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Speaker 1: ESPN adjusted its NBA coverage this week and rolled out

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Speaker 1: its new look NBA Countdown Team led by Melika Andrews

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Speaker 1: with Brian Windhorst, Kendrick Perkins, and Michael Malone. Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith did not appear on the new lineup and has

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Speaker 1: not shown up on the program at all this preseason

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Speaker 1: or regular season. For the first time in more than

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Speaker 1: twenty years, steven A will not participate in the NBA

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Speaker 1: Countdown Show. According to ESPN, it has expanded its NBA

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Speaker 1: coverage after adding Inside the NBA with Charles Barkley, Shack,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson. But even with steven A

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Speaker 1: being removed from the Countdown Team, he remains locked into ESPN.

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Speaker 1: You know, he just signed that five year, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and five million dollar extension this year that was earlier, so.

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Speaker 2: At least he still works there. So what are you

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Speaker 2: making of this, Steve?

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Speaker 3: That is because he got no friends in nim B

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Speaker 3: a ah, so you have to have what.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, Well, you know, all great reporters have

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Speaker 4: had a rapport with the star athlete in that particular sport.

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Speaker 2: We know that Ron, Yeah, all of them.

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Speaker 4: Howard Coach had Mohammad Ali got you, uh, costas.

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Speaker 3: Had Michael Jordan. Michael, you don't, you cannot.

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Speaker 4: I'm just this in my opinion about career Jordan's he

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Speaker 4: they man relationship. You've got to be somebody that the

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Speaker 4: players want to talk to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but on his On the flip side of that, though,

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Speaker 1: stephen A as a reporter is supposed to be biased

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Speaker 1: and just you know, report what he sees.

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Speaker 2: He's supposed to be biased.

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Speaker 4: If you gonna talk about the sport, you can't be

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Speaker 4: all in these cats background, right, A.

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Speaker 2: Lot of about the opinion part of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, Hey, the problem with him and Lebron was

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Speaker 4: when he got into Lebron as a father, right, And look, man,

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Speaker 4: here's against my wishes. What I this was just me talking.

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Speaker 4: Hey man, I would have apologized to Lebron and said,

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Speaker 4: hey man, you know what, my bad overstepped my bounds.

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Speaker 3: I should have never said nothing about you being a dad.

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Speaker 4: That's that would have fixed it. Hey man, I'm sorry, bro,

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Speaker 4: my bad. You're absolutely right. I was out of line

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Speaker 4: for that. There's nothing wrong with being wrong, But when

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Speaker 4: but when you hold the line? Man, if he if

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Speaker 4: he'd have raised up, I had to put hands on him.

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Speaker 4: You to put hands on who, he'd have put you

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Speaker 4: in one of them sleep eves. He'd be weahing sixty.

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Speaker 4: It's just kind is a physical specimen. And even though

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Speaker 4: Lebron don't fight, we we.

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Speaker 3: Know who don't fight. We saw his punching.

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Speaker 5: You talk about that videos he was working on a

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Speaker 5: box see and I used to fight.

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Speaker 3: When I saw that punch, I went, what dog.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I've been in the gym

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Speaker 4: a lot. I've been a lot of bags man. Ain't

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Speaker 4: Nobody said though that.

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Speaker 5: He didn't have no technique, no back foot, no.

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Speaker 3: Spin, no rotation, no no rotat not none of that.

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Speaker 3: Let me see that punching. That go ahead. Excuse me.

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Speaker 3: So with this t VN A Smith video when he

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Speaker 3: was boxing.

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Speaker 2: So is this considered a demotion? I mean, what what?

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Speaker 2: What is this?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a demotion.

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Speaker 4: I just think you know, it's just they gotta they

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Speaker 4: gotta build a network. They got people. They got some

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Speaker 4: good people. That Perk is good man. There's some cats

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Speaker 4: in there that's good. Milika Andrews is good man. I

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Speaker 4: tell you another sister, I like the Duncan l Duncan. Yeah, Oh,

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Speaker 4: she's she's dope to me, man, she's knowledgeable, she is dope.

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Speaker 4: Beautiful her and Melika Andrews, I mean they really know. Uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's it's uh. They got some women on

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Speaker 4: that at no sport. The sister will shorthand that I

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Speaker 4: like her and I love the ball heads, the ball

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Speaker 4: haired girl.

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Speaker 5: Beautiful clap clap.

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Speaker 1: They're expanding. So it's true what you think. They are

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Speaker 1: just expanding.

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Speaker 3: Its expanding. You know, you can't put everything you know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, at the end of the day, he

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Speaker 5: knows sports, run and backwards.

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Speaker 3: He got down to a sign. Yeah, this job.

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Speaker 4: But he got to get all off all the other subjects.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great statement.

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Speaker 1: All right to Christine Williamson, that's the system that we

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Speaker 1: were talking about. Okay, yeah, all right, So moving on

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Speaker 1: to wow. According to The Hill, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer has said that the Senate is ready to act

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Speaker 1: quickly on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed in

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Speaker 1: the House four hundred and twenty seven to one. This

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Speaker 1: would require that all unclassified records and documents related to

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Speaker 1: the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein be made public. Finally,

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Speaker 1: Schumer noted, the House has now spoken in an overwhelming fashion.

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Speaker 2: There's only one right answer.

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Speaker 1: For the Senate passed the bill as written today, the

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Speaker 1: bipartisan bill will announce the messa.

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Speaker 3: Surely, don't stop reading all that. He not in there

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Speaker 3: no more.

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Speaker 4: It's gone, there's gone. Trump not in there no more.

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Speaker 4: They took all they got cash for tail in his

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Speaker 4: hip pocket. You don't think they don't win them files.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump name is out that because now he's saying,

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Speaker 4: let's release these files.

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Speaker 3: Good. Hell well, he ain't in there no more. Kiln

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Speaker 3: had them file all in his kitchen up on the stove.

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Speaker 3: They got all the files. They was reading it.

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