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Speaker 1: And Martin Weiss is the show is flying by on

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Speaker 1: this holiday, which is which is cool.

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Speaker 5: I never.

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Speaker 1: I've never been against working on the holidays. Actually, I

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Speaker 4: Depends on which holiday he is and what's what I got?

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Speaker 4: Which one?

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Speaker 1: To me, it's it's all about that if I don't

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense for me to just sit on

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Speaker 1: Now I can work easier to get here, you know, less,

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Speaker 4: So this is what I'll pull back the curtain. For

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Speaker 4: everybody who's not familiar with Rob Parker's strategy.

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Speaker 6: Christmas got no use for it, Thanksgiving, no time for it.

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Speaker 6: Fourth of July is about the last because this is

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Speaker 4: All these comp.

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Speaker 6: Days, and so that way I can go, or he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, the scam August is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, between the NABJ National Association of Black Jotalists and

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Speaker 1: I have so much time. Last year they forced me

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Speaker 5: Doing a world tour. Basically yeah, and no boy.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing to the last thing is before

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Speaker 3: But other than that, I will have no outside contact

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Speaker 1: What what somebody could call you like to take, like

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Speaker 5: Hours on the show, without being on your phone.

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Speaker 4: I could do it easily, without a doubt, without a doubt.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, now easy easy, especially if I'm on vacation.

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Speaker 4: I would have anxiety knowing I had somewhere to be

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Speaker 4: It's easy. You'll have a good time. You don't even

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Speaker 1: Well, see, and everybody gets on me about my phone.

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Speaker 1: But I'm getting information and knowledge. I'm not Oh, I'm

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Speaker 5: Know, dang well you're texting lady.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, stop it, It's just it's just knowledge, all right, Mark,

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Speaker 4: You feel like, Okay, I got it, I got you.

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Speaker 6: So Grant Williams was on a podcast, Uh you know

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Speaker 6: I'm just asking, No, the connection that I had with

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Speaker 3: What school? When you talk to people, what school do

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Speaker 4: Asigis where I went to school? I'm not you.

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Speaker 6: I don't do that dance of like, oh my more

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Speaker 4: School you're talking about? Undergrad is where you went to school?

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Speaker 4: What are you talking to? Exactly exactly, I'm.

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Speaker 6: So Lachelle Smith had Grant Williams on her podcast, and

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Speaker 6: on this podcast, Grant Williams said, you know, basically, all

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Speaker 6: this conversation has been the players have been getting taken

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Speaker 3: Who signed who signed that agreement the CBA.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the people. That's what I'm saying that

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Speaker 3: Kills me, like the union, you agree to this, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: So he's saying that basically, and he he goes and

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Speaker 6: this shows that the nf the NBA Players Association, the

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Speaker 6: If we're going to have a Super Bowl and it's

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Speaker 6: Packers Verse Dealers, you guys will celebrate that. No one

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Speaker 6: will talk about Pittsburgh being a small market or green

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Speaker 6: because those are big names, big series. You might lose

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Speaker 6: a little bit on the Rockies the Rockies White Sox

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Speaker 3: In football, it's.

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Speaker 6: The scarcity of games is the reason why it matters,

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Speaker 1: I didn't buy his comparison because on the breakfast Ball,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they said or follow up the

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Speaker 1: small market.

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Speaker 3: He could say the Packers.

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Speaker 1: And in the NBA's history, would you call the Spurs

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker Martin weis in for Kelvin Washington on this

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Speaker 1: fourth of July eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox

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Speaker 9: What's what's up?

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Speaker 4: Doing good?

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Speaker 10: Are y'all doing on a holiday?

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Speaker 10: Y'all should be eating food right now?

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, Jabo, I appreciate you man, thanksful support.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Luke?

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Speaker 9: Hey man, how you living.

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Speaker 11: We're doing good.

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Speaker 1: We are doing great. It's great to have you in

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Speaker 11: I'm right now stuck in some awful traffic here in

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Speaker 1: You know why they don't. They don't want those guys

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Speaker 3: This is like what to call Luke.

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Speaker 6: Boston Celtics fan, you we just won the title, and

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Speaker 6: Jason Tatum if he got hurt, but if he didn't,

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Speaker 6: they'd still be making some of these moves like this.

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Speaker 6: They we just won the title. We gotta keep going.

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Speaker 6: They don't want to pay the fees.

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Speaker 1: Scott in North Carolina, you're under the couple of Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Scott?

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Speaker 9: What's up?

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Speaker 12: My guys are doing the sports of Jalyn Man.

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, you knew I'd be working Scott.

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Speaker 4: You knew it.

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Speaker 12: I just because I don't just gonna be a.

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Speaker 3: No doubt, where are you on this?

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Speaker 12: I definitely think that the second a print a whole

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Speaker 12: new thing. I'm not familiar with the numbers and stuff

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Speaker 12: like that. It's gonna generate more quality basketball. It's not

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Speaker 12: gonna be h what basketball we saw before. I mean,

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Speaker 12: in the second thing, I think this is a product

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Speaker 12: of games are a a d Lebron's player movement thing.

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Speaker 12: They're trying to limit that and stuff like that. Bill

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Speaker 12: organic teams and stuff like that. But I think it's

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Speaker 12: good for the league, you know, I mean, the cream

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Speaker 12: gonna ride to the top. I mean not every you

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Speaker 12: know year you're gonna be able to win it, but

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Speaker 12: you're gonna have a chance to win it. And that's

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Speaker 12: good faith to the home you know, home teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a fan of the NBA, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, Scott, appreciate you. Uh you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're in a different smaller market or whatever, or you're

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Speaker 1: Orlando or something and you see OKC in Indiana, you go,

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Speaker 1: we got a shot, right, we gotta It ain't New

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Speaker 1: York every year.

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Speaker 3: It ain't the Lakers every year, it.

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Speaker 1: Ain't you know what I mean, like those teams nobody

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Speaker 1: wins every year.

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Speaker 6: No, I mean, but it's just also, you gotta understand

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Speaker 6: that if you are Orlando and you draft if you like,

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Speaker 6: if you draft Shack and you shign and you draft Penny,

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Speaker 6: guess what, you won't have him five years later. This

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Speaker 6: the NBA what they allowed them to do with this second,

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Speaker 6: she'd be the second. Like you said that though they

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Speaker 6: allowed them because the Fires allowed them to do. By

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Speaker 6: signing this, it made your favorite NBA team operate like

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Speaker 6: your favorite football team, because now you're gonna have arguments over, well,

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Speaker 6: does this position make this much money?

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Speaker 4: Can we pay a running back this much? Can we

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Speaker 4: pay a center this?

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Speaker 3: Remember when they stopped paying the running back?

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Speaker 6: That's all the conversation is gonna be because now once

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Speaker 6: it is a hard cap, there's no way to like,

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Speaker 6: there's gonna be financial. The Jacksonville Jaguars, you brought them

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Speaker 6: up in there to go. They pay the quarterback. Maybe

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Speaker 6: he's good enough to win super Bowls with him, Maybe

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Speaker 6: he's good enough to win playoff games with him. But

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Speaker 6: you know what is not You know what You're not

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Speaker 6: gonna have now a thirty five million dollar wide receiver,

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Speaker 6: a thirty five million dollar defensive player, because you have

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Speaker 6: a fifty million dollar quarterback. That's the financial reality in football,

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Speaker 6: and now, because it is, this will be the financial

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Speaker 6: reality in basketball. We'll talk to basketball expert Fox Sports

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Speaker 6: Radio NBA insider Mark Medina on this topic and everything

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Speaker 6: else in the NBA in just a moment.

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Speaker 4: But first let's kick it over to Steve the Saga.

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Speaker 13: Steve, you're on this holiday and Major League Baseball guys

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Speaker 13: at Seattle today, the Maritors shut out Pittsburgh six to

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Speaker 13: I think Cal Rawley with two more homers. He has

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Speaker 13: thirty five the win to Brian wo six innings, eight strikeouts.

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Speaker 13: He's eight and four this year. The Cubs hit eight

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Speaker 13: home runs against Saint Louis, a franchise record, three of

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Speaker 13: them by Michael Bush eleven three to the final over

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Speaker 13: the Cardinals, who had only three hits. Minnesota edge Tampa

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Speaker 13: Bay four to three on a solo homer in the

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Speaker 13: bottom of the ninth Harrison Vaders second home run of

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Speaker 13: the day. The Mets sent the Yankees to a fifth

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Speaker 13: straight law six to five. The Mets are second place

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Speaker 13: in the NL, least just a half game behind Philadelphia,

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Speaker 13: which lost at home nine to six to Cincinnati. For

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Speaker 13: the Reds, Elie de la Cruz two RBI singles, He's

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Speaker 13: up to sixty runs batted in, and Boston started the

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Speaker 13: day with a win in DC eleven to two over Washington.

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Speaker 13: Trevor Story four hits, four RBIs, including a homer. Rangers

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Speaker 13: tied two to two in the top of the tenth

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Speaker 13: at San Diego. Angels tied three to three at Toronto,

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Speaker 13: bottom of the eighth, Toronto working on a five game

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Speaker 13: winning streak. Detroit's winning again two to one at Cleveland

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Speaker 13: in the bottom of the eighth. Guardians have lost seven

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Speaker 13: in a row. Brewers now leading at Miami six' five

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Speaker 13: in the bottom of the eighth, Inning orioles holding on

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Speaker 13: going to the ninths with a three to two lead At.

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Speaker 13: Atlanta White sox ahead two to one At, colorado bottom

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Speaker 13: of the. Fifth rockies with a home record of nine

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Speaker 13: and thirty four this. Year houston out to an early

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Speaker 13: lead of two to nothing against The dodgers In la

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Speaker 13: their top of the. Second THE wnba is Off Caitlin

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Speaker 13: clark will miss a fifth straight Game saturday with a groin.

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Speaker 3: France back to, you all, right thank?

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Speaker 1: You it is the odd couple on a funky Flashback,

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Speaker 1: Friday Rob, Parker Martin Weiss in For Kelvin washington here

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Speaker 1: On Fox Sports.

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Speaker 3: Radio, now let's welcome in.

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Speaker 2: A.

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Speaker 3: Guy hold, on.

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Speaker 1: There you, Go Mark Funky Cole, Madina Fox Sports RADIO mba,

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Speaker 1: Insider happy for to You.

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Speaker 3: Mark how are you? Saying? Martin Rob?

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Speaker 9: Martin happy? Fourth? Rob DID i presume he treated the

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Speaker 9: whole crew to some good barbecue for Fourth.

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Speaker 1: Joy right about, that they had already had, Pizza SO

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Speaker 1: i JUST i mean somebody brought in barbecue chicken.

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Speaker 3: PIZZA i.

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Speaker 4: Guess oh, yeah that pizza looked like it was from last.

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Speaker 9: Night rob always with the exit. STRATEGY i love.

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Speaker 1: It always, Always Uh, Mark let's talk N B a

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Speaker 1: And uh let's talk about The lakers in their. Moves

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Speaker 1: what do you make Of DeAndre ayton and their?

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Speaker 3: Pickup is?

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Speaker 1: It are they, shooting you, know rolling the, dice hoping

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Speaker 1: that maybe he'll be better than he has, been or you,

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Speaker 1: know it didn't cost him a ton of, money obviously

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Speaker 1: took a buy. Out what did you make of that?

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Speaker 9: Move, yeah it's a roll of the Dice in some,

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Speaker 9: respect it is a low, risk high reward move because

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Speaker 9: he's coming out a very steep discount after negotiating a

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Speaker 9: buyout with The. Blazers but it's also a high risk

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Speaker 9: move because there hasn't been any. Alternative they settled On

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Speaker 9: DeAndre ayden partly because they ran out of centers in the.

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Speaker 9: Market you, Know Brook lopez is off the. Market Clint,

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Speaker 9: Capella Steven adams already signed with the rockets ahead of,

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Speaker 9: time and so you, know barring them gain Out, horford

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Speaker 9: which should have been a backup, Anyway like this is

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Speaker 9: the best option, available and so what does this mean moving?

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Speaker 9: Forward DeAndre ayden has average a double double his whole,

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Speaker 9: Career so on, paper you think this can, work but

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Speaker 9: we've seen That DeAndre ayton is very. Inconsistent, NOW i

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Speaker 9: talked With Michael. Thompson you, know he's a proud bohemian Of,

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Speaker 9: DeAndre knows him. Well he's very bullish on him because

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Speaker 9: he feels Like lakers championship. Culture Lebron james's pressure with you,

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Speaker 9: know how he takes care of his body and the

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Speaker 9: chemistry fit, exes And o's wise With, Luka doncic And

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Speaker 9: DeAndre would be great as far as that lob threat.

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Speaker 9: Goes AND i think that those things are all it

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Speaker 9: can reasonably. Happen but Where i'm skeptical is can it

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Speaker 9: happen on a consistent? BASE i THINK i think it's

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Speaker 9: very telling that someone Like Michael, thompson who's always talking

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Speaker 9: glowingly about The lakers and is always, positive is even admitting,

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Speaker 9: that you, know what the scrutiny is. Fair he understands

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Speaker 9: why people want to wait and. See and you know

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Speaker 9: he's acknowledged that up until this point he's underachieved because

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Speaker 9: he thought at this point he'd already be a multi

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Speaker 9: Year All. Star and so you know the only reason

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Speaker 9: it's a net upgrade is they didn't have any centers at.

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Speaker 9: All but they're still going to be a lot of.

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Speaker 6: Questions well That mark and THEY i, mean unless we

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Speaker 6: got some real issues coming down the. Line there shouldn't

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Speaker 6: be snow and ice In Los, angeles so he should

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Speaker 6: be able to get to all.

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Speaker 9: The, games, Right, yes that that you can guarantee he

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Speaker 9: is not going to miss a game because of. Ice,

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Speaker 9: now he might miss the game for other, reasons you, know,

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Speaker 9: injuries who knows, What but icy roads will not be

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Speaker 9: a feed who, Knows but Al a is not protected

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Speaker 9: from the. Element so in slides, right you, know who,

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Speaker 9: knows earthquakes that might that might play a.

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Speaker 6: Factor but how much Does Lebron james potentially icing him?

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Speaker 4: Out oh you see WHAT i did? There oh, yeah.

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Speaker 9: Kept your server as.

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Speaker 4: Well but These.

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Speaker 6: Rich, paul This Ridge paul, statement the thing that was

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Speaker 6: LIKE i really tagged me about.

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Speaker 4: It this is a whole lot of past.

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Speaker 6: Tense for a guy who just opted in for you know,

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Speaker 6: what seven point three fourths of a million dollars per, game,

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Speaker 6: Right so how do you square These lakers who ARE

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Speaker 6: i guess building for the like if it Was Rich

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Speaker 6: paul say they're building for the, future but then they

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Speaker 6: Signed DeAndre. Ayton SO i don't, Know but just The

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Speaker 6: lebron situation hasn't relate to all of.

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Speaker 9: This, WELL i, mean how about this we see in

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Speaker 9: fourth Of. July you, know he's validating An instagram story

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Speaker 9: of someone wearing His cavalier shirts and saying that's a

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Speaker 9: proper attire he's seen training In. Cleveland he back on

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Speaker 9: social media, saying you, KNOW i train here all summer every.

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Speaker 9: Year not a big, deal but he knows very well

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Speaker 9: that that, fuels you, know the conversation that we're talking about.

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Speaker 4: Here i'm also call HIM.

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Speaker 6: BSS i don't know this to be, true but, YEAH

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Speaker 6: i have trouble believe In. Lebron it spent the last

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Speaker 6: twenty one years training in the summers In.

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Speaker 9: Cleveland, YEAH i, MEAN i don't know the itinerary, either

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Speaker 9: BUT i think the bigger point here is it's just

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Speaker 9: this Is Lebron james in a paradox his whole. CAREER

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Speaker 9: i think it'll be the same way this. Year that

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Speaker 9: first of, ALL i don't think The lakers are actually

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Speaker 9: going to trade him because it's going to be hard

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Speaker 9: to find a traders market for someone who's making fifty

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Speaker 9: three million dollars who's going to be forty one In.

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Speaker 9: December AND i think The lakers are going to conclude

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Speaker 9: they're not going to get anything worse in. Return in

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Speaker 9: worst case, scenario we Have Lebron, james you, know for

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Speaker 9: the business. End but here's, Why i'm going to see

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Speaker 9: how it plays out from a basketball. STANDPOINT i think

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Speaker 9: from a basketball, standpoint it's going to be. Fine he's

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Speaker 9: still going to play at an All star caliber, level

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Speaker 9: not best of his season because he's fastest, primeiers but

658
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 9: he's going to be. PRODUCTIVE i think for the most,

659
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 9: part chemistry is going to be fine with him And.

660
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 9: Lucas same thing With. DeAndre but we've never had issues

661
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 9: for the most part With Lebron, james with how he

662
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 9: plays as a basketball. Player it's everything. Else and so you,

663
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 9: know even THOUGH i think on the court it's going

664
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 9: to be, fine it's just going to be about the

665
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 9: oxygen of being sucked out of the. Room if he

666
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 9: feels that The lakers, aren't you, know playing consistently enough

667
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 9: to be in, contention is he going to start rattle

668
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 9: cages even more to the front. Office that's the thing

669
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 9: THAT i have more concerns. About BUT i think at

670
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 9: the end of the, day, really what it's going to

671
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 9: be is you, know, LOOK i just saw the Latest

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00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 9: jurassic bar here of, movies so it's it's a fitting.

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00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 9: Analogy he's a dinosaur that's going to roar a, lot

674
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 9: but it doesn't mean. Anything SO i think that's what's

675
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 9: going to.

676
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: HAPPEN i do want to ask you, also The nick's

677
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: high Of Mike brown did not move me at.

678
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: All, Yeah, Rob, ROB i hear.

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00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 9: That you're, saying He's Charlie, brown That Larry.

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00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 4: Brown.

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00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: Right, Yes i'm glad you saw, That. Bog i'm just

682
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: what do you make of The Mike?

683
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 3: Brown?

684
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 9: Wow, LOOK i. DON'T i think the bigger thing is

685
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 9: The knicks and how they. Run even Though Tom thibodeau had,

686
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 9: shortcomings he also had strings of the coach you fire

687
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 9: a coach gain to The Eastern conference finals first time

688
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 9: in twenty five. YEARS i think that that that's a

689
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 9: clear message of their. Expectations if they don't, win get

690
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 9: to the finals at least or win a, championship they

691
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 9: might do another coaching.

692
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 3: Chain, well don't you think.

693
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: THAT i believe that what The knicks did was right

694
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: With tibbs from the standpoint of once they beat The,

695
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: celtics right and they had a chance to really go

696
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: to the finals because they felt, Like, okay should Beat.

697
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: Indiana then you give up a fourteen point lead with

698
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: two thirty eight to go In game. One then you

699
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: Lose game two at home as, well AND i think

700
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: if you can't get fired off of, that what do

701
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: you know WHAT i? Mean, LIKE i think that's Why

702
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: tims got.

703
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 9: Five, YEAH i understand That tibbs isn't, blameless BUT i

704
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 9: think they're shortcomings more out to do With Carl Anthony

705
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 9: towns game and too much foul trouble than anything else

706
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 9: throughout the. Series but the Point i'm making overall IS

707
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 9: i have an issue with how their coaching search played.

708
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 3: Out, WELL i agree.

709
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 9: They're swiping right on everyone that's already Taken ie asking

710
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 9: playoff teams permission to interview their head, coaches and they

711
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 9: all said, NO i Think Mike brown's a good. Coach

712
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 9: the thing THAT i think needs to be emphasized here

713
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 9: is his reputation is similar To Tom. Thibodeau defensive, oriented intense,

714
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 9: practices but shortcomings. Elsewhere he has evolved as a. COACH

715
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 9: i mean his offense With sacramento fast, paced a lot

716
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 9: more innovative than it was when he was With cleveland

717
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 9: and The. Lakers he's learned how to dial it back

718
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 9: with not being all, day every, day long film, sessions

719
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 9: long practice sessions all the. Time So i'm geting out

720
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 9: With mike. IS i think that he'll do a good,

721
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 9: job BUT i don't. THINK i don't have trust with

722
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 9: how The knicks are managing. Things and they have a good,

723
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 9: roster but it's not. Great and even with this Depleted Eastern,

724
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 9: CONFERENCE i wouldn't put them as a contender because that

725
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 9: belongs To Oklahoma city. Now AND i think The Houston

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00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 9: rockets have a legitimate shan. Now they Have Kevin durant

727
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 9: and they still have a lot of good young.

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00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 3: Pieces all, right we got one minute.

729
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 4: LEFT i gotta ask.

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00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 6: You we See Bradley Damian lillard get stressed in waves

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Speaker 6: conversations Today Bradley beal.

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00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 4: Might get stressed in?

733
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 6: Waves how much of this has to do with the

734
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 6: salary captain straight to the second?

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00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 4: Apron and do you think that we will.

736
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 6: See more waves and stretches which they've got to come

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00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 6: up with a better phrase for that in THE nba

738
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 6: going forward with THE, cba we got one.

739
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 9: Minute, Yeah i'll be quick here at one hundred percent

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00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 9: what you hit. ON i think the other thing Is

741
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 9: Bradley beal on like last, year he's, Realizing, hey if

742
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 9: he wants to, win got to wave no trade clause

743
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 9: because are going to be very. Resistent, uh we've already

744
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 9: seen these moves you, Mentioned Damian willward, Trade celtic, trading christof.

745
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 9: Porzingis this isn't the end of, it BUT i think

746
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 9: it's the end of this specific free agency. Period but

747
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 9: this is going to be a continuing issue next training,

748
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 9: deadline trade, deadline and next.

749
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: Offseason all, right he Is, fox he Is Mark, Funky Cole.

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00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: Medina thank you for joining us here on the fourth Of,

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00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: july And mark and joy the rest of your.

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00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,520
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Speaker 6: Holiday so, yes Oh, Man dodgers guy just bobbled a

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00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,279
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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,800
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00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 6: could have been. Great it's already six to One astros early.

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00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 6: THIRD a couple other. Things tigers are in the ninth.

782
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 3: Inning what is?

783
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 4: This, Yeah.

784
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 6: TIGERS i think a twelve and seven in one score

785
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 6: games a big win for.

786
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 3: Them, yeah that will be In.

787
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: CLEVELAND i think they've lost seven in a, row so

788
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: they're looking at eight two outs in the ninth. Inning

789
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't look. Good so The Lebron. James did we

790
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: get a chance to see that.

791
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 3: Video shay Of? LEBRON i guess playing golf.

792
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 4: Well on his tour Of cleveland is very. PUBLIC i like.

793
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: That and if You're, Cleveland i'm good Like. Lebron why

794
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: would you Bring lebron?

795
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 3: Back would you?

796
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 6: THAT i just don't even, Know like in a in

797
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 6: a binary of DO i Think lebron makes my basketball team?

798
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 4: Better i'd say.

799
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 6: Yes now when you factor at all of the at

800
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 6: fifty one million dollars at forty right, now it's, like all,

801
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 6: right hold at the price is gonna cost to be

802
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 6: able to get? Him like you, know that's the thing

803
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 6: THAT i get where it's like that's WHY i kind

804
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 6: of roll my eyes at. It but there's a legitimate

805
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 6: argument of if you didn't want to be In Los,

806
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 6: angeles you could have just opted out and signed a

807
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 6: lot of.

808
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: Places, no because he because he knew that he couldn't

809
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: get fifty two point six. ELSEWHERE i, mean Because i'm with,

810
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: you like easily, Easily, okay this Is luca's. Team they're

811
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: not you know WHAT i, Mean They're they're gonna build around.

812
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: Him this is not about me. Anymore but but the

813
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: money was sitting there and he didn't want to give it,

814
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: up which is just.

815
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 3: Surprise and he's a.

816
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: Billionaire i'm not saying people shouldn't TAKE i believe that

817
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: athletes should take every dome that they can. Get but

818
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: in his, case if you're going to be playing at

819
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: age forty one and you can't be playing for, money

820
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: AM i?

821
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 6: Right, well it's just here's my thing is if you're

822
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 6: playing for, money if you, are then on.

823
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 4: It if you're, not then on that.

824
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 6: Too like that's my like we and this is something

825
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 6: THAT i feel like maybe ten years ago was much

826
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 6: more popular fifteen years, ago but there were guys who

827
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 6: unabashedly were, LIKE i am joining this team to win a, championship,

828
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 6: right like the, Idea like When karmel And Gary pitt

829
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 6: went to The, Lakers they're, like we're joining this team

830
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 6: to win a. Title we're all time great to other,

831
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 6: places but we know we're not signing For max's.

832
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 4: Here we're trying to, win.

833
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: Right it just seems like Full. Lebron this doesn't make any. Sense,

834
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: well quick. Shay it was a video circulating About lebron.

835
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 7: With his welcome with his welcome home. Hat did you see?

836
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: That that?

837
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 7: Was it was in his little welcome home. Hat his

838
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 7: swing looked. Good he looked like he had a good.

839
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 4: Swing Lebron SENIOR. Pga yeah that's.

840
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 7: Right but All i'm gonna say Is LA's got better

841
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 7: courses In. OHIO i don't doubt.

842
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 4: That what it, was it.

843
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 7: Was it was an interesting.

844
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 4: VIDEO i don't. THINK i don't think he'll be In.

845
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 3: Cleveland, YEAH i don't need.

846
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 4: THAT i.

847
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: DON'T i just think he'll finish it out this. Year

848
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: this is probably his last year with The lakers.

849
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 3: Though that is?

850
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 4: It all?

851
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: Right appreciate, Everybody thank you for working on This fourth Of.

852
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: July thanks everybody who chimed In, martin thanks for filling

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00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: in And kelvin will be back On.

854
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 3: Monday enjoy the rest of the. Weekend it should be.

855
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 3: FUN i, know it feels.

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00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 2: Weird