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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope all of you guys are

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Speaker 1: having a great week so far. Well, this isn't the

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Speaker 1: first time that this has happened to us on the show,

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Speaker 1: and it certainly won't be the last time. But basically,

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Speaker 1: it's just truly bizarre to me. Um, you guys were

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Speaker 1: about the top twenty five players list that we were working.

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Speaker 1: the Nets. They were at a crossroads here. They had

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