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Speaker 1: everybody instant reaction to a very lively pre draft deadline

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Speaker 1: in the NBA, which is February ninth. So we've got

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving today. Four different suitors liked him. Clippers, Lakers

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Speaker 1: in La MAVs were the three that jump out to me,

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Speaker 1: and we talked about on our show on Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: FS one Friday. Clippers had more to give than the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: and we find out that's what it came down to.

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Speaker 1: The Brooklyn Nets liked what Dallas had to offer between

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Speaker 1: draft picks Spencer Dinwiddie and another forward. You know, my

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Speaker 1: takeaway is this is really about Luca. Dontage is that

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks won a title previously with a great European

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Speaker 1: player and they could never really get him an equal

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Speaker 1: running mate. Now, they did win a title against the

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Speaker 1: Heatles Miami Heatles. That team with JJ Barea and some

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Speaker 1: veteran players and some length and Dirk Navitsky. What was

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Speaker 1: dubbed a kind of a stunning upset is Lebron had

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Speaker 1: his worst series of his career. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things I thought Mark Cuban was starting to feel a

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Speaker 1: little little pressure is Okay, what are we going to

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Speaker 1: do with Luca? We got to get him a running mate. Now,

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Speaker 1: Luca's style, as everybody watching this that's an NBA fan knows,

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Speaker 1: is very ball centric. You know, look at the numbers

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson has put up leaving Luca to go to

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Speaker 1: the Knicks. You end up watching a lot of Luca

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Speaker 1: offense as a teammate, and it can be really frustrating. Now,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving has played with Kevin Durant, he has played

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Speaker 1: with Lebron James, so he has had teammates that have

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Speaker 1: the ball. But there's nobody quite like Luca. So I

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Speaker 1: think short term it would work a long term. If

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Speaker 1: it was a four year deal, I think they butt

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Speaker 1: heads eventually. Luca's the best, arguably offensive player in the

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Speaker 1: league right now. Some say it's not an argument. Kyrie's

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Speaker 1: the best scoring little guy in the league right now,

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Speaker 1: A lethal left and right hand scoring at the rim.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot Kyrie can't do. But I read

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Speaker 1: a report before I went on today that Dallas is

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Speaker 1: looking at a two year deal this year. Finishing up

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Speaker 1: in a two year deal, That's what I'd be willing

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Speaker 1: to do with Kyrie Irving. Can it work for a

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Speaker 1: year and a half this year and next year, and

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Speaker 1: then you know if you have to move them again.

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Speaker 1: There's always a market for elite talent. It could be

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Speaker 1: a tech, it could be in broadcasting, it's in politics,

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Speaker 1: it's in basketball, art doesn't matter. There's always a market

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Speaker 1: for elite talent. A couple of things. Here's why I

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Speaker 1: Toronto Clippers play real defense out west. But the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 1: defensive teams. The Warriors have decided this year that they're

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Speaker 1: not going to play much, and so between Luca and

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, they're going to score out West. I mean

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Speaker 1: be a complete handful. The Eastern Conference is a better

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Speaker 1: defensive conference than the Western Conference. That's where I like it.

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Speaker 1: I also like it in the short term. Kyrie is

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Speaker 1: reportedly ecstatic with the move. Luca struggled with poor Zingis,

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Speaker 1: he learned something from that relationship. You know, Lucas now

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Speaker 1: They grow up. Stuff that bothered him their first couple

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Speaker 1: He didn't get along with port Zingis. Maybe this time works.

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Speaker 1: Short term, I think it will absolutely work. I don't

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Speaker 1: He missed games in Cleveland, he missed games in Boston,

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Speaker 1: players age, they miss more and more games. So if

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Speaker 1: Kyrie had gone to the Lakers and he's one of

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Speaker 1: one of two stars, neither want a good defensive star,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like Dallas is a championship level team.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they have the depth, but they'll score

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Speaker 1: Kyrie's an unstable personality. Four year relationships, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: the old saying, some of you date, some of you marry.

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Speaker 1: He's a hard guy to depend on over the course

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Speaker 1: But listen, Luca, you gotta get him a second star,

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Speaker 1: right Lebron's got his second star, and Durant had his

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Speaker 1: and so he rolls the dice on this. Mark Cuban's

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Speaker 1: an aggressive guy. I mean, this Dallas team pre Kyrie

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought this about the Lakers. So when

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Speaker 1: top playoff NBA player at minimum, maybe six. But that

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Speaker 1: And I mean they gave up too much for Russell Westbrook.

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Speaker 1: They just don't have enough to give anybody. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson is not as good as Kyrie Irving, probably

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Speaker 1: not as expensive as Kyrie Irving, and is healthier than

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. You know, if you pulled a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of them would take Jalen Brunson and Dallas

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Speaker 1: moved him. Now, Kyrie's a better player, but Kyrie gets

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Speaker 1: hurt a lot. He's older, the contract, and he's difficult.

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Speaker 1: He's prickly. I wouldn't even say unconventional. He's beyond unconventional.

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Speaker 1: He's erratic, and you've got to be concerned about going

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Speaker 1: into business with people like that. So if Dallas can

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Speaker 1: like eighty million bucks, then it's worth it. It'll be

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Speaker 1: fun to watch a lot of these big moves don't work.

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Speaker 1: I remember, you know Robinson canoe to the Mariners. I mean,

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Speaker 1: In the NBA, the Boston Celtics were the number one

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Speaker 1: let's pivot to Kevin Durant Phoenix rumors. So Phoenix feels

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Speaker 1: Phoenix had this two years where I'm like, wow, eighton's

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Speaker 1: becoming something. Bookers a star Chris, But Chris Paul is

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Speaker 1: now aging, you know, eighton Monty, will you have friction?

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Speaker 1: It does feel like it's close fast, And we talked

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Speaker 1: about this in the NFL. I thought the Seahawks, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a six year run. It was like three years,

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Speaker 1: like when those close fast Warriors are really an outlier.

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Speaker 1: And as good as the Celtics have been for six

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Speaker 1: here's Phoenix, like a very condensed version of Boston. You're like, wow,

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Speaker 1: it's over like we're the Celtics. We feel like it's

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Speaker 1: got some real legs here. And so there's some talk

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Speaker 1: out there about Kevin Durant. Do you think it's fueled,

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Speaker 1: as you said earlier, by like the star players camp.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think those stories surface? I don't at

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Speaker 1: this point. I think it's only being fueled externally. I

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Speaker 1: have not had indications yet that Kevin Durant is looking

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Speaker 1: at this Kyrie situation saying that's it. Trade me now

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Speaker 1: before the trade deadline. That could change, certainly next couple

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Speaker 1: day is very fresh. But my understanding is Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: had months to try to figure out a deal with

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Speaker 1: Phoenix over the summer. It didn't happen. They weren't overly

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Speaker 1: enthralled with DeAndre Ayton. And I don't know why that

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Speaker 1: would be the case right now, Mchaale Bridge's fine player,

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Speaker 1: draft picks whatever. But what Phoenix was dangling in front

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Speaker 1: of them back in the summer when there was real

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Speaker 1: competition for Kevin Durant. There were a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: bidding for Kevin Durant over the summer. The Nets weren't interested.

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Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing that the Suns can

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Speaker 1: construct something over the next four days that will make

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Speaker 1: the Nets bite on a Durant deal. More to the point, Colin,

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Speaker 1: when I see this return from Dallas, that tells me

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Speaker 1: the Nets are still trying to contend. And what's interesting

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Speaker 1: about how the Nets have played the last few years.

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Speaker 1: If you look at some of the numbers, they have

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Speaker 1: a better record with Durant and no Kyrie than Durant

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Speaker 1: and Kyrie. It's like sixty nine winning percentage versus sixty

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Speaker 1: five percent. Like they've been better because Kevin Durant just

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Speaker 1: has his ability to elevate a lot of guys around him,

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Speaker 1: and so the NETS calculus, I think, is that you

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Speaker 1: add Finney Smith to the mix. So with Royce O'Neill,

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Speaker 1: you've got another three and D type of guy, versatile player,

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Speaker 1: can guard multi positions, which is certainly useful when you're

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Speaker 1: looking at going up against Boston or any of the

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Speaker 1: other Milwaukee top tier teams in the Eastern Conference. And

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Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwittie had his best years in Brooklyn. You saw

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Speaker 1: him tweeting out earlier, can't wait to go home, like

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Speaker 1: he's excited about the possibility, never wants to really leave Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: but just went because the money was bigger when he

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Speaker 1: signed in Washington. I think Spencer dinwitt He's gonna be

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Speaker 1: really good for that team. He's not Kyrie, but plug

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Speaker 1: him into that point guard spot. He's gonna average fifteen

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Speaker 1: eighteen points per game over the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: So the NETS thinking, and it could be crazy at

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Speaker 1: least right now, is that, look, we got some guys

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Speaker 1: that can play, and Kevin Durant Gwenny's healthy is otherworldly.

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Speaker 1: So if we can just put enough competent role players

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