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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Thursday, October thirteenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, and this is part four of our week

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Speaker 1: long five part NBA Season previous series. I'm j Skips

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Speaker 1: here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as always Tasmellice.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, what's up?

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Speaker 1: Tests next to him, it's the beard One, Top Shot Boy, Trick, Kirby,

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Speaker 1: Heyo and over Yonder making the magic happen. Super producer JD. Hello,

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Speaker 1: there is and here we are. How do you rate

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Speaker 1: that hello from JD?

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Speaker 3: Today?

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Speaker 1: I would say it's going to get an eight, maybe

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Speaker 1: a seven. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I have a hard time ever figuring out what the

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Speaker 2: To be on that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just.

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Speaker 3: Shocked when it's the ten. I'm shocked with the six

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Speaker 1: Well we'll find out in the comments section of this

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Speaker 1: you can hit us up on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok

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Speaker 1: at No Dunk's, Inc. And before we get into today's questions,

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Speaker 1: I want you to check out yesterday's Is This Good

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Speaker 1: podcast with Matti Otray and jd debating a number of topics.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a personal favorite TK that you guys

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Speaker 3: A personal favorite? You know, I like the memes that

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Speaker 3: are gonna come from people dropping dog poop in each

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Speaker 3: other's in each other's garbage cans out there. I think

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Speaker 3: you know, just kind of like a community garbage can

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Speaker 3: bring all the poo from the area, drop it in

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Speaker 3: our buckets. We'll take it to the curb, tie drop

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Speaker 1: I think we should make stickers that you can slap on.

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Speaker 1: That's a great idea, Just slap it right on there.

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Speaker 1: This is a dog poop friendly bucket.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 2: A new bumper sticker.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever get to that?

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Speaker 1: trash can. That was a hot, steamy topic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of feedback out there on social media.

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Speaker 1: People have opinions about that, for sure. Before we also

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Speaker 1: little update on one of our questions from Wednesday's podcast,

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Speaker 1: which was what game will Lebron become the NBA's all

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Speaker 1: this Twitter thread from at crumpled Jumper, who was running

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Speaker 2: Injury is the big factor there that Lebron's going to

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Speaker 3: They caught a little air.

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Speaker 1: But if he didn't play again, the Pelicans are still

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Speaker 3: I do think that's not good enough in the West.

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Speaker 2: Warriors, Clippers, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Wolves, Mavericks. Not gonna mention the

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Speaker 2: all those teams, all those teams are going to be

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you who's got the national televised games. The

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Speaker 1: No, No, the Lakers have twenty seven. You see there,

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Speaker 3: You can't. You cannot pick it. You can't pick a

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Speaker 2: My mine's under a quarter and they're on this list.

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Speaker 2: So I'm oh, Jesus Grizzly correct, Fine, I'll start Memphis

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Speaker 2: They got to do a lot of flying. But they're young.

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Speaker 3: Subscribe to our YouTube channel place.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make good.

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Speaker 3: It should cost more than that. It should cost fourteen

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Speaker 2: It sounds like the spray zone in the air Canada

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So the Grizzlies to say it must watch

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Speaker 2: And it looks cool, looks cool.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I love I love their entire color scheme.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere, and I'm actually not even able

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we have the same answer of the

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Speaker 1: You got Big Tigger from the basement days. He's the

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Speaker 1: and Dominicolkins. Do you get some Vince Carter? Do you

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Speaker 1: get some Vince I hope he's still around. No, it's not.

435
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Speaker 1: They're not on the top of my leaderboard for league

436
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 1: past announcers. Sorry, you can't win.

437
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,679
Speaker 3: Can't win the all out there. You like that new

438
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 3: little Yachtie song?

439
00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 2: You know what?

440
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 3: You know, Sir Foster is going to be tickling the

441
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,879
Speaker 3: keys to Poland.

442
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 1: But I have the Hawks. They should be they should be.

443
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Speaker 1: I mean, look that that's a team we could have

444
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Speaker 1: answered in the first question. They could disappoint Sure, yeah,

445
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: they you know, make this big deal for Dejantae Murray

446
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 1: and give up all these future draft picks. Oh yeah,

447
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:38,959
Speaker 1: they better win some games. Now.

448
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Speaker 2: Did they get rid of that local blackout thing on

449
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Speaker 2: League Pass? I don't I don't know. They dropped the

450
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 2: price by like fifty this year. Smart move, smart move.

451
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Speaker 2: Smart move for Sir Foster would be to steal the

452
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Speaker 2: This thing I heard at the baseball game, you know,

453
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 2: the the organ it was a then then then then

454
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Speaker 2: you know the classic space, Well, but they slowed it down.

455
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 2: Then then the first it's fast, Dan, what's the what's

456
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Speaker 2: the why?

457
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Speaker 1: People are starting to clap. I don't really know why.

458
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 2: Why because people sing ale or I guess shard. Anyways,

459
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,880
Speaker 2: it was really fun. It was really fun. You gotta

460
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 2: steal that. You gotta steal that. The Hawks games are fun. Yeah.

461
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 2: Big tickets fine, he was the announcer in the ABBA games.

462
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 2: They went there to play Milwaukee game in the preseason.

463
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 2: I heard big ticket. It's like, well, this is a

464
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Speaker 2: home game, and that's why the Hawks were so good.

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Speaker 2: I believe I believe in that team.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a fun question for everybody out there.

467
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Speaker 1: I know there's Zach Lowe's League Pass rankings, and he's

468
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Speaker 1: basing in style of play in the court and then

469
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Speaker 1: the announcers and stuff like that. I think his top

470
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Speaker 1: ten actually just dropped today. I know he had his

471
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Speaker 1: first batch out there a couple of days ago.

472
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Speaker 2: According to Joey Star here in the stream team, they

473
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Speaker 2: did not drop the blackout for local games. He read

474
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Speaker 2: that article on the Athletic, a great website, the Athletic

475
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 2: dot com slash no dunks there you go. See the

476
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Speaker 2: thing is so.

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Speaker 1: Our pick we can't even enjoy. Yeah, I guess what

478
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Speaker 1: am I talking about. Yeah, we're not watching it on

479
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 1: the League Pass, we're watching it.

480
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Speaker 2: On locally, the local ones. Yeah, you're good, you're good.

481
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 2: But I will say all the nationally televised games, like

482
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Speaker 2: you said, the Grizzlies have eighteen. You can still go

483
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Speaker 2: watch Pete Pranica. You know there's still there's still the

484
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 2: local feed Pete Pranica. That a play by play man

485
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Speaker 2: with Brent Brevian Knight. Yeah, you can still watch the

486
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Speaker 2: local feed. Can you watch the radio broadcast or can

487
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Speaker 2: you listen to the radio broadcasters while you watch the

488
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Speaker 2: Hawks games. Think you can't. I'm sure.

489
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we added a football game in the nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 1: It maybe what about you can fight? Hell yeah you can.

491
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: You can fire up Danny LaRue and Nate Duncan talking

492
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Speaker 1: about the games on a lot of them. Some of

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Speaker 1: these feeds you can. But I might again. All right,

494
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Speaker 1: let's hear from everybody out there. Must watch league past

495
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Speaker 1: teams and state your case here in the stream team

496
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Speaker 1: or in the comments below if you're listening to the podcast.

497
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Speaker 1: A little bit later, we'll take our first break. But

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Speaker 1: when we come back, oh yeah, another award Most Improved

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Speaker 1: Player Predictions. Don't go anywhere, all right, back in the

500
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Speaker 1: back in the Classic Factory. Back in the Classic Factory.

501
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Speaker 1: Can you guys hear me?

502
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

503
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, good because I can't hear myself right now. Anyway,

504
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: we're back in the class factory. As long as you

505
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: guys can hear me out there. We've done Most Improved,

506
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: We've done Rookie of the Year, we have done GPO y.

507
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Speaker 1: We now have another one here, Most Player. I thought

508
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: this was extremely difficult. I think Vegas thinks it's extremely difficult.

509
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 1: When you see the the odds on trying to predict

510
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Speaker 1: who could win MIP this year. I think JD has it.

511
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: It's you know, there's no real, real, real clear cut favorite.

512
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is plus nine hundred, and then you see Haliburton, Maxi,

513
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Speaker 1: Zion Brunson, RJ Barrett, Kate Cunningham, check in your fire Shake, Gildos, Alexander,

514
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Speaker 1: and LaMelo Ball. So did you struggle as well in

515
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Speaker 1: trying to pick a name?

516
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Speaker 3: Tray, This is the first answer I had for any award,

517
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 3: because I think Tyrese Maxie is the guy I know

518
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 3: his second on the odds there. They should offer something

519
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 3: where you can just pick ty Resee and you get

520
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 3: both Tyrese Maxey and Tyrese Hamiburton. I think that'd be fair.

521
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Speaker 3: But I really love the You Know Ball podcast. My

522
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 3: main man, trill bro Dude over there is always coming

523
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 3: out with Tyrese Maxie propaganda. Basically, the only players you

524
00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 3: can compare Tyrese Maxie to statistically are Jamal Murray, Damian Lillard,

525
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 3: and Steph Curry. From a statistical standpoint, you know, he's

526
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 3: a great catch and shoot player. He's even better with

527
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 3: the ball in his hands. He's lightning quick from end

528
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 3: to end. I think Harden's going to be setting him

529
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Speaker 3: up when those two are on the court together, I

530
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Speaker 3: think that Maxie will handle a lot of the creation

531
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Speaker 3: roles when Harden goes to the bench. He can play

532
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Speaker 3: alongside Tobias Harris, he can play alongside Embiid. There are

533
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Speaker 3: just so many different ways that Maxie can play off

534
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Speaker 3: of the other stars in Philadelphia that I think we're

535
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Speaker 3: going to see him take a leap to become I mean,

536
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Speaker 3: he took a leap last year, no doubt about it.

537
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 3: He was so good last year. But I think he's

538
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 3: going to be seeing more as part of the Big

539
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: three in Philadelphia this year, as a locked in member

540
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Speaker 3: of the Big Three, And like I said before, I

541
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Speaker 3: think he's going to be the second leading scorer on

542
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Speaker 3: that team. So gimme Tyrese Maxi.

543
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Speaker 2: He was so good last year, and that's why I

544
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Speaker 2: kind of hesitated to take him this for this award

545
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 2: now because how much are his numbers going to improve?

546
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Speaker 2: Because that's what voters will look at. He's at seventeen

547
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 2: and a half half last year, really good percentages, great

548
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 2: catch and shoot guys, he said above forty shooting the three.

549
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: That's phenomenal had some awesome playoff moments as well. Yeah,

550
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 2: but yeah, if voters are kind of like a year behind,

551
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Speaker 2: as we say with the defensive Player of the year,

552
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Speaker 2: perhaps and he is a little bit more entrenched as

553
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Speaker 2: the one of the big three, which he should be.

554
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: He is the third best player, no disrespect to Tobias,

555
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: but I think he'll take on that role. Maybe, But

556
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Speaker 2: I don't think the numbers go up enough. And I'm

557
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 2: not not gonna pick my guy just to piss you off,

558
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: but I think Caid is going to win it even

559
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Speaker 2: as a second year player, because the numbers are low,

560
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Speaker 2: plus opportunity, which I don't think Maxi has as much

561
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Speaker 2: because Kaid has all the opportunity in the world. Plus

562
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 2: the numbers of the percentages are low, so I think

563
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Speaker 2: he'll just improve. So the poor percentages, like you know,

564
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 2: thirty one from three, he can do a lot better

565
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Speaker 2: in that, and at about seventeen per game, he can

566
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Speaker 2: do a lot better in that too, So you might

567
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Speaker 2: see a huge jump from kid cunning him.

568
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably gonna go crazy this season because there's

569
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Speaker 1: like four or five rookies from last year that are

570
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: in their second year that might be making a case

571
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: to win MIP, right, you said, kid, But Scottie Barnes

572
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: could be in there. Mobile for crying out loud could

573
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: be in there. Franz Wagner, Jalen Green, Jalen Green, Josh Giddy,

574
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: maybe like al six or seven guys. So yeah, I'll

575
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Speaker 1: be going nuts because I think it's sort of weird

576
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Speaker 1: for a second year guy. But you know, looking back

577
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,239
Speaker 1: at last year's top three vote getters in MP, they

578
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: were all first time All Stars. So I wonder if

579
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: a Maxi has to become one, maybe a Haliburton And

580
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is a popular name because it was John

581
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: Morant winning to John Tay Murray second, Darius Garland third,

582
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: three All Stars for the first time yep. And that's

583
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Speaker 1: the way we've been going with this award. It's like

584
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Speaker 1: that jump from it you were good, you're maybe on

585
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: the radar, and then now you're playing at an All

586
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Speaker 1: Star level and you've been rewarded as such.

587
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 2: That's why Anthony Edwards is a decent pick.

588
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. Is that why it makes sense why he's

589
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: the favorite, even though it's a you know, crazy odds

590
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: for the favorite. But yeah, his just thing is like

591
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: he's already scoring twenty one a game. Is he bumping

592
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: it up to like McGrady like levels where he's like,

593
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: you know, because McGrady won MIP when he went from

594
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: the Raptors to the Magic, got his own team and

595
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: then was scoring like twenty six twenty seven a game.

596
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: That's when he won it. Edward's obviously on the same team,

597
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: but it's like a new team in the sense Gobert comes,

598
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: does he become just like the go to score on

599
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: that team and bump it up to twenty five? I

600
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: guess it's feasible. Yeah, so I can make it makes

601
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: sense why he would be an option and an All Star.

602
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: Sure if they win a lot of games.

603
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: It's tough though, Yeah, just with you got some big

604
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: usage guys beside him in Towns D'Angelo Russell as well. Yeah. Yeah,

605
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 2: and there's gonna be a lot of lobbies for Gobby,

606
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 2: for Rudy Gobert in the middle. That's gonna happen. So yeah,

607
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: how much are they gonna go? He is? He is

608
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 2: a phenomenal player, But if he gets the All Star

609
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 2: the nod there, you know, kind of like Tyrese Maxey,

610
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: if he gets squeezed in an All Star. Then it

611
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: becomes more about just how good you are in this

612
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: league rather than just the numbers, which you know I

613
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 2: tend to look at. But that that's a smart that's

614
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: a good omen for Edwards. That the guy's last year,

615
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: as you said, yeah, in Garland Moran was a special

616
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: case though. That's just a special well that was.

617
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people thought it was silly

618
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: that he even won Most Improved.

619
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Speaker 3: Because it was like he was doing this, he was

620
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 3: that was his MVP award.

621
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, as we talked about it in the MVP conversation.

622
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Speaker 1: Tyrese Halibert and the other Tyrese is a decent bet too.

623
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: I mean in twenty five twenty six games with the Pacers,

624
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: the guy was like putting up numbers. They weren't winning,

625
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: but some people don't care. Yeah, he was like basically

626
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: eighteen ten and four in his Pacer stint. He continues

627
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: that that goes up a little bit, man. I mean

628
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: that that those will be it'll sort of be or

629
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: it would be like comparable to de Jonte Murray putting

630
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: a big stats there for the Spurs last year. So

631
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Speaker 1: I assume he's gonna get some votes. Whether or not

632
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: he'll get have to win. We'll see.

633
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 2: That's a good bet. Just bet the Tyrese.

634
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: The Tyrese line are the any crazy wild cards that

635
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: you you want to chuck at the wall, see if

636
00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: it sticks.

637
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: I like all the rockets ones, said Jayen Green, throwing

638
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: an alper in Shengoon. You know it's it's a reach.

639
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 2: It seems like a reach right now.

640
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: For sure. Lindell Carter Junior, WHOA, I was not ready

641
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 3: for it. You asked for a random one.

642
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: Ye, me the Magic's leading scorer. That's what Magic fans want.

643
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: He's a rock.

644
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 3: Maybe if he leads the league in rebounds, he could

645
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: he could get the m I P this year. It's

646
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: tough to find a random player.

647
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Speaker 2: Because everybody's on the odds list.

648
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

649
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: If you look at that everyone.

650
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: Lowry markinon he should probably score twenty a game this year.

651
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 3: That's nice, Colin. One of those two should score twenty

652
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: a game. Thing for the Jazz sections do that? He did,

653
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 3: He did it and the Caps were bad. Yeah yeah,

654
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 3: so marketing is a good one. Though he looked great,

655
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: look great in Europe.

656
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: I am interested to see the tyres Halberton if his

657
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 2: percentage just stay the same, because they have through his

658
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 2: first three years, even as number one guy with Indiana,

659
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: the guys are he is a rock. He's literally been

660
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: at forty one percent even again with just him and

661
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: Buddy Healed on that team, Miles Turner wasn't even playing

662
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 2: No Sabonis anymore. The guy is solid and that's why

663
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 2: everyone thought immediately, how do you trade him for uh?

664
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: For Sabonis? You've got a guy that can you know,

665
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 2: be a twelve time All Star? Right, that's what we're

666
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 2: expecting at at the time, which is a little crazy,

667
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: a little crazy, but he showed out and in those

668
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: twenty six games. I'm looking forward to seeing how that

669
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: happened or how that plays out over a whole season.

670
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: Space Orb nine in the stream team Markel Fultz for

671
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: MIP agenda some false love that he gets, you know,

672
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: back to play hopefully consistently and putting up some numbers

673
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: as another magic player. We got a lot of magic players,

674
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: I guess on the board here Franz Faults and Wendell

675
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: Carter Jr.

676
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 3: Can Ben Simmons win MIP.

677
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why these are no no. Even Zion's on

678
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 2: the list. Yeah, no, he didn't play last year. He

679
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: should improve last.

680
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: Year, could be in the running. Yeah absolutely, Uh. Ben

681
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: Simmons would be hilarious. He's like an All Star already,

682
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: but like it would be Look if he suddenly was

683
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: hitting threes, taking threes and hitting threes and improved at

684
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: the free throw line. How could we not start the

685
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: narrative like, damn, this guy improved.

686
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 3: That's not something I'm worried about.

687
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: No, yeah, no, okay, well if it happens, it happened.

688
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 2: Look yesterday though.

689
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: Some other names being thrown out here. You got some

690
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: James Wiseman, you got some Marvin Begley. The third is

691
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: already injured unfortunately.

692
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson.

693
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: It fits the mold of a guy that could be

694
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: an All Star yep, and could get have good numbers

695
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: on a team that could surprise some people or be

696
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: a little bit better than maybe some thought with the Knicks.

697
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: I like that one.

698
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: Jaalen Brunson makes a lot of sense. Good stuff there

699
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: from Zach here in the stream. Team Okay, all right,

700
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: next que we do it every years.

701
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: A nice segue from Jalen Brunton. Here's skeets.

702
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, oh yeah, which player needs a nickname?

703
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson does. Oh, he's going to New York. You

704
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: need a nickname in New York. I know that sounds stupid,

705
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: but you can't call him Jalen because there's all there's

706
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: already Jalen Brunson. He can't be a first name guy.

707
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 2: There's a Jalen Brown, I should say.

708
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 3: So.

709
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: He can't be a jail He can't be a JB

710
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: because there's another Jalen Brown Brunson. Burner is fine.

711
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: See the problem with Jalen Brunson. He does not seem

712
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: like the type of player that will will ever have

713
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: a nickname.

714
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: That's why this nickname works because I agree with you,

715
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: how well okay the Rock Okay, okay. He is dependable,

716
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: he will always be there. Can't change him, you can't

717
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: take him, you can't speed him up, cancel him down.

718
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: But he'll also never have a nickname. It's just the

719
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: way it's gonna be. But he needs one, he needs

720
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 2: one playing in New York.

721
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 1: The Rock Jalen Brunson. Yeah, yeah, Dwayne Johnson signed off

722
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: on this.

723
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine. I bear it to the Rock, you know,

724
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: Mitch Richmond or Juwis Randall to the rock. They either

725
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: built the same. Yeah, listen, I'm not saying it's a winner.

726
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: I think it's hard. It's hard. Nicknames are hard, are hard?

727
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm totally okay. I just random just wrote down

728
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: random notes about nicknames. I'll just say I'll just say

729
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 3: some things about nicknames. You tell me if it makes

730
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 3: any sense, maximum strue.

731
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: I'm in kind.

732
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Keegan Michael Murray kind of like Keegan Michael Key,

733
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 3: but also kind of like Chad Michael Murray called the

734
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 3: boy band.

735
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 2: Michael makes sense. King Keegan is I had that on

736
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: my list.

737
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 3: That's better Scotty Beans for Scotty barn for Scotty Barnes

738
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 3: apparently loves beans.

739
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: Well, so so I'll jump in here. That was the

740
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: player that needs a nickname. In my opinion, I think

741
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: he's such a character that he's deserving of a nickname.

742
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 3: Uh.

743
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: I think it's Scotti Beans.

744
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: I'm not against it, but you know there's there's Scotty

745
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: too haughty. Of course that's thrown around. I saw Scotty

746
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: the Goatti. Okay, he goes by your boy Scotti. I

747
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: was scram handled and twitter handle, and then I saw

748
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: trying to make the case. I think it was last

749
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: season for Scotty Barnes to call him Barney, because Barns Barnes,

750
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: Barney plays for the Raptors purple jerseys. He's a hugger, like,

751
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: he's a lovable guy like Barney.

752
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 3: But then it's like it all works, it all fits,

753
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 3: but it's like nobody wants.

754
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: To be called any Barney Jack arnsdrugeting Barnie would be fun.

755
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 3: But I just saw a video that Alex Wong tweeted

756
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 3: of all of the Toronto Maple Leafs going through their nicknames,

757
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 3: and every single one is like, oh, your name's Barnes,

758
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 3: your nickname is Barney, every single one. So as a

759
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 3: Toronto player, I think it's perfect for him, Scotty Barney.

760
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 2: I always thought he'd get a motorcycle. Beat Scotty Ducatti

761
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 2: if you did get him a bike.

762
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: Okay, keep going with Yeah, Kristaps Porzingis can't be the Unicorn.

763
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: That's your no, that's that's why not.

764
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 3: He needs a new nickname because Kevin Durant named him

765
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: the Unicorn. Where you're like, yeah, you never see this

766
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 3: a seven foot four guy blocking shots, shooting three pointers

767
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 3: as soon as he got that nickname, we saw that

768
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 3: all around the globe suddenly so nice horse.

769
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: Horse, high quality horse. I don't know he said something else.

770
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: We said goat. I think we called him goat because

771
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 2: he had well he had a beard. I think if

772
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 2: you shave, then your goat, like shave the sides, then

773
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: your goat close to your unicorn. It's we're called goat.

774
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: Goat.

775
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 3: How about this? Who could be nicknamed meatball?

776
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: Well? Gallinari were making this that one Verry, that.

777
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: One Barry, but.

778
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: I like it.

779
00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 3: Day I writte on Marcus Smart for some reasons, the

780
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 3: meat ball Smart. And we kind of got into this

781
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 3: talking with Alex on his podcast. Every NBA player's nickname

782
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: is him. He is, so you got himmy Butler and

783
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 3: him Hardaway Junior. But then that started me thinking of

784
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: that famous clip of Pete Webber bowling and he knocks

785
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 3: down the pins. He's like, who do you think you are?

786
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 3: I am also a cool nickname. I am I am Desumu.

787
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 3: That's good, I'm bad, I'm him. Okay, That's what I

788
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 3: was thinking about when it came to nicknames. Also, I

789
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 3: think it's cool that Lebron called Victor Webbin Yama, the

790
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 3: alien that's gonna stick. That's a nickname.

791
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he went against the unicorn. He said, everybody's

792
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 2: doing the unicorn thing. That guy's not unicorn. He's an alien.

793
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good, it's funny.

794
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: I don't know.

795
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: I think I had tweeted it before him. I didn't

796
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: say alien him, but I said, when I saw women

797
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: play like in these recent games, I was like, this

798
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: guy looks like a legit monstar, like the Sean Bradley Monstar.

799
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: You know, it looks like it.

800
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, alien's a nice It's sort of pretty

801
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: similar there to the alien of the Monstars. When they

802
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: were maybe poor zingis is the nerd luck Now maybe

803
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: they were a little bit. Yeah, the alien's pretty good.

804
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: Eric Blentzoe could be the meatball. Eric Gordon could be

805
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: a meatball.

806
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 2: Uh.

807
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: People are saying meatball mobiley though, Yeah, yeah, I just

808
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: had a meatball yeah from I finally caved. I went

809
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: to Subway the other day and got a try to

810
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: meatball sub.

811
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: What you've never had a meatball not from subway?

812
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: I will only I usually would only ever get them

813
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: from Firehouse Subs.

814
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 3: They make a great good meatball sub.

815
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: And I was, I was, I don't have one around me,

816
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: a fire I was a location, so I was, but

817
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: I was longing for that sub So I'm like, I'm

818
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna see, I'm gonna try it at subway. I'm gonna

819
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: give it a go back to the back to the

820
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: normal BLT for me.

821
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, barbecue b LT. If I'm not mistaken, they.

822
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: Don't have barbque anymore, at least in my location.

823
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 3: Well, why they put on the meatball like a MARINERA okay, yeah, sure,

824
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: I also hate meatballs yesterday obviously did.

825
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

826
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, just look at my sandwich. It'd be a good

827
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: nick name. Who could be meatball? All right? Let us

828
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: know who can? Grant Williams? Can he be meatballs?

829
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: Big guys? The streams coming through here in this weird,

830
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: weird question, which player needs a nickname? If you've got

831
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,919
Speaker 1: a suggestion, even better? And then yeah, the bonus question

832
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: is who should be named meatball? That'll be a running

833
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: you know question all season long. Let's take one more

834
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: break when we.

835
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 2: Come back to Rudy Gobert be a meatball because he

836
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: needs a new nickname.

837
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: No, you don't want the stifle tower anymore? You don't

838
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: like it.

839
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 2: It's his best one. That's his best one. The French rejection. No,

840
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: the Gobert report. I saw that on basketball. Right, that's clever.

841
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 2: But it's gotta be the stifled Tower. Yeah, that's okay.

842
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 2: It's gotta be something about defense. You know, Rudy, don't

843
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: go bear, don't go there. It's not a nickname. That's

844
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 2: not a nickname. I don't know. Meatball player does have

845
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 2: a nickname.

846
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 3: Twenty guys named Meetple.

847
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: It's gonna make our podcast so confusing. Everybody's just saying meatball.

848
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: Nobody knows who you're talking about. All Right, we want

849
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: to take a break, final break. When we come back,

850
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at the NBA dot com GM survey

851
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: and share our most surprising results and a whole lot

852
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: more anymore. All right, welcome back, meatballs. Two more questions.

853
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 2: Listen, last last thing about a meatball? Who? Who? Who

854
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: should here? Swish RIVERA said Kenny Lofton. Or right, that's

855
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 2: a good that's a good one. And Kenny Lofton used

856
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: to hit some meatballs, loved hitting meatballs. What's meatballs? Is

857
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: a big old softball, easy, easy hit ball to hit. Oh,

858
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: he's throwing meatballs out there. Anybody can anybody can hit

859
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: those Meatballscha gotcha.

860
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: Braves were hitting meatballs last night.

861
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 3: They fought for it, small ball, small meatballs last night.

862
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 3: Usually it's all about the dingers. But they were getting

863
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 3: the job done, just moving the ducks around the pond.

864
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 3: These guys love baseball, all right.

865
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: Our question here most surprising result from the NBA dot

866
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: com GM survey Schumann putting in all that hard work tallying.

867
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 2: Up the votes.

868
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: I think it said the twenty first what run of

869
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: this survey? Geez, I think that's what it said in

870
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: the introduction, Schuman. If you're in the stream team right now, hey, meatball,

871
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: let us know. Anyway, what was the most surprising result?

872
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: Task started the question who is the best international player

873
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 2: not in the NBA. Why wasn't it one hundred percent

874
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 2: Victor one? It should have been because people really love Miritage. Yeah,

875
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: over half the people didn't pick Victor one. Are these

876
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 2: gms doing their job because Nikola Miritich is a solid

877
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: NBA player, but he hasn't been in the in the

878
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 2: league for a few years. And are they telling me

879
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: that if they could pick one or the other they'd

880
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: pick Mirata over one. I just I just don't understand

881
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 2: looking at that now, maybe you know they're thinking something different,

882
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,240
Speaker 2: you know, that's how you know he's he's an international

883
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 2: player and playing in a different league. So of course

884
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 2: I'm parsing here. But somebody also picked Eddie Tavares.

885
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 3: That was crazy, man, I was like, what did not

886
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 3: expect to see that name?

887
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 2: Yeah? With seven to three Eddie Tavares. Sorry, you've made

888
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 2: some mistakes here and you should retract it. Schuman should

889
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 2: put all these gems on blast. Picked Miritici Vasi and

890
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 2: Sasha vezenkov As along with Eddie Tavares received votes.

891
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: You think it should have been one hundred percent alien.

892
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: Yes, anyways, that's that's me being picky. There's some other

893
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: ones out there.

894
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: What do you have, Trey?

895
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 3: I like how one of the I guess five of

896
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 3: the questions are who's the best point guard, shooting guard,

897
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 3: all this thing? But you can get votes for different positions,

898
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 3: so I think Doncic got votes for like point guard,

899
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 3: shooting guard, small forward. So this year this season Schumann

900
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 3: had to add on the question highest percentage of total

901
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 3: votes on position questions? Who showed up on the ballot

902
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 3: the most time time interesting. Jannis and Steph Curry tied

903
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 3: for number one, showed up on eighteen percent of votes,

904
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 3: followed by Jokic, Doncic, and Kevin Durant. So that's kind

905
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 3: of the NBA GM's top five players in the league, right,

906
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 3: the Jannis Curry, Jokic, Doncic, Durant. So for me, a

907
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 3: little bit of a surprise to not seeing Bid. I

908
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 3: guess he's probably showing up on a power forward. He's

909
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 3: only showing up in the center. And no, Lebron has

910
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 3: to be a little bit of a shock that he

911
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 3: wouldn't fall in the top five guys for NBA GMS.

912
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 2: Yes, he's got some point guard votes before.

913
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 3: Has he, Lebron?

914
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: Sure he has, Yeah, probably yeah, So he's yeah, borderline

915
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 2: dropping out of the top five. That makes sense sense.

916
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: I made note of that too, Specifically, best point guard

917
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: in the NBA seventy two percent of the GM said

918
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, fourteen percent Seth Luka Doncic. And then who's

919
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: the best shooting guard in the NBA forty percent say

920
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, twenty eight percent say Luka Doncic, seventeen percent

921
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: say Steph Curry. So it's like they you know, they

922
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: don't even know, they.

923
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 2: Don't know where to put. Yeah.

924
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: Also this made me laugh, and I know it was

925
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: done in the summer prior to what happened with this

926
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 1: particular guy and his teammate. Which player is the best leader?

927
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: It was Chris Paul Curry, Lebron Jannie Lillard, but also

928
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: receiving vote said Schumann, Jimmy Butler, okay, and Draymond Green whoops,

929
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, hell of a leader, just punching the young

930
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: kids right in the sucker face.

931
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 3: Right in the sucker face. So that was just just

932
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 3: made me give a leader one steph Curry? Did he

933
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 3: did he come Inmond?

934
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 2: Well?

935
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, good yea, because he's the leader of

936
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: that yeah. Uh And then, uh, what do you think

937
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: about Lisa surprising?

938
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 3: Uh?

939
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: If you were to flip it on tenure of this question,

940
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,879
Speaker 1: team having the best home court advantage? The Raptors, yes,

941
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: got twenty one percent of the vote from the GMS,

942
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 1: and then followed by the Celtics and Nuggets were tied

943
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: for second seventeen percent. So Raptors, Celtics, Nuggets. That makes

944
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: is there another team you would include in that best

945
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: home court advantage.

946
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 2: I guess the Gems when they're when they're picking the Nuggets,

947
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 2: part of their calculation is it sucks flying to Denver

948
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: on a back to back, the altitude, So that's part

949
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: of it.

950
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

951
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: Uh, the Raptors and the Celtics, well, the.

952
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: Same could be true for the Raptors. I guess we

953
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: gotta fly, we gotta go through security, we gotta fly

954
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: to a different country.

955
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 2: We have passports. Yeah, I guess so. But I think

956
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 2: they're buying into the Raptors crowd, yes, being crazy, crazy loud.

957
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 2: It's an interesting one. They have sort of priced out.

958
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 2: I hate to say it. I hate to say it,

959
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 2: but the real fans in Toronto as well. It's freaking expensive.

960
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 3: Ain't no Sprite Zone no more.

961
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know. I always it's but But usually

962
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 2: the winner of this if if I am, if I'm

963
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: not mistaken, it's the Golden State Wars usually or the Blazers,

964
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 2: you know, one of those two. But the But the

965
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 2: Warriors priced everybody out at the Chase Center. Nope, too expensive.

966
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: You gotta have a reasonable ticket to win this, I think,

967
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: And yeah, the Warriors are on that list as well. Surprise,

968
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: Blazers aren't there as well. I guess you gotta be

969
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 2: a good team. Would you put the Raptors though? I mean,

970
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 2: let's all biases aside playoffs? Of course, the house is

971
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 2: a rocking the regular season. It could be louder. I

972
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: think they're I think they are a better regular season

973
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 2: arenas crowds. Yeah, yeah, give me, give me, give me Blazers.

974
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 2: I think that's fine. They're ready every game. Give me

975
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies at times. I think very good.

976
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 3: Okay, the Jazz people are saying Jazz were last year's

977
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 3: but people aren't scared of.

978
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,439
Speaker 2: The Jazz there a little lower.

979
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: Your team has to be somewhat good. Yeah, definitely, Uh

980
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: dumbest bold prediction, you teasers.

981
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 2: Okay, so how about it? The Phoenix Suns will finish

982
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 2: in the play in tournament.

983
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: This spicy, spicy take.

984
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 2: They were down forty six in a game seven at home.

985
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything worse. I think that carries over that.

986
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 2: There has to be something to that, considering that DeAndre

987
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 2: at And played seventeen minutes in that game. He still

988
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 2: is an hole. He was asking the preseason after signing

989
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 2: a contract with the Indiana Pacers, Suns match. He comes

990
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 2: back to Phoenix. He's asked, are you happy to be here?

991
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: Yeah?

992
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mammy, yeah heavy, He's not happy. I don't

993
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: think that locker room can be happy. Jae Crowder wants out.

994
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 2: Chris Paul as ready as he is. He's been running

995
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 2: with Ashton Kutcher on Peloton. He's thirty seven. I mean,

996
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 2: we're getting old here, and teams with better records I think.

997
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 2: To make this dumb prediction come true, are just these

998
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: these these teams just have to be better than the

999
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns, even though the Sun's won sixty four stinking games,

1000
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: lost games. The Warriors, the Nuggets, the Grizzlies, the Clippers,

1001
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: the Wolves, and the Mavericks. Just six teams, and there

1002
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 2: could be others. The Pelicans could be super good. So

1003
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 2: I think six teams will be better than the Phoenix

1004
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: Suns this year because I'm not buying the juice now.

1005
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 2: I don't think it's like the end of the era

1006
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: here with the Suns like it was with Chris Paul

1007
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 2: and the Clippers or Chris Paul and the Rockets. Like

1008
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: it's not like dead done over. But the West is

1009
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 2: just damn good, so that might you know, accelerate, expedite.

1010
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 2: How bad the Sons team is.

1011
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: It's a dumb prediction, but it could happen, I think

1012
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: because they're they're you know, they're top six seven guys.

1013
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: It's damn good.

1014
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 3: Do they like each other?

1015
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: Do you have to like each other?

1016
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 3: No?

1017
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 2: But but yeah, but but the other you know, it's

1018
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: all part of the I'm taking it all into account

1019
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 2: and I think I think the Nuggets are just in

1020
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,479
Speaker 2: a great place. I think they'll have a better record

1021
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 2: than the Phoenix Suns and all those teams I mentioned,

1022
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 2: the Clippers, the Warriors, you know, the Maverick of the

1023
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:54,919
Speaker 2: Sun should be a better team than the Mavericks because

1024
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,439
Speaker 2: you say top seven, well obviously, you know, besides Luca,

1025
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 2: you know, being the best player, if you're you know,

1026
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 2: to throw the those two teams together through all those

1027
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: guys on the wall. But then two, three, four, five, six,

1028
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 2: So it's probably the Phoenix Suns.

1029
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: So they should be the Son's five five starters. I mean,

1030
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible if they if they all do like

1031
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: each other, right now, play well for Monny William I mean,

1032
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: come on, Chris, Paul Booker, Bridges, Cameron Johnson, and Deandree.

1033
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 3: That's damn good five starting lineup for sure. That's young.

1034
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: Besides Chris Baul that's a young five too. That's an

1035
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: energetic five.

1036
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a dumb prediction TVD T b D very bold.

1037
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 3: What do you have, Trey, I've got the leaders in

1038
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 3: the scoring, rebounds, and assist categories for the upcoming season. Okay,

1039
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 3: Zion Williamson will lead the league in scoring.

1040
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 2: M hmm wow, Okay, that's pretty bold.

1041
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, James Harden will lead the league in assists. You

1042
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 3: like that. Demonta Sabonis will lead the league in rebounding

1043
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 3: all lefties left for the lefties, you're looking at your hands. Yeah,

1044
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 3: I Zi is probably like the biggest reach of all.

1045
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously he's a walking bucket, but he's still

1046
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 3: got to get to thirty plus points per game for

1047
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 3: the season, and he's got to play what three quarters

1048
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 3: of the games or something, right, like Lebron didn't even

1049
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 3: get to that number of last year. Prdon I think

1050
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 3: is hilarious, Like people are like Harden lead the league assists.

1051
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 3: He was second in the league in assists last year.

1052
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 3: Ands Sabonis is not likely to lead the league in rebounding.

1053
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 3: He finished third. Last year, go Bear led the league

1054
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,399
Speaker 3: in rebounding. I am assuming his numbers. I'll go down

1055
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 3: a little bit playing alongside Towns in Minnesota. So Jokic

1056
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 3: probably slides up and leads the league in rebounding this year.

1057
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 3: But the allure of an all lefty category leaders was

1058
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 3: just too strong.

1059
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: No's, yeah, that's all.

1060
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 2: That's never been done before in the NBA. Yeah, probably,

1061
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 2: so it's bold.

1062
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: Mine is extremely Mine's more dumb than bold.

1063
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 3: Good.

1064
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: Actually, hold on, No, I take that back. This would

1065
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: be the first time, I assume in NBA history, if

1066
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: it were to happen. But it's it's definitely dumb. Last year,

1067
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: we had three teams in the un Conference finished with

1068
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: identical records fifty one and thirty one. It was the Celtics, Bucks,

1069
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: and seventy six ers. I think something similar is gonna happen.

1070
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: But we're gonna crank it up this year in both conferences.

1071
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna have four teams tied with identical records. All right,

1072
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: And so what I'm getting at here is parody, baby parody.

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Speaker 1: I think we talked about it. We've gone through the conferences.

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00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: There are a lot of good teams that all feel

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00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: around the you know, we feel strong about So I

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00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: think in the East and the West, what will the

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00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: number be. It'll be probably forty eight or forty nine,

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00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: forty seven to forty nine wins for these four teams

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00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 1: at each conference tying. So we are gonna have some crazy,

1080
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: crazy final games when we get into mid April early April,

1081
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: because we're gonna have like a million ties and trying

1082
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: to figure it all out. It's gonna break our brains.

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00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 2: All right.

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00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 3: Your two predictions kind of like play off each other,

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00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 3: I think, because you need the Suns to lose a

1086
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 3: lot more games. They won eighteen more games than the

1087
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 3: seventh place Timberwolves last year. But if they can kind

1088
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 3: of split the difference between the Timberwolves and the Suns,

1089
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 3: it's looking all right if we redistribute some of those wins.

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00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's go through the stream team here some

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00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: suggestions for dumb bolt predictions, because you can go everywhere

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00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: with this one. Okay, I see a couple about Kyrie.

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00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 1: Eric says, Kyrie retires at the trade deadline. That's very bold.

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00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: That's it is not a zero percent chance, though, you

1095
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: gotta agree. But Dennis Robins says, maybe this is even crazier.

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00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: Kyrie will cause no off court controversy all season long?

1097
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: Which one's more likely? No controversy off the court from

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00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: Kyrie or Kyrie literally retiring at the trade deadline?

1099
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 3: Legit question, that's us. I think you're getting plus one

1100
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 3: twenty five for retire and minus.

1101
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: Zero off court.

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00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1103
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, okay, multiple NBA teams get sold in the

1104
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: next nine months, that's from Zach. Okay multiple key part.

1105
00:53:57,840 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: We know the Suns are up for sale, so you

1106
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: assume that would happen. But uh, who's the who's the

1107
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: second straight games? The third team?

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00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: Okay, good one.

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00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: Uh.

1111
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: Tenzen says Karl Anthony Towns will be an m v

1112
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: P if the Wolves are top three in the West.

1113
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 2: Don't accept that. You don't know, there's there's a caveat there.

1114
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 2: If they just say it, just say say it's just

1115
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 2: a comment and a stream team. The Wolves will finish

1116
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: top you know.

1117
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: You massage that a little bit. Just say Carl Anthony

1118
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: Towns will be a top will finish in the top

1119
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: three m v P vote. Okay, that's still bold, still bold,

1120
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: but maybe more realistic. He also sorry, also says the

1121
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: Pistons will be last year's Pelicans, so they'll make the

1122
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: play in. There'll be that team that turns it on.

1123
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: It sneaks in there. That's okay, Amelia says. Alex Caruso

1124
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: becomes an All Star. That's very bold, very bold. Ben

1125
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: Simmons will lead the league in screen and hockey assists,

1126
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: says Kofi okay.

1127
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 2: Wearing hockey jerseys.

1128
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: Uh, what else do we got here? They're flying in here.

1129
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 2: Blazers get cold. Oh, Blazers get sold. I thought it's

1130
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 2: a Blazers get cold. That that was an a good job.

1131
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: Calvin says Westbrook turns back the clock. Okay, that's I

1132
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: don't see that happening, but uh. And then Kelvin also

1133
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: says Haslim will be most improved player. Now that's very bold.

1134
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 2: That's your surprised.

1135
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear from everybody, especially you listening to the

1136
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 1: podcast or watching later on YouTube. Drop your dumb bold

1137
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: predictions and the YouTube comments. Tweet them in at No

1138
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: Dunk Saint. Maybe we'll do a little round up, put

1139
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: together a little fun video. Let's saying everybody's dumb bold predictions.

1140
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 2: That sounds great. There's there's gonna be some parody in

1141
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 2: the NBA. There's no doubt. I don't think anyone's gonna

1142
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 2: win sixty games this year. It's not a crazy, crazy bit,

1143
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 2: but yeah, if anyone wins over fifty five, if you

1144
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 2: a bold prediction would be no one wins over fifty five. Whoa.

1145
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 2: And it's possible. It's definitely possible with how many good

1146
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 2: teams in both conferences. Yeah, but Scott last year, right,

1147
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 2: I think too.

1148
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 3: I think we had a fifty six win team.

1149
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 2: So Sons and Grizzy, Sons and Grizzes, they got to

1150
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 2: come back to earth.

1151
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: All right. That's part four. We have one part left.

1152
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: We're almost there with our season preview series, our Burning Questions.

1153
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: If you guys are enjoying this, leave your boys a

1154
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: five star rating and review like subscribe to No Dunks

1155
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: on YouTube, share the show. I will remind you to

1156
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: check out yesterday's Is This Good podcast? It's in the

1157
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: No Dunks YouTube feed and podcast feed. Get your No

1158
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: Ducks merch over at No dunks dot com. Get those

1159
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: questions and comments in No Dunks at the Athletic dot com. Tomorrow,

1160
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: our fifth and final part Burning Questions include surprise playoff teams.

1161
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: Maybe the Pistons will be in the mix for that one.

1162
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: Which player is entering a make or break season? And

1163
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: our finals predictions. We'll call the teams, we'll call the winner,

1164
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: we'll call the finals MVP.

1165
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 2: Oh that's not easy. That's not easy.

1166
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 3: It's not it's not.

1167
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 2: Everybody always looks back and asks us, how could you?

1168
00:56:58,480 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 2: How could you do that?

1169
00:56:59,480 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: Dummies?

1170
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 2: Yeah? Later, and everyone always looks back and says, are

1171
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 2: those the same questions you used last We're in a

1172
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 2: preview in the exact same order. Everybody always asks that.

1173
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: They're very similar, secret, very similar. Hey, if it ain't broke,

1174
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: don't fix it. Later today New No Buffs Survivor episode

1175
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: one pm Eastern. No Buffs has its own YouTube feed

1176
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: and its own podcast feed. Bringing down an episode four

1177
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: last night. I thought a very very entertaining episode. So

1178
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: I feel like we got some fun topics to debate.

1179
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: TK and JD no doubt.

1180
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're gonna be talking a lot about machetes.

1181
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 3: I just think we're gonna talk a lot about good

1182
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 3: It's gonna.

1183
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: Come on all right, So we'll see you later. If

1184
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: you're a Survivor fan, over on No Buffs at one

1185
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: pm Eastern. Otherwise, you basketball sickles. We'll see you tomorrow

1186
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: morning at ten am Eastern live here on YouTube. Until then,

1187
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: Clipper bros.

1188
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

1189
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 3: love you guys awesome.

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00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember throw your dumb bold

1191
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 2: predictions in the YouTube comment it's below. This one's a

1192
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 2: great one new Weggie record from reading Challenge, which would

1193
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 2: be breaking the record of fifty one. I'm sorry, no,

1194
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 2: we had we had fifty eight, you know, in the

1195
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 2: pandemic years, so it's like it doesn't count. There's fifty

1196
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 2: eight wedgies which smashed the record previous record of fifty one.

1197
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 2: It's a reading challenge, so fifty nine plus sixty plus

1198
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 2: sixty yeah.

1199
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: Good prediction. Not dumb enough in my opinion, prediction.

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00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 2: All yeah.

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Speaker 1: Praise the day people,