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Speaker 1: Oh that's notopp as if you heard this one before.

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Speaker 1: But that team in Oklahoma City is on a hot

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Speaker 1: streak again and the Celtics.

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Speaker 2: With both teams winning, I'm so angry.

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Speaker 1: I am a little bit about it, but hey, look

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. They've been winning six straight.

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Speaker 2: It's on earth.

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Speaker 1: I mean, other teams like the Lakers and MAVs are

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Speaker 1: getting healthy. That's one way to look at it, and

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Speaker 1: But we're getting into all of that and more with

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Speaker 1: NBA Writer vocal songwriter Player to Loon on today's episode.

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Speaker 1: I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is

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Speaker 1: Miles and Jack got mad, boosty.

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Speaker 2: Three got it?

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Speaker 1: Look at the j ok there you go in be

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Speaker 1: driving Spinny k.

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Speaker 3: Fatter number eight, Gene, that's been secure the Celtics or

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Speaker 3: NBA champions.

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Speaker 4: Okay, war to Moon NBA right at the Guardian.

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Speaker 1: A bit of a vocalist musician as they say, for

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Speaker 1: tiny deaths. Uh not? Like who is that one the

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Speaker 1: rapper who is convinced when she's in that Bobby all

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Speaker 1: top thing, she's like a musician. I'm not a MAGICIANI

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not.

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Speaker 1: But you are a musician and a fantastic writer talking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the NBA, but also a fan of one

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Speaker 1: of the best teams, one of the best franchises in history, obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's one of your favorites right my house,

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Speaker 2: one of your favorite teams?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get Lakers. I mean I don't really sort

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Speaker 1: I would say the Lakers probably Yeah, yeah, yeah, streets

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Speaker 1: are sick Suki Hanna, that's right, Jabar, thank you for

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Speaker 1: that one. But anyway, have you been, Thanks for thanks

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Speaker 5: I've been good. I've been.

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Speaker 6: It's been a crazy year to be covering the NBA

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Speaker 6: had a dull moment since October.

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Speaker 2: It's do you hear about the Luca trade?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 2: That guy is so good good?

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Speaker 1: You think something's wrong with him? What's wrong with him?

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Speaker 2: He's wrong with them?

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Speaker 5: Honestly?

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Speaker 2: Actually, radio act Yeah, giving off radio.

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Speaker 1: Your counter next that guy, not Matt Geiger, the basketball.

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Speaker 2: No, not even his energy in the locker room. He's

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Speaker 2: literally radioactive, like doctor Manhattan.

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Speaker 5: That's that's why I said it was the first time

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Speaker 5: hearing of this.

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Speaker 1: You guys just missed my Matt Geiger joke.

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Speaker 2: I accept it, but he can give you that's radioactivity.

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Speaker 1: There was science, there was old obscure sixers references.

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Speaker 2: You know what Geiger counter is Matt Geiger. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: forgot about Matt Geiger. I mean not not in my era.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no anyway, Sorry, and Claire,

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Speaker 1: thank you for bringing it back down to earth.

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Speaker 2: That's a reference.

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Speaker 1: So washed, thank you, thank you for keeping us humble.

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Speaker 2: And any laugh you do here on this will be

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Speaker 2: don't want to give people too much hope, right, they

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Speaker 2: little more detail. But you are a Lakers fan. Are

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Speaker 6: I feel like I try and compartmentalize because you're a

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Speaker 1: But do you know the photographers too, Yeah, some of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: Anyway, to answer your question, Jack, I think that this

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Speaker 5: But I'm not like panic button level.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yet I do. I just you know, as a

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Speaker 2: It was Ben Simmons' rookie year, and it was like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there is them, there is.

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Speaker 2: And I think that, like generally is a good rule

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Speaker 6: I feel like I would just say, like Dallas last year,

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Speaker 6: It's just sort of like you want to be playing

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Speaker 6: I feel like the Lakers were on that trajectory and

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Speaker 2: Sure, but better than happened when they did and not

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Speaker 2: Say that I'm a unique thinker.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, takes before this is really Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The thing is your team's got to have the bigger

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Speaker 5: Yeah, at the end of the game, not in the middle.

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Speaker 2: At the end, I actually have the defense. If NBA

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Speaker 6: Really kind of bringing back the imposter syndrome that I

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to bring in some Rick Rubin for the

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Speaker 2: writer and a song right, yeah, absolutely? And then just

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Speaker 6: But my plan had been to ask him if he's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's his favorite? What's the one he's listening to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm like almost certain he has, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, he's a millennial, He's he's online enough seeing them.

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Speaker 2: Who do you even thinks? Right?

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Speaker 1: Right? I don't know which one?

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Speaker 5: What's that on Lebron Lebron things?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Man in the Mirror. Then there's the new

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Speaker 1: Katy Perry, I glazed Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I haven't heard that one, did you?

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Speaker 6: Hear the press conference earlier this season where JJ used

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Speaker 6: just like, this is proof that JJ is still very.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's but also maybe doesn't know what glazing

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Speaker 5: Does it actually act?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? But the game of the week we were touching

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Speaker 2: By the way, this was not the game of the week.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it was supposed to be the Clipper.

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Speaker 2: It was the Grizzlies at Clippers. Jaw was hurt and

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Speaker 2: and so using our powers as broadcasters, we flexed it,

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Speaker 2: We are flexed it. That is such a such a

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Speaker 2: change we've been flexed on, which is a shame because

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Speaker 2: they're uh, you know, like it's actually very entertaining to

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Speaker 5: From this point forward kind of entertainment.

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Speaker 2: They're in a real dead heat with the Nets. It's

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Speaker 2: it's pretty exciting because so they're now currently have the

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Speaker 6: Okay when the time is the funniest thing ever to me,

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Speaker 6: Like fact that the Sixers could have the kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: It is very funny, Claire, And I'm glad you think

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Speaker 2: it's funny too, because I think it's hilarious and sometimes

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Speaker 1: So you are, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's so they need to lose everything from here on out,

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Speaker 2: Like they just need to keep losing to protect themselves

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Speaker 2: from from that scenario that indibility. Yes, it's entertaining. I'll

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Speaker 1: Shaden looked great. He was seven of twenty nine from

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just play harder than everyone. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 2: Right, scariest matchup for Okay so ok in the playoffs? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Know, Jada is the like that I remember, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense to me. Miles is just giddy

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Speaker 1: Well let's get into the Lakers, but first let's take

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Speaker 2: How you do that?

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Speaker 1: And we're back. So the Lakers forty three eight Lakers?

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Speaker 2: So the Lakers, Okay, how do you do?

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Speaker 1: I said, how look at you? You guys are so

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Speaker 1: Sparks will say, uglay. Yeah, but again I think the

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Speaker 1: way thank you so much. Look, I try and only

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Speaker 1: If not, If not, I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 1: Benefit yes, yes, yes, and he had three x's in

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Speaker 1: But this team, I think again, a lot of people

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Speaker 5: I think you can believe.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think it should deter your belief

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Speaker 1: not as if we stumbled upon this, but the way

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Speaker 1: it came together. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, No, Like, I think, just in a

441
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Speaker 1: more practical sense, there would need to be just a

442
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Speaker 1: little bit more time for the roster to kind of

443
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Speaker 1: actually form, like hardened in a way that it's coming

444
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Speaker 1: together with the right team and like James Harden, like

445
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Speaker 1: James exactly take a step back.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so maybe we should be talking about the

447
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Speaker 2: Mavericks then, because they seem to be the ones who

448
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Speaker 2: were intending to build this roster. They're doing exactly what

449
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Speaker 2: they wanted to. So let's see where. Oh sorry, no,

450
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Speaker 2: we won't to actually talk about them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, welcome back eighty though. I think it's commendable.

452
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. My dumb basketball brain is just like, well

453
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Speaker 2: I didn't think it was the Mavericks heading into last

454
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Speaker 2: year's playoffs, and Luka Doncicic was good enough that he

455
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Speaker 2: was able to just like drag them there, and now

456
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 2: he has Lebron James on and now he has Lebron

457
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Speaker 2: James on his team, so maybe again, maybe he do

458
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Speaker 2: that again.

459
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Speaker 5: Maybe again.

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Speaker 6: I picked them as my dark horse to come out

461
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Speaker 6: of the West last year in our like Guardian pre

462
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Speaker 6: playoffs predictions and they were a five or six seed.

463
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Speaker 5: I think so. I feel that's like one of my

464
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Speaker 5: best hot takes ever.

465
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Speaker 2: I did not have that. I did not have that

466
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Speaker 2: on my all. We gotta go. We got to go

467
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Speaker 2: into this next segment, which is where we ask you

468
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Speaker 2: to tell us if somebody is a contender or pretender.

469
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Speaker 2: And before before we even get to the teams that

470
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Speaker 2: we had, who is your your dark horse for the

471
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Speaker 2: two divisions? Who you got coming out of the East.

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Speaker 2: If it's not like one of those teams, if there

473
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Speaker 2: is another situation like last year where I don't think

474
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Speaker 2: anybody had the MAVs coming out other than you, other

475
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Speaker 2: than me, who would you say, could maybe we don't

476
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Speaker 2: even do this because I do think it's going to

477
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Speaker 2: be it's gonna be one of those yeah sells to

478
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Speaker 2: the Cavs. But who out of the West could you

479
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Speaker 2: see be in the dark horse?

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Speaker 6: Would you say, like, so, should we put aside the

481
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Speaker 6: Lakers now since you already.

482
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Speaker 2: Know that that's one of them, we are, Yeah, we

483
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Speaker 2: are putting inside the Lakers. I think the consensus seems

484
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Speaker 2: to be even if they're not, they don't end up

485
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Speaker 2: as the top two seed that they it's like them

486
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Speaker 2: or the Thunder, possibly because the Lakers just get so

487
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Speaker 2: much coverage in the national media. But I do feel

488
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Speaker 2: like they're not sneaking up on.

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Speaker 5: Anybody, right, I would say I would go the Warriors.

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Speaker 6: I think they are an example of a team that's

491
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Speaker 6: kind of getting hot at the right time. I think

492
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Speaker 6: the Jimmy Butler trade just really really like reinvigorated Stephan Draymond.

493
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Speaker 6: I'm a huge Jimmy Butler apologist believer, Like I've never

494
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Speaker 6: sold my Jimmy Butler stock at any of these stops.

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Speaker 6: I think he's the kind of guy where it's like,

496
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Speaker 6: if you pay him, he's fine, Like he's not going

497
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Speaker 6: to cause problems. He just wants to get paid for

498
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Speaker 6: his services. So I think he's paid, he's happy. He

499
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Speaker 6: still hasn't want a championship, but he would love to.

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Speaker 2: So I think Madonna to be.

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Speaker 5: Paid, I know, right.

502
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Speaker 6: I feel like the narrative is just like, oh, he's

503
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Speaker 6: such a curmudget in every stop. It's like he does

504
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 6: great everywhere he is until the front office doesn't want

505
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Speaker 6: to pay him, you know, the whatever the max is

506
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Speaker 6: that he can get paid, and then he causes issues

507
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Speaker 6: until they send him somewhere where he can get that money.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know, I feel like.

509
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Speaker 6: You know, in this economy, yeah, relatable, but you know

510
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Speaker 6: you're worth honey. He's also one of like the biggest

511
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Speaker 6: like playoff risers that we've seen in the last decade.

512
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Speaker 6: Like he's someone who absolutely elevates his game to the moment,

513
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Speaker 6: and Steph is the same. So I think I would

514
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Speaker 6: definitely not count out the Warriors. I think they're deep,

515
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Speaker 6: I think they have good defense. I think they have

516
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Speaker 6: they could have the best player on the floor and

517
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Speaker 6: a given night.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, has.

519
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Speaker 2: There ever been anybody as who it was as consistent

520
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Speaker 2: about just like beating a whole step better in the playoffs,

521
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Speaker 2: Like not like somebody who always comes up in the

522
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Speaker 2: clutch in the playoffs, but like somebody who just was

523
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Speaker 2: like yeah and then yeah, and then I take it

524
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Speaker 2: like to another notch, and I play like a first

525
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Speaker 2: team All NBA player even though I'm not even in

526
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Speaker 2: that conversation in the regular season.

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Speaker 6: That's a great question because I feel like all the

528
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Speaker 6: people you think of who your like incredible playoff performers

529
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Speaker 6: are also like top ten, top fifteen players in the

530
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Speaker 6: regular season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

532
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Speaker 5: I don't know he might be.

533
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Speaker 6: I mean they call him playoff Jimmy, like if he

534
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Speaker 6: has a whole separate name for how he is in

535
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Speaker 6: the playoffs.

536
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's him and I guess you know Paul

537
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Speaker 2: George playoff p the two people with playoff nicknames. Then yeah,

538
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Speaker 2: that's why I like hopes for the sixers.

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Speaker 1: Just like looking at listicles from certain like you know,

540
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Speaker 1: basketball outlets and things talking about like the top playoff performers,

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Speaker 1: and you're just describing like the top five like they're

542
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Speaker 1: just all time players.

543
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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan was really good in the playoffs.

544
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Speaker 1: Or Jordan number two Lebron Ron James pre sh Okay.

545
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Speaker 6: I will say it to like not to be like

546
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Speaker 6: a super Lebron Homer, but I will say with Lebron,

547
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Speaker 6: like he's obviously incredible in the regular season as well,

548
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Speaker 6: but he is someone who I would say his play

549
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Speaker 6: gets better and better and better and better, like almost

550
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Speaker 6: to like a mathematical degree as he ramps up for

551
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Speaker 6: the playoffs, generally speaking, like barring injury, Like I think

552
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Speaker 6: he's he's not like a he's like a marathon not

553
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Speaker 6: a sprint kind of guy, right, you know, what I mean.

554
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Speaker 6: So that's not the same as Jimmy, but he's almost

555
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Speaker 6: always better in the playoffs than he was in the

556
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Speaker 6: regular season, regardless of how good he was.

557
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Speaker 1: And even if it's a little quiet, it feels like

558
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Speaker 1: he's doing that thing where he's like he's merely taking

559
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Speaker 1: a deep breath before exerting himself. And that's what you

560
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Speaker 1: see when things begin to seemingly be like less than optimal.

561
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so what contender, pretender or chicken tender? Shall

562
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Speaker 1: we do it?

563
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah?

564
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Speaker 5: Wait, what is chicken? Can you define?

565
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to add that. Should we have a

566
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Speaker 1: third category?

567
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Like fun delicious, little Chris, fun delicious.

568
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Speaker 5: But not trying to be anything other than what.

569
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Speaker 2: They not a full chicken meal, just a chicken tender.

570
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Speaker 1: Or a contender for the NBA Finals.

571
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 2: So contender, pretender, they're just pretending to be good and

572
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: there is malice in their soul. They're trying to trick people.

573
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: Chicken tender, they're fun, we liked them, they're just not Yeah. Yeah,

574
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: they're just a more of a one night thing. They're not. Yeah,

575
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: they're for dipping, not not for a full full meal.

576
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 2: The calves contender, pretender, Chicken Contender, Okay, and you're not

577
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 2: You're not scared off by the It was so they

578
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: had a four game losing streak.

579
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Speaker 5: I think that's okay. I'm not worried about that.

580
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Speaker 2: It was weird, like everybody they played it was almost

581
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Speaker 2: like they're winning was a communicable disease, where like everybody

582
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: they played started playing out of their minds and then

583
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Speaker 2: like they like the Suns was the last one the

584
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 2: Sons beat them, and now the Sons have been like

585
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: playing really well for the first time. It's tough, but

586
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 2: now the Suns have been good ever since. But I think, yeah, yeah,

587
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: they're like, what was that movie good Luck Chuck? Yeah?

588
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: Great?

589
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 5: The worst movie is a.

590
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: Great but the premise was this is the guy who

591
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: you sleep with and then you meet your partner for life,

592
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: Like they this is the team on this road swing,

593
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 2: this is the the Cavs are the team you played

594
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 2: and suddenly like figured your team out.

595
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Speaker 6: And I just feel like they've been playing really really well,

596
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 6: really consistently, like like scary consistently. They how many losses

597
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 6: do they have on the season, Like they've just been

598
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Speaker 6: playing out of their minds from since October. I think

599
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Speaker 6: it's natural to they have the number one seed locked

600
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Speaker 6: up with a bullet fourteen losses, fourteen losses total, they

601
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Speaker 6: have the number one seed.

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Speaker 5: It's not even close.

603
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Speaker 6: No one's going to come close to like taking that

604
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Speaker 6: number one seed from them, not even Boston. So it's

605
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Speaker 6: kind of natural, I think, to have like a little

606
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Speaker 6: bit of a leutdown when you're like, okay, let's just

607
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Speaker 6: get to the playoffs, Like, we have the number one

608
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 6: seed locked up. So I'm not concerned they're a contender,

609
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 6: all right.

610
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Speaker 2: There they are four and a half games up on

611
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Speaker 2: the on the Celtics, so it would be tough for

612
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Speaker 2: the Celtics to catch them up.

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Speaker 1: Next who we got mouse Clippers contender pretender, chicken tender pretender.

614
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Speaker 2: Wow, you think there is malice malice.

615
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 6: And their so I think I just hear people talking

616
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 6: about them like, oh, don't forget about the Clippers and

617
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 6: playing really well, and it's like, I think we've earned

618
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 6: the right to forget about the Clippers at this point.

619
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Speaker 6: I think that there's been enough years of evidence for

620
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Speaker 6: me to not like hitch my wagon to Kawhi Leonard

621
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 6: and James Harden in the playoffs and they look awesome.

622
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 6: They're so fun, they're playing great that not signing Paul

623
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 6: George thing is looking incredible.

624
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 5: It's aging like a.

625
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: Fine Okay, I had that trade Eternal Sunshine of this

626
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 2: outless minded, out of my brain, so actually understandable.

627
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Speaker 6: But yeah, so I just don't think like I think

628
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Speaker 6: they're they're a contender to upset someone in the first round,

629
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Speaker 6: but I don't think they're a contender. Contender they can't

630
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Speaker 6: win for playoff rounds. I would be bowled over.

631
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Speaker 2: Like right now. They would go against Houston. That could

632
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: be an interesting serially, Yeah, all right, last one Nuggets.

633
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Speaker 2: I mean, this one's kind of putting this on a

634
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Speaker 2: platter for you. They're named after one of these things.

635
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just kidding. I want to say, chick contenders

636
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 6: so bad, it's just commedically right.

637
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know.

638
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 5: Here's a hot take. I think they're a pretender.

639
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: Whoa, yeah, yeah you stink. It's everything that.

640
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 6: Is amazing, and if you had like even one more

641
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 6: helpful player, I would probably put them in the contender tier.

642
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Speaker 6: This is like, I think I'm on an island with

643
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 6: this take. I think pretty much everyone I know has

644
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 6: them as a contender. They are not that good this year.

645
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 6: They beat up on bad teams. They have a losing

646
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 6: record against teams above five hundred. Obviously, like Jamal Murray's

647
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 6: another sort of playoff risories, someone who does a lot

648
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 6: better in the playoffs than in the regular season historically.

649
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 6: But I just don't think they have enough in their

650
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 6: supporting cast this year. And like you don't need you know, obviously,

651
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 6: rotations shorten in the playoffs. You don't need to have

652
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 6: a ton of depth, but you need to have someone

653
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 6: besides Jokich, you know what I mean?

654
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Speaker 5: You can't play one on five. Their defense is atrocious.

655
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 5: It's been bad all season.

656
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Speaker 6: I think they're like twenty something ranked in defense and

657
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Speaker 6: like as good as their offenses. I just don't think

658
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Speaker 6: you can win four playoff rounds with like a bottom

659
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Speaker 6: of the league defense.

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Speaker 5: So they're a pretender to me.

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Speaker 2: Incredible incredible hot takes. You heard it here first, It's

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Speaker 2: gonna be what they bring me for HOA Lakers Warriors

663
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Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals. I think, I like how we just

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Speaker 2: eliminate everybody else? Is that here?

665
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Speaker 5: I said for sure?

666
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 6: Like was my number one choice to come out of

667
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 6: the West Losers, Like you heard it.

668
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 5: Here first CLA.

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Speaker 2: And we didn't put the Celtics in there, so we

670
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: also think they stink and have no chance chicken tender,

671
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,239
Speaker 2: Chicken tender, chicken contender. Actually, they would be pretenders. They

672
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: have malice in their hearts.

673
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 5: They're they're not fun, They're just Slytherin contenders.

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00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 2: You know, they are slytherin right, like everybody.

675
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 6: Like the Celtics organization has slytherin energy and I.

676
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: Should fight me and the same color scheme too, you

677
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: know what I mean?

678
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Speaker 5: Is that a coincidence? There are no coincidences.

679
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: There are none. There aren't.

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Speaker 2: In the hypothetical off season for this show, we should

681
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Speaker 2: just go through and group every NBA team by Harry

682
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Speaker 2: Potter House.

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Speaker 1: And wait, so who's in Slytherin? How many of the

684
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Speaker 1: Celtics would you put in Slytherin?

685
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 5: Like, oh, I haven't done individual players.

686
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: You just do teams.

687
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: That would be a lot of work.

688
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Speaker 1: Celtics.

689
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 5: It wasn't to do the team.

690
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: But Celtics were Slytherin.

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Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: It was a year too.

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Speaker 6: It was like I was like thinking of like I

694
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 6: didn't do every single team, but I was like, oh,

695
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 6: this team from this year is definitely a Slytherin this team,

696
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 6: like for example, the Calves in twenty sixteen Gryffindor vibe

697
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 6: such Griffin. Even the color scheme, the spur like the

698
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 6: Tim Duncan Spurs. Slytherin vibes to me personally interesting.

699
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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought they were like more harmless dumb dumbs,

700
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: but like not not.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like the Nuggets, but you have the

702
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 6: championship Nuggets had hufflepuff.

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00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: Energy huffle puff That's what I was thinking. Yeah, who's

704
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 2: Raven Claw?

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Speaker 5: I know, right, Memphis.

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Speaker 6: I don't think it's like super cerebral, like who plays

707
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 6: like I guess Golden State. It's like super like high

708
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 6: level cerebral brand of basketball.

709
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Speaker 2: But trying to do this game having only read like

710
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Speaker 2: one of the books.

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Speaker 6: I haven't read them since I was a child, but

712
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 6: I'm very familiar.

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Speaker 2: It's like the this is like the vibes.

714
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Speaker 6: This is like street Man astrology. I feel like how

715
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 6: Harry Potter House is.

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00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly so.

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Speaker 6: And I'm a big astrology person, so I kind of

718
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Speaker 6: know every.

719
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Speaker 1: Susan Miller yep.

720
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Speaker 2: And then rename all the uh, all the players as JK.

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00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 2: Rowling would name them. Oh, actually, we're out of time.

722
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: That would be too offensive. Let's take a quick break.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back, and we're back.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're back.

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Speaker 2: Any kind of fool could see. Damn I sang that

726
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Speaker 2: so well. We have to worry about, uh, you know,

727
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Speaker 2: this episode being taken down.

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Speaker 1: The sound sweeper, catching that with soundsweeper. It was the

729
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: real thing. Nah, just worry about the street sweepers. Fam

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Speaker 1: guess what Claire to loon is a fourth quarter rapid

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Speaker 1: fire round of questioning. We love having you on the show,

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Speaker 1: and you are pretty good at being you know, band

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Speaker 1: banded string with us. But I just wanted you to

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Speaker 1: know that in this in this, in this segment, we

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Speaker 1: will be rude, will be very rude if you take

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Speaker 1: too long. We're about speed right now. Okay, yep, you

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Speaker 1: already know. It's the fastest question answered segment in all

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Speaker 1: podcasting history. We asked you a question, you just fire

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Speaker 1: the answer right back. Are you ready?

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Speaker 5: I think so?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's so angry. I can't oh this time?

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Speaker 1: All right, Jack, who's going first? You go first?

744
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Speaker 2: I didn't go first. That's okay with you? Go ahead,

745
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: go ahead, So Claire, yes, Doc Rivers recently said he

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Speaker 2: doesn't get enough credit for winning three games in playoff

747
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Speaker 2: series where he blew three one leads. Uh, no one

748
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Speaker 2: tells a real story, And I'm fine with that. It's

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Speaker 2: unfair in some ways. I don't get enough credit for

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Speaker 2: getting the three wins. I get credit for losing. I

751
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: always say, what if we had lost to Houston six?

752
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: Apparently he always says that no one cares. Anyways, you

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00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 2: want more credit for the three wins he won in

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00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: the series where he blew a through on lead. Just reminder,

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Speaker 2: he's blown three three to one leads in the course

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Speaker 2: of his career in the playoffs. There are thirteen total

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00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: in the history of the league. He's got three of them.

758
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: Three hundred and fifty coaches who've coached in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: He's blown five three to two leads, one two oh lead.

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00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: But he's never been swept. Baby, what's another skill that

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Speaker 2: you think we're underappreciating in the NBA? In the same way,

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Speaker 2: I had to jam this in there somewhere. I was

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Speaker 2: so impressed. I was so impressed by his ability to, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, find a skill like what about the three wins? That?

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Speaker 1: And I'll open my next question with a Darvin Ham quote.

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Speaker 2: So you'll forget the question, what's another underappreciated skill that

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00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: isn't actually a skill that we should appreciate.

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Speaker 6: More grabbing the camera, uh, and then showing it to

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Speaker 6: the RAF to show them that Lebron James Scott fouled

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Speaker 6: end of Lake Salt. It's only happened one time in history,

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Speaker 6: but it was an incredible skill.

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Speaker 1: Screamed, I thought to grab the camera.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get that.

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Speaker 1: Let me It was just so weird to see Pat

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Speaker 1: Bev holding a camera.

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Speaker 5: He's clearly never held the camera.

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Speaker 1: Definitely has not hold held the camera because my father's

778
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Speaker 1: a photographer. If I grabbed the camera by the lens

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Speaker 1: like that, he would have lifted me to the sky

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00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: and I would have floated away. But yeah, Pat Bev

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Speaker 1: loved that gesture. Love that gesture.

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Speaker 6: Just creative, a creative way to show the refs that

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Speaker 6: they messed up.

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Speaker 1: Next question, Claire Darvin Ham once said, and here's my question,

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Speaker 1: who's the more dominant player Luca and Kobe's era or

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Speaker 1: Kobe in today's era.

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Speaker 6: I'm so sorry, it's really hard to be fasten. You

788
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 6: guys are being so funny. No, no, no, Kobe in

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Speaker 6: this era like Kobe in this era. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: And that's with that game that he had then, or

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Speaker 2: is it just knowing that he would add wrinkles to

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Speaker 2: his game to make him no idea.

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Speaker 1: I think to make it fair.

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Speaker 2: It's like you just oh take them as this.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna say, like, Kobe is such a psycho competitor.

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Speaker 6: I just feel like he's the kind of person he

797
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Speaker 6: would like figure it out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I think they both have skill sets that translate very

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Speaker 6: well to both eras. Is that a political cop out answer?

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Speaker 2: M hmm, yeah, I guess that's fine.

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Speaker 1: We'll take it. We'll take it Luca.

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Speaker 2: They'd be like, this guy's a gimmick. He shoots so

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Speaker 2: many threes.

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Speaker 6: Actually maybe okay, wait, I'm changing my answer to it.

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Speaker 6: Would be Luca because he's just like a sort of

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00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 6: pudgy looking Balkan dude and that had never had success

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Speaker 6: in the NBA before.

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Speaker 5: So they would definitely be like, I got the white guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I got the guy from like.

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Speaker 2: Slvigia or whatever, seven r Vitas Sabonus. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: I'll check him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna be asked.

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Speaker 2: All right, you can pick any former Lakers legend to

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Speaker 2: make a run with this current team.

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Speaker 6: Who you got, Oh, I'm gonna go Shack because I

817
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 6: think he has the skill set that they need the

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Speaker 6: most on this.

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Speaker 1: Storm missing We're missing a center. We're missing, missing the center. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right right exactly.

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Speaker 6: Can you imagine Lebron Luca Shack starting lineup?

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Speaker 5: Are you joking?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm about to fire up two k right now,

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Speaker 1: make that happen.

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Speaker 6: Actually, I would go Shack over Cream just because I

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Speaker 6: think with with who they're going to have to play, yeah,

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Speaker 6: to get to the finals, I think the imposing physicalness

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Speaker 6: of Shack is more the skill set that they're lacking.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yep. Here's a bit of Lakers trivia, Claire.

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Speaker 1: We know Magic is the all time triple doubles leader. Now,

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Speaker 1: how many can you give us after Magic on the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: most triple doubles, most.

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Speaker 5: Triple doubles on the Lakers. Yes, Lebron's got to be

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Speaker 5: up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, number two forty nine?

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Speaker 5: Uh is Russ Russell Westbrook?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, in.

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Speaker 5: A Lakers universe. Yeah, okay, So it has to be

839
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Speaker 5: someone with a long tenure that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: They're a Jerseys, they're all hanging up.

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Speaker 5: They're all hanging up. Oh okay, it's magic and then.

842
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 2: Lebron magic Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, Kobe doesn't pass.

844
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Speaker 1: Like he actually is he up there?

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Speaker 2: He did twenty one games, because.

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Speaker 5: Number four it would have been, yeah, okay, you got.

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Speaker 1: One, two, four, you're missing three and five.

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Speaker 5: Can I have a hint?

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Speaker 1: Old you were not alive and we were not alive? Jerry, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's number five, number five with a lit and one more.

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Speaker 1: You got to think of old just an old school legend,

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Speaker 1: old school legend.

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Speaker 2: She is legitimable for this, Uh, helps keep.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bailor you out.

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00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 5: I was gonna say Taylor, but I was like, you

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00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 5: got it, good job.

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00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 2: Oh that's incredible.

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 5: Yeah that was cheating.

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00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 6: But I say I was gonna say Elgin, but then

860
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 6: you guys, you know I was second guessing myself.

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00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 5: Look, I don't want to respect any Laker legends.

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00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: We don't mean to do that. That was shocked.

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00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 5: That's what we's on that list. Can I just say I.

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Speaker 1: Know I was, I'm like, those are yeah, those were

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Speaker 1: just double.

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Speaker 2: Doubles all day, sure, all time, defensive wind shares leader.

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Speaker 2: This this was interesting to me, Like what, I'm not

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Speaker 2: expecting you to get it, but all time defensive wind

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00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 2: shares leader. It's like a on the Lakers.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, defensive wind Can you define defensive wind share?

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00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: Like? What is your overall defensive impact according to like, say, you.

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Speaker 1: Know the number of names a player contributed through their

873
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: defensive play?

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00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 2: That's right?

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00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 5: Is it?

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00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 2: Is it a D? No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: You're in the neighborhood though, is wait really like the

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Speaker 1: right era? No, oh, I'll do that. Just say what

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Speaker 1: you will.

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Speaker 2: Yes, how the not according to a D? But yes,

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Speaker 2: is it? Kareem is Kareem? Yay? That's why the only

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Speaker 2: reason I was like, maybe Kareem overshack is Kareem all

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Speaker 2: time defensive wind shares leader. I mean, I guess that's

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Speaker 2: maybe at a time when everybody shot, like when everybody

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Speaker 2: drove into the paint and then did a set shot

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Speaker 2: from their chest.

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Speaker 6: So it was like you here, I know, I'm like

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Speaker 6: Kareem playing defense right now in the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 6: NBA playoffs might look a little different, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would look a little while. And last question,

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Speaker 1: you are a musical talent. You appreciate music, So let's

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Speaker 1: do a bit of a music question and a little

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Speaker 1: bit of fantasy world building. You can create your own

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Speaker 1: updated Up and Smoke Tour to another timely reference using

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Speaker 1: artists of today. Give us your lineup for the Up

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Speaker 1: and Smoke Tour?

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Speaker 5: Who was on the original Up and Smoke Tour?

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Speaker 1: It was like a rap show. It was like Redman

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Speaker 1: and Method Man. I think Cypress Hill was on it.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm an agent of chaos. So let's go

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Speaker 6: Kendrick Lamar and Drake Wow. Yes, Like it's like the

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Speaker 6: Marie Condo, like meme, I Love Mess.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, fantastic, Yeah, oh yeah. The real lineup Snoop,

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Speaker 1: dre ice Cube, eminem, members.

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Speaker 2: Of D twelve Throat.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, yes there it is. Well that was actually

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Speaker 1: every single right answer.

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Speaker 5: You nailed it so much.

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Speaker 2: You've done, You've done, no hints, no hint, swish from

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Speaker 2: way from the logo.

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Speaker 1: Exactly where do the people find you? Follow you, support you,

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Speaker 1: listen to you all of that stuff.

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Speaker 6: They can follow me across all social media at Clear

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Speaker 6: m pls and they can read my work over at

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Speaker 6: The Guardian.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic you can find us obviously at Miles of Gray

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, at Miles Miles of Great Social on.

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Speaker 2: B Sky, not Matt Jack Underscore O Brian on Twitter

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Speaker 2: and at Jack ob the number one on Blue Sky.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Also follow the hashtag mad Boosties beat a

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Speaker 1: low sd I e s show links and updates and

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Speaker 1: be like hard they do that? Well, you join the

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Speaker 1: discord and you find out and you can also find

924
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Speaker 1: that invite on the hashtag search for mad Boosties. That

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Speaker 1: is going to do it for us.

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Speaker 2: Oh, did we pick a game of the week? No

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Speaker 2: game of the week, game.

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Speaker 1: Of the week? Yeah, yes, yes, yes you.

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Speaker 2: Friday nextep Bucks Saturday, Lakers at Chris Sunday, Clippers at Calves?

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Speaker 2: Who you got?

931
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Speaker 1: Who we watch?

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Speaker 6: I feel like Nick Bucks will be interesting, like little

933
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Speaker 6: maybe playoff preview situation.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, it'd be cool.

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Speaker 2: Let's go with that, all right?

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Speaker 1: Mix and Bucks?

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Speaker 2: You got me?

938
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Speaker 6: They're both like the Knicks without Jalen Brunson and just

939
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Speaker 6: the Bucks in general, or like they could lose any game,

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Speaker 6: but I'm gonna.

941
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Speaker 2: Get let's go day.

942
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Speaker 1: Well, there's your homework, y'all, Knicks that bus on Friday,

943
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Speaker 1: do your homework so you don't mess up in class

944
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Speaker 1: when we see you next time.

945
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Speaker 2: And players on the Knicks and Bucks don't make us

946
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Speaker 2: flex you out all right. We don't have to do

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Speaker 2: it again, but I will.

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Speaker 1: We will do it to you, all right, y'all, Bye,

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Speaker 1: my wife,