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Speaker 1: Final NBA game before All Star Weekend, the Lakers on

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Speaker 1: top of the Mavericks fifty five forty three late in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter. Dirk Novitsky in studio streaming tonight to

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Speaker 1: be able to provide analysis.

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Speaker 2: Jason, that's every Prime video game.

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Speaker 1: But I know, but he's here for the Mavericks. My

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Speaker 1: then line was going to be providing analysis. He didn't

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Speaker 1: play tonight for the Mavericks who are missing everybody. I had,

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Speaker 1: I had a nice had a nice pregnant pause. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't doing it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you didn't give him a TJ, he

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Speaker 2: didn't know, that's all, okay, all right, that's fine. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that they were coming back out of

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Speaker 3: a timeout and it was just the solo shot of

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Speaker 3: Dirk for like two minutes before they pulled back it

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Speaker 3: and the balls already in play, Like are they having

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Speaker 3: difficulties with the v I mean from crypto just how

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Speaker 3: it's like the guys doing the game or just talking

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Speaker 3: to Dirk while the game is It's almost like a

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Speaker 3: Manning cast going on while the game has happened.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's a new age of me, Hey,

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Speaker 1: well what do we do tonight? Yeah, no, Luca, no Cooper,

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Speaker 1: flag and whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. It doesn't matter. It's streaming. Well that's me.

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Speaker 3: They're just gonna be sitting on the court doing their

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Speaker 3: analysis and you're just gonna have to play the game.

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Speaker 1: Around them, you know. No, No, Austin Reeves, tonight, Lebron

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Speaker 1: is playing. He's got eighteen and six and eight assists

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Speaker 1: so far. Again late in the second quarter final game

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Speaker 1: before the NBA trade deadline, Lakers lead at fifty seven

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Speaker 1: to forty four now ahead of All Star Week, and

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Speaker 1: this is this is where you know, I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about this today, going, man, we haven't really had a

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Speaker 1: great or big NBA MVP conversation lately, and usually every

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Speaker 1: year in the NBA, Well we we want to talk

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Speaker 1: about it for the first week after the first month. Sure, Sure,

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Speaker 1: at the Christmas MVP, the New Year's Day MVP, the

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Speaker 1: holiday for holiday weekend MVP, the bye week of the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP.

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Speaker 2: Valentine's Day. I mean, Valdemy, get after it.

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Speaker 3: Who's Valentine's MV Who's your Valentine?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get you a little out

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Speaker 1: there with this because if you said, right now to me, okay,

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Speaker 1: who are your three top three candidates for NBA MVP

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Speaker 2: Okay, who are the candidates right now?

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Speaker 1: NB had three guys you have there, I feel like

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Speaker 1: I do it the right way, right because I can't

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Speaker 1: just sit here and watch and you know I'm saying

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Speaker 1: this truth because I'll say, because you know who is

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Speaker 1: in the same boat Jokic and Jalen Brunson, right, because

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Speaker 1: I I can't sit back in every year and just say, hey,

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Speaker 1: these guys are great and clearly you know Jokic's you know,

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets are the same. You know, they're they're a

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Speaker 1: little bit upper tier in the Western Conference, maybe their second,

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Speaker 1: maybe they're fourth. But like last year with the thunder

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Speaker 1: jumping out the way they did, SGA is you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes they get knocked out. Same thing with the Knicks, right,

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Speaker 1: Jets are getting Derek Carr. Give me a break on this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no laughing it. You know your guy is

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty to one right now. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna win. No, he's not going at all.

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Speaker 3: The chance for MVP are good now. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say, well, the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: having the same regular season they've had the last three years.

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Speaker 1: I can't say Jalen Brunson's the m H.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Jogis thing is just a little nuanced

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Speaker 3: So the odds would reflect that of hey, he may

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Speaker 3: you know the numbers will be there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, in the end, MVP is not

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Speaker 4: It is not.

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Speaker 1: You know, your team can stink if you're good, they

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Speaker 1: can stink if you're bad, but you need to do

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Speaker 2: Now, normally, hey, it might be enough for a guy.

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Speaker 1: Like yokat your brunts and hey, number two team in

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Speaker 1: the in the conference and we're playing really well. The

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Speaker 1: two number three, you know, we're playing really well. But

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Speaker 1: there's three guys, and two of them are gonna shock you. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you who I got at number one, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and I'll go, oh, dude, he's he's unanimous.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be voted to Team MVP. You're standing up

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Speaker 3: for guys. Come on, man, he's already in the top five.

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, he's he's right there.

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Speaker 1: Number three, and again it's it's who's having this kind

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Speaker 2: Right? Okay, number three?

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Speaker 1: And I never thought I would say this because I

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Speaker 1: thought the days like this for him were done over

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Speaker 1: the courses NBA career. But number three, Kevin Durant, Okay,

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Speaker 1: comes into this year. No, Fred van Vliet floor general.

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Speaker 1: What Kevin Durant, What's he gonna do in his late thirties?

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Speaker 1: the opening week of the season. You gotta be devastated

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Speaker 1: when you lose your floor, Jennifer, You're expecting to build

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Speaker 1: on last couple of years ago. We're gonna break through

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Speaker 1: and now yeah you're big, Kevin Durant. Really, I mean you,

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Speaker 1: what do you really think is gonna happen? And here

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Speaker 1: are the Rockets now near the top of the Western

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Speaker 1: Conference right They're a top four team. Nobody thought they

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Speaker 1: would be this high. And KD is at the top

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Speaker 1: of the league in scoring. He's doing so much for them.

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Speaker 1: Like I thought, this is gonna be a year where

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Speaker 1: Kadie takes a step back. He has his games once

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Speaker 1: in a while, but he is doing everything for them.

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Speaker 1: Liam is their number one score And I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: just like I thought, Hey, Mellow's running out of gas. Nope,

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Speaker 1: he's got a little bit more left. James Harden running

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Speaker 1: out of gas. Nope, got a little more left? Like KD. Okay,

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Speaker 1: a lot of miles, a lot of points. Is he

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Speaker 1: really gonna be someone that the rock I could say, Okay, Katie,

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Speaker 1: you're a guy, and he has been.

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Speaker 2: He has been tremendous for the Rockets this year.

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Speaker 3: Now here's there's a bunch of names ahead of him,

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Speaker 3: and we'll get into some of the particulars in terms

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Speaker 3: of the batting market. But right now, Bronnie, no Ronnie,

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Speaker 3: that's in some calcy fugazy minute.

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Speaker 1: Did he get in the game tonight? Di, Bronny get

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Speaker 1: in the game yet? That is to vote All Star?

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Speaker 2: That is true? Yes, that is yea, that is true.

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Speaker 2: That is true.

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Speaker 3: And he will put the ball up plus one hundred thousand,

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Speaker 3: so one thousand to one for your guy, KD. But

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Speaker 3: he's been magnificent and he's clapping back and chirping. He's

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Speaker 3: actually giving a bunch of headlines. Oh yeah, I had

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Speaker 3: nothing to do with tanking or whatever. He's some of

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Speaker 3: the All Star game stuff. But he's give to be

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Speaker 3: excited about the All Star Game. Okay, yeah, we'll see

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Speaker 3: the old heads are getting all the criticism.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 3: There's at least a little fire there. Let's see if

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Speaker 3: he comes out and torches him. We have slim reaper

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Speaker 3: getting after it.

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Speaker 1: KD number three, okay, number two, wemby forty games. Now

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Speaker 1: he missed a little bit of time, but not so

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Speaker 1: much time. The spurs have gone from Now we're a

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Speaker 1: lottery team. We're trying to figure it out now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they made great moves, they drafted well. I told you

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Speaker 1: could be an nbagm But Wemby has just been on

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Speaker 1: a different planet. He could have scored one hundred the

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Speaker 1: other night if they kept win the game against the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: But you look at the Spurs now, twenty two games

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Speaker 1: over five hundred and as good a front half plus

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Speaker 1: of the year the Thunder have had. The Spurs are

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Speaker 1: right behind him, to the point where I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to be surprised if the Spurs wind up the number

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Speaker 1: one seed in.

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Speaker 2: The Western Conference.

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Speaker 1: I told you before the season, this is the year

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Speaker 1: Wenby becomes the most talented player in the league. This

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Speaker 1: is the year it happens. At some point between now

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Speaker 1: and the end of the year, we're going to say

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Speaker 1: it's Wemby, and while yes there's a good supporting cast,

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Speaker 1: who's the guy out of the top of it, just

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Speaker 1: like SGA was last year, It's Wemby. I got Wemby

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, see taking another l tonight going into the break.

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Speaker 3: SGA missing some time right now, Wembin Yama sixty to one.

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Speaker 3: That's the fifth favorite on the board, but sixty to one,

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Speaker 3: showing just how disparate the betting market is at this

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Speaker 3: point and now top heavy. But he's just been magnificent

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Speaker 3: for ever every way, shape and form, I mean defensively,

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Speaker 3: every SHOT's altered. The fact that he hits three pointers

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Speaker 3: as he does it still offends my sensibilities as a

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Speaker 3: short man who can't shoot or really do much of

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Speaker 3: anything that a seven pot seven guy on a basketball court.

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Speaker 3: People that this guy could just say, you know what,

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Speaker 3: I think I'll add this to my game.

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Speaker 2: You might have shortened. You might be seven to eight,

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Speaker 2: you could be seven. It could be seven.

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Speaker 1: Seven nine by tomorrow, and I don't know, still growing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Wemby number two. Who would be my favorite for MVP

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Speaker 1: right now? Who would I say if I had to

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Speaker 3: I mean, really watch He's currently tied with Cunningham, third

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: Jazz are losing right now to Portland one twenty seven

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Speaker 1: one point fifteen. Can we prove their tanking tonight? Are

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Speaker 2: Maybe you got.

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Speaker 3: Can you approve their tanking?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it was only worth what was it,

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Speaker 1: I loved the bucket hat. I felt like, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: playing an all start game, you're wearing a bucket hat.

435
00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,720
Speaker 2: How serious do you really you're playing it? But again I.

436
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 1: Felt like I'm i'm i'm, I'm eavesdropping on NFL players vacations,

437
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 1: like we're getting together on the beach. You're gonna play

438
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,880
Speaker 1: this game, right? But this is what the Pro Bowl's

439
00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 1: going to be. We saw the ratings for the Pro

440
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 1: Bowl were awful. They tried to jam it in here

441
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 1: all in in in uh in Super Bowl Week obviously

442
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,880
Speaker 1: where it always has been. But here's where I could

443
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 1: save the Pro Bowl. Okay, if this is going to

444
00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 1: be the Pro Bowl, move it to the middle of

445
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: the season, play eight nine weeks league wide, by and

446
00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,359
Speaker 1: you have the Pro Bowl. See there's your second by Okay,

447
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,280
Speaker 1: everybody gets a ball, right, play eight nine weeks.

448
00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:12,600
Speaker 2: Have the Pro Bowl.

449
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,479
Speaker 1: More people will be interested because we're in the throes

450
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 1: of the NFL season. There's no NFL game. There's no

451
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 1: NFL games going on, right, So okay, so what do

452
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 1: we do here. It's a celebration of the game. You

453
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,159
Speaker 1: want to make it that way. People aren't paying attention

454
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: because there's no celebration of the Pro Bowl. The only

455
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 1: story that came out opposite the Pro Bowl was, hey,

456
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 1: guess what Belichick's not getting in the Hall of Fame?

457
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,160
Speaker 1: And that took over everything, even took over the Super Bowl.

458
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 1: I can even solve the NFL Super Bowl problem by

459
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 1: doing this. So if you put the Pro Bowl in

460
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 1: the middle of the season, right, eight nine weeks, and

461
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 1: then you have it, and then and then you have

462
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,200
Speaker 1: a buy, the players who make it are the ones

463
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Speaker 1: who had the best first half of the year, right, like,

464
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: just like it has right, just like you normally do

465
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 1: it in all the other sports. And if it's something

466
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 1: where hey, this is what we're playing, you're playing a

467
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 1: flag football game.

468
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 2: Guys aren't treating it serious. Yes, there's always.

469
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: The possibility somebody could get hurt, but really, if this

470
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 1: is what it is and it's a celebration of the game,

471
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 1: I think you're okay. Guys are okay showing up. Nobody

472
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: gets mad at Major League Baseball when they do it.

473
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 1: No one gets mad at the NBA when they do it.

474
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 1: If there's no contact, there's nobody getting her. You can

475
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 1: do it here. Fans are interested because it's a break

476
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season where they're in that

477
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,439
Speaker 1: mode of watching football. You make that week kind of

478
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: what the NBA does, where this is your celebration of

479
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: the game. You can make the trade deadline that week

480
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL Week eight, Week nine, when you go

481
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 1: to the All Start, when you go to the Pro Bowl,

482
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 1: that's your trade deadline. Guess what new players can Hey,

483
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 1: I got two weeks to get this guy acclimated to

484
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 1: my team.

485
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 2: We can pull the trigger on this trade. I know

486
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 2: we can do it.

487
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:47,640
Speaker 1: We can get this guy, and we got two weeks

488
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Speaker 1: to get a playbook and going, yeah, let's do it.

489
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,199
Speaker 2: You could even have the.

490
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame finalists be announced if you wanted to.

491
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 1: You can make that week a celebration of the game,

492
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 1: and the whole week leading up to the Pro Bowl

493
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: is all about trade deadline, Hall of Fame, Pro Bowl itself.

494
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 1: What is said, what isn't said? More people are already

495
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,440
Speaker 1: interested in what you're getting to see. Then you come

496
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: off of it and you're previewing the second half of

497
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: the season. Nobody walks away from the NFL at interest

498
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: level remains high, and you save the Pro Bowl. The

499
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl becomes an event and maybe it's the Pro

500
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Speaker 1: Bowl week it becomes. It works, and the NFL can

501
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 1: reclaim the Super Bowl because what if we said about

502
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Every year they get overshadowed by everything.

503
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 1: They're overshadowed by the Hall of Fame, they get overshadowed

504
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: by the NBA trade deadline. Now you can just say

505
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: we are focused on the super Bowl. We have more

506
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: super Bowl events, more super Bowl centric things, more access

507
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: for players, and you put super Bowl content out there

508
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: that week. When you get back to media Day being

509
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 1: on Tuesday during the day, where it becomes an event,

510
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: not something that just gets shut the shutter to the

511
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 1: side because no one's paying attention on Monday night, you

512
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 1: can reclaim that week for the super Bowl itself. There's

513
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: no reason if this is what the Pro Bowls gonna be,

514
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: you can't move it to the middle of the season

515
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 1: and make it an event and make it.

516
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: Part of the calendar.

517
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Speaker 3: It's funny because it's always just been that push to

518
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 3: the because it was after the season, right all those

519
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: years in Hawaii, and everybody looked forward to the vacation,

520
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 3: whether guys played or didn't, going on their off season,

521
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 3: rehabbing from injuries, maybe early surgeries, whatever, but it was

522
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 3: a big deal because it was the last throws of football.

523
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 3: This is haphazard middle of the week. A lot of

524
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 3: guys that are just I'm done with all of this.

525
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 3: So we get down to the seventh alternates and there's

526
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 3: a million other things going on again, the Hall of Fame,

527
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 3: who's getting in, who's not.

528
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: The leaks.

529
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Speaker 3: You think they're gonna find out who leaked? How big

530
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 3: an investigation you think it's gonna be. I can make

531
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 3: the obvious comparison as we sit here in the Greater

532
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 3: Los Angeles area about finding the reality of that, but

533
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 3: I'll leave that. I'll lead you at the water Cup

534
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 3: and you decide whether you want to drink there.

535
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 2: But for this, I dig it it's too sass.

536
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 3: You figure out the bye week because you have to

537
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 3: spread that because you don't want to buy before and after,

538
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 3: so so you have to change that. That math up

539
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: a little bit in terms of scheduling, but I think

540
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 3: it solves a lot of issues. The trade thing is

541
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 3: probably the most most intriguing to come out of it,

542
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: since we do now have an NFL where trades happen

543
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 3: right five years ago, like it doesn't.

544
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 2: That's not apparently nobody right.

545
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 3: Here's a couple of minor moves, wishing and hoping that

546
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 3: a guy catches lightning in a bottle, But now you

547
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 3: actually have substantive moves, and with the two week period,

548
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 3: with the fact that quarterbacks can get dealt at this

549
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 3: point off of rosters and move I think it's a

550
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 3: It's a nice, indecent proposal that will be roundly rejected

551
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 3: by the NFL because it makes too much sense, right.

552
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: And the thing is that you think about how what

553
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: that would become very quickly around the NFL for fans,

554
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: is that the All Star or the All Star Break,

555
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl break, wherever you want to call it,

556
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 1: The Pro Bowl break would be something that is a

557
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 1: spot on the calendar that fans and teams look forward to. Okay,

558
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: here are week four, boy, If we can get our

559
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: quarterback back after the break, right, if we can just

560
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: survive to the break where we are now at five,

561
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 1: harder to make whatever trades we have to make. If

562
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: we can get to the break, the break becomes a

563
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 1: moment and it's like an oasis in the desert where

564
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: if we can get to hear we can make the

565
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: adjustments needed.

566
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Speaker 3: Well, because one of the big blants has always been

567
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 3: about how buys are adjudicated and put into the schedule.

568
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 3: Right as we have the giant grid goes in front

569
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 3: of us, all right, yeah, we got a week four

570
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 3: by that doesn't help us, right Versus hey they get

571
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 3: a week nine or week ten.

572
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: Aware, well they may still get that.

573
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 3: Now everybody has that mid mid season reset. If you've

574
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 3: got guys coming back off injury, perhaps that extra week

575
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 3: buys you a star player back to where you're now

576
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 3: for the playoff chase. Since we do have that muddled

577
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 3: mess down in those six seven excenye, I walked right

578
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 3: into that. You know I did not mean, dude, but

579
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 3: I kind of did because it is the back end

580
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 3: of the playffs. But we see so many teams that

581
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 3: are fighting within a game, maybe two games there. Maybe

582
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: getting that guy back an extra week because you get

583
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 3: that bye week makes those final weeks more competitive. Yeah,

584
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 3: right to where we we certainly don't have what the

585
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 3: NBA does, where we've got ten teams looking around going

586
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: how badly can we you know, mangle the last half

587
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 3: of the season to get more ping pong balls. Here

588
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 3: with the NFL is like we might actually still make

589
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 3: our run to the playoffs. And then they hold up

590
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 3: a picture of Sam Donald's say super Bowl champion. Yeah, yeah,

591
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 3: all you gotta do is get in. Here's a picture

592
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: of Eli Manning. While we're at it, wildcard from way

593
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 3: back in the day. But I think it helps in

594
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 3: that regard because we do have such a disparity in

595
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 3: terms of when those breaks come in for teams that

596
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 3: have almost no consequence early in the season, and sometimes

597
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 3: they just come too late. It's like, all right, we're

598
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 3: already you know, it's six games under. Maybe that two

599
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 3: weeks would have bought someone an opportunity to get back

600
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 3: on the field to play substantive games instead of hey,

601
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 3: we just playing spoilers.

602
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

603
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: And also you know, not only for a team that

604
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: would want to make a trade they would feel like

605
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: they could, but teams that, hey, we're kind of stuck

606
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: because the because the trade deadline comes a little early.

607
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: What kind of team are we? We're three and four?

608
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: We're three okay, but not after nine weeks. Okay, we

609
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: understand where we're at. We can we we're more open

610
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: to making a trade. Look, you're never going to fix

611
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: the game, no, right, yeah, because when once you decided

612
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: to turn it into this, you're not going to go

613
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: back to playing game. You're just trying to keep it alive.

614
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: But just moving on the calendar into the middle of

615
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: the season where okay, everybody's in the mode of watching

616
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: football and doing this and it's not an event that

617
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: I mean Tuesday, how many people tuned in on Sunday

618
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: thought the Pro Bowl was on somewhere and go, oh no,

619
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday night.

620
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: There was a lot a thing, man, Now here's the thing.

621
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Speaker 2: You can do it at that beginning of the Super

622
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 2: Bowl week.

623
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Speaker 3: Then if we're taking the Pro Bowl games out of

624
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 3: the mix, is that the Hall of Fame could go

625
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 3: back to being its own standalone event. Yeah, you know,

626
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: we find out the three, the four, the five, the eight. Well, however,

627
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 3: many guys are getting enshrined. But we find out on

628
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 3: a Sunday and it becomes its own special standalone as

629
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 3: opposed to an afterthought in the middle of the NFL honors.

630
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, and you you can also have

631
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: just you get to the finalists, right, we're just we're

632
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: gonna name the finalists for the profoot but still vote

633
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: towards the end of the Sure that ProFootball Hall of

634
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: Fame wants to change the voting how it's done. Hey,

635
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: let's put the finalists up here now instead of here's

636
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: right before the vote. Now we're gonna vote at the end.

637
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: Different things you can do. The NFL has proven that

638
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: we can. We can own parts of the calendar whenever

639
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: we want to. You just put those couple of quick

640
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: changes up there. I mean, just the just the mental

641
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: we got we got to get to the All Star break,

642
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: We got to get to the Pro Bowl break. We

643
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: got to get there, and we reassess our team and

644
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: injuries and trades and and a bye that we so

645
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: sorely need.

646
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 2: Whatever.

647
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: No one's gonna be upset if you have a week

648
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of this NFL season with.

649
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: No GA because you know what, also this allows yeah,

650
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 2: oh sure, yeah. Any way, we took it up.

651
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Speaker 1: We're taking a break for all you guys, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna add a game. We're gonna we're gonna a game.

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Speaker 3: It's right in the middle. You get that second by week.

654
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Speaker 3: But guess what, you know, we couldn't game.

655
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Speaker 1: We couldn't figure it out because we didn't know week eight,

656
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Speaker 1: week nine, week eight, week nine. Then we decided if

657
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Speaker 1: we make eighteen games, it'll be after week ninee perfect.

658
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Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, great, it solves itself. Sign off

659
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Speaker 1: on there, sign off because honestly, think about that as

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Speaker 1: something you would give back to the players. We're gonna

661
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Speaker 1: add an eighteenth game, but we're gonna give you a

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Speaker 1: buy in the middle of the season.

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Speaker 2: That's key.

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Speaker 1: Now, not like that's something that's gonna be Oh now,

665
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Speaker 1: clearly I'm signing up for it, but that would be

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Speaker 1: part of Okay, you're gonna add a game, but give

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Speaker 1: me an extra buy, and you also hold up to

668
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Speaker 1: sign to the union saying you also get forty nine

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Speaker 1: cents on the dollars or thereabouts.

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Speaker 3: You still no, no, no. But that's the thing that keeps getting

671
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 3: lost in all this. That's more games that get sold.

672
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Speaker 3: That's another sixteen games that they get almost half of.

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Speaker 2: The revenue from.

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Speaker 3: And think about with all these streamers that come out,

675
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Speaker 3: the cost is in the billions for these extra games.

676
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Speaker 3: Were talking about the international games that selling those as

677
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Speaker 3: a package. Now you're gonna have sixteen more games. Like

678
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Speaker 3: everybody wins, everybody gets fat. Who's unhappy?

679
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 2: Here? Take us extra Tuesday off. You only have to

680
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: go to half the film session.

681
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Speaker 3: Whatever. There's your good session. Eighteenth game plus mid season

682
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Speaker 3: by I like it. Exit out about a Fresca exit

683
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 3: Swallen Dome. That easy to fix?

684
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Speaker 1: The Pro Bowl time? How to find out what's trending

685
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. So someone who will

686
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Speaker 1: tell you she's watching the NBA All Star Game Sunday,

687
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Speaker 1: but is really going to stream and binge. Hannah Montana,

688
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: It's Monty Blog. It's the best of both worlds.

689
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Speaker 7: Love it, nice, nice love, Hannah Montana.

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Speaker 2: I wish I could go back and watch it for

691
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Speaker 2: the first time.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: Those shows that were like if you could just watch

694
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Speaker 7: it for the first time, like you don't know what's happening.

695
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Speaker 7: Oh kind of Montana. One in a million, Okay, one

696
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Speaker 7: in a million. Luka Doncic not playing for the Lakers.

697
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Speaker 7: But it's not a problem yet. Yeah, Lebron James. That's

698
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Speaker 7: twenty two point six rebounds, ten assists. Lakers lead the

699
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Speaker 7: Mavericks seventy nine to seventy three halfway through the third quarter.

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Speaker 7: This is the final game of the night in the

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Speaker 7: NBA as they get ready for the All Star Game.

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Speaker 7: And who's in attendance, But other than Jim Harbaugh and

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Speaker 7: Mike McDaniel.

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Speaker 2: Is Mike McDaniel wearing Great sneakers?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Sneakers? One second? Let me look at the jet he

707
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: is wearing us.

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Speaker 7: No, they're not on the.

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Speaker 3: Broch sneakers it half yeah.

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Speaker 7: You know, he's wearing great pants. Great pants. They're not caprice,

711
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Speaker 7: they're not petal the way down all.

712
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Speaker 2: The way down to his heels. Look at it, all right,

713
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: that's fine.

714
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Speaker 7: He's wearing like it looks like a like a like

715
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Speaker 7: a green zip up like sort of jacket.

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Speaker 2: It's that leather jacket.

717
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Speaker 7: Like is that leather?

718
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Speaker 2: You think so?

719
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Speaker 7: You think that's leather, okay, and then.

720
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Speaker 2: Probably a fifteen thousand dollars jacket, probably probably, but he

721
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Speaker 2: likes to look like it's only worth fifteen dollars, you

722
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like it's a lot of work.

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Speaker 7: It's a fine line right there. And then mister Harror

724
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Speaker 7: is wearing like one of those jackets with like a

725
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Speaker 7: hoodie in it. Maybe you know what I'm saying, that

726
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 7: look with the hoodie, but like a nice jacket. That's

727
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Speaker 7: what Harbaugh is wearing other games in the NBA. Tonight,

728
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Speaker 7: the Bucks defeat of the Thunder one ten to ninety

729
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Speaker 7: three Trailblazers over the Jazz one thirty five to one

730
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Speaker 7: nineteen Jazz when they come back from the All Star break,

731
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Speaker 7: you're gonna be playing without Jaron Jackson Junior because he's

732
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Speaker 7: missing the rest of the season after having a growth

733
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Speaker 7: removed from his knee, but he's expected to be ready

734
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Speaker 7: for training camp. Your knicks are going to sign free

735
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 7: agent Foard Jeremy sohen, how do.

736
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Speaker 2: We feel about that? Oh, it's a nice pickup. Yeah,

737
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: for sure.

738
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Speaker 1: We wanted to get him at the deadline and they couldn't.

739
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Speaker 1: And the Spurs are so the Spurs are so low to.

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Speaker 2: Me right, yeah, yah, likesco Wizard center Alex Sar.

741
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Speaker 7: He sustained a right hamstring strains, so he's gonna miss

742
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Speaker 7: approximately two weeks. In men's college hoops, North Carolina basketball

743
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 7: star Caleb Wilson out indefinitely with the fracture in his

744
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Speaker 7: non shooting hand. In college football, Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad

745
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Speaker 7: Chambliss has been granted a six season of eligibility by

746
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Speaker 7: a Mississippi State Court judge, clearing the way for him

747
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 7: to play in twenty twenty six, but the NCAA can

748
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 7: still appeal. And in baseball, the league finalized rules for

749
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Speaker 7: the first year of the ABS Challenge system. It's going

750
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 7: to debut on opening day this season. Some of the

751
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 7: latest tweaks that came out with this report was that

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Speaker 7: teams will have at least one challenge and extra innings

753
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Speaker 7: even if they've used their other to a lot of

754
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Speaker 7: challenges within the first nine innings. Other highlights include that

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00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 7: the umpires are gonna be given discretion on plays that

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Speaker 7: happen on the bases even when a pitch is being

757
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 7: challenged that sounds messy, and a pitch may not be

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Speaker 7: challenged if a position.

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Speaker 2: Player is pitching.

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Speaker 3: You hear that?

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Speaker 7: So if Keith are Nandez is out there pitching for

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers, you can't call a challenge because he's back.

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Speaker 2: With the Dodgers. On one ear show. Just wait until

764
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Speaker 2: Hernetta is closing game seven. Yeah, just wait.

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Speaker 3: Well, he's got all off season to get that elbow

766
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Speaker 3: right after surgery.

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Speaker 2: He's fine, she's fine.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you all my friends of their Dodger fans,

769
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Speaker 1: while all were so excited that he is coming, which

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Speaker 1: which Bobblehead day, is that they had one back first.

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Speaker 7: Sure they will, I'm sure they will, but it's like

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Speaker 7: in the clubhouse, you know, we've taken out the names

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Speaker 7: of ones that aren't on the team, and they hadn't

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Speaker 7: taken his out.

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Speaker 2: If people are like why, I was like, he's gonna

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Speaker 2: get signed. You guys like, it's just a matter of time.

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Speaker 7: He's gonna get signed.

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Speaker 2: So I'm glad they didn't take it a sex symbol

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Speaker 2: of the Dodgers. He's gonna get signed.

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Speaker 7: That was Anthony. No, yes, the ladies cried.

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Speaker 2: The ladies cried. No, yeah, no, it's Anthony.

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Speaker 7: On what was that time we went to a Dodger game.

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Speaker 7: Really this year you went this year? Did did band

784
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Speaker 7: that play at all? Because when when she goes out,

785
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Speaker 7: the screeches that go out at Dodger Stadium from the ladies,

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Speaker 7: it doesn't compare to.

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Speaker 1: See everybody pulling out their cell phones when Hernandez gets

788
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Speaker 1: to the on deck circle.

789
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Speaker 2: Sure, but he I'm.

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Speaker 7: Telling you, Bonda was that guy. Now you're right now

791
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 7: it's key, but Bond that was that guy, okay, which

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Speaker 7: she now is in Minnesota. So congratulations to the ladies

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Speaker 7: in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: We got a bag of baseball's for him. That's true.

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Speaker 1: By Jason Smith Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports

796
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Speaker 1: Radio Studios. Coming up next, a new idea out to

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Speaker 1: help combat tanking. Is the NBA going to adopt it?

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Speaker 1: That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 5: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

801
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Speaker 5: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 2: friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 6: We got.

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Speaker 1: A big developing football story come in your way in

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Speaker 1: about ten minutes. But a lot of attention tonight, like

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver tanking in the NBA, The Jazz and the

808
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: Pacers both get fined for out and out tanking a

809
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: few days ago, and the team saying, yeah, we don't care.

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00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: Uh So, now you know, now this is something that's

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Speaker 1: going to take over the conversation between now and All

812
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Speaker 1: Star weekend. And already you could tell things are bad

813
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Speaker 1: because there are some reports as to how the NBA

814
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Speaker 1: might wind up combating tanking. Now, this is from Legion

815
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Speaker 1: Hoops NBA Insider. According to the post via Shams Trani

816
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: and Florida Sports Buzz has been viewed over one point

817
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Speaker 1: four million times that the NBA is discussing creating a

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Speaker 1: tournament among lottery teams to determine draft order in order

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Speaker 1: to stop tanking. Okay, now, I first of all, I

820
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: like this because I know somebody does a fantasy league, going, hey,

821
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Speaker 1: we do a tournament for the teams that don't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs when the when the playoff teams are in,

823
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: we have our own thing, and if you win the

824
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: tournament of the team's not in the playoffs, you get

825
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. So I feel like somebody

826
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Speaker 1: in a fantasy football league came up with this idea,

827
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Speaker 1: say let's try that for the NBA let's have a

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Speaker 1: tournament of the teams that don't make the playoffs, and

829
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Speaker 1: if you win the tournament, you get the number one pick.

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Speaker 3: All league sites started cheering, all gambling sites started cheering,

831
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Speaker 3: and betting markets all of that celebrating the potential of

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Speaker 3: such an event.

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Speaker 2: Now there's just one problem.

834
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Speaker 3: Oh I have I got one. I don't know that

835
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Speaker 3: worth just there's just one problem. I wonder if we

836
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 3: on the same one.

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Speaker 2: There's the problem. What's the problem that says? Now the

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00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 2: Knicks I have to worry about this for a while.

839
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: We're fine. I still suck, but we're better than the Lakers. Okay,

840
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: worry about your team right now. Worry about your team.

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00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 2: I'm not very worried at all.

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00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, okay, Well, yeah, you're playing well tonight, you're fine. Well,

843
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: you're playing against a team that's absolutely terrible and you're winning,

844
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: so you're okay. But there's there's only one problem.

845
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: One problem.

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Speaker 1: Not not that all the teams stick, because I got

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Speaker 1: a couple other ones, Because that, I mean, that is one.

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Speaker 1: So you go into every year, okay, go and just

849
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: take an average year for the lottery teams. How many

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00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: teams own their number one pick that year. Yeah, you

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00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: know how many?

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00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 2: How many?

853
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: How many don't own their number one pick? Usually between

854
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 1: three and four teams because first round picks get traded

855
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: like their candy.

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00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they're actually talking about moving that in the

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Speaker 3: NFL to where the NBA is.

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00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: Right, you can it for five years. Hey, I've had it.

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: Now now the NBA can say, well, we could, we

860
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: could implement it right now. Yeah, but teams have traded

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00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: their picks until like twenty thirty five. Like what, It's

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00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: not gonna It's not gonna happen. Man. Uh, you know

863
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing is that you can do this,

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Speaker 1: and in theory it sounds great, But why is a

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Speaker 1: team going to try if they're trading their draft you.

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Speaker 2: Have protected draft picks. We're gonna tank.

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Speaker 1: Teams that are gonna tank on the season, are gonna

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Speaker 1: tank in the tanking tournament.

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Speaker 2: Wait, that's awesome.

870
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 3: Well let me take you to another step to this

871
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: is as soon as they've done with Game eighty two,

872
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,720
Speaker 3: there's guys that are free agents.

873
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 2: Are they showing up? Wait? I have to show up

874
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: for this turn. I'm off this team. I'm not I

875
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: don't know, I haven't been tender to contract, just like.

876
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: The kids opting out of bulls when it's like, oh,

877
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: we're playing in the pooling weed eater.

878
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: No, I'm not playing in that one. Yeah.

879
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to decline our invitation because we don't

880
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: have enough guys. Hey, are you picking up my option

881
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: or not?

882
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: Otherwise I ain't playing like that. There's problems with this.

883
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: There's absolute problem with that thing.

884
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 3: I exercised my player option so I can play in

885
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 3: your tanking tournament.

886
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.

887
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: Here's the Probably only have four tonight, so I don't

888
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: know what you want. I mean, can we at least

889
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: get the get the opening tip? Can you give us

890
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: the ball so we can maybe? I mean we're playing

891
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: with four. I mean there's a I love Rick Buker's

892
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: idea that he said last night is that there's gotta

893
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 1: be some kind of relegation when it comes to where

894
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: you finish when it comes to revenue sharing, because if

895
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: you hit owners and teams big time in the pocketbook, Okay,

896
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: that's great, because you look, you're not gonna create another

897
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: league where you're relegated down competition wise, like like the

898
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: English Premier League, which has been the what a what

899
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: a what a cliche topic that's been We gotta have

900
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: some sort of relegation. It's been twenty years. But if

901
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: you have money relegation where hey, if you are a

902
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: lottery team, then you finish here, you're not gonna split

903
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: the money that you normally would, Okay, something that okay,

904
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: well we're not taking because I'm not losing all that money.

905
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to find a way to get into

906
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs, to get into the playing games here at

907
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: seven through ten, and find a way. We don't want

908
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: to be left out and suddenly we're not getting money.

909
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: So something like that I think has a much better

910
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: chance of working with them. We're gonna add these games

911
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: at the end of the year with free agents and oh,

912
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: by the way, team's not playing guards. They've traded away

913
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: their number one, their first round pick, like that's that's

914
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't see how that works. Yeah, there's just so

915
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 1: many different things to it, right in terms of trying

916
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: to find solutions. One, you can abolish the ping pong

917
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: balls altogether and all thirty teams eventually thirty.

918
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: Two when we had these other squads, you just.

919
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 3: Go into the bucket and away you go. So there's

920
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 3: no incentive for tanking. There's no incentive for finishing in

921
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 3: the bottom of the standings. Now you add two more teams,

922
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 3: that's gonna, in theories, solve a little of it because

923
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 3: you spread out the.

924
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: Talent to a degree. Yeah maybe I don't.

925
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: Know, but the well run teams are still going to

926
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: run circles around you, so it doesn't matter. But it's

927
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: the end of season tournament is yeah, just frought with issues.

928
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 3: And I think we did that for about eight minutes.

929
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: That's done.

930
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean really, I mean, go back to the drawing board.

931
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: I feel like it's somebody who had their their fantasy football.

932
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: You know, we're doing fantasy football. Let's explore it. Let's

933
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: explore it.

934
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 5: Why not?

935
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 1: I got a big developing story out of college football

936
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL.

937
00:40:59,040 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 2: Next right here, this is