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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I find out that one, that one was

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Speaker 3: So we structured the contract basically like I'm getting traded.

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Speaker 3: So did my shooting time? Did our meeting? I go

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Speaker 1: When when you're a team broadcaster, obviously you establish relationships

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Speaker 1: you're going to get, uh, you know, Carl is just

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Speaker 4: How has the teams first hat like performance in the

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Speaker 1: I actually think it's it's it was better than I thought.

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Speaker 1: I think I thought there was going to be more

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Speaker 1: take a while. Again with Michael's even though you guys

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Speaker 1: And that's why you have to be patients. There's no

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Speaker 1: when you win nine in a row. Okay, what time

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Speaker 1: do you think the championship Parade's going to be that

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Speaker 1: I obviously I knew how good Karl Anthony Towns was.

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Speaker 1: He does more things than I thought, Like, he's not

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Speaker 1: He didn't have to do it last couple of years

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Speaker 2: He should he should have had a triple double.

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Speaker 3: That's what I We just wanted to just go out

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