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Speaker 1: The Mavericks a disaster. We're recording this on the same

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Speaker 1: day that Kyrie Irving we found out has torn as acl.

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Speaker 1: We have now in the span of thirty days, seen

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Speaker 1: this Mavericks team trade, Luka, Doncic, Anthony Davis gets hurt,

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Speaker 1: two other big men get hurt, and now Kyrie Irving

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Speaker 1: is out for the year and parts of next year.

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Speaker 1: Because of when this is happening, I want to go first, and.

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Speaker 2: Then you can go.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say that I feel so bad

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Speaker 1: for Mavericks fans because I think in the world of

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Speaker 1: the NBA, people are either like you got to make

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Speaker 1: the players happy or the owners are getting upset, and

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Speaker 1: not enough people are talking about the fans and this franchise.

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Speaker 1: I felt like took fifteen years to build up with

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Speaker 1: Mark Cuban from a really down part where they were

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Speaker 1: one of the best well treated fan bases, and in

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Speaker 1: the span of one month everything has been torn away

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Speaker 1: from them. And then yes, today they announced an eight

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Speaker 1: percent ticket increase for Mavericks fans. I'm just gonna say one,

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Speaker 1: Mavericks fans, I feel bad for you. Two if that

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Speaker 1: ownership group doesn't go, hey, we made a mistake. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we're going to give you a five percent discount next season.

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Speaker 1: You really don't care about these people. And that's the

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Speaker 1: end of my rank because I'm just I'm pissed for them.

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Speaker 2: One. I'm sorry for Kyrie because he was actually balling

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Speaker 2: out this year. Two when new things happen. The reality

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Speaker 2: of the situation is, people give you a three year window. Right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: we we got Kyrie and a D. We can get

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Speaker 2: it done this year. But if we don't, maybe next year,

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Speaker 2: and maybe next year. This year has done after three years,

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Speaker 2: then we can start saying, ah, we shouldn't have did it.

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Speaker 2: We don't know so, but now they have a built

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Speaker 2: an excuse, have a building.

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Speaker 1: Here's how I would go back to that. In the

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Speaker 1: six weeks, In the last six weeks, no one has

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Speaker 1: played more minutes than Kyrie Irving and he has had

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Speaker 1: an injury history too. So if your solution was, let's

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Speaker 1: trade the twenty five year old five time all MBA

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Speaker 1: and rely on Anthony Davis and we're gonna play Kyrie

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Speaker 1: more than he's ever played in his life. Can you

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Speaker 1: use injuries as an excuse when you put them in

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Speaker 1: a situation to possibly get hurt.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying use as an excuse, but you know,

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Speaker 2: when you put a team like that, they had a

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Speaker 2: chance to win. Of course they're not going to win,

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Speaker 2: and they're going to say, hey, gods were hurt. Like

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Speaker 2: you said, this year is done. So next year hopefully

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Speaker 2: they could make a few more trades and get a

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Speaker 2: couple of free agents. And it's just it's difficult. The

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Speaker 2: eight percent increase on tickets that happens every year with

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Speaker 2: fans and listen, Dallas is a hot ticket. So those

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Speaker 2: that don't like it don't pay. The ones that do

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Speaker 2: like it will pay and listen. The owners will be

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Speaker 2: there as they know exactly what they're doing, and you

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Speaker 2: know how they're doing.

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Speaker 1: It, believe, and you've been around owners. Most of these

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Speaker 1: people have billions of dollars. They're very wealthy people. You've

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Speaker 1: made a lot of money. Why are you running a

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Speaker 1: franchise to make more money?

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Speaker 2: Is this called business?

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Speaker 1: Well, what I'm saying is you're gonna make money on

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Speaker 1: owning an NBA team. You made money when there was

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Speaker 1: the pandemic and there were no fans in the stands,

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Speaker 1: So you've shown you could make money without fans from

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Speaker 1: a seventy somethingter billion dollar NBA rights deal and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. If you know that you're putting your fans

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Speaker 1: through a really hard time and that they're they're riding

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Speaker 1: out front and they're holding fake funerals, and then you're

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Speaker 1: going to come back and go, let's raise the prices

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Speaker 1: even more.

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Speaker 3: I've heard.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but i've heard to become a billion

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Speaker 2: I have to be ruthless.

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Speaker 3: I heard it.

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Speaker 2: They're very ruthless people. This is a business, big business

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Speaker 2: before anything. And again, when you have a hot ticket,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you could you could make that make that dictation,

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Speaker 1: I just can't imagine you being an NBA team owner

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Speaker 1: and being like, if the fans can't afford it, who cares.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like you'd find a way to make

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Speaker 1: it the hottest ticket in town.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wouldn't be the majority on them, so

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Speaker 2: I would have partners. I would actually definitely try to

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Speaker 2: this a family oriented thing, and you know, try to

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Speaker 2: keep the prices at a respectable level. But again business First,

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Speaker 2: have you.

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Speaker 3: Ever believed in curses? Like you did?

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Speaker 1: Spend time in Baton Rouge? So I do know that voodoo? Like,

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Speaker 1: do you believe in that?

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Speaker 2: I got voodoo one too. What happened? I was walking

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Speaker 2: through a dorm and my emotional girlfriend help me talking

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Speaker 2: to another girl, so she thought I was messing around,

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Speaker 2: so she took my draws and shed it's crazy. She

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Speaker 2: told me, say, you won't score more than six points.

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Speaker 2: So first game I had five, second game I had sick.

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Speaker 2: The last game I had six. Because I didn't believe that,

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Speaker 2: I had a breakaway dunk. I tried to win mail

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Speaker 2: it and missed. I had to go to my room

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Speaker 2: and get get my draws.

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Speaker 3: What did she did?

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Speaker 4: She put a voodoo on the draws. She had my

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Speaker 4: draws in the little thing, oh.

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Speaker 3: Like in a circle like a seance.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. She just had my draws and you.

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Speaker 3: Went and took him back.

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Speaker 2: And what you do?

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Speaker 4: The next game? Wow went off so powerful draws. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if it works, but something happened.

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Speaker 1: So at that point you were like, I believe in

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Speaker 1: this stuff. Yes, I bring this up to ask is

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Speaker 1: there a chance that we might be seeing. We saw

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Speaker 1: this with Babe Ruth when he got traded from the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox to the Yankees. Was the curse of the

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Speaker 1: Bambino and the Red Sox didn't win for one hundred years?

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Speaker 1: Could this be the kirk of Luca? Is that what

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Speaker 1: could be happening to Mavericks where you trade Luca and

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Speaker 1: then the Mavericks are now cursed.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking about it, but since you mentioned that

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Speaker 2: this about to go viral, So yeah, you think they.

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Speaker 3: Could be cursed?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What do we do because there's there's no draws for

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Speaker 1: Nico to go and pick up, right.

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Speaker 2: They they're definitely gonna do better than the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: They're not the Lakers this recording.

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Speaker 2: In second place are the two seed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Luca is dropping triple doubles every game.

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Speaker 2: And they definitely got to win before the Lakers. Period.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. That's part of the curse. But

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, so you know how you can be

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Speaker 1: a curse, You need a sacrifice.

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Speaker 2: Nico has to go.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's how curses work, right.

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