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<v Speaker 2>Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode one fifty

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<v Speaker 2>one and I am solo today. Demandy's in La. He

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<v Speaker 2>was gonna tap in for the show, but he got

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<v Speaker 2>called into the Fox lot to do what he claims

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<v Speaker 2>is cutting tape. I'm not sure exactly what that means,

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<v Speaker 2>but so he couldn't do it. Deora is flying back.

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<v Speaker 2>We were all in California together this week and as

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<v Speaker 2>a family for Diora's great grandmother's ninetieth birthday and for

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<v Speaker 2>Mother's Day. So I am solo today. But that is

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<v Speaker 2>just fine because we have so much to get to

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<v Speaker 2>that we will get to starting right now. Here is

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<v Speaker 2>what has missed the cut for today's show. Not on

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<v Speaker 2>today's show is Brady and the Raiders talking ownership. Not

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<v Speaker 2>on today's show is Matt Ryan seemingly not retiring but

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<v Speaker 2>also joining CBS. And not on today's show is the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that Bryce Young is very very short. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think that's breaking news, and it is a massive concern. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you can't see Bryce Young if you're watching on YouTube,

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<v Speaker 2>but we promise he's out there. Oh they actually edited him. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>that's unfair. I thought he was just being obscured by

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<v Speaker 2>the offensive lineman, but instead they just made him much

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<v Speaker 2>smaller than he actually is. What we will discuss on

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<v Speaker 2>today's show is all things NBA Playoffs, and the entirety

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<v Speaker 2>of the A block is going to be Lakers, Warriors,

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron and Steph. We will get to Jah, we will

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<v Speaker 2>get to the Sixers, Celtics, we will get to Celtics Heat,

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<v Speaker 2>and Lakers Nuggets. But to start today's show, we are

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<v Speaker 2>going to do Lakers Warriors and Lebron's Steph. And it

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<v Speaker 2>is not just because eight million people watched every game,

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<v Speaker 2>seven and a half to eight million, I should say

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<v Speaker 2>and it was the highest rated second round series on record.

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<v Speaker 2>It is not just because it was my pick that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of went against the grain and I was taunted that, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>what are you gonna do when the Warriors make you

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<v Speaker 2>look like an idiot again? It the reason we are

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<v Speaker 2>going to give this series the attention it deserves is

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<v Speaker 2>because going into the series, my colleagues in sports media

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<v Speaker 2>decided this was going to be a referendum on Lebron

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<v Speaker 2>James versus Steph Kirk. How can a guy be the

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<v Speaker 2>goat if he couldn't beat someone in his own era?

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<v Speaker 2>What will it say if Steph gets to four and

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<v Speaker 2>one in playoff series against Lebron James? Is Steph actually

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<v Speaker 2>the player of this post Michael Jordan era not Lebron James.

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<v Speaker 2>That that is not a straw man, That is not

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<v Speaker 2>a fa that is not fake news. Those are the

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<v Speaker 2>conversations people were demanding we have. And then Lebron wins

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<v Speaker 2>on a Friday night and by Monday, it's all look

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<v Speaker 2>at Ah Lakers, Nuggets, all the Sixers melt it down again,

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<v Speaker 2>au Tatum's fifty one, Keep it moving, Keep it moving,

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<v Speaker 2>Clay Stunk, what's Draymond's future? Can ad handle Joker, And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just sitting there listening to every podcast there is

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<v Speaker 2>consuming as much as sports TV and media as I could, saying, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>we gonna do a final tally? Heere are we going

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<v Speaker 2>to discuss that? This is now five times Lebron James

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<v Speaker 2>and Steph Curry have met in the postseason, and five

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<v Speaker 2>times Lebron has outplayed him. Oh, Nick, that's unfair, is it?

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<v Speaker 2>Let's go through them. Twenty fifteen Steph Curry. I disagreed

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<v Speaker 2>with the folks who voted on the award, but twenty

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen NBA Finals MVP voters said Steph wasn't even the

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<v Speaker 2>most valuable guy on his own squad. That was Kevin,

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<v Speaker 2>That was Andre Iguidala and his sixteen six and four.

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<v Speaker 2>So why did a guy who averaged sixteen six and

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<v Speaker 2>four win a Finals MVP over a teammate who averaged

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<v Speaker 2>twenty six five and six. Oh because Iguidalah's real heroics

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<v Speaker 2>were holding Lebron James to thirty six thirteen and nine,

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<v Speaker 2>holding him to thirty six, thirteen and nine. So twenty

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen was no it was no question who outplayed who.

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<v Speaker 2>Twenty sixteen, we know the story Steph calls Game seven

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<v Speaker 2>the biggest game of his life, and then after after

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<v Speaker 2>the game, calls it one of the worst games of

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<v Speaker 2>his life. Lebron goes for thirty eleven and nine in

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<v Speaker 2>the series, and Steph goes for twenty two, five and four.

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<v Speaker 2>Twenty seventeen, Steph was really good, twenty seven, eight and nine.

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron thirty four to twelve and ten on fifty six

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<v Speaker 2>percent from the field. In the finals twenty eighteen, Lebron

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<v Speaker 2>has arguably the single greatest game of his career in

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<v Speaker 2>Game one for the series gives you thirty four, nine

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<v Speaker 2>and ten on fifty three percent. Steph twenty eight, six

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<v Speaker 2>and seven. And then this series Steph Curry was quite good?

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<v Speaker 2>Was he great? No more on that in the moment, Stephan,

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<v Speaker 2>this series gave you twenty seven five and a half

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<v Speaker 2>and seven and a half. Lebron gave you twenty five

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<v Speaker 2>nine and five and a half. The keynotes here on

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<v Speaker 2>why to me, it is crystal clear that for the

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<v Speaker 2>fifth consecutive series when they played each other, Lebron outplayed him.

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<v Speaker 2>Is not only the shooting percentages, where Lebron's forty nine

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<v Speaker 2>percent Steph's forty four percent the three point percentages, where

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron was thirty three point three and Steph was thirty

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<v Speaker 2>four point three. But the series flipped by hunting Steph

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<v Speaker 2>Curry and to a lesser extent when he was out

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<v Speaker 2>there Jordan Poole in the pick and roll and the

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<v Speaker 2>critical game. The fork in the road game of the series,

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<v Speaker 2>Game four, involved Steph missing back to back ahead shots

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<v Speaker 2>and then at the end of it throwing the ball

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<v Speaker 2>backwards over the top of his head out of bounds.

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<v Speaker 2>And anyone who is being honest would tell you that

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<v Speaker 2>if the Lakers had lost the series and the numbers

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<v Speaker 2>were identical and the reason they lost was because old

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<v Speaker 2>man Lebron was hunted defensively and in the critical game

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<v Speaker 2>missed back to back clutch shots and then had an

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<v Speaker 2>egregious turnover, no one would be arguing, oh, yeah, Lebron

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<v Speaker 2>played him to a draw. Lebron outplayed him nobody. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's not where the revisionist history of something we just

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<v Speaker 2>saw ended. I then, from folks who picked the Warriors

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<v Speaker 2>to win the series, some picked him to win the title.

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<v Speaker 2>Now all of a sudden, Oh well, I mean, come on,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like Lebron in twenty eighteen. Yeah, they lost, but

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<v Speaker 2>you can't hold it against Steph. That team was no good. Really,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean I actually agree the team is not very good,

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<v Speaker 2>but no one agreed with me. I was a hater,

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<v Speaker 2>I was a troll champion. I wasn't respecting the heart

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<v Speaker 2>of a champion. Well, Nick Lebron's now got a d.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like when Steph had Kevin Durant. Yes, if all

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<v Speaker 2>Steph had was Kevin Durant. And while I like Austin

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<v Speaker 2>Reeves a lot and I think the other Lakers role

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<v Speaker 2>players have been quite good, please do not insult my

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<v Speaker 2>intelligence by saying, after Stephan Lebron, a next three of

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<v Speaker 2>Anthony Davis, who's unbelievable, Austin Reeves and Lonnie Walker is

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<v Speaker 2>in the same stratosphere of a next three of Apex

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<v Speaker 2>pre injury, Kevin Durant, apex pre injury Klay Thompson, and

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<v Speaker 2>Apex Draymond Green. Give me a break. These are not

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<v Speaker 2>the same. They're not and it's not an indictment on

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<v Speaker 2>Steph Curry. Steph is one of the twelve greatest players ever,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe one of the ten greatest players ever. But think

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<v Speaker 2>about what that means because the entirety of Steph's case,

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<v Speaker 2>all of his MVP votes, all of his Finals appearances,

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<v Speaker 2>all of his first Team All NBAS, all of them

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<v Speaker 2>have come from twenty fifteen to now, this nine season

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<v Speaker 2>stretch that coincides with when Lebron went back to Cleveland.

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<v Speaker 2>So if after Miami Lebron had pulled an MJ and

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<v Speaker 2>called it a career, I've got four MVPs, I've got

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<v Speaker 2>two rings, I've got two Finals MVPs, I'm done. Four MVPs,

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<v Speaker 2>two rings, four finals appearances. I think nine first Team

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<v Speaker 2>All NBAS that would have been Lebron. Maybe eight first

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<v Speaker 2>Team All NBAS that would have been Lebron's career from

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<v Speaker 2>his rookie year through the end of Miami. That would

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<v Speaker 2>put him as one of the twelve greatest players ever.

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<v Speaker 2>Put him neck and neck with a team bird those guys, right,

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<v Speaker 2>So follow me along here. Lebron, his career before Steph

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<v Speaker 2>even gets going, is a top twelve guy at a minimum.

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<v Speaker 2>At a minimum, Steph then has a decade of a

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<v Speaker 2>career starting after the Heatles era that he accomplishes enough

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<v Speaker 2>to become the top twelve guy, and at the end

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<v Speaker 2>of that Stephan Lebron meet in the playoffs again and

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron outplays him. Think about it, what we're and we

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<v Speaker 2>we take for granted, and we we become somewhat a

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<v Speaker 2>nerd to what we're seeing. Mark Jackson, beginning of game

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<v Speaker 2>fourth quarter Game six, says, just somewhat flippantly, if I'm Lebron,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not coming out in this fourth quarter. Up to

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<v Speaker 2>that point, Lebron had spent one minute on the bench.

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<v Speaker 2>He had played thirty five of thirty six minutes, and

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Jackson is saying just casually that the expectation, therefore

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<v Speaker 2>is Lebron's gonna have to play forty seven of forty

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<v Speaker 2>eight minutes in this game. Now, he ended up playing

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<v Speaker 2>forty three of forty four, and then they took everyone

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<v Speaker 2>out in the final four minutes because it was a blowout.

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<v Speaker 2>But he was going to do it. But Nick, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a Lebron guy, but we all know, you know he's

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<v Speaker 2>not vintage Lebron. Agreed, But let's talk about what that

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<v Speaker 2>means too. So Lebron James this postseason is averaging for

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<v Speaker 2>the postseason. I'll give you the exact numbers, twenty three,

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<v Speaker 2>ten and five on forty nine percent, twenty three, ten

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<v Speaker 2>and five on forty nine percent. It's his worst career

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<v Speaker 2>playoff numbers. What is that comparable to the So again,

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<v Speaker 2>it's twenty three ten five forty nine percent. Larry Bird's

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<v Speaker 2>Larry Bird one of the ten greatest players ever, a

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<v Speaker 2>guy who also didn't have a super long career and

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have long playoff runs like Kareem did into his

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<v Speaker 2>much later years. That dragged down the averages Larry bird

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<v Speaker 2>career playoff averages. Remember, Lebron is twenty three, ten and

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<v Speaker 2>five on forty nine percent in what's his worst postseason ever?

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<v Speaker 2>Bird's career twenty three, ten and six on forty seven percent.

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<v Speaker 2>So the worst we've ever seen. Lebron is damn near

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<v Speaker 2>identical to median Larry Bird. I'll put it to you

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<v Speaker 2>another way. The narrative that I somewhat agreed with after

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<v Speaker 2>round one Steph Curry's thirty five and this is the

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<v Speaker 2>best he's ever been might be true, might be the

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<v Speaker 2>best he's ever been. So think about that. We all

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<v Speaker 2>agree this is the worst Lebron's been basically ever in

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<v Speaker 2>the playoffs. So that's eighteen years, so we have the

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<v Speaker 2>worst Lebron has come all the way down from the

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<v Speaker 2>heights of you know, either the best or second best

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<v Speaker 2>player ever, all the way down to the worst he's

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<v Speaker 2>ever been. Steph keeps raising, raising, raising, and he's now

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<v Speaker 2>the best he's ever been, and Lebron was just better

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<v Speaker 2>than him, the best step we've ever seen, the worst

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron we've ever seen. And the series came down to

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<v Speaker 2>Lebron James with the ball in his hand, hunting Steph

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<v Speaker 2>Curry saying, get him in this switch, get him in

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<v Speaker 2>this matchup. And then in Game six, Lebron scores thirty

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<v Speaker 2>points on fourteen shots, playing an essentially perfect close out

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<v Speaker 2>basketball game, which should not surprise anybody, because and this

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<v Speaker 2>is what is baffling to me that seemingly nobody else

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<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't say nobody, but very few of my colleagues

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<v Speaker 2>have picked up on that. While every other star that

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<v Speaker 2>we you know, the last twenty some years, except for

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<v Speaker 2>maybe Shank, treats at the very least each series and

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<v Speaker 2>very often each game in the playoffs as a singular,

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<v Speaker 2>enclosed event, Lebron correctly treats the postseason as a marathon,

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<v Speaker 2>a twenty six mile race. And there is no use

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<v Speaker 2>whatsoever to being the leader after six miles or ten

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<v Speaker 2>miles or fourteen miles, if it means by mile twenty

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<v Speaker 2>three or twenty four, you're out of gas. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>have anything left. And his ability to pace himself and

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<v Speaker 2>find the moments. So he is and this is what

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<v Speaker 2>he is better at. This is undeniable, better at than

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<v Speaker 2>any player in league history. To make sure he is

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<v Speaker 2>playing in the final game of the season and still

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<v Speaker 2>has stuff left in the tank. It is not happenstance.

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<v Speaker 2>It is not because of just the raw athleticism. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not just because of the hyperbaric chamber. It's because he

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<v Speaker 2>is mapping out these two months the moment the postseason begins.

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<v Speaker 2>And these are other great players in the league who

0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:47.359
<v Speaker 2>have not figured this out. Kevin Durant, unbelievably efficient in

0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:52.640
<v Speaker 2>round one, played really well in Round two, but could

0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.680
<v Speaker 2>not pace himself and by the latter half of Round

0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:01.760
<v Speaker 2>two fell off a cliff, as did his teammate Devin Booker.

0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:08.119
<v Speaker 2>Joel Embiid game seven, didn't have it. Steph game six,

0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:15.840
<v Speaker 2>his legs were gone. We now all of those guys

0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.439
<v Speaker 2>that I just mentioned had over the first month of

0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.880
<v Speaker 2>the playoffs, each of them three four in Booker's case,

0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:31.800
<v Speaker 2>probably eight singular playoff games that were more impressive than

0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.679
<v Speaker 2>anything Lebron had done prior to Game six. But that's

0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:47.680
<v Speaker 2>not the goal. Now. If you are Jalen Brunson, then

0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.520
<v Speaker 2>and your team really can't win the title, then maxing

0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:56.920
<v Speaker 2>out in round two makes sense. But if you are

0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.240
<v Speaker 2>on a team, you know, the one guy who I

0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:05.840
<v Speaker 2>think gets the oddly better than almost any other star.

0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:08.800
<v Speaker 2>And then, by the way, let me also add this,

0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:14.280
<v Speaker 2>there's Jokic who and we'll see. We'll see how the

0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.360
<v Speaker 2>conference finals work out for him, but Jokic appears to

0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.040
<v Speaker 2>just be at an able to be at an A

0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.560
<v Speaker 2>to a plus level every game and not slow down. Now,

0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:28.040
<v Speaker 2>we'll see, but thus far he's been doing that. But

0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:34.919
<v Speaker 2>the one other guy who understands a la Lebron. I

0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.320
<v Speaker 2>am trying to be in this for the long haul,

0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:42.199
<v Speaker 2>and I can't be great twenty times. So let me

0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:48.440
<v Speaker 2>pick my spots is Jimmy Butler. And you would you've

0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:53.080
<v Speaker 2>seen it the year they went to the finals. Jimmy

0:21:53.080 --> 0:22:00.840
<v Speaker 2>Butler Round two against Milwaukee, huge spot, go for forty

0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.320
<v Speaker 2>throttles down a bit in Game two, Game three, a

0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:09.600
<v Speaker 2>chance to take control of the series goes for thirty

0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:15.679
<v Speaker 2>then throttles down entirely, get to the finals down oh

0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:21.479
<v Speaker 2>two of forty eleven and thirteen, doesn't have it the

0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:26.959
<v Speaker 2>next night Game five, an elimination game thirty five twelve

0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.600
<v Speaker 2>and eleven, and at that point he was out of

0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.280
<v Speaker 2>Gasidonavin in game six. Same thing last year for Jimmy

0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.760
<v Speaker 2>in the conference finals. Now he was banged up. But

0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:44.520
<v Speaker 2>in those conference finals they're in Boston for games three

0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:51.000
<v Speaker 2>and four, he has fourteen points combined. He has thirteen

0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:56.680
<v Speaker 2>points in game five, Game six of forty seven to nine,

0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:02.080
<v Speaker 2>and eight. Game seven a thirty five and nine, playing

0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:07.200
<v Speaker 2>all forty eight minutes. He knew he had to bring

0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.400
<v Speaker 2>it every single game this year against Milwaukee, and then

0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:15.520
<v Speaker 2>throttled back against the Knicks because he knows he's gonna

0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:21.200
<v Speaker 2>have to have it every single night against Boston. There's

0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:28.680
<v Speaker 2>a strategy to this, and you would think the fact

0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:34.160
<v Speaker 2>that's from twenty eleven to now, Lebron's seasons have ended

0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.000
<v Speaker 2>with playing in the last game, playing in the last game,

0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:40.520
<v Speaker 2>playing in the last game, playing in the last game,

0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.080
<v Speaker 2>playing in the last game, playing in the last game,

0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:45.960
<v Speaker 2>playing in the last game, playing in the last game,

0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.040
<v Speaker 2>injured with the Lakers playing in the last game, injured,

0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.879
<v Speaker 2>injured playing, well, we'll see if he's playing in the

0:23:53.960 --> 0:24:02.960
<v Speaker 2>last game. I you would think folks would realize there's

0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:11.440
<v Speaker 2>levels to this, And on that note, I do worry

0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:19.480
<v Speaker 2>that there is anybody that watches this show or is

0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:23.200
<v Speaker 2>a fan of this. The stuff I've done knows. One

0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:28.560
<v Speaker 2>of my favorite kind of thought exercise things is unintended consequences.

0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:36.959
<v Speaker 2>This happens, then, so I one quick nonsports tangent. One

0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.920
<v Speaker 2>of the most fascinating articles I've ever read was Gosh,

0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:45.000
<v Speaker 2>probably a decade ago, and it talked about self driving

0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:52.600
<v Speaker 2>cars and self driving cars. The ripple effect of that

0:24:54.119 --> 0:25:00.240
<v Speaker 2>is felt across basically every industry in America, for good

0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:04.320
<v Speaker 2>and for bad. About if they're self driving cars, then

0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:08.520
<v Speaker 2>people don't own cars anymore because they're just gonna be

0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.240
<v Speaker 2>driving around. You're just gonna hop in. It's gonna be

0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:15.040
<v Speaker 2>essentially like auto uber everywhere. People won't spend money on it,

0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:18.000
<v Speaker 2>so people will have an extra thirty forty thousand dollars

0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:21.000
<v Speaker 2>more small businesses will start. There will be that. That'll

0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:25.000
<v Speaker 2>be good. The bad will be The biggest employer in

0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:29.920
<v Speaker 2>the country is truck driving, those jobs will be gone mechanics.

0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.600
<v Speaker 2>That's all of the ripple effects. And the article again,

0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:36.040
<v Speaker 2>I gave you the four cent version of a fifty

0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:42.359
<v Speaker 2>dollars article. I'm fascinated by that. So there is a

0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:51.199
<v Speaker 2>really unfortunate, unintended consequence of the fact that we have

0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:58.199
<v Speaker 2>witnessed in real time over the last fifteen years the

0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:04.440
<v Speaker 2>greatest team sport athlete in American history, with the possible

0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:11.359
<v Speaker 2>exception to Tom Brady, and so much of the people

0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:16.280
<v Speaker 2>watching it and covering it have been dedicated to trying

0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:22.359
<v Speaker 2>to pick at it or tear it away, and the

0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:32.320
<v Speaker 2>unintended consequences Now everybody sucks. What do I mean? Well,

0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:38.160
<v Speaker 2>we not only got spoiled to the eight straight finals

0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:44.639
<v Speaker 2>appearances nine out of ten years, consistent excellence, one bad

0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:50.920
<v Speaker 2>playoff game a season. And because if the narrative while

0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:55.520
<v Speaker 2>that was happening was this guy is either clearly either

0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:59.600
<v Speaker 2>the greatest or the second greatest player ever it is

0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:04.960
<v Speaker 2>impossible what he's doing, then we wouldn't hold anyone else

0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:11.199
<v Speaker 2>to that standard. But because a loud portion of the

0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:16.399
<v Speaker 2>narrative was overrated, Ray Allen saved his legacy, Kyrie saved

0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:20.040
<v Speaker 2>his legacy, Mickey Mouse Ring not as good as Kobe

0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:26.400
<v Speaker 2>is scared all this stuff, then, either consciously or subconsciously,

0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:36.119
<v Speaker 2>if what Lebron did wasn't jaw dropping impressive, then who's

0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:41.320
<v Speaker 2>any good we now look at? And I'm guilty of

0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:46.720
<v Speaker 2>this two degrees as well. Giannis wins a title, goes

0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:49.399
<v Speaker 2>out in round two but is great, and then a

0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:53.840
<v Speaker 2>really disappointing Round one. Man, maybe not as good as

0:27:53.880 --> 0:28:00.560
<v Speaker 2>we thought. Durant by our eyes, one of the greatest

0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:06.400
<v Speaker 2>players we've ever seen. Man long time since he's been

0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:08.960
<v Speaker 2>to a finals, even though he's been to four in

0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:15.360
<v Speaker 2>his career. You know what's his legacy about? Anyways? Forget

0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:20.280
<v Speaker 2>guys like Harden and Embiid who actually have legitimate pardon

0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:27.800
<v Speaker 2>much more so, but postseason failures, nobody, nobody will hold

0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:37.199
<v Speaker 2>up even Steph. Steph, Yeah, he's unbelievable, but missed the

0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:40.160
<v Speaker 2>playoffs two years in a row this year out in

0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:47.640
<v Speaker 2>round two. I mean, he's great, but nobody is going

0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:55.560
<v Speaker 2>to look good under the light of those standards because

0:28:56.160 --> 0:29:01.400
<v Speaker 2>there was an impossible precedent set of what what Lebron

0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:05.320
<v Speaker 2>has done is not what the best player in the

0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:08.440
<v Speaker 2>league is supposed to be able to do. It's only

0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:12.520
<v Speaker 2>what the best player ever is supposed to be able

0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:17.600
<v Speaker 2>to do. But because not only do most people not

0:29:17.640 --> 0:29:22.000
<v Speaker 2>think he's the best player ever, many people don't want to.

0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:25.760
<v Speaker 2>At various points during this have tried to argue he's

0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:29.000
<v Speaker 2>not even the best player in the league. If that's

0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:33.600
<v Speaker 2>the standard, if Lebron when he was doing this, wasn't

0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:35.640
<v Speaker 2>as good as Duran, or wasn't as good as Steph,

0:29:36.000 --> 0:29:38.120
<v Speaker 2>or at the beginning of it, wasn't as good as Kobe,

0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:41.360
<v Speaker 2>then it's a fair standard. You want to be the

0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:43.640
<v Speaker 2>best player in the league, you gotta do X, Y

0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:48.000
<v Speaker 2>and z. But it's always been an impossible standard, and

0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:53.040
<v Speaker 2>now everybody's gonna fall victim to it. Everybody. Luca, you

0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:57.280
<v Speaker 2>are the second all time highest leading playoff score points

0:29:57.280 --> 0:29:59.880
<v Speaker 2>per game. You drag a team to the conference by

0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.400
<v Speaker 2>you have a down year. I guess you're not that good.

0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:08.600
<v Speaker 2>I guess we've overrated you for much. Dame missed the

0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:11.760
<v Speaker 2>Bios multiple years in a row. Volume score. What else

0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:18.600
<v Speaker 2>are you? Devin Booker? I just watched you score thirty

0:30:18.640 --> 0:30:21.719
<v Speaker 2>six a night for three weeks of the playoffs, but

0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:23.720
<v Speaker 2>you're out in round two and back to back years

0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:26.320
<v Speaker 2>after making the finals. Yeah, but who cares? How good

0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:31.760
<v Speaker 2>are you? Chris Paul all time legend? We thought, but

0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:36.280
<v Speaker 2>one finals appearance. These are some of the greatest players ever,

0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:41.280
<v Speaker 2>but we're gonna end up disrespecting all of them as

0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:50.240
<v Speaker 2>the unindended consequence of how we've discussed Lebron. All right,

0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:56.440
<v Speaker 2>now to the Warriors quickly. We didn't talk about this

0:30:56.480 --> 0:31:03.000
<v Speaker 2>on TV, but I will acknowledge I think the Draymond

0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:07.520
<v Speaker 2>moment in the handshake line was something in this regard.

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:11.479
<v Speaker 2>So if people didn't see it after the game, the

0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:14.480
<v Speaker 2>first people to the first person to greet Lebron is Draymond,

0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:19.160
<v Speaker 2>and it is a joyous embrace. And those guys are

0:31:19.160 --> 0:31:22.640
<v Speaker 2>close friends and business partners, and they're both clutch guys.

0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:26.920
<v Speaker 2>Got it? But you then saw that? And then the

0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:34.600
<v Speaker 2>camera smartly cut to a disconsolate Steph Curry just beside himself.

0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:45.200
<v Speaker 2>And it was, in my opinion, somewhat telling in this regard.

0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:51.560
<v Speaker 2>Draymond at this point in his career to be great

0:31:53.920 --> 0:31:58.320
<v Speaker 2>has to kind of go outside the bounds of the rules.

0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:05.240
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like it. I thought it was wildly dirty.

0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:11.560
<v Speaker 2>But stomping on Sabonis's Chest worked in Round one and

0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:17.400
<v Speaker 2>probably for them, was worth the one game suspension. Draymond

0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:21.600
<v Speaker 2>was not gonna be able to do that type of

0:32:21.640 --> 0:32:27.280
<v Speaker 2>stuff to Lebron. Lebron seen it too many times and

0:32:27.400 --> 0:32:30.560
<v Speaker 2>it just wasn't gonna work. But he might have been

0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:34.520
<v Speaker 2>able to do some of it to Anthony Davis. But

0:32:34.640 --> 0:32:38.760
<v Speaker 2>because their friends and both clutch guys, it felt like

0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:44.880
<v Speaker 2>Draymond in this series tried to play it straight, and

0:32:46.600 --> 0:32:49.360
<v Speaker 2>at this point in his career, he's not good enough

0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:52.400
<v Speaker 2>to have the type of impact they need him to

0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:57.440
<v Speaker 2>have if he's playing it straight. So I did think

0:32:57.480 --> 0:33:00.960
<v Speaker 2>that was noteworthy. As far as what the Warriors do

0:33:01.040 --> 0:33:04.120
<v Speaker 2>from here, all the reporting seems to be they are

0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:07.680
<v Speaker 2>going to bring back Draymond and Clay. Here's the issue

0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 2>with that, and Zach Low pointed this out, and he's correct.

0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:14.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to misquote Zach. Zach made kind of

0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:20.040
<v Speaker 2>a tangential point off this that got me thinking about this.

0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:22.560
<v Speaker 2>So I'm giving Zach credit, but I don't want to

0:33:22.560 --> 0:33:26.240
<v Speaker 2>misrepresent what he said. Zach pointed out that they want

0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.840
<v Speaker 2>to bring back Clay and Draymond, but they're going to

0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:34.360
<v Speaker 2>need to do it at significantly lower numbers. Clay has

0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:36.640
<v Speaker 2>one guaranteed year left on his deal, so it would

0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.000
<v Speaker 2>be as far as an extension goes, Draymond can opt

0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:42.719
<v Speaker 2>out and get a new deal. There's two issues with that.

0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:50.280
<v Speaker 2>The first one is you cannot credibly ask either one

0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:54.760
<v Speaker 2>of those guys to take less money than Jordan Poole makes.

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.960
<v Speaker 2>Jordan Poole makes thirty two million dollars a year. Neither

0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:02.120
<v Speaker 2>one of those guys can you ask them to take

0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:05.800
<v Speaker 2>less money than him unless he's not on the team.

0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:10.560
<v Speaker 2>But trading Jordan Poole is not going to be easy

0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:14.759
<v Speaker 2>because that right there might be the worst contract in

0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:19.680
<v Speaker 2>the league. He is an unplayable playoff guy at the moment,

0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:23.799
<v Speaker 2>because here's the thing about the NBA playoffs. In the

0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:31.960
<v Speaker 2>regular season, offense is drastically more important than defense, and

0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:35.640
<v Speaker 2>in the playoffs, offense is still more important than defense.

0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:45.439
<v Speaker 2>With this caveat, you can get away with playing an

0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:50.920
<v Speaker 2>offensive zero in the playoffs if they do everything else, great,

0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:54.720
<v Speaker 2>you can. The Sixers were kind of doing with PJ. Tucker.

0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:58.920
<v Speaker 2>We've seen teams do it in the past. Guys who

0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:01.239
<v Speaker 2>will just stand in the cour corner stay out at

0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:03.279
<v Speaker 2>an O'tucker can hit corner threes. But you guys know

0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:07.719
<v Speaker 2>what I'm talking about. Guys that are either rebounders, great defenders.

0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:11.239
<v Speaker 2>You can get away with playing those guys in the postseason,

0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:13.319
<v Speaker 2>not huge mans, We can get away with playing them.

0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:22.200
<v Speaker 2>You cannot get away with playing defensive zeros because the

0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:26.000
<v Speaker 2>other team in the playoffs will scrap if they're smart

0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:29.280
<v Speaker 2>everything they do. Force that guy into the action every

0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.320
<v Speaker 2>single time and get a good look every single time.

0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:36.040
<v Speaker 2>It's why Jordan Poole was a foul machine and unplayable

0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:41.800
<v Speaker 2>in this series. So who wants a thirty plus million

0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:45.959
<v Speaker 2>dollars a year playoff liability that his teammates don't seem

0:35:46.000 --> 0:35:50.520
<v Speaker 2>to love. But you have to trade him if you're

0:35:50.560 --> 0:35:53.319
<v Speaker 2>going to try and get Clay and Draymond to take

0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:57.959
<v Speaker 2>less money. Here's the other hang up on getting Clay

0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:01.960
<v Speaker 2>and Draymond to take less money. And this is the point,

0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:09.200
<v Speaker 2>zach mate. It doesn't actually allow the war It's not

0:36:09.239 --> 0:36:10.759
<v Speaker 2>like you can go to Clay and Draymond be like,

0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:14.160
<v Speaker 2>take less money, so we can add X, Y and Z.

0:36:14.800 --> 0:36:18.400
<v Speaker 2>That's not the case at all. The Warriors are capped

0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:22.560
<v Speaker 2>out with no matter what. If they have Steph Wiggins,

0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:28.200
<v Speaker 2>Clay Draymond at any amount of money, they're capped out.

0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:32.640
<v Speaker 2>So the only advantage to them taking less money is

0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:38.239
<v Speaker 2>it saves Joe lakeup money against the tax. And yes,

0:36:38.400 --> 0:36:42.080
<v Speaker 2>the Warriors could you know, be kicked to the end

0:36:42.080 --> 0:36:44.560
<v Speaker 2>of the draft seven years from now and things like

0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:46.960
<v Speaker 2>that in the new CBA, but none of that affects

0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:51.040
<v Speaker 2>Clay and Draymond. So it is just a discussion of

0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:56.840
<v Speaker 2>we want you the multi millionaire to take less money

0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:02.799
<v Speaker 2>because it will save the billionaire millions. That takes some

0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:07.800
<v Speaker 2>real finessing, so we'll see. But it's not as easy

0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:15.240
<v Speaker 2>as it sounds. And credit to Steph for being brilliant

0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:18.279
<v Speaker 2>enough to get them a title. They really had no

0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:22.160
<v Speaker 2>business winning last year. But this is the end of

0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:27.400
<v Speaker 2>the road for them. It's an unbelievable run. It's nine years,

0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:33.080
<v Speaker 2>it's six finals, it's four rings. But they had they

0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:37.600
<v Speaker 2>had a chance to extend this. They had the number,

0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:40.720
<v Speaker 2>they had the number two pick, the number seven pick

0:37:41.239 --> 0:37:44.040
<v Speaker 2>and whatever Moody was the number fourteen pick, I think,

0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:49.600
<v Speaker 2>and they appear to have whiffed. They definitely whiffed on.

0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:56.400
<v Speaker 2>Wiseman Kaminga was DNB Coaches decision all postseason and Moody

0:37:56.520 --> 0:37:59.160
<v Speaker 2>is was the youngest player in the draft when he

0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:02.480
<v Speaker 2>was taken, I think, and while he was out there

0:38:02.520 --> 0:38:06.040
<v Speaker 2>in some moments he's not ready yet. And Steph, as

0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:11.120
<v Speaker 2>great as he is, is thirty five. So I fear,

0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:13.600
<v Speaker 2>and by fear, I mean it does kind of delight me.

0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:18.719
<v Speaker 2>Light years season and the Warriors window is closed. It's

0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:23.680
<v Speaker 2>an unbelievable run, but it also does mean to circle

0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:30.839
<v Speaker 2>this back to Lebron for world what it's worth. When

0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:35.000
<v Speaker 2>Lebron came into the league in the East, the Detroit

0:38:35.080 --> 0:38:41.000
<v Speaker 2>Pistons were the team I think they went to was

0:38:41.040 --> 0:38:46.320
<v Speaker 2>it five straight or six straight Eastern Conference Finals? I

0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:48.560
<v Speaker 2>want to make sure I have it right. It started

0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:55.440
<v Speaker 2>in three, three, four, five, They went to eight I'm sorry,

0:38:55.520 --> 0:39:00.160
<v Speaker 2>six straight conference finals. They won a championship the very

0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:04.160
<v Speaker 2>next year they were in Game seven of the finals.

0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:10.319
<v Speaker 2>Lebron ended that run with the forty eight Special. In

0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:15.759
<v Speaker 2>reaction to the forty eight Special, the Celtics created the

0:39:15.800 --> 0:39:21.919
<v Speaker 2>first modern super team in the East. They're at well, yeah,

0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:24.600
<v Speaker 2>of the twentieth century. Of the sorry twenty first century.

0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:30.040
<v Speaker 2>Lakers tried with Malone and Gary Payton didn't work, but

0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:36.200
<v Speaker 2>in reaction to what Lebron did. The Celtics created KG

0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.239
<v Speaker 2>Paul Pierce ray Allen. They had an unbelievable run and

0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:44.880
<v Speaker 2>knocked out Lebron a few times. Lebron then ended the

0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:49.080
<v Speaker 2>Celtics Big Three in Boston. The death knell was the

0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:53.360
<v Speaker 2>forty five, fifteen and five, down three to two, Game

0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:57.759
<v Speaker 2>six of the twenty twelve Eastern Conference Finals. That was

0:39:57.800 --> 0:40:00.640
<v Speaker 2>that they beat him the previous year, beat him again.

0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:08.719
<v Speaker 2>That was that he then there is a budding dynasty

0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:13.839
<v Speaker 2>in Golden State. They win a title. They then win

0:40:14.000 --> 0:40:17.920
<v Speaker 2>seventy three games, execute a three to one comeback, have

0:40:18.040 --> 0:40:25.960
<v Speaker 2>the unanimous MVP. Lebron so rocks them with the greatest

0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:28.719
<v Speaker 2>three game stretch in the history of the league. And

0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:32.960
<v Speaker 2>I know, I say that a lot just kind of nonchalantly.

0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:37.600
<v Speaker 2>That is undeniable. Down three to one to a seventy

0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:43.080
<v Speaker 2>three win team, he went forty one sixteen seven, three

0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:48.840
<v Speaker 2>and three, followed that up with forty one eight eleven,

0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:53.440
<v Speaker 2>four and three, and followed that up with twenty seven

0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:58.279
<v Speaker 2>eleven eleven, two and three and the greatest defensive play

0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:03.160
<v Speaker 2>in the history of the league. He so shook them

0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:07.680
<v Speaker 2>with that that Draymond's crying in his car and they

0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:14.719
<v Speaker 2>go get Kevin Durant, that teem's essentially unbeatable, and then

0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:18.280
<v Speaker 2>Durant leaves and it's like, oh, they win another title.

0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:25.319
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, they're gonna go on another run. And

0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:28.680
<v Speaker 2>Lebron ended that one too, and in the midst of it,

0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:32.640
<v Speaker 2>in the in between, Lebron peeled to title himself with

0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:39.720
<v Speaker 2>the Lakers. So the Pistons era ended by Young Lebron,

0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:49.440
<v Speaker 2>the Celtics era ended by Prime Lebron, the Golden State

0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:55.800
<v Speaker 2>pre kd era ended by older Lebron, and the Golden

0:41:55.840 --> 0:42:03.520
<v Speaker 2>State post Kde era ended by old man Lebron. Never

0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:08.080
<v Speaker 2>see anything like it, never in the past, never will

0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:12.920
<v Speaker 2>again as forty solid. So you guys might wonder what

0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:15.760
<v Speaker 2>would this podcast sound like if Demands or Duora weren't

0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:19.799
<v Speaker 2>a part of it. Well, that was forty uninterrupted brilliant

0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:24.759
<v Speaker 2>minutes on this series with little NBA history mixed in

0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.759
<v Speaker 2>quick break talk the rest of the NBA playoffs. Next,

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick writ

0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.919
<v Speaker 2>Some breaking news from literally just a couple minutes ago.

0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:17.240
<v Speaker 2>Not shocking. Doc Rivers fired, so Boonenholtz fired, Money, Williams fired,

0:43:17.280 --> 0:43:21.120
<v Speaker 2>Doc Rivers fired, man me and NBA head code. Not

0:43:21.160 --> 0:43:25.719
<v Speaker 2>great job security, great money, not great job security. This

0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:30.680
<v Speaker 2>likely comes as a shock to no one, and man,

0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:36.360
<v Speaker 2>this is one of my favorite things about sports, not

0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:41.640
<v Speaker 2>Doc being fired, but also one of the craziest things

0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:51.440
<v Speaker 2>about sports. Midway through the fourth quarter of Game six,

0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:59.680
<v Speaker 2>Jason Tatum was one for fourteen. The Celtics were trailing,

0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:08.319
<v Speaker 2>and Philly was poised to be a massive favorite in

0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:14.719
<v Speaker 2>Round three against Miami. Have home court advantage against whomever

0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:20.680
<v Speaker 2>comes out of the West, Denver or the Lakers make

0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:26.400
<v Speaker 2>their first conference finals since Iverson and one embied validate

0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:32.360
<v Speaker 2>the MVP. Harden really shed some of the playoff choker

0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:37.480
<v Speaker 2>stuff because he was so great in games one and four,

0:44:38.160 --> 0:44:43.960
<v Speaker 2>all of that. If the Sixers could close Game six,

0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:50.560
<v Speaker 2>they had three possessions up to midway through the fourth

0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:55.239
<v Speaker 2>before Tatum made us had made a single three to

0:44:55.280 --> 0:45:01.640
<v Speaker 2>get hot. They blew those possessions. And by the way,

0:45:01.719 --> 0:45:05.160
<v Speaker 2>if Philly wins that, it's not just what it means

0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:12.480
<v Speaker 2>for Philly, it's also Boston probably as a Really the

0:45:12.520 --> 0:45:18.560
<v Speaker 2>news today is probably Missoula's been fired, and there's a

0:45:18.600 --> 0:45:25.359
<v Speaker 2>lot of jail and brown speculation instead, and a lot

0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:29.960
<v Speaker 2>of conversation about Tatum, who had been bad in the

0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:34.440
<v Speaker 2>first quarter of Game four five, first three quarters of

0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:39.719
<v Speaker 2>Game six, a lot of talk. Instead, Tatum makes a

0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:44.720
<v Speaker 2>few huge shots, Philly can get nothing going. They lose.

0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:50.680
<v Speaker 2>They didn't have an all time meltdown. In the third

0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:55.880
<v Speaker 2>quarter of Game seven, Tatum breaks Steph's game seven record.

0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:59.880
<v Speaker 2>We went seventy six years of the NBA with nobody's

0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:03.400
<v Speaker 2>scoring fifty in a game seven. It's happened twice in

0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:09.879
<v Speaker 2>fourteen days. Steps record stood for two weeks and now

0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:18.440
<v Speaker 2>Docs fired Hardin has a three for eleven total afraid, embarrassing,

0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:23.920
<v Speaker 2>no show. Embeed not only doesn't validate the MVP, but

0:46:24.040 --> 0:46:27.960
<v Speaker 2>goes in the other direction. Has the worst playoff game

0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:31.520
<v Speaker 2>of his life in Game seven, particularly when you include

0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:36.960
<v Speaker 2>the fact that they hunted him defensively and now Docs

0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:39.960
<v Speaker 2>fired and who the hell knows and Boston is a

0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:46.560
<v Speaker 2>massive favorite to go to their second straight finals. Man,

0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:55.279
<v Speaker 2>those margins, man, So I happen to like Miami in

0:46:55.320 --> 0:47:03.359
<v Speaker 2>this series. I think Jimmy in this series is more

0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:08.320
<v Speaker 2>reliable than Tatum, and you can't even be like, well, yeah,

0:47:08.360 --> 0:47:11.160
<v Speaker 2>maybe he's more reliable, but Tatum's peaks. I mean, Jimmy

0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:14.440
<v Speaker 2>had fifty six in a playoff game a few weeks ago.

0:47:15.760 --> 0:47:21.759
<v Speaker 2>Jimmy's peaks are as high as anybody's this postseason. To me,

0:47:21.880 --> 0:47:26.920
<v Speaker 2>he's more consistent than Tatum is, and he's had some

0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.760
<v Speaker 2>time to get that ankle right. But the real reason

0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:38.560
<v Speaker 2>I like Miami in this series is because the Spolstra

0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:44.120
<v Speaker 2>missoula mismatch that might be coach one versus coach thirty.

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:46.640
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that is as big of a coaching mismatch

0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:49.520
<v Speaker 2>as you will ever see in a conference finals. So

0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:55.279
<v Speaker 2>I like Miami the other news since the last time

0:47:55.320 --> 0:48:00.920
<v Speaker 2>we talked, predictably is Phoenix ran out of gas and

0:48:00.960 --> 0:48:10.960
<v Speaker 2>the Nuggets ran rough shot all over them. So Mani's gone.

0:48:11.200 --> 0:48:16.279
<v Speaker 2>Everybody likes MANI I get why you'd fire him. I

0:48:16.280 --> 0:48:18.759
<v Speaker 2>didn't realize this until after the fact. A lot of

0:48:18.840 --> 0:48:21.000
<v Speaker 2>reporting after the factors like, oh, yeah, we all knew

0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:22.840
<v Speaker 2>this was coming. I didn't know it was coming. But

0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:26.280
<v Speaker 2>I guess I'm not just plugged in that Ishbo wanted

0:48:26.280 --> 0:48:29.480
<v Speaker 2>to get his own guy. So be it the h

0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:34.440
<v Speaker 2>The noteworthy stuff from that Phoenix series and we'll get

0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:39.920
<v Speaker 2>to the Denver side in a moment. Is you can't

0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:43.719
<v Speaker 2>play these guys forty four minutes a game and then

0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:47.480
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna stay super efficient. You just can't. I was

0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:50.920
<v Speaker 2>wilds and brew kept laughing at me in round one

0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:53.120
<v Speaker 2>when Phoenix kept winning games, and I kept saying, I'm

0:48:53.200 --> 0:48:56.040
<v Speaker 2>less confident in them. I'm less confident in them. They

0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:58.680
<v Speaker 2>were a five man team at best. That then Chris

0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:01.759
<v Speaker 2>Paul got hurt predictably eight and was a no show

0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:06.040
<v Speaker 2>and then literally couldn't play, which is not shocking, and

0:49:06.239 --> 0:49:09.399
<v Speaker 2>Durant and Booker's efficiency falls off the map, and they

0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:13.920
<v Speaker 2>just weren't built for it. They need to find a

0:49:13.920 --> 0:49:19.040
<v Speaker 2>way see if they can move Chris for rotational pieces

0:49:19.120 --> 0:49:23.760
<v Speaker 2>because they need more playoff bodies. But the real story

0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:32.880
<v Speaker 2>in Phoenix is just a totally bizarre five years of

0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:44.560
<v Speaker 2>Kevin Durant's career. Kevin Durant went to three straight finals

0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:48.759
<v Speaker 2>in Golden State, and in twenty nineteen, he has a

0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:53.239
<v Speaker 2>calf injury in round two against the Rockets, Minces the

0:49:53.400 --> 0:50:01.160
<v Speaker 2>entire conference finals, comes back, probably early against the Raptors

0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:06.720
<v Speaker 2>in the finals, and tragically pops his achilles. He played

0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:11.800
<v Speaker 2>eleven minutes in that game, that is June of twenty nineteen.

0:50:13.360 --> 0:50:20.160
<v Speaker 2>Those are the only eleven minutes of playoff basketball post

0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:24.000
<v Speaker 2>round two we have seen from Kevin Durant in the

0:50:24.080 --> 0:50:31.200
<v Speaker 2>last five years. That's incomprehensible. Twenty twenty, he's out all

0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:36.799
<v Speaker 2>year because of the achilles. Twenty twenty one, Kyrie gets hurt,

0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:40.480
<v Speaker 2>Hardens hurt, hardens them back. They have the duel with Giannis.

0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:45.160
<v Speaker 2>They lose twenty twenty two, swept in round one. Twenty

0:50:45.280 --> 0:50:48.719
<v Speaker 2>twenty three, he forces the trade to Phoenix. They're out

0:50:48.760 --> 0:50:51.520
<v Speaker 2>in round two in what was not a particularly close

0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:56.640
<v Speaker 2>six game series, and he turns thirty five before next

0:50:56.680 --> 0:51:03.839
<v Speaker 2>season starts, and it is just a bizarre end of

0:51:03.840 --> 0:51:08.080
<v Speaker 2>his prime because when he's been out there, he's been

0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:11.120
<v Speaker 2>so good. Now he wasn't great this postseason, but he

0:51:11.239 --> 0:51:18.720
<v Speaker 2>was good and nothing to show for it, absolutely nothing

0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:21.960
<v Speaker 2>to show for it. So I think Phoenix is in

0:51:22.040 --> 0:51:26.319
<v Speaker 2>really rough shape, really rough shape moving forward. And I

0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:29.560
<v Speaker 2>really didn't like Devin Booker skipping out on all the

0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:32.440
<v Speaker 2>media stuff. I think, if you're the best player on

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:34.439
<v Speaker 2>a team or the co best player in the face

0:51:34.480 --> 0:51:38.040
<v Speaker 2>of the franchise, so much worse than Dylan Brooks. Devin

0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:41.439
<v Speaker 2>Booker didn't do post game availability after Game six, after

0:51:41.440 --> 0:51:44.320
<v Speaker 2>the second straight year at home in a closeout game,

0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:47.400
<v Speaker 2>they're down thirty at halftime. It's mortifying, and then he

0:51:47.440 --> 0:51:50.600
<v Speaker 2>skips the exit interview. Guy's been in the league too

0:51:50.640 --> 0:51:55.920
<v Speaker 2>long to do that, in my opinion. So I think

0:51:55.960 --> 0:52:00.160
<v Speaker 2>Phoenix has some really rough choices ahead the eyes. We

0:52:00.239 --> 0:52:04.359
<v Speaker 2>have to trade Aighton. That's another I mean, I threw

0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:08.759
<v Speaker 2>this out there on the TV show. There seems to

0:52:08.800 --> 0:52:13.560
<v Speaker 2>be more momentum towards it now eight and for Pool

0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:16.000
<v Speaker 2>with a few other things kicked in. If you're the

0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:21.719
<v Speaker 2>Warriors is an interesting idea, but that's probably not what

0:52:21.800 --> 0:52:28.120
<v Speaker 2>Phoenix needs. And then there's the jaw situation, and I

0:52:28.160 --> 0:52:31.319
<v Speaker 2>have I could do twenty minutes on this, but so

0:52:31.560 --> 0:52:35.400
<v Speaker 2>much of it is what we discussed the first time.

0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:40.920
<v Speaker 2>So here's here's all I'm gonna say about the jaw situation.

0:52:45.920 --> 0:52:51.160
<v Speaker 2>The point is not whether or not he broke any laws.

0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:55.279
<v Speaker 2>Talked about it for again, and people got mad at

0:52:55.320 --> 0:53:01.520
<v Speaker 2>me because I guess I accurately under stand history. But

0:53:01.840 --> 0:53:06.759
<v Speaker 2>obviously there is a different and hypocritical reaction from the

0:53:06.880 --> 0:53:10.840
<v Speaker 2>media and the general population when it's black guys playing

0:53:10.840 --> 0:53:14.960
<v Speaker 2>with guns than white guys playing toy soldier. We know that.

0:53:15.480 --> 0:53:19.680
<v Speaker 2>And all the proof anyone that's arguing that I'm wrong

0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:23.400
<v Speaker 2>about that, go look up the Moulford Act, where you

0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:31.440
<v Speaker 2>had the NRA and Ronald Reagan uniting to pass gun

0:53:31.960 --> 0:53:37.240
<v Speaker 2>control measures. Again, Ronald Reagan is the governor of California.

0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:45.880
<v Speaker 2>The NRA came together to pass gun control legislation. Why

0:53:46.160 --> 0:53:50.080
<v Speaker 2>because the black panthers were marching around with guns and

0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:54.799
<v Speaker 2>it freaks people out. So of course there is a

0:53:54.960 --> 0:54:00.200
<v Speaker 2>level of me that, from a righteousness perspective, say, as

0:54:00.920 --> 0:54:04.840
<v Speaker 2>Job broke no laws, we are insane in this country.

0:54:04.920 --> 0:54:07.759
<v Speaker 2>About guns, which is why what he did in that

0:54:07.840 --> 0:54:11.880
<v Speaker 2>car is not breaking any laws. So what's the problem.

0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:16.000
<v Speaker 2>But the logical part of me and the logical part

0:54:16.000 --> 0:54:20.160
<v Speaker 2>of everyone knows what the problem is. There are a

0:54:20.200 --> 0:54:23.560
<v Speaker 2>lot of things you can do that don't break a law,

0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:26.240
<v Speaker 2>but that will get you in trouble with your employer.

0:54:26.360 --> 0:54:34.160
<v Speaker 2>The NBA if job posted on Instagram a home made

0:54:34.400 --> 0:54:40.880
<v Speaker 2>sex tape three months ago, and the Grizzlies suspended him

0:54:42.080 --> 0:54:45.560
<v Speaker 2>and Adam Silver talked to him. He's like, I'll never

0:54:45.600 --> 0:54:48.840
<v Speaker 2>do it again. I learned my lesson, and then a

0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:53.240
<v Speaker 2>week after being eliminated from the playoffs, posted another sex tape.

0:54:54.120 --> 0:54:57.440
<v Speaker 2>Guess what he'd be in a lot of trouble, not

0:54:57.600 --> 0:55:03.880
<v Speaker 2>illegal breaking no laws can still get in trouble if Ja,

0:55:04.680 --> 0:55:11.200
<v Speaker 2>tweeted Jaron Jackson Junior is the league's most overrated defender.

0:55:12.040 --> 0:55:14.839
<v Speaker 2>Can't believe he won Defensive Player of the Year. Well

0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:18.680
<v Speaker 2>what about his First Amendment rights? Yes, broke no laws

0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:24.920
<v Speaker 2>would be in trouble. John Morant and his buddies clear

0:55:25.080 --> 0:55:28.800
<v Speaker 2>there are now the incident where he fought the seventeen

0:55:28.840 --> 0:55:31.480
<v Speaker 2>year old and the seventeen year old's father says he

0:55:31.520 --> 0:55:34.640
<v Speaker 2>had a pistol in his waistband, the incident the mall

0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:36.800
<v Speaker 2>with his mom and the security guard, with the security

0:55:36.800 --> 0:55:39.680
<v Speaker 2>guard says Joh threatened him, the incident at the volleyball

0:55:39.719 --> 0:55:42.280
<v Speaker 2>game with his mom and the student where the students

0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:47.360
<v Speaker 2>said they threatened him, the shotgun Willie's video, this video,

0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:52.200
<v Speaker 2>and most importantly the Pacers team bus where they say

0:55:53.640 --> 0:55:57.680
<v Speaker 2>they had a laser pointer ostensibly attached to a pistol

0:55:58.239 --> 0:56:03.239
<v Speaker 2>pointed at him that we're at a half dozen gun incidents.

0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:14.840
<v Speaker 2>It's insane, and I there's no easy solution here. But

0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:20.719
<v Speaker 2>this is heading down a dark path and everybody can

0:56:20.760 --> 0:56:25.319
<v Speaker 2>see it seemingly but JA even as Dufus buddy who

0:56:25.560 --> 0:56:29.839
<v Speaker 2>started the Instagram live, so one hundred people, I mean,

0:56:30.680 --> 0:56:33.759
<v Speaker 2>how let me look how many people and we don't

0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:35.919
<v Speaker 2>even have that many people that watch this thing live.

0:56:36.200 --> 0:56:40.280
<v Speaker 2>We've got almost four thousand people watching this right now

0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:47.720
<v Speaker 2>that Dante pac Dufus his IG live had one hundred

0:56:47.760 --> 0:56:54.480
<v Speaker 2>and twelve people watching right after an IG live literally

0:56:54.640 --> 0:56:59.040
<v Speaker 2>cost jaw thirty nine million dollars. That's how much money

0:56:59.680 --> 0:57:01.719
<v Speaker 2>that is contract would have been bumped by if he

0:57:01.800 --> 0:57:06.640
<v Speaker 2>made all NBA. He didn't make it out thirty nine million.

0:57:07.360 --> 0:57:10.879
<v Speaker 2>How much is this next one gonna cost him? And

0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:17.000
<v Speaker 2>that's again assuming the best case scenario. The best case

0:57:17.040 --> 0:57:21.479
<v Speaker 2>scenario for Job at this point is that these two

0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:29.320
<v Speaker 2>Instagram lives cost him fifty million dollars five zero, and

0:57:29.400 --> 0:57:36.480
<v Speaker 2>that's it. The worst case scenario is that folks don't

0:57:36.480 --> 0:57:42.080
<v Speaker 2>take too kindly to him throwing up sets and playing

0:57:42.120 --> 0:57:52.920
<v Speaker 2>with guns, and this ends horribly, really bad and scary,

0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:58.800
<v Speaker 2>and color me shocked. That's seventy two hours in an

0:57:58.840 --> 0:58:06.840
<v Speaker 2>alleged rehab in Florida. Didn't get this all fixed? A

0:58:06.920 --> 0:58:10.480
<v Speaker 2>man I was lucky enough to call a friend, and

0:58:10.800 --> 0:58:14.520
<v Speaker 2>a true legend passed away. Sunday. We'll discuss that and

0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:23.880
<v Speaker 2>answer your questions next. What's right? All right? Welcome back in.

0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:26.480
<v Speaker 2>We'll get to your questions and you guys can add

0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:28.440
<v Speaker 2>some more if there's some good ones in the chat.

0:58:28.800 --> 0:58:33.360
<v Speaker 2>In just a second. Diora will be back Thursday. She's

0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:36.560
<v Speaker 2>traveling this morning back from California, but I just want

0:58:36.560 --> 0:58:40.200
<v Speaker 2>to mention. So Sunday we're in California at my wife's

0:58:40.240 --> 0:58:43.600
<v Speaker 2>aunt's house, having a nice mother's day. We had a

0:58:43.640 --> 0:58:47.920
<v Speaker 2>really nice surprise ninetieth birthday for my wife's great grandmother,

0:58:48.080 --> 0:58:52.920
<v Speaker 2>my wife's grandmother, pardon me. The day before and I

0:58:53.080 --> 0:59:00.919
<v Speaker 2>checked Twitter and I see that Doyle Brunson passed and

0:59:03.360 --> 0:59:09.520
<v Speaker 2>I was I didn't cry, but I almost did. Uh.

0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:15.120
<v Speaker 2>Doyle Brunson. If you don't know, he's they call the

0:59:15.200 --> 0:59:18.520
<v Speaker 2>Godfather of poker, one of the greatest poker players of

0:59:18.560 --> 0:59:22.040
<v Speaker 2>all time. I for a sports analogy, he would be

0:59:22.320 --> 0:59:31.200
<v Speaker 2>like Bill Russell, unbelievable success, unprecedented success in the early

0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:34.880
<v Speaker 2>era of the World Series of Poker, and a you know,

0:59:35.000 --> 0:59:38.720
<v Speaker 2>gambler for seventy years. A guy who was drafted to

0:59:38.800 --> 0:59:44.040
<v Speaker 2>the NBA sixty five years ago, got hurt, couldn't play,

0:59:44.080 --> 0:59:48.120
<v Speaker 2>and became professional gambler who was a die hard sports

0:59:48.160 --> 0:59:53.840
<v Speaker 2>fan in sports better who took a shining to me

0:59:54.360 --> 0:59:56.680
<v Speaker 2>because of my work on Coward Show and the fact

0:59:56.720 --> 0:59:58.760
<v Speaker 2>that I gave out winning NFL picks. And he and

0:59:58.760 --> 1:00:03.680
<v Speaker 2>I became friends. And I was lucky enough this December

1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:07.920
<v Speaker 2>to be in Vegas and he invited me to his

1:00:08.080 --> 1:00:16.880
<v Speaker 2>house to watch Chiefs Bengals. Eighty nine years old. And

1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:25.400
<v Speaker 2>I get to his house and his nurse lets me in.

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<v Speaker 2>He's old, old man and he's got in his office

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<v Speaker 2>three computer monitors two TV screens and all these betting

1:00:35.960 --> 1:00:42.840
<v Speaker 2>outfits open and tells me that for the last however

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<v Speaker 2>many years, such a legend man eighty nine years old.

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<v Speaker 2>The last however many years, he and a friend every

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<v Speaker 2>NFL Sunday go down the board and say who they

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<v Speaker 2>like against the spread in each game, and any game

1:01:03.680 --> 1:01:08.800
<v Speaker 2>they have disagreements on is an auto fifty thousand dollars

1:01:08.840 --> 1:01:12.440
<v Speaker 2>bet he and his friend and he spends every NFL

1:01:12.520 --> 1:01:18.360
<v Speaker 2>Sunday sweating their five or six disagreements, just the coolest

1:01:18.440 --> 1:01:24.080
<v Speaker 2>thing ever, eighty nine And then his nurse comes in

1:01:25.200 --> 1:01:27.480
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, oh, I owe you one hundred bucks

1:01:29.200 --> 1:01:31.240
<v Speaker 2>and says to me. He's like, I let her pick

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<v Speaker 2>a game every week and give her one hundred dollars

1:01:33.280 --> 1:01:41.360
<v Speaker 2>free roll. And he opens his file cabinet or desk

1:01:41.560 --> 1:01:46.440
<v Speaker 2>drawer deep, you know, probably this high desk drawer, not

1:01:46.480 --> 1:01:51.040
<v Speaker 2>like a skinny one, like like a file cabinet, and

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<v Speaker 2>I swear to god, there's at least one hundred thousand

1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:07.080
<v Speaker 2>cash in loose hundreds in this drawer. And I'm just

1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:10.880
<v Speaker 2>sitting there and I'm like, this guy won the World

1:02:10.920 --> 1:02:16.240
<v Speaker 2>Series of Poker forty five years ago, has ten bracelets,

1:02:16.920 --> 1:02:21.120
<v Speaker 2>was a golf hustler, was playing in Texas carthouses. His

1:02:21.320 --> 1:02:27.080
<v Speaker 2>stories are unbelievable. He's almost ninety and he's still just

1:02:27.120 --> 1:02:30.720
<v Speaker 2>out here doing it. Fifty grand a game for NFL

1:02:30.840 --> 1:02:36.120
<v Speaker 2>games one hundred thousand plus and loose cash in his office,

1:02:36.480 --> 1:02:42.800
<v Speaker 2>just living the life man. And then in March he

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<v Speaker 2>texts me, ah, this makes me sad. Man. Uh, He

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<v Speaker 2>text me, Hi, Nick, March, maddness almost here and I

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<v Speaker 2>don't have a clue. If you have the time to

1:02:58.960 --> 1:03:03.480
<v Speaker 2>message with me some picks, I would appreciate it. And

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<v Speaker 2>then he writes, better yet, if you come to town,

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<v Speaker 2>come out to my house and we can sweat them

1:03:07.920 --> 1:03:12.400
<v Speaker 2>in together. And I wrote back, I have no college

1:03:12.440 --> 1:03:16.000
<v Speaker 2>basketball insight, but if I do, once the bracket posts,

1:03:16.120 --> 1:03:19.480
<v Speaker 2>I'll send you what I find. Not sure when I'm

1:03:19.480 --> 1:03:21.280
<v Speaker 2>in Vegas next ball, I'll hit you as soon as

1:03:21.280 --> 1:03:25.880
<v Speaker 2>I know. And he said thank you. And that's the

1:03:25.920 --> 1:03:29.320
<v Speaker 2>last time we talked. And he's eighty nine, lived on

1:03:29.440 --> 1:03:36.680
<v Speaker 2>believable life. But it's sad, but salute to the legend

1:03:36.720 --> 1:03:44.280
<v Speaker 2>Doyle Brunson Man. And I'm really really grateful and glad

1:03:44.400 --> 1:03:50.120
<v Speaker 2>that randomly, out of nowhere he befriended me and I

1:03:50.160 --> 1:03:55.280
<v Speaker 2>got to spend an afternoon watching the Chiefs Bengals game.

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<v Speaker 2>Last game the Chiefs loss all right. Some fan questions

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<v Speaker 2>Noah Rodriguez two part question, which team deserves to win

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<v Speaker 2>the draft lottery and where do you personally want to

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<v Speaker 2>see Wimby go the most. I think the Magic kind

1:04:11.840 --> 1:04:15.400
<v Speaker 2>of deserve it. Even though they won last year, they

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<v Speaker 2>have been They've been so unlike they were unbelievably lucky

1:04:19.320 --> 1:04:22.600
<v Speaker 2>getting the number one picking back to Becca. Years ended

1:04:22.600 --> 1:04:25.800
<v Speaker 2>with Shack and Penny. Then they had terrible lottery luck

1:04:25.840 --> 1:04:30.760
<v Speaker 2>for a long time. I think the Magic deserve it

1:04:30.800 --> 1:04:34.840
<v Speaker 2>to a degree. I wouldn't. I'd love him to go

1:04:34.840 --> 1:04:39.240
<v Speaker 2>to Dallas obviously, for Luca, Portland for Dane would be fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Oklahoma City would be fun. Uh, Houston has the history there.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to see san Antonio. Get him san Antonio.

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<v Speaker 2>David Robinson then tanked a year and got Duncan. Now

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<v Speaker 2>I've tanked a couple of years. I don't want him

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<v Speaker 2>to go there, And I don't want him to go

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<v Speaker 2>to Detroit or Charlotte. Really don't want him to go

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<v Speaker 2>to Charlotte because they're terribly run coach. Mystic says is

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<v Speaker 2>Doc rivers in the conversation for worst postseason coach ever,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean thirty two elimination game losses, three blown three

1:05:18.120 --> 1:05:21.040
<v Speaker 2>to one leads, four more blown three two leads. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not great, but he does have a title and a

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<v Speaker 2>Game seven appearance in the NBA Finals that they could

1:05:26.560 --> 1:05:31.240
<v Speaker 2>have won. But it's not great. Josiah Diaz says Eric

1:05:31.280 --> 1:05:35.880
<v Speaker 2>Spolstra submitted themselves top ten coach of all time since

1:05:35.920 --> 1:05:39.040
<v Speaker 2>the Heatles, he's always has a competitive team with lesser talent.

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<v Speaker 2>Celtics fan, I believe he's gonna make Missoula look silly.

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<v Speaker 2>He's certainly on the cusp. I think he's probably already there,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think he's the biggest matchup edge they have

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<v Speaker 2>from Troy Duffy says, great take on Lebron. Evidence by

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<v Speaker 2>our inability to name who the best player in the

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<v Speaker 2>world is currently we expect because Lebron the best player

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<v Speaker 2>in the world to play in the finals every year.

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<v Speaker 2>That's exactly right. That's the problem. The problem is it's

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<v Speaker 2>not that Lebron set an impossible standard because Brady did two,

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<v Speaker 2>but nobody was out there saying, actually Brady stinks. Nobody

1:06:20.440 --> 1:06:25.240
<v Speaker 2>was out there saying, actually, Brady's not that good, and

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<v Speaker 2>so we are able to appreciate it and not hold

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<v Speaker 2>other people to that standard. Beach Bead says, how do

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<v Speaker 2>you think the media will look at the Lakers' bubble

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<v Speaker 2>ring if they go on to win it all? Listen

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<v Speaker 2>that the only reason people disrespected what happened in the

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<v Speaker 2>Bubble was it's all revisionist history. It's all because the

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<v Speaker 2>Lakers won. During the Bubble, people were saying, this is

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<v Speaker 2>the highest level of basketball we've ever seen, because guys

1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:58.040
<v Speaker 2>are more rested, there's no travel, there's great sight lines.

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<v Speaker 2>The games were unbelievable. But because Lebron won the title,

1:07:04.120 --> 1:07:08.720
<v Speaker 2>people wanted to retroactively take away from it, which maybe

1:07:08.760 --> 1:07:10.680
<v Speaker 2>I would have listened to if it's like, oh, well,

1:07:10.720 --> 1:07:12.560
<v Speaker 2>they didn't have to go on the road, but they

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<v Speaker 2>were the one seat. But the fact that it was Lakers,

1:07:16.240 --> 1:07:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Nuggets heat Celtics in the final four and this year

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<v Speaker 2>it's the final four again, those arguments are falling even flatter. Oh, Nick,

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<v Speaker 2>the teams are different. Not the best players. Lakers were

1:07:27.640 --> 1:07:32.920
<v Speaker 2>Lebron and Ad Nuggets were Jokic, Murray and Michael Porter. Junior,

1:07:33.400 --> 1:07:38.240
<v Speaker 2>The Heat were Jimmy Bam and Hero, and the Celtics

1:07:38.240 --> 1:07:41.520
<v Speaker 2>were Tatum, Brown and Smart. That's who it was then,

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<v Speaker 2>that's who it is now. Gig says this most impressed

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<v Speaker 2>ring for Lebron No. Twenty sixteen, most impressive, most important,

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<v Speaker 2>and there's no question about it. Three o'clock today on

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<v Speaker 2>FS one, I give out my pick for Game one

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<v Speaker 2>Lakers Nuggets. I'd love to do it here, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>save that for the TV show because we're twelve and zero.

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<v Speaker 2>Take that, you stupid Corgy. Talk to you guys Thursday.

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<v Speaker 2>What's right,