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Speaker 1: Welcome back to More to It, the show that takes

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment,

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Speaker 1: and culture. Start with headline news and then journey into

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Speaker 1: deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented

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Speaker 1: in every single story. I'm your host, Marcello's way that dude,

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Speaker 1: it's the sun and this out today. Man. I am

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Speaker 1: bright because that's how I'm feeling on the inside, so

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Speaker 1: letting y'all see it on the outside. Man, I'm pumped

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Speaker 1: right now. Why am I so damn pumped? Well, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you guys as we get started with what's up

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Speaker 1: with that? Dude? You want to know what's up while

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Speaker 1: I'm so pumped. Man, I had a meeting with this

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Speaker 1: social media agent who scowled me to the game, y'all.

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Speaker 1: And look, I'm gonna drop gems as I get them

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Speaker 1: and I receive them, Like one of my life missions

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Speaker 1: is not to just sit there and harbor them and

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Speaker 1: hold on to them and keep your position at the

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Speaker 1: top and don't let anyone else climb up the mountain. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm always in that track mindset that means line up

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Speaker 1: next to me, don't pull no hamstrings. Don't fall, start,

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Speaker 1: don't cheat, let's race, and I want you to give

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Speaker 1: me your best. Is I'm gonna give you my best.

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Speaker 1: So in this meeting, man just hearing about how many people,

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Speaker 1: especially youngsters, but let me just say people who are

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Speaker 1: out there killing it in terms of what they're doing

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Speaker 1: in IL space, what they're doing online and content creation,

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Speaker 1: connections with brands and sponsorships. So basically I had a

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Speaker 1: new to this space, and I was like, dog, make

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Speaker 1: me a star. And he was like, well, let's do this,

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Speaker 1: this and this. So I'll let you guys know in

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Speaker 1: on that process as we continue down the line. That

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Speaker 1: game at the NFL level, at the league level. You're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: Reggie Bush was in college and did a workout with

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Speaker 1: Imagine that moment. That's what I felt like being in

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Speaker 1: the social media meeting, just like Wow, all of that

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Speaker 1: get to work. That was amazing. What wasn't amazing, even

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Speaker 1: though the party was, was I had to go to

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Speaker 1: part or the parties. Not the bad part. Shuttle parties.

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Speaker 1: Y'all know those shuttle parties when you got to go

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Speaker 1: And then you see a few of your homies, but

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Speaker 1: My boy Derek Epps, he's a big exec at Jack Daniels.

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Speaker 1: He hella pumped. He ready to go to war. Matter

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Speaker 1: about right here with Luca Lua Luca donkeys, donkeys, don't you?

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Speaker 1: lot of rumblings of late right, how happy is Luca

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Speaker 1: because remember this team was doing really well and all

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Speaker 1: best lottery odds. Oh, here we go. Let's dive into it.

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Speaker 1: Important development with Dallas owning the New York Knicks top

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Speaker 1: Let's just go there. Even Luca said, I didn't like

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Speaker 1: into it. Mark Cuban knows what he has to do.

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Speaker 1: He's even been on records, and I gotta earn Luca Donkage.

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Speaker 1: three inches. Basically, that's the rub on him. Man talk

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Speaker 1: about the pressure of needing to make it versus better

422
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Speaker 1: make it. This sounds like one of those pressures. He

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Speaker 1: don't need to make it, but he better make it.

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Speaker 1: Looks like he's on this way, and I'm gonna keep

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Speaker 1: it real with y'all. A lot of y'all talk trash

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Speaker 1: out the NBA, but a lot of y'all are also

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Speaker 1: watching that same trash y'all talking about, because whoa, these

428
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Speaker 1: numbers came in and the NBA and all that low

429
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Speaker 1: management has helped the NBA manage the loot it is

430
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Speaker 1: coming in and record numbers. You walk down the streets casually,

431
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: you check on social media here and there, you go

432
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Speaker 1: to the barbershop, y'all that go. I'm certain because I've

433
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: heard it. Y'all are like, Oh, this product of NBA sucks.

434
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Speaker 1: They're too soft. All they all want to do is

435
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Speaker 1: just shoot three pointers. They're all not Steph Curry. What

436
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Speaker 1: are they doing? Oh? Man? The other more athletic, more talented,

437
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: but they're dumb. They don't have a high basketball IQ,

438
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Speaker 1: they don't play the game the right way. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Listen to these numbers and you tell me, do you

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Speaker 1: guys still love the NBA that he used to because

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you do. Oh, I'm sorry, Actually, you

442
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Speaker 1: love it more than ever. NBA established records for total

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Speaker 1: whats average attendance and percentage of capacity and sellouts this season. Wow,

444
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Speaker 1: y'all saund like some sellouts over the line? About what

445
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Speaker 1: y'all really like? Y'all know, y'all like the NBA because

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00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: the record seven hundred and ninety one sellouts easily surpassed

447
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Speaker 1: a seven to sixty figure set during the twenty eighteen

448
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Speaker 1: nineteen season, and the league's arenas were filled to an

449
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Speaker 1: all time high ninety seven percent capacity. Wow, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the total attendance mark. I ain't gonna bore you

451
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Speaker 1: with these numbers, but it was over twenty two million, okay,

452
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Speaker 1: and that was aided by that big game they played

453
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Speaker 1: in the Alamo Dome. Remember when the Spurs played the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Sixty eight thousand, three hundred and twenty three fans and attendance.

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Speaker 1: Can't forget that last fan. So this regular season is

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Speaker 1: only the second time in NBA history. Yes, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the showtime Lakers, the Celtics era, Remember that Pistons

458
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Speaker 1: bull remember that back to the Lakers? Spurs always there

459
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Speaker 1: the heat? Am I missing anybody? Golden State? Guess what?

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Speaker 1: This is only the second time in NBA history. What

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Speaker 1: total attendance exceeded twenty two million people, that many fans,

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Speaker 1: and for the first time, teams collectively average more than

463
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Speaker 1: eighteen thousand fans. Wow, y'all hear these numbers. We're not done.

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Speaker 1: Records come a year after speculation rolls about shortening the

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Speaker 1: regular season. All those talks are like too many games

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Speaker 1: and the fans are unhappy because the players are not

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Speaker 1: playing in all the games, so therefore the fans are

468
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Speaker 1: not going to show up. Well, the fans are showing up. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the style of the game has changed

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Speaker 1: in terms of the impact on their bodies. So therefore

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Speaker 1: that's going to contribute to the load management, which is

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Speaker 1: going to contribute to the conversation of fans are not

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Speaker 1: going to show up because they're low managing and Lebron

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Speaker 1: ain't playing, I ain't going well. According to this, y'all

475
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Speaker 1: are still going. NBA says quote, I think we've got

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Speaker 1: to constantly assess and look at the marketplace going forward

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Speaker 1: and say, what's the best way to present our product

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Speaker 1: and how long during the season, Right, how do you

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Speaker 1: do that over entire season? Let's go here, because one

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Speaker 1: of my former bosses, my man John Skipper, has something

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Speaker 1: to say, you guys remember him, former ESPN head. Now

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Speaker 1: he's the current Metal Lark Media CEO, and obviously he

483
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Speaker 1: knows a few things about negotiating NBA rights deals because

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Speaker 1: this is where it's all hitting. How is the NBA

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Speaker 1: gonna cash in on this because you fans are giving

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Speaker 1: them the cash. Here's what he said, quote rights, NBA rights,

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Speaker 1: media rights go up. They look terrible in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: By the end they look great. That's why broadcasters should

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Speaker 1: do long term deals. Yes, because you arride that wave.

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Speaker 1: I think the NBA will get somewhere between y'all ready

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Speaker 1: for this? Sound like the DC two hundred and three

492
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent more money in this round of

493
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Speaker 1: deals than they did last time. Yeah? Wow, that is truely,

494
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Speaker 1: the DC right there, two hundred to three hundred and

495
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Speaker 1: fifty percent more two to three times three and a

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Speaker 1: half times more than they already have got. M M.

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Speaker 1: They're about to eat. So let's be real. Is the

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Speaker 1: NBA better than ever? Or is this just some marketplace stuff?

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Speaker 1: Hey man, we ain't got nothing else to do. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you dude, you got more options than ever. Oh well,

501
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: the tickets are cheap, No, they're not. They're probably more

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Speaker 1: expensive than ever I think they are. Well, I have

503
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Speaker 1: nothing else to do, all right, brother, Like, maybe you

504
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: like that tall athletic seven footer that can shoot the three.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you like these guys that's going out there just

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Speaker 1: playing athleticism to the highest. Because I was always someone saying,

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Speaker 1: why y'all keep telling me that the eighties and nineties

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Speaker 1: version of basketball was better? Look on the extremes, it's

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Speaker 1: as good as this is, maybe even better. I give

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Speaker 1: you that, watching magic, watching bird on the extremes. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: but I can't even say that because I'm watching Steph

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Speaker 1: and I'm watching Lebron, I'm watching Jannis. I'm like you sure,

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Speaker 1: But where it loses me that conversation an argument is

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Speaker 1: always here. There were a lot more guys who were

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Speaker 1: just serviceable back in that era than now. These guys

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00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: can play even if they don't get the ball, even

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Speaker 1: if they don't get burned. They can play. You. Dannis

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Speaker 1: has them. It's ninety seven years old, and his final

519
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: regular season game of a twenty year career, he dropped

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Man, it's different out here. The fifth guy

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Speaker 1: on the team, now, oh my god, he might have

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Speaker 1: been MVP runner back in the days. Some of these guys.

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Speaker 1: These dudes are sick. These dudes the next level in

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Speaker 1: terms of their athleticism and games. So it's just the midpack.

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00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: The midpack then was here, the midpack now is up here.

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Speaker 1: And that's what does it for me, because only the

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Speaker 1: extremes on the top level. Oh man, baller and baller,

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00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: they're all gonna translate. So be real with yourself. Is

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Speaker 1: the NBA better than ever? That's a question. I'm gonna

530
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: look for some answers in the comments. Is it more entertaining?

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00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: I say it's more entertaining. Maybe he doesn't have always

532
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: the storylines and rivalries because these guys are making so

533
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: much money and they're trying to protect themselves from all

534
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: of the social media on the most part, from all

535
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: the Papa Rossi and all the storylines like making all

536
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: that money being a true star and celebrity. It comes

537
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: with his issues, right Mattic Johnson signed a twenty five year,

538
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar deal, and if y'all look at

539
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: some of them old magic interviews, oh man, I know

540
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: he wants some of them to go away because now

541
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: he's a billionaire businessman. With some interviews of him going

542
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: out there talking about having six songs with girls before.

543
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: So it's crazy, right, So these players are getting hit

544
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: to the game like, Yo, I'm good, Kyrie. Nah, I'm

545
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: not doing interviews, you know, Kevin Durant. I'll do interviews

546
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Speaker 1: on my terms, on my podcast, on my show on

547
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: my network. Lebron, I'll do it on my network. I'll

548
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: do it on my shows. See what's happening here? So

549
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: maybe it's not as entertaining globally to you guys, because

550
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: you don't see that that engagement, those feuds on the FUGE.

551
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: We see is teammates fighting teammates, Rudy Gobert, you know

552
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: what I mean. So maybe it's some of that, But boy,

553
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: is it a better product? Let's ask ourselves. Is it

554
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: a better product? Just be real, It's better basketball than

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00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. Whatever your answer is. Your actions speak

556
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: louder than your words, and right now, based on all

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00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: these records, it sounds like, yes, better than ever, Yes,

558
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: more entertaining, Yes, better product. I'm listening, I'm reading, I'm

559
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: looking at those comments. I'm sure a lot of you disagree. Well,

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00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: y'all know how we finish every show. What a wildly ism,

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00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: it's time to say it. Hey, quote unquote, it is

562
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: better to be hated for what you are than to

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00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: be loved for what you are. Not a man, a woman. Man.

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Speaker 1: That's a tough one though. It's a tough one to

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Speaker 1: live up to, because no one, and I mean no

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00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: one likes to be hated. But when you do get hate,

567
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: and I get hated as well. When I get to

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00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: hate and I read the comments or someone says something

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00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: to me like that, and it's rare they say it

570
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: to you in your face, but there are times that's happened.

571
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: When people say they don't like you, they don't like

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00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: what you said, they don't like your opinion. You got

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00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: a choice. Do you want to be liked? You want

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00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: to be respected? Right? You got a choice because the

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00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: respect attaches you to who you are and what you

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Speaker 1: really think your convictions. Can't let your convictions go just

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00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: to be liked. That's called respect. I hugged my convictions.

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00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: I got respect. May not like me, but you're gonna

579
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: respect me, right or a lot of times I see

580
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: people they let their fingers go. I call them surfers.

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00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: Bunch of them out there. They just say whatever to

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00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: be ld they don't really feel that way, because I've

583
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: worked with people that literally doing commercial break with say

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00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: oh all right, dog, so what you really feel? I

585
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: was like, what you mean? Well, I really feel I

586
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: just said it. What you really feel? Oh? Man, I

587
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: feel this? So why don't you say that? Man? Ain'tybody

588
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: trying to hear that? You want to be ld right? So,

589
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: it is better to be hated for what you are

590
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: than to be loved for what you are not, because

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00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: if they love you for what you're not, you know

592
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: what you're gonna end up doing sooner or later, being

593
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: exactly who you are, and then you're gonna be right

594
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: back where it all starts. Do they like you, do

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00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: they love you? Do they hate you? Or does it

596
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: even matter? So always remember this when you got choices

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00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: in here. It is better to be hated for what

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Speaker 1: you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for more too. It

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Speaker 1: checked the show notes for all information on our topics.

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Speaker 1: To day you want to keep the conversation going, how

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Speaker 1: I know you do, Let's talk find me on all

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Speaker 1: socials at Marcellus Way. That's right. More to it is

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Speaker 1: a production of dan Patrick Productions, That Dude Entertainment and

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Speaker 1: Workhouse Media show as executive produced by Dan Patrick, Marcel Way,

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Speaker 1: That's Me, That Dude, Ye, Paul Anderson, and Nick Quinella. Marcella,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening, Thanks for those reviews. Keep them coming, man,

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Speaker 1: I read every single one of them. Reviews all what

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Speaker 1: I got, one hundred and eighty two of something crazy. Um.

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Speaker 1: I love y'all man. There's more coming from More to It.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you Hella soon