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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, guess who's back. It's me Jack, I'm

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Speaker 1: back and Miles is gone because we cannot be in

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Speaker 1: the same room together. We are like cats and dogs,

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Speaker 1: but we are here. I'm here with super producer Jabari Davis,

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Speaker 1: and it is Summer League Baby, Full Swing Team USA

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Speaker 1: has a few more basketball showcases before heading to Plin

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Speaker 1: at the end of the month. Teams are still making

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Speaker 1: moves in free agency. We'll get into all of that

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Speaker 1: and more with actor comedian one of the great podcasters,

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Speaker 1: one of the great singers. He is Jackies Neil. On

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Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm Jack.

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Speaker 2: O'Brien and I'm producer Jabari and for Miles, and.

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Speaker 3: This is Miles and Jeff got mat Yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: we three got it.

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Speaker 4: Look, don't hitch t k there.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be driving spinning.

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Speaker 4: From Block's got it with five?

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Speaker 1: Is gonna try another three?

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Speaker 4: Mister?

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Speaker 2: Look on James to be honest, Well the tell look out,

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Speaker 2: no shot time?

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Speaker 1: What you go? Yes? Uh? Jack, Keith?

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Speaker 4: What up?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 4: How we doing we living?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm doing alright, man, I'm doing alright. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was talking before you arrived on the call that

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Speaker 1: I am. Unfortunately I have been pulled back in. Welcome

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Speaker 1: as a seventy six er thing, you've.

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Speaker 5: Been pulled back in. I mean, look, you guys got PG,

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Speaker 5: We got PG. You know, personally, goal toward that that

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Speaker 5: uh Western that Eastern Conference Finals exit.

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Speaker 1: One of these days, that is the dream an Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference finals egg.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we've been working for. That's what we've

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Speaker 1: been when we get in when when the seventy six

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Speaker 1: ers get in the huddle before the game, can we

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Speaker 1: if this, if we just work together as a team,

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Speaker 1: you guys, this year, we are going to be able

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Speaker 1: to lose in five in the Eastern Conference Finals.

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Speaker 5: One of those players, it's PG, one of those players

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Speaker 5: who we think won't ever win one, won't ever win

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Speaker 5: one because like so yeah, because when we just joined the.

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Speaker 1: Best team in the NBA. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: heard the first part where I was talking about the finals,

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Speaker 1: the championship fate No go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Okay, no that you're right, You're right, he's gonna win.

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Speaker 4: The seventy six ers, uh.

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Speaker 5: I mean you know, listen, they the seventy sixers every

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Speaker 5: year are have the potential on paper, so you know

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Speaker 5: they can put it together.

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Speaker 4: Then you know who's coach right right now? Doc? Right? No,

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Speaker 4: Nick nurse, our Nick nurse. We're doc at oh Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: All right's got.

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Speaker 4: A better chance now that doc is not in Philly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think nurse Like, I feel good. I feel

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Speaker 1: like they have the proper pieces to put it together

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Speaker 1: barring injury, which is which makes me think the injury

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Speaker 2: Probably.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you in much better place than I am.

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Speaker 5: I am and you know, so excited to root for

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Speaker 5: my Chicago Bulls who should barely get sixteen wins this year,

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Speaker 5: probably as our entire team gets decimated, which, yeah, let's

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Speaker 5: blow it up and tank.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that feels like where we're at. It feels like

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Speaker 1: they they're like, we're three steps ahead of you, Bud,

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Speaker 1: we are in it. But yeah, I should mention, you know,

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Speaker 1: and also a Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 4: Fan, which is the most important thing because most of

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Speaker 2: So I got to ask, is is this, like you

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Speaker 2: know SAG for Flag? Is Cooper Flagg the desire target there?

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Speaker 4: You mean for Bulls.

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Speaker 5: It's funny, Like the Bulls organization post Jordan has always

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Speaker 5: But my best hope is to see what happened to

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Speaker 5: until then I don't have faith in our organization anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the best name I've heard for sag for flag

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Speaker 1: was from friend of the show Carl Tart's podcast The

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Speaker 4: Uh, the white flag or white flag.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys talk about his performance against Team USA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Miles was going off about it in particular because

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Speaker 1: But yeah, will allow it, will allow him them on

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Speaker 2: No, okay with that? Yeah, okay, But honestly, much like Jaquez,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is the best time of the year

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Speaker 1: The Summer League has some care. I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: he can play. So he had one summer league game

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Speaker 5: If he can stay healthy, yeah, I think he will

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Speaker 5: And I think, like you know, with somebody like John

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure what I saw with Job, but like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 4: That's the thing. They didn't have a great season last year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, clean enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really sure why there was hesitation or

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Speaker 1: I remember when Andrew Wiggins when it was rigging for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's real, that's real. And speaking of those Spurs,

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Speaker 1: You know what Ken Whitmore is out there just like

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Speaker 4: I I do.

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Speaker 5: You know what's funny for me when I watched Summer League,

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Speaker 1: Do you have you watched any of your number eleven

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Speaker 5: No, I'm pretty pissed. I'm pretty upset at the Bulls.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I I just don't like what we're.

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Speaker 2: Don't want them to develop bad habits, but you know,

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Speaker 2: like that even in losses, you know, it's silver lining,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why we're looking forward to us.

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Speaker 2: it puts him in a position to where they're gonna

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00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 2: have to make difficult you know, they're gonna have to

440
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 2: have difficult conversations about guys like you know, Aaron Gordon

441
00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 2: and or even a Michael Porter Junior. So yeah, like, look,

442
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: I couldn't explain all of it to you, but what

443
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: it feels like, like I said, is it's a true

444
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 2: hardcap and it's getting it and it's allowing allowing owners

445
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 2: to say, like, maybe parody isn't the worst of ideas.

446
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is great.

447
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 5: I mean, I you know, listen, the NBA is, the

448
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 5: NBA is in a more fun era of its existence

449
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 5: right now than it has been, you know, in a

450
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 5: long time. And and for me, you know, there's certain

451
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 5: eras that are Every era is fun. You know, the

452
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 5: nineties were great. I was fairly alive in the eighties.

453
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 5: But the eighties were great. You know, the Kings and

454
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 5: the Lakers were fun, you know those even the Detroit

455
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,199
Speaker 5: you know, or going to the two thousand tens, you know,

456
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 5: Lebron versus Steph for twenty five times, like, you know,

457
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:51,959
Speaker 5: it was.

458
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 4: It was all fun eras.

459
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 5: But like, the one thing that the era before this,

460
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 5: one of the black spots on the league in my

461
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 5: and as a fan, was that it was just so predictable, Like.

462
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, come into the season and you were like, oh,

463
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Cas versus Golden State, and it was it.

464
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 5: And no matter and no matter how it looked like

465
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 5: it was going to shake out, it all settled to

466
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 5: be exactly that at the end, where it was just

467
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 5: kind of it was fun to watch you know, like

468
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 5: great basketball, but it was boring, yeah as a fan

469
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 5: to just like you know, get your hopes up and

470
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 5: then like lose to the two teams that everybody knew

471
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 5: was going to get there. And in the past, well,

472
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 5: in the past like five seasons, especially the last four,

473
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 5: since the bubble, it's not been that.

474
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: Why are you taking out the bubble? Why you.

475
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 5: Know, since the bubble, you know what I'm saying, since

476
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 5: the ship But I'm saying, but but as it. But

477
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 5: the reason I'm taking out the bubble is because like

478
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 5: that season was just like stop midway through and then

479
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 5: it was a weird season as far as standings and

480
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 5: play and everything like that.

481
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've always said that you don't think it

482
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: should have stopped. You thought that the plandemic was uh

483
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah.

484
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 5: You know when they sent when they sent Rudy Goberian,

485
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 5: you know as plants, the tough on all the mics,

486
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 5: you know, that was that was that was all part.

487
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: Of the play.

488
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: People don't know you did that at every NBA it was.

489
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, moving they flew that that uh that might cover

490
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 5: around and just like in every locker.

491
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: Room, wrung the COVID out of it.

492
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 4: Just rung the COVID out.

493
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the only argument I've heard against this is

494
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Speaker 1: from uh, a very famous Boston sports fan. It was like,

495
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to like keep keep the

496
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: team together anymore. It's not fair, Like this should be

497
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Speaker 1: more like the NFL, where like you know, uh, you

498
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Speaker 1: can keep a core together. And the problem with that

499
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: is that the NFL has variants built into it because

500
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: it's a winner take all one game playoff and championship,

501
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: So you have variants built in, and you're not going

502
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: to have the same team in the finals every single

503
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: year with the same core. The NBA likes as we saw,

504
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: like what like you were talking about Jackies, Like if

505
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: if the NBA like makes it so that these teams

506
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Speaker 1: can keep the exact same core together for ten years,

507
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: it might be the same team in the finals for

508
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Speaker 1: ten years, because that's yeah, and.

509
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 4: It gets boring. It gets boring.

510
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: Seven game series, the best team is going to usually win.

511
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 5: And then also like look, man, look look when the

512
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 5: sixth player on the team is making more money than

513
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 5: Michael Jordan made in his last season as an NBA player. Yeah,

514
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 5: like not keeping your core together is falling on deaf

515
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 5: years less money. Correct, then take less money like y'all

516
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 5: getting paid so and I'm not saying now, don't get

517
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 5: paid what you're worth. But the real reason it's hard

518
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 5: to keep a car together now is because players are

519
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 5: getting paid forty plus million.

520
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 4: Dollars this season to play basketball.

521
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 5: Uh and and and and this is part of like

522
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 5: the deals. And I know, I know it's not just

523
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 5: black and white, Like this money is coming from somewhere

524
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 5: and the players should get their share. Yeah, but that

525
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 5: is going to be a downfall to it. When like

526
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 5: every player becomes a max player, then you ain't gonna

527
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 5: be able to have a bunch of max players on

528
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 5: your concept on your team anymore. Like that's just the

529
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 5: way it is.

530
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: It's Scotty Barnes and what's his name from Orlando both

531
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: got maxed out right.

532
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 2: Crazy Vronz Wagner, Scotti Bares Yeah, Like that really is

533
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: a case. You can't have it both ways if you want,

534
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 2: you know, if you want parody in the NBA, you

535
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: don't want, you know, like the dynasty teams, then you're

536
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: gonna have to open it up for this if you

537
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: want guys to get paid. And you know, the way

538
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 2: that they should, you know, commiserate to their their talent

539
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 2: and what they're contributing your you know, to the product.

540
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: Then you're not going to be able to stack everybody

541
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: on the same team. It's just it really, you know,

542
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 2: to me, the argument or the complaint there, you know

543
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: it it falls on deaf ears because it truly is

544
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 2: a you can't have it both ways.

545
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, the complaint is basically, I want the Boston Celtics

546
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: to be able to keep the Boston Celtics together for

547
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: the rest of my natural life, which yeah, I don't

548
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: know how many people are in that same boat.

549
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 5: And I'm a you know, look man, I grew up.

550
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 5: I look again, I'm a Chicago guy. I grew up,

551
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 5: and I grew up in the nineties dynasty.

552
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: Man.

553
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 5: So I'm used to seeing a team win over fifty

554
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 5: percent of the championships in one decade. And I know

555
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 5: Boston fans are used to that too. I know Warriors

556
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 5: fans have that, Spurs fans have that. There are teams

557
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 5: that have it. But like, even as a Bulls fan,

558
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 5: as much as I would love to see my team

559
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 5: rattle off five championships, like I think as a basketball fan,

560
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 5: I think it's better to see a team win one

561
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 5: or two and then like, you know, move on. We

562
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 5: don't need to see a team win three, four or

563
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 5: five championships in a row anymore. Like it's not it's

564
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 5: not good for basketball, not in this era of basketball fanship,

565
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 5: where our attention spans are so short and there's so

566
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 5: many ways to watch and enjoy the game and just

567
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 5: know so much about the game and his players.

568
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 4: It's not.

569
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: It was a very top heavy league back then, right,

570
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: Jordan was so much better than the next best players

571
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: and you know, uh, Magic and Bird and you know,

572
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: in the eighties. So it's so wild that the Bulls

573
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: are like, you know, just while we're on the subject

574
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: of like caps and hard caps and it's just so

575
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: wild that the and this is a point that I

576
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: think I heard Bill Simmons making, was that like Chicago

577
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: should be one of the best teams in the league.

578
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: Like perennially they're like a the second or third biggest market.

579
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 4: And their biggest market in the country get.

580
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: A lot of attention for having ownership that doesn't want

581
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: to spend money and is bad and does but the

582
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: Bulls ownership is believe, like even what that was One

583
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: of the things that the last Dance I think reminded

584
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people of is like even as they're

585
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: like going into the sixth season of this amazing dynasty,

586
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: They're like, we want to break it up. We don't

587
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: want to keep paying for these guys. We think they're overpaid.

588
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: This guy Jordan's dime a dozen.

589
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can do it again. We build this, we

590
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 5: can build it again. It's like, Okay, we're going to

591
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 5: make sure Eddie Curry.

592
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

593
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 5: And the thing about it, so, Chicago is the third

594
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 5: largest market in the NBA in most sports leagues generally,

595
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 5: I don't know about hockey.

596
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 4: And New York is over that.

597
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 5: I think New York will probably be number one, to

598
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 5: be honest, or or to and la Is obviously rounds

599
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 5: out the top three. But unlike New York, Chicago has

600
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 5: more success than the Knicks have had their entire existence

601
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 5: as a franchise. Like, we have more championships, granted, all

602
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 5: in one decade, but we have more.

603
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: Championships, had a good run, we had a great run.

604
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 4: We have more playoff success.

605
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 5: We've made like more playoff runs than the Knicks have

606
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 5: in the past twenty years. You know, not right, now,

607
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 5: but like, for the most part, we have and you know,

608
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 5: like we have more famous players. The Knicks are dope,

609
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 5: they got good players, Mellow great, but you know, like

610
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 5: the Rose was dope, Mike was great, Scotty was great.

611
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 4: Like filter like this, and so it's just it baffles me.

612
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 5: And I'm saying all that which sounds positive when I'm

613
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 5: about to take a poopoo on the Bulls. It baffles

614
00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 5: me how we fumble so many free agents when it tried.

615
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 5: When it comes to like coming to the Chicago boy, like,

616
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 5: it baffles.

617
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: Me, Like they're not even in the conversation, Like the

618
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: conversation happens around the Knicks where people are like, well,

619
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: you know so, and somebody is going to get extremely

620
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: famous by bringing the Knicks back to glory, like it's

621
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: way too long. But the Bulls, I guess maybe it's

622
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: because Jordan's imprint was so massive that people are just like, well,

623
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: you're never You're just in his shadow forever. It's not

624
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: crazy to bring.

625
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 5: But when d Rose was playing and like it was

626
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 5: looking like we might go to the Promised Land with

627
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 5: d Rose, I'm telling you I was in Chicago. I'm

628
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 5: telling you we was ready like we would we would

629
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 5: have crowned d Rose.

630
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, the media covers it.

631
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were ready. We were ready to crown him.

632
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 5: And like I'll see often like and now I'll see

633
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 5: this question often, you know, like the would you rathers?

634
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 5: And like I answered this honestly, would you rather like

635
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 5: take one or two championships away from Jordan just to

636
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 5: give one to d Rose?

637
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 4: And I routinely say, yes, Wow, I.

638
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 5: Would I would like to give one to that team

639
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 5: When Rose was that MVP level, Oh my god, yeah, dude,

640
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 5: and from Chicago, the kid from Chicago.

641
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 4: Who says why can't I be the MVP?

642
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 5: And they he becomes it and leads the team to

643
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 5: the championship.

644
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 4: Bro, Yeah, it would have been beautiful. So we're ready.

645
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 2: We're ready.

646
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 5: As much as we love Mike, we are ready to

647
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 5: crown somebody else, like we want to, like we want

648
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 5: to so bad.

649
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

650
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: I do think the Knicks are I don't know that,

651
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: so they Brunton has reportedly left about thirty million on

652
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: the table in order to make things easier for the

653
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: next with the salary cap.

654
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 4: I heard it was like one thirteen.

655
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: It's because like he signed it a year earlier, so

656
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 2: like basically, he'll eventually get that money. It's just okay,

657
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: he signed it early, so I think I think it

658
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: was somewhere between thirty and thirty five million. Is what

659
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: he's actually losing, which is thirty five million.

660
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michal Bridges is expected to also take a salary

661
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: cut so that they can all play together. So now

662
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: people are like the Knicks. Are the Knicks the second

663
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: best team in the Eastern Conference? Do you guys think?

664
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 5: I think if they I think if they can put

665
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 5: it together, I mean, like the additions they made this offseason.

666
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 4: We're dope.

667
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: And I think if they can put it together, I

668
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 5: don't trust Milwaukee anymore. Yeah, who else besides I mean

669
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 5: I guess Philly obviously, and.

670
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Philly, New York and Boston.

671
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 5: But I think that's your top three, like just on

672
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 5: paper right now, that's your top three.

673
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 4: And I can't I'm not I'm not knock Gonna.

674
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 5: I can't knock it because I literally just said this

675
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 5: five minutes ago, Like, if you want to put a

676
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 5: team together that can win, and the core that you

677
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 5: can keep together, like players are gonna probably have to

678
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 5: take less money or less or different type of deals

679
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 5: to do it, and the Knicks are like, we want,

680
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 5: we want to win.

681
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 4: So let's go, let's do it. I respect that. I

682
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:08,959
Speaker 4: respect what they're doing.

683
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 5: Now from a broke man's perspective, what you're doing, bruh

684
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 5: doing brouh.

685
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: The anonymous nobody on Twitter tweeted, then teach economics at Villanova.

686
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, oh man, I think it's going to be

687
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: an interesting year in the Eastern Conference next year.

688
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 4: I guess Indiana is still there.

689
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: Indiana's still there.

690
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 4: I don't trust. I don't I'm not that high on them.

691
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest, yeah, I don't know. I'll tell

692
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: you the person that, just having lived through the series

693
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: where we got beat by the Knicks, Hartenstein was the

694
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: person who really I have bad dreams about still. I

695
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: think that's partially because we embiid was hurt and slow

696
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: to the rebound, and Hartenstein's just got every rebound. So

697
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: the fact that he's gone makes me feel a little

698
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: bit better about how Philly stacks up against them. But not,

699
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. They they're going to have some shooting

700
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: now that's going to be pretty tough to contend with.

701
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: And Brunson so good.

702
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, Brunton and Halliburton may have a

703
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 5: w w E match one day, you know what I'm saying.

704
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 4: They were It was just on Monday Night rawl or

705
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 4: one or a pay per view. I can't remember which one.

706
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 4: Maybe it was a pay per view.

707
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got you're a fan of wrestling. In

708
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: addition to the NBA, I have to say that this

709
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: immediately gave me less respect for the acting of wrestlers

710
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: because they were immediately just as good as wrestlers in

711
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: terms of acting like they were and they sold it. Man,

712
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god. They though they sold it.

713
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 5: Listen that that that's cool and all, but it was

714
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 5: also who they were, who they were in with, you

715
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Yeah, first let let uh let

716
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 5: brock Lessners big budget in that ring with them.

717
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was.

718
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: Fun really quickly. On the Knicks, it feels like they're

719
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: set up to honestly defend everybody except for Philly, uh,

720
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 2: which you know, whether they're gonna address that or not,

721
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: or they don't necessarily think that they're going to face

722
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: them like in a in a post in a post

723
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: season situation. I love what the Knicks have done. I

724
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: do think that I do think they're clearly the second

725
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: best regular season team, clearly. Yeah, I'll go out on

726
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 2: that limbit. And this is after trying to you know,

727
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: trying to get you to stick with the Sixers every year.

728
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

729
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: Well, now that I've said them sticking with them, You're like, Okay,

730
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: I can be honest.

731
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: Now, this is the one year where I'll say I

732
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: think the Sixers match up really well with a lot

733
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 2: of the teams in the East. So this is the

734
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 2: first year in a long time where I'll say the

735
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: Sixers look like a sixteen game team as opposed to

736
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 2: just primarily being the eighty two games were the Nick. Yeah,

737
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 2: for the Knicks, They're gonna cause a lot of trouble

738
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 2: for a lot of people throughout that regular season.

739
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I especially because the Sixers, I think our

740
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: best strategy is not to play Joe l Embiid in

741
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: the regular season. Yeah, you know what I do.

742
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 5: You know, like every every like major sport has like

743
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 5: a really dope thing about their season that's fun. Uh,

744
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 5: And I think MLB does this the best out of

745
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 5: the top four is like, uh, the trade deadline is

746
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 5: so fun in Major League Baseball because it is truly

747
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 5: just like all right, all the teams that stuck are

748
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 5: dumping off players, and all the contending teams just go

749
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 5: get that one last piece they need to like take

750
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 5: them over the hump for the second half of the season.

751
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 4: It's like such a fun Like in.

752
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 5: Twenty sixteen, the Cubs did that again in the World

753
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 5: as Chapman and like that took us over the humps

754
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 5: when that World Series.

755
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 4: Like I wish that.

756
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 5: I wish the NBA had more of just tool up

757
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 5: for much like I can see the Knicks. I can

758
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 5: see the like the Knicks playing well and then like

759
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 5: taking those first forty games to see like, okay, what

760
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 5: do what what do we need.

761
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,479
Speaker 4: To like get us over the hump.

762
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 5: Now do we've seen ourselves play or we've seen how

763
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 5: that this team operates, and then make one move and

764
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 5: then it's off to the races in the second half

765
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 5: of the season. I think that would be so fun

766
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 5: in basketball. Yeah, if that happened more.

767
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: There's just like a whammy day where all of a sudden,

768
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: one player just got shaken loose from their team and

769
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: everybody had to let go around like to get them. Yeah,

770
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: that would be fun. All right, Should we take a

771
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: quick break, and then we'll come back and we'll do

772
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: the rapid fire round of questioning. Oh that sound good?

773
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh you forgot. Yeah, we should mention, Jaqis,

774
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: you haven't been on in one and twenty one episodes.

775
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: This is our one and twenty second episode. You were

776
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: on air our first episode. Gosh, couple things that changed

777
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: around here, Not really that much.

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Speaker 5: You mean if I went and I'm looking at my

779
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 5: list right here, and it says if I answer the

780
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 5: most questions, I guess season tickets, the NBA.

781
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: Tickets to recordings of Miles and Jack, and you can

782
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: just sit in invited. I got you. Okay, let's do

783
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: it all right, we'll be right back and we're back, Jaquise.

784
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: The Olympics are here. So in this rapid fire round

785
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: of questions, which by the way, is fastest segment in podcasting,

786
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: you just don't don't think. Just to answer. We're going fast,

787
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: bing bang boom. Picture a bullet ricocheting around, uh, the

788
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: the room in a in a movie. That's how fast

789
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: we want this conversation to flow. If we slow things down,

790
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: you need to get us back on track. Okay, okay, Jabar,

791
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: you want to start, No.

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00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 2: You go ahead and start.

793
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: Okay, we got two teams. You got Team USA twenty

794
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Speaker 1: twenty four or the redeem Team two thousand and eight.

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00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 4: Two thousand eight? Oh sorry, alright, Dan, correct?

796
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: Okay, So I just want to name some of the

797
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: players who are on two thousand and eight. Got Carlos Boozer,

798
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: Darron Williams. Are you start with Michael Red Sure, Chris Bosh,

799
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard, Ran, Kayshawn Prince.

800
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, defense babe?

801
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: All right? You also got Carmeli, you got Prime Lebron.

802
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: You got Jason Kidd more or Asen kids. I think

803
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: this was a period where he still didn't have a Jay. Yeah,

804
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: somebody named Kobe Bryant or something b Bryant, that's right. Uh,

805
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul. So that's the team two

806
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. You think they're beating this team?

807
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 4: Actually, now that I'm thinking about this, and.

808
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: Now that I said all those, now.

809
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 5: You got me thinking about this. That that team that's

810
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 5: a tough team to try to beat. A team with

811
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Speaker 5: Steph Curry on it. I'm going twenty twenty four.

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00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: I think that's right. I kind of agree, but Jabari

813
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: is hard two thousand and eight because he's a big

814
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: Kobe fan.

815
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Speaker 5: You got Kobe, and that's what I was going to, Like,

816
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 5: you still got Lebron, who obviously isn't as good as

817
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 5: he wasn't O eight, but like it's still still top

818
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 5: five player in the world right now.

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00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: So like he's just different. I mean, he's definitely not

820
00:42:58,360 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: as good as he was in two thousand and eight,

821
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: but like he's also so smart.

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00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 5: I feel and in oh wait, in wait, basketball was

823
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 5: still slightly slower paced, wasn't The three pointer hadn't become

824
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 5: keen yet, and you put that team becaust.

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00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 4: This Steph Curry. Man, Nah, I think I gotta go

826
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 4: to the twenty four give me.

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00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 2: Oh wait, Lebron locking steps a little? But up man,

828
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man, oh wait is smashing this team?

829
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 5: Man, Lebron lock up, Jason Terry, He ain't locking up

830
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 5: that not in two thousand and eight, Bro, Maybe twenty fourteen.

831
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: In the previous season had Lebron and No.

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Speaker 5: No.

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00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: Eight was Preheatles, right, yeah yeah not not wait wait

834
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Speaker 1: Boston won.

835
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Speaker 5: Oh that's right, yeah yeah, Lebron a locking up? Steph, Lebron.

836
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,479
Speaker 5: That Lebron offensively great. He ain't locking up prime Steph

837
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Speaker 5: Curry combination.

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Speaker 2: Of Lebron and Bean and and d Wade. You know, yes,

839
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 2: I'll take it, everybody.

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00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: This Lebron, oh wait, Lebron is not as good like

841
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: what he really needed that that loss to Dallas to

842
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: become like.

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00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 5: That's that's prime Lebron, right there is. Twenty eleven through

844
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 5: fifteen sixteen is prime Lebron. Uh, that's Lebron at his peak,

845
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 5: offensively and defensively.

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00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: I need y'all to go back and watch them O

847
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: eight Lebron highlights. Man, I'm sorry. Oh right, you're one

848
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: hundred percent right in terms of you know, twenty twelve,

849
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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, it was ridiculous, but oh w eight Lebron

850
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 2: was still so nasty.

851
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: It's pretty nicely he was great.

852
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 2: It's disgusting.

853
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 4: He was just ye, he was yelking on people.

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00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:45,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's fair.

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00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 4: I still got to go twenty twenty four. That's why

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Speaker 4: were you Let.

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Speaker 2: Me ask this as a follow up. By the way,

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Speaker 2: this is a rabid fire. So this was supposed to

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Speaker 2: be just yeah, and.

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00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 4: Now way up here discussing this stuff.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll get it off of that, but stick

862
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 2: with Team USA. What is the one moment or game

863
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: from Team USA history that you wish Twitter had been

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00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 2: around for.

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00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 5: Oh, I wish it would have been around for that

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00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 5: game where Charles Barkley was like, uh, I get what.

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Speaker 4: The name is now, but I don't know them. We're

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00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 4: gonna beat them with like the like when he said

869
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 4: that quote, and they'd like to see it happen. It

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Speaker 4: would have been amazing. It would have been so funny.

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00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 5: Uh. And then also and then also the second second

872
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 5: response is and because I just saw this on Twitter,

873
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 5: but I wasn't big on Twitter when this happened. Was

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Speaker 5: like the New Zealand team did like the little tribal

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Speaker 5: dance before like before.

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Speaker 4: The game, and the NBA players were just watching, like

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Speaker 4: what the heck is this? And this dream team it

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Speaker 4: was there.

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Speaker 5: I think it was the Dream Team, yeah, or the

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Speaker 5: or like the USA team and then uh, and then

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Speaker 5: they beat them by like thirty point.

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Speaker 2: Twelve or twenty sixteen, but I think it was like

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was twenty twelve. It was so funny.

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Speaker 5: They had the hockey that we're doing in the haka dance,

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Speaker 5: which was dope, but it's also meant.

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Speaker 4: To intimidate and be intimidating and imposing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: Cool and they who Yeah, that would have been great.

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Speaker 1: It's it's what we do best as a as a

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Speaker 1: country is basketball. So it's it's the one thing we

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Speaker 1: have left.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It is the beautiful game. With all apologies to I'm

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Speaker 1: not even apologizing to soccer anymore. Man, I just watched

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Speaker 1: the Copa Americas or whatever. Man, it's not a beautiful game.

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Speaker 1: We got the beautiful game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah man, yeah, yeah, as much as y'all running up

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Speaker 4: and down these fields, man, I need to see.

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Speaker 2: More toward Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Keith Neil, what a pleasure having you back on Miles

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Speaker 1: and jack got mad boosties.

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Speaker 4: Listen, listen, it's been it's been a beautiful time.

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Speaker 1: It's been a beautiful game. It's been a beautiful time.

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Speaker 1: One of the most beautiful guests podcast, Jakeith. Where can

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Speaker 1: people find you? Follow you all the time?

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Speaker 5: Ah?

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Speaker 4: You can find me at Jackie's Neil on Everything.

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Speaker 5: You can also find me in these streets wherever you're looking,

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Speaker 5: I'm probably there, but maybe not.

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Speaker 1: You just gotta just gotta look around.

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Speaker 4: You just gotta look and see you look around that's

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Speaker 4: all you gotta do. But yeah, at Jackie's Neil, that's.

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Speaker 5: Where every show that I do, everything that I'm doing,

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Speaker 5: stuff that i'm projects, new projects and stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: That's where everything will be. And then yeah, check out

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Speaker 5: some stuff on drop out TV if you like. You know,

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Speaker 5: a fun time for you. It's a good time to

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Speaker 5: go check out.

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Speaker 1: So check me out, check him out. You can give

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Speaker 1: us the follow on Twitter. I'm at jack Underscore, O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: Miles is at Miles of Gray Jabari.

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Speaker 2: Where are you at at A Davis?

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Speaker 1: All right? And then you can search hashtag mat boosties

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Speaker 1: for show links and nothing and be sure to join

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Speaker 1: the conversation on discord. You can also find the link

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Speaker 1: for the discord when you search hashtag mag boosties. That's

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Speaker 1: another one in the books. Another from way Downtown Switch Lebron.

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Speaker 1: We are back next week and we'll talk to you alboram,

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Speaker 1: Bye bye.