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Speaker 3: Jason Martin, My man, what is going on? Man?

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Speaker 4: It's been a lot going on today, watching a lot

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Speaker 4: of basketball and watching a good bit of baseball as well.

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Speaker 4: My Braves have put up nineteen runs in two days

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Speaker 4: against the Kansas City Royals. Had a rain de late

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Speaker 4: at night and I was watching basketball and then flipping

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Speaker 4: over to baseball. So there's been There has been no

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Speaker 4: shortage of good stuff going on, and some pretty some

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Speaker 4: pretty solid basketball. Maybe not as good in the early

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Speaker 4: window as it gut or it seems like this second

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Speaker 4: half ought to be pretty good. With sacrament in Golden State.

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Speaker 4: I thought Cleveland and New York was a lot of

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Speaker 4: fun earlier as well, won by the Knicks, but that

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Speaker 4: game came down to the wire.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this is that you know, obviously, when

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Speaker 2: we a lot of time when we talk about the NBA,

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Speaker 2: it seems like we're criticizing them, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're just I think we're just being fair and we're

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Speaker 2: being transparent. I'll say, even before tonight, I thought the

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Speaker 2: playing games were a lot of fun. You know that

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Speaker 2: Raptors Bulls game with DeMar DeRozan's daughter, the Lakers game

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Speaker 2: goes to overtime controversy at the end with the Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis fowl. Overall, I thought those were really quality games,

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Speaker 2: and like you said, I thought that everything kind of

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Speaker 2: rolled into today where it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: And I think there's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of really intriguing stuff that is going to happen tomorrow

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Speaker 2: as the Lakers take the court for the first time.

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Speaker 2: That Clippers Suns series opens. Obviously, Jokichen the Nuggets will

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Speaker 2: be the late game. Really quickly, Jason, let's talk a

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Speaker 2: little bit about what happened today, And I actually want

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Speaker 2: to start with the game that's going on right now

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Speaker 2: because I had a thought the score is six one

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Speaker 2: to fifty five Golden State leads at Sacramento. Sacramento is

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Speaker 2: the home team, first playoff game in forever.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking about this. Jason is is one.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I don't and I can't lie and

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Speaker 2: say that I've seen every single person in the media's picks.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen a single person pick Golden

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Speaker 2: State in this series. And I will say, like sometimes

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Speaker 2: when everybody loves something, you know.

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Speaker 3: It usually doesn't end up working out well.

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Speaker 2: But I bring it up to say, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Warriors looked exactly what you want out of the first half,

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Speaker 2: have a six point lead, you know, playing really well

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Speaker 2: across the board. Andrew Wiggins is back in the lineup,

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Speaker 2: He's playing well. Klay Thompson has ten, Steph Curry is ten.

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Speaker 2: And I was thinking about it from the Sacramento perspective.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously I know that they're happy to be here.

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Speaker 2: But I'll also say this is like I do think,

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Speaker 2: and you don't want to be over reactive, let alone

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Speaker 2: one game, but one half.

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Speaker 3: I think they got to get game one right, like.

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Speaker 2: I think if they want any chance to win this series,

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Speaker 2: because they are the home they are the team that

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Speaker 2: I believe was a slight favorite in the betting odds,

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Speaker 2: but more importantly, they have home court advantage.

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Speaker 3: They are the higher seed.

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Speaker 2: I think it kind of got to win tonight, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: you let the Warriors get Game one in what is

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Speaker 2: obviously an insane environment in Sacramento, they then steal a

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Speaker 3: They then get to go home in a couple of days.

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Speaker 2: This feels kind of like if Sacramento is serious about

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Speaker 2: happy to be here. I think they want to win

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Speaker 2: now that they're here. You gotta get this one, right, Jason.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think so, especially for a young team that's

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Speaker 4: not used to being here, like the Warriors can go

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Speaker 4: down and come back exactly, Yeah, because they're used to

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Speaker 4: doing it. I was looking at five thirty eight Nate

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Speaker 4: Silver's website and their NBA predictions and their stuff actually

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Speaker 4: updates in real time. Before this game tipped off, Sacramento

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Speaker 4: had a nineteen percent chance according to five to thirty

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Speaker 4: eight analytics numbers, of advancing to the next round of

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Speaker 4: making it to the Conference semi finals, where Golden State

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Speaker 4: had an eighty five four percent chance of reaching the

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Speaker 4: Conference semis it's now down to sixteen percent for the

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Speaker 4: shift again. Obviously it will shift again if Sacramento were

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Speaker 4: to win Game one. But certainly, you look at them,

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Speaker 4: they're a team that's gonna have to playoff momentum. They're

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Speaker 4: a young team that doesn't know what they don't know yet.

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Speaker 4: If they're able to come back in this game and

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Speaker 4: win in front of their crowd, and they have some

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Speaker 4: guys that can flat out ball and they don't look

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Speaker 4: intimidated here at all, but this is a kind of

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Speaker 4: game that's close enough against the team and a bunch

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Speaker 4: of guys that they respect and of seem win championships.

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Speaker 4: They gotta get this one. If you get this one,

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Speaker 4: that's gonna give you a ton of confidence and positive

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Speaker 4: momentum and just help you in the belief factory when

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Speaker 4: it comes to thinking, yeah, we can knock off the

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Speaker 4: defending champions. Absolutely, they haven't been at full strength, Wiggins.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna take some time. Even though he had a

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Speaker 4: nice first half. They're a little bit older, we're a

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Speaker 4: little bit fatter. Let's take advantage of it. But if

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Speaker 4: they fall at home in game one to guys they

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Speaker 4: know where multiple rings. That's gonna be a tough task

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Speaker 4: to come back really quick.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was interesting.

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Speaker 2: I was on air with Arnie Spinner the other night

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Speaker 2: when the Lakers clinch that win over over Minnesota, and

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Speaker 2: you know, Arnie started making the argument, oh, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers the path blah blah blah blah blah, and

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Speaker 2: he was kind of doing his Arny thing whatever. What

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Speaker 2: I will say is that I do look at it

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Speaker 2: from the Warriors perspective, right, Like, I think the Lakers

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Speaker 2: path is just really, really, really hard because you have

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Speaker 2: Memphis as this super young team, which you know, by

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Speaker 2: birthday they are, but this is their fourth straight playoff appearance.

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Speaker 2: They played in the original play in and then the

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Speaker 2: last two years they've been in the playoffs. But I

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Speaker 2: bring it up because I don't buy that the Lakers

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Speaker 2: have a manageable path. I do think that the Warriors

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Speaker 2: kind of do, though, as another team that struggled during

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Speaker 2: But you know, you look at this series right here,

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Speaker 2: right young team in Sacramento, happy to be here, let's

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Speaker 2: say hypothetically, is the second half tips off, you steal

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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying it will happen, but I think

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Speaker 2: the momentum. Memphis is playing that big, physical Lakers team

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Speaker 2: in round one. That series feels like it's going to

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Speaker 2: go probably six or seven games.

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Speaker 3: Whether you like the Lakers, whether you like the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 2: I do kind of feel like everything shaping up nicely

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Speaker 2: for the Warriors again, the team that struggled during the

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Speaker 2: regular season, but you have this very manageable Round one

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Speaker 2: again against a team that I don't want to say

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Speaker 2: they're happy to be here, but I think they're probably

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Speaker 2: kind of happy to be here. Not a lot of travel,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a bus ride series. You don't have

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Speaker 2: to get on planes and fly across the country like

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Speaker 2: the Lakers and the Grizzlies. Will you win this one

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Speaker 2: in five, you get a little rest, you get a

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Speaker 2: little momentum, you get Wiggins back into things. I know

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Speaker 2: that that probably two three weeks ago we had a

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Speaker 2: lot of questions about the Warriors coming to these playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I really do kind of like how everything is kind

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Speaker 2: of I like everything is shaping up for the Warriors

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Speaker 2: to potentially get hot here, get some confidence, and then

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Speaker 2: potentially go on another run here as these playoffs unfold.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to overrate this, but I do think

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Speaker 4: it is a factor. As you watch this Warriors steam

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Speaker 4: as they're now up eight, as a second half is

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Speaker 4: underway in Sacramento, this is a team that nothing that

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Speaker 4: they are gonna experience they haven't already felt before, sure,

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Speaker 4: and that means wins and losses, Like, they know what

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Speaker 4: playoff basketball feels like. They know what those moments feel like.

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Speaker 4: They know what the struggle times feel like, as well

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Speaker 4: as those rhythm moments where they just seem like they

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Speaker 4: absolutely can't be stopped. They've made magical comebacks, they've won championships.

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Speaker 4: Nothing's gonna catch them off guard, and there's not any

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Speaker 4: motion that they haven't already experienced in a playoff realm.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a big time factor. You look at

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Speaker 4: look at some of these teams in the West. They're

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Speaker 4: really good basketball teams. But I think that playoff experience

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Speaker 4: is not something that you can completely push away, like

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Speaker 4: this is a team that you're gonna have to beat.

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Speaker 4: The Warriors are not just gonna beat themselves. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: have to go out and you're own to play really

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Speaker 4: good basketball to beat them. And as you mentioned, it's

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Speaker 4: kind of coming together for him as you're getting healthy.

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Speaker 4: You haven't had Wiggins in two months. You've got him

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Speaker 4: in Game one and he's already contributing off the bench,

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Speaker 4: and he's only gonna get you would think, more comfortable

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Speaker 4: and be used in a different role for Steve Kerr

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Speaker 4: as the playoffs continue to unfold. But this team knows

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Speaker 4: and to lose in key playoff situations, and I think

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Speaker 4: they're gonna be formidable as.

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Speaker 3: A result of all those factors. Let's get to some

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Speaker 3: other games from today.

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Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned that Knicks Cavs game really fun

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Speaker 2: down to the wire, Nicks win by four, big story there.

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Speaker 2: You know again, another guy that's been banged up, Julius Randall,

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Speaker 2: does end up playing in that game, finishes has a

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Speaker 2: very good game with with nineteen points, ten boards for SIS,

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Speaker 2: and of course Jalen Brunson, who was in some foul

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Speaker 2: in the second half. I'll say this, Jason is is

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Speaker 2: two years ago, I bought into the Knicks hype. You know,

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Speaker 2: it was the first time they had been in the

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Speaker 2: playoffs forever, blah blah blah. And then Trey Young goes

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Speaker 2: into the garden pretty much shuts him up, and it

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Speaker 2: really wasn't that competitive. So I bring it up because

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Speaker 2: I was hesitant to buy too much into this Knicks team,

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Speaker 2: but to go on the road game one, Donovan Mitchell

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Speaker 2: was phenomenal, but there wasn't a lot of help around him.

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Speaker 2: And I do think that maybe, you know, this is

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Speaker 2: almost the exact opposite, you know, the Calvs, maybe being

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Speaker 2: like the Eastern Conferences version of the Kings, where yeah,

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Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell has a ton of playoff experience, but outside him,

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Speaker 2: you know, Mobiley was drafted by this organization, Darius Garland

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Speaker 2: was drafted by this organization.

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Speaker 2: And this was the Cavs first playoff game since Lebron

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Speaker 2: left in twenty eighteen. So, like I said, I was

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Speaker 2: as in it to buy into the Knicks, but they

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Speaker 2: just look like the more poised, confident, comfortable team in

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Speaker 2: And it's funny because you know, all these years we

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Speaker 4: They look a little bit more physical, just a little

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Speaker 4: For there's a lot there's an interesting storyline right in there.

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Speaker 4: That's the first road playoff win I believe for the

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Speaker 3: That is a I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure we can. We can source it for sure.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, like think about what that is and what

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Speaker 4: a team that's I feel like, in many ways very

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Speaker 3: So it's been a long time.

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Speaker 4: The Nicks just twenty four games. Twenty four games, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: They all I know is they were really bad a

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Speaker 2: We talked but the other two playoff games Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Eric Torus, Jason Martin.

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Speaker 2: Three games are in the book in the NBA Playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Two other games that we have not talked about. One

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Speaker 2: They win by twenty final score one twenty one to

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Speaker 2: After the game, I saw this this quote, I thought

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Speaker 2: If you watch the game, it was pretty clear. You know,

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Speaker 2: great regular season twenty points per game in the regular season.

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Speaker 2: And so I bring it up because you know everyone

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Speaker 2: is again trying to sell me and sell.

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Speaker 3: You and sell us.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean hard in an mbead hard

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Speaker 2: and led the league and assists. You know, he's really

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Speaker 2: found his role there. It's like, did he find his

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Speaker 2: role there? Or let's be honest NBA fans. I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: to say it, but it's the truth. Regular season defense

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Speaker 2: isn't the greatest. It's going to get much tough for

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Speaker 2: in the postseason. And like, I'm sorry that I can't

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Speaker 2: get excited that James Harden had a great game in

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Speaker 2: Game one, because I believe that as the defensive intensity

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Speaker 2: ratchets up as you have game tape to kind of

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Speaker 2: go through and teams make adjustments. Like, I'm just not

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Speaker 2: excited about this team because I don't think that James

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Speaker 2: Harden for the next two months can play at the

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Speaker 2: elite level that you need to to beat the teams

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Speaker 2: that Philly's gonna need to make a real run.

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Speaker 3: That's the key.

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Speaker 4: Look, James Harden's a Hall of Famer. James Harden's one

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Speaker 4: of the most unguardable players in NBA history in his prime.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying now, but in his prime. No one

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Speaker 4: is out here suggesting he's not capable of a double double.

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Speaker 4: He's not capable of going out there and playing a

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Speaker 4: special game. He's a special player with undeniable skill. What

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Speaker 4: I am telling you is he's not going to put

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Speaker 4: forth a series full of them. He's not going to

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Speaker 4: put forth a conference, you know, series after series after

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Speaker 4: series full of them. Your consistency point is the right one.

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Speaker 4: He's going to have a night here, a night there. Indeed,

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Speaker 4: you know what's gonna be there for you. As long

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Speaker 4: as he's healthy, he's probably gonna have star studded nights

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Speaker 4: more often than not. James Harden is gonna have a

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Speaker 4: blip here and a blip here and a blip here.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think that is enough to get you

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Speaker 4: through the East when the two teams above you. I

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Speaker 4: picked the Celtics last week. I think you picked the

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Speaker 4: Bucks to win it all. Those two teams are head

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Speaker 4: and shoulders deeper and better than the Sixers and their

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Speaker 4: number two guys. I think you trust in both cases

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Speaker 4: more than you trust Harden in twenty twenty three. Again,

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Speaker 4: him having this kind of game, It's not like a

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Speaker 4: giant surprise. Now, if he goes and does this four

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Speaker 4: or five times in a seven game series, we'll come

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Speaker 4: back here and eat Crow next week.

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Speaker 3: But I guarantee you he will not do that.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio aeron Torres, Jason Martin broadcasting

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Speaker 2: live from the Tireck dot Com studios.

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Speaker 3: Coming up.

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Speaker 2: We spent the last half how we're talking about teams

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but a team that isn't in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They made plenty of headlines late in the week. Will

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Speaker 2: discuss that next. Before we do that, let's toss.

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Speaker 3: It over the news desk first time this evening. What's trending?

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Speaker 7: Steve to Sega, Steve, Hello, gentlemen, Hey, I heard James

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Speaker 7: Harden caught a perfect game today.

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Speaker 3: Exact that Doc Rivers, word's not mine.

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Speaker 5: Philly wins.

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Speaker 7: It's like Carlos Ruiz catching Roy Halliday. It was like

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Speaker 7: the exact same thing. By the way, I found the

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Speaker 7: knixt stet this was their first game one road playoff

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Speaker 7: win in twenty four years. I looked up the nineteen

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Speaker 7: ninety nine first round the Knicks, who were about a

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Speaker 7: five hundred team that year and about a five hundred

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Speaker 7: team the year before. This was nineteen ninety nine. There

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Speaker 7: run to the NBA Finals in the shortened season. Best

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Speaker 7: of five is what the first round was back then.

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Speaker 7: The Knicks won the opener at one seed Miami ninety

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Speaker 7: five seventy five, and took game five of the best

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Speaker 7: of five at Miami seventy eight seventy seven. Just a

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Speaker 7: side note for the kids out there, aside from Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 7: the Eastern Conference in the nineties wasn't that exciting often

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Speaker 7: just for the record, a lot of low scoring games.

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Speaker 7: Then you've got the excitement at Sacramento for this playoff

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Speaker 7: opener tonight. Of course, you may have heard that the

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Speaker 7: coach was okay this year, Mike Brown in his first year,

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Speaker 7: and he was just voted coach of the Year this

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Speaker 7: week by the league's head coaches. He got Sacramento into

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Speaker 7: the playoffs for the first time since two thousand and six,

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Speaker 7: So needless to say, there were some pent up emotion

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Speaker 7: and it's for crying out loud. Golden State as the

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Speaker 7: opponent for this best of seven RUFE was coming off

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Speaker 7: the place early, but Golden State has continued to lead.

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Speaker 7: It is currently eighty six seventy eight Warriors leading at

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Speaker 7: Sacramento just over two minutes to go in the third quarter,

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Speaker 7: and the Sacramento King starters from three point range are

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Speaker 7: zero for fifteen. Steph Curry seventeen points, Klay Thompson with fifteen.

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Speaker 7: Golden State leads game one. New York took its opener

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Speaker 7: at Cleveland one oh one ninety seven Jalen Brunson twenty

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Speaker 7: seven points. The next Julius Randall returned from his sprained

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Speaker 7: ankle and had nineteen points. Tonight with ten rebounds. Boston

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Speaker 7: led Atlanta by thirty at the half and beat the

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Speaker 7: Hawks one twelve ninety nine. Trey Young five of eighteen

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Speaker 7: shooting from the floor for his sixteen points. Philadelphia down

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Speaker 7: Brooklyn won twenty one one oh one Joe l Embiid

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Speaker 7: twenty six points. Philly will host Game two on Monday.

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Speaker 7: They as a franchise have not advanced past the second

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Speaker 7: round since two thousand and one. Four more games tomorrow,

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Speaker 7: starting with the Lakers opener at Memphis three pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 7: NASCAR's four hundred at Martinsville is on FS one tomorrow

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Speaker 7: three pm Eastern time. The Exfinity Race tonight was won

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Speaker 7: by John Hunter, Nimachek, Natt Fitzpatrick as one stroke lead

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Speaker 7: at the Gulf Evin in hilton Head, South Carolina, after

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Speaker 7: his third round sixty three. The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs

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Speaker 7: start Monday night. There are a couple of late night ballgames.

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Speaker 7: The Cubs lead one nothing in the sixth at Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 7: Rockies and Mariners tied one to one. Bottom of the

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Speaker 7: fourth Braves won their fifth straight game, nine to three

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Speaker 7: at Kansas City, long rain delay at the start, eventually

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Speaker 7: an eleven and four record now for Atlanta, KC four

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Speaker 7: and eleven. Kansas City not doing that well. Houston was

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Speaker 7: only six and eight until tonight's win over Texas eight

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Speaker 7: to two, and the Rangers starting pitcher John Gray left

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Speaker 7: with a bruce forearm hit by a lion drive. Cleveland

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Speaker 7: and Cincinnati with wins. Miami won it's fourth in a row,

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Speaker 7: three to two over Arizona Boston allowed a grand slam

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Speaker 7: in the first but came back to beat the Angels

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Speaker 7: nine to seven. Mets won three to two at Oakland.

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Speaker 7: The A's are three and twelve victories for Toronto and

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Speaker 7: San Diego. Yankees beat Minnesota six to one today again

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Speaker 7: in the NBA, right now, the fourth of the four

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Speaker 7: games on the Saturday schedule. Golden State leads game one

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Speaker 7: late third quarter at Sacramento eighty eight eighty one.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, thanks Steve Seger.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Air tors

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Speaker 3: Slash match.

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Speaker 2: Jason, really quick, before we get to the off the

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Speaker 2: court news of the week, any any real thoughts on Boston,

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Speaker 2: which you know the score was a little bit closer

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Speaker 2: than the it would indicate they win one twelve ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: They were up thirty three at the half. In crews

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Speaker 2: from there, anything that anything stand out in that one to.

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Speaker 4: You, not really. I mean, they're my pick to win

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Speaker 4: it this year. I just feel like they learned from

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Speaker 4: last year and they're still really really good, and I

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Speaker 4: think that their maturity has shown. This is a long playoffs,

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Speaker 4: Like these series are only going to be a game

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Speaker 4: four eight days from now. Like none of these series

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Speaker 4: are going to be over. We're gonna be watching this

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Speaker 4: for two months. This is a long drawn out deal.

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Speaker 4: There's gonna be some nights where you look better than others.

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Speaker 4: All you gotta do is keep on winning. They're the

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Speaker 4: better team, they'll win this series. They'll continue on. I

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Speaker 4: don't really think there was much there. It was just

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Speaker 4: kind of like, all right, here's game one. The team

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Speaker 4: was supposed to win one. It now we move on.

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Speaker 4: Not really anything like I don't think there's anything high

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Speaker 4: take you there.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so either.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the game in Sacramento, Sacramento has actually

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Speaker 2: cut the lead to two. Jordan Poole just took a

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Speaker 2: hard foul driving to the basket.

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Speaker 3: Fell down.

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Speaker 2: Looks like he's getting up, He's okay. Looks like he

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Speaker 2: got kind of his ankle twisted there driving to the basket.

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Speaker 2: But the Warriors are up to with about a minute

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Speaker 2: left in the third quarter. We'll keep you updated on that. Jason,

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Speaker 2: as I mentioned off the court, very big news, a

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Speaker 2: story that actually broke kind of like right before we

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Speaker 2: came on air last week, or about twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: before we came on air. It was that Dallas Mavericks story.

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Speaker 2: For people who don't remember all of the details. The

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Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks were in contention as of last Friday night

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Speaker 2: for one of the play in spots, and instead of

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Speaker 2: playing their guys, basically sat everybody. Luca did suit up,

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Speaker 2: but basically was pulled after the first quarter, and Jason

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Speaker 2: Kidd essentially admitted, look, you know, we're in position to

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Speaker 2: get a top ten play draft pick if it falls

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Speaker 2: out of the top ten. He didn't say this part,

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Speaker 2: but if it fell out of the top ten, it

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Speaker 2: then would go to the New York Knicks as part

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Speaker 2: of a previous trade, as part of a previous deal.

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Speaker 2: And so I bring it up because they didn't play

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Speaker 2: their guys. And yesterday the NBA came down hard on

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: fine for what the league determined conduct detrimental to the

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Speaker 2: league and basically said, like, you lost out. You didn't

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Speaker 2: lose on purpose, that's not fair, but you pulled everybody

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Speaker 2: in contention for a play in birth essentially a play

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Speaker 2: in spot. And we talked about that, Jason. I thought

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Speaker 2: it was an awful look for the MAVs. The league

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Speaker 2: agrees a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars five for

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was an awful look. It was it was

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Speaker 4: either a white flag or some other kind of machination

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Speaker 4: that they're looking at for the future. But it's like,

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Speaker 4: if you're not playing for an opportunity to reach the postseason,

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Speaker 4: Like if you're not, if you're in position to where

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Speaker 4: it look, you win that game, you're gonna have a

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Speaker 4: legit shot you should be in the playoffs. And you

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Speaker 4: choose not to do that. You choose to basically say,

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Speaker 4: now you know what, that's not important. That's an integrity

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Speaker 4: problem for the league. That's an issue for the NBA.

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Speaker 4: I've thought more about it this week. Last week, I

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Speaker 4: was trying to explain it away a bit and just

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Speaker 4: kind of say, I just feel like Dallas didn't feel

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Speaker 4: like playing anymore that it wasn't any kind of we're

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Speaker 4: trying to do something for the lottery, because you're certainly

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Speaker 4: not guaranteed any kind of great spot or anything like

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Speaker 4: that in the draft based on finishes. It's not the

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Speaker 4: same as it is in some of these other sports

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Speaker 4: where you actually know where you can end up if

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Speaker 4: you do certain things, which is why it's still baffling

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Speaker 4: that the Jets managed to give the Jags Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 4: But you look at it more, it's just like the NBA.

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Speaker 4: The fans of the NBA and the fans of any

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Speaker 4: sport have to.

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Speaker 3: Believe that all of the teams that.

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Speaker 4: You are spending money to watch or spending currency of

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Speaker 4: time watching, care, that they care about making the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: that they care about potentially winning a championship.

651
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 3: That they're there for a purpose that.

652
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 4: Is actually greater than just themselves. That they're there for

653
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 4: an audience, that they're there for their customers, that they're

654
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 4: there for their city, their communities, all of those things

655
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 4: that they're earning their paychecks. And Dallas kind of made

656
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 4: a mockery of competition last week in a way that

657
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 4: good on the NBA to at least step up and

658
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 4: do a little something here, Like we've seen some leaks,

659
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 4: including the NBA, have opportunities to do things that show, look,

660
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 4: we are going to be authoritative when we have to be.

661
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 4: And the NBA has definitely screwed the pooch on that

662
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 4: I think Rendon in that situation with Baseball. I don't

663
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 4: think that. I think Baseball could have done more and

664
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 4: chose not to do it, and I think that was

665
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 4: a mistake as well. Here at least you're saying, look,

666
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 4: this ain't gonna fly like you guys, there has to

667
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 4: be some integrity in our league and what you did

668
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 4: is not okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was my takeaway last week when we

670
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: kind of got this new is like, my whole thing is,

671
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 2: the NBA has sold us that we have to be

672
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: okay with load management during the regular seas because it's

673
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: all about the playoffs.

674
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 3: Gotta get everybody healthy for the playoffs.

675
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: You guys in the media, we blame you because you've

676
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 2: told us that playoffs and rings and championships are all

677
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: that matter. So if making the playoffs, being healthy for

678
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 2: the playoffs is all that matters, and then you have

679
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: a chance to make the playoffs and you actively.

680
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 3: Choose not to. It is an awful look.

681
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: I mean, again, we can be okay, okay, not okay

682
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 2: with load management.

683
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 3: I think it's gone too far.

684
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: I have no problem if late in the year you're

685
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: out of it, a guy needs to get surgery, you

686
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: shut him down with two weeks left in the season

687
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 2: when you've been eliminated, but you have a chance to

688
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 2: make the play in Again, I use this term all

689
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: the time, but it's the old Herb Edwards.

690
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: You play to win the game.

691
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: You play to win the game, and you have a

692
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: chance to you have a chance to make the playoffs,

693
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 2: and you actively are trying not to. I thought it

694
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: was a terrible look. You know, seven hundred and fifty

695
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. I don't know if it moves the needle.

696
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: I guess it does, but I thought it was a

697
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: bad look for the MAVs that I do give the

698
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 2: NBA credit. Like in the NBA, I think that they've

699
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: dug themselves such a big hole by letting teams and

700
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: players and organizations get away with so much, and I

701
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: think they're trying to dig back out. They're trying to

702
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: dig back out of the mess that they've created and

703
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 2: this appears to be, you know, the NBA pushing back.

704
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: So Fox Sports Radio Aertorus, Jason Martin, we are actually

705
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 2: starting the fourth quarter here in Sacramento.

706
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Speaker 3: How about this.

707
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: Sacramento makes a push late in the third quarter. They

708
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: now have a one point lead heading into the fourth quarter,

709
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: up ninety one to ninety. We'll keep you updated on that.

710
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: But coming up, we go to the diamond where the

711
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: pitch clock some very unintended consequences. You talk about punishing

712
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: the fans. Oh, the fans are being punished. We'll discuss

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Speaker 2: that next. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Eric Torres, Jason Martin broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Tireck dot Com studios.

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Speaker 3: Is this highway to the danger zone? It is? Huh great,

718
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 3: It's great.

719
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 4: Do you play Kenny Logins all night if you want preferred? Yeah,

720
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 4: keep it light, keep it loose. I'll tell you this though,

721
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 4: you want to talk about the danger zone. So the

722
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 4: MLB pitchclock, Chason love it.

723
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: So okay, First of all, I'm going to my first

724
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: baseball game of the season on Tuesday. Buddies a Mets fan.

725
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: They're in town to play the Dodgers. We're going one.

726
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,959
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see the experience experience the pitchclock era

727
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: of Major League baseball. But you talk about the danger

728
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: zone with this pitchclock, there's not enough time to have

729
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: any more fun. These games are flying by. It's you know,

730
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 2: close to a half an hour that's getting shaved off

731
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: all these games. And you talk about an unintended consequence.

732
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 3: How about this.

733
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 2: At least four major League teams so far, the Diamondbacks, Rangers, Twins,

734
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: and Brewers have actually decided to extend alcohol sales because

735
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 2: us the pitch clock is making these games go by

736
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 2: so fast, nobody's buying enough beer. Did you see this story, Jason?

737
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 2: You talk about unintended consequences. The game's moving fast, but

738
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 2: you just want to sit around have a cold one

739
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 2: with your guys.

740
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 3: What do you think about when you saw this, Jason?

741
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: I think this needs to be stopped.

742
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 4: I think baseball needs to step in as an organization

743
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 4: and not allow this because the reason you're doing it,

744
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 4: presumably is because the games are ending sooner, so the

745
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 4: innings are faster. So when you cut off things in

746
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 4: the sixth inning instead of the seventh, you're not giving

747
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 4: guys don't have as much time to drink. Okay, that's

748
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 4: a problem. I guess it certainly is when you're trying

749
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 4: to make money. But the issue is the eighth and

750
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 4: the ninth inning are also going to be faster because

751
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: of the pitch clock. Everything's gonna be faster. You don't

752
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 4: extend the time that you're allowed to drink when the

753
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 4: time between that moment and the end of your evening

754
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 4: or the time when people are then going to go

755
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 4: back to their cars or leave the facility is shorter

756
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 4: than it would have been if you didn't have a pitchclock.

757
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 4: It would have made more sense to extend the beer

758
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 4: sails when things were normal and games were still much

759
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 4: longer than they've been with the pitch clock. This, when

760
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 4: you just look at it, it's like, all right, I

761
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 4: understand it from a monetary standpoint, but the optics on

762
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 4: this horrendous. You need to try and encourage guys to

763
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 4: like go hang out at the bars outside the facility,

764
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 4: like you know in Atlanta they have the battery. We'll

765
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 4: go drink at the battery after the game is over.

766
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 4: But you don't want them drinking in your building when

767
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,479
Speaker 4: you know chances are those last two innings are gonna

768
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 4: take very little time to get through unless you've just

769
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 4: got some crazy finish. That to me is just the

770
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 4: worst kind of optics. Like you can't make it so

771
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 4: clear that you're doing something for money over the safety

772
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 4: of your patrons.

773
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: That's a mistake. Yeah.

774
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 2: All I would say to that is, you know, I

775
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: do think it's on the patrons to be responsible to

776
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: you know, find an alternative route, have a designated driver

777
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 2: or whatever. I just think it's it's you know, funny's

778
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: not the right word, but it's it's interesting the unintended

779
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: consequences of all of these things where everybody seems to

780
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 2: be happy with you know, everybody seems to be happy

781
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: with the pitchclock, how games are moving. Let me ask

782
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: you this really quick. You watch way more regular season

783
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: baseball than I do. Do you like has the pitchclock

784
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: made it a more enjoyable experience? Because I was talking

785
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: to Arnie about this the other night. He was, Oh,

786
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 2: it's it's gonna save baseball, And I said, do we

787
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 2: I mean, do we have any tangible proof like like

788
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 2: it seems like most people like it. I need to

789
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: see if ratings are actually being like people say. It's

790
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 2: it's making the products so much better, and I guess

791
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: we probably won't, you know, see any tangible results for

792
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 2: a couple of years in terms of whatever. But if

793
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: the goal is to shorten games and all that, but

794
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: then also to bring in younger fans, my whole thing

795
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: is like, like everyone's saying it's better for the sport,

796
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: but do we have any table proof yet?

797
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

798
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 2: But as somebody who watches way more regular season baseball

799
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 2: than I do, Jason, have you is it a more

800
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: enjoyable product for you?

801
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 4: Yes, Batting averages are up, stolen bases are up, You're

802
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 4: getting good amount of runs, games are progressing faster, there's

803
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 4: more action, there's more of what you want to see

804
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 4: in a baseball game. You kind of overvalue me when

805
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 4: it comes to regular season baseball. I watch a lot

806
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 4: of Braves baseball through the box score as it's happening live,

807
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 4: but like actually sitting there and watching games. I just

808
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 4: haven't had much time in several years to watch any

809
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 4: kind of regular season baseball. This year I committed to

810
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 4: doing so. I watched three Braves games basically in their

811
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 4: entirety this week. I followed the other ones closely I'm

812
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 4: paying attention to the league outside of my own team.

813
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 4: I bought MLB the Show for PlayStation Fame. That's the

814
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 4: first that's the first edition of that game I've had

815
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 4: in probably eight or nine years. I've committed to the

816
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 4: game this year. I'm listening to podcasts. I'm just paying

817
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 4: more attention to the league than I have in a

818
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: long long time.

819
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 3: What made you want to commit to the league more?

820
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 3: I don't know.

821
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 4: There was something about, all right, it's gonna move a

822
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 4: little bit faster, but also there's something peaceful about baseball

823
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 4: that you know, there's a lot of division right now.

824
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that can worry use, a

825
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 4: lot of things that can get into way, a lot

826
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 4: of obstacles, a lot of there's just a lot of

827
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 4: serious out there. And I was just like, this could

828
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: be a calming influence. Like we have this on in

829
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 4: the background. I've had this on the background. I've had

830
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 4: Baseball on all week, and it's just something about it

831
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 4: feels right to me, and I felt like, you know,

832
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 4: if I actually do commit to this, I think that

833
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 4: this can become a thing again for me. I think

834
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 4: this is the opportunity baseball has the opportunity with somebody

835
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 4: like me right now to recapture my regular season attention.

836
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 3: And so far, so good.

837
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 4: I have really enjoyed all the baseball that I've watched,

838
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 4: not just the Braves games, but everything that I've gotten

839
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: to see, and just paying.

840
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: More attention to the league, reading stories.

841
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 4: All of this baseball just feels new to me and

842
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 4: I'm excited about it.

843
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 3: Very good.

844
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I will be going to the Dodgers game

845
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. I will report back on Torres' take on

846
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 2: the pitchclock era here in a week from now. But

847
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what the experience is like. But yeah,

848
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: I'll be enjoying a few beverages, but responsibly, of course.

849
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Speaker 2: got a good one brewing in Sacramento. The Kings actually

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Speaker 2: have a two point lead, one oh seven to one

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Speaker 2: oh five, about five minutes left in the fourth quarter.

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00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: We will keep you updated on that one as it

869
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: starts to go final. Also, as the Saga told you,

870
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 2: we do have three finals in the NBA playoffs from

871
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 2: earlier today, Philadelphia took care of business against Brooklyn, won

872
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 2: twenty one one oh one. Boston took care of business

873
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: against Atlanta one twelve ninety nine the final score there.

874
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: The Knicks go on the road win Game one against

875
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: Cleveland one oh one ninety seven. Again, we'll keep you

876
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: updated on this Warrior Sacramento Kings game. About five minutes

877
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 2: left in that one. Jason, you know I do want

878
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: to switch gears. You and I obviously are in this

879
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 2: time slot every Saturday, so you know we obviously came

880
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: on late last Saturday. Uh, you know, after the third

881
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 2: round of the Masters. I don't even think the third

882
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 2: round was complete at that point.

883
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 3: Uh.

884
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 2: Started up early on Sunday, we finished the third round

885
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: and then of course fourth round from there, and you know,

886
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 2: it's a week old. I don't necessarily want to do

887
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: you know, a Master's you know, a Master's recap or

888
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 2: anything like that.

889
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 3: But John rom wins it.

890
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: But but you know, part of the story was that

891
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: that Tiger Woods, after making the cut for a record

892
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: setting twenty third year, did eventually have to withdraw.

893
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 3: And you know, we didn't talk about it. Whatever. I

894
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 3: think it might have happened right before he came out air,

895
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 3: it might have happened on Sunday. Whatever.

896
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: But you brought up a good point to me earlier

897
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,479
Speaker 2: today that I kind of want to dive into, which

898
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 2: is that you know, with Tiger openly admitting at Augusta

899
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: that he he knows his his days are probably limited.

900
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: He joked about he's forty seven, how excited he is

901
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 2: to get to the Senior Tour where he can use

902
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 2: a cart. He doesn't have to walk eighteen holes, let

903
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: alone seventy two over the course of a weekend. You know,

904
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: Tiger admits like, like the days of me winning the

905
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 2: master of winning majors are probably over. And that kind

906
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 2: of coincides with an all time great, Roger Federer stepping

907
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: away from tennis last year, an all time great Serena

908
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: Williams stepping away from tennis last year, obviously, Tom Brady

909
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: stepping away from soccer soccer from football, you know, just

910
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: a few months ago, Lionel Messi, probably in his last

911
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: World Cup ends up winning it with Argentina this past summer.

912
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 3: And it does feel like there.

913
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 2: Are quite a few, like not just great players, but

914
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: like maybe the best to ever do it in their

915
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: sport that have essentially called it a career in the

916
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 2: last probably twelve to eighteen months. And Tiger Woods, while

917
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 2: he hasn't officially called it a career, it seems as

918
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: though probably realistically, you know, probably done winning at the

919
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: highest level. Again, that's on the heels of Serena, Roger Federer,

920
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 2: Tom Brady all kind of calling it careers in.

921
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 3: The last year or so.

922
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, And look, when I suggest that to you, I

923
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 4: didn't even think. But it goes even deeper than that,

924
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 4: you could. We're getting to where lebron Ja James is

925
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 4: nearing the end of his career as well. You're seeing

926
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 4: a lot of changeover You're seeing coaches all time great

927
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 4: coaches in college basketball walking away from the game. I

928
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 4: think you are very close to the end of Nick

929
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 4: Saban's career, not just at Alabama, but as a coach.

930
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 4: I think you're probably closer to Belichick's end than you

931
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 4: would think. There's a lot of guys and a lot

932
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 4: of things that are changing, and that happens in sports,

933
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 4: but it does seem we have hit kind of an

934
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 4: inflection point where you start to look at what we

935
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 4: have and I'm curious what people think. And certainly we

936
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 4: can sit here and discuss and debate, and we can

937
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 4: bring everybody in if we want to, But you who

938
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 4: are going to be the torch bearers for this next

939
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 4: generation in sports, not just in America but globally because

940
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 4: we have been so blessed to have gotten to watch

941
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 4: Michael Phelps and Bolt and Katie Ledecki. Just looking at

942
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 4: Olympic sports, and of course Federer Nadal is near the

943
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 4: end of his career. Joker is probably nearing the end

944
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 4: of his career. Tiger right, Thompson said it best. He

945
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 4: said that the thing about Tiger making the cut was

946
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: all it did was prolong his misery because then he

947
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 4: came out there and when they stopped play on Saturday,

948
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 4: he was dead last of all the golfers that were there.

949
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 4: He was dead last him putting together four good rounds.

950
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 4: I mean, dude's lucky to still have both legs.

951
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: Yep.

952
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 4: It's just we got so much greatness for so long,

953
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 4: and we still love watching the guy, but it's also

954
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 4: kind of hard to watch and watching him after that

955
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 4: cut line day was really really difficult from a physical standpoint.

956
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 4: I think there are some obvious names. I'll just name

957
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 4: one and that can just kind of get the ball rolling.

958
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 4: I think Patrick Mahomes is the first name that comes

959
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 4: to my mind as all right, that guy is your

960
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 4: towards bear for the next generation. There's a lot of

961
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 4: great quarterbacks in the NFL, there really are, but Patrick

962
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 4: Mahomes is the best player in the sport that dominates

963
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 4: the United States.

964
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 2: Yes, by the way, really quickly, and I will answer

965
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 2: your sames. Awesome, it is insane. Yes, Steph Curry just

966
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: hit a wild three to put the Warriors up one

967
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 2: fourteen one twelve and then de Aaron Fox comes back

968
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: down and hits A three, Sacramento up by one with

969
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: three twenty eight left. So we will keep you updated

970
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: on this one really fun game going on game one

971
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: of that playoff series. But to answer your question one, yes,

972
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 2: I think when you're talking about guys that are currently

973
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 2: playing that whenever that career ends, we could be talking

974
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 2: in the all time great conversation.

975
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 3: I think Patrick Mahomes.

976
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: Is number one, you know, one already done it right,

977
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 2: Like I think, and this is a big take of

978
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 2: mine that you've probably heard me yell and scream about

979
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: too often on these airwaves, but I think so often

980
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: we want to just anoint everyone everything before they've ever

981
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: actually accomplished anything. We talked about this with Luca last

982
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 2: week is like people were saying he's the best player

983
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 2: in the NBA before he had ever won a playoff series.

984
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: Now last year he took the Maps to the Western

985
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 2: Conference finals. But you get the point I bring it

986
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 2: up to say, like Patrick Mahomes has already accomplished so much,

987
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: and you know he's still so young, So like putting

988
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: the he has the chance to do x YZ label

989
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 2: on him isn't unfair because of what he has already accomplished, right, Like,

990
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 2: like we could project out what Josh Allen might be

991
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 2: or what Lamar Jackson might be, or what Luca might be. Well,

992
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes right now as we're talking is twenty seven

993
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 2: years old with two Super Bowls, obviously a third Super

994
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 2: Bowl appearance, two MVPs, two Super Bowl MVPs. It's like,

995
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 2: so you start extrapolating that out of forget playing like

996
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 2: Tom Brady until he's forty two. If he just plays

997
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 2: another ten years, you know, when you've played it as

998
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 2: many AFC Championship games as he has, as many Super

999
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 2: Bowls as he has, it doesn't feel ridiculous to say,

1000
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: like another two to three to four might be on

1001
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 2: the table, and then you're talking Brady territory, you know,

1002
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: and then if he does have the good luck to

1003
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 2: keep playing whatever.

1004
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 3: So Mahomes is one.

1005
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 2: But then it really strikes me how few people there

1006
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 2: are that you can really start talking about in the

1007
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: short conversation of the greats and to.

1008
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 3: Give you two, go give you two real quick.

1009
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 4: Sure, the best pro athlete in the state of Wisconsin

1010
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 4: for the last ten years has not been the guy

1011
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 4: that won back to back MVPs in the NFL. It's Giannis, sure,

1012
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 4: but Dan Patrick said he was the best player in

1013
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 4: the NBA. We were talking about the MVP vote and

1014
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 4: he was talking about jokicch and it looks like it

1015
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 4: might be in Bead's time. And we know how great

1016
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 4: both those guys are. But we also know that John's

1017
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 4: is the best player in the NBA. And he's another

1018
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 4: guy like Mahomes that's already accomplished stuff. He's already done stuff.

1019
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 4: So that would be a name that I think you

1020
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 4: can probably you could probably add to that list.

1021
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Giannis was probably the one. But even him,

1022
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 2: you know, two MVPs, one NBA title. I think this

1023
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: is an interesting postseason for him because, like you said,

1024
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 2: I think them in Boston are the co favorites. The

1025
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: reason that I do like Boston. By the way, Sacramento

1026
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: has opened up a six point lead now with two

1027
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 2: twenty nine to go in the fourth quarter.

1028
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 3: Again, we'll keep you updated. This game is bananas, though,

1029
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 3: But the.

1030
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 2: Thing with Gianness is he has already like started that

1031
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 2: trajectory and this year as a co favorite with Boston.

1032
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 2: And remember, by the way, they they took Boston to

1033
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: seven games last year without Chris Middleton. It was basically

1034
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: Giannis putting the entire team on his back. So you

1035
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 2: now win two at the age of twenty eight going

1036
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,240
Speaker 2: on twenty nine with those two MVPs, then you start

1037
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,240
Speaker 2: to get into that conversation. But I'll also say this, Jason,

1038
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 2: by the way, people can tweet us at Aaron Underscore

1039
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 2: Torres at Jmart Radio, because I'm curious for other perspectives.

1040
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 2: But you know, like I look at some of these

1041
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 2: other sports the way that we kind of look at

1042
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 2: the like the magic the Michael Jordan conversation, right, like

1043
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 2: MJ for years, Oh who.

1044
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 3: The next m Jah?

1045
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: And you know, you went through this laundry list of

1046
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: guys that you wanted to be before you realize that

1047
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 2: there might just never be another MJ. And so I

1048
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 2: bring it up because, like I think it's fair to say,

1049
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 2: like there's just probably never gonna be another Serena Williams,

1050
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: and like we just have to accept it, like and

1051
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 2: especially you know, forget the just the wins and losses

1052
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 2: and the majors, like the cultural relevance that Serena had

1053
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 2: for twenty years as a as a young African American

1054
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: woman playing this sport that had been dominated obviously by

1055
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: predominantly you know, white white females. Let's be honest, like

1056
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 2: forget the cultural irrelevance, like there just may never be

1057
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: another one like her from the the win loss perspective

1058
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 2: in the majors, Like Tiger, I know that, you know,

1059
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 2: maybe he's gonna fall short of Jack Nicholas.

1060
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 3: He almost certainly will.

1061
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 2: But like, I think we got to stop trying to

1062
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 2: find the next Tiger and just acknowledge there's probably never

1063
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 2: gonna be another Tiger, Like the combination of all of

1064
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 2: the things that he was and meant to the sport

1065
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 2: of golf like that will probably never happen. So I'll

1066
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 2: tell you, I know, you said you had two others

1067
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: outside of Mahomes, but Mahomes and Yannis are the ones

1068
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 2: under thirty that strike me as potentially those type of

1069
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 2: transcendent players. But then I'll just take it a step

1070
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 2: further and say, like, you know, we're probably gonna have

1071
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 2: to accept there's never probably gonna be another Serena Williams

1072
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 2: in our lives. There's probably never gonna be another Tiger

1073
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: in our lives. But go ahead and what were you

1074
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: gonna say as far as others as well.

1075
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 4: So the other one that I would say, And I

1076
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 4: am thinking internationally as well as nationally, even though this

1077
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 4: guy plays in an American sport.

1078
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 3: But and this is someone.

1079
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 4: Who has not done it yet in terms of winning

1080
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 4: championships and things like that. He's been in a franchise

1081
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 4: that has been in burgatory for a long time. And

1082
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about Mike Trout, but I am talking.

1083
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,479
Speaker 3: About Show Heyotani. I think Otani and what.

1084
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 4: He can do both at the dish and on the mound.

1085
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 4: He has the potential to change baseball. He has the

1086
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 4: potential to supersed so many other guys because he's capable

1087
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 4: of so many things that seemed unfathomable. And even guys

1088
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 4: that were capable of it in college, once they got

1089
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 4: to MLB or even in the minors, they would be

1090
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 4: talked out of it and they would only start doing

1091
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 4: one thing. But show Hey Otani, and you know the

1092
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 4: country he comes from, in the area of the world

1093
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 4: he comes from, loving baseball the way they do. What

1094
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 4: he can mean for the World Baseball Classic as well

1095
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 4: as Major League Baseball. There's a lot of stars, yet

1096
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 4: a lot of young guys to like in baseball right now.

1097
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 4: But Show Hey Otani to me is another one of

1098
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 4: those guys that our children's children's children are gonna hear about.

1099
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 4: Show Hey Otani and wonder what it was like to

1100
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 4: watch that guy.

1101
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 2: No, that's a great one, and it's it's funny because

1102
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 2: I remember talking to Arnie Spanier about this three you know,

1103
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 2: the year before you and I started together, is you know,

1104
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 2: it speaks to the lack of cultural relevance that baseball

1105
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 2: now has on a national scale, like the year that

1106
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 2: he won the MVP with forty five home runs and

1107
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 2: whatever the pitching stats were. I remember saying in like

1108
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 2: June of that year, I was like, the fact that

1109
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 2: we're like, like, Joey Otani isn't a once in a

1110
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 2: generation talent, He's like a once in the history of

1111
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 2: the sport talent and so like like and I remember

1112
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 2: saying it, and you know, already kind of brushed it

1113
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 2: off whatever, And then a few weeks later it was

1114
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 2: the All Star Game and everybody was talking about it,

1115
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 2: so we were a little bit ahead of it. But

1116
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 2: I think the point that you just made about, you know,

1117
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 2: an international star two way player unique talent. I think

1118
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 2: he's definitely there. And I'll say this too. I can't

1119
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 2: find the numbers, but I remember Joe Davis talking about

1120
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 2: this during the World Baseball Classic, like the number of

1121
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 2: people who are obset like Japan. I want to say

1122
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: this number, And this might sound ridiculous, but I believe

1123
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 2: that Joe Davis said something to the effect of, like

1124
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 2: forty million people in Japan watched the World Baseball Classic

1125
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 2: semi final win and they have one hundred and twenty

1126
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 2: million people in that country. So like the point I'm

1127
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 2: trying to make is like baseball is there, what the

1128
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: NFL is here? And the importance and so you know,

1129
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 2: you talk about and the term gets gets thorn around

1130
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 2: too often, but a potential global icon show, Hey O,

1131
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 2: Tony could be that Jason, Yeah, I.

1132
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 4: Mean I think he could. And I know we need

1133
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 4: to get a break and we're gonna keep you up

1134
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 4: to date again on this excellent NBA game that is

1135
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 4: going on and tell you all about it once it's

1136
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 4: over here in a couple of minutes.

1137
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 3: But crowdsource doing to break one.

1138
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 4: I know what a historian and just deep sports thinker

1139
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 4: de Sega is I look forward to his update because

1140
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 4: I think he might have some good answers to this question.

1141
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,280
Speaker 4: I hope you guys are tweeting as your thoughts on this, profet.

1142
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 3: I want to hear from him because he'll think outside

1143
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 3: the box and say, Jared Soccer guys. One, guys, you

1144
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: know it's just gonna give you a bunch of off

1145
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 3: yea as Jason Williams all time. Great, Yeah, all of that.

1146
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 4: So like, talk to the guys out there and let's

1147
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 4: get their thoughts when we come back as well.

1148
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 3: I we just gave a few maybe.

1149
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 4: Obvious answers, but I'm curious to see what other people think.

1150
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 4: And man, if we can get it, If we can

1151
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 4: get seven games of this series being played the way

1152
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 4: it's being played right now, just just never let this

1153
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 4: series end.

1154
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 3: This is tremendous insanity.

1155
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 2: Sacramento up one twenty three, one twenty one, one oh

1156
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 2: nine left, thirty seven points for Dearn Fox twenty eight

1157
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 2: for Steph Curry again one oh eight left. Will keep

1158
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,640
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Speaker 2: crazy NBA game. Also your thoughts on some potential all

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Speaker 2: time greats that are playing right now. Tweet us at

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00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 2: Aaron Underscore Torris at jmart Radio. This is Fox Sports Radio.

1167
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio erin Torris, Jason Martin.

1168
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Tirec dot Com STU

1169
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 2: and it's funny.

1170
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 3: Jason.

1171
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: First of all, we're gonna get to we had a

1172
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 2: couple of people tweet in about the you know athletes,

1173
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 2: current athletes that could be that next generation of guys

1174
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 2: and girls, with Tiger Woods basically admitting it the Masters

1175
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 2: last week that you know, his best days are behind him.

1176
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 2: Serena Williams retires, Tom Brady retires. We'll get to some

1177
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 2: of those responses in just a few minutes. But I

1178
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 2: gotta say this, Jason is who you know so good? Yeah,

1179
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 2: you know it's funny, right we we we spent all

1180
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: day thinking about what we could talk about, and and

1181
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 2: you know what, what's gonna be the topics, what's gonna

1182
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: be the stories.

1183
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 3: But one of the great things.

1184
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 2: About being on in this time slot is you just

1185
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 2: never know. There's always big games going on. And we

1186
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 2: had a major result just go final the Sacramento Kings

1187
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,959
Speaker 2: at home, first playoff game in forever, a one twenty six,

1188
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 2: one twenty three win over the Golden State Wars back

1189
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 2: and forth. Really good, good. The star of the game

1190
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,919
Speaker 2: d Aaron Fox thirty eight points thirteen of twenty seven

1191
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: from the field. By the way, it's former college teammate

1192
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 2: Malik Monk with thirty two points off the bench. And

1193
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 2: I'll share some thoughts on a minute, Jason. But great win.

1194
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 2: And you know, I think we all admitted, you know,

1195
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 2: we all acknowledge right like it's the Warriors series, the

1196
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 2: Kings will just be happy to be there.

1197
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 3: Kigs didn't look happy to be there.

1198
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 2: To me, Kings came out to win and they get

1199
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 2: that game one victory over the Golden State Warriors.

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00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we did admit that. We also said they

1201
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 4: didn't look intimidated at the half. It was a six

1202
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 4: point game, and we said they had to find a

1203
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 4: way to win this game, and they did. And I

1204
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 4: gave you the five thirty eight numbers that update in

1205
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 4: real time, and it was like a sixteen percent chance

1206
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 4: that the Kings could make it to the semi finals

1207
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 4: based on their projections, which are based on like fifty

1208
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 4: thousand simulations and they're done at the current time, and

1209
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 4: so this algorithm runs constantly. Well, now it's thirty one percent,

1210
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 4: and the Warriors numbers, of course have dropped considerably down

1211
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 4: to sixty nine. Based on that, you had Fox and

1212
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 4: Monk combined for seventy in this game. Malik Monk was

1213
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 4: fourteen to fourteen from the free throw line. D'aron Fox

1214
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 4: made every play you needed down the stretch. But the

1215
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 4: striking thing about this was that the Warriors had it.

1216
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 4: Daron Fox missed his second free throw, so it was

1217
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 4: right there for the taking. It was a one point

1218
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 4: game at that point. Golden State came down the floor.

1219
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 4: Actually had a wide open three in the corner for

1220
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 4: Wiggins and he missed. And he was having a good game.

1221
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 4: He had seventeen points in his comeback game here, so

1222
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 4: he missed the three. The Kings get the rebound off

1223
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 4: of that, they get fouled. It's a three point game.

1224
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 4: And then after the timeout, You've got two point nine,

1225
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 4: you get the ball to Curry. He takes a dribble

1226
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 4: and finds himself wide open for three and he missed.

1227
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 4: So you had the opportunity, if you were Golden State,

1228
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 4: to do the kinds of things that we've seen Golden

1229
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 4: State do so many times in the.

1230
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 3: Past, and they don't do it.

1231
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 4: And the de' aaron foxtat that I heard right after

1232
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 4: the game was, of course this being his playoff debut.

1233
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 4: It's been seventeen years for the Kings. There's only one

1234
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 4: player I'd have to look up who is There's only

1235
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 4: one player in NBA history that had more points in

1236
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 4: his playoff debut than ded Aaron Fox did tonight. And

1237
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 4: that game was awesome. One six twenty three the final Fox.

1238
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 4: We already knew he was good coming out of college.

1239
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 4: I loved that pick for them, but you just had

1240
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 4: to wonder, like, what else were you gonna do. I'm

1241
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 4: gonna throw out one other thing that I was thinking

1242
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 4: about watching, especially the second half of this game, and

1243
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 4: based on how Golden State played, maybe this isn't a factor.

1244
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 3: It does help.

1245
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 4: I would think if you're Sacramento to have Harrison Barnes

1246
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 4: on your team.

1247
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 3: I was thinking about that because.

1248
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 4: He played for Golden State and played against these guys

1249
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 4: and won a championship with these guys. He kind of

1250
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 4: knows how they play, He knows how they think, he

1251
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 4: knows how they react in playoff scenarios. That can't hurt, right, Like,

1252
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 4: I mean, this game still played out like a game

1253
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 4: Golden State generally wins a Sacramento found a way to

1254
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 4: just outscore them.

1255
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 3: And beat them. Played a little bit more.

1256
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 4: Sound basketball than they did, and their stats across the

1257
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 4: board generally, they were a little better from three, they

1258
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 4: were better from the charity stripe, not quite as good

1259
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 4: from the field, but they had a few more opportunities

1260
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 4: because they had a few more rebounds. I think they

1261
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 4: had ten more rebounds in the game than Golden State did.

1262
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 4: But Harrison Barnes can give you some intel.

1263
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it was funny.

1264
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about that just in general, about

1265
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 2: how you know, we think about this Warriors era, and

1266
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 2: like Harrison Bars kind of just got forced out, Like yeah,

1267
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: they were like, yeah, thanks for helping us win seventy

1268
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 2: three regular season games and coming within a couple of

1269
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 2: plays of winning back to back NBA titles. We're gonna

1270
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 2: go get Kevin Durant right now. So yeah, no, I

1271
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 2: think that's a factor. But I also just think, like,

1272
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 2: to me, it comes down to Sacramento not being too

1273
01:00:58,440 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 2: big for the moment.

1274
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I'll tell you what we do.

1275
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 2: Have the sound of the final few seconds of this game, Chris,

1276
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 2: whenever you're ready, let's pull up that sound and have

1277
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 2: it ready to go and bounce.

1278
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 3: Past the curry.

1279
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 8: Hey turns, Hey wheels, he fires.

1280
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 3: Hey, this is bus with the redo.

1281
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 8: And Sacramento has one game number one. After seventeen years

1282
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 8: without a playoff experience, they have risen.

1283
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 3: To the occasions.

1284
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 2: That was Kings Radio Network, And yeah, I mean rise

1285
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 2: to the occasion is an understatement. It was a phenomenon.

1286
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 2: Like the thing is, Jason, and I'll tell you what, Well,

1287
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 2: we'll get it over to the news desk with the saga.

1288
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 2: We'll come back and talk about this more. But I

1289
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: think the thing that stands out to me like there

1290
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 2: are scenarios where Sacramento wins this game and you still

1291
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 2: feel like, Okay, well you know, I mean, it's still

1292
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 2: the Warriors. And I think there's a degree to that

1293
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 2: but it was how they won it, which I want

1294
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 2: to discuss next. We'll discuss that next. Before we do,

1295
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Speaker 2: I should mention that at the end of your first year,

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Speaker 2: Just a phenomenal nightcap for Day one of the NBA Playoffs.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next, but let's get it over the

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Speaker 2: news desk Steeve Seger, what's trending?

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Speaker 7: My friend Basty loud Knight in Sacramento, California, and they

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Speaker 7: did have a second half comeback while Curry was on

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Speaker 7: the bench. Sacramento beats Golden State in Game one of

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Speaker 7: the first round Series one six one twenty three dearon

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Speaker 7: Fox thirty eight points and by the way, apparently Luka

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01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 7: Doncic had forty two points in his playoff debut, remember

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Speaker 7: when he could not stop scoring against the Clippers in

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Speaker 7: the Bubble three years ago. Sacramento gets the win, and

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Speaker 7: of course we'll be hosting game two. Steph Curry had

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Speaker 7: a shot at the tying three at the end and missed.

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Speaker 7: He did have thirty points in defeat, twenty one points

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Speaker 7: for Klay Thompson. Remember earlier in the night we told

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Speaker 7: you at one point Sacramento starting five from three point

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Speaker 7: range was zero for fifteen, and yet Dearon Fox wound

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Speaker 7: up with four three pointers, obviously the bulk of the

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Speaker 7: threes made from the starting five. He was enough Sacramento

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Speaker 7: up one game to none, and a good story that

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Speaker 7: Andrew Wiggins the Golden State was cleared to play in

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Speaker 7: this series this postseason. He had missed two months due

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Speaker 7: to a family matter and had seventeen points off the

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Speaker 7: bench in this game. New York took its Game one

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Speaker 7: at Cleveland one oh one ninety seven Jalen Brunson twenty

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Speaker 7: seven points. Boston down, Atlanta won twelve ninety nine. Celtics

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Speaker 7: led at the half seventy four to forty four. Jalen

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Speaker 7: Brown twenty nine points. In the game Philadelphia beat Brooklyn

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Speaker 7: won twenty one to one oh one. Four more games

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Speaker 7: tomorrow and the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs start Monday night.

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Speaker 7: Two late night ballgames in MLB, the Cubs are still

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Speaker 7: leading at Dodger Stadium one nothing in the bottom of

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Speaker 7: the eighth inning. It is Jackie Robinson Day and Major

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Speaker 7: League Baseball at Seattle. Mariners now up eight to one

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Speaker 7: over Colorado in the bottom of the sixth, everything else

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Speaker 7: is final. Atlanta won its fifth straight game, nine to

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Speaker 7: three at Kansas City, three hits and four RBIs each

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Speaker 7: for Ozzi, Alby's and Sean Murphy. Miami won its fourth

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Speaker 7: straight game three to two over Arizona with two runs

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Speaker 7: in the bottom of the seven. Cleveland and Cincinnati with wins.

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Speaker 7: Houston beat Texas eight to two. Houston just seven and

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Speaker 7: eight on the season. If the Dodgers lose, they will

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Speaker 7: be seven and eight on the season, and the San

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Speaker 7: Diego Padres with I think justifiably a lot of fanfare

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01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,439
Speaker 7: in the off season. Padres now eight and eight after

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Speaker 7: a win on FS one against Milwaukee ten to three.

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Speaker 7: Jay Croninworth two homers, six RBIs. Boston gave up a

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Speaker 7: first inning grand slam and still beat the Angels nine

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Speaker 7: to seven. Mets won three two at Oakland. The A's

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Speaker 7: are three and twelve ten inning victories for Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 7: the White Sox and Detroit trailed six to one to

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Speaker 7: the Giants fifth inning, came back to win in eleven inning,

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Speaker 7: seven to six over San Francisco Matt Fitzpatrick as a

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Speaker 7: one stroke lead at hilton Head, South Carolina after third

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Speaker 7: round sixty three, Patrick Cantley as won back Jordan Speath

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Speaker 7: two shots back back to.

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Speaker 3: You, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Disaega, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday, ra Torres Jason

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Speaker 2: Martin Company live from the tyreck dot Com studios, again

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Speaker 2: reacting in real time to what was just an iconic

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Speaker 2: Game one in Sacramento as the Sacramento Kings take care

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Speaker 2: of the Golden State Warriors. Final score one twenty six

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Speaker 2: to one, twenty three, thirty eight points for de Aaron Fox,

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Speaker 2: thirty two points for his former college teammate Malik Monk.

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Speaker 2: A dominant, dominant, dominant performance by them, Jason against obviously

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Speaker 2: you know the reigning NBA champ. And what I was

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Speaker 2: gonna say before the break, Jason, sometimes I think, you

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01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 2: know you can win a game, and especially in a

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Speaker 2: seven game series, it doesn't mean much and this might

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Speaker 2: not mean anything. The Warriors, listen, they have the playoff chops,

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Speaker 2: they have the playoff credibility. I was critical of them

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Speaker 2: early in this era, but obviously last year silenced a

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Speaker 2: lot of critics, myself included winning that championship the way

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Speaker 2: that they did. But why I bring it up, Jason

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Speaker 2: is this is that I think there are times where

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Speaker 2: you can win a game, but basically everything has to

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Speaker 2: go your way, right, And like there was a scenario

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Speaker 2: where Sacramento wins this game, but Steph Curry finishes three

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Speaker 2: of seventeen from the field, and Andrew Wiggins isn't quite back,

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Speaker 2: and Klay Thompson twists his ankle, and Draymond Green hasn't

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Speaker 2: followed trouble and you win, you know, one oh four

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Speaker 2: to ninety six, and you know, all these things go

1381
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Speaker 2: wrong and you have to hold on for dear life

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Speaker 2: and you find a way to win Game one. What

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Speaker 2: impress me and what I think you have to feel

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01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 2: good about if you're a Kings fan and imerst well,

1385
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 2: if you're a Kicks fan, you just got to feel good.

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Speaker 3: Period.

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Speaker 2: It's the first playoff win forever. But on top of that,

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Speaker 2: you took Golden State. You took something close to Golden

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01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 2: State's best shot thirty points first, Steph Curry eleven of

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01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 2: twenty from the field, six three pointers made, Klay Thompson

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Speaker 2: twenty one points, five to three pointers made, you know,

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Speaker 2: seventeen off the bench for Jordan Poole, seventeen from Andrew Wiggins.

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Speaker 2: As you said, Jason looked very good coming off that

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Speaker 2: extended time away from the game. So I just bring

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Speaker 2: it up to say, like, there are where Sacramento wins

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Speaker 2: this game and you're like, yeah, whatever.

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Speaker 3: Warriors in five.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you can't watch that game with

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01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 2: the Kings matching shot for shot, moment for moment and

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01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 2: not say I'm not predicting that they're definitively going to

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Speaker 2: win this series, but I feel a lot better about

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01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 2: the possibility, much more so than I did two or

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01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 2: three hours ago.

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Speaker 3: Jason, Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 4: I mean it didn't feel fluky because Golden State scored

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Speaker 4: one twenty three, Like it wasn't a game where everything

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Speaker 4: seemed to just fall Sacramento's way. The one thing I

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Speaker 4: would counter with is you're not gonna expect seventy out

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Speaker 4: of de Aaron Fox and Maleigue Monk on a combined basis,

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Speaker 4: on a regular basis, Like that's not a thing that

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Speaker 4: probably won't happen again in this series. And you won

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Speaker 4: this thing by three, and Curry had a wide open

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 4: three with about a second and a half left when

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01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 4: he let it go and it missed, and generally that

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Speaker 4: doesn't happen. You still have a one to zero lead

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Speaker 4: in the series. If you lose the series, I don't

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01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 4: think the world is going to be particularly surprised by it.

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01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 4: I do think that at this point you probably have

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01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 4: Golden State's attention, and I don't think Sacramento is quite

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Speaker 4: as chatty as, for instance, Memphis was last year. I

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01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 4: think Sacramento is just gonna stay quiet and keep playing.

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Speaker 4: And I am curious to see what Game two looks like.

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01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 4: Is Sacramento gonna walk in knowing that they have Game

1424
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Speaker 4: one in their pocket and feel that confidence and be

1425
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 4: able to ride that high, or are we going to

1426
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,679
Speaker 4: see kind of ebbs and flows of playoff basketball. Golden

1427
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 4: State kind of wins it, maybe even a little bit convincingly.

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Speaker 4: It's one to one, and it goes to Golden State,

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Speaker 4: and then we see what happens there. Sacramento could go

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01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 4: a long way to taking more than just a couple

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01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 4: steps in the right direction if by some chance, they

1432
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 4: come out strong again in Game two and at the

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Speaker 4: very least make Golden State earn that Sacramento is definitely

1434
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Speaker 4: a basketball team that you look at and you're just

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Speaker 4: like man. When they are hot, and when they are

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01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 4: on in particular, they can be very, very difficult to

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Speaker 4: deal with because of their offensive firepower and their ability

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01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 4: to make shots and their ability to get rebounds. Golden

1439
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 4: State's gonna. Gold State played pretty well. The don't have

1440
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 4: to play a lot better than that if they want

1441
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 4: to get through this series, much less anything else.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, I know it's Game one, you

1443
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 3: don't want to overreact.

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01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 2: But we talked about it a little bit with the

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Speaker 2: Lakers earlier, and I'm sure we'll talk a little bit

1446
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Speaker 2: about the Lakers probably at the top of you know,

1447
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 2: one am Eastern ten Pacific, our final hour will start

1448
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 2: to look ahead to tomorrow's games. But I mentioned earlier

1449
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,560
Speaker 2: how I thought there were a lot of people that

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,839
Speaker 2: were trying to talk themselves into a path for the Lakers,

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01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,679
Speaker 2: and I thought that, you know, you watch that playing

1452
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 2: game against Minnesota, they kind of had to give it

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01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 2: their all Minnesota and have Carl Towns, who was in

1454
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 2: foul trouble. Anthony Edwards had a terrible game, and the

1455
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 2: Lakers barely survived and so I bring it up because

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01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 2: I don't see it for the Lakers, right, But I

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01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 2: did talk earlier that I did see the pathway for

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Speaker 2: Golden State. All I'll say is like in when we

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01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,679
Speaker 2: open this show, and it's funny how different two hours

1460
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 2: can make things. But we open this show and Sacramento

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01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 2: is down whatever, eight, ten to twelve points, whatever it was,

1462
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 2: And I said, you know, there's a scenario if Golden

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01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 2: State wins this game, and I did say it does

1464
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,759
Speaker 2: come down to winning game one. But they win this game,

1465
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: maybe they split in Sacramento, then they go win too

1466
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 2: in Golden State, and all of a sudden, this game is,

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01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,600
Speaker 2: this series is done in five I do think losing

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01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 2: this game it does change to me a lot of

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01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 2: what the Warriors can be and will be in the playoffs,

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01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,560
Speaker 2: because all of a sudden, you watch this game, I

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01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:43,720
Speaker 2: don't think it's a five game series, might not even

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Speaker 2: be a six game series one way or the other.

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Speaker 2: And so one, I think it's a lot more likely,

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01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 2: just logistically but also just from watching the game that

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01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 2: the Warriors could actually lose this series. But even if

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01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: they survive, it's going to be a battle. And I

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 2: think if you need a battle to survive Sacramento. Then

1478
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're going to get Lakers Memphis,

1479
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 2: and then you'd still have to play probably.

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Speaker 3: The Suns in the Western Conference Finals.

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01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:06,720
Speaker 2: I just bring it up to say, I think the

1482
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 2: path now looks a lot tougher, because the Kings look

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01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 2: a lot tougher than maybe most of us thought they

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01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 2: would be two or three hours ago.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think it's.

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Speaker 4: Fair to talk about how much energy is it gonna

1487
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 4: take for Golden State if they do get through this series?

1488
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 4: How much are they going to have to expend over

1489
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 4: the next And I'm looking at it right now. Game

1490
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 4: five in this series, let's just say the Warriors would

1491
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 4: go win four in a row. Game five is April

1492
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 4: to twenty fifth. That's ten days away. If this thing

1493
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 4: goes seven, it goes through April to twenty ninth, So

1494
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 4: it's two weeks from right now, and you're still dealing

1495
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 4: with this team potentially, right the shortest this thing could

1496
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 4: be a Game four is gonna be played on April

1497
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 4: to twenty third, so that's you know, eight days away.

1498
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 4: So you look at all of that, how much energy

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01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 4: are these guys who are not exactly you know, twenty

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01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 4: four year olds anymore. In Golden State. A lot of

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 4: these guys have a lot on the tires, especially because

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01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 4: during all the playoff minutes that they have you know,

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01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 4: totaled up through their illustrious Hall of Fame careers. This

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01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 4: is a team that doesn't really need a long series.

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01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 4: They also have a tendency to get hurt, Like Steph

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01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,719
Speaker 4: gets banged up a lot in the playoffs, and he'll

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01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 4: you know, it'll be a finger, it'll be something going

1508
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 4: on where it's tweaked just enough. Clay has dealt with

1509
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 4: his share of injuries. We even just see Draymond miss

1510
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 4: some time. This is this is This is a Golden

1511
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 4: State team that needs the path to be easy, for

1512
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 4: things to work out the way they need them to.

1513
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,759
Speaker 4: And it does not appear like based off Game one,

1514
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 4: Sacramento is gonna roll over and play dead here that

1515
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 4: even if they were to win it in five, meaning

1516
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 4: Golden State, they're not gonna beat them by twenty twenty five, fifteen,

1517
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 4: and twelve, Like this is going to be a much

1518
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 4: more difficult series. It appears because Sacramento's got fresher legs

1519
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 4: and they don't seem like this moment is too big

1520
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 4: for them.

1521
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio Aeron Torres Jason Martin. We

1522
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 2: all broadcast live from the Tireck dot com studios. Coming

1523
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 2: up more reaction to this one as Sacramento takes Game

1524
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 2: one against Golden State.

1525
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,879
Speaker 3: Also read some of your comments from earlier.

1526
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 2: We were asking about some of these iconic athletes that

1527
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:15,839
Speaker 2: are stepping away over the last.

1528
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 3: Year or so.

1529
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:20,719
Speaker 2: Tom Brady serena Tiger is quite literally on his last legs.

1530
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 2: You guys gave some good answers as to who could

1531
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 2: be that next generation of people. We'll discuss all that

1532
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,959
Speaker 2: next Ertors, Jason Martin, Fox Sports Radio, Welcome back everybody,

1533
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Aerontors, Jason Martin. We are broadcasting live

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 2: from the tierraq dot com studios. We do have a

1535
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 2: final in Sacramento for people who missed it. Sacramento wins

1536
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 2: one twenty six to one twenty three. They take game one.

1537
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 2: Thirty eight points for dearon Fox, thirty two for Malik Monk.

1538
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about the NBA in a minute, Jason,

1539
01:13:56,439 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 2: but did get a couple interesting tweets so early year

1540
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 2: prior to the game going final. We were talking about

1541
01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 2: the idea, it was spurred on by by last week's

1542
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: Masters is Tiger Woods even before the tournament kind of

1543
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 2: openly acknowledged, you know, his days of probably winning majors

1544
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 2: are over, and he basically said, like, you know, can't

1545
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 2: wait to get to the to the Senior Tour, can

1546
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 2: use a card, all that good stuff. And we kind

1547
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 2: of talked about how you had Tiger in with people

1548
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 2: that are actually definitively retired, Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Uh,

1549
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 2: you know, Roger Federer all within the last year. You

1550
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 2: mentioned Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt too, who are obviously have

1551
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 2: stepped away in the last two or three years. Like

1552
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 2: we're losing all time greats out of sports that you know,

1553
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 2: that that that you know basically that that are iconic.

1554
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:48,160
Speaker 4: And and we talked about Leonel Messi, I mean we're

1555
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 4: talking about we're talking about like torch bearer. We don't

1556
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 4: want to use the terminology for the presidents that are

1557
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 4: on the rock in South Dakota because it's yeah, half

1558
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 4: for love, just like guys that are just true standard

1559
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 4: bearers that are like like transcend it to the level

1560
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 4: that people are going to know who they are. Two

1561
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 4: hundred years from now, assuming there's still a universe two

1562
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 4: hundred years from now.

1563
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 2: Sure, so a couple of good ones in this one.

1564
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 2: Somebody might have some more perspective on this one than

1565
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 2: I do. But Jordan Wynn tweeted in Formula one, Max

1566
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 2: Verstapen has two titles at under twenty five years old,

1567
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 2: ten top ten in podiums and all time wins. So

1568
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 2: that's an interesting one. Chris canad perspective in a minute.

1569
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 2: And then also I saw another one. Oh, Jason says,

1570
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 2: I think iron Mike Tyson will never be matched with

1571
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 2: how great he was. That's an interesting one because boxing

1572
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 2: feels like a sport, you know, It's like it's hard

1573
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 2: to see a scenario where any boxer is as big

1574
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 2: as Mike Tyson was, Muhammad Ali was. I mean even

1575
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 2: the guys from like our childhood, like Oscar de la

1576
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 2: Hoya was like a household name, you know, Mike Tyson

1577
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 2: as as Jason said, so nobody in boxing really stands

1578
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 2: out obviously in the post Floyd Mayweather era, bring in

1579
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,639
Speaker 2: the crew, like Chris, I mean, you know the international

1580
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 2: sports scene better than anybody.

1581
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 3: Does.

1582
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,879
Speaker 2: Anybody come to mind as somebody that's at the beginning

1583
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 2: stages of their career that we could one day be

1584
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 2: talking about as an all time I come.

1585
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:17,839
Speaker 9: Yeah, two names kind of come up, especially in soccer.

1586
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 9: I guess you know, right, it's hard because right now,

1587
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 9: like Earling Holland is having probably the best season I've

1588
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 9: ever seen out of a player in the Premier League.

1589
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 9: But if you're talking about probably someone who's been pegged

1590
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 9: as being the next guy to take over Lionel Messi,

1591
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 9: especially when you're talking about World Cup, it's it's killing

1592
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 9: Embape and I don't think it's close. You know, plays

1593
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 9: for France. Probably he wants to play at the upcoming

1594
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 9: Olympics and will absolutely be kind of the leader in

1595
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 9: their World Cup. And you know, was there against Leonel

1596
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,639
Speaker 9: Messi at the last World Cup. I think he's kind

1597
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 9: of that guy. And you know, again, Earl Holland's having

1598
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 9: a fantastic season, but he plays for Norway at the

1599
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 9: end of the day, whereas Killian Ibape plays for France.

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01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,720
Speaker 9: Uh very well for France, and the only thing really

1601
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 9: hurting him is, you know, probably on the club level,

1602
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:08,759
Speaker 9: if he played for like a Real Madrid or English club,

1603
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 9: probably would be even more of a household name Pearling.

1604
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 3: How I'll be honest, I'm not really familiar with his work.

1605
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 3: So is he that good? Like?

1606
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 9: Is he that good on the not obviously in Bappe

1607
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 9: or Holland Holland. Holland's kind of really stormed onto the

1608
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 9: scene this year. He kind of just got transferred in

1609
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 9: from Germany. He's a Norwegian player and he's just been

1610
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:31,759
Speaker 9: just hat trick after hat trick after hat trick in soccer.

1611
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 3: Very cool.

1612
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 2: The segreta, I don't know if you, if you're available,

1613
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:37,919
Speaker 2: but did anybody come to mind in this conversation.

1614
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 7: I did read a Holland article today and it's I'm

1615
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,839
Speaker 7: not kidding. He has been in the news coming across

1616
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,559
Speaker 7: the pond. He's been that incredible over there. I think

1617
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 7: it's was like over thirty goals for a less than

1618
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 7: forty game seasons.

1619
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's tied. He's tied the EPL record right now.

1620
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 9: It's just a matter of he's going to have to

1621
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:58,759
Speaker 9: do it for more than one season for Manchester City.

1622
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you're starting to people that are young or new,

1623
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:05,839
Speaker 7: that's really dangerous territory because guys that you were mentioning

1624
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 7: that had full careers. I mean Tom Brady, nobody thought

1625
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 7: at that age that he was going to turn into

1626
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 7: you know, an all pro quarterback, much less the quarterback

1627
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 7: in the NFL. In tennis, remember people were saying, oh,

1628
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 7: look out Naomi Osaka for many years to come. Well, okay,

1629
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,439
Speaker 7: maybe not, but you'd have to go with just the

1630
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,440
Speaker 7: people that we know are going to have great careers

1631
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 7: because they have to this point, like Mahomes, Yannis Otani,

1632
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:34,560
Speaker 7: Connor McDavid.

1633
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 5: I would certainly add to that list at a two.

1634
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 2: I think Jason actually, who tweeted about Mike Tyson, might

1635
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 2: have said something about Connor McDavid as well.

1636
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:43,559
Speaker 3: I'm not I always wondering if there.

1637
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 4: Was one hockey like I mean, yes, Connor McDavid for sure,

1638
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 4: there's not like the Wayne Gretzky name necessarily, but it's

1639
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:53,200
Speaker 4: just because hockey just doesn't there's no needle mover right

1640
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:55,759
Speaker 4: now in terms of the sports.

1641
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 3: Just it's just not what it was.

1642
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 4: And I used to absolutely love watching hockey and I

1643
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 4: would love to see it back to that. I can

1644
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,799
Speaker 4: tell you, Aaron, tell me one guy that we thought,

1645
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 4: or that many thought coming out of college.

1646
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:12,559
Speaker 3: Potentially was going to be the next the NBA. Where

1647
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 3: you're going with this one?

1648
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 4: I I'm not so sure that that many people would

1649
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 4: agree with that right now, at least as long as

1650
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 4: he doesn't feel like him and he uses he speaks

1651
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 4: in the first person a lot.

1652
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 5: To he's still twenty two.

1653
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 4: Just for the record, you mentioned boxing out is at

1654
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 4: his age or how many games he's played.

1655
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 3: In his nbahs fired.

1656
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 2: I'll tell you we will talk about Zion not feeling

1657
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 2: like Zion in the next hour of pFET Were you

1658
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 2: gonna say something?

1659
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, sorry, thirty seconds here, but uh, you mentioned boxing earlier,

1660
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 9: and I'm just scratching my head of what Floyd Mayweather was,

1661
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 9: who obviously had a cult following, but I'm not gonna

1662
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 9: rank him as one of the greatest of all times

1663
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 9: just because he won every game and fights for so boring.

1664
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's an interesting conversation because we did just

1665
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:02,560
Speaker 2: phase out so many guys and there's not obvious replacements.

1666
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,479
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1671
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:22,320
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1678
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Speaker 2: We'll preview the four NBA games tomorrow at the top

1679
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 2: of next hour, but let's let's revisit some of everything

1680
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 2: that happened today. And Jason, you know, the game of

1681
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 2: the day just went final about twenty twenty five minutes ago.

1682
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 2: It was in Sacramento, Sacramento Kings have not played a

1683
01:20:56,600 --> 01:21:00,599
Speaker 2: playoff game in forever, hosting the Golden State War In

1684
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 2: that one, uh fall down early, trailed at the half,

1685
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 2: and we kind of opened the show by talking about,

1686
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 2: you know, Sacramento. I think most people think that Golden

1687
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 2: State is ultimately gonna win this and if you lose

1688
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 2: Game one, if you're Sacramento, it's gonna make it that

1689
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:18,560
Speaker 2: much tougher against a team with so much experience like

1690
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 2: Golden State. Does well, at least for tonight. It's not

1691
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 2: an issue as a Sacramento takes Game one one, six

1692
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 2: to one, twenty three, just an absolute great game. Uh

1693
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:32,759
Speaker 2: thirty eight points for Deer and Fox, thirty for Steph Curry,

1694
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:36,920
Speaker 2: thirty two from a leak Monk off the bench. Sacramento

1695
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 2: takes Game one and I'll say, you know, forty eight

1696
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 2: minutes of basketball shouldn't change that much of an opinion.

1697
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:45,000
Speaker 2: But on the flip side, it did change my opinion

1698
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 2: because I came in thinking Sacramento might be happy to

1699
01:21:47,439 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 2: be here. Are they gonna be ready for the moment?

1700
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 2: They were ready for the moment on Saturday. This win

1701
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 2: was not a fluke. They went shot for shot with

1702
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 2: Golden State was able to hold on and get a

1703
01:21:58,520 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 2: Game one victory.

1704
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be a long series, and based on

1705
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 4: this game, you want it to be a long series.

1706
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 4: You don't if you're a Golden State fan, obviously, but

1707
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 4: also just if you have money on Golden State. This

1708
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 4: is not one of the youngest teams in the league anymore.

1709
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 4: This is the team has a lot of mileage on

1710
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 4: those tires, and they needed a series they could get

1711
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:20,560
Speaker 4: out of quickly and this one. They're definitely going to

1712
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 4: have to earn this. It looks like against a game

1713
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 4: Kings team that stepped on the floor wasn't intimidated. And

1714
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 4: I think the thing that was most impressive down the

1715
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 4: stretch in this game is I've seen You've seen, We've

1716
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 4: all seen Golden State win those kind of games all

1717
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 4: the time. Like they find a way to win those games,

1718
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 4: especially when you give them multiple opportunities in the final

1719
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 4: forty five seconds.

1720
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 3: Is the way this played out.

1721
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 4: You end up with Curry taking the three with one

1722
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 4: and a half left wide open, and he missed the shot.

1723
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 4: You had Wiggins in a quarter miss a three pointer,

1724
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 4: couple key rebounds, key offensive rebounds for Sacramento, and then

1725
01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 4: you got seventy combined from the Kentucky Stars, Fox and

1726
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 4: the League Monk. I think that this is a game

1727
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 4: that Golden State should win, like we've seen them win

1728
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:12,639
Speaker 4: just this kind of game where you leave just enough

1729
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 4: of a window open even if you play great and

1730
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 4: they beat you. And tonight they didn't beat Sacramento. What's

1731
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 4: impressive is this game felt like a Golden State game

1732
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 4: watching us, Like I've seen the Warriors playing games like

1733
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 4: this so many times, at this pace, this kind of offense,

1734
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 4: this is going to be a task here if you're Sacramento,

1735
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 4: and it was, and they still came out with the

1736
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 4: dub huge ups to Sacramento. They earned this thing, and

1737
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 4: I'm really hoping we get a deep series out of

1738
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 4: this because that was a heck of a basketball game.

1739
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what stands out to me as well, is

1740
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 2: there's a scenario where Sacramento can win this game and

1741
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 2: it doesn't make you feel any different about the outcoming

1742
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 2: series and not saying that Golden State can't or won't

1743
01:23:56,600 --> 01:24:01,400
Speaker 2: ultimately win, but what's wild is is that basically, you know,

1744
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 2: you basically if you're Golden State, you got something close

1745
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 2: to the best game you could have out of Steph Curry.

1746
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:07,800
Speaker 2: I know he missed the final shot, but he had

1747
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 2: thirty points on eleven.

1748
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 3: Of twenty shooting. He was phenomenal.

1749
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson had twenty one points, Jorna Poole had seventeen

1750
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,679
Speaker 2: off the bench, Andrew Wiggins had seventeen off the bench.

1751
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 3: And so that was the game that you wanted. I mean,

1752
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 3: if you if you.

1753
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 2: Say all of those things before the game starts seventeen

1754
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 2: for Pool, seventeen for Wiggins off the bench, thirty for Curry,

1755
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,920
Speaker 2: twenty one for Klay Thompson. You feel pretty good about

1756
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 2: what the outcome is of this game. And so if

1757
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 2: this was a game where you know, Steph Curry shoots

1758
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,799
Speaker 2: four of twenty one from the field and Draymond Greens

1759
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,719
Speaker 2: and followed trouble and Andrew Wiggins isn't really ready to play,

1760
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:44,599
Speaker 2: and Sacramento wins this game, it feels a lot different

1761
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 2: than it does right now because the way Sacramento was

1762
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,639
Speaker 2: able to win this game, the way that they were

1763
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 2: able to go shot for shot play to your point, Jason,

1764
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 2: kind of a you know, a Warriors type game. They

1765
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 2: outplayed the Warriors at their own game. You gotta feel

1766
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:02,520
Speaker 2: good if you're Sacramento.

1767
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 4: Let me say this too real quick before we before

1768
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:09,879
Speaker 4: we move on. I think this game so many teams

1769
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,680
Speaker 4: roll over and die. At three oh seven of the

1770
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:18,720
Speaker 4: third quarter, when Steph hits a three, Gary Payton finds him,

1771
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 4: he hits a twenty five footer and Golden State goes

1772
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 4: up eighty six to seventy six, and the third quarter

1773
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 4: three to h seven left, they're up ten. You get

1774
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 4: to the end of the third Sacramento leads it ninety

1775
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:34,719
Speaker 4: one to ninety. They ended they ended the third quarter

1776
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:36,719
Speaker 4: on a fifteen to four run.

1777
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 3: Yep.

1778
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 4: So many teams cannot pull that off, especially against Golden

1779
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:43,719
Speaker 4: State when they start rolling. We've seen them in third

1780
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 4: quarters for over a decade now. It feels like, just

1781
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 4: dominate teams and put them out of their misery before

1782
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 4: you ever even get into the fourth, and then it's

1783
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 4: an insurmountable task. Sacramento not only didn't roll over and die,

1784
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:59,840
Speaker 4: they flat out gamed up and balled out and beat

1785
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 4: Golden State in the third quarter and said nah, nah,

1786
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 4: more minutes, guys, game on, and then they won the game.

1787
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 2: Dumb question, well not dumb question, but question is what

1788
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 2: were your thoughts on Golden State ceiling coming into the

1789
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,679
Speaker 2: playoffs and did this game change anything at all.

1790
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 3: From your perspective? No, not really.

1791
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 4: I mean, I think Sacramento is a good team. The

1792
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 4: question was was the moment going to be too big

1793
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 4: for him? I thought they would show up to play,

1794
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 4: but were they going to be overwhelmed? They weren't, at

1795
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:31,599
Speaker 4: least for one night. Now we'll see what the series

1796
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 4: has to offer as it goes forward. I don't think

1797
01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 4: this changes the trajectory for the Warriors. Golden State has

1798
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,520
Speaker 4: the heart of a champion because they've won multiple championships.

1799
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 4: They have guys that are going to walk straight off

1800
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 4: the floor basically into the Hall of Fame the minute

1801
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 4: they get the opportunity, two maybe three of them as

1802
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 4: a matter of fact. So you look at all of that,

1803
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 4: there's still a team that I will never count Golden

1804
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 4: State out until I see them get beat. I don't

1805
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:57,639
Speaker 4: think they're the best team in the West. I think

1806
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 4: they should get knocked out relatively early in the playoffs

1807
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 4: this year. But I just look at them and I'm

1808
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:05,559
Speaker 4: just like, I got to see them get beat. They're

1809
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 4: kind of like the Patriots in a way for me,

1810
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 4: where it's even when they look out matched. Maybe I'm

1811
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 4: not gonna, you know, bet on them, but I'm not

1812
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 4: necessarily gonna bet against them either. They're going to be

1813
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 4: tough to beat. Whoever knocks them out will earn it

1814
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 4: very good.

1815
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 2: Let's move on to some of the other games from today.

1816
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:30,880
Speaker 2: Sacramento New York Knicks. How about the Knicks one on

1817
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 2: one to ninety seven in Cleveland and another team that

1818
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 2: frankly changed my perspective a little bit on who they

1819
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 2: are and at least what their ceiling is in this

1820
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 2: playoff series.

1821
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 3: Wasn't sold on the next. I think part of the reason.

1822
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 2: Is is because who Tibbs is is that you know,

1823
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:51,559
Speaker 2: they are a play every night, eighty two games a year,

1824
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 2: like it's Game seven of the finals, and so Tibbs

1825
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 2: teams generally overachieved during the regular season, and then when

1826
01:27:59,880 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 2: you get to the playoffs, everybody's playing hard for all

1827
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 2: forty eight minutes and it's not as easy to grind

1828
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 2: out those wins. So I bring it up to say,

1829
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:11,000
Speaker 2: winning Game one in Cleveland, that did change my perspective

1830
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 2: on this series, especially because the more we taught it out.

1831
01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 2: This Cleveland team is really young, but most importantly, really

1832
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 2: an experience in the playoffs. Donovan Mitchell has obviously been

1833
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 2: there before with Utah, but outside of him, Isaacacorro first

1834
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 2: playoff game today, Darius Garland first playoff game today, Evan

1835
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 2: Mobley certainly first playoff game today as well.

1836
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 3: And I do look at that Knixt.

1837
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,400
Speaker 2: Team a little bit different and I feel a little

1838
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 2: bit more confident that you know, you took one, yet

1839
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:43,200
Speaker 2: the very least split in Cleveland if not win two outright,

1840
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 2: but you're gonna go back to a loud, raucous garden

1841
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:49,680
Speaker 2: against a young team with very little playoff experience.

1842
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 3: I think you gotta feel good if you're a Nicks

1843
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:51,719
Speaker 3: fan tonight.

1844
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:54,400
Speaker 4: Chase, Yeah, And if you're if you're watching the Cavs,

1845
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:58,160
Speaker 4: you recognize that they're Donovan or Bust for all intents

1846
01:28:58,160 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 4: and purposes. Like Darius Garland had seventeen points in the

1847
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 4: ball game, but I don't think he took a shot

1848
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:06,879
Speaker 4: in the second half. You're gonna need that to change,

1849
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,840
Speaker 4: first of all. But I kind of look at Cleveland

1850
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 4: and I see a lot of Portland in them. When

1851
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 4: it comes to man, they are Dame or Bust. And

1852
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 4: then you had CJ. McCollum, but McCollum would often he

1853
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 4: would often kind of come up a little bit DeMar

1854
01:29:22,439 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 4: DeRozan in the playoffs. And I mean when it was

1855
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 4: Damar and Kyle Lowry before you got Kawhi in there

1856
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 4: and things changed for Toronto a little bit. I think

1857
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 4: that if you are that relyant on Donovan and he

1858
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,400
Speaker 4: gave you thirty eight points in the ballgame, you've got

1859
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:39,559
Speaker 4: to get more from the other guys like you can't

1860
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:42,400
Speaker 4: just stand around and expect him to win. Not against

1861
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 4: basketball teams that play physically and have multiple guys that

1862
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 4: can get their own shot, which is kind of the

1863
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 4: story with the Knicks. Brunson has taken the next step

1864
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 4: in his game. You've got Randall back from injury. He

1865
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 4: didn't have a great game, but he still ended up

1866
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 4: with nineteen points. Just didn't shoot the ball particularly well,

1867
01:29:57,400 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 4: but he ended up with a double double because he

1868
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 4: had ten re bounds out there. They played within themselves.

1869
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 4: This game was close, like the Cavs easily could have

1870
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 4: won it. The Knicks made a couple of plays down

1871
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:10,920
Speaker 4: the stretch and got a couple of key rebounds to

1872
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:14,719
Speaker 4: give them extra shot opportunities, and at least one point

1873
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 4: got it back for Brunson, who drove to the hole

1874
01:30:17,479 --> 01:30:19,360
Speaker 4: and scored the what I think turned out to be

1875
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:21,160
Speaker 4: the game winning bucket. Then they added a couple of

1876
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:25,519
Speaker 4: free throws to ice it. But tight series. Two pretty

1877
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:28,040
Speaker 4: good basketball teams, two teams that are going to be,

1878
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 4: you know, growing as the years go on. I just

1879
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 4: don't think I think Cleveland's lack of depth and over

1880
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 4: reliance on Donovan Mitchell exposes a flawed that they can't

1881
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:39,880
Speaker 4: overcome really quickly.

1882
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,000
Speaker 2: Philly does take Game one against Brooklyn twenty three to

1883
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,719
Speaker 2: thirteen for James Harden. Doc Rivers called it his quote unquote,

1884
01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 2: he called a perfect game, almost like a catcher behind

1885
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 2: the plate managing a pitcher. We talked James Harden earlier,

1886
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:55,479
Speaker 2: but big picture again, I'll ask you the same thing

1887
01:30:55,560 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 2: with the Warriors. Philly looked really good, but I think

1888
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 2: most everybody felt like coming into these playoffs they were

1889
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 2: the clear third team behind Boston and Milwaukee in some order.

1890
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 2: Did anything change for you from that perspective? I know

1891
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 2: Milwaukee has yet to take the court in the playoffs,

1892
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:13,559
Speaker 2: Boston took care of business against Atlanta. Anything changed for

1893
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:15,599
Speaker 2: you as far as Philly's upside after today?

1894
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:17,720
Speaker 4: No, I mean I think that's about right. I mean,

1895
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 4: Celtics are my pick. I think the Bucks are your

1896
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 4: pick to win it all. I'm looking at five thirty

1897
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 4: eight numbers. Again, they change based on every game and

1898
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 4: every second, because they're all done analytically on fifty thousand

1899
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 4: simulations and all this. Celtics number one chance of winning

1900
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 4: the finals at twenty four percent, Bucks number two at

1901
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 4: twenty percent, seventy six Ers sixteen percent, Nuggets fourteen percent,

1902
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 4: and Golden State eight percent. Those are your top five

1903
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,000
Speaker 4: right now looking at them from an analytics standpoint.

1904
01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:48,400
Speaker 3: So there you go. The East has our.

1905
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 4: Pick right now, both of our picks to win the

1906
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:53,599
Speaker 4: NBA Finals. The Sixers are not our pick, but we

1907
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 4: say they're third. They're probably a solid three behind the

1908
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 4: two easy top two teams in the East. I just again,

1909
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 4: this is the same story. Embiid is gonna be Embiid.

1910
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:08,559
Speaker 4: He's gonna be good for you, probably every night as

1911
01:32:08,600 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 4: long as he's healthy. James Harden having a perfect game

1912
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:14,919
Speaker 4: where he has twenty three points on twenty one shots,

1913
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 4: I don't know that that's perfect, but he did play

1914
01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 4: a very good game at twenty three and thirteen. He's

1915
01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 4: not consistently going to do that. So unless you have

1916
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 4: somebody else is gonna step up and fill that gap

1917
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 4: on the nights that James Harden looks old and slow

1918
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 4: and just disinterested as we've seen at times in the playoffs,

1919
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:33,240
Speaker 4: and maybe we're not gonna get that. Maybe he is

1920
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 4: a little bit rejuvenated and is shockingly maybe he's actually

1921
01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 4: happy where he is.

1922
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:40,719
Speaker 3: That would be nice to say that depends.

1923
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 4: That'd be really I'd be very fresh unless you're gonna

1924
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:49,480
Speaker 4: get that. I don't like their chances against a Celtics

1925
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:52,759
Speaker 4: Bucks either one of those two matchups where those teams

1926
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 4: know each other, they have a little bit more depth

1927
01:32:55,600 --> 01:32:58,400
Speaker 4: and as good as their top star is, they have

1928
01:32:58,479 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 4: other dudes that can flat out get it.

1929
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:03,559
Speaker 2: On This is Fox Sports Radio erin Torris Jason Martin,

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Speaker 2: by the way, as I said, there was one other

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Speaker 2: game that was final today, Boston takes care of Atlanta

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Speaker 2: about all of the good on the court today, but

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Speaker 2: there was some bad in New Orleans. Interesting comments out

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Speaker 2: of that Pelicans organization these last couple of days. We'll

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Speaker 2: discuss that next. Eron Torris Jason Martin, Fox Sports. Every

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Speaker 2: time I hear this song, I think of the wedding singer.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone's seen that movie besides Adam Sandler.

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Speaker 3: One of his greatest movies. Yeah, of course, great movie.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Aer Torris Jason Martin, broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Tierrack dot com studios. Oh been up you eleve

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Speaker 2: it arms all right, I'll stop. Fox Sports Radio Aero

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Speaker 2: Torres Jason Martin. Wow, that was good. Now I only

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Speaker 2: know this song because of the.

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Speaker 4: I'm not I'm really not. I'm not saying anything narrative.

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Speaker 4: I've just kind of wasn't anticipating that from you tour.

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Speaker 9: As is that where we're going with us.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a big karaoke guy.

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Speaker 2: You know that wedding that I went to that I

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Speaker 2: had to miss the Yukon game in Vegas. They had

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Speaker 2: like a karaoke thing at the end, and I definitely

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Speaker 2: did the whole sneak out the side door with the

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Speaker 2: wife and went home and went to bed. So I'm

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Speaker 2: not a huge karaoke guy. But anyway, Fox Sports er

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Speaker 2: Toords Jason bart Diirec dot Com Studio. So for the

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Speaker 2: break we mentioned Zion and it was interesting because last

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Speaker 2: week we kind of got right before our show, we

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Speaker 2: kind of got word, okay, Zion's not going to be

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Speaker 2: available for the play in, and I think you and

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Speaker 2: I talked about it, Jason, but it was from a

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Speaker 2: I would say, more sympathetic place, you know. I think

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Speaker 2: what I said was, I'm just tired of hearing this

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Speaker 2: guy when he when he's playing, that's fine, but I

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Speaker 2: don't need the weekly, monthly updates. Just tell me when

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Speaker 2: he's ready, when he's back whatever. So I bring it

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Speaker 2: up because it was a very interesting week for him

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Speaker 2: and the Pelicans. Excuse me is that you know they

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Speaker 2: had their playing game on Wednesday against Okac okay se

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Speaker 2: He's basically in super rebuild mode. Chet Holmer's not even playing.

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Speaker 2: They're not even supposed to be here. Meanwhile, the Pelicans

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Speaker 2: pushed the Suns to the wire last year without Zion,

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Speaker 2: so you're hoping for Elite this year. It doesn't really

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Speaker 2: work out. But before that game, Zion did have a

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Speaker 2: media availability, and here is what Zion had to say

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Speaker 2: two reporters about his status heading into that game.

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Speaker 3: Physically, I'm fine now, it's just a matter of when

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Speaker 3: I feel like Zion.

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Speaker 10: I know the atmosphere, i'd be in here based off

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Speaker 10: like the playoff experience when I feel like Zion.

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Speaker 2: That was Zion Williamson referring to himself in the third

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Speaker 2: person multiple times. And I'll just say this, Zion played

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Speaker 2: twenty nine regular season games this year, this after missing

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Speaker 2: all of last season. And I'll just say like, like,

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Speaker 2: I think we're to the point now where I think

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Speaker 2: Wednesday was the turning point for Zion, where I think,

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Speaker 2: up until this point you feel bad. It's whatever tough

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Speaker 2: break you know, can't stay healthy, whatever, blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: But I sit here and say that you signed that

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Speaker 2: big extension last offseason, you haven't played since January. You said,

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Speaker 2: I'm okay, but Zion doesn't feel like Zion yet. And

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Speaker 2: I'll say this, man, you lost by six in a

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Speaker 2: playing game. I'm not asking you to be Willis Reed

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Speaker 2: and walk out and be a hero, but you couldn't

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Speaker 2: have given ten minutes. Now today David Griffin, the vice president, said, oh,

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Speaker 2: he wasn't cleared anybody criticizing him, blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: But even David Griffin following up, as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: before we get to what David Griffin said, Chris, why

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Speaker 2: don't you play?

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Speaker 3: What CJ.

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Speaker 2: McCollum had to say after the loss on Wednesday night,

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Speaker 2: it's hard.

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Speaker 11: To say what we need to do other than injury,

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Speaker 11: because we played ten games together with our core. I

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Speaker 11: would say availability is important, man. We got to be available.

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Speaker 11: We got to do what we need to do off

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Speaker 11: the court, in terms of preparation, in terms of getting treatment,

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Speaker 11: in terms of getting right sleep, the right type of hydration,

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Speaker 11: having the right type of diet. I mean, everything has

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Speaker 11: to matter to us for everybody one through fifteen.

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Speaker 2: So I thought those were pretty poignant comments about the situation.

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Speaker 2: I think we can all kind of take a guess

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Speaker 2: and insinuate who he may have been talking about when

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Speaker 2: he said one through fifteen. And by the way, I

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Speaker 2: want to add one more thing, Jason, I'll toss it

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Speaker 2: over you, I promise. But today David Griffin, the vice

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Speaker 2: president of the team, did meet with the media now

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Speaker 2: and he was asked about things, and he would say

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Speaker 2: he was asked about Zion specifically said I wish I

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Speaker 2: could immediately pinpoint the answer essentially why he's not able

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Speaker 2: to play. Think a big part is on him. I

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Speaker 2: think there is a lot he can do better, and

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Speaker 2: he would I think tell you that as well. I

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Speaker 2: think we need to do a better job examining the

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Speaker 2: whole situation top to bottom a little bit better.

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Speaker 3: Jason.

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Speaker 2: This is all a very long window way of me

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Speaker 2: setting up to say we have a stance on this show.

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Speaker 2: Nobody wants people to play injured or not healthy. But

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Speaker 2: it's the playoffs. You losing, go home.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't have.

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Speaker 2: Given me ten minutes, eight minutes, six minutes. Oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, After the game, CJ McCollum makes some very

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Speaker 2: interesting comments about everybody being available, eating right, sleeping right,

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Speaker 2: doing right off the court. David Griffin then says, I

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Speaker 2: think a big part is on him. It feels like

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Speaker 2: this is an inflection point for Zion Williams. I think

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Speaker 2: up until this week it was more of a sympathetic

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Speaker 2: you feel bad for him. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 2: many people that feel bad for him anymore.

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Speaker 4: Griffin is a smart guy who's done a lot of

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Speaker 4: smart things, and he's been in some difficult situations with

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Speaker 4: his stars.

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Speaker 3: Through the years.

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Speaker 4: What he said in this exit interview, what he told

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Speaker 4: the reporters, and you just read part of it, but

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Speaker 4: the stuff he said before that to me is even

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Speaker 4: all of this feels like damage control at this point.

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Speaker 4: He says he came up here the other day and said,

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Speaker 4: physically I'm fine. Physically I'm fine, means I'm not currently injured.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't physically clear to play basketball.

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Speaker 3: He was playing one on none.

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Speaker 4: He went up and Windmill dunked pre game. That's not

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Speaker 4: the skill set that makes you capable of playing five

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Speaker 4: on five basketball. So for people to now say he

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Speaker 4: chose not to play basketball, that's nonsense, that's not factual.

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Speaker 4: But that's a way more interesting story than he chose

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Speaker 4: not to play basketball. That's the truth. And he went

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Speaker 4: on and he said more stuff after that. Dude, you

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Speaker 4: let your guy get crushed for days well and then

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Speaker 4: you come out and make this statement.

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Speaker 3: Me thinks that Sha didn't mind the last.

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Speaker 4: Couple of days before we get to this point, is

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Speaker 4: what I'm really saying. It's kind of suggesting the same

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Speaker 4: thing you talk about with CJ mc column, said CJ. McCollum,

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Speaker 4: who also is going to be in the media, and

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Speaker 4: once he's done, he already kind of is. But that's

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Speaker 4: where he's planning ongoing, very smart, thoughtful, guy has been

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Speaker 4: around this league for many years. He was saying some things,

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Speaker 4: and then David Griffin said the stuff that you said

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Speaker 4: prior to tossing it to me, and it just kind

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Speaker 4: of feels like this message is very subtly aimed towards

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Speaker 4: this guy and saying, hey man, the whole world felt

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Speaker 4: like it was in your hands. The whole basketball world

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Speaker 4: felt like it was in your hands, and now we

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Speaker 4: can't count on you for ten minutes in a.

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Speaker 3: Win or take all situation.

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Speaker 4: Kind of it is like a win or we head

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Speaker 4: to the house and go to can Kun, and you

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Speaker 4: decided to go to can Kun.

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Speaker 3: And if you looked at.

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Speaker 4: The reaction from the media, social media, from the fans

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Speaker 4: of the league, from people that cover the league, from

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Speaker 4: people that want people hanging around your water cooler at

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Speaker 4: the office, if you talk about the Zion conversation right

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Speaker 4: now is not positive. And there was no damage control

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Speaker 4: in the moment to help that be a soft landing.

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Speaker 4: It came days after the fact. That's like, uh, that's

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Speaker 4: like an attorney standing up and saying something incredibly inflammatory

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Speaker 4: that the jury hears jury disregard way too late, way

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Speaker 4: too late, Because we can't just unhear what we heard.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: I have one more question about the Zion situation that

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Speaker 2: I want to continue on, and we'll discuss that next.

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Speaker 2: Before we do, though, do want to toss it over

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Speaker 2: to the news desk Steve Disager.

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Speaker 3: What is trending?

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Speaker 5: Everything's final in baseball.

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Speaker 7: We'll get to NBA in a moment, But Seattle, it

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Speaker 7: is just handed Colorado a fourth straight loss, nine to two.

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Speaker 7: The other late game went to the Dodgers two to

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Speaker 7: one over the Cubs on a two run pinch single

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Speaker 7: bottom of the ninth by David Peralta. Atlanta and Miami

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Speaker 7: each one again victories for the Mets and Boston. What

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Speaker 7: an NBA playoff opener at Sacramento. We expected some scoring.

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Speaker 7: There was some thrills, excitement answering the other team. It

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Speaker 7: was a great game, great fourth quarter, and the Kings

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Speaker 7: beat Golden State one twenty six to one twenty three

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Speaker 7: d Aaron Fox thirty eight points twenty.

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Speaker 5: Nine in the second half.

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Speaker 7: These are the top two scoring teams from the regular

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Speaker 7: season by comparison. We saw Cleveland in the playoffs today.

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Speaker 7: They averaged one hundred twelve points a game. Golden State's

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Speaker 7: at one nineteen a game, Sacramento's just over one twenty

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Speaker 7: a game. Each team was over one twenty tonight, Kings

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Speaker 7: with their first playoff win since April of two thousand

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Speaker 7: and six. Of course, they had that NBA record sixteen

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Speaker 7: year playoff drought. Demantas Sabonis not good shooting but sixteen rebounds.

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Speaker 7: Warriors were up by ten in the third quarter, and

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Speaker 7: the home team, in front of a deafening crowd, came back.

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Speaker 7: Malite Monk thirty two points off the bench. The Kings

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Speaker 7: say those are the most points by an NBA reserve

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Speaker 7: in his postseason debut in league history. Ben Gordon Chicago

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Speaker 7: two thousand and five apparently had that mark. But here

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Speaker 7: you have two teammates with thirty point games at a

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Speaker 7: w for the home team. Game two against Golden State

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Speaker 7: is Monday night. By the way, this had only happened

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Speaker 7: one other time in NBA history, according to the league,

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Speaker 7: a pair of teammates each going for thirty in their

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Speaker 7: playoff debut nineteen ninety three. Alonso Morning and Kendall Gill

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Speaker 7: of the Horns each had thirty. That was the only

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Speaker 7: other time that had happened as far as King's teammates

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Speaker 7: each scoring thirty in a playoff game. The last time

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Speaker 7: was Mike Bibbi and Pashostoyakovich two thousand and five.

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Speaker 2: How about this to cigarette. I just saw this from

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Speaker 2: ESPN Stats and Info. Dearon Fox and Malik Monk first

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Speaker 2: pair of teammates who attended the same college to each

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Speaker 2: score thirty points in a playoff game since Clyde Drexler

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Speaker 2: and Hakeem Olajuwan.

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01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 3: Houston in ninety five.

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01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:50,040
Speaker 5: Very good.

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01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 7: The Cleveland game was at home, by the Way to

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01:43:52,680 --> 01:43:55,080
Speaker 7: open their best of seven, and they lost to the

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01:43:55,080 --> 01:43:57,839
Speaker 7: New York Knicks one oh one ninety seven. Jalen Brunson

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01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,640
Speaker 7: twenty seven points, and the nixt Julius Randal, who had

2151
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:02,720
Speaker 7: missed the last five games of the regular season with

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01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:06,600
Speaker 7: a sprain ankle, returned today had nineteen points ten rebounds.

2153
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 7: Boston was up thirty at halftime and beat Atlanta one

2154
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 7: twelve to ninety nine. At Philadelphia, the final was one

2155
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:16,960
Speaker 7: twenty one, one zero one. Philadelphia beat Brooklyn Joel Mbid

2156
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 7: with twenty six points. The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs start

2157
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:23,400
Speaker 7: Monday night. Matt Fitzpatrick as a one stroke lead at

2158
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 7: Hilton Head, South Carolina after a third round sixty three,

2159
01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:29,719
Speaker 7: Patrick Cantley as one back, Jordan Speith two shots back.

2160
01:44:30,080 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 7: And you mentioned earlier in the show the massive World

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01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:37,640
Speaker 7: Baseball Classic ratings overseas to watch Japan in Japan, n

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01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 7: I did keep in mind that they were getting the

2163
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 7: kinds of ratings that we see for like a conference

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01:44:44,080 --> 01:44:47,719
Speaker 7: championship game of the of the NFL, and their country

2165
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:51,920
Speaker 7: is about the third the size of our country. Keep

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01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 7: in mind context the final with the US and Japan,

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01:44:56,600 --> 01:45:00,200
Speaker 7: while it was a primetime game here in Miami, it

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01:45:00,240 --> 01:45:02,880
Speaker 7: was a Wednesday at eight am in Japan and still

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01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:06,400
Speaker 7: had almost thirty million viewers. And the last game they

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01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:09,760
Speaker 7: had in Japan before they came to Miami for the

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01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 7: Final four that was almost forty million.

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01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 2: Yes, I thought the number was forty million that they

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01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:17,559
Speaker 2: said on air and I and then I looked at

2174
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:18,280
Speaker 2: the population.

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01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 3: I said, there's no way that can be right, but

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01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 3: thank you.

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01:45:21,040 --> 01:45:23,280
Speaker 7: And if you look at the ratings share, the number

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01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 7: is over forty. I mean it's like a forty two

2179
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:28,599
Speaker 7: share for the final. And then when they had the

2180
01:45:28,640 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 7: opening game when Japan hosted South Korea in the tournament,

2181
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:34,000
Speaker 7: that was a forty four share, and it was a

2182
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 7: forty eight for their last game before they left for

2183
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 7: the US.

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01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:39,120
Speaker 5: It was just crazy, crazy numbers.

2185
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:42,880
Speaker 3: Fantastic. Well, thank you very much to say your sake.

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01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:44,519
Speaker 2: You'll be back in just a few minutes with your

2187
01:45:44,520 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 2: extended update what he got on tap for us today.

2188
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,679
Speaker 7: We will update how Fernando Tatist Junior is doing before

2189
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:52,559
Speaker 7: he's eligible to become a San Diego Padre on the

2190
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 7: field again this year, how the Braves and Marlins have

2191
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:58,519
Speaker 7: done this week, and will compare the ratings for NBA

2192
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:01,360
Speaker 7: and NHL this past week as each league heads to

2193
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 7: the postseason.

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01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:04,920
Speaker 2: Then, thank you very much to Sager. We will be

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01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 2: back with you in just a few minutes. Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio Aaron Torres, Jason Martint Company live from the Tireck

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Speaker 2: Progressive dot Com. So Jason, but before we got to

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01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:29,920
Speaker 2: the Sager, we were talking a little bit about you

2203
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 2: know this this Zion situation, and David Griffin spoke today,

2204
01:46:34,520 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 2: but it didn't really sound like he was defending his guy.

2205
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 2: And two things came to mind, if you know, because

2206
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:43,559
Speaker 2: David Griffin did say in the process of not really

2207
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:46,160
Speaker 2: defending his guy, he did say he wasn't clear to

2208
01:46:46,200 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 2: play all of that, so I get where he has

2209
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 2: to protect his guy. But then he also kind of

2210
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:53,760
Speaker 2: said some things that maybe made it clear that they

2211
01:46:53,760 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 2: weren't very happy. But two things come to mind. One,

2212
01:46:57,200 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 2: if he's not available. One, I don't see why you're

2213
01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:02,639
Speaker 2: making him available to the media. That's one. I don't

2214
01:47:02,640 --> 01:47:05,599
Speaker 2: know if the NBA has rules about media availability before

2215
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,920
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I have no idea, but your media people

2216
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 2: have to do a better job of making it clear

2217
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 2: to him, Hey, I am not clear to play because

2218
01:47:13,960 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 2: that Zion not feeling like Zion. He said it something

2219
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:20,519
Speaker 2: to the effect of I'm ready to go, but it's like,

2220
01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 2: if you can't play because docs haven't cleared you, that's

2221
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:27,679
Speaker 2: on you for sending a mixed message. But the other thing, Jason,

2222
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:29,639
Speaker 2: I want to ask you, and this is an open

2223
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:31,840
Speaker 2: ended question. You can tell me if I'm wrong or not.

2224
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:36,160
Speaker 2: If you know he's not one hundred percent. But he's

2225
01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 2: still you know, moving around, and he was dunking, and

2226
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:43,599
Speaker 2: he was throwing down windmills. To me, I do think

2227
01:47:43,640 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 2: and remember this was a home playoff game, so I

2228
01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:48,720
Speaker 2: don't know the layout of the Smoothie King Center, but

2229
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:52,559
Speaker 2: a lot of these arenas have sighed you know whatever.

2230
01:47:53,360 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 2: I just think that in twenty twenty three, you know

2231
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:58,880
Speaker 2: that if this guy goes out for warm ups, even

2232
01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:00,560
Speaker 2: if he's just doing one on one on drills with

2233
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 2: the trainer, somebody's gonna have their phone out. It's going

2234
01:48:03,439 --> 01:48:06,519
Speaker 2: to end up on social media. Here's my question. If

2235
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:10,559
Speaker 2: you know he can't play, is it wrong of me

2236
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 2: to say, don't have him doing on court workouts before

2237
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,320
Speaker 2: the I think the optics are bad, and part of

2238
01:48:17,360 --> 01:48:20,240
Speaker 2: it's on Zion doing reverse windmill dunks and all that stuff.

2239
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 3: But like, I just think the organization could have mitigated

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01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:24,360
Speaker 3: a lot.

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01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:28,360
Speaker 2: Of the the negativity if they just either did that

2242
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:30,880
Speaker 2: behind closed doors, they did it before media was allowed

2243
01:48:30,920 --> 01:48:34,320
Speaker 2: in the arena, whatever it is. But once the cameras

2244
01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:36,719
Speaker 2: come out and he's throwing windmill dunks, it's gonna upset

2245
01:48:36,760 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 2: a lot of people.

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01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:39,920
Speaker 3: When he's not playing that night, Oh yeah.

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01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 4: I mean I'd have been mad if you hadn't said that,

2248
01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:44,800
Speaker 4: Like that's obvious. No, you don't do that in front

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01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 4: of people. If you can't play. I don't want to

2250
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,080
Speaker 4: see you doing physical things. I certainly don't want you

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01:48:49,120 --> 01:48:52,000
Speaker 4: to see you doing physical things related to the thing

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01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 4: that I want to see you do. And to your

2253
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:58,880
Speaker 4: point about the media or the media relations to people,

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01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:01,000
Speaker 4: I was thinking about this in a moment also and

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01:49:01,320 --> 01:49:03,559
Speaker 4: why it was just why I made that point about

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01:49:03,560 --> 01:49:05,960
Speaker 4: how this has been a story for days and now

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01:49:06,080 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 4: David Griffin comes out. He also he also says, you know,

2258
01:49:09,280 --> 01:49:11,200
Speaker 4: if I'd have been there, I would have knit this butt.

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01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:11,959
Speaker 3: In the butt immediately.

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01:49:12,040 --> 01:49:14,439
Speaker 4: Okay, well you weren't there, So whoever was there, fire

2261
01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:18,200
Speaker 4: him because this is ridiculous, like just as an example,

2262
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 4: and it happens a lot to any president, but certainly

2263
01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:24,040
Speaker 4: it's happened a good bit to our current president Joe Biden.

2264
01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:27,200
Speaker 4: He steps in it and makes mistakes, gets a little

2265
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:30,839
Speaker 4: bit confused, says the wrong thing, and a White House

2266
01:49:31,320 --> 01:49:35,559
Speaker 4: like within five minutes comes back and corrects the record

2267
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:39,160
Speaker 4: because they know the longer it goes, the worse it gets.

2268
01:49:40,320 --> 01:49:43,840
Speaker 4: You can't do this like Zion saying that somebody should

2269
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:45,720
Speaker 4: have immediately gone to the podium, be like, you know.

2270
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:47,679
Speaker 3: He's not cleared like somebody.

2271
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:50,080
Speaker 4: That should have been an update sent to the media,

2272
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 4: to every single reporter in that room and everyone that

2273
01:49:54,120 --> 01:49:57,880
Speaker 4: covers the NBA. The organization should have said, Yeah, Zion said,

2274
01:49:57,880 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 4: he feels fine, which which is true. He wants to

2275
01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,280
Speaker 4: be out there with his team, but we haven't cleared

2276
01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 4: him yet. He's not actually cleared to pay but play basketball.

2277
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 4: We want to make sure that that's clarified in your reporting,

2278
01:50:08,120 --> 01:50:11,600
Speaker 4: the fact that they did not do that. Like you

2279
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 4: think about the White House again, there's nobody more important

2280
01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:17,360
Speaker 4: to the White House than Joe Biden. Who is more

2281
01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 4: important in the Pelicans organization than Zion Williamson. He's the

2282
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:26,200
Speaker 4: equivalent of Joe Biden for that organization. For you to

2283
01:50:26,280 --> 01:50:29,600
Speaker 4: let him twist in the wind, not save him, not

2284
01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:33,120
Speaker 4: come in and just protect the organization, protect the integrity.

2285
01:50:33,479 --> 01:50:34,599
Speaker 3: You know what he was saying.

2286
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:37,040
Speaker 4: He probably was speaking from the heart, but you didn't

2287
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 4: help him out in that moment. To me, that is

2288
01:50:39,600 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 4: a gigantic mistake at best, and it's suspect at worse.

2289
01:50:46,280 --> 01:50:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other comparison I was thinking about was and

2290
01:50:50,240 --> 01:50:54,920
Speaker 2: I'm certainly not comparing the context behind it, but this

2291
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,720
Speaker 2: past college basketball season with Natos every time he went

2292
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:00,920
Speaker 2: to the podium, with this Brandon Miller situation, and by

2293
01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:04,519
Speaker 2: the way, not comparing allegedly bringing a murder weapon to

2294
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:06,880
Speaker 2: a guy that may be overweight, That's not what I'm doing.

2295
01:51:07,360 --> 01:51:10,040
Speaker 2: But what I am saying is NATO's every time he spoke,

2296
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:11,519
Speaker 2: it felt like he put his foot in his mouth,

2297
01:51:11,600 --> 01:51:14,600
Speaker 2: and I thought there were times where he meant to

2298
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 2: say something but it came out as something different. And

2299
01:51:17,080 --> 01:51:20,080
Speaker 2: I actually thought the media relations people at Alabama needs

2300
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:21,920
Speaker 2: to do a better job of prepping him, Like at

2301
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 2: a certain point he sounds really bad, but like some

2302
01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:26,360
Speaker 2: of it can't all be on him, like some of

2303
01:51:26,360 --> 01:51:28,760
Speaker 2: it has to be the people that are paid to

2304
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:30,680
Speaker 2: make him look good when he goes in front of it.

2305
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:33,120
Speaker 2: He's a basketball coach. He's there at a Diagram basketball place.

2306
01:51:33,280 --> 01:51:35,200
Speaker 2: He's not there to be a public speaker. And I

2307
01:51:35,240 --> 01:51:38,720
Speaker 2: thought Alabama as a group did a bad job of

2308
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:43,160
Speaker 2: helping him sound smarter, even if it wasn't the perfect circumstance.

2309
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:45,160
Speaker 2: So again I'm not comparing one to the other, but

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01:51:45,280 --> 01:51:48,759
Speaker 2: It's much the same for me with Zion in that Okay,

2311
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 2: it's bad. I think he has played since January because

2312
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 2: of a hamstring. But at some point, as far as

2313
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:01,200
Speaker 2: as you said, Jason, the optics of this whole situation,

2314
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:05,040
Speaker 2: there were other adults in the room, highly paid people

2315
01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 2: in that organization that should be helping. But maybe to

2316
01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:09,320
Speaker 2: your point, Jason, and can we can wrap on this

2317
01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:12,680
Speaker 2: unless you have anything else, Maybe to your point, maybe

2318
01:52:12,880 --> 01:52:16,840
Speaker 2: the Pelicans didn't necessary weren't necessarily upset that this went

2319
01:52:16,880 --> 01:52:18,840
Speaker 2: on for a two or three day stretch after the

2320
01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:19,479
Speaker 2: game went fine.

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01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:21,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't necessarily have anything else. It's

2322
01:52:21,720 --> 01:52:25,280
Speaker 4: just it's very obvious that this is just like, this

2323
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:29,799
Speaker 4: is rudimentary public relations. NBA organizations can't make this mistake

2324
01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:34,240
Speaker 4: and don't make this mistake. It just makes me wonder

2325
01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:36,760
Speaker 4: what exactly is going on here because this would have

2326
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:40,160
Speaker 4: been an easy, easy fix, and for David Griffin to

2327
01:52:40,200 --> 01:52:44,120
Speaker 4: then come out on Saturday after all this has come through,

2328
01:52:44,479 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 4: and Griffin then basically is like, oh, but it's a

2329
01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 4: better story. Just say that he doesn't want to play basketball. Dude,

2330
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:53,840
Speaker 4: you are the one that makes sure that the stories.

2331
01:52:53,479 --> 01:52:54,519
Speaker 3: Are right or wrong.

2332
01:52:54,800 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 4: Nobody is out here trying to get Zion Williamson at all.

2333
01:52:57,920 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I think a lot of

2334
01:52:59,080 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 4: people have been very sympathetic through this whole process and

2335
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:04,400
Speaker 4: have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt,

2336
01:53:04,920 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 4: especially in the NBA media, because they like the guy,

2337
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:11,640
Speaker 4: because he's a likable guy. The problem here is you

2338
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 4: didn't actually stand behind your guy your organization just let

2339
01:53:16,120 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 4: him say something incredibly inflammatory that if it was taken

2340
01:53:19,479 --> 01:53:23,000
Speaker 4: out of context. You're the one that provides the context.

2341
01:53:23,080 --> 01:53:25,080
Speaker 4: And the fact that you didn't means keep your mouth

2342
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:27,519
Speaker 4: shut when it comes to talking about what people take

2343
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:30,920
Speaker 4: as the story because you did nothing to set the narrative.

2344
01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:34,479
Speaker 2: Don't disagree, and I'll just wrap on this is that, uh,

2345
01:53:34,520 --> 01:53:36,439
Speaker 2: maybe this is the kick in the butt that Zion needs.

2346
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:39,639
Speaker 2: It feels like he has largely gotten a pass and

2347
01:53:39,720 --> 01:53:42,320
Speaker 2: people feel bad and dah da da dah. This was

2348
01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 2: the first time that I saw people saying, like, dude,

2349
01:53:46,080 --> 01:53:50,920
Speaker 2: three months for a hamstring. Either either you need to

2350
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 2: get in shape, either you needed to be out there

2351
01:53:53,920 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 2: and trying to give your team eight ten, twelve minutes.

2352
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:56,840
Speaker 3: By the way, CJ.

2353
01:53:56,920 --> 01:53:59,080
Speaker 2: Mccoum is about to go in for surgery on his hand.

2354
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:01,640
Speaker 2: Either needed to be out there or you need to

2355
01:54:01,640 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 2: be in better shape so that it doesn't take three

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Speaker 2: months to get back from a hamstring injury. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I think this was the first time that I really

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01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 2: felt like people were really critical of Zion Williamson. Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Erin tors Jason Martin broadcasting live from the

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Speaker 2: Tirek dot com studios. Coming up, Steve de Sager rejoins

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01:54:18,160 --> 01:54:21,000
Speaker 2: us with his extended update. A lot of good stuff

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Speaker 2: on today's NBA playoffs. That's next, Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Eric Torres Jason Martin broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Tirek dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 3: Let's all s over the news.

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Speaker 2: Test the saga with our extended update the Saga.

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Speaker 3: What do you got? Well?

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Speaker 7: We had a superb NBA playoff opener at Sacramento tonight.

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Speaker 7: Kudos to those two teams for how they showed out

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01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 7: and kept, as you mentioned earlier, kept answering each other,

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01:54:50,040 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 7: and Sacramento was a deserving winner. And yes, my goodness,

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01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:56,320
Speaker 7: from the start it was loud in Sacramento. In fact,

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01:54:56,360 --> 01:55:00,760
Speaker 7: the NBA at one point just tweeted out ye sound

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01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:05,920
Speaker 7: from this That was a Daron Fox three pointer. He

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01:55:05,960 --> 01:55:08,879
Speaker 7: had thirty eight points in this game. He had twenty

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01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:13,280
Speaker 7: nine just in the second half of this game. In fact,

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Speaker 7: longtime NBA writer Mark Spears says the twenty nine and

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01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:20,080
Speaker 7: the second half tied for the most in a half

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01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:24,480
Speaker 7: in any postseason game in that franchise's history, going back

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Speaker 7: to the Cincinnati Royals and Oscar Robertson in nineteen sixty three.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, I know.

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Speaker 7: They don't have quite the playoff history that maybe even

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01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:35,840
Speaker 7: Golden State of the last twenty years. But still and

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01:55:35,960 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 7: Fox finishes with thirty eight, which, as we mentioned earlier,

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01:55:38,880 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 7: second most ever for a guy in his playoff debut

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01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:44,280
Speaker 7: in the NBA. Luka Doncich three years ago had forty

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01:55:44,320 --> 01:55:47,480
Speaker 7: two in his first playoff game against the Clippers. But

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01:55:47,800 --> 01:55:50,320
Speaker 7: I look at the top ten list of those guys,

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01:55:50,360 --> 01:55:53,400
Speaker 7: not necessarily rookies, but in your playoff debut have to

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01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:55,760
Speaker 7: show out like that. I mean, it's George Mike in

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01:55:55,840 --> 01:56:00,480
Speaker 7: Minneapolis nineteen forty nine, Derek Rose with the Bulls two nine,

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01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:04,080
Speaker 7: and Kareem his first playoff game for Milwaukee nineteen seventy.

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01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,760
Speaker 7: He's ahead of all of those names as far as

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01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:10,040
Speaker 7: thirty eight in a playoff debut. By the way, Golden

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01:56:10,040 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 7: State actually opened a playoff series on the road, which

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01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:16,360
Speaker 7: is news in and of itself. Keep in mind Sacramento's

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Speaker 7: the three seed. They won forty eight games. Golden State

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01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:21,800
Speaker 7: won forty four and lost again on the road tonight.

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01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:24,920
Speaker 7: It should be noted Golden State's road record eleven and

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Speaker 7: thirty one this season, including this evening, But it is

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Speaker 7: rare that they open a series on the road. Under

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01:56:32,240 --> 01:56:35,960
Speaker 7: coach Steve Kerr twenty five playoff series, this is only

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01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 7: the fourth time out of twenty five they have opened

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Speaker 7: the series on the road. In the finals at Toronto

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01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 7: twenty nineteen, they opened on the road lost eventually lost

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01:56:44,840 --> 01:56:48,360
Speaker 7: the series. But last season, for example, second round at Memphis,

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01:56:48,400 --> 01:56:50,040
Speaker 7: they won a close opener wound up.

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Speaker 5: Of course winning the series.

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Speaker 7: Update on Fernando Tatist junior padre star who a couple

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01:56:54,840 --> 01:56:57,440
Speaker 7: of years ago had about forty homers, one hundred RBIs

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01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:00,280
Speaker 7: and twenty five steals in a season, and he didn't

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01:57:00,280 --> 01:57:02,920
Speaker 7: even play all the games that year. He played almost

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01:57:02,920 --> 01:57:05,280
Speaker 7: none of the games last year with injuries and a

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Speaker 7: ped suspension. That suspension's finally done on Thursday and he

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01:57:09,520 --> 01:57:11,600
Speaker 7: can go back to the major league club, but he's

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01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 7: played about a week's worth at Triple A for El Paso.

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01:57:15,080 --> 01:57:17,680
Speaker 7: Had three homers in his previous game, and then tonight

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01:57:17,760 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 7: at El Paso solo homer in the first, solo homer

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01:57:21,400 --> 01:57:24,320
Speaker 7: in the second. As the leadoff man for the El

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01:57:24,360 --> 01:57:28,160
Speaker 7: Paso Chihuahuas, Fernando to teach Junior went four for five

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01:57:28,240 --> 01:57:31,080
Speaker 7: and he's batting over five hundred at Triple A, ready

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01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:34,760
Speaker 7: to eventually be allowed back in the major leagues. TV

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01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:39,160
Speaker 7: ratings for NBA and NHL a little context regular season

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01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:43,040
Speaker 7: for National TV. In the NBA, those games averaged one

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01:57:43,160 --> 01:57:45,320
Speaker 7: point six million viewers. If you add up all the

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01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:50,360
Speaker 7: TNT games, ABCESP had one point six million viewers. Sunday

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01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:53,320
Speaker 7: Night Baseball Premiere got almost one point six million viewers

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01:57:53,560 --> 01:57:56,240
Speaker 7: a couple weeks ago, and MLB on Fox Premiere got

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01:57:56,280 --> 01:57:58,880
Speaker 7: two point two million a couple weeks ago. But then

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Speaker 7: you had Thursday night of this week, where the NHL

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01:58:01,360 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 7: was finishing its regular season. For most of the teams,

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Speaker 7: pretty much everybody's playing, and ESPN has a doubleheader of

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Speaker 7: NHL and no other sports competition.

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01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:12,200
Speaker 5: The NBA was off.

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01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:17,720
Speaker 7: There's no National Baseball Thursday night, the NHL doubleheader under

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01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:21,920
Speaker 7: three hundred eighty thousand viewers was the average goodness. In

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01:58:21,960 --> 01:58:25,480
Speaker 7: other words, way less than half of House Hunters on

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01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:29,480
Speaker 7: HGTV last night getting a better rating than the NHL

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01:58:29,680 --> 01:58:34,480
Speaker 7: on ESPN was Top Chef and Jersey Shore and any

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01:58:34,560 --> 01:58:37,920
Speaker 7: number of other cable programs. I mean, they had their chance.

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01:58:38,080 --> 01:58:41,680
Speaker 7: They had essentially an open night in sports to themselves,

2442
01:58:42,440 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 7: about three hundred eighty thousand viewers. The XFL is getting

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01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:48,120
Speaker 7: over six hundred thousand viewers their first couple of months

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01:58:48,120 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 7: this year. And then the NBA had a Lakers playing

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01:58:50,800 --> 01:58:52,560
Speaker 7: game this week, even though it was a late start

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01:58:52,600 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 7: Tuesday night, about three and a half million viewers for

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01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:59,200
Speaker 7: that overtime game against the Timberwolves. The Atlanta Braves have

2448
01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:01,480
Speaker 7: won five. They got a nine to three win at

2449
01:59:01,560 --> 01:59:04,320
Speaker 7: Kansas City tonight, long rain delay at the start, they

2450
01:59:04,360 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 7: finally got the game going about six forty five Eastern,

2451
01:59:06,920 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 7: but the Braves are eleven and four. Miami's won four

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01:59:10,200 --> 01:59:13,040
Speaker 7: in a row, edged Arizona three to two, but just

2453
01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:16,360
Speaker 7: eleven thousand fans again in Miami and the Marlins five

2454
01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:18,760
Speaker 7: through nine hitters each batting under one eighty.

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01:59:20,320 --> 01:59:23,680
Speaker 2: Oh boy, all right, well, Disaga, thank you very much.

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01:59:23,840 --> 01:59:27,200
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Aeron Torris, Jason Martin broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. That was the Saga

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Speaker 2: or Tours and Martin and coming up, we look ahead

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01:59:33,000 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 2: to the Sunday NFL ns NBA slate for great games.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about the next fists on tray.

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Speaker 2: should be four games final in the NBA today if

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Speaker 2: you missed any of the first three hours of the show,

2476
02:00:31,240 --> 02:00:36,200
Speaker 2: we've broken down all four games. Philly beats Brooklyn by

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02:00:36,240 --> 02:00:38,760
Speaker 2: twenty in game one, Boston takes care of Atlanta one

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02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 2: twelve ninety nine, the Knicks go on the road and

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02:00:41,720 --> 02:00:45,000
Speaker 2: steal game one one oh one ninety seven, and the

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Speaker 2: really really fun game that ended about an hour or

2481
02:00:47,800 --> 02:00:52,120
Speaker 2: so ago, Sacramento won twenty six Golden State one twenty three,

2482
02:00:52,320 --> 02:00:54,280
Speaker 2: really really fun one there. If you missed any of that,

2483
02:00:54,680 --> 02:00:57,640
Speaker 2: any of our conversation about it, make sure to go

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02:00:57,680 --> 02:00:59,800
Speaker 2: back and download the podcast, to be available shortly after

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02:00:59,840 --> 02:01:01,960
Speaker 2: this show. Jason, what I want to do now, though,

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02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:06,560
Speaker 2: is look ahead to tomorrow because we have four you know, really,

2487
02:01:06,600 --> 02:01:08,960
Speaker 2: I think all four games are kind of intriguing in

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02:01:09,040 --> 02:01:12,520
Speaker 2: their own right tomorrow, and let's just start with the

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02:01:12,520 --> 02:01:15,520
Speaker 2: first one. So the Lakers they win the playing game

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02:01:15,520 --> 02:01:18,680
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night against Minnesota in overtime and really get

2491
02:01:18,720 --> 02:01:20,880
Speaker 2: a nice little break, you know, obviously, that's what four

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Speaker 2: or five days off, they don't play till Sunday.

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Speaker 3: They're traveling to Memphis. And I'll just say this really quick, Jason,

2494
02:01:26,400 --> 02:01:27,520
Speaker 3: is I've.

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Speaker 2: Heard a lot of you know, well, you know, Memphis

2496
02:01:30,120 --> 02:01:33,160
Speaker 2: is really young, and I don't know the Lakers are veteran.

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02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:38,480
Speaker 2: I actually thought that the game on Tuesday. It sounds

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02:01:38,480 --> 02:01:41,280
Speaker 2: weird because the Lakers won, but I actually feel like

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Speaker 2: it's the opposite. I think it's showed how old they are,

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Speaker 2: how how ad and Lebron reliant they are. At the

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02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:50,920
Speaker 2: end of the game, Lebron was huffing and puffing, which,

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02:01:50,960 --> 02:01:52,920
Speaker 2: by the way, he's thirty eight years old, he's allowed to.

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Speaker 3: I'm thirty eight years old.

2504
02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:56,760
Speaker 2: I certainly can't play it in the NBA, but I

2505
02:01:56,840 --> 02:02:00,480
Speaker 2: just bring it up because I actually, weirdly he felt

2506
02:02:00,520 --> 02:02:03,000
Speaker 2: worse coming out of that game. You know, again, the

2507
02:02:03,080 --> 02:02:07,360
Speaker 2: Timberwolves without Rudy Gobert. In that game, Karl Anthony Towns

2508
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:10,280
Speaker 2: was in foul trouble. Anthony Edwards had a bad night,

2509
02:02:10,320 --> 02:02:12,120
Speaker 2: and I know part of that is the Lakers defense.

2510
02:02:12,160 --> 02:02:15,640
Speaker 2: But everything went right, Lakers still needed over time to win.

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02:02:16,200 --> 02:02:17,960
Speaker 2: I don't say I'm worried about this team. I just

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02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:20,000
Speaker 2: I don't think their ceiling is as high as some

2513
02:02:20,080 --> 02:02:22,320
Speaker 2: others do. What do you think about the Lakers going

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02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:24,000
Speaker 2: into Game one against Memphis tomorrow.

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02:02:25,080 --> 02:02:27,160
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm kind of fascinated by it.

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02:02:27,400 --> 02:02:30,520
Speaker 4: I think that the moves that they made have made

2517
02:02:30,520 --> 02:02:33,680
Speaker 4: them more dangerous, certainly made them more well rounded, made

2518
02:02:33,720 --> 02:02:36,640
Speaker 4: it more of a threat. I don't trust AD's health

2519
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:39,080
Speaker 4: when you get into the playoffs or when you're playing

2520
02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:41,480
Speaker 4: two weeks in the regular season. It's just it's not

2521
02:02:41,520 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 4: a thing that I can count on. Lebron's getting older,

2522
02:02:44,680 --> 02:02:49,120
Speaker 4: his health is not necessarily always great anymore either. Memphis

2523
02:02:49,240 --> 02:02:52,040
Speaker 4: is young, Yeah, but they're young and talented, and they

2524
02:02:52,120 --> 02:02:56,360
Speaker 4: really do talk and feel like they should win. They

2525
02:02:56,400 --> 02:03:00,280
Speaker 4: walk in, they're cocky, they're arrogant, but then they they

2526
02:03:00,320 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 4: have been able to.

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Speaker 3: Back it up a lot.

2528
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Speaker 4: Now postseason's different, and they're staring at one of the

2529
02:03:06,840 --> 02:03:11,200
Speaker 4: three greatest players of all time in Lebron James, who's hungry.

2530
02:03:11,720 --> 02:03:14,320
Speaker 4: And they're in the playoffs now, so you're gonna get

2531
02:03:14,320 --> 02:03:17,040
Speaker 4: the best effort that you get that you can from anybody.

2532
02:03:17,400 --> 02:03:21,640
Speaker 4: Can Memphis stand up to the test? If LA actually

2533
02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:24,520
Speaker 4: fires on all cylinders, that's gonna be the question mark.

2534
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Speaker 4: I don't think that the Lakers are a threat to

2535
02:03:26,600 --> 02:03:29,480
Speaker 4: win the time. I just don't. I know Lebron's in

2536
02:03:29,520 --> 02:03:32,520
Speaker 4: this thing. There's just too many unknowns too many questions,

2537
02:03:32,560 --> 02:03:35,480
Speaker 4: too many new pieces, too many things where there's other

2538
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:37,800
Speaker 4: teams in the West that you just flat out feel

2539
02:03:37,880 --> 02:03:41,040
Speaker 4: better about, one of them being Memphis. I think Memphis

2540
02:03:41,080 --> 02:03:43,840
Speaker 4: should beat them in the series. I think they will

2541
02:03:43,840 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 4: beat them in the series. But I am intrigued. I

2542
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 4: can't wait for this series to tip off because there's

2543
02:03:49,320 --> 02:03:51,720
Speaker 4: so many potential storylines coming out of this time.

2544
02:03:52,160 --> 02:03:54,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's really where I'm at as well.

2545
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:56,960
Speaker 2: Is I think that you know, like I said, it

2546
02:03:57,040 --> 02:03:59,480
Speaker 2: felt like early in the week and may be less

2547
02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:02,760
Speaker 2: so out for the play in Like I heard people

2548
02:04:02,800 --> 02:04:05,600
Speaker 2: like really just making this argument for how like it's

2549
02:04:05,600 --> 02:04:08,480
Speaker 2: somehow a manageable path for the Lakers, And I said,

2550
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 2: I feel like it's kind of the exact opposite one,

2551
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:14,960
Speaker 2: you know, essentially a cross country back and forth trip

2552
02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:17,440
Speaker 2: for an older veteran team. And by the way, listen,

2553
02:04:17,480 --> 02:04:19,520
Speaker 2: by the way, two things can be true. It can

2554
02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:21,480
Speaker 2: be impressive what they did the second half of the year,

2555
02:04:21,520 --> 02:04:25,480
Speaker 2: best record after the trade deadline, you know, but it

2556
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:27,360
Speaker 2: can also be true that I just don't like the

2557
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:30,400
Speaker 2: path and you have, like I said, you're flying cross

2558
02:04:30,400 --> 02:04:34,960
Speaker 2: country the Grizzlies while they are young age wise, This

2559
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:37,280
Speaker 2: is their four straight postseason. They played in the original

2560
02:04:37,280 --> 02:04:38,880
Speaker 2: playing in the Bubble, and then the the you know,

2561
02:04:38,960 --> 02:04:41,680
Speaker 2: last two years they were in the playoffs, and then

2562
02:04:41,720 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 2: if you survive that, you're gonna get Golden State. Maybe

2563
02:04:45,320 --> 02:04:48,200
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Sacramento looks much more challenging than

2564
02:04:48,200 --> 02:04:51,040
Speaker 2: we thought even a few hours ago. And then you're

2565
02:04:51,040 --> 02:04:53,200
Speaker 2: probably gonna play Phoenix in the Western Conference Finals, and

2566
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 2: that's just to get to the NBA Finals, where you

2567
02:04:56,240 --> 02:04:59,200
Speaker 2: would then have the the the probably the Bucks or

2568
02:04:59,240 --> 02:05:03,080
Speaker 2: the Celtics. So listen, I think we can give credit

2569
02:05:03,080 --> 02:05:05,200
Speaker 2: to the Lakers. I'm not mister anti Laker. I'm not

2570
02:05:05,240 --> 02:05:09,560
Speaker 2: mister anti Lebron, but I do think you can give

2571
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:12,000
Speaker 2: credit to the Lakers while also acknowledging that the path

2572
02:05:12,120 --> 02:05:14,840
Speaker 2: is really hard for a very veteran roster. As you said,

2573
02:05:15,080 --> 02:05:17,840
Speaker 2: can Anthony Davis really stay healthy? Wasn't playing back to

2574
02:05:17,880 --> 02:05:20,560
Speaker 2: backs during the season. There's gonna be a stretch where

2575
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 2: you have three games in five days, where you have

2576
02:05:23,280 --> 02:05:25,320
Speaker 2: four games and eight days. I know the first round

2577
02:05:25,360 --> 02:05:28,000
Speaker 2: isn't necessarily built like that, but it speeds up after that.

2578
02:05:28,200 --> 02:05:31,280
Speaker 2: So I do worry a little bit about that, and

2579
02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:33,480
Speaker 2: I am I just I don't know. I don't really

2580
02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:36,920
Speaker 2: see it. For Memphis really quick, for the Lakers, excuse

2581
02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:40,880
Speaker 2: me really quickly. Clippers Phoenix. I think this one to me,

2582
02:05:41,000 --> 02:05:44,840
Speaker 2: along with probably the Knicks and Calves, which maybe it's

2583
02:05:44,880 --> 02:05:46,960
Speaker 2: not surprising, these are both the four or five series,

2584
02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:49,760
Speaker 2: but these are the two most interesting ones to me.

2585
02:05:50,840 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 2: Cleveland obviously in New York. The Knicks took game one today,

2586
02:05:55,360 --> 02:06:00,400
Speaker 2: but tomorrow Clippers Phoenix Game one in Phoenix. Obviously, Paul

2587
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:05,560
Speaker 2: George not healthy whatever, but he's improving. But I'm really

2588
02:06:05,560 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 2: curious to see this Phoenix team. They still haven't lost

2589
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:09,080
Speaker 2: the game with Kevin Durant. I know he's missed a

2590
02:06:09,120 --> 02:06:11,560
Speaker 2: lot of time, but they've looked really good so far.

2591
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:13,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, the question is is he going to be able

2592
02:06:13,880 --> 02:06:16,320
Speaker 4: to remain healthy again? And we can't just sit here

2593
02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:19,080
Speaker 4: and just expect injuries. I feel like I almost can

2594
02:06:19,120 --> 02:06:21,560
Speaker 4: with Anthony Davis. I wish that wasn't the case, and

2595
02:06:21,600 --> 02:06:23,240
Speaker 4: I hope it not to be. I want to see

2596
02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:25,320
Speaker 4: him full strength. I want to see everybody full strength

2597
02:06:25,320 --> 02:06:28,720
Speaker 4: throughout the postseason. Durant gets banged up a lot these days.

2598
02:06:29,200 --> 02:06:31,480
Speaker 4: If he can stay healthy, that's team that can win

2599
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:32,160
Speaker 4: the Championship.

2600
02:06:32,200 --> 02:06:32,640
Speaker 3: They just are.

2601
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:35,080
Speaker 4: I mean, they've got all the pieces that you want.

2602
02:06:35,120 --> 02:06:37,320
Speaker 4: If he can stay healthy, if Chris Paul could be healthy,

2603
02:06:37,680 --> 02:06:41,720
Speaker 4: if they've got their weaponry, they can win it all.

2604
02:06:42,280 --> 02:06:45,440
Speaker 4: The Clippers are another team though you mentioned Paul George,

2605
02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:48,040
Speaker 4: another guy that misses a lot of time, and then

2606
02:06:48,120 --> 02:06:50,120
Speaker 4: of course his running mate out there misses a ton

2607
02:06:50,160 --> 02:06:52,520
Speaker 4: of times. So there's just there's a lot of question

2608
02:06:52,560 --> 02:06:55,360
Speaker 4: marks in that series. Honestly, the team's healthier might end

2609
02:06:55,440 --> 02:06:58,200
Speaker 4: up winning it. Phoenix, if they are full strength, can

2610
02:06:58,360 --> 02:07:00,760
Speaker 4: absolutely win the NBA Championship.

2611
02:07:01,040 --> 02:07:04,920
Speaker 3: The question is can they stay full strength? And I

2612
02:07:04,960 --> 02:07:08,320
Speaker 3: have my doubts really quickly. You know one thing, by

2613
02:07:08,360 --> 02:07:10,160
Speaker 3: the way, I'm with you. I think Phoenix.

2614
02:07:10,320 --> 02:07:12,680
Speaker 2: Phoenix is the most intriguing team to me in the

2615
02:07:12,720 --> 02:07:15,160
Speaker 2: West because I don't know what their ceiling is like

2616
02:07:15,160 --> 02:07:19,240
Speaker 2: like I do think I know what the Lakers ceiling is.

2617
02:07:19,400 --> 02:07:21,840
Speaker 2: I do think I certainly know what the Clipper ceiling is.

2618
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:26,960
Speaker 2: Golden State's very interesting. This this this Sacramento series got

2619
02:07:27,200 --> 02:07:29,600
Speaker 2: much more interesting even just in the last couple hours.

2620
02:07:30,200 --> 02:07:31,880
Speaker 2: But Phoenix is the one to me, right because you

2621
02:07:32,200 --> 02:07:35,680
Speaker 2: went all in for Kevin Durant, Chris Paul's thirty eight

2622
02:07:35,760 --> 02:07:38,120
Speaker 2: years old. I believe now, like you know, this is

2623
02:07:38,160 --> 02:07:41,640
Speaker 2: really probably his last run, and you traded everything away,

2624
02:07:41,680 --> 02:07:43,320
Speaker 2: and so like the one thing I'll say about Phoenix

2625
02:07:43,320 --> 02:07:44,960
Speaker 2: really quick before he get to the other two series

2626
02:07:45,160 --> 02:07:48,640
Speaker 2: is the one thing that stands out is it does

2627
02:07:48,680 --> 02:07:52,440
Speaker 2: feel like the West is wide open. And maybe next year,

2628
02:07:52,520 --> 02:07:55,240
Speaker 2: with a year of continuity, you'll be even better. But

2629
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:58,200
Speaker 2: I also think a year from now, you know whatever,

2630
02:07:59,160 --> 02:08:01,839
Speaker 2: Like I said, like you said, the idea of KDS

2631
02:08:01,840 --> 02:08:04,760
Speaker 2: staying healthy seems unlikely. Chris Paul is thirty eight, he'll

2632
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:06,520
Speaker 2: be thirty nine a year from now. If he's still

2633
02:08:06,520 --> 02:08:09,520
Speaker 2: with that team, you have no depth because all of

2634
02:08:09,560 --> 02:08:12,640
Speaker 2: your salary is going to four players right now. I

2635
02:08:12,720 --> 02:08:15,240
Speaker 2: just think the window is probably right now for Phoenix,

2636
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:17,520
Speaker 2: and I think you got to take advantage really quick.

2637
02:08:17,600 --> 02:08:17,920
Speaker 3: Jason.

2638
02:08:17,960 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 2: You know one thing that we didn't get to. I

2639
02:08:20,640 --> 02:08:23,360
Speaker 2: had this segment planned out, and the Warriors game was awesome,

2640
02:08:23,400 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 2: and so we had to kind of put it aside.

2641
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:29,320
Speaker 2: But Nuggets and Timberwolves and the segment that we were

2642
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:32,840
Speaker 2: gonna do was the person with the most pressure in

2643
02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:36,680
Speaker 2: these playoffs. I actually think it might be Jokich. I mean,

2644
02:08:37,200 --> 02:08:40,840
Speaker 2: people are listen, he's an incredible talent. Nobody denies it,

2645
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:46,320
Speaker 2: but I like, you are about to be a potential

2646
02:08:46,480 --> 02:08:48,560
Speaker 2: three time MVP, and even if you don't win it,

2647
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:50,560
Speaker 2: you'll want it twice and you're gonna finish in the

2648
02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:53,560
Speaker 2: top two or three of voting. This year, you have

2649
02:08:53,640 --> 02:08:56,560
Speaker 2: the number one seed. You have not made a real

2650
02:08:56,600 --> 02:08:58,720
Speaker 2: playoff run except in the bubble when you were not

2651
02:08:58,760 --> 02:09:00,840
Speaker 2: the best player on the team. Jamal Murray was the

2652
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:03,400
Speaker 2: best player on that team. And I just look at

2653
02:09:03,400 --> 02:09:08,320
Speaker 2: this and I say, like, I think sometimes we overvalue

2654
02:09:08,400 --> 02:09:10,760
Speaker 2: too much what you do in the playoffs, and I

2655
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:13,440
Speaker 2: think it's too much of a postseason sports sometimes.

2656
02:09:13,840 --> 02:09:14,840
Speaker 3: But I also think at.

2657
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:16,400
Speaker 2: Some point, if you're the best player in the league,

2658
02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:19,040
Speaker 2: which the MVP has deemed you to be the last

2659
02:09:19,040 --> 02:09:21,840
Speaker 2: two years and maybe this year as well, like.

2660
02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:23,120
Speaker 3: You kind of gotta put your team out of your

2661
02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:24,720
Speaker 3: back and actually make a real run here.

2662
02:09:25,240 --> 02:09:27,720
Speaker 2: I don't think Minnesota's gonna put up much of a fight,

2663
02:09:28,400 --> 02:09:31,200
Speaker 2: but number one seed, you're gonna have home court advantage

2664
02:09:31,200 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 2: throughout the Western Conference playoffs. If you're really that dude

2665
02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:38,440
Speaker 2: joke Jokic, you gotta start making some moves in this playoffs.

2666
02:09:38,880 --> 02:09:41,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we know how great he is as

2667
02:09:41,040 --> 02:09:44,680
Speaker 4: a player, but when is it gonna really translate? This

2668
02:09:44,720 --> 02:09:46,800
Speaker 4: is the year you talk about it being a wide

2669
02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:48,800
Speaker 4: open West. Well, if it's a wide open West and

2670
02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:51,840
Speaker 4: you're a dude that's a two time MVP that's in

2671
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:55,839
Speaker 4: the final finalists again along with Joannis and Joel Embiid,

2672
02:09:56,360 --> 02:09:59,240
Speaker 4: then yeah, this needs to be your time against the

2673
02:09:59,240 --> 02:10:02,360
Speaker 4: Minnesota team that threw more punches against each other and

2674
02:10:02,520 --> 02:10:06,160
Speaker 4: walls than they did their opponents over the last week.

2675
02:10:06,600 --> 02:10:08,640
Speaker 4: This is a dinner team that has a lot of talent,

2676
02:10:09,160 --> 02:10:11,600
Speaker 4: and Jokic knows it. And you talk about pressure with

2677
02:10:11,680 --> 02:10:13,680
Speaker 4: some other guys, I don't really even know who else

2678
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:18,000
Speaker 4: you would put in that mixture alongside them with the

2679
02:10:18,040 --> 02:10:21,280
Speaker 4: expectations like I've got the Celtics winning at all. Tatum's

2680
02:10:21,280 --> 02:10:23,760
Speaker 4: probably got a little bit on him, but he had

2681
02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:26,280
Speaker 4: a decent finals last year and he's been performing and

2682
02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:30,080
Speaker 4: he's not a two time MVP, despite at times looking

2683
02:10:30,120 --> 02:10:33,200
Speaker 4: like he could be Phoenix. I mean, those guys have

2684
02:10:33,280 --> 02:10:35,840
Speaker 4: either won championships, are dealt with injuries, and it's kind

2685
02:10:35,880 --> 02:10:39,520
Speaker 4: of their story seemingly has been written. Jokic is a

2686
02:10:39,560 --> 02:10:43,000
Speaker 4: guy whose story is still continuing to be written, and

2687
02:10:43,080 --> 02:10:45,760
Speaker 4: it's always being written at a high level and it

2688
02:10:45,840 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 4: has to be. But you are measured, especially in sports

2689
02:10:49,440 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 4: in America, in pro sports in America, by championships. It's

2690
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:54,880
Speaker 4: not like we're gonna forget that you're a league MVP,

2691
02:10:55,040 --> 02:10:56,920
Speaker 4: but we're also gonna immediately say, yeah, but that's a

2692
02:10:56,920 --> 02:10:59,760
Speaker 4: regular season award. Dude never won a title, and it

2693
02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:01,560
Speaker 4: does stick to you. Look at some of the guys

2694
02:11:01,560 --> 02:11:03,720
Speaker 4: that never won it, like Charles Barklay, who you can

2695
02:11:03,760 --> 02:11:06,520
Speaker 4: tell it still bothers him whenever it has brought up

2696
02:11:06,920 --> 02:11:09,520
Speaker 4: other guys that were tremendous players, like a Karl Malone

2697
02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:12,480
Speaker 4: or somebody like that that went for it so many

2698
02:11:12,520 --> 02:11:15,240
Speaker 4: times and would come up short because of the era

2699
02:11:15,360 --> 02:11:19,400
Speaker 4: that they played in. Jokic in a wide open West

2700
02:11:19,440 --> 02:11:21,920
Speaker 4: where there's not just a definitive.

2701
02:11:21,360 --> 02:11:25,160
Speaker 3: Favorite, but you are the guy. You're one of the

2702
02:11:26,160 --> 02:11:27,600
Speaker 3: you have the hardware to prove it.

2703
02:11:28,120 --> 02:11:33,640
Speaker 4: This is your opportunity to reset the storyline about the

2704
02:11:33,680 --> 02:11:37,320
Speaker 4: ceiling for a Nicola Jokic team really quickly.

2705
02:11:37,360 --> 02:11:42,840
Speaker 2: Any any big picture thoughts on the series featuring Milwaukee,

2706
02:11:43,960 --> 02:11:47,600
Speaker 2: You know this is one obviously yes to answer something

2707
02:11:47,600 --> 02:11:49,920
Speaker 2: that you mentioned a few times. Milwaukee is my pick

2708
02:11:49,960 --> 02:11:52,800
Speaker 2: to win the NBA title. They opened tomorrow in the

2709
02:11:52,840 --> 02:11:56,080
Speaker 2: second game against Miami. You know, listen, Miami's a tough squad.

2710
02:11:57,240 --> 02:12:01,920
Speaker 2: But I don't, you know, based on how Miami has

2711
02:12:02,000 --> 02:12:05,000
Speaker 2: played the last you know, struggled against the Hawks obviously

2712
02:12:05,120 --> 02:12:07,760
Speaker 2: held on to beat the Bulls last night, I don't

2713
02:12:07,800 --> 02:12:10,080
Speaker 2: see Miami being a real threat to Milwaukee this one.

2714
02:12:10,120 --> 02:12:12,400
Speaker 4: I don't either. I really like Jimmy Butler. Obviously in

2715
02:12:12,440 --> 02:12:16,800
Speaker 4: playoff Jimmy can be really, really dangerous. If I wasn't

2716
02:12:16,840 --> 02:12:19,640
Speaker 4: picking Boston to win, I'd beat people. I would be

2717
02:12:19,800 --> 02:12:24,440
Speaker 4: picking Milwaukee to win. They're just a better basketball team.

2718
02:12:24,520 --> 02:12:27,120
Speaker 4: This Miami team is not the one that made the

2719
02:12:27,120 --> 02:12:30,120
Speaker 4: big time run. It's just not they're They're not the

2720
02:12:30,160 --> 02:12:33,280
Speaker 4: same mixture. They just don't look the same. They're not

2721
02:12:33,360 --> 02:12:36,280
Speaker 4: as formidable. I'm not concerned about them at all. If

2722
02:12:36,280 --> 02:12:39,480
Speaker 4: I'm a Milwaukee fan. As long as my guys are healthy,

2723
02:12:40,000 --> 02:12:43,240
Speaker 4: my guys have as good a shot as anybody else

2724
02:12:43,560 --> 02:12:45,760
Speaker 4: to end up with the trophy. At the end of this,

2725
02:12:47,160 --> 02:12:51,680
Speaker 4: don't disagree with anything you said. And again, four games tomorrow,

2726
02:12:51,840 --> 02:12:56,200
Speaker 4: the headliner Lakers playing Memphis Milwaukee makes their debut, and

2727
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Speaker 4: of course the Denver Nuggets, the number one seed in

2728
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2736
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02:13:32,120 --> 02:13:36,320
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio Aeron Torris, Jason Martin.

2740
02:13:36,320 --> 02:13:39,720
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2745
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Speaker 2: sports preview his show coming up.

2747
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Speaker 3: Barnie my man, what's going on?

2748
02:14:03,200 --> 02:14:06,080
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I've got a lot of NBA thoughts,

2749
02:14:06,160 --> 02:14:09,600
Speaker 10: but let's not forget happy Jackie Robinson Day. Yeah, eventy

2750
02:14:09,600 --> 02:14:12,400
Speaker 10: six years ago today, and I think it's one of

2751
02:14:12,440 --> 02:14:15,160
Speaker 10: baseball's great traditions. And as you well know, last year

2752
02:14:15,680 --> 02:14:18,680
Speaker 10: they had the seventy fifth anniversary party at Dodger Stadium.

2753
02:14:18,680 --> 02:14:21,880
Speaker 10: But it's it's my understanding that Rob Parker not only

2754
02:14:21,920 --> 02:14:24,120
Speaker 10: met Rachel Robinson, he asked what he was doing after

2755
02:14:24,160 --> 02:14:28,960
Speaker 10: the game. Whoa, I mean, he act like it didn't

2756
02:14:29,000 --> 02:14:29,480
Speaker 10: like it, chasing.

2757
02:14:29,560 --> 02:14:34,200
Speaker 4: Come on, I'm not I'm acting exactly. I'm acting like

2758
02:14:34,280 --> 02:14:37,120
Speaker 4: I like I didn't like it. He does well played.

2759
02:14:37,120 --> 02:14:39,760
Speaker 4: The only thing I like about Jackie Robinson Day is

2760
02:14:39,800 --> 02:14:43,880
Speaker 4: it exposes how like you just don't know baseball players

2761
02:14:43,920 --> 02:14:45,440
Speaker 4: by their faces.

2762
02:14:45,480 --> 02:14:47,280
Speaker 3: Like so many games I watched today, I'm just.

2763
02:14:47,240 --> 02:14:49,680
Speaker 4: Like, I need to know who this dude is, Like,

2764
02:14:49,720 --> 02:14:51,960
Speaker 4: I can't watch these games on mute. Like all I

2765
02:14:52,040 --> 02:14:53,720
Speaker 4: know is he's forty two and none of them had

2766
02:14:53,840 --> 02:14:54,800
Speaker 4: named blates.

2767
02:14:55,240 --> 02:14:56,640
Speaker 3: That's the only problem.

2768
02:14:56,920 --> 02:14:59,840
Speaker 10: It's like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Yes, batting for

2769
02:15:00,120 --> 02:15:01,800
Speaker 10: Bugs money, a batting second bugs money.

2770
02:15:02,120 --> 02:15:02,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2771
02:15:02,920 --> 02:15:05,320
Speaker 2: By the way, Rob Parker did go on a Golden

2772
02:15:05,360 --> 02:15:07,880
Speaker 2: Girls crew sore. It's not out of the realm of

2773
02:15:08,000 --> 02:15:13,640
Speaker 2: possibility that anyway. A Blatch guy, you just know it, Bertie.

2774
02:15:13,640 --> 02:15:16,160
Speaker 2: All right, So let's let's actually get back out track

2775
02:15:16,200 --> 02:15:19,839
Speaker 2: here real quick. So Jason and I were just talking Lakers.

2776
02:15:21,200 --> 02:15:25,280
Speaker 2: I don't love their path, I really don't. But yet

2777
02:15:25,400 --> 02:15:28,200
Speaker 2: the sports book have them but about twelve to one

2778
02:15:28,280 --> 02:15:30,240
Speaker 2: to win the NBA Championship, six to one to win

2779
02:15:30,240 --> 02:15:31,240
Speaker 2: the Western Conference.

2780
02:15:31,960 --> 02:15:32,880
Speaker 3: Are you with me?

2781
02:15:33,560 --> 02:15:35,120
Speaker 2: I don't like the path at all, But what do

2782
02:15:35,160 --> 02:15:37,600
Speaker 2: you think about these? I think, you know, pretty low

2783
02:15:37,640 --> 02:15:39,440
Speaker 2: odds for the Lakers to make a run here.

2784
02:15:40,080 --> 02:15:43,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the market speaking. The Lakers are like Tiger Woods.

2785
02:15:43,040 --> 02:15:45,520
Speaker 10: People are gonna bet them no matter what. They opened

2786
02:15:45,560 --> 02:15:48,120
Speaker 10: up a twenty five to one to win the championship,

2787
02:15:48,160 --> 02:15:50,920
Speaker 10: they're clear down to twelve to one. Now they're actually

2788
02:15:50,960 --> 02:15:53,760
Speaker 10: six to one to win the Western Conference. I mean,

2789
02:15:53,760 --> 02:15:55,520
Speaker 10: this is America. If you really want to make a

2790
02:15:55,560 --> 02:15:58,320
Speaker 10: donation to the sports book, please knock yourself out. I

2791
02:15:58,320 --> 02:16:00,000
Speaker 10: think you're better off giving the money to the Married

2792
02:16:00,120 --> 02:16:02,960
Speaker 10: Can Cancer Society. I don't think the Lakers even get

2793
02:16:02,960 --> 02:16:06,680
Speaker 10: past Memphis. However, I do think it will be a

2794
02:16:06,760 --> 02:16:10,840
Speaker 10: hard fought series. Remember though Memphis had thirty five home

2795
02:16:10,840 --> 02:16:14,160
Speaker 10: wins this year, that's the most in the NBA. Lebron

2796
02:16:14,400 --> 02:16:17,640
Speaker 10: in his history. In the playoffs notoriously still started on

2797
02:16:17,640 --> 02:16:20,360
Speaker 10: the road three and fourteen straight up six to eleven

2798
02:16:20,360 --> 02:16:22,960
Speaker 10: against the number, And you've got some real questions. Can

2799
02:16:23,040 --> 02:16:27,839
Speaker 10: Lebron and ad really hold up under the sustained pressure

2800
02:16:27,960 --> 02:16:31,320
Speaker 10: of having to engage in their biggest workloaded years at

2801
02:16:31,360 --> 02:16:33,520
Speaker 10: thirty eight to forty minutes a game, and they're gonna

2802
02:16:33,560 --> 02:16:37,040
Speaker 10: have to travel. And I've heard some people actually compare

2803
02:16:37,080 --> 02:16:39,440
Speaker 10: this team to the bubble team, and I also think

2804
02:16:39,440 --> 02:16:41,640
Speaker 10: that's foolish. That team didn't have to travel and they

2805
02:16:41,640 --> 02:16:45,360
Speaker 10: had four months off. However, the other thing that's concerning,

2806
02:16:45,720 --> 02:16:47,680
Speaker 10: if you really are a Lakers fan that can believe

2807
02:16:47,680 --> 02:16:50,640
Speaker 10: they can win it, that team also had Javal McGee

2808
02:16:50,840 --> 02:16:54,920
Speaker 10: and Dwight Howard, two elite rim protectors that were playing

2809
02:16:54,959 --> 02:16:58,119
Speaker 10: big roles in they're no longer there. But the key

2810
02:16:58,240 --> 02:17:02,080
Speaker 10: is Davis and Lebron have to stay health. Remember two

2811
02:17:02,120 --> 02:17:04,720
Speaker 10: years ago they had Phoenix down two games to one,

2812
02:17:04,959 --> 02:17:06,920
Speaker 10: Davis got hurt and it was good night, Irene. So

2813
02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:10,279
Speaker 10: it's a tall task for the Lakers to win this series,

2814
02:17:10,360 --> 02:17:12,640
Speaker 10: much less go on win the Western Conference.

2815
02:17:12,800 --> 02:17:15,600
Speaker 4: Funny you mentioned that, And this isn't supposed to sound

2816
02:17:15,680 --> 02:17:19,760
Speaker 4: light at all, but Lakers and Phoenix, both of them

2817
02:17:19,760 --> 02:17:22,320
Speaker 4: are teams I don't trust all that much because of

2818
02:17:22,360 --> 02:17:24,959
Speaker 4: injury concerns. Which one do you think is more likely

2819
02:17:25,000 --> 02:17:27,080
Speaker 4: to be able to get through even if they go

2820
02:17:27,480 --> 02:17:30,840
Speaker 4: on a deep run. They both have candidates that have

2821
02:17:30,920 --> 02:17:33,840
Speaker 4: been hurt pretty consistently and seem to be getting hurt

2822
02:17:33,840 --> 02:17:35,080
Speaker 4: more and more as they age.

2823
02:17:35,320 --> 02:17:37,880
Speaker 10: Man, that's an excellent point, but I think Phoenix has

2824
02:17:37,879 --> 02:17:41,280
Speaker 10: a lot of weapons with Devin Booker and Chris Paul,

2825
02:17:41,560 --> 02:17:43,960
Speaker 10: even though he's no prize either when it matters most

2826
02:17:44,040 --> 02:17:48,279
Speaker 10: right and in KD, I do trust until something crazy

2827
02:17:48,360 --> 02:17:52,520
Speaker 10: happens DeAndre Aiden and I think Phoenix is poised. So

2828
02:17:52,720 --> 02:17:56,240
Speaker 10: when they've all been on the floor, they've been quite good.

2829
02:17:56,280 --> 02:17:58,840
Speaker 10: But listen, this is a wide open West. I am

2830
02:17:59,040 --> 02:18:02,000
Speaker 10: really excited for these NBA playoffs what I saw tonight.

2831
02:18:02,480 --> 02:18:04,800
Speaker 10: If you're not excited as an NBA fan, give it

2832
02:18:04,879 --> 02:18:07,800
Speaker 10: up to the Sacramento Kings. You know, the Battle of

2833
02:18:07,840 --> 02:18:11,840
Speaker 10: Northern California is real. But I got to tell you, guys,

2834
02:18:11,840 --> 02:18:14,200
Speaker 10: and I'm still sticking. I still believe it's going to

2835
02:18:14,240 --> 02:18:18,760
Speaker 10: be the Warriors and six, and I'll tell you why. Yes,

2836
02:18:18,840 --> 02:18:20,520
Speaker 10: they were eleven and thirty one on the road if

2837
02:18:20,560 --> 02:18:23,760
Speaker 10: you count tonight, but with Steph and Clay and Draymond

2838
02:18:23,840 --> 02:18:27,199
Speaker 10: on the floor in the last twenty seven playoff series,

2839
02:18:27,240 --> 02:18:30,240
Speaker 10: they've managed to win at least one road game. I

2840
02:18:30,280 --> 02:18:33,280
Speaker 10: think they will get a road game in Sacramento, but

2841
02:18:33,320 --> 02:18:36,480
Speaker 10: I'm not so sure Sacramento will win one in Golden State.

2842
02:18:36,600 --> 02:18:38,560
Speaker 10: I think that'll be the difference. Although there really isn't

2843
02:18:38,560 --> 02:18:41,720
Speaker 10: any true home court advantage in this series or basically

2844
02:18:41,760 --> 02:18:44,320
Speaker 10: across the street from each other, right, And tonight's game

2845
02:18:44,400 --> 02:18:46,840
Speaker 10: was kind of an expected mulligan for the Warriors and

2846
02:18:46,879 --> 02:18:49,640
Speaker 10: they really should have won it. And the Warriors open

2847
02:18:49,720 --> 02:18:52,080
Speaker 10: up this series even though they're the lower seed minus

2848
02:18:52,080 --> 02:18:55,160
Speaker 10: three hundred. Well left check with my book, guys. The

2849
02:18:55,200 --> 02:18:57,520
Speaker 10: Warriors are still going to be minus one fifty favorites

2850
02:18:57,560 --> 02:19:00,280
Speaker 10: in the series, and that gives them a sixty cent

2851
02:19:00,320 --> 02:19:03,440
Speaker 10: chance and winning. Now, why did they win tonight? I

2852
02:19:03,160 --> 02:19:05,279
Speaker 10: had when they went up by ten and the third

2853
02:19:05,400 --> 02:19:07,760
Speaker 10: I said, that's it. And the reason that happened is

2854
02:19:07,760 --> 02:19:11,240
Speaker 10: because the Warriors really punished the Kings for playing two

2855
02:19:11,360 --> 02:19:15,520
Speaker 10: aggressive defense too much. Their perimeter defense was too aggressive

2856
02:19:15,560 --> 02:19:18,600
Speaker 10: for three quarters and so what was happening mean Sacramento

2857
02:19:18,680 --> 02:19:21,440
Speaker 10: was so worried about Stephan Clay going off, they pressed

2858
02:19:21,480 --> 02:19:23,640
Speaker 10: up way out past the three point line, and once

2859
02:19:23,680 --> 02:19:26,879
Speaker 10: the Warriors got passed it, they found success inside. What

2860
02:19:26,920 --> 02:19:29,520
Speaker 10: the hell happened to the Warriors in the fourth quarter?

2861
02:19:30,000 --> 02:19:33,000
Speaker 10: They turned into Mickey the Dunce. They got three point happy.

2862
02:19:33,040 --> 02:19:35,560
Speaker 10: They went six to nineteen from three in the fourth quarter,

2863
02:19:35,879 --> 02:19:37,800
Speaker 10: and they were in the bonus for eight minutes to go.

2864
02:19:38,120 --> 02:19:41,480
Speaker 10: So instead attacking inside in the fourth, they started shooting threes.

2865
02:19:41,800 --> 02:19:44,360
Speaker 10: At the end of the day, the Warriors missed more

2866
02:19:44,400 --> 02:19:47,640
Speaker 10: three pointers thirty four tonight than the Sacramento Kings took

2867
02:19:47,640 --> 02:19:50,240
Speaker 10: three pointers thirty two. I think they correct that and

2868
02:19:50,280 --> 02:19:52,240
Speaker 10: we got a six game series. I'm still sticking with

2869
02:19:52,240 --> 02:19:53,560
Speaker 10: the Golden State burn.

2870
02:19:53,720 --> 02:19:55,440
Speaker 2: Don't want to just make it all about the NBA

2871
02:19:55,480 --> 02:19:57,360
Speaker 2: AL though it was a great Actually, I do want

2872
02:19:57,360 --> 02:19:59,280
Speaker 2: to ask you one more andb question you said, you know,

2873
02:19:59,280 --> 02:20:01,039
Speaker 2: you kind of laid out why you're not huge on

2874
02:20:01,080 --> 02:20:04,880
Speaker 2: the Lakers and how compelling these Western Conference playoffs is

2875
02:20:04,879 --> 02:20:06,400
Speaker 2: gonna be. Do you have a favorite in the West,

2876
02:20:06,440 --> 02:20:08,840
Speaker 2: because it feels like everybody's either on Boston or Milwaukee

2877
02:20:08,920 --> 02:20:11,680
Speaker 2: in the East, and I don't think there's any type

2878
02:20:11,720 --> 02:20:13,160
Speaker 2: of consensus in the West.

2879
02:20:13,440 --> 02:20:16,199
Speaker 10: Exactly right, And I think Jason kind of nailed it.

2880
02:20:16,320 --> 02:20:18,680
Speaker 10: You have to worry about every team with respect to

2881
02:20:18,680 --> 02:20:20,520
Speaker 10: their injuries. I don't think the Warriors will come out

2882
02:20:20,520 --> 02:20:23,199
Speaker 10: of the West. I think it'll it'll lead to be Phoenix.

2883
02:20:24,040 --> 02:20:25,480
Speaker 10: You know, I'll tell you what. I don't know that

2884
02:20:25,520 --> 02:20:27,680
Speaker 10: I'm even prepared to answer that question because I can't

2885
02:20:27,680 --> 02:20:32,160
Speaker 10: predict the future. You know, Memphis I think has as

2886
02:20:32,160 --> 02:20:34,959
Speaker 10: fighting a chance as anybody would frankly not surprise me

2887
02:20:35,600 --> 02:20:37,840
Speaker 10: if Memphis came out of the West. I'm very impressed

2888
02:20:37,920 --> 02:20:40,800
Speaker 10: with how they've looked in the you know, since John

2889
02:20:40,840 --> 02:20:42,560
Speaker 10: came back. So I think we've got to see these

2890
02:20:42,600 --> 02:20:44,560
Speaker 10: playoffs unfold. But I think it will lead to be

2891
02:20:44,560 --> 02:20:45,440
Speaker 10: Phoenix or Memphis.

2892
02:20:46,959 --> 02:20:50,360
Speaker 4: Bryce Young and C. J. Stroud and Anthony Richardson and

2893
02:20:50,400 --> 02:20:53,440
Speaker 4: Will Levis. As we get closer and closer to the draft,

2894
02:20:53,480 --> 02:20:56,039
Speaker 4: it seems like a lot of momentum is turning for

2895
02:20:56,120 --> 02:20:57,760
Speaker 4: Carolina towards Bryce Young.

2896
02:20:57,800 --> 02:20:59,879
Speaker 3: Do you do you see it going that way.

2897
02:21:00,400 --> 02:21:05,920
Speaker 10: One hundred percent since, and the betting markets are underscoring that.

2898
02:21:06,360 --> 02:21:09,920
Speaker 10: You've got a situation where back on March thirteenth, Bryce

2899
02:21:10,000 --> 02:21:12,440
Speaker 10: Young was plus two to eighty to go number one,

2900
02:21:12,480 --> 02:21:15,960
Speaker 10: and now he's minus three hundred. He's a prohibitive favorite.

2901
02:21:16,680 --> 02:21:19,560
Speaker 10: A couple of things have happened. There's been a lot

2902
02:21:19,600 --> 02:21:22,840
Speaker 10: of evaluations, including this new S two test, which is

2903
02:21:22,959 --> 02:21:25,360
Speaker 10: essentially a forty hoard dash for the brain. I'm going

2904
02:21:25,440 --> 02:21:27,840
Speaker 10: to dive into that deep again tonight like I did

2905
02:21:27,920 --> 02:21:30,959
Speaker 10: last night. It's this new test. It's forty five minutes.

2906
02:21:31,200 --> 02:21:32,920
Speaker 10: You get in front of a computer screen and it's

2907
02:21:32,959 --> 02:21:35,720
Speaker 10: all about your recognition. And Bryce Young scored like a

2908
02:21:35,760 --> 02:21:38,320
Speaker 10: ninety seven out of one hundred. Last year. Brock Purty

2909
02:21:38,360 --> 02:21:40,480
Speaker 10: scored very high. And so what they are fighting is

2910
02:21:40,480 --> 02:21:44,120
Speaker 10: there is a real correlation between this test and how

2911
02:21:44,160 --> 02:21:47,840
Speaker 10: well people can, you know, engage in recognition in the

2912
02:21:47,920 --> 02:21:51,680
Speaker 10: NFL as a quarterback, because that's everything, you know. Bill

2913
02:21:51,720 --> 02:21:55,160
Speaker 10: Walsh once said, don't tell me what a quarterback can do,

2914
02:21:55,400 --> 02:21:57,800
Speaker 10: tell me what he can't do. Frankly, I don't see

2915
02:21:57,840 --> 02:22:00,520
Speaker 10: anything Bryce Young can't do on the football. I hope

2916
02:22:00,520 --> 02:22:03,080
Speaker 10: people pick on his size. I'm not one of those people.

2917
02:22:03,400 --> 02:22:05,640
Speaker 10: I believe what Andy Reid says, regardless of your height,

2918
02:22:05,640 --> 02:22:07,080
Speaker 10: you're still going to have to figure out a way

2919
02:22:07,400 --> 02:22:10,520
Speaker 10: to throw passes between tall buildings, not over tall buildings,

2920
02:22:10,720 --> 02:22:12,480
Speaker 10: because all the linemen are six five and they got

2921
02:22:12,480 --> 02:22:14,560
Speaker 10: their hands in the year. So add it all up

2922
02:22:14,840 --> 02:22:17,160
Speaker 10: and Bryce Young is the most NFL ready and I

2923
02:22:17,240 --> 02:22:20,840
Speaker 10: believe the pendulum has one completely the other way. Bryce

2924
02:22:20,840 --> 02:22:22,480
Speaker 10: Young will be the number one pick of the Carolina

2925
02:22:22,520 --> 02:22:23,600
Speaker 10: Panthers and the betting markets.

2926
02:22:23,600 --> 02:22:26,880
Speaker 2: If you're showing that he is Bernie Fratto, you can

2927
02:22:26,920 --> 02:22:29,800
Speaker 2: hear at the top of the hour the Bernie Fraddo Show.

2928
02:22:30,320 --> 02:22:32,720
Speaker 2: Also make sure to follow him on social media at

2929
02:22:32,760 --> 02:22:35,080
Speaker 2: Bernie Fratto. Bernie, thank you for the time and we

2930
02:22:35,160 --> 02:22:37,400
Speaker 2: look forward to listening to you at the top of

2931
02:22:37,440 --> 02:22:38,640
Speaker 2: the hour, my friend, thank you.

2932
02:22:38,840 --> 02:22:40,760
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me, guys, and enjoy your Sunday.

2933
02:22:41,040 --> 02:22:43,320
Speaker 2: That is Bernie Frattle. Make sure to follow him on

2934
02:22:43,320 --> 02:22:46,160
Speaker 2: social media at Bernie Fratto and again listen at the

2935
02:22:46,200 --> 02:22:48,720
Speaker 2: top of the hour. Coming up, Jason, I actually want

2936
02:22:48,760 --> 02:22:51,039
Speaker 2: to hit on that Bryce Young commentary that you just

2937
02:22:51,080 --> 02:22:54,440
Speaker 2: discussed with Bernie. Will hit on that next before we do, though,

2938
02:22:54,680 --> 02:22:57,119
Speaker 2: News desk final time this evening Steve to say.

2939
02:22:57,360 --> 02:23:00,960
Speaker 7: Hey, superb playoff opener at Sacramento as the Kings beat

2940
02:23:00,959 --> 02:23:03,520
Speaker 7: Golden State one twenty six, one twenty three. This is,

2941
02:23:03,560 --> 02:23:06,240
Speaker 7: by the way, the first time ever that all four

2942
02:23:06,400 --> 02:23:10,560
Speaker 7: California NBA teams are in the postseason the same year.

2943
02:23:10,879 --> 02:23:13,560
Speaker 7: It's also the first time that all three Texas NBA

2944
02:23:13,640 --> 02:23:16,440
Speaker 7: teams missed the playoffs the same year. So this is

2945
02:23:16,440 --> 02:23:20,920
Speaker 7: the Northern California series. Sacramento has home court advantage and

2946
02:23:20,959 --> 02:23:24,439
Speaker 7: they win Game one at home. The difference in miles

2947
02:23:24,480 --> 02:23:28,279
Speaker 7: between their two arenas Sacramento and Golden State's Chase Center

2948
02:23:28,360 --> 02:23:32,039
Speaker 7: in San Francisco, it's eighty five miles. So by comparison,

2949
02:23:32,080 --> 02:23:34,840
Speaker 7: if the Padres play a game up in Anaheim, that's

2950
02:23:34,959 --> 02:23:37,640
Speaker 7: ninety five miles. Difference in Southern California.

2951
02:23:37,760 --> 02:23:40,959
Speaker 2: Now compared to Memphis playing the Lakers, just.

2952
02:23:40,879 --> 02:23:41,600
Speaker 5: A little different.

2953
02:23:41,800 --> 02:23:44,640
Speaker 7: I mean, Clippers get a one hour flight to Phoenix,

2954
02:23:44,760 --> 02:23:47,400
Speaker 7: right There's they were just in Phoenix last weekend in

2955
02:23:47,480 --> 02:23:50,440
Speaker 7: the regular season and apparently wanted to win and go

2956
02:23:50,560 --> 02:23:52,520
Speaker 7: back to Phoenix, which is where Game one is going

2957
02:23:52,600 --> 02:23:55,200
Speaker 7: to be for them tomorrow. Paul George not expected to

2958
02:23:55,240 --> 02:23:58,560
Speaker 7: be really in the series, not only a factor, maybe

2959
02:23:58,560 --> 02:24:00,680
Speaker 7: not on the court. We'll see what the knee injury.

2960
02:24:00,720 --> 02:24:03,080
Speaker 7: But that's the third of the four games tomorrow. The

2961
02:24:03,120 --> 02:24:06,960
Speaker 7: late game tomorrow Minnesota at Denver. Minnesota just defeated Oklahoma City.

2962
02:24:07,760 --> 02:24:10,879
Speaker 7: Start with the Memphis home game against the Lakers three

2963
02:24:10,879 --> 02:24:14,280
Speaker 7: pm Eastern tomorrow, and then it's Miami at number one Milwaukee.

2964
02:24:14,360 --> 02:24:17,040
Speaker 7: The Miami Heat just eliminated Chicago in a play in

2965
02:24:17,400 --> 02:24:20,000
Speaker 7: conference semis will start about May first, by the way,

2966
02:24:20,040 --> 02:24:24,320
Speaker 7: but tonight Golden State loses a series opener in Game

2967
02:24:24,400 --> 02:24:27,800
Speaker 7: one's under coach Steve Kerr. The Warriors had been twenty

2968
02:24:27,840 --> 02:24:32,000
Speaker 7: one to three until tonight, according to AP. By the way,

2969
02:24:32,240 --> 02:24:35,840
Speaker 7: the franchise, the Golden State franchise has not been down

2970
02:24:35,879 --> 02:24:38,879
Speaker 7: two to zero in a series since two thousand and seven,

2971
02:24:38,920 --> 02:24:42,440
Speaker 7: when Baron Davis was the star. Sacramento starters in front

2972
02:24:42,440 --> 02:24:45,680
Speaker 7: of a raucous crowd. Tonight from three point range started

2973
02:24:45,760 --> 02:24:48,760
Speaker 7: oh of fifteen until Dearn Fox hit one late in

2974
02:24:48,840 --> 02:24:51,560
Speaker 7: the third quarter, and then back and forth they went

2975
02:24:51,680 --> 02:24:55,040
Speaker 7: a great game. Kings win by three and Fox had

2976
02:24:55,040 --> 02:24:58,720
Speaker 7: thirty eight points twenty nine in the second half. Demanta

2977
02:24:58,760 --> 02:25:02,360
Speaker 7: Sabonas five of seven teen shooting, but sixteen rebounds. Moleak

2978
02:25:02,480 --> 02:25:05,560
Speaker 7: Monk thirty two points off the bench. Game two Monday

2979
02:25:05,640 --> 02:25:08,240
Speaker 7: night in the series at Sacramento, Steph Curry thirty points

2980
02:25:08,240 --> 02:25:10,120
Speaker 7: in the loss. He missed a last second three point

2981
02:25:10,120 --> 02:25:13,119
Speaker 7: try in fact, Golden State from three point range sixteen

2982
02:25:13,160 --> 02:25:16,279
Speaker 7: to fifty. New York got twenty seven points from Jalen

2983
02:25:16,320 --> 02:25:18,760
Speaker 7: Brunson in a Game one win at Cleveland one oh

2984
02:25:18,840 --> 02:25:21,880
Speaker 7: one ninety seven. Julius Randall back from the sprained ankle

2985
02:25:21,920 --> 02:25:24,480
Speaker 7: at nineteen points, Donovan Mitchell thirty eight and the loss

2986
02:25:24,480 --> 02:25:27,400
Speaker 7: for the Cavs. Boston led by thirty at halftime and

2987
02:25:27,440 --> 02:25:30,560
Speaker 7: beat Atlanta one twelve to ninety nine. Jalen Brown twenty

2988
02:25:30,640 --> 02:25:34,040
Speaker 7: nine points, Trey Young five of eighteen shooting in the loss,

2989
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Speaker 7: and Philadelphia beat Brooklyn despite thirty points from Philly native

2990
02:25:37,840 --> 02:25:40,480
Speaker 7: mcal Bridges. It was six Ers one twenty one to

2991
02:25:40,560 --> 02:25:43,400
Speaker 7: one oh one. Joel Embiid twenty six points again four

2992
02:25:43,400 --> 02:25:46,959
Speaker 7: games tomorrow. The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs don't start till

2993
02:25:47,000 --> 02:25:49,760
Speaker 7: Monday night at Columbus fired coach Brad Larsen. The Blue

2994
02:25:49,800 --> 02:25:53,280
Speaker 7: Jackets finished last in the East. Anaheim last in the

2995
02:25:53,320 --> 02:25:57,080
Speaker 7: West just fired its coach yesterday. US women's hockey advance

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02:25:57,120 --> 02:25:59,680
Speaker 7: to tomorrow night's World Final at Canada. Those two are

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02:25:59,680 --> 02:26:02,600
Speaker 7: meeting in the final for the twenty first time in

2998
02:26:02,680 --> 02:26:06,959
Speaker 7: the twenty two World Championship tournaments. Women's hockey has had.

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Speaker 7: NASCAR's four hundred at Martinsville is on FS one tomorrow

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02:26:10,440 --> 02:26:13,600
Speaker 7: three pm Eastern time. The USFL season started today on

3001
02:26:13,640 --> 02:26:16,920
Speaker 7: Fox TV. Philadelphia Stars won at Memphis. There's a game

3002
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Speaker 7: on FS one tomorrow Pittsburgh Mallers at New Orleans six

3003
02:26:20,200 --> 02:26:23,320
Speaker 7: thirty Eastern. The XFL starts its playoffs end of the

3004
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Speaker 7: month NFL Draft with plenty of coverage live here. April

3005
02:26:27,160 --> 02:26:31,080
Speaker 7: twenty seventh is the first round to Major League Baseball.

3006
02:26:31,360 --> 02:26:34,199
Speaker 7: I mentioned earlier in the night how the Dodgers stole

3007
02:26:34,240 --> 02:26:36,800
Speaker 7: one from the Cubs two to one, two run pinch

3008
02:26:36,840 --> 02:26:39,279
Speaker 7: single in the bottom of the ninth by David Peralta.

3009
02:26:39,760 --> 02:26:42,400
Speaker 7: This is how much it was in the stealing category

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Speaker 7: from stat z Inc. David Peralta the first MLB player

3011
02:26:46,680 --> 02:26:50,480
Speaker 7: to deliver a pinch walk off single with his team

3012
02:26:50,560 --> 02:26:54,600
Speaker 7: one out away from a shutout loss since nineteen fifteen,

3013
02:26:54,640 --> 02:26:59,120
Speaker 7: when the Philadelphia East pitch your pape Ruth to go

3014
02:26:59,240 --> 02:27:02,440
Speaker 7: from a out staring you in the face to actually

3015
02:27:02,480 --> 02:27:05,840
Speaker 7: winning the game because of a pinch hitter on one swing.

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02:27:06,680 --> 02:27:06,960
Speaker 3: Wow.

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02:27:07,080 --> 02:27:10,160
Speaker 7: Dodger catcher Will Smith out due to illness. Seattle sent

3018
02:27:10,280 --> 02:27:13,959
Speaker 7: Colorado to a four straight loss. It was Cleveland winning

3019
02:27:14,000 --> 02:27:17,320
Speaker 7: at Washington. Four straight loss for the Nationals. Atlanta has

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02:27:17,360 --> 02:27:20,000
Speaker 7: won five in a row. Miami's won four in a row.

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02:27:20,120 --> 02:27:22,640
Speaker 7: Injury for the Texas Rangers tonight they lost eight two

3022
02:27:22,680 --> 02:27:25,760
Speaker 7: at Houston. Rangers starting pitcher John Gray left with a

3023
02:27:25,840 --> 02:27:28,320
Speaker 7: bruised forearm but not broken as he was hit by

3024
02:27:28,360 --> 02:27:31,600
Speaker 7: a line drive for the winners. You're Don Alvarez of Houston.

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02:27:31,640 --> 02:27:35,160
Speaker 7: Three more RBIs. He has twenty RBIs in only thirteen

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02:27:35,240 --> 02:27:38,280
Speaker 7: games played. San Diego and the Mets each one. And

3027
02:27:38,360 --> 02:27:41,840
Speaker 7: how about this At Boston today, Red Sox came back

3028
02:27:41,920 --> 02:27:44,560
Speaker 7: to win despite allowing a first inning grand Slam to

3029
02:27:44,600 --> 02:27:47,680
Speaker 7: the Angels g or Schella nine to seven. Boston the

3030
02:27:47,680 --> 02:27:49,720
Speaker 7: final because the Red Sox in the bottom of the

3031
02:27:49,720 --> 02:27:53,440
Speaker 7: eight scored two hundred runs. Two batters in the same

3032
02:27:53,560 --> 02:27:57,480
Speaker 7: inning reached on catcher's interference. There was also a hit

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02:27:57,560 --> 02:28:01,200
Speaker 7: batter and a bases loaded walk. Boston win save to

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Speaker 7: Kenley Jansen and with the new baseball rules, of course,

3035
02:28:04,320 --> 02:28:06,600
Speaker 7: Boston was one of the great offenders of long nine

3036
02:28:06,680 --> 02:28:09,280
Speaker 7: in games right and this game today at Fenway had

3037
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Speaker 7: sixteen run scored. Time of the game two fifty nine.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve Disager, have Disager,

3039
02:28:17,200 --> 02:28:17,920
Speaker 2: have a great evening.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Jack Tomorrow with Arnie Spanier and Chris plank Uh, Jason

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Speaker 2: live from the Tireck dot com studios. Before U before

3050
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Speaker 2: we got to Disager, Jason, we obviously had Bernie on

3051
02:28:49,160 --> 02:28:50,520
Speaker 2: and you asked him the question that I was going

3052
02:28:50,600 --> 02:28:54,160
Speaker 2: to ask him, which was about the NFL draft odds,

3053
02:28:54,200 --> 02:28:57,120
Speaker 2: which seemed to be very much indicating that Bryce Young

3054
02:28:57,160 --> 02:29:01,160
Speaker 2: will ultimately be picked number one overall. Not this coming Thursday,

3055
02:29:01,200 --> 02:29:04,360
Speaker 2: but the following one in Kansas City. All I'll say

3056
02:29:04,360 --> 02:29:07,200
Speaker 2: really quick, Jason, I'll toss it over to you. I've

3057
02:29:07,200 --> 02:29:09,880
Speaker 2: always thought this was the deal. I didn't think Carolina

3058
02:29:10,959 --> 02:29:13,680
Speaker 2: traded for the pick without knowing who they wanted. And

3059
02:29:13,720 --> 02:29:16,280
Speaker 2: I know there's been different stuff about c J. Stroud,

3060
02:29:16,320 --> 02:29:20,160
Speaker 2: specifically Anthony Richardson to a smaller degree, but Bryce Young.

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Speaker 3: To me, has always been the guy. He's awesome.

3062
02:29:23,520 --> 02:29:26,400
Speaker 2: You know, there's criticism about his size, but you know,

3063
02:29:26,560 --> 02:29:30,360
Speaker 2: really he was great at Alabama. I thought he elevated

3064
02:29:30,400 --> 02:29:33,600
Speaker 2: an Alabama team that struggled that that really, you know,

3065
02:29:33,680 --> 02:29:36,440
Speaker 2: even in the losses, Bryce Young was incredible against Tennessee

3066
02:29:36,480 --> 02:29:39,640
Speaker 2: and LSU. So to me, it's I actually think it's

3067
02:29:39,680 --> 02:29:42,160
Speaker 2: actually a no brainer. But it appears as though we're

3068
02:29:42,160 --> 02:29:44,400
Speaker 2: trending towards Bryce Young going number one overall, with a

3069
02:29:44,440 --> 02:29:46,879
Speaker 2: lot of the betting markets seeming to reflect that this week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been in an agreement the whole time, and

3071
02:29:49,360 --> 02:29:52,320
Speaker 4: Bernie was in agreement with us as well about Bryce Young.

3072
02:29:52,680 --> 02:29:56,280
Speaker 4: And this is nothing to discredit c J. Stroud, who

3073
02:29:56,360 --> 02:29:59,320
Speaker 4: could have an excellent NFL career, and we saw what

3074
02:29:59,400 --> 02:30:02,400
Speaker 4: he was made of, especially in the College Football Playoff

3075
02:30:02,400 --> 02:30:05,320
Speaker 4: where he had that game that you really wanted to

3076
02:30:05,400 --> 02:30:09,200
Speaker 4: see someone like that have before they ascend to the

3077
02:30:09,200 --> 02:30:14,959
Speaker 4: next level. But Bryce Young is Kyler murray Ish in

3078
02:30:15,040 --> 02:30:17,480
Speaker 4: terms of you know, that's only knock is his size.

3079
02:30:17,800 --> 02:30:20,840
Speaker 4: But you don't knock his leadership. You don't knock his intangibles.

3080
02:30:20,879 --> 02:30:23,520
Speaker 4: You don't knock how he's put teams on his back.

3081
02:30:23,920 --> 02:30:27,280
Speaker 4: You don't knock anything about him, his toughness, nothing, his

3082
02:30:27,440 --> 02:30:31,360
Speaker 4: work ethic. He's got absolutely everything except the size. Now

3083
02:30:31,400 --> 02:30:34,400
Speaker 4: we'll see how big the size can be a factor.

3084
02:30:35,240 --> 02:30:37,520
Speaker 4: I would draft this guy number one and run to

3085
02:30:37,600 --> 02:30:40,000
Speaker 4: the podium and do it. And that's why you make

3086
02:30:40,040 --> 02:30:41,840
Speaker 4: a move like this if you're the Panthers. To me,

3087
02:30:42,040 --> 02:30:45,400
Speaker 4: he's the no brainer. As you mentioned, he's the guy,

3088
02:30:45,959 --> 02:30:48,640
Speaker 4: he's the one. I think he's a star in making.

3089
02:30:48,760 --> 02:30:50,720
Speaker 4: I think he's a winner, and I think he can

3090
02:30:50,760 --> 02:30:53,320
Speaker 4: win at the next level. And you're bringing him into

3091
02:30:53,400 --> 02:30:56,199
Speaker 4: a new situation that's fresh. But you have a team

3092
02:30:56,240 --> 02:30:59,480
Speaker 4: that had a defense that played above themselves last year

3093
02:30:59,480 --> 02:31:02,200
Speaker 4: and really show what they were capable of. The question

3094
02:31:02,280 --> 02:31:04,720
Speaker 4: I guess for Bryce Young is you're walking in without

3095
02:31:04,800 --> 02:31:08,720
Speaker 4: DJ Moore. You're walking in without some of the firepower

3096
02:31:08,800 --> 02:31:11,240
Speaker 4: you could have had. So you're gonna have to elevate

3097
02:31:11,280 --> 02:31:12,800
Speaker 4: again and it's gonna take time.

3098
02:31:13,120 --> 02:31:14,560
Speaker 3: But if I was betting on one.

3099
02:31:14,400 --> 02:31:17,600
Speaker 4: Of these guys, it would first be Bryce Young, and

3100
02:31:17,640 --> 02:31:20,199
Speaker 4: again C J. Stroud may be great, but Bryce Young

3101
02:31:20,240 --> 02:31:24,400
Speaker 4: to me is just head and shoulders above the rest

3102
02:31:24,400 --> 02:31:25,039
Speaker 4: of these guys.

3103
02:31:25,400 --> 02:31:28,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, last thought too on Bryce Young. I think it's

3104
02:31:28,000 --> 02:31:31,720
Speaker 2: something I've mentioned previously Jason, but like any notion that

3105
02:31:31,760 --> 02:31:35,920
Speaker 2: he's injury prone is just idiotic, and I think part

3106
02:31:35,920 --> 02:31:38,440
Speaker 2: of it is Alabama smaller QB.

3107
02:31:39,000 --> 02:31:40,520
Speaker 3: Well, look at what happened with Tua.

3108
02:31:40,920 --> 02:31:43,680
Speaker 2: Well, Tua couldn't stay healthy during a twelve game college

3109
02:31:43,720 --> 02:31:46,160
Speaker 2: football season and that was the big concern coming in

3110
02:31:46,360 --> 02:31:50,000
Speaker 2: for him. Whereas Bryce Young, like when he was hurt

3111
02:31:50,040 --> 02:31:53,000
Speaker 2: this year, it was a fluke play at Arkansas where

3112
02:31:53,000 --> 02:31:55,600
Speaker 2: he's diving for a first down and somebody falls on

3113
02:31:55,720 --> 02:31:58,400
Speaker 2: his shoulder like or tackles him and lands on his shoulder.

3114
02:31:58,800 --> 02:32:02,000
Speaker 2: That could have happened Anthony Richardson, could happen to Will Levis.

3115
02:32:02,080 --> 02:32:04,720
Speaker 2: It had nothing to do with his size. And so

3116
02:32:04,760 --> 02:32:07,560
Speaker 2: I think the biggest concern I don't think is as

3117
02:32:07,560 --> 02:32:09,720
Speaker 2: big of a concern as many people make it out

3118
02:32:09,720 --> 02:32:11,800
Speaker 2: to be. If you could draft Kyler Murray number one

3119
02:32:11,840 --> 02:32:14,600
Speaker 2: overall at that size, then I have no problem at

3120
02:32:14,600 --> 02:32:18,160
Speaker 2: all drafting Bryce Young at the same size. This is

3121
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio aer Tours Jason Martin broadcasting live from

3122
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Speaker 2: the Tireck dot Com studios. One segment left, we make

3123
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Speaker 2: our picks for tomorrow's NBA games.

3124
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Speaker 3: That's next, says Fox Sports Radio. And bounce past the curry.

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Speaker 8: He turns, hey wheels, he fires, he misses, bones with

3126
02:32:34,680 --> 02:32:40,400
Speaker 8: the rebounds, and Sacramento has one game number one. After

3127
02:32:40,640 --> 02:32:45,000
Speaker 8: seventeen years without a playoff experience, they have risen to

3128
02:32:45,160 --> 02:32:46,080
Speaker 8: the occasions.

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Speaker 2: of the day in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings holding

3138
02:33:15,160 --> 02:33:18,000
Speaker 2: on to beat the Warriors in Game one by three.

3139
02:33:18,400 --> 02:33:20,520
Speaker 2: What I want to do now, let's talk a little

3140
02:33:20,520 --> 02:33:27,280
Speaker 2: bit about the games four tomorrow. Four games tomorrow in

3141
02:33:27,360 --> 02:33:32,240
Speaker 2: the NBA, let's talk about some of those. So I'm

3142
02:33:32,240 --> 02:33:34,000
Speaker 2: trying to get some odds up here. I'm not doing

3143
02:33:34,000 --> 02:33:38,560
Speaker 2: a very good job, but okay, let's start in Memphis. Chris,

3144
02:33:38,560 --> 02:33:40,640
Speaker 2: maybe give us a little music if you don't mind, sir.

3145
02:33:41,120 --> 02:33:43,440
Speaker 2: Memphis a three and a half point favorite. They are

3146
02:33:43,680 --> 02:33:47,119
Speaker 2: hosting the Lakers in game one of their series. Who

3147
02:33:47,160 --> 02:33:49,920
Speaker 2: do you got, Chason nom It'll be interesting.

3148
02:33:49,560 --> 02:33:52,840
Speaker 4: To see how Memphis comes out because their building gets

3149
02:33:52,920 --> 02:33:56,400
Speaker 4: really loud, like we saw what it was in Sacramento. Well,

3150
02:33:56,400 --> 02:33:59,920
Speaker 4: Memphis is very similar, especially when they're rocking and rolling

3151
02:34:00,480 --> 02:34:03,920
Speaker 4: and meeting the team. They feed off the energy of

3152
02:34:03,959 --> 02:34:06,760
Speaker 4: the crowd. If LA is able to kind of quiet

3153
02:34:06,800 --> 02:34:10,000
Speaker 4: that crowd early, that could be interesting. I just think

3154
02:34:10,040 --> 02:34:12,760
Speaker 4: Memphis is a better basketball team. I don't think the

3155
02:34:12,840 --> 02:34:14,920
Speaker 4: Lakers are gonna go cross country and beat them in

3156
02:34:15,000 --> 02:34:17,680
Speaker 4: game one. I could see them winning Game two because

3157
02:34:17,680 --> 02:34:20,400
Speaker 4: I think we might have a longer series, a very

3158
02:34:20,480 --> 02:34:22,960
Speaker 4: dramatic series. There's probably gonna be a lot of stuff

3159
02:34:23,000 --> 02:34:25,000
Speaker 4: coming out of this series. Of people are talking about

3160
02:34:25,040 --> 02:34:27,560
Speaker 4: all week and we're talking about next Saturday. But I

3161
02:34:27,560 --> 02:34:30,560
Speaker 4: think Memphis will get Game one at home because the

3162
02:34:30,600 --> 02:34:32,520
Speaker 4: atmosphere is going to be something special.

3163
02:34:32,840 --> 02:34:34,959
Speaker 2: I'm with the You know, Bernie mentioned the Lakers being

3164
02:34:35,000 --> 02:34:37,720
Speaker 2: the Tiger Woods of the NBA, A public team. Everybody

3165
02:34:37,760 --> 02:34:40,760
Speaker 2: loves them. I just I don't see it. I think

3166
02:34:40,760 --> 02:34:42,920
Speaker 2: it's a bad matchup for them. I don't think they're

3167
02:34:42,920 --> 02:34:44,360
Speaker 2: making it out of the first round. I don't think

3168
02:34:44,360 --> 02:34:47,120
Speaker 2: they're winning. I'll take Memphis with the victory and the cover.

3169
02:34:47,800 --> 02:34:50,120
Speaker 2: Second game of the day, Milwaukee Bucks nine and a

3170
02:34:50,160 --> 02:34:53,240
Speaker 2: half point favorite at home Game one against the Miami Heat.

3171
02:34:53,800 --> 02:34:55,600
Speaker 3: You think the Bucks are gonna win by double digits?

3172
02:34:55,640 --> 02:34:56,199
Speaker 3: Jason Tomorrow.

3173
02:34:56,320 --> 02:34:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll take them to cover. I just think

3174
02:34:58,240 --> 02:35:00,680
Speaker 4: they're way better than Miami. I don't think this Miami

3175
02:35:00,720 --> 02:35:03,959
Speaker 4: team is is what you know they were a couple

3176
02:35:04,040 --> 02:35:07,160
Speaker 4: of years ago. Now you never know. With Jimmy Butler,

3177
02:35:07,240 --> 02:35:09,760
Speaker 4: he might go out there and have fifty. You can

3178
02:35:09,840 --> 02:35:13,400
Speaker 4: never tell in what he can pull off into playoffs.

3179
02:35:13,400 --> 02:35:15,600
Speaker 4: But I just like Milwaukee way too much. I think

3180
02:35:16,120 --> 02:35:17,840
Speaker 4: they will cover and win the game by fifteen.

3181
02:35:19,160 --> 02:35:20,240
Speaker 3: I tend to agree.

3182
02:35:20,320 --> 02:35:22,240
Speaker 2: You know that the heat you keep waiting for, like

3183
02:35:22,280 --> 02:35:25,480
Speaker 2: the heat culture whatever to come into play Listen. They

3184
02:35:25,480 --> 02:35:27,480
Speaker 2: lost to the Hawks and the opener of the playing

3185
02:35:27,560 --> 02:35:29,720
Speaker 2: round easily could have lost last night to the Bulls.

3186
02:35:29,720 --> 02:35:30,920
Speaker 3: Both games were at home.

3187
02:35:31,320 --> 02:35:33,560
Speaker 2: I think they get rolled by Milwaukee and then obviously

3188
02:35:33,600 --> 02:35:35,560
Speaker 2: also a short turnaround for them as well.

3189
02:35:36,440 --> 02:35:38,360
Speaker 3: Game three on tomorrow Slate.

3190
02:35:38,440 --> 02:35:40,040
Speaker 2: That's the one I think most people are looking for

3191
02:35:40,240 --> 02:35:43,760
Speaker 2: to Clippers at Phoenix. Phoenix a seven and a half

3192
02:35:43,840 --> 02:35:46,440
Speaker 2: point favorite. Jason, what do you make of that might.

3193
02:35:46,320 --> 02:35:47,200
Speaker 3: Be closer than that.

3194
02:35:47,280 --> 02:35:49,360
Speaker 4: But I like the home team all day and all

3195
02:35:49,360 --> 02:35:51,520
Speaker 4: four of these matchups, and actually I think Cleveland is

3196
02:35:51,560 --> 02:35:53,640
Speaker 4: the only road team that lost in Cleveland was thirty

3197
02:35:53,640 --> 02:35:56,360
Speaker 4: one to ten at home in the regular season, so

3198
02:35:57,200 --> 02:35:59,959
Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough to win, especially in these buildings

3199
02:36:00,160 --> 02:36:02,680
Speaker 4: on this Sunday. I like all four home teams. I

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Speaker 4: like Phoenix. I don't know what to make of the

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02:36:04,640 --> 02:36:08,960
Speaker 4: Paul George situation. Phoenix hasn't lost with Kevin Durant. I

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02:36:09,040 --> 02:36:12,440
Speaker 4: know I worry about them long into the playoffs when

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02:36:12,480 --> 02:36:15,320
Speaker 4: it comes to their injuries, but in game one of

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02:36:15,360 --> 02:36:17,240
Speaker 4: this series, give me Phoenix all day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you.

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02:36:19,360 --> 02:36:22,440
Speaker 2: I think that number feels a little bit much the

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02:36:22,440 --> 02:36:25,800
Speaker 2: Clippers listen veteran team. Kawhi when he's on the court

3208
02:36:25,959 --> 02:36:29,960
Speaker 2: is phenomenal. I'm actually with you. I think that maybe

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02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:31,680
Speaker 2: it's a five point game exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it may not. This would be one.

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02:36:33,560 --> 02:36:36,400
Speaker 4: I would be reticent at the number, but not at

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Speaker 4: the victor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I think the other thing too.

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Speaker 2: You know, Suns have just not played a lot together,

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02:36:42,200 --> 02:36:45,280
Speaker 2: so that's something else to consider. Final game, number one

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Speaker 2: seed Denver Nuggets hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves. Nuggets a seven

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Speaker 2: and a half point favorite.

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Speaker 10: Chase.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just I feel like Denver wins this one by

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02:36:53,760 --> 02:36:57,640
Speaker 4: about ten. I think they will cover this number. Minnesota

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02:36:57,720 --> 02:37:00,320
Speaker 4: kind of eked in. They played terrible to find a

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02:37:00,320 --> 02:37:02,280
Speaker 4: way to lose that game to the Lakers. The last

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02:37:02,360 --> 02:37:05,080
Speaker 4: like five six minutes of that game set basketball back

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02:37:05,120 --> 02:37:08,320
Speaker 4: thirty years on both sides for Lebron and his squad

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02:37:08,360 --> 02:37:11,120
Speaker 4: as well as what was going on in Minnesota. I

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Speaker 4: think Denver's on a mission. I think Jokic knows the

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02:37:13,720 --> 02:37:16,280
Speaker 4: pressure is on him. I expect him to rise to

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02:37:16,360 --> 02:37:19,800
Speaker 4: the challenge in Minnesota, not to be particularly strong against

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02:37:19,840 --> 02:37:20,959
Speaker 4: them at all in this series.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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02:37:21,640 --> 02:37:25,760
Speaker 2: Nice bounce back for Minnesota last night. I'm just not sold.

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02:37:26,000 --> 02:37:28,240
Speaker 2: You know that it means all that much. The Thunder

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02:37:28,280 --> 02:37:33,360
Speaker 2: obviously young team veteran young team Minnesota was built to,

3234
02:37:33,840 --> 02:37:35,959
Speaker 2: in theory, make a run in these playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So I'm with you. I think the I think the

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02:37:39,720 --> 02:37:40,840
Speaker 3: Nuggets take care of business.

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02:37:40,920 --> 02:37:43,760
Speaker 2: Anything interesting you're looking forward to in terms of any

3238
02:37:43,840 --> 02:37:47,320
Speaker 2: of these series as they progress into the week, Jason.

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02:37:47,120 --> 02:37:48,440
Speaker 3: I mean, we have some good series here.

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02:37:48,600 --> 02:37:51,680
Speaker 4: I really am interested to see how Lakers Grizz plays

3241
02:37:51,720 --> 02:37:54,600
Speaker 4: out all the way through. I think Suns Clippers be

3242
02:37:54,680 --> 02:37:57,440
Speaker 4: a really exciting series. Also, like the fact that Monday

3243
02:37:57,520 --> 02:37:59,360
Speaker 4: night in the nightcap on tn T.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get Golden State Sacramento game too.

3245
02:38:01,400 --> 02:38:04,240
Speaker 4: We don't have to wait the extra day on that one,

3246
02:38:04,480 --> 02:38:06,560
Speaker 4: so we can strike while the iron's hot. After an

3247
02:38:06,600 --> 02:38:09,080
Speaker 4: awesome game on Saturday, we just have one day off

3248
02:38:09,080 --> 02:38:11,400
Speaker 4: and then we get game two. And that's the one

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Speaker 4: where you're gonna see how good Sacramento could be because

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Speaker 4: Golden State is gonna come out to put them out

3251
02:38:15,879 --> 02:38:17,039
Speaker 4: of their misery in that game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's another one too where I also think

3253
02:38:19,320 --> 02:38:22,240
Speaker 2: like maybe a little bit more time off would actually

3254
02:38:22,240 --> 02:38:24,320
Speaker 2: be good for Sacramento is where does that sounds like?

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02:38:24,720 --> 02:38:26,440
Speaker 3: You know, the emotion of tonight.

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02:38:26,840 --> 02:38:28,840
Speaker 2: Now you got to turn around and play forty forty

3257
02:38:28,879 --> 02:38:32,160
Speaker 2: eight hours later. The arena will be great. But you know,

3258
02:38:32,200 --> 02:38:34,280
Speaker 2: you wonder if they come off the high of that win.

3259
02:38:35,040 --> 02:38:38,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, really fun again. Four games tomorrow. That's on

3260
02:38:38,800 --> 02:38:41,600
Speaker 2: top of the four games that we had today, with

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02:38:42,640 --> 02:38:46,080
Speaker 2: the Celtics winning, the seventy six Ers winning, the New

3262
02:38:46,200 --> 02:38:49,480
Speaker 2: York Knicks winning on the road against.

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02:38:49,120 --> 02:38:51,439
Speaker 3: The Cleveland Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 12: Long anyday they would have done that too, bro, But

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02:38:53,920 --> 02:38:57,080
Speaker 12: long night, yes, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then the nightcap,

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02:38:57,120 --> 02:39:00,959
Speaker 12: as Jason just said, the Sacramento Kings in dramatic fashion

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02:39:01,040 --> 02:39:03,400
Speaker 12: take care of business against the Golden State Warriors won

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Speaker 12: twenty six two one twenty three.

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Speaker 3: I think it is time for us to get out

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Speaker 3: of here.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank the crue Chris Purfett on the boards,

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Speaker 2: producer Brandon Steve De Sager from my partner Jason Martin,

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02:39:13,240 --> 02:39:15,840
Speaker 2: I'm Aren Torres. If you missed any of the show,

3274
02:39:16,360 --> 02:39:19,800
Speaker 2: make sure to download the podcast, available immediately after the show.

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Speaker 2: Next up, Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto Show, Bernie's

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