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Speaker 1: This is the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast. Asked two

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Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen NBA Season NBA Predictions, NBA preview for

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Speaker 1: the non NBA fan. All right, this is for everybody.

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Speaker 1: I don't like when the NBA or any sport, well,

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Speaker 1: I like the NBA when it does it because I

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Speaker 1: really love basketball, and I can understand it because I

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Speaker 1: don't give a funk what you saw on the Rock

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Speaker 1: and Jock. I don't give a funk what you saw

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Speaker 1: on the MTV UH and the ESPN Celebrity All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: At one point I could play basketball and I played

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Speaker 1: with some of the best. I may not have been

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Speaker 1: the best, but I played with some of the best.

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Speaker 1: You see Kenny Anderson, You asked him about me? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you see world b free, ask him, ask him where

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Speaker 1: I was? All right, let me see who else. A

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Speaker 1: bunch of them, ask them, ask around White Mike, Mike Rapp,

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Speaker 1: report rap a crap. They know me. They know me

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Speaker 1: in the streets, all right. So despite what you might

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Speaker 1: of the ESPN Celebrity Game, people are not impressed with

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Speaker 1: my performance. Kiss my fucking ass. So here is my

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Speaker 1: NBA preview episode. Okay, And you will never be able

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Speaker 1: to hear analyzation like this, because I if I don't

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Speaker 1: like the player, find like their attitude, I fucking shut

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Speaker 1: you down, all right. So this is gonna just be

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Speaker 1: an overview of the two thousand and fifteen NBA season.

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Speaker 1: If you are not a basketball fan, the San Antonio

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Speaker 1: Spurs are the reigning NBA champions and this team is

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Speaker 1: an eclectic mix, genuinely eclectic. They got guys from their

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Speaker 1: Their star player, Tim Duncan is from like the Barbadoes.

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Speaker 1: He's a fucking swimmer. They got a French point guard

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Speaker 1: They got Russians, Croatians, Germans, Koreans, South Koreans, North Koreans.

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Speaker 1: They got them all, They got them all, and they

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Speaker 1: fucking won the championship. They dismantled the Miami Heat last

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Speaker 1: year in five games. They fucking shut them down, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and it was beautiful. Because I'm not a Miami Heat fan.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to clarify a couple of things

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Speaker 1: because I know I have many listeners of the I

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Speaker 1: to keep listening, all right, So I don't want this

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Speaker 1: to become a tip for tat, like you know what,

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Speaker 1: Mike Rap, fuck you, fuck your podcast. I'm shutting it off.

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Speaker 1: Don't say anything about the Miami Heat. No, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: fucking living it. You won two championships, You've been to four.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna fucking live in it. Okay, don't hang up

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Speaker 1: on me because you guys lost last year. And Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, you need to start treating

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Speaker 1: him the same way they treated him in Cleveland. Burn baby, burn,

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Speaker 1: Burn those fucking jerseys, all right, because he left you.

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Speaker 1: He ain't coming back. He's never coming back. And now

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Speaker 1: pat Riley run team. So my prediction, my first prediction

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Speaker 1: for the two thousand and fifteen NBA season, is that

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat do make the playoffs. Duane Wade, if

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Speaker 1: I just named six or seven players who are would star.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start over Bill Russell. I don't need to

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? I snorted, I'm very excited. My

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Speaker 1: Reports podcast. Now the East, the Atlantic Division, Boston Celtics,

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, Sixers, Toronto Raptors, Raptors. Toronto

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Speaker 1: Raptors are a fucking problem. Their biggest fan is Drake.

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Speaker 1: Mike rap, what's so good about your fucking like? This

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Speaker 1: getting started. I broke down the Miami Heat, and I'll

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Speaker 1: break down in the middle of this right now, Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: Here is why I am once again frustrated with Lebron

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Speaker 1: not five, not six. I'm pretty sure the motherfucker said eight.

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Speaker 1: He said we want to win eight championships. Now you

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Speaker 1: They haven't won a championship since nineteen seventy three. Will

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Speaker 1: if you're around people that aren't from Cleveland, people talk

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Speaker 1: Did you know that, mom? Isn't there a beach boy

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Speaker 1: named Bob Love? Kevin Love the basketball player? That's his uncle.

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Speaker 1: That's real ship, that's for real, mom. And my mom's

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Speaker 1: she's shy as if people are listening. Mom, it's just

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Speaker 1: a really actually produced thing. But let's just be honest, Mom,

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Speaker 1: York City, Okay, but just this one. Normally we're in

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Speaker 1: a big studio anyway, So the Cleveland Cavaliers with Kevin Love, who's,

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Speaker 1: He probably knows Kevin Love. I met Kevin Love one time,

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Speaker 1: and you know what he said to me, Rappaport, You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna give me some love? And I was like, fuck, yeah, yo,

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Speaker 1: is is retarded. Kyrie Irving, he's a motherfucker too. You know.

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Speaker 1: so why my mom is a wealthy retired lady. My

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Speaker 1: mom off off camera, off recording, she said to me,

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Speaker 1: if you stop fucking cursing so fucking much, do you

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Speaker 1: know that more people might listen to this fucking podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is what she says to me. She says, more

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Speaker 1: people would listen to you if you didn't sound like

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Speaker 1: a fucking sailor. And I'm thinking to myself, good fucking point, Mama,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, good fucking point. So to try

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Speaker 1: it the rest of this segment, I am not going

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Speaker 1: to say fuck. Okay, I am not going to say

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Speaker 1: fun because I think that some people think that I

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Speaker 1: can't talk without saying fuck. So that's three two one.

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Speaker 1: That's it. No more for this set. The Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Rose, Man, this is a let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: I'll just tell you my experience with Derrick Rose. You know,

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Speaker 1: you could just pick up somebody's energy. I met him

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Speaker 1: after a game under like the tunnel, like I was leaving.

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Speaker 1: It was with my kids. I think it was the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls versus the New Jersey Nets, or it was

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bulls versus the Lakers, or this or or

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Speaker 1: or the Chicago Bulls versus the Clippers. It was one

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Speaker 1: of them. But we bumped into Derrick Rose his MVP

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Speaker 1: season under the you know, in the tunnel, he was

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Speaker 1: just finishing game. He's probably doing press and he just

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Speaker 1: had such a sweet, nice disposition about him. And what

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Speaker 1: a good basketball player Derrick Roses. I mean, he's he's sick.

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Speaker 1: He is sick. So my prediction for the Chicago Bulls

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Speaker 1: is the Bulls go as far as Derrick Rose go.

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Speaker 1: They have a crew, Pal Gassoul, Joe Kim know who

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Speaker 1: I love, Jimmy Butler, Todd Gibson, great coach, Dibado dib

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Speaker 1: dib Dibado, and they're gonna be tough. See, I ain't

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Speaker 1: doing like the oh I'm not doing. You want to

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Speaker 1: get details, you want to get uh stats that you

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Speaker 1: might not get from listening to me, you know, go

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Speaker 1: down the channel. My man Bill Simmons, he's the king.

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. This is the month I didn't

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Speaker 1: say it. This is the I Am Rappapore podcast. You

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Speaker 1: know my NBA preview. All right, Cleveland Cavaliers went over them.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be a problem. Jeff Van Gundy and the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons. Uh, they're gonna improve. Indiana Pacers. I think

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be better than people think, although obviously with

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Speaker 1: Paul George not there, it's not gonna work. Milwaukee Bucks,

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Speaker 1: I think Jabari Park is gonna be a disappointment. I

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Speaker 1: might be wrong. I just saw him playing preseason. I

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Speaker 1: was not that impressed. I just don't think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be I just think he's gonna be a disappointment. Hawks

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Speaker 1: are gonna be shipped. Sorry, Oh yeah, I can say that.

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Speaker 1: The Charlotte Hornets, Yo, when Michael Jordan, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something. You gotta get rid of that Hitler mustache.

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Speaker 1: Bro that is just not cool. And those Haynes commercials.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was just like there was

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00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: bad lighting and they didn't know, or no one wanted

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00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: to tell him, like, yo, Michael Jordan's, your ship looks

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Speaker 1: like Charlie Chaplin right now, like you you have a

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Speaker 1: Hitler mustache. No one had the balls to tell Michael Jordan's.

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Speaker 1: No one else could pull off the Hitler mustache besides

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. He's and he's not just pulled it off,

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Speaker 1: like one day he's in a commercial with the Hitler mustache.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be better, uh Land Stevenson. They have a crew,

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Speaker 1: They're they're gonna They're gonna be improved. They're still not

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Speaker 1: gonna be what Michael Jordan wants them to be. The

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Speaker 1: Miami heat. I talked about Orlando Magic, Bye Bye, Washington Wizards.

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Speaker 1: They're a problem. That kid Bradley Bill is sick, John

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Speaker 1: wall is sick. I like Hayna Nay at Center. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I said, hey Nay Nay, you know, like hey Bay

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Speaker 1: Bay Hey, my kids used to say that about Nay

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Speaker 1: when they were little. Dallas Maverick is gonna be a problem,

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Speaker 1: all right, They're gonna be much improved and they have

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Speaker 1: a lot of firepower, and they got a lot of offense.

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Speaker 1: They got that Chandler Parsons or Parson Chandler. I said, guy,

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Speaker 1: what's that guy's name, Chandler Parsons. It could either be

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Speaker 1: Chandler Parsons or Parsons Chandler. Either way, it doesn't mean anyway.

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Speaker 1: But he's good. Jamir Nelson. That Monte Ellis who's really good.

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Speaker 1: I still don't think he's coming to his own. Memphis

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies always ground and pound. I loved them. They got

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Speaker 1: the other Gasol and my man zach Zebo, and then

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans and the Yo my prediction right now, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna come back to the North, to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the Western Division on part two of this,

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Speaker 1: but to end this off, and then I'm gonna come

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Speaker 1: back with the Lakers and the Spur the Lakers and

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00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: the Jazz and the Trail Blazers and Kevin Durant. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about Russell Westbrook and if he should be medicated.

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Speaker 1: I love the guy, you know, I feel like sometimes

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00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: he just needs to like a little slow it down

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We're gonna get to that in next episode.

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Speaker 1: But My prediction is the San Antonio Spurs will win

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Speaker 1: the NBA Championship verse the Cleveland Cavaliers. They will dismantle

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then I will finally relinquish my

506
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: stranglehold on Lebron James, and I will feel bad for

507
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: him and feel like he's just like the rest of us. Okay,

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00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: until he's proven to be just like the rest of

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Speaker 1: us officially, and that will be losing in the finals

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Speaker 1: three times. Kobe Bryant will be like, you fucking lost

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Speaker 1: in the finals three times, and you want to be

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Speaker 1: fucking talking about are you as good as me? Kobe

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Speaker 1: Bryant will just be laughing at that, Like Michael Jordan's like, you, motherfucker,

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Speaker 1: I never even played in the games, Evan, and you

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Speaker 1: want to fun You're not even on my level? Mom?

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Speaker 1: What mob was that cursing again? Shit? Shit shit, sorry,

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Speaker 1: muh shit. I just got in a tangent man about

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's. Like, Michael Jordan's is the best basketball player ever.

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00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: It's just like, oh my god, what all this bullshit.

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Speaker 1: He didn't lose, He never lost his his highlights are

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Speaker 1: sick like, It's not like, yo, don't freak out. Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan's is the best period. That's it, that's the end.

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Speaker 1: He never looked, he's he laughs at Lebron James. He

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Speaker 1: never ever played in the finals, that went past game six.

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Speaker 1: That's a killer, an animal, that guy who cut your throat,

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Speaker 1: laugh in your face, slip on the blood on the

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Speaker 1: way out, and not even think twice about walking down

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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: the hallway with Like in that scene in fucking Cape

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Speaker 1: Fear when Nick Nolty fell on the pool of blood

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Speaker 1: in the bat in the kitchen, remember that, it was

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Speaker 1: a really good scene. It was kind of shocking. That's

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: the kind of ship. But Michael Jordan, he don't care.

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00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: He's like, you know the poster for DMX, the DMX

534
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: poster when he's got all the blood on his face,

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Speaker 1: that's Michael Jordan's. He doesn't give a fuck. He didn't

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Speaker 1: give a fuck, and that's why he was one better

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00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: than all of them. And Kobe Bryant doesn't give a

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00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: funk either, and that's why he's one better than all

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00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: of them. You guys, it's just a different chip man

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00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: those mom, it's not fucking funny man, you mom, please,

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Speaker 1: I could just edit it out, Mom, I control the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. All right, that's it for today. I'm coming back.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do are two of the n b A.

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Speaker 1: But my prediction is the San Antonio Spurs over the

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00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals two thou fifteen, and

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Speaker 1: then Tim Duncan retires, Papovitch leaves. Now Papavich is gonna stay,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. I'll be back with more NBA. This

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Speaker 1: is the I M. Rappaport Podcast, and I am Michael

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Speaker 1: Rappaport