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Speaker 2: Look at me now, moms do pretty well. Good mornings,

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Speaker 2: Swing world, Then, welcome to the No Dunks Podcast. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to part one of our NBA season preview shows

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Speaker 2: and better yet, our very first real podcast for the

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Speaker 2: Athletic I'm Jay Skeets, coming to you live from Toronto,

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Speaker 2: and alongside me here in our satellite studio, it's the

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Speaker 2: man making the magic happ in.

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Speaker 3: JD.

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Speaker 2: Hello there, he is here. We are What time? Where

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Speaker 2: are the other guys? Don't you worry? Joining us live

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Speaker 2: from Atlanta. He is the homie I've been podcasting with

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Speaker 2: since two thousand and six. It's Tass Mellis.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, it's good to be back, and there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of questions. What the heck is going on?

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Speaker 2: Well, before we get to that, alongside task there in Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: the Bearded One, Tray Kirby, Hey out hey yoh.

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Speaker 5: When.

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Speaker 2: Of course, last, but not least, the international man of

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Speaker 2: mystery making the magic happ in the Aussie it's Lee

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Speaker 2: Ellis Friend. Yeah, what's going on here? What is going on?

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Speaker 2: Why are JD and I in Toronto? I are the

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Speaker 2: three of you in Atlanta. Let's just explain this is

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Speaker 2: quickly as possible. I don't want to bore people here

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Speaker 2: on our first podcast because this is our NBA season preview.

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Speaker 2: We got a bunch of questions we're going to tackle

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Speaker 2: about the upcoming season. But look, Jad and I, because

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Speaker 2: wherever you want. JD and I still Canadian. So we

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Speaker 2: have to get our work visa now with the athletic

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Speaker 2: that's processing to allow us to live not only in

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Speaker 2: the States but also work. We couldn't even actually do

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Speaker 2: could have, let's be honest, JD, we could have been like, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, we're waiting for our work visa to process.

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Speaker 2: We'll just wait it out. Cross my mind to be

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Speaker 2: So we got to make this happen. So Jad and

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Speaker 2: So, but we really wanted to obviously start the show,

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Speaker 2: doing it this way. So look, it's not perfect. We

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Speaker 1: Yes, you guys are different. We don't have to call

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look I'd rather not here on the first podcast.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe later this week we will. We'll definitely take

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Speaker 3: It's right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a pipeage, he's going a pipe he

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Speaker 1: And we'll get some photos obviously on social Yeah.

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Speaker 2: For sure. Big thanks guys to all of you listening

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Speaker 2: for not only finding this podcast, maybe some of you

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Speaker 2: are new listeners through the Athletic. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: The support's been unreal, you know, we just announced this

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Speaker 2: I slipped it in there, but task JD and I

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Speaker 2: we started this thing as the Basketball Jones back in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and six January two thousand and six. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: not much different than what we're doing right now. It's

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I know you've got tons of

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Speaker 2: other questions. You can email us at no Dunks at

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Speaker 2: on Twitter and Instagram No Dunks Inc. That's no dunks

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Speaker 2: I NC. That's the easiest way to find us. Just

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Speaker 2: put that in Twitter or Instagram. We're gonna find us.

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Speaker 2: And don't you worry. We are on Facebook at Facebook

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Speaker 2: dot com slash no dunks ink.

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Speaker 1: We're now on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's Garth. We had to get Garth in there.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of you have been asking, well, what's

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Speaker 4: You can't get away from us.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna be in your feeds twenty four to seven,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there I mean, I'm excited how much no dunks

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna do something like that down the line,

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Speaker 5: We're working on our dances all summer, but we gotta

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Speaker 1: a little less formal. Yeah, not curse a lot, maybe

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Speaker 2: Why day what some wine?

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Speaker 2: So Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians out there. Okay, guys,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk some ball allright, come on.

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Speaker 1: Shaking yeah, man'll go first drop of the season, right,

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Speaker 1: we are.

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Speaker 2: Doing our burning questions again. That's our NBA season preview.

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Speaker 2: That's how we do it, burning questions. We're not going

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Speaker 2: Like we just don't care what the number is. Let's

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Speaker 1: Podcasting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got five season previews all week long here,

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Speaker 2: So whenever you're ready, JD. Let's get to well. Our

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Speaker 2: first question here, guys. First question, Oh, that was it

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Speaker 1: Who you got, man, I've got Joel Embiid of the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy seconds. Yeah, WHOA. I think the biggest thing

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Speaker 2: Trey you sounded excited when he said Joel Embiid are.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm rolling with Embiid as well.

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Speaker 5: You look at the numbers last year, twenty eight, fourteen,

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Speaker 4: Those are MVP numbers.

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Speaker 5: It just happened to be that Giannis came out of

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Speaker 5: especially because, like tass Is saying, sixty four games for

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Speaker 4: A career high.

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Speaker 5: The guy had has had injury problems in the past,

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Speaker 5: Surely the Sixers are gonna want to do a little

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Speaker 5: bit of load management on him. But if he's able

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Speaker 5: to play, you know, between seventy and seventy seven games

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Speaker 5: like something like that, where he's he's putting some more

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Speaker 5: Player of the Year candidate, because we know the Sixers

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Speaker 5: He's gonna perform. I'm rolling with Embid. I don't necessarily

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Speaker 5: see Janis winning back to back MVPs. Shaq won one

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, for this season, at least before they've played

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Speaker 2: Embiid, but you guys are sort of in a weird

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Speaker 2: way making the case maybe not to pick Embiid because,

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Speaker 2: He sort of broke down. And yes, he's I get that,

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Speaker 2: why will he play seventy games? Why should he maybe

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Speaker 1: Bringing that's fair. But he had a knee injury late

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Speaker 1: I think he'll take a break. Last year, he didn't

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Speaker 1: as Tree said, the number, it doesn't really matter as

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Speaker 2: And that's yeah. And if he can't be that low

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Speaker 2: and he played sixty four games and Kawhi played what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just can't be that low.

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Speaker 3: But in the seventies, I think it also depends on

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Speaker 3: why I think Kawhi can't win MVP if he's just

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Speaker 3: taking a quarter of the season off. But if he's injured,

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Speaker 3: I think that does then you sort of go, well,

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Speaker 1: I've got a quote that, oh yeah, because quite at

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Speaker 1: some point in his career. You know that website Brenie

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't care about winning the MVP. The

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Speaker 3: But he's clearly his focus is on winning championships. And

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, what he did last season worked

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Speaker 1: So who you go?

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Speaker 3: Well, Yannis and Embiid with two of the guys I

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Speaker 3: looked at, But I'm actually going with Nikola Yokich out

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Speaker 3: defensive EMBIID, which is true. He's a much better defensive

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Speaker 3: if you look at guys who have won in the past,

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Speaker 4: It's all about offense.

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Speaker 3: And I think Jokich last year he finished fourth in

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Speaker 3: Denver Nuggets. The nev Nuggets bringing about basically the same

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Speaker 3: They got that huge home court advantage where he just shines.

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Speaker 3: He improved defensively as well last season and I think

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Speaker 3: Right, and the triple double has lost a little bit

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Speaker 3: that's why I think he might do something that we

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Speaker 3: I just think he's going to stand out. He's going

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Speaker 3: He'll put up probably twenty seven and fifteen and have

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Speaker 3: so uh, embiid again, I think sixty games is probably

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Speaker 2: In both of these picks. Yo Kich and then you

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Speaker 2: I think that might be what sort of determines it

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Speaker 5: Well, I think that they might make more of an improvement,

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Speaker 4: I think that the Sixers have more room to grow.

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Speaker 5: And then you can look at the players that are

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Speaker 4: I do like that. Jokic kind of went the opposite

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Speaker 5: Everybody's like, embid, you gotta work on your body, you

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Speaker 5: You see that picture of him, like holding a MIC's

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Speaker 5: Those guys are both those are my top two choices

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the biggest part of playing the Eastern

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Speaker 1: people think the Nuggets maybe punched above their weight a

436
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Speaker 1: little bit last year because they had so many close

437
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Speaker 1: wins and maybe their win total drops off of it.

438
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Speaker 1: If they're not the number one seed like they were

439
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Speaker 1: last year, that hurts Nikolai Yokic's chances. It like Giannis

440
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Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference, like you know, if they if

441
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Speaker 1: the storyline isn't the exact same, if he isn't the

442
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Speaker 1: number one seed, then that hurts. And I mean we

443
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Speaker 1: we we didn't even name James Harden, we didn't name

444
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Speaker 1: steph Yeah, can my man?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me let me hit you with this real quick.

446
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Speaker 2: The MVP odds. It's interesting you guys, like I heard

447
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Speaker 2: Trey say, like e Beat and Jokic sort of his

448
00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,880
Speaker 2: top guys. They're quite low on the MVP odds list.

449
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Speaker 2: This is from I guess Bravado, Like October eighth, Jannis

450
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Speaker 2: is the favorite plus three hundred, then Curry plus five

451
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Speaker 2: p fifty, Lebron plus six fifty, Anthony Davis plus seven hundred,

452
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Speaker 2: hard And plus eight hundred, Kawhi plus nine hundred, Embiid

453
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Speaker 2: and jokis down there at plus twelve hundred, and then

454
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Speaker 2: you got Paul George and Lillard and goes on and

455
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Speaker 2: on and on. I was leaning towards taking Embiid, but

456
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Speaker 2: I don't want to have three of us backing him.

457
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Speaker 2: I love that, like what you guys are saying about it.

458
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Speaker 2: You look at his numbers, even to Jannis last year,

459
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Speaker 2: they're pretty similar across the board. Of course, Jann is

460
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Speaker 2: playing in eight more games though, and having the better

461
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Speaker 2: record and stuff like that, and much more efficient because

462
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Speaker 2: Embiat's got to raise that up. But I'm why can't

463
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Speaker 2: Yannis go back to back? I mean, if he puts

464
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Speaker 2: up the exact same numbers, or if not a little

465
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Speaker 2: bit better and maybe shows that he's got like a

466
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Speaker 2: bit more of a shot or even a bit of

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Speaker 2: a more of a three point shot, and they're the

468
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Speaker 2: best team still in the league. Like, what would be

469
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Speaker 2: the reason why would anyone be able to go Like, oh,

470
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Speaker 2: he doesn't deserve it again if he increases his efficiency

471
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Speaker 2: some more elements to his game and his team dominates. Still,

472
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Speaker 2: it's like we've seen guys go back. I mean, we've

473
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Speaker 2: had he would be the fourth guy since like six

474
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Speaker 2: to go back to back like we've had Nash Lebron.

475
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Speaker 2: Curry of course has done it. So I'm in a

476
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Speaker 2: weird way, I'm going I'm like default now, going back

477
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Speaker 2: to the honest I think as my pick for MVP, though,

478
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Speaker 2: I though the Curry angle is interesting as well because

479
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Speaker 2: every time he doesn't play with the Durant and now

480
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Speaker 2: no Clay, the guy looks unstoppable. So I mean, maybe

481
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Speaker 2: that's the reason why those guys are the favorites in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I guess one of the things going against Giannis is winning.

483
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Speaker 1: And I know that's it's obviously regular. She is an MVP,

484
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Speaker 1: but you know, steph Onon Lebron won, and I think

485
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Speaker 1: I think that factors into the Yata situation. You're right,

486
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Speaker 1: he had he could do the exact same thing. But

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Speaker 1: that's gonna it's a knock against him. It's it's like

488
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Speaker 1: a James Harden thing. Yeah, these are regular season numbers, fantastic,

489
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Speaker 1: but you have to wow us in another way. And

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Speaker 1: I think winning winning hurts him a little bit, and

491
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Speaker 1: voter fatigue always hurts.

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Speaker 2: Okay, But and what about that Curry point I bring

493
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Speaker 2: up though, like where he just literally looks like he

494
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Speaker 2: could he might have to score for all we know,

495
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Speaker 2: you know, like thirty five, like like hoarded Lake numbers.

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Speaker 3: We've had forty in a preseason game the other night, Steph,

497
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Speaker 3: you know, And they brought in D'Angelo Russell, I think

498
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Speaker 3: to help carry the load offensively. They want someone else

499
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Speaker 3: who can score, who can run the point. So Steph

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Speaker 3: is going to be a lot more of a shooter

501
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Speaker 3: this season than we've seen in past. The Warriors are

502
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Speaker 3: still going to be good. They're probably not going to win,

503
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Speaker 3: you know, more than sort of fifty to fifty five games,

504
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Speaker 3: but if they get to that mark, that's going to

505
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Speaker 3: be heavily on Steph. I think. So there's no question

506
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Speaker 3: that if he goes out there and says remember me, guys,

507
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Speaker 3: Remember I was the two time MVP, first time unanimous.

508
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Speaker 3: I can still play this game. I'm still pretty good.

509
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Speaker 3: Weren't just all about Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson. He

510
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Speaker 3: can definitely draw some eyeballs to him again, but it's

511
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Speaker 3: also a little bit like, what is he going to

512
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Speaker 3: do that we haven't seen before? He's going to have

513
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Speaker 3: to do something that really stands out. I mean, he

514
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Speaker 3: could score thirty thirty two a game, lead the league

515
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Speaker 3: in scoring, but it's kind of like that's what we

516
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Speaker 3: see from Steph all the time, so it's going to be, oh, but.

517
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Speaker 2: No, what the difference is. We haven't seen that for

518
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Speaker 2: a little bit. It's been a while since we've seen

519
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 2: that the one man Curry show because of his team

520
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 2: that he's had with Katie there and all of his guys.

521
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Speaker 2: So it is a bit of like, if anything that

522
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Speaker 2: narrative might help him. It might be like, oh, yeah, right,

523
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry can do this when he's you know, asked

524
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Speaker 2: to be the lone guy. Is sort of offensively that

525
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 2: might actually help his case, especially because you know, we'll

526
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Speaker 2: get to it throughout these season previews. But some people

527
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Speaker 2: are like writing off the Warriors for crying out loud.

528
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Speaker 2: They're like, oh, you know, they'll be just getting into

529
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Speaker 2: the playoffs or there's you know, some people are even

530
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Speaker 2: going as far as say they won't even make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So if they're suddenly still like one of the best

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Speaker 2: teams in the league because of what Curry can do

533
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Speaker 2: offensively and maybe Draymond defensively, then I think that does

534
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Speaker 2: help his MVP narrative, which is such a big part

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Speaker 2: of this thing.

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Speaker 5: Well, not to mention, the Warriors actually have to play

537
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Speaker 5: during the regular season for the first time in three years,

538
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Speaker 5: So yeah, Curry's going to go out there. Not only

539
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Speaker 5: does he have to play, he has to play well.

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Speaker 5: The Warriors are an incredibly thin team. If they're able

541
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Speaker 5: to make a run at a top four seed in

542
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Speaker 5: the West, it's going to be because Curry's at thirty

543
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Speaker 5: five a game. And if he's able to do that

544
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Speaker 5: with Clay Thompson missing half the season, probably Kevin Durant

545
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Speaker 5: obviously in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 4: Now he'll get some votes.

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Speaker 5: He's a dark horse guy for sure, and I think

548
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Speaker 5: Lillard falls into the same sort of realm as Curry.

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Speaker 5: You know, last year he was twenty six, five and seven,

550
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Speaker 5: Willard was played eighty games. The guy's gonna perform well.

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Speaker 5: The Blazers have changed. If they're able to be competitive

552
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Speaker 5: like they have been for the past couple of seasons,

553
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Speaker 5: they finished third in the West back to back years.

554
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Speaker 5: Seems crazy to think. Yeah, Lillard has been carrying them.

555
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 5: I think he will get Curry like votes too, especially

556
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Speaker 5: considering the changes amongst the Blazers.

557
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Speaker 2: And can I bring up, like, why are we not

558
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Speaker 2: talking ourselves into any sort of Lebron or even in

559
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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis? Is it this sort of similar thing where

560
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Speaker 2: it was the Katie Curry thing, where it's just these

561
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Speaker 2: two guys sort of cancel each other out in a

562
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Speaker 2: weird way when it comes to it.

563
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Speaker 5: Aren't the haters gonna keep the award from Anthony Davis?

564
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

565
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Speaker 4: And you have to be like thirty five and fifteen.

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Speaker 5: I feel like an undeniable MVP for people to feel

567
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Speaker 5: comfortable voting for him.

568
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Speaker 3: And he's already got a thumb injuries right now, so

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Speaker 3: he's likely. He's guy we know has missed a lot

570
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Speaker 3: of games in the past, so he's probably gonna miss

571
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Speaker 3: him guns. And I also think Lebron is going to

572
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Speaker 3: probably sit out at least a quarter of the season,

573
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Speaker 3: whether it's injury or load management this season, just because

574
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Speaker 3: we saw how effective it was with Kawhi, and also

575
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Speaker 3: Lebron had his worst injury season of his career last season,

576
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Speaker 3: and I think he's going to probably go into it

577
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Speaker 3: this season going, you know what, back to backs, maybe

578
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Speaker 3: only play one of those, and so he might sit

579
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Speaker 3: out a lot.

580
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Speaker 1: But I know if they have a good record, though,

581
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis will probably get the credit, because I imagine

582
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Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna sit out a way last night. Ad who's

583
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Speaker 1: played seventy five games last two years.

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Speaker 3: Lebron, I mean, we've talked about it so many times.

585
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 3: He should have won five or six MVPs. If he

586
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Speaker 3: hasn't won those in those years gone by where he

587
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Speaker 3: was clearly the dominant best player in his team, I

588
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Speaker 3: just don't think he can do it now. I think

589
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Speaker 3: I think he's won all the.

590
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Speaker 5: Talking up having Anthony Davis do so much more around.

591
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Speaker 5: He's talking about just dumping it to him on the

592
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Speaker 5: wing and letting him creator, letting him create from the album.

593
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Speaker 4: I believe it when I see it.

594
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Speaker 5: But at least he's talking the game of I want

595
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Speaker 5: Anthony Davis to win MVP rather than myself.

596
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Speaker 1: You know, I would love to be in Briny Junior's

597
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Speaker 1: shoes because, like you just said, Lebron talks up Anthony Day.

598
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: I imagine he talks up his son. So well, like before games,

599
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Speaker 1: get out there, Browny Jr. And do your thing, because

600
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Speaker 1: he's done that in the past. You know, he doesn't

601
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Speaker 1: for he did it for Kyrie. He's good, he's he's

602
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 1: a really really good teammate. And yeah, I think it's

603
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 1: time he passed the torch and a guy like you said,

604
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Speaker 1: Lebron could have won a lot of times with those numbers,

605
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Speaker 1: like James Harden scored thirty six last year and he

606
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Speaker 1: didn't win, So there's no chance he wins. I think

607
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook will take some of those points

608
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Speaker 1: from him, and that's a good thing for the Rockets.

609
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Speaker 1: He just even if they have the number one seed.

610
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Speaker 3: I g yeah, I mean the thing is James hot,

611
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Speaker 3: James Hadden wants the MVP. He's going to win.

612
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe this is the year he doesn't want it.

613
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well maybe, I mean the way he's talking in

614
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Speaker 3: the off season, I would suggest that he desperately wants

615
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Speaker 3: another invall.

616
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Speaker 2: Yeah, James Harden must have like the nicest mantle ever

617
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 2: in his house, and he's like, I gotta get stuff

618
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 2: up on that mantle, Like, look at that. That is

619
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Speaker 2: just a centerpiece of the room, and I need trophies

620
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: and hardware to put on that. Because you're righty, he

621
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: loves the idea of wanting to go win it. But yeah,

622
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Speaker 2: I'm sort of with you. Even if he and he could,

623
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Speaker 2: that's the crazy part. He could still average that thirty six,

624
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Speaker 2: if not more, And it's tough to like Westbrook on

625
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: which is sort of in play still, but I still

626
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Speaker 2: can't see the voters for some reason giving it to

627
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Speaker 2: I don't know what.

628
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Speaker 5: I see the assists going down for sure, because Westbrook's

629
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Speaker 5: gonna have to handle the ball. But then that means

630
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Speaker 5: Harden is getting yeah, catching shoes. Yeah, that's gonna be efficient.

631
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Speaker 5: He could be at thirty six a game easily.

632
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Speaker 2: Okay, so everybody's going with really a big guy here.

633
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Speaker 2: We got we got try and Task going with Embiid,

634
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: got Lee going with Yokic, and and I'm gonna go

635
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 2: with you honest. Obviously, a very weird freakish big guy

636
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Speaker 2: in a different sort of way. I'm going back to

637
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Speaker 2: back with him. Just before we move on from this one.

638
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Speaker 2: Anyone have a crazy sort of wild card MVP they

639
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Speaker 2: want to throw it there like we've got our picks in,

640
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 2: but like looking down that list of where you're trying

641
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Speaker 2: to make some crazy money on some crazy sort of bet.

642
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: Anyone want to make a case for anybody else a

643
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: wildcat if you will?

644
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been thinking about this one. I thought should

645
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 3: I say it on the first show on?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Go aheadly, I think you're gonna see what.

647
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Speaker 3: I had to say, Honestly, don't Chic No, okay, no, okay, listen, listen.

648
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Speaker 3: Don Chic already is showing out in the preseason. He

649
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Speaker 3: looks amazing with porzingis there there's no reason why the

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Speaker 3: MAVs shouldn't be contending for the playoffs. Let's say they

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Speaker 3: Let's say they win forty seven, forty eight games, right,

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Speaker 3: Dunchiic is already a super stud.

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Speaker 1: What are we talking about?

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Speaker 5: You're going to give a guy who won forty seven

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Speaker 5: games the MVP and apparently the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just saying, like I've been so super

657
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Speaker 3: impressed by him already. He's got the full bag of tricks.

658
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Speaker 3: Like offensively, he's shooting threes from steph like range, he

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Speaker 3: can pass the ball, He's gonna he could easily average,

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Speaker 3: you know, twenty two and twelve on that team there

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Speaker 3: with Paorzingis there now.

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Speaker 1: Could shoot the ball.

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Speaker 3: Well, the MAVs could surge things like that, because I'm

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Speaker 3: guessing I don't know his odds, but I'm guessing he's

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Speaker 3: probably twenty five to one somewhere around that.

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Speaker 4: I bet it's highering that, yeah, probably high.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I look, he's not going to win it,

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Speaker 3: but I'm just saying I'm going to have a whole

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Speaker 3: lot of fun watching him this season to see if

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Speaker 3: you know what is he's twenty twenty one? That that

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Speaker 3: because Derek row is one out of twenty two. You know,

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Speaker 3: could this guy actually be you know, this this sort

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Speaker 3: of a caliber player in his second season in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: It's possible.

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Speaker 2: I love it, Lee, That's what I was looking for

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Speaker 2: with this question. And I'll do you one better. I think,

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Speaker 2: oh crazy, think no, Zion Williamson. You heard me at

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Speaker 2: plus Look look at plus ten thousand?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Two thousand great value and I look very unlikely. I

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Speaker 2: get it, sort of silly. I get it. It has

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Speaker 2: happened before in an NBA history where a rookie has

683
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Speaker 2: won MVP n Roy west Unseld and Will Chamberlain, so

684
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Speaker 2: like two of the greatest of all time. I get it.

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Speaker 2: Is zign on that level. Probably not, especially in today's

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Speaker 2: league where we have all these stars we're talking about.

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Speaker 5: But it's less Wilt Williamson www.

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Speaker 2: By the website. But the Pelicans, they were thirty three

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Speaker 2: and forty nine, and if they exploded and like in

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Speaker 2: the first here, you know, Zion experiment here, like it

691
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Speaker 2: would have to be incredible, like, but if they won

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Speaker 2: twenty more games and he with all these highlights, with

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Speaker 2: like throwing up like sort of a twenty ten type

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Speaker 2: of line and assists in there and stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: you could see a case being made for him that

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Speaker 2: it's like, whoa, look what he did coming in here,

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Speaker 2: and he would garner some votes. That's just a crazy

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Speaker 2: wild card. I'm sprinkling a little bit there on Zion.

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Speaker 1: Plus ten plus ten you guys, could you guys could

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Speaker 1: buy a visa get back in the country.

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Speaker 3: I will I will say this about Zon. I was

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Speaker 3: down there at the Phillips Arena Steate Farm Arena, Fortress.

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Speaker 1: Uh, to see the Pelicans first. Yeah, the Pelicans.

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Speaker 3: First preseason game, and a couple of things stood out,

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Speaker 3: Like his body is just incredible. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: he's Charles Barkley. He's I was Barklay with that sort

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Speaker 3: of size and that already. You know, he's got the great, big,

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Speaker 3: wide frame there. And also his touch around the rim

709
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Speaker 3: for a young guy is remarkable. He's got good hands,

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Speaker 3: he can put the ball on the floor so he

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Speaker 3: can get inside. He's not going to shoot a high

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Speaker 3: percentage from outside, but that doesn't matter if he's going

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Speaker 3: inside and getting you know, shooting you know, sixty sixty

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Speaker 3: five percent, just because every shot is in the paint. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's going to put up twenty points a game. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so he's going to stand out.

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Speaker 2: He's got some Barkley and him, he's got some Larry Johnson,

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Speaker 2: He's got some Blake there. It's uh. And then you

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Speaker 2: can compare them all the football players that people do,

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Speaker 2: like Laurence Styler and stuff like that. He's he's a

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Speaker 2: freak and you're right, he's not not just like dunking

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Speaker 2: on Guysley, but he can like take the hit like

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Speaker 2: you saw the one and against Golbert, like he take

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Speaker 2: the hit and he's got a soft touch to you know,

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Speaker 2: flip it up off the glass.

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Speaker 5: So is he the new worst guy in the league

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Speaker 5: to take a charge on? I mean it was Lebron

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Speaker 5: for the longest time, I think Zion.

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Speaker 2: Now, yes, guy, yes, I would think so. Noting that

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Speaker 2: guy coming at.

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Speaker 1: You, Oh my god. But I do think he's the

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Speaker 1: new best guy at a hug that best hugger.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know what about your kitch Man's macasol

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Speaker 3: is still in the league too, beautiful pair.

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Speaker 1: Of Well, we'll get into it later about the teams

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Speaker 1: that don't make the playoffs in the Western Conference. But

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans they're right there. Yeah, you know, it would

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Speaker 1: be so fun to see them get in. For sure.

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Speaker 1: We're taking a road trip and you guys get back

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Speaker 1: down here, so it's only a seven hour road trip

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Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Party time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, our next question here, who is your must watch

743
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Speaker 2: league past team? All right, shout out to Zach Low

744
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Speaker 2: and his League Pass rankings. Who do you guys have

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Speaker 2: on your must watch League Pass? Team trail. Let's start

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Speaker 2: with you.

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Speaker 5: What if I told you that the most watchable team

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Speaker 5: in the league whereas black and white and has a

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Speaker 5: gray court. I'm rolling with the Brooklyn Nets of my

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Speaker 5: league past team of the Year. I also like to

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Speaker 5: go a little further. I like to go down with

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Speaker 5: regards to national games. I don't want a team that's

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Speaker 5: in the top ten national game. I want a team

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Speaker 5: that's actually on the league pass. Yeah, Zach Loow mentioned

755
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Speaker 5: it in his column. They've got incredible announcers. Iron Eagle

756
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Speaker 5: maybe the best play by play guy in the game.

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Speaker 5: They're a fun backcourt to watch. Kyrie Irving is one

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Speaker 5: of my favorite guys to watch. I think he will

759
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Speaker 5: be a little bit more fun to play with this

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Speaker 5: year after the way things went down in Boston last year.

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Speaker 5: Spencer Dinwiddie fun, Carris Lavert fun. You're getting some blocks

762
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Speaker 5: and some dunks from Jared Allen and DeAndre Jordan. They're

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Speaker 5: gonna shoot a lot of threes. The gray court looks awesome,

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Speaker 5: and you know, they do a pretty good job of

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Speaker 5: coming up with creative uniforms. I'm not totally convinced on

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Speaker 5: these wild'm out graffiti ones.

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Speaker 4: They have right now. We'll see what it looks like

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Speaker 4: when they're on the court.

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Speaker 1: But are they Are they down the list on the

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Speaker 1: national TV games?

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Speaker 5: But I yeah, they're twelfth. They're twelfth in national TV games. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: which I kind of thought was a low number.

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Speaker 1: Actually, yeah for them for the Yeah, it is a

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Speaker 1: little bit for them.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're going to invest in Spencer Dinwitty's contract, Well, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, if I was allowed to, I would definitely buy

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Speaker 5: some spence coin Dinwitty dollars. I don't know what he's

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Speaker 5: going to be calling it, but I would do it

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Speaker 5: just to be able to do it, except for I'm

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Speaker 5: pretty sure that the initial investment has to be one

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Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars. So okay, I gotta wait for my

782
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Speaker 5: bitcoin to pay off before I can buy Dinwitty dollars.

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Speaker 1: It was deemed illegal, right, But.

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Speaker 3: He's definitely like digging his heelsing on this.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because he's saying like we like him and

786
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Speaker 2: his lawyers obviously and everything. He's like, we did the work,

787
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 2: like we we knew this could be an issue, and

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Speaker 2: we like it doesn't you know, violate the CBA or

789
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Speaker 2: stuff like that is what he is saying I I

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Speaker 2: every time I read something about this plan, the Dinwitty

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Speaker 2: dollar plan, It's like I get more confused. I I'm

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Speaker 2: not good with this type of stuff. I'm gonna need

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Speaker 2: money Mellows to explain it to me when I get

794
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Speaker 2: back to Atlanta, Like this this sort of cryptocurrency.

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Speaker 1: Thing like you like wrestling. Yeah, it's simple as this

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Speaker 1: d DP dinitly dollar plan.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Spend spend some dollars okay, Okay.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, that's too bad though, because tracking the DDP

800
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Speaker 5: would be really really fun, you know, like you see

801
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Speaker 5: like the ups and downs of the d DP market.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully it goes through.

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Speaker 2: So you're going with the net. You're going with the nets. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's an interesting you.

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Speaker 1: Know, you know, you know why I I don't think

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Speaker 1: many people would pick that. Although they're a very likable

807
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: team last year, it's because of who they signed. They've

808
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Speaker 1: just become, they become a superstar type team. Who wasn't

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Speaker 1: a very likable guy.

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Speaker 3: Danceelvis not playing that they get this that that sort

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Speaker 3: of like free hit almost like sell Us first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure exactly.

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Speaker 1: And Tyrie factor though for me, why he wouldn't why

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be picked, although you know, I mean they

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Speaker 1: went from a lovable bunch to a not so lovable bunch.

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Speaker 5: I'm on the opposite side of most people with regards

817
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Speaker 5: to Kyrie Irving, the guy won a championship, hit the

818
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Speaker 5: biggest shot in Calves history, and then in the locker

819
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Speaker 5: room to me, he said he loved our show.

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Speaker 4: First guy, no matter what happens.

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Speaker 5: But I also like his general weird philosopher vibe, you know,

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Speaker 5: like I don't necessarily believe everything he says. I don't

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Speaker 5: know if he believes everything he says, but I like

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Speaker 5: that he'll say it.

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Speaker 4: He's a he's a different character, and to me, that's

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Speaker 4: all right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he makes our show a lot better. He's quoteatious.

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Speaker 2: What about Yeah? Who you are?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go. I've got the Sacramento Kings. They were

830
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Speaker 3: me too. One of the most fun teams to watch

831
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Speaker 3: last season, no doubt about it, with Darren Fox and

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Speaker 3: Buddy Buddy Healed last season had the fourth most three

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Speaker 3: pointers made seventh most all time in a season with

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Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy eight on forty three percent shooting,

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Speaker 3: but kind of under the Raidar. I don't think a

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Speaker 3: lot of people really sort of realized just how good

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Speaker 3: he was last season, and they come in this scene

838
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Speaker 3: Bogdan Bogdanovitch at the World Cup was awesome too for

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Speaker 3: his team. So I think they're going to have a

840
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Speaker 3: lot of guys out there shooting, having fun. They're a

841
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 3: fun team to watch. And also Dwayne Deadman is signed there,

842
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Speaker 3: and I want to make sure he stays in Sacramento

843
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 3: because he scared the hell out of me when he was.

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Speaker 2: Down here in Atlanta.

845
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Speaker 3: But look the Kings last season, things were moving along

846
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 3: so nicely for them. They were in the playoff race

847
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,479
Speaker 3: and then it just sort of fell apart that last

848
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Speaker 3: push of the season that last probably fifteen or twenty games.

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Speaker 3: I think this year they're going to be better badly.

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Speaker 3: I expect him to be a much better player, and

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00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 3: they're just there.

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00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 2: Are few got a new coach and Luke Walton.

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Speaker 3: That's right, They've got Luke Walton there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it might even make the push the piece

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Speaker 2: even more. With you expect.

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Speaker 3: With these young players that that's exactly what they're going

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 1: Just get out and run.

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Speaker 3: I mean with with Fox, of course, he's maybe the

860
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 3: fastest player in the league, so they want to run.

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00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 3: They're one of those teams that just you just sort

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Speaker 3: of feel that this is the start of something that

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Speaker 3: could really be special in three or four years time.

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Speaker 2: So this is bogus, though, that you can pick the

865
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 2: Sacramento as your league past team because you're never staying

866
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 2: up late enough to watch.

867
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know it's true. It's true,

868
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 3: But I did get up and I'll watch them in

869
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: the morning.

870
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 4: That's fair.

871
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 2: So you like the Kings as well their.

872
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: Tests, Yeah, I'm jumping all over the Kings. I know

873
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 1: you've been a King supporter for a while, right, skeets,

874
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: But they are just they're so likable. I think part

875
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: of it is because they're really young. They're that up

876
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: and coming team you can sort of jump on the

877
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: bandwagon now and they make the postseason, you can be

878
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: excited for them. They're sort of like the college team

879
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: in the NBA. They go really, really deep. I think

880
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: that's nice for a West Western Conference team. Their second

881
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 1: unit is very good. It's not like you know, sometimes

882
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: you get a second union and a Western Conference team

883
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: as bad basketball. They go eleven deep, which is both

884
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse I think for them, But

885
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: their second unit, Bogdan Bogdanovitch is on it toss and

886
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: alley upes to Dayne Deadman. I watched a preseason game

887
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: the other last week and I was pumped to watch

888
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: these alley upes to Dwayne Deadman, who I didn't appreciate.

889
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: That guy is a gazelle, is actually a lot more

890
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: nimble than he looks. They're just and I think it

891
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: starts with Darren Fox. That guy is he's a superstar

892
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 1: in the making. But he is a really, really likable superstar.

893
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: He's not a superstar who's very charismatic. Yeah, he's charismatic,

894
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: and he cares about his teammates. He's not a guy

895
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: who just needs to get his He's already talking about

896
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,479
Speaker 1: how they blew a lot of big leads last year

897
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: and how they're going to be focused in that locker

898
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: room not to do that. And if it starts with

899
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: like that with him, I think it's it's gonna trickle down.

900
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: And I was a guy in July when we did it.

901
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: We were called the free Agents back then, and we

902
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: were doing a podcast. I thought the Dwayne Deadman Trevor Reza,

903
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: Corey Joseph investment into those three guys into a team

904
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: that's not quite there. They're can't really make a lot

905
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: of sense to me at the time. But now now

906
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: when you look at it and you Watchdaron Fox, and

907
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: you watch bogged In, and you watch Marvin Bagley and

908
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: that ridiculous athleticism. I have no idea where he's gonna play,

909
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: what position he plays, but I think there's just enough there.

910
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 5: Uh.

911
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: And there's such a good group of guys that you

912
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: know they can trade a couple of those pieces, and

913
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to because they have eleven guys sea

914
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: in the mind you be elites, see a Harry Giles.

915
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: So there's just there's just too many guys there. But

916
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: they're they're good Western Conference, nice late night watch because

917
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good up and down the roster, and

918
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna play fast, like you said, and people are saying, well,

919
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: people will be. The other teams will be ready for

920
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: that next year. But I've got a trade later on

921
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna solve that. Stay tuned, questioned later.

922
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 5: The only knock on the Kings, no doubt, is you're

923
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 5: getting a lot of Harrison Barnes.

924
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 4: There's a whole lot of Harrison Barnes.

925
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 5: You guys named about every other player on the roster

926
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 5: who is fun to watch Harris and Barnes. And he's

927
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 5: the highest paid player, and they brought him, they resigned

928
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 5: him the summer, and if you watch teamsa over the summer,

929
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 5: not a fun watch.

930
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 4: Harrison.

931
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: No Ron there. I love to hear all this Kings love.

932
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 2: You're right. I was a big fan going into last

933
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 2: season and Star Fox. I'm all in on Daron Fox

934
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 2: because you guys, you knocked it out of the park.

935
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 2: All the praise for him. I remember this this question,

936
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: like this must watch league pass question. It was going

937
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 2: around on Twitter during the summer. I was I was bored,

938
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 2: so I gave it a little retweet and threw my

939
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: answers in. You couldn't pick your like you couldn't pick

940
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: your own team, so I couldn't say the Raptors or

941
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: stuff like that. I tweeted my three teams weren't the Kings, Okay,

942
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: no brainer. I threw the Hawks in there. I think

943
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 2: the Hawks are going to be honestly an enjoyable, fun watch.

944
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 2: And then I threw the Bulls as my third team,

945
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: and I got a lot of people going, like, what

946
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,959
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls. You think they're gonna be a must

947
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 2: watch league pass team? Like, why I'm high on these Bulls.

948
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be fun to watch. I

949
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: mean they're obviously young as well talented. Cores. Zach Lavine,

950
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully back and fully healed from his injuries

951
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: last season, and when he is going, I've been watching

952
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 2: him in preseason. He looks fantastic. I know it's preseason,

953
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 2: none of it really matters, but he is got a

954
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: quick first step right now and already throwing out some

955
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: nice dunks. Otto Porter Jr. Was great for him when

956
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: they came over. When he came over, Lowry Market and

957
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: Wendell Carter Jr. If they can stay healthy, I like

958
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: what you're gonna get from those two guys as you're bigs.

959
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 2: And then rookie point guard. They got a point guard

960
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: in Kobe White. I can't take my eyes off this guy.

961
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,879
Speaker 2: He's got the craziest herky jerky type of game I've

962
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 2: seen in a while, and I for some reason, I

963
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 2: love it. So you put all those together, you got

964
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: boiling going crazy. You know, like Zach low is writing

965
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 2: like he's sweating and yelling and crouching and stuff like that.

966
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 2: He's like Zach Loow compared him to a motivational speaker,

967
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 2: Matt Foley. He said, ol, which is like spot on.

968
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 2: So there's got that little little coach angle there. They're

969
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: bringing back the Michael Jordan era Pinstripe Black throwbacks. Love it.

970
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 2: I think they're just like they're gonna be sneaky, fun

971
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: to watch with all their young guys. And then oh yeah,

972
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 2: like the Kings, they sort of they added some you know,

973
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 2: savvy vets into the mix, like Thaddeus Young and Saturansky.

974
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 2: I think if they're healthy, this team is not only

975
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 2: gonna be in the playoffs, They're gonna be They're gonna

976
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: They're gonna surprise a lot of people. And that's why

977
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: I've got them on my list. That's that was my reasoning.

978
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: And the big part is like I like that they

979
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: got a point guard now to hopefully set up some

980
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 2: of these guys with Kobe White, who can also hit

981
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 2: a three when especially a corner three when he's open.

982
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: So Chicago Bulls, Trey, I'm all in this year.

983
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 5: I'm happy to hear somebody else say it, because you're

984
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 5: one hundred percent right on everything that you just said.

985
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 5: My dad was in town over the weekend and I

986
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 5: was asking him every single question. All right, who's your

987
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 5: most last league pass teams? Like, I don't know, maybe

988
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 5: the Bulls. Yeah, who's your most improved player?

989
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: And aw Zach.

990
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 4: Levin's looked incredible player season.

991
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 5: Who's your team that's gonna make the playoffs out of

992
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 5: a surprise. I wouldn't be surprised that the Bulls do it.

993
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 5: I'm like, Dad, you're insane. He's like, yeah, I know,

994
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 5: I'm a homer. But they're gonna be good. They're gonna

995
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 5: be better. They've got all pro players, Like you're saying,

996
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 5: the key is gonna be will boiling.

997
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 4: Let them play fast, I hope.

998
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: So.

999
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 4: I would love to see Kobe White get a lot

1000
00:41:58,920 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 4: of time.

1001
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 5: He played like eighteen minutes last night, took sixteen shots,

1002
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 5: zero assists. You'll love to see it from a point guard.

1003
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 5: But he's out there having a good time. He's fun

1004
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 5: to watch. The team is gonna be better, And I

1005
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 5: don't know. At least they're talking up the idea of

1006
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 5: position with basketball. It feels like the balls are getting

1007
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 5: into the twenty first century.

1008
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: Welcome.

1009
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he look look marketing. He only played in fifty

1010
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: two games last year. Carter Junior forty four, Leavine, he

1011
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 2: got injured. He was in sixty three. You know, Auto

1012
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 2: Porter Junior coming over it like, we haven't really, we

1013
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: haven't really seen this team with these guys if they're

1014
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 2: all healthy, play together for a good chunk of the season.

1015
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 2: So and again you throw and Young and Santa Riansky,

1016
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 2: two guys. I love two guys I would always want

1017
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 2: on my team to help my chances to win games.

1018
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: That there's something there, and especially because there's like very

1019
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: very low expectations still, I think they might surprise a

1020
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 2: lot of people on any given night. I think there's

1021
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: just gonna be fun to watch with some of these guys.

1022
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 2: So there's our must watch league past teams with all

1023
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 2: of these questions. By the way, jump on Twitter, let's

1024
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 2: hear from you, you know at No Dunk's Inc. Hashtag

1025
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 2: No Dunks if you want to, and let's hear your answer.

1026
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: All right, Next one, let's keep it moves. Which Western

1027
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 2: Conference team will be most heartbroken come April? You know

1028
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 2: mid April. There basically What I'm asking at is which

1029
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: one of these teams that thinks they're going to make

1030
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: the playoffs is not going to make the playoffs because

1031
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 2: there's so many teams in the loaded Western Conference.

1032
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 3: Oh, just say the Minnesota Timberwolves. What's the point right

1033
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: now of what they're doing. No, because they made the

1034
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: playoffs two seasons ago with the Jimmy Butler era and

1035
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 3: you thought, okay, things are maybe improving here. They didn't

1036
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 3: make any significant moves in the offseason. They've got to

1037
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 3: start in Karl Anthony Towns, who's not even the highest

1038
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 3: paid player on the roster, you know who that is,

1039
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 3: Andrew Wiggins.

1040
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: They but you don't expect them to make the playoff.

1041
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 3: No, but I think they expect, like they're going to start,

1042
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 3: you know, to make progressing and yeah, but they won't.

1043
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 3: They just won't. They have to move on from Wiggins

1044
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: because if they don't, I think Towns might be in

1045
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 3: an Anthony Davis situation where he's like, all right, I

1046
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 3: want to move on now.

1047
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 4: But it's year one for him.

1048
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 5: It's year one of his extension for Towns, right, they're

1049
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 5: in a rebuilding area. I don't Yeah, they're even going

1050
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 5: to be trying to make the playoffs. I mean, they'll

1051
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 5: be trying, but I don't think they're expected.

1052
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 3: But if your towns, if your towns, what's this his

1053
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 3: fifth season? You don't want the franchise to be like,

1054
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 3: this is another rebuilding season. You want them to be saying, hey, listen,

1055
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 3: we start to think we're starting to move up now.

1056
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 3: And I just don't think they are. I just don't

1057
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 3: think they made any significant move that's going to improve them.

1058
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 3: And that to me, if your towns you look at

1059
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 3: like what the Lakers did, what the Clippers did, what

1060
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 3: the Pelicans have done, the Rockets, you go, well, at

1061
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 3: least these seems are trying things. Instead, we just sort

1062
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 3: of stood pat and like, you know, we know right

1063
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 3: now with Andrew Wiggins, he doesn't even want to play

1064
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 3: for Canada when he should be out there playing. He's

1065
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 3: got a real problem. And if your towns, I think

1066
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 3: you look across the locker room and you're like, all right,

1067
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 3: what's going on here? Guys were trying to win or not?

1068
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: Because if we're trying to rebuild, then get some young

1069
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 3: players in and let's start to see what we're doing.

1070
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 3: But I just don't see it. So I just think

1071
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 3: if you're a Wolves fan and your Towns especially, you're

1072
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 3: looking at this situation and going, this is a completely

1073
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 3: lost season for me, and that's not good when when

1074
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 3: you go to franchise player like Towns, he's an old

1075
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 3: NBA play, he's an old stop.

1076
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 4: We've had a great time on their Bahamas trip.

1077
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: It was on that trip all the.

1078
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 5: Timberwolves all went together, like as a preseason sort of deal.

1079
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 5: Hounds is like wearing the cool tie on headband that

1080
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 5: he won't be able to wear during the season. He

1081
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 5: seems to be fired up about playing for this team.

1082
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 5: The team seems to be happier, I think than they

1083
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 5: were when Jimmy Butler was around.

1084
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 4: You know, they actually have a fresh start this year.

1085
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1086
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 5: They took a two year detour with Jimmy Butler to

1087
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 5: try and make the playoffs because they hadn't made the

1088
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 5: playoffs in fifteen seasons or whatever it was at that time.

1089
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 5: That paid off. They made the playoffs, and then it

1090
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 5: was a disaster by the next fall. I think they

1091
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 5: are in reset mode. They're kind of saying those past

1092
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 5: two years didn't happen at all. We're building around Karl

1093
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 5: Anthony Towns, Like you're saying, they got to figure out

1094
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 5: something with Wiggins. He's definitely a trade chip because when

1095
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 5: you're talking about the Wolves, he's just considered a support

1096
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 5: player right now.

1097
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 4: He's not a cornerstone or anything like that.

1098
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 5: They got to figure out where his future lies. But

1099
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 5: I don't think they're necessarily in a hurry. They just

1100
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 5: locked up Towns to that monster extension, put a coach

1101
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 5: in the front office or in the kept them on

1102
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 5: the bench who he liked.

1103
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: That I think he's on.

1104
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 2: Okay. Can let me look at, like lay the sort

1105
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: of landscape of the West here, and I want you

1106
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 2: guys to either tell me if you agree or disagree,

1107
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 2: because I've got the West. When I look at it,

1108
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 2: it's like four tiers. So I have like playoff locks.

1109
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 2: I have five teams playoff locks again of course likes,

1110
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 2: you know, if they stay healthy for the most part, Lakers, Clippers, Jazz, Nuggets,

1111
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 2: and Rockets. I have those five like something drastic would

1112
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 2: have to happen, you know, and maybe with the Lakers

1113
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: it's like Lebron and nade Boles get injured and then

1114
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 2: they're in trouble. But fair do you guys sort of

1115
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: agree with those five is like something that would have

1116
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: to go crazy for them to not make the playoffs.

1117
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Okay?

1118
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: I I yeah, everybody thinks that I would throw the

1119
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: Warriors in.

1120
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, so then I have in my next

1121
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: tier sort of like I've called them playoffs, Staples, I

1122
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 2: have three teams, the Warriors, like you said to ask,

1123
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 2: the Blazers, and then the Spurs. Like those teams are

1124
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 2: just they're just always in the playoffs. I mean for

1125
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 2: the last little bit here, like they're great team still too.

1126
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 2: Then you got playoff hopefuls. And that's where I get

1127
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: into like the one of these teams is going to

1128
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 2: be heartbroken to me, either from this one or form

1129
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: the with Staples, Mavericks, Kings, Pelicans, Wolves, and Thunder maybe

1130
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: depending on what they do. And then I have no

1131
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 2: chance in hell. The fourth tier, I have the Grizzlies

1132
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: and Suns. So that's how I sort of like, that's

1133
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 2: sort of I would look at it. So it really

1134
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 2: is like there's like eight teams there in that mix, Warriors, Blazer, Spurs, MAVs, Kings, Pelicans,

1135
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 2: Wolves in Thunder where well, I don't know, like four

1136
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 2: of them could be upset that they don't make the

1137
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 2: playoffs and whether, like, yeah, will they be in contention

1138
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 2: in March and April trying to get in still or

1139
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: does their season sort of derail earlier because they may

1140
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 2: be trade like the thunder could, or like like Trey

1141
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 2: is saying with the Wolves that they don't even think

1142
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: they're gonna even be in the mix. But that's those

1143
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 2: are the teams that I'm sort of like trying to

1144
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 2: zero in on, Like one of one, two or three

1145
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 2: of those teams is going to be pretty damn bummed

1146
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 2: if their season doesn't go.

1147
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 5: To plant And for me, it's a I'm I think

1148
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 5: it's the map. Maybe the Donk puts on a great season.

1149
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 5: He's a dark horse MVP candidate. He's showing up down ballot,

1150
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 5: he's getting fifth place votes. Maybe Porzingis comes back after

1151
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 5: nineteen months off, hasn't played a game in nineteen months.

1152
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 4: Is he gonna be good again eventually? But maybe not

1153
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 4: right away.

1154
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 5: Even if those two guys have great seasons, are you

1155
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 5: looking at a team that's gonna start delon right Dwight

1156
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 5: Powell going to the playoffs in the Western Conference? I

1157
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 5: think I mean Doncic and Porzingis are a perfect fit.

1158
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 5: They're modern guys, but they're also still so young. Year

1159
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 5: two for Doncic, they don't it'd be great to make

1160
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 5: the playoffs, but they don't need to. They just need

1161
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 5: to see that these two guys are both healthy and

1162
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 5: they fit well together. I don't think they're gonna have

1163
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 5: a great season. I could be wrong if they if

1164
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 5: they both pop and it's an ideal fit, but I

1165
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 5: just don't see them as a team that's actually gonna

1166
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 5: make any sort of noise.

1167
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have two studs right at the top of

1168
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: the lineup, but that doesn't make ensure that you're a

1169
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: Western Conference playoff team right now, which is crazy and

1170
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: that's why I don't feel right saying this, But I

1171
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: think the most heartbroken team is to be a team

1172
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: that made the Western Conference finals last year in the

1173
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazer. Wow, it feels. It feels really strange, and

1174
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense.

1175
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: But their three four five is changed over from last year.

1176
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: They had a really good defensive front line in Moharkless,

1177
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: Alfa Rukaminu and use of Nurkicchu's hurt and it's Canter

1178
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: at the end of the season is now probably Kent

1179
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: Basmore at the small forward who's had a rocky couple

1180
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: of years. Want to believe in Kent, but will he

1181
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: get back there? The four Zach Collins who should be

1182
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: playing the five, and the five is Assan Whiteside, who

1183
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: does some good things rebounding the ball, but can you

1184
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: count on him.

1185
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 3: Hassan Whiteside just drifts in and out.

1186
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a contract year for him, so who

1187
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: the heck knows.

1188
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the best time to happen exactly, Yeah,

1189
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: because you know he's going to put in and contribute.

1190
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 3: But I just don't think even though it's a contract year,

1191
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 3: I just don't think the Blazers see him as their

1192
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 3: long term.

1193
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: They have use of Nurkic, but he's injured until February when.

1194
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 3: Going to be he might even miss the entire season.

1195
00:49:58,680 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 2: The plays is.

1196
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 3: I think we've sort of had this talk about the

1197
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 3: Blazers last couple of years. It sort of feels like

1198
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 3: they always punch above their white.

1199
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Blazers fans will say, oh, this happens every single year, right,

1200
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: we worry. But the West is deeper this year. It's

1201
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: even deeper, you know, with eleven or twelve teams, depending

1202
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: how you look at it, even thirteen, as Skeetz said,

1203
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: Although you know, I think the Wolves are out. They

1204
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,280
Speaker 1: should have if they got d Angel Russell like this offseason,

1205
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: like they try to. Maybe it's a different story. Maybe

1206
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: the Warriors should just give them D'Angel Russell. That would

1207
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: be nice to look at for their future. But the Blazers,

1208
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: they're really really top heavy. They tend to turn it

1209
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: on after January one. Last year, there are a few

1210
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: games above five hundred at the end of the calendar year,

1211
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: and that's when they turned it around. Can they hang

1212
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: on long enough? I worry about that team. And it's

1213
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: crazy because they made the Western Conference finals. And there

1214
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: was a great article by Jason Quicker The Athletic writing

1215
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: about how they talk now and Terry Stotts leading it,

1216
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard leading it, how they talk about getting the

1217
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: most out of their role players in like a championship mode,

1218
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: like forget about that's on whiteside. You're not shooting, rebound,

1219
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: do what you're good at, be a star in your

1220
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: role like Tristan Thompson is the example that jumps in

1221
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: my head. With the Cleveland Cavaliers up and down the roster,

1222
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard is apparently talking to Pagasol in the hot

1223
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: tub or the cold tub, one of the tubs, and

1224
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: Pat Pawgasol is saying to him, you know what Kobe

1225
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: used to say to me, how bad do you want

1226
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: to what are you willing to sacrifice? You have to

1227
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: say that to all your guys. And Damian Lillard I

1228
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: think they're starting to turn the quarter mentally him and C. J. McCollum.

1229
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: But again, you had Rocks I think in Harkless and

1230
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: Alfred Camino and even Ennis Cancer and the leadership is there,

1231
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: but it's just to worry when you go up and

1232
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 1: down the Western Conference playoff picture, there's just so many teams.

1233
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: Yeah dumb, Yeah, you feel dumb to vote them out?

1234
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It's sort of Spurs like right, It's like

1235
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 2: what you can always do with the Spurs every year

1236
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 2: is like, ah, this might be the year that they

1237
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 2: don't make it, and then then he just always make

1238
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 2: it because they still have obviously enough talent, especially high

1239
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 2: end talent in their star players like the Blazers and

1240
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 2: the well coached, and they have an identity and they

1241
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 2: just get it done. And it's like as excited as

1242
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 2: I am about the Mavericks with you know, with KP

1243
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 2: and Luca, and then excite as I am about the

1244
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 2: Kings and hopefully ending their playoffs rout and the Pelicans

1245
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 2: and how promising they could be. It's like at the

1246
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 2: same time, I'm still like, that's why I called them

1247
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 2: playoff staples, those three teams. It's like, no, the Warriors, Blazers,

1248
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 2: and Spurs, they just they're just generally better over a

1249
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 2: regular season because they they just have done it so

1250
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 2: many times and can go in on those weird back

1251
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 2: to backs or those weird three and fours every once

1252
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 2: in a while and just somehow pull those wins out

1253
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: in games that maybe they don't have any right winning,

1254
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 2: just because they they play hard and they've got still

1255
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 2: star players to close out the games. I can't talk

1256
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 2: myself into sort of any of those hopeful playoff teams

1257
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 2: still being better than those those squads of.

1258
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: Buckle get it, they're gonna be. They're gonna misuse if

1259
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: Nurkic a lot, and I think they had him to

1260
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: start the year last year and for much of the year.

1261
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: But now Hassan Whiteside is going to get the ball

1262
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: way away from the basket.

1263
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 4: So he says he's putting up triple doubles.

1264
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,720
Speaker 1: Tassie, you know, I think the leadership I always bet over.

1265
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 4: The course of a week tennisists.

1266
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's I don't know, like he's got skills.

1267
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: Obviously Miami signed him to this long term deal because

1268
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: he had skills, and obviously the last three years of

1269
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: his four year deal have not worked out very well.

1270
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 3: But that's a classics on what side.

1271
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe he shows up this year.

1272
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 3: It's posible, Yeah, possible, Yeah, and so.

1273
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: And that should that could be, especially with the leadership there,

1274
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: and and it's hard to to say, like a guy

1275
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: like Damian Lillard who knocked out the thunder with that

1276
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: shot and everything they had going on in their locker

1277
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: room and they got to a Western Conference final. Voting

1278
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: against them. But uh, so you don't think the.

1279
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 2: Blazers honestly, like you think it's in play the Blazers

1280
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 2: don't make the playoffs, I think.

1281
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: So wow, I think I think there's because the West

1282
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: is so good. There's six locks. Uh and then the

1283
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: Spurs I think are going to be there, you know,

1284
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: because they were they weren't healthy last year and now

1285
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: they get their guys back. That's seven. The Blazers, if

1286
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: they make it, I think are are definitely a bottom

1287
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: of the playoff bracket team. I doubt they have one advantage, okay.

1288
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 5: Until it's a race for the seeds at the end

1289
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 5: of the season and every team's within two games.

1290
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 4: And how the Blazers up number three again?

1291
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, And that's the most question.

1292
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 4: Marks the Blazers have had in a long time.

1293
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 5: They signed a bunch of guys to big, bad deals

1294
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 5: in twenty sixteen who all played for him for a

1295
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 5: couple of seasons. They had Aminu, they had Harkless, they

1296
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 5: had Evan Turner, they had Alan Krab for a while

1297
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 5: shipped him out. They signed a bunch of bad deals,

1298
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 5: but they were around for a long time. So the continuity,

1299
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 5: no doubt has changed. That, you know, three different starters

1300
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 5: for the first time in three years is gonna be

1301
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 5: something to overcome.

1302
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 4: But I tend to side with Lillard. That guy's the man.

1303
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 4: He wants to win a championship. Can he do it?

1304
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 4: I don't know, But at least he talks a good.

1305
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: Game, and they've got some things to trade as well. Yeah, sure,

1306
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: because they're thin, you know, besides they're one and two.

1307
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: They are things. Zach Collin should probably play the five.

1308
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: Maybe they can find a three or four that they're

1309
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: they're lacking because they've got Kent Beazmoor's expiring, they've got

1310
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: Hassan White Sides expiring. They need death.

1311
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. For all the continuity that they've lost, they've kept

1312
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 3: Lilard and mccull them together, and Lilid's shown that he

1313
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 3: can work with other guys. He just needs these other

1314
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 3: guys to understand hit the shots when you're open, set

1315
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 3: some screens. I'll do all the heavy work because he

1316
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 3: can carry that team. And CJ. I mean you expect

1317
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 3: CJ to be as always in contention for an All

1318
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 3: Star Berth. You know, they work well together, those two guys. Defensively,

1319
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 3: certainly they're going to be a somewhat of an issue.

1320
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 3: But I just what we've seen from Lilid over the

1321
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 3: years is he knows how to just get wins. And

1322
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 3: I think the Blazers will be in that same sort

1323
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 3: of spot again this year. You know, fifty three wins

1324
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 3: last year. I think they'll be hovering around that sort

1325
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 3: of forty seven to fifty win mark again this season

1326
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 3: and still just be one of those teams that going

1327
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,959
Speaker 3: into the playoffs, possibly make the conference finals, but also

1328
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 3: could get bounced in the first round like we saw

1329
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 3: two seasons ago. So it's a little hard to exactly

1330
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 3: figure out.

1331
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 2: Yep, I think you're right. I'm going to still have

1332
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 2: the Blazers in my playoff race and in the mix.

1333
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Kings, though for heartbroken. As much

1334
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 2: as I love them, we already talked about them a ton,

1335
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,280
Speaker 2: and they're promising young core and how fun they should

1336
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 2: be to watch. I think it's going to be another

1337
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 2: year where they are just you know, on the outside

1338
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 2: looking when it comes to the playoffs, and they'll be there.

1339
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 2: They'll be in the mix late in late March and

1340
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 2: maybe early April, but will come up a little bit short,

1341
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 2: because again, as we've gone through here in pretty significant detail,

1342
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 2: it's just these other teams are just better and like

1343
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 2: and they'll be the most heartbroken. I think that's the

1344
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 2: key word here. They're gonna be more heartbroken to me

1345
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 2: than maybe a MAVs or maybe a Pelicans like teams

1346
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 2: that are still like maybe a year behind the Kings,

1347
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 2: because Kings won thirty nine games last year and you know,

1348
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 2: playoffs were in play there for a good chunk of

1349
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 2: the year. They want to get in. That's why they

1350
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 2: made these signings Ariza and Joseph and Demon. They want

1351
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 2: to get in the playoffs and you know, in their

1352
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 2: new building there and have some playoff games. But I

1353
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: still think it's gonna be one more year until we

1354
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 2: see Fox in the mix. Because they were below average

1355
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball. I would feel better

1356
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 2: about their chances of being a playoff team if they

1357
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 2: like were either sort of above average on offense and

1358
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 2: maybe had a crappy defense or above average on defense

1359
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 2: sort of had a crappy offense. They need to improve

1360
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball sort of draftastically to

1361
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 2: really be a solid playoff lock. So I'm gonna go

1362
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 2: Kings once more. They might win a couple more games,

1363
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 2: but I think it'll just leave them on the outside again,

1364
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 2: and that'll be heartbreaking. It'll be heartbreaking for me. That's

1365
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 2: my Western Conference team, especially now that my Raptor has

1366
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 2: got a championship. I'm like cheering for the Kings to

1367
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 2: win a title. So I'm gonna be heartbroken with this squad.

1368
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: I like those answers to those guys. Right, our next one,

1369
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 2: guys task, We'll start with you which star player is

1370
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 2: most likely to be traded? You already teased it earlier

1371
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 2: on in this podcast. What do you got?

1372
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 1: I've got a lot, But let's start with Chris Paul.

1373
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: He's got to get moved.

1374
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's not gonna be easy.

1375
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: It's not gonna I don't know every He just got moved.

1376
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook just got moved. I think I think there's

1377
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: a team in the Miami Heat that is going forward,

1378
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: obviously with Jimmy Butler signing him to a long term deal.

1379
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: Go get Chris Paul. It can happen with a Justice

1380
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: Winslow draft pick package and an expiring or two. There's

1381
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: enough there, doesn't It feel like him and Jimmy Butler

1382
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: would be perfect to the other I mean Oklahoma Ce

1383
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City's Yeah, it could be a little combustible.

1384
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 3: Both of them really ride teammates. Yeah, yeah, but maybe

1385
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 3: this is the perfect mix.

1386
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: And they've got a guy in the front office that

1387
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: likes to ride people too, and pat Riley. He's I

1388
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: think they're going to go for and the Thunder are

1389
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: the perfect trade partner because the Thunder are definitely one

1390
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: gonna blow this up. They have to. There's there's just

1391
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: no point in getting all those draft picks for Paul

1392
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: George and trying to go for the postseason this year

1393
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: with a team that could and and Chris Paul and

1394
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: Danilo Gallinari and Steven Adams. But you know, just go

1395
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: get some more picks. Go get that Miami pick. Their

1396
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: first pick they can trade is the twenty twenty three pick,

1397
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: but that's okay. Go in the future, go do it

1398
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: to me. Chris Paul and the Heat sort of makes sense.

1399
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: I kind of want to see Jimmy and the rest

1400
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: of the guys just that type of team. But I

1401
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: think Chris Paul I think that fits.

1402
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, on paper, not a bad idea. I think the

1403
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 3: thing with Chris Paul is I've had to trade him

1404
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 3: and just found not a whole lot of not a

1405
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 3: big market out there for him because of his contract

1406
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 3: with Thunder. Yeah, they tried to move on from him

1407
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 3: pretty much as soon as they traded for him. So

1408
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 3: that's probably what they're dealing with. Of course, things always

1409
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 3: change once the season gets going. Teams struggling a little

1410
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 3: bit decide, you know what, let's go get him. Because

1411
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 3: Chris Paul is still a very very smart point guard.

1412
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 3: Not as quick as he used to be. He can't

1413
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 3: shoot the ball as well as he used to be,

1414
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 3: but he's still a solid, reliable veteran to have on

1415
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 3: your team.

1416
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: I just think the heat with Jimmy Butler, combined with

1417
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: his surrounding cast as bam at A Bayo and Justice

1418
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: Winslow and Goran Dragon, they're not good enough.

1419
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 3: And I think I agree, I mean, I think Miami

1420
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 3: they had a weird off season anyway, you know, by

1421
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 3: adding Jimmy Butler to that team, Like he's obviously a

1422
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,439
Speaker 3: great player, but they didn't really surround him with other

1423
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 3: players to help compliment that. But Chris Paul is in

1424
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 3: a very weird sort of stage of his career now

1425
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 3: because he basically changed the CBA to get that huge contract.

1426
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 3: Got it, He got it, and now he might be

1427
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 3: on a team that's you know, not even going to

1428
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 3: be in the playoffs.

1429
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 2: Maybe some people are high on this stuf Under team. Well,

1430
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 2: like currently you know, as constructed.

1431
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 3: The thing is with Chris Paul. Maybe in a situation

1432
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 3: like this where he just has to be the guy

1433
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 3: who gets everyone else going, gets everyone else involved, this

1434
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 3: could suit him maybe better that he's not competing with

1435
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 3: other egos like he has in La or he has

1436
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 3: in Houston, where he's just like, listen, I'm a point guard.

1437
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 3: We know he's not a score first type of point guard.

1438
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 3: He likes to get other guys go. He's got Shai

1439
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 3: Gil just Alexander there as well, who's kind of kind

1440
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 3: of overlapping a little bit by position there. But he

1441
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 3: can run the pick and roll with Steve Adams forever

1442
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 3: if they get to eaves. It's you know, I think

1443
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 3: it's possible that Chris Paul in this. If you go

1444
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 3: back to his early days in New Orleans, you know,

1445
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 3: David West was an also, but he was an All

1446
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 3: Star because Paul, Chris Paul made him an All Star.

1447
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 3: He's the sort of player who maybe he's better off

1448
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 3: when it's like, okay, there's no one. No one's ego

1449
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 3: is going to clash with Chris Paul's. I don't think,

1450
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 3: you know, okay, see, so maybe he just benefits.

1451
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 1: Maybe I retract my offer because he's gonna he's going

1452
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: to clash big time with Jimmy be.

1453
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 3: For everybody else.

1454
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could work though, because Jimmy Butler is passive aggressive,

1455
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 5: Chris Paul is aggressive aggressive, So at least you got

1456
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 5: both sides of the coin on it right. One thing

1457
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 5: though with the Thunder is that they've never had a

1458
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 5: bad team in Oklahoma City, So I wonder how much

1459
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 5: their owners, who are notoriously tight walleted, what deep deal

1460
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,959
Speaker 5: with having a team that is just completely tossing away

1461
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 5: the season to be the worst team that they've had

1462
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 5: in franchise history. I don't know if that's a realistic

1463
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 5: thing to expect from a team that you know, cheap

1464
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 5: down on James Harden as everyone is familiar with.

1465
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,919
Speaker 4: There are certainly trade targets there as well.

1466
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 5: Steve Adams, Dan Gallinari are guys who could be had.

1467
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 5: I would think they got pretty big deals for older

1468
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 5: guys who would help for a contending team.

1469
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 2: I think I think Gallinari, I think he's expiring contract too,

1470
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 2: and you could see he seems to me like that

1471
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 2: perfect sort of like because Chris Paul, like, yeah, a

1472
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 2: lot of teams would want them, but they don't want

1473
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 2: that contract. How long that goes? But Gallinari, you just

1474
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,439
Speaker 2: you can just picture a lot of teams that are

1475
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 2: around around the tree downline, like, wow, he would really

1476
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: help us out. Oh that'd be a nice little some

1477
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 2: scoring that we could add to our punch here. Like

1478
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 2: that makes sense to me that he will be moved

1479
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 2: and the under risingly good season, A solid player would healthy.

1480
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the thing. He stayed healthy and so

1481
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 3: you know he was productive.

1482
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll get he'll get dealt Okay, who you guys

1483
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: got because I got a few in my pocket.

1484
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1485
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 3: Well, one that's very interesting for me is the Bradley

1486
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 3: Beal situation in Washington because they've offered him a three year,

1487
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 3: one hundred and eleven million dollar extension. They offered him

1488
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 3: like months ago, and he's hesitated on that. And he's

1489
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 3: hesitated because he's like, all right, what are we doing here?

1490
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 3: Goes what's the direction of this franchise? And he has

1491
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 3: to decide by next Monday, the twenty first, if he's

1492
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 3: going to take that option, and if he turns it down,

1493
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 3: he can still sign, He can still stay, and he

1494
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 3: can sign. Actually a bigger extension at the end of

1495
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 3: next season. But if he turns it down, I think

1496
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 3: he's saying to the Wizards, like, I don't really believe

1497
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 3: in where this franchise is going, and he is clearly

1498
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 3: their most valuable trade asset right now. He's still a

1499
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 3: young guy. We know he's an All Star twice, he's

1500
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 3: a great shooter, he's in demand. So if you're the Wizards,

1501
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 3: you maybe think, well, Okay, we've offered him this big extension,

1502
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 3: he's turned it down, why don't we then try to

1503
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 3: see what we can get out there in the trademark,

1504
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 3: because you're going to get more for him than anybody else.

1505
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 3: I mean, clearly John Moore doesn't expect he's even going

1506
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 3: to be playing this season, so you can't really trade him.

1507
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 3: And I just think that Bill. You know, he's been

1508
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 3: around that team obviously since he was drafted, and he

1509
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 3: might be looking himself for a new start because the

1510
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 3: Wizards are clearly not a contender right now. He could

1511
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 3: have a good season this season, be being the man.

1512
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 3: He could easily average twenty seven points a game, Oh easily,

1513
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 3: you know, around that mark, but it won't really count

1514
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 3: for anything. I think he's looking to be on a

1515
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 3: team that is a legit contender. And he's looking around

1516
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 3: the locker room right now and he's saying, sure, all

1517
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 3: this money is great, but it's not going to take

1518
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 3: me closer to where I want to be.

1519
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 2: So the Wizards keep saying, no, we're not training him,

1520
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 2: we're not treating him.

1521
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 3: I know that, but if that's but I'm just saying,

1522
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 3: if he says, well, you've offered me all this money

1523
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 3: and I don't want it, then if you're the Wizards,

1524
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 3: whet you say, well, you know what, he doesn't want

1525
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 3: to stay. Let's trade him now while he's still got

1526
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 3: two years left on that deal and we can get

1527
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 3: some good return for.

1528
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 2: Him before he before he gets you would be able

1529
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 2: to get a package back for.

1530
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.

1531
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: It seems like the perfect match would be the Denver Nuggets,

1532
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: right like they need another star type player. But I

1533
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 1: think the Wizards are just too stubborn to trade him

1534
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: unless he goes to the front office and says I'm

1535
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: out twenty twenty one. It's really weird they're offering him

1536
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,919
Speaker 1: an extension for twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four,

1537
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: it's a long time from now. It feels like it's

1538
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: two full years.

1539
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 3: And I think that that was also, you know, they

1540
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 3: wanted to sort of lay it down and say, hey, listen,

1541
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 3: you're our guy. But he's also like yeah, but.

1542
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1543
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 4: He was having a good time at the Mystics change.

1544
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: Yeah he was.

1545
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 4: I mean John Wall it seemed like they were buddies again.

1546
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, you're a big this This guy was

1547
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: having a good time. Guy, But you're you're into it.

1548
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: If you see somebody having a good time, they like it.

1549
01:04:59,480 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1550
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 6: Fun and somebody's having fun that looks like they're having

1551
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 6: But but my point anyway, again, all these other teams

1552
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 6: have made changes and try to become a contender, whereas

1553
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 6: the Wizards didn't make any any decisions or any moves

1554
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 6: that you look at and go, okay, now we can

1555
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 6: see the Wizards moving forward.

1556
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 2: So okay, where do you want to see Bill? Then

1557
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 2: let's you know, I know you hate the trade machine.

1558
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 2: I know you hate the hypotheticals, but like Tas is saying, like,

1559
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 2: is it a Nuggets team that where they could definitely

1560
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,880
Speaker 2: put together like pretty young you know, entasing young talent

1561
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 2: and picks and yeah and send them back. Yeah, or

1562
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 2: is there another team that you mean?

1563
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 3: I mean the Nuggets would work, but that would mean

1564
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 3: they would have to give up one of their young players, you.

1565
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 1: Know, maybe a Gary Harris.

1566
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe you would do that. You would do that

1567
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 2: in a hope, Yeah, of course you would. Yeah. Yeah,

1568
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying exactly.

1569
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: It would be enough coming back.

1570
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:50,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1571
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 4: Would you trade Jamal Murray for Bradley Beal? That's a

1572
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 4: lot better.

1573
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bill is a lot better, but Murray I think

1574
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 3: has got superstar potential as well.

1575
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 2: That's a tough one. But I mean, if the Nuggets

1576
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 2: you're gonna try, like, oh, Gary Harris, Michael Porter Jr.

1577
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 2: You know, like you're gonna piece together guys to try

1578
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 2: and get like another star in bial because that's really

1579
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 2: what he is. Yeah, Joe with the Jamal Murray for

1580
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 2: Bill That that's that One's interesting. I mean, really wants

1581
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 2: it would come down to like how confident the Nuggets are,

1582
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 2: like looking at the Western Conference going like, wow, there's

1583
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 2: a window here to win right now. Yeah that's not

1584
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 2: old No, I know, I know, but I mean, yeah, no,

1585
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 2: you're right, you're right, that's like Jamal Murray's just like

1586
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 2: they just gave him the massive extensions, so they obviously

1587
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 2: believe in him and him getting better, in which he should.

1588
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 2: I mean, he's even what's he like twenty two if that?

1589
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, if that's too easy, he's been.

1590
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 2: In that stuff. But you're you're obviously if your Nuggets

1591
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 2: are gonna try and get you're gonna try and get

1592
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 2: Bill keep Murray, and then you got sort of three

1593
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 2: stars there with your kitchen. All right, what do you

1594
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 2: got trade? He's got another guy you see, a star

1595
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 2: likely to be traded this year.

1596
01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 5: Well, the third big name on the trade market is

1597
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 5: kind of Love. Yeah, but he's talking about wanting to

1598
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 5: stay in Cleveland and be the next Bridge, teaching the

1599
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 5: young guys around there. He says he's always wanted to

1600
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 5: be in Cleveland, wants to stay there. I think he

1601
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 5: can still help a team. He's not Minnesota Kevin Love anymore.

1602
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 5: I think we've kind of figured that out. Maybe he

1603
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 5: could get back to twenty and ten. But if you're

1604
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 5: the Blazers, would you offer Hassan Whiteside for him? If

1605
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 5: you're the Nuggets, would you consider maybe throwing Paul millsaps

1606
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 5: thirty million dollar deal one year for Kevin Love to

1607
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 5: upgrade your position. I think it's possible the Calves are

1608
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 5: not going to be good, So maybe Kevin Love is

1609
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 5: happy right now. Before they'd started losing a whole bunch

1610
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 5: of games and he's not making it back to the

1611
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 5: playoffs yet again, and he's back to what it was

1612
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 5: like in Minnesota before he teamed up with Lebron.

1613
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 4: We'll see how things turn out.

1614
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 5: I would still take a chance on Kevin Love if

1615
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 5: you've got a big deal that needs to be moved.

1616
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 4: If you're maybe the Detroit Pistons.

1617
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 5: You got Andre Drummond that's got a year left in

1618
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 5: a player option for the next one. That's another guy

1619
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 5: that would work for Kevin Love. There are some options

1620
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 5: out there. He just has to say, let's go.

1621
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got another Kevin Love option

1622
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: as well. The Sacramento Gings I think could fit well,

1623
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: having a half court option and throwing it down in

1624
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: the low post and him playing stretch five. I think

1625
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: that would fit well. And there's probably there's enough young

1626
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: guys to send back because.

1627
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 2: They might entice the Calves.

1628
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess I think need a guard primarily.

1629
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: But I don't know's there's Kevin Love. He may be

1630
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: talking a good game now, but he's gonna want to

1631
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: leave Cleveland.

1632
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 3: Right I think I think he's just too classy to

1633
01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 3: say anything.

1634
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 2: I sure, And I think the Calves would be I mean,

1635
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 2: why wouldn't The're rebuilding and he's got three years like

1636
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 2: what ninety million plus on that contract, so like they're

1637
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 2: gonna want to try and move them if they can

1638
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 2: get more young guys back and picks back. I could

1639
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 2: see it doesn't fit at all with their timeline, but

1640
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 2: I could still see the Phoenix Suns doing something weird

1641
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 2: for Kevin Love as well, And like, you know, so

1642
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 2: like Tyler Johnson's expiring contract and like a bridges and

1643
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: a sawich and a pick and stuff like that. I

1644
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 2: don't know if that's enough, you know, I don't know

1645
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 2: what the market would be for Love and if the

1646
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 2: Calves would want to do that. But oddly, like even

1647
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 2: even like yeah, they've they got Booker and they got eaten,

1648
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 2: like that's your building for the future. It's just the

1649
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 2: Sons are so weird with this stuff sometimes where they're like, oh,

1650
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 2: we can get Kevin Love all right, let's go get

1651
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 2: Kevin Love.

1652
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 4: Well, him and James Jones played together, all right.

1653
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

1654
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 4: It's buddies.

1655
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of fun times there for you,

1656
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 2: Trey getting back.

1657
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: To him.

1658
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 4: Having some right now.

1659
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 2: Actually, look like the truth is, we're not going to

1660
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 2: see We're probably not going to see like a big

1661
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 2: deal by any means until what December fifteenth? That it

1662
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 2: is right where guys that have signed with their teams

1663
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 2: in the off season can basically be traded. Is that

1664
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 2: and that the deadline or the date for that?

1665
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, but yeah, but Chris Paul can be moved pronto, right.

1666
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: I think you're you're right about Chris Paul. And they

1667
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: probably tried to move him. And what the heck is

1668
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: are the heat waiting for? I think that's a fair question.

1669
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: Maybe they don't want him at all, but maybe they

1670
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: just want to see him play in regular season game.

1671
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,720
Speaker 1: He's healthy, Move him quick, pronto. I think Pelicans want

1672
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: to move him as soon as possible.

1673
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it going, guys, Let's keep it

1674
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 2: Pelicans Thunder.

1675
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I mixed those up. I mix those up,

1676
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. The Oklahoma City. You know what Jersey? Do

1677
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: you see him? You see him in New Orleans Hornets Jersey.

1678
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: He Seemen because he looks weird in the Oklahoma City

1679
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: Jersey for sure.

1680
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 2: All Right, our next one here a couple more here

1681
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 2: in this part one of our NBA season previews. Drop that.

1682
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 2: There you go, guys, Trey will start with you favorite

1683
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 2: moment slash meme, whatever you want to call it of

1684
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 2: the summer or preseason. You know what the last couple

1685
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 2: of months. What has been your favorite moment? You can

1686
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 2: go anywhere with this.

1687
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 5: I'll give a quick shout out to a preseason moment

1688
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 5: that I loved. Marcus Morris smacking Justin Anderson in the

1689
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 5: face with the ball the perfect nick already is awesome. Yeah,

1690
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 5: it was a preseason game. You don't see the ball

1691
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 5: bop very often. But my favorite thing over the summer.

1692
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 2: Was talk tu name wow really oh man?

1693
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 5: We were doing in our house so often it got

1694
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 5: our kids eating tacos. One of my great disappointments as

1695
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 5: a parent so far is that my kids don't like

1696
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 5: pizza or tacos. I feel like I failed them so far.

1697
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 5: So shout out to Lebron for bringing tacos into my house.

1698
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 4: That was great.

1699
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 5: My daughter Ila was convinced that Lebron was sending me

1700
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 5: these videos and then we could record them and send

1701
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 5: them back to her. I love that he tried to

1702
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 5: trademark it, but they got it shut down as a

1703
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 5: commonplace term. Everybody had a laugh. But then Lebron and

1704
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 5: company were like, ha ha, we were playing for Dachs.

1705
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 5: The only reason we applied for that is so the

1706
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 5: government would shut it down saying no one could have

1707
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 5: the trademark on this. Now we all have it. Taco

1708
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:43,719
Speaker 5: Tuesday is for all of us. Thank you, Lebron.

1709
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 2: Okay, brilliant, A great moment from us. That's a good one.

1710
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 2: What do you got Lee, What do you got there?

1711
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: Well?

1712
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 3: I got a couple here. The first one is the

1713
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,560
Speaker 3: meme of the summer. I think was the Papas Chicken employee.

1714
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 3: Remember how she was sitting on the side waiting for

1715
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 3: a bus or whatever and she was exhausted and sandwich.

1716
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, too many.

1717
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 3: Sam and the basketball world just had so much fun

1718
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 3: with it because they kept posting, like, you know, iconic

1719
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 3: moments from Basketball World next to her exhausted side, like

1720
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 3: Jordan with his hands on his short So I just

1721
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,679
Speaker 3: thought that was great, Okay from a from a non

1722
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 3: basketball that became a basketball point of view. But also,

1723
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 3: as always, Klay Thompson just owned the summer. Because his

1724
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 3: season ended in tragedy. You know, he blew his knee out,

1725
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 3: they lost the championship. He resigned the massive extension. He didn't.

1726
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 3: He was just like, you know what, I'm back, I'm

1727
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 3: loving it. I'm having a great time. And also you

1728
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,600
Speaker 3: saw him at a baseball game just dancing, having a

1729
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 3: great time everything that Klay Thompson, Like it's impossible to

1730
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 3: phase this man, you know, like he just he just

1731
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 3: had so much fun. Like even at Warrior's media day,

1732
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 3: you know, Clays out for possibly the whole season. You

1733
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 3: would think he was just almost starting, like his first season.

1734
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 3: He was so excited to be there, just moving around.

1735
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 3: He's just great, Clay. I just wanted some of Clay's energy.

1736
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it because you know,

1737
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 3: everyone else sort of gets caught up up in you know,

1738
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 3: they have bad moments or bad days, but Clay just

1739
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 3: always seems to be having just the time of his life.

1740
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 2: He was great. You're going back to back years there

1741
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 2: for Clay Thompson basically for me last year. I mean,

1742
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 2: he had an amazing The guy enjoys the summers, no.

1743
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:18,639
Speaker 1: Doubt, exactly.

1744
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 4: All right, we do leisure time.

1745
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got test?

1746
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I'm going to reality television for mine. But it

1747
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: was a good moment. Ball in the Family the television

1748
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: show which features the Balls.

1749
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 2: Wait, can we call that a television show?

1750
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, is it?

1751
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 4: It?

1752
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: Is it?

1753
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 2: It's maybe not on Facebook? I know that.

1754
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1755
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do with shows like that.

1756
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Is it not on TV

1757
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: TV anymore? What is TV?

1758
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 4: Exactly?

1759
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,720
Speaker 5: You got a firestick, you cut the cord, you Facebook

1760
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 5: on your TV broke?

1761
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got no idea anyways, whatever that thing is.

1762
01:13:56,920 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 1: It was LeVar Ball talking to Lonzo Ball about basically

1763
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: the breakup of their brand. The brand is the brand

1764
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: is struggling and they're trying to recoup the image, and

1765
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 1: Lonzo basically stood up to dad. LaVar said, what do

1766
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: you think we do with the company? And Lonzo said,

1767
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: let me ask you something. Should we change the name?

1768
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,719
Speaker 1: And LaVar was very adamant that you should not change

1769
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 1: the name, but Lonzo said, listen, nobody cares about the name.

1770
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: It's a balls I think the brand is done. And

1771
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: Lavarro kept on going back in him but are you

1772
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: saying that?

1773
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 2: Saying that?

1774
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 4: People are saying that, but.

1775
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: It was a long clip that it was a long

1776
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 1: clip of Lonzo. Not that I want there to be

1777
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,640
Speaker 1: a divide between father and son, but I like the

1778
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: idea of Lonzo not backing down what he believed in.

1779
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: And you know, he doesn't care about the brand anymore,

1780
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 1: I guess. And it's a good thing that he's in

1781
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and it's good thing that he stepped up

1782
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: to dad, who was not very nice to his son,

1783
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: and the way this clip was edited, who not so

1784
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: nice at all. He basically said, people are telling me

1785
01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: to rename you Alphonse old bald because because you've been

1786
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 1: out the last two years, because you've been broken goods.

1787
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:07,640
Speaker 1: How do you do that to your son on a

1788
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: web program? That's pretty mean.

1789
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:14,559
Speaker 5: But over keeping the name Big Baller brand, He's like,

1790
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 5: it's perfect.

1791
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 4: Man.

1792
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: That side is under construction. I went to it to

1793
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: see if it exists. I don't know if it'll ever

1794
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 1: make see the light of day again. But there also

1795
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: was a great moment throughout the in the summer where

1796
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 1: there was a sale for Big Baller brand gear because

1797
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: everything is on sale nine ninety five percent off, there's

1798
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: a sale like fun, take everything for five dollars.

1799
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 3: That's like they're still four hundred. That's four hundred dollars

1800
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 3: sighting for the shoes.

1801
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but they got shirts that were fifty bucks

1802
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:43,679
Speaker 1: and now they're five.

1803
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 4: What a deal?

1804
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 1: Come steal this stuff right now?

1805
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 4: They're like collectors.

1806
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of want a Big Baller brand shirt? Yeah?

1807
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 5: Are you setting us up for somebody to walk in

1808
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 5: with a whole bunch of Big Baller shirts down here?

1809
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1810
01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: And our makeshift basement. That would be great right now.

1811
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 1: But those shoes are still ugly. What were they called?

1812
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: The L twos? Now, what were they called?

1813
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 5: They had a lot of signature shoes for the ball boys,

1814
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 5: the same ones.

1815
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: That two was one z O two was Zo's Lonzo's,

1816
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 1: but he took them off because they were reportedly injuring

1817
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: his ankle last year as a member of the Los

1818
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers. But now he's in New Orleans, new star

1819
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: for him and hopefully hopefully things go well for him there.

1820
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 2: We're running we're running along here. But Lee, do you

1821
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,799
Speaker 2: have any lamellow ball Australian updates?

1822
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 3: He's killing it out right right now the young Yeah yeah.

1823
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 3: The NBL even streamed uh and I believe they're streaming

1824
01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 3: all his games on Facebook for the rest of the season.

1825
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 4: Can you watch it on TV?

1826
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 3: Good question, But they had an audience apparently of a

1827
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 3: million people to watch his game on Facebook, which is

1828
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:50,680
Speaker 3: the highest audience TV audience if it's TV for a

1829
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 3: NBL game. Ever, so this, I mean, they're talking that

1830
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 3: he may even be the number one picking next year's

1831
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 3: draft already. So that's that's great for Australian basketball, great

1832
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 3: for Lamello. And yeah, it's I mean, it's it's wild saying,

1833
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 3: you know, like he's out in Australia playing really well

1834
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 3: and people are actually saying, well, it's not just like

1835
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,600
Speaker 3: a Mickey mass League, Like he's putting it up in

1836
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 3: against you know, good players, so very happy and.

1837
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 2: So we are are we not going to get what's

1838
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 2: the middle son's name, Leangelo?

1839
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1840
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're not getting him. So what's going to happen?

1841
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 4: Like I think he was sitting.

1842
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 5: Around the table in that in that clip but the

1843
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 5: last I really knew about le Angelo LaVar wanted him

1844
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 5: to be a male model. It seems his whoa his

1845
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 5: career lies outside of the profession he played.

1846
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 2: I think he played in Lithuania too. Maybe he's only

1847
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:40,759
Speaker 2: twenty years old.

1848
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, the LaMelo played out there too, didn't he? But

1849
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,719
Speaker 3: they only lasted like five weeks.

1850
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,559
Speaker 2: A yeah, all right, yeah, there's your ball, ball and ball.

1851
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:49,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1852
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: I mean the brothers have taken over as the brothers. Yeah,

1853
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: Like now that I know, nobody outside Ganis is really

1854
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 1: making their mark quite yet. But Thanasis is.

1855
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 3: A buck Ones in Dallas, isn't he?

1856
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: No, he's a was moved to the Lakers. So now

1857
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: there's three in the league and Alex at some point

1858
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna I think they will be the first four

1859
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: brothers in the league at the same time.

1860
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 3: At some point, all.

1861
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: The Holidays have got three, Drew and Aaron.

1862
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 3: Did the Bties have three?

1863
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

1864
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 4: I don't know. We got a check Canyon, check scooter.

1865
01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 2: My favorite John well, you guys know, Ferries my favorite.

1866
01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 2: My favorite moment from the summer was easily uh out

1867
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 2: of nowhere. It felt like the Lillard versus Shack rat

1868
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 2: beef that we got because first off, I just love

1869
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,679
Speaker 2: a good rat beef, you know, ll Cannabis, Jay and Oas,

1870
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 2: Pusha and Drake. I mean, I love them all. I

1871
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:51,640
Speaker 2: love it. I get into it. I'm watching all the

1872
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 2: YouTube reactions and people breaking them down and stuff like that.

1873
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 2: So like getting just this random Lillard versus Shack one

1874
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 2: was was just perfect chef's kiss for the summer when

1875
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 2: there's really nothing going on, and it really like okay,

1876
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 2: so Shack did his thing, like I don't know if

1877
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 2: somebody's good, Like he's got a ghostwriter, what's going on there?

1878
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 2: But it's funny because it's Shack, but Lillard he brought it.

1879
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,720
Speaker 2: Lillard is a legit rapper, Trey, can you back me

1880
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 2: up on this?

1881
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,919
Speaker 5: Like he's it's got confirmed, hot five, got bars.

1882
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 2: Like the guy is actually good and I'm not even

1883
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 2: like not even for just an athlete. He's a good rapper.

1884
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 2: He's good for a rapper. And he dropped the two distracts.

1885
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:33,599
Speaker 2: He did the old Drake back to back basically on him.

1886
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 2: He'd had He called them rain Rain go away Rain

1887
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 2: spelled ri I g N. You know, obviously poking fun

1888
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 2: at track there, and then second one was I rest

1889
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,640
Speaker 2: my case. And in the second one, like I was

1890
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 2: a little upset with his first one because he sort

1891
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 2: of said something like he was like, I'm new school,

1892
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 2: got new hits, space jams not blue Chips. Now that

1893
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 2: line angered me because blue Chips is way better than

1894
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 2: space Jams, So that line is like, ah, that's not good.

1895
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 2: In the second one, though, he name dropped Damon Stotdommeier,

1896
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 2: Lisa Leslie, and Charles Barkley in the span of like

1897
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 2: three bars. So well done on that. And then I

1898
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 2: was waiting for it in the first one and he

1899
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:08,680
Speaker 2: didn't do it. He brought it in the second one.

1900
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 2: He said the general commercials a little over extended, and

1901
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 2: once he dropped you know a general h commercial, nod there,

1902
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 2: that's perfect. That's well played by Damian Lil. I was

1903
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 2: hoping he was doing that. So I was hoping he

1904
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 2: was going to do that. So I'm going little versus

1905
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,879
Speaker 2: Shack just because it was weird and Lillard. Lillard basically

1906
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 2: buried him. Yeah, but I don't know, can you ever

1907
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 2: win a battle with Shack? That's the real question.

1908
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 4: It's impossible.

1909
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, you maybe can't. I don't know, but anyway, we're.

1910
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 4: Probably not gonna drop it. I don't think no shack.

1911
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he's not he's not at all. All right,

1912
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 2: we're obviously for a show here running a little bit long.

1913
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 2: Who cares, What does long even mean anymore? It doesn't

1914
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 2: mean anything. We're doing podcasts our final one here for

1915
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:56,919
Speaker 2: part one though, Guys, what is your dumbest bold prediction

1916
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 2: for this upcoming season.

1917
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: I'll start us off here. Yep, Carmelo Anthony. We'll go

1918
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: back to the Houston Rockets. No, the last team he

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Speaker 1: played for in the National Basketball Association last year. He

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Speaker 1: played ten games to start the season. I know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's dumb. There's a lot of weird things happening with

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Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets. They basically sacked half of Mike d'antoni's

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. Okay, you've been a great coach for us.

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Speaker 1: There goes half your staff. See you later. Mike D'Antoni

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Speaker 1: wasn't given a contract extension. They basically said, you've got

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Speaker 1: one year left, We're going to give you an incentive

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Speaker 1: incentive leyden performance based contract extension. Mike D'Antoni said, I'm

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Speaker 1: a Coach of the Year give me a contract. That's strange. PJ.

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Speaker 1: Tucker doesn't have a contract pass this year, although the

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Speaker 1: other four starters do. I mean, he's got a little

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Speaker 1: tiny bit of money locked up and Tilman for Titta

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Speaker 1: for the owner there. According to our own John Hollinger

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Speaker 1: at the Athletic had to take out a huge loan

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Speaker 1: to get to secure the bag to purchase that team.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a very strange situation. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: go into the text. The whole China thing just happened.

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Speaker 1: Gerald Green just broke his foot. He's out for three months.

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Speaker 1: They need a wing. Carmel Anthony's available. He played with

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City. It kind of worked there,

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Speaker 1: sort of. That was the best thing that worked out

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Speaker 1: for him in the last few years. Bring him back.

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Speaker 1: Why the heck not? Just just try and make right

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Speaker 1: what didn't work out last year.

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Speaker 2: The point of this, that's a good one, all right?

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Speaker 2: Who follows up that?

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Speaker 4: I can't?

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Speaker 5: Man, I was feeling dumber and boulder before, But I've

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Speaker 5: talked the balls up as a top ten team in

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Speaker 5: the Eastern Conference all summer. You stole it from me.

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Speaker 5: They're making the playoffs this year. Jim Boylan getting Coach

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Speaker 5: of the year. Boats, he'll finish top five and coach

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Speaker 5: of the year. Just look at the stats last year

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Speaker 5: after Boiling broke him down, we got a walk to run.

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Speaker 5: They started playing fast seven and eight with Otto Porter

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Speaker 5: in the lineup seven and eight, that's almost five hundred.

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Speaker 5: Think about it over the course of an entire season.

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Speaker 5: Maybe Marcinell stay healthy for the whole year, when Dell

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Speaker 5: Carter stay healthy for the whole year. Everybody eats with

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Speaker 5: Thomas Sadaranski bad young, just scrapping it up. He's played

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Speaker 5: on only good teams.

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Speaker 4: Throughout his career. That's not true. Check the first couple

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Speaker 4: of years of his career won like six games. Not anymore.

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Speaker 4: The Bulls are back, baby.

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Speaker 1: If the Bulls make the playoffs. Were doing a podcast

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Speaker 1: with Dad Kirby. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I I love that one, Trey, I'm being on

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Speaker 2: that one.

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Speaker 3: I'll just follow that up and say we sort of

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Speaker 3: talked about it a little bit in the last segment there.

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Speaker 3: But I think the thunder, if everything goes to plan,

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Speaker 3: there's no reason why they shouldn't be contending for a

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Speaker 3: playoff spot. I think defensively they're okay, it's pretty bold.

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Speaker 3: Well well listen, well listen, Chris Paul and again not

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Speaker 3: as quick as you spe but still a smart defender.

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Speaker 3: If Robison comes back, he's clearly a good defender. Steven

1976
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 3: Adams very very good defender. They've got guys I think

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Speaker 3: who can at least protect the rim, protect the paint

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Speaker 3: going forward. Probably they don't quite have enough offense, but

1979
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Speaker 3: then again, someone like Gallinari, who had a good season,

1980
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Speaker 3: if he can just keep shooting the ball and spreading

1981
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Speaker 3: the floor, that opens things up a little bit for

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Speaker 3: someone like i'lles Alexander going forward to get inside and

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Speaker 3: score some baskets. Srew To coming off the bench. Not

1984
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 3: a great player, but he knows how to get baskets.

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Speaker 3: So I just think that the thunder they look at this,

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Speaker 3: and someone mentioned before like they always make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: This is a team that doesn't like to go into

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Speaker 3: the tank. So you know, Billy Donovan and the ownership,

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Speaker 3: but the instruction is going to be listen, we are

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Speaker 3: not going to win the championship this year, but we

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Speaker 3: also not just going to mail it in. So I

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Speaker 3: think there's a few question marks over a few teams

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Speaker 3: in the Western Conference, and Chris Paul, with the lowered

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Speaker 3: expectations in a role where again he's not going to

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Speaker 3: be competing with anyone's ego, might just be a bit

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Speaker 3: of a resurgent season for him. So I just think

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Speaker 3: the thunder one of those scenes that could surprise.

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Speaker 2: Okay, my board prediction, I guess dumb. It's not that dumb,

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Speaker 2: now that I think about it. We go correct me

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Speaker 2: on Wright. We had the of being in attendance in

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Speaker 2: the arena for the greatest dunk contest of all time?

2002
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Speaker 2: Is that fair to say? Up in Trial twenty sixteen

2003
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Speaker 2: when it was the Zach Lavine versus Aaron Gordon dunkoff,

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Speaker 2: that was I think it is the best one ever.

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Speaker 2: Of course, people are going to you know, go back

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Speaker 2: to Jordan and stuff like that and versus Niek. I

2007
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Speaker 2: get it, whatever you want to go with. But I

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Speaker 2: do think that the twenty twenty dunk Contest in Chicago

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Speaker 2: is going to be the greatest dunk contest of all time.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be the best. And here

2011
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Speaker 2: is why my dunk whisperers are out there, and there

2012
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Speaker 2: are rumors, very early rumors of course, that we might

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Speaker 2: be going from the four guys dunk contestants and ramping

2014
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Speaker 2: that up a little bit more and going to six

2015
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Speaker 2: because like back in the day that you sound like

2016
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Speaker 2: eight or something like that, maybe more yeah, way way,

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Speaker 2: wait back and that's too many. But I've heard that

2018
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Speaker 2: there's a possibility that maybe they add a couple more

2019
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Speaker 2: spots we go to six, And if that's the case,

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Speaker 2: I think we could see Zach Levine, who's already talked

2021
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Speaker 2: this up about wanting to do it, especially in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: That'll be perfect rocking those black pinstripe throwbacks there with

2023
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Speaker 2: the bulls, perfect timing, perfect timing on Zach Lavine's part.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon has talked about he would want to go

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Speaker 2: back in it. Derek Jones Junior, I think if healthy.

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Speaker 2: He was sort of a late scratch last year. He's

2027
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Speaker 2: been in it before. He's unbelievable. He's a pogo stick.

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Speaker 2: He should be in it. Zion Williamson I think will

2029
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Speaker 2: be going in this thing. That's huge. I think John

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Speaker 2: Mourant could also be in it. And then you've got

2031
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 2: to have the defending champ in Hamadou Diallo. So if

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Speaker 2: it's those six, oh my, and maybe one or two

2033
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Speaker 2: of them are different and something like that, and who

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Speaker 2: knows what happens with injuries. I think it will be

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Speaker 2: the best ever, I really really do. And people are

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Speaker 2: gonna be like, now they've run out of dunks. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: they haven't. They have not run out of duncks. You

2038
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 2: got Team Flight Brothers and these guys. They got dunk

2039
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 2: coaches like practicing with these guys and coming up with

2040
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Speaker 2: new dunks. And I think we're gonna see something special

2041
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Speaker 2: in Chicago, and hopefully we're there. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: we'll be in the arena, but we'll see. So that's

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Speaker 2: my very least.

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Speaker 5: We can drive to my mom's house and watch it.

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Speaker 2: Got an option, Yeah, we'll do a watch party at

2046
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 2: the at the Kirby household sounds great. I hope you

2047
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 2: got a big libs. We should do it at your

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01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 2: own house?

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01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 2: Sure, why not?

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Speaker 4: We can roll by Lombards. Who's living there now? Knock

2052
01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 4: on the door, Hey used to live here. If we

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01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 4: watched the dunk contest's gonna be the best ever? Got

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Speaker 4: a TV exactly right?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: So let's call it there for part one again of

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Speaker 2: our NBA season previous series are going to be doing

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Speaker 4: Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for preview number one, folks. Feels

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Speaker 1: good to be back, and remember this is a shout

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Speaker 1: out to hardcore history. Podcasts can be whatever length you

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Speaker 1: want them to be.

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Speaker 2: Brace the date, people,