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Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you. You've got an emergency on your Handsency,

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Speaker 1: it's a Monday. This is No Ducks presented by Fan Duel.

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Speaker 1: I'm test smells with me. It's the man in the middle,

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Speaker 1: Trey Kirby. Ah hey hey oh, and the man who's

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Speaker 1: always making the magic happen. Whether it's an emergency or not,

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Speaker 1: it's JD. It may not be an emergency, but it

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Speaker 1: feels urgent. It does. It does feel urgent podcast. Sure, yep,

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Speaker 1: that's a fantastic segue right there, JD. We've got lots

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Speaker 1: of stuff coming up. Is an emergency? Is it urgent

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Speaker 1: that we You.

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Speaker 2: Gotta get this in the season is starting in three months. Tasks,

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Speaker 2: hurry up.

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Speaker 1: We've got to rank every single team in the Power

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Speaker 1: rankings right now. That's part of it. Not all thirty.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing all thirty.

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Speaker 2: I was like a new emergency has the classic factory.

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Speaker 2: I only got five teams preps. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We'll get to some minor transactions,

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Speaker 1: but first I want to ask it Trey. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: did you see Carrie Wood's trick pitch?

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Speaker 2: Huh see carry Wood? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Twenty k Carrey in Wrigley Fields. Wow, his back baby

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Speaker 1: as a member of the Savannah Bananas. Seriously for this

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Speaker 1: one day in Chicago at Wrigley Field. Check it out. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he literally did the behind the back from the mound. Wow,

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Speaker 1: threw it up there. As he's throwing it up, he

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Speaker 1: fakes a pitch and then it lands right in the catcher. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is great. It's a nice play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were saying it like literally as Carrie Wood

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Speaker 2: was doing it here as I'm watching, this is incredible,

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Speaker 2: says it his first time on the mound at Wrigley

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Speaker 2: in fourteen years exactly. I've never seen something like that.

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Speaker 2: That is pretty sweet. Behind the back right to the catcher. Now,

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Speaker 2: did the umpire give it to call?

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Speaker 1: No matter what? Sure, it was probably a little high

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Speaker 2: You think the other guys should have tapped his hoe

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Speaker 2: asked for a replay on that touch from Carrie Wood.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, that was nice.

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Speaker 2: That was nice.

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Speaker 2: When I was in high school, they literally turned on

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Speaker 2: carry Wood's twenty strikeout game when he was in the

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Speaker 2: middle of it to let us watch it during class.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: How much our school cared about academics sports, Well, they

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Speaker 1: All Right, Baseball talk done, Let's get to some more

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Speaker 1: Lebron thoughts because as we saw that emergency podcast animation

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Speaker 1: off the Top that was stemming from our show that

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Speaker 1: we did on Friday, right after we did our first show,

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Speaker 1: Lebron signed with the Sixers. So we did that. But

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Speaker 1: now we've had a couple of nights to think about things.

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Speaker 1: We've got five questions to answer here Trey about Lebron

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Speaker 1: going to Philadelphia seventy six Ers. The first one, what's

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Speaker 1: the offense going to look like in Philly with Bron

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Speaker 2: Call me crazy task, but I think if you've got

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Speaker 2: Maybe it does. I don't know. Last season, Philadelphia was

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Speaker 2: I think they should be way higher. All of those guys,

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Speaker 2: The half court is where there's definitely more question marks

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown, Yeah, Joel Embiid, it's gonna be there. Maxi

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Speaker 1: conference final. Thirteen thousand career points, not a lot, all right.

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Speaker 2: But Nick Nurse is a very creative coach. We saw

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Speaker 2: He can still be a good rebounder. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: I do think it is important for those other guys

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Speaker 2: No, sorry, it's happening.

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Speaker 1: It's all not happening.

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Speaker 2: power rankings in a little bit here, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I would give him like a three to five percent chance,

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Speaker 2: maybe more once we see him actually playing.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I put it even a little higher than that.

431
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Speaker 1: We'll get into the power rankings a little bit later

432
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Speaker 1: if they're able to execute this three team deal as

433
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Speaker 1: I just mentioned, and get some bigs instead of Embiid,

434
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Speaker 1: get a Daniel Gafford in there.

435
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Speaker 2: Down grade You think him downgrade would help him?

436
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, Daniel gaffer is going to play basketball?

437
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: I mean this year. Well that's the biggest question with

438
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and this whole question about the playoffs in

439
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 1: the postseason. Can he play one more time? But either way,

440
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Speaker 1: I think yes. You can look at the Eastern Conference

441
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Speaker 1: and say, the New York Knicks made it there last year.

442
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: Again another one of those teams that hadn't won, that

443
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Speaker 1: didn't repeat. They are a fifty three win team that

444
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Speaker 1: got there, so not an overly dominating team in the

445
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Speaker 1: regular season. So the Sixers could easily win fifty three games.

446
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: It's a very different Eastern Conference, but it feels wide open.

447
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: It feels like the Knicks are the team to beat.

448
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: We always respect the champs, but this team is the

449
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Speaker 1: number two team right behind them. In the Philadelphia seventy

450
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Speaker 1: six Ers, So I do think it's Yeah, it's time

451
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: to be obviously, it's the summer. We got to get excited. Yeah,

452
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Speaker 1: they can do it. But I looking at it, I

453
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Speaker 1: wouldn't rank them below any of those other sort of

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Speaker 1: teams that we're questioning that. I wouldn't rank them below

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Speaker 1: the Celtics. I wouldn't rank them below the Reps. I

456
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Speaker 1: wouldn't rank them below the Pistons. I think they have

457
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Speaker 1: a legitimate shot here in this Eastern Conference. Part of

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Speaker 1: Lebron's thinking, I'm not going up against the Oka see

459
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Speaker 1: in San Antonio. So yeah, that's the high end.

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Speaker 2: I think that. Like, I think the Sixers are the

461
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Speaker 2: second best team in the Eastern Conference, and if they

462
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Speaker 2: finish the playoffs as the second team in the Eastern

463
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Speaker 2: Conference that made a conference that means they made the

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Speaker 2: conference finals, which would be the first time they've done

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Speaker 2: so since twenty twenty one. Prior to that was nineteen

466
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Speaker 2: eighty five, and prior to that was nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 2: So I think making a conference finals would be a

468
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Speaker 2: massive win for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Ohkay, yeah, that's totally true. Worst case let's get to

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. What is it?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. What do you think is worse. Your

472
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Speaker 2: season is completely derailed by injuries, or you have a

473
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Speaker 2: great season and then the postseason is derailed by injuries.

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Speaker 1: I say postseason.

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Speaker 2: I agree, Yeah, the East is going to be really

476
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Speaker 2: competitive next year. I think you would throw out the Bulls,

477
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Speaker 2: the Nets, and the Bucks as the only teams who

478
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Speaker 2: were not expecting to win next year. Nine teams I

479
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Speaker 2: think are coming into the season expecting to compete for

480
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Speaker 2: a top six spot in the Eastern Conference. So if

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Speaker 2: we get twenty games from EMBIID, maybe Lebron finally looks

482
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Speaker 2: washed he only plays forty games, Philadelphia could end up

483
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Speaker 2: in the play in I think that's reasonable or a

484
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Speaker 2: potential outcome, Like, I think that outcome is kind of

485
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Speaker 2: right in line with them actually making it to the finals,

486
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Speaker 2: like it could happen. It probably won't. But a worst

487
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Speaker 2: case scenario to me would be like we played great,

488
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 2: everything is clicking and beat is looking healthy, and then

489
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Speaker 2: he gets elbowed in the face in Game one of

490
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Speaker 2: the playoffs and suddenly he's out and you're not a

491
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Speaker 2: championship contender. So I don't know, injuries derailing this team

492
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: are the worst case scenario whenever it happens.

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Speaker 1: If they end up in the plan, it's a huge

494
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Speaker 1: disappointment for this team that was good last year. This

495
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Speaker 1: was a good team that struggled to get there at

496
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Speaker 1: times without Joel and Bie, but they got there a

497
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Speaker 1: forty five win team. That's a solid, solid number without

498
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Speaker 1: without Jaylen Brown, and so I think that's the biggest thing.

499
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Speaker 1: And again that's why Lebron picked this team. He knows

500
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Speaker 1: John Brown's going to be out there playing. They had

501
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Speaker 1: a team last year that had Paul George suspended for

502
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Speaker 1: twenty five games and be playing less than half the season,

503
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Speaker 1: got to a forty five win total. Was a solid

504
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Speaker 1: team in the end, even though you know, we all

505
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: were skeptical, what is this team? But Maxy Maxi plays,

506
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown plays, and they're super talented dudes. Jaylen Brown

507
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Speaker 1: already already playing with a lethal shooter out there. He's

508
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Speaker 1: looking good. I like that, Yeah, he is. They're all

509
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: looking good again. Plan. That's a huge disappointment to me. Yeah,

510
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: but you're right in that the East is man, I

511
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Speaker 1: think it's more fun than the West right now with

512
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Speaker 1: how many teams are legitimate outside those three that you named.

513
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Speaker 1: Because yeah, a lot of them are getting strong. Indiana

514
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Speaker 1: it's got to be way stronger. Orlando's got to have

515
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Speaker 1: some more health than they were actually decent last year.

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Speaker 1: They got nothing to lose four, So yeah, this is

517
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Speaker 1: going to be a bloodbath. JD can ask you one

518
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: quick question here before we move on to other minor transactions.

519
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Speaker 1: I saw this comparison out there. I'll set it up,

520
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: but basically it's is Lebron Odysseus because Katie, Katie Hindel

521
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: wrote wrote about it like this, because Lebron sent this

522
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: as part of his tweet on Friday. He said, quote,

523
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Speaker 1: I've never been able to have no clue what to

524
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: do and take real time to just think. Katie wrote,

525
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Speaker 1: how is that line not a colloquial translation of Odysseus

526
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: himself staring out at the sea from one way laid

527
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Speaker 1: beach or another, rife with grief, but also tingling underneath

528
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: it excitement, like he's with Calypso out there waiting. I'm

529
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Speaker 1: figuring it out. Is I took a left turn?

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Speaker 2: I like it. I like it.

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Speaker 1: I think for him to be Odysseus, he has to

532
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Speaker 1: go to Hell. He has to got to Hades. That's

533
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Speaker 1: part of the hero's journey. Where would that have been

534
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: so far?

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Speaker 2: Is it Philadelphia?

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Speaker 1: Who knows? I don't. I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like he's not Odysseus until he makes

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Speaker 2: it back to Cleveland.

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00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: Right, So what what?

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Speaker 2: What is the Philadelphia stop? Is it Hades? Is it

541
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Speaker 2: between what Caribs and Scylla?

542
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: Is that what it was?

543
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 2: It's dragon monster and hole in the hosts?

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Speaker 1: Right, I don't even remember the name. But it's the

545
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: out west wherever he's going the west? Yeah, the right

546
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Speaker 1: to end it? Right? Yeah?

547
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody nobody got back home.

548
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got back home. He did.

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Speaker 2: That's Cleveland.

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00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Yeah. So isn't Philly out west like after

551
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: on the boat?

552
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe?

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00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's his, that's his, that's this is

554
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: my ending. I've done it all and I killed everybody

555
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: one more time. I got back to Cleveland. But now

556
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm headed out west with with with my anu.

557
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: Although he will be spending a lot of time in

558
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Speaker 1: New York. Not to get another city involved here, but

559
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna spend a lot of time.

560
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently live in New Yeah, shopper into Philly.

561
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Speaker 1: Do the Chamberlain. Wow, well, do the wilt? I mean

562
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Speaker 1: he will right?

563
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Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know. I heard he also joined

564
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: a very prestigious golf club in Philadelphia. Oh, he'll probably

565
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 2: have multiple locations. Will do you can afford it, even

566
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: though he's only making a measly three point eight million

567
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: dollars this year.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to some minor transactions that

569
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Speaker 1: happened this weekend. Our old friend Spencer Jones. He's going

570
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: back to the Denver Nuggets after okase signed him to

571
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: a two year, twelve million dollar offer sheet. We're all,

572
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: we're wondering, what's gonna happen here? Are the Nuggets going

573
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: to match it? Because that gives them some issues financially.

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Speaker 1: We had Spencer Jones. I don't know if you saw it.

575
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: He re shared something on Instagram that had him in

576
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: an Okasee uniform. While that was all happening, he posts

577
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: on LinkedIn, this is what's happening? Uh? It was interesting?

578
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: But then surprisingly the Nuggets match Trey What do you

579
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: think about this?

580
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: On his LinkedIn? Does he have to list being employed

581
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 2: by the Thunder for two days? So I signed a contract?

582
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: I was a Thunder for two days. It said Denver

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Speaker 2: Nuggets twenty twenty six, Thunder twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: and now Denver Nuggets again. This was pretty spicy, right like,

585
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Speaker 2: it definitely felt like the Thunder were putting the screws

586
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Speaker 2: to the Nuggets. Two teams that are like sort of

587
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Speaker 2: in the same realm at least. You know, the Thunder

588
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: are ahead of the Nuggets right now, but they're both

589
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: contenders in the Western Conference. They're both butting up against

590
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 2: this second apron. This does push the Nuggets into the

591
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Speaker 2: second apron. I think they're the only team right now

592
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 2: that is in the second apron. And we've talked a

593
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: lot this summer and honestly the past probably three summers,

594
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Speaker 2: about the Nuggets being very careful with their payroll and

595
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: slicing off salary basically whenever they did so. When the

596
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Speaker 2: Thunder come in offering this deal and signing Spencer Jones

597
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 2: to an offer sheet that turns a six million dollar

598
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: contract for Spencer Jones into a thirty two million dollar

599
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: luxury tax payment for the Nuggets, most people were thinking

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Speaker 2: Spencer Jones is gonna be gone, and that would have

601
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: been a big loss for Denver because he was seventh

602
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: in minutes during the regular season, he was fifth in

603
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: minutes during the postseason for Denver. He defends he shot

604
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: forty percent from three last year. It looks funky, but

605
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: it goes in. This was a player that the Nuggets

606
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: absolutely could not lose, so I'm happy to see that

607
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: they actually ponied up for it. Spencer Jones himself, he's

608
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 2: not worth thirty two million dollars, But not losing Spencer

609
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 2: Jones and your team being better, I think that is

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Speaker 2: worth thirty two million dollars totally.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that has a lot of injuries,

612
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: top heavy, and that the top doesn't always play, not

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Speaker 1: specifically Nikola Jokic, but moving down from Jamal Murray to

614
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon to Christian Brown to Cam Johnson. Their top

615
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: five is paid a lot, but it was surprising that

616
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Speaker 1: they didn't match even though they desperately need him, because well,

617
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: a couple of things. Some of those top end contracts

618
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: have not worked out. The Christian Brown five year for

619
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five million dollars in some corners

620
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: is basically untradeable. He's starting that five year contract this year.

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Speaker 1: Last year did not work out at all. The Cam

622
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Speaker 1: Johnson won also an interesting one in that I assume

623
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Speaker 1: they just bring him back and hope that he can

624
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: play more and play more to his capabilities. And then

625
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: there's a whole Peyton Watson factor, and that was a

626
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: big factor as to why it looked like they're saying, okay, okay,

627
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,959
Speaker 1: see you need a three and D shooter, Sam pressI

628
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: you really handcuffed us here. Take them. That's what it

629
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: felt like because they got to pay Payton Watson a ton.

630
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Speaker 1: So in the end, are they going to pay this

631
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: huge luxury tax fee which could go up because I

632
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Speaker 1: imagine they are going to bring Peyton Watson back because

633
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: he is so young and so talented, while you have

634
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Speaker 1: a guy like Aaron Gordon or the other couple guys

635
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: I mentioned in Brown and Johnson that are getting old,

636
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: especially Aaron Gordon. And I know you brought up Jamal

637
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: Murray as a Jalen Brown comparison with the Boston Celtics.

638
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: Maybe we got to move on here. It was surprising

639
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: the Christian Brown contract is kind of it's hovering over them.

640
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: It's even a cheap Zeke Nasei one where he can't

641
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 1: get off the bench at all four years thirty two

642
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: that they signed him to. He has two years left,

643
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: so odd scenario. It feels like the Nuggets are a

644
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: cheap franchise and for this to come in and put

645
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 1: them into the second Apron was totally surprising. Again, as

646
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: you said, right now they're the only team in the

647
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: second Apron.

648
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the good news for Denver is that

649
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: all that stuff isn't calculated until the end of the season.

650
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: They still got a chance to get under the apron

651
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: by make trades. Like you said, Zeke Naji, seven and

652
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 2: a half million this year, seven and a half million

653
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: next year. I think it's going to cost Denver to

654
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: get off his contract, and they don't even have very

655
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 2: many second round picks left over to be traded, so

656
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 2: I don't know about that, but they can at least

657
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 2: kick the tires on maybe a Jamal Murray trade. I

658
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 2: think that's pretty unlikely, but you could see them explore it, certainly,

659
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: Cam Johnson, I think they'll explore the trade market for him.

660
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon, they got to look into it as well.

661
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: Like you're saying, Christian Brown, you don't like to see

662
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: his twenty five million dollars per year contract kicking in

663
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 2: this season after a down one last year, and the

664
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 2: Nuggets just gotta be regretting that one. I was a

665
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: fan of that contract when it's signed, but I should

666
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 2: have thought about it more like Yokis can just make

667
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 2: anybody look good. It would probably be the easiest job

668
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 2: in the NBA running the court and shooting wide open threes,

669
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: playing alongside exactly Peyton Watson has looked great as that

670
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: guy as well. You can you could probably get that

671
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: kind of a player for less than twenty five million dollars.

672
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 2: But the Nuggets, I imagine, will continue to be a

673
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 2: team that looks to slice off some contract totals as

674
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 2: the trade deadline approaches. But at least they brought back

675
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 2: Spencer Jones, like they couldn't let another guy just leave

676
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 2: for nothing. Tim Hardaway Junior already gone, Yonis Valanciunas already gone.

677
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: They couldn't lose another guy.

678
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you said the Peyton Watson in comparison to

679
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: the Cam Johnson and Christian Brown over twenty million dollars,

680
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: all those three could be being be paid in that

681
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: same ballpark. There is going to be the split screens

682
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: going around. If all those three guys are back of Peyton,

683
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: cam Johnson and Christian Brown having to produce set that number.

684
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 1: They need it because, as you said, those two guys

685
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: that you mentioned in Tim Hardaway and Yona Valancunis, it

686
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: was a good bench last year which made the Yonich

687
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: the Jokic non Yokic manage, I should say, palatable for

688
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. They're still losing

689
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: by three points, but they used to be losing by

690
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: ten fifteen per hundred possession, so that was a really

691
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: good bench. Been replaced by guys like Marvin Bagley. He's

692
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: taken the Yonis fallin Tunis minutes. We got an Alpha

693
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: Diallo coming from Europe. So in the end, good for

694
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: Spencer Jones overall. He said on LinkedIn multiple months ago,

695
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Speaker 1: I think it was in February, said I had a

696
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: contract that I could have signed with the Denver Nuggets

697
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: multiple years guaranteed money, but it wasn't for a lot

698
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: better on himself and it worked out for him. He's

699
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: got to come on the show to tell us about it.

700
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: Next transaction, a former Denver nugget here KCP, has agreed

701
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: to a buyout from the Memphis Grizzlies and will sign

702
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: at some point here one deal, a one year deal

703
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: with the seventy six ers, because that's what he's getting

704
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: bought out for here Tree.

705
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like the Sixers are trying to ditch

706
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: one guy clear a roster spot for KCP. Kcp's probably washed.

707
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 2: He's going to be thirty four next season. He shot

708
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 2: third three percent from three over the last couple of

709
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: seasons away from Nicola Jokicic. But he's got two titles,

710
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: one of them was with Lebron. This is a good

711
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: way to fill out their bench. You look at the

712
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: Sixers last year. Kyle Lowry played one hundred and eighteen

713
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 2: minutes last season. That's probably cacp's role. A veteran bench

714
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: guard who's a breaking case of emergency type player. So

715
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: I got no real problems with this for Philadelphia.

716
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a solid one. Another rich Paul client. Yeah,

717
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: another clutcher. As you said, Old, it seems like this

718
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: was a good move by the Denver Nuggets when it happened.

719
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,959
Speaker 1: I'm sure why you back the Christian Brown signing. They said,

720
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: all right, CACP, you can go go get a ton

721
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: of money from Orlando. We'll go give that ton of

722
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: money to a young guy and Christian Brown as a

723
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: replacement for you, and it worked out. Okay. But if

724
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: if you're playing him way less like this twenty six

725
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: ers will I'm sure you'll get some good minutes out

726
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: of Kentavious Caldwell Pope, because he did have some good

727
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: minutes last year. I wasn't a ton of them.

728
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 2: But do you think people know that he was a

729
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 2: Grizzly last year? Nah?

730
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: Nah? I mean he was part of the Desmond Bane

731
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: trade from Orlando.

732
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 2: No.

733
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Speaker 1: I think we could probably name like five guys that

734
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: people don't know were from the Memphis Grizzlies, like Olivier

735
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: Maxons Prosper.

736
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, you're probably right about that one. Do people

737
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: know that Ty Jerome played like twenty eight games for

738
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies last year or whatever he ended up playing.

739
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: He's pretty solid. Yeah, there were some guys on that team.

740
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll be back. I think another guy that's back

741
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: Mario Hazonia. He's coming back. How many times have we

742
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: said Mario Hazonia over the last couple of weeks.

743
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: We may have said Mario Hazzonia's name more often during

744
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: these couple of weeks than we did during his first

745
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 2: five years that he actually played in the NBA. Didn't

746
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 2: really establish himself much except for the Lebron James block.

747
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: That's the only thing people remember about Mario Hazonia. I

748
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 2: would also include that he looks a lot like one

749
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: of the villains from the movie Old School, one of

750
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: the guys that eats those uh spiked eclaires, if you will.

751
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 2: But I love it when someone comes back to the NBA.

752
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 2: We saw with Roshan Yabucele. Recently, Dante Exum did the

753
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: same sort of thing. But this has gotta be a

754
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 2: bummer for Cavs fans to Cleveland coming to Cleveland. They

755
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 2: wanted Lebron and they got Mario Hazonia. They're similar sizes,

756
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: so to me, it's like Christmas. You come downstairs, you're like, wow,

757
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: that looks like a PlayStation five and you open it

758
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 2: and it's a chemistry set. The boxes are about the same,

759
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 2: but what's inside isn't quite equal. So yeah, apparently Mario

760
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: Zonia won the Spanish League MVP last year with Real Madrid.

761
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: The last three are Hazonia, Marcelo Huertas and Facundo Compazo,

762
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 2: So there's some talent in the ACB, and I think

763
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: he's got a chance to play some minutes for the Cavs.

764
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 2: He'll be in the wing mix with Tyson max Strus

765
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: and maybe he could be like a backup four for

766
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: Evan Mobley. I don't really know much about Mario Hazzonia's

767
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: game this year, but I'm looking forward to seeing him

768
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: come back.

769
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: Mario his oon ya a super athletic guy. If you

770
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,879
Speaker 1: watch any of the clips from his run in Spain,

771
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: it's a lot of dunks, a lot of alubes in

772
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: no way. Yeah, that's what he does. I think they're

773
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: hoping he can be sort of a Simoni Fontechio a

774
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, or he can fire away from three.

775
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: I know Fontechio isn't as athletic as Mario Zonia was,

776
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: or is, I should say, because he's the funny thing

777
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: about Mario Zonia he's thirty one. He's not, No, he's not.

778
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 2: He was older than I thought too. Yeah, I mean

779
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: he's been out of the league for a while now.

780
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: Last played for the Blazers in twenty twenty.

781
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: Right, gave him a shot, and I say Fontecio that's

782
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: the hope, because is a better three point shooter, but

783
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: just somebody who can can fire away and who can

784
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: be a closer to a p S five. All I had.

785
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: What I flashed back to, or what I think of,

786
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: is Owen Wilson and Wedding Crashers where he's being quizzed

787
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: by Rachel Adams and he's sitting at the the gift

788
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: table and she says, what's this, what's that? What's this?

789
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: And he's able to just rifle off each each Yeah, yeah, yeah,

790
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: each Each gift is so good, and so is that movie. Man,

791
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: it was on Saturday in my house. Wedding.

792
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was solid, solid as Mario Zone. Yeah all right,

793
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: that's super ridiculous take. I think Wedding Crashers is better

794
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: than Mario his own, no offense at.

795
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: All, lock it in. Yeah, yeah, I gotta agree. Super long,

796
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: I will say super long. Huh. Yeah, it's surprising. Here's

797
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: a hot take. Wedding Crashers is way longer than Odyssey.

798
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: It's not, but it feels that way. It feels that way.

799
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: Odyssey every moment fantastic Wedding Crashers. We don't need to

800
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: see why. Owen Wilson is crying again. I mean, we

801
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: don't need to we don't need it. It was two hours,

802
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: one hour, fifty nine minutes. That's longer than I would

803
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 1: have thought. I would have guess like one thirty eight. Yeah,

804
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: it should have been it should have been ninety minutes.

805
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: But it was great, folks, so good, so erroneous. All right,

806
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: let's get to something here where Trey is gotta tell

807
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: us here in late July.

808
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 2: It's time. It's time for the Way Too Early Power Rankings,

809
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: presented by our friends at Ledger. If you got crypto,

810
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: lock in and keep it safe with Ledger. I'll be

811
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 2: honest with you, Tass. I had a Lee Ellis moment.

812
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 2: Here do I go five to one or one to five?

813
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 2: I've been there, right, I've been there with the cover rankings.

814
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: I feel like I want to see one first. So

815
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna start with one. Okay, how crazy is that?

816
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: Starting with one? On our Way Too Early Power Rankings?

817
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: Number one for me? The Oklahoma City thundero surprising them,

818
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 2: and the San Antonio Spurs, as of this morning, are

819
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: tied for favorites on FANDLE at plus two sixty. You

820
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 2: look at the thunder sixty four and eighteen last season,

821
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 2: the best record in the league Chae gizis Alexander back

822
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 2: to back MVP. They lost Game seven of the conference

823
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 2: finals with no j Dubb, no AJ Mitchell, and chet

824
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: Holmegrin He was out there, but was he? They lost

825
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 2: Lou Dort from the starting lineup. He'll be replaced by

826
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 2: either AJ Mitchell or Cason Wallace. They lost Aaron Wiggins

827
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: and Isaiah Joe from the our rotation. Gonna be replacing

828
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: those guys with rookies in a Daimara, Bennett Sturtz. I

829
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 2: guess Topitch maybe gets a little bit more playing time.

830
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 2: Thomas Sorber, he was their first round draft pick last year,

831
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 2: missed the entire season with injury. Seems like a forgotten man.

832
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if he plays. But they got some

833
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 2: young players who are going to be taking the place

834
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 2: of guys in Wiggins, Joe and Dort who have been

835
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 2: around for a while. So things have changed for the Thunder,

836
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: But they were so close to making it to back

837
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,720
Speaker 2: to back finals. If they have a number two creator,

838
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: whether it be Jada or AJ Mitchell, do they take

839
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: down the Spurs in that series? Maybe? But that's in

840
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 2: the past. I think for me, the Thunder come into

841
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: this season as the favorites.

842
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: Way to respect the team that wasn't able to get

843
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals, you know, like you want to

844
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: start with the number one here in the power rankings.

845
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: I was surprised you didn't start with the number one

846
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: New York Knickerbockers, but you're totally right. They could have

847
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: got there. They want to get bigger after losing loud

848
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: Dort and so Adae Marrow's summer league not super impressive.

849
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: It is just summer league. But at the same time,

850
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 1: what are they going to play on their wing instead

851
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: of lou Dort? You brought up all those names. I

852
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: imagine they're going to be smaller just just because of

853
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: who they are, whether it's Cason Wallace or whether it's

854
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: a J Mitchell. I am looking forward to seeing what

855
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren does become after that disappointing playoff series. Is

856
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: there a corner he can turn to somehow get there

857
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 1: because they've got the talent I imagine. Sorry, I examined

858
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: all those guys and Cason Wallace and AJ Mitchell, but

859
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: it's if Chet's awesome, then yeah, they're easily the number

860
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 1: one team. So we'll see, we'll see what he can become.

861
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: Because he he did play chet.

862
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 2: Looks pretty good against everybody that's not Wemby.

863
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

864
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 2: Of course, you do have to go through Wemby so complicated.

865
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: But maybe he's on a walk about right now. I

866
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 2: see he's been wearing a headband and it works for him.

867
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: Looks pretty good. Number two in my way too early

868
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,479
Speaker 2: power rankings is the Knicks. Oh, the New York Knicks.

869
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: They're third in.

870
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 2: Fan duel odds at plus nine hundred, behind the Thunder

871
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 2: and the Spurs. Nicks obviously the defending NBA champions, the

872
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 2: defending Cup champions fifty three and twenty nine in the

873
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: regular season sixteen and three dominated the postseason. They swapped

874
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson for Andre Drummond. Minor downgrade, I would have

875
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 2: to think, yeah, And they lost Ariel Huckin' and Chuck

876
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: and Chuck Porty. He's a Philadelphia seventy six ers now.

877
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 2: But I think the Knicks are still the team to

878
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 2: beat in the Eastern Conference. They're bringing back their starting

879
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: five for what will be the third season, and they

880
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: really clicked obviously in the playoffs, going down two to

881
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 2: one to the Hawks and then running off a fourteen

882
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 2: to one record with mostly blowouts except for when they

883
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 2: had to come back from twenty nine down against the

884
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 2: Spurs there in the finals. So the Knicks at number two.

885
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: For me much deserved, even though, yeah, the East is tougher.

886
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: It feels tougher just because of each series is not

887
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: going to be easy. They're not going to be able

888
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: to go through a Philadelphia seventy six ers in round two.

889
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: But again, maybe they're going through the Cavs with a

890
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: banged up Embad but still, I mean it's it's a

891
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: stronger around and injured Joel Embiid no matter what. So

892
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you threw them down to the two spot.

893
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: But this is good rankings. You would have good ranks

894
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: number one. Well maybe because I'm a recency biased person,

895
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: but no, if I thought it, If I did think

896
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: it through and I was being I was examining what

897
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: we're going to look at in the regular season, I think, okay, see,

898
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: we'll have the best record again, So yeah, I probably

899
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: would have gotten to Okay, see, but this is you

900
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: ranking everybody one through thirty. We're going through thirty teams.

901
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 2: Oh no, we're going to thirty two. I included the

902
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 2: expansion No at number three. It's the San Antonio Spurs,

903
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: tied with a Thunder on FanDuel's favorites at plus two

904
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: to sixty. Definitely thought about them at number two, but

905
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 2: they lost to the Knicks in the finals, so I

906
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 2: simply couldn't do it. But sixty two and twenty last

907
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 2: season for the Spurs, they beat the Trail Blazers, the

908
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 2: Timberwolves and the Thunder on the way to losing in

909
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 2: the finals. To the next they're bringing back basically everybody

910
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 2: and have upgraded the Lindy Waters spot to the Tobias

911
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: Harris spot. When you think of it that way, the

912
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris signing looks pretty.

913
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: Good, totally. Absolutely, the fact that they were leading the

914
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: NBA Finals for seventy two percent of the minutes but

915
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: still lost four to one, easily. Top three and Wemby,

916
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what have you? I'm not sure what

917
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: he's doing this summer. Have you seen anything in particular

918
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: of him and a headband or something that.

919
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 2: He was at the World Cup final? Okay, that's the

920
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 2: last thing I remember from Wenby. We haven't seen any

921
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 2: of his globe trotting exploits yet.

922
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: Though, Oh he's locked in. He's locked in this summer,

923
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: or maybe we'll hear less about it.

924
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 2: I don't know. He's also the two K twenty seven

925
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: cover guy. Yes, so he's out there still, and he

926
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 2: is the favorite for MVP on FanDuel plus two hundred,

927
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 2: right ahead of Sga and Jokic for MVP odds. Okay,

928
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 2: he's a he's got a really good MVP strits.

929
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, that's a good one at three.

930
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: At number four, I got the Philadelphia seventy six or

931
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: their fourth and FanDuel odds plus nine hundred went forty

932
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 2: five and thirty seven last season. They beat the Celtics

933
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 2: in the first round, got swept by the Knicks in

934
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 2: the second round, and obviously had a very active offseason.

935
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,439
Speaker 2: Paul George and Andre Drummond out Lebron James, Jalen Brown,

936
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 2: Anthony Simons, Dean Wayne Dean, Wayne Dean Wade and LeBaron

937
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 2: Philon all in. Their three biggest questions are can they

938
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 2: build chemistry pretty much instantly, can they defend at a

939
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 2: championship level, and most important, can Joel embiid stay healthy

940
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. He is the skeleton key to this team.

941
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 2: If he's healthy, they got a chance. What about Dean

942
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 2: Wayne or well, okay, Dean Wayne was a great guitarist

943
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: back in the day. Dean Wayne, son of John Wayne perhaps,

944
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: and then Dean Wade of course at the Philadelphia Secy six,

945
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 2: the seventh man.

946
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: It's a great spot for Yeah, that's exactly I was

947
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: thinking of John Wayne too. They also have to speaking

948
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: to John's they have to release a Jeni Broom. Feels

949
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: like they're going to release him to bring in KCP.

950
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 1: That's just some information.

951
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I dump them, but yes, yes.

952
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: One of the two, Jeni hasn't made it as an

953
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: undersized big through his first season.

954
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: Yes, so you are our first round draft pick and

955
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 2: we would rather have KCP.

956
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: But I totally explain. I totally agree with you. Philadelphia

957
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: being the second in terms of the Eastern Conference teams,

958
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, they legitimately could make an NBA finals, So

959
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: I agree that they got to be up there. They

960
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: got to be up there, all right.

961
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 2: Number five I thought was pretty tough. I thought Top

962
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: four was pretty easy. Those are the top four and

963
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 2: fan duel odds as well. I went thunder Knicks, Spurs,

964
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 2: and seventy six ers. They feel like the four best

965
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 2: teams to me, and then there are a lot of

966
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 2: chances or choices for fifth best team. I thought about

967
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 2: the Raptors, but Kawhi is kind of a double question

968
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 2: mark for me right now from the trade standpoint and

969
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 2: then of course the health standpoint. Just like Embiid. I

970
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 2: thought about the Celtics. I think they'll still be good

971
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 2: in the regular season, but I don't think they have

972
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 2: enough to win in the playoffs. Thought about the Pistons.

973
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 2: Sixty wins was best in the East last year. They

974
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 2: still got the Jalen Duran thing lingering over the top.

975
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 2: They brought in John Collins to replace Tobias Harris. Should

976
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 2: still be a good Eastern Conference regular season team. And

977
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 2: I thought about the Timberwolves, but I would like to

978
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: see what Anton LaMelo look together first. This is such

979
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 2: a zag sort of team from what they have been previously.

980
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: I think the Calves get a mention as well, but

981
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 2: ultimately I settled on the Denver Nuggets at number five. Wow,

982
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: I know, I know, seventh in fan duel odds plus

983
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: twenty two hundred. They went fifty four and twenty eight.

984
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: Last season, they lost in the first round of the

985
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: playoffs after a bad series for Jokic a down series

986
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 2: for Murray as well. They had a tough offseason, losing

987
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 2: Tim Hardaway Junior and Valentiunas. So far, they've only brought

988
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 2: in Marvin Bagley to replace either of those guys. We're

989
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: not sure what's gonna happen with Peyton Watson, but they

990
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 2: still got Nicola Jokic. He's finished top two in MVP

991
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 2: voting the last six seasons, including second last year. They

992
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 2: still got an awesome starting lineup Murray, Brown, Johnson, Gordon

993
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 2: and Jokic. They're very shallow, and to me, I put

994
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 2: them at fifth. But when I was doing this, I

995
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 2: was like, WHOA, I kind of only think four teams

996
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: will win the championship this year. M hmm, because I

997
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna be Denver. But they got a

998
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 2: guy who's at least the top three player in the

999
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 2: league in an awesome top five, so they round out fifth.

1000
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: For me, I'm mister optimistic, but even I struggled to

1001
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: see the Nuggets being able to recover to what they

1002
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: were a few years ago because as good as those

1003
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: names are in the top five, they weren't that good

1004
00:52:55,520 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: last year. That being said, you're right, it's Jokich. Maybe

1005
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: he does have a bounce back year. The bench is

1006
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: a question. It was Tim Hardaway's best career year and

1007
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: you lose him and the replacement just really isn't all there.

1008
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley replacing Jonas Valanciunis and hopefully seeing Bagley, if

1009
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: you're going to try and emulate him to anything, you

1010
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: could say, Oh, you know, Tim Hardaway got better here

1011
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: in his thirties, bad Lee older now and it's going

1012
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: to be year number nine for him. It feels forever. Yes, yeah,

1013
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago that he was sitting

1014
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: on our set with the starters at a that was

1015
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Well it was a long time ago

1016
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: wearing that eye patch, But what about the what about

1017
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: the hardway outside shooting on the bench and then to

1018
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: hopefully be able to have your starting lineup perform, I

1019
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: mean your cams and your Christians and your errands, those

1020
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: three guys, I don't know, I'm not sure on paper awesome,

1021
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: but we'll see if Peyton Watson can kind of help

1022
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: that those five guys out because Peynon Watson was really

1023
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: good when he was out there, So we'll see if

1024
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: he comes back. The fifth one is a tough one.

1025
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: Is there another team you would make a case for

1026
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 2: at number five?

1027
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: I would stay East and I would stay in the

1028
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: little clump of the Raptors Celtics. I got some belief

1029
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: in the heat. I know to get all the way there.

1030
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: It's it's a reach, but it's it's it's Yannis, said Boombo.

1031
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: Being Yan said to Boombo again, he will have a

1032
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: bounce back. He's he's gone on Greek media saying I

1033
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: was in my comfort zone in Milwaukee. This is new

1034
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: for me. This is good, this is good. And he

1035
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: looks he looks like he could be an MVP candidate again.

1036
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: And why couldn't he that three point shot? Man, it

1037
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: looks good. This guy out there shooting threes for the

1038
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: first time in his career. I know that's a feels

1039
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: weird because Yannis has never been that kind of guy.

1040
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I don't know. I buy the

1041
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,359
Speaker 1: dave On Mitchell Andrew Wiggins uh defense with him ban

1042
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: with them in band, that's that's too much to handle. Man.

1043
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: For a lot of teams, so they're gonna be really

1044
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: good in the regular season, but the playoffs is that's

1045
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: a totally different beast.

1046
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think when we get to I don't know

1047
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 2: October or wherever when we're doing our tier list will

1048
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 2: probably have these top four in our championship contenders and

1049
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 2: then the second tier of like conference finals and outside

1050
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 2: chance at making the finals. I think is gonna be

1051
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: a huge tier because it will be teams like the Nuggets, Raptors, Celtics, Pistons, Timberwolves, Calves.

1052
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 2: I think you would probably throw in the Pacers. It's

1053
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 2: just hard to know what they're gonna look like with

1054
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 2: Tyrese Haliburton coming back from an injury swapping in it

1055
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 2: beats a Zubots for Miles Turner from their finals team.

1056
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: That's just the team we got to see before we're

1057
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 2: able to know how to rank them. The Rockets, they

1058
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 2: should be better with Fred van Vliet coming back this season,

1059
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 2: and look, Luca and Austin Reeves can score a ton

1060
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:55,280
Speaker 2: of points.

1061
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

1062
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 2: Walker Kestler maybe he'll be a great defender for this

1063
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 2: Lakers team, and maybe they catch some teams by surprise

1064
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 2: or at least are a tough team in the regular season,

1065
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 2: So I think we're gonna have a massive second tier.

1066
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 2: That is what I'm saying when it comes down to it.

1067
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,240
Speaker 2: But yeah, on my way to early power rankings presented

1068
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 2: by our friends at Ledger, I'm going number one the

1069
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,439
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder, number two, the New York Knicks, number three,

1070
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 2: the San Antonio Spurs, number four, the Philadelphia seventy six ers,

1071
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 2: and number five the Denver Nuggets. If you've got crypto,

1072
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 2: lock in and keep it safe with Ledger.

1073
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: Very nice. Yeah, the Detroit is an interesting one. We're

1074
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: just saying, huh, they don't look that good. If Jalen

1075
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: durn comes back, I mean, Orlando's should be way better. Yeah.

1076
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: The East New Coach Alert East is too. All right.

1077
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: That's it for us. Fun power rankings there, Trey, We'll

1078
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: be back on Wednesday. Jay Skeetz will be back from

1079
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: his trip. What are we going to cover on Wednesday?

1080
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 2: We have not.

1081
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: Confirmed that. We don't know.

1082
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 2: We don't know, We had no idea what we're doing

1083
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Send us some questions. I mean, we'll hit

1084
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 2: the beach at least some point again at some point

1085
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: during this season. You think Skeets wants a Croatia. Do

1086
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 2: you think he's going to bring back a Mario Hazonia jersey? Yeah?

1087
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: Great question.

1088
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: Hang you here in the factory.

1089
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: Really good call.

1090
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 2: Probably not.

1091
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: What kind of kind of box is he going to

1092
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: put that? I'm sorry, I'm already thinking of it as

1093
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: a gift. He'll surprise us to pull it out. What

1094
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: is that? Is it a jersey?

1095
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: Would you rather get a Chemistry set or a Mario

1096
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: Hazonia jersey for a gift.

1097
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: Or what?

1098
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 2: Tough call?

1099
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: I think it depends what jersey. We're going Croatia, we're

1100
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: going to Spanish team, We're going Knicks, Blazers, Magic or Caps.

1101
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 2: I think I would want the Blazers jersey, Zonia jersey,

1102
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know, or a real Madrid one.

1103
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: I have a Lebron James Calves jersey I have never worn.

1104
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: I'll trade it to Skeets for Mario Hazzonia, Cats or

1105
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: the Spanish cool two.

1106
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 2: Guys who are now forever tied in my mind. And Mario.

1107
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is hilarious. Aj Lawson going to play in Spain,

1108
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, he's he's sort.

1109
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: Of a raptor from the raptors. Yeah, nine five are

1110
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 2: only called the game.

1111
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah did he oh yeah yeah yeah

1112
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: he was there. Yeah, okay, cool stuff, cool, all right.

1113
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Wednesday, but for now, Clipper bros.

1114
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

1115
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: Love you guys, awesome, Thanks for joining us, and remember

1116
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: Mario Zzonia was a number five pick. Easy to forget

1117
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: that twenty fifteen.

1118
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,439
Speaker 2: That was a long time ago. We were young boys

1119
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: and so was Mario. The young boys embrace today