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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my bas friend Mike Harmon. Get those fours up.

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Speaker 1: We got more big stuff on Lebron big WNBA story

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Speaker 1: coming up in about twenty minutes, but the next funeral

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Speaker 1: is the topic of the hour.

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Speaker 3: Right now, go New York, Go New York.

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Speaker 2: Go.

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Speaker 3: Well, pretty soon they'll be gone. You'll be right, they'll

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Speaker 3: be gone.

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Speaker 4: He jumped on your wagon, he did, he did that.

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Speaker 4: Noh helped carry you.

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Speaker 3: And guide you past the Celtics.

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Speaker 4: And as soon as you cleared that hurdle, like it

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Speaker 4: was a level of a video game, he jumped off

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Speaker 4: and went the other rene.

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Speaker 1: Done done, done, done, dun dundune. Now, first I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you I'm gonna say bad things about Tom Thibodeau,

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Speaker 1: and then it's I'm gonna say then it's gonna change,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say bad things about him, but it's

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Speaker 1: gonna turn out okay for him, not so much for

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Speaker 1: somebody else.

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Speaker 3: It turns out okay for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, It's like, did you watch a new episode

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Speaker 1: of Welcome to Wrexham. They had the whole Disney funny.

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Speaker 1: They had the whole episode. They did the whole episode

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Speaker 1: and it was hosted by Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcalanney,

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Speaker 1: where they did it like a Disney movie where here's,

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Speaker 1: you know, the part of the beginning in the beginning

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Speaker 1: when one of the parents dies and they show something

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Speaker 1: bad happening to Wrexham, and then then it gets really worse,

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Speaker 1: but then the whole thing like a Disney episode, a

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Speaker 1: Disney movie. Uh, this is kind of the same, the

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Speaker 1: same kind of thing. The pay Look, it's over for

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Speaker 1: the Knicks. That's why I only got somewhat excited after

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Speaker 1: winning Game three, because what did I tell you? The

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Speaker 1: last couple of nights, they bought themselves another couple of days. Right,

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Speaker 1: they win Game three, they bought themselves a chance to

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Speaker 1: get back in the series and instead three to one,

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Speaker 1: and nobody comes back from three to one, certainly not

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Speaker 1: this next team that is not nearly defensively capable of

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Speaker 1: stopping this Pacers team. So the thing, the thing that

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Speaker 1: sticks out to me, right you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: TIBs and this and this series, is that it's amazing

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Speaker 1: to see him being out coached by Rick Carlisle to

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Speaker 1: this extent. And it kind of reminds me of when

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was running rough shot over the AFC East

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Speaker 1: for all those years before he started the Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: that stunkin didn't know what he was doing in his

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Speaker 1: drafting guys from Division three and as their first draft pick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he was smarter than everybody else. When he

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Speaker 4: promoted Matt Patricia and made him the OC.

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones was a guy that was on a decent

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Speaker 1: trajectory and they said, here, we're gonna really screw this

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Speaker 1: kid over.

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Speaker 3: You know, Mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: I think Mac Jones is the guy that just, hey,

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Speaker 1: I just happened to play in the most talented offensive

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Speaker 1: team in the history of college football. Because everybody NFL

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Speaker 1: superstar his first year, pretty good, what'd you do?

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Speaker 3: You shuffled everything else what'd you do third year?

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Speaker 4: Hey, let's let's make it even more difficult and see

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Speaker 4: how much talent he can take away and see how

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Speaker 4: much you can do.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But what Belichick used to do that would used to

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Speaker 1: be infuriating is that he was such a good coat.

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Speaker 1: This is why he's the best coach I've seen, despite

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Speaker 1: Spygate and everything else, is that when I would watch

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Speaker 1: him coach against the other AFC teams and they'd played

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Speaker 1: twice a year, and the first game, the Patriots game

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Speaker 1: what did Tom Brady do? All he did was throw

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Speaker 1: So then for the rematch eight, you know, seven, eight

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Speaker 1: And then what does Belichick do? No, Now they're gonna

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Speaker 1: and one touchdown. We still lost twenty three to ten.

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Speaker 1: Like what happened? Oh, because Corey Dyllon had this game

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Speaker 1: we ran for one hundred and ten yards, or Stephen

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Speaker 1: Ridley had had twenty three carries for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen yards. Like this is what Belichick would do, is that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we beat you that way last time. Now you're chasing us, right,

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Speaker 1: you're chasing us because you think we're gonna do this.

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Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna do. And that's what it's

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Speaker 1: like watching Carlisle and and TIBs in this because clearly

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Speaker 1: Game one the miracle come back by the Pacers. The

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Speaker 1: Pacers knew, hey, we can free up Nie Smith and

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Speaker 1: stay hot. And the Knicks had no answer defensively, right,

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Speaker 1: TIBs is not able to adjust.

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Speaker 1: And now the knicksk okay going into game two, how

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Speaker 1: We have to make sure that Halliburton's not a guy

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Speaker 1: the Pacers doing? Game two, Pascal Siakam eleven points to

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Speaker 1: Peak KD with the shots he was making in this game,

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Speaker 1: mid range jumpers, off the glass, threes, he was doing

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Speaker 1: everything dominant, one on one. The Knicks were not ready

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Speaker 1: for them. They were chasing the Pacers that entire game.

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Speaker 1: Game three, the Knicks find a way right come back

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Pacers blow a big lead, and

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Speaker 1: I like, like the Knicks played great that Again, that

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Speaker 1: game made absolutely no sense. Now you get to game four,

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Speaker 1: need to do. And what happened tonight The Pacers kept

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Speaker 1: running screens, They kept running into open shots the entire night.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks looked awful defensively, whether it was Brunson chasing

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Speaker 1: Pacers have open threes? And they have five guys on

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Speaker 1: It's not like they have only a couple. They got

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Speaker 1: five guys that can hit them right. We talked to

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker. This is the this is what the Pacers

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Speaker 1: night tonight bamboozled defensively. There were no adjustments to make,

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Speaker 1: was no way to slow Halliburton down. The Pacers did

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Speaker 1: And I mean it if if they made five difficult

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Speaker 1: shots they missed. They were forced into a difficult shot

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Speaker 1: by the Knicks defensively, and they made them. I think

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. I don't think they had five difficult

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Speaker 1: Knick saying, maybe they'll miss, and y'all, well, kay, well,

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Speaker 1: they still had fifty three percent of their shots from

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Speaker 1: Knicks could win this game tonight, because the Pacers just

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Speaker 1: kept coming down and doing whatever they wanted to. They're

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Speaker 1: one on one matchups were terrific. They got the one

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Speaker 1: didn't matter. The Pacers just did whatever they wanted to tonight.

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Speaker 1: And I'm watching Tom Thibodeaux just walk around with his

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Speaker 1: of come batting against this? Where is any sort of plan?

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Speaker 1: The Knicks look bamboozled and they look mentally defeated. Where

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Speaker 1: they're looking at each other going, you're supposed to pick

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Speaker 1: that guy up, You're supposed to pick this up?

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Speaker 3: Was I supposed to go?

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Are they communicating like I didn't see Brunson and it

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Speaker 1: no be communicating like?

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Speaker 5: It was a.

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Speaker 1: Really difficult effort to watch. But this is what Rick

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Speaker 1: Carlyle has done. He has been able to every game, go,

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Speaker 1: you think we're gonna do this, We're gonna give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a different wrinkle. Maybe it's Pascal

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Speaker 1: Siakam out of the gate. Maybe it's the screens that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have trouble. Maybe it's now we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: back to picking up Brunson and make him dribble all

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Speaker 1: ninety four feet and force him into bad, bleeping turnovers

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Speaker 1: where he has a couple every single game that just

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Speaker 1: turned out to be killers. Like Rick Carlyle is completely

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Speaker 1: coaching circles around TIBs. Now. Granted, does TIBs have the

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Speaker 1: defensive team that he used to have that you want

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Speaker 1: been no game planning because the Knicks can play physical.

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Speaker 1: We saw them out physical the Celtics. There's been none

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Speaker 1: just going around going, ah, whatever you can do, TIBs,

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Speaker 1: what two three steps ahead of you? Man?

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Speaker 3: I'm like Leo and catch me if you can't, except

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Speaker 3: at the very end. But I'm like, love thehead? Are

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Speaker 3: you the entire way?

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Speaker 1: Tom Hanks?

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Speaker 4: Oh, but you had the opportunity Game three where everybody

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Speaker 4: started to fight back on TIB's behalf, saying, look, sham

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Speaker 4: it McBride, these guys gave you big minutes and rallied. Okay,

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Speaker 4: they came and got one right chokes on you was

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Speaker 4: the back of the fish rap there the New York

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Speaker 4: Post and everybody got excited for a moment. But to

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Speaker 4: your point, you've got a lot of standing around and

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Speaker 4: watching when Jalen Brunson goes into turbo mode and when

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Speaker 4: he hits that's great. You guys had your knicks had

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Speaker 4: an eleven rebound advantage. They won the offensive glass thirteen

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Speaker 4: to eight, but seventeen turnover for several of which were

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Speaker 4: and I don't know how Burnson only has three. I

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Speaker 4: want to check the tapes, but remember several sequences where

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Speaker 4: he goes to drive and you get the second man

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Speaker 4: coming over to pick his pocket, and nobody's calling out

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Speaker 4: that help is coming.

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Speaker 1: Right man man, it's like man, man on, you're gone,

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Speaker 1: you know, like that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: You're setting a screen.

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Speaker 4: Just a lot of standing around and defensively, No, their

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Speaker 4: feet don't move right. How many open looks from the

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Speaker 4: corners do you see that extra bit of ball movement?

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Speaker 4: And I know the one that's the dagger is the

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Speaker 4: obie top and at the top of the key, because

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Speaker 4: that's the the biggest injustice. I'll take the dunk, I'll

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Speaker 4: take the put back, I'll take the big offensive rebound

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Speaker 1: We get back into the Knicks and the Pacers coming

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Speaker 1: there's a bad deal. The Knicks died tonight stock come

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Speaker 1: Tigues on the cover of Sports Jackie Cheryl, former head

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Speaker 1: coach Texas A and m Cheryl Burke.

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Speaker 3: Dancer Cheryl Hines. I mean there's lots of Cheryl's.

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Speaker 1: I say this, Okay to my client, I would say, okay,

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Speaker 1: I know this is a really big thing, but you guys,

436
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Speaker 1: you guys have to just back off what's happening. You

437
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Speaker 1: can't continue to be petulant, right because eventually it's gonna

438
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Speaker 1: come back on you and you're gonna look bad. Because

439
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Speaker 1: if you can, it's it's almost like the NBA player

440
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Speaker 1: that is a great player, but boy, if he flops

441
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Speaker 1: too much complains about calls, you lose some respect for him, right,

442
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Speaker 1: Like you know everybody's loose with Luca whining and complaining

443
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Speaker 1: for as many calls. Yokich is kind of getting to

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Speaker 1: that point. You don't want that, right, You don't want that.

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Speaker 1: You want you, I would say, I want you as

446
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Speaker 1: my client to be someone who achieves everything they want

447
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Speaker 1: to And when all this petulant stuff is going on,

448
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Speaker 1: this is outside of the race of this is this

449
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Speaker 1: is all of the Hey, here's rivalries, and here's who

450
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Speaker 1: doesn't like who, and here's who doesn't like this, And

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Speaker 1: I'm fostering this and fostering this. Stay away from the

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Speaker 1: petty stuff and the small stuff, because it's just gonna

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Speaker 1: make you look bad. The more the more things that

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Speaker 1: go out where it seems like players hate each other

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Speaker 1: and and it's a personal issue, and it's a jealousy issue.

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Speaker 3: This is good.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna look bad. You're gonna be the one that

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Speaker 1: looks bad. People listen to you right away and they go, oh,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's a good point. But if this

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Speaker 1: is what keeps coming up eventually fans and the media,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna turn their turn, turn turn away from

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Speaker 1: you to go I don't really care what you have

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Speaker 1: to say, because I've been hearing the same argument over

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Speaker 1: the course of the last couple of years that what

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Speaker 1: the jealousy and the and the pettiness like, that's what's

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Speaker 1: gotta go away. And that's what I would tell my

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Speaker 1: client and say, stop doing this because you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: not You're not going to help yourself because eventually it's

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Speaker 1: gonna turn on you. If you're the one that continues

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Speaker 1: to person be the big be a bigger person, play basketball.

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Speaker 1: If it's a rivalry on the court. If things happen

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Speaker 1: on the court that go for this is what everybody wants.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to talk about this. The w is a

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Speaker 1: league that people want to talk about and they want

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Speaker 1: to have fun with because it's getting so popular and

476
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Speaker 1: there's so many stars. Yes, Caitlin Clark is the biggest,

477
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Speaker 1: but there's so many other huge stars that people love

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Speaker 1: talking about. We love talking about Kelsey Plumb and Asia Wilson.

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Speaker 3: And and and it.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter whether it's Paige Becker's coming into

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Speaker 1: the league. It doesn't matter if it's a Lee at Boston,

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Speaker 1: it's still it's still fun. Let's make sure that that's

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Speaker 1: the narrative that we push forth and not just Hey,

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Speaker 1: it seems like there's a bunch of players who aren't

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Speaker 1: thrilled with the other with with the other players, and

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Speaker 1: it's not about an on court rivalry. It seems personal

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Speaker 1: because people to say, you know what, I don't have

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Speaker 1: time for that anymore.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we could run with it in for

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Speaker 4: a while. And it seems to work in the music business.

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Speaker 4: It seems to work in entertainment. Did you keep doing

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Speaker 4: your music out? I mean did I What did I

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Speaker 4: have today? I mean I had Audrey McDonald against Patty Loopon.

494
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Speaker 4: I mean that's been going on at Broadway for years,

495
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Speaker 4: all of those things, right, so you can have beef.

496
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Speaker 4: And that's why I'm a Patty LuPone guy. Oh, y'all

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Speaker 4: kick your ass said she's not my friend anymore. You

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Speaker 4: know what you did?

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Speaker 3: You gotta explain to gen X and who Patty Lapone is. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you can't. You can't just throw that out. Is that

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Speaker 3: the person who pushed Marcone's face?

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Speaker 1: It's what's the mom on lifetoes on with Smitrovich all

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Speaker 1: those years ago?

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Speaker 3: I mean Broadway legend.

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Speaker 1: I'm throwing out a Broadway rivalry that people are just

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Speaker 1: throwing down over the point.

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Speaker 4: And I do a tongue in cheek because that's the

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Speaker 4: repertoire we have. Right, We're at the world in with

509
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Speaker 4: a great, big hug. We're not narrow casting. We're broadcasting

510
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Speaker 4: here and somewhere someone's laughing their ass off that I

511
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Speaker 4: got that in even if it's just you and it

512
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Speaker 4: made the show. But the point being, you can run

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Speaker 4: with it for a while, right, What you what I

514
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Speaker 4: can have if I'm the pr advisor to the Star

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Speaker 4: is the I can't have the no comment. You gotta

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Speaker 4: have something prepped, right. You know you're gonna be asked

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Speaker 4: about player X y Z. They have a big game

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Speaker 4: and you're gonna run through. And obviously with more dollars,

519
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Speaker 4: it's like anything, right, if there's money to be made,

520
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Speaker 4: more people are paying attention, more people keep coming in,

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Speaker 4: so they may not have all the backstory. So it's

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Speaker 4: not it's the old NBC line, right when they show

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Speaker 4: you the reruns in may Hey, if you missed it

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Speaker 4: in the fall, it's new to you. Yeah, so you

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Speaker 4: can run with it to a degree, but clearly, if

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Speaker 4: it now becomes all other lines of questioning, communication and

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Speaker 4: flow gets cut off because you're going back to the

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Speaker 4: well on something that happened a year ago, back to

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Speaker 4: college days, back to the opening game.

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Speaker 3: Because I mean, there's gonna be points to where.

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Speaker 4: It's your main And I think if you're in the

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Speaker 4: NBA or w NBA at any point, you should expect

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Speaker 4: at some point while you're sitting at the dais there

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Speaker 4: is going to be a question about Angel Reese and

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Speaker 4: or Caitlin Clark, even it's got nothing to do with

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Speaker 4: your team, the upcoming schedule of the game you just played,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be there because it moves the needle.

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Speaker 3: And see what I did the social media.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's clips, it's reels, it's Instagram, it's TikTok,

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Speaker 4: it's all of that, and it helps further the cause

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Speaker 4: of the league. Whatever and pettiness you get, you can

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Speaker 4: run with it for a while. How long that gestation

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Speaker 4: period is, I don't know. I don't think we're at

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Speaker 4: it yet where it's super saturated. To me, it's a

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Speaker 4: all right basketball play, move on. But the fun rhetoric

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Speaker 4: between the players is all fine and good. What happened

547
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Speaker 4: with this investment negation? We said it when we came

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Speaker 4: on air Monday. It's like, you have forty eight hours.

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Speaker 4: You didn't find a single person that came running to

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Speaker 4: a security guard or nobody from the sideline that ran

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Speaker 4: to this. That kind of stuff you need to figure

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Speaker 4: out how to be better about. But the rest of it,

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Speaker 4: hey man, pettiness moves the needle in a lot of circles.

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Speaker 4: To watch a political show, it works. Exit out bout

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Speaker 4: a fresco x at swollen Dome. Time now to find

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Speaker 4: out what's trending for men whose favorite show was Petty

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Speaker 4: Coat Junction Woo.

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Speaker 3: What he was growing up? It's Steve a saga.

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Speaker 5: She was the original Evita, was she?

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Speaker 1: Note? That is sure you are correct about? Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So you have Patty Lapone's back. You're a Patty. You're

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Speaker 1: a Patty.

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Speaker 5: She was in a Witness. She was Harrison Ford's sister

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Speaker 5: and witness.

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Speaker 4: That's Ryan, So I guess. So a lot of the

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Speaker 4: beef comes down to you. They were playing two shows

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Speaker 4: playing next to each other, and the one uh not

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Speaker 4: loopone starred.

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Speaker 3: What got too loud?

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Speaker 4: So she complained about it and filed a grievance two

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Speaker 4: Old nine yard, to.

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Speaker 5: Which McDonald probably said, I'm sorry. I have my five

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Speaker 5: Tony Awards in my.

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Speaker 3: Ears last Yeah, exactly, Okay.

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Speaker 5: NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Indiana up three games to one

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Speaker 5: after beating New York won thirty to one, twenty one

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Speaker 5: triple double for Tyrese Haliburton, including fifteen assists, no turnovers.

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Speaker 5: West Finals Game five is Wednesday in OKC Thunder leading

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Speaker 5: three games to one over Minnesota. The NBA Finals start

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Speaker 5: June fifth. Five WNBA games tonight. Paige Beckers in Connecticut

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Speaker 5: had twenty one points. Dallas beat Connecticut a battle of

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Speaker 5: OH and four teams. New York four and O whip

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Speaker 5: Golden State Minnesota's five and OH after downing Seattle, Atlanta

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Speaker 5: one at LA and Phoenix is now four and one

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Speaker 5: after beating winless Chicago ninety four eighty nine Chicago's oho

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Speaker 5: and four, but Angel Rees did have thirteen points fifteen rebounds. Tonight,

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Speaker 5: the Edmonton Oilers are up three games to one in

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Speaker 5: the NHL's West Final. They were tied one to one

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Speaker 5: with Dallas tonight mid second period. Four won the finals,

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Speaker 5: so Edmonton in the last three games outscore him thirteen

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Speaker 5: to two. The East Final continues Wednesday. Florida leeds Carolina

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Speaker 5: three games to one. A couple of huge comebacks in

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Speaker 5: the late ball games in the major leagues. Pittsburgh was

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Speaker 5: down six nothing going to the sixth nine six Pirates

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Speaker 5: win at Arizona. In fact, the Pirates record when trailing

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Speaker 5: after seven innings had been ozho to twenty nine until tonight.

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Speaker 5: San Diego trailed six nothing in the first inning to Miami,

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Speaker 5: but still beat the Marlins eight to six. Seattle nine

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Speaker 5: to one winners against Washington, Cal Raley of the MSH

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Speaker 5: his eighteenth and nineteenth home runs and the Yankees were

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Speaker 5: up three nothing in the nine three to two the

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Speaker 5: final of the Angels, Carlos rode On seven and three

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Speaker 5: got the win. Houston's Hunter Browns seven and three after

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Speaker 5: whipping the A's eleven to one. Houston hit four home runs.

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Speaker 5: Jose al Tuve went four for four with two long balls.

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Speaker 5: Texas with two runs bottom of the eighth one two

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Speaker 5: nothing over Toronto, but Rangers starter Nathan Valdi left after

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Speaker 5: two innings due to triceps fatigue. Pete Crow Armstrong with

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Speaker 5: his forty ninth RBI of the season, and for the Cubs,

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Speaker 5: Seya Suzuki with his fiftieth RBI. Cubs eventually with two

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Speaker 5: runs bottom of the eleventh, beat Colorado four to three.

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Speaker 5: The Rockies record is now nine and forty six and

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Speaker 5: they have lost every series they have played this season.

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Speaker 5: Oh n eighteen in series.

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Speaker 3: You sure that wasn't the Knicks?

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Speaker 1: Not quite that bad?

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Speaker 5: Cincinnati's La de la Cruz with two solo homers in

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Speaker 5: a seven to win at Kansas City the Royals. Bobby

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Speaker 5: wit Junior did steal his twentieth base Milwaukee on a

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Speaker 5: Grand Slam in the tenth by Christian Yelich beat Boston

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Speaker 5: five to one after Eraalda. Chapman had blown the save

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Speaker 5: bottom of the ninth, the lost to Liam Hendrix of

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Speaker 5: the Red Sox. The Mets have won their fourth.

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Speaker 3: In a row.

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Speaker 5: Six to four was Tonight's final over the White Sox.

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Speaker 5: Pete Alonzo a two run homer in the first. The

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Speaker 5: Mets at home are twenty one and six. Philadelphia with

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Speaker 5: another win two nothing over Atlanta Ranger Suarez four and

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Speaker 5: oh beat Spencer Streider, oh and three. Bryce Harper left

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Speaker 5: hit by a pitch on his right elbow. X ray

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Speaker 5: were negative, but Philly's won twenty two of twenty eight.

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Speaker 5: There's still a game and a half up on the Mets.

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Speaker 5: In the NL East Road wins for Saint Louis and

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Speaker 5: Minnesota and for the Dodgers, who won nine to five

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Speaker 5: at Cleveland show Hey Otani with his twentieth homery of

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Speaker 5: the year that leads the majors.

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Speaker 3: That good.

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00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 5: That is good Detroit three to one over.

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Speaker 3: Twenty home runs, twenty one RBI for this year.

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Speaker 1: Touch you're gonna say nineteen. He forgot to touch third

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Speaker 1: on that one big home.

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Speaker 5: Run by the way, for the Guardians, Jose Ramirez, now

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Speaker 5: a twenty game hit streak.

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Speaker 1: Big to you, all right?

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Speaker 3: That is twenty home runs in thirty five RBIs for show.

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Speaker 1: So he's no Rob Deer, No, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: just wait wait till o Tani finishes with sixty home

648
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Speaker 1: runs and eighty eight RBIs this year. It's going to

649
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Speaker 1: be fantastic. Now, look, look, just just really quick about

650
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Speaker 1: the Knicks and the Pacers. One more thing for you.

651
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: Got to get to that big lebron story coming up

652
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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. But like one thing I was

653
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Speaker 1: outside of, you know, the failures of kat and and

654
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: Tim's being out coached. You know, the two biggest plays

655
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Speaker 1: of this game. Okay, the two biggest when I look

656
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: at this game and go, boy, the Knicks lose and

657
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: the Pacers were able to have a you know, Halliburton

658
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Speaker 1: has the night of his life. Obi Topping three. Obie

659
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Speaker 1: Toppings three was, of course is Obie topp and who

660
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Speaker 1: makes that shot?

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Speaker 3: Pychologically damning right there, But no question, the.

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Speaker 1: Two biggest plays in this game. I go back the

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Speaker 1: end of the first half. The Knicks have a one

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Speaker 1: point lead with just over a minute left to go,

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Speaker 1: and I turned to Rob Parker, who was in a

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Speaker 1: commercial break, and he said, I go, all right, the

667
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Speaker 1: only thing the Knicks have to do here don't turn

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Speaker 1: this into a five point halftime deficit. And what happened.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks were down five at half time. They went

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Speaker 1: from a point up because they missed a couple of

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Speaker 1: shots and a bad turnover, and they were down five at.

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Speaker 3: Half robing the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's watching it with me for a few minutes, absolutely,

674
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Speaker 1: And so I think he bet a lot of money

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Speaker 1: on that game. I think he had a lot in

676
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Speaker 1: that game. I think he bet turnovers in the final minute.

677
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Speaker 1: So okay, they go to halftime and they come out

678
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Speaker 1: and it's a five point lead, and the first two

679
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Speaker 1: possessions for the Knicks in the second half, the Pacers

680
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: score off the jump to make it a seven point game.

681
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson has an awful turnover that leads to a

682
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: Siakam slam dunk, so now it's a nine point lead,

683
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: and then a bad pass, really bad pass by mckel

684
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: bridges eventually for a turnover. Eventually the Pacers get another bucket.

685
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: They're up eleven, and that's it.

686
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 3: The Knicks.

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: We're chasing that nine to eleven point lead the rest

688
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Speaker 1: of the game. So yes, you can say, okay, here's

689
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Speaker 1: a big These are two plays beginning of the second half.

690
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Speaker 1: But this game took it from a five point game

691
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Speaker 1: to a nine plus point game, and the Knicks never

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Speaker 1: got that back.

693
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: They got to within.

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Speaker 1: Six a couple of times, but they will never able

695
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Speaker 1: to get into a one possession game, or get back

696
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: and forth or take the lead like once the they

697
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: open up with two of the worst turnovers. I mean,

698
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: these are awful turnovers by Brunston and Bridges, awful, and

699
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: the Pacers said, thank you very much, and now we

700
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: have a healthy, near double digit lead, and they maintain

701
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Speaker 1: that the rest of the game. Those are the two

702
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Speaker 1: biggest plays of the game. You come out of the

703
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Speaker 1: gate after giving away the end of the last minute

704
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Speaker 1: of the of the first half, you give away that

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Speaker 1: one point lead, and now you're down five six point

706
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: swing and sixty second and now in another sixty seconds

707
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: it's another five or six points. Like that was the

708
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Speaker 1: biggest two.

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Speaker 4: Plays of this especially with the amount that you had

710
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 4: to battle back, right you'd already come back from a

711
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 4: ten point deficit to get you back to Evan. You'd

712
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 4: seen they were going to be able to do whatever

713
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 4: they wanted to do offensively. First quarter was really I mean,

714
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 4: that's a get your popcorn out, whether you eat a

715
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise style or not, that you just sit and

716
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 4: enjoy it because you're seeing good, crisp offense on both sides.

717
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 4: But you know you can't sustain that pace, so at

718
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: some point you're gonna need to make a stop. You're

719
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 4: not gonna be able to throw the ball around. And

720
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 4: they were careless right seventeen turnovers on the night. We

721
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Speaker 4: talk about heart, we talk about a couple of the

722
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: big bruns and errors that you start getting into the

723
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Speaker 4: one tens and beyond, you're destined to lose because you're

724
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Speaker 4: not gonna have enough down the stretch for that defensive

725
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 4: rotation to combat those open looks. And the ov Topping

726
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Speaker 4: was the cherry on the side.

727
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Speaker 1: Of course topping former Nick Obi top.

728
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Speaker 3: Not a dunk, the pacer, a rebound anything.

729
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Speaker 1: The Pacers, what their wish list is coming true this

730
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: entire series against the Pacers against the Knicks. What do

731
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Speaker 1: you got, Frostburg, what's popping? I don't know, Frostburg, What's

732
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: popping Obi topping, Then are you gonna say? Pop's Halliburton?

733
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Speaker 1: He's popping coming up to VP. It looks like Lebron

734
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Speaker 1: James is coming back to the Lakers next year, but

735
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Speaker 1: for how long?

736
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Speaker 3: The answer is going to surprise you.

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Speaker 1: That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.

738
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

739
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

740
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific. Goes on top, it's topping for.

741
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Speaker 3: Thanks Dan Van.

742
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Speaker 1: Yep, the Jason Smith Show is my best friend, Mike Harmon,

743
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: Sorry pal, Yes, the next funeral we had it tonight, uh.

744
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: Earlier today.

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00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: Big bombshell, but something that falls under the category of

746
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Speaker 1: well stuff that we could have told you, you know,

747
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: a month ago. But now this is breaking news. According

748
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Speaker 1: to Shampsherania, Lebron James will opt in to his fifty

749
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Speaker 1: one million dollar player option and stay with the Lakers

750
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Speaker 1: next season.

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00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 3: Wait again, I know, I know, I got.

752
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Speaker 4: This is something that's really completely out of the blue.

753
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Speaker 4: I don't I'm taking aback, I no idea.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that. I can't believe fifty one million.

755
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,919
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, when he could get that anyplace? Else,

756
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: except he can't. Of course he's going to opt in.

757
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: Nobody he's getting that is going work for a broadcast. No,

758
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: he's not even getting that. Look, of course he's going

759
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: to opt in. He's making fifty one million next year.

760
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: And he's not quote Lebron James anymore where everybody will

761
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: fall over themselves to go get him. He's got value

762
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: to other teams. But clearly teams are saying, Wow, the

763
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: Lakers have really just not advanced with him, and now

764
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: they're building around Luca And that's a big sign saying

765
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: we're not building around Lebron anymore, even though Lebron clearly

766
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: has at least two three more really good years left.

767
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: He's not Lebron anymore. No one's gonna go crazy to

768
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: get him, to the tune of, hey, we'll give you

769
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: more than fifty one million dollars for next year, and well,

770
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you where he's gonna go. But but fifty

771
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: one million for next year, and he's not gonna take less,

772
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Speaker 1: because that's not Lebron. He's not one of those I'll

773
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: take less money to build a competitive team. No, he's

774
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Speaker 1: got to make fifty one million dollars for next year.

775
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: Of course he's coming back to the Lakers. And for

776
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Speaker 1: the Lakers, it's a smart choice because they only had

777
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Speaker 1: a couple of months to work together him and Luca,

778
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: and Luca's you know, now spending time getting into shape allegedly,

779
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: and they want to see, let's see what happens next year.

780
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: But the fun part of this report was Shamsterrani is saying, Hey,

781
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: of course there's gonna be conversations with Lebron and the Lakers.

782
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: He wants to make sure the Lakers stay competitive. So

783
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: now you know where Sean's is getting his information from,

784
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: because that's not the conversation at all, Right, that's Lebret's

785
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: Lebron wanting to put that, Hey, I want to make

786
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: sure the Lakers are saying we're staying compet They just

787
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: pulled a big trade for Luca, who's gonna be the

788
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: guy for the next eight plus years on the team.

789
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,240
Speaker 1: They're building around him. And we've told you they're pushing

790
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: Lebron out. Lebron is now at arms length with the team.

791
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: He's not running the team like he used to with

792
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Speaker 1: Rich Paul and Anthony Davis.

793
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: They're moving on.

794
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what the real conversation is gonna

795
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: be Lebron's gonna say, we want Lebron, don't worry about that.

796
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna worry about this year. And if we get

797
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: to the Western Conference Finals and we're showing growth, yeah

798
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: let's talk about a contract. But if we don't get there,

799
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: it's another first round exit, or we don't feel like

800
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: we're we're getting forward, then good luck, thank you for everything,

801
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take that fifty one million dollars a

802
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: year and spend it elsewhere around Luca to bring in

803
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: players that are gonna help make him better because he's

804
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: our guy now, right, you want, they'll go get the center.

805
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure in the offseason that everybody says, oh, if

806
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: the Lakers just had a center now, they'd still be playing,

807
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: right exactly. But Luca does need a rim runner. He

808
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: needs that, and I understand that. But if they don't

809
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: win next year, Lebron's gone. Lebron's not coming back. They're

810
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: not coming back to Lakers are the fifty one million

811
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: dollars to have another early round playoff exit.

812
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 3: So it's either.

813
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals or Lebron is finishing with the Calves.

814
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: Like I've said, from the beginning. He will finish his career.

815
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: Maybe he's playing with Bryce at some point. But the

816
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: Cavaliers a team that, hey, look what they need. They

817
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: need somebody to take the pressure off the Look at

818
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: all the wins they had this year and they fall short,

819
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: losing to the Pacers in the last round of the playoffs.

820
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: Another year, that's where Lebron will finish. Right, I'm gonna

821
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: go home one more time and all will be forgiven

822
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: because he could be the missing piece and someone who's

823
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: gonna take the attention away from the other from the

824
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: young guys who needs some time to grow.

825
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 3: Into their roles.

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Speaker 1: He will finish with the Calves and it will be

827
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: the only other place he goes he's done what he's

828
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: wanted to do in Los Angeles.

829
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Speaker 3: He finishes with Cleveland. Yeah, obviously, I make the media joke.

830
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: You know what his uh company lost a year year ago, right,

831
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: was like a thirty to thirty five million Yeah, no thing.

832
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 3: So no, he's why he's fifty one million this.

833
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, exactly, So he's plus fifteen million overall?

834
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 3: Yeah as well.

835
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Speaker 4: I mean, you can write a bunch of that stuff off,

836
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 4: but when it comes down to it, for the fifty

837
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 4: one million and the opportunity look for the Lakers has

838
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 4: been a good business move, right, You've made more than that.

839
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 4: But you get into he's been very aggressive in his

840
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 4: comments in the media and that distance is there, right,

841
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 4: talking about Luca and his future. That's not my business, right,

842
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 4: I'm not recruiting. You should be noted Shan's agency is

843
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 4: part of Clutch Sports, the people he's with, so it

844
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 4: is the direct line.

845
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: Again, so you know you hear oh, but Lebron wants

846
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: to make sure the Lakers talk about you did that

847
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: just sounds stupid. Of course they've traded for Luca, they

848
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: come on, No, Lebron wants them to fail miserably and

849
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: go flailing into the good night.

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00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 4: Come on now, I mean that that's just silliness. That

851
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 4: that is the the extra one line. It's like, you

852
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 4: know what, if I'm editing this, I'm taking that line

853
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 4: out because it just makes us sound dumb, yeah, or.

854
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: It makes it sound like you know where you're getting

855
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: your information from, like I know, okay, I'm getting this

856
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: from Lebron because that's not the conversation at all, Right, Lebron, Really,

857
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: Lebron is not front He went from running the team

858
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: to now they're kind of on the end. They're pushing away,

859
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: they're moving away from the lebron era. And you can

860
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: hear him even the way he talks about it's like,

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Speaker 1: well they can do this. They're doing like he seems

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Speaker 1: like he's on the aspice.

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Speaker 4: But do you just look at the distance. And I'm

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Speaker 4: sure within those those offices Jeanie Buss, Jaymore, Polenka and everybody.

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Speaker 3: Else, Lakers owner Jaymore, we we have control of this right.

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Speaker 4: This guy's not running this squad. We brought in Luca

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Speaker 4: and now we figure out the next iteration of things.

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Speaker 1: Telling you he's gonna one more year and unless it's

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals, it's I'm just a kid from

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Speaker 1: Adams and I'm gonna finish where I started there, I left,

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Speaker 1: I came back, and now this is where I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: fish that exilum to sick how it's gonna go. Now,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have kd or Giannis or or or Sabonis

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Speaker 1: in a year or it'll be fine. It'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: Can we draft Patrick Ewing?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm okay with that. Another cold envelope that'll work.

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Speaker 3: You might have a run in.

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Speaker 1: Him exit hout about a Fresco exit swollen dome for Mike.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason, coming up next to my buddy Ben Mallor

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Speaker 1: this is fuck