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Speaker 1: at about twenty minutes all the latest news inside the NBA,

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Speaker 1: And let me just say this right now, just under

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Speaker 1: five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and the

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Speaker 1: Knicks are losing tonight right now to Naji Marshall and

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Speaker 1: Di'angelo Russell. They've combined for forty five off the bench.

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Speaker 1: The Mavericks lead the Knicks one oh six, one oh three.

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Speaker 1: Of course, no Ad, no Cooper flag tonight he's out

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Speaker 1: with an illness. I mean, I know it's November, but

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Speaker 1: I say this, Mike. If the Knicks who are who

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Speaker 1: can't haven't won on the road yet. If you can't

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Speaker 1: beat the Mavericks on the road when they're playing without

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Speaker 1: their two best players, what road game are you gonna win? Like?

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Speaker 2: Really, what road game are you gonna Now.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna go and uh, they're gonna go winless on

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Speaker 1: the road, But really, I think about them as contenders

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Speaker 1: and go, what road game are you gonna win? Brunson

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Speaker 1: came back tonight? Yes, no o ganna nob he doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It should be a we should be a walkthrough game.

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Speaker 1: And instead no, no, here they are right now. They

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Speaker 1: gotta pull out a victory against Dallas. Uh to avoid

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Speaker 1: that embarrassment because man, I'll tell you what. They start

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Speaker 1: zero to five away from home, and you can't beat

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks, who have said the last couple of days, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're entertaining offers for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like what are you gonna do? Like, what are

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Speaker 2: you really gonna win?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know I like to say that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: if the Knicks think it means we're getting honest to

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Speaker 1: the deadline. But I didn't expect to be dealing with

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Speaker 1: this part this early in the season.

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Speaker 2: Is still November.

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Speaker 1: Well, what he got sixty two points off the bench

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Speaker 1: for Mavericks today, Come on from pillar to post.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think some of.

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Speaker 1: It was they were inspired by all of the rhetoric

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Speaker 1: going around in Dallas, to your point anybody's available for trade,

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Speaker 1: some of the stuff from last week of hey, we're

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Speaker 1: not doing anything with Anthony Davis until everybody signs off

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Speaker 1: on every possible medical Why because we want to trade him, right,

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Speaker 1: all of those things.

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Speaker 2: But certainly in the.

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Speaker 1: Last twenty four to forty eight hours, all of the

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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison versus Mark Cubans slap fighting, and in every

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Speaker 1: one of those quotes, the anonymous quotes going through the newspapers,

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Speaker 1: is how terrible all these guys that are on.

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Speaker 2: The roster are so?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Knicks are coming to town, the big bad bullies,

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Speaker 1: and all the hype before the season. If for one

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Speaker 1: decent basketball, I mean somewhere between there, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's tie game inside of four minutes. But look, everybody

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Speaker 1: can rally up. It's like I can tell my kids

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Speaker 1: all the time. You may not want to do this assignment.

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Speaker 1: You may be dreading this assignment, this group project.

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Speaker 2: Whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: Eventually it'll be over, so shut up and get over

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Speaker 1: with it. The same thing with the Mavericks. Eventually, you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you. I mean, I mean, I said,

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Speaker 2: if they can't win this, like, when are they gonna win? Like?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: What what happened? We have to get Yannis tomorrow. We

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Speaker 1: But hey, hey, you still have another thirty what thirty

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Speaker 2: Thirty two games at home? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Man, see I get just put you in a better

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Speaker 1: frame of mind right there, another thirty.

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Speaker 2: Six on the road. It's got more games on the road,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more in this game coming up with Rick

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Speaker 1: Buker in a few minutes, he'll.

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Speaker 2: Make fun of you twenty minutes. The Yeah, that'll have

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Speaker 2: tik tik tik tik tik TikTok cleeries. But uh, we

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Speaker 1: Lebron made his Lakers season debut last night. Now is

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Speaker 1: good because part of my birthday I got to watch.

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Speaker 1: I always say I do. Uh, this was better than

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Speaker 1: than any scenario I expected what Lebron James' return to

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Speaker 1: It was better than I absolutely ever expected from Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: Not that I thought he was gonna come in. It

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Speaker 1: me to shoot. I know about you, guys, I haven't

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Speaker 1: I expected that, but for Lebron to come in and

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Speaker 1: Like I did not expect him to come in and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I can't come in and just be who I was,

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Speaker 1: we need way less Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: If I come out and I play my normal game,

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Speaker 1: which is taking a majority of the shots, right, maybe

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Speaker 1: I can be that playmaking guy. Remember he moved to

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Speaker 1: And I still maintain that. You know, when he's really

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Speaker 1: Is you see him now playing He's not a guy

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Speaker 1: So but for now, being the playmaking Lebron right and

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Speaker 2: I come in.

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking the shots like I normally do. I'm

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Speaker 1: okay being the facilitator. I'll take some shots here and

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Speaker 1: guess what things go okay. He'll get a lot of

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Speaker 1: great things said and written about him. Hey, Lebron, look

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Speaker 1: at the pla Lebron. Look at the the sacrifices Lebron

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Speaker 1: is making for a championship. He's a coach on the floor,

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Speaker 1: Like all of this stuff is great, and I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: You know, look, Lebron is very calculated and he knows

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Speaker 2: Now. The biggest question is how long can he do this?

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Speaker 1: Can he really be the facilitator and the coach on

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Speaker 1: to the end? Can he do that at the end

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Speaker 1: if Lebron can, if Lebron can be the facilitator and

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: You saw what they were missing against the Thunder. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to be pretty good and really good

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Speaker 1: even even better than the Pistons who want eleven in

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Speaker 2: Uh you know that?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you need something to get up to that level

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Speaker 1: And after the game they're joking around with each other,

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Speaker 1: and and and DeAndre Ayton has become, you know, the

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Speaker 1: be a big time title threat. But that's the question.

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Speaker 1: Can Lebron be this guy all the way through and

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Speaker 1: through the season and stay this guy? Or is eventually, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I I can't look at me scoring twelve points a

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Speaker 2: Can't do that. I gotta I gotta score more than that.

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Speaker 2: I can't. I can't sit here and have my average

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Speaker 2: be twelve nine and eight. No, no, no, that's not me.

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Speaker 1: Can Lebron do this all the way through this That's

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Speaker 1: the biggest question for the Lakers right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean a couple of things out of that game

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Speaker 1: that much worse. Fortunately you play Utah. Yes, they are

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Speaker 1: technically in the playoffs, So you can sell that all

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Speaker 1: you want. The back end of the Western Conference. What's

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Speaker 1: that word you like to use so frequently? They stink,

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Speaker 1: all right, So they're just ahead of a bunch of

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Speaker 1: also trash components. But when we look at what Lebron

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Speaker 1: got to get his cardio. Like he joked about it

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Speaker 1: on Monday. You know, I've got the lungs of a baby.

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Speaker 1: You know, I need to get back to the lungs

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 2: Jalen br R now missing a free throw.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, goodness gracious.

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Speaker 7: So at three point eight, even if he makes this one,

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Speaker 7: there's enough time for Dallas to get up yet another

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Speaker 7: three point shot and potentially send this to overtime where

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Speaker 7: where we could watch more miss free throws.

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Speaker 4: So let's let's all root to that.

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Speaker 1: The the Off the Ball podcast, The Off and Yeah

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Speaker 1: Podcast by Rick Buker.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but the other the other part of it is like,

447
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Speaker 7: and this is where I think that they.

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Speaker 4: You know, as crazy as this sounds, like, Nico.

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Speaker 7: Harrison did build a roster that went.

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Speaker 4: To the finals. It did have Luka Doncics, Lukadantis was

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Speaker 4: huge in that. But they were a team that was

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Speaker 4: treading water until oh my.

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Speaker 2: God, offensive foul the nick basketball.

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Speaker 4: Who just the way they drew it, just the way

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Speaker 4: they drew it up. How do you Yeah, that's a

456
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Speaker 4: tough call.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you're not making free throws, you're drawing an

458
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Speaker 1: offensive foul. The Knicks are going to get the ball

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Speaker 1: back with seven tenths of a second left. Dallas was

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Speaker 1: going in for a game time layup instead the Knicks

461
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Speaker 1: all they have to do is all they have to

462
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Speaker 1: do is inbound the ball and win this game.

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Speaker 2: And now, I mean easier said than dolls.

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Speaker 4: You say, fell them again.

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Speaker 7: See you can get a couple more mysterets, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I mean it can't.

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Speaker 7: It's not gonna change the game.

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Speaker 1: But you know, well, look I was gonna say this Rick,

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Speaker 1: you know, from from the Mavericks to the Knicks, Like

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Speaker 1: if the Knicks couldn't beat the Mavericks on the road tonight,

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks no a d no Cooper flag sitting out

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Speaker 1: with an illness, like I know it's only November.

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Speaker 2: But man, what games are you're gonna win? You know? Like,

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Speaker 2: what games you're gonna win?

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Speaker 1: If you can't beat this Dallas team that's basically quit

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Speaker 1: on the road, Like what what what games are you

477
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Speaker 1: gonna win? I don't I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do on the road. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how many games you're gonna win. If that's the case,

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Speaker 1: I will.

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Speaker 7: Say this, it's a weird it's a weird vibe around

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Speaker 7: the Knicks. I don't know whether it's the like it's

483
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Speaker 7: the kids hangover because there was just so many guys

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Speaker 7: Uh on the team that were devoted to him and

485
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Speaker 7: or or it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but the Knicks do feel.

487
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Speaker 7: Like they're not having a lot of fun playing basketball together.

488
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Speaker 7: Whatever it might be, they don't seem to have the

489
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Speaker 7: same camaraderie that they had a year ago. And and

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure what's behind that. And you, I know

491
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Speaker 7: you you follow them closely, I assume you've seen the

492
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Speaker 7: same thing. They're just there, isn't it don't seem to

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Speaker 7: be really enthusiastic about what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: No, it's like it's like every win is a relief

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Speaker 1: instead of instead of, Hey, we're having fun and we're

496
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Speaker 1: playing together, like everything's a lot of work. I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's it's a lot of work for the first

498
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Speaker 1: you know, three and a half weeks of the season.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be this much work so far for the next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 7: You know, as far as the MAVs are concerned, Uh.

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Speaker 4: It's the problem.

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Speaker 7: I think the biggest problem is you moved me Harrison,

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Speaker 7: and now you have Michael Finley and matt Riccardy. First

505
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Speaker 7: of all, you couldn't decide on picking one like pick one.

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Speaker 7: Having two guys share.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't do.

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Speaker 7: Anything for me, and it doesn't show that ownership has

509
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Speaker 7: any more of a clue now than they did when

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Speaker 7: they signed off on moving Luca under cover of darkness.

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Speaker 4: But but you have somebody who's two.

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Speaker 7: Guys who've never done the job, and you're.

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Speaker 4: Going to have to be really.

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Speaker 7: Surgical in what you're doing. And it depends on relationships

515
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Speaker 7: built and.

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Speaker 4: Understanding of the league and knowing how to negotiate a deal.

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Speaker 4: I've had the.

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Speaker 7: Fortune of being in a GM's office while he was when.

519
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Speaker 4: He got a call for a trade offer.

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Speaker 7: And and the way the language is it's really interesting.

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Speaker 4: It's it's all in.

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Speaker 7: Code, and you kind of figure out what what do

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Speaker 7: you say back that.

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Speaker 4: Is going to move this in the.

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Speaker 7: Direction you want it to, And you get a feeling

526
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Speaker 7: for whether the other side is willing to do it

527
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Speaker 7: or how devoted they are to making it happen. It's

528
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Speaker 7: really it's a fascinating subculture in the NBA. And if

529
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Speaker 7: you've never done it, there's going to be a learning curve.

530
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Speaker 7: And so you have the Dallas Mavericks a Cooper flag

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Speaker 7: trying to rebuild this thing on the fly, and you

532
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Speaker 7: have two guys sharing the helm and I don't know

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Speaker 7: if you guys have ever I mean, my wife tries,

534
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Speaker 7: but she just does it verbally in terms of tries

535
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Speaker 7: to drive the car at the same time I do.

536
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Speaker 7: But but if you have two people trying to drive,

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Speaker 7: you know, with their hand on the steering wheel, it's.

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Speaker 4: Really not going to go very well.

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Speaker 7: And you got and you got two guys who don't

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Speaker 7: have a driver's license.

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Speaker 4: So I just don't like where Dallas is right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A couple of things.

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Speaker 1: First, you start the phraseology with blue Horseshoe loves and

544
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Speaker 1: then get some Wall Street in while we're at it.

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Speaker 1: The other is Michael Finley earned that job by having

546
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Speaker 1: to take the beer. He was the fall guy that

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Speaker 1: got ripped. How the hell does he not have a

548
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Speaker 1: higher title?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well you know what.

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Speaker 7: Here's the thing too, And Brendan Haywood just said this

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Speaker 7: on on my Finding the Scenes podcast, and he talked

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Speaker 7: about how he did a job. He did a game

553
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Speaker 7: down there about a year before the trade, and he

554
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Speaker 7: was shocked there was no one in the organization that

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Speaker 7: really had anything good to say about Luca. They were

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Speaker 7: all kind of frustrated with his diva behavior and his

557
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Speaker 7: just didn't listen, and there was a lot of frustration

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Speaker 7: within that organization. And I know people out there will say, well, Nico,

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Speaker 7: you know, categorically got rid of all the people that

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Speaker 7: Luca liked, and I think that's based on what Brennan

561
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Speaker 7: told me. That's because no one was holding Luca accountable

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Speaker 7: and so Nico wanted to find.

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Speaker 4: People that were that were going to do that.

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Speaker 7: And I think I said it to you guys at

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Speaker 7: the time. I always thought that, you know what, Luca

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Speaker 7: hasn't been dedicated defensively, hasn't been dedicated conditioning wise, but

567
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Speaker 7: getting traded and the way he reacted emotionally, that might

568
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Speaker 7: just be the kick in the ass that he needs

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Speaker 7: and he's going to end up being the player that

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Speaker 7: everyone had hoped he would be in Dallas for the Lakers.

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Speaker 7: And not to say that he didn't have great so

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Speaker 7: obviously had great success in Dallas, but there was a

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Speaker 7: concern that with all the conditioning and the injuries and

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Speaker 7: all of that when you're about to load up three

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Speaker 7: hundred and forty five million dollars on him like that,

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Speaker 7: that was going to be.

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Speaker 4: A bad bet. And I can't I can't argue with

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Speaker 4: the concern about that.

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Speaker 7: But now you're in a place where you're trying to

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Speaker 7: salve it and move people out so you can just

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Speaker 7: kind of erase what happened, and doing that just to

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Speaker 7: get people out of the building is going to lengthen

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Speaker 7: the process of recovering from it.

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Speaker 1: NBA insider Rick Buker, our guest Jason Smith Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the Lakers, and they had a bit of

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Speaker 1: a minor story last night, the return of Lebron James

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Speaker 1: their fourth option.

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Speaker 2: Now, look, I've talked about this. I'm gonna give you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you a statement, and you tell me

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Speaker 2: you agreed disagree.

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Speaker 1: If Lebron can be the playmaking coach on the floor,

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Speaker 1: Lebron that we saw last night one hundred and forty points,

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Speaker 1: I can. I can be the facilitator boy. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: title odds just took a huge upward tick. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: really be this guy all season long. Is he really

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Speaker 1: gonna be okay, averaging eleven points a game. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that leban can do this all season. Lie.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, there's one more caveat and that they play

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Speaker 7: the Utah Jazz or teams that are defensively like them

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Speaker 7: for a mature of the rest of.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, they're a playoff team though. Rick, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Think the bigger issue actually is and I just you know,

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Speaker 4: in the face of it, Lebron.

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Speaker 7: That's as old as I've ever seen him look, and

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Speaker 7: it's understandable that he hasn't played and he's jumping into

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Speaker 7: you know, guys that have been playing for a month now,

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Speaker 7: and at NBA speed.

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Speaker 4: There's always going to be that pickup.

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Speaker 7: But I mean, guys were just flying by him in

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Speaker 7: transition in half court and it's not the offensive aspect

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Speaker 7: of it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, to answer your question, if he were willing to

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Speaker 4: play that role, then I.

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Speaker 7: Think that's the only way that it has a chance

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Speaker 7: of working. But there's a flip side to this is

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Speaker 7: that even in that role, you're taking the playmaking responsibility

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Speaker 7: away from Austin. Reeves had these averaging seven and a

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Speaker 7: half assists on the season. He had one assist last night,

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Speaker 7: he wasn't in the same playmaking role. Marcus Smart played

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Speaker 7: a season low seventeen minutes.

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Speaker 4: You're going to have to squeeze some.

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Speaker 7: Other people in order to get Lebron the minutes and

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Speaker 7: the touches that he had last night as modest as

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Speaker 7: they might have been, and you're going to take him

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Speaker 7: away from Offensively, Lebron's much better than Marcus, but I

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Speaker 7: would make the case that Marcus is better a defender

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Speaker 7: than Lebron. And when you're looking at the pieces that

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Speaker 7: you need around Luca and Austin, what is more important

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Speaker 7: equality defense or another playmaker. So that's where it gets

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Speaker 7: really interesting, because even just making the room for Lebron

632
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Speaker 7: that they made last night means less for Marcus Smart

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Speaker 7: and less for Austin Reeves. And at this stage, I

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Speaker 7: don't know that that's necessarily a trade you want to make.

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Speaker 4: So this is without question going to be very interesting.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're watching on winning streak with the craziness

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Speaker 1: of the Detroit Pistons. Jason can actually go back home

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Speaker 1: because he loves them so much. Are they going to

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Speaker 1: be at the top when we're talking about this team

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Speaker 1: in April?

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Speaker 7: I don't see any reason why they can't keep this

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Speaker 7: up for the rest of the year. They have depth,

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Speaker 7: they have a great leadership leader in Kate Cunningham. They

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Speaker 7: have an experienced coach who they clearly buy into his

645
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Speaker 7: program in JB.

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Speaker 4: Bickerstaff.

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Speaker 7: So I have no reason to think that they can

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Speaker 7: they can't keep this up. Now, the question is going

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Speaker 7: to be like what does the postseason look like? And

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Speaker 7: it's really going to come down to matches. But I

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Speaker 7: will say this too, I feel like the Eastern.

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Speaker 4: Conference is as wide open as it's ever been.

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Speaker 7: Boston obviously not going to be a factor this year.

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Speaker 7: I'm not buying Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Cleveland, not necessarily, I don't.

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Speaker 7: I don't see them being as any different than than

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Speaker 7: the Detroit Pistons. So what I will be interested in

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Speaker 7: seeing is, yes, they can they can have a great

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Speaker 5: Can they can they.

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Speaker 4: Get to the conference finals? That that I don't know

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Speaker 4: that it might be a little early for that.

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Speaker 7: If they went around and they have a tough second round,

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Speaker 7: I would say that that would that would make for

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Speaker 4: But based on what I see that they.

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Speaker 7: Have that that would meet the quota for what they're

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Speaker 7: capable of.

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Speaker 2: He's on Twitter, at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: Rick has always appreciated I'll enjoy your Nick Free Throws

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Speaker 1: podcast when you put it up tomorrow, and uh, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week.

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Speaker 7: Lambdry Shammio, see you, buddy.

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Speaker 2: The best, Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: So the next hang on to win it after miss

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Speaker 1: free throw after miss free throw after miss free throw.

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Speaker 2: Martin Weiss has the latest on this game and more

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Speaker 2: with what frenda.

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Speaker 8: Landry Shaman from three to twenty twenty five Exactly how

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Speaker 8: the Knicks drew it up right, sure one d percent,

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Speaker 8: Absolutely no Cooper flagging. This one for the Mavericks is

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Speaker 8: his first game missed in his young NBA career, one

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Speaker 8: thirteen to one eleven. The final score, as you heard

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Speaker 8: just outlined by Jason and Mike and Rick Buker offensive

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Speaker 8: foul at the end of it really took the drama out.

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Speaker 8: But Jalen Upson played well twenty eight points twenty three shots,

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Speaker 8: and Dangelo Russell had twenty three as well else were

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Speaker 8: in the NBA.

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Speaker 9: The Pacers got their second win of.

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Speaker 8: The year, beating the Hornets one twenty seven to one eighteen,

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Speaker 8: ben A Mattherin twenty four points twelve rebounds.

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Speaker 9: Houston improves to ten and three. They beat the Cleveland

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Speaker 9: Cavaliers one fourteen to oneh.

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Speaker 8: One outprinching Goon three assists, Shy of a triple double

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Speaker 8: with twenty eight points and eleven rebounds.

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Speaker 9: Nuggets beat the Pelicans won twenty five to one eighteen.

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Speaker 8: Nikola Jokis put on a show twenty eight points, eleven

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Speaker 8: rebounds and twelve assists. Zion Williamson fourteen points, but Derek Queen,

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Speaker 8: the rookie, had thirty points and nine rebounds. Pelicans, though

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Speaker 8: owned two wins on the year. The Thunder improved to

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Speaker 8: fifteen and one, remaining undefeated at home as they beat

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Speaker 8: the Kings one thirteen to ninety nine. Reigning MVP Shake

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Speaker 8: Gilders out of Xander thirty three. Timber Wolves beat the

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Speaker 8: Wizards won twenty to one oh nine and raptors over

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Speaker 8: seventy six ers one twenty one, two one twelve. Pro

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Speaker 8: Football Talk said the Bills are planning on benching Gian

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Speaker 8: Coleman again in the matchup against the Texans. Six Buccaneers,

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Speaker 8: including quarterback Baker Mayfield and wide receiver and Mecca and

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Speaker 8: Buka were limited at walkthroughs on Wednesday because they're sick.

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Speaker 8: In fact, there's so many Buccaneers sick that practice on

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Speaker 8: Wednesday was a walkthrough and not an actual practice. Eagle

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Speaker 8: center Cam Durgens missed Wednesday's practice due to the concussion protocol,

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Speaker 8: and wide receiver Brandon Cooks is a free agent. After

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Speaker 8: the Saints released him, the veteran asked for its release.

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Speaker 8: Whose drafted by New Orleans back in twenty fourteen in

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Speaker 8: the first round in men's college basketball, fourth rank Arizona

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Speaker 8: be third rank Yukon seventy one to sixty seven Jayden

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Speaker 8: Bradley with twenty one, seventh ranc Michigan remains undefeated with

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Speaker 8: an eighty six to sixty one win over Middle Tennessee

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Speaker 8: State and eleventh rank to Alabama.

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Speaker 9: Just beat Illinois, the A three team in the nation,

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Speaker 9: ninety two eighty six. Jason and Mike Back to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Martin.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next week, get back into the biggest NFL

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Speaker 1: story of the night the.

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Speaker 2: Best way we know how you been here Jason Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Ready.

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Speaker 5: And now it's the be sure to catch live editions

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Speaker 5: of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at

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Speaker 5: ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Jason Smith's Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon,

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Speaker 1: Jador Sanders.

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Speaker 2: It is official. He will start for the Browns on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: He will become the forty second quarterback to start a

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Speaker 1: game for the brown since they came back into the

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Speaker 1: league in nineteen ninety nine. So to celebrate this momentous occasion,

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Speaker 1: we play the forty two Quarterbacks game. I give you

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and you tell me if he started a

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Speaker 1: game for the Browns sometime in the last twenty six years.

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Speaker 1: Playing this game as myself, Mike Carmon, Martin Weiss, Lee

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Speaker 1: de Lap, who was in for Justin Frossburg, and Alex Tischer.

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Speaker 2: Are you guys ready? Oh yeah, all right, sho it's

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Speaker 2: born ready. Sage rosen Fels did say, you don't even

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Speaker 2: know who that is? Okay, okay, anything else? No, No

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Speaker 2: for save Rose? Okay, all right, Lee?

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Speaker 9: What you got I think started for the Browns?

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, all right, sure.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna go. No, Sage rose Fells in Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: All right, see Washington? Where else was Sage rosen Fells Iowa? State,

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Speaker 1: of course, co Clones, that's great. Did he start for

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Speaker 1: the Browns? Did he start for the Browns? Sage rosen

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Speaker 1: Fells did.

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Speaker 2: Not such a great name. Save that's a great pull

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Speaker 2: by you.

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Speaker 9: Though, try harder, Jason.

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Speaker 2: Did Chase Daniel start a game for the Cleveland Browns?

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Speaker 2: Chase Daniel? He started a game for the Browns? Harvin? Sure, okay, yeah?

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Speaker 2: Why not? Hett? Why not? Martin? Why's not?

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of how many teams he

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Speaker 1: bounced through. He was around a long time.

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Speaker 2: I'm not.

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Speaker 8: I'm honestly less worried about how many teams he bounced through.

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Speaker 9: How many careers starts has Chased Aneal even have?

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a whole about that question.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with no, because I only remember him

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Speaker 8: starting ever for Kansas City and in a in a

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Speaker 8: bad spot.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Lee, what do you got I.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna say no, no, no for Chase.

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Speaker 2: No one, Chase Daniel. All right, Alex Teicher, so glad

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Speaker 2: I went last? Yes, of course he did?

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Speaker 9: People man.

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Speaker 2: Chase Daniel did I know?

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Speaker 9: I know?

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Speaker 2: Not for the Cleveland brown rigged? No, it's rigged. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: his old game is rigged. Did Spurgeon Win ever start

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Speaker 2: a game for the Cleveland Browns?

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Speaker 1: He was the last quarterback selected before Brady was taken

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Speaker 1: in the in the two thousand draft, But did he

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Speaker 1: ever start a game for the Cleveland Browns?

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Speaker 2: Spurgeon win?

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, Yes, Okay, yes, because I sold a trading

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Speaker 1: card immediately after he was.

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Speaker 2: Name, like, here's your savior.

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Speaker 8: Okay, Martin Wise, I'm gonna go Spurgeon win was a Viking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And one yep, Tim, I'm going no, okay, all right,

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Speaker 2: lead to Loup.

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Speaker 9: It's so out there it has to be. I'm gonna

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Speaker 9: say he started.

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Speaker 8: Okay, For the record, I only know Spurgeon Woe was

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Speaker 8: a Viking in two the one from Madden.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I know there had to be a little more

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Speaker 1: of a story there, because I mean that's the way back.

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Speaker 1: Martin two years younger than me. He's playing the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and one Vikings on Madden a lot. I'm Spurgeon winn.

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Speaker 2: Are we ready? We're gonna win a lot of games.

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Speaker 1: You don't forget gotten that game a little cheaper and

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Speaker 1: you know, ty Shirt Spurgeon win.

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Speaker 9: Well, Harmon dropped dime about the card. I'm gonna say, yes.

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Speaker 1: Spurgeon Win did start one game for the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got too specific. Blaine Gabbert did. Blaine Gabbo

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Speaker 2: for the Browns. Used to call him the Sweeney Gabbo

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Speaker 2: excellent ty shirt.

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Speaker 9: No Jason nice truck.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Lee.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna say he started against the.

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Speaker 2: Brown never for the Browns. Okay, Martin.

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Speaker 8: I feel like the time in which Blaine Gabbert would

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Speaker 8: have started for Cleveland was like when Baker is that,

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Speaker 8: when Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 2: Was no, I feel like no, Okay.

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Speaker 9: Also, I feel like black Guyrad started in like eight years.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, all you had to do was start a

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Speaker 1: game between twenty twenty twenty five. I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: it's all you need one going all the way back

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Speaker 1: man game one time from Tim Couch on down. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say no. Blaine Gabbert twice played against the Browns

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Speaker 1: but never started the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: Gabble Blaine Gabberts so exactly, just no idea what any

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Speaker 2: of these guys are. This gave us.

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Speaker 1: So maybe that's why you're doing okay at it, because hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to think about this guy being a

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Speaker 1: backup for so many years. Was he with the Browns?

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Speaker 1: Did he start a game? Maybe you're in the actually

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Speaker 1: position of strengthen this.

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Speaker 9: I just got this from the Magic Johnson game.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're sure just following the same logic. The

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Speaker 1: vocal inflection of Jason tells me what I need to do.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll get back into a big breaking

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Speaker 2: story out of the NFL. This is Fox RU