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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back, What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode two forty

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<v Speaker 2>after a week of some technical difficulties and we apologize

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<v Speaker 2>for those uh To be honest, I would take accountability

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<v Speaker 2>for my fault, and I would have no problem throwing

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<v Speaker 2>the folks at Blue Dog under the boss if it

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<v Speaker 2>were their fault. But instead, like most issues with America

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<v Speaker 2>these days, who's some nameless, faceless mega corporation that should

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<v Speaker 2>have been broken down by our antitrust laws we used

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<v Speaker 2>to have once upon a time, thanks a lot, Reagan. Instead,

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<v Speaker 2>it's some giant conglomerate that controls our cell phones, our TVs,

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<v Speaker 2>our internet, all of it. They're like, ah, we'll get

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<v Speaker 2>to your block when we can get to it. The

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<v Speaker 2>block was having issues, it was, but we are I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what buttons. The Blue Dock people pushed what

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<v Speaker 2>to get it a tech not even on site necessarily

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<v Speaker 2>for this space at Trentage and Harlem, but to fix

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<v Speaker 2>the internet for the block. So the great people in

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<v Speaker 2>this community kind of have the What's Right show to

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<v Speaker 2>thank for the internet finally working back up here. However,

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<v Speaker 2>demand's a funny story. So they did after fixing, after

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<v Speaker 2>working on the block throughout the day, they did need

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<v Speaker 2>a tech to come into the store to you know,

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<v Speaker 2>do like double and triple checks or whatever. Right, And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just going to I am just gonna tell you

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<v Speaker 2>how it went, and then you can guess how your

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<v Speaker 2>wonderful mother reacted. So the Trenton just supposed to close

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<v Speaker 2>at seven. I call Danielle and I'm like, Hey, there's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be a spectrum. Oh darn it, gosh, darn it.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's not that company. Who knows there's gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>a person from a company coming to fix some things. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>he's gonna get there around six and I can come

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<v Speaker 2>up and relieve you and sit there. She's like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>it's no problem. Like, I'll ask him how long did

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<v Speaker 2>you take when he gets here? So he gets there,

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<v Speaker 2>he said, oh, I should be done before seven, like

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<v Speaker 2>when you're supposed to close. She's like, oh, it's no problem.

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<v Speaker 2>So then it's seven twenty. I get the side eye

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<v Speaker 2>emoji text. I'm like, uh oh I, so I call her.

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<v Speaker 2>She doesn't answer, So I call the store and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>I called your phone. She's like, yeah, I can't use

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<v Speaker 2>my phone because the guy who's here working is using

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<v Speaker 2>my phone because he doesn't have FaceTime, so he has

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<v Speaker 2>to FaceTime on my phone and this he's using his

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<v Speaker 2>phone on the phone. I'm like, okay. I'm like I'm already.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm already a little anxious about how this is gonna go.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, do you want me to come up

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<v Speaker 2>right now? And I hear say, sir about how much longer?

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<v Speaker 2>And he's like, oh, less than ten minutes. So she's like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>it's less than ten minutes. This seven twenty ish when

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you, demanse. I get a phone call at

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<v Speaker 2>eight fifteen FaceTime and it's her sitting there looking at

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<v Speaker 2>me with this guy behind or working on some things.

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<v Speaker 2>And again, this is no one's fault, but I want

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<v Speaker 2>to let everyone know. Demanse, who do you whose fault?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think your mom thought it was? Of all

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<v Speaker 2>the people she could go ahead? You? Yeah, me, me,

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<v Speaker 2>it was me. It was my fault. It's not Victor's fault.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not even the poor tech guy's fault who's trying

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<v Speaker 2>to help us out. I don't blame him at all.

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<v Speaker 2>It was not blued. It was no one's fault. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>telling you right now. And so Victor, because he's a

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<v Speaker 2>great guy, texts me and says, hey, I'd love to

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<v Speaker 2>buy you and your wife dinner. You know, sorry about that.

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<v Speaker 2>And I text him and I'm like, man, don't worry

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<v Speaker 2>about that. And so your mom at that point is

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<v Speaker 2>home and and I'm like, I'm like, man, And again

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<v Speaker 2>it's as if I ripped the internet chords and then

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<v Speaker 2>locked her in the in the boutique, like this is

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<v Speaker 2>it is all my fault. I mean just I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>an easy target, man. And so I then say I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't say to her. I'm like, hey, I'm like Victor,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, offered to buy us dinner. She's like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>he texts me too. I'm like, what did you say.

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<v Speaker 2>She's like, I didn't respond. He doesn't need to buy

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<v Speaker 2>me dinner. You need to buy me dinner. This is

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<v Speaker 2>your fault. I'm like okay, Like okay, so, but bright

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<v Speaker 2>side is podcasts working great. The Internet's crystal clear. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>moving my arms around, I'm doing stuff. There are about

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<v Speaker 2>two months ago I got the note. I'm like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>they told me, hey, the Internet gets shakier if you move.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, well, then we might have an issue.

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<v Speaker 2>Like if the internet connection is reliant on me staying still,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna be able to Also, that kind of

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<v Speaker 2>feels like when I had a when once upon a time,

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<v Speaker 2>when your mom and I first started dating, and I

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<v Speaker 2>bought a old, old Cadillac cash from a guy who

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<v Speaker 2>played poker with Because, if I'm being honest, your mom

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<v Speaker 2>wrecked my other car, and then your mom wrecked the

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<v Speaker 2>Cadillac but not fully, and I had to and I

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<v Speaker 2>had to drive to work. I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 2>were old enough to remember this, with the bumper tied

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<v Speaker 2>to the body of the car via like sailor's rope

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, well, this is not a sustainable model,

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<v Speaker 2>but for the time being, the for the time being,

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<v Speaker 2>it's gonna work. Okay, they is about six months I

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<v Speaker 2>drove in and that sailor the rope I used was

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<v Speaker 2>like electric yellow because it was the only rope I

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<v Speaker 2>could find the day of the event. And I'm like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I'll either get this fixed or change out

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<v Speaker 2>the rope at some point because it looks extra ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I'm here to tell you that electric yellow

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<v Speaker 2>was on that car until it was finally left on

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<v Speaker 2>the side of the road one day, I mean, it

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<v Speaker 2>just is what it is, all right. Here's what missed

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<v Speaker 2>the cut. Not on today's show, Wimby gets a funko

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<v Speaker 2>pop doll. A lot of people love those things. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't really get it. That's fine, though, Scotti Scheffler's charges

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<v Speaker 2>are dropped, because of course they are. And we were

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<v Speaker 2>last week when we had the technical difficulties, supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>have a whole conversation about policing in America, and at

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<v Speaker 2>some point we're gonna have that conversation. But I'm in

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<v Speaker 2>too good of a mood right now and i don't

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<v Speaker 2>want to do it, so we're not gonna do it today.

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<v Speaker 2>And Aaron Rodgers, Uh, that's so funny that the producers

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<v Speaker 2>made this the what missed the cut Aaron Rodgers video

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<v Speaker 2>of him seemingly hobbling around and looking at his other achilles.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not the achilles he tore. That's the other achilles.

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<v Speaker 2>The question they put in there something or definitely nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>That is literally the question on the TV show today

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<v Speaker 2>that we just agreed upon in our meeting. Aaron Rodgers

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<v Speaker 2>video something or nothing. I think Gabe used his editorial

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<v Speaker 2>influence to have definitely put in there. Oh, it's something

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<v Speaker 2>when the forty year old quarterback, it's like, wait, my

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<v Speaker 2>other achilles is bothering me and they're like, no, it's

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<v Speaker 2>a blister. All right, Demanda, let's get to the actual show.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think he's strolling. I think he's an old

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<v Speaker 2>injured man.

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<v Speaker 3>But go ahead, all right, no faith, all right, Minnesota survives.

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<v Speaker 3>History tells us that no team has ever come back

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<v Speaker 3>from three zero. That doesn't mean that Minnesota can't wear

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<v Speaker 3>the Dallas Mavericks down a little bit for the Celtic

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<v Speaker 3>make them easy pickings.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

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<v Speaker 3>So with that said, do you think Luca and the

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<v Speaker 3>Mavericks get it done tonight.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I do I think you make the exact This

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<v Speaker 2>is the exact right question to ask, because I I

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<v Speaker 2>think this series is incredibly evenly matched. I think that

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<v Speaker 2>all four games either team could have won, which is

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<v Speaker 2>why I'm so confident that this isn't going to be

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<v Speaker 2>the first time in NBA history a team blows a

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<v Speaker 2>three to zero lead. Because people have tried to make

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<v Speaker 2>the argument like, well, all these games came down in

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<v Speaker 2>the last minute, these two teams are dead even. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's not an argument for one team than winning four

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<v Speaker 2>in a row. That you know what I mean. The

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<v Speaker 2>argument for a team coming back from three to zero

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<v Speaker 2>is the one we almost saw last year when it

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<v Speaker 2>was Celtics Heat. When you think the Celtics clearly have

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<v Speaker 2>more talent, the Heat are playing over their ski and

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<v Speaker 2>then you know, eventually water will find its level. And

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<v Speaker 2>that is what happened in that series. It went from

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<v Speaker 2>three to zero to a game seven, two evenly matched teams.

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<v Speaker 2>The MAVs will get it done over in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 2>in one of the next two games. But the right

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<v Speaker 2>question is are they going to be worn down? Worn down? No,

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<v Speaker 2>because the finals don't start until June sixth, but a

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<v Speaker 2>turned ankle or a reaggravation of the knee sprain or

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<v Speaker 2>something as fluky as Derek Lively getting clocked in the

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<v Speaker 2>back of the head and a next sprain, even though

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<v Speaker 2>that next sprain sure looked like a concussion. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a doctor and I was just watching on TV,

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<v Speaker 2>but that looked like a concussion. But whatever, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>making any allegations, I'm just saying from my couch, it

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<v Speaker 2>looked like a concussion. That's the concern. That is the concern.

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<v Speaker 2>And so if the MAVs win tonight and get through

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<v Speaker 2>fully healthy, then I actually think for the finals, for

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<v Speaker 2>their finals purposes, that loss in Game four was good

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<v Speaker 2>for them. In this regard, I think that a week

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<v Speaker 2>off is plenty of time, and that nine ten days

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<v Speaker 2>off can maybe be a little like almost too much.

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<v Speaker 2>I also think a sneaky important part for the Mavericks

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<v Speaker 2>is Maxi Kleiba getting ramped back up after being out

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<v Speaker 2>with He had demands the injury you had in your shoulder.

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<v Speaker 2>He had the ac joint, the dislocation collar bone thing right,

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<v Speaker 2>and so he's been out a month because of it.

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<v Speaker 2>He also he didn't have the surgery. It's like, like

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<v Speaker 2>we had talked about what happened with you and him

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<v Speaker 2>being able to get twelve minutes in Game four and

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<v Speaker 2>now maybe fifteen minutes tonight. Like that to me is

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<v Speaker 2>a minor concern for Boston. Is Boston made such quick

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<v Speaker 2>work of Indiana even though those games and we'll talk

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<v Speaker 2>more about that later, they didn't get the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 2>let Chris STAPs get game action and you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, in less than the NBA Finals cauldron. And

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<v Speaker 2>so now it is nice that they didn't have to

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<v Speaker 2>risk any other injury and.

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<v Speaker 3>They Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>Chris STAPs had never been to Round two. Before Chris

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<v Speaker 2>STAPs was with the Knicks and then got hurt, was

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<v Speaker 2>with the MAVs and was in Round one, and then

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<v Speaker 2>the next year when they were in Round one, got hurt,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he then he was with the Wizards. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>So he Chris STAPs has never had a real postseason run.

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<v Speaker 2>And so that is I want to make sure I'm

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<v Speaker 2>right about I'm almost certain I am. But he's obviously

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<v Speaker 2>never been to the finals. But I don't think prior

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<v Speaker 2>to this year he's ever played in a playoff game. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm right. In fact, including this year, he's still never

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<v Speaker 2>played in a non round one playoff game because the

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<v Speaker 2>last game he played in was the Game four against

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<v Speaker 2>Miami this year. And so yeah, so in that regard,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think that MAVs losing in game one or

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<v Speaker 2>Game four, pardon me, was bad. I also think you

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<v Speaker 2>were kind of I know this is illogical, but it

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<v Speaker 2>is how I look at sports kind of do for

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<v Speaker 2>a bad game. And I know that doesn't mean you're

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<v Speaker 2>not gonna have a bad game moving ahead. But if

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<v Speaker 2>they had just won Game four and it's like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>you're you win back to back games against OKAC, You

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<v Speaker 2>then sweet Minnesota, are you gonna have your cold shooting

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<v Speaker 2>bad game, things are off in game one or game

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<v Speaker 2>two of the finals. So may be it resets that

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<v Speaker 2>a bit. I know again that is not really sound logic,

0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:11.760
<v Speaker 2>but it is it makes sense in my brain. However,

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<v Speaker 2>another forty eight minutes of basketball is another forty eight

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<v Speaker 2>minutes where somebody can get dinged, where somebody can get hurt,

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<v Speaker 2>and so it's not without cost. What I will say

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<v Speaker 2>is I the MAVs need Kyrie Irving to be able

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<v Speaker 2>to and maybe with the day between games in the finals,

0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:44.720
<v Speaker 2>it'll help him. They need a level Kyrie Irving. What

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<v Speaker 2>we've had throughout these playoffs is a level Kyrie Irving

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<v Speaker 2>for spurts, for quarters or for halves, not many times

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<v Speaker 2>for entire games. They are going to need that for

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<v Speaker 2>entire games against a lead defense and one other piece.

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<v Speaker 2>They're going to need Kyrie Irving to maintain his disposition

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<v Speaker 2>that he has had this entire postseason in what will

0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:20.480
<v Speaker 2>be a very difficult environment for him. Those Boston fans

0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.680
<v Speaker 2>are brutal on everyone, but they really hate him. Now.

0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.880
<v Speaker 2>He did a lot of that to himself. You know,

0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.440
<v Speaker 2>he flipped him off and he stopped on Lucky. So

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna now the I think it's almost there's

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<v Speaker 2>going to be some improper years sent his way out

0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.160
<v Speaker 2>of Boston. Nobody does that to himself. But the extra

0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.520
<v Speaker 2>vitriol that he's gonna deal with, I just want to

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<v Speaker 2>I hope Kyrie can keep his disposition because obviously, what'd

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<v Speaker 2>you say, apartmentalize Yeah, exactly right, yeah, and which is hard,

0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.760
<v Speaker 2>it's not easy, but well, I will say a guy

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<v Speaker 2>that he you know, had great success with and now

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<v Speaker 2>has you know, Uh, what's the what's the made amends with?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if that's probably not the right term. Reconcile.

0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.520
<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm looking for with in Lebron. Lebron's one

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<v Speaker 2>of the best athletes ever. The ability to do that

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<v Speaker 2>that like the no matter what you're hearing, or the

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<v Speaker 2>narrative is or anything going into a game, you once

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<v Speaker 2>the game starts, you're just there. So I I really

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<v Speaker 2>I think the MAVs are going to win tonight. If

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<v Speaker 2>they don't win tonight, I am fully confident they're going

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<v Speaker 2>to win the game six at home. But you just

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<v Speaker 2>don't want more chances for injury, and a full week

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<v Speaker 2>off would be good for anybody. All right, let's get

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<v Speaker 2>to your Boston Celtics. Oh go ahead. Did you want

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<v Speaker 2>to say something else?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh no, no, no, no, we can get to the Celtics.

0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.920
<v Speaker 3>Because the world on the street was that you canceled

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<v Speaker 3>the show last Tuesday to avoid talking about the Celtics

0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.640
<v Speaker 3>sweep getting to the finals. Uh huh, I knew you

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<v Speaker 3>hate him.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess that much.

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<v Speaker 3>But so Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown are back in

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<v Speaker 3>their second finals in three years, and Jalen Brown is

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<v Speaker 3>fresh off of his Eastern Conference MVP. It was the

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<v Speaker 3>same way the last time, I believe when they played

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<v Speaker 3>the Warriors in the finals. But what that said just

0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.400
<v Speaker 3>Tatum needs to be the alpha in order for the

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<v Speaker 3>Celtics to succeed.

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<v Speaker 2>No, so that I don't think Tatum has to be

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<v Speaker 2>the best player for the Celtics to win at a title.

0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.000
<v Speaker 2>I now, I don't think the Celtics are going to

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<v Speaker 2>win the title and the obvious clearest way for them

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<v Speaker 2>to do it is for Tatum to jump a level

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<v Speaker 2>in the finals. I don't think that's realistic. I think

0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.640
<v Speaker 2>he can play better than he played in those finals

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<v Speaker 2>against Golden State. But I think the Celtics are built

0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.200
<v Speaker 2>And tell me, if you agree to Monte, there's your team.

0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:59.320
<v Speaker 2>In a way, they are built similarly to not defensively,

0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.760
<v Speaker 2>the same the Four Pistons. You don't remember that team,

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<v Speaker 2>so let me give a little context. The Four Pistons

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<v Speaker 2>had but on any given night, you did not know

0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.760
<v Speaker 2>who their best player was gonna be. Like their best

0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.480
<v Speaker 2>players were Chauncey Phillips and Rashid Wallace, but Tayjon Prince

0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.840
<v Speaker 2>could be their best guy On a night, Rip Hamilton

0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.760
<v Speaker 2>could be their best guy on a night. Ben Wallace

0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.040
<v Speaker 2>was defense only. I think the Celtics are built in

0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.520
<v Speaker 2>a way that on any given night, Derek White can

0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:36.040
<v Speaker 2>go off. Jalen obviously can be the best player. On

0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.159
<v Speaker 2>multiple nights, Tatum can be the best player. We forget it,

0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.239
<v Speaker 2>but Chris STAPs will see it's what he had looked like.

0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't think there's gonna be many nights Drew as

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<v Speaker 2>the best player. He's a better offensive player obviously than

0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.960
<v Speaker 2>Ben Wallace was, but he's gonna be focused more defensively.

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't look at the Celtics Demons as a

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<v Speaker 2>team that man if Tatum doesn't go toe to toe

0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.120
<v Speaker 2>with Luca, they can't survive. And I think that's good

0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.680
<v Speaker 2>for them because I don't think Tatum can go toe

0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.440
<v Speaker 2>to toe with Luca. But that's no shame. There might

0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.160
<v Speaker 2>not be anyone alive that can go toe to toe

0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.240
<v Speaker 2>with Luca and will go ahead.

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<v Speaker 3>You go yeah, So I mean we'll just Tatum hasn't

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<v Speaker 3>really had I do think that he's kind of owning

0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.800
<v Speaker 3>this thing of like he doesn't he doesn't need to

0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.080
<v Speaker 3>ball out or go crazy or do the Josh Allen

0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.720
<v Speaker 3>thing in order for them to win games, and I

0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.520
<v Speaker 3>think that he's gonna do what it is that's necessary.

0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.200
<v Speaker 3>And I just don't think that they've seen that opponent. Obviously,

0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.480
<v Speaker 3>the teams that they've faced to get to this finals run,

0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.880
<v Speaker 3>their best player has been injured each time. I don't

0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.520
<v Speaker 3>think that any of these games have called for Jason

0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.560
<v Speaker 3>Tatum's A plus. So I do think we'll see a

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<v Speaker 3>different version in these finals.

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<v Speaker 2>But nope, and he, by the way, he deserves credit.

0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.520
<v Speaker 2>He did have an A plus game in Game three.

0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.000
<v Speaker 2>I think he had thirty six points, ten rebounds, eight assists,

0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.840
<v Speaker 2>zero turnovers. He was spectacling. That was one of the

0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.800
<v Speaker 2>five or six best games playoff games he's ever played.

0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.919
<v Speaker 2>He was great in that game. The weird thing about

0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:18.359
<v Speaker 2>Tatum is the last two years in the postseason, he's

0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:23.119
<v Speaker 2>thirty one percent from three on eight threes a game.

0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:29.320
<v Speaker 2>He takes threes and confidently and at the volume of

0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.720
<v Speaker 2>a guy who's thirty seven percent, you know what I mean.

0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.040
<v Speaker 2>Like it is a huge part of his arsenal, and

0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.600
<v Speaker 2>it just hasn't been the case. And so there are

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<v Speaker 2>times where I think it can be frustrating because he's

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<v Speaker 2>six nine and a half he's built over the ball,

0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.960
<v Speaker 2>and when he came into the league he was skinny.

0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:54.400
<v Speaker 2>He is now super strong. It feels like he could

0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:59.879
<v Speaker 2>be more impactful slashing than he allows himself to be.

0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.200
<v Speaker 2>It does feel like he settles a little too long.

0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.680
<v Speaker 3>He probably takes like three more shots than he should

0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.639
<v Speaker 3>have just taken to gone to the rim a game.

0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.560
<v Speaker 3>I see it. That's right, Like he'll stop it like

0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.720
<v Speaker 3>a little jumper. You can just power through.

0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.080
<v Speaker 2>And so and here's the thing on that, So that

0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.720
<v Speaker 2>is sometimes guys do that.

0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:20.920
<v Speaker 3>Guy.

0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.640
<v Speaker 2>I remember, this is like one of my earliest Fox memories.

0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:31.159
<v Speaker 2>I remember watching a Cavs playoff game at some restaurant

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<v Speaker 2>in Santa Monica with Charlie, the guy who's probably, you know,

0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.560
<v Speaker 2>one of the two people most responsible for my entire

0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:40.879
<v Speaker 2>career at Fox, and it's still my boss to this day,

0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:46.040
<v Speaker 2>runs the network now and Lebron on back to back

0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.280
<v Speaker 2>plays had driven to the basket and scored. This was

0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.880
<v Speaker 2>the twenty sixteen playoffs, Yeah it would have been twenty

0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:59.840
<v Speaker 2>sixteen playoffs, maybe twenty seventeen, doesn't matter. And Charlie turns

0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:04.560
<v Speaker 2>some and says, see why doesn't he do that every play?

0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.000
<v Speaker 2>And me exasperated, turned to him and said, because it's

0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:13.959
<v Speaker 2>god dog exhausting, because even Lebron at that, let you know,

0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.440
<v Speaker 2>and so if people would get frustrated when Lebron would

0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.400
<v Speaker 2>settle for jumpers, But the answer is nobody has thirty

0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:26.200
<v Speaker 2>drives to the basket in them a game. What's frustrating.

0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.359
<v Speaker 2>What's uniquely frustrating about Tatum.

0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.080
<v Speaker 3>He also has to carry a team.

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<v Speaker 2>Well correct right and tired right. And but the other

0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.240
<v Speaker 2>thing is Lebron was not shooting eight threes a game.

0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:42.520
<v Speaker 2>You know he was shooting at that point, he was

0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:46.679
<v Speaker 2>shooting five. And so it it just like three is

0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:51.160
<v Speaker 2>the exact right number. It just feels like there's three

0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.680
<v Speaker 2>or four times a game that Tatum settles when he

0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:01.080
<v Speaker 2>doesn't need to. Now, where I do think that where

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<v Speaker 2>if you're a Celtics fan, where you have to be

0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.600
<v Speaker 2>the most nervous is this at the end of games.

0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:14.000
<v Speaker 2>The MAVs know exactly what they're doing. One out of

0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.520
<v Speaker 2>three possessions, they are going to let Kyrie try to

0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.159
<v Speaker 2>cook someone. Two out of three they are gonna say, Luca,

0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.960
<v Speaker 2>go do it. If you get a favorable matchup, get

0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.200
<v Speaker 2>them on your hip, do your little old man move

0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.720
<v Speaker 2>in the lane or a step back or throw a

0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.240
<v Speaker 2>up and the LOB numbers. Have you seen the lob

0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:43.679
<v Speaker 2>stats these playoffs? This is the craziest thing ever, so

0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:48.480
<v Speaker 2>so going in this is as of game prior to

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<v Speaker 2>Game four, so these are so the team with the

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<v Speaker 2>third most alley oops successful alley oops these playoffs was

0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.720
<v Speaker 2>the Celtics at eight. The team with the second most

0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.880
<v Speaker 2>was the Thunder at nine, and the team with the

0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.560
<v Speaker 2>most so second most was nine. The team with the

0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:20.840
<v Speaker 2>most was the MAVs with forty eight. Forty eight successful

0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:24.840
<v Speaker 2>aloops this postseason. Going into Game four, Luca had twenty

0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:28.600
<v Speaker 2>eight by himself, like such a huge part of their

0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:33.320
<v Speaker 2>offense has been Luca's You know, Derek Lively is shooting

0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.720
<v Speaker 2>one hundred percent from the field in the Conference finals

0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:39.480
<v Speaker 2>because everything on one of them is just a dunk, right,

0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:43.159
<v Speaker 2>And that's also why they need Chris STAPs back, That's all,

0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:44.320
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. It's also why they need

0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:46.680
<v Speaker 2>Christaps back. But my point is at the end of games,

0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.880
<v Speaker 2>the MAVs know exactly what they want to do, and

0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:56.080
<v Speaker 2>the Celtics. This is the downside to the Jalen Brown,

0:23:56.200 --> 0:24:03.200
<v Speaker 2>Jason Tatum, Batman Robin Robin Batman situation. It is not clear,

0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.760
<v Speaker 2>crystal clear at the end of games who they're going

0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.720
<v Speaker 2>to that, you know what I mean? That is the

0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:12.399
<v Speaker 2>one downside to it. Now, I don't buy into there's

0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:16.919
<v Speaker 2>this weird narrative going on, like, was does it matter

0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:21.520
<v Speaker 2>that Jalen Brown one Conference Finals MVP? Was Tatum not

0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.120
<v Speaker 2>happy enough of it? All that to me is bs.

0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Those two guys are clearly good friends. They work really

0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:32.560
<v Speaker 2>well together. They have had they have had consistent A

0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:37.719
<v Speaker 2>minus success together. The question is can they finally have

0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.320
<v Speaker 2>an A plus? All right, let's move on to me too.

0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:45.040
<v Speaker 3>So on Tuesday, you tweeted out a graphic comparing Jok

0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:49.159
<v Speaker 3>to Jannis. Are you saying that Jannis is the best

0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:51.960
<v Speaker 3>player in the after the lebron era? Is that what

0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:53.040
<v Speaker 3>you were getting at there?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think it's certainly a debate. So this, by

0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:04.320
<v Speaker 2>the way, so this is this graphic is incredibly cool

0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:06.920
<v Speaker 2>and was made by and We're gonna have a lot

0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:10.240
<v Speaker 2>more of these types of things. There is I don't

0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:12.320
<v Speaker 2>know if he wants me to say his name, I'll

0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:15.280
<v Speaker 2>ask him, but he signed it as Leo. Leo is

0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:19.080
<v Speaker 2>not his name. This was made by a guy that

0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:25.920
<v Speaker 2>just really really wanted to be a part of what

0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:28.760
<v Speaker 2>we do on this show and the stuff I do,

0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:36.040
<v Speaker 2>and is doing like doing this statistical and statistical work

0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:39.159
<v Speaker 2>and graphical art on his own. We have one coming

0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.600
<v Speaker 2>out about Anthony Edwards and age twenty two seasons. It's

0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:47.440
<v Speaker 2>really cool. It's data visualization and i'll the very least

0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.080
<v Speaker 2>say his first name. Shout out to Zach for this

0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:55.320
<v Speaker 2>amazing work. He's also working on a much bigger project

0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.399
<v Speaker 2>related to our top fifty players of all time that

0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.640
<v Speaker 2>is I don't even want to tease what it is

0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:05.720
<v Speaker 2>because when we debut it, it'll blow your mind. But

0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:09.600
<v Speaker 2>this guy is brilliant and is doing this, you know,

0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.600
<v Speaker 2>on his own time, and I really appreciate it. So

0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:17.480
<v Speaker 2>the point that I was trying to make is, I

0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:24.520
<v Speaker 2>think it's very clear that Yannis had been the best

0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:29.040
<v Speaker 2>player from call it. I know, Lebron won the title

0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.960
<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty and won a finals MVP. I know,

0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:36.000
<v Speaker 2>but I think Giannis have been the best player from

0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:39.760
<v Speaker 2>nineteen to twenty one, and I think Jokich has been

0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.760
<v Speaker 2>the best player from twenty two to twenty four. Right,

0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:49.280
<v Speaker 2>But what if we are talking about nineteen to twenty

0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:54.720
<v Speaker 2>four this six year stretch. Who has had the better run.

0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:59.280
<v Speaker 2>They have both been to one finals and one finals MVP.

0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:04.800
<v Speaker 2>They both have been to one other conference finals they

0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:10.760
<v Speaker 2>have they they both have been to round two twice.

0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.400
<v Speaker 2>They are the Oh, I'm sorry. Yoga's been around two

0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:18.200
<v Speaker 2>three times, Yiannis twice. Yanni's has made the playoffs more.

0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:22.679
<v Speaker 2>He's also played a little bit longer. Their career numbers

0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.680
<v Speaker 2>are very similar, twenty three to ten and five versus

0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:31.280
<v Speaker 2>twenty one to eleven and seven. They're all NBA's Yannis

0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:37.400
<v Speaker 2>has six, Jokicic has sure go ahead said, the career

0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:39.560
<v Speaker 2>is so very very similar.

0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.399
<v Speaker 3>But weren't there do you think their paths to the

0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:44.840
<v Speaker 3>finals were a little bit easier different in each other?

0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:53.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, so here's the thing. I think in general, Jokic

0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.639
<v Speaker 2>has had to face tougher competition in the Western Conference.

0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:02.199
<v Speaker 2>I think in their championship run, Yanna's faced far tougher competition.

0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:05.280
<v Speaker 2>That Suns team was the best team in the league

0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:07.080
<v Speaker 2>that year. People was gonna win the title. They were

0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:10.600
<v Speaker 2>up two zero. That Brooklyn team was peak Kevin Durant,

0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:17.440
<v Speaker 2>and so I can we uh, I'm sorry, no, Durant

0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:21.359
<v Speaker 2>was fully healthy. Durant was fully healthy. Kyrie got injured

0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:24.359
<v Speaker 2>at the end of Game four, and Harden got injured

0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:26.080
<v Speaker 2>before at the very beginning of the series and then

0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.879
<v Speaker 2>came back, and I misstated the All NBAS. My apologies.

0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:34.880
<v Speaker 2>Yanni's has eight All NBAS, Jokic has six, Yanni's has

0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:38.479
<v Speaker 2>two MVPs, Jokicic has three. I think it's a real debate.

0:28:39.400 --> 0:28:42.480
<v Speaker 2>I think because of what happened in the postseason this year,

0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:45.760
<v Speaker 2>that debate opened back up. And here's the other piece

0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:50.880
<v Speaker 2>of it. Luka is five wins away from entering that

0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:56.720
<v Speaker 2>debate himself. And so the Lucas stuff. People don't believe

0:28:56.720 --> 0:29:01.280
<v Speaker 2>me when I demon say Luca's made first team All NBA.

0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.880
<v Speaker 2>He's been in league six years. He's made first Team

0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:10.880
<v Speaker 2>All NBA five times. Steph Curry has four. Steph Curry

0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:14.760
<v Speaker 2>has four First Team All NBAS, Luca has five. Luca's

0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:19.240
<v Speaker 2>individual statistical resume is why I put him where I

0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:22.960
<v Speaker 2>put him, projecting it on that top fifty list. And now,

0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:26.920
<v Speaker 2>and if you look at Luca's basketball life, here's what

0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:32.080
<v Speaker 2>it is. At sixteen years old, he was playing in

0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:36.600
<v Speaker 2>the second best league in the world. At eighteen years old,

0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:41.720
<v Speaker 2>he was the MVP of the second best league in

0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:46.120
<v Speaker 2>the world and won the championship. At twenty years old,

0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:49.719
<v Speaker 2>he was the NBA's Rookie of the Year. At twenty

0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:52.880
<v Speaker 2>one years old, he was first team All NBA and

0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:56.000
<v Speaker 2>scored forty two in his first career playoff game. At

0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:59.400
<v Speaker 2>twenty two years old, he took the Clippers to seven

0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:04.120
<v Speaker 2>games with no other even fringe all star on his roster,

0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:08.400
<v Speaker 2>averaging thirty six eight and eight I think or something

0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:10.360
<v Speaker 2>like thirty six ten and I'm not sure exactly what

0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:14.840
<v Speaker 2>is insane. At twenty three years old, he beat the

0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:18.880
<v Speaker 2>number one seed en route to the conference finals. At

0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:23.320
<v Speaker 2>twenty four years old, had a weird down team's success year,

0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:25.480
<v Speaker 2>and at twenty five years old, he's about to be

0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:30.160
<v Speaker 2>in the finals. It is an unbelievable run to start

0:30:30.200 --> 0:30:30.560
<v Speaker 2>his career.

0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:32.680
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead, he had those guys that were kind of

0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:34.600
<v Speaker 3>dragging him down. I think you said when he.

0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:38.600
<v Speaker 4>Was twenty two, do you hold Yokic's twenty one and

0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:42.160
<v Speaker 4>twenty twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two exits against

0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:44.880
<v Speaker 4>him when he's playing with Austin Rivers.

0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:50.080
<v Speaker 2>Well, so, I don't so again there's an imagetween holding

0:30:50.120 --> 0:30:54.720
<v Speaker 2>it against you and acknowledging that it happened. I don't

0:30:54.720 --> 0:31:00.640
<v Speaker 2>hold it against you. But when Yannis was trying to

0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:05.360
<v Speaker 2>defend his title and lost in seven in round two,

0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:10.440
<v Speaker 2>he didn't have Chris Middleton. It's again, we're not holding

0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:13.160
<v Speaker 2>that against Giannis, but it is a real part of it.

0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:17.280
<v Speaker 2>And so there that was the series that Tatum had

0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:19.680
<v Speaker 2>the forty six in game six and then they won

0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:23.080
<v Speaker 2>game seven. Chris Middleton did not play one second in

0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:27.160
<v Speaker 2>that series. Yes, games are harder if you don't have

0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:30.600
<v Speaker 2>your best supporting cast. When Lebron lost in the finals

0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:34.480
<v Speaker 2>to the Warriors the first time, Kevin Love didn't play

0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:37.040
<v Speaker 2>one minute in that series, and Kyrie got hurt in

0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:40.520
<v Speaker 2>the game one of that series. Like that, those are

0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 2>real factors here, and so it's just part of the

0:31:46.320 --> 0:31:50.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't hold it against him, but he has not

0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:56.480
<v Speaker 2>in my opinion, because of the loss this year with

0:31:56.600 --> 0:32:02.640
<v Speaker 2>a fully healthy team is not. Giannis's title defense ended

0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.480
<v Speaker 2>in round two in game seven to a team that

0:32:05.560 --> 0:32:10.080
<v Speaker 2>didn't win the championship. Jokic's title defense ended in round

0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:12.400
<v Speaker 2>two in game seven to a team that's not gonna

0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:17.400
<v Speaker 2>win the championship, Like, it's just a lot of it

0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:22.240
<v Speaker 2>is what whoever you have leading that race, it's close.

0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:27.440
<v Speaker 3>Say that is a basketball mastermind and Giannis is not.

0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.920
<v Speaker 3>I know, the question or the topic here is which

0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:32.080
<v Speaker 3>which players better?

0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:39.200
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, but yeah, that's true. That is true. Yannis

0:32:39.320 --> 0:32:42.360
<v Speaker 2>is also arguably year in, you're out, the best defensive

0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:45.320
<v Speaker 2>player in the sport. And Jokis just you know, was

0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.880
<v Speaker 2>a part of letting Karl Anthony Towns finally for the

0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:49.920
<v Speaker 2>first time in his career, have a good playoff series.

0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:54.560
<v Speaker 2>So it's just it's all the the I mean, that

0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:59.400
<v Speaker 2>is true. I thought Jokic's defense last postseason was excellent.

0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:03.160
<v Speaker 2>I thought this postseason wasn't quite as good. And so

0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:07.600
<v Speaker 2>those are those those are true stories. And so it's all.

0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:12.320
<v Speaker 2>And I know people talk about Yanni's not having a bag. Well,

0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:18.360
<v Speaker 2>bagless Yannis won a championship by scoring fifty points in

0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:24.840
<v Speaker 2>Game six of the finals, and bagless Yannis, also, after

0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:29.560
<v Speaker 2>it looked like he had blown out his knee, responded

0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:35.360
<v Speaker 2>in those finals Game one, he was mediocre. When people

0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:36.720
<v Speaker 2>thought he was going to be out for the year.

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:41.720
<v Speaker 2>The rest of the finals, what he did was average.

0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:44.480
<v Speaker 2>Let me give it to you exactly for games two

0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:48.360
<v Speaker 2>through six of the finals thirty eight, twelve and five

0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:54.640
<v Speaker 2>on sixty three percent shooting. So I again, Jokics is

0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:58.000
<v Speaker 2>obviously you know, there are a lot of things Jokic

0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:01.200
<v Speaker 2>does better than Yannis shoot and pass, there's no question

0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:05.760
<v Speaker 2>about it. But he's not a more efficient scorer because

0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:10.000
<v Speaker 2>Giannis has afficient of a high volume scorers we've ever seen,

0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:15.760
<v Speaker 2>and he's not in the same region defensively. I'm simply

0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:19.400
<v Speaker 2>saying it is a real argument. All right, let's move on.

0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:24.640
<v Speaker 3>So finally, Negro League stats are officially being added into

0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:28.160
<v Speaker 3>the MLB record books. The Negro League Hall of Fame

0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:30.600
<v Speaker 3>is in Kansas City and has always been a big

0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:33.239
<v Speaker 3>part of your life. What does this mean to the

0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:36.400
<v Speaker 3>sport of baseball and also on a personal level to you?

0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:39.279
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So I talked about this a bit on the

0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.759
<v Speaker 2>TV show yesterday, So I don't want to be in

0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:46.040
<v Speaker 2>reruns here, but I fact of matter is this. I

0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:49.840
<v Speaker 2>was at the opening of the Negro League Museum when

0:34:50.080 --> 0:34:53.520
<v Speaker 2>I was a little kid, and I really think it helped.

0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:58.719
<v Speaker 2>It partially helped shape who I am. I really believe that,

0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:05.080
<v Speaker 2>Like I uh, I found it so captivating. I also

0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:10.160
<v Speaker 2>was so lucky to become friends with the legend and

0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:15.799
<v Speaker 2>actual friends with the legendary Buck O'Neill, who passed in

0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.640
<v Speaker 2>two thousand and six, but was the voice and the

0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:25.200
<v Speaker 2>representative of the Negro leagues worldwide forever. To the point

0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:30.040
<v Speaker 2>to where my dad demands when I was a teen,

0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:33.319
<v Speaker 2>you know, I met Buck when I was twelve, I

0:35:33.360 --> 0:35:36.279
<v Speaker 2>think is when the when the museum opened where it

0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:39.520
<v Speaker 2>is now, it's on eighteenth and Vine. It's big, beautiful space.

0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:44.640
<v Speaker 2>And then I would see him every year at the

0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:46.840
<v Speaker 2>galas and the things or whatever. I became really a

0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.520
<v Speaker 2>big part of that museum. I was one of the

0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:52.200
<v Speaker 2>only kids who was in, you know, there all the time.

0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:56.839
<v Speaker 2>And Bob Kendrick, who's the president of museum, I've known

0:35:56.920 --> 0:36:01.160
<v Speaker 2>him forever, and so it's just been a big part.

0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:05.000
<v Speaker 2>And Buck always remembered me to the point to where

0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:09.160
<v Speaker 2>Buck was doing a something, my dad was either speaking

0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:12.000
<v Speaker 2>at an event Buck was at, or Buck was speaking

0:36:12.000 --> 0:36:16.080
<v Speaker 2>at an event my dad was at, and my dad

0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:19.960
<v Speaker 2>went over to him and said, Hi, my name's Louis Wright.

0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:24.560
<v Speaker 2>I think you know my son, And Buck said, oh,

0:36:25.280 --> 0:36:28.000
<v Speaker 2>you're Nicky's father, and gave him a bit, like, so,

0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:30.839
<v Speaker 2>I love that place and I love that man, and

0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:37.120
<v Speaker 2>I think it is real history. And so I I

0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:43.000
<v Speaker 2>talked about on the TV show, and I'm not gonna

0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:45.400
<v Speaker 2>get fully into all of it right here. What I

0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.400
<v Speaker 2>am going to do, though, is tell an unrelated story,

0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:53.080
<v Speaker 2>because damn it, I want to. So on the TV show,

0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:56.000
<v Speaker 2>I talked about the people who are upset about this

0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:02.879
<v Speaker 2>and how they're either just acting in faith or just racists,

0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:04.960
<v Speaker 2>like it's one of the two. And if you're like,

0:37:05.000 --> 0:37:07.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm upset about this and I'm not a racist, well

0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:09.120
<v Speaker 2>then you're just acting in bad faith. And if you're like,

0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:12.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm not acting in bad faith and I'm not a racist, Okay,

0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:14.839
<v Speaker 2>that's fine. You're just dumb, Like you pick the hat

0:37:14.920 --> 0:37:16.640
<v Speaker 2>you want to be in. You either dumb, acting in

0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.320
<v Speaker 2>bad faith or a racist, I don't really care which whatever.

0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:25.920
<v Speaker 2>And we can talk about why, like again, they're only

0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:30.400
<v Speaker 2>including the stats that were in officially recognized Negro League games.

0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:33.040
<v Speaker 2>That's why Josh Gibson is only getting one hundred and

0:37:33.040 --> 0:37:35.759
<v Speaker 2>fifty some home runs. And it's like, oh, well, it's

0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.279
<v Speaker 2>not fair because they weren't playing against the best competition.

0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:43.279
<v Speaker 2>The idea Okay, sure they weren't playing against all of

0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:46.160
<v Speaker 2>the best competition, but neither were the white guys in

0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:49.160
<v Speaker 2>Major League Baseball. You know why, because the best black

0:37:49.200 --> 0:37:52.240
<v Speaker 2>players weren't in that league. And we've recognized those stats forever.

0:37:52.560 --> 0:37:55.600
<v Speaker 2>So all of these arguments are easily dismissed if you

0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:57.400
<v Speaker 2>really want to have them. But I don't want to

0:37:57.440 --> 0:37:59.360
<v Speaker 2>have them, and I told people on Twitter not to

0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:03.560
<v Speaker 2>have them. But then I saw one guy who's in

0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:08.280
<v Speaker 2>the media who is angry about this and chirping about

0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:10.480
<v Speaker 2>this and on the wrong side of all these issues.

0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:15.240
<v Speaker 2>And that guy's name is Mike North. Mike North hosted

0:38:15.280 --> 0:38:18.040
<v Speaker 2>a radio show in Chicago for thirty years and then

0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:23.440
<v Speaker 2>he hosted a talk show on Fox Sports Radio. And

0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:30.000
<v Speaker 2>I am uh, I am here to say to Mike North,

0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:40.520
<v Speaker 2>thank you, Mike, because if not for your truly unlistenably

0:38:40.760 --> 0:38:44.919
<v Speaker 2>awful radio show, I wouldn't have the job I have now.

0:38:45.840 --> 0:38:50.520
<v Speaker 2>So a story I've never told. I used to drive

0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:56.080
<v Speaker 2>in to do mornings in Houston at five in the morning,

0:38:56.760 --> 0:38:59.960
<v Speaker 2>Houston time to go do the radio show I did there.

0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:06.680
<v Speaker 2>And the live radio show on Fox Sports Radio was

0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:12.920
<v Speaker 2>hosted by Mike North and someone else and I'm trying

0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:16.200
<v Speaker 2>to remember who it was. If one of the producers

0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:19.040
<v Speaker 2>can try to google the who Mike North did the

0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:22.239
<v Speaker 2>radio show with on Fox Sports Radio State in my

0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:24.960
<v Speaker 2>ear if you get it. But when I tell you,

0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:31.960
<v Speaker 2>it was consistently the worst radio show in America, I

0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:35.520
<v Speaker 2>mean that every morning. But it was the only thing

0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:39.239
<v Speaker 2>that was like ESPN Radio at that time was basically

0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:42.160
<v Speaker 2>replaying the audio version of Sports Center, so it was

0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:45.040
<v Speaker 2>the only people talking, and it was just what was

0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:47.400
<v Speaker 2>on on my way in. There's no local radio on

0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:49.080
<v Speaker 2>it that early in the morning, so I heard it

0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:54.680
<v Speaker 2>every morning and every morning. Oh yeah, Andy Furman, Andy,

0:39:54.719 --> 0:40:00.480
<v Speaker 2>this is this is You were an unfair casualty in this. Now,

0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:04.400
<v Speaker 2>maybe you listen, maybe you should have taken control of

0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:07.000
<v Speaker 2>the steering wheel a bit, But this is not about you, Andy,

0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:10.600
<v Speaker 2>this about Mike. And I'm just telling you it was

0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:14.560
<v Speaker 2>such a terrible show, and it was such a terrible

0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:19.040
<v Speaker 2>show Tomanse that I was like, you know what, I

0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:25.400
<v Speaker 2>should just have that job. And so I, on my

0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:31.160
<v Speaker 2>own dime, flew to Los Angeles in the fall of

0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:35.719
<v Speaker 2>twenty fifteen and set up a meeting with the two

0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:39.480
<v Speaker 2>guys who run Fox Sports Radio and I'm not going

0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:42.040
<v Speaker 2>to say their names, but they're great guys. I just

0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:44.080
<v Speaker 2>don't want them to be drawn into this because it's

0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:47.960
<v Speaker 2>a little unfair to them. They're great guys. And I

0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:50.560
<v Speaker 2>had done some fill in work for them, and I

0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:54.440
<v Speaker 2>had just negotiated a new contract in Houston that allowed

0:40:54.480 --> 0:41:01.120
<v Speaker 2>me to leave mid contract for a national opportunity. And

0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:04.080
<v Speaker 2>I walked into their office and I said, and they're like,

0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:07.960
<v Speaker 2>they were so nice, like Nick, you know, you know

0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.000
<v Speaker 2>we love you. We you know we have you fill

0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:13.680
<v Speaker 2>in on our network and we didn't want it when

0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:15.560
<v Speaker 2>you said you wanted to come out. We didn't want

0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:18.239
<v Speaker 2>to say no. But you know, you've come a long way.

0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:22.040
<v Speaker 2>It's on your own dime. And you know, we don't

0:41:22.080 --> 0:41:24.880
<v Speaker 2>have any jobs, Like there's no like you can you know,

0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:28.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't. If you want a weekend show, we can

0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:30.719
<v Speaker 2>talk about that, but that's you're not gonna get. You know,

0:41:30.719 --> 0:41:32.799
<v Speaker 2>we could have done that on the phone. I'm like, no,

0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:38.520
<v Speaker 2>here's the deal. You guys know and I know your

0:41:38.600 --> 0:41:42.200
<v Speaker 2>morning show is the worst radio show in the country,

0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:47.720
<v Speaker 2>and you it can't be inexpensive. You have two guys,

0:41:48.080 --> 0:41:51.560
<v Speaker 2>one of whom has done radio for thirty years. So

0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:55.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you right now, I don't know what you

0:41:55.440 --> 0:41:59.160
<v Speaker 2>are paying to do that show, but cut it in

0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:03.000
<v Speaker 2>half and let me do it, and you will have

0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:05.600
<v Speaker 2>a show that is five times better for half the price.

0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:11.520
<v Speaker 2>I should have that job. And they were, I think,

0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:15.360
<v Speaker 2>taken aback, but they also knew I was right. And

0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:20.360
<v Speaker 2>they they said, and I didn't know at the time

0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:27.120
<v Speaker 2>that they were had just that Colin had just agreed

0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:32.160
<v Speaker 2>to move from ESPN TV and radio to FS one

0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:36.600
<v Speaker 2>TV and Fox Sports Radio, and this part of the

0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:40.839
<v Speaker 2>story I've told before. And they said, well, listen, we're

0:42:40.880 --> 0:42:43.600
<v Speaker 2>about to have some major things going on with Fox

0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:48.000
<v Speaker 2>Sports Radio and more of a direct partnership with Fox,

0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:50.520
<v Speaker 2>with Fox Sports One, which is what f S one

0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:53.520
<v Speaker 2>was called at the time. So we're not we don't

0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:58.960
<v Speaker 2>want to launch any new shows without you know, that

0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:02.720
<v Speaker 2>show potentially having the real chance of being simulcast on TV.

0:43:03.640 --> 0:43:08.960
<v Speaker 2>So you know, if you can get a meeting with

0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:12.600
<v Speaker 2>the guy who just got hired to run Fox Sports

0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:15.759
<v Speaker 2>one and he like, you know what I mean, he

0:43:15.920 --> 0:43:19.320
<v Speaker 2>thinks your show could potentially be simulcast, we can have

0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:23.719
<v Speaker 2>a real conversation about this. So I ended up finagling

0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:25.719
<v Speaker 2>a meeting with the guy who used to run Fox

0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:31.680
<v Speaker 2>Sports One, Jamie Horowitz, and pitched him on, Hey, I

0:43:31.800 --> 0:43:34.719
<v Speaker 2>just want you to sign off on if I get

0:43:34.719 --> 0:43:37.840
<v Speaker 2>a radio show, it you simulcasting it, because these guys

0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 2>I think will give me a radio show because the

0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.919
<v Speaker 2>radio show they have currently hosted by Mike North is unlistenable.

0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:45.680
<v Speaker 2>And at the end of that meeting, Jamie said to me,

0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:47.719
<v Speaker 2>he was like, I just have one question for you.

0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:50.719
<v Speaker 2>He's like, why have you not has asked me to

0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:52.719
<v Speaker 2>give you a job? And I'm like, well, I don't

0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:55.040
<v Speaker 2>do TV. And he's like, well, I think you can

0:43:55.040 --> 0:44:00.080
<v Speaker 2>do TV, buddy, And that ended up being, you know,

0:44:01.040 --> 0:44:08.240
<v Speaker 2>ten auditions and eight months later, this job. So Mike North,

0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:14.799
<v Speaker 2>God bless you man for consistently having the worst opinions

0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:19.120
<v Speaker 2>in the world. If not for that, I'm not here.

0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:23.480
<v Speaker 2>And I had not thought of this guy in years.

0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:28.520
<v Speaker 2>And then I saw when Major League Baseball announced the

0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:34.239
<v Speaker 2>negro league stats we're gonna be incorporated that who's there

0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:38.920
<v Speaker 2>firing off tho, Oh my god, the woke mind virus

0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:42.959
<v Speaker 2>is infiltrating our beloved baseball statistics. I'm like, it's my guy,

0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:49.600
<v Speaker 2>my guy that changed my life. Shout out, buddy, quick break,

0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:57.920
<v Speaker 2>right back, What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's

0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:01.320
<v Speaker 2>Right with Nick? Right. We have a brand new segment

0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:07.919
<v Speaker 2>debuting in the C block, and I will explain that

0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.320
<v Speaker 2>when we get there. We'll also get to your listener

0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:14.080
<v Speaker 2>questions and comments. But right now, demons, it's time for

0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:16.240
<v Speaker 2>a game we've done before. Go right ahead.

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<v Speaker 3>We are gonna be playing right in today. And first off,

0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:25.719
<v Speaker 3>we got our guy Bronni here. It's new animation each time. Yes, yeah,

0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:28.440
<v Speaker 3>So reports are that Bronni has had over ten workout

0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:31.399
<v Speaker 3>invites but has declined most of them. It will visit

0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:34.480
<v Speaker 3>at least the Suns and the Lakers. Weird move for

0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:38.239
<v Speaker 3>somebody averaging less than five points per game. Bronni is

0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.720
<v Speaker 3>declining these invites because.

0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:45.240
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's not a one word answer. I'll say it again.

0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:49.000
<v Speaker 3>His dad is Lebron James. That's why he's declining the inlets.

0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:56.719
<v Speaker 2>So it's partially that it's partially because Clutch, for Good

0:45:56.800 --> 0:45:59.440
<v Speaker 2>or for Bad, does business a little differently than the

0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:05.000
<v Speaker 2>last spot. Rich Paul and Clutch tried to steer clients

0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:09.080
<v Speaker 2>to certain spots where they think is best for them,

0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:12.879
<v Speaker 2>even if it annoys people in Ruffles Feathers. Clutch once

0:46:12.920 --> 0:46:15.360
<v Speaker 2>upon a time a few years ago, held their own

0:46:15.640 --> 0:46:20.000
<v Speaker 2>basically NBA Combine just for clutch clients. They do things

0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:22.799
<v Speaker 2>and make a lot of other agents mad, but they

0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:25.239
<v Speaker 2>have seemed to be effective for their clients. Now, I

0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:29.120
<v Speaker 2>also want to clear up some misinformation about Bronni because

0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.960
<v Speaker 2>Rich said Bronni is not going to take a two

0:46:32.000 --> 0:46:35.560
<v Speaker 2>way contract, and a lot of people in the media

0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:39.479
<v Speaker 2>took that to mean Rich is saying Bronnie won't play

0:46:39.480 --> 0:46:41.920
<v Speaker 2>in the G League. That is not what a two

0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:46.000
<v Speaker 2>way contract means. That a two way contract is a

0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:51.000
<v Speaker 2>financial designation. It means you are paid half the league

0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:54.360
<v Speaker 2>minimum and you can go back and forth between the

0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:58.120
<v Speaker 2>NBA team and the G League team if you can

0:46:58.200 --> 0:47:02.720
<v Speaker 2>be on a regular NBA contract and spend your whole

0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.839
<v Speaker 2>rookie season in the G League. So, when Rich said

0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:08.399
<v Speaker 2>Bronnie won't be signing a two way contract, it does

0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:11.280
<v Speaker 2>not mean that he won't play in the G League.

0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:15.480
<v Speaker 2>It does mean he's not going to agree to it's

0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:19.279
<v Speaker 2>a financial basically demand. And now, if people want to

0:47:19.360 --> 0:47:22.839
<v Speaker 2>argue that a player in Brownie's position is not in

0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:27.240
<v Speaker 2>position to be making any demands, I understand people saying

0:47:27.280 --> 0:47:30.920
<v Speaker 2>that and thinking that, but this is a unique situation.

0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.920
<v Speaker 2>The Lakers have the fifty to fifth pick of the draft.

0:47:35.560 --> 0:47:37.360
<v Speaker 2>There are only fifty eight guys that are going to

0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:39.400
<v Speaker 2>be taken in this draft. It's a fifty eight pick draft.

0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:44.319
<v Speaker 2>If Bronni is there at fifty five, they are taking him.

0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:49.000
<v Speaker 2>So when you have that built in floor, you then

0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:54.759
<v Speaker 2>can try to, you know, play a little more aggressive.

0:47:55.640 --> 0:48:00.160
<v Speaker 2>And I don't think Lebron James is now I'm talking

0:48:00.160 --> 0:48:02.880
<v Speaker 2>about Lebron now, Bronni is going to sign with the

0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:06.879
<v Speaker 2>Sons for the league minimum. I don't think that's going

0:48:06.880 --> 0:48:08.640
<v Speaker 2>to happen, and that's the only way they could get him.

0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:12.839
<v Speaker 2>I do think it's on the board that the Suns,

0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:19.120
<v Speaker 2>because they are not well run, might spend the twenty

0:48:19.320 --> 0:48:24.960
<v Speaker 2>second pick of the draft on Bronni at hopes Lebron

0:48:25.080 --> 0:48:29.680
<v Speaker 2>signs with them for the league minimum, and when he doesn't.

0:48:30.280 --> 0:48:32.960
<v Speaker 2>If and when he doesn't, well you just spend a

0:48:33.000 --> 0:48:35.560
<v Speaker 2>first round pick on this guy. It's a guaranteed contract.

0:48:35.560 --> 0:48:41.000
<v Speaker 2>You're invested in his success. So people cannot like the

0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:45.760
<v Speaker 2>fairness or optics or any of this. That's everyone's own.

0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:50.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm obviously a little conflicted. You know, I have bias

0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:54.160
<v Speaker 2>this year because I don't know Bronni, but I know

0:48:54.200 --> 0:48:57.440
<v Speaker 2>people very close to him. I also think that while

0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:00.839
<v Speaker 2>people don't like the way Rich always does business, incredibly

0:49:00.880 --> 0:49:04.839
<v Speaker 2>effective at advocating for his clients in a way better

0:49:04.880 --> 0:49:07.960
<v Speaker 2>than almost any NBA agent that I can remember, and

0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:10.000
<v Speaker 2>not worried about hurting people's feelings.

0:49:10.600 --> 0:49:12.160
<v Speaker 1>Uh.

0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:16.839
<v Speaker 2>The reality is that what they are doing everything they

0:49:16.880 --> 0:49:21.440
<v Speaker 2>can to set Bronnie up for success, and the bigger

0:49:21.480 --> 0:49:24.640
<v Speaker 2>investment a team has in him, the more invested that

0:49:24.760 --> 0:49:26.920
<v Speaker 2>team than is in his success.

0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:27.839
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

0:49:27.960 --> 0:49:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Do you want to chime in on this or do

0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:31.839
<v Speaker 2>you want to move on to Monsey? No?

0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:33.239
<v Speaker 3>I mean I thought I was a little crazy that

0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:36.000
<v Speaker 3>he was declining invites, but I get like he's probably

0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:38.160
<v Speaker 3>they're probably going about it so, like you said, it's

0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:40.000
<v Speaker 3>a unique situation, like going about it a.

0:49:40.000 --> 0:49:42.719
<v Speaker 2>Different Yeah, I mean it wouldn't be the case for

0:49:42.880 --> 0:49:47.160
<v Speaker 2>other for other guys with his draft profile, there's no

0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:49.040
<v Speaker 2>doubt about it. But he's not other guys with his

0:49:49.120 --> 0:49:51.560
<v Speaker 2>draft profile, So it just kind of is what it is,

0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:52.280
<v Speaker 2>all right? Next?

0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:55.880
<v Speaker 3>Uh, So the Pacers were swept in the Eastern Conference

0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:58.440
<v Speaker 3>Finals by my Celtics, but hey, they had a pretty

0:49:58.440 --> 0:49:58.839
<v Speaker 3>good run.

0:49:58.880 --> 0:49:59.279
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot.

0:49:59.320 --> 0:50:01.880
<v Speaker 3>There's a lot the so the East had a bunch

0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:04.160
<v Speaker 3>of injuries this year, and some young teams are ready

0:50:04.160 --> 0:50:07.200
<v Speaker 3>to take the lead. Boston's largest future threat in the

0:50:07.200 --> 0:50:07.959
<v Speaker 3>East is.

0:50:10.080 --> 0:50:14.440
<v Speaker 2>I think a healthy Yannis is the answer. I mean,

0:50:14.520 --> 0:50:17.279
<v Speaker 2>Yannis didn't play in the playoffs this year, and last year,

0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, got hurt in the playoffs and it wasn't

0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:23.800
<v Speaker 2>the same guy. I think the answer to healthy, honest

0:50:24.320 --> 0:50:27.920
<v Speaker 2>if Philly, if they were to get Lebron is an

0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:30.239
<v Speaker 2>interesting one. And while I would like that to happen,

0:50:30.280 --> 0:50:32.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's going to. We got Philly's got

0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:34.560
<v Speaker 2>all this cap space, so we got to see. I

0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:37.400
<v Speaker 2>don't look at the Pacers as like all the Pacers

0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:40.319
<v Speaker 2>they're the thunder of the West of the East. I

0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:42.360
<v Speaker 2>don't look at them like that at all. And I

0:50:42.360 --> 0:50:44.560
<v Speaker 2>don't think Halli Burton as close to the player Shay

0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:49.560
<v Speaker 2>is so a healthy Yiannis or the Knicks if they

0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:54.439
<v Speaker 2>add another real piece. I respect what the Knicks have done,

0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:56.680
<v Speaker 2>but they they don't as good as jalen Is. They

0:50:56.680 --> 0:50:58.319
<v Speaker 2>are still a piece away, all right.

0:50:58.400 --> 0:51:03.359
<v Speaker 3>Next, Alan Clark dropped a career high thirty points versus LA,

0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:06.400
<v Speaker 3>but it came to another loss, So the Fever at

0:51:06.440 --> 0:51:09.480
<v Speaker 3>now one in seven, despite Clark being the league's thirteenth

0:51:09.560 --> 0:51:15.520
<v Speaker 3>highest score after her first few games. Clark's adjusted adjusted

0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:17.160
<v Speaker 3>year one expectations are.

0:51:18.320 --> 0:51:21.360
<v Speaker 2>For me the same as that they were, that she

0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:25.200
<v Speaker 2>will be an All Star caliber player, that by the

0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:29.680
<v Speaker 2>end of the year she will be playing at the

0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:32.240
<v Speaker 2>level of one of the ten best players in the league.

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:35.239
<v Speaker 2>I think that's going to happen now. I am not

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:39.760
<v Speaker 2>going to pretend as if I have watched the Fever

0:51:40.000 --> 0:51:43.640
<v Speaker 2>closely enough to talk about why they're one in seven,

0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:45.920
<v Speaker 2>what their biggest issues are. I know the number one

0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:49.480
<v Speaker 2>overall pick from last year who was who's also on

0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:51.120
<v Speaker 2>the Fever because they had the number one big back

0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:55.200
<v Speaker 2>back years Aleah Boston, after being awesome last season, had

0:51:55.200 --> 0:52:00.600
<v Speaker 2>struggled considerably. But Caitlin has been fine. Guys, Caitlyn has

0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:05.320
<v Speaker 2>been the only other rookie averaging more than seven points

0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:09.320
<v Speaker 2>a game. Is angel like in Angels, shooting like thirty

0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:15.200
<v Speaker 2>five percent as a big Caitlyn is playing, she does

0:52:15.239 --> 0:52:18.359
<v Speaker 2>she look like the best player in the league. No did.

0:52:18.520 --> 0:52:21.160
<v Speaker 2>I didn't. I was as high on Gitlan as anybody.

0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:23.279
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think she was gonna come in and be

0:52:23.280 --> 0:52:25.640
<v Speaker 2>better than Asia Wilson. I didn't think she was gonna

0:52:25.680 --> 0:52:28.200
<v Speaker 2>come in and be better than the very best player

0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:32.799
<v Speaker 2>in the WNBA. Does she look like she is on

0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:36.160
<v Speaker 2>track to being one day the best player in the league?

0:52:36.200 --> 0:52:39.560
<v Speaker 2>I think so. Does she look like she is already

0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:42.040
<v Speaker 2>one of the better players in the league? I think so.

0:52:42.400 --> 0:52:45.640
<v Speaker 2>The team stinks.

0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:48.359
<v Speaker 3>Next Yeah, so the seventy six ers only have three

0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:50.600
<v Speaker 3>players roster for next year. In a ton of cap

0:52:50.640 --> 0:52:55.520
<v Speaker 3>space they have accumulated quite the wishless with it seems

0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:59.000
<v Speaker 3>like they're interested in Paul George Lebron or even trading

0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:03.719
<v Speaker 3>for Jimmy Butler again. Butler's feelings on a Philadelphia return.

0:53:03.480 --> 0:53:06.560
<v Speaker 2>Would be Oh. I think that he would love it.

0:53:06.600 --> 0:53:10.200
<v Speaker 2>I listen, Jimmy Butler wears out as welcome. I love Jimmy,

0:53:10.239 --> 0:53:13.680
<v Speaker 2>but the Heat seem annoyed with him. Chicago got everywhere

0:53:13.719 --> 0:53:16.160
<v Speaker 2>gets sick of Jimmy. Jimmy's a lot to deal with,

0:53:16.239 --> 0:53:18.520
<v Speaker 2>and now he's getting older and he's not as available.

0:53:19.520 --> 0:53:24.880
<v Speaker 2>I think that the Sixers obviously targeting Lebron would be amazing.

0:53:25.880 --> 0:53:28.719
<v Speaker 2>I think it is. I don't think it is guaranteed

0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:31.200
<v Speaker 2>Lebron is going back to the Lakers, but I think

0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:34.360
<v Speaker 2>it is likely he's going, you know, better than eighty

0:53:34.400 --> 0:53:36.880
<v Speaker 2>five percent of going back to the Lakers. Paul George

0:53:36.920 --> 0:53:40.399
<v Speaker 2>would be a great fit on that team, perfect fit,

0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:43.799
<v Speaker 2>and they've got the money. And so we'll see if

0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:47.240
<v Speaker 2>Paul George wants to leave the Clippers. All right, let's

0:53:47.280 --> 0:53:47.680
<v Speaker 2>go to.

0:53:48.080 --> 0:53:51.160
<v Speaker 3>The Obviously, still some hard feelings there with the whole

0:53:51.200 --> 0:53:52.839
<v Speaker 3>Tobias Harris over me thing.

0:53:53.080 --> 0:53:56.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but again that was a different front office when

0:53:56.960 --> 0:53:59.160
<v Speaker 2>it's a different coach and it from front office, and

0:53:59.200 --> 0:54:02.000
<v Speaker 2>the only player who's still there is Embiid and Embiid

0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:04.880
<v Speaker 2>has been writing you love letters for years, like you

0:54:04.920 --> 0:54:08.280
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. So the fans loved him, Embiid

0:54:08.320 --> 0:54:11.520
<v Speaker 2>loved him, and the guys who picked Tobias Hairs over

0:54:11.600 --> 0:54:14.279
<v Speaker 2>him are all gone, so that, you know, So it's

0:54:14.280 --> 0:54:17.120
<v Speaker 2>not quite to me. It wouldn't make sense, Like what

0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:20.440
<v Speaker 2>are you mad at the Liberty Bell? Like it's all different,

0:54:20.480 --> 0:54:22.480
<v Speaker 2>You're mad at the arena, all right?

0:54:22.560 --> 0:54:26.440
<v Speaker 3>Next, so the Vikings were allegedly trying to trade up

0:54:26.480 --> 0:54:29.399
<v Speaker 3>to draft theleak neighbors with the plan to trade Justin

0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:33.880
<v Speaker 3>Jefferson was looking for a record contract extension. The next

0:54:33.880 --> 0:54:35.960
<v Speaker 3>team Justin Jefferson will play for will be.

0:54:37.960 --> 0:54:40.040
<v Speaker 2>I think he's gonna keep playing for the Vikings. But

0:54:40.680 --> 0:54:45.480
<v Speaker 2>this was an underrated story that the Vikings you know,

0:54:45.560 --> 0:54:49.320
<v Speaker 2>were open to potentially trading Justin Jefferson, and they seem

0:54:49.480 --> 0:54:58.200
<v Speaker 2>to be legitimately, you know, anxious about giving him. Yeah,

0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:00.759
<v Speaker 2>I mean, but the way to fix it. Listen, Justin

0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:03.160
<v Speaker 2>Jefferson's gonna get thirty five million dollars a year as

0:55:03.160 --> 0:55:06.520
<v Speaker 2>a wide receiver. It's what's gonna happen. Now, you can

0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:09.000
<v Speaker 2>argue that's not smart money, but it's what's gonna happen.

0:55:09.320 --> 0:55:11.840
<v Speaker 2>The Vikings are gonna have to pay it. They just

0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:14.440
<v Speaker 2>drafted their quarterback. They you know what I mean there,

0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:17.760
<v Speaker 2>it's I don't know why they haven't paid it already,

0:55:18.080 --> 0:55:20.080
<v Speaker 2>but that's what's going to end up happening. All right,

0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:22.000
<v Speaker 2>I hear we have a bonus one.

0:55:22.320 --> 0:55:22.520
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:55:22.840 --> 0:55:22.920
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

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<v Speaker 3>Nick Wright is doing blank. If not for the great

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<v Speaker 3>Mike North.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm right now doing a show, probably a radio show

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<v Speaker 2>only on ESPN Radio. That's what I think. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that if if not for those dominoes, I think what

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<v Speaker 2>ended up would have happened would have been this. I

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<v Speaker 2>would have found out that Colin was going leaving ESPN

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<v Speaker 2>when everyone else did, and that ESPN Radio was doing

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<v Speaker 2>a reshuffling, and that you know LeBatard and you know

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<v Speaker 2>Bamani and then le Levatar and the Bimani. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>remember the order we're going to take over that time slot,

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<v Speaker 2>and there was a reordering there, and I think I

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<v Speaker 2>would have ended up, honestly, Demanse, I think we all

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<v Speaker 2>would have ended up moving probably to Bristol, Connecticut, and

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<v Speaker 2>I would have been doing like nights on ESPN Radio

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, eventually parlayed that into a bigger time

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<v Speaker 2>slot on the radio. I really believe that I had

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<v Speaker 2>never when I say I had never planned on doing TV. Guys,

0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:45.440
<v Speaker 2>when I was in college at Syracuse, the broadcast journalism

0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:49.200
<v Speaker 2>major the vast majority of his TV stuff, and I

0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:53.200
<v Speaker 2>remember saying, like in one of my TV classes, they

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<v Speaker 2>were like, so that you know, we're going to learn

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<v Speaker 2>to read off the prompter and I totally blew it off,

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<v Speaker 2>and the professor was kind of annoyed with me because

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<v Speaker 2>they're like, we know you're like you're into broadcasting, Like

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<v Speaker 2>this is you know, we know this is what you

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<v Speaker 2>want to do. And I just remember saying to them like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm never gonna be on TV. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be on TV. I'm not gonna be on TV. This

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<v Speaker 2>is kind of a waste of my time. Like uh

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<v Speaker 2>And and by the way, that's a lesson for young

0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:23.040
<v Speaker 2>people out there, because to this day I'm not good

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<v Speaker 2>reading now. Luckily, for my job, I don't really ever

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<v Speaker 2>have to read off a prompter, but sometimes I do. Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>And you never know where things are gonna take you.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I would have just kept doing rad you

0:57:34.000 --> 0:57:38.800
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, kept doing radio. I And so yeah,

0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:40.880
<v Speaker 2>you said, I mean, life's weird.

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<v Speaker 3>TV more than radio, Like do you enjoy doing TV more?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so more? It's so different. It's I don't think

0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:53.640
<v Speaker 2>I love it more. I think that. Listen, since I've

0:57:53.640 --> 0:57:56.800
<v Speaker 2>been doing the TV show, I either have had the

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<v Speaker 2>radio show, because remember then I did do a radio

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<v Speaker 2>show for two years, maybe longer a mad dog was

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<v Speaker 2>it three years? Two years, I don't remember how long

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<v Speaker 2>at nights, and now I do this, which is like

0:58:08.200 --> 0:58:11.040
<v Speaker 2>a radio show to me. This is way closer to

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<v Speaker 2>a radio show than a TV show. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>love the the The cool thing about radio is the

0:58:21.840 --> 0:58:24.560
<v Speaker 2>audience gets to know you as a human being. They

0:58:24.560 --> 0:58:26.360
<v Speaker 2>get to know your whatever you want to share of

0:58:26.360 --> 0:58:29.280
<v Speaker 2>your personal life and your family. You can have long

0:58:29.560 --> 0:58:33.760
<v Speaker 2>form discussions, right, and so all of that's cool. Cool

0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:36.320
<v Speaker 2>thing about TV is you get to be famous and

0:58:36.360 --> 0:58:38.200
<v Speaker 2>they pay you a lot of money and so, like

0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:42.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, there's a I mean it and you can

0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:45.800
<v Speaker 2>see so there's a give and take to all of it.

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<v Speaker 2>But I don't think intellectually I would. I don't think that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that I and again, I have never had

0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:58.040
<v Speaker 2>more fun. The most fun I've ever had in my

0:58:58.200 --> 0:59:04.040
<v Speaker 2>career doing my show is the number one draft pick

0:59:04.160 --> 0:59:07.760
<v Speaker 2>is First Things First, right Now with Bruin Wilds. And

0:59:07.800 --> 0:59:11.040
<v Speaker 2>the number two draft pick is What's Right with Nick

0:59:11.080 --> 0:59:14.960
<v Speaker 2>Wright When I was on in the afternoons in Kansas

0:59:15.000 --> 0:59:20.640
<v Speaker 2>City with Carmen Carrington and Jared Carter the producer, you

0:59:20.720 --> 0:59:22.960
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, like that crew, you know, So

0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:27.000
<v Speaker 2>that was so like those So those are the two

0:59:27.120 --> 0:59:33.080
<v Speaker 2>most fun I've ever had. Uh, And so I love, love,

0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:35.520
<v Speaker 2>love what I'm doing. I was joking about it just

0:59:35.560 --> 0:59:38.800
<v Speaker 2>being about the you know them that come along with TV.

0:59:39.120 --> 0:59:41.960
<v Speaker 2>But it's just different. It's different to being like, Hey,

0:59:42.000 --> 0:59:46.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna give a thirty minute atman like things that

0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:52.440
<v Speaker 2>go along with something like added benefits is I guess

0:59:52.480 --> 0:59:56.040
<v Speaker 2>the way the word that is what it would mean. Um,

0:59:57.040 --> 1:00:00.840
<v Speaker 2>but uh, they're just very, very different animal. And I

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<v Speaker 2>would say to anybody that wants to do anything in

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<v Speaker 2>media sports media in particular, there is no better training

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<v Speaker 2>than solo radio. You're out there with just your words.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got to create compelling, long form thoughts and arguments

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<v Speaker 2>with just your words. And if you can successfully do

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<v Speaker 2>a listenable, much less captivating radio show, there's you can

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<v Speaker 2>do almost anything in media, in my opinion, A brand

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<v Speaker 2>new segment involving motor sports next plus listener questions, What's right?

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<v Speaker 2>All right? Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick rat Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>So like a year ago demanse maybe longer. The producers

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<v Speaker 2>mostly I think Kara tried to get me to start

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<v Speaker 2>incorporating f one into the show. That that that that

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<v Speaker 2>Netflix show was it Drive to Survive or Drive for

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<v Speaker 2>five or I don't know. I haven't watched it. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna watch it. Though now had taken the world by storm.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody loved people were super into F one, it was

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<v Speaker 2>getting bigger ratings, and I simply said, I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>anything about it and I don't watch it, and I

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<v Speaker 2>also kind of thought it would go away, but it's

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<v Speaker 2>not going away. People like it. And so I was like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>but if I can't talk about it, and demons can't

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<v Speaker 2>talk about it, and Diora when she's here, she can't

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<v Speaker 2>talk about it, what are we gonna do? Little did

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<v Speaker 2>I know that the first I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 2>know this about me, the first infant I ever held,

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<v Speaker 2>my goddaughter, Sierra, who is the one of the only

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<v Speaker 2>people still in my life that I've known longer than

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<v Speaker 2>I've known you. That I'm I've known her her entire life,

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<v Speaker 2>and she is now not much longer than I've known you.

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<v Speaker 2>But she's nineteen, you know what I mean, So a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit, you know, a few years longer. So my

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<v Speaker 2>goddaughter and I again, I should be fair because you'll

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<v Speaker 2>probably see this. I don't think technically she's my goddaughter,

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<v Speaker 2>but she's my goddaughter, Sierra Faddel. She is an aspiring

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<v Speaker 2>sports journalist and a huge F one fan. So here

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<v Speaker 2>is what we are going to do. There are races

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<v Speaker 2>evidently every couple of weeks. They're not every week, but

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<v Speaker 2>on Thursday shows, before a race, she's going to have

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<v Speaker 2>sent in an F one minute, and on Tuesday shows

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<v Speaker 2>after a race, she's gonna give us an F one recap. Also,

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<v Speaker 2>I am not going to I am whatever coaching or

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<v Speaker 2>critiquing I have on her an aspiring night ten year

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<v Speaker 2>old broadcaster is only going to come after the clips air.

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<v Speaker 2>So every time she sends something in, it's what's getting aired.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the best training and practice for her possible,

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<v Speaker 2>and so the audience will get to see her evolution

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<v Speaker 2>and growth as a broadcaster. Now it turns out there

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<v Speaker 2>is not a race this weekend, but so what I

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<v Speaker 2>thought made sense was for those of us that haven't

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<v Speaker 2>been following or don't know anything about it, and eventually

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<v Speaker 2>in the summer we might want something to gamble on,

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<v Speaker 2>which is another benefit from this that we could learn

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit and do something with it. So what Sierra,

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<v Speaker 2>our F one correspondent is doing in her debut video

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<v Speaker 2>is giving us. I told her I needed a ninety

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<v Speaker 2>second recap of the season. That's not an easy task,

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<v Speaker 2>but so I'm going into this blind as are you.

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<v Speaker 2>This is catching us up on the twenty twenty four

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<v Speaker 2>Formula One season in ninety seconds or less by our

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<v Speaker 2>F one correspondent, the lovely and talented Sierra Fidel take

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<v Speaker 2>it away.

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<v Speaker 5>Since the twenty twenty four from the one season has

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<v Speaker 5>already started, we have eight out of the twenty four

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<v Speaker 5>Grand Prix under our belts already. But out of these

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<v Speaker 5>eight races, Max Verstappen has won all but three, because

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<v Speaker 5>Max Verstappen is the world champion and has been since

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<v Speaker 5>twenty twenty one. Now these three races that he hasn't

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<v Speaker 5>won have been won by the Ferrari driver Carlos Signs

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<v Speaker 5>in Australia, and then the second is by Lando Norris

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<v Speaker 5>at McLaren he won his maiden win in Miami. And

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<v Speaker 5>then the third is the other Ferrari driver, Charles the Clerk,

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<v Speaker 5>who won for the first time in Monaco as his

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<v Speaker 5>home race. In the duration of EP one season, we

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<v Speaker 5>have two championships happening simultaneously. We have the Drivers Championship

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<v Speaker 5>for the drivers obviously, and then we have the Constructors Championship,

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<v Speaker 5>which is for the teams. Now, after a Grand Prix weekend,

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<v Speaker 5>a set of points are rewarded to the teams and

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<v Speaker 5>the drivers based on their performance. Now, the current stats

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<v Speaker 5>for the drivers championship is of course max Or Sappin

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<v Speaker 5>leading with one hundred and sixty nine points, and then

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<v Speaker 5>Charles Leclerk with one hundred and thirty eight, Landa Norris

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<v Speaker 5>with one hundred and thirteen, and Carlos Signs with one

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<v Speaker 5>hundred and eight points. Now for the constructors championship, we

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<v Speaker 5>have Red Bull Racing of course leading with two hundred

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<v Speaker 5>and seventy six points, and then we have Ferrari with

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<v Speaker 5>two hundred and fifty two. Third place is for McLaren

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<v Speaker 5>with one hundred and eighty four, and then fourth place

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<v Speaker 5>is Mercedes with ninety six. Now these are just the

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<v Speaker 5>top four in both the drivers and the constructors, but

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<v Speaker 5>they go all the way to the entire grid.

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<v Speaker 2>There. It is our first ever f one minute. I

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<v Speaker 2>think I'm officially now a Carlos signs guy. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know who he is, but I like the cut of

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<v Speaker 2>his jib. It sounds like he won a race first.

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<v Speaker 2>Stappen just wins every year and wins every race. That's

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<v Speaker 2>no fun. I'm gonna be a Carlos signs guy. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know where the next race is or when it is,

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<v Speaker 2>but we'll hear from it again. What'd you think think?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you think? Demand?

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<v Speaker 3>I thought that was awesome. She did great.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's and Demand grew up with. That's her first

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<v Speaker 2>time doing it for us, and that was her first take.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if it was her first take, but

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<v Speaker 2>she sent me one video. I told I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>do whatever you want to do, but send me one

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<v Speaker 2>video and so and Karen Daniel, who seemed to know

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<v Speaker 2>about f one, said she did a good job. Here's

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<v Speaker 2>the other thing I'm gonna tell you, guys, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>fact checking these that could have all been wrong. I

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<v Speaker 2>have no idea. I'm gonna need you guys to be

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<v Speaker 2>our arm budsman because in the meantime, I know nothing

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<v Speaker 2>about it, and so I hope it's accurate, but I

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<v Speaker 2>know nothing about it. All right, Demante, quickly, let's do

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<v Speaker 2>some questions here.

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<v Speaker 3>We love you. Cecie Justin Justin Field probably ask why

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<v Speaker 3>am I doing running back drills? We think we're gonna

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<v Speaker 3>show the video for those watching them on YouTube.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm not gonna kill him for this. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's smart. I see see here's the thing. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's smart because he's doing quarterback drills as well, but

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<v Speaker 2>running a big part of his game. Yeah, well, that

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<v Speaker 2>part's true. I mean that parts. Know that part's true,

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<v Speaker 2>all right?

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<v Speaker 3>Next, Jack Fisher, as is the thunder ceiling around what

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<v Speaker 3>the Celtics are now a lot of really good players,

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<v Speaker 3>but nobody who is truly great Top fifteen ever or

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<v Speaker 3>do you think SGA can be that guy?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, listen, I don't think SGA can be top fifteen ever.

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<v Speaker 2>But can SGA be a consistent frontline MVP candidate in

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<v Speaker 2>the way Tatum hasn't been. I'll be honest, I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think so, but everyone else does. I think SGA is

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<v Speaker 2>exactly in that Tatum tier of like not actually uh

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<v Speaker 2>consistent top five best player in the league, but right

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<v Speaker 2>in that six seven eight range. But the under I

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<v Speaker 2>mean the thunder. I have so many assets and chats

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<v Speaker 2>good and Jalen Williams is good, and they have a

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<v Speaker 2>smart coach and the smart front office. So I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what they're this is. You know, they're just getting started.

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<v Speaker 2>The weird thing is SGA is older than you think.

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<v Speaker 2>Tatum's twenty six. SGA's twenty five Lucas twenty five SGA.

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<v Speaker 2>I found that out on this show. I remember you

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<v Speaker 2>guys corrected me that Sga is older than Luca, and

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't believe.

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<v Speaker 3>It all right, Next, Austin Tatt is this the worst

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<v Speaker 3>long term situation? Is this the worst long term situation

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<v Speaker 3>for the Celtics to make the finals Eastern Conference finals

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<v Speaker 3>every year, never get over the hump due to coaching,

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<v Speaker 3>and then never have a reason to fire Missoula.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so listen, I think we're getting ahead of yourself there.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't I'm not impressed consistently by Missoula. Let's see

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<v Speaker 2>how he does in these finals. You're obviously not going

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<v Speaker 2>to fire him if they lose in the finals. But

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<v Speaker 2>I think that depending on how these finals go, A

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<v Speaker 2>lot of guys like if the Celtics get this close again,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it is very important for the Celtics. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>if they win the championship, nothing matters, but if they

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<v Speaker 2>don't win, it's very important for this to be a

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<v Speaker 2>great series. What can't happen for the Celtics is for

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<v Speaker 2>them to roll through the injured Eastern Conference and then

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<v Speaker 2>get whacked by a team A lot of people think

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<v Speaker 2>was maybe the fourth or fifth best in the West

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<v Speaker 2>this year. That can't happen next yep.

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<v Speaker 3>Carl Weezer asked, why hasn't the media killed Jokic for

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<v Speaker 3>his playoff exit. He's supposed to be the best player

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<v Speaker 3>in the league, and any other superstar best player would

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<v Speaker 3>have been cooked.

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't think that's really true. I think you

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<v Speaker 2>only would get cooked if they had this exit because

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<v Speaker 2>he played so poorly. I thought Jokic in this second

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<v Speaker 2>round was overall and as I thought games four and five,

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<v Speaker 2>he was a quadrue plus. He obviously wasn't great in

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<v Speaker 2>the opening two games, and I don't put the last

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<v Speaker 2>two games on him, but he wasn't, you know, getting

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<v Speaker 2>beat by fifty in game six and then blowing a

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<v Speaker 2>twenty point lead in game seven. It's gotta fall on

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<v Speaker 2>him a bit. Again, I feel similar to how I

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<v Speaker 2>felt about Giannis when he lost in round two. It

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<v Speaker 2>is like it wasn't on him, So I don't. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think he needs to get killed for it. The

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<v Speaker 2>only guy whoever would get by the way, Steph didn't

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<v Speaker 2>get killed when he lost as the defending champ in

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<v Speaker 2>round two last year and threw the ball away. The

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<v Speaker 2>only guy who ever gets killed for this stuff is Lebron.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody else mostly gets passes unless it happens again and

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<v Speaker 2>again and again.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, next, Buffy, Lucky Choples. I know you said

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<v Speaker 3>there's no chance in the three to zero comeback, But

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<v Speaker 3>if it was to happen, would you pick who would

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<v Speaker 3>you pick for the finals?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? I mean if Minnesota won fourth, I would say

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<v Speaker 2>I think Minnesota would be out of gas. But also

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<v Speaker 2>that would mean they were down three to two against

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<v Speaker 2>the defending champs and one and then the first team

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<v Speaker 2>ever to come back from down three to oh to win.

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<v Speaker 2>It'd be hard to pick against some.

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<v Speaker 3>Of the between the next series and they got to

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<v Speaker 3>rest it with.

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<v Speaker 2>Dallas right and during the series. But they're not gonna

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<v Speaker 2>come back. Uh, they're not gonna come back to win it.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go to let's go to Sam Davison's question. Demonse.

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<v Speaker 3>Sam Davison said, can't believe PJ. Washington does this podcast

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<v Speaker 3>with Nick on a game day?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think you look like PJ. Washington? No, No,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't see it.

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<v Speaker 2>On Oh you've heard it before?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear it. At work a little bit.

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<v Speaker 3>Hear it at work from Maddy. Yeah, I've heard it

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<v Speaker 3>from it, but I hear the most.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, well the Jordan Poole thing, I do see.

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<v Speaker 2>But I also think that's because I used to think,

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<v Speaker 2>you guys when he was with the Warriors played similar

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<v Speaker 2>styles of basketball, so like I didn't know if that

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<v Speaker 2>was polluting my you know what I mean, polluting my brain.

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<v Speaker 2>And again, Warriors Jordan Poole was peak Jordan Poole. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not talking about Wizards Jordan Poole. Goofy Jordan Poole game.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, oh yeah, I get what you said.

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<v Speaker 2>What a great way to end the pod. That's perfect,

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<v Speaker 2>all right to mon' say call me later. Great job everyone,

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