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Speaker 1: So the second marquee game of the night, we get

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Speaker 1: to the first game of the night in about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: Go New York, Go New York, but San Antonio putting

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Speaker 1: the finishing touches of an absolute drubbing on the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 1: The debut for Cooper Flag and the season debut for

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Speaker 1: Victor Wembinyama. I think you could say that there are

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty degrees from each other. Cooper Flag

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Speaker 1: four out of thirteen from the floor. He did not

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Speaker 1: for the night. Victor wembin Yama forty points, fifteen boards,

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Speaker 1: three blocks. He is plus thirty one as the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: lead at Mavericks Trail San Antonio by thirty. Okay, now

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Speaker 1: really quick on this, because look, Flag's debut is rough.

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Speaker 1: We talked about last night when I said, hey, we

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Speaker 1: feeling it following the my Colts long shot bold prediction

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Speaker 1: in the AFC of the last spring, and I said,

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Speaker 1: this could be the year Wenby becomes the best player

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Speaker 1: in the game. They have a lot of young talent,

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Speaker 1: They're ready to win. Now you're talking about it. They

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Speaker 1: as well. This could wind up being a really big

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Speaker 1: leap for the Spurs and yes, beating the Mavericks tonight. Look,

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Speaker 1: they played Cooper Flag at point guard. I think maybe

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Speaker 1: But wemby forty and fifteen. Forget by the end of

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Speaker 1: be saying he's now the best player in the game.

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Speaker 1: You look at some of the things he was able

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Speaker 1: because again, at his height, nobody can do what he has.

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Speaker 1: The skills he came in, That's why he was that

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Speaker 1: and he was absolutely unstoppable tonight for San Antonio. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, get those San Antonio championship bonds while

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Speaker 1: you can, because man, nights like this not gonna be

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Speaker 1: that low for long. Fifty to one as we sit

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Speaker 1: Can I go after that?

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Speaker 1: You're like Rob Parker hating on show Hao Todi just

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Speaker 1: one assist? Come on, Wemby, Why don't you make your

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Speaker 1: He handled the ball. I did not handle the ball

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Speaker 1: a lot. It means nobody hit a shot. It's not

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Speaker 3: But what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, put me into that same class. When are

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Speaker 1: know your nemesis. All of that to say, here we

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Speaker 1: And we've watched Nikola Jokics. We're looking, we're always looking

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Speaker 1: it works. Likewise with when min Yama, to your point,

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Speaker 1: like the Gritch's heart. He grew a couple of inches

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Speaker 1: But he was dominant tonight. And in the low post,

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Speaker 1: It's it's like watching when your older brother who's five

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Speaker 1: Let's call it what it is, right. This is part

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Speaker 1: of if you go back in your NBA history, something

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Speaker 1: Like what are you gonna do? Right, He's unstoppable, man,

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought we were done with drama over

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Speaker 1: the Luca trade. No, no, no. A new book is

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Speaker 1: out chronicling the Luka Doncic Anthony Davis trade that shook

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Speaker 1: Brownie James was the one who broke the news of

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Speaker 1: So? According to this book, Uh, They're all on the

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Speaker 1: group chat and a d put out of text saying

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, that these blanks just trade me? Right?

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Speaker 1: That did I just get traded? And Bronnie quote tweets

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Speaker 1: or puts the shams Charani a tweet into the group

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Speaker 1: lebron tweeted out w TF and the trade happened? And

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is no longer in that team group chat

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Speaker 1: Now this is a crazy story, but like you look

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Speaker 1: I see as I go. Really, Lebron had no idea.

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Speaker 1: He waited for Bronnie to put out the tweet saying hey, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's real, and then Lebron does the wait, what this

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Speaker 1: Go back to last year when this trade happened. It

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Speaker 1: go back, we said it when it happened. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: he knew in this game. He knew when this game

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Speaker 1: was going on they were trading Anthony Davis. He knew

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Speaker 1: because he's just different. He's giggly and laughy, and it's

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Speaker 1: he knew this trade was happening. There's no way he

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Speaker 1: didn't go back and watch video of that game. You know, Okay,

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Speaker 5: I know it was you, Freido, not you broke my heart.

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Speaker 3: Look.

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Speaker 5: But at this point, Jason, I don't think we need

432
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Speaker 5: anything in return for Lebron. They can just have him.

433
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you guys can just use the money that

434
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 1: you're paying him to get somebody else.

435
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Speaker 3: I like that. I like that. It's okay.

436
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 1: Like I said, he wants him buy out, he gets

437
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 1: to keep a dollar. Now, let's not lose focus and

438
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,159
Speaker 1: lose sight of the biggest game of the night, and

439
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,720
Speaker 1: that was the Knicks in an Eastern Conference Finals preview

440
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 1: beating the Cavaliers tonight thanks to it. Look, it was

441
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 1: a great game all around. Right, I look at this

442
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 1: and there's positive negative R because I'm gonna give you

443
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 1: an because I'm you know, a New York fans. Of course,

444
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,840
Speaker 1: this is as good a game as the Knicks could

445
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: play you expect opening night. They're shorthanded, right, no Mitchell Robinson,

446
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: no Josh Hart, so two big rotation guys are out.

447
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,239
Speaker 1: But yet Brunson played extremely well and u Nobi had

448
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,400
Speaker 1: an incredible game. The three and D game that he has.

449
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns carried them late. And this is a

450
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: guy who was questionable then doubtful, then questionable, not sure

451
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: he knows his role with the Knicks, but here he

452
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 1: is tonight nineteen and eleven. Right, you had a couple

453
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 1: of young guys playing minutes. First half, Mike Brown played

454
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 1: eleven guys. This was as great a start as you

455
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 1: could possibly get for the Knicks. And I didn't know

456
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 1: how much I needed this win because sports wise, this

457
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 1: is all I have. Man like I've been with like.

458
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: I didn't realize until the game is at halftime. The

459
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: Knicks were thumping them sixty five fifty. They were playing

460
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Speaker 1: extremely well. Everything was great, and I'm going, man, did

461
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: I need this? Tells just how bad? It's almost like

462
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: when you know when you wear sneakers for a long time.

463
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: He realized, I'm gonna go get a new pair of sneakers,

464
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Speaker 1: and you go to the store, you put on a

465
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Speaker 1: new pair, you go, wow, I feel like I'm walking

466
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 1: on a cloud. I didn't realize how low and how

467
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: bad shape these other sneakers were in. Maybe they're not

468
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: worn out, but they've just worn all the way down.

469
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 1: But I didn't know my feet were so tired. I

470
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 1: put these new sneakers on. Man, I'm on a cloud. Like,

471
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: that's what I felt. What I'm like, I didn't know

472
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Speaker 1: how bad I needed this Knicks game, after the Mets

473
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 1: and the Jets and Syracuse football. I needed this so

474
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,679
Speaker 1: bad tonight. It was so bleep and exciting. I was

475
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 1: so happy walked watching and listen to listen this game

476
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: on the way in watching it with you, and I

477
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,160
Speaker 1: got in calling for all the fouls that I didn't get,

478
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 1: but I didn't care. I can't tell you how much

479
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Speaker 1: I needed this. Y. That's funny because we talk about

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Speaker 1: the experience there. I mean, you talk about the shoes.

481
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Speaker 1: I think part of it is psychologically something flips in

482
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Speaker 1: your brain that you've now spent money on shoes, so

483
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna be the best damn shoes you've ever had.

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Speaker 3: At kJ Just like Fox in its early days, these

485
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Speaker 3: were the best damn shoes period. V Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now, as for the your euphoria, look o, g it

487
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to run about fifteen seconds off the

488
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Speaker 1: clock and really kill kill it in the final minute,

489
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 1: and he didn't waiting, which could have come back to

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Speaker 1: bite you.

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Speaker 3: But he took a three.

492
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm talking about the dunk. Oh remember when

493
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 1: he went straight in when he could have just dribbled

494
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: it back out and take the time off the clock.

495
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Speaker 1: I was okay with that. Yeah, I was okay with that.

496
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 1: Get the points, don't mess around, get the points. Get there,

497
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: take it twenty seconds off whatever, get the But all

498
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: of that to say, I was watching the game, and

499
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 1: by the end of it, I had my head in

500
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Speaker 1: my hand, going, it's at least one of eighty two,

501
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, because you were losing your mind on every

502
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: possession and you're screaming like a little bit. Monsey was

503
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: scared in the in the news, do you know because

504
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: that was coming through a closed, very thick door.

505
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Speaker 3: Yes, you can still hear.

506
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 1: You could still hear that, So I mean a bit problematic,

507
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: which means you're decimal level, a bit louder than whatever

508
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: those thresholds are. But all of that to say, it's

509
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Speaker 1: it's exciting. It's it's what I always say. It's it's

510
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: like I'd love to be able to ride that lightning,

511
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: and I do it internally. I don't scream it a lot.

512
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: Once in a while you'll get the excited utter int

513
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: where one of my teams is playing like the bulls thing.

514
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: I get into it to a bit, but it's not.

515
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Speaker 1: I'm not living in dying with every possession as there

516
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: are eighty two of them. But for you knowing that

517
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: this this is it, man, the everything has committed and

518
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: Jelly sports the Jets, Woody Johnson slap fighting and saying, hey,

519
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: everything else. I mean, this guy can't play. You gave

520
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: him forty million dollars. Doesn't Man, it's your fault.

521
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 3: Now.

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00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: Here's the downside, okay, because I'm being realistic with dark

523
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: side is if you watch this game right, it's on

524
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 1: ESPN as good as everything else was. Right the end

525
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: of the game, I'm seeing all the stars court side, right,

526
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller, Tracy Morgan, Christine Taylor, Jimmy Fallon, everybody is

527
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: at the game, and I'm watching this game come down

528
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: to where the Knicks were winning. Then at the end

529
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: it becomes Jalen Brunson ISO and Jalen Brunson is always

530
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Speaker 1: good for one turnover the final two minutes of every

531
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Speaker 1: game because they ask him to do it all the time.

532
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: He's always good for a turnover. He turns it over.

533
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: The Cavaliers make it close, the Knicks make a couple

534
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: of shots, and they win the game by by eight,

535
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: and I walked out. I was exhausted, and I'm saying

536
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: to myself, I felt like the Knicks just survived a

537
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: playoff game, maybe like an Eastern Conference Final game. Well

538
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: it was a lot because it was the Cavaliers, and yes,

539
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: it look it's probably an Eastern Conference Final preview, but

540
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: it felt like a playoff game in that last two

541
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Speaker 1: minutes it end. It did, and I'm watching, I'm going

542
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, and I've already jumped in. I feel like

543
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: Brunson is exhausted. I feel like the Nick like this

544
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: is one of eighty two, Like the Knicks are playing

545
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: this game like they're expecting tomorrow. We flipped the page

546
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: back to the Eastern Conference Finals, and that's a tough

547
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: thing for a team knowing that's how far we got

548
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: last year. We have a lot of work to do

549
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: to get back to that point. That sometimes can be

550
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: a really difficult thing mentally. And already we've I feel

551
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: like we've jumped in with the Knicks are killing Brunson minutes,

552
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: all all the stuff he's got down the stretch. We've

553
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: jumped right into Karl Anthony Towns drama. Who again, who

554
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:01,239
Speaker 1: goes from questionable to doubtful to questionable to playing in

555
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: one day. Nobody does that, Like, what's going on with

556
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: I know that Cat? I know that Cat said, Hey,

557
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't know about my role here, and I'm just saying,

558
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: am I counting the days now? However long it's gonna

559
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: be until it's not working with Cat and they try

560
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 1: to make a Yannis trade, like, is it gonna work

561
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: with Cat Launcher? We had a big game tonight, right,

562
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: he played really well, and maybe him being a little

563
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: bit off off the path of reliant on him because

564
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: last year it was more brunts and one Cat one A.

565
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: Maybe now more it's brunts and one and maybe Cat

566
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: and anunobi or kind of one. A is a piece,

567
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of different things you

568
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: can do, and maybe that's better. But I feel like

569
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: we've just jumped right into we have drama built in

570
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 1: with Kat, and I feel like we just played a

571
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: finals game and that's that can be an exhausting regular season.

572
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: It's opening night, and I feel like we needed that

573
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: way Now, maybe I needed it more, but I feel like, wow,

574
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I'm at following that next win, Well,

575
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: it just seems like in the time that passes between

576
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: signing a contract as the co here meeting your roster,

577
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: nothing changed, nobody got traded, and that you're coming back

578
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: with this core that you would have had a bunch

579
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: of meetings upon arrival. All right, here's what we're envisioning

580
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: for you. Here's my board. You know what I am.

581
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: Mike Brown's not an unknown commodity, right, the guy who's

582
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: been around the coaching circles. All these players know him,

583
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: or they're one degree of separation to making a phone

584
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: call to a guy that has played under him before.

585
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: So the fact that there becomes this nebulus Yeah, I

586
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: don't know, not that you're playing a lot of heavy

587
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: minutes in the preseason, but you still it's like the

588
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: to a thing saying the quiet part out loud. Sean

589
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: Payton decided he needed to be petty in front of

590
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: a microphone wood He Johnson saying what he did, It's

591
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: a week of dopes one after the next and cat

592
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: whatever issues he's got unless he's begging to be taken

593
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: out of there, because he may very well be right.

594
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: What was his reputation in Minnesota that he didn't want

595
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: the heat, right, he wanted to be the guy until

596
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: people got mad at him because he wasn't the guy enough.

597
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: And now he goes to New York where it's clearly

598
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: on the shoulders of Jalen Brunson. But there he is

599
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: as one a but he gets trumped by the gritty

600
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: performances of all these other guys. They get the glowing

601
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: reviews of how great they are. He gets the heat

602
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: when he doesn't come up with a monster performance. And

603
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: maybe he's tired of that, And maybe that's more of

604
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: an issue of I don't know what I am because

605
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I just want to be the guy.

606
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: I want to be the guy, but I don't want

607
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: to be the guy, right? How can I be the

608
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: man when you're the man and all that kind of stuff?

609
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: But hey, Ricky, Bobby, how can you lan? But it's

610
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: that thing where maybe he's he's looking at it from

611
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: the I don't really want the smoke that comes with

612
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: being a member of the Knicks because the expectations are

613
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: huge and it's not on Brunson. People have seen him

614
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: clutch like he was sign of an autographs. I showed you

615
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: the guy's doing an art project.

616
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 2: What is it?

617
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Captain clutch. Right, he won that first award because they

618
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: needed to have more awards, the clutch Performer of the year, right,

619
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: So Captain Clutch there I goes. So he's established, he's

620
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: he's got the medal from the Knicks fans. Cat doesn't

621
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: have that. And now we go into a season where

622
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: you already created anks where they didn't need to be

623
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: any I'm already exhausted. It was already the late and

624
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: lighton lurking under the surface, and he decided to dredge it.

625
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 3: I am, I'm already. Oh boy, I got another eighty

626
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 3: one eighty one. Mandy passes off before the season really starts.

627
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: So why they shouldn't have played the Cavaliers night one, man,

628
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: they didn't need that. Trying to find out what's trending

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. Someone who's been called

630
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,479
Speaker 1: the Jalen Brunson of Fox Sports Radio. I see how

631
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: tired she gets sometimes at the end of the night.

632
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: It's Monzi Beloga.

633
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 3: I'm tired all the time, but in a good way,

634
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 3: in a good way.

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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 2: I love Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 7: We'll get to that game in a second.

637
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: The final two.

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 7: Games on this second night of Opening Night.

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Speaker 2: For the NBA.

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00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 7: Really went down to the wire. Kings and Son back

641
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 7: and forth. Suns pulled away in the fourth quarter. Looks

642
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 7: like they're about to beat Sacramento one eighteen to one thirteen.

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00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 7: It's down to the final ten seconds. I guess anything

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Speaker 7: can happen, but it's down to the final ten seconds.

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Speaker 7: The Trailblazers outscored the Timberwolves in every quarter except the

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Speaker 7: fourth quarter, and Minnesota right now is up one eighteen

647
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Speaker 7: to one fourteen with seven seconds to go. Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 7: forty one points into night's game. He's not the only

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Speaker 7: one that had forty points. Victor Ie Binyama had a

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Speaker 7: forty piece today to go along with fifteen rebounds. Spurs

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Speaker 7: beat the Mavericks in Dallas, won twenty five to ninety two.

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Speaker 7: Cooper Flagg in his debut. He went scoreless in the

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Speaker 7: first half, but he did end with ten points and

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Speaker 7: ten rebounds. Anthony Davis twenty two points and thirteen rebounds

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Speaker 7: the next outscored the Cavaliers won nineteen to one. Eleven.

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Speaker 7: Five players ended in double digits for the Knicks. The

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Speaker 7: Magic held on one twenty five to one twenty one

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Speaker 7: against the Heat when Orlando was actually down eight points

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Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter. The seventy six ers survived one

660
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Speaker 7: seventeen to one sixteen against the cel six in Boston

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00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 7: rookie vj Edgecomb and his debut thirty seven points and

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Speaker 7: seven rebounds. The Bulls started their season with the win

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Speaker 7: at home over the Pistons, one fifteen to one eleven.

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Speaker 7: The Jazz scored forty three points in the first quarter

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Speaker 7: and never looked back as they rolled past the Clippers

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Speaker 7: went twenty nine to one.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 7: You know, the Clippers are the oldest team in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: The Jazz are like the third youngest team.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, both teams look that way tonight

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00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Yeah, but shouldn't shouldn't this be where

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00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: the Clippers are just full of all sorts of energy,

673
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: just bursting at the seams. Hey, hey, can't.

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Speaker 7: I was texting my brothers and he's like, oh, I

675
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 7: missed the Clippers game.

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00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 2: I was like, don't watch it.

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00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 3: You miss anything.

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: You watch the Spurs and Mavericks.

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Speaker 3: If you're gonna watch a game, watch the replay the Yeah, Like, you.

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Speaker 7: Do not need to watch the Clippers, trust me. Bucks

681
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 7: defeated the Wizards went thirty three to one twenty, Hornets

682
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 7: top the Nets went thirty six to one seventeen, Raptors

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00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 7: over the Hawks win thirty eight to one eighteen, and

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00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 7: the Grizzlies defeated the Pelicans went eight to one twenty two.

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00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: Memphis had seven players who.

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Speaker 7: Ended in double digits, including all five starters, but Jahn

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00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 7: Morant led the way. He had thirty five points and yes, officially,

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00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 7: Timberwolves win and the Suns win only three games in

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Speaker 7: the NHL.

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00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: The Devils of one six in a row.

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 7: They beat the wild four to one, Sabers over the

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00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 7: Red Wings four to two, and the Canadians edged the

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00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 7: Flames two to one in overtime. Thursday night football Chargers Vikings.

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Speaker 7: Right now, Chargers left tackle Joe All is listed as

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00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 7: questionable because of his high ankle sprain, but earlier in

696
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 7: the week All said that he was ready to play.

697
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 7: Buccaneers have rolled out running back Bucky Irving and wide

698
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 7: receiver Chris Godwin for Week eight against the Saints, and

699
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 7: also Bucks wide receiver Mike Evans officially had surgery on

700
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 7: that shoulder. He's gonna miss eight weeks of action. Commanders

701
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 7: say that they're not going to have Jaden Daniels for

702
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 7: their Week eight Monday Night matchup against the Chiefs because

703
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 7: of a hamstring strain, and Panther's quarterback Bryce Stan didn't

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00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 7: practice today because of a high ankle sprain, while Jet

705
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 7: said coach Aaron Glenn didn't want to name a starting

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Speaker 7: quarterback today.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, we.

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Speaker 1: Can have real, real sort of fantas. Gott to prepare

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00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: for two guys at stink? Is it just one guy

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Speaker 1: who stinks?

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00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 7: Which stink? Preparation do we have to have? That's what

712
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 7: he's trying to not tell the world.

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Speaker 1: They went to the mini goalf? Do you even prepare

714
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: if Justin Fields is playing? Hey, secondary, Hey, you take

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Speaker 1: the rest of the week off. You guys are good.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to complete a pass. They've got ten

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00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: in a box. Yeah, that doesn't matter very much. Well

718
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: consider not just because the Knicks won tonight, but you

719
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Speaker 1: know it's a night to do it, the big opening

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Speaker 1: night of the NBA. So much action. We're going to

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Speaker 1: celebrate the best way we know how. And now that's

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Speaker 1: coming up next right here, the greatest radio game ever.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. It is the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my bes friend Mike Harmon. Bronons Opening Night two in

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Speaker 1: the NBA Big wins by the Knicks, the Spurs.

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 3: The Bulls.

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00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: The balls are one and oh that is right, the

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Speaker 1: Bulls are one and oh like history dance for Chuck Swirsky.

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Speaker 1: There you go in Chicago getting after.

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Speaker 3: Beat the Pistons leg It's nineteen ninety five all over

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Speaker 3: it point.

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Speaker 1: It was a little bit of the controversy towards the

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Speaker 1: end too. They had to overturn a call on Kate

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00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: Cunningham and they actually got the foul call. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were at home. You're on the free throw light. You're

739
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: off the free throw light. You're on the free throw line,

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Speaker 1: you're off the free throw lot. It eat two free

741
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: throws for you. So there is no better way to

742
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: celebrate Opening Night two of the NBA then for the

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00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: first regular season edition of.

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00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 2: And Now It's the Magic Johnson Twitter.

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Speaker 3: Game burn a radio game known to mankind.

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00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: No more obvious and vanilla tweeter in the world than

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00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. I give you a tweet. Your job is simple,

748
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: but is it really simple? You have to tell me

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00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: if this is a tweet by Magic Johnson or made

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00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: up entirely by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Monte Bolanos,

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00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: Justin Frossberg, Alex Tyshert.

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00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 3: Are you ready?

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00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: It is Jorn all right, the existential? What is Magic Johnson?

755
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 3: And he's so serious about it?

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00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: I went to the Lakers game and watch my Lakers

757
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: get beat by the Warriors one nineteen to one oh nine.

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00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: Is that a Magic Johnson tweet?

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00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 2: Hell?

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00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: Yes it is? With six and a half million potential likes?

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00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? That is a man

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00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: leaning into the bit? Thank you, Irvin. I went to

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Speaker 1: the Lakers game and watch my Lakers get beat by

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Speaker 1: the Warriors one nineteen to one oh nine. All right,

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00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: so you're saying yes, yeah, Well I'm listening to us

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00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: right now, either on a yacht or on five seventy

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00:35:58,760 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: lhellu to the.

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00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 7: Yes, it's not I'm never playing this game again.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Did he send that out last night or today?

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00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it was sent out today.

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00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 5: So he was that heartbroken over the loss, yes, that

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00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 5: he couldn't tweet last night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently so takes you out opening night? Great hope.

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00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: So then that's a real tweet.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Alex Tischer, you think you're clever, Jay? Okay.

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Speaker 4: I watched him shake his head and said, I'm not

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00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: going to be there. There's no way he was there.

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 4: That's not a tweet. It's not even his team. It's

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Speaker 4: Jay Moore's.

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00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 3: Okay, that is a magic. Johnson tweets. He's a liar.

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00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 3: He's a liar.

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: Wemby proved he is a true superstar with a forty

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00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 1: point game on opening night for the Spurs. Oh that's

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00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: too immediate?

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00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: Is that that a magic? We're playing the game now.

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00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: But do we normally get that instant?

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Speaker 5: Feet?

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00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: Am I thinking about it? To that said, the game

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00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: gets more difficult the more you think about it. I'm

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00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: gonna say it's not. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?

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00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 1: All right, it's not, Monsie.

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Speaker 3: Can you read it one more time?

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00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Please? Forty points for Wemby tonight in a big opening

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Speaker 1: night victory for the Spurs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he likes to tweet.

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00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 3: The obvious that is that is that is a magic?

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00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 5: Is magic? Johnson's right, Frostburg, I'm gonna say no, because

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Speaker 5: he didn't give the score.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, all right.

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Speaker 4: I'm still upset he's a liar. Okay, it's definitely not

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Speaker 4: his team.

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Speaker 1: TRULYE just taking it, taking him to a bad space

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 3: It's not cool.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 1: Then we got a reference to former Fox Sports radio

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Speaker 1: colleague j Moore.

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Speaker 4: In there, ty shirt, What are you gonna say? Oh gosh,

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Speaker 4: shoot it? Is there a period or exclamation point? Yes,

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Speaker 4: there's a there's a there's a period.

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Speaker 2: And the next gonna.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, no, that is not magic Johnson tweet,

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Speaker 3: Magic's letting me down.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks got twenty three points from Jalen Brunson, twenty

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Speaker 1: four points and fourteen rebounds from og An Unobi, and

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Speaker 1: nineteen points and eleven rebounds from Karl Anthony Towns in

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Speaker 1: their one nineteen one eleven win. Is that a magic

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Speaker 1: Johnson tweet? The Knicks got twenty three points from Jalen Brunson,

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Speaker 1: twenty four points and fourteen rebounds from og Anunobi, and

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Speaker 1: nineteen points and eleven rebounds from Karl Anthony Towns in

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Speaker 1: their one nineteen one eleven win. Did he give you

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Speaker 1: the number fi his beeper service? So you get the

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Speaker 1: up to date scores sports phone.

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Speaker 3: I know, oh nine seventy six one three one three.

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Speaker 2: We are too old.

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Speaker 1: A magic Johnson. Yeah, yeah, I'll go on board with that.

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Speaker 1: It's got the stats, got.

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Speaker 7: The absolutely not he doesn't even know what stats he's

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Speaker 7: talking about.

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Speaker 1: Wow, he's as driven guy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's not it. Okay, who's he talking about the Knicks?

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Speaker 1: And what happens if you have to interact with him

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Speaker 1: the next time he comes to Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna be like I did, because you don't

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Speaker 7: know stats about the Knicks like that?

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Speaker 2: Niche you okay?

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Speaker 3: All right, Frostburg, what do you think I want to say?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Because he never tweets about the G League?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that was good.

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Speaker 1: There's a microphone. Figure out how to drop it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that was good. Yeah, that's that's good. I can

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Speaker 3: tell you my Lakers knock knock, my Lakers, ready, knock knock?

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Speaker 3: Who's that? Owens?

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Speaker 1: Who ohen one? I'm hungry?

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Speaker 3: All right, ty Shirt? What do you got on this?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You just did a joke. What are

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Speaker 3: we doing?

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Speaker 1: I just did a Now you have to know is

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Speaker 1: that was a bad joke is that that was a

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Speaker 1: pretty good joke.

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Speaker 3: Did you laugh?

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Speaker 4: Not?

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Speaker 3: The knock knock jokes work as long as the team

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Speaker 3: has No.

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Speaker 1: I laughed. You know how many weeks my friends been

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Speaker 1: calling me with the with the knock knock joke for

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Speaker 1: the Jets, knock knock?

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Speaker 3: Who's there? O?

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Speaker 4: And O and who oh w and four and five

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Speaker 4: and six. I'm gonna do it, I'm sure, ten and twelve. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's good about you for picking up.

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Speaker 3: I'll do it for you with the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, as soon as i'd see

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Speaker 1: that area code, I'm out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's not a tweet, not a tweet really.

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Speaker 5: Not a tweet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, that yeah.

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Speaker 1: Knicks tweet is in fact no, no magic Johnson tweet.

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Speaker 1: My only thing was aute quick turn around though.

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Speaker 3: It had the points, it had the score, it had everything.

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Speaker 1: No the thing though, but I mean they got it

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Speaker 1: right with it and the no. I I felt for

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Speaker 1: the ropid dope. But my whole thing is timing. He's

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Speaker 1: normally that not that immediate, all right, That service usually

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Speaker 1: fails there. It is exit about of Fresca, exit Swallen

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Speaker 1: Dome night one of the magic Johnson Welcome Home Magic.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get into an electric NFL topic

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