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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It is me, Joey

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Speaker 1: b Joe Pizapia. It's time to place your bets, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and today we are betting on the NBA playoffs. That's right.

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Speaker 1: We got play in games, we got playoffs already set

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Speaker 1: for some teams. And to help us break it all down,

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Speaker 1: the spitting statistician himself, the one the only, Dane Martinez,

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Speaker 1: back again talking to some NBA with us. Dane, it's

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Speaker 1: great to have you back on the show. I love

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Speaker 1: when you're talking the basketball with us, or as I

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Speaker 1: like to call it, the shooting hoops on a.

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Speaker 2: Hem ah, you know what, I need to use that name.

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Speaker 2: It's not in my vernacular just yet.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get shot hoops.

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Speaker 1: It's the shooting hoops. You got play a little shooting hoops.

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Speaker 1: And look, before we even get to the breakdowns of

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Speaker 1: Dane's predictions for the playoffs, I want to pick his

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Speaker 1: brain about all this stuff. We have play in games

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Speaker 1: to talk about as well. Starting on Tuesday, so we

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Speaker 1: have the New Orleans Pelicans, the nine seed, taking on

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Speaker 1: Okay see at ten. Then you have the Lakers in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota at the seven and eight, and then on the

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Speaker 1: other side of things, on the East coast side, you've

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Speaker 1: got Toronto with the nine, Chicago the ten, Miami, and

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Speaker 1: Atlanta at the seven to eight trying to play in.

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Speaker 1: So the play tournament's a fun thing. Dan, I want

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Speaker 1: to get your take on what's going on here because

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Speaker 1: recent news here with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be available for that game against the Lakers, it seems

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Speaker 1: like the Lakers kind of are getting a hall pass

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Speaker 1: to go right into the playoffs. Do you see that

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Speaker 1: the same and how do you see the rest of

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Speaker 1: those teams shaking out in the West and in the

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Speaker 1: East to get into the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Sure, Joe, and thanks for having me as always.

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Speaker 2: On the Western side of things, Yeah, I do think

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Speaker 2: it sets up for the Lakers right. First of all,

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Speaker 2: they're the home team in that play in game right

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Speaker 2: as the current seventh seed. All they're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: do is win one game at home, and they have

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Speaker 2: a Minnesota Timberwolves team who will be without Jada McDaniels,

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Speaker 2: who is pretty much told, you know, keep your ball,

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Speaker 2: your shooting hoops ball and stay at home. We don't

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Speaker 2: need you, we don't want you, and on the flip side,

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Speaker 2: and I think we're gonna talk about this a little

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Speaker 2: bit later on Joe. The Lakers are getting hot at

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Speaker 2: the right time, you know. I remember last time I

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Speaker 2: was on this show with you, I talked about who

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Speaker 2: is healthy, whole, you know, and kind of ready, and

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Speaker 2: the Lakers are that Lebron coming back. We haven't seen

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Speaker 2: a lot of Lebron and Anthony Davis since they made

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Speaker 2: some of the trades. But when they are healthy and whole,

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Speaker 2: they've been playing well. So I do like LA and

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Speaker 2: I ultimately think the eighth seed in the West will

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Speaker 2: be the New Orleans Pelicans. Okay, they host Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 2: I think they are a better team there, and then

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Speaker 2: if it holds that way, it would be New Orleans

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Speaker 2: going to Minnesota for a one game to become the

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Speaker 2: eighth seed. And I just don't like what I'm seeing

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Speaker 2: from Minnesota right now. Okay, they look like a team

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Speaker 2: in turmoil. Remember I also told you that I like

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Speaker 2: New Orleans and I think they have enough playoff experience

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Speaker 2: after last year in the same round.

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Speaker 3: But guys like CJ. McCollum bi and all.

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Speaker 2: So I do think ultimately it will be the Pelicans

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Speaker 2: in the eighth seed and the Lakers in the seventh seed.

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Speaker 2: Over in the Eastern Conference, I'll take Toronto and I'll

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Speaker 3: In these playing games, I.

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Speaker 2: Am leaning towards the home court advantage in these kind

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Speaker 2: that Miami takes care of Chicago and the Raptors, Joe.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there is a huge, huge home road split

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Speaker 2: I mean Toronto's twenty seven and fourteen at home north

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Speaker 2: Toronto can wind up in the eight, but Miami will

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Speaker 2: wind up in this seven in the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 1: All right, just to look ahead to we have the

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Speaker 1: That number with the Timberwolves has moved since that news

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Speaker 1: comes out with the Lakers too, So a lot of

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Speaker 1: things moving and shaking. And Mate, why you stay on

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Speaker 1: top of things with the bet pros app so you

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Speaker 1: know all the news that's breaking and what's going on,

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Speaker 1: how the lines change. That's why it's a very useful thing.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't already downloaded the app, so you can

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Speaker 1: stay tuned all that stuff. Dan, I want to ask

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Speaker 1: On the other side, you mentioned the Lakers maybe getting

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Speaker 1: hot at the right time. Is there's somebody else in

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Speaker 1: either conference to you that's a team that's really hitting

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Speaker 1: their stride right now? The things can be very dangerous

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Speaker 1: and it could be, you know, one of the top teams.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. And then in the inverse, is there

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Speaker 2: Sure, so yeah, my answer for the first one is

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Speaker 2: the Lakers. You know, I mean again, they needed to

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Speaker 2: be healthy. Lebron missed a ton of time. It's very

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Speaker 2: rare in this Lakers season, especially Joe. If you remember

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Speaker 2: after the trading deadline, right the Lakers made a lot

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Speaker 2: of moves primarily to add shooting around Lebron. In ad

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Speaker 2: the Lakers team was one of the bottom five in

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Speaker 2: season long. Then they make some moves D'Angelo Russell as

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Speaker 2: I think that added element plus a Lebron James and

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Speaker 3: Of a sudden it matters to Lebron right now, all

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Speaker 2: Sudden, these things are important and in my kind of

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Speaker 2: the way I'm gaming it out. As the seventh seed,

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Speaker 2: they would take on a Memphis Grizzlies team. Memphis as

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Speaker 2: been a great team all season long. But as you know, Joe,

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Speaker 2: they are still a relatively young, inexperienced team.

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Speaker 3: I always say this, Joe, there's.

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Speaker 2: Levels to this, right and Lebron has already ascended all

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Speaker 2: of those levels. You kind of need to progress. And

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Speaker 2: I could see the Lakers, while healthy, whole and ready

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Speaker 2: that would definitely be one of them. On the inverse, Joe,

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Speaker 2: And I hate saying this. I hate saying this as

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Speaker 2: think it's gonna be that close against Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: And here's why. Two main reasons.

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Speaker 2: One, you know, Julius Randall's been out, you know, since

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Speaker 2: the end of March, you know, with an injury. He

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Speaker 2: hasn't gotten back in. But the bigger thing is this, Joe.

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Speaker 2: It goes back to their head coach, Thibodeau. Thibodeau is

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Speaker 2: a coach who demands maximum effort, you know, and kind

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Speaker 2: of wrings his guys out, works them to the bone

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Speaker 2: all season long. I don't know how much fuel is

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Speaker 2: left in the tank for this Knixt team as they

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Speaker 2: this last year as well, Joe. You saw the Knicks

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Speaker 2: under the guide into Tom Thibodeau, that we may see

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Speaker 2: the same thing against the Cleveland team that could have

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Speaker 2: one of the better starting fives in all of the NBA,

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Speaker 2: and I think is right to be a surprise and

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Speaker 2: show some people that they're better than expectations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cleveland, right now, in that first game, they are

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Speaker 1: heavy favorites minus two to fifteen there to win that contest.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not surprising that. All right, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the conferences. Let's talk about the West. Right now, the

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Speaker 1: Sons are the favorites at plus two hundred and the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets at plus three thirty. Again, this is overpettingpros dot com.

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Speaker 1: You have the Golden State warriorsor plus three sixty, then

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Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies a plus five fifty. You're Lakers that

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Speaker 1: Clippers at plus thirteen. So obviously Sons are heavy favor

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Speaker 1: for a reason. They've kind of earned this position here.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Suns have what it takes to

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Speaker 3: I think they have what it takes time, Brother, It's

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Speaker 3: all depends on the question, right, Like, do they have

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Speaker 3: what it takes? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Will they actually do it? That's what I'm not so

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the betting strategy for that then, So

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Speaker 1: if they have the goods in they're two to one favorites, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So if I look in the East in the Western Conference,

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Speaker 2: and I'll say something similar about the East right as

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Speaker 2: it plays out, I am expecting in the second round

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Speaker 2: for there to be a one verse four Phoenix versus

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Speaker 2: Denver matchup, Okay, and I think that I think, quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: the Western Conference champion will be the winner of that series. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I believe that maybe the Lakers can upset Memphis, But

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Speaker 2: even if it's Memphis, I don't think they're the cream

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Speaker 2: put some interesting money somewhere else for an upset in

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Speaker 2: the first round, even though seed wise it wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: an upset. Everyone in their mother Joe is sleeping on

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Speaker 2: the Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is a three seed.

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Speaker 2: This is a team that scored one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: one points a game, the number one offense in the

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Speaker 2: they get a Golden State team that's obviously a heavy

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Speaker 2: public favorite in that series, right, I think Sacramento is

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Speaker 2: over two to one just to win that series. But

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Sacramento can hang with them.

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Speaker 2: Not only are these the one and two scoring teams

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Speaker 2: in the NBA, but the Warriors turn the ball over

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Speaker 2: a ton. Sacramento has one of the best assistant turnover

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Speaker 2: surprised if that series goes longer, or if even the

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Speaker 2: Kings can get past the defending kind of you know

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Speaker 2: But because of all of that uncertainty I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: in the two seven and the three six, Ultimately I

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Speaker 2: believe Denver and the Suns will face each other in

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Speaker 1: Know, everybody, Sacramento plus eighteen hundred, just in case they

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And Joe, last time I was on here, we

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Speaker 2: came back and told you, no, the Philadelphia seventy six

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Speaker 2: So, unlike in the West, where I think the one

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Speaker 2: I think the two three winner will ultimately win the conference.

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Speaker 2: I think you need I think you need that second

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Speaker 2: my guns here, Joe. I like the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

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Speaker 1: I like it. And Beid certainly making his MVP push,

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Speaker 1: if you like the seventy six ers, how about plus

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Speaker 1: fourteen hundred for the Sixers versus Suns as a final

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Speaker 1: the number one on the board is already five to one,

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Speaker 1: you are fading completely. I feel like just about I am.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like, listen, don't get me wrong, I definitely

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Speaker 2: they just haven't been together much. Right after the Kevin

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Speaker 1: Is there a more Kevin Durant thing to happen than that?

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Speaker 3: No, No, there is not.

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Speaker 2: The more thing would be him to do it again

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: But don't get me wrong, I do believe that over

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Speaker 2: and the winner of that series, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I'm betting these combos yet, you know what I mean, Joe,

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Speaker 2: I think I might swing great.

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Speaker 1: Numbers though if an early field more are I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's but here's the big numbers.

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Speaker 2: Look like I like Philly, right, their number just to

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Speaker 2: what's the Western Conference champion is already a nice number,

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Speaker 2: you know, Like why I'm twenty and if I like

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Speaker 2: to get, you know, complex and elaborate by an essence

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Speaker 2: parlaying the Eastern and the Western Conference champs. But yes,

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Speaker 1: And I think what you've done for the audience, which

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Speaker 1: Then when you get past the first round or second

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Speaker 3: I think that's fair.

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Speaker 2: The other thing I'd say, Joe, and you see this

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Speaker 2: what would the series be after the first three games?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: So, for lack of a better term, I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: especially with if I'm gonna be back in Philly, They're

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Speaker 2: gonna be dogs, probably against Boston in the second round

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Speaker 1: You can tell we're both from New York? Can you?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: So give me this here? Let's let's let's live the

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Speaker 1: dream NBA Finals right now. These are the numbers. The

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Speaker 1: Bucks are the favorites at plus two to forty, which

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Speaker 1: I think is fascinating because the same reasons you say

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Speaker 1: for them. Then they just have to have four games

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Speaker 3: It would be Denver? For me, it would be Denver.

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Speaker 2: If you see in all of these markets, the fact

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Speaker 2: buy that. I understand why people think that, But that

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Speaker 2: So when you put those things together at a number

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Speaker 2: I think that would be the best value. I'd be

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Speaker 2: looking at Philly, I'd be looking at Denver as those

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's have some fun. Give me your

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Speaker 1: prediction for finals MVPs. It's just the year of Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiid where he just runs the table? Is it? The

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Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets side of things?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Wait where you go? If you're if you're throwing it

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Speaker 1: who do you think takes home with a trophy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really interesting, right, I'm talking about Denver.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about Philly a lot here, Joe, and those

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Speaker 3: For the NBA MVP, Right.

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Speaker 2: So wouldn't it be crazy if these two guys are

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Speaker 2: get a Denver Philadelphia final and one guy, actually one

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Speaker 2: guy has the ability to not only win the championship

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Speaker 2: but kind of upstage the other big man in the

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Speaker 2: post who won the MVP. That is something I would

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Speaker 2: be absolutely looking for, especially Joe. The Nuggets and Sixers

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Speaker 2: and it was interesting to think that, oh, maybe they

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Speaker 2: two guys who have been dominant in their position over

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years, I really would love to

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Speaker 2: see the two of them battle it out with an

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Speaker 2: other name, though, Joe, because again the way you ask

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Speaker 2: the question, I do believe the Phoenix Suns can be

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Speaker 2: right and roll. But in that scenario, I gotta believe

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Speaker 2: that Kevin Durant is the runaway favorite from within the

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Speaker 2: Suns as that MVP. So I would actually look at

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Speaker 2: a guy like Devin Booker. Okay, Devin Booker is also

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Speaker 2: someone who can score fifty, is entrenched in the system,

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Speaker 2: is gonna defer, but only somewhat. It's an easy narrative

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Speaker 2: to write, Joe, if the Suns do in fact get

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Speaker 2: to and win the finals, that all the pressure would

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Speaker 2: be on Durant, that all the attention would be on Durant,

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Speaker 2: and that it was Booker who actually had the better series.

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Speaker 2: So Devin Booker is an interesting name, and I bet

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Speaker 2: you can get Booker for a lot better odds.

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Speaker 3: Than you can get the Phoenix Suns in general.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to have some shares of the Suns,

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Speaker 2: I would consider Booker as a finals MVP as well.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Great stuff from Dave Martinez as always

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Speaker 1: make sure you follow him on the Twitter machine for

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Speaker 1: T t I N s p ee DZ. There you go.

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Speaker 1: That's the man, Dane. It was always great to talk

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Speaker 1: to you, my friend. Always great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show. Give your insights and you enjoy the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's for sure. I'm sorry your nicks seemed to be,

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Speaker 1: maybe you write a nice, strongly worded letter to coach

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Speaker 1: think strongly worded letter that's the way to go.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, absolutely, definitely I'll do that. Thanks for having me anytime.

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