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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Thursday, March Big

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Speaker 1: Thursday in the NBA trade deadline day. It's gonna be chaotic.

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Speaker 1: Probably nothing will happen, but we will spend the better

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Speaker 1: portion of this podcast talking about what may happen, what

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Speaker 1: could happen. But I tease this on yesterday's podcast. I

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Speaker 1: said there was big news coming. It was more on

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Speaker 1: a personal front than anything, folks. I got vaccinated on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and um, I gotta say it was one of those

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Speaker 1: weird experiences we're leading up to it. I'll be keeping

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Speaker 1: it real with you guys, just being straight up authentic.

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Speaker 1: I was nervous. I don't know what I was nervous about.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this with the wife. Uh, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: too good to be true. And finally this year of

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Speaker 1: hell and listen, it wasn't hell for our family. We

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Speaker 1: lot of people. It was extremely difficult for us. You know,

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Speaker 1: a year. It was. It felt like a wasted year

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Speaker 1: out of what I like to still think. It's kind

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Speaker 1: I want to give a major shout out to the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Urban League out here. They did a tremendous job.

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Speaker 1: It was listen, fortuitous, you know how they say, life

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Speaker 1: isn't what you know who? You know. I got a

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Speaker 1: text from a buddy maybe a week ago, Hey, here

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Speaker 1: It's one of those funny things. We're just like so

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Speaker 1: free donuts. So I roll up to the donut place

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Speaker 1: walk in, I got my certificate. I'm like, yo, let

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Speaker 1: I'm all grinning behind my mask and the guy looks

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Speaker 1: a great day for Jason McIntyre. I got it. I

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Speaker 1: will not soon forget getting the vaccine. Obviously, it's not

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Speaker 1: enough and now, um let's turn our attention, shall we

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Speaker 1: going down, and what that probably means is nothing is

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Speaker 1: happening there. The NBA trade deadline is the most over hyped,

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Speaker 1: like NFL free agency, massive huge things happen. We always

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Speaker 1: Lowry turns thirty five today, you know, And it's funny

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry viewed as like an all time NBA player?

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Speaker 1: Right before Kawhi Leonard gets there, and Rob, I think

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Speaker 1: was with Tomorrow De Rosen in the backcourt in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: They won a lot of games in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: does he bring, Rob? A veteran leadership, Like you gotta

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Speaker 1: just remember you're trading for a thirty five year old.

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Speaker 1: He's thirty five, spent his entire career basically, well the

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Speaker 1: I do think there is some risk trading for him. Rob.

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Speaker 1: I think of all the guys that we're gonna run

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Speaker 1: I don't think that him going to either those teams

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Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and disagree. Historically, Rob, we've seen big

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Speaker 1: the NBA has changed dramatically. Big guys get it done.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry is exactly the guy you want. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know again the rob like, if you were to

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Speaker 1: earlier their issue. I don't think it's with Shrewder the player.

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Speaker 1: he's probably a back half of the NBA starting point guard.

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Speaker 1: the problem. So he wants a Lonzo ball money, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: clutch sports tax. Who would you take at twenty mill

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Speaker 1: per Shredder Alonzo Alonzo? Oh stop it. I've seen both

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Speaker 1: lost to Lebron and the other time he lost to

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat and the Bubble in a series. Man,

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Speaker 1: I thought the Celtics had that series. And then in

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Speaker 1: Game one, remember the block bam At a Bio had

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Speaker 1: on the Tatum dunk. And that wasn't like overtime of

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Speaker 1: Game one. You don't know which way the series goes

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Speaker 1: after that. I mean, that was a close series. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And and to anybody who thinks that leadership does not matter,

428
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Speaker 1: just look it back at last season's playoffs. In the Bubble,

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Speaker 1: the two teams that made it to the finals were

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Speaker 1: led by Lebron James and Jimmy Butler and tough, tough

431
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Speaker 1: minded guys. Tough minded guys where the team took on

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Speaker 1: the personality of their best player. Not to go too

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Speaker 1: far away from the trade deadline, Rob g who is

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Speaker 1: the leader in the Brooklyn Nets huddle in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: that's a million dollar question. That's a million dollar question

436
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Speaker 1: because it's gonna be it's going to be Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it should be Kyrie Irving is

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Speaker 1: the problem? See my here's my you know, never talked

439
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Speaker 1: to James Harden in my life. Here is my guess.

440
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 1: James Harden went there saying, yo, I'm deferring, and he

441
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Speaker 1: let his place speak for itself. And if you notice,

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00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: pretty quickly Kyrie was like, yo, you can be point guard.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say Steve Nash. He's like, you be point guard.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you be point guard. I think that's internally.

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Speaker 1: I think Kyrie knows the team is going to be

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Speaker 1: better with Harden running the show. But the question is,

447
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Speaker 1: when the chips are down and you're in that foxhole

448
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Speaker 1: and there's four minutes left and you're down too, is

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Speaker 1: Kyrie still gonna be like, hey, James, okay, what do

450
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Speaker 1: you what do you think? Because listen, they've basically got

451
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Speaker 1: three guys who are gonna demand the ball rob and

452
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Speaker 1: that could be their undoing. I don't know. Kevin durant Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like with the Warriors, this was this was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be a question. Remember it was like who's

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Speaker 1: your guy in the fourth? Is it? Is it Curry?

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Speaker 1: Is it Clay? Is it k D? It's the system

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Speaker 1: and they had that system. And I challenge you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think I bring up this quarter more than any

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Speaker 1: quarter ever in that I've seen in sports in the

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Speaker 1: last decade. Fourth quarter A third sorry third quarter game

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Speaker 1: seven Rockets Warriors in Houston. The Warriors were down ten

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Speaker 1: at halftime. They came out and it wasn't like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's Kevin Duran's time to shine, it's Steph Curry take over. No,

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Speaker 1: they ran their system and it was unleashed, unstoppable, the

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Speaker 1: system that they had, Brob, do you remember this quarter?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's It was the quarter where I think

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Speaker 1: Jordan Bell had two between the legs passes to Curry

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Speaker 1: who would like pass and then run to the corner

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Speaker 1: and Jordan Bell dropped it between his legs on a

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Speaker 1: screen or something, and Curry just splashed and then Kevin

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Speaker 1: Duran and transition and Clay pull up. It was just

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Speaker 1: like that. That system is incredible. I can can nash

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Speaker 1: get them to run that in Brooklyn? I personally I

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Speaker 1: don't think that that would work there. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it would either. And you know that the only

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Speaker 1: time that the Sixers or the only time that the

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Speaker 1: Warriors were ever really challenged during that run when they

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Speaker 1: were healthy, was when the Rockets forced them out of

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Speaker 1: that system and said, Okay, we're just gonna switch everything

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Speaker 1: and encourage you to go is so with k D. Now,

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Speaker 1: k D is awesome, and he kept that He actually

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Speaker 1: I think one at least one of those games by himself.

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Speaker 1: But the problem though, is that system was so elite

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Speaker 1: that no single player would have been good enough to

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Speaker 1: outdo the system. So once they got away from that

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Speaker 1: started running their action again later in the series, that's

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Speaker 1: when they were able to be Houston. Um, by the way,

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Speaker 1: real quickly on Kyrie Irving, shout out to him for

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Speaker 1: doing what every American citizen I would love to do,

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Speaker 1: and that is h take your birthday week off under

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Speaker 1: the guise of a family matter. I love that. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell our boss Scott Shapiro that, you know, I'm

493
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Speaker 1: just going through some stuff at home in the middle

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Speaker 1: of August. You know, for a weekend I got to

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Speaker 1: be off and it just coincides with my birthday. Well, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you if you think you've brass balls like Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 1: Don't do it in August when there's nothing going on,

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Speaker 1: doing the football playoffsmanoffs, do it like in in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Do do in November eight? You know what

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Speaker 1: I need some time off in the middle of November

501
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: football season? What what college football has happened in NFL, NBA?

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Speaker 1: College hoops? And I know you like I'm talking Rob

503
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: g into like college hoops and you gotta just bounce.

504
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: You're gonna piece out for a couple of days and

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Speaker 1: vanish like Kyrie Um. By the way, I did just

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Speaker 1: look up the box score of that Warriors Rockets game seven.

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Speaker 1: In the third quarter, that pivotal third quarter, when they

508
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: trailed by ten at halftime, outscored the Rockets thirty three fifteen. That,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is the game where the Rockets missed.

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Speaker 1: Was a twenty five straight threes, some insane number like

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Speaker 1: so Durant had thirty four in that game, he had

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Speaker 1: five threes, Curry had twenty seven, ten and nine, he

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Speaker 1: had seven threes, Clay nineteen and it was like the

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00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: Big Three just obliterated them. And I mean, listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna freak out a little bit but I had

516
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: a lot of money on the Warriors in that game,

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00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: and they were down ten at half. And I haven't

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Speaker 1: sweat like that in a while, Rob, honestly, and plus

519
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: like my credibility was on the line because all I

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00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: had said all along was They're gonna smoke these fraudulent rockets.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying it all season. Uh, get the hell

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Speaker 1: out of here with Harden and Chris Paul, these guys

523
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: are jokers, no shot um. And of course Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: was injured and Uh couldn't go in Game six and seven.

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Speaker 1: Remember the famous I'm gonna shimmy in Steph Curry's face

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Speaker 1: after hitting a three and they take a three to

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Speaker 1: lead in Game five. I don't know if you guys

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Speaker 1: remember that hit the shimmy in Curry's face and then

529
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Speaker 1: like a minute later pulled his hamstring. It was done

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Speaker 1: for the series. The basketball gods would not let it happen.

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Speaker 1: Rob g Yeah. Well, the one thing I do remember

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Speaker 1: about that series, but where we wrapped this this trade

533
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Speaker 1: deadline conversation up is I used to work with crom

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Speaker 1: Butler around that same time. We had a weekend show

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Speaker 1: together during that series, and he told us point blank.

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Speaker 1: I think it was off the air. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he hid it on the air. Was I promise you

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul is gonna get hurt during this series? And

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00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: we said, well why he's like, because I love Chris.

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Speaker 1: He's a great guy, is a great player, but he

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Speaker 1: wants it so bad he's gonna be like on edge

542
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: and so tense the entire series. He's either gonna he's like,

543
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: he's gonna spraining ankle, he's gonna twist something, or he's

544
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: gonna pop a hammy wash, I promise, And sure enough

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00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: that happened, and I was just like, wow, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen somebody predict an injury and have it come true.

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Speaker 1: So that was yeah, alright, so so quickly, now with

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline coming up later today, of the guys

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Speaker 1: that we mentioned, Kyle Lowry, Alonzo Ball, Aaron Gordon, maybe

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Speaker 1: someone else you'd haven't mentioned, who do you think gets

551
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: moved where to? Who do you think stays? What? What's

552
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: your predictions for the rest of the day? Real quick

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Speaker 1: before that, I you know, I just dawned upon me

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Speaker 1: as I'm looking over the a Lonzo stats trying to

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Speaker 1: understand your love for him and why you think he's

556
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Speaker 1: going to be a factor? And Rob, you know, I

557
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: think one of the best aspects you can have is

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00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: not just seeing the points in your argument, but seeing

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Speaker 1: the points in the other person's argument. And for the

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Speaker 1: first time, I just thought, like, why did these guys

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Speaker 1: like Alonzo so much? I don't get it. And it

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Speaker 1: dawned upon me why I'm out on him. First impressions.

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Speaker 1: You guys know this. First impressions are enormous and it

564
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: stinks that they matter so much, but they do. And

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach my kids, Hey, first impressions matter.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you go to your first practice for

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Speaker 1: the team and you meet the coach, you look him

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Speaker 1: in the eye, you shake hands, obviously pre coronavirus whatever,

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Speaker 1: and you know you've gotta look alive. When you go

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Speaker 1: to the first day of school and your teachers there, yes, yes, ma'am, no,

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Speaker 1: you know, be pleasant, yes, Mrs whatever. And Lonzo Ball's

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Speaker 1: first impression, Rob was just terrible. It was you know,

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Speaker 1: it was like this guy's hype, this is the number

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Speaker 1: two pick. And it wasn't just first impression, Rob, you

575
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Speaker 1: know this, he just wasn't good for the first two years.

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Speaker 1: That's not true. That's just not true. He was the

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Speaker 1: youngest up until his brother. This season, he was the

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Speaker 1: youngest player in NBA history have a triple double. I

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Speaker 1: think it was like his tenth game. He had a

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Speaker 1: twenty plus point triple double in Phoenix. You're challenging me

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Speaker 1: on it. He was not good as a rookie. He's

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Speaker 1: got Ben Simmons can't shoot. Do you think he's not

583
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Speaker 1: a good player? But Ben Simmons is still putting up

584
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Speaker 1: other stats. Yeah, that's what I think. Alonzo's rookieyear, I

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Speaker 1: don't even have it in front of me, was like

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Speaker 1: ten seven and seven. Yet. Yeah, so as a rookie

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Speaker 1: with no talent around him, he was putting with those

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Speaker 1: kind of numbers. And it's and it's exactly why that potential.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's that great now, but the potential

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Speaker 1: to what he can be is why reportedly New Orleans

591
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Speaker 1: is saying we will give you a Lonzo ball for

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Speaker 1: why did you take the Steven Adams or the Eric

593
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: Blitzo contact off her hands. It's the same thing the

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Speaker 1: Lakers did with the Angelo Russell and said, hey, we

595
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: gotta attach something good to get rid of Moscov. It's

596
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Speaker 1: so funny that you mentioned Ben Simmons can't shoot. So

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Speaker 1: I did look this up. Lonzo ten seven and six

598
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: point nine, ten seven and seven on the surface, not

599
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: bad number two pick overall. He didn't even make first

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Speaker 1: team All Rookie, Like how it was he that good? Dude?

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Speaker 1: Even first team All Rookie. Are you ready? And this

602
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: is another reason that people like Kuzmare than Alonzo. First

603
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Speaker 1: Team All Rookie, Kuzma, marken In Tatum, Donovan, Mitchell, Ben Simmons,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma, who went like in the first round makes

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Speaker 1: first team All Rookie. The guy Alonzo who went second

606
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Speaker 1: makes second team. Who did they trade for Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 1: We'll give you a Lonzo. We're not trading Kuzma. Had

608
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with that. That's a common misconception, and

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Speaker 1: it had to do with didn't know I had to

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Speaker 1: do with the salary. He didn't make enough money. The

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Speaker 1: reason why Ingram and Alonzo had to both be in

612
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: the deal was because they were the only ones that

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Speaker 1: were making like a combined fifteen million or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Because it was either Josh Carter Kyle Kuzma. That's what

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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: it came down to first team all rookie Kuzmas. I like,

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Speaker 1: for first impressions, would you agree? First impressions matter? And

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Speaker 1: maybe that's why people are out on Alonzo. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: see gassing you up, you know, Oh gosh, save some

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Speaker 1: records for me. I'm probably being overly harsh on Alonzo,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure you guys are gonna slide to my

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Speaker 1: Instagram d ms and be like, yo, layoff Alonzo. You know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just this this idea that he's gonna get twenty

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Speaker 1: million and he he's a big deal around um, you know,

624
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Speaker 1: today's trade deadline. I think about this for sec rob

625
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Speaker 1: Alonzo was probably the number Was it just salary or

626
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Speaker 1: was he the number two piece the Pel's got in

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00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: that deal? Or was it like draft picks? The draft

628
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Speaker 1: picks I think were more important. I think it was

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Speaker 1: grum draft picks a Lonzo in terms of what they've value.

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Speaker 1: They just look back at that deal and everybody's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers gave up too much. Really they want a title.

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Speaker 1: And now two years later, look, the Pelicans are possibly

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Speaker 1: parting ways with Alonzo, and who the hell knows what

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Speaker 1: the future is. A brandon ingram like he's really really good,

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Speaker 1: but can he be a number two under title winning team?

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know? All right, I'm rambling anyways, All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to run through these quickly. Lonzo Ball

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Speaker 1: Is he a Pelican Friday morning? He stays on the Pelicans?

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry sixers for what? Just whatever, you don't care.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna push all in. If you're feeling they they've

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Speaker 1: got they I mean, I assume they've got draft picks, right,

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Speaker 1: they haven't traded for a lot um. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what they can give up, but I think they've got

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Speaker 1: to make a move to get you know, Darryl Morey's

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Speaker 1: a gambler, right, you know that. I think Morey goes

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Speaker 1: all in and gets Kyle Lowry. Okay, Aaron Gordon, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go with go ahead and agree with you. Boston

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Speaker 1: Celtics on the spot. Is there even a sleeper team

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Speaker 1: for him right now? Portland, I think is the sleeper

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Speaker 1: team that's being mentioned. They are a small forward away,

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Speaker 1: but they've been a small forward away. It's always been like,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, if they could get Draymond Green, well, shit,

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Speaker 1: if half the teams could get Draymond Green, that would

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Speaker 1: be a big difference. Here's the last name. I think

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Speaker 1: that we haven't even talked about this one, but this

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Speaker 1: is the one I think is most likely to be moved.

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Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo such an interesting guy right went to Indiana,

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Speaker 1: was a budding star, goes I think number two overall,

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Speaker 1: and then comes out and was just like, oh, he's

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Speaker 1: in Orlando where you know great players go to become relevant,

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Speaker 1: and doesn't really do anything. Then he shipped uh okay,

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Speaker 1: see he was on that RUSS team post Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: and he's again fifteen points a game, Like, well, is

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Speaker 1: this guy that good? Then goes to Indie I think

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Speaker 1: in the Paul George trade, and that's when he blew

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Speaker 1: up and it was like, oh, this guy's in alpha

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Speaker 1: twenty three a game lad the egan steals. I think

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Speaker 1: he went toe to toe with Lebron in the first

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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs if you remember there was no

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Speaker 1: Kyrie right. And then the problem is then he gets

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Speaker 1: hurt the next year and he hasn't been able to

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Speaker 1: stay healthy. So Victor Oladipo, all of a sudden, it's

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Speaker 1: like twenty eight. I don't see it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where you were? Are you on Oladipo. I think he's

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Speaker 1: definitely gonna get traded, and I think that the team

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Speaker 1: that can afford to kind of take a chance on

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Speaker 1: him would be a team like the Knicks. That that's

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Speaker 1: my my hot take, And I think pair what Julius Randall,

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Speaker 1: r J Barrett Derrick Rose right, because he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: cost you anything and it's not a lot of people

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Speaker 1: can absorb that one dollar contracts, right because the Rockets

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Speaker 1: are just looking to unload, right, Yes, that actually makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Um, But then you know, Victor

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Speaker 1: Oladipo goes to the Knicks and he's gonna be chucking

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Speaker 1: and ducking because he wants to get paid in the

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Speaker 1: off season. Yep, exactly. I I just don't that is

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Speaker 1: that feasible? Though? Like at this point, rob Alonzo ball, Okay,

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Speaker 1: John Collins once mill? Um, you know, Victor Oladipo once

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Speaker 1: twenty mill Like I know that the NBA sometimes has

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Speaker 1: monopoly money, but at what point in the NBA do

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Speaker 1: we reach the level where it's like, if you're totally

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Speaker 1: out of the mix, like Orlando or Minnesota, you just

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Speaker 1: why would we pay twenty mill? For a guy when

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Speaker 1: we could just stink and get a high draft pick,

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Speaker 1: aren't we headed? There were like there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: batch of teams at the bottom. That's like you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not like Houston could say, oh, let's make Alonzo

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Speaker 1: or next point guard. I mean, we've got John Wall

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Speaker 1: he's hurt all the time, but let's make Alonzo our

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Speaker 1: next point guard. And then it's like, why why don't

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Speaker 1: we just stink for a couple of years, load up

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Speaker 1: on high picks and do what? Okay, see did they

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Speaker 1: drafted Russ high, Harden high, Kevin Durant high, and boom,

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Speaker 1: they were like a major threat. Why spend on free agency?

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Speaker 1: We already had that happen. It was called the process

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And because of that, Sam Hanky he cannot

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Speaker 1: get a job in sports. That's why. Really, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: we we've already seen that happen. So they blew a

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Speaker 1: game seven freakishly on the Kawhi Leonard shot to a

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Speaker 1: team that won the title, and it didn't work. No,

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Speaker 1: I think it worked fine. But for whatever reason, Sam

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Speaker 1: Hanky is you know, his name is muddy around the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Like what he did, people don't like it. I would

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Speaker 1: hire that guy hard. I need we need to get

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Speaker 1: an NBA team, by the way. Uh yeah, So anyways,

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Speaker 1: all right, I was gonna say, my goal is to um,

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Speaker 1: is to get an NBA team. UM at least a

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Speaker 1: bite of an apple, like a um uh you know

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Speaker 1: what am I? I'm am in my early twenties, so

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Speaker 1: give me alright. Anyways, So that wraps up the NBA

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Speaker 1: trade deadline. Hopefully there's some action we could talk about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you then,