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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith.

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Speaker 3: Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon. Well Dress Cobo live.

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Speaker 1: From the Fox Sports Radio studios. We got more in

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Speaker 1: the NBA coming up in a few minutes. Apparently, if

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Speaker 1: your team is in need and wants Nicola Jokic shot,

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Speaker 1: maybe you can.

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Speaker 3: Call the Nuggets. Why wouldn't you call? Maybe you call

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Speaker 3: me now, Like if you want somebody else's coach, make

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Speaker 3: that call. I can.

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Speaker 1: I could show I can make Cat and mckel bridges

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Speaker 1: happen for Jokics like that, I can what I can

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Speaker 1: make happen?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: Don't say it? Don't say it? Look right here, don't

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Speaker 1: say it. No, don't say it. He's not going well,

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Speaker 1: Bryan's with schmocksmivers.

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Speaker 3: If not it doesn't work. He just made this whole

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Speaker 3: argument of why Mike and Norri made sense because of

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Speaker 3: his relationship with Cat and then he can coax the

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Speaker 3: best out of him on both ends of the court

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Speaker 3: and all that stuff, and then you're trying to ship

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Speaker 3: him out of town. Look at there it is. Oh,

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Speaker 3: it's a glowing phone. It's right there. I got yeah,

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Speaker 3: what I you what? You don't know.

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Speaker 1: What I did was I went to your phone, and

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Speaker 1: I did I erased the number and I put in

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Speaker 1: a fake number. That's funny. It's right here. It's a

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Speaker 1: one seven one six. I put in a fake number.

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Speaker 1: You call that number.

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Speaker 3: It's uh seven yeah seven film f I l M

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Speaker 3: seven seven seven film. Welcome to movie phone. If you

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Speaker 3: would like Doc Rivers to be your head coach, press one.

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Speaker 3: Now you've pressed star. If you want to talk to

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Speaker 3: the new Knicks head coach, Doc Rivers pressed too. But again,

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Speaker 3: we'll have more NBA coming up in a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And also the fact that I might be the greatest

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Speaker 3: defender in the WNBA without even ever stepping on the

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Speaker 3: court got of a big deal. But look, Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: today made his long awaited I could say I guess

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Speaker 3: well for the Pat McAfee show. Return to the Pat

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Speaker 3: McAfee Show on ESPN, because he's been absent from WWE

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Speaker 3: for weeks now, so worried about McAfee. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: It's going on here.

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Speaker 1: Rogers goes on first time since signing with the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: all Parts Malibu where he is on the beach, and

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Speaker 1: there was video of him and pictures.

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Speaker 3: But where's his wife? We don't know where she is.

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Speaker 3: But one thing he let slip today is that it

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Speaker 3: looks like twenty twenty five will be the final year

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it. You know, this

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Speaker 4: was really about finishing with love and fun and peace

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Speaker 4: for the career that I've had and I've played twenty

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Speaker 4: freaking youth. What better place to finish than in one

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's what I want to hear, is from

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Speaker 3: Oh that's great. Aaron Rodgers sounds like he is retired already. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: he sounds like he has done. You heard that statement. Hey,

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Speaker 1: If this is how you are talking now and you

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Speaker 1: because this is not gonna end well for anybody. It's

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't need to see him do a big sell.

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Speaker 3: And obviously you can assuage any fears with your teammates,

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Speaker 3: I get some angs there, and certainly some Steelers made

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Speaker 3: But when it comes down to it, are you there

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Speaker 3: From everything I've been told for the last twenty plus

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Speaker 3: he's thrown with his receivers. Right, they're evidently going to

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Speaker 3: show up at Malibu one day with DK Metcalf before

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Speaker 1: You'd be through with other guys we would know, I

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Speaker 1: think Aaron. I don't think there's too much that happens

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Speaker 3: Jason, we don't even know who his wife is. No,

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Speaker 3: we don't say like we don't know everything about this guy.

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Speaker 3: see it when the rubber meets the road and he's

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Speaker 3: a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Right, he did talk

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Speaker 3: glowingly about wanting to play with the franchise with Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 3: With the different parts of this organization and the squad

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Speaker 3: you roll through. I do like that. It's the peace

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Speaker 3: immediately started thinking about Nick Low and Elvis Costello song

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Speaker 3: What's so Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding Anyway? The

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Speaker 3: song lyrics that roll through your head. But like the

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Speaker 3: it one more time with a pretty good squad, something

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Speaker 3: And if he goes out, he's no worse off because

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you why it gets worse and why

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Speaker 1: he's skittish. Right, that's Aaron Rodgers. That's not suddenly going

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Speaker 1: to get better with the Steelers. What you have opened

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Speaker 1: It's not like the Jets had with Aaron Rodgers, where well,

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Speaker 1: loyalty with Russels. The Steelers decided to say, well, not

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Speaker 1: The Steelers didn't go break the bank to get and

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Speaker 1: he's not playing, well, guess what, he's not the quarterback anymore.

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Speaker 1: And Will Howard's gonna play or Mason Rudolph is gonna

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Speaker 1: play by Thanksgiving? And Rodgers gonna end his career with

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Speaker 1: not saying it wasn't to be you know, for the

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Speaker 3: Have a fun. Okay that that's not That doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: You just show and say things that you would that

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Speaker 1: Teammates know what he's saying publicly that yeah, I'm here

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to be a Steeler. I want to win.

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Speaker 1: This is what you say when you're I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 3: To go win the press conference, you have to say,

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Speaker 3: Well, if that's the case, then that's okay. I'm not okay,

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Speaker 3: Why did you have to circle him back? You're right, no, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if guy sucks, I tell you this whole

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Speaker 3: The cooler, the only one. I'm the only one that

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Speaker 1: Well they do know, but they were really done poorly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was the reason they were fifteen. It's terrible, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty simple. Only I can stop Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: It was just three games ago where I said, you know,

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Speaker 3: Like you you think that that that I was great

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Speaker 3: Did she get her corneas scratched on that flyby defensive

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Speaker 3: it actually worked incorrectly. He's got to be like Seinfeld,

433
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Speaker 3: where you now have to abstain from anything good yeah, yeah,

434
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,000
Speaker 3: and maybe maybe it'll help you. Man. Now I will

435
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 3: say this because you made her. I mean, in the

436
00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 3: Elaine Venice world, you made her dumber. Oh Elaine, You're fired.

437
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Speaker 1: Uh, While I am the Caitlin stopper now apparently I am.

438
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Speaker 1: I will say this that you know. And we talked

439
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Speaker 1: about this with with SGA specifically, and in the NBA Finals,

440
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,360
Speaker 1: and and and and watching Halliburton and Anthony Edwards really

441
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Speaker 1: sometimes just not try to find their way during bad games,

442
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 1: to find their way to affect the game in the

443
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Speaker 1: best way possible when your SHOT's not falling, How do

444
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Speaker 1: you do it?

445
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 3: Sga? Even when a shot isn't falling, he finds the way.

446
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 3: Whether it is I'm gonna be more facilitator, I'm gonna

447
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 3: make sure I get to the free throw line, whatever

448
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 3: it is, I'm gonna get the points we need. I'm

449
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 3: gonna figure things out. Watching her down the stretch tonight

450
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Speaker 3: against Seattle when they were protecting a twenty point lead

451
00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,320
Speaker 3: that got cut down to ten, she knew this was

452
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 3: not my night, right, shooting the basketball three to thirteen.

453
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 3: This is not my night.

454
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Speaker 1: So what did I watch her do when defenses still

455
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 1: were collapsing towards her. She found the right teammate, found

456
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: open teammates repeatedly down the stretch for easy buckets, easy layups, had.

457
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 3: A game and eat of a number of big assists

458
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,400
Speaker 3: down the stretch. What is my am, I you're gonna

459
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Speaker 3: find I'm going to keep shooting when it's not my night. No,

460
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 3: but I am finding out. You shoud wind up with

461
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,919
Speaker 3: nine assists on the night and the last three four minutes,

462
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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many plays she found her

463
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Speaker 3: teammate in the right spot for an easy basket and

464
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 3: watch Seattle Quinn come down and hit a three. But

465
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Speaker 3: then they'd go down and get an easy bucket and

466
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Speaker 3: eventually Seattle runs out of time and they win by eight.

467
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Speaker 3: So still, even though she was having a bad night,

468
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 3: hasn't shot the ball well in three days down the stretch,

469
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Speaker 3: she found the right plays to make. Hey, Jason stopping

470
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 3: me from hitting my shots. So I'm gonna find a

471
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Speaker 3: different way to affect the game. And she did. One

472
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Speaker 3: of my favorite moments as we were watching the telecast

473
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Speaker 3: here in the Fox Sports Radio studios was there was

474
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Speaker 3: a foul call and the ball rolled to her and

475
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 3: she took another shot and missed terribly, and the look

476
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Speaker 3: on her face, I can't even get the one that

477
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 3: doesn't count, not working for it, just shaking her head,

478
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Speaker 3: not working.

479
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Speaker 1: So again, while on the Caitlyn style, I still saw

480
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: great things from her, and I said why she's she's

481
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Speaker 1: the most popular player in the league, and why she's

482
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Speaker 1: a winner, and why she's gonna wind up winning MVP

483
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Speaker 1: at some point.

484
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Speaker 3: This is Yep, you're not helping the odds right now,

485
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Speaker 3: But I'm okay.

486
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Speaker 1: Hey, the rest of the end, the twenty five to

487
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Speaker 1: thirty percent of WNBA fans and players that hate her

488
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Speaker 1: love me right now. You stopped her. None of us

489
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 1: could stop her, but you stopped her. Here comes a

490
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Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark revenge to her stopped her ice cold for

491
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Speaker 1: three right in her track, Ice cold, ice Cold.

492
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Speaker 3: I'm the Kitlyn. I got a big wingspan, I'm out,

493
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 3: I'm physical, I got the fast twitch muscles.

494
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Speaker 1: I'm getting in front of you. I'm stop cutting off

495
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 1: the passing lanes. I'm cutting off your shit. I'm doing

496
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Speaker 1: it all, ladies and gentlemen.

497
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Speaker 3: Sub zero. I am the low planes. I like it.

498
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 3: I'm the leud Dort of the WMBA. That's what I am.

499
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Speaker 3: Lud Dort now speaking of stars, if you want NICOLEA. Jokic,

500
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Speaker 3: I think you can call the Nuggets for him. I

501
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 3: think he can. I'm not saying I don't see why

502
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 3: you wouldn't. Anyway, I think you can. But maybe you

503
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Speaker 3: were encouraged.

504
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Speaker 1: Because after today, I know that the Nuggets are just

505
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: maybe one misstep away from having to trade him.

506
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Speaker 5: So.

507
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Speaker 3: Josh Kronky, who runs the of the of the Los

508
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 3: Angeles Ram cronkys Uh Josh Cronky, son of Stan Cronky,

509
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 3: who runs day to day with the Denver Nuggets right,

510
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 3: is doing his press conference in advance of the NBA

511
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 3: Draft tomorrow night, in which he talks about he's just

512
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 3: talking financially, right, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna worry

513
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 3: you about too many things. From what he means, he's

514
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 3: talking about financially, what the Nuggets strategy is going to be,

515
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 3: you know, and have to spend certain amount of money

516
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 3: into the first and second apron which is what teams

517
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: don't want to do when they're signing players, but basically

518
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Speaker 3: to not get too much in the weeds on it.

519
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 3: He's having a financial conversation of what could get the

520
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 3: Nuggets in trouble financially and what they want to avoid,

521
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 3: right So, knowing that this is Kronkey who then, unprompted

522
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 3: in talking about financial situation with the Nuggets, brought up

523
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Speaker 3: what could possibly happen that would force him to have

524
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Speaker 3: to trade Nikola Jokic.

525
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Speaker 5: And you know, I think that for us as an

526
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Speaker 5: organization going into that second aprin is not.

527
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Speaker 3: In Wait a second, dude, your MIC's on.

528
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Speaker 2: Yes, surely something that we're scared of.

529
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Speaker 5: I think that there are rules around it that we

530
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 5: needed to be very careful of with our injury history,

531
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 5: the wrong person gets injured, and very quickly you're into

532
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 5: scenario where that I never want to have to contemplate

533
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 5: and at the trade in number fifteen.

534
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Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.

535
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Speaker 1: So basically, so what he just said was wait, play

536
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: it again, because what he said was what I heard.

537
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 3: Was Lakers, I heard call me Rob Polinka.

538
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: So what he said was with injury history, if you know,

539
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: the wrong player gets hurt, we'd have to trade Nikola Jokic, right,

540
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: playing again, because I want to make sure that that's

541
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: what he said.

542
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 3: Playing for his words, ready, no go ahead that we're

543
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 3: scared of.

544
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 5: I think that there are rules around it that we

545
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 5: needed to be very careful of with our injury history.

546
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: The wrong person gets injured, and very quickly you're into

547
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 5: scenario where that I never want to have to contemplate.

548
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 5: And that's trade number fifteen.

549
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so the wrong person gets hurt and they have

550
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Speaker 1: to trade Nikola Yolkicic' that's what you're telling me, is

551
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: that I the wrong person gets hurt, suddenly, Hey, the franchise,

552
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: we're done, and we're trading.

553
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Speaker 3: The best player in the NBA. Yeah. I think it

554
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 3: goes to a lot of what we've been talking about

555
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 3: with the Celtics here, and he's kind of just saying,

556
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'll be your Nico, Rob Polinka or

557
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 3: whoever's going to be the GM in the next iteration

558
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 3: of things. Whoever that is for the Lakers. But just

559
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 3: the way the Celtics are looking at it, with Tatum

560
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: getting hurt, the window for winning, to their thinking isn't

561
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Speaker 3: worth the cost and the price of admission to that

562
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 3: second apron And I think for Denver, you saw what

563
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 3: they had with all those principles missing time as they

564
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 3: did right, both Order Junior and Jamal Murray missing time,

565
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: and then you've got Aaron Gordon who missed some time,

566
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 3: and then you've got nicolea Joki still putting up huge numbers,

567
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: but it didn't really get them a whole lot, right,

568
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 3: you losing seven games, you had you had a great

569
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 3: series after dismissing your GM and your coach, but that

570
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 3: that only got so much that that championship might as

571
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 3: well have been five years ago at this point. So

572
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Speaker 3: I think saying the hey, if we're going to be

573
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Speaker 3: a middling team, should we be spending this kind of

574
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 3: money for what? No. I think that that's just absolutely stupid.

575
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 3: And I don't know why you would ever throw out

576
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 3: there unprompted that you would trade the biggest star in

577
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 3: the city, saying he should have said it. But I

578
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 3: understand where his mind is.

579
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Speaker 1: Because the Celtics thing, and this gets into the fact

580
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: that there's owners now that own teams professional teams in

581
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: sports that don't have enough money to own teams in

582
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five because it takes a lot more money

583
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: than it used to run a team. Because when you

584
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: start talking about, hey, one bad contract means financially, we

585
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: could get in so much difficulty. We have to trade

586
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: to Cool to Yokic. Guess what that means. You don't

587
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: have enough money to own a team. You gotta be

588
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: able to own a team where hey, if you lose

589
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars here and they okay, we'll make

590
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: it back at some point.

591
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 3: Not that whoa.

592
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: This is stopping us from spending. It's why the mom

593
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: and pop teams like the Lakers can't compete, right because

594
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: everybody that comes in or all guys that are worth

595
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: billions upon billions and billions and billions and hundreds of

596
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. Yeah, we lose a hundred million, we'll

597
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: make it back at some point. But this was not

598
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: the Celtics saying, hey, we had a bad injury, we're

599
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: trading Tatum.

600
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 3: This was we had a bad injury, we're trading through

601
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 3: holiday and Chris tops porzingis this is This is Kroggy

602
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 3: saying we have a bad injury and Yokich is the

603
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: trading Wow. But that was him saying that Jo Kich

604
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 3: is the guy that's healthy and still is a useful

605
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 3: piece because the other guys are the guys with the injuries.

606
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,199
Speaker 3: See the useful piece. He's the best player, with the

607
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 3: point being that he's not anticipating that. It's Jo Kitsch

608
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: is the guy that gets hurt, but he's a guy

609
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 3: that has value into a market. This is not even that.

610
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 3: This is if somebody else not as good as jokicch

611
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: gets hurt, we have to trade jokicch Like, call them now, Hey, dude,

612
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 3: if you're worried about that, I'll take Yokic off your hands. Now,

613
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: take Karl Anthony Townsend Bridges, Hey, you like and and

614
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 3: would be great? Take In That's fine too. You want,

615
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: we'll give you. I'll give you a cat and both

616
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 3: those guys for Jokic if, hey, you have to, if

617
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 3: you're worried that, if one bad injury, you're gonna have

618
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 3: to trade Jokic. How do you think the Nuggets feel?

619
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Speaker 3: How do you think the players feel? How do you

620
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 3: think Jokic feels about hearing? Oh, so, I'm one bad

621
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 3: injury away from being traded? Really, I'm one bit. Really,

622
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 3: I haven't done either. Luka Doncics off sea all off season.

623
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 3: You don't think he's already gone through this with him? Everybody,

624
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 3: everybody's got a price. Everybody's expendable. Even Nico Harrison didn't say, hey,

625
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 3: we've had some bad luck. We got to trade Luka Doncicic.

626
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 3: Even he just had the good sense to make it

627
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 3: happen before he said anything about it. This is Kronky's Hey,

628
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: you know, might trade Jokic. Hey, it's the worst case scenario.

629
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 3: He just verbalized, we did. That's stud But why would

630
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 3: you do that. There's nobody that would ever do that.

631
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: No fit.

632
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: The Yankees would never say, hang steber Steinburn would never say, hey,

633
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, if things go bad, we might have to

634
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: trade Aaron Judge.

635
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: They're not gonna say that.

636
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: The Dodgers would never say, hey, if things go bad,

637
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: we'd have to trade show Heyo Tani. They would never

638
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: say now doesn't mean it's not gonna come. You would

639
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: never say right now again.

640
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 3: The nick that's that's where Doc River, that's happening. It's right.

641
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: You could have a job and sometimes open mouths say

642
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 3: bad things. Unfortunately, this is not something that was written

643
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: down where you have an eraser on the end of

644
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 3: a pencil to take it away. Again, who put him

645
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: in front of him? I say, okay, this is a

646
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 3: good thing.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and say, why would you ever think And

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Speaker 1: you've talked to reporters before by by prefacing and jumping

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Speaker 1: in unprompted saying, hey, it's not like somebody said, hey,

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Speaker 1: is there a scenario which you'd ever trade Nikola jokicch

651
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Speaker 1: And he says, well, if we get all I answered

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Speaker 1: the question honestly, Well, okay, this is just oh hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: oh you asked about Apron without even Hey, we may

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Speaker 1: have to trade Yokic some pot just so you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean have to do that if if we have.

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Speaker 3: Want to discuss what opportunity.

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Speaker 1: One guy slips and falls, one guy happens, and we

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Speaker 1: might have to trade Jokic off happens.

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Speaker 3: We live in a different world than we did thirty

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Speaker 3: seconds ago.

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Speaker 1: Just why would you There's no reason you would ever

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Speaker 1: say that, you even contemplate putting that out there.

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Speaker 3: That's just dumb. Trade Yokic?

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Speaker 1: Hey, uh, just so you know, so you guys know

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Hey, just so you know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go right now to a guy who has been called

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Speaker 1: the Josh Cronky of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Everyone.

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Speaker 1: He says things sometimes and you go, why'd you say that?

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Speaker 1: It's Steve de Seger, the owner, also.

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Speaker 6: Known by his other nickname you gave him in this segment.

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Speaker 3: Son of stam son of It's like well.

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Speaker 6: Celtics are trading Chris Stumps for Zingis to Atlanta and

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Speaker 6: a three team deal for Zingis. Seven foot two, turns thirty.

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Speaker 6: This summer, he just averaged twenty points a game again,

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Speaker 6: but missed half of Boston season. The Mavericks are giving

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Speaker 6: Kyrie Irving a new three year contract. He had surgery

678
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Speaker 6: in March for a torn acl The New Orleans Pelicans

679
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Speaker 6: traded CJ. McCollum to Washington for Jordan Poole. McCollum turns

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Speaker 6: thirty four in September. He's averaged twenty points a game

681
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Speaker 6: for his career. NBA owners approved the sale of the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 6: The one point five billion dollar deal includes the WNBA's

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Speaker 6: Minnesota Links. Alex Rodriguez will be co chairman of the

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Speaker 6: team with Mark Lord. They originally had a deal to

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Speaker 6: buy four years ago. Minnesota native Glenn Taylor, now in

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Speaker 6: his eighties, finally sold. He had bought the Timberwolves in

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Speaker 6: nineteen ninety four and tried to back out of this

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Speaker 6: deal a year Ago. Oklahoma City's victory parade was today.

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Speaker 6: The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday, and the Nets now

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Speaker 6: own five selections in the first round. This week four

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Speaker 6: WNBA games Tonight, the Lake Contest went to Indiana ninety

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Speaker 6: four eighty six at Seattle, but Caitlin Clark had six

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Speaker 6: points from three point range oh six. She had nine

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Speaker 6: assists eight turnovers in this win. At Chickago, this guy

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Speaker 6: had been three and ten. They beat the La Sparks,

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Speaker 6: who were four and eleven. Chicago ninety seven eighty six

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Speaker 6: to the final. Angel Reaes eighteen points, seventeen rebounds, six

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Speaker 6: assists and four steals. Dallas was three and twelve but

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Speaker 6: got a home victory over Atlanta sixty eight fifty five

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Speaker 6: Washington at home edge Minnesota sixty eight sixty four. Minnesota

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Speaker 6: had been twelve and one. New Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers

702
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Speaker 6: says he's pretty sure this will be his last season.

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Speaker 6: The new Hockey Hall of Fame class includes at ain't Ochara,

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Speaker 6: Joe Thornton, and Duncan Keith.

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Speaker 3: All three were in their first year of eligibility.

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Speaker 6: Duncan Chic the singer No, Duncan Keith the Norris Trophy winner.

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Speaker 3: The US men's.

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Speaker 6: Soccer team will play its Gold Cup quarterfinal on Sunday

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Speaker 6: against Costa Rica in Minnesota on Fox TV. Group play

710
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Speaker 6: ended tonight's with Canada in a truly ugly game, beating

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Speaker 6: L Salvador two nothing at Houston. In the FIFA Club

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Speaker 6: World Cup, Benfica upset Byron Munich and Charlotte won nothing,

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Speaker 6: and the amateur team Auckland City earned a one one

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Speaker 6: tie against Boca Juniors, which is at Auckland City had

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Speaker 6: lost its opener ten to nothing to Bayern Munich. The

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Speaker 6: Club World Cup is a thirty two team tournament that

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Speaker 6: the US is hosting this summer. To Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 6: the Dodgers got Shoheo Toni's twenty seventh homer of the

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Speaker 6: year a nine to seven win at Colorado. In fact Otani,

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Speaker 6: in his last thirteen games against the Rockies has eight

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Speaker 6: home runs, and Michael Confordo has a batting average over

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Speaker 6: one seventy for the Dodgers. Now, after two hits and

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Speaker 6: three RBIs, including a homer, the Padres came back for

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Speaker 6: a four to three win against Washington. Miami beat San

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Speaker 6: Francisco and Justin Verlander four to two, the Angels on

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Speaker 6: a tenth inning homer edge, Boston three to two, Texas

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Speaker 6: one in ten six to five at Baltimore, Cincinnati beat

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Speaker 6: the Yankees with two runs in the bottom of the eleventh,

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Speaker 6: five to four. Seattle sent the Twins to a fifth

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Speaker 6: straight loss. Mets and Phillies each loss. Mets have lost

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Speaker 6: ten of eleven. Back to you, Thanks Steve, Like I

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Speaker 6: didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Let's just wait ahead on a positive Jason

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Speaker 3: and Mike Fox Sports Radio coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Are we just minutes away from the next big trade

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Speaker 1: in the NBA?

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Speaker 3: Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. The Bocks are trading

738
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Speaker 3: knicks for the Doc.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend

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Speaker 3: Mike Harmon. So are we just moments away from Doc

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Speaker 3: Rivers to the Necks? Stop? I told you early time

745
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Mike Andry. That's that's absolutely no. I

746
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Speaker 3: am actually disagreeing here. I have inside information that it's

747
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Speaker 3: not Stop. It's not gonna be Doc Rivers, Okay? Or

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Speaker 3: is it harmon buying an upper deck mixed three box.

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Speaker 3: It might it might be it might be my books.

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Speaker 3: Uh so we begging me to spend all You and Mike,

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Speaker 3: come on, man, we could be moment months away from

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Speaker 3: the next big trade in the NBA. Because Shamsterrani was

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Speaker 3: on Scott Van peltchoke's not an ESPN And when Scott

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00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 3: Van Pelt said goodbye to him, so, okay, we know

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Speaker 3: you're working hard. We'll talk to you later on, Uh.

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Speaker 1: Sham said, don't sleep, Scott, don't sleep not buying it?

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Speaker 3: Are you?

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: Does that mean we are moments away? It means doctor

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Speaker 3: Maybe he was reciting the lyrics to enter Sandman creatively.

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Speaker 3: Now I lay me down to sleep. Now you afraid?

762
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Speaker 3: Van Pelt? I don't know. I prayed Porzengas stays with Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: I prayed Porzenga stays with Atlanta. If there's a trade

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Speaker 3: before I wake, I pray that's Karl Anthony Towns for

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Speaker 3: Nicola okicic really trying to all your love for cat

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Speaker 3: like I've done with him. Look, no, look, anybody hasn't

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Speaker 3: even left the Knicks and you've already forsaken him.

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Speaker 1: I will I will tell you this, and we talked

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Speaker 1: about this earlier in the show. We have already seen

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Speaker 1: four really big trades in the NBA, and not even

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Speaker 1: say since the season ended. Since before the season ended,

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Speaker 1: we've had four big trades. Right, the Bain trade Orlando

773
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: was really big. We had KD the morning of Game

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Speaker 1: seven of the NBA Finals, and now the last twenty

775
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Speaker 1: four hours, the Celtics are saying, hey, we're moving on.

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00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: We are we We're gonna You're gonna completely not recognize

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Speaker 1: our roster in our lineup because there goes Porzingis and

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Speaker 1: there goes Drew Holliday.

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00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 3: NBA champion Jordan Poole got said to to the UH

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Speaker 3: to the Pelicans. So I mean we got that going on.

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Speaker 3: We have the draft tomorrow night. I'm sure there will

782
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 3: be trades in the draft, and then as we get

783
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Speaker 3: into free agency. This is one of those moments in

784
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 3: time where financial concerns and player personnel are coming to

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Speaker 3: a head for a lot of teams. Right, we talked

786
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 3: about the different teams that's, hey, hey, we're not gonna compete,

787
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 3: We're in some financial difficulties, so we're gonna make trades.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of teams out there, both contenders and

789
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Speaker 3: teams who thought they were contenders that need to reconcile

790
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: this personnel slash money situation. We've already seen big moves

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Speaker 3: from Houston, Phoenix, Portland, Boston. We may seem more, but

792
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee has decision to make, Like does Yanna still want

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Speaker 3: a deal and are they gonna have to move on

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Speaker 3: from Yannis? Detroit needs a big star if they're gonna

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Speaker 3: continue to compete. Miami may say we're gonna build around

796
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Speaker 3: Tyler Hero now and ban Adebayo might be gone, right,

797
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 3: the Lakers are gonna need to bring in somebody else

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00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 3: to run up and down the floor with Luca the Nuggets,

799
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: we've already seen it. Hey, they might want to trade

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Speaker 3: not Nikolayelki out there, right, but like Minnesota knows they

801
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 3: need to upgrade, Golden State clearly knows they need to upgrade, right,

802
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 3: part big part one of their plan with Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 3: They need another star because that's what works for Golden State. Philadelphia,

804
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Speaker 3: are they still gonna go ahead with Joel embiid or

805
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: is embid gonna be in the trading block. There's lots

806
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 3: of teams that know they're not contenders that were or

807
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 3: are big market teams that need another player.

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Speaker 1: This is one of those moments where that's gonna meet

809
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Speaker 1: and a lot of teams are gonna say, hey, we

810
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: can help each other, we can stay in contention and

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Speaker 1: become a title contending team, or hey, we need to

812
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: move this guy because we need to figure out some money.

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Speaker 1: You are going to see so many trades this offsetin.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it, Mark Stein reaffirmed it with us. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the season of trades. It's gonna be

816
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Speaker 1: so much fun for us as fans over the course

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Speaker 1: of the next couple of months.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean some of the stuff when it when

819
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Speaker 3: it gets to the dollars and cents, it just becomes

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Speaker 3: a all right, do I want to go into the

821
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Speaker 3: tax for this guy where my twelve million dollar guy

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Speaker 3: becomes thirty five because I'm paying this exorbitant fee to

823
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Speaker 3: keep him around, Or do I trade it h and

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Speaker 3: find some appeasement there in the form of an up

825
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 3: and coming guy on a rookie deal or draft picks. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it'll be curious to watch that maneuvering as we go forward.

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Speaker 3: It's not necessarily your your cash poor. It's just you're

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Speaker 3: trying to be prudent with the money you're gonna spend

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Speaker 3: to where you're not tripling what your investment is on

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Speaker 3: a middling or end of the bench play. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: still it's it doesn't always happen. Some years.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of teams that feel one way. So

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of names. You're hearing this, You're hearing.

834
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Speaker 3: Some every day.

835
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Speaker 1: There's different names that and it's from people with check

836
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Speaker 1: marks and insiders that hey, this team could be talking

837
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Speaker 1: about this player. This is not just a blog throwing out, Hey,

838
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Speaker 1: the five best trade targets for this team would be XYZ, A,

839
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Speaker 1: and B. No, this is stuff you're every single day man.

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Speaker 3: For fans. We're gonna have a blast the next few weeks.

841
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 3: There's legitimate folks saying that Bradley Beal may actually say,

842
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm okay with getting traded. Kevin Durant

843
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 3: was okay with moving. Yeah, he's ready to go. Say that.

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Speaker 3: Two point five percent stayed InCom text.

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Speaker 1: We're getting ready for Cooper flag Day tomorrow. Doc is

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Speaker 1: not going to the next flag day.

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Speaker 3: I like that. Coming up next to my buddy Ben

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Speaker 3: mallor this is Fox Sports Radio. Matt's called Grimace