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Speaker 2: We're gonna break down a bunch of different elements. I'm

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Speaker 2: So first of all, congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Speaker 2: As I talked about with Colin last night, it's not

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Speaker 2: good the twenty twenty three Nuggets. Oh, Jokic is the

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Speaker 2: every series because Tyree's Halliburton would steal a game from

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Speaker 3: For this next exercise.

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Speaker 2: that Shay's decision making did play a role in some

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Speaker 2: You lose Game two, you go down two zero, you

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Speaker 2: He made the plays he needed to make to win

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Speaker 2: Sga to be great, to play like a true superstar

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Speaker 2: in order for this team to win the championship, and

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Speaker 2: he did. As a result, He's just logged one of

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Speaker 2: the great shooting guard seasons in the history of the NBA.

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Speaker 2: with me, as I've had my frustrations with some of

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Speaker 2: the foul grifting, which is again a big picture NBA

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Speaker 2: by Shaye in this playoff run Jay Dubb, I'll talk

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Speaker 2: about the idea of just making a play right within

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Speaker 2: No one's gonna care. JDub had a rough start to

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Speaker 2: remarkable stuff from Jay Dubb. There's a ton of pressure

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Speaker 2: on Jadub as a twenty four year old second option

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Speaker 2: on a Big Finals favorite, to come through against some

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Speaker 2: and he did it extremely well. Salute to Jalen Williams

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Speaker 3: Who cares.

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Speaker 2: You won the title and he's got another summer to

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Speaker 2: get better. Now. I thought he was the guy that

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Speaker 2: tied the Thunder defense together. Who've talked about this a lot.

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Speaker 2: You need bigs on the floor. BIG's help you rebound, bigs,

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Speaker 2: helpy screen bigs unlock a lot of things. So what

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Speaker 2: And Chet just presents another big, giant problem at the

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Speaker 2: big like in high, drop in low, drop in switches

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Speaker 2: Countless blocks on drives. He had eight blocks in their

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable defensive playoff run from Chet Holmgren, Lou Dorton, Alex

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Speaker 2: Crusoe wrecking balls in every big moment. Both of them

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Speaker 2: combined for twenty seven made three pointers in twenty eight

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Speaker 2: steals in the NBA Finals. That's for steels and four

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Speaker 2: to threes made per game. Book it from Dorton Crusoe.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable performance. Cason Wallace a little bit of a rough

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Speaker 2: Cason Wallace. Aaron Wiggins ten for twenty two from three.

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Speaker 2: That's huge in his series like this. Isaiah Hartenstein nineteen

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Speaker 2: There's a big part of how they won Game four.

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Speaker 2: I'd argue they lose this series if it wasn't for

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Speaker 2: the job that Chet and Isaiah Hartenstein did in the

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Speaker 2: Isaiah Hartenstein. You got to shout out, Sam Preston, you

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Speaker 2: He came out of that series last year and said,

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Speaker 2: about Shay getting free throws, who cares? He's got a

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Just congratulations to thunder fans. They can never take that

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Speaker 2: character into their teams. The moments man like Tyrese those

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Speaker 2: It's just such a gut punch to Pacers fans that

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Speaker 2: your team and watching the whole world fall in love

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Speaker 2: with your team and like everything. But obviously at the

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Speaker 2: end the Tyree's injury and not getting the trophy, I

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Speaker 2: just imagine that was an incredible experience. And I know

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Speaker 2: that it's hard to see that now after what happened,

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Speaker 2: but that was a special Pacers team and again, I

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Speaker 2: just it's just burned into my brain and I'll never

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Speaker 2: ever forget that.

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Speaker 3: Indiana Pacers team.

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Speaker 2: Last thing before we get out of here today, I

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Speaker 2: just wanted to take a minute to shout out to

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Speaker 2: the Hoops Tonight crew and our fans. These playoff runs

443
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Speaker 2: are brutal for us. At one point we went live

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Speaker 2: thirty eight times at night out of forty one nights,

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Speaker 2: in addition to waking up the next morning for film

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Speaker 2: sessions and additional reaction content. About half of those days,

447
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Speaker 2: we were easily doing over ten episodes per week for

448
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Speaker 2: two and a half months. There is a ton of

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Speaker 2: grueling work behind the scenes with editing for different feeds

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Speaker 2: and for social media. One of our guys, Shane, was

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Speaker 2: doing it all from the East Coast, so you can

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Speaker 2: imagine the kinds of preposterous hours that he was up

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Speaker 2: working for us. Jackson and Shane both did a ton

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Speaker 2: of great work to make this playoff run run as

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Speaker 2: smoothly as it's ever as it's ever gone. I just

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Speaker 2: wanted to shout those guys out, make sure everyone realizes

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Speaker 2: that this is a team effort, and I want to

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Speaker 2: shout you guys out our fans for all the incredible

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Speaker 2: support along the way. We did just under seven million

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Speaker 2: views in the playoff run, which is a record for

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Speaker 2: this channel. We crossed over one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: which was a huge moment for us. We're already about

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Speaker 2: to pass over one hundred and ten thousand subscribers, Like

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Speaker 2: I had a moment with my wife last night. We

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Speaker 2: went out and sat by the fire pit. This was

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Speaker 2: the already, it just the time's flying by. This is

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Speaker 2: the fourth time since I started working for the volume

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Speaker 2: that we've crowned a champion in the NBA, And it's

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Speaker 2: just that the years, they just keep piling on top

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Speaker 2: of each other, and like, it's just been such a

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Speaker 2: remarkable experience, and I just can't say enough about how

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Speaker 2: much I appreciate you guys and the support, all the

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Speaker 2: kind words over the years, the incredible experiences that I've

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Speaker 2: gotten to have because of you guys. Like I have

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Speaker 2: a little bit of news this summer. My wife and

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Speaker 2: I are actually moving to Denver. It's a long story

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Speaker 2: of some stuff going on in terms of my wife

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Speaker 2: and I've been trying to have a kid for a

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Speaker 2: long time, and it's just been a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a chance challenge, and there are obviously like steps that

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Speaker 2: we could take to try to make that happen quicker,

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Speaker 2: but we're not quite ready for that, and so what

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Speaker 2: we're doing is trying to just take advantage of a

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Speaker 2: little window in time here where we don't have kids

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Speaker 2: and I work remote, so we can go do something

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Speaker 2: like go up to Denver and I can. My wife

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Speaker 2: and I love to ski. It's like one of our

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Speaker 2: favorite things to do together, so we want to like

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Speaker 2: go up there and ski fifty sixty times and just

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Speaker 2: enjoy the weather and enjoy the mountains, be close to

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Speaker 2: an NBA city, be close to the best player in

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Speaker 2: the world, and Nakola jokicch and it's just such a

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Speaker 2: cool thing that we're going to get to experience, to

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Speaker 2: get to just like pick up our family, our three dogs,

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Speaker 2: and go up to Denver and just live for a

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Speaker 2: couple of years. Because I happen to work remote, and

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Speaker 2: because you guys have done such an incredible job supporting this,

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Speaker 2: this job, this show over the years, and I just

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Speaker 2: it's I just feel incredibly fortunate. And it's not lost

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Speaker 2: on me that I can't like this entire experience is

501
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Speaker 2: because of you guys, And I just hope you guys

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Speaker 2: understand how much I appreciate you guys. And it's been

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Speaker 2: our fourth champion, but we know there's going to be

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Speaker 2: so many more, and I'm just so excited to see

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Speaker 2: where the show goes next.

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Speaker 3: What's the next big crazy thing that we do.

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Speaker 2: How what kind of crazy NBA history are we gonna

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Speaker 2: all kind of cover together and do together. We have

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Speaker 2: plans for the show in terms of playback and like

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Speaker 2: doing watch alongs and more other kinds of live streams,

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Speaker 2: like who the hell knows what we can do surrounding

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Speaker 2: the being in an NBA city next year in terms

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Speaker 2: of our production. I'm just so excited for the future

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Speaker 2: and so thankful for what we've accomplished to this point.

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Speaker 2: And again, I just I hope you guys understand how

516
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Speaker 2: much how much I appreciate you guys, how much I

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Speaker 2: appreciate our team, And I just feel I'm just feeling

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Speaker 2: very blessed and very fortunate today. But no rest for

519
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 2: the weary. We are right back into it because of

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Speaker 2: the NBA Draft and free agency in Summer League and trades.

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Speaker 2: And I'm literally recording with Sam Vassini later this afternoon,

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Speaker 2: and I've got a bunch of prep I need. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna be watching film all afternoon, getting ready for our

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Speaker 2: NBA Draft preview.

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Speaker 3: But thankfully we're just a few weeks out.

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Speaker 2: Once we get after that first weekend of Summer League,

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Speaker 2: things really toned back and then me and my team

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Speaker 2: will get a chance to relax, and then of course

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Speaker 2: I'll be turning around and moving my entire life up

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Speaker 2: to the North. But but yeah, we have exciting week

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Speaker 2: ahead of us.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 2: We've got that draft preview with Sam Vessini will most

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Speaker 2: likely be coming out tomorrow morning. I believe the plan

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Speaker 2: as of right now is to do a live reaction

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Speaker 2: to the to the lottery on Wednesday night. But I

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Speaker 2: will keep you guys posted. Just keep an eye on

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Speaker 2: the Twitter feed and I'll let you guys know from there.

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Speaker 2: And I've had people asking like, what are we going

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Speaker 2: to do this summer? Lots of player ranking type stuff,

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Speaker 2: big picture NBA stuff where I plan on doing some

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Speaker 2: like rewatches on playback of like great NBA games and

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Speaker 2: NBA history. Just keep an eye on twitter feed at

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Speaker 2: Underscore Jason LT. I'll keep you guys in the loop.

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Speaker 2: Wrong along the way. Thanks again, another year in the books.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you guys tomorrow for some draft stuff.

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Speaker 3: What some guys.

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Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and so

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Speaker 2: sporting hoops tonight. It would actually be really helpful for

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Speaker 2: us if you guys would take a second and leave

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Speaker 2: a rating and a review. As always, I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: guys supporting us, but if you could take a minute

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Speaker 2: to do that, I'd really appreciate it.

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