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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, straight

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Speaker 1: Fire Fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: February nine. It's the middle of super Bowl Week and folks,

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Speaker 1: the stories are like bleak. There's really nothing out there.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I didn't want to start with a joke,

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Speaker 1: but I honestly have gotten more text the last three

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Speaker 1: days about word Yes Whortle than I have about the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. There just is not a ton of juice.

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Speaker 1: It's weird because it's out here in l A. The

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Speaker 1: party invite is starting to roll in because you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of a big deal. No, not really. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think I probably will be going to my first

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Speaker 1: uh this evening. Uh it'll be I'm more of like

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Speaker 1: It's just I kind of talked about it earlier this

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Speaker 1: week on the pod. The super Bowl in your town

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like as much of an event because you

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Speaker 1: still have your life to live. If I'm on the road,

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Speaker 1: it's much different. So now it's like, oh man, do

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Speaker 1: You know you're on the road at a hotel. It's

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Speaker 1: like I gotta take an uber back at one am.

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Speaker 1: So what you know, I still want to wake up

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Speaker 1: been kind of a slow week for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Albert Brier, you know, we had him on yesterday and

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Speaker 1: we talked basically all NFL except the Super Bowl. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a huge rating for the game. I

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Speaker 1: get that. I'm excited for Rams Bengals, but it's one

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Speaker 1: of those where it's like, this is the kind of

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Speaker 1: matchup where you don't need that in between week. Let's

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Speaker 1: just expedite the process and get to the off season already.

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Speaker 1: So as such, you know, I'm I'm going to dive

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Speaker 1: into the NBA, and I know that there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who are like, oh, come on, NBA, let's

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Speaker 1: get still football. Well, there's really no juicy football stories

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Speaker 1: breaking overnight. Um, you know, the coaches are pretty much done.

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Speaker 1: We haven't heard much out of Aaron Rodgers lately. Eventually

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Speaker 1: there will be football, and I've we'll get to plenty

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's one of those weird nights like

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Speaker 1: there was a big college basketball upside. I hope some

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Speaker 1: of you had Arkansas on the money line pulling off

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Speaker 1: the win over uh number number one in air quotes,

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Speaker 1: auburn Um. But it was it was a weird night

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Speaker 1: in the NBA because and I don't want to act

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Speaker 1: like this is something like super hot take. You guys know,

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Speaker 1: I've been firm on this the entire time. But the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets lost their ninth straight game. I did. They

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Speaker 1: did not have Durant, they did not have James Harden,

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Speaker 1: and they were playing at home, so they did not

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Speaker 1: have Kyrie Irving who's still not vaccinated. And you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that I believe. I looked this

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Speaker 1: up last night. On Christmas Day, they led the seventies

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Speaker 1: sixers in the East by six and a half games.

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Speaker 1: They are now absolutely cratering in the East. And the

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Speaker 1: Nets are gonna be fine. You know, Yes, I saw

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Speaker 1: hey man, the Nets are gonna be fine. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: get their stars can kicks some major ass. That's probably

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Speaker 1: the case. You know, that's probably gonna happen, assuming all

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Speaker 1: the stars come back and we know one isn't. I'll

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Speaker 1: get to him shortly. But this is the Nets team

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Speaker 1: after the ninth straight loss. They're now eight, yes eight

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Speaker 1: in the West. They are only five and a half

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Speaker 1: Bucks look great against the Lakers. The Miami Heat, I

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Speaker 1: mean they this team looks good. Miami Heat, by the way,

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Speaker 1: UM the second best point differential in the East, number one.

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Speaker 1: A bit of a surprise, the Boston Celtics. UM. But

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Speaker 1: this is really about the Nets because they've lost that

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Speaker 1: Irving is not vaccinated. He's the reason the Nets are

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Speaker 1: an absolute disaster. They went from being the uh NBA

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Speaker 1: and they could just close it out. Okay, I get that. Fine,

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Speaker 1: tell me the last time Kyrie Irving want to playoff

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Speaker 1: just curious, like the idea of Kyrie Irving is much

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Speaker 1: We've talked about this at length. Supremely talented. Somebody posted

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Speaker 1: I've never been good with the yo yo, but there's

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Speaker 1: That's what Kyrie Irving's like with the basketball. And he's

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Speaker 1: They're not losing ninth straight with those two on the court,

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Speaker 1: what what is James harden awesome score? There was a

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Speaker 1: It's just not looking good for the Nets. And I

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Speaker 1: is that really happening? Like this is I think we're

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Speaker 1: at Defcon one for the Brooklyn Nets. Like I saw

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Speaker 1: I could tell you the answer. It's never. He's never

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Speaker 1: done anything without Lebron James. Yes, he did hit the

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Speaker 1: Like this is gonna have to be the Kevin Durant show.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to mend those locker room fences and

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Speaker 1: get hardened mind right, because I just I don't trust

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving didn't make that happen. Fox Sports Radio has

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Speaker 1: couple of trades that went down in the NBA, and

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Speaker 1: it's weird because none of the contenders help themselves. But

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Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton, terrific, phenomenal young player. Oh my gosh, who

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Speaker 1: for all that stuff, it certainly is not the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: certain that they would say Brooklyn Nets are in every

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Speaker 1: the West, Golden State and the Lakers. Now, I I

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Speaker 1: get there's a lot of people say, Jason, why would

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Speaker 1: you even bring that up? Who cares? Well? The league

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Speaker 1: cares and they don't want embarrassing TV ratings, They don't

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Speaker 1: want um people tuning out. They want great storylines. And listen,

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Speaker 1: the NBA has built around superstars and Kevin Durant James Harden,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving are massive stars. Steph Curry is maybe the

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Speaker 1: deal like those are the guys like John Morant is ascend.

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Speaker 1: Memphis is a horrible TV market. Phoenix we saw last year.

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Speaker 1: Like they're fun, They're really good. I just they don't

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Speaker 1: have the national profile. People don't love Chris Paul Um

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Speaker 1: Luca would be interesting. I think they still are a

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Speaker 1: year away from the They need more guys like Brunson's nice,

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Speaker 1: but come on, Like, I just, I don't think they

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Speaker 1: have enough to make a finals run. So NBA's got

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Speaker 1: some issues here and I'll close out real quick with

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Speaker 1: this Bradley Beale season ending surgery. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's a scenario where the Lakers make a move stop

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Speaker 1: laughing at everybody where the Lakers can make a move

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Speaker 1: for Bradley Beale other than this. Bradley Beale says, I'm

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Speaker 1: not signing the Supermax with Washington. I don't see a

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Speaker 1: path to success. I want to play for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: That's where I want to go. Get me there. That,

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Speaker 1: my friends, is the pretty much the only way the

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Speaker 1: Lakers can secure Bradley Beale. Now, why would Bradley b

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Speaker 1: All do that? Well, a lot of people want to

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Speaker 1: be out here in l A, A lot of people

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Speaker 1: want to play with Lebron and Anthony Davis. Do the

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Speaker 1: Lakers have any parts to give washing for Bradley Bale. No,

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Speaker 1: But this is the counter and I know people are adjacent.

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Speaker 1: This is stupid. You're meaning moron. If Bradley Bale says

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Speaker 1: I'm walking after the season and you'll get nothing. There's

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Speaker 1: no franchise tag in the NBA like in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Bradley Bill can say, guys, I have one year left,

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Speaker 1: I do not I want to stay, or I'm out.

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Speaker 1: Here's your opportunity to trade me to where I want

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Speaker 1: to go, or I'm going and you get nothing. That's

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Speaker 1: a reality that can easily happen. That's happened before. Now.

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Speaker 1: Bill has been with the Wizards a long time. That

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Speaker 1: is I don't know if Bradley Bill is built to

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Speaker 1: handle the criticism. People will hate him. Do you care

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Speaker 1: what the losers on the internet say? Do you care

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Speaker 1: about the meat balls in your men for six months?

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Speaker 1: Because that's coming. Is Bradley Bill built for that? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, a lot of guys are not Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: a lot of hate. Guess what second he wanter title

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Speaker 1: hates over Nobody cares. Kevin Durant. I don't really know

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Speaker 1: that he's over it. Um, he let it get to him,

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Speaker 1: and everybody knows it got to him, so they keep

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Speaker 1: coming after him. I mean, the guy won two titles.

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Speaker 1: He was the MVP Finals twice. You know, Bradley Bill

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Speaker 1: is not the level of Anthony Davis or Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: But but you know, there's a there's a decent argument

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Speaker 1: to be made that Bradley Bill could totally shift the

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Speaker 1: balance of power if he somehow forced his way to

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Now, the next question, it's obviously okay, Jason,

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Speaker 1: what are the what are the Lakers giving up? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's where it gets a little crazy and you've got

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Speaker 1: to get creative with multiple teams. The Lakers do not

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Speaker 1: have any picks. I think they have like one first

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Speaker 1: round pick they can give up. Um, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the appetite is for talent. Horton Tucker, Um Austin

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Speaker 1: reeves like they just they just don't have the parts.

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Speaker 1: So that's I guess that's the point where what would

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Speaker 1: you do if you're Washington, will Philadelphia say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we'll take We'll rent Bradley Beale. We will take the

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Speaker 1: chance that he walks in a year and signs of

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. We will take that chance. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And that's what makes the NBA is so interesting. It's

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Speaker 1: it's less about right now the trade deadline, because I

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Speaker 1: still don't think Simmons and Harden get traded, But if

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Speaker 1: that happens, oh my gosh. And it's more to me

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Speaker 1: about just a potential of what could happen, what might happen,

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Speaker 1: And that's what why the storylines are so juicy. That's

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Speaker 1: why I love the NBA along with I play basketball

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Speaker 1: all the time. But at any rate, I've gone on

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Speaker 1: too long. We're back to football tomorrow. We'll talk to

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