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Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend, first weekend of summer. Jay

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Speaker 1: stews in Vegas?

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Speaker 2: Right, and is that was that? What is his text meant?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: When you said you careful the hikes and the heat

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Speaker 1: or whatever, which means aj, if you're on your way

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Speaker 1: played craps in Vegas two summers ago. Okay, that would

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Speaker 1: be the thing you know that would that would be

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Speaker 1: the thing. So there's a new story out about Zion Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And to make it official, Isaac lone Crown, you've been

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Speaker 1: reading this story for all your updates. Can you just,

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure. This started yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court,

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Speaker 4: an unidentified woman filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual

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Speaker 4: assault as well as physical, emotional, and financial abuse during

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Speaker 4: a multi year relationship. So that happened yesterday in LA

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Speaker 4: Superior Court. Now a short time ago, Williamson's attorney issued

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Speaker 4: a statement replying, and it read, in part, and I'll

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Speaker 4: go into some other details other than what I mentioned

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Speaker 4: in our report just now. The rest of the statement included, quote,

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Speaker 4: mister Williamson and the plaintiff never dated, but did maintain

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Speaker 4: a consensual, casual relationship that began more than six years

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Speaker 4: years ago. At no point did the plaintiff race raise

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Speaker 4: demanding millions of dollars unquote. The statement also alleged, quote

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to break it down for you? I mean,

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Speaker 1: do we we all kind of figure out what's going

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Speaker 1: I know no details, but even from all of this,

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Speaker 1: probably wherever she lived. Does she live in Los Angeles?

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Speaker 1: That why I was Los Angeles?

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Speaker 4: It did not say it was. It was just filed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so, but it likely means she lives in

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Speaker 1: emotional and financial abuse element of it feels like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: the law. But yeah, this is on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, there's an expression. An expression goes

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Speaker 1: It's not he was hurt again this year, he was

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, you know that includes Zion,

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Speaker 1: But that's not what this is about. This is about

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Speaker 1: like a kind of continuation of who he's associated with,

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Speaker 1: how he's carrying himself, how he's still not gotten himself

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Speaker 2: Is like, you know, if you want him, just make

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Speaker 5: keeping bad company because, like you said, he either possibly

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Speaker 1: Well that's the other thing is it is really sad, right,

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Speaker 1: It's just sad that and this is kind of what

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Speaker 2: Like he was a YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Sensation, he went to college nowadays, you know, he would

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's when it's sad. Does it make you

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Speaker 1: mad because you're like, man, I would kill for that

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Speaker 1: But it's also sad that people see dollar signs and

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Speaker 1: people want exploit athletes like a Zion Wimson, And I

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not going to sit here and say

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Speaker 2: I have zero idea.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, for context, the first two picks

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Speaker 4: John Morant. Ironically, but I remember back to the twenty

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Speaker 4: eighteen twenty nineteen season, Zion Williamson, when he was winding up,

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Speaker 4: you know, ending his college career and beginning his college

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Speaker 4: career at Duke. He was arguably the biggest non NFL

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Speaker 4: the biggest story in the nation in sports for the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really really, Uh, it's he was bigger than big.

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Speaker 1: He was the the YouTube sensation. Anybody who says he's

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Speaker 2: But like, is there still time for a turnaround? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, still statistically dominant this year when he played,

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Speaker 3: Maybe a change in scenery would suit him, well, yeah.

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Speaker 1: But like will it then there's just a whole new

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Speaker 5: A surreality of the question of the Southeast South.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, can the can the Knicks, although

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Speaker 2: In year one.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota good but flawed, and we see the thunder better.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna be around.

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Speaker 1: There's actually a likelihood here of them of them having

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Speaker 1: Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Let's welcome in Mark Stein,

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Speaker 1: He joins us. He writes a substack called the Stein Line.

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Speaker 1: How would you explain how Tyre's Halliburton goes from one

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Speaker 1: Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's get

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Speaker 7: You know, they have tried to surround Brunson in Towns

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Speaker 1: All right, there's lots of talk that this is going

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Speaker 7: offers for him, and we don't have an indication yet.

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Speaker 6: Is Jannis going to ask out of Milwaukee what.

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Speaker 7: He does, whether he pledges to stay or ask them

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Speaker 7: to trade him. I think that kind of has to

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Speaker 7: happen first. Yes, there is the anticipation that Durant one

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Speaker 7: where the other is going to be made available, and

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Speaker 7: that he's not going to stick around in Phoenix. But

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Speaker 7: I think we have to start with where.

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Speaker 6: Things go with Yiannis.

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Speaker 2: What do the Celtics do.

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Speaker 7: I think they're going to explore the trade market and

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Speaker 7: see what they can do.

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Speaker 6: Porzingis is the easiest.

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Speaker 7: One to move because he's on an expiring deal. Drew

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Speaker 7: Holliday and look, I don't think they want to trade

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Speaker 7: any of these guys, but it's just the reality. I mean,

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Speaker 7: they had they won, had they won it all and

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Speaker 7: repeated as champions, you can then make the case, all right,

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Speaker 7: this is going to be highly uncomfortable, highly expensive, but

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Speaker 7: let's deal with it. Because we have a team that's

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Speaker 7: won two titles in a row. They not only didn't repeat,

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Speaker 7: but they've lost Tatum to this Devin dating injury that's

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Speaker 7: going to sideline him most likely for a year.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you.

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Speaker 7: Can't justify having this ridiculously high payroll. So it's going

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Speaker 7: to be it's it's not going to be easy. The

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Speaker 7: salary cap gymnastics involved are going to be really, really tough.

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Speaker 7: Brad Stevens has an unenviable job this summer trying to

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Speaker 7: figure it out. But what happens with porzingis what happens

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Speaker 7: with Drew Holiday. Those are really the two players I

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Speaker 7: think teams are looking at the most.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what about the Lakers? What do they look like

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Speaker 2: next year?

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Speaker 7: Well, assuming Lebron James comes back and he has a

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Speaker 7: player option worth more than fifty million, so the anticipation

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Speaker 7: is that he exercises that player option to stay. If

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Speaker 7: that happens, they don't have flexibility to do that much.

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Speaker 7: They will try again to find a trade for a center,

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Speaker 7: because they know, I mean, we saw them. They tried

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Speaker 7: the deadline to get the center. They made the trade

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Speaker 7: for Charlotte's Mark Williams that trade, so everyone knows they

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Speaker 7: need a starting level center, a rim running center, the

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Speaker 7: kind of center that Luka Doncis has always played alongside

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Speaker 7: in Dallas and flourished alongside.

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Speaker 6: Do they have the.

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Speaker 7: Draft or do they have the trade pieces to make

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Speaker 7: that kind of trade? They would obviously prefer not to

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Speaker 7: trade Austin Reeves, but you know that chatter will emerge

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Speaker 7: and circulate all summer, like will the Lakers be willing

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Speaker 7: to entertain offers for him? So it kind of starts

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Speaker 7: with Lebron in his decision because they don't have financial

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Speaker 7: flexibility to just go out and make dramatic moves. They

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Speaker 7: still have the exact same trade pieces that they used

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Speaker 7: in the theoretical Mark Williams deal. But is there a

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Speaker 7: center out there that they can get who really moves

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Speaker 7: the needle. That's not clear yet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I guess my thought on the on Lebron is I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously he's gonna resign. My thing is, we do realize

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Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna play two more years his He quite obviously

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Speaker 1: wants to be the greatest dad ever for his kids,

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't though he cares, he doesn't really care

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Speaker 1: that he's going to He made them draft Brownie. How

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Speaker 1: can he make him draft Bronnie and not make him

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Speaker 1: draft Price? Right, how can you play with one kid?

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Speaker 1: He's gonna do two years in LA. It's gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 7: I really don't know. I mean, with the theory you

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Speaker 7: lay out there, it's certainly there's you know, it's.

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Speaker 6: Plausible, But I don't know. I don't know what happens

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Speaker 6: after this season.

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Speaker 7: I mean, the way he played, the level he's playing at,

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Speaker 7: you could certainly see him playing more than one more year.

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Speaker 6: But then again, this season. You know, does he want.

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Speaker 7: To go out after year twenty three with an All

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Speaker 7: Star Game? I mean, I could see that too. It's

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Speaker 7: hard to I can't pretend to get in his head

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Speaker 7: and know exactly what his plan is. Is there anywhere

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Speaker 7: else he could realistically go, or is there somewhere else

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Speaker 7: he wants to play?

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Speaker 6: I think only he knows.

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Speaker 7: I mean, by all accounts, he's been incredibly happy in LA.

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Speaker 7: But I think at some point the Lakers are going

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Speaker 7: to want to move on and make this fully a

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Speaker 7: Luka Doncic operation. So it's not clear cut that, you know,

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Speaker 7: I think it's pretty clear cut, pretty widely anticipated that

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Speaker 7: he ops in for this next season. What happens after

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Speaker 7: this season, I can't tell you right now at the

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Speaker 7: end of May and twenty twenty five, No.

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Speaker 1: I can't either. I'm I'm I'm theorizing, and I'm fascinated

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Speaker 1: to see what happens. Last thing. Again, you're not putting

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Speaker 1: your bet money on. But if you did put your

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Speaker 1: bet money, well, we have a game seven in New York.

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Speaker 7: I picked the Pacers in six before the series, and

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Speaker 7: since my Western Conference pick was so bad, I'm gonna

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Speaker 7: fully back my Pacers and six prediction and see if

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Speaker 7: I get if I if I bat at least five

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Speaker 7: hundred in the Western in the conference finals.

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Speaker 6: So good good, I am, I am.

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Speaker 7: At, I am anticipating a strong rebound from the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: There you got it.

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Speaker 1: It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox portrayer. That's Mark Stein. Okay,

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Speaker 1: You all right, that's some my guy, Mark Stein, Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, NBA correspondent of course, author of the Steinlin,

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Speaker 1: it cost you to get into Game seven at the

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Speaker 1: Gadden if the nixt win?

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Speaker 8: I Low, what do you got, Bud Doug Front Office

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Speaker 8: Sports reports the tickets for a potential Game seven of

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Speaker 8: the Eastern Conference Finals between the Nix and Indiana Pacers

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Speaker 8: at Madison Square Garden starts at over one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: They say it is the most expensive game on record

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Speaker 4: in terms of average purchase price. In fact, the current

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Speaker 4: average purchase price is one thousand and five one hundred

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Speaker 4: and sixty five dollars. And I'm no expert, but if

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Speaker 4: there turns out to be a Game seven, I would

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Speaker 4: anticipate that price would go up between now and then.

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Speaker 4: So I've got kind of a map here of Madison

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Speaker 4: Square Garden if you want it, can give you some

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Speaker 4: specific prices at some of the seat locations around the arena.

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Speaker 4: Roughly speaking, if you'd.

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Speaker 1: Like, we're seat in the house, what is it wors

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Speaker 1: seat in the house.

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Speaker 4: We're looking at one thousand, three hundred and ninety dollars

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Speaker 4: for upper level kind of above the sideline. Meanwhile, upper

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Speaker 4: level above the baselines at.

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Speaker 2: One of the million dollars acterually a.

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Speaker 4: Little less one thousand, six hundred and forty eight dollars,

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Speaker 4: but that comes with a free Hubble telescope included.

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Speaker 2: Look at you, you're so funny. I low.

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Speaker 5: Meanwhile, down it's like watching fleas on parade or you know,

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Speaker 5: like a flea circus, and you're like, I can kind

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Speaker 5: of see what they're doing ones on the trapeze if

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Speaker 5: I squit my eyes really really hard, I can see

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Speaker 5: what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, down in the Doug Gottlieb seats, we have fourteen thousand,

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Speaker 4: nine hundred and seventy seven dollars for one seat.

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Speaker 1: Things I would not do pay fourteen thousand dollars. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, those I get that that's with list

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Speaker 1: done stop up. Doesn't mean that's what they're actually going for.

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Speaker 1: But if you think about it, if it's on step up,

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Speaker 1: then you gotta pay all those fees as well.

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I forgot about those. Those are the worst. Yes, oh,

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Speaker 4: that's a great point. I forgot about that.

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Speaker 3: Tracy Morgan doesn't care. He'll pay it.

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Speaker 4: I know he could. Props to him. He can afford it.

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Speaker 4: Although I will say this. I guess some of those

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Speaker 4: some of those court side seats are like the big

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Speaker 4: talent agencies, they have season tickets and they just give

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Speaker 4: their celeb clients the seats.

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Speaker 3: That's true. Rich people don't actually have to pay for anything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of an inverse thing that, Yeah, doesn't

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Speaker 4: really make some often wealthy people they you know, they

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Speaker 4: get they get a lot of freebies. But that is

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Speaker 4: life anyway. So that is the latest update, and I

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Speaker 4: think that that price again might go up elsewhere. It

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Speaker 4: is official. Scott Hanson has signed a long term extension

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Speaker 4: to remain the host of the popular Sunday NFL Red

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Speaker 4: Zone show. It's very, very popular, you know that the

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Speaker 4: whip around show. And it was thought, well, wait a minute,

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Speaker 4: he might go somewhere else, he might be in great demand,

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Speaker 4: but he will return to that show.

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Speaker 1: I love I love Scott. This is a non story.

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Speaker 1: This is Scott leaking out. This contract was up and

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Speaker 1: then he yet renewed. Like, who's going to play Scott Hanson.

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Speaker 1: He's synonymous with Red Zone.

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Speaker 4: That's the thing. It takes a very particular skill set.

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Speaker 2: Now Andrews Cilliano doesn't do the other one right, or

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Speaker 2: does he.

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Speaker 4: Well, he doesn't anymore because he's the new radio voice

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Speaker 4: of the Cleveland Browns, the team that he grew up adoring.

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Speaker 4: The one other part of that skill set. How can

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Speaker 4: I put this delicately? Apparently mister Hanson is able to

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Speaker 4: do the entire eight hour program without taking a restroom break.

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Speaker 3: I could do that, and he's wearing a diaper. I

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Speaker 3: could do that.

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Speaker 4: Are you talking?

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Speaker 5: Is there an indy car driver who had to relieve

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Speaker 5: himself in his own breeches.

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Speaker 4: That's actually a good question about how that all works.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're going two and a half hours minimum

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Speaker 4: of athletic event. I'm sure you're in a hot cockpit

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Speaker 4: in the car.

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Speaker 5: There was like a forty five minute delay for the start.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you can get out.

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Speaker 5: Then No, he couldn't get out. He had to stay

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Speaker 5: in there. So he's just like, I just gotta go.

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Speaker 3: I gotta go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure how that works, but.

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Speaker 2: Just go, man.

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Speaker 4: I I hate to bear I hate to bury the

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Speaker 4: lead an issue a challenge that I didn't think I'd

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Speaker 4: be issuing. But you're saying you could go through an

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Speaker 4: eight hour broadcast without answering nation Nature's call once. That's

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Speaker 4: your you've done that for eight hours.

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Speaker 3: I got I got a name for you. Two words,

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Speaker 3: Corey Booker.

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Speaker 5: Did you guys hear like he did like the longest,

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Speaker 5: like twenty five hour bottlebuster? Yeah, and I think he

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Speaker 5: like he like didn't drink water, eat food like the

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Speaker 5: day prior. So he was just completely like a raisin

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Speaker 5: up there, just talking and talking and talking, Corey Booker.

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Speaker 3: If he can do it, you can too.

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Speaker 4: So you actually have gone several hours, Doug. You're saying

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Speaker 4: you've already done something like this. Yeah, okay, when during

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Speaker 4: a broadcast or something or what.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done I've done six hour broadcast. I've done

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Speaker 1: I used to do a six hour show on ESPN

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Speaker 1: Radio when I first started. I've not gone to the

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Speaker 1: bathroom or a six hours show, not you know mine,

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Speaker 1: never matter. I've driven that far and not gone not

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Speaker 1: gone number one. Listen, I know him the timing of everything. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough to know. Just give me a give

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Speaker 1: me a window about fifteen minutes, thirty minutes after I

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Speaker 1: drink coffee.

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Speaker 2: After that, I'm pretty much good.

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Speaker 4: So you're claiming that you're number one at not going

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Speaker 4: number one? Correct, that's good there's another line for your

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Speaker 4: Twitter bio. Okay, well just one thing though. Yeah, we

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Speaker 4: have Superman coming out this summer. He's the Man of Steel,

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Speaker 4: Doug is the Ladder of Steel. Evidently, perhaps there's an

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Speaker 4: endorsement deal that can be worked out there. And our

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Speaker 4: final item, of course in the NBA. Yes, very good,

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Speaker 4: very good, very good. I knew better than to raise

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Speaker 4: that whole line of discussion, but what can I say,

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Speaker 4: final item here on this edition to the press out

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Speaker 4: of the NBA. Denver recently made David Adelman their full

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Speaker 4: time permanent head coach, but they are not bringing back

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Speaker 4: four assistant coaches next season, according to Chris Haynes, who

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Speaker 4: said that Ryan Saunders, Popeye Jones, Charles Klask and Steven

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Speaker 4: Graham will not be back as assistants. They were all

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Speaker 4: together on the staff last year, obviously under the previous

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Speaker 4: permanent head coach in Michael Malone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not abnormal that you have a new

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Speaker 1: staff with a new coach. What is abnormal was the

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Speaker 1: staff stuck together and now they pick one guy and

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Speaker 1: everybody's got to go.

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Speaker 2: But my guess is.

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Speaker 1: That Adaman would not have Adaman approved of this, whether

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Speaker 1: he has blood on his hands in public or not,

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Speaker 1: there's no question that if he wanted those guys to

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Speaker 1: stay as assistant coach as they would stay.

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Speaker 4: And that a clude that concludes this. I'm trying to

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Speaker 4: make a pun about our previous discussion, plot and topic,

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Speaker 4: but I won't. That concludes this edition of the press

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Speaker 4: that get out there and pressed.

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Speaker 3: That was the press.

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Speaker 1: It's a nug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the question, guys, will we have a game seven

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Speaker 1: on Monday?

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Speaker 2: Will we have a game?

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Speaker 4: Question about it? No question about question about it?

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Speaker 3: No. I think the Pacers get it done well.

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Speaker 1: We've seen these close out games at home. They've been

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Speaker 1: all blowouts. The Pacers are four point favorites, four point favorites, burst,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna take a swing at it.

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Speaker 3: I think whoever wins this series is gonna win it

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Speaker 3: at home. So I don't think the Pacers win in seven.

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Speaker 3: But I think the Pacers win in six. I think

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Speaker 3: that's what happens.

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Speaker 1: That was a long way of saying the Pacer We're

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Speaker 1: not going to have a game seven? Ye right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I want a game seven so bad in Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 1: That it's completely rotted by brain. I'm gonna say it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Stut Gottlieb Show Manifesting Things on Fox Sports

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