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Speaker 1: is up? Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, November. First. Hope everybody had a splendid month

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Speaker 1: of October. Halloween was safe and candy filled. I will

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Speaker 1: be celebrating the candy by getting a crown. Yes, a

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Speaker 1: start the month of November. Very very fun and exciting,

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Speaker 1: also exciting, Holy Caldy. NFL trade deadline was actually kind

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Speaker 1: couldn't end October with more exciting news and November with excitement.

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Speaker 1: We get James Harden getting shipped from the seventy six

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Speaker 1: ers to the paper clips. He gets his wish. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to that, but we got to start with the

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Speaker 1: are not gonna like on Harden and Embiid and you

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Speaker 1: guys can get all excited about draft picks five years

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Speaker 1: get a clue. Come on, all right, let's start with

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Let's go to the big move, the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers, bolstering what was already a pretty

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Speaker 1: Now it has not been amazing as it has been

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Speaker 1: same player since. As a rookie, he was phenomenal. But

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Speaker 1: He's got five sacks, and some of the advanced metrics

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Speaker 1: So the Niners pick up Chase Young, and instantly my

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers defensive strategy is this, we want

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Speaker 1: go out and go get Derek Henry, go get Devonte Adams. Well, Jason,

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Speaker 1: like you could look it up every October. Smart teams

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Speaker 1: a lot of other contenders make splashy plays like this.

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Speaker 1: This is just a good move. Now, you know, NFL

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Speaker 1: People are just they're not as aggressive. Maybe it's from

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Speaker 1: I'm just surprised that nobody else really did anything significant.

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Speaker 1: Who's in the mix, Like everybody thought that, then the

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Speaker 1: Lions go get Donovan People's Jones, Like, okay, you've got

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Speaker 1: depth of receiver. Amara Saint Brown's always hurt. Jamison Williams

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Speaker 1: without the blitz. That's what they want. Problem is, or

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you're a Washington Commanders fan, obviously

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Speaker 1: you know, let's just say, best case scenario, the ninety

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Speaker 1: A lot of questions in Washington. Now. They also, besides

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Speaker 1: Chase Young, they also ship Montes Sweat, the immortal defensive

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Speaker 1: end combos of Young and Sweaty. They sent a Montes

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Speaker 1: their lesson last year with Chase Claypool. Remember last year,

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Speaker 1: the future and living the present. Who are the Sixers

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Speaker 1: better than among the contenders in the East. They're not better.

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Speaker 1: This trade does not make them better than Boston. Getting

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Speaker 1: make you better than Boston. Getting cap space and future

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Speaker 1: picks does not make you better than Milwaukee. What this

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Speaker 1: does for Daryl Moury is he's attempting to get a

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Speaker 1: stay of execution with Joel Embiid because everybody around the

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Speaker 1: league knows, and they've been talking about it for months

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Speaker 1: that Joel Embiid is friendly with Harden, was unhappy with

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Speaker 1: what went down, is unhappy with the constant nonsense in

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Speaker 1: And from Joel Embiid's perspective, he's sitting here wasting away, like, guys,

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Speaker 1: what am I? Tracy McGrady putting up huge numbers, getting

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Speaker 1: all NBA recognition, and I can't get to a finals

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Speaker 1: like t mac in his prime, Remember he couldn't go anywhere,

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Speaker 1: and he was with Daryl Moury, by the way, like

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Speaker 1: you come out of this and Darryl Mory's basically going

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Speaker 1: to Embiid and saying, guess what, forty five million cap

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Speaker 1: space anybody becomes available at the deadline. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, we can go get him any big

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Speaker 1: time star Donovan Mitchell becomes available, we can go get him.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a selling point. We can GoGet We've

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Speaker 1: got options, which is great, But Joel Embid's gonna look

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Speaker 1: back at him and say, dude, we've had options here

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Speaker 1: for like six seven years. Now, can we just win?

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Speaker 1: Can we do this now? Boston went and got Porzingis

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Speaker 1: and Drew Holliday, Milwaukee went and got Dame Lillard. You

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Speaker 1: got me cap space and future pet draft picks. Really,

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Speaker 1: they're trying to win, now, what are we doing? And

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Speaker 1: then at that point more he's like, well, oh, the

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Speaker 1: next off season, who wants to come on the market,

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Speaker 1: Just the way that they went and got George or

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Speaker 1: all this stuff we can have. We can go get

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Speaker 1: whoever we want. We've got options. I just wonder when

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is going to be sick and tired of

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Speaker 1: hearing about the future. What's wrong with the president? Why

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Speaker 1: is there no present? And that's why as a sixer

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Speaker 1: fin Yeah, I get it, you're excited about it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: let me just to make sure I get this right.

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Speaker 1: You're excited, You've got a twenty twenty eight unprotected first

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Speaker 1: round pick. Twenty twenty eight? Will the world still be

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Speaker 1: spinning on its axis in twenty twenty eight? World Darryl

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Speaker 1: Morey still be with the Sixers? And yes, Jason haha,

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Speaker 1: it's five years away. Let's be real, it'll be four

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Speaker 1: years away here in two months. Okay, got it? Guyah. Also,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers have an owner who spends more money than

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Speaker 1: anyone in the NBA. Money is no object to Steve Baumer,

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Speaker 1: the Microsoft guy. Okay, do you really think that he's

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Speaker 1: willing to go build that new facility? They will be

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Speaker 1: going into the new facility here in a year, and

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Speaker 1: you think he's not going to spend everything in his

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Speaker 1: power to just keep this thing afloat and buy whoever

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Speaker 1: he needs to. Do you really think this twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: eight unprotected is going to be like a top five pick?

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Speaker 1: Is it? What kind of dream world are you living in? Oh? Well,

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Speaker 1: Kawhi is gonna be old. Who the hell knowshe? Kawhi

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Speaker 1: Leonard's gonna be in four years? He might be out

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Speaker 1: of league, you know, Russell Westbrook's almost certainly would be

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Speaker 1: out of league. But there's always new guys and money

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Speaker 1: talks and Bomber's gonna go get whatever he wants. I

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Speaker 1: just I cannot get excited about it. I started reading

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how many? How many second round picks? Four

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Speaker 1: or five? Six? Who cares? What are the What did

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Speaker 1: the sixers do to get better today? And the answer is, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. We got. We got Joel Embiid,

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Speaker 1: and we got the kid from Kentucky who's lighting it up.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we got that overpaid guy who used

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Speaker 1: I don't know many. They were up on Boston three

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Speaker 1: to two last year and couldn't close them out, and

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Speaker 1: that was with Harden, and now the roster's gotten weaker.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, listen, I totally understand it. You love

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Speaker 1: the cap space and the potential to go after people

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight first round pick from the Clippers. It's unprotected.

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Speaker 1: All that could be so good. It could be, it

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Speaker 1: could be amazing. I don't know. I just I can't

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Speaker 1: rock with you there. Yes, the Daryl Morey did get

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Speaker 1: one win. He did not take on any bad salary,

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Speaker 1: which is all, which is a huge win. But I

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Speaker 1: just see one team got better in the now with

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, and one team is still selling hope for

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Speaker 1: the future, and that's the Sixers. And that's all they've

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Speaker 1: been able to sell for a while now. So kind

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Speaker 1: of disappointing times if you're a Sixers fan, I don't

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Speaker 1: see any world where the Sixers are legitimately contending for

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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals this year. I suppose, you know, an

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Speaker 1: injury here, an injury there, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the Sixers find themselves finally in the conference finals. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't get it if I'm a Sixers fan,

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Speaker 1: Like the potential to lose Joel Embiid is very real.

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Speaker 1: I would say Joel Embiid is more likely to get

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Speaker 1: law leave the Sixers than he is to get to

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Speaker 1: the finals with the Sixers. Is that a fair? Fair statement?

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Speaker 1: Like they're good, they can contend for a spot. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Maxie's ascending. I'm not ready to put him in all

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Speaker 1: NBA category just yet, although after three games he's certainly

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Speaker 1: playing like it. I don't know, I just I would

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Speaker 1: rather go for the glory now the way the Clippers

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Speaker 1: are as opposed to selling hope to Joel Embiid down

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Speaker 1: the road. All right, busy mid week podcast. I'll be

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Speaker 1: eating Halloween candy. If you need me, talk to you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow