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Speaker 1: Straight Fire? Fam? It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for

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Speaker 1: Friday June, and I'm gonna start a little bit upset

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Speaker 1: because damn you, Kyrie Irving. You gotta take over and

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Speaker 1: control the narrative on the NBA on the night of

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Speaker 1: the draft, all these guys getting drafted. You know, I

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Speaker 1: college ups I do the mock draft for Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: I did an entire mock draft on this podcast yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And what does Kyrie Irving have to do? He's got

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Speaker 1: to push all his chips in the middle and say,

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Speaker 1: call my bluff, I'm out of here, Brooklyn and become

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Speaker 1: the big story over the NBA draft. A little frustrating, obviously,

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Speaker 1: there was chaos and drama at the top of the draft.

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Speaker 1: The Orlando Magic folks do not have an official meeting

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Speaker 1: with Paulo Bank Carroll, do not bring him in for

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Speaker 1: tells him be ready for anything. And then the first

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Speaker 1: pick is Paolo bank Cara. Now I I listen. I

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Speaker 1: was all in thinking it was Jabari Smith. All signs

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Speaker 1: you don't work him out, and you still draft him.

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Speaker 1: So that was a stunner at the top of the draft.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately these guys and by the way, I'm not

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Speaker 1: of all, this is crazy, Rob. I I just naturally

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Speaker 1: Billis is there with this with Perk and this and

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Speaker 1: and like an hour in, I was gonna text this guy, wait,

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Speaker 1: night of the draft and ESPN doesn't even have him. Geez,

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Speaker 1: that's weird. But I'm like doing other stuff on eating dinner,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like what And I turned to ABC, Rob,

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Speaker 1: and it's Jalen Rose and Stephen A. Smith yelling about

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Speaker 1: the Knicks, Rob, were you aware this was gonna be

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Speaker 1: on ABC? I know you were in the studio yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but did you know this? I had no idea, zero

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Speaker 1: I don't even know who they fully had on ABC.

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Speaker 1: I only watched this Knick segment, steven A Scrist screaming,

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Speaker 1: any rate, Kyrie Irving sidetracked all of it, and folks,

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Speaker 1: I put this out there on social media late on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Rob is the mid level six or ten this coming year?

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Speaker 1: It depends which one you have, the taxpayer, which is

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Speaker 1: you foresee a guy who's always injured playing for ten

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Speaker 1: mid level, no freaking shot call his bluff nets and Rob,

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Speaker 1: I know you're with me at this point. I went

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Speaker 1: you're in with Lebron's crew. I refuse to believe that.

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Speaker 1: I think, if anything, and this is sinister, Lebron is

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are in the business of get the star

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Speaker 1: time out. That that's very fair, But Rob, that usually

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Speaker 1: you need to to tango. The Nets have to agree

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Speaker 1: So just send Anthony Davis our way and we'll call

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Speaker 1: it a day. And are the Lakers doing that? Now?

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Speaker 1: Are they robbed? Okay? So if they say said, you're

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Speaker 1: do that? Okay? First of all, the Nets gave up

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Speaker 1: Right in those trades, they basically all their future picks

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Speaker 1: Why would you not do that? I would. I would

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Speaker 1: Nets have no position. They're not in a good position

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Speaker 1: trade rob at all. Right, So I'm asking for the

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, Kevin Durant, Joe Harris, Seth Curry. I don't

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Joe Sigh, who is the owner

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Speaker 1: you know people do that. Let me read you a

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Speaker 1: to get back to Nets basketball. Does that sound like

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Speaker 1: But folks, there is a very decent chance, Rob, that

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Speaker 1: that Bucks pick is like, I don't know, in the

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Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty three range, as opposed to like thirty.

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Speaker 1: Did I just saw you on it or no? It's two,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, sure, if you really didn't like

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Speaker 1: anybody in this draft class and you think it makes

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Speaker 1: more sense to have more picks later. Sure, So that

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Speaker 1: that's one, But Rob, the other two, it's still unclear

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Speaker 1: what teams they're from. Well, I saw Bobby Marks tweet

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Speaker 1: out again. I don't know if he even he knows this,

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Speaker 1: but he see this. How you know that it's it's

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Speaker 1: wonky Because Zach Low reported that it was a Bucks pick,

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Speaker 1: Bobby Marks reported that it's a Washington, a Denver, and

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Speaker 1: a Detroit pick. So it seems like as of this

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Speaker 1: morning when we're doing this podcast, people still don't know

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Speaker 1: what's going on. I mean, if you saw when that

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Speaker 1: trade first went down, you had Woe to tweet out

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Speaker 1: that it was Jalendring getting traded to the Pistons, and

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Speaker 1: then thirty seconds later Shahs were ports Jalen During getting

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Speaker 1: traded to the Knicks, and somehow they both end up

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Speaker 1: being right because the way it gets explained later on

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Speaker 1: as the night went on, was the During gets sent

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Speaker 1: to the Knicks, who then turned him and flip him

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Speaker 1: to Detroit. So it seems like this is one of

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Speaker 1: those trades where you're not going to get the full

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Speaker 1: details probably until later this afternoon, because there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: so many moving parts. But going back to your Knicks,

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Speaker 1: one thing I just didn't understand is, and maybe you

449
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Speaker 1: got me with this one, if you don't like guys

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Speaker 1: in the draft, cool whatever, you know. I understand punting

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Speaker 1: for the next season. But from what everything that I've

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Speaker 1: read and heard is that this was a decent draft class,

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Speaker 1: very deep. There's a lot of of of value and

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Speaker 1: even from like ten to forty a lot of decent players.

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Speaker 1: They decided instead they want picks for the future, but

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Speaker 1: more specifically, they're doing this so they can clear out

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Speaker 1: cap space for Jalen Brenson. Well, I think I really

458
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, That's that's what your big plan is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it feels a little shaky, this Brunson stuff. It is

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Speaker 1: so out there that when everybody's on it, it's like,

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Speaker 1: is it possible that it is true? And I know

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Speaker 1: the Nicks hired his dad as an assistant coach and

463
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: the CIA connections blah blah blah, obvious disclosure. I'm represented

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Speaker 1: by CIA as well. I have not asked them about

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson and the Knicks. But to go back to

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Speaker 1: your Bobby Marks point, So if it's a if it's

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Speaker 1: not a Milwaukee pick and it's a Washington Denver in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: and there's obviously protections on them, like huh, Like Washington

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Speaker 1: is never gonna be good, Denver should be good. Detroit

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Speaker 1: will see people were gushy about their draft. But if

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Speaker 1: they're protected anyway, like what are they? Are they even value?

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Speaker 1: Do they become second round picks? So is Dallas going

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Speaker 1: to be interested in that? For Brunson? And do you

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Speaker 1: even need that because can't you just pay him? I

475
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Speaker 1: think personally, the Knicks are stuck piling everything they can

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Speaker 1: to go after Donovan Mitchell. That would be a big fish,

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Speaker 1: like clearing up cap room for Brunson. Sure, that's great,

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Speaker 1: eighteen million. Sure, I think you can get twenty from Dallas. Right,

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Speaker 1: Dallas is not gonna lose him for nothing. But if

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Speaker 1: I'm the Knicks, my target is Donovan Mitchell. I am

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Speaker 1: trying to make them a sweetheart offer. I do everything

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Speaker 1: I could do, not part with R. J. Barrett. I

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Speaker 1: could say, listen, Julius Randall, four first round picks. Would

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Speaker 1: you think that would do it for Donovan Mitchell? You

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Speaker 1: know what? I would say, six first round picks, Like,

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Speaker 1: come on, look at it this way. You cannot especially

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Speaker 1: let's say that they all convey in a year or two.

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Speaker 1: There is no good reason for any team unless you're

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, where you know that you cannot get a

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Speaker 1: single free agent, so you just want to have a

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Speaker 1: million picks. What's the difference between trading those three first

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Speaker 1: rounders and three pick swaps of your own? How is

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Speaker 1: that different than the the Clippers saying we're gonna send

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Speaker 1: you four first rounders and three pick swaps, or the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nicks holding that was Kauai, right, Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: the Kawai and Paul Georgia why Leonard bro he understand times,

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Speaker 1: but like, how is it different? Because you already you

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Speaker 1: turned one first into three, so it's basically like you're

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Speaker 1: only trading that one pick. You're trading one pick and

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Speaker 1: a few pick swaps. And you're saying the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: not giving up that much because no, no, I'm saying that.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, why wouldn't you if you already turned one

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Speaker 1: into three? What's the harm and adding two more than

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Speaker 1: it's basically you're only giving up three total first round

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Speaker 1: picks because but then well that that the problem with

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Speaker 1: just giving away so many is what if you've got

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Speaker 1: a disgruntled star who wants to get to New York

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Speaker 1: and wants to play with Donovan Mitchell, then you've got

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Speaker 1: no assets. I mean, I'll be clear. I thought Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell was incredible and he's had some good, good seasons

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Speaker 1: in Utah. Rob this may shock you. He's never been

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Speaker 1: all NBA. He's talk that's it. Like Drew Holiday had

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Speaker 1: a slightly less resume and I think he fetched two,

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Speaker 1: so I think three ones and Julius Randall, I mean

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Speaker 1: I would go, I would I'm desperate on the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: I'll go four ones and Julius Randall or Mitchell Robinson,

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Speaker 1: whatever whoever you want. That's not R J. Barrett, And

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Speaker 1: I get Donovan Mitchell because I mean, I think Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell would be a bigger target than than Jalen Brunson, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about that. But Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brunson is simply a cash deal. We can just pay

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Speaker 1: you whatever the MAVs don't, but the MAVs should be

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Speaker 1: able to match it. I don't know I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: interesting Nicks. At least we're moderately interesting at the draft,

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Speaker 1: not you know, clearly stockpiling picks for something else. Fox

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Speaker 1: of you, rob as as kind of a shocker? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Knicks one to me was the biggest

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Speaker 1: one because I didn't understand that Jalen Brenton love. And

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Speaker 1: the other one to me, which is one day again

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Speaker 1: you said that you really liked was the Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 1: not because of you know whatever that I like Chad Holmegren.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be great, but I can't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think if this was five years ago, three years ago,

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Speaker 1: two years ago, that I would ever see two West

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Speaker 1: Coast Conference players drafted in the lottery and they end

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Speaker 1: up on the same team. Like, is Sam Presty just

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Speaker 1: smarter than everybody else? Wait a minute, Sam Presty, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you brought that guy up. Rob. He gets more

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Speaker 1: love from reporters just because the guy responds to text messages.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what does Sam Presty ever won? Tell me

545
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Speaker 1: what does he want? He took one ok S team

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Speaker 1: to the finals, he could not keep Kevin Durant, he

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00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: traded James Harden the I don't know when the last

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Speaker 1: time they want a playoff series was, and somehow he's

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Speaker 1: hailed is this amazing guy? Rob? Are you drinking the

550
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Speaker 1: Sam Presty kool aid? No? No, But it's just like,

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Speaker 1: I just thought that was interesting because can you imagine

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three if I said there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be two guys from the West Coast Conference both going

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Speaker 1: lottery and the team that takes him as the same team,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be universally praised. You just said five

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Speaker 1: minutes ago that you like groclombas that he did, So

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Like it just I never would

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Speaker 1: have expected something like that to happen, you know. I

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Speaker 1: guess it just shows that the way that college basketball

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Speaker 1: is changing now for for the T one listeners who

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Speaker 1: are die hard P one, I'm sorry, P one listeners

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Speaker 1: who are die hard fans. I gotta mention. I texted

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Speaker 1: a buddy who is very connected in Michigan State about

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Speaker 1: the Lakers pick of Max Christie and yeah, I saw

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Speaker 1: he was a McDonald's All American and he didn't do

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Speaker 1: much at Michigan State. What's the story behind the scenes?

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Speaker 1: Anybody can watch a YouTube tabe. What's he like? Great guy,

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00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: works his butt off, Jim rat confident, not cocky, He's

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Speaker 1: in love with the game and the grind. And listen

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have I mean you look at their last

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Speaker 1: like six picks, and they've been like absolute home runs.

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Speaker 1: Kuzma Austin reeves As. The reason wasn't even a pick,

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Speaker 1: really was he what? He was a drafted free agent?

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Speaker 1: Um and of course facing on the other guys, but

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Speaker 1: they Russo, Josh, thank you, Josh, get him back. Um So,

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Speaker 1: so Max Christie should be a win for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Now is he gonna play? Who knows? I mean if

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Speaker 1: they could trade him and get a star. You know

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Speaker 1: that Lebron is doing that in a heartbeat. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Listen. I love the draft. It did get

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Speaker 1: a little tedious there in the second round. I mean

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Speaker 1: this this is like a four hour production. I thought

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Speaker 1: the Warriors. By the way, I had a nice pick

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Speaker 1: with the kid Baldwin Jr. Obviously he was like a

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Speaker 1: top ten recruit coming out of high school. Huge for

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Speaker 1: what he went to play with his dad at college.

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00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: He got injured and like it just didn't click. But

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Speaker 1: between his length in the pedigree, like, I think it's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear he's going to be a good player for them.

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Speaker 1: Um now, Rob, we'll wrap up with this Kyrie Irving stuff.

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Speaker 1: So when does he is? I think it's like Wednesday

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Speaker 1: he has to make a decision or Thursday on if

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Speaker 1: he's opting in. Is that Wednesday? Okay, so early next

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00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: week we could have a lot of Kyrie Irving news

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Speaker 1: if he's opting in or out. Let's get our prediction

596
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Speaker 1: in now, is he opting in and gonna play on

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Speaker 1: a one year deal for thirty millions some huge number? Answers,

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Speaker 1: you think he's gonna opt out? No, I think either

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Speaker 1: he opts in so we can get traded somewhere, or

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Speaker 1: he opts out and re science for a big extension

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Speaker 1: with them. So you don't think he could resign for

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Speaker 1: like a one plus one or two plus one. No,

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Speaker 1: he could, but it's only be if he opts out

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Speaker 1: and gets more money from them. Mm hmm, because I

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Speaker 1: think if he opts out he can get like five

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Speaker 1: more million this season, then if he just opts into

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Speaker 1: the Now, I don't have the exact numbers, but I'm

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Speaker 1: almost certain that Chris Paul did something like this, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he well he did. He did both. Actually, he opted

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Speaker 1: in with the Clippers to facilitate a trade to Houston.

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Speaker 1: So that was a few years ago in the pet

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Speaker 1: Beev deal. And then when he got to Phoenix, and

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Speaker 1: this was before last season, he had one year I

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Speaker 1: think it was like forty five million left. He opted

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Speaker 1: out of that and resigned on a three year, hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars. Right, So, if I'm the Brooklyn Nets, I

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Speaker 1: would do some kind of two plus one. Now Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul's older, obviously, but I'm sorry, Kyrie, I need games

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Speaker 1: played in there. And my problem with that is I

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Speaker 1: in my head, I have this hurdle of Kyrie telling

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Speaker 1: the Calves trade me. If you don't, I will just

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00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: get surgery and on whatever and not play and Rob.

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Speaker 1: You know that if he doesn't get what he wants

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Speaker 1: and has to stay in Brooklyn, it's gonna be ugly

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Speaker 1: just because he's gonna be a He's a spiteful little prick.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry to be so aggressive against Kyrie, but

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Speaker 1: everything he's done in the last few years, it's just

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Speaker 1: not been How about to say this, it's not been nice.

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Speaker 1: He's just not a good dude. And I feel bad

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Speaker 1: for Kevin Durant that he's getting roped into this. And

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is now being forced to say, well, if

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Speaker 1: they don't give Kyrie what he wants, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna look for my way out. Bro, You're on the

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Speaker 1: hook for the next three years that like or four years.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? What? What? What? What's the

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Speaker 1: game playing? K D Like, at some point we got

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Speaker 1: you gotta draw a line in the sand. And I

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Speaker 1: will say this, when you get what is it? What's

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Speaker 1: the saying, Rob, when you lay with flee, when you

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Speaker 1: lay of dogs, you get fleas or something like that. Listen,

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Speaker 1: they got in bed with Kyrie Irving. I think in

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Speaker 1: hindsight that was a colossal mistake, But at the time

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Speaker 1: it's like, whoa Kyrie is bringing KD. We'll take it,

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Speaker 1: you know, And you could say he wasn't certifiably crazy,

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Speaker 1: but he had walked out on Lebron ended very ugly

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Speaker 1: with Tyler and they went to Boston and that ended

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: in spectacular fashion. And oh, by the way, what's going

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Speaker 1: on in Brooklyn? Oh yeah, it's ending really really ugly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Rob, how many more of these do you

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Speaker 1: need before it's obvious that he's the problem? Like, if

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Speaker 1: it goes to the Lakers, this would be an embarrassment,

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Speaker 1: just an ugly stain on the end of Lebron's legacy.

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Speaker 1: We know last season hurt right a D injured, Lakers

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Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. How ugly would it be if

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Speaker 1: Kyrie is like jerking around behind the scenes and it's

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Speaker 1: really messy and Lebron is just trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: finish up a historically great career and wait to play

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Speaker 1: with his son. And he's got to deal with the

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving nonsense. Do you think he needs that headache?

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Speaker 1: And Rob? You know he's not gonna just fall in

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Speaker 1: line of okay, and I know we're about to rap.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this one question on the way

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Speaker 1: out the door. What would be worse in your opinion,

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Speaker 1: last season with Russell Westbrook or let's say they get

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and this upcoming season with Kyrie Irving. I

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Speaker 1: would run it back with Russ overplay with Kyrie. But

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Speaker 1: you remember all of the vitriol, all of the memes,

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Speaker 1: the side of the backboard, video highlight tapes of Russell

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Speaker 1: Westbrook and him going to the sidelines when they you're

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Speaker 1: losing a game and he passed the guys on the head.

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Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I would have loved to help to you,

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Speaker 1: but I was on the bench, sorry, and making a

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Speaker 1: big old scene about it. Which one do you think

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Speaker 1: as the You already know what the baseline is for

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Speaker 1: Russ and what that was, how bad it was. Do

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Speaker 1: you think Kyrie could be worse? The devil, you know,

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Speaker 1: is better than the devil you don't. And I saw

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Speaker 1: how bad Russ was, and that was bad. They did

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Speaker 1: change a coach, maybe Russ except the six man roll.

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Speaker 1: Probably not, but maybe I don't know how bad it

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Speaker 1: could get with Kyrie Irving. I don't. I mean the

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Speaker 1: guy went a wall from the team, would not reply

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Speaker 1: to text messages like it was one thing with Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine in Los Angeles how that would play

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Speaker 1: out with Lebron and a D and Genie Buss. Do

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Speaker 1: you think Genie Buss is gonna get I read to

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Speaker 1: fall in line. Darvin Ham welcomed to the NBA as

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Speaker 1: a head coach Anthony David like this would be Listen,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have had some ugly lean years here before

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Speaker 1: Lebron showed up. They go right back to the desert

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Speaker 1: wandering around if Kyrie Irving comes to town. Now, I know,

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Speaker 1: I just went in hard and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: go into the weekend on a negative note, so I

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Speaker 1: will end on a positive note. Rob My Son her

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Speaker 1: from his buddy on the basketball team about Stranger Things,

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Speaker 1: And we just started the show two weeks ago. We

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Speaker 1: are flying through it. It is very good. We like

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Speaker 1: it a lot. It is just I highly recommend it.

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Speaker 1: We're only at the start off, I think season three,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm excited we got into it. It's

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Speaker 1: definitely a show for the family if you're if you

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Speaker 1: have a young daughter, maybe she's not gonna want to

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Speaker 1: watch it. Um, but my daughter's third grade friend watches it.

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Speaker 1: Of course she then tells us. But I was a

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Speaker 1: little scared, so I had to go to sleep with

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Speaker 1: my mom for a couple of days because it was

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Speaker 1: a little scary. So my daughter is not watching it,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of the wife and my son and

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Speaker 1: we're just loving it. So Stranger Things highly recommended. All right, Rob,

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Speaker 1: that was fun. We'll be back Monday surely to talk

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Speaker 1: about Kyrie Irving, maybe some nfl um. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the hell else we'll talk about, but we'll find out.

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Speaker 1: Then see that