaker 1: Like we talked about last week, I think Minnesota should

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Speaker 1: Also for Clippers fans, I wouldn't say it's completely unlikely

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Speaker 1: could end up offering a you know, a couple of

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Speaker 1: first round picks in that type of deal. Suddenly the

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Speaker 1: Celtics have a center. I was, you know, I was

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Speaker 1: talking with Jackson about this yesterday, because yesterday on hard

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Speaker 1: Rock Bet, the Celtics had the third best championship odds,

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Speaker 1: and that has since shifted a little bit. They're now

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Speaker 1: tied with the fourth best championship oods. But I was

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Speaker 1: talking with Jackson, I'm like, I like the Celtics, but

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Speaker 1: that seems pretty high for me in terms of like

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Speaker 1: their championship bods. And now it seems to make a

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Speaker 1: little bit more sense. I'm kind of just drawing connecting

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Speaker 1: some dots here, But I wonder if that's Vegas basically

440
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Speaker 1: looking at the situation and going, what if the Celtics

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Speaker 1: get Zubots and they get Jason Tatum back, and suddenly

442
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Speaker 1: you have Zubots Tatum, this new version of Jalen Brown

443
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Speaker 1: that's a total ass kicker with all their depth of

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Speaker 1: shooting talent on the perimeter. Like, that's kind of an

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Speaker 1: interesting concept. And there's no way they were gonna trade

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Speaker 1: Zoo if they were, you know, good with Harden and

447
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Speaker 1: ripping off wins the rest of the year, there's a

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Speaker 1: legitimate chance they trade Zoo if you, uh, if you

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Speaker 1: end up moving James Harden right, and then lastly, if

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Speaker 1: the Calves ended up continuing to tweak their roster and

451
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Speaker 1: kind of moving things around. Jared Allen is another one

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Speaker 1: of those centers that I would look at if I

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Speaker 1: was the Los Angeles Lakers as a potential partner for

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Speaker 1: Luka Dancic. I don't think they can afford Allen, but

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Speaker 1: it's just something that I would at least consider kind

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Speaker 1: of poking around under the circumstances. The DeAndre Hunter for

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Speaker 1: Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroeder swap. So this happened over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I didn't have a chance to get into

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Speaker 1: it yesterday, but we're gon we're gonna get into it today.

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Speaker 1: The details, the Calves get Keon Ellis, they also get

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Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder, The Kings get DeAndre Hunter, and the Bulls

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Speaker 1: get Dario Sarich in two second round picks. This is

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Speaker 1: the classic Sacramento Kings deal that essentially involves them repeating

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Speaker 1: someone else's mistake. It's been just kind of a shit

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Speaker 1: show with the Kings in recent years. Obviously, you trade

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Speaker 1: away a franchise cornerstone level talent and Tyres Halliburton, who

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Speaker 1: immediately turns around and leaves the leads the Pacers to

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Speaker 1: a conference finals in an NBA Finals, at least in

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Speaker 1: the Sabonis return. From that deal, you have this fun

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Speaker 1: playoff team built around Sabonis and the dribble penetration of

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Speaker 1: Malik Monk and Deer and Fox. But then the following

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Speaker 1: year you win two fewer games, but because of how

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Speaker 1: brutal the West is, even with forty six wins, you

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Speaker 1: miss the playoffs. So you turn around and you signed

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Speaker 1: Tomarta Rozen, you trade Deer and Fox to the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: you get zach Levine, and you basically rebuild the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three Chicago Bulls, who, by the way, were forty

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Speaker 1: and forty two in a worse conference, despite the fact

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Speaker 1: that Demarta, Rosan, zach Lavine, Nikola Vusovich, and Pat Williams

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Speaker 1: their core four guys that season, missed a combined thirteen games,

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Speaker 1: so they basically were fully healthy all season and were

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Speaker 1: below five hundred in an incredibly weak Eastern conference. That

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Speaker 1: team didn't work, and Sacramento was like, fuck it, we'll

484
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Speaker 1: try it too, and they just repeated Chicago's mistake, and

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Speaker 1: now essentially Sacramento is repeating Cleveland's mistake by interpreting DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hunter as this three and D wing. The Cavs paid

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Speaker 1: three second round pick and two swaps to get DeAndre

488
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Speaker 1: Hunter last year because they thought he would be that

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Speaker 1: scoring three and D guy for them. But the truth

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Speaker 1: is DeAndre Hunter is not a three and D player.

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Speaker 1: He's much more in that archetype of that scoring forward.

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Speaker 1: I talk about this this player a lot. There's quite

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Speaker 1: a few of them in the league. This like player

494
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Speaker 1: who is really aggressive looking to score on the weak side,

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Speaker 1: either taking a ton of catch and shoot threes or

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Speaker 1: driving and taking advanced, you know, kind of close out

497
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Speaker 1: attacking moves. There's several of this type of player out there.

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Speaker 1: He has some size in athleticism, but he's much better

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Speaker 1: as just a scorer, a guy who takes a bunch

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Speaker 1: of catch and shoot threes and drives closeouts. He's a

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Speaker 1: mediocre rebounder for his size. He's a below average point

502
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Speaker 1: of attack defender, and he's a very poor off ball

503
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Speaker 1: defender who regularly misses shooters, missus rotations, missus box outs, etc.

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Speaker 1: I've said this before in the show. He's just not

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Speaker 1: a scrapper. He's not the kind of guy that's like

506
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Speaker 1: constantly getting his hands dirty, a ballhawk, doing all sorts

507
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Speaker 1: of damage on the margins, which is what I think

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Speaker 1: you have to be if you're that real three and

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Speaker 1: D archetype. DeAndre Hunter is a hell of a lot

510
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Speaker 1: closer to that, like Kyle Kuzma, Rui Hachimura, Bobby portis

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Speaker 1: archetype of like big scoring forward than he is to

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Speaker 1: the Jaden McDaniels like three and D player. So when

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Speaker 1: he's scoring the shit out of the basketball and hitting

514
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Speaker 1: an a ton of threes. His value is real, but

515
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Speaker 1: his scoring is inconsistent, so his value fluctuates wildly back

516
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Speaker 1: and forth. And DeAndre Hunters having a really bad year

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Speaker 1: shooting the ball, which is making that dynamic bad more

518
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Speaker 1: than it's good. The only difference between DeAndre Hunter and

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Speaker 1: that Kyle Kuzma Ruey Hachimura Bobby Portis group is that

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Speaker 1: Hunter looks more like a three and D wing. He's leaner,

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Speaker 1: he's a little bit faster, but it doesn't actually functionally

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Speaker 1: translate to those things. And so again, like, he's not

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Speaker 1: the defensive liability that Bobby Portis is. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to like. I'm more just saying he's closer to those

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Speaker 1: bigger bodied forwards that can really shoot and drive close

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Speaker 1: outs and can go for twenty twenty five points on

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Speaker 1: any given night, but not the type of like real scrapper,

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Speaker 1: awesome kick ass athlete that just anchors you in the

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Speaker 1: dirty work the way that a Jaden McDaniels does. But

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Speaker 1: it's weird because Hunter looks more like that physically, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's why people keep kind of falling for this.

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Speaker 1: The way Cleveland and Sacramento can the y'or have. I

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Speaker 1: should say that's what makes this trade the classic kind

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Speaker 1: of Sacramento Kings trade. You took a positive asset and

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Speaker 1: Keon Ellis, who might not have fetched you a first

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Speaker 1: round pick, but he probably would have fetched you a

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Speaker 1: couple of second round picks if you just moved him

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Speaker 1: straight up for somebody, and you turned him into a

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Speaker 1: negative asset, a three and D wing who's not actually

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Speaker 1: a three and D wing who's making fifty million dollars

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Speaker 1: over this year and next year, all because you failed

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Speaker 1: to recognize someone else's mistake. There is a reason Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: getting rid of him. Cleveland wouldn't give a shit about

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Speaker 1: him making twenty five million dollars next year if he

545
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Speaker 1: was a lockdown perimeter defender who excelled at the dirty work,

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Speaker 1: even if he was struggling to knock down shots this season.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what Sacramento's doing for Cleveland. I

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Speaker 1: actually love this deal on several levels. In the short term,

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Speaker 1: you add two very good small guard defenders. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the Eastern Conference and you have to guard

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson and Duce McBride, Emmanuel Quickly and Jamal Shad

552
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Speaker 1: Derek White and Peyton Pritchard, Tyree Smaxine vj edgecomb all

553
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Speaker 1: of these playoff teams that have like duos of really

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Speaker 1: quick guards that get a lot of dribble penetration or

555
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Speaker 1: that do a lot of work from the perimeter shooters.

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Speaker 1: In the case of Derek White and Peyton Pritchard, Dennis

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Speaker 1: and Keon are both excellent options for those specific types

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Speaker 1: of guards. They both can get overpowered by the bigger

559
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: perimeter athletes that can create shots, but specifically smaller guards

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Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder and Keon Ellis are both excellent options. So

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Speaker 1: I actually think this is a substantial upgrade to Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: playoff defense. You can keep forty eight minutes of literally

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Speaker 1: forty eight minutes of Schroeder and Ellis on Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 1: We saw Dennis Schroeder have some success for stretches guarding

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson in that first round series last year for

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Speaker 1: the Pistons. He can frustrate him sometimes. Keeping that level

567
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Speaker 1: of perimeter defense on those guard corps around the league,

568
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Speaker 1: I think is a real upside. And then the second

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Speaker 1: piece of it is the Lonzo ball experiment hasn't really

570
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Speaker 1: worked because he shot in the ball so poorly. Dennis

571
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Speaker 1: has been a reliable backup scoring guard, shooting guard, shot

572
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Speaker 1: creating guard over the course of the last few years.

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Speaker 1: The Calves will also benefit from his competitiveness and energy.

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Speaker 1: I saw a report that one of the big kind

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Speaker 1: of laments from the Calves is that they missed Georgis

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Speaker 1: Kniang and just kind of his mean attitude after they

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Speaker 1: sent him out in the DeAndre Hunter deal. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy, and I know this was years ago, but

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Speaker 1: I loved having him in the trenches on the Lakers,

580
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Speaker 1: and I watched him last year with Detroit and I

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Speaker 1: still thought he had that punch in him. Again. As

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Speaker 1: a backup guard, you can deal with a little bit

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Speaker 1: more of the inconsistency. I like that move. And then

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Speaker 1: in terms of your best lineups, Keon Ellis is exactly

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Speaker 1: the type of three and D guard that if Darius

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Speaker 1: Garland's unable to play, he can play alongside Donovan Mitchell,

587
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Speaker 1: or if James Harden comes around one day, he could

588
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Speaker 1: be the guy that is alongside those those guards. You know,

589
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: a Mitchell Ellis lineup or a hardened LS lineup to

590
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Speaker 1: give you some good compatibility in your backcourt. So again,

591
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: just a hilarious, nonsensical deal for the Kings, but it

592
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Speaker 1: bolsters the chances of a contender out east. So in

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00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: that case, it is a fun trade. Really quickly before

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Speaker 1: we get out of here today, what would a guy

595
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: like Demanas Sabonis do for the Toronto Raptors. It's been

596
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Speaker 1: reported that Toronto would like to potentially take a shot

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Speaker 1: on Sibonis because of the issues that Yaka Pertle has

598
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Speaker 1: had with the back injury that's kept him out for

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Speaker 1: much of this season. It's definitely a risk because I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming from a salary standpoint, they'd have to include RJ

601
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Speaker 1: Barrett and RJ Barrett when he's on the floor. This year,

602
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: the Raptors are nineteen to nine. But it is a

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00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: fascinating idea with some upside. First of all, I really

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Speaker 1: like Toronto's specific play style with Sabonis. I like like

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Speaker 1: when you've got a lot of playmaking talent and you've

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Speaker 1: got these bigger forwards, especially guys like Scottie Barnes, that

607
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Speaker 1: can punish switches and do a lot of damage in

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Speaker 1: the post area. I like the idea of taking a

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Speaker 1: team that moves the ball a ton. Again, this is

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Speaker 1: a team in Toronto that assists seventy percent of their baskets,

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00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: a team that has a lot of side to side

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Speaker 1: ball and player movement. I like the idea of anchoring

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Speaker 1: that with the real passing, screening folkrum out on the perimeters,

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00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: run in dh o's with these guys. Sabonis kind of

615
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Speaker 1: fits that mold. I also kind of like the idea

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00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: of like stacking talents. So like Scottie Barnes is this big,

617
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: physical bullyball player is doing a ton of damage in

618
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Speaker 1: one on ones this year. I like the idea of

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Speaker 1: potentially combining that with Sabonis and just being a real

620
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Speaker 1: ass kicking frontline in terms of punishing skinnier teams underneath

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Speaker 1: the rim. I think it's an interesting idea for the

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Speaker 1: Raptors to pursue. And then also, like the Raptors have

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Speaker 1: a lot of talent and they've won a lot of

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Speaker 1: games and a wide open Eastern Conference. I see Sabonis

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00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: as a talent play for them in a wide open conference.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting to me, just stacking talent and seeing if

627
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Speaker 1: you can just slip through the cracks and get it

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Speaker 1: done and get to the finals. I generally love when

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Speaker 1: teams get aggressive adding talent. It's tricky when you add

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Speaker 1: tip players that are not talented that because you're just

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Speaker 1: not paying attention to what's happening around you. It's like

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Speaker 1: I was just talking about the Westbrook first Giannis idea

633
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: like trading for Gianni's is not the same as trading

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Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook. Like we knew Russell Westbrook was falling off,

635
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: We knew he was going to be a bad fit

636
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: alongside other stars. The Lakers making that move was dumb

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Speaker 1: in the moment. Jannis is Giannis. There's just so much

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Speaker 1: talent there. So Bonus is a player that I think

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Speaker 1: is a legitimate talent play for Toronto. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I think is an interesting avenue for them to explore

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Speaker 1: lastly before we get out of here. As a side note,

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Speaker 1: Jake Fisher reported that the Raptors would likely try to

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Speaker 1: get out of the tax at this deadline, and that

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Speaker 1: the most realistic avenue for them to get out of

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Speaker 1: the tax is to dump oshag Bodji's salary. We also

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Speaker 1: know that there are teams out there, Brooklyn included that

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Speaker 1: would consider taking on salary for draft compensation as a

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Speaker 1: third team. Oshag Bodji is exactly the type of low

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Speaker 1: risk but potentially high reward three and D wing player

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Speaker 1: that I would consider going after if I was a

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Speaker 1: team that needed that type of player but didn't want

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Speaker 1: to spend for the safer, more expensive options. Osha is

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Speaker 1: having a truly impressively bad jump shooting season. He's shooting

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Speaker 1: nineteen percent from three. He's just seven for thirty eight

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Speaker 1: this year on unguarded catch and shoot threes, according to Synergy.

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Speaker 1: But there's some context there. His minutes and his attempts

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Speaker 1: have fallen off of a cliff. He's taking only one

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Speaker 1: and a half threes per game. He took four per

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Speaker 1: game last year. Last year he made one hundred and

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Speaker 1: one threes and hit them at forty percent one hundred

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Speaker 1: and one for two point fifty three. So there's a

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Speaker 1: version of that trade where you move for oshak Boji

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Speaker 1: and the change of scenery in an increased role with

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Speaker 1: more minutes where he shoots the ball better. There's also

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Speaker 1: a chance you get him and he still can't shoot right.

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Speaker 1: But if all he costs is like second round pick

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Speaker 1: and some salary that you send to the Brooklyn Nets,

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Speaker 1: that's a really low cost move. And again, if the

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Speaker 1: change of scenery helps him rediscover his shooting stroke, that

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Speaker 1: could be a real hit and really improve a team. So, like,

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Speaker 1: take a team like the Lakers who desperately wants to

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Speaker 1: upgrad their perimeter athleticism. You could get a deal done

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Speaker 1: where you essentially send Dalton Connect to Toronto, you send

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Speaker 1: Maxi or Gabe to Brooklyn, and you send a second

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Speaker 1: round pick to Brooklyn, and Toronto gives you Oshag Bodgi.

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Speaker 1: Toronto gets out of the luxury tax, adds a young

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Speaker 1: shooter and Dalton Connect that they can keep or not keep.

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Speaker 1: He's got two team options, so they could get rid

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Speaker 1: of him at the end of the season if they

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Speaker 1: wanted to. But he's a shooter, a shooting talent who's

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Speaker 1: not getting any minutes for the Lakers. Maybe Toronto could

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Speaker 1: take him and get some shooting upside out of him

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Speaker 1: for a team that really could use some shooting. Right

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers, you get Oshag Boggi, an athlete on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter that, even if he doesn't shoot well, this

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Speaker 1: is a team that's full of dudes who can't shoot,

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Speaker 1: who cares And if he does end up shooting close

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Speaker 1: to the way he did last season. It's just like

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Speaker 1: a slam dunk home run move. And if you're Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: you're facilitating the move by taking an expiring salary that's

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Speaker 1: off your books next season, and you're getting a second

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Speaker 1: round pick for it. So that's the kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: I just gave the Lakers as an example. But if

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Speaker 1: you're a team that's looking for a three and D

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Speaker 1: wing but that doesn't can't afford to send out a

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Speaker 1: first round pick and wants to do something more discounted,

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Speaker 1: Abaji's the kind of guy that has some track record,

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Speaker 1: relatively recently of being a better shooter, a much better

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Speaker 1: shooter than he's been this season. He's also in this

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Speaker 1: weird small role this year. Toronto wants to potentially get

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Speaker 1: off of him to get out of the tax. That's

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Speaker 1: the kind of guy that I'd be targeting. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine he'll get moved by this Thursday, and whoever goes

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Speaker 1: after him, I think that's a really smart move as

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Speaker 1: a potential high upside, low expense move for them. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's all I have for today is always to sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting the show

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Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow was some game reactually got a

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Speaker 1: fun slate tonight. I'll see you guys then,