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Speaker 1: on the latest edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to this League Uncut. In the rule of twenty

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Speaker 2: four hour NBA News.

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Speaker 3: This you'll.

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Speaker 2: Chris Hanes. It's go time, works time, It's so time.

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Speaker 2: This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should

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Speaker 1: Everyone. Welcome in to another edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 1: We are recording on a Monday before Chris Haynes makes

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Speaker 1: a mad dash to catch a plane to Denver. He's

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Speaker 1: One game on the sidelines in Denver last week wasn't enough.

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Speaker 1: He's moving into Denver for the whole week. We will

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Speaker 1: talk about the Nuggets, we will talk about the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors. But my first question, Chris Haynes, why on

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Speaker 1: earth it is March fourth as we record this. Why

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Speaker 1: are you still wearing a Kansas City Chiefs T shirt

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Speaker 1: that the listeners can't see but I most definitely can see.

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Speaker 3: Very simple answer is loudry day. I didn't have anything

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I haven't warned this shirt since the super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: and we've seen what happened at the super Bowl. Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Why, though, why do we I never see you in

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Speaker 3: Is this?

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Speaker 1: And you know me like when I get together, you

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Speaker 1: do these. Why the only team gear I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: you wear? Producer Ryan? Am I wrong on that? Do

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Speaker 3: I actually had multiple Fronough State sweaters.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I can remember this team related but

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Speaker 1: You're in seven rec leagues, but you can't.

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Speaker 3: It was during the week. They have it during the week,

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Speaker 3: You open you open it up, you open it up.

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Speaker 3: As you know, I'm in two rec leagues. On Saturday

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Speaker 1: About it, no question about it. There is no graceful

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Speaker 3: y'all let me know as a man, as a grown

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Speaker 3: ass man, do y'all feel like, you know, talking shit

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Speaker 3: and saying stuff that you wouldn't say in person? Do

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Speaker 3: you think that's okay? You think it's okay, you think

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Speaker 3: it's just trolling? And I want to hear from the

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Speaker 3: thirty five and up, like, what do y'all think about

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Speaker 3: this eraon? What do you think about the people that's

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Speaker 3: thirty five en up who know better, who didn't act

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Speaker 3: like that growing up, but now they feel they can

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Speaker 3: do so and hide behind a keyboard? How do you

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Speaker 3: feel about this? You know, let us know the feedback.

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Speaker 1: Stein Stein's looking at you, going, don't let me know.

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Speaker 3: I don't want this.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Phoenix suns because my favorite,

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Speaker 1: my favorite was to ask you on not just.

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Speaker 3: Feels the same way, feels the same way.

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Speaker 1: I was not. I was not trying to put you

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Speaker 1: and Kate put you and KD together. What I was

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Speaker 1: what I was curious. And this is not just a

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Speaker 1: favor for me, This is a favor on behalf of

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Speaker 1: all the listeners too. So you're you know, Thursday. You've

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Speaker 1: got the game that I've now anointed a finals preview,

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Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not alone in saying Boston at Denver

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night has finals preview potential. But you see

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Speaker 1: the Suns at Denver first, and just I'm really curious.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'll be I know, you'll be taking their

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Speaker 1: temperature just I mean, they've lost Devin Booker now, and

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Speaker 1: it just it is to me one of the most

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Speaker 1: astounding stats of the season. Let me quiz you how

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Speaker 1: many games have Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, and Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: played in together this season? Ryan and or Chris, don't

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Speaker 1: look it up? How many games have they played together

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Speaker 1: this season?

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Speaker 3: Actually?

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Speaker 1: You know what, let me ask it a different way.

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Speaker 1: What would you guess if you don't know, what's your

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Speaker 1: guess on how many games they played this season?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, So it's going

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Speaker 3: to be a guest. So the Big three, I was

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Speaker 3: gonna say like fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's twenty three. Bradley Beal his first game

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Speaker 1: back since mid February. He got ejected by the way,

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Speaker 1: and Devin Booker tweaks his ankle. That was game twenty three.

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Speaker 1: The Sons are fourteen and nine in those games, and

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Speaker 1: so this is also something that I talked about in

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Speaker 1: my sub stack. I guess that means, you know, Booker

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Speaker 1: is expected to miss a week to ten days ish

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Speaker 1: with this injury, but if it takes any longer, I

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Speaker 1: mean we have are the basically, are these guys going

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Speaker 1: to get thirty games in before the playoffs? Which is

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Speaker 1: amazing to me that the answer might be.

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, yeah, so what they got twenty something left?

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Speaker 3: Twenty one? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean you've been around this team a fair bit

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Speaker 1: this season. How worried do you think they are that

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Speaker 1: basically they're going into the playoffs with not even a

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Speaker 1: half season of evidence of what this thing looks like

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Speaker 1: with all three of them on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, slide and I steel, Like I'll always thought they

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Speaker 3: should have picked up a point guard, Like I've always

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Speaker 3: felt that, and Devin Booker going out, you know, he

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Speaker 3: was their league guard. Him going out now to a

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Speaker 3: lot of those ball handler responsibility shifts to Bradley Build

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Speaker 3: and then KD. But I just still feel like they

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Speaker 3: needed a point guard. With that being said, this it's

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Speaker 3: not good. I mean, they're talented enough to where they

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Speaker 3: can still probably pull through, still probably end the season

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Speaker 3: on a pretty good note. But you need continuity. You

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Speaker 3: need continuity going into the playoffs. And this was the thing.

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Speaker 3: You knew it the way that the way that the

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Speaker 3: Sun's cap situation, the way is set up, you knew

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Speaker 3: that injury was going to be what could what could

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Speaker 3: derail them because they just didn't have the assets available

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Speaker 3: to go out there and get quality depth.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about it all season, how the Sons

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Speaker 1: are all in with this team, the moves that they've

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Speaker 1: made to add Bradley Beal and make it a super

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Speaker 1: team trio with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as we speak, as we're recording this before Monday nights games,

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Speaker 1: I mean, man, I just the play in zone in

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Speaker 1: the West is stacked. New Orleans and Sacramento occupied the

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Speaker 1: fifth and sixth spots in the West in Monday morning

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Speaker 1: standing So that meant Phoenix was seventh, Dallas eighth, Golden State, ninth,

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Speaker 1: Lakers tenth. Imagined if it stayed that way and the

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Speaker 1: array of stars who woke up Monday morning stuck in

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Speaker 1: the play in zone, nobody wants to be stuck in

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Speaker 1: the friend zone and nobody wants to be stuck in

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Speaker 1: the play in zone. I mean Kevin Durant, Devin Booker

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Speaker 1: and Bradley Been Phoenix, Luka, Doncic and Kyrie Irving in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green and Golden State

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Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis in Lakerland. Based on Monday standings,

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Speaker 1: only two of those four teams are going to the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but those those teen are pretty much a lot

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Speaker 3: in the Western Conference. It's just that the order is

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Speaker 3: going to be a little bit different. But those ten

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Speaker 3: Utah is not Utah and Houston. They're not jumping into

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Speaker 3: that top ten.

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Speaker 1: All right. I suppose I should let you go and

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Speaker 1: sift through the laundry and get the actual gear that

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Speaker 1: you will be wearing in Denver for Sons at Nuggets

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Speaker 1: and Celtics at Nuggets this week two Marquee sideline assignments.

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Speaker 1: Please remember pack two dress shirts since it's the two

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Speaker 1: game trip. Yeah, I do not want to repeat of

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Speaker 1: what happened yeah at one time that I will never

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Speaker 1: let you forget about, wouldn't you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't want that to happen either. Yeah, I'm looking.

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Speaker 3: I'm still trying to figure out looking over my I

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Speaker 3: gotta I got a bunch of suits lined up right here,

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Speaker 3: so I'm trying to figure out which one.

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Speaker 1: Two pairs of kicks or just one.

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Speaker 3: It depends. I still I gotta figure out the suit.

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Speaker 3: Like if one pair of kicks can match both suits,

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Speaker 3: I might roll with that. But that's a tough part.

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Speaker 3: Start like I forget oftentimes, like when's the last time

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Speaker 3: I wore a suit? Because you know, if you wear

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Speaker 3: a suit too close together from your last broadcast Twitter,

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Speaker 3: as we've been talking about, they will let you know.

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Speaker 3: They will let you know. So I have to often.

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Speaker 3: So the good thing about it is I often take

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Speaker 3: pictures on game days with Regimller. We take a picture

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Speaker 3: before the game with the broadcast crew, me, Regi Miller,

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Speaker 3: Kevin Harden. That's like a ritual, all the sideline reporters.

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Speaker 3: We all do that, and so that I can look

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Speaker 3: at my pictures and see, Okay, this is the last

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Speaker 3: time I wore this. Okay, I wore this in late December.

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Speaker 3: I think I can pull this out again. It's early March,

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Speaker 3: so you know this is one of those situations.

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Speaker 1: Well, I certainly do not want you to get any

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Speaker 1: unneeded grief over a wardrobe decision.

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Speaker 3: So well, Stian, let me tell you this. Even if

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Speaker 3: I did, I wouldn't see it because I'm not on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: I told you that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's true.

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Speaker 3: I got some notifications. That's fine, that's good against we'll take.

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Speaker 1: But I guess we'll take your word for it.

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Speaker 3: That's good enough.

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Speaker 1: All right. That's gonna do it for this edition of

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Speaker 1: this League uncut. Remember, as always, please follow us, rate

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Speaker 1: review and thank you for your ongoing support. And like

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Speaker 1: I said, we know that when Chris makes a trip

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Speaker 1: on behalf of TNT, he always comes back with an

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Speaker 1: array of goods. So the fact that he's got two

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Speaker 1: games this week tells us we will be getting a

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Speaker 1: double dose of interesting tales and notes from the road.

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Speaker 1: Two games in Denver for mister Haynes, and we will

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Speaker 1: be back with you to discuss those and everything else

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Speaker 1: happening in this league very very soon. Thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us, and.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for us see you next time. This

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Speaker 2: League Uncutage and iHeartRadio production

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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes and Mark Stein