Speaker 1: Man, we have had justin and killed.
Speaker 2: I don't know why it's been so good basketball wise
Speaker 2: these last couple of weeks, but it's been great. Clipper
Speaker 2: Sons had the one seventy six one seventy five rematch
Speaker 2: which came down to the wire there as well.
Speaker 1: You had Sons and the Mavericks. You add KD, Kyrie.
Speaker 2: Booker, Luca in a game where we had everything that
Speaker 2: we would hope for one twenty eight one twenty six
Speaker 2: was down to the wire, Luca missed a bunny with
Speaker 2: three and a half seconds left, and of course there
Speaker 2: was electricity there. In addition, all four superstars putting up
Speaker 2: thirty points per game in the same game, there were
Speaker 2: also a couple of fascinating interactions I wanted to note,
Speaker 2: outside of the fact that you had four of the
Speaker 2: best scorers in the league all playing at the same time,
Speaker 2: having over I think one hundred and thirty points combined
Speaker 2: between those four. One the interaction between Kyrie and Katie
Speaker 2: is curious. Nobody's really talking about it, which is exactly
Speaker 2: what I find fascinating. There's nothing going on between them.
Speaker 2: There's zero looks, there's zero touching, there's zero conversations.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: These guys were supposedly so thick as thieve. They're best friends,
Speaker 2: their brothers. They want to play together for the rest
Speaker 2: of their careers. They want to take control of their future.
Speaker 2: They want to build a dynasty together. They have been
Speaker 2: planning this over facetimes and Palo Sancho incense burning sensions,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you have Kyrie saying that
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant was him in a prior life.
Speaker 1: Like these guys were tight.
Speaker 2: And now it's like they see each other, they don't
Speaker 2: even speak, and we find that strange.
Speaker 1: I find that strange. They didn't even acknowledge each other
Speaker 1: during the game. Kevin Durant came over.
Speaker 2: The Dallas Mavericks bench talking to Jason Kidd and he's
Speaker 2: like dapping up and hugging beer, hugging Mark Keith Morris,
Speaker 2: who I don't know, played with him for a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee in Brooklyn a month they played together. They
Speaker 2: did not played together on any other teams. He's giving
Speaker 2: him a bear hug and he says nothing to Kyrie zero.
Speaker 1: They did not even acknowledge each other pregame. They did
Speaker 1: not shake hands after the game.
Speaker 2: What is going on here? It deserves a full on
Speaker 2: tea investigation. Kevin Durant was asked after the fact about
Speaker 2: what he felt while facing Kyrie irving All. He said,
Speaker 2: I felt no emotions at all. It was another game.
Speaker 2: I'm glad we got the w whoa no emotions, stone faced,
Speaker 2: stone cold, Steve Huston, My lord, it's dead over there.
Speaker 2: It's a dead relationship. Kyrie said this before the game.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it playing against the Sons, playing
Speaker 2: against the new look Sons with KD, I think it'll
Speaker 2: be an exciting time for us to compete again with
Speaker 2: each other. He's my brother for life, but when we're
Speaker 2: stepping out there, I'm looking forward to the competition. So
Speaker 2: Kyrie seems to be less upset with Kevin Durant than
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant is with Kyrie. Rumors are that Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: was angry that Kyrie just dipset it on him in
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 1: Of the season.
Speaker 2: Could you blame him logic police, Yes, of course, you
Speaker 2: want to see him play this thing out.
Speaker 1: He would not play it out because.
Speaker 2: They would not give him the extension, and he dipped
Speaker 2: out kind of in a suspect way. So is there
Speaker 2: beef I don't think there's beef, but they're certainly not
Speaker 2: close vibes close energy between the two. Are they gonna
Speaker 2: be going to Turks and Caicos this summer and spending
Speaker 2: some time on a sailboat. No, I do not think so.
Speaker 2: I think the relationship has grown chilly. I thought that
Speaker 2: they would. I thought that they would stay close after
Speaker 2: a last offseason when Kevin Durant was like, yeah, no
Speaker 2: matter what's in the best interest of Kyrie, were always
Speaker 2: gonna be tight. Not the way that it went down
Speaker 2: this time, folks, No, sir, I'm not sure anymore. The
Speaker 2: other great thing that was happening in this game was
Speaker 2: this rivalry between Devin Booker and Luca. It is something
Speaker 2: I need full seven games up again.
Speaker 1: I needed.
Speaker 2: The rivalry obviously stems back to last year when Luca
Speaker 2: did that little meme in uh Devin Booker's face.
Speaker 1: Just Google if you don't remember what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: He's smiling because he has thirty and the Sons have
Speaker 2: twenty seven at halftime, and he's just looking him dead
Speaker 2: in his face, like two inches from his face. Maybe
Speaker 2: Sons were up in that series. Of course, they talked
Speaker 2: a lot of shit. Luca was not happy with that. Hey,
Speaker 2: why don't you, uh, why don't you wait to talk
Speaker 2: shit when it's just even.
Speaker 1: It's all fun and games when you're up.
Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden they get their asses
Speaker 2: handed to them. In Game seven, and then obviously, Devin
Speaker 2: Booker talked shit to Luca when he missed a bunny
Speaker 2: with three and a half seconds left. Luke was not
Speaker 2: having that. He said to Booker, Yeah, it's a competitive game.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: Next time, just don't wait until there's three seconds left
Speaker 1: to talk. That's facts.
Speaker 2: Booker was asked after the game about the incident. He
Speaker 2: said this, You guys say you don't want everybody to
Speaker 2: be friendly friendly.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: We got smoke, So the star players on these teams
Speaker 2: have smoke. I want to see a first round playoff
Speaker 2: series between the Suns and the Maths, Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Do I want to wait until the Western car No.
Speaker 2: I don't want to wait. I want the first round
Speaker 2: to be that. I want all the drama. I want
Speaker 2: all the questions about Katie and Kyrie. I want Luca
Speaker 2: and Devin Booker to go at it.
Speaker 1: Your damn right, I do. That's all the time. That
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