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Speaker 2: As we are in for Doug Gottlieb today, Carrie hanging out,

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Speaker 2: up the week, we'll get to all that drama, golf

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Speaker 2: wrapping up in Scotti Schuffler doing Scotti Scheffler things, and

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Speaker 2: baseball second half. While it's not split evenly in halves,

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Speaker 2: Cubs playing day baseball. But everybody back in action tonight

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Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. After the All Star break, we

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Speaker 2: start in the NBA. Oh yes, yes, your would you say?

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Speaker 2: And I I just am doing this because I know

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Speaker 2: that there's new listeners. Maybe they don't hear you and

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Speaker 2: I on Sundays during football season or you and Monty

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Speaker 2: and Sunday afternoons here on Fox Sports Radio, so they

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Speaker 2: may not may not hear hear you. But is is

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Speaker 2: your passion NBA even though you were a former NFL player?

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Speaker 3: Is that? Is that fair to say? Very accurate, Dan,

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Speaker 4: I Yes, My real attention, my real love adoration goals

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Speaker 4: to the NBA, which is I know a little bit suspect.

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Speaker 3: Did you wish you were an NBA player? Are you

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Speaker 3: glad that I still wish? Now?

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Speaker 2: You still? After the oh for all accolades? An eight

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Speaker 3: Do you know the story? I think I told you

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but after my third year with the

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Speaker 3: I did not you did not know that, So yes

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Speaker 4: I was secretly working on some some some workouts and

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Speaker 4: doing that stuff, and my agent was like, Harry, what

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Speaker 4: are you doing? Uh, that's trying to pay you. Are

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Speaker 4: you gonna Are you gonna be that guy?

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Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, you're right, You're right, You're right Todd.

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Speaker 4: So yes, I think I chose correctly. Always trust Todd.

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Speaker 4: That is that is the moral of the story. But

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Speaker 4: you stop playing football and basketball is is your love.

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Speaker 4: And we start in the NBA because Damian Lillard loves Portland.

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Speaker 4: Damian Lillard is back in Portland as a Trailblazer, shigning

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Speaker 3: Even though he's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Miss all of next season, he's still getting paid by

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Speaker 2: back home and can be with his kids. And that's

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Speaker 2: My initial reaction was good for Dane, don't go and

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen this so many times where guys

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Speaker 4: so to see him go back there and you know

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Speaker 4: There's a different place that I want to go with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want to say the thing with Dame

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Speaker 2: and you said to any player, Carrie, would you want

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Speaker 2: New York City is obviously different than Portland and LA.

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Speaker 2: not to disrespect any of the former Trailblazers because they're

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Speaker 2: his relationship with that city has been documented through and through.

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Speaker 2: I think you take the city portion of it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's easy to say, yeah, I want to be

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Speaker 2: of him being the star in Portland, it's probably going

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Speaker 2: it would to ever win an NBA championship. Say elsewhere, gotcha?

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Speaker 4: I was about to say that part They elsewhere, right,

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Speaker 4: because if he wins it there, it doesn't stop. It's

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Speaker 4: really it's really his town, right, It's endless. But I

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Speaker 4: I said, I'm all for it. Yeah, it'd be different

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Speaker 4: But if you just went to another contender, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's yeah, it's neat, but it's not like what it was.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, if you would have want a championship in Portland

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Speaker 2: what he's done, it's pretty amazing. This all leads to

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Speaker 2: please don't turn off the radio. Please don't turn off

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Speaker 2: the radio because I brought Lebron's name up. I am

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Speaker 2: it is when we talk about Lebron and free agency.

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Speaker 2: We obviously knew that there were only certain teams that

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Speaker 2: he could go to. Mavericks. Your Mavericks were one of

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Speaker 2: tampering in the NBA. You got to talk to the teams.

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Speaker 2: You don't talk to the ancient and say we on

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Speaker 2: you were to play for Crosstown Clippers, does nothing. To

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Speaker 2: now if Lebron goes anywhere else. It adds more to

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be a how does man? How does Lebron do

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Speaker 3: How is this? How's this gonna work out?

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Speaker 2: Even if you would go back to the Heat, I

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Speaker 2: to Portland his force. Lebron, if you want to have

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Speaker 2: you can only do it in a Cleveland Cavaliers uniform.

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Speaker 2: And I've I felt like it was the coolest option

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Speaker 4: I agree. I mean that's my sentiment as well. I

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Speaker 4: I mean, I thought Cleveland would be the storybook one

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Speaker 4: want to see what that looks like. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 4: if that was his last season as well. Just the drama,

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Speaker 4: the storybook type of ending. It could be because Cleveland's

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Speaker 4: a good team, they could have made it out of

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Speaker 4: the East, right and so that would have been cool.

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Speaker 4: Lebron for me, just needs to stay in LA, play

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Speaker 4: it out. If that's not the option in Cleveland, stay

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Speaker 4: in LA, play it out, and just actually fight for

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Speaker 4: you can will your team to a win, which I

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Speaker 4: don't know if that's really happened in his career yet.

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Speaker 2: You don't think going back to Cleveland was fighting through No,

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Speaker 2: you don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't know the first one. I think that was

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Speaker 4: That team was really good. I mean when he first

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Speaker 4: they were a team that you look at and be like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: they won. They won Lebron away from being dominant in

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Speaker 2: It's not a runaway, but it could be. It's not

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Speaker 2: Joel Embiid's in the news. Earlier this week, ESPN did

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Speaker 2: this profile on Embiid, revealing a lot of things he

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Speaker 2: doesn't James Harden doesn't talk to him anymore, doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 2: trust the front office, especially when you're talking about his injuries.

436
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Speaker 2: And then there's this, and this is the part that

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Speaker 2: I just can't get pasted. Joel Embiid was called out

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Speaker 2: in a player's only meeting. And I'm curious you, as

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Speaker 2: a former player, if you agree with what Joel Embiid

440
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Speaker 2: is saying. Tyree Smaxy called Joel Embiid out in that

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Speaker 2: meeting during the season, talking about his tardiness, not being

442
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Speaker 2: on time and out Joel Embiid needs to set an example.

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Speaker 2: So this happened earlier in the season, obviously, when Maxy

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Speaker 2: was healthy. Embiid, in talking with ESPN says, and I'm

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Speaker 2: quoting here, I know who leaked it, but I'm not

446
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Speaker 2: going to tell who it is the past is the past.

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Speaker 2: The one thing I'll say is it's hard being around

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Speaker 2: people that do those sorts of stuff. It goes back

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Speaker 2: to the trust thing. Once you cross that, you can't

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Speaker 2: expect me to be a part of a team meeting again.

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Speaker 2: That's just not going to happen. So Joel Embiid says,

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Speaker 2: I'm out on team meetings now because someone leaked that

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Speaker 2: he was called out within the team meeting. I understand code,

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Speaker 2: I understand teammates. I've been a part of teams, some great,

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Speaker 2: some not so great, nothing near the level that you played.

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Speaker 2: I have a tough time hearing what Joel Embiid is

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Speaker 2: saying and agreeing with him. I understand that there's a

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Speaker 2: certain amount of trust that you have to have, but

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Speaker 2: when you are the face of the organization, to the

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Speaker 2: face of the franchise, right, I think there's other responsibilities

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Speaker 2: that he's just not taking on. And I think that

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Speaker 2: they have a Joel Embiid problem, not that Joel Embiid

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Speaker 2: as a Philadelphia seventy six Ers problem.

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 4: I think it is a Joel Embiid problem. There is

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Speaker 4: a code, obviously, you want to keep everything in house.

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Speaker 4: I think every coach that comes in, every GM that

468
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Speaker 4: comes in, will want to tell their players and trickle

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Speaker 4: down from top to bottom. We keep everything in house.

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Speaker 4: That's part of the code, right, And so when you

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Speaker 4: have these leagues happen, they happen all the time. They've

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Speaker 4: happened about me in certain situations in New York, and

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Speaker 4: I've seen it happen to other players, right, So I

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Speaker 4: know what that feeling is and what that feels like.

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Speaker 3: It feels like betrayal.

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Speaker 4: It feels like man to man, if you want to

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Speaker 4: come to me and you have a problem, let's do that,

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Speaker 4: Let's do it that way where that would be I'm

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Speaker 4: sure where Embid's coming from. He feels like he's been

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Speaker 4: the face of that franchise for a long time. He

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Speaker 4: feels slighted, and now he wants to show his dominance

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Speaker 4: as that number one guy. Right, That's not their approach

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Speaker 4: to take. I'm not saying Embid, it's right here, but

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Speaker 4: I understand where it's coming from now. But that being said, now, Embiid,

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Speaker 4: if you are really serious about being the leader of

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Speaker 4: any franchise, because I don't think it's going to be

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Speaker 4: Philly for much longer unless there's no other place he

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Speaker 4: can go, and I think that would be the only

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Speaker 4: only reason he's still there. But if you want to

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Speaker 4: mend that situation and be a leader of men, show up,

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Speaker 4: take your lumps. That's part of it as well, Like

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Speaker 4: you have to understand that it's even with the praise

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Speaker 4: that comes with being that guy, there's going to be

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Speaker 4: the other side of that as well, where people question you.

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Speaker 4: People are gonna make you or expect you to be

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Speaker 4: the guy that stands up all the time and at

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Speaker 4: least attempts to do the right thing, because we're not

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Speaker 4: going to do the right thing all the time, but

499
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Speaker 4: attempts to be that way. And if they can't trust you,

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Speaker 4: if your second best player is the one that's in

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Speaker 4: the team meet and telling people and specifically you you

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Speaker 4: need to be on time and be a certain way

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Speaker 4: in the meetings, that's a good that's a good problem

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Speaker 4: to have when it's in the house like that, because

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Speaker 4: if you can't question your top players and you're and

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Speaker 4: you don't feel like there's no a chain of communication there,

507
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Speaker 4: that team's not going anywhere. And I think that's what

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Speaker 4: we've seen with Philly because as good as they are,

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Speaker 4: and have been in the Flame Mouse We've seen outside

510
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Speaker 4: of the injuries, you can tell that Embiid has has

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Speaker 4: been child has been childlike at certain times with being

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Speaker 4: the leader of that team.

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Speaker 2: Your point about Maxi being the second best player and

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Speaker 2: calling out the best player, I'm trying to think of,

515
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 2: like how that dynamic works. I don't know how Tyres

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Speaker 2: Maxie could do it individually, you know, like he needs

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Speaker 2: the backing of the other teammates to be like to

518
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Speaker 2: get to that level, because if it's a one on one,

519
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 2: now you're one and two, maybe aren't seeing an eye

520
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Speaker 2: to eye because you have no no idea on how

521
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Speaker 2: the one is going to react and you don't, so

522
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Speaker 2: then you think you're doing the right thing, like Maxi is.

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Speaker 2: You have this meeting and he speaks up. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's cowardly on his point, and I think that

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00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: some people would think like that, like, well, if you

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Speaker 2: felt that, why did you have to do it in

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Speaker 2: front of your teammates. I think it's because of the

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Speaker 2: power and what Joel Embiid carries. So I have no

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Speaker 2: idea how Tyres Maxi would be able to do that

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Speaker 2: in a different setting that didn't have the backing of

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Speaker 2: those players. But what I find interesting about this is

532
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 2: the leak on this seems to have Joel Embiid not

533
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Speaker 2: wanting to take responsibility, like he's more mad about the leak.

534
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Speaker 2: It was like when Draymond punched Jordan Poole with the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: The Warriors were way more worried with how the video

536
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Speaker 2: came out than the actual punching of one player to another. Again,

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Speaker 2: I haven't played at your level, but as I'm sitting here,

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Speaker 2: I get the lack of trust or how that came out.

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Speaker 2: There's a physical act and something to do with it.

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Speaker 2: But yet you just had your all NBA player punch

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Speaker 2: a possible future star of your team. Yes, that is

542
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 2: the problem. You could tell me all you want that

543
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: leaks and this and that or the problem, but it's not.

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Speaker 2: That is the problem. And that's the thing that I

545
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: feel with Joel Embiid here. He's using the leak as

546
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Speaker 2: an example to cover up why he was actually late

547
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Speaker 2: in doing all those things. And I think that's garbage.

548
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Speaker 2: And that's the part that I that I don't like

549
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 2: about it. It made me difficult. The bigger man would

550
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: have said, you know what, I was late I was

551
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 2: right for getting or they were right for calling me

552
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Speaker 2: out on that. I am the face of the franchise.

553
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: I gotta do better. That to me goes a lot farther.

554
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it wouldn't in Philly, I don't know, but

555
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: that goes a lot farther than anything that Joel Embiid

556
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Speaker 2: could have done, including this interview. Just admit it, you know,

557
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: if you're late or not. Yeah, you know, that's that's

558
00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 2: all he had to do, and he couldn't even do that.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you, but I don't. I don't think

560
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 4: that needed to be addressed because I think that's we all.

561
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 4: I mean, there's obviously truth to that, So him saying it,

562
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't even We've never seen him do

563
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 4: anything like that, So I don't think that's part of

564
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 4: who he who he is. For him, he's always been

565
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 4: a little.

566
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Speaker 3: I don't. I hate saying the word sensitive. I don't like.

567
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 4: I don't like it, but to say it to prove

568
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 4: the point right now, he seems like those things would

569
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 4: hurt him, and so if he feels hurt, he's going

570
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 4: to react the way that he knows how, and he

571
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 4: hasn't been he hasn't had to be somebody that's responsible

572
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 4: or somebody that takes that blame. Ever, we haven't seen that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's that's the thing is if you you

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Speaker 2: take the blame for it, you also take control of

575
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: the narrative. Sure, like you take control of I am

576
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 2: guess what I Yeah, I was, I was late. Maybe

577
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 2: I got too big for my breeches. Again, something we've

578
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: never heard from an NBA or professional athlete I think

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Speaker 2: in history. However, that is a way that this could

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00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 2: be handled better. And I remember one time a well

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Speaker 2: known journalist told me that they wrote a piece that

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Speaker 2: was kind of calling out a player, and the head

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00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 2: coach of that team went up to the to the

584
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Speaker 2: to the writer and said, hey, I read I read

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Speaker 2: your piece about so and so.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. It's right on.

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Speaker 2: We need to light, you know, a fire under like

588
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Speaker 2: it's it's absolutely what's going on.

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Speaker 3: He's not getting the message.

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Speaker 2: And by putting it out in public, they felt that

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Speaker 2: it was their only way to do so that may

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00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: have been the case, and I actually think that could

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Speaker 2: have been the case with Joel Embiid. But Joel Embiid

594
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Speaker 2: is so hung up on who leaked the story that

595
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Speaker 2: maybe This is a reason why the seventy six ers

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Speaker 2: just haven't been able to fulfill their maximum potential with

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Speaker 2: him there, aside from his injuries and other things like.

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Speaker 2: That's what's like ultimately at the core is he still

599
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily get it or isn't mature enough to accept

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Speaker 2: responsibility for his actions.

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Speaker 4: It's immaturity for sure. And that part sucks because he's

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00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 4: been there long enough. Now he's he's married and got

603
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 4: kids like that, that energy should have shifted a while ago,

604
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Speaker 4: and so he's still stuck in whatever, whatever his feels

605
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Speaker 4: are with that team.

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Speaker 2: And I Carrie and I were just having a conversation

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Speaker 2: about Joel Embiid and the piece that came out earlier

648
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: this week. I know the Sixers aren't on the forefront

649
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: of everyone's mind with Bradley Beal, deal and Lebron and whatnot,

650
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: but can you take a temperature of the seventy six

651
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: ers because I just it rubbed me the wrong way

652
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: and feeling or in reading that Joel Embiid's like this

653
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: leak in the meeting means I'm taking no more or

654
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: taking part in no more player meetings. James Harden doesn't

655
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: talk to me this and that. Where are we with

656
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: the Sixers and specifically with Joel Embiid right now?

657
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Speaker 6: Well, let me first say, it was an incredible article,

658
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 6: really really good profile with just tons and tons of stuff,

659
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Speaker 6: So kudos to the author. It was fantastic, fantastic story.

660
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Speaker 6: But look, I think the Sixers have made it super

661
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 6: cool that you know they're going to they want to

662
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 6: give the Joe El Embiid, Paul George, Tyrese Maxi trio

663
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 6: at least one more chance to try to achieve what

664
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 6: they thought that trio could achieve. I mean a year

665
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 6: ago at this time, all of us know it, alls

666
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,719
Speaker 6: were saying that the Sixers won the off season. You know,

667
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 6: they Darryl Morey convinced Tyreese Maxi please hold off a

668
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 6: full season before signing an extension. Trust us, we're going

669
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 6: to use the space that that creates to go sign

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Speaker 6: a really good player. They signed Paul George away from

671
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 6: the Clippers. Paul George was the only All Star last

672
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 6: summer to change teams in free agency without a trade,

673
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 6: and everybody was praising the Sixers. And then this season obviously,

674
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 6: this season obviously was just completely completely you know, everything

675
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 6: that could go wrong did go wrong. And look, I

676
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 6: can understand if there is apprehension in Philadelphia because we

677
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 6: just learned this week that Paul George required another arthroscopic

678
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 6: surgery on his knee, So we don't even know if

679
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Speaker 6: we're going to see Paul George at the start of

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Speaker 6: training camp. We don't really know. As great as that

681
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Speaker 6: piece was, what kind of health the Sixers are going

682
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Speaker 6: to see from Joel Embiid this season. So even though

683
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 6: the Sixers got the third pick in the lottery, we're

684
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 6: able to draft Edgecomb like that was obviously a great

685
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 6: outcome for them, But there are so many unanswered questions

686
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 6: about this team, and it really does all start with Embiid.

687
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 6: I mean, they need d Embiid, who won the MVP.

688
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 6: If Philly's going to do anything, they have to get

689
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Speaker 6: him back to that level, and that obviously starts with

690
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 6: keeping him on the floor. So yeah, I think you're right.

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Speaker 6: People maybe aren't talking about the Sixers now, but when

692
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 6: the season starts in late September, I think a lot

693
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 6: of people will be talking about the Sixers.

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Speaker 3: Mark.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy because yes, you just hit on so much

696
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 4: with that team, But also, I mean, I don't know

697
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 4: what their deal is with Quinton Grimes and is he

698
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 4: still a free agent or I don't I don't know

699
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 4: if he's still a free agent or not, but that piece,

700
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 4: that scoring piece, I think he can actually fill in

701
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 4: for Paul George very very admirably. I don't And they

702
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 4: also getting Jared McCain back as well, so I think

703
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 4: they're loaded on the wing as far as potential replacements

704
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 4: for Paul George as well. I mean, not to that degree,

705
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 4: but to steady the ship. If Joel Embiid is him

706
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 4: is his regular self, I could see that still being successful.

707
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Speaker 4: But I want to talk about where they are right

708
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 4: now Embiid and you know, he came out and MAXI

709
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: challenged him and had the thing happened in the team meeting,

710
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 4: Like where is that relationship at right now?

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Speaker 6: I really haven't sense that there's any lingering issues. I mean,

712
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 6: it's always been described to me that they have a

713
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 6: good working relationship and like each other, So I don't

714
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 6: really see that as an issue. I mean, you know,

715
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 6: Joel obviously in the piece voice that he's still you know,

716
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 6: his displeasure with the team meeting and how it all

717
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 6: leads out. I mean, he made that clear that he's

718
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 6: not ready to put that in the rear view mirror,

719
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 6: and so you know, that is something that the Sixers

720
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 6: have to manage. But I do think health and winning

721
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 6: can change a lot and fixed a lot, and again

722
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 6: it's got to start with health. Now you mentioned Grimes.

723
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 6: Quinton Grimes is a restricted free agent, and restricted free

724
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 6: agency is always tough on the players who have that status.

725
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Speaker 6: But this summer, especially kuminga hide in Chicago, Grimes, Cam Thomas,

726
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 6: and Brooklyn. I mean, there's just no cap space for

727
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Speaker 6: any of these guys. The expectation has been that Philly

728
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 6: is going to bring Grimes back. I don't think Philly

729
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 6: would have lost kershan Yabuselli in the manner they did

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Speaker 6: to the Knicks if they didn't think they were going

731
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Speaker 6: to be able to re sign Quentin Grime. So it's

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00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 6: moving slow, but I do think Rhymes will be back

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Speaker 6: of the Sixer.

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Speaker 2: Mark Stein joining us here on Fox Sports Radio talking NBA.

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Speaker 2: He's Carrier Roads. I'm Dan byer in for Doug. You

736
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Speaker 2: can get this Steinlein mark substack at Markstein dot substack

737
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: dot com. If you don't trust me, trust the over

738
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: forty four thousand subscribers that he has. The big news

739
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: yesterday was Damian Lillard back in Portland. How How long

740
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 2: has this been in the work since his buyout from

741
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Speaker 2: the Bucks and does this set does this set a precedent?

742
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there is one, but I said

743
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Speaker 2: Lebron James, now his only option is to go back

744
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: to Cleveland. But how long has this been going on,

745
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: these conversations between these these these two old partners in

746
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Speaker 2: Portland and Dame.

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Speaker 6: I would say, I think Games probably had longing for

748
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 6: being back in Portland ever since he left, because the

749
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 6: Milwaukee move just didn't go to plan. And you know,

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00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 6: it was a brutal two seasons, two injury filled seasons

751
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 6: for the Bucks, and it just it just never came

752
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 6: close to working the way they hoped. And you know,

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Speaker 6: I said this yesterday, I am an incurable basketball romantic.

754
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 6: I love that Dame went back there. I love that

755
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 6: he has such strong feelings for Portland and that fan

756
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 6: base and that is his home. I mean, he's obviously

757
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 6: from Oakland and a Bay Area guy, but like he was,

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00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 6: he really really connected and embraced the Portland community and

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00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 6: that's why it was such a shock to the system

760
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 6: when he left. And look, he's realistically probably not going

761
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 6: to be able to play this coming season, but the

762
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 6: fact that he and the Blazers have put aside whatever

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00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 6: animis was going on that you know, led to the

764
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 6: trade request and led to the parting of the ways.

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00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 6: Know they've they've put that aside. And you know, when

766
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 6: when Dame Lillard plays his first game again in Portland

767
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 6: as a Blazer, that's going to be a pretty special night.

768
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Speaker 6: And they still love him, and I think a lot

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Speaker 6: of people in the Pacific Northwest are really glad he's back.

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Speaker 5: And look, he could have gone to a lot of places,

771
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Speaker 5: I mean, Boston market, Dane becoming an unrestricted free agent,

772
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 5: like he had no shortage of options, So that tells

773
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 5: you just how strong.

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00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 6: He feels about Portland and wanting to go back.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's pretty evident, Mark. I mean,

776
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 4: Portland's affinity for him must have been strong as well,

777
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 4: because they didn't have to pay him the number that

778
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 4: they paid him as well, So I think there's a

779
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,919
Speaker 4: obviously no love loss in that situation. But I want

780
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 4: to move on from from one one superstar going back

781
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 4: home to Dan just said it. He mean, Lebron going

782
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 4: on back to Cleveland would be kind of poetic. I think,

783
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 4: from both of our opinions, but is there any realistic

784
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: option of him leaving LA this year at all?

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00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 6: Not as we speak. I mean, I'm never gonna I'm

786
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 6: never gonna say never, because you know, we just saw

787
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 6: the Luca trade, which shocked everyone and nobody was ready

788
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 6: for it. And even the way free agency started, you know,

789
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 6: when free agency started at six pm Eastern on June thirtieth,

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00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 6: I think if you polled twenty seven twenty eight front offices,

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00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 6: let's make it twenty nine because I think the Pacers

792
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 6: would have been on that list too. I don't think

793
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 6: any of them would have said that they thought Miles

794
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 6: Turner was going to end up in Milwaukee, but that happened.

795
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 6: So this is the NBA. We do see surprises, we

796
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 6: do see we do see curveball. But the reality is

797
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 6: it's a trade. When you're making fifty three mil and

798
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 6: the Latekers don't want to take long term salary back

799
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 6: and Lebron James possesses a full note trade clause, there

800
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 6: are just so many things that complicate the prospect of

801
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 6: a trade. And then that is you know, people have

802
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 6: been thrown around buyout, buy out, buy out, like why

803
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 6: would the Lakers just buy Lebron out? And let him

804
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Speaker 6: walk to the team of his choosing on a minimum

805
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 6: after getting a pile of cash, and the Lakers get

806
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 6: nothing back for a guy who is still an All

807
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 6: NBA selection next season. That doesn't make sense for the Lakers.

808
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 6: The Lakers want to honor him and you know, treat

809
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 6: him well, and they are grateful for the role he

810
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 6: played in not only bringing a championship to LA. But

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Speaker 6: you know, people are going to quibble about it was

812
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 6: in the bubble, this is that, But the reality is

813
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 6: the six seven years before that title in the bubble

814
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 6: in October twenty twenty were the worst six or seven

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00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 6: years of the Lakers' existence in Los Angeles. It was

816
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 6: the worst period it in franchise history. So they are

817
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 6: grateful to Lebron James for what he's done. But I

818
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 6: would submit that having someone on a fifty three million

819
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 6: dollar last season contract isn't the worst way to show

820
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 6: that you're grateful. I mean, he is making a substantial salary,

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00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 6: and you know, it's it's there, but I just it's

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00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 6: really at this point, it is very difficult to see

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Speaker 6: how you know, it's very difficult to envision a scenario

824
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 6: where Lebron is not a Laker, But again I'm throwing

825
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 6: out the disclaimer that this league is a circus.

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Speaker 2: Mark Stein joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. Last

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Speaker 2: one for me. Adam Silver seems to be very slow

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Speaker 2: on what should I take that back? Adam Silver addressed

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Speaker 2: expansion this week, saying nothing's predetermined. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: say slow, but nothing was redetermined?

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Speaker 3: Am I wrong?

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Speaker 2: Are we all wrong that it's Vegas in Seattle? At

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00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 2: some point? Where are we on expansion? I've heard rumblings

834
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 2: at James Dolan trying to get other owners up against it,

835
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Speaker 2: but where are we on the league expanding from thirty teams?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Look, I think I think you summed it up really well.

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00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 6: Nobody wants to believe it. But this is not like

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00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 6: gonna just happen next season. Like there there are voices

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00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 6: in the league who have reservations because again, you know,

841
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 6: you you bring in two teams and you have to

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00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 6: give away some you know, the NBA's this. We're entering

843
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 6: year one of the NBA's new TV deal eleven years,

844
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 6: seventy six billion, and so you have to work out

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00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 6: what kind of slice do these expansion teams get, and

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00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 6: so how high does the expansion see have to be

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Speaker 6: I mean Vegas and Seattle are going to be at

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Speaker 6: the forefront of the conversation. I mean, those are going

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Speaker 6: to be the two cities that everyone focuses on first.

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00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 6: But look, the league had, the league does have, you know,

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Speaker 6: I don't foresee. I think it would be really hard

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00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 6: for logistics re logistics reasons to have a team in

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00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 6: Mexico City. But that is something that the NBA has

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00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 6: kept on the table. It's a market that means a

855
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 6: great deal to the NBA, and if they can ever

856
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 6: figure out a way to put an NBA team there

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00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 6: that works, they would love to do it. That's the

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00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 6: question they have to explore is that feasible? So you know,

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Speaker 6: I think Adam Silver has repeatedly tried actually to say, guys,

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Speaker 6: you know this is we're just starting this process and

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Speaker 6: nobody wants to believe it. But it's it's not just

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Speaker 6: a matter of now. On the flip side, the reason

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Speaker 6: expansion would be attractive to the owners is typically expansioncyse

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Speaker 6: go to the owners that's not revenue shared with the players.

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Speaker 6: So that would be the case where they would want

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Speaker 6: to welcome in two teams paying a really high expansion Pee,

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Speaker 6: But I do think eventually it's going to happen, but

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Speaker 6: I think it's going to take a lot longer than

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Speaker 6: probably the general consensus would tell you.

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Speaker 4: Mark, I got one more for you. We haven't even

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Speaker 4: got to this yet. And this is obviously I think

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Speaker 4: a big deal. But Bradley Bill go on to the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: I know we had a lot of people aren't talking

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Speaker 4: about it, but what do you what do you see

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Speaker 4: his role being with that team? Will it be like

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Speaker 4: the Norman Powell role, come off the bench or will

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Speaker 4: he be in the starting lineup? What do you think

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Speaker 4: that that fits going to look like?

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Speaker 6: I have to say, I really like what the Clippers

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Speaker 6: are doing. I mean the last two you know, we

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Speaker 6: started this conversation by talking about Paul George. You know,

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Speaker 6: the Clippers made the decision to just let Paul George

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Speaker 6: go without compensation, and they did that because they wanted

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Speaker 6: future flexibility. And they decided that this last season, in

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Speaker 6: this season and they were going to sign players to

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Speaker 6: short term deals, they wanted to be as competitive as

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Speaker 6: they can in the short term, but maintain future flexibility

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Speaker 6: for their next big swing, most likely in the summer

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Speaker 6: of twenty seven. But again, you know, they have made

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Speaker 6: some really nice moves around the edges. You know, again,

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Speaker 6: Bradley Beal is an unrestricted free agent where he's no

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Speaker 6: longer carrying a massive contract. Ye there was a line

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Speaker 6: of teams out the door that wanted him. Lakers, Bumps, Warriors, Wolves,

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Speaker 6: they all wanted Bradley Beal. Clippers got him. They brought

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Speaker 6: him book Rook Lopez. They've replaced Norman. You know, they

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Speaker 6: didn't want to give Noran Powell an extension, but they

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Speaker 6: were able to turn that into John Collins's expiring contract.

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Speaker 6: Like they are going to be a tough out in

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Speaker 6: the West this coming season.

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Speaker 3: I think he's Mark Stein.

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Speaker 2: You hear him every week here on the Doug Gotlive

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Speaker 2: Show on Fox Sports Radio. Again, Mark Stein dot substack

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Speaker 2: dot com, get the Steinline all the inside information that

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Speaker 2: you need there. Mark appreciated. Have a great weekend. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 6: All the best guys, be good.