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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight Firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre Street

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Speaker 2: Fire for Friday, February seventh. Your boy's hurting. Man. Not

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Speaker 2: used to these late nights and all this work. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. It's not work, it's fun. I'm living

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Speaker 2: a dream, baby, living the dream. It's been a productive

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Speaker 2: week in New Orleans. But I gotta say keeping it

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Speaker 2: real with you guys. As usual, this NBA trade deadline

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Speaker 2: was bonkers. So after I recorded late Wednesday night, I

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Speaker 2: went to bed, turned the phone on silent and did

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Speaker 2: not hear like forty five minutes after I went to bed,

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Speaker 2: all these texts from my LA buddies. Rob Pelinka's a gangster.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, everybody's so fired up. Lakers making another trade. Okay,

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Speaker 2: late Wednesday, they ship my guy Connect for Dalton Connect

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Speaker 2: along with Cam Reddish, a pick and a couple of swaps,

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Speaker 2: and they get Mark Williams, a young jumping jack from Duke. Now,

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Speaker 2: you guys know him, a nerdy college basketball guy. So

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Speaker 2: I watch a lot of college hoops and I watched

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Speaker 2: Mark Williams a couple of years ago, and I had

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Speaker 2: him I was like, this guy, loved this guy. He

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Speaker 2: had an amazing march madness which just dunked everything, blocked everything,

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Speaker 2: just a menace inside. And he gets to the NBA

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Speaker 2: and lottery pick for sure, I can't really stay healthy.

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Speaker 2: But it's Charlotte, Like does anybody thrive in Charlotte ever?

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Speaker 2: And you know, Mark Williams are putting up some pretty

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Speaker 2: good numbers this season. But where you really get excited

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Speaker 2: and also concerned is his the injury situation. Because we're

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Speaker 2: talking about a guy who, for whatever reason, cannot seem

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Speaker 2: to stay healthy. When he's been in Charlotte, he's always

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Speaker 2: dinged up, and you know, sometimes something. He's got a

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Speaker 2: standing reach of nine feet nine inches. That's taller than

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Speaker 2: Wembin Yama. Okay, he's only seven feet tall. He's got

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Speaker 2: a longer standing reach than Wemby, and you know, these

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Speaker 2: bodies are weird. The guy barely plays. However, when he

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Speaker 2: does play, he is rapidly improving. So as a rookie,

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Speaker 2: average nine and seven as a second year guy, average

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Speaker 2: twelve and nine as a third year guy this year,

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Speaker 2: fifteen and nine. That's only in twenty five minutes a game.

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Speaker 2: You look at his per thirty six numbers. And again,

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Speaker 2: once you know he gets up to speed, he's going

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Speaker 2: to be playing more than twenty five minutes a game,

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Speaker 2: should he? If he were playing thirty six minutes a night,

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Speaker 2: his numbers come out to twenty two and thirteen. Guys,

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Speaker 2: if the Lakers are making a playoff run, Mark Williams

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Speaker 2: is playing in the neighborhood of thirty six minutes a night.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how good of a potential player this

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Speaker 2: guy is. Just consider this if the Lakers. If I

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Speaker 2: told you a week ago the Lakers would give up Dalton, Connect,

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Speaker 2: Max Christy, two first round picks and a pickswap for

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Speaker 2: Luka Doncic, you would have said, in a heartbeat, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, I'll do that. Okay, so ad Max Christy,

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Speaker 2: Dalton Connect two picks and a swap for Luka Doncic.

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Speaker 2: You do that in a heartbeat, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers not only got Luca, but they got Mark Williams. Guys,

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Speaker 2: are you kidding me? I don't see how you're not

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Speaker 2: tooper gast about the Lakers. And a message to my

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Speaker 2: guy Charles Barkley, who just hates my guts doesn't like

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Speaker 2: me calling him out. A quick reminder, Charles, the Lakers

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Speaker 2: are ten games over five hundred, and they are firmly

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Speaker 2: in the mix to maybe crack the top three in

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Speaker 2: the West. And I'll tell you this, I haven't talked

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Speaker 2: can garn fing tu they are not one bit nervous

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Speaker 2: about facing any of the top three in the West.

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Speaker 2: That's Memphis, that's Okasee, and that's Houston. Those are the

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Speaker 2: another story because Yokich is an animal and he's done

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Speaker 2: it before. But I'm just total honesty guy as usual.

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Speaker 2: I don't see it. I don't see the fear whatsoever

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Speaker 2: afraid of SGA. I mean they don't have anyone who

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Speaker 2: can guard Luka Doncic. Look, we look at the series

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Speaker 2: last year. Luca was dominant. PJ Washington at good series,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're gonna win the series, but they're

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Speaker 2: I mean, guys, how can you not be excited? However,

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Speaker 2: best move this week after the Luca trade was what

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Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavs did late or right before the deadline

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hunter, guy who played at UVA his most The

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Speaker 2: most memorable thing about UVA and DeAndre Hunter was he

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Speaker 2: missed the game when they played the sixteen seed and

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Speaker 2: UVA lost. I'm almost certain of that. I probably should

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Speaker 2: have checked it before I said it, but if memory serves,

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Speaker 2: he was hurt in that game, did not play and

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Speaker 2: they ended up losing. And we all know that, Like

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Speaker 2: you know, DeAndre Hunter is a good player. He's not

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be. They don't need that. What the

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Speaker 2: Calves lack. They have a great backcourt of Garland and Mitchell.

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Speaker 2: They have two awesome bigs and I'm talking awesome bigs

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Speaker 2: they not have a wing? It's like they're trying out

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Speaker 2: Dean Wade, Isaac Ocoro, like they just haven't been able

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Speaker 2: this is a humongous sketch for the Cavs. DeAndre Hunter

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Speaker 2: easily makes this team right there beneath the Celtics in

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Speaker 2: knicks Now, record wise, they're the best team in the East.

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Speaker 2: they haven't proven it. Donovangels had some really really spectacular

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Speaker 2: Carlin's had some real bad clunkers. And how will the

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, I did just look it up.

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hunter did miss the twenty eighteen game against the

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Speaker 2: the next year where they won the National Championship, and

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech. The really impressive game from DeAndre Hutter. I'm

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Speaker 2: He's a floor spacer. Honestly, that's a massive get. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know, guys, we looked at a team last

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Speaker 2: He fit perfectly. It was a huge get they get

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Speaker 2: to the finals. We saw the Lakers now at the deadline,

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Speaker 2: donovitchellverybody's like, oh, he's not going to stay there. Well

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Speaker 2: I think Celtics who are kind of going through that

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Speaker 2: But East is going to be really stacked. Now they're

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Speaker 2: talking about Luca's debut. There was chatter that it would

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Speaker 2: but it sounds more like, oh, Utah Jazz on Monday,

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Speaker 2: the facilitators of every important trade. I guess. The other

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Speaker 2: interesting thing regarding the NBA is like this discussion about

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Speaker 2: Durant and ended up keeping both of them. Again, yes,

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Speaker 2: a salary cap. And I saw this story that Rob Manford,

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Speaker 2: an amazing season, and all the talk was is, oh,

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Speaker 2: League Baseball. And I know the argument is, well, look

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Speaker 2: way to look at it. You've got teams every year

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Speaker 2: starting this season. It's like college football knowing you don't

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Speaker 2: have any chance, no chance to win it all none.

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Speaker 2: It's just not happening, you're not going to get a

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Speaker 2: offs can happen. That's gonna happen, just as some heavy

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Speaker 2: it's not really the same when there's a salary cap. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Man is great. I had kind of a rough string

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Speaker 2: Right, let's go with the best bets for the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of them. I like over two and

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Speaker 2: the Eagles. He's fifteen for his last fifteen. The Eagles

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Speaker 2: A couple buddies talked me into this kickoff or punt

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Speaker 2: familiar with Nico Remigio, some young kid who's super fast

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Speaker 2: breakdown's pretty interesting. Listen, Spagnolo and the Chiefs have had

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Speaker 2: Nicks have. I anticipate this being like a playoff field

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Speaker 2: It's basically everybody's betting Barkley, everybody's betting Mahomes. I will

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Speaker 2: a big game against what I believe is in an

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Speaker 2: There's no way that's hitting for the Eagles. I have

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Speaker 2: It's just so fun to break down all of this crap.

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Speaker 2: It's a last NFL game in the season. After that,

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Speaker 2: right post combine, I think they start to release some stuff. Well,

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Speaker 2: we know who's definitely in and who's rising and falling.

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Speaker 2: the game is great. Go Eagles. I do not want

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