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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, Happy NBA trade deadline. Eve Eve, I've already

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Speaker 1: your bulls were busy earlier in the day. Make it

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Speaker 1: a couple of trade saying out, maybe we'ld get back

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Speaker 1: to being that team we were beginning of this season.

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Speaker 1: It was so cute. You make it all those moves

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Speaker 1: earlier today.

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Speaker 3: That was all about clearing cap space to go make

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Speaker 3: a move for somebody real.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not gonna

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Speaker 1: make us better. This is all just we're rearranging things. Ah. Now,

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, it's like when you when

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Speaker 1: you're sitting around and you go, you know, I really

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Speaker 1: think I need to change. We need to change. What

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Speaker 1: do we do? Let's redo the living room. Oh, we

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Speaker 1: don't have any money for it. Nah, outside of money.

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Speaker 1: Let's just move the furniture around. We'll move that chair

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Speaker 1: from upstairs into the furnit. We'll move that here. We'll

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Speaker 1: move the couch over to this wall right here. We'll

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Speaker 1: take that end table that your mom gave us that

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Speaker 1: we have in the office. We'll bring that down, put

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Speaker 1: it there, pull the whole new living room, and you think, hey,

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Speaker 1: all right, we accomplished something. We move stuff up and down,

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Speaker 1: we got up, we got our steps in, and hey

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Speaker 1: we rearrange our living room. Did you really make it better? Now?

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Speaker 1: But we just did something new, And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what you did. And I dig that to make it

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Speaker 1: look like, hey, you know, we did some things. We

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Speaker 1: did some things. That's all I did.

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Speaker 3: Look if you had me until you started going into

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Speaker 3: the furniture analogy, The idea of wandering around thinking about

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Speaker 3: changing and life and what all that. Yeah, no, I'm

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Speaker 3: with you. The deck chairs or or furnius.

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Speaker 1: Lussovich is the is the recliner because you know it's older, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much time we have left, but

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Speaker 1: in the office. Let's bring that down. Say, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: moving that down all right, that's great. That means you

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Speaker 1: got to move something else back up. Okay, we'll do

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Speaker 1: that as well. Just just think about it in terms

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Speaker 1: of stuff like that. You're like Husavich, is that is

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Speaker 1: that old comfy chair that still is reliable? You know,

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Speaker 1: the the uh the recline on it still works. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't stick, you know, as often as it used to

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Speaker 1: since you put some DW forty on it and everything

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Speaker 1: now we're good that day. Think about it like that, yeah.

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Speaker 3: And just go and change it all up for appearance's sake,

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Speaker 3: shine it up real pretty, put an extra code of

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Speaker 3: pain on it and try to pass it off as new.

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Speaker 3: And then someone tries to do the providence and realize

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Speaker 3: how old and decrepit.

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Speaker 1: It may be.

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Speaker 3: But about all of that, to say, for the Bulls,

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Speaker 3: it's the shuffle out some old contracts. See if you

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Speaker 3: can't catch lightning in the bottle with Ivy, but all

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Speaker 3: of it and Simon's but it's nothing right, It's it's

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Speaker 3: a whole lot of hey miss misdirection to cover up

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Speaker 3: the fact that you're still not very good. I would

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Speaker 3: expect at least one or two more moves before the

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Speaker 3: deadline hits on Thursday night, Kobe White being amongst those

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Speaker 3: moves that'll be made. But you're you're the bulls. You're

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Speaker 3: you're no good. And I tried to tell you that

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Speaker 3: at the beginning when you were Yeah, you caught out.

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Speaker 1: You got suckered by the fools. You got suckered by

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Speaker 1: that fresh coat of paint. Man you got you wiped

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Speaker 1: your finger across it and it came off. You're like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, you guys were playing at a great pace.

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Speaker 1: You were on thought, oh here comes the ball. No,

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Speaker 1: I do like what you did today. Look any anytime

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Speaker 1: you move on from a guy who's in his mid

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Speaker 1: thirties and you bring in a couple of younger guys,

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Speaker 1: and look, maybe Jade and Ivy isn't the guy that

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Speaker 1: you know, I like Coup and Simon's is pretty good

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to miss him more than people expect.

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Speaker 1: But let mean, look at you know, we're moving stuff around.

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Speaker 1: This is not something that's going to suddenly turn you

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Speaker 1: into a great Big Eastern Conference contender. But if it's

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Speaker 1: the if, it's going to pour ten for bigger things, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Like if this Cavaliers trade for James Harden is a

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Speaker 1: poor ten for bigger things, Okay, Outside of that, I

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Speaker 1: got a big question. I just have one question. I

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Speaker 1: is this is the big move the last couple hours

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Speaker 1: too big basketball stories out of la Lebron. James likely

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Speaker 1: to stay a Laker through the deadline for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season. But what we first talked about last

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Speaker 1: night when the story broke, it looked like the Clippers

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Speaker 1: were going to trade James Harden to the Calves in

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Speaker 1: exchange for a package that involved Darius Garland. Now what

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Speaker 1: it turns out to be it's official. Harden goes to

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Speaker 1: the Cavs for Garland and a second round pick. Now,

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Speaker 1: if I remember last night, wasn't it the Clippers that

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Speaker 1: were given the second round pick? Weren't they giving picks?

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Speaker 1: And it turns out the Cavaliers had to give pigs

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Speaker 1: to get James. Right, But you know, I look at

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Speaker 1: this trade and I go, Okay, score one for the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: even though it's really weird clipper ish timing, because hey,

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Speaker 1: we're trading Harden after we've come off the biggest hot

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Speaker 1: But overall that it's really weird timing that this is

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Speaker 1: when it happened. But they get a younger player and

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Speaker 1: so that's a good thing, right, that's a good thing

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Speaker 1: you can't win a championship building around a guy, a

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Speaker 1: It's pretty simple, Steve Palmer, Dude, you can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: build around guys like that. So they get, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten years back in Darius Garland. Again, he's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good player when he's healthy. But that's pretty good. But

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Speaker 1: the one question I have, right, and this is this

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Speaker 1: is a thing, Mike, because this is the one question

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Speaker 1: I have with with with James Harden. This is why

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Speaker 1: when I look at the Cavaliys, I'm not sweating them

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Speaker 1: anymore to win a championship. I'm not sweating that suddenly

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Speaker 1: they all of a sudden, all man, they figured something out.

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Speaker 1: I gotta worry about them in the East. One question,

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Speaker 1: and this is it because I'm willing to give James

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Speaker 1: Harden the benefit of the doubt that this trade wasn't

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Speaker 1: quite as antagonistic as other trades were. He never came

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Speaker 1: out and just started insulting the front office like he's

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Speaker 1: done previous. He's never said, hey, I need to be

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Speaker 1: able to go out after games more. You know, he

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Speaker 1: never did anything like that. Right, This seemed to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit easier of a trade where look, Harden

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Speaker 1: to say that, Hey, this was not the typical James Harden.

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Speaker 1: Things are untenable, I want out right, I'm willing to

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Speaker 1: say that. But here's my big question. You're the cavalier

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Speaker 1: trading for James Harden. When has anyone been a James

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Speaker 1: Harden away from winning anything? When when the optic and

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Speaker 1: the idea of James Harden, Wow, James Harden. So yeah, okay, great,

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Speaker 1: lots of teams that thought they were contenders went out

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Speaker 1: some had him for three years, some had him for

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Speaker 1: a year and a half, some had him for twenty

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Speaker 1: five games, And all of those teams found out the

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Speaker 1: same thing. We are not a James Harden away from

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Speaker 1: winning anything. He did not bring us any closer to

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Speaker 1: winning a championship when we got him, asked the Sixers,

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Speaker 1: as the Nets, ask the Clippers. Right, he had a

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Speaker 1: couple of big seasons with the Rockets would have looked

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Speaker 1: the end of big games in the playoffs James Harden

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Speaker 1: gets tired in the fourth quarter, he can't make his shots,

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Speaker 1: he loses the ball, and the Rockets wound up losing.

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Speaker 1: There is no team that has ever been James Harden

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Speaker 1: this trade and say, oh, man, James ought ye hard

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Speaker 1: and big star, big player, big guy. We talk about

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Speaker 1: him a lot, I feel like in a moneyball. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Dave Justice's big name, sell a lot of tickets, Pilly,

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Speaker 1: but his legs are gone. Oh, big name day ten

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Speaker 1: years ago, Dave Justice, big name. But I mean it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do the Cavs really think James Harden come

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Speaker 1: in now we're gonna win. This was the We had

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Speaker 1: We've been on a down tick from a season and

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Speaker 1: So let's go get James Harden. No team has ever

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the curiosity, right. We go back to the

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Speaker 3: Kevin Durant clown shoe years ago. What might have been

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Speaker 3: but for the extra size on his shoe that he wears.

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Speaker 3: But for James Harden, we've seen some colossal heat check moments,

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Speaker 3: and we've also seen him, you know, pulling up and

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Speaker 3: missing everything time and time again, not to mention being gassed,

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Speaker 3: being unavailable, you name it. We can play bingo and

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Speaker 3: just shout out random things from basketball lore. There was

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Speaker 3: even rumors of the fat suit. I mean, go back

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Speaker 3: all those years ago. But when you get down to this,

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Speaker 3: my only question was why. I get maybe you don't

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Speaker 3: love Garland, maybe there's some more there behind the scenes there.

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Speaker 3: You got a player option for next year for Harden,

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Speaker 3: which I'm sure he would love an extension and some

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Speaker 3: more guaranteed money in the process here, But are you

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Speaker 3: sure you're gonna get the best of him for the

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Speaker 3: end of the year, Because he's already still got a

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Speaker 3: year on the deal. It's like not expiring. It's not

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Speaker 3: you say, motivated James Harden, he's gonna carry us across

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Speaker 3: the finish line. And even if he looks at the

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Speaker 3: can run through them.

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Speaker 1: Go Hey man, We're all, all this is hypotheticals at

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Speaker 1: this point, trying to figure out a team that has

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Speaker 1: watched a guy either torch you and find his way

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Speaker 1: out of town. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's what they were ordered to do. Let me repeat that,

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Speaker 1: a half out of every ten people, just nine out

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Speaker 1: of ten? Okay, not everybody is Johnny Knoxville and you

427
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,800
Speaker 1: take the you take the makeup off and all they're

428
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: pulling some kind of bit while he's riding on his

429
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,680
Speaker 1: scooter dressed as an old man. Come out.

430
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Speaker 3: I go to a theme park, ten persons rolling around

431
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,880
Speaker 3: one of those need one in front line.

432
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Speaker 1: That's why I said grocery isle and not theme park

433
00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,159
Speaker 1: because theme park. Yeah, there's there's absolute into the theme parks.

434
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Speaker 1: But in a grocery I gotta thing. People Okay, they're go,

435
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're going to grocery store. It's not

436
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,199
Speaker 1: really helping them, you know, I'm gonna well, no, no,

437
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's not helping them in a way where

438
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm getting over on somebody by being in the cart.

439
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 1: You know, I mean it. He still got to reach

440
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 1: up on the shelves and get something.

441
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Speaker 3: You're still getting over.

442
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:57,400
Speaker 1: U, Mike harmon hashtag suspicious. So with James Harden off

443
00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:03,640
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, what about on James? Is he going to Cleveland? Yes? Yeah,

444
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 1: but next year? Right now, according to sources ESPN talking

445
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,680
Speaker 1: to league sources today, with the trade deadline approaching, Lebron

446
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 1: James is expected to finish out the season with the Lakers.

447
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: Rich Paul remember saying a couple months ago on the

448
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: podcast saying he's not gonna seek a trade would finish

449
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: out his season in Los Angeles. He said, where is

450
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 1: he gonna go now? There? I don't know if Rich

451
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,879
Speaker 1: Paul actually thought about it when he said it, but

452
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: that turns out to be the entire game with Lebron

453
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 1: James right now. We talked about last night how overall

454
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 1: he's not the straw that stirs the drink anymore. He's

455
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 1: not the same. He's not the play for twenty a

456
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 1: twenty year run of being the number one star in

457
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Speaker 1: the league. And that's really something Man like that is

458
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 1: something the biggest star on the planet for a lot

459
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: of times of that. But we've kind of moved past

460
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: him a little bit, and everything he does isn't news.

461
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 1: Every like he has on social media, every outfit he

462
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 1: wears in postgame press conferences isn't news like it once was.

463
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,680
Speaker 1: Right once the Lakers decided to shunt him aside and say, yeah,

464
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: we're Luca driven, Lebron's going and what about me, Hey,

465
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: I'm still here. I'm still here, then it's been easier

466
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 1: for us over the course of the past year, with

467
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 1: the anniversary of Luca Trade yesterday, to understand that, Okay,

468
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 1: we've kind of moved past him. He no longer is

469
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: the end all be all. He's no longer the alpha

470
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 1: and omega of the of the the National Basketball Association.

471
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: Right still a big name, still care about what he does,

472
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 1: but he's not that guy anymore. And that's kind of

473
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 1: the same situation he finds himself in right now. Because

474
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you this. I asked the one

475
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: question about James Harden. Has anybody ever been to James

476
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: Harden away from winning anything? And the answer is no.

477
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: I ask you this at the deadline was anybody really

478
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Speaker 1: interested in trading for Lebron James for the rest of

479
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Speaker 1: this season.

480
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Speaker 3: It's why have my NBA insider had on months ago?

481
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Speaker 1: You're stuck because this, you know, was this, Hey the

482
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: Lakers tried and they couldn't put a trade together. Was

483
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: this Lebron saying I don't want to go, or is

484
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 1: this Lebron and Clutch Sports getting out in front of

485
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: the fact that, well, Lebron's not gonna get traded. What

486
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: does that mean? Oh no, no, don't expecting he's finishing

487
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: out the season. To try to get ahead of the

488
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: story that, hey, maybe nobody wanted Lebron James. But we've

489
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: talked to Rick Buker about we're gonna have Rick Buker

490
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: on Tomorrow night, Thursday night, Big double hit with Rick Buker,

491
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: and he said, listen, you know some guys it's hard

492
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: to find a market for, and Lebron is hard to

493
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: find a market for. And while it would have taken

494
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: Lebron to do something unprecedented, which is ask for a

495
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: buyout or okay, a trade or try to facilitate something

496
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 1: whatever it was, Lebron had to do that if he

497
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: was gonna get moved because there's no team. Now, as

498
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: you're sitting at the deadline seeing what's happened to the

499
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: Lakers since Lebron returned, that's gonna say, yeah, sign me

500
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: up for that, because the Lakers started without Lebron, and

501
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: what do we think, Oh boy, they're gonna be in trouble.

502
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: What Oh wait a minute. Luca and Austin Reeves are

503
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: like MJ and Scottie Pippen. And I know that just

504
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,719
Speaker 1: burns you that Austin Reeves is Scottie Pippen. That's why

505
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: he keeps saying it. Twisting the dagger on you there, buddy.

506
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: But they started out fit that they beat good teams.

507
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: It was this seems how things were gonna go. Luca

508
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: looked very comfortable. You know, this is the kind of

509
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: the team he had in Dallas. He was the unquestioned

510
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: leader and everybody had their roles and and this was

511
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: how it was gonna work. And you could see, hey,

512
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: wait a minute, the Lakers really have hit on something.

513
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: And you know it's even quicker to cut jump to

514
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: the assumption and the and the solution that they're gonna

515
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: move on from Lebron James when they can now Lebron

516
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: comes back. And what's happened is Lebron James has come back.

517
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: They won some games, they've lost some games. Defensively, they're

518
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 1: not nearly as good. Austin Reeves gets hurt. And now

519
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: the Lakers went from second in the West to now

520
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 1: they're fighting to stay in the top six, and I

521
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: don't know what they can stay in the top six,

522
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: right Austin Reeves needs to come back and come back soon,

523
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: and hopefully they figure it out. But Lebron beginning of

524
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: the season was a lot more attractive than Lebron right now, right, Like,

525
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: like you can see where there's games off for Lebron,

526
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: where boy, he looks like the old Lebron in this

527
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: game twenty six and nine and seven, and then two

528
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: games go by and he's twelve and seven or sixteen

529
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: and seven, and you're like, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, wha.

530
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: Then I'll give you a big game again. So he's

531
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: not the same every night guy. And seeing that the

532
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: Lakers have not been better with him in the lineup,

533
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: who's gonna say, yeah, I want to upset the Apple

534
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: card for Lebron James of the deadline. Now, the good

535
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: news is I think in the off season, when there's

536
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: more time to take a breath and teams can figure

537
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: out how they want to configure their teams, and a

538
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: team like the Cavaliers say, okay, we traded for James Harden,

539
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: we can bring Lebron in. That will take pressure off

540
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: of Spider Mitchell. We'll talk to him more about this

541
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: move and he will be okay with it. It'll be

542
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: a farewell for Lebron. It's good business for us, like

543
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: Lebron is much more at this point. Better moved in

544
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: the off season when teams can plan around it. Now

545
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: it's suddenly, hey, are we really gonna get Lebron and

546
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: think we can win a title like that. I don't

547
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: see any team that could see that there was no

548
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: interest in Lebron at the deadline. I wouldn't be surprised

549
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: if you see a story tomorrow somewhere unnamed sources all

550
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: Lebron at twelve teams called for Lebron James, but Lebron

551
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: said no. I wonder if you see that, and I'm

552
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: not gonna believe a second of it, because I honestly

553
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: don't think any team felt like you're not a James

554
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: Harden A way. No team felt we're gonna bring Lebron

555
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 1: in and we can go in a championship this year.

556
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: And that's why, Hey, we're ahead of the you know,

557
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: they get out ahead of things two days before the

558
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: deadline with oh, he's not going anywhere, not going anywhere. Yeah,

559
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that there was a big market for

560
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: to begin with.

561
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Speaker 3: My man always ahead of the curve. Here on the show,

562
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 3: I'll give you the list of teams that inquired about

563
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 3: Lebron James services, the Wizards, the Pelicans, the Jazz, the

564
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 3: Sacramento Kings Street, George, the bottom of the standings in

565
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 3: each conference. Hey, we can get a jolt for the

566
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 3: final two months of our home games. Maybe we can

567
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 3: get a bobblehead put into production real fast, or give

568
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 3: people a certificate good for one Lebron James insert uniform here, bobblehead.

569
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 3: All of it comes down to no trade clause. He

570
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 3: opted in for the fifty three million dollars. He screwed

571
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 3: himself and any contender. You're not going down that highway.

572
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 3: You got Austin Reeves back tonight and you had a

573
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 3: laugher against Brooklyn on the road. Great Brooklyn's third a

574
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 3: thirteen win Team LO and behold, Lebron has a great

575
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 3: stat line. You get twenty one minutes out of Reeves

576
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: fifteen points, eight to ten from the fall line where

577
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,239
Speaker 3: he's lived when he's been healthy, three of nine from

578
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 3: the field. But he's back. Okay, proof of concept. And

579
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 3: now you ramp him up and try to get him

580
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 3: back to his minutes, but wave the no trade clause.

581
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you would have been in the

582
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 3: Lakers office saying, I dare you to wave that no

583
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: trade clause because now you're talking what half of the

584
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: fifty three million dollars. So okay, maybe a team decides

585
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 3: that it's worth the extra juice down the stretch, but

586
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 3: it's not going to be a contender because they would

587
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 3: still have to give up multiple parts of a team

588
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: that's contending, So Lebron would have to go to an

589
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 3: ulcer ran. Well, what's the point of that? Why not

590
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 3: continue to be in LA even if it's not the

591
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 3: greatest optic game to game and effort game to game

592
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 3: and the poison pens are out more often than they've

593
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 3: ever been because you're not Superman anymore. You're a guy

594
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 3: that has his faults and even if you did. In

595
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 3: the past, everybody overlooked him because they bowed to the

596
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 3: king self. Proclaim that is they don't anymore. They don't, well,

597
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 3: I mean certain folks in our LA media still do.

598
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: I'll let you all insert those names as you need to,

599
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 3: and certainly on the national stage, plenty of folks still

600
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: genuflecting at the whisper of his name. But it's the

601
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: idea of moving forward for the second half of the season.

602
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 3: And we talked about this a long time ago. There

603
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: was gonna be nobody rising up saying, you know what,

604
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: we'll get the best out of him. He'll give us

605
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 3: the best ninety four feet every possession.

606
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: No, nobody's buying.

607
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: He's gonna commit to blaying defense, except sporadically where he

608
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: can get one thing in the highlight so he can

609
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: still run a guy down once a once in a

610
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 3: blue moon. Otherwise he's starting to hit that I'm covering

611
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: around the half court line kind of phase of his career. So, hey,

612
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 3: that guy's not even back, he's just out of the frame.

613
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 3: Zoom out a little bit more so he walks back

614
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 3: into the frame.

615
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: Just to be fair. Ye, no, you're pinching the frame.

616
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: Just like to pinch the frame in so you can

617
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: see there he is there here on the side, right there,

618
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: there is that's the right thing.

619
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 3: But in the off season, there's no contract, there's no

620
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars. Oh it's a lot, that's I mean,

621
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: it's a lot easier figure out where he wants to

622
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: play because there's gonna be a couple of teams that

623
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: might kick the tire. By then, James Harden will have

624
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 3: opted out, so that money will be available.

625
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: That's why you know you have to get in Lebron's

626
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: ear and say, Okay, this is where you say, I'll

627
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: play for free. I don't need money. It's my last year.

628
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm walking away because he wants to be celebrated, and

629
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna find the right place since it's gonna be

630
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: Hey would Cleveland, And I mean it, he's gonna finish

631
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: in Cleveland next year because Cleveland will take him for

632
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: a year. They're not gonna have to pay him any might. Now,

633
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: if Lebron holds us, I'm slow going to get forty

634
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: million dollars. Yeah, you're gonna be unsigned and you're gonna

635
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: have to retire. So as long as someone gets in

636
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: his ear and tells them that, dude, just do the

637
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: right and say I don't need money, I just want

638
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Speaker 1: the biggest story of the night in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: there is one star and I put the star in parentheses,

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Speaker 1: who absolutely deserves an apology from everyone who's criticized him

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Speaker 1: over the course of the past few days. Who is

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Speaker 1: Bowl Games is our I don't know what to say

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Speaker 1: the Bowl Game, but it's games. I can't say is

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Speaker 1: and you know, this is the this is the curtain. Now.

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Speaker 1: It's the curse of being an English major and being

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Speaker 1: very particular about punctuation and syntax and grammar.

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Speaker 3: You know when you say Halls of Fame and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Pro Bowl Game atm Machine, Yeah, the Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl Games is are over. It finally it ended. And

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Speaker 1: I want to say this. There is one player who

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Speaker 1: deserves an apology. Well, actually maybe one to maybe three players,

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Speaker 1: but one more than anybody.

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Speaker 3: It's just Sam Donald. Start there.

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Speaker 1: You still you have not apologized. Sam's still on the

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Speaker 1: rundown and it's not been crossed off at all. Sam

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Speaker 1: Darnald watched that load of crap tonight and just said,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I'm glad I didn't have to go to

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Speaker 1: hang out in that thing. Oh my goodness. This Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl games, you watched it. It's insane. It's flag football.

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Speaker 1: They're not even taking it seriously. Micah Parsons is tooling

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Speaker 1: around on the field on some sort of souped up wagon.

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00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: They're running some kind of crazy uh tush push where

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00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't didn't really count. This is Dak Prescott's playing

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00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: quarterback wearing a bucket hat. Okay, for everybody who wanted

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Speaker 1: to scream that Shadeur Sanders getting named of the Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl was the end of the probo it's the worst

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Speaker 1: thing ever. Dude. You gotta feel like an idiot after

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Speaker 1: watching what we saw tonight. You really have a problem

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Speaker 1: with Shador Sanders playing in this. You could have gone,

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00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: I would have been okay if Justin Fields had played

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00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: in this and they called him and he said, yeah, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was their first Pro Bowl. That's the guy.

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for, Broy. Joe Flacco jumped into the

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Speaker 1: league when at least the Pro Bowl was being played.

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Speaker 1: It was a game, It meant something. You still see

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Speaker 1: the video the big Sean Taylor hit back. I want

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00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: to say it might have been Flacco's rookie year. Now

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Speaker 1: first fled the first Pro Bowl. Joe Flacco gets to

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Speaker 1: He's got Shador Sanders there with him. He's throwing. No

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00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: one's wearing any kind of gear whatsoever. No one's got

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Speaker 1: a helmet. This is my first proble. The Pro Bowl

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00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: is just an event. It's just a thing. It never

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00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: mattered it. Don't don't give me this all. Oh so

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00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: it's mattered so much. Yeah, okay, it mattered to players

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Speaker 1: who went because they had clauses in their contract for

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Speaker 1: being a Pro Bowl or whatever. It was fun to

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Speaker 1: go to Hawaii with your family for a week. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: did the Pro Bowl mean a little bit more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when there was a game shore people watched, Okay, was

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Speaker 1: still kind of fun. This this is just hey, we're

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Speaker 1: throwing stuff out there because we have three hours to

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Speaker 1: fill on television. You're really gonna go nuts that Shador

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Speaker 1: Sanders was named. I feel bad for Shador Sanders. This

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Speaker 1: is his first Pro Bowl and this is what I do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh okay, this is kind of just like okay, we're

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00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: just winging it around. Yeah, oh okay. I mean you

743
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Speaker 1: gotta feel pretty stupid if you went nuts over this

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00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: is the worst thing ever Shador Sanders being named to

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Speaker 1: this is the death of the Pro Bowl. Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: has been killing itself quite nicely for a long time. Shador.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely fine. Shador Sanders played in this. It's fine

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Speaker 1: who ever played in this plate in this. Because you're watching,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at Aligneman being the big you know, being

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Speaker 1: a big star. Come on, man, this is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Shador Sanders going. Everybody should apologize.

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Speaker 3: To Garrett Bowls shining in the Super Bulls.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's as we talked about when it first was annount.

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00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 3: It's a TV show. It's a spectacle. We've got Michah

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Speaker 3: Parsons trying to sneak in a playwall on his hyped

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Speaker 3: up you know, a little scooter thing that I was

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Speaker 3: waiting for him to, you know, have it press a

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Speaker 3: button and it looked like the prowler, the tumbler from

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Speaker 3: the Batman movie with bail and everything. But it's it's

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Speaker 3: just the idea of twenty years ago. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: a game. Yeah, maybe you watched it. Maybe guys got hit,

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Speaker 3: Maybe a couple of guys were jacked up and they

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Speaker 3: wanted to you know, even some scores. Not anymore. Everybody's friendly.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's just trying to get through. Put on a little move,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of show. I was waiting for them

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00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: to pull out the trampolines, like the events that started

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Speaker 3: things right, the best catch when I'm on Rossain Brown

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00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 3: and all those guys were hopping around like they were

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00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 3: part of the circus. I was waiting for that to

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00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 3: show up. Hey, here's an extra degree of difficulty on

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00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 3: that play across the middle. No, it didn't show. But

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Speaker 3: for anybody getting mad about it, unless we're still to

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00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 3: some degree, even to one percent, counting this as something

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00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 3: towards enshrinement, which we don't do right anyway in the

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Speaker 3: Football Hall of Fame, then it really doesn't matter. It'd

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Speaker 3: be entertained. If you don't like it, don't watch.

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00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody should watch. Everybody who I want to

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Speaker 1: go through social media everybody who said this is the

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Speaker 1: end of the decline and fall of Western civilization. Here

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Speaker 1: is Shadora Santa Probo. You watch night, you tell me

782
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: it was a big deal. This wasn't some just this

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00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: was Battle the network stars. I gotta explain you say

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00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: that like it's a bad thing. I gotta explain that

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00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: to millennials. What battle the networks? Let's go, This is

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00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: watching Scott Bao play quarterback. You know, against the eight

787
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: is enough crew? And I mean all the campa is enough? Yeah,

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00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean really, you know Willie Ames, you know, getting

789
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: after it. That's what this is. That's what this was.

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00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: And I knew, go, I'm like, why are people choosing

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00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: this to they just just admit for whatever you don't

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00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: like Shador Sanders and it's and it's irrational. It's absolutely

793
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: irrational because to sitting here and say, oh, this is

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00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: the end of the Pro Bowl, Come on, man, just

795
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean you saw what this is tonight? This we

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00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: laugh and move on.

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00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: Come on.

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00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 3: We're also in a business where you got a lot

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00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: of folks that are just going to try to screen

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Speaker 3: themselves horse and turn blue to see if against an

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00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 3: extra click. None of those folks watched a single second

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00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 3: of this game or anything around it.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome Jason Smith,

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