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Speaker 1: Straight Fire Jason McIntyre, Tuesday, March twenty three, A fun

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Speaker 1: lost to the Houston Rockets, who had lost twenty straight games.

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Speaker 1: So I think Kyle Lowry hits the market. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the Clippers can afford it, but we know

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Speaker 1: they need a point guard. And I think the other

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Speaker 1: big name is your guy, Alonzo Ball. I I know

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Speaker 1: Rob g was captain Alonzo ball fan club when he

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Speaker 1: came to the Lakers. Well, actually Rob was captaining the

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Speaker 1: fan club with Magic Johnson Um and now Alonzo Ball

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Speaker 1: could be on his way out of New Orleans third

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Speaker 1: team in what four years? Where are you Alonzo right now? Rob? Well,

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Speaker 1: Alonzo Ball, I think that from everything that I've been told,

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Speaker 1: they he is very much on the market. And it's

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Speaker 1: not that they don't think he's a good player, that

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Speaker 1: he's not a good fit with their offense. It's that

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Speaker 1: he wants a ton of money in free agency coming

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Speaker 1: up this summer because his dad, like, you know, we

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Speaker 1: took all his money and then bankrupted or stolen by

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Speaker 1: by that big baller brand friend of theirs. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: he probably needs money. And listen, I'm all, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you are too, Rob, Get that paper, Alonzo right, get paid? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean listen, these leagues, we're all we're all one

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Speaker 1: injury away from being done. So go ahead. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would founder Alonso take as much money as anybody will

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Speaker 1: give me, if that means it's the Houston Rockets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get paid. Oh yeah, And I think

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Speaker 1: if you you know, we live in l A, so

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Speaker 1: we know all about this, but the rest of America,

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Speaker 1: who doesn't know? There's such thing in basketball as the

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Speaker 1: clutch sports tax? Which means, if you are a client

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Speaker 1: of Clutch Sports, the Lebron James Rich Paul Group, you're

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Speaker 1: whatever you think that that guy's worth, ad like three

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Speaker 1: to five million to it. And so Lonzo Ball is

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Speaker 1: reportedly looking for twenty plus million dollars per stop. And

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Speaker 1: that is why the Pelicans are saying, even though he's

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Speaker 1: a restrict free agent, we'd rather trade him, get something

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Speaker 1: for him, then be forced to put to a decision.

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Speaker 1: We have to match a twenty contract off because he wants.

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Speaker 1: Let's humor him and just quickly, I look at the Remember,

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Speaker 1: he's a point guard. If you paid a point guard

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Speaker 1: twenty mill, he's got to be starting. Okay, you tell me. So.

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Speaker 1: If you're getting twenty mill, you're probably the number two

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Speaker 1: player on a team, right, Yes, Not a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams are paying their third best player twenty mill. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna well, this will be quick and

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Speaker 1: will not take long. Seventy sixers are they taking on

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Speaker 1: Alonzo Ball at twenty mill? No? Are the Brooklyn Nets? No?

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Speaker 1: Are the Milwaukee Bucks. No are the Miami Heat, No

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks who have trede Young. Yes. The reason the

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Speaker 1: reason why I say yes, The reason why I say

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Speaker 1: yes is because in the Athletic which which had a

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Speaker 1: lot of this broken down, the Hawks were mentioned as

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Speaker 1: a team that's interested in getting it the way John Collins.

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Speaker 1: And the reason being is because they don't think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep John Collins because they have a glut of

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Speaker 1: big men all of a sudden after drafting that kid

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Speaker 1: from US see what yeah, what uh? Who's their center's name?

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Speaker 1: And Compella's doing and DeAndre Hunter might be able to

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Speaker 1: play with small ball force and they don't really need

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Speaker 1: another big man, and so they're they're thinking, allegedly, is

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Speaker 1: that they could have Lonzo Will be the point at

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Speaker 1: certain aspects and get Trey off the ball more, which

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Speaker 1: is the whole reason they brought in Region Rondo was

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Speaker 1: to do the kind of same kind of thing. The

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Speaker 1: difference is that Alonzo Ball can shoot. I'm like Region Rondo.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, he's had one good season shooting in the contract.

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Speaker 1: You're good luck paying that, um that some of the

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Speaker 1: other guys that you brought up, Shark, Charlotte Horn Waite,

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Speaker 1: other what well, there's other the names that you brought

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Speaker 1: up earlier in wait, wait, I want to get through

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Speaker 1: Alonzo real quickly. Charlotte Hornet's obviously not that's that's a

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Speaker 1: pipe and there's no way Jordan is doing that unless

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Speaker 1: you want to. Yeah, and they've already got uh Rogier Graham,

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Speaker 1: Malik Monk is playing well. Celtics, No Chicago Bulls. I

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Speaker 1: personally don't see it. The GM is like a European dude.

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Speaker 1: I would with them if I was there. Kobe White,

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Speaker 1: Kobe White's not very good. Well, he's cheaper. And what's

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Speaker 1: them wins? Between Kobe White and Alonzo Ball? Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: you are Alonzo fan rob No. I don't think he's bad.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he's that great, But I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's bad either. I think he's better on

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Speaker 1: a good team than he is on a bad team. Right,

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Speaker 1: but the good teams a paying him twenty mill Like

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Speaker 1: maybe what his move is is take a one year deal,

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Speaker 1: go to a good team for like ten million dollars,

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Speaker 1: win a ring or get close to it, show your

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Speaker 1: value on a good team, and then somebody will pay you.

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Speaker 1: Because like the Indiana Pacers have Brogdon, they're not paying him.

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Speaker 1: The Raptors have Van Fleet, they're not paying him. The

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Speaker 1: Calves have all guards Garlands Sexton, they're not paying him.

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Speaker 1: The Wizards no way, they can't afford it. They have

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Speaker 1: Beal Westbrook That no Orlando Magic. I think they invested

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Speaker 1: in Faults, didn't they? And the Detroit Pistons are the

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Speaker 1: only other option and they're totally rebuilding, and there is

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Speaker 1: no way on earth of all the players are gonna give.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be Lenzo Ball. So then you go to

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Speaker 1: the West and it's like Jazz no way, Conley Sons nope,

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Speaker 1: Lakers nope, Clippers nope, Nuggets uh want him, but they

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Speaker 1: don't have the assets to get it. It's the problem. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Lonzo would love to come back to l

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Speaker 1: a uh Portland Troll Blazers ha, san Antonio Spurs no way,

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Speaker 1: would Pop if you ever take him? Dallas Mavericks no shot.

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors Nope, what what? Yes? You keep saying

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Speaker 1: no to these teams that are reportedly in on him.

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Speaker 1: One of them is Golden State. So Golden State did

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Speaker 1: not want to draft LaMelo Ball, but they're gonna trade

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Speaker 1: for a Lonzo I'm just telling you what's being reported.

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Speaker 1: They're in on him because he's a ball mover, he

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Speaker 1: can defend, and he's interchangeable with Steph Curry. The Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry Tray Young thing is kind of the same thing,

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Speaker 1: where they're just as good, probably even better off the

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Speaker 1: ball than they are on the ball. Steph Curry is

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Speaker 1: not at the best Curry Tray Young thing, like they're

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Speaker 1: groups together. There's levels, there's levels. Obviously you know Steph

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Speaker 1: is a much higher level player. But okay, even you

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Speaker 1: can admit that Steps at his best when he's coming

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Speaker 1: down pin downs and on off back screens and flaring

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Speaker 1: out to the three point line, not when he has

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Speaker 1: to do a high pick and roll and pass it

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Speaker 1: down to Draymond Green. Guess the problem is when you

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Speaker 1: have to give up assets for a guy who's gonna

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Speaker 1: want twenty mill and you're not paying him twenty mill

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Speaker 1: in next year because you've got Clay coming back and

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Speaker 1: you have that Minnesota Timberwolves pick, which could be like

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Speaker 1: four or five or six or whatever. Um, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't see that. So then you, by the way, Rob,

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Speaker 1: we could throw all these teams like the Thunder. All

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Speaker 1: they're doing is stockpiling picks. They don't want to give

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Speaker 1: anybody twenty mill. The Sacramento Kings have Dear and Fox,

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Speaker 1: the Rockets are doing the same thing, they're bottoming out,

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Speaker 1: and the Timberwolves have D'Angelo Russell. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: who these guys are speculating about Alonzo Ball. I would

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Speaker 1: say almost certainly he does not get traded. And let

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Speaker 1: me just make my theory here. Okay, you can laugh

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Speaker 1: at me. The media is in the game of clicks.

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Speaker 1: I started a website, Okay, I sold said website. I

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Speaker 1: know that clicks matter. At the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: If the clicks aren't there, the money's not coming in.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying people are throwing up hypothetical

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Speaker 1: Alonzo Ball trades to get clicks. But for a guy

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Speaker 1: who's about to be a free agent, who has a

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Speaker 1: big name and had a brand coming into the league

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Speaker 1: and people are interested in him, Yeah, you put Alonzo's

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Speaker 1: name out there, it's gonna click. Now. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: it's untoward and people are doing it maliciously, But who

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Speaker 1: else is who? What are the players are out there?

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Speaker 1: I'm guarantee you no bigness like John Collins. He probably

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Speaker 1: would be a bigger difference maker than Alonzo at the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline. But nobody gives a ship about John Collins. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: John Collins and him player. But I took a shift

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Speaker 1: on Kate cunning and yesterday and you followed what you

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Speaker 1: said about John Collins. People listen, good player, but again

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Speaker 1: nobody cares at any rate. Okay, go through the other

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Speaker 1: guys available. Let's see what we got. Okay, Now, most

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Speaker 1: of this is from the Athletic which is headed by

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Speaker 1: Sham sharing you, which is the most plugged in outside

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Speaker 1: of Woes reporter in basketball. So for you to kind

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Speaker 1: of just assert that maybe he's putting in for clicks,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's the cot by the way,

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Speaker 1: who represents Shams, I don't know who it is. Take

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Speaker 1: a look into that. If he see if he's connected

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Speaker 1: at all, so with a certain age, see that's connected

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that you brought it up right in the

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Speaker 1: beginning of this little segment is the Boston Celtics. And

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Speaker 1: Sam Ami was part of a group that wrote this

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Speaker 1: that Aaron Gordon wants out of Orlando, not just because

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Speaker 1: they're losing, but because he wants to go to a

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Speaker 1: time out, who was the guy we talked about yesterday?

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Speaker 1: PJ Washington? Who's this woman he's dating? This is major

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Speaker 1: celebrity Brittany Renner? Right, Aaron Gordon wants to go to

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Speaker 1: a big market and start to date a celebrity like

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Speaker 1: Brittany Renner or like Tyler Hero with his Instagram model. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon is ready to level up, get paid. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell him now. I'll tell you what right now though

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Speaker 1: on on the reel, Aaron Gordon is could help somebody

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Speaker 1: win a title this year more than Lonzo Bowl could.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, he's a better great wing defender.

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Speaker 1: Those are tough to come by. And I mean, hell

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Speaker 1: if if I'm the Celtics, damn. Are the Celtics linked

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Speaker 1: to Aaron Gordon. Yes, And according to the report, it's

636
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Speaker 1: not just Aaron Gordon. It would be Aaron Gordon and

637
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Speaker 1: Evan Fournier. And Evan Fournier can schoose, say what you

638
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Speaker 1: will about the rest of his game, but he can shoot.

639
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Speaker 1: It's their trade exception and Marcus Smart who So But

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Speaker 1: if you're Boston and you just mentioned right at the top,

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Speaker 1: they're they're struggling, to say the least, so they need

642
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Speaker 1: some kind of shakeup. And if you can get Aaron

643
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Speaker 1: Gordon and Evan Fournier with only having to really give

644
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Speaker 1: up Marcus smartens some picks because the trade exception doesn't

645
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Speaker 1: really even count as anything, you know. Somebody wrote this

646
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Speaker 1: recently and we did not. We didn't make it a

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Speaker 1: topic on here because I think it was right before

648
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Speaker 1: the n c TO But somebody wrote an article about

649
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: how there's two distinct classes in the NBA now, and

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00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: I mean on the surface, trading Eron Gordon and Evan

651
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: Fournier for money and Marcus Smart Like, what the hell

652
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Speaker 1: is that? That's basically, oh, we don't want to end

653
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Speaker 1: up paying the luxury tax, so um us a billionaire owners. Yeah,

654
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna pocket the money. You know, that's basically what

655
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Speaker 1: they're saying. Hey, Eron Gordon, you had a good run.

656
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your service, but good luck, right? I mean,

657
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Speaker 1: what are they doing with that? Would you think Marcus

658
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Speaker 1: Smart is gonna be happy going from contending? Going what

659
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Speaker 1: did Marcus Smart playing? Three or four years? They've been

660
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference finals and I was gonna go

661
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: to a bottom feeder in Orlando? Like that would be

662
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: awful if I'm Marcus Smart. That being said, um, holy hell,

663
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: you're looking at Aaron Gordon, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, Kemba Walker,

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Speaker 1: and I guess Fournier, Robert Robert Williams maybe some really

665
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Speaker 1: good against Brooklyn, Maxim good against Brooklyn terribly. Well you

666
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Speaker 1: put Daniel these or Robert Williams who's actually playing well,

667
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: we picked him up on our fantasy team. Um, I

668
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: know you don't care about that, but um yeah, that

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Speaker 1: that that's a home run if I'm the Celtics, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, though, is the heart and soul of that

671
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Speaker 1: locker room. I don't know who the leader is now.

672
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: That locker rooms gets interesting because they've gone through some leaders, right,

673
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas shipped, Um, Kyrie Irving was thought to be

674
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Speaker 1: the heart and soul when he got traded there, he

675
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: was the leader, ran into problems with the young guys. Uh,

676
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart Now it's been there for a while. Um,

677
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: that's sounds like it's difficult and it's tough to quantify

678
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Speaker 1: what that means. But that's a spicy deal, rob Gie alright,

679
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: Aeron Gordon, what else you got? Well? The other big

680
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Speaker 1: one and I think this would be the most impactful

681
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Speaker 1: move if they can make it is Kyle Lowry, And

682
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Speaker 1: according to what's being reported, it's basically up to him

683
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Speaker 1: if he wants to get traded or not, you know,

684
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Speaker 1: because he's he's loyal to the soil in Toronto. He's

685
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: already come out and said, even even if I get traded,

686
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna retire as a raptor like he's. He's one

687
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: of those kind of guys. And so the two teams

688
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Speaker 1: that are reportedly most interested in him are the Miami

689
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Speaker 1: heat and the Philadelphia seventy. Now I already have the

690
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets winning the Eastern Conference. I just think that

691
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Speaker 1: they're the best team. But if there was ever a

692
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Speaker 1: team that I think, if you had Kyle Lowry to

693
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Speaker 1: what they already have, that could almost tilt the balance

694
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Speaker 1: of power. I think if Philadelphia can get Kyle Lowry

695
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Speaker 1: with Ben Simmons and Joe l Embiid and keeping Seth Curry,

696
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Speaker 1: I think that he's the kind of guy that would

697
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: balance out their roster and give them exactly what they

698
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 1: do not have, which is a floor general and someone

699
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: who can make heavy plays. He's a much more consistent

700
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Speaker 1: shooter than Danny green I don't. I think Danny Greene's

701
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Speaker 1: probably has a better clip because he's so streaky. But

702
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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry could be the kind of guy if he

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Speaker 1: goes to Philadelphia that is the most impactful treating at

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Speaker 1: the deadline. Well, I'm just glad you didn't say the

705
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Speaker 1: Clippers because Kyle Lowry, who by the way, has had

706
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: a more than a handful of dirty fouls in the

707
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Remember the bubble He had told

708
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon after a cheap shot when Aaron Gordon's like,

709
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: what the f blah blah blah, trying to fight him.

710
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry said his room number. You can see the audio.

711
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, come, come to my room. Come. Kyle

712
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Lowry goes to the Clippers. They're as dirty as the

713
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Speaker 1: eighties bad boy Pistons, Kyle Lowry, the Morris twin Goon,

714
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley. Oh goodness, that would have been Listen. That

715
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: would have been ugly for the Lakers if they could

716
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Speaker 1: get Kyle Lowry. But yeah, I would agree with you

717
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: if he goes to the Sixers, Simmons and Bead. Yeah,

718
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: that's that's a nice package. Now, Miami Heat. I just

719
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Speaker 1: I'm not coming off Tyler hero or for Kyle Lowry.

720
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Speaker 1: I'm just not doing that. Um. He quietly crept up

721
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Speaker 1: the fourth in the in the East, and let's check

722
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Speaker 1: in on Tyler hero Um. He's having an alright season.

723
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: Fifteen a game, five boards, three assists, Um shooting, Oh,

724
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: he's struggling, shooting thirty one from three of a bit

725
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: of a sophomore slump, perhaps Duncan Robinson Um also not

726
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: even hitting from the heater in a tough position. Because

727
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: they're three young guys are all gonna have to get paid.

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Speaker 1: That's Hero, that's None, that's Duncan Robinson. And if hold

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Speaker 1: hold go ahead, bam out of bio or did he

730
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: already get he already got paid, he already signed a

731
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: super back or his max. You can't keep None Robinson

732
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: and Hero exactly. That's why that you need to consolidate

733
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,720
Speaker 1: them at some point. Now I'm not saying to consultate

734
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: them for Kyle Lowry or especially a one year at

735
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: a thirty plus year at thirty plus age Kyle Lowry,

736
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: but at some point you gotta make a decision because

737
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: what Joe Harris did as being a guy who does

738
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: nothing but shoot three pointers, which is exactly what Duncan

739
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: Robinson did. And I think he's getting sixteen or eighteen

740
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 1: million dollars a year, So that very quickly goes from

741
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson, Tyler Hero, and Kendrick Nunn all making combined

742
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: fifteen million to these guys are making combined sixty million.

743
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: And they're good, but they're not that good. So they

744
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: got to find a way at some point to to

745
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: flip at least one of them into something else. Mhm huh,

746
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if I had, I mean, Tyler

747
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: Hero could get you the most in return, but he

748
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: would also be the biggest loss because I don't know

749
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: about you. I think Tyler Hero one day. I'm not

750
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: saying he could lead the league in scoring like Bradley Beal,

751
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: but what he's been doing at what twenty years old? Uh?

752
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: I think he's twenty one this year? Like who's to say?

753
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: And Rob, we talked about this and we probably don't

754
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: talk about it enough. The idea that players get better, Okay,

755
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard was like coming off the bench in San

756
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: Antonio's like a six man and emerged as an All

757
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: NBA player, a Finals MVP, a cornerstone. James Harden came

758
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: into the league. Oh he's a six man. He's a

759
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: nice player. Yeah, he's good. I mean he's historically great

760
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: offensive player. Like everybody gets better, the question is how

761
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: much better? And we don't know what he knows the

762
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: answer only the people inside the Miami Heat building. No,

763
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Heroes work ethic. How bad does he want it? Listen,

764
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: James Harden was a legendary party animal in Houston, and

765
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: he still got better and got buckets and became an

766
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: incredible m v P player, So I don't know. I mean,

767
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: you look at Hero, you look at none Duncan Robinson.

768
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: I personally think it's easier to find a Duncan Robinson

769
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: or a Kendrick Nunn than a Tyler Hero. Tyler Hero

770
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: can create his own shot. Um. I mean we saw

771
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero give a lot. I didn't he have forty

772
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. I mean, this guy was incredible.

773
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: And I watched Buddy Beheim of Syracuse in this tournament.

774
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: He's like a Duncan Robinson Clone six seven Slender White

775
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: Guy quick Release. We had Casey Jacobson on the podcast

776
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 1: last week. Um, who you know would be making millions

777
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: of dollars if he were in the NBA now as

778
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: opposed to the when he left Stanford, uh twenty years ago.

779
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, like Buddy Beheim is the new Duncan Robinson,

780
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: there's no new Tyler Hero. I just he is a

781
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to say he's a unicorn. I'm not

782
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: going that far like a Luca Dontech, but Tyler Heroes.

783
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm not trading him. I'm sorry, I'm not putting him

784
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: in any package for almost anybody at this point. I

785
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: mean within reason. Um, are the Lakers making a move?

786
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: Rob g Oh, it depends. I mean the Bronze injury

787
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: kind of complicates things, you know, because they need to

788
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Speaker 1: stay above water a little bit. You know, they can't

789
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: go two and thirteen in the games that he's out.

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00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: So the problem is they don't really have the assets.

791
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: So unless they're gonna trade Taylan Horton Tucker, which again

792
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: clutched sports Guy, So you know, you gotta run that

793
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: by Lebron first, and if Lebron decide even want to

794
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: trade it, you don't trade. I don't think they're I

795
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: don't think they would trade him for anything. I think

796
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: that the only guys on their roster that that have

797
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: any kind of value would be maybe Kyle Kuzma, but

798
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: he has that poison pill because he just signed his contract.

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Speaker 1: Alex Caruso. I don't think Knavis called wall Pope has

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Speaker 1: played well enough to have anybody. You'd have to actually

801
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: attach more stuff to him just to get rid of him.

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00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: So I think they're more likely to be active on

803
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: the biot market than they are to make a trade.

804
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: I just don't think they have the pieces. All right, Well,

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00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: that does it for today's show a lot of college basketball.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any sweet sixteen picks for you just yet.

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00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let some of these numbers marinate. Um obviously,

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Speaker 1: what when is the NBA trade deadline rob Thursday? I

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Speaker 1: think it's at noon Eastern or neon Pacific. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: will uh so, um yeah, well, we'll try to line

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Speaker 1: up some good guests to talk. Maybe a little more

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Speaker 1: n A tournament, but certainly NBA. We still haven't done

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