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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire?

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Speaker 2: Buy them? It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Bowyer for Thursday,

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Speaker 2: February fifth, otherwise known as is today the day Janie

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Speaker 2: at that compo is gonna get traded from the Milwaukee

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Speaker 2: Bucks to question Mark. That's what I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you guys have any kids at home, young, teenage, whatever,

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Speaker 2: but my kids like to say at like, ask a

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Speaker 2: question and then add the word question mark at the end.

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Speaker 2: So I've started to do that. This is what happens

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Speaker 2: when you get kids, you know, and they start becoming

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Speaker 2: their own little people, you start kind of copying them. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: maybe this is Yiannis trade day. I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 2: kind of stoked for it. I'm very excited about the

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Speaker 2: potential that he could be on the move, but I'm

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Speaker 2: also a realist. My guess is no, I don't mind

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Speaker 2: being an idiot and being wrong. Who cares if you're wrong?

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Speaker 2: Nobody gives a rip. I can't believe I said nobody

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Speaker 2: gives a rip. Now I'm saying cowherdisms. But it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: He gets traded. Wonderful. I think it's better for content

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Speaker 2: if we stretch this into the summer and all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, Yannis is on the move in June Draft night,

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Speaker 2: you know, it adds some spice to what's going to

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Speaker 2: be an incredible NBA Draft night. We actually had a

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Speaker 2: good night in the association. Nick's Nuggets double overtime thriller.

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Speaker 2: Nuggets still down, Aaron Gordon. Obviously that's not ideal. They're

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Speaker 2: on a road trip, and wait, I think this is

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Speaker 2: did just face the Thunder and I watched them get

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Speaker 2: smacked badly. Yeah, this is well. So they lose to

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Speaker 2: the Thunder at home, and then they lose at Detroit

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Speaker 2: in a close one by three, and then they lose

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Speaker 2: a double overtime game against New York. A couple days

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Speaker 2: off before Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, and then the All Star Break,

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Speaker 2: All Star Break next weekend. How about the NBA. Pretty

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Speaker 2: good strategicy. The first weekend where there's no NFL, they

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Speaker 2: have the Marquee Knicks Lakers game and followed by Nuggets thunder,

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Speaker 2: and then this weekend is super Bowl, so you know,

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Speaker 2: no real NBA games of note, and then next weekend

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Speaker 2: you get the NBA All Star weekend. It's out here

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Speaker 2: in LA. It's a wacky time. It's a I don't

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Speaker 2: know how involved I'll be. My wife's like, oh, are

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Speaker 2: you gonna go to the dunk contest and stuff. I

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Speaker 2: was like, you know, my daughter she has like a

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Speaker 2: Jackson Hayes throw down dunks, you know, it's not like

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Speaker 2: haven't been to. By the way, I've heard great things.

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Speaker 2: So anyways, let me quickly address there's a huge trade

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Speaker 2: that went down with Anthony Davis. We'll get to that shortly.

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Speaker 2: Just a quick takeaway from Nick Nuggets. Christian Brown is

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Speaker 2: back and he I don't know how he played forty

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Speaker 2: three minutes and took six shots. It was essentially the

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Speaker 2: Jamal Murray Yokic Sho Jokic had a rough one one

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Speaker 2: to thirteen from deep did have the triple double thirty

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Speaker 2: fourteen boards tennis. It was not a great game from him.

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Speaker 2: Clearly looked tired, and you know they had to play

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Speaker 2: a lot of Tim Hardaway and Bruce Brown. They're just

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Speaker 2: not there yet. But the fact that they're close without

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Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon is kind of a big deal. I was

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Speaker 2: kind of impressed with Carl Anthony town battling inside before

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Speaker 2: he fouled out. Nikkilbridge's forty nine minutes og, forty eight

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Speaker 2: bruns in forty seven minutes, forty two points. It was

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Speaker 2: a hell of a game, man. And Landry Shammitt just

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Speaker 2: makes big threes. Now that's what he does. It's so

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Speaker 2: funny because I thought Landry Shammont was like super old.

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Speaker 2: Now he's only twenty eight. I'm almost certain he was

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Speaker 2: on that Wichita State team twenty seventeen. Maybe let's see

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Speaker 2: hear that? Yeah, the Shockers. No, that was a team

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Speaker 2: that went No, they lost in the first round. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he was on the team that lost to Kentucky sixty

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Speaker 2: five sixty two in the barnber And it was like

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Speaker 2: Ron Baker, Let's see it was Landry Shammitt. Wait a second,

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves was on that team. Holy smokes. He didn't

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Speaker 2: play much. He was a freshman. They had Connor fran Camp.

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Speaker 2: I remember him, Landry Shammett McDuffie. Yet, No, No, that

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Speaker 2: That's right, he was. Oh, Landry Shammon was a freshman

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Speaker 2: on that team. Yeah, he was the team that went

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Speaker 2: twenty six and nine, that's right. And the year before

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Speaker 2: an awesome run. So Landry Shama's only twenty eight. He

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Speaker 2: looks older, but he gets buckets. He's a good he's

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Speaker 2: As I'm recording this, I'm watching his Spurs take on OKAC,

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Speaker 2: and I keep looking at OKAC and I'm like, who

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Speaker 2: are these white guys for OKC? Well Sga got injured,

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Speaker 2: has an abstrain, and he's out through the All Star break,

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Speaker 2: so I don't even think he's gonna play an the

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Speaker 2: All Star Game. This is the starting lineup for a

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Speaker 2: big time TV matchup against the Spurs. Tell me if

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Speaker 2: you've heard of some of these guys. So they started

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Speaker 2: Jalen Williams, not j Dubb, Kenrich Williams, Isaiah Joe Aaron

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Speaker 2: Wiggins and case On Wallace. That's five bench players starting

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Speaker 2: and then coming off the bench Brooks, bar Hitzer, where

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Speaker 2: do I know that name? From Northwestern? That's right? Okay,

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Speaker 2: second round pick Brandon Carlson. Another a seven foot white

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Speaker 2: guy out of Utah. Do not know him? Chris Youngblood?

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Speaker 2: The hell are they doing? You think the NBA's pissed.

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Speaker 2: This is a page out of the book of the Spurs.

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Speaker 2: Remember back in the day, Pop, it'd be a big

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Speaker 2: ESPN game and he would sit Parker, Jenobilee and Duncan

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Speaker 2: to rest them. That's what Okay, he's doing here. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so he got their one win against the Spurs. They've

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Speaker 2: lost three to one to one, and this time around

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Speaker 2: they said, you know what, we're not playing our horses. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Spurs are starting Wemby fox Castle. The only guy they

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Speaker 2: don't have is the rookie I'm spacing on his name,

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Speaker 2: the kid from Rutgers. He's not playing, But that just

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Speaker 2: means more minutes for like Carter Bryant, Keldon Johnson. And

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Speaker 2: they're tweaking with some things Barnes coming off the bench.

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Speaker 2: But whatever, Spurs should go on to win that game handily.

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Speaker 2: All right, without further ado, let's get to the big

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Speaker 2: move and it is listened. The NBA trade deadline has

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Speaker 2: overtaken Super Bowl week. I mean, I know a lot

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Speaker 2: of what I see that's happening. I haven't heard anybody

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Speaker 2: But everybody's all caught up in all these trades, all

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Speaker 2: the movement. Oh, Trey Young got traded. And then there's

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Speaker 2: Chris Paul got miss salary dumped. James Harden got traded.

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Speaker 2: Did you see Lonzo Ball? Lonzo Ball a footnote in

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Speaker 2: a trade and he's gonna get I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be back in the league. Jared McCain gets

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Speaker 2: straightened a lot of stuff, and people are like, well,

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Speaker 2: are any of the do any of these matter? And

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Speaker 2: I think there is not a direct through line. But

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Speaker 2: if you look at some of these names, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: say it out loud. You tell me, Trey Young got

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Speaker 2: traded for almost nothing, he got shipped to Washington. He's

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Speaker 2: getting benched essentially the rest of the season as the

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Speaker 2: Wizard's tank to keep their pick. Okay, James Harden in

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Speaker 2: a weird salary swap, with Darius Garland. Now I listen

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Speaker 2: essentially was saying that this had to do with next

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Speaker 2: year's money for Harden. He's on the books for like

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Speaker 2: forty two mili, but it's not all guaranteed. It's only

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Speaker 2: partially guaranteed. And he realized, according to Windhorst, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: what are we doing next year? Guys? And as soon

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Speaker 2: as they made it clear that they were not gonna

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Speaker 2: pay more and make him hole give him a new deal,

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Speaker 2: he checked out and was like, personal reasons, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go watch Arizona State play Arizona and basketball and let

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Speaker 2: me know when you guys trade me without demanding a trade.

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Speaker 2: And then he came out with his statement, was like

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Speaker 2: I did not demand a trade. Very very weird stuff.

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Speaker 2: Chris Paul, Lonzo Ball. A lot of guys are getting

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Speaker 2: moved this week, and the one through line I'm noticing

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Speaker 2: is almost exclusively American players are getting traded, and almost

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Speaker 2: exclusively it was guys who were overpaid, and they're starting

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Speaker 2: to like go downhill just a little bit now. Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis is a little bit of a different animal because

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Speaker 2: he is thirty two turning thirty three next month. You know,

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Speaker 2: the guy's broken down. I mean, we'll dig into the

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Speaker 2: trade a little bit. But like Trey Young doesn't play

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Speaker 2: a lick of defense. We've seen the best Tray Young.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna be the centerpiece on a team that

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Speaker 2: had his chance, he got far. The new salary cap

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Speaker 2: cannot pay Trey Young top dollar and make him like

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Speaker 2: the centerpiece of your team if he's on his rookie deal. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Trey Young's really good. He could be one of your

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Speaker 2: just that's not happening. And now you're seeing Jah Morant.

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Speaker 2: Now as I record this, Ja Mrant has not been traded.

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Speaker 2: He could end up getting traded. We'll see. He's another

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Speaker 2: one like John Morant on the cheap Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: With Desmond Bayin and Jaron Jackson, they won fifty games

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Speaker 2: back to back seasons, and then John Moran went sideways, unreliable,

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Speaker 2: couldn't count on him, and it was over and so

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Speaker 2: they move off Desmond Bain, and then they move off

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Speaker 2: Jaron Jackson, and then they're gonna try to move off

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Speaker 2: John Morant. But it's like you're starting to see a

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Speaker 2: some of these quarterbacks. Hey, that guy on a rookie

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Speaker 2: deal is amazing. The second you gotta pay him and

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Speaker 2: you can't really fill out a roster. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. Drake may rookie deal. His opponent

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Speaker 2: Nicks if he wasn't if he didn't get hurt. Also,

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Speaker 2: a rookie deal or on the cheap. Sam Darnold's on

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Speaker 2: the cheap. And that's how Seattle's able to have a

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Speaker 2: great roster. And I wonder if the ballooning salaries for superstars,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna start to diminish a little bit. Now, superstar

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Speaker 2: is an interesting word. Luca. He gonna get paid, Okay, Wemby,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna get paid. We get those guys, it's the

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Speaker 2: next tier superstar. And obviously Trey Young was a superstar.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis was a superstar. Anthony Davis, by the way,

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Speaker 2: then two years from down, when he's thirty five the

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Speaker 2: Washington Wizards, he has a player option sixty two point

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Speaker 2: seven million dollars. Now, he did earn that contract by

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Speaker 2: winning with the Lakers. And when you win the title,

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Speaker 2: you kind of gotta pay the guys unless you're totally

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Speaker 2: you know, you want to lose the fan base temporarily,

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Speaker 2: but like, you couldn't not pay Anthony Davis. And so

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Speaker 2: now Anthony Davis basically becomes a tradable asset. And folks

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Speaker 2: think about this. So almost exactly a year ago, well

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Speaker 2: let's say three hundred and seventy days, three hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy days ago, Anthony Davis was on the Lakers. The

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Speaker 2: Lakers were still a contender in the West. I know

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Speaker 2: they had lost to the Nuggets in the second round,

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Speaker 2: It's funny my men's league team. So we played with

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Speaker 2: And to me, that's like what Dwight Howard was. So

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Speaker 2: I joked in our intro team thread. You know, I

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Speaker 2: throwing down dunks. He's this guy's not dunking because he's

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Speaker 2: do I phrase this politely? Minus all the TMZ stuff

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Speaker 2: in some into some situation. Shall we say, I'll just

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Speaker 2: The real ones who have seen the Dwight hour stuff

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Speaker 2: do this Yana stuff. So I did see one report

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Speaker 2: think you blow that up. You get to the finals

422
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Speaker 2: and lose, Yeah, you probably go after Yannis. You don't

423
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Speaker 2: make the finals, you definitely go after Yannis. Right, So

424
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 2: those are probably the three scenarios. So the three teams

425
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Speaker 2: allegedly in the mix for Yannis are this is according

426
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: to Sham's the Minnesota Timberwolves are leading to charge, although

427
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: there's still some question about what their roster would look

428
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: like to get him. I mean, they would struggle to

429
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 2: have any depth at all, and Giannis is hurt. We'll

430
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 2: see the Miami heat, which I still don't think makes sense.

431
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Speaker 2: I just feel like they're always mentioned because it's the

432
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 2: Miami Heat, you know, and pat Riley, and they always

433
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: go for they always want to make a play for

434
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,719
Speaker 2: any superstar. I don't think there's anything there. And then

435
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors, and again I don't think there's

436
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 2: anything there either, because Yannis is gonna do what go

437
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: to Golden State to Steph Currie's team, and they're gonna

438
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Speaker 2: have to trade away Draymond, which he sounds like he's

439
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 2: fine with. The way I'm reading this is Golden State

440
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: has offered everything they can and the Bucks are like, yeah,

441
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 2: that's not great. I don't know what am I doing

442
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: with Jonathan Kuminga. I mean, here's the thing. Dunleyvy about

443
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 2: a week ago came out and said if there was

444
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Speaker 2: if there was a market for dun Leyvy, you know,

445
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: we would move him. He essentially said that those are

446
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: not exact words, but he basically said, there's no market

447
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 2: for Jonathan Kuminga, and so now Kuminga is gonna be

448
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 2: at the centerpiece of a trade for Giannis, Like, I

449
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 2: just think that total bullshit. Wait wait, wait, just as

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Speaker 2: I say Kuminga has no market, Ladies and gentlemen. Breaking

451
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 2: news in the middle of the podcast. How about this.

452
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 2: The Warriors, according to Shams Sharania, have traded Jonathan Kuminga

453
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Speaker 2: and Buddy Healed. They have moved off Buddy Healed and

454
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Speaker 2: embattled Jonathan Kamenda Kuminga in exchange for Chris STAPs Porzingis.

455
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 2: What that's the return. I've been hearing for months about

456
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Kuminga's value and all you can get is kristaphed

457
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 2: Porzingi's expiring contract. Holy hell, that's terrible. So uh the

458
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 2: new look Warriors. Here's their new starting lineup. No Buddy Healed,

459
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: no Kuminga, Steph Curry, Brandon Podzemski, who definitely looks like

460
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: a rotational player as opposed to a starter Draymond Green,

461
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: Al Horford and Chris STAPs poor Zingis. They got older,

462
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 2: they got more bruttle. I don't like this at all.

463
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 2: I mean this, folks, this is just this is They're

464
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: not They're not doing Steph Curry right. This could be

465
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Speaker 2: one of two signals that the Warriors realized that there's

466
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Speaker 2: no shot that they're getting Yohanness at the deadline, and

467
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,479
Speaker 2: they said, you know what, We're moving off Kuminga, We're

468
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 2: gonna reset, get the expiring, and let's see what happens

469
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: this summer, right, because now you're left with I mean,

470
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Speaker 2: what do you want Moses Moody like, what are you

471
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: doing quick? Quentin Post? There's nothing there, They got nothing.

472
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: And but maybe they could create the salary room and

473
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 2: and Butler's deals expiring and blah blah blah, and the

474
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: Warriors can maybe make a running Honest this summer. That's

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Speaker 2: one thought. I do think that this really unless it

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Speaker 2: means the Honest is going somewhere, you know, right before

477
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: the deadline, which I don't think. Maybe the Buck signal

478
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 2: day we're not dealing with you know, we don't like

479
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 2: your offer. You do better gets, get some more better

480
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: stuff and come back and talk to me. But it

481
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: definitely feels like selling low one Kminga, who was supposed

482
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: to be you know boy. It really puts in a

483
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: perspective how badly the Warriors' front office. And and this

484
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: is not on Dune Levy. This is on the guy

485
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 2: before him. We walked away went to ESPN. I'm spacing

486
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: on his name right now, but he's the one who said, yeah,

487
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 2: let's go with Wiseman, let's go with Kuminga, and neither

488
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: of them panned out, basically an er for two when

489
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Speaker 2: it came to Warriors drafting. I Bob Myers, that's his name.

490
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: Bob Myers is the one who bricked. And they tried

491
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 2: to do the two timelines thing that's obviously difficult, but

492
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 2: they basically went over two. Neither of them hit, and

493
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 2: now you're left with, you know, like basically nothing in

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Speaker 2: return for Wiseman and Kuminga. I mean, that's how dynasties

495
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 2: fall apart, you know. Listen, they were on top of

496
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: the world, obviously had the clay injury and things happened.

497
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: But I'm looking for exactly where Kuminga was picked. And

498
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: if you let's see here Jonathan Kuminga. Who again. I

499
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 2: like Kuminga as a player. I think he's got some potential.

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00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 2: He just never fit for whatever reason, with Steve Kurr's system,

501
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: and he was like on the outside coming in and

502
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: I guess I just couldn't get it together. Kuminga went

503
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 2: seventh in twenty twenty one. Oh boy, this hurts. The

504
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: eighth pick was Franz Wagner, who has turned into a

505
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: stud in in Orlando. He is yeah, as we to

506
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 2: said earlier, twenty four points per game career high this season. Meanwhile,

507
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: coming is getting shipped. Davion Mitchell, who I liked a

508
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: lot coming out, just hasn't beencome a superstar. He's had moments.

509
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 2: Went nine, Zayer Williams ten, too skinny, too young. James

510
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 2: book Knight. I don't even know if he's still in

511
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: the league. Went eleventh. Josh Primo, Oh gosh, he was

512
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 2: a disaster off the court. Chris Duarte, I liked him,

513
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: hasn't panned out. Moses Moody, Oh my gosh, they had

514
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Speaker 2: two top fourteen picks, neither panned out. And oh, by

515
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: the way, al Ben she Gun went sixteenth, Trey Murphy seventeen,

516
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Speaker 2: Oh she's Jalen Johnson felt a twentieth NBA draft. Ladies

517
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, it is a crapshoot.

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Speaker 2: The real trades in the NBA are not the ones

523
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: you anticipate. It's hey, here's some misdirection. Here's some chatter.

524
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: Go mess around with this, talk about this. Yeah Nicks,

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00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: he Minnesota, go for it. Uh, I'm gonna go back

526
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: to this, guys. Something's going on in Orlando. They're they're

527
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: not playing well. They are one game above five hundred.

528
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: They're sitting eighth in the East. Paolo bang Caro, the

529
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: Orlando Magic, by the way, did trade Tias Jones to

530
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: the Hornets for cash considerations and two second round picks.

531
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: I was early on this, guys. I told you Paolo

532
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: bang Caro and a bunch of stuff. They got a

533
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Speaker 2: lot of picks.

534
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Speaker 1: For you.

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00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: Honest. That is actually a win win. All this stuff about, Oh,

536
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: I think the best player that the Bucks could get

537
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 2: would be Evan Mobley. How's Evan Mobley better than Paulo

538
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: Mancaro on what level? Paula bank Caro before this season,

539
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: like after last season, you remember that playoff series. It's

540
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: freaking awesome. They're like, oh, oh, Paula ba Caro, this

541
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: guy's the next star. And now just because he's struggling

542
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: with the fit, you're all of a sudden telling me that, like, eh,

543
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: he's not that good. I'm not buying it. The Magic,

544
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: by the way, have lost Oh my goodness. They've lost

545
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: six of eight. They got smashed on Tuesday by OKC,

546
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: and you kind of sort of wonder, do they know

547
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: what's come? Is there something afoot here? Now? They do

548
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: play Milwaukee twice next week Monday and Wednesday, so that

549
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 2: would be a little awkward. If Janni's got traded in,

550
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: they have to pull out, rip off the band aid immediately.

551
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: Ben Caro on Tuesday at seventeen desmen Bane, I mean

552
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: they got blasted. It was thirty nine to fourteen in

553
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 2: the first quarter. That to me is a signed Remember

554
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 2: when the Clippers got they I think they were behind

555
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 2: eighteen to two, and that was the night James Harden

556
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 2: was like a did not play and I was like, oh,

557
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: what's happening? And then boom, within hours it's like, oh, yeah,

558
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 2: James Harden's getting traded. We shall see. Anthony Black is

559
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,719
Speaker 2: emerging as a stud for the Magic. I don't think

560
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: they want to give him up. But you get to

561
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: keep Wagner, you get to keep Baine, you get to

562
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: keep Suggs in Black. That is a good foursome that

563
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: I think could win the East this year. Now, obviously

564
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to you know, I don't know what

565
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: the deal is with Jonathan Isaac Wendell Carter in these contracts,

566
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 2: but I am of the belief Orlando is in the

567
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: mix now. I was early on this. People laughed at me.

568
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: It's fine. I don't really care. I'm just telling you

569
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: I have seen this Palo Bank Caro stuff, folks. He's

570
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: a totally different player than he was last year. The

571
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: splits are incredible. He he's not shooting the three is great,

572
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: He's not shooting it as much. His shots. He was

573
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: shooting nineteen a game, nineteen field goal attempts a game

574
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: last year, down to fifteen this year. Threes went from

575
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 2: five point nine to three point seven points twenty five

576
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: to twenty one. Boards are up into meaning he's he's active,

577
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: he's out there, but he's just not not the volume

578
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 2: guy he was last year. Why is that? Well, something's

579
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: going on. Maybe the Desmond Bain factor. I don't know.

580
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 2: But Wagner, I think right now there's chatter that Franz Wagner,

581
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 2: by the way, he's also hurt, is probably their best

582
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: player and he fits great next to you on a six'

583
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 2: ten two twenty shoot rains. Threes now his stats this

584
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: year have improved. Significantly so last year he was twenty

585
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 2: nine percent for, three this year thirty. Six now his

586
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: points per game is, down obviously his, bain but he

587
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: is rebounding more and his field goal percentages, up like

588
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: free throw attempts per game is. Up he his. Usage

589
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: it's just more effective this. Year AND i Think orlando's

590
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: gonna that would be my. Guess if it happens On,

591
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Speaker 2: THURSDAY i believe it'll be The Orlando. Magic AND i,

592
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: MEAN i can't think of any other like. This raptor

593
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: stuff seems KINDA i don't think there's a it's just.

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00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: Smoke they're not chipping them to The pelicans like The Sacramento.

595
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: Kings they're not. Involved there's no other team to. BE

596
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: i Know cleveland's fun and we speculated. That but The

597
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 2: paolo Ban caro For giannis helps both. Teams The bucks

598
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: do not have to bottom. Out you could get some

599
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 2: picks in addition to Ben, caro, because like you just,

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00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 2: said you've got a. Lot SO i am On janis

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Speaker 2: Watch Big time. Tomorrow we will do ALL Nfl Super bowl.

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00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: Props i'm laying The bubby bit and the Props thursday

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Speaker 2: morning and write up a couple of those for the,

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Speaker 2: site and WE'LL i think we have a guest lined. Up,

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00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: yeah we got a couple of, guests good guests lined up,

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00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 2: here and we get back to Football, manyana we'll see

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Speaker 2: that