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Speaker 1: is up straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Wednesday, June seventh. Got an NBA basketball game tonight.

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Speaker 1: Very excited listen. Seasons starting to wind down and I

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Speaker 1: don't love this extra day off in between finals games.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a lull. Fortunately, we had massive golf news. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that shortly. I do have some decent

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Speaker 1: Felt confident going in Game one, liked a lot went well.

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Speaker 1: Don't feel great about anything else right now, Becau. There's

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I cannot stop talking for the third day

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Speaker 1: about Kyrie Irving and the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers have

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Speaker 1: shut it down. Nobody's touched the Luca and I will

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Speaker 1: go there because that's what I do. I'm a Luca guy.

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Speaker 1: But we got to start with the big Live Tour

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Speaker 1: PGA Civil War ending unbelievable story. It didn't even break

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Speaker 1: on a sports outlet. This was not from like a

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Speaker 1: golf reporter. This is not ESPN, no Fox. It was CNBC.

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Speaker 1: CNBC broke the news. I think that's kind of telling

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Speaker 1: that the PGA Tour and the Live after two years

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Speaker 1: of you know, mud slinging and lawsuits, it's over. They

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Speaker 1: are going to merge. And the news caught a lot

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Speaker 1: of people by storm. You saw some golfers on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: longest time, the PGA Tour had been using the media.

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Speaker 1: They had been leaning on politicians to bash the Live Tour.

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia was throwing around all this money. Of course,

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Speaker 1: really just making Saudi Arabia look bad. And listen, obviously,

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Speaker 1: But he had all these hot people high on their

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Speaker 1: just can't believe that. I applaud Tiger Woods for not

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Speaker 1: I saw as high as a billion dollars. Again, these

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Speaker 1: Tiger said, no, let's hold the line. All these PGA

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Speaker 1: eat forever. Everybody's set up. If you get a one hundred

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Speaker 1: and the PGA begged these guys not to go. The

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Speaker 1: Apparently he's been there six years now as PGA Tour commission.

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Speaker 1: out of the PGA. Now after they slam the Saudis,

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Speaker 1: if land. But the reality is the PGA Tour needed

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Speaker 1: that has to be somewhere on the spectrum of outcomes

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Speaker 1: getting into a danger zone for Mark Cuban and the MAVs. Listen,

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Speaker 1: is because of Mark Cuban. Like, the guy's a good businessman.

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Speaker 1: But he's done a terrible job, terrible with Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 1: As I'm looking at the odds right now, now, this

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Speaker 1: This is a difficult game because listen, as we talked

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Speaker 1: with Sodano yesterday, there's a world where Miami somehow wins

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Speaker 1: firmly believe it was just a fourth quarter explosion from

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Speaker 1: the heat. They cannot duplicate that. No, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: and win. That's just not gonna happen. Again. A question

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Speaker 1: is can they unlock Jamal Murray, because, as Steve Kerk

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Speaker 1: else you got? Then you become like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what's going on with Michael Porter. He

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Speaker 1: guys have all played basketball, I'm in that my men's league.

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Speaker 1: If there's like four or five trips that I don't

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get you your shot, and Miami's not leaving

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Speaker 1: him because they're not doubling Yokic. So now you're like, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: We're locking down Jamal Murray with Jimmy Butler, we got

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Speaker 1: do any of them terrify you? And now all of

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Speaker 1: That's just not happening for Butler when you're shadowing Jamal Murray. However,

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Speaker 1: Nicola Jokics assists over nine and a half. We know

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Speaker 1: a half assists for Yoki's The problem is it's minus

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Speaker 1: I like Jamal Murray. I hype the guy a lot.

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Speaker 1: I would look away from that. I think, if I'm

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Speaker 1: this is probably a little bit of a bye high.

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Speaker 1: But bam out of Bayo over nineteen and a half.

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Speaker 1: He has played ridiculously good through two games. You know,

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Speaker 1: be gassed. I don't expect Struce and Vincent to get

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Speaker 1: think Denver wins this. I'll be looking at Denver money

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Speaker 1: little nervous if you're Denver. And that's why I don't

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Speaker 1: see the Nuggets losing. So I'll pick the Nuggets. I'll

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Speaker 1: a barn burner. I'll be rooting for Jamal Murray and

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Speaker 1: Jokic obviously Aaron Gordon as well because the player points pool.

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Speaker 1: to win. All right, that's it for today. We'll talk

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