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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Herd.

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Speaker 4: It's me Jason McIntyre Filly in for Colin Cowherd, who.

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Speaker 3: Is jet sitting as usual.

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Speaker 4: I can't say where he is, but trust he is

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Speaker 4: in a good spot enjoying his two weeks off. We've

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Speaker 4: been off for a little while due to the Women's

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Speaker 4: FIFA World Cup, but we're back today. It's me Jason

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Speaker 4: joined by Alex Curry. I know you guys are waiting.

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Speaker 4: Alex is close. It's getting out.

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Speaker 5: Don't put that out there. We're definitely in the red zone.

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Speaker 5: But we're doing great. We're feeling great. We're excited to

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Speaker 4: Fantastic show. Listen when you take it. When you're off

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Speaker 4: for a few days, you got a lot of news.

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Speaker 4: We got Albert Breer coming up next hour. Jovon Bouja

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Speaker 4: with our big Lakers update here in about twenty minutes.

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Speaker 4: Eric main Genie Final hour boy. Shout out to my guy,

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Speaker 4: Eric Mangini. He's sick of Aaron Rodgers. Yes, I knew

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Speaker 4: been for a while.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, I want to start the show with text messaging.

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Speaker 4: Well, not totally but kinda sorta. The Lakers made a

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Speaker 4: big splash here in the last week picking up DeAndre Ayton,

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Speaker 4: the disgruntled center who was cut loose by the Portland Trailblazers.

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Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people instantly poop pooed

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Speaker 4: this deal as out, this is no big deal.

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Speaker 3: Aton's a malcontent.

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Speaker 2: Jay.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the story.

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Speaker 4: In the Athletic about DeAndre eight and the guy was

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Speaker 4: a jerk last year. He would come out of games

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Speaker 4: and slam chairs down. You'd be late to rehab, he

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Speaker 4: would be late for team flights. I said, guys, guys, guys,

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Speaker 4: this is how much DeAndre Ayton hated it in Portland.

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Speaker 4: He forfeited ten million dollars to get out of town

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Speaker 4: on a bad team.

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Speaker 3: He saw that they drafted as replacement.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't feeling it, and DeAndre Ayton leaves Portland for

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Speaker 3: Now, I know you guys, even if you want to

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Speaker 3: say Aten's not that good of a player, I.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have a great staff who comes up

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Speaker 4: with some amazing stats. And let's just say, DeAndre Ayton

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Speaker 4: a top eight center in the league. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 4: look at these stats. Are here, fifteen and ten and

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Speaker 4: fifty percent shooting in the last seven seasons. Jokich is

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Speaker 4: great players. DeAndre Ayton's in that class with them. He

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Speaker 4: just obviously was in Portland, so nobody paid attention. I

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Speaker 4: where I'm about to go, folks. So it's understandable that

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Speaker 4: Ayton hated life in Portland, and at thirty two million,

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Speaker 4: Portland probably hated him too. However, DeAndre Ayden's making eight

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Speaker 4: million dollars with the Lakers. I looked this up. Rudy

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Speaker 4: The player DeAndre Ayton is hell, no, he's not even

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Speaker 3: But it was telling this week when Aydon had an interview.

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Speaker 4: About arriving to the Lakers and they asked if he's

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Speaker 4: heard from Lebron and he said, no, not really. You

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Speaker 4: either hear from someone or you don't. He probably realized

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Speaker 4: quickly followed up with but I heard from Luca. Luca

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Speaker 3: That kind of put the antenna up. Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 3: When we last left.

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Speaker 4: This show, Lebron was sending cryptic messages to the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Remember the welcome home.

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Speaker 4: Hat in Cleveland, Alex and I got a good chuckle

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Speaker 4: out of that playing golf in Ohio. As free agency started,

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Speaker 3: He's waiting for one piece.

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Speaker 4: Guys, there is one missing piece on the Lakers before

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Speaker 4: Lebron is fully bought in. Is he probably a little

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Speaker 4: perturbed that the Lakers are catering to Luca not him. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's natural, right. Lebron's been the alpha on every team

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Speaker 4: He goes to the Lakers. Even when they brought our ad,

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Speaker 4: it was still Lebron's show. It's pretty clearly going to

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Speaker 4: be Luca's show going forward. In Lebron's feelings are probably heard,

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Speaker 4: He's in his feelings a little.

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Speaker 3: That happens. But I have the answer, and it came

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Speaker 3: to me last night.

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Speaker 4: Now, I will warn you when I presented this missing

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Speaker 3: And let's just say not everybody was feeling it.

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Speaker 4: But if you've been following what's going on in Phoenix

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Speaker 4: right now, the Suns cannot find a taker for Bradley Beal,

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Speaker 4: stretch him the same way Milwaukee dumped Damian Lillard. Well, listen,

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Speaker 4: Bradley Beal making fifty million dollars a year is not

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Speaker 4: a great part of your team. He's overpaid at fifty mil. Now,

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Speaker 4: suddenly he looks like Russell Wilson. You guys remember Russell Wilson, right,

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Speaker 4: he signs this lucrative deal in Denver. Sean Payton quickly

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Speaker 4: realizes this ain't gonna work, not at thirty seven mil

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Speaker 4: ask him to take a pay cut. Russ says, not happening,

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Speaker 4: and they dump him. Russell Wilson thirty seven million. No,

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Speaker 4: Russell Wilson at one million a year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Sign me up up and.

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Speaker 4: The Steelers got to the playoffs. They lost to the Ravens,

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Speaker 4: quarterback at one million dollars, which brings me to Bradley Beal. Folks,

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Speaker 4: I get it. You think Beal's washed. I disagree. He's

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Speaker 4: only thirty two. His numbers last year, thirty eight percent

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Speaker 3: Those are good numbers on a bad team.

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Speaker 4: At fifty million, they're not great numbers. Now, if Bradley

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Speaker 4: Beal hits the market and the Lakers can grab him

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Speaker 4: at four or five million dollars a year, well who's

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Speaker 4: give me closing games, starting whatever, closing games eight Lebron,

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Speaker 4: Luca Beal and reeves. Who's stopping that offense? The Lakers

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Speaker 4: need catch and shoot guys. Hey, Austin Reed, go spot up.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Bradley Beal goes spot up, catch.

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Speaker 4: And shoot threes, bang bang. Now, the defense is obviously

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Speaker 4: They could not have offensively, couldn't get to one hundred

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Speaker 3: Now, Lebron was banged up, he's old.

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Speaker 4: I think Bradley Beal is the missing piece for the

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Speaker 4: Lakers to win the West.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, Houston is elite, we know that.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Denver very very good, much improved, and okase, he

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Speaker 3: Very good again.

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Speaker 4: Although you know the history of teams trying to get

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Speaker 4: and I believe since the twenty nineteen Warriors. So the

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Speaker 4: Lakers are missing one piece and I think at that

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Speaker 4: point lebrono by in that piece is Bradley Beal.

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Speaker 3: Now, the Celtics kind of want him.

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Speaker 4: The Clippers are going to make a hard push and

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Speaker 4: Milwaukee Bucks, Hey, Beale, come and take all the shots

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Speaker 4: you want with Jannis, we have no back court. But

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Speaker 4: the East. Sure, but it's the Lakers, Beal. Do you

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Speaker 4: your numbers? I think it's a no brainer. The Lakers

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Speaker 3: In the Western Conference. And I want to shift to.

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Speaker 4: College football because the Big twelve media Days are happening

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Speaker 4: this week and something interesting was said by Dion Sanders

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Speaker 3: Now, let me give you a quick little backstory.

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Speaker 4: what an impact on college football. Obviously, having Shaduor Sanders

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Speaker 3: Was getting everybody he wanted. Colorado was on the ride,

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Speaker 4: it's becoming pretty clear college football is if you didn't

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Speaker 3: If you spend the money, your chances of.

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Speaker 4: Getting to the playoff and winning a Natty increased greatly.

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Speaker 4: Spent in access of thirty five million. So Dion Sanders

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Speaker 6: I wish it was a cap. You know, like the

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Speaker 6: top of the line player makes this, and if you're

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Speaker 6: make that. That's what the NFL does. So the problem

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Speaker 6: but he could go to another school and they give

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Speaker 6: him a half a million dollars and you can't You

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Speaker 6: can't compete with that.

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Speaker 7: That don't make sense.

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Speaker 6: See, all you had to do is look at the

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Speaker 6: playoffs and see what those teams spent. And you understand,

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Speaker 6: So during freshman class it is. It's crazy. The teams

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Speaker 4: In Yeah, I'm sure a lot of baseball owners and

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Speaker 3: Hey, we could use a salary cap. Not gonna happen, But.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what's next. Are we gonna get a union

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Speaker 4: for college football players? Is that on the horizon?

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Speaker 3: Listen?

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. I saw this idea from Dion.

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Speaker 4: I was like, that's not terrible. I don't hate it. However,

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Speaker 3: That happened on the fourth of July.

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Speaker 4: You guys probably missed this, celebrating with hot dogs and fireworks,

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Speaker 4: But the Texas Tech Red Raiders have a billionaire donor

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Speaker 4: Take a Guess who's gonna lap Dion and Colorado in

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Speaker 8: We've all talked about it, but you have to admit

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Speaker 3: He's not wrong and Dion's not wrong.

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Speaker 4: two years. Basically, if you haven't hit up the billionaire

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Speaker 3: You're way behind. And I have this feeling.

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Speaker 4: Folks obviously, losing Schador and Travis Hunter hurt, but I

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Speaker 7: Damn.

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Speaker 4: We're like maybe a five win team and Texas Tech's

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Speaker 4: not saying they're going to the playoffs, but college football

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Speaker 4: right now is in an awesome moment if you like

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Speaker 4: show ahead and coming up next, we got a Lakers insider.

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Speaker 4: Are the Lakers gonna get Beal? Is it gonna be

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Speaker 9: It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington, and I

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Speaker 3: The Lakers have been in the news all the time.

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Speaker 4: Jovon Bouja, formerly of the Athletic He's got a new

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Speaker 4: He's going to the Summer League tonight.

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Speaker 7: In like an hour. Yeah, I'm going straight to the airport.

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Speaker 3: Bronnie versus Cooper flag? Huh? Yeah? Is that how it's

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Speaker 4: Cooper Flag versus A fifty eight figgiftyth Sorry apology. We'll

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Speaker 4: with DeAndre Aighton giving his first interview since going to

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Speaker 4: the Lakers, and I think people are already past his

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Speaker 3: Ten million dollars to get out of town. He said.

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Speaker 3: Lebron has not texted him, but Luca has.

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Speaker 4: Now, you had a great nugget last time that Austin

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Speaker 4: Reeves and Jake Laavia share an agent. Doesn't Luca share

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Speaker 10: So so I've heard they have a good rapport, like

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Speaker 10: so they share an agent. They were the top two

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Speaker 10: Is a guy who's been double double every year of

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Speaker 4: And it feels like maybe, you know, he'd always been

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Speaker 7: So it's like that showed you that the level of.

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Speaker 10: Now it's interesting Jackson Hayes' back and I think as

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Speaker 4: Okay, so a lot of Luca talk, Jovanne, you're not

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Speaker 7: To get traded. I think this has been.

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Speaker 10: Just him putting some pressure on the organization because he

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Speaker 7: The rest of this month.

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Speaker 4: If they do it, let's ask is there a deal

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Speaker 10: So they can't trade the twenty twenty six. It has

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Speaker 10: I guess the upside there is like you are betting

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Speaker 10: I think the issue has been, like we've seen teams

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Speaker 10: So I do think if they put Dalton connect and

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Speaker 7: Seem like they want to do that.

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Speaker 10: Bit of all that, right, Like this is the first

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Speaker 10: time you could say in Lebron's career he hasn't been

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Speaker 10: the sole focus or the primary focus of his franchise

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Speaker 10: that he's been on. Like even with Ad, it was

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Speaker 10: all like it was always Lebron trying to pass the

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Speaker 10: baton to Ad. Luca just came in and it got

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Speaker 10: the baton right from the owner. He was handed it

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Speaker 10: on on a golden pillows. So and understandably so, because

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Speaker 10: he's a top at worst, top five player in the league,

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Speaker 10: if not top three, with the upside to be the

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Speaker 10: best player in.

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Speaker 7: My opinion and win an MVP.

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Speaker 10: So like I get it. He's a guy who's about

449
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Speaker 10: to enter his prime, has already led a team to

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Speaker 10: the finals. But Lebron's just I think the big thing

451
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Speaker 10: is like he sees the finish line, whether it's another year,

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Speaker 10: two years, and he wants to win that fifth ring.

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Speaker 10: And it doesn't feel like the Lakers are going all

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Speaker 10: in on this year's roster. They're trying to kind of

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Speaker 10: split the baby, not yet. But even if I mean,

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Speaker 10: I guess if they trade the first, I'll say that's

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Speaker 10: going all in. But anything short of that, it is

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Speaker 10: kind of like a half measure in terms of like

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Speaker 10: trying to make this year's roster better but also keeping

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Speaker 10: that flexibility. Like those two things are kind of at odds. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: and and but it seems like they're prioritizing the future.

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Speaker 3: Remember with like the James Wiseman too.

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Speaker 10: They won a title, like they kind of did the

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Speaker 10: best version of it. Obviously the Wiseman pick didn't work out,

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Speaker 10: but they were able to rebuild quickly, get back to

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Speaker 10: the finals, win a championship, and then now obviously you know,

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Speaker 10: we'll see with them.

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Speaker 3: So that brings me to Bradley Beal.

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Speaker 4: So the Sun's not seem to find a taker for

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Speaker 4: him with that contract, so they'll have to wave and stretch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I.

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Speaker 4: Was saying at the outset Beel at fifty mili not

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Speaker 4: really good? Feel at five mil amazing? Do you anticipate

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Speaker 4: that to happen to Bale? And then who are the

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Speaker 4: main contenders.

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Speaker 10: For sounds like the Clippers are the main above the Lakers. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: because they could offer him a starting spot with the Lakers,

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Speaker 10: it gets a little dicey if you look at like

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Speaker 10: Luca Austin Beale, Lebron a lot of firepower, but defensively

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Speaker 10: that's going to be.

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Speaker 3: But they're closing lineup with one hundred percent have Beal eight.

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Speaker 10: But again, but then I just think that defense isn't

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Speaker 10: good enough if you just look at right, like, but.

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Speaker 4: When the offense overcompensate for it with Beal and Reeves

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Speaker 4: on the perimeter.

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Speaker 10: Maybe, but I think we mean we kind of saw

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Speaker 10: Phoenix try to do that approach with Katie Booker and

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Speaker 10: Beel and be like, you know, like they tried to

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Speaker 10: go to the all wing offensive approach and it just didn't

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Speaker 10: really work.

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Speaker 7: So I'm personally skeptical. Like I'm of two minds.

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Speaker 10: Beal at five million dollars great value, and the Lakers

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Speaker 10: I think need a talent upgrade. So like from that perspective,

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Speaker 10: you could talk me into it. I just think he

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Speaker 10: would have to buy into probably a six man role

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Speaker 10: and selectively close, Like there might be some matchups where

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Speaker 10: it's like we need more defense, so you're not closing tonight.

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Speaker 10: And is he okay with that? I think he's still

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Speaker 10: trying to get back to being a starter. And because

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Speaker 10: you also got to think about his next contract, right,

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Speaker 10: So like in the NBA, once you accept the bench role,

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Speaker 10: once you get bought out, like there is like a

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Speaker 10: stamp on you that I think affects like your perception

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Speaker 10: and like your next deal.

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Speaker 7: Like very few guys are able to get.

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Speaker 3: Bought out and like rehab their value.

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Speaker 10: So I think once you you know, now you're making

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Speaker 10: five million dollars, now you're coming off the bench, Maybe

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Speaker 10: next contract's like a mid level contract. So I think

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Speaker 10: for him, maybe going to the Clippers or going to

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Speaker 10: like a Milwaukee I think would be not from like

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Speaker 10: a competition perspective, but like he could be the number

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Speaker 10: two guys in Milwaukee and like, really show what.

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Speaker 4: Does Bradley Beal want? He's made a I can't say

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Speaker 4: that word. He's made a lot.

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Speaker 10: Of a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: What does he want? Has he been to a conference finals?

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Speaker 3: Not to own? No second round with the Wizards?

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Speaker 4: Like does he want to win or make more money

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Speaker 4: on top of the you know, he's probably made two

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Speaker 4: hundred million in his career. I'm just guessing probably more

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Speaker 4: than that. Yeah, do you want to win? Like also

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Speaker 4: going to the Lakers versus going to the Clippers. Like

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Speaker 4: the Lakers are going to be on more TV games.

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Speaker 4: They're the most high profile team.

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Speaker 3: In the league.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the money he could make off the

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Speaker 4: court with the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what is his wife.

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Speaker 10: So I agree, Like I understand that the arguments for

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Speaker 10: the Lakers. I just think that the Clippers are offering

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Speaker 10: a starting role in like thirty minutes a night, and the.

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Speaker 7: Lakers can't quite match that.

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Speaker 10: I think at that point, you know that that's a

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Speaker 10: potential differentip.

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Speaker 3: What is who is the Beal hardened backcourt stopping?

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Speaker 10: I mean, come on, I think we could run some

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Speaker 10: pick and roll against that.

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Speaker 3: I would like to think, so I just listened.

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Speaker 4: I think Beal at five mil, Yeah, might be the

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Speaker 4: best contract in the league given what he I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you could.

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Speaker 10: Put up seventeen he's still better than like people have

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Speaker 10: given him.

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Speaker 7: Like I think he's gotten.

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Speaker 10: A little too much flat because of the con tracked

547
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Speaker 10: and because of how much a failure that Phoenix situation was.

548
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Speaker 10: Where he's still averaged like seventeen four and four last year,

549
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Speaker 10: thirty nine percent three point shooter, Like he's still He's

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Speaker 10: still good, it's just not fifty million dollars good.

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Speaker 4: So basically, in a perfect world, the Lakers get eight

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Speaker 4: and at eight and Beal at five two, you know,

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Speaker 4: awesome rotational players for thirteen mil. That would be a

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Speaker 4: home run. They'd get an a Would that get Lebron

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Speaker 4: you think to buy in and get out of this

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Speaker 4: funk or whatever he's dealing with right now.

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Speaker 10: I think he's going to buy in. I think, like,

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Speaker 10: I think it's going to work out. I don't know

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Speaker 10: if that's enough. Like I Lebron's always trade the picks,

560
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Speaker 10: Like that is like Lebron's motto is trade the picks.

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Speaker 7: So if you don't trade the picks and.

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Speaker 10: You're not, you know, all exhausting all resources to improve

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Speaker 10: the roster, because you could still sign Beal and trade

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Speaker 10: the picks and improve the like you know what I mean,

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Speaker 10: or trade d pick and then they got a few

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Speaker 10: pick swaps. So I think for Lebron, you know, there's

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Speaker 10: a lot of things going on with the situation, but

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Speaker 10: I think he will be a Laker starting whenever late September.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's get to tonight's game. Cooper Flag making

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Speaker 4: his debut. It's against Bronnie. Bronnie has been up and down, fair.

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Speaker 7: To say, in the summer better lately.

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Speaker 3: You know, these guys online just put together clip reels

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Speaker 3: of that dunk was incredible. The dunk was incredible, Like,

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen that bounce from him. Wasn't a Laker?

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Speaker 4: Just your thoughts on on what flag, what are reasonable

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Speaker 4: expectations tonight twenty.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Like I want to see the versatile skill set

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Speaker 10: from him, because I think he's someone i've the more

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Speaker 10: I've like studied his game and try to come up

580
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Speaker 10: with like an NBA comp, I think it's more like

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Speaker 10: an alpha Sean Marion, which which is like Sean Marion

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Speaker 10: is a really good player, multi time All Star and

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Speaker 10: Olympian like and but I said out like I think

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Speaker 10: he's got more of that like number one or number

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Speaker 10: two type score gene that that Marian is more of

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Speaker 10: like a number three. But he's got that Marian skill

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Speaker 10: set of like I think he's going to be a

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Speaker 10: guy at his peak, can play three through five, can

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Speaker 10: do just defend multiple positions, can bring the ball up,

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Speaker 10: run pick and roll, but also attack and come off

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Speaker 10: screens and stuff. So he can do a lot of

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Speaker 10: different things. In terms of tonight, I mean, this is

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Speaker 10: arguably the most.

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Speaker 3: Exciting dayni Hey, tonight, it's a big one.

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Speaker 10: Since Zion, right, I would say Zion twenty nineteen. There

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Speaker 10: was an earthquake that night, so we'll see about yeah,

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Speaker 10: twenty points.

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Speaker 7: We'll say.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd weekdays

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Speaker 2: and noone Easter, not a Empacific.

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Speaker 4: We're back our number two here on the Herd. It's

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Speaker 4: me Jason McIntyre in for Colin Cowherd. He's enjoying an

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Speaker 4: extended July fourth holiday.

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Speaker 3: Boy, that guy's living the dream. Baby.

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Speaker 4: So it's me and Alex Curry and the salt mines. Alex,

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Speaker 4: how we doing?

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Speaker 3: Hold it up up? By the way, how was your

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Speaker 3: July fourth? Any firework activity or not?

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Speaker 4: Real?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I mean I did the standard think. I talked about

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Speaker 5: it when we were on the show last week.

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Speaker 3: The Strand is.

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Speaker 5: Just like immaculate vibes in hermos in Manhattan, and I

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Speaker 5: have a couple of friends with strandhouses, so just yeah.

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Speaker 11: Just just hang Matt staff in and just did the

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Speaker 11: walk down the Strand like seeing seeing everybody else rage

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Speaker 11: and have a good time and just waving from afar

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Speaker 11: because I've officially been pregnant for every holiday since Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's been great. All right, well that's exciting. You know,

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Speaker 3: you got you.

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Speaker 5: Got a big summer ahead, big summer. We're in the

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Speaker 5: red zone. We're feeling good, we're feeling happy. Just hopefully

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Speaker 5: she cooks for another week.

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Speaker 7: Two.

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Speaker 4: All right, we got Albert Breer coming up in five minutes.

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Speaker 4: He's jet setting it. Well, all these guys taking summer vacations.

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Speaker 3: We're just work.

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Speaker 4: We grind. All right, let me let me quickly go.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of NBA free agency has been decided.

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Speaker 3: Not everything. Bradley bial could still move. You've got big

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Speaker 3: got Jonathan Kuminga.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he's adjusting the odds of anybody,

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Speaker 4: but we decided to come up with a Jmax six

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Speaker 4: pack as of now, the sixth pack of ND teams

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Speaker 4: that can win the championship next year. Now, as I

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Speaker 4: was reminded this morning, if we had done this last

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Speaker 4: year at this time, it would have been Boston Celtics

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Speaker 4: one through six. Everybody thought they were gonna repeat. They

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Speaker 4: had a loaded team. They just won the chip. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they were absolutely stacked and didn't get out of the

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Speaker 4: second round. So keep that in mind. No defending champ

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Speaker 4: has gotten out of the second round since the Kadi

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Speaker 4: Curry Warriors. Let's have the six pack. Let's get started with.

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Speaker 4: I think we're starting with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the East,

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Speaker 4: mostly because they retain almost everyone on their team. They

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Speaker 4: did lose tie Jerome rotational guy had a good season.

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Speaker 4: But when you keep the core Garland coming off to

649
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Speaker 4: toe injury in the in the playoffs, Moblei Allen Mitchell

650
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Speaker 4: is a good team. DeAndre Hunters now had we'll have

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Speaker 4: a full season.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 4: I know Cleveland, it's tough to think of them winning

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Speaker 4: a chip without Lebron, but guys, the pieces are there

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Speaker 4: for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think the Cleveland Cavaliers are one or two in

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Speaker 3: the East.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to the next team and that is the

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Speaker 4: New York Knickerbockers. Yep, do they still call them the

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Speaker 4: Knickerbockers either way. So last year, the Knicks added two

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Speaker 4: new starters in Towns and Bridges. Obviously very difficult to

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Speaker 4: dominate right out of the gate with two new starters. Well,

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Speaker 4: now this year the Knicks will have a new head coach,

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Speaker 4: but it looks like they're gonna retain everyone else from

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Speaker 4: the starting lineup, added two guys to the bench.

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Speaker 3: I you know, listen, Mike Brown, I like him.

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Speaker 4: If he plays his cards right and uses more bench

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Speaker 4: and keeps his guys fresh for the postseason. I don't

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Speaker 4: see why this isn't a fifty five to six win team,

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Speaker 4: sixty win team. And I think they're top two in

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Speaker 4: the East, maybe number one, and the garden home court

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Speaker 4: advantage will be sick in the postseason. All right, let's

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Speaker 4: go to the West because nobody else is good in

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Speaker 4: the East, and we're gonna go Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, Jay Mack, You're crazy. We do it.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's see if they add Bradley Beieald there for

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Speaker 4: sure in the six pack, and I'm gonna put them

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Speaker 4: here out of respect to I don't know, two of

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Speaker 4: the five best players in the league in Luca and Lebron.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Jay, what happened against Minnesota, Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: They had like twenty games together to work out the Kings.

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Speaker 3: They had no center.

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Speaker 4: Can we just take a deep breath and say, like

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Speaker 4: they lost to the Timberwolves and nobody really saw it coming.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna be fine. The Lakers are certainly one of

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Speaker 4: the six best teams in the league. Next up, Denver Nuggets.

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Speaker 4: I like the offseason they've had. They're putting all their

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Speaker 4: chips in for now. Cam Johnson for Michael Porter Jr.

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Speaker 4: Feels like a slight upgrade, not a huge one because

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Speaker 4: MPG is a much better scorer. But I think Cam

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Speaker 4: Johnson will be good. I like Bruce Brown coming.

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Speaker 3: Back getting off Russell Westbrook. I think they added Tim

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Speaker 3: Hardaway too. Yeah, Tim Hardaway, They've done a good job.

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Speaker 4: And remember Aaron Gordon was hurt in Game seven with

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Speaker 4: the ankle or maybe they beat OKC. Next up the

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Speaker 4: Houston Rockets. I think they've won the offseason more than anybody.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they added Kevin Durant, look at this, They

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Speaker 4: added Clip Capella, and they added Dorian Finney Smith. Essentially,

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Speaker 4: the Rockets got better than anybody and they lost like nothing.

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Speaker 4: Dylan Brooks and Jalen Green and a first round pick.

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Speaker 4: I think you could look for guys like Reied Shepherd

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Speaker 4: to step up big time. I would not be surprised

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Speaker 4: at all if shen Goon is an All Star once again.

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Speaker 4: Jabari Smith less pressure a'man Thompson rising star.

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Speaker 3: Houston's good.

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Speaker 4: I think the team to beat in the West Houston

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Speaker 4: Rockets in the Jmax six pas and I know you're

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Speaker 4: waiting on one last team, Okac Thunder. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 4: I had for a moment Orlando in this spot over OKC. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's real. I could see Alex looking at me like, Jamack.

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Speaker 7: What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna remind you guys. SGA got paid, Chad

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Speaker 4: holmern got paid. It's a different mentality and mindset among

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Speaker 4: the players, and history bears this out. If you haven't

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Speaker 4: won the chip, haven't gotten paid. Its front, front of office.

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Speaker 4: That's a top priority. That's everything.

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Speaker 3: Well, now they got the title.

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Speaker 4: SGA's got all the accolades, he's got all the money

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Speaker 4: that Hunger desires. Not quite there. Yes they're young. Yes,

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Speaker 4: they're probably gonna win fifty to sixty games, maybe sixty two.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that they're gonna win the championship. Again,

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Speaker 4: you guys can better go for it. I'm not doing that.

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Speaker 3: So there's the Jmax six pack heading into next season.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, who's doing these graphics?

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Speaker 3: For everyone listening? You guys.

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Speaker 5: There is a photo of j Mac on the screen

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Speaker 5: that is so on brand.

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Speaker 3: I'm in a tank top. Yes, that's a good job.

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Speaker 3: I think that's Tish or Scott. Shout out to those guys,

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Speaker 3: all right,