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Speaker 1: Welcome in. What'll drive with the Great Emergency Pod is

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Speaker 1: what these are called. And let me tell you how

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Speaker 1: my night went last night. So my dad is in

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Speaker 1: out of town, in from Kansas City, kind of a

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Speaker 1: last minute trip because it is my niece's birthday, so

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Speaker 1: but if we do get together, it's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: incredibly long dinner and a lot of wine. So that

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Speaker 1: out like gone out, gone out like we used to

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Speaker 1: in quite some time. I was a bottle of wine

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Speaker 1: So we end up going going downtown in New York

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Speaker 1: a couple different spots. And while we are in a

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Speaker 1: I look at my phone and I read this breaking

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Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi, Kliba, and

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Speaker 1: Markkeith Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: Max Christi and a twenty twenty nine first round pick.

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Speaker 1: Sources tell ESPN from Sham Sharania, and I have the

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Speaker 1: reaction that I think, literally everyone has, Oh dude, got hacked.

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Speaker 1: Definitely not real, impossible that it could be real. He

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Speaker 1: then follows it up with yes, this is real and

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Speaker 1: has the full trade. But again that means nothing to

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Speaker 1: me because if if you got hacked, if you got hacked,

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Speaker 1: the same person has control of your account. You then tweeting, yes,

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Speaker 1: this is real. I send the tweet to people who

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Speaker 1: I even get a response, the main ESPN account tweets it.

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Speaker 1: And my reaction at that moment is like everyone else's

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Speaker 1: holy shit, what just happened? Is this the biggest trade

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Speaker 1: in NBA history? Maybe, but maybe not. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to be too prisoner of the moment. He I mean,

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Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbar was traded in the peak of his prime,

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Speaker 1: in a decade when he was winning six league MVPs,

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Speaker 1: So that's a pretty big one. That Shaquille O'Neill obviously

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Speaker 1: changed teams. We've had, We've had Apex, predator stars changed teams.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's the biggest trading in

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Speaker 1: NBA history. It is the most shocking there is nothing.

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Speaker 1: And when I say shocking, not just to the audience,

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Speaker 1: to the league. Other teams didn't know, other agents didn't know,

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Speaker 1: other players didn't know. There is no context for what

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Speaker 1: we just saw, Luca entering not even yet officially really

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Speaker 1: technically in his prime, even though it sure feels like

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Speaker 1: he's been in his prime since his second year in

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Speaker 1: the league. But age wise, you're prime in the league

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Speaker 1: supposed to be twenty seven to thirty one, Luca at

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Speaker 1: twenty five being traded without a trade demand, a preemptive

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Speaker 1: strike by Dallas, and Dallas's return being a great player

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Speaker 1: in Anthony Davis. But again, if prime is twenty seven

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Speaker 1: and it is just mind blown. So I then tweeted

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Speaker 1: that might have been a that could have been a

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Speaker 1: something happened on my phone where it's not even it's

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Speaker 1: not even saved, it's not even posted. You had to

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Speaker 1: or else. That's lost to the ether. So here's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. It's not gonna be the normal hour

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Speaker 1: long pod. Never done. I think I've maybe done one

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Speaker 1: other emergency pod. I don't know. Lakers perspective, Luca's perspective,

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Speaker 1: Lebron's perspective, the MAVs perspective, and Anthony Davis's perspective. Those

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Speaker 1: are the five angles. We're gonna attack each one individually.

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Speaker 1: We are going to start with the Lakers. I do

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Speaker 1: not know. So what does it mean for the Lakers

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Speaker 1: sounds insane. They're going to have one of, if not

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Speaker 1: defensively and have a real shot at the championship. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. That's not the point of this trade.

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Speaker 1: The point of this trade if you're the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: for the last half decade for the Lakers, they flipped

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Speaker 1: Josh Hart, Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and what ends up

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Speaker 1: being four first round picks for a championship in twenty

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Speaker 1: probably aren't done. The Lakers have to go get a

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Speaker 1: if they're actually going to try to compete this year,

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Speaker 1: but even if they don't, it's simply one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest coups in the history of basketball. And there are

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Speaker 1: so many ways to try to build a perennial contender

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Speaker 1: which is draft exceptionally, take your shot, cast your chips

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Speaker 1: See something in SGA the rest of the league doesn't

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Speaker 1: quite see. That's one method. Another method is what the

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Speaker 1: Spurs you're trying to do literally, hit the draft lottery,

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Speaker 1: Another method is the Knicks what they've tried to do.

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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks call you and say they call you and say,

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Speaker 1: can I interest you in Luka Ancic, to which you say, uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can. Now the MAVs side of this is far uglier,

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Speaker 1: and the MAVs are going to try to spin evidently

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Speaker 1: Luca's not worth the Supermax, then then no one is.

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Speaker 1: Now again, I'm not downplaying who Anthony Davis is. Anthony

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Speaker 1: swap that'll take place twenty twenty nine, their first round

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Speaker 1: I don't understand this from the MAVs perspective at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how you don't hold an auction. All

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Speaker 1: the reporting surrounding this is that Luca did not demand this,

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Speaker 1: that they were And again, I'm sure people are gonna

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Speaker 1: greatest offensive players in modern NBA history. And how does

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Speaker 1: Has to be I mean not just shocked, but devastated.

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Speaker 1: And I do not believe anyone arguing will actually for

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Speaker 1: this year the MAVs got better, No, they didn't. Luca

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs is one of the most prolific players

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Speaker 1: what about the defense. I don't know, man, they were

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Speaker 1: in the finals last year. Luca's career in the playoffs again,

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty twenty thirty one, ten to nine. The entirety

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Speaker 1: not ten and eight. And you traded him. You traded

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Speaker 1: not quite as good, Max Christi, and won first round pick.

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