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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour two of an E Cup

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Speaker 1: Championship night, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Step trying to make fetch happen.

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Speaker 1: Time out on the floor right now, they are looking

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Speaker 1: to see where an out of bounds call is going

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Speaker 1: to end up the Nicks and the Spurs under two

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Speaker 1: minutes left to go. It is the Knicks with the

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Speaker 1: one to eighteen one lead. They would retain possession, and

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Speaker 1: it well looks like it's gonna wind up being Spurs

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Speaker 1: basketball because it looks like it goes off of Josh

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Speaker 1: Hart's middle finger. So I think the Spurs are gonna

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Speaker 1: get this coming out of the time out, But a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to do for San Antonio. They're down

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Speaker 1: eight in this championship game with a minute forty five

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Speaker 1: left to go. Ogiano Nobi's got twenty eight, Jalen Brunton's

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Speaker 1: got twenty five. Meanwhile Wemby off the bench eighteen and six.

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Speaker 1: You have seven players in double figures for the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: which is about what you would think with a team

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Speaker 1: this young and this deep in this talented.

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Speaker 4: Good balance, no question about it. For Victor Wembanyama playing

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Speaker 4: nearly half the game, he's at twenty three minutes on

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Speaker 4: the night. So always you know, the questions as to

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Speaker 4: how much they're putting game because again, this game doesn't

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Speaker 4: count in the standings, right, there's extra money on.

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Speaker 1: The line, it doesn't count. Championship. All of that's championship.

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Speaker 3: Stupid.

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Speaker 1: They may as well, there's a championship, but doesn't count

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Speaker 1: towards every think. I do know they just haven't. They

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Speaker 1: have whatever the E Cup they're gonna give to the

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Speaker 1: winning team. But if the Knicks win, they hand them

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Speaker 1: the Larry O'Brien Trophy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, take this, take this now you won the surprise?

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Speaker 3: Yeah good, you gotta write it.

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Speaker 1: Season's over, so again, we didn't even get to Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Still a ways to go. We'll have more in this

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Speaker 1: game coming up in a few minutes. Richis is gonna

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Speaker 1: stop by. What do you got, Frostburg?

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Speaker 3: This game's missing one thing. What's it missing?

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Speaker 5: The uh camera of outside of Madison Square Garden right

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Speaker 5: now of them going.

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Speaker 1: Watch everybody there watching outside sure card or freezing flipping cabs.

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Speaker 5: Over freezing cam. Somebody waking him up, him not knowing

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Speaker 5: that the next we're even playing the night.

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Speaker 3: He would say, what's the Emirates Cup? Is that? Is

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Speaker 3: that soccer? Did? I? Is that? Do I own a

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Speaker 3: team that's playing in the Emirates Cup?

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Speaker 4: I will say the last soccer tournament my daughter played

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Speaker 4: in is that MESSI had more people on the sidelines

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Speaker 4: than you have fans in attendance.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I did.

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Speaker 1: Here's enough people on the sideline. Now you get to fans, okay,

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Speaker 1: but there's enough people on the sidelines of this game.

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Speaker 3: This game looks pretty well attended.

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Speaker 1: If you're just talking about like five rows back, you

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of where the uh, that's kind of

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Speaker 4: It's like U LA football that we don't want to

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Speaker 1: It looks like it's like a night at a comedy club,

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Speaker 1: is what it looks like. When it's really dull, you

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Speaker 1: can't see in the back of the and and someone's

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Speaker 3: Goes, hey, who's that back there?

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Speaker 1: Like you man, do I go where you work and

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Speaker 1: rock the slurping machine and you shut up?

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Speaker 3: Okay? You know, I mean, you know they don't hear that.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, you disparage the guy working. Actually I actually

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Speaker 4: It's potentially problematic of number of levels.

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Speaker 1: Now that I think about it, you know, and I

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Speaker 3: Can you let me do my thing?

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Speaker 1: Everybody laugh a okay, So I wonder, but I mean

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Speaker 3: Yeah we get that, we're here. Yeah, things kind of sexy.

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Speaker 4: See I was thinking Kmart Blue Light Special back in

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Speaker 4: In other words, it doesn't feel huge. I mean, they

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Speaker 4: didn't even dress up the court for this damn thing.

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Speaker 4: All they did was put a trophy in the middle

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Speaker 4: of it. Where's my lasers? Where's my fire? Well, it's

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Speaker 4: where's my different layering effects? Where are these Simpsons characters

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Speaker 4: or whatever?

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Speaker 3: They else?

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Speaker 1: They can't because it's Vegas and there's an event at

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Speaker 1: midnight that they have to run after this. I think

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Speaker 1: the Blue Man Group is showing up and they're actually

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Speaker 1: gonna ride dragons, so they can't go crazy with it

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Speaker 4: Midnight, or it's a foam party or something. I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of the ways can go all silly.

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Speaker 4: String is everyone Spike it Lee showed up? Yeah, what

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Speaker 4: are your super fans? The nine thousand people that claim

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Speaker 4: to be at least he showed up.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you right now might look. We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into the Giants and what they could be

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Speaker 1: drafting Jeremiah Love number one overall in the second. But

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Speaker 1: I am tasting the cup right now. I am ready

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Speaker 3: What have you missed?

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Speaker 1: A lot of misshots in the last thirty seconds. The

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Speaker 1: Knicks are shooting free throws. It's a one nineteen to

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Speaker 1: one to ten lead, and the Knicks are ready to

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Speaker 3: I don't know about in.

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Speaker 1: The crowd, but on the court and on television, it

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Speaker 1: has a late playoff atmosphere. That's kind of what it

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Speaker 1: is because you watch these teams play and you can

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Speaker 1: tell how bad they want it. You can tell how

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Speaker 1: bad the Spurs wanted this game, how bad the Knicks

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Speaker 1: wanted this game, and the way they are reacting to this. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the money is a big thing, but hey, NBA, it's

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Speaker 1: a cup, it's a championship, and it's gonna wind up

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Speaker 1: being the first Jalen br Knicks championship. As the Knicks

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Speaker 1: dribble out the last ten seconds on the clock, The

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks are e Cup champions. Give them malari

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Speaker 1: O'Brian trophy, give them everything they need. They are the champs.

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Speaker 1: Making one championship for Jalen Brunson. Give me that we

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Speaker 1: are the champions. Alex Tice shirt, give me that. This

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Speaker 1: may be the only championship I ever get. The jam right,

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Speaker 1: hang on a second, this may be the only championship

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Speaker 1: I ever get to celebrate. Real in twelve thirteen years

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Speaker 1: on the show, whatever it is, you're never gonna get

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Speaker 1: to celebrate something else real.

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Speaker 3: Give me that.

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Speaker 1: You give me that we are the champions. Re Emrick's Cup,

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Speaker 1: NBA Champions. I watch it on television. It is real,

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Speaker 1: and it is spectacular.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Jason's my only championship'm ever gonna get. So let's look

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Speaker 1: at the Spurs. Oh they're so despondent. Wemby and Steph Castle.

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Speaker 1: Oh they had they played like Yeoman's work. Oh but

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Speaker 1: look at the Knicks. Ah, there's confetti all over the court.

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, Jalen Brunson pulling off his shirt. Josh Hart

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Speaker 1: looks like he just won a title because he did. Again,

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Speaker 1: where's champions? Oh?

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Speaker 3: You know you know there's Pirate Steve at Pirate Steve Hen.

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Speaker 4: Roll out the Uh excitement of the do you want

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Speaker 4: these in small chip denominations or big ones? As you

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Speaker 4: go to the table, Uh, do you have to ask

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Speaker 4: in the final seconds? The ability to dribble out the clock?

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Speaker 4: Josh Hart decided to take the two points. There are

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Speaker 4: any significance to any of.

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Speaker 1: That you were just talking over? Yeah, the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: e cup wear. That just picture the Knicks partying. They're

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Speaker 1: all counting the money they won in this. Do you

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Speaker 1: think all the players came off the bench, walked up

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Speaker 1: to Adam Silver, put their hands out, said you where's

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Speaker 1: the money?

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Speaker 3: Where's the money? Need the money right now?

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson's first title, more titles than Patrick Ewing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean you got Mike Brown, who's the king

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Speaker 4: of the Emirates Cup right, and he's got a great

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Speaker 5: Hey, that is officially the first time that song's ever

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Speaker 5: been played in Vain.

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's.

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Speaker 1: A champions I'm celebrating the hell out of this because

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Speaker 1: it's the only one I'm going.

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Speaker 3: To ever get.

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Speaker 1: There a trophy, Yes, how big is it? It's here,

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Speaker 1: It's the biggest trophy you've ever seen. You gotta find

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Speaker 1: your wins. Yeah right, they're gonna drive it. You ever

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Speaker 1: see an escalating person? Yeah, twice as big spinners, twice

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Speaker 3: Yeah, guys get that. Guys get to wear it around

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Speaker 3: huge trophy. It's gonna be the paradees Monday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no parades right Friday, right right after this,

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Speaker 1: they go right, it's like Frosty. They walk downtown, they

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Speaker 1: leave the arena and they just play thump and he

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Speaker 1: thump thump, thumping in the Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Walked out of the Cup trophy. We do the cool

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Speaker 3: version of that one too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, e Cup Champions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, it's the find your Wins. No,

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Speaker 4: it's done before Christmas. The game doesn't count in the standings,

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Speaker 4: but everybody gets a nice bonus. Jalen Brunson gets to

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Speaker 4: deliver on that Q and A from yesterday. I'm sure

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Speaker 4: that that reporter will now ask, well, what cut of

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Speaker 4: your money did you give away? And I'm sure he'll

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Speaker 4: be thrilled at that question. But all of it to say,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a fun game. To your point on

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Speaker 4: the sideline, a lot of anticipation. Final minute, both sidelines,

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Speaker 4: everybody was up and standing with every possession, every misshot

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Speaker 4: by the Spurs because the lid was on the basket.

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Speaker 4: Wemby made those couple of three point shots, stepping bags

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Speaker 4: like oh, we got something, and then the Knicks close

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Speaker 4: him out in grand fashion. Question about Michael Bridges though,

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Speaker 4: so he wasn't available and on the broadcast they were

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Speaker 4: speculating that there.

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Speaker 1: Might be something amiss there, so we'll keep an eye on. Yeah, look,

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Speaker 1: this game. I wind up playing thirty three minutes of

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Speaker 1: the night. One of my best friends were coaching there

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Speaker 4: See, I would report you for spam. Yeah, buddy, spanning

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Speaker 1: Look at the guy that got the red carpet out.

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Speaker 3: Okay, can we go home? It's it's almost Christmas.

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Speaker 4: We've been in Vegas for several days. Now, can we

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Speaker 1: like this to show. Yes, not that it's about hey,

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Speaker 4: Shows tonight Thunder of the favorite for the title Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: Not anymore, not anymore, nixt are the new favorites now.

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Speaker 1: Knicks are even money to win the title. Week ago

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Speaker 1: They are just slightly ahead of the Cavaliers, behind the

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Speaker 1: out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome. The Knicks are

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Speaker 1: your Emirate Cup champions. Coming up next, FS one Insider

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Speaker 1: For Patrick Ewing, Phil Jackson, Charles Oakley, Trent Tucker, Bernard King,

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Speaker 1: Ray Williams, and Dick Barnett. The New York Knicks are

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Speaker 1: enjoy this rollout.

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Speaker 3: I think you need to redo it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: We love everybody, now, we love that the Knicks of

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Speaker 4: I mean, we are not a show of hate. We're

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Speaker 3: We love everybody. Jo right, Josh Hart is taking pictures

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Speaker 1: Now, wait, they let all those people from the five rowsip?

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Speaker 3: I mean I really well, yeah, I think you come

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Speaker 1: In the first five rows, I'm guaranteed to get a

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Speaker 1: The Knicks are your Emirates Cup Champions. They beat the

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Speaker 1: Spurs one twenty four to one thirteen. Jalen Brunson is

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Speaker 1: the Knicks to Lari O'Brian trophy as well. It's that

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Speaker 1: big a deal. It's Jalen Brunson's first Knicks champion chip

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Speaker 1: joining us now in the hotline to break it all down.

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Speaker 1: Nobody better. And I say this, He's looking at his

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Speaker 1: After the next one. It is one insider extraordinary. Check

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Speaker 1: out the On the Ball podcast as well. It is

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker. He is on Twitter at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 3: Rick.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know the words you can use for

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Speaker 1: the greatest achievement in basketball history. The Knicks, yep, are

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Speaker 7: Here's the question. Here's the question I have is when

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Speaker 7: give you your I don't know what do you get? Twenty

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Speaker 7: what are you consuming from it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll take it to McDonald's. I have a normal

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Speaker 1: go get coffee. I take it to Burger King, I'd

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Speaker 1: I'm making a normal day like everything else.

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Speaker 7: We're drinking coffee. We're drinking bad coffee out of the

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Speaker 7: Emirates cup.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: We're making a mocha frappuccino from Mcdonald're pouring that thing

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Speaker 3: Very nice, very nice.

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Speaker 1: I immediately trying to figure out how many Knicks fans

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Speaker 7: In any way, any shape or form, it's going to

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Speaker 7: playoff atmosphere, being played in a neutral site and the

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Speaker 7: NBA Cup not having all the meaning that the playoff

437
00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 7: games do, but but still playing in a you know,

438
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 7: a make or break sort of format, winner go home.

439
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Speaker 7: I think that I think that's a it's going to

440
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Speaker 7: serve the San Antonio Spurs very well.

441
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Speaker 2: Down the stretch.

442
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we we talked a lot about at the start

443
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Speaker 4: of the show, Rick, just in terms of how do

444
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Speaker 4: you make this thing a bigger deal and get some

445
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 4: more juice for it. We talked about the blue lighting

446
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 4: like you're in a comedy club or in a dark

447
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 4: match that they had during the COVID run of Hey,

448
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 4: we can't show that there's nobody at this thing, so

449
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 4: just trying to juice it beyond you know Nicks Van

450
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 4: Smith people are already putting over unders on how much

451
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Speaker 4: money he spends on E Cup merch right right right.

452
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Speaker 1: You're gonna get cut merch, right you get you get

453
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: E cup merch sent to you, So just send.

454
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Speaker 3: It to me.

455
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 7: Know, if we don't, if we don't get if we

456
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Speaker 7: don't get t shirts.

457
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Speaker 2: If we don't get shirts out of this, I'm going

458
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Speaker 2: to be very disappointed.

459
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Speaker 4: But just trying to goose this a little bit, Rick,

460
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 4: as we look at it, a good, good experience. Jason

461
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 4: gets a title in his lifetime, so he's excited about that.

462
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Speaker 4: But the grand scale, trying to add some gravitas to

463
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Speaker 4: this because I mean, this game doesn't count in the standings.

464
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 4: It's gonna count, and the wear and tear on their bodies,

465
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,440
Speaker 4: and yes, they got nice bonuses for it, but down

466
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Speaker 4: the stretch, I mean, this is another game towards those

467
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Speaker 4: sixty five for awards, but also just in terms of

468
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Speaker 4: the wear and.

469
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Speaker 3: Tear, because this was a hotly contested game down the stretch.

470
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So are you talking about the wear and tear

471
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Speaker 7: from playing in the game. Are you talking about the

472
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Speaker 7: wear and tear from being in Vegas for a well

473
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Speaker 7: I think I.

474
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Speaker 3: Think both are going to have an effect.

475
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Speaker 4: I don't know how big your pie chart, you know

476
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Speaker 4: which side is bigger. I mean the media members covering

477
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 4: it are even worse because they've been there for five days.

478
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Speaker 3: Stan Van Gundy looked like he wanted to be released.

479
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, truck.

480
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Speaker 7: When you see guys at Summer League, like after the

481
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 7: first forty eight seventy two hours, everybody's begging to get

482
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Speaker 7: out of there.

483
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Speaker 2: I've always said this about Vegas.

484
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Speaker 7: The idea of Vegas is so much better than the

485
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Speaker 7: reality of Vegas.

486
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Speaker 2: Every time I go to Summer League, I'm like, man,

487
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go to Vegas. I'm going to let

488
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Speaker 2: Vegas for the Summer League. And as soon as I

489
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 2: touch down, I'm like, gosh, darn it, I'm in Vegas

490
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 2: for Summer League. Where can I go? It's almost immediate

491
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Speaker 2: as soon as I hit hit the ground. It's crazy.

492
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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I don't even know where we were

493
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Speaker 2: at this point. We went so far afield.

494
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Speaker 1: You're in Vegas now, sunny Wow. When I went to

495
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 1: Vegas last time and what happened in But the thing

496
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Speaker 1: is like, for this this event as a whole, as

497
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Speaker 1: you can see overall it works, right, it's an exciting thing.

498
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Speaker 1: It needs some tweaks, and you know, I think maybe

499
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Speaker 1: if you took a break from the season and just

500
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Speaker 1: played E Cup games for a two to three week period,

501
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: that might help a little bit, if you, you know,

502
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: anted up a little bit more and just said, hey,

503
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, twenty games in the regular season, we stop.

504
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: Now we have the E Cup. Then you resume it.

505
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 1: Like certain things you need to do. You need to

506
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: have the games at the higher seeded team's place because

507
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 1: you're always going to get a great atmosphere. You know,

508
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: the fans are going to show up, they're going to

509
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: sell out the place. It's not going to be where

510
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: you have a dim arena in Vegas where after five

511
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: rows up, we have to turn the lights off because

512
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 1: we don't watch you to see who's not there. So

513
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Speaker 1: it works, and it's it's a great idea, and now

514
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, how do we make it even better?

515
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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like that's where this whole Emirates

516
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Speaker 1: Cup is at.

517
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a couple of things. One, I

518
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Speaker 2: love the idea of ultimately.

519
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Speaker 7: Going to where you have basketball year round, and if

520
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,239
Speaker 7: you if you had a break in the season, and

521
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 7: you had this tournament, and then you gave gave teams

522
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Speaker 7: a little bit of rest at the beginning and the

523
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Speaker 7: end of it, and it would really heighten what this

524
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Speaker 7: meant with within the season and the playoffs as a whole,

525
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Speaker 7: and what you would just do as you would extend

526
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 7: the season.

527
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Speaker 2: So rather than having the playoffs.

528
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 7: In June, you have or you have the finals in

529
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Speaker 7: July and the and the draft at the end of July,

530
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Speaker 7: and then uh, summer League in August, and you know,

531
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 7: September you start dialing up for training.

532
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Speaker 2: Camp again, and there really is there is no break

533
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Speaker 2: to the basketball. And I don't know that that would

534
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Speaker 2: necessarily be.

535
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Speaker 7: A bad thing because you're talking about different elements.

536
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Speaker 2: Obviously, the veteran guys. The guys are going to be

537
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Speaker 2: playing in the in.

538
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 7: The Cup and in the regular season, in the playoffs,

539
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 7: aren't going to be playing in summer league, so uh,

540
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 7: and you're going to get some rest within the season.

541
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Speaker 2: Uh. And and with some of the injuries that we're

542
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Speaker 2: dealing with, I think.

543
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Speaker 7: That that that could potentially be.

544
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Speaker 2: A positive, especially because you know there's always to.

545
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Speaker 7: Talk about you got to reduce the season to you

546
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 7: got to reduce games, and.

547
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Speaker 3: The reality is that's just not going.

548
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Speaker 7: To happen because nobody wants to give back the money.

549
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Speaker 2: If you if you said, okay, we can play.

550
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Speaker 7: Sixty five games, but everybody is you're the Salarridge going

551
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 7: to come down ten percent or fifteen percent.

552
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Speaker 2: And everybody like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

553
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Speaker 7: No, I'll grind through an eighty two game season to

554
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 7: keep the money.

555
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Speaker 2: Where it is.

556
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Speaker 7: So I like the idea, and I also just I

557
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 7: think there has to be a little bit There has

558
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 7: to be a little bit more at stake in terms

559
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Speaker 7: of and I don't know what you make it, you know,

560
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 7: something attached to the playoffs, something attached to the postseason,

561
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Speaker 7: something attached to maybe seeding in the playoffs.

562
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Speaker 2: Haven't I haven't thought it through. I have thought.

563
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Speaker 7: About, like, how do you make the game? How do

564
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 7: you just make it overall more competitive? Because I've been

565
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Speaker 7: I've been watching a lot of EuroLeague lately, and like

566
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 7: every game is huge, and the players play hard every

567
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 7: game and it's meaningful and it's not just because they

568
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 7: play fewer games, but all of these guys are playing

569
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 7: poor contracts on on a year to year basis, you

570
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 7: have very short term contracts, and so I think a

571
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 7: combination of peering it the way.

572
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Speaker 2: That you have in soccer. I was I was thinking, like,

573
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: how do.

574
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Speaker 7: You make how do you make it more competitive, and

575
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Speaker 7: how do you completely end the tanking? And I think

576
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Speaker 7: if you tiered it and you had like you've got

577
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 7: to finish in a certain seating, if you've got thirty teams,

578
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 7: you've got to finish in the top twenty, or you're

579
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Speaker 7: playing in a second division and you have no hope

580
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Speaker 7: of playing for a championship the next year. I think

581
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Speaker 7: that all of that would change the way that every

582
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 7: game is approached because we are at a place now

583
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Speaker 7: where there's just so many options, there's so many entertainment

584
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Speaker 7: options that for the NBA to have games that don't

585
00:26:54,600 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 7: matter is just it's it's damaging to the the brand overall.

586
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: Well, Ricky come to the right place because the beginning

587
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: of the show, I had an idea and I think

588
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: this is gonna work, and it's gonna say tell me

589
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: what you think You're ready? Okay the two teams.

590
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 7: Ready is a relative term for any time you're coming

591
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 7: with an idea.

592
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, weary, you're gonna lie.

593
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 7: I'm about as ready as I could possibly be.

594
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 3: You ask, I give you answers.

595
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Speaker 1: You make it to the championship game in the Emirates Cup,

596
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: the loser is guaranteed a playoff spot. The winner is

597
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: guaranteed a top six finish. You go buy your record,

598
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: and let's say your record is worse than six, you

599
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: finish sixth. If you finish fourth or third, you finish

600
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Speaker 1: your normal spot. But no matter what, if you win

601
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: the Cup, you are guaranteed to be no lower than six.

602
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: If you're the other championship team, you're guaranteed in the playoffs.

603
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: Now you could be in the playing round as well,

604
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: depending on where your record is, but you're guaranteed to

605
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs.

606
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Speaker 3: That's you do for the teams that make it to the.

607
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 7: Championship, And it doesn't matter what your regular regular season record.

608
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 3: Is, doesn't matter if you win the Cup.

609
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 7: You win the Cup, you're essentially guaranteed a playoffs guarantee.

610
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 4: Cuba Tournament the wind rug as you get hit, you

611
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 4: could be sub five hundred anymore.

612
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: At the back end of the bracket. Winners guaranteed no

613
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: lower than six. The losing team is guaranteed to at

614
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: least make it into the play and round, and if

615
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: you have a great record, obviously you're in the playoffs.

616
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: But just you never know what could happen in the

617
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: second half of the season with injuries and different things.

618
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: But hey, you got to have some kind of spoils

619
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: for winning the E Cup. It's a big deal. It's

620
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: kind of like winning the Larry O'Brien Trophy. It's Jalen

621
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: Brunson's first championship. So there you go. That's how you

622
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: make it a little bit more stakes for everybody involved.

623
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Speaker 2: It'll never happen, but it is an interesting thought.

624
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: Well you mean Jalen Brunson's next championship or the playoff?

625
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 7: The playoff thing, it's I mean, it is an interesting thought.

626
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 7: And I think we're thinking along the same lines in

627
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 7: terms of you want something meaning, really meaningful, where you go, oh, man,

628
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 7: like we should go try to win this, I mean,

629
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 7: and that that would do it. I just.

630
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: What I do.

631
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: What I don't know is what kind of impact.

632
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 7: That has on the meaning of the regular season games

633
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 7: for that team. Then, so in a big picture, you

634
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 7: have more teams vying for the NBA Cup with everything

635
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 7: that they that that that they have. On the other hand,

636
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 7: the team that wins the Cup, like, we don't have

637
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 7: to do anything.

638
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: For the rest of the year if we don't want.

639
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I got baseball after the eighty strike, right

640
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 4: if you won the first half.

641
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, and now I'm understanding why Jason.

642
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 3: Came up with this and why I got that.

643
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

644
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 4: Well he kept looking at the sideline to make sure

645
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 4: that they didn't give Jalen Brunson accidentally the Larry O'Brien

646
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 4: right now, because he'd be like, I don't.

647
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 3: Have to give this back. We're the champs. That's it.

648
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: Basically then the champs, I mean basically they're already the champs.

649
00:29:59,080 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter.

650
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: See.

651
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 7: See this is why you can't give good things to

652
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 7: a New York Nick fan.

653
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 5: You just can't.

654
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 3: They did actually give him.

655
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 7: You give him an inch and they take forty miles.

656
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Come on, man, Spike Lee is on

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Speaker 1: the set right now. It's fantastic, Rick, this is it.

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Speaker 1: This may be the only championship I ever get to celebrate.

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Speaker 1: This is the only one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is fine, So relish this, but.

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Speaker 7: Don't like immediately go to and we're getting the Larry O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: Oh. Two trophies for Jalen brunts in this NBA season,

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Speaker 1: actually three, the Emirates Cup, the MVP Trophy and the

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Speaker 1: Larry O'Brien Trophy. Three trophies for Jalen Brunson. And he's

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at Reck Buker. That is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: Rick is always buddy, appreciate it, my friend. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you. Have a great night.

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Speaker 2: Trappaccinos, Yo share Rick.

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Speaker 3: Spike Lee is sitting in Dirk Noovitch's chair right now.

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 1: And it looks really awkward because you know, everybody is

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Speaker 1: really tall and he isn't. And Dirk is standing behind

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Speaker 1: spike Lee and Dirk looks like he's eleven feet tall,

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 3: Is not John Cena.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Rooks is sitting to his right. She looks like

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Speaker 1: she's eight feet tall. Relative it is a Knicks championship.

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Speaker 1: And about that again, the first of three trophies for

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson this season. Time now to find out what's

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Speaker 1: trending in the wide world of sports. Who had the

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Speaker 1: Knicks laying the points. It's Isaac Lohenkron.

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Speaker 8: Indeed, that is our dominant story Indeed, Jason and Mike

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Speaker 8: and the NBA Cup Championship game in Vegas. The New

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Speaker 8: York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs one twenty four

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Speaker 8: to one thirteen, and guys, here was the call as

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Speaker 8: the final seconds ticked away, the Knicks dribble.

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Speaker 3: Out the last ten.

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Speaker 1: The New York Knicks are key Cup champions.

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Speaker 3: Give them the Larry O'Brien trophy, give them that everything

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Speaker 3: they need.

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Speaker 1: They are the champs, making one championship for Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 8: It's right up there with Marv Albert calling Willis Reed

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Speaker 8: in Game seven, as far as i'm.

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Speaker 1: He was standing up in the studio and the Knicks

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Speaker 1: with yet another championship here years after the last time

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Speaker 1: they lost to the Spurs because they couldn't win more

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Speaker 1: than one game with Patrick ewing out with.

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Speaker 3: A torn achilles. I'm going back to nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Latrell Spreewell was awesome in Game five of that series,

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Speaker 8: thirty five points dueling with Tim Duncan. You had Charlie

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Speaker 8: Ward throwing that last second in bounds pass.

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Speaker 3: He missed that layup at the very end. Latrell spree Well, yeah.

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Speaker 8: They get their revenge tonight over the Spurs. Spurs actually

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Speaker 8: led this game ninety four eighty nine after three quarters,

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Speaker 8: but the Knicks outscored him of the fourth quarter thirty

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Speaker 8: five to nineteen. Og Nanobi led the next with twenty

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Speaker 8: eight points. No word yet on whether New York City

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Speaker 8: plans to have a ticker tape parade to celebrate the

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Speaker 8: Knicks Cup triumph. However, it is expected that New York

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Speaker 8: City Rats will be parading across subway platforms in celebration.

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Speaker 1: Already out Dan Dat to stop trains in every direction

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Speaker 1: like it's a taking a fellow one.

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Speaker 8: Two three the Rats big basketball fans. Apparently Finally, in

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Speaker 8: college football, Notre Dame junior running back Jeremiah Love announced

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Speaker 8: on Instagram this evening that he is declaring for the

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Speaker 8: NFL Draft, coming off a season that saw himbe a

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Speaker 8: Heisman Trophy finalist after running for nearly fourteen hundred yards

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Speaker 8: with eighteen rushing touchdowns. Guys, back to you, thanks.

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Speaker 4: Lots of friends and family checking in across the country

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Speaker 4: on my well being on this Knicks championship night.

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Speaker 1: This song goes out to the San Antonio Spurs. Nice.

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Speaker 1: Try more on the biggest story in sports next right here,

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 3: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 3: pm Pacific. What happened to One Shining Moment? Championship Night?

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Speaker 3: One Shining Moment?

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Speaker 1: All night?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 5: Who?

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Speaker 3: All night?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a holiday version of One Shining Moment?

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Speaker 1: Holiday Holiday holiday version of One Shining Moment?

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Speaker 3: All right? You already discussed this hollow.

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Speaker 1: It's a basketball would be championship tyshirt teers, so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't count.

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Speaker 3: How long will it take you to do that faster

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Speaker 3: than it took the Knicks to win a championship? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Well it didn't take him very long. He long time.

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Speaker 3: He come chance right before God?

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Speaker 1: No, no, No, but seven nineteen seventy three, I saw, I

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Speaker 1: saw it.

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Speaker 3: They were showing it, and I wait a minute, I

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Speaker 3: wait a minute. You can't.

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Speaker 1: They don't need to show it for us to know that.

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Speaker 1: You can't go back to before these guys were alive.

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Speaker 1: You go back to beginning of this year.

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Speaker 3: First.

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Speaker 4: But they said they big stood out of the crates.

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Speaker 4: Three tight shirts, always talked about as being in the crates.

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Speaker 3: So here you go, three trophies for Jalen Brunson, Emirates Cup, MVP,

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Speaker 3: Larry O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: You realize he's three three hundred to one right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to win all three, No, to win the MVP. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's what coming way down after tonight. He's already won

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Speaker 1: an MVP, won the Emirates Cup MVP. That's not part

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Speaker 1: of the voting.

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Speaker 3: He's got.

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Speaker 1: That's five to that's four trophies, Emirts Cup Trophy, Emerts Cup, MVP,

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Speaker 1: NBA MVP, Larry O'Brien Trophy.

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Speaker 4: As of this morning, he is tied with Mitchell and

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Speaker 4: Jalen Brown at three hundred to one, behind Maxi, Wembin,

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Speaker 4: Yama Cunningham, Donchez, Jokic, and SGA and Brownie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but now, but now it's gonna be uh, it's

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Speaker 1: got to change after the uh after the win tonight.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean the game doesn't count in the standings,

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Speaker 4: so order the stats counts, it does nothing.

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Speaker 3: Positive vibes don't win.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they had some great comments talking about their

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Speaker 4: relationship with coach brown in the post game, Josh Hart

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Speaker 4: and Jalen Bronson with some great human moments just saying, hey,

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Speaker 4: he came to want to know us as guys, so

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Speaker 4: driving hundreds of miles to just come meet and hang

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Speaker 4: out with us to talk to us about who we

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Speaker 4: are and what our expectations were, and to meet us

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Speaker 4: on that level, which helped.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: So, Yeah, a lot of positivity.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The meme of Josh Hart looking at the bench and

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Speaker 4: making the money sign, Yeah, got it going over big here.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna ask a serious question here for a second, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it is here now, just to get to get

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Speaker 1: serious about this.

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Speaker 3: For not serious about how good the Knicks, but let

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Speaker 3: me just ask you this very serious. Okay, not that

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Speaker 3: much better. The fries at McDonald's are way better than

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Speaker 3: any any players. Yes they are. Are we revisiting that again? No, Tysher.

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Speaker 1: Tyscher doesn't know how to deal with NBA Championship night.

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Speaker 1: He does, He's this is weird all over the place.

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Speaker 1: I know, freaking out a little bit. Jason, what if

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Speaker 1: your teams has won something? I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: re What do I do with my hands? It's been

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00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: it's been thirteen years. Your team's just sucking out today.

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00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: You see that Brunson and Heart and Towns all doing

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Speaker 1: interviews now, they're all wearing Emirates Cup hats, Championship hats.

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Speaker 1: I got the T shirts out there, serious question. I

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Speaker 1: can get E Cup Championship gear, wear it and it

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Speaker 1: not be too cringey?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like or is that?

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Speaker 1: Like, dude, you can't you wear an Emirates Cup Championship

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Speaker 1: shirt like it's still it.

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Speaker 4: I've been recognized as a title. Yeah, he played a tournament. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: players received my huge ass bonuses off of this. We're

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Speaker 4: talking hundreds of thousands of dollars post tags. They're gonna

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00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 4: take care of their people, which is cool, and you

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Speaker 4: could be part of that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not because I was worried that it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be h Come on, man, really, but here's.

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Speaker 4: The thing if I like what you're wearing a Knick's sweatshirt. Now, yeah,

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00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 4: so you'd already bought into just the concept of this

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Speaker 4: team has sucked for as long as I've been alive.

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Speaker 3: This is the only good. No, But that's the point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, think about the last since I've known you,

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Speaker 1: how many checks I've had Syracuse in the Final four twice?

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Speaker 3: You watch, right, that's losing the World Series. Met's lost

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Speaker 3: in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: And here's the next en scene, and and here's the

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Speaker 1: Nixt winning the Oh, Syracuse won the Players Tournament the

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Speaker 1: yeah you know old players. Yeah, I mean, Jelly should

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Speaker 1: have gotten at least an honorable mention for the Heisman.

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Speaker 1: Those those are my achievements. But that's what you've got.

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Speaker 1: That's that's twelve years of a cheat or luck of achievements.

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Speaker 1: Outside of Zoe being born, this is the greatest night

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Speaker 1: of your life.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, let's see heng go Zoe being born. Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Is this better than Zoe?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, Zoe.

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Speaker 1: Zoey was great, He's always great. It was her birthday,

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Speaker 1: the honest, and she's probably listening. So I'm gonna say it,

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Speaker 1: Zoe Nixt tonight. So I'm gonna say it, Zoe, and

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Speaker 1: then the nixt to night. Well, I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: I don't want it to be where I I don't.

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Speaker 1: This is it like I go anywhere. There's got to

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Speaker 1: be a little bit of room to go up, like

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Speaker 1: when Brunson wins the up. But it's as win the

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Speaker 1: NBA five, when they beat the thunder and seven to

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Speaker 1: win the NBA five. Ye, it's as of the sixteenth

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Speaker 1: of December. The the calendar will flip here in about

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Speaker 1: eight minutes in the East Coast, and the Knicks celebrating

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Speaker 1: into the night.

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Speaker 3: Got to imagine.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the bars are open late, a lot of

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Speaker 4: celebrations through the frosty streets of New York.

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Speaker 3: But but I can wear it. That's not what It's

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Speaker 3: not like. It's what you find your wins. Yeah, And

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 4: And in the end, if you're worried about what other

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Speaker 4: people think of what you're wearing, you've lost.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing is I gotta be cool, though, I

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Speaker 3: gotta be cool. I can't. I can't not in your

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Speaker 3: own head. Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: It's like like people are just looking at you and

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Speaker 1: the orange thin are gonna think you're uncool any cool?

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Speaker 1: So what what it actually says on there doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: This is a KNICKX the game hoodie. It's a dumpster.

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Speaker 1: This is this is special. Listen, I could pull off orange.

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Speaker 1: Orange is tough color to pull off. It's very, very difficult.

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Speaker 5: If they'd lost, would you have left that out for

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Speaker 5: someone to how many boxes sent to Africa? Would you

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Speaker 5: have broken into how they lost?

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Speaker 1: Oh but the Knicks e cup that Now that the

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Speaker 1: Spurs are going to send out I think the Spurs

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Speaker 1: won it. Sure, sure they think Spurs are champions, Spurs

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Speaker 1: or Ecup champions. Now I'm glad because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I got to be able to be cool when I

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Speaker 1: wear care a look.

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Speaker 3: At that guy. Nothing about a Knick sweater is coolhka

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Speaker 3: you kidding? Come on, The Knicks are cool. The Knicks

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Speaker 3: have become cool in the last few years, and your

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Speaker 3: definition of cool is way different.

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Speaker 4: Well, I could use the code prancer to get some

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Speaker 4: discount on shipping, but for thirty one ninety nine, Actually no,

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Speaker 4: it's thirty nine ninety nine for an adult.

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Speaker 3: The locker room shirt champions right there, you go, already

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Speaker 3: up and going.

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Speaker 1: You got sweatshirts and hats. Yeah, but how long until

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Speaker 1: it gets delivered? Delivery middle of February. It doesn't say

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Speaker 1: I want, I can't.

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Speaker 4: So we could go to a bootleg place and add

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Speaker 4: one printed by morning, making your dreams come true the

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Speaker 4: New York Knicks.

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Speaker 3: We'll have more on this.

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Speaker 1: Another crazy story out of the NBA trade ahead is

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Speaker 1: an E Cup Championship night here on Fox