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Speaker 2: Guess what we've got second round action, as Denver has

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Speaker 2: already taken a two to lead the Lakers stole game.

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Speaker 3: One up in the Baby Billy did the same in Boston.

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Speaker 3: We love to see that on this show.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, they're starting to feel fan service at this point.

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Speaker 4: It's starting to feel like the NBA is just writing to.

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Speaker 2: Us for Yeah, I love it. You know what, Silver,

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Speaker 2: keep these results coming. Mean while the Nicks and Heat

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Speaker 2: are battling out for all of our nineties nostalgia, it's

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Speaker 2: a really good one to see for all of us

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Speaker 2: who were living in the nineties. And we're gonna get

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Speaker 2: into all of that with the SB Nation, NBA manager

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Speaker 2: and Fantastic podcast host Harrison Fagan on today's episode, I'm

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Speaker 2: Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is miss

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Speaker 2: here's your indeed driving Spinny.

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Speaker 3: Curry a three pointer.

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry from downtown again. Yes, look out, shut time

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Speaker 2: Yes, Harrison Vegan, SB Nation, NBA manager, co host of

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Speaker 2: the Rewind and Reconsider and Lakers Lounge podcast. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the show, Harrison. How are you living, how are you feeling,

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Speaker 2: how are you doing?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm doing great. I'm you know, much like you.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, floating a little bit off of that,

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Speaker 3: off of that win last night. You know, Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: have a lot more fun to stay up past midnight

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Speaker 3: for games like that when, uh, you know, the team

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Speaker 3: that you're covering, or the team that you're rooting for

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Speaker 3: in my case, wins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I mean yeah, that's uh, well, we'll get

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Speaker 2: to that. We'll we're gonna get to the Western Conference.

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Speaker 2: But hey, up top Jack, we should mention who is

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Speaker 2: the NBA MVP MBDP Joel your boy? Joel your boy?

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Speaker 2: Did you see him reacting to it when he found out?

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Speaker 1: I did not. Was he surprised? He was?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when they said when they go and it's from

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and like he just like

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Speaker 2: And then James Harden is hugging him, and I think

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Speaker 1: Like he crying. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm not very happy for Joel Embiid. This debate and

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Speaker 4: conversation is stupid, like uninteresting to me. So but I'm

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Speaker 4: glad that he got it. Like there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: people who are like Sixers fans bullied us into voting

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Speaker 4: for him, and it should have been Jokic because he's

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Speaker 4: not hurt right now, which leads into this whole thing

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Speaker 4: that like just the fandom and a lot of the

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Speaker 4: like podcasts and the culture around the NBA is like

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Speaker 4: so weird right now. It's so like just negative and

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Speaker 4: like they everyone's just like so mean to players who

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a wild time to.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, like even after this is like going

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Speaker 4: Butler Games four and five, like those were two of

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Speaker 4: the coolest things I've ever seen a human being do

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Speaker 4: four and five like just bent the laws of physics

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Speaker 4: And then like I like I tuned into the Zach

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Speaker 1: Like the whole hour and a half.

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Speaker 4: Was just him just talking about like how was a

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Speaker 1: Know what it is.

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Speaker 2: I think because it's just like our human desire to

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Speaker 4: It's just like, yo, like this is like a sport

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Speaker 3: So Jack hit on exactly sort of like where all

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Speaker 4: Maybe I'm weird because I just like did not want

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Speaker 2: Well Jack, let's bring the vibes back up, because I

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Speaker 5: MVP, so he puts his head in his hands. So anyway, yeah,

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Speaker 5: good times, good time.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, he stinks he's hurt.

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Speaker 4: Uh, he's the best.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said right at that party. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, so he's back, Yeah, he's back.

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Speaker 3: I do appreciate that he said that. And then the

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Speaker 3: Who's to say what I'm back means he could be

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: I meant my back pulled something back there.

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Speaker 3: Fright commercial He was cracked up all behind him, like, right.

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Speaker 2: Right, But shall we move to the Eastern Conference matchups

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Speaker 2: Here Heat Nicks, they're squared up. Yeah, like I was

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Speaker 2: loving to see Like everybody else, I love seeing the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Eric Spolster is one of the great coaches of

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Speaker 3: Everyone coach of the year. I was about to ask

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Speaker 3: With all due respect to Mike Brown, He's won Coach

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean all these awards are about narrative and

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Speaker 4: I don't know, He's doing something that I feel like

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Speaker 4: we've never seen where somebody just wills themselves to be

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Speaker 1: It's wild.

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Speaker 3: You know, he doesn't care that much during the regular season,

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Speaker 1: Regular season, I'm not even looking shoot three. See me

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Speaker 1: on media day, I wore a wig that is still.

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Speaker 3: He closes his eyes during the regular season before shooting,

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just oh, yeah, I open what's your secret?

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Speaker 2: Oh I open my eyes now in the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, you could play the whole regular season with

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Speaker 3: up in the playoffs, like, yeah.

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Speaker 4: The wig is such a great Like still, despite the

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Speaker 4: greatest playoff games I've ever seen a player play, the

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Speaker 4: wig is still my favorite.

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Speaker 1: Thing he's done this season.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the fake hairs, absolutely it was. It is

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Speaker 2: what we all needed, especially for me as somebody who's like.

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Speaker 3: Man, I would love to wear a wig in an.

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Speaker 4: Official capacity for me day, Yeah, you are one of

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Speaker 4: the great wig whears.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was really concerned going to Game two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy should have taken photo day more. Seriously, that's

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's just like it's that lack of focus that costs

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Speaker 3: You know who else wears wigs to work? Clowns?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Jimmy, Jerry Butler was not focused enough on

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Speaker 3: That's my headline.

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Speaker 4: And if I that's what I would have told him,

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Speaker 2: You found Jimmy, get big old clown's guys, he's a clown.

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Speaker 1: Game one? I'm not sure there's much to say about

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Speaker 2: Nothing to say because it's like it's a wrap there.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about our two teams series is and how

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Speaker 1: Be right back, and we're back.

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Speaker 4: The Vegas odds heading in first of all, when the

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Speaker 4: The top four most likely outcomes according to Vegas were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's there's some there's some feelings, big feelings, as

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to see Celtics fans having gigantic feelings about this.

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Speaker 3: But I'm very petty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so game one and beat his out, Big Game.

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Speaker 4: Jim Harden came to play big game, big pants.

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Speaker 2: Big game, bigger pants, bigger pants. Do you watch what

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Speaker 3: He skinned the cookie monster, ye like, and to wear

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Speaker 4: It was half mascot costume, like the bottom half seemed

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, he actually thought the Sixers were going to

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Speaker 3: He's just like, well, I can't waste it, like I'm

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Speaker 1: Yeah right.

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Speaker 3: I hope he wears something more ludicrous to Game two,

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Speaker 2: Like how like baseball players do like a postseason beard,

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I want to see him in like the

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Speaker 3: They're just like pushing a parade balloon through the walk

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Speaker 4: Forty five, his greatest performance in the postseason of all

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Speaker 4: has completely had their number this season. So the things

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Speaker 4: I've witnessed it with my own eyes, and like nobody

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Speaker 1: Up to the series.

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Speaker 4: The confidence of Celtics fans heading in was just I

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Speaker 4: which I just feel like in any sport postseason, that's

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Speaker 1: That said, I think it could very easily.

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Speaker 4: Be a gentleman sweep, like the fact that it was

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Speaker 4: I've seen him have those before. They don't usually come

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Speaker 4: So those are the things that are making me feel

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Speaker 3: Can I distill what you said?

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Speaker 2: I think first you said Celtics lose inexplicably, the pride

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Speaker 2: the fall Joel and Beat, Yeah, yeah, and then you

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Speaker 3: I think he called him a regular season merchant. But

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Speaker 3: I think that would be quote. I think that was okay.

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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure I have that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I won't feel safe in this one until the Sixers

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Speaker 3: Maybe talking with the Celtics plan. They're like, well, we can't.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna let him get up three to one because

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Speaker 3: then we're gonna week yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because yeah, Joe Mozula, he did save his quiz Lick

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Speaker 3: You remember that one was not in the quick that

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: He's like, man, I put all my energy in being

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Speaker 3: Bias Harris are gone. I'm sorry. I just I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't even know who that is, Like, who's that hey, Hey, hey, hey, Jason,

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Speaker 2: Who's that guy Tyrese MAXI, Yeah, yeah, yeah, what do

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Speaker 3: Dude? What I forgot? There's I had a lot of

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 3: I'm really sorry, and I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: What was your name?

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Speaker 3: I know they call you time lord, but what's your

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Speaker 1: Buddy? He doesn't even know the players? Man?

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Speaker 4: All right, Uh, well we'll see how all this works out.

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Speaker 4: The Nugget Sons, like people think it's a rap at

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Speaker 4: this point. Yeah, Nuggets up two. Oh, they looked a

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Speaker 3: not a fast healing thing. You know, you kind of

440
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 3: you need your growing to walk. It's it's kind of

441
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 3: an important thing. It's hard to rest it.

442
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: You know.

443
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 4: It's crazy that doctors say I have one of the

444
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 4: most impervious to injuries growings of all time.

445
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 1: So I've actually never impervious to injuries growing Yeah.

446
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am built different. The doctors also have said

447
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,880
Speaker 4: I have that dog in me, uh so, which can

448
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 4: be a good thing and bad thing. But the I

449
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 4: just feel like this is another one where everyone has

450
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,959
Speaker 4: gotten a little bit ahead of themselves and are like

451
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 4: just burying the Suns and Denver's a hard place to play.

452
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 4: The Suns are still figuring things out rotationally, like Katie

453
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 4: figuring out how to get involved. I think he will

454
00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 4: be like, by necessity, much more involved going forward. And

455
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just don't think it's a rap

456
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 4: at this point.

457
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's like a couple of things. Like

458
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 2: for me, it's like hearing Chris Paul get injured, KD

459
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 2: not playing as well as he can, Like in my mind,

460
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 2: my shorthand it's like a thought killing cliche. In my

461
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 2: mind is like, well then they're done, And I think

462
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,399
Speaker 2: that's how I'm looking at But I mean in that

463
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 2: second game too, they're like, what if we just make

464
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 2: Jokic score and see what he does there, and that

465
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 2: completely did not work out, And I'm like sort of like, well, hmm,

466
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 2: I'm starting to see maybe how this all comes together.

467
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, at the end of the day,

468
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 3: I don't know.

469
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 2: If if we get out of our if we get.

470
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,360
Speaker 3: Out of this round, I don't know if I want

471
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 3: to meet up with the Nuggets.

472
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 1: So that's for sure.

473
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Nuggets are gonna win at this point,

474
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 3: But I would also say that I don't think Kd's

475
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: going to play that bad. Again. I don't think it's

476
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 3: going to be a sweep. Like you know, the Sun's

477
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 3: strategy is also sort of a tough one to do

478
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 3: in Denver, where it's like we need to play all

479
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 3: our stars like forty five minutes a game to have

480
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,959
Speaker 3: a chance because our bench is terrible. Let's do it

481
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 3: in one of the cities where it's hard to breathe

482
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 3: as you're walking around. You know, like they're probably going

483
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 3: to I think, you know, be a little better in

484
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 3: Phoenix and a little less gas, you would think, even

485
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 3: though you know, again there's like some cumulative probably from

486
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 3: like having to play them that much just to beat

487
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 3: that horrible Clippers team in the first round, and then

488
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 3: you know, like having to play them that much in

489
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 3: two losses, you know there is going to be a

490
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 3: cumulative toll there. I think the Nuggets sort of have

491
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 3: the advantage when a're probably going to take this series,

492
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 3: but I would imagine, like I still think it probably

493
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 3: goes you know six, Like the Suns are not as

494
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 3: terrible as they've looked in Dend so far, and the

495
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 3: Nuggets players probably won't continue to shoot this well, you know,

496
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 3: like in Phoenix on the road. That's just like it's

497
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 3: a cliche, but it's true. Like role players just generally

498
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 3: do not play as well on the road, and so

499
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 3: you'd think like, uh, like Phoenix would get some level

500
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 3: of boost from sort of those home confines.

501
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. I mean, they're they're extremely thin.

502
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 4: Depth matters, Depth especially matters in a series where four

503
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 4: of the games are played in Denver.

504
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, not everyone's like the Lakers and can

505
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 3: just overhaul their roster the deadline and be good immediately.

506
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 4: Its just has that never happened with a team to

507
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 4: this effect.

508
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick.

509
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 4: Break and come back and talk about that. Warriors, Lakers, series,

510
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 4: which I think has to be the most exciting Round

511
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 4: two series I can remember.

512
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: Right, like dramatic undercurrents. Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right,

513
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

514
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: And we're back, and so are my hopes for the Lakers.

515
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 2: It's time to talk about this matchup in the Western Conference. Yeah,

516
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: the Lakers stole game one up in the Bay. I mean, look,

517
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 2: during the regular season, I know a lot of people

518
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: were like, oh man, Lakers took three out of four,

519
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that doesn't like Lebron didn't even didn't

520
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 2: even play half of them. So I wasn't really taking

521
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 2: that to heart or helping that make me feel more

522
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 2: confident going into it.

523
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: But do you think the Lakers are better without Lebron?

524
00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: Is what you're saying.

525
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers are better without Lebron and Anthony Davis.

526
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 3: That's where I'm at, Jack, That's how you know. Yeah,

527
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 3: I think he can do against defense, right, But yeah, I.

528
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: Mean I think us being able to carry the momentum

529
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: from that Grizzly series into this game. That's been the

530
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 2: biggest thing for me and be like, Okay, Anthony, you're

531
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 2: doing it, baby. Let me see you. I was texting.

532
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: I was texting you and Jabbari during that like the

533
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: game six. Now it's just like I want to marry

534
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis.

535
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like getting weird.

536
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 4: We weren't even like giving the haha like response like

537
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 4: tap ax.

538
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 2: And then like I was sending photoshops images from my

539
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 2: actual wedding where I put Anthony Davis's head on my

540
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: wife's head. Yeah, and I was like, yeah, we look good. Yeah, yeah,

541
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 2: that's how much I'm shipping us. But no, it's been

542
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 2: unbelievable watching how just just him dominate, especially in that

543
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: first game.

544
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 3: I was, who, I'm heartened, I'm hart I'm.

545
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been heartening.

546
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 4: It's been cool to see him do what feels like

547
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 4: we always felt like he could do the same. Question

548
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 4: him and James Harden to him less than James Harden

549
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 4: because there's less of a body of work, of like

550
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 4: disappearing in the postseason, but just like that first round,

551
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 4: it really felt like when Anthony Davis was playing well,

552
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 4: the Lakers were unbeatable in that series, and then in

553
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 4: the games where it was like wait, why why isn't

554
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis playing? Oh he is, He's just not like

555
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 4: really doing anything.

556
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: They would lose.

557
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 4: So it really feels like that's kind of what we're

558
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 4: dealing with. It's just as Anthony Davis goes, so go

559
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 4: the Lakers' fortunes. But yeah, all that said, the supporting

560
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 4: cast was awesome in Game one and has been awesome. Yeah,

561
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 4: this is truly an amazing like revival from where we

562
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 4: were mid season.

563
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: It is wild that the Lakers are this good, to.

564
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: The point where, like it's funny how like even with

565
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: among Laker fans, the people were just mostly talking about

566
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt's performance, and I'm like.

567
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 3: Let's also talk about you know, Dangel Russell's also coming

568
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 3: out like showing arguably.

569
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it was I mean, yeah, Harrison, what

570
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 2: was it like for you?

571
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 3: How are you feeling going into that?

572
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 2: Because I know Javari and I we were talking to Jack,

573
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 2: were like, let's see how they do in the first

574
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 2: quarter before we get excited, and see what version of

575
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: the Lakers show up. And I'm happy to say that

576
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: I liked what I saw, But how are you feeling?

577
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, they certainly got the good version of the Lakers

578
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: last night. I think they came in with a good

579
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 3: game plan, I think we saw that they have some

580
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 3: guy like, you know, the whole idea of a star stopper,

581
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 3: you know, like the Ruben Patterson, Kobe stopper, your lebron stoppers.

582
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 3: You know, you're these guys, your Steph Stoppers, Like those

583
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 3: guys don't actually exist. Except for Ruben Patterson, he does exist.

584
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 3: He was not a Kobe stopper. But you know, the

585
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 3: Lakers don't have Steph stoppers, but they have guys who

586
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 3: they can change up defensive looks on Steph. They can

587
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 3: make him at least sort of think about things, you know,

588
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 3: make it a little harder on him, make it more difficult.

589
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 3: You know, he had a pretty bad game last night.

590
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: I don't think that until the fourth quarter, really like

591
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 3: he was not all that efficient. And so I don't

592
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 3: think that that's going to continue for the entire series.

593
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 3: I don't think like, you know, Jared Vanderbilt is just

594
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: gonna I don't think that we've suddenly discovered that like

595
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 3: Steph was just unstoppable until he ran up against Jared

596
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt from the postseason and.

597
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: You got to contest his shot from the side, like Cobe, yes, yeah,

598
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: you got Like but between Van do and you know,

599
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 2: Dennis shrewder as like sort of a different on ball pesky,

600
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 2: like make him pick up his dribble, give up the

601
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 2: ball type of Look, you got Austin Reeves to chase

602
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: him over screens and sort of do things that way.

603
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: You know, you at least have some you know, options

604
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 3: to make Steph think about it. And then you know,

605
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 3: on the other end of the court. One of the

606
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 3: things going into the series that like, for the Lakers

607
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 3: to have a chance, it was going to have to

608
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: be an Anthony Davis series. He was going to have

609
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: to be their best player because the Warriors have guys

610
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: to throw at Lebron, especially this version of Lebron where

611
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 3: he is clearly still at least a little limited by

612
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: that kind of foot injury that he said that he

613
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 3: was going to have to get surgery on until German

614
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: doctors came through and did whatever magic you know, German

615
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 3: doctor they did to his foot to allow him to play.

616
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: But you know, between Wiggins Draymond, like, that's two pretty

617
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 3: good guys to throw at Lebron. Put a body on him,

618
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: make things harder, Gary Payton the second even to some degree,

619
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 3: but on Anthony Davis Draymond is a guy who has

620
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: traditionally frustrated him a little bit, and so I would say,

621
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 3: like as somebody who's rooting for the Lakers to win

622
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: this series, like I was heartened by the fact that

623
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 3: Ad was able to impose his will even in those minutes.

624
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: I wasn't really that worried about him being able to

625
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 3: get going against Kevon Looney. You know, obviously Draymond coming

626
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: with double teams, they were going to try and get

627
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 3: the ball out of his hand sometimes. But the Lakers

628
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 3: have been really He's Ad has been really great on

629
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: the boards on both ends, and the Lakers guards have

630
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 3: been especially d Lo with his sort of height, has

631
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 3: been really good at getting the ball over the top

632
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: of defenders to Anthony Davis and being able to sort

633
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: of see those passing angles and get it into him

634
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,479
Speaker 3: in a position where he's not having to post up,

635
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 3: survey the floor, wait for a double whatever, Like he's

636
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 3: just going up and scoring almost immediately. And both Delo

637
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 3: and Austin Reeves have been I think, really smart about

638
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 3: when they are driving, they are looking to see you

639
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 3: can tell and you could see them looking to see

640
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: does Ad have his guy on his back? Or not,

641
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: and if he does, then they're just putting up a

642
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 3: shot because either they make that little mid range you know,

643
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 3: like jumper, or Ad is in a perfect position to

644
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 3: just put it right back in with his long sort

645
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: of inflatable tube man arms and so you know, and

646
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: then just we're talking all this about offense, but he's

647
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 3: just a monster defensively. I don't know that I've ever

648
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 3: seen a single player completely wall off the paint like

649
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: he has. These last couple of games for the Lakers

650
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 3: where you know, it's one thing to do it against

651
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies, where they just don't really have shooting and

652
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: their entire strategy is just like we are going to

653
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: throw ourselves at the rim as hard as we possibly

654
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 3: can and hope that something good happens. But like against

655
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: the Warriors, where they have this horrifying level of shooting

656
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 3: around the perimeter to be able to still sort of

657
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 3: you know, contest guys enough that they're still thinking about

658
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 3: maybe driving in, and then they get there and then

659
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 3: it's like, oh my god, Like Anthony Davis is way

660
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 3: too tall and mobile and I don't want to do this.

661
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 3: Please get the ball to Jordan Poole I don't know,

662
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 3: just somebody else do something with it.

663
00:30:59,280 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: He is.

664
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 3: This is the most dominant defense I think I've ever

665
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 3: seen him play over a sustained stretch.

666
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 4: There is a point like in the early in the

667
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 4: game where Jef Van Gundy was like, and the problem

668
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 4: for the Lakers is gonna be that like Anthony Davis

669
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 4: can't leave or no, I think it was actually Charles

670
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 4: Barkley after the first half was like they like something

671
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 4: about how like Kevon Looney and like his inability to

672
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 4: like leave him is going to make it hard for

673
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 4: him to defend and like.

674
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 3: He just I don't know, he just left him. And

675
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: they're hoping that other guys can do a good enough

676
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: job boxing out in me too, and and Looney made

677
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 3: them pay for it a couple times. Like he's a

678
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 3: really good offensive rebounder. He's super smart about cutting and

679
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: crashing the second that ad rotates away from him. So

680
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: they're gonna win some of those battles for sure. But

681
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 3: the idea that like Anthony Davis has to stay attached

682
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 3: at the hip to Kevon Looney and it is not

683
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 3: going to be able to defend the paint was not

684
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 3: realistic to me.

685
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 4: It's been one of the best defensive performances I think

686
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 4: I've ever seen, like just the this postseason. I am

687
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 4: king of recency bias, but like that, that's what makes

688
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 4: me so excited, is like, yeah, the Jimmy but or

689
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 4: what he's done on offense and what Anthony Davis is

690
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 4: doing on defense. Even in the games where he's like

691
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 4: not showing up a lot on offense, it's still a

692
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 4: real problem for anybody trying to score around the room.

693
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, although I'm I am I'm nervous to see what

694
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 2: the response is in the Warriors, because man, they are

695
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: I mean, as much as I want to be, like,

696
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: as much confidence that it instills in me, I'm still

697
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 2: like Steph's also put a fifty when he needed to,

698
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 2: and he's very capable.

699
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: And so did you gotch what play said after the

700
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 3: game last night? No, he he was like he's like,

701
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 3: we had an off night. We typically respond well to those.

702
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: It's like, dude, you got shot like fifty percent from three?

703
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: What do you mean you have? Ye night?

704
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: Right? Right?

705
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 3: Like this is they're gonna they're gonna shoot seventy percent

706
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: the next game, Like if this is if this is

707
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 3: actually true? And yeah, like Steph is not gonna go on.

708
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 3: Did he go Like I think it was like six

709
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 3: for sixteen from three or something like that. It was

710
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 3: somewhere around there. But like he was not super efficient.

711
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 3: He's going to be more efficient. That was not just

712
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 3: the Lakers defense. Some of that legs from playing, you know,

713
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: dropping fifty in a game seven two days ago. He's

714
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: going to be better as the series goes along. And

715
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 3: you know, I said this on Twitter last night. I'll

716
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: say it again here, like rooting against Steph is already

717
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: after one game like a top five most horrifying sporting

718
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: experience of my life. Like, I don't know how Cavs

719
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 3: fans are still alive. I don't know how they did

720
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 3: this for four years. Like every single time that guy shoots,

721
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 3: I think that he is. I think it's going in.

722
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: It's just oh yeah.

723
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 2: And also like it's it's just his demeanor too, because

724
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 2: you're like it doesn't change.

725
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 3: He's so icy all the time, that never hesitates. It's yeah, it's.

726
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: Yeah anyway, but no focus on the positive, focus on

727
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 2: the positive. Yeah, we took that game one.

728
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 3: Let's go Lakers in one, all right, let's see all

729
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 3: just changed the rule. Sorry, it's over. It's go home,

730
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: all right? Shall we move on?

731
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah?

732
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: I think it's time is a time. I think it's

733
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: time enough messing about with Harrison. Harrison, get ready hold

734
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: on to your butts, as Sam Jackson said in Jurassic Park,

735
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: because it is time for the rap It's not for

736
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: the rapid fire round of questioning.

737
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 3: Now you know how this works.

738
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask you a question, don't think on it,

739
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: just give us a rapid response. Don't extend your answer,

740
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: because it's on you to keep this segment moving because

741
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 2: it is the fastest moving question answer segment in all

742
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 2: of sports podcasting.

743
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm ready pray for the people at double speed.

744
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 3: Here we go.

745
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: Suck the clock.

746
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: Jack Should we go first? Or well, you know, sometimes

747
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 2: Brian can't hear me and I have to raise my voice.

748
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 3: Uh heart, do you struggle first? You go first?

749
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 4: You go?

750
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: Let me go first? Okay, thanks, but a gentleman, Harrison.

751
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 2: Eleven of the last twelve NBA finals have featured at

752
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: least one of Lebron or Steph. Which one of them

753
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 2: has the best chance of keeping that amazing trend alive.

754
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Lebron.

755
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: Thank you.

756
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 3: And we don't got to go. We don't have say

757
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 3: much more about that. I'm not nervous.

758
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: It's not crazy. Eleven to last twelve the NBA Finals.

759
00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called dominish domination, domina, dominatin, dominatin. Rather you

760
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: even to touch on dominating, but dominating he was not.

761
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 3: Steph won most of those, so yeah, yeah, true that

762
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 3: he also ha kdi for a few of them who

763
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 3: he does not have anymore.

764
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess that's a good point.

765
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 3: For the funds now apparently, guys sticking.

766
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 4: It up Paris, is there a single NBA player you

767
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 4: would take right now over the chance of taking Victor

768
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 4: him being Yama was the first pick.

769
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 3: I'd still go Yannis just because we've seen it for

770
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 3: so long, and uh, you know, Wenby, as great as

771
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 3: he looks like he is going to be, we still

772
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 3: don't for sure know and has shown like a level

773
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 3: of durability, I'd still go Yannis.

774
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 4: Did you not hear at one where you I thought

775
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 4: you were here for act one when we talked about

776
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 4: how Yanna stinks and he's a choke artist who can't

777
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 4: do it in.

778
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 3: The failure life his life and career and just in

779
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: every aspect because he lost Jimmy Butler a horrible back

780
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 3: injury and the yeah game, it looked like you could

781
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: move put up like you know, almost forty and twenty.

782
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: But yeah, failure.

783
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, staying finished, Yeah, finished, Harrison, What is your favorite

784
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 2: NBA city to visit and what's your must have meal

785
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: in that town?

786
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 3: I'm very hungry. This isn't a question we wrote. I

787
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 3: just wanted to ask, right, Yeah. I mean, I'm a vegetarian,

788
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: so I'm a bad person to answer the second part

789
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 3: of this question. But I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go

790
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: New York just because it's one of the NBA cities

791
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 3: that I've went to and had the best time there. Yeah,

792
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 3: since I can't name Los Angeles, which I also love

793
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 3: and live in. Wait, so what would you?

794
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: How?

795
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 3: Okay, but what would you? What would you eat in

796
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: New York? What's your must have meal over there? I

797
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 3: don't know, have you ever had There's a lot in

798
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 3: New York? Yeahmorrow, it's great.

799
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, right across from Madison Square Garden.

800
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, the real New York's flight my favorite New York

801
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 3: pizza joint? Yeah, I went, I don't know, I went

802
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 3: to some Italian place that I'm forgetting the name of there.

803
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 3: That was like incredible, but yeah, a ton of good

804
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 3: food in New York. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry, Harrison. We

805
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: got to keep this movie, man.

806
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 2: As much as you know, I like to hear about

807
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: the jokes that reference the Office and your love of Sparrow,

808
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: we do have to keep this moving, Jack.

809
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: Do you want to answer the next Yeah, is Jalen

810
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: Rose's hair too good to be true?

811
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 3: M hm, yes, yeah, that's yeah, that's not fair.

812
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, okayeah, but do we think it's being painted? I mean,

813
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 4: there there are definitely parts of it that are being

814
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 4: painted on. I think we've learned since the last time

815
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 4: you were co hosting Miles that there there are pictures

816
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 4: where it seems clearly to have been put on with

817
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 4: a stencil of some sort.

818
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, he's what fifty, There's no there's no

819
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 3: way it can be like that perfect at that age, Like, right,

820
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: I feel the same way. And I don't say that

821
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 3: as a bitter bald guy.

822
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: Right, But he's on some.

823
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: Hair. Yeah this in general, you know what I mean.

824
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 3: But he's saying boozer or no boozer, not a full boozer.

825
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: You know, it's not all I think of all, but

826
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 3: it's all spray on. That would be like the level

827
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 3: of the like painting layers.

828
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: Just to get it up, Harrison, you can take any

829
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: former Laker and put him on this current team. Which

830
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: former grade are you choosing to make a run in

831
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: today's NBA and especially in this postseason?

832
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 3: Yeah it's Kobe. They Yeah, mah predictable, Jabar said, Big

833
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: Killers Anthony jam I wanted to go Nick van Exfel

834
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: for you, but they already have Dennis and that's Saint

835
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 3: Nick fan excellent. Yeah, absolutely, imagine Shaq and Anthony Davis three,

836
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: you know, Lakers in two. Yeah, I just want to

837
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 3: see the mythical Shack versus Draymond match up because people

838
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: talk like you talk during those guys like could they

839
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 3: beat the Shack of Kobe Lakers, Like, I mean maybe

840
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 3: with threes and stuff, but the idea that Draymond could

841
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 3: have guarded Shack in any way, like Draymond would have

842
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: been out for the series after Game two, like from

843
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 3: being dunked on too hard, too many tights.

844
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 4: This is secretly what I'm wishing that the Sixers do

845
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 4: is just like do what they did in game one

846
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 4: stick em bead in the middle, but just treat embid

847
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 4: like the Shack that he could be just right around

848
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,439
Speaker 4: the rim, just nothing but dunks right.

849
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 3: Just feeding feeding them like that Wu tang In.

850
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: He is the biggest body since Shack. I think, like

851
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 4: when you watch how people bounce off of him. I mean,

852
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: I don't know anyway, Yeah, Harrison, we got to keep

853
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 4: this movie. Man, I'm Harrison, Come on, man. Uh final question,

854
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 4: Jack or Miles?

855
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 3: Easy, Miles. I can't I can't pick. I can't pick

856
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 3: a Celtics fan in this like that. You know you're

857
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: a Celtics fan. He's not a Celtic. Is that how

858
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: it came off? As a Celtics fixer?

859
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: Uh?

860
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 3: But all right, thank you, I'm back, thank you, thank you.

861
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 3: And I have all my propaganda gear in the background.

862
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 4: You hear that Celtics fans who say that I'm too

863
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 4: mean to the Celtics. This man just recorded an entire

864
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 4: podcast with us and thought I was a Celtics fan.

865
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, find a new angle. It's a normal sized collar,

866
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: normal sized collar.

867
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: Yes, find a new angle.

868
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 2: Haters, oh Man, Harris and Fagan, thank you so so

869
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: much for joining us this week. Iles and Jack got

870
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: mad boost these. Yeah, man, where can people find you

871
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: and support you and do all that?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 3: Just check out sp Nation NBA. You know, if you

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Speaker 3: have a team, we have a team site most likely,

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Speaker 3: and you know silver screen role where I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be blogging about Blakers throughout the duration of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: All right, and got to shout out all of our

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Speaker 2: mad Boosties Twitter followers. I'll follow us on Twitter at

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Speaker 2: mad Boosti's m ad bub st i ees uh. We

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Speaker 2: posited the question which player would maintain the finals trend

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Speaker 2: that we were just speaking about, and sixty one percent

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Speaker 2: of our listeners are very intelligent because it said Lebron

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Speaker 2: is most likely to continue this trend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I will use that trend to

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Speaker 3: go to sleep tonight and until I have to reconcile

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Speaker 3: that with reality.

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Speaker 4: Also, we have a show called The Daily Zeich guys

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Speaker 4: that one of our what of our listeners seem to like,

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Speaker 4: they were like this NBA show should like comment on

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Speaker 4: this like political thing, news and culture?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, so we we also have.

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Speaker 4: A political show that we do ten times a week

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Speaker 4: that you could go check out called The Daily's Like

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Speaker 4: if you're not aware.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, check out where you can just listen to this.

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Speaker 3: This a bit that person thought they had invented a

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Speaker 3: genius idea. I love these guys. They should comment on

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Speaker 3: more news and suther things. Yeah you don't say, you

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Speaker 3: don't say, but yeah, we're doing that over there, so

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Speaker 3: check that out, all right, y'all.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much for listening to us on this

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Speaker 2: edition of Miles and Jack Got Mad Boostie's. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back and our spirits will be lighter or heavier, we

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Speaker 2: don't know, but that's the fun of the show.

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Speaker 3: Because we check back in with you all. So until then,

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Speaker 3: nowhere to go.

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Speaker 1: Bye.