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<v Speaker 2>All right, So here's the deal. We have a massive

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<v Speaker 2>show today. We have some breaking news from overnight. The

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<v Speaker 2>NBA Finals start, and I barely slept last night because

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<v Speaker 2>i have some weird head cold going on. So I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna try to power through today because I actually I

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<v Speaker 2>feel fine, but I'm obviously I've got something going on.

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<v Speaker 2>But today's a big show, and we had news I

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<v Speaker 2>did not expect to be coming. And if I wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>demands already hyped about the finals, I'm gonna throw a

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<v Speaker 2>curveball at you. A bit here. Guess who the first

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<v Speaker 2>one is gonna be very hard to guess, but once

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<v Speaker 2>you hear the answer that you might be able to

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<v Speaker 2>get to the second one. Guess who the Boston Celtics

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<v Speaker 2>had narrate their hype video that they posted last night.

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<v Speaker 2>It's an all time great athlete from the region basketball.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh from uh uh called Tom Brady.

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Brady is correct, Tom Brady narrated the Celtics hype video.

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<v Speaker 2>Guess who narrated the MAVs hype video.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, uh, it's a.

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<v Speaker 2>Prominent MAVs fan in line with Tom Brady. It was

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<v Speaker 2>Patrick Mahomes. So it's almost like these finals are a

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<v Speaker 2>goat quarterback proxy war. Like you've got Patrick's MAVs and

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Celtics. Like, I don't know if this goes on

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<v Speaker 2>the goat ledger, but does if the MAVs win, does

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<v Speaker 2>Patrick get like a quarter of a ring in the race.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Some people are saying it, so I

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just I was already hyped for it, but now

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<v Speaker 2>there's just added steak. It's that Brady's doing the MAVs

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<v Speaker 2>or the Celtics. Patrick's doing the MAVs. I think maybe

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<v Speaker 2>do they both show up. I mean, Patrick's definitely showing

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<v Speaker 2>up court side for the MAVs games in Dallas? Does

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<v Speaker 2>Tom show up courtside for the Celtics games in Boston?

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<v Speaker 2>Is he there tonight? I don't know. I just I

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't be more excited. But somehow WOJE stole the show.

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<v Speaker 2>So we can't even start the show with that. But first, quickly,

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<v Speaker 2>what missed the cut? Travis Kelce does not watch Grey's

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<v Speaker 2>Anatomy with Taylor Swift. That should have to be honest, guys,

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<v Speaker 2>missed the cut? For missing the cut, FX is clipped

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<v Speaker 2>premiered Tuesday. I won't watch a second of it. And

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<v Speaker 2>this is sucks. But Novak Djokovic hurting the French Open

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<v Speaker 2>but demons, let's start with the breaking news overnight from

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<v Speaker 2>WOG go ahead.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so there's some breaking news out of Los Angeles.

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<v Speaker 3>A new name being thrown into the ring for the

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<v Speaker 3>Los ang his head coaching position, Yukon's Dan Hurley. So

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<v Speaker 3>I got a couple questions for you with that. Which

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<v Speaker 3>coach do you think has a better chance of leading

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<v Speaker 3>LA back to the finals between him and JJ Reddick?

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<v Speaker 3>And secondly, which coach do you think has a better

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<v Speaker 3>chance to retain Lebron.

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't think Lebron's decision about where he plays

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be impacted much by whether it's Hurley

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<v Speaker 2>or JJ, because he clearly has a lot of respect

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<v Speaker 2>for both of them. He actually replied to a JJ

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<v Speaker 2>interview with Dan Hurley talking about how brilliant he was.

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<v Speaker 2>He obviously thinks JJ's a sharp basketball mind. I so

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<v Speaker 2>I want to be fair here, but I also what

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<v Speaker 2>I owe the audience is honesty. This would be, in

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<v Speaker 2>my opinion, a great hire Dan Hurley.

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<v Speaker 3>He is.

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<v Speaker 2>There are two types of college basketball coaches, not just

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<v Speaker 2>two types, but super high level successful ones. One is

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<v Speaker 2>because they are just great recruiters, kind of like coach

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<v Speaker 2>Cal and the other is because they're obviously very good

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<v Speaker 2>recruiters but excellent tacticians. Dan Hurley seems more the latter

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<v Speaker 2>than the former. He is an excellent tactician, which is

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<v Speaker 2>why I would think it could translate to the NBA.

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<v Speaker 2>I would be pleasantly surprised if the Lakers end up

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<v Speaker 2>landing this plane. Do where I said I owe the

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<v Speaker 2>audience honesty. Do I honestly think that it is on

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<v Speaker 2>the board that the Lakers are floating. This not that

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<v Speaker 2>dissimilar to, Hey, they'd love Jason Kidd, who's under contract

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<v Speaker 2>coaching a team in the playoffs, and then he gets

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<v Speaker 2>an extension. Hey, they'd love of Tylou who's under contract

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<v Speaker 2>coaching a team with the richest owner in sports. And

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<v Speaker 2>that this is to play kate the fan base that

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<v Speaker 2>is underwhelmed by JJ Reddick potentially getting the job. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's on the board, and I so I

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<v Speaker 2>am not taking this report to mean Dan Hurley is

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<v Speaker 2>the next Lakers head coach. However, if he is the

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<v Speaker 2>next Lakers head coach, that's a great hire, a great hire.

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<v Speaker 2>And when the other candidates were James Brago, who did

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<v Speaker 2>a nice job with no talent in Charlotte but is

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<v Speaker 2>a little underwhelming. Sam Cassell would be a first time

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<v Speaker 2>head coach. JJ would be a first time anything coach.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you have a guy who was built a

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<v Speaker 2>dynasty in Yukon and is young, and is sharp, and

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<v Speaker 2>is great at developing players, has a brilliant mind for

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<v Speaker 2>offensive basketball. All of that is exciting. It is not

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<v Speaker 2>in the Genie Bus Lakers history that they are going

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<v Speaker 2>to pay a lot of money for a head coach,

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<v Speaker 2>that they are going to have long term commitments to

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<v Speaker 2>a head coach, So it would be going outside of

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<v Speaker 2>what they typically do. But I have been very critical

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<v Speaker 2>of Rob Po Lincoln, Genie Buss for a lot of things,

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<v Speaker 2>and for how they hire coaches, how they lowball coaches,

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<v Speaker 2>all of it. This would redeem a massive amount of that,

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<v Speaker 2>and this would be spending real money, making a big commitment.

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<v Speaker 2>I also, you know, call it because I think I

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<v Speaker 2>Lakers folks have been burned in the past by well

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<v Speaker 2>timed leaks of ah, we just quite didn't get it done.

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<v Speaker 2>I am a little skeptical of how close this is

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<v Speaker 2>to being a done deal. If it is. If it

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<v Speaker 2>does get done, it's a great hire, great hire for

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<v Speaker 2>the Lakers independent of Lebron. AD's young enough and under

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<v Speaker 2>the new CBA, as WoDES talked about, you really do

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<v Speaker 2>have to develop players. He's shown a great track record

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<v Speaker 2>of that at the collegiate level. I like everything about

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<v Speaker 2>the Dan Hurley hire I would like for the Lakers.

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<v Speaker 2>I am walking with some trepidation on whether or not

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<v Speaker 2>they actually think they are going to hire Dan Hurley,

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<v Speaker 2>or whether or not they simply want that to be

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<v Speaker 2>out there. So if they at some point hire JJ Reddick,

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<v Speaker 2>no one can accuse them of not shooting the moon,

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<v Speaker 2>not going not being willing to spend money, all those things.

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<v Speaker 2>So I the that is the to me, the Lakers

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<v Speaker 2>have front office has earned that level of skepticism. But

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<v Speaker 2>this would be a hell of a coup. And if

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<v Speaker 2>they get Dan Hurley, that's an excellent hire. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>have anything you want to follow up there on, demondsay?

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<v Speaker 2>Or do you want to get to the finals? It's

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<v Speaker 2>your call.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I mean we can get to we can get

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<v Speaker 3>to the If they do end up hiring JJ, is

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<v Speaker 3>that a step back?

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<v Speaker 2>Why? I think hired the guy coached above the Pop

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<v Speaker 2>Warner level? Uh? Is? I mean? The we have all

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<v Speaker 2>like it's been such a long process of them targeting JJ,

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<v Speaker 2>seemingly landing on JJ that everyone has just come to

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<v Speaker 2>accept it. When three months ago that would have been

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<v Speaker 2>an absurdity. If the if when Lebron and JJ's podcast launched,

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<v Speaker 2>when Darvinham was already on the hot seat, Someone's like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>guess what that guy's going to be the next head

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<v Speaker 2>coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, people would have been like,

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<v Speaker 2>you're out of your mind. But there's a bit of

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<v Speaker 2>a boiling frog paradigm going on here, where the temperature

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<v Speaker 2>has just been raised a degree at a time. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you know the boiling frog is frog's.

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<v Speaker 3>In at.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly because the exactly because they just slowly keep raising

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<v Speaker 2>the temperature. It has been such a slow drip of

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<v Speaker 2>Oh JJ's a candidate. Oh JJ's getting an interview. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>JJ's the leading candidate. Oh in fact, they might have

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<v Speaker 2>picked JJ, but they're waiting for the finals to be over.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh JJ's filling out his staff. That everyone has just

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<v Speaker 2>come to accept the fact that JJ Reddick might be

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<v Speaker 2>the head coach of the Lakers. And so, yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not the higher I would make, but Dan Hurley would

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<v Speaker 2>be great. We will see, we'll see what happens there.

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<v Speaker 2>And I didn't mean to be rude when I said,

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<v Speaker 2>are you familiar with the boiling frog things? Sometimes I

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<v Speaker 2>use these kind of a arcade.

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<v Speaker 3>No, no, no, that question is definitely necessary. Sometimes I

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<v Speaker 3>have no idea what you're talking about. At that time,

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't know what you.

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<v Speaker 2>Were talking Okay, all right, fair enough. And I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like the audience is in your seat a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>these times. So whenever I say something and I see

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<v Speaker 2>a look on your face. You're like, I'm not sure

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<v Speaker 2>what he's referring to him, Like, that's the same look

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of the audience as okay, good, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>let's get to the NBA Finals preview.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, So we've had a lot of time between

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<v Speaker 3>the Eastern and Western Conference finals to get to the finals,

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<v Speaker 3>with the gentlemen's sweep and the sweep on the East side,

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<v Speaker 3>and we're gonna get into We're going to zero in

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<v Speaker 3>on this game in a minute after a few games.

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<v Speaker 3>But with all the time off, do you think everybody's

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<v Speaker 3>bound to overreact to tonight's game?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, no question about it. I mean, there's because it's

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<v Speaker 2>been so long since we had a basketball game to

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<v Speaker 2>date today, Tonight's game is going to feel disproportionately important.

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<v Speaker 2>And I truly, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I

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<v Speaker 2>truly see a scenario where the MAVs lose tonight and

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<v Speaker 2>then win the next four. I'm not saying that is

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<v Speaker 2>the smartest prediction, but I think that we got used

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<v Speaker 2>to the MAVs winning game ones the last couple rounds.

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<v Speaker 2>But the fact of the matter is Luca in his career.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's how game ones have gone for the MAVs. They

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<v Speaker 2>lost game one his first playoff series against the Clippers.

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<v Speaker 2>They then won game one the next year against the Clippers.

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<v Speaker 2>Then en route to the Western Armence Finals, they lost

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<v Speaker 2>game one to Utah, They lost game one to Phoenix,

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<v Speaker 2>They lost game one to Golden State. This year, they

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<v Speaker 2>lost game one to the Clippers. They lost game one

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<v Speaker 2>to OKC and then so it's not the last couple rounds.

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<v Speaker 2>And then obviously they dominated the Western Roumage Finals and

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<v Speaker 2>they won that. So there has always been with Luca

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<v Speaker 2>an element of the Lebron feel out game to game one,

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<v Speaker 2>which is obviously you're trying to win, but you are

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<v Speaker 2>diagnosingting what's going on? Yeah, exactly right, and you feel

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<v Speaker 2>like it's a long series and I don't have now.

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<v Speaker 2>Another factor of that is this is and this is remarkable.

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<v Speaker 2>Lucas played one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Luca's ninth career playoff series. Eight of those

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<v Speaker 2>nine times he has not had home court. They have

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<v Speaker 2>been the road team. The one time he had home

0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.080
<v Speaker 2>court advantage in a series, he missed the first two

0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.400
<v Speaker 2>home games. It's when he was injured against Utah a

0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.280
<v Speaker 2>couple of years ago. So the other thing that happens

0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:19.200
<v Speaker 2>in these games is it's also less critical for the

0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.880
<v Speaker 2>MAVs in Lucas career to win game one because they

0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.440
<v Speaker 2>are the road team. You know, I know it's cliche,

0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.520
<v Speaker 2>but it's true. You take care of your home games

0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.880
<v Speaker 2>and then try to steal one on the road. So

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<v Speaker 2>I just I so I think there will be overreaction.

0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.920
<v Speaker 2>Here are the things, and I hope I'm not stepping

0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.600
<v Speaker 2>on the rest of the show, but here are the

0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:50.560
<v Speaker 2>things I am watching tonight. Who is the primary defender

0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:57.200
<v Speaker 2>on Kyrie Irving? I personally think it should be Drew

0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.920
<v Speaker 2>Holliday if I were the Celtics. And that's for two reasons. Now,

0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.120
<v Speaker 2>you could say we can have Derek White do it, right,

0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.960
<v Speaker 2>because Derek White's a good defender. If you have Derek

0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.200
<v Speaker 2>White do it and you do a Luca Kyrie pick

0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.720
<v Speaker 2>and roll and Derek White ends up on Luca, you're

0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.960
<v Speaker 2>in trouble. If you're Boston. You're in a lot of

0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:23.920
<v Speaker 2>trouble if you're Boston. Now, I don't think that Drew Luca,

0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Luca and Derek White. Oh, I just think Luca's too big.

0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.920
<v Speaker 2>I just think Luca would just back him to Dre.

0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.280
<v Speaker 2>Drew is way more and Drew's way more stout, and

0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.440
<v Speaker 2>I think Drew is a good enough defender that he

0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:46.320
<v Speaker 2>can really I don't want to say eliminate, but really

0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.120
<v Speaker 2>hamper Kyrie really hamper him and so, and you don't

0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.520
<v Speaker 2>really need Drew's offense. So I want to see what

0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.080
<v Speaker 2>that matchup is, and then I want to see in

0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.000
<v Speaker 2>the front court. Okay, so this is a little X's

0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.000
<v Speaker 2>and OZ and I will leave this typically to Zach

0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Lowe of Zach Lowe's and Kevin O'Connors of the world,

0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.280
<v Speaker 2>but it's the finals, so we can do it. For

0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:20.959
<v Speaker 2>a moment. I think that the Celtics are going to

0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:27.160
<v Speaker 2>put Chris STAPs on whomever they believe to be the Mavs'

0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:35.920
<v Speaker 2>least dangerous offensive player, so probably Derek Jones Junior. That way,

0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.480
<v Speaker 2>if Luca is trying to get Chris STAPs involved in

0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.359
<v Speaker 2>the action on a pick and roll, then his pick

0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.199
<v Speaker 2>and roll partner, instead of being Lively right or instead

0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:52.080
<v Speaker 2>of being PJ. Washington, is Derek Jones Junior, who is

0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.040
<v Speaker 2>probably the guy you least want to be operating offensively.

0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.960
<v Speaker 2>So I think that's an interesting one to watch. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>also curious who do you think demon is gonna be

0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.680
<v Speaker 2>guarding Luca? Jason Tate? And again, there's gonna be switches,

0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.679
<v Speaker 2>there's gonna be I understand all of that, but his

0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.520
<v Speaker 2>primary assignment, who do you think it's gonna be?

0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.320
<v Speaker 3>I got a funny feeling it will be Jayleen Brown.

0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.720
<v Speaker 2>I think it will be too, so I I the

0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.840
<v Speaker 2>question is will it be Tatum or Brown? Really? And

0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:29.840
<v Speaker 2>who do you who? Do you not mind their offense

0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.720
<v Speaker 2>getting sapped from to a degree because guarding Lucas is

0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.320
<v Speaker 2>gonna take away from your ability on offense? It just is. Now.

0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:44.320
<v Speaker 2>Jalen Brown, I think is a touch better defensive player

0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.840
<v Speaker 2>than Jason Tatum. Jason dam is very good defensive player,

0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.439
<v Speaker 2>but I think Jayalen Brown's better. But Tatum is so

0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:54.440
<v Speaker 2>much taller that I wonder if Tatum wouldn't have more success.

0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.760
<v Speaker 2>But now, all of a sudden, this is where it

0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:03.160
<v Speaker 2>really does. There is some I don't want to say

0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.959
<v Speaker 2>ego management because that's because Tatum has been such a

0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.119
<v Speaker 2>great teammate and Tatum has conducted himself so well, but

0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:16.919
<v Speaker 2>there is this is I thought that the whole Oh

0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:22.720
<v Speaker 2>did Tatum celebrate Jalen's Eastern Conference Finals MVP enough was ridiculous.

0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.880
<v Speaker 2>I thought the idea that there is some battle between

0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Tatum and Brown, I haven't seen that. The only thing

0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.560
<v Speaker 2>I've seen over the years is maybe Jalen Brown being

0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:40.159
<v Speaker 2>understandably annoyed with yes that every offseason he's included in

0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.159
<v Speaker 2>trade rumors and zero off seasons Tatum is you know

0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.760
<v Speaker 2>what I mean? So I think there is there, but

0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't think between those two guys there's any issue.

0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:56.840
<v Speaker 2>With all that said, if you're Jason Tatum and you're

0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.720
<v Speaker 2>tasked with guarding Luca and all of a sudden that

0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:06.960
<v Speaker 2>leads to your offensive numbers being depressed, and then Jalen

0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.560
<v Speaker 2>Brown one Conference finals MVP, Jalen Brown is having the

0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.840
<v Speaker 2>best offensive series, you know, in the finals, that could

0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:20.479
<v Speaker 2>be a tricky spot, and so I'm really intrigued by that.

0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:26.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm also really intrigued by how I am not worried

0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.880
<v Speaker 2>about Luca in his first finals at all. This guy

0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:34.520
<v Speaker 2>was playing in EuroLeague tournaments with guys setting flares off

0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.199
<v Speaker 2>in the crowd when he was a teenager. He's not

0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.200
<v Speaker 2>gonna be intimidated. Kyrie is not going to be intimidated

0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.760
<v Speaker 2>everyone else on the MAVs. These are the biggest games

0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:50.600
<v Speaker 2>of their entire lives by a wide margin, wide margin.

0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.520
<v Speaker 2>The Celtics meanwhile, every single one of those guys except

0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.720
<v Speaker 2>for Chris STAPs was playing in these games two years ago,

0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:04.080
<v Speaker 2>and so so how does and I guess for Drew

0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.520
<v Speaker 2>it was three years ago, but still they've all been there.

0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.920
<v Speaker 2>How does that impact it? And then the last thing

0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.600
<v Speaker 2>is porzingis, which you know we'll get to in a bit,

0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.640
<v Speaker 2>but uh, all right, let's get to the next question. Demanse.

0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so we just talked about game one, but what

0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.679
<v Speaker 3>is your over what's your finals prediction? What do you

0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.479
<v Speaker 3>think will be the narrative of this series?

0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.000
<v Speaker 2>Oh? I think the narrative of the series is going

0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.440
<v Speaker 2>to be Luka Ancic is one of the greatest offensive

0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.720
<v Speaker 2>players in the history of the league. I do. I

0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:47.280
<v Speaker 2>think Luca is going to full blown control every possession

0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:52.480
<v Speaker 2>that he wants to. It is going to be not

0:21:52.760 --> 0:22:00.320
<v Speaker 2>that dissimilar from Lebron twenty fifteen against the Warriors. The

0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.639
<v Speaker 2>ball is just always in his hands and he is

0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:08.760
<v Speaker 2>making every decision, with the distinction being this Celtics team

0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.520
<v Speaker 2>is not quite as good as that twenty to fifteen

0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:17.760
<v Speaker 2>Warriors team, and Kyrie Irving God Willing isn't gonna break

0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.720
<v Speaker 2>his kneecap in Game one, and that when Luca needs

0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.760
<v Speaker 2>to take possessions off, Kyrie can go cook. But I

0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.760
<v Speaker 2>think that you are going to see Luca dissecting a

0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:39.360
<v Speaker 2>great defense, as he has throughout his entire playoff career.

0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:44.159
<v Speaker 2>So that is the other aspect of this that I

0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:50.400
<v Speaker 2>think is noteworthy on a Luca history standpoint, Luca has

0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:56.879
<v Speaker 2>only played against great defenses in his postseason career. In

0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.520
<v Speaker 2>his first ever playoffs, and this I think an underrated

0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:06.080
<v Speaker 2>fact about him first ever playoffs, he's playing a fully

0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:10.280
<v Speaker 2>healthy Clippers team that that season was the number five

0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:15.800
<v Speaker 2>defense in the NBA. His second ever playoffs, he's playing

0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:20.119
<v Speaker 2>against a fully healthy Clippers team that was number eight

0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.879
<v Speaker 2>in the NBA and Chris DAPs got hurt in it.

0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.280
<v Speaker 2>His third playoff season, in round one, he's playing against

0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:34.359
<v Speaker 2>a Utah team that has the now four time Defensive

0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.320
<v Speaker 2>Player of the Year who was the number nine defense

0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.679
<v Speaker 2>in basketball, then a Phoenix team that that year was

0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:46.800
<v Speaker 2>the number three defense in basketball, then a Warriors team

0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.840
<v Speaker 2>that that year was the number two defense in basketball.

0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:55.000
<v Speaker 2>This year in the postseason, he has gone and I'm

0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.480
<v Speaker 2>doing the per one hundred, I'm doing true defensive numbers.

0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.880
<v Speaker 2>In the first round for the first time in his career,

0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:05.119
<v Speaker 2>he got a break defensively because the Clippers were below

0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:09.040
<v Speaker 2>average at number eighteen. Then in round two they played

0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.600
<v Speaker 2>the thunder who were the number four defense. In round

0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:16.360
<v Speaker 2>three they played the Timberwolves, who were the number one defense.

0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:21.600
<v Speaker 2>So Luca has gone up against in his postseason career,

0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.520
<v Speaker 2>and now they're playing Boston, who's the number three defense.

0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:30.080
<v Speaker 2>In nine series, he's gone up against eight top ten

0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:36.800
<v Speaker 2>defenses and five top five defenses, and he has put

0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:42.280
<v Speaker 2>up his historic postseason numbers. And so I listen, I

0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:48.520
<v Speaker 2>listened to you know legend of the podcast game Bill

0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:54.000
<v Speaker 2>Simmons tried to talk himself into the idea that we

0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:58.080
<v Speaker 2>should just throw away what the MAVs did against the

0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:05.320
<v Speaker 2>Timberwolves for reasons that never really got explained. Everyone needs

0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:11.280
<v Speaker 2>to remember the way the Timberwolves were being discussed and

0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:15.280
<v Speaker 2>the way that defense was being discussed from a historic

0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:22.960
<v Speaker 2>standpoint during and after the Nugget series, and Luca eviscerated them,

0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:30.080
<v Speaker 2>absolutely eviscerated them, and now he gets a chance to

0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:36.040
<v Speaker 2>do it against Boston and the Thunder and Boston had

0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:39.160
<v Speaker 2>a lot of similarities this year. This year on defense,

0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:45.000
<v Speaker 2>Boston three, Oklahoma City four. On offense, Boston won Oklahoma

0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:51.280
<v Speaker 2>City three on three point percentage. This season, Oklahoma City

0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:56.639
<v Speaker 2>won Boston two very similar teams, and Kyrie in that

0:25:56.800 --> 0:26:02.040
<v Speaker 2>series averaged sixteen points per game and the MAVs won

0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:06.719
<v Speaker 2>in six, and that included giving Game four away. So

0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:14.280
<v Speaker 2>I understand what the Vegas odds are, but for me

0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.480
<v Speaker 2>not to take the best player in a series, it

0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:22.119
<v Speaker 2>needs to be a very lopsided situation that is not this.

0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:27.800
<v Speaker 2>It appears to be this because Boston had sixty four

0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:32.399
<v Speaker 2>wins in Dallas had fifty. But once Dallas got these

0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:35.760
<v Speaker 2>players at the trade deadline and started running with this

0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:40.360
<v Speaker 2>starting five, they have the top defense in basketball. They

0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.600
<v Speaker 2>have a record of a sixty five win team. So

0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.359
<v Speaker 2>I think the matchups dead even. And if it's dead

0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:51.840
<v Speaker 2>even and one player has a guy who's going to

0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.320
<v Speaker 2>go down as one of the greatest offensive players in

0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:58.080
<v Speaker 2>the history of the sport and he is seemingly getting

0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:02.320
<v Speaker 2>healthier and peaking, I'm gonna go with them. I know

0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:05.280
<v Speaker 2>that this is, you know, not your thoughts on the

0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:09.040
<v Speaker 2>finals to Monday, your your so I'm curious before we

0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:13.879
<v Speaker 2>move on to anything else, your thoughts on your Celtics,

0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:17.080
<v Speaker 2>your confidence level in this series compared to the last

0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:19.960
<v Speaker 2>finals they were in, and what you think needs to

0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:21.320
<v Speaker 2>happen for Boston to win.

0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:29.200
<v Speaker 3>Well. I obviously have the Celtics. I obviously I said

0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:31.080
<v Speaker 3>that they could get it done in six. I think

0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:34.960
<v Speaker 3>that what they need to do is just just play

0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:38.399
<v Speaker 3>team basketball and not get in those funks where I

0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:41.000
<v Speaker 3>think we just need to avoid the Celtic thing that

0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.520
<v Speaker 3>we do with the turnovers late in games. I don't know, man,

0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:48.280
<v Speaker 3>I think that uh where you guys and you in

0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:52.119
<v Speaker 3>the in the Mavericks played a tired Timberwolves team. This

0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.720
<v Speaker 3>team isn't tired. I think, like I said before, I

0:27:54.800 --> 0:27:57.680
<v Speaker 3>just think we're way too deep defensively for Luke to

0:27:57.800 --> 0:27:59.639
<v Speaker 3>be able to keep that up and beat us in

0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:04.840
<v Speaker 3>a seven game series, and the and Porzingias isn't injured anymore.

0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:09.080
<v Speaker 3>So like, honestly, with that, I felt pretty fine without him,

0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:12.239
<v Speaker 3>but with him there, that's that's just that much more

0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:15.439
<v Speaker 3>icing on the cake. But uh, but yeah, I'm not nervous.

0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:18.919
<v Speaker 2>You mentioned at all. Oh, you don't sound nervous. So

0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:25.040
<v Speaker 2>you mentioned uh luke and not being able to dissect it.

0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:29.240
<v Speaker 2>So here's an interesting one. Here are the all time

0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:34.480
<v Speaker 2>leaders in NBA Finals points per game. Rick Berry is

0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:38.320
<v Speaker 2>number one at thirty six a game. Michael Jordan is

0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:42.200
<v Speaker 2>number two at thirty three and a half. Jerry West

0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:46.320
<v Speaker 2>is number three at thirty. Kevin Duran is number four

0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:51.400
<v Speaker 2>at just at thirty as well. Shaq is number five

0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:54.560
<v Speaker 2>at twenty eight point eight. Lebron is number six at

0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:57.520
<v Speaker 2>twenty eight point four. Now there's a few other guys

0:28:57.560 --> 0:28:59.440
<v Speaker 2>who would be on that list if they had played

0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:02.120
<v Speaker 2>more than four or five Finals games, like Iverson's at

0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:06.080
<v Speaker 2>like I think thirty five, but he only played five games. Uh.

0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:11.240
<v Speaker 2>Giannis is I think in the mid thirties, but he

0:29:11.280 --> 0:29:16.120
<v Speaker 2>only played six games. Right, Uh, how many points per

0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:18.080
<v Speaker 2>game do you think? And well, we're gonna get to

0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:20.160
<v Speaker 2>this later, but I'll just ask you here, how many

0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:21.960
<v Speaker 2>points per game do you think Luca is going to

0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:23.640
<v Speaker 2>average in this series?

0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:28.000
<v Speaker 3>In this series? Yeah, I mean yeah, oh god, give

0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:29.760
<v Speaker 3>him thirty three, thirty four.

0:29:30.400 --> 0:29:34.040
<v Speaker 2>Thirty right, So that so I I would as well.

0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:38.280
<v Speaker 2>So that is he is going to leave this series

0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:44.160
<v Speaker 2>potentially behind only ahead of Michael Jordan in career finals

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.880
<v Speaker 2>points per game. It's gonna be tough to beat them.

0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:49.440
<v Speaker 2>It just is. I'm not saying it can't be done.

0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:52.960
<v Speaker 2>But if that well, you said five less rings. Oh

0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:56.640
<v Speaker 2>a little Freudian slip. You didn't say six less rings. Oh,

0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Demonse's already nervous. All right, Oh, let's uh, you have

0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.440
<v Speaker 2>a follow up question here about I think about Jason

0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:06.480
<v Speaker 2>Tatum and then we'll move on.

0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:09.120
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so this series seems like it could be a

0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:12.720
<v Speaker 3>referendum on Jason Tatum. He admitted to feeling the pressure

0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.200
<v Speaker 3>on media day. So do you think by the end

0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:17.000
<v Speaker 3>of this series that he'll prove himself to be a

0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:17.720
<v Speaker 3>top five guy?

0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:24.320
<v Speaker 2>So listen, I he is not tell me anythink this

0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:29.200
<v Speaker 2>is unfair. He is not better by it. There is

0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:31.320
<v Speaker 2>no way you could make the argument he is better

0:30:31.360 --> 0:30:36.000
<v Speaker 2>than Luca, Djok or Jannis. No matter what happens in

0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:39.080
<v Speaker 2>this series, we are not gonna leave this series thinking

0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:41.800
<v Speaker 2>he's better than any of those three guys. Do you

0:30:41.840 --> 0:30:45.560
<v Speaker 2>agree with that?

0:30:46.320 --> 0:30:48.800
<v Speaker 3>I mean, maybe Luca, depending on like, if you know,

0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:51.400
<v Speaker 3>something crazy could happen in this series. And Tatum just

0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:54.920
<v Speaker 3>gets that thirty five that you're talking about, and Lucas

0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:55.640
<v Speaker 3>the easy twenty.

0:30:55.800 --> 0:30:58.720
<v Speaker 2>Sure, I guess Luca would have to I think Tatum

0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:01.160
<v Speaker 2>would have to average thirty five and Luca would have

0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:05.240
<v Speaker 2>to be bad. And I just can't fathom Luca being bad.

0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:09.040
<v Speaker 2>But so let's just say those three guys are gonna

0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:14.120
<v Speaker 2>be ahead of him. Then you have this next bucket

0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:23.160
<v Speaker 2>of players. Joel Embiid, Jason Tatum, Shay, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis.

0:31:23.240 --> 0:31:26.040
<v Speaker 2>Would I think be in that bucket? Is there anybody

0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.880
<v Speaker 2>that I'm forgetting that would? I won't even put Lebron

0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:31.920
<v Speaker 2>in there because Lebron's probably, at this point in his

0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:37.320
<v Speaker 2>career in that next bucket right beneath it. Uh, Jalen Brunson,

0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:40.000
<v Speaker 2>I guess you, out of respect him, put him in

0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 2>that bucket, all right, He's somewhere in there, right Like,

0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:50.640
<v Speaker 2>if somebody said he's better than Embiid, I would say, Okay,

0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:54.360
<v Speaker 2>I understand what you're saying. I that Embiid he doesn't

0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:57.880
<v Speaker 2>have the regular season accolades of Embiid, But Embiid's health

0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 2>plus his postseason issues, you want to say that that's fine? Right?

0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:05.760
<v Speaker 2>So if you now, if somebody said he's better than Shae,

0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:08.560
<v Speaker 2>I would listen to him. I think Shay was better

0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:11.400
<v Speaker 2>this season, but you can, you know what I mean,

0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:15.080
<v Speaker 2>you can make that argument. So my point on it now,

0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:19.440
<v Speaker 2>if somebody said postseason stuff, be damned, Embiid average thirty

0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:22.560
<v Speaker 2>four a game, won the MVP, then had a better season,

0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:26.240
<v Speaker 2>I think Embid's better than Tatum, even if you disagreed

0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:30.120
<v Speaker 2>with it. That's a credible argument that people are allowed

0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 2>to have that opinion. And if somebody said Shae's younger

0:32:33.320 --> 0:32:35.920
<v Speaker 2>than him and better than him and had a better

0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:39.960
<v Speaker 2>season this year than Tatum's ever had, that's an allowable argument.

0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:45.320
<v Speaker 2>So my point is this, Jason Tatum, and maybe folks

0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.720
<v Speaker 2>don't like to hear this, but it's what I think

0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:52.760
<v Speaker 2>is honest, is at best the fourth best player in

0:32:52.800 --> 0:32:57.040
<v Speaker 2>the league, at absolute best, and at worst the eighth

0:32:57.080 --> 0:33:00.560
<v Speaker 2>best player in this league kind of no matter what

0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:06.640
<v Speaker 2>happens in these finals, like, he needs to do more

0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:12.440
<v Speaker 2>for multiple seasons to change that. And that is not

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:16.280
<v Speaker 2>an indictment, that is not being unfair, that is not

0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:21.360
<v Speaker 2>shortchanging him. And so I just feel like that's who

0:33:21.520 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 2>he is and where he is now. There is a

0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:29.680
<v Speaker 2>different We had this on the show yesterday, which is

0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:36.280
<v Speaker 2>guys stars to lose their first two finals and you

0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:40.720
<v Speaker 2>know then what it looks like for them. Other than Lebron,

0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:47.240
<v Speaker 2>none of those guys ended up being the best player

0:33:47.320 --> 0:33:50.520
<v Speaker 2>on a champion. You have Clyde Drexler who lost his

0:33:50.560 --> 0:33:53.760
<v Speaker 2>first two finals then went and joined the keem and

0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:57.160
<v Speaker 2>by the way, the Clyde comp and Jason Tatum comp

0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:00.440
<v Speaker 2>career wise, accolades wise. There's a lot of I think

0:34:00.480 --> 0:34:05.320
<v Speaker 2>fair similarities there. And then there's a Jerry West, you know,

0:34:05.400 --> 0:34:08.399
<v Speaker 2>lost his first nine finals or eight finals and then

0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:11.600
<v Speaker 2>won a championship at the end. It's also a little weird.

0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:14.040
<v Speaker 2>You look confused by that demonse. They just kept running

0:34:14.080 --> 0:34:18.000
<v Speaker 2>into the Celtics fan. Yeah, yeah, they just kept running

0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:21.080
<v Speaker 2>in Yeah, Jerry West kept running into the Celtics. It's

0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:25.000
<v Speaker 2>a wild situation. Poor Jerry West. A quick Jerry West,

0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:29.560
<v Speaker 2>little history lesson if we may. Jerry West lost finals

0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:37.000
<v Speaker 2>under the following circumstances. He lost the nineteen sixty two

0:34:37.160 --> 0:34:42.160
<v Speaker 2>finals in seven games, averaging thirty one and five. He

0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:46.160
<v Speaker 2>lost the let me go to the next really brutal

0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:50.960
<v Speaker 2>one for him. He lost the nineteen sixty six finals

0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:55.160
<v Speaker 2>in seven games, averaging thirty four and six, and by

0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:58.879
<v Speaker 2>by he lost two finals in the between those, by

0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:02.200
<v Speaker 2>the way, when he was just good but not unbelievable. Also,

0:35:02.360 --> 0:35:05.719
<v Speaker 2>it should be noted that nineteen sixty six finals that

0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.440
<v Speaker 2>he lost in game seven, which was his fourth consecutive

0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:12.840
<v Speaker 2>finals lost. Game seven was decided by two points. The

0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:16.720
<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixty two finals, which he lost, which his first

0:35:16.719 --> 0:35:20.960
<v Speaker 2>finals lost, Game seven was decided by three points. He

0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:25.160
<v Speaker 2>lost then the so here's West finals career if I

0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:29.400
<v Speaker 2>made just quickly nineteen sixty two, lost in seven, nineteen

0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:34.560
<v Speaker 2>sixty three, lost in six, nineteen sixty five, lost in five,

0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.960
<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixty six, lost in seven, And I'm not saying

0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:40.240
<v Speaker 2>who he lost to, because every single time the answer

0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:45.920
<v Speaker 2>is Bill Russell. Nineteen sixty eight, lost in six, nineteen

0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:51.560
<v Speaker 2>sixty nine average demonse. Jerry West in those finals averaged

0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:56.600
<v Speaker 2>thirty eight, five and seven. Lost in seven, and yes,

0:35:56.719 --> 0:36:00.360
<v Speaker 2>you guessed it, Game seven was decided by two points.

0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:07.560
<v Speaker 2>Nineteen seventy lost in seven to the Knicks after Russell retired.

0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.560
<v Speaker 2>That was the famous Willis Reid comes limping onto the

0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:15.200
<v Speaker 2>court game. And then finally Jerry West nineteen seventy two

0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:21.520
<v Speaker 2>one an NBA Finals against the Knicks. In those finals,

0:36:21.560 --> 0:36:26.600
<v Speaker 2>he averaged twenty points per game. In his previous seven

0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:31.839
<v Speaker 2>finals losses Screw, he averaged thirty five points per game.

0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:35.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's isn't that brutal? Can you imagine being

0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:39.239
<v Speaker 2>that great Demons and every year you make the finals

0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:42.200
<v Speaker 2>and every year you just lose to the same team

0:36:43.960 --> 0:36:49.040
<v Speaker 2>and it's usually in seven games, in a one possession game. Yeah,

0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:52.359
<v Speaker 2>That's how Jerry West's finals career went one in eight

0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:56.040
<v Speaker 2>in the finals, lost his first seven trips. With that said,

0:36:56.239 --> 0:36:58.600
<v Speaker 2>Tatum's not up against a Bill Russell, and he's not

0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.120
<v Speaker 2>Jerry West, and he's he's not gonna make sense. He's

0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:05.480
<v Speaker 2>not gonna get nine opportunities there. And so that Jerry

0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:07.279
<v Speaker 2>West is also the guy who took a shot at

0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:10.600
<v Speaker 2>JJ Reddick. It was so funny when JJ did the

0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:14.759
<v Speaker 2>plumbers and they were all plumbers. Oh yeah, fireman back there.

0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:15.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.400
<v Speaker 2>Jerry West is like, at some point you got to

0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:21.520
<v Speaker 2>have a resume, young man. He's like, check mine, because

0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:25.440
<v Speaker 2>I was a badass. At some point. You need I

0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:29.680
<v Speaker 2>need you to go ahead and actually have some accolades

0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:33.960
<v Speaker 2>before you say we were all plumbers and firemen because

0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:38.080
<v Speaker 2>you know, I my name's Jerry West, and I once

0:37:38.200 --> 0:37:42.880
<v Speaker 2>hit a sixty foot shot to force overtime of a

0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:47.200
<v Speaker 2>finals game that happened down down two because there was

0:37:47.239 --> 0:37:50.359
<v Speaker 2>no line inbound the ball with one second left and

0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:53.880
<v Speaker 2>just heaved from the right path the free throw line net.

0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:56.520
<v Speaker 2>Let's go to over, tim, I mean yeah, I mean

0:37:56.600 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 2>he's ah and so I don't know why we did

0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:03.839
<v Speaker 2>all whole Jerry West retrospective, but we did. But point is,

0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:07.880
<v Speaker 2>losing your first two finals is the best player traditionally

0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:13.520
<v Speaker 2>does not bode well. Lebron turned it around. Most guys haven't. Also,

0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:15.200
<v Speaker 2>I said I was gonna do a fast show and

0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:16.840
<v Speaker 2>I just did ten minutes on Jerry West.

0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:21.600
<v Speaker 3>Okay, next, Yeah, So chat, Remember drop your finals questions

0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:23.200
<v Speaker 3>in the chat and we'll get to them at the

0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:28.400
<v Speaker 3>end of the show. Maybe bigger question. The biggest question

0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:32.080
<v Speaker 3>mark of the series is porzingis. He hasn't played since

0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:35.640
<v Speaker 3>April after suffering that calf injury, but he's now set

0:38:35.680 --> 0:38:38.720
<v Speaker 3>to play in Game one. Should the Celtics be worried

0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.399
<v Speaker 3>that our number three option is our biggest question mark

0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:42.240
<v Speaker 3>and not datum?

0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:49.560
<v Speaker 2>Well? So, I here's where well, I don't think he's

0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:52.600
<v Speaker 2>the key, but I do think he is the biggest

0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:59.960
<v Speaker 2>question mark. And I this is where the Celtics take

0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:04.440
<v Speaker 2>making care of the Pacers. Pardon me as quickly as

0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 2>they did. Kind of worked against them, because I would

0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:12.080
<v Speaker 2>have liked if I were Boston to get Tate, to

0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:15.000
<v Speaker 2>get Chris STAPs on the court in a real game

0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:19.919
<v Speaker 2>a little bit like this. The MAVs Maxi Kliba, who

0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:24.040
<v Speaker 2>is actually an important part of their rotation, good defensively,

0:39:24.160 --> 0:39:27.799
<v Speaker 2>can stretch the court. He suffered that shoulder injury that

0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:31.000
<v Speaker 2>you suffered Demons, and then came back for a few

0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:34.400
<v Speaker 2>minutes in Game four against Minnesota and then more minutes

0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:37.040
<v Speaker 2>in Game five to knock the rust off. So I

0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:42.319
<v Speaker 2>do think that is a tricky, interesting wrinkle of what

0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:46.160
<v Speaker 2>will Christaps look like? All Right, I don't even want

0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:50.680
<v Speaker 2>to do the Lebron Kyrie thing because this unless that's

0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:52.400
<v Speaker 2>a bummer for you. Do you really want me to

0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.360
<v Speaker 2>do it? I'd rather the go ahead.

0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.160
<v Speaker 3>It's it's it's it's I mean, yeah, let's do it.

0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:03.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah. So a free agent to be Lebron James

0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:06.920
<v Speaker 3>told his potential future coach, JJ Reddick that he is

0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:10.880
<v Speaker 3>so mad that he's not Kyrie's running mate anymore. Kyrie

0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:15.000
<v Speaker 3>came back and saying that he misses playing with Lebron. Yeah,

0:40:15.040 --> 0:40:20.080
<v Speaker 3>so Lebron's comments on Kyrie are likely maybe what if

0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:21.560
<v Speaker 3>what's going on?

0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:26.320
<v Speaker 2>So they're likely. They're likely just the truth that Lebron

0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:30.160
<v Speaker 2>Lebron never wanted. If you remember when Kyrie demanded the

0:40:30.200 --> 0:40:34.600
<v Speaker 2>trade out of Cleveland, Lebron said, just don't trade him,

0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:38.439
<v Speaker 2>just call his bluff, don't trade him. The Cavs didn't

0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:42.399
<v Speaker 2>traded him. Also, Lebron twice last year tried to get

0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.959
<v Speaker 2>the Lakers to acquire Kyrie and they didn't. So it's

0:40:47.160 --> 0:40:54.080
<v Speaker 2>likely just the truth. Maybe it is attempting to set

0:40:54.400 --> 0:41:00.080
<v Speaker 2>the groundwork for them playing together again one day, but

0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:04.000
<v Speaker 2>the MAVs I think had too much success for that

0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:07.680
<v Speaker 2>to be realistic. If the MAVs had gotten clipped by

0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:11.120
<v Speaker 2>the Thunder, then I would have thought Lebron joining the

0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:13.719
<v Speaker 2>MAVs was like on the board. But I don't think

0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Lebron's going to join a team that either just won

0:41:16.040 --> 0:41:19.120
<v Speaker 2>the championship or just made the finals, you know what

0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:22.680
<v Speaker 2>I mean? And then I don't even know what the

0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:25.839
<v Speaker 2>what if is, But so I just I don't think.

0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:28.920
<v Speaker 2>What if Lebron goes and joins the MAVs. I suppose,

0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:30.600
<v Speaker 2>but I don't think that's gonna happen. Go ahead.

0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:33.520
<v Speaker 3>What would have happened if Kyrie would have just never

0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.719
<v Speaker 3>been like you know one in the show to himself,

0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:41.160
<v Speaker 3>like we're at him, Lebron be this day?

0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:44.760
<v Speaker 2>Well, right, so it would have been intriguing. Would Lebron

0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:47.840
<v Speaker 2>have ended up at leaving Cleveland when he did, I

0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:53.120
<v Speaker 2>don't know. Would the Lakers have been able to beat

0:41:53.200 --> 0:41:56.239
<v Speaker 2>the twenty eighteen Warriors.

0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:59.760
<v Speaker 3>Maybe I don't know a dynasty anymore.

0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.400
<v Speaker 2>Right, there's a lot of real This is one of

0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:10.160
<v Speaker 2>one of my biggest sporting frustrations is that when Durant

0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:14.560
<v Speaker 2>wanted to leave OKAC, he didn't just pick Boston. It

0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:18.319
<v Speaker 2>would have just been so perfect because you would have

0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:22.920
<v Speaker 2>had Lebron and Kyrie and Cleveland, Steph Clay and Draymond

0:42:22.920 --> 0:42:27.640
<v Speaker 2>and Golden State KD and Boston with what they were building,

0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:31.680
<v Speaker 2>Harden still in Houston with what he's building, and you'd

0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:35.160
<v Speaker 2>have this, you know, kind of quartet, Harden a lesser guy,

0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:40.040
<v Speaker 2>all competing. And I think if that would have happened

0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:45.960
<v Speaker 2>if Kad would have just picked the Celtics. My guess

0:42:46.040 --> 0:42:51.479
<v Speaker 2>is from seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, Lebron and Kyrie get

0:42:51.560 --> 0:42:56.520
<v Speaker 2>one more, Stephen Clay get one more and Durant figures

0:42:56.520 --> 0:43:00.280
<v Speaker 2>it out some way and gets one. But then all also,

0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:04.840
<v Speaker 2>the ring math for that era makes so much more sense.

0:43:05.360 --> 0:43:08.240
<v Speaker 2>It's like, oh, in this you know, in this time,

0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:14.600
<v Speaker 2>Lebron got to Steph got uh, Steph got to right, Yeah,

0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:19.160
<v Speaker 2>Steph got to Durant got one. For their careers. You know,

0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:22.879
<v Speaker 2>up until this last five years it had been Durant one,

0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:27.120
<v Speaker 2>Steph two, Lebron four, which is really what the hierarchy

0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:29.719
<v Speaker 2>probably should be, all of those things. But Steph and

0:43:29.840 --> 0:43:33.120
<v Speaker 2>Katie coming together, to me, threw the whole thing off.

0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:36.040
<v Speaker 2>But whatever it is, what it is. All right, We're

0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:40.000
<v Speaker 2>gonna do some gambling and play some games next What's Right?

0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:46.799
<v Speaker 2>All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right?

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<v Speaker 2>Episode two forty two Demons? What are we doing here?

0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:51.920
<v Speaker 4>So?

0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:54.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, do you think that this finals will be the

0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:57.360
<v Speaker 3>last sporting event that you bet on until maybe the

0:43:57.480 --> 0:43:58.320
<v Speaker 3>NFL futures.

0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:04.640
<v Speaker 2>That's a good question. No, I'll bet, I mean, i'll

0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:08.920
<v Speaker 2>bet some US Open tennis. Uh, because I like betting

0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:11.560
<v Speaker 2>while I'm there. I like getting in the stands, getting

0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:14.279
<v Speaker 2>a feel, seeing what's what, seeing if I can get

0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:20.319
<v Speaker 2>a little edge, I'll do that. I might as the

0:44:20.360 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 2>baseball season evolves, bet a few Royals games. I'm I might.

0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:28.880
<v Speaker 2>I've been watching a lot of Royals games. I'm not sure.

0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:33.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna bet. I'm not gonna bet the WNBA,

0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:37.920
<v Speaker 2>even though Adam Lefko, friend of the show, friend of ours,

0:44:38.360 --> 0:44:42.160
<v Speaker 2>is like the sharpest WNBA better that's ever existed. He

0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:45.080
<v Speaker 2>we have a group chat me, him and Danny Parkins,

0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:48.520
<v Speaker 2>and he just sends these WNBA bets and never I mean,

0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:52.600
<v Speaker 2>he's got to be at seventy ats on these WNBA

0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:58.319
<v Speaker 2>like player props. It's unbelievable. And I don't I may

0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:01.280
<v Speaker 2>or may not bet the Olympics. So there'll be some things.

0:45:01.280 --> 0:45:04.799
<v Speaker 3>But go ahead, Okay, Well sounds like we should cook

0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:05.400
<v Speaker 3>some bets up.

0:45:06.280 --> 0:45:06.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:08.560
<v Speaker 3>In the meantime, say you know, keep you keep you

0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:12.080
<v Speaker 3>held over. So today we're gonna play chef right, Okay,

0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:15.440
<v Speaker 3>and it's uh, oh, look at that. It's one of

0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:18.879
<v Speaker 3>the most important times for our restaurant. Chef Right the

0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:21.920
<v Speaker 3>NBA Finals, it's time to set the menu for our

0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:25.640
<v Speaker 3>five course meal. So we got some orders here to

0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.640
<v Speaker 3>kick to kick off our menu, we want to get

0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:31.439
<v Speaker 3>the attention of our patrons, so why not spice things

0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:35.640
<v Speaker 3>up immediately and predict the exact series length. We know

0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.879
<v Speaker 3>you're picking Dallas, but how they win?

0:45:38.840 --> 0:45:42.960
<v Speaker 2>So I've said Dallas in five. So Dallas in five

0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:49.520
<v Speaker 2>at twelve to one is I like the value of it? Now?

0:45:49.960 --> 0:45:52.480
<v Speaker 2>Would I be better off just betting Dallas in each

0:45:52.520 --> 0:45:56.359
<v Speaker 2>individual game? I don't know. But if I am, if

0:45:56.400 --> 0:46:05.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing the if I'm doing a a specific series bet,

0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:10.520
<v Speaker 2>I would go Dallas in five. Dallas in six is

0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:14.120
<v Speaker 2>gonna be a very popular pick. But that's why it's

0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:18.520
<v Speaker 2>only plus five point fifty. Dallas in five at twelve

0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:20.160
<v Speaker 2>to one. I like, go ahead next?

0:46:21.520 --> 0:46:24.399
<v Speaker 3>That is insane? All right, So far, advertiser, Let's see

0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:28.040
<v Speaker 3>what Kyrie can cook up from deep m hmm, all.

0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:31.279
<v Speaker 2>Right, So here are the options over under two and

0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:33.680
<v Speaker 2>a half. Three pointers made per game at minus one

0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:38.319
<v Speaker 2>fifteen five plus threes in any game at minus one,

0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:44.600
<v Speaker 2>twenty two plus threes in all games at plus three fifty.

0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:50.680
<v Speaker 2>I so two and a half threes per game. Is

0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:54.960
<v Speaker 2>he gonna average three made threes a game? I don't know.

0:46:56.200 --> 0:47:00.560
<v Speaker 2>I I think under two and a half have three

0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:07.000
<v Speaker 2>pointers made on average for the series is actually the

0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:09.960
<v Speaker 2>smart bet. I don't think this is gonna be a

0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:13.600
<v Speaker 2>huge Kyrie series. So I know that those seemed kind

0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:18.680
<v Speaker 2>of in conflict with Dallas and five. Uh, but then

0:47:18.719 --> 0:47:21.239
<v Speaker 2>if he has one huge, yeah, I think this. If

0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:24.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm being honest, I think the smart bet is under

0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:27.760
<v Speaker 2>two and a half three pointers made per game for Kyrie.

0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:29.239
<v Speaker 2>So that's the one I would bet there.

0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:35.640
<v Speaker 3>Next, Yes, shift salads are green, Celtics are green. Checks out.

0:47:36.200 --> 0:47:38.120
<v Speaker 3>Let's look at what Tatum and Brown can bring to

0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:38.600
<v Speaker 3>the table.

0:47:39.680 --> 0:47:44.240
<v Speaker 2>All right, So over under two point six three pointers

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:48.520
<v Speaker 2>per game for Tatum, over under twenty seven point two

0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:53.160
<v Speaker 2>points per game for Tatum, over under twenty three point

0:47:53.200 --> 0:47:57.400
<v Speaker 2>two points per game for Jalen Brown, and those are

0:47:57.440 --> 0:48:00.720
<v Speaker 2>all minus one fifteen on both sides, and they twenty

0:48:00.760 --> 0:48:03.720
<v Speaker 2>plus points in all games for Jalen Brown at plus

0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:08.840
<v Speaker 2>three fifty, I do not so I really like under

0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:11.880
<v Speaker 2>twenty seven point two points per game for Jason Tatum.

0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:16.800
<v Speaker 2>I just don't think he's gonna average twenty seven and

0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:20.720
<v Speaker 2>a half points per game in these finals. I think that, yeah,

0:48:20.760 --> 0:48:21.200
<v Speaker 2>what's up?

0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:24.920
<v Speaker 3>But Brown to score twenty twenty plus each game?

0:48:27.360 --> 0:48:33.720
<v Speaker 2>After the game, well yeah not to No, No, because

0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:35.840
<v Speaker 2>so there's a first and let me finish the Tatum

0:48:35.840 --> 0:48:39.839
<v Speaker 2>point real quick. Tatum is last Finals averaged twenty one

0:48:39.960 --> 0:48:43.360
<v Speaker 2>points per game. But here's the problem for the Jalen

0:48:43.400 --> 0:48:48.120
<v Speaker 2>Brown thing. If there's a blowout, he might not get

0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:51.239
<v Speaker 2>the minutes you know what I mean in order to

0:48:51.280 --> 0:48:55.080
<v Speaker 2>get to twenty, especially if they're getting blown out. Also,

0:48:55.920 --> 0:49:02.879
<v Speaker 2>here is Jalen Brown this postseason points seventeen thirty three,

0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:07.839
<v Speaker 2>twenty two, seventeen twenty five. That's round one, round two,

0:49:08.800 --> 0:49:14.439
<v Speaker 2>thirty two, nineteen twenty eight, twenty seven eleven, Round three

0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:18.560
<v Speaker 2>twenty six forty twenty four to twenty nine. That makes

0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:21.359
<v Speaker 2>me like the bet even less because he hasn't had

0:49:21.400 --> 0:49:25.880
<v Speaker 2>a down game in a while. So no, the plus

0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:28.120
<v Speaker 2>three fifties not good enough odds for me to like

0:49:28.200 --> 0:49:31.160
<v Speaker 2>him to be able to hit twenty plus in every game.

0:49:31.239 --> 0:49:35.560
<v Speaker 3>Next, Yes, chef, we know this is what you. We know,

0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:37.560
<v Speaker 3>this is what you and everybody came here for. So

0:49:37.600 --> 0:49:40.640
<v Speaker 3>let's get everybody what they want. The main course, can

0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:43.480
<v Speaker 3>be served with a pack of SIGs and beer. What

0:49:43.560 --> 0:49:44.200
<v Speaker 3>will Luca do?

0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:51.320
<v Speaker 2>All right? So lead this series in threes at even money,

0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:55.759
<v Speaker 2>be the Finals MVP at plus two five, average a

0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:59.400
<v Speaker 2>triple double at plus twelve hundred, and then there's a

0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:02.920
<v Speaker 2>secret item of him to record a triple double in

0:50:03.080 --> 0:50:07.600
<v Speaker 2>every game at plus twenty thousand. There is only one

0:50:07.680 --> 0:50:12.759
<v Speaker 2>of these bets being offered to me that I like,

0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:16.000
<v Speaker 2>and that's Finals MVP at plus two oh five. I

0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:20.040
<v Speaker 2>am you know I would have. I think his projected

0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:23.440
<v Speaker 2>points are like thirty one and a half. I actually

0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:26.880
<v Speaker 2>like the over there. I think this is going to

0:50:26.920 --> 0:50:30.439
<v Speaker 2>be a huge Lucas scoring series. I don't think he's

0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:32.799
<v Speaker 2>going to average a triple double. I think he'll come

0:50:33.040 --> 0:50:36.600
<v Speaker 2>just short of it. But I like him to have

0:50:36.680 --> 0:50:39.160
<v Speaker 2>Finals MVP at plus two oh five A lot, all right?

0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:43.719
<v Speaker 3>Next? Okay, so for dessert, why don't we jump into

0:50:43.719 --> 0:50:47.360
<v Speaker 3>some NFL bets, some sweet NFL bets. At that sweet,

0:50:47.680 --> 0:50:50.719
<v Speaker 3>I actually mean revolting. Which one of these backups has

0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:51.800
<v Speaker 3>a chance to start?

0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:58.680
<v Speaker 2>So it's Zach Wilson to take the Broncos first snap

0:50:58.800 --> 0:51:04.440
<v Speaker 2>at plus four fifty, justin Fields to take the Steelers

0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:07.839
<v Speaker 2>first snap at plus four fifty and Drew Lock to

0:51:07.880 --> 0:51:10.680
<v Speaker 2>take the Giants first snap at plus two seventy five.

0:51:12.120 --> 0:51:19.240
<v Speaker 2>I the Drew Lock things interesting because Daniel Jeremiah seemed

0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:20.960
<v Speaker 2>to let the cat out of the bag a few

0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:26.759
<v Speaker 2>weeks ago about the Giants really leaning towards Drew Lock.

0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:30.000
<v Speaker 2>But I think Justin Fields is gonna win that job,

0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:33.279
<v Speaker 2>and so I think Justin Fields. If they were the

0:51:33.360 --> 0:51:38.440
<v Speaker 2>same odds, I'd go Lock. But Lock is only plus

0:51:38.480 --> 0:51:41.879
<v Speaker 2>two seventy five and Fields is plus four fifty. So

0:51:42.040 --> 0:51:46.360
<v Speaker 2>I will go with Fields at plus four fifty as

0:51:46.600 --> 0:51:50.120
<v Speaker 2>a little early season. I'm Zach Wilson's not. I mean,

0:51:50.239 --> 0:51:52.759
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be bon Nicks. It has to be Bonnicks

0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:56.240
<v Speaker 2>for the Broncos. I don't love Bonix, but it's gotta

0:51:56.280 --> 0:52:00.920
<v Speaker 2>be Bonicks. All right, We've got listener questions. Plus, there

0:52:01.000 --> 0:52:05.239
<v Speaker 2>is an F one race this weekend, which means we

0:52:05.440 --> 0:52:10.160
<v Speaker 2>have our F one minute coming up. That's all next,

0:52:10.600 --> 0:52:12.840
<v Speaker 2>do you have something else to monsay? I saw you

0:52:12.840 --> 0:52:15.400
<v Speaker 2>put your finger up? Was that for F one? Okay?

0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.920
<v Speaker 2>Got it? All right? That's our F one minute and

0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:26.440
<v Speaker 2>your questions next? What's right? All right? Welcome back in

0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:29.640
<v Speaker 2>If you didn't see us last week. We are introducing

0:52:29.680 --> 0:52:35.520
<v Speaker 2>a new segment on Thursdays before races and Tuesdays after races,

0:52:36.200 --> 0:52:40.400
<v Speaker 2>called the F one Minute. My goddaughter, Sierra is an

0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:44.960
<v Speaker 2>aspiring sports journalist. She loves F one. I know nothing

0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.640
<v Speaker 2>about it. I was told we need to incorporate F

0:52:47.680 --> 0:52:50.799
<v Speaker 2>one coverage, so I had her do it. Now. The

0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:53.200
<v Speaker 2>way we are doing this is you guys are going

0:52:53.239 --> 0:52:56.239
<v Speaker 2>to see her evolution as a journalist as we go.

0:52:56.840 --> 0:53:00.920
<v Speaker 2>So she sends these in I give no no notes,

0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:05.640
<v Speaker 2>We play them, and then I give notes after the fact.

0:53:06.080 --> 0:53:09.600
<v Speaker 2>So the notes I gave her after her last one

0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:14.120
<v Speaker 2>were the following one is introduce yourself. You didn't say

0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:17.359
<v Speaker 2>who you were. The second one was because of how

0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:23.080
<v Speaker 2>you're recording it. iPhone does the mirror image, so don't

0:53:23.080 --> 0:53:26.759
<v Speaker 2>have words on a sign behind you, because it can

0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:28.920
<v Speaker 2>be distracting to the audience, like it's weird if you

0:53:28.960 --> 0:53:32.879
<v Speaker 2>record on your iPhone sometimes it shows I don't understand why.

0:53:32.960 --> 0:53:35.560
<v Speaker 2>But the reverse and she had a sign, she had

0:53:35.560 --> 0:53:38.319
<v Speaker 2>a poster or something on the wall, but behind her

0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:42.320
<v Speaker 2>last time, and we saw the backwards and the last

0:53:42.320 --> 0:53:46.480
<v Speaker 2>thing I said was don't be afraid to show personality

0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:50.759
<v Speaker 2>and give your picks. So we will see how she

0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:54.200
<v Speaker 2>took those notes all together as we get ready for

0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:57.040
<v Speaker 2>an F one race this weekend. That I'll be honest,

0:53:57.440 --> 0:53:59.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't know where it is. I do know I

0:53:59.640 --> 0:54:02.440
<v Speaker 2>said I I picked a favorite driver. I forgot who

0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:05.120
<v Speaker 2>my favorite driver was that I said I picked. Maybe

0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:09.640
<v Speaker 2>Ker can help me out. Uh, Carlos sains that's my guy.

0:54:09.880 --> 0:54:14.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm a Carlos Saines guy. Uh. And because we know

0:54:14.600 --> 0:54:20.080
<v Speaker 2>that the one guy dominates the F one circuit h

0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:22.239
<v Speaker 2>and so it felt like, you know what, it's not

0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:26.080
<v Speaker 2>really fun to root for him. So here is F

0:54:26.160 --> 0:54:29.279
<v Speaker 2>one minute number two with Sierra hit it.

0:54:29.800 --> 0:54:32.080
<v Speaker 4>Hi guys, my name is Sierra and it's very sweek.

0:54:32.239 --> 0:54:34.920
<v Speaker 4>I'm so excited to bring you this week's rendition of

0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:37.520
<v Speaker 4>F one minute. So there's been a lot of important

0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:40.360
<v Speaker 4>headlines leading up to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend

0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:44.120
<v Speaker 4>and regarding you know, driver contracts and extensions, one of

0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:47.239
<v Speaker 4>them being Socio Perez who actually extended his contract with

0:54:47.360 --> 0:54:49.880
<v Speaker 4>Red Bull all the way until twenty twenty six. But

0:54:49.960 --> 0:54:53.040
<v Speaker 4>on the other hand, we had Subon Akoon who actually

0:54:53.080 --> 0:54:56.040
<v Speaker 4>has decided to part wiz with the Alpine team at

0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:58.919
<v Speaker 4>the end of the twenty twenty four seasons, so there's

0:54:58.960 --> 0:55:00.879
<v Speaker 4>a lot of things, you know, up in the air,

0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:05.760
<v Speaker 4>you know, especially with Carlos Signs and Lewis Hamilton taking

0:55:05.800 --> 0:55:08.160
<v Speaker 4>a seat in FERI for twenty twenty five. But as

0:55:08.160 --> 0:55:10.360
<v Speaker 4>far as racing gets concerned, I think we're in for

0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:14.520
<v Speaker 4>a real treat this weekend with long straights, three day raisons,

0:55:14.600 --> 0:55:17.319
<v Speaker 4>the tight chit canes, the slow speed corners, but there's

0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:20.279
<v Speaker 4>also a high chance of rain for pretty much the

0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:24.440
<v Speaker 4>entire weekend. So with all that being said, we'll definitely

0:55:24.480 --> 0:55:26.799
<v Speaker 4>be on the edge of our seats watching this race

0:55:26.840 --> 0:55:30.000
<v Speaker 4>this weekend, and I think they'll definitely be a battle

0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:33.200
<v Speaker 4>towards the front of the field, especially with Max Verstappens

0:55:33.680 --> 0:55:37.360
<v Speaker 4>leading the Constructors Championship starting to dwindle and the gap

0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:41.360
<v Speaker 4>is legging tighter and tighter. I'm really excited to see

0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:45.439
<v Speaker 4>some overtakes happening, especially with last year's race we had

0:55:46.040 --> 0:55:49.520
<v Speaker 4>a total of twenty on track overtakes, so I'm sure

0:55:49.560 --> 0:55:52.480
<v Speaker 4>there will be a lot of action this weekend. And

0:55:52.600 --> 0:55:55.479
<v Speaker 4>as far as my predictions go, and no specific order,

0:55:56.080 --> 0:56:01.040
<v Speaker 4>i think I'm gonna go Carlos signs Max Staffing and

0:56:01.120 --> 0:56:03.880
<v Speaker 4>Charles the Clerk as our top four finishers on the

0:56:03.960 --> 0:56:08.080
<v Speaker 4>race this Sunday, So we'll see where that goes. But

0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:10.920
<v Speaker 4>that's all I've got for the F one minute this week.

0:56:11.160 --> 0:56:12.400
<v Speaker 4>I'll see you on Tuesday.

0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:15.640
<v Speaker 2>Oh I like that flourish at the end. Well done,

0:56:16.080 --> 0:56:18.680
<v Speaker 2>all right, So I learned a lot there. First of all,

0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:22.359
<v Speaker 2>I still don't yet totally understand what this Constructor's Cup

0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:26.080
<v Speaker 2>thing is. It sounds like that's the points awarded to

0:56:26.400 --> 0:56:32.240
<v Speaker 2>your pit crew. I don't totally know. I'm not quite certain. Also,

0:56:32.680 --> 0:56:35.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what DRS means. But I did figure

0:56:35.520 --> 0:56:38.560
<v Speaker 2>out just from that F one minute overtakes must simply

0:56:38.640 --> 0:56:40.920
<v Speaker 2>mean you were ahead of me. Now I'm ahead of you.

0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:44.040
<v Speaker 2>And Sierra said in this race last year there were

0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:46.759
<v Speaker 2>twenty overtakes during the race, so I guess they don't

0:56:46.760 --> 0:56:49.480
<v Speaker 2>happen that often. I don't know. I'm learning along like

0:56:49.560 --> 0:56:52.680
<v Speaker 2>you guys, and it's in Canada, so the time zone

0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:55.480
<v Speaker 2>won't be a problem. I'll watch this weekend. And she

0:56:55.600 --> 0:56:57.439
<v Speaker 2>had my guy Carlos in our top four.

0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:00.759
<v Speaker 3>Your thoughts, demanse, I think she did that so she

0:57:00.760 --> 0:57:01.880
<v Speaker 3>could get a good grade.

0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:04.320
<v Speaker 2>There's no grades.

0:57:05.960 --> 0:57:09.600
<v Speaker 3>Or yeah good, but no, it was awesome evaluation. I saw,

0:57:09.719 --> 0:57:11.840
<v Speaker 3>I saw the improvement from the last time, so it

0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:12.759
<v Speaker 3>was it was really dope.

0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:17.960
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, we might have gone too minimalistic on the background.

0:57:18.440 --> 0:57:24.000
<v Speaker 2>We might have overcorrected there, but the personality was coming

0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:27.440
<v Speaker 2>through also though, and the you know, she'll learn this

0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:31.920
<v Speaker 2>as she goes on. We need we need a meteor prediction.

0:57:32.080 --> 0:57:35.880
<v Speaker 2>Then here's the top four in no order, like I

0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:38.959
<v Speaker 2>need a back back back. But let's see how those

0:57:38.960 --> 0:57:41.600
<v Speaker 2>top four actually do. I was glad to hear my a.

0:57:41.800 --> 0:57:44.400
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know all those things about the contract extensions,

0:57:44.440 --> 0:57:46.880
<v Speaker 2>all of that. That was exciting. That was great. All right,

0:57:47.080 --> 0:57:48.280
<v Speaker 2>let's get to these questions.

0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:52.440
<v Speaker 3>Demansey Curtis Matthews asked, who do you have winning a

0:57:52.480 --> 0:57:55.760
<v Speaker 3>seven game series between the twenty eleven finals Mavericks or

0:57:55.800 --> 0:57:57.480
<v Speaker 3>this year's finals Mavericks.

0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:03.080
<v Speaker 2>This year's Finals Mavericks with respect to Dirk and Jay Kidd.

0:58:03.080 --> 0:58:06.200
<v Speaker 2>This year's Finals Mavericks, I think is a better team.

0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:09.840
<v Speaker 3>Next then they both beat Lebron.

0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:14.800
<v Speaker 2>Well, this Mavericks team didn't beat Lebron. They didn't play Lebron.

0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:18.720
<v Speaker 2>Lebron lost to the Nuggets unfortunately, But Yes, the twenty

0:58:18.800 --> 0:58:22.240
<v Speaker 2>eleven MAVs would Lebron? Oh would they have? Well? That

0:58:22.440 --> 0:58:26.320
<v Speaker 2>was a weird Listen, that was Lebron's one true failure

0:58:26.400 --> 0:58:30.080
<v Speaker 2>of his career. Like, I was Lebron going to have

0:58:30.200 --> 0:58:33.240
<v Speaker 2>that type of kind of short circuiting for the final

0:58:33.280 --> 0:58:35.720
<v Speaker 2>three games of the finals against anybody? I don't know.

0:58:36.200 --> 0:58:38.200
<v Speaker 2>Like if they were, then a lot of teams would

0:58:38.240 --> 0:58:39.480
<v Speaker 2>have ended up beating them.

0:58:39.520 --> 0:58:44.920
<v Speaker 3>Next, Connor Leland asked, if Celtics wins, should Lebron join

0:58:45.000 --> 0:58:48.000
<v Speaker 3>the MAVs? Can they do that financially? In draft Brony.

0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:50.160
<v Speaker 3>I think media will be fine with it because he

0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:52.280
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't be joining a team that has won anything.

0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:55.280
<v Speaker 2>No, Well, I listen, I don't know the media would

0:58:55.280 --> 0:58:56.720
<v Speaker 2>be fine with The media is not gonna be really

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<v Speaker 2>fine with an Lebron does. I'd love to see Lebron

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<v Speaker 2>leave the Lakers. It's unlikely he does. I think the

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<v Speaker 2>Sixers are the one team that could add him, compete

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<v Speaker 2>and pay him. Every other team he'd have to be

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<v Speaker 2>joining for close to the league minimum that has a

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<v Speaker 2>real chance to compete.

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<v Speaker 3>Next, Nick Wright muse, if Dallas wins, do you promise

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<v Speaker 3>to join Celtics? Twitter Space after the last game.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, that would be fun. Yeah, I think I'd love

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<v Speaker 2>to do that. I don't know if there's Twitter space

0:59:27.560 --> 0:59:32.160
<v Speaker 2>community is as vibrant as the Warriors one is, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love to do that. Producers ask there's a Nick

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<v Speaker 2>Wright muse Yeah, check it out on Twitter. He's got

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<v Speaker 2>a great account. He also just tweeted earlier today just

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<v Speaker 2>to prove I'm not a sick of fan. I think

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<v Speaker 2>the Celtics role in this series. So it's a bad

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<v Speaker 2>take by him, but yeah, it's a good account, all right.

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<v Speaker 3>Next, thanks stick right views. Case Wageman said, don't know

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<v Speaker 3>if he ever did the all Time Cinematic Dog Rankings

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<v Speaker 3>from a few weeks ago. But Balto is one, right,

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<v Speaker 3>Who's Balto?

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<v Speaker 2>Balto dog? I don't know who is Balto. I've never

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<v Speaker 2>heard of Boto, so I don't know who that is.

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<v Speaker 2>Why is Balto famous in not Togo?

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<v Speaker 3>What happened to Balto?

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<v Speaker 2>That's really weird. I don't know what is no that

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<v Speaker 2>the Cinematic Dog Rankings is a whole podcast for when

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<v Speaker 2>it's not NBA Final season.

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<v Speaker 3>H balt a miraculous sled dog medicine delivery. I don't

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<v Speaker 3>think that's what the movie is called.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually, yeah, no, I I the I have no idea.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never heard of Balto.

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<v Speaker 3>But all right, next producers asked break a tie, yeah

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<v Speaker 3>or nay on coastal popsicles, So you got a vieo

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<v Speaker 3>for it.

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<v Speaker 2>No, that's a nag. That's gross, man, it's just gross.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I I saw this on Twitter to uh that

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<v Speaker 2>that's a nay. And also, I understand this is one

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<v Speaker 2>of the reasons this podcast doesn't go viral as much

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<v Speaker 2>to his other podcasts. But with respect to my wonderful

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<v Speaker 2>producers who I adore and who helped the show, I

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<v Speaker 2>do not enjoy responding to the dummish that was on

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<v Speaker 2>the internet this week. I understand that is like the

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<v Speaker 2>skeleton key to viral podcast success for everyone else. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just not gonna do it. Like, hey, like anyone got

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<v Speaker 2>a thought on the guy who was driving to the

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<v Speaker 2>to court or did a zoom call with an expired license.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wait, he didn't have an expired license. Oh wait,

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<v Speaker 2>he never had a license. I don't give a shit

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<v Speaker 2>about those things. I think it is actually it is

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<v Speaker 2>part of the ruination of all of us. What'd you say?

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<v Speaker 3>I think that got arrested yesterday though.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean again, everyone is just we're just all

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<v Speaker 2>getting dumber. And it's like the and like the and

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<v Speaker 2>so many of these things that are like crazy, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's infuriating also because it's like, oh my god, look

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<v Speaker 2>at this clip of this horrible racism on an airplane,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's like, this is the worst group of actors

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<v Speaker 2>in a skit I've ever seen. Yes, it's obviously fake,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's just created to dupe Rubes and to tear

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<v Speaker 2>our country apart. And then it's like, hey, here is

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<v Speaker 2>the most revolting food item I can ever think of.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say this is a family tradition of mine,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's gonna get sixteen thousand quote tweets and then

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<v Speaker 2>Steve and A's gonna rip it apart on his show.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not interested. I understand that's why this show is

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<v Speaker 2>not as successful as others. I'm okay with it. I

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<v Speaker 2>think they're playing me off.

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<v Speaker 3>With music really like popsicles.

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<v Speaker 2>I just think it. I just don't like stupidity, that's all.

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<v Speaker 2>I just try to be. You want to have a

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<v Speaker 2>little balt of the Dog conversation, that's fine. You want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk. I'm okay with that, but like, hey, here's

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<v Speaker 2>the thing that the the damn algorithm said we're all

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<v Speaker 2>interested in I'm not interested in it, and now they're

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<v Speaker 2>playing me off like oscars music. I'll see you guys

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