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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Fire, FAYM, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 2: Foyer for Friday, January, the thirtieth final weekend of the

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Speaker 2: month of January. I feel bad for some of you

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Speaker 2: folks on the East coast, some in the South. I'm

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Speaker 2: seeing brutal weather this weekend. Listen, I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: Southern California. We got a good Seventy eight was the

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Speaker 2: high on Thursday. We're looking at seventy nine on Friday

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Speaker 2: We have it good out here. I get it. We

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Speaker 2: pay higher taxes, sometimes it's worth it. Weather is one

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Speaker 2: of the great reasons I love being out here. So

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Speaker 2: also why a lot of big time athletes love being

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Speaker 2: out here. And yes, we're gonna get into the Lakers

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Speaker 2: and not quite their pursuit of Giannis, but how they

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Speaker 2: could be in in a three team deal. I do

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Speaker 2: also want to say this will be the first weekend

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Speaker 2: without a football game that we've experienced since late August.

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Speaker 2: How wild is that? I mean, you could go early

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Speaker 2: August if you really watch preseason games, But come on,

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Speaker 2: for being real. Nobody here watches preseason games. I used

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Speaker 2: to watch the Jets in preseason to get a beat

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Speaker 2: on their guys. Come on, life is too short to

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Speaker 2: be watching preseason football, folks. Obviously, super Bowl next weekend.

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Speaker 2: I do have a Super Bowl bet, maybe one of

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Speaker 2: the bets. There'll be plenty, and we got some guys

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Speaker 2: lined up for next week. They'll talk about the game.

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Speaker 2: But I do think the focus right now, the biggest

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Speaker 2: story in sports is this the honest trade, and people

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Speaker 2: seem to be losing their minds. I did not think

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Speaker 2: this was gonna happen. People going crazy like this, folks.

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Speaker 2: We've known that Giannis has wanted out for what six

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Speaker 2: to eight months. This has been a long time coming,

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Speaker 2: so hopefully a lot of smart people in smartfront offices

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Speaker 2: have been workshopped what a trade could look like for Giannis.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and assume that many of the

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Speaker 2: sharper front offices have been working tirelessly to be ready. Right, Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's go. We've got our picks ready, We've got our ideas,

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Speaker 2: we've got our three team deals, we've got our four

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Speaker 2: team We've got it already. The second he's available, we pounce.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure there's a couple of those smart teams.

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Speaker 2: Now there's also teams and agents that are feeding reporters

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Speaker 2: total and complete and utter garbage. And but they've got

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Speaker 2: a parrody and the one I keep hearing the most.

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Speaker 2: And listen, I don't mind if there's egg on my

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Speaker 2: face if he gets traded to the Warriors. But these

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Speaker 2: it's it's laughable, guys. Are we being serious with these trades?

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Speaker 2: And again, I get it, Golden State's had an amazing run,

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Speaker 2: right Steph Curry's at the end of his career. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they can get Giannis and make a run. I will

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Speaker 2: remind you, guys pre covid I Steph Curry was rehabbing

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Speaker 2: an injury and he was at my gym. Now I

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Speaker 2: fondly remember this. It was sometime in like late November

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Speaker 2: that's crazy. So of course, you know, I go to

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Speaker 2: whether they're shooting hoops, working out, whatever. And I run

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Speaker 2: into Curry and for whatever reason at this time, and

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Speaker 2: I forget because this was honestly like it had to

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Speaker 2: be seven years ago, six seven years ago, haha, six

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Speaker 2: seven and and I straight up said to him, you know,

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Speaker 2: we were talking and we were talking about potential trades,

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Speaker 2: and I floated to Curry a way for them to

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Speaker 2: And I think I floated the idea of that high

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Speaker 2: heard anything like that before in our little conversation. Fast

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Speaker 2: forward seven years and now everybody shaid, oh what Warriors

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Speaker 2: and Giannis folks, Listen. I respect the guys at the athletic.

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Speaker 2: I have a subscription. There's a lot of good writers

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Speaker 2: there they come on the podcast. This is the fictitious

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Speaker 2: between the Bucks and the Warriors. The Warriors received Jannis

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Speaker 2: Now I'm just gonna read off for you what that

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Speaker 2: Pods and with Yannis and Kuzma. Okay, So you would

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Speaker 2: look at Curry, Draymond, Kuzma, Yannis. Okay, that that's your

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Speaker 2: still be on the roster. Somebody named Juey I'm sorry, Jewey.

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Speaker 2: So it's essentially Curry, Jannis, washed, Draymond, no defense, Kuzma,

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Speaker 2: and then a bunch of reserves. Do you guys realize

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Speaker 2: how difficult the West is right now? I love Steph

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Speaker 2: Curry's my favorite player. Every he turns thirty eight in

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Speaker 2: two months in March. This Warriors team is a cut

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Speaker 2: above play in With that core, that's it. You have

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Speaker 2: your third leading scorer is Kuzma the finals. They're not

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Speaker 2: Why would he do that when they only have him

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Speaker 2: it's a three team deal between the Portland trail Blazers

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Speaker 2: Portland currently has is it ten? I'm seeing yeah, Portland

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Speaker 2: currently has no. No, Portland doesn't have ten. Brooklyn has

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Speaker 2: the Bucks would love to get back. So the Bucks

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Speaker 2: gets Giannis and Drew Holliday. That's fricking fantastic. The Portland Trailblazers,

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Speaker 2: on earth is Portland doing that? Hey, we want to

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Speaker 2: help you, guys, Minnesota. We want to help you get Giannis. Well,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna see you in the division, but we want

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect them to be ninth in the West.

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Speaker 2: I don't see what getting Jaden McDaniels and giving up

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Speaker 2: Orlando has long been a franchise that has had major superstars.

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Speaker 2: poo poo Orlando all you want, Like that's a that's

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Speaker 2: have family in Orlando. They would they would kill for

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Speaker 2: this deal. But the tax situation, if that matters to Jannis,

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Speaker 2: I don't. We still don't know what matters. I know

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Speaker 2: he likes New York, everybody knows that. But coming up

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Speaker 2: with the New York deal is tough and tricky.

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Speaker 2: But this is where it gets interesting. Rob g is

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Speaker 2: of the belief that maybe maybe the Lakers should consider

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Speaker 2: getting involved and help facilitate ay honest to Minnesota deal.

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Speaker 2: How would they do that, Well, obviously they would have

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Speaker 2: to get help, and that would be in the form

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Speaker 2: of Jaden McDaniels, who actually is a pretty damn good

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Speaker 2: three and d Wing kind of sort of the ideal

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Speaker 2: McDaniels who's making twenty four He's got four years left

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Speaker 2: at about twenty five twenty six per so Minnesota would

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Speaker 2: Jaden contract. We need picks. What can you give us?

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Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, what the Lakers are giving

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Speaker 2: up two first round picks for Jaden McDaniels, so that

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Speaker 2: Minnesota can then go flip those two in the deal

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Speaker 2: to get Yannis. And I don't have to believe, like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Jade McDaniels is nice, you gotta give up future picks

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Speaker 2: He's a superstar in the league. It's not like he's

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Speaker 2: This year Yannis is no I'm sorry. He's leading the

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Speaker 2: This year, it won't happen because of the game's missed.

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Speaker 2: And I like Brunson a lot. I do think James

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Speaker 2: So my quick NFL bet that I did make Super

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Speaker 2: under forty six. Many more Super Bowl bets next week.

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