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Speaker 1: is up straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Thursday, June First, I'm back. Took about a

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Speaker 1: week off for a rare vacation during the NBA playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've done that in a long time.

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Speaker 1: Used to have a lot of fun Memorial Day weekends, However,

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Speaker 1: nothing like my first trip to Europe, official trip to Europe.

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Speaker 1: I meane. We had stopped over there before another on

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Speaker 1: another trip, but we went to Paris. Cowhard decided he

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Speaker 1: was going to take time off of the show. I said, well, shucks,

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Speaker 1: I might as well too, And it looked for a

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Speaker 1: heat up three to one when I departed. And of

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Speaker 1: I believe the time difference between La and Paris is

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Speaker 1: nine hours. So needless to say, I watched zero of

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Speaker 1: Games five, six, and seven, and lo and behold I

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Speaker 1: come back. I mean, obviously I was over there, and

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Speaker 1: I had the Internet. I did swear to myself. No

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Speaker 1: social media, well Twitter at least Instagram's fine. I like

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Speaker 1: didn't go on Twitter. I did get texts obviously for

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Speaker 1: friends like holy cow, Derek White. You know, like I

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Speaker 1: think the Derek White thing happened when it was like

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Speaker 1: was buzzing, but I didn't hear it. Obviously, late nights

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Speaker 1: in Paris. But outstanding trip. I highly recommend it if

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Speaker 1: not news to me that I am a beach guy

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Speaker 1: lived in the suburbs kind of growing up. It was fine.

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Speaker 1: We lived in I lived in New York outside New

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Speaker 1: now to kind of city in LA but also beach

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Speaker 1: it felt like a New York City vibe. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go too deep on the vacation

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Speaker 1: you could check out Instagram for that. But I would

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Speaker 1: say a couple things I noticed. Listen, I love the language.

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Speaker 1: French was my language in high school. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: a ton of it. French people, you know, obviously a

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Speaker 1: lot of the women walking around not wearing bras. That's

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Speaker 1: an interesting development. Maybe it was the weather. It was

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Speaker 1: like unseasonably warm there. But I will say the French

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Speaker 1: I mean, these people are not all French people. Obviously

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Speaker 1: The body odor was like rampant. You'd get in an

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Speaker 1: some people not wearing body odor were with massive body odor,

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Speaker 1: no deodor. We're just in here, and it was like,

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Speaker 1: if you open with hey do you have, you know,

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Speaker 1: So I would open with bojor and they are warm

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Speaker 1: just an awesome trip. Really recommend Paris if you can

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Speaker 1: get there. I will admit this was the second trip

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Speaker 1: I've booked through Costco. I know I've raved about Costco here, guys,

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Speaker 1: you got to get on these Costco vacations. If you're

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Speaker 1: not a member, you're missing out. We did the Hawaii

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Speaker 1: wan I think I told you guys. You got like

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars back from the trip afterward in credits

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Speaker 1: to Costco and then credits at the resort. Incredible, Like

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Speaker 1: So every morning we had a full buffet free breakfast,

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Speaker 1: this is It's just it was an awesome city. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I should probably get into sports at some point. We

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Speaker 1: have the NBA Finals beginning tonight Denver and not Boston.

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Speaker 1: The Miami Heat have shocked the world again and again.

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Speaker 1: I was in France, so I missed Game six and seven,

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Speaker 1: but I was able to watch the highlights on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: They condensed the game in a nine minutes. Interestingly, the

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Speaker 1: two highlight packages I watched did not show the Jason

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Speaker 1: He did not have a great game. Listen, it's clear

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Speaker 1: Tatum was not one hundred percent, Like I mean, the

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Speaker 1: like that doesn't happen to Jason Tatum, like he was

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Speaker 1: But bottom line, I don't think it's pound the panic

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Speaker 1: not believe in that. But they're a story for another day.

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Speaker 1: We need to focus on the finals here Denver and Miami.

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Speaker 1: I've already bet game one. I bet them. I bet

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Speaker 1: Denver minus nine. I've got an amazing stat here for you,

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Speaker 1: the Herd today, I got tons of AMMO for you.

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Speaker 1: But the best gambling nugget that I've gotten. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets are on about a week's rest after dispatch

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Speaker 1: sweeping the Lakers a little more than a week's rest,

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Speaker 1: so teams that have a five or more day rest

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Speaker 1: now teams that have that five day rest advantage heading

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Speaker 1: Miami is going going to altitude in Denver after an

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Speaker 1: But let's be real, this is a series that there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of mind games being played, a lot

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Speaker 1: of I don't know the threats, but promises and guarantees

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Speaker 1: were being made on both ends. These teams pretty clearly

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Speaker 1: don't love each other. There was a massive coaching advantage

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Speaker 1: for Eric Spolstra, who I'll take some great things about Spolstra.

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Speaker 1: I was able to dig up here and shocking numbers

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Speaker 1: for him, Like cheez, that guy, He's done some awesome stuff.

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Speaker 1: But like, this is like a rivalry. They played in

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Speaker 1: the bubble. Okay, they played last year in the conference finals,

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Speaker 1: the last two have gone seven. So these teams. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say they don't like each other, but

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Speaker 1: did you see after Game seven the hat that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Butler wore the podium. It was like a Saint Louis

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Speaker 1: throwback baseball hat. Now, Jimmy Butler, who is becoming something

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Speaker 1: other hats Jimmy Buckets has worn. If he wears a

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Speaker 1: a subtle dig at Jason Tatum, who was First Team

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Speaker 1: amazing in this series. And you could even argue Caleb

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Speaker 1: Martin should have gotten the Eastern Conference Conference Finals MVP.

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Speaker 1: Caleb Martin was unbelievable sixty percent shooting from the field,

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Speaker 1: say he's gonna make more money. Actually, he's under contract

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Speaker 1: and you know, he's obviously gonna get paid by somebody.

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Speaker 1: The move is probably for the Heat to terrapists contract

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Speaker 1: saw a wild stat Caleb Martin twenty five point games

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Speaker 1: I think he had twenty seven points on twenty eight shots.

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Speaker 1: He was not amazing in Game seven, took a lot

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Speaker 1: Caleb Martin, you know, he's making six point four million

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Speaker 1: seven million dollars, twenty nine million dollars. He doesn't play

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Speaker 1: He's like a fashion plate there. He's got the Instagram girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: I think he's still I don't know. I don't follow him, so,

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Speaker 1: but he's loving life in Miami. You know, he's making

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Speaker 1: a lot of money and he's not playing now. There

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Speaker 1: is talk that he could return for Game four. We

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Speaker 1: shall see. He's been ruled out for sure for Game one,

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Speaker 1: but he's expected to come back maybe for Game four.

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Speaker 1: just I'll tell you right now, the second he takes

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Speaker 1: stopping yo, Kitchen Murray. I know people are going crazy

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Speaker 1: and saying they're the best tandem, like the best Garden

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Speaker 1: big since Kobe Shaq in the playoffs, Sorry in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying all around. It sounds a little out

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Speaker 1: we've seen a dearth of centers in the last twenty years.

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Speaker 1: I just this is not a great matchup for Miami.

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Speaker 1: Why so, Jason, why are you picking Denver in seven? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna here's the number. I teased it earlier. Eric Spolstra,

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Speaker 1: Lottery and then get Downovan Mitchell and then they couldn't

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Speaker 1: they finish under five hundred, and then they finished five

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Speaker 1: every single year. That's pretty impressive. Spolstra, I think the

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Speaker 1: the counter to Spolstra would be, oh, well, he actually

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Speaker 1: something interesting. I can't wait to see it. I just

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Speaker 1: don't know where they get the size from. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is do we see some Dare I say, Cody Zeller

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Speaker 1: against Jokich? I don't, are we Cody Zeller? Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna make it appearance? He did play all right against

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Speaker 1: Boston at times, but again we're talking about Nikole Jokic,

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Speaker 1: come on, this is silly. A couple other notes here.

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Speaker 1: I have the Heat with a negative point differential. They're

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Speaker 1: the third team with a negative point differential to make

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Speaker 1: the finals. And I was looking for an NBA comparison

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Speaker 1: and this one popped out to me. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: the Eli Manning New York Giants just pedestrian in the

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Speaker 1: regular season, nothing special, and Eli gets them to the

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Speaker 1: dreams are made of. Eli Manning does it twice and

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Speaker 1: gets the Giants two Super Bowls. They go three to zero.

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Speaker 1: I believe five of the six were on the road,

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Speaker 1: maybe all six were, and they were not expected either time.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody expected Miami to make the finals

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Speaker 1: in the bubble. I don't think anybody expected Miami to

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Speaker 1: get here this year. I mean again, they were dogs

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Speaker 1: the Celtics, and you know, can they make Eli magic happen?

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning, by the way, in two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: where they went four to oh in the postseason, six touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: one pick. Then in twenty eleven when they went four

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Speaker 1: And again, just in case anybody thinks, oh, Eli Manning's amazing,

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, they had a nine and seven record. Two

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Speaker 1: six and Eli led the league in interceptions with twenty.

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Speaker 1: Then in the playoffs he was incredible. And then in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven they were nine and seven. Eli

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Speaker 1: had sixteen picks, twenty nine touchdowns, and then he just

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Speaker 1: goes off in the playoffs, like Jimmy Butler is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of Eli Manning. And it's interesting. Eli Manning

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Speaker 1: has two titles, Jimmy Butler has none, and Butler probably

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Speaker 1: won't get one here. But you know, It's probably a

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Speaker 1: little premature, he's thirty three years old, but Jimmy Butler

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Speaker 1: is absolutely got to be a Hall of Fame guy. Right.

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Speaker 1: The Heat saw the talent that the Timberwolves didn't or

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Speaker 1: didn't want to pay, and that the Bulls didn't or

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Speaker 1: didn't want to pay, and that the Sixers didn't or

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Speaker 1: didn't want to pay. And he's done more than all

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Speaker 1: three of those teams since he left. It's just crazy.

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Speaker 1: How could Jimmy Butler. So I'll take the Nuggets in

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Speaker 1: Game one. Yeah, twenty to ninety nine. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: handle a win Game one. I'll take the Nuggets to

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Speaker 1: win in seven. Now, everybody's saying Yokich for MVP, Yokics

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Speaker 1: for MVP. It will know the Heat strategy early, whether

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Speaker 1: it's we just gotta shut down Yokic. We're gonna throw

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Speaker 1: doubles at him all the time, the doubles, doubles, doubles,

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Speaker 1: somebody's gonna eat. I can't see Michael Porter Junior winning MVP.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, though, I do believe that there's

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Speaker 1: a world where Jamal Murray steals the MVP. Now, there

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Speaker 1: is also a world where Murray only averages like fifteen

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Speaker 1: a game because they decide they absolutely need to lock

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Speaker 1: him down because if he goes off, you're getting killed.

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Speaker 1: So do you think Spolster tries to shut down the

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Speaker 1: superstar Jokic or does he say that's impossible, we cannot

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Speaker 1: do it. The Heat, by the way two and ten

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Speaker 1: in their last twelve meetings with Denver. It's a tough one, guys.

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Speaker 1: This is a tough one for Heat fans. So I

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Speaker 1: will take the Nuggets to win. So say, lengthy preview,

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow, back on video tomorrow as well.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you then,