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Speaker 1: I'm Miles and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is my

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Speaker 1: Miles jack Man. That was so instane, that was crisp.

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Speaker 1: Tola Donna's talk. Stop. I'm doing good. Guys. We all

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Speaker 1: gonna like talk trash with my was sort of my

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Speaker 1: outfit backing up and so I always thought that was

425
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Speaker 1: like one of the coolest, coolest moments in NBA sort

426
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: of like off court history. All Right, So if you

427
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: had the same opportunity, what for jerseys are you planning

428
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: to walk into those games? Myself? I collect obscure champion

429
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: branded NBA jersey, so I'm gonna rock, Like I mean,

430
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: this isn't that obscure, but like an r Vetus Sabonis

431
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: I feel like he's like not talked about enough. What

432
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Speaker 1: what other ones do I have? Like a Luke, like

433
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Speaker 1: like a Sabonis, like Blazers Orb, okay, tell you that,

434
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: like Russian era, like yeah, um, let's see what other

435
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Speaker 1: jerseys would I wear? I mean, I love when it's

436
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: like an iconic player who ended up on a team

437
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Speaker 1: that you cannot like you forgot, you forgot, like in

438
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Speaker 1: acheam Raptors. I would wear that. Yeah, like a jersey,

439
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Speaker 1: right yeah, kind of like a meme jersey, like just

440
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: a flex iverson Nuggets, yeah, or like late years iverson Sixers.

441
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Speaker 1: Even that throws me. That looks like a custom jersey,

442
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: like someone made right right right Yeah, Ewing Magic, Ewing

443
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: Sonics is really bizarre. Yeah, but yeah those are some

444
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: of my fair jerseys. And as an NBA player, I'd

445
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: love to I'd love to just like show tribute that way, yeah,

446
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: and showing up and being like, hey, I'm a little

447
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: over the hill, so don't expect too much from me

448
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: in these four games. I'm this is my statement that

449
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm out of my prime and I'm just here to

450
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: have fun and get my picture taken. Yeah, I'm in

451
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: my Ewing Sonics phase of my career that makes sense

452
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: to the online yes, uh, for you like looking at

453
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: every I mean there's so much style in the league,

454
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's evolved so much from the time,

455
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: like we talked about the nineties where I think we

456
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: were like most visually inundated with the images of NBA

457
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: player style and how much that's changed over the years.

458
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Speaker 1: Like right now, who do you feel currently for your

459
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: own personal taste? Because when I'm not trying to hold

460
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Speaker 1: you as like as editor in chief of Vogue, who

461
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Speaker 1: are the best dress in the league? But for you,

462
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: who do you really like have your eyes like, oh,

463
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: I like the way these you know, I think like

464
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Speaker 1: the most common misconception is like the best dress is

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Speaker 1: uh like street like the most expensive streetwear and labels

466
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Speaker 1: and stuff, And I'm like that's like the easiest, you know,

467
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Speaker 1: you get some money and it's like, oh, yeah, I'll

468
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: go buy some brands. But I like guys like d'

469
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Speaker 1: Angela Russell, who you know, in an era where sneakers

470
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Speaker 1: and like sort of like high beast apparel, um in

471
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: loud logos and stuff is big. He is like, Oh,

472
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to loafers to go back to

473
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Speaker 1: some like muted colors and um just like trench coats

474
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: and peak coats and all that stuff. I think he

475
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: really does it well, like his own style kind of yeah,

476
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: like sweaters and stuff. And it's like that's the thing

477
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: is like it's strange. It's not strange, but it's like

478
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Speaker 1: if you're wearing Jordan's in in stuff like that too

479
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: games to then put on Jordan's it's like, you know,

480
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: you're not really doing it. You're not taking advantage of

481
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: the opportunity here, guys. So like UM and I and

482
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: I get like why we kind of went into that

483
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: um or like white transition because the dress code said

484
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: you had to wear suits. But now D'Angel Russell was

485
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: kind of bringing it back. It's all cyclical and like

486
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: pushing against like the norm dressing kind of like a

487
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: businessman um serge ibaka same way, like he does a

488
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: little bit of like the streetwear labels. He doesn't, but

489
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: he you know, he does it really well. UM. And

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: it's more so like there's like curation involved um and

491
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: then Shay um Gilt. Just Alexander is is obviously one

492
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: of the best doing it now. So those are. Yeah,

493
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Speaker 1: and those guys are all they have a little bit

494
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Speaker 1: of their own flavor on it. I would say, okay,

495
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite low to no effort dresser,

496
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: just because like you're saying, because that is a style too.

497
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: There are people who do it effortlessly without being like

498
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: I don't have to do drip by numbers. Yeah, you honest.

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Speaker 1: Janice and a Dakompo Yeah okay, never heard of him, No,

500
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: but if you see him, he's just rocking the Nike

501
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: tech fully suits and the thing is, yeah, that's comfy, right,

502
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: Like and Jayson Tatum like straight up like he's a

503
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: Jordan brand guy. He just wears all the Jordan brand

504
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: stuff he tries sometimes but like it's like, yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you get free stuff or the free stuff, yeah, that's

506
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: the thing I appreciate to him. Like I like that

507
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: they said my favorite kind of clothing is free. How

508
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: do you differentiate between like somebody, because I feel like

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00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: they all have stylists now at this point, right, I think, yeah,

510
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: some are like some have stylist just to go out

511
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: in the shop for them, right, Like the Draft this year,

512
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: I was like, man, these these are some style human

513
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: beings that they were meticulously found and they looked great.

514
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: But it does. It does feel like there's in the

515
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: same way that like now you go to the small

516
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: town in Missouri and everyone looks like they grew up

517
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn because it's just like we all have access

518
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: to the internet and you know, the same the same website.

519
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: I do feel I felt like they were like kind

520
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: of all converging on the same level of stylish and

521
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: Essoda's cool to see people who are kind of going

522
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: against the grand like D'Angelo Russell. Yeah. Yeah, I think

523
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: the we're just going again, like I said earlier, like

524
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: now it's it's like anti establishment to dress like in

525
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: business clothes. I feel like, so I think we're gonna

526
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: see a lot more of that. Yeah, oh just right.

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00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: It's more transgressive to come down back in your formal

528
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: where than the tore up jeans. That that's when I

529
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: know I'm old. When I look at tore up jeans,

530
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you paid for those? Yeah? We talked

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00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: about that on We talked about that on the on

532
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: the last episode of our podcast. It's like, man, you

533
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: are making millions and like you got torn up jeans, Like,

534
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: no one's gonna believe that. Yeah, I don't know if

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00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: that's like our like old school parenting where they're like

536
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: they're like, you're torn up jeans, what you couldn't afford

537
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: good genes? And you're like, my man, these are one

538
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars that look like this, and you find the

539
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: sires that could create these holes are right? Um, paris

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Speaker 1: right exactly? These are bald mont Okay, now please get

541
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Speaker 1: out of my way. What else are you guys talking about?

542
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: I'm running the break this uh this summer um free

543
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: agency pitches, just like I think maybe around Lebron was

544
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: probably in the decision, was like one example of how

545
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: free agency has become such a visible part of the process.

546
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: So um, especially you know with what's going on right

547
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: now Kevin Durant requesting a trade and and and players

548
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily like staying on teams. Um, were there any

549
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: crazy like free agency pitches like I think the Celtics

550
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: when they were trying to get Katie before I went

551
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: to the Warriors, they brought him like Tom Brady to

552
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: talk to him. Um. And just like the the extravaganzas

553
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: that are thrown to sort of get some of these players,

554
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: I think they should go bigger and more public so

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00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: that it's It's like when a city is trying to

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00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: get the Olympics there, like everybody gets involved and there's

557
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: just like citywide parties to like try and lure Kadi

558
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,239
Speaker 1: to a city. No, I think like they're like on

559
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: road games for these guys fans, if they know that

560
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: they're on expiring contract, they should pass out, Like Portland

561
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: should have passed out Kevin Durant. Well, Kevin Durants maid contract,

562
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: but if he was going to be a free agent,

563
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: should be passing out Kevin Durant Blazers jerseys and showing

564
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: him nothing but love convincing them to come. I think

565
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: New York sort of did that for Lebron before that

566
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: first Cleveland exit but clearly didn't work. But yeah, I

567
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: mean like getting to like the should be a part

568
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: of that courting process. Yeah, instead of being like rude

569
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: to the place, Yeah, you should be like we love you,

570
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: I love my kid after you. Yeah, let's take a

571
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: quick break. We're gonna come back. We've done a trivia

572
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: showdown before. In fact, the last time Megan was on

573
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: our one and only trivia game and it was just

574
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: us asking Megan Pacers trivia. But now, because we got

575
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: two Lakers fans here, We've got Miles, we got c J.

576
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: I am going to quiz you guys on some Lakers

577
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: trivia that Miles has not had access to. He's been begging,

578
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: trying to cheat, but I wouldn't allow it, pathetic man.

579
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: Let me questions. All right, so let's take a break,

580
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll do a little Laker trivia showdown,

581
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: and we're back, all right, are you? Are you guys ready?

582
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: You have your hands on your buzzers. Okay, the buzzer's

583
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: a buzzer thing. You have to say your favorite Laker

584
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: player of all time, uh to in order to buzz

585
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: in and tell me the answer for each time, or

586
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: a different Laker player every time, different Laker player. Let's

587
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: make it interesting, alright, uh First question, how long was

588
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: the longest winning streak in NBA and franchise history? Extra

589
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: point if you can name the season. I don't know.

590
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Oh shoot, Eddie Jones, Um, I'm gonna

591
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: guesst seven alright, Dick van Axel, Um, I'm gonna say

592
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: forty four games. Forty four games. Jesus Christ, I'm gonna

593
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: be real rude about your answers. By the way, Miles,

594
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: expect nothing less. The point goes to c J because

595
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: he got the closest thirty three games. It was in

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00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: the seventy two season. Up next when Kobe Bryant outscored

597
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: the opposing team through three quarters. How much did he score?

598
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: And who was the opponent? Oh gosh, Cedric Sabalis. Uh.

599
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't the Raptors game, wasn't. It was not that

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00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, these are real hard, but at least

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00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: let's hear you're the player that that's becoming part of

602
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: the Yeah, yeah, Elden Campbell. Um. Was it against the Knicks?

603
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: It was not keep guessing teams. Guys now got the Maverick. Uh.

604
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,240
Speaker 1: And the score through three quarters was Dallas sixty one.

605
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: Kobe had sixty two. Um. All right, apologies to the

606
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: fans which Lakers grade was originally nicknamed Zeke from Cabin

607
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: Creek upon being drafted. Oh, Zeke from Cabin Creek. I mean,

608
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: I wish I knew the answer I'm gonna I would say,

609
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: Zeke from Cabin Creek. It's as if I was a

610
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: Bulls fan in the nineties. The whole time. I was

611
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: a Bulls fan in the nineties old but I lived

612
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: in Dayton, Ohio, so I didn't really have another option. Man,

613
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, um even trying to put that name together.

614
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: You have looked at his image today, probably multiple times.

615
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: Zeke from Cabin Creek. I mean, isn't Magic Johnson? Is

616
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: that you ringing in with? Oh? Yeah multiple times? Yeah? Uh,

617
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: Robert sockry U, Jerry West, Yeah, Jerry Well the logo

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00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: o baby thank you. Um. Jabari's body, jar Jabari's level

619
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: of not like Jabaris will say some stuff to me

620
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: sometimes when he's like, oh, I just assumed you knew

621
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: this piece of obscure trivia, and I'm like, yo, man,

622
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: it's yeah, like I'm I'm also I'm honored that he's like,

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00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: oh yeah, They're on this plane of existence with the trivia.

624
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, I feel like I'm disappointing my

625
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: father and all right, I'm just gonna do uh, just

626
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: run through these thing. You guys just shout out if

627
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: you think you know the answer. One. Who did the

628
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: Lakers take with their first pick in draft? Their first

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00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: pick in Kobe? We traded, Yeah, we traded the oh

630
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: for the for the Mornings, Derek Fisher. Moving on, which

631
00:36:55,040 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: did seven times NBA champion Robert Orry attend Alabama? Uh?

632
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: Which player did the Lakers technically draft twice during the

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Speaker 1: late fifties. This is just interesting because it's just funny

634
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Speaker 1: that this could happen drafted twice. They drafted Elgin Bailer

635
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: in the fourteenth round of the nineteen fifty six NBA draft. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He opted to stay in school after leading a Seattle

637
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: to the n c Double A championship game and fifty

638
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 1: eight Baylor was drafted again by the Lakers, this time

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Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. In I know, that's

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Speaker 1: our one rookie of the year is Elgin Baylor. Yeah,

641
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Speaker 1: I feel like the second should be Jack and Jabari?

642
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: Tell us really cool? You don't say I could not

643
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Speaker 1: have gotten a single one of these? Alright, well we'll

644
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: do it. We'll do it this way. There are two

645
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: Lakers grades that have led to the invention of new

646
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: rules in basketball. Who are the two? Shack and Wilt? No,

647
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was thinking, didn't Cream like create

648
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Speaker 1: the of no dunking rule? Did that ever get into

649
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: the NBA? Or No? Was that just college. That was

650
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: just college, no dunking. You were not allowed to dunk

651
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: because Korean was just like dunking every every time down um,

652
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: which is so whack. But all right, never mind, there

653
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: was another George Mike and George Mike and created the

654
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: goaltending rule because he was so tall, so much taller

655
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: than everyone. All right, should we should we put this

656
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: man through rapid fire? There is no right answer to

657
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: these And unlike the last segment, this is all about speed.

658
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: Boom boom. Its kind of like a mic drill. This

659
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: is a Mike and drill of uh nba pins. All right,

660
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: let's do it. You're on the clock. Get ready, start

661
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: the clock. Smooth as dressing. Old schoolballer Clyde or Dr

662
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: dre uh Clyde the best. My real name is Clyde

663
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: so and he's still doing it to this day. Your

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00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: name is mother. How are you? I tried? I tried

665
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: in college and then c J slipped out and everyone's like,

666
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: you're a c J. What's now? I'm like, and again,

667
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: I have a son, and I'm like, he's gonna grow

668
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: up in his dad's name is gonna be c J. Like, yeah, Clyde,

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00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually you like c J sounds like a

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00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: cool dad's name, Like I could be like, Mr c J,

671
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: can I have a beer? But it sounds like they'd

672
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 1: be like you asked Clyde, I'm not asking. Wait how Wait?

673
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: So what's the J for you? Clyde Jr. Clyde jan War.

674
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: It's January without the y because I was born in January.

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00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: Damn man jan War. Well, so here's the funny thing.

676
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of relates. Filipinos just go nuts

677
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: on naming people like kids, so they and so they

678
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: name their kids after celebrities that they like. In basketball

679
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: is obviously huge over there, so they're like, oh, we're

680
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: gonna name our kid after Lebron, but they don't. It's

681
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: not Lebron Santo's. It's Lebron James Santos, and Lebron James

682
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: is the whole first name. And there's no spaces. There's

683
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: like a kid who doesn't because the kid who went viral,

684
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: who doesn't even play basketba, went viral because he was

685
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: singing inside of a target, and um, his name is

686
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Speaker 1: Carl Malone. Like no space. That is so cool? Wait,

687
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: so were you who are you named after? But yeah,

688
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 1: they just like the name it. My son is named

689
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,479
Speaker 1: after Jalen Rose. It's very cool name. All right. First

690
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: of all, I do I do just have to shout

691
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: out when I lived in New York. Uh, this was

692
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Speaker 1: before streaming and before they're like you could just watch

693
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Speaker 1: NBA basketball on YouTube anytime. I got to watch a

694
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: lot of Clyde Frasier doing color commentary and it is

695
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: yeah MSG network. Uh And if you haven't just gone

696
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: and watched some greatest hits of him rhyming and whooping

697
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: and scooping, is yeah, just like truly one of the

698
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever do it. And then

699
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: you look at his stats as a player and it's

700
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: it's mind blowing. But will this read game was actually

701
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: the Clyde Frasier game He put up like bonkers numbers.

702
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 1: And let's not forget to catch a fly in the room.

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00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, people, he was talking about like what a

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Speaker 1: cool guy would do, and he was like, yeah, like

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00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: one thing that I used to like to do in

706
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: the seventies is I was just walking into a room

707
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: and just real slow, like catch a fly in my hand,

708
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: shake it a little bit and then let it go.

709
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: And people accident for flying. Yeah, but he was just

710
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: like that, you know. And I guess it was like

711
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: very easy for him because he had like incredibly fast hands.

712
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: For me, I would I would not be able to

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Speaker 1: catch a fly in my hands without breaking furniture and

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00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: breaking into a sweat. Anyways, anyway, and and sorry, Cej,

715
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: I gotta cut you off there because this is this

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00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: is rapid fire. One question. Here we go, question number

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Speaker 1: the twond Now the Summer League happening in Vegas. Give

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00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: me your top five players you'd like to enjoy a

719
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: night on the town with in Las Vegas. Past Or president,

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Speaker 1: pastor President. We're gonna go h Shed Wallace. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go Land Stevenson, who I did see on a

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00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: segue outside of Caesar's one year at Summer League. And

723
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: I kind of proposed the same thing that you're asking me. Um,

724
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna go um Rick Smith's Rick Smith's one of

725
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: my fair players. Um, we're gonna go. How many is that?

726
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: That's three? Let's go shoot Charles Barkley for sure. Charles

727
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: is like my have dinner with um that are alive?

728
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: Met him a few months ago, locked up shared I

729
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: was literally had a locker next to his still couldn't

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00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: say anything to him love the guy, because didn't even

731
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: want to disappoint him with if I didn't have anything

732
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: good to say, so um, even like in your mind,

733
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: he's like, that's your voice. You're like like, well, so

734
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: I was wearing a c before you know the movie

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00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: the hat ce before and he goes, before, that's a

736
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: nice hat, Like I think he thought it meant Charles Barkley.

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00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: And then the number four for when he played for

738
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: the Rockets, and it's like, why would anyone have a

739
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: hat like that? No, this is cell block four, Um alright.

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Speaker 1: Number five would be shoot, um, I'm gonna say, man,

741
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: And while you're thinking on that, I'll just take a

742
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: step back because this is very fast and little list

743
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: Clyde Fraser in game seven, The Willis read game thirty

744
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: six points, nineteen assists, seven boards, five steals to score

745
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: thirty six and have nineteen assists, Like, yeah, your team

746
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't have scored if you weren't there. Yeah, um, okay.

747
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: My final one would be Jeremy Lynn. Shout out, Jeremy Lynn.

748
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: You need somebody from Harvard like in the crew, like

749
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: just in case, you know, to get somebody with that

750
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: that that Ivy League background. You make the night balance

751
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: out just like a tena f a writer's room. Oh man,

752
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: that made me so mad. Uh in Bossy Pants where

753
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: she's like, you need to have somebody who went to

754
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: Harvard and I'm sorry, those are the rules and true.

755
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: You want to be able to run into the person

756
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: in the hallway at two am, so they got to

757
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: go to Harvard, Like right, um, all right, you get

758
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: to add one rule to the n b A and

759
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: it can be either serious or fun. My new one

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00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: you have to play one quarter every month in Timberland's

761
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: but you get to choose what quarter it is, so

762
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: you could like the other team puts on Timberland, so

763
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: you choose to like match it up so you don't

764
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: like have a disadvantage of where you could wait and

765
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: then just blow them out and that okay, So what

766
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: do you for posing breaking ankles are crossing somebody up,

767
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: making them fall is a point? Oh yeah. So if

768
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: if you put somebody on skates, right, but you have

769
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: to you have to make the basket after Oh got it?

770
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: So like if you finish at the rim, that's a

771
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: three pointer basically because you left somebody for dead on

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00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: the parquet. Okay, I like that, or they going to

773
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: a penalty box of some sort she embarrassed for. Oh yeah,

774
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: you gotta like I feel like, you gotta do a

775
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: lap around the arena. Yeah, like, and in that time

776
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: you have to play a man down for how long

777
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: it takes for them to run around the arena. So

778
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: you're playing a man down off the strength of it.

779
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: Just amazing crossover. I like that. I would say I

780
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: like Jack's rule, but I feel like it would be

781
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: it's better like if every like in the game, the

782
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: team can deploy the tims quarter on the opposition when

783
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: they deem it, like, so it's strategic, they're like, and

784
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: they may activate the Tim's quarter on them. We don't

785
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: know that, just to continue maybe one quarter per playoffs

786
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: and like per playoff series, and you get to use

787
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: it on the other teams. So yeah, I like that.

788
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: But Tim's you know, good ankle support, so nobody's gonna

789
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: get hurt, could you You already know that the person

790
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: who gets the and one crossover like juke move bonus

791
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: in the times is probably gonna do a terrible injury

792
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: to their their ankle. But look, I like that. UM.

793
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: Next question, you can travel back in time and attend

794
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: any single NBA All Star game from history. Which would

795
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 1: you choose? And I'll give you some options. And by

796
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: I I mean Jabari, who has done some very good

797
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: research putting together some of the best which had the

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00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: NBA's top fifty players ceremony at halftime. Would you choose

799
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: two thousand three Jordan's farewell game featuring a retired Magic

800
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: Johnson leading the West to a victory, two thousand nine

801
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: the Kobe verse Shack read the Hatchet or two thousand one,

802
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: where Alan I ever seen leads a twenty one point

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00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: East come back in the final nine minutes. Was going

804
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: to say before I mean the other ones I all

805
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: remember so vividly, like I don't need to be there,

806
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: but like I remember from what rewatching clips and stuff,

807
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: but like to be there to like like erased my

808
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: mind of of Kobe, Uh, you know Kobe. It was

809
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: like Kobe MJ matchup two and then of course that yeah,

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00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 1: the fifty greatest players with the the which we talked

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Speaker 1: about this on the podcast, the why am I blanking

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00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: on this? Running the break the leather jackets that they wore. UM,

813
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, it's just like that was to me

814
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: maybe one of the best All Star games of all time.

815
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: And I and I was too young until they given go.

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00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: I guess no, not too young to go, but like

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00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: I wanted, I'd love to go to that, right right right.

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00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: I was at the two thou a game. It was

819
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: in d C. When I was in college. Nice. No,

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00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: that wasn't the Mariah Carey jersey dress. Here wasn't. No. Unfortunately,

821
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson singing the national anthem, it was a little

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00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: pitchy from me. I saw them are more of a

823
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: winner than others. I saw Jessica Simpson open for ninety

824
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: degrees at a minor league baseball stadium before she was famous. Okay,

825
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: there's some great entertainment that happens at minor league baseball stadiums.

826
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we we saw Corey Feldman's musical performance. I

827
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: think it was actually after a game. It was a yeah,

828
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: it was. It was a little dire, but you know,

829
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: it was what it was, and just to keep the

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00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: rapid fire paste going. I just shout out to that

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Speaker 1: ninety seven year because I remember I bought the album

832
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: that came out for the fiftieth anniversary. Remember that one

833
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 1: had like a like the case was like leather bound dish.

834
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: And that's when I learned like old school songs like Shotguns,

835
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: like shot that was on that album and I remember

836
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: so vividly like Walker. I love that song the NBA

837
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: of fifty album, you know, Slam Dunk with Cool in

838
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: the Gang. This was basketball, why Curtis blow? Basketball was

839
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: my favorite sports. It was David Samborn that was the

840
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: version of Shotgun that was on and Brian McKnight Seinfeld

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00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: deliver I'm yours okay, see c J told Donna you

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Speaker 1: have made it through the lightning rand with your lightning

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Speaker 1: fact flex is um. Thank you. I'm sorry so much

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Speaker 1: time in each of those rapid fire questions, but hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, but thank you for apologizing and you at

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Speaker 1: least you are acknowledging that it was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: rapid fire and maybe it was your fault that it was.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, But you guys accommodated me because you're a

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Speaker 1: great host. That's right. Well, uh, CJ. Where can people

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Speaker 1: go to listen to your show and find you and

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Speaker 1: follow one of the best NBA follows on Twitter? For sure?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I mean, yeah, wherever you listen to podcasts, UM, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, if you go to my Instagram or my

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Speaker 1: co host Alex Wong. Again, he's a really good follow.

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Speaker 1: He's Stephen Lebron on Twitter. Um. Great book that he

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Speaker 1: wrote called cover Story about all the most iconic basketball covers. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at on our channels, you'll see

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Speaker 1: a link to Running the Break mm hmm amazing. Uh alright, Uh, Miles,

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Speaker 1: where can people find you? Oh? You know where to

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Speaker 1: find me at Miles of Gray. That's Gray with an A.

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Speaker 1: And you know, obviously check out our Jack and Eyes

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Speaker 1: other podcasts, The Daily Zeitgeism first time that first time

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Speaker 1: we may have actually plucked out on this show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have another podcast and it turns out all right,

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Speaker 1: And you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore

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Speaker 1: O'Brien that is going to do it for another another

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Speaker 1: episode in the books talking about NBA history. We did it.

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Speaker 1: You would get it. That's been an episode of Mild

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Speaker 1: and Jack Got Got Mad. Boo boos. Steve