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Speaker 1: are just going to be touching up on two m
Speaker 1: v P cases. Here come the Milwaukee Bucks and here
Speaker 1: comes be Honest. So we're gonna talk about the Bucks
Speaker 1: and Janice's m v P case to start. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Joel Embia yesterday, but I want to
Speaker 1: touch a little bit deeper on his m v P case,
Speaker 1: so we'll touch on that as well. And then I
Speaker 1: have two quick hitters centering around Lebron. First of all,
Speaker 1: all of the reaction to his overly dramatic reaction to
Speaker 1: the missfoul call against the Celtics. I have some thoughts
Speaker 1: they're involving Lebron's competitiveness. And then there was a lot
Speaker 1: of talk going around on Twitter the other day over
Speaker 1: who was better two thousand eight Lebron or this year's
Speaker 1: Luca don Shitch, and I have some thoughts there as well.
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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight, So the Bucks are in a four game
Speaker 1: winning streak. They beat the crap out of the Pelicans
Speaker 1: last night, won by for their fourth consecutive win. That
Speaker 1: is their sixth consecutive win when Janice plays. They've also
Speaker 1: won eight of their last ten when Chris Middleton plays.
Speaker 1: So here comes the Bucks. You know. One of the
Speaker 1: things for the people who have followed me for a
Speaker 1: while or followed the show for a while, and one
Speaker 1: of the things you'll learn if you're new is that,
Speaker 1: generally speaking, I don't overreact to regular season trends. I'm
Speaker 1: always paying attention to regular season trends. I always consider
Speaker 1: it as information. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'm not going it's gonna take a lot more evidence
Speaker 1: in a regular season sample to sway me of something
Speaker 1: compared to what I would see in a postseason environment.
Speaker 1: I just find postseason basketball to be so much more informative,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that a lot throughout my analysis is
Speaker 1: this season. So, for instance, when the Lakers start into
Speaker 1: inten I didn't jump off the bandwagon. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: pointing out some of the issues that would go that
Speaker 1: we're going on there. But what did I keep saying?
Speaker 1: Lebron's not playing well. He should, in theory, start playing well,
Speaker 1: and when he does, that's a massive influx of talent
Speaker 1: that should cover up for a lot of the issues
Speaker 1: that they have on the roster. And now Lebron's healthy
Speaker 1: and inner rhythm. The Lakers are over five hundred because
Speaker 1: significantly over five dred over the last half of the season,
Speaker 1: Lebron's playing like an MVP. Anthony Davis is coming back
Speaker 1: they've made a trade for the for a real forward.
Speaker 1: Now the Lakers are starting to enter onto the scene
Speaker 1: as like a real serious basketball team. So we're not
Speaker 1: gonna overreact to a two intense start. When the Warriors
Speaker 1: have struggled this season, I haven't changed them from being
Speaker 1: my championship favorite. Why Well, for starters, it's been regular
Speaker 1: season basketball to most of their struggles are on the
Speaker 1: road and associated with effort. And three, there are twenty
Speaker 1: one lineups in the NBA this year that have played
Speaker 1: at least two hundred minutes, and the Warrior starters are
Speaker 1: still the best by far. With Kevin Looney, Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, Steph Curry, and Andrew Wiggins on the floor,
Speaker 1: the Warriors are outscoring teams by nineteen and a half
Speaker 1: points per one hundred possessions. That's utter destruction, and no
Speaker 1: other team is close, not the Nuggets, not anybody. So
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna jump off the Warriors even
Speaker 1: though they're only one game over five hundred, because all
Speaker 1: they have to do is maybe make a deal for
Speaker 1: somebody on the bench, get their stuff together as it
Speaker 1: pertains to their night and night out effort and the
Speaker 1: talent is still there, and good luck beating those five
Speaker 1: guys four times out of seven. And the same thing
Speaker 1: goes for the Bucks when the Bucks have had down
Speaker 1: stretches this year, when Janice has had one of the
Speaker 1: worst perimeter jump shooting seasons of his prime. I never
Speaker 1: changed my pick as the Bucks as the team I
Speaker 1: picked to get out of the Eastern Conference, and I
Speaker 1: never changed Janice as my m v P pick because
Speaker 1: they were always, in spite of all that, still within
Speaker 1: striking distance of being within the top record in the league,
Speaker 1: which is part of the m v P case, and Janice,
Speaker 1: as we all know, is capable of hitting the Jets
Speaker 1: for a month and putting up ridiculous numbers. Janice is
Speaker 1: last four games thirty eight points per game, thirteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: five assists on sixty sixty shooting. He's shooting on four
Speaker 1: or three point attempts a game in this four game stretch.
Speaker 1: Last night, on his way to fifty, he was just
Speaker 1: casually dribbling up the floor and pulling up off the
Speaker 1: dribble from like ft and just sticking those jumpers. The
Speaker 1: Bucks also have a top five defense. In this four
Speaker 1: game stretch, Janice is still one of the very best
Speaker 1: defensive players in the world, and the Bucks are now
Speaker 1: just two and a half games back the first place
Speaker 1: in the league. So again, if the season ended today,
Speaker 1: Yokis would be my m v P. But the reason
Speaker 1: why I haven't changed Joannice is my pick for the
Speaker 1: season is this is what I kind of saw coming.
Speaker 1: The Bucks would start to get healthy, Chris Middleton back
Speaker 1: in the line up, Joe Ingles back in the lineup,
Speaker 1: Johanna is starting to get kick into gear as he
Speaker 1: ramps up for the playoffs. They're gonna rip off some
Speaker 1: wins and Janice is gonna put up numbers. And that's
Speaker 1: what's happening. Looking at his m v P case, I
Speaker 1: think he's the best player in the world. So remember
Speaker 1: my three criteria are are you in the conversation for
Speaker 1: the best player in the world, are you on the
Speaker 1: best team in the league, And how valuable are you
Speaker 1: to your team's success? Those three categories are the way
Speaker 1: that I measure m v P. I think he's the
Speaker 1: best player in the world, so solid on that spot.
Speaker 1: The Bucks are seven points per one hund possessions better
Speaker 1: when Janice is on versus when he's off, so he's
Speaker 1: incredibly valuable. The Bucks are getting outscored by one point
Speaker 1: per possession when Janice is off the floor in their
Speaker 1: thirty three and seventeen, so you can do the math
Speaker 1: on that. So if they finished with the best record
Speaker 1: in the league, which fig is that important section, they're
Speaker 1: best team in the league. If they finished with the
Speaker 1: best record in the league, which is completely on the table,
Speaker 1: then he checks all the boxes. He's the best player
Speaker 1: in the world on the best team in the league
Speaker 1: and putting up up third numbers and his team struggles
Speaker 1: without him. That's textbook m v P case. So if
Speaker 1: he goes over, if he goes out and averages thirty
Speaker 1: five and fifteen over the last thirty two games of
Speaker 1: the season, it will not be It will be impossible
Speaker 1: not to give him the award, And so keep an
Speaker 1: eye on fan duel look at those janis odds in
Speaker 1: terms of staying healthy, giving nightly effort, the talent for
Speaker 1: his team to be able to win games. He's just
Speaker 1: a safe bet and that's why I picked him. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's going to win. The m v P
Speaker 1: odds are he's not. Look at vanduel. But the reason
Speaker 1: why that was my pick is because of all those
Speaker 1: things that just laid out, and I'm sticking with that
Speaker 1: pick for right now. A couple of caveats. He needs
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. He's already missed eleven games this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can miss more than fifteen without
Speaker 1: it being a differentiator he can't overcome, so he'll you know,
Speaker 1: we can miss maybe two or three games the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, and he eats his role players to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. A big part of this recent surges Chris
Speaker 1: Middleton and Joe Ingles being in the lineup to give
Speaker 1: you an idea of just how important spacing is to
Speaker 1: be honest. This is a very small sample size for
Speaker 1: the record, but when Joe Ingles and Chris Middleton are
Speaker 1: on the floor with the honest this year, the Bucks
Speaker 1: are scoring a hundred and forty eight point four points
Speaker 1: per one hundred possessions. That's what happens when you put
Speaker 1: real spot up shooting and ball handling and shooting around
Speaker 1: Janice as an offensive folk grow so all in order
Speaker 1: from my preseason prediction to come true, all I need
Speaker 1: is be honest average something like thirty five and fifteen
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, don't miss more than two
Speaker 1: or three games and finish above the of Boston in
Speaker 1: the standings. It's good to see the Bucks starting around
Speaker 1: into form just in time for the playoffs. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk about Joel and beats m
Speaker 1: v P case for a second now. We talked a
Speaker 1: lot about him yesterday in the Weeds, and so I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna dive any further into that and beat fans
Speaker 1: Sixers fans, if you're looking for that. I talked about
Speaker 1: it a lot yesterday as we broke down his showdown
Speaker 1: and as kicking of Nicola Yokit on National TV. But
Speaker 1: I did want to take a quick look at his
Speaker 1: MVP case because we did not do that yesterday. Again.
Speaker 1: Three factors. Best player in the world, best team in
Speaker 1: the league, Most valuable player in the league. Um, definitely
Speaker 1: in the conversation for best player in the world. This season,
Speaker 1: He's averaging ten and four on a career high sixty
Speaker 1: percent for shooting, which is outrageous. He's also having an
Speaker 1: outstanding jump shooting season. I wanted to give you, guys.
Speaker 1: I've been talking a lot about this this season, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you some numbers to give you
Speaker 1: guys some perspective. So Joel Embiad is having what would
Speaker 1: be considered a league average, middle of the pack jump
Speaker 1: shooting season for a high volume guard, not for a center. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, there are seventy one NBA players this year
Speaker 1: that have taken at least three d jump shots, and
Speaker 1: the vast majority of them are perimeter players, and Beats
Speaker 1: averaging one point zero four points per possession on jump shots,
Speaker 1: which ranks forty one out. So that's again that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem super impressive, but that's a center. So out of
Speaker 1: any one guards and wings that are taking tons of
Speaker 1: jump shots, and Beat is performing the middle of the
Speaker 1: pack as those guys on the same volume, and I
Speaker 1: think that's incredibly impressive for a gigantic center. He's also
Speaker 1: been outstanding defensively in the half court. He's definitely good
Speaker 1: on the best player in the world side of things.
Speaker 1: The Sixers are eleven points per one hundred possessions better
Speaker 1: with a meat on the floor versus when he's off.
Speaker 1: Anything over ten on that front is like outstanding, bona
Speaker 1: fide MVP stuff. The Sixers are negative two point for
Speaker 1: net in a hundred per one hundred possessions with and
Speaker 1: beat off the floor, and again two and a half
Speaker 1: games back in the best record in the league. The
Speaker 1: Sixers are on a seven game win streak, which is
Speaker 1: something I predicted back in December, based on them getting
Speaker 1: healthy and all the talent they have on the roster.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling that they would go on to
Speaker 1: run into in January. That's what's happening, and just like Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: they are now just two and a half games back
Speaker 1: in the best record in basketball. So similarly, the honest
Speaker 1: he's missed twelve games, so he needs to play the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, can't miss more than two or
Speaker 1: three more, and the Sixers need to finish in first
Speaker 1: place again. The reason why I'm hammering those specific points
Speaker 1: home is this particular m v P case is going
Speaker 1: to be one of the most tightly contested MVP races
Speaker 1: in the history of the league. There's too many good
Speaker 1: players that deserve to win the award, so little talking
Speaker 1: points are gonna be big differentiators. Being able to say
Speaker 1: my team had the best record is going to be
Speaker 1: a big differentiator. Being able to say I played more
Speaker 1: games is going to be a big differentiator, especially with
Speaker 1: all the different archetypes. We're gonna be comparing a scoring
Speaker 1: center like in Bid to a playmaking center like Ki
Speaker 1: to a playmaking wing like Luca, to a scoring wing
Speaker 1: like Jayson Tatum to a scoring, playmaking wing like Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: It's all super convoluted and different. So these clear cut
Speaker 1: markers are gonna be big differentiators for people. So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the standings the rest of the season.
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Speaker 1: quick hitters before we get out of here today. First,
Speaker 1: Lebron's reaction to the missed foul call against Boston. I
Speaker 1: did a full episode on this that you guys can
Speaker 1: find on the feed, uh, yesterday about that game. Uh.
Speaker 1: The reason why I wanted to talk about this game
Speaker 1: is Bossman Colining Cowherd tweeted this yesterday and it hit
Speaker 1: home for me because it's something that I feel very
Speaker 1: passionately about. He said, yeah, he said quote. Yes, Lebron
Speaker 1: was dramatic, but he cares absolutely love his passion for
Speaker 1: the game and the Celtics games have always felt bigger
Speaker 1: for Lebron. Refs blew a late call that changed the
Speaker 1: result he was pissed about a regular season outcome all
Speaker 1: these years later, explain why he's still king Emoji bossman
Speaker 1: calling coward from the top rope with some knowledge for everybody. Look,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Lebron is corny. I've consistently said this.
Speaker 1: Lebron's off court persona is bizarre. He's corny, he's dramatic,
Speaker 1: he always plays to the cameras. He's a unique type
Speaker 1: of personality in that regard. But I hate it when
Speaker 1: people draw that line as some sort of indicator of
Speaker 1: his competitiveness. And the problem that what's driven this particular
Speaker 1: stupid narrative is Kobe fans and Michael Jordan fans then
Speaker 1: pushing this idea that in order to be a competitor,
Speaker 1: you've got to be an asshole, that you have to
Speaker 1: be laser focused all the time, that you have to
Speaker 1: be serious, almost mythological with the scope of your psycho competitiveness.
Speaker 1: That became basically the blueprint for what we accepted as
Speaker 1: the competitor. Call it Mamba mentality, call it, you know,
Speaker 1: just the general you know, Jordan's greatness that we saw
Speaker 1: in the last dance. But that became the only acceptable
Speaker 1: view of the competitor, and I've never seen it that way.
Speaker 1: I think you can have a overarching personality but have
Speaker 1: top tier competitiveness underneath it. For instance, Kobe and MJ
Speaker 1: are that kind of psycho asshole competitor, but like Steph
Speaker 1: Curry and Tim Duncan are more quiet, more nice. Step
Speaker 1: is like super religious. Those two guys want to murder
Speaker 1: you figuratively on a basketball court. Steph, one of my
Speaker 1: good friends, is a big Warriors fan, calls him Bundy.
Speaker 1: Like the serial Killers, Steff is a serial killer under
Speaker 1: the guys of a nice guy and a quiet guy.
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan was a serial killer under the guys of
Speaker 1: a guy that would be incredibly nice to you on
Speaker 1: the basketball court. Those guys are top tier competitors that
Speaker 1: aren't wired like Kobe and MJ. And the same goes
Speaker 1: for Lebron or Magic Johnson. There that class clown, overly boisterous, dramatic,
Speaker 1: play to the crowd type of personality. They are freak
Speaker 1: high end competitors. They all care about winning the same amount,
Speaker 1: which is more than everyone else. Kobe and MJ are
Speaker 1: role models. They present one way to be that type
Speaker 1: of competitor, but not the only version of what a
Speaker 1: competitor looks like. Lebron reacted hilariously to a no call
Speaker 1: and made kind of a fool out of himself national TV.
Speaker 1: But why because he poured his heart and soul into
Speaker 1: a game, a game that his team didn't need to win,
Speaker 1: but that could have been monumentally important to changing the
Speaker 1: outlook of their season, and at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: he made a play that should have won the game,
Speaker 1: and the rest took it away from him. Behind the
Speaker 1: ridiculous performance and all the dramatics of it and theatrics
Speaker 1: of it, was authentic pain from a competitor that wanted
Speaker 1: to win the damn basketball game and something out of
Speaker 1: his control took it away from him. As a fan
Speaker 1: of Lebron over the years, one of the things that
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed the most about rooting for him is that
Speaker 1: when there's been an environment like that, some sort of
Speaker 1: big game, whether it's a key nationally televised game during
Speaker 1: the regular season or a play of game. As someone
Speaker 1: who rooted for Lebron a lot, especially when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I never ever had a doubt as to whether or
Speaker 1: not he would bring it competitively. Now did the jump
Speaker 1: shot go in or not. That depended on the night.
Speaker 1: Did he take care care of the basketball? Some nights
Speaker 1: he was sloppier than others, But when it came to
Speaker 1: the things he could control in a big game, Lebron
Speaker 1: was the most dependable guy in the league, especially because
Speaker 1: of the things he could do defensively, and so like, Yes,
Speaker 1: Lebron is corny, Lebron is dramatic all of those things.
Speaker 1: Some of it's objectively unlikable, which I think is a
Speaker 1: big part of why he's so polarizing. But make no mistake,
Speaker 1: the dude is a savage competitor that cares about winning
Speaker 1: above all else, and those two things are not related
Speaker 1: to each other. Him being dramatic doesn't affect his competitiveness
Speaker 1: or vice versa. I just wanted to point that out
Speaker 1: all right quickly before we get out of year. The
Speaker 1: debate that was raging around Twitter the other day as
Speaker 1: to who's better Luca now or Lebron in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. And the reason why I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about this particularly is this, to me, represents one of
Speaker 1: the key foundational principles I use when comparing players all time,
Speaker 1: and the main idea there is basketball changes from decade
Speaker 1: to decade, from era to era, from player to player,
Speaker 1: and it's not fair to compare any player to any
Speaker 1: specific player in another era based solely on what they
Speaker 1: do on the basketball court, because what impacts winning is
Speaker 1: different from era to era. What you're allowed to do
Speaker 1: is different from era to era. For instance, heliocentric Lebron,
Speaker 1: like we saw towards the end of the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: era and the basically the second half of his career,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a thing to start when he came into
Speaker 1: the into the NBA, Paul Silis had him running off
Speaker 1: of floppy action and under the basket as an off
Speaker 1: ball player. Luca came right into the league and played
Speaker 1: heliocentric point forward. See the difference there. And so here's
Speaker 1: the deal. I do think Luca is a better basketball
Speaker 1: player right now than Lebron in two thousand eight. If
Speaker 1: I picked those two players up and I dropped them
Speaker 1: into a playoff series, I think Luca as that top
Speaker 1: of the key point forward type of guy right now,
Speaker 1: I would have more success than Lebron from two thousand
Speaker 1: eight right now. But that's not the rules. Lebron didn't
Speaker 1: have access to the knowledge of where the game was
Speaker 1: going back in two thousand eight, and so he was
Speaker 1: playing off the ball a lot more, and so he
Speaker 1: wasn't working on his jump shot as much. It was
Speaker 1: a completely different era. Here's what I do know, compared
Speaker 1: to today's players, Lucas, what the fourth or fifth best
Speaker 1: player in the league in two thousand eight? It was
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kobe and no one else was close. And
Speaker 1: you can make the case for Lebron. I thought Kobe
Speaker 1: was still better then, but Lebron was the second best
Speaker 1: player in the league at worst unassailably in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. Why does that matter, Because as a basketball player,
Speaker 1: you should be held accountable to what was going on
Speaker 1: in your era, and you should be gauged based on
Speaker 1: how you performed against your competition in your era. One
Speaker 1: of the biggest things that bothers me from Lebron fans
Speaker 1: when we're talking Lebron verse MJ is Lebron fans will
Speaker 1: say things like MJ played against plumbers. Go look at
Speaker 1: the nineties. The types of players he was playing against
Speaker 1: weren't as good as the guys Lebron is playing against now.
Speaker 1: And that's true. Lebron has to compete right now against
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and Kevin Durant and Jana Santana Coumbo and
Speaker 1: Nicola Yokich and Luca don Ship and Joel Embiide and
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum and Kawhi Leonard at the top of the
Speaker 1: league right now is insane. But differentiating yourself from that
Speaker 1: is different than differentiating yourself or than than being in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. So, for instance, MJ, what
Speaker 1: makes MJ's nineties dominance so impressive to me is that
Speaker 1: he was so much better than everybody in that era.
Speaker 1: It was m J huge gap everyone else in that era.
Speaker 1: He was the best. That's what he had to go against.
Speaker 1: That was who was pushing him motivationally on a day
Speaker 1: to day basis, and he elevated to that height anyway. So,
Speaker 1: even though I think Luca right now in two thousand
Speaker 1: three is a better player than Lebron was in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, by some small amount, Lebron into Thou
Speaker 1: the eight deserves credit for being the better basketball player
Speaker 1: then Luca now because Lebron was the second best player
Speaker 1: in the NBA at worst, if not the best player
Speaker 1: in the NBA in two thousand eight against what was
Speaker 1: available in that era against the players that were in
Speaker 1: that era, with the knowledge of the game that was
Speaker 1: in that era, in the play style that was in
Speaker 1: that era. If I took Lebron the same Lebron from
Speaker 1: two thousand three and I got him drafted at the
Speaker 1: same time Luca got drafted and whatever it was two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen or whatever, he would immediately come into the
Speaker 1: league with the ball in his hands. Top of the key,
Speaker 1: spread floor is shooting, don't make plays. He would have
Speaker 1: developed that stuff earlier, and by the time he reached
Speaker 1: his two thousand eight whatever that is, age age twenty
Speaker 1: three season, he'd be a better ball handler, he'd be
Speaker 1: a better shooter, he'd be a better half court surgeon.
Speaker 1: Luca has the benefit of all of that. Now see
Speaker 1: the difference, So that that that's kind of the way
Speaker 1: I look at it when I'm evaluating basketball players, when
Speaker 1: we're taking a look, when it's all said and done
Speaker 1: and we look back and Janice is retired, I want
Speaker 1: to look at what Janice did in Janice's MBA and
Speaker 1: compare it to what Lebron did in Lebron's NBA, and
Speaker 1: compare it to what MJ did in MJ's m b
Speaker 1: A not compare what Janice did statistically and from a
Speaker 1: skill aptitude standpoint to exactly what Lebron did statistically and
Speaker 1: from a skill aptitude standpoint in a different sport, because
Speaker 1: basketball in two thousand and eight doesn't look remotely similar
Speaker 1: to basketball today. Just go look at league average in
Speaker 1: three point attempts. I don't have the data in front
Speaker 1: of me, but I bet you that are taken three
Speaker 1: times as many threes now, So we I just I
Speaker 1: just want to set that as an expectation, especially as
Speaker 1: we move forward with the show. We get into this offseason,
Speaker 1: gonna do more all time stuff. You should know. The
Speaker 1: way that I look at this is based on what
Speaker 1: you do in your era, with your set of circumstances.
Speaker 1: How dominant are you now, because Luca is not dominant now,
Speaker 1: he's very much one of the guys at the top
Speaker 1: of the league. If somebody in this pack separates themselves
Speaker 1: kind of like Janice is starting to do. But we'll
Speaker 1: see over the next couple of years, that's when we're
Speaker 1: starting to enter into that conversation with the all time
Speaker 1: grades again because you're seeing that separation within your era.
Speaker 1: The way that Lebron separated in his era in the
Speaker 1: way that MJ did in his era. All right, that
Speaker 1: is all I have for today. As always, I sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys support. We were gonna be doing UH
Speaker 1: instant reaction on uh AMP immediately after Lakers Nick's tomorrow Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It's either gonna be after Net Celtics or Warriors Wolves,
Speaker 1: depending on if the Warrior Starters play UH. If the
Speaker 1: Warrior Starters play, will push it back about a half
Speaker 1: hour um Thursday night. We'll see. I've got I'm heading
Speaker 1: out of town on Friday morning, so I've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff going on that particular evening. So depending
Speaker 1: on how things work, we might have a reaction to
Speaker 1: Nuggets Warriors or we might not. I'll keep you guys posted. Again,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys, and I'll see you tomorrow night.
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