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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up. Straight fire? Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Tuesday, February twenty fifth. Biggest game of

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Speaker 2: the NBA season is tonight. Get excited. I know some

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Speaker 2: people will say, wait a minute, no, no, no, it's okay.

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Speaker 2: Shee Cleveland, those are bigger, they're the best teams. Not

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Speaker 2: uh uh uh uh. The Dallas Mavericks coming to LA

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Speaker 2: to face former Dallas legend Luka Doncic. Oh boy, the

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Speaker 2: game tonight. Everybody's fired up about it. I know Rob

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Speaker 2: g is fresh off his break. He tried to tell

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Speaker 2: me there was a major celebrity on his flight back

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Speaker 2: to LA. Wait to you hear who this celebrity in

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Speaker 2: air quotes is? And I know Rob's fired up. Folks.

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Speaker 2: It is a good time to be a Lakers fan.

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Speaker 2: I saw a stat that in the last eighteen Lakers games,

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Speaker 2: and that's not a trivial amount of time, eighteen games

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Speaker 2: out if you've played like fifty six, that's like a

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Speaker 2: third of a third of the season. In the last

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Speaker 2: eighteen games, the Lakers have the number one defense in

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Speaker 2: the league. Now, yes, some of that is situational due

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Speaker 2: to opponent Anthony Davis only played in I believe seven

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Speaker 2: of the eighteen games, Luca's only played in like three

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Speaker 2: or four. The constant has been JJ Reddick, the guy

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Speaker 2: I hyped as coach of the Year. I know, Okase

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Speaker 2: fans are but heard about it. That's fine. But between

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Speaker 2: Everything's coming up Lakers, man, I know, is this the

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Speaker 2: best time you've had as a Laker fan since? I

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Speaker 2: don't know where you stand on the Bubble title, but

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Speaker 2: probably since the Kobe finished went out with like sixty

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Speaker 2: points right.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I want to go that far back. The

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Speaker 3: Bubble Championship was cool. I appreciate it because they were

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Speaker 3: a great team all season. You know, everyone wants to

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Speaker 3: They call it the Mickey Mouse Championship and all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know, they were the best team in the league

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Speaker 3: basically the entire season, and before the shutdown had just

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Speaker 3: beaten the Bucks and the Clippers back to back, like

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Speaker 3: convincingly back to back. So don't give me his trash

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Speaker 3: about how that championship ha have an astros. They were

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Speaker 3: the best team all year. They were the best team

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Speaker 3: at the end of the year, as we all expected.

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Speaker 3: Even the start of the next season. If you remember,

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Speaker 3: they had Marc Gasol, Montres Harrel and they started out

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Speaker 3: I think twenty one and four before injuries just depleted

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Speaker 3: that team. I think Ad popped the groin, Lebron turned

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Speaker 3: an ankle, and it was all downhill from there. But

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Speaker 3: this current group, even notwithstanding the Luca Dacies acquisition you

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Speaker 3: talked about yesterday's pod, they have been playing great basketball

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Speaker 3: for about a month and a half two months now, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Over the last eighteen games, the Lakers are fourteen and four,

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Speaker 3: but they're plucking now the Warriors twice. This team is

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Speaker 3: pousing wave. This is not just you getting regular court

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Speaker 3: legitimately a top five ish team in the NBA right now.

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Speaker 3: I think you can make some serious cases that they

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Speaker 2: So here's the question. You said top five, and that

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Speaker 2: means right now. So we're not projecting ahead just right now.

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Speaker 2: You would have to have OKC in Cleveland one, two

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Speaker 3: I mean, it all kind of gets lumped together. Body

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Speaker 2: So do you have the Lakers above the Knicks right now?

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Speaker 2: Because the day the Lakers above the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 3: They beat them by twenty three at home. So yes,

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Speaker 3: And I think that they're only going to get better.

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Speaker 3: I mean there was a report that came out from ESPN,

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Speaker 3: No one's put their name on you.

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Speaker 2: No, No, of course, you know, they never want to

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Speaker 3: And even though they agreed that the Luca Lebron fit

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Speaker 2: Game, right, was there? There's no doubt about this.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And so even these guys think it's not just

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Speaker 3: Jason McIntyre, you know the quote unquote hot takes like

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Speaker 3: Having said that, they also agree that the roster currently

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Speaker 3: I understand that because you know you're basing it on well,

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Speaker 3: what we saw against Denver on Saturday. Lebron, I think,

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Speaker 3: And you know what that means. He can chase around

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Speaker 3: but at least you can make them work at it.

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Speaker 3: Like this team has dudes. That's big three is as

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Speaker 3: right now. I don't see what they don't see.

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Speaker 2: I see all this stuff. Oh, is Lebron and Luca

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Speaker 1: Rob.

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Speaker 2: People forget Lebron joined forces with Dwayne Wade right there

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Speaker 2: why do people keep doubting Lebron? This reminds me of

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Speaker 2: for it once Rob and I felt like an ass clown.

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Speaker 2: The game was in Toronto. I was watching the cow

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Speaker 2: I gotta see it in the playoffs, guys. I've seen

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Speaker 2: They've got a really good team. It wouldn't shock me

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Speaker 2: I did a thought experiment, right, Okac and the Lakers meet.

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Speaker 2: the series. I'm gonna I'm sorry, I'm gonna go Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: I have to. I'm sorry, Lebron the way he's playing

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Speaker 2: a series against Okac. And that's not disrespectful. Okayse He's

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Speaker 2: a great team. They're ten deep. I like Lou Doord

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Speaker 2: weeks now, and it sounds like you're on board.

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Speaker 1: Rob. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, you remember when the trade first went down. He

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Speaker 3: after the first Luca game we went on this podcast,

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Speaker 3: I said, I already laid out my chair and blanket

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Speaker 3: on Figueroa, oh for the parade. Now the cold are

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Speaker 2: Now, I know you were living it up with you know,

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Speaker 3: Dear and now we disagree on whether or NOT i

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Speaker 2: WOULDN'T i don't know who Just joey Test nunt. Is

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Speaker 2: george is like a close number, two because there's you,

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Speaker 2: know way The sixers will keep him in addition To,

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Speaker 2: embiid suffer that humongous luxury tax bill and not even

429
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Speaker 2: make the playoffs back to back. YEARS i don't. Know

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Speaker 2: do you See Paul george shifting teams next?

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Speaker 3: Year oh my, god that's a really tough, question because

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Speaker 3: on my FACE i would, say on its, FACE i

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Speaker 3: will say, absolutely you gotta consider it because this season

434
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 3: has been such a colossal. Failure they currently Entered tuesday

435
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Speaker 3: morning here with the sixth worst record in THE, nba

436
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 3: which is actually good for them because apparently the way

437
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Speaker 3: this trade went down years, ago if it's outside the top,

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Speaker 3: six the pit goes To. Oka, see so apparently they

439
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Speaker 3: have an incentive actually to shut Down, embiid whether he

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Speaker 3: has surgery or. Not like that's how bad things have

441
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Speaker 3: gone on the flip, side because it's gone so, Badly

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Speaker 3: LIKE maxi miss Time embiid obviously the Season Paul georgian

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00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 3: missed a lot of Time jared, McCain who look like

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Speaker 3: he could have been A rookie of The year out

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00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 3: for the. Year so it's almost like you could talk

446
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Speaker 3: yourself in the idea of this being a mulligan and, saying,

447
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 3: hey we just tank the rest of the, season we

448
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Speaker 3: bring it back with our big, three and we're basically

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Speaker 3: adding a top six pick Plus jared McCain for next.

450
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 3: Season like you could talk yourself into thinking this team

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Speaker 3: can be right back near the top of The east

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Speaker 3: next year if you have rose colored. Glasses so is

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Speaker 3: there a?

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Speaker 2: Version is this like a version of The MAVs who

455
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 2: traded For Kyrie it didn't quite work, Out they tanked

456
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Speaker 2: at the end to keep their. Pick it turned Into

457
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Speaker 2: lively and the next year they were in the.

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Speaker 3: FINALS i, mean, yeah you could really talk you off into.

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Speaker 3: THAT i would disagree with, that BUT i could see

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Speaker 3: how you can make the.

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Speaker 2: CASE i, MEAN i forgot about. McCain he was very.

462
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Speaker 2: Good he's really good before he got. Hurt now the

463
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Speaker 2: only REASON i know about him, WELL i MEAN i

464
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: know about him At, duke BUT i didn't know he's

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Speaker 2: like a massive deal on TikTok about why it's, like

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Speaker 2: do you know this, guy he's on The. SIXERS i was, like, oh,

467
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Speaker 2: okay and then you look up his account and he

468
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Speaker 2: is a huge deal on, there really embraced. It i'm

469
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Speaker 2: sure he's making money hand over, fist but you're. Right

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Speaker 2: is there a world where, hey we're not gonna get

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Speaker 2: Him beid back until the second half of next season,

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Speaker 2: McCain Paul George maxi and were able to turn it,

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Speaker 2: around make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And make a.

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Speaker 2: RUN i just don't see that happening with The. Knicks

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Speaker 2: The celtics held The. Calves The pacers are finally making

477
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 2: the move we all expected them. To maybe The bucks

478
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Speaker 2: have something else that they can make a move on.

479
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 2: Here they moved Off middleton and they rocket into the top.

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Speaker 2: Four that's. POSSIBLE i just don't see how The sixers

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Speaker 2: are remotely close to being as good as any of those.

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Speaker 3: Teams, NO i don't think that they. ARE i think

483
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Speaker 3: that even when we saw these three, together it just

484
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 3: didn't fit, well like the Mb'd Paul George maxi. Trio

485
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Speaker 3: similarly to The phoenix, one WHICH i totally missed on that,

486
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Speaker 3: one like that one hasn't worked when they're on the court, Together.

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00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 3: Phoenix they just look. Unhappy, Yeah philadelphia just looks ineffective

488
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 3: with those three. Guys and SO i, personally IF i

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Speaker 3: Was Daryl, MOURY i would try to Flip Paul george

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Speaker 3: offseason and kind of do The Russell westbrook trade The

491
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Speaker 3: lakers did a few years, ago where you get three

492
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Speaker 3: guys or two or three guys who are not as

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Speaker 3: good As Paul, george but it helps fill out the

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Speaker 3: rest of your roster and, say, hey we're gonna go

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00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 3: all in With Tyrese maxi as our number. One whatever

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Speaker 3: we get From Joel embid as a number, two and

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Speaker 3: the rest of the guys as a collective will kind

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Speaker 3: of raise our floor a little bit higher than what

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Speaker 3: it is right.

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Speaker 2: Now that's, possible all, Right so listen big week ahead

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Speaker 2: at The, combine we'll dig into all the shadure they're

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Speaker 2: supposed TO i guess meet the. Media i'm not sure

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Speaker 2: what day it. Is it might be today or. TOMORROW

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Speaker 2: i know they arrive. TODAY i don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk to the media. Instantly the quarterback. CAROUSEL i feel

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Speaker 2: LIKE i saw a cryptic note online From Daniel jeremiah

507
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Speaker 2: ABOUT i expect a lot of deals to get done

508
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Speaker 2: in the next seven to ten. Days when you see,

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Speaker 2: that that is a big tell that there is information

510
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Speaker 2: it's starting to trickle. Out but, hey, hey don't put

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Speaker 2: it out. There you can tease it, MEAN i, MEAN

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Speaker 2: i can't imagine he's thinking middling guys with. That LIKE

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Speaker 2: i wonder if this means LIKE T higgins is staying In.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati that would be a big piece off the. Table

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Speaker 2: REMEMBER i MENTIONED T higgins for a. Reason, jeremiah who

516
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 2: was on the pod last, week is close with The. Chargers,

517
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 2: okay for him to say big deals staying with teams

518
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Speaker 2: seven to ten, days that to me says something about

519
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: some of these guys staying or possibly. Going i'm sure

520
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 2: you saw the Report bosa could be leaving The. Chargers

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00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 2: they might just cut. Bait SO nfl about to get,

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Speaker 2: spicy and of course you've Got March madness on the.

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Speaker 2: Horizon i'm, Excited. Rob what's your excitement level For march? Badness?

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Speaker 3: Zero BECAUSE i have not watched a single college basketball game.

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Speaker 2: All now, one can you name a player other Than

526
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Speaker 2: cooper Fly? Ah, no, yeah it's Basically Ace.

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Speaker 3: Bailey Ace.

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Speaker 2: Bailey there you. Go he ain't gonna be in the

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Speaker 2: tournament unless they. Win unless they win the the conference,

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Speaker 2: tournament they're not going To March, badis which stinks. Anyways All,

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Speaker 2: right that's it for. Today we are back tomorrow with

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Speaker 2: obviously a huge report On Luca. LAKERS i haven't seen

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00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: a point total prop yet For luca, tonight but my

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00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: guess would be it'll be low. THIRTIES i can't see

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Speaker 2: him going for like forty five. FIFTY i MEAN i.

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Speaker 2: COULD i can't see that happening in terms of, LIKE

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Speaker 2: i don't think he's just gonna get greedy and go

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Speaker 2: for the kill. Shot but it should be a festive

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Speaker 2: scene At staples or whatever the hell they're calling it

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Speaker 2: Now cryptocrypto dot com. Arena all, right we'll talk to

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow