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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire, Bayam, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Wednesday, July the second. Oh, I'm so

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Speaker 2: fired up about tonight. Very rarely do we get big

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Speaker 2: time matchups in July. Right the NBA season's over, Obviously

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Speaker 2: there's no football. Sure, you could maybe say that's a

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Speaker 2: big baseball matchup, but there's still like three months left

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Speaker 2: in the season. What we have tonight, USA versus Guatemala. Yes, Guatemala.

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Speaker 2: The last time I heard anybody mentioned Guatemala was in

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Speaker 2: the movie The Usual Suspects, which just happened to be

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Speaker 2: I was doing something and I remember Kevin Spacey eight. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to give any spoilers away on a

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Speaker 2: movie this is twenty five years old. Kevin space Se

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Speaker 2: aka Kaiser SoSE was making up stories and goes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: when I was picking beans in Guatemala, I don't know

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Speaker 2: anybody who's been to Guatemala. USA heavy favorites of minus

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Speaker 2: three eighty tonight to beat Guatemala in advance to the

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Speaker 2: Gold Cup Championship, They likely face Mexico Mexico's not as

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Speaker 2: big of a favorite over Honduras as we are over Guatemala,

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Speaker 2: but USA Mexico would be awesome. The games are on

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Speaker 2: FS one starting at four Pacific, seven Eastern, and then

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Speaker 2: the championship would be Sunday in Houston. Yeah, in Houston.

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Speaker 2: That would be a big one in USA Mexico. Obviously. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I tried to tell some people. Colin Coward tried to

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Speaker 2: have our beer se team and Pochattino came in on

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Speaker 2: a losing streek. Everything's gonna be fine, guys. And you

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Speaker 2: know what, everything is fine and the US is looking good.

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Speaker 2: They will beat Guatemala tonight. I don't know if they'll

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Speaker 2: is a big win for Potchattino in his first tournament

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Speaker 2: with the with the club or the national team side,

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Speaker 2: however you refer to the US national team. All right,

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Speaker 2: we got to go back to the NBA because you know,

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Speaker 2: I record these sometimes at night, sometimes early in the morning,

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Speaker 2: and right before I'm about to go on the herd

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, big news breaks the Bucks are getting off

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Speaker 2: stretching out his salary, Like, whoa, that was a shock,

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Speaker 2: A major, major shocker. And it's like, ohso what are

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Speaker 2: they doing. Oh, they're getting Miles Turner. And I start

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Speaker 2: seeing this Miles Turner stuff and I'm like, this is

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Speaker 2: absolutely staggering. So let me get through this real quick.

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Speaker 2: And again, nobody really cares that much about Myles Turner.

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Speaker 2: I had wanted the Lakers to target him, but you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously they could definitely not afford Miles Turner. But he's

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Speaker 2: he's a good center. Now is he what he was?

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Speaker 2: I don't know four years ago? Probably not? But is

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Speaker 2: he still really good and a factor? Yeah? Is he

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Speaker 2: gonna help Milwaukee whor anything?

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Speaker 1: Hell?

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Speaker 2: No. You want to know how many times Miles Turner's

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Speaker 2: been an All Star? Zero? He's a no time All Star. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he's a good player. If he's your fourth best player

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Speaker 2: third year, you're great. And the Pacers went to the finals. Now,

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Speaker 2: he had led the NBA and blocks a couple of times,

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Speaker 2: but he has not the last couple of seasons. He's

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Speaker 2: Now you could argue, well, they are picking up the pace.

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Speaker 2: It's Halliburton's team. Now, Okay, fine, whatever you want to say.

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Speaker 2: it gets interesting. So in that series against Okay, see

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Speaker 2: Miles Turner wasn't that great. Now. We talked about it

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Speaker 2: for some reason bagging on Turner. These are the numbers

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Speaker 2: Miles Turner ended with in the NBA Finals. He averaged

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Speaker 2: You're a center, you're playing heavy minutes. He played the

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Speaker 2: in trade talks. Do they want to move off him?

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Speaker 2: So this year the Pacers get to the finals, lose

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Speaker 2: not you don't get to the finals, and then just

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Speaker 2: let Miles Turner walk. You just don't do that. And

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Speaker 2: then the Pacers did exactly that. And it comes back

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Speaker 2: to like, you know, I think there's a thing on

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Speaker 2: with trade rumors for like three or four seasons, okay,

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Speaker 2: and then it came time for his big money deal

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Speaker 2: asking them to pay Turner for what he did. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: contracts are forward looking, but he was the longest tenured

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Speaker 2: Turner got totally screwed here. So basically, I know, Jason,

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Speaker 2: he's going to a vastly inferior team and the Bucks

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Speaker 2: have no path to success. Cutting Damian Lillard and stretching

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Speaker 2: I mean, why would we expect teams to do nice things?

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Speaker 2: You know they're out there. These are businesses. I get it.

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Speaker 2: I get it. It's about the bottom line.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you want to win, but the bottom line is,

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Speaker 2: you know, this is a business. That's the reality. I

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Speaker 2: the reality. It's a business, and Indiana very clearly said

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Speaker 2: Although Ben Matheren can get you buckets. They'll be competitive,

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Speaker 2: just didn't like how that looked to me. Like Indiana Pacers,

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Speaker 2: you're coming off your first run to the finals since

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Speaker 2: Reggie Miller got you there in like the early two thousands,

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Speaker 2: we're not paying the luxury tax. Sorry, bro, smell you lator.

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Speaker 2: It just felt a little disrespectful.

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Speaker 2: Now. The other angle is the Milwaukee Bucks just just

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Speaker 2: absolute foolishness. One of the most head scratching moves you

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Speaker 2: will see. Damian Lillard is a now a free agent.

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Speaker 2: They have waived him. He can go wherever he wants

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Speaker 2: once he's healed from his achilles and you know what, hey, man,

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Speaker 2: just really bad business for Milwaukee. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 2: yes I saw at the end of last season without Dame,

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Speaker 2: I think Cleveland is better. I think Orlando is better.

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Speaker 2: last year. So that is one, two, three, four, five, six.

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Speaker 2: Who else do we got in the East? That's good,

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Speaker 2: Pacers will see. I don't think the heater are there yet,

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Speaker 2: but I would not be surprised if they made a move. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so those six are clearly better. Then you have the

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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe things happen injuries around the league or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But and you're doing that for what to delay the

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Speaker 2: inevitable of moving off of Giannis at the deadline when

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Speaker 2: it you want to keep Jannis, but the reality is

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Speaker 2: there's no point. Hey man, have you ever been in

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Speaker 2: one of those relationships. You know, you're in high school, college, whatever,

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Speaker 2: even after college, and you know all your friends are

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Speaker 2: this girl. She's not going to be the one. Just

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Speaker 2: All right, So before I go on a little hiatus

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Speaker 2: is one of the most fun things I've ever done.

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Speaker 2: It was exciting, and of course the league is thrilled

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Speaker 2: They want to switch off their team to come to

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Speaker 2: our team. I'm guessing partially because of Danny Green, and

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Speaker 2: we have you know, there's word is out now We've

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Speaker 2: got some other guys coming. But it's like, we're fun,

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Speaker 2: We're not ballhogs. We play the right way. Guys. It's

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Speaker 2: awesome now as long as I don't get injured. And

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Speaker 2: if we win the chip, which is worth fifty K,

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Speaker 2: that would be certainly a career highlight. Anyways, so I'm

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Speaker 2: free agency chaos. If Jannis gets dealt or Lebron backs out,

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you I will do a podcast from wherever

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Speaker 2: I am. Have fun on July fourth. Be safe out there,