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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire? Fam Speak Jason McIntyre Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: May eighteen, and uh, I want to thank all of

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Speaker 1: you guys for the kind words, mostly on my I

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Speaker 1: G about Undisputed. A lot of fun as usual, chopping

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Speaker 1: it up with Broussard, Rick Buker, LaVar Arrington, Greg Jennings,

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Speaker 1: good group, a lot of fun. Felt good to uh

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Speaker 1: sit in the Shannon Sharp chair for a minute and

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Speaker 1: just you know, pretty much dominate a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: debating sports because that's fun. You know. I called it work,

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Speaker 1: but it's not totally work. You're just talking about sports.

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Speaker 1: And I mean I'm paying attention anyway, I'm researching all

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Speaker 1: the time, I'm talking to people I'm watching like it's fun.

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Speaker 1: I love this stuff. That's why, Uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: have an upcoming vacation, our first time on a plane

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Speaker 1: in I don't know, sixteen seventeen months, and I was

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Speaker 1: actually discussing with Rob g I can bring the podcast

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Speaker 1: equipment and do the podcast from where we're going, because

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Speaker 1: I have done that on these short little trips we've done,

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Speaker 1: but this is an actual like vacation and Rob. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's like, well, you know you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do the pod that week. And my wife was

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Speaker 1: not within earshot, but if she heard that, she would

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Speaker 1: have been like, yeah, let's go, um, because you know

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Speaker 1: I would work a Holicas during the NBA playoffs. What

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Speaker 1: am I supposed to do? But um, we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. So we got a couple of

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Speaker 1: good topics today. Um, we will get to the NBA

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Speaker 1: playoffs tonight. It's kind of a fun night, you know,

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Speaker 1: listen to play in is exciting. Um, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: be Luka, Donchet or Lebron and be like this sucks.

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Speaker 1: Who came up with this idiotic idea? Like the Celtics

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Speaker 1: are playing. They've got one of the fifteen best players

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Speaker 1: me is a fun team to watch. Obviously it hurts

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Speaker 1: uh not having Jaylen Brown and will do someone the

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Speaker 1: Celtics in a little bit. I have. I've got some

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Celtics. Um, they play the Wizards in

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Speaker 1: the night cap tonight. Celtics only two point favorites. I

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Speaker 1: will be betting Boston I'll just tell you that right now.

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Speaker 1: Everybody and their moms saying, oh the Celtics, Celtics are

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Speaker 1: gonna lose a stink Washington's hot, Russell Westbrook gladly be

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. No, no, no, Celtics are winning this game.

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Speaker 1: And the other game is Hornet's Pacers. Tip time, three

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Speaker 1: thirty Pacific. Let me tell you that's an early start. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough watch. By the way, Gordon Hayward will

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Speaker 1: Terry Rogier LaMelo ball against the Mantas Sabonis and Malcolm Brogden.

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Speaker 1: Can you feel the energy? Yeah, I'm I'm fired up. No,

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Speaker 1: not really. Um, so those are the games tonight. But

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Speaker 1: I actually wanted to start in the NFL. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: this could just be the whole Old Simpsons thing where

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Speaker 1: you guys remember the name Ron Wolf. He is in

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. He was general man Edge of

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers in the nineties from two thousand. Um.

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Speaker 1: He's eighty two years old. Okay, that's older than my father,

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Speaker 1: older than my mom. Okay, and they say crazy stuff

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Speaker 1: two years old, went on a something called The Big

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Speaker 1: Show Network in Wisconsin and said, we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of divas playing in the NFL right now. I failed

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Speaker 1: I can't believe the game has changed that remarkably. He's

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Speaker 1: of course talking about Aaron Rodgers, Deshaun Watson, and Russell

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Speaker 1: each reportedly and or actually want to be traded to

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Speaker 1: new teams. And he's like blasting these guys for I

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Speaker 1: you sign your after you sign the contract, a ton

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Speaker 1: of things change. People demand to be traded all the time.

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Speaker 1: to demand trate. Seattle is starting to create her. They're

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Speaker 1: Go look at the Jamal Adams trade. Awful. Jets were

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Speaker 1: massive winners in that. Go look at that defense. All

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Speaker 1: they've done is tear the team apart. Now someone will

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Speaker 1: figured it out. Russell Wilson does have a celebrity wife.

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Speaker 1: Now she doesn't make Gazelle bunch in modeling money, But

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Speaker 1: you figure it out. That's the GM's job to build

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Speaker 1: a contender. And I know Seattle is that double digit

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Speaker 1: that is Russell Wilson. I'll ask you, old man, Ron Wolf.

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Speaker 1: You pull Russell Wilson off of Seattle, what are they?

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Speaker 1: Three win team four? So calling Russell Wilson a diva

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Speaker 1: because he demanded a trade is assinine. Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: understand why these guys get so butt hurt about quarters

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks wanting to better their station in life. Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: signs his contract. What happens next The coach who he

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Speaker 1: the GM is now gone. You had too an a

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Speaker 1: f C. Was it the a f C Championship game?

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Speaker 1: second round, right, yes, second round of the of the

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Speaker 1: the poor start, and all of a sudden they start

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Speaker 1: be done here. The owner lied to me. There's some

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Speaker 1: chicanery going on in the front office. Ding ding ding,

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Speaker 1: chicanery two days in a row, and I want out.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? Think about it. It's like in

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Speaker 1: the real world, you know, not as many people have contracts,

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Speaker 1: but if things change, contracts have to be amended. Think

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Speaker 1: about it. Rutt, has Russell Wilson done for Seattle? How

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Speaker 1: many Super Bowl wins before Russell Wilson got there? Rob,

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Speaker 1: you how many trips to the Super Bowl before Russell

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. I mean, is there anyone better in franchise

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Speaker 1: come on, Aaron Rodgers has every right to be ticked off.

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Speaker 1: Every right. He takes them to the NFC Championship Game

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Speaker 1: It says, Hey, I'm seeing Dak Prescott at forty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: he got forty mill. I want to rework my contract,

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. You've had it good for almost three decades.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots have had two decades of Brady

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Speaker 1: what happens this year. I had to research this for Undisputed.

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Speaker 1: four or five times in what twenties seven years? That's greatness.

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Speaker 1: You're about to find out what life is like after

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Speaker 1: find out what life is like because you're idiot. GM

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? And Ron Wolf has the balls

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Speaker 1: to call Aaron Rodgers a diva? I'm just absolutely dumbfounded.

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Speaker 1: Rob probably forgetting the word. But what's the word when

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Speaker 1: I mean, like things are just not how they were

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Speaker 1: at the NFL TV deal what it was in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: something insane. Tony Romo was making tons of money Madden

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Speaker 1: Romo money. I'm almost certain of that, Robb. You can

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Speaker 1: Things have changed. It reminds me of some of these

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Speaker 1: are they dead? Rob? How many blogs do you read today?

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Speaker 1: That would be zero? Bob Barker, M. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: What clicks now? You could argue that is that a

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Speaker 1: on Tim Tebow? Maybe, but they sure as hell want

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Speaker 1: to read about to Tebow. So you're gonna produce stories

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Speaker 1: about Tim Tebow like it's a different world. Ron Wolf,

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Speaker 1: I don't am I going in too much on this

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Speaker 1: old old white guy, Rob. I don't know why you

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Speaker 1: guys say old white guy. You know that's what he is.

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Speaker 1: But he's an old guy. I don't think the fact

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Speaker 1: I know, I also think that the fact that Deshaun

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Speaker 1: just say I have two issues. Well, my issue with

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Speaker 1: ron Wolf is two fold, and it's tied somewhat into

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Speaker 1: what you were saying, but it's a little bit different. Now.

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Speaker 1: The quote that got all the headlines was the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote Diva's line that he threw in there. Now, the

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Speaker 1: what he said was to be clear, ron Wolf is

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Speaker 1: not saying he can't believe that they're unhappy. It's that

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Speaker 1: gonna be a walkover. Well, you'll be wrong in that

425
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: second part of your statement. The Lakers are going to

426
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Speaker 1: destroy that. And this is one thing I don't understand

427
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: about the build up to this game is it's being

428
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: hyped up as Lebron versus Steph part five? You know

429
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: who's gonna win in the postseason this time? No mention

430
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,199
Speaker 1: at all of the fact that Lebron also has Anthony

431
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: Davis on his team. It's like this, this is not

432
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: a fair fight. This is like I think David Aldred

433
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: put a Twitter Bowl says before this was finalized, who

434
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: would you rather see in the plan Lebron versus Steph

435
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: or Dame versus Steph? And it's like, well, of course

436
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: I want to see Dame versus step because that's more

437
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: of a fair fight. Their rosters. Their rosters are more

438
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 1: comparable to each other. Like say, which I personally don't

439
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 1: think Lebron and Steph is a is a close comparison

440
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 1: Time out, Time out, Rob Rob Rob. The last time

441
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: Lebron and Steph played in a like a win or

442
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: go home, although nobody's really going home so to speak,

443
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: but like a winner take all kind of game. Um,

444
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: there were thirty million people watching the Finals Game seven,

445
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: so I mean the interest for this game, Like who

446
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: would rather watch Dame Curry like Lebron Curry. You could

447
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: argue in the last decade, who were the most two

448
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,959
Speaker 1: most dominant NBA players Curry and Lebron? Right, I mean,

449
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure Kevin Duran has an argument. Um, I would

450
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: lean on career versus Lebron, and like this is good.

451
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: This is a gold mine Wednesday night for ESPN. By

452
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: the way, update, all of a sudden, it doesn't look

453
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: like j MA is gonna be in the building for

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Speaker 1: Warriors Lakers. Uh, you know that's a long story. Short.

455
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: My buddy has four tickets just so happens. He he

456
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: has like a work thing and he would have to

457
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: skip it. And um, I'm not giving too much information here.

458
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: It's his company, so he kind of can't just blow

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00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: it off. However, he's trying to work around now the work.

460
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: It's really interesting is you have to the Lakers. Due

461
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: to COVID, you can't sell the tickets like one one

462
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: one one. You know he could probably get a thousand

463
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: dollars a ticket, so you have to sell them, uh

464
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: in a group of four, and you know he could

465
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Speaker 1: make some real money selling them or just give them

466
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Speaker 1: to friends. I don't expect him to not give them,

467
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: given how expensive tickets are. That being said, my friend

468
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: has assured me, uh, he has tickets for these Sons

469
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: Lakers series or Jazz Lakers, whichever it is. And uh,

470
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: your boy will be end up building for one of them.

471
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: But if things change, and my guy, who definitely listens

472
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: to the podcast, UM, I will alert you. I know

473
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: you guys are waiting on pins and needles for that. Anyways,

474
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: UM well, real quickly, Mary list poor went out for

475
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre, who's gonna watch the game from home like

476
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Speaker 1: a normal person. I will say, one of the cool

477
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: one of and I think I've told this story one

478
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: of the cooler moments I went to. Um, you know,

479
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: every time I would go to Staples pre COVID, I

480
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: would go on the court. I get the media pass

481
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: and just go on the court beforehand and watch the

482
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: guys warm up. Like I'm a nerd. I'm gonna I

483
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: go like hopping a Newber at like four thirty, get

484
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: to Staples at five for like a seven thirty tip off,

485
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: and I would just go stand courtside and just watch.

486
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Speaker 1: And it just so happens that I ran into some

487
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Speaker 1: people I knew. One of them was an NBA trainer.

488
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: He introduced me to Reddick and a Lonzo and you know,

489
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: I'm just like, Wow, What's what's going on? This is crazy?

490
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: And then Jared Dudley comes over. I'm in the middle

491
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: of a conversations like what's up Jay, you know, Jared Dudley,

492
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: friend of the podcast, And it was just like this

493
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: is fun, you know, uh, just watching and it's and

494
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: I've told this before. You could you could think k

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Speaker 1: c P is garbage as a player. Oh he's never

496
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: made an All Star game or he's not a good player.

497
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: You go watch KSEP warm up before Laker game, you know,

498
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: like how you go shooting your driveway casey. People just

499
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: go shoot and he will probably attempt. You know, I

500
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: just fifty shots and he will make like forty two

501
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: of them. I mean, it's crazy. These guys are just

502
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: like you know in the game. I know it's different,

503
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: but it's a warm up. They're just making everything and

504
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: it's just astounding. If the thing that blows me away

505
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: is every single time they released the ball it is

506
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: the exact same form. There's like nothing different. I still

507
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: can't do that, and I try hard. Trust me, it's

508
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: just it's just weird and difficult. Not that you care,

509
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: but um, I do love going to these games down

510
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: I do to COVID. I don't know if they'll let

511
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: the media go in that early to watch, um, but

512
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this staple is gonna be popping on Wednesday.

513
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: And um, I think Lebron I think he made a

514
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: great point about Steph being the VP. I know everybody's

515
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: gonna vote Yoki, and a lot of guys who write

516
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: about it say, oh, analytically, Yoka has it and blah

517
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: blah blah. If you if you keep Jamal Murray on

518
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: Denver and you remove Yoki, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr.

519
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Are they top ten in the West. No, definitely not

520
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: there below the Spurs for sure. I tend to disappee

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00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: take Steph Curry off the Warriors and are they closer

522
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: to the Thunder or the Rockets? In the base goodness,

523
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: they'd be fighting with the Houston Rockets. I think for

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00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: that j T a baby. Now there's obviously no Clay

525
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: Tompson into and Draymond Green couldn't couldn't throw in the

526
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: ocean um. But Curry really makes that team go. And

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00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Steve Curtis, there's a little bit

528
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: of credit here. And again, I know I'm getting excited

529
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: about a thirty nine win team, but when you look

530
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: at the product that they're putting on the floor and

531
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: you all of it. If if you were in a

532
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Speaker 1: coma for the last year and you had seen these Warriors,

533
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, pre pandemic and the juggernaut they were, and

534
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: then you look on the court and you're like, wait, no,

535
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, where's Clay were Seawan Livingston? That? And you

536
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: see who's Jordan's Pool? What is a Toscano Anderson? And

537
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: you look at these guy Michael Mulder is that the

538
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: guy from the X Files, and people are just like,

539
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: who are these guys? And Curry has them in the playoffs.

540
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: To me, it is staggering. And I know Yokil just

541
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: probably gonna win the MVP. It's a good thing. I

542
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: don't have a vote because it would have gone to Curry.

543
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: If you had a vote, Rob, would you give it

544
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Speaker 1: to Curry as well? No, of course not. Of course

545
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: you hate Steph Curry. I don't hate of Curry. Well,

546
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Speaker 1: let me just say that, going back to the previous

547
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Speaker 1: point about the h the matchup you brought up a

548
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: good point. Yes, I think Lebron and Steph Curry have

549
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: pretty much owned the last decade of the NBA, or

550
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: the better part of the decade. But this is what's

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00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: different between those matchups in the finals versus what we

552
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: have now. Those Warriors teams were stacked. Those Calves teams

553
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: were stacked. Uh. You know, up until Kevin Durant showed

554
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: up like that, that was must see television. You wanted

555
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: to see the stars come out and play. It was

556
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: Steph Clay, Draymond, Kyrie, Lebron, Kevin Love. Say what you

557
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: want about who had the better team. It felt like

558
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: they were at least evenly matched heading into this playing game.

559
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: Where where do the Warriors have any advantage other outside

560
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: of Steph over Shrewder. It's it's gotta be David vers

561
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: and that's what that Who are the best Let's go

562
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: the best players on the floor. Given Lebron's injury, I

563
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: would say eight D is close. I'll say number one

564
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Speaker 1: is Curry. I would say number Tuesday D. Number three

565
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: is Lebron, Number four Shrewder, number five, the Horton, Tucker, Draymondus.

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Speaker 1: Lakers have probably have like seven of the top eight

567
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: players in that game, or or six of it. Yeah,

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00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: it's got to be close to that yet. And so

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00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: that's why I don't I wasn't as excited about it

570
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: is I think the rest of Americans because it's just

571
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: not a fair fight. You know, if the Lakers, even

572
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, lou Or win by less than double digits,

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00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: I think you'd be a disappointment for a Laker fan.

574
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: Just just relative on what you see on the floor.

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00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: It should be a blowout, you know, with what the

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00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: rosters they have. But by the way, hold on real quick.

577
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: The roster the Warriors are starting Kent bays Moore, Kevon Looney, Wiggins, Green,

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00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,479
Speaker 1: and Curry. That's their lineup. Good luck, that's all I'm

579
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: gonna say. It's good luck. But can't Beays Moore, can't

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00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: s Anthony. But as far as the m v P goes,

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Speaker 1: I'm of the belief that what Lebron was saying had

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Speaker 1: less to do with Steph Curry, who has had to

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Speaker 1: race season. Like, even though you call me a hater,

584
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: I think that he has had a great season, much

585
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: better than I was expecting fromhim, to be honest, But

586
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: if you read his his full quote, he says, you know,

587
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: look at what he's done this year. I don't know

588
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: anything else. If you're looking for an m v P.

589
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: If Steph is not a Gold States team, what are

590
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: we looking at? Sometimes we get caught up in the records.

591
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: We have caught up in the Okay, who has the

592
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: best record instead of just saying who had the best

593
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: season that year? Could you not make that case for

594
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: Lebron James every year since like two thousand and with

595
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: the exception of these two years, he's gotten But like

596
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: that's that's been his argument is doesn't always mean I

597
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: have the best record because I like the paces off

598
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, don't want to make a deep finals run.

599
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: Doesn't always mean I'm gonna have the best stats again

600
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: because I paced myself and I'm getting myself ready for

601
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: a finals run. But if you say this guy and

602
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: this guy who is more valuable to this team? If

603
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: you take Janice off of Milwaukee, are they still a

604
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: playoff team? Probably? If you take Lebron off of those

605
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: Calves teams, are they even in the playoff hunt? If

606
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: you take Lebron off of these Lakers? Wait, which Calves team?

607
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: The Kyrie Kevin Learno the last two or three years

608
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, their second best player was banged up,

609
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Kevin Love Kay, right, right, right, Yeah, those teams were

610
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: quite bad like that. That's been his argument, going back

611
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: to the Derrick Rose m v P season, where he's like, look, man,

612
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: I know they got the best record, but seriously, you know,

613
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: like you know by watching these teams, even these Lakers,

614
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: as stacked as their roster is, everything that they do

615
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: is built around Lebron James, like he is the sun

616
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: to their solar system. And that's been his argument for

617
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: the better part of a decade. And that's why he's upset,

618
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: and he said it on the record multiple times. He

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Speaker 1: should have more than four m vps. So well, I

620
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: don't totally distribue with that, But what about at the

621
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Speaker 1: same time, like, you know, the year Curry was unanimous.

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Speaker 1: Was that the year they won seventy three or no? Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't How could you have given it to Lebron

624
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: that year they won seventy three games he had I

625
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: think he was the first. Now that's that was done

626
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: by Kyrie this year. I think Curry has done that

627
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But like, I don't know that

628
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: there's a case that Lebron could have wanted that year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well let me just let me just take you to

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Speaker 1: the hot top time Machine. Two thousand and sixteen, m

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Speaker 1: v P and CBS Sports did a great column on

632
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: this about all the times Lebron has vented about not

633
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Speaker 1: winning the award and what it means to him. This

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Speaker 1: is what he said at that time to Jason Lloyd

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Speaker 1: of the Akron Beacon Journal of the time. I think

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Speaker 1: he's athletic. Now quote, I think sometimes the word valuable

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Speaker 1: or best player of the year, you can have different results.

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Speaker 1: Not to take anything away from anything who's ever won

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Speaker 1: the award, but you look at steps numbers. He averaged thirty,

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Speaker 1: led the league in steels, and they want seventy three.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you have any debate over that.

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Speaker 1: Really when it comes to the award, but when you

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Speaker 1: talk about most valuable, you can have a different conversation.

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Speaker 1: Not take anything away from him. He's definitely deserving the

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Speaker 1: award for sure. So he sandwich. He did that with

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Speaker 1: that standwich Uh tactics. People do you say, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you a positive and a positive on the book ends,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you how I really feel right

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Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, huh. That's just the way he is.

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Speaker 1: He thinks that he is the most valuable player every season. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's also playing, you know, an advanced game. He's gassing

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Speaker 1: up Steph Curry and getting him feet in his feelings off.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to an m v P. But Lebron,

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Speaker 1: who's the goat, is saying I should have been them,

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Speaker 1: you know, Like it's it's like, what is a warfare called,

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Speaker 1: like the mental warfare. That's not the way, that's all

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Speaker 1: what it's called. But he's doing that mental thing where

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Speaker 1: he's playing that game. And I mean part of me

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Speaker 1: thinks I was initially agreeing with you Rob that the

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Speaker 1: Lakers were probably gonna smack the Warriors around Curry has

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Speaker 1: a bad game or an off game when it's one

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Speaker 1: on fifteen, and yeah, Warriors get destroyed and everybody says,

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Speaker 1: oh Curry's overrated, blah blah blah. Okay um, but the

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Speaker 1: line is just so fishy four and a half. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what to make of it. And he picks

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Speaker 1: for tonight's game, drob g. I'm gonna go with the

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Speaker 1: rookie of the year, the mellow Ball beating Indiana And

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Speaker 1: that was it the nine ten matchup. And like I

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Speaker 1: said before, I got the Washington Wizards beating the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 1: I think Boston is in a tailsman and that Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown injury is much bigger than I think the national

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Speaker 1: media wants to talk about, wants to discuss. And they

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Speaker 1: were already playing bad even before he got hurt, so

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Speaker 1: this has just been a death Now. I think that

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Speaker 1: there they are, this year's Clippers. They just can't wait

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Speaker 1: for this season to be over. I feel like, do

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Speaker 1: you do you want to make it interesting? How so?

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Speaker 1: Would you like to care to make a wager on

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Speaker 1: the game between me and you? Sure? Whatever you want

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Speaker 1: within reason, because I know that you're used to betting, Like, oh,

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Speaker 1: let me drop down a G on this one. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bet a grin on the Celtics, but

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Speaker 1: I do like I do like Boston. Um even more

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Speaker 1: so now I saw the line is too we're forgetting

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Speaker 1: that this is a Washington theme that plays no defense.

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Speaker 1: Now I guess the over is probably the best bet. Um.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I I definitely think the Celtics are the

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Speaker 1: side here. Um, we don't have to wager. I will

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Speaker 1: be putting money on Boston though. UM if I get

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Speaker 1: one and a half to be even better. Um. I

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Speaker 1: just this whole Russell Westbrook narratives a little blown out

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Speaker 1: of proportion. How many times have we seen him spit

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Speaker 1: the bit in the playoffs? Like big Game? Russ is

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Speaker 1: probably already thinking about, oh we win this. I played

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durrett. I can't wait to get it Kevin and

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Speaker 1: k d uh Kevin and hardened get back at James.

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Speaker 1: You know he's thinking about all this and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: overlook the Celtics, and Celtics is gonna beat him. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling that will happen. Um, all right, guys, enjoy the

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Speaker 1: games tonight. We do have I believe two interesting guest

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Speaker 1: line up the next couple of days. Obviously, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing plenty on the NBA Finals game, the equivalent

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Speaker 1: of between the Warriors and the Lakers. Even it's a

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Speaker 1: play in game, we're gonna hype it. No, we're not. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just I'm very excited for it. It is a

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Speaker 1: point of viewing Wednesday. UM, I have not a on

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Speaker 1: the schedule, just in case a friend comes through with

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Speaker 1: tickets late Wednesday. But I'm telling you guys, I can't

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Speaker 1: wait for this game. And uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow.