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Speaker 1: Fire for Tuesday, June twenty seventh. Yes, it was an

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Speaker 1: interesting Monday, not necessarily in sports. I'll just say in

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Speaker 1: my social media feeds, given the podcast about Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: what Kevin Durant ended up spending Monday sending me some

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Speaker 1: angry DMS from I guess he's in Jamaica shooting with

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker and Jim's and hanging out and having fun

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Speaker 1: and living the good life. I'll share a couple of

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Speaker 1: those notes later, obviously not all of them, because I

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Speaker 1: don't want to lose the trust of Kevin Durant, not

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Speaker 1: that I have. It also possibly one of the best

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Speaker 1: rapper NBA commentaries I've ever heard on the NBA. There's

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Speaker 1: the big news in sports on Monday. The big news,

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Speaker 1: of course, being that Damian Lillard seems to be realizing

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Speaker 1: to talk about the future. What that means, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: But what we do know is Chris Haynes, who is

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Speaker 1: He is close with Damian Lillard dating back a few

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Speaker 1: years now. Chris Haynes came out and said, and here's

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Speaker 1: the actual exact language, just so we're clear for everybody

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Speaker 1: that day, Amian Lillard does not want to be on

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Speaker 1: a team where there's just three all stars or three superstars.

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Speaker 1: He wants a team that has a shot. What does

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Speaker 1: run in the playoffs. That's the best run in NBA

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Speaker 1: But I just wish Damian Lillard would understand you can't

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Speaker 1: athletes in sports, Patrick Ewing, Magic, Johnson stayed his magic

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Speaker 1: it's Steph Curry. I don't like the Chris Paul move

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be great next year. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: So that doesn't mean I don't like the Warriors. I

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Speaker 1: we got much larger problems than I know society. These

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Speaker 1: this malaise. This is a disaster. It's awful. Like, do

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Speaker 1: you guys understand that. I hope we can agree. I

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Speaker 1: off at whatever, and call him out when they'd see

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Speaker 1: fit it happened. You guys could say the same thing

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Speaker 1: about me. Jay. I loved your take about USA Jamaica.

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Speaker 1: But man, you are so wrong about Christian Polistic being

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Speaker 1: And yes, a lot of you came at me and

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Speaker 1: said that, I get it, made some good points, So

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Speaker 1: bottom line, I still like it. Kevin Durant, even though

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Speaker 1: he's calling me all these names, he's hurt. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'll live with it. Life will go on, you know, So,

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Speaker 1: I guess the moral of the story here is whether

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Speaker 1: you're Damian Lillard Kevin Durant. Can I throw camera on

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Speaker 1: in there? Thank you for making the NBA so so

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Speaker 1: exciting in late June as we had inner free agency.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all of you. Talk to you guys tomorrow,