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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: April eighteenth. Hope everybody had a phenomenal Easter weekend. I

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Speaker 1: had a tremendous one. It was all around excellent. Played

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Speaker 1: a bunch of basketball Saturday morning. My son had a

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Speaker 1: triple header of basketball action Saturday afternoon, so I went

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Speaker 1: his his club, and they joined forces to play this

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Speaker 1: pretty good twelve year old team, and I was stunning.

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Speaker 1: My my son even got to play on the court

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Speaker 1: to ready to play the big kids that were super

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Speaker 1: put him in and you know they were down big

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Speaker 1: came back. It was just good to see, um, nice parents,

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Speaker 1: Saturday was just all around great. Then obviously a lot

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Speaker 1: of NBA. We'll get to plenty plenty of NBA. Uh.

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Speaker 1: One certain guy is obviously going to lead the charge.

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Speaker 1: But Easter Sunday was tremendous. You know, we did a brunch,

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Speaker 1: we did church, you know for the religious folks out there.

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Speaker 1: Easter obviously a big one. Church was packed. Good to

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Speaker 1: see people back out and about talked to a bunch

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Speaker 1: of people and it just it almost feels like we're

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Speaker 1: getting back to normal in terms of no mass, people

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Speaker 1: like actually being chill. And then I hear about two

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Speaker 1: two buddies who got COVID recently. I'm like, how how

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Speaker 1: is this still? I know, I know it's a pandemic. Jason,

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Speaker 1: chill everybody. I want you guys to stay healthy. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: nobody gets it serious. Also a little side note, we'll

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Speaker 1: to nine am Pacific, so obviously tune in for that.

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Speaker 1: But I think the big story obviously in sports this

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Speaker 1: weekend is the NBA playoffs. There was a little usfl action.

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Speaker 1: I caught a little bit of it called a little

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Speaker 1: bit of baseball, but really it was wall to wall

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Speaker 1: NBA for me. I'm gonna sorry, I'm just gonna sidestep

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Speaker 1: most of what happened on Saturday. You know, the games

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Speaker 1: are fine, Nothing too exciting happened I mean Minnesota over

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Speaker 1: am shocked at that. Anthony Edwards went went bananas Utah

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Speaker 1: game with two minutes left. Luca don just did not play.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to read too much in but it's

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Speaker 1: obviously obviously must win in game two, no doubt about

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Speaker 1: that one for my Dallas Mavericks. That game is this

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Speaker 1: afternoon in Los Angeles at five thirty but eight thirty PM. Relegated, Yes,

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Speaker 1: certain Toronto Philly would have been the NBA TV game.

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Speaker 1: But I digress. The other game Saturday, obviously Philadelphia just

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Speaker 1: And I know it's Easter, and a lot of people

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Speaker 1: hot to start the NBA Playoffs eight and three heading

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Speaker 1: That just hurts. I told you guys, I looked for

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Speaker 1: going to be the fulcrum of the Miami Heat, no

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Speaker 1: the Bucks loss. I was on the box against the

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Speaker 1: by Chicago. They're not gonna win the series, but that

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn one in an absolute thriller. Celtics were the better

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Speaker 1: Go watch it on YouTube. You've got to see This

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Speaker 1: just an excellent end game scenario, one of the better

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Speaker 1: on second viewing of the game winner. Just watch Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: He's at the foul line, he's looking, He's watching the

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Speaker 1: He was awful against the Heat. Tatum is a scoring

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Speaker 1: that game was not Tatum's game winner, nothing that happened

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Speaker 1: the center of the sports universe. As we start Monday morning,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, former Boston Celtic who after beating the Celtics

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving is boot every time he gets the ball.

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Speaker 1: I think he thinks it's all always about him. He's

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Speaker 1: That being said, I absolutely love this quote and Rob

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Speaker 1: I don't want to attack every Boston fan, but when

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Speaker 1: now it Listen. There's a lot here there. There are

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving loves being the villain. And we've talked about

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Speaker 1: be the villain, right we know Lebron James is built

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Speaker 1: to be the villain. When you leave Cleveland host a

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Speaker 1: you are built to be a villain. Now, it didn't

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Speaker 1: it on, Bring all the smoke on. Kevin Durant leaving okay,

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Speaker 1: it out. Not everybody's ready for that. Now. The classic

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Speaker 1: example is Tiger Woods. Right, Tiger Woods was loved by everybody. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: his wall. It was. It was ugly. It all comes

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Speaker 1: Tiger has a couple of options. Well, I could just

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Speaker 1: with it, and you can wear the black hat. Kyrie.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving's doing that. Tiger Woods one had no part

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Speaker 1: you suck or we hate you or whatever the chance are.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Shockingly, I don't get in hate h

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Speaker 1: so I don't really know what the deal is. But

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Speaker 1: whatever they're saying, it's like, it's just an oddity that

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Speaker 1: that would be your move. Like I when I anytime

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Speaker 1: I went to a Lakers game, it would be less

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Speaker 1: about I really hate that guy, like man want to

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Speaker 1: look at that, look at Dante, Like I personally don't

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Speaker 1: like the Celtics. I've talked about this. I was born

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Speaker 1: in New York. I've always not liked Boston teams, New

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Speaker 1: England teams, any sport I don't like. I'm not chanting

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Speaker 1: you guys are the worst, you suck. I'm more rooting

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Speaker 1: for my team right I've never really understood hating. Now

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Speaker 1: now Kyrie is a unique situation, of course, because he

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Speaker 1: had his whole I'm in Boston, I'm staying here, this

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Speaker 1: is my place, and then bailing in a heartbeat. Um.

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Speaker 1: But the Kyrie irving saga is interesting. This is not

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Speaker 1: going to change. This is gonna add fuel to the

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Speaker 1: fire for Wednesday's game when you come out and say

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Speaker 1: what you did. And there was another video UM on Kyrie.

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Speaker 1: He's walking to the locker room like in the tunnel underneath,

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Speaker 1: and somebody has it went on TikTok. And I only

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Speaker 1: know this because it was put on social media on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I don't check TikTok. That's my wife's still main.

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00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: And this guy goes Kyrie irving, you suck, and all

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Speaker 1: Kyrie does is turn his head and goes my dick, bitch.

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Speaker 1: It's classic. It's it's awesome video. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Rob will edit that out. I'll just leave it in there.

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Speaker 1: But I like that from Kyrie. Why why shouldn't he

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Speaker 1: be able to fire back. Now what happens is the

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Speaker 1: NBA's has a decision again. I talked about this with

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Speaker 1: the Patrick Beverley you trash thing to the referee at

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Speaker 1: the last game of the season, right, they find him,

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Speaker 1: What do you do if you're the league to Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving for the double middle finger? You can't really have

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Speaker 1: guys on the court in a high profile game Easter weekend.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you it was the most watch NBA game

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Speaker 1: of the weekend. You can't really have stars putting middle fingers.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's not a good look. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what. They're not gonna suspend Kyrie Irving obviously,

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Speaker 1: but clearly they're gonna find him. Now. Kyrie is going

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Speaker 1: to then have a press conference to say, so, why

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Speaker 1: should these guys be able to talk to me like

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Speaker 1: I'm some kind of and whatever he wants to say,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say, but you know where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Why why should I be subjected to that? And then

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Speaker 1: of course you can play this back and forth game, Well, Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: isn't your salary like thirty five million dollars this year

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna be six And what what because what

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Speaker 1: if it's fifty million? Does that allow them to say more?

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Speaker 1: And Kyrie has a decent point. But again, ultimately, when

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Speaker 1: you've got guys like Shock and Barkley saying, ah, you're soft.

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Speaker 1: Tune it out, time out. Shock. Do you remember when

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Speaker 1: you spit on a guy? What if I did that? Then? What? Listen?

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Speaker 1: It would be really ugly for Kyrie Irving if he

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Speaker 1: did something like that. And I don't I haven't done

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Speaker 1: the history on Shock and and getting in altercations with fans,

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Speaker 1: but listen, Russell Westbrook got into it with a fan there.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a fine line. This is a great topic.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. There's no right or wrong answer,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's one of these things where I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: I root against Kyrie Irving a lot, but I absolutely

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Speaker 1: love everything he said because I'm kind of with him. Again,

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Speaker 1: if you want to go to a game and just

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Speaker 1: shred Russell Westbrook, listen, do I take shots in them

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Speaker 1: on social media? Russell Westbrook for being terrible this past season?

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Speaker 1: Of course? Would I go to a game and like, yell, Russ,

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Speaker 1: you suck, don't shoot the ball? Probably not? Probably not.

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Speaker 1: So maybe I'm I'm one of these hamburgers. Sorry not

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Speaker 1: i am What do you have food on the mind

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Speaker 1: this morning? Maybe I'm one of these meatballs going on

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Speaker 1: social media blastings some of these athletes athletes, but again,

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Speaker 1: anybody can do that. I mean, part of my job

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Speaker 1: is to not be critical, but you know, analyze what

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Speaker 1: the hell is going on, why it's happen, and have

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Speaker 1: a take. This is a big money industry, right guys.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in the sports media take business.

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Speaker 1: I love this topic. I'm sure we'll talk about it

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Speaker 1: on Dan Patrick Um tomorrow. I think I'm I'm with

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Speaker 1: Doug Gottlieb. You know, we always get a little combative.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Doug Gottlieb is gonna be on the side

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Speaker 1: of Kyrie Irving is soft, it's nuanced, there are shades

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Speaker 1: of gray. I don't think it is as cut and

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Speaker 1: dry as you know. He should say absolutely nothing, just

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Speaker 1: take it. Well, why why should he? I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm playing in a dad soccer tournament coming up.

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Speaker 1: I just signed up for a basketball league. And again,

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Speaker 1: there's not gonna be fans. Well, the soccer tournament might

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Speaker 1: have fans. And I have gotten in a couple like

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Speaker 1: not dust ups, but um, you know, not not a

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Speaker 1: quite shoving or cursing, but it gets heated like competition

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Speaker 1: is heated and people get fired up, and that happens.

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Speaker 1: But how you reacts as a lot about you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that Kyrie's double middle finger at fans and

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Speaker 1: and middle finger after making a shot. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that says he's soft. I think that's his reaction of, Hey,

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Speaker 1: well you're gonna say that to me, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: shove that three pointer in your face. And oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I scored eighteen points in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter and we totally dominated and should have won if

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Speaker 1: not for a defensive gaff by Durant and Kyrie do

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Speaker 1: an extent. Uh, you know, it's just a it's a

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Speaker 1: great topic. There's no right or wrong answer because everybody's

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Speaker 1: going to view it differently. And I just loved that

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Speaker 1: the NBA is giving us a great storyline like this

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Speaker 1: after the first weekend of the playoffs. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody should be surprised that the guy at the

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Speaker 1: center of it all is Kyrie Irving. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: on your couch watching the game. He's making money while

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Speaker 1: you do it. Here's your best bat. We'll wrap up

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Speaker 1: this pod because the Monday one a little bit lengthly

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Speaker 1: with best bets tonight. I'm sorry, guys, I think I've

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Speaker 1: got a bet Dallas again. I know that sounds crazy

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Speaker 1: because Luca don Che almost certainly will not play. I

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Speaker 1: Dallas was close to pulling off the game in the

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Speaker 1: in the in the game one um at home. I

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Speaker 1: if they lose this one, you gotta bring your only

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Speaker 1: hope is Luca coming back to win the series. But

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Speaker 1: as I see now, looks like there is a little

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Speaker 1: bit of money coming in on Utah was five, now

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Speaker 1: it's up to five and a half, Golden State Open,

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Speaker 1: seven and a half, down to seven, Philly six and

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Speaker 1: a half, up to seven. Scottie Barnes, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could touch the raptors in this one.

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Speaker 1: Guy's now The counter would be, hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: what if the Sixers are all gassed up Tyrese, Maxie

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Speaker 1: unbelievable Game one and they just think this is gonna

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00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: be a Kike walk. Scottie Barnes is hurt. I would

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Speaker 1: be shocked if he plays, given how bad that ankle

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Speaker 1: looked and how long he was down on the ground.

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Speaker 1: But my g tells me, I think it's Philly or

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Speaker 1: pass for game two. Initially I had I thought Toronto

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00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: would be an option, but the Barns things a killer um.

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Speaker 1: They already are not a deep team, so I would

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Speaker 1: be fully or pass for me. I think I gotta

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Speaker 1: arrived Dallas again. They're gonna be juiced up now you talk.

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Speaker 1: Did not play particularly well and Dallas had a good chance.

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Speaker 1: I think Brunson plays a little bit better. Brunson total

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Speaker 1: cash for me. Brunson's the guy you want to bet

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Speaker 1: on tonight if you can get points over points and

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Speaker 1: assist whatever. He's the guy. He's gonna take a lot

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Speaker 1: of shots. Golden State Denver. I I don't know how

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Speaker 1: you could bet Denver. I just don't like their matchup

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Speaker 1: at all against the Warriors. Jordan Pool is looking awesome.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to think of a comp for Jordan's Pool,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors guy who you know basically he's playing so well.

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Speaker 1: Curry's like, I'll come off the bench, It's fine. I'm

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Speaker 1: not Jordan Pools wimping. I think you have thirty two,

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Speaker 1: it's like seven threes. This is how wild the NBA is.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool unstoppable, Duncan Robinson hits eight three pointers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: BA is just so crazy. You just really have no

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Speaker 1: clue what to expect. I'll do player props on Twitter

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Speaker 1: and i G I'm doing picks every day for Fox

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Speaker 1: Beat Live, so check those out and um I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you then