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Speaker 1: Because the trade deadline is the week of Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: The NBA comes in and steals the headlines, and boy

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Speaker 1: did it. Twelve twelve am Eastern Time on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: the tweet went out that most people didn't believe Luka

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Speaker 1: Doncic has been traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. There are other pieces,

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Speaker 1: but frankly it doesn't matter because that shook everything to

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Speaker 1: its core. First question, Shaquille, where were you? How did

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Speaker 1: you find out? And did you believe it?

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Speaker 2: I was at a hookah bar and I got the

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Speaker 2: tweet and then I had to look because yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's crazy. I don't have no perception of time and date.

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Speaker 2: So I dumbly asked myself, is this April fools? That

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Speaker 2: I had to go to the count and be like,

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Speaker 2: it's February so and then you know, once you see

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Speaker 2: one source, you got to keep going right. So I

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Speaker 2: looked at it and it says Scham's ESPN. So like

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Speaker 2: that ESPN is credible, And I went to the all

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Speaker 2: the sites, and I went to all the sites. Then

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Speaker 2: I made the call to one of my boys in Dallas,

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Speaker 2: Rowe parish. I said, Rose, it's true. He said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's true. Dallas is going crazy. So now questions start

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Speaker 2: to come up. One times, let me go back. I

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Speaker 2: can remember. The saddest day for me is a trade

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Speaker 2: when the great Patrick Ewing was traded. I was in

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Speaker 2: the league, but still you like, damn Patrick Ewing was traded.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's safe, right, and then Dominique Wilkins got traded. Nobody's safe.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, I knew that the business of

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Speaker 2: basketball from the owners standpoint, nobody cares. And that's why

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Speaker 2: you know, peoples like, okay, why are you sticking up

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Speaker 2: for Jimmy because they get to trade you in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the night without telling you. But when you

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Speaker 2: say I want to be traded in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the night, now it's all He's a He's a distraction

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Speaker 2: to the team. He does this, he does that, he

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Speaker 2: walked out a shoot around. We're going to fight him.

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Speaker 2: That's why I say, nobody cares in the business of basketball.

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Speaker 2: Now you start to say to yourself, twenty five year

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Speaker 2: old superstar, they get rid of him in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the night without telling his representation, not telling him.

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Speaker 2: Something else is going on, and what I love about

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Speaker 2: the internet. Is you hear all the conspiracy theories. So

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Speaker 2: let me address one conspiracy theory that I was a

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Speaker 2: part of. He's out of shape, he does this, he

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Speaker 2: does that. Okay, Now let's look at the facts. Last

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Speaker 2: five years, has he been all NBA? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Which team first?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Cool?

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Speaker 2: Last five years he's average.

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Speaker 3: We either like top three points per game in the end?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, twenty eight. Last five years, has he taken

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Speaker 2: him to the finals.

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Speaker 3: He went to the finals and two conference finals.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So my question is, and the answer is, what

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. In shape you do all that, out of

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Speaker 2: shape you do all that. What difference does it make us?

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Speaker 2: I used to come in out of shape on purpose

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Speaker 2: because one who the fuck am I getting ready for?

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Speaker 2: I'm only getting ready for me and maybe one guy,

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Speaker 2: So you know, here and here I'm you know, I

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Speaker 2: talk about all the time, I'm averaging twenty eight period,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the top center at my position. So

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Speaker 2: all this stuff he was out of shape, that's just

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Speaker 2: to throw dirt on his name and his legacy. But

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Speaker 2: you're not really making sense because you know, to me,

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Speaker 2: out of shape is I can't play, I can't breathe,

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Speaker 2: I can't perform. This man has been first team All NBA.

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Speaker 2: I was first team All NBA. This man is a

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Speaker 2: future Hall of famer. I'm a Hall of Famer. I

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Speaker 2: got three statues. So what difference does it make when

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Speaker 2: you say when you say he's out of shape? And

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Speaker 2: I always tell people I was never out of basketball shape.

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Speaker 2: I'm out of wrestling shape, because like you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: coming in, I gotta go to go through four people

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Speaker 2: and hacker shock and this and that. I didn't train

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Speaker 2: for that, which is when I started training you for

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Speaker 2: UFC and stop training basketball and the summer that's why

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Speaker 2: I started winning championships. Shout out to John Burke, sixth levels.

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Speaker 2: So the crazy thing about this is I'm hearing all

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Speaker 2: the conspiracy with what goes around. But the business of

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Speaker 2: basketball is very treacherous. And this is historical, not because

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Speaker 2: the two players, because you trade a twenty five year

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Speaker 2: old superstar and you don't really give the reasons why

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Speaker 2: he was traded. I think Dallas has probably won the

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Speaker 2: trade because ad goes into a natural position with better

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Speaker 2: Lebron and you got Luca. I don't see who else

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Speaker 2: Lakers have always been smart. The Lakers have always had

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Speaker 2: to have a big name player. So they're preparing for

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Speaker 2: the demise of Lebron and the birth of Luca. That's

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Speaker 2: another question you have to ask. You know, you hear

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Speaker 2: all these people all they can't play together. They can

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Speaker 2: ball a lot. But when they do get the ball,

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Speaker 2: they gonna make great decisions. So that's why I think

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Speaker 2: they can together. But they have no size. Both those

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Speaker 2: guys aren't really great defensive players. So I think Dallas

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Speaker 2: definitely won the trade. But to trade a twenty five

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Speaker 2: I find that to be weird.

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Speaker 1: So few things. Number One, Luca was a fit. We're

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Speaker 1: recording this on Tuesday. Luca was officially announced with the

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Speaker 1: Lakers today held up the jersey. He also thought it

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Speaker 1: was an April fool's joke when he saw the news.

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Speaker 1: That's how secret this was.

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Speaker 2: And you sit back and hear all of it. I

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Speaker 2: even hear one guy says that the Dallas ownership has

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Speaker 2: got rid of him because they want a tank so

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Speaker 2: they can get a new casino. That's why I love

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Speaker 2: him hate the internet at the same time. But kulos

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Speaker 2: to Luca for being professional. He's better than I am

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Speaker 2: because I would have went cleaned the golf twenty five

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Speaker 2: averaging twenty eight all NBA. You trade me the middle

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Speaker 2: of the light. So I hope when he goes back

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Speaker 2: to Dallas he kills him every time. That that right

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Speaker 2: there is gonna be my CTV.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to clarify one thing and then

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to get into this.

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Speaker 3: Because I've been thinking about this for a while.

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Speaker 1: When you say Dallas wins the trade, you mean for

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Speaker 1: this year, like if they're going for it this year,

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Speaker 1: Dallas wins the trade because long you would still say

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Speaker 1: Dallas wins the trade.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because they got better players around You got Kyrie, right,

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Speaker 2: you got a d that's your one two point right

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Speaker 2: there now. I like PG. I like the young fella.

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Speaker 2: I like the shooters that he got around them. When

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Speaker 1: This Dallas is a better team right now. But the

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Speaker 1: feels like the winner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Lucas still need pieces around them, but.

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Speaker 3: That's going to come. I mean, like, maybe.

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Speaker 1: Let's let me propose this to you, yes, number one,

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Speaker 1: When when you have NBA players like Josh Hart saying

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Speaker 1: it was highway robbery, when you have conspiracy theories coming

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Speaker 1: out as to why Dallas would make this trade, whenever

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Speaker 1: you need to make conspiracy theories, typically it makes sense

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Speaker 1: that the other team won. Also, when I hear that

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Speaker 1: the reason Dallas made the trade partially is because their

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Speaker 1: GM has an amazing relationship with Anthony Davis and he

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Speaker 1: I never want to be on the side of the

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Speaker 1: guy that's super biased, the guy that's like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: want to be on the side of I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to be on the side of the young

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Speaker 1: James's record that's the excite I want to be in

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Speaker 1: business with and also just from like a business perspective,

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Speaker 1: like I know you're in this mindset too. I read

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Speaker 1: Rob Polinka is like really good friends with Nico Harrison

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Speaker 1: Nico asked for more and Rob was like, listen, you've

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Speaker 1: told me how much of an issue Luca is. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking on risk here by taking Luca. That's why I

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Speaker 3: You more first round picks.

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Speaker 1: And so I think the general manager of the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: And that's dangerous business dealing because check if he would

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