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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire? Fam?

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Speaker 3: It's me Rob json and with Jason McIntyre on Straight

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Speaker 3: Fire for Monday, June twenty third, doing my best Jay

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Speaker 3: mc impersonation. J Mack checking in from Parts unknown, interrupting

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Speaker 3: his much deserved vacation to give you some takes because

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Speaker 3: it was an incredible day in the NBA on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: starting off Kevin Durant traded to Houston. We'll get into that,

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Speaker 3: and capped off with the Oklahoma City Thunder taking down

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Speaker 3: the Indiana Pacers in Game.

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Speaker 2: Seven of the NBA.

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Speaker 3: J Mack, I know you're sad to be, you know,

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Speaker 3: taking a time away from the family in this vacation

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Speaker 3: where you're not wearing a shirt.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I can tell why are you doing this?

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Speaker 2: First off, why are you doing this?

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Speaker 4: Let's be real. I love sports.

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Speaker 5: It's not a vacation. It is a supporting event that

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Speaker 5: I'm attending that is so fun. And I did watch

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Speaker 5: all of Game seven with some dads. It was exciting

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Speaker 5: for a few moments and then very sad and then

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Speaker 5: kind of exciting and then crappy. But I would be

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Speaker 5: keep it real with you, Rob so listen. When I'm

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Speaker 5: watching my kids play sports, I'm locked in. Yeah, I'm recording,

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Speaker 5: you know, all the action. I'm talking to parents, I'm

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Speaker 5: checking the score. You know, I'm doing a little coaching

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Speaker 5: when I shouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Be all that crap.

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Speaker 5: And I was not checking texts at all. And I

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Speaker 5: think like an hour went by before I saw Kevin

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Speaker 5: Durant got traded, and I was like, oh, And honestly,

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Speaker 5: I didn't like totally panic. I just said to some guys, oh,

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Speaker 5: Durank got traded to the Rockets. They were like, wow, Okay.

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Speaker 5: I didn't even know the whole for hours. So I

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Speaker 5: had to catch up on it, you know, like liquid

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Speaker 5: lunch and then some adult beverages, and here we are.

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Speaker 5: I know you're locked in on the deal, but start

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Speaker 5: with the finals because obviously Tyrese Haliburton going down just devastating.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely the biggest news of that game, unfortunately happened early

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Speaker 3: unfortunately you and I called about a week and a

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Speaker 3: half ago before Game six, when it was reported that

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Speaker 3: he had an MRI and he had a seriously strained

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Speaker 3: or seriously strained Calf and we talked about on that

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Speaker 3: podcast about half the episode honestly about whether or I

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Speaker 3: should play in Game six because history says you do

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Speaker 3: not want to have another Kevin Durant situation on your

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Speaker 3: even though he's clearly hobbled and he's clearly dealing with

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Speaker 3: an issue that historically has led to worse injuries that

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Speaker 3: the longer you play on it. And credit to Tyre's

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Speaker 3: Halliburton played pretty well in Game six where they will

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Speaker 3: to play limited minutes, and that led a lot of

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Speaker 3: people in the sports media space. They see and the

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Speaker 3: heart of a champion, you know, he's got to play,

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Speaker 3: He's gotta play. This is the Finals. Well, early in

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Speaker 3: like Gangbusters, puts the ball on the deck, immediately grabs

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Speaker 3: his achilles and you could see him. It was such

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Speaker 3: it is. And now obviously that puts a big dark

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Speaker 3: cloud over this championship for OKC just quickly came before

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Speaker 3: I get your thoughts on this one, depending which Twitter

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Speaker 3: eighth achilles tear of the season. I think there's confusion

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Speaker 3: the list of confirmed six Tyre's Halliburn, Jason Tatum, Damien Little,

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Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, wasn't there a guy on the Utah

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Speaker 3: Is an NBA record. Now, gosh, just quickly your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Should he have been playing? And how do you think

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Speaker 4: I think I've told the story.

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Speaker 5: So during COVID I started hosting pickup games and two

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Speaker 5: guys popped their achilles, and then I played. I got

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've just I've been around this a lot.

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Speaker 5: he had a great game six and we had like

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Speaker 5: it's not now. Not only do you you know obviously

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Speaker 5: I don't like, is he gonna ever be back to

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Speaker 5: But I don't know that he was ever Warriors KB.

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Speaker 5: This is just super sad, rob. It's just I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know, I'm trying to be positive, and the only

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Speaker 4: Like wow, Celtics and Pacers are down.

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Speaker 5: Pacers went to the conference finals two years in a row,

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Speaker 5: and now you lose Haliburton. You're like, you're still got

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Speaker 5: But I don't know, man, it's just super depressing seeing

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Speaker 4: He's like twenty six years old. Something.

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Speaker 5: It's something's got to be I don't know what you

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Speaker 3: I saw a lot of people trying to speculate what

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Speaker 3: you know it's because he's wearing those Puma sneakers and

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Speaker 3: I think that the truth is, and this is talking

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Speaker 3: You know, two weeks ago, they were talking about breaking

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Speaker 5: I forgot Orlando. Good, great call, Paolo Bancaro takes a step.

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Speaker 5: We'll see what the Knicks coaches, but I think Orlando

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Speaker 4: They are four. Detroit a sleeper potentially.

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Speaker 5: All this Miami smoke around chasing Kevin Durant, I don't

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Speaker 5: And obviously you know you got like Atlanta lurking if

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Speaker 4: With the contract. You then say Paul George will take him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what, Jay I just you mentioned

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Speaker 3: I think this is the bad decision if Milwaukee talks

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Speaker 3: themselves into you know what, we got Giannis and this

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Speaker 3: Eastern Conference is suddenly more wide open than it's been,

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Speaker 3: you know what since Lebron left. So if we have

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Speaker 3: Obviously, halliburnon, we push him with speedy recovery and hopefully

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Speaker 3: he's back full go in two years.

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Speaker 2: But it kind of put a big cloud.

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Speaker 3: Over what should have been the Oklahoma City Coronation SGA

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Speaker 3: completed arguably the greatest individual season by a guard in NBH.

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Speaker 3: I know you don't like MGA.

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Speaker 2: I know you call him a.

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Speaker 3: Foul merchant, but let me just read some stuff to

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Speaker 3: All right, there are only nine players who have won finals,

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Speaker 3: MVP and MP in the same season. MJ Lebron, Kareem, Moses, Byrd, Magic,

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Speaker 3: Duncan shack A, Keem Read and now SGA. And here's

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Speaker 3: a better one. Only four players have won the MVP,

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Speaker 3: the scoring title and a championship in the same season. Kareem, Magic,

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Speaker 3: sh At Shay. Are you ready now?

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Speaker 4: Well is a guard.

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Speaker 5: There's no way you can say Shay had a better

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Speaker 3: So okay, are you ready to rescind the foul merchant

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Speaker 3: label and admit.

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Speaker 4: No, the free throw merchant label? Fix. I'm sorry that's

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Speaker 2: Bro, But Shay had a great season. Will you? Will

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Speaker 5: Yes, Shaye had a great season. He's deserved m VP.

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Speaker 5: No, it's just tough to like be like, well that

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Speaker 5: They still had to go to Lebron, But yes, SGA

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Speaker 4: Congrats. Now let's move on to Kevin time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well I just can't get excited.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I'll just go on record and it

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Speaker 3: Big story of the day, the one that's getting everybody

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Speaker 3: excited because not what it means just for this season,

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Speaker 3: Durant traded to the Houston Rockets. Here's the exact terms

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Speaker 3: of the deal. Houston's gonna send Dylan Brooks Jalen Green

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Speaker 5: I mean, listen, this is pretty much what we've been

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Speaker 5: saying all along. I just jotted down rom as you

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Speaker 4: Thompson's one yes, shen Good is two yes, and.

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Speaker 5: Jalen Green would have been in that mix. But the

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Speaker 4: They love him.

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Speaker 5: He was a lottery pick. Cam Whitmore has shown flashes.

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Speaker 5: I think he had a forty point game. He's super young,

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Speaker 5: has shown flashes. Rob that's six really good young players.

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Speaker 5: They've stacked with good young players, and all Phoenix was

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Speaker 5: able to get with Jalen Green just so the salaries

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Speaker 4: It's similar to like OKAC.

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Speaker 5: After they made that one big deal to get Shay,

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Speaker 5: to go ahead and guess that either Brooks or Jalen

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Speaker 4: They need to get picks. Those two guys are not

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Speaker 5: Their three best players are Beal Booker and Green who

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Speaker 4: Bial's got to lift his no trade clause.

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Speaker 5: But like that is a weak asshole for Kevin Durant

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Speaker 5: They would rather give Booker the extension that he's going

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Speaker 4: I've already forgotten.

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Speaker 5: But somebody has Phoenix's first next year, and frankly, you

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Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to be very good. I

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Speaker 5: They've got to, you know, sometimes you gotta just bought

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Speaker 4: Ask for Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 5: He goes to a pretty damn good Rockets team brob

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Speaker 5: They was the number two scene in the West. People

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Speaker 5: forget that because they lost in Game seven. But the

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Speaker 5: it was like bro like with Kevin Durant. They've become

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Speaker 5: great fit for KD in Houston. I'm assuming they're going

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Speaker 5: to keep Fred van Vliet. This is certainly a top

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I'm gonna go work backwards from where you said,

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Speaker 2: Check this list out.

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Speaker 3: The Sun's twenty seven, the Nets twenty seven, the Rockets,

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Speaker 2: Another big fish.

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Speaker 3: This I'm not gonna get y honest, but they potentially

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Speaker 2: They could give it pitch Shane Goon and a couple of.

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Speaker 3: gonna blow your mind. Here's Jalen Green's on off net

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Speaker 3: Second year plus one point five is a great big improvement.

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Speaker 3: He is empty calories. Okay, he is not doing anything

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Speaker 4: Wait, what about the young guy?

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Speaker 2: But but what that.

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Speaker 3: just you know, take your chance in lottery. But now

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Speaker 3: if you have say what you want is still your

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Speaker 3: second best player, clearly, and you're gonna buy him out

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Speaker 3: because of his contract situation, Phoenix is destined to live

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Speaker 3: somewhere with that nine to twelve range for the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 3: and it's all bad for Phoenix fans.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 5: That is devastating. I didn't realize that that they would

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Speaker 5: actually buy him out. I mean, goodness, gracious, train wreck.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting. You were just explaining how Green is kind

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Speaker 5: of toxic empty calories. Does that remind you of the

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Speaker 5: Monta Ellis Steph Curry situation in Golden State? Mont Alis,

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Speaker 5: who I thought was electrifying, was a similar guy, and

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Speaker 5: they were like, well we got Monte Allis and Curry,

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Speaker 5: what do we do?

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Speaker 4: Moved off mont Alis and got way better.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that Shepherd is willing ready to make

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Speaker 5: that leap, but I mean, Amen Thompson might be.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I just hope.

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Speaker 5: I doubt Amen Thompson's growth would be hindered by Katie

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Speaker 5: soaking up offense.

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Speaker 4: But they got options, and they got a good coach.

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Speaker 4: I like Udoka a lot.

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Speaker 5: The Knicks, by the way, tried to get him, and

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Speaker 5: the Rockets basically laughed, and I think gave Udoka an extension,

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Speaker 5: right right, right, So this does make the draft a

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Speaker 5: little more intriguing. I put out my last mock draft

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Speaker 5: for Fox Sports. I think it came out Friday. Obviously

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Speaker 5: it did not have the number ten pick going to Phoenix.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that they're going to get a game changer.

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Speaker 5: Like you don't just automatically go say I'll give me

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Speaker 5: a big I need to be desperate like, that's not

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Speaker 5: how you do it. I think they're probably going to

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Speaker 5: spend the week trying to move off Green and Brooks.

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Speaker 5: Even regardless of what that guy in Phoenix says, like

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Speaker 5: if you could flip Green for a three and D

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Speaker 5: or a point guard, they still don't have a point guard.

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Speaker 2: Or a or a power fan. What they did the guards.

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Speaker 2: They got plenty of shooting guards and nothing else.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting, real quick.

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Speaker 5: I know we're running out of time here, but to

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Speaker 5: go back to the odds of obviously okay Ce's favorite

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Speaker 5: to repeat, but did you say it was Lakers, Warriors?

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Speaker 3: Rockets were next that That was no, I saw it

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Speaker 3: was Oka see Heavy, and then it was Cleveland, New

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Speaker 3: York because the Eastern Conference is so wide open. And

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Speaker 3: what I saw after that was a glut of Western

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Speaker 3: Conference teams headlined by Lakers, Rockets, Warriors.

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Speaker 4: Interesting. I know people are selling the Lakers stock.

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Speaker 5: They were third in the West, folks, despite a seismic

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Speaker 5: trade that totally flipped their team in the middle of

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Speaker 5: the season, and they finished third in the West. So

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Speaker 5: this idea that Luca and Lebron in year two won't

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Speaker 5: get way better. Oh, by the way, Luca and Kyrie

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Speaker 5: in year one, missed the playoffs, they tanked at the end,

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Speaker 5: kept their pick, and guess where they were the next

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Speaker 5: year in the finals. So I'm definitely not ruling out

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Speaker 5: the Lakers, and I will maintain that Luca owns Okasey

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Speaker 5: and there is zero fear from Luca and Lebron about

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Speaker 5: those guys.

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Speaker 4: They got their title. That's great, that's awesome. Congrats.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm not going to go for I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to trash them as they celebrate their championship.

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Speaker 4: And listen, they won the title. You can't take that away.

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Speaker 4: The Raptors got their title.

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Speaker 5: Who cares that Kevin Durrea went down, you know, Like,

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Speaker 5: I can make comments all I want, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 5: They're still the champions, just as okay Ce is. And

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Speaker 5: it's pretty good for Presty. You know, it took them forever.

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Speaker 5: Presty got them to the doorstep k D. Harden and

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Speaker 5: Westbrook and then foolishly blew it up. Maybe he foolishly

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Speaker 5: does something goofy like Bill gives Jalen Williams a Max

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Speaker 5: like I'm sorry, he's not a super Max guy, or

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Speaker 5: even I don't know it know if he's a max player.

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Speaker 4: He's really good, but is he a max guy rock?

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Speaker 3: I mean, in today's NBA, he's gonna have to be.

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Speaker 3: I mean they decided that their max guys are Shay

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Speaker 3: Jet and j duv.

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Speaker 4: Ched had a hell of a game six. He was everywhere.

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Speaker 4: He actually made a three pointer.

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Speaker 5: Games to get a quick shout out to uh Ben

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Speaker 5: Matherin and TJ McConnell to make it the game moderately interesting.

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Speaker 5: Matherin's going to be a bucket next year. I don't

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Speaker 5: know who does fantasy, but you gotta draft that. I mean,

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Speaker 5: did you see him going to the basket. He essentially

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Speaker 5: was like, I can do this by myself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And then TJ McConnell was doing it by

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Speaker 3: himself for a stretch and everyone was getting all excited like, oh,

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Speaker 3: he's keeping a minute, and then you looked down it's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: he also had like six turnovers, and then two other

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Speaker 3: plays that resulted in turnovers.

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Speaker 2: It's basically eight. So tough now for the McConnell family.

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Speaker 5: But hey, thanks man for jumping on and kind of

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you can label this an emergency pod,

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Speaker 5: but yeah, I wasn't gonna do one. Listen if you

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Speaker 5: onits gets traded, I will be doing another one otherwise.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you back on Thursday. Thursday after the NBA Draft.

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Speaker 4: Very very excited for that. Thanks Robbie.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you then.