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Speaker 2: We're being joined by Hall of Famers Dwayne Wade and

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Speaker 2: Tony Parker from the NBA Champion thunder Shake, Gilsters, Alexander

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Speaker 2: and Jaylen Williams, Spurs All Star Guard, the erin Fox

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Speaker 2: comes Through, and the Magic Band Desmond Bane and the

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Speaker 2: secret ingredient in the knicks new starting lineup, Josh Hart.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot to get to, so let's go check

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Speaker 2: it all out. First up, Dwayne Wade. All in all,

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Speaker 2: how do you feel like the NBA Cup has been

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Speaker 2: for the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's been a few years now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm one of the people who like it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think we about to twenty five games

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Speaker 4: into the season, and I think it's so many reasons

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Speaker 4: why it's good. You know, as an organization, you get

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Speaker 4: to evaluate where you are right before you get to

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Speaker 4: the trade deadline, before you get to all the things

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Speaker 4: that as we got.

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Speaker 3: This squeaky thinking about.

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Speaker 2: You, you're TV person, Yeah, you never would have been

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Speaker 2: able to be like, oh that's we.

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Speaker 5: Should cut, that's cut that.

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Speaker 3: But I love it.

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Speaker 6: I think I love this.

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Speaker 4: It gives teams also an opportunity, an opportunity to compete,

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Speaker 4: Like you may start off the season slow, but in

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Speaker 4: a cup play, you may have an opportunity to come

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Speaker 4: to Vegas and you can save your season too, right

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Speaker 4: because it builds that commidents.

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Speaker 3: If you're able to come out here, you're able to compete.

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Speaker 4: And so I just think it's so many good things

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Speaker 4: about it, and I feel like this goes on as

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Speaker 4: it grows. I feel like more should be put on

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Speaker 4: this part of the season.

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Speaker 2: And it's fun too, because like younger teams get experienced

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Speaker 2: in those crucible situations.

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Speaker 1: It's funny.

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Speaker 2: The youngest team here, of course, has already won a title,

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Speaker 2: so okay, see, it doesn't need that much more extra experience.

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Speaker 2: There's people who think, oh, we could see Nicks. Okay,

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Speaker 2: see in the NBA Cup.

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Speaker 1: Do you see next. Okay, see as an NBA Finals possibility.

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Speaker 4: When you talk about, you know, who's coming out of

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Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference. You know, obviously they went to East

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Speaker 4: Conference finals last year, so you know, you know, they

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Speaker 4: bringing their core back, even though it's a change in

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Speaker 4: that first that seat, but they're bringing the core of

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Speaker 4: their players back, and so yeah, you can definitely see

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Speaker 4: them get there.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's so many things that have to go right.

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Speaker 4: But I believe I just saw Josh Hard just ran

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Speaker 4: into them and the talker to him in the confident group,

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Speaker 4: you know, even though they know that they're not where

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Speaker 4: they want to be, but they know that they're getting there,

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Speaker 4: and you have.

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Speaker 3: A change, you know, of a voice.

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Speaker 4: It takes a little time, it takes a little while,

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Speaker 4: but they're doing very good, very early.

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Speaker 2: All right, So next kind of maybe coming out of

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Speaker 2: of the East.

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Speaker 4: Coming out of the East, Well, I mean, if if

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Speaker 4: I had to look, I mean, unfortunately, you know, Boston

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Speaker 4: was the team that everyone was like, they're going to

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Speaker 4: be there for a while, and then injury to Tatum

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Speaker 4: and so it kind of changed everything. But when I

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Speaker 4: look at the team that you know, has the experience.

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously I look at the Knicks because of

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Speaker 4: the multi years that they've been building this, you know, that's.

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Speaker 3: What I look at. I look at what did they

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Speaker 3: So they've been building Mimi Heat is always gonna be

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Speaker 3: a team that can come out even if they're in

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Speaker 5: Coming out of nowhere, they could still.

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Speaker 3: Come out of the East.

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Speaker 4: But it's I think what I love about the East

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Speaker 4: is is it's unpredictable right now and it's early in

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Speaker 4: the season. You wanted to be that way, Like the

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Speaker 4: kind of a little unpredictable that they're having it. So

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Speaker 4: the East is gonna take a little time to see

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Speaker 4: who rises to the top. But you know the teams

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Speaker 2: Is it strange for you you grew up in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: You love the Michael Jordan Bulls. That was an Eastern

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Speaker 1: Right when you.

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Speaker 2: Played in the league, you played in the East, and

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Speaker 2: the East was very dominant. Y'all won titles right down

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Speaker 2: three I believe there are many titles three if someone

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Speaker 2: was running around in Arena three three like that. I

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Speaker 2: can't remember who that was anyway. But you're now looking

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Speaker 2: at an NBA where the East is falling off so much.

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Speaker 1: Is that weird for you? Because your whole life the

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Speaker 1: East was tough, man.

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Speaker 4: I mean, even when I was in the NBA, they

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Speaker 4: would talk, you know, trash about the East because the

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Speaker 4: West is so competitive from top to bottom, right, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of trash about the East when I was

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Speaker 4: in there. But I always say that it doesn't need

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Speaker 4: to be you need you'll need the whole East to

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Speaker 4: able to compete and win, and so I think the

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Speaker 4: East normally has that. But I mean the West is

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Speaker 4: what it is. I mean, it's some special teams, some

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Speaker 7: Though.

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Speaker 4: That's what we used to say. We said, just let

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Speaker 4: them beat up each other. By the time we get there,

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Speaker 4: we'll be good. And so I mean, obviously there's one

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Speaker 4: see everyone's chasing. Okay, See they're obviously a class above

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Speaker 4: when it comes to this time of the year. But

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Speaker 4: I think it's great for the East right now that

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Speaker 4: it is open. I mean, you know, you want young

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Speaker 4: that's in the East, and you want them to look

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Speaker 4: at and say, all right, how do I take this

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Speaker 4: next step? Right in Orlando, how do they take that

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Speaker 4: next step? They're here, this is great for them to

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 3: And so East is building foundation while the West is

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Speaker 2: For Oklahoma City, it almost is starting to feel and

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Speaker 2: we'll just have to see if they can win a

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Speaker 1: But like that time with the World Championships, I.

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Speaker 2: Was going to say, just with like it's almost starting

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Speaker 2: to feel like when the Warriors kind of had Katie

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Speaker 2: where it's just sort of, yeah, everyone in the West

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Speaker 2: is very good. But and someone else says nicolajokicch but

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Speaker 2: also like that team is just going to keep getting better.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've got what three or four picks in

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Speaker 1: the first round of the draft this year. It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: It's scary. It's actually pretty scary. I mean, they're going

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Speaker 4: to be the foundation is late. The Dominis is going

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Speaker 4: to be here for a while. And that doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: they're going to win every year, but they're going to

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Speaker 4: be up there every year, obviously knocking on wood that

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Speaker 4: they stay healthy. If they stay healthy, the thing is

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Speaker 4: with them, and man, they everybody they bring into that

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Speaker 4: that plays on their basketball floor for them, they understand

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Speaker 4: what needs to be done. And one thing I love

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Speaker 4: about them they make shots, they don't celebrate, They get

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Speaker 1: They barely celebrated the tail.

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Speaker 4: They don't celebrate, and I love that. It's like it's

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Speaker 4: like watching your favorite college team play.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's like when back in the day when Duke we

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Speaker 4: hit the ground. That's all they did was just smacked

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Speaker 4: the ground outside of that and did nothing else. But

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Speaker 4: you know that's the way that you I grew up,

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Speaker 3: So I love their approach. It's real old school like

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Speaker 4: And so they're going to be here to stay for

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Speaker 4: a while. They're going to have to get fatigued with winning.

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Speaker 4: And right now they're so locked in. There's no mental

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Speaker 4: fatigue coming into this next season. And that's the thing

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Speaker 4: that you have to fight against, is that fatigue of

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Speaker 4: this is easy. Oh I got to do this again.

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Speaker 4: It's those you know, those reps. You got to put

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Speaker 4: it in every day and they seem like they like it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean with us.

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Speaker 2: The point with some of these teams, after they repeat

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Speaker 2: through the regular season again, why can't we just go

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Speaker 2: straight to.

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Speaker 4: Assimilate the season. Let's get right to it. But you

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Speaker 4: could assimilate a couple of games this year.

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Speaker 1: It's not nice, it's not kind.

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Speaker 4: With the forty fifty point wins was a similation, you

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Speaker 4: And so looking at their approach, I'm just really press

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Speaker 4: talk to their head coach about that approach, because that

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Speaker 4: is the most impressive thing when you're someone who I've

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Speaker 4: been there before. I know how hardy is attorney right

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Speaker 4: back around, not getting a long summer at all, not

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Speaker 4: getting really a break at all, You got injuries coming

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Speaker 4: in to j Dubb and you still come and you

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Speaker 4: start a season this way, just the most professional, you know,

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Speaker 3: They have done it.

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Speaker 2: It was really funny after they won the title last

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Speaker 2: year because you know, the media gets into the locker room.

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Speaker 2: I have been in so many championship locker rooms, not

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Speaker 2: just NBA World Series, you know, for Super Bowl, all

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Speaker 2: of those, and people are going crazy, right these guys

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Speaker 2: were like a couple of them were sipping a beer

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Speaker 2: a couple. There were three bottles of champagne on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Three and then there was just rows and rose of alcohol,

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Speaker 1: including bottles of champagne. No one touched. Can you explain?

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Speaker 2: Can you tell the people your first title, the title

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Speaker 2: with you and Shaq and pat Riley coaching the team.

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Speaker 2: What was the locker room like after that title?

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Speaker 4: Well, I was I got a little tipsy because at

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Speaker 4: that time I did not drink myself and that was

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Speaker 4: one of the first time I had anything to drink.

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Speaker 4: And that was and I actually was like, if we

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Speaker 4: want a championship, be the first time I drink. So

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Speaker 4: I had champagne in the locker room.

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Speaker 7: I was.

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Speaker 4: I was a little loose, but we were just jumping

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Speaker 4: around like little kids. It's like little like when you

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Speaker 2: You guys were bunkers. I have never seen a locker

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Speaker 2: room like that. You breathed in and you breathed in champagne.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we have guys that are like self driven. We

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Speaker 1: Is there anything less than another title that you're looking

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Speaker 8: No, man, just another title? I'm sorry, Nope, just another title?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing there?

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Speaker 2: All?

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Speaker 2: Well, last year I got to tell you I was little.

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Speaker 7: But hopefully my teammates got better at it.

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Speaker 1: Did you do anything to celebrate this summer being an

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely had fun with my family, my friends,

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Speaker 7: Sit away from you, all right.

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Speaker 1: Did you buy yourself anything any fancy clothes?

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Speaker 7: The West is so deep it's hard to say this earlier.

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Speaker 7: Yep, exactly.

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Speaker 8: The West is the West is just very deep, and

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Speaker 8: if you don't bring her again, you can lose anything

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Speaker 1: So yeah, last, why you're gonna help me? Nate who

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Speaker 8: Sam takes his job very serious and whatever it takes

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Speaker 7: So that's what it takes.

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Speaker 6: That's what it takes, all right.

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Speaker 1: Here's Shalen Williams.

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Speaker 2: I know you get this question everywhere you go now,

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Speaker 6: Go that far? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: It's more about and.

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Speaker 9: I feel like that's that's the same way with a

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Speaker 9: what is it December except obviously this maybe, But you.

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Speaker 10: For sure?

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Speaker 9: I never want to limit our team. We have the

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: We're all happy to see you back. You've been integrating

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Speaker 9: I'll make it back somewhere else, so I'm not too

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Speaker 6: A lot of the work that my team and our.

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Speaker 9: we obviously will be able to use that elsewhere, which

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Speaker 1: It's very generous.

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Speaker 6: Again.

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Speaker 9: It's one of those things where like coming from like

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Speaker 7: I'll play the sport for free.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, don't let Sam press to hear

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Speaker 2: Second of all, I was going to say you can

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Speaker 2: So good luck, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Conference finals or even more?

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Speaker 10: I think so.

450
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Speaker 11: I mean, we haven't seen everybody in the East yet,

451
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Speaker 11: so it's hard to say that and it's so early.

452
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Speaker 11: There's so many, you know, games left to play, and

453
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Speaker 11: so much that can happen.

454
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Speaker 10: But the scary part, or the good part for us.

455
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Speaker 11: I think because that we haven't been fully healthy once yet,

456
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Speaker 11: you know, so I think that that there's still a

457
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Speaker 11: lot more room for us to grow and a lot

458
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Speaker 11: more room for us to get better. Missing Fronds right now,

459
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Speaker 11: Who's been fantastic, you know, throughout this this whole entire season.

460
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Speaker 7: So whenever he's back, we'll welcome.

461
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Speaker 10: With open arms, but until then we'll hold it down

462
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Speaker 10: for him.

463
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Speaker 2: Well, we had a little bit of a new kind

464
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Speaker 2: of look at you in Orlando, Still the same Desmond

465
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Speaker 2: Bane who will not back down from a challenge. You

466
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Speaker 2: got smoke with a couple of different guys in this

467
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Speaker 2: league recently, and then the NBA Cup you got the Knicks.

468
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Speaker 2: I mean, what's the sort of deal with you guys

469
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Speaker 2: and sort of the energy.

470
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Speaker 1: Between you and OG and and and ob especially.

471
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's all love between me and O G.

472
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Speaker 1: But is it really Yeah, yeah it is.

473
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Speaker 11: We laughed about it shortly after, but yeah, we definitely

474
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Speaker 11: you know, their competition, you know, they're they're in the

475
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Speaker 11: way of what we're trying to do so we're we're

476
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Speaker 11: not taking them lightly.

477
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Speaker 7: That's for sure.

478
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Speaker 2: That toughness that you bring to a locker room, I

479
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Speaker 2: know that in addition to all the things you do

480
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Speaker 2: on the court.

481
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Speaker 1: That was one of the reasons they wanted you in there.

482
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Speaker 1: They wanted a guy.

483
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Speaker 2: Who was vet enough to like know the score of

484
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Speaker 2: what goes on around the league and so just you know,

485
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Speaker 2: give a little bit of flare to that locker room

486
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Speaker 2: because you got somewhat quiet guys in there.

487
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Speaker 1: Otherwise, how has that been? Has been fun for you

488
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Speaker 1: because they really want you to be yourself?

489
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Speaker 10: Yeah, nah, for sure.

490
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Speaker 11: I mean when they told me to be myself, I

491
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Speaker 11: was like, are you are you sure you know what

492
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Speaker 11: I'm saying? And they were like, yeah, like be yourself.

493
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Speaker 11: So but it's cool, like all the guys we got

494
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Speaker 11: such good relationships, and you know, everybody's so selfless, hungry

495
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Speaker 11: care about winning. So it's it's kind of been fun

496
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Speaker 11: to to integrate with them.

497
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Speaker 7: Guys.

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Speaker 1: I hope you know that.

499
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Speaker 2: When people are talking about possible Janis sent to Kompo Trades,

500
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Speaker 2: one of the sentences that keeps gets saying is like, well,

501
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Speaker 2: come on, no one's going to get as much these

502
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Speaker 2: days as they got for Desmond Bane. The days of

503
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Speaker 2: all those first round picks and the deal are over.

504
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Speaker 2: So I just want you know, be honest, you y

505
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Speaker 2: honest you.

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Speaker 11: I'm just saying, yeah, to know what I went for

507
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Speaker 11: is it's crazy, for sure, it's crazy.

508
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Speaker 1: Does it make you play in your feeling any different

509
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Speaker 1: or just same?

510
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Speaker 10: Over the summer?

511
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Speaker 11: It was like just like validation, you know, the kind

512
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Speaker 11: of like your contract and all those things.

513
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Speaker 7: That happen throughout the course of the NBA.

514
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Speaker 11: It's just validation that you're on the right path and

515
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Speaker 11: contributing the winning more than anything.

516
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Speaker 2: One of those Desmond Vein deals and don't come along

517
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Speaker 2: that often. Thank you, sir, Thank you.

518
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Speaker 1: And now let's hear from Tony Parker.

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Speaker 2: You said that you got inspired to play basketball watching

520
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Speaker 2: the Dream Team. Victor Webenyama says he got inspired to

521
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Speaker 2: play basketball watching you seeing the success of this Spurs

522
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Speaker 2: team and what Victor has been able to do.

523
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Speaker 1: We knew it was only a matter of time. But

524
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Speaker 1: he's doing it. He's already right there with the elite players.

525
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Speaker 12: He's doing it. And I was so you know, when

526
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Speaker 12: he played for my team in France. You know, we

527
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Speaker 12: want a French championship, you know, with Victor And when

528
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Speaker 12: he got drafted by the Spurs. The whole time he

529
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Speaker 12: was with my team in France, he never told me

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Speaker 12: that he had a picture with my jersey.

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Speaker 6: And when he got drafted by the Spurs, they showed

532
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Speaker 6: the photo, showed the photo, and I was like, this

533
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Speaker 6: guy is amazing.

534
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Speaker 12: He never told me, you never never said anything, never

535
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Speaker 12: showed me the picture.

536
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Speaker 6: It's amazing.

537
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Speaker 12: And so now I feel like it was destiny, you know,

538
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Speaker 12: for him to play with the Spurs and to play

539
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Speaker 12: at that level. He's amazing. I think he's going to

540
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Speaker 12: be the face of the league. And maybe two years

541
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Speaker 12: to three years.

542
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Speaker 1: Is going to take that long.

543
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Speaker 6: I'm just trying to be nice.

544
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Speaker 12: I think it's going to happen a lot faster and

545
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Speaker 12: he's going to be the best player in the NBA.

546
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Speaker 12: And so we're going to as Spurs fans, you know,

547
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Speaker 12: we're very lucky and I'm so happy, you know, to

548
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Speaker 12: have him with the Spurs and hopefully is going to

549
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Speaker 12: bring a lot of championships.

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Speaker 2: Now I think he will be one of the elite

551
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Speaker 2: players of all time because he has the work ethic,

552
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Speaker 2: he has the curiosity to expand his game, and he

553
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Speaker 2: obviously has all those physical skills. Where do you see

554
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Speaker 2: him ending up long term without you know, borrowing injury?

555
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Speaker 1: Knock on all.

556
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Speaker 12: What's a great question I was going to I was

557
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Speaker 12: going to say, let's take a side injury, because I

558
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Speaker 12: think that's the only thing that can stop him, you know,

559
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Speaker 12: his injury, because we have no example a guy that's

560
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Speaker 12: all you know, play that long, you know, so, But

561
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Speaker 12: at the end of the day, I think he's going

562
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Speaker 12: to finish, you know, with the MJS, Lebron, Tim Duncan

563
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Speaker 12: you know. I think it's going to be the only

564
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Speaker 12: thing for him is to win championships now because talent wise,

565
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Speaker 12: he's already compared to that level. Now you have to

566
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Speaker 12: bring the championships. That's good, that's how you get compared,

567
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Speaker 12: you know, in this league. You know, you got to

568
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Speaker 12: you gotta win rings.

569
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Speaker 1: What do you think of the team they're building around him?

570
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Speaker 6: I like it a lot. I like it a lot.

571
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Speaker 12: I love those quick guards, you know, with Castle and

572
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Speaker 12: Harper is unbelievable too, is fearless. I like that Fox

573
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Speaker 12: is clutch too. So now we have a lot of

574
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Speaker 12: great pieces, you know. So now it will take time,

575
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Speaker 12: you know, get some experience, and tomorrow is a great test,

576
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Speaker 12: you know, against the unbelievable OKAC team, So it's a

577
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Speaker 12: great opportunity to try to try to beat them.

578
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Speaker 2: Nineteen French players in the league this year, that's a record,

579
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Speaker 2: never been that many, and tim Usa almost lost, almost

580
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Speaker 2: dethroned by Team Frands in the Olympics.

581
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Speaker 9: Thank you to you think?

582
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Speaker 6: Thank you Steph.

583
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you have to say to him after?

584
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Speaker 3: No?

585
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Speaker 6: I was happy. It made me happy. When you have

586
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Speaker 6: big plays like that, you can only respect that, you

587
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 6: can only respect that.

588
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Speaker 1: Well, do you think the next Olympics do you think

589
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Speaker 1: that's the year for your team?

590
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Speaker 6: I think so.

591
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Speaker 12: I think twenty twenty eight can be a good one

592
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Speaker 12: for us. You know, it'd be no more Lebron, no

593
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Speaker 12: more stuff, no more KD you know.

594
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Speaker 6: So we're going to.

595
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Speaker 1: Have to wait them out.

596
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Speaker 12: Yeah, we we'll see, because the Uys they going to

597
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Speaker 12: come with a lot of talent too. So but France,

598
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Speaker 12: you know, nineteen players, like you said, as a record,

599
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Speaker 12: and we're on a great wave right now. Everything is

600
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Speaker 12: going positive for the French team. So if all those

601
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Speaker 12: guys you know they can have a role in their

602
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Speaker 12: team and play well and Victor being healthy. Yeah, I

603
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Speaker 12: like all chances in twenty twenty.

604
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Speaker 2: Eight and all inspired by Tony Parker congratulating.

605
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Speaker 6: Honor, Thank you, thank you, thank you.

606
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Speaker 2: Up next, Blake Griffin. The adjustment to the job you

607
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Speaker 2: have now with Amazon. It's tough because you have to

608
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Speaker 2: know when you're telling the truth that some times guys

609
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Speaker 2: don't want to hear out of your mouth, your friends,

610
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Speaker 2: and you know you got to do your job too.

611
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Speaker 2: You had a moment earlier this season when you're talking

612
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Speaker 2: about John Moran and you just laid it out there.

613
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Speaker 1: How hard is that for you to balance in your head?

614
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Speaker 7: Yeah?

615
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Speaker 13: I think early on I sort of made a conscious

616
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Speaker 13: effort to really like look at it from like a

617
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Speaker 13: true basketball perspective. We understand that people are going to misshots.

618
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Speaker 13: We understand that you're going to have bad days or

619
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Speaker 13: bad games. Lack of effort is always like one that

620
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Speaker 13: I think needs to be talked about. And I said it,

621
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Speaker 13: but I love watching Job Morant play, So it's almost

622
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Speaker 13: like selfishly you're saying like, come on, I want you

623
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Speaker 13: to this is what I want you to do, because

624
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Speaker 13: you can do things that nobody else can do, and

625
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Speaker 13: most importantly, I don't want to see guys waste it,

626
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Speaker 13: you know, Like I think, I think when I look

627
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Speaker 13: back at my career, I look back and I'm like, man,

628
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Speaker 13: I'm at least proud that, like I when I was

629
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Speaker 13: out there, like I gave as much as I possibly could.

630
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Speaker 13: You know, injuries or whatever, you know, things that are

631
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Speaker 13: out of your control happened, but you know, you try

632
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Speaker 13: to try to try to represent yourself in the best manner.

633
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Speaker 2: A lot of attention also, of course, on what you

634
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Speaker 2: said about Chris Paul when you were sitting there thinking

635
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Speaker 2: about Okay, I know I got to go on TV tonight.

636
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Speaker 1: I know I got to say something. What went through

637
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Speaker 1: your mind?

638
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Speaker 13: Or did you just speak from the I mean I

639
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 13: truly did just speak from the herd. I talked to

640
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Speaker 13: Chris and I said that I talked to people in

641
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Speaker 13: the Clippers organization too, But I think for me, you know,

642
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 13: you do have to separate your personal bias, and I

643
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Speaker 13: think for me, I said, it was just kind of disappointed,

644
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Speaker 13: you know, because Chris and I and even DeAndre like

645
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Speaker 13: we look at the Clippers as like an organization that

646
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Speaker 13: like that's sort of it's home, you know what I mean.

647
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Speaker 7: We spent the huge chunk.

648
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Speaker 13: Of our careers there and we are proud of you know,

649
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Speaker 13: I don't want to speak for them, but I'm very

650
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Speaker 13: proud of what we did, even though we weren't able to,

651
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 13: you know, win a championship. So you never want to

652
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Speaker 13: see a place that you consider sort of home. And

653
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Speaker 13: you know, I walk around l A and people come

654
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Speaker 13: up to me and they say they're Clipper fans, Like

655
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Speaker 13: it means a lot to me, you know, I feel

656
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Speaker 13: like I feel I feel a closen sort of connection

657
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Speaker 13: to Clipper fans. So it's disappointing, you know. I felt

658
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Speaker 13: like a I felt like a.

659
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Speaker 6: Parent, you know, like, hey, I'm not so much mad,

660
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Speaker 6: just disappointed.

661
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Speaker 1: I said, he hit him with you.

662
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Speaker 6: I'm not bad.

663
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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed.

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Speaker 13: It's literally how I felt. It was like, yeah, it

665
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Speaker 13: was just disappointed.

666
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Speaker 2: Well, the fact that you're able to speak your mind,

667
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Speaker 2: I think has has gotten a lot of people excited

668
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Speaker 2: about your Amazon Prime stints.

669
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Speaker 1: So congratulations.

670
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Speaker 2: Up next Spurs All Star guard dearon Fox, your team.

671
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: Hasn't been your team yet. I think injuries. If this

672
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: guy's gone out, this guy's gone out. You were out

673
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: for a while, But how do you feel like the

674
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: chemistry is shaping up for this year?

675
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's going well.

676
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 14: I think the past you know, week or so, since

677
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 14: we've gotten Stepp back, it's continuing to build. And you know,

678
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 14: we want some games.

679
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 7: So it's always easy.

680
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: You want some game, I want we want some game.

681
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 14: It's easy to build chemistry, especially when you winning games.

682
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,479
Speaker 14: But obviously we're going to be excited to have back.

683
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, there is a feeling of like, oh, this

684
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 2: team has to take baby steps. You know, they haven't

685
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: want to play round at the playoffs yet they haven't

686
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 2: all that.

687
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,679
Speaker 1: It feels like y'all are fast forwarding past that.

688
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 2: You guys are being named as, oh, this is a

689
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 2: team that could be in the conference finals or who

690
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 2: knows what else.

691
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Speaker 14: I mean, we have we have so much talent in

692
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 14: that locker room. Yeah, we have a lot of guys

693
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 14: who are young. But you have a talented group, you

694
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 14: kind of it's easier to go through those growing pains

695
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 14: when you're still winning some games.

696
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 7: So obviously we don't.

697
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 14: Feel like like we're just gonna, you know, go into

698
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 14: every game and just cake walk and win. But we

699
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 14: know that we have the talent to do so. And

700
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 14: whenever we're executing and we're you know, sticking to whatever

701
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 14: our game plan is, and we go out there and

702
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 14: we play to the best of our abilities as individuals

703
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 14: and as a team, we know that we always give

704
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 14: ourselves a chance to win.

705
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I'm around basketball for multiple decades

706
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 2: and I have never seen anyone like Victor. For you,

707
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 2: you see him in so many more situations than we

708
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: do in the general public. What's the craziest thing you've

709
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 2: seen him do in a practice or just that no

710
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: one else has seen?

711
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 14: Just one practice, he like jumps out of pump, fake

712
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 14: turns around, still blocks it, gets it comes down.

713
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 5: Shoot to pull up through like it's and it doesn't.

714
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 7: Obviously we see it.

715
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 14: A lot of a lot, a lot of days, a

716
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 14: lot of practices, but it's it'll never be normal to

717
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 14: see the things that he does. And like just the

718
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 14: god giving gifts that he was given, he takes advantage

719
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 14: of it. But he works so hard, Like he doesn't

720
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 14: just wake up every day and like I can do

721
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 14: this and I just do it. Like he wakes up

722
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 14: every day and he still works on his craft he

723
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 14: wants to be as perfect as possible.

724
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: No, I mean he's like on monk wellness retreats, he's

725
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 2: playing chess in the park.

726
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 14: I like came in Facillity in the summer and he

727
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 14: was like, yeah, I'm about to go to China. I'm like,

728
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 14: we're going to China for its like we're gonna work

729
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 14: with He's gonna work out.

730
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 8: With some monks.

731
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, did you think he was serious?

732
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 7: Yes?

733
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 14: I thought he was serious because it came from him.

734
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, I knew he was serious.

735
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 14: But and then you start seeing like the pick because

736
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 14: he didn't send us pictures, but you start seeing pictures onlines,

737
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 14: Like I thought he was serious. But like even even

738
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 14: when you see it, it's like, wow, he really did

739
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 14: go do that, So I actually, yeah, it's it's wild.

740
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 14: But like you, like, he takes every even like obviously

741
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 14: with the blood clots last year, like he he takes

742
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 14: obviously basketball seriously. But he really appreciates life. And I

743
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 14: think that more so was the reason that he did

744
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 14: it outside of like just.

745
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 7: For a basketball reason.

746
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 14: I think he just he really Appreh's life, and I

747
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 14: think that's why he wants to go through you know,

748
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 14: the journeys that he did.

749
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: You so pointedly wanted to go to this team. This

750
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 2: was the team that you wanted to be in. Was

751
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: it because you envisioned kind of what started unfolding here?

752
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean obviously playing against that the team last

753
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 14: year and it's kind of seeing how things.

754
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 7: Could play out.

755
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 14: I felt like I could come here and help this

756
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 14: team kind of, you.

757
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: Know, I mean I was saying, I was like, if

758
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 2: I was a guard for I would be like I'd

759
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: like to be there.

760
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: I'd like to be there. I'd like to be with

761
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: that guy.

762
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, Like and that's what it was. I saw

763
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 14: what they were building. I felt like I could help

764
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 14: push that forward. So you know, things got done.

765
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: And leadership wise, I mean, you've such a great voice

766
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 2: in the locker room. Everyone is talking of just about

767
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 2: how you've because you're the right age, right, You're they

768
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 2: understand someone your age is supposed to someone really old

769
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 2: like myself.

770
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Speaker 14: I'm not like super UK or anything, and like I'm

771
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 14: still at the point where I have the ability to.

772
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 7: Do these things.

773
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: So but you but you've been there, You've been Yeah.

774
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, and and and that's that's I think the

775
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 14: great thing about our group. Like, like I said, we

776
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 14: have so much talent, we have youth, but guys are

777
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 14: willing to listen, guys are willing to learn, and I

778
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 14: think that's what makes us such a special group.

779
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 2: All right, well, thanks uncle to be Darren Fox, thank

780
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: you super coming up, Josh Hart.

781
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: Before we get into any basketball.

782
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: Questions, I have to ask something way more important. Does

783
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson have permission to babysit your children?

784
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: Because it certainly looked like that on the bench the

785
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: other day.

786
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, hell no, that was out of a dire necessity.

787
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 5: You know, obviously if you could probably figure out, I

788
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 5: didn't think I was going into the game, but nineteen

789
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 5: seconds stuft, we were, we were I think up six

790
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 5: Uh you know they they started coming back.

791
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: So just shove that kid into his lap.

792
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 10: Yeah.

793
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 5: I felt bad when I saw it. It was kind of

794
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 5: you know, it's funny. I saw Mitch's reaction, my little

795
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 5: man probably flying around. Yeah, man, mate, all player in

796
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 5: the next year, I don't bring bring them to the

797
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 5: bench and tell y'all like twenty or something.

798
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: I mean, you had more trustworthy teammates with young children.

799
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 2: I'm just saying older guys.

800
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, but no of them, none.

801
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: Of them get none of them get those.

802
00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's tough.

803
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 5: I don't maybe one or two, maybe maybe the ogs,

804
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 5: but not.

805
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: Og is really how I would say it, exactly all right,

806
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 2: tell me about how the team is rounding in the shape.

807
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 2: Obviously a little bit of adjustment getting used to a

808
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: new head coach. But it feels like by this point

809
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: you're getting into that second third of the season that

810
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: you'all are really hitting your strength.

811
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, obviously it takes you.

812
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 7: You know, it takes you a while.

813
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 5: And you know, the thing I learned about being in

814
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 5: this league obviously is my ninth year. You know, it

815
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 5: takes a minute. And you know, sometimes the first ten

816
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 5: to fifteen games isn't I would say, it doesn't fully

817
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 5: give you the scope up what a team is or

818
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 5: what they're going to be. So, you know, we knew

819
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 5: we had to make sure we stayed the course. You know,

820
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 5: believe in each other. And I'll just go out there

821
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 5: and hoop.

822
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 2: You guys are on fire as a starting five with

823
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: you in the lineup, I believe you guys are eight

824
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: and one best net rating in the league as that's

825
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: starting five.

826
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: What's working so well? Right now.

827
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 5: I just think we have guys that can do a

828
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 5: little bit of everything. Guys that can knockdown shots, facilitate,

829
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 5: get the room, obviously defend, but think we've been defending

830
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 5: at a really high level and being able to push

831
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 5: it and get out of transition. So, you know, much

832
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 5: love to all those guys, and you know you got

833
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 5: to keep building, all right.

834
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: Michael Bridge is playing the way we always knew that

835
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: he could. How would you describe him? Since you know

836
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: him so well, is he still a little bit iffy

837
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: in your mind?

838
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 10: Ers?

839
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: He's done?

840
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 6: No, he's all Star.

841
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 7: That's how I described it.

842
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: You're gonna give me a fun little no.

843
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 6: No, No, he's an all Star.

844
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 5: He's playing at the level both sides of the ball.

845
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 5: Obviously offensively knocking out shots, shooting a good percentage, defensively

846
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 5: taking the challenge being our point of a tech defender.

847
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 7: Yeah.

848
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 5: So the only thing I could really say to describe

849
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 5: him as all Star.

850
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, appreciate all right.

851
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: Thanks, sayin's one of the most plugged in men in

852
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: the universe. To what is going on in the NBA.

853
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: You've been on top of so many stories lately, But

854
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: I want to ask you a little bit about the

855
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: hottest one.

856
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: Do you think Janna sent to Koopo will still be

857
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: with the Bucks after the trade deadline?

858
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 15: That's really tough, tough question, so being the fact that

859
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 15: he's out for up to a month, right, So, I

860
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 15: want to see how the Bucks are going to handle

861
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 15: that period without him. Right had a nice win yesterday

862
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 15: against the Boston Celtics. Can they sustain that? Because ultimately,

863
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 15: if they falter throughout this period, I can see a situation,

864
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 15: you know, when Giannis comes back where it might be

865
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 15: best for both sides to move on in part ways.

866
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 15: But with that being said, I think the best way

867
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 15: that I can answer that right now is that it

868
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 15: would be very telling on how the Bucks fare during

869
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 15: this portion without them.

870
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: You've reported that you know he had an interest in

871
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: New York at one point. Do you think that he

872
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: still has that strong interest in the Knicks if he

873
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: decides to.

874
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: Go somewhere else.

875
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 15: I think the Knicks have interests in the honest I

876
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 15: think I asked.

877
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 10: I'm gonna get to it. I'm gonna get to it.

878
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 10: I think the Nicks has strong interest.

879
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I know all the tricks.

880
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think the buying meat. I mean, he have

881
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 15: interests in Jannis, the Golden State. Wards have had interests

882
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 15: for Janni's for a long time, San Antonio Spurs. The

883
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 15: list will go on on Minnesota Timberwolves, and so ultimately

884
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 15: I think for Giannis, wherever he lands, I think preferably

885
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 15: it will you know, I think he would like to

886
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 15: have some son. He'll like to be probably in a

887
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 15: in a big market. Outside of that, he just wants

888
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 15: to be on a team where he could compete for

889
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 15: a content, for a championship. He's been very adamant about

890
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 15: that being a main priority for him the duration.

891
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 7: Of his career.

892
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 2: Do you think though he is going to say my

893
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Speaker 2: first choice is to go to the next or you're

894
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: not hearing that he's going to be that vocal about things.

895
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Speaker 15: It's hard to say that now because like if you

896
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 15: would ask me this this summer, I wouldn't say yeah.

897
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 10: I think he would have said the Knicks will probably

898
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 10: be his first option.

899
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 15: But as of right now, you can't really dictate to

900
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 15: the next you know, in season right now, so that

901
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 15: makes it more complicated. But you know, I think when

902
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 15: it gets to that point, because he still has not

903
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 15: officially asked for a trade. There's been numerous conversations that

904
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 15: they've had or his representatis I've had, and they've been

905
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 15: talking about Okay, now, what if such, if this keeps

906
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 15: playing out this way, what's gonna happen?

907
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 10: What are you going to do?

908
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 15: So, you know, I talked to him last week and

909
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 15: he told me, he said, I can't control what the

910
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 15: front office is doing. My main focus is to get

911
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 15: back on the court. That if I'm with the Bucks, I'm.

912
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 10: With the Bucks.

913
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 7: He said.

914
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 15: If the front office decides to do something else, I'll

915
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 15: worry about then.

916
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: All Right, you're also been super plugged in on Chris Paul.

917
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: You spoke to Chris Paul. I think you're the only

918
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: one I've heard of who had a real conversation with

919
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 2: him about what was going on. How sort of just

920
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: still dazed is he? And what do you think his

921
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 2: next move.

922
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: Is going to be?

923
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 15: Yeah, your first question. You know, he's still shocked about

924
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 15: how everything went down. You know, he felt like there

925
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 15: were people in the organization that he called friends, and

926
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 15: at the end of the day, he doesn't felt like

927
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 15: they lived up to that label. Towards the end of

928
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 15: his tenure there with the Clippers so very much. Still

929
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 15: is shocking all but he's working out every day. He's

930
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 15: working out every day. You know, when I call him,

931
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 15: he's in the weight room or he's you know, he's

932
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 15: at his court on playing with his son, and so

933
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 15: he's you know, they have been payingful of teams that

934
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 15: have reached out and want to see what he's trying

935
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 15: to do.

936
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Speaker 10: So he'll have some options. He'll have some options.

937
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 15: Now the last question was the last question he said,

938
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 15: you know, at the end of the day, when it

939
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 15: comes to Chris Paul, I don't see him ending it

940
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 15: like that.

941
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 10: I don't see him going out like that.

942
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,919
Speaker 15: I do expect him to return at some point during

943
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 15: the season and finish out his NBA career the right way.

944
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Where would you like to see him?

945
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 15: I personally like to see him Okay, see I personally

946
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 15: like to see him in New Orleans.

947
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 10: You know, those are teams he's had ties with.

948
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: At least there would be some emotional ties still for

949
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: that last.

950
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 10: Year's tour of emotional ties.

951
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 15: And you know, some people say the Phoenix Sons, but

952
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 15: I looked at the Sun's schedule.

953
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 10: They don't go back to the Clippers.

954
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: You need a team to play the Clippers.

955
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 15: Again, that's what you need at their place, you know,

956
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 15: to it though, So I think New Orleans passes that test.

957
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 10: Okay, see passes that test.

958
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 15: So again it's going to be up to him, you know,

959
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 15: and win too, you know, so he'll he'll he'll have

960
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 15: a shot.

961
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Speaker 6: All right.

962
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 2: There are some media hoops games that goes on at

963
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: events like the NBA Cup, like the NBA Finals, you

964
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Speaker 2: always seem to farewell.

965
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: I want to know who your NBA media.

966
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Speaker 2: Is starting five is. We've got Tim McMahon over there.

967
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: I know he plays a lot. What do you got

968
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Speaker 2: who's your starting five?

969
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 10: Why did you mention Tim as if I'm going to

970
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 10: mention him in.

971
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Speaker 1: My starting I know that he's usually in those games.

972
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Speaker 2: There's some pretty serious media games that I do not

973
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Speaker 2: play in because I am a smart person.

974
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Speaker 1: But I want to know who you're starting five is.

975
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: The media members. They don't have to be here in this.

976
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Speaker 15: Book, okay, all right, we're talking about currently or in

977
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 15: their prime whenever you know when they were able to

978
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 15: go in the prime. In the prime, okay, myself first

979
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Speaker 15: and foremost, Mark Spears in their prime.

980
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 10: I didn't get to see Chris Bussar, but they said, Chris,

981
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 10: you could do it.

982
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 15: Yeah, Casey out there in Chicago, I heard the hoop again.

983
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 10: That's a different eraror that's not my era.

984
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: Kcy Johnson covers the Chicago Bulls.

985
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's four in my fifth. I'm gonna exclude a

986
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Speaker 10: lot of people.

987
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 15: People probably gonna be pissed at me, but I need

988
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 15: a shootter he I'm gonna penetrator.

989
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 10: I like the fine guys open. I'm gonna go with

990
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 10: Damon menimom oh.

991
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. Give him a loaf to tape.

992
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 1: I like that. All right, your old running mate, all.

993
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 10: Right, and Rachel six six man, six women.

994
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 1: Equipment manager, something like that. I'm five foot four.

995
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 10: It don't matter.

996
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Speaker 1: It does matter. I promise you I have tried to

997
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't matter.

998
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 10: Dave's not posting you up. I guarantee you that is true.

999
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Speaker 1: But some of the other folks you mentioned, thank you, Kritain.

1000
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Speaker 10: It's all Rachel