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Speaker 1: Just when I was starting to believe I'd pick Saint

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Speaker 3: It's only one loss. It's one loss.

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Speaker 3: We'll have more on.

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Speaker 1: That coming up in a couple of minutes. However, you

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Speaker 1: know we're getting close to the NCA Tournament. I really

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Speaker 1: do believe we're going to see a great march we

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Speaker 1: have a lot of really good teams, but tonight something

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Speaker 1: I have never seen this and in college basketball, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I've seen that. I've seen about just as many Syracuse

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Speaker 1: wins as I see losses.

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, we're five hundred team. Well, once upon

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Speaker 3: a time back with dinosaurs roam the.

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Speaker 1: Earth, this is tonight what we watched between number six

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Speaker 1: Yukon and number fifteen Saint John's. Maybe you saw the

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Speaker 1: final score and you thought, oh, well, hey, hey, Yukon

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Speaker 1: really threw the hammer down. Yeah, seventy two to forty,

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Speaker 1: Yukon beat Saint John's. Now the first thing you would

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Speaker 1: say is Saint John's was not a shot very well,

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Speaker 1: you would be correct.

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Speaker 3: And if you haven't been paying attention to college basketball

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Speaker 3: as many people still coming out of their their comocho

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Speaker 3: state in the post NFL world, where you have that

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Speaker 3: little bit of depression and acceptance right the five stages

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Speaker 3: of grief. Maybe you got sucked into the Olympics for

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Speaker 3: the last two and a half weeks, so you pushed

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Speaker 3: off your college basketball viewing. You thought yourself, man, that's

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Speaker 3: Saint John's team. They must really stink.

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Speaker 1: They had won thirteen in a row, well, how many

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Speaker 1: going into tonight thirteen row?

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Speaker 3: But now this loss counts for thirteen. It only counts

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Speaker 3: as what right? Not only did.

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Speaker 1: They lose, okay, so they lost seventy two to forty.

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Speaker 1: Why this is such a big deal because sometimes things

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Speaker 1: happen that you say, there's no way mathematically this happened,

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Speaker 1: but it did. Saint John's in this game was held

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Speaker 1: without a field goal for the final seventeen and a

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Speaker 1: half minutes of the second half, their last bucket seventeen

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Speaker 1: They did not score again from the floor the rest

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Speaker 1: of the game. Not one, not one oh by the way, bucket,

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Speaker 1: not one Yukon player falling down. Not when all the

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Speaker 1: walk on to the former Yukon legends are in the

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Speaker 1: game at the end. Oh look, Okafher's in the game.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Oh hey look, hey, hey, hey, hey, hashimit.

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Speaker 3: The beat is in the game. That's great that I'm

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Speaker 3: coming back.

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Speaker 1: But not even at the end where hey, you know

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Speaker 1: what we you know we get about no, no Yukon

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Speaker 1: playing hillatious defense the entire way. They couldn't even buy

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Speaker 3: Do you want them all to have polygraph tests? Now?

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Speaker 3: Were you really trying to make a basket? Did you

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Speaker 3: just try to miss? After a while that it was

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Speaker 3: it was foddered for the next practice that someone would

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Speaker 3: have to run sprints. They actually made a shot because

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Speaker 3: this is next level stuff, and you know, the running

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Speaker 3: joke being, hey, let's go to what the odds said,

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Speaker 3: because on paper they match up well, right, thirteen game

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Speaker 3: the world. Yeah, he's just this side of McK cronin

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Speaker 3: half the time. Oh yeah, yeah, Yukon was a five

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Speaker 1: That five and a half. They had a layup to

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Speaker 3: From the floor, they only missed four free throws.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, honestly, if I'm dad, how much

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Speaker 1: you want to bet Danny hurleyes in the locker room

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Speaker 1: going guys, hey, auestome they went. They did not score

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Speaker 1: from the floor finals seventeen and a half minutes. That

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Speaker 1: was a fantastic job. Avery's class. Hey, all of you

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Speaker 1: shut up. The hell do we put them on the

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Speaker 1: free throw line? They couldn't make a shot. How the

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Speaker 1: hell do you make that happen? Everybody back out to

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Speaker 1: run sprints. I'm gonna have Noah Emrik blow the whistle

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Speaker 1: like it's miracle. Coach, we're done again. Blow the We're

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Speaker 1: not gonna work during the game. We're gonna work after

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Speaker 1: the game again. Coach again, give me the keys. I'll

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Speaker 1: turn the lights off God again again.

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Speaker 3: No, anytime we could get Noah Emeric into the show,

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Speaker 3: We've done it. Good job, and you did that six

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Speaker 3: minutes in points in the paint for twelve. This is

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Speaker 3: just an absolutely are we still talking about this? I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is Hey, it's comedy, Frostburg. This is like, this

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Speaker 3: is like watching the Lakers. Like in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 3: last night against the Magic Oh too soon. Everything was

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Speaker 3: great about the fourth quarter, except for most of it

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Speaker 3: until the final sequence being a baby spider Man meme. Yes,

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Speaker 3: what did I tell you? Spider Man, it's made the

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Speaker 3: right play, Spider Man.

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Speaker 1: Lebron, Spider Man, you should have taken the last shot, Lebron.

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Speaker 3: How would how how that would have gone brick? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, look we look that that's a huge deal.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of big NBA stuff tonight, like

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Speaker 1: we have so many great so much great stuff tonight

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Speaker 1: in the NBA again, we got the Spurs coming down

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Speaker 1: to it against Toronto. We have the Pistons who have

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Speaker 1: just defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder. This is a couple

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Speaker 1: of nights after getting absolutely demolished by the Spurs in

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Speaker 1: a night where the Spurs really had a bee ish

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Speaker 1: type game. Look, this is a situation now to get

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Speaker 1: away from Saint John's and I mean, really that's just

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Speaker 1: it's you don't score for seventeen and a half minutes, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's impressive, even me shooting threes in the

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get a lot of shouting, good man, a

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Speaker 3: lot of shots. No, I mean it's also the way

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Speaker 3: because you know, you really start concentrating a bit more

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Speaker 3: because you're realizing how many miles you're now running. Jason,

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Speaker 3: what are we talking like a seven foot rim?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, No, eight eight foot rim? Eight foot They don't,

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Speaker 1: they don't. They don't go down to seven feet.

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Speaker 3: They don't it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one I tried. They said, no, we're gonna put

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Speaker 1: an eight feet. I'm like, all right, that's great. I

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Speaker 3: See. I thought you're gonna sit. You were gonna ask

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Speaker 3: them to lower it to the same level to where

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Speaker 3: it's like a Papa shot if you were going to

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Speaker 3: David Busters or something, because then you can get your

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Speaker 3: practice in without half feet at quarters or swipes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But in the NBA, and we got a big NBA

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Speaker 1: story coming up in a few minutes. But in the

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Speaker 1: NBA tonight, the top three teams in the NBA are

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Speaker 1: all in action. Right We're watching the Spurs again not

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Speaker 1: trying to hold on up three late in the fourth

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder watching them win tonight over Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City still has issues obviously, Look, they have injury

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Speaker 1: issues and no SGA and I understand that. But as

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Speaker 1: you like to say all the time, the show is tonight,

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Speaker 1: and the show has been what we've been seeing for

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Speaker 1: the past few weeks. And of these teams, there is

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Speaker 1: no way that you can watch them play and not

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Speaker 1: say the best team in the NBA are the San

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Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs. We're back to the to the to the

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Speaker 1: We're going back right retro is here. We're back to

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Speaker 1: the aughts where every other year the Spurs would go

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Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals and they would win. The Spurs

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Speaker 1: are the number one team in the NBA. And even

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Speaker 1: with SGA back, I would still take the Spurs over them.

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Speaker 1: I take the Spurs clearly over the Front over the Pistons.

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Speaker 1: After Steph Castle just had Kate Cunningham and a blender

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Speaker 1: the other night, tonight, Cunningham comes back out and has

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Speaker 1: a big night. He scores twenty nine. But man, you

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Speaker 1: watch these teams play and you go, yeah, the Spurs

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Speaker 1: have become the best team in the NBA. They have

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Speaker 3: Well, the big thing out of this one three point

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Speaker 3: win now final one ten one oh seven over the

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Speaker 3: that the head of the Snake is and still victor women. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but tonight thirty what thirty one minutes played, he went

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Speaker 3: three of twelve from the field, twelve points, but came

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Speaker 3: six from three point range. He did have five block shots,

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Speaker 3: but all in not your dominant stat line. Like we've

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Speaker 3: been watching time in time out here, you got great balance,

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Speaker 3: six players double figures, Dylan Harper off the bench with fifteen,

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Speaker 3: and you're seeing them win in a variety of ways

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Speaker 3: against the best competition in the game. That's been the

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Speaker 3: fun thing. Also is the schedule makers, as much as

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Speaker 3: we may bemoan different lulls in a team stretches where

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Speaker 3: they have you know, four losers in a row, is like, hey,

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Speaker 3: they get to play the dregs. Wait, someone's got to

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Speaker 3: win that game. Ah No, The tanking goes on hiatus.

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Speaker 3: But like here you're seeing this like almost like a

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Speaker 3: round robin tournament of best on best. Right now you

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Speaker 3: talk about that Detroit and ok see, even without SGA,

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Speaker 3: you're still talking about two of the top teams in

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Speaker 3: the game. So it's that fun part of the schedule

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Speaker 3: to where we can celebrate the best and push away

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Speaker 3: the tanking talk at least for a moment, at least

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Speaker 3: for ten minutes. Well for ten well just wait, it's

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Speaker 3: like Midwest weather.

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Speaker 1: Change Wenby and Steph Castle tonight seven for twenty seven

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Speaker 1: from the floor, and it didn't matter because they got

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Speaker 1: more than enough offense from Fox and Vassell. And as

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Speaker 1: we talked about Harper coming up, look the guy can

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Speaker 1: lot of minutes tonight, but he's coming off the bench.

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Speaker 1: He's a high draft pick. I mean, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: been an embarrassment of riches for the Spurs. What I

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Speaker 1: it you hear about the Spurs being the best team

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Speaker 1: how was uh? How is Bruce Bowen gonna injure somebody tonight?

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Speaker 3: How? What? What's he gonna do? Hurt someone? Chicken Wingna.

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Speaker 1: But that's the best part about the Spurs becoming the

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Speaker 3: Are the as good as Jalen Brown has been in

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Speaker 1: They must see TV? Right, Kate Cunningham is terrific aus

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate the old Blueprint, but we certainly watched

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Speaker 3: the other night. Kate Cunningham was able to be frustrated

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Speaker 3: all right, seven game series, you got the right agitator

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Speaker 3: could be a problem. Now he'll get his guy Stuart

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Speaker 3: tonight over fIF twenty nine points. Right, it was his

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Speaker 3: How about a Fresca exit?

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, Hobo. So to pull the curtain back

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Speaker 1: So the last few weeks, now you know that Alex

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Speaker 1: ty shirt is a very big anime Pokemon card collector.

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Speaker 1: You have been a big card collector, sports card collector,

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Speaker 1: not not not Pokemon. You're not coming in and saying

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Speaker 1: And Frostburg is into it too, And you brought in

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Speaker 1: not the studio ghibli stuff no, no, the red cards

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Speaker 3: Would be looking for tote to row. I don't have time.

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Speaker 1: I was like twelve like twelve packs of cards. Hey,

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Speaker 1: is like the Golden Show. We're gonna open packs of cards.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Here's how much of a goober I am.

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Speaker 1: I was just excited when I saw a Jet and

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Speaker 1: you guys let me keep them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I no, Like I'm ten years old.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Xavier Gibson, Hey, I got Sauce Gardener when he

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Speaker 3: It was like, I'm ten years old, Will you let

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Speaker 3: me keep the Jets? Get all the Jets? You gotta

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Speaker 3: keep all the Jets. I got all the Jets, even

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Speaker 1: Oh man, these are all These are the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: And I thought the pack I opened, I think was

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Speaker 3: The second you tell that happens. That happens a lot

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Speaker 3: Mets cards. Oh, I love that. I almost bought you

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Speaker 1: To keep all the Jets cards. I'm so such a

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Speaker 1: Uh the NBA.

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Speaker 3: You like how I can do that?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 1: This is an absolute bonker story out of the NBA

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Speaker 1: Jokic are nearing their MVP ineligibility. Yeah right, because because remember,

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Speaker 1: eligible for all postseason awards. You know, Lebron's not doing it.

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Speaker 1: SGA and Jokic now in the last twenty two to

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna be eligible to win MVP, So just

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Speaker 1: now the odds on guys like Cade Cunningham and Jalen

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Speaker 3: No, And that's the sad part of it. And it's

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Speaker 3: three to six weeks. Definitely out three to six weeks.

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Speaker 3: got Cad Cunningham, and that's before the results of tonight's game.

436
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Speaker 3: Was already to plus five point fifty. He was in

437
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,159
Speaker 3: double digits last week. You look at wem Ben Yama

438
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 3: now eighteen to one. He was forty to one a

439
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. Donchitz at forty to one has

440
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 3: been pretty steady, but Jalen Brown was sixty to one

441
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Speaker 3: when we talked about these very things and and started

442
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Speaker 3: the train and the momentum of should Jalen Brown get

443
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,159
Speaker 3: more consideration? He was sixty to one. A lot of

444
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 3: money's starting to flow because you're seeing these guys start

445
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,280
Speaker 3: to slough off. We talked with with Mark Stein a

446
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Speaker 3: little bit yesterday. I mean there's four or five guys

447
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,959
Speaker 3: that are gonna drop in that next week. Oh sure, right,

448
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,920
Speaker 3: it's one or two games. And then if you've got

449
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 3: your playoff spot secured, is the guy gonna argue that

450
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 3: he needs to play that game? I would say, if

451
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 3: he's still one of the favorites, Tempp, you're probably saying

452
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 3: I at least need to start. But hey, what are

453
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Speaker 3: chet Holmgrenzod's looking at right now? He's played in all

454
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,400
Speaker 3: the games. But it's like Robinson and Shaquille all those

455
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,000
Speaker 3: years ago for the scoring title? What did he do?

456
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Speaker 6: All?

457
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Speaker 3: Right?

458
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Speaker 1: I got, but this illustrates a bigger point. And I

459
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 1: don't you know, I can just say one sentence to

460
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Speaker 1: get my point across, and then and then we can

461
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,679
Speaker 1: back it up because this show, this story here shows

462
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 1: you why Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in sports

463
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Speaker 1: in pro sports. He is the absolute worst, and I've

464
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Speaker 1: talked about it for a long time. He doesn't want

465
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Speaker 1: to do anything. And this is what happens. When you

466
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 1: don't want to do anything, you wind up. You wind

467
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 1: up in these situations. The NBA is in, here's here's

468
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 1: a case where hey, we're gonna put something out there

469
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Speaker 1: to make people want to play enough games to be

470
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Speaker 1: the MVP, and players like, yeah, no, no, we don't care,

471
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Speaker 1: we don't care. Adam Silver is the worst commissioner. And

472
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Speaker 1: all I gotta say is this because no other big

473
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Speaker 1: time sport has as many problems as the NBA. College football,

474
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Speaker 1: which has no rules, doesn't have the problems of the NBA.

475
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,959
Speaker 1: The WNBA, which can't get things right even though they

476
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Speaker 1: are in a period of incredible success, doesn't have the

477
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Speaker 1: problems that the NBA has. Since Adam Silver has come

478
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Speaker 1: into power, it's been now it's tanking is out in

479
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: the open, it's getting players interested in the regular season.

480
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: They don't care about playing. It's back to back regular

481
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Speaker 1: season games of the regular season where stars regularly sit out.

482
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 1: Now right, it's it's smaller problems, like how do you

483
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Speaker 1: fix the NBA All Star Game? No sport has as

484
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Speaker 1: many problems as the NBA does, and the reason is

485
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: is because the players, none of them respect Adam Silver.

486
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Speaker 1: Even the owners don't respect Adam Silver. Right, you had

487
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 1: metashed to be it today, say hey, I want to

488
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: get the dunk contest going to give a million dollars

489
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: to the winner next year. Well that's not really something

490
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,440
Speaker 1: they didn't but what owner like would somebody do that

491
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL, Hey, I'm gonna fix the Pro Bowl

492
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Speaker 1: by doing this. Don't Roger Dell would say, you don't

493
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Speaker 1: say stuff like that, right you would? Even Rob Manford

494
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,160
Speaker 1: would say, hey, you don't say stuff like that. Steve Cohen,

495
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Speaker 1: you don't U.

496
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Speaker 3: X, Y and Z.

497
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Speaker 1: But here's everybody that feels like I can say and

498
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Speaker 1: do whatever I want to because Adam Silver doesn't do

499
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Speaker 1: anything and the players and the owners do not respect him.

500
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Speaker 1: They do not respect him. He comes out with, Hey,

501
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Speaker 1: tanking is a big issue. I'm gonna find teams for

502
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Speaker 1: tanking and there's gonna be rules, and what if all

503
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Speaker 1: the teams responded with, yeah, shrugging shoulders, I'm finding the

504
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: Pacers one hundred thousand dollars for not playing their guys

505
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of a game. What have been

506
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Speaker 1: the next two things? With the Pacers.

507
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Speaker 3: The next game they played, they sat all their guys

508
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Speaker 3: and Rick Carlisle said, why are we getting fined? No

509
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 3: one looked at our our our doctors reports on our players. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

510
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Speaker 1: This should have been something where I'm fine you were

511
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: not tanking that if you respected the commissioner that your

512
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: team was like, okay, hey wait a minute, we really

513
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: screwed that up. We got the spotlight on this. We

514
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 1: want to make sure we're doing it right. All our

515
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: guys are gonna play. No next game, everybody was missing,

516
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: all the guys were out. They don't care. Hey, sixty

517
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Speaker 1: five games be the MVP. We know how much you

518
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Speaker 1: players care about the MVP. Yeah no, don't care.

519
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 3: But what do you make You wanted to but you

520
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 3: want him in these awards? Yeah, no, don't care that much. Whoa.

521
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Speaker 1: They do not respect him. Of course they love him

522
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: because they can do whatever they want to. The players

523
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: at a point where the regular season, we've made it irrelevant.

524
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Speaker 1: We don't care about playing, we don't care about award win.

525
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Speaker 3: We're doing whatever we want. We're sitting out.

526
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Speaker 1: Gave you we don't need to play seventy five games

527
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Speaker 1: a year. We get everything we want. Of course they

528
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Speaker 1: love him. He does nothing. He is the worst commissioner

529
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Speaker 1: in sports. I know, not that it was David Stern

530
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: was the panacea for everything. But if David Stern was

531
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: still running the NBA, he'd have solved this tanking thing

532
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: really fast. He would not have let this become a problem.

533
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Speaker 1: He would not have let the NBA also game become

534
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: a problem. You do not let the regular season be devalued.

535
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Speaker 1: He would have come up with answers. But Adam Silver can't.

536
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Speaker 1: He can't come up with it. Look at the problems

537
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 1: the NBA has, all the other sports, all the other

538
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: committed Even Gary Bettman's a better commission to cheer and

539
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: I didn't think anybody can wind up getting ahead of

540
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,959
Speaker 1: Gary Bettman and commissioner. But that's just like a Pavlovian thing.

541
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: Though you hear his name, let's Boo the commissioner. Now

542
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: it's Adam Silver. He wants to do nothing. That He's

543
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: never he's never taken a strong stand on things. The

544
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: players walk over him. They don't respect him, the owners

545
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: don't respect him. They say what they want, they do

546
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Speaker 1: what they want. It's it's the they're the kids who

547
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: when the parent has the toothless uh uh hey, if

548
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: you if you don't do well in your test, you're

549
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Speaker 1: not going out Friday.

550
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I failed that. I'm taking the car.

551
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Speaker 1: I'll see you later on all right, Well next time,

552
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 1: next time, you're not getting the car. Yeah, dad, I'll

553
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: say I'll see you on Sunday when I come back.

554
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 3: But that's just it, right, whether it's in house, and

555
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 3: you know, look in the mirror at your respective situations there.

556
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 3: Think about your workplaces. Right, as long as the line

557
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: keeps moving, it could be miserable. Right. You can have

558
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 3: a lot of holes, but someone picks up the slack

559
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 3: and keeps it moving, so it looks just fine.

560
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Speaker 7: Right.

561
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Speaker 3: We talked about the the duck and now, all right,

562
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 3: on the surface, everything's great. But those feet, man, they're

563
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: working underneath. Man, they are grinding to keep in moving

564
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 3: and keep them afloat. And that's the same thing here

565
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 3: with the NBA. So long as everybody's printing money, you

566
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 3: can kick the can down the road. Nothing to see here,

567
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 3: just keep the curtain up and everything could be rotting

568
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 3: behind it. As long as you've got something to mask

569
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 3: the smell, and everybody's still getting fat. That's fine, and

570
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 3: you can keep listing. You got betting scandals, You've got

571
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 3: uneasy relationships with all of the betting partners. Calshie now

572
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 3: popping up. Hi, Honest, you've got all of these things

573
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 3: that are swirling. But what do you have? A clamoring

574
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 3: for live events which means the money keeps flowing in,

575
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 3: which for Adam Silver, as long as everybody's getting paid,

576
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 3: it's not. It's a lot of surface issues as opposed

577
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 3: to something pending a full earthquake of your actual league.

578
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 3: You and I can see it. A lot of folks

579
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 3: looking at the league say this is untenable. But Silver's

580
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: looking at it like, am I still gonna be here?

581
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 3: I don't know if dude, I don't have to fix

582
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 3: it because of the machine rolls on think about it.

583
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 3: But I don't know how long that regular season has

584
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 3: become unnecessary? Right now now that you're gonna start seeing

585
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 3: less people watch because tanking is gonna turn people away.

586
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: It's gonna turn people away from going to the games.

587
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 3: We'll turn people away from watching the games. The more

588
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 3: time goes on, the NBA just keeps adding problems. Well,

589
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 3: that the having problem. But the help in terms of

590
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 3: your television thing is you can mask that because you're

591
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 3: you'll have games like tonight, Right, here's Boston and Denver. Hey,

592
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 3: here's another product primetime game between two contending teams, and

593
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 3: even if they sit a guy out, there's still fifty

594
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 3: five win squads. Right that. That's the way it works

595
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 3: for TV. You can mask the problem. Like if you

596
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 3: want to go watch the Bulls or or other teams

597
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 3: where they're circling the drain perpetually, that's fine. But for

598
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 3: the national product, you got enough teams that you keep

599
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: it with that eight to ten team cycle, you'll be

600
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 3: just fine.

601
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

602
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 3: See, I don't. I don't think you can. I mean,

603
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: this is the.

604
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: Environmental problem. How when's the last time you had an

605
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: NBA headline about the league that was good? Not about players,

606
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: not about players.

607
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 3: We talked. I read gonna become Ralph Sampson. I thought

608
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: that was a very odd way to go. What do

609
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 3: you got.

610
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 6: Sure?

611
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's a player situation? Was the last time.

612
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: That's the last time that really wasn't good? You can't

613
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 3: the Lakers, you can it was great for the Laker,

614
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 3: but now everybody hates Luke.

615
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: You can't you can't keep having problems where it's it's

616
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: core of the game stuff, where if every day is

617
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: look at the problems with this league, that that seeps

618
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: into fane. That's a trickle down from the top all

619
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: the way through into the person that's got their finger

620
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: on the remote, going yeah, I don't care. I'm not

621
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: gonna Why am I gonna pay? Oh they're tanking. I'm

622
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: not paying to go to that game. The game is

623
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: too expense. I'm not gonna go. I don't even know

624
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: if the stars are gonna Is Luca gonna play tonight?

625
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: Is Lebron gonna play tonight?

626
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: I don't even know.

627
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, forget, I'm not going to that game.

628
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm not turning this game on again. You're gonna you're

629
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: starting to see it, right, this is when no tanking

630
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: has come into the open. There's no solution, Right, gambling

631
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: has come into the open. There's no solution. Uh, regular

632
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: season not not counting, no solution. And it's been all

633
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: these band aid things that have come up, and it

634
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because the players and the owner are still

635
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: shrugging and go, yeah, whatever, we're still going to.

636
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,479
Speaker 3: Keep from the from the pacers side of it, right,

637
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: they're holding up the sign like their cusack and say

638
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 3: anything just to say, uh, this doesn't hurt enough, We'll

639
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 3: continue to do it because we stink. And there's Haliburton

640
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: over there. He's waving at you and smiling because he

641
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 3: can't play that we got and he's playing. Then at

642
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: least have a marque player. But you keep going down

643
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 3: the line is until you make it hurt or you

644
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 3: change the functionality of the draft. And how that. And

645
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: we've seen all the proposals and he's not he's not

646
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: done any of these things.

647
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: How many years to do something and not done it,

648
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: But he's all of a sudden he's not going to

649
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Speaker 1: start doing it. But in the end he works for

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Speaker 1: the owners and if they're not mad about it, especially

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Speaker 1: if again, hey, what did they get fined?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we could do that. Yeah that's that.

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Speaker 1: That's the peanuts sold in that section of the three hundred.

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Speaker 1: I think the I think the owners once they get

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Speaker 1: to hey, the tanking is not working for us. We're

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Speaker 1: not guaranteed to get it right.

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Speaker 3: We're not. I don't know how so far what the streaming.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Relationship has been like with the NBA so far,

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Speaker 1: But when when you keep putting out these these blowout games,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling it's not an overnight thing. This is part

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Speaker 1: of the boulder going down the hill. Yeah, thats and

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Speaker 1: and again another commissioner would have taken care of these problems.

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Speaker 1: But he's afraid to go up against Anybody's afraid to

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Speaker 1: have any sort of strong uh, a strong stance and

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Speaker 1: anything other than well, hey, what if we did this,

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Speaker 1: What if we kind of dipped our toe in and

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Speaker 1: kind of fixed it a little bit this way or

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Speaker 1: this way? Would that make everybody happy? He's let's make

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Speaker 1: everybody happy. We actually have the sign up here somewhere.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you can't make everybody happy. You're not a taco.

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Speaker 1: He's the He's the worst. He is the worst man,

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Speaker 1: He's the worst. Time now to find out what's trending

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Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports and someone who's been

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Speaker 1: called the Tyrese Haliburton of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: She likes to wear a T shirt that says overrated

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Speaker 3: with a question mark.

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Speaker 4: It's mance overrate that son, I think that's what the

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Speaker 4: T shirt says. The T shirt says without the sun.

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Speaker 3: Did you say a T shirt?

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Speaker 4: T shirts? Yeah, hold on a T shirt, I think,

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Speaker 4: says overrate that.

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Speaker 1: I like Chirk all Right, T shirt, TACHERT shirt, T shirt,

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Speaker 1: T shirt, say toy boat five times really fast?

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Speaker 4: Shut up, you're gonna go to the NBA. There's one

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Speaker 4: game going on.

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Speaker 6: It's the Celtics and the Nuggets in Denver. Boston is

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Speaker 6: up right now, twenty two to twenty, Jalen Brown leading

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Speaker 6: the way with twelve points. The rest of the NBA,

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Speaker 6: not that it was a long slate, but it has

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Speaker 6: wrapped up. Make that ten in a row for the Spurs,

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Speaker 6: that's how many they won. They held on to defeat

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Speaker 6: the Raptors in Toronto one ten to one oh seven.

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Speaker 6: The Pistons pulled away really outscored the Thunder in the

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Speaker 6: second quarter and that's what sealed the win. They beat

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Speaker 6: the Thunder one twenty four to one sixteen. Kate Cunningham

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Speaker 6: twenty nine points, thirteen assists. Technically, the Pistons right now

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Speaker 6: have the best record in the league because they're forty

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Speaker 6: three and fourteen.

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Speaker 4: The Thunder are forty five and fifteen.

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Speaker 6: The Warriors crushed the Grizzlies won thirty three to one twelve.

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Speaker 6: The Bucks and the Cavs went down to the wire,

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Speaker 6: very shortthanded Cavaliers team no James Harden, no Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 6: no Evan Mobley, but the Bucks won it. Kevin Porter

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Speaker 6: Junior with the game winning shot, one eighteen to one sixteen.

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Speaker 6: Jared Allen looked like he had the putback in on

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Speaker 6: time to tie the game.

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Speaker 4: Best they said he did not release them all in time.

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Speaker 6: So that's how the Bucks won it and the Rockets

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Speaker 6: defeated The Kings won twenty eighteen ninety seven behind a

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Speaker 6: triple double from Alpah and Shngoon. When it comes to

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Speaker 6: men's college hoops, the upset that you guys started the

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Speaker 6: show with Number six Yukon just shutting down Number fifteen

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Speaker 6: Saint John's offense.

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Speaker 4: Seventy two to forty was the final score. Saint John's made.

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Speaker 6: Eleven shots the entire game, miss twenty four consecutive shots

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Speaker 6: in the second half.

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Speaker 4: No other upset yet, maybe we won't have one right now.

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Speaker 6: Number twenty Arkansas leeds Texas A and M fifty four

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Speaker 6: to forty five halfway through the second half, with about

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Speaker 6: seven minutes to go.

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Speaker 4: Number seventeen.

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Speaker 6: Alabama up on Mississippi State eighty four to fifty eight,

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Speaker 6: and with about.

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Speaker 4: Six minutes to go.

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Speaker 6: Number nine Gonzaga is up on Portland seventy one to

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Speaker 6: thirty nine. The NHL is back from the Winter Olympics break.

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Speaker 6: Some of the games have wrapped up. The Lightning had

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Speaker 6: won five in a row prior to the break. Make

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Speaker 6: that six in a row because they beat the Maple

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Speaker 6: Leaves forty two. The Stars had one six in a

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Speaker 6: row prior to the break, so make it seven in

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Speaker 6: a row because they outscored the crack In four to one.

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Speaker 6: Right now, the Oilers lead the Ducks one zero, and

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Speaker 6: they literally just got going in the first period. Jets

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Speaker 6: and Canucks are tied at one late in the first period.

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Speaker 6: Avalanche over the Mammoth three to two late in the

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Speaker 6: second period. Other news today in the NFL, Brown's head

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Speaker 6: coach Todd Monkin did say that there's gonna be a

739
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Speaker 6: quarterback competition this offseason involving Shador Sanders, Deshaun Watson, and possibly.

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Speaker 4: Another quarterback acquired this offseason.

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Speaker 6: The Jaguars are going to play two home games in

742
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Speaker 6: London next week or next week next season.

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Speaker 4: Early back to back weeks.

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Speaker 6: Commanders are also gonna play a game in London, and lastly,

745
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Speaker 6: here guys. In baseball, the Diamondbacks announced that pitcher Merrill

746
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Speaker 6: Kelly is gonna miss opening day with the back injury.

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Speaker 6: There is no timetable for his return, while the Yankees

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Speaker 6: announced that they are retiring CC Sabbathia is number fifty two,

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Speaker 6: honoring him with the plaque in Monument Park on September

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Speaker 6: twenty sixth.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, Wow yet, Yeah, we gotta do something.

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Speaker 1: We haven't retired a number a while. Well, let's let's

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Speaker 1: go for Sabbathia.

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Speaker 3: Really. Yeah, okay, but where.

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Speaker 4: Is it gonna go? Where do you fit him in?

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Speaker 4: Because there's no space.

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Speaker 3: You know, it could be one of those mobiles this small.

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Speaker 1: And it's like a hologran in front of Roger Merritt.

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Speaker 1: Should be Yeah, Steve Rodgers once beg you MONI coming

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Speaker 1: up next, we got the play of the day and

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Speaker 1: the numbers are in from the biggest sporting event since

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. You gotta hear it next, Jason to

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Speaker 1: Mike Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, that Orioles rating for Peter

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Speaker 1: a Lonzo's home.

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Speaker 2: I mean thirty be sure to catch live editions of

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Speaker 2: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten

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Speaker 2: pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Big numbers come in your way in ninety seconds,

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Speaker 1: But when you win ten in a row and Wemby

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Speaker 1: has an off night, doesn't happen Someone not named Wemby

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Speaker 1: is the play of the day. When the Spurs win big,

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00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: well the Aaron Fox you can be the player of

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Speaker 1: the day.

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00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 8: And Minyama had four free throws that was it in

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Speaker 8: the first quarter, left corner to Aaron Fox. Three on

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Speaker 8: the way got it Aaron Fox and a quick five

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Speaker 8: for the Spurs to start the second and a quicker

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Speaker 8: time out by dark Irakovich here.

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Speaker 3: So there it is Spurs TV on the call. Ten

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Speaker 3: in a row for the best team in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Best team in the NBA. Always work for balance and definition.

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Speaker 3: It worked for Schwarzenegger and pumping iron. It works for

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Speaker 3: the Spurs.

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Speaker 1: Now, man, I'll tell you uh now, the numbers have

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Speaker 1: come in from the Gold medal game between the United

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Speaker 1: States and Canada on Sunday. Remember eight am East Coast time,

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Speaker 1: five am on the West coast. Eighteen point six million

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Speaker 1: viewers for the Gold medal game.

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Speaker 3: Could have been eighteen good nine team six with one

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Speaker 3: or two more if you'd gotten your ass out of it,

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Speaker 3: could have been eighteen point sixty seven six seven.

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Speaker 1: Garrett Betman, NHL commissioner, pretty upset, said, we could have

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Speaker 1: We could have hit maybe the high mark, which was

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Speaker 1: the twenty ten Gold Medal game, twenty seven million for

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Speaker 1: the United States Canada, the big Sydney Crosby goal. But

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Speaker 1: I'd be honest with you, this game was bigger. If

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Speaker 1: you had it on and a better time slot, probably

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Speaker 1: would have hit thirty million. You probably would hit thirty

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Speaker 1: million people watching this game.

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Speaker 3: You know what might have helped to over the course

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Speaker 3: of the Olympic program if you'd allow people to use

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Speaker 3: video highlights and actually show your sport.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing is that Gary Bettman today could those

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Speaker 1: things he waged on saying a better time slot. We

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Speaker 1: talked about not having a better time slot for that game,

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Speaker 1: being able to share the results. People want to see

814
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Speaker 1: things rather than just have to wait because then the

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Speaker 1: Olympics have an embargo on things. But this is this

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00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: is where the issue lies with stuff like that, right

817
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Speaker 1: with where why do we have this this game? Why

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Speaker 1: do we have this game on here early in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Why do we have the women's gold medal game in

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Speaker 1: hut opposite the women's short program in figure scanning?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. The Olympics are still stuck

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Speaker 1: so much in the past. They don't understand and there's

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Speaker 1: not enough influence that NBC and broadcast partners have that

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Speaker 1: you know what, Hey, the Olympics is a television show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: understand that the Olympics is just the super Bowl is

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Speaker 1: a TV show. The NCAA tournament in basketball is a

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Speaker 1: TV show. It is not a sporting event. It is

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Speaker 1: a television show. And still the Olympics acts and and

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Speaker 1: and puts their strategies together, like we're putting on this

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Speaker 1: event and we're doing it for the people who are

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics, and we want people to be able

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Speaker 1: to go see this fit in this fing No, that's

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Speaker 1: not what you're doing it for.

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Speaker 3: That's not you do.

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Speaker 1: You were doing it for the millions upon millions of

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Speaker 1: people across the globe who want to make it as

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Speaker 1: easy as possible to see all the events they can.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but when you, oh, but the closing ceremonies.

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Speaker 1: People can watch closing ceremonies anytime people want. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason why Olympic Hockey Men's is the last event of

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. It's a big deal that people want to see.

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Speaker 1: Once you saw the goal that you had in the

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Speaker 1: United States Canada, yeah, move it to a better time slot.

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Speaker 1: I'm bummed that NBC didn't have more saying it, and

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Speaker 1: maybe they will going forward. But this is where the

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Speaker 1: Olympics and the people in the USOC and in charges like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you're doing it like it's years and years and years ago.

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Speaker 3: That's it. It's a television show and you have to

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Speaker 3: make it television friendly. And they don't get that. That's

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Speaker 3: the thing institutionalized thinking right of the way it has

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Speaker 3: always been and again, this is one that apply as

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Speaker 3: you will in your personal and professional lives. It's like

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Speaker 3: just because something's been done a certain way doesn't mean

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Speaker 3: the world hasn't evolved in terms of the immediacy of this. Right,

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Speaker 3: we talk about the NBA Once upon a time, you

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Speaker 3: and I we were just weep ups when it was

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Speaker 3: still happening. But you know, tape delay NBA Finals. Oh,

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Speaker 3: that that went out the way because you realize how

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Speaker 3: much you could sell those ad spots for and even

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Speaker 3: what those windows are. You see the historic numbers you

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Speaker 3: have for the Super Bowl and certainly for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: As you roll through the immediacy, the ability to go

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Speaker 3: through the Peacock app through the television partners and all

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00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 3: their their different on air products, that you can spread

866
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 3: it out and get people the immediacy of these these games,

867
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 3: and they're not waiting, right, You're not waiting for the

868
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: newspaper tomorrow, You're not waiting for the local news. I

869
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 3: was laughing at I was in the studio watching you know,

870
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 3: I'm on air for the first two periods and atop

871
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: the live game was ESPN. They were showing stills like

872
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 3: it was a pay per view, like it was boxing. Hey,

873
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 3: look at this, Like, we can't show you the video,

874
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: but take a look at this angle here. It's like,

875
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 3: what the hell are we doing? You're absolutely murdering the

876
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 3: opportunity to push your sport, to push back. This is

877
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 3: where all the other broadcasts have to realize. This is

878
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 3: a moment in time as a country you get to

879
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 3: capitalize on.

880
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: I know, I'd like to think that the broadcasters would

881
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: do it if they had more power, but they probably don't.

882
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 3: Got to figure out how to get juice in the

883
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 3: next time. Really you have to.

884
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: It's a television show man, and it's not just done

885
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,479
Speaker 1: for the people that are going to the games. In Italy,

886
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 1: it got a worldwide audience. I'm telling you about this.

887
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 3: What if I was in charge of it? It only

888
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 3: played seven other times that day.

889
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, but once people knew the result, more people to

890
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: watch again, thirty million people to watch it live. A

891
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: big story out of Major League Baseball coming up next

892
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: Fox Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my

893
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: best friend Mike Harmon.

894
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 3: Big Night in the NBA.

895
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Speaker 1: The Pistons win a huge game against the Oklahoma City Thunder,

896
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: clearly showing maybe we are the second best team in

897
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: the NBA behind the San Antonio Spurs ten in a row.

898
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 3: You didn't even try to sell the Knicks there. I

899
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 3: feel it. Okay, man, I can't, I can't.

900
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: I can't not when the Spurs are this good, this fast,

901
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: this young, this deep, this is how's gone? What about

902
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 1: the respect for Adam Silver we talked about? What about fixing, tanking?

903
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: What about the Lakers issues? Nobody better to talk to?

904
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: And the guy getting set to join us right now

905
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: on the hot line. He is a long time NBA insider,

906
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: joined us every week here on the show, and he's

907
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,399
Speaker 1: probably gonna be happy that we are not gonna be talking.

908
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,959
Speaker 1: I means not a lot of Nicks talk about tonight.

909
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I mean they've kind of sluffed

910
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 3: off a little bit. Yeah, I man, we got our

911
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: mocking tones in on Brunson being sure outfitted with the

912
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 3: older crew. Sure know he's a young guy. Yeah it ok,

913
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 3: but yeah, certainly sluffing. He'll be happy blacking. He'll be

914
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: happy for the non Nick talk. Fox Sports One's own

915
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 3: Rick Buker check out the On the Ball podcast as well, Rick,

916
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 3: what's happening man? Happy Wednesday?

917
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: What do you mean?

918
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 7: No? Knick talk.

919
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 3: Just now you're mad. Now he's mad.

920
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: Dare you.

921
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 7: Threw it? I'm not doing this.

922
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: I'm done, And then Rick Buker hung up. We haven't

923
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: talked to him since so last we heard of him.

924
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 7: You know what, It really doesn't matter because I'm going

925
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 7: to bring some Knicks talk anyway.

926
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right, I like that.

927
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: Look, I look, repeating is difficult in the NBA. The

928
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: Knicks are figuring that out.

929
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 7: Hey, I got something better than that. It has to

930
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 7: do with one of the subjects that that I'm pretty

931
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 7: sure that we're going to discuss.

932
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Speaker 3: Okay, so let's see you do it. Let's se if

933
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Speaker 3: we get to it.

934
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Speaker 7: All right, So first, that's known as the teas in

935
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 7: the business.

936
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Speaker 3: That's not your first day. That's nice.

937
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: One of the topics that we just touched on it

938
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Speaker 1: a bit here. Now, the best three teams in the

939
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: NBA in action. Tonight, the Spurs get another big win.

940
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: They win another game where it's it's a subpar game

941
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: for Wembin Yam and Steph Castle. But it doesn't matter.

942
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: Rick watching the last few nights as good as Detroit is,

943
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: and I know that Oklahoma City is missing SGA Uh,

944
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: the Spurs would become the best team in the league.

945
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean, really, while we haven't been watching, it's all

946
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Wow, they're young, they're deep, and Wenby

947
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: Wenby plays great, Wenby doesn't play great, they still win

948
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: these games.

949
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, there's no argument that they're they're playing the

950
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 7: best basketball, or certainly there's an argument to be made

951
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 7: that they're playing the best basketball in the league right now.

952
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 7: But does that translate to the postseason if everybody is healthy?

953
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 7: And can they win the postseason if Wemby doesn't play well,

954
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 7: and how are the matchups going to work when we

955
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 7: get there? So I agree with you, I do. I

956
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 7: would dare say that they are healthier than anybody else

957
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 7: is right now, and that depth is something that they're

958
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 7: able to take advantage of, and that plays a little

959
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 7: larger in the regular season than it does in the postseason.

960
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 7: Really comes postseason. Who are your healthy, healthiest, best seven

961
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 7: to eight players and that's going to determine who ultimately

962
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 7: makes the deep run in the postseason. So I agree

963
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 7: with you as far as we're san Antonio and san

964
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 7: Antonio is and they're letting everybody know that.

965
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: They are on their way.

966
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 7: I'm not going to completely dismiss Oklahoma City and Denver

967
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 7: in particular, and who they might be in the postseason

968
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Speaker 7: if healthy.

969
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 3: That's the fun part as we go down the stretcher

970
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 3: as well, Rick, when we're talking about the MVP candidacy

971
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 3: of players as well, we've already had a couple of

972
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 3: big names eliminated. No Yannis, no Steph, a couple other

973
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 3: guys on the borderline of that sixty five game threshold.

974
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 3: How much do we re relitigate this in the next

975
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 3: season or is this the lesser of the NBA problems?

976
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 7: I hope, I hope not at all, because number one,

977
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 7: I mean, okay, so Steph and Giannis are no longer eligible.

978
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 7: They weren't going to win. I can tell you right now,

979
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 7: I wasn't planning on putting either one of them on

980
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 7: my ballot based on what they've done and where their

981
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 7: teams are. There's just way too many. There are other

982
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 7: guys that are that are bigger and better candidates. And

983
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 7: perhaps the biggest issue that I've seen raised is, you know, oh,

984
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 7: Shay Gills is Alexander is close to not being eligible.

985
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 7: He's got to play sixteen of the final twenty two games.

986
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 7: If he can't play at least sixteen of the final

987
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 7: twenty two games, then what are we What are we

988
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 7: talking about? With all the games that he's missed already,

989
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 7: Jokic is a little bit closer, But then again, Jokic,

990
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 7: Jokic miss missed a big chunk of the season and

991
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 7: the Denver Nuggets had to survive without him. And guess

992
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 7: what both of those teams have survived without their best player.

993
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 7: Without Jokic, the Denver Nuggets, we're ten and six, and

994
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 7: that's with missing Aaron Gordon as well. So this idea

995
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 7: that you know that we're going to be eliminating a

996
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 7: guy who I saw somebody right, like the sixty five

997
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 7: game rule is going to result in the wrong player

998
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 7: being named MVP, which is just a preposterous. Second, what

999
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 7: are we talking about? I mean, because if Jokic, let's

1000
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 7: say Jokic and Shay Gilsis Alexander are knocked out, and

1001
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 7: say this becomes a race between Kate Cunningham and Jalen Brown,

1002
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 7: who just happened to be the best players on the

1003
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 7: two best teams in the Eastern Conference, and San Antonio

1004
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 7: being led by Victor wmbin Yama and the possibility that

1005
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 7: he could win. You Guly just talked about it. They're

1006
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 7: playing the best basketball of any team. And yes, there

1007
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 7: are times where where Victor isn't necessarily the ultimate driving

1008
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 7: force the way a Nikola Jokicic is. But there's something

1009
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 7: about the old line, you know, ability starts with availability,

1010
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 7: and I take issue with this idea that Kate Cunningham

1011
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 7: and Jalen Brown because they've missed so few games that

1012
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 7: somehow that they're not worthy. And again, their teams have

1013
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 7: played well. And this is where my nixt element comes

1014
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 7: in because there's one guy, there's one guy who has

1015
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 7: been mentioned here and there as an MVP candidate, and

1016
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 7: that is your man Brunson Berner. And of all the

1017
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 7: guys that I've mentioned, Nikola Jokic, Shay Gilds, Alexander, Jalen Brown,

1018
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 7: Kate Cunningham, Victor Windanyama, all of their teams have winning

1019
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 7: records without their top star. The New York Knicks are

1020
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 7: thirty six and eighteen with Jalen Brunson. They are one

1021
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 7: in four without a very small sample size, but it's

1022
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 7: the only record of all the guys that I've mentioned

1023
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 7: that is a losing record without their player, So should

1024
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 7: we again if you're looking at UH And this is

1025
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 7: where it's tricky with the definition of m v P

1026
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 7: right because some people will look at it as the

1027
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 7: best all around player. Some people will will say it's

1028
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 7: the most indispensable player to their team. You know, there's

1029
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 7: no set definition of MVP. But if it's most indispensable,

1030
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 7: Jalen Brunson has a very strong case. And if it's if,

1031
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 7: it means that Jalen Brunson and Kate Cunningham and Jalen

1032
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 7: Brown are going to be on the ballot where maybe

1033
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,959
Speaker 7: one or two of those guys would not. I don't

1034
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 7: I don't have a problem with it. If injuries have

1035
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 7: kept Jokich and Shay Gills as Alexander and knocked them

1036
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 7: out this year, I think the new Blood deserves the attention.

1037
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 3: We're talking with the greatest basketball insider in this sport.

1038
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: He's a legend Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, He's

1039
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: surely one of one. Now, you bring up the point

1040
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: about about the the m v P rick, and I

1041
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: want to take this in a different direction because this

1042
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: just tells me how far the league is falling and

1043
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: Adam Silver again. No sports league we talked to this

1044
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: early in the show has more problems right now than

1045
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: the NBA. Whether it's tanking, whether it's players getting interested

1046
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: enough in the regular season. Everything he has tried to

1047
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: do to combat these issues has been met with a

1048
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: shrug or, if not out and out defiance by the league. Well,

1049
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to figure out tanking. Hey, I'm finding

1050
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: the Pacers one hundred grand what to do? The next

1051
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: game they sat everybody, and now Rick Carlisle's upset, saying,

1052
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: no doctors talk to us. What's going on here? Hey,

1053
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: you gotta play sixty five games to win? The MVP

1054
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: players saying, yeah, we don't care. We're you know, we're

1055
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,479
Speaker 1: not gonna play sixty five games. Like like, I don't

1056
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: know that the players respect him, I don't know that

1057
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: the owners respect him. And and he's got this I

1058
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: want to keep everybody happy kind of countenance and.

1059
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 3: It's just not working.

1060
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: And emeil you look at all the major professional sports,

1061
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: nobody has the problem that the NBA does.

1062
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't. I can't argue with that. I would

1063
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 7: say that, you know what made Adam Silver so strong

1064
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 7: and initially replacing David Stern, is that he was a unifier.

1065
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 7: He was a guy who was good at getting compromised,

1066
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 7: in bringing the owners together and getting them to work

1067
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 7: together and creating a salary cap that allows the Oklahoma

1068
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 7: City Thunders and some of the smaller markets to be

1069
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 7: as successful as the big markets. But there's a price

1070
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 7: that comes with that, And there's a price that comes

1071
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 7: with when you open the door to gambling to continue.

1072
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 7: Because here's the other part, like he's got he's dealing

1073
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 7: When David Stern was the commissioner, particularly early on, he

1074
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 7: was dealing with millionaires that he turned into hundred millionaires

1075
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 7: and billionaires. Well, now Adam Silver has billionaires and he

1076
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Speaker 7: has to demonstrate to them that he can continue to

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Speaker 7: get to keep the money train rolling. And as a

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Speaker 7: result of that, he's had to make decisions that impact

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Speaker 7: the credibility of the league. And in doing all that compromise,

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Speaker 7: it's now hard to crack the whip and say no,

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Speaker 7: we're going to do it my way when that's not

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Speaker 7: how you got the job done to begin with and

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Speaker 7: had your greatest successes. And I think that the biggest

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Speaker 7: issue that they have is that this has become not

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Speaker 7: it's so far afield from you know what, we want

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Speaker 7: people owning teams, and we want to provide an entertainment

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Speaker 7: that cities get behind and fans love because of the sport.

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Speaker 7: And now it's become all about how much money can

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Speaker 7: we generate off this thing called basketball, And so now

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Speaker 7: it just becomes a sort of a bottom line business

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Speaker 7: and people aren't aren't focused on, you know, what's the

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Speaker 7: integrity of the game and how do we maintain certain

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Speaker 7: standards when it comes to the game. It's like, how

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Speaker 7: are we going to make the most money? And so

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Speaker 7: you know, like you don't have And this is something

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Speaker 7: I'm actually going to talk about in my in my

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Speaker 7: podcast this week, because like if it was really about

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Speaker 7: the integrity and competitive balance, then the league would be

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Speaker 7: cracking down on tampering with other players, which go, you know,

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Speaker 7: players on other teams, and it would do something about

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Speaker 7: star players forcing trades and there's nothing done about those.

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Speaker 7: But oh wait a minute, our gambling partner is upset

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Speaker 7: because because the teams that can't acquire star players through

1104
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Speaker 7: free agency, they're tanking in order to get a better

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Speaker 7: place in the draft because that's the only way they

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Speaker 7: can get star players. Now that's an issue. Why not

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Speaker 7: because the league has an issue with it. It's because

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Speaker 7: the gambling outfits the habit an issue with it, and

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Speaker 7: they're in bed now with the gambling companies.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Coachable.

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Speaker 3: That's the book coming out in May. Order it now

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Speaker 3: on Amazon. It's our guy, Rick Bucher fas one at

1113
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Speaker 3: Rick Buker's where you'd find him as well in the

1114
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Speaker 3: Twitter verse. All the latest and greatest he's got popping.

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Speaker 3: So Rick, The Lakers now down to the sixth seed.

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Speaker 3: The pesky feels closing quickly here and yesterday at four

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Speaker 3: and four of their last date and Luca passing up

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Speaker 3: on a shot on saying, hey, you know he put

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Speaker 3: me in a bad You'll have to ask him. And

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Speaker 3: now a lot of Spider Man mean finger pointing.

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Speaker 7: Yep, yep. Well look there, they came out of the

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Speaker 7: gate strong. And but if you can't defend and they're

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Speaker 7: just not a good defensive team, that's eventually going to

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Speaker 7: catch up with you. And we had some teams in

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Speaker 7: the Western Conference that we weren't. Minnesota started off very poorly.

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Speaker 7: San Antonio didn't catch fire right away. There's a number

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Speaker 7: of teams that we expected to be at the top

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Speaker 7: who have simply reasserted themselves. And I would say that

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Speaker 7: the Phoenix Suns have been much better than we expected.

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Speaker 7: They're breathing down the Lakers neck collective next and so

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Speaker 7: you know they're there. I think this is basically about

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Speaker 7: where I expected them to be at the beginning of

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Speaker 7: the season. I forecast that they would be on this

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Speaker 7: trying to fight their way or keep their spot in

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Speaker 7: the in the sixth seed. But I never thought that

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Speaker 7: they were going to be at the top. And this

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Speaker 7: is the point where you start to see everybody play

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Speaker 7: their absolute best basketball. A case could be made that

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Speaker 7: we've already seen the Lakers play their best basketball.

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Speaker 3: He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: Check out the On the Ball podcast where he breaks

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Speaker 1: down Jalen Brunson's unanimous MVP candidacy. Right, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: I took away, right, unanimous MVP for Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 7: Rick, give him an inch and he takes a marathon.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you brought it back to the Knicks. It's your fault,

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Speaker 3: and don't forget my fault.

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Speaker 7: You know what, It's all my fault. It'll never happen again.

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Speaker 1: Take it all back the book coming out and made

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Speaker 1: Coachable how the greatest performers reached their highest potential by

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker.

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Speaker 3: Rick, who's some of the players you talked to in

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Speaker 3: that one?

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Speaker 7: Oh oh man, we got everybody Landon Donovan, Steph Curry,

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Speaker 7: Derk Novitski, O, Little Steve Young, Brandy Chastain.

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Speaker 1: I could go on, wow, there it is coachable, and

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Speaker 1: then look for Coachable part two after the Knicks Championship

1157
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Speaker 1: where it's all Knicks players.

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Speaker 3: That'll be the next best study of Bike Brown. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there you go. Yeah, Rick is always buddy appreciated. Man,

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Speaker 3: we'll next week have fun. He's the best, here goes

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Speaker 3: Rick Buker leaned into it. Though, as soon as the

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Speaker 3: door open, all of a sudden there was oh man, okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: and then and then the door open. It's like, wait,

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Speaker 3: I've got a reason to bring up Jalen Brunton. No,

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Speaker 3: it's it's and that's gonna be a thing.

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Speaker 1: Whereas as you get closer to the MVP with it

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Speaker 1: being this type of year where hey, look at these

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Speaker 1: guys who are not going to be eligible. He's I

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Speaker 1: mean really, the number one thing is, hey, okay, he's

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Speaker 1: got enough games, He's he's got to be in the

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Speaker 1: top right when you get down to the end, I

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Speaker 1: would be surprised. As long as the Knicks and look,

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Speaker 1: when you get to this point in the season, you

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Speaker 1: are who you are. I would be surprised if at

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Speaker 1: this point when it when he comes down to everybody

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Speaker 1: that's eligible, that the final three Jalen Brunson is not

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Speaker 1: gonna be it. The final three is not gonna be

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, Jalen Brown and Kate Cunningham. That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: your final three for MVP.