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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world.

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, August twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. I'm j E.

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Speaker 2: St Skeets and this is a quick sick o edition

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Speaker 2: of the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network. Shout

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Speaker 2: out to everyone joining me live here on YouTube. Smash

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Speaker 2: the likes, subscribe away. Why am I here because I

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Speaker 2: was at the car dealership this morning doing a classic

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Speaker 2: service a lit'll tune up, you know, change that oil,

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Speaker 2: check my tires.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting.

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Speaker 2: There because I always hope it's going to take twenty minutes,

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Speaker 2: but of course it takes two hours. And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: oh man, we got the Feeble World Cup starting tomorrow. Man,

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Speaker 2: I'm plumped for this. Man, I should do a little

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Speaker 2: preview podcast. So why not? That's why we're here a

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Speaker 2: little later than normal on a Thursday. We got the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Feeble World Cup tipping on Friday tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 2: very early thirty two teams playing in the Philippines, Indonesia

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Speaker 2: and Japan. So why not do a little preview? You

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Speaker 2: know what this is for me, not even for you

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Speaker 2: the viewers or listeners. We got the defending champs. We

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Speaker 2: got Spain, their favorite Australia deep team, they looked pretty

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Speaker 2: damn good in recent international tournaments. France always a tough out,

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Speaker 2: and then Team USA looking to reclaim a gold after

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Speaker 2: a very disappointing seventh place finish in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to go through like sort of the basics.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to the World Cup, because honestly, I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure how many people really know how this all

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Speaker 2: goes down. So it's a one man show Imskeetz and

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Speaker 2: JD here today, So bear with me as we try

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Speaker 2: and do this here in the yard. But I've got

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Speaker 2: like a bunch of basic questions, Like I said about

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Speaker 2: the Feeble World Cup, will go quickly through each group

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Speaker 2: and so sort of talk through who the favorites are

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Speaker 2: and I'll make some dumb predictions at the end. But

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Speaker 2: the first que that some people want to know is like,

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Speaker 2: what's the format? What's the schedule for this damn thing.

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Speaker 2: It's very simple. Tournament is played in three phases, they

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Speaker 2: love to call them phases. We got the group phase,

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Speaker 2: first round, we got the group phase second round, and

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Speaker 2: then the final phase. So first round that takes place

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Speaker 2: over six days again starting on the twenty fifth that's

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Speaker 2: Friday to the thirtieth. The thirty two qualified teams. They're

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Speaker 2: sorted into eight groups of four, and we will go

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Speaker 2: through those groups in a second. Every team plays against

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Speaker 2: the three other teams in its group. Then the top

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Speaker 2: two teams from each group qualify that next group phase

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Speaker 2: in the second round, and the bottom two teams they

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Speaker 2: play in what they call the classification round for places

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Speaker 2: seventeen all the way through thirty second. Now, for the

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Speaker 2: most part, no one is going to care about those

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Speaker 2: games the classification round, though, as I'll address later, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes these two squads that are playing in this classic

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Speaker 2: classification round.

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Speaker 1: Are actually vying for a spot in the Olympics. But

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Speaker 1: I'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: So second round of the group phase, that's August thirty first,

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Speaker 2: that's through September fourth. That's the sixteen remaining teams. They're

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Speaker 2: sorted into four groups of four again, and I should

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Speaker 2: note the results of the three games from the first

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Speaker 2: round they carry over to the second round, and so

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Speaker 2: within these new groups, every team plays against the two

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Speaker 2: first round, right, so you're seeing new teams, and then

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Speaker 2: once again the top two teams from each group qualify

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Speaker 2: they're eliminated and they're ranked again in places nine through sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Final phase, that's what everybody cares about. That's your quarterfinals,

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Speaker 2: that's your classification matches for fifth to eighth place. You

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Speaker 2: matches for the World Cup Gold and bronze. Final phase

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Speaker 2: is really like your one and done knockout stage when

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Speaker 2: we get the best of the best. So that tips

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Speaker 2: off on September fifth, the final phase, and it culminates

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Speaker 2: with the championship on September tenth. Recap thirty two teams

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Speaker 2: playing ninety two games over sixteen days.

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Speaker 2: So that is the format and the schedule here. So

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Speaker 2: what's at stake in this bad boy well, bragging rights.

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Speaker 2: This is a big deal, and you know, even I

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Speaker 2: a bigger deal. To win this damn thing. You get

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Speaker 2: a trophy. Everybody likes a trophy. I in fact grabbed

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Speaker 2: and features a roll of honor listing all the world champions.

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Speaker 2: This is the FEBA Basketball World Cup trophy stands sixty

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Speaker 2: centimeters high. That's close to two feet baby for you

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Speaker 2: know ballpark twenty three twenty four inches. It ranks among

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Speaker 2: the tallest sports trophies in the world. Now I believe

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Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup is laughing at the size of this,

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Speaker 2: but I guess it is one of the taller ones

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Speaker 2: when you take a peek at it. There also at stake, though,

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Speaker 2: as I alluded to earlier, are we have this World

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Speaker 2: so seven of the twelve spots are handed to the

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Speaker 2: top teams in each region. And so again within this

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Speaker 2: as other Asian countries falter. I mean, they're gonna want to,

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Speaker 2: teams do in their region. Okay, so that's what's at stake,

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Speaker 2: some Olympic berths, and obviously you know, bragging rights and

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Speaker 2: that sweet ass trophy. Next question, probably one that a

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Speaker 2: lot of you would love to know here is how

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Speaker 2: do you watch this thing? How do you watch the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Feeble World Cup. Well, you watch it

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Speaker 2: early if you live where I live on the East

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Speaker 2: Coasters here in the States. Okay, Internationally, there's this thing

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Speaker 2: called the court Side eighteen ninety one. It's a website

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Speaker 2: and you can get like a Feeble World Cup Pass,

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Speaker 2: which enables you access to all the games from this

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Speaker 2: I forget what it is off the top of my head.

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Speaker 2: Is it ten fifteen bucks? But all of the games

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Speaker 2: are available via this court side Feeble World Cup Pass,

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Speaker 2: which is the dumbest named thing.

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Speaker 2: Court side eighteen eighteen ninety one. Okay, anyway, you can

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Speaker 2: purchase on NBA dot com if you want. Now. For

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Speaker 2: fans watching in the US, games are also available on

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Speaker 2: ESPN platforms, including ESPN two and ESPN Plus. Six games

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Speaker 2: six games, excuse me, are going to air exclusively on

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Speaker 2: ESPN two, including three in the first round with Tmusa,

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Speaker 2: and then all the other games are going to be

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Speaker 2: I guess now we will. I'll slip this in here.

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Speaker 2: We will be on playback for hopefully a lot of

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Speaker 2: I have I'm showing a board right now. We've showed

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Speaker 2: this to you guys on a previous nodunks podcast, but

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Speaker 2: what will be watching together on playback This is a

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Speaker 2: really fun, fun service that we've been doing for you know,

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Speaker 2: NBA games last season, some playoff games.

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Speaker 1: I did an old what did I do? Did?

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Speaker 2: Like a two thousand and one Raptor Sixers game, But

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Speaker 2: playback dot tv slash No Dunks, you can actually watch

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Speaker 2: the games with us if you are subscribed to said service.

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Speaker 2: In this case, it will be probably like ESPN Plus

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Speaker 2: it with us in the chat and like sort of

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Speaker 2: will be nine thirty am Eastern tomorrow. That's Friday, August

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Speaker 1: You know, Tassie's got to be fired up for that one.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, some of the games we will be checking

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Speaker 2: out there on playback so playback dot tea, playback dot tv,

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Speaker 2: Ziller of the Good Morning It's Basketball newsletter always does

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Speaker 2: great sort of feeble works, especially for like the casuals

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Speaker 2: Right. You know, it's like tennis in that sense, how

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Speaker 2: points based system. They rank them all. So Group A

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Speaker 2: He could lead the tournament in scoring. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: I would think Karl Anthony Towns would be on that

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Speaker 2: short list. Italy is the favorites in this group. They

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Speaker 2: Lithuania, Montenegro, Mexico and Egypt are in Group D. I'll

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Speaker 2: and the Ivory Coast Spain, like I said, right off

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Speaker 2: the top, one of the favorites. Still Now they're without

434
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Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen tournament MVP, Ricky Rubio. He's out for

435
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Speaker 2: mental health reasons. They will not have Lorenzo Brown, another

436
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 2: former Raptor. How many former Raptors are in this thing.

437
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 2: He's out due to injuries. So they're very thin at

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Speaker 2: the point guard position. But this team always does well

439
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Speaker 2: at these things. They've had a podium finish in eight

440
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Speaker 2: of their last ten FIBA events, so they always go deep. Yeah,

441
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 2: there's no Gasol Brothers anymore, but they got the Hermanngo

442
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Speaker 2: Man's brothers. You got Willie and Wacho and so they're

443
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Speaker 2: a little younger, but there's still talent. They're still stars,

444
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Speaker 2: and you know they will they'll be moving out of

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Speaker 2: this group and have plans to go all the way. Brazil,

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Speaker 2: they beat Australia on the road during their preparation games here.

447
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Speaker 2: Amazing performance from another former raptor, Bruno Koboklo. That's a

448
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: name you haven't heard in a while. Twenty points, twelve

449
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: boards and five blocks in that. Like little upset there

450
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Speaker 2: from Brazil on the road against Australia.

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Speaker 1: So nice.

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Speaker 2: Nice obviously win here and leading up to this tournament,

453
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Speaker 2: and I think those two teams will be the ultimate

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Speaker 2: teams coming out.

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Speaker 1: Of this one.

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Speaker 2: All right, final group, you know it's my favorite group

457
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Speaker 2: because it's my homer group. We got France, Canada, Latvia

458
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Speaker 2: and Lebanon. This really is the Jay Eastkeets group. Half

459
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Speaker 2: of my or not half of my family, but my

460
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Speaker 2: mom's sister married a Lebanese man, so I have a

461
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of Lebanese Canadian in my family. So this

462
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Speaker 2: is the group for me. I can't wait for that.

463
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Speaker 2: Canada versus Lebanon game. But France they are the favorites

464
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Speaker 2: to get out of this. They are probably the favorites,

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Speaker 2: so one of the favorites to win those.

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Speaker 1: Whole damn thing.

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Speaker 2: They reached the podium at the last two World Cups

468
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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen, back to back third

469
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Speaker 2: place finishes in those. They won silver at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Speaker 2: They were runners up at Phoeba euro Basket in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. So good squad. Nowemban Yama, but Rudy Gobert,

472
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Speaker 2: Evan Fournier, who's like a star in international hoops, same

473
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Speaker 2: with Nicholas Batoum. They got Nando Dicolo, Gershan Yabasule. These

474
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Speaker 2: are strong international contributors and they are they're tall, they're athletic.

475
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Speaker 2: They put up some ball pressure because you've got Rudy

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Speaker 2: behind you with the rim protection, so they they know,

477
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 2: they they have an identity. They've been here before and

478
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 2: they want to win this damn thing. And with the

479
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Speaker 2: Paris Olympics right around the corner as the host, they're

480
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: already in so there's no real pressure like they got

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Speaker 2: to finish in this and this this, but don't be

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Speaker 2: surprised for a very deep run from them.

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Speaker 1: Canada.

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Speaker 2: They come in with their deepest roster ever. We've talked

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Speaker 2: a lot about them, so I won't bore you to

486
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 2: death here, but they could could at the end of it,

487
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 2: have the best player in the tournament. You know if

488
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Speaker 2: over these you know, a couple of weeks, SGA will

489
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Speaker 2: be fighting with your Lucas and obviously hell the Americans

490
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Speaker 2: and Carl Anthony Towns and maybe Lowry markin and there's

491
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Speaker 2: other great players in this but Sga, especially if he

492
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Speaker 2: can take Canada far, he has to play an elite

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Speaker 2: level for Canada to go to maybe even metal in

494
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Speaker 2: this thing. RJ. Barrett was a stud in a few

495
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 2: of those warm up games. Knicks fans had to have

496
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: been excited in seeing some of those highlights. I don't

497
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: know if the international teams haven't figured out that he's

498
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 2: left handed, but he is going left so try and

499
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: take it away. But you look great, Kelly Olinok. He

500
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: always plays well in FOBA. It's like suited for him

501
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: the way he plays. So this is a good squad.

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Speaker 2: They got a lot of other Canadian talent there and

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Speaker 2: got some defensive guys and Brooks and Dort Like they're

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Speaker 2: gonna need They're gonna need shooting, as I've said they

505
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 2: need like Nikhil Alexander Walker needs to hit.

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Speaker 1: RJ.

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Speaker 2: Barrett needs to be on, Kelly Olinic needs to be on.

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00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 2: So they need that three point shooting. SGA needs to

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Speaker 2: be a star, and then they need to play defense,

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00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: which I believe they can with their personnel. So both

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Speaker 2: France and Canada high expectations they play on the first day,

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Speaker 2: so man, it's gonna really set the tone there, and

513
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 2: one of them is gonna be like they're gonna lose

514
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: and be like, oh crap, we gotta, we gotta Now, really,

515
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Speaker 2: you know, take care of these other teams in Latvia

516
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Speaker 2: who won't have Porzingis, which is a you know, a

517
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Speaker 2: plus for a team like Canada and then Lebanon. So

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Speaker 2: that first game is gonna be fun, fun, fun, and

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00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 2: we'll be on playback for that one and then and

520
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Speaker 2: like I said, no Porzingis, But like, don't overlook Latvia

521
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: because they dominated the European qualifiers when it came to

522
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 2: three point shooting, like they could just like shoot their

523
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: way through to the second round or even further because

524
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: they hit one hundred and thirty four to threes on

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Speaker 2: like thirty eight percent as a team, second best in

526
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Speaker 2: both of those categories among all the teams in that competition.

527
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Speaker 2: They can they can really shoot it so that you

528
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Speaker 2: never know in one of these games they could be

529
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Speaker 2: on fire and that can be enough. So to wrap

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Speaker 2: up here, which team is the clear cut favorite? I

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Speaker 2: will be genuinely shocked if tm USA doesn't win gold.

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00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 2: That's I just think they've looked that impressive. But when

533
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Speaker 2: you get to the knockout stage, we hit the cliche.

534
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: Anything can happen and you go aways cold and the

535
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: other team can't miss foul trouble.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a good thing with TMUSA.

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00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, Anthony Edwards, you know a rough night

538
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: four or fifteen, Well, I got other guys. They got Ingram,

539
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: they got brunts, and they've got many other scorers in

540
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: Theory Reeves off the bench, and they should be Okay.

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Speaker 2: I would be picking them. I know they're the favorites,

542
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: and after seeing them play, I wouldn't be, you know,

543
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Speaker 2: changing my mind. But there are other good teams, So

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Speaker 2: I will go with Team at USA. Which team could

545
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 2: surprise really rooting for that Cinderella South Sedan run. I

546
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: would just love to see them get to the second group.

547
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 2: They play fun basketball, so.

548
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Speaker 1: And they could get out. They could sneak out of there.

549
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: Germany, I think in the grand scheme of things get

550
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Speaker 2: overlooked a little bit in international play. But NBA talent,

551
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: your league talent combination two of the vets and youth,

552
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: and that seems to be a good recipe in tournaments

553
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 2: like this. You know that just like youth and experience,

554
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: and you jam them together and you can put something,

555
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: put a run together. And then Italy heavy favorites come

556
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Speaker 2: out of Group A. They actually sort of have like

557
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: a good little draw too. If they get out of

558
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: Group A as they should, they then go into that

559
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Speaker 2: second group with Group b's two winners and it's like

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Speaker 2: it'll be Serbia.

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Speaker 1: Italy could beat them.

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Speaker 2: So they could see like a really nice pathway here

563
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Speaker 2: if they can.

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Speaker 1: Avoid the Americans.

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Speaker 2: When you get out to like the knockout stage, like

566
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Speaker 2: the quarterfinals, Italy could be there, like in the Semis.

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Speaker 2: We'll just throw that out there. I wouldn't be surprised

568
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Speaker 2: Final one, which I forgot to make a lower third

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Speaker 2: four of course, World Cup predictions. So finalists, winner, tournament MVP.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with USA over Australia. I'm gonna go

571
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: with Brandon Ingram as my tournament MVP. I'm, you know,

572
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: digging my heels in on this one, Anthony Edwards. If

573
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: you think TM USA is gonna win, you'd probably think

574
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: Aunt would get it. Maybe Brunson.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I got a weird feeling.

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Speaker 2: Ingram's gonna have some monster games here, so I will

577
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Speaker 2: go with him just to be different. And that could

578
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: look really dumb because the last two tournament MVP in

579
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: the World Cup have been guards in Ricky point Guards

580
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 2: and Ricky Rubio and Kyrie Irving. So maybe that's why

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00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 2: you'd want to go jail in Brunson. Heck, if you

582
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: think Australia could, you know, do the unthinkable and win gold,

583
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Speaker 2: then you'd probably be looking at someone like Patty Mills.

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Speaker 2: But I will go with USA over the Boomers and

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Speaker 2: b I as my MVP, and we will call it there.

586
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: We tried to make this as quick as possible. You

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Speaker 2: tell me though in the stream team in the comments

588
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Speaker 2: tweet at US at no Dunk Sinc.

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Speaker 1: That's I n C on the end.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I really want to know who you got

591
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Speaker 2: winning the thing, who's your tournament MVP. And then like

592
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Speaker 2: a surprise team, who do you think could like make

593
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Speaker 2: it to sort of the knockout stage. Not one of

594
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: these like powerhouse teams, but one of these other ones

595
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: that maybe shocked the world, like the Philippines. Would be

596
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 2: a super fun story if they could, if they could

597
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: get all the way there, that would be awesome. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I will throw up the playback schedule one more time

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Speaker 2: for everybody. Here. We are tomorrow nine thirty am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: That link is in the show notes. Join the room

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Speaker 2: and we'll be live there. I know task you will

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00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: be there. I'm not sure about my guy TK, but

603
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: you know I'll be there. I'll be rocking my Canadian

604
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Speaker 2: SGA New Jersey, hoping they can take down Le Blue.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 2: This could be a monster game. But then there's some

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Speaker 2: other ones there as well. Okay, guys, like I said,

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Speaker 2: quick and for the sickos, hopefully, I don't know, hopefully

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Speaker 2: you learned a thing or two. I'm sure some of

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Speaker 2: you are going to teach me a thing or too

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Speaker 2: in the comments, and I look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm super hype for this.

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00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: I like that it despite a great looking American team,

614
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: you know, they are not gonna like group playing maybe,

615
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: but like once we get to the real knockout games,

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Speaker 2: these are gonna be battles, I believe. I don't think

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00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna see many you know, thirty point cake walks.

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Speaker 2: I think we are gonna have close games and the

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Speaker 2: butt holes are gonna get tight, and anything can happen,

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Speaker 2: and that's what makes it fun.

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Speaker 1: So I am.

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Speaker 2: I'm also just excited to watch basketball here too. We

623
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Speaker 2: got some great WNBA action going on, but I'm missing

624
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: the NBA, and we get a lot of NBA talent

625
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 2: in this thing across all these teams, so should be fun. Guys,

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Speaker 2: smashed a like button subscribed to No Dunks. I told

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Speaker 2: you we hit eighty three thousand subs the other day.

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Speaker 2: We just like blew through that. I wasn't even exaggerating

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Speaker 2: that we're almost getting closer to eighty four thousand. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I was slightly exaggerating, But tell your friends make sure

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Speaker 2: they subscribe. And if you're a podcast listener, even if

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Speaker 2: if you don't watch us, just jump over subscribe and

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Speaker 2: then just like, forget about it, you know, just leave

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Speaker 2: it and enjoy us in the old cans.

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Speaker 1: I think that's it. Guys.

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Speaker 2: We will see you tomorrow morning on playback. We might

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Speaker 2: do some shows to some actual podcasts in recapping some

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00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: of the games. We'll see how they go. We'll see

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Speaker 2: what people are talking about.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise.

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00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 2: In the NBA world, we've got people talking about, you know,

642
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 2: the Nick suing the Raptors, and oh, you won't believe this,

643
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: the Damian Lillard trade that buzz might pick up as

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00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: we get closer to camp. Yeah, no shit, srlock. So

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00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: that's where we're at in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Who cares.

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Speaker 2: Let's watch some international basketball. Let's have some fun over

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Speaker 2: the next couple weeks and stick with no ducks to

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Speaker 2: enjoy the ride.

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Speaker 1: All right? Should I give you a clipper bros? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Why not? You heard it here first. Have a great time,

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Speaker 1: turn up, Love you guys. Awesome, all right, guys, sur

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Speaker 1: Brace the day.

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Speaker 2: People,