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Speaker 1: I hope all of you guys are having a great

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Speaker 1: week so far. Gosh, what is this? This is my

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Speaker 1: third full day starting here on the lake. We're taking

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Speaker 1: stuff up there. Looking forward to that. It's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. I tried waters excuse me, wakeboarding for

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Speaker 1: But vacations going great, having a good time. A couple

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Speaker 1: This this whole phase of this summer reminds me of

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Speaker 1: like every night was just like Russell Westbrook drama and

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Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, it's part of the job.

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Speaker 1: But you guys know me, I want to talk to basketball.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to get into something basketball related today.

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Speaker 1: And so there was a debate going around on Twitter

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Speaker 1: I have continued to hear from people connected that the

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Speaker 1: So I'm not mistaken. As of right now, even without

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Speaker 1: My thing is like, that's that's misdirection. That's all not important.

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Speaker 1: The Sixers don't have a talent problem. This team has

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Speaker 1: tons of talent. I talked about that NonStop during the season.

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Speaker 1: Tobias I always talk about when I'm like piecing together

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Speaker 1: to do. The Sixers have all of that. Joel Embiide

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Speaker 1: a supporting role at being able to create baskets against

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Speaker 1: I really liked the Daniel House and p J. Tucker

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Speaker 1: The reality is is James Harden needs to get healthy,

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Speaker 1: metric that captures what Nicola Yoki is as a basketball player. No, man, no,

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Speaker 1: Nikola Yoks doesn't play anything like any other player in

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Speaker 1: We've swung too far into leaning too heavily into that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Acknowledge that the game of basketball is a beautiful and

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