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Speaker 1: I just got off a plane so and rushed home.

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Speaker 1: On the Lebron News. First of all, I always kind

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Speaker 1: of laugh Philadelphia. I've said I thought Golden State was

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Speaker 1: I thought Miami was confusing. I mean, they don't have

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel like floor spacing would be where

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Speaker 1: we're Philadelphia's contention. You go in a championship in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: you gotta make it work. There's a lot of high

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Speaker 1: ushes guys. You know, Lebron needs the ball. John Brown

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Speaker 1: wants the ball, Maxie wants the ball. Embid too often

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Speaker 1: I love him so, but Philadelphia is the one. I said.

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Speaker 1: I did an essay. I do Sunday essays at about

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Speaker 1: twenty five thirty times a year, and I'm like, don't

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Speaker 1: listen to people in any other industry, especially as you age,

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Speaker 1: you get older, you're you're you know. I've seen rumors

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Speaker 1: he's not going to do it. But a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago there was Nick Saban's going back into coaching.

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Speaker 1: Do you really think he should take over a small

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Speaker 1: brand in a mediocre program, Go to Kentucky, go to

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Speaker 1: Arizona football. No if Ohio State called, or you know,

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Speaker 1: Once you've been through it, and Lebron's been doing this

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Speaker 1: of grinding. Once you've been doing that, I don't care

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Speaker 1: if it's a law firm or a restaurant group. When

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Speaker 1: And Lebron right now is at the point where he's

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Speaker 1: got two years left. He didn't have any interest win

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Speaker 1: in forty two games. He not did digging dishes in

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Speaker 1: or a politician. You know, Phil Jackson, Okay, I'll come back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I've never had a I don't buy it.

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Speaker 1: People say, well, basketball is different, No, it's not. Basketball

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Speaker 1: is like everything else. If you know, Patrick Mahomes doesn't

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Speaker 1: kicked in a Super Bowl against Tom Brady. Speaking of Brady,

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Speaker 1: Brady needed wide receivers, right, he needed he needed explosive

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Speaker 1: He needed an offensive coach. Okay, well, what does Lebron need.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't need old James Harden. He doesn't need Donovan Mitchell, right,

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Speaker 1: He needs young two way players, athletic, twitchy, explosive. Lebron's

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Speaker 1: He's going to be a leader, the distribution guy, get

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Speaker 1: the ball to the right spot. It's not about Lebron's

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Speaker 1: scoring or making money. Basically, this contract eight million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year after taxis he gets half of it, I mean,

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Speaker 1: but his private jet flights home to see his family.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna make any money, you know, for Lebron's

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Speaker 1: for Lebron it's not. And he's not doing it because

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Speaker 1: He's doing it because like all people, as they age,

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Speaker 1: you want to chase big things. You know, if you've

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Speaker 1: Lebron's now an old basketball player. You're not going to

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Speaker 1: That's what Lebron's thinking right now. The chasing ring thing

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Speaker 1: is stupid. In every other Otani went to the effin Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: were winning, but you were, you know pri Otana. You're like, man,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't they win more? Haven't we been saying about that

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Speaker 1: about the Sixers forever? They are too manyton players. But

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Speaker 1: they've had bad injury luck and personnel luck, and you

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Speaker 1: you know Lebron will just bring the temperature down, make

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Speaker 1: the right basketball play. Be a coach in the hubble,

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Speaker 1: selecting better teammates. I don't care if it's a high

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Speaker 1: you can choose better teammates, better outcomes, and you can

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Speaker 1: skip a couple steps, do it. It's just such a

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Speaker 1: mediocre thing to say you're chasing take rings out for success.

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Speaker 1: You're chasing success. Well, when entrepreneurs are angel investors, you

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Speaker 1: know they're putting money into these smart kids who own

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Speaker 1: these companies. Listen, we got about five years here to

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Speaker 1: make it. I'm choosing you because I think I can

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Speaker 1: and had to rebuild it. You're looking for smart people, entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: aspirational people, driven people. I mean, I'll never never criticize people,

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Speaker 1: even the KD to the Warriors it was weird, But

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Speaker 1: I was more critical of KD when he left for Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: Who leaves a dynasty for Brooklyn. That'd be like Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes saying I'm done with Andy Reid, give me the Jets.

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Speaker 1: the Braids, I get it. I told I don't always

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Speaker 1: love story, the letter, We did that. It's redundant. And

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves and Luca can't defend right. So you add Lebron,

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Speaker 1: all work with Lebron, right, not everybody worked with Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Even his teammates he punched Steve Kerr, Will Pardue called

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