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Speaker 1: Welcome to this league, uncutting in the world of twenty

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Speaker 1: four NBA news. Just dude, you lose Chris Shine did

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Speaker 1: go time? Mark Stein did show time. Shuklaka Christine and

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Speaker 1: Mark Stein. This link uncut, just underway and on fire.

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Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Yes, this will be

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Speaker 1: a good one. I know I say this all the time,

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Speaker 1: but no, this this is a good one. Right here.

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing on my guy. Y'all know who he is, man,

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Speaker 1: I've been covering him his whole NBA career, his path

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Speaker 1: from Weeber State to NBA Star, seven time NBA All Star.

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Speaker 1: Here in Salt Lake City, Portland Trail Blazers All Star,

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, Dame Man, thanks for coming on with me

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Speaker 1: and Mark Stein on this league uncut man. How you feeling, brother?

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Speaker 1: You know you in Salt Lake right now? What's going on? Burgess?

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Speaker 1: Headed to practice? Headed to this All Star practice? The

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Speaker 1: sprainer of my family just headed down. Man. It's baking

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Speaker 1: my way through the weekend. Is this even more special?

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Speaker 1: You know we were State is right not too far

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Speaker 1: from from Salt Lake. Is this any more special than

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Speaker 1: any other All Star appearances? I think it is just

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Speaker 1: the warnest I feel like every other All Star Wars,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the New Orleans short that you know

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Speaker 1: it's on site of the city Atlanta. I think LA

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Speaker 1: was probably the closest, but you know that it be

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Speaker 1: from northern California. That's only tides I really had there.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that I went to school here and

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Speaker 1: lived here four years, you know, and I didn't moved

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Speaker 1: around these parts, you know a lot, so a lot

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Speaker 1: of familiar faces, a lot of you know, friends and

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Speaker 1: the family that I may hear. So I think that

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Speaker 1: makes it a little more special one with so many

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Speaker 1: guards in the West, Like is there a point where

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Speaker 1: you're worried that you might get xed out? Because obviously

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Speaker 1: you guys are basically in the five hundred zone winning wise,

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Speaker 1: Like how do you approach Like obviously you've been an

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Speaker 1: All Star a zillion times before, but is it something

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Speaker 1: that you stress over? I would say in the past

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Speaker 1: more so, you know, being Hayes had those conversations like man,

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Speaker 1: what it is looking like right now? Like our record

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Speaker 1: versus other people's records and stuff like that. But I

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Speaker 1: just think this time where I would say, these days,

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Speaker 1: I don't really you know, stress or press about it

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Speaker 1: as much, you know, like you said, I've made it

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Speaker 1: quite a few times now. You know, you when you're younger,

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Speaker 1: you want to be in the mix. You know, you

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Speaker 1: want to be there and you want that experience, you

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Speaker 1: want that acknowledgment. And I think the older you get,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's still an honor and it's still a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to to you know, to get picked. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think it's as much of a stressor

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Speaker 1: you know, once you get later in your career as

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Speaker 1: it is in the beginning. So you know, now I'm

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Speaker 1: not obviously you're gonna look around and be like, man,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know what you do, look at what

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Speaker 1: the chances are. But I wouldn't say I press over

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Speaker 1: it at all. Start. Let me tell you this stun

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Speaker 1: when Um he sat out last year. We most of

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Speaker 1: last year he got he had his um surgery on

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Speaker 1: his APTNOM and he was recovering, you know, working his

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Speaker 1: way back, rehapping back, and he would send me clips

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Speaker 1: of his workouts. You know, as he's progressing in each

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Speaker 1: year he'll be like, Haynes, I'm getting there, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: people felt like he might be on the decline, you know, Dame,

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Speaker 1: is his his body is breaking down. You know, more

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Speaker 1: injuries are compelling now at this stage of his career.

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna be able to return to form? He

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Speaker 1: got that big new extension, a big max extension um

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Speaker 1: last summer, and now you look at this season he's having.

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Speaker 1: He had the most he had the sixty point game

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Speaker 1: was the sufficient sixty point game in NBA history. And

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Speaker 1: he's having the best year of his career right now

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Speaker 1: statistically all across the board. Dame, are you surprising yourself?

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Speaker 1: Like you knew you're gonna come back, but the level

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, because you know, I was, I was playing,

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Speaker 1: Frank's last year when I just I had to have surgery.

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Speaker 1: But once I realized, once I started to get healthy,

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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, it's gonna be troubled out there.

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Speaker 1: And I told you that before before the season started,

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Speaker 1: Chris is exactly right. Then. In the media, that's how

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Speaker 1: we think. How does the athlete block out thoughts like that?

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Speaker 1: How do you block out doubt? Well, I think because

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Speaker 1: as media, y'all don't feeling y'all just are you guys

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Speaker 1: You know, I was just kind of rested training during recovery.

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Speaker 1: watching it. You know, y'all got to just take our

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Speaker 1: tune that noise out. I think it's hard to tune

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't even say I tuned it out.

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Speaker 1: I just, you know, documented I just recognize it what

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Speaker 1: just not possible. Um. You know, I just had more

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Speaker 1: It wasn't that I just didn't acknowledge it or didn't

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Speaker 1: know that that it was possible reality, this is happening before,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a concern because of how I feel

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Speaker 1: about big trades made across the League. Kevin Durant going

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Speaker 1: But one guy I want to talk about, particularly the

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Speaker 1: you know, trading them back to Golden State. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I thought he, you know, he was showing us that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, obviously, when you've missed that, many games

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Speaker 1: don't take time, and then you know, the trade happens,

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Speaker 1: all these things come out out performing staff, all of

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Speaker 1: those things, And I honestly don't know the exact dynamic

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Speaker 1: I've been around on my own career. He's always been

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't really go all the four details,

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Speaker 1: lot of miscommunications that happened. But obviously with it being

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Speaker 1: Gary is still dealing with some pain and with stress,

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Speaker 1: which is something that's possible when you come up with

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Speaker 1: that happen. In all my years covering League, I kind

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Speaker 1: of feel like the Achilles is the most dreaded injury

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Speaker 1: there is a core injury that requires surgery that has

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Speaker 1: the Achilles because the core injury is it does like

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot away from you when when you're

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Speaker 1: the bench for a while, I would be like, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can I don't know if

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Speaker 1: a bad night as far as like my comfort. But

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Speaker 1: I performed. I performed it All Start Saturday at in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, So I really have done everything everything. Hey, well,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna get you with that. Hey that's that's six.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna get you with that last one you just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I did all of literally everything you could do on

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Speaker 1: All Start Saturday and Sunday. I do so amongst Star players.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys talk about the Dunk Contest like you know,

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Speaker 1: for us on the outside, we always want big names

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Speaker 1: That's painful. I think we get into the point where

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Speaker 1: and it might it might end up being that way.

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Speaker 1: But most you know, hopefully we get a you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we see something good. But Dane, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: you out of here, bro, Man. I appreciate you. Man,

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Speaker 1: you and a sprinter on the way to practice. Man

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Speaker 1: giving us some time. Man, you know, I ain't got

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Speaker 1: a number of for you. Man. Appreciate you, Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the season. Haynes in the

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Speaker 1: clutch again, making interviews happen that otherwise would not. That

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Speaker 1: was awesome to get Dame Lillard on the way to

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Speaker 1: All Star practice because it's a circus. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: that was that was a very nice surprise. Another point

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Speaker 1: for Haynes in the scorebook. That does it for this

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Speaker 1: edition of This League Uncut. Chris and I will be

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Speaker 1: back very very soon with Moore and as always everyone,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening, Thanks for your support, Please rate, review, subscribe.

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Speaker 1: Haynes and I back with another episode later this week.

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Speaker 1: Take care and that'll do it for us, See you

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Speaker 1: next time. This League Uncut is an iHeartRadio production.