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Speaker 1: Good good morning, sweerl and welcome to the Nodungks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Friday, January thirteenth, twenty twenty three. Spooky,

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Speaker 1: We are no Tassy today. He's up in the Great

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Speaker 1: White North playing drinking games with his high school buddies.

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Speaker 1: I'm jealous too. They're like drinking, you know, booze from

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Speaker 1: a straw or something like that. It's like they're drinking Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Okay, on today's Drop podcast, you are taking over Tass's

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Speaker 6: I feel bad that Task has to miss it. He

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Speaker 1: Picked a horrible Friday head up norathay, because we got

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Speaker 1: great Worst of the Week nominees. We're gonna look at

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Speaker 1: the latest fan returns. When it comes to the All

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Speaker 1: Star starters. We got our second batch yesterday, we got

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Speaker 1: tweeted the night, we got rapid fire fun. But first

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Speaker 1: we got a special guest.

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Speaker 7: On the horn.

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Speaker 1: He's an NBA analyst and writer and editor at The

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Speaker 1: Athletic who specializes honestly in the x's and o's, and

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Speaker 1: he's fantastic at it. He's the author of this book

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Speaker 1: right here, spaced out how the NBA's three point revolution

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Speaker 1: changed everything you thought you knew about basketball. It is

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Speaker 1: Mike Prada again from The Athletic. Welcome to No Dunks.

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Speaker 5: Mike.

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Speaker 1: What's up man?

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Speaker 7: Hey, welcome, thanks for having me. What kind of drinking

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's a chalice.

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Speaker 7: Chalice.

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Speaker 5: They're in teams, there's two guys, they each have a straw,

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Speaker 1: And it's like three beers in this chalice.

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Speaker 5: There's three beers in and everybody wins.

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Speaker 7: This kind of looks is this kind of like the

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Speaker 4: What it's called? Is what the name of the drinking? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You do an incredible job, Mike, And you've always done

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Speaker 1: There's a there's a topic or a chapter I should

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Speaker 7: Ooh, I would say that's a good question. I feel

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Speaker 7: like I'm answering, you know, do you love your children?

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Speaker 7: Which child do you love the most?

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Speaker 7: So, but I would say the one you talked about

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Speaker 7: You know, you had to kind of get to Okay,

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Speaker 6: When you're doing and reading these academic studies about spatial

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 7: So there's a line in the spatial awareness chapter that's

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Speaker 1: Well, we had another guy in the NBA last night,

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard came in a loss to the Cavs. He

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Speaker 1: goes for fifty though I believe it's our fifteenth fifty

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Speaker 1: just hit the mid season halfway point. This NBA scoring explosion, Mike, Again,

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Speaker 1: it ties perfectly with this book. What the hell is

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Speaker 7: some ways, like this is a really simple story. Like

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Speaker 7: really this simple? It's like when the court was once

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Speaker 1: Yes, the for the audio listener, Mike has his fingers

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Speaker 1: of a hands about a foot apart.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was once this big. And then because they

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 7: And maybe you don't like that, but that's what is

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Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. All right, well, let's get into some

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Speaker 1: NBA mid season awards. Let's hear your opinion on at

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Speaker 1: least the front runners right now, as we've hit the

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Speaker 1: m VP, Mike, Uh, you know, maybe you got a

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Speaker 5: Are you? Well?

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Speaker 1: You should let's try and make.

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Speaker 7: That I have advised official voters.

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Speaker 6: Oh wow, okay, okay, close enough in our books, visible hand, Yes,

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Speaker 6: I like.

437
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Speaker 7: That way they get.

438
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there there's no Google spreadsheet with Mike Preda's name

439
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Speaker 1: and his votes on it.

440
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Speaker 6: People can get upset with you, Kuzman MVP, Yeah yeah,

441
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Speaker 6: Preda classic.

442
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Speaker 1: H So who do you have as MVP? Like right now?

443
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know where we can't like predict the future,

444
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Speaker 1: but like, yeah, who's at the top of your your

445
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 1: MVP leaderboard?

446
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 7: I think there's the names. It's Jokic, it's Doncic, it's KD.

447
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 7: I had Jason Tatum in there for a while. You know,

448
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 7: here's an interesting question that like I've been thinking about

449
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 7: over the last decades that what do you guys think

450
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Speaker 7: about this? Is it bad to win MVP? The last

451
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 7: MVP who won whose team won the title was Steph

452
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 7: Curry in twenty fifteen, I believe.

453
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Speaker 1: Okay, same season you're talking.

454
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Speaker 7: Yeah, interesting, right, We've had a lot of these MVPs

455
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Speaker 7: of the like kind of Russell Westbrook like kind of

456
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 7: caring a pretty good team right variety. Honestly, that's what

457
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Speaker 7: Jokic has been the last two years.

458
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Speaker 5: Yea.

459
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Speaker 7: In some ways, this Jokic year, to me, is like

460
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Speaker 7: the more pure MVP season, the purest MVP season he's

461
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Speaker 7: ever had, you know, where he's not always putting out

462
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Speaker 7: these gargantuan numbers he can, but there are also other

463
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Speaker 7: games where he like takes five shots and goes like ten,

464
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Speaker 7: fourteen and thirteen.

465
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Speaker 5: You know.

466
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Speaker 7: To me, that's like kind of I think that's the

467
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Speaker 7: only the MVP that I like the most where you

468
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 7: can make the same impact on the game someone indirectly directly,

469
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Speaker 7: So like, I think that's why I have Jokics right now,

470
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 7: it's Jokic Durant Domstics in that order. Luca has the

471
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Speaker 7: best stats, but I do think that his impact is

472
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Speaker 7: always so direct that it's, you know, somewhat against the

473
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 7: spirit of the award in my head. But it's just

474
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Speaker 7: an interesting, like larger macro trend, like before step in

475
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 7: twenty fourteen, who was fifteen. Who's the last MVP to

476
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 7: win the title? Lebron, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Lebron.

477
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

478
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Speaker 7: Whereas in the past used to be like Jordan won,

479
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Speaker 7: how many MVPs, Kareem won how many? I mean the

480
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Speaker 7: two years that Yannis won the MVP, the Bucks flame

481
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Speaker 7: down in the playoffs. The year he doesn't win the MVP,

482
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Speaker 7: they win the championship, right, So I don't know, there's

483
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Speaker 7: just there's so much that goes into that. But it's

484
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Speaker 7: sort of like, is this even award you want to win?

485
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Speaker 5: Well?

486
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Speaker 6: I think yeah, I think yeah. People still do want

487
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Speaker 6: to win MVP. But the the general narrative ten years

488
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Speaker 6: ago is best player on the best team you are

489
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Speaker 6: in the mix and Mike you're less in your top

490
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Speaker 6: three MVP candidates. It's hard to argue with Jokic, Dancch

491
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Speaker 6: and KD, but Jason Tatum is the best player on

492
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Speaker 6: the best team so far through the first half of

493
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Speaker 6: the season, and it feels like he's losing steam as

494
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Speaker 6: an MVP candidate, right, right, ixactly agree with what you're

495
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Speaker 6: saying that the game has changed with the regards to voting.

496
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and part of it too is like if you're trying,

497
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Speaker 7: if you have like a lot of different threats, you're

498
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Speaker 7: necessarily going to limit the like statistical impact of the

499
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Speaker 7: best player, like you know, if you have I mean,

500
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Speaker 7: look at the Mavericks in particular. I mean they they

501
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 7: centralize everything through Luca and they're what they're like five

502
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Speaker 7: games over five hundred. Now, I think after last night's

503
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 7: crazy game, that's obviously like not like like they would

504
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,439
Speaker 7: want to not do that. But what would happen if

505
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 7: Luka Donsions only took ninety percent of those plays and

506
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 7: maybe like some of the other guys got a little

507
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Speaker 7: more involved. Could the whole be worth more than some

508
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 7: of its parts? This is all what basketball has been in.

509
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Speaker 7: But I think this new era, with the spacing, with

510
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 7: the sort of need to kind of think less than

511
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 7: one on one terms, with a legal defense now being

512
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 7: not a thing anymore, it's forced us to kind of consider,

513
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Speaker 7: like does one plus one always equal to in basketball?

514
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Speaker 7: And if so, how do we kind of quantify the

515
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Speaker 7: best players when maybe the numerator of their impact. Does

516
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Speaker 7: this make any sense that this analogy is like kind

517
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Speaker 7: of weathered, like the one the numerator of their impact

518
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Speaker 7: is very big, but like is it exponential?

519
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Speaker 5: Right right? Right right?

520
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Speaker 7: And that's the question.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's Look, I'm not the one to answer that.

522
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now, but it's all of

523
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Speaker 1: a question to think about with Jokic too. Specifically. You

524
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Speaker 1: had him at the top right now. A lot of

525
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Speaker 1: people I think would in the preseason, and I was

526
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Speaker 1: just as guilty. We're going, there's no way he can

527
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Speaker 1: win a third MVP in a row. We just will

528
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Speaker 1: not allow it. He's a great player, he's an all

529
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Speaker 1: time great player, but he's not on that level, not

530
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Speaker 1: having won a title, I think, get it. And now

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Speaker 1: that's like, that's like gone. It feels like the opposites

532
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Speaker 1: now happening were like, well, if he's on the best

533
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Speaker 1: team in the West, then why not This.

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Speaker 7: Says exactly, this is exactly the computer point. Why was

535
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Speaker 7: Jokichen eligible? One was because of what you're talking about,

536
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Speaker 7: but two was always got his healthy teammates. Again, he

537
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 7: doesn't have to do as much, right, right, right, So,

538
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Speaker 7: like how does that make sense? It's like it's just

539
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 7: a it's a weird thing. I think it's a strange

540
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Speaker 7: quirk in the MVP and the other award that I

541
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Speaker 7: think is like kind of in a big picture is

542
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Speaker 7: sort of undergoing some sort of existential crisis a little

543
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Speaker 7: bit with this is Defensive Player of the Year. Okay,

544
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 7: because if defense is increasingly more about covering space rather

545
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 7: than players, right, how do you kind of suss out?

546
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Speaker 7: Well that stuff is because of brook Lopez at the

547
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Speaker 7: rim versus Drew Holliday.

548
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Speaker 5: On the ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean look, and I think it's like it's

550
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Speaker 1: almost like a team award, right exactly. Yeah, Like Marcus Smart,

551
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Speaker 1: I think is a perfect example last year.

552
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Speaker 7: I think that that last year's chase was a harbinger

553
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Speaker 7: of things to come in this award, and you're seeing

554
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Speaker 7: it this year. I mean, it's sort of funny to

555
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 7: have a Defensive Player of the Year and the year

556
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Speaker 7: where like everyone's scoring, but like you, who are your

557
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 7: top canyons? You're looking at what brook Lopez because if

558
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 7: he's really good at one very important thing, Jared Jackson

559
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Speaker 7: Junior kind of occupies the sort of do everything defender

560
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Speaker 7: that has often won it. Who's the kind of Marcus

561
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Speaker 7: smart of this year? Is it like Durraliday? Is it like.

562
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Speaker 1: Gybe but the Raptors aren't that good as a team? Yeah?

563
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 7: Right, is it? And like what about like someone like

564
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Speaker 7: Nick Claxon who is amazing when he plays, but he

565
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Speaker 7: only plays twenty five minutes a game. These are sort

566
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Speaker 7: of I don't know if like that In the past,

567
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Speaker 7: I think it was a lot easier to say, like, well,

568
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Speaker 7: the guy who's the best at stopping the superstar one

569
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Speaker 7: on one or the guy gets the most blocks.

570
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Speaker 1: It's it was a.

571
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Speaker 7: Little simpler to sort of suss out their impact now

572
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Speaker 7: because the game is just soacheal. I don't know what

573
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 7: what what is most important? Defense is almost exponential now too. Yeah,

574
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Speaker 7: So to me, it's just a very interesting I'm very

575
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Speaker 7: curious to you how it plays out. I think I

576
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 7: would probably pick Jackson right now, okay, because I think

577
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 7: he can impact the most areas indirectly. He's got the

578
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 7: greatest shadow impact, which I think is most important. I

579
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 7: might have picked like Anthony Davis if you stayed healthy

580
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 7: for the same reason, but I don't know. I mean like,

581
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 7: how can you say Drew Holiday is that's super important

582
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 7: to what the bucks do? How do you know who's

583
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 7: more important between Drew Holiday and Brook Lopez?

584
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: And how do I figure that out?

585
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 4: Yeah?

586
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: And then you like, I know, it's only one game,

587
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: and it's only two minutes from one game, but then

588
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: like Drew Holiday, like I just watched Jaalen Brunson light

589
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: his ass up. You know, it's like because it's very

590
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: very difficult here to stop these guys. You know, you

591
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: get a pick, there's room to operate, and it's like

592
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do. So, yeah, that's

593
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: a tough one. Okay, so you got Jared Jackson Junior

594
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: right now, it's fair. What about most Improved. That's also

595
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: a weird award where it's sort of gone over the

596
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: last couple of years to like I think Trace called

597
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: it the MVP Consolation Award. It's like a little bit

598
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: like MVP Junior. Yeah, it's like you took one hell

599
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: of a leap. You're almost in the MVP or you

600
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: are in the MVP conversation on the outside a little bit.

601
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: So here's MIP. But what do you think the front

602
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: runner right now? And even your thoughts on the award.

603
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Speaker 7: Mike, Yeah, I think usually I agree it's sort of

604
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 7: a nebulous award. This year, I think is kind of

605
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 7: a clear winner. Ironically, it's low marketing because like the

606
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 7: challenge you have with this award is if you're young,

607
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 7: you're supposed to improve one yep, So how do you

608
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 7: weigh that so that like you look at someone like

609
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 7: Shay Gills just out Xander. I mean he's obviously taking

610
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 7: a huge leap, but we knew he was good, we

611
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 7: just had to see him play a little bit. So

612
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 7: is this leap to thirty points a game on a

613
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 7: bad team or pretty deep like kind of spunky team. Yeah,

614
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 7: Like I love watching the thunder player, I love watching Shay,

615
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 7: Like is that worth more than the low marketing and

616
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 7: going from a role player to like a first option?

617
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 7: I don't know. And then so there's the age element,

618
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 7: there's the opportunity, and then there's sort of the this

619
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 7: guy should have been playing a lot more anyway. Now

620
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 7: he's just getting the minutes element. But weirdly to me,

621
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Speaker 7: Laurie markin and sort of checks all boxes of guy

622
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 7: who's old enough where you wouldn't expect this leak to

623
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 7: happen at this stage, guy in a new role, but

624
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 7: like kind of still thriving better in the more expanded

625
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 7: role he checks that box and the new team element

626
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Speaker 7: where he's got to do something totally different from what

627
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 7: he's ever done in his career. So weirdly, this year

628
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 7: I think is pretty clote queer cut. But in general, yeah,

629
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Speaker 7: I mean some of these awards that they are nebulous

630
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 7: by definition, so you know we always say, oh, I

631
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 7: can't figure out what the criteria is, but like it's

632
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 7: kind of the whole point, right.

633
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to choose which word in the name

634
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 6: of the award is most important to you. So for

635
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Speaker 6: me most improved Player, it's most right now because I

636
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 6: think Marketen improved literally the most right from where he

637
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 6: was at compared to shake yel j justs Alexander Shay

638
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 6: was putting up great numbers when he was on the

639
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 6: court for the Thunder. He's obviously taking a step forward.

640
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 6: But markan In wasn't even the most exciting piece that

641
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 6: the Jazz were getting back in the train, right. People

642
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 6: were more excited they were getting Colin Sexton and they're like, oh,

643
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 6: look at this.

644
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 4: He might have this guy.

645
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 6: Scored twenty four game one year exactly. They're thinking he

646
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Speaker 6: might be able to do the same thing. So I'm

647
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Speaker 6: with you, Mike. I think markt In being on his

648
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Speaker 6: third team now he's kind of just been a stanch

649
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 6: still three point shooter, and now he can do stuff.

650
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 4: Off the dribble.

651
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Speaker 6: I think it would be awesome also for your book

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Speaker 6: if he won, because the Jazz spacing things out is

653
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Speaker 6: a huge part of the reason that Mark and has

654
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Speaker 6: so much room to operate inside.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and they're also putting them on the move more so,

656
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Speaker 7: it's like they will Hardy does some weird, like kind

657
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Speaker 7: of cool sets to kind of get him and dribble

658
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Speaker 7: handoffs and yeah, it's sort of just different. He's a

659
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Speaker 7: different type of player. But yeah, there will there will.

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Speaker 1: Be votes definitely for SGA though, especially the way MIP

661
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Speaker 1: is gone, like John Morant's like winning it last year

662
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Speaker 1: is you.

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Speaker 7: Know, it's sort of Yeah, I saw an interesting case

664
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Speaker 7: and I think Michael Pino on the ringer that should

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Speaker 7: be Luca Downschein.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, I saw that. Yeah, we did that before.

667
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Speaker 1: We did that before with Steph Curry in his second

668
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Speaker 1: MVP season. I remember there was like a three week

669
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Speaker 1: window where it's like, maybe Steph Curry is also miyp

670
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Speaker 1: because he's improved on his MVP.

671
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Speaker 7: IM pretty sure. I wrote a piece in twenty twelve

672
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Speaker 7: about why it should k D should win those improved

673
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Speaker 7: That's just the same.

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Speaker 1: Thing over when you do this long enough, Yeah, exactly,

675
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Speaker 1: that happens. Well, you slipped in Will Hardy. We were

676
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Speaker 1: talking about the Jazz. Who's your coach of the year,

677
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Speaker 1: which sometimes is also what's the most surprising team at

678
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Speaker 1: the mid season points? So who would you go with?

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Speaker 7: I think there are three guys that stand out. I'm

680
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Speaker 7: not sure who I'd pick right now. One is Joe

681
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Speaker 7: Miszula in Boston. They're the best team, But then you

682
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Speaker 7: also consider just all the stuff that happened in the preseason.

683
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Speaker 7: Do you give him a degree of difficulty bump for

684
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Speaker 7: just sort of coming in unexpected? I think you maybe do.

685
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Speaker 7: The other one is Jock Vaughan, although I do sort

686
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Speaker 7: of wonder, and I know you guys, we all love

687
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Speaker 7: Steve Nash as a basketball player, and he did some

688
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Speaker 7: good things. I just wonder if there's sort of like

689
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Speaker 7: a value over replacement thing going on there where, like

690
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Speaker 7: Jock Vaughan, like maybe Seed Nashal is just a lot

691
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Speaker 7: worse as a coach than we thought, right, But I

692
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Speaker 7: do think that Jock Vaughn deserves a lot of credit.

693
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Speaker 7: And the third is Willie Green in New Orleans because

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Speaker 7: one of the and I actually one of the guys

695
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Speaker 7: I work closest with at the Athletic. I added as

696
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Speaker 7: well Gillery, who covers the Pelicans for US. And so

697
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Speaker 7: I've spent a lot of time watching their team and

698
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Speaker 7: following them. There's this sort of national thought that the

699
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Speaker 7: key to their improvement is Zion Williamson being MVP quality

700
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Speaker 7: coming back, you know, just the star power at the

701
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Speaker 7: top of the roster. But the truth is is that

702
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Speaker 7: they've played very little time with their best players on

703
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Speaker 7: the court together. Zion's been in an out of the

704
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Speaker 7: line up, Brandon Ingram hasn't played since the twenty eighth

705
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Speaker 7: of November. They've almost been worse. I think they now

706
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Speaker 7: are six and four because they lost the Boston the

707
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Speaker 7: other night without both Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram. Yeah,

708
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Speaker 7: and so it's really happening there is that they've got

709
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Speaker 7: this core of depth coalescing these young guys who are

710
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Speaker 7: coming into their own that somehow fit in together while

711
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Speaker 7: stealing each other's shots and minutes and all this, all

712
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Speaker 7: these pitfalls that you would think a young team you

713
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Speaker 7: would fall apart. Instead, it's working the other way for them,

714
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Speaker 7: and I think Willie Green deserves a lot of credit

715
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Speaker 7: for creating that culture. So to me, those are the

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Speaker 7: three guys that I would put. I don't know who

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Speaker 7: i'd have winning right now. I think maybe i'd pick

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Speaker 7: Missoula just because the team is the best team. But

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Speaker 7: to me, it's those three guys and everybody else. No

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Speaker 7: disrespect to will Hardy doing great job, but the team's

721
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Speaker 7: like four games under five hundred. Now, yeah, let's settle

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Speaker 7: down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And then final one here. It's not a real NBA award,

724
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Speaker 1: but hey, maybe it should be. They could make another

725
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Speaker 1: crystal vase out of this, like a with like a

726
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Speaker 1: turd in the middle. I guess most disappointing team. I mean,

727
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Speaker 1: there feels like there are a lot to pick from

728
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Speaker 1: at the mid season point. Here. Who you going? Maybe

729
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Speaker 1: who are your top three disappointing.

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Speaker 7: Minnesota I think is number one for me. I was

731
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Speaker 7: a little skeptical about them taking a leap because I

732
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Speaker 7: just thought, as great as Rudy Gobert is, you know,

733
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Speaker 7: I'm not it's probably a little rude to call him

734
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Speaker 7: a system player, but like the way the Jets set

735
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Speaker 7: up work like it was perfect for what he was

736
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Speaker 7: good at. It kept him in. It was like one

737
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Speaker 7: of those like kind of great like one plus one

738
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Speaker 7: equals more than two moments where he would look better

739
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Speaker 7: because of the system, and the system looked better because

740
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Speaker 7: of him. You take him from that to a place

741
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Speaker 7: where he's kind of got playing the dunker spot more.

742
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Speaker 7: And you know, they have a very hyperactive scheme. I

743
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Speaker 7: just thought that would take a lot longer than people realize.

744
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Speaker 7: And but even despite that, they should be better than

745
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Speaker 7: what they are. You know, they're so baffling and disappointing.

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Speaker 7: The other one, I think Houston's been kind of disappointing. Oh,

747
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Speaker 7: I know, there's been a lot of talk of you know,

748
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Speaker 7: obviously they we expect them to be bad, but like

749
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Speaker 7: there's a lot of people teeing on find how bad

750
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Speaker 7: their culture is right now, which I find very interesting

751
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Speaker 7: and I didn't expect that. And the last ones the Clippers,

752
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Speaker 7: okay Clippers, for look, I get it, they've had a

753
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Speaker 7: lot of injuries. But I've had this lingering worry about

754
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Speaker 7: them that they're kind of built for twenty twenty, you know,

755
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 7: where they actually now that the league is a little

756
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 7: more up on five out and that style of play,

757
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Speaker 7: they need to do more to get to the basket

758
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Speaker 7: and drive and take advantage of middle spaces, and you know,

759
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Speaker 7: they have to have a little more juice than what

760
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Speaker 7: they have. And their offense is way down at the

761
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Speaker 7: bottom of the league, and I don't think that's because

762
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Speaker 7: just because of the guys they missed. I've had this

763
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Speaker 7: lingering worry about them, and I guess we'll see. Maybe

764
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Speaker 7: they'd be better in the playoffs, but I'm I'm not

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Speaker 7: so sure.

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Speaker 1: Well, those are great picks, and thank you for not

767
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Speaker 1: picking either of our teams in the balls.

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Speaker 7: Oh shoot, I forgot.

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Speaker 1: It up, Mike, Pray to everyone, thanks for coming up.

770
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Speaker 6: We're kind for not mentioning the Bulls or the Raptors,

771
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 6: but that's probably because they're both ahead of the Wizards

772
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Speaker 6: and the standings.

773
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Speaker 4: Here's our really hot question for you.

774
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Speaker 6: Who's going to get the tenth seed in the Eastern

775
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 6: Conference between Chicago, Toronto and Washington.

776
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Speaker 7: Chic is going nine.

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Speaker 1: There we go, so raptors on the outside. Look at it. Hey, Mike, look,

778
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for jumping on with us here

779
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Speaker 1: on the drop podcast spaced out guys again, I got

780
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Speaker 1: a link there in the YouTube comments takes you right

781
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Speaker 1: to Amazon if you want to grab a copy. It's

782
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: really really a fun book. Like the biggest compliment I

783
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: can get to this book, Mike is it will make

784
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: you a smarter basketball fan, like easily, and it's like

785
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: for you, know, like you're just a again, You're probably're

786
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Speaker 1: probably one of the best writers out there when it

787
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: comes to x's and o's and like putting it into

788
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Speaker 1: a digestible, easy to understand form for the idiots like U.

789
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Speaker 1: So thanks for coming on. Congrats on the book, and

790
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Speaker 1: uh hopefully we'll see you soon. I don't know we're

791
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: going to see it at All Star weekend you're going.

792
00:36:54,800 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 7: Out there, don't think so. But we'll see maybe Summer League. Yeah, okay,

793
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 7: So now, thank you guys for all the prayers. I've

794
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 7: been listening to you guys since literally two thousand and five.

795
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 7: I think I think I remember like kind of geeking

796
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 7: out on the Bucks Pistons like playoff review that you

797
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 7: guys did. That was theer. So it's been a it's

798
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Speaker 7: a real pleasure to.

799
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Speaker 1: That's when there was only one NBA podcast that you

800
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: were forced to mike. Thanks so much. Everybody will get

801
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: spaced out. We're gonna take a break when we come back.

802
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Speaker 1: Worst of the Week nominees, don't go anywhere. All right,

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Speaker 1: We're back here in the Classic Factory. Yesterday, the NBA

804
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: revealed the second fan vote returns for the twenty three

805
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Game. Lebron, Durant, Stephan Kyrie remain the

806
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: leaders at their respective position groups. Not a whole lot

807
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: has changed, but let's look at them anyway. You'll start

808
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: in the West, Kurry and Luca lead all West guards

809
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: by a mile, John Rant and Sga coming in third

810
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: and fourth, but they will not be catching either Curry

811
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Speaker 1: or Luca there. That's fine. Forwards, Lebron, Jokic and eight

812
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: are your front core players in the Western Conference. Zion

813
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: Williamson fourth among front court players. He's a you know,

814
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: less than one hundred thousand from Yeah? Is that what

815
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: it is?

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Speaker 5: Couldn't math?

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00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? So that gap it tightened up a little from

818
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Speaker 1: the first returns, but not not a whole lot, so

819
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: nothing James really in the West, any takeaways.

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Speaker 6: Not too many takeaways. In the Western Conference, Kevon Looney

821
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Speaker 6: passed the Kawhi Leonard from tenth to ninth rightfully, so

822
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Speaker 6: I think so too. Looney's really been hitting the glass

823
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 6: out there. And then a little pleasant surprise, I would

824
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Speaker 6: say number ten in the Western Conference backcourt.

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Speaker 4: Dearon Fox making in appearance.

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Speaker 5: That's nice.

827
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Speaker 6: That was one of the surprises from the first returns

828
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Speaker 6: is that neither of the King's him or some bonus

829
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Speaker 6: made the top ten. They got behind Fox here okay

830
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 6: for the second round of voting, So nice to see

831
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Speaker 6: good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Light the votes wait, I mean that makes it sound

833
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: like you're burning beam the votes being the votes in.

834
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Speaker 1: That's better Ashley being the votes for Fox and okay.

835
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Speaker 1: In the Eastern Conference, we got Kyrie Irving and Donovan Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: They are the tops amongst the guards and again, just

837
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Speaker 1: like the West, pretty significantly there when you get into

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Speaker 1: the actual numbers, Kyrie hitting over three million votes. In

839
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Speaker 1: the front court, keep going here, we got Durant Yohannis

840
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Speaker 1: and Jason Tatum. That's the biggest mover and shaker here

841
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Speaker 1: of the second fan returns. Those are your top three

842
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: vote getters for the forwards. So Tatum has moved ahead

843
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: of Duel Embiid for that third place spot. But it's

844
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Speaker 1: less than thirty five thousand votes separate the two. And really,

845
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: look today is a three for one day where each

846
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: fan vote counts three times, So really that's like thirteen

847
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: thousand votes separates the two when you get into it.

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Speaker 1: So any takeaways from the Eastern Conference vote returns, I mean,

849
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Speaker 1: the Tatum passing Embiid is pretty significant. I would say

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Speaker 1: for now, at least in two we get to finding

851
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Speaker 1: out who the starters are.

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Speaker 4: Kevin Durant likely gonna.

853
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Speaker 6: Miss the All Star Game, so we'll get Jannis, Tatum

854
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 6: and Embiid as the front court regardless.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would assume.

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00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 6: I assume they will replace Katie with whoever number four

857
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 6: is in the All Star voting. But I thought that

858
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Speaker 6: was interesting to see. I guess, maybe not a surprise.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, I guess. I guess I would have

860
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Speaker 6: been surprised that Tatum was behind Embid the first time around.

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00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: So that he passed not totally surprising.

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Speaker 6: Boston's got a huge fan base and Tatum's an MVP Candada,

864
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Speaker 6: just like Embiide, is also number ten in the Eastern

865
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Speaker 6: Conference front court. Julius Randall from my New York Knicks

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Speaker 6: love to see it.

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00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: I've got a NIXT player.

868
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got in on the one, got one and

869
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 4: got Derek Rose as well in the court there too.

870
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 5: Yeah.

871
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jalen Brunson next next time, I think he's going

872
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 6: to be making the top ten.

873
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 4: The other interesting thing to me in the Eastern.

874
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 6: Conference backcourt, Kyrie Irving still number one in votes, Donovan

875
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 6: Mitchell still number two in votes, but during this round

876
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 6: of voting, Donovan Mitchell did have more votes than Kyrie Irving.

877
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,439
Speaker 6: And I assume his seventy one point game happened in

878
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 6: the mix there. I'm not exactly sure on the timing

879
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,959
Speaker 6: of it, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.

880
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:11,959
Speaker 1: So that's cool.

881
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 6: He definitely deserves it. He should probably be the leading

882
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 6: vote getter in the Eastern Conference strictly for on court stuff.

883
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: So we had that YouTube short where we were telling

884
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: basically yelling at Knicks fans to come on vote for Brunson.

885
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: What's going on here? How's he not even in the

886
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: top ten? Are are you upset or happy that he's

887
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: still not in the top ten. And here's why. Upset

888
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: because they're not listening to us, they're not doing their work.

889
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: He should be in the top ten when you get

890
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: into the cards. Or happy because we can post it

891
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: again exactly, extend, run it back. Yeah, extend the bit.

892
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 6: I didn't expect it to be evergreen content, but it

893
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 6: is until Jalen Brunson makes an appearance.

894
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: Let's go next, Let's go next.

895
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 4: Come on.

896
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: And I say this all the time, but it's worth

897
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: a reminder. The fan vote accounts for only half of

898
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: the overall voting. When it comes to the starters. Players

899
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: get twenty five percent of that vote. A panel of

900
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: media members get twenty five percent of the vote. Final

901
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: returns released next Thursday. That's it, and then fan voting

902
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: ends on January twenty first, so actually on the weekend

903
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: there we will then find out the starters. On January

904
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: twenty sixth, I believe they do that on T and T.

905
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: They do it a part of their pregame show, so

906
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: we'll know the ten starters then, and I'm sure on

907
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: the following day's podcast on the Drop podcast on the Friday,

908
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: we might start building our actual all star teams. Once

909
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: you know the starters. I really like making the teams.

910
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: It's like, well, those ten guys are in, now let's

911
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: get to work, and.

912
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 4: Then we got to talk drafts, so I can't wait.

913
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah, Well that's the final takeaway. Yannis

914
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: has closed within about forty two thousand votes of KD

915
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: for the top spot among all Eastern Conference tires. So

916
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, Giannis isn't you know, playing all that well?

917
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: Right the second you know, you know, he was putting

918
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: up forty and twenty, so it was bound to fall

919
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: off a little bit. But will he overtake KD to

920
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: be drafting against Lebron James once again? Or will KD,

921
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't play like last year, be drafting

922
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 1: against Lebron. We'll see, we shall see. All right, let's

923
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: get to worst of the week, ladies and gentlemen. The

924
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: worst of the week.

925
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 6: Oh skeez, we got a sizeable crop today. Take a

926
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 6: look at this crop. Our first candidate. Dasani water. What

927
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 6: everybody knows, the Sonny water, the absolute worst bottled ones salty.

928
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 6: I was doing research into why it tastes so bad.

929
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 6: They filter out all the minerals and put in their

930
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 6: own mix. Give us nature's minerals.

931
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 1: Why are you messing with water?

932
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 6: Why are you messing with water? That's the question to Sani.

933
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 6: But if you need an even more validation for why

934
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 6: you think, listener viewer out there, why you certainly think

935
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 6: Desanni is the worst water. Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer took

936
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 6: a sip of a bottle of Designy after a win

937
00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 6: against the Hawks, got bitter budface from it. Nope, did

938
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 6: not like that. One probably heard it fizz when it opens.

939
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 6: Wise water fizz. No one knows. Take a look, oh this, Tosani, No,

940
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 6: thank you? Bring me an aquafina.

941
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: Please do Sni a Coca Cola product.

942
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 4: Yes, I hate to say it.

943
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 5: In Atlanta, I know, I know.

944
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 6: I heard you had a helicopters over your house the

945
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 6: other day. Yeah, I'm gonna be on the lookout for

946
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 6: them coming by my house a little bit later, talking

947
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 6: smack about a local Atlanta product.

948
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 5: So do water.

949
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, the worst of the week

950
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 6: for a long time, but finally an NBA worst of

951
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 6: the week.

952
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going away to Uh it's like a cottage.

953
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: I guess a lodge this weekend with a bunch of

954
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: friends to celebrate another friend's birthday. And uh, you know,

955
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: I always gotta ask, or I feel like I have

956
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: to ask, like can we drink the water? Like do

957
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: I need to bring? But I hate buying bottle of water,

958
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: like I I loathe it, Like I will drink I

959
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: mean I will drink tap water unless like I'm gonna

960
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: like get sick from it. And you found out we're

961
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: in the clear. Oh nice, I mean we're it's it's

962
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: called like something creek lodge. I'm like, we hope we're

963
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: getting the water right out of the creek.

964
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 5: It's a valid question. But a cabin or cottage totally.

965
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 5: Sometimes the water's coming right from my weight.

966
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, like twenty four people, I like

967
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: it makes me feel icky. Twenty four people showing up

968
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: is a huge lodge. We're gonna have a blast all weekend.

969
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,479
Speaker 1: But it's like how much water we have to bring?

970
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 7: Oh?

971
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like obviously a ton of booze is gonna come,

972
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be so much water. It's like, oh

973
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: and then I just I'm looking at just all the

974
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: crushed bottles everywhere, and so thank god, straight.

975
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 4: From the tip single use plastics. Yeah, worst of the

976
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 4: week every single week. Get yourself a water bottle and

977
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 4: fill it up with some water.

978
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 5: Yeah.

979
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 4: People, Okay, there you go.

980
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 6: Our next candidate, Dwayne Deadman proposing a rule here. We'll

981
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 6: have to see if Tassa agrees to it. But if

982
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 6: you smack a therapy gun onto the court during an

983
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 6: NBA game, you get a nominee. And that's what Dwayner

984
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 6: did on Tuesday night while the Heat we're making a

985
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 6: whole bunch of free throws to an argument with his

986
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 6: coach Eric Spolstra. Really gave this fairy gun a whack.

987
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, like arctig too.

988
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 6: The area well gone ten feet in the air or

989
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 6: something like that, went halfway across the court. The Miami Heat,

990
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 6: in consultation with the NBA, did suspend Dwayne Deadman for

991
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 6: one game without pay for conduct detrimental to the team.

992
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 4: I assumed they had to have.

993
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 6: This conversation with the NBA because there's probably not anything

994
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 6: in the collective bargaining agreement about when a player hits

995
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 6: a therapy.

996
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 4: Gun onto the court.

997
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 6: This is a one time affair, but at the very least,

998
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 6: Dwayne Deadmon is now the NBA is happy.

999
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 4: Gilmour happy.

1000
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 6: Gilmore, of course, is the only guy to ever take

1001
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 6: off his skate and try to stab.

1002
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 4: Somebody with it.

1003
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 6: Dwayne's the only guy to ever smack a therapy gun

1004
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 6: onto an NBA court?

1005
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: Did Did Rudy Gober get a game? When he hit

1006
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: the cup or whatever he is.

1007
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 4: He smacked it or the like a gum container or something, or.

1008
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: Was it the truck? Was it the truck container?

1009
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 6: It was he smacked something of some kind of basketball coupe.

1010
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 6: That that's a good question.

1011
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if that one went more into the crowd,

1012
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: I think, or maybe the bench area I look it up.

1013
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could have gone sideways.

1014
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 6: But I also just because we've been talking about how

1015
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 6: much a therapy gun weighs. Yeah, task speculated twenty pounds.

1016
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: Which we thought was way too much.

1017
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1018
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 6: I mean, Dayne Deadman's strong, but I don't know if

1019
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 6: he could smack a twenty pound weight that far three pounds?

1020
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's still what hurts I see. I

1021
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: actually thought it would maybe be a little bit heavier

1022
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, you kind would like to get one, Well,

1023
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: I mean I should have one. Yeah, you have one.

1024
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: They're not cheap, you said it. Who brought it up

1025
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: to like four? They're very expensive.

1026
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure the one Dwayne has was I think

1027
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 4: there's like a six.

1028
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: Hundred top of the line.

1029
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, he doesn't mess with his muscles.

1030
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: Do you think he broke the gun? Oh?

1031
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 5: I don't know, actually, because they're.

1032
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: Pretty I mean, the whole point of them is they're

1033
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: pretty indestructive.

1034
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 5: Great question. I've seen guys smack things on the side

1035
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 5: like that one hundred times. I think it was just

1036
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 5: bad luck that it flew into the Yeah.

1037
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: Really like he turned around to like almost purposely hit

1038
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: it on the court. Yeah, he should have just knocked

1039
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 1: it over, Like, yeah, just knock stuff over the ground.

1040
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 5: It's I like that. It's the closest thing to a

1041
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 5: dildo that's ever been thrown on to the court by

1042
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 5: a player.

1043
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 1: Interesting, you believe a thra gun is the closest thing.

1044
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 5: It's not. It's not a dildo, but it.

1045
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: Might be painful. Yes, I think. I don't think Rudy

1046
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: got a game for angrily slapping it was a water

1047
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: bottle or yeah, it was water. He was upset. He

1048
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: was upset the water. He's like, I can't believe this

1049
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: water is in a plastic container.

1050
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 6: Here sounds like me if I spill it home and

1051
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 6: it's just water. Sorry, it's just water that'll evaporate eventually.

1052
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: Oh, Nora spilt water last night on this on her

1053
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: bedside table. That's the worst She had to get up

1054
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: up four in the morning, got got Luna going nuts.

1055
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: Of course it was. I mean it made a big sound.

1056
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 5: Well, you got your phone on there.

1057
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: Well, that's I think it was a domino. I didn't

1058
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: ask her specifically, but I think it was a domino

1059
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: of a phone into something into the water.

1060
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 5: That's why you need Trey's Yeah, I was gonna say,

1061
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 5: I don't.

1062
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 6: If we're gonna be able to do that for every

1063
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 6: single Worst of the Week nomine, but I would say,

1064
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 6: maybe get a water bottle.

1065
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: Well, yes, but also you drop it every second episode

1066
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: on the show here, and that makes a giant stud.

1067
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 4: Imagine Dwayne Deadman smacking that onto.

1068
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: If you ever hear that during one of our podcasts,

1069
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: it means Trey was reaching and dropped his giant water.

1070
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's ways more a fair guy. Sometimes the noise

1071
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 6: you hear is my leg hitting this stand under here. Also,

1072
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 6: wasn't sure what to do with this, but the heat

1073
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 6: get at least the worst of the week mentioned for

1074
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 6: the resolution to their arena name. Yes, some court things

1075
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 6: just finished up, so now they can take FTX off

1076
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 6: their arena okay, and they're now going to be calling

1077
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 6: their arena the arena.

1078
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: Okay. I don't mind it.

1079
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,760
Speaker 4: I know it's kind of awesome. So it's not totally

1080
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 4: worse than the week.

1081
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 6: But I had to get some sort of a mention

1082
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 6: the arena just going back to calling things what they are.

1083
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: But not only is it not going to be named

1084
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: FTX Arena anymore, obviously that the decal comes off the floor.

1085
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: That's one of my least favorite logos. Remember I've always

1086
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: said it looks like a printer, like a dot Matrix

1087
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: printer gone wrong. Yeah, hated it and somebody pointed out

1088
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: like they thought people were slipping on it, uh in Miami.

1089
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 4: Interesting.

1090
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they can't get anything right. So it's

1091
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: called the arena.

1092
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 4: It's called the arena for now. Surely there will be

1093
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 4: another spot.

1094
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: Placeholder placeholders coming.

1095
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 4: Bangbros. Put in a bid once again.

1096
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 5: They did.

1097
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 6: Dis Yeah, yeah, I mean that that could change JD

1098
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 6: if Bangbros.

1099
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 4: Actually gets the uh gets the deal.

1100
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,720
Speaker 1: I think now that we've hit sixty thousand YouTube subs

1101
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: that we should uh maybe throw in a bid to

1102
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: uh name the arena Dunks arena there in Miami. Thank

1103
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,439
Speaker 1: you to everybody. Sixty thousand subs. We said we would

1104
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: do it by All Star weekend. We've done it well

1105
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: before that. Now we got to get to seventy thousand

1106
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: before All Start weekend. Okay, was eighty thousand. Wait, it's

1107
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: over nine. It's going on here, little time, little anime.

1108
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 5: Here, it's over sixty thousand.

1109
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: Jerome, crazy son of a bitch sixty thousand and three

1110
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: for being exact here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1111
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: Oh wow, didn't know that. I didn't Sorry, I didn't

1112
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: mean to catch it by surprise, orgda, but wait to

1113
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: have that racked up and ready to go.

1114
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was behind the scenes, me and Jerome

1115
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 5: going back and forth. I bet it's all Jerome, so.

1116
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: Awesome, amazing, it's all Jerome, and it's definitely an anime.

1117
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 5: I have no idea what.

1118
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 1: It is, but I bet a lot of people will,

1119
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: oh yeah.

1120
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 4: Do you know that one? Okay, they look like Dragon

1121
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 4: ball Z.

1122
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: I know that one, all right, look like it.

1123
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 4: But I don't know.

1124
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Okay, we are. We are gonna put a

1125
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: bit in to name the arena in Miami No Dunks

1126
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: arena and they can never dunk. That'll be a stipulation.

1127
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 6: Have Actually, Yeah, well they got Kyle Lowry, they got

1128
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 6: hero like Jimmy doesn't throw out that much. Yeah, BAM's

1129
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 6: in trouble. He throws down some big ones. Well, I'm

1130
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 6: glad the mood is high because this is a legitimately

1131
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 6: sad story.

1132
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 4: Coming up next.

1133
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 6: Worst of the Week nominee goes to two grown ups

1134
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 6: who stole an autographed basketball from an eleven year old.

1135
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: That's pretty damn low. This is you were grown ups?

1136
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:39,479
Speaker 1: Is that for sure?

1137
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 4: That's what the news story says.

1138
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean, for some reason, I thought they were like teenagers.

1139
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: Not that it makes it better, but teenagers are dumb.

1140
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 4: Yes, this is grown ass man. Teenagers are dumb. They

1141
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 4: make mistakes, but grown ups are also dumb, but they

1142
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 4: do it on purpose most of the time.

1143
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.

1144
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 6: Ellie Hughes, though an eleven year old is a huge

1145
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 6: grizzly span, she's been going to games with her grandfather

1146
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:03,959
Speaker 6: since she was five years old. She took the same

1147
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 6: ball to every game, got it signed by all kinds

1148
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 6: of players during the past six years. She took it

1149
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 6: to Monday's game against the Spurs, trying to get John

1150
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 6: Morant's autograph, obviously a huge one for a Grizzlies fan,

1151
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 6: and these two stupid grown ups stole it from her family.

1152
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 6: Went on the news. They asked for the ball's return.

1153
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 6: They're very gracious about what happened, saying, hey, it could

1154
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 6: maybe be a mistake, which fair enough, I guess it

1155
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 6: could be somebody.

1156
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1157
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 6: Nonetheless, they took her ball and left immediately. Very sad

1158
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 6: to watch, but there is a happy ending because Ja

1159
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 6: Morant found out about this via social media, got in

1160
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 6: touch with the family, brought Ellie and her family back

1161
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 6: to Wednesday's game against the Spurs. She sat court side,

1162
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 6: and after the game, Jah hooked her up with his

1163
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 6: jersey that he was wearing when he dunked on Yaka Pearl,

1164
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 6: and also the shoes that he was wearing the new

1165
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 6: Nike Jaw Ones signed them both. Great stuff from jaw

1166
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 6: great stuff from Ellie. But still give her a ball back.

1167
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, she still wants the paunchy look. We'll make you

1168
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: a deal, all right, you get that ball back to

1169
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: that little girl. We'll get you a no duck shirt,

1170
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,760
Speaker 1: not a chance, signed by nobody, no.

1171
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 4: Signature, a dun shirt, and then we'll take it right back.

1172
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make a deal here. There's a negotiation, man.

1173
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 4: They don't deserve it.

1174
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: No. But what I'm gonna do is I say, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1175
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,720
Speaker 1: oh actually I'll we'll get everybody to signed the shirt

1176
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: or sweater or whatever. Say give the ball. I'm gonna

1177
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:25,439
Speaker 1: take the ball from them.

1178
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 6: Boom, I'm god there, Okay, I like to screw them,

1179
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 6: all right.

1180
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 4: So that's a that's a big time.

1181
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: That's a big time.

1182
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 4: I think I's got to take the wind.

1183
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: But at least, like you said, you know, Ja Morant

1184
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: one of the good guys. Man, a lot of these

1185
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,919
Speaker 1: NBA guys, especially these superstars, their next level with fans.

1186
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if it's like we always just

1187
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: see it, but it feels like every week there's a

1188
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: story of Ja Morant hooking fans up with shoes or

1189
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 1: so and so.

1190
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 6: I don't know, Right, he gave he gave his jaws

1191
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 6: to a little boy previously, right, and like he broke

1192
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 6: down into tears and so touched by it.

1193
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 4: So, yeah, says I pretty much love to do that.

1194
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 1: So I would like to think, Man, you're a superhero

1195
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: of these kids. It's awesome.

1196
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 6: All right, let's lighten the mood back up a little

1197
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 6: bit here. Our last work of the week nominee goes

1198
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 6: to whatever happened during a game on the King's JumboTron

1199
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 6: this Tuesday.

1200
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I sent this in. Yeah, this is weird.

1201
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 6: The game is called duck Dive. Contestant is allegedly allegedly

1202
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 6: named Kevin. He's wearing a bright red wig and.

1203
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:31,280
Speaker 4: A Kevin herder dresy.

1204
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 6: When he hops in the mini pool filled with rubber

1205
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 6: duckies trying to find three different colored duckies, he just

1206
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 6: swims and flails. He is not searching for these ducks

1207
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 6: at all.

1208
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the important part. He's supposed to be finding

1209
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: those red duckies. I can see it, Kevin.

1210
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 4: He's just spin He's just Scrooge mcducking this here. The

1211
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 4: announcer is.

1212
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 6: Like, hey, you gotta be looking for the ducks. Are

1213
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 6: you even looking? The crowd started him he did.

1214
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: Now, now now see was this a bit a bit

1215
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: that that reaction from him at the end made me go,

1216
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: it's a bit.

1217
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 4: You thought he was in on it?

1218
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, because what is he doing. He's literally swimming around

1219
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: in the ducks. He's all trying to find the red ducks.

1220
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: He's not even trying, and like when he does that

1221
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: look at the end like oh what you know, why

1222
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: are they boom? I was like ah, and then you

1223
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: you you add on the herder wig and the headband

1224
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: and his name is I was like, maybe this is

1225
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: the King. This is a very weird Kings bit.

1226
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 4: Possible, It's definitely possible.

1227
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 6: I personally can't say you can give me worse of

1228
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 6: the week because I got fooled by a hawk's kiss

1229
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 6: cam bit.

1230
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 4: Literally that was the worst I felt the whole week.

1231
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 5: If it's a bit, it's a very strange bit, I

1232
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 5: mean the the Kings duck if the Kings are in

1233
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,240
Speaker 5: on it, like he's obviously doing a bit for himself.

1234
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 5: Maybe he's like a foreman artist.

1235
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: For a second at one second, was like did they

1236
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: tell him? They tell him, hey man, this is King's

1237
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: duck dive, Like you gotta like swim around to find them.

1238
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: You can't just pick them out like he like he

1239
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: was almost sikes no sense, but maybe I'm trying to

1240
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: find a reason. I think it's I think it's a bit, man.

1241
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 4: I know I'm easily be a bit.

1242
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I don't get the bit then I just

1243
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 5: don't get it.

1244
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: It's like the crowd going, what are you doing?

1245
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 5: So it's just like tole up the.

1246
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 6: C Yeah, I think we've got Philip here in the

1247
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 6: stream team says I was at that game.

1248
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:39,439
Speaker 4: We all boot him.

1249
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: After Well, yeah, that's that's the response. They're looking. But

1250
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: I don't know why.

1251
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, but Alpice is right, what's the bit?

1252
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 6: What's the just go and be crazy and get the

1253
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 6: crowd angry at you, and maybe it's a.

1254
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 4: Cost saving thing. They're like, I don't know if we

1255
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 4: can afford this one.

1256
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 5: Just what was the prize.

1257
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 4: I don't know what the price was around.

1258
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: It's like a weird bit, like for so many reasons,

1259
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: because it's like I love like you notice like he

1260
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: is spilling out all these yellow duckies. Yeah, because he's

1261
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: swimming in them, and like the rest of the staff

1262
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: that works on the game offs like they're throwing them

1263
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: all back. Right, they got to clean up this mess

1264
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: in like twenty seconds before the game resumes. It's it's strange.

1265
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: I guess put me down. It's a bit. It's the

1266
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: weirdest bit going. But now I sort of like it.

1267
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 4: Yeah. I saw another duck dive later this week. I

1268
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 4: just found him.

1269
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So it doesn't that make you doesn't that

1270
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: lead you to believe that they decided let's switch it

1271
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: up here? Like maybe I don't know? Alright, A lot

1272
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: of nominees these are great.

1273
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, those are your candidates. The Saanny Water, Dwayne Deadman, Thieves,

1274
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 6: and the King's duck guy.

1275
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: So it's it's the Thieves. Yeah, that's the worst of

1276
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: the other one. But the other ones are also great. Hey,

1277
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: let's let's throw in one more too for me. Okay,

1278
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: worst of the week nominee for me. On yesterday's NBA

1279
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: Mid Season Tiers podcast, this is a second podcast we

1280
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: did yesterday. I told people when I tweeted it out, Hey,

1281
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: save it for the weekend. This thing's two hours plus,

1282
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have some time to kill on the weekend.

1283
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: You could have some fun with this. But we're ranking

1284
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: all thirty teams once again into Tiers Championship Contender. All

1285
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: the way down to your tankers and stuff like that.

1286
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: I said something along the lines on this podcast how

1287
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: difficult and rare it was for a team to be

1288
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs one year and then the following

1289
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: year like make a really long run in the postseason,

1290
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:39,919
Speaker 1: like let's say, go to the finals or something. Because

1291
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: we were talking about teams like, you know, the Cavs

1292
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I said that, thinking, hey,

1293
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: good points, skeets. Very difficult, Norman on Ig He reminded

1294
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: me very kindly. It wasn't like, hey, you idiot, He said,

1295
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: this has actually happened the last three seasons where a

1296
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: team didn't make the playoffs and then we're in the

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Speaker 1: postseason the next year and went all the way to

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Speaker 1: the finals. Well, I was like, holy crap. The Warriors

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Speaker 1: last year in twenty twenty two, the Suns in twenty one,

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01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: and the Lakers in twenty It's not rare at all, apparently,

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Speaker 1: So thank you, Norman time, thank you for fact checking

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Speaker 1: me on that, putting me in my spot. Now, look,

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01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: the Warriors, there's no Klay Tompson, all of that. The

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01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: year before the championship run, you know, there's that. There's

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01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: no Chris Paul in the Suns the year before that one.

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01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm making excuses now, but he's right.

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01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 4: He's right.

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Speaker 1: It's not that rare, at least recently. So, so we'll

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01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: see if that that streak can continue. Well, we have

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Speaker 1: a team that didn't make the playoffs last year go

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Speaker 1: all the way to the final. That will be very difficult,

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Speaker 1: I feel like this year because a lot of the teams,

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Speaker 1: even even the Calves, well the Calves made the play

1314
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Speaker 1: and play and make it. Yeah, but that's best bet.

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Speaker 1: Weren't the Warriors in the bat the cake? The Warriors

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01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: were in the play in the year before their.

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01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 6: Warriors were in the play and lost to the Lakers

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01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 6: when Lebron shot for the middle basket.

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Speaker 1: I guess if we could, if we don't count winning

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Speaker 1: your way in from the play in to the seventh

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Speaker 1: or eighth, then that's I mean, that's making the playoffs, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So who could it be?

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Speaker 6: Kings, Segment Kings, Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 4: For a while?

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Speaker 1: That's great call. Wow, watch this Cinderella com Baby, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait. Thank you, though, Norman for fact checking me

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Speaker 1: on that. We got to take one more break when

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Speaker 1: we come back. Pickup results Twitter the night and rapid firefund.

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Speaker 1: All right back with your boys. I know we didn't

1330
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: have a chance to touch on last night's games, and

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01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: there were some good ones. SGA with thirty seven thunder

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01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: Hot Baby, I'm happy we put them in the play

1333
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: in Potential category, the greatest tier on yesterday's podcast. In

1334
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: the afternoon they beat the Sixers. We had the short

1335
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: handed Heat beating the short handed Bucks last night by six.

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01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: Celtics pulled away in the fourth. They beat the Nets,

1337
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: had thirty five. Raptors beat the Hornets. I just want

1338
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:04,959
Speaker 1: the Raptors to play the Hornets every night and we'd

1339
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: be easily in the tenth seed.

1340
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 4: Watch out baby, the three game win streak at the season.

1341
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: But yes, that's right, that's right. Rubio returned to the

1342
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: Cavs and like I said, Dame had fifty, but they

1343
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: lost as the Cavs got one there on the road.

1344
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: And then Luca, I mean this game was drunk. The

1345
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: Lakers MAVs game. He hit big three pointers a couple times.

1346
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: We had a controversial no call on Troy. Don't call

1347
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: me Tony Brown. It was the official said, hey, high five,

1348
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: it's not a foul. You can high five, but was

1349
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: their body contact all that? But they won one nineteen

1350
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: one to fifteen in double overtime.

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Speaker 4: Double ote.

1352
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 6: I the thing I mostly took away from MAVs Lakers

1354
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 6: as it felt like everybody was complaining about the refs,

1355
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 6: even you know, going down to the last no call.

1356
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 6: But also Luca hitting two threes to send it to

1357
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 6: overtime twice.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty cool. That's how you stay on the end leaderboards.

1359
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: Stop letting this guy shoot threes at the end of games.

1360
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 4: He does want to do.

1361
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: That fowl well right away, like, well, how are you

1362
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: doing that? Yeah? So some pretty entertaining games there for

1363
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: for a Thursday night. One of them was that Celtics

1364
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: nets game. I took the nets to cover I was wrong.

1365
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: I'm struggling here in twenty twenty three when it comes

1366
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 1: to our picks. I'm three and six with that lost task,

1367
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 1: got it right? Four and five and you are hot.

1368
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: This guy drinks a lot of water, but he's hot

1369
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: right now. Seven and two is your record to get

1370
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: your yet there it is you got to cool yourself

1371
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: down you're so hot, or maybe don't man, no, don't,

1372
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: picks are already in Oh this guy's confident. Tonight's game,

1373
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Speaker 1: We're going with the Warriors Spurs game, which is in

1374
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: the Almodome. That's right, we're setting a record tonight, MB

1375
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: record sixty three thousand plus. I think it's gonna tick

1376
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: up higher even as we get closer to the game.

1377
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: It might get to sixty five thousand, which is wild.

1378
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be quite the same. But Task

1379
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: and Tray that did not scare them from taking the

1380
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: Warriors to definitely spoil this party in San Antonio. Big line.

1381
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:10,959
Speaker 1: They gotta win by nine or more. But I'm taking

1382
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: the Spurs. Baby. This is this is their game seven,

1383
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: championship title game here tonight.

1384
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll admit I forgot that that was this game.

1385
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 6: But well, well maybe because a the Warriors bat on

1386
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 6: the road to begin with, and now they gotta go

1387
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 6: shoot at a gigantic dome.

1388
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, cavernous, cavernous.

1389
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just hoping they have a little bit of

1390
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 6: a bounce back after a disappointing performance in Steph's return.

1391
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope for the sake of sixty three thousand

1392
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: plus though that it is an entertaining book. Yes, I hope,

1393
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: I almost I know you got the Warriors, that's your pick.

1394
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: But like it'll be a little deflating if the Warriors

1395
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: beat them by twenty five or something.

1396
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why.

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01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: That's why I'm taking the Spurs. It's gonna be close

1398
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: to thee They're gonna win, but it's gonna be close.

1399
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: You gotta give that home crowd of sixty three thousand

1400
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: plus at least a good show. So that's tonight's game.

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01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: Good luck to everybody. All right, let's get to tweet

1402
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: of the night. Tweet of the Knight.

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01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 5: Wow tweeted the Knight. Yeah, I have tweeted the Night.

1404
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 5: I'll try to make this quicker running along. I have

1405
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 5: this thing where I look at Twitter whenever I have

1406
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 5: tweeted the night, so once in a blue moon. Really,

1407
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 5: this one's almost it is NBA related because this caught

1408
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 5: my eye yesterday. It's an account I followed. It's actually

1409
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 5: NBA related NBA film tweets. You guys heard of this? Yes,

1410
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 5: it pops up every once in a while. Is Jimmer

1411
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 5: fordet just asking? This is back in what eleven? So

1412
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 5: whoever runs this account, they just dig deep and they

1413
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 5: have a collection and they just throw it out every day.

1414
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 5: I think they're pretty consistent. Anyway, Jimmer fordet saying, has

1415
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 5: anyone seen the new movie Tree of Life with Brad

1416
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 5: Pitt and Sean Penn. I've heard mixed reviews, and I

1417
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go see it tonight.

1418
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: Okay, this is twenty eleven, eleven.

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01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 5: It's Terrence Malick. I started watching this movie maybe and

1420
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 5: it was whatever, it's it's I watched it. Did you

1421
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 5: like it? I mean, I think I got through maybe

1422
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 5: the first time.

1423
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: I think I saw this movie in a theater. Wow,

1424
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: it was a hype movie, it.

1425
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 5: Was, and it was.

1426
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: I remember it being quite a long movie too, especially

1427
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: for twenty eleven. I know every movie is long now.

1428
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: But I didn't hate it, but I definitely didn't love it,

1429
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 1: and I was not telling people to go see it, right, Okay, well,

1430
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 1: I guess I was entertained and known.

1431
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 5: I'm sort of curious to see if Jimmer liked it,

1432
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 5: but also who cares? But anyways, I just went for

1433
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 5: a deep dive. So I grabbed some of my favorite

1434
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 5: tweets from this account, so these are very random. The

1435
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 5: first ones from Seth Curry. This is August twelfth, twenty twelve.

1436
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 5: I only argue music, movies, sports with a select few people.

1437
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 5: That means I think you are well informed and respect

1438
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 5: your opinion. God, I'd love to argue movies with Seth

1439
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 5: Curry because then I would know that he respected my

1440
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 5: even if we disagreed. So, you know, I thought that

1441
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 5: was kind of cool.

1442
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 6: What do you think you would say to him as

1443
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 6: your first opinion to convince him.

1444
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 5: Oh, I would say Tree of Life not great.

1445
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 4: I respect that.

1446
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 5: Next one is from Sean Marion watching Casino. Watching Casino,

1447
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 5: Now the mob is so serious.

1448
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: Yes, is a fantastic movie.

1449
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, great movie. Great movie. Next one, The Adjustment Bureau

1450
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 5: made a lot of waves in the NBA world when

1451
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 5: it came out. We've got Garrett Temple saying, got to

1452
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 5: see The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon, Steve Nash check

1453
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 5: it out The Adjustment Bureau, Nate Robinson. The movie Adjustment

1454
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:58,439
Speaker 5: Bureau was just great movie. Hashtag classic, hashtag word act

1455
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 5: Tyson Chandler at PF Chanks with friends and fan then

1456
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 5: headed to the movies to see Adjustment Bureau. Jeff Graen

1457
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 5: watching The Adjustment Bureau, and then Chris Bosh. This is

1458
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 5: from two years earlier. I just met Matt Damon. Cool guy.

1459
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: Wow. NBA players love Matt Damon.

1460
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 5: I guess so, right, And I remember that movie started

1461
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 5: making a splash. But and I saw it in the theater.

1462
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,679
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, fine, it's a Philip K. Dick,

1463
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 5: you know, science fiction. It's fine, It's fine, all right.

1464
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 5: Next one, Kevin Dured. I love this one randomly. August nineteenth,

1465
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 5: twenty two thousand and nine. Spock as a little kid

1466
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 5: would beat the hell out of Macauley Culkin in Home Alone. Wait,

1467
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,879
Speaker 5: what the hell? What I mean? It's right, it's very accurate.

1468
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 5: It's one hundred percent accurate. But why how did you

1469
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 5: get to that? I don't know. He must have been

1470
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 5: watching Star Trek three, The Search for Spock where we

1471
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,679
Speaker 5: see well, hold on, we see Spock as a child

1472
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 5: in I don't know, and with one of the reboots,

1473
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 5: right maybe yeah, anyways alone, like if it was that

1474
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 5: Christmas time maybe you know, because it's on the brain.

1475
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,560
Speaker 5: This is middle of the summer, it was August nineteenth.

1476
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 4: Anyway, this, you.

1477
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: Know, these these tweets really paint the picture of what

1478
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: Twitter used.

1479
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 5: To be too. I know, yeah, I was thinking that too.

1480
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, we just used Twitter like we

1481
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: used the old Facebook status status. It's like, here here's

1482
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: a thing I'm thinking like I'm doing in my day

1483
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: to day life. Yeah, I'm just gonna tell the world. Yeah,

1484
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: that's sort of change.

1485
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 5: No threads back then, except for this one. Michael Thompson,

1486
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 5: he's a he's an older player. I love this. It's

1487
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 5: a series of two tweets. Ghost in the Shell is

1488
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 5: Hollywood running out of movie ideas? What dot dot dot

1489
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 5: is dot dot dot? That next tweet, I've heard of

1490
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 5: turtles in a shell, Ninja turtles, but ghost in the show. Huh,

1491
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 5: I mean it's I love it. I love this kind

1492
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 5: of stuff. Okay, next one, Uh yeah, kJ mcdanny, we

1493
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 5: got a couple kJ McDaniels. It's it's just I love

1494
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 5: this because he's in high school. Obviously, this is twenty eleven.

1495
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 5: It's just me Willie Bernard Durrell in class with no teachers.

1496
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,480
Speaker 5: We popped on the movie Job's.

1497
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: Twitter from his BlackBerry Twitter.

1498
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 5: That's cuzy great and what a great movie to put on.

1499
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 5: And the last one, I love this more than anything.

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01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 5: It's Metal World Peace. He's just saying, Okay, so little

1501
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 5: chap of Horrors my favorite movie. Yeah, I said it.

1502
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do about it? Huh? That's it.

1503
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 5: That's the tweet and respect because it's a great movie.

1504
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 5: Rick moranis, Wow, he's great.

1505
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: These were you found all these were these.

1506
01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 5: Were all from those are all in the Yeah, I

1507
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 5: just went deep into the I'm not looking for I

1508
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 5: can barely find one tweet on one night. Yeah, so

1509
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 5: this was just in the thread, but worth a follow.

1510
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 5: What was it called the NBA film?

1511
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: So how do they? How do they do it? They

1512
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: literally have to put every NBA player name in movie. Yeah. Wow,

1513
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: good for them. That's that's a fun account. Great great

1514
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: tweet of the night. There great tweets of the night

1515
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: going way back. I recently watched Uh, I don't even

1516
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 1: know if I have I'm gonna say it correctly, but

1517
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 1: the banshees of.

1518
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 5: I'm sure in on my list. I haven't seen it good.

1519
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: It's not what I expected at all. I thought it

1520
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 1: was gonna be. I thought it's be a lot more.

1521
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: It has funny moments, but I thought it was gonna

1522
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: be a lot more funny because it's like a tragic

1523
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 1: dramatic comedy. I think is how it's pitched.

1524
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 4: I've seen it being called a black comedy for sure.

1525
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:48,680
Speaker 5: It is.

1526
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: It definitely has a I like, I liked it. I

1527
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: liked it, but again it's a movie where I'm not

1528
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna be like, you gotta watch it,

1529
01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: you gotta see it.

1530
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 5: Well, it's probably gonna be nominated for at.

1531
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 1: It was definitely nominate for a Golden Globe or two.

1532
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the same guys that were an in Bruges, right, yeah, yes,

1533
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 6: running it back.

1534
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 4: That's probably was a funny movie.

1535
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:10,560
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, You're right. I liked it. Nora was

1536
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 1: not as much of a fan.

1537
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:14,840
Speaker 6: Sounds like it's not very good. No, I mean, I

1538
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 6: mean you're not giving glowing review. I like something, you

1539
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 6: like something.

1540
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 5: It's it's a feel bad movie. It sounds like.

1541
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 1: Skip yeah, and it's a I feel it's an art

1542
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: house movie too, Like I mean, it depends how you feel.

1543
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,600
Speaker 5: About those types. Yes, like sometimes I'm into it.

1544
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, go check it out if you want. I would

1545
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: you know what here to credit the movie or I

1546
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:38,559
Speaker 1: don't know, is this a positive or negative? After the

1547
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: movie ended, I'm sitting with it going that's it. It's

1548
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: got a weird ending and all that, but I'm like, wow,

1549
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 1: what is this? What does this movie say? Yeah, I'm

1550
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: not smart enough to figure it out. And after doing

1551
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 1: a little bit of reading and I won't give anything away,

1552
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, that's it's that's the metaphor for

1553
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:55,679
Speaker 1: this movie, and it made a little bit more sense. Okay,

1554
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: So then I was like I liked it a little

1555
01:12:57,479 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: bit more after that.

1556
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 5: Usually, if I'm googally the movie after I see it,

1557
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 5: I'm into it, like it's a good yeah, yeah, unless

1558
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:06,679
Speaker 5: it's like what the fuck would did I just watch? Yeah?

1559
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which there may be something anyway, let's hear

1560
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,799
Speaker 1: from everybody you like that movie the Banshees letting me know. Okay,

1561
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: we're almost done here, but we got some rapid fire fun. Yeah,

1562
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: there's only three of us. I can ask the questions

1563
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: and answer them to. I already did it before. What's

1564
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: the big deal? Everything I'm gonna say I've already said

1565
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: ten times before on this podcast anyway, if you've been

1566
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: keeping track, So let's get to it first. One. It's

1567
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: actually from mister Sidistor by way to Twitter. This was

1568
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: a great question. This week, the heat made the most

1569
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: ever free throws in the game without a miss, forty

1570
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: straight forty for forty. Wow, what's the most impressive thing

1571
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: you can do without consecutively messing up?

1572
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 6: Tray, I don't have a good answer, no, no, because

1573
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 6: I'm more often consecutively mess things up.

1574
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 4: Oh, it's hard for me to keep doing the right thing,

1575
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 4: you know. Yeah. It's like I'm thinking, I bring my

1576
01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 4: water bottle every day and then I leave it here sometimes.

1577
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: Do you drink I don't know what is that? A

1578
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: lead of water every day? At least that's good? Okay,

1579
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: every day you do that?

1580
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 4: I mean, I drink this thing every day?

1581
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: Hold on, is that a goal? Like you're like, I'm

1582
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:12,679
Speaker 1: not going to bed until I drink.

1583
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 6: That or free wheeling, free styling it free styling of

1584
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 6: keeping that throat satiated.

1585
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: One of my news resolutions was to drink more water.

1586
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: So I actually have I actually have to like force

1587
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: like in a way force myself, Like I want to

1588
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 1: take down thirty two ounces of water every day, so

1589
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: I fill up the jug and we got to get

1590
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: through that. And so like eleven fifty nine some nights,

1591
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: I'm chugging away. Wow, wow, I'm kidding, But like I

1592
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: do have to be like, that's the goal. Let's get

1593
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:40,680
Speaker 1: that in me.

1594
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 5: Do you put it in your little app?

1595
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course I do. That's insane.

1596
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 4: You put drink water in your drink thirty two ounces

1597
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 4: of water?

1598
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 5: Why do you break it up throughout the day like.

1599
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: There's apps for that. Yeah, the guy Wendl does that

1600
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 1: from Survivor.

1601
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think you're reading.

1602
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: But uh no, I just put drink thirty two ounces

1603
01:14:58,120 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: of water and then I and it's a nice feel

1604
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: good check when I do it.

1605
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 4: Sounds cool when you do it. I love the sound

1606
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 4: of your to do app.

1607
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 5: Yeah it no, it changed?

1608
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,600
Speaker 1: What Yeah? I updated it and it went away. I

1609
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: don't I can't find it on the same Mariots. It

1610
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 1: was because you shook the phone and it would do it. Yeah,

1611
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 1: it's off. I can't turn it back on. But anyway,

1612
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: that's that's your answer for you. I'm answering for you.

1613
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 4: I didn't have a great answer, but you're right. I'm

1614
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:24,799
Speaker 4: not compulsive sipper.

1615
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: You like liquids.

1616
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:28,839
Speaker 4: I love liquids, so do I though.

1617
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 5: But water, Yeah, I like water.

1618
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 1: You know what I'm getting into the habit of liking water.

1619
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 5: It's like chapstick though you drink a lot of it,

1620
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 5: then you get and then I gotta go to the

1621
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 5: washer and more and more. Yeah, there are worse things

1622
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 5: you could be addicted to. That's sure.

1623
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:49,560
Speaker 1: You're right, JD. What is the most impressive thing you

1624
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: can do without consecutively messing up?

1625
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 5: I also had, uh, not a very great answer, tough

1626
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 5: question from mister It is a very rachel Is like

1627
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 5: I told her at this and she she gave me

1628
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 5: a very not not suitable for this show or work

1629
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 5: or anything else thing. But so I'm not going to

1630
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 5: say that. Well, maybe come to our live show, buy

1631
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,600
Speaker 5: a VIP ticket. I'll tell you what it is. But

1632
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 5: all I have really is joined a pickleball league. First

1633
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 5: game was on the first I get. Yeah, game was

1634
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 5: on Monday night, and I got four serves in four

1635
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 5: in a row, like acet them, you know what I mean?

1636
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 5: Like that's it.

1637
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: Aced them in the sense they didn't return them.

1638
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 5: They returned one, but I kept the serve myself for

1639
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 5: four points, which was pretty proud of.

1640
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 7: That was it.

1641
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 5: That was a milestone for me. So you know that's

1642
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 5: all I Got's.

1643
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: And pickleball you gotta that's an underhand serve.

1644
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:48,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't do it overhead. Yeah, and I bounce

1645
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 5: it like a little baby. I'm like happy Gilmore coming up,

1646
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 5: like like almost take a run at it.

1647
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 1: It's not pretty correct me if I'm wrong. I believe

1648
01:16:57,439 --> 01:16:58,559
Speaker 1: you're playing pickleball tonight.

1649
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 5: Yeah not, No, you're not. I'm not well.

1650
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:09,799
Speaker 1: Your wife yesterday caught me between shows. Oh she is, definitely,

1651
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: she's like she's like she's laid it out hard, like

1652
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: we got to get you out there Friday nights.

1653
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,759
Speaker 5: You made a mistake of telling her you played once.

1654
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: I'm coming, okay, I want to see. I want to

1655
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 1: see how good she is.

1656
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,640
Speaker 5: She's pretty. Yeah, she is good. It's gonna be so

1657
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 5: cold tonight though. Oh you play outdoors the thing tonight?

1658
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're not playing? Yeah, all right, So some

1659
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: serves there on the pickleball cool. I struggled with this

1660
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: one too. Why did not put this in? I went

1661
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 1: with and this is not a brag okay at all,

1662
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:45,719
Speaker 1: But like I got decent hand eye coordination. I can juggle,

1663
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: and I could juggle for a decent a pretty damn

1664
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: long time without screwing up. Just three balls, nothing, nothing

1665
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: crazy like your four or five balls. But like I

1666
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 1: mean if we had real juggle, uh, you know, juggling

1667
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: balls like I could just do it. It's just like,

1668
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: if you want, you can juggle. It's like just like

1669
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: it's the toss right, you're just throwing it right to

1670
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 1: the hand, So juggle.

1671
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:10,679
Speaker 5: Can I do what like balls? Like pins?

1672
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1673
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh knives? No, No, pins, I could probably do.

1674
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 1: That would take a second to get the timing of

1675
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:19,000
Speaker 1: the flip down.

1676
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 5: If you can do pins, you can do now.

1677
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: But I can do well. I shouldn't be.

1678
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 5: Doing That's what the real anybody do that, But just

1679
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 5: saying you can do knives pretty similar.

1680
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,879
Speaker 1: It's a good T shirt for juggle, right there, juggle.

1681
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: I'll go with that, all right, next one here we

1682
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: talked about it. The Spurs have sold sixty three thousand

1683
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 1: plus tickets for tonight's return to the Alamodome game against

1684
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: the Warriors, a figure that will set the NBA's single

1685
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: game attendance mark regular season. Because we were all of

1686
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 1: that at correct me if I'm wrong. We were all

1687
01:18:53,640 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: at Cowboys Stadium twenty ten All Star weekend when they

1688
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: had over one hundred thousand people packed into that thing

1689
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: for the All Star Game.

1690
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 4: Jerry's World Jerry's in Arlington.

1691
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 5: Was that the first event that was held there, Like

1692
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:12,839
Speaker 5: it had just opened, it was brand new.

1693
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: So I guess the question of this is besides a

1694
01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: sporting event because we were all there, which I had

1695
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: forgotten about on yesterday's podcast when I said my buddy

1696
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: Grish held it over me from my entire life that

1697
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: he was at WrestleMania three with one of the greatest,

1698
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: biggest crowds of all time. We beat him by like

1699
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: thirty thousand game. I mean, I can't believe I forgot

1700
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:34,479
Speaker 1: about it.

1701
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 4: But anyway, go to the Alamo.

1702
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, what's the largest crowd you've ever been a

1703
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: part of besides a sporting event, Trey.

1704
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 4: I don't know numbers wise, but feel wise.

1705
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 6: We went to that Kanye West free concert in New

1706
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 6: York City All Star Weekend fifteen and it was like

1707
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 6: three city blocks of people tacked in.

1708
01:19:57,600 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1709
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,759
Speaker 4: It was freezing cold, yeah, and it was awesome.

1710
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: It was awesome, though there was that one bottleneck. I

1711
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: was like, this is not fun. It was like, where

1712
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: are these people going? Yeah, we are going to get

1713
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:12,759
Speaker 1: pinned up against that glass?

1714
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 6: Like oh yeah, yeah that was that was a ton

1715
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 6: of people going. Yeah, everybody trying to get to the

1716
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 6: same place, nobody really being able to move.

1717
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: Brought out fetti wop. We never saw this. Did we

1718
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 1: see the stage ever?

1719
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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 6: I mean maybe we saw like a board like a

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01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 6: jumbo dr or something like that, but we didn't see much.

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01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 4: We heard it.

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01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: We heard it.

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01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a lot of people there.

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01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: Good, good answer here. What about you, JD.

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01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 5: I remember you guys being almost shell shock coming back

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01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:38,120
Speaker 5: from that.

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01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: Like I'm not like some people obviously terrified of large

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01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: crowds and stuff like that. I don't really care, but

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: like when you have that many people trying to like

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01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: go it was trying to like because they had so

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01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: many barriers up and stuff, and there's way too many

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01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: or way more people than they probably thought. We had

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01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: so many people trying to go one way and so

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01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: many people trying to go the other way through the

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01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: super narrow like a like a build and then all

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01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: these barriers and it was like I remember it, like

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01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: it took like twenty minutes to get through like a

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01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: ten foot area.

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01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it was outdoors too, it was outdoor freezing.

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01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 5: It was really super cool. Anyway, my answer, I looked

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01:21:16,920 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 5: it up. I thought it was it was a larger crowd.

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01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 5: But in nineteen ninety one I went to the Redding

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01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 5: Festival in England and it was sixty thousand, so it's big.

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01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 5: It's pretty big. But the interesting part of the story

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01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 5: is that I went on day two because my friend

1748
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 5: worked with the guys who were in Blur and they

1749
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 5: were the in the afternoon. It was just as their

1750
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 5: first hit had come out or whatever. But the day

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01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 5: before Nirvana played forty minutes set and I didn't get

1752
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 5: I wasn't there for that. I'd never heard of. This

1753
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 5: was in ninety one. But anyways, big crowd, great, it

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01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 5: was like August, late August in Britain, beautiful day, and

1755
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 5: but I had missed Nirvana, you know, And then I

1756
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,880
Speaker 5: wasn't really interested. Della Soul played, I saw them, I

1757
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 5: saw Blur, and then James was the headline headliner. I'll

1758
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:14,879
Speaker 5: laugh before James. I don't like James.

1759
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 4: That is on fire with passionate love.

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01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: Oh you're talking about these are?

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01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 5: These are very old iggy pop. The night before Sisters

1762
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 5: of Mercy.

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01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: So.

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't remember any of the I remember

1765
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 5: Dallas Soul because they were like hip hop within all

1766
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 5: these sort of rungey artists. But anyways, miss Nirvana, big crowd,

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01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 5: sixty thousand, that's the end of my answer.

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01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I went with a music festival too, because most

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01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: of the big crowds I've been a part of our

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01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: sporting events. Oceega probably, but it's not even that big.

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01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: But I was struggling to think, like, you didn't go

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01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: to Sarsfest. Then no, I didn't either, that would have

1773
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: been the answer. Yeah, how many did they have up

1774
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: in Downsview Park for so Fest way back in the

1775
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 1: day in Toronto?

1776
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 5: It was a huge.

1777
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't go, So I'll go with Oceaga, which

1778
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: is in Montreal. Great music festival by the way. Awesome location.

1779
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:12,840
Speaker 1: It's where they have the f one Race. It's on

1780
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: the island there.

1781
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 4: Nice.

1782
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really great spot, all right. Final one,

1783
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:19,959
Speaker 1: the Wizards are doing a Kyle Kuzma bobblehead night, complete

1784
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: with the oversize pepto pink sweater, the white tuk he

1785
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 1: has on, you know, the classic look like I think

1786
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: we have a photo of it here. Apparently it Oh

1787
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:32,759
Speaker 1: we don't. Okay, Well, it's got a it's got swingable arms,

1788
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: bobble arms bottle arms on this bubblehead. So the question

1789
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: is what iconic piece of clothing or accessory would you

1790
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:44,799
Speaker 1: like to see featured on your very own bobblehad. Alright,

1791
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 1: we're like a bottlehead. So so your bobblehead would be

1792
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: holding a one leader Uh yetti?

1793
01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I don't know.

1794
01:23:58,240 --> 01:23:59,719
Speaker 5: What is it like? Burnt orange?

1795
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 4: Yeah? Burnt orange?

1796
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: Do you like that color? That's nice business.

1797
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:04,560
Speaker 4: It's so similar to a basketball.

1798
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 6: I have it when I when I sit down and

1799
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 6: I have my Wilson Jet Evolution in the front seat

1800
01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 6: with me.

1801
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 4: They look almost identical.

1802
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 6: The bobblehead would have to have some kind of feature

1803
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 6: where it just falls out of my hand, you can

1804
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 6: pick it back up.

1805
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what bobbles.

1806
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what Yeah.

1807
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 1: All right, okay, good answer like that. That's what I'm

1808
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 1: looking for here. JD. What about yours? What's that distinct feature?

1809
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,440
Speaker 5: Basically wearing it? You know, I got my tuke my glasses,

1810
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:35,799
Speaker 5: something Canadian. But of course I would have to include

1811
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 5: my U my custom made air Force Onest Sugar Fever

1812
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 5: and Salad King logo.

1813
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: So you'd be wearing those.

1814
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 5: I would be wearing those on my bobblehead. I don't

1815
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:47,719
Speaker 5: know what else either that or like a house coat

1816
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,800
Speaker 5: and like a backbrush, you know, as if I was

1817
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 5: about to go have a bath.

1818
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: You know, Oh yeah, you know yours would be in

1819
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 1: a bath.

1820
01:24:54,720 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 5: Yeah I should, that'd be great. Yeah yeah, but my

1821
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,759
Speaker 5: feet sticking out with these that's cool.

1822
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: With your hat on, your glass still works.

1823
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:07,719
Speaker 5: This is what bobbles the feet.

1824
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: No, you're dong bobbles, come on to Okay, uh, I

1825
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: will go with. Remember we have that graphic or those

1826
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 1: photos made. Somebody did bubbleheads for all of us sometimes

1827
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: use them when we do our ad reas or whatever.

1828
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: But uh, I think I would go with. I just

1829
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 1: have to wear like a good Morning, Sweet World shirt.

1830
01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: And now who's who made those?

1831
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:28,440
Speaker 5: Think Stephan?

1832
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: That sounds right. I believe that is correct. He for

1833
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: the good Morning Sweet World took the globe and made

1834
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: it into like a sweet like a candy, right right?

1835
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: Shirts like that? But yeah, it would that would be featured.

1836
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: It would have to have good Morning, Sweet World somewhere

1837
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,519
Speaker 1: on the bibble head. Maybe mine's a talking bobblehead. I

1838
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: press a little button that says good more than sweete.

1839
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it cool.

1840
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: Let's build these, let's make them. We're doing everything now

1841
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 1: that we hit sixty thousand subs. We are naming arenas,

1842
01:25:56,080 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: we are making bobbleheads. People break waiting for sixty k.

1843
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: But we have a really big deal. Does Yeah, it's

1844
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: a big deal for one day until we start telling

1845
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 1: you we got to get to seventy. That's right, but

1846
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 1: thank you that you ig you. That's rapid fire. That's

1847
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Speaker 1: a drop podcast. Thanks to Mike Prada for swinging by

1848
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,679
Speaker 1: talking about his books spaced out again. There's a link

1849
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: in the description of this show. Click on that, grab

1850
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: that book. If you're an NBA sickle or even a casual,

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Speaker 1: you'll learn a lot. You'll become a much smarter basketball fan.

1852
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 5: So check it out.

1853
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: Yesterday we dropped that NBA Mid Season Tiers podcast. It's

1854
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: two hours long. We're talking about every single team, we're

1855
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: ranking them all. So again, if you haven't listened or

1856
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: watched that one yet, you got all weekend to enjoy that.

1857
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: It's pretty evergreen, at least for I would say a

1858
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:45,600
Speaker 1: week or so, no no dunks on Monday, no programming.

1859
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: Note it's always weird when I read that no no

1860
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 1: dunks no, no, no, no, no, yes me tumble one

1861
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:55,679
Speaker 1: Monday here, no no dunks. We're gonna take it off,

1862
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 1: enjoy the MLK Day Full of Basketball. It's on all

1863
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: during the day, so we've watched groups. We'll be back

1864
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: on Tuesday to recap a lot of those games, talk

1865
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: about the biggest NBA news. So back on Tuesday, January seventeenth.

1866
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 1: I think sounds crazy, right, It's like feeling like January

1867
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 1: is already over. But that's when we'll be back. But

1868
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 1: this is fun. On that Monday, there will be a

1869
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 1: brand new Is This Good? Podcast? What Big was from

1870
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: the Ring of NBA show. He's talking with Mattio and

1871
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: JD about a number of topics. So that's on Monday.

1872
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: That'll drop Is This Good? There's also a link to

1873
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: that to the YouTube in the YouTube description of this show.

1874
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 1: It's got its own podcast feed. So search out is

1875
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: This Good with Mattio and friends and that drops on Monday.

1876
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've had an itg in

1877
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:48,639
Speaker 1: our lives.

1878
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 4: That a little bit.

1879
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to hear Big wise. He's got takes.

1880
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's got opinions on everything.

1881
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:54,680
Speaker 5: I love it.

1882
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: So that should be fun. Guys, thanks again for joining us,

1883
01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: Thanks for the sixty thousand subs. We'll see you at

1884
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 1: seventy thousand. Until next time, Clipper bros. You heard it

1885
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 1: here first.

1886
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 4: Have a great time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

1887
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us, and remember Toscanini once recorded a

1888
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 6: piece sixty five times. You know what he said when

1889
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 6: he finished it could be better, think about it.

1890
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Speaker 1: Brace the weekend, people,