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Speaker 1: you guys. You have the Yankees hat to match every

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Speaker 1: shirt you own, dam right, I do because I'm a fan.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know, did you have more Cavalricci's in

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Speaker 1: the nineties or Yankees hats in the twenty twenties. It's

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Speaker 1: funny you ask. I had thirty five pair of Cavalriccies.

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Speaker 1: make thirty five different styles? I'll tell you, because I

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Speaker 1: was a spoiled, rotten asshole. Yeah, and now I probably

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Speaker 1: have sixty five different colored Yankee hats. But look, they

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Speaker 1: got tradition and pinstripes. They don't have city connects. I

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Speaker 1: you know. So thanks for the driplement maazing. I got

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. I'm sure you do as well.

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Speaker 1: It's a big fight weekend. We're gonna get to that.

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Speaker 1: And it's an anniversary of one of the pair cartoons.

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Speaker 1: I have that pair that is like the stonewashed that ones.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you had those. Yeah, well, let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: Episode ninety Oh. By the way, what are we doing

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Speaker 1: All right, now, last night sort of somber out here

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Speaker 1: it around, him and Luca and Austin Reeves. They fell flat.

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Speaker 1: There was no Gusto in the fourth quarter again, like

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Speaker 1: so after the game, it's like a dud An fight.

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Speaker 1: I thought for sure they'd win last night in l

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Speaker 1: A and maybe lose away, but couldn't even pull it

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Speaker 1: out yesterday, ran out of gas. Lebron went out for

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Speaker 1: a glass of wine with his friends while Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 1: did a lap around Crypto and everyone's talking about this

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what so the fun Yo, that's

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Speaker 1: even cooler than when Wade Box rode the horse around

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Speaker 1: the Stadium's he's taking it in. Man, that's really cool,

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Speaker 1: really cool. And if he keeps this run going, he's

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Speaker 1: the face of the NBA, whether he wants to be

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Speaker 1: or not, because he's taken down some legends. So I

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Speaker 1: ask you, wouldn't you make when you take a lamp

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Speaker 1: around if you just took down Luca Lebron and the Lakers. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And everyone was saying Lakers and five. When the Lakers

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Speaker 1: been seven, No, how about Tea Wolves in five? So

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Speaker 1: they played big. You know, look around the NBA, what's

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Speaker 1: left and what is your rooting interest as a casual

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Speaker 1: fan or shit, if your team's out of it, who

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Speaker 1: are you pulling for. I've taken a look at all

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Speaker 1: the teams left, and I'm making a case for each

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Speaker 1: one of them. And you tell me where you think

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Speaker 1: the te Wolves. Never won an NBA title. You saw

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Speaker 1: Are you down with the Tea Wolves? Well, like you said,

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Speaker 1: when your team's out of it, and if anything, I

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Speaker 1: live out here in LA fifteen plus years, but we're

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Speaker 1: from the East coast. Now, I'm like, hmmm, do I

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Speaker 1: care that much about the Timberwolves? Not really, but our

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Speaker 1: Who's it gonna make happy? And I'm not kissing My

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Speaker 1: but I'd like to see our boss happy. He's a

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Speaker 1: cool dude. That's his team. Also, small market team, proving that, hey,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. That's number one. How about not the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: the other LA team that's the red headed stepchild? Can

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Speaker 1: you say that anymore of the NBA? The Clippers, Kawhi,

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Speaker 1: James Harden, they're still trying the o'doyles of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: What if the Clippers find the way to come back

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Speaker 1: like I said, you gotta go with your friend's rooting interest.

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Speaker 1: We're out here. It'd be cool to see them pull

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Speaker 1: it out. Or if you'll somewhere for Clip and MONSI yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: But it'd be cool to see Kawhi show that he

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Speaker 1: a cool story. San Antonio, Toronto, it'd be a great story.

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Speaker 1: Because would be three organizations he won with. Someone told

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Speaker 1: she said, in the eighties it was cool to say

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Speaker 1: it's not cool to clip, Like that's like saying, what's cooler?

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Speaker 1: Transformers or go bust? Everybody knows. So to see the

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Speaker 1: Little Brother, the Little Ugly Stuff Brother, the Little Brother

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Speaker 1: because this series is still going on to prove that

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Speaker 1: the Joker really is a generational guy. If Denver somehow

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Speaker 1: This exciting? I think this way you're going? How about

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Speaker 1: By the way, the only team I haven't included my

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Buckets. Now, you know, you hit the nail on

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Speaker 1: They're still doing it together him and Draymond Green. But

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Speaker 1: rooting interest, my take isn't, well, who's my friend rooting for?

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Speaker 1: What's the closest city or whatever it's? Are there players

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Speaker 1: he found himself in a greater position and they've been

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Speaker 1: unstoppable since. I've always liked Jimmy Butler, so I think

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Speaker 1: when your team's out of it, you root for players.

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Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily rooting for the Golden State Warriors. I

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Speaker 1: they've won enough. But when it comes to Jimmy Butler,

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Speaker 1: here's a guy that's been playing his ass off in

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Speaker 1: the postseason. Every time he's in it, you just pull it.

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Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth, here's a guy. Here's the guy that I

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Speaker 1: that storyline. And do you know the backstory of a

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. He is a guy that bounced around from

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want sympathy, He just wants to kick ass,

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Speaker 1: and I'm rooting for something in common with Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 1: We both love a nice cup of cool fi. What

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is Jimmy Butler is a guy that went

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Speaker 1: And you know, he has such great fight and he's

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Speaker 1: a cool dude. I root for players at this point,

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Speaker 1: not teams. You said this about shoe Hey, you said

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Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, and a lot of those guys that have five.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone's getting there right, but five

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Speaker 1: It might be the obvious answer, like it's say, it's

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Speaker 1: it's just not my personal answer, but I understand a

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Speaker 1: Every great every Hall of Famer has to win that

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Speaker 1: first one. What if this is year one and then

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a decade from now, we're like, yo, SGA,

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Speaker 1: he has three. Remember the first one back in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, So let's not count that out at all.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that's probably likely. All right to the East. Now,

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure people in Cleveland do. All right. Halliburton

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Speaker 1: extra lemon to get you excited. Bonghia Himymonia is also

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Speaker 1: he also fought Canelo. But he's a great fighter. So

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Speaker 1: that's Saturday. Enjoy the fights, enjoy your single on my

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Speaker 1: own weekend, and remember those vocals forever. Hey, enjoy your

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. We'll see you back on Fox Sports Radio tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Until then, baby, see you in the over Promised land later. Goodbye,