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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight fire?

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Speaker 2: Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight fire for Friday, July

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Speaker 2: the fifth. Hope everybody had a fun safe July fourth.

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Speaker 2: Nobody pulled a Jason Pierre Paul. I shouldn't make light

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Speaker 2: of that, but fireworks are very dangerous and we are

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Speaker 2: recording this on the July fourth. We just taped the

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Speaker 2: Herd and I figured we'll go out and enjoy the

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Speaker 2: fireworks tonight, Rob, you and I chopping it up. We

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Speaker 2: haven't had a chance to chop it up lately. And

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Speaker 2: I know Robb g probably distraught over the Lakers the

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Speaker 2: exciting potential when Lebron said I'll take less than the

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Speaker 2: max and only to find out that all of his

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Speaker 2: I mentioned this on the Herd on Wednesday, like, is

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Speaker 2: this a shot at Lebron that nobody wants to play

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Speaker 2: play for the Lakers, don't think their title contender? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Rob Polenka's just inept the only one that jumps out

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Speaker 2: He's the clear number two behind Kawhi. And oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, Kawhi is going to miss half the season anyway,

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Speaker 2: So it's James Harden doing whatever the hell he wants. Oh,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get a turn back the clock. James Harden probably,

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Speaker 2: I guess I kind of sort of understand Clay. The

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Speaker 2: the Warriors who kind of screwed him over. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I thought your boy future Laker or Clay Town.

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Speaker 2: I thought he would pick the Lakers. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna get into the money aspect, but the four for

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Speaker 2: eighty sounds like a pipe dream. This idea that he

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Speaker 2: took less to go to the map is not totally

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Speaker 2: accurate because the Lakers had to clear cap space. The

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Speaker 2: one that is mystifying is Jonas Valancunis. Maybe he sees

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Speaker 2: the payday's dwindling. But to take money from Washington a

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Speaker 2: tanking team, what do you want to put up hollow

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Speaker 2: stats in Washington? Really? And I get you gotta get paid.

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Speaker 2: You gotta feed your family, got to accumulate the generational wealth.

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Speaker 2: But the Lakers rob really could have used him when

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Speaker 2: it came to the Nuggets. If they match up with

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Speaker 2: the playoffs next season, I probably a reach. But anywhere

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Speaker 2: I just I'm not sure what the heart on was

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Speaker 2: roundabout way of saying, Max Christy is the one signing

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Speaker 2: the Lakers have as we record this, and that's got

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Speaker 2: to be a little depressing for you know.

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Speaker 3: Not really, I mean, because on one hand, I cannot say,

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Speaker 3: like if Darvin Ham is even a mediocre, middle of

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Speaker 3: and why are we not doing anything to add to it?

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Speaker 3: So it can't be both. And I firmly believe that

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Speaker 3: the roster, even as constructed, even with some holes that

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Speaker 4: And we'll get to it in a little bit because

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Speaker 2: Something you said, the word compete. Yes, so they won

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Speaker 2: forty seven games last year. They're bringing back basically the

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Speaker 3: The difference is is that what you're gonna see I

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Speaker 3: But if all teams are healthy, the only one as

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Speaker 3: what they okay see did with Hartenstein, but that's not

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Speaker 3: You know, they got Klay Thompson, they got future Laker

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Speaker 3: And we talked about it all during the postseason that

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna come down to matchups to me, in

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Speaker 2: You know, I aired on something I said earlier. I

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Speaker 2: forgot about Brownie James Junior. Rob Did you see somebody

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Speaker 2: did a breakdown of the last three guys who were

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Speaker 2: when he was fifty fifth player overall. Then in twenty

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, seven point nine million dollars with

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Speaker 2: four point four million guaranteed. I haven't looked rob but

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Speaker 2: I would not be shocked if the four point four

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Speaker 2: Give him the money. It's Lebron's kid. Lebron's earned this.

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Speaker 2: But I forgot about Bronnie James. I'm just curious, though.

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Speaker 2: Do you see him actually contributing in the rotation next year?

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Speaker 4: Of course, not, no way, not at all. He's not ready.

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Speaker 3: He's got some skills that you can develop. He's very athletic,

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Speaker 3: you know. All the scouts say that he plays the

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Speaker 3: wrong for the Lakers, I do not see Bronnie James

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Speaker 3: And as far as the contract that he got, I

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Speaker 4: It's Bronie games, So I get it.

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Speaker 3: But last year's number fifty eight overall pick, who was

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Speaker 3: he got himself a nice little four year, seven point

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Speaker 3: bothers to look it up. So when they see Bronnie

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Speaker 3: James got a four year contract with the Lakers, it's

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Speaker 3: like the worst thing you could possibly imagine, even though

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Speaker 3: this kind of stuff happens all the time, but no

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Speaker 3: one can ericase that's a fifty six, fifty seven to

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Speaker 2: I'm not hammering Brownie. Just the stats. He averaged four

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Speaker 2: point four million guaranteed four point eight four point is

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Speaker 2: you know, again, Lebron's earned it to have his Now

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Speaker 2: now I feel a little bad for Bronnie getting handed

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Speaker 2: all this. He's going to hear about this, but he's

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Speaker 2: and do the work that it takes, because he's obviously

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Speaker 2: not there yet. All right, So we covered the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Rob, I look at the West, it

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Speaker 2: feels to me like Dallas is the cream of the crop.

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Speaker 2: I think Minnesota had a great offseason, adding in the

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Speaker 2: draft Terrence Shannon and Rob Dillingham. Shannon's going to be

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Speaker 2: I think he could score. You can get buckets. This

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Speaker 2: And I like Dillingham a lot. And they more importantly

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Speaker 2: They're very young. Hartenstein's a good ad. They can match

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Speaker 2: up well with anybody. Those probably are the top three

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Speaker 2: Rob and I didn't go too deep into it, but

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Speaker 2: the loss of KCP is that seems like a big deal.

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Speaker 2: They remember they lost Bruce Brown and they clearly regressed

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Speaker 2: see what the fallout is. I don't I just don't

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Speaker 2: medal that KCP had the lockdown defense, Like, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: it's a big loss. And this is a Nuggets team, listen, man,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon's been through a lot this offseason off the

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Speaker 2: two brothers this see offseason off the court. I just

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Speaker 2: I don't think the Nuggets are a top four team

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Speaker 2: in the Western Where is that too hot of a take.

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Speaker 2: This is a team d Yes was up twenty in

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Speaker 2: to be Dallas. So I shouldn't write them off too quickly.

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Speaker 2: But I just I don't love the vibes right now

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Speaker 3: Oh, I hate the vibes coming out of Denver, And

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Speaker 3: to be honest, they should be lucky that they are

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Speaker 3: you mean, like, going after they won the championship, they

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Speaker 3: Green was a vital piece to them on that roster.

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Speaker 4: They lose those two guys for nothing.

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Speaker 3: This offseason, they lose KCP for nothing, and it all

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Speaker 3: though all the metrics, all the stats, even the basketball

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Speaker 3: talent is different in Boston. But they decided and this

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Speaker 3: goes back to what their GM Calvin Booth said last

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Speaker 3: them with Christian Brown and three rookies which they never

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Speaker 3: this is what he said, and I think it's indicative

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Speaker 3: He says, if it cost us the chance to win

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Speaker 3: It's more about winning three out of six, three out

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Speaker 3: the future than push all in while you can. Is

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Speaker 3: something I will never understand. This is not a forty

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Speaker 3: year old Lebron James, all right, This is not a

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Speaker 3: We can say him in a minute. The joker is consistent,

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Speaker 3: he's available. He is a floor razor to everybody he

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Speaker 3: then you're doing yourself, you're doing your fans, or you're

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Speaker 3: doing the rest of that team of disservice. I hate

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Speaker 3: what Denver's doing right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just doesn't seem like it's smart of them.

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Speaker 2: But I'll say this, it is still yokid and Jamal Murray.

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Speaker 2: he got it. Sham's reported that. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: the Lakers are far behind the Nuggets. Let's just remember, okay,

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Speaker 2: two of the four Nuggets wins in the playoffs against

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Speaker 2: the Lakers were Jamal Murray essentially buzzer beaters in the

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Speaker 2: I don't know who guards Jamal Murray, but I don't

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Speaker 2: think the Lakers are that far behind the Nuggets. And again,

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Speaker 2: you know it's the West. I think the Warriors have

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Speaker 2: I had this take that the three the three headed

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Speaker 2: It's done. I don't think it works anymore. Look at

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Speaker 2: And now everybody's hot to add market into what Steph

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Speaker 2: It's really tough to thread the needle between playing for

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Speaker 2: make this all about the Lakers, but rob Lakers to

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Speaker 2: Lebron and Ad. They're attempting the youth movement. Now, Lebron's

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Speaker 2: then you look around the rest of their roster and

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Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers. I love what they have. I think they

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Speaker 2: it's like, okay, maybe Orlando makes a leap. I like

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Speaker 1: That's tough.

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Speaker 2: They got a lot of wings. Polo Bay Caro Nice.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Cleveland is too low at seven. I mean, I've

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Speaker 2: you know, Jimmy Butler is getting up through an age.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, robinm I'm missing anybody else in the East,

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Speaker 2: it does seem kind of bleak.

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Speaker 3: biggest issue, and this is something that's been a theme

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio on Saturdays, is that Joel Embiid is one

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Speaker 4: You saw now.

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Speaker 3: and eighty pound monster who would much rather play like

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Speaker 3: he doesn't want to get close to the basket, and

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Speaker 3: all the foul hunting that he does in the regular

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Speaker 3: season just does not work in the postseason. So unless

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Speaker 3: Joel Embiid is going to drastically change drastically, if he's

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Speaker 2: Wow, I'm curious Nicks lose Hartenstein. I don't know. You're

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Speaker 2: He was instrumental in the playoffs. I'll just say this

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Speaker 2: I don't know rob I think this Nicks key, I

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Speaker 2: would not be shocked at all because we saw like

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Speaker 2: We're at like one of these seminal moments where it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: same time. Rob It's extremely depressing, and the new model

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Speaker 2: seems to be what the Celtics have, what the Knicks have,

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Speaker 2: The new model, would you agree? Is two stars and

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Speaker 2: the MAVs Hurt and Stein and the out the five

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Speaker 3: No? I would agree mostly I'm with you that I

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Speaker 3: believe that the model that you have to have is

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Speaker 3: two stars and high level role players from three to

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Speaker 3: this on the Podcast of the Week about a week

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Speaker 3: and a half ago. When it comes to Boston, what

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Speaker 3: makes Boston special is not Tatum and Brown, Tatum and

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Speaker 3: on a great Jason Tatum shoutout future Laker, Jason Tatum

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Speaker 3: became the highest paid player in NBA history by a

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Speaker 3: he's thirty four, broken down, but we'll get him eventually.

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Speaker 3: But what makes them special is not the top five

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Speaker 3: MVP candidate Jason Tatum, It's not the All NBA candidate

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Speaker 3: the Boston Celtics if they're healthy and feel like there's

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Speaker 3: somebody you can hunt one way or the other. You're

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Speaker 3: not gonna go into it like, well, if you're a

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Speaker 3: Laker fan and say, hey, they're gonna sag off Jared

433
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Speaker 3: Vanderbilt and you got to play four on five offensively,

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Speaker 3: or you're not gonna go into and say, hey, D'angela

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Speaker 3: Russell's out there. We have a week point on defense,

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Speaker 3: so we're gona have to shade guys that way to

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Speaker 3: make up for it. Boston doesn't have that problem, right,

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be pready stout across the board, assuming health.

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Speaker 3: And that's one thing that New York has, and that's

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Speaker 3: something okay see as is you're never gonna feel like

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Speaker 3: you have weak links across your starting five or across

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Speaker 3: your five man closing lineup because their roster is so deep.

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Speaker 3: I don't care if your best player is not as

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Speaker 3: good as Joel Embi or Nicola Yoki or whoever, as

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Speaker 3: long as your fifth best player is not the worst

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Speaker 3: guy out there. So I think the Knicks are going

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Speaker 3: to be great. I can't wait to see them face

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Speaker 3: Boston the playoffs. I think both of those teams are

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Speaker 3: built to face each other and it's going to be awesome.

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Speaker 2: I think we largely agree Celtics Knicks are the cream

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Speaker 2: of the crop in the East. And I mean, even

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Speaker 2: if you know Demarge Rosen signs or market and traded,

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Speaker 2: I don't think at fundamental changes what's happening at the

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Speaker 2: top of either conference. I guess we could close with

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Speaker 2: this one, Robin. It's like, I don't know, Over the

460
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Speaker 2: last like twelve years, every single summer has been ooh, ooh,

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Speaker 2: who's the next free agent? Ooh, can our team add him? Ooh,

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Speaker 2: can we find a superstar? And this summer it was

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Speaker 2: Paul George, and there was no real tug of war

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Speaker 2: for Paul George. He kind of felt to the Sixers

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Speaker 2: because there were no other options. I don't really buy

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Speaker 2: that Warriors trade. It sounds like the Clippers were never

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Speaker 2: going to do that deal. So it's Paul George and

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Speaker 2: Clay Thompson, who kind of was sort of was I

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Speaker 2: don't washed his harsh, but you know, obviously if he

470
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Speaker 2: lands with the Lakers. I'm singing a slightly different tune

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Speaker 2: because I think it's a great fit. I think it's

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Speaker 2: a great fit with the MAVs. But like it wasn't

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Speaker 2: like there was a robust market for Klay Thompson. You know,

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Speaker 2: he was never going to or Orlando. He wants to

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Speaker 2: compete and win titles. And I don't know. I just

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Speaker 2: wonder how the NBA calendar is going to shake out now,

477
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Speaker 2: rob when we get to July and it's like, oh,

478
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Speaker 2: everybody's afraid of the second apron. I mean, did you

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Speaker 2: see the stat that the Clippers and Warriors have been

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Speaker 2: over the luxury tax for each of the last four years.

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Speaker 2: And magically, now that there's a second apron, both those

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Speaker 2: teams decide WHOA, we gotta start petty pinching, and both

483
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Speaker 2: of them as of now, are not in the luxury

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Speaker 2: tax next season. Like that's a huge sign. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know, man, you almost wonder if the NBA is

486
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Speaker 2: screwed this up. And I know that some people will say, no,

487
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Speaker 2: this is great for the league. I don't know, guys,

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Speaker 2: I just don't know it. Like, where's the off season, juice,

489
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Speaker 2: Like we waited forever for Donovan Mitchel. He's staying in

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Speaker 2: Cleveland now Maybe maybe Wolves go sideways. They decide this

491
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Speaker 2: isn't working with Carla day Towns is on the market,

492
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Speaker 2: maybe the Cavs stink, and Donovan Mitchell much like after

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Speaker 2: I think it was well now he was two years

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Speaker 2: in okac. Yeah, after two years in Oka, see, Paul

495
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Speaker 2: George was like, I'm out, get me out of here.

496
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Speaker 2: Maybe Donovan Mitchell says, hey, you know what, I gave

497
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Speaker 2: it two years, I'm out, get me out of Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: And it gets interesting. But as of now, Rob, the

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Speaker 2: free agent crop is I mean, the draft next year

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Speaker 2: will be good, but it just it feels like the

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Speaker 2: days of ooh, can this team get this star. I

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Speaker 2: don't know that we'll be playing those games anymore.

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Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, I agree with you, and I will say

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Speaker 3: that do not let the fact that CJ. McCollum is

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Speaker 3: a great television analyst for ESPN distract you from the

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Speaker 3: fact that he totally butchered this CBA agreement. This second

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Speaker 3: apron is one of the worst thing that's ever could

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Speaker 3: have happened to NBA because so much of what basketball

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Speaker 3: fans and listeners of this podcast I know, because that's

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Speaker 3: the numbers. We talked about this before. Consumers of basketball

511
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Speaker 3: media care less about what actually happens on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Then they do the soap opera that happens off of it.

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Speaker 3: They care more about who's the next free agent, which

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Speaker 3: star is unhappy, who might get traded, the transactional nature

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Speaker 3: of the sport. That's always been in my experience. Our

516
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Speaker 3: most popular podcasts, Hey could Donovan Mitchell get traded?

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Speaker 4: What's up with Trey Young? Is carlthony town is getting moved?

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Speaker 3: Because then it not only it affects one team, the

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Speaker 3: minnesot Timberolves, it could affect four or five other teams

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Speaker 3: because of where he might end up. And when they

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Speaker 3: did this second apron, which basically acts as a hard

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Speaker 3: cap for ninety percent of the league, you've taken that away.

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Speaker 3: And I did a quick look at the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: five free agent class. According to Hoopside, they have their

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Speaker 3: their rankings. Jalen runs the number one. He's probably gonna resigna.

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Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell is already resigning. Lori market In is number three. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Brandon Ingram, who may or may not get traded by

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 2: We love Nobody wants him right now.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's working for our Prince Sangoon who I like and

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Speaker 3: hoopeads like.

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Speaker 4: But if you're a casual fan, you probably.

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Speaker 3: Don't know who are the Rocket Center. Yes, yes, Evan

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Speaker 3: Mobley's restricted, so he doesn't count. Lebron James technically could

535
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Speaker 3: opt out again, but we'll see what happens with Bronni.

536
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Speaker 3: Jamal Murray just got extended, Franz Wagner is a restricted

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Speaker 3: free agent, and Julius Randall rounds out the top ten like,

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Speaker 3: there are some good players in there, but that's nothing

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Speaker 3: that's gonna get people overly excited about what's gonna come

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Speaker 3: next summer.

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Speaker 2: But here's the worst part, rob When you name all

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Speaker 2: those guys, A lot of those guys don't qualify in

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Speaker 2: the And forgive me for not coming up with a

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Speaker 2: better name of it, but like the Drew Holliday Derek White,

545
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 2: that guy could be an awesome three on a title contender,

546
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 2: like Brandon Ingram is in that weird spot because he's

547
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: not a good defender. He doesn't shoot threes really, he

548
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: prefers the mid range. Like, I don't know what you

549
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Speaker 2: do with him. Lowry Markinen will see like good player,

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Speaker 2: but geez, he sounds like he wants to get paid

551
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Speaker 2: I don't think he fits in the Derek White molds.

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Speaker 2: He thinks he's like a two. I don't know that

553
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: he's a two anywhere. So, like even Julius Randall, like,

554
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Speaker 2: do you want that guy as your third or fourth

555
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 2: best player? I don't know that that works. Like Austin

556
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 2: Reeves works to me as a third or fourth and

557
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Speaker 2: for me, a third or fourth guy on a team

558
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: is that kind of glue guy who can toggle between

559
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 2: either one, two, three, two three, four, can defend up,

560
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 2: can just do a lot, and obviously shooting is a

561
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Speaker 2: paramount importance. Like I guess Rental can shoot, but I

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Speaker 2: don't know, Like to me on the Knicks, he's there's

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Speaker 2: I guess, second best player and then you slide Bridges

564
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Speaker 2: into the third and boom, that's a massive home run, right,

565
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Speaker 2: he is in the Drew Holliday Derek White bold, But like,

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Speaker 2: who's the six or fourth best player? Kelly Ubray, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, man, It's just it's a weird time in

568
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Speaker 2: the league. Almost feels transitional.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, it definitely feels like there's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: learning curve, an adjustment period of while teams navigate this

571
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Speaker 3: second aprin I think you're gonna see eventually, maybe not

572
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Speaker 3: obviously this offseason, but maybe next offseason where it's like

573
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Speaker 3: the middle class is going to get eliminated for NBA

574
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 3: team because it's like, hey, we got to play our

575
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 3: pairmax guys, whatever, forty fifty sixty MILLI dollars, whatever it takes,

576
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Speaker 3: We're going to load up on rookie contracts to fill

577
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Speaker 3: out the roster because there's only way you can be

578
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 3: competitive is if some of these rookie deal guys kind

579
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Speaker 3: of popped, and the days of having the eight to

580
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Speaker 3: fifteen million dollar deal contracts that you normally need to

581
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Speaker 3: aggregate or to put together to assemble to get the

582
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Speaker 3: big ticket item. I don't think you're going to see

583
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Speaker 3: those anymore, because I don't think you're going to be like, hey,

584
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Speaker 3: if it puts us into the first apron, let's give

585
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Speaker 3: you know, a Torrian prints two years, fifteen million dollars,

586
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Speaker 3: Like nah, we really, we can, we can replace that

587
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Speaker 3: somewhere else.

588
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Speaker 2: We're good.

589
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And so you're gonna end up in a

590
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Speaker 3: situation where not only are teams going to be in

591
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Speaker 3: that apron where they can't even trade with each other,

592
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Speaker 3: which in itself is a stupid rule. But now you're

593
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Speaker 3: going to have teams who are going to be afraid

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Speaker 3: to go over to that second apron because they want

595
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Speaker 3: to be locked out. And you're gonna have these teams where,

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Speaker 3: you know, everybody's kind of good, but nobody's great, and

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of parody on a year

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Speaker 3: to your basis, and I'm of the belief that basketball,

599
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Speaker 3: especially is one of the sports that's better when you

600
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Speaker 3: have dominant teams, when you have villain teams that people

601
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Speaker 3: root against. This is not the NFL.

602
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to look, and you're right. The middle

603
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Speaker 2: class was like the Houston Rockets were five hundred, you know,

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Speaker 2: and then there's a huge drop off. The Rockets were eleven,

605
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Speaker 2: just missed the playoffs, and then it's like Jazz, you know,

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Speaker 2: twenty games under I'm sorry, ten games under five hundred,

607
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Speaker 2: Grizzlies injuries, Spurs young and Trailblazers, I don't know what

608
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Speaker 2: the hell they're doing. And same deal. In the East.

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Speaker 2: It's like, okay, there were like seven or eight good

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Speaker 2: teams and then it's like, ooh, the Bills were I'm sorry,

611
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Speaker 2: not the Bills, the Bulls were under five hundred, made

612
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Speaker 2: the play in and now they're dismantling their team, the

613
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Speaker 2: Hawks or a train wreck. They traded to John to

614
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Speaker 2: Murray and then there's a lot of bad. It's gonna

615
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Speaker 2: be tough to climb out of that hole short of

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Speaker 2: landing a Cooper flag and Ace Bailey or one of

617
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Speaker 2: these studs next year. So he's cool through a transitional time.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they're getting their TV deal. They don't care. But

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Speaker 2: from a fans perspective, I just do wonder losing lebron

620
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Speaker 2: kd Curry and oh, by the way, super teams. I

621
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Speaker 2: don't know. It just it feels like it's a lot

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Speaker 2: to transition out of and I just don't think that's

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Speaker 2: a great thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with you, and you're putting a

625
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: lot of eggs in the Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Luka

626
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Speaker 3: Doncic Janni's basket, and so far, the only one that

627
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Speaker 3: I've seen that's had real crossover appeal has been honest

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Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards. We think has the potential to be that

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Speaker 3: Jason Tatum, even though I love Jasonantaylo, Jayson Tatum for

630
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Speaker 3: whatever reason, has not become that crossover star that you

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Speaker 3: would expect, being that he's a top five MVP guy

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Speaker 3: and he played for the Boston Celtics and Luka Doncic

633
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 3: basketball fans love him, but the casual Q raiding fans,

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Speaker 3: I don't think that they really check for Luca like

635
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 3: that because his style of play is not fun to watch,

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Speaker 3: you know, if you're a casual fan. He's just really

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00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: good at what he does. And Nico Lulkic has no personality. Yeah,

638
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: so you're there. There's gonna be a weird transitional period here.

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Speaker 4: For the NBA moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so good transition for us. We are

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Speaker 2: off next week. Take a break, folks. The sports calendar

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Speaker 2: slows down. I know there's USA Basketball convening to get

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Speaker 2: ready for the Olympics, but other than that, like you know,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge chasing the triple crown, Kitland Clark and make

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Speaker 2: it an All Star team. By the way, Rob, did

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Speaker 2: you see the breakdown of All Star votes for the

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Speaker 2: head I did? Oh my, so Wilson on Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: was the leading vote getter last year that I saw,

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Speaker 2: with ninety six thousand votes. Ninety six thousand. Last year,

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Speaker 2: Kitlan Clark got seven hundred thousand this year. That's over

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Speaker 2: seven x for a rookie. And I told you guys,

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Speaker 2: I voted for the WNBA All Stars for the first

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Speaker 2: time in my life. Rob Did you vote or no?

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Speaker 4: I did not vote?

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Speaker 2: Okay, seven hundred thousand versus ninety six thousand last year.

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Speaker 2: I'm very curious what happens on the benches. Is there

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Speaker 2: icy stuff for Caitlin Clark? Are people like looking down her?

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: They should make these vote public, Like Angel Reyes got

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Speaker 2: a lot of votes. I think she got three hundred

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand or so, three hundred and sixty whatever. That's

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Speaker 2: a massive number. But I think it's just bringing eyeballs

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Speaker 2: to the game has helped. And you know, WNBA may

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Speaker 2: have to carry the torch for us and way they

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Speaker 2: get to the Olympics. Also there's you know, Euros Copa,

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Speaker 2: so you know I love soccer. Anyways, that's it for us.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back in a week. Be safe out there,

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Speaker 2: talk to you then.