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Speaker 3: I think it's just funny how the listeners they were

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Speaker 1: next one. But anyway, we're here to talk to the

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Speaker 1: MTB talk and we got to talk about the Suns

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Speaker 1: with today's guest Lina Washington.

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Speaker 2: On today's episode, I'm Miles Gregg and.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jack O'Brien and this sees Jack done do three?

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Speaker 3: Got it?

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Speaker 4: Then?

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Speaker 3: Look at.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there you god driving spinning.

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Speaker 5: Katie got it with five.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna try another three, mister, Look on, James, be honest,

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Speaker 3: we look out little show time.

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Speaker 5: What you go?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Lena Washington, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: You're here. Look you you're classing the joint up.

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Speaker 1: Like I said last time, Emmy Award winning waker and

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Speaker 3: You said she couldn't do it. You said we couldn't

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Speaker 2: We just did.

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Speaker 3: And look we did that.

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Speaker 5: Look at you now, you look like they said, I

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Speaker 5: wonder what would happen if y'all never made it to

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Speaker 3: Yeah we still might not. Well that's right now, Well.

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Speaker 5: We better anfest the one hundred, the big wow.

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Speaker 5: So because after this one you have to come back a.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, or do we just put the mices down.

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Speaker 1: We're like, hey, we did it. Yeah, what do you say, Jack?

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Speaker 5: The way to go out?

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Speaker 1: Just they're like in the middle of this season, they

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Speaker 2: Get to the All Star break.

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Speaker 5: Andrew Loucke and just hang Outah, in the middle of everything.

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Speaker 3: My inner seventy six ers fan is having trouble getting

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Speaker 3: I'm excited. There's a lot of big teams, you're doing

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, I mean, since we have you, Lena,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Phoenix Suns, you know, I would give

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, your West Coast team obviously.

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Speaker 2: Right, But he's not going to be in the three

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Speaker 5: Think they're still considering participation he would be interested, right,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's heartening for me as a as a bruin myself,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, looking at those teams, I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: Watching him in the PAC twelve tournament in the finals

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Speaker 3: and then him Hawks who was at eighteen getting drafted

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Speaker 2: You saw we beat the Celtics, is nothing, just some

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Speaker 3: Obviously, Wow, Lebron and Ad must have had a good game.

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Speaker 1: Whoa you thought, well, well, well, well, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're so up and down.

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Speaker 1: Like even then, I was just like, oh my, we'll

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Speaker 2: And then yeah, Ad.

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Speaker 1: Put up his third career triple double against the Hornets

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Speaker 1: Also, Van Do going out is also not welcome news.

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Speaker 5: Yea.

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Speaker 3: The Calves though, the Calves hot hot.

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Speaker 2: They're so hot.

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Speaker 3: They're so hot, right, They're so hot right now.

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Speaker 1: These Cavaliers, their cavalier attitude towards the game, their performances,

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Speaker 2: That's wild, because I think they're one.

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Speaker 1: That one loss was against the Bucks, who they played

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, that's an impressive run. I know that.

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Speaker 2: And I know a couple of people who are Cavs

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Speaker 1: And to get it to this level, I mean, this

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Speaker 2: So you know, the thirty two and sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean, like I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: But is there a need to tinker at all?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're so deep now, Like with those

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Speaker 3: always makes more sense to me than it ends up,

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Speaker 3: like working on the court. But if you you're just

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Speaker 3: like all right, so have Garland be like just stagger him,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it seems like it's working so far. Obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's just back, but they seem tough to be their

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Speaker 3: second in the East. Nobody saw this come in a

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Speaker 3: media except us, because we're always right.

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Speaker 1: Accept us and we talked about the same five teams

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Speaker 5: I mean, what a surprise out of the East. And

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Speaker 5: But I'm kind of in the same boat of if

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Speaker 5: I think trying to focus in and hone in and

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Speaker 5: this stage. Right I don't know if I don't know

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Does that seem like the it like for the Suns too.

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Speaker 5: Most potential the name I keep hearing floated and that

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Speaker 5: if there are any other big kind of KD big

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Wojes bombs in that department. I can't. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. What do you think, Maybe that the Sixers

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think it makes sense

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Speaker 3: that usually means the end of the season. So I

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Speaker 3: don't know. It seems like we just don't know. But

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Speaker 3: he's also somebody who needs to play himself back into

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Speaker 3: just I feel like we're very lucky to have the

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Speaker 3: first half of the season be as fun as it was,

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Speaker 3: and on it it's just eulogizing the air is all

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Speaker 2: We were all I can't back you.

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Speaker 3: We gotta believe in games, and we gotta believe in

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Speaker 3: fourteen games until they revisit the staff, his names, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know me, I'm not. I'm like the biggest pessimist period,

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Speaker 3: Like when they're winning, when they were at their best

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Speaker 1: I know, You're like, I don't even know them. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but who knows. I mean, like Wosh said, quote Jack,

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Speaker 3: Just mentioning. Just hearing woj bombs hurt my heart a

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Speaker 3: little bit. So that's where I'm at as an NBA fan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right now, Yeah exactly, But yeah, I wouldn't go

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Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like you want, you know where you're

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Speaker 3: So it might be it might makes sense to keep

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and and yeah, producer Jabari was telling us

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Speaker 1: But then you got you know, people like Dwayne Wade

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Speaker 2: Went for the full on repair.

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Speaker 3: The full monisk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a tough one.

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Speaker 3: You just want to you want him to do what

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that does make that sort of

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Speaker 5: Of course. Yeah, that will be the narrative, whether we

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Speaker 5: up with that. Take that one of the top competitors

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Speaker 1: But yeah, and then despite that was potentially maybe doing

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Speaker 2: Jack, the door is still open. The door is still open.

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Speaker 1: I choose to see the door still open in the

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Speaker 1: universe exactly, and the universe.

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Speaker 5: Staff, so.

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Speaker 2: Gotta get your yarling in.

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Speaker 3: Can you take this team higher.

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Speaker 4: Tyres Maxie, please help me.

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Speaker 2: I think it's possible.

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Speaker 1: Creed, please don't send us another cease and desist, because

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Speaker 1: I felt like that was enough of a parody that

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Speaker 2: Fair use.

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Speaker 1: Seconds right, yeah, yeah, yeah, and that was clearly a parody.

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Speaker 3: You know that that means a lot. I don't know

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Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, that's what you guys think. That's great, you

442
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,880
Speaker 1: guys think glad. You guys so positive.

443
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 3: Some of us really really tough. The Knicks look incredible,

444
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 3: the Calves look incredible. I'm sure the Bucks are going

445
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 3: to get it together. Magic coming out of nowhere. So well,

446
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 3: we shall see. I've enjoyed. Thank you, Joe el Embiid

447
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,959
Speaker 3: for your service up to this point. You let's take

448
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 3: a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check in around

449
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 3: the week. We'll dring that and we're back. We're back,

450
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 3: And I don't know why we have to keep telling

451
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 3: these guys.

452
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 2: It's the law. It's a lot physics.

453
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 3: Score sixty points, your team is going to lose. Exactly.

454
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 3: If you score seventy, your team will win. So if

455
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 3: you think you can get to seventy, fine, go for it.

456
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 3: But if you get in the sixties, your team's gonna lose.

457
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 3: Steph proved it again. You know we had Cat who

458
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 3: else do we have go for sixty in the past

459
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 3: weeks and lose and now we got Steph go for sixty.

460
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 5: Devin Booker drops Devin Booker.

461
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 2: Book Yeah, yeah, yeah.

462
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was seventy and a loss before.

463
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't guaranteed drop seventy and win.

464
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 3: Okay, well this is a new rule. This like that

465
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 3: just started the past word Yeah, the NBA just instituted

466
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,719
Speaker 3: it in the past yea a couple of weeks. But anyway,

467
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 3: Steph still incredibly fun to watch, Still one of the

468
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 3: funnest people to see when he's locked in sixty point

469
00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 3: out burst Saturday versus the Hawks. The Hawk and the

470
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 3: Wizards seemed to be the two teams that people are

471
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 3: uh just feasting upon. Yeah yeah, I.

472
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 2: Think they call that food bro in the UK. Yeah, yeah,

473
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 2: in it.

474
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, look, or I say, a team

475
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: that inspires greatness, that's right, that's I think that's one

476
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: way to look at that coin. And it's inspirational for sure.

477
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: But you know, just as we talk about Steph putting

478
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: up sixty, this Klay Thompson, he's been I'm worried about Clay.

479
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I know he's going to be okay.

480
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: It's more the it's more the process in which an athlete,

481
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: a human being comes to grips with that things.

482
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 2: Aren't just happening the way they used to be.

483
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: There's like an era. There's like an air of confusion

484
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: about it. I think that's what kind of bums me

485
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: out because like he's like kind of scratching his head.

486
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: He's like, you know, like you go from like one

487
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 2: of the best to like he couldn't even find the

488
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 2: working meat.

489
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 5: Injuries would do that to a place, I think.

490
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 3: Totally the Achilles that's we've seen it before.

491
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a tough it's just a tough, tough thing.

492
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: But I mean like but just like he wears he

493
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: you know, he wears his heart on his sleeve, and

494
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: it's just like recently, like, hey, is it hard you know, like,

495
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, I have been closing out the games and

496
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, you're kidding me.

497
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the way he said you're kidding me, I

498
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 2: was like.

499
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: Oh, Clay, Clay, Clay, please baby. I know, I know,

500
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: I know it's different now, but yeah, there's just a

501
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: there's just a little bit, you know, mortalic. We all

502
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: have to accept our mortality, and I guess in this

503
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: case athletic mortality. Am I the only one who feels

504
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: somewhat I'm like, I see that. I'm like, oh ow

505
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: ow wow wow yow YOWI or you or Jack, you're

506
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: kind of like you're gonna be fine, brood go crying

507
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: your cat money.

508
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 4: Uh oh, it was like I did close Game five.

509
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who remembers that kind of stuff, sir.

510
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 4: You just now No, I mean it's painful.

511
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: It's painful because he is, like like you said, he

512
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 3: just you know, he doesn't have a poker face, so no,

513
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 3: you just get to see what his feelings are like

514
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 3: on his face, and he's so honest. I don't know.

515
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 3: It just made me really like Clay Thompson more. Yeah,

516
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it's tough to see correct.

517
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 5: It's it's a bummer when any of you know, these

518
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 5: prolific scorers, athletes, these players part of dynasty teams start

519
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 5: to fade and Father Time is largely undefeated, unless you are,

520
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 5: of course, like Terena Williams, Lebron, James, Tom Brady, right,

521
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 5: a couple a handful of other athletes in the history

522
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 5: of all sports to play at a high level past

523
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 5: your thirties. I mean you're thirty four, you're like geriatric.

524
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 5: In the NBA, I mean, Kevin Rant is like considered

525
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 5: a senior citizen and he's still playing at a high level,

526
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 5: which is considered an anomaly. So when you think of

527
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 5: a guy like Klay Thompson and what he's had to overcome,

528
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 5: it's not necessarily surprising. But yeah, it's a bummer. He's

529
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 5: one of those guys you want to root for. Just

530
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 5: his personality, his charisma, his love for the Bay and

531
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 5: the fan, his openness and vulnerability throughout all of his

532
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 5: rehab and the mental that comes with that has been

533
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 5: really you know, encouraging as a fan to see you know,

534
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 5: players open up about that.

535
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: But right, yeah, it feels like because we are in

536
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: this sort of in a bit of a different era,

537
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, where players are more vulnerable and open about

538
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: what their feelings are and how whatever's happening is affecting them.

539
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: And yeah, that honesty. It's like, I think maybe that's

540
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: what it is too. I'm not used to seeing that,

541
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: you know what I mean from an athlete. Like usually

542
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, we'll get him next year, and then

543
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: they cry behind the scenes, right, you know what I mean,

544
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: and then you hear about it in the biograph. It's

545
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: like that was the darkest interview actually ever gave. And

546
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: I know, look, I have my chin up, but it

547
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: was actually the saddest moment of my life where he

548
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: is really sort of giving it to us in real time,

549
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: and I think that's what. Yeah, I think like it's

550
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: endearing in this way, but then I'm also realizing, like,

551
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: oh right, I'm also used to this very like specific

552
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 1: way of like never communicating weakness, especially for a professional

553
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: athlete like in a public setting. So yeah, the honest,

554
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: radical honesty, radical acceptance, that's.

555
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: What it's all about.

556
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 3: But at the same time, his career has like had

557
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 3: tremendous longevity, and he came back from that injury and

558
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 3: won a title and got to uh you know, drive

559
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: his boat to the parade and uh, you know, all

560
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 3: sorts of the great Clay Thompson stuff.

561
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: So totally totally, Yeah, it's not it's not an entire

562
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: let's not still not say the whole thing's been tragic.

563
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: It's just more like these moments where it's like, uh.

564
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: You realize it's like, just yank, it's not you're gonna

565
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: be just starting to saying stuff.

566
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 2: You know, your old man used to.

567
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: Be able to do this, and that's when, Yeah, the washed,

568
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: the washed Reaper comes for all of us, the washed river.

569
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 3: I can still see him because he's still shooting well

570
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: from three. It's just that people have to respect his

571
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 3: drive left. But I can still see him getting hot

572
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: for a quarter and like having an outburst here and there.

573
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 3: Like I don't think he's completely cooked or anything.

574
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: But there's also been some you know, some pretty eye

575
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: opening performances in the sense you're.

576
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, those some of the things.

577
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: The pieces that used to click together for him, like

578
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: are kind of jumbled at times. So it's yeah, it's

579
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: it's definitely a balancing act as we go into the

580
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: third act on Careers.

581
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: By the way, Shams is reporting six to eight weeks

582
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 3: following the surgery for Joel Embiid, so by the end

583
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 3: of the episode, we should finally have confirmation he's out

584
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 3: for the season.

585
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're gonna be We're gonna be playing with

586
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: church organ music, and you're gonna be up there with

587
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: a handkerchief being like, I just thank you everything you've

588
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: done it.

589
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: Beautiful man, beautiful.

590
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about who's hot, because yeah, so

591
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: Clippers just hit number one on the Athletic and NBA

592
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 3: dot COM's NBA Power Rank News or I guess they've

593
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: been number one for the past couple of weeks, which

594
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 3: is kind of wild. The Knicks are number seven, while

595
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 3: teams like the Bucks have fallen to number eight. Mm hmm,

596
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 3: and I think the cab Yeah, the Cavs are now

597
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 3: second in the East. Sixers are at thirteen and ten

598
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 3: on the Athletic and NBA dot Com. But the Knicks

599
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: are are on a tear right. Yeah, like they just

600
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 3: have They've got like that heat culture thing going where

601
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: it's just like everybody knows how to defend. Everybody's kind

602
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 3: of on the same page about like what it means

603
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 3: to play for this team. They're a lot of fun. Okay,

604
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 3: see he remains hot the Clippers out West. I don't know,

605
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 3: it's it's fun because it's not the teams that everybody

606
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: was talking about heading in other than like Denver is

607
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: still southd lay there obviously, and Boston is still absolutely

608
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 3: you know, scorching.

609
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, playing Lebron.

610
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 3: And if anyone is going to knock off the Celtics

611
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 3: or the Nuggets, Lena, who do you think who who

612
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 3: do you think has the best shot?

613
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 5: Well, I have to say with confidence the Suns. You know,

614
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 5: just you know, I would get probably eviscerated if I

615
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 5: didn't say that on this podcast. But I mean, the

616
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 5: timber Wolves are surprising. I think that would be an

617
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 5: interesting matchup. I don't know, it would just be interesting

618
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 5: to watch those two teams, you know, a surprise out

619
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 5: of the West and then the defending chance going up

620
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 5: against each other. But the Knicks are the surprise in

621
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 5: the East. It was cool to see Jalen Brunson getting

622
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 5: emotional too. He's just kind of taken on this identity,

623
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 5: the heart and soul of this franchise in the you know,

624
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 5: biggest basketball arena in the world, the most heralded, so

625
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 5: I'm interested to see if the Celtics can even keep

626
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 5: it together in the postseason because it was a challenge

627
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 5: last year, it's been a challenge in recent seasons. So

628
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 5: you know, I think the Suns that they can stay healthy,

629
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 5: they can rival with Denver. Last season, things fell off

630
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 5: in the postseason after their run with the Clippers with

631
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 5: Chris Paul's injury and all that. So of course health

632
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 5: is the magic Elick sur for every team to be

633
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 5: successful at this time of year. But you know, I

634
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 5: like that the standings are a little bit different from

635
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 5: what we've seen recently. And then of course the play

636
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 5: in I've been all in on the plane since the

637
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 5: first season. So whatever teams are going to be competing

638
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 5: those final four, I think those games are going to

639
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 5: be spicy, competitive and then once you're in, it's anyone's game.

640
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it feels like, honestly, right now, it's like

641
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: rise of the teams that don't have the added pressure

642
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: of media scrutiny or a time and not say that

643
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: like as a dig, but it's like it's like like

644
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: every every Nicks, Clippers and Calves fan is basically like.

645
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: Ain't what are you talking about?

646
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 5: Us?

647
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: At all, and we are solidly up there, and it's

648
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: like and everyone's kind of like referencing, like, oh yeah,

649
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: I mean obviously they're they're they're a hot team right now.

650
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's I think just that lack of expectation too,

651
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: and the outside expectation on maybe some other teams this

652
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: year is I don't know, created a nice opportunity.

653
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: And on top of that, all their pieces are just

654
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: humming along in a way that makes you.

655
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 5: Promise and over deliver is kind of the theme for

656
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 5: some of this season. The Calves, the Timberwolves, Thunder, uh.

657
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

658
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: And then looking at just like the MVP talk Kawhi Yeah,

659
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: is it.

660
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 3: Time to start talking Kawhi Leonard for m VP. He's

661
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 3: never won it. He's probably like has the body of work, uh,

662
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 3: you know, best career of anybody in the league who

663
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 3: has never won MVP before. I mean two finals MVPs.

664
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 3: He's coming second, I think once and yeah Steph, yeah,

665
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: yeah to Steph. But you know that it would make

666
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's the best player in the

667
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 3: league a lot of the time, you know, on any

668
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 3: given night, and this team is twenty four and three

669
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: over the last twenty seven games he's played one. That's

670
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 3: pretty good. I'd say that's like Duke in the nineties,

671
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 3: Like that's like, you know, like that record is not

672
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 3: an NBA record. Twenty four and three is like yeah, powerhouse.

673
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, we were just like hypothesizing, like assume

674
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: they the Clippers went all the way and then Kawhi

675
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: gets finals MVP. That's three different teams, three different times

676
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: to get finals MVP. That would like you'd have to

677
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: have some serious discussions in general about looking about like okay,

678
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: now where do we place this guy?

679
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 3: Well, now what yeah, yeah, same.

680
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 5: Thing with Jokic. Right, those are two guys. It's crazy

681
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 5: to think that in this generation are kind of mounting

682
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 5: and positioning themselves in a top ten twenty all time

683
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 5: conversation when you look at the accolades, if we're judging

684
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 5: on that, the hardware, the trophies, the awards, they have it.

685
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

686
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, like elsewhere, I mean, I think you got your

687
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: usual suspects that everyone's talking about, Shay Jalen Brunson, Jason Tatum, Jokic,

688
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: who will never not be in that conversation.

689
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like.

690
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Denver is probably going to have to stay

691
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 3: pretty competitive for the rest of the season because it's

692
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 3: such a logjam at the top up in the West, like,

693
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: so it's not like last season where they had like

694
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 3: a five game So I think he's gonna have to stay,

695
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 3: you know, putting up big numbers. So I could definitely

696
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: see it being Jokic just playing out of his mind

697
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: down the stretch, pulling away from everybody, and you know,

698
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 3: they're just being a lot of energy for Yokic should

699
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: have won anyway last year. But I think like the

700
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 3: Kawhi story is starting to make a lot of sense

701
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 3: to me. Shay makes a lot of sense to me,

702
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 3: but I feel like they probably won't give it to

703
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: him at this point because he's kind of still not

704
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: a proven commodity. But yeah, that like Shay, Kawhi, and

705
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 3: Yokic feel like the top three that makes the most

706
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 3: sense to me.

707
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a man even rivalries aside.

708
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: I'm like, I I like to see.

709
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard playing at his best because he's it's so

710
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch so attack minded. And then if

711
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, do you want me to just lock

712
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: you up and take you away? Because I can do

713
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: that too.

714
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun to see.

715
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 5: It was good to you know, it was good to

716
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 5: watch him in full force last year during the playoffs

717
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 5: and having Rustle there and seeing them rise to the occasion. Yeah,

718
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 5: and to see the Suns pull pull it out against

719
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 5: that team. But yeah, I mean, Kawhi Leonard Healthy is

720
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 5: one of the greatest to watch and enjoy. And if

721
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 5: he can stay off the bench and out of street

722
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 5: clothes for the rest of the season, there's a good

723
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 5: argument for him the MVP.

724
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: How come Jason Tatum is always just kind of you know,

725
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: on the on the periphery because you know, Jabari brings

726
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: up a good pint producer, Jabi. He's like, is he

727
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: always going to be the best man and never the

728
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: groom even with the best record year after year.

729
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, maybe maybe I just feel like even Celtics

730
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 3: fans aren't like he's the m VY, like you guys should,

731
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 3: you know, they're always like a little disappointed in how

732
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 3: he's performing. Yeah, because yeah, he ends up shooting a

733
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 3: lot of threes and like I feel like could be

734
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: like more assertive, more like taking people to the rack,

735
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 3: Like he just doesn't. He still hasn't like fully developed

736
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 3: into the person that I think a lot of Celtics

737
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 3: fans want to see him become and they feel like

738
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 3: that is maybe not getting them where they need to

739
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 3: be to win a title with.

740
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: Killer instinct from the jump right every minute that you're

741
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 5: on the floor. I think maybe that just falling short

742
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 5: or letting up a little bit is is maybe the

743
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 5: the right that fans have in n you're not taking

744
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 5: it to your maximum potential.

745
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is wild too, because even with him not

746
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: maxing out, you're like, sir, okay, that's that's that's what

747
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: I would call a good performance. But yeah, I get

748
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: that too. I think it was you when you're when

749
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: you're ceiling is that high? Then it feels like it's

750
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: it feels like you're just not quite getting hot.

751
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a difference between the ninety seventh and

752
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 3: like one hundredth percentile. It's like feels like splitting hairs.

753
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 3: But it does. Right, Like when you listen to Celtics

754
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 3: fans like they like you hear you know, they're just

755
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 3: kind of like, ah, I's so good, I just want

756
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 3: him to do that like one.

757
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 2: Extra little bit better.

758
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, because if it's also just like a PTSD kind

759
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 5: of effect with them where it's accumulated in big moments,

760
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 5: maybe he doesn't rise to the occasion or the moment,

761
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 5: and so just all of that, Yeah, it's built up

762
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 5: over time to create this narrative or feeling towards Tatum.

763
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

764
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: Right.

765
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of like I was a

766
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 3: big Lebron fan his whole his whole career, and there

767
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: was that period in his career where it felt like

768
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 3: he didn't always have a killer instinct and it was

769
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 3: it was a big narrative that was kind of overblown,

770
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: but they were like he'll like pass it all off

771
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 3: at the end. But and then there was that game

772
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 3: against the Celtics when during the heats like run to

773
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: the finals to their first championship, I think it was

774
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 3: where he just like locked in and really just annihilated them,

775
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: like had the best game I'd seen him have and

776
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: just it was like the game that he had to

777
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 3: do that for them to win, for his legacy, and

778
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: he just did it. And like, I feel like that's

779
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: what people are waiting for from Tatum, Like that game

780
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: where it's just like he puts it all together and

781
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 3: it's just like, no, I'm not letting my team lose,

782
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: and like's a lot of task for though. I mean,

783
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: Lebron James is maybe the best player to ever play, I.

784
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: Feel like he could be doing a little bit more, honestly,

785
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, as a Lakers fan.

786
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: Just yeah, I just feel like, you know, just.

787
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: He could just go a little just a little bit more,

788
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: just a little bit more.

789
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe never satisfied, Never satisfied.

790
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 3: And fans are realistic and that's the thing that we

791
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 3: can always come back to them.

792
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: Because look, Lebron to Earth.

793
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lebron, I also graduated high school in two thousand

794
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: and three. And it's someone that's three months older than you.

795
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: We gotta recognize when it's just time, you know what

796
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: I mean.

797
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 5: Son Lebron James on your podcast.

798
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my son. That's my son in a in

799
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: a very high school way. That's how I would never

800
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: let him forget that, even though he's the go. I

801
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: would be like, you know, I'm three months older than you, right, like,

802
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: because that's how you always that's your currency when you're

803
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: like a younger person, you're like, well, you know, I'm

804
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: not two weeks older than them, like obviously, so like

805
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: they gotta listen to what I said.

806
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 3: It's a noticeable two months. Yeah, oh yeah, it's a noticeable.

807
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like there's a maturity to you, like Lebron.

808
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: Bringing the picture of Well, Lebron and I are in

809
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: third grade.

810
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 2: Look how much bigger I am than him?

811
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 3: And I'm standing on an apple cart, yeah, apple box.

812
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: And he's on his knees and he's only two inches shorter.

813
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 3: Grade. He was like, already bigger than me.

814
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, for sure. Yeah, take a break and

815
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: come back for the rapid fire a round a question.

816
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it.

817
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this, and we are back

818
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 2: Lina Washington, Well, you may have forgotten.

819
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're in the Valley of the Sun,

820
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: but it's definitely getting hot in there because you're in

821
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: the hot seat, and it's time for the fourth quarter

822
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: rapid fire around questioning the hottest question answer, I said, the.

823
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: Hottest, hottest, and the fast person.

824
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, answering session in podcasting history.

825
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes it's like really hot, and sometimes like

826
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I'll notice that you can see

827
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: the guest's breath because it gets so cold, like it

828
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 3: soldier drops thirty degrees in the room. Back there in.

829
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 3: It really depends on kind of the energy the questions

830
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 3: we've prepared.

831
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, and what's fun is I can write my answer

832
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 5: on like the fogged up window near exactly slowly but

833
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 5: surely you'll be able to understand my response to the

834
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 5: question that it's kind of so quickly to me that

835
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 5: I have to really think quickly.

836
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, there's nothing slowly but surely about this segment. It

837
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 3: is quickly and just rapidly random. Uh, you know, surely?

838
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: And yeah, Lena, we obviously know that it's clear that

839
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: you're an honor student because you understood the assignment.

840
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: But are you ready now to come through with it?

841
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 3: Ready?

842
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 5: I think I'm prepared, Okay, as sure as I'm going

843
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 5: to be sure.

844
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it quick, keep it quick, don't don't don't

845
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: drag it along?

846
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: Why start the clock? The clock started, right? I just

847
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 2: want to confirm, okay, for like.

848
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 5: A friend is there like a fifty to fifty.

849
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: Almost seems like she's stalling, doesn't it? Miles doesn't stall

850
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 3: in the fastest segment in podcasting. What's going on?

851
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: You know?

852
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 1: You can't no cheat sheets, no phone, a friend, no

853
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: open notes here, You're just going straight off the dome.

854
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: Okay, and it's fast. The count, the clock's already starting.

855
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 3: Friends on that, I was like, oh, you got a

856
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 3: friend you think you're better than me. Okay, that's how

857
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: I take it.

858
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh you didn't. You didn't.

859
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: You didn't alienate yourself from your friend Lebron James because

860
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 1: you kept harping on about how you're three months older

861
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: than him.

862
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 2: Weird, could have been my.

863
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 5: Friend Lebron right now.

864
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 2: No, Lebron, you know who. Guess what he said. Anyway,

865
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 2: we gotta keep this thing going. Who's who's first? Jack?

866
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: You or me?

867
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 5: Uh?

868
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 3: Why don't you go first? Miles, I'll go first.

869
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: Lena Washington, All Star Weekend is coming up, just very

870
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: very soon.

871
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 2: Give me you're.

872
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: All time Fantasy Dunk Contest lineup. You're picking four dunkers anytime, anytime.

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Speaker 5: Time, anytime. Well, I have to go Vince Carter, just

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Speaker 5: because it's Vince Carter. Well, he existed, he graced a

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Speaker 5: basketball court. He has a pretty decent vertical, so I

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Speaker 5: would assume he would be able to add some.

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Speaker 2: Vince Carter. Yeah, okay, harder, but not Prince Harder.

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Speaker 3: He was passing around some highlights from his rookie season

879
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Speaker 3: and just like some of the dunks, like he was

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Speaker 3: doing some of the dunks that he did in that

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Speaker 3: dunk contest, like in game.

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Speaker 1: Game as a rookie is like wild as he should.

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Speaker 1: We have to keep this segment moving.

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Speaker 5: So Okay, so number two of four, I guess maybe

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Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, so that he could prepair of super elaborate

886
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Speaker 5: dunk contests like performance where it's like the drone goes

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Speaker 5: from Lucas Oil Stadium and then drops the basketball into

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Speaker 5: the or you know, right to the arena, and then

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Speaker 5: the led court lights up and all this stuff, and

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Speaker 5: then you know, the Pacers mascot comes in and he

891
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Speaker 5: jumps over him while doing a full three sixty like

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Speaker 5: access turn and then losing again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that'd be for these dunks designed

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Speaker 3: by Doc Brown from you know that.

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Speaker 2: Recent that recent hit film from the nineteen Goldberg. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you got to Who's four two?

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Speaker 5: Feel obligated to say, Lebron James just because Miles you

898
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Speaker 5: could be a part of it. He could just like

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Speaker 5: walk up to and over.

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Speaker 1: You and then just see yeah, or hold me like

901
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Speaker 1: a baby and be like and be like you're my yeah.

902
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he rocks the cradle, but it's me in

903
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Speaker 1: his arms and then throws me through the hoop and

904
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Speaker 1: I don't have serious injury from it.

905
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Speaker 5: Let's how the medics are involved. But this is again

906
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Speaker 5: just like envisioning this mountains of dunks specifically, and like

907
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Speaker 5: who would be able to execute them best? And then

908
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Speaker 5: maybe if there's some backstory or context that would add

909
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Speaker 5: to the zad of the show. So only if files

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Speaker 5: is involved in Lebron's dunk what I want you?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

913
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Speaker 5: And the fourth before uh, you know, how about what

914
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Speaker 5: was his name? Was? It? Was it? Uh Mac McClung,

915
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Speaker 5: who wanted the other?

916
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Speaker 3: Was that his name?

917
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Speaker 5: Mac? How can.

918
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Speaker 3: Ye was that last time? Shoot?

919
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was it.

920
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Speaker 3: I feel like it was.

921
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Speaker 5: A flies when you're you're sipping the mac mcclunk kool aid.

922
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Speaker 2: I know you know that.

923
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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know what happened, and I haven't

924
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Speaker 3: followed his career, Uh, Lena, Unfortunately, you did not specify

925
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Speaker 3: years for Vince Carter, so it will be modern day

926
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Speaker 3: Vince Carter and the dunk contest. Unfortunately, So it's still

927
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Speaker 3: you'd still be good.

928
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Speaker 5: You still got it?

929
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So Yeah, that was good. You know,

930
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Speaker 3: it was not fast enough, but you nailed it. Anyways,

931
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Speaker 3: it was it was highly entertaining. What school yard game

932
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Speaker 3: do you want to see added to the All Star weekend?

933
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Speaker 3: It can be you know, I think we said we

934
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Speaker 3: were saying the Pro Bowl, we've we've seen due dodgeball

935
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Speaker 3: and a tug of war. What game would you like

936
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Speaker 3: to see NBA players compete against one another?

937
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Speaker 5: I'll give I'll give three, Okay, speak as I can't choose,

938
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Speaker 5: and I know, I know this is like a really

939
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Speaker 5: like I have to answer quickly, but I just wanted

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Speaker 5: to be really thorough. So the first of the four

941
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Speaker 5: square because I know athletes can be very competitive.

942
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, boollyard.

943
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Speaker 5: Games and you got to play house rules your cherry popcorn?

944
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Speaker 3: Popcorn? What are we talking that? Yeah?

945
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so so that Red Rover. Just see the pure

946
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Speaker 5: violence of being clotheslined by running at full speed into

947
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Speaker 5: your friends, maybe some broken maybe you know, on bones

948
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 5: popping out.

949
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be like that Last Survivor show where

950
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: all of the like most powerful people in the government

951
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Speaker 3: get blown up and Keeper Sutherland is like the guy

952
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 3: who is designated survivor, and like it would be the

953
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 3: NBA version that where all the best players just have

954
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 3: their arms like ripped out of their sockets. And so

955
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Speaker 3: it's Mac McClung from long Is leading the league in

956
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Speaker 3: scoring in the playoffs with their team.

957
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Speaker 5: And then the third I would probably want to see

958
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Speaker 5: is teather ball. Oh wow, more of a controlled environment. Yeah,

959
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 5: so it really takes skill focus. I would liken it

960
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 5: to like a tennis match. So it's just you and

961
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 5: no coaching allowed, and it's just a ball on a

962
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 5: string and your opponent and you're just trying to see

963
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 5: who's going to of wind that rode around that hole faster.

964
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Speaker 5: So I would say those three red, rovert, coursequare and

965
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Speaker 5: tetherball need to become Olympic sports by twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: We just have this from the judges. You got two

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Speaker 1: of the three right. Unfortunately we can't tell you which

968
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: one was wrong. But I do have to ask you

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Speaker 1: this question, which I think you can get right. Who's

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00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: the greatest Sons player ever and who's the most underrated

971
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: Sons player of your fandom.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I have to say Charles Berkley is my

973
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 5: favorite Sons player ever, from what he meant to the city,

974
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Speaker 5: what he did when he was part of the team

975
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Speaker 5: to now, you know, actually claiming the valley and claiming

976
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Speaker 5: this team underrated.

977
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Speaker 2: Hm.

978
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Speaker 5: You know, in line of his retirement, Goran Dragic the

979
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 5: dragon himself. I will say he didn't get a lot

980
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 5: of love, but he was an instrumental figure and some

981
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 5: some fun teams to watch out here. So maybe that's

982
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 5: recency biased, but just thinking about him hanging it up

983
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 5: and then just remembering his times here and you know,

984
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Speaker 5: bringing his twin brother along also for some of those rides.

985
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 5: Those will be my two.

986
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 2: So you're gonna get the throwback a drug when.

987
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 5: I have a Sean Marion throwback Jersey. So that was

988
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Speaker 5: pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: See.

990
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, his his number in Jersey retired in the Ring

991
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Speaker 5: of Honor. So yeah, a Rry Sottomeyer's net. So, oh

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Speaker 5: you're in Phoenix, come check it out.

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Speaker 2: I'll bring my goggles.

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Speaker 3: Amazing as you should. Well, Lena Washington, you have made

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Speaker 3: it through the gauntlet.

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Speaker 2: That was the right answer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the great answer. It was so hot.

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Speaker 3: out to listener at Farren l E for predicting the

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Speaker 3: first time All Star Scottie Barnes. Yeah, yeah, back in

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Speaker 3: back in October, we got we got the smart listeners.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was that.

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Speaker 1: I mean not to rain on that parade, but that's

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Speaker 1: because indeed went out right.

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Speaker 3: What Yeah, he actually predicted that. He said, you know,

1041
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 3: Embeid is going to go down with an injury. And

1042
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Speaker 3: I like the ring of Scottie Barnes All Star, so

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he was getting risky with the minisky and

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Speaker 1: the story rights itself.

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Speaker 2: You already know, all right, y'all, we will see you.

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Speaker 2: Don't be Minsky disrepair it, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Until next time, don't be risky with the minisky