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Speaker 2: We got a lot to get you today, Ephraim. What's

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Bree. Have her and Saga is gonna

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Speaker 4: We got Jason Tatum's been back down for a couple

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Speaker 4: But there's also been some some struggle bus going on to.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, big facts, big game coming up in about twenty

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Speaker 6: store you mentioned it is Jason Tatum's return to the floor.

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Speaker 6: He came back ten months post achilles tear, looking like

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Speaker 6: He's rebounding very well. But he just hasn't looked like

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Speaker 6: Jalen Brown like an MVP candidate, and it's because they're

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Speaker 6: As soon as Tatum came back, he's not shooting the

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Speaker 6: with one anonymous scout saying there's a lot of downside

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing, ephrom I think we're looking at a

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Speaker 4: Everyone knew he was hurt, He came back, he played,

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Speaker 4: But I do think athletes nowadays typically have come back

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Speaker 4: It's not exactly where we are now. Guys are able

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Speaker 2: But I look at it like this.

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Speaker 4: He ain't better than Puppet, you know, And that's just

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Speaker 4: when the opportunity strikes, we gotta go for it. Jalen Brown,

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Speaker 4: This as well, with playing sports, when you know your

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Speaker 4: We got what eighteen titles and I think maybe nineteen now.

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Speaker 4: But I'm just saying I think they're looking at it

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Speaker 4: We're at that place where titles is all that matters,

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Speaker 4: and I think they're willing to risk it.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know how much of a risk it

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Speaker 5: is in terms of now, what's the alternative not have

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Speaker 5: him come back and play. This is we're living, we're

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Speaker 5: living in the culture now, and Adam Silver has addressed

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Speaker 5: we're scratching our head like why is he coming back

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Speaker 5: to play? You can't have it both ways. You can't

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Speaker 5: that may not be smart for him to come back

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Speaker 5: and play. I'm all for players playing now. Medical technology

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Speaker 2: I am a gamer.

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Speaker 5: My whole households gamer, wife, me, kids, everybody wife too.

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Speaker 5: All right, what you guy? What's she playing? What you

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you, if you listen, a lot of guys

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Speaker 5: significant others because all they'd like to do is game.

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Speaker 5: And I'm you know, not to give out too much information,

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Speaker 5: but one of the most attractive and the sexiest things

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Speaker 5: I've ever heard.

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Speaker 2: When I came home.

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Speaker 5: From practice or whatever, I would hear my wife upstairs

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Speaker 5: in the game room talking trash online. Oh yeah to

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Speaker 5: somebody she was playing in Halo, like shotgun to the

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Speaker 5: face and don't be mad. Yes I am a girl.

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Speaker 5: Don't be mad. It's okay. I'm better than you, don't it. Man,

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Speaker 5: you want to talk about I'm like, Oh, I'm staying

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Speaker 5: with you forever. Yes, you better find commonalities in your marriage.

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Speaker 4: People, that's real. That's what happened to my wife one day.

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Speaker 4: I call her and she was, oh, but what's going on?

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Speaker 4: Rip Hamilton, He's like five for twenty Right now, I said, girl,

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Speaker 4: say something like that and.

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Speaker 2: You and me.

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Speaker 4: I will leave work right now, right now, all right,

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Speaker 4: all the way, We're gonna talk Lakers. Yes you're Squaddy

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Speaker 4: from Yes you too, rob Ge and a big question

455
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Speaker 4: about should somebody return. We'll talk about it next. Right now,

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Speaker 4: Brie's gonna get you set on what is trinny Hebry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I have no idea what they're going to do and

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Speaker 4: address that, like it's so funny from like we're talking

463
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Speaker 4: about tanking like it ain't been happening for twenty.

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Speaker 2: Five thirty five years. It might be more egregious.

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Speaker 4: We might have more networks and streaming, and obviously we

466
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Speaker 4: have more social media for people can complain on.

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Speaker 2: But it's like, dude, tank has been happening for so long.

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Speaker 2: Like we'd like to.

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Speaker 4: Reminisce about the eighties and nineties basketballs if every team

470
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Speaker 4: was great, like, no, you had six seven, eighteen seems

471
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Speaker 4: let's not get carried away every team. I can't tell

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Speaker 4: you one thing the Bucks were doing in the eighties

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Speaker 4: and nineties. You know, I can't tell you the trade. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: there's their answer. So I'm always like, tank has been

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Speaker 4: happening for so long.

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Speaker 5: But we mentioned it again, justif it reagis now though,

477
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Speaker 5: that's the problem, and we have more access to all

478
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Speaker 5: of the game, so you can see back in the day,

479
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Speaker 5: only about three folk games were on national television, So

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what, you know, the Pacers were doing, right,

481
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what the Clippers were doing.

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Speaker 2: No one would know that.

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Speaker 5: Now every game is televised, every game, Uh, you know,

484
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Speaker 5: everybody has a voice. We can see the tanking now.

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Speaker 5: Before then, we had no idea. We just were fixated

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Speaker 5: on our team or the team that was always playing

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Speaker 5: on primetime, which happens to Ben.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would well, you're right, and I would

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Speaker 4: add to that too, that there wasn't the same amount

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Speaker 4: of sports whatever you want to call them, debate shows,

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Speaker 4: sports radio shows, all these types of you know, television

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Speaker 4: shows where these things were coming up all the time.

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Speaker 2: It used to be you had one or two and

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Speaker 2: that was it.

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Speaker 4: Now every network's got one or two different sports shows

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Speaker 4: going on.

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Speaker 2: You got a million shows, million podcasts.

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Speaker 4: So these not to mention social media, so everybody has

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Speaker 2: You just mentioned your team, Rob G. The Lakers been

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Speaker 2: playing some really.

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Speaker 4: Good basketball over the last handful of weeks and obviously

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Speaker 4: they just lost to the Pistons, but got one going

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Speaker 4: to gets the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: That should be easy, toub.

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Speaker 4: A nice bounce back game for them, but a larger

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Speaker 4: conversation about what could be next for one Lebron James

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Speaker 4: next season.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Lakers right now, Belta az in Indiana, see they

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Speaker 6: can keep it going up seventeen in the first quarter.

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Speaker 5: We'll see.

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Speaker 6: But to your point, Sam Amic, longtime NBA insire currently

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Speaker 6: works at the Athletic, did a long form piece this

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Speaker 6: week on the Lakers and the surging Lakers. I know

521
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Speaker 6: they lost against Detroit, but they've been playing really good

522
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Speaker 6: ball over the road trip over the last month or so, right,

523
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Speaker 6: and a big reason why is Lebron James seems to

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Speaker 6: have slid himself willingly into the third role that he's

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Speaker 6: no longer dominating the ball. He's not trying to Jason

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Speaker 6: Tatum in and get his thirty usage rate like he's

527
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Speaker 6: he I'm gonna set screens, I'm gonna play defense, I'm

528
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Speaker 6: gonna pick and roll whatever I got to do to

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Speaker 6: help this team win.

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Speaker 5: And they're winning.

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Speaker 6: They're winning at a high clip. So Amic has now

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Speaker 6: suggested that given the way the Lakers have played with

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Speaker 6: Lebron in this supporting cast role, his expectation is the

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Speaker 6: likelihood that Lebron returns to LA next season, which previously

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Speaker 6: was considered No way in hell though that gonna happens.

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Speaker 5: He's done with the Lakers. Lakers done with him.

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Speaker 6: Amick believes that now that Lebron has accepted this role

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Speaker 6: and they're thriving, that this could be a sign of

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Speaker 6: things to come out. Only would Lebron come back for

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Speaker 6: one more season, maybe even two?

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Speaker 2: You on board with that?

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Speaker 5: Look, I've been hyper critical of the Lakers Lebron, this

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Speaker 5: whole situation.

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Speaker 2: Uh, in the vein of.

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Speaker 5: Lebron, James can't be the first option. He can't be

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Speaker 5: He can't have the ball in on his hands the

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Speaker 5: whole time. Whatever conversation him and JJ Reddick had about

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Speaker 5: a month ago has paid dividends. You can see the

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Speaker 5: Lakers being better. You can see the Lakers' defensive efficiency

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Speaker 5: raise because now that Lebron isn't expending so much energy

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Speaker 5: on the offensive side of the ball, He's able to

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Speaker 5: have flashes of brilliant defense, playing the passing lanes, getting

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Speaker 5: steals out on the fast break, easy buckets.

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Speaker 2: Those are the things.

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Speaker 5: If Lebron James in this current state is your third option,

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Speaker 5: you have a viable contending team. If Lebron James right

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Speaker 5: now is your third option, then yes, you have a

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Speaker 5: team that can tend for not only a conference championship

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Speaker 5: but also an NBA championship. That's my opinion. In this

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Speaker 5: current form, the way he's playing now and sacrificing get

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Speaker 5: it off the ball, that's what that's that's the IQ,

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Speaker 5: the basketball IQ that's made Lebron James the face of

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Speaker 5: the league for twenty years.

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Speaker 4: I think too, what might be helping you from and

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Speaker 4: you when you've done business with people, when you've had bosses,

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Speaker 4: when you've had managers in your case, we've had coaches too,

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Speaker 4: sometimes people who are just very direct with you. And

568
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Speaker 4: I think sometimes with the Bus family there was so

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Speaker 4: much family and loyalty and mixed in and ACQUIESC, the

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Speaker 4: acquiesc and Lebron's sitting there with Jeannie and Linda Rambitz

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Speaker 4: and it's just oh, ladies, night and all, and sometimes

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00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 4: you need somebody new ownership says hey, Bron, this is

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Speaker 4: what we're thinking, this is what we can offer, and

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying they have full conversations about next year,

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Speaker 4: but just.

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Speaker 2: Much more direct path.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, I think some pressure will be

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Speaker 4: on Rob Polinka.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lebron looks good. We know what austreams is.

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Speaker 4: We got to get that deal, keep him here and

581
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 4: Luca is Luca, but also we got to keep feeling

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Speaker 4: some pieces around them. But I have a feeling there's

583
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Speaker 4: just been direct what you mentioned JJ, Reddick a direct conversation, Bron.

584
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 4: This is only going to go as far as you

585
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Speaker 4: knowing how to win, knowing you're the only one who

586
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Speaker 4: can play multiple roles.

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Speaker 2: Luca is Luca. That's it. He can't do nothing else

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Speaker 2: but be Luca.

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Speaker 4: Austin reeves if you lose too much of him, then

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Speaker 4: he becomes, well, what's his point, Lebron. You can be

591
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Speaker 4: the guy tonight can drop thirty tonight, fifteen ten and

592
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Speaker 4: ten to not You could just be the back line defense,

593
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 4: blocking shots and rebounding. You're the only one who can

594
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Speaker 4: play those multitude of roles and versatile versatility in roles.

595
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Speaker 4: So him buying in JJ probably telling him that ownership,

596
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Speaker 4: probably becoming much more direct in conversation with them, not

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Speaker 4: a lot of the nuindows and kind of sodas and

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Speaker 4: the maybe maybes. I have a feeling that plays a

599
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 4: role in this too, Ephraim. I don't think Lebron ever

600
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Speaker 4: wanted to leave. I think he has an ego. I

601
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Speaker 4: think he's been the face of the league. I think

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Speaker 4: he's won them a title, so he feels like, don't

603
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Speaker 4: treat me like that. But I think things have changed

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Speaker 4: a little bit, and ultimately it's gonna come down to

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Speaker 4: me to money too.

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Speaker 2: Are you okay?

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Speaker 4: That's the base fifteen million dollars minimum league exception for you?

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Speaker 2: Is that cool? We know you had all the money

609
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Speaker 2: in the world, but are you okay? From a pride level?

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Speaker 4: When it says Lebron James on his NBA reference page

611
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Speaker 4: and we scroll down his salaries and it says fifteen meal,

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Speaker 4: is that alright with you?

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Speaker 2: If that's all right with you, we're willing to bring

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Speaker 2: you back. We think you've been great.

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Speaker 4: We thank you great in the locker room, you're great

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Speaker 4: for the brand of Lakerdom and let's roll.

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Speaker 2: But I think they're going to be very matter of

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Speaker 2: fact with him.

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Speaker 5: And you make an excellent point that is the caveat

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Speaker 5: the price tag. Lebron James would love to come back

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Speaker 5: to la His family's here, some plays on the team, right,

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Speaker 5: His companies are in businesses here. Not to say he

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Speaker 5: doesn't have them elsewhere, but I'm sure he'd like to

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Speaker 5: be here in the winter and daughters in school in Cleveland.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it'll it'll be a lot to ask to

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Speaker 5: have him uproot the family and chase out the last

627
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Speaker 5: year or a few years of his story career somewhere else. Now,

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Speaker 5: if he can come in and he does and he

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Speaker 5: doesn't have an ego about the amount of money that

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Speaker 5: they want to pay him or or can pay him

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Speaker 5: for the team to still be better built out and

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Speaker 5: get a little better, that's even Just think about it.

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Speaker 5: If he stays at a reduced price, that means his

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Speaker 5: son gets to stay on the team. They still get

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Speaker 5: to have that father son relationship as they go through

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Speaker 5: next season, and also he gets to really save his

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Speaker 5: body until the playoffs. I think that's the scariest thing

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Speaker 5: for the Lakers this year is they figured out a

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Speaker 5: way to coexist.

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Speaker 2: They figured out a way to do it.

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Speaker 5: Now you put this format in a seven game series,

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Speaker 5: that's going to be a hard out for any other team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I've said this before he I would

645
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Speaker 4: be much closer in agreement with you had this been.

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Speaker 2: Six to seven years ago, that run.

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Speaker 4: Of Lebron and Kyrie, some of the runs of the

648
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 4: Tatums and the Browns were kind of just were a

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Speaker 4: couple of guys who are very good and then some

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Speaker 4: pieces around you got a shot. Now, I just think

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Speaker 4: you gotta have a bunch of horses, a bunch of

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Speaker 4: dogs alive. The Pacers last year, who knew that was coming,

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Speaker 4: a chance to get to the finals? All out of

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Speaker 4: thunder a lout what the Celtics have become with it's

655
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 4: just a bunch of really good players. Looking at the Pistons,

656
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 4: you gotta just have a bunch of guys now. Spurs, now,

657
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 4: let me just sleep on the Spurs. I don't know

658
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 4: if just having a guy or two is it, And

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Speaker 4: I kind of worry about that, even with Denver a

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Speaker 4: little bit. Do they have enough depth. It's not that

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Speaker 4: they don't have a guy and Joker and then Jamal,

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Speaker 4: it's do you have guys wave after wave who can

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Speaker 4: give you the hardest seven minutes they can play and

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Speaker 4: then go sit back down and bringing another wave of

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Speaker 4: guys ninety four foot defense, playing hard team ball, and

666
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Speaker 4: then they can go get sit down. And that's when

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00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 4: you watch a thunder You're like, all forgot about him,

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00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 4: all forgot. Dang, he can play too. Oh you look

669
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: at it again. How the Pistons beat the Lakers. Just

670
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 4: a bunch of guys who play hard for the team.

671
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 4: And I wonder if the Lakers. That's to me what

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00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 4: worries me about them. It's not that they won't be

673
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Speaker 4: top heavy, it's the other things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, in the playoff series, the bench gets shorter anyway,

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Speaker 5: So I'm not talking about the regular season. I'm talking

676
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Speaker 5: about in the playoffs. That rotation gets real tight in

677
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Speaker 5: the playoffs because you know, you have time and breaks

678
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Speaker 5: in between games, and so I'm not too concerned with

679
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Speaker 5: that going into the playoffs. A veteran led team going

680
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Speaker 5: into the playoffs. You I don't need, you know, Jared

681
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Speaker 5: Vanderbilt to play twenty eight minutes in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I don't need that, right.

683
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 4: But you need some who you need. The where I

684
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 4: disagree is you need a stopper. I get your sentiment,

685
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 4: but yeah, you gotta stop.

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Speaker 5: That's what that's what Marcus Smart is is in the

687
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: line of great right, and he's he's been the unsung hero.

688
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 5: And let's not sleep on the Luke Canard trade. Right,

689
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 5: Having Canard lead the league and three point efficiency and

690
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 5: makes as huge. So now when he's he just won

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Speaker 5: the game, you know, three days ago, four days ago

692
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Speaker 5: on the last second shot. Now that you have a

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Speaker 5: viable shooter who can space out and now that high

694
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Speaker 5: pick and roll with Lebron and Luca at the end

695
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Speaker 5: of games and Canard at the top or in the corner,

696
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 5: Now that looks like something. Now you can really go

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Speaker 5: get a bucket when you need one. Why didn't that

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Speaker 5: work with Gaye Vincent? My gosh, yeah, you got a

699
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 5: couple of years tries that did well. First of all,

700
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Speaker 5: Gabe was very rarely available. Yea, remember he missed a

701
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 5: whole year for whatever. He's just sitting over there with

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00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 5: the braids just hanging out. Well, and then when he

703
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 5: did play, he didn't have that level of efficiency that

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00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 5: you would need from someone coming off the bench to

705
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 5: really put up points.

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Speaker 4: I was making fun on the Lakers called the Tres Lechez.

707
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 4: We was called the Laker. Now it's just it's out

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00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 4: what number we own now? Roger six seven, the Lakers

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00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 4: named Luke Kenard, They snow time snow Lakers, the snow

710
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 4: Time Lakers.

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Speaker 2: What they call uh white players in the league. I

712
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 2: can tell you that Snowtime Lakers is crazy. All right?

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Speaker 2: Tie rec Player of the day on the way.

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Speaker 4: Plus we gotta get you ready for the standalone baseball game.

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Speaker 2: Do you like how they're doing this? We'll tell you next.

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Speaker 4: It's the couple Kelvin Ephram who's in for Rob Stick

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Speaker 4: with your boys Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Washington Ephram Salam who's in for Rob Rob out there

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Speaker 4: and enjoying the Yankees and the Giants the first game

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Speaker 4: of the MLB season opening night. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 4: You got this standalone game tonight with the Yankees and

742
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 4: the Giants as they kick off of course the MLB season.

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00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: This is this is one of those things where I'm

744
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 4: not gonna lie you from a couple of things. When

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00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 4: I first thought of this, Rob is there, so I

746
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 4: know he's excited about this. What I just, uh, if

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00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 4: you feel like if you're gonna do it, I thought,

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00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 4: what wouldn't the raining champs the Dodgers be there, just

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00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 4: kind of like big hey, they wanted a ringing champs,

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Speaker 4: you know, hey, ring night instead.

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00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: Of ring day, ring, you know, have a little ring night.

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00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 4: Not to mention, if I'm commissioner giving me, you gonna

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00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 4: give me the Yankees and the Dodgers. We're gonna give

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00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 4: you a potential world series preview, you know, getting coast

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00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 4: to coast a little, you know, a little little little

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00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 4: drama early and again ring night. Maybe make them a

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00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 4: little like dang, that's what we want. We the Yankees

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00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 4: were supposed to have a ring so that's the first thing.

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00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 2: I get it. But it's fine. It's Opening Night.

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00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 4: So I'm still getting used to this, to justin because

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00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 4: when you think of baseball, you just think of Opening Day.

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00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: It's just I mean, it's synonymous with it, you think.

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00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously teams will have that, but you got

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00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 4: this one standalone, so it might be cool. I'm gonna

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00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 4: check it out. But the only other thing I have,

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 4: and this is applicable to all sports right now, I

767
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 4: think it's more applicable to basketball than any other sport.

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00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 4: Ephron bruhs so hard keeping up with the NBA. It's

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00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 4: on Peacock and a p You literally, I wait, what happened?

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00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 4: And if you're watching TV, wait, let me get the

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00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 4: app or if you're on your phone and you dude,

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Speaker 4: it is historically and I know it's archaic, and I

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00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 4: know get with the times, but Ephraim.

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Speaker 2: You used to just know it was on T n

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Speaker 2: T on the Thursday, and it was gonna be on

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Speaker 2: ESBN and on the weekend ABC. That was it.

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00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 4: Obviously your local games, but that was that was it.

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00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 4: You knew easy, your thumb new where to.

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00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 2: Go on the remote. Now wait, Pet, okay, wait what Netflix?

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00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: So are you we just got to move on?

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00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 3: No?

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00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: No, well yeah, well we have to.

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Speaker 5: The money is the money, right unless unless you you're

784
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 5: gonna put it back on on those channels. The money

785
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 5: is the money. But this is what I'll tell the streamers. You.

786
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 5: You have to update your your your viewer options in

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Speaker 5: terms of if the game is the d v R

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Speaker 5: changed everything, Like if I'm out and I want to

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 5: watch the Laker game, I normally with DVR and I

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00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 5: come home and I can watch it fast forward through

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00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: the commercial all of those things. Once it's off Peacock

792
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 5: or whatever, you have to go search for it, like

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00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 5: the replay may not be available or you.

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00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: Know, you got to log in or be an extra

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Speaker 2: plus person.

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Speaker 5: You should be able to go to the Lakers be

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00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 5: there all their past games. They should be ready all

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00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 5: them right after the broadcast, should be ready for replay.

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00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 5: It should be simple. I shouldn't have to type anything

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00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 5: in the search engine or search for it. It's just

801
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 5: not and it's not The platform isn't built for that

802
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 5: right now. It eventually will get there for live sports

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00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 5: and replay of live sports. So it has to be

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00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 5: just like if you're watching a movie, right, Just like

805
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 5: if you're watching a movie. Wherever you left off on

806
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 5: the movie, that's where it'll be whenever you come back

807
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 5: to to watch it. And I don't know, maybe it's

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00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 5: a rights deal, maybe you can only broadcast it for

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00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 5: a certain amount of time or whatever, but the actual

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00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 5: technical aspect of viewing these games needs to change and

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Speaker 5: be more conducive to cable.

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00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll get there, I mean, and that's just the

813
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 4: world we're living now, we're extreaming. It looks like you mentioned,

814
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: they're playing billions of dollars for the right to these

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00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 4: sporting events. So we ain't going backward. The two paces

816
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 4: out the two. But I will admit basketball more than

817
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 4: any it is just hard to keep up what's on Prime,

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00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 4: what's on NBA TV, Okay, what's on Peacock or what's

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00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 4: on this one?

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Speaker 2: So it gets difficult. The rams they're on the clock.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I mean next