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Speaker 2: Cuffs is giving you a spicy takes on what's going down.

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Speaker 3: To take the heat like Lebron.

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Speaker 2: And now here's cuffs. The legend.

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Speaker 5: It's cold times the legend, all right, Well, on the

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Speaker 3: Of companies, moving the puppies. We got our guy cuffs.

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Speaker 4: The legend on how you feel a man, there's a

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Speaker 4: good saturday for you. What's the what's what's the word

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 6: Were you above the ground?

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Speaker 3: Man? But look, well that's true.

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Speaker 6: Where's play to go?

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Speaker 6: Because a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: Exactly you came in straight. What I said to everyone

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Speaker 4: out there. Plexico is handling business with Elijah Burris, who

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Speaker 4: a nice campaign early and role league player. So he

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Speaker 4: at it. The l A Lakers are playing some very

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Speaker 1: Oh, he did he not say we wouldn't win one game?

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Speaker 1: I think he meant lose one game, That's what he meant. Now,

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Speaker 1: he said the Lakers wouldn't win one game of the

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Speaker 1: You remember that? He said? Yes he did, Yes he did?

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Speaker 3: All right? So they beat the Rockets.

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Speaker 6: In journalist mode. Are we gonna be in journalist mode

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Speaker 3: And if they do, y'all doing the fan verse.

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Speaker 4: Now, all right, But let's be realistic here, all right.

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Speaker 4: I know the Lakers are looking good. They're at three

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Speaker 4: I think the Thunder are problem. I've been saying that

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Speaker 6: Well, I think everybody had weaknesses, Like everybody in the

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Speaker 4: Is Chet sturdy enough to be the big man that

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Speaker 3: To that next level?

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Speaker 1: I'll answer that, no, hey cuffs five teams that are

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Speaker 6: can beat them. The Lakers push them around.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well that was some good Uh that was some

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Speaker 4: y'all are not always unbiased and and and the oldest,

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Speaker 1: Fifty wins as the first year coach.

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Speaker 4: Give him, give him, I mean he knows how to

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Speaker 1: first one I ever heard say slide the puppies. They

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Speaker 6: Ye, man, just this was happening. Everybody see what's happening now? Man,

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Speaker 6: It's actually funny at this point, but everybody know who

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Speaker 3: On it now moving them, you move them.

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Speaker 4: You talk about moving them, and that's what they was

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Speaker 3: That is Cuffs the legend. You got one more on you?

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Speaker 3: You got one more on you?

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Speaker 4: All right, Well we'll knock down another one with with

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Speaker 4: Cuffs and TJ. The Lakers Sixth Man of the Year

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Speaker 3: Will be right back.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back, What's up on Game? It's Tyreck dot com

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Speaker 4: studio'st J Huschman Zada. I'm LeVar Arrington. We got the

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Speaker 4: legendary Cuffs on the show. Or you can call them cuffs.

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Speaker 4: The legend from some dude show Plexico is off today.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back. Before we continue the.

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Speaker 4: Conversations that have been going on. Let's first get an

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Speaker 3: He is also a.

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Speaker 4: Legend in his own right, in fact, his own classification

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Speaker 3: Let's get an update from Ilo. What you got my guy?

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Speaker 3: Or maybe he doesn't want to do it. Maybe that

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Speaker 3: good of an intro for Isaac Loehencron and we just

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Speaker 1: Know, he can't speak because I got super cups.

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Speaker 3: I gave him a lot of lot of props.

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Speaker 1: There it is, Oh, there you go he r he

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Speaker 7: Still no sign of Nico or I low at the

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Speaker 7: Tennessee Spring game. Just taking a double check these days.

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Speaker 7: But he is he is, indeed not there is. That's

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Speaker 7: our top treading story. Multiple outlets reporting that the Volunteers

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Speaker 7: moving on from their starting quarterback last year, Nico im

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Speaker 7: a Lava after reportedly held out from practice on Friday

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Speaker 8: Yeah who Sports reported.

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Speaker 7: Elava has already submitted paperwork to edit the transfer portal. Now,

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Speaker 7: last season helped Tennessee to a college football playoff appearance.

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Speaker 8: The volunteers wound up with a ten and three record.

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Speaker 7: And again today just happens to be Tennessee's spring game

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Speaker 8: At the top of the hour.

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Speaker 7: Meanwhile, what we thought was gonna be our top story today,

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Speaker 7: the Master is after two rounds, Justin Rose has a

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Speaker 7: At two point thirty eastern On the course right now,

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Speaker 7: the best day being had so far by Zach Johnson.

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Speaker 7: He has four under through twelve holes today, says Zach

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Speaker 7: And today's Major League Baseball action we'll get underway after

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Speaker 3: Guys, I appreciate it, appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I'll appreciate you, uh wellchus before we get back into

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Speaker 4: to go with with what we're discussing is some spirited

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Speaker 3: How you say it again? TJ? Give it to me

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Speaker 4: Feel bad not putting his whole name out there, but

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Speaker 4: I believe. And if that's the case, I wonder how

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Speaker 6: Maybe I haven't seen it happen in college basketball yet,

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: I mean it's he held out of practices and isn't

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Speaker 3: But I mean it's it's like holdout slash.

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Speaker 4: Free agent, like he held didn't get what he think

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Speaker 6: I just think the timing of it is weird because

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Speaker 6: these kids and start to call the kids because I'm

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Speaker 6: sure the quarterback for Tennessee he's being called all kinds

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Speaker 6: Now got to do it best for you now.

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Speaker 1: I agree one percent with what you just said. These

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Speaker 1: the money. It's like, wait, what are you doing? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we got to fix the system. Wait, why you

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Speaker 1: all the money. Gotcha? Gotcha? All right? Cuffs, NBA one

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Speaker 1: game left, This is gonna be tough. Who's the MVP.

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Speaker 6: this morning. I saw the graphic on TV and it

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Speaker 6: really hit me. They Yokic really averaged a triple double

438
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Speaker 6: playing the center position for entire season. He averaged a

439
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Speaker 6: triple double. Westbrook did it four times. Oscar Robinson. We've

440
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Speaker 6: only had three basketball players in the history of life

441
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Speaker 6: to do this. And he's a center playing the five position.

442
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Speaker 6: And then you have SGA, you have his stats. He's

443
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Speaker 6: having one of the best offensive seasons. This peer scoring efficiency.

444
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Speaker 6: This team is number one by Lancelot in the West

445
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Speaker 6: for two years in a row. Now they snubbed him

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Speaker 6: last year for the MVP. That's why I feel like

447
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Speaker 6: man to make it all right. I wouldn't be mad

448
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Speaker 6: if we saw a co MVP. I don't remember the

449
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Speaker 6: I don't I can't recall we've ever seen that happen before.

450
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Speaker 6: As far as the MVP award, I know it happened

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Speaker 6: with the Rookie of the Year several years ago. I

452
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Speaker 6: think Mike Miller and Jason Kidd might have shared the

453
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Speaker 6: Rookie of the Year if I'm not mistaken. But the MVP,

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Speaker 6: imagin if you wake up and see the headlines where

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Speaker 6: we have a co MVP, that could also start a

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Speaker 6: new president because it is kind of hard who would

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Speaker 6: you vote for right now?

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Speaker 3: TJ.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving it to SGA because you're the best player

460
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Speaker 1: on the best team, and like best team by a while,

461
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Speaker 1: a long way, and so to me, I feel like

462
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Speaker 1: the gold posts continue to be moved when you want

463
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Speaker 1: to give the NBP to somebody else because of the

464
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Speaker 1: longest it was the best player on the best team,

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Speaker 1: and then it was, oh, well, they're a top six seed.

466
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Speaker 1: I know when Westbrook wanted the Thunderworld to suc seed,

467
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Speaker 1: but he was just a triple double machine at that point.

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Speaker 1: And so for me, I'm going to SGA, really because

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Speaker 1: SGA should have won it last year if we're being honest, Yeah,

470
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Speaker 1: he got stubbed, and so you can't you cannot do

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Speaker 1: the guy. You can't do this man like this two

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Speaker 1: years in a row. And it's crazy because my son

473
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Speaker 1: is swear up and down its Yolkich and I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: it ain't, it's Sgam.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a good, a good argument to be

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Speaker 4: made for for both players to be honest. And again

477
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Speaker 4: we brought up Yannis, you know last week on the

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Speaker 4: show last weekend on the show. I mean, I think

479
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Speaker 4: there are some other guys out there in the East

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Speaker 4: that that could be in the conversation as well.

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Speaker 3: Now, when it comes down to it, the feat.

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Speaker 4: That Jokic has has has has accomplished, I think it

483
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Speaker 4: goes without saying he's the most valuable to his team

484
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Speaker 4: and he's the most valuable in terms of production. If

485
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Speaker 4: I'm looking at it from what they've done and where

486
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Speaker 4: they're at in terms of success and ranking and rating,

487
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Speaker 4: I'm with TJ on it. It goes SGA because this

488
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Speaker 4: is the top team right now.

489
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Speaker 3: They're hot. He's leading the way. He doesn't show any

490
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Speaker 3: signs of slowing down.

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Speaker 4: I watch enough basketball to see what some of these

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Speaker 4: top guys are doing in the games that that are

493
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Speaker 4: are taking place, and he continues to deliver. Like one

494
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Speaker 4: thing I say about him, we continue to say it

495
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Speaker 4: could be their youth that plays a role in why

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Speaker 4: they're not able to win it all this year. And

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Speaker 4: that's why I think it's interesting that we didn't bring

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Speaker 4: up the Golden State warri in the last segment talking

499
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Speaker 4: about possible teams that could could come out of the

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Speaker 4: West and represent in an NBA Final.

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Speaker 3: But with that being.

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Speaker 4: Said, I also said on last week's show that they

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Speaker 4: can't continue to use it's a youth movement as as

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Speaker 4: an example or as an excuse or as a reason

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Speaker 4: as to why they're not going and taking that next step.

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Speaker 4: So while you can't choose the MVP based off of

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Speaker 4: what happens in the postseason, I still think that the

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Speaker 4: fact that he's played as well SGA has played as

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Speaker 4: well as he has at the level he's played at

510
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Speaker 4: for the second straight year.

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Speaker 3: And his team is the top team in.

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Speaker 4: The West, which most probably would consider that to be

513
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Speaker 4: the the you know, the conference that's going to come.

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Speaker 3: Out with the championship.

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Speaker 4: I think it has to go to SGA, but I

516
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Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if Jokic got it for the stat

517
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Speaker 4: line that he's been boasting this entire season.

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Speaker 6: I don't think. I don't think they're gonna rob SGA

519
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 6: two years in a row. That would look real bad

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Speaker 6: on the voters because last year, everybody really felt like

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Speaker 6: when we saw the headline come across last year, it

522
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Speaker 6: was kind of a shock, like, oh my god, Shay

523
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Speaker 6: Gilbis Alexander didn't win it. So we were to see

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Speaker 6: that same headline this year, I think basketball fans would

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Speaker 6: lose even more respect for these voters. A lot of

526
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Speaker 6: these couch potato voters, they don't really watch basketball, so

527
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Speaker 6: like we would lose even more respect for them. But

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Speaker 6: an even better question for y'all is which duo going

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Speaker 6: into these NBA playoffs, which duo do you trust the most?

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Speaker 6: Because we see the pantheon a champions it takes two

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Speaker 6: most time. You're gonna need two stars to get you

532
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Speaker 6: over the hump. Your role player is gonna have to

533
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Speaker 6: be locked in. Everybody's gonna have to have their role

534
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 6: defined and carved out. But the two stars are going

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Speaker 6: to take you to the mountain top, which two duos,

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Speaker 6: Which duo do you trust the most going into the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, LeVar, because you know who I trust, you

538
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Speaker 1: know who I trust.

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Speaker 4: I know you're gonna go with Lebron and and and

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Speaker 4: uh is them?

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Speaker 1: And is Jali Brown and Jason Tatum that you can

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Speaker 1: really feel confident in.

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Speaker 3: That's a given one too.

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Speaker 4: But do you do you do like audition by audition

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Speaker 4: on best duo? Like I just brought up Golden State.

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Speaker 4: I just I'm just wondering, is it is it Steph

547
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Speaker 4: Curry and Company? Is it Steph Curry and And the addition,

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Speaker 4: who's this company? Is it Jimmy Butler? I mean, I

549
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Speaker 4: think he's one. What he's to to B two A?

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00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: And then and then you got who's my Who's who's

551
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Speaker 4: the enforcer? Why am I blanking on his name right now?

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Speaker 3: Draymond?

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Speaker 4: I think those two, I think that addition by addition,

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Speaker 4: those two put together with Steph Curry is going to

555
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Speaker 4: be a problem in the n B A in the

556
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Speaker 4: NBA playoffs. I think it gets it takes that pressure

557
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 4: off of Jimmy Butler to have to be the main dude,

558
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Speaker 4: and you had and he doesn't have to be the

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00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 4: enforcer like he was for Miami, which people may not

560
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 4: give him enough credit for him being that that hard

561
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Speaker 4: knows like they say air quotes the Miami Hurricane or

562
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 4: Miami heat way, he doesn't have to be that guy

563
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Speaker 4: because of Draymond. He can just focus in on just

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Speaker 4: being a player, which he is a very fine player

565
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Speaker 4: when he's just focused in on playing the game. So

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Speaker 4: to me, I think that that's the most dangerous duo

567
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Speaker 4: by addition. In addition, it's three of them, but I

568
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Speaker 4: think them two put together equal one of the superstars

569
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Speaker 4: that we would say in a Tatum or a Brown

570
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 4: or you know, you know what we got with murder.

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Speaker 1: The Clippers Tomorrow they in trouble, they better beat the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: What I'm saying is is I don't I don't think

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Speaker 4: it's a foregone conclusion that if they end up playing

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Speaker 4: the Lakers that they go home. In fact, I think

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Speaker 4: that's a dangerous that's a dangerous road for both of them.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's an easy one, uh, an easy

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Speaker 4: one to call for either one of those teams that

578
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Speaker 4: they end up meeting in the first round.

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Speaker 6: That's that's you know, you know what, you know why

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Speaker 6: I have the Lakers beating the Warriors that they play

581
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Speaker 6: them in the first round because the Lakers have the

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Speaker 6: best third option.

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Speaker 3: In the world right now, and Brownie James.

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00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: Look Calabassies Larry Bird Calabassus Larry Bird is what I

585
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 6: call them. Austin Reeves has really arrived, and I don't

586
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 6: think people really gonna understand what's going to happen this playoffs.

587
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 6: Austin Reeds is capable of getting you thirty thirty to

588
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 6: thirty five every game, every game, even when Lebron and

589
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 6: Luca are cooking. And that's a dangerous cast when you

590
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 6: have to put your third or fourth or fifth defender

591
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Speaker 6: on Austin Reeds. Now, I can't wait for the playoffs

592
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Speaker 6: to start.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: The Warriors got a they got to ski on their team,

595
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 4: and they got to comingo on their team. And I'm

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00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 4: just saying I think that they're well, we just ain't

597
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 4: gonna just go where, just gonna go your p and

598
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 4: your euro style in in Los Angeles. That Golden State's

599
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 4: got their euro style as well. I'm just saying, bro,

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Speaker 4: it's a it's a team that is way like if

601
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Speaker 4: we're looking at them, like when they had Harrison and

602
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Speaker 4: those guys. They were to me a super balanced team

603
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 4: and superstars coming from every which direction. But when you

604
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Speaker 4: look at Golden State now, I think adding Butler made

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Speaker 4: them a more balanced team.

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Speaker 3: And it took a.

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Speaker 4: Pressure off of off of Steph Curry that he had

608
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Speaker 4: when when he lost his splash brother going somewhere else,

609
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Speaker 4: And I think it's a different it's a different type

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Speaker 4: of assistance. I don't think Jimmy Butler is the same

611
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Speaker 4: type of player as as Clay. So to me, looking

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Speaker 4: at what they bring to the table, it gives them

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Speaker 4: a little bit more grit. It gives them a little

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Speaker 4: bit more more maybe less finesse, more more banged, more fight.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's worked. I mean, you look at

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Speaker 4: what their record has been. It's worked. They just handled Portland.

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Speaker 4: I think this is a team that is on the up.

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Speaker 4: And now I'm looking at one team, but I'm just

619
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Speaker 4: saying out of the West, I think they're the most

620
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Speaker 4: dangerous team that's not really being talked about.

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Speaker 3: I get Oklahoma.

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Speaker 4: I get that they're talented, they got possibly the MVP

623
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Speaker 4: on the team. I think the Nuggets you got to

624
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 4: knock them off because I just maybe they're playing better now,

625
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: but we've always seen guys under interiom.

626
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 3: Situations play better immediately.

627
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 4: But when it comes down to it, when they get

628
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 4: up against a real challenge, that's when we're gonna find

629
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Speaker 4: out if they're really in a good place or not.

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Speaker 4: And I just don't I don't subscribe to that. So

631
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Speaker 4: I don't know, man. I just think I got a

632
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 4: feeling that Golden State is going to make a run.

633
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 4: And if that is true, if they end up having

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Speaker 4: the Lakers in the first round, and that's one that

635
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to look at and say, all right,

636
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 4: was this.

637
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: The one Was this the one game?

638
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 4: Was this the series that decided what was going to

639
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 4: take place in the NBA playoffs this year?

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00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 3: That's just my take on.

641
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: It, though.

642
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Speaker 6: I think it'd be Lakers than six Lakers over the

643
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 6: Words in six games because Luca and Lebron are gonna

644
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 6: put Curry in every type of mismatch in the pick

645
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,239
Speaker 6: and roll, and they're gonna get downhill, they're gonna get

646
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 6: into pain, they're gonna feast because they don't have any

647
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 6: rim protection in Golden State. Kevon Looney is an older

648
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 6: big man. Now, they don't have anybody to protect the rim.

649
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 6: Draymond can't move the puppies like he used to, So

650
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 6: I feel like Lebron is gonna have a lot more confidence,

651
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 6: Luca gonna have confidence. I think. I hope that's the

652
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 6: actual matchup. Like I said earlier, I hope that is

653
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 6: the first round matchup. But we will see because, like

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Speaker 6: TJ said, the Clippers and Warriors tomorrow will decide that seed.

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Speaker 6: So I want to see what Kawhi Leonard and James

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Speaker 6: Hardigill do. We didn't say anything about them.

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Speaker 3: I don't trust trust that duo. I don't trust them.

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Speaker 1: I do if they're healthy, like trust if that if

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Speaker 1: the Clippers are healthy, I'm not gonna lie. They they

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Speaker 1: present problems for everybody. That's what they said, and we

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Speaker 1: gave him away for a box of Cracker Jacks.

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Speaker 3: Man, Hey, dump hit the dump perfect. Listen. All I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say is I don't trust them.

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Speaker 4: We say that about the Lakers every single year, every year,

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Speaker 4: and they do the same thing every single year. They

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Speaker 4: just gonna have to prove it to me. I'm not

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Speaker 4: saying that they can't do it. I'm just saying they're

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Speaker 4: gonna have to prove it.

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Speaker 3: Cuffs. We'll pe appreciate you coming on. Man. Hey listen,

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Speaker 3: that's Cuff to Legends.

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Speaker 4: Make sure you check you about order on his I

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Speaker 4: G some dude show. Uh, he'd be giving you the knowledge.

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Speaker 4: As you can see, he comes on here and he

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Speaker 4: blesses us with his knowledge and his uh his hot takes.

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Speaker 3: So we appreciate you, cuffs. That's t J.

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Speaker 4: Huschman' zida. I'm LeVar Arrington. We're gonna come back and

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Speaker 4: we're gonna close this show up. It's up on Game

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Speaker 3: have enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: up out of here. At TJ we got to go

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Speaker 4: back to football really quickly, and the Browns bring in

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Speaker 4: Joe Flacco. So now they got Joe Flacco, and they

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Speaker 4: got Kenny Pickett, and we hear news out of New

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Speaker 4: Orleans that car has an injury that well will may

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Speaker 4: keep him out for much of this season. Does this

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Speaker 4: have any impact on the quarterbacks being selected?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: I said New Orleans eight, and that could be Shador Sanders,

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Speaker 4: but it could be hard knowing that you have Derek

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Speaker 4: Carr still. But now with that being an issue and

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Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns taking Joe Flacco, that says to me

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Speaker 4: that it's either Travis Hunter that they're settling in on

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Speaker 4: or Abdual Carter, which I feel like it's leaning towards

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Speaker 4: Travis Hunter to go number two at this point. What's

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Speaker 4: your take on it before we get up out of here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's something like sign of Flacco. Does it

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Speaker 1: eliminate them from drafting a quarterback? It's not like flack

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Speaker 1: Ow's making huge money. I believe it's three million base

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Speaker 1: where he could probably earn another three in acentive. So

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Speaker 1: that's not the type of contract where it would prohibit

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Speaker 1: you from drafting a quarterback. I just look at it

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Speaker 1: as the teams at the top of the draft, they

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Speaker 1: don't feel like the quarterbacks are worthy of being drafted

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Speaker 1: where they're drafting at. And for sure there it might

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Speaker 1: not be a bad thing to drop. The further you drop,

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Speaker 1: the more stable the organization you would get drafted too.

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Speaker 1: And so it may not be a bad thing if

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Speaker 1: he was to drop, because you could possibly get into

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Speaker 1: a more stable environment and more stable situation. Whether that

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Speaker 1: would be the Raiders, the Saints, who knows, Because if

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Speaker 1: he gets out of the top ten, a lot of

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Speaker 1: the teams picking outside of the top ten do they

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Speaker 1: need a quarterback? And or will teams picked higher now

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Speaker 1: trade back in to draft him at a lower spot.

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Speaker 1: So there's just so much that can take place. But

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Speaker 1: look at it this way, to all these guys man

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Speaker 1: that maybe, oh, I'm supposed to be a top whatever pick,

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Speaker 1: it's a blessing to be drafted. It does not matter

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Speaker 1: where you go, it's what you do when you get there,

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Speaker 1: and so to me, that is the message that every player.

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Speaker 1: You can be the last pick of the draft, what

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Speaker 1: you do when you get there is going to determine

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Speaker 1: your fate moving forward. You can be the first pick

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Speaker 1: of the draft if you ask, you're gonna be out

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Speaker 1: the league a SAP and so be happy that you

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Speaker 1: even had this opportunity. But ultimately, what you do when

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Speaker 1: you get there is going to determine your fate.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I look at the moves that are taking place, and

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Speaker 4: it's just kind of like looking at looking at it.

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Speaker 4: It definitely does work to anyone who slides, it works

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Speaker 4: to their advanceage. Uh, getting a rookie contract on a

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Speaker 4: team that has a winning record, where you graded out

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Speaker 4: high enough to be at the top of the draft,

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Speaker 4: and you don't go at the top of the draft,

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Speaker 4: you know. I think there's been a lot of mixed

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Speaker 4: opinions about the qbs in this class. I think that

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Speaker 4: there has been interesting conversations surrounding the other prospects. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Abdual Carter didn't do anything this this uh this cycle, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He didn't physical would get himself drafted higher. No, So

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Speaker 1: why would you do anything.

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Speaker 4: So there you go, like there's so many different conversations

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Speaker 4: that are are taking place, but one thing's for certain.

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Speaker 4: One things for certain. When when you're at this time

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Speaker 4: of the year, it's just interesting to see all the

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Speaker 4: posturing and the gamesmanship that's that's taking place in terms

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Speaker 4: of where guys are going to end up. Now, I

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Speaker 4: think it's a for sure shot now that that New

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Speaker 4: Orleans has to if they weren't thinking about taking a quarterback,

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Speaker 4: I think for sure they now have to really think

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Speaker 4: about are they going to invest in the quarterback? Does

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Speaker 4: that enteil them trying to move up? You know, because

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Speaker 4: there could be the idea there's still this weird feeling

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Speaker 4: that maybe it is an Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter

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Speaker 4: at three. It could be Shador zero percent chance.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I talked to somebody that told

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Speaker 1: me zero percent chance to giants Strappam zero percent chance.

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Speaker 4: I think it's abdual Carter, but I don't know. I

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Speaker 4: mean that would be to me, that would be the

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Speaker 4: first like my mouth is open, like whoa pause, but

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like that'd be a woe

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Speaker 4: pick for me if it were to take place. Now,

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Speaker 4: after you get you know, beyond that, I think it

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00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 4: gets a little bit more, It gets a little diceier

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Speaker 4: because there's just not a need for a quarterback all

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Speaker 4: the way up until eight. So well then then again

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Speaker 4: there's the there's the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: But is that is that?

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Speaker 3: Is that a man?

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Speaker 1: You know, Pete Carroll going defense? Pete Carroll going defense

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Speaker 1: or running back, run the ball and play defense. That's

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll.

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Speaker 3: It'd be interesting to see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 4: Next time you hear us doing this show, the draft

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00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 4: will have taken place, and we most likely will be

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Speaker 4: here talking about it. So I hope you enjoyed the show.

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Speaker 4: You got Jonas Knox coming up next. This is up

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Speaker 4: on Game T. J. Hichman's outa. I'm LeVar Harrington. This

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Speaker 4: is Fox Sports Radio.